Wire sawing machine having a portal structure for the cutting of material in block form

摘要

The wire sawing machine comprises, according to the invention, a portal structure (11) having hollow-bodied vertical uprights (11.1), in each of which is provided a respective slide (13) sliding longitudinally. One slide (13) bears a driven pulley (16.1). The other slide (13) bears a stationary idle pulley (16.2). A rectilinear longitudinal guide (18) is fixed on each of the said two slides (13) and a respective carriage (19) is mounted to slide in the longitudinal direction along the said guide (18) of each slide (13). A control jack (20) is mounted on each slide (13) in a manner such as to cause corresponding travels of the respective carriage (19) in the longitudinal direction. Each carriage (19) bears a corresponding idle pulley (16.3) and a cutting wire (21) is wound in a closed ring and caused to circulate around the said four pulleys (16.1, 16.2, 16.3), which are arranged to be mutually coplanar. This arrangement ensures a correct tensioning of the cutting wire, a variable-geometry arrangement of the said wire and a compact design of the machine.