CN209038679U - Material unreels deviation correcting device - Google Patents
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The utility model relates to a kind of materials to unreel deviation correcting device, comprising: controller;Offset adjusted mechanism, the offset adjusted mechanism and the controller are electrically connected;Rolling-up mechanism, the rolling-up mechanism are installed in the offset adjusted mechanism and are electrically connected with the controller;And offset detection mechanism, the offset detection mechanism is for being installed in the rack opposite with the offset adjusted mechanism and being electrically connected with the controller, for detecting to the movement routine for unreeling the material on the rolling-up mechanism.When the real-time Lu Jingyu preset path for detecting material glances off, the signal of feedback detection immediately is to controller, controller controls the work of offset adjusted mechanism, the opposite direction for pushing or pull on rolling-up mechanism toward material deflection is mobile, and the correction rectification work of movement routine when unreeling to material thus can be completed.The device can guarantee that the actual transmission paths of material are consistent with preset path, guarantee that succeeding layer suppresses the good product quality made.
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Technical field
The utility model relates to material deviation correcting technology fields, unreel deviation correcting device more particularly to a kind of material.
Background technique
Currently, the products material in the industries such as non-woven fabrics, paper for daily use, disposable sanitary articles be all first by raw material by
The demand size of product carries out slitting, is then printed to slitting raw material, process early periods such as impression, then the volume of harvest web-like
Material, and finally fed intake in the form of coiled strip.But due to slitting cutting error, winding out-of-flatness and unreeling Shi Yinshe
The influence of the factors such as standby precision, material thickness unevenness, material tensile stress, movement routine when will lead to material unwinding with preset
Path glances off, and quality problems occurs in the product after causing succeeding layer compacting to make.
Utility model content
Based on this, it is necessary to a kind of material is provided and unreels deviation correcting device, it can be to the object that deflection has occurred during unreeling
The movement routine of material carries out accurate, quickly correction correction, it is ensured that production quality.
Its technical solution is as follows:
A kind of material unreels deviation correcting device comprising:
Controller;
Offset adjusted mechanism, the offset adjusted mechanism and the controller are electrically connected;
Rolling-up mechanism, the rolling-up mechanism are installed in the offset adjusted mechanism and are electrically connected with the controller;
And
Offset detection mechanism, the offset detection mechanism is for being installed in the rack opposite with the offset adjusted mechanism
It above and with the controller is electrically connected, for being detected to the movement routine for unreeling the material on the rolling-up mechanism.
Above-mentioned deviation correcting device is mainly used for correcting the movement routine of the material during unreeling.Specific to work
When, rolling-up mechanism controls lower rotation in controller, and the material sent is unreeled to upstream and is wound.Material unreels mobile Shi Huijing
Offset detection mechanism is crossed, offset detection mechanism carries out real-time monitoring to the transmission path of material, when the real-time road for detecting material
When through glancing off with preset path, for the signal of feedback detection immediately to controller, controller controls the work of offset adjusted mechanism, pushes away
Opposite direction that is dynamic or pulling rolling-up mechanism toward material deflection is mobile, and the correction of movement routine when unreeling to material thus can be completed
Rectification work.The device can fast and accurate elimination slitting cutting error, when winding out-of-flatness and unreeling because of equipment essence
It is adversely affected caused by the factors such as degree, material thickness unevenness, material tensile stress, guarantees the actual transmission paths of material and pre-
If path is consistent, guarantee that succeeding layer suppresses the good product quality made.
The technical solution of the application is further described below:
The offset detection mechanism includes offset sensor in one of the embodiments, and the offset sensor includes
Opposite and spaced transmitting unit and receiving unit, cooperatively form between the transmitting unit and the receiving unit and are used for
The sense channel that the material passes through.
The offset detection mechanism further includes the position adjusting group being set in the rack in one of the embodiments,
Part, the offset sensor are set to the position and adjust on component.
The rolling-up mechanism includes the installation branch being installed in the offset adjusted mechanism in one of the embodiments,
Frame, is set in the mounting bracket winding motor for being set in the mounting bracket and being electrically connected with the controller
And the rotary shaft of connection is rotated synchronously with the transmission component of winding motor drive connection and with the transmission component, it is described
For being set with the core retainer plate of winding material in rotary shaft.
The rotary shaft is air-expanding shaft in one of the embodiments,.
In one of the embodiments, the transmission component include the first synchronizing wheel being connect with the winding motor, with
Second synchronizing wheel of the rotation axis connection and to be set in first synchronizing wheel synchronous in second synchronizing wheel
Band.
The rolling-up mechanism further includes the transition roller being set in the mounting bracket in one of the embodiments,
The transition roller is set between the offset detection mechanism and the rotary shaft.
In one of the embodiments, the offset adjusted mechanism include pedestal, be set on the pedestal and with it is described
The actuator and be movably arranged in the cunning being drivingly connected on the pedestal and with the actuator that controller is electrically connected
Platform, the rolling-up mechanism are installed on the slide unit.
The upper surface of the pedestal is equipped with bar shaped convex body along its length in one of the embodiments, the slide unit
Lower surface is equipped with strip groove along its length, and the bar shaped convex body is nested with the strip groove and slidably cooperates.
The offset adjusted mechanism further includes push-pull rod in one of the embodiments, and the push-pull rod is connected to described
Between actuator and the slide unit.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 is the structural schematic diagram that material described in an embodiment of the present invention unreels deviation correcting device;
Fig. 2 is the right side structural representation of Fig. 1 shown device.
Description of symbols:
100, controller, 200, offset adjusted mechanism, 210, pedestal, 212, bar shaped convex body, 220, actuator, 230, cunning
Platform, 232, strip groove, 240, push-pull rod, 300, rolling-up mechanism, 310, mounting bracket, 320, winding motor, 330, transmission group
Part, 340, rotary shaft, 350, transition roller, 400, offset detection mechanism, 410, offset sensor, 420, position adjusting component,
500, tension sensor.
Specific embodiment
It is below in conjunction with attached drawing and specifically real for the purpose of this utility model, technical solution and advantage is more clearly understood
Mode is applied, the utility model is described in further detail.It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein
Only to explain the utility model, the protection scope of the utility model is not limited.
It should be noted that when element is referred to as " being fixedly arranged on ", " being set to " or " install in " another element, it can be with
Directly on the other element or there may also be elements placed in the middle.When an element is considered as " connection " another yuan
Part, it can be directly to another element or may be simultaneously present centering elements;One element and another element
The concrete mode being fixedly connected can be achieved by the prior art, and details are not described herein, it is preferred to use the fixation side of threaded connection
Formula.
Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein are led with the technology for belonging to the utility model
The normally understood meaning of the technical staff in domain is identical.Terminology used in the description of the utility model herein only be
The purpose of description specific embodiment, it is not intended that in limitation the utility model.Term " and or " used herein packet
Include any and all combinations of one or more related listed items.
" first " described in the utility model, " second " do not represent specific quantity and sequence, are only used for title
It distinguishes.
As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, a kind of material of the embodiment shown for the application unreels deviation correcting device comprising: control
Device 100;Offset adjusted mechanism 200, the offset adjusted mechanism 200 are electrically connected with the controller 100;Rolling-up mechanism 300,
The rolling-up mechanism 300 is installed in the offset adjusted mechanism 200 and is electrically connected with the controller 100;And offset inspection
Survey mechanism 400, the offset detection mechanism 400 be installed in the offset adjusted mechanism 200 and with the controller 100 electrically
Connection, for being detected to the movement routine of winding to the material on the rolling-up mechanism 300.
Above-mentioned deviation correcting device is mainly used for correcting the movement routine of the material during unreeling.Specific to work
When, rolling-up mechanism 300 controls lower rotation in controller 100, and the material sent is unreeled to upstream and is wound.Material unreels movement
When can pass through offset detection mechanism 400, offset detection mechanism 400 carries out real-time monitoring to the transmission path of material, when detecting
When the real-time Lu Jingyu preset path of material glances off, to controller 100, controller 100 controls the signal of feedback detection immediately
Offset adjusted mechanism 200 works, and the opposite direction for pushing or pull on rolling-up mechanism 300 toward material deflection is mobile, thus can be completed
The correction rectification work of movement routine when being unreeled to material.The device being capable of fast and accurate elimination slitting cutting error, winding
Because being adversely affected caused by the factors such as equipment precision, material thickness unevenness, material tensile stress when out-of-flatness and winding, protect
The actual transmission paths of exhibit material are consistent with preset path, guarantee that succeeding layer suppresses the good product quality made.
It should be understood that material is coiling first on unreeling cylinder, the upstream that cylinder is located at rolling-up mechanism 300 is unreeled.By
Diameter during installation error, material unreel, which constantly reduces etc., can all impact the precision of movement routine.Due to object
Material is coiling on rolling-up mechanism 300, thus when rolling-up mechanism 300 moves under the push-and-pull action of offset adjusted mechanism 200
When, it can be moved together with synchronous drive material, thus material can be made to be restored in correct movement routine.?
That is, then offset adjusted mechanism 300 drives winding when offset detection mechanism 400 detects that the movement routine of material lateral deviation of turning left is oblique
Mechanism 300 is synchronous to pull material to turn right movement, be restored to it is preset on the correct path;And the movement routine of material is turned right
When deflection, then opposite correction movement is carried out.
Some control devices in the prior art, such as PLC, CNC, micro-control computer can be used in above-mentioned controller 100
Deng.
Please continue to refer to Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, in an alternative embodiment, the offset detection mechanism 400 includes offset sensor
410, offset sensor 410 is fixed on the rack, its physical location remains constant in the course of work.The offset passes
Sensor 410 includes opposite and spaced transmitting unit and receiving unit, between the transmitting unit and the receiving unit
Cooperatively form the sense channel passed through for the material.Wherein, the transmission medium between transmitting unit and receiving unit is light
Line blocks the light of certain area when material enters rolling-up mechanism 300 across sense channel.But when material glances off, phase
The area to shut out the light answered can also change therewith, and the knots modification is detected and is converted into digital quantity or analog quantity letter
Number and be transferred to controller 100 so that controller 100 can recognize that material specific to which direction deflection, shown in Fig. 1
Visual angle, it can know that material is the edge direction offset that deviates or turn right toward left direction.Controller 100 can thus be passed through
It exports corresponding action signal and material correct to offset adjusted mechanism 200.Detection means precision height, controllability
It is good, it can be corrected for the correction in material transferring path and reliable basis is provided.
It should be understood that offset sensor 410 can be infrared emission sensor, laser-correlation sensor etc..
However, it is contemplated that the material variety and size on production line are changing according to production needs, at this point, just needing
The operating position of offset sensor 410 made and be adaptively adjusted, just be able to satisfy different detection demands in this way.Thus into
In the embodiment of one step, the offset detection mechanism 400 further includes that the position being set in the rack adjusts component 420,
The offset sensor 410 is set to the position and adjusts on component 420.Component 420 is adjusted by operating position, can be driven
Offset sensor 410 is mobile and adjusts its operating position, so as to meet the detection needs of different material well, conducive to mentioning
Rise the working performance of device.
Specifically, which adjusts the principles work such as component 420 can be adjusted using screw thread, gear is adjusted, it can be achieved that partially
The fine adjustment of 410 operating position of displacement sensor.
Please continue to refer to Fig. 1, the rolling-up mechanism 300 includes the installation branch being installed in the offset adjusted mechanism 200
Frame 310, is set to institute at the winding motor 320 for being set in the mounting bracket 310 and being electrically connected with the controller 100
It states in mounting bracket 310 and with the transmission component 330 of the winding motor 320 drive connection and with the transmission component 330 together
The rotary shaft 340 of rotation connection is walked, is used to be set with the core retainer plate of winding material in the rotary shaft 340.It is defeated by winding motor 320
Rotary power out, power are transferred to rotary shaft 340 by transmission component 330, can synchronous drive be sleeved in rotary shaft 340
Core retainer plate rotation, is finally completed the winding operation of material.The working method and structure of the mechanism are simple, wind reliability and stability
It is good, and the compactness of mechanism is high, can occupy smaller installation and working space.
In an alternative embodiment, the rotary shaft 340 is air-expanding shaft.When work, open high-pressure air source, to air-expanding shaft into
Row inflation, air-expanding shaft can fix core retainer plate by way of swelling at this time, enable core retainer plate to the material transmitted into
Row winding.The fixed form is not necessarily to additional secure component, and mounting means is simple, and the assembly and disassembly operations of core retainer plate is very convenient, benefit
In raising working efficiency.
Further, the transmission component 330 include the first synchronizing wheel being connect with the winding motor 320, with it is described
The second synchronizing wheel and the synchronous belt being set in first synchronizing wheel and second synchronizing wheel that rotary shaft 340 connects.
In this way, the power of winding motor 320 can will not be sent out in smooth transfer to rotary shaft 340 because winding material gravity is excessive
It is raw to skid, it influences to wind operational reliability.
As shown in Fig. 2, further, the rolling-up mechanism 300 further includes the mistake being set in the mounting bracket 310
Idler wheel 350 is crossed, the transition roller 350 is set between the offset detection mechanism 400 and the rotary shaft 340.Material by
Offset detection mechanism 400 is transferred on the core retainer plate in rotary shaft 340 again by transition roller 350, and transition roller 350 can be to object
Material plays the role of transmitting linking and support feeding, avoids material because of the spacing between offset detection mechanism 400 and rotary shaft 340
It is excessive, and shake, it influences to transmit stationarity.
Please continue to refer to Fig. 1, in another alternative embodiment, the offset adjusted mechanism 200 includes pedestal 210, setting
In the actuator 220 being electrically connected on the pedestal 210 and with the controller 100 and it is movably arranged in the pedestal
The slide unit 230 being drivingly connected on 210 and with the actuator 220, the rolling-up mechanism 300 are installed on the slide unit 230.Such as
This, actuator 220 exports straight line powered or slide unit 230 is pulled to move on pedestal 210, and can synchronous drive rolling-up mechanism
300 synchronizing movings, and the correction of movement routine, which is corrected, finally to be realized to material, principles and structure is simple, high reliablity, easily
In implementation.
It should be understood that the actuator 220 can be motor, cylinder, oil cylinder etc., it specifically can be by those skilled in the art's
Actual needs carries out selection realization.
Please continue to refer to Fig. 1, in addition, the upper surface of the pedestal 210 is equipped with bar shaped convex body 212 along its length, it is described
The lower surface of slide unit 230 is equipped with strip groove 232 along its length, and the bar shaped convex body 212 is nested with the strip groove 232
And slidably cooperate.Using the structure of the cooperation mutually nested with strip groove 232 of bar shaped convex body 212, enable slide unit 230 more
Add and smoothly linearly moved back and forth on pedestal 210, while it is also ensured that sliding is smooth, no while load-carrying is big
The winding precision for offsetting and influencing material can be got loose.
Optionally, the cross sectional shape of bar shaped convex body 212 and strip groove 232 can be triangle, trapezoidal, semicircle etc.,
The contact area of contact pedestal 210 and slide unit 230 is so advantageously reduced, sliding-frictional resistance is reduced.
Further, the offset adjusted mechanism 200 further includes push-pull rod 240, and the push-pull rod 240 is connected to the drive
Between moving part 220 and the slide unit 230.Since actuator 220 is motor or cylinder, when the line shaft of motor and the piston of cylinder
When the curtailment of bar is displaced with making up the required adjusting of correction, push-pull rod 240 is used to be connected actuator 220 and slide unit 230, with
Guarantee the centering capacity of device.
In addition, as shown in Fig. 2, based on any of the above embodiments, it further includes that tension passes that material, which unreels deviation correcting device,
Sensor 500, the tension sensor 500 are installed in material and run in the equipment of the material transmission after offset sensor 410, energy
Enough real-time monitorings unreel the tension of running material, and pass the signal in controller 100.Controller 100 adjusts in due course
Winding actuator 220, which increases and decreases rolling speed, to be consistent material tension and plays and wind stable effect.It of courses, can also lead to
It crosses controller 100 and adjusts the tension during material transferring to adapt to the operation of different material.
Each technical characteristic of embodiment described above can be combined arbitrarily, for simplicity of description, not to above-mentioned reality
It applies all possible combination of each technical characteristic in example to be all described, as long as however, the combination of these technical characteristics is not deposited
In contradiction, all should be considered as described in this specification.
Above-described embodiments merely represent several embodiments of the utility model, the description thereof is more specific and detailed,
But it cannot be understood as the limitations to utility model patent range.It should be pointed out that for the common skill of this field
For art personnel, without departing from the concept of the premise utility, various modifications and improvements can be made, these are belonged to
The protection scope of the utility model.Therefore, the scope of protection shall be subject to the appended claims for the utility model patent.
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1. a kind of material unreels deviation correcting device characterized by comprising
Controller;
Offset adjusted mechanism, the offset adjusted mechanism and the controller are electrically connected;
Rolling-up mechanism, the rolling-up mechanism are installed in the offset adjusted mechanism and are electrically connected with the controller;And
Offset detection mechanism, the offset detection mechanism is for being installed in the rack opposite with the offset adjusted mechanism, simultaneously
It is electrically connected with the controller, for being detected to the movement routine for unreeling the material on the rolling-up mechanism.
2. material according to claim 1 unreels deviation correcting device, which is characterized in that the offset detection mechanism includes offset
Sensor, the offset sensor include opposite and spaced transmitting unit and receiving unit, the transmitting unit and institute
State the sense channel for cooperatively forming between receiving unit and passing through for the material.
3. material according to claim 2 unreels deviation correcting device, which is characterized in that the offset detection mechanism further includes setting
It is placed in the position in the rack and adjusts component, the offset sensor is set to the position and adjusts on component.
4. material according to claim 1 unreels deviation correcting device, which is characterized in that the rolling-up mechanism includes being installed in institute
The winding electricity stating the mounting bracket in offset adjusted mechanism, being set in the mounting bracket and be electrically connected with the controller
Machine, be set in the mounting bracket and with the winding motor be drivingly connected transmission component and with the transmission component it is same
The rotary shaft of rotation connection is walked, is used to be set with the core retainer plate of winding material in the rotary shaft.
5. material according to claim 4 unreels deviation correcting device, which is characterized in that the rotary shaft is air-expanding shaft.
6. material according to claim 4 unreels deviation correcting device, which is characterized in that the transmission component includes and the receipts
The first synchronizing wheel and second synchronizing wheel for rotating axis connection and be set in first synchronizing wheel that volume motor connects
With the synchronous belt in second synchronizing wheel.
7. material according to claim 4 unreels deviation correcting device, which is characterized in that the rolling-up mechanism further includes being set to
Transition roller in the mounting bracket, the transition roller are set between the offset detection mechanism and the rotary shaft.
8. material according to claim 1 unreels deviation correcting device, which is characterized in that the offset adjusted mechanism includes bottom
Seat, be set on the pedestal and with the controller be electrically connected actuator and be movably arranged on the pedestal
And the slide unit being drivingly connected with the actuator, the rolling-up mechanism are installed on the slide unit.
9. material according to claim 8 unreels deviation correcting device, which is characterized in that the upper surface of the pedestal is along length side
It is equipped with strip groove, the bar shaped convex body and the bar shaped along its length to the lower surface for being equipped with bar shaped convex body, the slide unit
Groove is nested and slidably cooperates.
10. material according to claim 8 unreels deviation correcting device, which is characterized in that the offset adjusted mechanism further includes
Push-pull rod, the push-pull rod are connected between the actuator and the slide unit.
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