CN110040565A - A kind of MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting device and method thereof - Google Patents

A kind of MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting device and method thereof Download PDF

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CN110040565A
CN110040565A CN201910358867.7A CN201910358867A CN110040565A CN 110040565 A CN110040565 A CN 110040565A CN 201910358867 A CN201910358867 A CN 201910358867A CN 110040565 A CN110040565 A CN 110040565A
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崔金海
郭利清
朱发鑫
金双喜
张利祥
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B65H23/00Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs
    • B65H23/04Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs longitudinally
    • B65H23/26Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs longitudinally by transverse stationary or adjustable bars or rollers
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B65H45/00Folding thin material
    • B65H45/12Folding articles or webs with application of pressure to define or form crease lines
    • B65H45/22Longitudinal folders, i.e. for folding moving sheet material parallel to the direction of movement
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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Abstract

This application discloses a kind of MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting device and method, comprising: at least two let off roll;Composite roll unreels the meet in path positioned at all let off roll;Edge-folding mechanism, including hemming roller and flanging guide rod, the hemming roller are mounted in the transmitting path of the composite roll, and the flanging guide rod is located at the two sides of the hemming roller;The hemming roller fixes the breadth after cloth flanging while cooperating flanging guide rod to complete flanging;Doubling traction mechanism, including doubling tripod and traction roller, the doubling tripod, in the transmitting path of hemming roller, composite material-feeding is attached on doubling tripod, and cloth turns to 90 ° of doublings along doubling tripod under the traction of traction roller;The traction roller is mounted in the transmitting path of the doubling tripod.The application makes MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment can be realized quick flanging and fold handling, high production efficiency after multilayer cloth is compound.

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A kind of MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting device and method thereof
Technical field
This application involves cloth production equipments, and in particular to a kind of MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting device and method thereof.
Background technique
The laminating production of cloth is mainly completed by equipment, but existing equipment can only be simple to cloth progress compound Operation, produces compound cloth, and flanging is carried out while can not also carrying out compound to multilayer cloth and doubling operates, is unable to satisfy The needs in market.
Summary of the invention
The application provides a kind of MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting device and method thereof for having both compound, flanging and doubling cloth.
According in a first aspect, providing a kind of MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment in a kind of embodiment, comprising:
At least two let off roll, all let off roll are parallel to each other installation;
Composite roll unreels the meet in path positioned at all let off roll;
Edge-folding mechanism, including hemming roller and flanging guide rod, the hemming roller are mounted in the transmitting path of the composite roll, The flanging guide rod is located at the two sides of the hemming roller, and the flanging guide rod guides cloth when passing through hemming roller for cloth Edge fold inward;The hemming roller fixes the breadth after cloth flanging while cooperating flanging guide rod to complete flanging;
Doubling traction mechanism, including doubling tripod and traction roller, the doubling tripod, positioned at the transmission path of hemming roller On diameter, composite material-feeding is attached on doubling tripod, and cloth is right along 90 ° of doubling tripod steering under the traction of traction roller Folding;The traction roller is mounted in the transmitting path of the doubling tripod.
Further, flanging guide rod is along outbound course edge of the inclined baffle in cloth conveying path upward of cloth On.
Further, doubling tripod includes bottom plate and side plate, and the bottom plate is isoceles triangle plate, and two of the bottom plate Etc. symmetrical side plate is installed in waist edges, the bottom plate and side plate enclose the doubling guide groove, two etc. of the bottom plate Waist edge is obliquely installed upward, and bottom plate is from lower from upper guiding cloth doubling.
It further, further include several mop rollers and jockey pulley, the mop roller and jockey pulley are mounted on cloth conveying On path.
Further, further include controller and traction electric machine, the traction electric machine is connected with traction roller, the controller with The traction electric machine connection, for controlling the traction electric machine.
It further, further include optoelectronic switch and tension sensor, the optoelectronic switch is mounted on the output of let off roll cloth First group of mop roller two sides, whether the position for detecting cloth side suitable, and the tension sensor is mounted on cloth conveying On path, for detecting the tension of cloth conveying, the optoelectronic switch and tension sensor are connect with controller signals.
It further, further include rack, the let off roll, composite roll, edge-folding mechanism, doubling tripod and traction roller are successively It is mounted on the rack.
According to second aspect, the MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting based on above-mentioned MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment is provided in a kind of embodiment Method includes the following steps:
It is compound: the stacking of at least two clothes is combined with each other;
Flanging: the edge infolding of cloth is fixed;
Breadth: the cloth breadth after fixed flanging;
Doubling: by the midline doubling of cloth along the conveying direction.
Further, the two sides in the cloth being combined with each other positioned at lowest level cloth are not stacked covering, and are rolling over In crack approach be located at lowest level cloth two sides be not stacked covering edge turn in be folded on the edge of top layer's cloth, formed Infolding binding structure.
According to the MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting device and method thereof of above-described embodiment, due to the cloth conveying path after composite roll On be provided with edge-folding mechanism, doubling traction mechanism so that MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment can be realized fastly after multilayer cloth is compound Fast flanging and fold handling, high production efficiency.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 is a kind of side view of MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment in embodiment;
Fig. 2 is a kind of top view of MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment in embodiment;
Fig. 3 is the cross-sectional view of A-A in Fig. 1;
Fig. 4 is the enlarged drawing of cloth in Fig. 3;
Fig. 5 is a kind of structural block diagram of control section in embodiment.
Specific embodiment
Below by specific embodiment combination attached drawing, invention is further described in detail.
Embodiment one:
Present embodiments provide a kind of MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment, this equipment be mainly used for the compound of cloth, flanging and Fold handling is prepared by MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting.
As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, the MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment of the present embodiment mainly includes let off roll 10, composite roll 20, folding Side mechanism 30 and doubling traction mechanism 40, in order to preferably install each component, this equipment further includes rack 50, and let off roll 10 is answered Roller 20, edge-folding mechanism 30 and doubling traction mechanism 40 is closed to be sequentially arranged in rack 50.
There are two the tools of let off roll 10, and in order to preferably distinguish, two let off roll 10 are respectively designated as the first let off roll 11 With the second let off roll 12, the first let off roll 11 and the second let off roll 12 are wound with cloth respectively, and the cloth width of the two is not Together, the width of cloth is narrower than the width of cloth on the second let off roll 12 on the first let off roll 11.As shown in Figure 1, being located at Far Left It is the first let off roll 11, side is the second let off roll 12 behind side by side.In other embodiments, the quantity of let off roll 10 can According to the compound number of plies selection of cloth.
In the present embodiment, composite roll 20 is mounted on the unreeling on path of two let off roll 10, and is located at let off roll 10 and puts Path meet is rolled up, mop roller 61 and jockey pulley 62 are provided between let off roll 10 and composite roll 20, multiple mop rollers 61 are distinguished Cloth traction on first let off roll 11 and the second let off roll 12 is directed to compound on composite roll 20, and the second let off roll 12 On the cloth that unreels in lower layer, the cloth that the first let off roll 11 unreels is on upper layer.Jockey pulley 62 is respectively by 11 He of the first let off roll Cloth on second let off roll 12 is adjusted to tensioning transmission, to improve preparation quality.
Shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, edge-folding mechanism 30 includes hemming roller 31 and flanging guide rod 32, and hemming roller 31 is mounted on multiple In transmitting path after closing roller 20, there are two the tools of flanging guide rod 32, is symmetrically mounted on the two sides of hemming roller 31,32 court of flanging guide rod Upper inclined baffle is on the edge in cloth conveying path afterwards, and baffle lives the edge that the second let off roll 12 unreels cloth, so that position It is folded in the broader cloth edge of lower layer turns on the inside of the edge of upper layer cloth, infolding binding structure is formed, such as 4 institutes Show, wherein flanging guide rod 32 is adjustable installation, to adapt to the flanging of different in width cloth.
Doubling traction mechanism 40 includes doubling tripod 41 and traction roller 42, and doubling tripod 41 includes bottom plate and side plate, Bottom plate is an isosceles triangle plate, and the bottom edge of bottom plate is located at lower end, and the waist edges such as two are obliquely installed upward, two etc. of bottom plate The side plate of connected symmetrical dendrimer in waist edge, so that bottom plate and the side plate of two sides form a doubling guiding face upward, when cloth is under After end imports, up in transmit process, the doubling that center line along the conveying direction gradually forms 90 ° of steering by side plate baffle is defeated Out.Traction roller 42 is mounted on the upper end of doubling tripod 41, and is located on cloth conveying path, the shaft of traction roller 42 and other The shaft of roller is vertical, and traction roller 42 is used for sizing and output after compound cloth, flanging and doubling.
In a kind of embodiment, as shown in figure 5, MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment further includes controller 71 and traction electric machine 72, lead Draw motor 72 to connect with traction roller 42, traction roller 42 becomes a driven roller, and driving cloth is transmitted to always from let off roll 10 to be led On pick-up roll 42.Controller 71 is connect with traction electric machine 72, for controlling the opening and closing of traction electric machine 72.
In a kind of embodiment, MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment further includes optoelectronic switch 73 and tension sensor 74, optoelectronic switch Whether 73 tools have unreeled out cloth on let off roll 10 for detecting there are two the rear end for being separately mounted to two let off roll 10, if Cloth is finished on let off roll 10, then reminds supplement cloth.There are two the tools of tension sensor 74, is separately mounted to two tensioning wheels On, for detecting the tensile force of cloth conveying, it is ensured that the quality of cloth conveying.Optoelectronic switch 73 and tension sensor 74 with control 71 signal of device connection processed, the signal that will test feed back to controller 71, and controller 71 is prompted and made sound according to feedback It answers.
MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment provided in this embodiment, due to being provided on the cloth conveying path after composite roll 20 Edge-folding mechanism 30 and doubling traction mechanism 40, so that MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment can be realized quick folding after multilayer cloth is compound Side and fold handling, high production efficiency.
Embodiment two:
Present embodiments provide a kind of MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting method, this method based on the above embodiment one MULTILAYER COMPOSITE folding Cloth equipment is realized.
The method of the present embodiment includes the following steps:
S01: compound;
The cloth of two kinds of different in width is released from two let off roll 10 respectively, and is combined with each other on composite roll 20. Cloth after compound, than upper slice width, the two sides of lower layer mix feeding are exposed to be had not by the region of compound covering lower layer mix feeding.
S02: flanging;
Two layers it is compound after cloth conveying to edge-folding mechanism 30, when cloth is attached to hemming roller lower camber side, be exposed at hemming roller Selvedge on the outside of both ends of the surface flips up naturally, and the selvedge flipped up inwardly extends into upper layer under the guidance of flanging guide rod 32 On on the inside of the edge of cloth, infolding binding structure is formed.
S03: doubling.
Cloth after flanging is after the input of the lower end of doubling tripod, up in transmit process, along the conveying direction in Heart line is gradually formed the doubling of 90 ° of steering by side plate baffle.Cloth after doubling is exported by the traction of traction roller 42, completes cloth The preparation of material.
It is raw that MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting method provided in this embodiment can fast implement the compound of a variety of clothes, flanging and doubling It produces, and high production efficiency, it is high-quality.
Use above specific case is illustrated the present invention, is merely used to help understand the present invention, not to limit The system present invention.For those skilled in the art, according to the thought of the present invention, can also make several simple It deduces, deform or replaces.

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1. a kind of MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment characterized by comprising
At least two let off roll, all let off roll are parallel to each other installation;
Composite roll unreels the meet in path positioned at all let off roll;
Edge-folding mechanism, including hemming roller and flanging guide rod, the hemming roller is mounted in the transmitting path of the composite roll, described Flanging guide rod is located at the two sides of the hemming roller, and the flanging guide rod guides the edge of cloth for cloth when passing through hemming roller Fold inward;The hemming roller fixes the breadth after cloth flanging while cooperating flanging guide rod to complete flanging;
Doubling traction mechanism, including doubling tripod and traction roller, the doubling tripod, positioned at the transmitting path of hemming roller On, composite material-feeding is attached on doubling tripod, and cloth turns to 90 ° of doublings along doubling tripod under the traction of traction roller; The traction roller is mounted in the transmitting path of the doubling tripod.
2. MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment as described in claim 1, which is characterized in that the flanging guide rod is along cloth output side To acclivitous baffle on the edge in cloth conveying path.
3. MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment as described in claim 1, which is characterized in that the doubling tripod includes bottom plate and side Plate, the bottom plate are isoceles triangle plate, are equipped with symmetrical side plate, the bottom plate and side plate in the waist edges such as two of the bottom plate The guiding doubling slot is enclosed, the waist edges such as two of the bottom plate are obliquely installed upward, and bottom plate is from lower from upper guiding cloth Expect doubling.
4. MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment as described in claim 1, which is characterized in that further include several mop rollers and tension Roller, the mop roller and jockey pulley power are mounted on cloth conveying path.
5. MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment as described in claim 1, which is characterized in that further include controller and traction electric machine, institute It states traction electric machine to connect with traction roller, the controller is connect with the traction electric machine, for controlling the traction electric machine.
6. MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment as claimed in claim 5, which is characterized in that further include optoelectronic switch and tension sensing Device, the optoelectronic switch are mounted on the rear side of let off roll, for detecting whether there is cloth releasing, the tension sensor is mounted on On cloth conveying path, for detecting the tension of cloth conveying, the optoelectronic switch and tension sensor are and controller signals Connection.
7. such as MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment of any of claims 1-6, which is characterized in that it further include rack, it is described Let off roll, composite roll, edge-folding mechanism, doubling traction mechanism are sequentially arranged in the rack.
8. a kind of MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting method based on MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting equipment of any of claims 1-7, It is characterized in that, includes the following steps:
It is compound: the stacking of at least two clothes is combined with each other;
Flanging: the edge infolding of cloth is fixed;
Breadth: the cloth breadth after fixed flanging;
Doubling: by the midline doubling of cloth along the conveying direction.
9. MULTILAYER COMPOSITE plaiting method as claimed in claim 8, which is characterized in that be located in the cloth being combined with each other The two sides of lowest level cloth are not stacked covering, and are located at lowest level cloth two sides during flanging and are not stacked covering Edge is folded on the edge of top layer's cloth in turning over, and forms infolding binding structure.
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