US 12,330,209 B2
Casting mold shaping device and casting mold shaping method
Kouichi Shimomura, Takaoka (JP); Daisuke Funaki, Takaoka (JP); and Yuso Kanehira, Takaoka (JP)
Assigned to METALS ENGINEERING KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Takaoka (JP)
Appl. No. 18/290,502
Filed by METALS ENGINEERING KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Takaoka (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 13, 2022, PCT No. PCT/JP2022/038176
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 14, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/127226, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 7, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-213100 (JP), filed on Dec. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0326121 A1, Oct. 3, 2024
Int. Cl. B22C 11/08 (2006.01); B22C 9/02 (2006.01); B22C 15/02 (2006.01); B22C 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC B22C 11/08 (2013.01) [B22C 9/02 (2013.01); B22C 15/02 (2013.01); B22C 21/00 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A casting mold shaping device, comprising:
a carrier plate replacement device for mounting an upper molding flask carrier plate at one position on a virtual horizontal plane and a lower molding flask carrier plate at another position on the horizontal plane, and replacing the upper molding flask carrier plate and the lower molding flask carrier plate by turning along the virtual horizontal plane between an auxiliary work position at which an auxiliary work is performed on each of the carrier plates and a molding space forming position at which a molding space for filling casting sands is formed by stacking a molding flask on each of the carrier plates;
a molding flask carry-in/out device for carrying in the molding flask before molding to be stacked on each of the carrier plates to the molding space forming position and carrying out the molding flask after molding from which a mold is made;
a molding flask carrier plate stacking device for stacking the molding flask carried in by the molding flask carry-in/out device and each of the carrier plates to form the molding space;
a casting sand filling device for filling the formed molding space with the casting sands;
a molding station provided so as to be adjacent to the molding space forming position and including a casting sand pressing device for pressing the casting sands charged to the molding space to make a mold; and
a molding flask carrier plate moving device for moving the carrier plate and the molding flask in stacking state from the molding space forming position to the molding station.
 
13. A casting mold shaping method comprising:
a carrier plate replacement step for mounting an upper molding flask carrier plate at one position on a virtual horizontal plane and a lower molding flask carrier plate at another position on the horizontal plane, and replacing the upper molding flask carrier plate and the lower molding flask carrier plate by turning along the virtual horizontal plane between an auxiliary work position at which an auxiliary work is performed on each of the carrier plates and a molding space forming position at which a molding space for filling casting sands is formed by stacking a molding flask on each of the carrier plates;
a molding flask carry-in step for carrying in the molding flask before molding to be stacked on each of the carrier plates to the molding space forming position by a molding flask carry-in device;
a molding flask carrier plate stacking step for stacking the molding flask carried in by the molding flask carry-in device and each of the carrier plates to form the molding space,
a casting sand filling step for filling the formed molding space with the casting sands;
a molding flask carrier plate moving step for moving the carrier plate and the molding flask in stacking state to the molding station provided so as to be adjacent to the molding space forming position; and
a casting sand pressing step for pressing the casting sands charged to the molding space to make a mold by using a casting sand pressing device provided in the molding station.