CN113383720A

CN113383720A - Gear ring driving type telescopic comb ring and cat litter basin

Info

Publication number: CN113383720A
Application number: CN202010166451.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 沈泉; 徐健
Original assignee: Shanghai Townew Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Townew Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-03-11
Filing date: 2020-03-11
Publication date: 2021-09-14

Abstract

The invention relates to a gear ring driving type telescopic comb ring and a cat litter basin, wherein the telescopic comb ring comprises a shell and a driving gear ring sleeved on the shell, the shell is a hollow annular shell with an open front and back, the inner wall of the shell is provided with a plurality of slotted holes along the circumferential distribution, the axis of each slotted hole penetrates through the axis of the shell, a comb tooth assembly is arranged in each slotted hole, the comb tooth assembly is connected with the shell through a spring, the inner wall of the driving gear ring is provided with a multi-section arc line protruding structure, and the comb tooth assembly is in sliding contact with the arc line protruding structure; when the driving gear ring rotates, the arc line protruding structure drives the comb tooth assembly to axially move along the slotted hole, and the comb tooth assembly extends out of or retracts back to the hollow part of the shell. Compared with the prior art, the automatic carding machine has the advantages of automatic carding, wide application range, time saving, labor saving and the like.

Description

Gear ring driving type telescopic comb ring and cat litter basin

Technical Field

The invention relates to a pet product, in particular to a gear ring driving type telescopic comb ring and a cat litter box.

Background

The history of pet dogs and cats is very long, and more families have started to feed pet dogs in recent years, but pets have a hair changing period every year, if the pets are not combed regularly, the hairs in the house fly all the day, and the pets are not sanitary and beautiful, so the pets need to be combed regularly.

At present, the feeding amount of the cats accounts for a large proportion in the domestic pets. Around the hair loss and skin health problems of cats, various manufacturers design various combing products, mainly based on the type of comb. The products need to be manually held to remove foreign matters such as hair and debris for the cat, the time of occupying people is needed, the cat can be cleaned only for 2-3 times per week, a large amount of hair falls into rooms, furniture and clothes, and the cleaning difficulty is increased.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to overcome the defects in the prior art and provide the gear ring driving type telescopic comb ring and the cat litter box, which realize automatic combing, have wide application range and are time-saving and labor-saving.

The purpose of the invention can be realized by the following technical scheme:

a gear ring driving type telescopic comb ring comprises a shell and a driving gear ring sleeved on the shell, wherein the shell is a hollow annular shell with a front opening and a rear opening, a plurality of slotted holes are distributed in the inner wall of the shell along the circumferential direction, the axis of each slotted hole penetrates through the axis of the shell, a comb tooth assembly is arranged in each slotted hole and is connected with the shell through a spring, a multi-section arc line protruding structure is arranged on the inner wall of the driving gear ring, and the comb tooth assemblies are in sliding contact with the arc line protruding structure;

when the driving gear ring rotates, the arc line protruding structure drives the comb tooth assembly to axially move along the slotted hole, and the comb tooth assembly extends out of or retracts back to the hollow part of the shell.

Further, the comb component comprises a roller, a comb seat and comb teeth, one end of the comb seat is provided with a groove for installing the roller, the other end of the comb seat is connected with the comb teeth, the roller is in tangent contact with the arc line protruding structure, and the comb seat is matched with the groove hole.

Furthermore, a first limiting buckle is arranged on the comb tooth seat, a second limiting buckle matched with the first limiting buckle is arranged on the slotted hole, and the first limiting buckle and the second limiting buckle form a limiting mechanism in the moving process of the comb tooth assembly.

Furthermore, a comb spring guide rod for mounting the spring is arranged on the comb seat, and a shell spring guide rod is correspondingly arranged in the slotted hole.

Furthermore, one end of the comb tooth seat, which is used for installing the roller, is an arc-shaped surface, and the arc-shaped surface is matched with the slotted hole to form a limiting mechanism.

Furthermore, still be equipped with the defeathering dog in the slotted hole, broach subassembly and defeathering dog set up from outer to interior along the casing axis direction, be equipped with the broach via hole that supplies the broach subassembly to stretch out on the defeathering dog, when broach subassembly combing is accomplished to retract, make the hair that falls break away from the broach subassembly through the defeathering dog.

Furthermore, the defeathering stop block is connected with the shell through a tension spring.

Furthermore, a tension spring hook is arranged on the hair removal stop block.

Furthermore, a plurality of slotted holes are distributed on the inner walls of the two sides of the shell.

Further, the slotted holes on the inner parts of the two sides are arranged in a staggered mode.

Furthermore, the shell is provided with at least one distance measuring sensor which can be connected with an external control device, and the extending length of the comb tooth assembly is controlled according to the measured distance.

The invention also provides a cat litter box, which comprises the gear ring driving type telescopic comb ring, wherein the comb ring forms an inlet and outlet channel of the cat litter box.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:

1. the telescopic combing ring designed by the invention can automatically comb hair when a pet passes through the hollow structure of the shell, and the comb teeth can uniformly and gently comb the body of the pet, thereby achieving the purposes of removing foreign matters such as fallen hair and debris, keeping the skin health of the pet, reducing the probability of suffering from skin diseases, reducing the fallen hair in rooms, on furniture and clothes, and reducing the frequency and difficulty of cleaning.

2. The comb ring realizes the extension or retraction of the comb tooth component by driving the gear ring, can control the rotation displacement of the gear ring to conveniently realize different extension lengths, and meets the requirement that pets at different ages can achieve better comb effect.

3. The invention does not need to spend time and energy to do specially, and the pet can generate the effect of cleaning hair only by passing through the hollow part of the shell.

4. The fallen hairs combed by the comb can be collected on the comb teeth, and regular cleaning is facilitated.

5. The invention is provided with the hair removing stop block, foreign matters such as fallen hair and the like stored on the comb teeth are stopped outside the hair removing stop block, so that the fallen hair is in a state of being completely separated from the comb loops, and the collection treatment can be more conveniently carried out.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a side view of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken at A-A of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view of the housing of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural view of the comb assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a front view of the comb assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a top plan view of the comb assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the hair removal stop of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a bottom view of the defeathering stop of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a front view of the defeathering stop of the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a schematic view of the comb assembly of the present invention shown halfway through its movement;

figure 12 is a cross-sectional view at a-a of the present invention with the comb assembly moving part-way;

FIG. 13 is a cross-sectional view taken at A-A of the comb assembly of the present invention as it moves to a maximum stroke;

the comb-shaped structure comprises a gear ring 1, an arc line convex structure 101, a comb tooth assembly 2, a roller 201, a comb tooth seat 202, comb teeth 203, comb teeth 204, a comb tooth spring guide rod 205, a first limiting buckle 3, a shell 301, a slotted hole 302, a shell spring guide rod 4, a hair removal stop block 401, a comb tooth through hole 402 and a tension spring hook 402.

Detailed Description

The invention is described in detail below with reference to the figures and specific embodiments. The present embodiment is implemented on the premise of the technical solution of the present invention, and a detailed implementation manner and a specific operation process are given, but the scope of the present invention is not limited to the following embodiments.

Example 1

As shown in fig. 1-3, the present embodiment provides a gear ring driving type retractable comb ring, including a housing 3 and a driving gear ring 1 sleeved on the housing 3, the housing 3 is a hollow annular housing with front and rear openings, a plurality of slots 301 are circumferentially distributed on the entire inner wall of the housing 3, the inner wall corresponds to the end surface of the annular housing, the axis of the slot 301 passes through the axis of the housing 3, that is, on the axial cross section of the comb ring, each slot 301 is uniformly distributed along the center of the comb ring, a comb tooth assembly 2 is disposed in each slot 301, a multi-segment arc line protruding structure 101 is disposed on the inner wall of the driving gear ring 1, and the comb tooth assembly 2 is in sliding contact with the arc line protruding structure 101. The comb tooth component can move up and down along the inner wall of the slotted hole under the action of external force, so that the comb teeth can return to the lowest point from the highest point of the arc line conveniently, and the comb tooth component 2 is connected with the shell 3 through a spring 5.

The driving gear ring 1 can be connected with an external control device to realize the forward rotation or the reverse rotation of the set rotary displacement of the driving gear ring. In this embodiment, external control device is including the control panel that connects gradually, motor and gear, the control panel is according to manual input signal or sensing information control motor work, the motor drives the gear and rotates, gear and the meshing of drive ring gear 1, thereby drive ring gear 1 and rotate, when drive ring gear 1 rotates, it drives broach subassembly 2 along slotted hole 301 axial motion to protrude the structure 101 through the pitch arc on it, realize stretching out or retracting of broach subassembly 2 to the hollow part of casing 3, conveniently realize the pet combing effect when stretching out.

As shown in fig. 4, the housing 3 in this embodiment is a ring structure, which has an opening on its side surface to facilitate installation of the driving gear ring 1, and a hollow center as a passage for pet to enter and exit. All be provided with a plurality of slotted holes 301 on two inner walls in this casing 3, and slotted hole 301 crisscross distribution on two inner walls to can arrange two-layer broach subassembly 2, realize more quick, more efficient carding effect. In this embodiment, the slot 301 is a square slot.

In another embodiment, the housing 3 may be provided in a form of wrapping the driving ring gear 1, and the housing 3 is opened with a through hole for engaging the driving ring gear 1 with the gear.

As shown in fig. 5-7, the comb teeth assembly 2 of the present embodiment includes a roller 201, a comb teeth base 202 and comb teeth 203, one end of the comb teeth base 202 is provided with a slot for mounting the roller 201, the other end of the comb teeth base is connected to a certain number of comb teeth 203, the roller 201 is in tangential contact with the arc protruding structure 101, the comb teeth base 202 is matched with the slot 301, and both ends of the comb teeth assembly 2 can penetrate through the slot 301.

In order to limit the stroke of the comb tooth assembly 2, a first limit buckle 205 is arranged on the comb tooth seat 202 of the embodiment, a second limit buckle matched with the first limit buckle 205 is arranged on the slot 301, and the first limit buckle 205 and the second limit buckle form a limit mechanism for the moving process of the comb tooth assembly 2.

The comb base 202 is provided with a comb spring guide rod 204 for mounting the spring 5, and the slot 301 is correspondingly provided with a shell spring guide rod 302.

One end of the comb-tooth seat 202, which is used for mounting the roller 201, is an arc-shaped surface, the width of the arc-shaped surface is larger than that of the slotted hole, and the arc-shaped surface can be matched with the end part of the slotted hole 301 to form a limiting mechanism.

In another embodiment, the slotted hole 301 is further provided with a hair removal stop 4, the comb tooth assembly 2 and the hair removal stop 4 are arranged from outside to inside along the axial direction of the housing, as shown in fig. 8-10, the hair removal stop 4 is provided with a comb tooth through hole 401 for the comb tooth assembly 2 to extend out, the comb tooth through hole 401 is a plurality of strip-shaped holes arranged in parallel and having a width matched with the diameter of the comb tooth 203, when the hair of the comb tooth assembly 2 is retracted, the hair is separated from the comb tooth assembly 2 through the hair removal stop 4, and the purpose of regularly and intensively cleaning the accumulated hair is achieved more conveniently. In order to increase the stroke of the comb assembly 2 and to enable the resetting of the defeathering stops 4, each individual defeathering stop 4 is connected to the housing 3 by means of a tension spring 6, on which tension spring hooks 402 are provided on the defeathering stops 4. The width of the area of the hair removing block 4 in the slot 301 is larger than that of the comb tooth assembly 2, so that the hair removing block 4 is prevented from moving outwards and the function of blocking fallen hair cannot be realized.

The specific working process of the retractable combing ring is as follows:

taking the initial state of the combing ring as an example, the roller 201 at the top end of the combing tooth component 2 is at the lowest point position (i.e. the outermost position) of the arc line protrusion structure 101 in the driving gear ring 1, the combing tooth component 2 is lifted to the highest position by the spring 5, as shown in fig. 3, the highest position is controlled by the limit mechanism which is arranged in the slot hole 301 and matched with the combing tooth component 2, and the hair removing stop 4 below the combing tooth component 2 is controlled by the tension spring 6 to be close to the combing ring shell 3; when the driving gear ring 1 starts to rotate forwards, the relative position between the arc line convex structure 101 on the inner wall of the driving gear ring 1 and the comb tooth assembly 2 moves from the lowest point to the highest point of the arc line, the pressure from the elevation increase of the arc line of the gear ring enables the comb tooth assembly 2 to overcome the elastic force of the spring to move downwards along the inner wall of the slot 301 (the downward movement is directed to the direction of the hollow part of the shell), the comb teeth 203 gradually pass through the comb tooth through holes 401 of the hair removal stop block 4, and the comb teeth 203 can generate a hair combing effect after being exposed to a certain height, as shown in fig. 11-12; at this time, the driving gear ring 1 continues to rotate forwards, the comb tooth assembly 2 continues to move downwards, the lower end of the comb tooth assembly 2 is in contact with the hair removal stop block 4, the pulling force of the tension spring 6 is gradually overcome, the hair removal stop block 4 is driven to be separated from the comb loop shell and moves towards the direction of the circle center in common with the comb tooth assembly, the hair removal stop block and the comb tooth assembly move together to control the maximum length of the extending comb teeth within a reasonable range, part of the length of the comb teeth is located in the hair removal stop block 4, the phenomenon that the extending length of the comb teeth is too long, the strength of the comb teeth is weakened and the comfort of a cat passing through the comb loop is avoided, when the comb teeth 203 and the hair removal stop block 4 move to the designed maximum stroke, as shown in fig. 13, a downward limiting mechanism formed by an arc-shaped surface at the top end of the comb tooth assembly interferes with the shell, the comb teeth and the hair removal stop block cannot continue to move downwards, and meanwhile, the rotation blocking current of the motor driving gear ring 1 is increased, after the preset value is reached, the control panel stops the input signal of the motor, so that the driving gear ring 1 stops rotating.

After the comb rings work for a period of time, foreign matters such as fallen hairs and fragments with certain thickness are accumulated in the comb teeth, at the moment, the comb rings can be controlled to remove the accumulated foreign matters, and the working principle is as follows:

when the control board receives a command of removing accumulated foreign matters, the driving gear ring 1 in the combing ring starts to rotate reversely under the driving of the motor, the relative position between the arc line convex structure 101 on the inner wall of the driving gear ring 1 and the combing tooth component 2 moves from the highest point to the lowest point of the arc line, at the moment, the combing tooth component 2 moves upwards along the inner wall of the slotted hole 301 under the action of the elastic force of the spring 5, the combing teeth 203 retract, and the hair removing stop block 4 moves along the same direction under the action of the tension spring 6 and gradually returns to the initial position close to the combing ring shell; at this moment, the comb tooth assembly 2 continues to move upwards, the comb teeth 203 gradually shrink to the inside of the casing 3 along the comb tooth via holes 401 of the hair removing stoppers 4, foreign matters such as falling hair stored on the comb teeth 203 are stopped outside the hair removing stoppers 4, and are in a state of completely separating from the comb loops, so that the collection and the processing can be convenient.

Example 2

This embodiment provides a litter box comprising a ring gear driven retractable combing loop as in embodiment 1, the combing loop forming an ingress and egress passage of the litter box. A plurality of distance measuring sensors are arranged in the access passage, and the distance measuring sensors can be arranged on the combing rings and can also be arranged on the passage which is connected with the combing rings.

When a cat enters the access passage of the cat litter basin integrated with the combing rings, the distance measuring sensors in the passage can transmit data of all points into the control panel, the maximum body diameter of the cat is estimated by the control panel, and the data are converted into the rotation displacement of the gear ring and transmitted to the motor, so that the purpose of adjusting the extension length of comb teeth in the combing rings is achieved, and a better combing effect is obtained.

The gear ring driving type telescopic comb ring in the embodiment 1 can also be applied to combing other pets.

The foregoing detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the invention has been presented. It should be understood that numerous modifications and variations could be devised by those skilled in the art in light of the present teachings without departing from the inventive concepts. Therefore, the technical solutions that can be obtained by a person skilled in the art through logic analysis, reasoning or limited experiments based on the prior art according to the concept of the present invention should be within the protection scope determined by the present invention.

Claims

1. The gear ring driving type telescopic comb ring is characterized by comprising a shell (3) and a driving gear ring (1) sleeved on the shell (3), wherein the shell (3) is a hollow annular shell with the front and the rear opened, a plurality of slotted holes (301) are distributed on the inner wall of the shell (3) along the circumferential direction, the axis of each slotted hole (301) penetrates through the axis of the shell (3), a comb tooth assembly (2) is arranged in each slotted hole (301), the comb tooth assembly (2) is connected with the shell (3) through a spring (5), a multi-section arc line protruding structure (101) is arranged on the inner wall of the driving gear ring (1), and the comb tooth assembly (2) is in sliding contact with the arc line protruding structure (101);

when the driving gear ring (1) rotates, the arc line protruding structure (101) drives the comb tooth assembly (2) to axially move along the slotted hole (301), and the comb tooth assembly (2) extends out of or retracts into the hollow part of the shell (3).

2. The gear ring driving type telescopic comb-loop according to claim 1, wherein the comb assembly (2) comprises a roller (201), a comb seat (202) and comb teeth (203), one end of the comb seat (202) is provided with a slot for mounting the roller (201), the other end of the comb seat is connected with the comb teeth (203), the roller (201) is in tangential contact with the arc line convex structure (101), and the comb seat (202) is matched with the slot hole (301).

3. The ring gear driving type retractable combing ring according to claim 2, wherein a first limit buckle (205) is arranged on the combing seat (202), a second limit buckle matched with the first limit buckle (205) is arranged on the slotted hole (301), and the first limit buckle (205) and the second limit buckle form a limit mechanism for the moving process of the combing component (2).

4. The ring gear driven type retractable combing ring according to claim 2, wherein one end of the combing tooth seat (202) for mounting the roller (201) is an arc-shaped surface, and the arc-shaped surface and the slotted hole (301) are matched to form a limiting mechanism.

5. The gear ring driving type telescopic comb-ring according to claim 1, wherein a hair removal stop block (4) is further arranged in the groove hole (301), the comb tooth assembly (2) and the hair removal stop block (4) are arranged from outside to inside along the axis direction of the shell, a comb tooth through hole (401) for the comb tooth assembly (2) to extend out is formed in the hair removal stop block (4), and when hair combing of the comb tooth assembly (2) is completed to retract, fallen hair is separated from the comb tooth assembly (2) through the hair removal stop block (4).

6. Ring gear driven retractable comb loop according to claim 5, characterized in that the defeathering stop (4) is connected to the housing (3) by means of a tension spring (6).

7. The ring gear driven retractable comb loop according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the slotted holes (301) are distributed on both side inner walls of the housing (3).

8. The ring gear driven retractable comb loop of claim 7, wherein the slots (301) on the inner portions of the two sides are staggered.

9. A ring gear driven retractable comb loop according to claim 1, wherein at least one distance measuring sensor is provided on the housing (3).

10. A litter box comprising a ring gear driven retractable comb loop according to any of claims 1-9, the comb loop forming an access passage to the litter box.