CN203970952U - A kind of Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine - Google Patents

A kind of Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine Download PDF

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CN203970952U
CN203970952U CN201420347138.4U CN201420347138U CN203970952U CN 203970952 U CN203970952 U CN 203970952U CN 201420347138 U CN201420347138 U CN 201420347138U CN 203970952 U CN203970952 U CN 203970952U
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王绪武
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徐洪亮
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This utility model relates to Chinese crude drug processing equipment field, be specifically related to a kind of Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine, comprise frame and rack-mounted medical material transporter, rub medicine device with the hands, the front upper of this medical material transporter is provided with medical material and adds entrance, and the rear portion of this medical material transporter is provided with medical material outlet; Directly over described medical material actuating device, be provided with the stranding medicine device for the medical material on medical material transporter being rubbed with the hands to medicine.This utility model has replaced traditional artificial stranding medicine, can enhance productivity, saves labour force, meet large-scale production, and can prevent that staff from directly contacting Chinese crude drug, has ensured staff's safety and the clean hygiene of Chinese herbal medicine.

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A kind of Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine
Technical field
This utility model relates to Chinese crude drug processing equipment field, is specifically related to a kind of Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine.
Background technology
In order to change the bar shaped of fresh Chinese crude drug, reach straight, soft and the fresh medical material internal fiber structure of compacting is beneficial to the effect of subsequent slice processing, rub some Chinese crude drugs processing of pharmaceutical worker's ordered pair operation that is absolutely necessary with the hands.At present, fresh Chinese crude drug needs manually to carry out in a large number craft and rubs medicine with the hands, or rubs with the hands and step on foot, and efficiency is low, speed is slow, cost is high, can not meet Production requirement, and some Chinese crude drug may cause certain injury to staff's skin etc. in the process of rubbing medicine with the hands.
Utility model content
The purpose of this utility model is to provide that a kind of working (machining) efficiency is high, cost is low, and safe and reliable Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine, substitutes the artificial medicine of rubbing with the hands, frees manual heavy and laborious task.
To achieve these goals, the technical solution adopted in the utility model is:
A kind of Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine, comprises frame and rack-mounted medical material transporter, rubs medicine device with the hands, and the front upper of this medical material transporter is provided with medical material and adds entrance, and the rear portion of this medical material transporter is provided with medical material outlet; Directly over described medical material actuating device, be provided with the stranding medicine device for the medical material on medical material transporter being rubbed with the hands to medicine.
Further, the upper-lower position of described stranding medicine device is adjustable.
Further, described stranding medicine device is arranged in described frame by automatic pressure regulation device, and automatically regulates by this automatic pressure regulation device the upper-lower position of rubbing medicine device with the hands.
Further, described automatic pressure regulation device comprises pressure plare, the both sides of this pressure plare are connected with respectively the pressure exerting arrangement of vertical setting, and the top of this pressure exerting arrangement is connected with guide pad, and this guide pad adaptation is arranged in the horizontally disposed gathering sill of described upper rack; Described guide pad is connected with adjusting rod by guide pad link, and the other end of this adjusting rod is connected with reciprocating air cylinder, and this reciprocating air cylinder level is arranged in described frame.
Further, described pressure exerting arrangement is air pressure adjustment pressure exerting arrangement, hydraulic regulation pressure exerting arrangement or mechanical spring pressure exerting arrangement; The pressure adjusting lever that described air pressure adjustment pressure exerting arrangement comprises cylinder and is connected with cylinder; The pressure adjusting lever that described hydraulic regulation pressure exerting arrangement comprises hydraulic jack and is connected with hydraulic jack; Described mechanical spring pressure exerting arrangement comprises compression spring and is fixed in the fixed bar of compression spring upper end, and on this fixed bar, threaded engagement is connected with screw rod.
Further, described stranding medicine device comprises the first driving mechanism, rubs medicine adhesive tape, drivewheel and driven pulley with the hands; Described drivewheel and driven pulley are arranged on respectively the two ends of described pressure plare, and connect by described stranding medicine Belt Transmission; Described the first driving mechanism and described drivewheel connection for transmission are also arranged on close drivewheel one end of described pressure plare by driving arm.
Further, described medical material transporter comprises the second driving mechanism, conveyer belt and is arranged on the drive at conveyer belt two ends, and the second driving mechanism drives conveyer belt by drive, and described the second driving mechanism is arranged in described frame.
Further, the both sides of described conveyer belt are provided with grate.
Further, the lower end that described medical material adds entrance is provided with a point thumb wheel.
Further, described medical material exit is provided with discharging channel, and this discharging channel is trench structure, and the front portion of this discharging channel contacts with the rear portion of described conveyer belt, and the rear portion of this discharging channel is extended frame and is tilted to down; The both sides, rear portion of described discharging channel are provided with hook.
This utility model beneficial effect is:
This utility model has replaced traditional artificial stranding medicine, can enhance productivity, saves labour force, meet large-scale production, and can prevent that staff from directly contacting Chinese crude drug, has ensured staff's safety and the clean hygiene of Chinese herbal medicine; This utility model is provided with a point thumb wheel, Chinese crude drug can be laid in uniformly on the conveyer belt of Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine; Discharging channel of the present utility model is provided with hook, packaging bag etc. is directly hung over to hook upper, directly the Chinese crude drug of having rubbed with the hands is packed in packaging bag automatically, reduces labour force.
Brief description of the drawings
Fig. 1 is structural representation of the present utility model.
Fig. 2 is the combinative structure schematic diagram of stranding medicine device of the present utility model and automatic pressure regulation device.
Fig. 3 is the top view of this utility model Fig. 2.
In figure: 1. frame 2. medical materials add 3. medical material transporter 31. conveyer belt 32. main driving wheel 33. auxiliary driving of 21. points of thumb wheels of entrance and take turns 34. grate 35. second motor 36. sprocket wheel 37. conveyer belt sprocket wheels 4. and rub medicine device 41. with the hands and rub medicine adhesive tape 42. drivewheel 43. driven pulley 44. drivewheel support 45. driven pulley support 46. first motor 5. automatic pressure regulation device 51. pressure plare 52. cylinder 53. pressure adjusting lever 54. guide pad 55. gathering sill 56. guide pad link 57 adjusting rod 58 reciprocating air cylinder 6. discharging channels 7. with the hands and link up with.
Detailed description of the invention
Embodiment mono-
As described in Figure, this utility model comprise frame 1 and be arranged on medical material transporter 3 in frame, rub medicine device 4 with the hands, medical material adds entrance 2 and medical material outlet.
Described medical material adds entrance 2 and is arranged on the upper front end of described frame 1, adds entrance 2 Chinese crude drug is joined in this utility model by this medical material; This medical material adds the casing that entrance 2 all opens wide for inverted trapezoidal structure and top and bottom, be that top is wide, narrow base, facilitate adding of medical material, the top that described medical material adds entrance is cemented in frame, and its bottom is positioned at conveyer belt 31 front upper of described medical material transporter 3.
Described medical material transporter 3 comprises the second driving mechanism, conveyer belt 31, main driving wheel 32 and auxiliary driving wheel 33; Described main driving wheel 32 and auxiliary driving wheel 33 are arranged on respectively on main transmission wheel shaft and auxiliary driving wheel shaft, and are in transmission connection by described conveyer belt 31; The two ends of described main transmission wheel shaft and auxiliary driving wheel shaft are arranged in frame 1 by bearing respectively; Described conveyer belt 31 is for being horizontally disposed with, and the frame of these conveyer belt 31 both sides is provided with grate 34, and the spacing between this grate 34 and the width of described conveyer belt 31 are suitable, overflows from conveyer belt 31 both sides to prevent in transmission and to rub medicine process Chinese crude drug with the hands; Described the second driving mechanism is arranged in frame 1, this second driving mechanism comprises the second motor 35, on the output shaft of this second motor, be connected with sprocket wheel 36, this sprocket wheel 36 is by chain and be arranged on conveyer belt sprocket wheel 37 connection for transmissions on main transmission wheel shaft, described conveyer belt sprocket wheel 37 and described main driving wheel 32 coaxial rotation; Drive conveyer belt 31 by moving after forward direction by the second motor 35, this conveyer belt adds oral instructions to deliver to medical material outlet from medical material medical material.
Conveyer belt 31 rear portions of described medical material transporter 3 are provided with medical material outlet, this medical material exit is provided with discharging channel 6, this discharging channel 6 is trench structure, the front end of this discharging channel 6 contacts with the rear end of described conveyer belt 31, and this discharging channel 6 is fixed in frame 1 and the rear end of this discharging channel 6 is extended frame 1 and is tilted to down; The both sides, rear end of described discharging channel 6 are provided with hook 7, and the convenient storage bag that hangs of this hook 7 directly packs in storage bag in order to following process the medical material of having rubbed with the hands into.
Directly over the conveyer belt 31 of described medical material transporter 3, be provided with and rub medicine device 4 with the hands, this stranding medicine device 4 is arranged in frame 1 by automatic pressure regulation device 5.
Described automatic pressure regulation device 5 comprises pressure plare 51, and the both sides of this pressure plare 51 are connected with respectively the pressure exerting arrangement of vertical setting, the relative distance that this pressure exerting arrangement can regulate the downward pressure of pressure plare 51 and rub medicine device and transporter with the hands; Described pressure exerting arrangement is air pressure adjustment pressure exerting arrangement, and this air pressure adjustment pressure exerting arrangement comprises cylinder 52 and pressure adjusting lever 53; The both sides of described pressure plare 51 are connected with respectively the pressure adjusting lever 53 described in 2, the other end of this pressure adjusting lever 53 is connected with cylinder 52, this cylinder 52 is provided with pressure-regulating valve, can adjust by pressure-regulating valve the pressure limit of height and the setting cylinder 52 of pressure plare 51; The upper side of described cylinder 52 is connected with guide pad 54, these guide pad 54 adaptations are arranged on that described frame 1 top is equipped with along in the horizontally disposed gathering sill of medical material the direction of transfer 55 and top of this guide pad 54 and bottom can be at the truckle of gathering sill 55 interior slips, and this truckle can reduce the frictional force between gathering sill and guide pad; The opening of two described gathering sills is oppositely arranged and is fixed in frame by support respectively; 4 described guide pads 54 are fixed together by guide pad link 56; Described guide pad 54 is connected with adjusting rod 57 near the middle part of the guide pad link 56 of one end of medical material outlet, the other end of this adjusting rod 57 is connected with reciprocating air cylinder 58, these reciprocating air cylinder 58 levels are fixedly mounted in frame 1, described reciprocating air cylinder 58 is connected with control chamber, move back and forth by control chamber control reciprocating air cylinder, thereby drive stranding medicine device 4 to move back and forth.Described cylinder 52 is all connected with external gas source with reciprocating air cylinder 58.
Described stranding medicine device 4 comprises the first driving mechanism, rubs medicine adhesive tape 41, drivewheel 42 and driven pulley 43 with the hands; Described drivewheel 42 and driven pulley 43 are arranged on respectively on drive sprocket axle and follower shaft, and are in transmission connection by described stranding medicine adhesive tape 41; The two ends of described drive sprocket axle and follower shaft are arranged on respectively on drivewheel support 44 and driven pulley support 45 by bearing; Described drivewheel support 44 is fixed in described pressure plare 51 one end near feeding opening, and described driven pulley support 45 is fixed in described pressure plare 51 one end near outlet, and drivewheel and driven pulley are on same level line; Described stranding medicine adhesive tape 41 be positioned at described conveyer belt 31 directly over and with described conveyer belt 31 keeping parallelisms, and described stranding medicine adhesive tape 41 is identical with the width of conveyer belt 31; Described stranding medicine adhesive tape 41 is coated on pressure plare 51 to rub with the hands between medicine adhesive tape, and the both sides of pressure plare extend and rub medicine adhesive tape 41 with the hands, and it is the diameter of drivewheel or driven pulley that the thickness of described pressure plare 51 is slightly less than the distance of rubbing with the hands between medicine adhesive tape; Described the first driving mechanism comprises the first motor 46, the output shaft of this first motor 46 is connected and rotates with one end of described drive sprocket axle, described the first motor 46 is arranged on one end of the close drivewheel of described pressure plare 51 by electric machine support, the opposite direction that this first motor 46 drives direction that drivewheel 42 rotates and described main driving wheel 32 to rotate, and the speed that drivewheel 42 rotates is greater than the speed that described main driving wheel 32 rotates.
Described medical material adds entrance 2 lower ends and is provided with point thumb wheel 21, this point of thumb wheel 21 is arranged on the casing that described medical material adds entrance 2 two bottom sides by allocating wheel shaft, this is allocated and point thumb wheel driven sprocket is installed and by chain and point thumb wheel drive sprocket connection for transmission being arranged on the main transmission wheel shaft of described medical material transporter on wheel shaft, thereby drives point thumb wheel to rotate; On described point of thumb wheel, be arranged with many group blades, it is identical that arc diameter and the medical material that blade forms adds entrance bottom width, this width of blade is identical with the length that medical material adds entrance two bottom sides, blade on described point of thumb wheel matches with the bottom that described medical material adds entrance, and the medical material that medical material is added in entrance 2 is laid on conveyer belt 31 uniformly.
In the course of the work, first regulate pressure-regulating valve according to concrete medical material, thereby regulate the distance of rubbing with the hands between medicine adhesive tape 41 and driving-belt 31 and the pressure domain of walker of determining the cylinder 52 after the distance of rubbing with the hands between medicine adhesive tape 41 and driving-belt 31, and then reach the optimum efficiency of rubbing medicine with the hands; After regulating, start all motors, medical material is poured into medical material and adds entrance 2, by a point thumb wheel 21, medical material is laid on conveyer belt 31 uniformly, and by conveyer belt 31, medical material is sent to outlet; Medical material is sent in the process of outlet, rubs medicine with the hands by rubbing 41 rotations of medicine adhesive tape with the hands, makes to rub with the hands medicine adhesive tape 41 by reciprocating air cylinder 58 drives and moves back and forth and rub medicine with the hands along medical material direction of transfer in rotating, and has increased the effect of rubbing medicine with the hands; Rub medical material after medicine with the hands and be sent to outlet by conveyer belt 31 and discharge by discharging channel 6 finally by crossing.
Embodiment bis-
Be with embodiment mono-difference: shown in described pressure exerting arrangement be hydraulic regulation pressure exerting arrangement, this hydraulic regulation pressure exerting arrangement comprises hydraulic jack and pressure adjusting lever, this hydraulic jack is provided with hydraulic regulating valve, the height of this hydraulic regulation valve regulation pressure plare and the pressure limit of hydraulic jack.
Embodiment tri-
Be with embodiment mono-or two differences: shown in pressure exerting arrangement be mechanical pressure spring pressure exerting arrangement, comprise compression spring, one end of this compression spring is connected with described pressure plare, the other end of this compression spring is connected with fixed bar, in this fixed bar, be provided with female thread and threaded engagement has screw rod, be rotatably connected to the other end and the described guide pad of screw rod, the other end of this screw rod can freely rotate on guide pad.Regulate the height of pressure plare by rotary screw, and compression spring applies certain downward pressure to pressure plare, ensure stranding drug effect fruit of the present utility model.
This utility model has replaced traditional artificial stranding medicine, can enhance productivity, saves labour force, meet large-scale production, and can prevent that staff from directly contacting Chinese crude drug, has ensured staff's safety and the clean hygiene of Chinese herbal medicine.

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1. a Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine, is characterized in that: comprise frame and rack-mounted medical material transporter, rub medicine device with the hands, the front upper of this medical material transporter is provided with medical material and adds entrance, and the rear portion of this medical material transporter is provided with medical material outlet; Directly over described medical material actuating device, be provided with the stranding medicine device for the medical material on medical material transporter being rubbed with the hands to medicine.
2. a kind of Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine according to claim 1, is characterized in that: the upper-lower position of described stranding medicine device is adjustable.
3. a kind of Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine according to claim 2, is characterized in that: described stranding medicine device is arranged in described frame by automatic pressure regulation device, and automatically regulates by this automatic pressure regulation device the upper-lower position of rubbing medicine device with the hands.
4. a kind of Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine according to claim 3, it is characterized in that: described automatic pressure regulation device comprises pressure plare, the both sides of this pressure plare are connected with respectively the pressure exerting arrangement of vertical setting, the top of this pressure exerting arrangement is connected with guide pad, and this guide pad adaptation is arranged in the horizontally disposed gathering sill of described upper rack; Described guide pad is connected with adjusting rod by guide pad link, and the other end of this adjusting rod is connected with reciprocating air cylinder, and this reciprocating air cylinder level is arranged in described frame.
5. a kind of Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine according to claim 4, is characterized in that: described pressure exerting arrangement is air pressure adjustment pressure exerting arrangement, hydraulic regulation pressure exerting arrangement or mechanical spring pressure exerting arrangement; The pressure adjusting lever that described air pressure adjustment pressure exerting arrangement comprises cylinder and is connected with cylinder; The pressure adjusting lever that described hydraulic regulation pressure exerting arrangement comprises hydraulic jack and is connected with hydraulic jack; Described mechanical spring pressure exerting arrangement comprises compression spring and is fixed in the fixed bar of compression spring upper end, and on this fixed bar, threaded engagement is connected with screw rod.
6. a kind of Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine according to claim 3, is characterized in that: described stranding medicine device comprises the first driving mechanism, rubs medicine adhesive tape, drivewheel and driven pulley with the hands; Described drivewheel and driven pulley are arranged on respectively the two ends of described pressure plare, and connect by described stranding medicine Belt Transmission; Described the first driving mechanism and described drivewheel connection for transmission are also arranged on close drivewheel one end of described pressure plare by driving arm.
7. a kind of Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: described medical material transporter comprises the second driving mechanism, conveyer belt and is arranged on the drive at conveyer belt two ends, the second driving mechanism drives conveyer belt by drive, and described the second driving mechanism is arranged in described frame.
8. a kind of Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine according to claim 7, is characterized in that: the both sides of described conveyer belt are provided with grate.
9. a kind of Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine according to claim 1, is characterized in that: the lower end that described medical material adds entrance is provided with a point thumb wheel.
10. a kind of Chinese crude drug automatic rubbing medicine processing machine according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: described medical material exit is provided with discharging channel, this discharging channel is trench structure, and the front portion of this discharging channel contacts with the rear portion of described conveyer belt, and the rear portion of this discharging channel is extended frame and is tilted to down; The both sides, rear portion of described discharging channel are provided with hook.
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