CN221061705U - Ball conveying device - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses a sphere conveying device, comprising: the frame is equipped with the dwang that extends along vertical direction, the periphery wall of dwang is equipped with spiral ascending slope section, the periphery of spiral ascending slope section is equipped with stop gear, the upper end of dwang is equipped with big-end-up's cone, the periphery on the upper portion of spiral ascending slope section distributes and has a plurality of ball tracks of sending that arrange along radial, the play ball clearance that can dock with arbitrary ball track's entry is defined between the periphery wall of cone and the upper end of spiral ascending slope section, the frame is equipped with a plurality of guides that go into orbital entry one-to-one with sending the ball, the spheroid can contact the guide in order to move towards the orbital entry of sending the ball when climbing to play ball clearance along spiral ascending slope section. The ball conveying device with the structure can automatically split the ball to a plurality of ball conveying tracks by a simple structure with smaller volume, and is beneficial to the layout and design of other structures of the recreational machine.

Description

Ball conveying device

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of recreation equipment, in particular to a ball conveying device.

Background

With the improvement of living standard, people can experience more leisure and entertainment activities, and the ball game machine is popular with people because of the interestingness and entertainment, and the ball game machine is spread over markets and cartoon entertainment places at present. The ball is required to be drawn out from the storage box and then transferred to different ball delivering tracks, therefore, the different ball delivering tracks are all provided with a ball delivering pipeline, the ball heads in the storage box are usually sucked by utilizing a negative pressure suction mode, and then are conveyed to the corresponding ball delivering tracks through the ball delivering pipeline, so that the ball conveying part has a complex structure and a huge volume, and is unfavorable for the layout and design of other structures of the game machine.

In addition, the ball feed rail needs to be equipped with a gap ball discharge mechanism for blocking and releasing the balls for player control, and in order to ensure that the balls can be released instantaneously, the gap ball discharge mechanism needs to be provided with a first blocking member for blocking the balls to be released and a second blocking member for blocking the supplementary balls. When the gap ball discharging mechanism with the structure works, the first driver drives the first blocking piece to move so as to release the pre-stored balls, then the first driver drives the first blocking piece to reset, and the second driver drives the second blocking piece to move so as to release the supplementary balls to be blocked by the first blocking piece, so that the operation mode can lead to slower efficiency of supplementing the balls, and the requirement of continuously discharging balls in a shorter time cannot be met. The first driver and the second driver are two mutually independent driving sources, so that the cost is high, and a large installation space is needed, so that the size of the gap ball discharging mechanism is large, and the design and the assembly of the recreational machine are not facilitated.

Disclosure of utility model

The present utility model aims to solve at least one of the technical problems existing in the prior art. Therefore, the utility model provides the ball conveying device which has a simple structure and a small volume and can automatically split the ball to a plurality of ball conveying tracks, thereby being beneficial to the layout and design of other structures of the recreational machine.

According to an embodiment of the present utility model, a ball conveying device includes: the frame, the frame rotates and is provided with the dwang that extends along vertical direction, the periphery wall of dwang is provided with the spiral and rises the slope section around, the frame in the periphery of spiral rises the slope section is equipped with prevents the spheroid and breaks away from the stop gear of spiral and rises the slope section, the frame is equipped with and is located the upper end of dwang and big-end-up's cone, the central axis of cone with the central axis of dwang is coaxial to be set up, the lower extreme of dwang is connected with and drives it relatively the rotatory rotary actuator of cone, the periphery of the upper portion of spiral rises the slope section distributes and has a plurality of ball tracks that send of radial arrangement along the dwang, the periphery wall of cone with it can with arbitrary to go out the ball clearance of going up of the entry butt joint of ball track to be equipped with a plurality of with send the guide of ball track one-to-one, the spheroid is followed the spiral rises the slope section and climbs to go out the ball clearance time can contact the guide and send the ball to move with the entry.

The ball conveying device provided by the embodiment of the utility model has at least the following beneficial effects:

The ball conveying device with the structure above makes the ball climb to the top along the spiral ascending slope section by rotating the rotating rod, the ball moves to the peripheral wall of the cone along the spiral ascending slope section to make the ball in the ball outlet gap, meanwhile, the ball also contacts the guide piece and is conveyed to the inlet of one ball conveying track under the action of the guide piece, the rotating rod can rotate to the upper end of the spiral ascending slope section corresponding to the angle position of any ball conveying track, and the ball can enter different ball conveying tracks, so that the ball is automatically split to a plurality of ball conveying tracks by a simple and small structure, and the layout and design of other structures of the recreational machine are facilitated.

In some embodiments of the utility model, the limit mechanism comprises a plurality of limit guide rods distributed around the periphery of the spiral ascending slope section, wherein the limit guide rods can abut against the outer surface of the sphere to prevent the sphere from falling off the spiral ascending slope section.

In some embodiments of the present utility model, the number of the limit guide rods is consistent with the number of the ball feeding tracks, the limit guide rods are in one-to-one correspondence with the ball feeding tracks, the limit guide rods are located at one side of the corresponding inlets of the ball feeding tracks, the guide piece is arranged at the upper part of the limit guide rods, and the guide piece is provided with a ball guiding curved surface capable of being opposite to the upper end of the spiral ascending slope section.

In some embodiments of the present utility model, the guide member is a rubber sleeve penetrating through an upper portion of the limit guide rod, the ball guiding curved surface is a round table curved surface which is arranged on an outer peripheral wall of the rubber sleeve and is big in top and small in bottom, and the side wall, close to the guide member, of the inlet of the ball feeding rail is provided with a guide inclined surface extending towards the direction of the rubber sleeve.

In some embodiments of the present utility model, the frame includes an upper end plate and a lower end plate, a plurality of support rods located at the periphery of the limit guide rod are connected between the upper end plate and the lower end plate, adjacent support rods are connected through a connection assembly, the connection assembly includes a plurality of connection plates arranged at intervals along the length direction of the support rod, the limit guide rod is connected with at least one connection plate through a clamping block, and a clamping groove matched with the periphery outline of the limit guide rod is arranged on the clamping block.

In some embodiments of the present utility model, the outer part of the rotating rod is sleeved with a plurality of sleeves sequentially arranged along the length direction of the rotating rod, an anti-rotation structure is arranged between adjacent sleeves, the outer peripheral wall of each sleeve is formed with a spiral unit slope, and the spiral unit slopes are sequentially spliced to form the spiral ascending slope section.

In some embodiments of the present utility model, the ball feeding track has a ball feeding slope surface that is disposed obliquely downward along a length direction of the ball feeding track, a first blocking member, a second blocking member, and a third blocking member are disposed movably and sequentially and at intervals along the obliquely downward direction of the ball feeding slope surface, the first blocking member, the second blocking member, and the third blocking member are connected with a driving device, and the driving device drives the first blocking member and the third blocking member to move above the ball feeding slope surface and drives the second blocking member to leave the ball feeding slope surface, or drives the second blocking member to move above the ball feeding slope surface and drives the first blocking member and the third blocking member to leave the ball feeding slope surface, and a shortest distance between the first blocking member and the second blocking member and a shortest distance between the second blocking member and the third blocking member are all greater than or equal to a diameter of a sphere.

In some embodiments of the present utility model, the first blocking member, the second blocking member and the third blocking member are rods, the ball feeding track is respectively provided with a guide perforation for the first blocking member, the second blocking member and the third blocking member to penetrate through the ball feeding slope along a vertical direction, the driving device includes a linear driver arranged below the ball feeding track and a linkage mechanism connected with an output end of the linear driver, and the linkage mechanism can drive the first blocking member and the third blocking member to extend upwards from the ball feeding slope and drive the second blocking member to be accommodated downwards in the ball feeding track, or drive the first blocking member and the third blocking member to extend upwards from the ball feeding slope while being accommodated downwards in the ball feeding track.

In some embodiments of the present utility model, a housing is disposed below the ball feeding track, the first blocking member, the second blocking member and the third blocking member are all slidably disposed in the housing along a vertical direction, the linkage mechanism includes a first rotating arm and a second rotating arm that are rotatably disposed in the housing and symmetrically disposed at two sides of the second blocking member, two ends of the first rotating arm are respectively connected to the first blocking member and the second blocking member in a transmission manner, two ends of the second rotating arm are respectively connected to the third blocking member and the second blocking member in a transmission manner, a side extension rod is connected to a side portion of the first rotating arm or the second rotating arm, a swing rod is rotatably disposed on the housing, an end portion of the swing rod is in transmission connection with the side extension rod, an output end of the linear driver is disposed in a horizontal direction, an output end of the linear driver is rotatably connected to a driving rod, and another end of the driving rod is rotatably connected to the swing rod.

In some embodiments of the present utility model, the side portions of the first blocking member, the second blocking member and the third blocking member are respectively provided with a first guide post, a second guide post and a third guide post correspondingly, two ends of the first rotating arm are respectively provided with a first waist-shaped hole and a second waist-shaped hole for the first guide post and the second guide post to movably pass through, two ends of the second rotating arm are respectively provided with a third waist-shaped hole and a fourth waist-shaped hole for the second guide post and the third guide post to movably pass through, the side extension rod is provided with a fourth guide post, and the end of the swinging rod is provided with a fifth waist-shaped hole for the fourth guide post to movably pass through.

Additional aspects and advantages of the utility model will be set forth in part in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the utility model.

Drawings

The foregoing and/or additional aspects and advantages of the utility model will become apparent and may be better understood from the following description of embodiments taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of an embodiment of a ball conveyor of the present utility model;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the combination of the single ball feed track, the spiral ascending ramp, the cone and the guide of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a structure in which a rotating rod and a plurality of bushings are separated;

FIG. 4 is a schematic layout view of a combination of support rods, limit guide rods, connection assemblies and clamping blocks;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the structure of a single ball feeding track according to the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is an exploded view of the structure of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of the combination of the drive device, first blocking member, second blocking member and third blocking member of the embodiment of FIG. 5;

Fig. 8 is a schematic view of the embodiment of fig. 5 with the first and third stops raised and the second stop lowered.

Detailed Description

Embodiments of the present utility model are described in detail below, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like or similar reference numerals refer to like or similar elements or elements having like or similar functions throughout. The embodiments described below by referring to the drawings are illustrative only and are not to be construed as limiting the utility model.

In the description of the present utility model, it should be understood that references to orientation descriptions such as terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", etc., are based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, are merely for convenience of describing the present utility model and to simplify the description, and do not indicate or imply that the devices or elements referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore should not be construed as limiting the present utility model.

In the description of the present utility model, a number means one or more, a number means two or more, and greater than, less than, exceeding, etc. are understood to not include the present number, and above, below, within, etc. are understood to include the present number. The description of the first and second is for the purpose of distinguishing between technical features only and should not be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated or implicitly indicating the precedence of the technical features indicated.

In the description of the present utility model, it should be noted that, unless explicitly specified and limited otherwise, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be either fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected, for example; 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 will be understood in specific cases by those of ordinary skill in the art.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, a ball transfer device of the present utility model includes: the machine frame 100, the frame 100 rotates and is provided with the dwang 200 that extends along vertical direction, the periphery wall of dwang 200 is encircled and is provided with spiral ascending slope section 300, the frame 100 is equipped with the stop gear who prevents the spheroid to break away from spiral ascending slope section 300 in the periphery of spiral ascending slope section 300, the frame 100 is equipped with the cone 400 that is located the upper end of dwang 200 and big-end-up, the central axis of cone 400 and the central axis coaxial setting of dwang 200, the lower extreme of dwang 200 is connected with the rotary actuator 500 that drives it and rotate relative to cone 400, the periphery of the upper portion of spiral ascending slope section 300 distributes and has a plurality of ball feeding track 600 that arrange along the radial direction of dwang 200, the play ball clearance that can dock with the entry of arbitrary ball feeding track 600 is defined between the periphery wall of cone 400 and the upper end of spiral ascending slope section 300, the frame 100 is equipped with a plurality of guide 720 that correspond one by one with the entry of ball feeding track 600, the spheroid can contact guide 720 when climbing up to play ball clearance along spiral ascending slope section 300 in order to move towards the entry of ball feeding track 600.

The ball conveying device with the above structure drives the rotating rod 200 to rotate by the rotary driver 500, the ball climbs to the top along the spiral ascending slope section 300 under the limit of the limit mechanism, the ball moves to contact with the peripheral wall of the cone 400 along the spiral ascending slope section 300 to enable the ball to be in a ball outlet gap, meanwhile, the ball also contacts the guide piece 720 and is conveyed to the inlet of one ball conveying track 600 under the action of the guide piece 720, the rotating rod 200 can rotate to the upper end of the spiral ascending slope section 300 corresponding to the angle position of any ball conveying track 600, and the ball can enter different ball conveying tracks 600, so that the ball can be automatically shunted to the plurality of ball conveying tracks 600 by a simple and small structure, and the layout and design of other structures of the recreational machine are facilitated.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, in some embodiments of the utility model, the stop mechanism includes a plurality of stop guide bars 710 distributed around the periphery of the spiral ascending ramp 300, the stop guide bars 710 being capable of abutting against the outer surface of the ball to prevent the ball from exiting the spiral ascending ramp 300. The limit mechanism with the structure has simple structure, low cost and small mass, and is beneficial to transportation; moreover, a hollowed-out area is arranged between the adjacent limit guide rods 710, so that the movement track of the ball inside the limit mechanism can be clearly observed from the outside, and the device debugging is facilitated.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, in some embodiments of the present utility model, the number of limit guides 710 is consistent with the number of ball feeding rails 600, and the limit guides 710 are in one-to-one correspondence with the ball feeding rails 600, the limit guides 710 are located at one side of the inlet of the corresponding ball feeding rail 600, the guide 720 is provided at the upper portion of the limit guides 710, and the guide 720 has a ball guiding curved surface 721 capable of being opposite to the upper end of the spiral ascending slope 300. In this embodiment, the number of the limit guide bars 710 is four, the ball feeding rail 600 is four, the limit guide bars 710 are located near the extension section of one side of the inlet of the corresponding ball feeding rail 600, the guide member 720 is close to the low slope position of the part of the spiral ascending slope section 300 opposite to the inlet of the ball feeding rail 600, when the rotary driver 500 drives the rotary bar 200 to rotate, during the process that the ball climbs up to the upper end of the spiral ascending slope section 300 along the spiral ascending slope section 300 opposite to the inlet of the ball feeding rail 600, the ball firstly contacts with the ball guiding curved surface 721 of the guide member 720 and then contacts with the peripheral wall of the cone 400, and the ball guiding curved surface 721, the cone 400 and the spiral ascending slope section 300 form three-point support to the ball, and have the movement trend of moving towards the inlet of the ball feeding rail 600 under the action of the three-point support.

Referring to fig. 2, in some embodiments of the present utility model, the guide member 720 is a rubber sleeve penetrating through an upper portion of the limit guide rod 710, the ball guiding curved surface 721 is a round table curved surface with a large upper portion and a small lower portion and provided on an outer peripheral wall of the rubber sleeve, and the side wall of the ball feeding rail 600 near the inlet of the guide member 720 has a guiding inclined surface 601 extending toward the direction of the rubber sleeve. It should be noted that, since the ascending slope 300 has a slight downward inclination along the radial outward direction of the rotating rod 200, the ball moves upwards around the rotating rod 200 under the action of the curved surface of the circular table when climbing along the ascending slope 300, so that the movement of the ball is smoother, the guide member 720 is a rubber sleeve, rigid collision between the ball and the guide member 720 is avoided, and the service life is longer. In addition, the surface of the ball leaves the rubber sleeve and then enters the entrance of the ball feed rail 600 along the guide slope 601.

Referring to fig. 1 and 4, in some embodiments of the present utility model, the frame 100 includes an upper end plate 110 and a lower end plate 120, a plurality of support rods 130 positioned at the outer circumference of the limit guide rod 710 are connected between the upper end plate 110 and the lower end plate 120, adjacent support rods 130 are connected through a connection assembly 140, the connection assembly 140 includes a plurality of connection plates spaced apart along the length direction of the support rods 130, the limit guide rod 710 is connected to at least one connection plate through a clamping block 150, and the clamping block 150 is provided with a clamping groove matching with the outer circumference profile of the limit guide rod 710. In this embodiment, the upper end plate 110 and the lower end plate 120 are rectangular plates, and four support rods 130 are distributed at four corners of the upper end plate 110 and the lower end plate 120, so that the two ends of the rotating rod 200 can be ensured to be stable when being respectively arranged between the upper end plate 110 and the lower end plate 120 in a rotating manner, and the connecting assembly 140 can prevent the support rods 130 from deforming, limit the limit guide rods 710 from bending, and avoid the jamming phenomenon between the spheres and the limit guide rods 710.

Referring to fig. 3, in some embodiments of the present utility model, in order to reduce the difficulty of manufacturing the spiral ascending slope 300, and help to ensure the shape and dimensional accuracy of the spiral ascending slope 300, a plurality of sleeves 310 sequentially arranged along the length direction of the rotating rod 200 are sleeved outside the rotating rod 200, anti-rotation structures are arranged between adjacent sleeves 310, spiral unit slopes 311 are formed on the outer peripheral walls of the sleeves 310, and the spiral unit slopes 311 are sequentially spliced to form the spiral ascending slope 300. In this embodiment, the sleeve 310 and the spiral unit slope 311 are of an integral plastic structure or an integral metal structure, and the anti-rotation structure includes a protrusion provided on one of the two adjacent sleeves 310 and a recess provided on the other of the two adjacent sleeves 310, and the protrusion is engaged with the recess.

Referring to fig. 5 to 8, in some embodiments of the present utility model, the ball feeding rail 600 has a ball feeding slope 610 disposed obliquely downward along a length direction thereof, the ball feeding rail 600 is sequentially and movably provided with a first blocking member 810, a second blocking member 820 and a third blocking member 830 at intervals along the obliquely downward direction of the ball feeding slope 610, the first blocking member 810, the second blocking member 820 and the third blocking member 830 are connected with a driving device 840, the driving device 840 drives the first blocking member 810 and the third blocking member 830 to move above the ball feeding slope 610 to drive the second blocking member 820 to leave the ball feeding slope 610, or the driving device 840 drives the second blocking member 820 to move above the ball feeding slope 610 to drive the first blocking member 810 and the third blocking member 830 to leave the ball feeding slope 610, and a shortest distance between the first blocking member 810 and the second blocking member 820 and a shortest distance between the second blocking member 820 and the third blocking member 830 are all greater than or equal to a diameter size of a sphere.

In an initial state, referring to fig. 7, the first blocking member 810 and the third blocking member 830 respectively block one ball on the ball feeding slope 610, referring to fig. 8, when the ball needs to be released, the driving device 840 drives the second blocking member 820 to move above the ball feeding slope 610 and drives the first blocking member 810 and the third blocking member 830 to leave the ball feeding slope 610, the ball blocked by the third blocking member 830 can be released, the ball blocked by the first blocking member 810 moves to the second blocking member 820 along the ball feeding slope 610 as a supplement, and then the driving device 840 drives the first blocking member 810 and the third blocking member 830 to return to above the ball feeding slope 610 and drives the second blocking member 820 to leave the ball feeding slope 610, and the ball blocked by the second blocking member 820 can be released to be blocked by the third blocking member 830 to be released, and at the moment, the ball feeding slope 610 can be conveyed with the other ball blocked by the first blocking member 810 as a standby ball; the above structure can forward convey another ball a certain distance to be used as a supplementary ball while releasing one ball, and can convey the other ball to be blocked by the third blocking piece 830 in a reciprocating stroke of the third blocking piece 830, so that the supplementary ball has higher efficiency and is suitable for the use requirement of continuous ball discharge. In addition, it should be noted that, since the ball blocked by the first blocking member 810 is abutted against the second blocking member 820 before being moved to abut against the third blocking member 830, and then is moved from the position blocked by the second blocking member 820 to the position blocked by the third blocking member 830, the ball is prevented from sliding from the position of the first blocking member 810 to the position of the third blocking member 830 directly, thereby causing a larger impact.

Referring to fig. 5 and 7, in some embodiments of the present utility model, the first blocking member 810, the second blocking member 820 and the third blocking member 830 are rods, the ball feeding rail 600 is provided with a guide through hole 620 for the first blocking member 810, the second blocking member 820 and the third blocking member 830 to penetrate through the ball feeding slope 610 along the vertical direction, the driving device 840 includes a linear driver 950 disposed below the ball feeding rail 600 and a linkage mechanism 900 connected to the output end of the linear driver 950, and the linkage mechanism 900 can drive the first blocking member 810 and the third blocking member 830 to extend upwards from the ball feeding slope 610 and drive the second blocking member 820 to be accommodated downwards in the ball feeding rail 600, or the linkage mechanism 900 can drive the first blocking member 810 and the third blocking member 830 to be accommodated downwards in the ball feeding rail 600 and drive the second blocking member 820 to extend upwards from the ball feeding slope 610.

The ball conveying device can control the first blocking member 810, the second blocking member 820 and the third blocking member 830 to synchronously move only by one linear driver 950 through the linkage mechanism 900, so that the problems of large volume, complex structure, high cost and the like caused by independently controlling the first blocking member 810, the second blocking member 820 and the third blocking member 830 by arranging a plurality of independent driving sources are avoided. The first blocking member 810, the second blocking member 820, and the third blocking member 830 are vertically penetrated through the guide penetration hole 620 to protrude upward or be received downward with respect to the ball feeding slope 610, which is advantageous in simplifying the construction of the intermittent ball discharging mechanism. In other embodiments, the guide hole 620 may be disposed to penetrate the side wall of the ball feeding rail 600, and the driving device 840 may be disposed to be disposed at the side of the ball feeding rail 600.

Referring to fig. 6 to 8, in some embodiments of the present utility model, a housing 850 is provided below the ball feeding rail 600, the first blocking member 810, the second blocking member 820 and the third blocking member 830 are all slidably provided in a vertical direction to the housing 850, the linkage 900 includes a first rotating arm 910 and a second rotating arm 920 rotatably provided to the housing 850 and symmetrically disposed at both sides of the second blocking member 820, both ends of the first rotating arm 910 are respectively connected to the first blocking member 810 and the second blocking member 820 in a driving manner, both ends of the second rotating arm 920 are respectively connected to the third blocking member 830 and the second blocking member 820 in a driving manner, a side extension rod 930 is connected to a side portion of the first rotating arm 910 or the second rotating arm 920, a swing link 940 is rotatably provided to the housing 850, an end portion of the swing link 940 is in driving connection with the side extension rod 930, an output end of the linear driver 950 is disposed in a horizontal direction, an output end of the linear driver 950 is rotatably connected to a driving lever 960, and the other end of the driving lever 960 is rotatably connected to the swing link 940.

When the output end of the linear driver 950 extends, the first blocking member 810 and the third blocking member 830 extend upward from the upper surface of the ball feeding slope 610, and the second blocking member 820 retracts below the ball feeding slope 610; when the output end of the linear driver 950 is retracted, the driving rod 960 pulls the swing rod 940 to swing, and the swing rod 940 swings to link the side extension rod 930, so as to drive the second rotating arm 920 to rotate, and when the second rotating arm 920 rotates, the second blocking member 820 driving one end of the second rotating arm 920 slides upward to extend out of the ball feeding slope 610, and the third blocking member 830 driving the other end of the second rotating arm 920 slides downward to retract below the ball feeding slope 610, and at the same time, because the second blocking member 820 slides upward to drive the first rotating arm 910 to rotate, the rotating direction of the first rotating arm 910 is opposite to the rotating direction of the second rotating arm 920, and when the first rotating arm 910 rotates, the first blocking member 810 slides downward to retract below the ball feeding slope 610. The overall height dimension of the driving device 840 with the above structure is smaller, which is helpful to provide a larger space for the design of the game machine, reduce the possibility of interfering with other parts, be beneficial to improving the structural compactness of the ball conveying device in the height direction, and have fewer parts, and realize the synchronous movement of the first blocking member 810, the second blocking member 820 and the third blocking member 830 with a smart structure, thus having reliable action and low cost.

Referring to fig. 7 and 8, in some embodiments of the present utility model, the side portions of the first blocking member 810, the second blocking member 820 and the third blocking member 830 are respectively provided with a first guide post 811, a second guide post 821 and a third guide post 831 correspondingly, both ends of the first rotating arm 910 are respectively provided with a first waist-shaped hole 911 and a second waist-shaped hole 912 through which the first guide post 811 and the second guide post 821 are movably inserted, both ends of the second rotating arm 920 are respectively provided with a third waist-shaped hole 921 and a fourth waist-shaped hole 922 through which the second guide post 821 and the third guide post 831 are movably inserted, the side extension rod 930 is provided with a fourth guide post 970, and the end of the swinging rod 940 is provided with a fifth waist-shaped hole 980 through which the fourth guide post 970 is movably inserted.

It should be noted that, when the linear driver 950 drives the swing rod 940 to swing through the driving rod 960, the fourth guide post 970 slides along the extending direction of the fifth waist-shaped hole 980, so as to drive the second rotating arm 920 to rotate, when the second rotating arm 920 rotates, the third guide post 831 moves in the fourth waist-shaped hole 922, the second guide post 821 moves in the third waist-shaped hole 921, so as to drive the third blocking member 830 and the second blocking member 820 to slide up and down respectively, and at the same time, the second guide post 821 also moves in the second waist-shaped hole 912 to drive the first rotating arm 910 to rotate, and when the first rotating arm 910 rotates, the first guide post 811 moves in the first waist-shaped hole 911, so as to drive the first blocking member 810 to slide up and down synchronously. The transmission connection of the related components is realized by the structure, so that the cost is low, and the whole linkage mechanism 900 achieves the effect of light weight.

The technical features of the above-described embodiments may be arbitrarily combined, and all possible combinations of the technical features in the above-described embodiments are not described for brevity of description, however, as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features, they should be considered as the scope of the description.

While embodiments of the present utility model have been shown and described, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: many changes, modifications, substitutions and variations may be made to the embodiments without departing from the spirit and principles of the utility model, the scope of which is defined by the claims and their equivalents.

Claims (10)

1. A ball conveyor, comprising:

The machine frame (100), the machine frame (100) rotates and is provided with a rotating rod (200) extending along the vertical direction, the peripheral wall of the rotating rod (200) is provided with a spiral ascending slope section (300) in a surrounding manner, the machine frame (100) is provided with a limiting mechanism for preventing a ball from separating from the spiral ascending slope section (300) on the periphery of the spiral ascending slope section (300), the machine frame (100) is provided with a cone (400) which is positioned at the upper end of the rotating rod (200) and is large in upper and small in lower, the central axis of the cone (400) is coaxially arranged with the central axis of the rotating rod (200), the lower end of the rotating rod (200) is connected with a rotary driver (500) for driving the rotating rod to rotate relative to the cone (400), a plurality of ball conveying tracks (600) which are arranged along the radial direction of the rotating rod (200) are distributed on the periphery of the upper part of the spiral ascending slope section (300), a plurality of ball conveying tracks (600) which can be in one-to-one correspondence with the ball conveying tracks (600) are arranged between the peripheral wall of the cone (400) and the upper end of the spiral ascending slope section (300), the ball conveying tracks (720) are provided with a plurality of ball conveying tracks (600), the ball is able to contact the guide (720) to move towards the entrance of the ball feed rail (600) when climbing up the spiral ascending ramp section (300) to the ball discharge gap.

2. A ball conveyor according to claim 1, wherein:

The limiting mechanism comprises a plurality of limiting guide rods (710) which are distributed around the periphery of the spiral ascending slope section (300), and the limiting guide rods (710) can be abutted against the outer surface of the sphere to prevent the sphere from being separated from the spiral ascending slope section (300).

3. A ball conveyor according to claim 2, wherein:

The number of the limit guide rods (710) is consistent with that of the ball feeding tracks (600), the limit guide rods (710) are in one-to-one correspondence with the ball feeding tracks (600), the limit guide rods (710) are located on one sides of the corresponding inlets of the ball feeding tracks (600), the guide pieces (720) are arranged on the upper portions of the limit guide rods (710), and the guide pieces (720) are provided with guide curved surfaces (721) which can be opposite to the upper ends of the spiral ascending slope sections (300).

4. A ball conveyor according to claim 3, wherein:

The guide piece (720) is a rubber sleeve penetrating through the upper portion of the limiting guide rod (710), the guide ball curved surface (721) is a round table curved surface which is arranged on the outer peripheral wall of the rubber sleeve and is large in upper portion and small in lower portion, and the side wall, close to the guide piece (720), of the inlet of the ball conveying track (600) is provided with a guide inclined surface (601) extending towards the direction of the rubber sleeve.

5. A ball conveyor according to claim 2, wherein:

Frame (100) are including last end plate (110) and lower end plate (120), go up end plate (110) with be connected with many spinal branch to be located between lower end plate (120) bracing piece (130) of the periphery of spacing guide bar (710), adjacent link to each other through coupling assembling (140) between bracing piece (130), coupling assembling (140) include a plurality of edges length direction interval arrangement's of bracing piece (130 connecting plate, spacing guide bar (710) pass through joint piece (150) and at least one the connecting plate links to each other, be equipped with on joint piece (150) with periphery profile assorted draw-in groove of spacing guide bar (710).

6. A ball conveyor according to claim 1, wherein:

The outside cover of dwang (200) is equipped with a plurality of edges the sleeve pipe (310) that the length direction of dwang (200) set gradually, and is adjacent be equipped with anti-rotation structure between sleeve pipe (310), the shaping of the outer perisporium of sleeve pipe (310) has spiral unit slope (311), spiral unit slope (311) splice in proper order and form spiral ascending slope section (300).

7. A ball conveyor according to claim 1, wherein:

The ball feeding track (600) is provided with a ball feeding slope (610) which is obliquely downwards arranged along the length direction of the ball feeding track, the ball feeding track (600) is sequentially and movably provided with a first blocking piece (810), a second blocking piece (820) and a third blocking piece (830) at intervals along the downward-oblique direction of the ball feeding slope (610), the first blocking piece (810), the second blocking piece (820) and the third blocking piece (830) are connected with a driving device (840), the driving device (840) drives the first blocking piece (810) and the third blocking piece (830) to move above the ball feeding slope (610), the second blocking piece (820) is driven to leave the ball feeding slope (610), or the driving device (840) drives the second blocking piece (820) to move above the ball feeding slope (610), the first blocking piece (810) and the third blocking piece (830) are driven to leave the ball feeding slope (610), and the diameter of the second blocking piece (820) and the third blocking piece (830) is equal to the shortest distance between the diameters of the first blocking piece and the third blocking piece (820).

8. A ball conveyor as in claim 7 wherein:

The first blocking piece (810), the second blocking piece (820) and the third blocking piece (830) are rods, the ball feeding track (600) is respectively provided with a guide perforation (620) for enabling the first blocking piece (810), the second blocking piece (820) and the third blocking piece (830) to penetrate through the ball feeding slope (610) along the vertical direction, the driving device (840) comprises a linear driver (950) arranged below the ball feeding track (600) and a linkage mechanism (900) connected with the output end of the linear driver (950), and the linkage mechanism (900) can drive the first blocking piece (810) and the third blocking piece (830) to extend upwards from the ball feeding slope (610) and drive the second blocking piece (820) to be contained downwards in the ball feeding track (600) or drive the linkage mechanism (900) to drive the first blocking piece (810) and the third blocking piece (830) to extend downwards from the ball feeding track (600) to the ball feeding slope (610) and simultaneously.

9. A ball conveyor as in claim 8 wherein:

The lower part of the ball feeding track (600) is provided with a shell (850), the first blocking piece (810), the second blocking piece (820) and the third blocking piece (830) are arranged on the shell (850) in a sliding way along the vertical direction, the linkage mechanism (900) comprises a first rotating arm (910) and a second rotating arm (920) which are rotationally arranged on the shell (850) and symmetrically arranged on two sides of the second blocking piece (820), two ends of the first rotating arm (910) are respectively connected with the first blocking piece (810) and the second blocking piece (820) in a transmission way, the two ends of the second rotating arm (920) are respectively connected with the third blocking piece (830) and the second blocking piece (820) in a transmission mode, the side portion of the first rotating arm (910) or the side portion of the second rotating arm (920) is connected with a side extending rod (930), a swing rod (940) is rotatably arranged on the shell (850), the end portion of the swing rod (940) is connected with the side extending rod (930) in a transmission mode, the output end of the linear driver (950) is arranged in the horizontal direction, the output end of the linear driver (950) is rotatably connected with a driving rod (960), and the other end of the driving rod (960) is rotatably connected with the swing rod (940).

10. A ball conveyor as in claim 9 wherein:

The side of first blocking piece (810), second blocking piece (820) with the lateral part of third blocking piece (830) corresponds respectively and is provided with first guide post (811), second guide post (821) and third guide post (831), the both ends of first swing arm (910) are equipped with confession respectively first guide post (811) with first waist type hole (911) and second waist type hole (912) that second guide post (821) activity was worn to establish, the both ends of second rotating arm (920) are equipped with confession respectively second guide post (821) with third waist type hole (921) that third guide post (831) activity was worn to establish, be equipped with fourth guide post (970) on side extension rod (930), the tip of pendulum rod (940) is equipped with confession fifth waist type hole (980) that fourth guide post (970) activity was worn to establish.