Cutlery
Patent
1982-02-12
1984-03-27
Levy, Stuart S.
Cutlery
81 53A, 81 54, 175 85, 269 34, 269238, B23Q 306, B25B 108, B25B 2100, E21B 1920
Patent
active
044389841
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to a drill steel guiding and centralizing mechanism which mechanism is of the type described in claim 1.
Swedish publication No. 353 762 discloses a drill steel guiding mechanism in which the guiding jaws are turnable around a common axis, and can be opened and closed by means of arms on both sides of the axis, which arms are provided with cams and wedge surfaces to take hold of the jaws. A disadvantage of this mechanism is that dirt and stone dust which goes between the wedge surfaces and between the cams and their counter surfaces cause wear and unaccurate centralizing. Because the jaws are closed with the aid of sharp wedge surfaces, a considerable part of the cylinder power is lost through friction, and part of the power affects in a wrong direction.
Swedish Pat. No. 215 154 discloses a drill steel guiding and centralizing mechanism in which device the jaws are movable by means of two cylinders operating opposite to each other. However, the cylinders may have different speeds of movement, e.g. due to different friction, whereby one of the jaws reaches the drill steel earlier and pushes the steel aside until the other jaw is met. Thus the centralizing is unaccurate. The mechanism is neither suitable for drill cuttings suction pipes of a large diameter. If the jaw travel increases, the centralizing accuracy will further decrease. These disadvantages of the known guiding and centralizing mechanisms cause among others the following additional disadvantages: Drilling speed decreases, the drilling direction becomes less accurate, the drilling machine is subjected to extra torsional loads and the life of the shank adapter is shorter. If an automatic drill steel handling mechanism is used, accurate centralizing of the drill steel is absolutely necessary. This requirement is not sufficiently fulfilled by the known drill steel guiding and centralizing mechanisms.
The object of this invention is to develop an improved drill steel guiding and centralizing mechanism which eliminates the disadvantages of the know guiding and centralizing mechanisms and makes the centralizing of the steel reliable and accurate.
This object is reached through the characteristics of the invention defined in claim 1.
My invention is further described in more detail with reference to the following Figure descriptions:
FIG. 1 illustrates a sideview of a drill steel guiding and centralizing mechanism with a power mechanism coupled with one of its lever arms; and
FIGS. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 illustrate side views of the mechanism as illustrated in FIG. 1 only with the power mechanism coupled in different ways with the various levers which form a part of the mechanism.
Numbers 1 and 6 in the drawing refer to the jaws for guiding and centralizing the drill steel; the jaws are shown in the closed position. Jaw 1 is connected to the first lever arm of the first angled lever 5. The angled lever 5 further comprises another lever arm 3 and an extension 16 therefor. The angled lever 5 is mounted on the body 14 by a swivel joint 4 which is between the lever arms 2 and 3.
The other jaw 6 is connected to the other angled lever 10 which also comprises two lever arms 7 and 8. Between these there is a swivel joint 9 by means of which the angled lever 10 is turnably mounted on the body 14. The radius of the holes of the jaws at the drill steel centre line can be made suitable e.g. for the fastening of the extension rods to the connecting socket. In this case the jaws are not closed against each other.
The lever arms 3 and 8 of the angled levers 5 and 10 are connected by a firm connecting rod 11 which is fastened to the arms 3 and 8 by swivel joints 12 and 13. The swivel joints 12 and 13 and the joints 4 and 9 are placed preferably in the corners of a parallelogram. The extension 16 of the lever arm 3 is connected to a piston cylinder device 15, the other end of which is in the body 14. The piston cylinder device can be coupled to affect any of the lever arms 2, 3, 7, 8 or the connecting rod 11 between the second lever arm 3 and the fou
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Hannon Thomas R.
Levy Stuart S.
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