CN214914729U - Adsorption tower of nitrogen making machine - Google Patents

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CN214914729U
CN214914729U CN202121090802.8U CN202121090802U CN214914729U CN 214914729 U CN214914729 U CN 214914729U CN 202121090802 U CN202121090802 U CN 202121090802U CN 214914729 U CN214914729 U CN 214914729U
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The utility model provides an adsorption tower of nitrogen making machine. The adsorption tower of the nitrogen making machine comprises an adsorption tower body; the base is arranged below the adsorption tower body; the four slots are distributed on the top of the base in a rectangular shape; the four support legs are distributed in a rectangular shape and fixedly installed at the bottom of the adsorption tower body, and the bottom ends of the four support legs extend into the four slots; two installation mechanisms, two installation mechanism all sets up on the base. The utility model provides an adsorption tower of nitrogen generator has easy operation, labour saving and time saving, the convenient advantage to the work of its installation and later stage change.

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Adsorption tower of nitrogen making machine
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a nitrogen generator technical field especially relates to an adsorption tower of nitrogen generator.
Background
The nitrogen making machine is a nitrogen making equipment designed and manufactured according to pressure swing adsorption technology, and the adsorption tower is an important component equipment of the nitrogen making machine and plays an important role in the nitrogen making process.
However, the traditional adsorption tower is usually welded directly on the base, which causes trouble in the installation process, and also brings inconvenience to the maintenance or replacement work in the later period, and the operation is troublesome, time-consuming and labor-consuming.
Therefore, it is necessary to provide a new adsorption tower of a nitrogen generator to solve the above technical problems.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model provides a technical problem provide an adsorption tower of nitrogen generator with easy operation, labour saving and time saving, the convenient work of changing to its installation and later stage.
In order to solve the technical problem, the utility model provides an adsorption tower of nitrogen generator includes: an adsorption tower body; the base is arranged below the adsorption tower body; the four slots are distributed on the top of the base in a rectangular shape; the four support legs are distributed in a rectangular shape and fixedly installed at the bottom of the adsorption tower body, and the bottom ends of the four support legs extend into the four slots; two installation mechanisms, two installation mechanism all sets up on the base.
Preferably, the mounting mechanism comprises a cavity, a groove, a rotating rod, two through grooves, a long plate, a torsion spring, two hinge rods and two clamping rods, the cavity is formed in the base, the groove is formed in the inner wall of the bottom of the cavity, the rotating rod is rotatably mounted on the inner wall of the bottom of the groove, the top end of the rotating rod extends to the upper portion of the base and is fixedly provided with a knob, the two through grooves are formed in the inner walls of the two sides of the cavity respectively, the two through grooves are communicated with the two slots respectively, the long plate is fixedly sleeved on the rotating rod, the torsion spring is movably sleeved on the rotating rod, the bottom end of the torsion spring is fixedly connected with the inner wall of the groove, the top end of the torsion spring is fixedly connected with the bottom of the long plate, and the two hinge rods are hinged on the outer walls of the two sides of the long plate respectively, the two clamping rods are respectively hinged on the two hinge rods, and one ends of the clamping rods, far away from the two hinge rods, are respectively in sliding connection with the corresponding two support legs.
Preferably, the inner walls of the two slots are respectively provided with a clamping groove, the outer walls of the corresponding two supporting legs are respectively provided with a sliding hole, and one end, far away from each other, of each clamping rod penetrates through the two sliding holes and extends into the two clamping grooves.
Preferably, a ratchet wheel is fixedly sleeved on the rotating rod, a pawl is hinged to the top of the base and meshed with the ratchet wheel.
Preferably, the bottom of the adsorption tower body is provided with two carrying mechanisms.
Preferably, the carrying mechanism comprises a U-shaped plate, a two-way threaded rod, two threaded blocks, two supporting plates, a stabilizing plate, two mounting grooves, two fixing rods, two sliding blocks and two rollers, the U-shaped plate is fixedly mounted at the bottom of the adsorption tower body, the two-way threaded rod is rotatably mounted on the inner walls of the two sides of the U-shaped plate, the two ends of the two-way threaded rod extend to the outside of the U-shaped plate and are fixedly provided with circular rings, the two threaded blocks are sleeved on the two-way threaded rod in a threaded manner, the two supporting plates are respectively hinged to the bottoms of the two threaded blocks and are intersected, the stabilizing plate is arranged below the two supporting plates, the two mounting grooves are respectively arranged at the top of the stabilizing plate, the two fixing rods are respectively and fixedly mounted on the inner walls of the two mounting grooves, the two sliding blocks are respectively sleeved on the two fixing rods in a sliding mode, the two sliding blocks are respectively hinged to the bottom ends of the two supporting plates, and the two rollers are fixedly installed at the bottom of the stabilizing plate.
Preferably, two limiting grooves are formed in the inner wall of the top of the U-shaped plate, two limiting blocks are fixedly mounted at the tops of the thread blocks respectively, and the tops of the two limiting blocks extend into the two limiting grooves and are connected with the inner walls of the two limiting grooves in a sliding mode.
Preferably, two the sliding tray has been seted up on the outer wall that the supporting leg is close to each other respectively, there is the end plate, two on the both sides outer wall of steadying board respectively fixed mounting there is the connecting rod, two at the top of end plate fixed mounting respectively has a sliding block, two on the outer wall that the connecting rod was kept away from each other respectively fixed mounting has a sliding block, two one side outer wall that the sliding block was kept away from each other extends to two respectively in the sliding tray and with two the inner wall sliding connection of sliding tray.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model provides an adsorption tower of nitrogen generator has following beneficial effect:
the utility model provides an adsorption tower of nitrogen generator, earlier insert corresponding slot with four supporting legs on the adsorption tower body in, only need to rotate the knob and just can drive the kelly and inject the supporting leg, realize the quick installation work to the adsorption tower body, when needs are to its maintenance or change, only need stir the pawl, under torque spring's effect, the rotation takes place for the bull stick, thereby the bull stick drives two kellies and is the direction motion that is close to each other, and then the supporting leg loses the injecing of kelly, just can dismantle the adsorption tower body get off, the convenience is to its maintenance or change, time saving and labor saving, and is simple in operation, and the improvement is to the work of adsorption tower body installation or maintenance.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic front view of an adsorption tower of a nitrogen generator according to a first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged schematic view of portion A shown in FIG. 1;
fig. 3 is a schematic front view of an adsorption tower of a nitrogen generator according to a second embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged schematic view of a portion B shown in FIG. 3;
reference numbers in the figures: 1. an adsorption tower body; 2. a base; 3. a slot; 4. supporting legs; 5. a cavity; 6. a groove; 7. a rotating rod; 8. a through groove; 9. a long plate; 10. a torsion spring; 11. a hinged lever; 12. a clamping rod; 13. a U-shaped plate; 14. a bidirectional threaded rod; 15. a thread block; 16. a support plate; 17. a stabilizing plate; 18. mounting grooves; 19. fixing the rod; 20. a slider; 21. and a roller.
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The present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments.
The first embodiment:
please refer to fig. 1-2 in combination. The adsorption tower of nitrogen generator includes: an adsorption tower body 1; the base 2 is arranged below the adsorption tower body 1; the four slots 3 are distributed on the top of the base 2 in a rectangular shape; the four slots 3 correspond to and are matched with the four supporting legs 4, the four supporting legs 4 are fixedly arranged at the bottom of the adsorption tower body 1 in a rectangular distribution mode, and the bottom ends of the four supporting legs 4 extend into the four slots 3; two installation mechanisms, two installation mechanism all sets up on the base 2, two installation mechanism's setting is convenient for the staff to the installation work of adsorption tower body 1, labour saving and time saving.
In order to facilitate quick installation or disassembly of the adsorption tower body 1, the installation mechanism comprises a cavity 5, a groove 6, a rotating rod 7, two through grooves 8, a long plate 9, a torsion spring 10, two hinge rods 11 and two clamping rods 12, wherein the cavity 5 is arranged on the base 2, the volume of the cavity 5 is larger than that of the long plate 9, the groove 6 is arranged on the inner wall of the bottom of the cavity 5, the rotating rod 7 is rotatably installed on the inner wall of the bottom of the groove 6, the top end of the rotating rod 7 extends to the upper side of the base 2 and is fixedly provided with a knob, the two through grooves 8 are respectively arranged on the inner walls of two sides of the cavity 5, the two through grooves 8 are respectively communicated with the two slots 3, the two through grooves 8 are used for avoiding the movement of the hinge rods 11 and the clamping rods 12, the long plate 9 is fixedly sleeved on the rotating rod 7, the torsion spring 10 is movably sleeved on the rotating rod 7, torsion spring 10's bottom with the inner wall fixed connection of recess 6, torsion spring 10's top with long plate 9's bottom fixed connection can be fast bounce-back to bull stick 7 under torsion spring 10's elastic action, makes things convenient for the later stage to the dismantlement work of adsorption tower body 1, two articulated mast 11 is articulated respectively to be installed on long plate 9's the both sides outer wall, two jamming rod 12 is articulated respectively to be installed two on the articulated mast 11, two jamming rod 12 keeps away from two the one end of articulated mast 11 respectively with corresponding two supporting leg 4 sliding connection, two jamming rod 12 are used for the injecing to supporting leg 4, realize the installation work to adsorption tower body 1.
In order to limit the supporting legs 4 and facilitate the installation of the adsorption tower body 1, the inner walls of the two slots 3 are respectively provided with a clamping groove, the outer walls of the corresponding two supporting legs 4 are respectively provided with a sliding hole, and one ends of the two clamping rods 12, which are far away from each other, respectively penetrate through the two sliding holes and extend into the two clamping grooves.
In order to prevent the rotating rod 7 from rotating, a ratchet wheel is fixedly sleeved on the rotating rod 7, a pawl is hinged to the top of the base 2, and the pawl is meshed with the ratchet wheel.
In this embodiment:
when the adsorption tower body 1 is installed, only four supporting legs 4 on the adsorption tower body 1 need to be inserted into corresponding four slots 3 respectively, then the knob is rotated to drive the rotating rod 7 to rotate, the rotating rod 7 drives the long plate 9 to rotate, so that the long plate 9 drives the two hinged rods 11 to move, the two hinged rods 11 drive the two clamping rods 12 to be away from each other and to be inserted into sliding holes on the supporting legs 4, at the moment, the torsion spring 10 is in a state of changing to store certain elastic potential energy, and simultaneously, the ratchet wheel drives the pawl to move, the rotation phenomenon of the rotating rod 7 can be prevented under the mutual matching of the ratchet wheel and the pawl, so that the clamping rods 12 limit the supporting legs 4, the quick installation work of the adsorption tower body 1 is realized, time and labor are saved, the installation efficiency of the adsorption tower body 1 is improved, meanwhile, the later maintenance work of the adsorption tower body 1 is convenient, only the pawl needs to be stirred, under the elastic action of the torsion spring 10, the bull stick 7 takes place to rotate, and then the bull stick 7 drives the motion of long slab 9, and long slab 9 drives two articulated rod 11 motions, and two articulated rod 11 drive two kellies 12 with the direction motion that is close to each other to in kellies 12 withdrawed from the slide opening on the supporting leg 4, supporting leg 4 lost the injecing of kellies 12, thereby can dismantle its fast get off, the convenient work to its maintenance or change.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model provides an adsorption tower of nitrogen generator has following beneficial effect:
the utility model provides an adsorption tower of nitrogen generator, earlier insert corresponding slot 3 with four supporting legs 4 on the adsorption tower body 1 in, only need to rotate the knob and just can drive kelly 12 and inject supporting leg 4, realize the quick installation work to adsorption tower body 1, when needs maintain or change it, only need stir the pawl, under torque spring 10's effect, bull stick 7 takes place the rotation, thereby bull stick 7 drives two kellies 12 and is the directional motion that is close to each other, and then supporting leg 4 loses the injecing of kelly 12, just can dismantle adsorption tower body 1 get off, the convenience is to its maintenance or change, time saving and labor saving, and is simple in operation, the improvement is to the work of adsorption tower body 1 installation or maintenance.
Second embodiment:
based on the adsorption tower of the nitrogen generator provided by the first embodiment of the application, the second embodiment of the application provides another adsorption tower of the nitrogen generator. The second embodiment is merely a preferred way of the first embodiment, and the implementation of the second embodiment does not affect the implementation of the first embodiment alone.
The second embodiment of the present invention will be further explained with reference to the drawings and the embodiments.
Referring to fig. 3-4, the adsorption tower of the nitrogen generator further includes two carrying mechanisms, and both of the two carrying mechanisms are disposed at the bottom of the adsorption tower body 1.
In order to reduce the labor intensity of workers, the carrying mechanism comprises a U-shaped plate 13, a two-way threaded rod 14, two threaded blocks 15, two supporting plates 16, a stabilizing plate 17, two mounting grooves 18, two fixing rods 19, two sliding blocks 20 and two rollers 21, the U-shaped plate 13 is fixedly mounted at the bottom of the adsorption tower body 1, the two-way threaded rod 14 is rotatably mounted on the inner walls of two sides of the U-shaped plate 13, two ends of the two-way threaded rod 14 extend to the outside of the U-shaped plate 13 and are fixedly provided with a circular ring, the circular ring is used for being matched with a professional tool for use, so that labor is saved when the two-way threaded rod 14 is rotated, the two threaded blocks 15 are sleeved on the two-way threaded rod 14, the two supporting plates 16 are respectively and hinged to be mounted at the bottoms of the two threaded blocks 15, the two supporting plates 16 are intersected, and the materials of the two supporting plates 16 are very firm, but the weight of stable support adsorption tower body 1, firm board 17 sets up two the below of backup pad 16, two mounting groove 18 is all seted up firm board 17's top, and the setting of two mounting grooves 18 is in order to make the bottom normal motion of two backup pads 16, two dead lever 19 fixed mounting respectively is two on the inner wall of mounting groove 18, two slider 20 slides the cover respectively and establishes two on the dead lever 19, two slider 20 respectively with two the articulated connection in bottom of backup pad 16, two the equal fixed mounting of gyro wheel 21 is in firm board 17's bottom, the transport to adsorption tower body 1 is convenient for in the setting of two gyro wheels 21.
In order to prevent the two thread blocks 15 from rotating, two limiting grooves are formed in the inner wall of the top of the U-shaped plate 13, two limiting blocks are fixedly mounted at the tops of the thread blocks 15 respectively, and the tops of the two limiting blocks extend into the two limiting grooves and are connected with the inner walls of the two limiting grooves in a sliding mode.
In order to avoid the phenomenon of rocking about taking place for firm board 17, two the sliding tray has been seted up respectively on the outer wall that supporting leg 4 is close to each other, on the both sides outer wall of firm board 17 respectively fixed mounting have an end plate, two the top of end plate fixed mounting respectively has a connecting rod, two on the outer wall that the connecting rod was kept away from each other respectively fixed mounting have a sliding block, two one side outer wall that the sliding block was kept away from each other extends to two respectively in the sliding tray and with two the inner wall sliding connection of sliding tray.
In this embodiment:
after dismantling and finishing to adsorption tower body 1, utilize specialized tool to collude on the ring, then carry out rotary motion, and then the ring drives two-way threaded rod 14 and rotates, two-way threaded rod 14 drives two screw thread pieces 15 motion in opposite directions, stopper on screw thread piece 15 slides in the spacing inslot this moment, two screw thread pieces 15 drive the top motion in opposite directions of two backup pads 16 afterwards, thereby two backup pads 16 drive gyro wheel 21 downstream on the firm board 17 and contact with base 2, slide 20 on the backup pad 16 slides on dead lever 19 in mounting groove 18 this moment, slide on the firm board 17 slides in the sliding tray, thereby conveniently carry adsorption tower body 1 under gyro wheel 21's effect, time saving and labor saving, and convenient to use.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model provides an adsorption tower of nitrogen generator has following beneficial effect:
the utility model provides an adsorption tower of nitrogen generator only needs to rotate two-way threaded rod 14 and just can drive gyro wheel 21 on the firm board 17 and contact with base 2 to conveniently carry labour saving and time saving, easy operation to adsorption tower body 1 under gyro wheel 21's effect.
It should be noted that the device structure and the accompanying drawings of the present invention mainly describe the principle of the present invention, and in the technology of this design principle, the settings of the power mechanism, the power supply system, the control system, etc. of the device are not completely described, and the details of the power mechanism, the power supply system, and the control system can be clearly known on the premise that those skilled in the art understand the principle of the present invention.
The above only is the embodiment of the present invention, not limiting the scope of the present invention, all the equivalent structures or equivalent processes of the present invention are used in the specification and the attached drawings, or directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields, and the same principle is included in the protection scope of the present invention.

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1. An adsorption tower of a nitrogen making machine, comprising:
an adsorption tower body;
the base is arranged below the adsorption tower body;
the four slots are distributed on the top of the base in a rectangular shape;
the four support legs are distributed in a rectangular shape and fixedly installed at the bottom of the adsorption tower body, and the bottom ends of the four support legs extend into the four slots;
two installation mechanisms, two installation mechanism all sets up on the base.
2. The adsorption tower of nitrogen making machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said mounting mechanism comprises a cavity, a groove, a rotating rod, two through slots, a long plate, a torsion spring, two hinge rods and two clamping rods, said cavity is opened on said base, said groove is opened on the bottom inner wall of said cavity, said rotating rod is rotatably mounted on the bottom inner wall of said groove, the top end of said rotating rod extends to the top of said base and is fixedly mounted with a knob, two said through slots are opened on the inner walls of both sides of said cavity, two said through slots are respectively communicated with two said slots, said long plate is fixedly sleeved on said rotating rod, said torsion spring is movably sleeved on said rotating rod, the bottom end of said torsion spring is fixedly connected with the inner wall of said groove, the top end of said torsion spring is fixedly connected with the bottom of said long plate, two the hinge bar is articulated respectively to be installed on the both sides outer wall of long slab, two the kelly is articulated respectively to be installed two on the hinge bar, two the kelly is kept away from two the one end of hinge bar respectively with corresponding two supporting leg sliding connection.
3. The adsorption tower of a nitrogen making machine as claimed in claim 2, wherein the inner walls of the two slots are respectively provided with a slot, the outer walls of the two corresponding support legs are respectively provided with a slide hole, and the ends of the two clamp rods, which are far away from each other, respectively penetrate through the two slide holes and extend into the two slots.
4. The adsorption tower of claim 2, wherein the rotating rod is fixed with a ratchet wheel, the top of the base is hinged with a pawl, and the pawl is engaged with the ratchet wheel.
5. The adsorption tower of a nitrogen generator as claimed in claim 1, wherein two carrying mechanisms are provided at the bottom of the adsorption tower body.
6. The adsorption tower of the nitrogen making machine as claimed in claim 5, wherein the carrying mechanism comprises a U-shaped plate, a two-way threaded rod, two threaded blocks, two supporting plates, a stabilizing plate, two mounting grooves, two fixing rods, two sliding blocks and two rollers, the U-shaped plate is fixedly mounted at the bottom of the adsorption tower body, the two-way threaded rod is rotatably mounted on the inner walls of the two sides of the U-shaped plate, the two ends of the two-way threaded rod both extend to the outside of the U-shaped plate and are fixedly mounted with a circular ring, the two threaded blocks are both threadedly sleeved on the two-way threaded rod, the two supporting plates are respectively hinged to the bottoms of the two threaded blocks and intersect with each other, the stabilizing plate is disposed below the two supporting plates, the two mounting grooves are both opened at the top of the stabilizing plate, the two fixing rods are respectively fixedly mounted on the inner walls of the two mounting grooves, the two sliding blocks are respectively sleeved on the two fixing rods in a sliding mode, the two sliding blocks are respectively hinged to the bottom ends of the two supporting plates, and the two rollers are fixedly installed at the bottom of the stabilizing plate.
7. The adsorption tower of the nitrogen making machine as claimed in claim 6, wherein two limiting grooves are formed in the inner wall of the top of the U-shaped plate, two limiting blocks are fixedly mounted at the tops of the two thread blocks respectively, and the tops of the two limiting blocks extend into the two limiting grooves respectively and are connected with the inner walls of the two limiting grooves in a sliding manner.
8. The adsorption tower of a nitrogen making machine as claimed in claim 6, wherein the outer walls of the two support legs close to each other are respectively provided with a sliding groove, the outer walls of the two sides of the stabilizing plate are respectively and fixedly provided with an end plate, the tops of the two end plates are respectively and fixedly provided with a connecting rod, the outer walls of the two connecting rods far away from each other are respectively and fixedly provided with a sliding block, and the outer wall of one side of the two sliding blocks far away from each other extends into the two sliding grooves and is in sliding connection with the inner walls of the two sliding grooves.
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