Method and system for combined shearing of steel plate

• US 9,662,723 B2
• Filed: 04/28/2014
• Issued: 05/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Company Limited
• Inventors: Yang, Saidan, Qiao, Junliang, Yan, Qi, Pan, Shengbo, Wu, Ruimin, Jin, Chengguo, Xiang, Qian
• Primary Examiner(s): Heinrich, Samuel M
• Application Number:
  US14/410,915
• Publication Number:
  US 20160089731A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,128 Days
• Field of Search: 21912167, 21912172, 29 34 R, 29564, 29 33 C, 29 33 Q, 29650
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 31/00 Shearing machines or shearing devices covered by none or more than one of the groups B23D15/00 - B23D29/00; Combinations of shearing machines
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 31/02 for performing different cutting operations on travelling stock, e.g. slitting and severing simultaneously
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 2101/16 Bands or sheets of indefinite length
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 2103/04 Steel or steel alloys
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 26/0846 for moving elongated workpieces longitudinally, e.g. wire or strip material
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 26/38 by boring or cutting
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 26/40 taking account of the properties of the material involved
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 37/0408 for planar work

Abstract

A method for combined shearing of a steel plate adopts a combination of unrolling and pendulum shearing with laser cutting, wherein after a steel roll is cut by unrolling and pendulum shearing to obtain sheets having a specified length, a part or all of the sheets are directly conveyed to a stack as finished sheet materials and the other part or all of the sheets are transferred to a laser cutting line by means of lateral material discharge from a unrolling and pendulum cutting line, and are picked up by a loading robot and moved to a laser cutting position to subject to a secondary cutting, so as to finally obtain profiled sheet materials which are picked up by a discharged material handling and stacking robot for an operation of stacking the finished products. By a method and system for combined shearing of a steel plate, the present invention achieves laser cutting of a profiled material by lateral material discharge from a blanking from a pendulum cutting line, and can share other functional segments of a production line; meanwhile, two blanking methods are combined to achieve cutting of a sheet of any shape, optimizing and improving the function of the production line and reducing the footprint and equipment investment costs.

Claims

1. A method for combined shearing of a steel plate, which adopts a combination of unrolling and pendulum shearing with laser cutting, wherein after a steel roll is cut by unrolling and pendulum shearing to obtain sheets having a specified length, a part or all of the sheets are directly conveyed to a stack as finished sheet materials and the other part or all of the sheets are transferred to a laser cutting line by means of lateral material discharge from a unrolling and pendulum cutting line, and are picked up by a loading robot and moved to a laser cutting position to subject to a secondary cutting, so as to finally obtain profiled sheet materials which are picked up by a discharged material handling and stacking robot for an operation of stacking the finished products.

2. The method for combined shearing of a steel plate of claim 1, characterized in that said unrolling and pendulum shearing comprise unrolling, cleaning, levelling, looping, specified-length feeding, pendulum shearing, sheet conveying, and stacking.

3. The method for combined shearing of a steel plate of claim 1, characterized in that a part or all of the sheets obtained directly by the unrolling and pendulum shearing are conveyed as finished sheet materials to a stacking position by attraction of a magnetic belt.

4. The method for combined shearing of a steel plate of claim 1, characterized in that said laser cutting adopts two laser cutting stations arranged in parallel, and uses at least one laser cutting machine to perform a complex path cutting operation on the sheets discharged laterally from a pendulum shearing unit to complete the secondary cutting, finally giving profiled sheets;

meanwhile, loading and unloading robots are used to complete loading and unloading operations.

5. The method for combined shearing of a steel plate of claim 1, characterized in that said laser cutting adopts two laser cutting stations arranged in parallel, which share one loading robot for loading materials, and are each provided with a unloading robot to perform an unloading operation.

6. A system for combined shearing of a steel plate, comprising,

an unrolling and pendulum shearing line, comprising in sequence an unrolling machine, a cleaning machine, a straightening machine, a looper, a specified-length feeder, a pendulum shearing machine, a sheet conveying device, and a stacker, the pendulum shearing machine being provided with a longitudinal discharge and a lateral discharge;

and

a laser cutting line, which is provided at the lateral discharge of the pendulum shearing machine of the unrolling and pendulum shearing line, and comprises in sequence a sheet feeding device, a laser cutting station, and a rack.

7. The system for combined shearing of a steel plate as claimed in claim 6, characterized in that the sheet conveying device of said unrolling and pendulum shearing line is a magnetic belt conveyor.

8. The system for combined shearing of a steel plate of claim 6, characterized in that said laser cutting line comprises at least a laser generator and a laser cutting machine, and comprises a table for supporting the sheets and allowing waste materials to fall down.

9. The system for combined shearing of a steel plate of claim 6, characterized in that the sheet feeding device of said laser cutting line comprises a magnetic belt conveyor and a ball-type oblique slippy table, and a chute type sheet receiving table.

10. The system for combined shearing of a steel plate of claim 6, characterized in that the laser cutting station of said laser cutting line comprises two laser cutting machines arranged in parallel;

at least one loading robot for loading materials, which is arranged between the two laser cutting machines and performs loading operations of two laser cutting positions; and

at least two unloading robots for performing an unloading operation, corresponding to the two laser cutting positions.

11. The system for combined shearing of a steel plate of claim 6, characterized in that the loading robot is provided with an end tooling for picking up the sheets, and contains an external shaft which enables the robot to move to carry the sheets to a laser cutting table.

12. The system for combined shearing of a steel plate of claim 6, characterized in that the unloading robot is provided with an end tooling for picking up the cut sheets, contains an external shaft which enables the robot to move, and is provided with at least one set of sheet stacking positions.

13. The system for combined shearing of a steel plate of claim 6, characterized in that said laser cutting line further comprises a waste material transferring belt for transferring cut waste materials and a waste material tank for recovering the waste materials.