CN216472921U - Optical fiber coating and feeding system - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to an optical fiber coating and feeding system, which comprises at least one feeding container, wherein the feeding container is provided with an inner cavity for caching a coating, a feeding pipeline is communicated with the inner cavity of the feeding container and is used for supplying the coating to the feeding container, a discharging pipeline is communicated with the inner cavity of the feeding container and is used for conveying the coating in the feeding container to the downstream, one end of an air inlet pipeline is connected with a high-pressure air source, the other end of the air inlet pipeline is communicated with the inner cavity of the feeding container and is used for blowing high-pressure air into the feeding container so as to extrude the coating in the feeding container through the discharging pipeline, the optical fiber coating and feeding system further comprises a pipeline control valve for controlling the on-off of the corresponding feeding pipeline and the discharging pipeline, the lowest part of the bottom of the feeding container is provided with a discharging opening, the optical fiber coating and feeding system further comprises a discharging control valve for controlling a discharging path, and the coating in the feeding container can be conveniently cleaned by adopting the on-off scheme, and can realize the recycling of the coating.

Description

Optical fiber coating and feeding system

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an optical fiber coating and feeding system.

Background

The coating of optical fibers is an important step in optical fiber production, and common coating equipment comprises a feeding system and a coating cup, wherein the feeding system is commonly divided into two types, one type is central centralized feeding, the other type is a feeding system which is independently arranged by taking a production line as a unit, and when the coating equipment works specifically, the feeding system conveys coating to the coating cup to coat the optical fibers passing through the coating cup.

Regardless of the type of feed system, a feed container is provided to buffer the coating before it enters the paint cup. Here, the above-mentioned feeding system with a production line as a unit is taken as an example to describe, during production, the raw material barrel is directly placed in the feeding tank, and the paint reaches the coating cup through a route of "raw material barrel → transit barrel → feeding barrel → coating cup" under a certain air pressure, wherein the transit barrel and the feeding barrel can be used as a buffer device to buffer the paint. In the actual production, when changing the coating of different producer supplies or overhauing the feed system, inevitably need to clear up the feed container coating in transfer bucket and the feed bucket promptly, traditional clearance mode is to open the bung of transfer bucket and feed bucket, clear up by the manual work, because transfer bucket and feed bucket during operation are inside to be high pressure environment, therefore, the bung of transfer bucket and feed bucket is fixed through many high strength bolts, the dismantlement process of bung can consume great manpower and materials, in addition, inevitably can produce metal debris and lead to the fact the pollution to the interior coating of bucket when dismantling the bung, lead to in the bucket interior coating to scrap, manufacturing cost has been increased. After the barrel cover is detached, an operator is required to stretch the cup into the barrel to dig out the coating a little, when the barrel bottom is cleaned, the cleaning is difficult, the cleaning is required to be carried out by using dustless cloth firstly, and the coating in the barrel is cleaned by using alcohol, so that the time and the labor are wasted.

In summary, the prior art optical fiber coating feeding system has the technical problem that the coating in the feeding container is difficult to clean and recycle.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims to provide an optical fiber coating and feeding system, which solves the technical problem that in the prior art, the coating in a feeding container is difficult to clean and recycle in the optical fiber coating and feeding system.

In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme of the optical fiber coating feeding system provided by the utility model is as follows:

the utility model provides an optic fibre coating feed system, includes the feed container, has at least one, has the inner chamber that is used for the buffer memory coating, the feed line with the inner chamber intercommunication of feed container for to the feed container supply coating, discharge pipe with the inner chamber intercommunication of feed container for with the coating in the feed container carry downstream, air inlet pipe one end is used for connecing high pressurized air source, the other end with the inner chamber intercommunication of feed container is used for blowing high-pressure gas in the feed container, with the coating warp in the feed container discharge pipe extrusion, optic fibre coating feed system is still including the pipeline control valve that is used for controlling the break-make of corresponding feed line and discharge pipe, and the bin outlet has been seted up to the bottom least of feed container, optic fibre coating feed system is still including the row material control valve that is used for controlling row material route break-make.

The beneficial effects are that: the inner chamber of feed container can carry out the buffer memory to coating, when needs are clear away to the coating in the feed container, control line control valve closes feed line and ejection of compact pipeline, open row material control valve, then let in high-pressure gas in the feed container by the intake pipe way, because the drain outlet is seted up at the minimum of feed container bottom, the high-pressure gas that lets in can extrude the coating in the feed container completely through the drain outlet, realize the cleaing away of coating in the feed container, whole clearance process is dismantled the closing cap of feed container not, avoid causing the pollution to coating, ensure that the coating of cleaing away can recycle, and, blow with the help of high-pressure gas and clear away coating, realize mechanization and the automation that coating was clear away, do not need the manpower to carry out the operation of cleaing away of coating, time saving and labor saving, greatly reduced production cost.

As a further improvement, the feeding containers are more than two, the discharge pipeline of the feeding container positioned at the upstream is communicated with the feeding pipeline of the feeding container adjacent to the feeding container, wherein the feeding container close to the coating cup is the feeding container, and the feeding container positioned at the upstream of the feeding container is the transfer container.

The beneficial effects are that: the transfer container is arranged to transfer the coating, and the coating is buffered by matching with the feeding container.

As a further improvement, a pipeline control valve is arranged on a pipeline formed by connecting the discharge pipeline of the upstream feeding container and the feeding pipeline of the feeding container adjacent to the feeding container.

The beneficial effects are that: and a pipeline control valve controls the on-off of a feeding pipeline of a downstream feeding container and a discharging pipeline of an upstream feeding container, so that the structure of the optical fiber coating feeding system is simplified.

As a further improvement, each discharge pipeline is provided with a one-way valve to prevent the paint from flowing back.

The beneficial effects are that: the one-way valve is arranged to prevent the coating in the feeding container at the downstream from flowing back to the feeding container at the upstream, so that the optical fiber coating and feeding system has more reliable working performance, and the use convenience of the optical fiber coating and feeding system is improved.

As a further improvement, the one-way valve is positioned at the downstream of a pipeline control valve for controlling the on-off of the discharge pipeline.

The beneficial effects are that: the one-way valve is arranged at the downstream of the pipeline control valve, so that the pipeline control valve can be protected, and the influence on the pipeline control valve caused by coating material backflow is avoided.

As a further improvement, the feeding container is of a cylindrical structure.

The beneficial effects are that: the cylindrical shape makes the paint in the container easier to be blown clean under high pressure.

As a further improvement, the vertical section of the barrel bottom of the barrel-shaped feeding container is arc-shaped.

The beneficial effects are that: the bottom of the feed container is curved so that the coating material is blown out more easily.

As a further improvement, the discharge control valve is a manual valve.

The beneficial effects are that: the manual control valve facilitates real-time operation.

As a further improvement, the pipeline control valve is a manual valve.

The beneficial effects are that: the manual control valve facilitates real-time operation.

As a further improvement, the discharge opening is connected with a discharge pipe, and the discharge control valve is connected in series with the discharge pipe.

The beneficial effects are that: the arrangement of the discharge pipe restricts the discharge form of the coating, so that the coating is prevented from splashing around under the condition of high-pressure blowing, and the discharged coating is convenient to be contained.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a portion of an optical fiber coating feed system of the present invention in cooperation with a corresponding coating cup;

description of reference numerals:

1. coating a cup; 2. a transfer barrel; 3. a feeding barrel; 4. a transfer barrel air inlet pipeline; 5. a feed barrel feed line; 6. a feeding barrel air inlet pipeline; 7. a charging barrel discharging pipeline; 8. a filter; 9. a filter discharge line; 10. a transfer barrel air pipe control valve; 11. a gas pipe control valve of the feeding barrel; 12. a control valve of a feeding pipeline of the feeding barrel; 13. a first check valve; 14. a control valve of a discharge pipeline of the feeding barrel; 15. a second one-way valve; 16. a discharge pipe; 17. a paint bucket; 18. a discharge control valve.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating the preferred embodiment of the utility model, are intended for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the utility model. The components of embodiments of the present invention 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 figures, is not intended to limit the scope of the utility model, as claimed, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the utility model. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments of the present invention without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

It is noted that relational terms such as "first" and "second," and the like, may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, elements recited by the phrase "comprising an … …" do not exclude the inclusion of such elements in processes or methods.

In the description of the present invention, unless otherwise expressly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" when they are used are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly through intervening media, or may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art from specific situations.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless explicitly stated or limited otherwise, the term "provided" may be used in a broad sense, for example, the object of "provided" may be a part of the body, or may be arranged separately from the body and connected to the body, and the connection may be a detachable connection or a non-detachable connection. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art from specific situations.

The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to examples.

An embodiment 1 of the optical fiber coating feedstock system provided by the present invention is shown in FIG. 1:

the optical fiber coating feeding system is used for supplying coating to the coating cup 1, and the optical fiber passes through the coating cup 1 to complete coating on the optical fiber.

Optical fiber coating feed system includes the feed container, it is connected with feed pipeline to correspond the feed container, ejection of compact pipeline and air inlet pipeline, the feed container is transfer bucket 2 and feed barrel 3 in this embodiment, in addition, the feed system still includes feed tank (not shown in the figure), transfer bucket 2 has the transfer bucket buffer memory chamber that can the buffer memory coating, and with the transfer feed inlet (not shown in the figure) of transfer bucket buffer memory chamber intercommunication, transfer bucket air inlet and transfer bucket discharge gate, feed barrel 3 has the feed bucket buffer memory chamber that can buffer memory coating, and with the feed bucket feed inlet of feed bucket buffer memory chamber intercommunication, feed bucket air inlet and feed bucket discharge gate.

Wherein, the transfer bucket feed inlet intercommunication of transfer bucket 2 has the transfer bucket inlet pipe (not shown in the figure), and transfer bucket air inlet intercommunication has transfer bucket air inlet pipeline 4, and the other end and the high pressurized air source intercommunication of transfer bucket air inlet pipeline 4 to carry high-pressure gas in the buffer memory intracavity of transfer bucket. Through feed barrel feed pipe 5 intercommunication between the transfer bucket discharge gate of transfer bucket 2 and the feed bucket feed inlet of feed bucket 3, it is specific, the one end that feed barrel feed pipe 5 and transfer bucket 2 are connected extends to transfer bucket buffer memory chamber bottom through the transfer bucket discharge gate, and the one end of being connected with feed bucket 3 is located feed bucket buffer memory chamber upper portion. The feed barrel gas port of feed barrel 3 is connected with feed barrel air inlet pipeline 6, and the other end and the high pressurized air source intercommunication of feed barrel air inlet pipeline 6 to carry high-pressure gas to feed barrel buffer memory intracavity. The feed barrel discharge gate of feed barrel 3 is connected with feed barrel discharge pipeline 7, and the one end that feed barrel discharge pipeline 7 and feed barrel 3 are connected extends feed barrel buffer memory chamber bottom through the feed barrel discharge gate, and the other end communicates with filter 8, and filter 8 still communicates with scribble cup 1 through filter discharge pipeline 9.

In order to control the on-off of the pipeline, a transit barrel air pipe control valve 10 is connected in series on the transit barrel air inlet pipeline 4 and is used for controlling the on-off of the transit barrel air inlet pipeline 4. And a feeding barrel air pipe control valve 11 is connected in series on the feeding barrel air inlet pipeline 6 and used for controlling the on-off of the feeding barrel air inlet pipeline 6. In this embodiment, the transfer barrel gas pipe control valve 10 and the feeding barrel gas pipe control valve 11 are two-position three-way solenoid valves.

The ejection of compact pipeline and the 5 intercommunications of feed bucket charge-in pipeline of transit bucket 2, feed bucket charge-in pipeline control valve 12 and first check valve 13 have concatenated in proper order along the coating flow direction on the communicating pipe of its constitution, feed bucket charge-in pipeline control valve 12 is used for controlling the break-make of feed bucket charge-in pipeline 5 as the charge-in control valve, the break-make of the ejection of compact pipeline of transit bucket 2 is still controlled simultaneously, first check valve 13 is used for guaranteeing that the coating in feed bucket 3 can not flow back to in transit bucket 2, first check valve 13 is located feed bucket charge-in pipeline control valve 12 low reaches, can realize the protection to feed bucket charge-in pipeline control valve 12, the material that prevents to flow back causes the damage to feed bucket charge-in pipeline control valve 12.

Feed barrel discharge pipeline control valve 14 and second check valve 15 have concatenated in proper order along coating flow direction on feed barrel discharge pipeline 7, feed barrel discharge pipeline control valve 14 is used for controlling feed barrel discharge pipeline 7's break-make as discharge control valve, second check valve 15 is used for guaranteeing that the coating in discharging pipe 9 can not flow back to feed barrel 3 in, and simultaneously, second check valve 15 is located feed barrel discharge pipeline control valve 14 low reaches, can realize the protection to feed barrel discharge pipeline control valve 14, the coating that prevents to flow back causes the damage to feed barrel discharge pipeline control valve 14. In this embodiment, the feed barrel inlet pipe control valve 12 and the feed barrel outlet pipe control valve 14 are both manually controlled valves, and in other embodiments, the feed pipe control valve and the outlet pipe control valve may also be electrically controlled valves. Besides, a transit feeding pipe control valve for controlling the on-off of the transit barrel feeding pipe is also arranged on the transit feeding pipe which is not shown in the figure.

In order to facilitate the removal of the paint in the transfer barrel 2 and the feed barrel 3, the lowest positions of the bottoms of the transfer barrel 2 and the feed barrel 3 are provided with discharge openings, the discharge openings are connected with discharge pipes 16, the other ends of the discharge pipes 16 are connected with paint buckets 17 for receiving the paint, and meanwhile, discharge control valves 18 are connected on the discharge pipes 16 in series for controlling the on-off of the discharge pipelines. In this embodiment, for the evacuation of coating, the bottom of transfer bucket 2 and feed bucket 3 is the hemisphere, namely, the vertical cross-section of transfer bucket 2 and the bottom of feed bucket 3 is the arc. In this embodiment, each discharge control valve 18 is a manual controller, and in other embodiments, each discharge control valve may also be an electric control valve.

During the during operation, place into the feed tank with former storage bucket, in coating was impressed transit bucket 2 through the transit bucket inlet pipe, when the coating in needs 2 transit buckets was impressed into the feed bucket in, transit bucket admission line 4 fills high-pressure gas to transit bucket cache intracavity, and high-pressure gas impresses the coating in 2 transit buckets into 3 through feed bucket admission line 5. Feed barrel inlet line 6 fills high-pressure gas in to feed barrel buffer memory chamber, presses the coating in the feed barrel 3 to scribbling cup 1 in, and transfer bucket 2 and feed barrel 3 constitute feed system's feed container. During the above process, each discharge control valve 18 is closed. When the coating in the transfer barrel 2 needs to be exhausted, the control valve of the feeding pipeline of the transfer barrel and the control valve 12 of the feeding pipe of the feeding barrel are closed, the discharging control valve 18 for controlling the discharging passage of the transfer barrel 2 is opened, the air inlet pipeline 4 of the transfer barrel is controlled to inject high-pressure gas into the buffer cavity of the transfer barrel, the coating in the transfer barrel 2 is removed to the corresponding coating barrel 17 by the high-pressure gas, and the removal and the recovery of the coating in the transfer barrel 2 are realized. When the coating in the feed bucket 3 needs to be emptied, close feed bucket inlet pipeline control valve 12 and feed bucket discharge pipeline control valve 14, open the row's of being used for controlling feed bucket 3 material discharge path's material control valve 18, control feed bucket inlet pipeline 6 is to feeding bucket buffer memory intracavity flush high-pressure gas, utilize high-pressure gas to clear away the coating in the feed bucket 2 to the coating section of thick bamboo 17 that corresponds in, the realization is to the cleaing away and the recovery of the interior coating of feed bucket 3, clear away the back that finishes, close row's material control valve 18. During the discharging process, the discharging speed of the coating can be controlled by controlling the flushing speed of the high-pressure gas. Compared with the traditional manual paint removing method, the method has the advantages that the working time can be shortened by six hours through the high-pressure gas pressure discharge, and the material removing efficiency is greatly improved.

In this embodiment, the feeding system is a feeding system separately arranged by taking a production line as a unit, in other embodiments, the feeding system may also be a central centralized feeding system, and the same as the feeding system in the above embodiments is that the feeding container is provided with a discharge opening, so that the coating in the buffer device can be removed by means of high-pressure gas.

The difference between the embodiment 2 of the optical fiber coating feeding system provided by the utility model and the embodiment 1 is mainly that: in the embodiment 1, the optical fiber coating feeding system has a transfer barrel, and in this embodiment, the feeding system is not provided with a transfer barrel, and the coating in the raw material barrel is directly conveyed into the feeding barrel through the feeding tube of the feeding barrel.

The present invention provides an embodiment 3 of an optical fiber coating feeding system, which is different from the embodiment 1 mainly in that: in this embodiment, the bottoms of the middle rotating barrel and the feeding barrel are in tapered structures.

The present invention provides an embodiment 4 of an optical fiber coating feeding system, which is different from the embodiment 1 mainly in that: in example 1, the feed container was cylindrical, and in this example, the feed container was spherical.

Finally, although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications may be made to the embodiments described in the foregoing embodiments without departing from the inventive concept, or some of the technical features may be replaced with equivalents. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. An optical fiber coating feeding system comprises at least one feeding container with an inner cavity for caching coating, wherein the feeding container is communicated with a feeding pipeline communicated with the inner cavity and used for supplying the coating to the feeding container, the feeding container is also communicated with a discharging pipeline communicated with the inner cavity and used for conveying the coating in the feeding container to the downstream, the feeding container is also connected with an air inlet pipeline, one end of the air inlet pipeline is used for being connected with a high-pressure air source, the other end of the air inlet pipeline is communicated with the inner cavity of the feeding container and used for blowing high-pressure air into the feeding container so as to extrude the coating in the feeding container out through the discharging pipeline; the optical fiber coating feeding system is characterized by further comprising a pipeline control valve for controlling the on-off of the corresponding feeding pipeline and the corresponding discharging pipeline; the lowest part of the bottom of the feeding container is provided with a discharge opening, and the optical fiber coating feeding system further comprises a discharge control valve (18) for controlling the on-off of the discharge path.

2. The optical fiber coating feeding system of claim 1, wherein the feeding containers have two or more feeding containers, and the upstream feeding container discharge line communicates with the feeding container adjacent to the feeding container feed line, wherein the feeding container adjacent to the coating cup is a feeding container and the upstream feeding container is a transfer container.

3. The optical fiber coating feeding system of claim 2, wherein a line control valve is provided on a line formed by connecting the discharge line of the upstream feeding container and the feeding line of the feeding container adjacent to the feeding container.

4. The optical fiber coating feeding system according to claim 2 or 3, wherein a check valve is provided on each discharging pipe to prevent the paint from flowing back.

5. The optical fiber coating feeding system of claim 4, wherein the check valve is located downstream of a line control valve that controls the on/off of the discharge line in which the check valve is located.

6. The optical fiber coating feed system of any of claims 1-3, wherein the feed vessel is a cylindrical structure.

7. The optical fiber coating feed system of claim 6, wherein the cylindrical feed vessel has a bottom with an arcuate vertical cross-section.

8. The optical fiber coating dosing system according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein the discharge control valve (18) is a manual valve.

9. The optical fiber coating dosing system of any one of claims 1-3, wherein the in-line control valve is a manual valve.

10. Optical fiber coating feeding system according to any of claims 1 to 3, wherein the discharge opening is connected with a discharge pipe (16), and the discharge control valve (18) is connected in series to the discharge pipe (16).

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