CN220803454U - Flour mill for preparing special graphite - Google Patents

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CN220803454U
CN220803454U CN202322291583.5U CN202322291583U CN220803454U CN 220803454 U CN220803454 U CN 220803454U CN 202322291583 U CN202322291583 U CN 202322291583U CN 220803454 U CN220803454 U CN 220803454U
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吕尊华
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The utility model discloses a pulverizer for preparing special graphite, and particularly relates to the field of preparation of special graphite, comprising a box body and two pulverizing rollers fixed at the top of an inner cavity of the box body, wherein a guide plate is arranged at the bottom of the pulverizing rollers, a lower millstone is arranged at the bottom of the guide plate, an upper millstone is arranged at the middle part of the lower millstone, a conveying box is arranged at the bottom of the lower millstone, a conveying belt is arranged at the middle part of the conveying box, and a discharging opening is arranged at one end of the conveying box. According to the utility model, larger particle finished products can be crushed by starting the crushing roller, dust generated when the interior of the box body is primarily crushed by starting the air pump through the dust hood is absorbed and purified, the environment is prevented from being polluted by diffusion, the use effect is improved, the liquid of the external water tank is input into the interior of the water spraying plate by starting the water pump, and the liquid is sprayed out through the spray nozzle at the bottom of the water spraying plate, so that the interior of the box body can be flushed, and the use effect is improved.

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Flour mill for preparing special graphite
Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of special graphite preparation, in particular to a pulverizer for preparing special graphite.
Background
The special graphite has a wide coverage range, and mainly refers to a high-strength, high-density and high-purity graphite product (three-high graphite for short), the three-high graphite product can be divided into a coarse particle structure, a fine particle structure and an ultra-fine particle structure from a material organization structure, and the three types of special graphite mainly including compression molding, extrusion molding and isostatic pressing molding are distinguished from a molding method, in addition, vibration molding can be used for producing the special graphite, and a pulverizer is needed in the preparation process of the special graphite.
The utility model of China patent application No. CN201821399097.8 discloses a special type pulverizer for preparing graphite, which aims at the problem that the powder is easy to leak under the condition of high-speed running of the pulverizer because most of materials for containing the powder are bags, so that the working difficulty of workers is increased, the working progress is delayed, the time is wasted, the problem of certain economic loss is brought, the leakage of the powder is effectively reduced through the arrangement of a fixing plate, and only the bags are fixed at a discharge hole through the fixing plate, so that the installation and the disassembly are simple, the leakage of the graphite powder is effectively reduced, the waste of resources is reduced, the working difficulty of the workers is reduced, the normal progress of the work is ensured, and the time is saved; however, in practical use, the mill has the following defects;
Above-mentioned milling machine has realized the crocus function when using to the leakage condition when having avoided powder unloading, but when adding the raw materials and carrying out preliminary breakage, lead to the dust to spread from the feed inlet easily, inconvenient clearance, and inconvenient flushing the box influences the result of use.
Disclosure of utility model
In order to overcome the defects in the prior art, the utility model provides a pulverizer for preparing special graphite, which solves the problems in the prior art.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the present utility model provides the following technical solutions: the utility model provides a special type milling machine for graphite preparation, includes box and fixes two crushing rollers at box inner chamber top, the bottom of crushing roller is provided with the guide board, the bottom of guide board is provided with down the mill, the middle part of lower mill is provided with the mill, the bottom of lower mill is provided with the delivery box, the middle part of delivery box is provided with the conveyer belt, one end of delivery box is provided with the feed opening, the bottom of last mill is provided with rotation actuating mechanism;
It can be seen that the crushing roller is used for crushing larger particles, the crushed raw materials are guided to fall on the middle part of the lower grinding disc through the guide plate, the upper grinding disc can be controlled to rotate through the arranged rotation driving mechanism and is matched with the lower grinding disc to crush the crushed raw materials, so that the grinding effect is improved, the finished products enter the conveying box and fall on the surface of the conveying belt, and the finished products are discharged through the discharging opening, so that the use effect is improved;
The two sides of the top of the box body are respectively and fixedly connected with a feeding plate and a protection plate, one side of the top of the box body is fixedly connected with a supporting plate and a water pump, and the tops of the supporting plate and the water pump are respectively and fixedly connected with an air pump and a filter box;
It can be seen that the raw materials can be fed and guided through the feeding plate, and are protected through the protection plate, so that the raw materials are prevented from entering between the crushing roller and the wall body of the box body to influence the crushing effect, and the air pump and the dust hood can be supported through the supporting plate;
a dust hood is fixedly connected to one side of the bottom of the supporting plate, a water spraying plate is arranged on one side of the top of the inner cavity of the box body, and a movable driving mechanism is arranged at the top of the water spraying plate;
It can be seen that the air pump can be started to clean the inside of the filter box through dust collection of the dust hood and input, the inside of the box body is flushed through liquid sprayed out by the water spraying plate by the water pump, the using effect is improved, the water spraying plate can be controlled to horizontally move through the arranged movable driving mechanism, and the using effect is improved.
Preferably, the input end of the air pump is communicated with the inner cavity of the dust hood, the output end of the air pump is communicated with the inner cavity of the filter box, the output end of the water pump is communicated with the inner cavity of the water spraying plate, and the input end of the water pump is provided with a valve;
It can be seen that the dust generated by crushing can be absorbed through the dust hood by starting the air pump, the dust can be purified and filtered through the filter box, the liquid in the external water tank can be input into the water spraying plate by starting the water pump, the water can be sprayed out through the spray nozzle at the bottom of the water spraying plate, the inside of the box body is flushed, and the using effect is improved.
Preferably, the protection plate is fixedly arranged at the top of one side of the inner cavity of the box body, which is close to the water spraying plate, a lower feed opening at the bottom of the inner cavity of the lower grinding disc is communicated with the inner cavity of the conveying box, and the bottom opening of the guide plate is arranged right above the upper grinding disc;
can see that can avoid the massive granule to block through the guard plate to get into the inside of delivery box through the discharged finished product of lower mill, improve result of use, and the broken granule that produces of crushing roller can be located the middle part directly over the mill down through the guide of guide board, improve result of use.
Preferably, the movable driving mechanism comprises a plurality of limit grooves formed in the top wall body of the inner cavity of the box body, a fixed rod is arranged in the middle of each limit groove, two side wall bodies of the water spraying plate are in limit sliding connection with the wall body of the box body through a sliding block sliding chute, and a limit sliding block is fixedly connected to one side of the top of the water spraying plate;
It can be seen that the first motor is started to control the rotation of a fixing rod, and the water spraying plate is slidably connected with the wall body of the box body, so that the horizontal movement stability of the water spraying plate can be provided.
Preferably, one end of one of the fixing rods is connected with a first motor, threads are arranged on the outer surface of the fixing rod connected with the first motor, the limiting sliding block is arranged in the middle of the limiting groove, and the fixing rod penetrates through the middle of the limiting sliding block;
It can be seen that starting the first motor to control the fixed rod to rotate can control the limiting slide block to slide in the limiting groove, so that the water spraying plate is controlled to move, the stability of the water spraying plate moving can be improved through the fixed rod, and the driving function is started.
Preferably, the rotation driving mechanism comprises a transmission rod inserted at the bottom of the upper grinding disc, the top of the transmission rod is fixedly connected with a stabilizing plate, stabilizing rods are symmetrically inserted at two sides of the stabilizing plate, springs are sleeved at the bottom ends of the stabilizing rods, and the transmission rod and the stabilizing plate are in sliding connection with the upper grinding disc;
it can be seen that the rotation of the transmission rod can control the upper grinding disc to rotate through the stabilizing plate, the upper grinding disc is not influenced to move up and down, the stability of the stabilizing plate in the middle of the upper grinding disc to move up and down is improved through the stabilizing rod, the upper grinding disc can generate a downward extrusion force through the pushing of the spring to the stabilizing plate, and the grinding effect is improved.
Preferably, connecting rods are symmetrically and fixedly connected to the periphery of the bottom end of the transmission rod, one end of each connecting rod is connected with a toothed ring, the diameter of an inner ring of each toothed ring is larger than the diameter of a bottom blanking opening of the lower grinding disc, one side of each toothed ring is provided with a gear, and the bottom of each gear is provided with a second motor;
It can be seen that starting the second motor to control the gear to rotate can control the toothed ring to rotate, so that the spring is controlled to rotate through the cooperation of the connecting rod, and powder blanking after grinding in the lower grinding disc can not be influenced through the connecting rod, and the using effect is improved.
The utility model has the technical effects and advantages that:
1. According to the utility model, larger particle finished products can be crushed by starting the crushing roller, dust generated when the interior of the box body is primarily crushed by starting the air pump through the dust hood is absorbed and purified, so that the environment is prevented from being polluted by diffusion, the use effect is improved, the liquid of the external water tank is input into the interior of the water spraying plate by starting the water pump, and the liquid is sprayed out through the spray nozzle at the bottom of the water spraying plate, so that the interior of the box body can be washed, and the use effect is improved;
2. The utility model can also play a driving role by starting the second motor to sequentially control the rotation of the upper grinding disc, and can not influence the powder blanking effect of the lower grinding disc through the connecting rod, and can enhance the extrusion effect of the upper grinding disc on the lower grinding disc through the pushing of the spring to the stabilizing plate, thereby improving the grinding quality, and can conveniently adjust the water spraying position by starting the first motor to sequentially control the water spraying plate to horizontally move to the top center position of the box body, and improving the flushing use effect;
In conclusion, through the mutual influence of a plurality of effects, the dust that produces when can conveniently carrying out the preliminary breakage absorbs purification treatment, avoids diffusion polluted environment, and the convenience is washed the clearance to the inside of box simultaneously to conveniently adjust the water spray position, improve and wash the result of use.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of the overall structure of the present utility model.
Fig. 2 is a schematic view of a partial enlarged structure at a in fig. 1 according to the present utility model.
FIG. 3 is a schematic view showing the connection structure of the water spraying plate and the fixing rod according to the present utility model.
Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of the connection structure of the toothed ring and the transmission rod of the present utility model.
The reference numerals are: 1. a case; 2. a pulverizing roller; 3. a guide plate; 4. a lower grinding disc; 5. an upper millstone; 6. a delivery box; 7. a conveyor belt; 8. a feed opening; 9. a feed plate; 10. a protection plate; 11. a support plate; 12. a water pump; 13. a dust hood; 14. an air pump; 15. a filter box; 16. a water spraying plate; 17. a limit groove; 18. a fixed rod; 19. a first motor; 20. a limit sliding block; 21. a transmission rod; 22. a stabilizing plate; 23. a stabilizer bar; 24. a spring; 25. a connecting rod; 26. a toothed ring; 27. a gear; 28. and a second motor.
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The following description of the embodiments of the present utility model will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the present utility model, but not all embodiments. 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.
The pulverizer for preparing the special graphite comprises a box body 1 and two pulverizing rollers 2 fixed at the top of an inner cavity of the box body 1, wherein a guide plate 3 is arranged at the bottom of the pulverizing rollers 2, a lower grinding disc 4 is arranged at the bottom of the guide plate 3, an upper grinding disc 5 is arranged at the middle part of the lower grinding disc 4, a conveying box 6 is arranged at the bottom of the lower grinding disc 4, a conveying belt 7 is arranged at the middle part of the conveying box 6, a blanking opening 8 is arranged at one end of the conveying box 6, and a rotary driving mechanism is arranged at the bottom of the upper grinding disc 5;
The top both sides of box 1 are fixedly connected with feed plate 9 and guard plate 10 respectively, and the top one side fixedly connected with backup pad 11 and water pump 12 of box 1, the top of backup pad 11 and water pump 12 is fixedly connected with air pump 14 and rose box 15 respectively, and the bottom one side fixedly connected with suction hood 13 of backup pad 11, the inner chamber top one side of box 1 is provided with water spray plate 16, and the top of water spray plate 16 is provided with the removal actuating mechanism.
As shown in fig. 1, the input end of the air pump 14 is communicated with the inner cavity of the dust hood 13, the output end of the air pump 14 is communicated with the inner cavity of the filter tank 15, the output end of the water pump 12 is communicated with the inner cavity of the water spraying plate 16, the input end of the water pump 12 is provided with a valve, the protection plate 10 is fixedly arranged at the top of one side of the inner cavity of the tank body 1, which is close to the water spraying plate 16, the inner cavity bottom feed opening of the lower grinding disc 4 is communicated with the inner cavity of the conveying tank 6, the bottom opening of the guide plate 3 is arranged right above the upper grinding disc 5, so that larger particle finished products can be crushed by starting the crushing roller 2, and collected in the lower grinding disc 4 by guiding the guide plate 3, and the upper grinding disc 5 can be ground by matching with the lower grinding disc 4, and the finished products are fed in the conveying tank 6, and are positioned at the top of the conveying belt 7, and the finished products are output through the position of the feed opening 8, thereby improving the use effect;
The start air pump 14 can absorb the dust that box 1 inside produced through suction hood 13 to filter through rose box 15 and purify, avoid polluting the environment, and through the inside of start water pump 12 with outside water tank liquid input water spray plate 16, and spout through the shower nozzle of water spray plate 16 bottom, can wash the inside of box 1, and can guide the raw materials through feed plate 9, improve the result of use.
As shown in fig. 1 and 3, the moving driving mechanism includes a plurality of limit grooves 17 formed in the top wall of the inner cavity of the box 1, a fixed rod 18 is disposed in the middle of the limit groove 17, two side walls of the water spraying plate 16 are in sliding connection with the wall of the box 1 through a slide block chute, a limit slide block 20 is fixedly connected to one side of the top of the water spraying plate 16, one end of one fixed rod 18 is connected with a first motor 19, threads are disposed on the outer surface of the fixed rod 18 connected with the first motor 19, the limit slide block 20 is disposed in the middle of the limit groove 17, and the fixed rod 18 penetrates through the middle of the limit slide block 20, so that the fixed rod 18 can be controlled to rotate by starting the first motor 19 to enable the limit slide block 20 to move in the limit groove 17, thereby controlling the water spraying plate 16 to move horizontally in the top of the inner cavity of the box 1, facilitating adjustment of the water spraying position, improving the flushing effect, and improving the stability of the horizontal movement of the water spraying plate 16.
As shown in fig. 1, 2 and 4, the rotation driving mechanism comprises a transmission rod 21 inserted at the bottom of the upper grinding disc 5, a stabilizing plate 22 is fixedly connected to the top of the transmission rod 21, stabilizing rods 23 are symmetrically inserted at two sides of the stabilizing plate 22, springs 24 are sleeved at the bottom ends of the stabilizing rods 23, the transmission rod 21 and the stabilizing plate 22 are in sliding connection with the upper grinding disc 5, connecting rods 25 are symmetrically and fixedly connected to the periphery of the bottom end of the transmission rod 21, one end of each connecting rod 25 is connected with a toothed ring 26, the diameter of the inner ring of each toothed ring 26 is larger than the diameter of a feed opening at the bottom of the lower grinding disc 4, one side of each toothed ring 26 is provided with a gear 27, a second motor 28 is arranged at the bottom of each gear 27 so as to control the rotation of the gears 27 through starting the second motors 28, the rotation of the transmission rods 21 can be controlled through the toothed rings 26 and the connecting rods 25, the rotation of the upper grinding disc 5 can be controlled, the extrusion effect of the upper grinding disc 4 can be enhanced through pushing of the stabilizing plates 22 by the springs 24, and the grinding quality is improved, and the starting is convenient;
It is to be added that one side of the box 1 is provided with a controller which is electrically connected with the air pump 14, the water pump 12, the first motor 19, the crushing roller 2, the conveying belt 7 and the second motor 28, so that the starting is convenient to control.
The working principle of the utility model is as follows: when the dust collection box is used, the large block-shaped raw materials are only required to be added into the top of the inner cavity of the box body 1 through the feeding plate 9, the crushing roller 2 is started to crush the raw materials, the air pump 14 is started to absorb dust generated by crushing through the dust collection cover 13, and the dust is input into the filter box 15 for cleaning;
The fragments generated by crushing the crushing roller 2 fall on the middle part of the lower millstone 4 through the guide of the guide plate 3, the second motor 28 is started to sequentially control the upper millstone 5 to rotate to grind small particles into powder, the inside of the conveying box 6 falls on the top of the conveying belt 7, and then the conveying belt 7 is started to input the powder to one end of the blanking port 8 and discharge the powder through the blanking port 8;
When the inside of the box body 1 is cleaned, the first motor 19 is started to sequentially control the water spraying plate 16 to move to the top center position of the box body 1, then the water inlet pipe of the water pump 12 is connected with the water tank, and the water pump 12 is started to sequentially spray water through the spray heads at the bottom of the water spraying plate 16 to flush the inside of the box body 1, so that the using effect is improved.
The foregoing description of the preferred embodiments of the utility model is not intended to limit the utility model to the precise form disclosed, and any such modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and principles of the utility model are intended to be included within the scope of the utility model.

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1. The utility model provides a special type milling machine for graphite preparation, includes box (1) and fixes two crushing roller (2) at box (1) inner chamber top, its characterized in that: the grinding machine is characterized in that a guide plate (3) is arranged at the bottom of the grinding roller (2), a lower grinding disc (4) is arranged at the bottom of the guide plate (3), an upper grinding disc (5) is arranged at the middle part of the lower grinding disc (4), a conveying box (6) is arranged at the bottom of the lower grinding disc (4), a conveying belt (7) is arranged at the middle part of the conveying box (6), a discharging opening (8) is formed in one end of the conveying box (6), and a rotary driving mechanism is arranged at the bottom of the upper grinding disc (5);
The two sides of the top of the box body (1) are fixedly connected with a feeding plate (9) and a protection plate (10) respectively, one side of the top of the box body (1) is fixedly connected with a supporting plate (11) and a water pump (12), and the tops of the supporting plate (11) and the water pump (12) are fixedly connected with an air pump (14) and a filter box (15) respectively;
The dust hood is characterized in that a dust hood (13) is fixedly connected to one side of the bottom of the supporting plate (11), a water spraying plate (16) is arranged on one side of the top of the inner cavity of the box body (1), and a movable driving mechanism is arranged at the top of the water spraying plate (16).
2. The mill for preparing special graphite according to claim 1, wherein: the input end of the air pump (14) is communicated with the inner cavity of the dust hood (13), the output end of the air pump (14) is communicated with the inner cavity of the filter box (15), the output end of the water pump (12) is communicated with the inner cavity of the water spraying plate (16), and the input end of the water pump (12) is provided with a valve.
3. The mill for preparing special graphite according to claim 1, wherein: the protection plate (10) is fixedly arranged at the top of one side, close to the water spraying plate (16), of the inner cavity of the box body (1), a blanking port at the bottom of the inner cavity of the lower grinding disc (4) is communicated with the inner cavity of the conveying box (6), and the bottom opening of the guide plate (3) is arranged right above the upper grinding disc (5).
4. The mill for preparing special graphite according to claim 1, wherein: the movable driving mechanism comprises a plurality of limit grooves (17) formed in the top wall body of the inner cavity of the box body (1), fixing rods (18) are arranged in the middle of the limit grooves (17), two side wall bodies of the water spraying plate (16) are in limit sliding connection with the wall body of the box body (1) through sliding blocks and sliding grooves, and limit sliding blocks (20) are fixedly connected to one side of the top of the water spraying plate (16).
5. The mill for preparing special graphite according to claim 4, wherein: one end of one fixed rod (18) is connected with first motor (19), with fixed rod (18) surface that first motor (19) are connected is provided with the screw thread, spacing slider (20) set up the middle part in spacing groove (17), the middle part of spacing slider (20) is run through to fixed rod (18).
6. The mill for preparing special graphite according to claim 1, wherein: the rotary driving mechanism comprises a transmission rod (21) inserted into the bottom of the upper grinding disc (5), a stabilizing plate (22) is fixedly connected to the top of the transmission rod (21), stabilizing rods (23) are symmetrically inserted into the two sides of the stabilizing plate (22), springs (24) are sleeved at the bottom ends of the stabilizing rods (23), and the transmission rod (21) and the stabilizing plate (22) are in sliding connection with the upper grinding disc (5).
7. The mill for preparing special graphite according to claim 6, wherein: the bottom symmetry fixedly connected with connecting rod (25) all around of transfer line (21), the one end of connecting rod (25) is connected with ring gear (26), the inner circle diameter of ring gear (26) is greater than the bottom feed opening diameter of lower mill (4), one side of ring gear (26) is provided with gear (27), the bottom of gear (27) is provided with second motor (28).
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