CN210281578U - Pipe cutting machine - Google Patents

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CN210281578U
CN210281578U CN201920990452.7U CN201920990452U CN210281578U CN 210281578 U CN210281578 U CN 210281578U CN 201920990452 U CN201920990452 U CN 201920990452U CN 210281578 U CN210281578 U CN 210281578U
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The utility model discloses a pipe cutting machine, which relates to pipe production equipment and aims to solve the technical problems of time and labor waste caused by the fact that a worker needs to continuously hold materials and move the materials to cut the materials in the prior art, and the technical scheme comprises a frame, wherein a transportation assembly and a power assembly are arranged on the frame; place the material on the transportation subassembly, power component drives the material and removes to cutting assembly department, and power component stop motion, cutting assembly cutting material, power component promote the material again and remove, and the material that will downcut passes forward, and the material is along smooth flitch landing to removing in the material receiving frame to this can reduce the workman and hold the material and remove the work burden that the material carries out the cutting by the hand of persistence, improves work efficiency.

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Pipe cutting machine
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a tubular product production facility, more specifically say, it relates to a pipe cutting machine.
Background
With the rapid development of domestic economy, the application of the pipe is more and more common, and the pipe is widely applied to the industrial fields of buildings, machinery and the like. In the conventional production, a long pipe needs to be cut into small sections of pipes, and different application fields have special requirements on the length precision requirement, the shape precision requirement and the like of the pipes, so that the pipes need to be cut by using special pipe cutting equipment, and the pipe cutting machine is widely used in industrial production as common pipe cutting equipment.
Chinese patent No. CN206200656U discloses a steel sheet pipe cutting machine, which comprises: the cutting device comprises a base and a cutting arm, wherein one end of the cutting arm is movably connected to the base through a pin shaft, the other end of the cutting arm is connected with a handle, a special cutting disc is mounted in the middle of the cutting arm, a motor is connected to the middle shaft of the special cutting disc, a cooling shield is arranged on the cutting arm and clamped at the outer edge of the special cutting disc, the cooling shield and the special cutting disc are not in contact with each other, an adjustable clamping seat is arranged on the base and located below the special cutting disc, a chip blocking plate is arranged on the right side of the adjustable clamping seat, a chip collecting box is arranged on the left side of the adjustable clamping seat, the cross section of the cooling shield is of a U-shaped structure, a cavity is arranged inside the cooling shield, and an air. The utility model discloses simple structure is favorable to improving advantages such as production quality.
When using the pipe cutting machine among the prior art, the workman carries the material to pipe cutting machine department and cuts, during the cutting, needs the workman to last hand material and cuts, cuts one section back, removes the material again and cuts next time, wastes time and energy, remains to improve.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
To the not enough of prior art existence, the utility model aims to provide a pipe cutting machine.
The above object of the present invention can be achieved by the following technical solutions:
the utility model provides a pipe cutting machine, includes the frame, be equipped with in the frame and be used for transporting the transportation subassembly that the material removed and be used for driving the power component of transportation subassembly clearance motion, the one side that just is located the material and exports from the transportation subassembly in the frame is equipped with cutting assembly, just be located in the frame cutting assembly keeps away from one side of power component is equipped with the sliding material board, the sliding material board is kept away from one side of cutting assembly is equipped with removes receipts material frame.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, when the cutting, the workman places the material on the transportation subassembly, and power component drives the material and removes to cutting assembly department, and power component stop motion this moment, cutting assembly cutting material, power component promote the material again and remove, and the material that will downcut passes forward, and the material is along smooth flitch landing to removing in the material receiving frame to this can reduce the workman and hold up the hand material of persistence and remove the work burden that the material cut, improves work efficiency.
Furthermore, the conveying assembly comprises a driving roller, a driven roller and a conveying belt, wherein the driving roller and the driven roller are oppositely arranged on the rack, the conveying belt is connected with the driving roller and the driven roller, and the driving roller and the driven roller are uniformly distributed along the length direction of the material;
the power assembly comprises a power motor arranged on the rack, a rotating shaft connected with a driving shaft of the power motor, a gap gear coaxially connected with the rotating shaft and a rotating gear coaxially connected with the driving roller, and the gap gear is meshed with the rotating gear.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, before the cutting, place the material on the conveyer belt, power motor drives axis of rotation, clearance gear, running gear, drive roll, driven voller and conveyer belt in proper order and rotates to this can carry the material smoothly, reduces the work burden that the workman manually removed the material, improves work efficiency.
Furthermore, one end, far away from the rotating gear, of the driving roller is coaxially connected with a driving wheel, one end, close to the driving wheel, of the driven roller is provided with a driven wheel, and the driving wheel is connected with the driven wheel through a belt.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, when power motor drive roll rotated to can drive the action wheel in proper order, rotate from driving wheel and belt, increase the stability that the conveyer belt drive material removed.
Furthermore, a plurality of conveying rollers are uniformly distributed on the rack and on one side, far away from the sliding plate, of the conveying belt, and the plurality of conveying rollers are arranged along the length direction of the material.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, when the material is very long, utilize the conveying roller to support the material to the material can be stable move on the conveyer belt, with this material that can adapt to the length difference.
Furthermore, baffles are arranged on the rack and on two sides of the conveying belt, arc-shaped plates are arranged on one sides, far away from the sliding plate, of the baffles, and the distance between the two arc-shaped plates is gradually increased from one side, close to the baffles, to the side, far away from the baffles.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, when the material moved to the conveyer belt from the conveying roller on, utilize arc and baffle to carry on spacingly to the material to this can be smoothly with the material remove to cutting assembly below and cut, reduce the position that the workman need adjust the material, increase the convenience of cutting the material.
Furthermore, the cutting assembly comprises a support frame rotatably arranged on the frame, a cutting motor arranged on the support frame, a connecting shaft coaxially connected with a driving shaft of the cutting motor, and a cutting knife coaxially connected with the connecting shaft, wherein a handle is arranged on the support frame, and a gap for inserting the cutting knife is arranged on the frame and below the cutting knife.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, when cutting, the workman utilizes the handle to rotate the support frame to drive the cutting knife and remove to material department, the cutting motor drive cutting knife rotates, thereby the cutting knife can be smoothly to the material cutting.
Furthermore, the frame is provided with two clamping cylinders which are arranged oppositely, the clamping cylinders are arranged along the length direction of the gap, piston rods of the clamping cylinders face one side of the material, end walls of the piston rods of the clamping cylinders are provided with clamping plates, the two clamping cylinders form a cylinder group, and the two cylinder groups are respectively located on two sides of the gap.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, when the material removes the below to the cutting knife, utilize two liang of relative die clamping cylinder to press from both sides tight material, reduce the cutting knife with the inclined to one side possibility of material end wall surely, also can reduce the position of workman's manual adjustment material, increase the convenience and the stability of cutting the material.
Furthermore, the frame is provided with a dust hood below the gap, the dust hood is far away from one side of the gap and is communicated with an air pipe, the air pipe is far away from one end of the dust hood and is provided with a fan, and the inner side wall of the dust hood is provided with a filter screen.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, because during the cutting, the material can spurt a large amount of sweeps, utilizes the fan to convulsions the sweeps, and the filter screen filters the sweeps to this sweeps in can reducing the air, reduces the possibility that the sweeps influences the workman healthy.
To sum up, the utility model discloses following beneficial effect has:
1. during cutting, the materials are placed on the conveying assembly, the power assembly drives the materials to move to a position below the cutting assembly, the power assembly stops moving at the moment, the cutting assembly performs cutting, the power assembly continues to drive the materials to move, the cutting assembly performs cutting again, the cutting assembly performs reciprocating motion in a circulating mode, and the cut materials slide into the movable material receiving frame along the material sliding plate, so that the work load of workers for continuously holding the materials by hands and moving the materials can be reduced, and the work efficiency is improved;
2. the clamping cylinder is used for clamping the material, so that the stability of the cutting knife for cutting the material is improved, the position of workers for adjusting the material can be reduced, and the convenience for cutting the material is improved;
3. utilize the conveying roller to support the material and remove, increase the stability that the material removed, also can adapt to the material of different length.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of the embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a transport assembly and a power assembly embodying an embodiment.
Fig. 3 is a schematic view showing the structure of the conveying roller in the embodiment.
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a cutting assembly according to an embodiment.
Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a fan, an air duct, a dust hood and a filter screen in the embodiment.
In the figure: 1. a frame; 2. a transport assembly; 20. a drive roll; 21. a driven roller; 22. a conveyor belt; 3. a power assembly; 30. a power motor; 31. a rotating shaft; 32. a clearance gear; 33. a rotating gear; 34. a driving wheel; 35. a driven wheel; 36. a belt; 37. a conveying roller; 38. a baffle plate; 39. an arc-shaped plate; 4. a cutting assembly; 40. a support frame; 41. cutting the motor; 42. a connecting shaft; 43. a cutting knife; 44. a handle; 45. a void; 46. a clamping cylinder; 47. a clamping plate; 48. a cylinder group; 49. a dust hood; 400. an air duct; 401. a fan; 402. a filter screen; 5. a material sliding plate; 6. and moving the material receiving frame.
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The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Example (b):
referring to fig. 1, a pipe cutting machine includes a frame 1, a transportation assembly 2 for transporting materials to move and a power assembly 3 for driving the transportation assembly 2 to move in a clearance manner are arranged on the frame 1, and a cutting assembly 4 is arranged on the frame 1 and on one side of the frame 1 where the materials are output from the transportation assembly 2.
Referring to fig. 1, a sliding plate 5 is arranged on the frame 1 and on one side of the cutting assembly 4 away from the power assembly 3, the cross section of the sliding plate 5 is Contraband-shaped, a movable material receiving frame 6 is arranged on one side of the sliding plate 5 away from the cutting assembly 4, and the height of the sliding plate 5 is gradually increased from one side close to the movable material receiving frame 6 to one side away from the movable material receiving frame 6; when cutting, place the material on transportation subassembly 2, power component 3 carries the material to remove, the material removes to the below of cutting component 4, power component 3 stop motion this moment, cutting component 4 cuts the material, power component 3 redriven material removes, cutting component 4 cuts again, the material under the cutting is along smooth flitch 5 landing to remove in the material receiving frame 6 to this can reduce the workman and last hand held material and remove the work burden that the material cut, improve the convenience of work, increase work efficiency.
Referring to fig. 2, the transportation assembly 2 includes two driving rollers 20 and two driven rollers 21 oppositely disposed on the frame 1, and a conveyer belt 22 connecting the driving rollers 20 and the driven rollers 21, wherein the conveyer belt 22 is disposed along the length direction of the material, and the driving rollers 20 and the driven rollers 21 are uniformly distributed along the length direction of the material.
Referring to fig. 2, the power assembly 3 includes a power motor 30 provided on the frame 1, a rotation shaft 31 connected to a driving shaft of the power motor 30, a gap gear 32 coaxially connected to the rotation shaft 31, and a rotation gear 33 coaxially connected to the drive roll 20, the gap gear 32 being engaged with the rotation gear 33.
Referring to fig. 2, one end of the driving roller 20, which is far away from the rotating gear 33, is coaxially connected with a driving wheel 34, one end of the driven roller 21, which is close to the driving wheel 34, is provided with a driven wheel 35, and the driving wheel 34 and the driven wheel 35 are connected through a belt 36; before cutting, the materials are placed on the conveying belt 22, the power motor 30 drives the rotating shaft 31, the gap gear 32, the rotating gear 33, the driving roller 20, the driving wheel 34, the conveying belt 22, the belt 36, the driven roller 21 and the driven roller 35 to rotate in sequence, so that the materials can be conveniently, quickly and stably moved, and the workload of workers for manually moving the materials is reduced.
Referring to fig. 3, when the length of the material is long, a part of the material is placed on the conveyer belt 22, and the other part is suspended, which easily causes unstable gravity center of the material and easily drops from the conveyer belt 22, so that a plurality of conveying rollers 37 are uniformly distributed on the frame 1 and on one side of the conveyer belt 22 far away from the material sliding plate 5 (refer to fig. 1), and the plurality of conveying rollers 37 are arranged along the length direction of the material.
Referring to fig. 2 and 3, a baffle 38 is disposed on the frame 1 and on both sides of the conveyor belt 22, an arc-shaped plate 39 is disposed on a side of the baffle 38 away from the sliding plate 5 (refer to fig. 1), and a distance between the two arc-shaped plates 39 increases from a side close to the baffle 38 to a side away from the baffle 38; place material one end on conveying roller 37, on conveying roller 37 was placed to one end, strengthen the material and place the stability on the conveyer belt 22, utilize baffle 38 and arc 39 to carry on spacingly to the material, reduce the skew that the material removal took place, reduce the work burden that the workman adjusted the material, increase the convenience of cutting the material.
Referring to fig. 4, the cutting assembly 4 includes a support frame 40 rotatably disposed on the frame 1, a cutting motor 41 disposed on the support frame 40, a connecting shaft 42 (see fig. 5) coaxially connected to a driving shaft of the cutting motor 41, and a cutting blade 43 coaxially connected to the connecting shaft 42, the support frame 40 is provided with a handle 44, and a gap 45 for inserting the cutting blade 43 is disposed below the cutting blade 43 on the frame 1; when the material removes to cutting knife 43 below, the workman rotates support frame 40, and cutting motor 41 drive axis of rotation 31 and cutting knife 43 rotate, thereby after cutting knife 43 cuts into space 45, cutting knife 43 cuts the material smoothly.
Referring to fig. 4, two clamping cylinders 46 are arranged on the frame 1, the clamping cylinders 46 are arranged along the length direction of the gap 45, the piston rods of the clamping cylinders 46 face one side of the material, the end walls of the piston rods of the clamping cylinders 46 are provided with clamping plates 47, the two clamping cylinders 46 form cylinder groups 48, and the number of the cylinder groups 48 is two and is respectively located at two sides of the gap 45; when the material moves to the cutting knife 43 below, the clamping cylinder 46 stretches out, the clamping plate 47 clamps the material, the workload of workers for manually adjusting the position of the material is reduced, the possibility that the cutting knife 43 cuts the end wall of the material off-center is reduced, and the convenience for cutting the material is increased.
Referring to fig. 4 and 5, most of the materials are made of metal, so a large amount of waste chips are generated during cutting, a dust hood 49 is arranged below the gap 45 on the frame 1, the sectional area of the dust hood 49 decreases progressively from one side close to the gap 45 to one side far away from the gap 45, an air pipe 400 is communicated with one side of the dust hood 49 far away from the gap 45, a fan 401 is arranged at one end of the air pipe 400 far away from the dust hood 49, and a filter screen 402 is arranged on the inner side wall of the dust hood 49; during the cutting, utilize fan 401 to bleed, bleed the sweeps, filter screen 402 filters the sweeps to this can reduce the sweeps in the air, reduces the influence that the sweeps produced to human health.
The implementation principle of the above embodiment is as follows: when cutting, put the material on transportation subassembly 2, power component 3 moves the material, and the material moves to cutting component 4 below, and power component 3 stops to move the material, and cutting component 4 cuts the material, and the material that cuts moves to in removing material receiving frame 6 along smooth flitch 5 again to this can reduce the workman and last hand the material and move the work burden that the material cut, improves work efficiency.
The present embodiment is only for explaining the present invention, and it is not limited to the present invention, and those skilled in the art can make modifications to the present embodiment without inventive contribution as required after reading the present specification, but all of them are protected by patent laws within the scope of the claims of the present invention.

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1. A pipe cutting machine is characterized in that: including frame (1), be equipped with on frame (1) and be used for transporting transportation subassembly (2) that the material removed and be used for driving power component (3) that transportation subassembly (2) clearance moved, the one side that just is located the material and exports from transportation subassembly (2) on frame (1) is equipped with cutting assembly (4), just be located on frame (1) cutting assembly (4) are kept away from one side of power component (3) is equipped with sliding material board (5), sliding material board (5) are kept away from one side of cutting assembly (4) is equipped with removes receipts material frame (6).
2. The pipe cutter of claim 1, wherein: the conveying assembly (2) comprises two driving rollers (20) and two driven rollers (21) which are oppositely arranged on the rack (1) and a conveying belt (22) for connecting the driving rollers (20) and the driven rollers (21), and the driving rollers (20) and the driven rollers (21) are uniformly distributed along the length direction of the material;
the power assembly (3) comprises a power motor (30) arranged on the rack (1), a rotating shaft (31) connected with a driving shaft of the power motor (30), a gap gear (32) coaxially connected with the rotating shaft (31) and a rotating gear (33) coaxially connected with the driving roller (20), wherein the gap gear (32) is meshed with the rotating gear (33).
3. A pipe cutting machine as claimed in claim 2, wherein: the driving roller (20) is far away from one end of the rotating gear (33) and is coaxially connected with a driving wheel (34), a driven wheel (35) is arranged at one end, close to the driving wheel (34), of the driven roller (21), and the driving wheel (34) is connected with the driven wheel (35) through a belt (36).
4. A pipe cutting machine as claimed in claim 2, wherein: a plurality of conveying rollers (37) are uniformly distributed on the frame (1) and on one side, far away from the sliding plate (5), of the conveying belt (22), and the plurality of conveying rollers (37) are arranged along the length direction of the material.
5. A pipe cutting machine as claimed in claim 2, wherein: baffle plates (38) are arranged on the two sides of the conveyor belt (22) on the rack (1), arc-shaped plates (39) are arranged on one sides, far away from the sliding material plate (5), of the baffle plates (38), and the distance between the two arc-shaped plates (39) is gradually increased from one side, close to the baffle plates (38), to one side, far away from the baffle plates (38).
6. The pipe cutter of claim 1, wherein: the cutting assembly (4) comprises a support frame (40) rotatably arranged on the rack (1), a cutting motor (41) arranged on the support frame (40), a connecting shaft (42) coaxially connected with a driving shaft of the cutting motor (41) and a cutting knife (43) coaxially connected with the connecting shaft (42), wherein a handle (44) is arranged on the support frame (40), and a gap (45) for inserting the cutting knife (43) is arranged below the cutting knife (43) on the rack (1).
7. The pipe cutter of claim 6, wherein: be equipped with two die clamping cylinder (46) that set up relatively on frame (1), die clamping cylinder (46) are followed the length direction of space (45) sets up, the piston rod of die clamping cylinder (46) is towards one side of material, be equipped with pinch plate (47) on the end wall of the piston rod of die clamping cylinder (46), two die clamping cylinder (46) constitute cylinder group (48), the quantity of cylinder group (48) is two and is located respectively the both sides of space (45).
8. The pipe cutter of claim 6, wherein: frame (1) is last and be located the below in space (45) is equipped with suction hood (49), suction hood (49) are kept away from one side intercommunication in space (45) is equipped with tuber pipe (400), tuber pipe (400) are kept away from the one end of suction hood (49) is equipped with fan (401), be equipped with filter screen (402) on the inside wall of suction hood (49).
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