CN109569123B - Dust distribution device of filter screen - Google Patents

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CN109569123B
CN109569123B CN201811274744.7A CN201811274744A CN109569123B CN 109569123 B CN109569123 B CN 109569123B CN 201811274744 A CN201811274744 A CN 201811274744A CN 109569123 B CN109569123 B CN 109569123B
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The invention discloses a dust shunting device of a filter screen, which comprises a stable bottom plate, a screen plate, a combined sleeve, a dust shunting device and a connecting column, wherein the stable bottom plate is horizontally arranged on the lower end surface of the screen plate, the dust shunting device carries out circular motion along a foot rest sliding plate through pyramid trigrams, the dust in a circular hole is scraped by the pyramid trigrams on two sides, the pyramid trigrams pull a ladder angle harrow through a connecting rod while moving, an extension rod on the ladder angle harrow slides along a dynamic sliding plate by touching, meanwhile, the dust scraped from the inside of the circular hole is scraped by the movement of the ladder angle harrow along a sliding rail, the dust falls into an inclined pipe and is discharged completely, thereby protecting the normal structure of the circular hole of a punching screen, eliminating noise, leading a fan plate to move a swinging plate to slide along the sliding rail on a shell, and simultaneously leading a rope to pull a swinging plate to convey power to the rotating mechanism, can not need the manual work to clear up on the highway, let the workman can not receive the injury, reduced unnecessary traffic accident.

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Dust distribution device of filter screen
Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of filtration, in particular to a dust distribution device of a filter screen.
Background
The filtering screen is used for controlling noise of traffic zones such as expressways, railways and urban roads which pass through urban districts and removing noise of residents living beside the roads, but the existing expressways have the following problems during working:
1. the vehicle speed of coming and going is fast on the highway, the daily traffic flow is big, the vehicle is gone with attached dust on ground or the wheel and is raised during high-speed traveling, and the screen cloth that punches a hole is established for a long time on highway road both sides, cause the vehicle that comes and is driving the round hole that the dust got into in the screen cloth that punches a hole, make in the round hole with the dust, the noise gets into the round hole of screen cloth that punches a hole, because contain the dust in the round hole and cause the round hole resonance to inhale the sound structure destroyed, make the screen cloth that punches a hole lose the effect of eliminating the noise.
2. Meanwhile, the speed of the vehicles on the highway surface is high, the vehicles enter the highway manually and climb the guardrail to clean the punching screen, the speed of the vehicles is high, the traction force on the two sides of the vehicles is large, and workers are easy to pull and drop on the road surface and are impacted by the vehicles, so that unnecessary traffic accidents are caused.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the problems in the prior art, the invention provides a dust distribution device of a filter screen, which structurally comprises a stable bottom plate, a screen plate, a combined sleeve, a dust distribution device and a connecting column, wherein the stable bottom plate is horizontally arranged on the lower end surface of the screen plate, the combined sleeve is vertically arranged on the left end surface of the screen plate, the dust distribution device is horizontally arranged on the upper end surface of the screen plate, the connecting column is provided with five parts and is horizontally arranged on the right end surface of the screen plate, the dust distribution device comprises a swinging power mechanism, a rotating mechanism and a shoveling mechanism, the swinging power mechanism is mechanically matched with the rotating mechanism through a linkage rope, and the rotating mechanism is mechanically driven with the shoveling mechanism through a linkage connecting rod.
Preferably, swing power unit includes that the arc moves pole, pearl wheel, fan movable plate, casing, backswing mechanism, the arc moves pole and pearl wheel sliding connection, fan movable plate and backswing mechanism mechanical transmission, the vertical inside of installing in the casing of backswing mechanism, backswing mechanism includes back lock pipe, rocking plate, the vertical inside of installing in rocking plate of back lock pipe, the inside tortuous slide rail that is equipped with of casing, the inside elasticity of being equipped with of backsock coil, the inside shrink rope that is equipped with of rocking plate.
Preferably, the rotating mechanism comprises a circular tube mechanism, a foot stool sliding plate and a fixed wheel, the circular tube mechanism is mechanically matched with the foot stool sliding plate through a track, the fixed wheel is mechanically driven with the circular tube mechanism through a rope, the circular tube mechanism comprises a linkage plate, pyramid diagrams and a plastic package mechanism, the linkage plate is mechanically matched with the pyramid diagrams, the pyramid diagrams are in sliding connection with the plastic package mechanism through a sliding groove, the linkage plate is mechanically matched with the plastic package mechanism through the pyramid diagrams, the foot stool sliding plate is a cylindrical circular tube, and the pyramid diagrams move along the circular arc of the foot stool sliding plate.
Preferably, the plastic packaging mechanism comprises a pneumatic tube, a contraction swing plate and a sliding push rod, the pneumatic tube is connected with the sliding push rod in a sliding mode, the sliding push rod is horizontally installed inside the contraction swing plate, the contraction swing plate is mechanically matched with the pneumatic tube through the sliding push rod, the contraction swing plate is provided with a tough sealing plate, and the lower end of the sliding push rod is provided with a spherical ball and slides on the pneumatic tube.
Preferably, the mechanism is eradicateed and is included extension rod, pipe chute, ladder angle harrow, dynamic slide, arc angle rail, extension rod and dynamic slide sliding connection, the vertical up end of installing in ladder angle harrow of extension rod, arc angle rail and pipe chute structure as an organic whole, the extension rod upper end is equipped with an arc pole and slides, ladder angle harrow front end presents the long rod shape of structure under the rake shape, be equipped with one on the dynamic slide and encircle the arc slide.
Advantageous effects
1. According to the dust distribution device of the filter screen, the pyramid trigrams perform circular motion along the foot rest sliding plate through the pyramid trigrams, dust inside the round holes is scraped by the pyramid trigrams on the two sides, the trapezoid angle harrow is pulled through the connecting rod while the pyramid trigrams move, the extending rod on the trapezoid angle harrow slides along the dynamic sliding plate in a touching mode, meanwhile, the dust scraped inside the round holes is scraped through the trapezoid angle harrow along the sliding rail, the dust falls into the inclined pipe and is discharged completely, therefore, the round hole structure of the punching screen is protected to be normal, and noise can be eliminated.
2. According to the dust distribution device of the filter screen, the fan moving plate is blown by the air generated by the movement of the vehicles through the movement of the vehicles coming and going on the expressway, the fan moving plate drives the swinging plate to slide along the slide rail on the shell, and meanwhile, the swinging plate pulls the rope to convey power to the rotating mechanism, so that the dust distribution device does not need to be manually cleaned on the expressway, workers are not injured, and unnecessary traffic accidents are reduced.
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Other features, objects and advantages of the invention will become more apparent upon reading of the detailed description of non-limiting embodiments with reference to the following drawings:
fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a dust distribution device of a filter screen according to the present invention.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged left sectional view of the dust distribution device of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a partially enlarged perspective view of the rocking power mechanism of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a front view of an enlarged partial cross-sectional structure of the rotating mechanism of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is an enlarged schematic left-sectional view of the plastic sealing mechanism according to the present invention.
Fig. 6 is an enlarged partial perspective view of the scooping mechanism of the present invention.
In the figure: the device comprises a stable bottom plate-1, a sieve plate-2, a combined sleeve-3, a dust distribution device-4, a connecting column-5, a swinging power mechanism-41, a rotating mechanism-42, a shoveling mechanism-43, an arc rod-411, a bead wheel-412, a fanning plate-413, a shell-414, a backswing mechanism-415, a backswing pipe-4151, a swinging plate-4152, a round pipe mechanism-421, a foot rest sliding plate-422, a fixed wheel-423, a linkage plate-4211, a pyramid-shaped divinator-4212, a plastic package mechanism-4213, a pneumatic pipe-42131, a contraction swinging plate-42132, a sliding push rod-42133, an extension rod-431, an inclined pipe-432, a ladder angle harrow-433, a dynamic sliding plate-434 and an arc angle rail-435.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments, and preferred embodiments of the present invention will be further described below with reference to the detailed description and the drawings.
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As shown in fig. 1 to 6, the present invention provides a dust distribution device of a filter screen, which structurally includes a stable bottom plate 1, a screen plate 2, a combination sleeve 3, a dust distribution device 4, and a linking column 5, wherein the stable bottom plate 1 is horizontally installed on a lower end surface of the screen plate 2, the combination sleeve 3 is vertically installed on a left end surface of the screen plate 2, the dust distribution device 4 is horizontally installed on an upper end surface of the screen plate 2, the linking column 5 is provided with five and horizontally installed on a right end surface of the screen plate 2, the dust distribution device 4 includes a swinging power mechanism 41, a rotating mechanism 42, and a shoveling mechanism 43, the swinging power mechanism 41 is mechanically matched with the rotating mechanism 42 through a linking rope, and the rotating mechanism 42 is mechanically driven by the linking rod and the shoveling mechanism 43.
The swing power mechanism 41 comprises an arc rod 411, a bead wheel 412, a fan plate 413, a shell 414 and a swing mechanism 415, the arc rod 411 is connected with the bead wheel 412 in a sliding mode, the fan plate 413 is in mechanical transmission with the swing mechanism 415, the swing mechanism 415 is vertically installed inside the shell 414, the swing mechanism 415 comprises a lock return pipe 4151 and a swing plate 4152, the lock return pipe 4151 is vertically installed inside the swing plate 4152, a zigzag sliding rail is arranged inside the shell 414, an elastic return coil is arranged inside the lock return pipe 4151, and a contraction rope is arranged inside the swing plate 4152.
The rotating mechanism 42 comprises a circular tube mechanism 421, a foot rest sliding plate 422 and a fixed wheel 423, the circular tube mechanism 421 is mechanically matched with the foot stool sliding plate 422 through a rail, the fixed wheel 423 is mechanically driven with the circular tube mechanism 421 through a rope, the circular tube mechanism 421 comprises a linkage plate 4211, pyramid diagrams 4212 and a plastic sealing mechanism 4213, the linkage plate 4211 is mechanically matched with the pyramid divinatory symbols 4212, the pyramid divinatory symbols 4212 are connected with the plastic packaging mechanism 4213 in a sliding way through a sliding groove, the linkage plate 4211 is mechanically matched with a plastic packaging mechanism 4213 through pyramid trigram 4212, the foot stool sliding plate 422 presents a cylindrical ring pipe, the pyramid trigram 4212 moves along the arc of the foot stool sliding plate 422, compared with the prior art, the pyramid trigram 4212 is pulled by the rope at the upper end to slide along the foot stool sliding plate 422, the inner wall of the round hole is cleaned, the noise-removing hole structure capable of absorbing sound is guaranteed not to be damaged by dust, and noise removal of the punching screen can be good.
The plastic package mechanism 4213 comprises a pneumatic tube 42131, a contraction swing plate 42132 and a sliding push rod 42133, the pneumatic tube 42131 is connected with the sliding push rod 42133 in a sliding manner, the sliding push rod 42133 is horizontally installed inside the contraction swing plate 42132, the contraction swing plate 42132 is mechanically matched with the pneumatic tube 42131 through the sliding push rod 42133, the contraction swing plate 42132 is provided with a flexible sealing plate, the lower end of the sliding push rod 42133 is a spherical ball and slides on the pneumatic tube 42131, compared with the prior art, the plastic package mechanism moves along a circular hole when dust is cleaned on the pyramid trigram 4212 and is extruded by the sliding push rod 42133, so that the contraction swing plate 42132 is tightly attached to two sides of the pyramid trigram 4212 to seal the sliding groove, the dust cannot fall into the sliding groove, and the structure of the circular hole is not changed.
Shovel mechanism 43 includes extension rod 431, pipe chute 432, ladder angle harrow 433, dynamic slide 434, arc angle rail 435, extension rod 431 and dynamic slide 434 sliding connection, extension rod 431 is vertical to be installed in the up end of ladder angle harrow 433, arc angle rail 435 and pipe chute 432 be the integral structure, extension rod 431 upper end is equipped with an arc pole and slides, ladder angle harrow 433 front end presents structure growing rod shape under the rake shape, be equipped with one on the dynamic slide 434 and encircle the arc slide rail, compare with prior art and be pulled by the pyramid trigram 4212 through ladder angle harrow 433 for ladder angle harrow 433 removes in pulling pipe chute 432 along the dust that the inside clearance of round hole dropped of carrying out the motion on dynamic slide 434, guarantees that the round hole can not piled up to the dust.
The working principle of the dust shunting device is as follows: the fan moving plate 413 is pushed by wind generated by the movement of a coming automobile, the fan moving plate 413 is triggered to pull the swinging plate 4152 to move in an arc shape along the sliding groove on the shell 414, meanwhile, a rope arranged in the swinging plate 4152 pulls the winding fixed wheel 423, workers can clean dust on the circular hole of the punching screen in time without going on a highway, traffic accidents caused by cleaning on the highway are reduced, meanwhile, the rope moves through wind generated by the coming automobile, energy is saved, the rope pulls the pyramid 4212 around the fixed wheel 423, the pyramid 4212 is triggered to move in an arc shape along the foot stool sliding plate 422, dust in the circular hole is scraped and cleaned, meanwhile, when the pyramid 4212 moves along the foot stool sliding plate 422, the sliding push rod 42133 is pushed by air pressure in the pneumatic tube 42131, and the sliding push rod 42133 pushes the contraction swinging plate 42132 to seal the sides of the pyramid 4212, let inside the dust can not drop into the spout, drive terraced angle harrow 433 along dynamic slide 434 spout motion in step by pyramid trigram 4212, pull the dust that drops in the round hole through terraced angle harrow 433 motion and clear up pipe chute 432, guarantee that the structure of screen cloth round hole that punches a hole is not destroyed, can be timely bring the noise to the vehicle and get rid of.
The principles, principal features and advantages of the present invention, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, which are intended to be illustrative only of the principles of the invention, numerous modifications and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art, which embodiments have been selected and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and its practical application.

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1. The utility model provides a filter screen's dust diverging device, its structure includes firm bottom plate (1), sieve (2), combination cover (3), dust diverging device (4), linking post (5), firm bottom plate (1) horizontal installation is in the lower terminal surface of sieve (2), combination cover (3) are vertical to be installed in the left end face of sieve (2), its characterized in that:
the dust distribution device (4) is horizontally arranged on the upper end face of the sieve plate (2), the connecting columns (5) are five in number and are horizontally arranged on the right end face of the sieve plate (2), the dust distribution device (4) comprises a swinging power mechanism (41), a rotating mechanism (42) and a shoveling mechanism (43), the swinging power mechanism (41) is mechanically matched with the rotating mechanism (42) through a linkage rope, and the rotating mechanism (42) is mechanically driven by a linkage rod and the shoveling mechanism (43);
the swing power mechanism (41) comprises an arc rod (411), a bead wheel (412), a fan moving plate (413), a shell (414) and a backswing mechanism (415), the arc rod (411) is connected with the bead wheel (412) in a sliding mode, the fan moving plate (413) is in mechanical transmission with the backswing mechanism (415), the backswing mechanism (415) is vertically installed inside the shell (414), the backswing mechanism (415) comprises a backswing pipe (4151) and a swinging plate (4152), and the backswing pipe (4151) is vertically installed inside the swinging plate (4152);
the rotating mechanism (42) comprises a circular tube mechanism (421), a foot stool sliding plate (422) and a fixed wheel (423), the circular tube mechanism (421) is mechanically matched with the foot stool sliding plate (422) through a rail, the fixed wheel (423) is mechanically transmitted with the circular tube mechanism (421) through a rope, the circular tube mechanism (421) comprises a linkage plate (4211), pyramid diagrams (4212) and a plastic packaging mechanism (4213), the linkage plate (4211) is mechanically matched with the pyramid diagrams (4212), the pyramid diagrams (4212) are in sliding connection with the plastic packaging mechanism (4213) through sliding grooves, and the linkage plate (4211) is mechanically matched with the plastic packaging mechanism (4213) through the pyramid diagrams (4212).
2. A dust distribution device for a filter screen according to claim 1, wherein: plastic packaging mechanism (4213) includes pneumatic tube (42131), shrink pendulum board (42132), slippery dynamic pole (42133), pneumatic tube (42131) and slippery dynamic pole (42133) sliding connection, slippery dynamic pole (42133) horizontal installation is in the inside of shrink pendulum board (42132), shrink pendulum board (42132) are through slippery dynamic pole (42133) and pneumatic tube (42131) mechanical cooperation.
3. A dust distribution device for a filter screen according to claim 1, wherein: shovel mechanism (43) including extension rod (431), pipe chute (432), ladder angle harrow (433), dynamic slide plate (434), arc angle rail (435), extension rod (431) and dynamic slide plate (434) sliding connection, extension rod (431) are vertical to be installed in the up end of ladder angle harrow (433), arc angle rail (435) and pipe chute (432) structure as an organic whole.
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