CN214052948U - Purging device for municipal water supply network - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a sweep device for municipal administration water supply pipe network, which comprises a bod, bottom of the body both sides are equipped with universal wheel and drive wheel respectively, drive wheel one side is equipped with driving motor, the drive wheel with driving motor electric connection, bottom one side is equipped with the bottom plate in the organism, the top of bottom plate is equipped with battery, transformer, steering wheel, controller, radio signal transmitter and radio signal receiver respectively from the right side to a left side, the bottom opposite side is equipped with the supporting seat in the organism. Has the advantages that: the work of sweeping is carried out to pipeline inside to air-blower, tuber pipe, upper portion tuyere, lower part tuyere interact, and water pump, water delivery hose, siphunculus, water-collecting tray, nozzle interact will sweep the dust that the work produced and exert the dead weight to make the dust granule area drop inside the pipeline, the height of clean piece is adjusted to flexible pneumatic cylinder, thereby the dust granule that the clean piece will drop promotes to take away from the pipeline outside.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a washing unit technical field particularly, relates to a sweep device for municipal administration water supply pipe network.
Background
Along with the development of society, city water supply pipe network is constantly perfect, and the construction volume of newly-built pipe network also increases day by day, and the follow-up maintenance task of pipe network also constantly increases, and current laying process remains debris in the pipeline easily, and especially welding slag or dust that the pipeline butt welding process produced receive the influence of pipeline length, lays the welding in-process and hardly clears up, and the welding slag dust that produces when holing whole water supply pipe network welding is then more difficult to clear up.
At present, impurities in a pipe network are blown out by utilizing high-pressure gas before the pipe network is used for the first time, but the pipe network is long in laying length, dense in wiring and multiple in elbows, the pressure of the high-pressure gas at an initial end is high, but the pressure of the high-pressure gas at a middle section and a tail end is reduced, the impurities are difficult to blow out, and the cleaning is not thorough. In addition, internal impurities are flushed out through initial water supply, but the influence of blockage of a downstream water using end or a purification station or a valve is also caused, and the burden of subsequent purification treatment is increased, so that the pipeline is cleaned in pipeline laying, the normal operation and subsequent maintenance of the whole pipeline network are positively performed, the frequency of subsequent excavation ground maintenance is reduced, the stability of water supply is ensured, and the water consumption of residents is guaranteed.
An effective solution to the problems in the related art has not been proposed yet.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
To the problem among the correlation technique, the utility model provides a sweep device for municipal water supply pipe network to overcome the above-mentioned technical problem that current correlation technique exists.
Therefore, the utility model discloses a specific technical scheme as follows:
a blowing device for a municipal water supply pipe network comprises a machine body, wherein two sides of the bottom of the machine body are respectively provided with a universal wheel and a driving wheel, one side of the driving wheel is provided with a driving motor, the driving wheel is electrically connected with the driving motor, one side of the bottom in the machine body is provided with a bottom plate, the top of the bottom plate is respectively provided with a storage battery, a transformer, a steering engine, a controller, a wireless signal transmitter and a wireless signal receiver from right to left, the other side of the bottom in the machine body is provided with a supporting seat, the top of the supporting seat is provided with an air blower, the output end of the air blower penetrates through the side wall of the machine body and extends into a connecting ring, the connecting ring is fixedly connected with the bottom of the side edge of the machine body, the other side in the connecting ring is provided with an air pipe which is communicated, the side of the air pipe, which is far away from the machine body, is provided with a plurality of upper air outlets and a plurality of lower air outlets, the top of the air pipe is provided with a first fixing frame, the first fixing frame, which is far away from the air pipe, is provided with a front camera, the center of the top of the machine body is provided with a water tank, one side of the bottom in the water tank is provided with a water pump, the middle part of the water pump is provided with a water delivery hose, the other end of the water delivery hose penetrates to the outer side of the water tank and is communicated with a through pipe, the through pipe is positioned at the center of the side of the water tank, which is close to the air pipe, the other end of the through pipe is provided with a water collecting tray, the water collecting tray is provided with a plurality of nozzles, one side of the top of the machine body, which is far away from the water tank, is provided with a second fixing frame, the other end of the second fixing frame is provided with a rear camera, one side of the machine body, which is far away from the air pipe, is respectively provided with a fixing block and a fixing ring, which is positioned below the fixing block, the bottom of fixed block is equipped with flexible pneumatic cylinder, the output of flexible pneumatic cylinder is equipped with the piston rod, the fixed ring endotheca is equipped with the movable rod, the both ends of movable rod all are equipped with the connecting rod, the top center department of connecting rod is equipped with the connecting block, the piston rod with connecting block swing joint, the connecting rod is kept away from a movable rod side end is equipped with the support, the bottom of support is equipped with clean piece.
Preferably, the side surfaces of the front camera and the rear camera are both provided with illuminating lamps, and LED bulbs are arranged in the illuminating lamps.
Preferably, the air pipe is of an annular structure, and the air pipe can be disassembled and replaced with different sizes so as to adapt to different pipe diameters.
Preferably, the angles between the upper air outlet nozzle and the lower air outlet nozzle and the inner wall of the pipeline are both 10 & lt a & lt 80.
Preferably, the number of the upper outlet nozzles is one half of the number of the lower outlet nozzles.
Preferably, a warning lamp is arranged on the machine body and is a three-color warning lamp, and the color of the three-color warning lamp is red, yellow and blue.
Preferably, a movable groove is formed in the center of the top of the connecting block, a shaft rod is arranged in the movable groove, and the end portion of the piston rod is sleeved on the shaft rod.
Preferably, the cleaning block is made of a composite sponge material, and a plurality of bumps are arranged on the outer surface of the cleaning block.
Preferably, the driving motor, the wireless signal receiver, the wireless signal transmitter, the steering engine, the transformer, the storage battery, the blower, the front camera, the water pump, the rear camera, the telescopic hydraulic cylinder and the warning lamp are all electrically connected with the controller.
The utility model has the advantages that: the dust cleaning device comprises a blower, an air pipe, an upper air outlet nozzle and a lower air outlet nozzle, wherein the blower, the air pipe, the upper air outlet nozzle and the lower air outlet nozzle are interacted to perform blowing work on the interior of a pipeline, a water pump, a water delivery hose, a through pipe, a water collecting tray and a nozzle are interacted to apply dead weight to dust generated by blowing work, so that dust particles are brought into the interior of the pipeline, a telescopic hydraulic cylinder adjusts the height of a cleaning block, and the cleaning block pushes the falling dust particles to be brought away from the exterior of the pipeline; the arrangement of the front camera and the rear camera helps workers to know the internal condition of the pipeline; the side surfaces of the front camera and the rear camera are respectively provided with an illuminating lamp, so that the front camera and the rear camera are subjected to auxiliary illumination work, and the shooting work of the front camera and the rear camera on the inner part of the pipeline is improved; the design of the warning lamp ensures that the machine body is easy to identify in the pipeline; when the pipelines are mutually connected end to end for welding, the trolley does not need to be taken out, and air blowing operation can be immediately carried out after welding; the air pipe is of a circular structure, is convenient to match with the connecting ring, can replace sizes with different sizes, and can adapt to pipe diameters with different sizes; the air pipe is designed obliquely, so that vortex is generated conveniently, and air flow is blown and swept conveniently; because welding slag and dust fall on the bottom of the pipeline, the number of the air outlets at the lower part is large, the wind power is large, and vortex is easy to form.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings required to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.
Fig. 1 is a general structure schematic diagram of a purging device for a municipal water supply network according to an embodiment of the invention.
Fig. 2 is a schematic view of the internal structure of the machine body of the purging device for the municipal water supply network according to the embodiment of the invention.
Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of the internal structure of a water tank of a purging device for a municipal water supply network according to an embodiment of the invention.
Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a support structure of a purging device for a municipal water supply network according to an embodiment of the invention.
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1. a body; 2. a universal wheel; 3. a drive wheel; 4. a drive motor; 5. a base plate; 6. a wireless signal receiver; 7. a wireless signal transmitter; 8. a controller; 9. a steering engine; 10. a transformer; 11. a storage battery; 12. a supporting seat; 13. a blower; 14. A connecting ring; 15. an air duct; 16. fixing the rod; 17. a lower air outlet nozzle; 18. an upper air outlet nozzle; 19. a first fixing frame; 20. A front camera; 21. a water tank; 22. a water pump; 23. a water delivery hose; 24. pipe passing; 25. a water collection tray; 26. a spray head; 27. A second fixing frame; 28. a rear camera; 29. a fixed block; 30. a telescopic hydraulic cylinder; 31. a fixing ring; 32. a movable rod; 33. A connecting rod; 34. connecting blocks; 35. a support; 36. a cleaning block; 37. a warning light.
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For further explanation of the embodiments, the drawings are provided as part of the disclosure and serve primarily to illustrate the embodiments and, together with the description, to explain the principles of operation of the embodiments, and to provide further explanation of the invention and advantages thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various other embodiments and advantages of the invention are possible, and that elements in the drawings are not to scale and that like reference numerals are generally used to designate like elements.
According to the utility model discloses an embodiment provides a device that sweeps for municipal water supply pipe network.
Embodiment one, as shown in fig. 1 to 4, a purging device for a municipal water supply pipe network according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a machine body 1, universal wheels 2 and driving wheels 3 are respectively disposed on two sides of the bottom of the machine body 1, a driving motor 4 is disposed on one side of the driving wheels 3, the driving wheels 3 are electrically connected to the driving motor 4, a bottom plate 5 is disposed on one side of the bottom of the machine body 1, a battery 11, a transformer 10, a steering engine 9, a controller 8, a wireless signal transmitter 7 and a wireless signal receiver 6 are respectively disposed on the top of the bottom plate 5 from right to left, a supporting seat 12 is disposed on the other side of the bottom of the machine body 1, a blower 13 is disposed on the top of the supporting seat 12, an output end of the blower 13 penetrates through a side wall of the machine body 1 and extends into a connecting ring 14, and the connecting ring 14 is fixedly connected to the bottom of the side edge of the machine body 1, an air pipe 15 connected and communicated with the blower 13 is arranged on the other side inside the connecting ring 14, a fixing rod 16 is arranged in the middle of one side, close to the machine body 1, of the air pipe 15, the other end of the fixing rod 16 is fixedly connected with the top of the side face of the machine body 1, a plurality of upper air outlets 18 and a plurality of lower air outlets 17 are arranged on one side, far away from the machine body 1, of the air pipe 15, a first fixing frame 19 is arranged on the top of the air pipe 15, a front camera 20 is arranged on one side, far away from the air pipe 15, of the first fixing frame 19, a water tank 21 is arranged at the center of the top of the machine body 1, a water pump 22 is arranged on one side of the bottom inside of the water tank 21, a water delivery hose 23 is arranged in the middle of the water pump 22, the other end of the water delivery hose 23 penetrates through the outer side of the water tank 21 to be connected and communicated with a through pipe 24, and the through pipe 24 is positioned at the center, close to one side of the water tank 21, the other end of the through pipe 24 is provided with a water collecting tray 25, the water collecting tray 25 is provided with a plurality of spray heads 26, a second fixing frame 27 is arranged on one side of the top of the machine body 1 far away from the water tank 21, a rear camera 28 is arranged at the other end of the second fixing frame 27, a fixed block 29 and a fixed ring 31 are respectively arranged on one side of the machine body 1 far away from the air pipe 15, the fixing ring 31 is positioned below the fixing block 29, the bottom of the fixing block 29 is provided with a telescopic hydraulic cylinder 30, the output end of the telescopic hydraulic cylinder 30 is provided with a piston rod, a movable rod 32 is sleeved in the fixed ring 31, the two ends of the movable rod 32 are both provided with a connecting rod 33, the center of the top of the connecting rod 33 is provided with a connecting block 34, the piston rod with connecting block 34 swing joint, connecting rod 33 is kept away from movable rod 32 one side tip is equipped with support 35, the bottom of support 35 is equipped with cleaning block 36.
In the second embodiment, the front camera 20 and the rear camera 28 are respectively provided with an illuminating lamp at the side surface, and an LED bulb is arranged in the illuminating lamp. As can be seen from the above design, the front camera 20 and the rear camera 28 are configured to perform auxiliary lighting operations by the lighting lamp, so as to improve the image capturing operations of the front camera 20 and the rear camera 28 on the interior of the pipeline.
In the third embodiment, the air duct 15 is an annular structure, the air duct 15 can be disassembled and replaced with different sizes to adapt to different pipe diameters, and angles between the upper air outlet nozzle 18 and the lower air outlet nozzle 17 and the inner wall of the pipeline are all 10 < a < 80. It can be seen from the above design that the design of the air duct 15 allows the operator to replace air ducts 15 of different sizes as required.
Fourth, upper portion tuyere 18 quantity is the lower part the half of lower part tuyere 17 quantity, be equipped with warning light 37 on the organism 1, warning light 37 is the tristimulus warning light, the colour of tristimulus warning light is red, yellow, blue tristimulus. It can be seen from the above design that the upper air outlet nozzle 18 and the lower air outlet nozzle 17 are designed to facilitate the lower air outlet nozzle 17 to generate vortex flow so as to easily clean up the welding slag and dust at the bottom in the pipeline.
In the fifth embodiment, a movable groove is formed in the center of the top of the connecting block 34, a shaft rod is arranged in the movable groove, the end of the piston rod is sleeved on the shaft rod, the cleaning block 36 is made of a composite sponge material, a plurality of protruding blocks are arranged on the outer surface of the cleaning block 36, and the driving motor 4, the wireless signal receiver 6, the wireless signal transmitter 7, the steering engine 9, the transformer 10, the storage battery 11, the blower 13, the front camera 20, the water pump 22, the rear camera 28, the telescopic hydraulic cylinder 30 and the warning light 37 are electrically connected with the controller 8. It is obvious from the above design that the flexible connection between the telescopic hydraulic cylinder 30 and the connecting block 34 is realized by the design of the flexible groove and the shaft rod.
For the convenience of understanding the technical solution of the present invention, the following detailed description is made on the working principle or the operation mode of the present invention in the practical process.
In conclusion, with the above technical solution of the present invention, a worker stands beside a laying pipe network, transmits a signal to the controller 8 through the wireless signal receiver 6 via the remote controller, the controller 8 starts the motor 4 through the battery 11, the motor 4 drives the driving wheel 3 to provide power to the machine body 1, thereby controlling the machine body 1 to advance in a pipeline, the controller 8 starts the blower 13 and the water pump 22 through the battery 11 and adjusts the telescopic hydraulic cylinder 30 through the rear camera 28 during the advance of the machine body 1, the telescopic hydraulic cylinder 30 pushes the connecting block 34, the connecting block 34 pushes the connecting rod 33, the connecting rod 33 pushes the bracket 35, the bracket 35 pushes the cleaning block 36 to be extruded with the inner bottom of the pipeline, the blower 13 outputs an air flow to the air pipe 15 through the connecting ring 14, the air flow outputs an air flow to the pipeline through the upper air outlet nozzle 18 and the lower air outlet nozzle 17 on the air pipe 15, the air current blows out the welding slag dust in the pipeline, simultaneously the water pump 22 pressurizes the water in the water tank 21 and conveys the water into the water collecting tray 25 through the water conveying hose 23 and the through pipe 24, then the water is sprayed into the pipeline through the plurality of nozzles 26, the sprayed water mist is attached to the dust generated by cleaning, so that the floating dust particles fall into the pipeline due to self weight, the dust particles are collected at the bottom in the pipeline and then pushed and cleaned by the cleaning block 36 at the rear, and the dust is carried out of the pipeline by the cleaning block 36 along with the movement of the machine body 1.
The utility model discloses simple structure workable, the input cost is low, just can blow the clearance at the laying process of pipeline, only need operating personnel closely wireless control can. Greatly prolongs the maintenance period of the pipe network, obviously reduces the maintenance cost, and plays a positive role in the water purification treatment and water safety of downstream enterprises and customers.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and should not be taken as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. 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 sweeping device for the municipal water supply pipe network is characterized by comprising a machine body (1), wherein universal wheels (2) and driving wheels (3) are respectively arranged on two sides of the bottom of the machine body (1), a driving motor (4) is arranged on one side of the driving wheels (3), the driving wheels (3) are electrically connected with the driving motor (4), a bottom plate (5) is arranged on one side of the bottom in the machine body (1), a storage battery (11), a transformer (10), a steering engine (9), a controller (8), a wireless signal transmitter (7) and a wireless signal receiver (6) are respectively arranged on the top of the bottom plate (5) from right to left, a supporting seat (12) is arranged on the other side of the bottom in the machine body (1), an air blower (13) is arranged on the top of the supporting seat (12), and the output end of the air blower (13) penetrates through the side wall of the machine body (1) and extends into a connecting ring (14), the air blower is characterized in that the connecting ring (14) is fixedly connected with the bottom of the side edge of the machine body (1), an air pipe (15) which is connected with the air blower (13) and is communicated with the other side of the interior of the connecting ring (14) is arranged at the other side of the interior of the connecting ring (14), the air pipe (15) is close to the middle of one side of the machine body (1) and is provided with a fixing rod (16), the other end of the fixing rod (16) is fixedly connected with the top of the side surface of the machine body (1), one side, far away from the machine body (1), of the air pipe (15) is provided with a plurality of upper air outlet nozzles (18) and a plurality of lower air outlet nozzles (17), the top of the air pipe (15) is provided with a first fixing frame (19), one side, far away from the air pipe (15), of the first fixing frame (19) is provided with a front camera (20), the center of the top of the machine body (1) is provided with a water tank (21), one side of the bottom of the water tank (21) is provided with a water pump (22), the middle of the water hose (23) is arranged in the water pump (22), the other end of the water delivery hose (23) runs through to the outside of the water tank (21) is connected with a through pipe (24) and is run through, the through pipe (24) is located at the center of the water tank (21) close to one side of the air pipe (15), the other end of the through pipe (24) is provided with a water collecting tray (25), the water collecting tray (25) is provided with a plurality of spray heads (26), the top of the machine body (1) is far away from one side of the water tank (21) and is provided with a second fixing frame (27), the other end of the second fixing frame (27) is provided with a rear camera (28), one side of the machine body (1) far away from the air pipe (15) is respectively provided with a fixing block (29) and a fixing ring (31), the fixing ring (31) is located below the fixing block (29), the bottom of the fixing block (29) is provided with a telescopic hydraulic cylinder (30), and the output end of the telescopic hydraulic cylinder (30) is provided with a piston rod, fixed ring (31) endotheca is equipped with movable rod (32), the both ends of movable rod (32) all are equipped with connecting rod (33), the top center department of connecting rod (33) is equipped with connecting block (34), the piston rod with connecting block (34) swing joint, connecting rod (33) are kept away from movable rod (32) a side end is equipped with support (35), the bottom of support (35) is equipped with cleaning block (36).
2. A sweeping device for a municipal water supply network according to claim 1, characterized in that the sides of the front camera (20) and the rear camera (28) are provided with lights in which LED bulbs are provided.
3. A blowing device for a municipal water supply network according to claim 1, characterized in that the air pipe (15) is of an annular structure, and the air pipe (15) can be disassembled and replaced with different sizes to adapt to different pipe diameters.
4. A blowing device for municipal water supply network according to claim 1, characterized in that the angle between the upper (18) and lower (17) tuyeres and the inner wall of the pipe is 10 < a < 80 degrees.
5. A blowing device for municipal water supply networks according to claim 1, characterized in that the number of upper tuyeres (18) is one half of the number of lower tuyeres (17) of the lower part.
6. A blowing device for municipal water supply network according to claim 1, characterized in that the machine body (1) is provided with a warning light (37), the warning light (37) is a three-color warning light, and the color of the three-color warning light is red, yellow, blue.
7. The purging device for the municipal water supply network according to claim 1, wherein a movable groove is formed in the center of the top of the connecting block (34), a shaft rod is arranged in the movable groove, and the end of the piston rod is sleeved on the shaft rod.
8. A blowing device for municipal water supply networks according to claim 1, characterized in that the cleaning block (36) is made of a composite sponge material, and the outer surface of the cleaning block (36) is provided with a plurality of projections.
9. The blowing device for the municipal water supply network according to claim 6, wherein the driving motor (4), the wireless signal receiver (6), the wireless signal transmitter (7), the steering engine (9), the transformer (10), the storage battery (11), the blower (13), the front camera (20), the water pump (22), the rear camera (28), the telescopic hydraulic cylinder (30) and the warning light (37) are electrically connected to the controller (8).
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