Controller for a numerically-controlled form-cutting machine

US4145723A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Saint-Gobain Industries · FR

Inventors

• Horst Mucha · Aachen, DE
• Wilhelm Arnoldi · Aachen, DE
• Kurt Fattler · Aachen, DE
• Albrecht Overath
• Friedrich Halberschmidt · Herzogenrath, DE
• Heinz-Josef Reinmold · Aachen, DE
• Josef Audi · Aachen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 12, 1977
• Grant date: Mar 20, 1979
• Expiry date: Oct 12, 1997

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T83/171
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An electric control system for a numerically-controlled form-cutting machine is disclosed. The form-cutting machine has two drive motors for moving a cutting tool respectively in an X direction and a Y direction. The control system comprises X-channel and Y-channel program-encoding means for encoding a program for numerically controlling the motion of the cutting tool in the X and Y directions respectively. The control system further comprises a magnetic-tape unit, for example, a cassette recorder, which can record the encoded programs on two tracks of magnetic tape. The control system further comprises X-channel and Y-channel program-decoding means for converting the signals played back from the magnetic-tape unit into signals suitable for controlling the motion of the cutting tool. The control system also includes conductive means interconnecting the components of the system.