CN118493630A - Coconut fiber reinforced coral aggregate concrete mixing and stirring equipment - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses coconut fiber reinforced coral aggregate concrete mixing and stirring equipment, which belongs to the technical field of concrete mixing equipment, and is characterized in that when mixing concrete is stirred in a mixing drum, the coconut fibers are continuously and slowly brought into the concrete along with the stirring of the concrete, a feeding pipe is filled with the coconut fibers at any time, the filling of the coconut fibers in a discharging pipe communicated with the feeding pipe is ensured, an extension rod coaxially rotates along with the mixing drum under the rotation of the mixing drum, a scraping bar on the extension rod rotates along with the extension rod, and the scraping bar stretches in and stretches out from a strip groove of the bottom plane of the discharging pipe, so that the coconut fibers can be continuously brought out.
Description
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of concrete mixing equipment, and particularly relates to coconut fiber reinforced coral aggregate concrete mixing and stirring equipment.
Background
Various additional mixtures are required to be added in the preparation of the concrete, so that the preparation cost of the concrete is reduced, the environmental protection of the concrete is improved, and the coconut fiber reinforced coral aggregate concrete is provided; the structural performance of the solidified concrete is strong, the concrete economy is good, and the environment is protected; the binding property and the separation resistance inside the concrete can be enhanced by increasing the coconut fiber, and the structural stability, the concrete workability and the strength of the concrete after solidification are improved by increasing the coral aggregate. A step of
When mixing concrete, coral aggregate is uniformly stirred together with cement, and coconut fiber is light in texture, for example, when the concrete is stirred, the coconut fiber is directly added, so that the mixed concrete is easy to agglomerate, and even uneven mixing is caused.
Disclosure of Invention
Accordingly, the invention aims to provide a coconut fiber reinforced coral aggregate concrete mixing and stirring device, wherein coconut fibers are gradually added in the process of mixing concrete, so that the uniformity of the concrete fibers is ensured.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the present invention provides the following technical solutions:
The invention comprises a mixing barrel and a fiber material pipe filled with coconut fibers, wherein two pairs of spiral sheets are symmetrically arranged around the inner side of the mixing barrel, the fiber material pipe comprises a feeding pipe and a discharging pipe which are communicated, the feeding pipe is positioned above the mixing barrel, the discharging pipe extends into the mixing barrel from a material opening of the mixing barrel, the bottom plane of the discharging pipe faces downwards, and a plurality of grooves are arranged on the bottom plane of the discharging pipe; the inside coaxial extension pole that is equipped with of blending tank, the extension pole is last to be arranged and is equipped with a plurality of scrapes the strip, scrape strip width and be less than strip groove width, rotate along with the blending tank, scrape the strip follow strip groove stretch into the unloading pipe, take out the coconut husk fiber in the unloading pipe.
Further, a screw shaft is further rotatably arranged in the feeding pipe.
Further, the scraping strip comprises a straight strip fixed on the extension rod and a baffle strip arranged on the periphery of the straight strip.
Further, the fiber material pipe further comprises a strip blocking brush, the strip blocking brush is positioned below the blanking pipe and fixedly connected with the blanking pipe, and when the scraping strip rotates to the lowest position, the strip blocking brush is overlapped with the scraping strip in a row.
Further, the scraping strips on the extension rod are divided into a plurality of rows, and the scraping strips in the plurality of rows are arranged on the extension rod in an included angle manner, so that the invention has the beneficial effects that:
According to the invention, the fiber feeding pipe is arranged, the scraping strips for taking out the coconut fibers from the fiber feeding pipe are arranged, so that the mixing drum continuously and slowly brings the coconut fibers into the concrete along with the stirring of the concrete when the mixing drum is used for mixing the concrete, the feeding pipe is filled with the coconut fibers at any time, the filling of the coconut fibers in the discharging pipe communicated with the feeding pipe is ensured, when the mixing drum is not rotated, the scraping strips do not move, the coconut fibers in the discharging pipe are supported by the bottom plane, the scraping strips are filled in the discharging pipe, and although the strips are in a strip groove, the coconut fibers are mutually staggered to form a volume structure, so that the coconut fibers cannot fall from the bottom plane, even if the coconut fibers fall, only few coconut fibers do not affect the uniformity of the concrete, the scraping strips on the extending rod coaxially rotate along with the mixing drum under the rotation of the mixing drum, and the coconut fibers can be continuously brought out from the strip groove of the bottom plane of the discharging pipe, and the coconut fibers can be added into the coconut fibers when the concrete is mixed in real time, and the coconut fibers cannot be added into the coconut fibers for mixing the coconut fibers at one time.
Additional advantages, objects, and features of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and in part will become apparent to those having ordinary skill in the art upon examination of the following or may be learned from practice of the invention. The objects and other advantages of the invention may be realized and obtained by means of the instrumentalities and combinations particularly pointed out in the specification.
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In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantageous effects of the present invention more clear, the present invention provides the following drawings for description:
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a mixing and stirring apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the internal structure of a mixing and stirring device according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged schematic view of FIG. 2 at A;
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a fiber tubing according to an embodiment of the present invention;
The figures are marked as follows: 1. a mixing drum; 11. a spiral sheet; 12. an extension rod; 13. scraping the strip; 131. straight bars; 132. a barrier strip; 2. a fiber tube; 21. a feeding pipe; 22. discharging pipes; 221. a strip groove; 23. a strip-shaped retaining brush; 3. and a screw shaft.
Detailed Description
As shown in fig. 1-4, the invention discloses a coconut fiber reinforced coral aggregate concrete mixing and stirring device, as shown in fig. 1, the device is upgraded by an oblique roller stirring device and mainly comprises a mixing drum 1 and a fiber material pipe 2 filled with coconut fibers, wherein two pairs of spiral sheets 11 are symmetrically and circumferentially arranged on the inner side of the mixing drum 1, the mixing drum 1 is fixed on a support, a driving structure is arranged on the support, the mixing drum 1 is driven by a motor to rotate, the spiral sheets 11 in the mixing drum 1 rotate, move and turn up concrete to uniformly mix the concrete, in order to solve the problem of uneven mixing of the coconut fibers, the device is additionally provided with a fiber material pipe 2, referring to fig. 2 and 3, the fiber material pipe 2 comprises a feeding pipe 21 and a discharging pipe 22, the feeding pipe 21 is positioned above the mixing drum 1, the pipe surface of the feeding pipe 21 is circular, the feeding pipe 21 is communicated with the discharging pipe 22, the discharging pipe 22 extends from a material port of the mixing drum 1, the pipe surface of the discharging pipe 22 is arranged to be flat, the discharging pipe 22 is provided with a plurality of bottom planes 221 facing the bottom planes of the discharging pipes; the inside coaxial fixed connection extension pole 12 of mixing drum 1, the range is equipped with a plurality of scrapers 13 on the extension pole 12, every scraper 13 corresponds a bar groove 221, the width of scraper 13 is less than the width of bar groove 221, rotates along with mixing drum 1, scraper 13 follow bar groove 221 stretches into unloading pipe 22, takes out the coconut husk fiber in the unloading pipe 22.
This device is through setting up fibre pipe 2 to set up the strip 13 of scraping of taking out the coconut husk fibre from fibre pipe 2 in, make in this device, mixing drum 1 is when mixing the concrete, along with the stirring of concrete, continuously slow take the coconut husk fibre into the concrete in, this device, the coconut husk fibre is filled at any time to pan feeding pipe 21, guarantee the filling of coconut husk fibre in the unloading pipe 22 that communicates with feeding pipe 21, when mixing drum 1 is not rotatory, the strip 13 is not removed to scrape, the coconut husk fibre that is located in unloading pipe 22 is under the support of bottom plane, fill in unloading pipe 22 inside, though there is strip groove 221, but the coconut husk fibre is crisscross to be a volume structure each other, consequently, even if drop, even there is few coconut husk fibre, do not influence the homogeneity of concrete, extension rod 12 is under mixing drum 1's rotation, along with the rotation of mixing drum 1 coaxial rotation, strip 13 on the extension rod 12 stretches into and stretches out with the rotation of extension rod 12, strip 221 of bottom plane of unloading pipe 22, can be continuous take out the coconut husk fibre under the support of bottom plane, can be continuous with the coconut husk fibre, can not add the device in the concrete at the time of mixing the coconut husk fibre, the condition of mixing the concrete, the condition of mixing of the coconut husk fibre is avoided, the real-time, the concrete is added into the coconut husk fibre is mixed, and the uniform, the concrete is not added.
In a further embodiment, as shown in fig. 4, the feeding pipe 21 is further provided with a screw shaft 3. The screw shaft 3 is driven by a motor, and along with the rotation of the screw shaft 3, the coconut fibers in the coating pipe can be pushed to enter the discharging pipe 22, so that the coconut fibers in the discharging pipe 22 can be conveniently and constantly filled, the gap taken away by the scraping strip 13 can be ensured to be rapidly filled, and the coconut fibers can be continuously carried into the stirring concrete by the scraping strip 13.
In a further scheme, as shown in fig. 3, the scraping strip 13 includes a straight strip 131 fixed on the extension rod 12, and a blocking strip 132 disposed on a peripheral side of the straight strip 131, and by disposing the scraping strip 13 with a cross structure, the blocking strip and the straight strip 131 can carry out the coir fibers interlaced in the discharging tube 22 as much as possible, so as to avoid the situation that the quantity of the coir fibers carried out by a single straight rod structure is small or the coir fibers cannot be carried out.
In a further aspect, as shown in fig. 2 and fig. 3, the fiber material pipe 2 further includes a long strip blocking brush 23, the long strip blocking brush 23 is located below the discharging pipe 22, the long strip blocking brush 23 is fixed on the discharging pipe 22 through an extending support frame structure, and when the scraping strip 13 rotates to the lowest position, the long strip blocking brush 23 is overlapped with the scraping strips 13 in rows.
In this structure, through setting up rectangular fender brush 23, can keep off the coconut husk fibre that passes through on the strip that scrapes 13 of rectangular fender brush 23 and fall into the concrete of stirring, avoid the coconut husk fibre winding on scraping strip 13, along with the rotation of mixing drum 1 reentrant unloading pipe 22.
In a further scheme, as shown in fig. 3, the scraping strips 13 on the extension rod 12 are divided into three rows, the three rows of scraping strips 13 are arranged on the extension rod 12 in an included angle, and the scraping strips 13 with a multi-row structure can improve the scraping speed of the coconut fibers and avoid the condition that the efficiency of the scraping strips 13 is too low due to single beat.
Finally, it is noted that the above-mentioned preferred embodiments are only intended to illustrate rather than limit the invention, and that, although the invention has been described in detail by means of the above-mentioned preferred embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
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1. A coconut fiber reinforced coral aggregate concrete mixing and stirring device is characterized in that: the novel coconut fiber feeding device comprises a mixing barrel (1) and a fiber feeding pipe (2) for filling coconut fibers, wherein two pairs of spiral sheets (11) are symmetrically arranged around the inner side of the mixing barrel (1), the fiber feeding pipe (2) comprises a feeding pipe (21) and a discharging pipe (22) which are communicated, the feeding pipe (21) is positioned above the mixing barrel (1), the discharging pipe (22) extends into a material port of the mixing barrel (1), the bottom plane of the discharging pipe (22) faces downwards, and a plurality of grooves (221) are formed in the bottom plane of the discharging pipe (22) in an arrangement mode; the inside coaxial extension pole (12) that is equipped with of mixing drum (1), be equipped with a plurality of scrapes strip (13) on extension pole (12) range, scrape strip (13) width and be less than strip groove (221) width, rotate along with mixing drum (1), scrape strip (13) follow strip groove (221) stretch into unloading pipe (22), take out the coconut husk fibre in unloading pipe (22).
2. The coconut fiber reinforced coral aggregate concrete mixing and stirring device as recited in claim 1, wherein: the feeding pipe (21) is also internally provided with a screw shaft (3) in a rotating way.
3. The coconut fiber reinforced coral aggregate concrete mixing and stirring device as recited in claim 1, wherein: the scraping strip (13) comprises a straight strip (131) fixed on the extension rod (12), and a baffle strip (132) arranged on the periphery of the straight strip (131).
4. The coconut fiber reinforced coral aggregate concrete mixing and stirring device as recited in claim 1, wherein: the fiber material pipe (2) further comprises a strip blocking brush (23), the strip blocking brush (23) is located below the blanking pipe (22), the strip blocking brush (23) is fixedly connected with the blanking pipe (22), and when the scraping strip (13) rotates to the lowest position, the strip blocking brush (23) is overlapped with the scraping strips (13) in a row.
5. The coconut fiber reinforced coral aggregate concrete mixing and stirring device as recited in claim 1, wherein: the scraping strips (13) on the extension rod (12) are divided into a plurality of rows, and the scraping strips (13) in the plurality of rows are arranged on the extension rod (12) in an included angle.
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