Edging Roll Adjustment Device with Balanced Force Axis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing edging stands face challenges in achieving precise translational guidance of the edging roller without tilting, due to mismatched forces from piston-cylinder and balancing cylinders, leading to imprecise adjustments during rolling operations.
Innovation Solution
A device with balancing cylinders and an adjusting cylinder, where the compressive force from the adjusting cylinder intersects or runs adjacent to the articulation of the balancing cylinder, ensuring no tilting moment is exerted on the bearing device, allowing for high-precision linear movement of the edging roller.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the piston of the piston-cylinder unit is positioned at a distance from the balancing cylinders, then the structure allows for easier assembly and maintenance, but the cassette is not guided in an exactly translatory manner, resulting in imprecise adjustment of the edging roller
Solution Approach 1:
A guiding device is introduced as an intermediary component between the piston-cylinder unit and the balancing cylinders. This guiding device ensures that the cassette moves in an exactly translatory manner during adjustment, eliminating imprecision while maintaining the structural separation that facilitates assembly and maintenance.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the forces from the piston-cylinder unit and balancing cylinders are not precisely matched, then the structure allows for greater flexibility in force distribution, but the cassette experiences tilting moments, resulting in imprecise adjustment
Solution Approach 1:
The guiding device acts as a mediator that prevents tilting moments from affecting the cassette movement. It ensures that even when forces from the piston-cylinder unit and balancing cylinders are not precisely matched, the cassette is guided in a purely translatory manner without tilting, thus maintaining adjustment precision while preserving force distribution flexibility.
3Stability of the object's composition
If a massive cassette is used for storing the edging roll, then the structure provides stable support for the roll, but it takes up a large amount of space and allows play against the roll, reducing adjustment precision
Solution Approach 1:
The guiding device serves as an intermediary that eliminates play between the cassette and the edging roll. It ensures that the massive cassette, which provides stable support, moves precisely without any lateral play or deviation, thereby achieving both stable support and high adjustment precision simultaneously.
4Manufacturing precision
If balancing cylinders are used to pull the cassette in the opposite direction, then play between components is reduced, but the complexity of the device increases due to additional components and force balancing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The guiding device is introduced as a relatively simple intermediary component that works in conjunction with the existing balancing cylinders. It reduces joint play and ensures precise translatory movement without requiring a complete redesign of the force balancing system, thus improving precision while adding minimal structural complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This configuration ensures precise linear movement of the edging roller against the rolling stock by eliminating play between components, enhancing precision and preventing tilting, thus improving the adjustment process.
Implementation Method 1
the compressive force generated by the adjusting cylinder acting on the bearing device along an effective axis, which either intersects the at least one articulation through which the balancing cylinder is operatively connected to the balancing traverse, or runs directly adjacent to this articulation
Implementation Method 2
the bearing device in which the edging roller is mounted being pulled in the opposite direction by means of the at least one balancing cylinder
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AI summary
The invention relates to a device 1 for adjusting an edging roll 10 of an edging stand, comprising an edger frame 12, to which at least one balancing cylinder 14 is attached, a balancing crosshead 16 with a drive side 18, lying opposite the edger frame 12, and a working side 19, opposite from the drive side 18, wherein a bearing device 20 for the edging roll 10 can be fastened, in particular in an interlocking manner, to the balancing crosshead 16 on the working side 19 thereof and at least one articulation 24 is provided on the drive side 18 thereof, by which articulation the balancing cylinder 14 is in operative connection with the balancing crosshead 16, and at least one adjusting cylinder 26, which is attached to the edger frame 12 and can be brought into operative connection with the bearing device (20) in the direction of an edged material, in order to adjust the edging roll 10 with respect to the edged material, wherein the compressive force generated by the adjusting cylinder 26 acts on the bearing device 20 along an effective axis 28, which either intersects the at least one articulation 24 by which the balancing cylinder 14 is operatively connected to the balancing crosshead 16 or runs directly alongside this articulation 24.