CN214040949U - Concrete compression testing machine - Google Patents
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本申请涉及一种混凝土压力试验机，属于混凝土检测技术领域，包括底座，底座上固接有工作台，底座的一侧固接有竖直设置的控制箱，工作台的上侧设置有施压装置，工作台的上表面固接有竖直设置的遮盖箱，遮盖箱的一侧设置有活动门，底座上对应活动门的下侧设置有清理箱，工作台上对应遮盖箱内设置有能够趋向活动门方向运动的清理板，清理板的底部螺栓连接有端部能够抵接于工作台上表面的毛刷。本申请设置的能够进行水平方向的滑移运动的清理板，清理板的底端螺栓连接有毛刷，毛刷能够清扫工作台上的混凝土碎块，将混凝土碎块收集至工作台一侧的清理箱中，操作方便，省时省力。
The application relates to a concrete pressure testing machine, which belongs to the technical field of concrete detection. The upper surface of the worktable is fixed with a cover box arranged vertically, a movable door is arranged on one side of the cover box, a cleaning box is arranged on the lower side corresponding to the movable door on the base, and a cleaning box is arranged in the corresponding cover box on the workbench. The cleaning plate moves in the direction of the movable door, and the bottom of the cleaning plate is bolted with a brush whose end can abut on the upper surface of the workbench. The cleaning plate capable of sliding movement in the horizontal direction provided in the present application, the bottom end of the cleaning plate is bolted with a brush, and the brush can clean the concrete fragments on the workbench, and collect the concrete fragments to the workbench side. Clean the box, easy to operate, save time and effort.
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Technical Field
The application relates to the technical field of concrete detection, in particular to a concrete pressure testing machine.
Background
The concrete press machine is mainly used for testing the compressive strength of building material test blocks such as concrete, cement, high-strength bricks, refractory materials and the like, and then judging the performance parameters of the concrete according to the measurement result.
The concrete compression testing machine used in the prior art comprises a base, wherein a control device is arranged on one side, provided with a test bed base, of the base, a pressing device used for the test bed is arranged above the test bed, the pressing device comprises a pressing block, and the pressing block is used for pressing the surface of a concrete workpiece to perform concrete pressing.
In view of the above-described related art, the inventors considered that when the concrete compact is pressed by the compact, concrete chips broken from the compact are easily splashed, resulting in that the test bed is not easily cleaned.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
In order to improve the problem that the test bench pointed out in the above-mentioned background art is difficult to clear up, the present application provides a concrete compression testing machine.
The application provides a concrete compression testing machine adopts following technical scheme:
the utility model provides a concrete compression testing machine, includes the base, the rigid coupling has the workstation on the base, one side rigid coupling of base has the control box of vertical setting, the upside of workstation is provided with pressure device, the upper surface rigid coupling of workstation has the case that covers of vertical setting, one side of covering the case is provided with the dodge gate, the downside that corresponds the dodge gate on the base is provided with the clearance case, it is provided with the clearance board that can tend to the dodge gate direction motion to correspond to cover the incasement on the workstation, the bottom bolted connection of clearance board has the tip can the butt in the brush of workstation upper surface.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the horizontal direction's of cleaning plate gliding movement, the bottom of brush can the butt in the upper surface of workstation, and the cleaning plate moves the brush motion, can clear up concrete fragment to the clearance incasement, makes things convenient for concrete fragment's clearance, easy operation, and the clearance is quick, and the setting of covering the case simultaneously prevents that the dust from dispersing to the air in, influences the environment on every side.
Optionally, the horizontal rigid coupling of one side that the cleaning box was kept away from to the cleaning plate has the lead screw that the axis direction is on a parallel with cleaning plate direction of motion, the one end that the cleaning plate was kept away from to the lead screw all passes the one side that covers the case, it is connected with a worm wheel to cover to rotate on the case, the one end threaded connection of lead screw in worm wheel, it is connected with a worm to cover to rotate on the case, the worm meshes in the worm wheel.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the rotation of worm drives the worm wheel and rotates, and the rotation of worm wheel drives the lead screw and carries out the sliding motion of horizontal direction, and then drives the cleaning board and cleans along the width direction of workstation.
Optionally, the horizontal rigid coupling of one side that the cleaning box was kept away from to the cleaning plate has the axis direction to be on a parallel with the guide arm of cleaning plate direction of motion, the one end that the cleaning plate was kept away from to the guide arm all passes the one side that covers the case.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the setting of guide arm has the guide effect to the motion of clearance board.
Optionally, the two sides of the upper surface of the workbench are fixedly connected with positioning mechanisms, the two positioning mechanisms comprise positioning blocks, the positioning blocks are connected to the upper surface of the workbench in a sliding mode, a plurality of positioning holes are formed in the upper surface of the workbench, and a first bolt with an end portion capable of being inserted into the positioning holes is connected to the positioning blocks in a threaded mode.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the locating piece slides and connects on the workstation, removes the locating piece to suitable position, inserts bolt one in the locating hole that corresponds, can the fixed position piece.
Optionally, one side of the workbench, which is close to the positioning block, corresponding to the positioning block is connected with a movable plate in a sliding manner, one side of the movable plate, which is close to the positioning block, is horizontally provided with a guide pillar, one end of the guide pillar, which is far away from the movable plate, penetrates through the positioning block, and a spring is arranged on the guide pillar.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, under the normality, the spring can promote the direction motion that the fly leaf tends to be close to each other, and then can make the fly leaf fix a position the sample on the workstation.
Optionally, one end of the movable plate is fixedly connected with a baffle, and a plane where the baffle is located is perpendicular to a plane where the movable plate is located.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the setting up of baffle is convenient to have the effect of sheltering from to the suppression of concrete piece, and after the concrete piece was crushed, the baffle blocked the concrete fragment, prevents that the concrete fragment from scattering everywhere.
Optionally, the equal rigid coupling of upside of fly leaf has scale one, the length direction of scale one all is on a parallel with the width direction of workstation.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, being provided with of scale one helps carrying out accurate location to the concrete piece.
Optionally, the cleaning box rigid coupling corresponds one side of cleaning plate in the base, the rigid coupling has the swash plate that the downward sloping set up on the workstation, the one end slope setting of workstation is kept away from to the bottom trend of swash plate.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, clean some concrete rubbles from the workstation when the clearance board, the garrulous stone of concrete gets into the clearance incasement along the swash plate, makes things convenient for the centralized processing of concrete rubble.
In summary, the present application includes at least one of the following beneficial technical effects:
1. the utility model provides a clearance board that can carry out the sliding motion of horizontal direction that this application set up, the bottom bolted connection of clearance board has the brush, and the brush can clean the concrete fragment on the workstation, collects the concrete fragment to the clearance case of workstation one side, convenient operation, labour saving and time saving.
2. This application sets up the motion of clearance board and relies on lead screw and guide arm, is provided with the worm wheel on the lead screw, and worm wheel and worm cooperation use have realized the motion of clearance board.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a concrete compression testing machine according to an embodiment of the present application.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a in fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of a concrete compression testing machine highlighting workbench according to an embodiment of the present application.
Fig. 4 is an enlarged view of B in fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of a highlighted lead screw of the concrete compression testing machine according to the embodiment of the application.
Description of reference numerals: 1. a base; 11. a work table; 111. a control box; 112. a support pillar; 113. a support plate; 114. briquetting; 12. a hydraulic cylinder; 13. cleaning the box; 2. a covering box; 21. a movable door; 3. a positioning mechanism; 31. positioning blocks; 311. a sliding groove; 312. a bump; 313. positioning holes; 314. a lug; 315. a first bolt; 32. a movable plate; 321. a baffle plate; 322. a first graduated scale; 323. a second graduated scale; 33. a guide post; 331. a spring; 34. cleaning the plate; 341. a brush; 35. a guide bar; 351. a lead screw; 352. a worm gear; 353. a servo motor; 354. a worm; 36. a sloping plate.
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The present application is described in further detail below with reference to figures 1-5.
The embodiment of the application discloses concrete compression testing machine.
Referring to fig. 1, a concrete compression testing machine includes a base 1, the base 1 is disposed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape, a workbench 11 is fixedly connected to an upper side of the base 1, a vertically disposed control box 111 is fixedly connected to one side of the base 1, and a pressure applying device is disposed on an upper side of the workbench 11, in this embodiment, the pressure applying device is a hydraulic cylinder 12, and a cleaning box 13 is disposed on one side of the base 1 corresponding to the workbench 11.
Referring to fig. 1, a vertically arranged covering box 2 is fixedly connected to the upper surface of a workbench 11, a movable door 21 is arranged on one side of the covering box 2, one side of the movable door 21 is hinged to the covering box 2, the other side of the movable door 21 is connected to the covering box 2 in a hasp mode, vertically arranged supporting columns 112 are fixedly connected to corners of the upper surface of a base 1, supporting plates 113 are fixedly connected to the top ends of the supporting columns 112, hydraulic cylinders 12 are fixedly connected to the supporting plates 113, piston rods of the hydraulic cylinders 12 are vertically arranged downwards, and piston rods of the hydraulic cylinders 12 sequentially penetrate through the supporting plates 113 and the top of the covering box 2 and are fixedly connected with pressing blocks 114; during operation, the hydraulic cylinder 12 is started, and the hydraulic cylinder 12 drives the pressing block 114 to move in the vertical direction, so that the concrete block placed on the workbench 11 can be extruded.
Referring to fig. 2 and 3, the workbench 11 is rectangular, the length direction of the workbench 11 is parallel to the length direction of the base 1, both sides of the upper surface of the workbench 11 are fixedly connected with the positioning mechanisms 3, both the two positioning mechanisms 3 include positioning blocks 31, the positioning blocks 31 are slidably connected to the upper surface of the workbench 11, specifically, both sides of the upper surface of the workbench 11 are respectively provided with a sliding groove 311 (refer to fig. 4), the length direction of the sliding groove 311 is parallel to the length direction of the base 1, the bottom end of the positioning block 31 is fixedly connected with two lugs 312, the two lugs 312 are respectively slidably connected to the two sliding grooves 311, the sliding groove 311 is provided with a plurality of positioning holes 313 along the length direction of the sliding groove 311, one side of the positioning block 31 is fixedly connected with two lugs 314, the two lugs 314 are vertically screwed with a first bolt 315, and the end of the first bolt 315 can be inserted into the positioning holes 313;
the movable plate 32 is connected to one side, close to each other, of the workbench 11 corresponding to the positioning block 31 in a sliding manner, guide pillars 33 are arranged on one side, close to the positioning block 31, of the movable plate 32, the axial directions of the guide pillars 33 are all parallel to the length direction of the base 1, one ends, far away from the movable plate 32, of the two guide pillars 33 penetrate through the positioning block 31, springs 331 are arranged on the two guide pillars 33, the springs 331 and the guide pillars 33 are arranged coaxially, one ends of the springs 331 are fixedly connected to the positioning block 31, the other ends of the springs 331 are fixedly connected to the movable plate 32, and in a normal state, the springs 331 can push the movable plate 32 to move in a direction close to each other.
Referring to fig. 1 and 2, a baffle 321 is fixedly connected to one end of the movable plate 32, a plane where the baffle 321 is located is perpendicular to a plane where the movable plate 32 is located, the baffle 321 is convenient to arrange and has a shielding effect on the pressing of the concrete block, and when the concrete block is crushed, the baffle 321 blocks concrete fragments to prevent the concrete fragments from scattering around;
the upper sides of the movable plates 32 are fixedly connected with first graduated scales 322, the length directions of the first graduated scales 322 are parallel to the width direction of the workbench 11, and the first graduated scales 322 are used for positioning concrete blocks; a second graduated scale 323 is fixedly connected to one side of the workbench 11, and the length direction of the second graduated scale 323 is parallel to the length direction of the workbench 11.
Referring to fig. 1 and 5, a cleaning plate 34 is slidably connected to a worktable 11, a brush 341 is bolted to the bottom end of the cleaning plate 34, the cleaning plate 34 slides along the width direction of the worktable 11, a guide rod 35 is fixedly connected to a side of the cleaning plate 34 away from a positioning mechanism 3, the axial direction of the guide rod 35 is parallel to the width direction of the worktable 11, the guide rod 35 penetrates through one side of the covering box 2, a lead screw 351 is fixedly connected to a side of the cleaning plate 34 corresponding to the guide rod 35, the axial direction of the lead screw 351 is parallel to the axial direction of the guide rod 35, one end of the lead screw 351 away from the cleaning plate 34 penetrates through one side of the covering box 2 and is in threaded connection with a worm wheel 352, the worm wheel 352 is rotatably connected to the covering box 2, a servo motor 353 is fixedly connected to one side of the worktable 11, an output shaft of the servo motor 353 is vertically arranged upward, and an output shaft of the servo motor 353 is fixedly connected with a worm 354, the worm 354 is rotatably connected to the covering box 2, the worm 354 is engaged with the worm wheel 352.
During operation, the servo motor 353 is started, the servo motor 353 drives the worm 354 to rotate, the worm 354 drives the worm wheel 352 to rotate in a rotating mode, the worm wheel 352 drives the screw rod 351 to perform sliding movement in the horizontal direction in a rotating mode, and then the cleaning plate 34 is driven to clean along the width direction of the workbench 11.
Referring to fig. 1 and 5, the cleaning box 13 is fixedly connected to one side of the base 1 corresponding to the cleaning plate 34, the inclined plate 36 arranged in a downward inclined manner is fixedly connected to the workbench 11, the bottom end of the inclined plate 36 is inclined towards the end far away from the workbench 11, and when the cleaning plate 34 cleans concrete gravels from the workbench 11, the concrete gravels enter the cleaning box 13 along the inclined plate 36, so that the concrete gravels are conveniently centralized.
When the concrete test block is concretely implemented, firstly, the concrete test block is placed on the workbench 11, then the two positioning blocks 31 are moved, the two movable plates 32 are abutted to the concrete test block, then the end parts of the bolts one 315 can be inserted into the positioning holes 313, the positioning blocks 31 are fixed, the movable plates 32 are matched with the springs 331 for use, the concrete test block is positioned, the baffle plates 321 are convenient to arrange and have a shielding effect on the pressing of the concrete block, and after the concrete block is crushed, the baffle plates 321 shield the concrete fragments to prevent the concrete fragments from scattering everywhere;
and then, starting the hydraulic cylinder 12 to press the concrete test block by the pressing block 114, and after the pressing is finished, cleaning the concrete test block, specifically, starting the servo motor 353, wherein the servo motor 353 drives the worm 354 to rotate, the worm 354 drives the worm wheel 352 to rotate by rotating, the lead screw 351 is driven by the worm wheel 352 to perform horizontal sliding motion by rotating, and the cleaning plate 34 is driven to clean along the width direction of the workbench 11.
Meanwhile, when the cleaning plate 34 cleans the concrete macadam from the workbench 11, the concrete macadam enters the cleaning box 13 along the inclined plate 36, so that the centralized treatment of the concrete macadam is facilitated.
The above embodiments are preferred embodiments of the present application, and the protection scope of the present application is not limited by the above embodiments, so: all equivalent changes made according to the structure, shape and principle of the present application shall be covered by the protection scope of the present application.
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1. The utility model provides a concrete compression testing machine, includes base (1), the rigid coupling has workstation (11) on base (1), one side rigid coupling of base (1) has control box (111) of vertical setting, the upside of workstation (11) is provided with pressure device, its characterized in that: the upper surface rigid coupling of workstation (11) has covering case (2) of vertical setting, one side of covering case (2) is provided with dodge gate (21), the downside that corresponds dodge gate (21) on base (1) is provided with cleaning box (13), be provided with in the corresponding covering case (2) on workstation (11) and tend towards cleaning plate (34) of dodge gate (21) direction motion, the bottom bolted connection of cleaning plate (34) has brush (341) that the tip can butt in workstation (11) upper surface.
2. A concrete compression testing machine as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: the horizontal rigid coupling of one side that cleaning box (13) was kept away from in cleaning plate (34) has axis direction to be on a parallel with lead screw (351) of cleaning plate (34) direction of motion, the one side that covers case (2) is all passed to the one end that cleaning plate (34) were kept away from in lead screw (351), it is connected with a worm wheel (352) to rotate on covering case (2), the one end threaded connection of lead screw (351) is in worm wheel (352), it is connected with a worm (354) to rotate on covering case (2), worm (354) mesh in worm wheel (352).
3. A concrete compression testing machine as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: the horizontal rigid coupling of one side that cleaning box (13) was kept away from in cleaning plate (34) has axis direction to be on a parallel with guide arm (35) of cleaning plate (34) direction of motion, the one end that cleaning plate (34) were kept away from in guide arm (35) all passes the one side that covers case (2).
4. A concrete compression testing machine as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: the equal rigid coupling in upper surface both sides of workstation (11) has positioning mechanism (3), two positioning mechanism (3) all include locating piece (31), locating piece (31) all slide and connect in the upper surface of workstation (11), a plurality of locating holes (313) have been seted up to the upper surface of workstation (11), threaded connection has bolt (315) that the tip can insert locating hole (313) on locating piece (31).
5. A concrete compression tester as claimed in claim 4, wherein: the movable positioning device is characterized in that movable plates (32) are connected to one sides, close to each other, of the corresponding positioning blocks (31) on the working table (11) in a sliding mode, guide columns (33) are horizontally arranged on one sides, close to the positioning blocks (31), of the movable plates (32), one ends, far away from the movable plates (32), of the guide columns (33) penetrate through the positioning blocks (31), and springs (331) are arranged on the guide columns (33).
6. A concrete compression tester as claimed in claim 5, wherein: one end of the movable plate (32) is fixedly connected with a baffle (321), and the plane of the baffle (321) is perpendicular to the plane of the movable plate (32).
7. A concrete compression tester as claimed in claim 5, wherein: the upside of fly leaf (32) all the rigid coupling have scale (322), the length direction of scale (322) all is on a parallel with the width direction of workstation (11).
8. A concrete compression testing machine as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: clearance case (13) rigid coupling corresponds one side of clearance board (34) in base (1), the rigid coupling has swash plate (36) that the downward sloping set up on workstation (11), the one end slope setting of workstation (11) is kept away from to the bottom trend of swash plate (36).
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