CN217726196U - Industrial waste sorting device - Google Patents

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CN217726196U
CN217726196U CN202221567142.2U CN202221567142U CN217726196U CN 217726196 U CN217726196 U CN 217726196U CN 202221567142 U CN202221567142 U CN 202221567142U CN 217726196 U CN217726196 U CN 217726196U
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陆静婷
吴永良
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The utility model provides an industrial waste sorting unit. The industrial waste sorting device comprises a shell; the material groove is formed in the upper surface of the shell; the blanking channel is arranged in the middle of the lower part of the inner cavity of the material groove, and the inner cavity of the blanking channel is communicated with the inner cavity of the shell; the annular block is arranged on the upper part of the inner cavity of the shell, and the upper part of the outer surface of the annular block is movably connected with the top surface of the inner cavity of the shell; the two butt-joint channels are symmetrically arranged on the upper side and the lower side of the inner cavity of the annular block and are matched with the blanking channel; the filter plate is fixedly arranged at the lower part of the inner cavity of the shell. The utility model provides an industrial waste sorting unit has convenient to use, even unloading, sorting efficiency height, has the advantage of automatic discharge material function.

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Industrial waste sorting device
Technical Field
The utility model relates to an industrial waste handles technical field, especially relates to an industrial waste sorting unit.
Background
Industrial waste refers to various waste residues, dusts and other solid wastes discharged into the environment during the production process of industrial enterprises, and the industrial waste includes: blast furnace slag, fly ash, waste gypsum, salt mud etc. partial industrial waste can carry out recycle, and wherein the slag can replace natural garrulous stone to make concrete aggregate and be used for highway subgrade, need classify according to the particle size of slag when carrying out recycle to the slag and select, need use sorting unit usually.
However traditional sorting unit is in the use, mainly place the slag on the sieve in the device, it filters the classification to the slag of different particle sizes according to the aperture of sieve mesh to drive the sieve vibration through actuating mechanism, but traditional sorting unit function singleness, operating personnel is on the sieve of putting into the device with the slag once only, the slag is piled up inside the device, its upper portion slag extrudees the lower part slag during the sieve vibration, influence the motion of lower part slag, the screening consumes time long, thereby the problem that sorting efficiency is low has been led to.
Therefore, there is a need to provide a new industrial waste sorting device to solve the above technical problems.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model provides a technical problem provide a convenient to use, even unloading, sorting efficiency are high, have the industrial waste sorting unit of automatic discharge material function.
In order to solve the technical problem, the utility model provides an industrial waste sorting unit includes: a housing; the material groove is formed in the upper surface of the shell; the blanking channel is arranged in the middle of the lower part of the inner cavity of the material groove, and the inner cavity of the blanking channel is communicated with the inner cavity of the shell; the annular block is arranged on the upper part of the inner cavity of the shell, and the upper part of the outer surface of the annular block is movably connected with the top surface of the inner cavity of the shell; the two butt-joint channels are symmetrically arranged on the upper side and the lower side of the inner cavity of the annular block and are matched with the blanking channel; the filter plate is fixedly arranged at the lower part of the inner cavity of the shell, and the lower part of the outer surface of the annular block is movably connected with the upper surface of the filter plate; the two groups of scraping plates are symmetrically and fixedly arranged on the left side wall and the right side wall of the annular block, and the outer surfaces of the scraping plates are movably connected with the upper surface of the filter plate; the servo motor is fixedly arranged in the middle of the left side wall of the shell; the actuating lever, the actuating lever passes through bearing movable mounting in the left side wall middle part of casing, just the left end of actuating lever with servo motor's output shaft fixed connection, the right-hand member of actuating lever seals to extend to in the inner chamber of casing, the annular piece with the actuating lever transmission is connected.
Preferably, discharge channel has been seted up on the inner chamber lower part right side of casing, it has row material board to articulate in discharge channel's the inner chamber, arrange in the left side of material board extends to the inner chamber of casing, there is the connecting rod inner chamber lower part left side of casing through bearing movable mounting, the connecting rod is connected with the actuating lever transmission, it is connected with the connecting rod transmission to arrange the material board.
Preferably, the left end of connecting rod extends to outside the inner chamber of casing, the left end of connecting rod and the left end of actuating lever are all fixed the cover and are equipped with the sprocket, and two sprocket activity covers are equipped with the chain.
Preferably, a rotating disc is arranged on the left side of the lower portion of the inner cavity of the shell, a connecting shaft arranged in the middle of the front side wall of the rotating disc is movably connected with the front portion of the inner cavity of the shell through a bearing, and bevel gears are fixedly arranged on the front portion of the rotating disc and the right end of the connecting rod and are meshed with each other.
Preferably, the eccentric fixed mounting of back lateral wall of rolling disc has first round pin axle, the surface movable sleeve of first round pin axle is equipped with the connection shell, the last fixed surface of connection shell installs the assembly pole, the support sliding connection that the inner chamber left side lower part of assembly pole and casing set up, the preceding lateral wall upper portion fixed mounting of assembly pole has the second round pin axle, arrange the left side of flitch and seted up spacing passageway, the front end of second round pin axle extends to in the inner chamber of spacing passageway, just the surface of second round pin axle and the inner wall swing joint of spacing passageway.
Preferably, a support frame is fixedly mounted in the middle of an inner cavity of the annular block, and the right end of the drive rod is fixedly connected with the middle of the left side wall of the support frame.
Preferably, an assembly channel is formed in the right side of the middle of the inner cavity of the shell, a baffle is hinged to the middle of the right side wall of the shell and is matched with the assembly channel, and the upper portion of the baffle and the right side wall of the shell are provided with the same bolt in a threaded mode.
Preferably, a mounting groove is formed in an inner cavity of the butt joint channel, an arc plate is slidably mounted in the inner cavity of the mounting groove, one end of the arc plate extends into the inner cavity of the butt joint channel, a connecting channel is formed in one side of the inner cavity of the mounting groove, a threaded rod is installed on one side of the outer surface of the arc plate in a threaded mode, one end of the threaded rod extends out of the inner cavity of the connecting channel, and the other end of the threaded rod is movably connected with the inner wall of the mounting groove.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model provides a pair of industrial waste sorting unit has following beneficial effect:
the utility model provides an industrial waste sorting unit, drive the actuating lever through setting up servo motor and rotate, thereby it rotates to drive the annular piece, position coincidence when butt joint passageway and unloading passageway makes, the slag in the silo passes through unloading passageway and the upper surface that the butt joint passageway fell on the filter plate, can make the slag carry out the even unloading of intermittent type nature, annular piece drives the scraper blade and stirs the slag of filter plate upper surface simultaneously, screening efficiency has been promoted, the slag has been avoided piling up inside the device, its upper portion slag extrudees lower part slag when the sieve vibrates, influence lower part slag motion, screening expends a long time, thereby the problem that sorting efficiency is low has been leaded to, arrange the flitch through setting up, the actuating lever passes through sprocket and chain drive connecting rod rotation, thereby it rotates to drive the rolling disc, and then drive assembly pole vertical reciprocating motion through first round pin axle and connecting shell, the assembly pole drives the reciprocal rotation of board through second round pin axle and spacing passageway, thereby make row's the flitch take place to vibrate and drive the small-size footpath of its upper surface and discharge outside the sorting unit through row's passageway quick discharge to the sorting unit, it is inconvenient great to have avoided traditional inside depth, thereby the problem of getting the material of operating personnel to get the material.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a preferred embodiment of an industrial waste sorting device provided by the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a side view of the middle ring block, the blanking channel, the arc plate and the threaded rod of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of portion A of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of the portion B shown in FIG. 1;
fig. 5 is a schematic view of the right-side sectional structure of the rotary disk, the bevel gear, the first pin and the connecting shell of the present invention.
Reference numbers in the figures: 1. a housing; 2. a trough; 3. a blanking channel; 4. a ring block; 5. a docking channel; 6. filtering a plate; 7. a squeegee; 8. a servo motor; 9. a drive rod; 10. a discharge channel; 11. a discharge plate; 12. a connecting rod; 13. a sprocket; 14. a chain; 15. rotating the disc; 16. a bevel gear; 17. and assembling the rod.
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The present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments.
Please refer to fig. 1, fig. 2, fig. 3, fig. 4 and fig. 5 in combination, wherein fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a preferred embodiment of the industrial waste sorting device according to the present invention; fig. 2 is a schematic side sectional structural view of the middle ring block, the blanking channel, the arc-shaped plate and the threaded rod of the present invention; FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of portion A of FIG. 2; FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of the portion B shown in FIG. 1; fig. 5 is a schematic view of the right-side sectional structure of the rotary disk, the bevel gear, the first pin and the connecting shell of the present invention.
An industrial waste sorting apparatus comprising: a housing 1; the trough 2 is arranged on the upper surface of the shell 1; the blanking channel 3 is arranged in the middle of the lower part of the inner cavity of the material groove 2, and the inner cavity of the blanking channel 3 is communicated with the inner cavity of the shell 1; the annular block 4 is arranged at the upper part of the inner cavity of the shell 1, and the upper part of the outer surface of the annular block 4 is movably connected with the top surface of the inner cavity of the shell 1; the two butt joint channels 5 are symmetrically arranged on the upper side and the lower side of the inner cavity of the annular block 4, and the butt joint channels 5 are matched with the blanking channel 3; the filter plate 6 is fixedly arranged at the lower part of the inner cavity of the shell 1, and the lower part of the outer surface of the annular block 4 is movably connected with the upper surface of the filter plate 6; the two groups of scraping plates 7 are symmetrically and fixedly arranged on the left side wall and the right side wall of the annular block 4, and the outer surfaces of the scraping plates 7 are movably connected with the upper surface of the filter plate 6; the servo motor 8 is fixedly arranged in the middle of the left side wall of the shell 1; the actuating lever 9, the actuating lever 9 passes through bearing movable mounting and is in the left side wall middle part of casing 1, just the left end of actuating lever 9 with servo motor 8's output shaft fixed connection, the right-hand member of actuating lever 9 seals and extends to in the inner chamber of casing 1, annular piece 4 with the transmission of actuating lever 9 is connected.
Discharge channel 10 has been seted up on the inner chamber lower part right side of casing 1, it has row flitch 11 to articulate in discharge channel 10's the inner chamber, row flitch 11's left side extends to in casing 1's the inner chamber, there is connecting rod 12 in casing 1's inner chamber lower part left side through bearing movable mounting, connecting rod 12 is connected with actuating lever 9 transmission, row flitch 11 is connected with connecting rod 12 transmission, through row flitch 11 motion produces the vibration, can drop after will screening small-size footpath slag on row flitch 11 passes through discharge channel 10 and discharges outside the device, can discharge the collection fast, and it is great that it is inside deep to have avoided traditional sorting unit to lead to the problem that inconvenient operating personnel got the material.
The left end of connecting rod 12 extends to outside the inner chamber of casing 1, the left end of connecting rod 12 and the left end of actuating lever 9 all fixed cover are equipped with sprocket 13, and two sprocket 13 movable covers are equipped with chain 14, can drive connecting rod 12 rotates.
The inner cavity lower part left side of casing 1 is provided with rolling disc 15, the connecting axle that the preceding lateral wall middle part of rolling disc 15 set up passes through the anterior swing joint of inner cavity of bearing and casing 1, the equal fixed mounting of the right-hand member of the equal fixed mounting of the anterior of rolling disc 15 and connecting rod 12 has conical gear 16, two conical gear 16 meshing can drive rolling disc 15 rotates.
The eccentric fixed mounting of rear side wall of rolling disc 15 has first round pin axle, the surface movable sleeve of first round pin axle is equipped with the connection shell, the last fixed surface of connection shell installs assembly pole 17, the support sliding connection that assembly pole 17 and casing 1's inner chamber left side lower part set up, the preceding lateral wall upper portion fixed mounting of assembly pole 17 has second round pin axle, spacing passageway has been seted up in the left side of row flitch 11, the front end of second round pin axle extends to in the inner chamber of spacing passageway, just the surface of second round pin axle and the inner wall swing joint of spacing passageway can drive the perpendicular reciprocating motion of assembly pole 17, thereby drive row flitch 11 reciprocating rotation is arranged in the drive, and then makes row flitch 11 produce the vibration and drive the slag motion.
The inner chamber middle part fixed mounting of annular piece 4 has the support frame, the right-hand member of actuating lever 9 and the left side wall middle part fixed connection of support frame can drive annular piece 4 rotates.
The assembly channel has been seted up on the inner chamber middle part right side of casing 1, the right side wall middle part of casing 1 articulates there is the baffle, baffle and assembly channel adaptation, same bolt is installed with the right side wall screw thread of casing 1 in the upper portion of baffle, can conveniently will large granule slag after the surface filtration is collected on the filter plate 6.
The utility model discloses a butt joint passageway 5, including butt joint passageway 5, sliding mounting has the arc in the inner chamber of mounting groove, the one end of arc extends to in the inner chamber of butt joint passageway 5, the connect the passageway has been seted up to inner chamber one side of mounting groove, the threaded rod is installed to surface one side screw thread of arc, the one end of threaded rod extends to outside the inner chamber of connect the passageway, the other end of threaded rod and the inner wall swing joint of mounting groove can be adjusted the inner chamber size of butt joint passageway 5 to can adjust the unloading volume of slag as required.
The utility model provides an industrial waste sorting unit's theory of operation as follows:
during the use, start servo motor 8 and drive actuating lever 9 and rotate, actuating lever 9 drives annular piece 4 and rotates, annular piece 4 drives butt joint passageway 5 motion, make when the position coincidence of butt joint passageway 5 and unloading passageway 3, the slag in silo 2 passes through unloading passageway 3 and the upper surface that butt joint passageway 5 fell on filter plate 6, can adjust the inner chamber size of butt joint passageway 5 as required through adjusting the arc, can fix the arc afterwards through the threaded rod, the slag has been avoided piling up inside the device, its upper portion slag extrudees the lower part slag when the sieve vibrates, influence lower part slag motion, the screening consumes long time, thereby the problem that sorting efficiency is low has been leaded to, through filter plate 6 can the time small-particle diameter slag fall on the upper surface of arranging flitch 11, actuating lever 9 drives connecting rod 12 through sprocket 13 and chain 14 and rotates, connecting rod 12 drives rolling disc 15 through two conical gear 16 and rotates, rolling disc 15 drives first round pin axle eccentric motion, first drive connecting shell motion, connecting shell drives assembly lever 17 vertical motion, assembly lever 17 passes through second round pin axle and spacing passageway, thereby the discharge board rotates, thereby the discharge device that the discharge of the reciprocal operation of the outside of the round pin axle drives the big problem of the discharge device and has been avoided the collection to get into the discharge of the traditional discharge of the reciprocal operation of the material through the round pin axle to the traditional discharge of the production of the discharge of the straight line.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model provides a pair of industrial waste sorting unit has following beneficial effect:
the utility model provides an industrial waste sorting unit, drive actuating lever 9 through setting up servo motor 8 and rotate, thereby it rotates to drive annular piece 4, position coincidence when butt joint passageway 5 and unloading passageway 3 makes, the slag in silo 2 passes through unloading passageway 3 and the upper surface that butt joint passageway 5 fell on filter plate 6, can make the slag carry out the even unloading of intermittent type nature, annular piece 4 drives scraper blade 7 and stirs the slag of filter plate 6 upper surface simultaneously, screening efficiency has been promoted, the slag has been avoided piling up inside the device, its upper portion slag extrudees the lower part slag when the sieve vibrates, influence lower part slag motion, the screening consumes time long, thereby the problem that sorting efficiency is low has been leaded to, arrange flitch 11 through setting up, actuating lever 9 drives connecting rod 12 through sprocket 13 and chain 14 and rotates, thereby drive rolling disc 15 and rotate, and then drive assembly pole 17 vertical reciprocating motion through first round pin axle and connecting shell, assembly pole 17 drives row flitch 11 reciprocating rotation through second round pin axle and spacing passageway, thereby make row flitch 11 take place the vibration and drive the granule footpath slag of its upper surface through row material passageway 10 discharge outside the quick, thereby avoided the great vertical operation personnel's problem of getting deeply the sorting unit inside thereof, thereby the problem has resulted in the deep operation.
The above-mentioned only be the embodiment of the present invention, not consequently the restriction of the patent scope of the present invention, all utilize the equivalent structure or equivalent flow transform made of the content of the specification and the attached drawings, or directly or indirectly use in other relevant technical fields, all including in the same way the patent protection scope of the present invention.

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1. An industrial waste sorting device, comprising:
a housing;
the material groove is formed in the upper surface of the shell;
the blanking channel is arranged in the middle of the lower part of the inner cavity of the material groove, and the inner cavity of the blanking channel is communicated with the inner cavity of the shell;
the annular block is arranged on the upper part of the inner cavity of the shell, and the upper part of the outer surface of the annular block is movably connected with the top surface of the inner cavity of the shell;
the two butt-joint channels are symmetrically arranged on the upper side and the lower side of the inner cavity of the annular block and are matched with the blanking channel;
the filter plate is fixedly arranged at the lower part of the inner cavity of the shell, and the lower part of the outer surface of the annular block is movably connected with the upper surface of the filter plate;
the two groups of scraping plates are symmetrically and fixedly arranged on the left side wall and the right side wall of the annular block, and the outer surfaces of the scraping plates are movably connected with the upper surface of the filter plate;
the servo motor is fixedly arranged in the middle of the left side wall of the shell;
the actuating lever, the actuating lever passes through bearing movable mounting in the left side wall middle part of casing, just the left end of actuating lever with servo motor's output shaft fixed connection, the right-hand member of actuating lever is sealed to be extended to in the inner chamber of casing, the annular piece with the actuating lever transmission is connected.
2. The industrial waste sorting device of claim 1, wherein a discharge channel is formed in the right side of the lower portion of the inner cavity of the housing, a discharge plate is hinged to the inner cavity of the discharge channel, the left side of the discharge plate extends into the inner cavity of the housing, a connecting rod is movably mounted on the left side of the lower portion of the inner cavity of the housing through a bearing, the connecting rod is in transmission connection with the driving rod, and the discharge plate is in transmission connection with the connecting rod.
3. The industrial waste sorting device of claim 2, wherein the left end of the connecting rod extends out of the inner cavity of the housing, and the left end of the connecting rod and the left end of the driving rod are both fixedly sleeved with chain wheels, and the two chain wheels are movably sleeved with chains.
4. The industrial waste sorting device according to claim 3, wherein a rotating disc is arranged on the left side of the lower portion of the inner cavity of the housing, a connecting shaft arranged in the middle of the front side wall of the rotating disc is movably connected with the front portion of the inner cavity of the housing through a bearing, conical gears are fixedly arranged on the front portion of the rotating disc and the right end of the connecting shaft, and the two conical gears are meshed.
5. The industrial waste sorting device according to claim 4, wherein a first pin shaft is eccentrically and fixedly mounted on the rear side wall of the rotating disc, a connecting shell is movably sleeved on the outer surface of the first pin shaft, an assembling rod is fixedly mounted on the upper surface of the connecting shell and is in sliding connection with a support arranged on the lower portion of the left side of the inner cavity of the housing, a second pin shaft is fixedly mounted on the upper portion of the front side wall of the assembling rod, a limiting channel is formed in the left side of the discharging plate, the front end of the second pin shaft extends into the inner cavity of the limiting channel, and the outer surface of the second pin shaft is movably connected with the inner wall of the limiting channel.
6. The industrial waste sorting device of claim 1, wherein a support frame is fixedly mounted in the middle of the inner cavity of the annular block, and the right end of the driving rod is fixedly connected with the middle of the left side wall of the support frame.
7. The industrial waste sorting device according to claim 1, wherein an assembly channel is formed in the right side of the middle of the inner cavity of the housing, a baffle is hinged to the middle of the right side wall of the housing, the baffle is matched with the assembly channel, and the same bolt is installed on the upper portion of the baffle and the right side wall of the housing in a threaded mode.
8. The industrial waste sorting device according to claim 1, wherein a mounting groove is formed in an inner cavity of the butt joint channel, an arc plate is slidably mounted in the inner cavity of the mounting groove, one end of the arc plate extends into the inner cavity of the butt joint channel, a connecting channel is formed in one side of the inner cavity of the mounting groove, a threaded rod is installed on one side of the outer surface of the arc plate in a threaded mode, one end of the threaded rod extends out of the inner cavity of the connecting channel, and the other end of the threaded rod is movably connected with the inner wall of the mounting groove.
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