CN105588532B - A kind of measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part - Google Patents
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The invention discloses a kind of measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part, including rubber wheel, support frame, drive gear, driven gear, secondary driven gear, measurement apparatus, handle, measurement master gear, meter, measure scales, measurement pointer, measurement main shaft, bulge loop, bulge loop opening, transition gear, meter circle master gear, meter circle table, meter aperture needle, meter circle main shaft, meter circle scale;Rubber wheel is arranged on bottom, and front and rear coaxial left-right is symmetrical;Measurement apparatus is divided into meter and meter circle table, and measure scales and measurement pointer are provided with meter, and meter aperture needle and meter circle scale are provided with meter circle table.The measurement apparatus of this huge diameter of part can solve the problem that slide calliper rule due to the problem of length of measurement can not enough measure huge part, can also solve the problems, such as not accurate enough with tape measure diameter, labor productivity is substantially increased, improves the measurement accuracy of huge diameter of part.
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Technical field
The invention belongs to huge diameter of part field of measuring technique, and in particular to a kind of measurement dress of huge diameter of part
Put.
Background technology
With the continuous upgrading of China's advanced manufacturing industry and the continuous accumulation of Large-Scale Equipment manufacturing industry technology, in Large-Scale Equipment
Making industry field has huge progress, and the Large-Scale Equipment manufacturing industry in China there has also been significant progress, in large-scale equipment manufacturing
Industry field will use the part being relatively large in diameter, particularly as my company is professional production wind power generation, on Nuclear Power Plant
Large-size pivoting support part manufacturing firm, will be produced and processed big according to the requirement of client in the production and processing of reality
Type, huge pivoting support part;But according to the requirement of technique when those large-scale, huge pivoting supports are processed,
The measurement work of large-scale, huge to these pivoting supports progress diameter in process of manufacture is needed, or is added in production
Inspection work when work good a collection of part to diameter of part etc., the measurement for being required for carrying out the part processed diameter are examined
Test work;Measurement verification to this jumbo diameter of part in the prior art, is usually to use kind of calliper, but
It is the limited length of the measurement of slide calliper rule, so that it cannot measure verification to huge part, with what is measured if tape measure
Precision is inadequate, and also needs to more staff, and operating efficiency is low;Many defect of the inventor based on prior art is ground
A kind of measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part is sent out, the measurement apparatus of this huge diameter of part can solve the problem that deposits in the prior art
Technical problem.
The content of the invention
The present invention is in order to solve the above-mentioned technical problem, there is provided a kind of measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part, its design structure
Simply, it is practical and convenient;It can solve the problem that slide calliper rule due to the problem of length of measurement can not enough measure huge part, additionally it is possible to solve
With tape measure diameter it is not accurate enough the problem of, substantially increase labor productivity, improve huge diameter of part measurement essence
Degree.
The technical solution adopted in the present invention is:A kind of measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part, including rubber wheel, support
Frame, drive gear, driven gear, secondary driven gear, measurement apparatus, handle, measurement master gear, meter, measure scales, measurement
Pointer, measurement main shaft, bulge loop, bulge loop opening, transition gear, meter circle master gear, meter circle table, meter aperture needle, meter circle main shaft, meter circle
Scale;Rubber wheel is arranged on bottom, and one group of left side, one group of right side, each group is two, and front and rear coaxial left-right is symmetrical;Support frame
The top of rubber wheel is arranged on, axle of the support frame respectively with left and right two groups of rubber wheels is connected;Drive gear is arranged to two, point
Centre position that Wei Yu be on the axle of left and right two groups of rubber wheels;Driven gear is arranged on the top of two drive gears, and with two
Individual drive gear engagement, driven gear is by axis connection in the middle both sides of support frame;Secondary driven gear is arranged on driven gear
Top, secondary driven gear is meshed with driven gear, and secondary driven gear is fixed on the centre two of support frame by measuring main shaft
Side, the outer end for measuring main shaft are mutually fixedly connected by measurement apparatus with measurement master gear;Measurement apparatus is divided into meter and meter encloses
Table, measure scales and measurement pointer are provided with meter, meter aperture needle and meter circle scale are provided with meter circle table;Handle
It is arranged on the centre position on the top of support frame;The surrounding of measurement master gear is provided with bulge loop, and the top of bulge loop is provided with bulge loop
Opening, transition gear is provided with the position of bulge loop opening, and the top of transition gear is provided with meter circle master gear, meter circle master gear
It is fixedly connected on by counting circle main shaft on measurement apparatus.
The measure scales on meter are using the center of circle of meter as midpoint, around the even circumferential point of meter
Cloth, measurement pointer are arranged on the outer end of measurement main shaft.
Meter circle scale on the meter circle table is to count the center of circle of circle table as midpoint, around the even circumferential point of meter circle table
Cloth, meter aperture needle are arranged on the outer end of meter circle main shaft.
Described that the position of bulge loop opening is provided with transition gear, transition gear is arranged on measurement apparatus by axis connection
On.
The inner of the measurement main shaft is connected with time driven gear, be provided with the outer end of measurement main shaft measurement master gear and
Measure pointer.
The handle is arranged on the centre position on the top of support frame, and handle is inverted U shape.
The use process of the measurement apparatus of this huge diameter of part is:The huge part that needs are measured is placed on support
On, grasp and the outer circumference surface of the measurement apparatus of the huge diameter of part of hand propelled in huge part is moved, now huge zero
The rubber wheel of the measurement apparatus of part diameter is attached to outer circumference surface movement, drives drive gear to rotate with the rotation of rubber wheel, drives
Moving gear drives driven gear to rotate, and moving gear drives time driven gear to rotate, secondary driven gear degree of drive while rotating
The measurement master gear measured in device rotates, and now the measurement pointer in meter begins to rotate, when measurement pointer rotates a circle
When, ㎜ of Zhou Changwei 100 that at this moment measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part is walked;When the measurement master gear in meter turns
When moving the position of bulge loop opening, measurement master gear drives the transition gear of bulge loop opening to rotate, and transition gear drives
Meter circle master gear rotates, and at this moment the meter aperture needle in meter circle table rotates a meter circle scale, a meter circle scale degree of a representation
Scale rotates a circle;The measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part is promoted to be taken a round to the excircle row around huge part like this
Afterwards, the girth of huge part at the corresponding meter circle scale calculating of the meter aperture needle meaning of meter circle table is had a look, according to huge zero
The girth divided by pi of part calculate the diameter of part;Need to repeat the above steps i.e. when measuring another huge part
Can.
The rubber wheel is arranged on bottom, and one group of left side, one group of right side, each group is two, and front and rear coaxial left-right is symmetrical;
Main purpose using rubber wheel is to increase the measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part rubbing in huge part external peripheral surface
Power is wiped, because the outer surface of the huge part processed is usually by glossing processing, if not using the rubber of flexibility
Glue material, it is inaccurate to will result in the huge part girth of measurement because the frictional force on surface is smaller, causes larger measurement to miss
Difference;Larger error be present in the corresponding diameter for surveying huge part.
The drive gear is arranged to two, respectively the centre position on the axle of left and right two groups of rubber wheels;Driven tooth
Wheel is arranged on the top of two drive gears, and is engaged with two drive gears, and driven gear passes through axis connection and support frame
Middle both sides;Secondary driven gear is arranged on the top of driven gear, and secondary driven gear is meshed with driven gear, secondary driven gear
The middle both sides of support frame are scheduled on by measuring main shaft, the outer end for measuring main shaft passes through measurement apparatus and measurement master gear phase
It is fixedly connected;The main purpose so designed is stablizing lasting power by drive gear, driven by the rolling of rubber wheel
Gear, secondary driven gear are sent on measurement master gear, realize the measurement of the outer perimeter to huge part.
The measurement apparatus is divided into meter and meter circle table, and measure scales and measurement pointer are provided with meter,
Meter aperture needle and meter circle scale are provided with meter circle table;So design can realize the measurement to huge part outer perimeter, and can
The measurement apparatus for calculating huge diameter of part has been walked several circles on huge part excircle;In order to improve the accurate of measurement
Degree, each lattice of the measure scales in meter are that revolving the length to turn around can not meet to huge zero in units of millimeter
The measurement of part outer perimeter needs, so just devising meter circle table.
The surrounding of the measurement master gear is provided with bulge loop, and the top of bulge loop is provided with bulge loop opening, in bulge loop opening
Position is provided with transition gear, and the top of transition gear is provided with meter circle master gear, and meter circle master gear is fixed by counting circle main shaft
It is connected on measurement apparatus;The main purpose so designed be in order to by the effect of bulge loop realize to meter rotation turn around after
Meter circle function.
The measure scales on meter are using the center of circle of meter as midpoint, around the even circumferential point of meter
Cloth, measurement pointer are arranged on the outer end of measurement main shaft;The each lattice of measure scales on meter are arranged to one millimeter, its main mesh
Be the precision for improving this huge diameter of part measurement.
Meter circle scale on the meter circle table is to count the center of circle of circle table as midpoint, around the even circumferential point of meter circle table
Cloth, meter aperture needle are arranged on the outer end of meter circle main shaft;The each lattice of meter circle scale on meter circle table represent the circle of meter rotation one i.e.
100㎜。
The handle is arranged on the centre position on the top of support frame, and handle is inverted U shape;The main purpose so designed is
For the control in the convenient measurement apparatus direction to huge diameter of part of operating personnel, the on the other hand survey to huge diameter of part
Measure the thrust that device provides walking of advancing.
Beneficial effects of the present invention:The technical program provides a kind of measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part, its design structure
Simply, it is practical and convenient;It can solve the problem that slide calliper rule due to the problem of length of measurement can not enough measure huge part, additionally it is possible to solve
With tape measure diameter it is not accurate enough the problem of, substantially increase labor productivity, improve huge diameter of part measurement essence
Degree.
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Fig. 1 is the drive part structural representation of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the structural representation of measurement apparatus of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the outside schematic diagram of measurement apparatus of the present invention;
Marked in figure:1st, rubber wheel, 2, support frame, 3, drive gear, 4, driven gear, 5, secondary driven gear, 6, measurement
Device, 7, handle, 8, measurement master gear, 9, meter, 10, measure scales, 11, measurement pointer, 12, measurement main shaft, 13, convex
Ring, 14, bulge loop opening, 15, transition gear, 16, meter circle master gear, 17, meter circle table, 18, meter aperture needle, 19, meter circle main shaft,
20th, meter circle scale.
Embodiment
The embodiment of the present invention is described in further detail below in conjunction with accompanying drawing.
As Figure 1-3, a kind of measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part, including rubber wheel 1, support frame 2, drive gear 3,
Driven gear 4, secondary driven gear 5, measurement apparatus 6, handle 7, measurement master gear 8, meter 9, measure scales 10, measurement pointer
11st, measure main shaft 12, bulge loop 13, bulge loop opening 14, transition gear 15, meter circle master gear 16, meter circle table 17, meter aperture needle 18,
Meter circle main shaft 19, meter circle scale 20;Rubber wheel 1 is arranged on bottom, and one group of left side, one group of right side, each group is two, front and rear same
Axle is symmetrical;Support frame 2 is arranged on the top of rubber wheel 1, and axle of the support frame 2 respectively with left and right two groups of rubber wheels 1 is connected;
Drive gear 3 is arranged to two, respectively the centre position on the axle of left and right two groups of rubber wheels 1;Driven gear 4 is arranged on
The top of two drive gears 3, and engaged with two drive gears 3, driven gear 4 is by axis connection in the centre of support frame 2
Both sides;Secondary driven gear 5 is arranged on the top of driven gear 4, and secondary driven gear 5 is meshed with driven gear 4, secondary driven gear
5 are fixed on the middle both sides of support frame 2 by measuring main shaft 12, and the outer end for measuring main shaft 12 is led by measurement apparatus 6 and measurement
The phase of gear 8 is fixedly connected;Measurement apparatus 6 divides for meter 9 and counts circle table 17, and the He of measure scales 10 is provided with meter 9
Pointer 11 is measured, meter aperture needle 18 and meter circle scale 20 are provided with meter circle table 17;Handle 7 is arranged on the top of support frame 2
Centre position;The surrounding of measurement master gear 8 is provided with bulge loop 13, and the top of bulge loop 13 is provided with bulge loop opening 14, in bulge loop
The position of opening 14 is provided with transition gear 15, and the top of transition gear 15 is provided with meter circle master gear 16, meter circle master gear 16
It is fixedly connected on by counting circle main shaft 19 on measurement apparatus 6.
The measure scales 10 on meter 9 are using the center of circle of meter 9 as midpoint, around the circumference of meter 9
It is uniformly distributed, measurement pointer 11 is arranged on the outer end of measurement main shaft 12.
Meter circle scale 20 on the meter circle table 17 is to count the center of circle of circle table 17 as midpoint, around the circumference of meter circle table 17
It is uniformly distributed, meter aperture needle 18 is arranged on the outer end of meter circle main shaft 19.
Described that transition gear 15 is provided with the position of bulge loop opening 14, transition gear 15 is arranged on measurement by axis connection
On device 6.
The inner of the measurement main shaft 12 is connected with time driven gear 5, and the outer end of measurement main shaft 12 is provided with measurement master
Gear 8 and measurement pointer 11.
The handle 7 is arranged on the centre position on the top of support frame 2, and handle 7 is inverted U shape.
The use process of the measurement apparatus of this huge diameter of part is:The huge part that needs are measured is placed on support
On, grasp handle 7 and promote the measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part to be moved in the outer circumference surface of huge part, now huge zero
The rubber wheel 1 of the measurement apparatus of part diameter is attached to outer circumference surface movement, drives drive gear 3 to rotate with the rotation of rubber wheel 1,
Drive gear 3 drives driven gear 4 to rotate, and moving gear 4 drives time driven gear 5 to rotate, and secondary driven gear 5 is while rotating
The measurement master gear 8 in measurement apparatus 6 is driven to rotate, now the measurement pointer 11 in meter 9 begins to rotate, when measurement refers to
When pin 11 rotates a circle, ㎜ of Zhou Changwei 100 that at this moment measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part is walked;When in meter 9
Measurement master gear 8 when turn to the position of bulge loop opening 14, measurement master gear 8 drives the transition tooth at bulge loop opening 14
Wheel 15 rotates, and transition gear 15 drives meter circle master gear to rotate, and at this moment the meter aperture needle 18 in meter circle table 17 rotates one
Meter circle scale 20, a meter circle scale 20 represent that meter 9 rotates a circle;The measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part is promoted like this
To the 18 signified corresponding meter circle of meter aperture needle for after being taken a round around the excircle row of huge part, having a look meter circle table 17
The girth of huge part at the calculating of scale 20, the diameter of part is calculated according to the girth of huge part divided by pi;Need to survey
Repeated the above steps when measuring another huge part.
Claims (6)
1. a kind of measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part, including rubber wheel, support frame, drive gear, driven gear, secondary driven tooth
Wheel, measurement apparatus, handle, measurement master gear, meter, measure scales, measurement pointer, measurement main shaft, bulge loop, bulge loop opening,
Transition gear, meter circle master gear, meter circle table, meter aperture needle, meter circle main shaft, meter circle scale;It is characterized in that:Rubber wheel is arranged on
Bottom, one group of left side, one group of right side, each group is two, and front and rear coaxial left-right is symmetrical;Support frame is arranged on the upper of rubber wheel
Portion, axle of the support frame respectively with left and right two groups of rubber wheels are connected;Drive gear is arranged to two, respectively positioned at left and right two groups of rubbers
Centre position on the axle of rubber tire;Driven gear is arranged on the top of two drive gears, and is engaged with two drive gears, from
Moving gear is by axis connection in the middle both sides of support frame;Secondary driven gear is arranged on the top of driven gear, secondary driven gear
It is meshed with driven gear, secondary driven gear is fixed on the middle both sides of support frame by measuring main shaft, measures the outer end of main shaft
Mutually it is fixedly connected with measurement master gear by measurement apparatus;Measurement apparatus is divided into meter and meter circle table, is set on meter
There are measure scales and measurement pointer, meter aperture needle and meter circle scale are provided with meter circle table;Handle is arranged on the upper of support frame
The centre position in portion;The surrounding of measurement master gear is provided with bulge loop, and the top of bulge loop is provided with bulge loop opening, in bulge loop opening
Position is provided with transition gear, and the top of transition gear is provided with meter circle master gear, and meter circle master gear is fixed by counting circle main shaft
It is connected on measurement apparatus.
A kind of 2. measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:Measurement on meter
Scale is using the center of circle of meter as midpoint, and the even circumferential around meter is distributed, and measurement pointer is arranged on measurement main shaft
Outer end.
A kind of 3. measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:Meter circle on meter circle table
Scale is to count the center of circle of circle table as midpoint, and around the even circumferential distribution of meter circle table, meter aperture needle is arranged on meter circle main shaft
Outer end.
A kind of 4. measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:The position of bulge loop opening
Transition gear is provided with, transition gear is arranged on measurement apparatus by axis connection.
A kind of 5. measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:Measure the inner of main shaft
Time driven gear is connected with, the outer end of measurement main shaft is provided with measurement master gear and measurement pointer.
A kind of 6. measurement apparatus of huge diameter of part according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:Handle is arranged on support
The centre position on the top of frame, handle are inverted U shape.
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