What are Flying Shears?

What are Flying Shears?

The shearing machine for rolled pieces in transverse shearing operation is called flying shear. It is a processing equipment which can cut off iron plate, steel pipe and paper roll quickly. It is a fixed-size shearing machine for metallurgical steel rolling industry, high-speed wire and threaded steel. It is a product of modern rolling bar shearing and has the characteristics of low power consumption and low investment cost.

Flying shear is an important equipment used for shearing metal billets in iron and steel enterprises, and its performance will directly affect the production efficiency of rolling production line. There are many structural forms of flying shear mechanism. In this chapter, four-link structure is used. Through simple three-dimensional modeling of the frame, upper and lower cranks, upper and lower links, upper and lower rockers and workpieces, assembly and simulation can be carried out to obtain the shear force that the workpiece is subjected to during the shearing process and the motion track of the two cutting edges.

Flying shear is installed on the rolling mill line to cross-cut the head and tail of a rolled piece or to cut it to a fixed length. During the movement of the rolled piece, the rolled piece is cut by relative movements of the cutting edges.

The mechanism sketch of the four-link flying shear mechanism is shown in Figure 1. It consists of the upper and lower shear mechanisms with the cutting edges fixed on the connecting rods of the four-link mechanism. In practical flying shear mechanisms, the driving force is input from the lower crank. The upper crank is driven to move at the same speed by a pair of helical gears with the same number of teeth. Every revolution of the crank, the mechanism shears the work-piece once. In order to simplify the structure and facilitate the measurement of shear force, the same amount of torque is added to both cranks in Figure 1 during simulation to reduce the modeling of helical gears.

Flying shear is commonly used in steel rolling, paper and other production lines. In continuous billet or small section workshops, it is positioned at the back of the rolling mill line, cutting the rolled pieces to size or only to the head and tail. Various types of flying shears are provided in the shearing, shearing, galvanizing and tin plating units of cold and tropical steel workshops to cut the strip into fixed-scale or steel coils of specified weight. The wide use of flying shear is conducive to the rapid development of high-speed and continuous steel rolling production. Therefore, it is one of the important links in the development of steel rolling production.

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