EP1361287B1 - Device to treat metallic workpieces with cooling gas - Google Patents
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- a vacuum shaft furnace (DE 32 08 574 A1) with a device for cooling the heat-treated charge by means of a gas flow, which is passed through openings through the interior of the preferably cylindrical heating chamber and circulated outside the heating chamber in the closed furnace housing by a gas blower via a gas cooler is, are arranged for a vertical flow in the heating chamber in the bottom and in the ceiling closable openings and for a horizontal flow at opposite locations in the side wall of the heating chamber over its entire height closable openings.
- all openings covering cover plates are provided each containing the openings in the side walls congruent openings and are displaceable by half an opening pitch.
- a device with a housing for loading and unloading of the workpieces, with a cooling gas source by means of the fan-conveyed and heat exchanger guided cooling gas is supplied to the workpieces, arranged with a workpiece carrier with both sides of the workpiece carrier, vertically and extending parallel to each other, the workpieces of side rooms separating apertured support plates and held above and / or below the workpieces between the support plates heat exchangers and both sides of the housing provided with blower motors horizontally and at right angles to the housing axis in the side walls extending waves, which with the fans in the fan housings circulating fan wheels are each provided near the housing inner walls and separated from the support plates by air baffles, which are held in each case by the fan housings parall el and at a distance to the support plates and extend with the support plates each side of the workpiece batch two vertically extending wells for guiding the cooling gas flow, each mounted at the upper and at the lower ends of the two baffles reversing flaps are
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Die Erfindung betrifft eine Vorrichtung zur Behandlung von metallischen Werkstücken mit Kühlgas, mit einem Gehäuse mit einer Öffnung zum Ein- und Ausbringen der Werkstücke, mit einer Kühlgasquelle mittels der Gebläse-gefördertes und über Wärmetauscher geführtes Kühlgas den Werkstücken zugeführt wird und mit einem Werkstückträger.The invention relates to a device for the treatment of metallic workpieces with cooling gas, with a housing having an opening for insertion and removal of the workpieces, with a cooling gas source by means of the fan-conveyed and guided through heat exchanger cooling gas is supplied to the workpieces and with a workpiece carrier.
Bekannt sind Vakuumöfen zur Plasmaaufkohlung metallischer Werkstücke mittels eines kohlenstoffhaltigen Gases, beispielsweise Methan oder Propan. Bei der Plasmaaufkohlung werden die Werkstücke im Vakuumofen auf eine Temperatur zwischen etwa 800 °C und 1050 °C erhitzt. Anschließend wird das kohlenstoffhaltige Prozeßgas in die Ofenkammer geleitet und ein elektrisches Feld auf die Werkstückcharge gelegt. Danach erfolgt zum Zwecke der Härtung die Abkühlung der Charge durch ein Anströmen durch aus Düsen auf die Charge austretendes Kühlgas, wobei sich als Kühlgas insbesondere Helium bewährt hat.Vacuum furnaces are known for plasma carburizing metallic workpieces by means of a carbon-containing gas, for example methane or propane. During plasma carburization, the workpieces are heated in a vacuum oven to a temperature between about 800 ° C and 1050 ° C. Subsequently, the carbonaceous process gas is passed into the oven chamber and placed an electric field on the workpiece charge. Thereafter, for the purpose of curing, the cooling of the batch by an influx of exiting nozzles on the charge of cooling gas, which has proven to be the cooling gas in particular helium.
Bekannt ist beispielsweise ein Vakuumschachtofen (DE 32 08 574 A1) mit einer Einrichtung zur Abkühlung der wärmebehandelten Charge mittels einer Gasströmung, die über Öffnungen durch das Innere der vorzugsweise zylindrischen Heizkammer geführt wird und außerhalb der Heizkammer im geschlossenen Ofengehäuse durch ein Gasgebläse über einen Gaskühler umgewälzt wird, wobei für eine vertikale Strömung in der Heizkammer im Boden und in der Decke verschließbare Öffnungen und für eine horizontale Strömung an gegenüberliegenden Stellen in der Seitenwand der Heizkammer auf ihrer ganzen Höhe übereinanderliegende verschließbare Öffnungen angeordnet sind. Zum Verschließen der Öffnungen in der Wandung der Heizkammer sind alle Öffnungen überdeckende Abdeckplatten vorgesehen die jeweils mit den Öffnungen in den Seitenwänden deckungsgleiche Öffnungen enthalten und um eine halbe Öffnungsteilung verschiebbar sind.For example, a vacuum shaft furnace (DE 32 08 574 A1) with a device for cooling the heat-treated charge by means of a gas flow, which is passed through openings through the interior of the preferably cylindrical heating chamber and circulated outside the heating chamber in the closed furnace housing by a gas blower via a gas cooler is, are arranged for a vertical flow in the heating chamber in the bottom and in the ceiling closable openings and for a horizontal flow at opposite locations in the side wall of the heating chamber over its entire height closable openings. For closing the openings in the wall of the heating chamber all openings covering cover plates are provided each containing the openings in the side walls congruent openings and are displaceable by half an opening pitch.
Bekannt ist weiterhin ein Vakuumofen zur Plasmaaüfkohlung metallischer Werkstücke (EP 0 535 319 B1) mit einer elektrischen Heizeinrichtung, einer Vakuumpumpe zur Erzeugung eines Vakuums in der Heizkammer, sowie Gaseinlaßöffnungen, mittels derer von einem Gebläse gefördertes und über einen Wärmetauscher geführtes Kühlgas der Charge zugeführt wird, wobei die das Kühlgas führenden Gaseinlaßöffnungen in der Heizkammer angeordnet und auf die Charge ausgerichtet sind. Die als Gaseinlaßöffnungen ausgebildeten Düsen sind allseitig um die Heizkammer herum und stirnseitig angeordnet, wobei die stirnseitigen Düsen zur axialen Einleitung des Kühlgases in die Heizkammer dienen. Mit einem solcherart ausgebildetem Vakuumofen zur Plasmaaufkohlung ist es möglich, die aufgekohlte Charge zur Vervollständigung des Wärmebehandlungsprozesses zu härten, ohne daß die Charge hierzu aus der Heizkammer entnommen werden muß. Da sämtliche Schritte der Wärmebehandlung sich ausschließlich innerhalb einer Heizkammer durchführen lassen ist der Platzbedarf eines einzigen Ofens auch vergleichsweise gering. Da die Gasführung und die Gasströmung entscheidende Faktoren für den Abschreckprozeß bilden; eine Umkehr der Strömungsrichtung des Kühlgases bei den vorgenannten Vakuumöfen jedoch nicht zu bewerkstelligen ist, hat man auch vorgeschlagen das Ofengehäuse mit zwei durch einen Verschlußschieber voneinander getrennten Kammer auszustatten und in der einen Kammer die Heizelemente und einen Heißgasventilator und in der anderen Kammer den Kühlventilator und den Wärmetauscher mit geeigneten Strömungsblechen anzuordnen. Die Charge wird bei diesem Ofentyp zunächst in der einen Kammer aufgeheizt und aufgekohlt und dann bei geöffnetem Verschlußschieber in die andere Kammer zum Zwecke der Abschreckung verfahren.Also known is a vacuum furnace for Plasmaaüfkohlung metal workpieces (EP 0 535 319 B1) with an electric heater, a vacuum pump for generating a vacuum in the heating chamber, and gas inlet openings, by means of which is conveyed by a fan and passed through a heat exchanger cooling gas of the charge wherein the gas inlet openings leading the cooling gas are arranged in the heating chamber and aligned with the batch. The nozzles designed as gas inlet openings are arranged on all sides around the heating chamber and on the front side, the frontal nozzles serving for the axial introduction of the cooling gas into the heating chamber. With such a trained vacuum furnace for plasma carburizing, it is possible to cure the carburized charge to complete the heat treatment process, without the batch must be removed for this purpose from the heating chamber. Since all steps of the heat treatment can be carried out exclusively within a heating chamber, the space requirement of a single furnace is also comparatively low. Because the Gas guidance and gas flow are crucial factors in the quenching process; However, a reversal of the flow direction of the cooling gas in the aforementioned vacuum furnaces can not be accomplished, it has also been proposed to equip the furnace housing with two separate by a closure slide chamber and in one chamber, the heating elements and a hot gas fan and in the other chamber, the cooling fan and the To arrange heat exchangers with suitable flow plates. The batch is first heated in this chamber type in one chamber and carburized and then moved with open shutter slide in the other chamber for the purpose of deterrence.
Der wesentlichste Nachteil aller bekannten Vakuumöfen besteht jedoch darin, daß eine erneute Beschickung der Öfen immer erst möglich ist, nach dem der jeweils vorhergehende Behandlungsprozeß vollständig zum Abschluß gelangt ist, was im Falle der Forderung nach großen Stückzahlen die Aufstellung einer Vielzahl kompletter Vakuumöfen bedeutet. Da jedoch die erste Phase des Wärmebehandlungsprozesses, nämlich das Aufheizen und Aufkohlen der Charge, verglichen mit der zweiten Phase, nämlich dem Härteprozeß, vergleichsweise lange dauert liegt der vorliegenden Erfindung die Aufgabe zugrunde eine Vorrichtung zur Behandlung metallischer Werkstücke mit Kühlgas zu schaffen, die die Nachteile bekannter Öfen vermeidet und die bei sehr kompaktem Aufbau - bei kleinem Verhältnis von Kammervolumen zu Chargenvolumen - eine rasche Strömungsumkehr ermöglicht und bei der spiegelsymmetrische Strömungsverhältnisse nach der Strömungsumkehr vorliegen. Darüber hinaus soll die Vorrichtung einwandig ausgebildet sein und schon zu Beginn der Abschreckphase einen hohen Wärmeübergangskoeffizienten an allen Werkstücken innerhalb der Charge ermöglichen, eine geringe Menge Abschreckgas pro Abschreckvorgang benötigen und einen Betrieb mit besonders kurzen Taktzeiten gestatten. Schließlich soll die Vorrichtung so konzipiert sein, daß sie eine geregelte Abschreckung - d.h. mit variabler Intensität - ermöglicht und an vorhandene Öfen zum Aufkohlen andockbar ist, so daß mit einer einzigen Vorrichtung mehrere einfache Öfen - ohne Wärmetauscher und Kühlgasgebläse - betrieben werden können, was Kosten und Platz einspart.The most significant disadvantage of all known vacuum furnaces, however, is that a re-loading of the furnaces is always possible only after the previous treatment process has come to a complete conclusion, which means in the case of the demand for large numbers, the establishment of a variety of complete vacuum furnaces. However, since the first phase of the heat treatment process, namely the heating and carburizing of the charge, comparatively long compared to the second phase, namely the curing process, the present invention seeks to provide a device for treating metallic workpieces with refrigerant gas, which has the disadvantages avoids clogged ovens and in a very compact structure - with a small ratio of chamber volume to batch volume - allows rapid flow reversal and present in the mirror-symmetric flow conditions after the flow reversal. In addition, the device should be formed single-walled and already at the beginning of the quenching allow high heat transfer coefficients on all workpieces within the batch, require a small amount of quenching gas per quenching operation and allow operation with very short cycle times. Finally, the device should be designed that it allows a controlled deterrence - ie variable intensity - and can be docked to existing furnaces for carburizing, so that with a single device several simple ovens - can be operated without heat exchanger and Kühlgasgebläse, which saves costs and space.
Diese Aufgabe wird erfindungsgemäß durch eine Vorrichtung gelöst, mit einem Gehäuse zum Ein- und Ausbringen der Werkstücke, mit einer Kühlgasquelle mittels der Gebläse-gefördertes und über Wärmetauscher geführtes Kühlgas den Werkstücken zugeführt wird, mit einem Werkstückträger mit beiderseits des Werkstückträgers angeordneten, sich vertikal und parallel zueinander erstreckenden, die Werkstücke von Seitenräumen abtrennenden mit Öffnungen versehenen Trägerblechen und mit oberhalb und / oder unterhalb der Werkstücke zwischen den Trägerblechen gehaltenen Wärmetauschern und mit beiderseits des Gehäuses vorgesehenen Gebläsemotoren mit sich horizontal und rechtwinklig zur Gehäuseachse in die Seitenräume erstreckenden Wellen, wobei die mit den Wellen in Gebläsegehäusen umlaufenden Gebläseräder jeweils nahe der Gehäuseinnenwände vorgesehen und von den Trägerblechen durch Luftleitbleche getrennt sind, die sich jeweils von den Gebläsegehäusen gehalten parallel und mit Abstand zu den Trägerblechen erstrecken und mit den Trägerblechen jeweils beiderseits der Werkstückcharge zwei sich vertikal erstreckende Schächte für die Führung des Kühlgasstroms bilden, wobei jeweils an den oberen und an den unteren Enden der beiden Luftleitbleche Reversierklappen gelagert sind die je nach Stellung dichtend an die Trägerbleche oder an die Gehäuseinnenwand anschlagen.This object is achieved by a device with a housing for loading and unloading of the workpieces, with a cooling gas source by means of the fan-conveyed and heat exchanger guided cooling gas is supplied to the workpieces, arranged with a workpiece carrier with both sides of the workpiece carrier, vertically and extending parallel to each other, the workpieces of side rooms separating apertured support plates and held above and / or below the workpieces between the support plates heat exchangers and both sides of the housing provided with blower motors horizontally and at right angles to the housing axis in the side walls extending waves, which with the fans in the fan housings circulating fan wheels are each provided near the housing inner walls and separated from the support plates by air baffles, which are held in each case by the fan housings parall el and at a distance to the support plates and extend with the support plates each side of the workpiece batch two vertically extending wells for guiding the cooling gas flow, each mounted at the upper and at the lower ends of the two baffles reversing flaps are depending on the position sealingly strike the carrier plates or the housing inner wall.
Weitere Einzelheiten und Merkmale sind in den Patentansprüchen näher beschrieben und gekennzeichnet.Further details and features are described in more detail in the claims and characterized.
Die Erfindung läßt die verschiedensten Ausführungsmöglichkeiten zu; eine davon ist in der anhängenden Zeichnung, die eine Vorrichtung rein schematisch im Querschnitt zeigt, dargestellt.The invention allows a variety of execution options; one of them is shown in the accompanying drawing, which shows a device purely schematically in cross section.
Die Vorrichtung besteht aus einem zylindrischen, einwandigem Gehäuse 3, deren eines Ende fest mit einem Deckel verschlossen ist und deren anderes Ende mittels einer Tür oder eines Schiebers verschließbar und im übrigen so gestaltet und bemessen ist, daß die in einem separaten Ofen aufgeheizte und aufgekohlte Werkstückcharge 4 in das Gehäuse 3 der Vorrichtung überführt werden kann, ohne daß ein zusätzliches Transportgerät hierzu erforderlich ist. Im Gehäuse 3 ist ein Werkstückträger 5 in Gestalt einer perforierten oder mit Durchbrüchen versehenen Platte angeordnet auf dem die Charge 4 ruht. Beiderseits der Charge 4 sind kräftig dimensionierte Trägerbleche 6, 7 angeordnet an denen der Werkstückträger 5 gehalten ist und zwischen denen sich Wärmetauscher 8, 9 befinden. Beiderseits des Gehäuses 3 sind an dessen Außenseite Gebläsemotoren 10, 11 vorgesehen deren Motorwellen dichtend durch die Wand des Gehäuses 3 hindurchgeführt sind, wobei sich die beiden Motorwellen zueinander flüchtend und horizontal erstrecken. Die Gebläsegehäuse 12, 13 selbst sind jeweils fest mit dem Gehäuse 3 verbunden und halten jeweils an ihrer Stirnseite ein Luftleitblech 14, 15 das sich parallel und im Abstand zu dem jeweils benachbarten Trägerblech 6 bzw. 7 erstreckt und mit diesem einen Schacht 16 bzw. 17 bildet. An den parallel zwischen Gehäuselängsrichtung verlaufenden oberen und unteren Kanten der Luftleitbleche 14, 15 sind jeweils Reversierklappen 18, 19, 20, 21 gelagert, wobei diese so bemessen und gelagert sind, daß sie jeweils mit ihren freien Enden entweder mit den jeweils benachbarten Trägerblechen 6 bzw. 7 korrespondieren bzw. an diesen anliegen oder aber in einer - um etwa 80 ° - verschwenkten Position an der Innenwand des Gehäuses 3 anschlagen. Wie die Zeichnung zeigt sind die beiden an den oberen Enden der Luftleitbleche 14, 15 gelagerten Reversierklappen 19, 20 so verschwenkt, daß ihre freien Enden an den oberen Kanten der Trägerbleche 6, 7 anliegen und die Schächte 16, 17 nach oben zu verschließen. Die beiden an den unteren Kanten der Luftleitbleche 14, 15 gelagerten Reversierklappen 18, 21 liegen dagegen mit ihren freien Enden an der Innenwand des Gehäuses 3 an und bewirken, daß das in den Bereich 24 unterhalb des Wärmetauschers 9 eintretende Kühlgas in Pfeilrichtung von unten her in die Schächte 16, 17 eintreten, wozu die unteren Partien der Trägerbleche 6, 7 mit Öffnungen 22, 23 versehen sind. Das in den Schächten 16, 17 nach oben strömende Kühlgas tritt in die zentralen Ansaugöffnungen der Gebläsegehäuse 12, 13 ein und wird danach wieder nach außen in den Bereich 25 oberhalb des oberen Wärmetauschers 8 gedrückt und strömt dann durch den Wärmetauscher 8 auf die Werkstückcharge 4 und von dieser durch den Wärmetauscher 9 wieder in den Bereich 24. Im Falle der Strömungsumkehr werden die vier Reversierklappen 18, 19, 20, 21 in ihre jeweils andere Lage geschwenkt.The device consists of a cylindrical, single-walled housing 3, one end of which is firmly closed with a lid and the other end by means of a door or a slider closed and otherwise designed and dimensioned that heated and carburized in a separate furnace workpiece batch 4 can be transferred into the housing 3 of the device without an additional transport device is required for this purpose. In the housing 3, a workpiece carrier 5 in the form of a perforated or apertured plate is arranged on which the charge 4 rests. On both sides of the charge 4 strongly dimensioned carrier plates 6, 7 are arranged on which the workpiece carrier 5 is held and between which heat exchangers 8, 9 are located. On both sides of the housing 3 on the outside of
Aufgrund der Anordnung der beiden Wärmetauscher 8, 9 oberhalb bzw. unterhalb der Charge 4 liegt an den Gebläselaufrädern und am Gehäuse der Vorrichtung stets kaltes Kühlgas vor. Durch die gezielte Einstellung der Reversierklappen 18, 19, 20, 21 wird bewirkt, daß die Umwälzbewegung des Kühlgases nur im Außenbereich erfolgt, womit ein rasches Absenken bzw. Erhöhen von a bewirkt werden kann. Durch eine gezielte Einstellung der Reversierklappen 18, 19, 20, 21 kann eine definierte Drosselung des Volumenstroms erreicht werden, womit das gebrochene Härten und das Warmbadhärten erzielt werden kann.Due to the arrangement of the two heat exchangers 8, 9 above or below the charge 4 is always on the fan impellers and on the housing of the device before cold cooling gas. The targeted adjustment of the reversing
Zweckmäßigerweise sind die Trägerbleche 6, 7 auf ihrer der Charge 4 zugekehrten Seitenfläche mit einer Spiegelschicht versehen bzw. aus einem Werkstoff mit hohem Reflektionskoeffizienten gefertigt, wobei die Bleche selbst eine geringe Wärmekapazität aufweisen. Die Abstrahlung der Chargenrandbereiche gegen die kalte Wand wird hierdurch reduziert, was den Verzug minimiert und die Gleichmäßigkeit der Härteverteilung verbessert. Es sei erwähnt, dass die Motorwellen bei einer alternativen Ausführungsform nicht dichtend durch die Wand des Gehäuses 3 hindurchgeführt sind, sondern die Gehäuse der Motoren 10, 11 selbst sind druckfest ausgebildet, so dass eine Druckveränderung über die Wellendurchführungen im Inneren des Gehäuses 3 ausgeschlossen ist.Expediently, the support plates 6, 7 are provided on their side facing the charge 4 with a mirror layer or made of a material having a high reflection coefficient, wherein the sheets themselves have a low heat capacity. The radiation of the batch edge areas against the cold wall is thereby reduced, which minimizes the distortion and the uniformity of the Improved hardness distribution. It should be noted that the motor shafts are not guided sealingly through the wall of the housing 3 in an alternative embodiment, but the housing of the
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- Device to treat metallic workpieces with cooling gas, having a cylindrical housing. (3) with an opening for inserirtinng and removing the workpieces (4), having a cooling gas source by means of which cooling gas which is delivered by fan and conducted via heat exchangers (8, 9) is supplied to the workpieces (4) and having a workpiece carrier (5) with carrier plates (6, 7) which are disposed on both sides of the workpiece carrier (5), extend vertically and parallel to each other, separate the workpieces (4) from side chambers and are provided with openings (22, 23), and having heat exchangers (8, 9) which are retained above and/or below the workpieces (4) between the carrier plates (6, 7) and having fan motors (10, 11), which are disposed on both sides of the housing (3), with shafts which extend horizontally and at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the housing into the side chambers, the fan wheels which rotate with the shafts in the fan housing (12, 13) being provided respectively near to the housing inner wall and being separated from the carrier plates (6, 7) by air-conducting plates (14, 15) which, retained respectively by the fan housings (12, 13), extend parallel to and at a spacing from the carrier plates (6, 7) and form, with the carrier plates (6, 7) respectively on both sides of the workpiece batch (4), two vertically extending shafts (16, 17 or 26, 27) for conduction of the cooling gas flow, reversing flaps (18, 19, 20, 21) being mounted respectively on the upper and on the lower ends of the two air-conducting plates (14, 15), which reversing flaps strike in a sealing manner according to the position on the carrier plates (6, 7) or on the housing inner wall.
- Device according to claim 1, characterised in that the fan motors (10, 11) are retained outwith and the fan housing (12, 13) within the housing (3), the fan inlet respectively opening into a vertically extending shaft (16, 17) and the fan outlet into the chamber which is adjacent to the shaft (16 or 17) and delimited by the housing inner wall and an air-conducting plate (14 or 15).
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| DE10210952A DE10210952B4 (en) | 2002-03-13 | 2002-03-13 | Apparatus for treating metallic workpieces with cooling gas |
| DE10210952 | 2002-03-13 |
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