CN217136377U - Sheep is bred and uses excrement and urine cleaning device - Google Patents

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CN217136377U
CN217136377U CN202221171468.3U CN202221171468U CN217136377U CN 217136377 U CN217136377 U CN 217136377U CN 202221171468 U CN202221171468 U CN 202221171468U CN 217136377 U CN217136377 U CN 217136377U
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The utility model discloses a sheep is bred and uses excrement and urine cleaning device relates to the livestock-raising field, including the mounting panel, the mounting panel bottom surface has set gradually storage device and cleaning device from left to right. The utility model discloses a set up cleaning device and be connected with the mounting panel, when using the device to clear up the sheep manure, the user stimulates the inserted bar and breaks away from jack one and jack two, utilize spring force to promote scraper bowl downward movement and ground in close contact with this moment, then the user can drive the scraper bowl through mobile device moving as a whole and shovel out the sheep manure from subaerial concentrating on the scraper bowl in ground removal, thereby convenient to use person's thrust unit moving as a whole utilizes the scraper bowl to carry out quick clearance in the sheep manure of breeding the place scraping in the bottom surface, it is lower to the cleaning efficiency of sheep manure when using to have solved current sheep breed with excrement and urine cleaning device, and be not convenient for collect the transportation to the sheep manure of clearance, thereby the problem of the holistic practicality of device has been reduced.

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Sheep is bred and uses excrement and urine cleaning device
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a cleaning device, in particular to sheep is bred and uses excrement and urine cleaning device.
Background
Chinese has a long history of sheep raising, and is a major sheep industry country in the world in terms of quantity or variety. Especially, in the last 30 years, the production level of the sheep raising industry in China is greatly improved, the production mode is greatly changed, and in the process of raising sheep, in order to keep the raising field clean and tidy, the breeding of germs is reduced, so that sheep manure in the raising field needs to be regularly cleaned by using a cleaning device.
Present sheep is bred with excrement and urine cleaning device when using, still has some defects and not enough, and the place that specifically needs the improvement is as follows:
the existing sheep is bred and is used excrement and urine cleaning device is lower to the cleaning efficiency of sheep excrement when using to be not convenient for collect the transportation to the sheep excrement of clearance, thereby reduced the holistic practicality of device.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
An object of the utility model is to provide a sheep is bred and uses excrement and urine cleaning device to solve the current sheep that proposes in the above-mentioned background art and breed and use excrement and urine cleaning device lower the cleaning efficiency of sheep excrement when using, and be not convenient for collect the transportation to the sheep excrement of clearance, thereby reduced the problem of the holistic practicality of device.
In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a following technical scheme: the excrement cleaning device for sheep breeding comprises a mounting plate, wherein a storage device and a cleaning device are sequentially arranged on the bottom surface of the mounting plate from left to right, four corners of the bottom surface of the mounting plate are respectively and fixedly connected with the upper ends of four supporting columns, and the bottom ends of the four supporting columns are respectively and fixedly connected with four universal wheels;
the mounting panel upper surface fixed connection has the battery, the battery output is connected with the input electricity of controller, controller fixed connection is on the pushing hands side, pushing hands fixed connection is on mounting panel upper surface right side.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, storage device includes the storage box, the equal fixedly connected with in side inserts the box, two around the storage box insert the box respectively with the upper end swing joint of two picture pegs, two the bottom of picture peg is fixed connection respectively on the opposite face of nut and sliding sleeve, every the picture peg is the setting of L template.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, nut threaded connection is on the screw rod, screw rod upper end and motor output shaft fixed connection, motor upper end fixed connection is on the mounting panel bottom surface, the motor input is connected with the output electricity of controller, sliding sleeve sliding connection is on the slide bar, slide bar upper end and mounting panel bottom surface fixed connection.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, storage box upper surface has been seted up and has been led to groove and run through the intercommunication rather than the inner wall, it has the baffle to lead to inslot swing joint, baffle upper surface and mounting panel bottom surface fixed connection, baffle bottom surface and storage box downside inner wall overlap joint.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, cleaning device includes the fixed plate, fixed plate upper surface and mounting panel bottom surface fixed connection, the notch has been seted up in the fixed plate, swing joint has the push rod in the notch, the push rod left end passes through antifriction bearing swing joint on the link right flank, two limiting plates of fixedly connected with and fixed plate right flank overlap joint on the push rod, the notch is a style of calligraphy setting.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, the bottom surface fixed connection of link upper surface and slider, slider upper end sliding connection is in the spout, the spout is seted up on the mounting panel bottom surface, the upper end fixed connection of link upside inner wall and a plurality of telescopic link, it is a plurality of the equal fixed connection in bottom of telescopic link is on the upper surface of scraper bowl, spout and slider are the setting of T type.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, it is a plurality of all cup jointed the spring on the telescopic link and the both ends of spring respectively with the upper surface of scraper bowl and the upside inner wall fixed connection of link, two jack two, two have been seted up to the scraper bowl right flank in the jack two respectively with the left end swing joint of two inserted bars, two swing joint is in two jack one, two respectively to the right-hand member of inserted bar jack one all sets up in the link.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that:
the utility model is connected with the mounting plate by arranging the cleaning device, when the device is used for cleaning sheep manure, a user pulls the inserted bar to separate from the first jack and the second jack, at the moment, the spring elasticity is utilized to push the scraper bucket to move downwards to be in close contact with the ground, then the user can drive the scraper bucket to move on the ground by the whole movement of the moving device to shovel the sheep manure from the ground and concentrate the sheep manure in the scraper bucket, thereby the user can conveniently push the device to move whole to quickly clean the sheep manure in a culture field by scraping the scraper bucket on the bottom surface, and the storage device is connected with the mounting plate, after a certain amount of sheep manure is accumulated in the scraper bucket by the cleaning device, the user drives the storage box to move downwards to correspond to the scraper bucket by a motor, a lead screw, a nut, the inserted bar and the insertion box, and then the push the cleaning device to move whole to enable the scraper bucket to enter the storage box, can shift the sheep excrement in the scraper bowl to the storage box and save this moment to the cleaning device who makes can clear up the breed place by continuous operation, and set up and insert box and picture peg and will store the box and be connected with nut and sliding sleeve, the user can take off storage box from the device when using the device, thereby convenient to use person transports the clearance to the sheep excrement in the storage box, and then improves the device's convenience and practicality.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic front view of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic view of the mounting plate of the present invention in a bottom view;
FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of the cleaning device of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the structure of the bucket of the present invention;
fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of the storage device of the present invention;
fig. 6 is a schematic view of the connection structure of the plug box and the plug board of the present invention.
In the figure: the device comprises a 1 mounting plate, a 2 supporting column, a 3 storage device, a 31 storage box, a 32 baffle, a 33 inserting box, a 34 motor, a 35 screw rod, a 36 nut, a 37 through groove, a 38 sliding sleeve, a 39 sliding rod, a 310 inserting plate, a 4 universal wheel, a 5 cleaning device, a 51 fixing plate, a 52 push rod, a 53 limiting plate, a 54 notch, a 55 inserting rod, a 56 jack I, a 57 connecting frame, a 58 bucket, a 59 sliding block, a 510 jack II, a 511 spring, a 512 telescopic rod, a 6 pushing handle, a 7 controller, an 8 storage battery and a 9 sliding groove.
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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.
Referring to fig. 1-6, the utility model provides a sheep is bred and uses excrement and urine cleaning device's technical scheme: the device comprises a mounting plate 1, a storage device 3 and a cleaning device 5 are sequentially arranged on the bottom surface of the mounting plate 1 from left to right, four corners of the bottom surface of the mounting plate 1 are respectively and fixedly connected with the upper ends of four supporting columns 2, the bottom ends of the four supporting columns 2 are respectively and fixedly connected with four universal wheels 4, a storage battery 8 is fixedly connected on the upper surface of the mounting plate 1, the output end of the storage battery 8 is electrically connected with the input end of a controller 7, the controller 7 is fixedly connected on the side surface of a push handle 6, the push handle 6 is fixedly connected on the right side surface of the upper surface of the mounting plate 1, the push handle 6 is arranged on the upper surface of the mounting plate 1, so that a user can conveniently grab the push handle 6 by hand to integrally move the pushing device, the operation convenience of the device is further improved, the storage device 3 comprises a storage box 31, insertion boxes 33 are fixedly connected on the front side surface and the rear surface of the storage box 31, and the two insertion boxes 33 are respectively and movably connected with the upper ends of two insertion plates 310, the storage box 31 is connected with the nut 36 and the sliding sleeve 38 by arranging the insert box 33 and the insert plates 310, when the device is used, a user can take the storage box 31 off the device, so that the user can conveniently transport and clean sheep manure in the storage box 31, the bottom ends of the two insert plates 310 are respectively and fixedly connected with the opposite surfaces of the nut 36 and the sliding sleeve 38, each insert plate 310 is arranged in an L-shaped plate, the nut 36 is in threaded connection with the screw 35, the upper end of the screw 35 is fixedly connected with an output shaft of the motor 34, the upper end of the motor 34 is fixedly connected with the bottom surface of the mounting plate 1, the input end of the motor 34 is electrically connected with the output end of the controller 7, the sliding sleeve 38 is in sliding connection with the sliding rod 39, the upper end of the sliding rod 39 is fixedly connected with the bottom surface of the mounting plate 1, the upper surface of the storage box 31 is provided with a through groove 37 communicated with the inner wall thereof, the baffle 32 is movably connected in the through groove 37, and the upper surface of the baffle 32 is fixedly connected with the bottom surface of the mounting plate 1, the through groove 37 is arranged in the upper surface of the storage box 31, and the baffle 32 is movably connected in the through groove 37, so that when the storage box 31 is not used, the right opening of the storage box 31 is sealed by the baffle 32 to avoid the sheep manure in the storage box 31 from spilling, and when the storage box 31 is required to be used to enable the storage box 31 to move downwards, the baffle 32 can be separated from the storage box 31 to automatically open the right opening of the storage box 31 for use, the bottom surface of the baffle 32 is lapped with the inner wall of the lower side of the storage box 31, the cleaning device 5 comprises a fixed plate 51, the upper surface of the fixed plate 51 is fixedly connected with the bottom surface of the mounting plate 1, a notch 54 is arranged in the fixed plate 51, a push rod 52 is movably connected in the notch 54, the left end of the push rod 52 is movably connected on the right side surface of the connecting frame 57 through a rolling bearing, two limit plates 53 fixedly connected on the push rod 52 are lapped with the right side surface of the fixed plate 51, and the notch 54 is in a straight-line shape, the push rod 52 is provided with two limit plates 53, the limit plates 53 are attached to the fixed plate 51, the notch 54 is arranged in a cross shape, so that the limit plates 53 and the notch 54 are arranged in a staggered manner when the cleaning device 5 is used for cleaning sheep manure, the position of the cleaning device 5 is fixed by the contact of the limit plates 53 and the fixed plate 51, the upper surface of the connecting frame 57 is fixedly connected with the bottom surface of the sliding block 59, the upper end of the sliding block 59 is connected in the sliding groove 9 in a sliding manner, the sliding groove 9 is arranged on the bottom surface of the mounting plate 1, the upper inner wall of the connecting frame 57 is fixedly connected with the upper ends of a plurality of telescopic rods 512, the bottom ends of the plurality of telescopic rods 512 are fixedly connected on the upper surface of the bucket 58, the sliding groove 9 and the sliding block 59 are both in a T-shaped arrangement, the plurality of telescopic rods 512 are sleeved with the springs 511, and the two ends of the springs 511 are respectively fixedly connected with the upper surface of the bucket 58 and the upper inner wall of the connecting frame 57, connect scraper bowl 58 with link 57 through setting up telescopic link 512 and spring 511 to utilize telescopic link 512 and spring 511 to carry out fixed stay to scraper bowl 58, and can utilize spring 511's elasticity to exert decurrent pressure to scraper bowl 58 and make scraper bowl 58 and ground in close contact with the clearance effect that improves scraper bowl 58, two jacks two 510 have been seted up to scraper bowl 58 right side, respectively with the left end swing joint of two inserted bars 55 in two jacks two 510, the right-hand member of two inserted bars 55 swing joint is respectively in two jacks one 56, two jacks one 56 are all seted up in link 57.
The utility model discloses an operating procedure does:
when the device is used for cleaning sheep manure on the ground of a breeding field, a user can push the device to move to the breeding field through the push handle 6 and the universal wheel 4, the user then pulls the two insertion rods 55 to move to the right to take out the insertion rods 55 from the first insertion holes 56 and the second insertion holes 510, at this time, the elastic force of the plurality of springs 511 pushes the bucket 58 to move downwards to make the bucket 58 tightly fit with the ground, the user then moves the device as a whole to cause the bucket 58 to scrape sheep manure from the ground and temporarily store the sheep manure in the bucket 58, when a certain amount of sheep manure is stored in the bucket 58, a user controls the motor 34 to work through the controller 7 to drive the screw 35 to rotate forward so as to enable the nut 36 to move downwards, the storage box 31 moves downwards under the action of gravity when the nut 36 moves downwards, and the baffle 32 is gradually separated from the storage box 31 when the storage box 31 moves downwards so as to open the right opening of the storage box 31;
when the bottom surface of the storage box 31 is in contact with the ground, the motor 34 stops working, at the moment, a user rotates the push rod 52 to enable the limit plate 53 to correspond to the notch 54, then the user pushes the push rod 52 rightwards to enable the cleaning device to move leftwards along the sliding groove 9 to enable the bucket 58 to enter the storage box 31, at the moment, the user can continuously and quickly pull the cleaning device 5 to move leftwards and rightwards to enable sheep manure in the bucket 58 to fall into the storage box 31 by utilizing inertia, after all the sheep manure in the bucket 58 falls into the storage box 31, the user controls the motor 34 to drive the screw 35 to rotate backwards through the controller 7 to enable the storage box 31 to move upwards to be separated from the ground, and when the storage box 31 moves upwards, the baffle 32 gradually enters the storage box 31 to block a right opening of the storage box 31;
then the user can pull the push rod 52 to move the cleaning device 5 to the rightmost side of the chute 9, and rotate the push rod 52 to make the limit plate 53 and the notch 54 misplaced and make the limit plate 53 and the fixed plate 51 attached, at this time, the user can push the device to move and continue to clean the cultivation site, after the cleaning is finished, the user can pull the bucket 58 to move upwards to extrude the telescopic rod 512 and the spring 511 and make the first insertion hole 56 and the second insertion hole 510 correspond, at this time, the user can insert the insertion rod 55 into the first insertion hole 56 and the second insertion hole 510 to fix the bucket 58, and the storage box 31 is controlled by the motor 34 to move downwards to make the baffle 32 separate from the storage box 31, then the user pulls the storage box 31 upwards to make the insertion box 33 and the insertion plate 310 take down the storage box 31, at this time, the user can carry the storage box 31 to move and transport the sheep manure stored therein.
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 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 a sheep is bred and uses excrement and urine cleaning device, includes mounting panel (1), its characterized in that: the bottom surface of the mounting plate (1) is sequentially provided with a storage device (3) and a cleaning device (5) from left to right, four corners of the bottom surface of the mounting plate (1) are fixedly connected with the upper ends of four supporting columns (2) respectively, and the bottom ends of the four supporting columns (2) are fixedly connected with four universal wheels (4) respectively;
fixed surface is connected with battery (8) on mounting panel (1), battery (8) output is connected with the input electricity of controller (7), controller (7) fixed connection is on pushing hands (6) side, pushing hands (6) fixed connection is on mounting panel (1) upper surface right side.
2. The sheep is bred and uses excrement and urine cleaning device of claim 1, characterized in that: storage device (3) are including storage box (31), the equal fixedly connected with in side inserts box (33) around storage box (31), two insert box (33) respectively with the upper end swing joint of two picture peg (310), two the bottom difference fixed connection of picture peg (310) is on the opposite face of nut (36) and sliding sleeve (38), every picture peg (310) is the L template setting.
3. The sheep is bred and uses excrement and urine cleaning device of claim 2, characterized in that: nut (36) threaded connection is on screw rod (35), screw rod (35) upper end and motor (34) output shaft fixed connection, motor (34) upper end fixed connection is on mounting panel (1) bottom surface, motor (34) input is connected with the output electricity of controller (7), sliding sleeve (38) sliding connection is on slide bar (39), slide bar (39) upper end and mounting panel (1) bottom surface fixed connection.
4. The sheep is bred and uses excrement and urine cleaning device of claim 2, characterized in that: storage box (31) upper surface has been seted up and has been passed through logical groove (37) and run through the intercommunication rather than the inner wall, it has baffle (32) to lead to swing joint in groove (37), baffle (32) upper surface and mounting panel (1) bottom surface fixed connection, baffle (32) bottom surface and storage box (31) downside inner wall overlap joint.
5. The sheep is bred and uses excrement and urine cleaning device of claim 1, characterized in that: cleaning device (5) are including fixed plate (51), fixed plate (51) upper surface and mounting panel (1) bottom surface fixed connection, notch (54) have been seted up in fixed plate (51), swing joint has push rod (52) in notch (54), push rod (52) left end passes through antifriction bearing swing joint on link (57) right flank, two limiting plates of fixedly connected with (53) and fixed plate (51) right flank overlap joint on push rod (52), notch (54) are a style of calligraphy setting.
6. The sheep is bred and uses excrement and urine cleaning device of claim 5, characterized in that: the bottom surface fixed connection of link (57) upper surface and slider (59), slider (59) upper end sliding connection is in spout (9), spout (9) are seted up on mounting panel (1) bottom surface, the upper end fixed connection of link (57) upside inner wall and a plurality of telescopic link (512), and is a plurality of the equal fixed connection in bottom of telescopic link (512) is on the upper surface of scraper bowl (58), spout (9) and slider (59) are the setting of T type.
7. The sheep is bred and uses excrement and urine cleaning device of claim 6, characterized in that: a plurality of all cup jointed spring (511) and spring (511)'s both ends respectively with the upper surface of scraper bowl (58) and the upside inner wall fixed connection of link (57) on telescopic link (512), two jack two (510) have been seted up to scraper bowl (58) right flank, two in jack two (510) respectively with the left end swing joint of two inserted bars (55), two the right-hand member of inserted bar (55) swing joint respectively in two jack one (56), two jack one (56) are all seted up in link (57).
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