CN217991344U - Simple automatic feeding device - Google Patents

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CN217991344U
CN217991344U CN202221420751.5U CN202221420751U CN217991344U CN 217991344 U CN217991344 U CN 217991344U CN 202221420751 U CN202221420751 U CN 202221420751U CN 217991344 U CN217991344 U CN 217991344U
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李荣昌
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The utility model provides a simple and easy automatic feeding device belongs to machining technical field, and it includes at least one delivery support, delivery support's upper end slope is provided with at least one slope roller strip, the upper end of slope roller strip is rotated and is installed the gyro wheel, the top of slope roller strip sets up to the feed end, just the feed end of slope roller strip has the storage frame, the bottom of slope roller strip sets up to the discharge end, just the discharge end of slope roller strip is provided with feed mechanism and the tight pushing equipment of horizontal clamp. The beneficial effects of the utility model reside in that, it is simple structure not only, with low costs, can also improve the material loading degree of accuracy and the material loading efficiency of tubular product.

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Simple automatic feeding device
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of machining, concretely relates to simple and easy automatic feeding device.
Background
At present, a traditional manual feeding mode is mostly adopted in the cutting and machining process of a pipe cutting machine, but the pipe is large in net weight and length, the manual feeding mode is low in production efficiency, low in cutting precision and high in labor intensity of workers, and therefore the manual feeding mode is not suitable for batch production in modern industry.
In order to improve the production efficiency of the pipe cutting machine, an automatic feeding device is adopted in the existing part of the pipe cutting machine, but the structure of the existing automatic feeding device is complex, for example, in the pipe feeding device of the laser pipe cutting machine feeding machine provided by the chinese patent CN211708431U, a complex synchronous transmission chain conveying mechanism needs to be arranged on each support in order to realize the automatic horizontal transportation of pipes, but the conveying mechanism not only greatly increases the number of parts and the installation cost of the whole feeding device, but also increases the installation difficulty and the control difficulty of the whole feeding device.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model provides a technical problem provide a simple and easy automatic feeding device of simple structure, with low costs, make it simplify the structure when satisfying the automatic feeding requirement, shorten the top tube time, reduce workman intensity of labour, improve production machining efficiency.
In order to solve the technical problem, the utility model provides a technical scheme is: the utility model provides a simple and easy automatic feeding device, its includes at least one delivery support, the upper end slope of delivery support is provided with at least one slope roller strip, the upper end of slope roller strip is rotated and is installed the gyro wheel, the highest end of slope roller strip sets up to the feed end, just the feed end of slope roller strip has the storage frame, the lowest end of slope roller strip sets up to the discharge end, just the discharge end of slope roller strip is provided with feed mechanism and the tight pushing equipment of horizontal clamp. Thus, the utility model provides a when simple and easy automatic feeding device carries out the material loading, the utility model discloses can directly utilize the gravity of tubular product self to realize the free landing of tubular product under unpowered drive to reach the purpose that tubular product was carried.
Furthermore, the upper end parallel arrangement of transfer gantry has two at least slope gyro wheel strips, and the crisscross setting of gyro wheel on the adjacent slope gyro wheel strip to reduce the gap between gyro wheel and the gyro wheel as far as, make the less tubular product of pipe diameter also can smoothly slide along slope gyro wheel strip, and be unlikely to the card between the gyro wheel.
Further, the horizontal clamping pushing mechanism comprises a feeding arm, a baffle and a pushing cylinder, the feeding arm is horizontally slidably mounted on the conveying support along a feeding direction, the baffle rotates to be mounted at a discharging end of the feeding arm, the cylinder body of the pushing cylinder is fixedly mounted on the feeding arm, the moving direction of a piston rod of the pushing cylinder is parallel to the moving direction of the feeding arm, a push plate is arranged at the end part of the piston rod of the pushing cylinder, the push plate and the corresponding baffle are relatively arranged, and therefore when the pipe slides to the discharging end of the inclined roller strip, the utility model discloses can clamp the pipe tightly under the action of the pushing cylinder through the push plate and the baffle, and then deliver the pipe to the inside chuck clamping of the pipe cutting machine under the action of the feeding arm.
Furthermore, the baffle transmission is connected with revolving cylinder, just the rotation plane perpendicular to pay-off direction of baffle to avoid the baffle to lean out because of the too big impact force when tubular product landing, avoid the baffle to promote tubular product to be close to the baffle because of the too big slope of thrust when the baffle is simultaneously in the push pedal.
Furthermore, the material distribution mechanism comprises a material distribution plate and a material distribution top plate, the material distribution plate is arranged at the lowest end of the inclined roller strip, a feeding inclined surface is arranged on one side of the material distribution plate close to the highest end of the inclined roller strip, and a discharging inclined surface is arranged on one side of the material distribution plate far away from the highest end of the inclined roller strip; divide the slope of material roof to set up in the side of transport support, divide material roof transmission to be connected with to divide the material to drive actuating cylinder, divide the material to drive actuating cylinder and be used for driving to divide the material roof to remove along the incline direction on the feeding inclined plane of branch flitch, just the peak of dividing the material roof can with the peak parallel and level of branch flitch to guarantee to divide the material roof to push up tubular product from the feeding side of branch flitch to the ejection of compact side, and ensure the utility model discloses can realize dividing the material action.
Furthermore, the feeding inclined surface and the discharging inclined surface of the material distributing plate are both provided with anti-scratching cushions, and one side of the baffle plate, which is opposite to the push plate, and one side of the push plate, which is opposite to the baffle plate, are both provided with cushion cushions; the scratch of the surface of the pipe in the conveying process is avoided through the scratch-proof pad; the acting force between the pipe and the push plate and between the pipe and the baffle plate is buffered through the buffer pads, so that the pipe is prevented from deforming in the material clamping process of the push plate and the baffle plate, and the rejection rate is reduced.
Furthermore, the material distribution plate and the feeding arm are of an integrated structure, and the material distribution plate can be aligned with the material distribution mechanism, so that the structure of the whole device is simplified.
Further, still include the material loading chassis, all delivery brackets install in the top of material loading chassis, like this when removing and adjusting all delivery brackets's position, the utility model discloses can directly carry out the bulk movement through the material loading chassis.
Furthermore, a first limiting plate and a second limiting plate are respectively arranged at two ends of the feeding side of the feeding underframe, the first limiting plate and the second limiting plate are oppositely arranged, and all the conveying supports are located between the first limiting plate and the second limiting plate. Like this at tubular product material loading in-process, the utility model discloses can directly fix a position the both ends of tubular product respectively through limiting plate one and the limiting plate two of both sides at the material loading initial stage to inject the scope of placing of material loading, with the pipe cutting machine bumps when avoiding tubular product to deliver to the pipe cutting machine inside.
Furthermore, the first limiting plate is fixedly installed on the feeding underframe or the corresponding conveying support, the second limiting plate is installed on the feeding underframe in a horizontal sliding mode along the length direction of the pipe, and a locking mechanism is arranged between the second limiting plate and the feeding underframe. Like this at tubular product location in-process, the utility model discloses can be through the horizontal slip of limiting plate two, carry out the striking location to the tubular product between limiting plate one and the limiting plate two to ensure that the tubular product between limiting plate one and the limiting plate two is accurate to be placed, simultaneously the utility model discloses can also avoid tubular product excessive removal under the striking under the cooperation of fixed mounting's limiting plate one.
According to the technical scheme, the utility model has the advantages of it is following:
1. when the utility model is used for feeding, the pipe can be made to freely slide to the front end directly through the inclined roller strip which is arranged obliquely, a driving device is not needed, the structure is simple, and the production cost is low;
2. the rollers which are installed in a staggered way are arranged at the upper ends of the inclined roller strips, so that the inclined roller strips are applicable to conveying of smaller pipes, and the situations of pipe clamping, unsmooth sliding and the like are not easy to occur in the process of placing and conveying;
3. the utility model discloses can directly carry out the coarse positioning to the both ends of tubular product at the material loading initial stage, namely in the blowing stage through the limiting plate one and the limiting plate two of both sides respectively to the placing range of tubular product of injecing to avoid tubular product to send to the inside in-process of pipe cutting machine and bump with the pipe cutting machine, and realize its and pipe cutting machine seamless joint;
4. the utility model also has the material storage function, thereby facilitating the material poking of workers and improving the working efficiency of the workers;
5. the utility model can avoid the pipe from being scratched or shriveled in the feeding process, thereby reducing the generation of waste products;
6. the utility model discloses still have the single tube and reject the function to can realize the automatic conveying material loading of the middle-size and small-size tubular product of the different length of different specifications, thereby reduce workman intensity of labour, improve machining efficiency.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, the drawings required for use in the description will be briefly introduced below, and it is apparent that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.
Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a top view of the embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the embodiment of the present invention taken along line F-F.
Fig. 4 is a right side view of an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of the middle inclined roller strip of the present invention.
In the figure: 1. the feeding device comprises a feeding underframe 2, a storage frame 3, limiting plates II and 4, a conveying support 5, limiting plates I and 6, an inclined roller strip 7, a transmission shaft 8, a driving motor 9, a discharging inclined plane 10, a feeding inclined plane 11, a material separating top plate 12, a material separating driving cylinder 13, a baffle plate 14, a feeding arm 15, a buffering cushion 16, a pushing plate 17, a material pushing cylinder 18, a rotating cylinder 19, a sliding rail 20, a gear 21, a rack 22 and a roller.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative work belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 1 to 5, the utility model provides a simple and easy automatic feeding device, it includes material loading chassis 1, the both ends of 1 feeding side of material loading chassis are provided with limiting plate 5 and two 3 of limiting plate respectively, moreover limiting plate 5 sets up with two 3 of limiting plate relatively. The top of material loading chassis 1 still is provided with conveying support 4, works as moreover when the top of material loading chassis 1 is provided with two at least conveying support 4, all conveying support 4 along the horizontal direction parallel arrangement of perpendicular to pay-off direction in the top of material loading chassis 1, all conveying support 4 are located between limiting plate one 5 and limiting plate two 3.
Additionally, the utility model discloses it is still preferred will limiting plate 5 is installed in the side that corresponds the delivery support 4 of one side, will two 3 installation of limiting plate are on material loading chassis 1, and preferably will two 3 orientation along the perpendicular to pay-off direction of limiting plate, along tubular product length direction horizontal sliding installation promptly on material loading chassis 1, and set up the locking mechanism that can lock two 3 positions of limiting plate between two 3 and the material loading chassis 1. Like this in the blowing stage, the utility model discloses can directly fix a position the tubular product of putting through limiting plate one 5 and two 3 of limiting plate to ensure to send tub accurate reliable in position. And simultaneously the utility model discloses can also make its tubular product that adapts to multiple length through the position of adjusting two 3 limiting plates to realize the striking to tubular product through two 3 horizontal migration limiting plates, and realize the accurate location of tubular product through the cooperation of limiting plate 5 and two 3 limiting plates.
In addition, the upper end slope of conveying support 4 is provided with at least one slope roller strip 6, the gyro wheel 22 is installed in the upper end rotation of slope roller strip 6, works as moreover when conveying support 4's upper end parallel arrangement has two at least slope roller strips 6, the crisscross setting of gyro wheel 22 on the adjacent slope roller strip 6, like this the utility model discloses the crisscross gyro wheel 22 that sets up of accessible reduces the clearance between the adjacent gyro wheel 22 to avoid tubular product to take place the card at gyro wheel 22 clearance department and pause. In addition, the highest end of the inclined roller strip 6 is set as a feeding end, the feeding end of the inclined roller strip 6 is provided with a storage rack 2, the lowest end of the inclined roller strip 6 is set as a discharging end, and the discharging end of the inclined roller strip 6 is provided with a material distribution mechanism for single tube rejection and a horizontal clamping and pushing mechanism for horizontally clamping and feeding the tubes.
Specifically, the horizontal clamping and pushing mechanism comprises feeding arms 14, a baffle 13 and a pushing cylinder 17, wherein the feeding arms 14 are horizontally and slidably mounted on the conveying support 4 along the feeding direction through sliding rails 19, and all the feeding arms 14 are synchronously connected with the driving motor 8 through a transmission shaft 7 in a transmission manner. The baffle 13 is rotatably arranged at the discharge end of the feeding arm 14, and the baffle 13 is in transmission connection with a rotary cylinder 18, and the rotary cylinder 18 can drive the baffle 13 to rotate in a vertical plane perpendicular to the feeding direction. The tube clamping device is characterized in that a cylinder body of the pushing cylinder 17 is fixedly arranged on the feeding arm 14, the moving direction of a piston rod of the pushing cylinder 17 is parallel to the moving direction of the feeding arm 14, a push plate 16 is arranged at the end part of the piston rod of the pushing cylinder 17, the push plate 16 is arranged opposite to the corresponding baffle 13, and the push plate 16 can be close to or far away from the baffle 13 under the action of the pushing cylinder 17, so that the tube can be clamped or loosened. In addition, impact force when in order to reduce push pedal 16 and baffle 13 and tubular product contact to and reduce the effort between push pedal 16 and baffle 13 and the tubular product, the utility model discloses still be provided with blotter 15 on one side relative with push pedal 16 on baffle 13 and push pedal 16 with one side relative with baffle 13 to through blotter 15 to the tubular product that presss from both sides between baffle 13 and the push pedal 16 cushions.
The material distribution mechanism comprises a material distribution plate and a material distribution top plate 11, wherein the material distribution plate is arranged at the lowest end of the inclined roller strip 6, a feeding inclined surface 10 is arranged on one side of the material distribution plate close to the highest end of the inclined roller strip 6, and a discharging inclined surface 9 is arranged on one side of the material distribution plate far away from the highest end of the inclined roller strip 6; the material distributing top plate 11 is obliquely arranged on the side face of the conveying support 4, the material distributing top plate 11 is in transmission connection with a material distributing driving cylinder 12, the material distributing driving cylinder 12 is used for driving the material distributing top plate 11 to move along the oblique direction of a feeding inclined face 10 of the material distributing plate, in the moving process, the highest point of the material distributing top plate 11 can be flush with the highest point of the material distributing plate, and the highest point of the material distributing top plate 11 can also be flush with the lowest end of the feeding inclined face 10 of the material distributing plate, so that the material distributing top plate 11 can push the pipes to a discharging inclined face 9 of a discharging side from the feeding inclined face 10 of the material distributing plate, and single pipe removing action, namely material distributing action, is realized. Furthermore, as preferred, the utility model provides a divide the flitch and adopt integral type structure with pay-off arm 14 to simplify overall structure. Additionally, the utility model discloses still be provided with on the feeding inclined plane 10 and the ejection of compact inclined plane 9 of branch flitch and prevent drawing the pad to avoid tubular product by the fish tail when dividing the flitch to roll through preventing drawing the pad.
The utility model discloses a working process does:
1. placing the bundled tubes on the storage rack 2 so as to be conveniently pushed to the inclined roller strip 6 manually;
2. manually pushing the pipe to the inclined roller strip 6, and freely conveying the pipe forwards under the action of self gravity;
3. when a pipe is just contained between the feeding inclined plane 10 and the material distributing top plate 11 of the material distributing plate, the material distributing driving cylinder 12 drives the material distributing top plate 11 to jack up only the pipe, and then the pipe slides down to the horizontal support at the front end of the feeding arm 14 along the material discharging inclined plane 9 of the material distributing plate;
4. the pushing cylinder 17 drives the push plate 16 to push the pipe to lean against the baffle 13, so that the position of the pipe is accurately positioned, and then the pipe feeding of the pipe cutting machine is waited;
5. after the pipe cutting machine finishes machining operation, the driving motor 8 drives the gear 20 to rotate, the feeding arm 14 is driven to feed the pipe into the pipe cutting machine through the matching between the gear 20 and the rack 21, then the pushing cylinder 17 retracts, the supporting device in the pipe cutting machine lifts the pipe, the baffle 13 is rotated and laid down by the rotating cylinder 18 and is lower than the lowest edge of the pipe until a chuck of the pipe cutting machine clamps the pipe;
6. the drive motor 8 drives the feed arm 14 to retract smoothly to the top tube position and ready for the next cycle.
The terms "first," "second," "third," "fourth," and the like (if any) in the description and claims of the present invention and in the above-described drawings are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the invention described herein are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or otherwise described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprising" and "having," as well as any variations thereof, are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions.
The previous description of the disclosed embodiments is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to make or use the present invention. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.

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1. The utility model provides a simple and easy automatic feeding device, its characterized in that, includes at least one delivery support, the upper end slope of delivery support is provided with at least one slope roller strip, the upper end of slope roller strip is rotated and is installed the gyro wheel, the highest end of slope roller strip sets up to the feed end, just the feed end of slope roller strip has the storage frame, the lowest end of slope roller strip sets up to the discharge end, just the discharge end of slope roller strip is provided with feed mechanism and the tight pushing equipment of horizontal clamp.
2. The simple automatic feeding device according to claim 1, wherein at least two inclined roller strips are arranged at the upper end of the conveying support in parallel, and the rollers on adjacent inclined roller strips are arranged in a staggered manner.
3. The simple automatic feeding device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the horizontal clamping and pushing mechanism comprises a feeding arm, a baffle plate and a pushing cylinder, the feeding arm is horizontally slidably mounted on the conveying support along a feeding direction, the baffle plate is rotatably mounted at a discharging end of the feeding arm, a cylinder body of the pushing cylinder is fixedly mounted on the feeding arm, a moving direction of a piston rod of the pushing cylinder is parallel to a moving direction of the feeding arm, a push plate is arranged at an end of the piston rod of the pushing cylinder, and the push plate is arranged opposite to the corresponding baffle plate.
4. The simple automatic feeding device according to claim 3, wherein the baffle plate is in transmission connection with a rotary cylinder, and the rotation plane of the baffle plate is perpendicular to the feeding direction.
5. The simple automatic feeding device according to claim 3, wherein the distributing mechanism comprises a distributing plate and a distributing top plate, the distributing plate is arranged at the lowest end of the inclined roller strip, a feeding inclined surface is arranged on one side of the distributing plate close to the highest end of the inclined roller strip, and a discharging inclined surface is arranged on one side of the distributing plate far away from the highest end of the inclined roller strip; the material distributing top plate is obliquely arranged on the side face of the conveying support, the material distributing top plate is connected with a material distributing driving cylinder in a transmission mode, the material distributing driving cylinder is used for driving the material distributing top plate to move along the oblique direction of the feeding inclined face of the material distributing plate, and the highest point of the material distributing top plate can be flush with the highest point of the material distributing plate.
6. The simple automatic feeding device according to claim 5, wherein the feeding inclined surface and the discharging inclined surface of the material distributing plate are provided with anti-scratch pads, and the side of the baffle plate opposite to the push plate and the side of the push plate opposite to the baffle plate are provided with buffer pads.
7. The simple automatic feeding device according to claim 5, wherein the material distributing plate and the feeding arm are of an integrated structure, and the material distributing plate can be aligned with the material distributing mechanism.
8. The simple automatic feeding device according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising a feeding chassis, wherein all the conveying brackets are installed above the feeding chassis.
9. The simple automatic feeding device according to claim 8, wherein a first limiting plate and a second limiting plate are respectively arranged at two ends of the feeding side of the feeding underframe, the first limiting plate and the second limiting plate are oppositely arranged, and all the conveying supports are positioned between the first limiting plate and the second limiting plate.
10. The simple automatic feeding device according to claim 9, wherein the first limiting plate is fixedly mounted on the feeding underframe or on a corresponding conveying support, the second limiting plate is horizontally and slidably mounted on the feeding underframe along the length direction of the pipe, and a locking mechanism is arranged between the second limiting plate and the feeding underframe.
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