CN220181786U - Continuous feeding integrated processing equipment for textile leather roller - Google Patents

Continuous feeding integrated processing equipment for textile leather roller Download PDF

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CN220181786U
CN220181786U CN202321966388.1U CN202321966388U CN220181786U CN 220181786 U CN220181786 U CN 220181786U CN 202321966388 U CN202321966388 U CN 202321966388U CN 220181786 U CN220181786 U CN 220181786U
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The utility model discloses a continuous feeding integrated processing device for textile leather rollers, which comprises a main frame, wherein a material channel mounting frame is arranged in the main frame, a material channel plate is arranged on the material channel mounting frame, an inclined downward S-shaped slope rollaway nest is formed on the material channel plate from the top downwards, the leather rollers are placed on the material channel plate, a working pedestal is arranged on the main frame, a rotary driving mechanism and a leather roller processing mechanism are respectively and fixedly arranged on the working pedestal, the rotary driving mechanism is positioned at an opening at the outer side of the end part of one slope rollaway nest, the rotary driving mechanism carries the leather rollers on the slope rollaway nest on the material channel plate and processes the leather rollers through the leather roller processing mechanism, and the leather rollers are placed on the downward slope rollaway nest of the material channel plate after the rotary driving mechanism rotates. The automatic feeding and processing combined operation is adopted, so that the continuous feeding and oiling, marking, cleaning, gluing and other processing operations of the textile leather roller are integrally completed, the leather roller is not required to be carried and transferred, and the automatic efficiency is high.

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Continuous feeding integrated processing equipment for textile leather roller
Technical Field
The utility model relates to the field of textile machinery equipment, in particular to continuous feeding integrated processing equipment for a textile leather roller.
Background
The spinning leather roller is a key piece in a spinning host machine, and is characterized in that the middle of the leather roller is an iron core with bearings at two ends, and the bearings at two ends are respectively provided with a rubber roller which can rotate and has an outer diameter larger than that of the iron core. The leather roller needs to be processed and maintained daily, and the leather roller is processed by oiling, marking, cleaning, gluing and the like, such as a leather roller oiling machine, a leather roller grinding machine, a leather roller gluing machine and the like, and full-automatic or semi-automatic storage preparation is needed to be carried out through a leather roller storage device before the leather roller is fed to the leather roller oiling machine, the leather roller grinding machine, the leather roller gluing machine and the like. The storage mode in the prior art usually adopts an S-shaped roller path mode or multi-roller path layering mode. The S-shaped raceway form is a material storage mode in which leather rollers to be processed are sequentially arranged to a material taking opening at the lowest end along with the S-shaped raceway form, taken out by a material taking and conveying device and conveyed to processing equipment.
At present, equipment such as used leather roller oiling, marking, cleaning, gluing and the like and material storage equipment of the leather roller are different separated equipment, processing equipment such as leather roller oiling, marking, cleaning, gluing and the like needs the leather roller to be fed from the leather roller material storage equipment to the processing equipment, and processing treatment is independently carried out on the processing equipment, so that equipment redundancy and complex procedures are caused, the transportation of the leather roller is time-consuming and labor-consuming, continuous material feeding operation cannot be carried out, and the production efficiency is low. In addition, the conventional leather roller material frame is mainly provided with a roller path for placing leather rollers on a material frame plate with a certain width, and the leather roller material frame can only be used for storing leather rollers with specific specifications. If enterprises need to produce leather rollers with various specifications and models, various devices with different specifications and models of leather roller racks need to be purchased, and the cost and the pressure of the devices are caused.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects that the conventional leather roller oiling, marking, cleaning, gluing and other equipment and leather roller storage equipment are separate different equipment, equipment redundancy and complex procedures are caused, the leather roller is time-consuming and labor-consuming to transfer and cannot be continuously fed, the production efficiency is low, a leather roller material frame can only store leather rollers with specific specifications, and the like, the utility model provides a textile leather roller continuous feeding integrated processing equipment with reasonable structure, which can realize the integrated processing equipment of textile leather roller continuous feeding and oiling, marking, cleaning, gluing and other processing operations, and the automatic continuous operation improves the working efficiency.
The technical scheme adopted by the utility model is as follows:
a spinning leather roller continuous feeding integrated processing device is provided with a main frame, a material channel mounting frame is mounted on the inside of the main frame, a material channel plate is mounted on the material channel mounting frame, an inclined downward S-shaped slope rollaway is formed on the material channel plate downwards from the top, a working pedestal is arranged on the main frame, a rotary driving mechanism and a leather roller processing mechanism are fixedly mounted on the working pedestal respectively, the rotary driving mechanism is located at an opening at the outer side of the end part of one slope rollaway, the rotary driving mechanism carries leather rollers on the slope rollaway on the material channel plate and processes the leather rollers through the leather roller processing mechanism, and the leather rollers are placed on the downward slope rollaway of the material channel plate after the rotary driving mechanism rotates.
As a further improvement of the above technical scheme:
the rotary driving mechanism comprises a rotary shaft, a rotary driving device and a rotating wheel, wherein the rotary shaft is transversely arranged, the rotary driving device drives the rotary shaft, the rotating wheel is arranged on the rotary shaft and rotates along with the rotary shaft, a material blocking frame is arranged on the outer side of the rotating wheel of the rotary driving mechanism, and an arc-shaped channel is formed by matching the material blocking frame and the rotating wheel.
The rotating wheel comprises two wheel sheets which are arranged in parallel and opposite to each other, and the two wheel sheets correspond to the two single plates of the material channel plate and are opposite to the two single plates of the material channel plate or are positioned at the inner sides of the two single plates of the material channel plate.
The leather roller rolls from the material channel plate to the rotating wheel, more than two U-shaped openings are uniformly distributed on the radial periphery of the rotating wheel, the leather roller falls into the U-shaped openings when reaching the U-shaped openings, and is moved by the rotating wheel along with the rotation of the rotating wheel, and is released by the rotating wheel to roll downwards continuously after passing through the circular arc-shaped channel of the material blocking frame.
The material blocking frame is arranged on the workbench seat, and adopts two single plates which are arranged in parallel and opposite to each other and correspond to the two single plates of the material channel plate.
The material way plate adopts two single plates which are oppositely arranged in parallel, the bottom of the main frame is provided with an adjusting mechanism, the material way mounting frame is arranged on a shifting shaft of the adjusting mechanism, and the material way plate adjusts the mounting position and the spacing through the adjusting mechanism.
One side of the middle height position on the main frame is provided with a working pedestal, and the rotary driving mechanism is positioned at an opening outside the end part of one slope rollaway nest at the middle height position of the material channel mounting frame.
The leather roller processing mechanism is arranged on the workbench seat and corresponds to the rotating wheel, and the leather roller processing mechanism processes leather rollers on the rotating wheel.
The leather roller processing mechanism comprises a sliding shaft, a translation driving device, a tool mounting frame and a processing tool, wherein the sliding shaft is arranged on a workbench seat, the tool mounting frame is arranged on the sliding shaft, the translation driving device is correspondingly connected with the tool mounting frame, and the processing tool is correspondingly arranged on the tool mounting frame.
The tool mounting frame is respectively arranged on the sliding shaft left and right.
The beneficial effects of the utility model are as follows:
the utility model adopts a rotary driving mechanism, a rotary wheel for rotary control is arranged, more than two U-shaped openings which are uniformly distributed are arranged on the radial periphery of the rotary wheel, the leather roller rolls from the material channel plate to the rotary wheel, falls into the U-shaped openings when reaching the U-shaped openings, is moved by the rotary wheel along with the rotation of the rotary wheel, and is released by the rotary wheel to roll downwards after passing through the circular arc-shaped channel of the material blocking frame. And processing the leather roller on the rotating wheel through a leather roller processing mechanism, and then rotating and moving the leather roller by the rotating wheel and putting the leather roller on a downward slope rollaway nest of the material channel plate. The automatic feeding and processing device adopts automatic cooperation operation of continuous feeding and processing treatment, realizes that the processing operations of continuous feeding and oiling, marking, cleaning, gluing and the like of the textile leather roller are integrally completed, does not need to carry and transfer the leather roller, and improves the working efficiency by automatic operation. According to the utility model, the adjusting mechanism is arranged at the bottom of the main frame, the material channel mounting frame is arranged on the adjusting mechanism, the material channel plates adjust the mounting positions and the distances through the adjusting mechanism, and the device is suitable for leather rollers with different specifications and models and has strong practicability.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the present utility model.
Fig. 2 is a right side view of the present utility model.
Fig. 3 is a top view of the present utility model.
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a wheel portion of the present utility model.
In the figure: 1. a main frame; 2. a material channel mounting frame; 3. a material channel plate; 4. a leather roller; 5. an adjusting mechanism; 6. a shift shaft; 7. a work bench; 8. a swing driving mechanism; 9. a rotating shaft; 10. a slewing drive device; 11. a rotating wheel; 12. a material blocking frame; 13. a leather roller processing mechanism; 14. a sliding shaft; 15. a translational drive device; 16. a tool mounting rack; 17. a processing tool.
Detailed Description
The following describes specific embodiments of the present utility model with reference to the drawings.
As shown in fig. 1 to 4, the continuous feeding integrated processing device for textile leather rollers provided by the utility model is provided with a main frame 1, wherein the main frame 1 is of a frame structure, a material channel mounting frame 2 is arranged in the main frame 1, a material channel plate 3 is arranged on the material channel mounting frame 2, the material channel plate 3 adopts two single plates which are arranged in parallel and opposite, the material channel plate 3 downwards forms an S-shaped roundabout slope rollaway path obliquely downwards from the top to form a passage through which leather rollers 4 roll, and the leather rollers 4 arranged on the material channel plate 3 downwards roll along the slope rollaway path. An adjusting mechanism 5 is arranged at the bottom of the main frame 1, the adjusting mechanism 5 is provided with a shifting shaft 6, the material channel mounting frame 2 is arranged on the shifting shaft 6, the shifting shaft 6 is a bidirectional screw rod, the material channel mounting frame 2 is matched with the shifting shaft 6, and the mounting position and the spacing of the two single plates of the material channel plate 3 can be adjusted through the adjusting mechanism 5, so that the material channel plate 3 is suitable for leather rollers 4 with different specifications.
A workbench seat 7 is arranged on one side of the middle height position on the main frame 1, a rotary driving mechanism 8 and a leather roller processing mechanism 13 are fixedly arranged on the workbench seat 7 respectively, the rotary driving mechanism 8 is positioned at an opening of the outer side of the end part of one slope rollaway in the middle height position of the material channel mounting frame 2 and is called a processing station, the rotary driving mechanism 8 is matched with the slope rollaway of the material channel plate 3 in the processing station, the rotary driving mechanism 8 blocks and takes the leather roller 4 on the slope rollaway on the material channel plate 3, the leather roller processing mechanism 13 is used for processing, then the leather roller 4 is rotationally moved and put into the slope rollaway on the downward slope rollaway of the material channel plate 3.
Specifically, the rotation driving mechanism 8 comprises a rotation shaft 9, a rotation driving device 10 and a rotating wheel 11, the rotation shaft 9 is transversely arranged at a processing station, the rotation driving device 10 is arranged outside the end part of the rotation shaft 9, the rotation driving device 10 drives the rotation shaft 9, the rotating wheel 11 is arranged on the rotation shaft 9, and the rotating wheel 11 rotates along with the rotation shaft 9. A material blocking frame 12 is arranged on the outer side of a rotating wheel 11 of the rotary driving mechanism 8, and a circular arc-shaped channel is formed between the material blocking frame 12 and the rotating wheel 11 in a matched mode, and the leather roller 4 passes through the circular arc-shaped channel. The material blocking frame 12 can be arranged on the workbench seat 7, and the material blocking frame 12 adopts two single plates which are arranged in parallel and opposite to each other and correspond to the two single plates of the material channel plate 3.
The rotating wheel 11 comprises two wheel sheets which are arranged in parallel and opposite to each other, correspond to the two single plates of the material channel plate 3, and are opposite to the two single plates of the material channel plate 3 or are positioned on the inner sides of the two single plates of the material channel plate 3. The leather roller 4 rolls off from the material channel plate 3 to the rotating wheel 11, more than two U-shaped openings which are uniformly distributed are formed in the radial periphery of the rotating wheel 11, the leather roller 4 falls into the U-shaped openings when reaching the U-shaped openings, and is carried by the rotating wheel 11 to move along with the rotation of the rotating wheel 11, and the leather roller continuously rolls off downwards after passing through the circular arc-shaped channel of the material blocking frame 12. The lower part of the runner 11 is located at the downward slope raceway of the material path plate 3, and the leather roller 4 carried by the runner 11 reaches the downward slope raceway of the material path plate 3 after being moved along with the rotation of the runner 11, and then is released by the runner 11 to continue to roll down along the slope raceway of the material path plate 3. As an example, three U-shaped openings are provided in a uniform array in the radial outer periphery of the rotor 11.
The leather roller processing mechanism 13 is arranged on the workbench seat 7 and is arranged corresponding to the rotating wheel 11, and the leather roller processing mechanism 13 processes the leather roller 4 on the rotating wheel 11. Specifically, the roller processing mechanism 13 includes a slide shaft 14, a translational drive device 15, a tool mounting frame 16, and a processing tool 17, the slide shaft 14 is mounted on the work table 7 and parallel to the rotation shaft 9, the tool mounting frame 16 is mounted on the slide shaft 14, and the tool mounting frame 16 is slidable on the slide shaft 14. The tool mounting frames 16 are provided one for each of the left and right on the slide shaft 14. A translational driving device 15 is arranged at the end part side of the sliding shaft 14, and the translational driving device 15 is correspondingly connected with a tool mounting frame 16 and drives the tool mounting frame 16 to slide. The tool mounting frame 16 is correspondingly provided with a processing tool 17, the mechanism type of the processing tool 17 can be selected and applicable, and the leather roller 4 is subjected to the processing of oiling, marking, cleaning, gluing and the like.
The utility model describes the working process by taking two U-shaped openings on the rotating wheel 11 as an example. When the leather roller 4 to be processed is put into the material channel plate 3 from the feeding area in sequence during operation, when the leather roller 4 rolls on the rollaway path of the material channel plate 3 to the rotating wheel 11 of the rotary driving mechanism 8, the leather roller 4 is blocked by the rotating wheel 11. The starting equipment, the rotary driving mechanism 8 drives the rotating wheel 11 to rotate clockwise through the rotary shaft 9, when the U-shaped opening on the rotating wheel 11 rotates to the outlet of the material channel plate 3 at the processing station, the leather roller 4 rolls down into one U-shaped opening of the rotating wheel 11 under the action of gravity, the rotating wheel 11 continues to rotate, and the leather roller 4 of other leather rollers 4 in the material channel plate 3 is blocked by the rotating wheel 11, so that only one leather roller 4 is brought out of one U-shaped opening of the rotating wheel 11 at a time.
When the leather roller 4 rotates to the vertical position under the drive of the rotating wheel 11, the leather roller 4 is positioned at the top of the rotating wheel 11, the rotation driving mechanism 8 stops rotating, the leather roller processing mechanism 13 starts to work at the moment, the translation driving devices 15 at the two ends of the sliding shaft 14 act simultaneously, and the processing tool 17 arranged on the tool mounting frame 16 is driven to move towards the leather roller 4 on the sliding shaft 14 and reach the leather roller 4, so that the leather roller 4 can be subjected to the processing of oiling, marking, cleaning, gluing and the like through different processing tools 17.
After the leather roller 4 is processed, the translation driving device 15 drives the tool mounting frame 16 to act, the processing tool 17 is driven to exit from the processing state, the rotating wheel 11 continues to rotate under the driving of the rotary driving mechanism 8, when the other U-shaped opening on the rotating wheel 11 rotates to the outlet of the processing station of the material channel plate 3, the second leather roller 4 falls into the U-shaped opening under the action of gravity, meanwhile, the processed first leather roller 4 enters the circular arc-shaped channel of the material blocking frame 12 under the driving of the rotating wheel 11 and rotates downwards to move, and when the leather roller 4 to be processed rotates to the top position of the rotating wheel 11, the processed leather roller 4 falls onto the material channel plate 3 under the action of gravity and rolls into the inclined raceway below the material channel plate 3 along the material channel, and finally rolls out from the bottom of the material channel plate 3 to be collected. The above process is repeated until the leather roller 4 to be processed in the feeding area is completely processed.
The above description is illustrative of the utility model and is not intended to be limiting, and the utility model may be modified in any form without departing from the spirit of the utility model.

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1. Continuous material integrative processing equipment of walking of weaving leather roller, its characterized in that: the automatic feeding device is characterized by comprising a main frame (1), wherein a material channel mounting frame (2) is mounted on the inside of the main frame (1), a material channel plate (3) is mounted on the material channel mounting frame (2), an inclined downward S-shaped slope rollaway nest is formed on the material channel plate (3) from the top downwards, a workbench seat (7) is arranged on the main frame (1), a rotary driving mechanism (8) and a roller processing mechanism (13) are fixedly mounted on the workbench seat (7) respectively, the rotary driving mechanism (8) is located at an opening on the outer side of the end part of the slope rollaway nest, the rotary driving mechanism (8) carries out processing on the roller (4) on the slope rollaway nest on the material channel plate (3), and the roller (4) is placed on the downward slope rollaway nest of the material channel plate (3) after the rotary driving mechanism (8) rotates.
2. The continuous feeding integrated processing device for textile leather rollers according to claim 1, wherein: the rotary driving mechanism (8) comprises a rotary shaft (9), a rotary driving device (10) and a rotating wheel (11), wherein the rotary shaft (9) is transversely arranged, the rotary driving device (10) drives the rotary shaft (9), the rotating wheel (11) is arranged on the rotary shaft (9), the rotating wheel (11) rotates along with the rotary shaft (9), a material blocking frame (12) is arranged on the outer side of the rotating wheel (11) of the rotary driving mechanism (8), and a circular arc-shaped channel is formed between the material blocking frame (12) and the rotating wheel (11) in a matched mode.
3. The continuous feeding integrated processing device for textile leather rollers according to claim 2, wherein: the rotating wheel (11) comprises two wheel sheets which are arranged in parallel and opposite to each other, and the two wheel sheets correspond to the two single plates of the material channel plate (3) and are opposite to the two single plates of the material channel plate (3) or are positioned at the inner sides of the two single plates of the material channel plate (3).
4. The continuous feeding integrated processing device for textile leather rollers according to claim 2, wherein: the leather roller (4) rolls from the material channel plate (3) to the rotating wheel (11), more than two U-shaped openings which are uniformly distributed are formed in the radial periphery of the rotating wheel (11), the leather roller (4) falls into the U-shaped openings when reaching the U-shaped openings, and is moved by the rotating wheel (11) along with the rotation of the rotating wheel (11), and is released by the rotating wheel (11) to roll downwards continuously after passing through the circular arc-shaped channel of the material blocking frame (12).
5. The continuous feeding integrated processing device for textile leather rollers according to claim 2, wherein: the material blocking frame (12) is arranged on the workbench seat (7), and the material blocking frame (12) adopts two single plates which are arranged in parallel and opposite to each other and correspond to the two single plates of the material channel plate (3).
6. The continuous feeding integrated processing device for textile leather rollers according to claim 1, wherein: the material way plate (3) adopts two single plates which are oppositely arranged in parallel, the bottom of the main frame (1) is provided with an adjusting mechanism (5), the material way mounting frame (2) is arranged on a shifting shaft (6) of the adjusting mechanism (5), and the material way plate (3) adjusts the mounting position and the spacing through the adjusting mechanism (5).
7. The continuous feeding integrated processing device for textile leather rollers according to claim 1, wherein: a workbench seat (7) is arranged on one side of the middle height position on the main frame (1), and a rotary driving mechanism (8) is positioned at an opening outside the end part of one slope rollaway nest at the middle height position of the material channel mounting frame (2).
8. The continuous feeding integrated processing device for textile leather rollers according to claim 1, wherein: the leather roller processing mechanism (13) is arranged on the workbench seat (7) and is arranged corresponding to the rotating wheel (11), and the leather roller processing mechanism (13) processes the leather roller (4) on the rotating wheel (11).
9. The continuous feeding integrated processing device for textile leather rollers according to claim 1, wherein: the leather roller machining mechanism (13) comprises a sliding shaft (14), a translation driving device (15), a tool mounting frame (16) and a machining tool (17), wherein the sliding shaft (14) is erected on the workbench base (7), the tool mounting frame (16) is installed on the sliding shaft (14), the translation driving device (15) is correspondingly connected with the tool mounting frame (16), and the machining tool (17) is correspondingly arranged on the tool mounting frame (16).
10. The continuous feeding integrated processing device for textile leather rollers according to claim 9, wherein: the tool mounting frames (16) are arranged on the sliding shafts (14) one for each of the left and right sides.
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