| 摘要 |
An improved coolant cleaning method, system, and apparatus, are provided through the use of a filter disk assembly that defines and is rotatable about an axis of rotation of the disk, for removing particulate matter from a fluid flowing through the filter disk assembly in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of rotation of the filter disk assembly. A coolant cleaning system includes such a filter disk assembly, connected in fluid communication with an apparatus for circulating a flow of fluid through the filter disk assembly in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of rotation of the filter disk assembly. An apparatus for circulating a flow of fluid may include a dirty fluid reservoir, a conveyor for removing chips and particulate matter from the dirty fluid reservoir, a clean fluid reservoir, with the filter disk assembly providing the sole fluid communication path between the dirty and clean fluid reservoirs, and a fluid supply system having a pump for circulating fluid from the clean fluid reservoir through the disk filter assembly. Several filter disk assemblies may feed into a single clean fluid reservoir to achieve high volume flow rates of clean fluid. Alternatively several filter disk assemblies, having filter elements of increasingly finer mesh, feeding into several separate clean fluid reservoirs may be utilized to provide fractionally filtered coolant fluid having varying degrees of cleanliness as required for various machining operations. Embodiments of coolant fluid cleaning systems for machine tools are disclosed. Embodiments depicting retrofit of a filter disk assembly and/or an improved dynamic seal arrangement for a rotating filter according to the invention into prior fluid cleaning apparatus are disclosed. An apparatus is provided for removal of particulate matter from fluid above, below, and between an upper and lower portion of a horizontally traveling hinge belt conveyor. |
