CN212241593U - Environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer of automatically cleaning - Google Patents

Environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer of automatically cleaning Download PDF

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CN212241593U
CN212241593U CN202020790249.8U CN202020790249U CN212241593U CN 212241593 U CN212241593 U CN 212241593U CN 202020790249 U CN202020790249 U CN 202020790249U CN 212241593 U CN212241593 U CN 212241593U
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The utility model relates to a cleaning device technical field just discloses an environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer of automatically cleaning, including the stirring organism, the equal fixedly connected with supporting legs in four corners of stirring bottom of the body, the top fixedly connected with motor case of stirring organism, the interior roof fixedly connected with driving motor of motor case, driving motor's output shaft fixedly connected with drive shaft, the equal fixedly connected with connecting axle in the left and right sides of drive shaft, two the equal fixedly connected with of one end that the connecting axle carried on the back mutually scrapes the brush piece. This environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer of automatically cleaning pours cement, grit aggregate and water into the inboard of stirring organism through the inlet pipe, drives the drive shaft through driving motor and rotates, and drive shaft pivoted in-process can drive rotatory impeller and rotate, and rotatory impeller pivoted in-process can mix the stirring to cement, grit aggregate and water, has realized concrete mixing's purpose.

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Environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer of automatically cleaning
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a cleaning device technical field specifically is an environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer of automatically cleaning.
Background
The pulping mixer for concrete blocks is a machine for mixing cement, sand and stone aggregate and water into concrete mixture, and is mainly composed of mixing drum, feeding mechanism, discharging mechanism, water supply system, prime mover, transmission mechanism, machine frame and supporting device, and is divided into intermittent type and continuous type according to working property, and divided into self-falling type and forced type according to stirring principle.
Concrete block slurrying mixer is after using, can remain a large amount of concrete, glue on the inner wall of mixer, consequently need use cleaning device to wash the mixer, but current environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer does not possess the advantage of automatically cleaning, lead to needing the workman to wash the mixture of mixer inner wall adhesion, this kind of method not only wastes time and energy, and can consume a large amount of manpowers, workman's work load has been improved, inconvenient use, the result of use of mixer has been reduced, so the environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer of an automatically cleaning is proposed and the problem that the aforesaid provided is solved.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
Technical problem to be solved
The utility model provides a not enough to prior art, the utility model provides an environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer of automatically cleaning possesses advantages such as automatically cleaning, has solved the advantage that current environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer does not possess the automatically cleaning, leads to needing the workman to wash the mixture of mixer inner wall adhesion, and this kind of method not only wastes time and energy, can consume a large amount of manpowers in addition, has improved workman's work load, and inconvenient use has reduced the problem of the result of use of mixer.
(II) technical scheme
In order to realize the self-cleaning purpose, the utility model provides a following technical scheme: a self-cleaning environment-friendly concrete block pulping mixer comprises a mixer body, wherein supporting legs are fixedly connected to four corners of the bottom of the mixer body, a motor box is fixedly connected to the top of the mixer body, a driving motor is fixedly connected to the inner top wall of the motor box, a driving shaft is fixedly connected to an output shaft of the driving motor, connecting shafts are fixedly connected to the left side and the right side of the driving shaft, a scraping block is fixedly connected to one end of each of the two connecting shafts, which is opposite to each other, a rotating impeller is fixedly connected to the outer side of the driving shaft, a scraping impeller is fixedly connected to the outer side of the driving shaft, a discharging block is fixedly connected to the inner bottom wall of the mixer body, a water suction pump is fixedly connected to the right side of the mixer body, a connecting pipe is fixedly connected to the inlet of the water suction pump, the utility model discloses a water pump, including suction pump, fixed pipe of exit fixedly connected with, the bottom fixedly connected with annular tube of fixed pipe, the clean shower nozzle of outside fixedly connected with of annular tube, the interior roof fixedly connected with connecting block of stirring organism, the left side fixedly connected with inlet pipe of stirring organism, the left bottom fixedly connected with discharging pipe of stirring organism, the right side fixedly connected with fixed block of stirring organism, the top fixedly connected with inlet tube of storage water tank, the positive fixedly connected with observation window of stirring organism, the bottom fixedly connected with roll block of drive shaft, the outside fixed mounting of discharging pipe has the control valve.
Preferably, the bottom end of the connecting pipe penetrates through the water storage tank and extends to the inner side of the water storage tank, and the top of the fixed pipe penetrates through the stirring machine body and extends to the top of the annular pipe.
Preferably, the number of the cleaning spray heads is eight, eight the cleaning spray heads are distributed at equal intervals outside the annular pipe, the number of the connecting blocks is two, and the two connecting blocks are fixedly connected with the annular pipe.
Preferably, scrape brush piece and agitator body swing joint, the quantity of rotatory impeller is six, scrape the quantity of brushing the impeller and be two, two scrape the brush impeller all with ejection of compact piece swing joint.
Preferably, inlet pipe and discharging pipe all with stirring organism fixed connection, the top of discharging block is the inclined plane, the inlet tube is linked together with the storage water tank, fixed block and fixed pipe fixed connection.
Preferably, the bottom end of the driving shaft sequentially penetrates through the motor box, the stirring machine body and the discharging block and extends to the top of the rolling block, and the rolling block is rotatably connected with the stirring machine body.
(III) advantageous effects
Compared with the prior art, the utility model provides an environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer of automatically cleaning possesses following beneficial effect:
the self-cleaning environment-friendly concrete block pulping mixer pours cement, gravel aggregate and water into the inner side of a mixer body through the feeding pipe, the driving shaft is driven to rotate through the driving motor, the connecting shaft can be sequentially driven in the rotating process of the driving shaft, the scraping brush block and the rotating impeller can rotate, the cement, the gravel aggregate and the water can be mixed and stirred in the rotating process of the rotating impeller, the purpose of mixing concrete is realized, the well-stirred concrete can be discharged through the discharging pipe through the adjusting control valve, the water inside the water storage tank can be blown into the inner side of the fixed pipe through the connecting pipe by arranging the water suction pump, the fixed pipe sequentially puts the water into the inner sides of the annular pipe and the cleaning nozzle, the cleaning nozzle puts the water into the inner wall of the mixer body, the inner wall of the mixer body can be washed, and the purpose of cleaning the mixer body is realized, through setting up eight clean shower nozzles, can carry out the omnidirectional to the inner wall of stirring organism and wash, the scope that the stirring organism washed has been improved, scrape brush block pivoted in-process, can scrape the brush to the inner wall of stirring organism, avoid the concrete to glue in the inboard of stirring organism, and cooperate the washing of eight clean shower nozzles, can wash away the concrete on stirring organism inner wall completely, scrape brush impeller pivoted in-process, can scrape the brush to the top of ejection of compact piece, prevent that the concrete from gluing in the top of ejection of compact piece, the clear effect of stirring organism has been improved, moreover, the integrated structure is simple, the purpose of mixer automatically cleaning has been realized, do not need the workman to wash the mixture of mixer inner wall adhesion, time and labor saving, need not consume a large amount of manpower, the work load of workers has been reduced, the use effect of mixer has been improved.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a top view of the annular tube connecting structure of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a front view of the structure of the stirring machine body of the utility model.
In the figure: 1 stirring machine body, 2 supporting legs, 3 motor box, 4 driving motor, 5 driving shaft, 6 connecting shaft, 7 scraping block, 8 rotating impeller, 9 scraping impeller, 10 discharging block, 11 water pump, 12 connecting pipe, 13 water inlet valve, 14 water storage tank, 15 fixing pipe, 16 ring pipe, 17 cleaning nozzle, 18 connecting block, 19 feeding pipe, 20 discharging pipe, 21 fixing block, 22 water inlet pipe, 23 observation window, 24 rolling block and 25 control valve.
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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. 1-3, a self-cleaning environment-friendly concrete block pulping mixer comprises a mixer body 1, wherein four corners of the bottom of the mixer body 1 are fixedly connected with supporting legs 2, the top of the mixer body 1 is fixedly connected with a motor box 3, the inner top wall of the motor box 3 is fixedly connected with a driving motor 4, the model of the driving motor 4 can be YB2-315S-6-70, an output shaft of the driving motor 4 is fixedly connected with a driving shaft 5, the left side and the right side of the driving shaft 5 are fixedly connected with connecting shafts 6, the opposite ends of the two connecting shafts 6 are fixedly connected with scraping brush blocks 7, the outer side of the driving shaft 5 is fixedly connected with a rotating impeller 8, the outer side of the driving shaft 5 is fixedly connected with a scraping brush impeller 9, the inner bottom wall of the mixer body 1 is fixedly connected with a discharging block 10, the scraping brush blocks 7 are movably connected, the number of the scraping brush impellers 9 is two, the two scraping brush impellers 9 are movably connected with a discharge block 10, the right side of the stirring machine body 1 is fixedly connected with a water suction pump 11, the type of the water suction pump 11 can be MMP3-C2L100AA-DEFLM, the inlet of the water suction pump 11 is fixedly connected with a connecting pipe 12, the outer side of the connecting pipe 12 is fixedly provided with a water inlet valve 13, the right side of the stirring machine body 1 is fixedly connected with a water storage tank 14, the outlet of the water suction pump 11 is fixedly connected with a fixing pipe 15, the bottom end of the fixing pipe 15 is fixedly connected with a ring pipe 16, the bottom end of the connecting pipe 12 penetrates through the water storage tank 14 and extends to the inner side of the water storage tank 14, the top of the fixing pipe 15 penetrates through the stirring machine body 1 and extends to the top of the ring pipe 16, the outer side of the ring pipe 16 is fixedly connected with cleaning nozzles 17, the top wall of the stirring machine, the number of the connecting blocks 18 is two, the two connecting blocks 18 are fixedly connected with the annular pipe 16, the left side of the stirring machine body 1 is fixedly connected with a feeding pipe 19, the left bottom of the stirring machine body 1 is fixedly connected with a discharging pipe 20, the right side of the stirring machine body 1 is fixedly connected with a fixed block 21, the top of the water storage tank 14 is fixedly connected with a water inlet pipe 22, the feeding pipe 19 and the discharging pipe 20 are fixedly connected with the stirring machine body 1, the top of the discharging block 10 is an inclined plane, the water inlet pipe 22 is communicated with the water storage tank 14, the fixed block 21 is fixedly connected with the fixed pipe 15, the front of the stirring machine body 1 is fixedly connected with an observation window 23, the bottom of the driving shaft 5 is fixedly connected with a rolling block 24, the bottom of the driving shaft 5 sequentially penetrates through the motor box 3, the stirring machine body 1 and the discharging block 10, cement, gravel aggregate and water are poured into the inner side of the stirring machine body 1 through the feeding pipe 19, the driving shaft 5 is driven to rotate through the driving motor 4, the connecting shaft 6, the scraping brush block 7, the rotary impeller 8 and the scraping brush impeller 9 are sequentially driven to rotate in the rotating process of the driving shaft 5, the cement, the gravel aggregate and the water can be mixed and stirred in the rotating process of the rotary impeller 8, the purpose of stirring concrete is realized, the stirred concrete can be discharged through the discharging pipe 20 through the adjusting control valve 25, water in the inner side of the water storage tank 14 can be blown into the inner side of the fixed pipe 15 through the connecting pipe 12 by arranging the water suction pump 11, the fixed pipe 15 sequentially puts the water into the inner sides of the annular pipe 16 and the cleaning nozzle 17, the cleaning nozzle 17 puts the water into the inner wall of the stirring machine body 1, the inner wall of the stirring machine body 1 can be washed, and the purpose of cleaning of the stirring machine body 1 is realized, by arranging the eight cleaning nozzles 17, the inner wall of the stirring machine body 1 can be washed in all directions, the washing range of the stirring machine body 1 is increased, and in the rotating process of the scraping and brushing block 7, the inner wall of the mixer body 1 can be scraped and brushed to avoid the concrete from being stuck on the inner side of the mixer body 1, and the concrete on the inner wall of the mixer body 1 can be completely washed down by matching with the washing of the eight cleaning nozzles 17, and in the process of rotating the scraping brush impeller 9, can scrape the brush to the top of ejection of compact piece 10, prevent that the concrete from gluing at the top of ejection of compact piece 10, improve the clear effect of stirring organism 1, overall structure is simple, has realized the purpose of mixer automatically cleaning, does not need the workman to wash the mixture of mixer inner wall adhesion, and labour saving and time saving need not consume a large amount of manpowers, has reduced workman's work load, has improved the result of use of mixer.
When the concrete mixer is used, cement, gravel aggregate and water are poured into the inner side of the mixer body 1 through the feeding pipe 19, the driving shaft 5 is driven to rotate through the driving motor 4, the connecting shaft 6, the scraping brush block 7, the rotating impeller 8 and the scraping brush impeller 9 are sequentially driven to rotate in the rotating process of the driving shaft 5, and the cement, gravel aggregate and water can be mixed and stirred in the rotating process of the rotating impeller 8, so that the aim of concrete mixing is fulfilled.
In conclusion, the self-cleaning environment-friendly concrete block pulping mixer pours cement, gravel aggregate and water into the inner side of the mixer body 1 through the feeding pipe 19, the driving shaft 5 is driven to rotate by the driving motor 4, the connecting shaft 6, the scraping brush block 7, the rotating impeller 8 and the scraping brush impeller 9 are sequentially driven to rotate in the rotating process of the driving shaft 5, the cement, the gravel aggregate and the water can be mixed and stirred in the rotating process of the rotating impeller 8, the aim of mixing the concrete is achieved, the mixed concrete can be discharged through the discharging pipe 20 by adjusting the control valve 25, the water in the inner side of the water storage tank 14 can be blown into the inner side of the fixed pipe 15 through the connecting pipe 12 by arranging the water suction pump 11, the fixed pipe 15 sequentially puts the water into the inner sides of the annular pipe 16 and the cleaning nozzle 17, the cleaning nozzle 17 puts the water into the inner wall of the mixer body 1, the inner wall of the stirring machine body 1 can be washed, the purpose of cleaning the stirring machine body 1 is realized, the inner wall of the stirring machine body 1 can be washed in all directions by arranging the eight cleaning nozzles 17, the washing range of the stirring machine body 1 is improved, the inner wall of the stirring machine body 1 can be scraped and brushed in the rotating process of the scraping block 7, concrete is prevented from being adhered to the inner side of the stirring machine body 1, the scraping and brushing of the eight cleaning nozzles 17 is matched, the concrete on the inner wall of the stirring machine body 1 can be completely washed away, the top of the discharging block 10 can be scraped and brushed in the rotating process of the scraping and brushing impeller 9, the concrete is prevented from being adhered to the top of the discharging block 10, the cleaning effect of the stirring machine body 1 is improved, the whole structure is simple, the purpose of self-cleaning of the stirring machine is realized, workers are not required to wash the mixture adhered to the inner wall of, need not consume a large amount of manpowers, reduced workman's work load, improved the result of use of mixer, solved current environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer and not possessed the advantage of automatically cleaning, lead to needing the workman to wash the mixture of mixer inner wall adhesion, this kind of method not only wastes time and energy, can consume a large amount of manpowers in addition, has improved workman's work load, and inconvenient use has reduced the problem of the result of use of mixer.
It is noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, the use of the phrase "comprising a. -. said" to define an element does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.

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1. The utility model provides an environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer of automatically cleaning, includes stirring organism (1), its characterized in that: the four-corner-side-wall-mounted water pump is characterized in that supporting legs (2) are fixedly connected to four corners of the bottom of the stirring machine body (1), a motor box (3) is fixedly connected to the top of the stirring machine body (1), a driving motor (4) is fixedly connected to an inner top wall of the motor box (3), a driving shaft (5) is fixedly connected to an output shaft of the driving motor (4), connecting shafts (6) are fixedly connected to the left side and the right side of the driving shaft (5), a scraping brush block (7) is fixedly connected to one end, back to the other, of each of the two connecting shafts (6), a rotating impeller (8) is fixedly connected to the outer side of the driving shaft (5), a scraping brush impeller (9) is fixedly connected to the outer side of the driving shaft (5), a discharging block (10) is fixedly connected to the inner bottom wall of the stirring machine body (1), a water pump (, the water inlet valve (13) is fixedly installed on the outer side of the connecting pipe (12), the water storage tank (14) is fixedly connected to the right side of the stirring machine body (1), the fixing pipe (15) is fixedly connected to the outlet of the water suction pump (11), the annular pipe (16) is fixedly connected to the bottom end of the fixing pipe (15), the cleaning spray head (17) is fixedly connected to the outer side of the annular pipe (16), the connecting block (18) is fixedly connected to the inner top wall of the stirring machine body (1), the feeding pipe (19) is fixedly connected to the left side of the stirring machine body (1), the discharging pipe (20) is fixedly connected to the left bottom of the stirring machine body (1), the fixing block (21) is fixedly connected to the right side of the stirring machine body (1), the water inlet pipe (22) is fixedly connected to the top of the water storage tank (, the bottom end of the driving shaft (5) is fixedly connected with a rolling block (24), and the outer side of the discharge pipe (20) is fixedly provided with a control valve (25).
2. The self-cleaning environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the bottom end of the connecting pipe (12) penetrates through the water storage tank (14) and extends to the inner side of the water storage tank (14), and the top of the fixing pipe (15) penetrates through the stirring machine body (1) and extends to the top of the annular pipe (16).
3. The self-cleaning environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the number of the cleaning spray heads (17) is eight, eight the cleaning spray heads (17) are distributed at the outer side of the annular pipe (16) at equal intervals, the number of the connecting blocks (18) is two, and the connecting blocks (18) are fixedly connected with the annular pipe (16).
4. The self-cleaning environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer as claimed in claim 1, wherein: scrape brush piece (7) and stirring organism (1) swing joint, the quantity of rotatory impeller (8) is six, the quantity of scraping brush impeller (9) is two, two scrape brush impeller (9) all with play material piece (10) swing joint.
5. The self-cleaning environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer as claimed in claim 1, wherein: inlet pipe (19) and discharging pipe (20) all with stirring organism (1) fixed connection, the top of discharging piece (10) is the inclined plane, inlet tube (22) are linked together with storage water tank (14), fixed block (21) and fixed pipe (15) fixed connection.
6. The self-cleaning environment-friendly concrete block slurrying mixer as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the bottom end of the driving shaft (5) sequentially penetrates through the motor box (3), the stirring machine body (1) and the discharging block (10) and extends to the top of the rolling block (24), and the rolling block (24) is rotatably connected with the stirring machine body (1).
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