CN210888089U - Distributing rod for concrete construction - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a distributing rod that concrete construction used, concretely relates to distributing rod equipment field, including the distributing rod body, the bottom of distributing rod body is equipped with drive assembly, drive assembly's surface is equipped with a supporting bench, a supporting bench's middle part fixedly connected with supporting leg, and the supporting leg runs through a supporting bench's upper and lower both ends, the quantity of supporting leg is four, the surface of supporting leg is equipped with movable sleeve, movable sleeve pegs graft with the surface activity of supporting leg. The utility model discloses a fixed cover is injectd and then is locked the cloth pole body to the angle of universal wheel, reaches the purpose of fixed cloth pole body, through fixed cover rebound, until universal wheel and fixed cover separation, can rotate through the universal wheel through removing brace table and drive assembly this moment and make and remove the cloth pole body to reach the purpose of being convenient for remove, compare with prior art, be convenient for remove and fix.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a cloth pole equipment field, more specifically says, the utility model relates to a cloth pole that concrete construction used.
Background
Along with the rapid development of economy in China, the large-scale and complicated building structures put forward higher and higher requirements on concrete machinery, the concrete distributing rod is end equipment for pumping concrete and is used for conveying the concrete pumped by the pump into a template of a member to be poured through a pipeline, the concrete distributing rod is a novel product developed and developed for expanding the concrete pouring range and improving the mechanization level of pumping construction, the concrete distributing rod is matched equipment of a concrete conveying pump and is connected with a wedding day conveying pump, the pumping range of the concrete pump is expanded, the construction efficiency is improved, and the labor intensity is reduced.
However, when the device is actually used, the coverage radius of the device is limited, and the device needs to be moved to a certain extent during working, but the device is too large, and can only be moved by depending on devices such as a tower crane, and the like, which is troublesome.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
In order to overcome prior art's above-mentioned defect, the embodiment of the utility model provides a cloth pole that concrete construction used, breach through semi-circular tube structure in the fixed cover is injectd the angle of universal wheel, make four universal wheels unable rotations, thereby lock the position of cloth pole body, and pass through half funnel type structure when fixed cover, increase with the area of contact on ground and auxiliary supporting leg and the support of universal wheel to cloth pole body, reach the purpose of fixed cloth pole body, through fixed cover rebound, separate until universal wheel and fixed cover, can rotate through the universal wheel through removing brace table and drive assembly this moment and make removal cloth pole body, thereby reach the purpose of being convenient for to remove, compared with the prior art, be convenient for remove and fix, in order to solve the problem that proposes among the above-mentioned background art.
In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a following technical scheme: a distributing rod for concrete construction comprises a distributing rod body, wherein a driving assembly is arranged at the bottom of the distributing rod body, a supporting platform is arranged on the surface of the driving component, a supporting leg is fixedly connected with the middle part of the supporting platform, the supporting legs penetrate through the upper end and the lower end of the supporting platform, the number of the supporting legs is four, the surfaces of the supporting legs are provided with movable sleeves, the movable sleeve is movably inserted with the surface of the supporting leg and is positioned below the supporting platform, the bottom of the movable sleeve is fixedly connected with a fixed cover, one end of the fixed cover is of a half-funnel-shaped structure, the other end of the fixed cover is a semicircular pipe structure, the middle part of the semicircular pipe structure of the fixed cover is provided with a gap, the bottom of the supporting leg is fixedly connected with universal wheels, the width of each universal wheel is equal to that of a notch in the corresponding fixed cover, and connecting lines between oblique opposite angles of the notches in the corresponding fixed covers are perpendicular to each other.
In a preferred embodiment, the surface of the distributing rod body is fixedly connected with two fixing rods, and the fixing rods are fixedly connected to the top of the supporting table, and the two fixing rods are respectively and fixedly connected to two ends of the distributing rod body.
In a preferred embodiment, a damping spring is fixedly connected to the bottom of the support platform corresponding to the support leg, a movable ring is fixedly connected to the other end of the damping spring, and the damping spring and the movable ring are movably inserted into the surface of the support leg.
In a preferred embodiment, a limiting groove is formed in the surface of the supporting leg, a limiting block is movably connected to the inner wall of the limiting groove, and the limiting block is fixedly connected to the inner wall of the movable sleeve.
In a preferred embodiment, the driving assembly includes a fixed base, the fixed base is fixedly connected to the bottom of the distributing rod body, and the supporting platform is fixedly connected to the surface of the fixed base, and the fixed base is of an internal hollow structure.
In a preferred embodiment, the inner wall of the fixed base is provided with a driving worm, one end of the driving worm is rotatably connected with the middle part of the rear side wall of the fixed base through a bearing, the surface of the driving worm is provided with a worm wheel, the worm wheel is meshed with the surface of the driving worm, the middle part of the worm wheel is fixedly connected with a screw rod, the screw rod is rotatably connected with the top side wall and the bottom side wall of the fixed base through bearings, and the screw rod penetrates through and extends to the bottom of the fixed base.
In a preferred embodiment, a lifting frame is arranged on the surface of the screw rod, a threaded through hole is formed in the top of the lifting frame, the inner wall of the threaded through hole is in threaded connection with the surface of the screw rod, a connecting rod is fixedly connected to the surface of the lifting frame, one end, far away from the lifting frame, of the connecting rod is fixedly connected to the surface of a half-funnel-shaped structure in the fixed cover, the number of the turbines is two, and the two turbines are symmetrically arranged about a vertical axis of the circle center of the driving worm.
In a preferred embodiment, a rhombic telescopic rod is fixedly connected to the positive end of the driving worm, the rhombic telescopic rod is rotatably connected with the middle part of the front side wall of the fixing base through a bearing, a hand wheel is fixedly connected to the positive end of the rhombic telescopic rod, and a positioning column is fixedly connected to the positive end of the fixing base corresponding to the hand wheel.
The utility model discloses a technological effect and advantage:
1. the angle of the universal wheels is limited through a notch of a semicircular pipe structure in the fixed cover, so that the four universal wheels cannot rotate, the position of the distributing rod body is locked, when the fixed cover passes through a half-funnel-shaped structure, the contact area with the ground is increased, and the supporting legs and the universal wheels support the distributing rod body, so that the aim of fixing the distributing rod body is fulfilled, the fixed cover moves upwards until the universal wheels are separated from the fixed cover, at the moment, the distributing rod body can be moved through the rotation of the universal wheels by moving the supporting table and the driving assembly, so that the aim of facilitating the movement is fulfilled, and compared with the prior art, the distributing rod is convenient to move and fix;
2. through rotating the hand wheel, and make the hand wheel pass through the rhombus telescopic link and drive the drive worm and rotate, thereby make the drive worm drive two turbines syntropy and rotate, two turbines drive two lead screws syntropy respectively and rotate, make the surface of lead screw and the screw through-hole threaded connection of hoisting frame, thereby make two lead screws drive the hoisting frame and reciprocate, and make the hoisting frame drive fixed cover through the connecting rod and reciprocate, thereby provide power for the removal of fixed cover, compare with prior art, stable in structure.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic view of the overall structure of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a front sectional view of the supporting leg structure of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the hoisting frame structure of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the driving assembly structure of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is a front sectional view of the driving assembly of the present invention.
Fig. 6 is a schematic view of the structure of the diamond-shaped telescopic rod of the present invention.
The reference signs are: 1. a distributing rod body; 2. a drive assembly; 3. a support table; 4. supporting legs; 5. an active cannula; 6. a fixed cover; 7. a universal wheel; 8. a damping spring; 9. a movable ring; 10. a limiting block; 11. a limiting groove; 12. fixing the rod; 21. a fixed base; 22. a drive worm; 23. a turbine; 24. a screw rod; 25. a hoisting frame; 26. a connecting rod; 27. a diamond-shaped telescopic rod; 28. a hand wheel; 29. and a positioning column.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative work belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
As shown in figures 1-3, the utility model provides a distributing rod for concrete construction, which comprises a distributing rod body 1, wherein the bottom of the distributing rod body 1 is provided with a driving component 2, the surface of the driving component 2 is provided with a supporting platform 3, the middle part of the supporting platform 3 is fixedly connected with supporting legs 4, the supporting legs 4 penetrate through the upper end and the lower end of the supporting platform 3, the number of the supporting legs 4 is four, the surface of the supporting legs 4 is provided with a movable sleeve 5, the movable sleeve 5 is movably inserted with the surface of the supporting legs 4, the movable sleeve 5 is positioned below the supporting platform 3, the bottom of the movable sleeve 5 is fixedly connected with a fixed cover 6, one end of the fixed cover 6 is of a half-funnel-shaped structure, the other end of the fixed cover 6 is of a semicircular pipe structure, the middle part of the semicircular pipe structure of the fixed cover 6 is provided with a notch, the bottom of the supporting legs 4, the width of the universal wheel 7 is equal to that of the notches in the fixed covers 6, and connecting lines between oblique opposite angles of the notches in the four fixed covers 6 are mutually vertical;
the surface of the distributing rod body 1 is fixedly connected with two fixing rods 12, the fixing rods 12 are fixedly connected to the top of the supporting table 3, and the two fixing rods 12 are respectively fixedly connected to two ends of the distributing rod body 1;
the bottom of the support table 3 corresponding to the support leg 4 is fixedly connected with a damping spring 8, the other end of the damping spring 8 is fixedly connected with a movable ring 9, and the damping spring 8 and the movable ring 9 are movably inserted on the surface of the support leg 4;
limiting groove 11 has been seted up on the surface of supporting leg 4, the inner wall swing joint of limiting groove 11 has stopper 10, stopper 10 fixed connection is at the inner wall of movable sleeve 5.
The implementation mode is specifically as follows: when the distributing rod body 1 is fixed, the fixed cover 6 moves downwards, the movable sleeve 5 is matched with the limiting block 10 to play a role in guiding the downward movement of the fixed cover 6, one end of the universal wheel 7 can enter a notch of a semi-circular tube structure in the fixed cover 6 when the fixed cover 6 descends by rotating the universal wheel 7, the angle of the universal wheel 7 is limited by the notch of the semi-circular tube structure in the fixed cover 6, connecting lines between oblique opposite angles of the notches in the four fixed covers 6 are mutually vertical, the connecting lines between the oblique opposite angles of the four universal wheels 7 are mutually vertical, so that the universal wheel 7 cannot rotate, the position of the distributing rod body 1 is locked, when the bottom of the fixed cover 6 is in contact with the ground, the contact area with the ground is increased by a half-funnel-shaped structure in the fixed cover 6, and the supporting legs 6 are used for assisting 4 and the universal wheel 7 to support the distributing rod body 1, reach the purpose of fixed cloth rod body 1, when needs drive cloth rod body 1 and remove, through upwards moving fixed cover 6, until universal wheel 7 and the separation of fixed cover 6, make the turned angle of universal wheel 7 no longer injectd, can rotate through universal wheel 7 through removing brace table 3 and drive assembly 2 this moment and make and remove cloth rod body 1, thereby reach the purpose of being convenient for to remove, the removal of being not convenient for and the fixed problem that exists among the prior art have specifically been solved to this embodiment.
As shown in fig. 1-5, the driving assembly 2 includes a fixed base 21, the fixed base 21 is fixedly connected to the bottom of the distributing rod body 1, the supporting table 3 is fixedly connected to the surface of the fixed base 21, and the fixed base 21 has an internal hollow structure;
the inner wall of the fixed base 21 is provided with a driving worm 22, one end of the driving worm 22 is rotatably connected with the middle part of the rear side wall of the fixed base 21 through a bearing, the surface of the driving worm 22 is provided with a worm wheel 23, the worm wheel 23 is meshed with the surface of the driving worm 22, the middle part of the worm wheel 23 is fixedly connected with a screw rod 24, the screw rod 24 is rotatably connected with the top side wall and the bottom side wall of the fixed base 21 through bearings, and the screw rod 24 penetrates through and extends to the bottom of the fixed base 21;
a lifting frame 25 is arranged on the surface of the screw rod 24, a threaded through hole is formed in the top of the lifting frame 25, the inner wall of the threaded through hole is in threaded connection with the surface of the screw rod 24, a connecting rod 26 is fixedly connected to the surface of the lifting frame 25, one end, far away from the lifting frame 25, of the connecting rod 26 is fixedly connected to the surface of a half-funnel-shaped structure in the fixed cover 6, the number of the turbines 23 is two, and the two turbines 23 are symmetrically arranged about a vertical axis of the circle center of the driving worm 22;
the positive end fixedly connected with rhombus telescopic link 27 of drive worm 22, rhombus telescopic link 27 passes through the bearing and is connected with the middle part rotation of fixed baseplate 21 preceding lateral wall, the positive end fixedly connected with hand wheel 28 of rhombus telescopic link 27, the positive end fixedly connected with reference column 29 of the corresponding hand wheel 28 of fixed baseplate 21.
The implementation mode is specifically as follows: by moving the hand wheel 28 to the positive end, and causing the diamond-shaped telescopic rod 27 to be stretched, at this time, the positioning column 29 is separated from the middle part of the hand wheel 28, the hand wheel 28 is rotated, and the hand wheel 28 drives the driving worm 22 to rotate through the diamond-shaped telescopic rod 27, so that the driving worm 22 drives the two worm gears 23 to rotate in the same direction, the two worm gears 23 respectively drive the two lead screws 24 to rotate in the same direction, so that the surface of the lead screw 24 is in threaded connection with the threaded through hole of the lifting frame 25, so that the two lead screws 24 drive the lifting frame 25 to move up and down, and the lifting frame 25 drives the fixed cover 6 to move up and down through the connecting rod 26, so as to provide power for the movement of the fixed cover 6, when the fixed cover 6 is moved to the target height, the positioning column 29 is inserted into the middle part of the hand wheel, therefore, the purpose of stable structure is achieved, and the embodiment specifically solves the problem of unstable structure in the prior art.
The utility model discloses the theory of operation:
referring to the attached drawings 1-3 of the specification, the angles of the universal wheels 7 are limited through the notches of the semi-circular tube structures in the fixing cover 6, so that the four universal wheels 7 cannot rotate, the position of the distributing rod body 1 is locked, when the fixing cover 6 passes through a semi-funnel-shaped structure, the contact area with the ground is increased, and the distributing rod body 1 is supported by the auxiliary supporting legs 4 and the universal wheels 7, so that the aim of fixing the distributing rod body 1 is fulfilled, the fixing cover 6 moves upwards until the universal wheels 7 are separated from the fixing cover 6, and at the moment, the distributing rod body 1 can be moved through the rotation of the universal wheels 7 by moving the supporting table 3 and the driving assembly 2, so that the aim of facilitating the movement is fulfilled;
referring to the attached drawings 1-5 of the specification, by rotating the hand wheel 28 and enabling the hand wheel 28 to drive the driving worm 22 to rotate through the diamond-shaped telescopic rod 27, the driving worm 22 drives the two worm gears 23 to rotate in the same direction, the two worm gears 23 respectively drive the two lead screws 24 to rotate in the same direction, the surface of each lead screw 24 is in threaded connection with the threaded through hole of the lifting frame 25, the two lead screws 24 drive the lifting frame 25 to move up and down, the lifting frame 25 drives the fixing cover 6 to move up and down through the connecting rod 26, and power is provided for the movement of the fixing cover 6.
The points to be finally explained are: first, in the description of the present application, it should be noted that, unless otherwise specified and limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" should be understood broadly, and may be a mechanical connection or an electrical connection, or a communication between two elements, and may be a direct connection, and "upper," "lower," "left," and "right" are only used to indicate a relative positional relationship, and when the absolute position of the object to be described is changed, the relative positional relationship may be changed;
secondly, the method comprises the following steps: in the drawings of the disclosed embodiments of the present invention, only the structures related to the disclosed embodiments are referred to, and other structures can refer to the common design, and under the condition of no conflict, the same embodiment and different embodiments of the present invention can be combined with each other;
and finally: the above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention and should not be taken as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.
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1. The utility model provides a distributing rod that concrete construction used, includes distributing rod body (1), its characterized in that: the cloth rod comprises a cloth rod body (1), wherein a driving assembly (2) is arranged at the bottom of the cloth rod body (1), a supporting table (3) is arranged on the surface of the driving assembly (2), supporting legs (4) are fixedly connected to the middle of the supporting table (3), the supporting legs (4) penetrate through the upper end and the lower end of the supporting table (3), the number of the supporting legs (4) is four, a movable sleeve (5) is arranged on the surface of each supporting leg (4), the movable sleeve (5) is movably inserted into the surface of each supporting leg (4), the movable sleeve (5) is located below the supporting table (3), a fixed cover (6) is fixedly connected to the bottom of each movable sleeve (5), one end of each fixed cover (6) is of a half-funnel-shaped structure, the other end of each fixed cover (6) is of a semicircular tube structure, a notch is formed in the middle of the semicircular tube structure of each fixed cover (6), and universal, the width of the universal wheel (7) is equal to that of the notches in the fixed covers (6), and connecting lines between oblique opposite angles of the notches in the four fixed covers (6) are perpendicular to each other.
2. The distributing rod for concrete construction according to claim 1, wherein: the fixed surface of distributing boom body (1) is connected with dead lever (12), and dead lever (12) fixed connection is at the top of brace table (3), the quantity of dead lever (12) is two, and two dead levers (12) are fixed connection respectively at the both ends of distributing boom body (1).
3. The distributing rod for concrete construction according to claim 1, wherein: the bottom of the supporting leg (4) corresponding to the supporting table (3) is fixedly connected with a damping spring (8), the other end of the damping spring (8) is fixedly connected with a movable ring (9), and the damping spring (8) and the movable ring (9) are movably inserted into the surface of the supporting leg (4).
4. The distributing rod for concrete construction according to claim 1, wherein: spacing groove (11) have been seted up on the surface of supporting leg (4), the inner wall swing joint of spacing groove (11) has stopper (10), stopper (10) fixed connection is at the inner wall of movable sleeve pipe (5).
5. The distributing rod for concrete construction according to claim 1, wherein: drive assembly (2) are including fixed baseplate (21), fixed baseplate (21) fixed connection is in the bottom of cloth pole body (1), and brace table (3) fixed connection is on the surface of fixed baseplate (21), fixed baseplate (21) are inside hollow structure.
6. The distributing rod for concrete construction according to claim 5, wherein: the inner wall of unable adjustment base (21) is equipped with drive worm (22), the middle part of lateral wall rotates with unable adjustment base (21) rear side through the bearing and is connected in the one end of drive worm (22), the surface of drive worm (22) is equipped with turbine (23), the surface meshing of turbine (23) and drive worm (22), the middle part fixedly connected with lead screw (24) of turbine (23), lead screw (24) are all rotated with the end lateral wall through the top lateral wall of bearing and unable adjustment base (21) and are connected, and lead screw (24) run through and extend to the bottom of unable adjustment base (21).
7. The distributing rod for concrete construction according to claim 6, wherein: the surface of lead screw (24) is equipped with hoisting frame (25), the screw thread through-hole has been seted up at the top of hoisting frame (25), the inner wall of screw thread through-hole and the surperficial threaded connection of lead screw (24), the fixed surface of hoisting frame (25) is connected with connecting rod (26), the one end fixed connection that hoisting frame (25) were kept away from in connecting rod (26) is on the surface of half funnel type structure in fixed cover (6), the quantity of turbine (23) is two, and two turbine (23) are symmetry axisymmetric setting about the vertical axis of drive worm (22) centre of a circle.
8. The distributing rod for concrete construction according to claim 6, wherein: positive end fixedly connected with rhombus telescopic link (27) of drive worm (22), the middle part of lateral wall is rotated through bearing and fixed baseplate (21) preceding to rhombus telescopic link (27) and is connected, the positive end fixedly connected with hand wheel (28) of rhombus telescopic link (27), the positive end fixedly connected with reference column (29) of the corresponding hand wheel (28) of fixed baseplate (21).
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