Patent GB-404617-A (GB)
Title: Process for the continuous manufacture of work-pieces, particularly the continuous machining of axle bearing housings and arrangements for performing the same
IPC: B23Q1/48
Filed: 1932-07-05
Abstract: 404,617. Making axle-boxes &c. PEYINGHAUS, W., (trading as EISEN-UND STAHLWERK W. PEYINGHAUS), Egge, near Volmarstein, Ruhr, Germany. July 5, 1932, No. 19053. Convention date, Dec. 19, 1931. [Classes 83 (ii) and 83 (iii).] . Lathes; boring and drilling machines; milling-machines.-In a process for the continuous manufacture of work-pieces such as axle bearing housings by a succession of machining operations, the housing is mounted in a holder carried by a travelling table which is moved successively on to a number of clamping beds arranged along a single longitudinal table, each clamping bed being associated with a machine for performing one of the tooling operations. After travelling along the whole length of the longitudinal table, the work-piece is removed from the travelling table which is then returned along a runway to the front end of the table where it receives a fresh work-piece. The rough axle-box is placed by a crane 1 over a clamping- mandrel 2 having a stop surface 3 to engage part of the axle box, and clamping bolts 4, 5. The flange 6 of the mandrel is detachably secured to a turn-table 7 and is fitted with resilient supporting-bolts 8 engaging the part 9 of the axle box. The bolt 4 acts through an auxiliary clamping piece 10, Fig. 5, while the bolts 5 engage the internal side walls of the axle-box and are actuated against spring pressure by cones 12 carried on a central stem and moved axially by screw action. The turntable 7 is revoluble on the travelling table 13 which is fitted with wheels 16 running on longitudinal rails on the main table 22. The travelling table coacts, at each machining station, with a clamping bed 23, the exact position of the travelling table on the clamping bed being determined by an index pin. Various angular positions of the turntable may also be determined by an index pin 20, actuated by a lever. The travelling table and clamping bed are secured together during operation by bolts 25 and the travelling table is raised by springs to facilitate transfer to the next station. Alternatively the fixing bolts may be replaced by pneumatic, hydraulic, or electro-magnetic securing means. For fine adjustment of the clamping-bed with its work-table relatively to the tools a hand-operated pinion mounted in the clamping table engages a fixed rack 26. The base plate 30 of the main table is fitted on either side with bed plates 31 on which various machine-tools mav be mounted. The side surfaces of the main table are also slotted at 33 and some of the lighter machine tools may be secured to these slots. In operation the rough work piece delivered by the crane 1 to the first table is clamped at successive stations elevator 46 which returns them to the front of the table. The externally machined work piece is transferred to the first of a series of travelling tables 42, to which the work is along the main table and machined first by a pair of milling-machines 35, then by a milling- machine 36, then by boring-machines 37, 38, milling-machine 39, and three-spindle boring- machine 40. This completes the external machining and the travelling tables, as they arrive at the end of the first main table 22, pass on to an elevator 43 and are moved along a return track 45 located beneath the table to an clamped by the aid of the external machined surfaces. On these tables the work-pieces are moved successively to a lathe 47 acting in conjunction with a milling-machine 48, a sixspindle boring-machine 49, and milling-machine 50, a boring-machine 52 and milling-machine 51, and milling-machines 53, 54. The finished housing is delivered to a runway 55.