EP0090824A1 - Equipment for the treatment of cylindrical hollow structures by means of blast cleaning. - Google Patents

Equipment for the treatment of cylindrical hollow structures by means of blast cleaning.

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Publication number
EP0090824A1
EP0090824A1 EP82902984A EP82902984A EP0090824A1 EP 0090824 A1 EP0090824 A1 EP 0090824A1 EP 82902984 A EP82902984 A EP 82902984A EP 82902984 A EP82902984 A EP 82902984A EP 0090824 A1 EP0090824 A1 EP 0090824A1
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equipment
treated
wheels
pipe
wheel sets
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Markku Juhani Fingerroos
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24C—ABRASIVE OR RELATED BLASTING WITH PARTICULATE MATERIAL
    • B24C3/00—Abrasive blasting machines or devices; Plants
    • B24C3/32—Abrasive blasting machines or devices; Plants designed for abrasive blasting of particular work, e.g. the internal surfaces of cylinder blocks

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  • the present invention is concerned with an equipment in accordance with the preamble of claim 1.
  • Equipment of this type is used when especially metallic pipes are treated by means of simultaneous inside and outside sand blasting or blast cleaning.
  • Such equipment usually comprises a blast cham- ber as well as transfer means for shifting the structure to be treated Into and out of the blast chamber.
  • the blasting sand of steel- quartz, or of any other- suitable cleaning material is blasted by means of compressed air through nozzles against the face to be treated.
  • the outside face of pipes has usually been cleaned manually or by using the same spear device as is used for inside cleaning.
  • the object of the present invention is to eliminate the above drawbacks and to provide equipment of an entirely novel type for the treatment of cylindric hollow structures by means of simultaneous inside and outside sand-biastin /blast-cleaning.
  • a combined transfer and rotating device which comprises two wheel sets placed side by side, on which wheel sets the structure to be treated rests and can be rotated around its own axis.
  • the rotating device is con ⁇ verted into a transfer device, by means of which the structure to be treated can be shifted into and out ' of the blast chamber.
  • the equipment comprises a spear device, which comprises two blasting spears, by means of which both inside and outside cleaning of the structure to be treated can be performed simultaneously.
  • the pressure used in the blasting spears is chosen sufficiently high and the speed of rotation of the wheel sets appropriate so that the cleaning material is automatically hovering pushed out of the interior of the structure to be treated.
  • Figure 1 is a schematical side view of the equipment in accordance with the invention before the beginning of the blasting process.
  • Figure 2 shows the equipment of Fig. 1 during the blasting process.
  • Figure 3 shows the -equipment in accordance with the invention as viewed from the end placed next to the feeding table.
  • Figure ⁇ i shows the equipment in accordance with the invention as a cross section at the blast chamber.
  • Figure 5 is a side view showing the relative connections between the sand-feed containers and the blasting spears.
  • Figure 6 shows the combination of Fig. 5 as viewed from the end next .to the spear device of the equipment.
  • Figure 7 is a side view of the blasting spears at the ends next to the nozzles.
  • the spear device which comprises an upper spear 19 and a lower spear 23, placed directly underneath the upper spear, as well as sand-feed containers 28 and 30 connected to the said spears, is shifted as one unit into connection with the pipe 1 to be treated.
  • the upper spear 19 moves slowly into the pipe 1 while the pipe revolves, and at the same time the " lower spear 23 moves to under ⁇ neath the pipe 1, while blasting sand is blown by means of compressed air through the nozzles 20 and 24, res ⁇ pectively, onto the inner and outer face of the pipe.
  • the compressed-air device which is not shown, is con ⁇ nected to the spears 19 and 23 at points placed behind the sand-feed containers 28 and 30. From these con- tainers 28 and 30, the blasting sand has access into the spears 19 and 23 through pipes 29 and 31 and through valves, not shown, placed in the said pipes.
  • the combination of spears and containers moves on the wheel set 32 along rails 33.
  • the lower spear 23 is, by means of a support, wheel 25, 26 of its own, arranged so as to be supported at one end against the above V-section bottom groove.
  • the upper spear 19 is, by means of resilient guide wheel sets 21, 22, fitted centrally to move inside the pipe 1. Both of the blasting spears 19 and 23 are dimensioned at least approximately equally and connec ⁇ ted to a preferably common pressure source so that the pressure to be used is 5 to 15 bars, most appropriately about 10 bars.
  • the sand blasted out of the lower spear 23 likewise falls onto the bottom of the blast chamber 13- All of this sand that was used can flow through a longitudinal slot I ⁇ in the bottom 15 of the blast chamber to a, likewise longitudinal, trough 17 placed underneath the bottom 15 s a screw con ⁇ veyor 18 placed in the said trough shifting the sand used further for recovery.
  • the level of the lower spear 23 does not necessarily have to be adjusted in accordance with the size of the pipe 1 to be treated.
  • adjustability of the upper spear 19 at the root end may be important in order to give consideration to different pipe sizes, even though the flexible guide wheel sets 21, 22 also automatically take such variations at the nozzle end of the spear 19 into account.
  • the speed of movement of the spear device is preferably continuously adjustable, owing to which the degree of cleaning can be selected freely.

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Abstract

Le traitement de la face intérieure d'un tuyau à l'aide d'un dispositif dit à lance est connu dans l'art antérieur, lequel dispositif à lance est pourvu d'un ou de plusieurs ajutages lesquels progressent axialement par rapport au tuyau à traiter, ce tuyau tournant en même temps autour de son axe à l'aide d'un dispositif de rotation. Cependant, cette solution de l'art antérieur présente l'inconvénient que le sable de soufflage tend à rester dans le tuyau d'où il doit être extrait par un soufflage séparé d'air comprimé. Selon l'invention, un dispositif de transfert et de rotation combinés est utilisé, ce dispositif comprenant deux ensembles de roues (2 à 8) placés côte à côte, la structure (1) à traiter reposant et tournant autour de son propre axe sur ces jeux de roues. Lorsque la position angulaire des roues (2) est modifiée, le dispositif de rotation est converti en un dispositif de transfert, permettant de sortir la structure (1) de la chambre de soufflage ou de la faire pénétrer dans cette chambre de soufflage. L'équipement comprend un dispositif à lance (23) ayant deux lances de soufflage à l'aide desquelles il est possible d'effectuer simultanément le nettoyage de l'intérieur et de l'extérieur de la structure (1) à traiter.The treatment of the inner face of a pipe using a so-called lance device is known in the prior art, which lance device is provided with one or more nozzles which progress axially with respect to the pipe to treat, this pipe rotating at the same time around its axis using a rotation device. However, this solution of the prior art has the disadvantage that the blowing sand tends to remain in the pipe from where it must be extracted by a separate blowing of compressed air. According to the invention, a combined transfer and rotation device is used, this device comprising two sets of wheels (2 to 8) placed side by side, the structure (1) to be treated resting and rotating around its own axis on these wheel sets. When the angular position of the wheels (2) is changed, the rotation device is converted into a transfer device, making it possible to take the structure (1) out of the blowing chamber or to make it enter this blowing chamber. The equipment comprises a lance device (23) having two blowing lances with the help of which it is possible to simultaneously perform the cleaning of the interior and exterior of the structure (1) to be treated.

Description

Equipment for the treatment of cylindrical hollow structures by means of blast cleaning
The present invention is concerned with an equipment in accordance with the preamble of claim 1. Equipment of this type is used when especially metallic pipes are treated by means of simultaneous inside and outside sand blasting or blast cleaning.
Such equipment usually comprises a blast cham- ber as well as transfer means for shifting the structure to be treated Into and out of the blast chamber. The blasting sand of steel- quartz, or of any other- suitable cleaning material is blasted by means of compressed air through nozzles against the face to be treated. It is known in prior art to treat the inside face of pipes by means of a so-called spear device, which comprises one or several nozzles, whereby, while the nozzles progress axially in relation to the pipe to be treated, this pipe is, at the same time, by means of rotating means, made to revolve around its axis. The outside face of pipes has usually been cleaned manually or by using the same spear device as is used for inside cleaning.
These prior-art solutions, however, involve the drawback that the blasting sand tends to remain in the pipe, from which it must be removed by means of separate blowing by compressed air. Moreover, the fact that the cleaning operations directed at the inside and the outside faces of the structures to be treated take place at different times makes the treatment prolonged and inconvenient. At the same time, it has been difficult to treat pipes of different diameters by means of the same equipment, because there has been no sufficient adjustability. The object of the present invention is to eliminate the above drawbacks and to provide equipment of an entirely novel type for the treatment of cylindric hollow structures by means of simultaneous inside and outside sand-biastin /blast-cleaning.
The invention is based, e.g., on the following ideas: - A combined transfer and rotating device is used, which comprises two wheel sets placed side by side, on which wheel sets the structure to be treated rests and can be rotated around its own axis. When the angle position of the wheels in the wheel sets is changed, the rotating device is con¬ verted into a transfer device, by means of which the structure to be treated can be shifted into and out'of the blast chamber. - The equipment comprises a spear device, which comprises two blasting spears, by means of which both inside and outside cleaning of the structure to be treated can be performed simultaneously. - The pressure used in the blasting spears is chosen sufficiently high and the speed of rotation of the wheel sets appropriate so that the cleaning material is automatically hovering pushed out of the interior of the structure to be treated.
More specifically,- the equipment in accordance with the invention is mainly characterized in what is stated in the characterizing part of claim 1.
By means of the invention, remarkable advantages are achieved. Thus, as the inside and outside cleaning is performed at the same time, considerable economies of time are achieved. Since a correct choice of pressure and. speed of rotation causes the cleaning material to be removed from the interior of the structure to be treated automatically, this also allows to avoid unnecessary consumption of time for additional cleaning. Owing to a pivotable wheel set, the transfer and the rotation are efficient and rapid, since they are performed by means of one apparatus.
The invention will be examined in more detail below by means of the exemplifying embodiment in accordance with the attached drawings.
Figure 1 is a schematical side view of the equipment in accordance with the invention before the beginning of the blasting process.
Figure 2 shows the equipment of Fig. 1 during the blasting process.
Figure 3 shows the -equipment in accordance with the invention as viewed from the end placed next to the feeding table.
Figure ~i shows the equipment in accordance with the invention as a cross section at the blast chamber.
Figure 5 is a side view showing the relative connections between the sand-feed containers and the blasting spears.
Figure 6 shows the combination of Fig. 5 as viewed from the end next .to the spear device of the equipment.
Figure 7 is a side view of the blasting spears at the ends next to the nozzles.
In the starting situation in accordance with Fig. 1, the pipe 1 to be treated has been shifted from the feeding table 9 shown in Fig. 3 by means of a lever arm 10 operated by a hydraulic cylinder 10 onto the wheel sets 2. As comes out more clearly from Figures 3 and 4, these wheel sets comprise several wheel rims 2 of equal size, placed coaxially at a distance from one another, solid tyres 3, e.g. of rubber, being fitted on the circumference of the said rims. Some of these wheels 2 are freely revolving, whereas some of them are motor- driven, preferably inverter-operated. , As comes out mainly from Fig. 3 the wheels 2 are, by means of journalling 6, attached to the V-shaped bottom part of the blast chamber so that they can be
C-ylrl diverted from their rotating position, in the radial plane, to the transfer position so as to achieve axial shifting of the structure 1. This diverting takes place by means of a longitudinal rod 8, which is connected to a lever 7 related to the journalling of each wheel 2. In this way, all the wheels of both wheel sets 2 are automatically always shifted into the same angular position.
After the pipe 1 has been, by means of the wheel sets 2, shifted into the blast chamber in accor- ance with Fig. 2, the position of the wheels 2 is restored. to the radial plane so that the pipe 1 revolves in the blast chamber 13 around its axis as supported on its wheel sets 2. At the same time, the spear device, which comprises an upper spear 19 and a lower spear 23, placed directly underneath the upper spear, as well as sand-feed containers 28 and 30 connected to the said spears, is shifted as one unit into connection with the pipe 1 to be treated. Then, the upper spear 19 moves slowly into the pipe 1 while the pipe revolves, and at the same time the "lower spear 23 moves to under¬ neath the pipe 1, while blasting sand is blown by means of compressed air through the nozzles 20 and 24, res¬ pectively, onto the inner and outer face of the pipe. The compressed-air device, which is not shown, is con¬ nected to the spears 19 and 23 at points placed behind the sand-feed containers 28 and 30. From these con- tainers 28 and 30, the blasting sand has access into the spears 19 and 23 through pipes 29 and 31 and through valves, not shown, placed in the said pipes. The combination of spears and containers moves on the wheel set 32 along rails 33. Moreover, the lower spear 23 is, by means of a support, wheel 25, 26 of its own, arranged so as to be supported at one end against the above V-section bottom groove. On the other hand, the upper spear 19 is, by means of resilient guide wheel sets 21, 22, fitted centrally to move inside the pipe 1. Both of the blasting spears 19 and 23 are dimensioned at least approximately equally and connec¬ ted to a preferably common pressure source so that the pressure to be used is 5 to 15 bars, most appropriately about 10 bars. Moreover, as the wheel sets 2 have been arranged so as to make the pipe 1 to be treated rotate at a speed of 20 to 70 r.p.m., preferably about 30 to 40 r.p.m., by the combined effect of the pressure and of the speed of revolution applied, a phenomenon of hovering of the blasting sand inside the pipe 1 is pro¬ duced. This is why the blasting sand is automatically removed out of the pipe 1 through one of its ends onto the bottom of the blast chamber 13. The sand blasted out of the lower spear 23 likewise falls onto the bottom of the blast chamber 13- All of this sand that was used can flow through a longitudinal slot Iβ in the bottom 15 of the blast chamber to a, likewise longitudinal, trough 17 placed underneath the bottom 15s a screw con¬ veyor 18 placed in the said trough shifting the sand used further for recovery.
As comes out from Figures 3 and 4, the equip¬ ment in accordance with the invention is very well suited for the treatment of tubular structures of different sizes both at the factory and at a construction site.
Since the effect of the diameter of the pipe 1 to be treated is not large on the distance of the lower spear 23 from the bottom face of the pipe 1, the level of the lower spear 23 does not necessarily have to be adjusted in accordance with the size of the pipe 1 to be treated. On the contrary, adjustability of the upper spear 19 at the root end may be important in order to give consideration to different pipe sizes, even though the flexible guide wheel sets 21, 22 also automatically take such variations at the nozzle end of the spear 19 into account.
O FI It should be mentioned that the speed of movement of the spear device is preferably continuously adjustable, owing to which the degree of cleaning can be selected freely.

Claims

WHAT IS CLAIMED IS:
1. Equipment for the treatment of cylindrical hollow structures (1) and especially of metallic pipes inwardly and outwardly by means of blast cleaning, which equipment comprises
- a blast chamber (13),
- two transfer wheel sets (2 to 8) placed side by side, for shifting the structure (1) to be treated axially into and out of the blast chamber (13) - each wheel set (2 to 8) con¬ sisting of several wheels (2), which are preferably of equal size, which can be rota¬ ted in a position oblique to the direction of shifting of the structure (1) to be treated, at least some of which are motor- driven, and o whose support the structure (1) can be, at one time, both shifted axially and rotated around its axis, - a spear device (19, 23) for blasting the blasting sand through nozzles (20, 24) onto the face of the structure (1), - a compressed-air source for supplying com¬ pressed air into the spear device (19, 23), - sand-feed means (28, 30) for feeding blasting sand into the spear device (193 23), c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the wheels (2) can be pivoted from their said oblique shifting position to such a rotating position in which the axes (5) of the wheels of both wheel sets (2 to 8) are ontheir own common geometric axis, which is at least substantially parallel to the direction of shifting of the structure (1) to be treated.
2. Equipment as claimed in claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the wheel sets (2 to 8) have been arranged so as to make the structure (1) to be treated revolve at a speed of 20 to 70 r.p.m., most appropriately about 30 to 40 r.p.m.
3. Equipment as claimed in claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the wheels (2) in both wheel sets (2 to 8) have been journalled (6) so that, by means of a common axial rod (8) or equivalent and of a lever (7) belonging to each wheel (2), they can be simultaneously pivoted to a position diverging from the radial plane.
4. Equipment as claimed in claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the wheels (2) are provided with solid tyres (3) of a material, such as rubber.
EP82902984A 1981-10-02 1982-10-01 Equipment for the treatment of cylindrical hollow structures by means of blast cleaning Expired EP0090824B1 (en)

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FI813064 1981-10-02
FI813064A FI64904C (en) 1981-10-02 1981-10-02 ANORDNING FOER STRAOLBLAESTRING AV CYLINDRISKA IHAOLIGA KONSTRUKTIONER

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