CN209425181U - A kind of mounting platform of worm screw auxiliary member - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a kind of mounting platforms of worm screw auxiliary member, including platform and worm screw, worm screw is externally provided with auxiliary member, auxiliary member includes the subring being set in outside worm screw, subring is equipped with the auxiliary rod of vertical auxiliary ring axis, platform is equipped with the first support base, second support base and Auxiliary support seat, first support base, first is respectively equipped on second support base and Auxiliary support seat to shore, second shores and auxiliary is shored, worm screw be located at first shore and second shore between, first shores and can be rotated about axis in the first support base, second shores and can move in the second support base along axis, second, which shores the direction first in no external force, shores pop-up, auxiliary is shored and can be moved in Auxiliary support seat along axis, the positioning pin parallel with the axis that first shores is additionally provided on platform, auxiliary rod can be with positioning pin contacts.The benefit of the utility model is can to complete the location and installation of auxiliary member and worm screw, determines the access site of worm screw grinding, improves worm screw grinding efficiency.
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Technical field
The utility model relates to worm screw manufacturing technology field more particularly to a kind of mounting platforms of worm screw auxiliary member.
Background technique
The screw thread engagement on surface, demand with higher for the surface accuracy of worm and gear, snail when Worm Wheel System
Bar needs to improve the surface accuracy of worm screw by multiple grinding process after surface cutting molding.
For example, application No. is CN2018108858396 in Chinese patent literature, publication date is open on December 7th, 2018
Entitled " a kind of casing assembly worm processing technology " patent of invention, this application discloses a kind of casing assembly worm processing technology, packet
Include step: 1) base, forge and made annealing treatment；2) casing assembly worm workpiece is heated to 1200~1400 DEG C, heat preservation 2 by normalizing
~3h；3) after rough turn modulation, half fine turning outer circle, equal made allowance 0.15mm~0.2mm, rough turn helicoid；4) hole end surface in smart car；
5) keyseat；6) half smart car helicoid；7) it clamps, the whole not exclusively whole tooth in screw flight tail portion removes flat thorn less than 1/3 transverse tooth thickness part；
8) it is heat-treated；9) half fine cylindrical；10) helicoid is refined；11) center lapping；12) fine cylindrical；13) helicoid is refined.
Worm screw worm screw in grinding rotates, and grinding wheel straight line in the screw thread of worm screw is walked about.The thread of worm screw in order to prevent
By abrasion of grinding wheel, determine that primary face when worm screw installation is very important in worm screw grinding process.In the prior art also not
It was found that there is the locating piece of the worm screw grinding of specialized application.
The mounting platform that the utility model will design a kind of worm screw auxiliary member carrys out the installing auxiliary part on worm screw, and then really
The position for determining threaded openings of worm screw when on grinding machine prevents abrasion of grinding wheel thread, improves worm screw grinding efficiency.
Utility model content
When the utility model will overcome worm screw in the prior art to be ground, the access site at threaded openings is difficult on grinding machine
Determining deficiency provides a kind of mounting platform of worm screw auxiliary member, can on worm screw installing auxiliary part, pass through auxiliary member
The position for determining threaded openings of worm screw when on grinding machine prevents abrasion of grinding wheel thread, improves worm screw grinding efficiency.
To achieve the goals above, the utility model adopts the following technical solution.
A kind of mounting platform of worm screw auxiliary member, including platform and worm screw, worm screw are externally provided with auxiliary member, and auxiliary member includes
The subring being set in outside worm screw, subring are equipped with the auxiliary rod of vertical auxiliary ring axis, platform be equipped with the first support base,
Second support base and Auxiliary support seat, be respectively equipped on the first support base, the second support base and Auxiliary support seat first shore,
Two shore and auxiliary is shored, first shores and shore coaxial line with second and be oppositely arranged, and the axis shored and first is assisted to shore
Axis intersects vertically, worm screw be located at first shore and second shore between, first shore can in the first support base around axis turn
Dynamic, second shores and can move in the second support base along axis, and second, which shores the direction first in no external force, shores pop-up, assists
Shoring can move in Auxiliary support seat along axis, and the positioning pin parallel with the axis that first shores is additionally provided on platform, auxiliary
Bar can be with positioning pin contacts.
Subring is set in outside worm screw, is shored by first and is shored clamping worm screw with second, auxiliary, which is shored, can withstand worm screw
Screw thread, rotary worm, is shored by auxiliary and is limited with worm thread, determined the screw position of worm screw, pass through position later later
Fixed positioning pin is contacted with auxiliary rod, locks subring, then auxiliary rod and the screw position of worm screw determine that, can complete to criticize
The production of quantization, it is ensured that the position of threaded openings and auxiliary member on each worm screw to be ground determines, when worm screw is ground, passes through
Auxiliary member determines the installation site of worm screw, ensure that abrasive grinding wheel out of, the opening of worm thread enters worm screw screw thread,
The thread of abrasion of grinding wheel worm screw is prevented, the location and installation of auxiliary member and worm screw can be completed, determines the feed position of worm screw grinding
It sets, improves the grinding efficiency of worm screw.
Preferably, platform is equipped with sliding rail, the axis that sliding rail parallel first is shored, the first support base, the second support base
It can be slided along sliding rail with Auxiliary support seat.Facilitate the first support base of installation, the second support base and Auxiliary support seat, the first support
Seat, the second support base and Auxiliary support seat can move on the slide rail carries out position adjusting, the convenient progress to different size worm screws
Location and installation improves the practicability of tooling platform.
Preferably, being equipped with rack gear on the downside of sliding rail, the lower section of the first support base, the second support base and Auxiliary support seat is distinguished
Equipped with rotatable first gear, second gear and equipment gear, first gear, second gear and equipment gear all with rack tooth
Shape engagement, the first support base are equipped with the first shaking tray that first gear can be driven to rotate, and the second support base, which is equipped with, can drive the
Second shaking tray of two gears rotation, Auxiliary support seat are equipped with the auxiliary shaking tray of energy band dynamic auxiliary gear rotation.
The first shaking tray is rotated, first gear can drive the first support base to move along sliding rail with rack gear cooperation, and rotation second is shaken
Disk, second gear can drive the second support base to move along sliding rail with rack gear cooperation, and rotation auxiliary shaking tray, assist tooth wheel and rack is matched
It closes energy band dynamic auxiliary support base to move along sliding rail, moving structure is simple, easy to operate.
Preferably, the second outside shored is fixed with the positioning ring that outer diameter shores diameter greater than second, the second support
Placement hole is equipped in seat, the diameter of placement hole and the crest clearance of positioning ring cooperate, and positioning ring is located in placement hole, the second support
One end that seat is shored towards first is equipped with limit neck, and the second one end penetrating mounting holes shored are pierced by out of limit neck, limits neck
Diameter be less than the diameter of positioning ring, second one end for shoring back to first of support is equipped with stop collar, second other end shored
It stretches through out out of stop collar, is equipped between stop collar and positioning ring and is set in the second reset spring for shoring outside.Reset spring
Push positioning ring far from stop collar, it is ensured that second shores that the clamping action shored with first is reliable, completes holding out against automatically for worm screw,
It is easy to operate.
Preferably, two opposite link blocks are fixed on the outside of the second support base, the compression bar being equipped between two link blocks,
One end of compression bar is rotatably connected between two link blocks, and the compression bar end is equipped with transmission gear, and the lower section of transmission gear is equipped with
The driving rack engaged with transmission gear tooth form, driving rack can slide between two link blocks, and second shores and stretch from stop collar
One end out is equipped with limited block, and driving rack and limited block position are fixed.
Compression bar is pressed down on, transmission gear cooperation driving rack pushes limited block to shore seat, reset spring quilt far from first
Compression, second shores outer shifting, sticks into after worm screw and loosens compression bar, and reset spring drives second to shore resets, second shore energy with
First shores clamping, and the operating procedure that worm screw clamps is simple and reliable, is conducive to loading and unloading；Cooperated by transmission gear and driving rack
Transmission, stable transmission after tooth form engagement improve compression bar and push limited block i.e. the second stability shored.
Preferably, Auxiliary support seat be equipped with the first auxiliary tank that shore axis parallel, be fixed in auxiliary tank
Stock is assisted, the briquetting that can compress auxiliary stock is additionally provided on Auxiliary support seat, briquetting and Auxiliary support seat pass through housing screw
It compresses, assists being fixed with the vertical first extension rod for shoring axis on stock, extension rod is tilted upward from auxiliary stock and reached
First top shored, positioning pin are located on extension rod.Assist stock fixed in auxiliary tank, the position of positioning pin and extension rod
It is fixed, then assist stock and the position of Auxiliary support seat to fix, so that the position that the position of positioning pin and auxiliary are shored just is fixed,
The position of auxiliary member is limited by positioning pin, and assist shoring can and worm screw be threadedly engaged positioning, by limit positioning pin with
It assists the relative position shored just to define the position of auxiliary member and worm screw, improve auxiliary member assembly and positions the accurate of worm screw
Property.
Preferably, positioning pin is equipped with positioning pin cap far from one end of extension rod.Pass through positioning pin cap and detent fit
It can assist determining position of the auxiliary member on worm axis, further increase the convenience of auxiliary member installation.
The utility model has following usefulness: 1, ensuring that abrasive grinding wheel enters snail from the opening of worm thread
In the screw thread of bar, the thread of abrasion of grinding wheel worm screw is prevented, improves the grinding efficiency of worm screw；2, convenient for mounting and clamping, improve snail
The production efficiency of bar；3, tooling platform is easy to operate, and cost is low, reduces the cost of worm screw production.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 is the structural schematic diagram of the utility model.
Fig. 2 is the top view of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is the structural schematic diagram of worm screw and auxiliary member in the utility model.
Fig. 4 is the internal view of the second support base in the utility model.
Fig. 5 is the schematic diagram of internal structure of the utility model platform.
In figure: 211 additional screws of platform 1 sliding rail, 11 rack gear, 12 worm screw, 2 auxiliary member, 21 subring, 212 auxiliary rod
213 first support bases 3 first shore 31 second support base, 4 link block, 401 compression bar, 402 transmission gear, 403 placement hole
404 limit 405 stop collar of neck, 406 reset spring, 407 driving racks 408 second shore 41 positioning ring, 411 limited block
It is fixed that 412 Auxiliary support seat, 5 auxiliary tank 501 auxiliary shores 51 auxiliary stock, 60 extension rod, 61 briquetting, 62 housing screw 63
Position pin 64 positioning pin cap, 641 first gear, 71 second gear, 72 equipment gear, 73 first shaking tray, 81 second shaking trays 82 are auxiliary
Help shaking tray 83.
Specific embodiment
The utility model is described further in the following with reference to the drawings and specific embodiments.
In Fig. 1 to Fig. 5, a kind of mounting platform of worm screw auxiliary member, including platform 1 and worm screw 2, worm screw 2 are externally provided with auxiliary
Assistant piece 21, auxiliary member 21 include the subring 211 being set in outside worm screw 2, and subring 211 is equipped with vertical 211 axis of subring
Auxiliary rod 213, platform 1 be equipped with the first support base 3, the second support base 4 and Auxiliary support seat 5, the first support base 3, second
Be respectively equipped on support base 4 and Auxiliary support seat 5 first shore 31, second shore 41 and auxiliary shore 51, first shores 31,
Two shore 41 and wherein one end for shoring of third is respectively equipped with cone, and the cone angle of cone is towards worm screw 2.First shores 31 Hes
Second, which shores 41 coaxial lines, is oppositely arranged, and auxiliary, which shores 51 axis and shores 31 axis with first, to intersect vertically, and worm screw 2 is located at
First, which shores 31 and second, shores between 41, and first, which shores 31, to be rotated about axis in the first support base 3, and second shores 41 can
Moved in the second support base 4 along axis, second shore 41 and second support base 4 internal diameter clearance fit.Second shore 41
31 pop-ups are shored towards first when no external force, the second outside for shoring 41 is fixed with outer diameter and shores determining for 41 diameters greater than second
Position ring 411, the second support base 4 is interior equipped with placement hole 404, and the diameter of placement hole 404 cooperates with the crest clearance of positioning ring 411,
Positioning ring 411 is located in placement hole 404, the second support base 4 towards first shore 31 one end be equipped with limit neck 405, second top
Support 41 one end penetrating mounting holes from limit neck 405 in be pierced by, limit neck 405 diameter be less than positioning ring 411 diameter, second
Support base 4 shores 31 one end back to first and is equipped with stop collar 406, and second other end for shoring 41 stretches through out of stop collar 406
Out, it is equipped between stop collar 406 and positioning ring 411 and is set in the second reset spring 407 for shoring 41 outsides.Second support base 4
Outside be fixed with two opposite link blocks 401, one end of the compression bar 402 being equipped between two link blocks 401, compression bar 402 can turn
Dynamic to be connected between two link blocks 401, the end of compression bar 402 is equipped with transmission gear 403, and transmission gear 403 and compression bar 402 are consolidated
Fixed one.The lower section of transmission gear 403 is equipped with the driving rack 408 engaged with 403 tooth form of transmission gear, driving rack 408
Downside is bonded with the second support base 4, and driving rack 408 can slide between two link blocks, and second shores 41 from stop collar 406
One end of stretching is equipped with limited block 412, and driving rack 408 and 412 position of limited block are fixed.
Auxiliary is shored 51 and can be moved in Auxiliary support seat 5 along axis, be additionally provided on platform 1 shored with first 31 axis
Parallel positioning pin 64, Auxiliary support seat 5 be equipped with the first auxiliary tank 501 that shore 31 axis parallel, it is solid in auxiliary tank 501
It is fixed to be equipped with auxiliary stock 60, the briquetting 62 that can compress auxiliary stock 60, briquetting 62 and Auxiliary support are additionally provided on Auxiliary support seat 5
Seat 5 is compressed by housing screw 63, assists being fixed with the vertical first extension rod 61 for shoring 31 axis, extension rod on stock 60
61 tilt upward from auxiliary stock 60 and reach the first top for shoring 31, and positioning pin 64 is equipped with positioning far from one end of extension rod 61
Sell cap 641.Positioning pin 64 is located on extension rod 61.Auxiliary rod 213 can be contacted with positioning pin 64.Worm screw 2 is fixed on first and shores
31 and second shore between 41, and the side of subring 211 is equipped with additional screws 212, shore 51 by auxiliary and determine 2 screw thread of worm screw
Behind position, rotation subring 211 is contacted to auxiliary rod 213 with positioning pin 64, tightens the additional screws 212 of 211 side of subring
The assembly of auxiliary member 21 can be completed, install convenient is efficient.
Platform 1 is equipped with sliding rail 11, and sliding rail 11 parallel first shores 31 axis, the first support base 3, the second support base 4
It can be slided along sliding rail 11 with Auxiliary support seat 5.Rack gear 12, the first support base 3, the second support base 4 and auxiliary are equipped on the downside of sliding rail 11
That helps support base 5 is respectively arranged below with rotatable first gear 71, second gear 72 and equipment gear 73, first gear 71,
Second gear 72 and equipment gear 73 are all engaged with 12 tooth form of rack gear, and the first support base 3, which is equipped with, can drive 71 turns of first gear
The first dynamic shaking tray 81, the second support base 4 are equipped with the second shaking tray 82 that second gear 72 can be driven to rotate, Auxiliary support seat 5
It is equipped with the auxiliary shaking tray 83 that energy band dynamic auxiliary gear 73 rotates.
Subring 211 is set in outside worm screw 2, presses down on compression bar 402, and transmission gear 403 cooperates driving rack 408 to push
Limited block 412 shores seat 3 far from first, and reset spring 407 is compressed, and second shores shifting outside 41, loosens compression bar after sticking into worm screw 2
402, reset spring 407 drives second to shore 41 resets, and second, which shores 41, to shore 31 clamping worm screws 2, auxiliary top with first
The screw thread for withstanding worm screw 2 is moved in support 51 along its axis, later rotary worm 2, shores 51 and worm thread limit by auxiliary, really
Determine the screw position of worm screw 2, is contacted later by the fixed positioning pin 64 in position with auxiliary rod 213, lock subring 211, then
Auxiliary rod 213 and the screw position of worm screw 2 determine that, can complete the production of mass, it is ensured that on each worm screw 2 to be ground
Threaded openings and auxiliary member 21 position determine, worm screw 2 be ground when, by auxiliary member 21 determine worm screw 2 installation site, really
It protects abrasive grinding wheel to enter in the screw thread of worm screw 2 from the opening of the screw thread of worm screw 2, prevents the thread of abrasion of grinding wheel worm screw 2, mention
The grinding efficiency of high worm screw 2.
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1. a kind of mounting platform of worm screw auxiliary member, characterized in that including platform and worm screw, worm screw is externally provided with auxiliary member, auxiliary
Assistant piece includes the subring being set in outside worm screw, and subring is equipped with the auxiliary rod of vertical auxiliary ring axis, and platform is equipped with the
One support base, the second support base and Auxiliary support seat are respectively equipped on the first support base, the second support base and Auxiliary support seat
One shores, second shores and auxiliary is shored, and first shores and shore coaxial line with second and be oppositely arranged, and assists the axis shored and
One axis shored intersects vertically, worm screw be located at first shore and second shore between, first shore can be in the first support base
It is rotated about axis, second shores and can move in the second support base along axis, and second, which shores the direction first in no external force, shores
Pop-up, auxiliary are shored and can be moved in Auxiliary support seat along axis, are additionally provided with and parallel with the axis that first shores are determined on platform
Position pin, auxiliary rod can be with positioning pin contacts.
2. a kind of mounting platform of worm screw auxiliary member according to claim 1, characterized in that the platform, which is equipped with, to be slided
Rail, the axis that sliding rail parallel first is shored, the first support base, the second support base and Auxiliary support seat can be slided along sliding rail.
3. a kind of mounting platform of worm screw auxiliary member according to claim 2, characterized in that be equipped on the downside of the sliding rail
Rack gear, the first support base, the second support base and Auxiliary support seat are respectively arranged below with rotatable first gear, second gear
And equipment gear, first gear, second gear and equipment gear are all engaged with rack gear tooth form, the first support base is equipped with and can drive
First shaking tray of first gear rotation, the second support base are equipped with the second shaking tray that second gear can be driven to rotate, Auxiliary support
Seat is equipped with the auxiliary shaking tray of energy band dynamic auxiliary gear rotation.
4. a kind of mounting platform of worm screw auxiliary member according to claim 1 or 2 or 3, characterized in that second top
It is fixed with the positioning ring that outer diameter shores diameter greater than second on the outside of support, is equipped with placement hole in the second support base, placement hole
The cooperation of the crest clearance of diameter and positioning ring, positioning ring are located in placement hole, and the second support base is set towards one end that first shores
There is limit neck, the second one end penetrating mounting holes shored are pierced by out of limit neck, and the diameter for limiting neck is less than the diameter of positioning ring,
One end that second support is shored back to first is equipped with stop collar, and second other end shored stretches through out out of stop collar, stop collar
It is equipped between positioning ring and is set in the second reset spring for shoring outside.
5. a kind of mounting platform of worm screw auxiliary member according to claim 4, characterized in that second support base
Outside is fixed with two opposite link blocks, the compression bar being equipped between two link blocks, and one end of compression bar is rotatably connected in two connections
Between block, the compression bar end is equipped with transmission gear, and the lower section of transmission gear is equipped with the driving rack engaged with transmission gear tooth form,
Driving rack can slide between two link blocks, second shore from stop collar stretch out one end be equipped with limited block, driving rack and
Limited block position is fixed.
6. a kind of mounting platform of worm screw auxiliary member according to claim 1 or 2 or 3, characterized in that the auxiliary branch
Support seat be equipped with the first auxiliary tank that shore axis parallel, be fixed with auxiliary stock in auxiliary tank, on Auxiliary support seat also
Equipped with the briquetting that can compress auxiliary stock, briquetting and Auxiliary support seat are compressed by housing screw, assist being fixed on stock
Vertical first shores the extension rod of axis, and extension rod tilts upward from auxiliary stock and reaches the first top shored, and positions pins position
In on extension rod.
7. a kind of mounting platform of worm screw auxiliary member according to claim 6, characterized in that the positioning pin is separate to be prolonged
One end of boom is equipped with positioning pin cap.
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