CN210709931U - Cantilever type synchronous buffer device - Google Patents
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The utility model belongs to the technical field of material belt conveying equipment, and provides a cantilever type synchronous buffering device, which comprises an installation wallboard, wherein a plurality of accessory material passing rollers are rotatably installed on the installation wallboard, a plurality of idler wheels are arranged on the accessory material passing rollers, and a space matched with the structure of a material belt accessory is arranged between the idler wheels; still slidable mounting has the removal mounting panel on the installation wallboard, rotates on the removal mounting panel and installs the buffering and crosses the material roller, and installs on the installation wallboard and be used for realizing removing mounting panel buffer adjustment's adjustment mechanism. The utility model discloses can realize the synchronous buffering to the material area that has the accessory structure, compensate the material area that intermittent motion produced and pile up, realize effectively buffering in the material area, ensure to take the processing of steady orderly in material, can not produce the influence such as tension change, deformation to the material area, in addition, increase the quantity of accessory punishment in advance roller and buffering punishment in advance roller, perhaps draw the distance of big upper and lower accessory punishment in advance roller and buffering punishment in advance roller, all can make the device buffer range bigger, and application speed scope is wideer.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a material area conveying equipment technical field especially relates to a synchronous buffer of cantilever type.
Background
In the material course of working, according to manufacturing procedure, have intermittent type nature feed processing and continuity feed processing usually, for the cooperation of guaranteeing intermittent type formula feed and at the uniform velocity feed, in the middle of intermittent type formula processing agency and at the uniform velocity processing agency, need increase one set of buffer and compensate the material area that produces when the intermittent type stops and pile up. Present buffer's defeated material roller face is mostly the plane, crosses the material and is regular material area such as pure paper or non-woven fabrics, can't cushion the material area that has other structure accessories (electrode buckle accessory etc. that pastes like medical detection), and in addition, present buffer, buffering stationarity is poor, easily leads to the material area to appear tension change, deformation etc. and the conveying speed scope that can cushion and can adapt to is little.
Therefore, develop the synchronous buffer of applicable multiple cantilever type that has accessory material area, not only have urgent research value, also have good economic benefits and industrial application potentiality, it is this the utility model discloses the power place and the basis that can accomplish.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the above-identified drawbacks of the prior art, the present inventors have conducted intensive studies and, after having paid a lot of creative efforts, have completed the present invention.
Particularly, the utility model discloses the technical problem that solve is: the utility model provides a synchronous buffer of cantilever type to solve present buffer gear can't cushion the material area that has other structure accessories, and the technical problem that the cushioning range is little.
In order to solve the technical problem, the technical scheme of the utility model is that:
a cantilever type synchronous buffer device comprises an installation wallboard, wherein a plurality of accessory material passing rollers are rotatably installed on the installation wallboard, a plurality of rollers are arranged on the accessory material passing rollers, and a distance matched with a material belt accessory structure is formed among the rollers;
still slidable mounting has the removal mounting panel on the installation wallboard, it has the buffering to cross the material roller to rotate to install on the removal mounting panel, just install on the installation wallboard and be used for realizing remove mounting panel buffering adjustment's adjustment mechanism.
As an improved technical scheme, the accessory material passing roller comprises a rotating shaft mounting seat, a roller shaft and a plurality of rollers, the rotating shaft mounting seat is fixedly mounted on the mounting wallboard, the roller shaft is rotatably mounted in the rotating shaft mounting seat, and the rollers are provided with a plurality of rollers which are slidably mounted on the roller shaft and are fixedly positioned by positioning bolts.
As an improved technical scheme, the buffering material passing roller comprises a buffering roller mounting seat and a rubber roller, wherein the buffering roller mounting seat is fixedly mounted on the movable mounting plate, and the rubber roller is rotatably mounted on the buffering roller mounting seat.
As a modified technical scheme, fixed mounting has two parallel arrangement's guide rail on the installation wallboard, slidable mounting has the slider on the guide rail, the slider with remove mounting panel fixed connection, remove the mounting panel and pass through the guide rail slider slidable mounting in on the installation wallboard.
As an improved technical scheme, the adjusting mechanism comprises a pulley, a connecting steel wire rope, a weight hanger and a balancing weight, a pulley mounting seat is fixedly mounted on the mounting wallboard, the pulley is rotatably mounted on the pulley mounting seat, the connecting steel wire rope is wound on the pulley, one end of the connecting steel wire rope is connected with the movable mounting plate, the weight hanger is hung at the other end of the connecting steel wire rope, and the balancing weight is placed on the weight hanger.
As an improved technical scheme, a bayonet is formed in the balancing weight, and the balancing weight is placed on the weight hanger through the bayonet.
As an improved technical scheme, one side of the movable mounting plate is also provided with a linear displacement sensor, and the linear displacement sensor is arranged in parallel with the guide rail and is connected with the movable mounting plate.
As an improved technical scheme, the linear displacement sensor is a sliding block type linear displacement sensor, a connecting angle iron is fixedly mounted on the displacement mounting plate, a pull rod is arranged between the connecting angle iron and the linear displacement sensor, one end of the pull rod is hinged and mounted through a bolt, and the other end of the pull rod is connected with the linear displacement sensor.
As an improved technical scheme, the installation wallboard is rotatably provided with guide conveying rollers, and a deviation rectifying mechanism is arranged between the guide conveying rollers.
As an improved technical scheme, the installation wallboard includes first wallboard and fixed mounting in second wallboard on the first wallboard, remove mounting panel slidable mounting in on the first wallboard, with the second wallboard corresponds the setting, and along the orientation/keep away from the direction of second wallboard slides the setting, the material roller is crossed to the accessory rotate install in on the second wallboard.
After the technical scheme is adopted, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that:
(1) this synchronous buffer of cantilever type that is equipped with, the material area frame is around passing the material roller in the accessory and buffering to transport between the material roller, because the structure of accessory material roller, the accessory face frame in material area is around passing the material roller in the accessory, the accessory is located between the gyro wheel, can not produce tension change to the material area, influence such as deformation, when the device the place ahead or rear process carry out intermittent motion, the elasticity degree that buffering roll body can be according to the material area, the automatically regulated of position about realizing, compensate the material area that intermittent motion produced and pile up, realize the effective buffering in material area, ensure the processing to material area steady order, furthermore, increase the quantity that the material roller was crossed to accessory and buffering, perhaps draw the distance of material roller and buffering material roller about the square accessory greatly, all can make the device buffer range bigger, application speed scope is wideer.
(2) The accessory material passing roller structure is provided, the roller is arranged on the roller shaft in a sliding mode and is fixed in a positioning mode, the distance between the rollers can be adjusted according to different accessory structures on the material belt, the accessory material passing roller structure can be suitable for synchronous buffering of various material belt products, and the universality is high.
(3) Because the accessory top on the material area is mostly the plane, this buffering that is equipped with crosses material roller structure, crosses the material part and adopts the rubber roll, and it has certain elasticity, can realize the smooth transition to the accessory top, and then realizes the smooth transition at the material area back and does not cause the material tension to change.
(4) This adjustment mechanism who is equipped with can offset the gravity or the sliding resistance of buffering material roller, removal mounting bracket, slider and guide rail through the balancing weight for the synchronous buffer operation of whole equipment is more steady, can carry out the adaptation according to material tension or sliding member gravity increase and decrease balancing weight and adjust, and the balancing weight is hung in the stone roller through the bayonet socket and is placed, and loading and unloading are convenient.
(5) The linear displacement sensor arranged on one side of the movable mounting plate can detect the displacement of the movable mounting plate in real time, namely, the displacement detection of the buffer material passing roller is realized, and signal feedback is carried out.
(6) The correction mechanism who installs on the installation wallboard can realize the correction in material area, ensures that the material area does not take place the skew.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the embodiments or the technical solutions in the prior art will be briefly described below. Throughout the drawings, like elements or portions are generally identified by like reference numerals. In the drawings, elements or portions are not necessarily drawn to scale.
Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic perspective view of the present invention;
fig. 3 is another schematic perspective view of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view of the buffering portion of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic structural view of the accessory feed roller of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a schematic structural view of the buffer material passing roller of the present invention;
fig. 7 is a schematic structural view of the material belt conveying of the present invention;
reference numerals: 1-a first wall panel; 2-a second wall panel; 3-accessory passing roller; 301-rotating shaft mounting base; 302-roller shaft; 303-a roller; 4-a guide rail; 5-a slide block; 6-moving the mounting plate; 7-buffering the material passing roller; 701-a buffer roller mounting seat; 702-a rubber roller; 8-a pulley mounting seat; 9-a pulley; 10-connecting a steel wire rope; 11-hanging; 12-a counterweight block; 1201-bayonet; 13-a linear displacement sensor; 14-connecting angle iron; 15-a pull rod; 16-guide conveying rollers; 17-a deviation rectifying mechanism; 18-material belt.
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The invention will be further described with reference to specific examples. The use and purpose of these exemplary embodiments are to illustrate the invention, not to limit the scope of the invention in any way, and not to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
As shown in fig. 1 to 4, the present embodiment provides a cantilever type synchronous buffering device, which is installed between an intermittent feeding processing device and a uniform feeding processing device, and includes an installation wall plate, on which a plurality of accessory material passing rollers 3 are rotatably installed, the accessory material passing rollers 3 are provided with a plurality of rollers 303, and a space between the plurality of rollers 303 is adapted to a structure of accessories of a material belt 18; still slidable mounting has removal mounting panel 6 on the installation wallboard, and it has buffering to cross material roller 7 to rotate to install on the removal mounting panel 6, and installs the adjustment mechanism who is used for realizing removing 6 buffer adjustments of mounting panel on the installation wallboard.
In the embodiment, the mounting wall plate comprises a first wall plate 1 and a second wall plate 2 fixedly mounted on the first wall plate 1, the movable mounting plate 6 is slidably mounted on the first wall plate 1, is arranged corresponding to the second wall plate 2, and is slidably arranged along the direction towards/away from the second wall plate 2, and the accessory material passing roller 3 is rotatably mounted on the second wall plate 2; of course, the installation wall plate can also be an integrally formed structure, and the installation and the fixation on the equipment rack are realized through the installation wall plate.
As shown in fig. 5, the accessory material passing roller 3 comprises a rotating shaft mounting seat 301, a plurality of roller shafts 302 and a plurality of rollers 303, wherein the rotating shaft mounting seat 301 is fixedly mounted on the mounting wall plate, the roller shafts 302 are rotatably mounted in the rotating shaft mounting seat 301, the plurality of rollers 303 are arranged, and the plurality of rollers 303 are slidably mounted on the roller shafts 302 and are positioned and fixed by positioning bolts; according to the accessory material passing roller 3 structure, the rollers 303 are arranged on the roller shafts 302 in a sliding mode and are positioned and fixed, the distance between the rollers 303 can be adjusted according to different accessory structures on the material belt 18, the accessory material passing roller can be suitable for synchronous buffering of various material belt 18 products, and the universality is high.
In order to facilitate the sliding adjustment and positioning fixation of the roller 303 on the roller shaft 302, in this embodiment, a sliding groove is formed on the roller shaft 302, a protrusion matched with the sliding groove is formed on the roller 303, and the roller 303 is slidably mounted on the roller shaft 302 through the protrusion and sliding groove structure, so that the sliding adjustment is stable, the orientation of the positioning bolts on each roller 303 for positioning is consistent, and convenience is provided for the adjustment and positioning operation of the roller 303.
As shown in fig. 6, the buffer material passing roller 7 comprises a buffer roller mounting seat 701 and a rubber roller 702, the buffer roller mounting seat 701 is fixedly mounted on the movable mounting plate 6, and the rubber roller 702 is rotatably mounted on the buffer roller mounting seat 701; because the accessory top on material area 18 is mostly the plane, this buffering that is equipped with crosses material roller 7 structure, the material part of crossing adopts rubber roll 702, and it has certain elasticity, can realize the smooth transition to the accessory top, and then realizes the smooth transition at the back of material area 18 and does not cause the material tension to change.
As shown in fig. 2 and 4, two parallel guide rails 4 are fixedly mounted on the mounting wall board, a sliding block 5 is slidably mounted on the guide rails 4, the sliding block 5 is fixedly connected with a movable mounting plate 6, and the movable mounting plate 6 is slidably mounted on the mounting wall board through the guide rails 4 and the sliding block 5.
The adjusting mechanism comprises a pulley 9, a connecting steel wire rope 10, a weight hanger 11 and a balancing weight 12, a pulley mounting seat 8 is fixedly mounted on the mounting wallboard, the pulley 9 is rotatably mounted on the pulley mounting seat 8, the connecting steel wire rope 10 is wound on the pulley 9 in a frame mode, one end of the connecting steel wire rope 10 is connected with the movable mounting plate 6, the weight hanger 11 is hung at the other end of the connecting steel wire rope 10, and the balancing weight 12 is placed on the weight hanger 11; this adjustment mechanism who is equipped with can offset the gravity or the sliding resistance of buffering material roller 7, removal mounting bracket, slider 5 and guide rail 4 through balancing weight 12 for the synchronous buffer operation of whole equipment is more steady, can carry out the adaptation according to 18 tension in material area or slip component gravity increase and decrease balancing weight 12 and adjust.
In this embodiment, a bayonet 1201 is provided on the weight 12, and the weight 12 is placed on the weight hanger 11 through the bayonet 1201, so that the loading and unloading are convenient.
A linear displacement sensor 13 is also arranged on one side of the movable mounting plate 6, and the linear displacement sensor 13 is arranged in parallel with the guide rail 4 and is connected with the movable mounting plate 6; the linear displacement sensor 13 is arranged to detect the displacement of the movable mounting plate 6 in real time, namely, the displacement detection of the buffer material passing roller 7 is realized, and signal feedback is carried out, and a servo system of a later process can ensure that the uniform speed operation of the material belt 18 is realized according to the feedback signal.
In this embodiment, linear displacement sensor 13 chooses for use slider formula linear displacement sensor, and fixed mounting has connection angle bar 14 on the displacement mounting panel, connects and is equipped with pull rod 15 between angle bar 14 and linear displacement sensor 13, and 15 one ends of pull rod are connected articulated erection joint through bolt and connection, and the other end and the linear displacement sensor 13 of pull rod 15 are connected.
As shown in fig. 1, 2 and 3, the wall board is further rotatably mounted with guide conveying rollers 16, the guide conveying rollers 16 perform a function of conveying the material tape 18 in a turning manner, a deviation correcting mechanism 17 is disposed between the guide conveying rollers 16, the deviation correcting mechanism 17 can correct the material tape 18 and ensure that the material tape 18 does not deviate, in this embodiment, the structure of the guide conveying rollers 16 is the same as the structure of the accessory material passing roller 3 or the buffer material passing roller 7 according to the difference of the winding surface of the material tape 18, and the deviation correcting mechanism 17 is the same as that of the existing commercially available buffer device, and the deviation correcting mechanism 17 is a common technical knowledge known by those skilled in the art, and therefore will not be described herein again.
When the shape of a product changes, the installation positions of the accessory feeding roller 3 and the buffering feeding roller 7 can be interchanged so as to meet the requirements of the accessory shapes on various material belts 18; the device can have a larger buffering range and a wider application speed range by increasing the number of the accessory feeding rollers 3 and the buffering feeding rollers 7 or increasing the distance between the accessory feeding rollers 3 and the buffering feeding rollers 7 above and below.
This synchronous buffer of cantilever type based on above-mentioned structure, the debugging is convenient, the adaptation has the material area 18 buffering of various accessory structures, as shown in fig. 7, material area 18 erects around passing between accessory material roller 3 and buffering material roller 7 and carries, because the structure of accessory material roller 3, the accessory face of material area 18 erects around passing on accessory material roller 3, the accessory is located between gyro wheel 303, can not produce tension change to material area 18, influence such as deformation, when the device the place ahead or the rear process carries out intermittent motion, the elasticity degree that the buffering roll body can be according to material area 18, realize the automatically regulated of position from top to bottom, it piles up to compensate material area 18 that intermittent motion produced, realize material area 18 effectively cushions, ensure the processing of 18 steady order in material area.
It should be understood that these examples are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Furthermore, it should be understood that various changes, modifications and/or alterations to the present invention may be made by those skilled in the art after reading the technical disclosure of the present invention, and all such equivalents may fall within the scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims.
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1. A cantilever type synchronous buffer device is characterized in that: the material conveying device comprises a mounting wallboard, wherein a plurality of accessory material conveying rollers are rotatably mounted on the mounting wallboard, a plurality of rollers are arranged on the accessory material conveying rollers, and a distance matched with a material belt accessory structure is formed among the rollers;
still slidable mounting has the removal mounting panel on the installation wallboard, it has the buffering to cross the material roller to rotate to install on the removal mounting panel, just install on the installation wallboard and be used for realizing remove mounting panel buffering adjustment's adjustment mechanism.
2. The cantilevered synchronous draft gear according to claim 1, wherein: the accessory material passing roller comprises a rotating shaft mounting seat, a roller shaft and a roller, wherein the rotating shaft mounting seat is fixedly mounted on the mounting wallboard, the roller shaft is rotatably mounted in the rotating shaft mounting seat, the roller is provided with a plurality of rollers, the rollers are slidably mounted on the roller shaft and are fixedly positioned by positioning bolts.
3. The cantilevered synchronous draft gear according to claim 2, wherein: the buffering material passing roller comprises a buffering roller mounting seat and a rubber roller, the buffering roller mounting seat is fixedly mounted on the movable mounting plate, and the rubber roller is rotatably mounted on the buffering roller mounting seat.
4. The cantilevered synchronous draft gear according to claim 3, wherein: the utility model discloses a portable mobile terminal, including installation wallboard, slider, guide rail, slider, movable mounting panel fixed connection, fixed mounting has two parallel arrangement's guide rail on the installation wallboard, slidable mounting has the slider on the guide rail, the slider with movable mounting panel fixed connection, movable mounting panel passes through the guide rail slider slidable mounting in on the installation wallboard.
5. The cantilevered synchronous draft gear according to claim 4, wherein: the adjusting mechanism comprises a pulley, a connecting steel wire rope, a weight hanger and a balancing weight, a pulley mounting seat is fixedly mounted on the mounting wallboard, the pulley is rotatably mounted on the pulley mounting seat, the connecting steel wire rope is wound on the pulley, one end of the connecting steel wire rope is connected with the movable mounting plate, the weight hanger is hung at the other end of the connecting steel wire rope, and the balancing weight is placed on the weight hanger.
6. The cantilevered synchronous draft gear according to claim 5, wherein: the counterweight block is provided with a bayonet and is placed on the weight hanger through the bayonet.
7. The cantilevered synchronous draft gear according to any of claims 4 to 6, wherein: one side of the movable mounting plate is also provided with a linear displacement sensor, and the linear displacement sensor is arranged in parallel with the guide rail and connected with the movable mounting plate.
8. The cantilevered synchronous draft gear according to claim 7, wherein: the linear displacement sensor is a slider type linear displacement sensor, a connecting angle iron is fixedly mounted on the displacement mounting plate, a pull rod is arranged between the connecting angle iron and the linear displacement sensor, one end of the pull rod is connected with the connecting hinged mounting connection through a bolt, and the other end of the pull rod is connected with the linear displacement sensor.
9. The cantilevered synchronous draft gear according to claim 8, wherein: the installation wallboard is provided with guide conveying rollers in a rotating mode, and a deviation rectifying mechanism is arranged between the guide conveying rollers.
10. The cantilevered synchronous draft gear according to claim 1, wherein: the installation wallboard includes first wallboard and fixed mounting in second wallboard on the first wallboard, remove mounting panel slidable mounting in on the first wallboard, with the second wallboard corresponds the setting, and follows orientation/keep away from the direction of second wallboard slides the setting, the material roller is crossed to the accessory rotate install in on the second wallboard.
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