CN107640660B - Openable and closable guide roller device for well frame - Google Patents
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The invention discloses an openable and closable cross frame guide roller device, which comprises a guide roller assembly, an openable and closable arm, a gear transmission assembly, a power assembly and a gear box; one end of the main shaft of the guide roller assembly is fixedly connected with a waist hole at one end of the opening and closing arm; the other end of the opening and closing arm is connected with a gear of the gear transmission assembly and is controlled by the power assembly, so that the opening and closing arm can swing within the angle range of 0-180 degrees and respectively drive the axial lead of the guide roller assembly to alternately switch on two phases of closing/opening; the gear assembly is mounted within the gear box with at least one gear connected or meshed with the power assembly. The invention realizes instant automatic avoidance of the spider, has simple structure, low cost and high reliability, reduces the labor intensity of workers and improves the work efficiency.
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Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of continuous processing equipment in the wire and pipe industry, and particularly relates to a guide and limit device for an openable and closable derrick.
Background
At present, in the manufacturing industries of wires, cables, radiation crosslinking heat shrinkage tubes and the like, a device for guiding wires or tubes and limiting the wires or tubes is needed, and two pairs of parallel rollers are generally used for mutually and vertically stacking to form a cross frame mechanism, which has the defects that: the axial leads of each pair of parallel rollers are always in a parallel state, and only the distance between the axial leads of the parallel rollers can be adjusted; in the coiling and uncoiling process, if a spider is encountered, interference is generated in space and the spider cannot be avoided, and the machine is usually required to stop and manually reciprocate for threading so as to skip the cross frame to continue working. Avoiding the complex operation of the spider, especially making the continuity and stability of the traction tension of the freshly extruded blank pipeline worsen, not only reducing the automation level and production efficiency of the whole production line, but also more importantly causing the linkage effects of the stretching of the blank pipeline, the difference of the high molecular orientation degree, the difference of the absorption efficiency of the radiation dose and the like, and finally affecting the quality of the product.
Therefore, it is necessary to invent a guide roller device of a retractable derrick.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the defects of complicated guide, limit and avoidance of the conventional well frame mechanism, the invention designs the axial lead of each pair of rollers of the well frame to have two phases which can be switched mutually by only one parallel closed phase, the closed/opened phases are switched by means of an on-line detection spider device and a control system, the spider can be freely avoided when the axial lead of each pair of rollers is adjusted to be opened, the limit state can be restored when the axial lead of each pair of rollers is adjusted to be closed, the machine only needs to be stopped briefly, and the traction tension of a pipeline can be kept constant. The details of the invention are as follows:
an openable and closable derrick guide roller device, comprising: the device comprises a pair of guide roller assemblies I, a pair of guide roller assemblies II, two opening and closing arms alpha, two opening and closing arms beta, a set of gear transmission assemblies, a power assembly and a gear box; one end of the main shaft of the guide roller assembly I is fixedly connected with a waist hole at one end of the opening and closing arm alpha; one end of the main shaft of the guide roller assembly II is fixedly connected with a waist hole at one end of the opening and closing arm beta; the guide roller assembly I and the guide roller assembly II are sometimes in an intersecting and laminated structure; the other ends of the opening and closing arms alpha and beta are respectively connected with gears of the gear transmission assembly and controlled by the power assembly, can swing within the angle range of 0-180 degrees, and respectively drive the axial leads of each pair of guide rollers of the guide roller assembly I and the guide roller assembly II to alternately switch on two phases of closing/opening; the gear assembly is mounted within a gear box with at least one gear connected or meshed with a power assembly.
Further, the guide roller assembly I comprises a main shaft, a guide wheel, a bearing and a clamping ring, wherein the bearing is sleeved on the main shaft, the guide wheel is sleeved on the outer circle of the bearing and is locked and fixed into a whole through the clamping ring and a fastening piece; the structure of the guide roller assembly II is the same as that of the guide roller assembly I; the included angle of each double guide wheel of the guide roller assembly is a closed phase when the included angle is in the range of 0-45 degrees, and is an open phase when the included angle is in the range of 46-180 degrees.
Further, the folding arm adopts a folding rod structure, and waist-shaped through holes are respectively formed in one ends of the folding arm alpha and the folding arm beta, and are used for adjusting the distance between the axial leads of each pair of guide wheels of the guide roller assembly I and the guide roller assembly II, and the other ends of the folding arm alpha and the folding arm beta are respectively fixedly connected with gears of the gear transmission assembly and controlled by the power assembly, so that the folding arm can swing.
Further, the gear transmission assembly comprises four gears, the gears are meshed in sequence from head to tail and are arranged in the gear box, and the gears can rotate in the forward and reverse directions according to a set angle under the drive of the power assembly.
Further, the power unit comprises any one of a motor and a coupling, or an electric cylinder, an air cylinder, a hydraulic cylinder and the like which are matched with a rack, wherein an output shaft of the motor is connected with a gear extension shaft of the gear transmission assembly through the coupling, or a piston rod of the electric cylinder, the air cylinder and the hydraulic cylinder is connected with the rack, and the rack is meshed with a gear of the gear transmission assembly; the specific rotation angle of the gear and the swing angle of the opening and closing arm are set by a control system, or the stroke of the air cylinder is set by the control system.
The invention relates to an openable and closable cross frame guide roller device, which has the beneficial technical effects that:
(1) each pair of guide roller assemblies can realize the alternate switching of two phases of instant closing/opening, and can realize the automatic avoidance of a lapel in real time while guiding and limiting under the linkage cooperation of an optical detector and a control system.
(2) The structure is simple, the manufacturing cost is low, and the reliability is high;
(3) reduces the labor intensity and improves the work efficiency.
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FIG. 1 is a left side view of an embodiment of a retractable derrick guide roller assembly of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a right side view of an embodiment of a retractable derrick guide roller assembly of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of a partial anatomic view of an embodiment of the guide roller assembly of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a front view of a partial dissection of a gear assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of two phases of a foldable cross guide roller device.
In fig. 1 to 4, parts or components having the same functions and the same structures are given the same reference numerals, and reference numerals of structural members at symmetrical positions or at the same series of positions are omitted for simplicity of the drawing:
10-guide roller assembly I, 20-guide roller assembly II, 30-opening and closing arm alpha, 31-waist-shaped through hole alpha,
32-arm α; 40-opening and closing arm beta, 41-waist-shaped through holes beta, 42-arm rods beta;
50-transmission assembly, 51-gear A, 52-gear B, 53-gear C,
54-gear D; 60-power assembly, 61-rack and 62-cylinder;
70-gear box, 71-screw, 72-cover, 73-box,
74-support plate.
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In order to describe the technical content, the constructional features, the achieved objects and the effects of the openable and closable derrick guide roller device in detail, the following description is further given with reference to the embodiments and the drawings thereof.
As shown in fig. 1 to 4, an embodiment of an openable and closable derrick guide roller device of the present invention is disclosed, comprising: a pair of guide roller assemblies I10 in the horizontal direction, a pair of guide roller assemblies II 20 in the vertical direction, two opening and closing arms alpha 30, two opening and closing arms beta 40, a transmission assembly 50 formed by four gears, a group of power assemblies 60 formed by racks 61 and cylinders 62 and a gear box 70; one end of the main shaft 11 of the guide roller assembly I10 is fixedly connected with the waist hole 31 at one end of the opening and closing arm alpha 30, and correspondingly, one end of the main shaft of the guide roller assembly II 20 is fixedly connected with the waist hole at one end of the opening and closing arm beta 40; the guide roller assembly I10 and the guide roller assembly II 20 are sometimes in a phase of being mutually crossed and laminated into a cross shape; as shown in fig. 4, the other end of the opening and closing arm α30 is connected to the gear a 51 of the gear transmission assembly 50, and the other end of the opening and closing arm β40 is connected to the gear D54 of the gear transmission assembly 50; the arm lever alpha 32 of the opening and closing arm alpha 30 is driven by the gear A51 to swing within the angle range of 0-180 degrees, the specific swinging angle is controlled by the stroke of the control system setting cylinder 62, and the axial leads of the pair of guide roller assemblies I10 are alternately switched on the two phases of closing/opening by the pair of arm levers alpha 32; correspondingly, the included angle of the arm lever beta 42 of the opening and closing arm beta 40 is driven by the gear D54, the swinging can be carried out within the angle range of 0-180 degrees, the specific swinging angle is the same as that of the arm lever alpha 32, and the axial leads of the pair of guide roller assemblies II 20 are alternately switched on the two phases of closing/opening by the pair of arm levers beta 42; gear a 51, gear B52, gear C53, gear D54 of gear assembly 50 are meshed in sequence end to end and are mounted within gear box 70 with gear D54 meshed with rack 61 of power assembly 60.
As shown in fig. 3, the guide roller assembly i 10 is composed of a main shaft 11, a guide wheel 12, a bearing 13 and a clamping ring 14, wherein the bearing 13 is sleeved on the main shaft 11, the guide wheel sleeve 12 is arranged on the outer circle of the bearing 13, and is locked and fixed into a whole through the clamping ring 14 and a fastener; the guide roller assembly II 20 has the same structure and the same size as the guide roller assembly I10.
As shown in fig. 1, 2 and 4, a pair of opening and closing arms α30 adopts an L-shaped folding rod structure, one end of the opening and closing arm α30 is provided with a kidney-shaped through hole α31 for adjusting the distance between the axial leads of each pair of guide wheels 12 of the guide roller assembly i 10, and the other end of the opening and closing arm α30 is respectively connected and fixed with a gear a 51 and a gear B52 of the gear transmission assembly 50 and can swing under the control of the power assembly 60; the pair of opening and closing arms beta 40 also adopts an L-shaped folding rod structure, one end of the opening and closing arm beta 40 is provided with a waist-shaped through hole beta 41 for adjusting the distance between the axial leads of each pair of guide wheels of the guide roller assembly II 20, and the other end of the pair of opening and closing arms beta 40 is respectively connected and fixed with a gear C53 and a gear D54 of the gear transmission assembly 50 and can swing respectively under the control of the power assembly 60.
As further shown in fig. 4, the gear assembly 50 further includes four gears a 51, B52, C53, D54, the end faces of which are all in the same plane, and are meshed end to end in sequence and mounted in the gear box 70.
As further shown in fig. 4, the power assembly 60 is formed by a rack 61 and a cylinder 62, wherein a piston rod of the cylinder 62 is fixedly connected with the rack 61, and saw teeth on the rack 61 are meshed with the gear D54 of the gear assembly 50.
As shown in fig. 1, the gear case 70 is composed of a screw 71, an enclosure 72, a case 73, and a support plate 74, the enclosure 72 is fixed to a port of the case 73 by the screw 71, and a mounting hole is left in the bottom of the support plate 74 for supporting the case 73 and integrally mounted to the frame.
The operating principle of the embodiment of the openable and closable cross frame guide roller device is as follows:
(1) As shown in fig. 4 and 5, the cylinder 62 of the power assembly 60 is inflated, the piston rod is ejected outwards, the rack 61 on the piston rod is pushed to move upwards, and the rack 61 is meshed with the gear D54 to drive the adjacent gears a 51, B52 and C53 to synchronously rotate, so that the guide roller assembly i 10 is driven to rotate together by the opening and closing arm α30, the guide roller assembly ii 20 is driven to rotate together by the opening and closing arm β40, the closed phase is achieved, and the guide roller assembly i 10 and the guide roller assembly ii 20 are in a cross state.
(2) On the contrary, as shown in fig. 5, the piston of the cylinder 62 is retracted inwards to drive the rack 61 on the piston rod to move downwards, and the rack 61 is meshed with the gear D54 to drive the adjacent gears a 51, B52 and C53 to mesh and rotate reversely synchronously, so that the guide roller assembly i 10 is driven to rotate reversely together by the opening and closing arm α30, and the guide roller assembly ii 20 is driven to rotate reversely together by the opening and closing arm β40, so as to achieve the "open" phase.
The embodiment of the openable and closable cross frame guide roller device has the beneficial technical effects that:
(1) the device can realize guiding and limiting and simultaneously realize instant automatic avoidance of the lapel;
(2) the structure is simple, the manufacturing cost is low, and the reliability is high;
(3) reduces the labor intensity and improves the work efficiency.
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1. The utility model provides a but well word frame deflector roll device that opens and shuts which characterized in that includes: the device comprises a pair of guide roller assemblies I, a pair of guide roller assemblies II, two opening and closing arms alpha, two opening and closing arms beta, a set of gear transmission assemblies, a power assembly and a gear box; one end of the main shaft of the guide roller assembly I is fixedly connected with a waist hole at one end of the opening and closing arm alpha; one end of the main shaft of the guide roller assembly II is fixedly connected with a waist hole at one end of the opening and closing arm beta; the guide roller assembly I and the guide roller assembly II are sometimes in an intersecting and laminated structure; the other ends of the opening and closing arms alpha and beta are respectively connected with gears of the gear transmission assembly and controlled by the power assembly, can swing within the angle range of 0-180 degrees, and respectively drive the axial leads of each pair of guide rollers of the guide roller assembly I and the guide roller assembly II to alternately switch on two phases of closing/opening; the gear assembly is mounted within the gear box with at least one gear connected or meshed with the power assembly; the folding arm adopts a folding rod structure, and waist-shaped through holes are respectively formed at one ends of the folding arm alpha and the folding arm beta, and are used for adjusting the distance between the axial leads of each pair of guide wheels of the guide roller assembly I and the guide roller assembly II, and the other ends of the folding arm alpha and the folding arm beta are respectively fixedly connected with gears of the gear transmission assembly and controlled by the power assembly, so that the folding arm can swing;
the deflector roll subassembly I includes: the main shaft, the guide wheel, the bearing and the snap ring are sleeved on the main shaft, the guide wheel is sleeved on the outer circle of the bearing and locked and fixed into a whole through the snap ring and the fastener; the structure of the guide roller assembly II is the same as that of the guide roller assembly I; the included angle of each double guide wheel of the guide roller assembly is a closed phase when the included angle is in the range of 0-45 degrees, and is an open phase when the included angle is in the range of 46-180 degrees.
2. The guide roller device according to claim 1, wherein: the gear transmission assembly comprises four gears, is meshed in sequence from head to tail and is arranged in the gear box, and the gear transmission assembly is driven by the power assembly to rotate in the forward and reverse directions according to a set angle.
3. The guide roller device according to claim 1, wherein: the power assembly comprises a motor and a coupler which are connected in a matched mode, or any one of an electric cylinder, an air cylinder and a hydraulic cylinder which are matched with a rack, wherein an output shaft of the motor is connected with a gear extension shaft of the gear transmission assembly through the coupler, or a piston rod of the electric cylinder, the air cylinder and the hydraulic cylinder is connected with the rack, and the rack is meshed with a gear of the gear transmission assembly.
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