Automatic Chipless Pipe Cutting Machine

2.1 Loading, aligning and feeding

• The system is connected to the feeding line of the pipe cutter.
• Single tube is conveyed to storage area by lifter way.
• The storage size is made by client’s product size and need.
• The belt drawing device makes the steel tubes from the storage to the transition line.
• The steel pipes are aligned one by one on the transition line.
• The synchronous belt determines the orderly advancement of the steel tube.
• According to synchronous belt adjustment, several steel tubes come to the space above the push plate and wait to enter the tube cutter.
• The striker plate’s location determines the aligning end position.
• The striker plate pushes one steel tube into the track at a time.
• The transition line and the storage are intermittently moved to match the time for a single steel tube to completely pass through the inlet of the tube cutter.
• The speed of the entire system is consistent with the efficiency of the tube cutter.

2.2 Pneumatic System

• The pneumatic system consists of the following parts:
• Air supplier processing unit, including pressure gauge, water and oil filter and switch valve.
• Actuating cylinders and corresponding electromagnetically operated valves, including kick-out cylinder, actuating cylinder for movable stock-stop, cylinder for forearm, etc.
• Air passage components, including break valve, pressure reducing valve, throttle, supercharger, muffle, air pipes, and pipe joints, etc.

2.3 Electric control system

• The electric control system is used to manage and track the whole working procedures, to transform information from each working position and to display and manage data.The control system has automatic and manual working modes.
• The basic features of the electric control system are as follows:
• Centralized management and decentralized control. PLC automatically manages some parts of the system.