CN212093172U - Gypsum powder screening and filtering device - Google Patents

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CN212093172U
CN212093172U CN202020536824.1U CN202020536824U CN212093172U CN 212093172 U CN212093172 U CN 212093172U CN 202020536824 U CN202020536824 U CN 202020536824U CN 212093172 U CN212093172 U CN 212093172U
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A gypsum powder screening and filtering device comprises a screen cover, an upper filtering layer, a lower filtering layer, a vibration layer and a supporting seat; the upper opening of the upper filter layer is matched with the screen cover, and the lower side of the upper filter layer is matched with the upper side of the lower filter layer; the upper side of a vibration spring of the vibration layer is connected with the lower side of the lower filter layer, and the lower side of the connecting plate is connected with one side of a vibration motor; the lower side of the vibration layer is connected with the supporting seat; the vibration motor drives the vibration spring to vibrate, so that the filtering device filters layer by layer and outputs the filtered. The utility model overcomes original screening plant can cause the raise dust of gesso, makes the environment polluted, and harm staff is healthy, and when screening process, the screen cloth blocks up very easily, influences work efficiency's problem, has simple structure, and the raise dust is little, and screening efficiency is high, and airtight interval feed reduces the characteristics of screen cloth jam probability.

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Gypsum powder screening and filtering device
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of the gypsum powder screening equipment, a gypsum powder screening filter equipment is related to.
Background
When screening the gesso, because the gesso particle diameter is thinner, current screening plant can cause the raise dust of gesso, makes the environment under the screening process polluted, harm staff healthy, especially the raise dust of staff when the operation of screening is reinforced and the ejection of compact, hardly avoids. Meanwhile, the diameter of gypsum powder particles is too small, the sieve holes of the used sieve screen are also smaller, when the screening process is carried out, the sieve screen is very easy to block, the blocking thickness needs to be taken out for cleaning and replacing, the screening work can be continued, and the working efficiency is influenced.
Disclosure of Invention
The utility model aims to solve the technical problem of providing a gypsum powder screening and filtering device which has simple structure, adopts the matching of the upper opening of the upper filtering layer and the screen cover, and the lower side of the upper filtering layer and the upper side of the lower filtering layer; the upper side of a vibration spring of the vibration layer is connected with the lower side of the lower filter layer, and the lower side of the connecting plate is connected with one side of a vibration motor; the lower side of the vibration layer is connected with the supporting seat; the vibrating motor drives the vibrating spring to vibrate, so that the filtering device filters materials layer by layer and outputs the filtered materials from different discharge ports, the dust raising is small, the screening efficiency is high, the materials are fed at sealed intervals, and the probability of screen blockage is reduced.
In order to solve the technical problem, the utility model discloses the technical scheme who adopts is: a gypsum powder screening and filtering device comprises a screen cover, an upper filtering layer, a lower filtering layer, a vibration layer and a supporting seat; the upper opening of the upper filter layer is matched with the screen cover, and the lower side of the upper filter layer is matched with the upper side of the lower filter layer; the upper side of a vibration spring of the vibration layer is connected with the lower side of the lower filter layer, and the lower side of the connecting plate is connected with one side of a vibration motor; the lower side of the vibration layer is connected with the supporting seat; the vibration motor drives the vibration spring to vibrate, so that the filtering device filters layer by layer and outputs the filtered.
The screen cover is provided with a feeding port which is of an opening structure with a large upper part and a small lower part.
The screen cover is provided with a round hole, a rotary cover is arranged on the upper side of the screen cover, and the round hole is located at one end of the upper side of the screen cover.
The upper filtering layer is provided with an upper filtering plate which is of a circular structure and is connected with the inner side of the sieve barrel, and the lower filtering plate is the same in structure and parallel to the upper filtering plate.
The upper filter layer is provided with an upper filter screen which is an inclined plane filter screen.
The upper filter layer is provided with an upper discharge port which is connected with one side of the upper filter plate, and the lower discharge port is parallel to the upper filter plate in structure.
The lower filter layer is provided with a lower filter screen which is positioned in the middle of the lower filter plate and matched with the lower filter screen.
The vibration layer is provided with a vibration spring and is positioned at the upper end of the connecting plate.
The vibration layer is provided with a connecting plate which is of a circular structure and keeps a certain distance from the inner side of the vibration layer.
The vibration layer is provided with a vibration motor, one end of the vibration layer is connected with the connecting plate, and the other end of the vibration layer is connected with the middle of the inner bottom of the vibration layer.
The vibrations layer sets up vibrations discharge gate, and the structure is unanimous and parallel to each other with top discharge mouth, lower discharge gate.
A gypsum powder screening and filtering device comprises a screen cover, an upper filtering layer, a lower filtering layer, a vibration layer and a supporting seat; the upper opening of the upper filter layer is matched with the screen cover, and the lower side of the upper filter layer is matched with the upper side of the lower filter layer; the upper side of a vibration spring of the vibration layer is connected with the lower side of the lower filter layer, and the lower side of the connecting plate is connected with one side of a vibration motor; the lower side of the vibration layer is connected with the supporting seat; the vibration motor drives the vibration spring to vibrate, so that the filtering device filters layer by layer and outputs the filtered. The structure is simple, the upper opening of the upper filtering layer is matched with the screen cover, and the lower side of the upper filtering layer is matched with the upper side of the lower filtering layer; the upper side of a vibration spring of the vibration layer is connected with the lower side of the lower filter layer, and the lower side of the connecting plate is connected with one side of a vibration motor; the lower side of the vibration layer is connected with the supporting seat; drive vibrations spring vibrations through the driving of shock dynamo, make filter equipment filter the discharge gate output from the difference layer upon layer, the raise dust is little, and screening efficiency is high, and airtight interval feed reduces the screen cloth and blocks up the probability.
In a preferred scheme, the screen cover is provided with a feeding port which is of an opening structure with a large upper part and a small lower part. Simple structure, during the use, raise dust when the pan feeding mouth department gesso gets into the back can effectively prevent to feed in raw material, and has the peculiar smell to influence staff's work.
In a preferred scheme, the screen cover is provided with a round hole, a rotary cover is arranged on the upper side of the round hole, and the round hole is positioned at one end of the upper side of the screen cover. Simple structure, during the use, the round hole can external auxiliary assembly such as dust absorption, warm braw, guarantees the difficult caking of the drying of gesso to reduce raise dust and environmental pollution.
In the preferred scheme, the upper filtering layer is provided with an upper filtering plate which is in a circular ring structure and is connected with the inner side of the sieve barrel, and the lower filtering plate structure is the same as the upper filtering plate structure and is parallel to the upper filtering plate structure. Simple structure, during the use, it has certain inclination to go up the filter towards the discharge gate, and the great gesso of a part granule nature landing is gone up discharge gate department in the gesso gets into the upper filter layer, and is simple and convenient.
In a preferred scheme, the upper filter layer is provided with an upper filter screen which is an inclined plane filter screen. Simple structure, during the use, integrative vibrations, filtration come out the gesso nature fall down to the filter layer in, carry out prefilter to the gesso.
In the preferred scheme, the upper filter layer is provided with an upper discharge port which is connected with one side of the upper filter plate, and the lower discharge port is the same as the upper filter plate and is parallel to the upper filter plate. Simple structure, during the use, the great gesso of granule rolls from the top discharge mouth and falls out under the effect of layer upon layer filterable, is collected the container, and the flexible operation is convenient.
In a preferred scheme, the lower filter layer is provided with a lower filter screen which is positioned in the middle of the lower filter plate and matched with the lower filter screen. Simple structure, during the use, the aperture ratio of lower filter screen is gone up the aperture of filter screen and is little, can sieve the multistage, and the higher reason of accuracy is thin to the gesso diameter.
In a preferred scheme, the vibration layer is provided with a vibration spring and is positioned at the upper end of the connecting plate. Simple structure, during the use, vibrations spring keeps the vibrations of filter layer and lower filter layer, has prevented that the gesso from making the gesso scatter at vibrations process, makes the gesso partly sieve, and partly after coming out from the discharge gate of difference, better sieves.
In a preferred scheme, the vibration layer is provided with a connecting plate which is of a circular structure and keeps a certain distance from the inner side of the vibration layer. Simple structure, during the use, the firm vibrations layer of connecting plate connection makes vibrations spring nimble function.
In the preferred scheme, the vibration layer is provided with a vibration motor, one end of the vibration layer is connected with the connecting plate, and the other end of the vibration layer is connected with the middle of the inner bottom of the vibration layer. Simple structure, during the use, vibrations shock dynamo vibrations can drive the vibrations of whole screen frame, has effectively prevented piling up of gesso on the filter screen, realizes the screening to the gesso, makes the process of gesso screening more effective fast.
In the preferred scheme, the vibrations layer sets up vibrations discharge gate, and the structure is unanimous and parallel to each other with last discharge gate, lower discharge gate. Simple structure, during the use, the convenient gesso to after the screening of vibrations discharge gate is collected, also can prevent that the gesso from pouring out and causing environmental pollution.
A gypsum powder screening and filtering device comprises a screen cover, an upper filtering layer, a lower filtering layer, a vibration layer and a supporting seat; the upper opening of the upper filter layer is matched with the screen cover, and the lower side of the upper filter layer is matched with the upper side of the lower filter layer; the upper side of a vibration spring of the vibration layer is connected with the lower side of the lower filter layer, and the lower side of the connecting plate is connected with one side of a vibration motor; the lower side of the vibration layer is connected with the supporting seat; the vibration motor drives the vibration spring to vibrate, so that the filtering device filters layer by layer and outputs the filtered. The utility model overcomes original screening plant can cause the raise dust of gesso, makes the environment polluted, and harm staff is healthy, and when screening process, the screen cloth blocks up very easily, influences work efficiency's problem, has simple structure, and the raise dust is little, and screening efficiency is high, and airtight interval feed reduces the characteristics of screen cloth jam probability.
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fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a front view of fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a side view of fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a schematic top view of fig. 2.
Fig. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional view of fig. 1.
In the figure: the screen cover 1, pan feeding mouth 11, round hole 12, go up filter layer 2, filter 21, go up filter 22, go up discharge gate 23, lower filter layer 3, lower filter 31, lower filter 32, discharge gate 33, vibrations layer 4, vibrations spring 41, connecting plate 42, vibrating motor 43, vibrations discharge gate 44, supporting seat 5.
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As shown in fig. 1 to 5, a gypsum powder screening and filtering device includes a screen cover 1, an upper filtering layer 2, a lower filtering layer 3, a vibration layer 4 and a supporting seat 5; the upper opening of the upper filter layer 2 is matched with the screen cover 1, and the lower side of the upper filter layer is matched with the upper side of the lower filter layer 3; the upper side of a vibration spring 41 of the vibration layer 4 is connected with the lower side of the lower filter layer 3, and the lower side of a connecting plate 42 is connected with one side of a vibration motor 43; the lower side of the vibration layer 4 is connected with a supporting seat 5; the vibration motor 43 drives the vibration spring 41 to vibrate, so that the filtering device filters layer by layer and outputs the filtered. The structure is simple, the upper opening of the upper filter layer 2 is matched with the screen cover 1, and the lower side of the upper filter layer is matched with the upper side of the lower filter layer 3; the upper side of a vibration spring 41 of the vibration layer 4 is connected with the lower side of the lower filter layer 3, and the lower side of a connecting plate 42 is connected with one side of a vibration motor 43; is connected with the supporting seat 5 through the lower side of the vibration layer 4; the vibration motor 43 drives the vibration spring 41 to vibrate, so that the filtering device filters materials layer by layer and outputs the filtered materials from different discharge ports, the dust raising is small, the screening efficiency is high, the materials are fed at sealed intervals, and the probability of screen blockage is reduced.
In a preferred scheme, the screen cover 1 is provided with a feeding port 11 which is in an opening structure with a large upper part and a small lower part. Simple structure, during the use, 11 department gesso of pan feeding mouth can effectively prevent the raise dust when reinforced after getting into, and have the peculiar smell to influence staff's work.
In a preferred scheme, the screen cover 1 is provided with a circular hole 12, a rotary cover is arranged on the upper side of the circular hole 12, and the circular hole 12 is positioned at one end of the upper side of the screen cover 1. Simple structure, during the use, auxiliary assembly such as dust absorption, warm braw can be connected to round hole 12 externally, guarantees the difficult caking of the drying of gesso to reduce raise dust and environmental pollution.
In the preferred scheme, the upper filter layer 2 is provided with an upper filter plate 21 which is in a circular structure and is connected with the inner side of the sieve barrel, and the lower filter plate 31 has the same structure and is parallel to the same structure. Simple structure, during the use, go up filter 21 and have certain inclination towards top discharge mouth 23, 23 departments of top discharge mouth are fallen to the great gesso nature of some granule in the gesso gets into upper filter layer 2, simple and convenient.
In a preferred scheme, the upper filter layer 2 is provided with an upper filter screen 22 which is an inclined filter screen. Simple structure, during the use, integrative vibrations, filtration come out the gesso nature fall down in filter layer 3, carry out prefilter to the gesso.
In a preferred scheme, the upper filter layer 2 is provided with an upper discharge port 23 connected with one side of the upper filter plate 21, and lower discharge ports 33 are the same in structure and parallel to each other. Simple structure, during the use, the great gesso of granule rolls from the top discharge mouth 23 and falls out under the effect of layer upon layer filterable, is collected the container, and the flexible operation is convenient.
In a preferred scheme, the lower filter layer 3 is provided with a lower filter screen 32 which is positioned in the middle of the lower filter plate 31 and matched with the lower filter screen. Simple structure, during the use, the aperture ratio of lower filter screen 32 goes up the aperture of filter screen and is little, can sieve the multistage of gesso diameter, and the higher reason of accuracy is thin.
In a preferred scheme, the vibration layer 4 is provided with a vibration spring 41 which is positioned at the upper end of the connecting plate 42. Simple structure, during the use, vibrations spring 41 keeps the vibrations of upper filter layer 2 and lower filter layer 3, has prevented that the gesso from making the gesso scatter at vibrations process, makes the gesso partly sieve, and partly come out the back from the discharge gate of difference, better sieves.
In a preferred scheme, the vibration layer 4 is provided with a connecting plate 42 which is in a circular structure and keeps a certain distance from the inner side of the vibration layer 4. Simple structure, when using, connecting plate 42 connects firm vibrations layer 4, makes vibrations spring 41 nimble operation.
In a preferable scheme, the vibration layer 4 is provided with a vibration motor 43, one end of the vibration motor is connected with the connecting plate 42, and the other end of the vibration motor is connected with the middle of the bottom in the vibration layer 4. Simple structure, during the use, vibrations shock dynamo 43 vibrations can drive the vibrations of whole screen frame, has effectively prevented piling up of gesso on the filter screen, realizes the screening to the gesso, makes the process of gesso screening more effective fast.
In a preferred scheme, the vibration layer 4 is provided with a vibration discharge hole 44, and the structure of the vibration layer is consistent with that of the upper discharge hole 23 and that of the lower discharge hole 33 and is parallel to each other. During the use, vibrations discharge gate 44 is convenient to be collected the gesso after the screening, also can prevent that the gesso from pouring out and causing environmental pollution.
When the gypsum powder screening and filtering device is installed and used, the upper opening of the upper filtering layer 2 is matched with the screen cover 1, and the lower side of the upper filtering layer is matched with the upper side of the lower filtering layer 3; the upper side of a vibration spring 41 of the vibration layer 4 is connected with the lower side of the lower filter layer 3, and the lower side of a connecting plate 42 is connected with one side of a vibration motor 43; the lower side of the vibration layer 4 is connected with a supporting seat 5; the vibration motor 43 drives the vibration spring 41 to vibrate, so that the filtering device filters materials layer by layer and outputs the filtered materials from different discharge ports, the dust raising is small, the screening efficiency is high, the materials are fed at sealed intervals, and the probability of screen blockage is reduced.
During the use, the raise dust when feeding in can effectively be prevented to pan feeding 11 department gesso after getting into, and has the peculiar smell to influence staff's work.
When in use, the round hole 12 can be externally connected with auxiliary equipment such as dust collection, warm air and the like, so that the gypsum powder is ensured to be dry and not easy to agglomerate, and dust emission and environmental pollution are reduced.
During the use, go up filter 21 and have certain inclination towards last discharge gate 23, the great gesso of partly granule nature landing is 23 departments on in the gesso gets into upper filter layer 2, and is simple and convenient.
During the use, integrative vibrations, the gesso that filters out falls down filter layer 3 naturally, carries out prefilter to the gesso.
During the use, the great gesso of granule rolls from last discharge gate 23 and falls out under the effect of layer upon layer filtration, is collected in the container, and the flexible operation is convenient.
During the use, the aperture ratio of filter screen is little on the aperture ratio of filter screen 32 down, can sieve the multistage processing of gesso diameter, and the higher reason of accuracy is thin.
During the use, vibrations spring 41 keeps the vibrations of upper filter layer 2 and lower filter layer 3, has prevented that the gesso from making the gesso scatter at the vibrations process, makes the gesso partly sieve, and partly come out the back from different discharge gates, better sieves.
When in use, the connecting plate 42 is connected with the stable vibration layer 4, so that the vibration spring 41 can flexibly operate.
During the use, vibrations shock dynamo 43 vibrations can drive the vibrations of whole screen frame, has effectively prevented piling up of gesso on the filter screen, realizes the screening to the gesso, and the process that makes the gesso screening is quick effective more.
During the use, vibrations discharge gate 44 is convenient to be collected the gesso after the screening, also can prevent that the gesso from pouring out and causing environmental pollution.
The above embodiments are merely preferred technical solutions of the present invention, and should not be considered as limitations of the present invention, and the features in the embodiments and the examples in the present application may be arbitrarily combined with each other without conflict. The protection scope of the present invention shall be defined by the claims and the technical solutions described in the claims, including the technical features of the equivalent alternatives as the protection scope. Namely, equivalent alterations and modifications within the scope of the invention are also within the scope of the invention.

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1. The utility model provides a gesso screening filter equipment which characterized by: the vibrating screen comprises a screen cover (1), an upper filtering layer (2), a lower filtering layer (3), a vibrating layer (4) and a supporting seat (5); the upper opening of the upper filter layer (2) is matched with the sieve cover (1), and the lower side of the upper filter layer is matched with the upper side of the lower filter layer (3); the upper side of a vibration spring (41) of the vibration layer (4) is connected with the lower side of the lower filter layer (3), and the lower side of the connecting plate (42) is connected with one side of a vibration motor (43); the lower side of the vibration layer (4) is connected with the supporting seat (5); the vibration motor (43) drives the vibration spring (41) to vibrate, so that the filtering device filters layer by layer and outputs the filtered.
2. The gypsum powder screening and filtering device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the screen cover (1) is provided with a feeding port (11) which is of an opening structure with a large upper part and a small lower part.
3. The gypsum powder screening and filtering device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the screen cover (1) is provided with a round hole (12), a rotary cover is arranged on the upper side of the round hole, and the round hole (12) is located at one end of the upper side of the screen cover (1).
4. The gypsum powder screening and filtering device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the upper filter layer (2) is provided with an upper filter plate (21) which is of a circular ring structure and is connected with the inner side of the sieve barrel, and the lower filter plate (31) is identical in structure and parallel to the upper filter plate.
5. The gypsum powder screening and filtering device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the upper filter layer (2) is provided with an upper filter screen (22) which is an inclined plane filter screen.
6. The gypsum powder screening and filtering device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the upper filter layer (2) is provided with an upper discharge hole (23) which is connected with one side of the upper filter plate (21), and the lower discharge hole (33) is parallel to the upper filter plate.
7. The gypsum powder screening and filtering device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the lower filter layer (3) is provided with a lower filter screen (32) which is positioned in the middle of the lower filter plate (31) and matched with the lower filter screen.
8. The gypsum powder screening and filtering device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the vibration layer (4) is provided with a vibration spring (41) which is positioned at the upper end of the connecting plate (42).
9. The gypsum powder screening and filtering device as claimed in claim 8, wherein: the vibration layer (4) is provided with a connecting plate (42) which is of a circular structure and keeps a certain distance from the inner side of the vibration layer (4).
10. The gypsum powder screening and filtering device as claimed in claim 8, wherein: the vibration layer (4) is provided with a vibration motor (43), one end of the vibration motor is connected with the connecting plate (42), and the other end of the vibration motor is connected with the middle of the bottom in the vibration layer (4).
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