Uncoiling and blanking method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9770782-B2
Application number	US-201414759458-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 28, 2014
Priority date	Apr 28, 2013
Publication date	Sep 26, 2017
Grant date	Sep 26, 2017

Abstract

An uncoiling and blanking method includes uncoiling a coiled strip, straightening, cutting off the leading end, moving into a looper, moving out of the looper, then cleaning the surface of the coiled strip, and flattening; conveying the coiled strip on a pinch roller to perform laser cutting and blanking, wherein dual static laser cutting heads are used for cutting the coiled strip during the laser cutting, and the cut-away waste materials fall down from the cutting region and are conveyed to the outside; and after the completion of cutting, finally cutting off the obtained sheets from each other, receiving them by a receiving device and conveying same on a conveying belt to a picking up and stacking region to stack the sheets. An uncoiling and blanking method of the present invention adopts laser static cutting, can effectively improve the operation speed and yield by means of cooperative operation of two laser cutting heads, replaces the die blanking method, and has no die or maintenance cost associated therewith, requires no die stacking space, has a more flexible operation mode, simplifies the layout of the production line, and is easy to handle.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An uncoiling and blanking method, comprising:
uncoiling a coiled strip, straightening the coiled strip, cutting off the leading end of the coiled strip, moving the coiled strip into a looper, and moving the coiled strip out of the looper;
cleaning the surface of the coiled strip, and flattening;
conveying the coiled strip on a pinch roller to perform laser cutting and blanking, wherein dual static laser cutting heads cut the coiled strip during the laser cutting, and cut-away waste materials fall down from the cutting region and are conveyed outside, wherein the waste material from the cutting region is conveyed outside in such a way that the waste material is transversely conveyed below the cutting region and falls into a side waste basket;
completing cutting;
cutting off the obtained sheets from each other;
receiving the sheets by a receiving device; and
conveying the sheets on a conveying belt to a picking up and stacking region to stack the sheets,
wherein during a cutting operation in the cutting region, the coiled strip is stationary, and after the laser cutting head completes the cutting operation, the coiled strip is moved step by step.

2. The uncoiling and blanking method of claim 1 , wherein the laser cutting process adopts a regional static cutting mode by dual laser cutting heads, with the cutting region being dynamically adjusted depending of the sheet shape.

3. The uncoiling and blanking method of claim 1 , wherein two laser cutting heads are responsible for different regions of a sheet, that is, a first laser cutting head does not perform a cutting off operation between sheets in a cutting region, and the second laser cutting head performs a cutting off operation between sheets in a cutting region to separate the sheets from each other; after cutting off, the sheets are received by the receiving device and conveyed on the conveying belt to the stacking region; and after the coiled strip advances a step, cutting is continued to obtain one sheet during the step, the length of the step being determined by the length of the sheet.

4. The uncoiling and blanking method of claim 1 , wherein when one sheet is cut from the cutting region, firstly the leading end of the plate strip enters a first cutting region, a first laser cutting head cuts a front part of a first sheet, and after the completion of the cutting, the plate strip advances the length of one sheet; then a second laser cutting head cuts the rest of the first sheet, and at the same time, the first laser cutting head cuts a front part of a second sheet, and the second laser cutting head separates and cuts off the first sheet from the second sheet while the first laser cutting head does not separate or cut off the first sheet from the second sheet; when the two laser cutting heads complete the cutting operations in this region, the plate strip advances a step, the first sheet is received by the receiving device and conveyed on the conveying belt to the stacking region; then the second laser cutting head cuts the rest of the second sheet, and at the same time the first laser cutting head cuts a front part of a third sheet, and the second laser cutting head separates and cuts off the second sheet from the third sheet while the first laser cutting head does not separate or cut off the second sheet from the third sheet; after the two laser cutting heads complete the cutting operations in the cutting region, the plate strip advances a step; the second sheet is received by the receiving device and then conveyed on the conveying belt to the stacking region; and such a process is repeated.

5. The uncoiling and blanking method of claim 1 , wherein when more than two sheets are cut from the cutting region, the leading end of the plate strip enters a first cutting region, a first laser cutting head partially cuts the more than two sheets, and after the completion of the cutting, the plate strip advances the length of one sheet; then a second laser cutting head cuts the rest of a first sheet of the sheets, and at the same time the first laser cutting head partially cuts a third sheet, and the second laser cutting head separates and cuts off the first sheet from a second sheet; after the two laser cutting heads complete the cutting operations in this region, the plate strip advances a step, and the first sheet is received by the receiving device and conveyed on the conveying belt to the stacking region; then the second laser cutting head cuts the rest of the second sheet, and at the same time the first laser cutting head partially cuts a fourth sheet, and the second laser cutting head separates and cuts off the second sheet from the third sheet; after the two laser cutting heads complete the cutting operations in the region, the plate strip advances a step; the second sheet is received by the receiving device and then conveyed on the conveying belt to the stacking region; and such a process is repeated.

Assignees

• Baoshan Iron & Steel

Inventors

• Wu Ruimin
• Jin Chengguo
• Jin Wenhai
• Yang Saidan
• Qiao Junliang
• Pan Shengbo
• Wang Yuming

Classifications

• B23K26/0604

  by a combination of beams · CPC title

• B23K2201/18

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B23K26/0846 Primary

  for moving elongated workpieces longitudinally, e.g. wire or strip material · CPC title

• B23K26/38 Primary

  by boring or cutting · CPC title

• B23K26/083

  Devices involving movement of the workpiece in at least one axial direction · CPC title