CN219844874U - Tea flattening device for tea processing - Google Patents
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Abstract
The utility model discloses a tea flattening device for tea processing, which comprises a supporting seat, wherein the supporting seat is used as a positioning support for the tea flattening device for tea processing, a supporting frame is fixedly arranged at the top end of the supporting seat, a flattening positioning mechanism is fixedly arranged on the inner wall of the supporting frame, and a flattening auxiliary mechanism is fixedly arranged at the top end of the inner wall of the supporting frame; the flattening and positioning mechanism comprises a working frame. According to the utility model, the output end of the motor fixed at the top end of the positioning seat drives the positioning screw rods to rotate, so that two ends of the lifting frame are respectively in threaded connection with one ends of the outer walls of the two positioning screw rods, the lifting frame drives the lifting seat at the top end to stably lift, the lifting seat and the positioning groove are subjected to interpenetration adjustment, the size of the inner wall of the positioning groove is controlled, the tea She Yabian device for tea processing is convenient for manufacturing tea cakes with different sizes, the use convenience of the tea She Yabian device for tea processing is improved, and the efficiency of the tea She Yabian device for tea processing is improved.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of tea processing, in particular to a tea She Yabian device for tea processing.
Background
Tea leaves generally include tea leaves and shoots. The tea component comprises catechin, cholestenone, caffeine, inositol, folic acid, pantothenic acid, and health promoting. Tea beverage made of tea is one of three beverages in the world.
In the prior art, tea She Yabian device for tea processing is generally to place tea in a quantitative mechanism for flattening treatment, so that the size of the tea is difficult to control during flattening treatment, the adjustment is inconvenient, and the practicability of the tea flattening device for tea processing is reduced.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the above problems, an object of the present utility model is to provide a tea flattening device for tea processing, so as to solve the problems set forth in the above background art.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model provides a tea flattening device for tea processing, which comprises a supporting seat, wherein the supporting seat is used as a positioning support of the tea flattening device for tea processing, a supporting frame is fixedly arranged at the top end of the supporting seat, a flattening positioning mechanism is fixedly arranged on the inner wall of the supporting frame, and a flattening auxiliary mechanism is fixedly arranged at the top end of the inner wall of the supporting frame;
the flattening positioning mechanism comprises a working frame, a plurality of positioning grooves are formed in the inner wall of the working frame, positioning seats are fixedly arranged on two sides of the working frame, positioning screw rods are rotatably arranged in the middle of the positioning seats, lifting frames are arranged at one ends of the outer walls of the positioning screw rods in a threaded mode, one ends of the outer walls of the two positioning screw rods are respectively in threaded connection with two ends of the lifting frames, a plurality of lifting seats are fixedly arranged at the top ends of the lifting frames, the outer walls of the lifting seats are respectively in sliding connection with one ends of the inner walls of the positioning grooves, motors are fixedly arranged at the top ends of the positioning seats, and the output ends of the motors penetrate through the positioning seats to be respectively fixedly connected with the top ends of the two positioning screw rods.
In one example, the flattening auxiliary mechanism comprises a fixing frame, a positioning frame is arranged at the bottom end of the fixing frame, a plurality of limiting frames are fixedly arranged at the top end of the positioning frame, positioning rods are respectively arranged at the middle positions of the limiting frames in a penetrating mode, springs are respectively arranged at one ends of the outer walls of the positioning rods in a penetrating mode, flattening seats are respectively arranged at the bottom ends of the positioning rods in a fixing mode, and limiting blocks are respectively and fixedly arranged at the top ends of the positioning rods.
In one example, a hydraulic cylinder is fixedly arranged at the top end of the inner wall of the support frame, and the telescopic end of the hydraulic cylinder is fixedly connected with the middle position of the top of the fixing frame.
In one example, limiting grooves are formed in two sides of the inner wall of the supporting frame, and two sides of the fixing frame are respectively connected with one side of the inner wall of the two limiting grooves in a sliding mode.
In one example, the positions of the plurality of crush boxes respectively correspond to the top end positions of the plurality of positioning grooves.
In one example, a switch panel is fixedly arranged on one side of the supporting seat, a motor switch is fixedly arranged on the surface of the switch panel, and the motor is electrically connected with an external power supply through the motor switch.
The tea flattening device for tea processing provided by the utility model has the following beneficial effects:
1. this tealeaves flattening device for tea processing drives the location lead screw through the output of fixing the motor on positioning seat top and rotates for the both ends of crane respectively with the one end threaded connection of two location lead screw outer walls, make the crane drive the lifting seat on top and stabilize the lift, make lifting seat and constant head tank alternate the regulation, make the size of constant head tank inner wall obtain control, be convenient for tea processing with tea She Yabian device and make the tea cake of equidimension not, increase the use convenience of tea processing with tea She Yabian device, improve the efficiency of tea processing with tea She Yabian device.
2. This tea flattening device for tea processing carries out lifting operation through the control pneumatic cylinder for fix the locating rack in the mount bottom and remove tea pressing, fix the location at locating rack top limit frame through fixing, make the locating lever that alternates on the limit frame top stabilize the location, make the flattening seat of fixing in the locating lever bottom change through the elasticity of spring and tighten, make the top of flattening the constant head tank inner wall of impressing of seat convenient to be stable, make tea processing with tea flattening device's tea pressing efficiency obtain improving, increase the compactness of tea cake, increase the practicality of tea processing with tea She Yabian device.
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The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the utility model and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the utility model and together with the description serve to explain the utility model and do not constitute a limitation on the utility model. In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the present utility model;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a flattening and positioning mechanism according to the present utility model;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of the flattening assist mechanism of the present utility model.
In the figure: 1. a support base; 2. a support frame; 3. a hydraulic cylinder; 4. a fixing frame; 5. a work frame; 6. a positioning groove; 7. a positioning seat; 8. positioning a screw rod; 9. a motor; 10. a lifting frame; 11. a lifting seat; 12. a positioning frame; 13. a limiting frame; 14. a positioning rod; 15. a limiting block; 16. a spring; 17. flattening the seat; 18. and a limit groove.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the general inventive concept, a detailed description is given below by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings.
In the description of the present utility model, it should be understood that the terms "center," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," "axial," "radial," "circumferential," and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientation or positional relationships shown in the drawings, merely to facilitate describing the present utility model and simplify the description, and do not indicate or imply that the devices or elements referred to must have a specific orientation, be configured and operated in a specific orientation, and therefore should not be construed as limiting the present utility model.
The first embodiment of the utility model provides a tea flattening device for tea processing, as shown in fig. 1-3, which comprises a supporting seat 1, wherein the supporting seat 1 is used as a positioning support of the tea flattening device for tea processing, a supporting frame 2 is fixedly arranged at the top end of the supporting seat 1, a flattening positioning mechanism is fixedly arranged on the inner wall of the supporting frame 2, and a flattening auxiliary mechanism is fixedly arranged at the top end of the inner wall of the supporting frame 2;
the top end of the inner wall of the support frame 2 is fixedly provided with a hydraulic cylinder 3, the telescopic end of the hydraulic cylinder 3 is fixedly connected with the middle position of the top of the fixing frame 4, both sides of the inner wall of the support frame 2 are provided with limit grooves 18, both sides of the fixing frame 4 are respectively connected with one sides of the inner walls of the two limit grooves 18 in a sliding manner, the positions of a plurality of flattening seats 17 respectively correspond to the top end positions of a plurality of positioning grooves 6, one side of the support frame 1 is fixedly provided with a switch panel, the surface of the switch panel is fixedly provided with a motor switch, and a motor 9 is electrically connected with an external power supply through the motor switch;
the second embodiment of the utility model provides a tea flattening device for tea processing, as shown in fig. 2, which comprises a flattening positioning mechanism, wherein the flattening positioning mechanism comprises a working frame 5, a plurality of positioning grooves 6 are formed in the inner wall of the working frame 5, positioning seats 7 are fixedly arranged on two sides of the working frame 5, positioning screw rods 8 are rotatably arranged in the middle positions of the two positioning seats 7, lifting frames 10 are arranged at one ends of the outer walls of the two positioning screw rods 8 in a threaded manner, one ends of the outer walls of the two positioning screw rods 8 are respectively in threaded connection with two ends of the lifting frames 10, a plurality of lifting seats 11 are fixedly arranged at the top ends of the lifting frames 10, the outer walls of the lifting seats 11 are respectively in sliding connection with one ends of the inner walls of the positioning grooves 6, motors 9 are fixedly arranged at the top ends of the two positioning seats 7, and output ends of the two motors 9 penetrate through the positioning seats 7 and are respectively fixedly connected with the top ends of the two positioning screw rods 8;
the third embodiment of the utility model provides a tea flattening device for tea processing as shown in fig. 3, which comprises a flattening auxiliary mechanism, wherein the flattening auxiliary mechanism comprises a fixing frame 4, a positioning frame 12 is fixedly arranged at the bottom end of the fixing frame 4, a plurality of limiting frames 13 are fixedly arranged at the top end of the positioning frame 12, positioning rods 14 are respectively inserted in the middle positions of the plurality of limiting frames 13, springs 16 are respectively inserted in one ends of the outer walls of the plurality of positioning rods 14, flattening seats 17 are respectively fixedly arranged at the bottom ends of the plurality of positioning rods 14, and limiting blocks 15 are respectively fixedly arranged at the top ends of the plurality of positioning rods 14.
Working principle: when needs use tealeaves processing to flatten device, the staff opens motor switch, make the output of fixing the motor 9 on positioning seat 7 top drive positioning screw 8 and rotate, make the both ends of crane 10 respectively with the one end threaded connection of two positioning screw 8 outer walls, make crane 10 drive the lifting seat 11 on top and stably go up and down, make lifting seat 11 alternate with constant head tank 6 and adjust, make the size of constant head tank 6 inner wall obtain control, be convenient for tealeaves processing to make the tea cake of different sizes with the She Yabian device, increase the use convenience of tealeaves processing to use tea She Yabian device, improve the efficiency of tealeaves processing to use tea She Yabian device, through control pneumatic cylinder 3 go up and down work, make the locating rack 12 of fixing in the mount 4 bottom remove tea pressing, through the location of fixing at locating rack 12 top limit frame 13, make the locating lever 14 that alternates in limit frame 13 top stable location, make the elastic shape change of fixing through spring 16 tighten, make the flattening seat 17 be convenient for stable pressing into the constant head tank 6's of tea cake, make tea processing to use the practicality of the tea cake is improved, improve the tea processing to use of tea processing to compress device She Yabian.
In this specification, each embodiment is described in a progressive manner, and identical and similar parts of each embodiment are all referred to each other, and each embodiment mainly describes differences from other embodiments. In particular, for system embodiments, since they are substantially similar to method embodiments, the description is relatively simple, as relevant to see a section of the description of method embodiments.
The foregoing is merely exemplary of the present utility model and is not intended to limit the present utility model. Various modifications and variations of the present utility model will be apparent to those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. which come within the spirit and principles of the utility model are to be included in the scope of the claims of the present utility model.
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1. A tea leaf flattening device for tea leaf processing, comprising:
the tea flattening device comprises a supporting seat (1), wherein the supporting seat (1) is used as a tea flattening device for tea processing to be positioned and supported, a supporting frame (2) is fixedly arranged at the top end of the supporting seat (1), a flattening positioning mechanism is fixedly arranged on the inner wall of the supporting frame (2), and a flattening auxiliary mechanism is fixedly arranged at the top end of the inner wall of the supporting frame (2);
the method is characterized in that: the flattening positioning mechanism comprises a working frame (5), a plurality of positioning grooves (6) are formed in the inner wall of the working frame (5), positioning seats (7) are fixedly arranged on two sides of the working frame (5), two positioning screws (8) are rotatably arranged in the middle of the positioning seats (7), lifting frames (10) are arranged at one ends of the outer walls of the positioning screws (8) in a threaded mode, one ends of the outer walls of the two positioning screws (8) are respectively connected with two ends of the lifting frames (10) in a threaded mode, a plurality of lifting seats (11) are fixedly arranged at the top ends of the lifting frames (10), the outer walls of the lifting seats (11) are respectively connected with one ends of the inner walls of the positioning grooves (6) in a sliding mode, motors (9) are fixedly arranged at the top ends of the two positioning seats (7), and the output ends of the motors (9) penetrate through the positioning seats (7) to be respectively fixedly connected with the top ends of the two positioning screws (8).
2. A tea leaf flattening apparatus for tea leaf processing according to claim 1, wherein: the flattening auxiliary mechanism comprises a fixing frame (4), a positioning frame (12) is arranged at the bottom end of the fixing frame (4), a plurality of limiting frames (13) are fixedly arranged at the top end of the positioning frame (12), positioning rods (14) are respectively arranged at the middle positions of the limiting frames (13) in an inserted mode, springs (16) are respectively arranged at one ends of the outer walls of the positioning rods (14) in an inserted mode, flattening seats (17) are respectively and fixedly arranged at the bottom ends of the positioning rods (14), and limiting blocks (15) are respectively and fixedly arranged at the top ends of the positioning rods (14).
3. A tea leaf flattening apparatus for tea leaf processing according to claim 1, wherein: the top of the inner wall of the supporting frame (2) is fixedly provided with a hydraulic cylinder (3), and the telescopic end of the hydraulic cylinder (3) is fixedly connected with the middle position of the top of the fixing frame (4).
4. A tea leaf flattening apparatus for tea leaf processing according to claim 2, wherein: limiting grooves (18) are formed in two sides of the inner wall of the supporting frame (2), and two sides of the fixing frame (4) are respectively connected with one side of the inner wall of the two limiting grooves (18) in a sliding mode.
5. A tea leaf flattening apparatus for tea leaf processing according to claim 2, wherein: the positions of the plurality of flattening seats (17) respectively correspond to the top ends of the plurality of positioning grooves (6).
6. A tea leaf flattening apparatus for tea leaf processing according to claim 1, wherein: one side of the supporting seat (1) is fixedly provided with a switch panel, the surface of the switch panel is fixedly provided with a motor switch, and the motor (9) is electrically connected with an external power supply through the motor switch.
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