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Abstract
The application provides a stirring device, including the building block, fixed connection is in the base table of building block one side and fixed connection is in the bearing seat of building block upper surface, the fixed surface is connected with auxiliary assembly on the base table, be equipped with drive assembly on the bearing seat, be equipped with power component on the drive assembly, bear the equal fixedly connected with riser in both sides of seat upper surface, the arc wall has been seted up at the middle part of one of them riser upper surface, and there is the restriction ring through the arc wall joint, this application is through setting up auxiliary assembly, make the staff lift up stirring subassembly through the pull handle when carrying out the row material operation, make its overlap joint to auxiliary assembly on, open the separation lid afterwards, can make the concrete discharge, and after discharging completely, put back the stirring subassembly in situ again, can carry out follow-up stirring, discharge through the slush pump in the prior art, thereby increase equipment required energy consumption, thereby increase manufacturing cost's problem.
Description
Technical Field
The utility model relates to the field of concrete stirring, in particular to a stirring device.
Background
Building is a generic term for buildings and structures. Concrete refers to a generic term for engineering composite materials in which aggregate is consolidated into a whole by a cementitious material. The term concrete generally refers to cement as a cementing material, sand and stone as aggregate; the cement concrete, also called ordinary concrete, obtained by mixing the cement concrete with water (which can contain additives and admixtures) according to a certain proportion is widely applied to civil engineering and construction engineering.
The patent of the Chinese patent application number 201710485527.1 discloses a concrete stirring device which comprises a movable seat, a driving motor, a speed reducer and a round table, wherein the driving motor drives the round table to rotate through the speed reducer; the upper end of the round table is provided with a stirring cylinder; the mobile device is also provided with a supporting platform, the supporting platform is provided with a stirring motor, and the stirring motor is connected with a stirring shaft; the steering direction of the stirring cylinder and the stirring shaft is opposite; the stirring cylinder is also provided with a material guide opening; the movable seat is provided with a feeding device. The concrete stirring device is convenient to transport and high in stirring efficiency, but a large amount of concrete residues are easy to occur only by water flow flushing due to the adhesiveness of the concrete.
Thus, a stirring device is provided to solve the above problems.
Disclosure of Invention
The utility model aims at: the problem that a large amount of concrete remains easily caused by the adhesiveness of the concrete in the prior art only by water flow flushing is solved.
In order to achieve the above object, the present utility model provides the following technical solutions:
a stirring device is provided to solve the above problems.
The application is specifically such that:
the device comprises an I-shaped piece, a bottom table fixedly connected to one side of the I-shaped piece and a bearing seat fixedly connected to the upper surface of the I-shaped piece, wherein an auxiliary assembly is fixedly connected to the upper surface of the bottom table, a transmission assembly is arranged on the bearing seat, a power assembly is arranged on the transmission assembly, vertical plates are fixedly connected to two sides of the upper surface of the bearing seat, an arc-shaped groove is formed in the middle of the upper surface of one vertical plate, a limiting ring is clamped through the arc-shaped groove, and the middle of the upper surface of the other vertical plate and the limiting ring are clamped with the same stirring assembly;
the auxiliary assembly comprises brackets fixedly connected to two sides of the upper surface of the base table, the same cross rod is fixedly connected between the brackets, and a supporting piece is fixedly connected to the top end of each bracket.
As the preferred technical scheme of this application, drive assembly including fixed connection in bear the equipment platform at seat upper surface middle part, two sets of the top of equipment platform both sides runs through the joint respectively and has connecting rod and auxiliary rod.
As the preferred technical scheme of this application, the recess has been seted up at the middle part of equipment bench upper surface, and in the inside push away the wheel that is equipped with of recess, push away the quantity of wheel and be four push away the wheel respectively two by two set up in connecting rod and auxiliary rod are last.
As the preferred technical scheme of this application, power component include fixed connection in bear the support of seat upper surface to through supporting fixedly connected with servo motor, servo motor's output fixedly connected with driving gear, one side of driving gear with one side looks joint of riser.
As the preferred technical scheme of this application, the one end through connection of connecting rod is in on the riser to fixedly connected with driven gear, driven gear's one side with one side of driving gear meshes to be connected.
As the preferred technical scheme of this application, stirring subassembly including movable joint in inside guide of restriction ring and joint in the sealing member at riser upper surface middle part, fixedly connected with agitator between guide and the sealing member, the inside wall fixed connection of agitator mixes the flabellum.
As the preferred technical scheme of this application, the inside threaded connection of guide has the separation lid, the inside activity joint of agitator has the mixing rod, the one end fixedly connected with of mixing rod cooperates the gear, cooperate the gear with the driving gear is engaged with and is connected.
As the preferred technical scheme of this application, the fixed surface of hybrid rod is connected with oblique branch, the surface joint of oblique branch has the swivel ring, the fixed surface of swivel ring is connected with the reposition of redundant personnel pole.
As the preferred technical scheme of this application, be equipped with six oblique branches on the hybrid rod, every be equipped with four swivel rings on the oblique branch, every be equipped with three reposition of redundant personnel pole on the swivel ring.
As the preferred technical scheme of this application, the middle part of agitator is equipped with the lock ring, the lock ring with push away movable pulley looks adaptation, one side fixedly connected with of agitator draws the handle, the arc conical surface of agitator with support piece looks adaptation, one side fixedly connected with drainage piece of carrier seat upper surface.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the beneficial effects that:
in the scheme of the application:
1. through setting up auxiliary assembly for the staff is when carrying out the operation of discharging, only need to lift up stirring subassembly through the pull handle, makes its overlap joint to auxiliary assembly on, opens the separation lid afterwards, can make the concrete discharge, and after discharging completely, put back the stirring subassembly in situ again, can carry out subsequent stirring, has solved in the prior art and discharged through the slush pump, thereby increase the required energy consumption of equipment, thereby increase manufacturing cost's problem;
2. through power component, drive assembly and the stirring subassembly that sets up for the staff can control agitator and hybrid pole more conveniently and carry out reverse rotation, thereby make the concrete can be more abundant, and in follow-up cleaning process, shunt through the reposition of redundant personnel pole ground can make the reposition of redundant personnel pole fully contact with hybrid fan blade, increase cleaning performance then, solved among the prior art because the adhesion of concrete, lead to only washing the very easy problem that appears concrete a large amount of residuals through rivers.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the overall structure of a stirring device provided in the present application;
FIG. 2 is a second schematic diagram of the overall structure of the stirring device provided in the present application;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a second embodiment of the stirring device provided in the present application;
fig. 4 is a schematic view of a disassembled structure of a stirring assembly of the stirring device provided by the application;
fig. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a stirring assembly of a stirring device provided by the application.
The figures indicate:
1. an I-shaped piece;
2. a bearing seat;
3. a base table;
4. an auxiliary component; 41. a bracket; 42. a support;
5. a transmission assembly; 51. an assembly table; 52. a connecting rod; 53. an auxiliary lever; 54. a push wheel;
6. a power assembly; 61. a servo motor; 62. a drive gear; 63. a driven gear;
7. a riser;
8. a confinement ring;
9. a stirring assembly; 91. a material guide; 92. a seal; 93. a stirring barrel; 94. mixing fan blades; 95. a barrier cover; 96. oblique support; 97. a rotating ring; 98. a diverter rod; 99. a locking ring; 910. a mixing rod; 911. a cooperative gear;
10. a drainage piece.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present utility model more clear, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present utility model will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It will be apparent that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the utility model.
Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the utility model is not intended to limit the scope of the utility model, as claimed, but is merely representative of some embodiments of the utility model. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the utility model without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the utility model.
It should be noted that, under the condition of no conflict, the embodiments of the present utility model and the features and technical solutions in the embodiments may be combined with each other.
It should be noted that: like reference numerals and letters denote like items in the following figures, and thus once an item is defined in one figure, no further definition or explanation thereof is necessary in the following figures.
In the description of the present utility model, it should be noted that, the terms "upper", "lower", and the like indicate an azimuth or a positional relationship based on the azimuth or the positional relationship shown in the drawings, or an azimuth or a positional relationship conventionally put in use of the inventive product, or an azimuth or a positional relationship conventionally understood by one skilled in the art, such terms are merely for convenience of describing the present utility model and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the apparatus or element to be referred must have a specific azimuth, be constructed and operated in a specific azimuth, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present utility model. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and the like are used merely to distinguish between descriptions and should not be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.
Example 1:
as shown in fig. 1, fig. 2, fig. 3, fig. 4 and fig. 5, this embodiment proposes a stirring device, including the building block 1, the base table 2 of fixed connection in building block 1 one side and fixed connection in the bearing seat 3 of building block 1 upper surface, the fixed surface is connected with auxiliary assembly 4 on the base table 2, be equipped with drive assembly 5 on the bearing seat 3, be equipped with power assembly 6 on the drive assembly 5, the both sides of bearing seat 3 upper surface all fixedly connected with riser 7, the arc wall has been seted up at the middle part of one of them riser 7 upper surface, and there is the limit ring 8 through the arc wall joint, wherein the middle part of another riser 7 upper surface and limit ring 8 joint have same stirring assembly 9, auxiliary assembly 4 includes the support 41 of fixed connection in the both sides of building block 2 upper surface, fixedly connected with same horizontal pole between the support 41, the top fixedly connected with support 42 of support 41, one side fixedly connected with drainage piece 10 of bearing seat 3 upper surface.
Before the operation of unloading is carried out to the staff, rotatory stirring subassembly 9 can make stirring subassembly 9 overlap joint to auxiliary assembly 4 to make auxiliary assembly 4 support stirring subassembly 9, can open stirring subassembly 9 afterwards, thereby carry out the operation of unloading.
Example 2:
the scheme of example 1 is further described in conjunction with the specific operation described below:
as shown in fig. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, as a preferred embodiment, based on the above manner, the transmission assembly 5 further includes an assembly table 51 fixedly connected to the middle part of the upper surface of the bearing seat 3, the tops of two sides of the two groups of assembly tables 51 are respectively connected with a connecting rod 52 and an auxiliary rod 53 in a penetrating and clamping manner, the middle part of the upper surface of the assembly table 51 is provided with a groove, pushing wheels 54 are arranged in the groove, the number of the pushing wheels 54 is four, and the four pushing wheels 54 are respectively arranged on the connecting rod 52 and the auxiliary rod 53 in pairs.
After the power assembly 6 is started, a worker can make the connecting rod 52 passively rotate, so that the pushing wheel 54 on the connecting rod 52 passively rotates, the stirring device 9 rotates, and in the rotating process, the pushing wheel 54 on the auxiliary rod 53 is driven to rotate, and stable rotation of the stirring device 9 is ensured.
As shown in fig. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, as a preferred embodiment, based on the above manner, further, the power assembly 6 includes a support fixedly connected to the upper surface of the bearing seat 3, and is fixedly connected with the servo motor 61 through the support, the output end of the servo motor 61 is fixedly connected with the driving gear 62, one side of the driving gear 62 is clamped with one side of the riser 7, one end of the connecting rod 52 is connected to the riser 7 in a penetrating manner, and is fixedly connected with the driven gear 63, and one side of the driven gear 63 is meshed with one side of the driving gear 62.
The operator starts the servo motor 61, and drives the driving gear 62 to rotate through the output end of the servo motor 61, and drives the driven gear 63 to rotate in the rotation process of the driving gear 62, so that a rotation power source of the stirring assembly is generated.
As shown in fig. 1, fig. 2, fig. 3, fig. 4 and fig. 5, as a preferred embodiment, further, based on the above manner, the stirring assembly 9 includes a guide member 91 movably clamped inside the limiting ring 8 and a sealing member 92 clamped in the middle of the upper surface of the riser 7, a stirring barrel 93 is fixedly connected between the guide member 91 and the sealing member 92, the inner side wall of the stirring barrel 93 is fixedly connected with a mixing fan blade 94, an inner thread of the guide member 91 is connected with a blocking cover 95, a mixing rod 910 is movably clamped inside the stirring barrel 93, one end of the mixing rod 910 is fixedly connected with a cooperative gear 911, the cooperative gear 911 is meshed with the driving gear 62, an inclined branch 96 is fixedly connected with a rotating ring 97 on the surface of the mixing rod 910, six inclined branches 96 are arranged on the mixing rod 910, four rotating rings 97 are arranged on each inclined branch 96, three flow dividing rods 98 are arranged on each rotating ring 97, a locking ring 99 is arranged in the middle of the stirring barrel 93, the locking ring 99 is matched with a pushing wheel 54, and one side of the stirring barrel 93 is matched with the pushing rod 93.
After the power component 6 is started to provide initial power for the transmission component 5, the stirring barrel 93 can be made to rotate, and in the rotating process, concrete is fully stirred through the mixing fan blades 94 inside the stirring barrel 93, meanwhile, the power component 6 drives the cooperative gear 911 to rotate, then the falling mixing rod 910 is killed to rotate, in the rotating process, the rotating ring 97 and the inclined support 96 are made to rotate, and the diversion rod 98 is driven to rotate, so that the opposite rotating effect is formed, and the secondary mixing of the concrete is ensured.
Example 3:
the schemes of examples 1 and 2 are further described below in conjunction with specific modes of operation, as described below:
specifically, this agitating unit is when using:
before the operation of unloading is carried out to the staff, rotatory stirring subassembly 9 can make stirring subassembly 9 overlap joint to on auxiliary assembly 4, thereby make auxiliary assembly 4 support stirring subassembly 9, can open stirring subassembly 9 afterwards, thereby carry out the operation of unloading, the staff can make connecting rod 52 passively rotate after starting power subassembly 6, thereby make the push wheel 54 on the connecting rod 52 passively rotate, make agitating unit 9 rotate, and in the rotatory in-process, drive the push wheel 54 on auxiliary rod 53 and rotate, thereby guarantee the steady rotation of agitating unit 9, the staff starts servo motor 61, can drive the rotation of driving gear 62 through servo motor 61 output, and drive driven gear 63 rotation at driving gear 62 rotatory in-process, thereby produce the rotatory power supply of stirring subassembly, the staff provides initial power for drive assembly 5 at start power subassembly 6 back, can make agitator 93 rotatory, and in the rotatory in-process, fully stir the concrete through the inside mixing flabellum 94 of agitator 93, simultaneously, drive the rotation of cooperative gear 911 through power subassembly 6, and then kill the rotation of hybrid rod 910, and in the rotatory in-process, make and rotate 96 and rotate in the rotatory in order to make the rotatory 96, thereby the rotatory effect of the reverse rotation of the rotatory branch 98, thereby the concrete is formed.
The above embodiments are only for illustrating the present utility model and not for limiting the technical solutions described in the present utility model, and although the present utility model has been described in detail in the present specification with reference to the above embodiments, the present utility model is not limited to the above specific embodiments, and thus any modifications or equivalent substitutions are made to the present utility model; all technical solutions and modifications thereof that do not depart from the spirit and scope of the utility model are intended to be included in the scope of the appended claims.
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1. The utility model provides a stirring device, includes I shape spare (1), fixed connection in base frame (2) of I shape spare (1) one side and fixed connection in bear seat (3) of I shape spare (1) upper surface, its characterized in that: the device is characterized in that an auxiliary assembly (4) is fixedly connected to the upper surface of the base table (2), a transmission assembly (5) is arranged on the bearing seat (3), a power assembly (6) is arranged on the transmission assembly (5), vertical plates (7) are fixedly connected to two sides of the upper surface of the bearing seat (3), an arc-shaped groove is formed in the middle of the upper surface of one vertical plate (7), a limiting ring (8) is clamped through the arc-shaped groove, and the same stirring assembly (9) is clamped between the middle of the upper surface of the other vertical plate (7) and the limiting ring (8);
the auxiliary assembly (4) comprises brackets (41) fixedly connected to two sides of the upper surface of the base table (2), the same cross rod is fixedly connected between the brackets (41), and a supporting piece (42) is fixedly connected to the top end of each bracket (41).
2. A stirring device according to claim 1, characterized in that the transmission assembly (5) comprises an assembly table (51) fixedly connected to the middle part of the upper surface of the bearing seat (3), and the tops of two groups of the two sides of the assembly table (51) are respectively connected with a connecting rod (52) and an auxiliary rod (53) in a penetrating and clamping manner.
3. A stirring device according to claim 2, characterized in that the middle part of the upper surface of the assembling table (51) is provided with a groove, and pushing wheels (54) are arranged in the groove, the number of the pushing wheels (54) is four, and the four pushing wheels (54) are respectively arranged on the connecting rod (52) and the auxiliary rod (53) in pairs.
4. A stirring device according to claim 3, characterized in that the power assembly (6) comprises a support fixedly connected to the upper surface of the bearing seat (3), and is fixedly connected with a servo motor (61) through the support, the output end of the servo motor (61) is fixedly connected with a driving gear (62), and one side of the driving gear (62) is clamped with one side of the vertical plate (7).
5. A stirring device according to claim 4, characterized in that one end of the connecting rod (52) is connected to the riser (7) in a penetrating way, and is fixedly connected with a driven gear (63), and one side of the driven gear (63) is connected with one side of the driving gear (62) in a meshing way.
6. The stirring device according to claim 5, characterized in that the stirring assembly (9) comprises a material guiding piece (91) movably clamped inside the limiting ring (8) and a sealing piece (92) clamped in the middle of the upper surface of the vertical plate (7), a stirring barrel (93) is fixedly connected between the material guiding piece (91) and the sealing piece (92), and the inner side wall of the stirring barrel (93) is fixedly connected with a mixing fan blade (94).
7. The stirring device according to claim 6, characterized in that the blocking cover (95) is connected to the internal thread of the material guiding member (91), the mixing rod (910) is movably clamped in the stirring barrel (93), one end of the mixing rod (910) is fixedly connected with a cooperative gear (911), and the cooperative gear (911) is meshed with the driving gear (62).
8. The stirring device according to claim 7, characterized in that the surface of the mixing rod (910) is fixedly connected with an inclined support (96), a rotating ring (97) is clamped on the surface of the inclined support (96), and a diversion rod (98) is fixedly connected on the surface of the rotating ring (97).
9. A stirring device as claimed in claim 8, characterized in that six inclined branches (96) are provided on the mixing rod (910), four rotating rings (97) are provided on each inclined branch (96), and three flow dividing rods (98) are provided on each rotating ring (97).
10. The stirring device according to claim 6, characterized in that a locking ring (99) is arranged in the middle of the stirring barrel (93), the locking ring (99) is matched with the pushing wheel (54), a pull handle is fixedly connected to one side of the stirring barrel (93), an arc conical surface of the stirring barrel (93) is matched with the supporting piece (42), and a drainage piece (10) is fixedly connected to one side of the upper surface of the bearing seat (3).
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