CN217095909U - Middle part fluting device of adjustable self tapping screw - Google Patents

Middle part fluting device of adjustable self tapping screw Download PDF

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CN217095909U
CN217095909U CN202220733614.0U CN202220733614U CN217095909U CN 217095909 U CN217095909 U CN 217095909U CN 202220733614 U CN202220733614 U CN 202220733614U CN 217095909 U CN217095909 U CN 217095909U
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汤意清
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莫秋华
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The utility model discloses a middle part fluting device of adjustable self tapping screw relates to fluting technical field, and it includes strutting arrangement, the last power device that is provided with of strutting arrangement, the last eight centre gripping fixing devices that are provided with of power device. Under the drive of servo motor output shaft, can make the anticlockwise rotation at every turn of rotor plate forty-five degrees, the fixed self tapping screw of rotor plate top side centre gripping can be along with the rotor plate forty-five degrees of left rotation, the electric putter of upside promotes the cutting wheel of the horizontal setting of upside and carries out a word fluting in the middle of the head of self tapping screw, servo motor can drive the rotor plate and continue rotatory forty-five degrees afterwards, self tapping screw after the fluting of a word can correspond with the electric putter right-hand member of downside to leftmost side along with the rotor plate rotation, electric putter can promote the cutting wheel of the vertical setting of downside and set up the vertical fluting of self tapping screw of horizontal word fluting, through twice fluting operation, the realization is to the head completion cross fluting of self tapping screw.

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Middle part fluting device of adjustable self tapping screw
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a fluting device, in particular to middle part fluting device of adjustable self tapping screw.
Background
In the production and processing process of the self-tapping screw, the middle part of the screw head of the screw needs to be slotted in a straight line or in a cross shape so as to be convenient for butt joint operation through a screwdriver when the self-tapping screw is screwed or loosened, but the middle part of the screw head needs different slotting devices when the self-tapping screw is slotted in a straight line or in a cross shape at present, and the slotting devices cannot be adjusted into a slotted mode in a straight line or a slotted cross shape according to requirements, so that the problems need to be solved.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
An object of the utility model is to provide an adjustable self tapping screw's middle part fluting device to solve the fluting device that all needs the difference when proposing among the above-mentioned background art at present to screw head middle part carry out a word fluting or cross fluting, can not adjust into the problem of a word fluting or the slotted mode of cross with the fluting device as required.
In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a following technical scheme: a middle slotting device of an adjustable self-tapping screw comprises a supporting device, wherein a power device is arranged on the supporting device, eight clamping and fixing devices are arranged on the power device, and two slotting devices are arranged on the left side of the power device;
the supporting device comprises a workbench, a connecting seat is fixedly arranged on the upper surface of the workbench, a supporting plate is fixedly arranged on the right side of the upper surface of the connecting seat, and a mounting plate is fixedly arranged on the left side of the upper surface of the connecting seat;
the power device comprises a rotating plate, a limiting semicircular plate is arranged on the left side of the front side wall of the rotating plate, a connecting plate is fixedly arranged at the bottom end of the limiting semicircular plate, the bottom end of the connecting plate is fixedly connected with a connecting seat, a rotating shaft is fixedly arranged at the circle center of the rear side wall of the rotating plate, the middle part of the rotating shaft is rotatably connected with the top end of a supporting plate through a bearing, the rear end of the rotating shaft is fixedly connected with an output shaft of a servo motor, and the servo motor is arranged on the rear side wall of the supporting plate;
the eight clamping and fixing devices comprise clamping grooves, the eight clamping grooves are uniformly formed in the front side wall of the rotating plate, and clamping arc plates are arranged on the front sides of the eight clamping grooves;
two the fluting device all includes electric putter, and two electric putter's left side all installs on the mounting panel, electric putter's right side mobile end is fixed and is provided with linkage board one end, the other end of linkage board is provided with the cutting wheel.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, upside the cutting wheel is horizontal corresponds the setting with the position of rotatory board tilt on the left forty-five degrees, downside the vertical and rotor plate leftmost position in centre gripping groove corresponds the setting.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, the inner wall of centre gripping inslot wall and centre gripping arc board is all fixed and is provided with the centre gripping pad, two the opposite face of centre gripping pad all is provided with anti-skidding line.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, the fixed attaching plate that is provided with of preceding lateral wall of centre gripping arc board, the fixed U-shaped loop bar that is provided with on the lateral wall of centre gripping arc board, U-shaped loop bar cover is equipped with the position sleeve, the fixed preceding lateral wall that sets up at the rotor plate of position sleeve.
As an optimal technical scheme of the utility model, install driving motor on the lateral wall of linkage board, driving motor's output shaft passes through two rotations of bearing and sets up on the linkage board, the fixed drive gear that is provided with on driving motor's the output shaft.
As an optimal technical scheme of the utility model, drive gear meshes there is driven gear, driven gear is fixed to be set up epaxially at the location, and the location axle passes through three rotations of bearing and sets up the right-hand member at the gangboard.
As an optimal technical scheme of the utility model, control panel is installed in the upper surface left side of workstation, and is connected electrically between control panel and servo motor, electric putter and the driving motor.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that:
the utility model can clamp and fix the tapping screw needing slotting at the front side of the rotary plate through the eight clamping and fixing devices arranged at the front side of the rotary plate, under the driving of the output shaft of the servo motor, the rotary plate can rotate forty-five degrees anticlockwise each time, at the moment, the tapping screw clamped and fixed at the top side of the rotary plate can rotate forty-five degrees along with the rotary plate leftwards, the electric push rod at the upper side can push the cutting wheel transversely arranged at the upper side to slot in a straight line in the middle of the head of the tapping screw, then the servo motor can drive the rotary plate to rotate forty-five degrees continuously, the tapping screw after slotted in a straight line can rotate to the leftmost side along with the rotary plate to correspond to the right end of the electric push rod at the lower side, at the moment, the electric push rod can push the cutting wheel vertically arranged at the lower side to slot the tapping screw vertically arranged in a horizontal straight line, further, the operation of slotting is carried out, the realization of completing the cross slotting to the head of the tapping screw, and the slotting mode can only slot the self-tapping screw once according to the selection, and then can slot the self-tapping screw in a word or cross according to the demand, so that the device can realize the combination of two slotting modes.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the three-dimensional structure of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic side view of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the rear perspective structure of the present invention;
fig. 4 is a schematic view of the three-dimensional structure of the clamping and fixing device of the present invention;
fig. 5 is a schematic view of the three-dimensional structure of the slotting device of the present invention.
In the figure: the device comprises a supporting device 1, a workbench 11, a connecting seat 12, a supporting plate 13, a mounting plate 14, a power device 2, a rotating plate 21, a limiting semicircular plate 22, a connecting plate 23, a rotating shaft 24, a servo motor 25, a clamping fixing device 3, a clamping groove 31, a clamping arc plate 32, a clamping pad 33, an anti-skid thread 34, a slotting device 4, an electric push rod 41, a linkage plate 42, a driving motor 43, a transmission gear 44, a driven gear 45, a positioning shaft 46, a cutting wheel 47 and a control panel 5.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative work belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 1-5, the utility model provides a technical solution: a middle slotting device of an adjustable self-tapping screw comprises a supporting device 1, wherein a power device 2 is arranged on the supporting device 1, eight clamping and fixing devices 3 are arranged on the power device 2, and two slotting devices 4 are arranged on the left side of the power device 2;
the supporting device 1 comprises a workbench 11, a connecting seat 12 is fixedly arranged on the upper surface of the workbench 11, a supporting plate 13 is fixedly arranged on the right side of the upper surface of the connecting seat 12, a mounting plate 14 is fixedly arranged on the left side of the upper surface of the connecting seat 12, the power device 2 comprises a rotating plate 21, a limiting semicircular plate 22 is arranged on the left side of the front side wall of the rotating plate 21, a connecting plate 23 is fixedly arranged at the bottom end of the limiting semicircular plate 22, the bottom end of the connecting plate 23 is fixedly connected with the connecting seat 12, a rotating shaft 24 is fixedly arranged at the center of the rear side wall of the rotating plate 21, the middle part of the rotating shaft 24 is rotatably connected with the top end of the supporting plate 13 through a bearing, the rear end of the rotating shaft 24 is fixedly connected with an output shaft of a servo motor 25, the servo motor 25 is arranged on the rear side wall of the supporting plate 13, the eight clamping and fixing devices 3 respectively comprise a clamping groove 31, and the eight clamping grooves 31 are uniformly arranged on the front side wall of the rotating plate 21, the front sides of the eight clamping grooves 31 are provided with clamping arc plates 32, the two slotting devices 4 comprise electric push rods 41, the left sides of the two electric push rods 41 are mounted on the mounting plate 14, the right moving ends of the electric push rods 41 are fixedly provided with one ends of linkage plates 42, the other ends of the linkage plates 42 are provided with cutting wheels 47, self-tapping screws are placed into the clamping grooves 31 on the top side, the positions of the heads of the self-tapping screws to be slotted are arranged upwards, the rotating plate 21 can rotate anticlockwise for forty-five degrees every time under the driving of an output shaft of a servo motor 25, the front side walls of the clamping arc plates 32 can be in contact with the rear side walls of the limiting semicircular plates 22 in an attaching mode, the clamping arc plates 32 are limited through the limiting semicircular plates 22 and limited on the front sides of the clamping grooves 31, the self-tapping screws are clamped and fixed by matching with the clamping grooves 31, meanwhile, the self-tapping screws can be prevented from rotating and sliding through the arranged clamping pads 33, and the anti-sliding grains 34 arranged on the clamping pads 33, at this time, the self-tapping screw clamped and fixed in the clamping groove 31 on the top side of the rotating plate 21 rotates forty-five degrees counterclockwise along with the rotating plate 21 and corresponds to the electric push rod 41 with the upper side inclined by forty-five degrees, the transmission gear 44 rotates under the driving of the driving motor 43, the transmission gear 44 can drive the positioning shaft 46 to rotate through the meshing with the driven gear 45, the positioning shaft 46 drives the cutting wheel 47 to rotate at high speed, the electric push rod 41 on the upper side pushes the cutting wheel 47 transversely arranged on the upper side to perform the in-line grooving on the middle of the head of the self-tapping screw, then the servo motor 25 drives the rotating plate 21 to continuously rotate for forty-five degrees, the self-tapping screw after the in-line grooving rotates to the leftmost side along with the rotating plate 21 and corresponds to the right end of the electric push rod 41 on the lower side, at this time, the electric push rod 41 can push the cutting wheel 47 vertically arranged on the lower side to perform the vertical grooving on the self-tapping screw provided with the transverse in-line grooving, and then, after two grooving operations, the head of the self-tapping screw is grooved in a cross shape, and the self-tapping screw can automatically slide down from the clamping groove 31 when rotating to the bottom side along with the rotation of the rotating plate 21.
The horizontal position that inclines forty-five degrees on the left with the rotor plate 21 of upside cutting wheel 47 corresponds the setting, downside centre gripping groove 31 vertical corresponds the setting with rotor plate 21 leftmost position, its effect lies in can making servo motor 25 drive rotor plate 21 when rotatory forty-five degrees at every turn, the fixed self tapping screw of centre gripping can correspond with two cutting wheels 47 in the centre gripping groove 31, and the setting of two cutting wheels 47 different positions, the cross recess is opened at the head of self tapping screw in the twice fluting realization of accessible.
The inner wall of the clamping groove 31 and the inner wall of the clamping arc plate 32 are both fixedly provided with clamping pads 33, the opposite surfaces of the two clamping pads 33 are both provided with anti-skid grains 34, the front side wall of the clamping arc plate 32 is fixedly provided with an attaching plate 35, the attaching plate 35 can be attached and contacted with the rear side wall of the limiting semi-circular plate 22 to limit the clamping arc plate 32, the side wall of the clamping arc plate 32 is fixedly provided with a U-shaped loop bar 36, the U-shaped loop bar 36 is sleeved with a positioning sleeve 37, the positioning sleeve 37 is fixedly arranged on the front side wall of the rotating plate 21, the rotating plate 21 can rotate counterclockwise at every time by forty-five degrees under the drive of an output shaft of the servo motor 25, at the moment, the front side wall of the clamping arc plate 32 can be attached and contacted with the rear side wall of the limiting semi-circular plate 22 to limit the clamping arc plate 32 through the limiting semi-circular plate 22, so that the clamping arc plate is limited on the front side of the clamping groove 31, and is matched with the clamping groove 31 to clamp and fix a self-tapping screw, meanwhile, the self-tapping screw can be prevented from rotating and sliding through the clamping pad 33 and the anti-skidding threads 34 arranged on the clamping pad 33, the clamping arc plate 32 can rotate through the sleeve connection of the U-shaped loop bar 36 and the positioning sleeve 37, and the self-tapping screw can automatically slide down by using gravity when rotating to the position right below the rotating plate 21.
Install driving motor 43 on the lateral wall of gangboard 42, the output shaft of driving motor 43 passes through bearing two and rotates the setting on gangboard 42, the fixed drive gear 44 that is provided with on the output shaft of driving motor 43, drive gear 44 meshes has driven gear 45, driven gear 45 is fixed to be set up on location axle 46, and location axle 46 passes through bearing three and rotates the setting at the right-hand member of gangboard 42, and cutting wheel 47 is fixed to be set up on location axle 46, set up through the meshing of the drive gear 44 that sets up and driven gear 45, can avoid driving motor 43 direct to be connected with cutting wheel 47, can provide sufficient space and self-tapping screw head contact for cutting wheel 47 one side, can avoid driving motor 43 to produce the influence to the cutting depth of cutting wheel 47.
The left side of the upper surface of the worktable 11 is provided with a control panel 5, and the control panel 5 is electrically connected with the servo motor 25, the electric push rod 41 and the driving motor 43.
The utility model discloses an operating procedure does:
the self-tapping screws are placed into the clamping grooves 31 on the top side, the positions of the heads of the self-tapping screws, which are to be grooved, are arranged upwards, the rotating plate 21 can rotate counterclockwise by forty-five degrees each time under the driving of the output shaft of the servo motor 25, at the moment, the front side wall of the clamping arc plate 32 can be in contact with the rear side wall of the limiting semi-ring plate 22 in a fitting manner, the clamping arc plate 32 is limited by the limiting semi-ring plate 22 and limited on the front side of the clamping grooves 31, the self-tapping screws are clamped and fixed by matching with the clamping grooves 31, meanwhile, the self-tapping screws can be prevented from rotating and sliding through the anti-sliding threads 34 arranged on the clamping pads 33 by the clamping pads 33, at the moment, the self-tapping screws clamped and fixed in the clamping grooves 31 on the top side of the rotating plate 21 can rotate by forty-five degrees along with the counterclockwise rotation of the rotating plate 21 and correspond to the electric push rods 41 inclined by forty-five degrees on the upper side, and the transmission gears 44 rotate under the driving of the driving motor 43, the transmission gear 44 is meshed with the driven gear 45 to drive the positioning shaft 46 to rotate, the positioning shaft 46 drives the cutting wheel 47 to rotate at a high speed, the electric push rod 41 on the upper side pushes the cutting wheel 47 transversely arranged on the upper side to slot in a straight line in the middle of the head of the self-tapping screw, if the self-tapping screw with the straight line is needed, the self-tapping screw is machined, if the self-tapping screw with the cross slot is needed, the servo motor 25 can drive the rotating plate 21 to rotate for forty-five degrees, the self-tapping screw after the slotted in a straight line can rotate to the leftmost side along with the rotating plate 21 to correspond to the right end of the electric push rod 41 on the lower side, at the moment, the electric push rod 41 can push the cutting wheel 47 vertically arranged on the lower side to vertically slot the self-tapping screw with the transverse straight line, and then the head of the self-tapping screw can be slotted for completing the cross slot through two-slotting operations, when the tapping screw is rotated to the bottom side with the rotation of the rotation plate 21, it automatically slides down from the holding groove 31.
In the description of the present invention, it should be understood that the indicated orientation or positional relationship is based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and is only for convenience of description and simplification of description, and does not indicate or imply that the indicated device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
In the present invention, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, for example, it may be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrated; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate medium, and may be connected through the inside of two elements or in an interaction relationship between two elements, unless otherwise specifically defined, and the specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention will be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.

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1. The utility model provides an adjustable self tapping screw's middle part fluting device, includes strutting arrangement (1), its characterized in that: a power device (2) is arranged on the supporting device (1), eight clamping and fixing devices (3) are arranged on the power device (2), and two slotting devices (4) are arranged on the left side of the power device (2);
the supporting device (1) comprises a workbench (11), a connecting seat (12) is fixedly arranged on the upper surface of the workbench (11), a supporting plate (13) is fixedly arranged on the right side of the upper surface of the connecting seat (12), and a mounting plate (14) is fixedly arranged on the left side of the upper surface of the connecting seat (12);
the power device (2) comprises a rotating plate (21), a limiting semicircular plate (22) is arranged on the left side of the front side wall of the rotating plate (21), a connecting plate (23) is fixedly arranged at the bottom end of the limiting semicircular plate (22), the bottom end of the connecting plate (23) is fixedly connected with the connecting seat (12), a rotating shaft (24) is fixedly arranged at the circle center of the rear side wall of the rotating plate (21), the middle part of the rotating shaft (24) is rotatably connected with the top end of the supporting plate (13) through a bearing, the rear end of the rotating shaft (24) is fixedly connected with an output shaft of a servo motor (25), and the servo motor (25) is arranged on the rear side wall of the supporting plate (13);
the eight clamping and fixing devices (3) respectively comprise clamping grooves (31), the eight clamping grooves (31) are uniformly formed in the front side wall of the rotating plate (21), and clamping arc plates (32) are respectively arranged on the front sides of the eight clamping grooves (31);
two fluting device (4) all includes electric putter (41), and the left side of two electric putter (41) all installs on mounting panel (14), the right side moving end of electric putter (41) is fixed with linkage board (42) one end, the other end of linkage board (42) is provided with cutting wheel (47).
2. The central grooving apparatus for adjustable self-tapping screws of claim 1, wherein: the upper side cutting wheel (47) is transversely arranged corresponding to the position of the rotating plate (21) which is inclined upwards by forty-five degrees, and the lower side clamping groove (31) is vertically arranged corresponding to the leftmost position of the rotating plate (21).
3. The central grooving apparatus for adjustable self-tapping screws of claim 2, wherein: the inner wall of centre gripping groove (31) inner wall and centre gripping arc board (32) all fixedly is provided with centre gripping pad (33), two the opposite face of centre gripping pad (33) all is provided with anti-skidding line (34).
4. A central grooving apparatus for adjustable self-tapping screws as in claim 3 wherein: the fixed attaching plate (35) that is provided with of preceding lateral wall of centre gripping arc board (32), the fixed U-shaped loop bar (36) that is provided with on the lateral wall of centre gripping arc board (32), U-shaped loop bar (36) cover is equipped with position sleeve (37), fixed the setting in the preceding lateral wall of rotor plate (21) of position sleeve (37).
5. The central grooving apparatus for adjustable self-tapping screws of claim 4, wherein: a driving motor (43) is installed on the side wall of the linkage plate (42), an output shaft of the driving motor (43) is rotatably arranged on the linkage plate (42) through a second bearing, and a transmission gear (44) is fixedly arranged on the output shaft of the driving motor (43).
6. The central grooving apparatus for adjustable self-tapping screws of claim 5, wherein: the transmission gear (44) is meshed with a driven gear (45), the driven gear (45) is fixedly arranged on a positioning shaft (46), the positioning shaft (46) is rotatably arranged at the right end of the linkage plate (42) through a bearing, and the cutting wheel (47) is fixedly arranged on the positioning shaft (46).
7. The central grooving apparatus for adjustable self-tapping screws of claim 6, wherein: control panel (5) are installed on the left side of the upper surface of workbench (11), and control panel (5) is electrically connected with servo motor (25), electric push rod (41) and driving motor (43).
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