CN212285080U - Small-size apron cleaning machine - Google Patents
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The utility model relates to a mechanical cleaning technical field's small-size apron cleaning machine, including frame and control box, set gradually the pan feeding mouth in the frame, first wind surely the room, first washing district, second wind surely the room, the second washs the district, the room is cut to third wind, the third washs the district, the fourth washs the district, the fifth washs the district, the fourth wind surely the room, the discharge gate, still is equipped with the water tank of transport mechanism and water supply in the frame. And after the cover plate to be cleaned enters the equipment, sequentially carrying out deionized water cleaning and drying for many times, then carrying out deionized water cleaning and pure water cleaning with higher purity, and finally drying in a fourth air cutting chamber and taking out from a discharge port. The cover plate can be effectively washed away most of impurities by washing with deionized water, and the cost of water for washing is saved; the number and the angle of the four groups of drying air knives in the fourth air cutting chamber are set to ensure that the cover plate is completely dried when reaching the discharge hole, so that the cleaning requirement is met.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a mechanical cleaning technical field, concretely relates to small-size apron cleaning machine.
Background
In the production and processing processes of various cover plates such as glass or acrylic used for mobile phones and tablet computers, a large amount of dust and pollutants remain on the surface of the cover plate, so that equipment is needed for cleaning the cover plate. In the prior art, cleaning is usually carried out by two modes of ultrasonic waves or industrial cleaning agents.
A large amount of water resources are consumed in the ultrasonic washing mode, so that the waste of resources is caused; the industrial cleaning agent usually needs a large amount of manual work, is low in cleaning efficiency, causes certain harm to the bodies of operators, can cause secondary pollution to cover plates if the cleaning is not thorough, and can cause certain pollution to the environment.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims at overcoming the not enough and defect of prior art, provide a small-size apron cleaning machine.
The purpose of the utility model is realized through the following technical scheme:
small-size apron cleaning machine, including frame and control box, set gradually in the frame that pan feeding mouth, first wind cut room, first washing district, second wind cut room, second washing district, third wind cut room, third washing district, fourth washing district, fifth washing district, fourth wind cut room, discharge gate, first washing district, second washing district, third washing district are the deionized water round brush washing district, and the fourth washing district sprays the washing district for the deionized water, and the fifth washing district is the pure water washing district, still be equipped with transport mechanism, water tank in the frame, transport mechanism runs through the pan feeding mouth and the discharge gate of frame, the water tank supplies water for first washing district, second washing district, third washing district, fourth washing district, fifth washing district.
Specifically, transport mechanism includes drive motor and the conveying roller who is connected with the drive motor output, conveying roller includes a plurality of axle cores that evenly arrange side by side and the rubber circle of cover on the axle center, the rubber circle cover is just cross arrangement on two adjacent axle cores.
Specifically, including setting up the drying air knife in both sides about on the apron in first wind cuts room, second wind cuts room, the third wind cuts the room, drying air knife wind gap direction is parallel with apron direction of transfer, and the fourth wind cuts the room and contains four groups of drying air knives, four groups of drying air knives evenly distributed are 0-5 jiaos in both sides and wind gap direction and apron direction of transfer about the apron.
The deionized water round brush cleaning area comprises a deionized water filter, a spraying assembly and a round brush assembly, the deionized water spraying cleaning area comprises the deionized water filter and the spraying assembly, the pure water flushing area comprises the pure water filter and the spraying assembly, the spraying assembly comprises a spray pipe arranged on the upper side and the lower side of the cover plate and a nozzle arranged on the spray pipe, a water tank is connected with a water inlet of the deionized water filter, the spray pipe is connected with a water outlet, the round brush assembly comprises an upper round brush and a lower round brush which are arranged on the upper side and the lower side of the cover plate, the upper round brush is in contact with the upper surface of the cover plate, and the lower round brush is.
Specifically, be equipped with filtering component between deionized water filter, pure water filter and the water tank, filtering component comprises two annular splint and stainless steel filter screen, the filter screen clamp is between two annular splint.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model following advantage and beneficial effect are included: the utility model discloses cut room integration in the frame with purge chamber and wind, make treat that abluent apron carries out deionized water washing and stoving back many times in proper order after getting into the equipment, carry out more high-purity deionized water again and wash and the pure water washs, cuts the room drying through the fourth wind at last and takes out from the discharge gate. The cover plate can be effectively washed away by deionized water with higher and higher filtering precision, and the water cost for washing is saved; the number and the angle of the four groups of drying air knives in the fourth air cutting chamber are set to ensure that the cover plate is completely dried when reaching the discharge hole, so that the cleaning requirement is met.
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Fig. 1 is the overall structure schematic diagram of the device of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a top view of the carriage upper transport mechanism.
FIG. 3 is a partial structural view of the first cleaning chamber.
Fig. 4 is a left side view of the position of the first cleaning chamber.
Fig. 5 is a partial structural schematic view of a fourth wind-cutting chamber.
Fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of the filter screen.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the following examples and drawings, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "disposed," "connected," and the like are to be construed broadly, and the specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific instances by those skilled in the art. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and the like are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.
As shown in fig. 1 to 5, the small-sized cover plate cleaning machine includes a frame 10 and a control box 20. The control box 20 is used for controlling the running state of the whole equipment, so that all mechanisms are mutually matched to complete the cleaning work of the small-size cover plate.
The frame 10 is sequentially provided with a feeding port 50, a first wind cutting chamber 51, a first cleaning area 52, a second wind cutting chamber 53, a second cleaning area 54, a third wind cutting chamber 55, a third cleaning area 56, a fourth cleaning area 57, a fifth cleaning area 58, a fourth wind cutting chamber 59 and a discharging port 60. The frame 10 is also provided with a conveying mechanism 30 and a water tank 40. The cover plate to be cleaned enters the processing chamber from the feeding port 50 once and is finally taken out from the discharging port 60 after the cleaning is finished.
The conveying mechanism 30 penetrates through the feeding port 50 and the discharging port 60 of the rack 10, and includes a transmission motor 31 and conveying rollers 32 connected to the output end of the transmission motor 31, and the conveying mechanism 30 includes a plurality of groups of conveying rollers 32. The conveying roller 32 comprises a plurality of shaft cores 321 which are uniformly arranged in parallel and rubber rings 322 sleeved on the shaft cores, and the rubber rings 322 are sleeved on two adjacent shaft cores 321 and are arranged in a crossed manner. Preferably, the rubber ring 322 is a fluorine rubber O-ring.
The fluorine rubber O-shaped ring is widely applied to the fields of automobiles, electronics, aerospace, ships and the like with higher precision requirements, is high-temperature resistant and wear resistant, and can work in harsh working environments. The main component is rubber containing fluorine in the molecule, and the rubber is divided into different types according to the different fluorine contents. The high-temperature resistance of the product is better than that of silicon rubber, and the product has excellent chemical resistance, most oil and solvent resistance (except ketone and ester), weather resistance and ozone resistance.
The water tank 40 supplies water to the first washing section 52, the second washing section 54, the third washing section 56, the fourth washing section 57, and the fifth washing section 58. The first cleaning area 52, the second cleaning area 54, and the third cleaning area 56 are deionized water rolling brush cleaning areas, the fourth cleaning area 57 is a deionized water spraying cleaning area, and the fifth cleaning area 58 is a pure water cleaning area.
The deionized water rolling brush cleaning area comprises a deionized water filter, a spraying assembly and a rolling brush assembly, the deionized water spraying cleaning area comprises a deionized water filter and a spraying assembly, and the pure water washing area comprises a pure water filter and a spraying assembly.
The spraying assembly comprises spraying pipes arranged on the upper side and the lower side of the cover plate and nozzles arranged on the spraying pipes, a water inlet of the deionized water filter is connected with the water tank 40, a water outlet of the deionized water filter is connected with the spraying pipes, water in the water tank 40 flows out through the deionized water filter or the pure water filter and then is sprayed out of the nozzles through the spraying pipes, the nozzles are preferably umbrella-shaped nozzles, and 2-3 nozzles are uniformly arranged on each spraying pipe. The round brush subassembly is including setting up in the last round brush and the round brush down of apron upper and lower both sides, goes up the upper surface contact of round brush and apron, and the lower round brush contacts with the lower surface of apron.
A filtering component 41 is arranged between the deionized water filter, the pure water filter and the water tank 40, the filtering component 41 is composed of two annular clamping plates 411 and a stainless steel filtering net 412, and the filtering net 412 is clamped between the two annular clamping plates 411. The filter assembly 41 can filter out large particle impurities entering the water tank 40 in advance, reduce the filtering pressure of the rear equipment and reduce the overload work loss of the equipment. The filter screen 412 is preferably a 304 stainless steel filter screen 412, and the annular clamp plate 411 is connected thereto by spot welding.
The first wind cutting chamber 51, the second wind cutting chamber 53 and the third wind cutting chamber 55 comprise drying wind knives arranged at the upper and lower sides of the cover plate, and the wind openings of the drying wind knives are parallel to the conveying direction of the cover plate. The first wind cutting chamber 51, the second wind cutting chamber 53 and the third wind cutting chamber 55 are sequentially arranged in a staggered mode with the first cleaning area 52, the second cleaning area 54 and the third cleaning area 56, single drying-cleaning is taken as a cleaning operation unit, the cleaning effect is gradually enhanced by combining the filtering precision of different cleaning chambers, and the drying effect of the wind cutting chambers enables the cover plate to be free of residual water of the previous cleaning unit on the surface when the cover plate enters the next cleaning chamber to be cleaned, so that the next cleaning with higher cleanliness can be carried out. The fourth air cutting chamber 59 includes four sets of drying air knives which are uniformly distributed on the upper and lower sides of the cover plate, and the air opening direction and the conveying direction of the cover plate form an angle of 0-5 degrees. The fourth wind-cutting chamber 59 is located at the last step of the whole cleaning process, and has the function of drying all water residues on the surface of the cleaned cover plate in an air-drying manner, and simultaneously preventing the water residues on the cover plate after being taken out from the material outlet 60 from re-adsorbing suspended granular impurities in the air to cause secondary pollution.
Specifically, the drying air knife is powered by a high-pressure air pump, and the high-pressure air pump compresses and heats air and blows the air out of the drying air knife. An air inlet of the high-pressure air pump is provided with an air filtering system to filter out dust impurities and static electricity in the air. Correspondingly, an air divider and an air volume adjusting valve are arranged between the drying air knife and the high-pressure air pump, and an air pressure gauge is arranged in each air cutting chamber to monitor the air pressure in real time.
Specifically, a rolling brush motor is further disposed on the frame 10 to drive the rolling brush to rotate. The water inlet of the water tank 40 is provided with an electromagnetic valve, and the water surplus in the water tank 40 can be automatically monitored in real time through a sensor, so that automatic water supply is realized. In addition, each cleaning area is also provided with a temperature control system for heating the water body. The deionized water filter, the pure water filter, the rolling brush motor and the transmission motor 31 are respectively electrically connected with the control box 20, the control box 20 is correspondingly provided with an operation table on the frame 10, and an operator can control the working state of each component through the operation table in the operation process of the equipment. Specifically, the operation panel includes, but is not limited to, a motor emergency stop button, a motor speed control button, and functional buttons for automatic water supply, temperature control, and wind pressure control of the water tank 40.
The specific implementation manner of the utility model is as follows:
after the equipment is installed according to the structure, the equipment enters a standby working state, the conveying mechanism 30 runs after the equipment is started, and a cover plate to be cleaned is placed at the feeding port 50. The conveying motor drives the conveying roller 32 to operate, the shaft core 321 of the conveying roller 32 rotates to drive the rubber ring 322 to operate so that one end of the cover plate is supposed to move, the cover plate sequentially passes through the first air cutting chamber 51, the first cleaning area 52, the second air cutting chamber 53, the second cleaning area 54, the third air cutting chamber 55 and the third cleaning area 56 on the way to clean and dry three rounds of deionized water with gradually increased purity, the deionized water with higher purity is sprayed and cleaned through the fourth cleaning area 57, the pure water is cleaned through the fifth cleaning area 58, finally, water drops on the surface of the cover plate are dried and removed through four groups of drying air knives of the fourth air cutting chamber 59, and the cleaned cover plate is taken out from the discharge port 60 to complete the cleaning process of the cover plate.
The above-mentioned embodiments only express the embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is more specific and detailed, but not construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit of the present invention, several variations and modifications can be made, which are within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be subject to the appended claims.
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1. Small-size apron cleaning machine, including frame and control box, its characterized in that: the frame is last to set gradually the room is cut to pan feeding mouth, first wind, first washing district, second wind cuts room, second washing district, third wind and cuts room, third washing district, fourth washing district, fifth washing district, fourth wind and cut room, discharge gate, first washing district, second washing district, third washing district are the deionized water round brush washing district, and the fourth washing district sprays the washing district for the deionized water, and the fifth washing district is the pure water washing district, still be equipped with transport mechanism, water tank in the frame, transport mechanism runs through the pan feeding mouth and the discharge gate of frame, the water tank supplies water for first washing district, second washing district, third washing district, fourth washing district, fifth washing district.
2. The small-size cover plate cleaning machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: the conveying mechanism comprises a transmission motor and conveying rollers connected with the output end of the transmission motor, the conveying rollers comprise a plurality of shaft cores which are evenly arranged in parallel and rubber rings sleeved on the shaft centers, and the rubber rings are sleeved on two adjacent shaft cores and are arranged in a crossed mode.
3. The small-size cover plate cleaning machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: first wind cuts room, second wind and cuts room, third wind and cuts indoor including setting up the drying air knife of both sides down on the apron, drying air knife wind gap direction is parallel with apron direction of transfer, and the fourth wind cuts the room and contains four groups drying air knife, four groups drying air knife evenly distributed are 0-5 jiaos in both sides and wind gap direction and apron direction of transfer about the apron.
4. The small-size cover plate cleaning machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: deionized water round brush washs the district and includes deionized water filter, spray assembly and round brush subassembly, deionized water sprays the washing district and includes deionized water filter and spray assembly, the pure water washing district includes pure water filter and spray assembly, spray assembly including set up the spray tube of both sides about the apron with set up in nozzle on the spray tube, the water tank is connected to the water inlet of deionized water filter, the spray tube is connected to the delivery port, the round brush subassembly is including setting up in the last round brush and the lower round brush of both sides about the apron, goes up the upper surface contact of round brush and apron, and the lower round brush contacts with the lower surface of apron.
5. The small-size cover plate cleaning machine according to claim 4, wherein: be equipped with filtering component between deionized water filter, the pure water filter and the water tank, filtering component comprises two annular splint and stainless steel filter screen, the filter screen presss from both sides between two annular splint.
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