CN217874613U - Structure is laid fast with pipeline in construction is built in room - Google Patents

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CN217874613U
CN217874613U CN202221867028.1U CN202221867028U CN217874613U CN 217874613 U CN217874613 U CN 217874613U CN 202221867028 U CN202221867028 U CN 202221867028U CN 217874613 U CN217874613 U CN 217874613U
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时强龙
姚晓明
王尊正
王天宇
安哲宇
冯丹青
李庆超
周倩
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The utility model belongs to the technical field of the technique of construction is built in room and specifically relates to a structure is laid fast to pipeline for construction is built in room is related to, it includes the lift seat, locate the anchor clamps that are used for fixed pipeline on lift seat top, the lift seat is including being the roof and the bottom plate that set up and extend along the horizontal direction from top to bottom, the spout has all been seted up along the horizontal direction to roof and bottom plate, sliding fit is equipped with two slide bars in the spout, four slide bar both ends are all connected through cutting formula cross crane, be equipped with the fixed subassembly of two fixed slide bars in the spout, the gear of slide bar is located including rotating the cover to fixed subassembly, spout tank bottom fixedly connected with lower rack, spout tank deck slides along slide bar length direction and is connected with the driving piece that the rack removed and is used for driving, the gear meshes simultaneously in the rack, lower rack, last rack after removing is kept away from in the gear. This application can improve pipe laying's efficiency.

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Structure is laid fast with pipeline in construction is built in room
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of the technique of construction is built in the room and specifically relates to a structure is laid fast to pipeline for construction is built in room is related to.
Background
The house building construction is a house building project, and refers to various house buildings and auxiliary facilities thereof, and lines, pipelines, equipment installation projects and indoor and outdoor decoration projects matched with the house buildings, the pipelines need to be laid in the house building construction process, two connected pipelines need to be lifted to the same height in the pipeline connection process, and therefore a supporting seat needs to be used for supporting the pipelines.
When the pipeline was laid subaerial highly uneven, the height that needs adjust the supporting seat made the pipeline of laying lie in same height all the time, however, the supporting seat that uses at present is not convenient for highly adjust it, leads to being difficult to satisfy the user demand of the different installation environment of pipeline, and not only the practicality is not high, still influences pipeline laying's efficiency, consequently needs the improvement.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to improve pipe laying's efficiency, this application provides a structure is laid fast with pipeline in building construction.
The application provides a pair of structure is laid fast to pipeline for construction is built in room adopts following technical scheme: the utility model provides a structure is laid fast to pipeline for construction is built in room, including the lift seat, locate the anchor clamps that are used for fixed pipeline on lift seat top, the lift seat is including being the roof and the bottom plate that set up from top to bottom and extend along the horizontal direction, the spout has all been seted up along the horizontal direction to roof and bottom plate, sliding fit is equipped with two slide bars in the spout, four slide bar both ends are all connected through cutting formula cross crane, be equipped with the fixed subassembly of two fixed slide bars in the spout, the gear of slide bar is located including rotating the cover to fixed subassembly, spout tank bottom fixedly connected with lower rack, spout tank deck is connected with the driving piece that rack and be used for driving upper rack removal along slide bar length direction slides, the gear meshes in the rack simultaneously, lower rack, last rack after the removal is kept away from in the gear.
Optionally, cut formula cross crane and include two dwangs that articulate each other and be the cross setting, the dwang both ends all articulate there is the gag lever post of fixed connection in corresponding slide bar tip respectively, and the gag lever post diameter is less than the slide bar diameter, and the spout cell wall is seted up and is supplied to correspond the gag lever post slip and inlay the spacing groove of establishing.
Optionally, one side of the upper rack departing from the lower rack is provided with a dovetail block, and the chute wall is provided with a plurality of dovetail grooves for the corresponding dovetail blocks to be slidably embedded along the length direction of the sliding rod.
Optionally, the driving member includes a pull rod disposed on the upper rack, and the pull rod is slidably disposed through the top plate or the bottom plate along a length direction of the slide rod.
Optionally, the side wall of the pull rod and the wall of the chute are connected with the same return spring, the end of the pull rod is provided with a pull disc, and when the upper rack is far away from the gear, the pull rod is slidably clamped with a clamping cover which is clamped between the pull disc and the side wall of the top plate or the bottom plate and is in a U-shaped arrangement.
Optionally, one end of the upper rack, which is far away from the pull rod, is provided with a fixing rod which is arranged on the top plate or the bottom plate in a sliding manner and is coaxial with the pull rod, a baffle plate is arranged at the end part of the fixing rod, and the pull disc is abutted to the baffle plate or the side wall of the bottom plate when the clamping cover is clamped on the fixing rod and clamped between the baffle plate and the side wall of the top plate or the side wall of the bottom plate.
Optionally, the opening of the clamping cover is provided with two elastic plates, one ends of the two elastic plates, which are far away from the clamping cover, are bent towards opposite directions, and the distance between the bent ends is smaller than the diameter of the pull rod and the fixed rod.
Optionally, the clamp includes two arc clamps hinged to the upper surface of the top plate, the two arc clamps are symmetrically arranged and jointly enclose a fixing cavity for the pipeline to be embedded, the other ends of the arc clamps are provided with lugs, and the two lugs are jointly connected with the same bolt connection pair.
To sum up, the application comprises the following beneficial technical effects:
1. the arrangement of the fixing component realizes the fixation of the sliding rod in the sliding groove;
2. the driving piece is arranged, so that the upper rack is driven to move in the sliding chute along the length direction of the sliding rod;
3. the arrangement of the clamp realizes clamping and fixing of the pipeline or the joint of the two pipelines.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the overall structure in the embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the embodiment of the present application in partial section to show the lift seat;
fig. 3 is a schematic sectional structure diagram for showing a driving member in the embodiment of the present application.
Reference numerals: 1. a lifting seat; 11. a top plate; 12. a base plate; 13. a chute; 14. a slide bar; 2. a scissor type cross lifting frame; 21. rotating the rod; 22. a limiting rod; 23. a limiting groove; 3. a fixing assembly; 31. a lower rack; 32. an upper rack; 33. a dovetail block; 34. a dovetail groove; 35. a gear; 4. a drive member; 41. a pull rod; 42. a return spring; 43. pulling the disc; 44. a fixing rod; 45. a baffle plate; 46. clamping a cover; 47. an elastic plate; 5. a clamp; 51. an arc-shaped clamp; 52. a fixed cavity; 53. an ear plate; 54. and a bolt connecting pair.
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The present application is described in further detail below with reference to figures 1-3.
The embodiment of the application discloses construction is built with quick laying structure of pipeline in room. As shown in fig. 1, a quick laying structure of pipeline for building construction, including lift seat 1, locate the anchor clamps 5 that are used for fixed pipeline on lift seat 1 top, anchor clamps 5 include two arc clamps 51 that articulate in roof 11 upper surface, and two arc clamps 51 are the symmetry and set up and enclose jointly and enclose into the fixed chamber 52 that supplies the pipeline to inlay to establish, and the arc clamp 51 other end all is equipped with otic placode 53, and two otic placodes 53 are connected with same bolted connection pair 54 jointly.
The pipeline or the joint of the two pipelines is placed into the fixing cavity 52 of the two arc-shaped clamps 51, then the two arc-shaped clamps 51 are closed by rotation, then the nut of the bolt connecting pair 54 is screwed, the two ear plates 53 are fixedly connected together by the bolt connecting pair 54, the two arc-shaped clamps 51 clamp and fix the pipeline together, so that the clamp 5 clamps and fixes the pipeline, and the lifting seat 1 is placed on the ground to support the pipeline in the clamp 5.
As shown in fig. 1, 2 and 3, the lifting seat 1 comprises a top plate 11 and a bottom plate 12 which are vertically arranged and extend along the horizontal direction, sliding grooves 13 are formed in the top plate 11 and the bottom plate 12 along the horizontal direction, two sliding rods 14 are embedded in the sliding grooves 13 in a sliding manner, the sliding rods 14 extend along the width direction of the sliding grooves 13, the sliding grooves 13 limit the moving direction of the sliding rods 14, two ends of the four sliding rods 14 are connected through shear type cross lifting frames 2, and the two shear type cross lifting frames 2 are respectively located on two sides of the top plate 11 and the two sides of the bottom plate 12.
Cut formula cross crane 2 and include two dwang 21 that articulate each other and be the cross setting, dwang 21 both ends all articulate there is the gag lever post 22 of fixed connection in corresponding slide bar 14 tip respectively, gag lever post 22 diameter is less than slide bar 14 diameter, spout 13 cell walls are seted up and are supplied to correspond gag lever post 22 slip and inlay the spacing groove 23 of establishing, spacing groove 23 has realized spacing to gag lever post 22 moving direction, and because gag lever post 22 diameter is less than slide bar 14 diameter, make slide bar 14 unable slip break away from spout 13, be equipped with the fixed subassembly 3 of two fixed slide bars 14 in the spout 13.
The bottom plate 12 is placed on the ground, when the top plate 11 and the bottom plate 12 are manually promoted to move relatively, the two sliding rods 14 in the top plate 11 and the bottom plate 12 move backwards in the sliding grooves 13, the two rotating rods 21 of the scissor type cross lifting frame 2 rotate on a vertical surface, the included angle of the two rotating rods 21 is changed, after the distance between the top plate 11 and the bottom plate 12 is determined, the sliding rods 14 are fixed in the corresponding sliding grooves 13 through the fixing assembly 3, the positions of the top plate 11 and the bottom plate 12 are relatively fixed, and therefore the support height adjustment of the pipelines in the clamp 5 is achieved by adjusting the distance between the top plate 11 and the bottom plate 12.
The fixing component 3 comprises a gear 35 which is rotatably sleeved on the sliding rod 14, a lower rack 31 is fixedly connected to the bottom of the sliding groove 13, an upper rack 32 and a driving piece 4 for driving the upper rack 32 to move are connected to the top of the sliding groove 13 in a sliding mode along the length direction of the sliding rod 14, the gear 35 is meshed with the upper rack 32 and the lower rack 31 simultaneously, and the upper rack 32 after moving is far away from the gear 35.
When the top plate 11 and the bottom plate 12 are relatively fixed, the upper rack 32 and the lower rack 31 are jointly meshed with the gear 35 on the sliding rod 14, and the upper rack 32 and the lower rack 31 cannot move in the sliding chute 13 along the length direction of the sliding chute 13, so that the upper rack 32 and the lower rack 31 fix the gear 35, and the sliding rod 14 is fixed in the sliding chute 13.
One side of the upper rack 32, which is far away from the lower rack 31, is provided with a dovetail block 33, the groove wall of the sliding groove 13 is provided with a plurality of dovetail grooves 34 along the length direction of the sliding rod 14, the dovetail grooves 34 are used for being embedded with the corresponding dovetail blocks 33 in a sliding manner, and the moving direction of the dovetail blocks 33 is limited by the dovetail grooves 34, so that the upper rack 32 is connected to the sliding groove 13 in a sliding manner along the length direction of the sliding rod 14.
The driving part 4 comprises a pull rod 41 arranged on the upper rack 32, and the pull rod 41 is slidably arranged on the top plate 11 or the bottom plate 12 along the length direction of the sliding rod 14; when the distance between the top plate 11 and the bottom plate 12 is adjusted, the pull rod 41 is moved in the direction away from the top plate 11 or the bottom plate 12, the pull rod 41 drives the upper rack 32 to move in the sliding groove 13, the dovetail block 33 of the upper rack 32 moves in the corresponding dovetail groove 34, the pull rod 41 is stopped moving until the upper rack 32 is separated from the gear 35, at this time, the gear 35 can rotate on the lower rack 31, the gear 35 drives the sliding rod 14 to move in the sliding groove 13, and the limiting rods 22 at two ends of the sliding rod 14 move in the corresponding limiting grooves 23.
The side wall of the pull rod 41 and the chute wall of the chute 13 are connected with the same return spring 42, the end part of the pull rod 41 is provided with a pull disc 43, and the pull disc 43 is arranged, so that a user can move the pull rod 41 conveniently; after the pull rod 41 is moved towards the direction away from the sliding groove 13 by the hand-held pull disc 43, the return spring 42 on the pull rod 41 is stressed to deform, and after the pull disc 43 is loosened by a hand, the restoring force of the return spring 42 drives the upper rack 32 to move and reset, so that the operation is more convenient and faster.
When the upper rack 32 is far away from the gear 35, the pull rod 41 is connected with a U-shaped clamping cover 46 clamped between the pull disc 43 and the side wall of the top plate 11 or the bottom plate 12 in a sliding and clamping mode, one end, deviating from the pull rod 41, of the upper rack 32 is provided with a fixing rod 44 which is arranged on the top plate 11 or the bottom plate 12 in a sliding and penetrating mode and in the same axial direction as the pull rod 41, the end portion of the fixing rod 44 is provided with a baffle 45, the clamping cover 46 is clamped on the fixing rod 44 and clamped between the baffle 45 and the side wall of the top plate 11 or the side wall of the bottom plate 12, and the pull disc 43 is abutted to the baffle 45 or the side wall of the bottom plate 12.
When the top plate 11 and the bottom plate 12 are relatively fixed, the two clamp covers 46 are respectively clamped on the two fixing rods 44, the baffle 45 and the side wall of the top plate 11 or the side wall of the bottom plate 12 are fixedly clamped on the corresponding clamp covers 46, the pull disc 43 on the pull rod 41 is abutted to the side wall of the top plate 11 or the side wall of the bottom plate 12, the clamp covers 46 realize the fixation of the fixing rods 44, the upper rack 32 and the pull rod 41 on the top plate 11 or the bottom plate 12, at the moment, the upper rack 32 is meshed with the gear 35, and the fixing effect of the upper rack 32 and the lower rack 31 on the gear 35 is improved.
When adjusting roof 11 and bottom plate 12 interval, two card covers 46 are blocked respectively on two pull rods 41, and the fixed centre gripping of drawing disk 43 and roof 11 or bottom plate 12 lateral wall is in the card cover 46 that corresponds, and card cover 46 has realized fixing dead lever 44, last rack 32, pull rod 41 on roof 11 or bottom plate 12 equally, and last rack 32 is kept away from gear 35 this moment for it is difficult for moving to go up rack 32, thereby influences gear 35 and rotates on the lower rack 31 of meshing.
Therefore, the clamping cover 46 is arranged, the upper rack 32 is meshed with the gear 35, and the upper rack 32 is fixed when being far away from the gear 35, so that the pull rod 41 is not required to be pulled manually by a user all the time, the operation is more convenient, the height adjusting speed of the lifting seat 1 is increased, and the pipeline laying efficiency is improved.
Two elastic plates 47 are arranged at the opening of the clamping cover 46, one ends of the two elastic plates 47, which are far away from the clamping cover 46, are bent towards opposite directions, and the bent distance is smaller than the diameters of the pull rod 41 and the fixed rod 44. The elastic plates 47 have certain elasticity, the two elastic plates 47 of the clamping cover 46 are abutted against the side walls of the pull rod 41 or the fixed rod 44, the clamping cover 46 is moved towards the direction of the pull rod 41 or the fixed rod 44, the two elastic plates 47 are extruded by the side walls of the pull rod 41 or the fixed rod 44 to deform, finally, the pull rod 41 or the fixed rod 44 enters the clamping cover 46, and the two elastic plates 47 automatically recover; because the diameter of the pull rod 41 and the fixed rod 44 is larger than the distance between the ends of the two elastic plates 47, the pull rod 41 and the fixed rod 44 are more stable in the clamping cover 46 and are not easy to slide and separate from the clamping cover 46.
The embodiment of the application provides a construction is built with pipeline fast laying structure's implementation principle for room and is: placing a bottom plate 12 of the lifting seat 1 on the ground, and clamping and fixing the pipeline or the joint of the two pipelines by using a clamp 5; the upper rack 32 and the lower rack 31 in the sliding groove 13 of the top plate 11 and the bottom plate 12 are both meshed with the corresponding gear 35, the upper rack 32 and the lower rack 31 realize the fixation of the gear 35, and the sliding rod 14 is fixed in the sliding groove 13, so that the lifting seat 1 is stably supported on a pipeline in the clamp 5.
When the height of the pipeline needs to be adjusted due to uneven ground, the upper rack 32 is driven to be far away from the gear 35 through the driving piece 4, the two clamping covers 46 are respectively clamped on the two pull rods 41, the top plate 11 and the bottom plate 12 are manually driven to be close to or far away from each other to adjust the distance between the top plate 11 and the bottom plate 12, after the distance between the top plate 11 and the bottom plate 12 is determined, the two clamping covers 46 are respectively clamped on the two fixing rods 44, the fixing of the fixing rods 44, the upper rack 32 and the pull rods 41 on the top plate 11 or the bottom plate 12 is achieved through the clamping covers 46, the upper rack 32 is meshed with the gear 35 at the moment, and the fixing effect of the upper rack 32 and the lower rack 31 on the gear 35 is improved.
The above are preferred embodiments of the present application, and the scope of protection of the present application is not limited thereto, so: equivalent changes in structure, shape and principle of the present application shall be covered by the protection scope of the present application.

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1. The utility model provides a structure is laid fast to construction with pipeline is built in room which characterized in that: including lift seat (1), locate anchor clamps (5) that are used for fixed pipeline on lift seat (1) top, lift seat (1) is including being roof (11) and bottom plate (12) that set up from top to bottom and extend along the horizontal direction, spout (13) have all been seted up along the horizontal direction in roof (11) and bottom plate (12), spout (13) interior slip inlay is equipped with two slide bars (14), four slide bar (14) both ends are all connected through cutting formula cross crane (2), be equipped with fixed subassembly (3) of fixed two slide bars (14) in spout (13), gear (35) of slide bar (14) are located including rotating the cover to fixed subassembly (3), spout (13) tank bottom fixedly connected with down rack (31), spout (13) groove top is slided along slide bar (14) length direction and is connected with rack (32) and is used for driving piece (4) that rack (32) removed, rack (32) are gone up simultaneously in gear (35), lower rack meshing in meshing (31), last rack (32) after the removal are kept away from gear (35).
2. The structure of claim 1, wherein the structure comprises: cut formula cross crane (2) and include two dwang (21) that are articulated each other and be the cross setting, dwang (21) both ends all articulate have gag lever post (22) of fixed connection in corresponding slide bar (14) tip respectively, and gag lever post (22) diameter is less than slide bar (14) diameter, and spout (13) cell wall is seted up and is supplied to correspond gag lever post (22) and slide and inlay spacing groove (23) of establishing.
3. The structure of claim 2, wherein the structure comprises: one side of the upper rack (32) departing from the lower rack (31) is provided with a dovetail block (33), and the groove wall of the sliding groove (13) is provided with a plurality of dovetail grooves (34) for the corresponding dovetail block (33) to be embedded in a sliding manner along the length direction of the sliding rod (14).
4. The rapid pipeline laying structure for building construction according to claim 3, wherein: the driving piece (4) comprises a pull rod (41) arranged on the upper rack (32), and the pull rod (41) penetrates through the top plate (11) or the bottom plate (12) in a sliding mode along the length direction of the sliding rod (14).
5. The rapid pipeline laying structure for building construction according to claim 4, wherein: the side wall of the pull rod (41) and the groove wall of the sliding groove (13) are connected with the same return spring (42) together, the end part of the pull rod (41) is provided with a pull disc (43), and when the upper rack (32) is far away from the gear (35), the pull rod (41) is connected with a clamping cover (46) which is clamped between the pull disc (43) and the side wall of the top plate (11) or the bottom plate (12) in a U-shaped manner in a sliding and clamping mode.
6. The rapid pipeline laying structure for building construction according to claim 5, wherein: go up the one end that rack (32) deviates from pull rod (41) and be equipped with and wear to locate dead lever (44) of roof (11) or bottom plate (12) with the axial slip of pull rod (41), dead lever (44) tip is equipped with baffle (45), and card cover (46) joint is held between baffle (45) and roof (11) or bottom plate (12) lateral wall at dead lever (44) and centre gripping, and drawing dish (43) are contradicted in baffle (45) or bottom plate (12) lateral wall.
7. The rapid pipeline laying structure for building construction according to claim 6, wherein: two elastic plates (47) are arranged at the opening of the clamping cover (46), one ends, far away from the clamping cover (46), of the two elastic plates (47) are bent towards opposite directions, and the bent distance is smaller than the diameters of the pull rod (41) and the fixing rod (44).
8. The structure of claim 1, wherein the structure comprises: the clamp (5) comprises two arc-shaped clamps (51) hinged to the upper surface of the top plate (11), the two arc-shaped clamps (51) are symmetrically arranged and jointly enclose a fixing cavity (52) for the pipeline to be embedded, the other ends of the arc-shaped clamps (51) are respectively provided with an ear plate (53), and the two ear plates (53) are jointly connected with a same bolt connecting pair (54).
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