CN108217069B - Automatic control prevent spilling material lifting machine - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses an automatic control material scattering prevention elevator, which comprises: box, link joint subassembly, hopper subassembly and actuating mechanism, wherein: the box body is provided with a discharge port and a feeding port; the chain plate assembly is driven by the driving mechanism to circularly convey from the feeding port to the discharging port, and comprises a first driving wheel, a second driving wheel and a chain plate; the hopper assembly comprises an installation plate arranged on the chain plate and a hopper positioned on one side of the installation plate away from the chain plate; the mounting plate is provided with a telescopic mechanism and a rotating shaft; the lower edge of the hopper is rotationally connected with the rotating shaft, and the top edge of the hopper is connected with the telescopic end of the telescopic mechanism; the first in-place sensor and the second in-place sensor are arranged in the box body, when the telescopic mechanism moves to the first in-place sensor, the telescopic mechanism conducts forward extending action, and when the telescopic mechanism moves to the second in-place sensor, the telescopic mechanism contracts and resets. The automatic material spreading device can effectively solve the problem of material spreading of the hopper in the discharging process, and is high in automation degree.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of grain processing equipment, in particular to an automatic control material scattering prevention elevator.
Background
The bucket elevator is a mechanical conveying equipment with fixing device, mainly applicable to continuously and vertically lifting powdery, granular and small-sized materials, and can be widely applied to lifting bulk materials of various scales of feed mills, flour mills, rice mills, oil mills, starch mills, grain depots, port docks and the like. However, due to the structural limitation of the elevator, a certain distance is always kept between the discharge opening of the elevator and the running track of the hopper, so that part of the materials always fall out from the gap in the discharging process of the hopper.
Disclosure of Invention
Based on the technical problems in the prior art, the invention provides an automatic control material scattering prevention elevator.
The invention provides an automatic control material scattering prevention elevator, which comprises: box, link joint subassembly, hopper subassembly and actuating mechanism, wherein:
a discharge opening is formed in one side, close to the top end, of the box body, and a feeding opening is formed in the bottom end of the box body;
the chain plate assembly is positioned in the box body and is driven by the driving mechanism to circularly convey from the feeding port to the discharging port, and the chain plate assembly comprises a first driving wheel positioned on one side of the discharging port, a second driving wheel positioned on one side of the feeding port and a chain plate connected with the first driving wheel and the second driving wheel;
the hopper assembly comprises a mounting plate and a hopper; the mounting plate is mounted on the chain plate, the mounting plate is provided with a telescopic mechanism capable of automatically stretching and retracting in the direction away from the chain plate, and a rotating shaft rotatably assembled with the telescopic mechanism is arranged on the side surface of the mounting plate, which is away from one side of the chain plate, and is positioned below the telescopic mechanism; the extending direction of the rotating shaft is vertical to the stretching direction of the stretching mechanism;
the hopper is positioned on one side of the mounting plate, which is far away from the chain plate, the bottom edge of one side of the hopper, which is close to the mounting plate, is rotatably connected with the rotating shaft, and the top edge of one side of the hopper, which is close to the mounting plate, is connected with the telescopic end of the telescopic mechanism;
the inside top that just is located the discharge opening of box is equipped with the first sensor that targets in place, and the inside one side that just is located the discharge opening and is close to its lower limb of box is equipped with the second sensor that targets in place, and when telescopic machanism moved to the first sensor department that targets in place, this telescopic machanism carried out the protraction action, and when telescopic machanism moved to the second sensor department that targets in place, this telescopic machanism shrink and reset.
Preferably, a sound insulation layer is arranged between the inner wall and the outer wall of the box body.
Preferably, a concave area which is concave towards the direction far away from the hopper is arranged on the side surface of the mounting plate, which is close to one side of the hopper; the orthographic projection of the hopper on the mounting plate is positioned in the depressed area, and the telescopic mechanism is fixedly mounted at the bottom of the depressed area.
Preferably, the mounting plate is provided with a mounting opening for mounting the telescopic mechanism.
Preferably, the telescopic mechanism is an electric telescopic rod and is horizontally arranged on one side of the mounting plate, one end of the electric telescopic rod is fixed with the mounting plate, and the other end of the electric telescopic rod is fixed with the port edge of the hopper.
According to the invention, the telescopic mechanism capable of performing telescopic action and the rotating shaft rotatably assembled with the telescopic mechanism are arranged on the mounting plate, the bottom edge of the hopper is rotatably connected with the rotating shaft, and the top edge of the hopper is connected with the telescopic end of the telescopic mechanism, so that the hopper can be pushed to rotate around the rotating shaft when the telescopic mechanism performs telescopic action, and the inclination angle of the hopper can be adjusted. Meanwhile, a first in-place sensor is arranged in the box body and above the discharge opening, a second in-place sensor is arranged on one side of the discharge opening close to the lower edge of the discharge opening, and when the telescopic mechanism moves to the first in-place sensor, the first in-place sensor controls the telescopic mechanism to extend forwards so as to push the hopper to rotate towards the discharge opening, so that the opening of the hopper is positioned above the discharge opening, and materials are prevented from being scattered when the hopper discharges materials; when the telescopic mechanism moves to the position of the second in-place sensor, the telescopic mechanism contracts and resets, so that the hopper can smoothly cross over the discharge port to continue moving downwards. Consequently, the problem that the hopper spills the material appears owing to the clearance between hopper port and the lifting machine discharge gate in the in-process of unloading can effectively be solved in the setting of this lifting machine structure, and degree of automation is high.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an automatic control material scattering prevention elevator provided by the invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of the hopper in an ascending state in the automatic control scattering prevention hoister provided by the invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an automatic control scattering prevention hoister in a discharging state.
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The technical solution of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to specific examples.
As shown in fig. 1-3, fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an automatic control scattering prevention elevator according to the present invention; fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of the hopper in an ascending state in the automatic control scattering prevention hoister provided by the invention; fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an automatic control scattering prevention hoister in a discharging state.
Referring to fig. 1 to 3, an automatic control scattering prevention elevator provided in an embodiment of the present invention includes: box 1, link joint subassembly 2, hopper subassembly 3 and actuating mechanism, wherein: one side of the box body 1 close to the top end is provided with a discharge opening, and the bottom end of the box body is provided with a feeding opening. The chain plate assembly 2 is positioned in the box body 1 and driven by a driving mechanism to circularly convey from the feeding opening to the discharging opening, and the chain plate assembly 2 comprises a first driving wheel 21 positioned on one side of the discharging opening, a second driving wheel 22 positioned on one side of the feeding opening, and a chain plate 23 connected with the first driving wheel 21 and the second driving wheel 22. The hopper assembly 3 comprises a mounting plate 31 and a hopper 32; the mounting plate 31 is mounted on the chain plate 23, the mounting plate 31 is provided with a telescopic mechanism 4 capable of automatically stretching and retracting in the direction away from the chain plate 23, and a rotating shaft 5 which is rotatably assembled with the telescopic mechanism 4 is arranged on the side surface of the mounting plate 31 on the side away from the chain plate 23 and below the telescopic mechanism 4; the extending direction of the rotating shaft 5 is vertical to the telescopic direction of the telescopic mechanism 4; the hopper 32 is positioned on the side of the mounting plate 31 far away from the chain plate 23, the bottom edge of the side of the hopper 32 close to the mounting plate 31 is rotatably connected with the rotating shaft 5, and the top edge of the side of the hopper 32 close to the mounting plate 31 is connected with the telescopic end of the telescopic mechanism 4.
Inside and the top that is located the discharge opening of box 1 is equipped with first sensor 6 that targets in place, and the inside and one side that is located the discharge opening and is close to its lower limb of box 1 is equipped with the second sensor 7 that targets in place, and when telescopic machanism 4 moved to first sensor 6 department that targets in place, this telescopic machanism 4 carried out the protraction action, when telescopic machanism 4 moved sensor 7 department that targets in place to the second, this telescopic machanism 4 shrink and reset.
The invention works as follows: the telescopic mechanism 4 capable of performing telescopic action and the rotating shaft 5 rotatably assembled with the telescopic mechanism are arranged on the mounting plate 31, the bottom edge of the hopper 32 is rotatably connected with the rotating shaft 5, and the top edge of the hopper 32 is connected with the telescopic end of the telescopic mechanism 4, so that the telescopic mechanism 4 can push the hopper 32 to rotate around the rotating shaft 5 when performing telescopic action, and the inclination angle of the hopper 32 can be adjusted. Meanwhile, a first in-place sensor 6 is arranged in the box body 1 and above the discharge opening, a second in-place sensor 7 is arranged on one side of the discharge opening close to the lower edge of the discharge opening, and when the telescopic mechanism 4 moves to the position of the first in-place sensor 6, the first in-place sensor 6 controls the telescopic mechanism 4 to extend forwards so as to push the hopper 32 to rotate towards the direction of the discharge opening, so that the opening of the hopper 32 is positioned above the discharge opening, and the material is prevented from being scattered when the hopper 32 discharges; when the telescoping mechanism 4 is moved to the second position sensor 7, the telescoping mechanism 4 is retracted and reset, so that the hopper 32 can smoothly pass over the discharge opening and continue moving downwards.
By last knowing, the problem that hopper 32 spills the material because the clearance between 32 ports of hopper and the lifting machine discharge gate appears in the in-process of unloading can effectively be solved in the setting of this lifting machine structure, and degree of automation is high.
In this embodiment, a sound insulation layer is provided between the inner and outer walls of the box body 1, so that the box body 1 has a good sound insulation effect.
In this embodiment, a side surface of the mounting plate 31 close to the hopper 32 is provided with a concave area which is concave towards a direction far away from the hopper 32; the orthographic projection of the hopper 32 on the mounting plate 31 is positioned in the recessed area, and the telescopic mechanism 4 is fixedly mounted at the bottom of the recessed area. The setting of this structure can increase telescopic machanism 4 to the adjustment of the inclination of hopper 32 to make hopper 32 incline to the inboard direction of mounting panel 31, so that hopper 32 has good straightness that hangs down between promotion stage and horizontal plane, so that hopper 32 is more steady in service, thereby can effectively avoid hopper 32 at the lift in-process, the material spills in the hopper.
In this embodiment, the mounting plate 31 is provided with a mounting opening. The installation telescopic mechanism 4 is placed in the installation opening and fixed.
In this embodiment, the telescopic mechanism 4 is an electric telescopic rod and is horizontally disposed on one side of the mounting plate 31, and one end of the electric telescopic rod is fixed to the mounting plate 31, and the other end thereof is fixed to the port side of the hopper 32.
The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art should be considered to be within the technical scope of the present invention, and the technical solutions and the inventive concepts thereof according to the present invention should be equivalent or changed within the scope of the present invention.
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1. The utility model provides an automatic material lifting machine is prevented spilling of control which characterized in that includes: box (1), link joint subassembly (2), hopper subassembly (3) and actuating mechanism, wherein:
a discharge opening is formed in one side, close to the top end, of the box body (1), and a feeding opening is formed in the bottom end of the box body;
the chain plate assembly (2) is positioned in the box body (1) and is driven by a driving mechanism to circularly convey from the feeding port to the discharging port, and the chain plate assembly (2) comprises a first driving wheel (21) positioned on one side of the discharging port, a second driving wheel (22) positioned on one side of the feeding port and a chain plate (23) connected with the first driving wheel (21) and the second driving wheel (22);
the hopper assembly (3) comprises a mounting plate (31) and a hopper (32); the mounting plate (31) is mounted on the chain plate (23), the mounting plate (31) is provided with a telescopic mechanism (4) capable of automatically stretching and retracting in the direction away from the chain plate (23), and a rotating shaft (5) which is rotatably assembled with the telescopic mechanism (4) is arranged on the side surface of the mounting plate (31) on one side away from the chain plate (23) and is positioned below the telescopic mechanism (4); the extension direction of the rotating shaft (5) is vertical to the extension direction of the extension mechanism (4);
the hopper (32) is positioned on one side of the mounting plate (31) far away from the chain plate (23), the bottom edge of one side of the hopper (32) close to the mounting plate (31) is rotatably connected with the rotating shaft (5), and the top edge of one side of the hopper (32) close to the mounting plate (31) is connected with the telescopic end of the telescopic mechanism (4);
inside and the top that is located the discharge opening of box (1) is equipped with first sensor (6) that targets in place, and inside and the one side that is located the discharge opening and is close to its lower limb of box (1) is equipped with second sensor (7) that targets in place, and when telescopic machanism (4) moved to first sensor (6) department that targets in place, this telescopic machanism (4) carry out the protraction action, when telescopic machanism (4) moved to second sensor (7) department that targets in place, this telescopic machanism (4) shrink and reset.
2. The automatic control scattering prevention hoister according to claim 1, characterized in that a sound insulation layer is arranged between the inner and outer walls of the box body (1).
3. The automatically controlled material scattering prevention hoister according to claim 1, characterized in that the side surface of the mounting plate (31) close to the hopper (32) is provided with a concave area which is concave in the direction away from the hopper (32); the orthographic projection of the hopper (32) on the mounting plate (31) is positioned in the depressed area, and the telescopic mechanism (4) is fixedly mounted at the bottom of the depressed area.
4. The automatically controlled material scattering prevention hoister according to claim 1, characterized in that the mounting plate (31) is provided with a mounting opening for mounting the telescoping mechanism (4).
5. The automatically controlled spill-proof elevator according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the telescoping mechanism (4) is an electric telescopic rod and is horizontally arranged on one side of the mounting plate (31), and one end of the electric telescopic rod is fixed with the mounting plate (31) and the other end is fixed with the port edge of the hopper (32).
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