Background
In the current metal smelting enterprises, an open type common crucible is usually adopted for a casting mold of high-purity metal melting materials, when the casting mold is used, firstly, metal materials are added into the crucible from an opening at the top of the crucible and heated for smelting, and then a material ladle is manually adopted to extend into the crucible to scoop out the molten metal and transfer the molten metal into a casting mold of an ingot casting mold. The following problems exist in this process: 1. the manual scooping mode not only has high labor intensity and is easy to cause personal scald, but also is easy to throw feed liquid in the transferring process to cause material loss; 2. After the metal material is melted, the oxidizing slag floats on the surface of the liquid and is not easy to be removed completely, and the oxidizing slag is easy to be brought into the ingot casting mold to influence the product quality; 3. the metal material is not protected by gas in the melting process, the oxidation process is continuous all the time, and the oxidation phenomenon is serious; 4. The casting cannot be continuously performed and the working efficiency is low.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model provides a high-purity metal melt crucible, the intensity of labour that the crucible that this kind of crucible adopted when can solving current high-purity metal melt casting mould exists is big, work efficiency is low, the security is low and metal oxidation phenomenon is serious, easily bring into the problem that influences product quality in the ingot mould with the oxidizing slag.
In order to solve the above problem, the utility model discloses the technical scheme who adopts is: the high-purity metal melt crucible comprises a crucible body, wherein a top cover is arranged on the crucible body, a protective gas inlet is formed in the top cover, the crucible body is divided into a melting bin and a discharging bin through a slag baffle, a gap is formed between the slag baffle and a bottom plate of the crucible body, a feeding hole is formed in the side wall of the crucible body of the melting bin, a discharging hole is formed in the bottom plate of the crucible body of the discharging bin, and the feeding hole is communicated with the discharging hole through the melting bin and the discharging bin in sequence; and a lifting rod driven by a lifting control device is arranged above the liquid discharging port, and a liquid discharging port plug is arranged at the lower end of the lifting rod.
In the above technical solution, a more specific technical solution may also be: the lifting control device comprises a screw rod with one end connected with the motor, the other end of the screw rod sequentially penetrates through a nut and the top cover to be sleeved with the lifting rod, and a ball sliding block sleeved on the screw rod is fixed in the lifting rod.
Further: the feed inlet is linked together with the feeder hopper that the slope upwards set up, the top of feeder hopper is equipped with the apron, the apron with there is the clearance that is used for the protective gas to escape between the feeder hopper.
Further: the liquid discharging opening is communicated with a discharging hopper, and the discharging hopper is a cone with a large upper part and a small lower part.
Further: the inner wall of the crucible body is provided with a material slag baffle insertion groove, and two sides of the material slag baffle are respectively inserted into the material slag baffle insertion groove and are movably connected with the material slag baffle insertion groove; the bottom of material sediment baffle with the clearance between the bottom plate of crucible body is 2 ~ 20 mm.
Further: the drain plug is a spherical plug or a conical plug, and the outer diameter of the drain plug is larger than the inner diameter of the drain.
Since the technical scheme is used, compared with the prior art, the utility model following beneficial effect has:
1. the crucible body is provided with the top cover, the top cover is provided with the protective gas inlet, the crucible body is divided into the melting bin and the discharging bin through the slag baffle, a gap is reserved between the slag baffle and the bottom plate of the crucible body, the side wall of the crucible body positioned in the melting bin is provided with the feeding hole, the bottom plate of the crucible body positioned in the discharging bin is provided with the discharging hole, and the feeding hole is communicated with the discharging hole through the melting bin and the discharging bin in sequence; a lifting rod driven by a lifting control device is arranged above the tapping hole, and a tapping hole plug is arranged at the lower end of the lifting rod; the metal material melting process is characterized in that protective gas is introduced into the metal material melting process, metal oxidation is reduced, meanwhile, oxidizing slag generated by oxidation of the metal material is further blocked in the melting bin through the slag baffle, pure metal liquid flows into the tapping bin from the bottom plate of the melting bin, and the tapping hole is opened through the lifting control device to enable the metal liquid to automatically flow out.
2. Because the top end of the feed hopper is provided with the cover plate, and a gap for protecting gas to escape is arranged between the cover plate and the feed hopper, the pressure in the crucible is ensured to be stable, and the safety and reliability of the equipment are further improved.
3. Because the two sides of the material slag baffle are respectively inserted into the material slag baffle insertion grooves and are movably connected with the material slag baffle insertion grooves; the convenience of use is improved.
4. Because the gap between the bottom end of the slag baffle and the bottom plate of the crucible body is 2-20 mm; even if the discharging is smooth, the oxidizing slag can not enter the discharging bin, and the product quality is further improved.
5. Because the drain plug is a spherical plug or a conical plug, the outer diameter of the drain plug is larger than the inner diameter of the drain; the sealing performance of the liquid discharging port is improved.
Detailed Description
Example one
The invention will be described in more detail with reference to the following embodiments:
the high-purity metal melting crucible shown in fig. 1, fig. 2 and fig. 3 comprises a crucible body 1, wherein a top cover 2 is arranged on the crucible body 1, and a protective gas inlet 9 is arranged on the top cover 2; the inner wall of the crucible body 1 is respectively provided with a slag baffle insertion groove 10, two sides of a slag baffle 8 are respectively inserted into the slag baffle insertion groove 10 and movably connected with the slag baffle insertion groove 10, the top end of the slag baffle 8 is positioned between the upper edge of the crucible body 1 and the upper edge of a feeding hole, a gap for molten liquid to enter a tapping bin is arranged between the bottom end of the slag baffle 8 and the bottom plate of the crucible body 1, the gap is 2mm, the inside of the crucible body 1 is divided into a melting bin a and a tapping bin b by the slag baffle 8, a feeding hole is arranged on the side wall of the crucible body 1 positioned in the melting bin a, a tapping hole is arranged on the bottom plate of the crucible body 1 positioned in the tapping bin b, and the feeding hole is communicated with the tapping hole through the melting bin a and the tapping bin b in sequence; a lifting rod 5 driven by a lifting control device 7 is arranged above the liquid discharging port, the lifting control device 7 comprises a motor 71, a screw 72, a nut 73 and a ball slider 74, one end of the screw 72 is connected with an output shaft of the motor 71, the other end of the screw 72 sequentially penetrates through the nut 73 and the top cover 2 to be sleeved with the lifting rod 5, the inner wall of the lifting rod 5 is fixedly connected with the ball slider 74, and the ball slider 74 is sleeved outside the screw 72; the lower end of the lifting rod 5 is provided with a tapping hole plug 6; the feed inlet is communicated with the feed hopper 3, the feed hopper 3 is arranged obliquely upwards from the feed inlet, as shown in fig. 4, a cover plate 31 is arranged at the top end of the feed hopper 3, and a gap for protective gas to escape is formed between the cover plate 31 and the feed hopper 3; the upper surface L of the bottom plate of the crucible body 1 is a concave surface with a low tap hole, the tap hole is communicated with a discharge hopper 4, and the discharge hopper 4 is a cone with a large upper part and a small lower part; the drain plug 6 is positioned above the drain, the drain plug 6 is a spherical plug, and the outer diameter of the drain plug 6 is larger than the inner diameter of the drain.
Before casting, the high purity metal melt crucible of the present example was placed in a melting furnace and fixed. When casting, firstly, starting a lifting control device to enable a lifting rod to descend to drive a plug head to plug a discharge hole, introducing protective gas into a crucible, opening a cover plate, covering the cover plate after metal materials are put into the crucible, and then starting a heating system to heat and melt the metal materials in the crucible; after the metal material is melted, the metal material enters the tapping bin from a gap between the slag baffle and the crucible bottom plate, and oxidized slag formed by oxides on the surface of the metal is blocked by the slag baffle so as to float on the surface of molten metal in the melting bin; and lifting the lifting rod to a required position through a movable lifting control device according to a releasing requirement, releasing the pure molten metal to a die outside the furnace, and cooling and forming to obtain the molten metal. The above-mentioned in-process lets in inert gas and has reduced metal oxidation and further blockked the oxidizing slag that metal material oxidation produced through the material sediment baffle and blockked in the melt storehouse when having reduced metal oxidation, and the impurity content in not only the finished product ingot casting is few, and product quality is high to can make the pure metal liquid automatic outflow after melting through lift control device, convenient operation, work efficiency height, no material loss and safe and reliable. Meanwhile, a feed inlet can be opened periodically according to the size of the discharge amount in the casting mold, and metal materials consistent with the discharge amount are fed, so that the casting continuity operation can be realized.
Example two
The gap between the bottom end of the slag baffle and the bottom plate of the crucible body is 20 mm; the drain hole plug is a conical plug, and the rest is the same as the first embodiment.
EXAMPLE III
The gap between the bottom end of the slag baffle and the bottom plate of the crucible body is 10 mm; the rest is the same as the first embodiment.