CN210933976U - Sewage treatment filter screen structure convenient to clearance - Google Patents

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CN210933976U
CN210933976U CN201921739987.3U CN201921739987U CN210933976U CN 210933976 U CN210933976 U CN 210933976U CN 201921739987 U CN201921739987 U CN 201921739987U CN 210933976 U CN210933976 U CN 210933976U
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The utility model discloses a sewage treatment filter screen structure convenient to clearance, including fixed plate, fixed recess, connecting plate, filtration pore and second filter screen, the corner position department on fixed plate top all is equipped with fixed recess, the below of fixed plate is equipped with the filter tube, the inside bottom of fixed plate is equipped with first recess, the parcel has equidistant action wheel on the lateral wall of transfer line, the inside on fixed plate top is equipped with the second recess, the inside top of filter tube is equipped with first filter screen, fixture is all installed at the both ends of first filter screen, the filter tube inside weld of first filter screen below has the mounting panel, the below of mounting panel is fixed with agitator motor, the inside of filter tube is equipped with the second filter screen. The utility model discloses not only improve the filtration efficiency of filter screen, prolonged the life of filter screen, improved user's security moreover.

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Sewage treatment filter screen structure convenient to clearance
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a sewage treatment device field specifically is sewage treatment filter screen structure of clearance for convenient.
Background
Along with the continuous improvement of people's material level, the sewage that produces also rises constantly, and sewage directly discharges to sewer pipe, flows in the river along with the sewer, causes certain influence to the natural environment, and sewage treatment filter screen is sewage treatment's important device, can filter the great object of volume that does not dissolve in water in the sewage, and the sewage treatment filter screen that consequently is convenient for to clear up is produced at first aid.
The filter screen structure on the market is various, can satisfy people's user demand basically, but still has certain problem, and specific problem has following several:
1. the filtering device only carries out single-layer filtering to remove larger substances in the sewage, so that a sewage discharge pipeline is easy to block, the sewage filtering efficiency is reduced, and the filtering maintenance cost is increased;
2. when the sewage filter screen is used, substances remained on the surface are inconvenient to treat in time, so that the surface of a filter through hole is blocked, and the service life of the filter screen is shortened;
3. when the sewage filter screen is used, peculiar smell and harmful bacteria in the sewage pipeline can overflow along the pipeline, so that the daily life health of people is influenced.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
An object of the utility model is to provide a sewage treatment filter screen structure convenient to clearance to it only carries out the individual layer filtration to put forward sewage treatment filter screen structure filter equipment in solving above-mentioned background art, filters the through-hole surface and appears blockking up, and inside peculiar smell of sewer line and harmful bacterium can follow the pipeline moreover and spill over the scheduling problem.
In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a following technical scheme: the sewage treatment filter screen structure convenient to clean comprises a fixed plate, a fixed groove, a connecting plate, a filter hole and a second filter screen, wherein the corner positions at the top end of the fixed plate are all provided with the fixed groove, the connecting plate is arranged inside the fixed groove, the central position of the fixed plate is provided with the filter hole, a filter pipe is arranged below the fixed plate, the top end of the filter pipe is fixedly connected with the bottom end of the connecting plate, the bottom end inside the fixed plate is provided with a first groove, a rotating motor is arranged inside the first groove, the output end of the rotating motor is provided with a rotating shaft through a coupler, the top end of the rotating shaft is fixed with a transmission rod, the outer side wall of the transmission rod is wrapped with an equally-spaced driving wheel, the second groove is arranged inside the top end of the fixed plate, the top end inside the filter pipe is provided with the first filter screen, and the, fixture is all installed at the both ends of first filter screen, the inside welding of filter tube of first filter screen below has the mounting panel, and the inside of mounting panel is equipped with equidistant second and filters the through-hole to the top of mounting panel is fixed with stirring fan blade, the below of mounting panel is fixed with agitator motor, and agitator motor's output passes through the shaft coupling and installs the pivot, the top of pivot and stirring fan blade's bottom fixed connection, the inside of filter tube is equipped with the second filter screen, and the both ends of second filter screen lateral wall all are fixed with second installation piece to the inside of second filter screen is equipped with equidistant third and filters the through-hole, the bottom welding of filter tube of second filter screen below has adjustment mechanism, the bottom of filter tube is inlayed and is had the leakage fluid dram, it has the dodge gate to inlay on the lateral wall of filter tube.
Preferably, both ends of the inner side wall of the filter pipe are provided with sliding grooves, and sliding rollers are embedded on the inner side wall of each sliding groove.
Preferably, adjustment mechanism from the top down has set gradually adjustable ring, kickboard, cavity, buffering post, shock attenuation recess, regulation pole, spacing recess and gravity plate, the bottom mounting of filter tube inside wall has the adjustable ring, and the both sides on adjustable ring top are equipped with the shock attenuation recess, the central point department of putting of adjustable ring is equipped with the regulation pole, and the top of adjusting the pole is equipped with the kickboard to the inside of kickboard is equipped with the cavity, the both sides of kickboard bottom all are equipped with the buffering post.
Preferably, the bottom end of the adjusting rod is fixed with a gravity plate, and the bottom end of the gravity plate is provided with a limiting groove.
Preferably, the inside of fixed plate is equipped with equidistant brush pole, and inlays on the lateral wall of brush pole and have equidistant cleaning brush, the bottom mounting of brush pole has from the driving wheel, and mutually supports from driving wheel and action wheel to the top of brush pole extends to the inside of second recess.
Preferably, fixture from the top down has set gradually clamping spring, grip block, first installation piece and centre gripping recess, first installation piece has all been welded at the both ends of first filter screen lateral wall, the top of filter tube inside wall is equipped with the centre gripping recess, and the one end of first installation piece extends to the inside of centre gripping recess, it has clamping spring to inlay on the inside wall of centre gripping recess, and clamping spring's top is fixed with the grip block.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that: the sewage treatment filter screen structure not only improves the filtering efficiency of the filter screen, prolongs the service life of the filter screen, but also improves the safety of users;
1. the multistage filtering device is provided with a first filter screen, a first filtering through hole, a mounting plate, a second filtering through hole, a stirring fan blade, a stirring motor, a second filter screen and a third filtering through hole, sewage reaches the top end of the mounting plate along the first filtering through hole in the first filter screen, then the stirring motor drives the stirring fan blade to accelerate the flow of the sewage, and then the multistage filtering work of the filter screens is completed along the second filtering through hole and the third filtering through hole in the second filter screen respectively, so that the filtering efficiency of the filter screens is improved;
2. the anti-blocking filter is characterized in that the anti-blocking filter is provided with a brush rod, a cleaning brush, a first groove, a driven wheel, a driving wheel, a transmission rod and a rotating motor, the rotating motor in the first groove drives the transmission rod to rotate, the driving wheel and the driven wheel are matched with each other under the action of the transmission rod, and then the cleaning brush on the surface of the brush rod is driven to rotate, so that the anti-blocking work on the surface of the filter through hole is completed, and the service life of the filter screen is prolonged;
3. through being provided with the adjustable ring, the kickboard, the cavity, the cushion post, the shock attenuation recess, adjust the pole, spacing recess and gravity board, flow into the bottom that the filter tube bottom reachd the adjustable ring through sewage, under the buoyancy of sewage effect, it rises to drive the kickboard, separate the spacing recess and the leakage fluid dram of gravity board bottom, along with the continuous rising of buoyancy, produce the clearance between regulation pole and the adjustable ring, sewage is along the clearance discharge, peculiar smell and bacterium spill over in having restrained the sewer line, accomplish the peculiar smell suppression work of filtering duct, thereby user's security has been improved.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a front view cross-sectional structure of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the appearance structure of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic top view of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged schematic view of the adjusting mechanism of the present invention;
fig. 5 is an enlarged schematic view of the clamping mechanism of the present invention.
In the figure: 1. a filter tube; 2. an adjustment mechanism; 201. an adjusting ring; 202. a floating plate; 203. a cavity; 204. a buffer column; 205. a shock-absorbing groove; 206. adjusting a rod; 207. a limiting groove; 208. a gravity plate; 3. a sliding groove; 4. a second mounting block; 5. a sliding roller; 6. a fixing plate; 7. fixing the groove; 8. a connecting plate; 9. a clamping mechanism; 901. a clamping spring; 902. a clamping block; 903. a first mounting block; 904. a clamping groove; 10. a first filter screen; 11. a first filter through hole; 12. a filtration pore; 13. mounting a plate; 14. a second filter through hole; 15. a stirring fan blade; 16. a third filter through hole; 17. a second filter screen; 18. a stirring motor; 19. a liquid discharge port; 20. a movable door; 21. a second groove; 22. a brush rod; 23. cleaning the brush; 24. a first groove; 25. a driven wheel; 26. a driving wheel; 27. a transmission rod; 28. a rotating electric machine.
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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.
Referring to fig. 1-5, the present invention provides an embodiment: a sewage treatment filter screen structure convenient to clean comprises a fixing plate 6, fixing grooves 7, a connecting plate 8, filter holes 12 and a second filter screen 17, wherein the fixing grooves 7 are arranged at the corner positions of the top end of the fixing plate 6, the connecting plate 8 is arranged inside the fixing grooves 7, the filter holes 12 are arranged at the central position of the fixing plate 6, a filter pipe 1 is arranged below the fixing plate 6, the top end of the filter pipe 1 is fixedly connected with the bottom end of the connecting plate 8, a first groove 24 is arranged at the bottom end inside the fixing plate 6, a rotating motor 28 is arranged inside the first groove 24, the type of the rotating motor 28 can be Y90S-2, a rotating shaft is arranged at the output end of the rotating motor 28 through a coupler, a transmission rod 27 is fixed at the top end of the rotating shaft, driving wheels 26 with equal intervals wrap the outer side wall of the transmission rod 27, and a second groove 21 is arranged inside, a first filter screen 10 is arranged at the top end inside the filter pipe 1, first filter through holes 11 with equal intervals are formed inside the first filter screen 10, and clamping mechanisms 9 are arranged at two ends of the first filter screen 10;
the clamping mechanism 9 is sequentially provided with a clamping spring 901, a clamping block 902, a first mounting block 903 and a clamping groove 904 from top to bottom, the first mounting block 903 is welded at two ends of the outer side wall of the first filter screen 10, the clamping groove 904 is arranged at the top end of the inner side wall of the filter pipe 1, one end of the first mounting block 903 extends into the clamping groove 904, the clamping spring 901 is embedded in the inner side wall of the clamping groove 904, and the clamping block 902 is fixed at the top end of the clamping spring 901;
when the filter screen disassembling device is used, the clamping spring 901 is compressed, so that the clamping block 902 at the bottom end of the clamping spring 901 is driven to be separated from the first mounting block 903, and then the first filter screen 10 is taken out to finish the filter screen disassembling work;
the mounting plate 13 is welded inside the filter pipe 1 below the first filter screen 10, the mounting plate 13 is internally provided with second filter through holes 14 at equal intervals, the top end of the mounting plate 13 is fixedly provided with a stirring fan blade 15, the lower part of the mounting plate 13 is fixedly provided with a stirring motor 18, the type of the stirring motor 18 can be M91Z60, the output end of the stirring motor 18 is provided with a rotating shaft through a coupler, the top end of the rotating shaft is fixedly connected with the bottom end of the stirring fan blade 15, the filter pipe 1 is internally provided with a second filter screen 17, the two ends of the outer side wall of the second filter screen 17 are both fixedly provided with second mounting blocks 4, the second filter screen 17 is internally provided with third filter through holes 16 at equal intervals, and the bottom end of the filter pipe 1 below the second filter screen 17 is welded with an;
the adjusting mechanism 2 is sequentially provided with an adjusting ring 201, a floating plate 202, a cavity 203, a buffer column 204, a shock absorption groove 205, an adjusting rod 206, a limiting groove 207 and a gravity plate 208 from top to bottom, the bottom end of the inner side wall of the filter pipe 1 is fixed with the adjusting ring 201, the shock absorption grooves 205 are arranged on two sides of the top end of the adjusting ring 201, the adjusting rod 206 is arranged at the central position of the adjusting ring 201, the floating plate 202 is arranged at the top end of the adjusting rod 206, the cavity 203 is arranged inside the floating plate 202, the buffer column 204 is arranged on two sides of the bottom end of the floating plate 202, the gravity plate 208 is fixed at the bottom end of the adjusting rod 206, and the limiting groove 207;
when the filter tube is used, sewage flows into the bottom end of the filter tube 1 to reach the bottom end of the adjusting ring 201, the floating plate 202 is driven to ascend under the buoyancy action of the sewage, the limiting groove 207 at the bottom end of the gravity plate 208 is separated from the liquid discharge port 19, a gap is generated between the adjusting rod 206 and the adjusting ring 201 along with the continuous rising of the buoyancy, the sewage is discharged along the gap, the overflow of peculiar smell and bacteria in a sewage pipeline is inhibited, and the peculiar smell inhibiting work inside the filter tube 1 is completed;
a liquid outlet 19 is inlaid at the bottom end of the filter pipe 1, a movable door 20 is inlaid on the outer side wall of the filter pipe 1, sliding grooves 3 are formed in two ends of the inner side wall of the filter pipe 1, sliding rollers 5 are inlaid on the inner side wall of each sliding groove 3, brush rods 22 at equal intervals are arranged inside the fixing plate 6, cleaning brushes 23 at equal intervals are inlaid on the outer side wall of each brush rod 22, a driven wheel 25 is fixed at the bottom end of each brush rod 22, the driven wheel 25 is matched with the driving wheel 26, and the top end of each brush rod 22 extends into the second groove 21;
during the use, through the inside first filtration through-hole 11 of first filter screen 10, reach the top of mounting panel 13, later drive stirring fan blade 15 through agitator motor 18 and accelerate the flow of sewage, later respectively along second filtration through-hole 14, the inside third filtration through-hole 16 of second filter screen 17, the work of accomplishing filter screen multi-stage filtration, rotating electrical machines 28 inside first recess 24 drives the rotation of transfer line 27, under the effect of transfer line 27, action wheel 25 mutually supports with follow driving wheel 26, later drive the rotation of the clean brush 23 on brush pole 22 surface, the work of preventing blockking up on filter through-hole surface has been accomplished.
The working principle is as follows: when the sewage filter is used, sewage reaches the top end of the mounting plate 13 along the first filtering through hole 11 in the first filter screen 10, then the stirring motor 18 drives the stirring fan blades 15 to accelerate the flow of the sewage, then the multistage filtering work of the filter screens is completed along the second filtering through hole 14 and the third filtering through hole 16 in the second filter screen 17 respectively, when larger impurities are left in the sewage, the rotating motor 28 in the first groove 24 drives the transmission rod 27 to rotate, under the action of the transmission rod 27, the driving wheel 25 is matched with the driven wheel 26, then the cleaning brushes 23 on the surface of the brush rod 22 are driven to rotate, the anti-blockage work on the surface of the filtering through holes is completed, then the sewage flows into the bottom end of the filter pipe 1 to reach the bottom end of the adjusting ring 201, under the buoyancy effect of the sewage, the floating plate 202 is driven to ascend, the limiting groove 207 at the bottom end of the gravity plate 208 is separated from the liquid, along with the continuous rising of buoyancy, produce the clearance between regulation pole 206 and the adjustable ring 201, sewage is discharged along the clearance, has restrained odor and bacterium in the sewage pipe and has spilled over, accomplishes the inside odor suppression work of filter tube 1, when the filter screen needs to be changed, compresses clamping spring 901 to the grip block 902 that drives clamping spring 901 bottom separates with first installation piece 903, later takes out first filter screen 10, accomplishes filter screen dismantlement work.
It is obvious to a person skilled in the art that the invention is not restricted to details of the above-described exemplary embodiments, but that it can be implemented in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the invention. The present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein. Any reference sign in a claim should not be construed as limiting the claim concerned.

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1. Sewage treatment filter screen structure convenient to clearance, including fixed plate (6), fixed recess (7), connecting plate (8), filtration pore (12) and second filter screen (17), its characterized in that: the filter plate is characterized in that a fixing groove (7) is arranged at the corner position of the top end of the fixing plate (6), a connecting plate (8) is arranged inside the fixing groove (7), a filter hole (12) is arranged at the center position of the fixing plate (6), a filter pipe (1) is arranged below the fixing plate (6), the top end of the filter pipe (1) is fixedly connected with the bottom end of the connecting plate (8), a first groove (24) is arranged at the bottom end of the inside of the fixing plate (6), a rotating motor (28) is arranged inside the first groove (24), a rotating shaft is arranged at the output end of the rotating motor (28) through a coupler, a transmission rod (27) is fixed at the top end of the rotating shaft, driving wheels (26) with equal intervals are wrapped on the outer side wall of the transmission rod (27), a second groove (21) is arranged inside the top end of the fixing plate (6), and a first filter screen (10), and the inside of the first filter screen (10) is provided with equidistant first filter through holes (11), the two ends of the first filter screen (10) are provided with clamping mechanisms (9), the inside of the filter pipe (1) below the first filter screen (10) is welded with a mounting plate (13), the inside of the mounting plate (13) is provided with equidistant second filter through holes (14), the top end of the mounting plate (13) is fixed with stirring fan blades (15), the below of the mounting plate (13) is fixed with a stirring motor (18), the output end of the stirring motor (18) is provided with a rotating shaft through a coupler, the top end of the rotating shaft is fixedly connected with the bottom end of the stirring fan blades (15), the inside of the filter pipe (1) is provided with a second filter screen (17), the two ends of the outer side wall of the second filter screen (17) are both fixed with second mounting blocks (4), and the inside of the second filter screen (17) is provided with equidistant third filter through holes (16), the bottom welding of filter tube (1) of second filter screen (17) below has adjustment mechanism (2), inlay the bottom of filter tube (1) has leakage fluid dram (19), it has dodge gate (20) to inlay on the lateral wall of filter tube (1).
2. The sewage treatment screen structure convenient to clean of claim 1, wherein: both ends of the inner side wall of the filter pipe (1) are provided with sliding grooves (3), and sliding rollers (5) are embedded on the inner side wall of the sliding grooves (3).
3. The sewage treatment screen structure convenient to clean of claim 1, wherein: adjustment mechanism (2) from the top down has set gradually adjustable ring (201), kickboard (202), cavity (203), buffering post (204), shock attenuation recess (205), regulation pole (206), spacing recess (207) and gravity plate (208), the bottom mounting of filter tube (1) inside wall has adjustable ring (201), and the both sides on adjustable ring (201) top are equipped with shock attenuation recess (205), the central point department of putting of adjustable ring (201) is equipped with adjusts pole (206), and the top of adjusting pole (206) is equipped with kickboard (202) to the inside of kickboard (202) is equipped with cavity (203), the both sides of kickboard (202) bottom all are equipped with buffering post (204).
4. The sewage treatment screen structure convenient to clean of claim 3, wherein: the bottom end of the adjusting rod (206) is fixed with a gravity plate (208), and the bottom end of the gravity plate (208) is provided with a limiting groove (207).
5. The sewage treatment screen structure convenient to clean of claim 1, wherein: the inside of fixed plate (6) is equipped with equidistant brush pole (22), and inlays on the lateral wall of brush pole (22) and have equidistant cleaning brush (23), the bottom mounting of brush pole (22) has from driving wheel (25), and from driving wheel (25) and action wheel (26) mutually support to the top of brush pole (22) extends to the inside of second recess (21).
6. The sewage treatment screen structure convenient to clean of claim 1, wherein: the filter screen is characterized in that the clamping mechanism (9) is sequentially provided with a clamping spring (901), a clamping block (902), a first mounting block (903) and a clamping groove (904) from top to bottom, the first mounting block (903) is welded at the two ends of the outer side wall of the first filter screen (10), the clamping groove (904) is formed in the top end of the inner side wall of the filter pipe (1), one end of the first mounting block (903) extends to the inside of the clamping groove (904), the clamping spring (901) is inlaid on the inner side wall of the clamping groove (904), and the clamping block (902) is fixed at the top end of the clamping spring (901).
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