CN210075954U - Pulling type seedling raising soil crusher - Google Patents

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CN210075954U
CN210075954U CN201920811765.1U CN201920811765U CN210075954U CN 210075954 U CN210075954 U CN 210075954U CN 201920811765 U CN201920811765 U CN 201920811765U CN 210075954 U CN210075954 U CN 210075954U
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The utility model discloses a pull-type seedling raising pulverizer in the field of agricultural mechanical equipment, which comprises a frame, wherein the front side and the rear side of a lower support are both rotatably provided with walking rollers, a rotary screen is rotatably arranged between a first side vertical plate and a second side vertical plate, the inside of the rotary screen is axially provided with a rotatable crushing cutter shaft, a plurality of groups of crushing assemblies are arranged on the crushing cutter shaft at axial intervals, and a feeding hopper communicated with the inside of the rotary screen is fixedly connected on the second side vertical plate; a plurality of parallel positioning support rods are horizontally arranged between the first side vertical plate and the second side vertical plate, and the mounting rod is axially provided with a spiral hairbrush; the front end of the upper support is connected with a telescopic supporting rod, the rear end of the lower support is rotatably connected with a conveying frame, a plurality of belt rollers are sequentially arranged on the conveying frame, the driving belt roller is in transmission connection with a rotary driving mechanism, and the conveying belt is arranged corresponding to the rotary screen. The utility model discloses can reduce operating personnel's intensity of labour, improve machining efficiency, have flexible flexibility.

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Pulling type seedling raising soil crusher
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to agricultural machinery equipment field, in particular to pull type sprout cultivation hack machine.
Background
In the prior art, bed soil for machine-transplanted rice seedling and bed soil for seedling tray seedling of vegetables and flowers both have certain requirements on the particle size of bed soil particles, and the bed soil meeting the requirements can be obtained only after raw material soil is processed.
During the operation of seedling dish soil breaker sold in the existing market, at first will wait that kibbling soil pours into seedling dish soil breaker's hopper through the manpower in, get into the sieve mesh in, sieve the sieve mesh soil when through rotatory blade hack, fall into ground naturally, transport appointed place by the manpower again, its weak point lies in: when the equipment is used, the labor intensity of operators is high, the automation degree is low, the processing efficiency is low, and the requirement of a large amount of soil for large grain farmers cannot be met; the soil crusher can not be moved to a corresponding position according to production requirements, the moving adaptability is poor, and the soil crusher does not have maneuvering flexibility.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims at providing a pull-type seedling raising and soil crushing machine which can reduce the labor intensity of operators and improve the processing efficiency; the soil crusher can be moved to corresponding positions according to production requirements, and the soil crusher has maneuvering flexibility.
The purpose of the utility model is realized like this: a pull-type seedling raising and soil crushing machine comprises a frame, wherein the frame comprises an upper bracket and a lower bracket which are connected into a whole, the front side and the rear side of the lower bracket are both provided with walking rollers in a rotating way, the walking rollers are in contact with the ground, a first side vertical plate and a second side vertical plate which correspond to each other in the front-back direction are arranged on the upper side of the upper bracket, a drum screen is rotatably arranged between the first side vertical plate and the second side vertical plate, the drum screen is cylindrical, the axis of the drum screen is horizontally arranged, a plurality of screen holes which are fully distributed on the surface are formed in the periphery of the drum screen, a rotatable crushing cutter shaft is axially arranged in the rotary screen, a plurality of groups of crushing assemblies are axially arranged on the crushing cutter shaft at intervals, each group of crushing assemblies comprises at least 3 crushing cutters which are axially distributed at intervals along the crushing cutter shaft, at least 3 crushing cutters are circumferentially staggered, circumferential included angles between adjacent crushing cutters are equal, and a feeding hopper communicated with the interior of the rotary screen is fixedly connected to the second side vertical plate; a plurality of parallel positioning support rods are horizontally arranged between the first side vertical plate and the second side vertical plate, two ends of each positioning support rod respectively abut against the first side vertical plate and the second side vertical plate, an installation rod is horizontally arranged between the tops of the first side vertical plate and the second side vertical plate, and a spiral hairbrush is axially arranged on each installation rod; the upper bracket front end is connected with the telescopic die-pin, the lower carriage rear end rotates and is connected with the carriage, it has a plurality of rotatable lower band rollers to arrange in proper order along length direction on the carriage, still install a plurality of bearing roller framves of arranging in proper order along length direction on the carriage, all rotationally be provided with the upper band roller on every bearing roller frame, the lower carriage middle part rotationally is provided with the initiative band roller, the initiative band roller is connected with the rotation driving mechanism transmission, the upper and lower both sides of initiative band roller respectively with the upside and the downside contact of conveyer belt, the upside of upper band roller contacts with the upside of conveyer belt, the downside of lower band roller contacts with the downside of conveyer belt, the conveyer belt sets up with the drum screen is corresponding.
The utility model discloses the during operation can be connected to the transport vechicle through the die-pin on, drags this hack machine to the assigned position operation, and in raw materials soil passed through the feeder hopper and got into the drum sieve, broken arbor rotated and drives broken subassembly and process soil, breaks into tiny particle and stone with soil, and the drum sieve rotates simultaneously for bed soil granule is from the automatic conveyer belt that falls down in the sieve mesh on, guarantees bed soil granule diameter at 0.1mm ~0.5mm, and the assigned position is carried to the bed soil after the conveyer belt will process. Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model reside in that: the soil crusher can be moved to a specified position, and the flexibility is good; the conveyer belt can directly convey the processed bed soil to a designated position; the bed soil can be thoroughly crushed by the crushing knives which are circumferentially staggered; the positioning support rod can ensure accurate positioning between the first side vertical plate and the second side vertical plate and increase the strength of the equipment; the brush can be with the soil granule brush clean on the drum sieve surface, avoids the sieve mesh to be stopped up. The soil crusher adopts a fully-closed structure, so that soil and stones are automatically separated in the machine, and the safety of operators is ensured; simple structure, compactness, machining efficiency is high, reduces operating personnel's intensity of labour, and the practicality is stronger.
As a further improvement, the conveying frame is provided with seat ears, the seat ears are connected with the feed hopper through positioning steel wire ropes, and the corresponding conveying belt in the frame is provided with a tensioning wheel. The take-up pulley can guarantee that the conveyer belt is in the tensioning condition, can be with carriage position fixing through wire rope, and the position of carriage is adjusted the back by the rotation, also can be fixed it through wire rope.
As a further improvement, the rotary driving mechanism comprises a conveying belt wheel arranged on the roller shaft of the driving belt roller, the conveying belt wheel is connected with the output end of the motor through a driving belt and a belt pulley, and the conveying belt wheel, the driving belt and the belt pulley are all arranged in the protective cover. The motor drives the driving belt roller to rotate through the belt pulley mechanism, and moving power is provided for the conveying belt.
As the utility model discloses a further improvement, broken sword includes the rectangle main part, and the equal an organic whole in both ends of main part is provided with the shrink body, and the width of shrink body is followed and is close to main part department and to keeping away from main part department and steadilyd decrease the setting, and shrink body tip an organic whole is provided with the cutting edge body, and cutting edge body front end sets up to the arc. The arc-shaped blade body can ensure that the crushing knife can thoroughly crush the bed soil.
As a further improvement of the utility model, a motor mounting rack is arranged on the front side of the upper support, a horizontally arranged motor is mounted on the motor mounting rack, a driving belt pulley is arranged at the output end of the motor, 2 belt grooves are arranged on the driving belt pulley in parallel, one end of the crushing cutter shaft passes through the side vertical plate and extends forwards to the other side, a first driven belt pulley is arranged on the crushing cutter shaft, a horizontal rotating shaft is rotatably connected to the first side vertical plate, two ends of the rotating shaft are respectively positioned on the left side and the right side of the first side vertical plate, a second driven belt pulley is arranged at the front end of the rotating shaft, and a first gear; the driving belt pulley is connected with the driven belt pulley I through a driving belt I, the driving belt pulley is connected with a driven belt pulley II through a driving belt II, and the driving belt I and the driving belt II are respectively clamped into 2 belt grooves; and a second gear is correspondingly arranged at the front end of the drum screen and is meshed with the first gear. The motor drives the first driven belt pulley and the second driven belt pulley to rotate simultaneously through the driving belt pulley, the driven belt pulley drives the crushing cutter shaft to rotate, the second driven belt pulley drives the rotary screen to rotate after being decelerated through the gear, and the power transmission system is compact in structure.
As a further improvement, the inside corresponding feeder hopper of drum sieve is provided with circular fixed disk, and the other end and the fixed disk of broken arbor rotate to be connected.
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Fig. 1 is a three-dimensional structure diagram of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is another perspective structural view of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a side view of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the drum screen.
Fig. 5 is another perspective view of the drum screen.
Fig. 6 is a partially enlarged view of fig. 5.
Fig. 7 is a schematic structural view of a crushing cutter shaft.
Fig. 8 is a diagram of the circumferential distribution of the crushing blades of the crushing assembly.
The automatic belt feeding device comprises a machine frame 1, an upper support 1a, a lower support 1b, a traveling roller 2, a first vertical plate 3, a second vertical plate 4, a rotary screen 5, a screen hole 5a, a crushing cutter shaft 6, a crushing cutter 7, a main body 7a, a contraction body 7b, a cutter blade body 7c, a feed hopper 8, a positioning support rod 9, a mounting rod 10, a hairbrush 10, a motor mounting frame 11, a supporting rod 12, a motor 13, a driving belt pulley 14, a driven belt pulley 15, a driven belt pulley 16, a driving belt pulley 17, a driving belt pulley 18, a driving belt pulley 19, a rotating shaft 20, a gear wheel 21, a fixed disc 22, a conveying frame 23, a lower belt roller 24, a roller supporting frame 25, an upper belt roller 25a, a driving belt roller 26, a seat ears 27, a positioning steel wire rope 28, a tensioning wheel.
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As shown in fig. 1-8, a pull-type seedling raising soil crusher comprises a frame 1, the frame 1 comprises an upper support 1a and a lower support 1b which are connected into a whole, the front and rear sides of the lower support 1b are both rotatably provided with walking rollers 2, the walking rollers 2 are in contact with the ground, the upper side of the upper support 1a is provided with a first side vertical plate 3 and a second side vertical plate 4 which correspond to each other from front to rear, a roller screen 5 is rotatably arranged between the first side vertical plate 3 and the second side vertical plate 4, the roller screen 5 is cylindrical, the axis of the roller screen 5 is horizontally arranged, the periphery of the roller screen 5 is provided with a plurality of screen holes 5a which are fully distributed on the surface, the inner part of the roller screen 5 is axially provided with a rotatable crushing knife 7 shaft 6, a plurality of groups of crushing assemblies are axially arranged on the crushing knife shaft 6 at intervals, each group of crushing assemblies comprises at least 3 crushing knives 7 which are distributed, the circumferential included angles between the adjacent crushing knives 7 are equal, and the side vertical plate II 4 is fixedly connected with a feed hopper 8 communicated with the interior of the drum screen 5; a plurality of parallel positioning support rods 9 are horizontally arranged between the first side vertical plate 3 and the second side vertical plate 4, two ends of each positioning support rod 9 respectively abut against the first side vertical plate 3 and the second side vertical plate 4, an installation rod 10 is horizontally arranged between the first side vertical plate 3 and the top of the second side vertical plate 4, and a spiral brush 10a is axially arranged on the installation rod 10; the front end of the upper support 1a is connected with a telescopic supporting rod 12, the rear end of the lower support 1b is rotatably connected with a conveying frame 23, a plurality of rotatable lower belt rollers 24 are sequentially arranged on the conveying frame 23 along the length direction, a plurality of roller frames 25 which are sequentially arranged on the conveying frame 23 along the length direction are further installed on the conveying frame 25, an upper belt roller 25a is rotatably arranged on each roller frame 25, a driving belt roller 26 is rotatably arranged in the middle of the lower support 1b, the driving belt roller 26 is in transmission connection with a rotary driving mechanism, the upper side and the lower side of the driving belt roller 26 are respectively in contact with the upper side and the lower side of the conveying belt, the upper side of the upper belt roller 25a is in contact with the upper side of the conveying belt, the lower side of the lower belt roller 24 is. The conveying frame 23 is provided with a seat ear 27, the seat ear 27 is connected with the feed hopper 8 through a positioning steel wire rope 28, and the frame 1 is provided with a tension wheel 29 corresponding to the conveying belt. The rotary driving mechanism comprises a conveying belt pulley arranged on a roll shaft of the driving belt roll 26, the conveying belt pulley is connected with the output end of the motor 13 through a transmission belt and a belt pulley, and the transmission belt and the belt pulley are arranged in the protective cover 30. The crushing knife 7 comprises a rectangular main body 7a, two ends of the main body 7a are uniformly provided with contracting bodies 7b, the width of each contracting body 7b is gradually reduced from a position close to the main body 7a to a position far away from the main body 7a, the end parts of the contracting bodies 7b are integrally provided with knife edge bodies 7c, and the front ends of the knife edge bodies 7c are arc-shaped. A motor mounting frame 11 is arranged on the front side of the upper support 1a, a horizontally arranged motor 13 is mounted on the motor mounting frame 11, a driving belt pulley 14 is arranged at the output end of the motor 13, 2 belt grooves are arranged in parallel on the driving belt pulley 14, one end of a crushing cutter shaft 6 penetrates through a first side vertical plate 3 and extends forwards to the other side, a first driven belt pulley 15 is arranged on a shaft 6 of the crushing cutter 7, a horizontal rotating shaft 19 is rotatably connected to the first side vertical plate 3, two ends of the rotating shaft 19 are respectively located on the left side and the right side of the first side vertical plate 3, a second driven belt pulley 16 is arranged at the front end of the rotating shaft 19, and a; the driving belt wheel 14 is connected with the driven belt wheel I15 through a driving belt I17, the driving belt wheel 14 is connected with the driven belt wheel II 16 through a driving belt II 18, and the driving belt I17 and the driving belt II 18 are respectively clamped into 2 belt grooves; the front end of the drum screen 5 is correspondingly provided with a second gear 21, and the second gear 21 is meshed with the first gear 20. A round fixed disc 22 is arranged in the rotary screen 5 corresponding to the feed hopper 8, and the other end of the crushing cutter shaft 6 is rotatably connected with the fixed disc 22.
The utility model discloses the during operation can be connected to the transport vechicle through die-pin 12 on, drag the assigned position operation with this hack machine, raw materials soil passes through in feeder hopper 8 gets into trommel screen 5, broken arbor 6 rotates and drives broken subassembly and process soil, break into tiny particle and stone with soil, trommel screen 5 rotates simultaneously for bed soil granule is from automatic falling the conveyer belt in sieve mesh 5a, guarantee bed soil granule diameter at 0.1mm ~0.5mm, the assigned position is carried to bed soil after the conveyer belt will process. The beneficial effects of the utility model reside in that: the soil crusher can be moved to a specified position, and the flexibility is good; the conveyer belt can directly convey the processed bed soil to a designated position; the bed soil can be thoroughly crushed by the crushing knives 7 which are arranged in a staggered way in the circumferential direction; the positioning support rod 9 can ensure accurate positioning between the first side vertical plate 3 and the second side vertical plate 4 and increase the strength of the equipment; the brush 10a can brush the soil particles on the surface of the drum screen 5 to prevent the screen holes 5a from being blocked. The soil crusher adopts a fully-closed structure, so that soil and stones are automatically separated in the machine, and the safety of operators is ensured; simple structure, compactness, machining efficiency is high, reduces operating personnel's intensity of labour, and the practicality is stronger.
The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and based on the technical solutions disclosed in the present invention, those skilled in the art can make some replacements and transformations for some technical features without creative labor according to the disclosed technical contents, and these replacements and transformations are all within the protection scope of the present invention.

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1. A pull-type seedling raising soil crusher comprises a frame and is characterized in that the frame comprises an upper support and a lower support which are connected into a whole, walking rollers are rotatably arranged on the front side and the rear side of the lower support, the walking rollers are in contact with the ground, a first side vertical plate and a second side vertical plate which correspond to each other from front to back are arranged on the upper side of the upper support, a rotary screen is rotatably arranged between the first side vertical plate and the second side vertical plate, the rotary screen is cylindrical, the axis of the rotary screen is horizontally arranged, a plurality of screen holes which are fully distributed on the surface are formed in the periphery of the rotary screen, a rotatable crushing cutter shaft is axially arranged in the rotary screen, a plurality of groups of crushing assemblies are axially arranged on the crushing cutter shaft at intervals, each group of crushing assemblies comprises at least 3 crushing cutters which are axially distributed at intervals along the crushing cutter shaft, at least 3 crushing cutters are, a feed hopper communicated with the interior of the drum screen is fixedly connected to the second side vertical plate; a plurality of parallel positioning support rods are horizontally arranged between the first side vertical plate and the second side vertical plate, two ends of each positioning support rod respectively abut against the first side vertical plate and the second side vertical plate, an installation rod is horizontally arranged between the tops of the first side vertical plate and the second side vertical plate, and a spiral hairbrush is axially arranged on each installation rod; the upper bracket front end is connected with the telescopic die-pin, the lower carriage rear end rotates and is connected with the carriage, it has a plurality of rotatable lower band rollers to arrange in proper order along length direction on the carriage, still install a plurality of bearing roller framves of arranging in proper order along length direction on the carriage, all rotationally be provided with the upper band roller on every bearing roller frame, the lower carriage middle part rotationally is provided with the initiative band roller, the initiative band roller is connected with the rotation driving mechanism transmission, the upper and lower both sides of initiative band roller respectively with the upside and the downside contact of conveyer belt, the upside of upper band roller contacts with the upside of conveyer belt, the downside of lower band roller contacts with the downside of conveyer belt, the conveyer belt sets up with the drum screen is corresponding.
2. A pulling type seedling raising pulverizer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the conveyor frame is provided with a seat ear, the seat ear is connected with the feeding hopper through a positioning wire rope, and the frame is provided with a tension wheel corresponding to the conveyor belt.
3. A pull-type seedling raising pulverizer as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the rotary driving mechanism comprises a conveying belt pulley disposed on the roller shaft of the driving belt roller, the conveying belt pulley is connected with the output end of the motor through a driving belt and a belt pulley, and the conveying belt pulley and the belt pulley are disposed in the shield.
4. A pull type seedling raising soil crusher as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the crushing cutter comprises a rectangular main body, both ends of the main body are integrally provided with contracting bodies, the width of each contracting body is gradually reduced from a position close to the main body to a position far away from the main body, the end parts of the contracting bodies are integrally provided with cutter blade bodies, and the front ends of the cutter blade bodies are arranged in an arc shape.
5. A pull-type seedling raising pulverizer as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the front side of the upper support is provided with a motor mounting bracket, a horizontally arranged motor is mounted on the motor mounting bracket, the output end of the motor is provided with a driving pulley, 2 belt grooves are arranged in parallel on the driving pulley, one end of a crushing cutter shaft passes through the side vertical plate and extends forwards to the other side, the crushing cutter shaft is provided with a first driven pulley, the first side vertical plate is rotatably connected with a horizontal rotating shaft, two ends of the rotating shaft are respectively positioned at the left side and the right side of the first side vertical plate, the front end of the rotating shaft is provided with a second driven pulley, and the rear end of the rotating shaft is provided with a first gear; the driving belt pulley is connected with the driven belt pulley I through a driving belt I, the driving belt pulley is connected with a driven belt pulley II through a driving belt II, and the driving belt I and the driving belt II are respectively clamped into 2 belt grooves; and a second gear is correspondingly arranged at the front end of the drum screen and is meshed with the first gear.
6. A pulling type seedling raising soil crusher as claimed in claim 5, wherein a circular fixing disc is arranged inside the rotary screen corresponding to the feed hopper, and the other end of the crushing cutter shaft is rotatably connected with the fixing disc.
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CN112264457A (en) * 2020-10-10 2021-01-26 刘云芝 Soil remediation device
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CN112264457A (en) * 2020-10-10 2021-01-26 刘云芝 Soil remediation device
CN116746310A (en) * 2023-08-16 2023-09-15 山西农业大学 Ecological restoration's soil finishing device
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