阅读说明：本技术 一种紧凑型鞋子生产线 (Compact shoe production line ) 是由 王睦雄 陈坤旭 王邦玚 于 2021-07-30 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明涉及一种紧凑型鞋子生产线,这种紧凑型鞋子生产线将原来的冷定型机和热定型机结合成一台设备,冷热定型机和循环输送装置前后设置在生产线的中轴线上,喷胶装置和烘箱移至循环输送装置上,并且将入楦机和拔楦机设置在冷热定型机前端的左右两侧,从而将原来直线型生产线的长度缩减至一半的基础上,进一步降低整条生产线的宽度,大幅度降低生产线所占用的生产空间,使整条生产线更加紧凑,进而提高生产空间的有效利用率。(The invention relates to a compact shoe production line, which combines an original cold setting machine and an original heat setting machine into a piece of equipment, wherein the cold setting machine and a heat setting machine are arranged on a central axis of the production line in front of and behind a circulating conveying device, a glue spraying device and an oven are moved to the circulating conveying device, and a last putting machine and a last pulling machine are arranged on the left side and the right side of the front end of the cold setting machine, so that the length of the original linear production line is reduced to a half, the width of the whole production line is further reduced, the production space occupied by the production line is greatly reduced, the whole production line is more compact, and the effective utilization rate of the production space is further improved.)

1. The utility model provides a compact shoes production line, includes last entering machine, cold and hot forming machine, circulation conveyor, pulls out last machine and a plurality of shoemaking module that have independent function which characterized in that: the compact shoe production line is provided with a central axis, the cold and hot setting machine and the circulating conveying device are arranged on the central axis in a front-back mode, the shoe last putting machine is arranged on the left side of the front end of the cold and hot setting machine, the shoe last pulling machine is arranged on the right side of the front end of the cold and hot setting machine, and the plurality of shoe making modules are respectively and sequentially arranged on the left side and the right side of the central axis according to the production flow; the circulating conveying device is provided with a linear advancing section and a linear returning section, the advancing section and the returning section are respectively positioned at the left side and the right side of the central axis and are parallel to the central axis, a glue spraying device and an oven are arranged along the advancing section and the returning section, and the circulating conveying device penetrates through the interior of the oven; the cold and hot setting machine is provided with a hot setting cavity and a cold setting cavity, a first conveying mechanism with the conveying direction corresponding to the advancing section is arranged in the hot setting cavity, and a second conveying mechanism with the conveying direction corresponding to the returning section is arranged in the cold setting cavity; the shoes are conveyed from front to back through the first conveying mechanism and the advancing section of the circulating conveying device, and then conveyed from back to front through the returning section of the circulating conveying device and the second conveying mechanism.

2. The compact shoe production line of claim 1, wherein: the shoe making module comprises a vamp steaming and wetting machine, a back upper machine and a sole pressing machine, the vamp steaming and wetting machine and the back upper machine are respectively arranged on the front side and the back side of the last putting machine and are positioned on the left side of the central axis, and the sole pressing machine is arranged on the right side of the rear end of the cold and hot setting machine.

3. The compact shoe production line of claim 1 or 2, characterized in that: the hot and cold setting machine comprises a hot air blower, a hot air pipe, a cold air blower, a cold air pipe and a thermal circulation mechanism, wherein the hot setting cavity and the cold setting cavity are arranged on the rack from top to bottom, and a heating device is also arranged in the hot setting cavity; the thermal circulation mechanism comprises a compressor, a condenser and an evaporator, and the compressor, the condenser and the evaporator are connected in sequence through pipelines to form a closed loop; the cold air pipe is sequentially communicated with the air cooler and the evaporator, and the tail end of the cold air pipe is arranged in the cold setting cavity as a cold air exhaust outlet; the hot air pipe is sequentially communicated with the hot air blower and the condenser, and the tail end of the hot air pipe is arranged in the hot setting cavity as a hot air exhaust outlet.

4. The compact shoe production line of claim 3, wherein: the cold and hot setting machine is also provided with an air return pipe, and the air return pipe is connected with the hot setting cavity and the air heater.

5. The compact shoe production line of claim 3, wherein: the heating device comprises a plurality of electric heating pipes, and the electric heating pipes are sequentially arranged on the upper cavity wall of the thermal setting cavity side by side along the conveying direction of the first conveying mechanism.

6. The compact shoe production line of claim 1 or 2, characterized in that: the circulating conveying device is provided with a lifting section, a horizontal section and a descending section in the oven.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of shoemaking, in particular to a compact shoe production line.

Background

At present, a shoemaking production line generally adopts a linear arrangement mode, and equipment required by each procedure of shoemaking is sequentially arranged into a linear type according to a processing flow. In the actual production process, because shoemaking process is many, many equipment arrange according to the linear type and lead to whole production line longer, the production line that satisfies minimum demand also needs to occupy tens of meters ' length at least, and two adjacent production lines still need reserve width workman and walk about the space between, material and semi-manufactured goods place the space etc. every production line must occupy 5 to 10 meters's width at least, make whole production line need occupy several hundreds of square meters's strip space, on the one hand, the production space occupies greatly, the low-usage, on the other hand, a workman of linear type production line can only correspond a station, required workman is more, also have the problem of mutual relative difficulty between the upper and lower stream of production line.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a compact shoe production line which greatly reduces the production space of the whole shoe production line, improves the effective utilization rate of the production space, reduces manpower and improves the production efficiency of the whole shoe production line. The technical scheme is as follows:

the utility model provides a compact shoes production line, includes last entering machine, cold and hot forming machine, circulation conveyor, pulls out last machine and a plurality of shoemaking module that have independent function which characterized in that: the compact shoe production line is provided with a central axis, the cold and hot setting machine and the circulating conveying device are arranged on the central axis in a front-back mode, the shoe last putting machine is arranged on the left side of the front end of the cold and hot setting machine, the shoe last pulling machine is arranged on the right side of the front end of the cold and hot setting machine, and the plurality of shoe making modules are respectively and sequentially arranged on the left side and the right side of the central axis according to the production flow; the circulating conveying device is provided with a linear advancing section and a linear returning section, the advancing section and the returning section are respectively positioned at the left side and the right side of the central axis and are parallel to the central axis, a glue spraying device and an oven are arranged along the advancing section and the returning section, and the circulating conveying device penetrates through the interior of the oven; the cold and hot setting machine is provided with a hot setting cavity and a cold setting cavity, a first conveying mechanism with the conveying direction corresponding to the advancing section is arranged in the hot setting cavity, and a second conveying mechanism with the conveying direction corresponding to the returning section is arranged in the cold setting cavity; the shoes are conveyed from front to back through the first conveying mechanism and the advancing section of the circulating conveying device, and then conveyed from back to front through the returning section of the circulating conveying device and the second conveying mechanism.

The cold and hot setting machine has two functions of cold setting and hot setting, after shoe last entering and lasting clamping are completed, the shoe last needs to be subjected to hot setting, and after sole pressing is completed, finished shoes need to be subjected to cold setting and then to shoe last pulling, so that the conveying direction of the first conveying mechanism in the hot setting cavity corresponds to the advancing section of the circulating conveying device from front to back, and the conveying direction of the second conveying mechanism in the cold setting cavity corresponds to the returning section of the circulating conveying device from back to front.

The above-mentioned circulating conveyor is usually provided with a conveyor belt, which is divided into a linear forward section and a return section, the end of the forward section is connected with the start end of the return section, and the end of the return section is connected with the start end of the forward section; the conveying belt is provided with a bearing piece for fixing the vamp and the sole.

The glue spraying device is used for spraying glue on the vamps and the soles on the circulating conveying device, a plurality of glue spraying devices can be arranged according to production requirements, and a manual bottom pasting station is arranged at the tail end of the return section. In addition, according to production needs, a pesticide spraying device can be arranged on the circulating conveying device.

The drying oven is used for drying the vamps or the soles after glue spraying, the circulating conveying device penetrates through the inside of the drying oven, the circulating conveying device serves as a conveying mechanism of the drying oven, and an inlet and an outlet for the circulating conveying device to penetrate through are formed in the drying oven.

Combine into an equipment (promptly above-mentioned cold and hot forming machine) with original cold forming machine and hot forming machine, set up on the axis of production line around cold and hot forming machine and the circulation conveyor, glue spraying device and oven move to the circulation conveyor on, and will go into shoe last machine and pull out the left and right sides of shoe last machine setting at cold and hot forming machine front end, thereby on reducing the length of original linear type production line to half the basis, further reduce the width of whole production line, reduce the shared production space of production line by a wide margin, make whole production line compacter, and then improve the effective utilization ratio of production space.

On the other hand, in the space between cold and hot forming machine's rear end and circulation conveyor's the front end, can also reduce this space, move required shoemaking module (for example sole goods shelves, sole pressing machine) to the left and right sides of cold and hot forming machine rear end, make the production line compacter, can also let a workman correspond a plurality of stations simultaneously, further reduce the manpower demand. In addition, the glue spraying device and the drying oven are moved to the circulating conveying device, the glue spraying, drying and other processes can be automated or semi-automated along with conveying, the manpower requirement of the whole production line can be further reduced, and the production efficiency of the whole production line is improved.

The shoe making module with the independent function refers to necessary equipment required on a shoe making production line, and comprises a vamp steaming and wetting machine, a back upper machine, a sole pressing machine and the like, and can also comprise various raw material frames, semi-finished product frames, finished product frames and the like required by production.

As a preferable scheme of the invention, the shoe making module comprises a vamp steaming and wetting machine, a heel lasting machine and a sole pressing machine, the vamp steaming and wetting machine and the heel lasting machine are respectively arranged at the front side and the rear side of the last putting machine and are positioned at the left side of the central axis, and the sole pressing machine is arranged at the right side of the rear end of the cold and hot setting machine. The shoemaking module can also comprise an upper goods shelf, a sole goods shelf and a finished product goods shelf, wherein the upper goods shelf is usually arranged at the front side of the upper steaming and wetting machine, the sole goods shelf is arranged at the left side of the rear end of the cold and hot setting machine, and the finished product goods shelf is arranged at the front side of the last pulling machine.

As a preferred scheme of the invention, the cold and hot setting machine comprises a hot air blower, a hot air pipe, a cold air blower, a cold air pipe and a thermal cycle mechanism, wherein a hot setting cavity and a cold setting cavity are arranged on a rack from top to bottom, and a heating device is also arranged in the hot setting cavity; the thermal circulation mechanism comprises a compressor, a condenser and an evaporator, and the compressor, the condenser and the evaporator are connected in sequence through pipelines to form a closed loop; the cold air pipe is sequentially communicated with the air cooler and the evaporator, and the tail end of the cold air pipe is arranged in the cold setting cavity as a cold air exhaust outlet; the hot air pipe is sequentially communicated with the hot air blower and the condenser, and the tail end of the hot air pipe is arranged in the hot setting cavity as a hot air exhaust outlet.

The heat circulation mechanism is a closed loop circuit which is formed by sequentially connecting an evaporator, a condenser and a compressor and used for circulating and flowing a working medium, the evaporator absorbs external heat, the low-temperature working medium is heated and evaporated into high-temperature gas, then the high-temperature gas is converted into high-temperature high-pressure gas through the compressor, the high-temperature high-pressure gas releases heat when passing through the condenser, the high-temperature high-pressure gas is simultaneously converted into low-temperature liquid, and the low-temperature high-pressure gas flows into the evaporator again to perform next circulation.

The hot air blower sucks in fresh air from the outside, and when the fresh air passes through the condenser, the fresh air absorbs heat released by the condenser to heat up, so that hot air is formed and blown into the heat setting cavity. Above-mentioned air-cooler inhales the new trend from the external world, and when passing through the evaporimeter, the heat in the new trend is absorbed and is cooled down by the evaporimeter, forms cold wind and blows in cold setting die cavity.

Through the thermal circulation mechanism, the air passing through the evaporator absorbs heat and cools by utilizing the circulating flow of the working medium, meanwhile, the air passing through the condenser releases heat and heats, and the fresh air heat entering the air cooler is absorbed and conveyed to the heat setting cavity through the flow of the working medium to be released, so that the heat utilization rate is improved, and the heat energy-saving and emission-reducing heat pump has the beneficial effects of energy conservation and emission reduction. On the other hand, because the condenser releases heat to the heat setting cavity, the number of the heating devices arranged in the heat setting cavity can be reduced, the original heating power of the heating devices can be reduced, and the energy-saving effect is further achieved.

The working medium is generally a refrigerant medium, and the refrigerant medium is generally a refrigerant with strong compressibility or an environment-friendly refrigerant with long service life.

The first conveying mechanism and the second conveying mechanism can adopt a conveying mode that a motor drives a driving roller, a chain wheel, a chain and a driven roller to match.

As a further preferable scheme of the invention, the cold and hot setting machine is further provided with an air return pipe, and the air return pipe is connected with the hot setting cavity and the air heater. The return air pipe is arranged to recover waste heat in the heat setting cavity, so that excessive heat is prevented from being emitted through an inlet and an outlet of the heat setting cavity, the purpose of emission reduction is achieved, and the utilization rate of heat energy is improved.

As a further preferable scheme of the invention, the heating device comprises a plurality of electric heating tubes, and the plurality of electric heating tubes are sequentially arranged on the upper cavity wall of the thermal setting cavity side by side along the conveying direction of the first conveying mechanism.

As a preferable scheme of the present invention, the circulating conveyor is provided with a lifting section, a horizontal section and a descending section in the oven. Because the production space occupied by the whole production line is reduced, in order to improve the drying effect of the vamps and the soles, the circulating conveying device is provided with a lifting section, a horizontal section and a descending section in the oven, so that the conveying distance of the vamps and the soles in the oven is prolonged, and the drying time is prolonged.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages:

(1) according to the compact shoe production line, the original cold setting machine and the original heat setting machine are combined into one device, the cold setting machine and the heat setting machine are arranged on the central axis of the production line in the front-back direction, the glue spraying device and the drying oven are moved to the heat circulating device, and the last putting machine and the last pulling machine are arranged on the left side and the right side of the front end of the cold setting machine, so that the length of the original linear production line is reduced to a half, the width of the whole production line is further reduced, the production space occupied by the production line is greatly reduced, the whole production line is more compact, and the effective utilization rate of the production space is further improved;

(2) the space between the rear end of the cold and hot setting machine and the front end of the circulating conveying device can be reduced, and the needed shoemaking modules (such as a sole goods shelf and a sole pressing machine) are moved to the left side and the right side of the rear end of the cold and hot setting machine, so that the production line is more compact;

(3) the intervals between equipment on the production line and between each shoemaking module are reduced, so that one worker can correspond to a plurality of stations, and the manpower requirement is further reduced; in addition, the glue spraying device and the drying oven are moved to the circulating conveying device, the glue spraying, drying and other processes can be automated or semi-automated along with conveying, the manpower requirement of the whole production line can be further reduced, and the production efficiency of the whole production line is improved.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of the cold and heat setting machine in fig. 1;

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along line B-B of FIG. 2;

fig. 4 is a schematic flow diagram of hot air, cold air and working medium of the cold-heat setting machine in fig. 1;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the interior of the oven of FIG. 1;

wherein each is represented as: 1-last filling machine, 2-cold and hot setting machine, 201-hot setting cavity, 202-cold setting cavity, 203-first conveying mechanism, 204-second conveying mechanism, 205-frame, 206-hot air blower, 207-hot air pipe, 208-heating device (electric heating pipe), 209-air return pipe, 210-cold air blower, 211-cold air pipe, 212-compressor, 213-condenser, 214-evaporator, 2001-motor, 2002-driving roller, 2003-sprocket, 2004-chain, 2005-driven roller, 3-circulating conveying device, 31-conveying belt, 311-advancing section, 312-returning section, 313-hanging part, 32-glue spraying device, 33-spraying device, 34-oven, 341-lifting section, 342-horizontal section, 343-descending section, 35-manual sole attaching station, 4-last pulling machine, 5-vamp steaming and wetting machine, 6-back upper machine, 7-sole pressing machine, 8-vamp storage rack, 9-sole storage rack, 10-finished product storage rack, A-central axis of production line, C-working medium flowing direction, D-hot air direction, E-cold air direction and F-return air direction.

Detailed Description

The following further describes the preferred embodiments of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in fig. 1, a compact shoe production line comprises a lasting machine 1, a cold and hot setting machine 2, a circulating conveying device 3, a lasting machine 4, and a plurality of shoe making modules with independent functions, wherein the shoe making modules comprise a shoe upper steaming and wetting machine 5, a heel part machine 6, a sole pressing machine 7, a shoe upper shelf 8, a sole shelf 9 and a finished product shelf 10; the compact shoe production line is provided with a central axis A, the cold and hot setting machine 2 and the circulating conveying device 3 are arranged on the central axis A from front to back, the shoe last entering machine 1 is arranged on the left side of the front end of the cold and hot setting machine 2, the shoe last pulling machine 4 is arranged on the right side of the front end of the cold and hot setting machine 2, the vamp steaming and wetting machine 5 and the back upper machine 6 are respectively arranged on the front side and the back side of the shoe last entering machine 1 and are positioned on the left side of the central axis A, and the sole pressing machine 7 is arranged on the right side of the back end of the cold and hot setting machine 2; the vamp goods shelf 8 is arranged at the front side of the vamp steaming and wetting machine 5, the sole goods shelf 9 is arranged at the left side of the rear end of the cold and hot setting machine 2, and the finished product goods shelf 10 is arranged at the front side of the last pulling machine 4.

As shown in fig. 1, the circulating conveyor 3 is provided with a conveyor belt 31, the conveyor belt 31 is provided with a linear forward section 311 and a linear return section 312, the forward section 311 and the return section 312 are respectively positioned at the left and right sides of the central axis a and are parallel to the central axis a, the tail end of the forward section 311 is connected with the start end of the return section 312, and the tail end of the return section 312 is connected with the start end of the forward section 311; the conveyer belt 31 is provided with a bearing piece 313 for fixing the vamp and the sole; a glue spraying device 32, a medicine spraying device 33 and an oven 34 are arranged along the advancing section 311 and the returning section 312, and a manual bottom pasting station 35 is arranged at the tail end of the returning section 312; the conveyer belt 31 passes through the inside of the oven 34, as shown in fig. 5, the conveyer belt 31 is provided with a lifting section 341, a horizontal section 342 and a descending section 343 in the oven to prolong the conveying distance of the shoe uppers and the shoe soles in the oven 34, thereby prolonging the drying time; spout mucilage binding and put 32 and spout medicine device 33 and be used for spouting gluey to vamp and sole on the conveyer belt 31, spout gluey or all need dry vamp and sole after spouting the medicine at every turn, set up one in this embodiment and spout medicine device 33 and two and spout mucilage binding and put 32, be equipped with three oven 34 on the conveyer belt 31 consequently. The spraying device 31 and the glue spraying device 32 can be manually sprayed or can be automatically sprayed in multiple stations by a manipulator, so that the spraying efficiency is improved.

As shown in fig. 2, the cold-hot setting machine 2 is provided with a hot setting cavity 201 and a cold setting cavity 202, wherein the hot setting cavity 201 is provided with a first conveying mechanism 203 with a conveying direction corresponding to the forward section 311, and the cold setting cavity 202 is provided with a second conveying mechanism 204 with a conveying direction corresponding to the return section 312; after last entering and lasting and lasting clamping are completed, the last needs to be subjected to heat setting, and after bottom pressing is completed, the last pulling needs to be performed after the finished shoe is subjected to cold setting, so that the conveying direction of the first conveying mechanism 203 in the heat setting cavity 201 corresponds to the forward section 311 of the circulating conveying device 3 from front to back, and the conveying direction of the second conveying mechanism 204 in the cold setting cavity 202 corresponds to the return section 312 of the circulating conveying device 3 from back to front; the shoes are conveyed from front to back through the first conveying mechanism 203 and the forward section 311 of the circulating conveyor 3, and then conveyed from back to front through the return section 312 of the circulating conveyor 3 and the second conveying mechanism 204.

According to the compact shoe production line, the original cold setting machine and the original heat setting machine are combined into one device, the cold setting machine 2 and the circulating conveying device 3 are arranged on the central axis A of the production line in the front-back direction, the glue spraying device 32 and the drying oven 34 are moved to the circulating conveying device 3, and the last putting-in machine 1 and the last pulling machine 4 are arranged on the left side and the right side of the front end of the cold setting machine 2, so that the length of the original linear production line is reduced to a half, the width of the whole production line is further reduced, the production space occupied by the production line is greatly reduced, the whole production line is more compact, and the effective utilization rate of the production space is further improved.

In addition, the space between the rear end of the cold and hot setting machine 2 and the front end of the circulating conveying device 3 can be reduced, and the required shoemaking modules (such as a sole shelf 9 and a sole pressing machine 7) can be moved to the left side and the right side of the rear end of the cold and hot setting machine 2, so that the production line is more compact; the intervals between equipment on the production line and between each shoemaking module are reduced, so that one worker can correspond to a plurality of stations, and the manpower requirement is further reduced; moreover, the spraying device 33, the glue spraying device 32 and the oven 34 are moved to the circulating conveying device 3, the processes of spraying the glue, drying and the like can be automated or semi-automated along with the conveying, the manpower requirement of the whole production line can be further reduced, and the production efficiency of the whole production line is improved.

As shown in fig. 2 and fig. 3, the heat and cold setting machine 2 includes a frame 25, a heat setting cavity 201, a heat setting cavity 202, a hot air blower 206, a hot air duct 207, a heating device 208, a return air duct 209, a cold air blower 210, a cold air duct 211 and a heat circulation mechanism, wherein the heat setting cavity 201 and the heat setting cavity 202 are vertically arranged on the frame 25; the first conveying mechanism 203 and the heating device 208 are arranged in the heat-setting cavity 201, and the second conveying mechanism 204 is arranged in the cold-setting cavity 202; in the embodiment, the first conveying mechanism 203 and the second conveying mechanism 204 adopt a conveying mode that a motor 2001 drives a driving roller 2002, a chain wheel 2003, a chain 2004 and a driven roller 2005 to match; the heating device 208 comprises a plurality of electric heating tubes, and the plurality of electric heating tubes 208 are sequentially arranged on the upper cavity wall of the heat setting cavity 201 side by side along the conveying direction of the first conveying mechanism 203; the heat circulation mechanism comprises a compressor 212, a condenser 213 and an evaporator 214, the compressor 212, the condenser 213 and the evaporator 214 are connected in sequence through a pipeline 215 to form a closed loop, as shown in fig. 4, a cold air pipe 211 is sequentially communicated with a cold air blower 210 and the evaporator 214, the tail end of the cold air pipe 211 is arranged in the cold setting cavity 202 as a cold air exhaust port, a hot air pipe 207 is sequentially communicated with a hot air blower 206 and the condenser 213, the tail end of the hot air pipe 207 is arranged in the heat setting cavity 201 as a hot air exhaust port, and a return air pipe 209 is connected with the heat setting cavity 201 and the hot air blower 206.

The cold and hot setting machine 2 absorbs heat of the air passing through the evaporator 214 and cools the air passing through the condenser 213 by utilizing the circulating flow of the working medium through the thermal circulation mechanism, releases heat and heats the air passing through the condenser 213, absorbs the heat of the fresh air entering the air cooler 210 and conveys the heat to the heat setting cavity 201 through the flow of the working medium to be released, specifically, the hot air fan 206 sucks the fresh air from the outside, when the fresh air passes through the condenser 213, the fresh air absorbs the heat released by the condenser 213 and heats the fresh air to form hot air and blow the hot setting cavity 201, the air cooler 210 sucks the fresh air from the outside, when the fresh air passes through the evaporator 214, the heat of the fresh air is absorbed by the evaporator 214 and cools the fresh air to form cold air and blow the cold setting cavity 202; because the condenser 213 releases heat to the heat setting cavity 201, the number of the heating devices 208 originally arranged in the heat setting cavity 201 can be reduced, the original heating power of the heating devices 208 can also be reduced, and the return air pipe 209 is arranged to recover the waste heat in the heat setting cavity 201, so that the excessive heat is prevented from being dissipated through the inlet and the outlet of the heat setting cavity 201, the heat utilization rate is further improved, and the beneficial effects of energy conservation and emission reduction are achieved.

In addition, it should be noted that the names of the parts and the like of the embodiments described in the present specification may be different, and the equivalent or simple change of the structure, the characteristics and the principle described in the present patent idea is included in the protection scope of the present patent. Various modifications, additions and substitutions for the specific embodiments described may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the accompanying claims.