CN108926834A - A kind of automatic racking device of billiard ball - Google Patents

A kind of automatic racking device of billiard ball Download PDF

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CN108926834A
CN108926834A CN201810928181.2A CN201810928181A CN108926834A CN 108926834 A CN108926834 A CN 108926834A CN 201810928181 A CN201810928181 A CN 201810928181A CN 108926834 A CN108926834 A CN 108926834A
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63DBOWLING GAMES, e.g. SKITTLES, BOCCE OR BOWLS; INSTALLATIONS THEREFOR; BAGATELLE OR SIMILAR GAMES; BILLIARDS
    • A63D15/00Billiards, e.g. carom billiards or pocket billiards; Billiard tables
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63DBOWLING GAMES, e.g. SKITTLES, BOCCE OR BOWLS; INSTALLATIONS THEREFOR; BAGATELLE OR SIMILAR GAMES; BILLIARDS
    • A63D15/00Billiards, e.g. carom billiards or pocket billiards; Billiard tables
    • A63D15/005Ball-spotting racks, i.e. frames for positioning the balls in pocket billiards or pool

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The present invention discloses a kind of automatic racking device of billiard ball, and main body is formed by adding lift portion, transmitting portions, taking ball portion, ball inclined ladder etc., and lift portion includes: to promote shell, elevator, rise set square etc.;Transmitting portions include: lower plugboard, decline block, triangle fixed plate;Taking ball portion includes: terraced block, lift ramp, crawler belt etc.;It takes ball portion to take out the ball in each ball-collecting rack, and is placed on ball inclined ladder, ball enters lift portion along ball inclined ladder, and ball is put into triangle by lift portion, and ball is transferred to transmitting portions by lift portion, and ball is placed on Billiards table by subsequent transmitting portions.

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A kind of automatic racking device of billiard ball
Technical field
The present invention relates to sports techniques field, in particular to a kind of automatic racking device of billiard ball.
Background technique
Billiard ball nowadays have become a kind of sports all the fashion at present, and the quantity of billiards lovers is growing day by day, Swing ball work when every innings of billiard ball beginning is mainly completed by manually, in order to improve the status of necessary manpower swing ball, is badly in need of Design a kind of automatic racking device of billiard ball.At present about the design of the automatic racking device of billiard ball, such as number of patent application CN201621064580.1 discloses a kind of billiards swing ball device, which can be realized placing billiards function, but function list One, it needs manually to be put into ball wherein;Such as patent No. CN201410504152.5 discloses a kind of full automatic spherical pendulum ball machine, The device may be implemented that ball is collected into together to and is put into triangle, but cannot achieve and ball is placed on Billiards table automatically On.
Summary of the invention
In view of the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a kind of automatic racking device of billiard ball, main body is by adding lift portion, transfer part Point, the composition such as take ball portion, ball inclined ladder;Take ball portion to take out the ball in each ball-collecting rack, and be placed on ball inclined ladder, ball along Ball inclined ladder enters lift portion, and ball is put into triangle by lift portion, and ball is transferred to transmitting portions by lift portion, with Ball is placed on Billiards table by transmitting portions afterwards.
Technical solution used in the present invention is: a kind of automatic racking device of billiard ball, including lift portion, transmitting portions, Ball portion, ball inclined ladder are taken, lift portion includes: to promote shell, enhancing screw, lift rail, elevator, the first electric cylinders, rise Set square, rotating circular disk, the second electric cylinders, side push pedal, positive push plate, the first stepper motor, second stepper motor, third electric cylinders, electricity Cylinder drags;Transmitting portions include: the 4th electric cylinders, lower plugboard, decline block, decline screw rod, decline guide rail, third stepper motor, decline Frame, rack gear, horizontal guide rail, first gear, triangle fixed plate, the 5th electric cylinders, plate;Taking ball portion includes: that terraced block, upper ladder are led Rail, lift ramp, driving wheel, driven wheel, crawler belt, band hub cap, first pass bar, the 4th stepper motor, the second biography bar, pawl and connect It connects, pawl head, the 5th stepper motor.
The ball inclined ladder is fixedly mounted in the support of billiard table;The promotion shell and ball inclined ladder of the lift portion It is slidably installed, the first stepper motor is fixedly mounted on promotion outer casing bottom, and enhancing screw and the first stepper motor are fixedly mounted, mention It rises guide rail to be fixedly mounted on promotion shell, elevator with enhancing screw using being threadedly coupled, slide by elevator and lift rail Connection, the first electric cylinders are fixedly mounted on elevator, and positive push plate is fixedly mounted in the first electric cylinders, and the second electric cylinders are fixedly mounted on On elevator, side push pedal, rotating circular disk and rising set square rotation connection, the second stepping electricity are fixedly installed at the top of the second electric cylinders Machine, which is fixedly mounted on, to be risen on set square, is fixedly installed with rotating circular disk at the top of second stepper motor, electric cylinders, which are dragged, to be fixedly mounted on On elevator, third electric cylinders are fixedly mounted on electric cylinders and drag, and are fixedly installed with rising set square at the top of third electric cylinders.
4th electric cylinders of the transmitting portions are fixedly mounted on decline block, and lower plugboard is fixedly mounted on the 4th electric cylinders top Portion, lower plugboard are slidably mounted on decline block, and decline frame is fixedly mounted on the horizontal guide rail, and third stepper motor is fixedly mounted on Decline frame on, decline screw rod be fixedly mounted on third stepper motor, decline guide rail be fixedly mounted on decline frame on, decline block with Decline screw rod is connected through a screw thread, and decline block is slidably connected with decline screw rod, and rack gear is fixedly mounted on the horizontal guide rail, and triangle is solid Fixed board is slidably connected with horizontal guide rail, and first gear is fixedly connected with stepper motor, and stepper motor is fixedly connected on triangle and fixes On plate, rack gear is engaged with first gear, and the 5th electric cylinders are fixedly connected on triangle fixed plate, is fixedly connected at the top of the 5th electric cylinders Plate, plate are slidably connected with triangle fixed plate, and horizontal guide rail is fixedly connected with shell is promoted.
The terraced block for taking ball portion is fixedly mounted on ball inclined ladder, and upper ladder guide rail is fixedly connected on terraced block, is gone up and down Slope is slidably connected on terraced guide rail, and screw thread is equipped with screw rod on lift ramp, and screw rod is fixedly connected on stepper motor, step It being fixedly connected on terraced block into motor, band hub cap is fixedly connected on terraced block, stepper motor is fixedly connected on driving wheel, from Driving wheel is rotatablely connected with hub cap by bearing, and crawler belt is wrapped in outside driving wheel and driven wheel, and first passes outside bar and belt wheel Shell is rotatablely connected by the 4th stepper motor, and the second biography bar and the first biography bar pass through the 4th stepper motor and be rotatablely connected, pawl connection It passes bar with second to be rotatablely connected by the 4th stepper motor, pawl head connect rotation connection with pawl by the 5th stepper motor.
Further, first electric cylinders, the second electric cylinders, third electric cylinders, the 4th electric cylinders, the 5th electric cylinders, the first stepping Motor, second stepper motor, third stepper motor, the 4th stepper motor, the 5th stepper motor are controlled by control cabinet.
The invention has the advantages that: (1) ball inclined ladder and billiard table horizontal planes at an angle, and ball is enable to roll into elevator In, there is cone slope in the part that ball inclined ladder is contacted with elevator, and ball is collected;(2) on the elevator of lift portion Ball is concentrated in together into triangle by side push pedal and positive push plate;(3) rotating circular disk of lift portion can rotate, and ball can be beaten It dissipates, reconfigures;(4) lift portion and transmitting portions to it is upper when, rise set square and rise ball, ball is plugged triangle and consolidated by plate Fixed board.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 is overall structure diagram of the invention.
Fig. 2 is lift portion structural schematic diagram of the invention.
Fig. 3 is lift portion elevator bottom substance schematic diagram of the invention.
Fig. 4 is transmitting portions structural schematic diagram of the invention.
Fig. 5 takes ball portion structural schematic diagram for of the invention.
Drawing reference numeral: 1- billiard table;2- lift portion;3- transmitting portions;4- takes ball portion;5- ball-collecting rack;6- ball inclined ladder; 201- promotes shell;202- enhancing screw;203- lift rail;204- elevator;The first electric cylinders of 205-;206- rises triangle Plate;207- rotating circular disk;The second electric cylinders of 208-;209- side push pedal;The positive push plate of 210-;The first stepper motor of 211-;212- second Stepper motor;213- third electric cylinders;214- electric cylinders are dragged;The 4th electric cylinders of 301-;302- lower plugboard;303- declines block;304- decline Screw rod;305- declines guide rail;306- third stepper motor;307- declines frame;308- rack gear;309- horizontal guide rail;310- first Gear;311- triangle fixed plate;The 5th electric cylinders of 312-;313- plate;401- ladder block;The upper terraced guide rail of 402-;403- lift ramp; 404- driving wheel;405- driven wheel;406- crawler belt;407- band hub cap;408- first passes bar;The 4th stepper motor of 409-; 410- second passes bar;The connection of 411- pawl;412- pawl head;The 5th stepper motor of 413-.
Specific embodiment
The invention will be further described combined with specific embodiments below, in the illustrative examples and explanation of the invention For explaining the present invention, but it is not as a limitation of the invention.
The automatic racking device of a kind of billiard ball as shown in figure 1, figure 2, figure 3, figure 4 and figure 5, including lift portion 2, transfer part Points 3, ball portion 4, ball inclined ladder 6 are taken, lift portion 2 includes: to promote shell 201, enhancing screw 202, lift rail 203, lifting Block 204, the first electric cylinders 205, rise set square 206, rotating circular disk 207, the second electric cylinders 208, side push pedal 209, positive push plate 210, First stepper motor 211, second stepper motor 212, third electric cylinders 213, electric cylinders drag 214;Transmitting portions 3 include: the 4th electric cylinders 301, lower plugboard 302, decline block 303, decline screw rod 304, decline guide rail 305, third stepper motor 306, decline frame 307, tooth Article 308, horizontal guide rail 309, first gear 310, triangle fixed plate 311, the 5th electric cylinders 312, plate 313;Ball portion 4 is taken to wrap It includes: terraced block 401, upper terraced guide rail 402, lift ramp 403, driving wheel 404, driven wheel 405, crawler belt 406, band hub cap 407, the One passes bar 408, the 4th stepper motor 409, second passes bar 410, pawl connects 411, pawl head 412, the 5th stepper motor 413.
Ball inclined ladder 6 is fixedly mounted in the support of billiard table 1;The promotion shell 201 and ball inclined ladder 6 of lift portion 2 slide Installation, the first stepper motor 211, which is fixedly mounted on, promotes 201 bottom of shell, and enhancing screw 202 and the first stepper motor 211 are solid Dingan County's dress, lift rail 203, which is fixedly mounted on, to be promoted on shell 201, and elevator 204 is used with enhancing screw 202 and is threadedly coupled, Elevator 204 is slidably connected with lift rail 203, and the first electric cylinders 205 are fixedly mounted on elevator 204, and positive push plate 210 is fixed It is mounted on 205 in the first electric cylinders, the second electric cylinders 208 are fixedly mounted on elevator 204, are fixedly mounted at the top of the second electric cylinders 208 There is side push pedal 209, rotating circular disk 207 and rising set square 206 are rotatablely connected, and second stepper motor 212 is fixedly mounted on rising On set square 206, rotating circular disk 207 is fixedly installed at the top of second stepper motor 212, electric cylinders drag 214 to be fixedly mounted on lifting On block 204, third electric cylinders 213 are fixedly mounted on electric cylinders and drag on 214, and rising set square is fixedly installed at the top of third electric cylinders 213 206。
4th electric cylinders 301 of transmitting portions 3 are fixedly mounted on decline block 303, and lower plugboard 302 is fixedly mounted on the 4th electricity 301 top of cylinder, lower plugboard 302 are slidably mounted on decline block 303, and decline frame 307 is fixedly mounted on horizontal guide rail 309, the Three stepper motors 306 are fixedly mounted on decline frame 307, and decline screw rod 304 is fixedly mounted on third stepper motor 306, under Drop guide rail 305 be fixedly mounted on decline frame 307 on, decline block 303 and decline screw rod 304 be connected through a screw thread, decline block 303 and Decline screw rod 304 is slidably connected, and rack gear 308 is fixedly mounted on horizontal guide rail 309, triangle fixed plate 311 and horizontal guide rail 309 It is slidably connected, first gear 310 is fixedly connected with stepper motor, and stepper motor is fixedly connected on triangle fixed plate 311, rack gear 308 engage with first gear 310, and the 5th electric cylinders 312 are fixedly connected on triangle fixed plate 311, fixed at the top of the 5th electric cylinders 312 It is connected with plate 313, plate 313 is slidably connected with triangle fixed plate 311, horizontal guide rail 309 and the fixed company of promotion shell 201 It connects.
The terraced block 401 of ball portion 4 is taken to be fixedly mounted on ball inclined ladder 6, upper ladder guide rail 402 is fixedly connected on terraced block 401, Lift ramp 403 is slidably connected on terraced guide rail 402, and screw thread is equipped with screw rod on lift ramp 403, and screw rod is fixedly connected on On stepper motor, stepper motor is fixedly connected on terraced block 401, and band hub cap 407 is fixedly connected on terraced block 401, driving wheel Stepper motor is fixedly connected on 404, driven wheel 405 is rotatablely connected with hub cap 407 by bearing, and crawler belt 406 is wrapped in Outside driving wheel 404 and driven wheel 405, first, which passes bar 408, is rotatablely connected with hub cap 407 by the 4th stepper motor 409, Second, which passes bar 410 and first, passes bar 408 by the rotation connection of the 4th stepper motor 409, and pawl connection 411 and the second biography bar 410 are logical The rotation connection of the 4th stepper motor 409 is crossed, pawl head 412 connect 411 rotation connections with pawl by the 5th stepper motor 413.
The working principle of the invention: in the use of the present invention, taking the 4th stepper motor 409 of ball portion 4, the 5th stepping electricity 413 control claw head 412 of machine, which picks up the ball on ball-collecting rack 5, to be placed on crawler belt 406, and ball is transmitted to lift ramp 403 by crawler belt 406 On, stepper motor drives screw rod rotation to decline lift ramp 403, and ball is rolled on oblique ball ladder 6, and ball enters along oblique ball ladder 6 In elevator 204, second stepper motor 212 controls rotating circular disk 207 and breaks up ball, the first electric cylinders 205, the control of the second electric cylinders 208 It makes positive push plate 210 and side push pedal 209 and ball is put together into triangle, the first stepper motor 211 controls enhancing screw 202 and rotates It drives elevator 204 to rise and reaches transmitting portions 3, the 5th electric cylinders 312 control plate 313 and open, and rise set square 206 for top dome Onto triangle fixed plate 311, subsequent 5th electric cylinders 312 control plate 313 is closed, and step motor control first gear 310 rotates Triangle fixed plate 311 is driven to move along rack gear 308, after reaching designated position, the 5th electric cylinders 312 control plate 313 and open, ball It falls on decline block 303, the 4th electric cylinders 301 control lower plugboard 302 and are closed, the subsequent control of third stepper motor 306 decline screw rod 304 rotations drive decline block 303 to drop on billiard table 1, and subsequent 4th electric cylinders 301 control lower plugboard 302 is opened, and complete swing ball Work.

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1. a kind of automatic racking device of billiard ball, including lift portion 2, transmitting portions (3), ball portion (4), ball inclined ladder (6) are taken, mentioned Ascending part point (2) includes: to promote shell 201, enhancing screw (202), lift rail (203), elevator (204), the first electric cylinders (205), rise set square (206), rotating circular disk (207), the second electric cylinders (208), side push pedal (209), positive push plate (210), the One stepper motor (211), second stepper motor (212), third electric cylinders (213), electric cylinders drag (214);Transmitting portions (3) include: 4th electric cylinders (301), lower plugboard (302), decline block (303), decline screw rod (304), decline guide rail (305), third stepping electricity Machine (306), decline frame (307), rack gear (308), horizontal guide rail (309), first gear (310), triangle fixed plate (311), the Five electric cylinders (312), plate (313);Take ball portion (4) include: terraced block (401), upper terraced guide rail (402), lift ramp (403), Driving wheel (404), driven wheel (405), crawler belt (406), band hub cap (407), first pass bar (408), the 4th stepper motor (409), second bar (410), pawl connection (411), pawl head (412), the 5th stepper motor (413) are passed;It is characterized by:
The ball inclined ladder (6) is fixedly mounted in the support of billiard table (1);The promotion shell of the lift portion (2) (201) it is slidably installed with ball inclined ladder (6), the first stepper motor (211), which is fixedly mounted on, promotes shell (201) bottom, promotes silk Bar (202) and the first stepper motor (211) are fixedly mounted, and lift rail (203), which is fixedly mounted on, to be promoted on shell (201), rise With enhancing screw (202) using being threadedly coupled, elevator (204) is slidably connected drop block (204) with lift rail (203), and first Electric cylinders (205) are fixedly mounted on elevator (204), and positive push plate (210) is fixedly mounted in the first electric cylinders (205), the second electricity Cylinder (208) is fixedly mounted on elevator (204), is fixedly installed with side push pedal (209), rotational circle at the top of the second electric cylinders (208) Disk (207) and rising set square (206) rotation connection, second stepper motor (212), which is fixedly mounted on, rises set square (206) On, rotating circular disk (207) are fixedly installed at the top of second stepper motor (212), electric cylinders drag (214) to be fixedly mounted on elevator (204) on, third electric cylinders (213) are fixedly mounted on electric cylinders and drag on (214), are fixedly installed with rising at the top of third electric cylinders (213) Set square (206);
4th electric cylinders (301) of the transmitting portions (3) are fixedly mounted in decline block (303), the fixed peace of lower plugboard (302) At the top of the 4th electric cylinders (301), lower plugboard (302) is slidably mounted in decline block (303), and decline frame (307) is fixedly mounted On horizontal guide rail (309), third stepper motor (306) is fixedly mounted in decline frame (307), and decline screw rod (304) is fixed Be mounted on third stepper motor (306), decline guide rail (305) be fixedly mounted on decline frame (307) on, decline block (303) with Decline screw rod (304) is connected through a screw thread, and decline block (303) is slidably connected with decline screw rod (304), the fixed peace of rack gear (308) On horizontal guide rail (309), triangle fixed plate (311) is slidably connected with horizontal guide rail (309), first gear (310) and step It is fixedly connected into motor, stepper motor is fixedly connected on triangle fixed plate (311), and rack gear (308) is nibbled with first gear (310) It closes, the 5th electric cylinders (312) are fixedly connected on triangle fixed plate (311), are fixedly connected with plate at the top of the 5th electric cylinders (312) (313), plate (313) is slidably connected with triangle fixed plate (311), horizontal guide rail (309) and the fixed company of promotion shell (201) It connects;
The terraced block (401) for taking ball portion (4) is fixedly mounted on ball inclined ladder (6), and upper ladder guide rail (402) is fixedly connected on On terraced block (401), lift ramp (403) is slidably connected on terraced guide rail (402), and screw thread is equipped on lift ramp (403) Screw rod, screw rod are fixedly connected on stepper motor, and stepper motor is fixedly connected on terraced block (401), and band hub cap (407) is fixed Be connected on terraced block (401), be fixedly connected with stepper motor on driving wheel (404), driven wheel (405) with hub cap (407) Be rotatablely connected by bearing, it is external that crawler belt (406) is wrapped in driving wheel (404) and driven wheel (405), first pass bar (408) with Band hub cap (407) is rotatablely connected by the 4th stepper motor (409), and second, which passes bar (410), passes bar (408) with first and pass through the Four stepper motors (409) rotation connection, pawl connect (411) and are connected with the second biography bar (410) by the rotation of the 4th stepper motor (409) It connects, pawl head (412) connect (411) rotation connection with pawl by the 5th stepper motor (413).
2. a kind of automatic racking device of billiard ball as described in claim 1, it is characterised in that: first electric cylinders 205, second Electric cylinders 208, third electric cylinders (213), the 4th electric cylinders (301), the 5th electric cylinders (312), the first stepper motor (211), the second stepping Motor (212), third stepper motor (306), the 4th stepper motor (409), the 5th stepper motor (413) by control cabinet come Control.
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