CN217617942U - Perforating device for machining - Google Patents

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CN217617942U
CN217617942U CN202221838560.0U CN202221838560U CN217617942U CN 217617942 U CN217617942 U CN 217617942U CN 202221838560 U CN202221838560 U CN 202221838560U CN 217617942 U CN217617942 U CN 217617942U
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The utility model discloses a perforating device for machining belongs to machining perforating device technical field. The utility model discloses a mounting panel and the workstation of setting in the mounting panel below, set up the spout that runs through mounting panel thickness on the mounting panel, the spout distributes along longitudinal extension, be provided with the link of vertical extension in the spout, the upper and lower both ends that surpass the mounting panel are extended respectively to link top and bottom, just top one side of link is equipped with the longitudinal drive unit, the longitudinal drive unit is used for driving the link longitudinal movement in the spout, the bottom of link is provided with the drill bit, the drill bit is located the workstation top. To the weak point that exists among the prior art, the utility model discloses plan to provide a perforating device for machining can adjust the drill bit position in a flexible way, conveniently drills to the different positions of mechanical part, has improved work efficiency greatly.

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Perforating device for machining
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of the machining perforating device, more specifically says, relates to a perforating device for machining.
Background
The mechanical processing is a process of changing the overall dimension or performance of a workpiece through a mechanical device, and can be divided into cutting processing and pressure processing according to the difference of processing modes.
But the processing drill bit rigidity of most for machining puncher in the market at present, the position of inconvenient regulation drill bit need remove the processing work piece during the use, removes to fix the work piece behind the corresponding position, and rethread operation drill bit punches the work piece, wastes time and energy, influences work efficiency, and the practicality is relatively poor. Therefore, a punching device for machining is urgently needed to be designed, the position of the drill bit can be flexibly adjusted, different positions of a mechanical part can be conveniently drilled, and the working efficiency is greatly improved.
Through retrieval, prior patents on machining punching devices have been published, for example, chinese patent document with patent application No. 2017110887903, which discloses a punching machine for machining, and relates to the field of machining. This puncher for machining, including the backup pad, the four corners of backup pad bottom all is provided with the supporting leg, the bottom of supporting leg and the top fixed connection of base, and the left and right sides at backup pad top all is provided with the riser, the top of riser and the bottom fixed connection of diaphragm, and the top fixed mounting on right side riser right side has the jar seat, and the right side of jar seat is provided with the pneumatic cylinder. This puncher for machining drives the push rod through the piston according to the position needs and moves the sliding seat, makes the sliding seat remove along slide bar surface stabilization to highly adjusting the motor through vertical telescopic link, make the motor drive the drill bit and carry out the processing operation, thereby fix the processing article, operate through removing the drill bit, not only labour saving and time saving improves work efficiency moreover, finally promotes the practicality.
If chinese patent literature again, patent application number is 2017105243770, has published a puncher for machining, including weight box, stopper and fixed disk, the weight box is located unable adjustment base's inside, and the weight box is fixed through the shock attenuation boss and unable adjustment base of its top, processing platform is installed to unable adjustment base's top, and the stopper is located the inside of processing platform, the left side of processing platform is provided with the stand, and the right side of stand is connected with horizontal rocking arm, is fixed with the control box that punches on the horizontal rocking arm, and the fixed disk is located the below of control box, and the below of fixed disk is connected with the drift.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
1. Technical problem to be solved
To the weak point that exists among the prior art, the utility model discloses plan to provide a perforating device for machining can adjust the drill bit position in a flexible way, conveniently drills to the different positions of mechanical part, has improved work efficiency greatly.
2. Technical scheme
In order to solve the above problems, the utility model adopts the following technical proposal.
The utility model discloses a perforating device for machining, including mounting panel and the workstation of setting in the mounting panel below, set up the spout that runs through mounting panel thickness on the mounting panel, the spout distributes along longitudinal extension, be provided with the link of vertical extension in the spout, link top and bottom extend respectively and surpass the upper and lower both ends of mounting panel, just top one side of link is equipped with the longitudinal drive unit, the longitudinal drive unit is used for driving the link longitudinal movement in the spout, the bottom of link is provided with the drill bit, the drill bit is located the workstation top.
As a further improvement, the vertical driving unit includes a horizontal telescopic rod connected to one side of the top of the connecting frame, one side of the connecting frame away from the horizontal telescopic rod is provided with a horizontal cylinder, and the horizontal cylinder is used for driving the horizontal telescopic rod to perform vertical telescopic motion.
As a further improvement of the utility model, the spout along longitudinal distribution is all seted up to the length direction both sides of mounting panel, the link is half I shape structure, the link includes the vertical interior block that a pair of symmetry set up, and the spout is passed to the vertical interior block bottom of both sides, and is provided with the horizontally connect section between the vertical interior block top of both sides, one side of horizontally connect section links to each other with the longitudinal driving unit, and the vertical interior block bottom of both sides is provided with the drill bit.
As a further improvement, the bottom of link is provided with the diaphragm, the diaphragm parallels with the mounting panel, just the bottom of diaphragm is provided with vertical drive unit, vertical drive unit's bottom is provided with the drill bit, vertical drive unit is used for driving the drill bit and reciprocates.
As a further improvement, the vertical drive unit includes a vertical cylinder disposed at the bottom of the diaphragm, the bottom of the vertical cylinder is provided with a vertical telescopic rod, and the bottom of the vertical telescopic rod is provided with a drill bit.
As a further improvement, the vertical driving unit bottom is equipped with the crossbearer, be equipped with the horizontal driving unit on the crossbearer, the horizontal driving unit links to each other with the drill bit, just the horizontal driving unit is used for driving drill bit lateral shifting.
As a further improvement of the utility model, the transverse driving unit includes motor B and the threaded rod that transversely extends the distribution, be provided with the matched with thread bush on the threaded rod, the bottom of thread bush is provided with the drill bit, just motor B is used for driving thread bush along threaded rod lateral shifting.
As a further improvement, the bottom of the threaded sleeve is provided with an extension plate, the extension plate parallels the transverse plate, the bottom of the extension plate is provided with a fixed cover, the fixed cover is located one side of the drill bit, and the fixed cover is inclined to be distributed outwards downwards.
As a further improvement, the utility model discloses fixed covering is last to set up the hole of inhaling that runs through its thickness, inhales the downthehole straw of installing, the exit end of straw links to each other with the collecting box.
As a further improvement, one side of the workbench is provided with a workpiece limiting unit, which comprises a limiting plate of vertical setting, and one side of the limiting plate is provided with an electric push rod.
3. Advantageous effects
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that:
(1) The utility model discloses a perforating device for machining, longitudinal drive unit drive link vertical movement in the spout, and the drill bit that drives the below in step carries out longitudinal movement, can realize the drill bit position adjustment on vertical, compares fixed drill bit among the prior art, and the drill bit in this scheme can be adjusted the front and back position in a flexible way, is convenient for carry out drilling treatment to the different positions of work piece, need not the staff and removes the work piece position, has improved work efficiency greatly.
(2) The utility model discloses a perforating device for machining, vertical drive unit can realize the position adjustment of drill bit on the direction of height, has further strengthened the nimble regulation to the drill bit position, has enlarged application range. Wherein vertical drive unit is equipped with vertical telescopic link including setting up the vertical cylinder in diaphragm bottom, the bottom of vertical cylinder, and vertical telescopic link bottom is provided with the drill bit, and vertical telescopic link reciprocates under the drive of vertical cylinder to the synchronous drive drill bit reciprocates, realizes the regulation of drill bit high position.
(3) The utility model discloses a perforating device for machining, horizontal drive unit can realize the drill bit at horizontal ascending position control, can realize the position control of drill bit in three side of coordinate axis X, Y and Z with vertical drive unit together for the position control of drill bit is more nimble, and application range is wider, and has improved work efficiency greatly.
(4) The utility model discloses a perforating device for machining, when treating the processing work piece and driling, open the suction fan, then through the straw with the inboard sweeps that punches and produce of fixed cover inside the suction air pipe, then carry to the collecting box is inside to be collected through the conveyer pipe, can prevent effectively that the sweeps from spattering in disorder and destroying sanitation, the while can also be to the piece collection processing that drilling produced, avoid influencing the normal use of puncher, can effectively improve the life of puncher.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic view of the overall structure of the punching device for machining of the present invention;
fig. 2 is the utility model relates to a perforating device's local orthographic view structure schematic diagram for machining.
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1. mounting a plate; 2. a connecting frame; 3. a vertical cylinder; 4. a suction fan; 5. a support plate; 6. a motor A; 7. a rotating shaft A; 8. a drill bit; 9. a work table; 10. a horizontal cylinder; 11. a telescopic rod; 12. a chute; 13. a transverse plate; 14. a cross frame; 15. a limiting plate; 16. an electric push rod; 17. a delivery pipe; 18. a collection box; 19. a motor B; 20. a rotating shaft B; 21. a threaded sleeve; 22. a straw; 23. a threaded rod; 24. and fixing the cover.
Detailed Description
For a further understanding of the present invention, reference will be made to the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
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. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.
The present invention will be further described with reference to the following examples.
Example 1
With reference to fig. 1 and 2, the perforating device for machining of this embodiment includes mounting panel 1 and the workstation 9 of setting in mounting panel 1 below, set up the spout 12 that runs through mounting panel 1 thickness on the mounting panel 1, spout 12 distributes along longitudinal extension, be provided with the link 2 of vertical extension in the spout 12, 2 tops of link and bottom extend respectively and exceed the upper and lower both ends of mounting panel 1, just top one side of link 2 is equipped with longitudinal drive unit, longitudinal drive unit is used for driving link 2 longitudinal movement in spout 12, the bottom of link 2 is provided with drill bit 8, drill bit 8 is located workstation 9 top. Longitudinal drive unit drives link 2 longitudinal movement in spout 12 in this embodiment, and drill bit 8 of synchronous drive below carries out longitudinal movement, can realize drill bit 8 position adjustment on vertical, the regulation of the position around shown in the figure promptly, compare in fixed drill bit 8 among the prior art, the position around drill bit 8 of this embodiment can be adjusted in a flexible way, be convenient for carry out drilling treatment to the different positions of work piece, need not the hand and remove the work piece position, improved work efficiency greatly.
The longitudinal driving unit in this embodiment comprises a horizontal telescopic rod 11 connected with one side of the top of the connecting frame 2, a horizontal cylinder 10 is arranged on one side, away from the connecting frame 2, of the horizontal telescopic rod 11, and the horizontal cylinder 10 is used for driving the horizontal telescopic rod 11 to do longitudinal telescopic motion. The spout 12 along longitudinal distribution is all seted up to the length direction both sides of mounting panel 1, link 2 is half I shape structure, link 2 includes the vertical interior block that a pair of symmetry set up, and spout 12 is passed to the vertical interior block bottom of both sides, and is provided with the horizontally connect section between the vertical interior block top of both sides, one side and the longitudinal drive unit of horizontally connect section link to each other, and the vertical interior block bottom of both sides is provided with drill bit 8, can effectively guarantee the stable connection to drill bit 8, guarantees the stability of drill bit 8 at the removal in-process.
The bottom of link 2 is provided with diaphragm 13 in this embodiment, diaphragm 13 parallels with mounting panel 1, just the bottom of diaphragm 13 is provided with vertical drive unit, vertical drive unit's bottom is provided with drill bit 8, vertical drive unit is used for driving drill bit 8 and reciprocates, and vertical drive unit in this embodiment can realize the position adjustment of drill bit 8 on the direction of height, has further strengthened the nimble regulation to drill bit 8 position, has enlarged application range. In this embodiment the vertical driving unit is including setting up the vertical cylinder 3 in diaphragm 13 bottom, the bottom of vertical cylinder 3 is equipped with vertical telescopic link, vertical telescopic link bottom is provided with drill bit 8, and vertical telescopic link reciprocates under the drive of vertical cylinder 3 to drive drill bit 8 in step and reciprocate, realize the regulation of 8 high positions of drill bit.
Vertical drive unit bottom is equipped with crossbearer 14 in this embodiment, be equipped with horizontal drive unit on the crossbearer 14, horizontal drive unit links to each other with drill bit 8, just horizontal drive unit is used for driving 8 lateral shifting of drill bit, and horizontal drive unit in this embodiment can realize drill bit 8 in horizontal upward position control, horizontal migration about as shown the position in fig. 1 promptly, can realize drill bit 8 in coordinate axis X, Y and the three ascending position control of Z with foretell vertical drive unit and vertical drive unit together for drill bit 8's position control is more nimble, and application range is wider, and has improved work efficiency greatly. The transverse driving unit in the embodiment comprises a motor B19 and a threaded rod 23 which extends transversely and is distributed, a matched threaded sleeve 21 is arranged on the threaded rod 23, a drill bit 8 is arranged at the bottom of the threaded sleeve 21, and the motor B19 is used for driving the threaded sleeve 21 to move transversely along the threaded rod 23. In this embodiment, the motor B19 is turned on, the motor B19 converts the received electric energy into mechanical energy, the threaded rod 23 on one side of the rotating shaft B20 is driven to rotate, the threaded sleeve 21 on the outer side of the threaded rod 23 drives the support plate 5 below to move along the length direction of the threaded rod 23, and the transverse position of the drill bit 8 can be adjusted.
As shown in fig. 2, in this embodiment, a support plate 5 is disposed at the bottom of the threaded sleeve 21, the support plate 5 is parallel to the transverse plate 13, a detachable fixing cover 24 is disposed at the bottom of the support plate 5, the fixing cover 24 is located at one side of the drill 8, the fixing cover 24 is obliquely distributed downwards and outwards, and the fixing cover 24 is used for blocking waste chips generated in the drilling process and preventing the waste chips from being splashed around. In this embodiment, the fixed cover 24 is provided with a suction hole penetrating through the thickness of the fixed cover, a suction pipe 22 is installed in the suction hole, the outlet end of the suction pipe 22 is provided with a suction fan 4, the suction fan 4 is provided with a conveying pipe 17, the conveying pipe 17 is connected with the collecting box 18, so that the scraps generated by punching can be collected and processed conveniently, and the suction pipe 22 and the conveying pipe 17 are telescopic corrugated pipes. When treating the processing work piece and driling, open suction fan 4, then through inside straw 22 with the inboard sweeps suction air pipe that punches the production of fixed cover 24, then carry to collection box 18 inside through conveyer pipe 17 and collect, can prevent effectively that the sweeps from spattering in disorder and destroying sanitation, can also collect the processing to the piece that the drilling produced simultaneously, avoid influencing the normal use of puncher, can effectively improve the life of puncher.
In this embodiment, a rotating shaft A7 is disposed at the top of the drill bit 8, a motor A6 is disposed at the top of the rotating shaft A7, and the motor A6 is disposed at the bottom of the support plate 5. Specifically, support plate 5 below is detachable to be connected with motor A6 in this embodiment, motor A6's power take off end links to each other with the power input of pivot A7, and the power take off end detachable of pivot A7 is connected with drill bit 8, conveniently changes drill bit 8. One side of workstation 9 in this embodiment is equipped with the spacing unit of work piece, the spacing unit of work piece includes limiting plate 15 of vertical setting, one side of limiting plate 15 is equipped with electric putter 16, and electric putter 16 and limiting plate 15 through the installation are convenient for fix the processing work piece.
When the device is used specifically, a workpiece to be machined is placed on the workbench 9, then the switch of the electric push rod 16 is turned on, then the electric push rod 16 pushes the limiting plate 15 to move until one side of the limiting plate 15 is in contact with the surface of the workpiece to be machined, clamping and fixing of the workpiece to be machined are completed, then the switch of the vertical cylinder 3 is turned on, the vertical cylinder 3 drives the cross frame 14 below the vertical telescopic rod to move downwards, then the switch of the motor B19 inside the cross frame 14 is turned on, then the motor B19 converts received electric energy into mechanical energy to drive the threaded rod 23 to rotate, the threaded sleeve 21 outside the threaded rod 23 drives the support plate 5 below to move transversely, then the horizontal cylinder 10 is turned on, then the horizontal cylinder 10 drives the horizontal telescopic rod 11 to push the connecting frame 2 to move longitudinally, the connecting frame 2 drives the sliding groove 12 to move longitudinally, the lower transverse plate 13 is synchronously driven to move transversely, then the motor A6 switch is turned on, and the drill bit 8 is driven to rotate, so that drilling at different positions of the workpiece to be machined is facilitated, and the working efficiency is improved.
The utility model discloses the example is only right the preferred embodiment of the utility model describes, and is not right the utility model discloses think about and the scope is injectd, not deviating from the utility model discloses under the prerequisite of design thought, the field engineering technical personnel are right the utility model discloses a various deformation and improvement that technical scheme made all should fall into the protection scope of the utility model.

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1. The utility model provides a perforating device for machining which characterized in that: including mounting panel (1) and workstation (9) of setting in mounting panel (1) below, set up spout (12) that run through mounting panel (1) thickness on mounting panel (1), spout (12) distribute along longitudinal extension, be provided with link (2) of vertical extension in spout (12), link (2) top and bottom extend respectively and exceed the upper and lower both ends of mounting panel (1), just top one side of link (2) is equipped with longitudinal drive unit, longitudinal drive unit is used for driving link (2) longitudinal movement in spout (12), the bottom of link (2) is provided with drill bit (8), drill bit (8) are located workstation (9) top.
2. The punching device for machining according to claim 1, wherein: the longitudinal driving unit comprises a horizontal telescopic rod (11) connected with one side of the top of the connecting frame (2), a horizontal cylinder (10) is arranged on one side, away from the connecting frame (2), of the horizontal telescopic rod (11), and the horizontal cylinder (10) is used for driving the horizontal telescopic rod (11) to do longitudinal telescopic motion.
3. The punching device for machining according to claim 2, wherein: the length direction both sides of mounting panel (1) all set up spout (12) along longitudinal distribution, link (2) are half I shape structure, link (2) include the vertical interior block that a pair of symmetry set up, and spout (12) are passed to the vertical interior block bottom of both sides, and are provided with the horizontally connect section between the vertical interior block top of both sides, one side and the longitudinal drive unit of horizontally connect section link to each other, and the vertical interior block bottom of both sides is provided with drill bit (8).
4. A punching apparatus for machining according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein: the bottom of link (2) is provided with diaphragm (13), diaphragm (13) parallel with mounting panel (1), just the bottom of diaphragm (13) is provided with vertical drive unit, vertical drive unit's bottom is provided with drill bit (8), vertical drive unit is used for driving drill bit (8) and reciprocates.
5. The punching device for machining according to claim 4, wherein: the vertical driving unit comprises a vertical cylinder (3) arranged at the bottom of a transverse plate (13), a vertical telescopic rod is arranged at the bottom of the vertical cylinder (3), and a drill bit (8) is arranged at the bottom of the vertical telescopic rod.
6. The punching device for machining according to claim 5, wherein: the drill bit driving device is characterized in that a transverse frame (14) is arranged at the bottom of the vertical driving unit, a transverse driving unit is arranged on the transverse frame (14), the transverse driving unit is connected with a drill bit (8), and the transverse driving unit is used for driving the drill bit (8) to transversely move.
7. The punching device for machining according to claim 6, wherein: the transverse driving unit comprises a motor B (19) and a threaded rod (23) which transversely extends and is distributed, a matched threaded sleeve (21) is arranged on the threaded rod (23), a drill bit (8) is arranged at the bottom of the threaded sleeve (21), and the motor B (19) is used for driving the threaded sleeve (21) to transversely move along the threaded rod (23).
8. The punching device for machining according to claim 7, wherein: the drill bit is characterized in that a support plate (5) is arranged at the bottom of the threaded sleeve (21), the support plate (5) is parallel to the transverse plate (13), a fixing cover (24) is arranged at the bottom of the support plate (5), the fixing cover (24) is located on one side of the drill bit (8), and the fixing cover (24) is obliquely distributed downwards and outwards.
9. The punching device for machining according to claim 8, wherein: the fixed cover (24) is provided with a suction hole penetrating through the thickness of the fixed cover, a suction pipe (22) is arranged in the suction hole, and the outlet end of the suction pipe (22) is connected with the collection box (18).
10. The punching device for machining according to claim 9, wherein: one side of workstation (9) is equipped with the spacing unit of work piece, the spacing unit of work piece includes limiting plate (15) of vertical setting, one side of limiting plate (15) is equipped with electric putter (16).
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