CN213079998U - Plane type circular operation casting molding system - Google Patents
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The utility model relates to a planar circulation operation casting molding system, including casting machine, chute, molten bath, the casting machine includes braced frame, aircraft nose, tail, casting portion, aircraft nose and tail are provided with drive sprocket, its characterized in that, the braced frame is provided with the font guide rail that returns of horizontal direction, the font guide rail that returns includes inboard guide rail and outside guide rail; the casting part comprises a plurality of ingot mold trolleys which are arranged in a close contact manner, each ingot mold trolley comprises a mold, an outer side connecting plate and an inner side connecting plate, and the inner side connecting plate and the outer side connecting plate are respectively and correspondingly provided with a guide device; each ingot mould trolley is provided with a transmission device, and a transmission chain wheel at the head or tail of the ingot mould trolley is matched with the transmission device to directly drive the ingot mould trolley to run along the square-back guide rail; when the semicircular track runs, the moulds are separated, the complete ingot pit is separated into half-open ingot pits, and the metal ingot is actively fallen off. The powder rate is reduced, and the production efficiency is improved.
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Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of the metal is pour and is moulded, concretely relates to planar circulation operation casting molding system.
Background
The existing production process of the silicon-manganese alloy ingot is that ores are smelted and poured on a mould to be formed into blocks, the silicon-manganese alloy ingot is mainly used for smelting and regulating other metals, and the silicon-manganese alloy ingot needs to be crushed in order to meet the specification requirement of production; however, during crushing, a large amount of dust is generated, the powder rate is high, great waste is caused, and the size of the crushed metal ingot is not uniform; in addition, the crushing process is time-consuming and labor-consuming, and the production cost is increased.
There are also patents related to the continuous casting of ingots, such as the utility model entitled "a self-oscillating continuous casting system", application No. 201611005009.7; and utility model patent entitled "a double row continuous casting system" with application number 201611004743.1. But the silicon-manganese alloy ingot can not be cast and molded at one time to meet the specification requirement, the cast silicon-manganese alloy ingot still needs to be crushed again, and the demolding is carried out by depending on the self gravity of the metal ingot or assisting a vibration device to demold, and the defect is that the demolding efficiency is not high or the energy consumption is increased. Due to the above two limitations, the fundamental problem still cannot be solved, and it is not suitable for practical production.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the technical problem, the utility model provides a planar circular casting molding system; the metal ingot can be formed by one-time pouring to meet the specification requirement, and the powder rate generated when the metal ingot is crushed is reduced.
In order to achieve the purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical proposal:
a planar circular operation casting molding system comprises a casting machine, a chute and a molten bath, wherein one end of the chute is connected with the molten bath, the other end of the chute is connected with the casting machine, the casting machine comprises a support frame, a machine head, a machine tail and a casting part, the machine head and the machine tail are fixed on the support frame, the transmission chain wheels are arranged on the machine head and the machine tail, the casting part comprises a mold, and the mold is provided with an ingot pit;
the casting part comprises a plurality of ingot mold trolleys which are arranged in a close-fitting manner, each ingot mold trolley comprises a mold, and an outer side connecting plate and an inner side connecting plate which are respectively connected to the left side and the right side of the mold, and the inner side connecting plate and the outer side connecting plate are respectively and correspondingly provided with a guide device and respectively and correspondingly run along an outer side guide rail and an inner side guide rail; the inner side connecting plate corresponding to each ingot mould trolley is provided with a transmission device, and a transmission chain wheel at the head or tail of the machine is matched with the transmission device to directly drive the corresponding part of the ingot mould trolley, so that all the ingot mould trolleys run along the square-back guide rail;
each mould is provided with two rows of half-opened ingot pits which are opened towards the front side and the rear side of the pouring surface, the half-opened ingot pits of adjacent moulds are combined into a complete ingot pit with a closed bottom in the linear running process of the mould in the shape of a Chinese character 'hui', the moulds are respectively separated on the pouring surface when a semicircular track at the head and the tail runs, the complete ingot pit is separated into the half-opened ingot pits, and the metal ingots are actively made to fall off.
Further, the transmission device comprises a rack matched with the teeth of the transmission chain wheel and a fixed seat thereof, and the fixed seat is detachably connected with the inner side connecting plate.
Further, the die is connected with the inner side connecting plate and the outer side connecting plate through bolts, fixing grooves are formed in the left side and the right side of the die, mounting holes are correspondingly formed in the inner side connecting plate and the outer side connecting plate respectively, nuts of the bolts are arranged in the fixing grooves, gaps are reserved and clamped, bolt columns of the bolts extend out of notches of the fixing grooves, penetrate through the corresponding mounting holes of the inner side connecting plate and the outer side connecting plate and are fixedly connected through the nuts, and gaps are reserved between the mounting holes and the bolt columns; so that the mould can still be disassembled when the mould is deformed at high temperature.
Furthermore, the fixing seat and the inner side connecting plate are provided with threaded holes which are connected in a matched mode and connected in a threaded mode through bolts.
Furthermore, the guide device comprises a trolley shaft and wheels, one end of the trolley shaft is connected with the inner side connecting plate or the outer side connecting plate, and the other end of the trolley shaft is connected with the wheels; the wheels are pulleys which can be arranged in the square-shaped guide rail so as to limit the ingot mould trolley to run along the square-shaped guide rail.
Furthermore, a transmission chain wheel of the machine head part is connected with a speed reducer set, and a support frame close to one end of the machine tail is connected with a chute, so that molten metal in a molten pool is poured in the complete ingot pit through the chute and runs to the machine head part for blanking.
Furthermore, because the opening and closing range of the adjacent mold at one end close to the inner side connecting plate is small, an ingot pit is not arranged at one end close to the inner side connecting plate; the opening and closing range of the adjacent dies at one end close to the outer side connecting plate is large, and the half-open ingot pit of each die is arranged at one side close to the outer side connecting plate, so that the dies can be smoothly discharged when being separated.
The overall operation mode of the system is as follows: a square-back-shaped guide way is arranged on the supporting frame, a plurality of ingot mold trolleys are arranged along the square-back-shaped guide way, a machine head and a machine tail are arranged at two ends of the square-back-shaped guide way, a transmission chain wheel is respectively arranged at the machine head and the machine tail, and the transmission chain wheel directly drives part of the ingot mold trolleys through teeth on the transmission chain wheel, so that all the ingot mold trolleys run in the square-back-shaped guide way; and arranging a molten pool and a chute close to the head end or the tail end for pouring, and discharging at the other end.
The specific transmission is as follows: a certain number of ingot mould trolleys are arranged in the square-shaped guide channel, each ingot mould trolley corresponds to one mould, a rack which can be in matched transmission with a transmission chain wheel is arranged on a corresponding inner side connecting plate of each ingot mould trolley, and an input shaft of the transmission chain wheel is connected with an output shaft of a speed reduction unit.
Specifically, how to feed: compared with the dies in the prior art, the dies are smaller in shape, each die is provided with two rows of ingot pits on the pouring surface, the ingot pits are half-opened, each die and the adjacent dies can be combined into a row of complete ingot pits with closed bottoms, and when the dies are fed at the machine head or the machine tail, because the machine head and the machine tail run in a curve mode, each two adjacent dies can be separated, the metal ingots can be automatically demoulded, and high-efficiency feeding is realized.
Has the advantages that: the utility model can be poured and formed into metal ingots meeting the specification requirement at one time, the size of the formed metal ingots is uniform, and the powder rate is greatly reduced; the crushing process is not needed, so that the production efficiency is improved, and the production cost is reduced;
the technical problem that the size of a poured and formed metal ingot is too small to facilitate demoulding is solved, every two adjacent moulds in the utility model are broken off at the machine head and the machine tail, the metal ingot can be demoulded independently, and the blanking efficiency is higher in combination with mould overturning;
the mould of the system is smaller, and the mould is detachably connected with the ingot mould trolley, so that the maintenance and the replacement are convenient; the transmission mode of the system is novel, the traditional chain transmission is replaced by a mode of directly driving the ingot mould trolley by the chain wheel, and an intermediate transmission link is omitted.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the overall operation of a planar cycle molding system;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the inner side structure of the ingot mold trolley;
FIG. 3 is a schematic sectional view of an ingot mold trolley;
FIG. 4 is a schematic top view of the ingot mold trolley;
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a planar cycle molding system drive fit;
FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a partial rectangular-shaped guide track;
in the figure, a supporting frame 1, a square-shaped guide way 2, an outer guide rail 21, an inner guide rail 22, a machine head 3, a machine tail 4, an ingot mould trolley 5, a mould 51, a half ingot pit 511, a complete ingot pit 512, a fixing groove 513, an inner connecting plate 521, an outer connecting plate 522, a trolley shaft 531, wheels 532, a rack 54, a rack fixing hole 541 and a driving chain wheel 6.
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The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.
FIGS. 1 to 6 show a planar circulation casting molding system, which comprises a casting machine, a chute and a molten bath, one end of the chute is connected with the molten pool, the other end of the chute is connected with the casting machine, the casting machine comprises a supporting frame 1, a machine head 3 fixed on the supporting frame 1, a machine tail 4 and a casting part, the head 3 and the tail 4 are provided with a transmission chain wheel 6, the casting part comprises a mould 51, the mould 51 is provided with an ingot pit, the support frame 1 is provided with a back-shaped guide way 2 from the machine head 3 to the machine tail 4, the back-shaped guide way 2 is arranged in a horizontal plane, the transmission chain wheels 6 of the machine head 3 and the machine tail 4 are both arranged in the horizontal direction, as shown in fig. 6, the zigzag guide track 2 includes an inner guide rail 22 and an outer guide rail 21, and the inner guide rail 22 and the outer guide rail 21 are respectively provided at the head 3 and the tail 4 in a matching manner as semicircular guide rails; the casting part comprises a plurality of ingot mold trolleys which are arranged in a close-fitting manner, each ingot mold trolley 5 comprises a mold 51 and an outer side connecting plate 522 and an inner side connecting plate 521 which are respectively connected to the left side and the right side of the mold 51, and the inner side connecting plate 521 and the outer side connecting plate 522 are respectively and correspondingly provided with a guide device and respectively and correspondingly run along an outer side guide rail 21 and an inner side guide rail 22; the inner connecting plate 521 corresponding to each ingot mold trolley 5 is provided with a transmission device, and the transmission chain wheel 6 at the head 3 or the tail 4 is matched with the transmission device to directly drive the corresponding part of ingot mold trolley 5, so that all ingot mold trolleys 5 run along the square-back guide way 2; each mould 51 is provided with two rows of half-opened ingot pits 511 which are opened towards the front side and the rear side of the pouring surface, the half-opened ingot pits 511 of the adjacent moulds 51 are combined into a complete ingot pit 512 with a closed bottom in the linear running process of the square-shaped running of the moulds 51, when the semicircular tracks at the head 3 and the tail 4 run, the moulds 51 are separated from each other on the pouring surface, the complete ingot pit 512 is separated into the half-opened ingot pits 511, and the metal ingots are actively made to fall off.
The shape of the complete ingot pit 512 in the utility model is not limited, for example, a sphere, a main body, a square body, a cone body, etc., and the shape of the corresponding half-open ingot pit 511 can be a hemisphere, a half-cylinder, a cuboid, a half-cone body, etc.; of course, hemispheres and semicylinders work best in practice.
The transmission device comprises a rack 54 which can be matched with the teeth of the transmission chain wheel 6 and a fixed seat thereof, and the fixed seat is detachably connected with the inner connecting plate 521.
The die 51 is connected with the inner connecting plate 521 and the outer connecting plate 522 through bolts, fixing grooves 513 are formed in the left side and the right side of the die 51, mounting holes are correspondingly formed in the inner connecting plate 521 and the outer connecting plate 522 respectively, the width of the groove bottom of each fixing groove 513 is larger than that of each notch, as shown in fig. 3, a nut of each bolt is arranged in each fixing groove 513, a gap is reserved between the nut and the corresponding fixing groove, a bolt column of each bolt extends out of each notch of each fixing groove 513, penetrates through the corresponding mounting holes of the inner connecting plate 521 and the corresponding mounting holes of the outer connecting plate 522 and is connected and fixed through a nut, and a gap is reserved between each mounting hole and; so that the mold 51 is still detachable when deformed at high temperature.
As shown in fig. 2 and 3, the fixing seat and the inner connecting plate 521 are provided with screw holes for matching connection, and are connected through bolts and threads. The fixing seat and the inner side connecting plate 521 are provided with rack fixing holes 541 which are matched and connected, can be threaded holes, and are connected through bolts and threads.
The connecting plate of the utility model is divided into an inner connecting plate 521 and an outer connecting plate 522, the guiding device comprises a trolley axle 531 and wheels 532, one end of the trolley axle 531 is connected with the connecting plate, and the other end is connected with the wheels 532; the wheels 532 are pulleys which can be arranged in the square-shaped guide way 2, so that the ingot mould trolley 5 is limited to run along the square-shaped guide way 2. The inner connecting plate 521 and the outer connecting plate 522 are both provided with mounting holes for mounting the small axle 531, the small axle 531 is provided with a key groove and threads, and the small axle 531 is fixed through a threaded connection piece and a pin key.
The transmission chain wheel 6 of the machine head 3 or the machine tail 4 is connected with a speed reducing unit, and the supporting frame 1 close to one end of the machine head 3 or the machine tail 4 is connected with a chute, so that molten metal in a molten pool is poured into the complete ingot pit 512 through the chute and runs to the other end of the machine head 3 or the machine tail 4 for blanking. When one end of the utility model, which is close to the head 3 or the tail 4, is poured, the straight guide rail is poured, which is close to the end, because the ingot mould trolleys 5 are combined together in the straight track, the complete ingot pit 512 can be formed, and the material can not leak when the ingot mould trolleys are poured in the complete ingot pit 512; the blanking is carried out at the curved guide rail at the end part, because the adjacent ingot mould trolley 5 and the mould 51 thereof are separated at the time, the complete ingot pit 512 is separated and demoulded; this is described here.
As can be seen from fig. 1, since the adjacent molds 51 have a small opening and closing width near one end of the inner connecting plate 521, no ingot pit is provided near one end of the inner connecting plate 521, as shown in fig. 3 and 4; the opening and closing range of the adjacent molds 51 is large at one end close to the outer connecting plate 522, and the half-open ingot pit 511 of each mold 51 is arranged at one side close to the outer connecting plate 522, so that the molds 51 can be smoothly discharged during separation.
The overall operation mode of the system is as follows: a square-back-shaped guide way 2 is arranged on the supporting frame 1, a plurality of ingot mold trolleys 5 are arranged along the square-back-shaped guide way 2, a machine head 3 and a machine tail 4 are arranged at two ends of the square-back-shaped guide way 2, the machine head 3 and the machine tail 4 are respectively provided with a transmission chain wheel 6, and the transmission chain wheel 6 directly drives part of the ingot mold trolleys 5 through teeth on the transmission chain wheel 6, so that all the ingot mold trolleys 5 run in the square-back-shaped guide way 2; and a molten pool and a chute are arranged at the end close to the machine head 3 or the machine tail 4 for pouring, and blanking is carried out at the other end. This system still can add cooling system, release agent paint finishing according to the demand, and this is not the utility model discloses a main point, does not describe here any more.
The specific transmission is as follows: the transmission is as shown in figure 5, a certain number of ingot mould trolleys 5 are arranged in the square-shaped guide channel 2, each ingot mould trolley 5 corresponds to one mould 51, a rack 54 which can be in matched transmission with the transmission chain wheel 6 is arranged on the corresponding inner side connecting plate of each ingot mould trolley 5, the input shaft of the transmission chain wheel 6 is connected with the output shaft of the speed reducing unit, so that the transmission chain wheel 6 can directly drive part of the ingot mould trolleys 5 when rotating, and all the ingot mould trolleys 5 are arranged in the square-shaped guide channel 2 in a clinging manner, so that all the ingot mould trolleys 5 can run in the square-shaped guide channel 2.
Specifically, how to feed: compared with the die 51 in the prior art, the die 51 is smaller in shape, two rows of ingot pits are formed in the pouring surface of each die 51, the ingot pits 511 are half-opened and half-opened, each die 51 and the adjacent die 51 can be combined into a row of complete ingot pits 512 with closed bottoms, when the machine head 3 or the machine tail 4 is used for blanking, the machine head 3 and the machine tail 4 are in curve operation, every two adjacent dies 51 can be separated, the metal ingots can be automatically demoulded, and high-efficiency blanking is realized.
To sum up, the utility model discloses obvious beneficial effect does: the utility model can be poured and formed into metal ingots meeting the specification requirement at one time, the size of the formed metal ingots is uniform, and the powder rate is greatly reduced; the crushing process is not needed, so that the production efficiency is improved, and the production cost is reduced;
the technical problem that the casting forming metal ingots are too small to facilitate demoulding is solved, in the utility model, every two adjacent moulds 51 are broken at the machine head 3 and the machine tail 4, the metal ingots can be demoulded independently, and the blanking efficiency is higher by combining the turning of the moulds 51;
the mould 51 of the system is smaller, and the mould 51 is detachably connected with the ingot mould trolley 5, so that the maintenance and the replacement are convenient; the transmission mode of the system is novel, the traditional chain transmission is replaced by a mode of directly driving the ingot mould trolley 5 by a chain wheel, and an intermediate transmission link is omitted.
Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, and not to limit it; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; such modifications and substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
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1. A planar circular operation casting molding system comprises a casting machine, a chute and a molten bath, wherein one end of the chute is connected with the molten bath, the other end of the chute is connected with the casting machine, the casting machine comprises a support frame, a machine head, a machine tail and a casting part, the machine head and the machine tail are fixed on the support frame, the transmission chain wheels are arranged on the machine head and the machine tail, the casting part comprises a mold, and the mold is provided with an ingot pit;
the casting part comprises a plurality of ingot mold trolleys which are arranged in a close-fitting manner, each ingot mold trolley comprises a mold, and an outer side connecting plate and an inner side connecting plate which are respectively connected to the left side and the right side of the mold, and the inner side connecting plate and the outer side connecting plate are respectively and correspondingly provided with a guide device and respectively and correspondingly run along an outer side guide rail and an inner side guide rail; the inner side connecting plate corresponding to each ingot mould trolley is provided with a transmission device, and a transmission chain wheel at the head or tail of the machine is matched with the transmission device to directly drive the corresponding part of the ingot mould trolley, so that all the ingot mould trolleys run along the square-back guide rail;
each mould is provided with two rows of half-opened ingot pits which are opened towards the front side and the rear side of the pouring surface, the half-opened ingot pits of adjacent moulds are combined into a complete ingot pit with a closed bottom in the linear running process of the mould in the shape of a Chinese character 'hui', the moulds are respectively separated on the pouring surface when a semicircular track at the head and the tail runs, the complete ingot pit is separated into the half-opened ingot pits, and the metal ingots are actively made to fall off.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the drive means comprises a rack engaging the teeth of the drive sprocket and a mounting bracket removably attached to the inner web.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the mold is connected to the inner connecting plate and the outer connecting plate by bolts, the mold is provided with fixing grooves on both left and right sides, the inner connecting plate and the outer connecting plate are respectively provided with mounting holes, nuts of the bolts are placed in the fixing grooves while leaving gaps and are clamped, bolt columns of the bolts extend out of notches of the fixing grooves and penetrate through the mounting holes of the corresponding inner connecting plate and the outer connecting plate and are connected and fixed by the nuts, and the mounting holes and the bolt columns also leave gaps; so that the mould can still be disassembled when the mould is deformed at high temperature.
4. The flat endless casting molding system of claim 1, wherein said guide means comprises a trolley shaft and a wheel, said trolley shaft being connected at one end to said inboard or outboard tie plate and at the other end to said wheel; the wheels are pulleys which can be arranged in the square-shaped guide rail so as to limit the ingot mould trolley to run along the square-shaped guide rail.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the drive sprocket of the head portion is connected to a speed reducer unit, and the support frame near the end of the tail portion is connected to a chute, so that molten metal in the molten bath is poured into the complete ingot pit through the chute and runs to the head portion for blanking.
6. The planar endless casting molding system according to claim 1, wherein no ingot pit is provided near the end of the inner connecting plate due to the small opening and closing width of the adjacent molds near the end of the inner connecting plate; the opening and closing range of the adjacent dies at one end close to the outer side connecting plate is large, and the half-open ingot pit of each die is arranged at one side close to the outer side connecting plate, so that the dies can be smoothly discharged when being separated.
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