CN217013346U - Ultrasonic welding equipment for bagged springs of mattress - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a mattress bagged spring ultrasonic welding device which comprises a device body, wherein a welding pin upper bracket mechanism is arranged in the middle of the top end of a welding positioning pin baffle bracket, a welding pin bottom plate is arranged at the bottom of the welding positioning pin baffle bracket, a traction conveying belt is arranged at one side of the welding positioning pin baffle bracket, a bagged spring placing platform is arranged at one side of the welding positioning pin baffle bracket away from the traction conveying belt, a bagged spring positioning baffle moving mechanism is arranged on the front surface of the bagged spring placing platform, an ultrasonic welding mechanism is arranged in the inner cavity of the bagged spring positioning baffle moving mechanism, and an ultrasonic fixing and moving mechanism is arranged on the front surface of the bagged spring positioning baffle moving mechanism. Not only easy operation is convenient, and the structurality is strong moreover, need not the hot melt adhesive consumptive material and protect more the environmental protection.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of ultrasonic welding equipment, in particular to ultrasonic welding equipment for a mattress bagged spring bed net.
Background
The independent bagged spring mattress is a humanized design of high-grade mattress. What is called as an independent bag is that each independent spring is pressed and filled into a bag by a non-woven fabric bag, then connected and arranged, and then arranged and stuck by hot melt adhesive to form a bed net.
And arrange a plurality of independent bagged springs through the hot melt adhesive and paste the mode that forms a bed net, its bonding is comparatively loaded down with trivial details, and the fastness is relatively poor, utilizes the hot melt adhesive also to accord with the environmental protection requirement, consequently, this document application a mattress bagged spring ultrasonic wave bed net welding equipment replaces traditional bonding mode.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims to provide ultrasonic bed net welding equipment for bagged springs of a mattress, which aims to solve the problems that the bonding is complicated, the firmness is poor and the environment-friendly requirement is not met by using a hot melt adhesive in the mode of arranging and bonding a plurality of independent bagged springs into one bed net by using the hot melt adhesive in the background technology.
In order to achieve the purpose, the utility model provides the following technical scheme: an ultrasonic welding device for bagged springs of a mattress comprises a device body, wherein the device body comprises an ultrasonic fixing and moving mechanism, a bagged spring positioning baffle moving mechanism, an ultrasonic welding mechanism, a welding positioning pin baffle bracket, a welding pin bottom plate, a bagged spring strip, a traction conveyer belt and a welding pin upper bracket mechanism, the welding pin upper bracket mechanism is arranged in the middle of the top end of the welding positioning pin baffle bracket, the welding pin bottom plate is arranged at the bottom of the welding positioning pin baffle bracket, the bagged spring strip is arranged on one side of the top of the welding pin bottom plate, the traction conveyer belt is arranged on one side of the welding positioning pin baffle bracket, a bagged spring placing platform is arranged on one side of the welding positioning pin baffle bracket away from the traction conveyer belt, the bagged spring placing platform is positively provided with a bagged spring positioning baffle moving mechanism, the inner cavity of the bagged spring positioning baffle motion mechanism is provided with an ultrasonic welding mechanism, the front surface of the bagged spring positioning baffle motion mechanism is provided with an ultrasonic fixing and motion mechanism, the bagged spring positioning baffle motion mechanism comprises a bagged spring positioning baffle bracket, a positioning baffle fixing plate and an adjustable positioning baffle, and the ultrasonic welding mechanism comprises an outer frame fixing plate, an inner frame left and right displacement fixing plate, a flange fixing plate, an ultrasonic welding system and a left and right movable adjusting cylinder.
Preferably, welding contact pin upper bracket mechanism connects displacement mechanism and welding contact pin support about the contact pin including adjustable welding contact pin, welding contact pin fixed plate, whole row of welding, the both ends at welding contact pin support top all are provided with whole row of welding and connect displacement mechanism about the contact pin, the bottom of welding contact pin support is provided with the welding contact pin fixed plate, the bottom of welding contact pin fixed plate is provided with a plurality of adjustable welding contact pins for fixed adjustable welding contact pin for adjustable welding contact pin can whole oscilaltion, and the displacement can be controlled to the welding contact pin fixed plate.
Preferably, both ends of the positioning baffle fixing plate are fixedly connected with bagged spring positioning baffle supports, a plurality of adjustable positioning baffles are arranged on the front face of the positioning baffle fixing plate at equal intervals, and the bagged spring strips at the welding positions are pushed forwards after welding is completed.
Preferably, the inside of frame fixed plate is provided with the inside casing and can controls the displacement fixed plate, the inside casing can be controlled the surface equidistance of displacement fixed plate and be provided with a plurality of flange fixed plates, the fixed surface of flange fixed plate installs the ultrasonic welding system, the avris of frame fixed plate is provided with about the activity adjust cylinder, every set of ultrasonic welding system impels and compresses tightly two rows of perpendicular levels of bagging-off spring strip interval on the side of adjustable welding contact pin from every adjustable positioning baffle and carries out ultrasonic bonding.
Preferably, the ultrasonic welding system passes through the inner cavity of the adjustable positioning baffle.
Preferably, each adjustable positioning baffle is formed by fixing a left bent plate and a right bent plate.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the beneficial effects that:
the positions of the adjustable positioning baffle and the ultrasonic welding system and the positions and the heights of the adjustable welding contact pins are set according to the diameter and the height of the bagged spring strip, meanwhile, the position of the adjustable positioning baffle and the distance between the ultrasonic welding mechanism and the left and right displacements of the welding contact pin fixing plate are adjusted and fixed according to the diameter of the bagged spring strip, the device is a bed net formed by welding bagged spring strips in a row, each row of bagged spring strips needs to be welded in a staggered way, namely, the first and second rows of bagged spring strips are welded at the interval of the 1 st, 3 rd and 5 th single-digit bagged spring strips through an ultrasonic welding mechanism, the second and third rows of bagged spring strips are welded at the interval of the 2 nd, 4 th and 6 th double-digit bagged spring strips through an ultrasonic welding mechanism, and the third and fourth rows of bagged spring strips are welded at the interval of the 1 st, 3 th and 5 th single-digit bagged spring strips, and the steps are circularly welded in a staggered manner; when the first and second rows of bagged spring strips are welded according to positions, the adjustable welding pins are lifted to the top and then are shifted to the next row of positions to be welded according to the originally set distance, meanwhile, after the ultrasonic welding system pushes the original position backwards under the action of the ultrasonic fixing and moving mechanism, the ultrasonic welding system also shifts to the next row of positions to be welded according to the originally set distance, the welded bagged spring strips push the welding positions forwards under the action of the adjustable positioning baffle (according to the diameter of the bagged spring strips), the adjustable positioning baffle moves backwards to the original position to be equipped for welding the next row of bagged spring strips, when the next bagged spring strip is placed in the welding position, the adjustable welding pins are moved from the first row to the second row of bagged spring strips without welding spacing holes (when the first 1, 3 and 5 spacing holes of the first and second rows of bagged spring strips are welded, then the second row of bagged spring strips are moved to the first row, 4, 6 the gap of the unwelded spring forms a hole) is penetrated on a welding contact pin bottom plate, a positioning baffle plate pushes the bagged spring strip to be welded forwards and the adjustable welding contact pin positions and clamps two bagged spring strips, an ultrasonic welding system is also pushed forwards under the action of an ultrasonic fixing and moving mechanism, an ultrasonic mould in the ultrasonic welding system penetrates through the middle of the positioning baffle plate to press the non-woven cloth at the gap of the two bagged spring strips to the side edge of the welding contact pin for ultrasonic welding, each welding position is vertically fixed by 2 sets of high-frequency ultrasonic welding mechanisms, the bottom ultrasonic welding mechanism is fixed, the height of the top ultrasonic welding mechanism can be adjusted, the upper set of ultrasonic welding mechanism can be detached when the high-frequency ultrasonic welding mechanism is vertically adjusted according to the height of the bagged spring strips and used for welding shorter bagged spring strips, the traditional bed net mode that a plurality of independent bagged spring strips are arranged and adhered through hot melt adhesive is replaced, not only the operation is simple and convenient, but also the structure is strong and meets the requirements of energy conservation and environmental protection.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the internal structure of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic plan view of a bracket mechanism on a welding pin according to the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic plan view of the pocketed spring positioning baffle motion mechanism of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic plan view of an ultrasonic welding mechanism of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a positional relationship diagram of a positioning baffle and an ultrasonic welding system of the present invention.
In the figure: 1. an apparatus body; 2. an ultrasonic fixing and moving mechanism; 3. a bagged spring positioning baffle plate movement mechanism; 31. a baffle bracket is positioned by a bagged spring; 32. positioning a baffle fixing plate; 33. an adjustable positioning baffle; 4. an ultrasonic welding mechanism; 41. an outer frame fixing plate; 42. the inner frame can move left and right to fix the plate; 43. a flange fixing plate; 44. an ultrasonic welding system; 45. a left and right movable adjusting cylinder; 5. welding a positioning contact pin baffle bracket; 6. welding a contact pin bottom plate; 7. dragging the conveyer belt; 8. bagging spring strips; 9. welding a contact pin upper bracket mechanism; 91. adjustable welding pins; 92. welding a contact pin fixing plate; 93. a left-right displacement mechanism for the whole row of welding plug pins; 94. and welding the contact pin bracket.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 1-6, the utility model provides a mattress pocket spring ultrasonic welding device, which comprises a device body 1, wherein the device body 1 comprises an ultrasonic fixing and moving mechanism 2, a pocket spring positioning baffle moving mechanism 3, an ultrasonic welding mechanism 4, a welding positioning pin baffle bracket 5, a welding pin bottom plate 6, a pocket spring strip 8, a traction conveyer belt 7 and a welding pin upper bracket mechanism 9, the middle part of the top end of the welding positioning pin baffle bracket 5 is provided with the welding pin upper bracket mechanism 9, the bottom of the welding positioning pin baffle bracket 5 is provided with the welding pin bottom plate 6, one side of the top of the welding pin bottom plate 6 is provided with the pocket spring strip 8, one side of the welding positioning pin baffle bracket 5 is provided with the traction conveyer belt 7, one side of the welding positioning pin baffle bracket 5 away from the traction conveyer belt 7 is provided with a pocket spring placing platform, the front face of the bagged spring placing platform is provided with a bagged spring positioning baffle motion mechanism 3, an inner cavity of the bagged spring positioning baffle motion mechanism 3 is provided with an ultrasonic welding mechanism 4, the front face of the bagged spring positioning baffle motion mechanism 3 is provided with an ultrasonic fixing and motion mechanism 2, the bagged spring positioning baffle motion mechanism 3 comprises a bagged spring positioning baffle support 31, a positioning baffle fixing plate 32 and an adjustable positioning baffle 33, the ultrasonic welding mechanism 4 comprises an outer frame fixing plate 41, a displacement fixing plate 42 can be controlled by an inner frame, a flange fixing plate 43, an ultrasonic welding system 44 and a left and right movable adjusting cylinder 45.
When in use, the position of the adjustable positioning baffle 33 and the ultrasonic welding system 44 and the position and the height of the adjustable welding contact pin 91 are set according to the diameter and the height of the bagged spring strip 8, and the distance between the adjustable positioning baffle 33 and the left and right displacement of the ultrasonic welding mechanism 4 and the welding contact pin fixing plate 92 is adjusted and fixed according to the diameter of the bagged spring strip 8, the device is a bed core formed by welding the bagged spring strips 8 in a row and a row, each row of bagged spring strips 8 needs to be welded in a staggered way, namely, the first row and the second row of bagged spring strips are welded at the intervals of the single-digit bagged spring strips 8 of 1, 3 and 5 through the ultrasonic welding mechanism 4, the second row and the third row of bagged spring strips 8 are welded at the intervals of the double-digit bagged spring strips 8 of 2, 4 and 6 through the ultrasonic welding mechanism 4, the third row and the fourth row of bagged spring strips 8 are welded at the intervals of the single-digit bagged spring strips 8 of 1, 3 and 5, the staggered welding is circulated in the way.
The upper welding pin support mechanism 9 comprises adjustable welding pins 91, a welding pin fixing plate 92, a whole row of left and right welding pin displacement mechanisms 93 and a welding pin support 94, the two ends of the top of the welding pin support 94 are respectively provided with the whole row of left and right welding pin displacement mechanisms 93, the bottom of the welding pin support 94 is provided with the welding pin fixing plate 92, and the bottom of the welding pin fixing plate 92 is provided with a plurality of adjustable welding pins 91.
When the adjustable welding pin fixing plate is used, the adjustable welding pin fixing plate is used for fixing the adjustable welding pin 91, the adjustable welding pin 91 can ascend and descend integrally, and the welding pin fixing plate 92 can move left and right.
Both ends of the positioning baffle fixing plate 32 are fixedly connected with bagged spring positioning baffle supports 31, and a plurality of adjustable positioning baffles 33 are equidistantly arranged on the front surface of the positioning baffle fixing plate 32.
During the use, push one row of bagged spring strip 8 of placing before adjustable locating baffle 33 level forward to welding position and with adjustable welding contact pin 91 around tight two rows of bagged spring strip 8 non-woven fabrics location clamp of welding, push away the bagged spring strip 8 on the welding position forward after the welding is accomplished.
An inner frame left-right displacement fixing plate 42 is arranged inside the outer frame fixing plate 41, a plurality of flange fixing plates 43 are equidistantly arranged on the surface of the inner frame left-right displacement fixing plate 42, an ultrasonic welding system 44 is fixedly arranged on the surface of each flange fixing plate 43, and a left-right movable adjusting cylinder 45 is arranged on the side of the outer frame fixing plate 41.
When the ultrasonic welding device is used, each set of ultrasonic welding system 44 is pushed from the middle of each adjustable positioning baffle 33 by the ultrasonic fixing and moving mechanism 2, and vertically and horizontally compresses the interval parts of the two rows of bagged spring strips 8 on the side edges of the adjustable welding contact pins 91 for ultrasonic welding.
The ultrasonic welding system 44 passes through the lumen of the adjustable positioning baffle 33.
During the use, play the effect of blockking when ultrasonic welding system 44 welds, ultrasonic welding system 44 breaks the harmless cloth when avoiding welding.
Each adjustable positioning baffle 33 is formed by fixing a left bent plate and a right bent plate.
When the device is used, firstly, the positions of the adjustable positioning baffle 33 and the ultrasonic welding system 44 and the positions and the heights of the adjustable welding contact pins 91 are set according to the diameters and the heights of the bagged spring strips 8, and simultaneously, the left-right displacement intervals of the adjustable positioning baffle 33, the ultrasonic welding mechanism 4 and the welding contact pin fixing plate 92 are adjusted and fixed according to the diameters of the bagged spring strips 8, the device is a bed core formed by welding the bagged spring strips 8 in rows and in rows, each row of bagged spring strips 8 needs to be welded in a staggered manner, namely, the first row and the second row of bagged spring strips 8 are welded at the intervals of the single-digit bagged spring strips 8 of the 1, 3 and 5 through the ultrasonic welding mechanism 4, the second row and the third row of bagged spring strips 8 are welded at the intervals of the double-digit bagged spring strips 8 of the 2, 4 and 6 through the ultrasonic welding mechanism 4, the third row and the fourth row of bagged spring strips 8 are welded at the intervals of the 1, 3, 5, welding the single-digit bagged spring strips 8 at intervals in a circulating staggered manner; after welding, each row of ultrasonic welding mechanisms 4 generate a through hole formed among 4 circular pocket springs at the interval of the pocket spring strips 8 which are not welded, and the adjustable welding pins 91 are inserted from the through hole when welding from the second row; after the next row of bagged spring strips 8 are horizontally and vertically pushed in by using the adjustable positioning baffle 33, the bagged spring positioning baffle moving mechanism 3 can horizontally push forward and tightly clamp two rows of bagged spring strips 8 to be welded with the adjustable welding contact pins 91; the ultrasonic welding mechanism 4 also pushes each set of ultrasonic welding system 44 from the middle of each adjustable positioning baffle 33 under the action of the ultrasonic fixing and moving mechanism 2 and vertically and horizontally compresses the interval between two rows of bagged spring strips 8 on the side edge of the adjustable welding contact pin 91 for ultrasonic welding, so that the traditional mode of arranging and sticking a plurality of independent bagged spring strips 8 through hot melt adhesive to form a bed net is replaced, the operation is simple and convenient, and the structure is strong and meets the requirements of energy conservation and environmental protection.
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 various changes in the embodiments and/or modifications of the utility model can be made, and equivalents and modifications of some features of the utility model can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the utility model.
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1. The utility model provides a mattress pocket spring ultrasonic bonding equipment, includes equipment body (1), its characterized in that: the device body (1) comprises an ultrasonic fixing and moving mechanism (2), a bagged spring positioning baffle moving mechanism (3), an ultrasonic welding mechanism (4), a welding positioning pin baffle bracket (5), a welding pin bottom plate (6), a bagged spring strip (8), a traction conveyer belt (7) and a welding pin upper bracket mechanism (9), wherein the welding pin upper bracket mechanism (9) is arranged in the middle of the top end of the welding positioning pin baffle bracket (5), the welding pin bottom plate (6) is arranged at the bottom of the welding positioning pin baffle bracket (5), the bagged spring strip (8) is arranged on one side of the top of the welding pin bottom plate (6), the traction conveyer belt (7) is arranged on one side of the welding positioning pin baffle bracket (5), and a bagged spring placing platform is arranged on one side of the welding positioning pin baffle bracket (5) away from the traction conveyer belt (7), the bagged spring placing platform is characterized in that a bagged spring positioning baffle moving mechanism (3) is arranged on the front face of the bagged spring placing platform, an ultrasonic welding mechanism (4) is arranged in an inner cavity of the bagged spring positioning baffle moving mechanism (3), an ultrasonic fixing and moving mechanism (2) is arranged on the front face of the bagged spring positioning baffle moving mechanism (3), the bagged spring positioning baffle moving mechanism (3) comprises a bagged spring positioning baffle support (31), a positioning baffle fixing plate (32) and an adjustable positioning baffle (33), and the ultrasonic welding mechanism (4) comprises an outer frame fixing plate (41), an inner frame, a left displacement fixing plate (42), a flange fixing plate (43), an ultrasonic welding system (44) and a left and right movable adjusting cylinder (45).
2. The ultrasonic mattress pocketed spring welding apparatus of claim 1, wherein: welding contact pin upper bracket mechanism (9) connects displacement mechanism (93) and welding contact pin support (94) about the contact pin including adjustable welding contact pin (91), welding contact pin fixed plate (92), whole row of welding, the both ends at welding contact pin support (94) top all are provided with whole row of welding and connect displacement mechanism (93) about the contact pin, the bottom of welding contact pin support (94) is provided with welding contact pin fixed plate (92), the bottom of welding contact pin fixed plate (92) is provided with a plurality of adjustable welding contact pins (91).
3. The ultrasonic mattress pocket spring welding apparatus of claim 1, wherein: the both ends of positioning baffle fixed plate (32) are all fixedly connected with bagging-off spring positioning baffle support (31), the front equidistance of positioning baffle fixed plate (32) is provided with a plurality of adjustable positioning baffle (33).
4. The ultrasonic mattress pocket spring welding apparatus of claim 1, wherein: the inside of frame fixed plate (41) is provided with displacement fixed plate (42) about the inside casing can, the surperficial equidistance of displacement fixed plate (42) is provided with a plurality of flange fixed plates (43) about the inside casing can, the fixed surface of flange fixed plate (43) installs ultrasonic welding system (44), activity adjusting cylinder (45) about the avris of frame fixed plate (41) is provided with.
5. The ultrasonic mattress pocket spring welding apparatus of claim 1, wherein: the ultrasonic welding system (44) passes through the inner cavity of the adjustable positioning baffle (33).
6. The ultrasonic mattress pocket spring welding apparatus of claim 1, wherein: each adjustable positioning baffle (33) is formed by fixing a left bent plate and a right bent plate.
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