CN221100369U - Automatic recording device for power sounding hammer - Google Patents

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CN221100369U
CN221100369U CN202322814545.3U CN202322814545U CN221100369U CN 221100369 U CN221100369 U CN 221100369U CN 202322814545 U CN202322814545 U CN 202322814545U CN 221100369 U CN221100369 U CN 221100369U
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吴国容
唐刘江
高鸣飞
杨艳梅
李旭
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The application discloses an automatic recording device for the number of dynamic sounding hammers, and belongs to the field of engineering detection. An automatic recording device for the number of dynamic sounding hammers, comprising: the intelligent recording mechanism is installed on one side periphery and the bottom of the core rod, a limit protection mechanism is installed on the periphery of the intelligent recording mechanism close to the bottom, a scale positioning mechanism is fixed above the limit protection mechanism, the intelligent recording mechanism comprises a core penetrating hammer, the core penetrating hammer is movably sleeved on one side periphery of the core rod, connecting handles are fixed on two sides of the core penetrating hammer, an adsorption type magnetic coil is installed on the bottom of the core penetrating hammer, one end of the core penetrating rod is connected with a hammer pad, a wireless transmission magnetic induction clamping ring is installed on one side periphery of the hammer pad, a touch rod is installed on the other end of the hammer pad, and scale marks are distributed on two sides of the touch rod. The application has the beneficial effect of providing the automatic recording device for the dynamic sounding hammer impact number with intelligent recording.

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Automatic recording device for power sounding hammer
Technical Field
The application relates to the field of engineering detection, in particular to an automatic recording device for the number of dynamic contact hammer hits.
Background
The dynamic sounding hammering number recording is that a tester manually accumulates and records hammering numbers according to the fact that a probe of a field instrument penetrates into a specified depth one by one, and data of different penetration depths are respectively recorded on an original record book. The number of hits was recorded while observing the penetration depth during the test, until the number of hits penetrating the prescribed depth was recorded as test data.
In the current dynamic sounding hammering number recording test process, because the attention requirement on test personnel is higher, the hammering number needs to be accumulated while observing the penetration depth, and once the hammering number is interfered by the outside, the inaccurate test data such as a hammering number meter, a hammering number meter and the like can be possibly caused, so that the inaccurate test result can be caused.
There is no automatic recording device for the number of dynamic contact probe hits with intelligent recording.
Disclosure of utility model
The summary of the application is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the detailed description. The summary of the application is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used to limit the scope of the claimed subject matter.
In order to solve the technical problems mentioned in the background section above, some embodiments of the present application provide an automatic recording device for the number of dynamic sounding hammers, a working process or an installation process, etc., which has an intelligent recording effect due to the XX structure.
An automatic recording device for the number of dynamic sounding hammers, comprising: the intelligent recording mechanism is arranged on the periphery of one side and the bottom of the core penetrating rod, a limit protection mechanism is arranged on the periphery of the bottom of the core penetrating rod, a scale positioning mechanism is fixed above the limit protection mechanism, the intelligent recording mechanism comprises a core penetrating hammer, the core penetrating hammer is movably sleeved on the periphery of one side of the core penetrating rod, connecting handles are fixed on two sides of the core penetrating hammer, an adsorption magnetic coil is arranged on the bottom of the core penetrating hammer, one end of the core penetrating rod is connected with a hammer pad, a wireless transmission magnetic induction clamping ring is arranged on the periphery of one side of the hammer pad, a touch probe rod is arranged at the other end of the hammer pad, scale marks are distributed on two sides of the touch probe rod, a conical head is fixed at the bottom of the touch probe rod, and a handheld wireless receiving counter is wirelessly connected to one side of the wireless transmission magnetic induction clamping ring.
Further, the adsorption type magnetic coil at the bottom of the through hammer and the wireless transmission magnetic induction clamping ring at the periphery of one side of the hammer pad form magnetic induction connection, and wireless Bluetooth transmission is arranged between the wireless transmission magnetic induction clamping ring and the handheld wireless receiving counter.
Further, the limit protection mechanism comprises a sleeving seat, a noctilucent bubble level is installed on one side of the sleeving seat, connecting brackets are fixed on two sides of the sleeving seat, screw threads are distributed on the periphery of one end of each connecting bracket, a screw sleeve is screwed on the periphery of each screw thread, a rotating shaft is installed at the bottom of each screw sleeve, a base is movably arranged at the other end of each rotating shaft, a screw groove is formed in the middle of each base, and a positioning bolt rod is screwed in the middle of each screw groove.
Further, the connecting brackets fixed on two sides of the sleeve seat are distributed in two sections, the connecting brackets are vertically distributed on the periphery of the second section, the threaded threads on the periphery of the second section are connected with the threaded sleeve in a threaded manner, and the threaded sleeve is movably assembled with the base through the rotating shaft.
Further, the positioning bolt rod and the screw groove formed in the middle of the base form threaded positioning connection, and the tail ends of the positioning bolt rod are distributed in a conical shape.
Further, the scale positioning mechanism comprises a fixing frame, a middle retaining groove is formed in the middle of the fixing frame, fixing blocks are fixed on the inner walls of the two sides of the middle retaining groove, and a laser instrument is mounted on the inner sides of the fixing blocks.
Further, the laser instrument, the fixed block and the fixed frame are connected, and the laser instrument and the fixed block are symmetrically distributed along the central axis of the fixed frame.
The application has the beneficial effects that: the personnel vertically insert the region to be detected with penetrating rod, hammer pad and feeler lever after connecting the combination, then through the direction mobility of penetrating hammer and penetrating rod, the personnel manually control is worn out the landing of core hammer, make its core hammer at every decline and stabilize hammering hammer pad and make it take the feeler lever to descend, owing to be equipped with absorption formula magnetic coil below the core hammer, when the core hammer is once fallen, this absorption formula magnetic coil is along with descending contact hammer pad and its peripheral wireless transmission magnetic induction snap ring of response, once the magnetic induction snap ring response of once falling and utilize bluetooth wireless transmission to hand-held type wireless reception counter, thereby reach the purpose of hammer number record, avoid the phenomenon that the possible leakage of personnel record is few to influence the phenomenon of follow-up accuracy.
Before a feeler lever is inserted into a region to be detected, a connecting rack and a sleeving seat are required to be moved to the region in advance, then according to different heights of terrains, a person can lift the threaded sleeve of the feeler lever by using the peripheral screw threads of the second section connected with the connecting rack, and as a rotating shaft is arranged between the base and the threaded sleeve, the base is not required to be considered in the threaded lifting operation, when the base is lifted to a proper position to be attached to a point to be detected, the positioning bolt and the screw groove are utilized to position and stabilize the base, and at the moment, the feeler lever is inserted into the sleeving seat in a positioning state, so that the vertical stability of the feeler lever in subsequent operation can be effectively ensured, and the detection offset phenomenon is reduced.
The scale marks are distributed on the periphery of the touch probe rod, personnel are generally used for checking the ground entering depth of the touch probe rod, a middle left groove is formed in the middle of a fixing frame above a connecting rack at the moment, laser instruments are arranged on two side inner walls of the left groove, namely two sides of the lower section of the touch probe rod, after the touch probe rod is hammered into the ground, the personnel can effectively know the ground entering depth and record through the laser instruments and the scale marks, the follow-up intelligent recording mechanism is matched, the detection result can be effectively obtained, and the laser instruments are horizontally irradiated to be matched with the luminous bubble level instrument, so that the detection can be carried even at night.
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The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the application, are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings and their description are illustrative of the application and are not to be construed as unduly limiting the application.
In addition, the same or similar reference numerals denote the same or similar elements throughout the drawings. It should be understood that the figures are schematic and that elements and components are not necessarily drawn to scale.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic elevational view of the present application;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a limit protection mechanism according to the present application;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a partial perspective structure of the limit protection mechanism of the present application;
Fig. 4 is a schematic top view of the scale positioning mechanism of the present application.
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1. A core penetrating rod;
2. An intelligent recording mechanism; 201. a core penetrating hammer; 202. a connecting handle; 203. an adsorption type magnetic coil; 204. a hammer pad; 205. wirelessly transmitting a magnetic induction clasp; 206. a touch probe; 207. scale marks; 208. a conical head; 209. a handheld wireless reception counter;
3. A limit protection mechanism; 301. a sleeving seat; 302. noctilucent bubble level; 303. connecting and mounting; 304. screw threads; 305. a threaded sleeve; 306. a rotating shaft; 307. a base; 308. a screw groove; 309. positioning a bolt rod;
4. A scale positioning mechanism; 401. a fixing frame; 402. a middle groove is reserved; 403. a fixed block; 404. and (5) a laser instrument.
Detailed Description
Embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. While certain embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the present disclosure may be embodied in various forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete. It should be understood that the drawings and embodiments of the present disclosure are for illustration purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure.
The present disclosure will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with embodiments.
Referring to fig. 1, an automatic recording apparatus of a number of dynamic contact hammer, comprising: the core penetrating rod 1, the intelligent recording mechanism 2 is arranged at one side periphery and the bottom of the core penetrating rod 1, the limit protection mechanism 3 is arranged at the periphery of the intelligent recording mechanism 2 close to the bottom, the scale positioning mechanism 4 is fixed above the limit protection mechanism 3, the intelligent recording mechanism 2 comprises a core penetrating hammer 201, the core penetrating hammer 201 is movably sleeved at one side periphery of the core penetrating rod 1, the connecting handles 202 are fixed at two sides of the core penetrating hammer 201, the adsorption magnetic coil 203 is arranged at the bottom of the core penetrating hammer 201, the hammer pad 204 is connected with one end of the core penetrating rod 1, the wireless transmission magnetic induction clamping ring 205 is arranged at one side periphery of the hammer pad 204, the touch probe 206 is arranged at the other end of the hammer pad 204, scale marks 207 are distributed at two sides of the touch probe 206, the conical head 208 is fixed at the bottom end of the touch probe 206, the hand-held wireless receiving counter 209 is wirelessly connected at one side of the wireless transmission magnetic induction clamping ring 205, the adsorption type magnetic coil 203 at the bottom of the through hammer 201 forms magnetic induction connection with the wireless transmission magnetic induction clamping ring 205 at one side periphery of the hammer pad 204, wireless Bluetooth transmission is adopted between the wireless transmission magnetic induction clamping ring 205 and the handheld wireless receiving counter 209, a person vertically inserts the through rod 1, the hammer pad 204 and the feeler lever 206 which are connected and combined into a region to be detected by utilizing the conical head 208, then the person manually controls the lifting of the through hammer 201 through the guiding mobility of the through hammer 201 and the through rod 1, so that the through hammer 201 can stably hammer the hammer pad 204 to descend along with the feeler lever 206 during each descending, because the adsorption type magnetic coil 203 is arranged below the through hammer 201, when the through hammer 201 descends once, the adsorption type magnetic coil 203 contacts the hammer pad 204 along with the descending and senses the wireless transmission clamping ring 205 at the periphery thereof, the magnetic induction snap ring is sensed once every time the magnetic induction snap ring falls down and is transmitted to the handheld wireless receiving counter 209 by Bluetooth in a wireless mode, so that the purpose of hammer number recording is achieved, and the phenomenon that follow-up accuracy is affected due to the phenomenon that staff records possibly miss marks are avoided.
Referring to fig. 1, 2 and 3, the limit protection mechanism 3 comprises a sleeving seat 301, a movable sleeve of the sleeving seat 301 is arranged on the periphery of one side, close to the lower side, of a touch rod 206, a noctilucent bubble level 302 is arranged on one side of the sleeving seat 301, connecting brackets 303 are fixedly arranged on two sides of the sleeving seat 301, screw threads 304 are distributed on the periphery of one end of each connecting bracket 303, screw thread sleeves 305 are screwed on the periphery of each screw thread 304, a rotating shaft 306 is arranged at the bottom of each screw thread sleeve 305, a base 307 is movably arranged on the other end of each rotating shaft 306, the connecting brackets 303 fixed on two sides of the sleeving seat 301 are distributed in two sections, screw threads 304 on the periphery of the connecting brackets 303 are vertically distributed on the second section are in screw connection with the screw thread sleeves 305, the screw thread sleeves 305 are movably assembled with the base 307 through the rotating shaft 306, screw grooves 308 are formed in the middle of the base 307, positioning bolt 309 is screwed on the middle of each screw grooves 308, the positioning bolt 309 forms a threaded positioning connection with the threaded groove 308 formed in the middle of the base 307, the tail ends of the positioning bolt 309 are distributed in a conical shape, before the touch rod 206 is inserted into the region to be detected, a person needs to move the connecting bracket 303 and the sleeving seat 301 to the region in advance, then according to different terrains, the person can lift the threaded sleeve 305 with the base 307 by using the second section of peripheral threaded threads 304 connected with two sections of the connecting bracket 303, as a result, the rotation shaft 306 is arranged between the base 307 and the threaded sleeve 305, the base 307 is not needed to be considered in the threaded lifting operation, when the base 307 is lifted to a proper position to be supported, the positioning bolt 309 and the threaded groove 308 are utilized to position and stabilize the position and the point of the base 307, at the moment, the touch rod 206 is inserted into the sleeving seat 301 in a positioning state, the vertical stability of the touch rod 206 in the subsequent operation can be effectively ensured, and the detection offset phenomenon is reduced.
Referring to fig. 1 and 4, the scale positioning mechanism 4 includes a fixing frame 401, the fixing frame 401 is fixed above the sleeving seat 301, a middle left groove 402 is formed in the middle of the fixing frame 401, two side inner walls of the middle left groove 402 are fixed with fixing blocks 403, a laser instrument 404 is installed on the inner sides of the fixing blocks 403, the laser instrument 404, the fixing blocks 403 and the fixing frame 401 are connected, the laser instrument 404 and the fixing blocks 403 are symmetrically distributed along the central axis of the fixing frame 401, scale marks 207 are distributed on the periphery of the feeler lever 206, a person is generally used for checking the ground entering depth of the feeler lever 206, at this time, the middle left groove 402 is formed in the middle of the fixing frame 401 above the connecting loading frame 303, and laser instruments 404 are arranged on the two side inner walls of the two sides of the left groove 402, namely, two sides of the lower section of the feeler lever 206 are used for effectively knowing the ground entering depth and recording after the feeler lever 206 is hammered, the person can effectively obtain the detection result by using the laser instrument 404 and the scale marks 207 and matching with the following intelligent recording mechanism 2, and the horizontal irradiation of the laser instrument 404 is matched with the existence of the noctilucent level instrument 302 to bring portable bubble level instrument 302 even at night.
Working principle: before the touch rod 206 is inserted into the area to be detected, the connecting bracket 303 and the sleeving seat 301 are required to be moved to the area in advance, then according to different terrains, the personnel can lift the threaded sleeve 305 with the base 307 by using the second section of peripheral screw threads 304 connected with the two sections of the connecting bracket 303, as the rotating shaft 306 is arranged between the base 307 and the threaded sleeve 305, the base 307 is not required to be considered in the threaded lifting operation, when the base 307 is lifted to a proper position to be attached to the point to be detected, the positioning bolt 309 and the screw groove 308 are used for positioning and stabilizing the position and the point of the base 307, then the personnel vertically inserts the combined penetrating rod 1, the hammer pad 204 and the touch rod 206 into the middle part of the positioned sleeving seat 301 by using the conical head 208, so that the vertical stability of the touch rod 206 in the subsequent operation can be effectively ensured, the detection offset phenomenon is reduced, secondly, through the guiding activity of the through hammer 201 and the through rod 1, personnel manually control the lifting of the through hammer 201, the through hammer 201 is enabled to stably hammer the hammer pad 204 to descend along with the feeler lever 206 in each descending, as the absorption type magnetic coil 203 is arranged below the through hammer 201, when the through hammer 201 is descended once, the absorption type magnetic coil 203 contacts the hammer pad 204 along with descending and senses the periphery of the through hammer 201 to wirelessly transmit the magnetic induction snap ring 205, and when the through hammer is descended once, the magnetic induction snap ring senses and wirelessly transmits the magnetic induction snap ring to the handheld wireless receiving counter 209 by Bluetooth, so that the purpose of recording the number of the hammering is achieved, the phenomenon that the possible leakage of the personnel records affects the subsequent accuracy is avoided, finally, the graduation line 207 is distributed on the periphery of the feeler lever 206, the personnel is generally used for checking the ground depth of the feeler lever 206, at this time, the middle part of the fixing frame 401 above the connecting loading frame 303 is provided with the middle left groove 402, and the inner walls at two sides of the left groove 402, namely, two sides of the lower section part of the touch probe 206 are provided with the laser instrument 404, after the touch probe 206 is hammered into the ground, personnel can effectively know the depth of the ground and record by using the laser instrument 404 and the scale marks 207, the detection result can be effectively obtained by matching with the subsequent intelligent recording mechanism 2, and the horizontal irradiation of the laser instrument 404 is matched with the existence of the noctilucent bubble level instrument 302, so that portability can be brought to detection even at night.

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1. An automatic recording device for the number of dynamic sounding hammers, comprising: core rod (1), its characterized in that: the intelligent recording device is characterized in that an intelligent recording mechanism (2) is installed on one side periphery and the bottom of the penetrating rod (1), a limit protection mechanism (3) is installed on the periphery of the intelligent recording mechanism (2) close to the bottom, a scale positioning mechanism (4) is fixed on the upper side of the limit protection mechanism (3), the intelligent recording mechanism (2) comprises a penetrating hammer (201), the penetrating hammer (201) is movably sleeved on one side periphery of the penetrating rod (1), connecting handles (202) are fixed on two sides of the penetrating hammer (201), an adsorption type magnetic coil (203) is installed on the bottom of the penetrating hammer (201), a hammer pad (204) is connected with one end of the penetrating rod (1), a wireless transmission magnetic induction clamping ring (205) is installed on one side periphery of the hammer pad (204), a touch probe rod (206) is installed on the other end of the hammer pad (204), scale marks (207) are distributed on two sides of the touch probe rod (206), a cone head (208) is fixed on the bottom of the touch probe rod (206), and one side of the wireless transmission clamping ring (205) is connected with a handheld wireless magnetic induction receiver (209).
2. The automatic recording device for the number of dynamic contact hammer according to claim 1, wherein: the magnetic induction connection is formed by the adsorption type magnetic coil (203) at the bottom of the through hammer (201) and the wireless transmission magnetic induction clamping ring (205) at the periphery of one side of the hammer pad (204), and wireless Bluetooth transmission is arranged between the wireless transmission magnetic induction clamping ring (205) and the handheld wireless receiving counter (209).
3. The automatic recording device for the number of dynamic contact hammer according to claim 1, wherein: limiting protection mechanism (3) are including suit seat (301), night light bubble spirit level (302) are installed to one side of suit seat (301), and the both sides of suit seat (301) are fixed with connection dress frame (303), the one end periphery of connection dress frame (303) distributes and has spiral shell line (304), and the peripheral spiral shell of spiral shell line (304) is equipped with screw sleeve (305), axis of rotation (306) are installed to the bottom of screw sleeve (305), and the other end activity of axis of rotation (306) has base (307), helicoid groove (308) have been seted up at the middle part of base (307), and the middle part spiral shell of helicoid groove (308) is equipped with location peg (309).
4. The automatic recording apparatus for the number of dynamic contact hammering according to claim 3, wherein: the connecting brackets (303) fixed at two sides of the sleeving seat (301) are distributed in two sections, screw threads (304) on the periphery of the second section of the connecting brackets (303) are vertically distributed and are in screw connection with the screw thread sleeve (305), and the screw thread sleeve (305) and the base (307) form movable assembly by utilizing the rotating shaft (306).
5. The automatic recording apparatus for the number of dynamic contact hammering according to claim 3, wherein: the positioning bolt rods (309) and screw grooves (308) formed in the middle of the base (307) form threaded positioning connection, and the tail ends of the positioning bolt rods (309) are distributed in a conical shape.
6. The automatic recording device for the number of dynamic contact hammer according to claim 1, wherein: the scale positioning mechanism (4) comprises a fixing frame (401), a middle left groove (402) is formed in the middle of the fixing frame (401), fixing blocks (403) are fixed on the inner walls of the two sides of the middle left groove (402), and a laser instrument (404) is installed on the inner side of each fixing block (403).
7. The automatic recording device for the number of dynamic contact hammer according to claim 6, wherein: the laser instrument (404), the fixed block (403) and the fixing frame (401) are connected, and the laser instrument (404) and the fixed block (403) are symmetrically distributed along the central axis of the fixing frame (401).
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