CN217320813U - Weighing device for tea packaging - Google Patents
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Abstract
The utility model discloses a weighing device for tealeaves packing, the camera includes a supporting plate, the fixed telescopic link that is provided with in middle part of backup pad up end one side, the fixed plate that is provided with in upper end of telescopic link, the fixed host computer of weighing that is provided with in up end center department of backup pad, the fixed dish of weighing that is provided with in upper end of host computer of weighing, the up end of the dish of weighing leans on both sides department all fixed positioning mechanism that is provided with, the fixed plate is close to the fixed encapsulation mechanism that is provided with in one side middle part of the dish of weighing, encapsulation mechanism is including the encapsulation seat, the fixed plate was kept away from to the encapsulation seat one side center department has seted up the extension groove, the perspective window has all been seted up to the top surface and the bottom surface center department of extension groove, the extension groove is close to one side inner wall center department of fixed plate and has seted up the fixed orifices. The utility model discloses a weighing device for tealeaves packing, this a weighing device for tealeaves packing encapsulation is convenient, easy operation.
Description
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a weighing device technical field especially relates to a weighing device for tealeaves packing.
Background
Tea leaves, commonly called tea, generally comprise leaves and buds of tea trees, famous tea, cashew, tea and , the tea leaves comprise catechin, cholestenone, caffeine, inositol, folic acid and pantothenic acid, and are beneficial to health.
The prior patent (CN208833348U) comprises a box body, an operation table transversely arranged is fixedly arranged on the upper surface of the box body, a material conveying device is arranged on the operation table, a tea container is placed on an electronic scale on a scale plate before use, after data on the electronic scale is eliminated, a driving motor is started to drive a threaded rod to rotate, the scale plate linearly moves along the threaded rod along with the rotation of the threaded rod until a connecting pipe on a discharge port extends into an inlet of the tea container, the driving motor is closed to facilitate the tea container to be shaped into tea leaves, after the tea container is adjusted, the tea leaves are poured into a charging tank, a valve on the charging tank is opened to enable the tea leaves in the charging tank to fall into a spiral pipe in the material conveying device, the rotating motor is started to enable the tea leaves to fall into the tea container from the discharge port, the tea leaves are weighed by the electronic scale, when a preset value is reached, the rotating motor is closed, only part of the excessive tea leaves fall into the tea container, and the error of the weighing device is reduced. Although the device can be used for weighing, the device is inconvenient to pack and very inconvenient to operate.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims at solving the defects existing in the prior art and providing a weighing device for tea packaging.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme: a weighing device for tea packaging comprises a supporting plate, wherein a telescopic rod is fixedly arranged in the middle of one side of the upper end face of the supporting plate, a fixing plate is fixedly arranged at the upper end of the telescopic rod, a weighing main machine is fixedly arranged at the center of the upper end face of the supporting plate, a weighing disc is fixedly arranged at the upper end of the weighing main machine, a positioning mechanism is fixedly arranged on the upper end face of the weighing disc close to two sides, and an encapsulating mechanism is fixedly arranged in the middle of one side of the fixing plate close to the weighing disc;
the packaging mechanism comprises a packaging seat, an extending groove is formed in the center of one side, away from a fixing plate, of the packaging seat, a perspective window is formed in the center of the top surface and the center of the bottom surface of the extending groove, a fixing hole is formed in the center of the inner wall, close to the fixing plate, of one side of the extending groove, an oil cylinder is fixedly arranged in the extending groove, a sliding groove is formed in the top surface and the bottom surface, away from the oil cylinder, of the extending groove, a sliding block and a sliding block are arranged in the sliding groove in a sliding mode, the sliding block is provided with a limiting seat and a dovetail groove, the dovetail groove is formed in the center of one side, opposite to the limiting seat, the dovetail groove is provided with a clamping block and a pushing block, the clamping block is fixedly provided with a pushing block and a heat sealing knife, and the limiting seat is provided with one side, away from the oil cylinder, of the limiting seat and the heat sealing knife are fixedly provided with a plurality of bolts.
As a further description of the above technical solution:
the positioning mechanism comprises a positioning plate, a screw rod is sleeved on the inner thread of the positioning plate, and a movable plate is rotatably arranged at one end, close to the weighing host, of the screw rod.
As a further description of the above technical solution:
and a hand wheel is fixedly arranged at one end of the screw rod, which is far away from the movable plate.
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the support plate is made of stainless steel material.
As a further description of the above technical solution:
the telescopic rod is vertical to the supporting plate.
As a further description of the above technical solution:
the packaging mechanism is parallel to the supporting plate.
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and one end of the oil cylinder, which is far away from the fixed plate, is fixedly connected with the push block.
As a further description of the above technical solution:
the lower end face of the supporting plate is close to four corners and is fixedly provided with self-locking universal wheels.
The utility model discloses following beneficial effect has:
the utility model provides a weighing device for tealeaves packing, the device is when using, can utilize hot melt to encapsulate the wrapping bag that has tealeaves to the packing through packaging mechanism, and its encapsulation easy operation encapsulates, and encapsulation efficiency is high to make the device can realize the effect of packing encapsulation when weighing tealeaves.
The utility model provides a weighing device for tealeaves packing, the device can fix a position the tealeaves wrapping bag through positioning mechanism when using, and its location is stable, and it is convenient to adjust, and the cooperation main part of weighing for the device is more convenient when weighing.
The utility model provides a weighing device for tealeaves packing, the device is when using, can adjust the height of fixed plate through the flexible of telescopic link to make encapsulation mechanism can be applicable to the wrapping bag of multiple size.
The utility model provides a weighing device for tealeaves packing, the device can set up in the spout through the slider when using, and the fixture block setting is in the dovetail simultaneously to make encapsulation mechanism more stable when using, and then make the device more durable.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic front view of a weighing device for tea packaging according to the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic side view of a weighing device for tea packaging according to the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic axial view of a packaging mechanism of a weighing device for tea packaging according to the present invention;
fig. 4 is a schematic axial view of a positioning mechanism of a weighing device for tea packaging according to the present invention.
Illustration of the drawings:
1. a support plate; 2. a telescopic rod; 3. a fixing plate; 4. a packaging mechanism; 5. a positioning mechanism; 6. a weighing pan; 7. a weighing host; 8. a self-locking universal wheel; 9. a movable plate; 10. a screw; 11. positioning a plate; 12. a hand wheel; 13. a package base; 14. a perspective window; 15. a limiting seat; 16. a dovetail groove; 17. a heat seal knife; 18. a slider; 19. a chute; 20. an extension groove; 21. a fixing hole; 22. an oil cylinder; 23. a push block; 24. and (7) clamping blocks.
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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 efforts all belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention; the terms "first," "second," and "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance, and furthermore, unless otherwise explicitly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.
Referring to fig. 1-4, the present invention provides an embodiment: the utility model provides a weighing device for tealeaves packing, including backup pad 1, backup pad 1 plays the effect of support, the fixed telescopic link 2 that is provided with in middle part of 1 up end one side of backup pad, the fixed plate 3 that is provided with in upper end of telescopic link 2, the fixed host computer 7 that weighs that is provided with of up end center department of backup pad 1, the fixed dish 6 that weighs that is provided with in upper end of host computer 7, the up end of dish 6 of weighing leans on both sides department all to fix and is provided with positioning mechanism 5, fixed plate 3 is close to the fixed encapsulation mechanism 4 that is provided with in one side middle part of dish 6 of weighing.
The packaging mechanism 4 comprises a packaging seat 13, an extending groove 20 is formed in the center of one side of the packaging seat 13, which is far away from the fixing plate 3, a perspective window 14 is formed in the center of the top surface and the bottom surface of the extending groove 20, a fixing hole 21 is formed in the center of the inner wall of one side of the extending groove 20, which is close to the fixing plate 3, an oil cylinder 22 is fixedly arranged in the fixing hole 21, the starting oil cylinder 22 can be used for packaging, sliding grooves 19 are formed in the top surface and the bottom surface of the extending groove 20, which are far away from the oil cylinder 22, sliding blocks 18 are arranged in the two sliding grooves 19 in a sliding manner near the front end and near the rear end, limiting seats 15 are fixedly arranged between every two sliding blocks 18, dovetail grooves 16 are formed in the center of one side, which is opposite to the two limiting seats 15, the dovetail grooves 16 are used for positioning, clamping blocks 24 are arranged in the two dovetail grooves 16 in a sliding manner, a pushing block 23 is fixedly arranged between the two clamping blocks 24, and a heat sealing knife 17 is fixedly arranged on one side, which is far away from the oil cylinder 22, of the two limiting seats 15, through a plurality of bolts, the heat-seal knife 17 melts and seals the plastic packaging bag by heat.
The working principle is as follows: when the tea weighing machine is used, a packaging bag is taken out firstly, then the packaging bag is placed on the weighing plate 6, the hand wheel 12 is rotated in the process, the hand wheel 12 rotates to drive the screw rod 10, the position of the movable plate 9 can be adjusted by rotating the screw rod 10, so that the packaging bag is convenient to position, after tea with proper weight is weighed according to the weighing host 7, the oil cylinder 22 is started, the oil cylinder 22 extends to push the push block 23 forwards, the two limit seats 15 can move towards two sides after the push block 23 is pushed, then the bag opening of the packaging bag is placed between the two heat sealing knives 17, the oil cylinder 22 is shortened, and the packaging can be carried out by matching with the heat sealing knives 17.
Finally, it should be noted that: although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications and variations can be made in the embodiments or in part of the technical features of the embodiments without departing from the spirit and the scope of the invention.
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1. A weighing device for tealeaves packing, includes backup pad (1), its characterized in that: a telescopic rod (2) is fixedly arranged in the middle of one side of the upper end face of the supporting plate (1), a fixing plate (3) is fixedly arranged at the upper end of the telescopic rod (2), a weighing host (7) is fixedly arranged at the center of the upper end face of the supporting plate (1), a weighing disc (6) is fixedly arranged at the upper end of the weighing host (7), positioning mechanisms (5) are fixedly arranged on the upper end face of the weighing disc (6) close to two sides, and an encapsulating mechanism (4) is fixedly arranged in the middle of one side, close to the weighing disc (6), of the fixing plate (3);
the packaging mechanism (4) comprises a packaging seat (13), an extending groove (20) is formed in the center of one side, away from the fixing plate (3), of the packaging seat (13), a perspective window (14) is formed in the center of the top surface and the center of the bottom surface of the extending groove (20), a fixing hole (21) is formed in the center of the inner wall of one side, close to the fixing plate (3), of the extending groove (20), an oil cylinder (22) is fixedly arranged inside the fixing hole (21), sliding grooves (19) are formed in the top surface and the bottom surface, away from the oil cylinder (22), of the extending groove (20), sliding blocks (18) are arranged inside the two sliding grooves (19) in a sliding mode close to the front end and the rear end respectively, limiting seats (15) are fixedly arranged between every two sliding blocks (18), dovetail grooves (16) are formed in the center of one side, opposite to the two limiting seats (15), and clamping blocks (24) are arranged inside the two dovetail grooves (16) in a sliding mode, a push block (23) is fixedly arranged between the two clamping blocks (24), and one side, far away from the oil cylinder (22), of each limiting seat (15) is fixedly provided with a heat sealing knife (17) through a plurality of bolts.
2. A weighing apparatus for a tea leaf package according to claim 1 wherein: positioning mechanism (5) are including locating plate (11), the inside screw thread cover of locating plate (11) is equipped with screw rod (10), screw rod (10) are close to the one end rotation of weighing host computer (7) and are provided with fly leaf (9).
3. A weighing apparatus for a tea leaf package according to claim 2 wherein: and a hand wheel (12) is fixedly arranged at one end of the screw rod (10) far away from the movable plate (9).
4. A weighing apparatus for a tea leaf package as claimed in claim 1 wherein: the support plate (1) is made of stainless steel material.
5. A weighing apparatus for a tea leaf package according to claim 1 wherein: the telescopic rod (2) is vertical to the support plate (1).
6. A weighing apparatus for a tea leaf package according to claim 1 wherein: the packaging mechanism (4) is parallel to the support plate (1).
7. A weighing apparatus for a tea leaf package according to claim 1 wherein: one end of the oil cylinder (22) far away from the fixed plate (3) is fixedly connected with the push block (23).
8. A weighing apparatus for a tea leaf package as claimed in claim 1 wherein: the lower end face of the supporting plate (1) is fixedly provided with self-locking universal wheels (8) close to four corners.
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