Up to the present, known is the continous way through furnace.This class stove has a shortcoming, and promptly the treatment time of each workpiece is immutable.Enter each workpiece in the stove, will send outside the stove by an immutable order by a preset time at interval.This shows that the purposes of this class continuous furnace is limited, they are suitable for handling a large amount of identical workpiece.Must carry out indiscriminate or identical processing to them.
In addition, everybody also understands stove at the bottom of being used for the heat treated rotary oven of metal works.By a charging fire door enter in the stove and be positioned over a ring furnace at the bottom of workpiece, continuously by certain sense of rotation and along a very long path through stove.After treating processes finishes, still by workpiece being sent fire door (United States Patent (USP) 4 412 813) with the same order of charging.Therefore, stove is still by known continous way principle and uses at the bottom of this class rotary oven, and promptly all workpiece are identical in the residence time of each treatment station (treatment chamber).Stove also has another shortcoming at the bottom of this known rotary oven, i.e. furnace chamber subregion not can not make the carbon potential difference in each district yet.Like this, in actual applications, for example carburizing, the stove maximum only can reach the carburized layer depth of 0.6mm at the bottom of the rotary oven.Therefore, can not obtain darker carburized layer depth, even if it is can obtain, also extremely uneconomical.In view of the foregoing, the present invention proposes such target, promptly develop a kind of heat treating method of metal works and the continuous oven of the sort of form that beginning is mentioned the time.So just, can avoid shortcoming recited above, and simultaneously treatment process different and (or) workpiece of asynchronism(-nization), particularly can carry out carburizing, and the different workpiece of carburized layer depth, thereby can utilize the processing power of stove fully by two segmented modes.Owing to can handle the workpiece of size, size and different amts simultaneously, so stove just has purposes widely.
In order to realize above-mentioned target, the present invention advises that aspect heat treating method in a treatment chamber, workpiece movement is irregular at least, and promptly the residence time of workpiece can be different.Promptly from one or more treatment chambers, send after stopping.For reaching this target, propose to realize the relevant devices of treatment process of the present invention below.This equipment has 2 treatment chambers by circular cycle stove design, and has rotatable furnace bottom.By one embodiment of the invention, each operates fire door can open 45 ° at least, preferably 180 °.One in the fire door is the partition door that separates with adjacent treatment chamber.
Main points of the present invention are, carry out the different treatment process and the workpiece in treatment time in order to handle those requirements with the time inequality, thereby design a continuous furnace, this stove can be sent workpiece with the another kind of time sequence different with the time sequence of charging with the workpiece that disposes.Like this, it is unequal just must making workpiece movement at least one treatment chamber, after soon workpiece disposed by the different time, just sends from the treatment chamber at place.
Therefore just might in a treatment chamber,,, also promptly move each workpiece with the identical time promptly with constant order by common mode.And before or after it another treatment chamber of face, then more be designed to one can be in the storage compartment of two reverse directions motions.Heat-treat in the workpiece atmosphere therein.But the position that a plurality of place work pieces are arranged in this storage compartment.For charging and feeding, these positions can be moved before the operation fire door.Charge time, treatment time and discharging time can be controlled by the heat treatment process of a regulation.Can there be in line or several in line storing positions this storage compartment.According to another embodiment of the present invention, employing be stove at the bottom of the rotary oven.It is by circular cycle stove design, and a furnace bottom that can rotate at a direction and reverse direction thereof by the cycle is arranged, and its stocking cycle is rule or irregular, and it has constituted treatment chamber.The sense of rotation of furnace bottom can select arbitrarily and depend on, where is the room or where parks a workpiece to be unloaded.Common situation is to realize motion irregular cycle of furnace bottom by the automatic control system of thermal treatment and discharging.Yet, when handling identical in a large number workpiece, may also be adjusted to the periodic motion of rule.
In order to obtain to be up to the case depth of 1.8mm economically with two sections carburization process, according to a design of the present invention following suggestion is proposed, furnace chamber is designed to Double Circle cycle stove, and its first furnace chamber is used to carry out high carbon potential carburizing, and second furnace chamber then is used to hang down the diffusion of carbon potential.Designed furnace chamber is two independent circular cycle stoves, separates each other by a partition door.Charging fire door and discharging fire door are preferably on the axis.In order to enlarge its handiness, by other furnace chambers of circular cycle stove design, can as planet be connected first and (or) on second furnace chamber.Especially in this case, promptly need auto parts on the one hand, as gear, motor piece carries out one processing, and other direction also needs loose mail is heat-treated as bolt, nut.At this moment, with the present invention by the rotary oven of continuous furnace design at the bottom of stove to combine with continous way through furnace at charging position and discharging position be suitable.They respectively can be pressed heating chamber or all hot cell uses.Usually connect a quenching chamber in terminal.
In this stove, might handle simultaneously the workpiece that requires different case depths.For example, can (carry out high carbon potential carburizing) in first treatment chamber, the requirement of packing into simultaneously has the workpiece of 0.5mm and 1.2mm case depth.Treatment time according to two kinds of furnace charges requires difference, can not control with computer by corresponding time difference, so that workpiece enters in second chamber (diffuser casing) by partition door.Simultaneously, control stove sense of rotation so that its motion by way of the shortest.Used computer to control whole stove.It can be in accordance with regulations treatment temp control carbon potential and carburizing and diffusion time controlled, simultaneously also can be according to the ability adjustment charging process of stove.
Details of the present invention, characteristics and advantage can be understood by following description of drawings.This figure is depicted as one and adopts protection gas that metal works is carried out multistage heat treated continuous furnace, and its two treatment chambers are that it has the furnace bottom that can be rotated periodically according to the circular cycle stove of the conceptual design of the present invention's proposition.
By the workpiece movement direction, the each several part of stove is arranged as follows successively:
Heating chamber 1 is a through type process furnace,
Carburizing chamber 2 is a circular cycle stove,
Diffuser casing 3 is a circular cycle stove,
All hot cell 4 is a through type process furnace,
5 is a quenching chamber.
Each furnace chamber constitutes a continuous furnace, can carry out two sections carburizings to workpiece with protection gas.Workpiece is positioned on the iron bar 6 or on the support, or is put in the charging basket, and enters in the stove by a feed chamber 7.Feed chamber 7 is equipped with a feeding gate 8.Feed chamber 7 is parts of heating chamber 1, and it makes heating chamber and isolate from outer air.After the partition door 9 that leads to heating chamber 1 is closed, get final product charging.
Heating chamber 1 can be by a pusher cylinder 10 chargings after opening partition door 9.Heat treated part passes through heating chamber 1 by the processing cycle, simultaneously in atmosphere a kind of not carburizing, that do not produce carbon black, from 830 ℃ of carburizing temperatures that are heated to 900 ℃.Heating chamber 1 wherein is equipped with an electric heater unit and is divided into two heating zone (not shown) by the continuous passing furnace design.Adopt methane rich combustion gas and air as protection gas.
A dumping device 11 is equipped with at the left end place of heating chamber 1 shown in the figure, is a chain assembly.After opening partition door 12, this device can be sent the thermal treatment part that is arranged in this place into the carburizing chamber 2 that is communicated with heating chamber.Heating chamber 2 is designed to circular periodic stove.It at the bottom of the converter 13, can rotate on both direction once in accordance with regulations, and 18 blowing positions are arranged.According to the requirement in workpiece treatment time, this furnace bottom can be regularly and irregularly, rotated on one or opposite turning direction by computer with controlling.In order to carry out carburizing, can carburizing chamber 2 be heated to 900 ℃ by heating unit at 4 heating zone devices with high carbon potential.Can adopt high methane gas and add gas shield gas.The time that workpiece needs to handle in carburetted gas is to be determined by the carburized layer depth of stipulating.Carburetted gas must not produce carbon black.After reaching specific time, the workpiece at the bottom of the rotary oven on 13 promptly rotates to the discharging position.Herein, a partition door 14 that leads to diffuser casing 3 is promptly opened.One chain type material-pulling device 15 is about to workpiece and is pushed in this chamber.This chamber is designed to a less circular cycle stove.
Diffuser casing 3 has the position of 6 parts of knocking off, and by means of the heating unit (not shown) treatment temp is adjusted in 900 ℃, wherein adopts high methane gas/interpolation gas+air to make protection gas.The residence time by workpiece is determined diffusion time.With the residence time of computer control workpiece in chamber 3.Then, by at the bottom of the rotary furnace to the left or to the right, workpiece is delivered to the discharging position along the shortest path.At this place, after opening a partition door 16, workpiece is delivered among the equal hot cell 4 by means of chain 17.
All hot cell 4 is designed by a through type stove.It is divided into two heating zone (heating unit is not shown), workpiece can be heated to the temperature of regulation, and for example quenching temperature is 850 ℃.Can adopt high methane gas/interpolation gas+air as protection gas.
All in the hot cell 4 workpiece is being heated to quenching temperature, protection gas carbon gesture wherein is the carbon content of workpiece extexine.In order in continuous passing furnace, to transport workpiece, a pusher cylinder 18 is installed also.Workpiece the cooling and after the quenching temperature soaking, a discharging position that promptly arrives the right side in two workpiece shown in the figure.Perhaps can workpiece be transported on the lifting gantry of quenching chamber 5 oil quenching grooves along illustrated long and short dash line direction, perhaps by a fire door discharging by an inner chain driver of installing.
By described stove, can carry out two sections carburizing treatment to various workpiece according to workpiece material, shape, size and quantity.Like this, just advantage of continuous passing furnace itself (drive automatically, high rate of heating) and travelling workpiece position had the advantages at the bottom of the rotary oven of high degree of flexibility.