Spinning machine with at least one roller holder

• US 5,220,817 A
• Filed: 12/10/1991
• Issued: 06/22/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Leifeld GmbH & Company
• Original Assignee: Leifeld GmbH & Company
• Inventors: Wenzel, Helmut, Kostermeier, Karl-Heinz
• Primary Examiner(s): BRAY, WAYMOND D
• Application Number:
  US07/805,549
• Time in Patent Office: 560 Days
• Field of Search: 72/82-85
• US Class Current: 72/84
• CPC Class Codes: B21D 22/16 over shaping mandrels or formers

Abstract

A metal spinning machine with at least one roller holder, the roller holder being mounted exchangeably on a tool rest system with a roller rotatably borne by it. The tool rest system permits the roller to be displaced in at least two coordinate directions relative to a workpiece to be formed by spinning. The workpiece can be mounted on a rotatable metal spinning machine spindle with a rotationally symmetrical shaping tool. The metal spinning machine is equipped with a means limiting the force which can be exerted by the roller on the workpiece.

The new metal spinning machine is characterized by the fact

that the roller holder (1) is made with two holder parts (2, 3) which are slidingly displaceable on one another, one of them being configured as a fixed holder part (2) which can be attached to the tool rest system (4) and the other being configured as the displaceable holding part (3) bearing the roller (10),

that the one holder part (3) is made with a cylinder (20) which can be fed a pressure medium,

that the other holder part (3) is made with a piston (30) which can be actuated by the pressure medium with a predeterminable force in the extending direction, and

that the roller (10) can be pushed back dynamically by an excessive force applied to it by the workpiece (30).

Claims

1. Metal spinning machine comprising:

a tool rest system, at least one roller holder, a roller held by the roller holder for rotation on the tool rest system which permits a displacement of the roller in at least two coordinate directions relative to a workpiece to be formed by spinning, a spindle for mounting the workpiece and means for driving the spindle in rotation, a rotationally symmetrical chuck which shapes the workpiece, apparatus limiting force which can be exerted on the workpiece by the roller,

the roller holder having two holder parts which are slidingly displaceable against one another, one of which is configured as a fixed holder part which can be fastened to the tool rest system and an other of which is configured as a displaceable holder part bearing the roller,

a source of pressure medium kept at a predetermined pressure, the one holder part being configured with a cylinder coupled to the pressure medium source,

the other holder part being configured with a piston which can be driven in an extending direction by the pressure medium with a predetermined force corresponding to the predetermined pressure of the the pressure medium, and

the roller yielding dynamically and with resilience to a force exerted on the roller by the workpiece and exceeding an extending force of the piston, with displacement of the pressure medium from the cylinder into the pressure medium source which is kept at a predetermined pressure.

2. Metal spinning machine according to claim 1, in which the roller holder has a low-friction, snug-fitting and twist-resistant guide body, a plunger guided in the guide body, the guide body being associated with the fixed holder part and the plunger carried in the guide body being associated with the displaceable holder part, and the plunger serving as a piston rod being joined at its one, inner end to the piston and bearing the roller on its other, outer end.

3. Metal spinning machine according to claim 2, in which the guide body is configured as a roller runner.

4. Metal spinning machine according to claim 1, in which the direction of the two holder parts against one another is substantially perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the roller.

5. Metal spinning machine according to claim 1, which includes a mechanical stop and in which the displacement stroke of the two holder parts against one another is limited by the mechanical stop.

6. Metal spinning machine according to claim 5, in which the stop is adjustable for the adjustment of different maximum strokes.

7. Metal spinning machine according to claim 1, which includes a flexible pressure medium conduit in which the roller holder has a pressure medium connection carried outwardly from the interior of the cylinder and accessible with the roller holder in an installed state, to which connection the flexible pressure medium conduit is attached for the feeding in and removal of the pressure medium.

8. Metal spinning machine according to claim 1, which includes a pressure medium conduit and in which the roller holder has a pressure medium connection carried outwardly from the interior of the cylinder, which when the roller holder is attached to the tool rest system is brought automatically into sealing connection with the pressure medium conduit lying within the tool rest system for the feeding in and removal of the pressure medium.

9. Metal spinning machine according to claim 1, which includes at least one removable and exchangeable spring in which one of the displaceable holder parts is additionally biased by means of the at least one removable and exchangeable spring with a force acting in the extending direction.

10. Metal spinning machine according to claim 9, in which the fixed holder part includes a bottom of the cylinder and in which the spring is disposed in the interior of the cylinder between its bottom and the piston, and in which the cylinder bottom is joined releasably to the rest of the fixed holder part.