CN112482667A - Concrete reinforcing steel cushion block - Google Patents

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CN112482667A
CN112482667A CN202011256270.0A CN202011256270A CN112482667A CN 112482667 A CN112482667 A CN 112482667A CN 202011256270 A CN202011256270 A CN 202011256270A CN 112482667 A CN112482667 A CN 112482667A
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The invention relates to the technical field of concrete cushion blocks, in particular to a concrete reinforcement cushion block which comprises a cylindrical central column, a control block and a support block, wherein the control block and the support block are uniformly and alternately distributed around the central column, one side of the control block is fixedly connected with an arc-shaped column, an air pipe cavity is formed in the support block, and one end of the arc-shaped column extends into the air pipe cavity.

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Concrete reinforcing steel cushion block
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of concrete cushion blocks, in particular to a concrete reinforcement cushion block.
Background
Concrete reinforcement cushion among the prior art fills up between reinforcing bar and other buildings through the cushion, realizes the location of reinforcing bar, and the multifunctionality of cushion has to be waited to improve, and the actual demand of satisfying the building site construction that ordinary cushion can not be fine, and the steel bar support demand of satisfying polytypic size that traditional design cushion can not be fine.
If the cushion block can be invented, a certain degree of fine adjustment can be realized, the cushion block is better matched with the contact of a steel bar, the stable support of the steel bar is realized, and the problem can be solved, so that the concrete steel bar cushion block is provided.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a concrete reinforcement cushion block to solve the problems in the background technology.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme: a concrete reinforcement cushion block comprises a cylindrical central column, a control block and a support block, wherein the periphery of the central column is annularly provided with the control block and the support block which are uniformly and alternately distributed, one side of the control block is fixedly connected with an arc-shaped column, an air tube cavity is formed in the support block, one end of the arc-shaped column extends into the air tube cavity, an air valve is arranged in the air tube cavity and comprises a control ring, a positioning cylinder, a sealing ball and a guide rod, the sealing ball is arranged between the control ring and the positioning cylinder, one end of the sealing ball is fixedly connected with the guide rod, the guide rod penetrates through the middle part of the control ring, the support block is fixed on the side wall of the central column, one side of the control block is provided with a support column, a support plate is fixedly connected between the support column and the control block, the support column is arranged in the central column, a plate groove is formed in, the clamping block is penetrated with a positioning shaft, the outer walls of the control block and the supporting block are provided with fan-shaped grooves, the fan-shaped grooves are internally and fixedly connected with an inner shaft, the inner shaft is sleeved with a rotating drum, and the middle part of the central column is provided with a rope hole.
Preferably, the control ring is fixed on the inner wall of the gas tube cavity, the control ring is in the shape of an annular plate, a plurality of uniformly distributed through holes are annularly arranged on the control ring plate, and the guide rod is movably sleeved in the middle through hole of the control ring.
Preferably, the positioning cylinder is fixed on the inner wall of the gas tube cavity, the positioning cylinder is in the shape of a cylinder, the middle of the bottom surface of one side of the cylinder body is provided with a spherical groove, the sealing ball is arranged in the spherical groove of the positioning cylinder in a fit manner, and the positioning cylinder is provided with a plurality of uniformly distributed thin tube cavities.
Preferably, an arc-shaped tube cavity is formed in the central column, the support column is arranged in the arc-shaped tube cavity in a matching manner, the support plate penetrates through a plate hole formed in the central column, one end of the support plate extends to the outside of the central column, and the support plate is fixedly connected with the control block.
Preferably, the clamping block is in the shape that two semicircular plate-shaped protruding plates are integrally connected to one side of a cylinder, the side walls of the protruding plates are frosted surfaces, and the positioning shaft is movably sleeved in the middle of the cylinder of the clamping block.
Preferably, the middle part of the rotating drum is movably sleeved with an inner shaft, the end part of the inner shaft is fixedly connected with the inner wall of the sector groove, the rotating drum is arranged in the sector groove, the control block and the supporting block are in a triangular plate shape, the tip of one side of the plate body is in a convex arc surface shape, and the bottom surface of the other side of the plate body is in a concave arc surface shape.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. the invention has structural design, realizes the process of binding the vertical steel bars and the cushion blocks by the metal wire bundles, the control blocks and the support blocks are relatively close to each other until the control blocks and the support blocks clamp the vertical steel bars, so that the vertical steel bars and the cushion blocks are firmly connected, the cushion blocks can be used for supporting the vertical steel bars with different outer diameters, and in addition, after the vertical steel bars and the cushion blocks are bound by the metal wire bundles, the clamping blocks and the rotary drum are matched for clamping the metal wires, so that the accidental dislocation movement of the metal wires is avoided, and the stable supporting effect of the;
2. the device passes through the process that the reinforcing bar was found in the wire constraint, is close to gradually between control block and the supporting shoe, and then causes the arc post to insert in the trachea chamber, and in case the unexpected impact is used on founding the reinforcing bar, the reinforcing bar and cushion can be found in the constraint of wire, and control block and supporting shoe can bear certain atmospheric pressure suction in addition, and atmospheric pressure suction comes from the inner chamber of trachea chamber, and then plays certain buffering impact effect.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the support block structure.
In the figure: the device comprises a central column 1, a control block 2, a support block 3, an arc column 4, an air tube cavity 5, a control ring 6, a positioning barrel 7, a sealing ball 8, a guide rod 9, an air valve 10, a support column 11, a support plate 12, a clamping block 13, a pressure rod 14, a positioning shaft 15, an inner shaft 16, a rotating drum 17, a rope hole 18, a vertical steel bar 19, a metal wire 20, a transverse steel bar 21, a support steel bar 22, an outer wall 23 and an arc tube cavity 24.
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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. All other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative efforts based on the technical solutions of the present invention belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 1 to 3, the present invention provides a technical solution: a concrete reinforcement cushion block comprises a cylindrical central column 1, control blocks 2 and supporting blocks 3, the periphery of the central column 1 is annularly provided with the control blocks 2 and the supporting blocks 3 which are uniformly and alternately distributed, one side of each control block 2 is fixedly connected with an arc-shaped column 4, the supporting blocks 3 are provided with air tube cavities 5, one ends of the arc-shaped columns 4 extend into the air tube cavities 5, air valves 10 are arranged in the air tube cavities 5, each air valve 10 comprises a control ring 6, a positioning cylinder 7, a sealing ball 8 and a guide rod 9, the sealing ball 8 is arranged between the control ring 6 and the positioning cylinder 7, one end of each sealing ball 8 is fixedly connected with the guide rod 9, the guide rod 9 penetrates through the middle part of the control ring 6, the supporting blocks 3 are fixed on the side wall of the central column 1, one side of each control block 2 is provided with a supporting column 11, a supporting plate 12 is fixedly connected between the supporting, the plate groove of the control block 2 is internally provided with a clamping block 13 and a pressure rod 14, the clamping block 13 is fixedly connected with two pressure rods 14 which are symmetrically distributed, a positioning shaft 15 penetrates through the clamping block 13, the outer walls of the control block 2 and the support block 3 are respectively provided with a sector groove, the sector grooves are internally and fixedly connected with an inner shaft 16, the inner shaft 16 is sleeved with a rotating drum 17, and the middle part of the central column 1 is provided with a rope hole 18.
The control ring 6 is fixed on the inner wall of the trachea cavity 5, the shape of the control ring 6 is annular plate-shaped, a plurality of through holes which are uniformly distributed are annularly arranged on the plate body of the control ring 6, and the guide rod 9 is movably sleeved in the through hole in the middle of the control ring 6.
The positioning cylinder 7 is fixed on the inner wall of the gas tube cavity 5, the positioning cylinder 7 is in the shape of a cylinder, the middle of the bottom surface of one side of the cylinder body is provided with a spherical groove, the sealing ball 8 is arranged in the spherical groove of the positioning cylinder 7 in a matching mode, and the positioning cylinder 7 is provided with a plurality of uniformly distributed thin tube cavities in a ring mode.
An arc-shaped tube cavity 24 is formed in the central column 1, the support column 11 is arranged in the arc-shaped tube cavity 24 in a matching mode, the support plate 12 penetrates through a plate hole formed in the central column 1, one end of the support plate 12 extends to the outside of the central column 1, and the support plate 12 is fixedly connected with the control block 2.
The clamp block 13 is in the shape of a cylinder, one side of the cylinder is integrally connected with two semicircular plate-shaped protruding plates, the side walls of the protruding plates are frosted surfaces, and the positioning shaft 15 is movably sleeved in the middle of the cylinder of the clamp block 13.
An inner shaft 16 is movably sleeved in the middle of a rotary drum 17, the end part of the inner shaft 16 is fixedly connected with the inner wall of a sector groove, the rotary drum 17 is arranged in the sector groove, a control block 2 and a support block 3 are both triangular plate-shaped, the tip of one side of the plate body is in a convex arc surface shape, the bottom surface of the other side of the plate body is in a concave arc surface shape, the control block 2 is understood by referring to a figure, the concave arc surface is matched with a central column 1, and a certain gap is formed between the control block 2 and the support block 3, so that the control block 2 can move within a certain range, namely, the control block rotates around the central column 1, a metal wire 20 is used for binding the cushion block and a vertical steel bar 19, two end parts on the metal wire 20 are wound and bound on one side of the vertical steel bar 19, the cushion block.
The working principle is as follows: a worker binds a cushion block and a vertical reinforcing steel bar 19 by using a metal wire 20, in the packing process, a control block 2 and a supporting block 3 which are in contact with the vertical reinforcing steel bar 19 are forced to gradually approach, so that an arc-shaped column 4 is inserted into an air pipe cavity 5, the air in the air pipe cavity 5 jacks up a sealing ball 8 and then quickly flows through a gap between a positioning cylinder 7 and the sealing ball 8, air flow is quickly discharged out of the air pipe cavity 5, the process that the arc-shaped column 4 is inserted into the air pipe cavity 5 is not influenced by air pressure, the process that the arc-shaped column 4 is pulled out is influenced by obvious suction air pressure, because external air is required to be supplemented into the air pipe cavity 5, the air flow drives the sealing ball 8, the sealing ball 8 blocks the positioning cylinder 7, the air flow can only permeate through a fine tube cavity on the positioning cylinder 7, the process is slow, the control block 2 moves in a short time, and directly causes the counter, the motion that is used for buffering control block 2, unexpected impact is used to found reinforcing bar 19 promptly, found reinforcing bar 19 oppresses the cushion in-process, control block 2 is compelled to rotate the process around center post 1, the impact on the reverse buffering found reinforcing bar 19, realize the effective support to opposition reinforcing bar 19 like this, 20 restraints found reinforcing bar 19 in-processes of wire, it is close to the cushion to found reinforcing bar 19, found reinforcing bar 19 simultaneously and compress pressure pole 14, pressure pole 14 rotates and drives clamp splice 13, play certain lever pressurization effect, centre gripping wire 20 gradually between protruding board on clamp splice 13 and the rotary drum 17, after 20 restraints upright reinforcing bar 19 like this, wire 20 can not the dislocation slip, realize the firm location effect to wire 20.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.

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1. The utility model provides a concrete reinforcement cushion, includes cylindric center post (1), control block (2) and supporting shoe (3), its characterized in that: the control block (2) and the supporting block (3) which are uniformly and alternately distributed are annularly arranged around the central column (1), one side of the control block (2) is fixedly connected with an arc-shaped column (4), the supporting block (3) is provided with an air tube cavity (5), one end of the arc-shaped column (4) extends into the air tube cavity (5), an air valve (10) is arranged in the air tube cavity (5), the air valve (10) comprises a control ring (6), a positioning cylinder (7), a sealing ball (8) and a guide rod (9), the sealing ball (8) is arranged between the control ring (6) and the positioning cylinder (7), one end of the sealing ball (8) is fixedly connected with the guide rod (9), the guide rod (9) penetrates through the middle part of the control ring (6), the supporting block (3) is fixed on the side wall of the central column (1), one side of the control block (2) is provided with a supporting column (11), and a supporting plate (12) is fixedly, support column (11) set up in center post (1), the board groove has been seted up in control block (2), be provided with clamp splice (13) and pressure pole (14) in the board groove of control block (2), pressure pole (14) of two symmetric distributions of fixedly connected with are gone up in clamp splice (13), it has location axle (15) to run through on clamp splice (13), the fan-shaped groove has all been seted up on the outer wall of control block (2) and supporting shoe (3), and axle (16) in the fixedly connected with in the fan-shaped groove, the cover has rotary drum (17) on interior axle (16), rope hole (18) have been seted up at the middle part of center post (1).
2. A concrete reinforcing bar spacer as set forth in claim 1, wherein: the control ring (6) is fixed on the inner wall of the trachea cavity (5), the control ring (6) is in an annular plate shape, a plurality of uniformly distributed through holes are annularly arranged on a plate body of the control ring (6), and the guide rod (9) is movably sleeved in the through hole in the middle of the control ring (6).
3. A concrete reinforcing bar spacer as set forth in claim 1, wherein: the positioning barrel (7) is fixed on the inner wall of the gas tube cavity (5), a spherical groove is formed in the middle of the bottom surface of one side of the positioning barrel (7) which is a cylinder and a barrel body, a sealing ball (8) is arranged in the spherical groove of the positioning barrel (7) in a fit mode, and a plurality of uniformly distributed thin tube cavities are annularly arranged on the positioning barrel (7).
4. A concrete reinforcing bar spacer as set forth in claim 1, wherein: an arc-shaped tube cavity (24) is formed in the central column (1), the supporting column (11) is arranged in the arc-shaped tube cavity (24) in a matching mode, the supporting plate (12) penetrates through a plate hole formed in the central column (1), one end of the supporting plate (12) extends to the outside of the central column (1), and the supporting plate (12) is fixedly connected with the control block (2).
5. A concrete reinforcing bar spacer as set forth in claim 1, wherein: the clamp block (13) is in the shape that two semicircular plate-shaped protruding plates are integrally connected to one side of a cylinder, the side walls of the protruding plates are frosted surfaces, and the positioning shaft (15) is movably sleeved in the middle of the cylinder of the clamp block (13).
6. A concrete reinforcing bar spacer as set forth in claim 1, wherein: an inner shaft (16) is movably sleeved in the middle of the rotary drum (17), the end of the inner shaft (16) is fixedly connected with the inner wall of the fan-shaped groove, the rotary drum (17) is arranged in the fan-shaped groove, the control block (2) and the support block (3) are both triangular plate-shaped, the tip of one side of the plate body is in a convex arc surface shape, and the bottom surface of the other side of the plate body is in a concave arc surface shape.
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