CN217073263U - Novel silicon rubber one-outlet two-production line - Google Patents

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CN217073263U
CN217073263U CN202123380279.5U CN202123380279U CN217073263U CN 217073263 U CN217073263 U CN 217073263U CN 202123380279 U CN202123380279 U CN 202123380279U CN 217073263 U CN217073263 U CN 217073263U
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The utility model relates to a belong to wire and cable manufacture equipment technical field, in particular to novel two production lines of silicon rubber one play, it comprises the following equipment of arranging in proper order: gantry pay-off machine, tension dancer, upward tractor, preheating cabinet, guide pulley, silicon rubber extruder, high temperature quick setting oven, vulcanization case, ten meters cooling trough, weather machine, spark machine, calibrator, inker, lower tractor, cross powder machine, hold in the palm line frame, gantry take up winding displacement machine, gantry pay off machine is two sets of, silicon rubber extruder is two sets of, is novel cold feed silicon rubber extruder, gantry take up winding displacement machine is two sets of, novel cold feed silicon rubber extruder comprises fuselage portion, locomotive portion. The novel one-to-two silicone rubber production line has the advantages of scientific and reasonable structure design, advanced equipment, high production efficiency, good product quality, smooth feeding and the like, and is a novel one-to-two silicone rubber production line with higher innovation.

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Novel silicon rubber one-outlet two-production line
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of wire and cable manufacture equipment, in particular to novel two production lines of a silicon rubber.
Background
The traditional silicone rubber extrusion production line is a single-line production line, only one silicone rubber wire and cable can be produced at a time, and the efficiency of equipment cannot be fully exerted before a drying box type vulcanizing box with large energy consumption cannot be replaced by other equipment; the original main equipment also has the defects of glue return, glue leakage, poor product phase and the like, and the production efficiency and the benefit are seriously influenced. The production potential of the production line is excavated, the production line capable of producing a plurality of cables, fully playing the equipment efficiency and improving the production efficiency is designed, the production equipment is improved, and the production line becomes the expectation of rubber wire and cable production enterprises and also becomes the main target of technical innovation of equipment production enterprises.
Disclosure of Invention
An object of the utility model is to overcome prior art's not enough, provide one kind can two cables of coproduction, production speed is fast, efficient, the product is good novel silicon rubber one goes out two production lines.
The utility model provides a its technical problem realize through following technical scheme:
a novel silicon rubber one-out-two production line is characterized in that: the device consists of the following devices arranged in sequence: gantry pay-off machine, tension dancer, upper tractor, preheating cabinet, guide pulley, silicon rubber extruder, high temperature quick setting oven, vulcanization case, ten meters cooling trough, weatherproof machine, spark machine, diameter gauge, inker, lower tractor, cross powder machine, hold in the palm line frame, gantry line winding and arranging machine, gantry line unwinding machine is two sets of, and two sets of gantry line unwinding machines set up relatively in the production line initiating terminal, silicon rubber extruder is two sets of, and two sets of silicon rubber extruders set up relatively, are novel cold feed silicon rubber extruder, gantry line winding and arranging machine is two sets of, and two sets of gantry line winding and arranging machine set up relatively in the production line end, novel cold feed silicon rubber extruder comprises fuselage portion, locomotive portion, fuselage portion interconnect, fuselage portion is extruded screw rod by base support, power device, back fuselage, preceding fuselage, silicon rubber, The filter equipment is formed, the power device, the rear machine body and the front machine body are all arranged on the base support, the rear machine body and the front machine body are mutually connected, the silicon rubber extrusion screw rods are concentrically arranged in the rear machine body and the front machine body, and the filter equipment is arranged at the tail end in the front machine body.
Moreover, the filter device is a novel silicon rubber extrusion filter device and comprises a filter plate, a filter screen, a compression ring and a connecting screw rod, the filter plate, the filter screen and the compression ring are sequentially assembled and connected, the connecting screw rod is connected between the filter plate and the compression ring,
moreover, the filter plate is a circular plate-shaped workpiece, a first filter hole, a second filter hole, a straight hole filter hole and a press ring assembly platform are arranged on the circular plate-shaped workpiece, the straight hole filter holes are uniformly distributed at the central part of the filter plate in a multi-ring shape, the second filter hole and the first filter hole are sequentially arranged at the periphery of the straight hole filter hole in a ring shape, the press ring assembly platform is arranged at the periphery of the filter plate,
the first filtering holes are distributed at the periphery of the second filtering hole in an annular shape and are inclined inwards,
the second filters the hole and is a plurality of, and a plurality of second filters the hole and is the annular outward slope and all establishes in straight hole filter hole periphery.
And the first filtering holes and the second filtering holes have the same structure and opposite directions, the first filtering hole inlets of the first filtering holes are larger than the first filtering hole outlets, the second filtering hole inlets of the second filtering holes are smaller than the second filtering hole outlets, and the radial cross sections of the first filtering holes and the second filtering holes are elliptical.
And moreover, a plurality of screw holes are uniformly distributed on the compression ring assembly table in an annular mode.
Moreover, the rear machine body is a cold feeding silicone rubber extruder rear machine body shared by granular material sheets and consists of a rear machine body, a rear screw sleeve and a side press roller, the rear screw sleeve is concentrically arranged in the rear machine body, the side press roller is arranged on the upper side surface of the rear machine body,
and the rear machine body is provided with a rear machine body feeding hole.
And the arc-shaped corner of the rear machine body is arranged at the corner of the discharging direction at one side of the rear machine body feeding hole opposite to the side compression roller.
And the rear screw sleeve is provided with a rear screw sleeve feeding hole, and the inner bore wall of the rear screw sleeve is provided with a spiral material guide groove.
And the rear screw sleeve arc-shaped angle part is correspondingly arranged at the discharging direction angle part of the rear screw sleeve feeding hole at the side opposite to the side compression roller and the rear machine body arc-shaped angle part.
And the spiral material guiding grooves are three to five, the three to five spiral material guiding grooves rotate rightwards to the tail end by taking the bottom as a starting point, the spiral rising angle a of the spiral material guiding grooves is fifty eight to sixty two degrees, the width of the spiral material guiding grooves is thirty three to thirty six millimeters, the depth H is four millimeters, the tail end gradually rises to zero at the ending position by a ten-degree rising angle, and the distance F between the spiral material guiding grooves is nine to eleven millimeters.
The utility model discloses an advantage and beneficial effect do:
1. this novel two production lines of silicon rubber one play are provided with two sets of longmen paying out machine, two sets of silicon rubber extruders, two sets of longmen receipts winding displacement machines, can go out two cables simultaneously, can give full play to current equipment function, improve the production line rate greatly, reduction in production cost.
2. The utility model discloses a silicon rubber extruder is novel cold feed silicon rubber extruder, and it is equipped with novel silicon rubber and extrudes filter equipment, can effectively improve the product appearance looks.
3. The utility model discloses a silicon rubber extruder is novel cold feed silicon rubber extruder, and its back swivel nut system has heliciform guide recess, back swivel nut arc bight, can effectively reduce to return to glue, the glue leakage, and the feeding is smooth and easy.
4. The novel one-to-two silicone rubber production line has the advantages of scientific and reasonable structure design, advanced equipment, high production efficiency, good product quality, smooth feeding and the like, and is a novel one-to-two silicone rubber production line with higher innovation.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view (partial) of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic structural view (partial) of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural view (partial) of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view (partial) of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a top view of FIG. 1;
FIG. 6 is a top view of FIG. 2;
FIG. 7 is a top view of FIG. 3;
FIG. 8 is a top view of FIG. 4;
FIG. 9 is a schematic view of a fuselage section;
FIG. 10 is a schematic structural view of a novel silicone rubber extrusion filtering device;
FIG. 11 is a schematic view of a filter plate construction;
FIG. 12 is a left side view of FIG. 11;
FIG. 13 is a right side view of FIG. 11;
FIG. 14 is an AA-oriented view of FIG. 11;
FIG. 15 is a view in the direction BB of FIG. 11;
FIG. 16 is a rear fuselage structure view;
FIG. 17 is a schematic view of a rear insert structure;
FIG. 18 is a top view (partially in section) of FIG. 17;
fig. 19 is a schematic view showing the spiral material guiding groove spiral.
Reference is made to the accompanying drawings in which:
1-gantry pay-off machine, 2-tension dancer, 3-upper tractor, 4-preheating box, 5-guide wheel, 6-silicon rubber extruder, 7-high-temperature rapid shaping oven, 8-vulcanizing box, 9-ten-meter cooling water tank, 10-blow dryer, 11-spark machine, 12-diameter measuring instrument, 13-printer, 14-lower tractor, 15-powder passing machine, 16-wire supporting frame, 17-gantry winding and arranging machine, 18-filtering device, 19-front machine body, 20-front screw sleeve, 21-silicon rubber extrusion screw rod, 22-rear machine body, 23-rear screw sleeve, 24-base support, 25-power device, 26-filtering plate, 27-connecting screw rod, 28-filtering screen and 29-pressure ring, 30-second filtering hole, 31-straight hole filtering hole, 32-first filtering hole, 33-screw hole, 34-pressing ring assembly table, 35-first filtering hole inlet, 36-first filtering hole outlet, 37-second filtering hole inlet, 38-second filtering hole outlet, 39-rear machine body arc corner, 40-side pressing roller, 41-spiral material guiding groove, 42-rear screw sleeve arc corner and 43-rear screw sleeve feeding hole.
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The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to specific examples, which are provided for illustrative purposes only, and are not intended to be limiting, and the scope of the present invention should not be limited thereby.
A novel silicon rubber one-outlet-two production line comprises the following devices which are arranged in sequence: the device comprises a gantry pay-off machine 1, a tension dancer 2, an upper tractor 3, a preheating box 4, a guide wheel 5, a silicon rubber extruder 6, a high-temperature rapid shaping oven 7, a vulcanizing box 8, a ten-meter cooling water tank 9, a blow-drying machine 10, a spark machine 11, a diameter gauge 12, a printer 13, a lower tractor 14, a powder coating machine 15, a wire supporting frame 16 and a gantry winding and unwinding machine 17. The two groups of gantry paying out machines are arranged at the initial end of the production line oppositely; the two groups of silicon rubber extruders are arranged oppositely and are novel cold feeding silicon rubber extruders; the two groups of gantry winding and unwinding machines are arranged at the tail end of the production line relatively.
The novel cold feeding silicone rubber extruder consists of a machine body part and a machine head part which are connected with each other. The fuselage portion comprises base support 24, power device 25, back fuselage, preceding fuselage, silicon rubber extrusion screw 21, filter equipment 18, and power device, back fuselage, preceding fuselage all set up on base support, back fuselage, preceding fuselage interconnect, and silicon rubber extrusion screw sets up in back fuselage, preceding fuselage with a heart, and filter equipment sets up terminal in preceding fuselage.
The front machine body consists of a front machine body 19 and a front threaded sleeve 20, and the front threaded sleeve is concentrically arranged in the front machine body.
The rear machine body is a cold feeding silicone rubber extruder rear machine body shared by granular material and flaky material and consists of a rear machine body 22, a rear threaded sleeve 23 and a side press roller 40, the rear threaded sleeve is concentrically arranged in the rear machine body, the side press roller is arranged on the upper side surface of the rear machine body,
the rear machine body is provided with a rear machine body feeding hole. And the arc-shaped corner part 39 of the rear machine body is arranged at the corner part of the discharging direction at one side of the rear machine body feeding hole, which is opposite to the side compression roller.
The rear screw sleeve is provided with a rear screw sleeve feeding hole 43, and the inner bore wall of the rear screw sleeve is provided with a spiral material guiding groove 41.
And a rear turnbuckle arc-shaped corner 42 is formed at the discharging direction corner of the rear turnbuckle feeding hole at the side opposite to the side compression roller and corresponds to the arc-shaped corner of the rear machine body.
The spiral material guiding grooves are three to five, the three to five spiral material guiding grooves rotate rightwards to the tail end by taking the bottom as a starting point, the spiral rising angle a of the spiral material guiding grooves is fifty eight to sixty two degrees, the width of the spiral material guiding grooves is thirty three to thirty six millimeters, the depth H is four millimeters, the tail end gradually rises to zero at the end position by a ten-degree rising angle, and the distance F between the spiral material guiding grooves is nine to eleven millimeters.
The filter equipment is novel silicon rubber extrusion filter equipment, by filter 26, filter screen 28, clamping ring 29, connecting screw 27 constitutes, the filter screen, the clamping ring is assembly connection in proper order, connecting screw connects in the filter, between the clamping ring, the filter is a circular platelike finished piece, it has first filtration hole 32 to make on it, second filtration hole 30, straight hole filtration hole 31, clamping ring mount table 34, straight hole filtration hole is the manifold rings and all lays in the filter central part, second filtration hole, first filtration hole is the annular system in straight hole filtration hole periphery in proper order, the clamping ring mount table system is in the filter periphery, first filtration hole is a plurality of, a plurality of first filtration holes are the annular internal inclination and all lay in the second filtration hole periphery, the second filters the hole and is a plurality of, a plurality of second filters the hole and is the annular external inclination and all lays in straight hole filtration hole periphery.
The first filtering holes and the second filtering holes have the same structure and opposite directions, the first filtering hole inlets 35 of the first filtering holes are larger than the first filtering hole outlets 36, the second filtering hole inlets 37 of the second filtering holes are smaller than the second filtering hole outlets 38, and the radial cross sections of the first filtering holes and the second filtering holes are elliptical.
And the compression ring assembly platform is annularly and uniformly provided with a plurality of screw holes 33.
The joint part comprises a machine neck, a machine head body, a flow dividing body, a wire passing pipe, a connecting sleeve, an adjusting sleeve, a wire outlet die sleeve, a die sleeve seat, a wire outlet die core and a gland, wherein the machine neck is in threaded connection with the upper part of the machine head body, the flow dividing body and the wire passing pipe are coaxially sleeved in the machine head body, the connecting sleeve is installed at the front end of the machine head body, the adjusting sleeve and the gland are installed at the rear end of the machine head body, the wire outlet die core is fixedly installed at the front end of the wire passing pipe in the machine head body, the wire outlet die sleeve is fixedly installed in the front end of the machine head body through the die sleeve seat, and the rear end of the wire passing pipe is connected with a vacuumizing device.
The utility model discloses a theory of operation does:
the novel silicon rubber one-outlet two-production line is provided with two groups of gantry pay-off machines, two groups of silicon rubber extruders and two groups of gantry take-up and pay-off machines, two cables can be simultaneously produced, the functions of the existing equipment can be fully exerted, the production line rate is greatly improved, and the production cost is reduced; the silicon rubber extruder of the utility model is a novel cold feeding silicon rubber extruder which is provided with a novel silicon rubber extrusion and filtration device, and can effectively improve the product phase; the utility model discloses a silicon rubber extruder is novel cold feed silicon rubber extruder, and its back swivel nut system has heliciform guide recess, back swivel nut arc bight, can effectively reduce to return to glue, the glue leakage, and the feeding is smooth and easy. The novel one-to-two silicone rubber production line has the advantages of scientific and reasonable structure design, advanced equipment, high production efficiency, good product quality, smooth feeding and the like, and is a novel one-to-two silicone rubber production line with higher innovation.
Although the embodiments of the present invention and the accompanying drawings are disclosed for illustrative purposes, those skilled in the art will appreciate that: various substitutions, changes and modifications are possible without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention and the appended claims, and therefore, the scope of the present invention is not limited to the disclosure of the embodiments and the accompanying drawings.

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1. A novel silicon rubber one-out-two production line is characterized in that: the device consists of the following devices arranged in sequence: the production line comprises two gantry paying-off machines (1), tension dancers (2), an upper tractor (3), a preheating box (4), guide wheels (5), a silicon rubber extruder (6), a high-temperature rapid shaping oven (7), a vulcanizing box (8), ten-meter cooling water tanks (9), a blow-drying machine (10), a spark machine (11), a diameter measuring instrument (12), a printer (13), a lower tractor (14), a powder passing machine (15), a wire supporting frame (16) and a gantry winding and unwinding machine (17), wherein the two gantry paying-off machines (1) are arranged at the initial end of the production line, the two gantry paying-off machines (1) are arranged oppositely, the two silicon rubber extruders (6) are arranged oppositely, the two gantry winding and unwinding machines (17) are arranged oppositely and are novel cold feeding silicon rubber extruders (6), the two gantry winding and unwinding machines (17) are arranged oppositely at the tail end of the production line, novel cold feed silicon rubber extruder (6) comprises fuselage portion, locomotive portion, fuselage portion, locomotive portion interconnect, fuselage portion extrudes screw rod (21), filter equipment (18) by base support (24), power device (25), back fuselage, preceding fuselage, silicon rubber and constitutes, and power device (25), back fuselage, preceding fuselage all set up on base support (24), back fuselage, preceding fuselage interconnect, and silicon rubber extrudes screw rod (21) and sets up in back fuselage, preceding fuselage with one heart, and filter equipment (18) set up in the fuselage before terminal.
2. The novel one-outlet two-production line for silicone rubber as claimed in claim 1, wherein: filter equipment (18) are novel silicon rubber extrusion filter equipment, comprise filter (26), filter screen (28), clamping ring (29), connecting screw (27), and filter (26), filter screen (28), clamping ring (29) be assembled between/be connected in proper order, and connecting screw (27) are connected between filter (26), clamping ring (29).
3. The novel one-outlet two-production line for silicone rubber as claimed in claim 2, wherein: the filter plate (26) is a circular plate-shaped workpiece, a first filter hole (32), a second filter hole (30), a straight hole filter hole (31) and a pressure ring assembly table (34) are manufactured on the circular plate-shaped workpiece, the straight hole filter hole (31) is annularly and uniformly distributed at the central part of the filter plate (26), the second filter hole (30) and the first filter hole (32) are annularly manufactured at the periphery of the straight hole filter hole (31) in sequence, and the pressure ring assembly table (34) is manufactured at the periphery of the filter plate (26).
4. The novel one-outlet two-production line for silicone rubber as claimed in claim 3, wherein: the first filtering holes (32) and the second filtering holes (30) are identical in structure and opposite in direction, the first filtering hole inlets (35) of the first filtering holes (32) are larger than the first filtering hole outlets (36), the second filtering hole inlets (37) of the second filtering holes (30) are smaller than the second filtering hole outlets (38), and the radial cross sections of the first filtering holes and the second filtering holes are oval.
5. The novel one-outlet two-production line for silicone rubber as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the rear machine body is a rear machine body of a cold feeding silicone rubber extruder (6) shared by granular and flaky materials and comprises a rear machine body (22), a rear threaded sleeve (23) and a screw hole (40), the rear threaded sleeve (23) is concentrically arranged in the rear machine body (22), and the screw hole (40) is arranged on the upper side surface of the rear machine body (22).
6. The novel one-outlet two-production line for silicone rubber as claimed in claim 5, wherein: the rear machine body (22) is provided with a feed inlet of the rear machine body (22).
7. The novel one-outlet two-production line for silicone rubber as claimed in claim 6, wherein: and the arc-shaped corner (39) of the rear machine body is arranged at the corner of the material outlet direction at one side of the material inlet of the rear machine body (22) opposite to the screw hole (40).
8. The novel one-outlet two-production line for silicone rubber as claimed in claim 5, wherein: the rear screw sleeve (23) is provided with a rear screw sleeve feeding hole (43), and the inner bore wall of the rear screw sleeve is provided with a spiral material guiding groove (41).
9. The novel one-outlet two-production line for silicone rubber as claimed in claim 8, wherein: and a rear screw sleeve arc-shaped corner (42) is correspondingly formed at the corner of the rear screw sleeve feeding hole (43) at the side opposite to the screw hole (40) in the discharging direction and the rear machine body arc-shaped corner (39).
10. The novel one-outlet two-production line for silicone rubber as claimed in claim 8, wherein: the spiral material guiding grooves (41) are three to five, the bottoms of the three to five spiral material guiding grooves (41) serve as starting points to rotate rightwards to tail ends, spiral rising angles a of the spiral material guiding grooves (41) are fifty-eight degrees to sixty-two degrees, the widths of the spiral material guiding grooves (41) are thirty-three to thirty-six millimeters, the depth H is four millimeters, the tail ends of the spiral material guiding grooves are gradually increased to zero at ending positions through ten degree rising angles, and the distance F between every two adjacent spiral material guiding grooves (41) is nine millimeters to eleven millimeters.
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