CN108745565A - Progressive rotation type abrasive material mechanism - Google Patents

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CN108745565A
CN108745565A CN201810520020.XA CN201810520020A CN108745565A CN 108745565 A CN108745565 A CN 108745565A CN 201810520020 A CN201810520020 A CN 201810520020A CN 108745565 A CN108745565 A CN 108745565A
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    • B02CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
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Abstract

The present invention relates to a kind of progressive rotation type abrasive material mechanisms.Progressive rotation type abrasive material mechanism includes driving structure, linkage structure and abrasive construction, the driving structure includes swingle and shakes piece, the piece that shakes is convexly equipped in the end of the swingle and extending radially outwardly along the swingle, the linkage structure includes slider box, rack and pinion, bar-shaped trough is offered in the slider box, the end for shaking piece is slidably arranged in the bar-shaped trough, the rack is fixed in the slider box, the gear is engaged with the rack, and the abrasive construction includes abrasive barrel, abrasive material wheel and backgauge piece.Progressive rotation type abrasive material mechanism is not easy to plug and clamping stagnation.

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Progressive rotation type abrasive material mechanism
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of progressive rotation type abrasive material mechanisms.
Background technology
In industrial circle, often it is related to various abrasive material mechanisms.Abrasive material mechanism generally comprises abrasive material wheel and feed hopper, institute The top that feed hopper is set to the abrasive material wheel is stated, is continuously fed to the abrasive material wheel in feed hopper, the abrasive material wheel Implement abrasive material by rotating.However, under the abrasive material in the feed hopper is continually adjusted, it be easy to cause the abrasive material wheel Blocking and clamping stagnation.
Invention content
Based on this, it is necessary to provide a kind of intermittence abrasive material mechanism being not easy to plug with clamping stagnation.
A kind of progressive rotation type abrasive material mechanism, including driving structure, linkage structure and abrasive construction, the driving structure packet It includes swingle and shakes piece, the piece that shakes is convexly equipped in the end of the swingle and extending radially outwardly along the swingle, institute It includes slider box, rack and pinion to state linkage structure, bar-shaped trough is offered in the slider box, the end for shaking piece is slidably It is arranged in the bar-shaped trough, the rack is fixed in the slider box, and the gear is engaged with the rack, the abrasive material Structure includes abrasive barrel, abrasive material wheel and backgauge piece, and the abrasive barrel is set to the top of the gear, and the abrasive material wheel is set to It is fixedly connected in the abrasive barrel and with the gear, the backgauge piece is actively set to the inside upper part of the abrasive barrel simultaneously It links with the rack.
In a wherein embodiment, the end for shaking piece is convexly equipped with driving column, and the driving column slidably accommodates In in the bar-shaped trough.
In a wherein embodiment, the rack is vertically arranged with the slider box, and the end of the rack is fixed In on the end of the slider box.
In a wherein embodiment, the bottom of the abrasive barrel offers perforating, is convexly equipped with and wears on the gear If column, the column that wears is arranged in the perforating, and the abrasive material wheel is fixed on the top for wearing column.
In a wherein embodiment, baffle slit, the backgauge piece sliding are offered on the side wall of the abrasive barrel Ground is set in the baffle slit.
In a wherein embodiment, the surface of the striker plate is parallel with the bottom surface of the abrasive barrel, the backgauge Piece is set to the top of the abrasive material wheel.
In a wherein embodiment, the sidewall bottom of the abrasive barrel is formed with abrasive ring band, the abrasive ring band Around the periphery of the abrasive material wheel.
In a wherein embodiment, the abrasive material wheel is discoid, and the circumferential surface of the abrasive material wheel is provided with multiple the One abrasive material is raised, and multiple second abrasive materials protrusions are provided on the abrasive ring band.
In a wherein embodiment, abrasive ring is formed between the abrasive ring band and the circumferential surface of the abrasive material wheel Slot.
In a wherein embodiment, the multiple second abrasive material is raised in uneven distribution on the abrasive ring band.
Progressive rotation type abrasive material mechanism shakes piece rotation in abrasive material described in swingle driving, the piece that shakes End is slided in the bar-shaped trough, so that the rotary motion of the swingle is transformed to the linear reciprocation of the slider box Mobile, the slider box drives the abrasive material wheel reciprocating rotary by the rack, the gear, to realize abrasive material, and institute The process that rack is stated in straight reciprocating drives the backgauge piece to move back and forth, and then realizes to the interval in the abrasive barrel Property charging, then prevent in the abrasive barrel in the short time charging too many and result in blockage, so that the progressive rotation type Abrasive material mechanism is not easy to plug and clamping stagnation.
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Fig. 1 is the stereoscopic schematic diagram of the progressive rotation type abrasive material mechanism in an embodiment.
Fig. 2 is the floor map of the discharge assembly of an embodiment.
Specific implementation mode
In order to make the foregoing objectives, features and advantages of the present invention clearer and more comprehensible, below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings to the present invention Specific implementation mode be described in detail.Many details are elaborated in the following description in order to fully understand this hair It is bright.
The present invention relates to a kind of abrasive material mechanisms.For example, progressive rotation type abrasive material mechanism includes driving structure, linkage knot Structure and abrasive construction, the driving structure include swingle and shake piece.For example, the end shaken piece and be convexly equipped in the swingle And extending radially outwardly along the swingle, the linkage structure include slider box, rack and pinion, are opened in the slider box Equipped with bar-shaped trough.For example, the end for shaking piece is slidably arranged in the bar-shaped trough, the rack is fixed on the sliding On frame, the gear is engaged with the rack, and the abrasive construction includes abrasive barrel, abrasive material wheel and backgauge piece.For example, the mill Barrel is set to the top of the gear, and the abrasive material wheel is set in the abrasive barrel and is fixedly connected with the gear.Example Such as, the backgauge piece is actively set to the inside upper part of the abrasive barrel and links with the rack.
Referring to Fig. 1, a kind of progressive rotation type abrasive material mechanism 100, including driving structure 20, linkage structure 30 and abrasive material knot Structure 40, the driving structure include swingle 21 and shake piece 23, and the piece that shakes is convexly equipped in the end of the swingle and along described Swingle extends radially outwardly, and the linkage structure includes slider box 31, rack 32 and gear 33, is opened up in the slider box There are bar-shaped trough 311, the end for shaking piece to be slidably arranged in the bar-shaped trough, the rack is fixed on the slider box On, the gear is engaged with the rack, and the abrasive construction includes abrasive barrel 41, abrasive material wheel 42 and backgauge piece 43, the mill Barrel is set to the top of the gear, and the abrasive material wheel is set in the abrasive barrel and is fixedly connected with the gear, institute Backgauge piece is stated actively to be set to the inside upper part of the abrasive barrel and link with the rack.
For example, piece rotation in abrasive material, is shaken by progressive rotation type abrasive material mechanism described in the swingle driving, it is described to shake The end of piece is slided in the bar-shaped trough, so that the rotary motion of the swingle is transformed to the straight line of the slider box It moving back and forth, the slider box drives the abrasive material wheel reciprocating rotary by the rack, the gear, to realize abrasive material, And the rack drives the backgauge piece to move back and forth in the process of straight reciprocating, and then realize in the abrasive barrel Intermittence charging then prevents from feeding too many in the abrasive barrel in the short time and resulting in blockage, so that the reciprocating rotary Rotatable abrasive material mechanism is not easy to plug and clamping stagnation.
For example, for the ease of the backgauge piece to be set in the abrasive barrel, the end for shaking piece is convexly equipped with driving Column 231, the driving column are slidably contained in the bar-shaped trough.The rack is vertically arranged with the slider box, the tooth The end of item is fixed on the end of the slider box.The bottom of the abrasive barrel offers perforating, projection on the gear Column is worn, the column that wears is arranged in the perforating, and the abrasive material wheel is fixed on the top for wearing column.The mill Baffle slit 411 is offered on the side wall of barrel, the backgauge piece is slidingly arranged in the baffle slit.By in described Baffle slit is opened up on the side wall of abrasive barrel, the backgauge piece active card is set in the baffle slit to facilitate, then Implement intermittent charging.
For example, for the ease of improving abrasive material effect, the surface of the striker plate is parallel with the bottom surface of the abrasive barrel, described Backgauge piece is set to the top of the abrasive material wheel.The sidewall bottom of the abrasive barrel is formed with abrasive ring band, the abrasive ring band Around the periphery of the abrasive material wheel.The abrasive material wheel is discoid, and it is convex that the circumferential surface of the abrasive material wheel is provided with multiple first abrasive materials It rises, multiple second abrasive material protrusions is provided on the abrasive ring band.Shape between the abrasive ring band and the circumferential surface of the abrasive material wheel At there is abrasive material annular groove.The multiple second abrasive material is raised in uneven distribution on the abrasive ring band.Due to the abrasive material wheel It is provided with multiple first abrasive material protrusions on circumferential surface, multiple second abrasive material protrusions are provided on the abrasive ring band, therefore can carry The abrasive efficiency of the high abrasive material wheel.For example, the linkage structure further includes pedestal 45, guiding groove, institute are set on the pedestal It is set in the guiding groove with stating the basal sliding of rack, is only capable of doing reciprocating linear fortune along straight line to limit the rack It is dynamic.For example, for the ease of drawing the particle ground, the bottom side of the abrasive barrel offers outlet, the outlet The side wall of the abrasive barrel is penetrated through, and in far from described one end for shaking piece.For example, being additionally provided with engagement item on the pedestal 47, the engagement item is oppositely arranged with the rack, and the engagement item is engaged on the gear.
For example, it is of particular importance that in order to improve the abrasive efficiency of the abrasive material wheel, it is formed at the top of the abrasive material wheel Cone shaped pilot so that supplied materials can be fallen under the guiding of the cone shaped pilot, and then facilitate subsequent operation.For example, In order to increase the surface area of the cone shaped pilot, the top surface periphery of the abrasive material wheel extends outward to form flexible guided rings Piece, the elasticity guided rings on piece are formed with inclined surface, and the inclined surface extends obliquely downward, the angle of inclination of the inclined surface More than the angle of inclination of the side of the cone shaped pilot, so as to make supplied materials realize as soon as possible using the inclined surface It falls.
For example, referring to Fig. 2, draw the abrasive barrel as soon as possible in order to which ground material will be passed through, the one of the abrasive barrel Side is provided with discharge assembly 50, and the discharge assembly includes discharge pipe 51 and negative pressure generator (not shown), and the discharge pipe connects It is connected in the bottom sidewall of the abrasive barrel, the negative pressure generator is set to the end of the discharge pipe, passes through the negative pressure The setting of generator can enable the particle after abrasive material to be moved to the discharge pipe under the action of negative pressure.And in order to incite somebody to action Supplied materials is discharged, and discharge conically shaped 53 is provided in the middle part of the discharge pipe, and the discharge conically shaped is convexly equipped in the discharge pipe The axial direction at middle part, the discharge conically shaped is vertical with the axis of the discharge pipe, and the discharge conically shaped extends towards ground, described The diameter that conically shaped is discharged is gradually reduced along the direction far from the discharge pipe.When supplied materials particle is sucked out by the negative pressure generator After coming, it can be fallen from the discharge conically shaped.For example, in order to avoid the negative pressure generator generate negative pressure when by the row The air-flow gone out in conically shaped is interfered, and intermittent pusher cylinder and air intake duct 54, the suction are provided on the negative pressure generator One end of tracheae is connected on the negative pressure generator, and the middle part of the air intake duct is connect with the intermittent pusher cylinder, institute The other end for stating air intake duct extends to the top of the discharge conically shaped, and elastic folds portion is formed in the middle part of the air intake duct, When the intermittence pusher cylinder pushes the air intake duct elongation, the elastic folds portion can stretch to change the air-breathing The length of pipe.For example, the discharge pipe includes leading portion pipe and back segment pipe, the leading portion pipe and back segment pipe coaxial arrangement and two Person is connected by the discharge conically shaped, and the leading portion pipe is connected to the abrasive barrel, described in the air intake duct is slidably arranged In back segment pipe.When the negative pressure generator generates negative pressure, the intermittence pusher cylinder pushes the air intake duct to convexedly stretch in institute The end outside back segment pipe and after being inserted into the leading portion pipe on the discharge conically shaped is stated, at this time the negative pressure generator Negative pressure is generated so that the supplied materials of the abrasive barrel to be introduced into the leading portion pipe, the hereafter described intermittent pusher cylinder drives the suction Airway constriction, so that the air intake duct is detached from the leading portion pipe so that supplied materials is fallen in the discharge conically shaped.For example, The front end of the air intake duct is rigid pipe.The internal diameter of the leading portion pipe is more than the outer diameter of the air intake duct, and the air intake duct is located at The end set at the top of the inner cavity of the leading portion pipe, the air intake duct has mesh layer 541, the mesh of the mesh layer that can hinder Supplied materials is filled in enter.For example, the periphery of the air intake duct is provided with flexible ring plate 543, the periphery of the flexibility ring plate presses on institute The inner peripheral for stating leading portion pipe, to realize sealing, to improve the effect of negative pressure.And after negative pressure generation, the flexibility ring plate It can deform upon to facilitate the intermittent pusher cylinder that the air intake duct is pulled to retreat in time, in order to make supplied materials fall into In the discharge conically shaped.Even if the intermittence pusher cylinder can if pulling the air intake duct to retreat the supplied materials not in time It enough pushes against the flexible ring plate to deform, to by the gap of the flexible ring plate enter in the discharge conically shaped.
Each technical characteristic of embodiment described above can be combined arbitrarily, to keep description succinct, not to above-mentioned reality It applies all possible combination of each technical characteristic in example to be all described, as long as however, the combination of these technical characteristics is not deposited In contradiction, it is all considered to be the range of this specification record.
Several embodiments of the invention above described embodiment only expresses, the description thereof is more specific and detailed, but simultaneously It cannot therefore be construed as limiting the scope of the patent.It should be pointed out that coming for those of ordinary skill in the art It says, without departing from the inventive concept of the premise, various modifications and improvements can be made, these belong to the protection of the present invention Range.Therefore, the protection domain of patent of the present invention should be determined by the appended claims.

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1. a kind of progressive rotation type abrasive material mechanism, which is characterized in that described including driving structure, linkage structure and abrasive construction Driving structure includes swingle and shakes piece, it is described shake piece be convexly equipped in the swingle end and along the swingle it is radial to Outer extension, the linkage structure include slider box, rack and pinion, offer bar-shaped trough in the slider box, the piece that shakes End is slidably arranged in the bar-shaped trough, and the rack is fixed in the slider box, and the gear is nibbled with the rack It closes, the abrasive construction includes abrasive barrel, abrasive material wheel and backgauge piece, and the abrasive barrel is set to the top of the gear, described Abrasive material wheel is set in the abrasive barrel and is fixedly connected with the gear, and the backgauge piece is actively set to the abrasive barrel Inside upper part and with the rack link.
2. progressive rotation type abrasive material according to claim 1 mechanism, which is characterized in that the end for shaking piece is convexly equipped with drive Dynamic column, the driving column are slidably contained in the bar-shaped trough.
3. progressive rotation type abrasive material according to claim 2 mechanism, which is characterized in that the rack hangs down with the slider box Straight setting, the end of the rack is fixed on the end of the slider box.
4. progressive rotation type abrasive material according to claim 3 mechanism, which is characterized in that the bottom of the abrasive barrel offers Perforating is convexly equipped on the gear and wears column, and the column that wears is arranged in the perforating, and the abrasive material wheel is fixed on institute State the top for wearing column.
5. progressive rotation type abrasive material according to claim 4 mechanism, which is characterized in that opened up on the side wall of the abrasive barrel There are baffle slit, the backgauge piece to be slidingly arranged in the baffle slit.
6. progressive rotation type abrasive material according to claim 5 mechanism, which is characterized in that the surface of the striker plate with it is described The bottom surface of abrasive barrel is parallel, and the backgauge piece is set to the top of the abrasive material wheel.
7. progressive rotation type abrasive material according to claim 6 mechanism, which is characterized in that the sidewall bottom shape of the abrasive barrel The periphery of the abrasive material wheel is surrounded at having abrasive ring band, the abrasive ring band.
8. progressive rotation type abrasive material according to claim 7 mechanism, which is characterized in that the abrasive material wheel is discoid, institute The circumferential surface for stating abrasive material wheel is provided with multiple first abrasive material protrusions, and multiple second abrasive material protrusions are provided on the abrasive ring band.
9. progressive rotation type abrasive material according to claim 8 mechanism, which is characterized in that the abrasive ring band and the abrasive material Abrasive material annular groove is formed between the circumferential surface of wheel.
10. progressive rotation type abrasive material according to claim 9 mechanism, which is characterized in that the multiple second abrasive material protrusion In uneven distribution on the abrasive ring band.
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