CN218114604U - Reeling device for silk-like cotton production line - Google Patents

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CN218114604U
CN218114604U CN202222142868.8U CN202222142868U CN218114604U CN 218114604 U CN218114604 U CN 218114604U CN 202222142868 U CN202222142868 U CN 202222142868U CN 218114604 U CN218114604 U CN 218114604U
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The utility model belongs to the technical field of imitative cotton production facility technique and specifically relates to a coiling apparatus for imitative cotton production line, including installation base and receipts reel, the top of installation base and the back that is located the receipts reel are provided with the mechanism of smoothing out the fingers the silk, the top of installation base and the position department of the reel that should receive relatively are provided with the winding mechanism, the front side at installation base top is provided with guiding mechanism, the utility model discloses in, at the in-process of batching process to imitative cotton, smooth out the line rubber head and carry out the slip laminating operation on the spinning cotton of rolling reel surface, make the part that imitative cotton drum rises smooth out the line, avoid imitative cotton to batch the production of in-process goffer, under the effect of shrink spring, make down the depression bar possess certain elasticity space that can independently adjust from top to bottom simultaneously, consequently can ensure that even thickening constantly in batching along with imitative cotton, smooth out the line rubber head also can laminate with imitative cotton surface all the time, improve the off-the-shelf quality of batching back.

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Reeling device for silk-like cotton production line
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a cotton production facility technical field of imitative silk specifically is a cotton coiling apparatus for production line of imitative silk.
Background
The spun cotton is a preferred filler for high-grade cold protective clothing, and has the characteristics of delicate hand feeling, good heat-insulating effect, no change in heat insulation after washing, lightness, softness, good elasticity, flatness, fluffiness, washing resistance, easy storage, moisture resistance and the like.
Spinning cotton need use coiling equipment to carry out the rolling to imitative silk cotton in the in-process of processing production, however current imitative silk cotton coiling equipment still has certain not enough in use: the silk floss is easy to bulge to cause wrinkles along with the process of reeling and winding the silk-like cotton, so that the silk-like cotton is indented; the wire feeding assembly moving left and right is too simple, cannot ensure that the silk floss always keeps the tensile force when being reeled, and reduces the tightening force when being wound, thereby influencing the reeling work.
Therefore, the winding device for the silk-like cotton production line is designed to change the technical defects and improve the overall practicability, and is very important.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
An object of the utility model is to provide a coiling apparatus for silk-like cotton production line to solve the problem that proposes among the above-mentioned background art.
In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a following technical scheme:
a coiling device for a silk-like cotton production line comprises an installation base and a winding drum, wherein a silk smoothing mechanism is arranged on the top of the installation base and positioned on the back of the winding drum, a winding mechanism is arranged on the top of the installation base and at a position corresponding to the winding drum, a guide mechanism is arranged on the front side of the top of the installation base, a support cross rod is connected to the top of the installation base and positioned on the rear side of the guide mechanism, and a lead sliding seat is sleeved on the outer side of the support cross rod in a sliding manner;
the wire smoothing mechanism comprises a fixed vertical plate fixedly mounted on the back of the mounting base, the top end of the fixed vertical plate is rotatably connected with a lower pressing rod extending forwards, one end of the lower pressing rod, away from the fixed vertical plate, is connected with a wire smoothing rubber head matched with the winding cylinder, and contraction springs are connected between one ends of the left side and the right side of the lower pressing rod, facing the fixed vertical plate, and the fixed vertical plate;
the guiding mechanism comprises a lead screw connected to the inner side of the top of the installation base, one end of the lead screw penetrates through the installation base and is connected with a positive motor and a negative motor, slide bars are installed at the inner side of the top of the installation base and located at the front end and the rear end of the lead screw, a slide seat is connected between the lead screw and the slide bar jointly, a folding type support is arranged on the slide seat towards one side of the winding drum, a guiding tensioning frame is arranged at the top of the folding type support, a silk thread clamping plate is arranged at the bottom of the guiding tensioning frame, and a guiding wheel assembly is connected to the top of the guiding tensioning frame.
As the utility model discloses preferred scheme, winding mechanism includes that one end rotates the rolling pivot of connection inboard at installation base top, the fixed coupling in the outside of rolling pivot has the pulley disc, the rolling motor is installed at the top of installation base, the drive end of rolling motor is connected with driving pulley, the top of installation base and the rear side that is located rolling motor install the pivot seat, the inside of pivot seat is rotated and is connected with the dwang, the equal fixedly connected with driven pulleys in both ends of dwang, it is two sets of driven pulleys are connected through driving belt between respectively with driving pulley, the pulley disc.
As the utility model discloses preferred scheme, the right side of installation base is provided with control panel, control panel respectively with rolling motor, positive and negative motor between be connected through the wire, and the mode electric connection who connects.
As the utility model discloses preferred scheme, it glues the head and makes for the surface is scribbled the rubber material that has the polyurethane coating and the bottom is the camber setting with fingers the line, it glues the surface of the part of the rolling rod in head and the rolling section of thick bamboo and is the slip laminating connection with stroking with fingers the line.
As the utility model discloses preferred scheme, the winding barrel suit is in the outside of rolling pivot, and the other end threaded connection of rolling pivot has and carries out spacing fixation nut to fixed winding drum, be detachable structural design between winding drum and the rolling pivot.
As the utility model discloses preferred scheme, the both ends of lead screw are all rotated through the bearing frame and are connected the inboard at the installation base, positive and negative motor passes through bolt and installation base fixed connection.
As the utility model discloses preferred scheme, the connected mode between slide and the lead screw is threaded connection, connected mode between slide and the slide bar is sliding connection.
As the utility model discloses preferred scheme, the leading wheel subassembly comprises leading wheel board and two sets of leading wheels that distribute from top to bottom, wherein rotates between leading wheel and the leading wheel board to be connected, and fixed connection between leading wheel board and the direction tensioning frame.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that:
1. the utility model discloses in, through the coiling apparatus for silk-like cotton production line that sets up, at the in-process that batches the process to silk-like cotton, smooth out the line rubber head and carry out the laminating operation that slides on the spinning cotton of winding drum surface, the part that makes silk-like cotton bulge is smoothed out in the same direction as, avoid silk-like cotton to batch the production of in-process goffer, simultaneously under the effect of shrink spring, make down the depression bar possess certain elasticity space that can independently adjust from top to bottom, consequently can ensure that the winding drum is inside even along with silk-like cotton batches in constantly the thickens, smooth out the line rubber head also can laminate with silk-like cotton surface all the time, improve the off-the-shelf quality after batching.
2. The utility model discloses in, through the coiling apparatus for silk-like cotton production line that sets up, at the in-process that batches the process to silk-like cotton, silk floss keeps the tensile force throughout when guaranteeing to batch under the cooperation of book type support, direction tensioning frame, silk thread cardboard and leading wheel subassembly, improve the dynamics of tightening when twining, guarantee the inlet wire under the common direction of lead screw, slide bar and slide and support horizontal pole and lead wire slide simultaneously smoothly, make the even winding of silk-like cotton receive the inboard of reel, improve the efficiency of batching.
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FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the overall structure of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a structural diagram of the guiding mechanism of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a structural diagram of the yarn smoothing mechanism of the utility model.
In the figure: 1. installing a base; 2. winding the roll; 3. a wire smoothing mechanism; 301. fixing the vertical plate; 302. a lower pressure lever; 303. stroking the thread rubber head; 304. a retraction spring; 4. a winding mechanism; 401. a winding rotating shaft; 402. a pulley disc; 403. a winding motor; 404. a driving pulley; 405. a rotating shaft seat; 406. rotating the rod; 407. a driven pulley; 408. a drive belt; 5. a guide mechanism; 501. a screw rod; 502. a positive and negative motor; 503. a slide bar; 504. a slide base; 505. a fold-type stent; 506. a guide tensioning frame; 507. a silk thread clamping plate; 508. a guide wheel assembly; 6. a support rail; 7. a lead slide; 8. a control panel.
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The technical solution in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below in conjunction with the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, rather than all embodiments, and all other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art without creative work belong to the scope of the present invention based on the embodiments of the present invention.
In order to facilitate understanding of the present invention, the present invention will be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings. Several embodiments of the present invention are presented. The invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete.
It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" another element, it can be directly on the other element or intervening elements may also be present. When an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present. The terms "vertical," "horizontal," "left," "right," and the like as used herein are for illustrative purposes only.
Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used in the description of the invention herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used herein, the term "and/or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.
In an embodiment, please refer to fig. 1-3, the present invention provides a technical solution:
a reeling device for a silk-like cotton production line comprises an installation base 1 and a reeling drum 2, wherein installation holes are symmetrically formed in the installation base 1 and can be installed on a production line table board, a silk smoothing mechanism 3 is arranged at the top of the installation base 1 and on the back of the reeling drum 2, a reeling mechanism 4 is arranged at the top of the installation base 1 and at a position corresponding to the reeling drum 2, a guide mechanism 5 is arranged on the front side of the top of the installation base 1, a support cross rod 6 is connected to the top of the installation base 1 and on the rear side of the guide mechanism 5, and a lead slide 7 is slidably sleeved on the outer side of the support cross rod 6;
wherein the right side of installation base 1 is provided with control panel 8, and control panel 8 is connected through the wire between coiling motor 403, the positive and negative motor 502 respectively, and the mode electric connection of just connecting.
In this embodiment, referring to fig. 1 and 3, the yarn smoothing mechanism 3 includes a fixed vertical plate 301 fixedly installed on the back of the installation base 1, a lower pressing rod 302 extending forward is rotatably connected to the top end of the fixed vertical plate 301, one end of the lower pressing rod 302 away from the fixed vertical plate 301 is connected with a yarn smoothing glue head 303 used in cooperation with the winding drum 2, a contraction spring 304 is connected between one end of the lower pressing rod 302 facing the fixed vertical plate 301 and the fixed vertical plate 301, the yarn smoothing glue head 303 can perform sliding fitting operation on the spun cotton on the surface of the winding drum 2, so that the bulged part of the spun cotton is smoothed, wrinkles are prevented from being generated in the process of winding the spun cotton, and meanwhile, under the action of the contraction spring 304, the lower pressing rod 302 has a certain elastic space capable of being adjusted up and down automatically, so that the yarn smoothing glue head 303 can be always fitted with the surface of the spun cotton even if the inside of the winding drum 2 is thickened continuously during winding, and the quality of a finished product after winding is improved;
wherein the glue head 303 of acting on the fingers is made for the rubber material that the surface was paintd the polyurethane coating and the bottom is the setting of arc shape, and the scratch to imitative silk cotton thread is avoided on glossy surface, causes the phenomenon of drawing out silks, and the glue head 303 of acting on the fingers is connected with the surface of the rolling rod part in the winding cylinder 2 in a sliding fit way.
In this embodiment, referring to fig. 1 and fig. 2, the guiding mechanism 5 includes a screw rod 501 connected to the inner side of the top of the mounting base 1, one end of the screw rod 501 penetrates through the mounting base 1 and is connected to a positive and negative motor 502, slide rods 503 are mounted on the inner side of the top of the mounting base 1 and located at the front and rear ends of the screw rod 501, a slide carriage 504 is connected between the screw rod 501 and the slide rods 503, a folding bracket 505 is disposed on one side of the slide carriage 504 facing the winding drum 2, a guiding tension frame 506 is disposed on the top of the folding bracket 505, a thread clamping plate 507 is disposed at the bottom of the guiding tension frame 506, a guide wheel assembly 508 is connected to the top of the guiding tension frame 506, and under the common cooperation of the folding bracket 505, the guiding tension 506, the thread clamping plate 507, and the guide wheel assembly 508, the thread is ensured to be always kept at the time of winding, and the tightening force during winding is improved;
the two ends of the screw rod 501 are rotatably connected to the inner side of the installation base 1 through bearing seats, the positive and negative motor 502 is fixedly connected with the installation base 1 through bolts, the sliding seat 504 is in threaded connection with the screw rod 501, the screw rod 501 drives the sliding seat 504 to move transversely through threads when rotating, the sliding seat 504 is in sliding connection with the sliding rod 503, and stability during reciprocating motion is guaranteed, the guide wheel assembly 508 is composed of a guide wheel plate and two groups of guide wheels which are distributed vertically, silk-like cotton threads penetrate through the two groups of guide wheels, and tension is guaranteed while smooth incoming threads are guaranteed, wherein the guide wheels are rotatably connected with the guide wheel plate, and the guide wheel plate is fixedly connected with the guide tensioning frame 506.
In this embodiment, referring to fig. 1, the winding mechanism 4 includes a winding shaft 401 having one end rotatably connected to the inside of the top of the mounting base 1, a pulley disc 402 fixedly sleeved on the outside of the winding shaft 401, a winding motor 403 mounted on the top of the mounting base 1, a driving pulley 404 connected to a driving end of the winding motor 403, a shaft seat 405 mounted on the top of the mounting base 1 and located at the rear side of the winding motor 403, a rotating rod 406 rotatably connected to the inside of the shaft seat 405, driven pulleys 407 fixedly connected to both ends of the rotating rod 406, and two sets of driven pulleys 407 respectively connected to the driving pulley 404 and the pulley disc 402 via a transmission belt 408;
wherein the winding drum 2 suit is in the outside of rolling pivot 401, and the other end threaded connection of rolling pivot 401 has to carry out spacing fixation nut to fixed winding drum 2, is detachable structural design between winding drum 2 and the rolling pivot 401, makes things convenient for the installation and the change of winding drum 2.
The utility model discloses work flow: in the process of reeling silk-like cotton on a silk-like cotton production line, firstly, the winding drum 2 is sleeved at the unfixed end of the winding rotating shaft 401, then the winding drum 2 is fixed on the winding rotating shaft 401 through a fixing nut, then one end of the silk-like cotton penetrates through the middle of the guide tensioning frame 506, then is clamped at the silk thread clamping plate 507, penetrates through two groups of guide wheels in the guide wheel assembly 508, finally penetrates through the lead sliding seat 7 and is connected with the winding drum 2, and wiring arrangement is completed; then, the curling device is started through the control panel 8, at this time, the winding motor 403 starts to start to drive the driving pulley 404 to start rotating, the driving pulley 408 drives the driven pulley 407 and the rotating rod 406 at one end to start rotating inside the rotating shaft seat 405, the driving pulley 407 and the rotating rod 406 at the other end follow the rotating driven pulley 407 to drive the pulley disc 402 to rotate through the driving belt 408, so that the winding rotating shaft 401 starts to rotate, and the winding drum 2 is driven to start winding the silk-like cotton threads; meanwhile, the forward and reverse motors 502 start to drive the screw rod 501 to rotate, so that the sliding seat 504 in threaded connection with the screw rod 501 starts to do transverse reciprocating movement to drive the silk-like cotton thread to move back and forth and to be uniformly wound on the inner side of the winding drum 2, the lead sliding seat 7 also does axial movement on the supporting cross rod 6 in the moving process to increase the stability of inlet wire movement, and the silk floss is ensured to always keep a tension force during winding under the common cooperation of the folding support 505, the guide tension 506, the silk floss clamping plate 507 and the guide wheel assembly 508, so that the tension force during winding is improved; in the winding process, the yarn smoothing glue head 303 always performs sliding fitting operation on the spun cotton on the surface of the winding drum 2, so that the bulged part of the silk-like cotton is smoothed out, wrinkles in the silk-like cotton winding process are avoided, and meanwhile, the pressing rod 302 has a certain elastic space capable of being independently adjusted up and down under the action of the contraction spring 304, so that the yarn smoothing glue head 303 can be always fitted with the surface of the silk-like cotton even if the inside of the winding drum 2 is continuously thickened along with the reeling of the silk-like cotton, and the quality of a finished product after winding is improved.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.

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1. The utility model provides a coiling apparatus for silk-like cotton production line, includes installation base (1) and winding drum (2), its characterized in that: a wire smoothing mechanism (3) is arranged on the top of the mounting base (1) and on the back of the winding drum (2), a winding mechanism (4) is arranged on the top of the mounting base (1) and at a position corresponding to the winding drum (2), a guide mechanism (5) is arranged on the front side of the top of the mounting base (1), a support cross rod (6) is connected to the top of the mounting base (1) and on the rear side of the guide mechanism (5), and a lead sliding seat (7) is sleeved on the outer side of the support cross rod (6) in a sliding manner;
the wire smoothing mechanism (3) comprises a fixed vertical plate (301) fixedly mounted on the back of the mounting base (1), the top end of the fixed vertical plate (301) is rotatably connected with a lower pressing rod (302) extending forwards, one end, far away from the fixed vertical plate (301), of the lower pressing rod (302) is connected with a wire smoothing glue head (303) matched with the winding barrel (2) for use, and a contraction spring (304) is connected between one end, facing the fixed vertical plate (301), of the left side and the right side of the lower pressing rod (302) and the fixed vertical plate (301);
guiding mechanism (5) are including connecting lead screw (501) at installation base (1) top inboard, the one end of lead screw (501) is run through installation base (1) and is connected with positive and negative motor (502), slide bar (503) are all installed at the inboard front and back both ends that just are located lead screw (501) at installation base (1) top, be connected with slide (504) between lead screw (501) and slide bar (503) jointly, slide (504) are provided with folding type support (505) towards one side of receiving reel (2), the top of folding type support (505) is provided with direction tensioning frame (506), the bottom of direction tensioning frame (506) is provided with silk thread cardboard (507), the top of direction tensioning frame (506) is connected with leading wheel subassembly (508).
2. The winding device for the silk-like cotton production line according to claim 1, characterized in that: winding mechanism (4) include that one end rotates to connect in the inboard rolling pivot (401) in installation base (1) top, the fixed cover in the outside of rolling pivot (401) has connect pulley disc (402), rolling motor (403) are installed at the top of installation base (1), the drive end of rolling motor (403) is connected with driving pulley (404), the top of installation base (1) and the rear side that is located rolling motor (403) install pivot seat (405), the internal rotation of pivot seat (405) is connected with dwang (406), the equal fixedly connected with in both ends driven pulley (407) of dwang (406), two sets of driven pulley (407) are connected through drive belt (408) between respectively with driving pulley (404), pulley disc (402).
3. The winding device for the silk-like cotton production line according to claim 1, characterized in that: the right side of installation base (1) is provided with control panel (8), control panel (8) respectively with rolling motor (403), positive and negative motor (502) between be connected through the wire, and the mode electric connection of connecting.
4. The winding device for the silk-like cotton production line according to claim 1, characterized in that: the wire smoothing glue head (303) is made of a rubber material with a polyurethane coating coated on the surface and an arc-shaped bottom, and the wire smoothing glue head (303) is connected with the surface of the winding rod component in the winding cylinder (2) in a sliding fit manner.
5. The winding device for the silk-like cotton production line according to claim 1, characterized in that: the winding drum (2) is sleeved on the outer side of the winding rotating shaft (401), the other end of the winding rotating shaft (401) is in threaded connection with a fixing nut for limiting the fixed winding drum (2), and the winding drum (2) and the winding rotating shaft (401) are in separable structural design.
6. The winding device for the silk-like cotton production line according to claim 1, characterized in that: the two ends of the screw rod (501) are rotatably connected to the inner side of the mounting base (1) through bearing seats, and the positive and negative motor (502) is fixedly connected with the mounting base (1) through bolts.
7. The winding device for the silk-like cotton production line according to claim 1, characterized in that: the connection mode between the sliding seat (504) and the screw rod (501) is threaded connection, and the connection mode between the sliding seat (504) and the sliding rod (503) is sliding connection.
8. The winding device for the silk-like cotton production line according to claim 1, characterized in that: the guide wheel assembly (508) is composed of a guide wheel plate and two groups of guide wheels which are distributed up and down, wherein the guide wheels are rotatably connected with the guide wheel plate, and the guide wheel plate is fixedly connected with the guide tensioning frame (506).
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