CN213352091U - Sand blasting unit is used in production of metal casting mould - Google Patents
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The utility model relates to a sand blasting unit technical field just discloses a sand blasting unit is used in metal casting mould production, the load simulator comprises a case, the last fixed surface of machine case is connected with sand blasting machine, sand blasting machine's lower fixed surface is connected with sand blasting pipe, sand blasting machine's lower fixed surface is connected with driving motor. This sand blasting unit is used in production of metal casting mould, driving motor through the setting, driving motor drives the crankshaft rotation through the pivot, the crankshaft passes through the axle sleeve and drives the connecting rod motion, connecting rod pulling piston horizontal direction reciprocating motion, the piston is with the gas compression in the sleeve, and spout from the shower nozzle through the blast pipe, the sand grain of spun air current on with anchor clamps and the scab of being beaten by the sand grain, blow down to the swash plate on, under the effect of gravity and shock dynamo's cooperation, the sand grain and the scab of being beaten by the sand grain are along the swash plate, roll to in the material bucket, play the effect of collecting the material, do not need staff's frequent clearance, play the effect of facilitating the use.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a sand blasting unit technical field specifically is a sand blasting unit is used in metal casting mould production.
Background
The sand blasting device utilizes compressed air to convey powdery particles (with the diameter of 1-4 mm) to another place from one place in a pipeline, and in the process of converting kinetic energy into potential energy, sand grains moving at high speed are enabled to scour the surface of an object, so that the effect of improving the surface quality of the object is achieved.
When the die-casting die is used, in order to facilitate the die-casting demoulding, a demoulding machine is required to be sprayed on the die before the die-casting, the traditional demoulding agent takes graphite as a substrate, scabs can be formed on the surface of the die after long-time use, the air tightness between a movable die and a fixed die can be influenced after the scabs are formed, the material is easy to leak during the die-casting, the incomplete forming of the die-casting is caused by light people, operators are scalded when heavy people spray out metal in a molten state, the potential safety hazard is great, the scabs on the surface of the die need to be removed regularly, and at present, the scabs on the surface of the die are removed in a sand blasting; that is, the high-pressure gas is used to drive quartz sand or other hard particles to spray on the surface of the mold, and the scab on the surface of the mold is knocked by the quartz sand sprayed at high speed to fall off.
After the existing sand blasting machine is used for a long time, a large amount of quartz sand or other hard particles and scabs formed on the surface of a mold with the size of the quartz sand or other hard particles can be accumulated in a storage bin of the existing sand blasting machine, frequent cleaning of workers is needed, inconvenience in use is caused, the working time of the workers is wasted, and the working efficiency is reduced.
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Technical problem to be solved
The utility model provides a be not enough to prior art, the utility model provides a sand blasting unit is used in metal casting mould production has solved current sand blasting machine and has used the back for a long time, in its feed bin, can pile up a large amount of quartz sand or other stereoplasm granule and by the scab on its size's mould surface, needs staff's frequent clearance, has caused the inconvenience of using, and extravagant staff operating time, has reduced work efficiency's problem.
(II) technical scheme
The utility model provides a following technical scheme: a sand blasting device for producing a metal casting mold comprises a case, wherein a sand blasting machine is fixedly connected to the upper surface of the case, a sand blasting pipe is fixedly connected to the lower surface of the sand blasting machine, a driving motor is fixedly connected to the lower surface of the sand blasting machine, a rotating shaft is fixedly connected to the output end of the driving motor, a clamp is fixedly connected to the upper surface of the rotating shaft, a crankshaft is arranged on the outer surface of the rotating shaft, a shaft sleeve is sleeved on the outer surface of the crankshaft, a connecting rod is fixedly connected to the outer surface of the shaft sleeve, a sleeve is fixedly connected to the inner bottom wall of the case, a piston is movably connected to the inner portion of the sleeve, the outer surface of the piston is hinged to the connecting rod, an exhaust pipe and an air suction pipe are fixedly connected to the outer surface of the sleeve, a, the swash plate is located above the crankshaft.
Preferably, a material barrel is arranged on the right side surface of the case and corresponds to the inclined plate.
Preferably, the upper surface of the inclined plate is provided with a baffle plate, the baffle plate is positioned on the outer side of the case, and the lower surface of the inclined plate is provided with a vibration motor.
Preferably, anchor clamps include inside hollow installation piece, it is connected with first screw thread bull stick to rotate through the bearing on the inside lateral wall of installation piece, the one end fixedly connected with second screw thread bull stick of first screw thread bull stick, first screw thread bull stick with the equal threaded connection of surface of second screw thread bull stick has the threaded sleeve, two the equal fixedly connected with splint of threaded sleeve's upper surface, fixedly connected with litter between the inner wall of installation piece, the surface cover of litter is equipped with two sliding sleeves, two the sliding sleeve with threaded sleeve fixed connection.
Preferably, the first threaded rotating rod and the second threaded rotating rod are connected in a welding mode, and the thread directions are opposite.
Preferably, the lower surface of the case is fixedly connected with a motor support, and the inner wall of the motor support is fixedly connected with the driving motor.
Preferably, the outer surface of the case is hinged with a shutter door through a hinge, and the outer surface of the shutter door is provided with an observation window and a door handle.
Preferably, the outer surfaces of the exhaust pipe and the air suction pipe are provided with one-way valves.
(III) advantageous effects
Compared with the prior art, the utility model provides a sand blasting unit is used in production of metal casting mould possesses following beneficial effect:
(1) this sand blasting unit is used in metal casting mould production, when using, places the material on anchor clamps to press from both sides tightly, through setting up sand blasting machine, sand blasting machine passes through the sand blasting pipe with the sand grain and spouts to the material, and through the driving motor who sets up, driving motor drives the pivot rotatory, and the pivot drives anchor clamps and the material is rotatory, makes the surface of material can be even with sand grain contact, play the effect that reduces the work dead angle, improve operating mass with the sand grain.
(2) This sand blasting unit is used in production of metal casting mould, when using, driving motor through the setting, driving motor drives the crankshaft rotation through the pivot, the crankshaft passes through the axle sleeve and drives the connecting rod motion, connecting rod pulling piston horizontal direction reciprocating motion, the piston is with the gas compression in the sleeve, and spout from the shower nozzle through the blast pipe, the sand grain of spun air current on with anchor clamps and the scab of being beaten by the sand grain, blow down to the swash plate on, under the effect of gravity and shock dynamo's cooperation, sand grain and the scab of being beaten by the sand grain are along the swash plate, roll to in the material bucket, play the effect of collecting the material, do not need staff's frequent clearance, play the effect of facilitating the use.
(3) This sand blasting unit is used in metal casting mould production, when using, places the material on anchor clamps to through rotatory first screw thread bull stick and second screw thread bull stick, because of the screw thread opposite direction of two screw thread bull sticks, make two screw thread sleeves drive splint along litter relative movement, and then play the effect that the material was decided in the clamp fastening.
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Fig. 1 is a front view of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of the present invention;
fig. 3 is an enlarged view of the structure a in fig. 2 according to the present invention;
fig. 4 is a schematic structural view of the clamp of the present invention.
In the figure: the device comprises a case 1, a sand blasting machine 2, a sand blasting pipe 3, a driving motor 4, a rotating shaft 5, a clamp 6, a shaft sleeve 7, a connecting rod 8, a sleeve 9, a piston 10, an exhaust pipe 11, an air suction pipe 12, a spray head 13, a sloping plate 14, a material barrel 15, a crankshaft 16, a mounting block 601, a first threaded rotating rod 602, a second threaded rotating rod 603, a threaded sleeve 604, a clamping plate 605 and a sliding rod 606.
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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. 1-4, a sand blasting apparatus for producing a metal casting mold comprises a case 1, a sand blasting machine 2 is fixedly connected to the upper surface of the case 1, a sand blasting pipe 3 is fixedly connected to the lower surface of the sand blasting machine 2, a driving motor 4 is fixedly connected to the lower surface of the sand blasting machine 2, a rotating shaft 5 is fixedly connected to the output end of the driving motor 4, a clamp 6 is fixedly connected to the upper surface of the rotating shaft 5, a crankshaft 16 is arranged on the outer surface of the rotating shaft 5, a shaft sleeve 7 is sleeved on the outer surface of the crankshaft 16, a connecting rod 8 is fixedly connected to the outer surface of the shaft sleeve 7, a sleeve 9 is fixedly connected to the inner bottom wall of the case 1, a piston 10 is movably connected to the inner portion of the sleeve 9, the outer surface of the piston 10 is hinged to the connecting rod 8, an, a sloping plate 14 is fixedly connected between the inner side walls of the case 1, and the sloping plate 14 is positioned above the crankshaft 16.
Further, a material barrel 15 is arranged on the right side face of the case 1, and the material barrel 15 corresponds to the inclined plate 14 to achieve the effect of collecting waste materials.
Furthermore, the upper surface of swash plate 14 is equipped with the baffle, and the baffle is located the outside of quick-witted case 1, and the lower surface of swash plate 14 is provided with shock dynamo, plays and avoids the material to pile up the phenomenon appearance on swash plate 14.
Further, the fixture 6 includes a hollow mounting block 601, a first threaded rotating rod 602 is rotatably connected to the inner side wall of the mounting block 601 through a bearing, a second threaded rotating rod 603 is fixedly connected to one end of the first threaded rotating rod 602, threaded sleeves 604 are respectively and fixedly connected to the outer surfaces of the first threaded rotating rod 602 and the second threaded rotating rod 603, clamping plates 605 are respectively and fixedly connected to the upper surfaces of the two threaded sleeves 604, a sliding rod 606 is fixedly connected between the inner walls of the mounting block 601, two sliding sleeves are sleeved on the outer surface of the sliding rod 606 and fixedly connected to the threaded sleeves 604, the material is placed on the fixture 6, and by rotating the first threaded rotating rod 602 and the second threaded rotating rod 603, the two threaded sleeves 604 drive the clamping plates 605 to move relative to each other along the sliding rod 606 due to the opposite thread directions of the two threaded rotating rods, thereby achieving the effect of clamping and fixing the material.
Further, the first threaded rotating rod 602 and the second threaded rotating rod 603 are connected by welding, and the directions of the threads are opposite, so that the two threaded sleeves 604 can move relatively or oppositely.
Further, the lower surface of the case 1 is fixedly connected with a motor support, and the inner wall of the motor support is fixedly connected with the driving motor 4 to provide supporting force for the driving motor 4.
Furthermore, the surface of the case 1 is hinged with a stop door through a hinge, and the surface of the stop door is provided with an observation window and a door handle, so that the effect of convenient use is achieved, and the taking of materials and the later maintenance are facilitated.
Further, the outer surfaces of the exhaust pipe 11 and the air suction pipe 12 are both provided with a one-way valve, and the outer surfaces of the air suction pipe 12 and the spray head 13 are provided with filter screens, so that the phenomenon that the sleeve 9 sucks waste materials through the air suction pipe 12 is avoided.
To sum up, this sand blasting unit is used in metal casting mould production, when using, places the material on anchor clamps 6 to press from both sides tightly, through setting up sand blasting machine 2, sand blasting machine 2 spouts the sand grain to the material through sand blasting pipe 3, through the driving motor 4 that sets up, driving motor 4 drives pivot 5 rotatory, and pivot 5 drives anchor clamps 6 and material rotation, makes the outer surface of material can be even with sand grain contact, play and reduce the work dead angle, improve work quality's effect.
This sand blasting unit is used in metal casting mould production, when using, driving motor 4 through setting up, driving motor 4 drives bent axle 16 through pivot 5 and rotates, bent axle 16 drives the motion of connecting rod 8 through axle sleeve 7, 8 horizontal direction reciprocating motion of connecting rod pulling piston 10, piston 10 is with the gas compression in the sleeve 9, and spout from shower nozzle 13 through blast pipe 11, the sand grain of spun air current on with anchor clamps 6 and the scab of being beaten down by the sand grain, blow down to on the swash plate 14, under the effect of gravity and shock dynamo's cooperation, sand grain and the scab of being beaten down by the sand grain are along swash plate 14, roll to in the material bucket 15, play the effect of collecting the material, do not need staff's frequent clearance, play the effect of facilitating the use.
This sand blasting unit is used in metal casting mould production, when using, places the material on anchor clamps 6 to through rotatory first screw thread bull stick 602 and second screw thread bull stick 603, because of the screw thread opposite direction of two screw thread bull sticks, make two screw thread sleeves 604 drive splint 605 along litter 606 relative movement, and then play the effect that the clamp was fixed the material.
It is to be noted that 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, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.
The standard parts used in the present application document can be purchased from the market, and can be customized according to the description of the specification and the accompanying drawings, the specific connection mode of each part adopts the conventional means matured in the prior art, the machines, the parts and the equipment adopt the conventional types in the prior art, the circuit connection adopts the conventional connection mode in the prior art, no specific description is provided here, meanwhile, the electric elements appearing in the specification are electrically connected with the external main controller and the mains supply, the peripheral controller mentioned in the specification can play a control role for the electric elements mentioned in the specification, and the peripheral controller is the conventional known equipment.
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 a sand blasting unit is used in production of metal casting mould, includes quick-witted case (1), its characterized in that: the upper surface of the case (1) is fixedly connected with a sand blasting machine (2), the lower surface of the sand blasting machine (2) is fixedly connected with a sand blasting pipe (3), the lower surface of the sand blasting machine (2) is fixedly connected with a driving motor (4), an output end of the driving motor (4) is fixedly connected with a rotating shaft (5), the upper surface of the rotating shaft (5) is fixedly connected with a clamp (6), the outer surface of the rotating shaft (5) is provided with a crankshaft (16), the outer surface of the crankshaft (16) is sleeved with a shaft sleeve (7), the outer surface of the shaft sleeve (7) is fixedly connected with a connecting rod (8), a sleeve (9) is fixedly connected onto the inner bottom wall of the case (1), the inner part of the sleeve (9) is movably connected with a piston (10), the outer surface of the piston (10) is hinged with the connecting rod (8), the outer surface of the sleeve (9) is, exhaust pipe (11) are kept away from one end fixedly connected with shower nozzle (13) of sleeve (9), fixedly connected with swash plate (14) between the inside lateral wall of quick-witted case (1), swash plate (14) are located the top of bent axle (16).
2. The sand blasting apparatus for producing metal casting molds of claim 1, wherein: a material barrel (15) is arranged on the right side face of the case (1), and the material barrel (15) corresponds to the inclined plate (14).
3. The sand blasting apparatus for producing metal casting molds of claim 2, wherein: the upper surface of swash plate (14) is equipped with the baffle, the baffle is located the outside of quick-witted case (1), the lower surface of swash plate (14) is provided with shock dynamo.
4. The sand blasting apparatus for producing metal casting molds of claim 1, wherein: anchor clamps (6) are including inside hollow installation piece (601), be connected with first screw thread bull stick (602) through the bearing rotation on the inside lateral wall of installation piece (601), the one end fixedly connected with second screw thread bull stick (603) of first screw thread bull stick (602), first screw thread bull stick (602) with the equal threaded connection in surface of second screw thread bull stick (603) has threaded sleeve (604), two the equal fixedly connected with splint (605) of upper surface of threaded sleeve (604), fixedly connected with litter (606) between the inner wall of installation piece (601), the surface cover of litter (606) is equipped with two sliding sleeves, two the sliding sleeve with threaded sleeve (604) fixed connection.
5. The sand blasting apparatus for producing metal casting molds as claimed in claim 4, wherein: the first threaded rotating rod (602) and the second threaded rotating rod (603) are connected in a welding mode, and the thread directions are opposite.
6. The sand blasting apparatus for producing metal casting molds of claim 1, wherein: the lower surface of the case (1) is fixedly connected with a motor support, and the inner wall of the motor support is fixedly connected with the driving motor (4).
7. The sand blasting apparatus for producing metal casting molds of claim 1, wherein: the outer surface of the case (1) is hinged with a stop door through a hinge, and the outer surface of the stop door is provided with an observation window and a door handle.
8. The sand blasting apparatus for producing metal casting molds of claim 1, wherein: and the outer surfaces of the exhaust pipe (11) and the air suction pipe (12) are provided with one-way valves.
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