Apparatus and a procedure for cleaning tools during the manufacture of shells or core packets that are ready for casting

US5544667A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Adolf Hottinger Maschinenbau GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Werner Landua · Mannheim, DE
• Wolfgang Schimpf · Mannheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 5, 1994
• Grant date: Aug 13, 1996
• Expiry date: Jul 5, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B22C9/103
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An apparatus for cleaning tools during the manufacture of shells or core packets that are ready for casting, by means of core shooters or shooting stations that are preferably in a linear arrangement, the core shooter comprising tool sets consisting of a tool upper section, an ejector plate of the tool upper section, and a tool lower section, it being possible to uncouple the tool set from the core shooter and remove it preferably to a tool store (5), is provided, for purposes of ensuring rapid and fully automatic tool cleaning, with a delivery system (6), a first flushing system (7), at least one ultrasound bath (8), a second flushing system (9), optionally, a cooling system (10), a drying system (12), optionally an inspection station (13), and a removal system (14), the tool sets (4) being moved by means of the delivery system (6) from the core shooters or from the tool store (5) to a first manipulator (15), from this into the first flushing system (7), preferably by means of a second manipulator (16) into the ultrasound bath (8), into the second flushing system (9), optionally into the cooling system (10), and from there to the drying system (12),preferably by means of a third m…