Abrasive-recovery mechanism in blasting machine

• US 7,695,348 B2
• Filed: 09/26/2008
• Issued: 04/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuji Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Fuji Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Mase, Keiji
• Primary Examiner(s): Morgan; Eileen P.
• Application Number:
  US12/238,868
• Publication Number:
  US 20090098810A1
• Time in Patent Office: 564 Days
• Field of Search: 451/75, 451/87, 451/88, 451/89
• US Class Current: 451/87
• CPC Class Codes: B24C 9/00 Appurtenances of abrasive blasting machines or devices, e.g. working chambers, arrangements for handling used abrasive material

Abstract

A bottom wall surface of a blasting chamber of a blasting machine provided with hoppers for recovering an abrasive is formed at a lowest possible position. A cabinet 3 of a blasting machine 1 is compartmentalized at a predetermined position into an upper space and a lower space by mesh members (21, 22) that allow the abrasive to pass therethrough to form a blasting chamber 2 having a bottom wall surface 20 defined by the mesh members (21, 22). Hoppers 10 substantially shaped like an inverted quadrangular pyramid are disposed below the mesh members (21, 22) such that top portions of the hoppers 10 are opened toward the mesh members (21, 22) and that the bottom end of each of the hoppers 10 is made to communicate with suction means, such as a dust collector, through a recovery pipe 30.

Claims

1. An abrasive-recovery mechanism in a blasting machine, comprising:

a cabinet in the blasting machine;

a mesh member dividing the cabinet into an upper space and a lower space, the mesh member capable of letting an abrasive pass therethrough;

a blasting chamber having a bottom wall surface defined by the mesh member; and

a set of two columns of a plurality of hoppers formed by disposing dividing plates each of which is substantially shaped like an inverted triangle in two parallel groves composing a gutter that is substantially W-shaped in cross-section to define and divide a space in each of the two parallel grooves into an inverted quadrangular pyramid, the plurality of hoppers being disposed below the mesh member,

wherein top portions of the plurality of hoppers are opened toward the mesh member,

the set of two columns of the plurality of hoppers formed in the gutter and a recovery pipe that is attached to the gutter and communicates with the bottom end of each of the plurality of hoppers constitute a recovery unit such that a direction in which the plurality of hoppers are arranged is defined as a length direction, and at least one of the recovery units is disposed below the mesh member,

the recovery pipe is a rectangle in cross-section, and the bottom end of each of the plurality of hoppers communicate with suction means through a recovery pipe at either rend of the long side of the cross-section.

2. The abrasive-recovery mechanism in a blasting machine according to claim 1, wherein a ratio of a long side of the recovery pipe to a short side of the recovery pipe is at least 1.5.

3. The abrasive-recovery mechanism in a blasting machine according to claim 1, further comprising a pipe for extending an aperture communicating between each of the plurality of hoppers and the recovery pipe, wherein a protrusion length at a bottom end of the pipe is set such that the pipe terminates at a space in the recovery pipe.

4. The abrasive-recovery mechanism in a blasting machine according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of air introduction pipes for introducing external air into the recovery pipe, the plurality of air introduction pipes being arranged at regular intervals along the length direction of the recovery pipe.

5. The abrasive-recovery mechanism in a blasting machine according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of air introduction pipes for introducing external air into the recovery pipe, the plurality of air introduction pipes being arranged at regular intervals along the length direction of the recovery pipe.

6. The abrasive-recovery mechanism in a blasting machine according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of air introduction pipes for introducing external air into the recovery pipe, the plurality of air introduction pipes being arranged at regular intervals along the length direction of the recovery pipe.

7. The abrasive-recovery mechanism in a blasting machine according to claim 3, further comprising a plurality of air introduction pipes for introducing external air into the recovery pipe, the plurality of air introduction pipes being arranged at regular intervals along the length direction of the recovery pipe.

8. The abrasive-recovery mechanism in a blasting machine according to claim 1, further comprising switching means for sequentially connecting the recovery pipe to the suction means, for the recovery pipe of each recovery unit or the recovery pipes of a predetermined number of recovery units.

9. The abrasive-recovery mechanism in a blasting machine according to claim 1, further comprising switching means for sequentially connecting the recovery pipe to the suction means, for the recovery pipe of each recovery unit or the recovery pipes of a predetermined number of recovery units.

10. The abrasive-recovery mechanism in a blasting machine according to claim 3, further comprising switching means for sequentially connecting the recovery pipe to the suction means, for the recovery pipe of each recovery unit or the recovery pipes of a predetermined number of recovery units.