CN218423070U - Fabric cloth chopper with filtering function - Google Patents

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CN218423070U
CN218423070U CN202222650973.2U CN202222650973U CN218423070U CN 218423070 U CN218423070 U CN 218423070U CN 202222650973 U CN202222650973 U CN 202222650973U CN 218423070 U CN218423070 U CN 218423070U
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The utility model discloses a take filtering capability's surface fabric cloth shredder, including the cloth shredder, the cloth shredder includes breaker and filter, and the breaker includes broken case, and the inside of broken case is provided with crushing mechanism, and one side of broken case is passed through the connecting pipe and is connected with the filter, and the filter is including filtering the storehouse, and the inside of filtering the storehouse is provided with the filter vat, filters the top in storehouse and installs the air discharge fan, the utility model discloses a broken mechanism that sets up can carry out the breakage to the cloth shredder surface fabric, and the fibre dust that produces among the crushing process can discharge into the filter storehouse through the connecting pipe, through filtering the filter vat of the inside setting in storehouse, can filter the fibre dust, and the clean gas after the filtration can be discharged through the air discharge fan that sets up, filters the fibre dust through setting up can be fine, and then can greatly reduced the influence that the dust caused operational environment.

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Fabric cloth chopper with filtering function
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a cloth chopper technical field specifically is a take filtering capability's surface fabric cloth chopper.
Background
Due to the continuous development and progress of science and technology and human material civilization, various new production materials are continuously emerged, a large amount of waste products or products needing to be processed are generated in various production accompanied by new material generation, and only soft fiber products and textile materials can play a great role, so that the fiber products, textile products and leather products are difficult to crush and process by using common crushing machines due to the longitudinal and transverse interweaving of fiber structures of the fibers, the textile products and the leather products, the tissue is compact, the pulling strength is high, and the special soft physical state is added, the manual processing mode is small in strength and far short of the production requirement at present when the modern industry is highly developed, and the cloth crusher is simple in the aspect due to the special structure and outstanding performance.
The cloth crusher is the machine of loosening rag raw materials fibre and clear away impurity, accords with the recycling economy that the country advocated, has profound influence to lasting development, but present reducing mechanism is on the side on the smashing to the cloth and has ignored the rag and can produce the fibre dust after smashing, causes serious influence to operational environment.
There is a need for improvement in view of the above problems.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
An object of the utility model is to provide a take filtering capability's surface fabric cloth chopper to solve the problem that above-mentioned background art provided.
In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a following technical scheme: a fabric cloth crusher with a filtering function comprises a cloth crusher, wherein the cloth crusher comprises a crusher and a filter, the crusher comprises a crushing box, a feeding hole and a storage bin, the feeding hole is formed in the top of the crushing box, the storage bin is arranged at the bottom of a bottom plate, the top of the storage bin penetrates through the bottom plate and is communicated with the bottom of the crushing box, a crushing mechanism is arranged inside the crushing box, and one side of the crushing box is connected with the filter through a connecting pipe;
the filter comprises a filter bin and a dust collection bin, a filter barrel is arranged in the filter bin, an exhaust fan is installed at the top of the filter bin, the dust collection bin is arranged at the bottom of the bottom plate, and the top of the dust collection bin penetrates through the inside of the bottom plate and is communicated with the bottom of the filter bin.
Preferably, the crushing mechanisms are arranged in two groups, and the two groups of crushing mechanisms are sequentially arranged from top to bottom.
Preferably, crushing mechanism includes two sets of rag gyro wheels, and is two sets of rag gear intermeshing is two sets of the inside of rag gyro wheel all runs through there is the pivot, and is two sets of the one end of pivot all through first bearing with one side inner wall connection of broken case, it is two sets of the other end of pivot is connected with driving gear and driven gear respectively, the opposite side of driving gear and the output welding of first motor.
Preferably, the upper and lower groups of cloth chopping gears have different crushing particle sizes, and the particle size of the upper cloth chopping gear is larger than that of the lower cloth chopping gear.
Preferably, an extraction fan is installed inside the connection pipe.
Preferably, a partition plate is arranged inside the filter bin, the filter barrel penetrates through the partition plate, a gas outlet is formed in the top of the filter barrel, the outer side of the gas outlet is connected with the partition plate in a sealing mode, a lifting plate is sleeved on the outer side of the filter barrel, a through groove is formed in the top of the lifting plate, a brush is installed on the inner wall of the through groove, thread grooves and through holes are formed in two sides of the brush respectively, a screw is connected with the thread grooves in a threaded mode, the upper end and the lower end of the screw are connected with the bottom of the partition plate and the bottom of the filter bin respectively through second bearings, a first bevel gear is sleeved at the position, close to the bottom, of the screw, meshed with a second bevel gear, a connecting shaft is welded to one side of the second bevel gear, the other end of the connecting shaft is welded with the output end of a second motor, a limiting rod penetrates through the inside of the through hole, and the upper end and the lower end of the limiting rod are welded with the bottom of the partition plate and the bottom of the filter bin respectively.
Preferably, the bottom of the storage bin and the bottom of the dust collecting bin are respectively provided with a storage bin cover and a dust collecting bin cover, and the bottom of the storage bin cover and the bottom of the dust collecting bin cover are respectively provided with a first handle and a second handle.
Preferably, four groups of supporting legs are installed to the bottom of bottom plate, four groups the universal wheel of stopping is all installed to the bottom of supporting leg.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that:
1. the utility model discloses a first motor can drive the driving gear and rotate, and the driving gear can drive driven gear and rotate simultaneously through the meshing with driven gear, thereby can drive two sets of pivots and rotate, and two sets of pivots can drive two sets of rags gyro wheel and rotate, thereby can carry out broken operation to the rag surface fabric through the rag gyro wheel, through the upper and lower two sets of particle size different broken gyro wheels that set up, can be abundant carry out the breakage to the rag surface fabric, thereby can improve the work efficiency of broken mechanism.
2. The utility model discloses a filter vat that sets up can filter the dust, under the effect of air discharge fan, gas after the filtration is finally discharged through the gas outlet and is filtered the storehouse, the dust granule of filtering, some can fall into the dust collection storehouse, some then can remain on the lateral wall of filter vat, then, through starting the second motor, the second motor can drive second bevel gear and rotate, second bevel gear can take first bevel gear to rotate, first bevel gear can drive the screw rod and rotate, the screw rod can drive threaded connection's lifter plate and reciprocate, thereby the lifter plate can drive the brush and reciprocate and sweep away the remaining dust granule in filter vat surface, through cleaning the filtering quality who keeps the filter vat, prevent to be blockked up by the dust granule, and then can be fine filter the fibre dust, greatly reduced the influence that the dust caused operational environment.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the overall structure of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a bottom view of the overall structure of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a front cross-sectional view of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a structural view of the elevating plate of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a structural diagram of the crushing mechanism of the present invention;
fig. 6 is an enlarged view of the position a of the present invention.
In the figure: 1. the device comprises a crushing box, 2, a feeding hole, 3, a storage bin, 4, a connecting pipe, 5, a filtering bin, 6, an exhaust fan, 7, a dust collecting bin, 8, a cloth crushing roller, 9, a rotating shaft, 10, a first bearing, 11, a driving gear, 12, a driven gear, 13, a first motor, 14, a storage bin cover, 15, a first handle, 16, an exhaust fan, 17, a partition plate, 18, a filtering barrel, 19, an air outlet, 20, a lifting plate, 21, a hairbrush, 22, a thread groove, 23, a through hole, 24, a screw rod, 25, a second bearing, 26, a first bevel gear, 27, a second bevel gear, 28, a connecting shaft, 29, a second motor, 30, a limiting rod, 31, a dust collecting bin cover, 32, a second handle, 33, a bottom plate, 34, supporting legs, 35 and a universal wheel with a brake.
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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.
Example one
Referring to fig. 1-6, the utility model provides a fabric cloth crusher with filtering function, including cloth crusher, cloth crusher includes breaker and filter, breaker includes crushing case 1, feed inlet 2 and storage bin 3, feed inlet 2 sets up at the top of crushing case 1, storage bin 3 sets up the bottom at bottom plate 33, the top of storage bin 3 runs through bottom plate 33, and communicates with the bottom of crushing case 1, the inside of crushing case 1 is provided with crushing mechanism, one side of crushing case 1 is connected with the filter through connecting pipe 4, the inside of connecting pipe 4 is installed with suction fan 16;
the filter includes filtering bin 5 and dust collecting bin 7, and filtering bin 5's inside is provided with filter vat 18, and the top of filtering bin 5 is installed exhaust fan 6, and dust collecting bin 7 sets up the bottom at bottom plate 33, and the top of dust collecting bin 7 runs through the inside through bottom plate 33 and with the bottom intercommunication of filtering bin 5.
In this embodiment, through the feed inlet 2 that sets up, can drop into broken case 1 with the rag surface fabric, through the inside broken mechanism that sets up of broken case 1, can carry out the breakage to the rag surface fabric, the rag of broken completion can be collected through storage bin 3, the fibre dust that produces in the crushing process, can be discharged under the effect of the suction fan 16 of 4 inside settings of connecting pipe into filter house 5, through the inside filter vat 18 that sets up of filter house 5, can filter the fibre dust, the dust of filtering can be collected through dust collection bin 7, clean gas after the filtration can be discharged through the air discharge fan 6 that sets up, filter the fibre dust that can be fine through the setting, and then can the greatly reduced dust is to the influence that operational environment caused.
Referring to fig. 3 and 5, the crushing mechanism is provided with two groups, the two groups of crushing mechanisms are sequentially arranged from top to bottom, each crushing mechanism comprises two groups of cloth crushing rollers 8, two groups of cloth crushing gears 8 are meshed with each other, the two groups of cloth crushing rollers 8 are internally penetrated through rotating shafts 9, one ends of the two groups of rotating shafts 9 are connected with the inner wall of one side of the crushing box 1 through first bearings 10, the other ends of the two groups of rotating shafts 9 are respectively connected with driving gears 11 and driven gears 12, the other side of the driving gear 11 is welded with the output end of a first motor 13, the crushed particle sizes of the upper and lower groups of cloth crushing gears 8 are different, and the particle size of the upper cloth crushing gear 8 is larger than that of the lower cloth crushing gear 8.
In this embodiment, through starting first motor 13, first motor 13 can drive driving gear 11 and rotate, driving gear 11 is through the meshing effect with driven gear 12, can drive driven gear 12 and rotate simultaneously, thereby can drive two sets of pivots 9 and rotate, two sets of pivots 9 can drive two sets of rag gyro wheels 8 and rotate, thereby can carry out broken operation to the rag surface fabric through rag gyro wheel 8, through the upper and lower two sets of different broken gyro wheels 8 of particle size that set up, can be abundant carry out the breakage to the rag surface fabric, thereby can improve crushing mechanism's work efficiency.
Referring to fig. 2, 3, 4 and 6, a partition 17 is disposed inside the filter bin 5, a filter barrel 18 penetrates through the partition 17, an air outlet 19 is disposed on the top of the filter barrel 18, the outer side of the air outlet 19 is hermetically connected with the partition 17, a lifting plate 20 is sleeved on the outer side of the filter barrel 18, a through groove is disposed on the top of the lifting plate 20, a brush 21 is mounted on the inner wall of the through groove, a thread groove 22 and a through hole 23 are respectively disposed on two sides of the brush 21, the thread groove 22 is in threaded connection with a screw rod 24, the upper end and the lower end of the screw rod 24 are respectively connected with the bottom of the partition 17 and the bottom of the filter bin 5 through a second bearing 25, a first bevel gear 26 is sleeved on the position of the screw rod 24 close to the bottom, a second bevel gear 27 is engaged with the first bevel gear 26, a connecting shaft 28 is welded on one side of the second bevel gear 27, the other end of the connecting shaft 28 is welded with the output end of a second motor 29, a limiting rod 30 penetrates through the through hole 23, the upper end and the lower end of the limiting rod 30 are respectively welded with the bottom of the partition 17 and the bottom of the filter bin 5, a storage cap 14 and a dust collecting cap 31 are respectively mounted on the bottom of the storage bin 7, and a dust collecting cap 31, respectively mounted on the dust collecting cap 31, and a dust collecting cap 15.
In this embodiment, after the fiber dust is discharged into the filter bin 5, the dust can be filtered through the filter barrel 18 that is arranged, under the effect of the exhaust fan 6, the filtered gas is finally discharged out of the filter bin 5 through the air outlet 19, the filtered dust particles, some can fall into the dust collection bin 7, some can remain on the side wall of the filter barrel 18, at this time, by starting the second motor 29, the second motor 29 can drive the second bevel gear 27 to rotate, the second bevel gear 27 can drive the first bevel gear 26 to rotate, the first bevel gear 26 can drive the screw rod 24 to rotate, the screw rod 24 can drive the lifting plate 20 in threaded connection to move up and down, thereby the lifting plate 20 can drive the brush 21 to move up and down to sweep away the residual dust particles on the surface of the filter barrel 18, and further can keep the filtering performance of the filter barrel 18 through cleaning, the blockage by the dust particles is prevented, through the limiting rod 30 that is arranged, the effect of supporting and limiting can be played to one side of the lifting plate 20 far away from the screw rod 24, through the storage bin cover 14 that is arranged, the first handle 15, the second handle cover 31 and the second handle 32, thereby facilitating the opening of the dust collection bin 3 and the dust collection bin 7, thereby facilitating the dust collection bin discharging of the dust collection bin and discharging materials.
Referring to fig. 1 and 2, four sets of support legs 34 are mounted at the bottom of the bottom plate 33, and universal wheels 35 with brakes are mounted at the bottoms of the four sets of support legs 34.
In this embodiment, through the supporting leg 34 and the universal wheel 35 of stopping of area that set up, can make things convenient for the removal of cloth chopper to can make the cloth chopper have more the flexibility, satisfy the user demand in different places.
The working principle, the utility model relates to a surface fabric cloth chopper with filtering capability, at first, drop into broken cloth surface fabric into crushing case 1 through feed inlet 2, through starting first motor 13, first motor 13 can drive driving gear 11 and rotate, driving gear 11 can drive driven gear 12 and rotate simultaneously, thereby can drive two sets of pivots 9 and rotate, two sets of pivots 9 can drive two sets of broken cloth gyro wheels 8 and rotate, can carry out crushing operation to the broken cloth surface fabric through broken cloth gyro wheel 8, the broken cloth that the breakage was accomplished can be collected through storage storehouse 3, the fibre dust that produces in the crushing process, can be discharged into filtering storehouse 5 under the effect of the induced draft fan 16 that sets up inside connecting pipe 4;
after the fiber dust is discharged into the filter bin 5, the dust can be filtered through the filter barrel 18 arranged, under the action of the exhaust fan 6, the filtered gas is finally discharged out of the filter bin 5 through the gas outlet 19, some dust particles can fall into the dust collection bin 7, and some dust particles can remain on the side wall of the filter barrel 18, at the moment, the second motor 29 is started, the second motor 29 can drive the second bevel gear 27 to rotate, the second bevel gear 27 can drive the first bevel gear 26 to rotate, the first bevel gear 26 can drive the screw rod 24 to rotate, the screw rod 24 can drive the lifting plate 20 in threaded connection to move up and down, so that the lifting plate 20 can drive the brush 21 to move up and down to sweep away the dust particles remaining on the surface of the filter barrel 18, the filtering performance of the filter barrel 18 can be kept through cleaning, the dust particles are prevented from being blocked, and the whole work flow is completed.
Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications may be made to the embodiments or portions thereof without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

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1. The utility model provides a take filtering capability's surface fabric cloth chopper, includes the cloth chopper, the cloth chopper includes breaker and filter, its characterized in that: the crusher comprises a crushing box (1), a feeding port (2) and a storage bin (3), wherein the feeding port (2) is formed in the top of the crushing box (1), the storage bin (3) is arranged at the bottom of a bottom plate (33), the top of the storage bin (3) penetrates through the bottom plate (33) and is communicated with the bottom of the crushing box (1), a crushing mechanism is arranged inside the crushing box (1), and one side of the crushing box (1) is connected with the filter through a connecting pipe (4);
the filter comprises a filter bin (5) and a dust collection bin (7), a filter barrel (18) is arranged in the filter bin (5), an exhaust fan (6) is installed at the top of the filter bin (5), the dust collection bin (7) is arranged at the bottom of the bottom plate (33), and the top of the dust collection bin (7) penetrates through the inside of the bottom plate (33) and is communicated with the bottom of the filter bin (5).
2. The fabric cloth shredder with the filtering function according to claim 1, which is characterized in that: the crushing mechanism is provided with two sets, and the two sets of crushing mechanism sets gradually from top to bottom.
3. The fabric cloth shredder with the filtering function according to claim 2, characterized in that: broken mechanism includes two sets of rag gyro wheels (8), and is two sets of rag gyro wheel (8) intermeshing is two sets of the inside of rag gyro wheel (8) all runs through having pivot (9), and is two sets of the one end of pivot (9) all through first bearing (10) with one side inner wall connection of broken case (1), it is two sets of the other end of pivot (9) is connected with driving gear (11) and driven gear (12) respectively, the opposite side of driving gear (11) and the output welding of first motor (13).
4. The fabric cloth shredder with the filtering function according to claim 3, characterized in that: the upper and lower groups of the cloth crushing rollers (8) have different crushed particle sizes, and the particle size of the upper cloth crushing roller (8) is larger than that of the lower cloth crushing roller (8).
5. The fabric cloth shredder with the filtering function according to claim 1, which is characterized in that: an exhaust fan (16) is arranged in the connecting pipe (4).
6. A fabric shredder with a filtering function according to claim 1, wherein: a partition plate (17) is arranged in the filtering bin (5), the filtering barrel (18) penetrates through the partition plate (17), the top of the filter barrel (18) is provided with an air outlet (19), the outer side of the air outlet (19) is hermetically connected with the clapboard (17), a lifting plate (20) is sleeved on the outer side of the filter barrel (18), a through groove is formed in the top of the lifting plate (20), a brush (21) is arranged on the inner wall of the through groove, a thread groove (22) and a through hole (23) are respectively arranged on the two sides of the brush (21), the thread groove (22) is in threaded connection with a screw rod (24), the upper end and the lower end of the screw rod (24) are respectively connected with the bottom of the partition plate (17) and the bottom of the filter bin (5) through a second bearing (25), a first bevel gear (26) is sleeved at the position of the screw (24) close to the bottom, the first bevel gear (26) is engaged with a second bevel gear (27), a connecting shaft (28) is welded at one side of the second bevel gear (27), the other end of the connecting shaft (28) is welded with the output end of a second motor (29), the limiting rod (30) penetrates through the through hole (23), the upper end and the lower end of the limiting rod (30) are respectively welded with the bottom of the partition plate (17) and the bottom of the filter bin (5).
7. A fabric shredder with a filtering function according to claim 1, wherein: the bottom of the storage bin (3) and the bottom of the dust collection bin (7) are respectively provided with a storage bin cover (14) and a dust collection bin cover (31), and the bottom of the storage bin cover (14) and the bottom of the dust collection bin cover (31) are respectively provided with a first handle (15) and a second handle (32).
8. The fabric cloth shredder with the filtering function according to claim 1, which is characterized in that: four groups of supporting legs (34) are installed to the bottom of bottom plate (33), four groups universal wheel (35) are stopped in the area is all installed to the bottom of supporting leg (34).
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