Material circulation conveying mechanism
Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of material conveying equipment, in particular to a material circulating conveying mechanism.
Background
In the field of modern automatic production, material conveying is a vital link in a production line, and materials are conveyed to each station through a conveying belt to finish corresponding treatment. In current material handling systems, it is conventional to place material on trays which are then transported from one location to another by conveyor belts. The method can effectively complete the transportation task of the materials, however, with the rapid development of industry, the requirements on production efficiency and space utilization rate are increasingly improved, and the existing method for conveying the material carrying tray by using the conveying belt has the defects that firstly, the traditional tray is required to be matched with manual or special equipment to complete material unloading, the auxiliary operation time and the labor cost are increased, secondly, the empty tray circulation usually depends on the layout of the annular conveying belt, so that a return path occupies a larger space, and compact design of a production line is restricted.
In addition, the existing chain transmission system mostly adopts a rigid connection structure of a carrier and a chain, so that the transmission chain is required to provide traction power while bearing the weight of materials. This dual load mode not only exacerbates wear and deformation of the chain, but also shortens the service life of the drive train due to the long term effects of vertical loads. And the fixed connection mode limits the autonomous separation capacity of the carrier at the tail end of the conveying path, so that the system is forced to rely on a complex pneumatic or mechanical mechanism to realize the recovery of the material tray, and the complexity of equipment and the risk of faults are further increased.
Disclosure of utility model
Aiming at the problems in the prior art, the utility model provides a material circulating and conveying mechanism with a linear direct conveying framework, which improves the production efficiency and optimizes the space utilization.
The material circulating and conveying mechanism comprises a material transmission device and a material carrier, wherein the material transmission device comprises two groups of parallel chain transmission components, each group of chain transmission components comprises two or more chain wheels and a transmission chain connected with the chain wheels, and the chain wheels of the two groups of chain transmission components at corresponding positions are connected through transmission shafts to realize synchronous transmission;
The material carrier comprises a plurality of parallel strip-shaped bearing strips, two ends of each strip-shaped bearing strip are respectively connected with a carrier traction chain through connecting seats, a gap is arranged between two adjacent connecting seats on the same side, carrier moving guide rails are symmetrically arranged parallel to the direction of the chain transmission assembly, and the carrier traction chains are in sliding fit with the carrier moving guide rails;
The driving chain is provided with a deflector rod at equal intervals, the arrangement interval of the deflector rod is matched with the gap between the connecting seats, the deflector rod is inserted into the gap between two adjacent connecting seats and contacts with the connecting seats, and the driving chain drives the material carrier to move along the carrier moving guide rail through the deflector rod when in operation.
Further, a plurality of material positioning grooves are uniformly distributed on the strip-shaped bearing strip along the length direction.
Further, guide rail grooves are formed in the opposite faces of the two carrier moving guide rails, and one side, back to the strip-shaped bearing strip, of the carrier traction chain is located in the guide rail grooves.
Further, a chain guide rail is arranged on the side, facing away from the material carrier, of the travelling path of the transmission chain, the deflector rod is fixedly connected to the outer surface of a chain plate, facing the material carrier, of the transmission chain, and the back side of the transmission chain is embedded in a guide groove of the chain guide rail.
Further, one of the transmission shafts is in transmission connection with the output end of the driving device.
Further, a group of material transmission devices are respectively arranged at the starting end and the stopping end of the circulating conveying path, an intermediate guide rail is connected between the two groups of material transmission devices, the intermediate guide rail adopts a guide structure with the same specification as the carrier moving guide rail, and two ends of the intermediate guide rail are respectively in seamless butt joint with the carrier moving guide rail at the starting end and the stopping end, so that a continuous closed-loop guide rail channel is formed between the two groups of material transmission devices, and the design of the length of the intermediate guide rail and the number of the material carriers is as follows:
When the starting end material transmission device pushes the tail end material carrier to enter the middle guide rail, the front end surface of the material carrier is in rigid abutting connection with the tail end of the carrier array on the middle rail, the material carrier newly entering the middle guide rail is pushed to integrally move towards the stopping end through the abutting force under the continuous pushing of the starting end material transmission device, the material carrier at the head end of the array is enabled to move to the stopping end carrier moving guide rail, and a deflector rod of the stopping end material transmission device is inserted into a gap of a material carrier connecting seat one by one along with the operation of a transmission chain, so that transmission connection is established with the material carrier, and the circulation power transition is completed.
The utility model has the beneficial effects that:
(1) According to the utility model, materials are directly placed in the grooves of the strip-shaped bearing strips, the traditional material tray is omitted, the material carrier is formed by adopting a mode of connecting a plurality of parallel strip-shaped bearing strips through a carrier traction chain, so that the material carrier can move along with a chain transmission assembly, and the material can be automatically discharged by overturning the carrier;
(2) The direct rigid connection of the material carrier and the transmission chain is canceled, the transmission chain and the material carrier are dynamically coupled in a contact mode, the transmission chain only provides horizontal thrust, the material carrier and the weight of the material are transmitted to the frame through the carrier traction chain and the carrier moving guide rail, the transmission chain is prevented from bearing vertical load, abrasion is reduced, the service life of the chain is prolonged, and meanwhile, a foundation is provided for automatic separation of the material carrier and the transmission chain.
Drawings
Fig. 1 is a schematic overall structure of embodiment 1 of the present utility model.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged schematic view of a portion of fig. 1 at a.
Fig. 3 is a schematic view of the structure of the strip-shaped carrier strip of the present utility model.
Fig. 4 is a schematic view of the material carrier and carrier moving rail and the matching of the transmission chain and the chain rail.
Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of another view of fig. 4.
Fig. 6 is a schematic overall structure of embodiment 2 of the present utility model.
In the figure, a chain wheel 1, a transmission chain 2, a deflector rod 201, a transmission shaft 3, a material carrier 4, a strip-shaped bearing strip 401, a material positioning groove 402, a connecting seat 403, a carrier traction chain 404, a carrier moving guide rail 5, a chain guide rail 6 and a middle guide rail 7 are shown.
Detailed Description
The present utility model will be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which preferred embodiments are shown, for the purpose of illustrating the utility model, but the scope of the utility model is not limited to the specific embodiments shown.
Example 1
As shown in fig. 1, the material circulation conveying mechanism of the embodiment comprises a material transmission device and a material carrier 4, wherein the material transmission device comprises two groups of parallel chain transmission components, each group of chain transmission components comprises two chain wheels 1 and a transmission chain 2 connected with the chain wheels 1, the chain wheels 1 of the two groups of chain transmission components at corresponding positions are connected through transmission shafts 3 to realize synchronous transmission, and one transmission shaft 3 is in transmission connection with the output end of the driving device.
As shown in fig. 2-5, the material carrier 4 includes a plurality of parallel arranged strip-shaped bearing bars 401, two ends of the strip-shaped bearing bars 401 are respectively connected with carrier traction chains 404 through connecting seats 403, a gap is arranged between two adjacent connecting seats 403 on the same side, carrier moving guide rails 5 are symmetrically arranged parallel to the direction of the chain transmission assembly, and the carrier traction chains 404 are in sliding fit with the carrier moving guide rails 5. The driving links 2 are equidistantly provided with the driving rods 201, the arrangement intervals of the driving rods 201 are matched with the gaps of the connecting seats 403, the driving rods 201 are inserted into the gaps between two adjacent connecting seats 403 and are contacted with the connecting seats 403, and when the driving links 2 run, the driving rods 201 push the material carriers 4 to move along the carrier moving guide rails 5.
In the technical scheme of the embodiment, the motion guiding of the material carrier 4 is realized through the cooperation of the carrier traction chain 404 and the carrier moving guide rail 5, and the power transmission is completed through the clearance cooperation of the transmission chain 2, the deflector rod 201 and the connecting seat 403. The material carrier 4 adopts the combination of a plurality of parallel strip-shaped carrying bars 401 and a carrier traction chain 404, so that the material carrier 4 can circularly run along with the transmission chain 2, thereby eliminating the extra path required by the return stroke and improving the space utilization rate.
In this embodiment, in order to realize the limitation of the carried material, a plurality of material positioning grooves 402 are uniformly distributed on the strip-shaped carrying bar 401 along the length direction.
Referring to fig. 2 and 4, in the present embodiment, two opposite sides of the carrier moving rail 5 are provided with rail grooves, and one side of the carrier traction chain 404 facing away from the strip-shaped carrier bar 401 is located in the rail grooves, and forms a low-resistance sliding pair with the rail grooves through chain rollers.
Referring to fig. 2 and 4, in order to improve the motion stability of the driving chain 2, a chain guide rail 6 is disposed on the side of the driving chain 2 running path facing away from the material carrier 4, a deflector 201 is fixedly connected to the outer surface of the driving chain 2 facing the material carrier 4, and the back side of the driving chain 2 is embedded in a guide groove of the chain guide rail 6. Constraint and support are provided for movement of the drive chain 2 by the chain guide 6.
In this embodiment, one of the transmission shafts 3 is driven to rotate by an external power device, so as to drive the sprocket 1 and the transmission chain 2 to perform a circulating operation. When the transmission chain 2 operates, the deflector rod 201 is inserted into a gap between two adjacent connecting seats 403 of the material carrier 4 and contacts with the connecting seats 403, so that the material carrier 4 is driven to move along the carrier moving guide rail 5. The material carrier 4 is matched with a feeding mechanism at the initial end of the upper-layer running section to finish feeding, when the material carrier 4 moves to the tail end of the carrier moving guide rail 5, overturning occurs along the track of the carrier moving guide rail 5, the loaded material is separated from the material carrier 4 by gravity to finish automatic discharging, and the material carrier 4 continuously rotates along the lower layer of the carrier moving guide rail 5, so that circulating conveying is repeatedly realized.
Example 2
As shown in fig. 6, the difference between this embodiment and embodiment 1 is that a group of material driving devices are respectively configured at the starting end and the ending end of the circulation conveying path, a middle guide rail 7 is connected between the two groups of material driving devices, the middle guide rail 7 adopts a guide structure with the same specification as the carrier moving guide rail 5, and two ends of the middle guide rail 7 respectively realize seamless butt joint with the carrier moving guide rail 5 at the starting end and the ending end, thereby forming a continuous closed-loop guide rail channel between the two groups of material driving devices, and the design of the length of the middle guide rail 7 and the number of the material carriers 4 is as follows:
when the starting end material transmission device pushes the tail end material carrier 4 to enter the middle guide rail 7, the front end surface of the material carrier is in rigid abutting connection with the tail end of the carrier array on the middle rail, under the continuous pushing of the starting end material transmission device, the material carrier newly entering the middle guide rail 7 pushes the whole front carrier array to move towards the stopping end through abutting force, and the material carrier at the head end of the array moves to the stopping end carrier moving guide rail 5, and the deflector rod 201 of the stopping end material transmission device is inserted into the gap of the material carrier connecting seat 403 one by one along with the running of the transmission chain 2, so that transmission connection is established with the material carrier, and the circulating power transition is completed. The power transmission mechanism of the return section is the same. The design not only prolongs the conveying distance and improves the expansibility, but also reduces the number of driving points by the indirect thrust transmission of the carrier for the unpowered section in the middle section.
In this embodiment, a large circulation path of the material carriers 4 is formed by the intermediate guide rail 7 and the carrier moving guide rails 5 at the two ends, the material circulation conveying mechanism is provided with a plurality of groups of material carriers 4, by reasonably setting the length of the intermediate guide rail 7 and the number of the material carriers 4, the material carriers 4 in the upper running section of the starting end are transferred from the carrier moving guide rail 5 to the intermediate guide rail 7 under the pushing of the deflector rod 201 on the transmission chain 2, and are separated from the deflector rod 201 at the starting end, meanwhile, the material carriers 4 arranged on the intermediate guide rail 7 are pushed to move forwards, the material carriers 4 on the intermediate guide rail 7 close to the ending end are pushed to contact with the deflector rod 201 on the transmission chain 2 at the ending end under the pushing of the previous material carriers 4, then are pushed to the lower return section by the material transmission device at the ending end, and the material carriers 4 on the intermediate guide rail 7 in the lower return section are pushed to move towards the starting end, so that one material carrier 4 in the return section of the intermediate guide rail 7 close to the starting end contacts with the deflector rod 201 on the transmission chain 2 at the starting end, and the circulation running section is realized again.
Many modifications and other embodiments of the utility model will come to mind to one skilled in the art to which this utility model pertains having the benefit of the teachings presented in the foregoing descriptions and the associated drawings. Therefore, it is to be understood that the utility models are not to be limited to the specific embodiments disclosed and that modifications and other embodiments are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims. Although specific terms are employed herein, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation.