CN212102927U - Novel continuous steel pipe destressing anaerobic annealing device - Google Patents

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CN212102927U
CN212102927U CN202020743485.4U CN202020743485U CN212102927U CN 212102927 U CN212102927 U CN 212102927U CN 202020743485 U CN202020743485 U CN 202020743485U CN 212102927 U CN212102927 U CN 212102927U
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The utility model relates to a steel pipe machining technology field just discloses a novel continuous type steel pipe destressing anaerobic annealing device, including the annealing case, install heating device in the annealing case, common fixedly connected with mounting panel on the inner tank wall in opposite directions of annealing case, the mounting hole has been seted up in the mounting panel, heating device's output fixedly connected with heating block, heating block and mounting hole pore wall fixed connection are located symmetrical fixedly connected with curb plate on the mounting panel of heating block both sides, the intercommunication has the protective gas pipe on the annealing case tank wall, the movable groove has been seted up to the symmetry on the inner tank wall in opposite directions of annealing case, sliding connection has the movable block in the movable groove, be equipped with reciprocal screw hole in the movable block. The utility model discloses can be continuous carry out the annealing of steel pipe, need not to shut down and take out the steel pipe that the processing was accomplished, improve the annealing efficiency to the steel pipe, do benefit to the batch annealing of steel pipe.

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Novel continuous steel pipe destressing anaerobic annealing device
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a steel pipe machining technical field especially relates to a novel continuous type steel pipe destressing anaerobic annealing device.
Background
Annealing is a metal heat treatment process, which means that metal is slowly heated to a certain temperature, is kept for enough time, is cooled at a proper speed, can reduce hardness, improve cutting processability, eliminate residual stress, stabilize size, reduce deformation and crack tendency, refine grains, adjust tissues and eliminate tissue defects, anaerobic annealing is performed under the working condition that protective gas (generally carbon dioxide) is introduced, the surface of the annealed steel pipe is bright, and the existing annealing device utilizes a heating device to provide heat for a heating block and then heats the steel pipe. However, after annealing a batch of steel pipes, the existing annealing device needs to be stopped, the annealed steel pipes are taken out, and then another batch of steel pipes are placed on the heating block, so that the annealing treatment of the steel pipes cannot be continuously performed, the annealing efficiency of the steel pipes is low, and the batch annealing treatment of the steel pipes is not facilitated.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims at solving the problem that the annealing device in the prior art can not continuously carry out the annealing treatment of steel pipe, leading to the lower efficiency of annealing to the steel pipe, and the novel continuous steel pipe destressing anaerobic annealing device who proposes.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme:
a novel continuous steel pipe destressing anaerobic annealing device comprises an annealing box, wherein a heating device is installed in the annealing box, mounting plates are fixedly connected to inner box walls of the annealing box in opposite directions together, mounting holes are formed in the mounting plates, an output end of the heating device is fixedly connected with a heating block, the heating block is fixedly connected with the wall of the mounting hole, side plates are symmetrically and fixedly connected to the mounting plates on two sides of the heating block, protective gas pipes are communicated with the wall of the annealing box, movable grooves are symmetrically formed in the inner box walls of the annealing box in opposite directions, movable blocks are connected in the movable grooves in a sliding mode, reciprocating threaded holes are formed in the movable blocks, reciprocating lead screws are rotatably connected to the wall of each movable groove in opposite directions through two bearings together, one ends of the two reciprocating lead screws penetrate through the bearings and extend outwards, and chain wheels are fixedly connected to the rod walls of the reciprocating lead screws in a sleeved mode, two the sprocket passes through chain drive and connects, one of them the one end of reciprocal lead screw has the motor through the coupling joint, movable block threaded connection is on reciprocal lead screw, two movable block one end in opposite directions passes the movable groove notch that corresponds and outside extension, and common fixedly connected with movable frame, install the pneumatic cylinder on the movable frame wall, pneumatic cylinder output end fixedly connected with push pedal, the section of push pedal is triangle-shaped, the intercommunication has a range section of thick bamboo on the annealing box wall, install the cover on the range section of thick bamboo, it is the even a plurality of steel pipe that is equipped with of style of calligraphy in the range section of thick bamboo, fixedly connected with baffle on the movable frame wall is located the discharge gate has been seted up on the annealing box wall of mounting panel one side.
Preferably, the wall of the annealing box is fixedly connected with a cooling box, and the wall of the cooling box is provided with a feeding hole communicated with the discharging hole.
Preferably, a movable hole is formed in the side wall of the discharge port, a piston is connected to the movable hole in a sliding mode, a sealing plate matched with the discharge port is fixedly connected to the bottom of the piston, an L-shaped mounting frame is fixedly connected to the outer wall of the annealing box, an air cylinder is installed on the mounting frame, and the output end of the air cylinder is fixedly connected to the piston.
Preferably, the wall of the annealing box is fixedly connected with a housing, and the chain wheel and the motor are arranged in the housing.
Preferably, a reinforcing rib is fixedly connected between the baffle and the movable frame, and the section of the heating block is a right trapezoid.
Preferably, cooler bin upper end opening part is equipped with the apron, the equal fixedly connected with jib in four corners department of apron bottom, the rack of the bottom fixedly connected with U type of jib, the rack is arranged in the coolant liquid in the cooler bin.
Preferably, the upper end of the cover plate is symmetrically and fixedly connected with lifting lugs.
Preferably, the outer cover and the bottom of the cooling box are fixedly connected with a base together.
Preferably, a drain pipe is communicated with the wall of the cooling box, and a pipe valve is mounted on the drain pipe.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model provides a novel continuous type steel pipe destressing anaerobic annealing device possesses following beneficial effect:
the novel continuous steel pipe destressing anaerobic annealing device is provided with an annealing box, a heating device, a mounting plate, a heating block, a side plate, a protective gas pipe, a movable groove, a movable block, reciprocating lead screws, chain wheels, a motor, a movable frame, a hydraulic cylinder, a push plate, an arrangement cylinder, a cylinder cover, a baffle plate and a discharge port, when a steel pipe is processed, after a batch of steel pipes are heated on the heating block, the motor is started to enable the two chain wheels to rotate and drive the two reciprocating lead screws to rotate, so that the two movable blocks do reciprocating motion in the movable groove, when the movable blocks do motion close to the discharge port, the movable frame is driven to move, the hydraulic cylinder is started, the push plate moves downwards, the push plate pushes the steel pipe on the heating block and is discharged through the discharge port, when the movable frame drives the baffle plate to be separated from the position under the arrangement cylinder, the steel pipe in the arrangement cylinder falls, the push plate moves upwards, the movable block moves away from the discharge port in the movable groove, the movable frame returns to the original position, the steel pipe is discharged into the arrangement cylinder, the operation is repeated, the annealing treatment of the steel pipe can be continuously performed, the annealing efficiency of the steel pipe is improved, and the batch annealing treatment of the steel pipe is facilitated.
The part that does not relate to among the device all is the same with prior art or can adopt prior art to realize, the utility model discloses can be continuous carry out the annealing of steel pipe, need not to shut down and take out the steel pipe that the processing was accomplished, improve the annealing efficiency to the steel pipe, do benefit to the batch annealing of steel pipe.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a novel continuous steel pipe destressing anaerobic annealing device provided by the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a side view structural diagram of the connection of the mounting plate, the side plate and the heating block of the novel continuous steel pipe destressing anaerobic annealing device provided by the utility model;
fig. 3 is an enlarged view of a portion a in fig. 1.
In the figure: 1 annealing box, 2 heating device, 3 mounting plate, 4 heating block, 5 side plates, 6 protective gas pipe, 7 movable groove, 8 movable block, 9 reciprocating screw rod, 10 chain wheel, 11 motor, 12 movable frame, 13 hydraulic cylinder, 14 push plate, 15 arrangement cylinder, 16 cylinder cover, 17 baffle, 18 discharge port, 19 cooling box, 20 movable hole, 21 piston, 22 sealing plate, 23 mounting rack, 24 cylinder, 25 outer cover, 26 cover plate, 27 suspender, 28 net rack, 29 base, 30 liquid discharge pipe.
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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.
In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
Referring to fig. 1-3, a novel continuous steel pipe destressing anaerobic annealing device comprises an annealing box 1, a heating device 2 is installed in the annealing box 1, a mounting plate 3 is fixedly connected to the inner box walls of the annealing box 1 in opposite directions, a mounting hole is formed in the mounting plate 3, a heating block 4 is fixedly connected to the output end of the heating device 2, the heating block 4 is fixedly connected to the wall of the mounting hole, side plates 5 are symmetrically and fixedly connected to the mounting plate 3 at two sides of the heating block 4, a protective gas pipe 6 is communicated with the box walls of the annealing box 1, movable grooves 7 are symmetrically formed in the inner box walls of the annealing box 1 in opposite directions, movable blocks 8 are slidably connected to the movable grooves 7, reciprocating threaded holes are formed in the movable blocks 8, reciprocating lead screws 9 are rotatably connected to the opposite groove walls of the movable grooves 7 through two bearings together, and one ends of the two reciprocating lead screws 9 pass through the bearings and extend, and the chain wheel 10 is fixedly sleeved on the rod wall of the annealing box, two chain wheels 10 are connected by chain transmission, one end of one reciprocating screw rod 9 is connected with a motor 11 by a coupling, a movable block 8 is connected on the reciprocating screw rod 9 by screw thread, the opposite ends of two movable blocks 8 pass through the notches of corresponding movable grooves 7 and extend outwards, and are fixedly connected with a movable frame 12 together, a hydraulic cylinder 13 is arranged on the frame wall of the movable frame 12, the output end of the hydraulic cylinder 13 is fixedly connected with a push plate 14, the section of the push plate 14 is triangular, the box wall of the annealing box 1 is communicated with an arrangement cylinder 15, a cylinder cover 16 is arranged on the arrangement cylinder 15, a plurality of steel pipes are uniformly arranged in a straight line in the arrangement cylinder 15, a baffle plate 17 is fixedly connected on the frame wall of the movable frame 12, a discharge hole 18 is arranged on the box wall of the annealing box 1 positioned at one side of the mounting plate 3, when the, the motor 11 is started to rotate the two chain wheels 10 to drive the two reciprocating screw rods 9 to rotate, so that the two movable blocks 8 do reciprocating motion in the movable groove 7, when the movable block 8 moves close to the discharge hole 18, the movable frame 12 is driven to move, the hydraulic cylinder 13 is started, the push plate 14 moves downwards, so that the push plate 14 pushes the steel pipe on the heating block 4, and is discharged through the discharge hole 18, when the movable frame 12 drives the baffle 17 to be separated from the position right below the arrangement cylinder 15, the steel pipe in the arrangement cylinder 15 falls on the heating block 4, the hydraulic cylinder 13 releases the pressure, so that the push plate 14 moves upwards, the movable block 8 moves away from the discharge hole 18 in the movable groove 7, the movable frame 12 is returned to the original position, the steel pipe is discharged into the arrangement cylinder 15, the operations are repeated, the annealing treatment of the steel pipe can be continuously carried out, the annealing efficiency of the steel pipe is improved, and the batch annealing treatment of the steel pipe is facilitated.
Fixedly connected with cooler bin 19 on the 1 tank wall of annealing case, set up the feed inlet with discharge gate 18 intercommunication on the 19 tank walls of cooler bin, can directly send the steel pipe of discharge annealing case 1 into cooler bin 19 and cool off.
The discharge gate 18 has been seted up the activity hole 20 on the lateral wall, sliding connection has piston 21 in the activity hole 20, the bottom fixedly connected with of piston 21 and discharge gate 18 assorted closing plate 22, fixedly connected with L type's mounting bracket 23 on the outer wall of annealing box 1, install cylinder 24 on the mounting bracket 23, the output fixed connection of cylinder 24 is on piston 21, can seal discharge gate 18, avoid protective gas to let in cooler bin 19, drive through cylinder 24, can realize opening at any time of discharge gate 18 closed.
Fixedly connected with dustcoat 25 on the box wall of annealing case 1, sprocket 10 and motor 11 set up in dustcoat 25, have the guard action to sprocket 10 and motor 11.
Fixedly connected with strengthening rib between baffle 17 and movable frame 12, the section of heating block 4 is right trapezoid, has increased the joint strength of baffle 17 and movable frame 12.
The opening part of the upper end of the cooling box 19 is provided with a cover plate 26, four corners of the bottom of the cover plate 26 are fixedly connected with hanging rods 27, the bottom end of each hanging rod 27 is fixedly connected with a U-shaped net rack 28, the net rack 28 is arranged in cooling liquid in the cooling box 19, steel pipes can be arranged in the net rack 28, and the steel pipes are taken out through the hanging cover plate 26.
The lifting lugs are symmetrically and fixedly connected to the upper end of the cover plate 26, so that the cover plate 26 can be conveniently lifted.
The base 29 is fixedly connected to the bottom of the outer cover 25 and the cooling box 19 together, so that the outer cover 25 and the cooling box 19 can be placed stably.
The wall of the cooling box 19 is communicated with a liquid discharge pipe 30, and the liquid discharge pipe 30 is provided with a pipe valve, so that the cooling liquid in the cooling box 19 can be discharged and replaced conveniently.
In the utility model, when the steel pipe is processed, after a batch of steel pipes are heated on the heating block 4, the motor 11 is started to rotate the two chain wheels 10 to drive the two reciprocating screw rods 9 to rotate, so that the two movable blocks 8 do reciprocating motion in the movable groove 7, when the movable blocks 8 do motion close to the discharge port 18 to drive the movable frame 12 to move, the hydraulic cylinder 13 is started, the push plate 14 moves downwards, so that the push plate 14 pushes the steel pipe on the heating block 4 and is discharged through the discharge port 18, when the movable frame 12 drives the baffle 17 to be separated from the position under the arrangement cylinder 15, the steel pipe in the arrangement cylinder 15 falls on the heating block 4, the hydraulic cylinder 13 releases pressure, so that the push plate 14 moves upwards, the movable blocks 8 do motion far away from the discharge port 18 in the movable groove 7, so that the movable frame 12 returns to the original position, the steel pipe is discharged into the arrangement cylinder 15 again, the operations are repeated, the annealing treatment of the steel pipe can be continuously carried, the annealing efficiency of the steel pipe is improved, and the batch annealing treatment of the steel pipe is facilitated.
The above, only be the concrete implementation of the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art is in the technical scope of the present invention, according to the technical solution of the present invention and the utility model, the concept of which is equivalent to replace or change, should be covered within the protection scope of the present invention.

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1. A novel continuous steel pipe destressing anaerobic annealing device comprises an annealing box (1) and is characterized in that a heating device (2) is installed in the annealing box (1), a mounting plate (3) is fixedly connected to the inner box wall of the annealing box (1) in the opposite direction, a mounting hole is formed in the mounting plate (3), a heating block (4) is fixedly connected to the output end of the heating device (2), the heating block (4) is fixedly connected with the wall of the mounting hole, side plates (5) are symmetrically and fixedly connected to the mounting plate (3) on the two sides of the heating block (4), a protective gas pipe (6) is communicated with the box wall of the annealing box (1), movable grooves (7) are symmetrically formed in the inner box wall of the annealing box (1) in the opposite direction, movable blocks (8) are slidably connected to the movable grooves (7), and reciprocating threaded holes are formed in the movable blocks (8), the movable groove is characterized in that reciprocating screw rods (9) are connected to the opposite groove walls of the movable groove (7) in a rotating mode through two bearings, the two reciprocating screw rods (9) are connected to one end of each reciprocating screw rod (9) in a rotating mode through a bearing and extend outwards, chain wheels (10) are fixedly connected to the rod walls of the two reciprocating screw rods in a rotating mode, one end of each chain wheel (10) is connected with a motor (11) through a chain in a transmission mode, movable blocks (8) are in threaded connection with the reciprocating screw rods (9) in a threaded mode, the two ends of the movable blocks (8) in opposite directions penetrate through corresponding movable groove (7) notches and extend outwards, a movable frame (12) is fixedly connected to the movable frame (12) in a common mode, a hydraulic cylinder (13) is installed on the frame wall of the movable frame (12), a push plate (14) is fixedly connected to the output end of the hydraulic cylinder (13), the section of the push plate, arrange and install cover (16) on a section of thick bamboo (15), it is even a plurality of steel pipe that is a style of calligraphy in a section of thick bamboo (15) to arrange, fixedly connected with baffle (17) on movable frame (12) frame wall is located discharge gate (18) have been seted up on annealing case (1) tank wall of mounting panel (3) one side.
2. The novel continuous steel pipe stress-relieving oxygen-free annealing device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a cooling box (19) is fixedly connected to the wall of the annealing box (1), and a feed inlet communicated with a discharge port (18) is formed in the wall of the cooling box (19).
3. The novel continuous steel pipe stress-relieving oxygen-free annealing device according to claim 1, characterized in that a movable hole (20) is formed in the side wall of the discharge hole (18), a piston (21) is slidably connected in the movable hole (20), a sealing plate (22) matched with the discharge hole (18) is fixedly connected to the bottom of the piston (21), an L-shaped mounting frame (23) is fixedly connected to the outer wall of the annealing box (1), an air cylinder (24) is installed on the mounting frame (23), and the output end of the air cylinder (24) is fixedly connected to the piston (21).
4. The novel continuous steel pipe stress-relieving oxygen-free annealing device according to claim 1, wherein a housing (25) is fixedly connected to the wall of the annealing box (1), and the chain wheel (10) and the motor (11) are arranged in the housing (25).
5. The novel continuous steel pipe stress-relieving oxygen-free annealing device according to claim 1, wherein a reinforcing rib is fixedly connected between the baffle plate (17) and the movable frame (12), and the section of the heating block (4) is a right trapezoid.
6. The novel continuous steel pipe stress-relieving oxygen-free annealing device as recited in claim 2, wherein a cover plate (26) is arranged at an opening at the upper end of the cooling box (19), hanger rods (27) are fixedly connected to four corners of the bottom of the cover plate (26), a U-shaped net rack (28) is fixedly connected to the bottom end of each hanger rod (27), and the net rack (28) is placed in the cooling liquid in the cooling box (19).
7. The novel continuous steel pipe stress-relieving oxygen-free annealing device as recited in claim 6, characterized in that lifting lugs are symmetrically and fixedly connected to the upper end of the cover plate (26).
8. The novel continuous steel pipe stress-relieving oxygen-free annealing device according to claim 4, characterized in that a base (29) is fixedly connected to the bottoms of the outer cover (25) and the cooling tank (19) together.
9. The novel continuous steel pipe stress-relieving oxygen-free annealing device according to claim 2, characterized in that a drain pipe (30) is communicated with the wall of the cooling tank (19), and a pipe valve is installed on the drain pipe (30).
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