Coating tabletting device
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of paint processing; in particular to a coating tabletting device.
Background
The powder coating is a polymer composite material, is a current energy-saving, low-pollution, high-efficiency and environment-friendly coating, and has the advantages of one-time film forming, high coating efficiency, corrosion resistance of the surface and the like. The powder coating is prepared by three-stage premixing, fusion and extrusion molding of various raw materials and auxiliary materials, then the raw materials and the auxiliary materials are subjected to tablet forming by a tablet forming device, and then the raw materials and the auxiliary materials are subjected to cooling crushing, grinding and grading screening to obtain the powdery electrostatic spraying material.
The existing coating tabletting device adopts a single-cycle manual operation tabletting device, the device carries out tabletting operation in a production line mode, the tabletting mode is mostly continuously and singly pressed down, after the previous material tabletting is needed to be completed, the next material can be led into the tabletting device for tabletting operation, and then the material input and output are intermittent, so that the tabletting efficiency of the material is greatly reduced, and meanwhile, the device mostly needs manual feeding and material taking of personnel, so that the workload of operators is greatly improved, and the coating tabletting device with automatic feeding and material taking and multichannel continuous tabletting is urgent.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a coating tabletting device.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the present invention provides the following technical solutions: the utility model provides a coating preforming device, includes the base, be fixed with feeding mechanism on the terminal surface under the base, feeding mechanism top is equipped with branch material guiding mechanism, and material feeding unit is fixed in on the base, branch material guiding mechanism below cooperatees with feeding mechanism, and divides material guiding mechanism and base fixed connection, be fixed with the preforming mechanism on the base head end up end, preforming mechanism and feeding mechanism link up and be connected be fixed with on the base head end face and gather the material guide slot, gather material guide slot and cooling material guiding mechanism link up fixed connection, the cooling material guiding mechanism is fixed in the front end of base, and the cooling material guiding mechanism passes through drive mechanism cooperation with feeding mechanism and be connected, branch material guiding mechanism upper end is connected with external raw materials supply equipment.
Further, the transmission mechanism comprises a driving belt pulley and a driving shaft, the driving belt pulley is rotationally fixed on the material conveying mechanism through the driving shaft, the driving belt pulley is rotationally connected with a driven belt pulley through a belt, the driven belt pulley is rotationally fixedly connected with the cooling material guiding mechanism through a driven shaft, and the driven shaft is rotationally fixed on the base through a driven shaft bearing.
Further, the cooling guide mechanism comprises a conveying mechanism and a cooling mechanism, the head end of the conveying mechanism is fixedly connected with the tail end of the material collecting guide groove, the cooling mechanism is fixed above the conveying mechanism, the conveying mechanism is a conveying belt mechanism, an output roller rotating shaft of the conveying belt mechanism is fixedly connected with a driven shaft, and the cooling mechanism adopts a fan cooling mode, namely, the cooling mechanism is formed by parallel combination of a plurality of fans.
Further, the tabletting device comprises a plurality of extrusion springs and a support base, the support base is provided with a plurality of extrusion springs and a plurality of support bases, the support bases are slidably embedded on the base, the upper ends of the support bases are fixedly provided with material placement plates, the lower ends of the support bases are fixedly connected with the upper ends of the extrusion springs, the lower ends of the extrusion springs are fixedly connected with the base, a plurality of pressing and stamping mechanisms are correspondingly matched with the upper sides of the support bases, the pressing and stamping mechanisms are uniformly fixed on fixing frames of the pressing and stamping mechanisms, the fixing frames of the pressing and stamping mechanisms are fixed on the upper end faces of the bases, the pressing and stamping mechanisms are in through connection with a feeding device, and the pressing and stamping mechanisms are in staggered operation.
Further, the pushing down stamping mechanism comprises a pushing down sheet, a pushing down stamping mechanism shell and a piston rod, the pushing down stamping mechanism shell is a top-free and bottom-free hollow shell, two cavities which are separated up and down are formed in the inner side of the pushing down stamping mechanism shell, the lower end of the piston rod is fixedly provided with the pushing down sheet, the upper end of the piston rod penetrates through the lower end of the pushing down stamping mechanism shell to be slidably arranged in the lower cavity of the inner side of the pushing down stamping mechanism shell, the upper end of the piston rod is fixedly provided with a piston, the piston is slidably matched in the lower cavity of the inner side of the pushing down stamping mechanism shell, the upper end of the lower cavity of the pushing down stamping mechanism shell is in through connection with the lower end of a communicating pipe, the upper end of the communicating pipe penetrates through the outer shell of the pushing down stamping mechanism shell and the feeding device, and the upper end of the piston is fixedly provided with a hydraulic telescopic cylinder which is fixedly arranged in the upper cavity of the pushing down stamping mechanism shell.
Further, divide material guiding mechanism to include discharging pipe and guiding mechanism casing, guiding mechanism casing is there is not a hollow cylinder casing in top, evenly distributed has a plurality of discharging pipes on the guiding mechanism casing lateral wall, and a plurality of discharging pipes all are fixed and link up with guiding mechanism casing and be connected, guiding mechanism casing inboard rotates and is fixed with the switching-over core, it is fixed with the inlet pipe to rotate on the switching-over core up end, and the inlet pipe link up with the inside of switching-over core, be equipped with single discharge gate on the switching-over core lateral wall, and the discharge gate link up with the switching-over core inside mutually, the discharge gate links up with the discharging pipe mutually, and the inlet pipe is through switching-over core and discharging pipe mutually, switching-over core lower extreme is fixed with the connecting axle, the connecting axle lower extreme pierces through guiding mechanism casing and intermittent type mechanism, intermittent type mechanism rotates and is fixed in on the base, intermittent type mechanism and guiding driven shaft cooperate, guiding mechanism rotates and is fixed with on the base, and guiding driven shaft is fixed with guiding driven chain gear on the switching-over driven shaft, guiding driven shaft rotates in guiding chain drive chain through guiding gear drive chain and guiding chain drive chain.
Further, the intermittent mechanism comprises an intermittent rotating wheel and an intermittent rotating core, the intermittent rotating wheel is a disc, a plurality of semicircular grooves penetrating through the upper end face and the lower end face of the intermittent rotating wheel are formed in the periphery of the intermittent rotating wheel, a sliding groove penetrating through the upper end face and the lower end face of the intermittent rotating wheel is formed between two adjacent semicircular grooves, the intermittent rotating wheel is fixedly connected with a connecting rotating shaft, the intermittent rotating core is a disc, the intermittent rotating core is matched with the semicircular grooves around the intermittent rotating wheel, a semicircular groove penetrating through the upper end face and the lower end face of the intermittent rotating core is formed in the periphery of the intermittent rotating core, the intermittent rotating core is fixedly connected with a base through a rotating core rotating shaft, the semicircular grooves around the intermittent rotating core are fixedly connected with a fixing rod through a connecting rod, the intermittent rotating core is matched with the sliding groove around the intermittent rotating wheel, the first bevel gear is meshed with a second bevel gear, and the second bevel gear is fixedly connected with a guide driven shaft.
Further, the conveying mechanism comprises a plurality of conveying belts, the conveying belts are arranged in parallel, the conveying belts are driven by a conveying belt driving roller and a conveying belt driven roller, one end of the conveying belt driving roller is fixedly provided with a guide driving chain gear, the other end of the conveying belt driving roller is fixedly connected with a conveying motor output shaft, the conveying motor is fixedly arranged on the base through a conveying motor fixing frame, one end of the conveying belt driven roller is fixedly provided with a driving belt pulley, and the conveying belts, the discharging pipe, the pressing mechanism and the semicircular notch grooves around the intermittent rotating wheel are corresponding in number.
Further, material feeding unit includes pushing away frame and telescopic link, telescopic link one end is fixed with pushing away the frame, and the other end pierces through the hydro-cylinder head end and slides and locate the hydro-cylinder inboard and be fixed with the feeding piston, the hydro-cylinder end link up and is fixed with the pipeline, pipeline and communicating tube link up fixed connection, be equipped with hydraulic oil in the hydro-cylinder.
Further, the working steps of the paint tabletting device are as follows:
1) Connecting a feed pipe of the equipment with external raw material supply equipment, and starting the equipment;
2) At the moment, the transmission motor rotates to drive the transmission belt, the driving belt pulley and the guide driving chain gear to rotate;
3) The driving belt pulley rotates to drive the conveying mechanism to rotate;
4) The discharging pipe rotates to drive the intermittent rotating core to rotate, so that the fixed rod is intermittently matched with the intermittent rotating wheel, the intermittent rotating wheel is driven to intermittently rotate, the reversing rotating core is caused to intermittently rotate, and the feeding pipe is sequentially connected with the discharging pipes in a penetrating way;
5) The external raw material supply equipment sequentially guides materials into the discharge pipe from the feed pipe, the discharge pipe sequentially guides the materials onto the conveying belt, the conveying belt sequentially moves the materials onto the material placing plate, at the moment, the hydraulic telescopic cylinder stretches, the piston rod is pushed to stretch and simultaneously drives the piston to move along the lower cavity of the shell of the downward pressing stamping mechanism, the piston sucks oil in the oil cylinder into the shell of the downward pressing stamping mechanism, at the moment, the pushing frame contracts, and at the same time, the downward pressing sheet moves downward;
6) The lower pressing sheet moves downwards to push the material and the material placing plate to move downwards, and when the material placing plate moves to the lowest position, the lower pressing sheet continues to move downwards to press the material;
7) After the tabletting is completed, the hydraulic telescopic cylinder contracts, the piston rod is pulled to contract and simultaneously drives the piston to move along the lower cavity of the shell of the downward pressing stamping mechanism, the piston blows the oil in the oil cylinder into the shell of the downward pressing stamping mechanism, at the moment, the pushing frame stretches, and meanwhile, the downward tabletting moves upwards;
8) The pushing frame stretches to push the tabletting-formed material placed on the material placing plate into the material collecting guide groove, and after the material on the material placing plate is removed, the supporting base is pushed to move upwards by the extrusion spring so as to enable the supporting base to return;
9) The material falling into the material collecting guide groove slides to the conveying mechanism, the conveying mechanism drags the material to move, at the moment, the cooling mechanism blows cold air into the conveying mechanism, and then the material is cooled, so that the material is solidified, and the solidified material is guided out of the equipment from the tail end of the conveying mechanism.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that: the invention is provided with the material distributing and guiding mechanism, the material conveying mechanism, the material gathering guide groove and the cooling guide mechanism, so that the material conveying mechanism can sequentially enter a plurality of tabletting grooves, the tabletting is carried out by the tabletting mechanism in a crossing way, and the material gathering guide groove is converged to the cooling guide mechanism.
Drawings
In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings that are needed for the description of the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and that other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the overall structure of a coating tabletting device according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the transmission mechanism of a coating tabletting device according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a cooling and guiding mechanism of a coating tabletting device according to the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a tabletting device of a coating tabletting device according to the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the structure of a pressing mechanism of the paint tablet press device of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a schematic structural view of a distributing and guiding mechanism of a coating tabletting device;
FIG. 7 is a schematic view of the intermittent mechanism of a coating tabletting device according to the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the feed mechanism of a coating sheeting apparatus of the present invention;
fig. 9 is a schematic structural view of a feeding device of a coating tabletting device according to the present invention.
In the figure: the cooling device comprises a base 1, a transmission mechanism 2, a cooling guide mechanism 3, a material collecting guide groove 4, a tabletting mechanism 5, a material distributing guide mechanism 6, a material conveying mechanism 7, a material conveying device 8, a driving belt pulley 21, a driving shaft 22, a driven belt pulley 23, a belt 24, a driven shaft 25, a conveying mechanism 31, a cooling mechanism 32, a pressing spring 51, a supporting base 52, a material placing plate 53, a punching mechanism fixing bracket 54, a pressing punching mechanism 55, a pressing lower tablet 551, a piston 552, a communicating pipe 553, a hydraulic telescopic cylinder 554, a pressing lower punching mechanism housing 555, a piston rod 556, a discharging pipe 61, a material conveying mechanism housing 62, a reversing rotary core 63, a feeding pipe 64, a connecting rotary shaft 65, a batch mechanism 66, a material conveying driven shaft 67, a material conveying driven chain gear 68, a material conveying driving chain gear 610, a material conveying driving shaft 611, a batch rotary wheel 661, a batch rotary core 662, a second bevel gear 663, a rotary core rotary shaft 664, a first bevel gear 665, a connecting rod 666, a fixing rod 667, a conveying belt 71, a conveying motor fixing bracket 72, a conveying motor 73, a pushing frame 81, a telescopic rod 82, an oil cylinder 83, a feeding piston 84, a feeding piston 85, a pipeline 85.
Detailed Description
The following description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.
Referring to fig. 1-9, the present invention provides a technical solution: the utility model provides a coating preforming device, including base 1, be fixed with feeding mechanism 7 on the terminal surface under the base 1, feeding mechanism 7 top is equipped with branch material guiding mechanism 6, and material feeding unit 8 is fixed in on the base 1, divide material guiding mechanism 6 below and feeding mechanism 7 to cooperate, and divide material guiding mechanism 6 and base 1 fixed connection, be fixed with preforming mechanism 5 on the terminal surface of base 1 head end, preforming mechanism 5 and feeding mechanism 8 link up and are fixed with on the terminal surface of base 1 and gather material guide slot 4, gather material guide slot 4 and cooling guiding mechanism 3 link up fixed connection, cooling guiding mechanism 3 is fixed in the front end of base 1, and cooling guiding mechanism 3 and feeding mechanism 7 pass through drive mechanism 2 cooperation and are connected, divide material guiding mechanism 6 upper end and external raw materials supply equipment to be connected.
As shown in fig. 2, the transmission mechanism 2 comprises a driving pulley 21 and a driving shaft 22, the driving pulley 21 is rotationally fixed on the material conveying mechanism 7 through the driving shaft 22, the driving pulley 21 is rotationally connected with a driven pulley 23 through a belt 24, the driven pulley 23 is rotationally fixedly connected with the cooling material guiding mechanism 3 through a driven shaft 25, and the driven shaft 25 is rotationally fixed on the base 1 through a driven shaft bearing.
As shown in fig. 3, the cooling guide mechanism 3 includes a conveying mechanism 31 and a cooling mechanism 32, the head end of the conveying mechanism 31 is fixedly connected with the tail end of the material collecting guide groove 4, the cooling mechanism 32 is fixed above the conveying mechanism 31, the conveying mechanism 31 is a conveying belt mechanism, the output roller rotating shaft of the conveying belt mechanism is fixedly connected with the driven shaft 25, the cooling mechanism 32 adopts a fan cooling mode, that is, the cooling mechanism 32 is formed by parallel combination of a plurality of fans.
As shown in fig. 4, the tablet pressing device 5 includes a plurality of compression springs 51 and a plurality of support bases 52, the support bases 52 are provided with a plurality of support bases 52, the plurality of support bases 52 are slidably embedded in the base 1, a material placing plate 53 is fixed at the upper end of the support bases 52, the lower end of the support bases 52 is fixedly connected with the upper ends of the compression springs 51, the lower ends of the compression springs 51 are fixedly connected with the base 1, a plurality of pressing and stamping mechanisms 55 are correspondingly matched above the plurality of support bases 52, the plurality of pressing and stamping mechanisms 55 are uniformly fixed on a pressing and stamping mechanism fixing frame 54, the pressing and stamping mechanism fixing frame 54 is fixed on the upper end face of the base 1, the pressing and stamping mechanisms 55 are in through connection with the feeding device 8, and the plurality of pressing and stamping mechanisms 55 work in a staggered manner.
As shown in fig. 5, the pressing and stamping mechanism 55 includes a pressing sheet 551, a pressing and stamping mechanism housing 555 and a piston rod 556, the pressing and stamping mechanism housing 555 is a hollow housing without top and bottom, two cavities separated from each other up and down are provided on the inner side of the pressing and stamping mechanism housing 555, the pressing and stamping sheet 551 is fixed on the lower end of the piston rod 556, the upper end of the piston rod 556 penetrates through the lower end of the pressing and stamping mechanism housing 555 and is slidingly arranged in the lower cavity on the inner side of the pressing and stamping mechanism housing 555, the piston 552 is slidingly matched in the lower cavity on the inner side of the pressing and stamping mechanism housing 555, the upper end of the lower cavity on the inner side of the pressing and stamping mechanism housing 555 is in through connection with the lower end of a communicating pipe 553, the upper end of the communicating pipe 553 penetrates through the outer housing of the pressing and stamping mechanism housing 555 and the feeding device 8, the upper end of the piston 552 is fixedly provided with a hydraulic telescopic cylinder 554, and the hydraulic telescopic cylinder 554 is fixedly arranged in the upper cavity of the pressing and stamping mechanism housing 555.
As shown in fig. 6, the material distributing and guiding mechanism 6 comprises a material discharging pipe 61 and a guiding mechanism shell 62, the guiding mechanism shell 62 is a hollow cylindrical shell with no top and bottom, a plurality of material discharging pipes 61 are uniformly distributed on the outer side wall of the guiding mechanism shell 62, the material discharging pipes 61 are fixed with and communicated with the guiding mechanism shell 62, a reversing rotary core 63 is rotationally fixed on the inner side of the guiding mechanism shell 62, a material feeding pipe 64 is rotationally fixed on the upper end surface of the reversing rotary core 63, the material feeding pipe 64 is communicated with the inside of the reversing rotary core 63, a single material discharging hole is arranged on the outer side wall of the reversing rotary core 63, the material discharging hole is communicated with the inside of the reversing rotary core 63, the material discharging hole is matched with the material discharging pipe 61, and the feeding pipe 64 is communicated with the discharging pipe 61 through a reversing rotating core 63, a connecting rotating shaft 65 is fixed at the lower end of the reversing rotating core 63, the lower end of the connecting rotating shaft 65 penetrates through a guide mechanism shell 62 to be matched with an intermittent mechanism 66, the intermittent mechanism 66 is rotationally fixed on the base 1, the intermittent mechanism 66 is matched with a guide driven shaft 67, the guide driven shaft 67 is rotationally fixed on the base 1, a guide driven chain gear 68 is fixed on the guide driven shaft 67, the guide driven chain gear 68 is in transmission connection with a guide driving chain gear 610 through a guide chain 69, and the guide driving chain gear 610 is rotationally matched on the feeding mechanism 7 through a guide driving shaft 611.
As shown in fig. 7, the intermittent mechanism 66 includes an intermittent rotating wheel 661 and an intermittent rotating core 662, the intermittent rotating wheel 661 is a disc, a plurality of semicircular slots penetrating the upper and lower end surfaces of the intermittent rotating wheel 661 are arranged around the intermittent rotating wheel 661, a chute penetrating the upper and lower end surfaces of the intermittent rotating wheel 661 is arranged between two adjacent semicircular slots, the intermittent rotating wheel 661 is fixedly connected with the connecting rotating shaft 65, the intermittent rotating core 662 is a disc, the intermittent rotating core 662 is matched with the semicircular slots around the intermittent rotating wheel 661, a semicircular slot penetrating the upper and lower end surfaces of the intermittent rotating core 662 is arranged around the intermittent rotating core 662, the intermittent rotating core 662 is rotationally fixed on the base 1 through the rotating core rotating shaft 664, the semicircular slots around the intermittent rotating core 662 are fixedly connected with the fixed rod 667 through the connecting rod 666, the fixed rod 667 is matched with the chute around the intermittent rotating wheel 661, the intermittent rotating core 662 is fixedly connected with the first bevel gear 665 through the rotating core rotating shaft 664, the first bevel gear 665 is meshed with the second bevel gear 663, and the second bevel gear 663 is fixedly connected with the material guiding driven shaft 67.
As shown in fig. 8, the feeding mechanism 7 includes a plurality of conveying belts 71, the conveying belts 71 are arranged in parallel, the plurality of conveying belts 71 are all driven by one conveying belt driving roller and a conveying belt driven roller, one end of the conveying belt driving roller is fixed with a guiding driving chain gear 610, the other end of the conveying belt driving roller is fixedly connected with an output shaft of a conveying motor 73, the conveying motor 73 is fixed on the base 1 through a conveying motor fixing frame 72, one end of the conveying belt driven roller is fixed with a driving belt pulley 21, and the conveying belt 71, the discharging pipe 61, the pressing punching mechanism 55 and the semicircular grooves around the intermittent rotary wheel 661 are corresponding in number.
As shown in fig. 9, the feeding device 8 includes a pushing frame 81 and a telescopic rod 82, wherein one end of the telescopic rod 82 is fixed with the pushing frame 81, the other end penetrates through the head end of the oil cylinder 83, is slidably arranged at the inner side of the oil cylinder 83 and is fixed with a feeding piston 84, the tail end of the oil cylinder 83 is fixedly connected with a pipeline 85, the pipeline 85 is fixedly connected with a communicating pipe 553, and hydraulic oil is arranged in the oil cylinder 83.
The working steps of the coating tabletting device are as follows:
1) Connecting the feed pipe 64 of the apparatus to an external raw material supply apparatus and starting the apparatus;
2) At this time, the transmission motor 73 rotates to drive the transmission belt 71, the driving belt pulley 21 and the guide driving chain gear 610 to rotate;
3) The driving belt pulley 21 rotates to drive the conveying mechanism 31 to rotate;
4) The rotation of the discharging pipe 61 drives the intermittent rotating core 662 to rotate, so that the fixed rod 667 is intermittently matched with the intermittent rotating wheel 661, the intermittent rotating wheel 661 is driven to intermittently rotate, the reversing rotating core 63 is caused to intermittently rotate, and the feeding pipe 64 is respectively and sequentially communicated with the plurality of discharging pipes 61;
5) The external raw material supply equipment sequentially guides materials into the discharging pipe 61 from the feeding pipe 64, the discharging pipe 61 sequentially guides the materials onto the conveying belt 71, the conveying belt 71 sequentially moves the materials onto the material placing plate 53, at the moment, the hydraulic telescopic cylinder 554 stretches, the piston rod 556 is pushed to stretch and simultaneously drives the piston 552 to move along the lower cavity of the lower pressing and stamping mechanism shell 555, the piston 552 sucks oil in the oil cylinder 83 into the lower pressing and stamping mechanism shell 555, at the moment, the pushing frame 81 contracts and the lower pressing sheet 551 moves downwards;
6) The lower pressing sheet 551 moves downwards to push the material and the material placing plate 53 move downwards, and when the material placing plate 53 moves to the lowest position, the lower pressing sheet 551 continues to move downwards to press the material;
7) After the tabletting is completed, the hydraulic telescopic cylinder 554 is contracted, the piston rod 556 is pulled to contract, the piston 552 is driven to move along the lower cavity of the pressing and punching mechanism shell 555, the piston 552 blows the oil in the oil cylinder 83 into the pressing and punching mechanism shell 555, at the moment, the pushing frame 81 is stretched, and meanwhile, the pressing and punching mechanism shell 555 is moved upwards;
8) The pushing frame 81 stretches to push the tabletting formed materials placed on the material placing plate 53 into the material collecting guide groove 4, and after the materials on the material placing plate 53 are removed, the supporting base 52 is pushed to move upwards by the extrusion spring 51, so that the supporting base 52 returns;
9) The material falling onto the material collecting guide groove 4 slides onto the conveying mechanism 31, the conveying mechanism 31 drags the material to move, at this time, the cooling mechanism 32 blows cold air into the conveying mechanism 31, and then cools the material, so that the material is solidified, and the solidified material is led out of the equipment from the tail end of the conveying mechanism 31.
The foregoing is merely illustrative of the structures of this invention and various modifications, additions and substitutions for those skilled in the art can be made to the described embodiments without departing from the scope of the invention or from the scope of the invention as defined in the accompanying claims.
In the description of the present specification, the descriptions of the terms "one embodiment," "example," "specific example," and the like, mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the present invention. In this specification, schematic representations of the above terms do not necessarily refer to the same embodiments or examples. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.
The preferred embodiments of the invention disclosed above are intended only to assist in the explanation of the invention. The preferred embodiments are not exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise form disclosed. Obviously, many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and the practical application, to thereby enable others skilled in the art to best understand and utilize the invention. The invention is limited only by the claims and the full scope and equivalents thereof.