CN212808271U - Movable water quality monitoring device - Google Patents

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CN212808271U
CN212808271U CN202021915251.XU CN202021915251U CN212808271U CN 212808271 U CN212808271 U CN 212808271U CN 202021915251 U CN202021915251 U CN 202021915251U CN 212808271 U CN212808271 U CN 212808271U
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The utility model discloses a movable water quality monitoring device belongs to water quality monitoring technical field, and it includes the kickboard, kickboard top fixedly connected with motor case, the first motor of motor incasement fixedly connected with, fixedly connected with second pivot on the output shaft of first motor. This movable water quality monitoring device is through the work of the first motor of control, it rotates to drive the screw, position that can adjusting device, realize the purpose that the device freely removed according to the monitoring needs, through the work of control second motor, it goes up and down to drive the rack board, thereby it goes up and down to drive the sampler barrel, thereby the realization carries out the purpose of monitoring to the water of the different degree of depth, through the work of control electric putter, electric putter extends, make the piston rod drive piston downstream, thereby make the piston no longer shelter from the inlet opening, water can get into in the sampler barrel through the inlet opening, electric putter shortens, make the piston shutoff inlet opening again, avoid the water leakage in the sampler barrel.

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Movable water quality monitoring device
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of water quality monitoring, concretely relates to movable water quality monitoring device.
Background
The water quality monitoring is a process for monitoring and measuring the types of pollutants in a water body, the concentrations and the variation trends of various pollutants and evaluating the water quality condition, and has a wide monitoring range, including uncontaminated and contaminated natural water (rivers, lakes, seas and underground water), various industrial drainage and the like.
Most of the existing water quality monitoring devices can only float on the water surface or move at the water bottom, the monitoring devices of the type can not finish the detection of water quality at any position in water, so that the collected data can not accurately reflect the index change of the whole water quality, and in the moving process of the device, if special conditions such as aquatic weeds are met, the aquatic weeds are easily wound on the propeller, so that the propeller is easily damaged and can not be used.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
To solve the problems set forth in the background art described above. The utility model provides a movable water quality monitoring device has the characteristics of the convenience of removal and the regulation of being convenient for.
In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a following technical scheme: a movable water quality monitoring device comprises a floating plate, wherein a motor box is fixedly connected to the top of the floating plate, a first motor is fixedly connected to the interior of the motor box, a second rotating shaft is fixedly connected to an output shaft of the first motor, one end of the second rotating shaft penetrates through the floating plate and is fixedly connected with a driving bevel gear, a driven bevel gear is meshed on the surface of the driving bevel gear, a first rotating shaft is fixedly connected to the interior of the driven bevel gear, a propeller is sleeved on the surface of the first rotating shaft, a supporting plate is fixedly connected to the bottom of the floating plate, a second bearing is fixedly connected to the side surface of the supporting plate and is rotatably connected with the first rotating shaft, a mounting frame is fixedly connected to the top of the floating plate, a second motor and a fixing plate are fixedly connected to the top of the mounting frame, a mounting plate is fixedly connected to the front side of the mounting frame, and a fourth rotating shaft is fixedly connected to an output shaft of the second motor.
The utility model discloses a sampling device, including a fixed plate, mounting panel, floater, sampling tube, gear, rack plate, piston rod, the top fixedly connected with electric putter of piston rod, fixed plate side fixedly connected with first bearing, the first bearing internal rotation of first bearing is connected with the third pivot, fixedly connected with gear between third pivot and the fourth pivot, gear and rack plate meshing, the through-hole has been seted up on the floater, the bottom of mounting panel passes through-hole fixedly connected with sampling tube, the inlet opening has been seted up to the side of sampling tube inner wall, fixedly connected with closure plate in the sampling tube, the last poling hole of having seted up of closure plate, the downthehole piston rod that wears to be equipped with of poling, the piston rod surface has cup jointed the piston.
As a further aspect of the present invention: a filter screen and a cutting blade are sleeved on the surface of the first rotating shaft.
As a further aspect of the present invention: the equal fixedly connected with solid fixed ring in bottom both sides of kickboard, fixedly connected with flotation pontoon in the solid fixed ring.
As a further aspect of the present invention: the side fixedly connected with outlet pipe of sampler barrel inner wall, be provided with the valve on the outlet pipe.
As a further aspect of the present invention: the side of the inner wall of the rod penetrating hole is fixedly connected with a sealing ring, and the side of the sealing ring is connected with the piston rod in a sliding mode.
As a further aspect of the present invention: the first motor, the second motor and the electric push rod are in signal connection with an external controller.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that:
1. this movable water quality monitoring device, through the work of the first motor of control, it rotates to drive the screw, position that can adjusting device, realize the purpose that the device freely removed according to the monitoring needs, through the work of control second motor, it goes up and down to drive the rack board, thereby it goes up and down to drive the sampler barrel, thereby the realization carries out the purpose of monitoring to the water of the different degree of depth, through the work of control electric putter, electric putter extends, make the piston rod drive piston downstream, thereby make the piston no longer shelter from the inlet opening, water can get into in the sampler barrel through the inlet opening, electric putter shortens, make the piston shutoff inlet opening again, avoid the water leakage in the sampler barrel.
2. This movable water quality monitoring device smashes pasture and water through quick pivoted cutting blade to avoid the pasture and water winding on the screw, guarantee that the device removes stably, block the pasture and water after smashing through utilizing the filter screen.
3. This movable water quality monitoring device through the flotation pontoon of fixed mounting respectively in the bottom both sides of kickboard, can increase the buoyancy and the anti jolt nature of kickboard, has improved the stability of kickboard greatly, alleviates and rocks, through setting up the sealing washer, plays waterproof effect, avoids the water mutual infiltration on different layers.
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The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention, and together with the description serve to explain the invention and not to limit the invention. In the drawings:
fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a front view section of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic rear view of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged schematic view of the structure at A in FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a perspective structural view of the buoy of FIG. 1;
in the figure: 1. a floating plate; 2. a fixing ring; 3. a float bowl; 4. a cutting blade; 5. a filter screen; 6. a propeller; 7. a first rotating shaft; 8. a driven bevel gear; 9. a second rotating shaft; 10. a drive bevel gear; 11. a motor case; 12. a first motor; 13. a mounting frame; 14. a fixing plate; 15. a first bearing; 16. a third rotating shaft; 17. a gear; 18. a rack plate; 19. mounting a plate; 20. a fourth rotating shaft; 21. a second motor; 22. a fixed block; 23. an electric push rod; 24. a piston; 25. a through hole; 26. a water inlet hole; 27. a sampling tube; 28. a seal ring; 29. a piston rod; 30. a rod penetrating hole; 31. a plugging plate; 32. a water outlet pipe; 33. a valve; 34. a second bearing; 35. and a support plate.
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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.
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Referring to fig. 1-4, the present invention provides the following technical solutions: a movable water quality monitoring device comprises a floating plate 1, wherein a motor box 11 is fixedly connected to the top of the floating plate 1, a first motor 12 is fixedly connected in the motor box 11, a propeller 6 is driven to rotate by controlling the first motor 12 to work, the position of the device can be adjusted, the purpose that the device can move freely according to monitoring needs is achieved, a second rotating shaft 9 is fixedly connected to an output shaft of the first motor 12, one end of the second rotating shaft 9 penetrates through the floating plate 1 and is fixedly connected with a driving bevel gear 10, the surface of the driving bevel gear 10 is meshed with a driven bevel gear 8, a first rotating shaft 7 is fixedly connected in the driven bevel gear 8, the surface of the first rotating shaft 7 is sleeved with the propeller 6, a supporting plate 35 is fixedly connected to the bottom of the floating plate 1, a second bearing 34 is fixedly connected to the side surface of the supporting plate 35, the second bearing 34 is rotatably connected with the first rotating shaft 7, and, mounting bracket 13 top fixedly connected with second motor 21 and fixed plate 14 through the work of control second motor 21, drive rack plate 18 and go up and down to drive sampler barrel 27 and go up and down, thereby realize carrying out the purpose of monitoring to the water of the different degree of depth, the front side fixedly connected with mounting panel 19 of mounting bracket 13, the front side fixedly connected with rack plate 18 of mounting panel 19, fixedly connected with fourth pivot 20 on the output shaft of second motor 21.
The side surface of the fixed plate 14 is fixedly connected with a first bearing 15, the first bearing 15 is rotationally connected with a third rotating shaft 16, a gear 17 is fixedly connected between the third rotating shaft 16 and a fourth rotating shaft 20, the gear 17 is meshed with a rack plate 18, a through hole 25 is arranged on the floating plate 1, the bottom of the mounting plate 19 penetrates through the through hole 25 and is fixedly connected with a sampling cylinder 27, the side surface of the inner wall of the sampling cylinder 27 is provided with a water inlet hole 26, a plugging plate 31 is fixedly connected in the sampling cylinder 27, a rod penetrating hole 30 is arranged on the plugging plate 31, a piston rod 29 penetrates through the rod penetrating hole 30, the surface of the piston rod 29 is sleeved with a piston 24, the top end of the piston rod 29 is fixedly connected with an electric push rod 23, the electric push rod 23 is controlled to work, the electric push rod 23 extends to enable the piston rod 29 to drive the piston 24 to move downwards, so that the piston 24, the piston 24 is enabled to block the water inlet hole 26 again, water in the sampling cylinder 27 is prevented from leaking out, the top of the electric push rod 23 is fixedly connected with the fixing block 22, and the fixing block 22 is fixedly connected to the rear side of the mounting plate 19.
Filter screen 5 and cutting blade 4 have been cup jointed on first pivot 7 surface, cutting blade 4 through quick pivoted smashes pasture and water, thereby avoid pasture and water winding on screw 6, it is stable to guarantee the device removal, block the pasture and water after smashing through utilizing filter screen 5, the solid fixed ring 2 of the equal fixedly connected with in bottom both sides of kickboard 1, gu fixed ring 2 internal fixation is connected with flotation pontoon 3, through flotation pontoon 3 of fixed mounting respectively in the bottom both sides of kickboard 1, can increase the buoyancy and the anti-jolting of kickboard 1, the stability of kickboard 1 has been improved greatly, alleviate and rock, the side fixedly connected with sealing washer 28 of poling hole 30 inner wall, the side and piston rod 29 sliding connection of sealing washer 28, through setting up sealing washer 28, play waterproof effect, avoid the mutual infiltration of the water on different layers.
The utility model discloses a theory of operation does:
s1, before water quality monitoring is started, the device is firstly placed on the water surface, floats on the water surface under the action of buoyancy of the buoy 3, and controls the first motor 12 to start working through an external controller to drive the second rotating shaft 9 to rotate, drive the driving bevel gear 10 to rotate and drive the driven bevel gear 8 to rotate, and simultaneously drive the propeller 6 to rotate through synchronous rotation of the first rotating shaft 7, and drive the device to move to a proper position according to use requirements;
s2, controlling a second motor 21 to start working through an external controller to drive a fourth rotating shaft 20 to rotate, driving a gear 17 to rotate under the rotation matching of a third rotating shaft 16 to drive a rack plate 18 to descend, simultaneously, lowering a sampling cylinder 27 into water to a certain depth according to the requirement of water quality monitoring, and then controlling an electric push rod 23 to start working through the external controller, extending the electric push rod 23, driving a piston 24 to move downwards through a piston rod 29 to enable the piston 24 not to shield a water inlet 26, and enabling water to enter the sampling cylinder 27 through the water inlet 26;
s3, after sampling is finished, the electric push rod 23 is controlled to start working through the external controller, the electric push rod 23 is shortened, the piston rod 29 drives the piston 24 to move upwards, and the piston 24 blocks the water inlet hole 26 again.
Finally, it should be noted that: although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications may be made to the embodiments described in the foregoing embodiments, or equivalents may be substituted for elements thereof. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

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1. The utility model provides a movable water quality monitoring device, includes kickboard (1), its characterized in that: the top of the floating plate (1) is fixedly connected with a motor box (11), a first motor (12) is fixedly connected in the motor box (11), a second rotating shaft (9) is fixedly connected on an output shaft of the first motor (12), one end of the second rotating shaft (9) penetrates through the floating plate (1) and is fixedly connected with a driving bevel gear (10), a driven bevel gear (8) is meshed on the surface of the driving bevel gear (10), a first rotating shaft (7) is fixedly connected in the driven bevel gear (8), a propeller (6) is sleeved on the surface of the first rotating shaft (7), a supporting plate (35) is fixedly connected at the bottom of the floating plate (1), a second bearing (34) is fixedly connected to the side surface of the supporting plate (35), the second bearing (34) is rotatably connected with the first rotating shaft (7), and a mounting frame (13) is fixedly connected at the top of the floating plate (1), the top of the mounting frame (13) is fixedly connected with a second motor (21) and a fixing plate (14), the front side of the mounting frame (13) is fixedly connected with a mounting plate (19), the front side of the mounting plate (19) is fixedly connected with a rack plate (18), and an output shaft of the second motor (21) is fixedly connected with a fourth rotating shaft (20);
the side surface of the fixing plate (14) is fixedly connected with a first bearing (15), the first bearing (15) is rotationally connected with a third rotating shaft (16), a gear (17) is fixedly connected between the third rotating shaft (16) and a fourth rotating shaft (20), the gear (17) is meshed with a rack plate (18), a through hole (25) is formed in the floating plate (1), the bottom of the mounting plate (19) penetrates through the through hole (25) and is fixedly connected with a sampling tube (27), the side surface of the inner wall of the sampling tube (27) is provided with a water inlet hole (26), a plugging plate (31) is fixedly connected in the sampling tube (27), a rod penetrating hole (30) is formed in the plugging plate (31), a piston rod (29) is penetrated in the rod penetrating hole (30), a piston (24) is sleeved on the surface of the piston rod (29), and an electric push rod (23) is fixedly connected to the top end of the piston rod (29), the top of the electric push rod (23) is fixedly connected with a fixing block (22), and the fixing block (22) is fixedly connected to the rear side of the mounting plate (19).
2. The movable water quality monitoring device according to claim 1, characterized in that: and a filter screen (5) and a cutting blade (4) are sleeved on the surface of the first rotating shaft (7).
3. The movable water quality monitoring device according to claim 1, characterized in that: the bottom both sides of kickboard (1) equal fixedly connected with solid fixed ring (2), gu fixed ring (2) internal fixation is connected with flotation pontoon (3).
4. The movable water quality monitoring device according to claim 1, characterized in that: the side fixedly connected with outlet pipe (32) of sampler barrel (27) inner wall, be provided with valve (33) on outlet pipe (32).
5. The movable water quality monitoring device according to claim 1, characterized in that: the side surface of the inner wall of the rod penetrating hole (30) is fixedly connected with a sealing ring (28), and the side surface of the sealing ring (28) is connected with a piston rod (29) in a sliding mode.
6. The movable water quality monitoring device according to claim 1, characterized in that: the first motor (12), the second motor (21) and the electric push rod (23) are in signal connection with an external controller.
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