Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus – Female mold including tamping means or means utilizing mold... – Relatively moving female type shaping member and internal...
Patent
1995-08-07
1997-07-15
Mackey, James P.
Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus
Female mold including tamping means or means utilizing mold...
Relatively moving female type shaping member and internal...
249 65, 249100, 425262, 425427, 425457, B28B 2106
Patent
active
056481080
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention concerns a production system for automatic casting of a hollow body, in particular of concrete, and comprising an inner mould which may be stationary or rise vertically during casting; an outer mould which can be displaced vertically up and down between a lower casting position and an upper free position; a bottom ring for supporting the hollow body and forming a mould part for the lower end part of the hollow body; a top ring for forming a mould part for the upper end part of the hollow body; and a gripper for positioning the top ring in the casting position and retaining it during casting.
Today concrete pipes and other hollow bodies to be manufactured in large numbers with a uniform and constant quality are generally cast in automatically operating production systems of the above-mentioned type. A typical system comprises a mould machine having functions for vertically displacing the outer mould and usually also the inner mould or the core vertically up and down. The machine moreover has a table on which the bottom ring, which simultaneously serves as a pallet for the finished pipes, is placed at the beginning of a production cycle. When the outer mould has been lowered and stands on the bottom ring, the mould is filled from above with fresh concrete. In those cases where a vertically displaceable inner mould is used, this is simultaneously caused to rise from below so as to successively define a ring gap between the two mould parts for forming of the pipe wall. During this casting process the concrete is subjected to vibrations by means of one or more vibrators, which are present in the inner mould in most cases.
In a very widely used method the upper end or spigot end of the hollow body is formed by pressing a profile ring down against the upper side of the concrete when the mould has been filled and the inner mould is present in its upper position. After this operation stripping of the pipe is initiated, the inner mould being pulled down and the outer mould up. During this operation the profile ring remains in its lower pressing position to prevent the pipe from being pulled apart completely or partly by the rather considerable, upwardly directed friction forces to which the outer mould subjects the pipe. Then the profile ring is lifted clear of the pipe, which can now be removed by means of a transport carriage or crane which drives the pipe out to a location for setting.
During setting the pipe remains standing on the bottom ring, which, as previously mentioned, forms a mould part for the lower end or socket end of the pipe, which thus retains its shape and the prescribed tolerances with certainty. Since the profile ring is not carried along, but remains in the machine, the shape of the spigot end, on the other hand, will not be retained during the transport and the setting process without means being provided for this purpose. It has been found that such free spigot ends on newly cast pipes tend to become oval or collapse before the concrete has obtained a sufficient stability and strength. To ensure the dimensional stability of the spigot end as well, a separate top ring is therefore usually placed on the spigot end immediately after casting. This top ring, which is frequently of plastics, can advantageously have walls which support the spigot end interiorly as well as exteriorly. When the pipe, e.g. after one day, has set sufficiently, the top ring is removed again.
These top rings require performance of not insignificant manual labour in the otherwise fully automatically proceeding process. To this should be added that the positioning of the top rings on the spigot ends involves a serious risk, since the spigot end can easily be damaged during this operation if extreme care is not shown.
To avoid these drawbacks, a known automatic production system employs loose top rings, which are of steel and form a mould part for the spigot ends during casting in the normal manner. Instead of being pulled clear of the finished pipe, as before, the top ring is now l
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Mackey James P.
Pedershaab A/S
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