CN109015348B - Integrally-formed oil return hole machining-free guider - Google Patents

Integrally-formed oil return hole machining-free guider Download PDF

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CN109015348B
CN109015348B CN201810925588.XA CN201810925588A CN109015348B CN 109015348 B CN109015348 B CN 109015348B CN 201810925588 A CN201810925588 A CN 201810925588A CN 109015348 B CN109015348 B CN 109015348B
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The invention discloses an integrally-formed oil return hole machining-free guider which comprises a barrel, an oil outlet flow stopping mechanism and an oil inlet flow stopping mechanism, wherein the oil outlet flow stopping mechanism comprises a first baffle plate, a first supporting block, a first spring and a first supporting rod, one end of the first supporting rod is welded with one side of the first baffle plate, the other end of the first supporting rod penetrates through the first supporting block, the first supporting rod and the first supporting block are movably installed, the first spring is sleeved on the first supporting rod, the first spring is located between the first baffle plate and the first supporting block, the oil inlet flow stopping mechanism comprises a second baffle plate, a second supporting block, a second spring and a second supporting rod, one end of the second supporting rod is welded with one side of the second baffle plate, and the other end of the second supporting rod penetrates through the second supporting block. The guide device is reasonable in design and structure, simple to operate and convenient to use, can automatically lubricate and add lubricating oil, and ensures that the safety performance of the whole guide device is stronger.

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Integrally-formed oil return hole machining-free guider
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of guides, in particular to an integrally-formed oil return hole machining-free guide.
Background
The guider plays the limiting displacement of direction, guarantees that motion can realize doing reciprocating motion in the confined range, and current guider does not have fine self-oiling lubrication for the guider consumes lubricating oil in frequent reciprocating motion, consequently needs the manual work to add, but manual work adds untimely and causes the guider to damage easily, consequently needs the guider that can add lubricating oil by oneself to solve above-mentioned problem.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the defects that the existing guider is easy to lack oil and wear and can not automatically add lubricating oil, and provides an integrally-formed oil return hole machining-free guider.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
an integrally-formed oil return hole machining-free guider comprises a cylinder body, an oil outlet flow stopping mechanism and an oil inlet flow stopping mechanism;
the oil outlet flow stopping mechanism comprises a first baffle, a first supporting block, a first spring and a first supporting rod, one end of the first supporting rod is welded with one side of the first baffle, the other end of the first supporting rod penetrates through the first supporting block, the first supporting rod and the first supporting block are movably mounted, the first spring is sleeved on the first supporting rod, and the first spring is located between the first baffle and the first supporting block;
the oil inlet flow stopping mechanism comprises a second baffle, a second supporting block, a second spring and a second supporting rod, one end of the second supporting rod is welded to one side of the second baffle, the other end of the second supporting rod penetrates through the second supporting block, the second supporting rod and the second supporting block are movably mounted, the second spring is sleeved on the second supporting rod, the second spring is located between the second baffle and the second supporting block, the mounting block is mounted at the bottom end of the barrel in an embedded mode, a first mounting groove is formed in the top end of the mounting block and communicated with the barrel, the second supporting block is welded to the inner wall of the first mounting groove, a plurality of overflow holes are formed in the second supporting block and the first supporting block, a first connecting hole is formed in the inner wall of the bottom end of the first mounting groove, the second baffle abuts against the first connecting hole, and the second baffle blocks the first connecting hole.
Preferably, the bottom circumference outer wall cover of barrel is equipped with deposits oil ring, and it is the cavity structure to deposit oil ring, deposit oil ring's bottom one side and seted up the second mounting groove, first supporting block welds in the inner wall of second mounting groove, and the top inner wall of second mounting groove set up with deposit the round mouth of oil ring interior intercommunication, and first baffle plugs up the round mouth, and the second intercommunicating pore has been seted up to one side of second mounting groove, and there is the capping bottom of second mounting groove through screw fixed mounting.
Preferably, the third mounting groove has been seted up to the bottom outer wall of barrel, and the inside movable mounting of third mounting groove has a piston, and piston fixedly connected with ejector pin, in the one end of ejector pin extended to the barrel, the one end fixedly connected with roof of barrel, the body of rod cover of ejector pin is equipped with the third spring, the conducting hole has all been seted up to the both sides of third mounting groove, the conducting hole communicates with first intercommunicating pore and second intercommunicating pore respectively.
Preferably, the top end of the cylinder body is fixedly provided with an end cover through a bolt, the middle part of the end cover is provided with a guide sleeve in an interference fit mode, and the guide sleeve penetrates through a guide rod.
Preferably, one end of the guide rod is located in the cylinder, a sliding block is fixedly mounted at one end of the guide rod, and the sliding block is in sliding contact with the inner wall of the cylinder.
Preferably, two penetration holes are formed in the block body of the sliding block, and the penetration holes are located on two sides of the guide rod.
Preferably, the top end of the oil storage ring is provided with an oil filling opening, and the oil filling opening is plugged by an oil stop plug.
Preferably, the bottom end of the cylinder body is fixedly provided with a sealing cover plate through a screw, and the top end of the sealing cover plate blocks the opening of the third mounting groove.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. through the structure designed at the bottom of the guider, the sliding block can contact with the top plate to perform compression movement when the sliding block moves, so that lubricating oil in the oil storage ring is added into the guider, the self-lubricating function is realized, the safety of the whole guider can be ensured, the lubricating oil does not need to be added into the guider frequently, and the labor intensity is reduced;
2. the oil can be stably injected into the guider in a manner similar to an injector by the oil outlet flow stopping mechanism and the oil inlet flow stopping mechanism;
this project organization is reasonable, easy operation, and convenient to use can lubricate the interpolation lubricating oil by oneself, guarantees that whole director security performance is stronger.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional front view of a machining-free guider for an integrally formed oil return hole according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a first third spring mounting structure of a non-machining guider for an integrally formed oil return hole according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged schematic view of a portion A of the integrally formed oil return hole machining-free guider according to the present invention;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged schematic view of a portion B of the integrally formed oil return hole machining-free guider according to the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a second third spring mounting structure of the integrally formed oil return hole machining-free pilot according to the present invention;
fig. 6 is a schematic view of a top cross-sectional mounting structure of an oil ring of an integrally formed oil return hole machining-free guider according to the present invention.
In the figure: the device comprises a cylinder body 1, a guide rod 2, an end cover 3, a guide sleeve 4, a penetration hole 5, an oil storage ring 6, a sliding block 7, a top plate 8, a push rod 9, a third spring 10, a piston 11, a through hole 12, an installation block 13, a sealing cover plate 14, a second supporting block 15, a second supporting rod 16, a second spring 17, a second baffle 18, a first baffle 19, a first spring 20, a first supporting block 21 and a first supporting rod 22.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments.
Referring to fig. 1-6, the integrally formed oil return hole machining-free guider comprises a cylinder body 1, an oil outlet flow stopping mechanism and an oil inlet flow stopping mechanism;
the oil outlet flow stopping mechanism comprises a first baffle plate 19, a first supporting block 21, a first spring 20 and a first supporting rod 22, one end of the first supporting rod 22 is welded with one side of the first baffle plate 19, the other end of the first supporting rod 22 penetrates through the first supporting block 21, the first supporting rod 22 and the first supporting block 21 are movably installed, the first spring 20 is sleeved on the first supporting rod 22, and the first spring 20 is located between the first baffle plate 19 and the first supporting block 21;
the oil inlet and flow stopping mechanism comprises a second baffle plate 18, a second supporting block 15, a second spring 17 and a second supporting rod 16, one end of the second supporting rod 16 is welded with one side of the second baffle plate 18, the other end of the second supporting rod 16 passes through the second supporting block 15, the second supporting rod 16 and the second supporting block 15 are movably installed, the second spring 17 is sleeved on the second supporting rod 16, the second spring 17 is positioned between the second baffle 18 and the second supporting block 15, the bottom end of the barrel body 1 is embedded and installed with the installation block 13, the top end of the installation block 13 is provided with a first installation groove which is communicated with the barrel body 1, the second supporting block 15 is welded with the inner wall of the first installation groove, and a plurality of overflow holes have all been seted up to second supporting shoe 15 and first supporting shoe 21, and first through-hole has been seted up to the bottom inner wall of first mounting groove, and the top of second baffle 18 is on first through-hole, and first through-hole is plugged up to second baffle 18.
In this embodiment 1, an oil storage ring 6 is sleeved on an outer wall of the circumference of the bottom end of a barrel 1, the oil storage ring 6 is of a cavity structure, a second mounting groove is formed in one side of the bottom end of the oil storage ring 6, a first supporting block 21 is welded to an inner wall of the second mounting groove, a round opening communicated with the inside of the oil storage ring 6 is formed in an inner wall of the top end of the second mounting groove, a first baffle 19 blocks the round opening, a second communicating hole is formed in one side of the second mounting groove, a groove cover is fixedly mounted at the bottom end of the second mounting groove through a screw, and the first baffle 19 and the second baffle 18 are used for preventing oil from leaking when the barrel is not used, so that the safety of a mechanism;
the outer wall of the bottom end of the cylinder body 1 is provided with a third mounting groove, a piston 11 is movably mounted inside the third mounting groove, the piston 11 is fixedly connected with an ejector rod 9, one end of the ejector rod 9 extends into the cylinder body 1, one end of the cylinder body 1 is fixedly connected with a top plate 8, a third spring 10 is sleeved on a rod body of the ejector rod 9, conducting holes 12 are formed in two sides of the third mounting groove, the conducting holes 12 are respectively communicated with a first communicating hole and a second communicating hole, the piston 11 is used for pressing down to extrude oil into a guider from an oil inlet flow stopping mechanism and sucking the oil out from an oil outlet flow stopping mechanism when moving up, the first communicating hole and the second communicating hole are integrally formed by casting, and no precision requirement exists during machining, so that a machining-free form is adopted;
an end cover 3 is fixedly arranged at the top end of the barrel 1 through a bolt, a guide sleeve 4 is arranged in the middle of the end cover 3 in an interference fit mode, a guide rod 2 penetrates through the guide sleeve 4, and the guide sleeve 4 is used for ensuring that the guide rod 2 is reduced in abrasion;
one end of the guide rod 2 is positioned in the cylinder body 1, one end of the guide rod 2 is fixedly provided with a sliding block 7, the sliding block 7 is in sliding contact with the inner wall of the cylinder body 1, and the sliding block 7 plays a role in supporting and ensures that the guide rod 2 is not damaged;
two penetration holes 5 are formed in the block body of the sliding block 7, the penetration holes 5 are located on two sides of the guide rod 2, and the penetration holes 5 are used for ensuring that oil can be smeared on the whole wall body of the cylinder body 1 when the sliding block 7 moves;
an oil filling port is formed at the top end of the oil storage ring 6 and is plugged by an oil stop plug;
a sealing cover plate 14 is fixedly installed at the bottom end of the cylinder body 1 through a screw, and the top end of the sealing cover plate 14 blocks the opening of the third installation groove;
the other end of the guide rod 2 is used for connecting with peripheral equipment, the first installation mode of the third spring 10 is that the third spring 10 is arranged in the cylinder body 1, as shown in fig. 2, the third spring 10 is arranged between the top plate 8 and the inner wall of the bottom end of the cylinder body 1, when the guide rod 2 pushes the slide block 7, the slide block 7 is contacted with the top plate 8 and pressed downwards, so that the top plate 8 overcomes the third spring 10, the piston 11 moves downwards, the piston 11 enters oil into the first installation groove through the through hole 12 and the first communication hole, the oil pushes the second baffle plate 18, so that the oil enters the cylinder body 1, as the oil can not push the first baffle plate 19 reversely in the second installation groove, the oil can only enter the cylinder body 1, when the piston 11 moves upwards, the piston 11 starts to pump oil, under the action of pressure, the oil in the oil storage ring 6 pushes the first baffle plate 19, so as to enter the third installation groove through the second communication hole and the through hole 12 for storage, the oil is not sucked out of the cylinder 1 due to the restriction of the second baffle 18.
In the embodiment 2, the operation mode of the whole guider is the same as that of the embodiment 1, and the only difference is that the installation mode of the third spring 10 is different, as shown in fig. 5, when the third spring 10 is located in the third installation groove, the other end of the push rod 9 passes through the sealing cover plate 14 and extends to the lower part of the sealing cover plate 14, the third spring 10 is located between the piston 11 and the sealing cover plate 14, and the push rod 9 is slidably installed with the sealing cover plate 14.
The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art should be considered to be within the technical scope of the present invention, and the technical solutions and the inventive concepts thereof according to the present invention should be equivalent or changed within the scope of the present invention.

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1. An integrally-formed oil return hole machining-free guider comprises a cylinder body (1), and is characterized by further comprising an oil outlet flow stopping mechanism and an oil inlet flow stopping mechanism;
the oil outlet flow stopping mechanism comprises a first baffle plate (19), a first supporting block (21), a first spring (20) and a first supporting rod (22), one end of the first supporting rod (22) is welded with one side of the first baffle plate (19), the other end of the first supporting rod (22) penetrates through the first supporting block (21), the first supporting rod (22) and the first supporting block (21) are movably mounted, the first spring (20) is sleeved on the first supporting rod (22), and the first spring (20) is located between the first baffle plate (19) and the first supporting block (21);
the oil inlet flow stopping mechanism comprises a second baffle (18), a second supporting block (15), a second spring (17) and a second supporting rod (16), one end of the second supporting rod (16) is welded with one side of the second baffle (18), the other end of the second supporting rod (16) penetrates through the second supporting block (15), the second supporting rod (16) is movably mounted with the second supporting block (15), the second spring (17) is sleeved on the second supporting rod (16), the second spring (17) is located between the second baffle (18) and the second supporting block (15), a mounting block (13) is embedded at the bottom end of the barrel body (1), a first mounting groove is formed in the top end of the mounting block (13) and communicated with the barrel body (1), the second supporting block (15) is welded with the inner wall of the first mounting groove, and a plurality of overflow holes are formed in the second supporting block (15) and the first supporting block (21), a first through hole is formed in the inner wall of the bottom end of the first mounting groove, the second baffle (18) is propped against the first through hole, and the first through hole is blocked by the second baffle (18);
the third mounting groove has been seted up to the bottom outer wall of barrel (1), and the inside movable mounting of third mounting groove has piston (11), piston (11) fixedly connected with ejector pin (9), and in the one end of ejector pin (9) extended to barrel (1), the one end fixedly connected with roof (8) of barrel (1), the body of rod cover of ejector pin (9) is equipped with third spring (10), conducting hole (12) have all been seted up to the both sides of third mounting groove, conducting hole (12) communicate with first intercommunicating hole and second intercommunicating hole respectively.
2. The integrated oil return hole machining-free guide device according to claim 1, wherein an oil storage ring (6) is sleeved on an outer wall of the circumference of the bottom end of the cylinder body (1), the oil storage ring (6) is of a cavity structure, a second mounting groove is formed in one side of the bottom end of the oil storage ring (6), the first supporting block (21) is welded on an inner wall of the second mounting groove, a round opening communicated with the inside of the oil storage ring (6) is formed in an inner wall of the top end of the second mounting groove, the round opening is blocked by the first baffle (19), a second communicating hole is formed in one side of the second mounting groove, and a groove cover is fixedly mounted at the bottom end of the second mounting groove through screws.
3. The integrally formed oil return hole machining-free guider according to claim 1, wherein an end cover (3) is fixedly installed at the top end of the cylinder (1) through a bolt, a guide sleeve (4) is installed in the middle of the end cover (3) in an interference mode, and a guide rod (2) penetrates through the guide sleeve (4).
4. The integrally formed oil return hole machining-free guide device according to claim 3, wherein one end of the guide rod (2) is located in the cylinder (1), one end of the guide rod (2) is fixedly provided with a sliding block (7), and the sliding block (7) is in sliding contact with the inner wall of the cylinder (1).
5. The integrated oil return hole machining-free guide device according to claim 4, wherein the block body of the sliding block (7) is provided with two penetrating holes (5), and the penetrating holes (5) are positioned on two sides of the guide rod (2).
6. The one-piece oil return hole machining-free guider according to claim 2, wherein an oil filling opening is formed at the top end of the oil storage ring (6), and the oil filling opening is plugged by an oil stopping plug.
7. The one-piece oil return hole machining-free guider according to claim 1, wherein a sealing cover plate (14) is fixedly installed at the bottom end of the cylinder body (1) through a screw, and the top end of the sealing cover plate (14) blocks the opening of the third installation groove.
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