CN210236809U - Elevator installation wire rope ware of putting rope - Google Patents

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CN210236809U
CN210236809U CN201921178435.XU CN201921178435U CN210236809U CN 210236809 U CN210236809 U CN 210236809U CN 201921178435 U CN201921178435 U CN 201921178435U CN 210236809 U CN210236809 U CN 210236809U
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Jiquan Yan
闫继泉
Tianfang Zhang
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Wenjun Ding
丁文军
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The utility model relates to an elevator installation steel wire rope unreeling device, which comprises a base, a rotating shaft, a bearing, a rotating disc and a rope coiling frame; the rotating shaft is vertically fixed on the base; the inner ring of the bearing is fixed on the rotating shaft, and the outer ring can rotate in the horizontal direction; the rotating disc is fixed on the bearing outer ring; the rope coiling frame is fixed on the rotating disc and also comprises an annular sliding groove and a supporting piece; the opening of the annular sliding groove is arranged downwards, the annular sliding groove is fixed at the lower part of the rotating disc, and the central axis of the annular sliding groove is superposed with the central axis of the rotating shaft; the number of the supporting pieces is four, the supporting pieces are fixed on the base and are distributed in a pairwise symmetrical mode; the support piece comprises a support rod, a vertical plate and a roller; the support rods are fixed on the base, two vertical plates are oppositely fixed at the upper end of the base, and the roller is rotatably supported between the two vertical plates; the roller is embedded into the annular sliding groove and can roll. The utility model discloses stability when can reinforcing wire rope unwrapping wire reduces the bearing wearing and tearing.

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Elevator installation wire rope ware of putting rope
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a put the rope ware, in particular to elevator installation wire rope ware of putting.
Background
Along with the continuous increase of high-rise buildings, the quantity of elevator also increases along with it, will transfer wire rope to the elevartor shaft when installing the elevator, and the wire rope is transferred to the simple operation of relying on the workman, is unsafe on the one hand, and on the other hand manual work is transferred the wire rope and is made wire rope production twist reverse easily, consequently needs an auxiliary device help to transfer the wire rope, and wire rope ware is exactly the device that the work was transferred to the help wire rope.
The prior patent document with the publication number of CN 207844791U discloses an elevator rope releasing device, which structurally comprises supporting legs, a bearing base, a heavy thrust roller bearing, a rotary rope releasing disc, a central supporting shaft, a rope bundle bracket, a supporting frame bearing seat and a supporting bearing; three supporting legs are uniformly arranged on the bearing base at intervals of 120 degrees; the heavy thrust roller bearing comprises a bearing body and a bearing ring; the bearing body is embedded on the bearing base, and the bearing ring is embedded on the rope coiling base positioned in the center of the rotary rope uncoiling disc; the rotary rope placing disc is made of a hollow round pipe, and the outer ring of the rotary rope placing disc is higher than the bottom surface of the rotary rope placing disc; the central supporting shaft is connected with the center of the bearing base; the bottom end of the rope bundle support is connected with the rotary rope releasing disc, the top end of the rope bundle support is connected with a support frame bearing seat, and 4-8 rope bundle supports are uniformly distributed to form a cone; the supporting bearing is embedded on the bearing seat of the supporting frame. On putting the rope bundle support with the rope bundle, the one end of rope removes, and the rope bundle can drive the rotation and put the rope dish and rotate, emits the rope, can eliminate the artifical torsional phenomenon of transferring the wire rope in-process and appearing.
This kind of elevator rope releasing device can solve the torsion problem that appears in wire rope transfers, but bearing base with put between the rope dish, be connected through the bearing, put the rope dish rotatory in-process, the inhomogeneous rope dish that can put of power that receives produces the slope, the power of production is whole to be used on the bearing, and the wearing and tearing that cause the bearing increase, bearing life subtracts the weak point.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
An object of the utility model is to provide a can strengthen the wire rope ware of putting rope ware stability, reduction bearing wearing and tearing.
The above object of the present invention can be achieved by the following technical solutions: an elevator installation steel wire rope unreeling device comprises a base, a rotating shaft, a bearing, a rotating disc and a rope coiling frame; the rotating shaft is vertically fixed on the base; the inner ring of the bearing is fixed on the rotating shaft, and the outer ring can rotate in the horizontal direction; the rotating disc is fixed on the bearing outer ring; the rope coiling frame is fixed on the rotating disc and also comprises an annular sliding groove and a supporting piece; the opening of the annular sliding groove is arranged downwards, the annular sliding groove is fixed at the lower part of the rotating disc, and the central axis of the annular sliding groove is superposed with the central axis of the rotating shaft; the number of the supporting pieces is four, the supporting pieces are fixed on the base and are distributed in a pairwise symmetrical mode; the support piece comprises a support rod, a vertical plate and a roller; the support rods are fixed on the base, two vertical plates are oppositely fixed at the upper end of the base, and the roller is rotatably supported between the two vertical plates; the roller is embedded into the annular sliding groove and can roll.
By adopting the technical scheme, the rope unreeling device base is fixed well in the using process, and bundled steel wire ropes are placed on the rope coiling frame; one end of the steel wire rope, which needs to be lowered, is pulled out, and the steel wire rope can drive the rotating disc to rotate; when the rotating disc rotates, the roller rolls in the annular sliding groove, and when the rotating disc tends to incline in the rotating process, the supporting piece can play a role of reverse supporting; reduce the abnormal force that the bearing receives, reduce its wearing and tearing, prolong its life.
The utility model discloses further set up to: the steel wire rope guide device further comprises an auxiliary support frame used for supporting and guiding the steel wire rope.
By adopting the technical scheme, when the bundled steel wire rope is released, the steel wire rope can rub the edge of the rope releasing device, so that the released steel wire rope can shake and can be damaged; after the auxiliary supporting frame is arranged, the lower part of the steel wire rope can be supported by a certain height, so that the lower part of the steel wire rope is higher than the edge of the rotating disc of the rope unreeling device, and friction between the steel wire rope and the rope unreeling device is avoided.
The utility model discloses further set up to: the auxiliary support frame comprises a base, a support ring, a rotary drum and a rotary cross rod; two brackets are symmetrically fixed on the base; two support rings are arranged and are respectively fixed at the tops of the two brackets, and the two support rings share the same axis; the rotating cross bar is horizontally fixed on the two support rings; the rotary drum is sleeved on the rotary cross rod.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, wire rope can be followed the guide of rotary drum and emitted, and the unwrapping wire is comparatively smooth.
The utility model discloses further set up to: the speed reducer is used for reducing the paying-off speed of the steel wire rope; the speed reducing piece comprises a sliding plate and a speed reducing rod; the two sliding plates are respectively arranged at the outer sides of the two support rings, rectangular through holes are respectively arranged on the surfaces of the two sliding plates, and the through holes are arranged along the length direction of the sliding plates; two symmetrical vertical planes are arranged at the two ends of the rotating cross rod and matched with the rectangular through hole on the sliding plate; the speed reducing rod is fixed on the two sliding plates, and a gap for the steel wire rope to pass through is reserved between the speed reducing rod and the rotating drum.
By adopting the technical scheme, the length of the steel wire rope in a suspended state is increased along with the lowering of the steel wire rope, so that the rotating speed of the rotating disc is faster and faster, the rope releasing process is unstable due to the over-fast rotation, danger is easy to occur, and the tail end of the steel wire rope is easy to separate when the rope releasing is finished; after setting up the gear reducer, when putting the rotatory speed-up gradually of rope ware, press the gear reducer downwards, the speed that the gear reducer and wire rope friction made wire rope slows down, makes the process of transferring wire rope safer.
The utility model discloses further set up to: the rotating disc comprises a bearing sleeve, an outer baffle ring and a connecting plate; the bearing sleeve is sleeved on the outer ring of the bearing, and the bearing sleeve are in interference fit; the outer baffle ring is arranged around the outer side of the bearing sleeve and is coaxial with the bearing sleeve; the connecting plates are four in number, the connecting plates are fixedly connected between the bearing sleeve and the outer retaining ring and are evenly distributed, and the upper surface of the outer retaining ring is higher than the connecting plates.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, rotary disk simple structure, light in weight, intensity is high.
The utility model discloses further set up to: four reinforcing rods are fixedly connected between the bearing sleeve and the outer baffle ring and are uniformly distributed in gaps of the four connecting plates.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the intensity of rotary disk has further been promoted.
To sum up, the utility model discloses following beneficial effect has:
1. when the rotating disc is inclined in the rotating process in the using process, the supporting piece can play a role of reverse supporting, abnormal force borne by the bearing is reduced, abrasion of the bearing is reduced, and the service life of the bearing is prolonged;
2. set up auxiliary stay frame, can support transferring partial wire rope and play certain height, make the wire rope of transferring be higher than the border of putting rope ware rotary disk, avoided producing the friction between wire rope and the rope ware of putting.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a wire rope payout;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a support portion of the payout device;
FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of the support member and the annular slide groove;
fig. 4 is a schematic structural view of the auxiliary support.
In the figure, 1, a base; 11. a through hole; 2. a rotating shaft; 3. a bearing; 4. rotating the disc; 41. a bearing sleeve; 42. an outer retainer ring; 43. a connecting plate; 44. a reinforcing rod; 5. a rope coiling frame; 6. an annular sliding groove; 7. a support member; 71. a support bar; 72. a roller; 8. an auxiliary support frame; 81. a base; 82. a support; 83. a support ring; 84. a rotating drum; 85. rotating the cross bar; 9. a speed reducer; 91. a sliding plate; 92. a speed reducing lever.
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Referring to fig. 1 and 2, in order to disclose the rope releasing device for installing the steel wire rope of the elevator, the rope releasing device comprises a base 1, a rotating shaft 2, a bearing 3, a rotating disc 4, a rope coiling frame 5, an annular sliding groove 6 and a supporting piece 7; the base 1 is a hard plate, through holes 11 are formed in four corners of the base 1, screws are matched in the through holes 11, and the base 1 is fixed on the ground through the screws; the rotating shaft 2 is a cylindrical rod piece and is vertically fixed at the center of the base 1, the diameter of the upper half part of the rotating shaft 2 is smaller than that of the lower half part, and a shaft shoulder is arranged at the joint of the upper half part and the lower half part and used for fixing a bearing; the bearing 3 comprises an inner ring, an outer ring and a roller; the inner ring of the bearing 3 is sleeved on the rotating shaft 2, the inner ring and the rotating shaft are in interference fit, and the inner ring of the bearing 3 is abutted against the shaft shoulder to axially fix the bearing 3; the rotating disc 4 comprises a bearing sleeve 41, an outer baffle ring 42, a connecting plate 43 and a reinforcing rod 44; the bearing sleeve 41 is a circular sleeve and is sleeved on the outer ring of the bearing 3, and the bearing 3 and the bearing sleeve 41 are in interference fit; the outer baffle ring 42 is arranged around the outer side of the bearing sleeve 41, and the outer baffle ring 42 and the bearing sleeve 41 have the same axle center; the connecting plates 43 are four hard plates, are fixedly connected between the bearing sleeve 41 and the outer baffle ring 42 and are uniformly distributed, and the upper surface of the outer baffle ring 42 is higher than the connecting plates; the reinforcing rods 44 are fixedly connected between the bearing sleeve 41 and the outer baffle ring 42 and are uniformly distributed in the gaps of the four connecting plates 43 to reinforce the connection between the outer baffle ring 42 and the bearing sleeve 41; the rope coiling frame 5 is an arched hard rod piece and consists of four rods with certain radian, the lower end surfaces of the rods are fixed on the upper surface of the connecting plate 43, and the upper end surfaces of the rods are superposed on the axis above the bearing sleeve 41 and fixed together and are symmetrically distributed about the axis of the bearing sleeve 41; the annular sliding groove 6 is fixed on the lower surface of the connecting plate 43, the cross section of the annular sliding groove 6 is U-shaped, and the opening of the groove is downward; the number of the supporting pieces 7 is four, and the supporting pieces comprise supporting rods 71, vertical plates 72 and rollers 73; the supporting rod 71 is a rectangular rod member and is vertically fixed in the middle of four edges on the base 1; the vertical plates 72 are vertically fixed on the upper end surfaces of the support rods 71, two vertical plates 72 are arranged on each support rod 71, the vertical plates 72 are distributed on two opposite sides of the upper surface of the support rod 71, and a through hole is formed in the middle of each vertical plate 72; the roller 72 is a cylindrical wheel, and cylindrical protrusions are respectively arranged on the end faces of the two ends of the roller 72, are matched with the through holes on the vertical plate 72 and can rotate in the through holes; the support members 7 are vertically fixed on the base 1 and are evenly distributed, and referring to fig. 3, four rollers 72 are positioned in the U-shaped groove of the annular sliding groove 6 and can roll in the groove.
In the use, to put the rope ware and fix in certain position, put the wire rope of bundling on the wire rope frame 5, at this moment, annular sliding tray 6 cooperatees with support piece 7, play main supporting role, pull out the one end that wire rope needs to be transferred, wire rope can drive rotary disk 4 and rotate, wire rope can transfer according to the order of coiling, the torsional condition can not appear, at the rotatory in-process of rotary disk 4, gyro wheel 73 rolls in annular sliding tray 6, when playing fine supporting role, can not produce the rotatory resistance of friction formation rotary disk again. When the rotating disk 4 rotates and inclines, the supporting piece 7 can well support the rotating disk 4, the force borne by the bearing 3 is small, the bearing 3 can be well protected, abrasion is reduced, and the service life of the bearing is prolonged.
When the bundled steel wire ropes are transferred, because the rope releaser is horizontally placed, the steel wire ropes can generate friction with the edge of the rope releaser, the transferred steel wire ropes can shake and damage the steel wire ropes, and in order to solve the problem, referring to fig. 1 and 4, the utility model is provided with an auxiliary support frame 8 which is used for supporting the transferred part of the steel wire ropes at a certain height, so that the transferred steel wire ropes are higher than the edge of a rotating disc 4 of the rope releaser, the friction between the steel wire ropes and the rope releaser is avoided, and the auxiliary support frame 8 comprises a base 81, a support 82, a support ring 83, a rotating drum 84 and a rotating cross rod 85; the base 81 is a rectangular hard plate, a through hole is formed in the middle of each of the four sides of the base 81, a screw is matched in the through hole, and the base 81 is fixed on the ground through the screw; the number of the brackets 82 is two, the brackets 82 are arranged on two sides of the upper surface of the base 81 in the length direction, each bracket 82 is provided with two legs, the two legs are splayed, and two ends of the lower side of each bracket are fixed at two ends of the base 81 in the width direction; the number of the support rings 83 is two, the support rings are respectively fixed on the brackets 82 at two sides, the side surfaces of the support rings are fixedly connected with two end surfaces of the upper sides of two legs of the brackets 82, and the two support rings share the same axis; the drum 84 is a cylindrical drum, the drum 84 is positioned between the two brackets 82 and coaxially arranged with the support ring 83, the upper part of the side surface of the drum 84 is higher than the outer baffle ring 42, and a through hole is formed in the center of one end surface of the drum 84; the rotating cross bar 85 is a cylindrical rod piece and is fixed between the two support rings 83, the rotating cross bar 85 is matched with the through hole on the roller 84, and the roller 84 can rotate on the rotating cross bar 85; install auxiliary stay frame 8 in the one side that the wire rope of putting the rope ware transferred during the use, arrange the wire rope of transferring in on the rotary drum 84, when wire rope transferred, the position of rotary drum 84 was higher than rotary disk 4, has avoided producing the friction between wire rope and the rotary disk 4, has reduced wire rope's wearing and tearing, goes up more steady of the transfer process of wire rope.
With the lowering of the steel wire rope, the length of the steel wire rope in a suspended state is increased, so that the rotation speed of the rotating disc 4 is faster and faster, the rotating disc is rotated too fast, the rope releasing process is unstable, danger is easy to occur, and the tail end of the steel wire rope is easy to separate when the rope releasing is finished, referring to fig. 4, the speed reducer 9 is arranged, and comprises a sliding plate 91 and a speed reducing rod 92; the sliding plates 91 are rectangular hard plates, the two sliding plates are arranged on the outer sides of the two support rings 83 respectively, rectangular through holes are formed in the surfaces of the two sliding plates 91 respectively and are arranged along the length direction of the sliding plates 91, two end faces of the rotating cross rod 85 extend out of the support rings 83, in order to enable the through holes of the sliding plates 91 to be matched with the rotating cross rod 85, two symmetrical vertical planes are arranged on the side faces of the two parts, extending out of the support rings 83, of the rotating cross rod 85, the vertical planes are matched with the rectangular through holes in the sliding plates 91, and the sliding plates 91 are installed on the rotating cross rod 85 through the through holes and can slide along the rotating cross rod 85 in the; the deceleration rod 92 is located between the two sliding plates 92, and two end faces are respectively fixed at the upper ends of two opposite side faces of the two sliding plates 91; when the rotation of the rope releasing device is accelerated gradually, the speed reducing part 9 is pressed downwards, the speed of the steel wire rope is slowed down by the friction of the speed reducing rod 92 and the steel wire rope, and the process of releasing the steel wire rope is safer.
The embodiment of this embodiment is the utility model discloses preferred embodiment is not according to this restriction the utility model discloses a protection scope, so: all equivalent changes made according to the structure, shape and principle of the utility model are covered within the protection scope of the utility model.

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1. An elevator installation steel wire rope pay-off device comprises a base (1), a rotating shaft (2), a bearing (3), a rotating disc (4) and a rope winding frame (5); the rotating shaft (2) is vertically fixed on the base (1); the inner ring of the bearing (3) is fixed on the rotating shaft (2) and the outer ring can rotate in the horizontal direction; the rotating disc (4) is fixed on the outer ring of the bearing (3); rope coiling frame (5) are fixed in on rotary disk (4), its characterized in that: the device also comprises an annular sliding groove (6) and a support piece (7); the opening of the annular sliding groove (6) is arranged downwards, the annular sliding groove (6) is fixed at the lower part of the rotating disc (4), and the central axis of the annular sliding groove is superposed with the central axis of the rotating shaft (2); four supporting pieces (7) are fixed on the base (1) and are distributed symmetrically in pairs; the supporting piece (7) comprises a supporting rod (71), a vertical plate and a roller (72); the support rods (71) are fixed on the base (1), two vertical plates are oppositely fixed at the upper end of the base (1), and the rollers (72) are rotatably supported between the two vertical plates; the roller (72) is embedded in the annular sliding groove (6) and can roll.
2. The elevator installation wireline payout of claim 1, wherein: the steel wire rope guide device further comprises an auxiliary support frame (8) used for supporting and guiding the steel wire rope.
3. The elevator installation wireline payout of claim 2, wherein: the auxiliary support frame (8) comprises a base (81), a bracket (82), a support ring (83), a rotary drum (84) and a rotary cross rod (85); two brackets (82) are symmetrically fixed on the base (81); the two support rings (83) are respectively fixed at the tops of the two brackets (82), and the two support rings (83) are coaxial; the rotating cross bar (85) is horizontally fixed on the two support rings (83); the rotary drum (84) is sleeved on the rotary cross rod (85).
4. The elevator installation wireline payout of claim 3, wherein: the device also comprises a speed reducer (9) for reducing the paying-off speed of the steel wire rope; the speed reducer (9) comprises a sliding plate (91) and a speed reducing rod (92); the two sliding plates (91) are respectively arranged at the outer sides of the two support rings (83), rectangular through holes (11) are respectively formed in the surfaces of the two sliding plates (91), and the through holes (11) are arranged along the length direction of the sliding plates (91); two symmetrical vertical planes are arranged at two ends of the rotating cross rod (85) and are matched with the rectangular through hole (11) in the sliding plate (91); the speed reducing rod (92) is fixed on the two sliding plates (91), and a gap for the steel wire rope to pass through is reserved between the speed reducing rod (92) and the rotating drum (84).
5. The elevator installation wireline payout of claim 1, wherein: the rotating disc (4) comprises a bearing sleeve (41), an outer baffle ring (42) and a connecting plate (43); the bearing sleeve (41) is sleeved on the outer ring of the bearing (3), and the bearing (3) and the bearing sleeve (41) are in interference fit; the outer baffle ring (42) is arranged around the outer side of the bearing sleeve (41), and the outer baffle ring (42) and the bearing sleeve (41) are coaxial; the number of the connecting plates (43) is four, the connecting plates are fixedly connected between the bearing sleeve (41) and the outer retaining ring (42) and are uniformly distributed, and the upper surface of the outer retaining ring (42) is higher than that of the connecting plates (43).
6. The elevator installation wireline payout of claim 5, wherein: four reinforcing rods (44) are fixedly connected between the sleeve of the bearing (3) and the outer baffle ring (42) and are uniformly distributed in gaps of the four connecting plates (43).
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