CN105715278B - A kind of Novel excavating machine device people - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a kind of Novel excavating machine device people, including feed mechanism, the feeding station being mounted on the feed mechanism, drive the feeding station in the feeding driving mechanism of feed mechanism upper feeding, it is provided with the shield shell of hollow cavity in the feeding station, the drill bit driving mechanism that the spiral cutting drill bit of the shield shell hollow cavity is inserted into matching and the driving spiral cutting bit is cut, the shield shell guiding mechanism for being oriented to shield shell both ends is both provided on the feed mechanism front end and feeding station.This kind of Novel excavating machine device people have many advantages, such as structure is simple, work efficiency is high, using it is convenient, flexible, save human cost.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to the boring mechanism in a kind of soil, especially a kind of Novel excavating machine device people.
Background technique
The driving in tunnel has a kind of equipment for being shield machine on the market.Its front end is that a metalloid processing is used
Facing cutter, it is hollow, behind connect conveying equipment.When tunneling, facing cutter rotates and advances inside ground, the rock dug out
Native rubble flows into conveying mechanism in the gap of cutterhead, and rubble is continually sent to exterior space.Thus realize the pick in tunnel
Into.
In the laboratory of geotechnical engineering and mining, professor and scientists to this respect have deeper into research and reality
It tests.Their usual simulated formation structures make the model on a stratum in laboratory, and make mining in different levels simulation
Tunnel, furthers investigate the changing rule of its stress, strain, to sum up geologic change rule, geology calamity under external force
The requisite measure of the harmful origin cause of formation and mining safety.
The tunnel, tunnel or hole that simulation is outputed on model, be it is very difficult, it is small-sized, such as 20 ×
The square hole of 20mm, 1~2m of hole depth can be carried out this work currently without any mechanical equipment, and almost all is to grasp by hand
To make, time-consuming, labour-consuming is very difficult, and unstable quality (for example roadway direction deviation is too big, and hole shape size is inaccurate etc.),
It is the thing of one, laboratory very headache.
In urban construction and municipal works, including coal gas, tap water, communication cable, the laying of cable, sewer etc. changes
It makes and repairs, it is often necessary to plane the ground, ditching, the actions such as pipe laying have often been dug and filled out, have been filled with and dig, innumerable.This
Compared with a little engineerings are come with tunneling, size be really it is too small, shield machine has no usage.So generalling use small-sized excavation
Machine is constructed, and excavator is limited by geographical conditions and environment, and many places can not also construct, so, it is big susceptible
It is all manually completed under condition, large labor intensity, inefficiency, construction quality is unstable.In urban construction and city's political and ideological work
It is urgently to change and promoted in journey construction.
In view of this, the purpose of the present invention is to provide a kind of new technical solutions to solve existing technological deficiency.
Summary of the invention
For overcome the deficiencies in the prior art, the present invention provides a kind of Novel excavating machine device people, solves existing using people
Work excavates minitunnel, and there are the technological deficiencies such as large labor intensity, inefficiency, Mining Quality difference.
The technical solution adopted by the present invention to solve the technical problems is:
A kind of Novel excavating machine device people, including feed mechanism, the feeding station being mounted on the feed mechanism, described in driving
Feeding station is provided with the shield shell of hollow cavity in the feeding station, matching is inserted in the feeding driving mechanism of feed mechanism upper feeding
Enter the spiral cutting drill bit of the shield shell hollow cavity and drive the drill bit driving mechanism of the spiral cutting bit cutting,
The shield shell guiding mechanism for being oriented to shield shell both ends is both provided on the feed mechanism front end and feeding station.
As an improvement of the above technical solution, shield shell vibrating mechanism, the shield shell vibration are additionally provided in the feeding station
Mechanism is connected to one end that the shield shell is mounted in feeding station and for driving shield shell to vibrate, and the shield shell vibrating mechanism passes through
Shield shell connecting rod is fixedly mounted in feeding station.
As a further improvement of the above technical scheme, the shield shell is the rounded or square hollow member in section,
Shield shell is located at one end in feeding station at it and is provided with the discharge port for being convenient for discharging.
As a further improvement of the above technical scheme, the discharge port, which goes out, is provided with discharging scraper, the discharging scraper
The soil that discharge outlet can be will be delivered to is wiped off from shield shell outlet.
As a further improvement of the above technical scheme, the feed mechanism includes feeding guide rail, the Feed servo system machine
Structure is arranged in the feeding guide rail end, and feeding guide rail is provided with sprocket wheel, the chain in its one end far from feeding driving mechanism
The feed chain for driving feeding station to slide in feeding guide rail is provided between wheel and feeding driving mechanism output end.
As a further improvement of the above technical scheme, the feeding station lower part is provided with fit applications and leads in the feeding
Feeding pulley on rail, feeding station are fixedly connected by fixing piece with feed chain, and the feeding driving mechanism passes through feeding chain
Item can drive feeding station to slidably reciprocate in feeding guide rail.
As a further improvement of the above technical scheme, the shield shell guiding mechanism includes shield shell leading truck, is arranged in institute
Two mutually matched V-type idler wheels for stating shield shell leading truck lower part and setting are in the shield shell leading truck top and the cooperation V
The cylindrical roller of type idler wheel is provided with the elastic adjusting screw of guiding of adjustable-tightness degree on the cylindrical roller.
As a further improvement of the above technical scheme, the chip curl drill bit is provided in its end detachably cuts
Knife.
As a further improvement of the above technical scheme, the feeding driving mechanism, drill bit driving mechanism and the vibration of shield shell
Mechanism or electric drive mechanism.
As a further improvement of the above technical scheme, the feed mechanism bottom is provided with machine lifting cylinder, described
Machine lifting cylinder can drive the development machine people to rise or fall.
The beneficial effects of the present invention are: this kind of development machine people uses the present invention provides a kind of Novel excavating machine device people
Shield shell, feed mechanism, spiral cutting drill bit and the cooperation of various driving mechanisms, which are realized, works to the automatic mining in tunnel.Entirely set
Standby structure is simple, using it is convenient, practical flexibly, be suitable for can satisfy urban construction in the excacation of various minitunnels
In various minitunnels automatic mining, efficiency is significantly increased compared with hand digging, while can also promote the matter of tunneling
Amount, facilitates the subsequent further work in tunnel, can save a large amount of human cost.This kind of Novel excavating machine device people solves existing
Using hand digging minitunnel, there are the technological deficiencies such as large labor intensity, inefficiency, Mining Quality difference.
Detailed description of the invention
Present invention will be further explained below with reference to the attached drawings and examples.
Fig. 1 is assembling schematic diagram of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is side view partial sectional view of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the cross-sectional view in the direction C-C in Fig. 1.
Specific embodiment
It is carried out below with reference to technical effect of the embodiment and attached drawing to design of the invention, specific structure and generation clear
Chu is fully described by, to be completely understood by the purpose of the present invention, feature and effect.Obviously, described embodiment is this hair
Bright a part of the embodiment, rather than whole embodiments, based on the embodiment of the present invention, those skilled in the art are not being paid
Other embodiments obtained, belong to the scope of protection of the invention under the premise of creative work.In addition, being related in patent
All connection/connection relationships, not singly refer to that component directly connects, and refer to can according to specific implementation situation, by addition or
Reduce couple auxiliary, Lai Zucheng more preferably coupling structure.Each technical characteristic in the invention, in not conflicting conflict
Under the premise of can with combination of interactions, referring to Fig.1-3.
A kind of Novel excavating machine device people, including feed mechanism 1, the feeding station 2 being mounted on the feed mechanism 1, driving
The feeding station 2 is provided with the shield shell of hollow cavity in the feeding station 2 in the feeding driving mechanism 3 of 1 upper feeding of feed mechanism
4, the spiral cutting drill bit 5 of 4 hollow cavity of shield shell and the brill of driving 5 rotary cutting of spiral cutting drill bit are inserted into matching
Head driving mechanism 6, the shield shell being both provided with for being oriented to 4 both ends of shield shell on 1 front end of feed mechanism and feeding station 2 are led
To mechanism 7.
In the present embodiment, the drill bit driving mechanism 6 connect with spiral cutting drill bit 5 by cutting headstock 61 and is
Spiral cutting drill bit 5 provides power.
Preferably, the chip curl drill bit 5 is provided with detachable cutter in its end, and the detachable cutter is cutting
The direct workpiece of the substances such as soil, stone.It, can by blunt cutter disassembly polishing or more in long-time using after cutter
It changes, keeps equipment that there is stable, efficient operating rate.
Preferably, shield shell vibrating mechanism 8 is additionally provided in the feeding station 2, the shield shell vibrating mechanism 8 is connected to described
One end that shield shell 4 is mounted in feeding station 2 and for driving shield shell 4 to vibrate, the shield shell vibrating mechanism 8 passes through shield shell connecting rod 81
It is fixedly mounted in feeding station 2.
Preferably, the shield shell 4 is the rounded or square hollow member in section, and shield shell 4 is located in feeding station 2 at it
One end be provided with convenient for discharging discharge port.
Preferably, the discharge port goes out to be provided with discharging scraper, and the discharging scraper can will be delivered to the mud of discharge outlet
Soil is wiped off from 4 discharge outlet of shield shell, and the soil struck off is discharged by hopper 41 and is further processed for subsequent.
The shield shell vibrating mechanism 8 vibrates soil in the equipment course of work from mouth out to be fallen, and is formed one and is held
The process of continuous vibration discharging, realizes non-stop run.
Preferably, the feed mechanism 1 includes feeding guide rail 11, and the setting of feeding driving mechanism 3 is led in the feeding
11 end of rail, feeding guide rail 11 are provided with sprocket wheel 12 in its one end far from feeding driving mechanism 3, and the sprocket wheel 12 drives with feeding
The feed chain 13 for driving feeding station 2 to slide in feeding guide rail 11 is provided between 3 output end of motivation structure.Preferably,
2 lower part of feeding station is provided with feeding pulley 14 of the fit applications in the feeding guide rail 11, and feeding station 2 passes through fixing piece
It is fixedly connected with feed chain 13, the feeding driving mechanism 3 can drive feeding station 2 in feeding guide rail 11 by feed chain 13
On slidably reciprocate.
The feeding driving mechanism 3 drives feed chain 13 to rotate around sprocket wheel 12, on fixed feeding feeding sprocket wheel 13
Feeding station 2 can be achieved to move ahead or retreat along 11 direction of feeding guide rail under the cooperation of feeding pulley 14 and feeding guide rail 11
Preferably, the shield shell guiding mechanism 7 includes shield shell leading truck 71,71 lower part of shield shell leading truck is arranged in
Two mutually matched V-type idler wheels 72 and the cylinder that 71 top of shield shell leading truck and the cooperation V-type idler wheel 72 are set
Idler wheel 73 is provided with the elastic adjusting screw 74 of guiding of adjustable-tightness degree on the cylindrical roller 73.
Preferably, the feeding driving mechanism 3, drill bit driving mechanism 6 and shield shell vibrating mechanism 8 or electric drive mechanism.
Preferably, 1 bottom of feed mechanism is provided with machine lifting cylinder 9, and the machine lifting cylinder 9 can drive institute
Development machine people is stated to rise or fall.
It is to be illustrated to preferable implementation of the invention, but the invention is not limited to the implementation above
Example, those skilled in the art can also make various equivalent variations on the premise of without prejudice to spirit of the invention or replace
It changes, these equivalent deformations or replacement are all included in the scope defined by the claims of the present application.
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1. a kind of Novel excavating machine device people, it is characterised in that: including feed mechanism (1), be mounted on the feed mechanism (1)
Feeding station (2) drives the feeding station (2) in the feeding driving mechanism (3) of feed mechanism (1) upper feeding, the feeding station (2)
On be provided with the shield shell (4) of hollow cavity, spiral cutting drill bit (5) and the driving of shield shell (4) hollow cavity are inserted into matching
The drill bit driving mechanism (6) of spiral cutting drill bit (5) rotary cutting, on feed mechanism (1) front end and feeding station (2)
It is both provided with the shield shell guiding mechanism (7) for being oriented to shield shell (4) both ends;The vibration of shield shell is provided on the feeding station (2)
Motivation structure (8), the shield shell vibrating mechanism (8) are connected to one end that the shield shell (4) is mounted on feeding station (2) and for driving
Dynamic shield shell (4) vibration, the shield shell vibrating mechanism (8) are fixedly mounted on feeding station (2) by shield shell connecting rod (81);The shield
Shell (4) is the rounded or square hollow member in section, and shield shell (4) is located at one end on feeding station (2) at it and is provided with just
In the discharge port of discharging;The discharge port goes out to be provided with discharging scraper, and the discharging scraper can will be delivered to the mud of discharge outlet
Soil is wiped off from shield shell (4) discharge outlet.
2. a kind of Novel excavating machine device people according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: the feed mechanism (1) includes feeding
Guide rail (11), the feeding driving mechanism (3) setting in the feeding guide rail (11) end, feeding guide rail (11) its far from into
It is provided with sprocket wheel (12) to one end of driving mechanism (3), is arranged between the sprocket wheel (12) and feeding driving mechanism (3) output end
There is the feed chain (13) for driving feeding station (2) to slide on feeding guide rail (11).
3. a kind of Novel excavating machine device people according to claim 2, it is characterised in that: feeding station (2) the lower part setting
There is feeding pulley (14) of the fit applications on the feeding guide rail (11), feeding station (2) passes through fixing piece and feed chain
(13) it is fixedly connected, the feeding driving mechanism (3) can drive feeding station (2) in feeding guide rail (11) by feed chain (13)
On slidably reciprocate.
4. a kind of Novel excavating machine device people according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: shield shell guiding mechanism (7) packet
Include shield shell leading truck (71), setting shield shell leading truck (71) lower part two mutually matched V-type idler wheels (72) and set
Set the cylindrical roller (73) on the shield shell leading truck (71) top and the cooperation V-type idler wheel (72), the cylindrical roller
(73) the elastic adjusting screw (74) of guiding of adjustable-tightness degree is provided on.
5. a kind of Novel excavating machine device people according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: the chip curl drill bit (5) exists
Its end is provided with detachable cutter.
6. a kind of Novel excavating machine device people according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: the feeding driving mechanism (3) is bored
Head driving mechanism (6) and shield shell vibrating mechanism (8) or electric drive mechanism.
7. a kind of Novel excavating machine device people according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: feed mechanism (1) bottom is set
It is equipped with machine lifting cylinder (9), the machine lifting cylinder (9) can drive the development machine people to rise or fall.
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