Cutting machine

• US 5,775,189 A
• Filed: 10/08/1996
• Issued: 07/07/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Shima Seiki Manufacturing Limited
• Original Assignee: Shima Seiki Manufacturing Limited
• Inventors: Ikoma, Kenji, Arikita, Reiji
• Primary Examiner(s): Rachuba, Maurina T.
• Application Number:
  US08/727,121
• Time in Patent Office: 637 Days
• Field of Search: 83/174, 83/174.1, 83/862, 83/49, 83/917, 83/936, 83/668, 83/683, 83/76.1, 83/76.6, 83/76.9
• US Class Current: 83/76.1
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 7/12 by sharpening the cutting member
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 9/00 Cutting apparatus combined with punching or perforating apparatus or with dissimilar cutting apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: B26F 1/3806 wherein relative movements of tool head and work during cutting have a component tangential to the work surface B26F1/40 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 83/917 Notching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/162 With control means responsive to replaceable or selectable information program
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/313 Spatially fixed tool
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/9384 Notching plus nonnotching tool

Abstract

A cutting head is provided also with a notching blade to enable it to cut a length shorter than the blade width of a round blade. In order to eliminate the need for compressed air supplying equipment and simplify the mechanism thereby to make it compact and light weight, an angular displacement servo motor is used as a common drive source for causing angular displacement of the round blade and angular displacement of the notching blade. A cam motor causes a round blade cam and a notching blade cam to make angular displacement thereby to selectively cause the round blade and the notching blade to work on sheet material placed on a cutting table an cut it.

Claims

1. A cutting machine which has a cutting table;

a round blade for cutting a sheet material spread on a surface of the cutting table with a circumferential cutting edge thereof, the round blade having a rotation shaft parallel to the surface of the cutting table; and

a cutting head for cutting the sheet material, while moving in parallel with the surface of the cutting table according to cutting data, the cutting head having a notching blade for cutting the sheet material by pressing an edge thereof against an surface of the sheet material, the cutting machine comprising;

selecting means for selectively displacing either the round blade or the notching blade in a direction of approaching or departing from the cutting table by driving force from a common drive source, and thereby selectively applying either the round blade or the notching blade to the sheet material to cut it;

an angular displacement motor for driving the round blade and the notching blade so that a cutting direction is changed by angular displacement about an angular displacement axis thereof perpendicular to the surface of the cutting table;

transmitting means for transmitting driving force from the angular displacement motor to angular displacement shafts of the round blade and the notching blade in a predetermined proportion; and

control means for controlling the angular displacement motor so that the cutting direction of the round blade or the notching blade changes according to the cutting data.

2. The cutting machine of claim 1, wherein the transmitting means has driven gears mounted on the respective angular displacement shafts and a drive gear which is mounted on a rotation shaft of the angular displacement motor and is meshed with the respective driven gears, and at least either of the drive gear and the driven gears have a thickness in the axis direction so that the gears can be kept in mesh even when the driven gears are displaced in a direction of approaching or departing from the cutting table.

3. The cutting machine of claim 1, wherein the cutting head further has a perforating drill for perforating the sheet material, which perforating drill has a rotation axis perpendicular to the cutting table and is driven by the driving force from the angular displacement motor to rotate, and

the selecting means selects one from among the round blade, the notching blade and the perforating drill, and allows the selected one to work on the sheet material by displacement in a direction of approaching and departing from the cutting table.

4. A cutting machine which has a cutting table, a round blade having a rotation shaft parallel to a surface of the cutting table for cutting sheet material spread on the surface of the cutting table with a circumferential edge thereof, a notching blade for cutting the sheet material by pressing an edge thereof against the sheet surface and a cutting head for cutting the sheet material while moving in parallel with the surface of the cutting table according to cutting data, the cutting machine comprising:

supporting means for supporting the round blade so as to rotate about the rotation axis thereof, be angularly displaced about an angular displacement axis perpendicular to the cutting table surface and be reciprocatingly displaced along the angular displacement axis;

round blade cam means for driving the supporting means to be displaced in a direction of approaching or departing from the cutting table;

a cam motor for driving the round blade cam means;

notching blade cam means driven by the cam motor, for driving the notching blade to be displaced in a direction of departing from the cutting table when the round blade is moved by the round blade cam means beyond a predetermined amount of displacement in the direction of departing from the cutting table;

notching blade pressing means for pressing the notching blade in a direction of approaching the cutting table;

notching blade holding means for holding the notching blade in a state of being departed from the cutting table; and

control means for controlling the cam motor and the notching blade holding means so that either the round blade or the notching blade works on the sheet material.

5. The cutting machine of claim 4, wherein the cutting head further has:

a perforating drill for perforating the sheet material by pressing against the cutting table;

perforating drill pressing means for pressing the perforating drill in a direction of approaching the cutting table; and

perforating drill holding means for holding the perforating drill in a state of being departed from the cutting table,

the notching blade cam means drives also the perforating drill to depart from the cutting table when the notching blade cam means drives the notching blade to be displaced in a direction of departing from the cutting table, and

the control means controls the cam motor, the notching blade holding means and the perforating drill holding means so that one from among the round blade, the notching blade and the perforating drill is selected, and is displaced in a direction of approaching or departing from the cutting table to work on the sheet material.

6. The cutting machine of claim 4, wherein the round blade cam means has a vertical displacement portion for displacing the supporting means in a direction of approaching the cutting table, and a correction portion which displaces the supporting means within a range of a smaller amount of displacement than that of the vertical displacement portion, as a range of the displacement drive by the cam motor.

7. The cutting machine of claim 6, further comprising polishing means for polishing the round blade.

8. The cutting machine of claim 4, the cutting machine further comprising balancing means for causing reverse force to act against the gravity acting on the supporting means.

9. A cutting machine which has a cutting table, a round blade having a rotation shaft parallel to a surface of the cutting table for cutting sheet material spread on the surface of the cutting table with a circumferential edge thereof, a notching blade for cutting the sheet material by pressing an edge thereof against the sheet surface and a cutting head for cutting the sheet material while moving in parallel with the surface of the cutting table according to cutting data, the cutting machine comprising:

supporting means for supporting the round blade so as to rotate about the rotation axis thereof, be angularly displaced about an angular displacement axis perpendicular to the cutting table surface and be reciprocatingly displaced along the angular displacement axis;

round blade cam means for driving the supporting means to be displaced in a direction of approaching or departing from the cutting table;

a cam motor for driving the round blade cam means;

notching blade cam means driven by the cam motor, for driving the notching blade to be displaced in a direction of departing from the cutting table when the round blade is moved by the round blade cam means beyond a predetermined amount of displacement in the direction of departing from the cutting table;

notching blade pressing means for pressing the notching blade in a direction of approaching the cutting table;

notching blade holding means for holding the notching blade in a state of being departed from the cutting table;

an angular displacement motor for driving the round blade and the notching blade to be angularly displaced about the respective angular displacement axes thereof disposed perpendicular to the surface of the cutting table to change the cutting direction;

transmission means for transmitting the driving force from the angular displacement motor to the angular displacement shafts of the round blade and the notching blade in a predetermined proportion; and

control means for controlling the cam motor and the notching blade holding means so that either the round blade or the notching blade works on the sheet material and for controlling the angular displacement motor to change the cutting direction of the round blade or the notching blade according to the cutting data.