| 摘要 |
Disclosed here are methods and automatic apparatus for grinding cylindrical workpieces, such as the contoured rolls used in metal rolling mills. The methods and apparatus involve (1) automatic finding of the lengthwise center of rolls of different and undetermined lengths so as to establish a reference position for the execution of a numerically programmed path defined relative to the center of a roll as a point of symmetry, (2) the storage of the successive instructions of multi-axis movements making up a numerically defined profile or contoured path, and the use of those instructions repeatedly and in whole or in part as called for by different ones of a sequence of commands read from storage and executed in succession, (3) the automatic alignment of the roll axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of motion in a grinding machine by pivoting of one end of the roll about the other until the sensed difference in positions of the roll surface, along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis and at locations near opposite ends of the roll, is changed to a predetermined fraction of the originally sensed difference, (4) the initiation of grinding passes from that end of a roll which is largest in diameter, so as to avoid "digging in" or increasing the depth of wheel bite as the wheel moves lengthwise of the roll, (5) the execution of continuous passes of the grinding wheel with pre-programmed values of feed rate, wheel speed, roll speed, continuous infeed and incremental infeed until a pre-programmed thickness of material has been removed from the roll surface, and (6) the grinding down of a roll until it is reduced to a diameter equal that of a previously ground roll of a matched pair. These functions are all obtained by the calling out and execution of pre-established routines in response to the reading from storage of pre-programmed sequence commands, so that in the disclosed method and apparatus there is an automatic progression from each type of operation to the next, and with the following of numerically defined profile whenever it is required.
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