CN212042872U - Silicon steel sheet cutting machine with high cutting efficiency - Google Patents

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CN212042872U
CN212042872U CN202020781126.8U CN202020781126U CN212042872U CN 212042872 U CN212042872 U CN 212042872U CN 202020781126 U CN202020781126 U CN 202020781126U CN 212042872 U CN212042872 U CN 212042872U
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The utility model discloses a silicon steel sheet cutting machine with high cutting efficiency, which relates to the technical field of silicon steel sheet cutting, and the key points of the technical proposal comprises a seat I, a seat II, a first cutting knife arranged on the seat I, a second cutting knife arranged on the seat II, and a feeding roller II rotationally connected on the seat II, wherein the seat II is provided with a limiting device used for limiting the width of a silicon steel sheet, the limiting device comprises an installation base frame, a mounting plate fixedly connected on the installation base frame, a screw rod rotationally connected on the mounting plate, a nut seat in threaded connection on the screw rod, a double-acting cylinder arranged on the nut seat, a stop block fixedly connected on a piston rod of the double-acting cylinder, and a bearing block fixedly connected on the stop block, the surface of the mounting plate is provided with an installation through groove, the mounting plate is provided with a driving motor I used for driving, the utility model has the advantages of can improve the precision of tailorring, improve the efficiency of tailorring of silicon steel strip.

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Silicon steel sheet cutting machine with high cutting efficiency
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a technical field that silicon steel sheet was tailor, in particular to tailor efficient silicon steel sheet cutter.
Background
The mutual inductor is also called instrument transformer, and is a general name of current mutual inductor and voltage mutual inductor. The high voltage can be changed into low voltage, and the large current can be changed into small current for measuring or protecting the system. Its function is mainly to convert high voltage or large current into standard low voltage (100V) or standard small current (5A or 1A, both referring to rated value) in proportion so as to realize standardization and miniaturization of measuring instrument, protection equipment and automatic control equipment. Meanwhile, the mutual inductor can be used for isolating a high-voltage system so as to ensure the safety of people and equipment.
The iron core of the existing mutual inductor comprises four side walls, and each side wall is made of a plurality of silicon steel sheets with the same length and different widths. The silicon steel sheet is usually obtained by cutting a silicon steel strip through a silicon steel sheet cutting machine.
Referring to fig. 1, a conventional silicon steel sheet cutting machine includes a machine base 1, a feeding mechanism 2 disposed on the machine base 1, a primary cutting mechanism 3, and a secondary cutting mechanism 4. Wherein, frame 1 includes seat one 11 and seat two 12 that mutually perpendicular set up, and feed mechanism 2 includes a feed mechanism 21 and secondary feed mechanism 22, and a feed mechanism 21 includes a plurality of transfer roller one 5 that set up on seat one 11 upper surfaces, and secondary feed mechanism 22 includes a plurality of feed rollers two 6 that set up in seat two 12 upper surfaces, and feed rollers two 6 set up with feed rollers one is perpendicular. The primary cutting mechanism 3 comprises a first cutting blade arranged on the base 1 and a first driving device used for driving the first cutting blade to move along the vertical direction, and the first cutting blade is arranged along the direction perpendicular to the surface of the base 1 and along the direction parallel to the conveying roller. The secondary cutting mechanism 4 comprises a second cutting blade arranged on the machine base 1 and a driving device II used for driving the second cutting blade to move along the vertical direction, and the first cutting blade and the second cutting blade are vertically arranged and are both positioned above the conveying roller. The machine base 1 is also provided with a limiting plate which is positioned between the primary cutting mechanism 3 and the secondary cutting mechanism 4. The limiting plate is arranged along the direction which is vertical to the upper surface of the machine base 1 and is parallel to the first conveying roller 5. The silicon steel strip is flatly laid on the machine base 1 and moves under the driving of the feeding roller I, the silicon steel strip slides and abuts against the limiting plate in the sliding process, the first cutting knife cuts the silicon steel strip at the moment, the length direction of the silicon steel strip is determined, after the silicon steel strip is cut once, the cut silicon steel strip moves under the driving of the feeding roller II 6, the width of the cut silicon steel strip is controlled through manual operation in the process of moving the silicon steel strip again, the second cutting knife is used for cutting the silicon steel strip, and the silicon steel strip cut once is cut into silicon steel sheets with different widths.
However, the silicon steel strip after being cut at one time is manually cut, so that the operation precision is difficult to guarantee, the labor is wasted, the silicon steel strip is not convenient to rapidly cut, and the cutting efficiency of the silicon steel strip is influenced.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims at providing an efficient silicon steel sheet cutter tailors has the advantage that can improve the efficiency of tailorring precision, improvement silicon steel strip.
The above technical purpose of the present invention can be achieved by the following technical solutions:
a silicon steel sheet cutting machine with high cutting efficiency comprises a first seat, a second seat, a first cutting knife arranged on the first seat, a second cutting knife arranged on the second seat, and a second feeding roller rotationally connected on the second seat, wherein a limiting device used for limiting the width of a silicon steel sheet is arranged on the second seat, the limiting device comprises an installation base frame, a mounting plate fixedly connected on the installation base frame, a lead screw rotationally connected on the mounting plate, a nut seat in threaded connection on the lead screw, a double-acting air cylinder arranged on the nut seat, a stop block fixedly connected with a piston rod of the double-acting air cylinder, and a bearing block fixedly connected on the stop block, the mounting plate is arranged above a mounting base plate and is arranged along the horizontal direction, the mounting plate is arranged above the second seat and is positioned on one side of the second cutting knife, which is far away from the first cutting knife, an installation through groove is arranged on the surface of the mounting plate, the lead screw is rotationally, be provided with on the mounting panel and be used for driving lead screw pivoted driving motor one, the silicon steel sheet slide conflict in the piece that holds, two effect air cylinder's piston rod sets up along the surface direction of perpendicular to seat two.
By adopting the technical scheme, after the silicon steel strip is cut for the first time, the silicon steel strip slides under the driving of the secondary feeding mechanism, the position of the stop block, the distance between the stop block and the second cutting knife and the height of the stop block are adjusted through the common adjustment of the screw rod, the nut seat and the double-acting cylinder according to the process requirements, thereby adjusting the cutting width of the silicon steel strip, cutting one silicon steel strip into two silicon steel strip sheets with different widths by one-time cutting, the two silicon steel strips can be directly used, after cutting, the distance between the stop block and the second cutting knife and the height of the stop block are adjusted again to ensure that the two cut silicon steel strips slide down, the arrangement can avoid the width of the silicon steel sheet being manually controlled by workers, improve the cutting precision of the silicon steel sheet, therefore, the automation degree of the whole cutting machine can be improved, and the cutting efficiency of the silicon steel strip is improved.
The present invention may be further configured in a preferred embodiment as: the silicon steel strip feeding device is characterized in that a sliding groove is formed in the stop block, an inner cavity of the sliding groove is arranged in the direction perpendicular to the feeding roller II, a sliding rod is connected in the sliding groove in a sliding mode, a plurality of through holes communicated with the sliding groove are formed in the bearing block, the sliding rod is connected in the through holes in a sliding mode, a rodless cylinder used for pushing the sliding rod to move in the horizontal direction is fixedly connected to the stop block, and the sliding rod is supported on the bottom face of the silicon steel strip in a sliding mode.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, under the drive of rodless cylinder, the movable support of slide bar is in the bottom surface of silicon steel strip, is favorable to supporting the silicon steel strip, avoids the silicon steel strip sunken under the action of gravity.
The present invention may be further configured in a preferred embodiment as: the side wall of the sliding rod is embedded with a plurality of steel balls, and the steel balls are attached to the inner wall of the sliding groove to slide.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the setting of steel ball can reduce the frictional force between slide bar and the spout, is favorable to making the slip of slide bar more smooth.
The present invention may be further configured in a preferred embodiment as: the mounting structure is characterized in that a guide rod is fixedly connected in the mounting through groove and arranged in a direction parallel to the screw rod, a guide sliding block is fixedly connected to the side wall of the nut seat, a guide sliding groove is formed in the guide sliding block, and the guide rod is connected to the guide sliding groove in a sliding mode.
By adopting the technical scheme, the arrangement is favorable for the stop block to keep stable in the moving process.
The present invention may be further configured in a preferred embodiment as: fixedly connected with apron on the mounting panel, the cover chamber has been seted up to the bottom surface of apron, the apron sets up along the horizontal direction, the top that driving motor one is located to the cover chamber cover.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the cover plate can shelter from driving motor one, both can play the effect of protection driving motor one, can avoid the in-process workman of motor operation to touch driving motor one again, improves the effect to workman's safety protection.
The present invention may be further configured in a preferred embodiment as: the second seat is provided with a driving roller, the driving roller is located below the installation rack and is arranged along the direction perpendicular to the second feeding roller, a transmission belt used for bearing silicon steel sheets is connected to the driving roller in a winding mode, and the second seat is fixedly connected with a second driving motor used for driving the driving roller to rotate.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the silicon steel sheet that the secondary was tailor and is accomplished drops under the action of gravity and piles up, piles up to certain degree after need regularly take to the silicon steel sheet and hold the silicon steel sheet in order to guarantee that there is sufficient space all the time on the seat two, the setting of conveyer belt can avoid the workman to take to accumulational silicon steel sheet manually, uses manpower sparingly.
To sum up, the utility model discloses following beneficial effect has:
1. through the arrangement of the stop blocks, the lead screw and the nut seat, the effects of preventing workers from manually controlling the width of the silicon steel sheet, improving the cutting precision of the silicon steel sheet, improving the automation degree of the whole cutting machine and improving the cutting efficiency of the silicon steel strip can be achieved;
2. through the setting of the bearing block and the rodless cylinder, the effect of avoiding driving the motor to operate for a plurality of times in the cutting process of the silicon steel sheets with the same specification and being beneficial to reducing the cutting difficulty of the silicon steel sheets can be achieved.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a cutting machine in the prior art;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of a cutting machine;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of an enlarged view at A in FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing a cross-sectional view of an internal structure of a mounting plate according to the embodiment;
FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram for embodying the stopper in the embodiment;
FIG. 6 is a schematic view of an enlarged view at B in FIG. 5;
fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram for embodying the chute in the embodiment.
In the figure, 1, a machine base; 11. a first seat; 12. a second seat; 2. a feeding mechanism; 21. a primary feeding mechanism; 22. a secondary feeding mechanism; 3. a primary cutting mechanism; 4. a secondary cutting mechanism; 5. a first conveying roller; 6. a second feeding roller; 7. a limiting device; 71. mounting a base frame; 72. mounting a plate; 73. a screw rod; 74. a nut seat; 75. a stopper; 25. a bearing block; 9. a connecting rod; 10. installing a through groove; 13. driving a motor I; 14. a cover plate; 15. a guide bar; 16. a guide slider; 17. a double-acting cylinder; 19. a connecting seat; 20. a chute; 23. a slide bar; 24. steel balls; 26. perforating the hole; 27. a rodless cylinder; 28. a drive roller; 29. a drive belt; 30. and driving a second motor.
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The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Example (b): a silicon steel sheet cutting machine with high cutting efficiency refers to fig. 2 and comprises a first seat 11, a second seat 12, a first cutting knife arranged on the first seat 11, a second cutting knife arranged on the second seat 12 and a second feeding roller (not shown) rotatably connected to the second seat 12.
Wherein, be provided with stop device 7 that is used for injecing the silicon steel sheet width on the second 12 of seat, stop device 7 is located the top of second 12 of seat and is located the second and tailors sword and keep away from first sword one side of tailorring.
Referring to fig. 2 and 3, the limiting device 7 includes a mounting base frame 71, a mounting plate 72 fixedly connected to the mounting base frame 71, a lead screw 73 rotatably connected to the mounting plate 72, a nut seat 74 threadedly connected to the lead screw 73, a double-acting air cylinder 17 connected to the nut seat 74, a stopper 75 fixedly connected to the double-acting air cylinder 17 (see fig. 5), and a receiving block 25 fixedly connected to a side wall of the stopper 75 facing the seat 1.
Referring to fig. 2 and 3, the mounting base frame 71 is a frame having an inner cavity in a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and the inner cavity of the frame is arranged in a vertical direction.
Referring to fig. 2 and 3, a plurality of connecting rods 9 are fixedly connected to an upper side wall of the mounting base frame 71, and the connecting rods 9 are cylindrically arranged and vertically arranged. The upper end face of the connecting rod 9 is fixedly connected to the bottom face of the mounting plate 72. The mounting plate 72 is disposed in a horizontal direction.
Referring to fig. 2 and 3, the mounting plate 72 has a mounting through groove 10 formed on a plate surface thereof, and an inner cavity of the mounting through groove 10 is rectangular and penetrates upper and lower plate surfaces of the mounting plate 72.
Referring to fig. 2 and 3, the screw rod 73 is rotatably connected to the inner wall of the installation through slot 10 and is arranged in a direction perpendicular to the second feeding roller 6, a first driving motor 13 for driving the screw rod 73 to rotate is fixedly connected to the side wall of the installation plate 72, which faces away from the second cutting knife, and the output shaft of the first driving motor 13 is fixedly connected to the end of the screw rod 73 through a coupling.
Referring to fig. 2 and 3, the cover plate 14 is fixedly attached to the mounting plate 72, and the cover plate 14 is disposed in a horizontal direction. The bottom surface of the cover plate 14 is provided with a cover cavity which is covered above the first driving motor 13.
Referring to fig. 2 and 3, two guide rods 15 are fixedly connected to the installation through groove 10, and the guide rods 15 are disposed in a direction parallel to the screw rod 73 and located at left and right sides of the screw rod 73.
Referring to fig. 4, a guide slider 16 is fixedly connected to a side wall of the nut seat 74, a guide chute 20 is formed in the guide slider 16, and the guide rod 15 is slidably connected to the guide chute 20.
And a double-acting air cylinder 17 is fixedly connected to the bottom surface of the guide sliding block 16, and a piston rod of the double-acting air cylinder 17 is arranged along the direction vertical to the upper surface of the second seat 12.
The bottom surface of the piston rod of the double-acting cylinder 17 is fixedly connected with a connecting seat 19, the connecting seat 19 is arranged in a cuboid shape, and the connecting seat 19 is fixedly connected to the top surface of the stop block 75.
Referring to fig. 7, the stopper 75 is provided with a chute 20, and an inner cavity of the chute 20 is rectangular and is arranged along a direction perpendicular to the second feeding roller 6. A sliding rod 23 is slidably connected to the sliding groove 20, and the sliding rod 23 is rectangular. The bearing block 25 is provided with a plurality of through holes 26 which are communicated with the sliding groove 20,
referring to fig. 7, a plurality of steel balls 24 are embedded in the side wall of the sliding rod 23, and the steel balls 24 are attached to the inner wall of the sliding groove 20 to slide.
Referring to fig. 5 and 6, a rodless cylinder 27 for pushing the sliding rod 23 to move in the horizontal direction is fixedly connected to the side wall of the stop block 75 facing away from the bearing block 25, the rodless cylinder 27 is arranged in the direction perpendicular to the double-acting cylinder 17, and a sliding block on the rodless cylinder 27 is fixedly connected with the sliding rod 23. The sliding bar 23 can be slidably abutted against the bottom surface of the silicon steel strip.
Referring to fig. 5 and 6, the upper surface of the second seat 12 is rotatably connected with a driving roller 28, the driving roller 28 is located below the mounting frame and is arranged along a direction perpendicular to the second feed roller 6, a driving belt 29 for receiving the silicon steel sheet is wound on the driving roller 28, and a second driving motor 30 for driving the driving roller 28 to rotate is fixedly connected to the second seat 12.
The specific implementation process comprises the following steps: after the silicon steel strip is cut for the first time, the silicon steel strip slides under the driving of the secondary feeding mechanism 22, firstly, the height of the stop block 75 is adjusted through the double-acting air cylinder 17 to enable the stop block 75 and the silicon steel strip to be located on the same horizontal plane, then, the horizontal position of the stop block 75 is adjusted through the matching of the screw rod 73 and the nut seat 74 to adjust the cut width of the silicon steel strip, after the position adjustment of the stop block 75 is completed, the silicon steel strip is in sliding contact with the stop block 75 and is supported by the sliding rod, after the silicon steel strip is cut, the double-acting air cylinder 17 drives the stop block 75 to descend, the sliding rod 23 is separated from the contact with the silicon steel sheet, the silicon steel strip close to one side of the stop block 75 falls, then, the stop block 75 is lifted by the double-acting air cylinder 17, a moving space is reserved for the silicon steel strip far away from one side, thereby finishing the cutting of the silicon steel strip.
The present embodiment is only for explaining the present invention, and it is not limited to the present invention, and those skilled in the art can make modifications to the present embodiment without inventive contribution as required after reading the present specification, but all of them are protected by patent laws within the scope of the claims of the present invention.

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1. The utility model provides a cut efficient silicon steel sheet cutter, includes seat one (11), seat two (12), sets up first sword of cutting on seat one (11), sets up the second sword of cutting on seat two (12), rotates feed roller two (6) of connecting on seat two (12), its characterized in that: be provided with stop device (7) that is used for injecing silicon steel sheet width on seat two (12), stop device (7) including installation bed frame (71), fixed connection mounting panel (72) on installation bed frame (71), rotate lead screw (73) of connecting on mounting panel (72), nut seat (74) of threaded connection on lead screw (73), set up double-acting cylinder (17) on nut seat (74), dog (75) of the piston rod of fixed connection double-acting cylinder (17), bearing block (25) of fixed connection on dog (75), mounting panel (72) are located mounting substrate's top and set up along the horizontal direction, mounting panel (72) are located the top of seat two (12) and are located the second and tailor the sword and keep away from first and tailor sword one side, installation logical groove (10) have been seted up on the face of mounting panel (72), lead screw (73) rotate to connect in the inner wall that the installation leads to groove (10) and follow perpendicular to feed roller two (6) The direction setting, be provided with on mounting panel (72) and be used for driving lead screw (73) pivoted driving motor one (13), the silicon steel sheet slide conflict in bearing block (25), the surface direction setting of the piston rod edge perpendicular to seat two (12) of two effect cylinder (17).
2. The silicon steel sheet cutting machine with high cutting efficiency according to claim 1, characterized in that: the improved feeding roller is characterized in that a sliding groove (20) is formed in the stop block (75), the inner cavity of the sliding groove (20) is arranged in the direction perpendicular to the second feeding roller (6), a sliding rod (23) is connected to the sliding groove (20) in a sliding mode, a plurality of through holes (26) which are communicated with the sliding groove (20) are formed in the bearing block (25), the sliding rod (23) is connected to the through holes (26) in a sliding mode, a rodless cylinder (27) which is used for pushing the sliding rod (23) to move in the horizontal direction is fixedly connected to the stop block (75), and the sliding rod (23) is supported on the bottom surface of the silicon steel belt in a sliding mode.
3. The silicon steel sheet cutting machine with high cutting efficiency according to claim 2, characterized in that: a plurality of steel balls (24) are embedded in the side wall of the sliding rod (23), and the steel balls (24) are attached to the inner wall of the sliding groove (20) to slide.
4. The silicon steel sheet cutting machine with high cutting efficiency according to claim 1, characterized in that: the mounting structure is characterized in that a guide rod (15) is fixedly connected to the mounting through groove (10), the guide rod (15) is arranged in a direction parallel to the screw rod (73), a guide sliding block (16) is fixedly connected to the side wall of the nut seat (74), a guide sliding groove (20) is formed in the guide sliding block (16), and the guide rod (15) is slidably connected to the guide sliding groove (20).
5. The silicon steel sheet cutting machine with high cutting efficiency according to claim 1, characterized in that: fixedly connected with apron (14) on mounting panel (72), the cover chamber has been seted up to the bottom surface of apron (14), apron (14) set up along the horizontal direction, the top of driving motor (13) is located to the cover chamber cover.
6. The silicon steel sheet cutting machine with high cutting efficiency according to claim 1, characterized in that: be provided with drive roller (28) on seat two (12), drive roller (28) are located the below of installation frame and set up along the direction of perpendicular to feed roller two (6), around connecing transmission belt (29) that are used for accepting the silicon steel sheet on drive roller (28), fixedly connected with is used for driving drive roller (28) pivoted driving motor two (30) on seat two (12).
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