CN220091213U - Chicken feed production dosing unit - Google Patents
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Abstract
The utility model relates to the technical field of a batching device, in particular to a batching device for chicken feed production, which comprises a batching barrel and a secondary crushing structure for carrying out secondary crushing on raw materials, wherein the secondary crushing structure comprises a first motor, a first rotating shaft, a crushing cutter, screw conveying pulp and a stirring rod, and the output end of the first motor is fixedly connected with the first rotating shaft. The utility model has the advantages that: through secondary crushing structure, carry crushing structure, premixing structure, feeding ring, round platform shape unloading shell and feed port's cooperation setting, can carry out the crushing work of pre-mixing secondary to chicken feed's raw materials to stir after carrying out secondary crushing to chicken feed's raw materials, avoided chicken feed raw materials to appear the phenomenon of caking, thereby can be quick make chicken feed's raw materials carry out the mixing work, make the raw materials to chicken feed mix evenly required time less, reached the effect that improves batching efficiency, also reduced the consumption to the energy simultaneously.
Description
Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of batching devices, in particular to a batching device for chicken feed production.
Background
With the development of society, the life quality is improved, the food demand is increased, in daily life, chickens, ducks, fish and pigs are taken as main food materials, the demand is also increased, farmers can use various mechanical equipment for improving the working efficiency during breeding, for example, when feeding broilers, feed is needed, but the feed is needed to improve the yield of the broilers, the raw materials are needed to be prepared according to a specific formula proportion, so that nutrition needed by chicken growth can be met, and the feed for broilers is developed
To the dosage required for the growth of broiler chickens, a dosing device is needed.
Most of the existing proportioning devices directly put raw materials into stirring equipment to be stirred uniformly, so that although the stirring effect can be achieved, when the raw materials in a block shape exist in the feed, the raw materials need to be stirred uniformly for a long time, so that the consumption of energy sources is increased, and therefore, the proportioning devices for chicken feed production are needed to solve the problems.
Disclosure of Invention
The object of the present utility model is to solve at least one of the technical drawbacks.
Therefore, an object of the present utility model is to provide a chicken feed production and proportioning device, which solves the problems mentioned in the background art and overcomes the defects existing in the prior art.
In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of an aspect of the present utility model provides a chicken feed production batching device, including a batching bucket and a secondary crushing structure for carrying out secondary crushing on raw materials, the secondary crushing structure includes a first motor, a first rotating shaft, a crushing knife, screw conveyor pulp and stirring rods, the output end of the first motor is fixedly connected with the first rotating shaft, the outer surface of the first rotating shaft is fixedly connected with the crushing knife, screw conveyor pulp and a plurality of stirring rods, the outer surface of the batching bucket is provided with a conveying crushing structure for carrying out primary crushing on raw materials, the conveying crushing structure includes a conveying cylinder, a second motor, a second rotating shaft and screw crushing blades, the outer surface of the batching bucket is fixedly connected with a conveying cylinder, one end of the conveying cylinder is fixedly provided with the second motor, the output end of the second motor is fixedly connected with the second rotating shaft, the outer surface of the second rotating shaft is fixedly connected with the screw crushing blades, the outer surface of the conveying cylinder is provided with a premixing structure for premixing raw materials, the premixing structure includes a blanking pipe, a premixing cylinder, a feeding pipe, a solenoid valve, a feeding cylinder and a scale mark, the outer surface of the conveying cylinder is fixedly connected with a plurality of feeding rings, the feeding cylinders are fixedly connected with the feeding rings are fixedly connected with the top ends of the feeding pipes, the feeding rings are fixedly connected with the feeding pipes, the feeding rings are fixedly connected with the top ends of the feeding rings are fixedly connected with the feeding rings, the outer surface of the feeding ring is provided with feeding holes corresponding to the size and the position of the conveying cylinder.
By above-mentioned arbitrary scheme preferred, the one end fixedly connected with that the puddler kept away from first pivot with batching bucket sliding connection's scraper blade, one side shape that the scraper blade kept away from first pivot is the arc, the scraper blade is laminated mutually with the inner wall of batching bucket, thereby can scrape the raw and other materials of batching bucket inner wall adhesion.
By above-mentioned arbitrary scheme preferred, the top side of batching bucket has the apron through flange and bolt fixed mounting, first motor fixed mounting is in one side of apron, first pivot passes through the bearing and rotates with the apron and be connected, through the apron has supported the stability of first motor and first pivot at the during operation, makes first pivot can be stable rotate.
By the above-mentioned scheme preferred, the surface fixedly connected with of batching bucket supports the floor, the one end that the batching bucket was kept away from to the support floor is with transport section of thick bamboo fixed connection, has supported transport section of thick bamboo has guaranteed transport section of thick bamboo's structural stability.
By any of the above schemes, preferably, the crushing cutters are located in the circular truncated cone-shaped blanking shell, and the lengths of the crushing cutters are gradually decreased from top to bottom, so that the phenomenon that the crushing cutters interfere with the circular truncated cone-shaped blanking shell in the rotating process can be avoided.
By any of the above schemes, it is preferable that the stirring rod is located below the screw conveyor, the crushing cutter is located above the screw conveyor, the screw conveyor passes through the bottom of the round table-shaped blanking shell, and the maximum diameter of the screw conveyor is smaller than the minimum diameter of the round table-shaped blanking shell, so that the screw conveyor can smoothly pass through the inside of the round table-shaped blanking shell and convey materials to the lower part of the round table-shaped blanking shell.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the following advantages and beneficial effects:
1. through secondary crushing structure, carry crushing structure, premixing structure, feeding ring, round platform shape unloading shell and feed port's cooperation setting, can carry out the crushing work of pre-mixing secondary to chicken feed's raw materials to stir after carrying out secondary crushing to chicken feed's raw materials, avoided chicken feed raw materials to appear the phenomenon of caking, thereby can be quick make chicken feed's raw materials carry out the mixing work, make the raw materials to chicken feed mix evenly required time less, reached the effect that improves batching efficiency, also reduced the consumption to the energy simultaneously.
2. The scraper blade that is connected through with the puddler can scrape the raw materials of adhesion on the batching bucket inner wall when stirring the mixture to the raw materials, has avoided the raw materials adhesion in the condition of batching bucket inner wall to be convenient for carry out the follow-up clearance the operation of batching bucket, and avoided a part of raw materials adhesion to be in batching bucket inner wall influences the condition of batching effect.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the present utility model;
FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the present utility model;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a secondary crushing structure according to the present utility model;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged schematic view of the structure of FIG. 1A according to the present utility model;
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the structure of the feed ring of the present utility model.
In the figure: 1-batching bucket, 2-secondary crushing structure, 201-first motor, 202-first pivot, 203-crushing sword, 204-screw conveying thick liquid, 205-puddler, 3-conveying crushing structure, 301-conveying section of thick bamboo, 302-second motor, 303-second pivot, 304-screw crushing blade, 4-premixing structure, 401-unloading pipe, 402-premixing section of thick bamboo, 403-inlet pipe, 404-solenoid valve, 405-charging section of thick bamboo, 406-scale mark, 5-feeding ring, 6-round platform shape blanking shell, 7-feed opening, 8-scraper blade, 9-apron, 10-support floor.
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The present utility model will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the scope of the present utility model is not limited to the following.
As shown in fig. 1 to 5, a chicken feed production batching device comprises a batching barrel 1 and a secondary crushing structure 2 for carrying out secondary crushing on raw materials, wherein the secondary crushing structure 2 comprises a first motor 201, a first rotating shaft 202, a crushing cutter 203, a spiral conveying pulp 204 and stirring rods 205, the output end of the first motor 201 is fixedly connected with the first rotating shaft 202, the crushing cutter 203, the spiral conveying pulp 204 and the stirring rods 205 are fixedly connected with the outer surface of the first rotating shaft 202, the outer surface of the batching barrel 1 is provided with a conveying crushing structure 3 for carrying out primary crushing on the raw materials, the conveying crushing structure 3 comprises a conveying barrel 301, a second motor 302, a second rotating shaft 303 and a spiral crushing blade 304, the outer surface of the batching barrel 1 is fixedly connected with the conveying barrel 301, the conveying barrel 301 is obliquely arranged, the included angle between the conveying barrel 301 and the batching barrel 1 is an acute angle, and the materials can be conveniently conveyed downwards, one end of the conveying cylinder 301 is fixedly provided with a second motor 302, the output end of the second motor 302 is fixedly connected with a second rotating shaft 303, the outer surface of the second rotating shaft 303 is fixedly connected with a spiral crushing blade 304, the spiral crushing blade 304 and the second rotating shaft 303 are both positioned in the conveying cylinder 301, the outer surface of the conveying cylinder 301 is provided with a premixing structure 4 for premixing raw materials, the premixing structure 4 comprises a blanking pipe 401, a premixing cylinder 402, a feeding pipe 403, an electromagnetic valve 404, a feeding cylinder 405 and a scale mark 406, the outer surface of the conveying cylinder 301 is fixedly connected with the blanking pipe 401, the top end of the blanking pipe 401 is fixedly connected with the premixing cylinder 402, the outer surface of the premixing cylinder 402 is fixedly connected with a plurality of feeding pipes 403, the feeding pipes 403 are provided with electromagnetic valves 404, whether the feeding pipes 403 can perform blanking work or not can be conveniently controlled through the electromagnetic valves 404, the top ends of the feeding pipes 403 are fixedly connected with feeding barrels 405, the outer surfaces of the feeding barrels 405 are provided with scale marks 406, the feeding barrels 405 are transparent barrels and are matched with the scale marks 406, so that the amount of materials in the feeding barrels 405 can be accurately known, a feeding ring 5 is fixedly arranged in the batching barrel 1, the bottom end of the feeding ring 5 is fixedly connected with a truncated cone-shaped blanking shell 6, the outer surfaces of the feeding ring 5 are provided with feeding holes 7 corresponding to the size and the position of the conveying barrel 301, when batching is performed, firstly chicken feed raw materials are added into the feeding barrels 405, the scale marks 406 are observed, the chicken feed raw materials are added to a proper amount, then an electromagnetic valve 404 is opened, and a plurality of materials enter the premixing barrel 402 through the feeding pipes 403 at the same time, so that the materials perform primary mixing work, then the material enters the interior of the conveying cylinder 301 through the blanking pipe 401, at this time, the first motor 201 and the second motor 302 are started, along with the start of the second motor 302, the second rotating shaft 303 drives the spiral crushing blade 304 to rotate, so that the chicken feed raw material can be conveyed downwards while the chicken feed raw material is crushed, the primarily crushed chicken feed raw material is conveyed to the interior of the truncated cone-shaped blanking shell 6 through the feeding hole 7, along with the start of the first motor 201, the first rotating shaft 202 drives the crushing blade 203 and the spiral conveying pulp 204 to rotate, at this time, the crushing blade 203 secondarily crushes the chicken feed raw material, and the crushed chicken feed raw material is conveyed to the interior of the batching barrel 1 from the truncated cone-shaped blanking shell 6 through the spiral conveying pulp 204, along with the rotation of the first rotating shaft 202, the stirring rod 205 stirs and mixes the materials.
As an alternative technical scheme of the utility model, one end of the stirring rod 205 far away from the first rotating shaft 202 is fixedly connected with a scraping plate 8 which is in sliding connection with the batching bucket 1, one side of the scraping plate 8 far away from the first rotating shaft 202 is arc-shaped, the scraping plate 8 is attached to the inner wall of the batching bucket 1, and the stirring rod 205 drives the scraping plate 8 to rotate when the first rotating shaft 202 rotates, so that raw materials adhered to the inner wall of the batching bucket 1 can be scraped.
As an alternative technical scheme of the utility model, the top side of the batching bucket 1 is fixedly provided with the cover plate 9 through the flange and the bolts, the first motor 201 is fixedly arranged on one side of the cover plate 9, the first rotating shaft 202 is rotationally connected with the cover plate 9 through the bearing, and the stability of the first motor 201 and the first rotating shaft 202 during working is supported through the cover plate 9, so that the first rotating shaft 202 can stably rotate.
As an alternative technical scheme of the utility model, the outer surface of the batching barrel 1 is fixedly connected with the supporting rib plate 10, one end of the supporting rib plate 10 far away from the batching barrel 1 is fixedly connected with the conveying barrel 301, the conveying barrel 301 is supported, and the structural stability of the conveying barrel 301 is ensured.
As an alternative solution of the present utility model, the crushing blades 203 are located inside the truncated cone-shaped blanking shell 6, and the lengths of the crushing blades 203 decrease step by step from top to bottom, so that the phenomenon that the crushing blades 203 interfere with the truncated cone-shaped blanking shell 6 during the rotation process can be avoided.
As an alternative solution of the present utility model, the stirring rod 205 is located below the screw conveyor 204, the crushing blade 203 is located above the screw conveyor 204, the screw conveyor 204 passes through the bottom of the round table-shaped blanking shell 6, and the maximum diameter of the screw conveyor 204 is smaller than the minimum diameter of the round table-shaped blanking shell 6, so that the screw conveyor 204 can smoothly pass through the inside of the round table-shaped blanking shell 6 and convey the material to the lower side of the round table-shaped blanking shell 6.
A chicken feed production dosing unit, theory of operation is as follows:
1) Adding chicken feed raw materials into the feeding barrel 405, observing the scale marks 406, and adding the chicken feed raw materials to a proper amount;
2) Opening the electromagnetic valve 404 to enable a plurality of materials to enter the interior of the premixing barrel 402 through the feeding pipe 403 at the same time, so that the materials are subjected to preliminary mixing work, and the premixed materials enter the interior of the conveying barrel 301 through the discharging pipe 401;
3) At this time, the first motor 201 and the second motor 302 are started, along with the start of the second motor 302, the second rotating shaft 303 drives the spiral crushing blade 304 to rotate, so that the chicken feed raw material can be conveyed downwards while the chicken feed raw material is crushed, the chicken feed raw material after primary crushing is conveyed to the inside of the round table-shaped blanking shell 6 through the feeding hole 7, along with the start of the first motor 201, the first rotating shaft 202 drives the crushing blade 203 and the spiral conveying pulp 204 to rotate, at this time, the crushing blade 203 carries out secondary crushing on the chicken feed raw material, and the crushed chicken feed raw material is conveyed to the inside of the batching bucket 1 from the round table-shaped blanking shell 6 through the spiral conveying pulp 204, and along with the rotation of the first rotating shaft 202, the stirring rod 205 carries out stirring and mixing operation on the materials.
To sum up, this chicken feed production dosing unit, through secondary crushing structure 2, carry crushing structure 3, premixing structure 4, feeding ring 5, round platform shape unloading shell 6 and feed port 7's cooperation setting, can carry out the crushing work of pre-mixing secondary to chicken feed's raw materials, and stir after carrying out the secondary crushing to chicken feed's raw materials, avoid chicken feed raw materials to appear the phenomenon of caking, thereby can be quick make chicken feed's raw materials carry out the mixing work, make the raw materials to chicken feed evenly mix required time less, the effect of improvement batching efficiency has been reached, the consumption to the energy has also been reduced simultaneously, scrape the raw materials of batching bucket 1 inner wall adhesion through the scraper blade 8 that is connected with puddler 205 when stirring mixing the raw materials, the condition of raw materials adhesion on batching bucket 1 inner wall has been avoided, thereby be convenient for carry out follow-up clearance batching bucket 1's operation, and avoid the condition that a part of raw materials adhesion at batching bucket 1 inner wall and influence batching effect.
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1. A chicken feed production dosing unit, its characterized in that: including batching bucket (1) and carry out secondary crushing structure (2) of secondary crushing to raw and other materials, secondary crushing structure (2) include first motor (201), first pivot (202), crushing sword (203), spiral conveying thick liquid (204) and puddler (205), the output fixedly connected with first pivot (202) of first motor (201), the surface fixedly connected with crushing sword (203), spiral conveying thick liquid (204) and a plurality of puddler (205) of first pivot (202), the surface of batching bucket (1) is provided with carries crushing structure (3) of carrying out primary crushing to raw and other materials, carry crushing structure (3) including carrying section of thick bamboo (301), second motor (302), second pivot (303) and spiral crushing blade (304), the surface fixedly connected with carrying section of thick bamboo (301) of batching bucket (1), the one end fixedly connected with second motor (302) of carrying section of thick bamboo (301), the output fixedly connected with second pivot (303) of second motor (303), the surface fixedly connected with of second pivot (303) blade (301) carries out the conveying structure (401) of raw and other materials, the surface (4) of premixing structure (401) are carried out to the surface (4) of premixing structure Premix section of thick bamboo (402), inlet pipe (403), solenoid valve (404), feed cylinder (405) and scale mark (406), the surface fixedly connected with unloading pipe (401) of carrying section of thick bamboo (301), the top fixedly connected with of unloading pipe (401) mixes section of thick bamboo (402) in advance, the surface fixedly connected with a plurality of inlet pipe (403) of premixing section of thick bamboo (402), a plurality of all be provided with solenoid valve (404) on inlet pipe (403), a plurality of the equal fixedly connected with feed cylinder (405) in top of inlet pipe (403), a plurality of the surface of feed cylinder (405) all is provided with scale mark (406), the inside fixedly mounted of batching bucket (1) has feeding ring (5), the bottom fixedly connected with round platform shape unloading shell (6) of feeding ring (5), feeding hole (7) that all correspond with carrying section of thick bamboo (301) size and position are seted up to the surface of feeding ring (5).
2. The chicken feed production batching device according to claim 1, wherein: one end fixedly connected with that puddler (205) kept away from first pivot (202) is with batching bucket (1) sliding connection's scraper blade (8), one side shape that first pivot (202) was kept away from to scraper blade (8) is the arc, scraper blade (8) are laminated with the inner wall of batching bucket (1) mutually.
3. The chicken feed production batching device according to claim 2, wherein: the top side of the batching bucket (1) is fixedly provided with a cover plate (9) through a flange and bolts, the first motor (201) is fixedly arranged on one side of the cover plate (9), and the first rotating shaft (202) is rotationally connected with the cover plate (9) through a bearing.
4. A chicken feed production dosing unit according to claim 3, characterized in that: the outer surface of the batching bucket (1) is fixedly connected with a supporting rib plate (10), and one end, far away from the batching bucket (1), of the supporting rib plate (10) is fixedly connected with a conveying cylinder (301).
5. The chicken feed production and proportioning device of claim 4, wherein: the crushing cutters (203) are positioned in the round table-shaped blanking shell (6), and the lengths of the plurality of crushing cutters (203) are gradually decreased from top to bottom.
6. The chicken feed production and proportioning device of claim 5, wherein: the stirring rod (205) is positioned below the spiral conveying pulp (204), the crushing cutter (203) is positioned above the spiral conveying pulp (204), the spiral conveying pulp (204) passes through the bottom of the round table-shaped blanking shell (6), and the maximum diameter of the spiral conveying pulp (204) is smaller than the minimum diameter of the round table-shaped blanking shell (6).
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