CN219620211U - Waste battery treatment feeding equipment - Google Patents
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Abstract
The utility model discloses waste battery treatment feeding equipment, which relates to the technical field of waste battery recovery, and comprises a box body and a distribution rotating body rotatably arranged in the box body, wherein a feeding bin is arranged on one side of the upper end of the box body, a discharging pipe is arranged on one side of the lower end of the box body, an adjustable discharging mechanism which is convenient for uniform discharging is arranged at the position corresponding to the position of the feeding bin on the surface of the distribution rotating body, a shaking transmission mechanism which is convenient for uniformly dispersing waste batteries is arranged below the distribution rotating body, the discharging amount of waste battery treatment can be controlled through the adjustable discharging mechanism, and the falling waste batteries can be uniformly dispersed through the shaking transmission mechanism.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of waste battery recovery, in particular to waste battery treatment feeding equipment.
Background
Along with the continuous expansion of the demand in the fields of electric automobiles, communication and the like, the consumption of batteries is also increased, but the service life of the batteries is certain, so that a large number of waste batteries are eliminated each year, and the disposal of the waste batteries is a heavy task.
In the first process of treating the waste batteries, the waste batteries are conveyed into a feed inlet of a waste battery treatment device, most of the existing waste battery feeding equipment is used for directly conveying the waste batteries into the feed inlet of the treatment device through a conveyor belt, in practical application, the waste batteries cannot be accurately regulated according to the treatment capacity of the treatment device, and the treatment device is easily blocked due to accumulation of the waste batteries during conveying.
Based on the above, the waste battery treatment feeding equipment can eliminate the defects of the prior device.
Disclosure of Invention
The utility model aims to provide waste battery treatment feeding equipment so as to solve the problems in the background technology.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the present utility model provides the following technical solutions:
the utility model provides a feeding equipment is handled to waste battery, includes the box and rotates the branch material of setting in the box inside and turn, box upper end one side is equipped with the feeding storehouse, box lower extreme one side is equipped with the discharging pipe, divide the material to turn the surface and rotate sealedly with feeding storehouse mouth, divide the material to turn the surface and correspond the adjustable unloading mechanism that the department was equipped with the even unloading of being convenient for with feeding storehouse position, divide the material to turn the below and be equipped with the shake transmission mechanism that is convenient for go on evenly dispersing waste battery, the inside bottom of box is equipped with and drives the inside bottom of branch material to turn and shake transmission mechanism pivoted actuating mechanism.
Based on the technical scheme, the utility model also provides the following optional technical schemes:
in one alternative: the adjustable discharging mechanism comprises a material containing groove arranged on the surface of the material distributing swivel, a plurality of base plates are slidably arranged in the material containing grooves, and adjusting components used for adjusting the material containing quantity of the material containing grooves are arranged at the lower ends of the base plates.
In one alternative: the adjusting assembly comprises a fixed rod fixedly arranged at the lower end of a bottom plate, the fixed rod is arranged at the lower end of a material containing groove in a sliding mode, an adjusting rod is arranged at the lower end of the fixed rod, the fixed rod is rotationally connected with the adjusting rod through a hinge, an adjusting disc is rotationally arranged on one side of the adjusting rod, the adjusting rod is rotationally connected with the adjusting disc through the hinge, an adjusting shaft is fixedly arranged at one end, far away from the adjusting rod, of the adjusting disc, the adjusting shaft is rotationally arranged on one side inside the box body, and an adjusting power assembly for driving the adjusting shaft to rotate and adjust is arranged at the other end of the adjusting shaft.
In one alternative: the adjusting power assembly comprises a driven gear arranged at one end of the adjusting shaft, a driving gear meshed with the driven gear is arranged at the upper end of the driven gear, the driving gear is fixedly connected with the output end of a first motor, and the first motor is fixedly arranged at one side of the distributing swivel.
In one alternative: the shaking transmission mechanism comprises a movable plate arranged below the material distributing swivel, one end of the movable plate is rotatably provided with two sides in the box body through a rotating shaft, the other end of the movable plate is symmetrically provided with sliding rods, arc-shaped sliding grooves are formed in the positions, corresponding to the positions of the sliding rods, of the two sides of the box body, and a traction assembly used for driving the sliding rods to slide in the arc-shaped sliding grooves is arranged on the sliding rods on one side of the movable plate.
In one alternative: the traction assembly comprises a second limiting block arranged on a sliding rod on one side of the movable plate, a rope is arranged on the second limiting block, one end of the rope is rotationally connected with the second limiting block, the other end of the rope is rotationally provided with a first limiting block, the first limiting block is fixedly arranged on one side of a first driven wheel, the first driven wheel is fixedly arranged on a rotating shaft at one end of a material distributing swivel, a guide pulley is slidably arranged in the middle section of the rope, a fixing rod is fixedly arranged in the middle of the guide pulley, one end of the fixing rod is fixedly arranged on one side of the box body, and a transmission assembly for transmitting waste batteries is arranged below one end of the movable plate, which is close to the arc-shaped sliding groove.
In one alternative: the transmission assembly comprises a conveyor belt arranged below the movable plate, two ends of the conveyor belt are matched with two driving rollers, and the driving rollers are rotatably arranged on two sides of the inside of the box body.
In one alternative: the driving mechanism comprises a second motor arranged at the bottom end in the box body, two driving wheels are fixedly arranged at the output end of the second motor, the driving wheels are rotationally connected with a first driven wheel through a first belt, the driving wheels are rotationally connected with a second driven wheel through a second belt, and the second driven wheel is fixedly arranged at one end of the driving wheels close to the second motor.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the following beneficial effects:
1. according to the utility model, through the adjustable blanking mechanism, the blanking amount of each blanking can be adjusted according to the different treatment amounts of the waste battery treatment equipment, so that the waste battery treatment equipment is prevented from being damaged by excessive blanking.
2. According to the utility model, the waste batteries falling on the movable plate are uniformly dispersed through the shaking transmission mechanism, and the uniformly dispersed waste batteries are transmitted into the discharging pipe, so that the waste batteries are prevented from being accumulated and falling in the feeding hole of the waste battery treatment equipment, the equipment is blocked, and the treatment efficiency of the waste battery treatment equipment is accelerated.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of the present utility model.
Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of the internal structure of the present utility model.
Fig. 3 is a schematic view of the installation of the driving wheel, the first driven wheel and the second driven wheel of the present utility model.
Fig. 4 is a schematic view of the installation of the adjusting lever and the adjusting plate of the present utility model.
Fig. 5 is a schematic view of the first motor installation of the present utility model.
Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of the guide pulley and rope installation of the present utility model.
Reference numerals annotate: the device comprises a box body 11, a discharging pipe 12, a distributing swivel 13, a bottom plate 14, a fixed rod 15, a regulating rod 16, a regulating disc 17, a regulating shaft 18, a first motor 19, a driving gear 20, a driven gear 21, a second motor 22, a driving wheel 23, a first driven wheel 24, a second driven wheel 25, a movable plate 26, an arc chute 27, a second limiting block 28, a rope 29, a guide pulley 30, a first limiting block 31, a conveying belt 32 and a driving roller 33.
Detailed Description
The present utility model will be described in further detail with reference to the drawings and examples, in order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present utility model more apparent.
In one embodiment, as shown in fig. 1-6, a waste battery treatment feeding device comprises a box 11 and a material distributing rotating body 13 rotatably arranged in the box 11, wherein a feeding bin is arranged on one side of the upper end of the box 11, a discharging pipe 12 is arranged on one side of the lower end of the box 11, the surface of the material distributing rotating body 13 is rotationally sealed with a feeding bin opening, an adjustable discharging mechanism which is convenient for uniform discharging is arranged at the position, corresponding to the position of the feeding bin, of the surface of the material distributing rotating body 13, a shaking transmission mechanism which is convenient for uniformly dispersing waste batteries is arranged below the material distributing rotating body 13, a driving mechanism which drives the material distributing rotating body 13 and the shaking transmission mechanism to rotate is arranged at the bottom end inside the box 11, the discharging amount of waste battery treatment can be controlled through the adjustable discharging mechanism, and the shaking transmission mechanism can uniformly disperse the fallen waste batteries.
The adjustable unloading mechanism is including setting up the flourishing silo on the material separating body 13 surface, a plurality of the flourishing silo slip is equipped with bottom plate 14, and during the use, the material separating body 13 rotates, and when flourishing silo was located the feeding storehouse lower extreme, waste battery falls the bottom plate 14 upper end in flourishing silo, bottom plate 14 lower extreme is equipped with the adjusting part that is used for adjusting flourishing silo flourishing volume size.
The adjusting component comprises a fixed rod 15 fixedly arranged at the lower end of a bottom plate 14, the fixed rod 15 is slidably arranged at the lower end of a material containing groove, an adjusting rod 16 is arranged at the lower end of the fixed rod 15, the fixed rod 15 is rotationally connected with the adjusting rod 16 through a hinge, an adjusting plate 17 is rotationally arranged on one side of the adjusting rod 16, the adjusting rod 16 is rotationally connected with the adjusting plate 17 through a hinge, an adjusting shaft 18 is fixedly arranged at one end, far away from the adjusting rod 16, of the adjusting plate 17, the adjusting shaft 18 is rotationally arranged on one side inside the box 11, an adjusting power component for driving the adjusting shaft 18 to rotationally adjust is arranged at the other end of the adjusting shaft 18, the adjusting power component drives the adjusting plate 17 to rotate through the adjusting shaft 18, one end of the adjusting shaft 18 penetrates through a rotating shaft at one end of the material distributing groove 13, the adjusting plate 17 drives the fixed rod 15 to move through the adjusting rod 16, and drives the bottom plate 14 to move when the fixing rod 15 moves, so that the material containing amount is adjusted.
The adjusting power assembly comprises a driven gear 21 arranged at one end of an adjusting shaft 18, a driving gear 20 meshed with the driven gear 21 is arranged at the upper end of the driven gear 21, the driving gear 20 is fixedly connected with the output end of a first motor 19, the first motor 19 is fixedly arranged on one side of a distributing swivel 13, when the adjusting power assembly is used, the first motor 19 is started, the output end of the first motor 19 drives the driving gear 20 to rotate, and the driving gear 20 drives the adjusting shaft 18 to rotate through the driven gear 21 due to the fact that the driving gear 20 is meshed with the driven gear 21.
The shake transmission mechanism is including setting up the fly leaf 26 in the branch material rotator 13 below, fly leaf 26 one end rotates through the axis of rotation and sets up the inside both sides of box 11, the fly leaf 26 other end symmetry is equipped with the slide bar, box 11 both sides all are equipped with arc spout 27 with slide bar position department that corresponds, during the use, slide in arc spout 27 through the slide bar to produce vibrations, evenly scatter the waste battery that falls on the fly leaf 26 surface, be equipped with on the slide bar of fly leaf 26 one side and be used for driving the slide bar gliding traction assembly in arc spout 27.
The traction assembly comprises a second limiting block 28 arranged on a sliding rod on one side of a movable plate 26, a rope 29 is arranged on the second limiting block 28, one end of the rope 29 is rotationally connected with the second limiting block 28, the other end of the rope 29 is rotationally provided with a first limiting block 31, the first limiting block 31 is fixedly arranged on one side of a first driven wheel 24, the first driven wheel 24 is fixedly arranged on a rotating shaft at one end of a distributing swivel 13, a guide pulley 30 is slidably arranged in the middle section of the rope 29, a fixed rod is fixedly arranged in the middle of the guide pulley 30, one end of the fixed rod is fixedly arranged on one side of a box 11, during use, the first driven wheel 24 rotates, the first driven wheel 24 drives the first limiting block 31 to rotate, the first limiting block 31 is pulled to move through the rope 29, meanwhile, the rope 29 slides on the guide pulley 30, the second limiting block 28 drives the sliding rod to slide in an arc-shaped chute 27, and a transmission assembly for transmitting waste batteries is arranged below one end of the movable plate 26 close to the arc-shaped chute 27.
The transmission assembly comprises a conveyor belt 32 arranged below the movable plate 26, two transmission rollers 33 are matched with two ends of the conveyor belt 32, the transmission rollers 33 are rotatably arranged on two sides inside the box 11, when the transmission assembly is used, the transmission rollers 33 close to one side of the movable plate 26 rotate to drive the conveyor belt 32 to rotate, meanwhile, waste batteries falling on the upper end of the conveyor belt 32 move together, and when the waste batteries move to the tail end of the conveyor belt 32, the waste batteries fall into the discharging pipe 12.
The driving mechanism comprises a second motor 22 arranged at the bottom end inside the box body 11, two driving wheels 23 are fixedly arranged at the output end of the second motor 22, the driving wheels 23 are rotatably connected with a first driven wheel 24 through a first belt, the driving wheels 23 are rotatably connected with a second driven wheel 25 through a second belt, the second driven wheel 25 is fixedly arranged at one end of the driving wheels 23 close to the second motor 22, when the driving mechanism is used, the second motor 22 is started, the second motor 22 drives the two driving wheels 23 on the output end to rotate, the driving wheels 23 close to one side of the second motor 22 drive the second driven wheel 25 to rotate through the second belt, and the driving wheels 23 far away from one side of the second motor 22 drive the first driven wheel 24 to rotate through the first belt.
The above embodiment discloses a waste battery treatment feeding device, wherein when waste batteries need to be transmitted to the waste battery treatment device, according to the treatment capacity of the treatment device, a first motor 19 is started, the output end of the first motor 19 drives a driving gear 20 to rotate, because the driving gear 20 is meshed with a driven gear 21, the driving gear 20 drives an adjusting shaft 18 to rotate through the driven gear 21, the adjusting shaft 18 drives an adjusting disc 17 to rotate, the adjusting disc 17 pushes a fixing rod 15 to move through an adjusting rod 16, the fixing rod 15 moves and drives a bottom plate 14 to move, thereby adjusting the material containing amount of a material containing groove, the waste batteries are placed in a feeding bin at the upper end of a box body 11, a second motor 22 is started, the second motor 22 drives two driving wheels 23 at the output end to rotate, the driving wheel 23 at one side far from the second motor 22 drives a first driven wheel 24 to rotate through a first belt, when the material containing groove on the surface of the material distributing swivel 13 is positioned at the lower end of the feeding bin, waste batteries fall on the upper end of a bottom plate 14 in the material containing groove, when the material distributing swivel 13 continues to rotate, the waste batteries in the material containing groove fall on the upper end of a movable plate 26, as the first driven wheel 24 rotates to drive the first limiting block 31 to rotate, the first limiting block 31 pulls the second limiting block 28 to move through a rope 29, meanwhile, the rope 29 slides on a guide pulley 30, the second limiting block 28 drives a slide rod to slide in an arc-shaped chute 27 and generate vibration, so that the waste batteries on the surface of the movable plate 26 are uniformly dispersed and fall on the surface of a conveyor belt 32, a driving wheel 23 close to one side of a second motor 22 drives the second driven wheel 25 to rotate through a second belt, the second driven wheel 25 drives a driving roller 33 close to one side of the movable plate 26 to rotate, the driving roller 33 drives the conveyor belt 32 to rotate, and meanwhile, the waste batteries falling on the upper end of the conveyor belt 32 move together, and when the waste batteries move to the tail end of the conveyor belt 32, the waste batteries fall into the discharging pipe 12, and the lower end of the discharging pipe 12 is connected with a feeding port of waste battery treatment equipment.
The foregoing is merely specific embodiments of the disclosure, but the protection scope of the disclosure is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think about changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the disclosure, and it is intended to cover the scope of the disclosure. Therefore, the protection scope of the present disclosure shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.
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1. The utility model provides a feeding equipment is handled to waste battery, includes box (11) and rotates setting branch material rotator (13) inside box (11), its characterized in that, box (11) upper end one side is equipped with the feeding storehouse, box (11) lower extreme one side is equipped with discharging pipe (12), divide material rotator (13) surface and feeding storehouse mouth rotation seal, divide material rotator (13) surface and feeding storehouse position to correspond the department and be equipped with the adjustable unloading mechanism of being convenient for even unloading, divide material rotator (13) below to be equipped with the shake transport mechanism that is convenient for evenly scatter waste battery, box (11) inside bottom is equipped with drives branch material rotator (13) and shake transport mechanism pivoted actuating mechanism.
2. The waste battery treatment feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the adjustable discharging mechanism comprises a material containing groove arranged on the surface of the material distributing swivel (13), a plurality of material containing grooves are internally provided with bottom plates (14) in a sliding mode, and the lower ends of the bottom plates (14) are provided with adjusting components for adjusting the material containing quantity of the material containing grooves.
3. The waste battery treatment feeding equipment according to claim 2, wherein the adjusting component comprises a fixed rod (15) fixedly arranged at the lower end of the bottom plate (14), the fixed rod (15) is slidably arranged at the lower end of the material containing groove, an adjusting rod (16) is arranged at the lower end of the fixed rod (15), the fixed rod (15) is rotationally connected with the adjusting rod (16) through a hinge, an adjusting disc (17) is rotationally arranged at one side of the adjusting rod (16), the adjusting rod (16) is rotationally connected with the adjusting disc (17) through the hinge, an adjusting shaft (18) is fixedly arranged at one end of the adjusting disc (17) far away from the adjusting rod (16), the adjusting shaft (18) is rotationally arranged at one side inside the box (11), and an adjusting power component for driving the adjusting shaft (18) to rotationally adjust is arranged at the other end of the adjusting shaft (18).
4. A waste battery treatment feeding device according to claim 3, wherein the adjustment power assembly comprises a driven gear (21) arranged at one end of the adjustment shaft (18), a driving gear (20) meshed with the driven gear (21) is arranged at the upper end of the driven gear, the driving gear (20) is fixedly connected with the output end of a first motor (19), and the first motor (19) is fixedly arranged at one side of the distribution rotator (13).
5. The waste battery treatment feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the shaking transmission mechanism comprises a movable plate (26) arranged below the material distributing swivel (13), one end of the movable plate (26) is rotatably provided with two sides inside the box body (11) through a rotating shaft, sliding rods are symmetrically arranged at the other end of the movable plate (26), arc-shaped sliding grooves (27) are formed in positions, corresponding to the positions of the sliding rods, of the two sides of the box body (11), and a traction assembly for driving the sliding rods to slide in the arc-shaped sliding grooves (27) is arranged on the sliding rods on one side of the movable plate (26).
6. The waste battery treatment feeding device according to claim 5, wherein the traction assembly comprises a second limiting block (28) arranged on a sliding rod on one side of the movable plate (26), a rope (29) is arranged on the second limiting block (28), one end of the rope (29) is rotationally connected with the second limiting block (28), a first limiting block (31) is rotationally arranged on the other end of the rope (29), the first limiting block (31) is fixedly arranged on one side of the first driven wheel (24), the first driven wheel (24) is fixedly arranged on a rotating shaft on one end of the material distributing swivel (13), a guide pulley (30) is slidably arranged in the middle of the rope (29), a fixed rod is fixedly arranged in the middle of the guide pulley (30), one end of the fixed rod is fixedly arranged on one side of the box (11), and a transmission assembly for transmitting waste batteries is arranged below one end of the movable plate (26) close to the arc-shaped sliding groove (27).
7. The waste battery treatment feeding device according to claim 6, wherein the transmission assembly comprises a conveyor belt (32) arranged below the movable plate (26), two transmission rollers (33) are arranged at two ends of the conveyor belt (32) in a matched mode, and the transmission rollers (33) are rotatably arranged at two sides inside the box body (11).
8. The waste battery treatment feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the driving mechanism comprises a second motor (22) arranged at the bottom end inside the box body (11), two driving wheels (23) are fixedly arranged at the output end of the second motor (22), the driving wheels (23) are rotatably connected with the first driven wheels (24) through first belts, the driving wheels (23) are rotatably connected with second driven wheels (25) through second belts, and the second driven wheels (25) are fixedly arranged at one ends of the driving wheels (23) close to the second motor (22).
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