CN214560572U - Nut restraint limiting and adjusting structure - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a nut restraint spacing regulation structure, including the relative fixture block that sets up, the V-arrangement draw-in groove has been seted up respectively on the relative one side of two fixture blocks, the outside that just is located the V-arrangement draw-in groove respectively between two fixture blocks is equipped with two slide bars of parallel arrangement each other, the fixture block of its place side is worn respectively at the both ends of slide bar, one side that two fixture blocks were carried on the back mutually is provided with the outer connecting block respectively, fixed connection is on the outer connecting block of its place side respectively at the both ends of slide bar, be provided with the right angle wedge between fixture block and the outer connecting block, the wedge cooperation of direct wedge is on the fixture block, be fixed with the guide block on the right angle wedge, be fixed with the outer connecting rod on the outer connecting block, the guide block cover is established on the outer connecting rod of its place side, be provided with block removal stop device on the guide block in order to fix the guide block location on the outer connecting rod. The utility model discloses simple structure can carry out spacing restraint to the nut of placing the different specifications in it, makes things convenient for the propelling movement installation of nut.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a nut stop device, concretely relates to nut restraint spacing regulation structure.
Background
At present, in installation engineering, the equipment is usually fixedly connected by matching a bolt and a nut, so that an operator needs to thread the bolt through the corresponding equipment and then screw the nut on a screw rod of the bolt to complete fixed installation. However, in some narrow spaces, an operator cannot enter a field or cannot stretch into a mounting position with a hand, so that the operator cannot use the bolt for mounting, and mounting difficulty is increased.
In order to solve the technical problems, the inventor invents a bolt installation tool, which comprises a support sleeve, a push rod capable of sliding matching with the support sleeve along the direction of the central line of the support sleeve is arranged in the support sleeve in a penetrating manner, two ends of the push rod respectively extend out of two ends of the support sleeve, one end of the push rod is a working end, the other end of the push rod is an operating end, the operating end of the push rod is provided with a bolt clamping cylinder which is arranged along the central line of the push rod, the bottom end of the bolt clamping cylinder is fixedly connected with the push rod, an inner hole of the bolt clamping cylinder is used for placing the head of a bolt to be installed, the hole wall of the bolt clamping cylinder is capable of limiting the bolt to be installed to rotate around the direction of the central line, the depth of the inner hole of the bolt clamping cylinder is less than or equal to the thickness of the head of the bolt to be installed, one side of the bolt clamping cylinder in the direction of the cylinder opening is provided with a limiting clamping sleeve which is arranged along the central line of the bolt clamping cylinder, a connecting support is fixedly connected with the support sleeve through the connecting support bracket, the hole of spacing cutting ferrule treats the mounting nut in order being used for placing, and the pore wall of spacing cutting ferrule restricts around its central line direction rotation in order can treating the mounting nut, and spacing cutting ferrule is used for treating the mounting nut and carries out spacing stopper back to the one end fixedly connected with of a bolt card section of thick bamboo, and the hole length of spacing cutting ferrule is less than or equal to the thickness of treating the mounting nut. However, only for a bolt and a nut of one specification, how the limit ferrule can meet the use requirements of nuts of different specifications needs to be further considered.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
To the not enough of above-mentioned prior art, the utility model aims to solve the technical problem that: how to provide a nut restraint spacing adjustment structure that can carry out restraint control to different specification nuts.
In order to solve the technical problem, the utility model discloses a following technical scheme:
a nut restraint limit adjusting structure comprises clamping blocks which are horizontally arranged oppositely, V-shaped clamping grooves which are opposite and extend along the vertical direction are respectively arranged on the side surfaces of one side of each clamping block, each V-shaped clamping groove is a through groove and can be abutted against the side edges of two adjacent sides of a nut to be installed, a nut limit space for limiting the nut to be installed is formed between the two V-shaped clamping grooves, a limiting block for blocking and restraining the nut to be installed is fixedly connected to the lower end of each clamping block, two sliding rods which are arranged in parallel are respectively arranged between the two clamping blocks and are respectively positioned on the outer sides of the V-shaped clamping grooves, the sliding rods extend along the opposite directions of the two clamping blocks, the two ends of each sliding rod respectively penetrate through the clamping blocks on the side where the sliding rod is located, the sliding rods can be in sliding fit with the clamping blocks along the direction of the central line of the sliding rods, outer connecting blocks are respectively arranged on the side where the two clamping blocks are opposite, the two ends of the sliding rods are respectively fixedly connected to the outer connecting blocks on the side where the sliding rods, be provided with the right angle wedge between fixture block and the outer connecting block, the right angle wedge is located the position between two slide bars, the wedge face butt of right angle wedge is on the fixture block, one of them right angle face butt of right angle wedge just can follow vertical direction and outer connecting block sliding fit on the outer connecting block, be fixed with the guide block on another right angle face of right angle wedge, the outer connecting rod that one side fixedly connected with that the outer connecting block is located the guide block place is vertical to be extended, the guide block cover is established on the outer connecting rod of its place side and can be followed vertical direction and outer connecting rod sliding fit, be provided with piece removal stop device on the guide block, piece removal stop device is in order to fix the guide block location on the outer connecting rod.
The utility model discloses in, when using, earlier outwards remove the right angle wedge to increase the interval between two fixture blocks, put into the back at the nut, inwards remove the right angle wedge, the wedge of right angle wedge is just the butt on the fixture block like this, along with constantly pushing of right angle wedge, the wedge will constantly promote two fixture block relative movement, until satisfying the spacing requirement to the nut, it can to fix the guide block to utilize the piece to remove stop device at last.
Preferably, a synchronous operating rod parallel to the sliding rod is arranged between the two guide blocks, and two ends of the synchronous operating rod are respectively and fixedly connected to the guide block on the side where the synchronous operating rod is located. The synchronous operation rod is operated singly, so that the movement of two right-angle wedge blocks can be informed to operate, the concentricity of the nut and the bolt to be installed is further improved, and the installation is convenient.
Preferably, the block limiting device comprises a positioning bolt, a screw rod of the positioning bolt penetrates through the guide block along the radial direction corresponding to the outer connecting rod, the screw rod of the positioning bolt is in threaded fit with the guide block, and the screw rod of the positioning bolt can abut against the corresponding outer connecting rod to enable the guide block and the outer connecting rod to be fixed. And the positioning bolt is screwed, so that the screw rod of the positioning bolt is tightly abutted against the outer connecting rod, and the positioning and fixing of the guide block are further completed.
Preferably, the side walls of the two sides of the V-shaped clamping groove are covered and bonded with a layer of elastic rubber pad, and a plurality of rubber convex points distributed in the shape of quincuncial piles are formed on the surface of the elastic rubber pad in a protruding mode. Treat the extrusion of installing nut through elastic rubber pad, can avoid the nut to receive gravity to deviate from, also can separate nut and device under the condition of applying certain effort simultaneously.
To sum up, the beneficial effects of the utility model reside in that: the utility model discloses simple structure can carry out spacing restraint to the nut of placing the different specifications in it, makes things convenient for the propelling movement installation of nut.
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In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a bolt installation tool.
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The following will make further detailed description of the bolt installation tool using the structure of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.
As shown in fig. 1, the bolt installation tool in this embodiment includes a support sleeve 1, a push rod 2 capable of sliding fitting with the support sleeve 1 along a central line direction of the support sleeve 1 penetrates through the support sleeve 1, two ends of the push rod 2 respectively extend out of two ends of the support sleeve 1, one end of the push rod 2 is a working end, the other end is an operating end, the operating end of the push rod is provided with a bolt clamping cylinder 3 arranged along the same central line as the push rod 2, a cylinder bottom end of the bolt clamping cylinder 3 is fixedly connected with the push rod 2, an inner hole of the bolt clamping cylinder 3 is used for placing a head of a bolt to be installed, a hole wall of the bolt clamping cylinder 3 is capable of limiting rotation of the bolt to be installed around the central line direction, a depth of the inner hole of the bolt clamping cylinder 3 is less than or equal to a thickness of the head of the bolt to be installed, a limit position on one side of the bolt clamping cylinder 3 in a cylinder opening direction is provided with a limit position along the same central line as the bolt clamping cylinder 3, fixedly connected with linking bridge and through linking bridge and support sleeve 1 fixed connection on the spacing cutting ferrule, the hole of spacing cutting ferrule is in order to be used for placing and treats mounting nut, the pore wall of spacing cutting ferrule is in order to treat mounting nut and restrict around its central line direction rotation, the one end fixedly connected with that spacing cutting ferrule is back to bolt calorie of section of thick bamboo 3 is used for treating mounting nut and carries out spacing stopper 4, the hole length of spacing cutting ferrule is less than or equal to the thickness of treating mounting nut.
In the specific embodiment, the cross section of the inner hole of the bolt clamping cylinder 3 is rectangular, the width of the cross section of the inner hole of the bolt clamping cylinder 3 is greater than the width of the opposite side of the head of the bolt to be installed, sliders are oppositely arranged in the inner hole of the bolt clamping cylinder 3 along the length direction of the cross section of the inner hole of the bolt clamping cylinder 3, the sliders are accommodated in the inner hole of the bolt clamping cylinder 3, the sliders can be respectively in sliding fit with the inner hole of the bolt clamping cylinder 3 along the length direction of the cross section of the inner hole of the bolt clamping cylinder 3, V-shaped limiting grooves which are opposite and extend along the direction parallel to the central line of the bolt clamping cylinder 3 are respectively arranged on the side surfaces of one side opposite to the two sliders, each V-shaped limiting groove is a through groove which can be abutted against the side surfaces of the two adjacent sides of the nut to be installed, and a bolt limiting space for limiting the head of the bolt to be installed is formed between the two V-shaped limiting grooves, one side of each sliding block, which is back to the V-shaped limiting groove, is fixedly connected with a guide rod 5 extending along the length direction of the cross section of the inner hole of the bolt clamping cylinder 3, the guide rod 5 penetrates through the bolt clamping cylinder 3 along the central line direction of the guide rod 5 and extends out of the bolt clamping cylinder 3, the guide rod 5 can be in sliding fit with the bolt clamping cylinder 3 along the central line direction of the guide rod, sliding block positioning devices are arranged on the two sliding blocks, and the sliding block positioning devices can respectively act on the two sliding blocks to perform positioning control on the distance between the two sliding blocks;
the limiting clamping sleeve comprises two clamping blocks 6 which are symmetrically arranged by taking the central line of the bolt clamping cylinder 3 as a symmetry axis, the limiting blocks 4 are two and are respectively and fixedly connected to the two clamping blocks 6, V-shaped clamping grooves which are opposite and extend along the direction parallel to the central line of the bolt clamping cylinder 3 are respectively arranged on the side surfaces of the opposite sides of the two clamping blocks 6, the V-shaped clamping grooves are through grooves and can be abutted against the adjacent two side edges of a nut to be installed, a nut limiting space for limiting the nut to be installed is formed between the two V-shaped clamping grooves, two sliding rods 7 which are arranged in parallel are respectively arranged between the two clamping blocks 6 and respectively positioned at the outer sides of the V-shaped clamping grooves, the central line of the bolt clamping cylinder 3 is vertical to the plane where the central lines of the two sliding rods 7 are located, the clamping blocks 6 on the sides of the sliding rods 7 are respectively penetrated through the two ends of the sliding rods 7, and the sliding rods 7 can be in sliding fit with the clamping blocks 6 along the direction of the central lines, the two clamping blocks 6 are respectively provided with an outer connecting block 8 on one side opposite to each other, two ends of the sliding rod 7 are respectively fixedly connected to the outer connecting blocks 8 on the side where the sliding rod is located, the connecting support comprises outer connecting rods 9 respectively fixedly connected to the outer connecting blocks 8, the central line of each outer connecting rod 9 is parallel to the central line of the bolt clamping cylinder 3, one end, far away from the outer connecting blocks 8, of each outer connecting rod 9 is fixedly connected to the supporting sleeve 1, clamping block positioning devices are respectively installed on one sides, opposite to each other, of the two clamping blocks 6, and the clamping block positioning devices can act on the corresponding clamping blocks 6 to perform positioning control on the distance between the two clamping blocks 6.
In this embodiment, the sliding block positioning device comprises an adjusting sliding sleeve 10 sleeved on the push rod 2 and located on the rod body between the bolt clamping cylinder 3 and the support sleeve 1, the adjusting sliding sleeve 10 can be in sliding fit with the push rod 2 along the direction of the central line thereof, an adjusting pull rod 11 is respectively arranged between the adjusting sliding sleeve 10 and one end of the two guide rods 5 located outside the bolt clamping cylinder 3, two ends of the adjusting pull rod 11 are respectively hinged with the adjusting sliding sleeve 10 and one end of the guide rods 5 located outside the bolt clamping cylinder 3, when the adjusting sliding sleeve 10 is along 2 central line directions of push rod move, adjusting sliding sleeve 10 in order to be able to pass through adjusting pull rod 11 pulling guide bar 5 is followed 5 central line directions of guide bar move, are provided with the sliding sleeve on the adjusting sliding sleeve 10 and remove stop device, and the sliding sleeve removes stop device in order to be able to fix an adjusting sliding sleeve 10 position on push rod 2.
In this embodiment, the sliding sleeve movement limiting device includes fixing bases 12 respectively fixed on the adjusting sliding sleeve 10 and the bolt clamping cylinder 3 and oppositely arranged along the central line direction of the push rod 2, a fixing pull rod 13 is arranged between the two fixing bases 12 along the opposite direction, one end of the fixing pull rod 13 is connected to one of the fixing bases 12 by screw thread, the other end is penetrated through the other fixing base 12, a pull rod through hole for the fixing pull rod 13 to penetrate is arranged at the position of the fixing base 12 corresponding to the fixing pull rod 13, a fixing sleeve 14 is fixedly connected to the fixing base 12 where the pull rod through hole is located and the side of the fixing base 12 opposite to the other fixing base 12, the fixing sleeve 14 and the pull rod through hole are arranged on the same central line, the fixing pull rod 13 penetrates through the fixing sleeve 14 and can be in sliding fit with the fixing sleeve 14 along the central line direction, a fastening sleeve 15 with gradually increased outer diameter is formed by outwardly protruding one end of the fixing sleeve 14 far away from the fixing base 12 along the central line direction, the internal diameter of fastening sleeve 15 is unanimous with the internal diameter of fixed sleeve 14, many bar splits 16 have been seted up around the even interval of central line direction to the one end of fastening sleeve 15 far away from fixed sleeve 12, bar split 16 extends to the other end of fastening sleeve 15 along parallel fastening sleeve 15 central line direction, the cover is equipped with and can presses the cover 17 with its sliding fit's fastening along its central line direction on the fixed sleeve 14, when fastening is pressed the cover 17 and is removed towards the big diameter end direction of fastening sleeve 15, fastening is pressed the cover 17 and is made fastening sleeve 15 and fixed pull rod 13 fixed mutually so that fastening sleeve 15 compresses tightly on fixed pull rod 13.
In this embodiment, a fastening male screw extending from one end to the other end is provided on the outer circumferential surface of the fastening sleeve 15 along the central line direction of the fastening sleeve 15, a fastening female screw extending from one end to the other end is provided on the inner wall of the fastening pressing sleeve 17 along the central line direction of the fastening pressing sleeve 17, and when the fastening pressing sleeve 17 moves toward the fastening sleeve 15, the fastening pressing sleeve 17 can be screwed on the fastening sleeve 15 by the fastening female screw and the fastening male screw.
In this embodiment, a resisting spring is sleeved on the fastening sleeve 15 and at a position between the fixed seat 12 where the fastening sleeve 15 is located and the fastening pressing sleeve 17, and two ends of the resisting spring respectively abut against the fixed seat 12 and the fastening pressing sleeve 17 corresponding thereto to provide a spring force for the fastening pressing sleeve 17 to move towards the direction of the large-diameter end of the fastening sleeve 15.
In this embodiment, embedded bar rubber strip that is equipped with of bar breach 16, bar rubber strip is along its place 16 extending direction of bar breach extends the setting, and bar rubber strip fixed connection is at its place respectively on the both sides lateral wall of bar breach 16, the inside and outside both sides side of bar rubber strip respectively with the inside and outside face of fastening sleeve 15 flushes.
In this specific embodiment, fixture block positioner is including being located it and corresponding fixture block 6 with right angle wedge 18 between the outer connecting block 8, two right angle wedges 18 with 3 central lines of bolt calorie of section of thick bamboo are symmetry axis symmetry setting, and right angle wedge 18 is located two position between the slide bar 7, right angle wedge 18's wedge face butt is in on the fixture block 6, one of them right angle face butt of right angle wedge 18 is in on the outer connecting block 8 and can follow and be on a parallel with 3 central line directions of bolt calorie of section of thick bamboo and outer connecting block 8 sliding fit, be fixed with on another right angle face of right angle wedge 18 and establish its place side guide block 19 on the outer connecting rod 9, guide block 19 can follow outer connecting rod 9 central line direction and its sliding fit are provided with piece removal stop device on the guide block 19, and piece removal stop device is in order to fix the guide block 19 location on the outer connecting rod 9.
In this embodiment, a synchronous operating rod 20 parallel to the sliding rod 7 is disposed between the two guide blocks 19, and two ends of the synchronous operating rod 20 are respectively fixedly connected to the guide blocks 19 on the sides thereof.
In this specific embodiment, the block movement limiting device includes a positioning bolt, a screw rod of the positioning bolt is inserted into the guide block 19 along a radial direction of the positioning bolt corresponding to the outer connecting rod 9, the screw rod of the positioning bolt is in threaded fit with the guide block 19, and the screw rod of the positioning bolt can abut against the corresponding outer connecting rod 9 to fix the guide block 19 and the outer connecting rod 9.
In this embodiment, the lateral walls on both sides of the V-shaped slot are covered and bonded with a layer of elastic rubber pad, and a plurality of rubber bumps distributed in quincuncial piles are formed on the surface of the elastic rubber pad in a protruding manner.
Finally, it is noted that the above-mentioned embodiments illustrate rather than limit the invention, and that, while the invention has been described with reference to preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
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1. The utility model provides a spacing regulation structure of nut restraint which characterized in that: the nut limiting device comprises clamping blocks which are horizontally arranged oppositely, V-shaped clamping grooves which are opposite and extend along the vertical direction are respectively arranged on the side surfaces of one side of each of the two clamping blocks, each V-shaped clamping groove is a through groove and can abut against the side edges of two adjacent sides of a nut to be installed, a nut limiting space for limiting the nut to be installed is formed between the two V-shaped clamping grooves, a limiting block for blocking and limiting the nut to be installed is fixedly connected to the lower end of each clamping block, two sliding rods which are arranged in parallel are respectively arranged between the two clamping blocks and are respectively positioned on the outer sides of the V-shaped clamping grooves, the sliding rods extend along the opposite directions of the two clamping blocks, the clamping blocks on the side of the sliding rods are respectively penetrated through the two ends of the sliding rods, the sliding rods can be in sliding fit with the clamping blocks along the central line direction of the sliding rods, outer connecting blocks are respectively arranged on the opposite sides of the two clamping blocks, and the two ends of the sliding rods are respectively fixedly connected to the outer connecting blocks on the side of the sliding rods, be provided with the right angle wedge between fixture block and the outer connecting block, the right angle wedge is located the position between two slide bars, the wedge face butt of right angle wedge is on the fixture block, one of them right angle face butt of right angle wedge just can follow vertical direction and outer connecting block sliding fit on the outer connecting block, be fixed with the guide block on another right angle face of right angle wedge, the outer connecting rod that one side fixedly connected with that the outer connecting block is located the guide block place is vertical to be extended, the guide block cover is established on the outer connecting rod of its place side and can be followed vertical direction and outer connecting rod sliding fit, be provided with piece removal stop device on the guide block, piece removal stop device is in order to fix the guide block location on the outer connecting rod.
2. The nut restraint limit adjustment structure according to claim 1, characterized in that: a synchronous operating rod parallel to the sliding rod is arranged between the two guide blocks, and two ends of the synchronous operating rod are respectively and fixedly connected to the guide blocks on the side where the synchronous operating rod is located.
3. The nut restraint limit adjustment structure according to claim 1, characterized in that: the block moving limiting device comprises a positioning bolt, a screw rod of the positioning bolt penetrates through the guide block along the radial direction corresponding to the outer connecting rod, the screw rod of the positioning bolt is in threaded fit with the guide block, and the screw rod of the positioning bolt can abut against the outer connecting rod corresponding to the positioning bolt so that the guide block is fixed with the outer connecting rod.
4. The nut restraint limit adjustment structure according to claim 1, characterized in that: the lateral walls of two sides of the V-shaped clamping groove are covered and bonded with a layer of elastic rubber pad, and a plurality of rubber salient points distributed in the shape of quincuncial piles are formed on the surface of the elastic rubber pad in a protruding mode.
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