CN111715963B - Coaxial cable shielding layer welding machine - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a coaxial cable shielding layer welding machine which comprises a bottom plate, and a mounting frame, a supporting rod and a fixing frame which are fixed on the bottom plate, wherein an air cylinder is fixedly mounted on the mounting frame, the output end of the air cylinder is connected with a welding head, the upper end of the supporting rod is connected with a welding table, the welding head and the welding table are coaxial, a fixing mechanism is arranged on the supporting rod, a coil feeding box, a motor and a fixing rod are fixedly supported on the fixing frame from top to bottom in sequence, the output end of the motor is fixedly connected with a first gear, the first gear is symmetrically engaged with a second gear and a third gear, a wire feeding mechanism is arranged in the coil feeding box, and the second gear is fixedly connected with the wire feeding mechanism through a straight rod. The welding table is simple in structure, the cable can be fixed at the right center of the welding table through simple rotation, welding stability is guaranteed, in addition, the welding table only needs one motor for driving, transmission errors are small, and welding quality of the shielding layer can be improved.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of cable processing equipment, in particular to a coaxial cable shielding layer welding machine.
Background
The coaxial cable is a cable in which two concentric conductors share the same shielding layer and the conductor and the shielding layer are coaxial, and the coaxial cable has wide application and great demand in the aspects of industrial processing and manufacturing, digital signal transmission, analog signal propagation and the like.
When processing coaxial cable, need weld a layer shielding layer for the cable, in order to prevent the influence of electromagnetic wave, but most coaxial cables all rely on workman manual welding when processing man-hour at present, the welded speed is slower, the processingquality is also different, when fixing coaxial cable, it is difficult to fix the cable in the central point of welding stage just, lead to the shielding layer after the welding to appear inhomogeneous scheduling problem, and few part adopts motor drive's mode to add man-hour to the shielding layer, receive the difference of motor model, need carefully calibrate send a speed and cable displacement speed before processing, the operation is complicated, for this reason, we provide a coaxial cable shielding layer welding machine.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the defects that manual welding is mostly adopted when a shielding layer of a coaxial cable is welded in the prior art, the welding speed is low, the welding quality cannot be guaranteed, small parts of automatic welding need careful calibration, and the operation is complex.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
a coaxial cable shielding layer welding machine comprises a bottom plate, and a mounting frame, a support rod and a fixing frame which are fixed on the bottom plate, wherein an air cylinder is fixedly mounted on the mounting frame, the output end of the air cylinder is connected with a welding head, the upper end of the support rod is connected with a welding table, the welding head and the welding table are coaxial, and a fixing mechanism is arranged on the support rod;
the wire feeding mechanism is characterized in that the coil feeding box, the motor and the fixed rod are sequentially and fixedly supported by the fixed frame from top to bottom, a first gear is fixedly connected to the output end of the motor, the first gear is symmetrically meshed with a second gear and a third gear, a wire feeding mechanism is arranged in the coil feeding box, the second gear is fixedly connected with the wire feeding mechanism through a straight rod, the third gear is fixedly connected with a second bevel gear through the fixed rod, the second bevel gear is meshed with a first bevel gear, and the first bevel gear is fixedly connected with a winding mechanism.
Preferably, fixed establishment includes the commentaries on classics board with bracing piece threaded connection, the below of changeing the board is rotated through the ball axle and is installed two connecting rods, it has two swash plates to articulate on the lateral wall of bracing piece, two the one end that the board was kept away from to the connecting rod all slides with the swash plate that corresponds and links to each other, the bracing piece has two push pedals through many spring symmetric connections, and the one end that the bracing piece was kept away from to two swash plates all offsets with the push pedal activity that corresponds, two the push pedal is L type and fixedly connected with clamp plate, two the clamp plate all is located the welding bench, and two clamp plates are parallel to each other.
Preferably, the wire feeding mechanism comprises a winding wheel and a plurality of guide wheels, the winding wheel and the guide wheels are rotatably installed in the coil conveying box, a straight rod is fixedly connected between the winding wheel and the second gear, the guide wheels are arranged in a staggered mode, and a wire conveying opening is further formed in the coil conveying box.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. through setting up devices such as commentaries on classics board, connecting rod, swash plate, push pedal, the accessible rotates the mode of commentaries on classics board and adjusts the distance between two clamp plates, is fixed the cable between the clamp plate, avoids adding the cable and rocks during processing.
2. In this device, offer the spout that is used for restricting the connecting rod and removes on the swash plate, and the one end that the connecting rod is located the spout is connected with the hemisphere stopper for the connecting rod can't drop from the spout when sliding from top to bottom, improves the stability of connecting between each part.
3. Because the specifications of the two connecting rods, the two inclined plates, the two push plates and the two pressure plates are respectively the same, when the rotating plate is rotated, the moving distances of the two pressure plates are the same, the cable can be fixed at the center of the welding table, the position of a welding head in the horizontal direction does not need to be adjusted, the operation is simple and convenient, and the welding stability can be ensured.
4. Through setting up first gear, second gear, third gear, first bevel gear and second bevel gear, accessible gear drive's mode simultaneously controls send a speed and rolling speed, makes the volume of sending out of tin silk satisfy the required welding volume of cable just.
5. In some processing modes, a plurality of motors are used for controlling the movement of the tin wire and the movement of the cable, the influence of difference among the motors is avoided, even though the motors of the same type are used, the rotating speed, the power and the like of the motors are required to be debugged, and the processing complexity is increased.
6. When the welding speed of the cable shielding layer needs to be adjusted, the rotating speed of one motor is controlled, a control circuit is very simple, operation is convenient, when the device is periodically overhauled, whether a fault occurs or not can be easily detected, and overhauling efficiency is improved.
In conclusion, the welding table has a simple structure, the cable can be fixed at the right center of the welding table through simple rotation, the welding stability is ensured, in addition, only one motor is needed for driving, the transmission error is small, and the welding quality of the shielding layer can be improved.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a coaxial cable shielding layer welding machine according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a fixing mechanism in a coaxial cable shielding layer welding machine according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic front view of a first gear, a second gear and a third gear of the coaxial cable shielding layer welding machine according to the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic side view of a third gear and a second bevel gear of a coaxial cable shielding layer welding machine according to the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic side view of a coil feeding box in a coaxial cable shielding layer welding machine according to the present invention;
fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a back structure of a coil feeding box in a coaxial cable shielding layer welding machine according to the present invention.
In the figure: the device comprises a cylinder 1, a welding head 2, a pressing plate 3, a welding table 4, a spring 5, a push plate 6, a mounting frame 7, a support rod 8, a connecting rod 9, a rotating plate 10, a thread groove 11, a sloping plate 12, a bottom plate 13, a first bevel gear 14, a second bevel gear 15, a fixing frame 16, a first gear 17, a coil feeding box 18, a second gear 19, a motor 20, a third gear 21, a fixing rod 22, a coil wheel 23, a guide wheel 24 and a wire feeding opening 25.
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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 of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments.
Referring to fig. 1-6, the welding machine for the shielding layer of the coaxial cable comprises a bottom plate 13, and a mounting rack 7, a support rod 8 and a fixing rack 16 which are fixed on the bottom plate 13, wherein an air cylinder 1 is fixedly mounted on the mounting rack 7, the output end of the air cylinder 1 is connected with a welding head 2, the upper end of the support rod 8 is connected with a welding table 4, the welding head 2 and the welding table 4 are coaxial, and a fixing mechanism is arranged on the support rod 8;
the fixed frame 16 is fixedly supported with a coil feeding box 18, a motor 20 and a fixed rod 22 from top to bottom in sequence, the fixed rod 22 can rotate along the axis of the fixed rod 22, the output end of the motor 20 is fixedly connected with a first gear 17, the first gear 17 is symmetrically meshed with a second gear 19 and a third gear 21, a wire feeding mechanism is arranged in the coil feeding box 18, the second gear 19 is fixedly connected with the wire feeding mechanism through a straight rod, the third gear 21 is fixedly connected with a second bevel gear 15 through the fixed rod 22, the second bevel gear 15 is meshed with a first bevel gear 14, and the first bevel gear 14 is fixedly connected with a winding mechanism.
In the invention, a section of thread groove 11 is formed in the middle of a support rod 8, a fixing mechanism comprises a rotating plate 10 in threaded connection with the support rod 8, two connecting rods 9 are rotatably installed below the rotating plate 10 through a spherical shaft, two inclined plates 12 are hinged on the side wall of the support rod 8, one ends of the two connecting rods 9, far away from the rotating plate 10, are slidably connected with the corresponding inclined plates 12, chutes for limiting the movement of the connecting rods 9 are formed in the inclined plates 12, hemispherical stoppers are connected to the ends, located in the chutes, of the connecting rods 9, so that the connecting rods 9 cannot fall off from the chutes, the support rod 8 is symmetrically connected with two push plates 6 through a plurality of springs 5, one ends, far away from the support rod 8, of the two inclined plates 12 are movably abutted to the corresponding push plates 6, the two push plates 6 are L-shaped and fixedly connected with pressure plates 3, the two pressure plates 3 are both located on a welding table 4, and the two pressure plates 3 are parallel to each other, and the pressure plates 3 can slide on the welding table.
The wire feeding mechanism comprises a winding wheel 23 and a plurality of guide wheels 24 which are rotatably arranged in the coil conveying box 18, a straight rod is fixedly connected between the winding wheel 23 and the second gear 19, the second gear 19 can drive the winding wheel 23 to rotate under the transmission action of the straight rod, the guide wheels 24 are arranged in a staggered manner in height to ensure that the tin wire is horizontally conveyed out, and a wire conveying opening 25 is formed in the coil conveying box 18;
the winding mechanism comprises a winding drum (not shown in the figure) coaxially connected with the first bevel gear 14, the position of the winding drum corresponds to the position of the cable, the processed cable can be automatically wound on the winding drum, and the cable is convenient to transfer.
When the device is used, a cable to be processed is fixed on the welding table 4 through the fixing mechanism, and the specific fixing process is as follows: the cable is placed between the two pressing plates 3, if the distance between the two pressing plates 3 is larger than the diameter of the cable, the rotating plate 10 is rotated upwards, because the connecting rod 9 is connected with the rotating plate 10 through the ball shaft, the rotating plate 10 does not influence the connecting rod 9, and only the connecting rod 9 can move upwards or downwards, when the rotating plate 10 is rotated upwards, the lower end of the connecting rod 9 slides upwards at a chute in the inclined plate 12, so that the included angle between the inclined plate 12 and the supporting rod 8 is reduced, the inclined plate 12 is separated from the push plates 6, under the action of the spring 5 (the spring 5 is in a stretching state), the two push plates 6 are close to each other, when the cable is clamped by the pressing plates 3, the rotating plate 10 is stopped (the rotating plate 10 has self-locking performance), and the cable is positioned in the middle of the welding table 4;
if the distance between the two pressing plates 3 is smaller than the diameter of the cable, the rotating plate 10 is rotated downwards, so that the two pressing plates 3 can be far away from each other, the two movement processes have the same principle, and the detailed description is omitted;
adjusting the distance between the welding head 2 and the cable by controlling the cylinder 1, then starting the welding head 2 and the motor 20, and preparing to weld a shielding layer;
when the motor 20 is started, the output shaft of the motor 20 drives the first gear 17 to rotate through the coupler, and the first gear 17 is respectively meshed with the second gear 19 and the third gear 21, so that the second gear 19 and the third gear 21 synchronously rotate in a meshing transmission mode;
because the second gear 19 is fixedly connected with the winding wheel 23 in the winding box 18 through the straight rod, the second gear 19 plays a role of driving the winding wheel 23 to rotate, the tin wire on the winding wheel 23 is sent out along with the rotation of the winding wheel 23, and extends out of the wire feeding port 25 to the upper part of the cable after being leveled by the guide wheel 24, and the tin wire is welded on the cable after being heated by the welding head 2;
meanwhile, the third gear 21 drives the second bevel gear 15 to rotate through the fixing rod 22, the second bevel gear 15 drives the first bevel gear 14 meshed with the second bevel gear to rotate, the first bevel gear 14 is coaxially connected with a winding drum (not shown in the figure), the position of the winding drum corresponds to the position of the cable, the processed cable can be automatically wound on the winding drum, and the cable traction function is achieved;
the central axis of the first bevel gear 14 is perpendicular to the central axis of the second bevel gear 15, the two bevel gears are meshed with each other to achieve the purpose of changing the transmission direction, only one motor 20 is used as a drive in the wire feeding and winding processes of the device, the wire feeding speed and the winding speed can be perfectly matched, the thickness of a processed shielding layer is more uniform, and the shielding effect is better.
The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art should be considered to be within the technical scope of the present invention, and the technical solutions and the inventive concepts thereof according to the present invention should be equivalent or changed within the scope of the present invention.
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1. A welding machine for a coaxial cable shielding layer comprises a bottom plate (13), and a mounting rack (7), a support rod (8) and a fixing rack (16) which are fixed on the bottom plate (13), and is characterized in that an air cylinder (1) is fixedly mounted on the mounting rack (7), the output end of the air cylinder (1) is connected with a welding head (2), the upper end of the support rod (8) is connected with a welding table (4), the welding head (2) is coaxial with the welding table (4), and a fixing mechanism is arranged on the support rod (8);
the winding device is characterized in that a winding feeding box (18), a motor (20) and a fixed rod (22) are sequentially and fixedly supported on the fixed frame (16) from top to bottom, a first gear (17) is fixedly connected to the output end of the motor (20), a second gear (19) and a third gear (21) are symmetrically meshed with the first gear (17), a wire feeding mechanism is arranged in the winding feeding box (18), the second gear (19) is fixedly connected with the wire feeding mechanism through a straight rod, a second bevel gear (15) is fixedly connected to the third gear (21) through the fixed rod (22), a first bevel gear (14) is meshed with the second bevel gear (15), and a winding mechanism is fixedly connected to the first bevel gear (14);
the fixing mechanism comprises a rotating plate (10) in threaded connection with a support rod (8), two connecting rods (9) are rotatably mounted below the rotating plate (10) through a spherical shaft, two inclined plates (12) are hinged to the side wall of the support rod (8), one ends, far away from the rotating plate (10), of the two connecting rods (9) are connected with the corresponding inclined plates (12) in a sliding mode, the support rod (8) is symmetrically connected with two push plates (6) through a plurality of springs (5), one ends, far away from the support rod (8), of the two inclined plates (12) are movably abutted to the corresponding push plates (6), the two push plates (6) are L-shaped and are fixedly connected with pressure plates (3), the two pressure plates (3) are located on a welding table (4), and the two pressure plates (3) are parallel to each other;
the cable is placed between the two pressing plates (3), if the distance between the two pressing plates (3) is larger than the diameter of the cable, the rotating plate (10) rotates upwards, because the connecting rod (9) is connected with the rotating plate (10) through a ball shaft, the rotating plate (10) cannot influence the connecting rod (9) in rotation, only the connecting rod (9) can move upwards or downwards, when the rotating plate (10) rotates upwards, the lower end of the connecting rod (9) slides upwards at a sliding groove in the inclined plate (12), an included angle between the inclined plate (12) and the supporting rod (8) is reduced, the inclined plate (12) is separated from the pushing plate (6), under the action of the spring (5), the spring (5) is in a stretching state, the two pushing plates (6) are close to each other, when the cable is clamped by the pressing plates (3), the rotating plate (10) stops rotating, the rotating plate (10) has self-locking performance, the cable is located in the middle of the welding table (4), if the distance between the two pressing plates (3) is smaller than the diameter of the cable, the rotating plate (10) rotates downwards, and the pressing plates (3) can be far away from each other.
2. The coaxial cable shielding layer welding machine according to claim 1, wherein the wire feeding mechanism comprises a winding wheel (23) and a plurality of guide wheels (24), the winding wheel (23) and the guide wheels (24) are rotatably mounted in a winding feeding box (18), a straight rod is fixedly connected between the winding wheel (23) and a second gear (19), the guide wheels (24) are arranged in a staggered manner, and a wire feeding port (25) is further formed in the winding feeding box (18).
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