CN211613019U - Medicine crushing apparatus based on hydrologic cycle cooling - Google Patents

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CN211613019U
CN211613019U CN201922387527.5U CN201922387527U CN211613019U CN 211613019 U CN211613019 U CN 211613019U CN 201922387527 U CN201922387527 U CN 201922387527U CN 211613019 U CN211613019 U CN 211613019U
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The utility model discloses a drug crushing apparatus based on hydrologic cycle cooling, including support frame, organism, supporting seat, crushing chamber and feeder hopper, the outside fixedly connected with support frame of organism, the equal fixedly connected with supporting seat in turning position department of support frame bottom, the inside of organism is provided with crushing chamber, the inside top of smashing the chamber of organism is provided with the feeder hopper, the inside bottom of smashing the chamber of organism is provided with the discharge gate, be provided with rubbing crusher and construct on the organism inner wall at crushing chamber top. The utility model discloses an open water intaking valve and outlet valve, water flows into the inside of S pipeline from the water inlet, then flows out from the delivery port, under the effect of S pipeline and absorber plate, rivers take away the heat of smashing the intracavity portion to reduce and smash the temperature of medicine through smashing the sword, realized this mechanism radiating function of being convenient for, thereby avoided this medicine crushing apparatus based on hydrologic cycle cooling to take place to block up when using.

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Medicine crushing apparatus based on hydrologic cycle cooling
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a pharmacy technical field specifically is a medicine crushing apparatus based on hydrologic cycle cooling.
Background
With the continuous development of society, the pharmaceutical industry has developed vigorously, and medicine crushing equipment plays an important role in the pharmaceutical process, and medicine crushing equipment based on water circulation cooling is an important component of the medicine crushing equipment.
In the process of implementing the present invention, the inventor finds that at least the following problems exist in the prior art and are not solved:
(1) the traditional medicine crushing equipment based on water circulation cooling has low crushing efficiency in use due to the slow crushing speed;
(2) the traditional medicine crushing equipment based on water circulation cooling is easy to block when in use due to the inconvenience of heat dissipation;
(3) traditional medicine crushing equipment based on hydrologic cycle cooling is because its inconvenient cleanness for it is extremely inconvenient when using.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
An object of the utility model is to provide a medicine crushing apparatus based on hydrologic cycle cooling to propose crushing speed slow, inconvenient heat dissipation and inconvenient clear problem in solving above-mentioned background art.
In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a following technical scheme: a medicine crushing device based on water circulation cooling comprises a support frame, a machine body, a support seat, a crushing cavity and a feed hopper, wherein the support frame is fixedly connected to the outer side of the machine body, the support seat is fixedly connected to the corner position of the bottom end of the support frame, the crushing cavity is arranged inside the machine body, the feed hopper is arranged at the top end of the crushing cavity inside the machine body, a discharge port is arranged at the bottom end of the crushing cavity inside the machine body, a crushing mechanism is arranged on the inner wall of the machine body at the top of the crushing cavity, a crushing shaft, a crushing roller way, a crushing cutter, a driven wheel and a belt are sequentially arranged inside the crushing mechanism, the crushing roller way is fixedly connected to the outer wall of the crushing shaft, heat absorbing plates are fixedly connected to the inner parts of the machine body at the two sides of the inner part of the crushing cavity below the crushing mechanism, S pipelines are fixedly connected to the bottom, equal fixedly connected with rolls the roll table on the outer wall of rolling axle, the bottom that rolls the roll table all is provided with clearance mechanism.
Preferably, the one end of rolling the axle all extends to the outside and the fixedly connected with drive gear of organism, drive gear is close to the fixedly connected with action wheel on the axle outer wall that rolls of organism one side, one side fixedly connected with motor that the support frame top is close to the action wheel, the output of motor passes through shaft coupling fixedly connected with driving gear, and driving gear and drive gear intermeshing.
Preferably, one end of the S pipeline close to the driving gear is fixedly connected with a water outlet, one end of the water outlet extends to the outside of the machine body, a water outlet valve is fixedly connected to the outer wall of the water outlet outside the machine body, one end of the S pipeline far away from the driving gear is fixedly connected with a water inlet, one end of the water inlet extends to the outside of the machine body, and a water inlet valve is fixedly connected to the outer wall of the water inlet outside the machine body.
Preferably, fixedly connected with equidistant crushing sword on the outer wall of crushing roll table, and the contained angle is 60 between the adjacent crushing sword, the one end of crushing axle extends to the outside of organism and fixedly connected with from the driving wheel, be provided with the belt on the outer wall from the driving wheel, mutually support through belt and action wheel from the driving wheel.
Preferably, the inside of clearance mechanism has set gradually connecting seat, connecting rod, interior buckle, outer buckle, shovel board, guide pillar and spring, the one side that is close to the organism of connecting seat all with organism fixed connection, the equal fixedly connected with connecting rod in one side that the organism was kept away from to the connecting seat, the equal fixedly connected with interior buckle of one end that the connecting seat was kept away from to the connecting rod, the outside of interior buckle all is provided with outer buckle.
Preferably, the outer buckle is kept away from the equal fixedly connected with shovel board of one end of connecting rod, and the shovel board is close to the one end that rolls the roll table and all cooperatees with rolling the roll table, the equal fixedly connected with guide pillar of one end of the inside shovel board of outer buckle, and the one end of guide pillar all extends to the inside of interior buckle, the inside guide pillar of interior buckle is close to the one end of connecting rod and all is provided with the spring.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that: the medicine crushing device based on water circulation cooling not only realizes that the mechanism has the function of multi-stage crushing, realizes the function of convenient heat dissipation of the mechanism, but also realizes the function of convenient cleaning of the mechanism;
(1) through the operation of the motor, the driving gear can drive the driving gear to rotate, the driving gear drives the rolling shaft and the crushing shaft to rotate under the action of the driving wheel, the belt and the driven wheel, the rolling shaft can drive the rolling roller way to rotate, the crushing shaft can drive the crushing cutter to rotate through the crushing roller way, and after the medicine is crushed by the crushing cutter, the medicine is extruded and crushed again through the rolling roller way, so that the mechanism has the function of multi-stage crushing, and the crushing efficiency of the medicine crushing device based on water circulation cooling in use is improved;
(2) by opening the water inlet valve and the water outlet valve, water flows into the S pipeline from the water inlet and then flows out from the water outlet, under the action of the S pipeline and the heat absorbing plate, the water flow takes away heat in the crushing cavity, and the temperature of the medicine crushed by the crushing knife is reduced, so that the function of facilitating heat dissipation of the mechanism is realized, and the medicine crushing equipment based on water circulation cooling is prevented from being blocked in use;
(3) through the rotation that rolls the roll table, make the medicine roll the roll table surface through the secondary and roll, under the elastic force effect of spring, the guide pillar can promote the shovel board to rolling the roll table and removing, under the effect of shovel board, makes the medicine that rolls the roll table surface in time clear up, has realized the clear function of being convenient for of this mechanism to the convenience of this medicine crushing apparatus based on hydrologic cycle cooling when using 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 side view of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic view of the enlarged structure of a part a in fig. 1 according to the present invention;
fig. 4 is a schematic view of the local bottom structure of the heat dissipation mechanism of the present invention.
In the figure: 1. a support frame; 2. a body; 3. a discharge port; 4. a supporting seat; 5. a grinding chamber; 6. rolling the shaft; 7. rolling a roller bed; 8. a water inlet; 9. a water inlet valve; 10. a crushing mechanism; 1001. a crushing shaft; 1002. crushing the roller bed; 1003. a crushing knife; 1004. a driven wheel; 1005. a belt; 11. a feed hopper; 12. a heat absorbing plate; 13. a water outlet; 14. a water outlet valve; 15. s, a pipeline; 16. a cleaning mechanism; 1601. a connecting seat; 1602. a connecting rod; 1603. an inner buckle; 1604. an outer buckle; 1605. a shovel plate; 1606. a guide post; 1607. a spring; 17. a drive gear; 18. a driving wheel; 19. a motor; 20. a drive gear.
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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. 1-4, the present invention provides an embodiment: a medicine crushing device based on water circulation cooling comprises a support frame 1, a machine body 2, a support seat 4, a crushing cavity 5 and a feed hopper 11, wherein the support frame 1 is fixedly connected to the outer side of the machine body 2, the support seat 4 is fixedly connected to the corner position of the bottom end of the support frame 1, the crushing cavity 5 is arranged inside the machine body 2, the feed hopper 11 is arranged at the top end of the crushing cavity 5 inside the machine body 2, a discharge port 3 is arranged at the bottom end of the crushing cavity 5 inside the machine body 2, a crushing mechanism 10 is arranged on the inner wall of the machine body 2 at the top of the crushing cavity 5, a crushing shaft 1001, a crushing roller way 1002, crushing cutters 1003, a driven wheel 1004 and a belt 1005 are sequentially arranged inside the crushing mechanism 10, a crushing roller way 1002 is fixedly connected to the outer wall of the crushing shaft 1001, the crushing cutters 1003 with equal intervals are fixedly connected to the outer wall of the crushing roller way 1002, the included angles between, a belt 1005 is arranged on the outer wall of the driven wheel 1004, and the driven wheel 1004 is mutually matched with the driving wheel 18 through the belt 1005;
specifically, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, when the mechanism is used, a power supply is switched on, firstly, the motor 19 is controlled by the single chip microcomputer to operate, the motor 19 can drive the driving gear 20 to rotate, the driving gear 20 can drive the driving gear 17 to rotate, the driving gear 17 drives the rolling shaft 6 and the crushing shaft 1001 to rotate under the action of the driving wheel 18, the belt 1005 and the driven wheel 1004, the rolling shaft 6 can drive the rolling roller table 7 to rotate, the crushing shaft 1001 can drive the crushing knife 1003 to rotate through the crushing roller table 1002, and after being crushed by the crushing knife 1003, the medicine is crushed by the extrusion of the rolling roller table 7 again, so that the mechanism has a multi-stage crushing function, and the crushing efficiency of the medicine crushing device based on water circulation cooling is improved when in use;
heat absorbing plates 12 are fixedly connected to the inner portions of the machine bodies 2 on two sides of the inner portion of the crushing cavity 5 below the crushing mechanism 10, S pipelines 15 are fixedly connected to the bottom ends of the heat absorbing plates 12, rolling shafts 6 are arranged on the inner walls of the machine bodies 2 on two sides of the inner portion of the crushing cavity 5 below the S pipelines 15, rolling roller beds 7 are fixedly connected to the outer walls of the rolling shafts 6, and cleaning mechanisms 16 are arranged at the bottom ends of the rolling roller beds 7;
the cleaning mechanism 16 is internally provided with a connecting seat 1601, a connecting rod 1602, an inner buckle 1603, an outer buckle 1604, a shovel plate 1605, a guide post 1606 and a spring 1607 in sequence, one side, close to the machine body 2, of the connecting seat 1601 is fixedly connected with the machine body 2, one side, far away from the machine body 2, of the connecting seat 1601 is fixedly connected with the connecting rod 1602, one end, far away from the connecting seat 1601, of the connecting rod 1602 is fixedly connected with the inner buckle 1603, the outer side of the inner buckle 1603 is provided with the outer buckle 1604, one end, far away from the connecting rod 1602, of the outer buckle 1604 is fixedly connected with the shovel plate 1605, one end, close to the roller grinding table 7, of the shovel plate 1605 is matched with the roller grinding table 7, one end, close to the roller grinding table 1605, of the inner buckle 1604 is fixedly connected with the guide post 1606, one end of the guide post 1606 extends into the inner buckle 1603, and;
specifically, as shown in fig. 1 and 3, when the mechanism is used, firstly, the medicine is rolled for the second time through the rotation of the rolling roller table 7, the guide post 1606 pushes the shovel plate 1605 to move towards the rolling roller table 7 under the elastic force of the spring 1607, and the medicine on the surface of the rolling roller table 7 is cleaned in time under the action of the shovel plate 1605, so that the function of the mechanism convenient to clean is realized, and the convenience of the medicine crushing device based on water circulation cooling is improved;
one end of the grinding shaft 6 extends to the outside of the machine body 2 and is fixedly connected with a driving gear 17, the outer wall of the grinding shaft 6, close to one side of the machine body 2, of the driving gear 17 is fixedly connected with a driving wheel 18, one side, close to the driving wheel 18, of the top end of the support frame 1 is fixedly connected with a motor 19, the model of the motor 19 is Y90S-2, the input end of the motor 19 is electrically connected with the output end of the single chip microcomputer, the output end of the motor 19 is fixedly connected with a driving gear 20 through a coupler, the driving gear 20 is meshed with the driving gear 17, one end, close to the driving gear 17, of the S pipeline 15 is fixedly connected with a water outlet 13, one end of the water outlet 13 extends to the outside of the machine body 2, the outer wall of the water outlet 13 outside the machine body 2 is fixedly connected, the outer wall of the water inlet 8 outside the machine body 2 is fixedly connected with a water inlet valve 9, the water inlet valve 9 and a water outlet valve 14 are opened, water flows into the inside of the S pipeline 15 from the water inlet 8 and then flows out from the water outlet 13, high temperature is easily generated in the process of crushing the medicine into powder particles, part of the medicine is easily accumulated into clusters or attached to the side wall under the influence of the high temperature, the heat inside the crushing cavity 5 is taken away by water flow under the action of the S pipeline 15 and the heat absorbing plate 12, the temperature of crushing the medicine by the crushing knife 1003 is reduced, the function of facilitating heat dissipation of the mechanism is realized, and therefore the blockage of the medicine crushing equipment based on water circulation cooling is avoided when the medicine crushing equipment is used.
The working principle is as follows: the utility model discloses when using, switch on, firstly, control motor 19 through the singlechip and move, motor 19 can drive driving gear 20 and rotate, driving gear 20 can drive gear 17 rotatory, drive gear 17 drives grinding shaft 6 and crushing shaft 1001 to rotate under the effect of action wheel 18, belt 1005 and driven wheel 1004, grinding shaft 6 can drive grinding roller table 7 and rotate, crushing shaft 1001 can drive crushing sword 1003 through grinding roller table 1002 and rotate, the medicine is smashed through grinding sword 1003, once more through the extrusion crushing of grinding roller table 7, the mechanism has realized that this mechanism has multistage kibbling function, thereby the crushing efficiency of this medicine crushing equipment based on hydrologic cycle cooling when using has been improved;
then, the water inlet valve 9 and the water outlet valve 14 are opened, water flows into the S pipeline 15 from the water inlet 8 and then flows out from the water outlet 13, high temperature is easily generated in the process of crushing the medicines into powder particles, part of the medicines are easily accumulated into a mass or attached to the side wall under the influence of the high temperature, and under the action of the S pipeline 15 and the heat absorption plate 12, heat in the crushing cavity 5 is taken away by water flow, the temperature of the medicines crushed by the crushing knife 1003 is reduced, the function of facilitating heat dissipation of the mechanism is realized, and the blockage of the medicine crushing device based on water circulation cooling is avoided when the medicine crushing device is used;
finally, through the rotation that rolls roll table 7, make the medicine pass through the secondary and roll, under spring 1607's elastic force effect, guide pillar 1606 can promote shovel 1605 to rolling roll table 7 and remove, under shovel 1605's effect, make the medicine that rolls roll table 7 surface in time clear up, realized the clear function of being convenient for of this mechanism to this medicine crushing apparatus based on hydrologic cycle cooling when using has been improved the convenience.
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. The utility model provides a medicine crushing apparatus based on hydrologic cycle cooling, includes support frame (1), organism (2), supporting seat (4), crushing chamber (5) and feeder hopper (11), its characterized in that: the outer side of the machine body (2) is fixedly connected with a supporting frame (1), the corner positions of the bottom end of the supporting frame (1) are fixedly connected with supporting seats (4), a crushing cavity (5) is arranged inside the machine body (2), the top end of the crushing cavity (5) inside the machine body (2) is provided with a feeding hopper (11), the bottom end of the crushing cavity (5) inside the machine body (2) is provided with a discharging port (3), the inner wall of the machine body (2) at the top of the crushing cavity (5) is provided with a crushing mechanism (10), the inside of the crushing mechanism (10) is sequentially provided with a crushing shaft (1001), a crushing roller way (1002), a crushing cutter (1003), a driven wheel (1004) and a belt (1005), the outer wall of the crushing shaft (1001) is fixedly connected with the crushing roller way (1002), and the insides of the machine bodies (2) at two sides inside the crushing cavity (5) below the crushing mechanism (, the equal fixedly connected with S pipeline (15) in bottom of absorber plate (12), all be provided with grinding shaft (6) on organism (2) inner wall of crushing chamber (5) inside both sides in S pipeline (15) below, equal fixedly connected with rolls roll table (7) on the outer wall of grinding shaft (6), the bottom that rolls roll table (7) all is provided with clearance mechanism (16).
2. The medicine crushing device based on water circulation cooling as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the one end of grinding axle (6) all extends to the outside and fixedly connected with drive gear (17) of organism (2), fixedly connected with action wheel (18) on grinding axle (6) outer wall that drive gear (17) are close to organism (2) one side, one side fixedly connected with motor (19) that support frame (1) top is close to action wheel (18), shaft coupling fixedly connected with driving gear (20) are passed through to the output of motor (19), and driving gear (20) and drive gear (17) intermeshing.
3. The medicine crushing device based on water circulation cooling as claimed in claim 1, wherein: s pipeline (15) are close to one end fixedly connected with delivery port (13) of drive gear (17), and the one end of delivery port (13) extends to the outside of organism (2), fixedly connected with outlet valve (14) on delivery port (13) outer wall of organism (2) outside, the one end fixedly connected with water inlet (8) of drive gear (17) are kept away from in S pipeline (15), and the one end of water inlet (8) extends to the outside of organism (2), fixedly connected with water intaking valve (9) on water inlet (8) outer wall of organism (2) outside.
4. The medicine crushing device based on water circulation cooling as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the outer wall of the smashing roller way (1002) is fixedly connected with smashing knives (1003) at equal intervals, included angles between every two adjacent smashing knives (1003) are 60 degrees, one end of the smashing shaft (1001) extends to the outside of the machine body (2) and is fixedly connected with a driven wheel (1004), a belt (1005) is arranged on the outer wall of the driven wheel (1004), and the driven wheel (1004) is matched with the driving wheel (18) through the belt (1005).
5. The medicine crushing device based on water circulation cooling as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the inside of clearance mechanism (16) has set gradually connecting seat (1601), connecting rod (1602), interior buckle (1603), outer buckle (1604), shovel board (1605), guide pillar (1606) and spring (1607), one side that is close to organism (2) of connecting seat (1601) all with organism (2) fixed connection, the equal fixedly connected with connecting rod (1602) in one side of organism (2) is kept away from in connecting seat (1601), buckle (1603) in the equal fixedly connected with of one end that connecting seat (1601) were kept away from in connecting rod (1602), the outside of interior buckle (1603) all is provided with outer buckle (1604).
6. The medicine crushing device based on water circulation cooling as claimed in claim 5, wherein: outer buckle (1604) keep away from the equal fixedly connected with shovel board (1605) of one end of connecting rod (1602), and shovel board (1605) are close to the one end that rolls roll table (7) all with roll table (7) and mutually support, the equal fixedly connected with guide pillar (1606) of one end of the inside shovel board (1605) of outer buckle (1604), and the one end of guide pillar (1606) all extends to the inside of interior buckle (1603), the one end that the inside guide pillar (1606) of interior buckle (1603) is close to connecting rod (1602) all is provided with spring (1607).
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