CN210458733U - Sound absorption material peripheral pattern edge sealing device and processed sound absorption cotton - Google Patents

Sound absorption material peripheral pattern edge sealing device and processed sound absorption cotton Download PDF

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CN210458733U
CN210458733U CN201921001963.8U CN201921001963U CN210458733U CN 210458733 U CN210458733 U CN 210458733U CN 201921001963 U CN201921001963 U CN 201921001963U CN 210458733 U CN210458733 U CN 210458733U
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刘斌
杨业强
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何艺昌
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盛丽辉
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The utility model provides a peripheral style banding device of sound absorbing material and sound of processing is cotton, relative top board and the holding down plate that sets up from top to bottom, the top board is the hot template, establish heating element in, and be connected with temperature sensor and drive arrangement, a plurality of cutting knife and the hot pressing mould that set up on the holding down plate, the cutting knife includes peripheral sword, fretwork sword and the sword that cracks, be used for the cutting appearance respectively, the fretwork is with the spare part of cracking in order to dodge or block door, the hot pressing mould includes peripheral banding mould, fretwork banding mould, crack banding mould and hot stamping mould, it is used for carrying out characters and pattern on hot pressing banding and the hot pressing to the position of cutting to set up side by side with the cutting knife respectively, the hot pressing mould is the vertical range upon range. Through the cutting knife and the hot pressing die that set up not isostructure and function, can process out the difference according to the actual shape and the position of spare part and inhale the sound cotton, with the door phase-match of different styles, cut, hot pressing one shot forming, hot pressing die multilayer design makes and has the multichannel banding, and the heat-seal is effectual and pleasing to the eye.

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Sound absorption material peripheral pattern edge sealing device and processed sound absorption cotton
Technical Field
The utility model relates to an automobile parts processing field especially relates to a sound cotton is inhaled to peripheral style banding device of sound absorbing material and sound of inhaling of processing.
Background
The sound-absorbing cotton is widely applied to various parts of an automobile, and the sound-absorbing cotton can be used for sound insulation, heat insulation, shock absorption and the like at positions such as a hood, a door, a chassis and the like. The cotton vibrations that can lighten spare part on the door plant of inhaling on the door, also play the thermal-insulated effect of sound insulation simultaneously, require to inhale the sound cotton can closely laminate with door and spare part on it, consequently to inhaling cotton material, structure and the shape of inhaling, need cut out the cotton of inhaling sound according to the special mould of shape and position design of spare part on the door, for pleasing to the eye consideration, still need carry out the banding processing to the edging. The door shape of different types of cars and the shape, the position diverse of spare part need the mould to compromise commonality and pertinence simultaneously, make the card hole on the sound cotton of inhaling that produces with dodge the mouth and can with spare part looks adaptation.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims at overcoming above-mentioned prior art's shortcoming, providing a commonality is wide, can adapt to the peripheral style banding device of sound absorbing material of different motorcycle types to and the door that uses the device processing inhales the sound cotton.
The utility model discloses a realize through following technical scheme:
a sound-absorbing material periphery pattern edge sealing device comprises an upper pressing plate and a lower pressing plate which are arranged oppositely from top to bottom, wherein the upper pressing plate is a hot template, a heating element is arranged in the upper pressing plate, the upper pressing plate is connected with a temperature sensor, and a driving device is further connected onto the upper pressing plate and used for driving the upper pressing plate to move downwards to be in press fit with the lower pressing plate; the lower pressing plate comprises a fixing plate and a plurality of cutting knives and hot pressing dies fixed on the fixing plate, and the cutting knives and the hot pressing dies are protruded on the fixing plate at the same height.
The cutting knife comprises a peripheral knife, a hollow knife and a slotting knife, wherein the peripheral knife is used for enclosing the shape of the outer contour of the sound-absorbing cotton of the car door on the fixing plate and is used for cutting the wide-open sound-absorbing cotton into the shape of a sound-absorbing cotton product of the car door; the hollow knife is positioned inside the peripheral knife, encloses the shape of the part needing to be hollowed on the sound-absorbing cotton of the car door, and is used for hollowing the sound-absorbing cotton to form an avoiding opening or a clamping opening so as to adapt to parts on the car door; the slotting cutter is matched with the shape of the sound-absorbing cotton of the car door, which needs to be slotted, and is used for cutting the sound-absorbing cotton into slots with different shapes at proper positions so as to adapt to various convex parts arranged on the car door, thereby preventing the plane sound-absorbing cotton from being jacked by the convex parts to cause the sound-absorbing cotton not to be arranged snugly.
The hot-pressing die comprises an outer edge sealing die, a hollow edge sealing die, a slotted edge sealing die and a hot-stamping die, and the outer edge sealing die is arranged on the inner side of the outer knife and used for carrying out hot-pressing edge sealing on the periphery of the cut sound-absorbing cotton; the hollowed edge sealing die is arranged on the inner side of the hollowed knife and used for carrying out hot-pressing edge sealing on the edge of the hollowed sound-absorbing cotton; the two sides of the seam marked by the slotting cutter are required to be sealed, and the slotting and edge sealing dies are respectively arranged on the two sides of the slotting cutter and are used for respectively carrying out hot-pressing edge sealing on the two sides of the seam cut on the sound-absorbing cotton; the shape and the position of the hot stamping die correspond to the shape and the position of characters or patterns needing hot stamping on the sound-absorbing cotton of the car door (cutting is not needed, so a cutting tool is not needed), and the hot stamping die is used for hot-pressing the characters or the patterns on the sound-absorbing cotton, such as trademarks, models, element positioning marks and the like, wherein the element positioning marks can be determined according to the shapes of some elements with unobvious bulges on the car door, and when the sound-absorbing cotton is installed, the elements just fall into dents formed by hot stamping.
Furthermore, the hot press die is made of stainless steel, aluminum alloy or glass fiber, and the material is required to have certain hardness and to resist certain high temperature.
Further, peripheral banding mould, fretwork banding mould, the vertical range upon range of board of slotting are multilayer slice, and the cotton contacts of inhaling the sound of range upon range of edge and needs hot pressing, and the cotton edge formation multichannel heat banding of inhaling the sound, and the heat-seal is effectual, and the edge is pleasing to the eye. The hot stamping die is generally a single layer, and the thickness of the hot stamping die is determined according to actual requirements.
Furthermore, the multilayer sheet-shaped plates on the periphery edge sealing die, the hollow edge sealing die and the slotting edge sealing die are five layers.
Further, the shape that the periphery sword encloses is the rectangle.
Further, the hollow knife is arranged on the left upper side of the rectangular peripheral knife, and the shape defined by the hollow knife is a rectangle with round corners.
Furthermore, the shape of slotting cutter is the U type, processes out the U type piece of adhesion on inhaling the sound cotton, conveniently dodges here bellied spare part. The number of slitting knives can be determined according to the number of parts on the door panel.
Further, the distance between the hot pressing die arranged at the cutting knife and the cutting knife is 3-10 mm.
Furthermore, a heating element is also arranged in the hot-pressing die and used for processing thicker sound-absorbing cotton.
The sound-absorbing cotton for the vehicle door processed by the sound-absorbing material peripheral pattern edge sealing device comprises a core layer and surface layers positioned on the upper side and the lower side of the core layer, wherein the core layer contains chemical fibers, the surface layers are non-woven fabrics, and the core layer and the surface layers can be bonded together through hot pressing; inhale cotton outline of sound and be the rectangle, the rectangle is inhaled cotton upper left corner of sound and is provided with the fretwork district, the fretwork district is the rectangle of taking the fillet, the below in fretwork district is provided with three U type piece that forms by the incision, and its position and size are corresponding with the spare part on the door board, and when making inhale the cotton installation of sound, the spare part at here can pass U type piece and wrapped up by the U type piece of gluing even, still be provided with characters or/and pattern on the sound absorption cotton, the edge of opening part all is equipped with the banding district.
The utility model has the advantages that the cutting knives with different shapes and structures are arranged on the mould pressing plate, so that the mould pressing device can process and cut sound absorbing cotton with different shapes according to the requirements, thereby realizing different functions, and can be freely designed according to the actual shapes and positions of parts, so as to be matched with the car doors with different styles; the peripheral edge sealing die, the hollow edge sealing die, the slotted edge sealing die, the hot stamping die and the cutting knife are matched, patterns in any shape can be processed on the sound-absorbing cotton, and the sound-absorbing cotton is cut and hot-pressed to be formed at one time, so that the production efficiency is improved, and the hot stamping die has multiple edge sealing layers due to the multilayer design, and is good in heat sealing effect and attractive; the sound cotton of inhaling of processing can with the shape and the good block of spare part of door, and the form of fretwork can be adopted to big part, and the widget can be opened seam and dodge.
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Fig. 1 is the utility model discloses in the embodiment of the car door inhale the cotton plan view.
Fig. 2 is a schematic plan view of a lower pressing plate in the edge sealing and cutting device according to the embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a schematic plan view of a peripheral knife and a peripheral edge sealing die in the cutting and edge sealing device according to the embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is the embodiment of the utility model provides a planar schematic view of fretwork sword and fretwork banding mould in the cutting banding device.
Fig. 6 is a schematic plan view of the slitting knife and the slitting and edge sealing die in the cutting and edge sealing device according to the embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 7 is a cross-sectional view of fig. 6.
Reference numerals: 1-sound absorbing cotton; 2-rectangular outline; 3-a hollow-out area; 4-U-shaped sheets; 5-pattern; 6-character; 7-fixing the plate; 8-a peripheral edge sealing die; 80-peripheral knife; 81-a sheet plate with an edge sealed at the periphery; 9-hollowing out the edge sealing die; 90-hollow knife; 91-hollowing out edge-sealed flaky boards; 10-slotting edge sealing die; 100-slotting cutter; 101-slotting edge-sealing sheet-shaped plate; and 11-hot stamping die.
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A sound absorption cotton 1 for a vehicle door is shown in figure 1 and comprises a core layer and surface layers (not shown in the figure) positioned at the upper side and the lower side of the core layer, wherein the core layer contains chemical fibers, the surface layers are non-woven fabrics, and the core layer and the surface layers can be bonded together through hot pressing; inhale the outline of sound cotton 1 and be rectangle profile 2, the rectangle inhales the upper left corner of sound cotton 1 and is provided with fretwork district 3, fretwork district 3 is the rectangle of taking the fillet, the below in fretwork district 3 is provided with three U type piece 4, and its position and size are corresponding with the spare part on the door board, and when making inhale the installation of sound cotton 1, the spare part at this place can pass U type piece 4 and by the U type piece 4 parcel of gluing even, still be provided with characters 6 and pattern 5 on inhaling sound cotton 1, pattern 5 can be for the component location trace, the edge of opening part all is equipped with the banding district.
The cutting and edge sealing device for processing the sound absorption cotton 1 of the car door shown in the figure 1 comprises an upper pressure plate (not shown in the figure) and a lower pressure plate which are arranged oppositely up and down, wherein the upper pressure plate is a hot template, a heating element is arranged in the upper pressure plate, the upper pressure plate is connected with a temperature sensor, and a driving device is further connected onto the upper pressure plate and used for driving the upper pressure plate to move down and press the lower pressure plate; as shown in fig. 2, the lower pressing plate includes a fixing plate 7, and a plurality of cutting knives and a hot pressing die fixed on the fixing plate 7, the shapes and positions of the cutting knives and the hot pressing die correspond to those of the sound-absorbing cotton processed in fig. 1 one by one, and the surrounding knives 80 are rectangular. The hollow knife 90 is arranged at the left upper side of the rectangular peripheral knife 80, and the shape enclosed by the hollow knife 90 is a rectangle with round corners. The slotting cutter 100 is U-shaped, and the sticky U-shaped sheet 4 is processed on the sound-absorbing cotton 1, so that the sound-absorbing cotton can conveniently avoid the convex parts, and the slotting cutter 100 has three parts consistent with the sound-absorbing cotton 1. As shown in fig. 4 and 7, the cutting knife and the hot die protrude to the same height on the fixing plate 7. The distance between the hot pressing die arranged at the cutting knife and the cutting knife is 3-10 mm. However, when the thicker sound-absorbing cotton 1 needs to be processed, the heating element is also arranged in the hot-pressing die, and the upper surface and the lower surface of the sound-absorbing cotton 1 are simultaneously heated and hot-pressed for edge sealing.
The cutting knife comprises a peripheral knife 80, a hollow knife 90 and a slotting knife 100, wherein the peripheral knife 80 is used for enclosing the shape of the external outline of the sound absorption cotton 1 of the car door on the fixing plate 7 and is used for cutting the wide-open sound absorption cotton into the shape of the sound absorption cotton 1 product of the car door; the hollow knife 90 is positioned inside the peripheral knife 80, and is enclosed into a shape of a part needing to be hollowed out on the sound-absorbing cotton 1 of the vehicle door, and is used for hollowing out the sound-absorbing cotton 1 to form an avoiding opening or a clamping opening so as to adapt to parts on the vehicle door; the slotting cutter 100 is adapted to the shape of the sound-absorbing cotton 1 of the vehicle door, which needs to be slotted, and is used for cutting the sound-absorbing cotton 1 into slots with different shapes at proper positions so as to adapt to various convex parts mounted on the vehicle door, thereby preventing the plane sound-absorbing cotton 1 from being jacked up by the convex parts and being incapable of being mounted.
The hot-pressing die comprises an outer edge sealing die 8, a hollow edge sealing die 9, a slotted edge sealing die 10 and a hot-pressing die 11, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the outer edge sealing die 8 is arranged on the inner side of the outer knife 80 and used for carrying out hot-pressing edge sealing on the periphery of the cut sound-absorbing cotton 1; as shown in fig. 5, the hollow edge sealing mold 9 is disposed at the inner side of the hollow knife 90, and is used for performing hot-pressing edge sealing on the edge of the hollow sound-absorbing cotton 1; as shown in fig. 6 and 7, the slitting and edge sealing dies 10 are respectively disposed on both sides of the slitting knife 100, and are used for respectively performing hot-pressing and edge sealing on both sides of the slit cut in the sound-absorbing cotton 1; the shape and the position of the hot stamping die 11 correspond to the shape and the position of characters 6 or patterns 5 needing to be hot stamped on the sound absorption cotton 1 of the car door, and the characters 6 and the patterns 5 are hot-stamped on the sound absorption cotton 1, such as trademarks, models, element positioning marks and the like, the element positioning marks can be determined according to the shapes of some elements with unobvious bulges on the car door, and when the sound absorption cotton 1 is installed, the elements just fall into dents formed by hot stamping.
The hot pressing die is made of stainless steel, aluminum alloy or glass fiber, and is required to have certain hardness and to resist certain high temperature. Peripheral banding mould 8, fretwork banding mould 9, the banding mould 10 of slotting are the vertical range upon range of board of five layers of slice, are peripheral banding slice board 81, fretwork banding slice board 91, the banding slice board 101 of slotting respectively, and the cotton 1 of inhaling of sound that needs the hot pressing of range upon range of edge and needs contacts, forms multichannel heat seal at the edge of inhaling the cotton 1 of sound, and the heat-seal is effectual, and the edge is pleasing to the eye. The hot stamping die 11 is a single layer, and the thickness of the hot stamping die is determined according to actual requirements.
The above detailed description is specific to possible embodiments of the present invention, and the embodiments are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all equivalent implementations or modifications that do not depart from the scope of the present invention should be included within the scope of the present invention.

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1. The edge sealing device for the peripheral patterns of the sound-absorbing material is characterized by comprising an upper pressure plate and a lower pressure plate which are arranged oppositely from top to bottom, wherein the upper pressure plate is a hot template, a heating element is arranged in the upper pressure plate, the upper pressure plate is connected with a temperature sensor, and a driving device is further connected onto the upper pressure plate and used for driving the upper pressure plate to move downwards; the lower pressing plate comprises a fixing plate and a plurality of cutting knives and hot pressing dies which are fixed on the fixing plate, and the heights of the cutting knives and the hot pressing dies which protrude on the fixing plate are the same;
the cutting knife comprises a peripheral knife, a hollow knife and a slotting knife, and the peripheral knife is arranged on the fixing plate in a surrounding mode to form the shape of the outer contour of the sound-absorbing cotton of the car door; the hollow knife is positioned inside the peripheral knife and is enclosed into the shape of the part, which needs to be hollowed, on the sound-absorbing cotton of the car door, so that an avoiding opening or a clamping opening is formed on the sound-absorbing cotton; the slotting cutter is matched with the shape of the sound-absorbing cotton of the car door needing slotting and is used for cutting the sound-absorbing cotton into slots with different shapes at proper positions so as to avoid raised parts;
the hot-pressing die comprises an outer edge sealing die, a hollow edge sealing die, a slotted edge sealing die and a hot-stamping die, and the outer edge sealing die is arranged on the inner side of the outer knife and used for carrying out hot-pressing edge sealing on the periphery of the cut sound-absorbing cotton; the hollowed edge sealing die is arranged on the inner side of the hollowed knife and used for carrying out hot-pressing edge sealing on the edge of the hollowed sound-absorbing cotton; the slotting and edge sealing dies are respectively arranged on two sides of the slotting cutter and are used for respectively carrying out hot-pressing edge sealing on two sides of a slot cut on the sound-absorbing cotton; the shape and the position of the hot stamping die correspond to the shape and the position of characters or patterns needing to be hot stamped on the sound absorption cotton of the car door.
2. The edge banding device according to claim 1, wherein said hot press mold is made of stainless steel, aluminum alloy or fiberglass.
3. The edge sealing device for the peripheral patterns of the sound-absorbing material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the peripheral edge sealing die, the hollow edge sealing die and the slit edge sealing die are all multi-layer sheet-shaped vertically stacked plates, and the stacked edges are in contact with sound-absorbing cotton to be hot-pressed.
4. The edge banding device for the peripheral patterns of the sound-absorbing material as claimed in claim 3, wherein the peripheral edge banding die, the hollow edge banding die and the slit edge banding die are provided with five layers of sheet plates.
5. The edge banding device for sound absorption material peripheral patterns of claim 1, wherein said peripheral knife is rectangular in shape.
6. The edge sealing device for the peripheral patterns of the sound-absorbing materials according to claim 5, wherein the hollow knives are arranged at the left upper side of the rectangular peripheral knives, and the hollow knives are enclosed into a rectangular shape with round corners.
7. The edge sealing device for the peripheral patterns of the sound-absorbing materials as claimed in claim 6, wherein the slotting cutter is U-shaped, and a U-shaped sheet is processed on the sound-absorbing cotton to facilitate avoiding of parts protruding from the sound-absorbing cotton.
8. The edge banding device for the peripheral patterns of the sound-absorbing material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the distance between the hot pressing die and the cutting knife is 3-10 mm.
9. The edge banding device for sound absorption material peripheral patterns according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein a heating element is also arranged in the hot pressing die for processing thicker sound absorption cotton.
10. The sound-absorbing cotton for the vehicle door is characterized by being processed by the sound-absorbing material peripheral pattern edge sealing device according to any one of claims 1 to 9, and comprising a core layer and surface layers which are respectively positioned at the upper side and the lower side of the core layer, wherein the core layer contains chemical fibers, and the surface layers are non-woven fabrics; the sound-absorbing cotton is rectangular in outline, a hollowed-out area is arranged at the upper left corner of the rectangular sound-absorbing cotton, the hollowed-out area is rectangular with rounded corners, three U-shaped pieces formed by notches are arranged below the hollowed-out area, the positions and the sizes of the U-shaped pieces correspond to parts on a car door panel, and characters or/and patterns are further arranged on the sound-absorbing cotton; the edge of the upper opening of the sound-absorbing cotton is provided with a sealing area.
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