Lost foam casting equipment
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of machining, and particularly relates to lost foam casting equipment.
Background
The lost foam casting is a new casting process which is developed fastest at present, and the process comprises the following steps: the casting method comprises the steps of laying the molding sand in a sand box in advance, burying the lost foam in the box, carrying out vibration molding, laying a film on the top of the sand box, vacuumizing, pouring molten iron into a cavity of the lost foam, gasifying the lost foam, turning the box after the casting is formed, and pouring the molding sand out of the casting. The main equipment is a sand box, and molding sand with irregular shapes is arranged in the sand box. However, the equipment has the defects that burrs or unevenness exist on the surface of the casting, the casting is taken out and is completely cooled, and then the casting is treated by using a cutter or other grinding, so that the casting treatment process is complicated.
Some technical schemes for lost foam casting also appear in the prior art, for example, a chinese patent with application number 2016110162552 discloses a device for lost foam casting, which comprises a sand box, the outer bottom of the sand box is connected with a pillar, an elastic member is connected between the pillar and the sand box, an oscillator is arranged on the sand box, a rotating shaft is connected in the sand box in a rotating manner, a rotating disc is fixedly connected on the rotating shaft, molding sand of spherical particles is arranged in the sand box, a first discharge hole is arranged on the side wall of the sand box, and a first closing door is arranged at the discharge hole.
The technical scheme solves the problems that the surface flatness of the cast workpiece is not high and the surface of the workpiece needs to be machined again by using a cutter. However, the problems of low processing efficiency and low surface quality of the workpiece in the technical scheme are not solved, so that the technical scheme is limited.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to make up for the defects of the prior art, the invention provides lost foam casting equipment which is simple in structure and convenient to operate, drives a molding box to rotate through gear transmission, further drives steel balls to quickly polish the surface of a workpiece on one hand, and avoids taking the workpiece out and then sending the workpiece into a polishing platform to be polished on the other hand, so that the transportation process is reduced, and the workpiece machining efficiency is improved.
The technical scheme adopted by the invention for solving the technical problems is as follows: a lost foam casting device comprises a controller, a molding box, a rack, steel balls, a clamping module, a clamping rod, a shaft sleeve and a motor, wherein the controller is used for controlling the device to automatically operate and is fixedly arranged on the rack; the two molding boxes are hinged through hinges, casting heads of the molding boxes are correspondingly arranged, steel balls are arranged in the molding boxes, and two sides of each molding box are fixedly connected with half of a corresponding shaft sleeve; when the two molding boxes rotate and are overlapped, the molding boxes are rotatably placed on the rack through shaft sleeves on two sides of the molding boxes; the frame is fixedly connected to the ground; one of the shaft sleeves is fixedly connected with a first gear; a second gear is arranged below the first gear; the second gear can be meshed with the first gear, and is connected with the end of the motor; the motor is fixedly connected to the rack, two clamping rods are symmetrically arranged, the clamping rods are connected in the shaft sleeve in a sliding mode, and the end heads of the clamping rods are arranged corresponding to the edge arc of the casting head; the clamping module is used for pushing the clamping rod to clamp the casting head. When the device works, after the casting of a workpiece is finished, the temperature of the workpiece is high, the workpiece has good thermoplasticity, then the two type boxes are overturned and overlapped together, half shaft sleeves on the two type boxes form a complete shaft sleeve, then the shaft sleeve is screwed and fixed through a nut, then the folded type box is placed on a rack through the rotation of the shaft sleeve, casting heads of the two type boxes are aligned, the clamping rod is simultaneously pushed through the clamping module to clamp the aligned casting heads from two sides, and the end face of the clamping rod is set to be in an arc shape corresponding to the edge of the casting head, so that the clamping rod can be tightly attached to the casting heads, and the fixation is realized; at the moment, a first gear is fixedly connected on a shaft sleeve through a bolt, a motor is started to drive a second gear to rotate, the second gear can be meshed with the first gear, so that the shaft sleeve is driven to rotate, the shaft sleeve drives a molding box to rotate, the molding box can generate centrifugal force, steel balls can be driven to rotate under the action of the centrifugal force, the diameter of the steel balls is smaller than that of a workpiece, a part of the steel balls can be discharged after the workpiece is directly cast, the space occupied by the steel balls in the molding box is two thirds of the space in the molding box, but the steel balls have self gravity, when the gravity action of the steel balls is greater than the centrifugal force, the steel balls can rapidly fall down, so that burrs and the like on the surface of the workpiece are polished, the workpiece can be directly polished in the molding box without being taken down, the working procedures are reduced, and the polishing efficiency is improved. On the other hand, the workpiece is prevented from being sent into the polishing platform for polishing after being taken out, the transportation process is reduced, and the workpiece processing efficiency is improved.
Preferably, two clamping modules are symmetrically arranged; the clamping module comprises a supporting rod, a fluted disc, a rotating plate and a third gear, and the two fluted discs are connected with a belt wheel through a belt; one of the pulleys is driven by a motor; the inner ring of the fluted disc is provided with teeth; the third gear is meshed with the inner ring of the fluted disc, the third gear is hinged to one end of the rotating plate, and a gear shaft of the third gear is connected in a sliding groove formed in the supporting rod in a sliding manner; the supporting rod is vertically connected on the clamping rod in series; the other end of the rotating plate is fixedly connected to a belt wheel penetrating through the middle of the fluted disc. The during operation, can drive one of them band pulley when the motor rotates and rotate, thereby make two centre gripping modules synchronous operation, the band pulley can drive the rotor plate that links to each other simultaneously and rotate, the rotor plate rotates can drive No. three gears that link to each other and rotates along the inner circle meshing of fluted disc, can drive the gear shaft that links to each other and slide along the spout when No. three gear revolve, the gear shaft can periodically promote branch and remove, branch drives the clamping bar and removes about the periodicity, when the clamping bar realizes the clamp tightly to the casting head, the motor stops to keep the clamping bar's clamping state, thereby realize the fixed crowded tightness to the casting head of type case, avoid the type case at the injury that the pivoted in-process casting head removed and cause.
Preferably, electromagnets are arranged on the upper side and the lower side of the two molding boxes; the bottom of the molding box is provided with an ash discharge hole; the electromagnet is electrified and controlled by a controller. The during operation, when the molding box rotated, the steel ball in the molding box polished the work piece, because steel ball self has great gravity, when making molding box pivoted in-process steel ball self weight be greater than centrifugal force, can drop to the bottom in the twinkling of an eye, thereby great impact force has to the molding box, for avoiding the steel ball to gather all the time at the molding box bottom and cause harm to the molding box, through setting up the electro-magnet in the top and the below of molding box, when the steel ball whereabouts, through the electro-magnet circular telegram of control top, thereby make the electro-magnet produce powerful attraction to the steel ball, thereby avoid the steel ball to acutely strike the work piece, partly iron fillings can be by suction ash hole under the attraction of electro-magnet simultaneously, realize the quick discharge of iron fillings.
Preferably, the ash discharge holes are uniformly arranged in a group at intervals, and the aperture of each ash discharge hole is smaller than the diameter of each steel ball; a brush plate is arranged below the molding box; the brush hair on the brush board can stretch into the dust discharge hole. When the device works, when the molding box rotates, the steel balls in the molding box can polish a workpiece, more scrap iron can be generated during polishing, on one hand, the scrap iron can be thrown out from the ash discharging hole under the action of centrifugal force, and on the other hand, the scrap iron can be quickly moved out under the intermittent attraction of the electromagnet below; meanwhile, the brush bristles on the brush plate can stretch into the ash discharge hole to dredge the ash discharge hole, so that the ash discharge hole is prevented from being blocked.
Preferably, the steel balls are composed of four segments, rubber sheets and quartz sand, and adjacent segments are connected through the rubber sheets; two thirds of quartz sand is filled in a cavity formed by the segment and the rubber sheet. When the grinding tool works, the steel balls have large impact force when falling, and although the workpiece needs to be ground, the impact force of the steel balls can cause excessive depression on the surface of the workpiece, so that the machining effect of the workpiece is influenced; through with the hollow setting of steel ball, the segment of a ball elastic connection that connects through the sheet rubber on the one hand can produce certain buffering when falling and assaulting, and the impact force to the steel ball is absorbed with inside two-thirds's quartz sand cooperation simultaneously, guarantees the steel ball simultaneously again and can with the abundant contact of workpiece surface to reach better effect of polishing.
Preferably, a friction layer is arranged on each segment. When the steel ball rolling die works, the steel balls roll in the molding box, and meanwhile, due to the friction layer of the steel balls, the steel balls can be violently rubbed in the rotating process, so that a large amount of heat is generated, the temperature in the molding box is increased by the generated heat, and a workpiece has better thermoplasticity and is easier to polish uniformly; meanwhile, when the steel balls impact the surface of the workpiece, the friction layer is in full contact with the workpiece, so that the polishing effect on the workpiece is enhanced.
The invention has the following beneficial effects:
1. the invention drives the molding box to rotate through gear transmission, thereby driving the steel balls to quickly polish the surface of the workpiece on one hand, and avoiding the workpiece from being taken out and then being sent into the polishing platform to be polished on the other hand, thereby reducing the transportation process and improving the processing efficiency of the workpiece.
2. The workpiece is ground by the steel balls in the molding box, when the weight of the steel balls is larger than the centrifugal force, the steel balls can instantly fall to the bottom, in order to avoid the damage to the molding box caused by the fact that the steel balls are always accumulated at the bottom of the molding box, the electromagnet above the steel balls is controlled to be electrified, so that the electromagnet can generate strong attraction to the steel balls, further the steel balls are prevented from violently impacting the workpiece, and meanwhile, scrap iron can be sucked out of the ash discharge hole under the attraction of the electromagnet, and the scrap iron can be quickly discharged.
Drawings
The invention will be further explained with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a top view of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of the steel ball of FIG. 1;
in the figure: the device comprises a molding box 1, a frame 2, steel balls 3, a segment 31, a rubber sheet 32, quartz sand 33, a friction layer 34, a clamping module 4, a supporting rod 41, a fluted disc 42, a rotating plate 43, a third gear 44, a clamping rod 5, a shaft sleeve 6, a motor 7, a second gear 8, a first gear 81, an electromagnet 9, an ash discharge hole 10 and a brush plate 11.
Detailed Description
In order to make the technical means, the creation characteristics, the achievement purposes and the effects of the invention easy to understand, the invention is further described with the specific embodiments.
As shown in fig. 1 to 3, the lost foam casting equipment of the present invention comprises a controller, a molding box 1, a frame 2, steel balls 3, a clamping module 4, a clamping rod 5, a shaft sleeve 6 and a motor 7, wherein the controller is used for controlling the equipment to automatically operate, and is fixedly installed on the frame 2; the two molding boxes 1 are arranged, the adjacent ends of the two molding boxes 1 are hinged through hinges, the casting heads of the molding boxes 1 are correspondingly arranged, steel balls 3 are arranged in the molding boxes 1, and the two sides of each molding box 1 are fixedly connected with half of the corresponding shaft sleeve 6; when the two molding boxes 1 are rotated and overlapped, the molding boxes are rotatably placed on the rack 2 through shaft sleeves 6 on two sides of the molding boxes 1; the frame 2 is fixedly connected to the ground; one of the shaft sleeves 6 is fixedly connected with a first gear 81; a second gear 8 is arranged below the first gear 81; the second gear 8 can be meshed with the first gear 81, and the second gear 8 is connected with the end of the motor 7; the motor 7 is fixedly connected to the frame 2, two clamping rods 5 are symmetrically arranged, the clamping rods 5 are connected in the shaft sleeve 6 in a sliding mode, and the end of each clamping rod 5 is arranged in an arc shape corresponding to the edge of the casting head; the clamping module 4 is used for pushing the clamping rod 5 to clamp the casting head. When the device works, after the casting of a workpiece is finished, the temperature of the workpiece is high, the workpiece has good thermoplasticity, then the two molding boxes 1 are turned and overlapped together, half shaft sleeves 6 on the two molding boxes 1 form a complete shaft sleeve 6, then the whole shaft sleeve 6 is screwed and fixed through a nut, then the folded molding boxes 1 are placed on the rack 2 through the rotation of the shaft sleeve 6, casting heads of the two molding boxes 1 are aligned, the clamping rods 5 are simultaneously pushed through the clamping modules 4 to clamp the aligned casting heads from two sides, and the end faces of the clamping rods 5 are arranged into arc shapes corresponding to the edges of the casting heads, so that the clamping rods 5 can be tightly attached to the casting heads, and the fixation is realized; at the moment, a first gear 81 is fixedly connected on a shaft sleeve 6 through a bolt, a motor 7 is started to drive a second gear 8 to rotate, the second gear 8 rotates and can be meshed with the first gear 81, so that the shaft sleeve 6 is driven to rotate, the shaft sleeve 6 drives a molding box 1 to rotate, the molding box 1 rotates to generate centrifugal force, steel balls 3 can be driven to rotate under the action of the centrifugal force, the diameter of each steel ball is smaller than that of a workpiece, a part of each steel ball can be discharged after the workpiece is directly cast, the space occupied by the steel balls 3 in the molding box 1 is two thirds of the space in the molding box 1, but the steel balls 3 have self gravity, when the gravity action of the steel balls 3 is larger than the centrifugal force, the steel balls 3 can rapidly fall, burrs and the like on the surface of the workpiece are polished, the workpiece can be directly polished in the molding box 1 without being taken down, so that the working procedures are reduced, the polishing efficiency is improved, the technical scheme drives the molding box 1 to rotate through gear transmission, and then can drive steel ball 3 on the one hand and polish rapidly to the workpiece surface, on the other hand avoids taking out the back with the work piece and send into the platform of polishing and polish, has reduced the transportation, has improved work piece machining efficiency.
As an embodiment, two clamping modules 4 are symmetrically arranged; the clamping module 4 comprises a support rod 41, a fluted disc 42, a rotating plate 43 and a third gear 44, wherein the two fluted discs 42 are connected with each other through a belt and a belt wheel; one of the pulleys is driven by a motor 7; the inner ring of the fluted disc 42 is provided with teeth; the third gear 44 is meshed with the inner ring of the fluted disc 42, the third gear 44 is hinged at one end of the rotating plate 43, and a gear shaft of the third gear 44 is connected in a sliding groove arranged on the support rod 41 in a sliding manner; the supporting rod 41 is vertically connected in series on the clamping rod 5; the other end of the rotating plate 43 is fixedly connected to a belt wheel passing through the middle of the fluted disc 42. During operation, when motor 7 rotates and can drive one of them band pulley to rotate, thereby make two centre gripping module 4 synchronous operation, the band pulley can drive continuous rotor plate 43 and rotate simultaneously, rotor plate 43 rotates and can drive continuous No. three gear 44 along the inner circle meshing rotation of fluted disc 42, No. three gear 44 can drive continuous gear shaft along the spout slip simultaneously when rotating, the gear shaft can periodically promote branch 41 and remove about, branch 41 drives clamping bar 5 and removes about the periodicity, when clamping bar 5 realizes the clamp to the casting head, motor 7 stops to keep clamping bar 5's clamping state, thereby realize the fixed crowded tight of casting head to moulding box 1, avoid moulding box 1 at the injury that pivoted in-process casting head removed the riser and cause.
As one embodiment, electromagnets 9 are arranged on the upper side and the lower side of the two-type box 1; the bottom of the molding box 1 is provided with an ash discharge hole 10; the electromagnet 9 is electrified and controlled by a controller. The during operation, when the molding box 1 rotates, 3 steel balls in the molding box 1 polish the work piece, because 3 steel balls self have great gravity, make 3 self weight of the in-process steel balls of molding box 1 pivoted be greater than when centrifugal force, can drop to the bottom in the twinkling of an eye, thereby to molding box 1 have great impact force, cause harm to molding box 1 for avoiding 3 steel balls to gather in molding box 1 bottom all the time, through setting up electro-magnet 9 in the top and the below of molding box 1, when 3 steel balls fall, through the electro-magnet 9 circular telegram of control top, thereby make electro-magnet 9 produce powerful attraction to 3 steel balls of steel ball, thereby avoid 3 violent striking work pieces of steel ball, some iron fillings can be by suction ash hole 10 under the appeal of electro-magnet 9 simultaneously, realize the quick discharge of iron fillings.
As one embodiment, the ash discharge holes 10 are uniformly arranged in a group at intervals, and the aperture of each ash discharge hole 10 is smaller than the diameter of each steel ball 3; a brush plate 11 is arranged below the molding box 1; the bristles on the brush plate 11 can extend into the dust discharge hole 10. When the device works, when the molding box 1 rotates, the steel balls 3 in the molding box 1 can polish a workpiece, more scrap iron can be generated during polishing, on one hand, the scrap iron can be thrown out from the ash discharging hole 10 under the action of centrifugal force, and on the other hand, the scrap iron can be quickly moved out under the intermittent attraction of the electromagnet 9 below; meanwhile, the bristles on the brush plate 11 can extend into the dust discharging holes 10 to dredge the dust discharging holes 10, so that the dust discharging holes 10 are prevented from being blocked.
As one embodiment, the steel ball 3 is composed of four segments 31, four rubber sheets 32 and quartz sand 33, and the adjacent segments 31 are connected by the rubber sheets 32; two thirds of quartz sand 33 are filled in a cavity formed by the segment 31 and the rubber sheet 32. When the grinding machine works, the steel balls 3 have large impact force when falling, and although the workpiece needs to be ground, the impact force of the steel balls 3 can cause excessive depression on the surface of the workpiece, so that the machining effect of the workpiece is influenced; through 3 hollow settings of steel ball, segment 31 elastic connection through the connection of sheet rubber 32 on the one hand can produce certain buffering when falling and assaulting, cooperates with inside two-thirds's quartz sand 33 simultaneously, absorbs the impact force of steel ball 3, guarantees steel ball 3 again simultaneously and can with the abundant contact of workpiece surface to reach the better effect of polishing.
In one embodiment, the segments 31 are each provided with a friction layer 34. When the steel ball rolling machine works, the steel balls 3 roll in the molding box 1, and meanwhile, due to the friction layer 34 arranged on the steel balls, the steel balls can be violently rubbed in the rotating process, so that a large amount of heat is generated, the temperature in the molding box 1 is increased by the generated heat, and a workpiece has better thermoplasticity and is easier to polish uniformly; meanwhile, when the steel balls 3 impact the surface of the workpiece, the friction layer 34 is fully contacted with the workpiece, so that the polishing effect on the workpiece is enhanced.
When the device works, after the casting of a workpiece is finished, the temperature of the workpiece is high, the workpiece has good thermoplasticity, then the two molding boxes 1 are turned and overlapped together, half shaft sleeves 6 on the two molding boxes 1 form a complete shaft sleeve 6, then the whole shaft sleeve 6 is screwed and fixed through a nut, then the folded molding boxes 1 are placed on the rack 2 through the rotation of the shaft sleeve 6, casting heads of the two molding boxes 1 are aligned, the clamping rods 5 are simultaneously pushed through the clamping modules 4 to clamp the aligned casting heads from two sides, and the end faces of the clamping rods 5 are arranged into arc shapes corresponding to the edges of the casting heads, so that the clamping rods 5 can be tightly attached to the casting heads, and the fixation is realized; at the moment, a first gear 81 is fixedly connected on a shaft sleeve 6 through a bolt, a motor 7 is started to drive a second gear 8 to rotate, the second gear 8 rotates and can be meshed with the first gear 81, so that the shaft sleeve 6 is driven to rotate, the shaft sleeve 6 drives a molding box 1 to rotate, the molding box 1 rotates to generate centrifugal force, steel balls 3 can be driven to rotate under the action of the centrifugal force, the diameter of each steel ball is smaller than that of a workpiece, a part of each steel ball can be discharged after the workpiece is directly cast, the space occupied by the steel balls 3 in the molding box 1 is two thirds of the space in the molding box 1, but the steel balls 3 have self gravity, when the gravity action of the steel balls 3 is larger than the centrifugal force, the steel balls 3 can rapidly fall, burrs and the like on the surface of the workpiece are polished, the workpiece can be directly polished in the molding box 1 without being taken down, so that the working procedures are reduced, the polishing efficiency is improved, the technical scheme drives the molding box 1 to rotate through gear transmission, and then can drive steel ball 3 on the one hand and polish rapidly to the workpiece surface, on the other hand avoids taking out the back with the work piece and send into the platform of polishing and polish, has reduced the transportation, has improved work piece machining efficiency.
The foregoing illustrates and describes the principles, general features, and advantages of the present invention. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, which are described in the specification and illustrated only to illustrate the principle of the present invention, but that various changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, which fall within the scope of the invention as claimed. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.