CN111646126B - Feeding device of efficient environment-friendly conveyor - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides a feeding device of a high-efficiency environment-friendly conveyor. Feed arrangement of high-efficient environmental protection conveyer includes cavity round platform and feed mechanism, the equal fixed mounting of both sides wall that the cavity round platform is close to the top has the fixed plate, and set up threaded through-hole on the fixed plate, the sleeve pipe is installed to the cavity round platform, and the lateral wall that the cavity round platform is close to the bottom sets up the relief hole that a plurality of annular set up, feed mechanism passes through link and bushing, and feed mechanism includes the feeder hopper, slip pipe and reposition of redundant personnel ball, the bottom fixed mounting of feeder hopper has the slip pipe of perpendicular setting, and the bottom of slip pipe passes the sleeve pipe and extends to in the cavity round platform, reposition of redundant personnel ball passes through the connection piece and the extension port fixed connection of slip pipe. The feeding device of the efficient environment-friendly conveyor provided by the invention has the advantages of uniform feeding and reduction of vibration amplitude generated by feeding.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of screw conveyors, in particular to a feeding device of an efficient environment-friendly conveyor.
Background
The screw conveyer is a machine which utilizes a motor to drive a screw to rotate and push materials so as to realize the conveying purpose. The conveying device can convey horizontally, obliquely or vertically, and has the advantages of simple structure, small cross section area, good sealing property, convenience in operation, easiness in maintenance, convenience in closed transportation and the like. The spiral conveyor is divided into a shaft spiral conveyor and a shaftless spiral conveyor in the conveying form, and is divided into a U-shaped spiral conveyor and a tubular spiral conveyor in the appearance. The screw conveyer can be widely used in various industries such as mine, electric power, metallurgy, chemical industry, building materials and the like. The conveying device is mainly used for conveying powdery, granular and small blocky materials, such as coal, carbon black, soda ash, reclaimed rubber powder, zinc oxide, calcium carbonate, small blocks of coal and the like.
When the existing screw conveyor is used for conveying granular raw materials, the phenomenon that the feeding of the screw conveyor is interrupted or the raw material granules are excessive at the moment is easily caused due to uneven feeding amount of the screw conveyor.
Therefore, it is necessary to provide a feeding device of an efficient and environment-friendly conveyor to solve the above technical problems.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a feeding device of a high-efficiency environment-friendly conveyor, which has the advantages of uniform feeding and reduction of vibration amplitude generated by feeding.
In order to solve the technical problem, the feeding device of the high-efficiency environment-friendly conveyor provided by the invention comprises: the top of the hollow circular truncated cone is fixedly provided with a sleeve which is mutually communicated with a feed inlet of the hollow circular truncated cone, and the side wall of the hollow circular truncated cone, which is close to the bottom, is provided with a plurality of annularly arranged discharge holes; feed mechanism, feed mechanism pass through link and bushing, and feed mechanism includes feeder hopper, slip pipe and reposition of redundant personnel ball, and the bottom fixed mounting of feeder hopper has the slip pipe of perpendicular setting, and the bottom of slip pipe passes the sleeve pipe and extends to in the cavity round platform, and the reposition of redundant personnel ball passes through the connection piece and the extension port fixed connection of slip pipe.
Preferably, the link includes fixed cover, connecting rod and solid fixed ring, and fixed cover is fixed to be cup jointed on the sleeve pipe, and solid fixed ring cover is established on the slip pipe and with slip pipe sliding connection, through the connecting rod fixed connection of many annular settings between fixed cover and the solid fixed ring, wears to have the spring on the slip pipe.
Preferably, the one end of spring and the bottom fixed connection of feeder hopper, and the other end of spring and the upper surface fixed connection of solid fixed ring avoid the spring compression to take place to beat along the slip pipe after releasing in the twinkling of an eye.
Preferably, the inner bottom wall of the hollow circular truncated cone is fixedly provided with a conical block, and a conical head of the conical block corresponds to the sleeve.
Preferably, the two side walls of the hollow circular truncated cone close to the top are fixedly provided with fixing plates, the fixing plates are provided with threaded through holes, and the fixing plates are conveniently fixed on the two side wall mounting frames of the feed inlet of the screw conveyor by screws.
Preferably, a plurality of discharging gaps are reserved between the flow dividing ball and the extending port of the sliding pipe, so that raw material particles can be uniformly divided.
Compared with the related art, the feeding device of the high-efficiency environment-friendly conveyor provided by the invention has the following beneficial effects:
(1) according to the invention, raw material particles are divided by the conical block, so that the raw material particles are dispersed to each corner of the hollow round table and enter the feed port of the screw conveyer from the corresponding discharge hole, and the raw material particles entering the feed port of the screw conveyer are uniformly dispersed, so that the phenomenon that the feeding of the screw conveyer is interrupted or the raw material particles are excessive instantly due to uneven feeding amount is avoided;
(2) according to the invention, raw material particles enter the sliding pipe and then contact the shunt ball, so that the sliding pipe is driven to slide downwards along the fixed ring and the sleeve, the spring on the sliding pipe is compressed, the amplitude of the whole feeding mechanism is reduced, and the stability during feeding is improved.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a feeding device of an efficient and environmentally friendly conveyor according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic view of the internal structure of the hollow circular truncated cone shown in fig. 1.
Reference numbers in the figures: 1. hollow round table, 2, sleeve pipe, 3, link, 31, fixed cover, 32, connecting rod, 33, fixed ring, 4, feed mechanism, 41, feeder hopper, 42, sliding tube, 43, reposition of redundant personnel ball, 5, spring, 6, relief hole, 7, conical block, 8, fixed plate.
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The invention is further described with reference to the following figures and embodiments.
Referring to fig. 1 and fig. 2, fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a feeding device of an efficient and environmentally friendly conveyor according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention; fig. 2 is a schematic view of the internal structure of the hollow circular truncated cone shown in fig. 1. The feed arrangement of high-efficient environmental protection conveyer includes: a hollow round table 1 and a feeding mechanism 4.
In the specific implementation process, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, two side walls of the hollow circular truncated cone 1 near the top are fixedly provided with a fixing plate 8, the fixing plate 8 is provided with a threaded through hole, the top of the hollow circular truncated cone 1 is fixedly provided with a sleeve 2 communicated with a feed inlet of the hollow circular truncated cone 1, the side wall of the hollow circular truncated cone 1 near the bottom is provided with a plurality of discharge holes 6 arranged annularly, the feed mechanism 4 is connected with the sleeve 2 through a connecting frame 3, the feed mechanism 4 comprises a feed hopper 41, a sliding tube 42 and a flow dividing ball 43, the bottom of the feed hopper 41 is fixedly provided with a vertically arranged sliding tube 42, the bottom of the sliding tube 42 passes through the sleeve 2 and extends into the hollow circular truncated cone 1, the flow dividing ball 43 is fixedly connected with an extending port of the sliding tube 42 through a connecting piece, a discharge gap is left between the flow dividing ball 43 and the extending port of the sliding tube 42, a plurality of inner bottom walls of the hollow circular truncated cone 1 are fixedly provided with conical blocks 7, and the conical head of the conical block 7 and the sleeve 2 correspond to each other.
It should be noted that: insert and establish to the screw conveyer feed inlet with hollow round platform 1 bottom, and utilize the screw to fix fixed plate 8 on the both sides wall mounting bracket of screw conveyer feed inlet, make it enter into hollow round platform 1 through multichannel row material space from feeder hopper 41 with raw material particle, consequently evenly distributed flows on falling the toper piece 7, in the reposition of redundant personnel through toper piece 7, thereby raw material particle disperses to each corner of hollow round platform 1, and enter into the screw conveyer feed inlet from corresponding relief hole 6, make and enter into the interior raw material particle dispersion of screw conveyer feed inlet even, be difficult for because the feed quantity is uneven and cause the screw conveyer pay-off to appear interrupting or the too much phenomenon of raw material particle in the twinkling of an eye.
Referring to fig. 1, the connecting frame 3 includes a fixing sleeve 31, a connecting rod 32 and a fixing ring 33, the fixing sleeve 31 is fixedly sleeved on the sleeve 2, the fixing ring 33 is sleeved on the sliding tube 42 and slidably connected with the sliding tube 42, the fixing sleeve 31 and the fixing ring 33 are fixedly connected through a plurality of annularly arranged connecting rods 32, the sliding tube 42 is penetrated with a spring 5, one end of the spring 5 is fixedly connected with the bottom of the feeding hopper 41, and the other end of the spring 5 is fixedly connected with the upper surface of the fixing ring 33.
It should be noted that: the raw material particles enter the sliding tube 42 and then contact the shunting ball 43, so that the sliding tube 42 is driven to slide downwards along the fixed ring 33 and the sleeve 2, the spring 5 on the sliding tube 42 is compressed, the amplitude of the whole feeding mechanism 4 is reduced, and the stability during feeding is improved.
The working principle of the feeding device of the high-efficiency environment-friendly conveyor provided by the invention is as follows:
the bottom of a hollow circular truncated cone 1 is inserted into a feed port of a screw conveyor, a fixing plate 8 is fixed on two side wall mounting frames of the feed port of the screw conveyor by screws, raw material particles enter the hollow circular truncated cone 1 from a feed hopper 41 through a plurality of discharge gaps, the raw material particles enter a sliding tube 42 and then contact a diversion ball 43, so that the sliding tube 42 is driven to slide downwards along a fixing ring 33 and a sleeve 2, a spring 5 on the sliding tube 42 is compressed, the amplitude of the whole feeding mechanism 4 is reduced, the stability during feeding is improved, the diversion ball 43 enables the raw material particles to uniformly distribute and flow down onto a conical block 7, the raw material particles are distributed by the conical block 7, and then are dispersed to each corner of the hollow circular truncated cone 1 and enter the feed port of the screw conveyor from a corresponding discharge hole 6, so that the raw material particles entering the feed port of the screw conveyor are uniformly dispersed, the phenomenon that the feeding of the screw conveyor is interrupted or the raw material particles are excessive at the moment due to uneven feeding amount is not easy to occur.
The above description is only an embodiment of the present invention, and not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all modifications of equivalent structures and equivalent processes, which are made by using the contents of the present specification and the accompanying drawings, or directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields, are included in the scope of the present invention.
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1. A feed arrangement of high-efficient environmental protection conveyer, characterized by includes: the device comprises a hollow circular truncated cone (1), wherein a sleeve (2) communicated with a feed inlet of the hollow circular truncated cone (1) is fixedly installed at the top of the hollow circular truncated cone (1), and a plurality of annularly arranged discharge holes (6) are formed in the side wall, close to the bottom, of the hollow circular truncated cone (1);
the feeding mechanism (4) is connected with the sleeve (2) through the connecting frame (3), the feeding mechanism (4) comprises a feeding hopper (41), a sliding pipe (42) and a shunting ball (43), the sliding pipe (42) which is vertically arranged is fixedly installed at the bottom of the feeding hopper (41), the bottom of the sliding pipe (42) penetrates through the sleeve (2) and extends into the hollow circular truncated cone (1), the shunting ball (43) is fixedly connected with an extending port of the sliding pipe (42) through a connecting sheet,
the connecting frame (3) comprises a fixed sleeve (31), a connecting rod (32) and a fixed ring (33), the fixed sleeve (31) is fixedly sleeved on the sleeve (2), the fixed ring (33) is sleeved on the sliding pipe (42) and is in sliding connection with the sliding pipe (42), the fixed sleeve (31) is fixedly connected with the fixed ring (33) through the connecting rod (32) which is annularly arranged, the sliding pipe (42) is provided with a spring (5) in a penetrating manner,
the inner bottom wall of the hollow circular truncated cone (1) is fixedly provided with a conical block (7), and the conical head of the conical block (7) corresponds to the sleeve (2).
2. The feeding device of the high-efficiency environment-friendly conveyor as claimed in claim 1, wherein one end of the spring (5) is fixedly connected with the bottom of the feeding hopper (41), and the other end of the spring (5) is fixedly connected with the upper surface of the fixing ring (33).
3. The feeding device of the high-efficiency environment-friendly conveyor as claimed in claim 1, wherein two side walls of the hollow circular truncated cone (1) close to the top are fixedly provided with fixing plates (8), and the fixing plates (8) are provided with threaded through holes.
4. The feeding device of the high-efficiency environment-friendly conveyor as claimed in claim 1, wherein a plurality of discharge gaps are reserved between the diversion ball (43) and the extending port of the sliding pipe (42).
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