JP2871009B2 - Glass sheet breaking device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical field to which the invention pertains] The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an automotive glass or the like, which cuts a base glass into a required shape and cuts the raw glass along a cutting line inserted in the base glass. The present invention relates to a glass sheet folding apparatus that automatically folds glass sheets.

[Prior Art] A conventional glass sheet folding apparatus is, as shown in FIG.
A belt conveyor device 31 having a belt 32 for supporting the glass plate (raw glass) 12 in a plane, and a trimming and pressing device 35 disposed above the belt 32 and moving in an XY orthogonal coordinate system or a polar coordinate system. I have it.

In the glass sheet folding apparatus shown in FIG.
On the inside (lower side) of 32, on the belt support plate 34, a template 33 cut according to the cutting line applied to the glass plate 12 is arranged to make a step, and the glass plate 12 is The cut line is placed on the belt 32 in a state where the cut line is superimposed on the template 33. In this state, the cut line is first cut by the trimming and pressing device 35, and then pressed, and then pressed by the step at the same level as the mold. Have been.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] By the way, in the above-mentioned conventional folding apparatus, first, it is necessary to prepare a template 33 cut along a cutting line applied to the glass plate 12, It is necessary to position the template 33 so that its outer edge exactly overlaps the cutting line of the glass plate 12, etc., which requires troublesome work, and this work is troublesome and requires no manual work. You don't get it.

Therefore, even though the polishing step and the cutting step (cutting line) are completely automated by numerical control or the like, changing the fold shape in the fold step requires labor and time. This means that the benefits of automation cannot be maximized.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned points, and an object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-described drawbacks of the conventional folding device, and to perform manual operation even when the shape of the glass plate to be folded is changed. It is an object of the present invention to provide a glass sheet folding apparatus that can be controlled by information stored in a computer or the like in advance without necessity, and that can perform completely automated folding.

Means for Solving the Problems According to the present invention, the object is to provide a belt conveyor device having a conveyor belt on which a glass plate is placed on an upper surface, and a conveyor belt disposed above the belt conveyor device. A glass slitting device that moves parallel to the upper surface of the conveyor belt and pushes the glass plate placed on the upper surface of the conveyor belt, and is disposed above the belt conveyor device and moves forward and backward with respect to the upper surface of the conveyor belt. A suction device that sucks and lifts the glass plate, a support base below the conveyor belt and having an upper surface for supporting the glass plate in a plane via the conveyor belt, and a rotation axis line attached to the support base. And an angle moving device arranged such that the axis of rotation is perpendicular to the upper surface of the support base, and attached to the rotating portion of the angle moving device. Yes,
A linear slide device having a slide body that moves linearly in the radial direction, and a glass receiver attached to the slide body of the linear slide device, wherein the glass receiver is located at a position corresponding to the moving position of the glass breaking device. Is moved so that the glass sheet is supported by the glass receiver.

[Operation] According to the glass sheet folding apparatus of the present invention, the glass receiver is moved by the angle moving device and the linear slide device to a position corresponding to the moving position of the glass pressing device, and should be split. The glass plate is supported by the moved glass receiver. The glass plate supported by the glass receiver is broken along a cutting line by a glass breaking device.

Hereinafter, a glass sheet folding apparatus according to the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to one embodiment shown in the drawings.

[Embodiment] In FIGS. 1 and 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a belt conveyor device on which a glass plate 12 is placed. Belt conveyor device 1
Has a conveyor belt 16, and the conveyor belt 16
A glass plate 12 is placed on the upper surface of the glass plate. 2
Is a machine frame installed above the belt conveyor device 1. An angle moving device 3 is attached to the machine frame 2 above the central portion of the belt conveyor device 1 (the central portion of the placed glass plate 12). The angle moving device 3 has its rotation axis center line
3A is attached to the machine frame 2 so as to be perpendicular to the upper surface of the conveyor belt 16. A linear slide device 5 is attached to the rotating part 4 of the angle moving device 3 directly or via a bracket, and the linear slide device 5 includes a slide body 6. 16 is rotated in the direction A in a plane parallel to the plane of the glass plate 12 while the slide body 6 is
A linear movement (a linear movement parallel to the plane of the glass plate 12) is performed in the direction.

On the slide body 6 of the linear slide device 5, an edge cutting device 7 and a press device 8 are juxtaposed so that work can be performed on the glass plate 12 on the belt conveyor device 1. Trimming cutter device 7 and press device 8
Means that the glass plate 12 on the belt conveyor device 1 is operated by the operation of the angle moving device 3 and the linear slide device 5.
Are moved in polar coordinates in a plane parallel to the plane, and are positioned and moved (positioned) in a stepwise manner.

The trimming cutter device 7 has a cutter wheel block 10 attached to the tip of an air cylinder 9 that retracts with respect to the glass plate 12, while the press device 8 also advances and retracts with respect to the glass plate 12. It has a push rod 51 attached to the tip of the air cylinder 11.

The angle moving device 3 is composed of a motor with a rotational position detector, is connected to a drive unit and a control device, and is operated by digital servo control or the like. Angle moving device 3
Has a memory unit for storing information such as a position command input and a speed command input, and a memory read unit.

The linear slide device 5 is mainly composed of a drive unit 13 with a guide and a servomotor 14, and servo-feeds the slide body 6 such as step drive under the control of a control device.
The control device connected to the linear slide device 5 includes a memory writing unit, a memory reading unit, a teaching reception unit, a data transmission unit, a CPU, and the like.

A fixed hollow body 15A is disposed at a position serving as a rotation center of the angle moving device 3, and a suction device 15 that moves forward and backward with respect to the belt conveyor device 1 is attached to the hollow body 15A. 15 lifts the broken glass plate 12 on the conveyor belt 16 and separates it from the cullet (outer ear portion).
The cullet remaining above is discharged to the outside by the operation of the belt conveyor device 1.

On the lower surface of the conveyor belt 16 on which the glass plate 12 is placed, a support plate 17 that supports the lower surface of the conveyor belt 16 in a plane is arranged.
In the area where the glass plate 12 is placed above, it is omitted in a circular shape as the omitted portion 17A, and a glass plate supporting device 18 is arranged in the omitted portion 17A.

The glass plate supporting device 18 has an angle motor 19 disposed at the center as an angle moving device, a linear slide device 21, and a belt support plate 27, and a rotating portion of the angle motor 19
A linear slide device 21 is attached to 20 in parallel with the lower surface of the conveyor belt 16, and a glass receiver 23 for supporting the glass plate 12 via the conveyor belt 16 is attached to a slide 22 of the linear slide device 21. Have been.

A support 24 that supports the glass plate 12 and the conveyor belt 16 in a plane is provided upright from a fixed portion at the center of the angle motor 19, and the upper surface of the support 24 is the same as the support plate 17 that supports the conveyor belt 16. Arranged at height.

The angle motor 19 is arranged such that its axis of rotation is perpendicular to the support base 24 and the support plate 17. Therefore, the linear slide device 21 attached directly or via a bracket to the rotating portion 20 of the angle motor 19 horizontally moves around the support 24 in a plane parallel to the upper surface of the support 24 and the lower surface of the conveyor belt 16. It is designed to be turned.

Belt support plate 27 that supports conveyor belt 16
Is held by the linear slide device 21 and the linear slide device
It is designed to rotate together with 21.

The angle motor 19 has the same function as the angle moving device 3 of the split part, and is controlled and driven by its control device. The linear slide device 21 also has the same function as the linear slide device 5, and is controlled and driven in the same manner.

The angle motor 19 is held on a conveyor frame 31 via a bracket 30.

The glass receiver 23 attached to the slide body 22 of the linear slide device 21 is moved in a linear coordinate system by the linear movement of the slide body 22 by the numerically controlled linear slide device 21 and the angular movement of the linear slide device 21 by the angle motor 19. Being
The necessary portions on the lower surface of the glass plate 12 are sequentially supported.

The glass plate 12 placed on the conveyor belt 16 of the belt conveyor device 1 is clamped and fixed by the support 24 of the glass plate support device 18 and the suction device 15 of the split portion, and The trimming cutter device 7 and the pressing device 8 are made of a glass plate.
In response to the rotation of which the angle is controlled with respect to the center of the glass plate 12 above the glass plate 12 and the linear movement by the linear slide device 5, they are sequentially positioned at the positions stored in advance and cut off or pressed. During the operation, the glass receiver 23 of the glass plate supporting device 18 is also moved in polar coordinates based on a program stored in advance to support the position of the trimmed or pressed glass plate 12 from below.

That is, the glass receiver 23 moves in accordance with the trimming cutter device 7 and the press device 8 based on a program stored in advance.

The glass receiver 23 usually has a flat portion as shown in FIG.
When the end cutting device 7 is operated, the flat portion 28 corresponds to the end cutting device of the end cutting device 7, and when the press device 8 is operated, The step 29 is aligned with the cutting line of the glass plate 12. A slit 27A is formed in the belt support plate 27 to allow the glass receiver 23 to move linearly.

According to the above glass sheet folding apparatus, the glass sheet 12
At the center, it is supported by a support table 24 via a conveyor belt 16, and is supported by being pinched and supported by the support table 24 and the suction device 15, and its position every time it is cut and pressed for breaking. , Is supported by the glass receiver 23 that moves under the conveyor belt 16 in polar coordinates, so that it is cut off at the flat portion 28 without being bent and pressed and split at the step portion 29.

That is, under the conveyor belt 16 supporting the glass plate 12, the position of the glass receiver 23 can be freely changed, and the glass receiver 23 can be positioned at any position on the cutting line of the glass plate 12. .

According to the above-described apparatus for folding a glass plate, the edge cutting device 7 which moves above the glass plate 12 and is sequentially positioned at a plurality of required positions of the glass plate 12 to perform trimming and pressing.
To the position corresponding to the position of the
By moving the glass plate 12, the glass plate 12 is supported by the plane portion 28 in a planar manner to perform trimming, and the step 29 can be used to perform press splitting.

[Effect of the Invention] As described above, according to the glass sheet folding apparatus of the present invention,
It is possible to control with the information stored in a computer or the like in advance without requiring a template, and even if the shape of the glass plate to be broken is changed, without requiring any manual operation, and a fully automated folding plate can be obtained. You can do a split.

[Brief description of the drawings]

1 is a front sectional view of a glass sheet folding apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a partially cutaway plan view of the glass sheet folding apparatus shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a conventional folding apparatus. FIG. 1 ... belt conveyor device, 16 ... conveyor belt, 19
…… Angle motor, 21… Linear slide device, 23 …… Glass receiver.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A belt conveyor device having a conveyor belt on which a glass plate is placed on an upper surface, and a conveyor belt disposed above the belt conveyor device and moving in parallel with the upper surface of the conveyor belt, A glass slicing device that performs squeezing on a glass plate placed on the upper surface of a conveyor belt, and a suction device that is disposed above the belt conveyor device, moves forward and backward with respect to the upper surface of the conveyor belt, and sucks and lifts the glass plate; A support table, which is located below the conveyor belt and has an upper surface for supporting the glass plate two-dimensionally via the conveyor belt, and a rotation unit having a rotation axis positioned on the support, and a rotation axis. Has an angle moving device disposed so as to be perpendicular to the upper surface of the support table, and a slide body that is attached to a rotating part of the angle moving device and moves linearly in the radial direction. A linear slide device and a glass receiver attached to a slide body of the linear slide device are provided, and the glass receiver is moved to a position corresponding to the moving position of the glass breaking device, and the glass plate is moved by the glass receiver. A glass sheet breaking device designed to support