CN218691557U - Masterbatch dust removal dust extraction - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a masterbatch dust removal and collection device, which comprises a dust raising cylinder, a driving mechanism and an auxiliary stirring mechanism; a dust raising cylinder: a sieve plate is arranged in a rectangular opening formed in the top of the inner wall of the sieve plate, a dust suction opening is formed in the upper surface of the sieve plate and is communicated with the top wall of a dust storage box through a connecting pipe, an inner toothed ring is arranged at the upper end of the inner wall of a dust raising cylinder, a feed hopper penetrates through the top wall of the dust raising cylinder, a closing door is hinged to the upper surface of the feed hopper through a hinge, a handle is arranged on the right side of the upper surface of the closing door, a discharge pipe penetrates through the conical bottom wall of the dust raising cylinder, and a discharge valve is connected in series with the middle of the discharge pipe; a driving mechanism: the dust collecting device is arranged inside the dust collecting cylinder; supplementary rabbling mechanism: the master batch dust removing and collecting device is symmetrically arranged on the left side and the right side of the driving mechanism, and through positive and negative two-way rotation, the master batches are oppositely thrown out in different directions through positive and negative rotation at the upper end of a spiral sheet of the device and are impacted, so that dust attached to the surfaces of the master batches is removed.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a masterbatch dust removal technical field specifically is a masterbatch dust removal dust extraction.
Background
The color master batch is a special coloring agent for high molecular materials, is also called pigment preparation, is mainly used on plastics and consists of three basic elements, namely pigment or dye, a carrier and an additive.
In the production of color master batch particles, a great amount of dust and impurities are attached to the color master batch, the dust and the impurities can influence the subsequent use of the color master batch and need to be removed, part of the color master batch dust removal and collection device puts the color master batch on a vibration device, and the dust attached to the surface of the color master batch is shaken off by vibrating the color master batch, as disclosed in CN 210046909U; collect through dust extraction afterwards, partial masterbatch surface dust adhesive force is too big, and the device is limited to the vibrations dynamics that the color masterbatch was applyed in the use, can not get rid of the dust on masterbatch surface well.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The to-be-solved technical problem of the utility model is to overcome current defect, provide a masterbatch dust removal dust extraction, the device is through positive and negative two-way rotation, throws away the masterbatch and carries out the striking with positive and negative not equidirectional subtend in device flight upper end to get rid of the attached dust of color masterbatch surface.
In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a following technical scheme: a color master batch dust removal and collection device comprises a dust raising cylinder, a driving mechanism and an auxiliary stirring mechanism;
a dust raising cylinder: a sieve plate is arranged in a rectangular opening formed in the top of the inner wall of the sieve plate, a dust suction opening is formed in the upper surface of the sieve plate and is communicated with the top wall of a dust storage box through a connecting pipe, an inner toothed ring is arranged at the upper end of the inner wall of a dust raising cylinder, a feed hopper penetrates through the top wall of the dust raising cylinder, a closing door is hinged to the upper surface of the feed hopper through a hinge, a handle is arranged on the right side of the upper surface of the closing door, a discharge pipe penetrates through the conical bottom wall of the dust raising cylinder, and a discharge valve is connected in series with the middle of the discharge pipe;
a driving mechanism: the dust collecting device is arranged inside the dust collecting cylinder;
supplementary rabbling mechanism: the device is symmetrically arranged on the left side and the right side of the driving mechanism, the auxiliary stirring mechanism is meshed with the inner gear ring and is connected with the inner gear ring in a positive and negative two-way rotating mode, the color master batches are oppositely thrown out and impacted in different directions in positive and negative rotation at the upper end of a spiral sheet of the device, and therefore dust attached to the surfaces of the color master batches is removed.
Furthermore, the dust collector further comprises a controller, the controller is arranged on the outer side face of the dust collection cylinder, the input end of the controller is electrically connected with an external power supply, and the connection of electrical appliance elements is controlled to be stable.
Further, actuating mechanism includes first pivot, rotates motor, first flight and rotary rod, rotating the motor and setting up in the upper surface of a dusting section of thick bamboo, the input of rotating the motor is connected with the output electricity of controller, and the output shaft of rotating the motor passes the roof of a dusting section of thick bamboo and is equipped with first pivot, and the lateral surface lower extreme of first pivot is equipped with first flight, and the upper end of first pivot is equipped with the rotary rod, drives the rotatory upward movement of masterbatch forward.
Further, supplementary rabbling mechanism includes a screw thread section of thick bamboo, second flight, fixing base, flexible post, reciprocal lead screw, gear and second pivot, second pivot symmetry sets up and rotates in the lower surface left and right sides with the rotary rod and be connected, the outside lower extreme of second pivot all is connected with the gear through first bearing rotation, the gear all is connected with the meshing of internal tooth ring, the bottom of second pivot all is equipped with reciprocal lead screw, the equal threaded connection of lower extreme of reciprocal lead screw has a screw thread section of thick bamboo, the lateral surface of a screw thread section of thick bamboo all is equipped with the second flight, the lateral surface upper end of a screw thread section of thick bamboo all is equipped with the fixing base, the upper surface of fixing base all is connected through the lower fixed surface of flexible post and vertical adjacent gear, it shifts up to drive the reverse spiral of masterbatch.
Further, the right wall of dust storage box runs through and is equipped with out the tuber pipe, goes out the inner wall middle part of tuber pipe and is equipped with the draught fan, and the input of draught fan is connected with the output electricity of controller, adsorbs the inside dust of device.
Further, both ends all are equipped with the filter screen about the inner wall of tuber pipe, and evenly distributed's inlet port is seted up to the inner wall upper end of raise dust cylinder, prevents that the inside dust of device from entering into the external world and prevents external dust from entering into device simultaneously.
Furthermore, the bottom of the dust raising cylinder is provided with the supporting frames which are uniformly distributed, so that the device is convenient to place.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that: this look master batch dust removal dust extraction has following benefit:
1. the controller starts a rotating motor, the rotating motor drives a first rotating shaft to rotate, the first rotating shaft drives a first spiral sheet to rotate, the first spiral sheet spirally conveys color master batches in the middle of the bottom end of the device upwards through clockwise rotation and throws the color master batches out through the top end of the first spiral sheet, the first rotating shaft drives a rotating rod to rotate, the rotating rod drives a second rotating shaft to rotate around the axis of the first rotating shaft, the second rotating shaft drives a gear to rotate, the gear is meshed with an inner toothed ring and is connected with the inner toothed ring in a reverse rotation mode, the gear drives a telescopic column to rotate, the telescopic column drives a threaded cylinder to rotate in a reverse rotation mode through a fixing seat, the threaded cylinder drives a second spiral sheet to rotate in a reverse rotation mode and conveys the color master batches at the bottom of the device upwards, the reversely thrown color master batches at the upper end of the second spiral sheet collide with the forwardly thrown color master batches at the upper end of the first spiral sheet, so that dust on the surface of the color master batches is thrown out in a reverse rotation direction through forward and reverse rotation, and then the dust attached to be removed from the surface of the color master batches;
2. the controller starts the draught fan, and the draught fan rotates and carries the inside dust particle of device and gas to the dust storage box through sieve and connecting pipe together, and the dust falls into the dust storage box inside, and the filter screen business turn over that gas passed the tuber pipe is external, collects the inside dust of device.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of the present invention.
In the figure: 1 support frame, 2 dust raising cylinder, 3 controllers, 4 actuating mechanism, 41 first pivot, 42 rotating motor, 43 first flight, 44 rotary rod, 5 supplementary rabbling mechanisms, 51 screw thread section of thick bamboo, 52 second flight, 53 fixing base, 54 flexible post, 55 reciprocal lead screw, 56 gear, 57 second pivot, 6 inlet ports, 7 feeder hoppers, 8 closed door, 9 handles, 10 sieve boards, 11 dust absorption mouth, 12 connecting pipes, 13 interior ring gear, 14 dust storage box, 15 play tuber pipe, 16 draught fan, 17 filter screen, 18 discharging pipe, 19 bleeder valve.
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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.
Referring to fig. 1, the present embodiment provides a technical solution: a color master batch dust removal and collection device comprises a dust raising cylinder 2, a driving mechanism 4 and an auxiliary stirring mechanism 5;
a dust raising cylinder 2: the dust collection device comprises a sieve plate 10 arranged in a rectangular opening formed in the top of the inner wall of the sieve plate 10, a dust collection opening 11 is formed in the upper surface of the sieve plate 10, the dust collection opening 11 is communicated with the top wall of a dust storage box 14 through a connecting pipe 12, an inner toothed ring 13 is arranged at the upper end of the inner wall of a dust raising cylinder 2, a feed hopper 7 is arranged on the top wall of the dust raising cylinder 2 in a penetrating mode, a closed door 8 is hinged to the upper surface of the feed hopper 7 through a hinge, a handle 9 is arranged on the right side of the upper surface of the closed door 8, a discharge pipe 18 is arranged on the conical bottom wall of the dust raising cylinder 2 in a penetrating mode, a discharge valve 19 is connected in series to the middle of the discharge pipe 18, the dust collection device further comprises a controller 3, the controller 3 is arranged on the outer side face of the dust raising cylinder 2, the input end of the controller 3 is electrically connected with an external power supply, an air outlet pipe 15 is arranged on the right wall of the dust storage box 14 in a penetrating mode, an induced draft fan 16 is arranged in the middle of the inner wall of the air outlet pipe 15, the induced draft fan 16, the output end of the induced draft fan is electrically connected with the controller 3, filter screens 17 are arranged at the left end and the right end of the air outlet pipe 15, the upper end of the inner wall of the dust raising cylinder 2 is provided with uniformly distributed air inlet holes 6, the bottom of the dust raising cylinder 2 is provided with uniformly distributed support frames 1, when color master batches are subjected to dust removal, firstly, the device is placed at a designated position through the support frames 1, then, a closed door 8 is driven to rotate around a hinge through a handle 9, the closed door 8 is opened, the color master batches are poured into the device through a feed hopper 7, then, the closed door 8 is closed, a draught fan 16 is started by a controller 3, the draught fan 16 rotates to convey dust particles in the device and gas to a dust storage box 14 through a sieve plate 10 and a connecting pipe 12, the gas passes through a filter screen 17 of an air outlet pipe 15 and enters the outside, the outside gas enters the device through the air inlet holes 6, the filter screen 15 and the gas exhausted from the inside of the device to the outside are filtered, and outside suspended particles can be prevented from entering the device through the air outlet pipe 15, opening a discharge valve 19 to collect dust at the lower end of a discharge pipe 18 after the color master batch finishes dedusting, and collecting the dust in the device;
the controller 3 can be selected as a single chip microcomputer;
the driving mechanism 4: the device is arranged in the dust raising cylinder 2, the driving mechanism 4 comprises a first rotating shaft 41, a rotating motor 42, a first spiral sheet 43 and a rotating rod 44, the rotating motor 42 is arranged on the upper surface of the dust raising cylinder 2, the input end of the rotating motor 42 is electrically connected with the output end of the controller 3, the output shaft of the rotating motor 42 penetrates through the top wall of the dust raising cylinder 2 and is provided with the first rotating shaft 41, the first spiral sheet 43 is arranged at the lower end of the outer side surface of the first rotating shaft 41, the rotating rod 44 is arranged at the upper end of the first rotating shaft 41, the controller 3 starts the rotating motor 42, the rotating motor 42 drives the first rotating shaft 41 to rotate, the first rotating shaft 41 drives the first spiral sheet 43 to rotate, the first spiral sheet 43 conveys color master batches in the middle of the bottom of the device upwards in a spiral mode through clockwise rotation, the color master batches are thrown out through the top end of the first spiral sheet 43, and the forward spiral upward movement of part of the color master batches is driven;
auxiliary stirring mechanism 5: the auxiliary stirring mechanism 5 is symmetrically arranged on the left side and the right side of the driving mechanism 4, the auxiliary stirring mechanism 5 is connected with the inner toothed ring 13 in a meshed manner, the auxiliary stirring mechanism 5 comprises a threaded barrel 51, a second spiral sheet 52, a fixed seat 53, a telescopic column 54, a reciprocating screw 55, a gear 56 and a second rotating shaft 57, the second rotating shaft 57 is symmetrically arranged on the left side and the right side of the lower surface of the rotating rod 44 in a rotated manner, the lower end of the outer side of the second rotating shaft 57 is connected with the gear 56 in a rotated manner through a first bearing, the gear 56 is connected with the inner toothed ring 13 in a meshed manner, the bottom of the second rotating shaft 57 is provided with the reciprocating screw 55, the lower end of the reciprocating screw 55 is connected with the threaded barrel 51 in a threaded manner, the outer side of the threaded barrel 51 is provided with the second spiral sheet 52, the upper end of the outer side of the threaded barrel 51 is provided with the fixed seat 53, the upper surface of the fixed connection with the lower surface of the vertically adjacent gear 56 through the telescopic column 54, the first rotating shaft 41 drives the rotating rod 44 to rotate, the rotating shaft 44 drives the second rotating shaft 57 to rotate, the rotating shaft 57 to drive the reciprocating screw 52, the rotating rod 51 to remove dust from the upper end of the reciprocating screw, and the reciprocating screw 52.
The utility model provides a pair of masterbatch dust removal dust extraction's theory of operation as follows: when dedusting color master batches, firstly, the device is placed at a designated position through the support frame 1, then the handle 9 drives the closing door 8 to rotate around the hinge, the closing door 8 is opened, the color master batches are poured into the device through the feed hopper 7, then the closing door 8 is closed, the controller 3 starts the rotating motor 42, the rotating motor 42 drives the first rotating shaft 41 to rotate, the first rotating shaft 41 drives the first spiral sheet 43 to rotate, the first spiral sheet 43 conveys the color master batches in the middle of the bottom end of the device upwards through clockwise rotation and throws out through the top end of the first spiral sheet 43, the first rotating shaft 41 drives the rotating rod 44 to rotate, the rotating rod 44 drives the second rotating shaft 57 to rotate around the axis of the first rotating shaft 41, the second rotating shaft 57 drives the gear 56 to rotate, the gear 56 is meshed with the inner toothed ring 13, the gear 56 rotates reversely, the gear 56 drives the telescopic column 54 to rotate, the telescopic column 54 drives the thread cylinder 51 to rotate reversely through the fixing seat 53, the threaded cylinder 51 is in threaded connection with the reciprocating screw rod 55, the threaded cylinder vertically reciprocates up and down along the reciprocating screw rod 55, the threaded cylinder 51 drives the second spiral sheet 52 to reversely rotate, color master batches at the bottom of the device are conveyed upwards, color master batches thrown out in the reverse direction at the upper end of the second spiral sheet 52 collide with color master batches thrown out in the forward direction at the upper end of the first spiral sheet 43, so that dust on the surface of the color master batches falls off, the controller 3 starts the induced draft fan 16, the induced draft fan 16 rotates to convey dust particles in the device and gas to the dust storage box 14 through the sieve plate 10 and the connecting pipe 12, the gas passes through the filter screen 17 of the air outlet pipe 15 and enters the outside, the outside gas enters the device through the air inlet hole 6, the filter screen 15 and the gas discharged outside from the inside of the device are filtered, and outside suspended particles can be prevented from entering the inside of the device through the air outlet pipe 15, and opening a discharge valve 19 to collect the masterbatch at the lower end of the discharge pipe 18 after the masterbatch is dedusted.
It should be noted that the controller 3 disclosed in the above embodiments may employ an MCS-51 single chip microcomputer, the rotating motor 42 may employ Y90S-2, the induced draft fan 16 may employ F4-72, and the controller 3 controls the rotating motor 42 and the induced draft fan 16 to operate by methods commonly used in the prior art.
The above only is the embodiment of the present invention, not limiting the scope of the present invention, all the equivalent structures or equivalent processes of the present invention are used in the specification and the attached drawings, or directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields, and the same principle is included in the protection scope of the present invention.
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1. The utility model provides a masterbatch dust removal dust extraction which characterized in that: comprises a dust raising cylinder (2), a driving mechanism (4) and an auxiliary stirring mechanism (5);
a dust raising cylinder (2): a sieve plate (10) is arranged in a rectangular opening formed in the top of the inner wall of the sieve plate, a dust suction opening (11) is formed in the upper surface of the sieve plate (10), the dust suction opening (11) is communicated with the top wall of a dust storage box (14) through a connecting pipe (12), an inner toothed ring (13) is arranged at the upper end of the inner wall of a dust raising cylinder (2), a feed hopper (7) penetrates through the top wall of the dust raising cylinder (2), a closed door (8) is hinged to the upper surface of the feed hopper (7) through a hinge, a handle (9) is arranged on the right side of the upper surface of the closed door (8), a discharge pipe (18) penetrates through the conical bottom wall of the dust raising cylinder (2), and a discharge valve (19) is connected in series with the middle of the discharge pipe (18);
drive mechanism (4): the dust collecting device is arranged inside the dust collecting cylinder (2);
auxiliary stirring mechanism (5): the auxiliary stirring mechanisms (5) are symmetrically arranged at the left side and the right side of the driving mechanism (4) and are meshed and connected with the inner gear ring (13).
2. The masterbatch dust removal dust extraction of claim 1, characterized in that: the dust collection device is characterized by further comprising a controller (3), wherein the controller (3) is arranged on the outer side face of the dust collection cylinder (2), and the input end of the controller (3) is electrically connected with an external power supply.
3. The masterbatch dust removal dust extraction of claim 2, characterized in that: actuating mechanism (4) include first pivot (41), rotate motor (42), first flight (43) and rotary rod (44), rotate motor (42) and set up in the upper surface of dusting section of thick bamboo (2), the input that rotates motor (42) is connected with the output electricity of controller (3), the output shaft that rotates motor (42) passes the roof of dusting section of thick bamboo (2) and is equipped with first pivot (41), the lateral surface lower extreme of first pivot (41) is equipped with first flight (43), the upper end of first pivot (41) is equipped with rotary rod (44).
4. The masterbatch dust removal dust extraction of claim 3, characterized by: supplementary rabbling mechanism (5) include screw thread section of thick bamboo (51), second flight (52), fixing base (53), flexible post (54), reciprocal lead screw (55), gear (56) and second pivot (57), second pivot (57) symmetry sets up and rotates in the lower surface left and right sides with rotary rod (44) and is connected, the outside lower extreme of second pivot (57) all rotates through first bearing and is connected with gear (56), gear (56) all are connected with interior ring gear (13) meshing, the bottom of second pivot (57) all is equipped with reciprocal lead screw (55), the equal threaded connection of lower extreme of reciprocal lead screw (55) has screw thread section of thick bamboo (51), the lateral surface of screw thread section of thick bamboo (51) all is equipped with second flight (52), the upper end lateral surface of screw thread section of thick bamboo (51) all is equipped with fixing base (53), the upper surface of fixing base (53) all is connected with the lower fixed surface of vertical adjacent gear (56) through flexible post (54).
5. The masterbatch dust removal dust extraction of claim 2, characterized in that: the right wall of dust storage box (14) runs through and is equipped with out tuber pipe (15), and the inner wall middle part that goes out tuber pipe (15) is equipped with draught fan (16), and the input of draught fan (16) is connected with the output electricity of controller (3).
6. The masterbatch dust removal dust extraction of claim 5, characterized in that: both ends all are equipped with filter screen (17) about the inner wall of air-out pipe (15), and evenly distributed's inlet port (6) are seted up to the inner wall upper end of raise dust section of thick bamboo (2).
7. The masterbatch dust removal dust extraction of claim 1, characterized in that: the bottom of the dust raising cylinder (2) is provided with evenly distributed support frames (1).
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