Liquid spray device and cutting method

• US 6,659,370 B1
• Filed: 11/20/2000
• Issued: 12/09/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fuji Engineering Co. Ltd. (Osaka) (Government of Japan)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Engineering Co. Ltd. (Osaka) (Government of Japan)
• Inventors: Inoue, Tsutomu
• Primary Examiner(s): HWU, DAVIS D
• Application Number:
  US09/700,830
• Time in Patent Office: 1,114 Days
• Field of Search: 239/423, 239/398, 239/432, 239/419, 239/419.5, 239/424.5, 239/418, 239/302, 239/368, 239/369, 239/366, 239/463, 239/494, 239/467, 239/523
• US Class Current: 239/423
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/0012 Apparatus for achieving spraying before discharge from the apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/0441 with one inner conduit of liquid surrounded by an external conduit of gas upstream the mixing chamber

Abstract

A liquid spray device, comprising a container (1), a spray injection nozzle (2) for injecting oil spray into the container (1), a spray feeding path (5) for feeding oil spray in the container (1) to the outside of the container (1), oil (11) stored in the container (1), a gas exhaust port provided in the oil (11) by discharging gas into the oil (11), whereby the flow velocity of the oil spray in the spray feeding path can be increased and the amount of oil spray can be increased because an internal pressure of the container can be increased and an oil spray different from the oil spray from the spray injection nozzle can be produced.

Claims

1. A cutting device, comprising a container, a spray injection nozzle for injecting oil spray into the container, and a spray feeding path for feeding the oil spray in the container to an outside of the container, wherein a gas discharge nozzle is provided having a tip portion in the air within the container and discharging gas, wherein most of the injected spray flow from the spray injection nozzle is allowed to strike a wall face in the container before being fed to the spray feeding path, and wherein the wall face is an inner wall face of a dome member opening downward.

2. The cutting device according to claim 1, wherein an inside of the container is divided into an upper space and a lower space by the wall face, and the injection port of the spray injection nozzle is located in the lower space.

3. The cutting device according to claim 1, wherein an inside of the container is divided into an upper space and a lower space by the wall face, and the injection port of the spray injection nozzle is located in the upper space.

4. The cutting device according to claim 1, further comprising a pressure control means for keeping the pressure in the container constant in the path for supplying the gas to the gas discharge nozzle.

5. The cutting device according to claim 1, wherein a tip-tapered discharge part is connected to the tip of the spray feeding path.

6. The cutting device according to claim 1, wherein gas and oil are fed to the spray injection nozzle, and the spray is injected into the container by mixing the gas and the oil in the spray injection nozzle.

7. The cutting device according to claim 6, wherein the oil stored in the container flows into a liquid supply means and the oil discharged from the liquid supply means is fed to the spray injection nozzle.

8. The cutting device according to claim 7, wherein the liquid supply means is an oil pump.

9. The cutting device according to claim 6, further comprising a pressure control means for keeping the pressure in the container constant in a path for supplying the gas to the spray injection nozzle.

10. A cutting device, comprising a container, a spray injection nozzle for injecting oil spray into the container, and a spray feeding path for feeding the oil spray in the container to an outside of the container, wherein a gas discharge nozzle is provided having a tip portion in the air within the container and discharging gas, wherein most of the injected spray flow from the spray injection nozzle is allowed to strike a wall face in the container before being fed to the spray feeding path, and wherein the wall face is an outer wall face of a dome member opening downward.

11. A cutting device, comprising a container, a spray injection nozzle for injecting oil spray into the container, and a spray feeding path for feeding the oil spray in the container to an outside of the container, wherein a gas discharge nozzle is provided having a tip portion in the air within the container and discharging gas, wherein most of the injected spray flow from the spray injection nozzle is allowed to strike a wall face in the container before being fed to the spray feeding path, and wherein the injected spray flow, after striking the wall face and before being fed to the spray feeding path, strikes another wall face formed separately from the wall face.

12. A cutting method, comprising attaching a liquid spray device to an oil supplying part of a machine tool, the liquid spray device comprising a container, a spray injection nozzle for injecting oil spray into the container, a spray feeding path for feeding oil spray in the container to an outside of the container, wherein a gas discharge nozzle is provided having a tip portion in the air within the container and discharging gas, wherein most of the spray from the injection nozzle is allowed to strike a wall face in the container before being fed to the spray feeding path, and wherein the wall face is an inner wall face of a dome member opening downward;

and cutting a target object to be processed by supplying the spray to a cutting member of the machine tool.

13. The cutting method according to claim 12, wherein the inside of the container is divided into an upper space and a lower space by the wall face, in which the injection port of the spray injection nozzle is located in the lower space.

14. The cutting method according to claim 12, wherein the container is divided into an upper space and a lower space by the wall face, in which the injection port of the spray injection nozzle is located in the upper space.

15. A cutting method, comprising attaching a liquid spray device to an oil supplying part of a machine tool, the liquid spray device comprising a container, a spray injection nozzle for injecting oil spray into the container, a spray feeding path for feeding oil spray in the container to an outside of the container, wherein a gas discharge nozzle is provided having a tip portion in the air within the container and discharging gas, wherein most of the spray from the injection nozzle is allowed to strike a wall face in the container before being fed to the spray feeding path, and wherein the wall face is an outer wall face of a dome member opening downward;

and cutting a target object to be processed by supplying the spray to a cutting member of the machine tool.

16. A cutting method, comprising attaching a liquid spray device to an oil supplying part of a machine tool, the liquid spray device comprising a container, a spray injection nozzle for injecting oil spray into the container, a spray feeding path for feeding oil spray in the container to an outside of the container, wherein a gas discharge nozzle is provided having a tip portion in the air within the container and discharging gas, wherein most of the spray from the injection nozzle is allowed to strike a wall face in the container before being fed to the spray feeding path, and wherein the injected spray flow, after striking the wall face and before being fed to the spray feeding path, strikes another wall face formed separately from the wall face;

and cutting a target object to be processed by supplying the spray to a cutting member of the machine tool.

17. A cutting device, comprising:

a tool; and

an oil supply system for the tool, including;

a container;

a spray injection nozzle for injecting oil spray into the container; and

a spray feeding path for feeding the oil spray in the container to an outside of the container;

wherein a gas discharge nozzle is provided having a tip portion in air within the container and discharging gas, wherein most of the injected spray flow from the spray injection nozzle is allowed to strike a wall face in the container before being fed to the spray feeding path, and wherein the wall face is an inner wall face of a dome member opening downward.

18. A cutting device, comprising:

a tool; and

an oil supply system for the tool, including;

a container;

a spray injection nozzle for injecting oil spray into the container; and

a spray feeding path for feeding the oil spray in the container to an outside of the container;

wherein a gas discharge nozzle is provided having a tip portion in air within the container and discharging gas, wherein most of the injected spray flow from the spray injection nozzle is allowed to strike a wall face in the container before being fed to the spray feeding path, and wherein the wall face is an outer wall face of a dome member opening downward.

19. A cutting device, comprising:

a tool; and

an oil supply system for the tool, including;

a container;

a spray injection nozzle for injecting oil spray into the container; and

a spray feeding path for feeding the oil spray in the container to an outside of the container;

wherein a gas discharge nozzle is provided having a tip portion in air within the container and discharging gas, wherein most of the injected spray flow from the spray injection nozzle is allowed to strike a wall face in the container before being fed to the spray feeding path, and wherein the injected spray flow, after striking the wall face and before being fed to the spray feeding path, strikes another wall face formed separately from the wall face.