CN115740933A - Multi-directional rotary welding auxiliary equipment - Google Patents

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CN115740933A
CN115740933A CN202211490922.6A CN202211490922A CN115740933A CN 115740933 A CN115740933 A CN 115740933A CN 202211490922 A CN202211490922 A CN 202211490922A CN 115740933 A CN115740933 A CN 115740933A
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杨淑兰
罗少煊
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The invention discloses multi-azimuth rotary welding auxiliary equipment, relates to the technical field of positioners, and is used for solving the technical problem that the welding auxiliary equipment cannot rotate to weld square pipes in multiple directions.

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Multi-directional rotary welding auxiliary equipment
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of positioner, in particular to multi-azimuth rotary welding auxiliary equipment.
Background
The metal workpiece needs to be welded in the machining process, welding auxiliary equipment is needed to assist welding besides a welding gun during welding, and the welding auxiliary equipment is generally a clamping device and is used for clamping the metal workpiece during welding. When welding the square pipe of metal system, because the special construction of square pipe (generally be the hollow tube that the cross-section is the rectangle), need carry out the welding seam to the junction of the four faces of square pipe, consequently need change square tub of position many times when the welding, however present welding auxiliary assembly can't rotate to weld a plurality of positions of square pipe, only can manually set up the angle again after pulling down and hold and dare the welding again, waste time and energy and inefficiency.
Therefore, the present invention is invented in view of the above-mentioned disadvantages of practical manufacturing and application, and is based on the spirit and concept of the present invention, and is assisted by professional knowledge and experience, and after many kinds of ingenuity and experiments, and provides a multi-direction rotary welding auxiliary device for solving the problem that the existing welding auxiliary device can not rotate to weld the square tube in multiple directions.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide multi-azimuth rotary welding auxiliary equipment which is used for solving the problem that the welding auxiliary equipment in the prior art cannot rotate to weld a plurality of azimuths of a square pipe.
The technical scheme of the invention is realized as follows:
diversified spin welding auxiliary assembly, including workstation and holding body, be provided with two regulation on the workstation and support and a plurality of supporting roller subassembly, two regulation support distribute at the both ends of holding body, the holding body includes a plurality of connecting piece that sets up between two gyro wheels and two gyro wheels, the holding body rotates with the backing roll subassembly to be connected, adjacent department forms the weld bead after the connecting piece cooperatees, middle part formation middle part space, middle part space department has passed interior support piece, the both ends of interior support piece are supported for detachable rotation with two regulations at both ends respectively and are connected, be provided with four on the gyro wheel and compress tightly the subassembly, each compress tightly the subassembly and cooperate with interior support piece.
In a preferred embodiment, the support roller assembly comprises a roller frame and bottom support rollers, the bottom support rollers are arranged on the roller frame and are rotatably connected with the roller frame, each bottom support roller is rotatably connected with the roller, and a support base is arranged at the bottom of each bottom support roller.
As a preferred embodiment, the bottom supporting roller is circumferentially provided with an inwardly concave limiting groove, the roller is matched with the limiting groove of the bottom supporting roller, the roller is provided with saw teeth, and the limiting groove is internally provided with saw teeth matched with the saw teeth of the roller.
In a preferred embodiment, the table is provided with a driving device for driving the support roller assembly.
In a preferred embodiment, each of the pressing assemblies is engaged with the inner holder in such a manner that the pressing traveling direction of the pressing assembly is perpendicular to the outer surface of the inner holder.
As a preferred embodiment, two ends of the connecting plate are respectively connected with two rollers, the connecting pieces are T-shaped, four connecting pieces are provided, and the inner sides of adjacent connecting pieces are perpendicular to each other.
As a preferred embodiment, the pressing assembly comprises a pressing body and a pressing bottom plate fixed on the outer side of the roller, a threaded hole is formed in the pressing bottom plate, the pressing body comprises a hand wheel, a threaded rod and a pressing disc, the hand wheel and the pressing disc are respectively arranged at two ends of the threaded rod, the end of the pressing disc is close to the inner support, and the threaded rod is in threaded connection with the threaded hole.
As a preferred embodiment, the inner support is a cuboid with a square cross section, rotating shafts are arranged at two ends of the inner support, and the rotating shafts at the two ends are respectively rotatably connected with the two adjusting supports.
In a preferred embodiment, the pressure disks of adjacent pressure modules are perpendicular to each other, and the pressure disk of each pressure module is parallel to the corresponding surface of the lining element.
As a preferred embodiment, the adjusting support includes an inner support and an outer support, the outer support is sleeved outside the inner support, the inner support is slidably connected to the outer support, the inner support has only a plurality of first adjusting holes uniformly arranged along a vertical direction, the outer support is provided with second adjusting holes having the same size as the first adjusting holes, and the outer support and the inner support are fixed in relative positions by means of adjusting bolts sequentially penetrating through the second bolt holes and the first bolt holes.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
when the multi-direction rotary welding auxiliary equipment designed by the invention is used for assisting and holding the hollow square pipe, the clamping body and the square pipe can integrally rotate, the clamping body and the square pipe can quickly rotate to the welding position when welding in different directions, and the matching driving device can more simply realize the switching of the welding position, so that the multi-direction welding is convenient to carry out, and the problem that the existing welding auxiliary equipment cannot rotate to weld a plurality of directions of the square pipe is solved.
The detachable inner support piece is arranged, so that the formed square pipe can be welded, four metal plates can be placed on four surfaces of the inner support piece after the inner support piece is installed, the four metal plates are pressed by the pressing assembly and then are directly welded and formed, multi-direction rotary welding can also be performed, and the welding object range is wider. After the inner supporting piece is taken down, each pressing component can be adjusted, so that the square pipe can be clamped as long as the cross section of the square pipe is square, the thickness of the square pipe is not required to be special, and the applicability is better.
In addition, the design that the bottom supporting roller is provided with the limiting groove enables the clamping device to have a limiting function, so that the clamping body can be prevented from being out of position when rotating and displacing, and a limiting mechanism does not need to be additionally matched, so that the clamping device is more practical.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in 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 it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without inventive labor.
FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a partially enlarged view I of FIG. 1;
fig. 3 is a partially enlarged schematic view of fig. 1.
In the figure, 1-the gripping body; 2-welding a port; 3, rolling wheels; 4-a connector; 5-a pressing component; 6-inner supporting piece; 7-a rotating shaft; 8, supporting in an inner support; 9-adjusting the support; 10-a first adjustment aperture; 11-a second adjustment aperture; 12-adjusting the bolt; 13-outer support; 14-a workbench; 15-a drive device; 16-a support roller assembly; 17-a limit groove; 18-a support base; 19-pressing the bottom plate; 20-a compression body; 21-a hand wheel; 22-a threaded rod; 23-a threaded hole; 24-a compacting plate; 25-bottom support rolls; 26-roller frame.
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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.
It should be noted that all directional indicators (such as upper, lower, left, right, front, and rear … …) in the embodiment of the present invention are only used to explain the relative position relationship between the components, the movement situation, and the like in a specific posture (as shown in the drawing), and if the specific posture is changed, the directional indicator is changed accordingly.
In addition, the descriptions related to "first", "second", etc. in the present invention are for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature.
In the description of the embodiments, the terms "disposed," "connected," and the like are to be construed broadly unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited. For example, the connection can be fixed, detachable or integrated; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or through an intervening medium, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.
Referring to fig. 1-3, diversified spin welding auxiliary assembly, including workstation 14 and holding body 1, be provided with two regulation supports 9 and a plurality of backing roll subassembly 16 on the workstation 14, two regulation supports 9 distribute at the both ends of holding body 1, holding body 1 includes a plurality of connecting piece 4 that sets up between two gyro wheels 3 and two gyro wheels 3, holding body 1 rotates with supporting roll subassembly 16 to be connected, connecting piece 4 cooperatees the back adjacent department and forms weld joint 2, the middle part forms the middle part space, interior support 6 has been passed to middle part space department, the both ends of interior support 6 are detachable rotation connection with two regulation supports 9 at both ends respectively, be provided with four on the gyro wheel 3 and compress tightly subassembly 5, each compresses tightly subassembly 5 and interior support 6 cooperatees.
The supporting roller assembly 16 comprises a roller frame 26 and bottom supporting rollers 25, the bottom supporting rollers 25 are arranged on the roller frame 26, the bottom supporting rollers 25 are rotatably connected with the roller frame 26, each bottom supporting roller 25 is rotatably connected with the roller 3, and the bottom of each bottom supporting roller 25 is provided with a supporting base 18.
Referring to fig. 1, the upper surface of the supporting base 18 is inclined, and the bottom supporting rollers 25 are also inclined, so that the matching limiting groove 17 can play a better limiting role,
the circumference of bottom sprag roll 25 is provided with the spacing groove 17 of indent, and gyro wheel 3 cooperatees with the spacing groove 17 of bottom sprag roll 25, is provided with the sawtooth on the gyro wheel 3, is provided with the sawtooth matched with of gyro wheel 3 in the spacing groove 17.
The table 14 is provided with a driving device 15, and the driving device 15 is used for driving the supporting roller assembly 16.
Specifically, the driving device 15 drives the bottom support roller 25 with a chain.
The cooperation of each hold-down assembly 5 with the inner support 6 is represented in that the hold-down travel direction of the hold-down assembly 5 is perpendicular to the outer surface of the inner support 6.
The two ends of the connecting plate are respectively connected with the two idler wheels 3, the connecting pieces 4 are T-shaped, the number of the connecting pieces 4 is four, and the inner sides of the adjacent connecting pieces 4 are perpendicular to each other.
The pressing assembly 5 comprises a pressing body 20 and a pressing bottom plate 19 fixed on the outer side of the roller 3, a threaded hole 23 is formed in the pressing bottom plate 19, the pressing body 20 comprises a hand wheel 21, a threaded rod 22 and a pressing disc 24, the hand wheel 21 and the pressing disc 24 are respectively arranged at two ends of the threaded rod 22, the end of the pressing disc 24 is close to the inner support piece 6, and the threaded rod 22 is in threaded connection with the threaded hole 23.
The inner supporting piece 6 is a cuboid with a square cross section, two ends of the inner supporting piece 6 are provided with rotating shafts 7, and the rotating shafts 7 at the two ends are respectively rotatably connected with the two adjusting supports 9.
The pressure discs 24 of adjacent pressure units 5 are perpendicular to one another, and the pressure discs 24 of the pressure units 5 are each parallel to a corresponding surface of the lining part.
The adjusting support 9 comprises an inner support 8 and an outer support 13, the outer support 13 is sleeved on the outer side of the inner support 8, the inner support 8 is in sliding connection with the outer support 13, the inner support 8 is provided with only a plurality of first adjusting holes 10 which are uniformly arranged in the vertical direction, the outer support 13 is provided with second adjusting holes 11 which are the same as the first adjusting holes 10 in specification, and the outer support 13 and the inner support 8 are fixed in relative positions in a mode that adjusting bolts 12 sequentially penetrate through the second bolt holes and the first bolt holes.
When the multi-position welding device is used, two states can be realized, and the two states can realize rotation to assist in realizing multi-position welding.
Use state 1: weld fashioned square pipe, the both ends of interior support 6 are connected for detachable rotation with two regulation supports 9 at both ends respectively, consequently attitude take off interior support 6 can, rotate hand wheel 21, each in two gyro wheels 3 outsides compresses tightly the centre gripping to the square pipe of subassembly 5, thereby drive arrangement 15 drives whole cramping body 1 intercommunication square pipe rotation to bottom backing roll 25, utilizes rotatory supplementary realization diversified welding.
Use state 2: at this moment, the internal support piece 6 is normally used, the welding process of the square pipe in the direct Hancheng of four independent plates is assisted by the main used, the internal support piece 6 is matched with the four pressing plates with each pressing component 5, the same as the upper surface is achieved, the driving device 15 drives the square pipe of the whole clamping body 1 communicating to drive the bottom supporting roll 25, and the multidirectional welding is achieved by the aid of rotation.
At the time of welding, welding is performed from the welding port 2 at the corner.
It should be noted that the use in the state 1 has better applicability, the thickness of the square tube is not limited, and in the state 2, only the square tube with specific specification after welding is generally processed (namely, the specification of each metal plate is specific), and the metal plate of each surface just can correspond to each surface of the inner support member 6.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
when the multi-direction rotary welding auxiliary equipment designed by the invention is used for assisting and holding a hollow square pipe, the clamping body 1 and the square pipe can integrally rotate, and can quickly rotate to a welding position when welding in different directions, and the matching driving device 15 can more simply realize the switching of the welding position, so that the multi-direction welding is convenient, and the problem that the existing welding auxiliary equipment cannot rotate to weld a plurality of directions of the square pipe is solved.
The detachable inner support 6 is arranged, so that the formed square pipe can be welded, four metal plates can be placed on four surfaces of the inner support 6 after the inner support 6 is installed, the four metal plates can be directly welded and formed after being pressed by the pressing assembly 5, multi-direction rotary welding can also be performed, and the welding object range is larger. After the inner supporting piece 6 is taken down, each pressing component 5 can be adjusted, so that the square pipe can be clamped as long as the section of the square pipe is square, the thickness of the square pipe is not required to be special, and the applicability is better.
In addition, the design that the bottom supporting roller 25 is provided with the limiting groove 17 ensures that the clamping body 1 has a limiting function, can ensure that the clamping body is not dislocated when rotating and dislocating, does not need to be additionally matched with a limiting mechanism, and is more practical.
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein. In addition, the technical solutions between the various embodiments may be combined with each other, but must be based on the realization of those skilled in the art; when combinations of technical solutions are mutually inconsistent or cannot be realized, such combinations should not be considered to exist and are not within the scope of the claimed invention.

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1. Diversified spin welding auxiliary assembly, including workstation and holding body, its characterized in that, be provided with two regulation on the workstation and support and a plurality of supporting roller subassembly, two regulation support distribute at the both ends of holding body, the holding body includes a plurality of connecting piece that sets up between two gyro wheels and two gyro wheels, the holding body rotates with the backing roller subassembly to be connected, adjacent department forms the weld bead after the connecting piece cooperatees, middle part formation middle part space, middle part space department has passed interior support piece, the both ends of interior support piece are supported for detachable rotation with two regulations at both ends respectively and are connected, be provided with four on the gyro wheel and compress tightly the subassembly, each compress tightly the subassembly and cooperate with interior support piece.
2. The multi-azimuth spin welding assist device according to claim 1, wherein the support roller assembly comprises a roller frame and bottom support rollers, the bottom support rollers are arranged on the roller frame and rotatably connected with the roller frame, each bottom support roller is rotatably connected with the roller, and a support base is arranged at the bottom of each bottom support roller.
3. The multi-azimuth spin welding auxiliary device according to claim 2, wherein the bottom supporting roller is circumferentially provided with an inward concave limiting groove, the roller is matched with the limiting groove of the bottom supporting roller, the roller is provided with saw teeth, and the limiting groove is internally provided with saw teeth matched with the saw teeth of the roller.
4. The multi-azimuth spin welding aid of claim 1, wherein a drive is provided on said table for driving a support roller assembly.
5. The multi-azimuth spin welding aid of claim 1, wherein each said hold-down assembly cooperates with the inner shoe in a direction of hold-down travel of the hold-down assembly perpendicular to the outer surface of the inner shoe.
6. The multi-azimuth spin welding auxiliary device according to claim 1, wherein two ends of the connecting plate are respectively connected with two rollers, the connecting members are T-shaped, the number of the connecting members is four, and the inner sides of the adjacent connecting members are perpendicular to each other.
7. The multi-azimuth rotary welding auxiliary device according to claim 1, wherein the pressing assembly comprises a pressing body and a pressing bottom plate fixed on the outer side of the roller, the pressing bottom plate is provided with a threaded hole, the pressing body comprises a hand wheel, a threaded rod and a pressing disc, the hand wheel and the pressing disc are respectively arranged at two ends of the threaded rod, the end of the pressing disc is close to the inner support, and the threaded rod is in threaded connection with the threaded hole.
8. The multi-azimuth spin welding auxiliary device according to claim 7, wherein the inner support member is a rectangular parallelepiped with a square cross section, and rotating shafts are arranged at two ends of the inner support member and are respectively rotatably connected with the two adjusting supports.
9. The multi-azimuth spin weld aid of claim 8, wherein the hold-down discs of adjacent hold-down assemblies are perpendicular to each other, and wherein the hold-down discs of each of said hold-down assemblies are parallel to corresponding faces on the liner.
10. The auxiliary multi-azimuth spin welding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the adjusting support comprises an inner support and an outer support, the outer support is sleeved outside the inner support, the inner support is slidably connected with the outer support, the inner support has only a plurality of first adjusting holes uniformly arranged in a vertical direction, the outer support is provided with second adjusting holes having the same size as the first adjusting holes, and the outer support and the inner support are fixed in relative positions by means of adjusting bolts sequentially penetrating through the second bolt holes and the first bolt holes.
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