Reciprocating type mud scraper of sedimentation tank
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of sludge treatment, in particular to a reciprocating sludge scraper machine of a sedimentation tank.
Background
The sludge scraper is a main device for sewage sludge treatment, is widely used in urban and rural environment-friendly sewage sludge treatment industry, the bottom of the sludge scraper is provided with a sludge tank, sewage sludge enters a sedimentation tank and is settled based on solid particle gravity or concentrated by using medicaments, the upper part of the sewage sludge is clarified water, the lower part of the sewage sludge is settled sludge slurry, the sludge scraper discharges the settled sludge slurry out of the sedimentation tank through the sludge tank, the next treatment is carried out according to the sewage sludge treatment process, the bottom of the sludge scraper is also provided with an operating sludge scraper, the settled sludge slurry is pushed to the sludge tank through the operating action of the sludge scraper, the settled sludge slurry is discharged from a discharge hole, and clear water is discharged from the upper part of the sedimentation tank, so that the aim of separating the sludge and the clarified water is achieved.
The prior patent CN2153877609U discloses a hydraulic reciprocating mud scraper, which aims to solve the problems that a large amount of mud is easy to adhere to the outer wall of a scraper after the prior hydraulic reciprocating mud scraper is used for a long time, and the scraper needs to be cleaned periodically by manpower in order to avoid the corrosion of the adhered mud, so that the workload is large;
However, the mud scraper in the above-mentioned comparison patent belongs to a conventional mud scraping mechanism, in the running process, the mud is directly settled in the mud and is driven by a triangle arm fixing frame, a hydraulic driving assembly and the like, and the arrangement of the structure is very easy to cause the situation that the mud is accumulated in the device to influence the moving running of the scraper;
Meanwhile, although the above-mentioned comparison patent can scrape the mud of the sedimentation tank and remove the mud on the surface of the scraper, but the mud is apt to block the discharge port because of the continuous accumulation of mud while scraping, and in the course of reciprocating motion, because the straight line movement height of the scraper remains unchanged, it is apt to appear that the mud not scraped is pushed back to the reverse side position of the scraper for the first time, form and scrape the dead angle and reduce the cleaning efficiency of the mud;
in view of the technical drawbacks of this aspect, a solution is now proposed.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a reciprocating sludge scraper machine of a sedimentation tank, which aims to solve the technical defects of the background technology.
The reciprocating sludge scraper for the sedimentation tank comprises a concave bottom frame, an open slot, a first fixed frame and a second fixed frame, wherein the open slot is arranged at the center of the inside of the concave bottom frame, and the first fixed frame and the second fixed frame are respectively arranged on the top surface of the concave bottom frame and are positioned on two sides of the open slot;
A limit frame is fixedly arranged at the opening at one side of the open slot, and a pushing mechanism is arranged at one side of the fixed frame on the top surface of the concave bottom frame;
The center of the top surface of the first fixed frame is provided with a groove, the inside of the groove is connected with a T-shaped sliding plate in a sliding way, a plurality of groups of first inclined grooves are equidistantly arranged on one side surface of the first fixed frame, which is close to the second fixed frame, the head end and the tail end of each group of first inclined grooves are respectively provided with a first transverse groove and a second transverse groove, and a plurality of teeth are equidistantly arranged on the inner wall of the bottom of the first transverse groove;
a plurality of groups of rotating rods are fixedly mounted on one side of the T-shaped sliding plate at equal intervals, one end of each group of rotating rods extends to the outer portion of the corresponding chute I and is fixedly provided with a wedge-shaped scraping plate, a limiting gear I is fixedly mounted on the middle section of the outer portion of the rotating rod, the limiting gear I is slidably connected inside the chute I, and a rack I is fixedly mounted at the center of one side of the fixing frame I away from the fixing frame II.
Further, the limiting frame is internally provided with a cutting plate in a penetrating manner, the top of the cutting plate extends to the outside of the limiting frame, an inclined chute II is arranged at the upper end of the limiting frame in the cutting plate, and a plurality of groups of tooth grooves are formed in the bottom surface of the cutting plate at equal intervals.
Further, the pushing mechanism comprises a motor, the motor is fixedly arranged on the top surface of the concave bottom frame and located at one side of the fixed frame, a double-shaft cylinder is fixedly arranged at the output shaft of the front end of the motor, and a triangular supporting block is fixedly arranged at the bearing of the rear end of one side of the double-shaft cylinder.
Further, the pushing mechanism further comprises a sector toothed plate, the sector toothed plate is meshed with one side of the rack, a hinge rod is fixedly arranged on one side, away from the rack, of the sector toothed plate, the center of the bottom of the hinge rod is hinged with the top surface of the concave bottom frame, a circular shaft is fixedly arranged on the bottom surface of the hinge rod and one end, away from the sector toothed plate, of the hinge rod, and the circular shaft extends to the top surface of the double-shaft cylinder and is positioned on one side of the triangular support block.
Further, the one end that the motor was kept away from to biax drum has half gear through stock fixed mounting, and half gear outside has cup jointed the smooth frame of returning the shape structure, smooth frame bottom inner wall equidistance is provided with a plurality of groups tooth, smooth frame bottom center department fixed mounting has the slider, and slider sliding connection is inside the spout that concave underframe top surface one side department set up, common fixed mounting has spring damping bumper shock absorber between slider and the spout one side inner wall, smooth frame one side center department fixed mounting has the push away the frame of concave structure, and pushes away the equal fixed mounting of frame front and back end inner wall and lies in the open end has the convex slide shaft, two sets of slide shaft sliding connection is in the inside lower one of chute two respectively.
Furthermore, the height of the top surface of the second fixed frame exceeds the height of the top surface of the first fixed frame by 8cm, an inner groove is formed in the position, close to one side of the first fixed frame, of the second fixed frame and located at the top end of the second fixed frame, and cleaning pieces are arranged in the inner groove.
Further, the cleaning piece comprises a guide rod, the guide rod is fixedly arranged inside the inner groove, a plurality of groups of sliding rods are sleeved at equal intervals outside the guide rod, one end of each sliding rod extends to the notch of the inner groove and is rotationally connected with a roller wiping shaft, the roller wiping shaft is positioned at one end of each sliding rod and is fixedly sleeved with a limiting gear II, the bottoms of the limiting gears II are meshed with racks II fixedly arranged on the inner wall of the bottom of the inner groove, and the roller wiping shaft is positioned at the rear end of the top of the wedge-shaped scraping plate.
Furthermore, a plurality of groups of sleeves are fixedly sleeved outside the guide rod at equal intervals, the sliding rod is arranged between the two groups of sleeves, and a spring group ring is wound between the sliding rod and one group of sleeves outside the guide rod.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. According to the invention, the wedge-shaped scraping plate component is matched with the pushing mechanism, the motor drives the double-shaft cylinder and the triangular supporting block to synchronously rotate, the inclined surface of the triangular supporting block continuously supports against the circular shaft to force the sector toothed plate to deflect, the sector toothed plate pulls the wedge-shaped scraping plate to synchronously move, the rotating rod slides from the first chute to the second chute to force the wedge-shaped scraping plate to slide downwards, the sludge on the bottom surface is scraped, and the sludge is scraped to the bottom of the wedge-shaped scraping plate in the adjacent area;
When the circular shaft passes over the inclined surface of the triangular abutting block to lose abutting pressure, the sector toothed plate resets and pulls the T-shaped sliding plate and the wedge-shaped scraping plate to reset and move, the first limit gear slides into the first chute from the inside of the second transverse groove to force the wedge-shaped scraping plate to lift and keep away from the bottom surface of the sedimentation tank, and the first limit gear slides into the inside of the first transverse groove and is meshed with the teeth to realize autorotation of the rotating rod and the wedge-shaped scraping plate;
So reciprocally, through the mode of intermittently lifting back and scraping the sludge, not only effectively remove the sludge at the bottom of the pool and reduce the situation that the sludge blocks are detained due to the occurrence of scraping dead angles, but also reduce the situation that a sludge discharge port is blocked by sectionally cutting the sludge;
2. according to the invention, the cutting plate assembly is matched with the pushing structure, the half gears rotate and are meshed with the sliding frames to cause the sliding frames and the pushing frames to move, the two groups of sliding shafts linearly slide along the second chute and press the inner wall of the second chute to force the cutting plate to downwards settle until the tooth slot at the bottom of the cutting plate extends to the lower end of the limiting frame and breaks up the pushed mud blocks, so that the blocking condition of the mud blocks at the feed opening is reduced, and the discharge speed of the mud blocks is accelerated;
When the tooth block surface of the half gear passes over the tooth slot, the sliding frame is pulled to move reversely due to the fact that meshing transmission is lost, the sliding shaft moves reversely along the second chute, the cutting plate is forced to be lifted and reset and is far away from the discharge port, blocking of sludge discharge is reduced, repeated operation is carried out, and repeated cutting of the discharged sludge by the cutting plate can be achieved;
3. And through the cleaning element that sets up, it is with wedge scraper blade cooperation, wedge scraper blade turns over and constantly supports the roller of pressing adjacent position and rubs the axle and pull slide bar, spacing gear II synchronous movement, spacing gear then with rack II meshing and realize spacing gear and the rotation of roller scrubbing axle in the removal process, the rotation translation of roller scrubbing axle and adaptation rotation state under wedge scraper blade's cleanness, with the mud of supplementary removal wedge scraper blade surface adhesion, in order to avoid wedge scraper blade bottom scraping material end to build up mud, and influence the effect of scraping of sedimentation tank bottom mud and cause self corruption.
Drawings
The present invention is further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings for the convenience of understanding by those skilled in the art.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the overall structure of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a top view of the overall structure of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is an expanded plan view of the biaxial cylinder of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a semi-sectional view of a concave bottom frame of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a side cross-sectional view of a female bottom frame in combination with a fixed frame in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a partial structure of a combination of a concave bottom frame and a pushing mechanism according to the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a side cross-sectional view of the combination of the concave bottom frame, stop frame and push mechanism of the present invention;
Fig. 8 is a schematic perspective view showing the combination of the fixing frame two and the cleaning member.
In the figure, 1, a concave bottom frame, 2, an open slot, 3, a fixed frame I, 301, a groove, 302, a T-shaped sliding plate, 303, a chute I, 304, a transverse slot I, 305, a transverse slot II, 306, a rotating rod, 307, a wedge-shaped scraping plate, 308, a limiting gear I, 309, a rack I, 4, a fixed frame II, 401, an inner groove, 5, a limiting frame, 501, a cutting plate, 502, a chute II, 6, a pushing mechanism, 61, a motor, 62, a double-shaft cylinder, 63, a triangular abutting block, 64, a sector toothed plate, 65, a hinge rod, 66, a circular shaft, 67, a half gear, 68, a sliding frame, 69, a sliding block, 610, a sliding groove, 611, a spring damping damper, 612, a pushing frame, 613, a sliding shaft, 7, a cleaning piece, 71, a guide rod, 72, a sliding rod, 73, a roller scraping shaft, 74, a limiting gear II, 75, a rack II, 76, a sleeve, 77 and a spring group ring.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions of the present invention will be clearly and completely described in connection with the embodiments, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, 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. 1-8, a reciprocating sludge scraper for a sedimentation tank comprises a concave bottom frame 1, an open slot 2, a first fixed frame 3 and a second fixed frame 4, wherein the open slot 2 is arranged at the center of the concave bottom frame 1, the first fixed frame 3 and the second fixed frame 4 are respectively arranged at the positions of the top surface of the concave bottom frame 1 at the two sides of the open slot 2, and a limit frame 5 is fixedly arranged at the opening of one side of the open slot 2;
A groove 301 is formed in the center of the top surface of the first fixed frame 3, a T-shaped sliding plate 302 is connected inside the groove 301 in a sliding manner, a plurality of groups of first inclined grooves 303 are formed in the side surface of the first fixed frame 3, which is close to the second fixed frame 4, at equal distance, a first transverse groove 304 and a second transverse groove 305 are formed in the head end and the tail end of each group of first inclined grooves 303 respectively, and a plurality of teeth are formed in the inner wall of the bottom of the first transverse groove 304 at equal distance;
A plurality of groups of rotating rods 306 are fixedly arranged on one side of the T-shaped sliding plate 302 at equal intervals, one end of each group of rotating rods 306 extends to the outside of a corresponding chute I303 and is fixedly provided with a wedge-shaped scraping plate 307, a limiting gear I308 is fixedly arranged in the middle section of the outside of the rotating rods 306, the limiting gear I308 is in sliding connection with the inside of the chute I303, a rack I309 is fixedly arranged at the center of one side of a fixed frame I3, which is far away from a fixed frame II 4, firstly, a concave bottom frame 1 is sleeved on the top of a sedimentation tank, the plurality of groups of wedge-shaped scraping plates 307 vertically correspond to the bottom surface of the tank, and a limiting frame 5 at the end part of an opening groove 2 vertically corresponds to a sludge discharge hole of the sedimentation tank;
The pushing mechanism 6 is arranged at the position, located on one side of the first fixed frame, of the top surface of the concave bottom frame 1, the pushing mechanism 6 comprises a motor 61, the motor 61 is fixedly arranged on the top surface of the concave bottom frame 1 and located on one side of the first fixed frame through a mounting frame, a double-shaft cylinder 62 is fixedly arranged at an output shaft of the front end of the motor 61, and a triangular supporting block 63 is fixedly arranged at a bearing of the rear end of one side of the double-shaft cylinder 62;
The pushing mechanism 6 further comprises a sector toothed plate 64, the sector toothed plate 64 is meshed with one side of the first rack 309, a hinge rod 65 is fixedly arranged on one side of the sector toothed plate 64 far away from the first rack 309, the center of the bottom of the hinge rod 65 is hinged with the top surface of the concave bottom frame 1, a circular shaft 66 is fixedly arranged on one end of the bottom surface of the hinge rod 65 far away from the sector toothed plate 64, and the circular shaft 66 extends the top surface of the double-shaft cylinder 62 and is positioned on one side of the triangular supporting block 63;
the specific scraping process comprises the steps of firstly starting a motor 61, driving a double-shaft cylinder 62 to rotate clockwise, enabling a triangular supporting block 63 to rotate synchronously along with the double-shaft cylinder 62, enabling an inclined surface on one side of the triangular supporting block 63 to continuously support a circular shaft 66, forcing a hinge rod 65 and a sector toothed plate 64 to deflect, enabling the sector toothed plate 64 to drag a rack I309, a T-shaped sliding plate 302, a rotating rod 306 and a wedge-shaped scraping plate 307 to move synchronously, enabling the rotating rod 306 to slide from the interior of a chute I303 to the interior of a transverse groove II 305, forcing the wedge-shaped scraping plate 307 to slide downwards in an inclined manner, and scraping sludge on the bottom surface;
The sludge is scraped to the bottom of the wedge-shaped scraping plate 307 in the adjacent area, and along with continuous rotation of the double-shaft cylinder 62, the circular shaft 66 passes over the inclined surface of the triangular supporting block 63 to lose supporting pressure, under the overturning action of hinging force, the hinging rod 65 and the sector toothed plate 64 are reset, the sector toothed plate 64 pulls the T-shaped sliding plate 302 and the wedge-shaped scraping plate 307 to reset and move, during the period, the limiting gear I308 slides from the inside of the transverse groove II 305 to the inside of the chute I303 to force the wedge-shaped scraping plate 307 to lift and separate from the bottom surface of the sedimentation tank, and meanwhile, the limiting gear I308 slides to the inside of the transverse groove I304 and is meshed with teeth to realize rotation of the rotating rod 306 and the wedge-shaped scraping plate 307;
The device is convenient to operate, and can effectively remove sludge at the bottom of the tank, reduce the condition that mud blocks are detained due to the occurrence of scraping dead angles and reduce the condition that a sludge discharge port is blocked by sectionally cutting the sludge.
Referring to fig. 6-7, a cutting plate 501 is disposed in the limiting frame 5 in a penetrating manner, the top of the cutting plate 501 extends to the outside of the limiting frame 5, a second inclined groove 502 is disposed in the cutting plate 501 at the upper end of the limiting frame 5, and a plurality of sets of tooth grooves are disposed on the bottom of the cutting plate 501 at equal distance;
One end of the double-shaft cylinder 62 far away from the motor 61 is fixedly provided with a half gear 67 through a long rod, the outer part of the half gear 67 is sleeved with a sliding frame 68 with a square structure, a plurality of groups of teeth are equidistantly arranged on the inner wall of the bottom of the sliding frame 68, a sliding block 69 is fixedly arranged at the center of the bottom of the sliding frame 68, the sliding block 69 is in sliding connection with the inside of a sliding groove 610 arranged at one side of the top surface of the concave bottom frame 1, a spring damping shock absorber 611 is fixedly arranged between the sliding block 69 and the inner wall of one side of the sliding groove 610, a pushing frame 612 with a concave structure is fixedly arranged at the center of one side of the sliding frame 68, convex sliding shafts 613 are fixedly arranged on the inner walls of the front end and the rear end of the pushing frame 612 and are positioned at the opening ends, and the two groups of sliding shafts 613 are respectively and slidably connected with the lower end of the inside of the second sliding groove 502;
The motor 61 drives the double-shaft cylinder 62 to rotate and simultaneously drives the half gear 67 to synchronously rotate, the half gear 67 is meshed with teeth on the inner wall of the bottom of the sliding frame 68 to realize the movement of the sliding frame 68 and the pushing frame 612, the sliding block 69 moves along the inside of the sliding groove 610, the spring damping shock absorber 611 compresses, the pushing frame 612 penetrates and moves along the outside of the cutting plate 501 to force the two groups of sliding shafts 613 to linearly slide along the inside of the chute II 502, the sliding shafts 613 push the inner wall of the bottom of the chute II 502 to force the cutting plate 501 to sink downwards until the tooth grooves at the bottom of the cutting plate 501 extend to the lower end of the limiting frame 5 and break the pushed mud blocks, so that the blocking condition of the mud blocks at a feed opening is reduced, and the discharge speed of the mud blocks is accelerated;
It should be noted that, when the tooth block surface of the half gear 67 passes over the tooth slot, the sliding frame 68 loses engagement transmission, and resets under the resilience force of the spring damping shock absorber 611, and pulls the pushing frame 612 to move reversely, meanwhile, the sliding shaft 613 moves reversely along the inside of the chute two 502, so that the cutting plate 501 is forced to lift and return to a position away from the discharge port, thereby reducing blocking of sludge discharge, and repeated operation can realize repeated cutting of the discharged sludge by the cutting plate 501.
Referring to fig. 2 and 5-7, the top surface of the second fixing frame 4 exceeds 8cm of the top surface of the first fixing frame 3, an inner groove 401 is formed in the top end of the second fixing frame 4 near one side of the first fixing frame 3, and cleaning elements 7 are arranged in the inner groove 401;
The cleaning piece 7 comprises a guide rod 71, the guide rod 71 is fixedly arranged inside the inner groove 401, a plurality of groups of sliding rods 72 are sleeved outside the guide rod 71 at equal intervals, one end of each sliding rod 72 extends to the notch of the inner groove 401 and is rotationally connected with a roller wiping shaft 73, a limiting gear II 74 is fixedly sleeved at one end of each roller wiping shaft 73, and bottoms of the plurality of groups of limiting gears II 74 are meshed with a rack II 75 fixedly arranged on the inner wall of the bottom of the inner groove 401;
The roller wiping shaft 73 is positioned at the rear end of the top of the wedge-shaped scraper 307, a plurality of groups of sleeves 76 are fixedly sleeved outside the guide rod 71 at equal intervals, the sliding rod 72 is arranged between the two groups of sleeves 76, and a spring group ring 77 is wound and arranged outside the guide rod 71 between the sliding rod 72 and one group of sleeves 76;
In the overturning process of the wedge-shaped scraper 307, the adjacent roller scraping shafts 73 are continuously abutted against, the roller scraping shafts 73 are abutted against by the wedge-shaped scraper 307, the traction slide rod 72 and the limit gear II 74 synchronously move, the slide rod 72 slides along the outside of the guide rod 71 and abuts against the spring group ring 77 to be compressed, the limit gear 74 is meshed with the rack II 75 in the moving process to realize the rotation of the limit gear 74 and the roller scraping shafts 73, the rotation and translation of the roller scraping shafts 73 are suitable for the cleaning of the wedge-shaped scraper 307 in a rotating state, so that the sludge adhered to the surfaces of the wedge-shaped scraper 307 is removed in an auxiliary manner, the sludge scraping effect of the sludge at the bottom of a sedimentation tank is prevented from being influenced, the sludge block adhered to the wedge-shaped scraper 307 is corroded by the rotation of the roller scraping shafts 73, and the like.
When the invention is used, the concave bottom frame 1 is sleeved on the top of the sedimentation tank, the plurality of groups of wedge-shaped scraping plates 307 are vertically corresponding to the bottom surface of the sedimentation tank, and the limit frame 5 at the end part of the open slot 2 is vertically corresponding to the sludge discharge port of the sedimentation tank;
Then, the starting motor 61 drives the double-shaft cylinder 62 to rotate clockwise, the triangular supporting block 63 rotates synchronously with the double-shaft cylinder 62, one side inclined surface of the triangular supporting block 63 continuously supports against the circular shaft 66 to force the hinge rod 65 and the sector toothed plate 64 to deflect, the sector toothed plate 64 pulls the first 309 of racks, the T-shaped 302 of sliding plates, the rotating rod 306 and the wedge-shaped 307 to move synchronously, the rotating rod 306 slides from the inside of the first 303 of chute to the inside of the second 305 of chute, the wedge-shaped 307 of sliding downwards is forced, and the sludge on the bottom surface is scraped;
the sludge is scraped to the bottom of the wedge-shaped scraping plate 307 in the adjacent area, along with continuous rotation of the double-shaft cylinder 62, the circular shaft 66 passes over the inclined surface of the triangular supporting block 63 to lose supporting pressure, under the overturning action of hinging force, the hinging rod 65 and the sector toothed plate 64 are reset, the sector toothed plate 64 pulls the T-shaped sliding plate 302 and the wedge-shaped scraping plate 307 to reset and move, during the period, the first limiting gear 308 slides from the inside of the transverse groove II 305 to the inside of the chute I303 to force the wedge-shaped scraping plate 307 to lift and keep away from the bottom surface of the sedimentation tank, and meanwhile, the first limiting gear 308 slides to the inside of the transverse groove I304 and is meshed with teeth to realize rotation of the rotating rod 306 and the wedge-shaped scraping plate 307, so reciprocation is realized, and intermittent lifting and sludge scraping are realized;
simultaneously, the half gear 67 rotates along with the double-shaft cylinder 62, the sliding frame 68 is meshed to realize the movement of the sliding frame 68 and the pushing frame 612, the sliding block 69 moves along the inside of the sliding groove 610, the spring damping shock absorber 611 compresses, the pushing frame 612 runs through and moves along the outside of the cutting plate 501, the two groups of sliding shafts 613 are forced to slide along the straight line inside of the chute II 502, the sliding shafts 613 abut against the inner wall at the bottom of the chute II 502 to force the cutting plate 501 to subside downwards until the tooth groove at the bottom of the cutting plate 501 extends to the lower end of the limiting frame 5 and breaks the pushed mud blocks, and therefore the blocking condition of the mud blocks at a feed opening is reduced;
And the wedge-shaped scraper 307 continuously abuts against the adjacent roller scraping shaft 73 when being overturned, the roller scraping shaft 73 synchronously moves due to the fact that the wedge-shaped scraper 307 pulls the sliding rod 72 and the limiting gear II 74, the sliding rod 72 slides along the outside of the guide rod 71 and abuts against the spring group ring 77 to be compressed, the limiting gear 74 is meshed with the rack II 75 in the moving process to realize the autorotation of the limiting gear 74 and the roller scraping shaft 73, and the autorotation translation of the roller scraping shaft 73 is suitable for the cleaning of the wedge-shaped scraper 307 in a rotating state, so that the sludge adhered to the surface of the wedge-shaped scraper 307 is removed in an auxiliary mode, and the sludge is prevented from being accumulated at the scraping end at the bottom of the wedge-shaped scraper 307.
The preferred embodiments of the invention disclosed above are intended only to assist in the explanation of the invention. The preferred embodiments are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise form disclosed. Obviously, many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and the practical application, to thereby enable others skilled in the art to best understand and utilize the invention. The invention is limited only by the claims and the full scope and equivalents thereof.