CN220549642U - Conveyer belt cleaning device with belt pressing mechanism - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a conveyor belt cleaning device with a belt pressing mechanism, which comprises a frame connecting plate, a belt pressing roller, a pressing roller spring mounting assembly, a cutter frame pipe, a cutter frame spring mounting assembly and an alloy blade, wherein the frame connecting plate is vertically arranged in two groups, two ends of the belt pressing roller are movably mounted at the top ends of the two frame connecting plates through the pressing roller spring mounting assembly, two ends of the cutter frame pipe are movably mounted at the bottom ends of the two groups of frame connecting plates through the cutter frame spring mounting assembly, and the cutting edge of the alloy blade is upwards mounted on the cutter frame pipe. The belt press roller has the advantages of compact and reasonable structure, high reliability, convenient installation and maintenance, independent installation and independent operation of modules such as the belt press roller at the upper part, the tool rest pipe at the lower part and the like, and the belt press roller can ensure the optimal contact state with the surface of the conveying belt by adjusting the press roller spring installation assembly, so that the cleaning effect is stable and efficient, and the belt press roller has the characteristics of impact resistance, high wear resistance, corrosion resistance, easy adjustment and the like, and also has the advantages of long service life, high reliability and the like.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of conveyor belt cleaning devices, in particular to a conveyor belt cleaning device with a belt pressing mechanism.
Background
In the process of conveying materials by the conveying belt, the problem of adhesion between the characteristics of the conveyed materials and the surfaces of the conveying belt is solved, if the materials on the surfaces of the conveying belt cannot be cleaned effectively, the materials are adhered on the rollers and the carrier rollers and abrade the surfaces of the conveying belt, and the service lives of the conveying belt, the rollers and the carrier rollers are reduced; sticking caking on the conveying line can also cause the problem of conveyor belt deviation; the adhesive material causes material sprinkling at the return section of conveying, causes material waste and direct economic cost loss, causes environmental pollution problem, causes the increase of labor intensity of field workers, and causes adverse effects on environmental protection and civilized production. Meanwhile, most conveyor belts have the problems of insufficient installation space, large volume of the existing cleaning products and the like.
Along with the improvement of environmental protection requirements of national environmental protection departments on enterprises for conveying materials, the cleaning of conveying working conditions is a precondition of normal production operation. The cleaning product structures commonly used in the market today are of the following types:
1. the first-stage cleaner is used for cleaning larger granular materials on the working surface of the roller of the conveyor belt, and is mostly made of high polymer materials, and part of the cleaner is made of metal materials, and the installation position of the cleaner is usually 15-30 degrees below the horizontal line of the circle center of the unloading roller.
2. The second-stage sweeper is used for sweeping tiny materials on the return working face of the conveyor belt, and is made of high polymer materials, and a part of the second-stage sweeper is made of metal materials, and the installation position of the second-stage sweeper is 220mm behind a first carrier roller group of the return belt. Because the conveyer belt can produce the shake phenomenon in operation, so the problem that the second grade cleaner can appear can't laminate conveyer belt face all the time, and the violent shake of belt can cause the cleaner blade to the secondary injury of conveyer belt.
Along with the improvement of the requirements of enterprises on production benefits, the research and development of excellent cleaning products on the collection of conveyor belt materials is an important guarantee of conveying operation.
Disclosure of Invention
The utility model aims to solve the problems that the cleaning effect of a second cleaning product on the working surface of the existing conveyor belt is poor, the shaking of a belt cannot be controlled, the installation space is narrow, the effective cleaning cannot be realized, the labor intensity of workers is high and the like, and aims to realize the efficient cleaning of the conveyor belt, and the functional requirements of avoiding the damage of a blade to the belt and the like are met.
The utility model aims to achieve the aim, and is specifically realized by the following technical scheme:
the utility model provides a conveyer belt cleaning device with belt pressing mechanism, includes frame connecting plate, belt compression roller, compression roller spring installation component, knife rest pipe, knife rest spring installation component and alloy blade, and the frame connecting plate is two sets of vertical setting, and the belt compression roller both ends pass through compression roller spring installation component movable mounting on two frame connecting plate tops, and knife rest pipe both ends pass through knife rest spring installation component movable mounting in two sets of frame connecting plate bottoms, and alloy blade cutting edge upwards installs on the knife rest pipe.
Further, the compression roller spring installation assembly and the knife rest spring installation assembly are vertically installed on the frame connecting plate.
Further, the alloy blades are at least two groups, and are uniformly distributed on the tool rest pipe through the blade connecting rods.
Further, the blade connecting rod is connected with the cutter frame pipe through a rubber spring.
Further, the blade connecting rod is obliquely arranged and forms an angle of 45 degrees with the conveying belt.
Further, the rubber spring is made of a high-molecular elastic material.
Further, the compression roller spring installation component comprises a compression roller spring, a compression roller guide post and a compression roller connecting piece, wherein the compression roller spring is vertically arranged, one end of the compression roller spring is fixed with the frame connecting plate, and the other end of the compression roller spring is fixed with the compression roller connecting piece; one end of the compression roller guide post is fixed with the compression roller connecting piece, and the other end vertically penetrates into the frame connecting plate; the end part of the belt press roller is fixedly arranged with the press roller connecting piece.
Further, the tool rest spring mounting assembly comprises a tool rest pipe spring, a tool rest pipe guide post and a tool rest pipe connecting piece, wherein the tool rest pipe guide post is vertically fixed on the frame connecting plate, the tool rest pipe spring is sleeved on the tool rest pipe guide post, one end of the tool rest pipe spring is fixed with the frame connecting plate, and the tool rest pipe connecting piece is fixed at the other end of the tool rest pipe spring; the end part of the tool rest pipe is fixedly arranged with the tool rest pipe connecting piece.
Further, the tool rest pipe connecting piece is annular, and the tool rest pipe penetrates into the tool rest pipe connecting piece and is fixed through the jacking bolts.
Further, the frame connecting plate comprises an upper frame connecting plate and a lower frame connecting plate which are fixedly connected through connecting angle plates.
The utility model can be arranged at any position of the return section of the conveyer belt, and can effectively treat cleaning work under severe working conditions in a very narrow space. The belt press roller at the top is provided with compensation force by a press roller spring installation assembly, so that reasonable contact pressure with the working surface of the conveyor belt is maintained; the alloy blade at the bottom is contacted with the conveyer belt through the tool rest pipe to clean the working surface of the conveyer belt, and the second-stage deep cleaning is independently realized. The alloy blade is connected with the cutter frame pipe through the blade connecting rod support and the rubber spring, and the cutter frame spring mounting assembly provides compensation force to realize close contact with the conveying belt. Through the respective adjustment of the compression roller spring installation assembly, the knife rest spring installation assembly and the rubber elastic torsion, the belt compression roller on the upper part keeps constant pressure with the conveying belt, and the shaking of the conveying belt is prevented.
The belt press roller has the advantages of compact and reasonable structure, high reliability, convenience in installation and maintenance, independent installation and independent work of modules such as the belt press roller at the upper part and the tool rest pipe at the lower part, free and simple replacement of each module, capability of ensuring the optimal contact state between the belt press roller and the surface of the conveying belt by adjusting the press roller spring installation assembly, realization of stable and efficient cleaning effect, impact resistance, high wear resistance, corrosion resistance, easiness in adjustment and the like, and long service life, high reliability and the like.
The cleaning device can reduce the loss of materials to the conveyer belt and structural members thereof, prolong the service lives of the conveyer belt and structural members, reduce the material sprinkling of the conveyer belt, avoid the material waste, improve the working condition operation environment, save the economic cost and realize the environmental protection requirement; the automatic cleaning of the conveyer belt can be realized, the cleaning efficiency is high, the labor intensity of field personnel is reduced, and the labor and time cost required for cleaning overflowed materials are reduced.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of the overall structure of the present utility model.
In the figure, a 1-rack connecting plate; 11-connecting the angle plates; 12-an upper rack connecting plate; 13-a lower rack connecting plate; 2-a belt press roll; 3-a compression roller spring mounting assembly; 31-a compression roller spring; 32-a compression roller guide post; 33-a press roll connection; 4-a tool holder tube; 5-a blade carrier spring mounting assembly; 51-knife rest tube spring; 52-a tool post tube guide post; 53-tool holder tube connection; 54-jacking bolts; 6-alloy blade; 7-a knife rest connecting rod; 8-rubber spring.
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The present utility model will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples.
In the description of the present utility model, it should be understood that unless explicitly specified and limited otherwise, the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "center", "vertical", "horizontal", etc. indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings are merely for convenience in describing the present utility model and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the devices or elements referred to must have a specific orientation, be configured and operated in a specific orientation, and thus are not to be construed as limiting the present utility model.
The "upper" or "lower" of a first feature over a second feature may include the first and second features being in direct contact, or may include the first and second features not being in direct contact but being in contact through additional features therebetween. Moreover, a first feature being "above," "over" and "on" a second feature includes the first feature being directly above and obliquely above the second feature, or simply indicating that the first feature is higher in level than the second feature. The first feature being "under", "below" and "beneath" the second feature includes the first feature being directly under and obliquely below the second feature, or simply means that the first feature is less level than the second feature.
The terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; can be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate medium, and can be communication between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present utility model can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art according to the specific circumstances.
In the description of the present specification, a description referring to terms "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "examples," "specific examples," or "some examples," etc., means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the embodiments of the present utility model. In this specification, schematic representations of the above terms are not necessarily directed to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. Furthermore, the different embodiments or examples described in this specification and the features of the different embodiments or examples may be combined and combined by those skilled in the art without contradiction.
As shown in fig. 1, the conveyer belt cleaning device with the belt pressing mechanism comprises a frame connecting plate 1, a belt pressing roller 2, a pressing roller spring mounting assembly 3, a cutter rest pipe 4, a cutter rest spring mounting assembly 5 and an alloy blade 6, wherein the frame connecting plate 1 is vertically arranged in two groups, two ends of the belt pressing roller 2 are movably mounted at the top ends of the two frame connecting plates 1 through the pressing roller spring mounting assembly 3, two ends of the cutter rest pipe 4 are movably mounted at the bottom ends of the two groups of frame connecting plates 1 through the cutter rest spring mounting assembly 5, and the cutting edge of the alloy blade 6 is upwards mounted on the cutter rest pipe 4. The conveying belt passes through the gap between the belt press roller 2 and the cutter frame pipe 4, the belt press roller 2 at the top is provided with compensation force by the press roller spring mounting assembly 3, and reasonable contact pressure with the working surface of the conveying belt is maintained; the alloy blade 6 at the bottom contacts with the conveyer belt to clean the working surface of the conveyer belt, and the second-stage deep cleaning is independently realized.
In the preferred embodiment, the compression roller spring mounting assembly 3 and the cutter frame spring mounting assembly 5 are vertically mounted on the frame connecting plate 1 and are used for vertically buffering and mounting the belt compression roller 2 and the cutter frame pipe 4 on the frame connecting plate 1, the compensation force in the vertical direction of the cutter frame is provided, the conveying belt transversely penetrates through the gap between the belt compression roller 2 and the cutter frame pipe 4, and the cleaning of the bottom surface is realized.
Preferably, the alloy blades 6 are at least two groups, and are uniformly distributed on the tool rest pipe 4 through the blade connecting rods 7, the alloy blades 6 are in split arrangement, and are made of high-wear-resistance alloy sheets, so that cleaning in the direction of the conveying belt width is efficiently realized. Further preferably, the blade connecting rod 7 is connected with the cutter holder tube 4 through a rubber spring 8, and the rubber spring 8 provides buffering for the blade connecting rod 7, so that elastic contact is further formed between the alloy blade 6 and the conveyor belt, and the hard contact is avoided to damage the surface of the conveyor belt. Further preferably, the rubber spring 8 is made of a polymer elastic material.
Preferably, the blade connecting rod 7 is obliquely arranged and forms an angle of 45 degrees with the conveying belt, so that reasonable decomposition stress of the alloy blade is ensured.
In the embodiment, the compression roller spring mounting assembly 3 comprises a compression roller spring 31, a compression roller guide post 32 and a compression roller connecting piece 33, wherein the compression roller spring 31 is vertically arranged, one end of the compression roller spring 31 is fixed with the frame connecting plate 1, and the other end of the compression roller spring is fixed with the compression roller connecting piece 33; one end of a compression roller guide column 32 is fixed with a compression roller connecting piece 33, the other end vertically penetrates into the frame connecting plate 1, the compression roller guide column 32 is used for vertical guide, and the compression roller spring 31 is inclined; the end of the belt press roll 2 is fixedly mounted with a press roll connector 33.
It is also preferable in the embodiment that the cutter-head spring mounting assembly 5 includes a cutter-head tube spring 51, a cutter-head tube guide post 52 and a cutter-head tube connecting piece 53, the cutter-head tube guide post 52 is vertically fixed on the frame connecting plate 1, the cutter-head tube spring 51 is sleeved on the cutter-head tube guide post 52, one end of the cutter-head tube spring is fixed with the frame connecting plate 1, and the cutter-head tube connecting piece 53 is fixed at the other end of the cutter-head tube spring 51; the end part of the tool rest pipe 4 is fixedly installed with a tool rest pipe connecting piece 53, and the tool rest pipe 4 is vertically and elastically installed on the frame connecting plate 1 through a tool rest spring installation assembly 5.
Preferably, the knife rest pipe connecting piece 53 is annular, and the knife rest pipe 4 penetrates into the knife rest pipe connecting piece 53 and is fixed through the jacking bolt 54, and the knife rest pipe 4 and the knife rest pipe connecting piece 53 adopt a connection mode capable of being quickly detached, so that the installation angle of the knife rest pipe 4 can be conveniently adjusted, and the attaching degree between the alloy blade 6 and the conveying belt can be adjusted according to the condition of the conveying belt, and the damage to the conveying belt is avoided.
It is also preferable that the frame connecting plate 1 comprises an upper frame connecting plate 12 and a lower frame connecting plate 13 which are fixedly connected through a connecting angle plate 11, and for the cleaning device to be convenient to install and flexibly adjust, the belt press roller 2 and the tool rest tube 4 can be flexibly installed in different ways, and the cleaning device is not limited to a fixed and integrated connecting mechanism.
The cleaning device has reliable strength design and clear action track, and the pipe diameters of the used belt press roller and the cutter frame pipe are designed into two specifications through stress analysis, such as a small pipe diameter specification of B600-B1200 and a large pipe diameter specification of B1400-B1800.
The specific embodiments of the present utility model are intended to be illustrative, rather than limiting, of the utility model, and modifications thereof will be suggested to persons skilled in the art to which the present utility model pertains without inventive contribution, as desired, after having read the present specification, but are to be protected by the patent law within the scope of the appended claims.
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1. The utility model provides a conveyer belt cleaning device with press belt mechanism, a serial communication port, including frame connecting plate (1), belt compression roller (2), compression roller spring installation component (3), knife rest pipe (4), knife rest spring installation component (5) and alloy blade (6), the frame connecting plate is two sets of vertical setting, belt compression roller both ends are through compression roller spring installation component movable mounting on two frame connecting plate tops, knife rest pipe both ends are through knife rest spring installation component movable mounting in two sets of frame connecting plate bottoms, alloy blade cutting edge upwards installs on the knife rest pipe.
2. The belt cleaning apparatus with a belt press of claim 1, wherein the compression roller spring mounting assembly and the knife holder spring mounting assembly are each vertically mounted on the frame web.
3. The belt cleaning apparatus with belt pressing mechanism as claimed in claim 1, wherein the alloy blades are at least two groups, which are uniformly mounted on the blade carrier tube by blade links (7).
4. A conveyor belt cleaning device with a belt pressing mechanism according to claim 3, characterized in that the blade link is connected to the blade carrier tube by means of a rubber spring (8).
5. A conveyor belt cleaning apparatus with a belt pressing mechanism as in claim 3 wherein the blade link is mounted obliquely at an angle of 45 degrees to the conveyor belt.
6. The belt cleaning apparatus with a belt pressing mechanism as recited in claim 4, wherein the rubber spring is made of a polymer elastic material.
7. The conveyor belt cleaning device with a belt pressing mechanism according to claim 1, characterized in that the press roller spring mounting assembly comprises a press roller spring (31), a press roller guide post (32) and a press roller connecting piece (33), wherein the press roller spring is vertically arranged, one end of the press roller spring is fixed with the frame connecting plate, and the other end of the press roller spring is fixed with the press roller connecting piece; one end of the compression roller guide post is fixed with the compression roller connecting piece, and the other end vertically penetrates into the frame connecting plate; the end part of the belt press roller is fixedly arranged with the press roller connecting piece.
8. The belt cleaning apparatus with a belt pressing mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the blade carrier spring mounting assembly comprises a blade carrier tube spring (51), a blade carrier tube guide post (52) vertically fixed to the frame connecting plate, and a blade carrier tube connecting member (53) sleeved on the blade carrier tube guide post, one end of which is fixed to the frame connecting plate, and the blade carrier tube connecting member is fixed to the other end of the blade carrier tube spring; the end part of the tool rest pipe is fixedly arranged with the tool rest pipe connecting piece.
9. The belt cleaning apparatus with belt pressing mechanism as claimed in claim 8, wherein the blade carrier pipe connecting member is ring-shaped, and the blade carrier pipe penetrates into the blade carrier pipe connecting member and is fixed by a pressing bolt (54).
10. Conveyor belt cleaning device with belt pressing mechanism according to claim 1, characterized in that the frame connection plates comprise an upper frame connection plate (12) and a lower frame connection plate (13) fixedly connected by means of connection gussets (11).
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