CN214139832U - Finished product bin with controllable discharge amount - Google Patents

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CN214139832U
CN214139832U CN202022551292.1U CN202022551292U CN214139832U CN 214139832 U CN214139832 U CN 214139832U CN 202022551292 U CN202022551292 U CN 202022551292U CN 214139832 U CN214139832 U CN 214139832U
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顾建强
何小芬
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A discharge-controllable finished product bin comprises: the bin body comprises a frame body, the number of the frame body is at least two, the upper end and the lower end of the frame body are both provided with an outer display plate, the upper end of the frame body positioned at the upper end is provided with a bin cover, the lower end of the bin cover is provided with a mounting plate, the lower end of the frame body positioned at the lower end is provided with a discharging part, the upper end of the discharging part is communicated with a discharging pipe, a plurality of fixing screw rods penetrate through the outer display plate, the upper end of each fixing screw rod penetrates through the mounting plate, the lower end of each fixing screw rod penetrates through the fixing plate, the upper end and the lower end of each fixing screw rod are both screwed with nuts, the bin cover extends upwards and is provided with an air outlet part, and the bin cover extends upwards and is provided with a feeding part; the discharge control assembly is arranged at the lower end of the discharge pipe and is used for opening and closing a port of the discharge pipe; and the material control assembly is arranged on the discharge pipe and used for controlling the discharge flow. The utility model discloses can prevent the phenomenon that the dust flies upward, conveniently carry out the control of material volume size when the ejection of compact, at ejection of compact in-process, conveniently realize opening and close of the ejection of compact, have stronger practicality.

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Finished product bin with controllable discharge amount
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a relevant technical field of storage equipment especially relates to a controllable type finished product feed bin of load.
Background
A finished product silo is a device that stores industrial products in an industrial production campaign. Generally, finished products obtained through a multi-stage industrial production process are conveyed to a position above a finished product bin through a conveying device and directly fall into the finished product bin, generally, the occupied area is reduced, the height of the general finished product bin is high, and the height of some finished product bins can reach more than six meters, so that the phenomenon of powder flying occurs in the feeding process.
The discharge of finished product storehouse is usually to drive the car that connects to the finished product storehouse below, begins to receive the finished product from the finished product storehouse export, through the finished product receipt condition of visual observation, judges by experience entirely, can cause the blowing volume to be difficult to control, can not carry out effectual control to the discharge volume.
Disclosure of Invention
The utility model provides a controllable type finished product feed bin of load to solve the not enough of above-mentioned prior art, can prevent the phenomenon that the dust flies upward, conveniently carry out the control of material volume size when the ejection of compact, at ejection of compact in-process, conveniently realize opening and close of the ejection of compact, have stronger practicality.
In order to realize the purpose of the utility model, the following technologies are adopted:
a discharge-controllable finished product bin comprises:
the bin body comprises a frame body, the number of the frame body is at least two, the upper end and the lower end of the frame body are both provided with an outer display plate, the upper end of the frame body positioned at the upper end is provided with a bin cover, the lower end of the bin cover is provided with a mounting plate, the lower end of the frame body positioned at the lower end is provided with a discharging part, the upper end of the discharging part is communicated with a discharging pipe, a plurality of fixing screw rods penetrate through the outer display plate, the upper end of each fixing screw rod penetrates through the mounting plate, the lower end of each fixing screw rod penetrates through the fixing plate, the upper end and the lower end of each fixing screw rod are both screwed with nuts, the bin cover extends upwards and is provided with an air outlet part, and the bin cover extends upwards and is provided with a feeding part;
the discharge control assembly is arranged at the lower end of the discharge pipe and is used for opening and closing a port of the discharge pipe;
and the material control assembly is arranged on the discharge pipe and used for controlling the discharge flow.
Further, the piece of giving vent to anger is equipped with the dust guard a plurality of including the frame that gives vent to anger that communicates in the storehouse lid in the frame of giving vent to anger, and the one end of dust guard all is fixed in the frame inner wall of giving vent to anger, and there is the clearance in other one end and the inner wall of the frame of giving vent to anger all, and the frame that gives vent to anger of locating that the dust guard all inclines, the equal downwardly extending of other one end of dust guard.
Further, the feeding piece includes installing of intercommunication and extends the frame on the cang gai, upward extend the frame both sides all upwards extend be equipped with the curb plate, be equipped with the swash plate between the curb plate one end, the upper end of swash plate inclines to the outside, is equipped with the straight board between the other one end of curb plate, the curb plate upper end is equipped with the apron.
Further, ejection of compact control subassembly is a pair of including installing the dwang in the discharging pipe both sides, the dwang outside end all is equipped with the rotation circle, the equal downwardly extending's of rotation circle board that stretches down is equipped with down, the shaping that the board that stretches down all runs through has rectangular hole, the guide way has all been formed in the board both sides of stretching down, the concave part is all established to the board lower extreme cover of stretching down, the concave part inner wall has all formed the lug, the lug is all inlayed and is overlapped in the guide way, the concave part lower extreme all upwards extends be equipped with the extension pole, upward extend the pole upper end and all install the roof, upward extend the pole upper end and all worn the spring, the spring is located rectangular downthehole, the spring is located the roof lower extreme, be equipped with the end plate between the concave part lower extreme, the end plate upwards extends be equipped with the picture peg, when ejection of compact control subassembly is to the lower extreme shutoff of discharging pipe, the lower extreme opening part of locating the discharging pipe is inserted to the picture peg.
Further, accuse material subassembly is including forming in the key shape groove of discharging pipe inner wall a pair of, be equipped with the dead lever between key shape groove one end, the dead lever cover is equipped with accuse material cloth, the other one end of accuse material cloth is equipped with the movable rod, the key inslot is located at the both ends of movable rod, the movable rod cover is equipped with the collar a pair of, the equal outside extension of collar is equipped with outer stretching rod, outer stretching rod all wears in the discharging pipe, the outside end of outer stretching rod is equipped with the expansion plate, expansion plate intermediate position department has the screw rod soon, the discharging pipe is located to the medial extremity of screw rod, the outside end of screw rod is equipped with the rolling disc.
The technical scheme has the advantages that:
the utility model discloses can prevent the phenomenon that the dust flies upward, conveniently carry out the control of material volume size when the ejection of compact, at ejection of compact in-process, conveniently realize opening and close of the ejection of compact, have stronger practicality.
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Fig. 2 shows a perspective view of the second embodiment.
Fig. 3 shows a partial enlarged view at a.
Fig. 4 shows a partial enlarged view at B.
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In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. The components of embodiments of the present invention, as generally described and illustrated in the figures herein, may be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations.
Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention, presented in the accompanying drawings, is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, as claimed, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the invention. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative efforts belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, it need not be further defined and explained in subsequent figures.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate the position or positional relationship based on the position or positional relationship shown in the drawings, or the position or positional relationship which is usually placed when the product of the present invention is used, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of the description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific position, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
The terms "first," "second," and the like are used solely to distinguish one from another and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.
The terms "parallel", "perpendicular", etc. do not require that the components be absolutely parallel or perpendicular, but may be slightly inclined. For example, "parallel" merely means that the directions are more parallel relative to "perpendicular," and does not mean that the structures are necessarily perfectly parallel, but may be slightly tilted.
Furthermore, the terms "substantially", and the like are intended to indicate that the relative terms are not necessarily strictly required, but may have some deviation. For example: "substantially equal" does not mean absolute equality, but because absolute equality is difficult to achieve in actual production and operation, certain deviations generally exist. Thus, in addition to absolute equality, "substantially equal" also includes the above-described case where there is some deviation. In this case, unless otherwise specified, terms such as "substantially", and the like are used in a similar manner to those described above.
In the description of the present invention, it should also be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "disposed," "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning either a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.
As shown in fig. 1-4, a discharge amount controllable finished product bin comprises: storehouse body 1, ejection of compact control assembly 2 and accuse material subassembly 3.
Storehouse body 1, including framework 10, the quantity of framework 10 is two at least, the upper and lower both ends of framework 10 all are equipped with abduction board 11, the framework 10 upper end that is located the upper end is equipped with cang gai 13, cang gai 13 lower extreme is equipped with mounting panel 14, the discharge member 17 is installed to the framework 10 lower extreme that is located the lower extreme, the discharge member 17 upper end is equipped with fixed plate 18, discharge member 17 lower extreme intercommunication has discharging pipe 19, abduction board 11 has all worn fixed screw 12 a plurality ofly, fixed screw 12's upper end is worn in mounting panel 14, fixed screw 12's lower extreme is worn in fixed plate 18, fixed screw 12's upper and lower both ends all have the nut soon, the storehouse lid 13 upwards extends is equipped with out gas spare 15, the storehouse lid 13 upwards extends is equipped with feeding piece 16. Go out gas piece 15 including the frame 150 of giving vent to anger that communicates in cang gai 13, be equipped with dust guard 151 a plurality of in the frame 150 of giving vent to anger, the one end of dust guard 151 all is fixed in the frame 150 inner wall of giving vent to anger, and there is the clearance in other one end and the inner wall of frame 150 of giving vent to anger all, and the frame 150 of giving vent to anger of locating that dust guard 151 all inclines, the other one end of dust guard 151 all downwardly extending. The feeding member 16 includes an upper extension frame 160 communicated with the bin cover 13, side plates 161 are arranged on two sides of the upper extension frame 160 and extend upwards, an inclined plate 162 is arranged between one ends of the side plates 161, the upper end of the inclined plate 162 inclines outwards, a straight plate 164 is arranged between the other ends of the side plates 161, and a cover plate 163 is arranged on the upper end of the side plates 161.
And the discharge control component 2 is arranged at the lower end of the discharge pipe 19 and is used for opening and closing the port of the discharge pipe 19. The discharge control component 2 comprises a pair of rotating rods 20 arranged at two sides of a discharge pipe 19, the outer side ends of the rotating rods 20 are respectively provided with a rotating ring 21, the rotating rings 21 are respectively provided with a lower extension plate 23 extending downwards, the lower extension plates 23 are respectively provided with a strip hole 230 in a penetrating way, two sides of each lower extension plate 23 are respectively provided with a guide groove 231, the lower ends of the lower extension plates 23 are respectively sleeved with a concave part 24, the inner wall of each concave part 24 is respectively provided with a convex block 240, each convex block 240 is embedded and sleeved in each guide groove 231, the lower ends of the concave parts 24 are respectively provided with an upper extension rod 25 extending upwards, the upper ends of the upper extension rods 25 are respectively provided with a top plate 27, the upper ends of the upper extension rods 25 are respectively penetrated with a spring 26, the spring 26 is positioned in the strip hole 230, the spring 26 is positioned at the lower end of the top plate 27, an end plate 28 is arranged between the lower ends of the concave parts 24, the end plates 28 are respectively provided with an inserting plate 29 extending upwards, when the tapping control unit 2 blocks the lower end of the tapping pipe 19, the plug plate 29 is inserted into the lower opening of the tapping pipe 19.
And the material control assembly 3 is arranged on the discharge pipe 19 and is used for controlling the discharge flow. The material control assembly 3 comprises a pair of key-shaped grooves 30 formed in the inner wall of the discharge pipe 19, a fixed rod 31 is arranged between one ends of the key-shaped grooves 30, material control cloth 32 is sleeved on the fixed rod 31, movable rods 33 are arranged at the other ends of the material control cloth 32, two ends of each movable rod 33 are arranged in the key-shaped grooves 30, a pair of mounting rings 34 are sleeved on the movable rods 33, outward extending rods 35 are arranged on the mounting rings 34 and extend outwards, the outward extending rods 35 penetrate through the discharge pipe 19, telescopic plates 36 are arranged at the outer side ends of the outward extending rods 35, screw rods 37 are screwed at the middle positions of the telescopic plates 36, the inner side ends of the screw rods 37 are arranged on the discharge pipe 19, and rotating discs 38 are arranged at.
The device can effectually prevent the phenomenon that the dust flies upward through storehouse body 1, ejection of compact control assembly 2 and accuse material subassembly 3 according to the problem that exists among the prior art, makes things convenient for the control that the ejection of compact was opened and close, and at ejection of compact in-process, the convenience is controlled the size of load.
In a specific embodiment, in order to prepare a cabin 1 with a suitable height according to the actual requirement, the cabin 1 is mainly composed of a frame 10, a cabin cover 13 arranged at the upper end, and a discharging member 17 arranged at the lower end, wherein the frame 10, the cabin cover 13, and the discharging member 17 are fixed together by a fixing screw 12, wherein in order to be able to place the phenomenon that dust flies during the feeding process, an air outlet member 15 is arranged at the upper end of the cabin cover 13, wherein in order to be able to discharge air during the feeding process, a corresponding air outlet frame 150 is arranged, and in order to prevent dust from flying out of the air outlet frame 150, a corresponding dust guard 151 is arranged in the air outlet frame 150, and the inclined dust guard 151 facilitates the discharge of air, simultaneously blocks the dust from flying out by an inclined arrangement structure, and simultaneously sets the unconnected end of the dust guard 151 to be inclined downwards in order to enable the dust to flow back, wherein, in order to prevent that the in-process of feeding material, dust from the production raise dust of feeding piece 16 department, consequently last extension frame 160 has set up swash plate 162 and the open corresponding apron 163 that has set up in swash plate 162 one end simultaneously, places the in-process raise dust of feeding material through the effect of apron 163, and the swash plate 162 makes things convenient for the material to get into the storehouse body 1.
When the blanking operation is carried out, the end plate 28 is pulled downwards to enable the insertion plate 29 to move out of the lower end of the discharging pipe 19, in the pulling process, the spring 26 is compressed, when the insertion plate 29 moves out of the lower end of the discharging pipe 19, the end plate 28 is pulled to one side, the end plate 28 deflects around the rotating rod 20, after the pulling is finished, the end plate 28 is loosened, then the screw rod 37 is rotated according to the feeding amount, the telescopic plate 36 is driven to move inwards under the rotation of the screw rod 27, the movable rod 33 is driven to move inwards by the inward movement of the telescopic plate 36, so that the material control cloth 32 loses the control of the material until the movable end of the material control cloth 32 reaches a proper position, after the feeding is finished, the material is intercepted through the material control cloth 32, then the discharging pipe 19 is blocked through the insertion plate 29, the leakage of the material is placed through double-layer blocking, and the rotation of the end plate 28 is carried out conveniently, guide grooves 231 are formed on both sides of the drop plate 23, and the concave member 24 is restricted by the guide grooves 231. The spring 26 is provided to facilitate the automatic plugging of the tapping pipe 19 by the end plate 28.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and it is obvious that those skilled in the art can make various changes and modifications to the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the present invention fall within the scope of the claims and their equivalents, the present invention is also intended to include such modifications and variations.

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1. The utility model provides a controllable type finished product feed bin of load which characterized in that includes:
the bin body (1) comprises a frame body (10), the number of the frame body (10) is at least two, the upper end and the lower end of the frame body (10) are respectively provided with an outer display plate (11), the upper end of the frame body (10) positioned at the upper end is provided with a bin cover (13), the lower end of the bin cover (13) is provided with a mounting plate (14), the lower end of the frame body (10) positioned at the lower end is provided with a discharging part (17), the upper end of the discharging part (17) is provided with a fixing plate (18), the lower end of the discharging part (17) is communicated with a discharging pipe (19), a plurality of fixing screw rods (12) are respectively penetrated through the outer display plates (11), the upper end of each fixing screw rod (12) is penetrated through the mounting plate (14), the lower end of each fixing screw rod (12) is penetrated through the fixing plate (18), nuts are respectively screwed at the upper end and the lower end of each fixing screw rod (12), the bin cover (13) is provided with an air outlet part (15) extending upwards, and the bin cover (13) is provided with a feeding part (16) extending upwards;
the discharge control assembly (2) is arranged at the lower end of the discharge pipe (19) and is used for opening and closing the port of the discharge pipe (19);
the material control assembly (3) is arranged on the discharge pipe (19) and used for controlling the discharge flow.
2. The finished product bin with the controllable discharging amount according to claim 1, wherein the gas outlet member (15) comprises a gas outlet frame (150) communicated with the bin cover (13), a plurality of dust-proof plates (151) are arranged in the gas outlet frame (150), one ends of the dust-proof plates (151) are fixed on the inner wall of the gas outlet frame (150), gaps exist between the other ends of the dust-proof plates and the inner wall of the gas outlet frame (150), the dust-proof plates (151) are obliquely arranged on the gas outlet frame (150), and the other ends of the dust-proof plates (151) extend downwards.
3. The finished product bin with the controllable discharge amount according to claim 1, wherein the feeding member (16) comprises an upper extension frame (160) which is communicated with and mounted on the bin cover (13), side plates (161) are arranged on two sides of the upper extension frame (160) and extend upwards, a sloping plate (162) is arranged between one ends of the side plates (161), the upper end of the sloping plate (162) inclines outwards, a straight plate (164) is arranged between the other ends of the side plates (161), and a cover plate (163) is arranged at the upper end of the side plates (161).
4. The finished product bin with the controllable discharging amount according to claim 1, wherein the discharging control assembly (2) comprises a pair of rotating rods (20) arranged on two sides of the discharging pipe (19), the outer ends of the rotating rods (20) are provided with rotating rings (21), the rotating rings (21) are provided with lower extension plates (23) extending downwards, the lower extension plates (23) are provided with strip holes (230) in a penetrating manner, guide grooves (231) are formed on two sides of the lower extension plates (23), the lower ends of the lower extension plates (23) are respectively sleeved with a concave part (24), the inner walls of the concave parts (24) are respectively provided with a convex block (240), the convex blocks (240) are respectively embedded in the guide grooves (231), the lower ends of the concave parts (24) are respectively provided with an upper extension rod (25) extending upwards, the upper ends of the upper extension rods (25) are respectively provided with a top plate (27), the upper ends of the upper extension rods (25) are respectively provided with a spring (26) in a penetrating manner, and the springs (26) are positioned in the strip holes (230), the spring (26) is positioned at the lower end of the top plate (27), an end plate (28) is arranged between the lower ends of the concave parts (24), the end plate (28) extends upwards to be provided with an inserting plate (29), and when the lower end of the discharge pipe (19) is plugged by the discharge control assembly (2), the inserting plate (29) is inserted into an opening at the lower end of the discharge pipe (19).
5. The finished product bin with the controllable discharging amount according to claim 1, wherein the material control assembly (3) comprises a pair of key-shaped grooves (30) formed in the inner wall of the discharging pipe (19), a fixing rod (31) is arranged between one ends of the key-shaped grooves (30), material control cloth (32) is sleeved on the fixing rod (31), movable rods (33) are arranged at the other ends of the material control cloth (32), two ends of each movable rod (33) are arranged in the key-shaped grooves (30), a pair of mounting rings (34) are sleeved on the corresponding movable rods (33), outward extending rods (35) are arranged on the mounting rings (34) and extend outwards, the outward extending rods (35) penetrate through the discharging pipe (19), a telescopic plate (36) is arranged at the outer side end of each outward extending rod (35), a screw rod (37) is screwed at the middle position of the telescopic plate (36), the discharging pipe (19) is arranged at the inner side end of the screw rod (37), and a rotating disc (38) is arranged at the outer side end of the screw rod (37).
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