CN206156191U - Curve coal breakage pipe - Google Patents
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The utility model provides a curve coal breakage pipe, form roller guard shield, funnel and the coal chute way of transporting the passageway including from top to bottom connecting gradually. Be equipped with the regulating plate that changes coal stream direction and use in the roller guard shield, the waffle slab of regulating plate for installing the bottom plate, net in the waffle slab is for the holding bulk cargo. The coal chute is said, and transversal personally submit circularly and the axis is the curve. The utility model discloses curve coal breakage pipe not only can effectively lighten the serious problem of impact abrasion in the present coal breakage pipe, still can overcome bridging, the putty phenomenon of coal chute in saying, improves increase of service life when transporting efficiency.
Description
Technical field
The utility model is related to Bulk material transhipment technical field, it particularly relates to a kind of structure of curve coal spout
Design.
Background technology
At present, the coal spout that bulk cargo transhipment is used in the industrial site such as power station, harbour, steel mill, mine mostly is linear structure
And it is designed as square more the cross section, produced problem not only shortens its service life during bulk transportation, increases maintenance
Difficulty, also reduce bulk cargo transport efficacy, affect attendant it is healthy, be embodied in it is following some：
1st, roller shield or funnel in the bulk cargo high speed impact coal spout come from roller conveying, cause in the face that be hit inside it
Serious wear, lining plate replacing, the maintenance workload repaired greatly, shorten the service life of equipment, even with wear-resisting material
Material manufacture liner plate still needs Jing often to change, it is impossible to basic solution wear problem.
2nd, the coal chute road in existing coal spout cannot make corresponding adjustment according to the humidity of bulk cargo, in coal chute road
Easily there is bridging, putty phenomenon, affect transport efficacy.
3rd, because coal chute road lower section is typically provided the conveyer belt for carrying and transporting bulk cargo, the blanking of bulk cargo in prior art
Point lacks effective regulating measure, and discharging point is not just causing the bulk cargo on conveyer belt to be placed centrally, impact when under bulk drop
Power will cause the belt deviation on conveyer belt, so as to cause belt abrasion aggravation.
4th, bulk cargo is in loose condition (of surface) in dropping process in coal chute road, large quantity of air is carried, under causing coal chute road
There is phenomenon of dusting in the discharging point periphery of side, and makes attendant in the higher Work places of dust concentration, has both polluted operation field
Institute, endangers the healthy of attendant again, also add the frequency of the flushing of Work places, causes water consumption to increase.
The content of the invention
The purpose of this utility model is to provide a kind of curve coal spout, not only can effectively mitigate in existing coal spout and impact
The problem of serious wear, can also overcome bridging, the putty phenomenon in coal chute road, extend while improving transport efficacy and use the longevity
Life.
To reach above-mentioned purpose, the utility model is employed the following technical solutions and is achieved：
A kind of curve coal spout, including being from top to bottom in turn connected to form the transhipment roller shield of passage, funnel and defeated
Coal pipeline.The adjustable plate for changing coal stream direction is provided with the roller shield, the adjustable plate is the grid for being provided with base plate
Plate, the grid in the waffle slab is to house bulk cargo.The circular in cross-section and axis in the coal chute road is curve.
Only impact same on the funnel or coal chute road inwall to prevent from impacting the bulk cargo fallen after the adjustable plate
Bulk cargo contact surface, it is preferred that design makes the upper articulation of the adjustable plate in the roller shield inwall, under the adjustable plate
Portion is hinged with pull bar, and the pull bar is stretched out in outside the roller shield, and attendant can pass through pull bar described in push-and-pull
The luffing angle of adjustable plate is adjusted indirectly.
After the adjustment of adjustable plate luffing angle is finished, for ease of the fixation pull bar position, preferably protect in the roller
The capture configurations for limiting the pull bar movement are provided between cover and the pull bar.
For the simplification capture configurations, the preferred capture configurations are including the support plate and spiral shell being connected to outside roller shield
The top bolt being connected on the support plate is tethered, the top bolt limits its movement by holding out against the pull bar.
It is preferably described defeated to overcome existing coal chute road that the problem of corresponding adjustment cannot be made according to the humidity of bulk cargo
Coal pipeline includes upper connecting tube, lower connecting tube and connects the upper connecting tube, the regulation bend pipe of lower connecting tube.The upper connection
Pipe includes connecting tube body, is set in the first lap joint flange of the upper connection tube body and is connected to the upper connecting tube
Simultaneously block the first bellmouth of first lap joint flange in body lower end.The lower connecting tube includes lower connection tube body, is set in
It is described it is lower connection tube body the second lap joint flange and be connected to it is described it is lower connection tube body upper end and block it is described second live
Second bellmouth of set flange.It is bolted between first lap joint flange and the second lap joint flange, so that the regulation
First bellmouth, the second bellmouth described in the two ends difference grafting of bend pipe.Particularly, the regulation bend pipe can be according to the humidity of bulk cargo
Bending direction is adjusted, wherein, when bulk cargo humidity is larger, when comparing bonding, the rotatable bend pipe that adjusts makes its bending direction with upper company
The bending direction of adapter conversely, the total curvature so as to increase the coal chute road, beneficial to the whereabouts of bulk cargo putty phenomenon is prevented, when
When bulk cargo is more dried, the rotatable bend pipe that adjusts makes its bending direction consistent with the bending direction of upper connecting tube, so as to reduce
The total curvature in coal chute road is stated, beneficial to buffering reduction of speed, to reduce destruction of the impulsive force of bulk cargo to coal chute road inwall.
Preferably, first bellmouth is included with upper first flange that connects of connection tube body and with described first
The second flange that flange connects, second bellmouth include with lower the 3rd flange that connects of connection tube body and with it is described
The 4th flange that 3rd flange connects.
To protect coal chute road inwall so as to avoid being subject to the direct impact and friction of bulk cargo, preferably described defeated
Bulk cargo contact surface in coal pipeline is provided with abrasion-proof backing block.
Compared with prior art, advantage of the present utility model and beneficial effect are：Change coal is designed with the utility model
The adjustable plate in stream direction, can prevent the bulk cargo in arrival curve coal spout from directly impacting roller shield or funnel, while adjusting
Plate is designed as being provided with the waffle slab of base plate, and when bulk cargo impacts adjustable plate with fast speed, part bulk cargo will be filled in net
In the grid of panel, in the presence of lasting impulsive force, the bulk cargo being filled in grid can bond the block for becoming harder,
To form bulk cargo layer, even if part block comes off, new bulk cargo continues to filling, so as to realize the function to expect abrasive material,
The structure design of adjustable plate not only alleviates roller shield or the impact wear suffered by funnel, it is ensured that adjustable plate itself it is resistance to
Polishing machine, extends the overall service life of curve coal spout.In addition the cross section in coal chute road is in circle in the utility model
Shape and axis are curve, and the structure design of circular pipe formula can avoid bridging dead angle from producing, and the structure design of curve slideway formula can
Avoid bulk cargo from significantly impacting caused adhesion problem, while reducing putty transport efficacy is improved.
After the detailed description of the utility model embodiment is read in conjunction with the accompanying, other features of the present utility model and advantage
Will become clearer from.
Description of the drawings
Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram of the utility model specific embodiment curve coal spout；
Fig. 2 is the front view of adjustable plate in Fig. 1；
Fig. 3 is the schematic diagram of adjustable plate and pull bar in Fig. 1；
Fig. 4 is the partial schematic diagram in coal chute road in Fig. 1；
Fig. 5 is sectional view of the upper connecting tube along line A-A in Fig. 1；
Fig. 6 is that sectional view of the bend pipe along line B-B is adjusted in Fig. 1.
Specific embodiment
With reference to the accompanying drawings and examples the utility model is described in further detail：
As shown in figure 1, the present embodiment proposes a kind of curve coal spout, including the roller shield being from top to bottom sequentially connected
10th, funnel 20 and coal chute road 30, the roller shield 10, funnel 20 and coal chute road 30 form the transhipment passage of bulk cargo,
The adjustable plate 40 for changing coal stream direction is provided with roller shield 10, adjustable plate 40 can prevent bulk cargo from directly impacting roller shield
10 or funnel 20, mitigate roller shield 10 or the impact wear suffered by funnel 20, specifically, when bulk cargo is delivered to roller via roller-way
After in road shield 10, bulk cargo directly impacts adjustable plate 40 and is changed by it and drops down onto in coal chute road 30 under direction, is solution certainly
Be hit the wear problem in face on adjustable plate 40, and adjustable plate 40 is designed as being provided with the waffle slab of base plate, such as Fig. 2 in the present embodiment
It is shown, and using the accommodating bulk cargo of grid in waffle slab, in bulk cargo constant impingement adjustable plate 40, part bulk cargo will be filled in
Become harder block in grid, to form bulk cargo layer, follow-up bulk cargo will impact bulk cargo layer, even if part block
Come off by hitting, follow-up bulk cargo continues to filling, and the structure design of adjustable plate 40 employs to expect abrasive material in the present embodiment
Design, effectively increases the abrasion resistance properties of itself, has both protected roller shield 10 or funnel 20, and itself is protected again.Additionally,
The circular in cross-section and axis in coal chute road 30 is curve, on the one hand, the structure design of circular pipe formula, and bridging can be avoided dead
The generation at angle, and cause more than bulk cargo in gathering state, air carrying amount is significantly reduced, phenomenon of dusting is reduced, so as to reach
The effect for suppressing dust has been arrived, and the center of gravity of bulk cargo will not on a large scale deviate the axis of coal chute road 30, it is ensured that and bulk cargo is defeated
Property placed in the middle in coal pipeline 30, so as to the centre of the discharging point conveyer belt below all the time of bulk cargo, is overcoming discharging point not just
The problems such as caused belt deviation, belt abrasion aggravation；On the other hand, the structure design of curve slideway formula, using defeated coal
Frictional resistance in pipeline 30 slowing down the flow velocity of bulk cargo to a certain extent, so as to mitigate impact of the coal stream to coal chute road 30,
With the blocking problem of bonding caused by avoiding bulk cargo from significantly impacting, it is therefore prevented that the generation of putty phenomenon.
The structure of the curve coal spout in the present embodiment is specifically illustrated below.
When bulk cargo causes its humidity to be varied from because of reasons such as seasonal variations, in order that bulk cargo is in coal chute road 30
The impact to funnel 20 or the inwall of coal chute road 30 can also be reduced while interior smooth whereabouts, the pitching of adjustable plate 40 in the present embodiment
Adjustable angle, specifically, as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2, by the upper articulation of adjustable plate 40 in the inwall of roller shield 10, adjustable plate 40
Lower hinge has pull bar 50, and design makes pull bar 50 stretch out in outside roller shield 10, in order to pass through to push or pull on
Pull bar 50 adjusts the luffing angle of adjustable plate 40 indirectly.For example, when bulk cargo is more dried, pull bar 50 just can be promoted to make
Adjustable plate 40 increases with vertical direction angle, and now bulk cargo drops down onto the inwall of funnel 20 under impacting after adjustable plate 40, then from leakage
Struggle against and drop down onto coal chute road 30 under 20 inwalls；When bulk cargo more bonds, in order that bulk cargo prevents from blocking up quickly through coal chute road 30
Material, the appearance of bridging phenomenon, just can pull pull bar 50 adjustable plate 40 is reduced with the angle of vertical direction, now bulk cargo impact
Drop down onto under after adjustable plate 40 in coal chute road 30, with fast speed whereabouts under self gravitation acceleration.It is rotatable to adjust
Plate 40 so that the frayed area in funnel 20 or coal chute road 30 becomes big, it is to avoid fall under after bulk cargo impact adjustable plate 40 same
Position at one, contributes to extending the service life of curve coal spout.
The movement of pull bar 50 can directly pass through attendant's Manual push-pull, it is also possible to which design makes pull bar 50 and motor
The ejector apparatus of driving or other thrust mechanisms, such as hydraulic press, aerostatic press etc. connect to realize bowing to adjustable plate 40 indirectly
The adjustment of elevation angle degree.
The scheme of the Manual push-pull of simple structure is adopted in the present embodiment, and limits pull bar 50 for convenience and moved,
The capture configurations for limiting the movement of pull bar 50 are provided between roller shield 10 and pull bar 50.Capture configurations it is various informative,
For example：
1st, it is equidistant along its length on pull bar 50 to be vertically machined with multiple location holes, add outside roller shield 10
Work is in bayonet socket, designs a kind of inverted U-shaped fastener, after the luffing angle of adjustable plate 40 is finished using the regulation of pull bar 50, will
The two ends of fastener are respectively clamped on pull bar 50 location hole and bayonet socket outside neighbouring roller shield 10, to reach fixed push-and-pull
The effect of bar 50.
2nd, equidistant along its length on pull bar 50 to be vertically machined with multiple grooves, roller outer bolt is connected with can
The clip of vertical clamping pull bar 50, is first turned on clip, when the luffing angle that adjustable plate 40 is finished using the regulation of pull bar 50
Afterwards, discharging clip makes the groove of neighbouring clip on its clamping pull bar 50, pull bar 50 can reach fixation under the stop of clip
Effect.
3rd, it is equidistant along its length on pull bar 50 to be vertically connected with multiple locating rods, between adjacent positioned bar between
Away from the wall thickness equal to roller shield 10, in order that pull bar 50 passes through roller shield 10, open up on roller shield 10
For the strip hole that pull bar 50 is passed through, the length of strip hole is more than the height of locating rod, and the width of strip hole is less than locating rod
Height, when adjusted using pull bar 50 finish the luffing angle of adjustable plate 40 after, rotate pull bar 50 make on pull bar 50 it is adjacent
Two locating rods of nearly roller shield 10 are stuck in the inside and outside of roller shield 10, to fix pull bar 50.
And the present embodiment is externally connected to support plate, and the bolt connection on support plate to simplify structure in roller shield 10
Top bolt, after the luffing angle of adjustable plate 40 is finished using the regulation of pull bar 50, just rotatable top bolt makes it hold out against pull bar 50
To limit the movement of pull bar 50.
Additionally, the inwall to protect coal chute road 30 so as to avoid being subject to the direct impact and friction of bulk cargo, the present embodiment
Bulk cargo contact surface in coal chute road 30 is provided with abrasion-proof backing block 60, as shown in Figure 5, Figure 6, specifically can be threaded connection,
The mode such as welding or bonding is installed.
Further, can more swimmingly from coal chute road 30 in the case of humidity difference for the ease of bulk cargo
Inside pass through, as Figure 1 and Figure 4, coal chute road 30 is included in upper connecting tube 31, lower connecting tube 33 and connection in the present embodiment
The regulation bend pipe 32 of connecting tube 31, lower connecting tube 33, is connected with funnel 20 connect between connecting tube 31 and funnel 20 for convenience
Transition conduit is connected to, the lower lower end of connecting tube 33 is connected with outlet.Specifically, upper connecting tube 31 includes the body of upper connecting tube 31, set
The first lap joint flange loaded on the body of upper connecting tube 31 and it is connected to the body lower end of upper connecting tube 31 and blocks the first kink method
The first blue bellmouth, the first bellmouth include the first flange connected with the body of upper connecting tube 31 and connect with the first flange the
Two flange；Lower connecting tube 33 includes the body of lower connecting tube 33, the second lap joint flange for being set in the body of lower connecting tube 33 and company
It is connected to the body upper end of lower connecting tube 33 and blocks the second bellmouth of the second lap joint flange；Second bellmouth includes and lower connecting tube 33
The 3rd flange that body phase connects and the 4th flange connected with the 3rd flange.
After the two ends for adjusting bend pipe 32 are inserted respectively into the first bellmouth, the second bellmouth, just first is lived using stay bolt
Set flange is fastenedly connected with the second lap joint flange, so as to adjust the two ends difference bellmouth of grafting first, second bellmouth of bend pipe 32.When
The connection between the first lap joint flange and the second lap joint flange is dismantled, is rotated and is adjusted bend pipe 32, and reconnect the first kink method
Just flow velocity of the bulk cargo in coal chute road 30 is can adjust after blue and the second lap joint flange, for example, when bulk cargo humidity is larger, is relatively glued
During knot, the rotatable bend pipe 32 that adjusts makes the bending direction of its bending direction and upper connecting tube 31 conversely, so as to increase coal chute road
30 total curvature, beneficial to hurtling down for bulk cargo putty, bridging phenomenon are prevented；When bulk cargo is more dried, rotatably adjust curved
Pipe 32 makes its bending direction consistent with the bending direction of upper connecting tube 31, so as to reduce the total curvature in coal chute road 30, beneficial to slow
Spin speed, to reduce destruction of the impulsive force of bulk cargo to coal chute road 30.
Particularly, use because regulation bend pipe 32 can be rotated, in order to protect the inwall for adjusting bend pipe 32, this enforcement comprehensively
Example is circumferentially surrounded in regulation bend pipe 32 and is provided with abrasion-proof backing block 60, as shown in Figure 6.
More than, only it is preferred embodiment of the present utility model, it is not the limit for making other forms to the utility model
System, any those skilled in the art are changed or are modified as equivalent variations possibly also with the technology contents of the disclosure above
Equivalent embodiments.But it is every without departing from technical solutions of the utility model content, according to technical spirit pair of the present utility model
Any simple modification, equivalent variations and remodeling that above example is made, still fall within the protection model of technical solutions of the utility model
Enclose.
Claims (7)
1. a kind of curve coal spout, including the roller shield, funnel and the defeated coal that are from top to bottom in turn connected to form transhipment passage
Pipeline, it is characterised in that the adjustable plate for changing coal stream direction is provided with the roller shield, the adjustable plate is to be provided with bottom
The waffle slab of plate, to house bulk cargo, the circular in cross-section and axis in the coal chute road are the grid in the waffle slab
Curve.
2. curve coal spout according to claim 1, it is characterised in that the upper articulation of the adjustable plate is in the roller
Shield inwall, its underpart is hinged with pull bar, and the pull bar is stretched out in outside the roller shield.
3. curve coal spout according to claim 2, it is characterised in that set between the roller shield and the pull bar
The capture configurations of the restricted pull bar movement.
4. curve coal spout according to claim 3, it is characterised in that the capture configurations include being connected to roller shield
Top bolt of the outside support plate and bolt connection on the support plate, the top bolt limits its shifting by holding out against the pull bar
It is dynamic.
5. curve coal spout according to any one of claim 1 to 4, it is characterised in that the coal chute road includes upper
Connecting tube, lower connecting tube and the connection upper connecting tube, the regulation bend pipe of lower connecting tube：
The upper connecting tube includes upper connection tube body, is set in upper first lap joint flange for connecting tube body and connection
In upper first bellmouth for connecting tube body lower end and blocking first lap joint flange,
The lower connecting tube includes lower connection tube body, is set in lower second lap joint flange for connecting tube body and connection
In lower second bellmouth for connecting tube body upper end and blocking second lap joint flange,
It is bolted between first lap joint flange and the second lap joint flange, so that the two ends difference for adjusting bend pipe
First bellmouth, the second bellmouth described in grafting.
6. curve coal spout according to claim 5, it is characterised in that
First bellmouth includes what is connected with upper first flange that connects of connection tube body and with first flange
Second flange,
Second bellmouth includes what is connected with lower the 3rd flange that connects of connection tube body and with the 3rd flange
4th flange.
7. curve coal spout according to claim 6, it is characterised in that the bulk cargo contact surface in the coal chute road is installed
There is abrasion-proof backing block.
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