CN201849887U - Assembly type automatic turnover mechanism of standard plastic garbage bin - Google Patents

Assembly type automatic turnover mechanism of standard plastic garbage bin Download PDF

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CN201849887U
CN201849887U CN2010205898719U CN201020589871U CN201849887U CN 201849887 U CN201849887 U CN 201849887U CN 2010205898719 U CN2010205898719 U CN 2010205898719U CN 201020589871 U CN201020589871 U CN 201020589871U CN 201849887 U CN201849887 U CN 201849887U
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黄闯
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The utility model discloses an assembly type automatic turnover mechanism of a standard plastic garbage bin, comprising a turnover guide rail and a hydraulic oil cylinder fixedly arranged on the turnover guide rail, wherein the hydraulic oil cylinder is connected with a guide frame through a chain, and a garbage bin supporting frame and a turnover frame are arranged above the guide frame; and the guide frame is in sliding connection with the turnover guide rail. The assembly type automatic turnover mechanism of the standard plastic garbage bin has stable and reliable performance, is convenient to mount and dismount, can be independent of a vehicle body or other carriers for carrying garbage, and can independently realize automatic lifting and turnover only by arranging a hydraulic circuit onto the turnover hydraulic oil cylinder; if different vehicle bodies or devices have different lifting heights, the travel of the hydraulic oil cylinder is changed so as to achieve the purpose; as the assembly type automatic turnover mechanism of the standard plastic garbage bin is an independent mechanism and has an assembly type entire structure, the turnover mechanism can be used for lifting and turning over standard garbage bins.

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Build-up type standard plastic sewage disposer automatic turning mechanism
Technical field
The utility model relates to a kind of municipal refuse and collects the build-up type standard plastic sewage disposer automatic turning mechanism that special-use vehicle uses.
Background technology
Municipal refuse substantially all is to be collected in the plastic garbage bin that meets " CJ/T 280-2008 plastic garbage bin general technical specifications ", and the bulk refuse car that solid-state rubbish can be by having tailgate, compression garbage truck, conjuncted compression dustbin (with torque arm hitch fortune) etc. transport the refuse landfill landfill to; The changing food waste of fluid can not be by the collection and treatment of solid-state rubbish mode owing to containing swill and hazardous and noxious substances, and changing food waste all is used to raise the swill pig or is used to refine waste oil by illegal businessman before this in a lot of cities of China, and is very big to social danger.Country has issued " General Office of the State Council is about strengthening the suggestion of waste oil regulation and kitchen castoff management " recently, puts into effect coercive measure by government, with the unified fortune of receiving of changing food waste, concentrates and carries out the development tendency that harmless treatment has become China city.The changing food waste car is to be used for the special-use vehicle that changing food waste is received fortune, but the changing food waste in the container often pours in the changing food waste vehicle tank by the people because the changing food waste peculiar smell is heavy, operate very unhygienic, also inconvenience.
Summary of the invention
The technical problems to be solved in the utility model provides the build-up type standard plastic sewage disposer automatic turning mechanism in a kind of changing food waste vehicle tank of changing food waste in the plastic garbage bin can being packed into automatically.
For solving the problems of the technologies described above, the utility model adopts following technical scheme: a kind of build-up type standard plastic sewage disposer automatic turning mechanism, comprise upset guide rail and the hydraulic ram that is fixed on the upset guide rail, described hydraulic ram is connected with guide frame by chain, the guide frame top is provided with sewage disposer bearing support and turning rack, guide frame and upset guide rail sliding block joint.
Hydraulic ram described in the utility model top is fixed on the middle beam of upset guide rail by the oil cylinder clamping plate, the hydraulic ram bottom is fixed on the lower beam of upset guide rail by cylinder pedestal, the piston rod of hydraulic ram is by the holder handle that is threaded, sprocket wheel is equipped with at holder handle two ends respectively, chain is walked around sprocket wheel, one end of chain is fixed on the middle beam of upset guide rail by adjusting screw(rod), and the other end of chain links to each other with guide frame by gudgeon.
Guide frame described in the utility model upper end links to each other with the sewage disposer bearing support by two S. A.s, and the guide frame lower end is provided with two rollers and is connected with the slide of upset guide rail.
Turning rack described in the utility model is connected by the slide of two rollers with the upset guide rail, and the sewage disposer bearing support is by the guide-track groove sliding block joint in four second rollers and embedded slide block and the turning rack.
Also be provided with two balance springs between sewage disposer bearing support described in the utility model and the guide frame.
Upset guide rail described in the utility model is made up of one section straight vertical line segment, one section arc section and one section straight horizontal line segment, also is provided with contiguous block on the upset guide rail.
The utility model compared with prior art, and is stable and reliable for performance, installs and removes very convenient.Can not rely on the carrier of car body or other loading rubbish,, just can independently realize the automatic lift upset of standard sewage disposer as long as give the upset hydraulic ram hydraulic circuit.Different car bodies or device change the hydraulic ram stroke and get final product as the hoisting depth difference.Because have independent agency of one's own, but integral structure is a build-up type, therefore, so long as be used to promote upset standard sewage disposer, the utility model can be used.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of the present utility model.
Fig. 2 is a front view of the present utility model.
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Fig. 4 is a birds-eye view of the present utility model.
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The utility model will be further described below in conjunction with accompanying drawing.
As shown in Figure 1, the utility model build-up type standard plastic sewage disposer automatic turning mechanism comprises upset guide rail 1 and the hydraulic ram 5 that is fixed on the upset guide rail 1, hydraulic ram 5 is connected with guide frame 13 by chain 15, guide frame 13 tops are provided with sewage disposer bearing support 11 and turning rack 16, guide frame 13 and upset guide rail 1 sliding block joint.Wherein, upset guide rail 1 is made up of one section straight vertical line segment, one section arc section and one section straight horizontal line segment, by adorning on contiguous block 2 and the special-use vehicle or other refuse collector connects, whole standard plastic sewage disposer automatic turnover machine is constituted assemble removable; Hydraulic ram 5 provides power by hydraulic efficiency pressure system for whole build-up type standard plastic sewage disposer automatic turning mechanism, hydraulic ram 5 tops are fixed on the middle beam 8 of upset guide rail 1 by oil cylinder clamping plate 7, the bottom is fixed on the lower beam 19 of upset guide rail 1 by cylinder pedestal, holder handle 3 links to each other by the piston rod of screw thread with hydraulic ram 5, sprocket wheel 4 is equipped with at holder handle 3 two ends respectively, chain 15 is walked around sprocket wheel, one end of chain 15 is fixed on by adjusting screw(rod) 6 on the middle beam 8 of upset guide rail, and the other end of chain 15 links to each other with guide frame 13 by gudgeon 18; Turning rack 16 can be along the orbiting motion of upset guide rail 1 by two rollers 9, sewage disposer bearing support 11 can move in the interior guide-track groove of turning rack 16 by four second rollers 10 and embedded slide block, guide frame 13 upper ends link to each other with sewage disposer bearing support 11 by two S. A.s 17, guide frame 13 can promote sewage disposer bearing support 11 and rotate around S. A. 17, and the guide frame lower end can be along the orbiting motion of upset guide rail 1 by two rollers 9; Article two, sewage disposer bearing support 11 is hooked in balance spring 12 upper ends, and guide frame 13 is hooked in the lower end.
The utility model band the plastic garbage bin upset and is realized loading, its operating principle is: hydraulic ram 5 promotes piston rod and rises under the effect of hydraulic efficiency pressure system, the sprocket wheel 4 that is fixed on piston rod upper end holder handle 3 two ends drives chain 15 motions, chain 15 is fixed on transfixion on the middle beam 8, the lower end is fixed on the gudgeon 18 of guide frame 13, drive guide frame 13 by gudgeon 18, at first sewage disposer bearing support 11 1 rises along the interior guide rail of turning rack 16, after hanging over plastic garbage bin on the sewage disposer bearing support 11 and hanging briquetting that the limit is reversed frame 16 and compress, guide frame 13 drives turning rack 16 when rising, sewage disposer bearing support 11, plastic garbage bin rises along upset guide rail 1 together, two rollers 9 on turning rack 16 withstand the horizontal linear segment endpoint baffle plate of upset guide rail, at this moment, shape has been in an angle with the straight vertical line segment of upset guide rail 1 for turning rack 16, but, guide frame 13, turning rack 16, sewage disposer bearing support 11, plastic garbage bin also keeps initial bonding state, does not separate.When chain 15 continues be with guide frame 13 to rise, 9 on two rollers on the guide frame 13 so move along upset guide rail 1, guide frame 13 promotion turning racks 16, sewage disposer bearing support 11, plastic garbage bin rotate by the S. A. 17 on top, cover whole strokes up to the piston rod of hydraulic ram 5, guide frame 13 promotion turning racks 16, sewage disposer bearing support 11, plastic garbage bin forward maximum angle to around S. A. 17 at this moment, rubbish in the plastic garbage bin is poured in the fixed container, realized loading.
When promoting piston rod decline under the effect of hydraulic ram 5 in hydraulic efficiency pressure system, standard plastic sewage disposer automatic turning mechanism will be returned to initial condition with the empty plastic garbage bin of completion of discharge.
Article two, the effect of balance spring 12 is impulsive forces that balance is brought because of acceleration change when upset; The effect of rolling bearing rod 14 is to hold the plastic garbage bin bottom, when plastic garbage bin initially rises, before turning rack 16 does not also rise, drive rolling bearing rod 14 and roll, guarantee turning rack 16 can not cause because of the distortion of plastic garbage bin plastic garbage bin hang the limit do not have compacted before just with guide frame 13 risings.
Propulsion source of the present utility model is that hydraulic efficiency pressure system drives hydraulic ram, the holder handle that two sprocket wheels are equipped with at the hydraulic ram two ends is installed in the hydraulic cylinder piston rod rod end, the sprocket wheel pulling drives the bearing support that hangs with plastic garbage bin around chain thereon, guide frame rises along guide rail in the turning rack, the plastic garbage bin that rubbish is housed hangs on the bearing support, after bearing support rises to certain stroke with guide frame along guide rail in the turning rack, the turning rack briquetting compresses plastic garbage bin and hangs the limit, guarantee that plastic garbage bin can not drop in the switching process, and drive turning rack together along the upset guide rail movement, the upset guide rail is made up of one section vertical straight line segment+one section arc section+one section straight horizontal line segment, when turning rack roller process upset guide rail arc section, begin turning, cover stroke up to hydraulic cylinder piston rod, turning rack is turned to maximum angle, plastic garbage bin overturns with turning rack, pour in the vehicle-mounted tank body the rubbish in the bucket is logical, realize loading.
The utility model except be used for fluid rubbish overturn automatically load, also can be used for the solid-state rubbish loading that overturns automatically; Except being used to receive the special-use vehicle of fortune rubbish, also can be used for its collecting and transport device (as conjuncted compression dustbin) upset loading automatically, can be automatically pack into automatically in the changing food waste vehicle tank depositing in changing food waste in the plastic garbage bin, personnel need not be near the very heavy changing food waste of peculiar smell in collecting the changing food waste process, also economized manpower, brought great convenience for the collection of changing food waste.

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1. build-up type standard plastic sewage disposer automatic turning mechanism, comprise upset guide rail (1) and be fixed on hydraulic ram (5) on the guide rail (1) that overturns, it is characterized in that: described hydraulic ram (5) is connected with guide frame (13) by chain (15), guide frame (13) top is provided with sewage disposer bearing support (11) and turning rack (16), guide frame (13) and upset guide rail (1) sliding block joint.
2. build-up type standard plastic sewage disposer automatic turning mechanism according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: described hydraulic ram (5) top is fixed on the middle beam (8) of upset guide rail (1) by oil cylinder clamping plate (7), hydraulic ram (5) bottom is fixed on the lower beam (19) of upset guide rail (1) by cylinder pedestal, the piston rod of hydraulic ram (5) is by the holder handle (3) that is threaded, sprocket wheel (4) is equipped with at holder handle (3) two ends respectively, chain (15) is walked around sprocket wheel (4), one end of chain (15) is fixed on by adjusting screw(rod) (6) on the middle beam (8) of upset guide rail (1), and the other end of chain (15) links to each other with guide frame (13) by gudgeon (18).
3. build-up type standard plastic sewage disposer automatic turning mechanism according to claim 2, it is characterized in that: described guide frame (13) upper end links to each other with sewage disposer bearing support (11) by two S. A.s (17), and guide frame (13) lower end is provided with two rollers (9) and is connected with the slide of upset guide rail (1).
4. build-up type standard plastic sewage disposer automatic turning mechanism according to claim 3, it is characterized in that: described turning rack (16) is connected by the slide of two rollers (9) with upset guide rail (1), and sewage disposer bearing support (11) is by the guide-track groove sliding block joint in four second rollers (10) and embedded slide block and the turning rack (16).
5. build-up type standard plastic sewage disposer automatic turning mechanism according to claim 4 is characterized in that: also be provided with two balance springs (12) between described sewage disposer bearing support (11) and the guide frame (13).
6. build-up type standard plastic sewage disposer automatic turning mechanism according to claim 1 or 5, it is characterized in that: described upset guide rail (1) is made up of one section straight vertical line segment, one section arc section and one section straight horizontal line segment, also is provided with contiguous block (2) on the upset guide rail (1).
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