CN215232833U - Tail gas dust removal box of natural luster finishing machine - Google Patents

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CN215232833U
CN215232833U CN202121504646.5U CN202121504646U CN215232833U CN 215232833 U CN215232833 U CN 215232833U CN 202121504646 U CN202121504646 U CN 202121504646U CN 215232833 U CN215232833 U CN 215232833U
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张记锁
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The utility model discloses a natural luster finishing machine tail gas dust removal case uses in the tail gas treatment field, and its technical scheme main points are: a tail gas dust removal box of a natural luster finishing machine comprises a box body and a dust removal cloth bag support arranged in the box body, wherein the box body comprises an upper fixing plate and a lower fixing plate which are oppositely arranged; the two ends of the dust removal cloth bag support are respectively provided with a mounting frame, a mounting plate is arranged on the mounting frame, a plurality of keels are arranged on the mounting plate, each keel comprises two lead screws and a silica gel connecting pipe, the two ends of each silica gel connecting pipe are respectively fixedly connected with one end of each lead screw, and one end, far away from each silica gel connecting pipe, of each lead screw is fixedly screwed on the mounting plate through a nut; the technical effects are as follows: can guarantee through the fossil fragments that add and buckle at will that the dust removal sack can not take place to warp at the during operation after the fastening installation, the locking mechanism of adding can be pulled down the dust removal sack with the state of installation is complete from the mounting bracket, can install back fast after the washing, has improved work efficiency greatly.

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Tail gas dust removal box of natural luster finishing machine
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a tail gas treatment field, in particular to natural luster finishing machine tail gas dust removal case.
Background
At present, the chinese invention patent with publication number CN106215562B discloses: the utility model provides a dust removal sack cage frame, clap a bag device including cage type support body and elasticity, be equipped with many pairs of circle type cage skeleton in the cage type support body, circle type cage skeleton is equipped with a plurality of body of rod bayonet sockets, bag pole is clapped including rotatory axostylus axostyle and many elasticity to the bag device to elasticity, rotatory axostylus axostyle is installed in cage type support body axle center through the pivot, be equipped with arc runner plate at rotatory axostylus axostyle middle part, many elasticity are clapped bag pole and are evenly set up in circle type cage skeleton outer lane and respectively the suit in body of rod bayonet sockets, it keeps off to be equipped with positioning spring and push-pull muscle at elasticity bat bag pole middle part, positioning spring and body of rod bayonet socket bullet press fit, push-pull muscle keeps off and is equipped with drive roller, arc runner plate and drive roller push-pull fit.
This kind of traditional cage type support body dust removal case has supported the dust pocket through the cage type support body, but cage type support body shape is fixed, when needs demolish the washing with the dust pocket, only can wholly demolish the cage type frame, and whole volume is great, inconvenient accomodating and installing, the process is loaded down with trivial details, and efficiency is lower.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims at providing a natural luster finishing machine tail gas dust removal case, its advantage can be demolishd dust removal sack support fast.
The above technical purpose of the present invention can be achieved by the following technical solutions:
a tail gas dust removal box of a natural luster finishing machine comprises a box body and a dust removal cloth bag support arranged in the box body, wherein the box body comprises an upper mounting plate and a lower mounting plate which are oppositely arranged; mounting frames are respectively arranged at two ends of the dust removing cloth bag support, and two ends of the dust removing cloth bag support are respectively mounted on the upper mounting plate and the lower mounting plate of the box body through the mounting frames; the mounting bracket is provided with the mounting panel, be provided with many fossil fragments on the mounting panel, fossil fragments include two lead screws and a silica gel connecting pipe, the both ends of silica gel connecting pipe respectively with the one end fixed connection of two lead screws, the lead screw keep away from pass through the nut with the one end of silica gel connecting pipe and screw and fix on the mounting panel.
Through the technical scheme: the mounting bracket is used for the main part fixed mounting with dust removal sack support between last mounting panel and lower mounting panel, and many fossil fragments are used for installing dust removal sack with opening out on dust removal sack support, after with fossil fragments fixed mounting on the mounting panel, can guarantee the stability of dust removal sack at the during operation, can not take place to shake or break away from, because the main part of fossil fragments is for can buckling at will and difficult cracked silica gel connecting pipe, so can buckle at will after the dust removal sack is demolishd and accomodate, the dismouting of being convenient for.
The utility model discloses further set up to: the mounting bracket includes first flange and second flange, the mounting panel includes the third flange, be provided with a plurality of locking mechanism on the second flange, second flange and third flange pass through locking mechanism locking laminating connection.
Through the technical scheme: the locking mechanism can fix the mounting frame and the mounting plate, after the locking mechanism is unlocked, the whole of the dust removal cloth bag and the mounting plate can be detached, the dust removal cloth bag does not need to be separated from the mounting plate when the dust removal cloth bag is cleaned, and the dust removal cloth bag and the mounting plate can be rapidly mounted in place through the locking mechanism after the cleaning is completed.
The utility model discloses further set up to: the locking mechanism comprises a locking support, the locking support is arranged on the second flange, a supporting rod is arranged on the locking support, a screwing screw rod is arranged on the supporting rod in a rotating sleeved mode, and a locking nut used for screwing is connected to the screwing screw rod in a threaded mode.
Through the technical scheme: when the locking mechanism needs to be locked, the locking nut is screwed, and when the mounting plate needs to be separated from the mounting frame, the locking nut is unscrewed.
The utility model discloses further set up to: openings are respectively formed in the second flange and the third flange at the locking support, and one end, far away from the supporting rod, of the screwing screw rod can swing around the supporting rod in the openings.
Through the technical scheme: after the locking nut is unscrewed, the screw rod can be pulled to screw to swing around the supporting rod, the mounting plate can be separated from the mounting frame when the mounting frame is swung to one side, and the mounting plate can be locked and attached to the mounting frame by swinging the mounting plate to one side and screwing the locking nut.
The utility model discloses further set up to: the dust removal cloth bag support is characterized in that a dust removal cloth bag body is arranged on the dust removal cloth bag support, and a supporting assembly used for supporting the cloth bag is arranged on the dust removal cloth bag body.
Through the technical scheme: the supporting component is used for supporting the cloth bag body to be in an open state.
The utility model discloses further set up to: the supporting component comprises a plurality of anti-twisting frameworks sleeved on the dust removal cloth bag body and a plurality of supporting framework mounting grooves arranged on the side face of the dust removal cloth bag body, and the dust removal cloth bag body is sleeved on the keel through the supporting framework mounting grooves.
Through the technical scheme: prevent turning round the support chassis that sets up in the skeleton cooperation support chassis mounting groove and can prevent to take place to wrench movement behind the filter bag body atress to guarantee the stability of filter bag body installation, fossil fragments can guarantee that the filter bag body can not take place extrusion deformation at the during operation.
The utility model discloses further set up to: the cloth bag comprises a cloth bag body, and is characterized in that a rubber skin is arranged on the anti-twisting framework, the anti-twisting framework is fixed on the cloth bag body through the rubber skin, a plurality of opening and closing openings are respectively arranged at two ends of the cloth bag body along the height direction of the cloth bag body, and the opening and closing openings penetrate out of the outer edge of the cloth bag body.
Through the technical scheme: the rubber skin has certain ductility, and is difficult for being corroded, and the rubber skin will prevent turning round skeleton fixed mounting on the sack body, can guarantee to prevent turning round the stability of skeleton installation, and the opening and shutting mouth is used for opening the both ends of sack body, can install on the mounting panel of equidimension not.
The utility model discloses further set up to: the novel cloth bag is characterized in that a plurality of limiting strips are arranged at two ends of the cloth bag body respectively along the height direction of the cloth bag body, and locking hoops for tightening the cloth bag body penetrate into the limiting strips.
Through the technical scheme: the installation cavity of certain distance is formed at the middle part of the limiting strip, the locking hoop penetrates into the installation cavity to prevent falling off, and the two ends of the cloth bag body can be locked and installed on the installation opening.
The utility model discloses further set up to: one side of box is provided with the coarse filtration chamber, be provided with on the coarse filtration chamber and be used for blowing in the convulsions subassembly of coarse filtration intracavity with tail gas, the box sets up coarse filtration opening with the connection face in coarse filtration chamber, coarse filtration opening switches on box and coarse filtration chamber.
Through the technical scheme: the air exhaust assembly is used for exhausting tail gas to be filtered into the coarse filtering cavity and exhausting the tail gas into the box body provided with the dust removal cloth bag through the coarse filtering opening.
The utility model discloses further set up to: and a metal filter screen for filtering fiber particles is arranged in the coarse filtering opening.
Through the technical scheme: the metal filter screen can filter fiber particles existing in the tail gas, and can prevent the fiber particles from entering the box body to block the filter holes of the dust removal cloth bag, so that the fine degree of filtering is ensured.
To sum up, the utility model discloses following beneficial effect has:
can guarantee through the fossil fragments that add and buckle at will that the dust removal sack can not take place to warp at the during operation after the fastening installation, the locking mechanism of adding can be pulled down the dust removal sack with the state of installation is complete from the mounting bracket, can install back fast after the washing, has improved work efficiency greatly.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the whole dust removing box of the present embodiment;
FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the dust collecting bag holder according to the embodiment;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the body of the dust collecting bag of this embodiment;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged schematic view of section A of FIG. 2;
figure 5 is a schematic view of the keel structure of the present embodiment.
Reference numerals: 1. a box body; 11. an upper mounting plate; 2. a dust removal cloth bag support; 12. a lower mounting plate; 21. a mounting frame; 211. a first flange; 212. a second flange; 213. an opening; 22. mounting a plate; 221. a third flange; 3. a keel; 31. a screw rod; 32. a silica gel connecting pipe; 4. a dust removal cloth bag body; 41. a support assembly; 411. an anti-twist framework; 412. a supporting framework mounting groove; 42. opening and closing the opening; 43. a rubber skin; 44. a limiting strip; 5. a locking band; 6. a coarse filter chamber; 61. opening a coarse filter; 62. a metal screen; 7. a locking mechanism; 71. locking the bracket; 72. a support bar; 73. screwing the screw; 74. locking the nut; 8. air draft subassembly.
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The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Example (b):
referring to fig. 1, 2 and 5, the tail gas dust removal box of the natural luster finishing machine comprises a box body 1, wherein the box body 1 comprises an upper fixing plate 11 and a lower fixing plate 12 which are oppositely arranged, and a dust removal cloth bag support 2 for installing a dust removal cloth bag is connected between the upper fixing plate 11 and the lower fixing plate 12; the two ends of the dust removing cloth bag support 2 are respectively provided with a mounting rack 21, and the two ends of the dust removing cloth bag support 2 are respectively mounted on an upper fixing plate 11 and a lower fixing plate 12 of the box body 1 through the mounting racks 21; be provided with mounting panel 22 on mounting bracket 21, mounting panel 22's shape is the same with mounting bracket 21's shape of contact surface, mounting panel 22's all sides are provided with four fossil fragments 3 perpendicularly, fossil fragments 3 comprise a silica gel connecting pipe 32 and two lead screws 31 of installing at its both ends, the embedded installation in silica gel connecting pipe 32 of one end of lead screw 31, silica gel connecting pipe 32 is the duroplastic material and is provided with the internal thread with the junction of lead screw 31, lead screw 31 passes through internal thread and silica gel connecting pipe 32 threaded connection, can not take place to break away from when taking place external force and dragging yet, lead screw 31 is kept away from and is fixed on mounting panel 22 through the nut screwing with the one end of silica gel connecting pipe 32, when the nut screws, fossil fragments 3 are tight tensile state.
Referring to fig. 2, the mounting frame 21 includes a first flange 211 and a second flange 212, the first flange 211 and the second flange 212 are connected through a connecting block, the first flanges 211 of the two mounting frames 21 are respectively and fixedly connected with the upper fixing plate 11 and the lower fixing plate 12, the mounting plate 22 includes a third flange 221, the third flange 221 is connected with the connecting block in a direction away from the second flange 212, a plurality of locking mechanisms 7 are arranged on the second flange 212, the second flange 212 and the third flange 221 are locked and attached to each other through the locking mechanisms 7, and the unlocking locking mechanisms 7 can separate the mounting frame 21 from the mounting plate 22, so that the dust removal cloth bag support 2 is separated from the box body 1.
Referring to fig. 4, the locking mechanism 7 includes a locking bracket 71, the locking bracket 71 is two independent metal plates, and is oppositely and vertically disposed on the second flange 212, a support rod 72 is fixedly disposed on the metal plate of the locking bracket 71, a screwing screw 73 is rotatably sleeved on the support rod 72, a thread is disposed on the screwing screw 73, a locking nut 74 for screwing is connected to the screwing screw 73 through a thread, a knob for facilitating manual operation and rotation is disposed at one end of the locking nut 74, an opening 213 is disposed between the metal plates of the locking bracket 71 on the second flange 212 and the third flange 221, and one end of the screwing screw 73, which is far away from the support rod 72, can swing around the support rod 72 in the opening 213.
Referring to fig. 1 and 3, a dust-removing cloth bag body 4 is arranged on a dust-removing cloth bag support 2 through a keel 3, a support component 41 for supporting the cloth bag is arranged on the outer surface of the dust-removing cloth bag body 4, the support component 41 comprises a plurality of anti-twisting frameworks 411 sleeved on the dust-removing cloth bag body 4 and a plurality of support framework installation grooves 412 arranged on the side surface of the dust-removing cloth bag body 4, the support framework installation grooves 412 are arranged along the height direction of the dust-removing cloth bag body 4, the dust-removing cloth bag body 4 is sleeved on the keel 3 through the support framework installation grooves 412, rubber sheets 43 are arranged on the anti-twisting frameworks 411, the anti-twisting frameworks 411 are fixed on the dust-removing cloth bag body 4 through the rubber sheets 43, the rubber sheets 43 have good ductility and torsional rigidity, the dust-removing cloth bag body 4 can be prevented from twisting under stress, the filtering quality is ensured, a plurality of opening and closing ports 42 are respectively arranged at two ends of the dust-removing cloth bag body 4 along the height direction, the opening and closing port 42 penetrates out of the outer edge of the dust removal cloth bag body 4, the opening and closing port 42 is arranged to enable two ends of the cloth bag to be installed at installation ports with different sizes, a plurality of limiting strips 44 are arranged at two ends of the dust removal cloth bag body 4 along the height direction of the dust removal cloth bag body, locking hoops 5 used for tightening the dust removal cloth bag body 4 penetrate into the limiting strips 44, and the locking hoops 5 can lock and fix two ends of the dust removal cloth bag body 4 on connecting blocks on the third flange 221.
Referring to fig. 1, one side of box 1 is provided with coarse filtration chamber 6, be provided with on the coarse filtration chamber 6 and be used for blowing in exhaust gas the convulsions subassembly 8 in the coarse filtration chamber 6, box 1 sets up coarse filtration opening 61 with the connection face of coarse filtration chamber 6, coarse filtration opening 61 switches on box 1 and coarse filtration chamber 6, be provided with the metal filter screen 62 that is used for filtering the fibre granule in the coarse filtration opening 61, metal filter screen 62 can filter the solid fiber granule in the natural luster finishing machine exhaust gas to coarse filtration chamber 6, can prevent that dust removal sack body 4 from blockking up, guarantee the filterable efficiency of exhaust gas.
The working process and principle of the embodiment are as follows:
the tail gas dust removal box of the natural luster finishing machine has the characteristics of fast removing a dust removal cloth bag support and stable installation of the dust removal cloth bag, the dust removal cloth bag support 2 is installed in the box body 1 in a locking mode through the locking mechanism 7, when the dust removal cloth bag support is removed, the keel 3 is removed firstly, then the locking nut 74 is loosened, the screwing screw 73 is shifted to the outside of the opening 213, the dust removal cloth bag body 4 and the installation plate 22 can be integrally detached, when the dust removal cloth bag is installed, the installation plate 22 is attached to the installation frame 21, the screwing screw 73 is shifted into the opening 213, the locking nut 74 is screwed, then the keel 3 is installed, the dust removal cloth bag body 4 can be fixedly installed in the box body 1, and the assembly and disassembly are convenient; the exhaust assembly 8 is used for discharging the external tail gas to be filtered into the coarse filtering cavity 6, coarsely filtering the tail gas by the metal filter screen 62, then discharging the tail gas into the box body 1, and filtering the tail gas by the dust removal cloth bag body 4.
The present embodiment is only for explaining the present invention, and it is not limited to the present invention, and those skilled in the art can make modifications to the present embodiment without inventive contribution as required after reading the present specification, but all of them are protected by patent laws within the scope of the claims of the present invention.

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1. A tail gas dust removal box of a natural luster finishing machine comprises a box body (1) and a dust removal cloth bag support (2) arranged in the box body, wherein the box body (1) comprises an upper fixing plate (11) and a lower fixing plate (12) which are oppositely arranged;
the dust removing device is characterized in that mounting frames (21) are respectively arranged at two ends of the dust removing cloth bag support (2), and two ends of the dust removing cloth bag support (2) are respectively mounted on an upper fixing plate (11) and a lower fixing plate (12) of the box body (1) through the mounting frames (21);
be provided with mounting panel (22) on mounting bracket (21), be provided with many fossil fragments (3) on mounting panel (22), fossil fragments (3) include two lead screws (31) and a silica gel connecting pipe (32), the both ends of silica gel connecting pipe (32) respectively with the one end fixed connection of two lead screws (31), lead screw (31) keep away from with the one end of silica gel connecting pipe (32) through the nut screw fix on mounting panel (22).
2. The exhaust gas dust removal box of the natural luster finishing machine according to claim 1, wherein the mounting frame (21) comprises a first flange (211) and a second flange (212), the mounting plate (22) comprises a third flange (221), a plurality of locking mechanisms (7) are arranged on the second flange (212), and the second flange (212) and the third flange (221) are locked and attached to each other through the locking mechanisms (7).
3. The exhaust gas dust removal box of the natural luster finishing machine according to claim 2, wherein the locking mechanism (7) comprises a locking bracket (71), the locking bracket (71) is arranged on the second flange (212), a support rod (72) is arranged on the locking bracket (71), a screwing screw (73) is rotatably sleeved on the support rod (72), and a locking nut (74) for screwing is connected to the screwing screw (73) in a threaded manner.
4. The exhaust gas dust removal box of the natural luster finishing machine according to claim 3, wherein the second flange (212) and the third flange (221) are respectively provided with an opening (213) at the locking bracket (71), and one end of the screwing screw rod (73) far away from the support rod (72) can swing around the support rod (72) in the opening (213).
5. The exhaust gas dust removal box of the natural luster finishing machine according to claim 1, characterized in that a dust removal cloth bag body (4) is arranged on the dust removal cloth bag support (2), and a support assembly (41) for supporting the cloth bag is arranged on the dust removal cloth bag body (4).
6. The exhaust gas dust removal box of the natural luster finishing machine according to claim 5, wherein the supporting component (41) comprises a plurality of anti-twisting frameworks (411) sleeved on the dust removal cloth bag body (4) and a plurality of supporting framework installation grooves (412) arranged on the side surface of the dust removal cloth bag body (4), and the dust removal cloth bag body (4) is sleeved on the keel (3) through the supporting framework installation grooves (412).
7. The natural luster finishing machine tail gas dust removal case of claim 6, characterized in that a rubber sheet (43) is arranged on the anti-twist skeleton (411), the anti-twist skeleton (411) is fixed on the dust removal cloth bag body (4) through the rubber sheet (43), a plurality of opening and closing openings (42) are respectively arranged at two ends of the dust removal cloth bag body (4) along the height direction of the dust removal cloth bag body, and the opening and closing openings (42) penetrate out of the outer edge of the dust removal cloth bag body (4).
8. The tail gas dust removal box of the natural luster finishing machine according to claim 7, characterized in that a plurality of limiting strips (44) are respectively arranged at two ends of the dust removal cloth bag body (4) along the height direction of the dust removal cloth bag body, and locking hoops (5) for tightening the dust removal cloth bag body (4) are arranged in the limiting strips (44) in a penetrating manner.
9. The tail gas dust removal box of the natural luster finishing machine according to claim 1, characterized in that a coarse filter chamber (6) is arranged on one side of the box body (1), an air draft assembly (8) for blowing tail gas into the coarse filter chamber (6) is arranged on the coarse filter chamber (6), a coarse filter opening (61) is arranged on the connection surface of the box body (1) and the coarse filter chamber (6), and the coarse filter opening (61) conducts the box body (1) and the coarse filter chamber (6).
10. The exhaust gas dust box of the natural luster finishing machine according to claim 9, characterized in that a metal screen (62) for filtering fiber particles is arranged in the coarse filter opening (61).
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