CN204431775U - A kind of living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine - Google Patents

A kind of living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine Download PDF

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CN204431775U
CN204431775U CN201420726958.4U CN201420726958U CN204431775U CN 204431775 U CN204431775 U CN 204431775U CN 201420726958 U CN201420726958 U CN 201420726958U CN 204431775 U CN204431775 U CN 204431775U
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The utility model relates to a kind of extrusion formation equipment, particularly relate to a kind of living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine, it comprises die cavity, main compressing cylinder, tapping channel, feed system and feed bin, it is characterized in that, described die cavity comprises pusher side, exit side, front portion and rear portion, the closed front of described die cavity, rear aperture, described main compressing cylinder is fixedly connected with the pusher side of described die cavity, the exit side of described die cavity is connected with described tapping channel, described tapping channel is provided with clamp cylinder, the top of described die cavity is provided with at least two packed towers side by side, filler briquetting is respectively equipped with in described packed tower, described packed tower top is respectively equipped with packed tower oil cylinder, the piston of described packed tower oil cylinder is fixedly connected with described filler briquetting respectively, its beneficial effect improves equipment capacity, under equal production capacity, reduce equipment cost, and uniform filling, press power is balanced, and system works is stablized, thus also improves equipment life under equal efficiency.

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A kind of living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine
Technical field
The utility model relates to a kind of extrusion formation equipment, particularly relates to a kind of living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine.
Background technology
The processing and forming of living beings is main paties of the refuse efficiency utilization such as wooden industrial wood waste, crop stalk, papery waste material.For extrusion formation equipment, wish the work that energy is energy-conservation, efficient and reliable and stable.At present both at home and abroad conventional extruder structure comprises die cavity, be located at filler briquetting above described die cavity and pusher oil cylinder, makes material compression shaping, and send product crushing block by pusher oil cylinder with coordinating of clamp cylinder by the extruding of filler briquetting.For improving the production capacity of extruder, generally there are two kinds of approach:
One is the cross section increasing crushing block, and machine increases the height and width of crushing block, increases the weight of crushing block.Increase equipment capacity in this way, the problem brought is: when the cross section of crushing block increases, for meeting necessary typed pressure, extruded oil cylinder must strengthen, under identical discharging frequency, the discharge capacity of Hydraulic Station must strengthen, and complete machine power must increase a lot.Such device fabrication cost, equipment operating cost will significantly increase.Simultaneously for increasing the cross section of crushing block, corresponding feed system also must strengthen.But feed system is when increasing to a certain degree, can bring the unstability of charging, so the increase of the cross section of crushing block has certain restriction; In addition, the size of crushing block own also has specification to limit, and is inconvenient to be only increase yield and change.
Two is the discharging frequencies by improving equipment, increases the quantity of crushing block in the unit interval, thus increasing device production capacity.But increase equipment capacity by this method, must increase the discharge capacity of Hydraulic Station, such complete machine power must increase a lot.This method causes device fabrication cost equally, equipment operating cost significantly increases, and while frequency raising, easily causes equipment to cross quick-wearing, and then affect the life-span.
Can find out and increase production capacity by said method, all good fortune can increase device fabrication cost and equipment operating cost greatly, and affect the job stability of equipment.For above-mentioned technical problem, current industry does not also have better solution, can only improve in above-mentioned thinking.
If do not increase the cross section of crushing block, and increase the length of crushing block, be also conducive to improving production capacity.In addition, increase the length of product, generally can not affect product and use, also help the accumulating of product.But the length increasing product must increase the width of packed tower, and can bring two problems when packed tower is widened: after 1, packed tower is widened, corresponding feed system also must strengthen.But feed system is when increasing to a certain degree, can bring the unstability of charging, so the increase of crushing block length has certain restriction.2, after packed tower is widened, shaping mold cavity also must be widened, and this brings a difficult problem to the manufacture of die cavity.In addition, when packed tower lengthens, because filler can not ensure evenly, filler briquetting will be caused large at length direction force difference, long-term work is also unstable.
Can find out, if above-mentioned two difficult problems can be broken through, by increasing the length of crushing block, increase production capacity, by the effect obtained be: equipment capacity is multiplied, and the manufacturing cost of equipment and equipment operating cost slightly increase.
Utility model content
The utility model, for above-mentioned the deficiencies in the prior art, provides the living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine of a kind of high efficiency, low operating cost.
The technical scheme that the utility model solves the problems of the technologies described above is as follows: a kind of living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine, comprise die cavity, main compressing cylinder, tapping channel, feed system and feed bin, it is characterized in that, described die cavity comprises pusher side, exit side, front portion and rear portion, the closed front of described die cavity, rear aperture, described main compressing cylinder is fixedly connected with the pusher side of described die cavity, described main compressing cylinder comprises master cylinder briquetting, the pusher side of described die cavity is located at by described master cylinder briquetting, the exit side of described die cavity is connected with described tapping channel, described tapping channel is provided with clamp cylinder, the top of described die cavity is provided with at least two packed towers side by side, filler briquetting is respectively equipped with in described packed tower, described packed tower top is respectively equipped with packed tower oil cylinder, the piston of described packed tower oil cylinder is fixedly connected with described filler briquetting respectively,
Described feed system comprises at least two chargers, and described feed system top is located at by described feed bin, and the outlet of described charger is connected with the rear portion of described die cavity respectively.
The beneficial effects of the utility model are: one is under the prerequisite not increasing product cross section, only increase product length, therefore main compressing cylinder need not increase, so under the prerequisite improving identical production capacity, the increase of equipment cost of the present utility model is far smaller than the equipment cost increased by conventional method.To produce the straw extrusion block device that product cross dimensions is 80 × 80, experiment proves: the frequency of this equipment is brought up to 12 beats/min from 8 beats/min, its production capacity can bring up to 220 kgs/hour from 150 kgs/hour, but Hydraulic Station power also needs to bring up to 22 kilowatts from 11 kilowatts.And adopt Double-Tower Structure of the present utility model, when suppressing frequency and being constant, production capacity can bring up to more than 250 kgs/hour from 150 kgs/hour.Because the area of master cylinder briquetting is much little relative to filler briquetting, therefore large requirement be there is no to Hydraulic Station power; Two is owing to adopting multiple charger, packed tower, uniform filling, and press power is balanced, and system works is stablized, thus also improves equipment life under equal efficiency.
On the basis of technique scheme, the utility model can also do following improvement.。
Further, the adjacent wall of described adjacent packed tower is common wall.
Adopt the beneficial effect of above-mentioned further scheme to be to reduce the space between each semi-finished product crushing block, ensure the inner side edge packing of single semi-finished product crushing block, thus ensure the bonding strength between semi-finished product crushing block after secondary extruding.
Further, described die cavity is that multiple little die cavity is fixedly connected with formation.
The beneficial effect of above-mentioned further scheme is adopted to be convenient to die cavity processing.
Further, described tapping channel comprises one-level tapping channel and secondary tapping channel, and described one-level tapping channel is connected with described die cavity, and described secondary tapping channel is connected with described one-level tapping channel, and described clamp cylinder is located on described secondary tapping channel.
The beneficial effect of above-mentioned further scheme is adopted to be convenient to clamp cylinder and install and clamp, unclamp action.
Further, described packed tower, packed tower oil cylinder, filler briquetting, charger are respectively equipped with two covers.
The beneficial effect of above-mentioned further scheme is adopted to be that this Double-Tower Structure can form the extruded product of approximate Double training length.
Further, described packed tower, packed tower oil cylinder, filler briquetting, charger are respectively equipped with three covers.
The beneficial effect of above-mentioned further scheme is adopted to be crushing block length can be made longer, and improve shaping efficiency further.
Further, described charger is feed screw, and described feed screw comprises barrel, motor and rotating shaft, and the rear portion of described barrel is located at by described motor, and described motor is connected by universal joint with rotating shaft.
The beneficial effect of above-mentioned further scheme is adopted to be that feed screw is relatively applicable to the conveying of biological material.
Further, described feed bin comprises feed bin casing, and described feed bin casing is supported on described charger top by support.
Further, described main compressing cylinder comprises Master cylinder body and extends cylinder body.
The beneficial effect of above-mentioned further scheme is adopted to be extend the connection that cylinder body is convenient to main compressing cylinder and die cavity.
Above-described living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine, forming step is as follows:
1). in die cavity, insert material by charger, now clamp cylinder clamping;
2). described packed tower oil cylinder drives described filler briquetting to press down, and completes one-level extruding, form at least two pieces of semi-finished product crushing blocks in described die cavity to the material in described die cavity;
3). carry out secondary extruding by described main compressing cylinder from pusher side direction exit side, make semi-finished product crushing block described in each extrude further in the horizontal direction and connect as one;
4). clamp cylinder unclamps, and described main compressing cylinder continues to advance, and sends finished product crushing block from discharging opening;
5). repeat step 1) ~ 4) complete continuously extruding and molding operation.
Adopt said method one be by the extruding of the secondary of main compressing cylinder can by multiple semi-finished product crushing block after one-level extruding again squeeze flow be integrated, thus obtain the finished product crushing block of sufficient length; Two is adopt two-stage extruding, makes packed tower cylinder efficient load reasonable.If adopt one-level extruding will obtain enough crushing block packings, just need larger pressure, because filler briquetting area is larger, the power of Hydraulic Station must be needed significantly to improve, and filler briquetting pressure in extrusion process is first little greatly rear, change huge, job stability is poor.Secondary is adopted to extrude the requirement that then can greatly reduce packed tower oil cylinder, and bear the larger secondary extruding of pressure by main compressing cylinder, because the master cylinder briquetting cross section of main compressing cylinder is little, even if need pressure high, not only can not cause the excessive load to Hydraulic Station, and due to packed tower oil cylinder and main compressing cylinder time-sharing work, make the load of Hydraulic Station more balanced.Greatly can improve the service life of equipment like this.
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Fig. 1 is single tower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine structural representation of prior art;
Fig. 2 is the utility model (two packed tower) structural representation;
Fig. 3 is the sectional structure schematic diagram of the utility model along one of them charger center line;
Fig. 4 is the utility model (two packed tower) plan structure schematic diagram;
Fig. 5 is the utility model (two packed tower) main TV structure schematic diagram;
Fig. 6 is the utility model (three packed towers) main TV structure schematic diagram.
In Fig. 1 to Fig. 6, the component names represented by individual label is as follows:
1, main compressing cylinder; 1-1, master cylinder briquetting; 1-2, extending cylinder; 2, tapping channel; 2-1, one-level tapping channel; 2-2, secondary tapping channel; 3, die cavity; 3-1, pusher side; 3-2, exit side; 4, clamp cylinder; 5, material; 6, filler briquetting; 7, packed tower; 8, packed tower oil cylinder; 9, feed bin casing; 10, charger; 10-1, universal joint; 10-2, motor; 10-3, rotating shaft; 11, adjacent wall.
Detailed description of the invention
Be described principle of the present utility model and feature below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, example, only for explaining the utility model, is not intended to limit scope of the present utility model.
As shown in Figure 1, be single tower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine structural representation of prior art.This structure improves production capacity and generally adopts conventional method as above described in background technology.
As shown in Fig. 2 to Fig. 6, a kind of living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine, comprise die cavity 3, main compressing cylinder 1, tapping channel 2, feed system and feed bin, described die cavity 3 comprises pusher side 3-1, exit side 3-2, front portion and rear portion, the closed front of described die cavity 3, rear aperture, described main compressing cylinder 1 is fixedly connected with the pusher side 3-1 of described die cavity, described main compressing cylinder 1 comprises master cylinder briquetting 1-1, described master cylinder briquetting 1-1 is located at the pusher side 3-1 of described die cavity, the exit side 3-2 of described die cavity 3 is connected with described tapping channel 2, described tapping channel 2 is provided with clamp cylinder 4, the top of described die cavity 3 is provided with at least two packed towers 7 side by side, filler briquetting 6 is respectively equipped with in described packed tower 7, described packed tower 7 top is respectively equipped with packed tower oil cylinder 8, the piston of described packed tower oil cylinder 8 is fixedly connected with described filler briquetting 6 respectively,
Described feed system comprises at least two chargers 10, and described feed system top is located at by described feed bin 9, and the outlet of described charger 10 is connected with the rear portion of described die cavity 3 respectively.
The adjacent wall 11 of described adjacent packed tower is common wall.Namely multiple packed tower 7 can as integrative-structure.Adopting multitower to extrude one of them key problem is exactly the dual-side packing how ensureing semi-finished product crushing block, and ensures multiple semi-finished product crushing block compact siro spinning technology.Therefore the outside extending space of material to be reduced in one-level extruding.Adopt the packed tower of integrative-structure both can ensure each filler briquetting independence steady operation, the integrated connection intensity of product crushing block can be ensure that again.
Described die cavity 3 is fixedly connected with formation for multiple little die cavity.
Described tapping channel 2 comprises one-level tapping channel and secondary tapping channel, and described one-level tapping channel is connected with described die cavity 3, and described secondary tapping channel is connected with described one-level tapping channel, and described clamp cylinder 4 is located on described secondary tapping channel.
As a kind of embodiment of the present utility model, described packed tower 7, packed tower oil cylinder 8, filler briquetting 6, charger 10 are respectively equipped with two covers, as shown in Fig. 2 to Fig. 5.
As another kind of embodiment of the present utility model, described packed tower 7, packed tower oil cylinder 8, filler briquetting 6, charger 10 are respectively equipped with three covers, as shown in Figure 6.
Described charger 10 is feed screw, and described feed screw comprises barrel, motor 10-2 and rotating shaft 10-3, and described motor 10-2 is located at the rear portion of described barrel, and described motor 10-2 is connected by universal joint 10-1 with rotating shaft 10-3.
Described feed bin comprises feed bin casing 9, and described feed bin casing 9 is supported on described charger top by support.
Described main compressing cylinder 1 comprises Master cylinder body 1-1 and extends cylinder body 1-2.
The utility model also comprises and is connected Hydraulic Station and control system with described packed tower oil cylinder 8, main compressing cylinder 1 and clamp cylinder 4 fluid path.
Operation principle of the present utility model is as follows: two packed tower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine is example as shown in Figure 2, packed tower oil cylinder 8 of the present utility model, main compressing cylinder 1, charger 10 and clamp cylinder 4, under control of the control system coordination.Synchronous working will be kept respectively when two packed tower oil cylinders 8 and two charger 10 actions.Initial state packed tower oil cylinder 8, main compressing cylinder 1 homing, clamp cylinder 4 is at clamped condition, material enters two packed towers 7 respectively by charger 10 simultaneously, the filler briquetting 6 driven by packed tower oil cylinder 8 downwards pressing materials carries out one stage of compression, after filler briquetting 6 arrives precalculated position, filler briquetting 6 do die cavity 3 upper cover plate and common form two-stage compression cavity, two-stage compression is carried out to the pressing materials in cavity by main compressing cylinder 1 more simultaneously, finished product crushing block is formed by making the semi-finished product crushing block originally formed by two cover packed towers be combined into one after two-stage compression, now clamp cylinder 4 unclamps, and by main compressing cylinder 1, crushing block is released from tapping channel 2.
The length of finished product crushing block can be lengthened arbitrarily by the multiple packed tower 7 of parallel connection and feed system, thus under the condition not improving briquetting pressure, increasing device production capacity.
The foregoing is only preferred embodiment of the present utility model, not in order to limit the utility model, all within spirit of the present utility model and principle, any amendment done, equivalent replacement, improvement etc., all should be included within protection domain of the present utility model.

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1. a living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine, comprise die cavity, main compressing cylinder, tapping channel, feed system and feed bin, it is characterized in that, described die cavity comprises pusher side, exit side, front portion and rear portion, the closed front of described die cavity, rear aperture, described main compressing cylinder is fixedly connected with the pusher side of described die cavity, described main compressing cylinder comprises master cylinder briquetting, the pusher side of described die cavity is located at by described master cylinder briquetting, the exit side of described die cavity is connected with described tapping channel, described tapping channel is provided with clamp cylinder, the top of described die cavity is provided with at least two packed towers side by side, filler briquetting is respectively equipped with in described packed tower, described packed tower top is respectively equipped with packed tower oil cylinder, the piston of described packed tower oil cylinder is fixedly connected with described filler briquetting respectively,
Described feed system comprises at least two chargers, and described feed system top is located at by described feed bin, and the outlet of described charger is connected with the rear portion of described die cavity respectively.
2. living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine according to claim 1, is characterized in that, the adjacent wall of described adjacent packed tower is common wall.
3. living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described die cavity is that multiple little die cavity is fixedly connected with formation.
4. living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, described tapping channel comprises one-level tapping channel and secondary tapping channel, described one-level tapping channel is connected with described die cavity, described secondary tapping channel is connected with described one-level tapping channel, and described clamp cylinder is located on described secondary tapping channel.
5. living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described packed tower, packed tower oil cylinder, filler briquetting, charger are respectively equipped with two covers.
6. living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described packed tower, packed tower oil cylinder, filler briquetting, charger are respectively equipped with three covers.
7. the living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine according to any one of claim 1 ~ 6, it is characterized in that, described charger is feed screw, and described feed screw comprises barrel, motor and rotating shaft, the rear portion of described barrel is located at by described motor, and described motor is connected by universal joint with rotating shaft.
8. the living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine according to any one of claim 1 ~ 6, it is characterized in that, described feed bin comprises feed bin casing, and described feed bin casing is supported on described charger top by support.
9. living beings multitower single lead screw ex truding briquetting machine according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described main compressing cylinder comprises Master cylinder body and extends cylinder body.
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