CN108481195A - Gear fixing device - Google Patents

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CN108481195A
CN108481195A CN201810275365.3A CN201810275365A CN108481195A CN 108481195 A CN108481195 A CN 108481195A CN 201810275365 A CN201810275365 A CN 201810275365A CN 108481195 A CN108481195 A CN 108481195A
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24BMACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS
    • B24B41/00Component parts such as frames, beds, carriages, headstocks
    • B24B41/06Work supports, e.g. adjustable steadies
    • B24B41/067Work supports, e.g. adjustable steadies radially supporting workpieces
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23FMAKING GEARS OR TOOTHED RACKS
    • B23F23/00Accessories or equipment combined with or arranged in, or specially designed to form part of, gear-cutting machines
    • B23F23/02Loading, unloading or chucking arrangements for workpieces
    • B23F23/06Chucking arrangements

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Abstract

A kind of gear fixing device provided by the invention, including circular chuck and the clamping piece to fixed gear;The side of the chuck is diametrically provided with groove, and the other side is equipped with central shaft;The clamping piece includes gear shaft, sleeve and swelling component;Described gear shaft one end is provided with boss, and the other end is slidably mounted in groove;The gear shaft is detachably connected with chuck;The boss is circumferentially provided with multiple through slot;The swelling component is slidably mounted in slot;The bush outer sleeve is on gear shaft, and the sleeve is threadedly coupled by end-face helical with swelling component.Gear fixing device provided by the invention when clamping gear, does not contact the gear teeth of gear, prevents from scratching gear, improves the quality of Gear Processing.

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Gear fixing device
Technical field
The present invention relates to gear machining technology fields, and in particular to a kind of gear fixing device.
Background technology
Gear drive is common a kind of kind of drive in people's life, and application is very extensive, some gear applying working conditions It is especially severe, it is desirable that it is continuous be hit power, vibration and overload in the case of run, and service life require 15 years with On, to the reliability of gear, more stringent requirements are proposed in this way, therefore higher requirements are also raised to the polishing of gear processing.
The gear teeth and endoporus are machined on usual gear, the polishing processing of gear includes mainly being carried out to gear face and the gear teeth Polishing processing.When carrying out polishing processing to gear, need that gear is fixed.When polishing gear face end face, often By direct geared clamping on polishing workbench, rotary-grinding workbench completes the polishing of gear, when clamping, fixture directly with The tooth contact of gear be easy to cause gear teeth scratching, influences Gear Processing quality and application.
Invention content
For the defects in the prior art, gear fixing device provided by the invention when clamping gear, does not contact gear The gear teeth prevent from scratching gear, improve the quality of Gear Processing.
A kind of gear fixing device provided by the invention, including circular chuck and the clamping piece to fixed gear; The side of the chuck is diametrically provided with groove, and the other side is equipped with central shaft;
The clamping piece includes gear shaft, sleeve and swelling component;Described gear shaft one end is provided with boss, and the other end can be slided Dynamic installation is in the trench;The gear shaft is detachably connected with chuck;The boss is circumferentially provided with multiple through slot;It is described Swelling component is slidably mounted in slot;The bush outer sleeve is on gear shaft, and the sleeve passes through end-face helical It is threadedly coupled with swelling component.
Optionally, further include two fixing screws;The groove is T-shaped;The both sides of the groove are provided with to be connected with groove Logical binding groove;The gear shaft is T-shaped;The vertical portion of the gear shaft is slidably mounted in groove;Described in two Fixing screws are each passed through two binding grooves and contradict in the vertical portion of gear shaft.
Optionally, further include drive disk and multiple claws;It is provided with cavity in the chuck;It is circumferentially opened on the chuck There are multiple locating slots being connected to cavity;The claw is slidably mounted in locating slot;The rotatable peace of drive disk In cavity;It is machined with end-face helical on the end face of the drive disk;The claw is threadedly coupled with drive disk.
Optionally, the claw includes sliding block, elastic component and L-shaped claw ontology;The sliding block is located in cavity, and with Drive disk is threadedly coupled;The vertical portion of the claw ontology is slidably mounted in locating slot, and horizontal component is inserted into cavity It is connect with sliding block;The claw ontology can slide on sliding block in the horizontal direction;The claw ontology is connect with chuck wedge;Institute The both ends for stating elastic component are connect with claw ontology and sliding block respectively.
Optionally, the elastic component is tension spring.
As shown from the above technical solution, beneficial effects of the present invention:A kind of gear fixing device provided by the invention, including Circular chuck and clamping piece to fixed gear;The side of the chuck is diametrically provided with groove, and the other side is equipped with Central shaft;The clamping piece includes gear shaft, sleeve and swelling component;Described gear shaft one end is provided with boss, the other end It is slidably mounted in groove;The gear shaft is detachably connected with chuck;The boss is circumferentially provided with multiple through slot; The swelling component is slidably mounted in slot;The bush outer sleeve is on gear shaft, and the sleeve passes through end face Screw thread is threadedly coupled with swelling component.Gear fixing device provided by the invention when clamping gear, does not contact the gear teeth of gear, It prevents from scratching gear, improves the quality of Gear Processing.
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It, below will be to specific in order to illustrate more clearly of the specific embodiment of the invention or technical solution in the prior art Embodiment or attached drawing needed to be used in the description of the prior art are briefly described.In all the appended drawings, similar element Or part is generally identified by similar reference numeral.In attached drawing, each element or part might not be drawn according to actual ratio.
Fig. 1 is the structural diagram of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the right view of Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 is the structural schematic diagram of chuck.
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1- chucks, 2- clamping pieces, 3- fixing screws, 4- drive disks, 5- claws, 11- grooves, 12- central shafts, 13- binding grooves, 14- cavitys, 15- locating slots, 21- gear shafts, 22- sleeves, 23- swellings component, 51- sliding blocks, 52- elastic components, 53- claw sheets Body, 211- boss.
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The embodiment of technical solution of the present invention is described in detail below in conjunction with attached drawing.Following embodiment is only used for Clearly illustrate technical scheme of the present invention, therefore be only used as example, and the protection model of the present invention cannot be limited with this It encloses.
It should be noted that unless otherwise indicated, technical term or scientific terminology used in this application should be this hair The ordinary meaning that bright one of ordinary skill in the art are understood.
In the description of the present application, it is to be understood that term "center", " longitudinal direction ", " transverse direction ", " length ", " width ", " thickness ", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outside", " up time The orientation or positional relationship of the instructions such as needle ", " counterclockwise ", " axial direction ", " radial direction ", " circumferential direction " is based on attached orientation shown in FIG. 1 Or position relationship, it is merely for convenience of description of the present invention and simplification of the description, does not indicate or imply the indicated device or element It must have a particular orientation, with specific azimuth configuration and operation, therefore be not considered as limiting the invention.In addition, In the description of the present invention, the meaning of " plurality " is two or more, unless otherwise specifically defined.
In this application unless specifically defined or limited otherwise, term " installation ", " connected ", " connection ", " fixation " etc. Term shall be understood in a broad sense, for example, it may be being fixedly connected, may be a detachable connection, or integral;Can be that machinery connects It connects, can also be electrical connection;It can be directly connected, can also can be indirectly connected through an intermediary in two elements The interaction relationship of the connection in portion or two elements.It for the ordinary skill in the art, can be according to specific feelings Condition understands the concrete meaning of above-mentioned term in the present invention.
In this application unless specifically defined or limited otherwise, fisrt feature can be with "above" or "below" second feature It is that the first and second features are in direct contact or the first and second features pass through intermediary mediate contact.Moreover, fisrt feature exists Second feature " on ", " top " and " above " but fisrt feature be directly above or diagonally above the second feature, or be merely representative of Fisrt feature level height is higher than second feature.Fisrt feature second feature " under ", " lower section " and " below " can be One feature is directly under or diagonally below the second feature, or is merely representative of fisrt feature level height and is less than second feature.
Please refer to Fig.1-3, a kind of gear fixing device provided in this embodiment, including circular chuck 1 and to solid The clamping piece 2 of fixed gear;The side of the chuck 1 is diametrically provided with groove 11, and the other side is equipped with central shaft 12;The clamping Part 2 includes gear shaft 21, sleeve 22 and swelling component 23;21 one end of the gear shaft is provided with boss 211, and the other end can be slided Dynamic is mounted in groove 11;The gear shaft 21 is detachably connected with chuck 1;The boss 211 is circumferentially provided with multiple pass through Wears groove;The swelling component 23 is slidably mounted in slot;The sleeve 22 is coated on gear shaft 21, and the set Cylinder 22 is threadedly coupled by end-face helical with swelling component 23.When polishing spur gear, gear shaft 21 is fixed in chuck 1 Chuck 1 is fixed on polishing workbench by the heart by central shaft 12.Gear shaft 21 is inserted into the endoporus of spur gear, rotary sleeve Cylinder 22, the swelling component 23 radially slides, and contradicts on the inner peripheral surface of spur gear, fixed spur gear.Rotary-grinding Workbench completes the polishing to the gear teeth of gear face and gear.But when needing polishing eccentric gear, gear shaft 21 is inserted into partially In the endoporus of heart gear, turnbarrel 22 fastens eccentric gear.Slide teeth wheel shaft 21 adjusts the position at eccentric gear center, when After the central axis of eccentric gear is conllinear with the central axis of chuck 1, gear shaft 21 is fixed in groove 11, rotary-grinding work Make platform, completes the polishing to the gear teeth of gear face and gear.Gear fixing device provided in this embodiment, when clamping gear, The gear teeth for not contacting gear prevent from scratching gear, improve the quality of Gear Processing, be convenient for the position of adjustment gear, convenient for polishing Eccentric gear.
It is further improved as to above-mentioned technical proposal, further includes two fixing screws 3;The groove 11 is T-shaped;Institute The both sides for stating groove 11 are provided with the binding groove 13 being connected to groove 11;The gear shaft 21 is T-shaped;The gear shaft 21 erects Directly partly it is slidably mounted in groove 11;Two fixing screws 3 are each passed through two binding grooves 13 and contradict in gear In the vertical portion of axis 21.Under original state, gear shaft 21 is fixed in groove 11 by the fixing screws 3, when needing to adjust When gear position, unscrew fixing screws 3, slide teeth wheel shaft 21, after the completion of adjusting.Tighten 3 fixed gear shaft 21 of fixing screws.Knot Structure is simple, is convenient for fixed gear shaft 21, convenient for safeguarding.
It is further improved as to above-mentioned technical proposal, further includes drive disk 4 and multiple claws 5;It is set in the chuck 1 It is equipped with cavity 14;Multiple locating slots 15 being connected to cavity 14 are circumferentially provided on the chuck 1;The claw 5 is slidable In locating slot 15;The drive disk 4 is rotatably mounted in cavity 14;It is machined on the end face of the drive disk 4 End-face helical;The claw 5 is threadedly coupled with drive disk 4.The gear shaft 21 can around gear shaft 21 central axis in groove Rotation in 11.Under original state, the claw 5 is located at the outer ledge of chuck 1, and the gear shaft 21 is slided along groove 11.It will Gear is fixed on gear shaft 21, and gear centre is made to be aligned with groove.Drive disk 4 is rotated, the claw 5 is in drive disk 4 Under effect, slide radially inward.After one of claw 5 and Gear Contact, gear is pushed with the claw of Gear Contact It is slided along groove, the sliding in groove 11 of gear band movable gear shaft 21.When all claws 5 with Gear Contact after, gear at this time Central axis it is conllinear with the central axis of chuck 1.Gear shaft 21 is fixed in groove 11, prevent gear shaft 21 rotation and Sliding.After gear shaft 21 is fixed, drive disk 4 is reversely rotated, so that the claw 5 is radially outward slided, and restPose.Just In the central axis of positioning gear.
It is further improved as to above-mentioned technical proposal, the claw 5 includes sliding block 51, elastic component 52 and L-shaped card Pawl ontology 53;The sliding block 51 is located in cavity 14, and is threadedly coupled with drive disk 4;The vertical portion of the claw ontology 53 It is slidably mounted in locating slot 15, horizontal component is inserted into cavity 14 and is connect with sliding block 51;The claw ontology 53 can be along water It square is slided on sliding block 51;The claw ontology 53 is connect with 1 wedge of chuck;The both ends of the elastic component 52 respectively with card Pawl ontology 53 and sliding block 51 connect.The groove 11 runs through chuck 1 along the diametric(al) of chuck 1.It is described first under original state Under beginning, the claw ontology 53 is accommodated in locating slot 15.When needing the position of adjustment gear.Drive disk 4 is rotated, is being driven Under the action of disk 4, the sliding block 51 drives claw ontology 53 to slide radially inward.The claw ontology 53 is by chuck 1 It squeezes, slides in the horizontal direction, stretch out locating slot 15, gear is clamped, completes the positioning of gear.After the completion of positioning, reversely rotate Drive disk 4, the claw ontology 53 are radially slided, are restPosed under the drive of sliding block 51.Reduce polishing tooth When wheel, the interference of the air exercise grinder work of claw ontology 53.When needing that gear ring is clamped, gear shaft 21 is unloaded.Drive disk 4 is rotated, The claw ontology 53 stretches out locating slot 15 and gear ring is clamped.Convenient for gear ring is clamped.
It is further improved as to above-mentioned technical proposal, the elastic component 52 is tension spring.It is simple in structure, convenient for safeguarding.
In the specification of the present invention, numerous specific details are set forth.It is to be appreciated, however, that the embodiment of the present invention can be with It puts into practice without these specific details.In some instances, well known method, structure and skill is not been shown in detail Art, so as not to obscure the understanding of this description.
In the description of this specification, reference term " one embodiment ", " some embodiments ", " example ", " specifically show The description of example " or " some examples " etc. means specific features, structure, material or spy described in conjunction with this embodiment or example Point is included at least one embodiment or example of the invention.In the present specification, schematic expression of the above terms are not It must be directed to identical embodiment or example.Moreover, particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described can be in office It can be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments or example.In addition, without conflicting with each other, the skill of this field Art personnel can tie the feature of different embodiments or examples described in this specification and different embodiments or examples It closes and combines.
Finally it should be noted that:The above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention., rather than its limitations;To the greatest extent Present invention has been described in detail with reference to the aforementioned embodiments for pipe, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that:Its according to So can with technical scheme described in the above embodiments is modified, either to which part or all technical features into Row equivalent replacement;And these modifications or replacements, various embodiments of the present invention technology that it does not separate the essence of the corresponding technical solution The range of scheme should all cover in the claim of the present invention and the range of specification.

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1. a kind of gear fixing device, it is characterised in that:Including circular chuck(1)And the clamping piece to fixed gear (2);The chuck(1)Side be diametrically provided with groove(11), the other side is equipped with central shaft(12);
The clamping piece(2)Including gear shaft(21), sleeve(22)And swelling component(23);The gear shaft(21)One end is set It is equipped with boss(211), the other end is slidably mounted on groove(11)It is interior;The gear shaft(21)With chuck(1)Detachably connect It connects;The boss(211)It is circumferentially provided with multiple through slot;The swelling component(23)It is slidably mounted in slot; The sleeve(22)It is coated at gear shaft(21)On, and the sleeve(22)Pass through end-face helical and swelling component(23)Screw thread connects It connects.
2. gear fixing device according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:Further include two fixing screws(3);The ditch Slot(11)It is T-shaped;The groove(11)Both sides be provided with and groove(11)The binding groove of connection(13);The gear shaft(21) It is T-shaped;The gear shaft(21)Vertical portion be slidably mounted on groove(11)It is interior;Two fixing screws(3)Point It Chuan Guo not two binding grooves(13)It contradicts in gear shaft(21)Vertical portion on.
3. gear fixing device according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:It further include drive disk(4)With multiple claws (5);The chuck(1)Inside it is provided with cavity(14);The chuck(1)On be circumferentially provided with multiple and cavity(14)Connection is determined Position slot(15);The claw(5)It is slidably mounted on locating slot(15)It is interior;The drive disk(4)It is rotatably mounted to sky Chamber(14)It is interior;The drive disk(4)End face on be machined with end-face helical;The claw(5)With drive disk(4)It is threadedly coupled.
4. gear fixing device according to claim 3, it is characterised in that:The claw(5)Including sliding block(51), elasticity Part(52)With L-shaped claw ontology(53);The sliding block(51)Positioned at cavity(14)It is interior, and and drive disk(4)It is threadedly coupled;Institute State claw ontology(53)Vertical portion be slidably mounted on locating slot(15)Interior, horizontal component is inserted into cavity(14)With sliding block (51)Connection;The claw ontology(53)It can be in the horizontal direction in sliding block(51)Upper sliding;The claw ontology(53)With chuck (1)Wedge connects;The elastic component(52)Both ends respectively with claw ontology(53)And sliding block(51)Connection.
5. gear fixing device according to claim 4, it is characterised in that:The elastic component(52)For tension spring.
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