CN113818091A - Silk thread oiling device - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a silk thread oiling device, which comprises: the automatic feeding device comprises a rack, a guide wheel arranged on the rack, a receiving roller capable of rotating on the rack, a motor fixed on the rack and connected with the receiving roller, and an oiling mechanism arranged between the receiving roller and the guide wheel; the oiling mechanism comprises an oil box fixed on the rack, a slot arranged at the top end of the oil box, an oil drum assembly communicated with the oil box, an oiling roller which is arranged in the slot and can rotate on the rack, and a recovery assembly arranged on the boundary of the slot; one side end of the slot is provided with a rubber plate, and the other side end of the slot is provided with a baffle plate.
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Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of polyester filament yarn production, and particularly relates to a silk yarn oiling device.
Background
In the process of polyester filament yarn production, oiling is an indispensable step, and the elasticity and the smoothness of silk can be guaranteed to oiling for silk, and the silk thread after oiling is difficult for splitting at the in-process that adds the bullet to the fine quality of finished product silk, the surface is smooth-going.
The existing oiling device is immersed in oil in an oil groove through the bottom of an oiling roller, the oiling roller drives the oil to be adhered to the outer circular surface of the oiling roller when rotating, and when filaments pass through the outer circular surface of the top of the oiling roller, the filaments are oiled by the oiling roller in a rolling manner; however, the oiling to the filament is not uniform, so that the subsequent texturing process and texturing quality are affected, and the filament is easy to break.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a silk thread oiling device for overcoming the defects of the prior art.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme: a wire oiling device comprising: the automatic feeding device comprises a rack, a guide wheel arranged on the rack, a receiving roller capable of rotating on the rack, a motor fixed on the rack and connected with the receiving roller, and an oiling mechanism arranged between the receiving roller and the guide wheel; the oiling mechanism comprises an oil box fixed on the rack, a slot arranged at the top end of the oil box, an oil drum assembly communicated with the oil box, an oiling roller which is arranged in the slot and can rotate on the rack, and a recovery assembly arranged on the boundary of the slot; one side end of the slot is provided with a rubber plate, and the other side end of the slot is provided with a baffle plate.
Furthermore, the end part of the upper oil roller is provided with a disc, and the disc and the end part of the material receiving roller are sleeved with a conveyor belt.
Furthermore, a plurality of upper oil grooves are formed in the upper oil roller; the cross section of the upper oil groove is arc-shaped.
Furthermore, the recovery assembly comprises an oil leakage net arranged at the side end of the groove, a scraper arranged at the end part of the oil leakage net, a scraping component matched with the oil leakage net arranged on the baffle, and a cleaning component matched with the cleaning component arranged on the rack.
Furthermore, strike off the part including locating parallel to each other two backup pads of frame antetheca can pivoted rotary drum is located between two backup pads the rotary drum tip just can pivoted bull stick in the backup pad is located the montant of rotary drum tip can montant tip pivoted holding rod, tip are located rope on the rotary drum is located strike off the board on the rope is located strike off the board groove on the baffle, locates the frame back wall and the receipts rope spare that is connected with another tip of rope.
Furthermore, the rope winding piece comprises a supporting piece and a supporting block which are arranged on the rear wall of the rack, a rotating shaft with two ends capable of rotating on the supporting piece and the supporting block, a rotating shaft groove arranged in the supporting block, and a torsion spring arranged between the rotating shaft groove and the end part of the rotating shaft.
Furthermore, the cleaning component comprises a squeezing plate arranged at the end part of the scraping plate, a sealing plate groove arranged on the rack, a sealing plate capable of sliding in the sealing plate groove, and a sealing spring arranged between the sealing plate and the sealing plate groove.
Further, the extrusion plate is an inverted triangular plate; the top of the sealing plate is provided with an inclined plane; the triangle can contact with the inclined plane.
Further, the oil drum subassembly is including locating lead to the oil groove in the frame, locate in the frame and with lead to the communicating oil drum of oil groove, locate stifled groove part in the frame.
Furthermore, the groove plugging part comprises a slider groove arranged at the bottom of the oil through groove, a slider capable of sliding in the slider groove and an air bag arranged on the slider.
In conclusion, the motor drives the material receiving roller to rotate anticlockwise, and the transmission belt can drive the oiling roller to rotate anticlockwise, so that oil is adhered to the oiling roller all the time; oil adhered to the upper oil groove can flow to the middle from two ends through the arc-shaped cross section, so that the filaments can be fully contacted with the oil, and the oil is applied uniformly; can reciprocate through the oil level through the gasbag, can leak out when the oil level in the oil box descends and lead to the oil groove, the oil in the oil drum is convenient for flow to the oil box in leading to the oil groove, adds the oil for the oil box is automatic, keeps the oil level height, makes the bottom of oiling roller contact with oil all the time.
The rotating drum is rotated by rotating the holding rod to drive the rope to be wound on the rotating drum, so that the scraping plate on the rope moves forwards to scrape impurities which do not pass through the oil leakage net; when the scraping plate slides from one end to the other end of the scraping plate groove, the sealing plate can slide into the sealing plate groove through the contact extrusion of the extrusion plate and the sealing plate, and impurities are pulled out for cleaning; after scraping, the rotating shaft is rotated by the resilience force of the torsion spring to drive the scraping plate to move to the initial position, and the cleaning work is completed.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of fig. 1 at a.
Fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of the rope retracting member.
Fig. 4 is a partial structure schematic diagram of the oiling mechanism.
Fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of the cleaning member.
Fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of the oil drum assembly.
Fig. 7 is a schematic view of the structure of the scraping plate.
Reference numerals: 1 rack, 10 guide wheels, 11 slider grooves, 2 oil boxes, 20 grooves, 3 oiling rollers, 30 disks, 31 conveyor belts, 32 oiling grooves, 33 baffles, 34 oil leakage nets, 35 scrapers, 4 material receiving rollers, 40 motors, 5 rubber plates, 12 oil through grooves, 60 oil drums, 61 oil drum pipes, 7 sliders, 70 air bags, supporting plates 8, rotary drums 80, holding rods 82, ropes 84, scraping plates 85, scraping plates grooves 36, supporting plates 86, supporting blocks 87, rotating shafts 88, rotating shaft grooves 89, torsion springs 881, extrusion plates 9, sealing plate grooves 13, sealing plates 90 and sealing springs 91.
Detailed Description
As shown in fig. 1-7, a device for oiling a thread, comprising: the automatic feeding device comprises a machine frame 1, a guide wheel 10 arranged on the machine frame 1, a material receiving roller 4 capable of rotating on the machine frame 1, a motor 40 fixed on the machine frame 1 and connected with the material receiving roller 4, and an oiling mechanism arranged between the material receiving roller 4 and the guide wheel 10.
The common tangent line at the bottom of the guide wheel 10 and the receiving roller 4 is lower than the top of the oiling roller 3; the contact area of the filament and the oiling roller 3 is increased, and the filament is fully contacted with oil.
Specifically, the oiling mechanism comprises an oil box 2 fixed on the rack 1, a slot 20 arranged at the top end of the oil box 2, an oil drum assembly communicated with the oil box 2, an oiling roller 3 which is arranged in the slot 20 and can rotate on the rack 1, and a recovery assembly arranged on the boundary of the slot 20; one side end of the slot 20 is provided with a rubber plate 5, the other side end of the slot 20 is provided with a baffle 33, and the baffle 33 is vertical and is arranged around the slot 20.
Rubber slab 5 can scrape down the unnecessary oil of adhesion on oiling roller 3, prevents that a large amount of fluid from leaking the external dust of outside adhesion, influences the effect of oiling.
The baffle 33 prevents excess oil on the oiling roller 3 from being thrown out of the oil box 2 by rotation.
Specifically, a disc 30 is arranged at the end part of the oiling roller 3, and a conveyor belt 31 is sleeved at the end parts of the disc 30 and the material receiving roller 4.
The motor 40 drives the material receiving roller 4 to rotate anticlockwise, and the driving belt 31 can drive the oiling roller 3 to rotate anticlockwise, so that the top end of the oiling roller 3 is always adhered with oil.
Specifically, a plurality of upper oil grooves 32 are formed in the oil feeding roller 3; the upper oil groove 32 has an arc-shaped cross section.
Through the arc cross section can make the oil that the adhesion was on last oil groove 32 flow to the centre from both ends, make the filament can fully contact with oil, it is even to oil.
Specifically, the recovery assembly comprises an oil leakage net 34 arranged at the side end of the open slot 20, the oil leakage net 34 is a plate with enough net shape, a scraper 35 arranged at the end of the oil leakage net 34 and embedded with the upper oil slot 32, a scraping component arranged on the baffle 33 in cooperation with the oil leakage net 34, and a cleaning component arranged on the frame 1 in cooperation with the cleaning component; the oil leakage net 3 is inclined, the oil leakage net 34 close to the oil feeding roller 3 is the inclined highest end, oil adhered to the oil feeding roller 3 is filtered through the oil leakage net 34, and the adhered oil on the oil feeding roller 3 is scraped by the scraper 35.
Specifically, scrape the part and locate including being parallel to each other two backup pads 8 of frame antetheca can pivoted rotary drum 80 between two backup pads 8 is located the rotary drum 80 tip just can pivoted bull stick on the backup pad 8 is located the montant of rotary drum 80 tip can montant tip pivoted holding rod 82, the tip is located rope 84 on the rotary drum 80, frame 1 can be passed at rope 84 both ends, locates scrape board 85 on the rope 84 is located scrape board groove 36 on the baffle 33 is located the receipts rope spare that frame 1 back wall and another tip with rope 84 are connected.
The initial position of the scraping plate 85 is close to the rear end of the slot 20; the scraping plate 85 is composed of an upper part, a connecting rod and a lower part, and the upper part and the lower part are connected through the connecting rod; the upper part is an L-shaped plate tightly attached to the oil leakage net 34, and the end part of the part tightly attached to the oil leakage net 34 is provided with an inclined plane, so that adhered impurities can be conveniently scraped; the lower part consists of a plate vertical to the oil leakage net 34 and an oil receiving groove at the front end, impurities are scraped to the oil receiving groove at the front end through the plate vertical to the oil leakage net 34, the impurities are prevented from falling in the oil box 2, and the quality of oil and filaments is ensured; through the mutual scraping of upper portion and lower part, can be more clean the impurity clearance on the oil leakage net 34.
Specifically, the rope winding member includes a supporting piece 86 and a supporting block 87 which are arranged on the rear wall of the frame 1, a rotating shaft 88 with two ends capable of rotating on the supporting piece 86 and the supporting block 87, a rotating shaft groove 89 which is arranged in the supporting block 87, and a torsion spring 881 which is arranged between the rotating shaft groove 89 and the end of the rotating shaft 88.
Specifically, the cleaning component comprises a squeezing plate 9 arranged at the end part of the scraping plate 85, a sealing plate groove 13 arranged on the frame 1, a sealing plate 90 capable of sliding in the sealing plate groove 13, and a sealing spring 91 arranged between the sealing plate 90 and the sealing plate groove 13; the extrusion plate 9 is an inverted triangular plate; the top of the sealing plate 90 is provided with an inclined plane; the triangle can contact with the inclined plane.
The rotating drum 80 is rotated by rotating the grip rod 82, so that the rope 84 is wound on the rotating drum 80, and the scraping plate 85 on the rope 84 moves forward to scrape off the impurities which do not pass through the oil leakage net 34.
When the scraping plate 85 slides from one end to the other end of the scraping plate groove 36, the triangular plate of the extrusion plate 9 contacts with the inclined surface of the sealing plate 90, and the sealing plate 90 can slide into the sealing plate groove 13 by continuously pulling forward, so that impurities are pulled out for cleaning.
After scraping, the rotating shaft 88 is rotated by the resilience of the torsion spring 881 to drive the scraping plate 85 to move to the initial position, thereby completing the cleaning work.
Specifically, the oil drum assembly comprises an oil through groove 12 arranged on the rack 1, the lowest end of the oil through groove 12 is higher than the lowest end of the upper oil roller 3, an oil drum 60 arranged on the rack 1 and communicated with the oil through groove 12, and an oil drum pipe 61 is arranged at the bottom of the oil drum 60; and the groove blocking component is arranged on the frame 1.
Specifically, the groove blocking component comprises a slider groove 11 arranged at the bottom of the oil through groove 12, a slider 7 capable of sliding in the slider groove 11, and an air bag 70 arranged on the slider 7.
Gasbag 70 can float through oil, and after the high decline of oil level in oil box 2, gasbag 70 does not receive buoyancy just can descend to with the contact of oil level, leaks and leads to oil groove 12, and the oil in oil drum 60 is convenient for flow to oil box 2 from leading to oil groove 12 in, for oil box 2 automatic addition oil, keeps the oil level height, makes the bottom of oiling roller 3 all the time with oil contact.
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1. A silk thread oiling device which characterized in that: the method comprises the following steps: the automatic feeding device comprises a rack (1), a guide wheel (10) arranged on the rack (1), a material receiving roller (4) capable of rotating on the rack (1), a motor (40) fixed on the rack (1) and connected with the material receiving roller (4), and an oiling mechanism arranged between the material receiving roller (4) and the guide wheel (10); the oiling mechanism comprises an oil box (2) fixed on the rack (1), a slot (20) arranged at the top end of the oil box (2), an oil drum assembly communicated with the oil box (2), an oiling roller (3) which is arranged in the slot (20) and can rotate on the rack (1), and a recovery assembly arranged on the boundary of the slot (20); one side end of the slot (20) is provided with a rubber plate (5), and the other side end of the slot (20) is provided with a baffle (33).
2. A device for oiling a wire according to claim 1, characterized in that: go up oily roller (3) tip and be equipped with disc (30), disc (30) with the tip cover of receiving material roller (4) is equipped with conveyer belt (31).
3. A device for oiling a wire according to claim 1, characterized in that: a plurality of upper oil grooves (32) are formed in the oil feeding roller (3); the cross section of the upper oil groove (32) is arc-shaped.
4. A device for oiling a wire according to claim 1, characterized in that: the recovery assembly comprises an oil leakage net (34) arranged at the side end of the slot (20), a scraper (35) arranged at the end part of the oil leakage net (34), a scraping component arranged on the baffle (33) and a cleaning component arranged on the rack (1) in a matching manner, wherein the oil leakage net (34) is matched with the scraping component.
5. A device as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that: the scraping component comprises two support plates (8) which are arranged in parallel on the front wall of the rack, a rotary drum (80) which rotates between the two support plates (8) is arranged at the end part of the rotary drum (80) and can rotate on the support plates (8), a vertical rod at the end part of the rotary drum (80) is arranged on the vertical rod, a holding rod (82) with the rotating end part of the vertical rod can rotate, the end part of the holding rod is arranged on a rope (84) on the rotary drum (80), a scraping plate (85) on the rope (84) is arranged on the scraping plate groove (36) on the baffle (33), and the rope collecting piece which is arranged on the rear wall of the rack (1) and is connected with the other end part of the rope (84) is arranged on the baffle (33).
6. A device as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that: receive the rope piece including locating backing sheet (86) and supporting shoe (87) of frame (1) back wall, both ends can be in pivoted pivot (88) on backing sheet (86) and supporting shoe (87), locate pivot groove (89) in supporting shoe (87), locate torsional spring (881) between pivot groove (89) and pivot (88) tip.
7. A device as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that: the cleaning component comprises a squeezing plate (9) arranged at the end part of the scraping plate (85), a sealing plate groove (13) arranged on the rack (1), a sealing plate (90) capable of sliding in the sealing plate groove (13), and a sealing spring (91) arranged between the sealing plate (90) and the sealing plate groove (13).
8. A device as claimed in claim 7, characterized in that: the extrusion plate (9) is an inverted triangular plate; the top of the sealing plate (90) is provided with an inclined plane; the triangle can contact with the inclined plane.
9. A device for oiling a wire according to claim 1, characterized in that: the oil drum subassembly is including locating lead to oil groove (12) in frame (1), locate frame (1) go up and with lead to communicating oil drum (60) of oil groove (12), locate stifled groove part on frame (1).
10. A wire oiling device according to claim 9, characterized in that: the groove plugging part comprises a slider groove (11) arranged at the bottom of the oil through groove (12), a slider (7) capable of sliding in the slider groove (11), and an air bag (70) arranged on the slider (7).
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