CN218477089U - Detachable energy-conserving injection molding machine heater - Google Patents

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CN218477089U
CN218477089U CN202222851557.9U CN202222851557U CN218477089U CN 218477089 U CN218477089 U CN 218477089U CN 202222851557 U CN202222851557 U CN 202222851557U CN 218477089 U CN218477089 U CN 218477089U
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The utility model relates to an injection molding machine heater technical field just discloses a detachable energy-conserving injection molding machine heater, including first arc heat insulating board, the bottom laminating of first arc heat insulating board is provided with second arc heat insulating board, the inner wall of first arc heat insulating board and the equal fixedly connected with arc heat-conducting plate in inner wall of second arc heat insulating board, the through-hole has been seted up to the inside of arc heat-conducting plate, the inner wall fixedly connected with electric heating pipe of through-hole, the right side of first arc heat insulating board and the equal fixedly connected with linking bridge in right side of second arc heat insulating board, the left side of first arc heat insulating board and the equal fixedly connected with spliced pole in left side of second arc heat insulating board. The utility model discloses a cooperation of first arc heat insulating board, second arc heat insulating board, linking bridge, spliced pole, fixed block, hollow section of thick bamboo and fixed bolster makes the dismouting comparatively convenient between this heater and the injection molding machine to the maintenance personal of being convenient for maintains this heater.

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Detachable energy-conserving injection molding machine heater
Technical Field
The utility model relates to an injection molding machine heater technical field especially relates to a detachable energy-conserving injection molding machine heater.
Background
The injection molding machine heater is used for heating a charging barrel and an injection nozzle, the charging barrel of the injection molding machine generally adopts an electric heating tube as a heating device and is arranged outside the charging barrel, and heat is conducted through a barrel wall to provide a heat source for material plasticization. At present, most of injection molding machine heaters on the market are fixed on a charging barrel of an injection molding machine through bolts, for example, a detachable energy-saving injection molding machine heater disclosed in chinese patent publication No. CN 215661709U. However, when the heater of the injection molding machine is disassembled and assembled, the bolt on the heater of the injection molding machine can be rotated only by using a tool, so that a maintenance worker can disassemble and assemble the heater of the injection molding machine only by using the tool, and the heater of the injection molding machine is inconvenient to disassemble and assemble.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The purpose of the utility model is to solve the shortcoming that exists among the prior art, if: at present, injection molding machine heater on the market is fixed on the feed cylinder of injection molding machine through the bolt mostly, nevertheless when dismouting injection molding machine heater, owing to need use tool just can rotate the bolt on the injection molding machine heater, and then leads to maintenance personal to need use tool could dismouting injection molding machine heater to it is comparatively inconvenient when the dismouting to lead to the injection molding machine heater, and a detachable energy-conserving injection molding machine heater that proposes.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme:
the utility model provides a detachable energy-conserving injection molding machine heater, includes first arc heat insulating board, the bottom laminating of first arc heat insulating board is provided with second arc heat insulating board, the equal fixedly connected with arc heat-conducting plate of inner wall of the inner wall of first arc heat insulating board and second arc heat insulating board, the through-hole has been seted up to the inside of arc heat-conducting plate, the inner wall fixedly connected with electric heating pipe of through-hole, the right side of first arc heat insulating board and the equal fixedly connected with linking bridge in right side of second arc heat insulating board, the left side of first arc heat insulating board and the equal fixedly connected with spliced pole in left side of second arc heat insulating board, the left side fixedly connected with fixed block of spliced pole, the surface laminating of fixed block is provided with hollow cylinder, hollow cylinder's left side fixedly connected with fixed bolster, the left and right sides of fixed block all with the side contact of fixed bolster.
Preferably, the connecting support comprises a connecting block, the right side of the first arc-shaped heat insulation plate and the right side of the second arc-shaped heat insulation plate are fixedly connected with the left side of the connecting block, first cylinders are fixedly connected with the front side and the rear side of the connecting block, bearings are fixedly connected with the surfaces of the first cylinders, and connecting plates are fixedly connected with the surfaces of the bearings.
Preferably, the fixed bolster includes hollow core plate, hollow core plate's right side and hollow section of thick bamboo's left side fixed connection, hollow core plate's right side and the left side contact of fixed block, hollow core plate's inner wall fixedly connected with torsional spring, the inner wall fixedly connected with second cylinder of torsional spring, the cylindrical left side fixedly connected with solid circle piece of second, the right side of solid circle piece and hollow core plate's left side contact, the cylindrical fixed surface of second is connected with hollow circle piece, the left side of hollow circle piece and the right side contact of hollow core plate, hollow core plate's left side fixedly connected with holding ring, the inner wall of holding ring and solid circle piece's surface contact, the cylindrical right side fixedly connected with oval piece of second, the left side of oval piece and the right side contact of fixed block.
Preferably, the centers of the second cylinder, the solid round block, the hollow round block and the elliptical block are all on the same horizontal line.
Preferably, the left side of the second arc-shaped heat insulation plate is fixedly connected with a supporting plate, the upper surface of the supporting plate is in contact with the bottom of the hollow cylinder, the bottom of the hollow cylinder is fixedly connected with a square column, a sliding hole is formed in the supporting plate, the inner wall of the sliding hole is in contact with the surface of the square column, the surface of the square column is fixedly connected with a limiting ring, and the upper surface of the limiting ring is in contact with the bottom of the supporting plate.
Preferably, the inner wall of the first arc-shaped heat insulation plate, the inner wall of the second arc-shaped heat insulation plate and the front side and the rear side of the arc-shaped heat conduction plate are respectively provided with a heat insulation strip in a fitting manner.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that:
(1) The utility model discloses a set up first arc heat insulating board, second arc heat insulating board, a linking bridge, the spliced pole, the fixed block, hollow section of thick bamboo and fixed bolster, wherein, when the right side contact of oval piece on the fixed bolster and fixed block, through oval piece, the cooperation of fixed block and hollow board, fix hollow section of thick bamboo on the fixed block, and the cooperation through fixed block and hollow section of thick bamboo, fix first arc heat insulating board and second arc heat insulating board together, this moment, can fix this heater on the injection molding machine, when oval piece separates with the fixed block, hollow section of thick bamboo can be tak away from the fixed block, and make first arc heat insulating board can separate with second arc heat insulating board, at this moment, can dismantle this heater from the injection molding machine heat insulating board, and then through first arc heat insulating board, second arc heat insulating board, the linking bridge, the spliced pole, the fixed block, the cooperation of hollow section of thick bamboo and fixed bolster, it is comparatively convenient to make dismouting between this heater and the injection molding machine, thereby the maintenance personal of being convenient for maintain this heater.
(2) The utility model discloses a set up backup pad, square post, slide opening and spacing ring, wherein, after hollow section of thick bamboo and fixed block separation, through the cooperation of backup pad, square post, slide opening and spacing ring, make unable separation between hollow section of thick bamboo and the second arc heat insulating board, and then make hollow section of thick bamboo and fixed block separation back, hollow section of thick bamboo and fixed bolster are difficult to lose.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the structure of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the point A of FIG. 1 according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of the point B in FIG. 1 according to the present invention;
fig. 4 is a front view of the structure of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a right side view of the structure of the present invention;
fig. 6 is a left side view of the structure of the present invention;
fig. 7 is a front view of the arc-shaped heat conducting plate of the present invention;
fig. 8 is a front view of the fixing bracket of the present invention;
fig. 9 is a right side view of the fixing bracket of the present invention.
In the figure: 1. a first arcuate insulation panel; 2. a second arcuate insulation panel; 3. an arc-shaped heat conducting plate; 4. a through hole; 5. an electric heating tube; 6. connecting a bracket; 61. connecting blocks; 62. a first cylinder; 63. a bearing; 64. a connecting plate; 7. connecting columns; 8. a fixed block; 9. a hollow cylinder; 10. fixing a bracket; 101. a hollow slab; 102. a torsion spring; 103. a second cylinder; 104. a solid round block; 105. a hollow round block; 106. a positioning ring; 107. an elliptical block; 11. a support plate; 12. a square column; 13. a slide hole; 14. a limiting ring; 15. and (4) a heat preservation strip.
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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.
In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
The first embodiment is as follows:
referring to fig. 1-9, a detachable energy-saving heater for an injection molding machine comprises a first arc-shaped heat insulation board 1, a second arc-shaped heat insulation board 2 is attached to the bottom of the first arc-shaped heat insulation board 1, an arc-shaped heat conduction board 3 is fixedly connected to the inner wall of the first arc-shaped heat insulation board 1 and the inner wall of the second arc-shaped heat insulation board 2, a through hole 4 is formed in the arc-shaped heat conduction board 3, an electric heating pipe 5 is fixedly connected to the inner wall of the through hole 4, heat insulation strips 15 are attached to the inner wall of the first arc-shaped heat insulation board 1, the inner wall of the second arc-shaped heat insulation board 2 and the front and back sides of the arc-shaped heat conduction board 3, the first arc-shaped heat insulation board 1 and the second arc-shaped heat insulation board 2 are both connected with a vacuum plate, the heat insulation strips 15 are made of polyurethane, and are matched with the first arc-shaped heat insulation board 1, the second arc-shaped heat insulation board 2 and the heat insulation strips 15, make electric heating pipe 5 take place the unable direct diffusion of heat to the air, and then make electric heating pipe 5's heat loss volume reduce, the equal fixedly connected with linking bridge 6 in right side of first arc heat insulating board 1 and the right side of second arc heat insulating board 2, the equal fixedly connected with spliced pole 7 in left side of first arc heat insulating board 1 and the left side of second arc heat insulating board 2, the left side fixedly connected with fixed block 8 of spliced pole 7, the laminating of the surface of fixed block 8 is provided with hollow section of thick bamboo 9, all there are two fixed blocks 8 in every hollow section of thick bamboo 9, and, two fixed blocks 8 in the hollow section of thick bamboo 9 are fixed respectively on first arc heat insulating board 1 and second arc heat insulating board 2, the left side fixedly connected with fixed bolster 10 of hollow section of thick bamboo 9, the left and right sides of fixed block 8 all contacts with the side of fixed bolster 10.
The connecting bracket 6 comprises a connecting block 61, the right side of the first arc-shaped heat-insulating plate 1 and the right side of the second arc-shaped heat-insulating plate 2 are fixedly connected with the left side of the connecting block 61, the first cylinders 62 are fixedly connected with the front side and the rear side of the connecting block 61, the bearings 63 are fixedly connected with the surface of the first cylinders 62, the connecting plates 64 are fixedly connected with the surface of the bearings 63, and the first arc-shaped heat-insulating plate 1 and the second arc-shaped heat-insulating plate 2 can rotate around the first cylinders 62 through the bearings 63.
The fixing bracket 10 includes a hollow plate 101, a right side of the hollow plate 101 is fixedly connected to a left side of the hollow cylinder 9, a right side of the hollow plate 101 contacts a left side of the fixing block 8, an inner wall of the hollow plate 101 is fixedly connected to a torsion spring 102, an inner wall of the torsion spring 102 is fixedly connected to a second cylinder 103, a left side of the second cylinder 103 is fixedly connected to a solid round block 104, a right side of the solid round block 104 contacts a left side of the hollow plate 101, a surface of the second cylinder 103 is fixedly connected to a hollow round block 105, a left side of the hollow round block 105 contacts a right side of the hollow plate 101, a left side of the hollow round block 101 is fixedly connected to a positioning ring 106, an inner wall of the positioning ring 106 contacts a surface of the solid round block 104, a right side of the second cylinder 103 is fixedly connected to an elliptical block 107, a left side of the elliptical block 107 contacts a right side of the fixing block 8, centers of the second cylinder 103, the solid round block 104, the hollow round block 105 and the elliptical block 107 are all on the same horizontal line, when a major axis of the elliptical block 107 is parallel to a vertical plane of the elliptical block 107, the elliptical block 107 contacts a right side of the fixing block 8, the elliptical block 107 is separated from the fixing block 107 by elasticity of the fixing block 102, the elliptical block 107 is not separated from the fixing block 8, the elliptical block 107, and the vertical plane can be separated from the fixing block 8, the elliptical block 8, and the elliptical block 8, the elliptical block 107 can be separated from the vertical plane, and the vertical plane, the elliptical block 8, the elliptical block 107 can be separated automatically, and the vertical plane 8.
Example two:
referring to fig. 1 to 6, a supporting plate 11 is fixedly connected to the left side of the second arc-shaped heat-insulating plate 2, the upper surface of the supporting plate 11 is in contact with the bottom of the hollow cylinder 9, a square column 12 is fixedly connected to the bottom of the hollow cylinder 9, a sliding hole 13 is formed in the supporting plate 11, the inner wall of the sliding hole 13 is in contact with the surface of the square column 12, a limiting ring 14 is fixedly connected to the surface of the square column 12, the upper surface of the limiting ring 14 is in contact with the bottom of the supporting plate 11, the hollow cylinder 9 can only move left and right through the cooperation of the limiting ring 14, the hollow cylinder 9 and the sliding hole 12 and the sliding hole 13, the hollow cylinder 9 cannot be separated from the second arc-shaped heat-insulating plate 2, and the hollow cylinder 9 and the fixing bracket 10 cannot be easily lost after the hollow cylinder 9 is separated from the fixing block 8 through the cooperation of the supporting plate 11, the square column 12, the sliding hole 13 and the limiting ring 14.
The utility model discloses in, when the user uses this heater, earlier overlap arc heat-conducting plate 3 on the material pipe of injection molding machine, then, will be through rotating solid circle piece 104, make the major axis and the perpendicular mutually perpendicular of ellipse piece 107, and overlap hollow cylinder 9 at fixed block 8, when ellipse piece 107 is located the 8 right sides of fixed block, loosen solid circle piece 104, the major axis and the perpendicular that make ellipse piece 107 are parallel to each other through torsional spring 102, and make ellipse piece 107 and 8 contact of fixed block, at this moment, through ellipse piece 107, the cooperation of fixed block 8 and hollow plate 101, fix hollow cylinder 9 on fixed block 8, and through the cooperation of fixed block 8 and hollow cylinder 9, fix first arc 1 and second arc heat insulating board 2 together, at this moment, can fix this heater on the injection molding machine, then, through opening electric heating pipe 5 makes the temperature rising of arc heat-conducting plate 3, and heat the material in the injection molding machine through arc heat-conducting plate 3 of high temperature, when the user needs to dismantle this heater, through rotating solid circle piece 104, make ellipse piece 107 and fixed block 8 separate with fixed block 8, and through removing hollow cylinder 9, and hollow cylinder 9, it can separate this heat insulating board from hollow cylinder 2 from the injection molding machine through hollow cylinder, when the user need dismantle this heater, it can separate this hollow cylinder from hollow cylinder 2 left.
The above, only be the concrete implementation of the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art is in the technical scope of the present invention, according to the technical solution of the present invention and the utility model, the concept of which is equivalent to replace or change, should be covered within the protection scope of the present invention.
It is noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

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1. The utility model provides a detachable energy-conserving injection molding machine heater, includes first arc heat insulating board (1), its characterized in that, the bottom laminating of first arc heat insulating board (1) is provided with second arc heat insulating board (2), the equal fixedly connected with arc heat-conducting plate (3) of inner wall of the inner wall of first arc heat insulating board (1) and second arc heat insulating board (2), through-hole (4) have been seted up to the inside of arc heat-conducting plate (3), the inner wall fixedly connected with electric heating pipe (5) of through-hole (4), the right side of first arc heat insulating board (1) and the equal fixedly connected with linking bridge (6) in right side of second arc heat insulating board (2), the left side of first arc heat insulating board (1) and the equal fixedly connected with spliced pole (7) in left side of second arc heat insulating board (2), the left side fixedly connected with fixed block (8) of spliced pole (7), the surface laminating of fixed block (8) is provided with hollow cylinder (9), the left side fixedly connected with fixed bolster (10) of hollow cylinder (9), the left and right sides of fixed block (8) all contact with the side of fixed bolster (10).
2. The heater of a detachable energy-saving injection molding machine according to claim 1, wherein the connecting bracket (6) comprises a connecting block (61), the right side of the first arc-shaped heat insulation board (1) and the right side of the second arc-shaped heat insulation board (2) are fixedly connected with the left side of the connecting block (61), the front side and the back side of the connecting block (61) are fixedly connected with a first cylinder (62), the surface of the first cylinder (62) is fixedly connected with a bearing (63), and the surface of the bearing (63) is fixedly connected with a connecting board (64).
3. The heater of claim 1, wherein the fixing bracket (10) comprises a hollow plate (101), the right side of the hollow plate (101) is fixedly connected with the left side of the hollow cylinder (9), the right side of the hollow plate (101) is in contact with the left side of the fixing block (8), the inner wall of the hollow plate (101) is fixedly connected with a torsion spring (102), the inner wall of the torsion spring (102) is fixedly connected with a second cylinder (103), the left side of the second cylinder (103) is fixedly connected with a solid block (104), the right side of the solid block (104) is in contact with the left side of the hollow plate (101), the surface of the second cylinder (103) is fixedly connected with a hollow block (105), the left side of the hollow block (105) is in contact with the right side of the hollow plate (101), the left side of the hollow plate (101) is fixedly connected with a positioning ring (106), the inner wall of the positioning ring (106) is in contact with the surface of the solid block (104), the right side of the second cylinder (103) is fixedly connected with a circular block (107), and the left side of the elliptical block (8) is in contact with the right side of the fixing block (8).
4. A detachable energy-saving heater for injection molding machine according to claim 3, wherein the centers of the second cylinder (103), the solid round block (104), the hollow round block (105) and the oval block (107) are all on the same horizontal line.
5. A detachable energy-saving heater for injection molding machines according to claim 3, characterized in that the left side of the second arc-shaped heat-insulating plate (2) is fixedly connected with a supporting plate (11), the upper surface of the supporting plate (11) is in contact with the bottom of the hollow cylinder (9), the bottom of the hollow cylinder (9) is fixedly connected with a square column (12), a sliding hole (13) is formed inside the supporting plate (11), the inner wall of the sliding hole (13) is in contact with the surface of the square column (12), the surface of the square column (12) is fixedly connected with a limit ring (14), and the upper surface of the limit ring (14) is in contact with the bottom of the supporting plate (11).
6. The heater of the detachable energy-saving injection molding machine according to claim 1, wherein the inner wall of the first arc-shaped heat insulation plate (1), the inner wall of the second arc-shaped heat insulation plate (2) and the front and back sides of the arc-shaped heat conduction plate (3) are respectively provided with a heat insulation strip (15) in a fitting manner.
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