CN114753078B - Fabric unfolding equipment with leveling function - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention relates to the technical field of textile equipment, in particular to fabric unfolding equipment with a leveling function, which comprises a support frame, wherein the support frame is in a U-shaped structure, a driven roller is horizontally arranged at the lower end of the support frame, fabrics are horizontally arranged at the upper end of the driven roller, a guide component is horizontally arranged at the upper end of the driven roller of the support frame, the guide component comprises a guide column, the fabrics are enabled to be leveled and stretched towards two sides under the action of a contact roller when normally passing through the driven roller through the movable control of a power component, the leveling property of the fabrics passing through the driven roller is improved, then strengthening and shaping are carried out under the action of a steam box, the efficiency of leveling effect is improved, and in addition, the power component which is matched with reciprocating motion under the action of a lifting plate is used for enabling the leveling box not to be contacted with the fabrics in the resetting process, so that the folded fabrics are avoided, and the operation is simple and the use is convenient.
Description
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of textile equipment, in particular to fabric unfolding equipment with a leveling function.
Background
When the fabric is subjected to dyeing and finishing, wet processing and dehydration processing are often required, after the fabric is subjected to the dehydration processing, a strand-shaped object is easily twisted, when the fabric is subjected to the next working procedure processing, a untwisting and scutching working procedure is required, the fabric is spread into sheet-shaped cloth, and the strand-shaped cloth is spread.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide fabric unfolding equipment with a leveling function, so as to solve the problems in the background technology.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the present invention provides the following technical solutions: a fabric unfolding apparatus having a flattening function, the fabric unfolding apparatus comprising:
the support frame is arranged in a U-shaped structure;
the driven roller is horizontally arranged at the lower end of the supporting frame;
the fabric is flatly laid at the upper end of the driven roller;
the guide assembly is horizontally arranged at the upper end of the driven roller of the support frame and comprises a guide column;
the leveling assembly comprises two leveling boxes and two pressing tables, the two leveling boxes are movably and symmetrically arranged on two sides of the guide post, and the lower ends of the pressing tables are contacted with the upper ends of the fabrics through contact assemblies;
the adjusting component is inserted into the guide column and comprises a push plate and a lifting plate;
the power component is arranged at the upper end of the supporting frame, and the lower end of the power component is connected with the two leveling boxes.
Preferably, the guide post is prism structure setting, has seted up the cavity in the level and smooth case, and the prismatic hole has been seted up to cavity bilateral symmetry, and the guide post runs through two prismatic hole settings of level and smooth case.
Preferably, the lifting grooves are horizontally and completely formed in the upper ends of the pressing platforms, the two pressing platforms are movably sleeved with the guide posts through the lifting grooves respectively and are arranged on one side of the flat phase, and the vertical height of the lifting grooves is larger than the vertical height of the cross section of the guide posts.
Preferably, the contact assembly comprises a plurality of contact rollers, the contact rollers are symmetrically arranged at the lower end of the pressing table through roller frames, the lower end of the cavity of the leveling box is symmetrically provided with a strip-shaped groove, and the lower ends of the contact rollers respectively penetrate through the strip-shaped groove to be in contact with one side of the upper end of the fabric.
Preferably, the contact roller and the driven roller are arranged in the coaxial direction, and a plurality of springs are symmetrically arranged at the upper end of the pressing table and the inner upper end of the cavity.
Preferably, steam boxes are arranged on one sides of the leveling boxes through connecting frames, and air nozzles of the steam boxes are pointed to the fabric.
Preferably, the upper end has seted up the regulation chamber in the guide post, and push pedal and lifting board are pegged graft respectively the level and are arranged in regulation intracavity upper and lower both ends, and the lifting board is T shape structure setting, and the regulation chamber upper end runs through and has seted up built-in groove, and the lifting board upper end is pegged graft and is arranged in built-in inslot.
Preferably, one side of the push plate penetrates through one side of the guide post, one side of the push plate, which is contacted with the lifting plate, is provided with a plurality of ejector blocks and clamping grooves respectively, the ejector blocks are inserted into the clamping grooves respectively, two side surfaces in the ejector blocks and the clamping grooves are obliquely arranged, the upper ends in the edge holes of the leveling box are both provided with grooves, and the width of the grooves is larger than the thickness of one side of the inserted built-in grooves of the lifting plate.
Preferably, the power component comprises a push rod and two connecting arms, two movable pins are symmetrically arranged at the lower end of the push rod, sleeve shafts are horizontally arranged on one sides of the upper ends of the two leveling boxes through two mounting plates, and two sides of the connecting arms are respectively and movably connected with the sleeve shafts of the leveling boxes and the movable pins of the push rod.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
the movable control of leveling case is carried out to the both sides through power pack when making the surface fabric normally pass through the driven voller, carries out the flattening stretching to both sides under the effect of contact roller, improves the planarization of surface fabric through the driven voller, then strengthens the design under the effect of steam box, improves the efficiency of leveling the effect, cooperates reciprocating motion's power pack under the effect of lifting plate in addition, makes leveling case can not take place the contact with the surface fabric at the in-process that resets, avoids folding surface fabric, easy operation, convenient to use.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a partial side view of the mounting structure of the trimming tank of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic perspective view of the mounting of the trimming tank of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a lift plate installation of the present invention;
fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of the portion a of fig. 1 according to the present invention.
In the figure: the fabric pressing device comprises a supporting frame 1, a driven roller 2, a fabric 3, a guide column 4, a leveling box 5, a pressing table 6, a push plate 7, a lifting plate 8, a cavity 9, a lifting groove 10, a contact roller 11, a roller shaft frame 12, a spring 13, a connecting frame 14, a steam box 15, an adjusting cavity 16, a top block 17, a clamping groove 18, a groove 19, a push rod 20, a connecting arm 21 and a sleeving shaft 22.
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The following description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.
Referring to fig. 1-5, the present invention provides a fabric unfolding apparatus with a leveling function: the fabric unfolding device comprises:
the support frame 1 is arranged in a U-shaped structure, the driven roller 2 is horizontally arranged at the lower end of the support frame 1, the fabric 3 is horizontally arranged at the upper end of the driven roller 2, the guide assembly is horizontally arranged at the upper end of the driven roller 2 of the support frame 1, and the guide assembly comprises a guide column 4; the guide post 4 is in a prismatic structure, a cavity 9 is formed in the leveling box 5, prismatic holes are symmetrically formed in two sides of the cavity 9, the guide post 4 penetrates through two prismatic holes of the leveling box 5, lifting grooves 10 are horizontally formed in the upper ends of the lower pressing platforms 6 in a penetrating mode, the two lower pressing platforms 6 are movably sleeved on one side, located in the leveling box 5, of the guide post 4 through the lifting grooves 10, the vertical height of the lifting grooves 10 is larger than the vertical height of the section of the guide post 4, and the leveling box 5 is guided and slid;
the leveling assembly comprises two leveling boxes 5 and two lower pressing tables 6, the two leveling boxes 5 are movably and symmetrically arranged on two sides of the guide post 4, the lower ends of the lower pressing tables 6 are contacted with the upper end of the fabric 3 through the contact assembly, the contact assembly comprises a plurality of contact rollers 11, the contact rollers 11 are symmetrically arranged at the lower ends of the lower pressing tables 6 through roller shaft brackets 12 respectively, strip-shaped grooves are symmetrically formed in the lower ends of cavities 9 of the leveling boxes 5, the lower ends of the contact rollers 11 penetrate through the strip-shaped grooves respectively and are contacted with one side of the upper end of the fabric 3, the contact rollers 11 and the driven roller 2 are coaxially arranged, and a plurality of springs 13 are symmetrically arranged at the upper ends of the lower pressing tables 6 and the inner upper ends of the cavities 9 to contact and press the fabric 3, and the normal movement track of the fabric is not influenced;
the adjusting part, set up in the adjusting part grafting guide post 4, and the adjusting part includes push pedal 7 and lift plate 8, power pack locates support frame 1 upper end, power pack lower extreme is connected with two leveling case 5, leveling case 5 one side all is equipped with steam case 15 through link 14, and the directional surface fabric 3 setting of fumarole of steam case 15, adjust chamber 16 has been seted up to the upper end in the guide post 4, push pedal 7 and lift plate 8 are horizontal grafting respectively and are arranged in the upper and lower both ends in adjusting chamber 16, lift plate 8 is T-shaped structure setting, the built-in groove has been run through to the upper end in adjusting chamber 16, and lift plate 8 upper end grafting is arranged in the built-in groove, push pedal 7 one side runs through guide post 4 one side setting, push pedal 7 and lift plate 8 contact one side be equipped with a plurality of kicking blocks 17 and draw-in groove 18 respectively, a plurality of kicking blocks 17 peg graft respectively can be with a plurality of draw-in groove 18 in, a plurality of kicking blocks 17 are the slope setting with draw-in groove 18 medial surface, the downthehole upper end of edge of leveling case 5 all begins also has recess 19, and recess 19's width is greater than built-in groove 8 one side thickness of lift plate 8, lift plate 8 upper and lower end 20 and two symmetrical arm 20 are equipped with two movable mounting plates 20 are cup joints through two movable shaft 20, two side 20 are connected with two movable mounting plates 20, level and 20 are cup joint each side, level and two movable mounting plate 20 are equipped with two side shafts 20, level and two side shafts are connected to level and 20 are connected.
Working principle: during the use along with the usual push rod 20 (hydraulic pressure or electricity all can) among the prior art drives two linking arms 21 along guide post 4 to both sides remove, and then contact roller 11 drives surface fabric 3 both sides looks both sides and tighten under the effect of spring 13, and under the effect of contact roller 11, do not influence the normal driven voller 2 that passes through of surface fabric 3, then under the steam box 15 effect that has the common hot steam equipment in the prior art in one side, strengthen the design to the flat surface fabric 3 after stretching, when leveling box 5 moves to guide post 4 tip, same reason is ascending through push rod 20, the effect of linking arm 21 pulls leveling box 5 and resets, promote push pedal 7 through the common controlling means among the prior art during that, and then under the effect of a plurality of kicking blocks 17 of push pedal 7, lifting board 8 lifting top is moved down press platform 6 and is risen, there is certain clearance between contact roller 11 lower extreme and the surface fabric 3, avoid causing the rolling over to surface fabric 3, this leveling device that this opener set up is not less than two in addition, and keep the motion state of push rod 20 to be crisscross motion, when leveling device drives two leveling box 5 and reset to another leveling box 5 when two sides move, then reset to the operation is to another leveling box 5.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made therein 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. A fabric unfolding device with leveling function, which is characterized in that: the fabric unfolding device comprises:
the support frame (1), the said support frame (1) is U-shaped structure to set up;
the driven roller (2) is horizontally arranged at the lower end of the supporting frame (1);
the fabric (3) is flatly laid on the upper end of the driven roller (2);
the guide assembly is horizontally arranged at the upper end of the driven roller (2) of the support frame (1), and comprises a guide column (4);
the leveling assembly comprises two leveling boxes (5) and two pressing tables (6), the two leveling boxes (5) are movably and symmetrically arranged on two sides of the guide column (4), and the lower ends of the pressing tables (6) are contacted with the upper ends of the fabrics (3) through the contact assembly;
the adjusting component is inserted into the guide column (4) and comprises a push plate (7) and a lifting plate (8);
the power assembly is arranged at the upper end of the supporting frame (1), and the lower end of the power assembly is connected with the two leveling boxes (5);
a cavity (9) is formed in the leveling box (5), prismatic holes are symmetrically formed in two sides of the cavity (9), and the guide posts (4) penetrate through the two prismatic holes of the leveling box (5);
the contact assembly comprises a plurality of contact rollers (11), the contact rollers (11) are symmetrically arranged at the lower end of the lower pressing table (6) through roller shaft brackets (12), strip-shaped grooves are symmetrically formed at the lower end of a cavity (9) of the leveling box (5), and the lower ends of the contact rollers (11) respectively penetrate through the strip-shaped grooves to be in contact with one side of the upper end of the fabric (3);
the contact roller (11) and the driven roller (2) are coaxially arranged, and a plurality of springs (13) are symmetrically arranged at the upper end of the pressing table (6) and the inner upper end of the cavity (9);
one side of the leveling box (5) is provided with a steam box (15) through a connecting frame (14), and an air nozzle of the steam box (15) is arranged in a direction of the fabric (3);
one side of the push plate (7) penetrates through one side of the guide post (4), one side, which is contacted with the lifting plate (8), of the push plate (7) is respectively provided with a plurality of ejector blocks (17) and clamping grooves (18), the ejector blocks (17) are respectively inserted into the clamping grooves (18), two side surfaces in the ejector blocks (17) and the clamping grooves (18) are obliquely arranged, grooves (19) are formed in the upper ends in the edge holes of the leveling box (5), and the width of the grooves (19) is larger than the thickness of one side of the inserted built-in grooves of the lifting plate (8).
2. A fabric unfolding apparatus with flattening functionality according to claim 1, characterized in that: the guide posts (4) are arranged in a prismatic structure.
3. A fabric unfolding apparatus with flattening functionality according to claim 2, characterized in that: lifting grooves (10) are horizontally and transversely formed in the upper ends of the pressing tables (6), the two pressing tables (6) are movably sleeved with guide posts (4) through the lifting grooves (10) respectively and are arranged on one side of the flattening box (5), and the vertical height of the lifting grooves (10) is larger than the vertical height of the cross section of the guide posts (4).
4. A fabric unfolding apparatus having a flattening function according to claim 3, characterized in that: the upper end has been seted up in guide post (4) and has been adjusted chamber (16), and push pedal (7) and lifting board (8) are pegged graft respectively the level and are arranged in the upper and lower both ends in adjusting chamber (16), and lifting board (8) are T shape structure setting, and the built-in groove has been seted up in the penetration of adjusting chamber (16) upper end, and in the built-in groove was arranged in pegging graft of lifting board (8) upper end.
5. The fabric unfolding apparatus with leveling function according to claim 4, wherein: the power assembly comprises a push rod (20) and two connecting arms (21), two movable pins are symmetrically arranged at the lower end of the push rod (20), a sleeve joint shaft (22) is horizontally arranged on one side of the upper end of each of the two leveling boxes (5) through two mounting plates, and two sides of each connecting arm (21) are respectively and movably connected with the sleeve joint shaft (22) of each leveling box (5) and the movable pins of the push rod (20).
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