CN106617222B - Dry and wet feed crushing mixing integration machine - Google Patents
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Abstract
Description
Technical field
The invention belongs to feed grinder fields, and in particular to a kind of machine being pulverized and mixed dry feed and moist forage together Device.
Background technology
A series of manufacturing procedures involved in feed processing process, conventional feed processing are first to smash feed raw material, Then by after a variety of smash powder or paste be stirred mixing, the greenfeed after being stirred carry out further plus Work, it is to realize that the more wasteful energy increases by two independent device processing usually to smash and be stirred two manufacturing procedures The production cost of the feed added.
The patent of invention of Patent No. ZL201310134794.6 discloses a kind of vertical dry moist forage and is pulverized and mixed one Machine, including the inside and outside cylinder of decelerating motor, screw agitation shaft, mainframe, mixed fodder, asynchronous motor, slave frame, corn flour Broken mechanism, main feed bucket, secondary feed hopper, band support it is pre- stir shaft assembly, shaft assembly and height-adjustable work are stirred in charging, spy Sign is:Screw agitation shaft is vertically set in the middle part of the inside and outside cylinder of mixed fodder, and the upper spindle nose of agitating shaft is pacified by rolling bearing units It on head cover, is connect with decelerating motor by belt, the lower spindle nose of agitating shaft is mounted on by rolling bearing units on bottom cover, is passed through Belt drives the feed paddle axis in major and minor feed hopper to rotate;The corn flour driven by asynchronous motor is provided on slave frame Broken mechanism, the disintegrating mechanism include suction pipe, hammer leaf, sieve, and the first discharge port is connected by secondary feed hopper and mixed fodder outer cylinder It is logical;It is designed with and stirs shaft assembly with the pre- of support, premixed feed can be stirred in advance, to make dry and wet feed can be smoothly Axis is stirred by charging, screw agitation shaft is eventually entered into, to complete the uniform mixing of various dry and wet feeds and additive, and stirs in advance Shaft assembly is adjustable, interchangeable.This simple and reasonable, floor space is small, reduces labor intensity, Operation and maintenance convenience, firm It is durable, it is a kind of vertical dry moist forage crushing mixing integration machine for meeting user's requirement.
The device sets smashed and stirred in a rack, generally or will be smashed and be stirred by above-mentioned invention device It mixes what two processes of mixing separately carried out, and needs manual operation when adding materials;The device can only smash dry feed, lack Function is smashed to moist forage;Screw agitation shaft drives the mode shed after the rising of dry and wet feed to be stirred dry and wet feed, Structure too complex;And the dry and wet mixed fodder after shedding drops into discharge barrel, is easy to stick on discharging barrel, not after an action of the bowels Phase clears up.
Invention content
The invention is intended to provide a kind of dry and wet feed crushing mixing integration machine, processes and stir while to realize dry and wet feed It mixes, it is convenient and efficient.
In order to achieve the above object, base case of the invention is as follows:A kind of dry and wet feed crushing mixing integration machine, including Rack, barrel and stirring grinding device, the barrel are fixedly mounted in rack, and the barrel includes from top to bottom being sequentially connected Processing barrel and discharge barrel, the processing barrel is identical as discharge barrel diameter;It is described processing barrel upper end be equipped with first into The lower end of material mouth, discharge barrel is equipped with the first discharge port;The bottom of the processing barrel is equipped with several through-holes, and processes material tube inner wall It is equipped with several tooth lappings;The stirring grinding device includes spiral grind blade, motor and shaft, the motor installation In the upper end of processing barrel, the power output end of the upper end connection motor of the shaft, lower end and the processing barrel of shaft Bottom surface is rotatablely connected;The spiral grind blade is mounted in shaft, and several grind is equipped on the side of spiral grind blade Roll flute;The screw pitch of the spiral grind blade is from top to bottom sequentially reduced;Further include refrigerating plant, the refrigerating plant fixes peace In processing barrel;The refrigerating plant includes refrigeration machine, accommodates frame and several stirring rods, and the receiving frame is equipped with second Feed inlet and the second discharge port, the position of second charging aperture and the position of first charging aperture are adapted;The stirring rod setting exists It accommodates in frame, and stirring rod is fixedly mounted in shaft.
The principle of base case:When operation, first start motor and refrigeration machine, motor drives shaft to rotate, in shaft The stirring rod and spiral grind blade of installation also rotate simultaneously, and refrigeration machine freezes to frame is accommodated;Then by dry feed and moist forage Raw material put into receiving frame from first charging aperture and second charging aperture, stirring rod stirs dry feed and moist forage, does and raises Material and moist forage are rapidly frozen, and then are hardened and are become fragile;In stirring rod whipping process, dry and wet feed is toggled it into the second discharging At mouthful, dry and wet feed is entered in turn in stirring grinding device;Dry and wet feed is fallen in spiral grind blade, and dry and wet feed is in spiral shell It is moved in rotation grind blade, the tooth lapping being equipped with by spiral grind blade side while mobile is ground, and can also be processed material The tooth lapping grinding that cylinder inner wall is equipped with;When being entered in feed at smaller spiral grind blade, while feed is extruded It is fully ground, the feed after grinding is entered from the through-hole of processing barrel bottom in discharge barrel, and then passes through discharge barrel First discharge outlet flows out, and collects the feed of the first discharge outlet.
The advantages of base case:1, refrigerating plant can allow moist forage to be rapidly frozen, and feed is allowed to become frangible, be easy by spiral shell It revolves grind blade and processes the tooth lapping grinding on cartridge wall, so that the breaking up step of moist forage is become simple and practicable, allow dry feed It can be processed simultaneously with moist forage;The powder formed after grinding is also easy mixing, reaches mixed uniformly purpose;2, spiral is ground Tooth lapping is set on blade, and the screw pitch of the spiral grind blade of spiral setting is gradually smaller, keep spin finishing interlobate away from It from becoming smaller gradually, and then is gradually extruded during feed is fallen downwards, when extruding increases frictional force, and then increases Grinding efficiency;3, stirring rod is that setting allows moist forage directly can by uniform fast-refrigerating, the refrigeration degree of moist forage in refrigeration Influence subsequent grinding efficiency;4, the setting of through-hole can limit the fineness of the feed after grinding, ensure grinding quality;Also It can prevent the feed not being ground from falling.
After being rapidly frozen by dry and wet feed equipped with refrigerating plant in whole device, allows feed to be hardened and become fragile, convenient for stirring Breading crushing device grinds it, and stirring grinding device is ground by dry and wet feed while being moved in spiral grind blade, is reached To the purpose of grinding, stirring and mobile feed, the wherein setting of spiral grind blade screw pitch more can adequately grind dry and wet feed, Achieve the purpose that the qualified feed of screening by through-hole, whole device is driven by motor and shaft, simple and reliable for structure.
Preferred embodiment one:As the preferred embodiment of basic scheme, the shaft and processing barrel, refrigerating plant and stirring powder The junction of crushing device is equipped with rolling bearing.By above-mentioned setting, rolling bearing can allow shaft to keep stable rotation, and It consumes energy in rotation process smaller, rolling bearing has good leakproofness, will not be influenced by dry and wet feed.
Preferred embodiment two:Preferably one preferred embodiment further includes material scraping plate, the upper end of the material scraping plate with turn The lower end of axis is fixedly connected, and the lower end of material scraping plate is free end, and the side of material scraping plate is contacted with discharging barrel, in the discharge barrel It is set as funnel-form.By above-mentioned setting, scraper plate can clear up remaining feeding on through-hole and discharge barrel inner wall in rotation process Material allows discharge barrel to be unanimously in clean state, moreover it is possible to realize quickly discharging;And one end of scraper plate is directly connect with shaft, directly It connects and drives scraper plate to rotate using the rotation of shaft, reduce power cost.
Preferred embodiment three:Preferably two preferred embodiment, the spiral grind blade are left-handed, the motor Shaft is driven to rotate clockwise.By above-mentioned setting, the feed in spiral grind blade can be allowed to be moved to the small part of screw pitch, spiral shell Left-handed and rotation the motor of rotation grind blade advances downwardly feed, and feed is allowed by abrasive action during propulsion Feed is squeezed in process of lapping, improves grinding efficiency.
Preferred embodiment four:Preferably two preferred embodiment, the spiral grind blade are dextrorotation, the motor Shaft is driven to rotate counterclockwise.By above-mentioned setting, dextrorotation, the rotation direction of corresponding motor also may be selected in helical blade Selection rotates counterclockwise, and ensures the propulsion of feed, promotes grinding efficiency.
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Fig. 1 is the structural schematic diagram of dry and wet feed crushing mixing integration machine embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the spiral grind blade vertical view of this Fig. 1.
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Below by specific implementation mode, the present invention is described in further detail:
Reference numeral in Figure of description includes:Rack 10, rolling bearing 201, shaft 202, adds reversible motor 20 Labor and materials cylinder 30, first charging aperture 301, through-hole 302, refrigerating plant 40, second charging aperture 401, the second discharge port 402, stirring rod 403, refrigeration machine 404, spiral grind blade 50, tooth lapping 501, discharge barrel 60, the first discharge port 601, material scraping plate 602.
Embodiment is substantially as shown shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2:A kind of dry and wet feed crushing mixing integration machine, including rack 10, plus Labor and materials cylinder 30, discharge barrel 60, reversible motor 20, shaft 202, refrigerating plant 40 and stirring grinding device.It is perpendicular to process barrel 30 It is directly fixedly mounted in rack 10, the upper end of discharge barrel 60 is fixedly connected with the lower end of processing barrel 30;Process the upper of barrel 30 End is equipped with first charging aperture 301, and the lower end of discharge barrel 60 is equipped with the first discharge port 601.Process the shell of 30 lower end base of barrel Upper annular is provided with the circular through hole 302 of several a diameter of 1cm, can carry out a control to the degree of grinding of feed, filter out Feed after grinding.
Reversible motor 20 is fixedly mounted on the upper end of processing barrel 30, and the upper end of shaft 202 connects reversible motor 20 Power output end, the lower end of shaft 202 and the bottom shell of processing barrel 30 be rotatablely connected, and realizes the reliable transmission of power; Discharge barrel 60 is set as funnel-form, and in discharge barrel 60 in set that there are one material scraping plate 602, the inside of material scraping plate 602 and discharge barrel 60 Shape is consistent;The upper end of material scraping plate 602 is fixedly connected with the lower end of shaft 202, and 602 lower end of material scraping plate is free end, material scraping plate 602 can be cleared up and be exported to residual feed, and funnelform discharge barrel 60 is convenient for collecting feed after processing is completed.
Refrigerating plant 40 is fixedly mounted in processing barrel 30, and positioned at the top of processing barrel 30, and setting in this way is realized First freeze the process ground afterwards;Refrigerating plant 40 includes refrigeration machine 404, accommodates frame and several stirring rods 403, accommodates frame upper end and sets There is the second charging aperture 401 Chong Die with first charging aperture 301, the lower end for accommodating frame is equipped with the second discharge port 402;Stirring rod 403 Setting is accommodating in frame, and stirring rod 403 is fixedly mounted in shaft 202, and stirring rod 403 allows moist forage uniformly quickly to be made It is cold, accelerate processing efficiency;Refrigeration machine 404, which is mounted on, to be accommodated in frame, facilitates realization fast-refrigerating, moist forage is allowed quickly to become cirrhosis It is crisp, facilitate grinding, dry feed and moist forage can be processed simultaneously.
It stirs grinding device to be mounted in processing barrel 30, stirring grinding device is spiral grind blade 50, spiral grinding Blade 50 is mounted in a manner of left-handed in shaft 202, and several tooth lappings are equipped in the upper and lower surface of spiral grind blade 50 501, it processes on 30 inner wall of barrel and also is provided with several tooth lappings 501;The upper end of spiral grind blade 50 is to spiral grind blade 50 Lower end, the screw pitch of spiral grind blade 50 uniformly reduces.
In addition, shaft 202 and the junction of processing barrel 30, refrigerating plant 40 and stirring grinding device are equipped with the axis of rolling 201 are held, ensures the stable rotation of shaft 202, and the consuming little energy in rotation process.
In the present embodiment, when operation, first start motor and refrigeration machine 404, motor drives shaft 202 to rotate, shaft Stirring rod 403, spiral grind blade 50 and the material scraping plate 602 installed on 202 also while rotating, and refrigeration machine 404 is accommodating in frame Refrigeration;Then dry feed and moist forage have been put into from first charging aperture 301 and second charging aperture 401 in receiving frame together, Stirring rod 403 stirs dry feed and moist forage, and dry feed and moist forage are rapidly frozen, and then are hardened and are become fragile;In stirring rod 403 In whipping process, dry and wet feed is toggled it at the second discharge port 402, dry and wet feed is entered in turn in stirring grinding device; Dry and wet feed is fallen in spiral grind blade 50, and dry and wet feed moves in spiral grind blade 50, by spiral while mobile The tooth lapping 501 that 50 side of grind blade is equipped with is ground, and can be also processed the tooth lapping 501 that 30 inner wall of barrel is equipped with and be ground Mill;The constantly rotation in the process of shaft 202, the rotation direction of the steering cooperation spiral grind blade 50 of shaft 202, spiral grind leaf Feed is pushed at the smaller spiral grind blade 50 of screw pitch by piece 50, and feed is extruded at this time, feed quilt while being extruded It is fully ground;Feed after grinding is entered from the through-hole 302 of 30 bottom of processing barrel in discharge barrel 60, and a feed part is straight It connects from the first discharge port 601 and drops out, another part remains at through-hole 302 or on the inner wall of discharge barrel 60, at this time material scraping plate Remaining feed on 602 rotation cleaning through-holes 302 and 60 inner wall of discharge barrel, feed are directed at the first discharge port 601;All feedings It is flowed out at the first discharge port 601 that material passes through discharge barrel 60, collects the feed at the first discharge port 601.
Above-described is only the embodiment of the present invention, and the common sense such as well known concrete structure and/or characteristic are herein in scheme It does not describe excessively.It should be pointed out that for those skilled in the art, without departing from the structure of the invention, also Several modifications and improvements can be made, these should also be considered as protection scope of the present invention, these all do not interfere with of the invention real The effect and patent practicability applied.The scope of protection required by this application should be based on the content of the claims, specification In the records such as specific implementation mode can be used for explaining the content of claim.
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