CN220049452U - Steel billet sideslip divides steel device - Google Patents

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CN220049452U
CN220049452U CN202321212860.2U CN202321212860U CN220049452U CN 220049452 U CN220049452 U CN 220049452U CN 202321212860 U CN202321212860 U CN 202321212860U CN 220049452 U CN220049452 U CN 220049452U
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The utility model discloses a steel billet transverse moving and separating device, which comprises wheel tracks arranged in the front-back direction, wherein a billet conveying vehicle is arranged on the wheel tracks in a sliding manner, a fixed rack is arranged at the rear of the wheel tracks, a conveying roller way is arranged on the billet conveying vehicle and used for bearing groups of steel billets conveyed in an upstream process, the conveying roller way is in butt joint fit with the fixed rack, a hydraulic cylinder and a connecting rod mechanism in driving connection with the hydraulic cylinder are arranged at the rear side of the fixed rack, a guide rail arranged in the front-back direction is arranged on the fixed rack, a plurality of moving beams are connected at the tail end of the connecting rod mechanism, the moving beams are in sliding fit with the guide rail, a plurality of elastically rotatable pusher dogs are arranged on the moving beams, the pusher dogs are arranged on the moving beams and used for limiting rotation of the pusher dogs, a feed opening is formed in the rear end of the fixed rack, and an output roller way is arranged below the feed opening. The utility model can carry out long-distance rapid transverse movement steel separation on groups of steel billets, has higher efficiency, and is energy-saving and environment-friendly.

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Steel billet sideslip divides steel device
Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of billets, in particular to a billet transverse movement steel dividing device.
Background
In recent years, with the increasingly strict requirements of China on energy consumption and environmental protection of steel production, each steel enterprise has raised hot flashes for developing a low-energy-consumption rolling process, and a direct rolling process without heating is one of the requirements.
The direct rolling process is a process of directly rolling a billet fed from a continuous casting machine into a final product without any additional heating or heat compensating process. Because the arrangement of the steel mill workshops is limited, the continuous casting machine and the rolling line are often not on the same central line, and a set of device is required to be designed to realize the rapid transverse movement and steel separation of the steel billets, so that the steel billets can smoothly enter the rolling line. Traditional sideslip device is the walking beam, and when the distance between conticaster and the rolling line was farther, step mechanism inefficiency, and area is big to lead to sideslip device's investment cost to increase, and can't carry out long-distance quick sideslip and divide the steel, the transfer time of steel billet is long, and the loss of steel billet temperature is serious, is difficult to realize the direct rolling of steel billet.
Disclosure of Invention
The utility model aims to provide a steel billet transverse moving and separating device so as to solve the technical problems.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical scheme of the utility model is as follows: the utility model provides a steel device is divided in steel billet sideslip, including the wheel track of laying along the fore-and-aft direction, it is provided with fortune base car to slide on the wheel track, wheel track's rear is provided with the fixed rack, be provided with the transportation roll table on the fortune base car, be used for bearing the group steel billet that the upstream process was carried, transportation roll table and fixed rack butt joint cooperation, the rear side of fixed rack is provided with the pneumatic cylinder and is connected with the pneumatic cylinder drive link mechanism, be provided with the guide rail of laying along the fore-and-aft direction on the fixed rack, link mechanism's end-to-end connection has a plurality of motion beams, motion beam and guide rail slip cooperation, be provided with a plurality of elastic rotation's pusher dog on the motion beam, the pusher dog has the elasticity of forward pivoted, be provided with the dog on the motion beam for rotate spacing to the pusher dog, the feed opening has been seted up to the rear end of fixed rack, the feed opening below is provided with the output roller way.
In one embodiment, the blank transporting vehicle is provided with a driving mechanism for driving the blank transporting vehicle to move, and the driving mechanism comprises a motor and a gear set arranged on an output shaft of the motor.
In one embodiment, the fixed rack comprises a plurality of cantilevers arranged side by side left and right, the length direction of the cantilevers is parallel to the front and rear direction, the guide rail comprises an upper guide rail and a lower guide rail which are respectively arranged on the upper side and the lower side of the cantilevers, pulleys are arranged on the left side and the right side of the moving beam, the moving beam is arranged between the two cantilevers, the pulleys on the left side and the right side of the moving beam are respectively matched with the lower guide rails of the two cantilevers in a sliding manner, and the upper guide rails of the two cantilevers are used for blocking and limiting the moving beam.
In one embodiment, the stationary gantry is a steel stationary gantry.
In one embodiment, the cantilever is higher than the transport roller way and the run-out roller way, and the pusher dog protrudes above the cantilever.
In one embodiment, the device further comprises a torsion spring and a pin shaft, and the pusher dog is arranged on the moving beam in an elastic rotation mode through the cooperation of the torsion spring and the pin shaft.
In one embodiment, the transport roller way is a plurality of the steel billets which are arranged on the billet conveying vehicle in parallel left and right, the grouped steel billets are arranged on the transport roller way along the front-back direction, and the length direction of the steel billets is perpendicular to the front-back direction.
In one embodiment, the hydraulic cylinders are arranged in parallel left and right, the hydraulic cylinders are provided with displacement sensors and proportional valves, the displacement sensors are used for accurately controlling the strokes of the hydraulic cylinders, and the proportional valves are used for realizing the synchronization of the hydraulic actions of the two hydraulic cylinders.
In one embodiment, the width of the feed opening is the same as the width of one billet.
In one embodiment, the run-out table is a plurality of run-out tables arranged side by side.
The utility model has the following beneficial effects:
the utility model comprises wheel rails arranged along the front-back direction, a blank transporting vehicle is glidingly arranged on the wheel rails, a fixed rack is arranged at the rear of the wheel rails, a transporting roller way is arranged on the blank transporting vehicle and used for bearing groups of steel blanks conveyed by an upstream process, the transporting roller way is in butt joint fit with the fixed rack, a hydraulic cylinder and a connecting rod mechanism in driving connection with the hydraulic cylinder are arranged at the rear side of the fixed rack, a guide rail arranged along the front-back direction is arranged on the fixed rack, a plurality of moving beams are connected at the tail ends of the connecting rod mechanism, the moving beams are glidingly matched with the guide rail, a plurality of elastically rotatable pusher dogs are arranged on the moving beams, the pusher dogs have elastic force rotating forwards, a stop block is arranged on the moving beams and used for rotating and limiting the pusher dogs, a feed opening is arranged at the rear end of the fixed rack, and an output roller way is arranged below the feed opening, the steel blanks can be rapidly transversely moved for a long distance, the steel blanks are higher in efficiency, the steel storage capacity is high, the transfer time of the steel blanks is reduced, the heat retaining cover is matched with the transporting roller way at the downstream, the guide rail is lost, the steel blanks are beneficial to realizing direct rolling, the steel blanks are rapidly moved into a line, the steel blanks, the energy-saving and the steel rolling line is low in cost, the steel rolling device is convenient, the occupied area is low, the cost is low, the whole cost is low, and the steel rolling cost is convenient, and the cost is low and the whole cost is easy and has the advantages and the cost and convenient.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic top view of one embodiment of the present utility model.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of one embodiment of the present utility model.
Fig. 3 is one of the running tracks of an embodiment of the present utility model.
Fig. 4 is a second motion trajectory of an embodiment of the present utility model.
Fig. 5 is a third motion trajectory of an embodiment of the present utility model.
Fig. 6 is a fourth trace of movement of an embodiment of the present utility model.
Fig. 7 is a fifth motion trajectory of an embodiment of the present utility model.
Fig. 8 is a sixth running trace of an embodiment of the present utility model.
Fig. 9 is a seventh running trace of an embodiment of the present utility model.
The drawings are marked: 1. the steel billet conveying device comprises a steel billet, a blank conveying vehicle, a wheel track, a conveying roller way, a driving mechanism, a fixed rack, a cantilever, a pusher dog, a roller output table, a hydraulic cylinder, a connecting rod mechanism, a pulley, a guide rail, a moving beam, a stop block and a feed opening.
Detailed Description
For further illustration of the various embodiments, the utility model is provided with the accompanying drawings. The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this disclosure, illustrate embodiments and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the embodiments. With reference to these matters, one of ordinary skill in the art will understand other possible embodiments and advantages of the present utility model. The components in the figures are not drawn to scale and like reference numerals are generally used to designate like components.
In the description of the present utility model, unless otherwise indicated, the meaning of "a plurality" is two or more; the terms "upper," "lower," "left," "right," "inner," "outer," "front," "rear," "head," "tail," and the like are used as an orientation or positional relationship based on that shown in the drawings, merely to facilitate description of the utility model and to simplify the description, and do not indicate or imply that the devices or elements referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore should not be construed as limiting the utility model. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," "third," and the like are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.
For convenience of explanation, in the present embodiment, the front-back, left-right directions are clockwise and counterclockwise as indicated by the arrow directions in fig. 1, and refer to the view angles from the left side to the right side.
Referring to fig. 1-9, as an embodiment of the present utility model, there is provided a billet traversing and dividing apparatus for rapid traversing and dividing of billets 1 in a hot rolled bar and wire production line, which comprises a wheel rail 3 arranged in a front-rear direction, a billet carrier 2 slidably arranged on the wheel rail 3, a fixed frame 6 arranged behind the wheel rail 3, a transport roller table 4 arranged on the billet carrier 2 for carrying groups of billets conveyed in an upstream process, a hydraulic cylinder 9 arranged on a rear side of the fixed frame 6 and a link mechanism 10 in driving connection with the hydraulic cylinder 9, a plurality of moving beams 13 arranged on the fixed frame 6 in a sliding fit with the guide rail 12, a plurality of elastically rotatable claws 7 arranged on the moving beams 13, a stopper 14 arranged on the moving beams 13 for rotationally limiting the claws 7, a feed opening 15 arranged at a rear end of the fixed frame 6, a feed opening 15 arranged below the feed opening 8 arranged below the feed opening 15 for pushing the claws 7 to the feed opening 8 and the feed opening 8 arranged below the fixed frame 8 and passing through the feed opening 15.
As shown in fig. 2, when the transport roller table 4 of the blank transporting vehicle 2 receives the group of blanks transported by the upstream process, the blank transporting vehicle 2 is driven to rapidly move transversely backwards along the wheel track 3;
as shown in fig. 3, when the blank transporting vehicle 2 reaches a steel unloading station, the transporting roller table 4 is in butt joint with the fixed rack 6 to wait for unloading steel;
as shown in fig. 4, when a steel unloading command is received, the hydraulic cylinder 9 starts to retract and drive the link mechanism 10 to act, the moving beam 13 starts to move forwards, and when the pusher dog 7 on the moving beam 13 contacts the steel billet 1, the steel billet 1 presses down the pusher dog 7 to enable the pusher dog 7 to rotate backwards clockwise under the action of gravity of the steel billet 1, so that the pusher dog 7 moves forwards slowly under the steel billet 1 along with the moving beam 13;
as shown in fig. 5, the hydraulic cylinder 9 continues to retract, and when the position of the pusher dog 7 passes over the edge of the billet 1, the pusher dog 7 rotates counterclockwise and forwards under the action of the elastic force of the counterweight thereof, so that the upright state is restored;
as shown in fig. 6, after that, the hydraulic cylinder 9 starts to extend and drive the link mechanism 10 to act, so that the moving beam 13 starts to move backwards, when the pusher dog 7 contacts the steel billet 1, the lower part of the pusher dog 7 can prop against the stop dog 14, so that the stop dog 14 stops the pusher dog 7 from continuing to rotate anticlockwise and forwards, and the pusher dog 7 can push the steel billet 1 backwards from the transport roller table 4 onto the fixed rack 6, when a group of steel billets are completely separated from the transport trolley 2 and are placed on the fixed rack 6, the transport trolley 2 receives a command of completing steel unloading, returns to the original position and waits for carrying the next group of steel billets;
as shown in fig. 7, because the grouped billets cannot reach the run-out table 8 below the blanking port 15 in one stroke of the hydraulic cylinder 9 due to the stroke length of the hydraulic cylinder 9, the hydraulic cylinder 9 continues to perform the reciprocating actions of retraction and extension, and the second group of pusher dogs 7 on the moving beam 13 start to continuously push the grouped billets backwards in a relay form of the pusher dogs 7, so that the billets 1 in the grouped billets are sequentially conveyed to the run-out table 8 below the blanking port 15, thereby realizing steel separation and conveying to a downstream process through the run-out table 8;
as shown in fig. 8, the blank transporting vehicle 2 receives a new batch of grouped blanks and starts to send the grouped blanks to the steel distributing device, at this time, the pusher dog 7 pushes the grouped blanks to the output roller table 8, the grouped blanks slide into the feed opening 15 through a small inclined plane at the rear end of the fixed rack 6 and are finally transported to the output roller table 8, the small inclined plane is slightly higher than the roller surface of the output roller table 8, and the hydraulic cylinder 9 is precisely controlled to only walk a distance of the width of one blank 1 at a time, so that only one blank 1 is ensured to be contacted with the output roller table 8 at a time, and when the output roller table 8 is started, the blanks 1 are sent to the downstream, so that one steel distributing action is completed. When the steel billet 1 is transported away, the hydraulic cylinder 9 continues to move for a distance of the width of the steel billet 1, and the above flow is repeated, so that the steel separation of all the steel billets 1 on the fixed rack 6 can be realized.
As shown in fig. 9, in the case that the fixed rack 6 is fully loaded, the transverse moving steel separating device has strong steel storing capability, can rapidly separate steel, is matched with a conveying roller way with a heat preservation cover at the downstream, reduces heat loss, and is beneficial to realizing direct rolling of the steel billet 1.
The utility model can carry out long-distance rapid transverse movement steel separation on groups of billets, has higher efficiency and strong steel storage capacity, reduces the transit time of billets, is matched with the conveying roller way with the heat preservation cover at the downstream, reduces the loss of heat, is beneficial to realizing direct rolling of billets, and rapidly enters a rolling line after the steel separation, reduces the loss of the temperature of the billets, thereby achieving the purposes of energy conservation and environmental protection.
In the embodiment, the number of the wheel tracks 3 is two, and the two wheel tracks are arranged in parallel left and right, so that the wheels of the blank transporting vehicle 2 can be effectively prevented from deviating or running out of the tracks when the blank transporting vehicle 2 slides rapidly, and the stable reliability of the sliding guiding conveying of the blank transporting vehicle 2 is ensured.
In this embodiment, the blank transporting vehicle 2 is provided with a driving mechanism 5, which is used for driving the blank transporting vehicle 2 to move, the driving mechanism 5 includes a motor and a gear set arranged on an output shaft of the motor, the output shaft is a double output shaft, and the output power is higher.
In this embodiment, the fixed rack 6 includes a plurality of cantilevers 61 arranged side by side from left to right, the length direction of the cantilevers 61 is parallel to the front-rear direction, the guide rail 12 includes an upper guide rail and a lower guide rail which are respectively arranged at the upper side and the lower side of the cantilevers 61, the left side and the right side of the moving beam 13 are provided with pulleys 11, the moving beam 13 is arranged between the two cantilevers 61, and the pulleys 11 at the left side and the right side of the moving beam 13 are respectively in sliding fit with the lower guide rails of the two cantilevers 61, the upper guide rails of the two cantilevers 61 are used for blocking and limiting the moving beam 13, and preventing the moving beam 13 from tipping.
In this embodiment, the fixed rack 6 is a steel fixed rack 6, so as to ensure conveying and supporting stability.
In this embodiment, the height of the cantilever 61 is higher than the heights of the transporting roller way 4 and the output roller way 8, and the pusher dog 7 protrudes above the cantilever 61, so that the blank transporting vehicle 2 is not affected, interference is avoided, the cantilever 61 is mainly used for buffering groups of blanks to be sent to the downstream, and the pusher dog 7 can smoothly push the groups of blanks to the cantilever 61 and finally smoothly push the blanks to the output roller way 8.
In this embodiment, the device further comprises a torsion spring and a pin shaft, and the finger 7 is arranged on the moving beam 13 in an elastic rotation manner through the cooperation of the torsion spring and the pin shaft, so that the device is simple in structure and better in elastic effect.
In this embodiment, the number of the transport roller ways 4 is plural, and the plural number of the transport roller ways are arranged in parallel on the billet carrier 2, the grouped billets are arranged on the transport roller ways 4 in the front-rear direction, and the length direction of the billets 1 is perpendicular to the front-rear direction.
In this embodiment, the hydraulic cylinders 9 are two arranged side by side, the hydraulic cylinders 9 are provided with displacement sensors and proportional valves, the displacement sensors are used for precisely controlling the strokes of the hydraulic cylinders 9, and the proportional valves are used for realizing the synchronization of the hydraulic actions of the two hydraulic cylinders 9, so that the strokes of the two hydraulic cylinders 9 are ensured to be consistent, and the steel dividing actions of the grouped billets are enabled to run stably.
In this embodiment, the width of the feed opening 15 is the same as the width of one billet 1, so that the billet 1 is one piece and slides into the feed opening 15 to the run-out table 8 for separating.
In the present embodiment, the plurality of run-out tables 8 are arranged side by side in the left-right direction, and interference with the cross beam is avoided, so that the billet 1 can be quickly and smoothly transported to the downstream process in the left-right direction.
While the utility model has been particularly shown and described with reference to a preferred embodiment, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the utility model as defined by the appended claims.

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1. The utility model provides a steel device is divided in sideslip of steel billet which characterized in that: including the wheel track of laying along the fore-and-aft direction, the wheel track is gone up to slide and is provided with fortune base car, wheel orbital rear is provided with fixed rack, be provided with the transportation roll table on fortune base car for bearing the group billet that the up-stream process was carried, transportation roll table and fixed rack butt joint cooperation, fixed rack's rear side is provided with the pneumatic cylinder and is connected with the pneumatic cylinder drive link mechanism, be provided with the guide rail of laying along the fore-and-aft direction on the fixed rack, link mechanism's end-to-end connection has a plurality of motion beams, motion beam and guide rail slide the cooperation, but be provided with a plurality of elastic rotation's pusher dog on the motion beam, the pusher dog has the elastic force of forward pivoted, be provided with the dog on the motion beam for rotate spacing to the pusher dog, the feed opening has been seted up to fixed rack's rear end, the feed opening below is provided with the run-out table.
2. The transverse movement steel separating device for billets according to claim 1, wherein: the blank transporting vehicle is provided with a driving mechanism for driving the blank transporting vehicle to move, and the driving mechanism comprises a motor and a gear set arranged on an output shaft of the motor.
3. The transverse movement steel separating device for billets according to claim 1, wherein: the fixed rack comprises a plurality of cantilevers which are arranged side by side left and right, the length direction of the cantilevers is parallel to the front and back direction, the guide rail comprises an upper guide rail and a lower guide rail which are respectively arranged on the upper side and the lower side of the cantilevers, pulleys are arranged on the left side and the right side of the moving beam, the moving beam is arranged between the two cantilevers, the pulleys on the left side and the right side of the moving beam are respectively matched with the lower guide rails of the two cantilevers in a sliding manner, and the upper guide rails of the two cantilevers are used for blocking and limiting the moving beam.
4. The transverse movement steel separating device for billets according to claim 1, wherein: the fixed rack is a steel fixed rack.
5. A billet traversing steel splitting device according to claim 3, wherein: the height of the cantilever is higher than that of the conveying roller way and the output roller way, and the pusher dog protrudes out of the cantilever.
6. The transverse movement steel separating device for billets according to claim 1, wherein: the movable beam is characterized by further comprising a torsion spring and a pin shaft, and the pusher dog is arranged on the movable beam in an elastic rotation manner through the mutual matching of the torsion spring and the pin shaft.
7. The transverse movement steel separating device for billets according to claim 1, wherein: the transport roller way is a plurality of steel blanks which are arranged on the blank transporting vehicle in parallel left and right, groups of steel blanks are arranged on the transport roller way along the front-back direction, and the length direction of the steel blanks is vertical to the front-back direction.
8. The transverse movement steel separating device for billets according to claim 1, wherein: the hydraulic cylinders are arranged in parallel left and right, the hydraulic cylinders are provided with displacement sensors and proportional valves, the displacement sensors are used for accurately controlling the strokes of the hydraulic cylinders, and the proportional valves are used for achieving synchronization of hydraulic actions of the two hydraulic cylinders.
9. The transverse movement steel separating device for billets according to claim 1, wherein: the width of the feed opening is the same as the width of one billet.
10. The transverse movement steel separating device for billets according to claim 1, wherein: the output roller way is a plurality of parallel arranged left and right.
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