CN214677067U - Feeding and blanking device - Google Patents
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The utility model relates to the technical field of feeding equipment, in particular to a feeding and blanking device, which comprises a storage hopper and a control system, wherein a feed inlet is arranged at the upper part of the storage hopper, a discharge outlet is arranged at the lower part of the storage hopper, a knife gate valve is arranged at the discharge outlet of the storage hopper, a vertical material mixing channel is arranged at the lower part of the storage hopper, a water inlet pipe is connected onto the side wall at the upper part of the material mixing channel, a material mixing mechanism is arranged inside the material mixing channel at the lower part of the water inlet pipe, and inclined material guide plates are arranged in the material mixing channel at the lower part of the material mixing mechanism in a staggered manner; the bottom of the material mixing channel is communicated with a material storage channel, a material discharging pipe is arranged at the material discharging end of the material storage channel, an occlusion discharging mechanism is arranged at the opening of the material discharging pipe, the pigs are fed by independently chewing the occlusion discharging mechanism, a pressure sensor is arranged on the left side of the occlusion discharging mechanism, and a material receiving groove is arranged right below the opening of the material discharging pipe; generally, the utility model has the advantages of clean health, avoid the fodder to pile up in the silo for a long time, can get according to the edible volume of pig and eat and excellent in use effect.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a feeding equipment technical field, a doffer of feeding specifically says so.
Background
China is a big livestock breeding country, the continuous healthy development of the livestock industry plays an important role in aspects of market supply, rural economic development, farmer income increase and the like, in recent years, the national livestock breeding scale is rapidly developed, the livestock breeding industry is in the key period of transformation and revolution, and the livestock breeding industry is developing towards the directions of scale, standardization, intellectualization and the like.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model discloses an invention aims at overcoming the defect that describes in the background art to realize a clean health, avoid the fodder to pile up for a long time in the silo, can get the food and excellent in use effect's feeding doffer according to the edible volume of pig.
In order to achieve the purpose of the invention, the technical scheme of the utility model is as follows: a feeding and blanking device comprises a storage hopper and a control system, wherein a feeding hole is formed in the upper portion of the storage hopper, a discharging hole is formed in the lower portion of the storage hopper, a knife gate valve is arranged at the discharging hole of the storage hopper, a vertical material mixing channel is formed in the lower portion of the storage hopper, a water inlet pipe is connected to the side wall of the upper portion of the material mixing channel, an electromagnetic valve is arranged on the water inlet pipe, a material mixing mechanism is arranged inside the material mixing channel in the lower portion of the water inlet pipe, and inclined material guide plates are arranged in the material mixing channel in the lower portion of the material mixing mechanism in a staggered mode; the material mixing device is characterized in that the bottom of the material mixing channel is communicated with a material storage channel, a discharging pipe is arranged at the discharging end of the material storage channel, an occlusion discharging mechanism is arranged at the position of the discharging pipe opening, a pressure sensor is arranged on the left side of the occlusion discharging mechanism, and a material receiving groove is arranged under the discharging pipe opening.
Further, the shape of material stock passageway sets up to circular-arcly, can follow the vertical level that turns into with the circulation direction of fodder, and the material stock passageway is provided with transparent material, and the fodder circulation direction in the storage hopper is downward, and the material stock passageway can turn to into the level with the circulation direction of fodder, makes things convenient for the fodder to feed to the pig in the mouth, and the material stock passageway sets up to transparent material and can provide a direction for the pig, makes the pig independently go to chew interlock unloading mechanism to impel this feeding doffer's unloading.
Further, compounding mechanism includes that the level articulates the (mixing) shaft on the wall body in compounding passageway, the one end of (mixing) shaft is connected with agitator motor, and the stirring piece of having arranged on the (mixing) shaft, the fodder that falls from the storage hopper, the stirring through the stirring piece can be realized the breakage to the bold fodder to make things convenient for the unloading.
Further, the shape of discharging pipe sets up to the rectangular pipe, and the length in its vertical direction is shorter than the length of horizontal direction, accords with the shape of pig's mouth to realize that the pig can get to sting the discharging pipe, thereby realize the unloading of interlock unloading mechanism.
Furthermore, the occlusion blanking mechanism comprises a rectangular cylinder fixed on the upper half part of the discharge pipe, a pressure sensor is arranged on the left side wall body of the rectangular cylinder, a spring is connected in the rectangular cylinder, a limiting plate is fixed at the end part of the spring, the limiting plate is connected with a baffle, the lower part of the baffle is provided with a rectangular blanking port, a lower cushion pad is arranged at the lower part of the blanking port, the limiting plate is arranged inside the rectangular cylinder and can move up and down in the rectangular cylinder, when the occlusion blanking mechanism enters the mouth of a pig, the lower part of the mouth of the pig is contacted with the lower cushion pad, the upper part of the mouth of the pig is contacted with the upper cushion pad, the baffle enters the rectangular cylinder after the mouth exerts force, the blanking port is communicated with the discharge pipe, so that feed enters the mouth of the pig from the blanking port, feeding and blanking are realized, the device performs blanking under the condition that the pig is chewed independently, so that food can be taken according to the edible amount of the pig, clean and sanitary.
Further, be provided with on the baffle that baffle and feed opening meet the department and break up the pole, when the baffle rebound, break up the pole and can be to a power of the fodder of discharging pipe bottom, prevent that the fodder from piling up in feed opening department, influencing the unloading.
Further, the height of feed opening is the same with the radius of discharging pipe, and the height of baffle is the same with the radius of discharging pipe, and the baffle just can shelter from for the lower half of a rectangular cylinder under initial condition to realize spacingly to the fodder.
Further, the control system comprises a controller, the controller is connected with a timer, the knife gate valve, the pressure sensor, the electromagnetic valve and the stirring motor are all connected with the controller, the timer is arranged to provide a periodic use for the controller, so that the pig is fed regularly, when the feeding state is started, control switches of the knife gate valve and the stirring motor are started simultaneously, the feeding is started, when the amount of feed in the storage channel is enough, the eating speed of the pig cannot catch up with the feeding speed, namely the pressure sensor reaches a certain value, the control switches of the knife gate valve and the stirring motor are closed, the pig eats the feed through the occlusion feeding mechanism, when the humidity needs to be provided for the feed or the pig is fed with wet feed, the control switches for simultaneously starting the knife gate valve, the electromagnetic valve and the stirring motor are arranged for the controller in the initial state, and when the timer is in the idle state, knife gate valve, agitator motor all are in idle state, have certain fodder in the storage passageway this moment, and the pig can slowly be eaten, avoids the fodder to pile up in the silo for a long time, excellent in use effect.
The utility model discloses a blanking device of feeding's beneficial effect:
1. the utility model discloses a doffer of feeding, when the interlock unloading mechanism that sets up got into the mouth of pig, the mouth lower part and the lower blotter contact of pig, the mouth upper portion and the last blotter contact of pig, in the mouth was hard the backplate got into a rectangle section of thick bamboo, feed opening and discharging pipe communicated with each other to realize that the fodder enters into the mouth of pig from the feed opening, realize feeding the unloading, the unloading under the condition that this device independently chewed at the pig, thereby can get food, clean health according to the edible volume of pig.
2. The utility model discloses a feeding and blanking device, when the state of feeding starts, start the knife gate valve, the control switch of agitator motor simultaneously, begin the unloading, when the fodder volume in the present stock passageway is enough much, the edible speed of pig can't catch up with unloading speed, namely pressure sensor reaches a definite value, close the control switch of knife gate valve and agitator motor, the pig eats the fodder through interlock unloading mechanism, when needing to provide humidity or feed wet fodder for the pig, then set up the control switch that starts knife gate valve, solenoid valve and agitator motor simultaneously for the controller under the initial condition, when the timer is in idle state, knife gate valve, agitator motor all are in idle state, there is certain fodder in the storage passageway at this moment, the pig can slowly eat, avoid the fodder to pile up for a long time in the silo, after the unloading of storage hopper is accomplished, there is certain fodder in the storage passageway, the pig can slowly eat, avoids the fodder to pile up in the silo for a long time, excellent in use effect.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of the feeding and blanking device of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of an occluding and blanking mechanism of the feeding and blanking device of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a control system of the feeding and blanking device of the present invention.
In the figure: 1-a storage hopper, 11-a feed inlet and 12-a discharge outlet; 2-knife gate valve; 31-water inlet pipe, 32-electromagnetic valve; 4-a material mixing channel, 41-an inclined material guide plate;
the material mixing mechanism comprises: 51-stirring motor, 52-stirring shaft and 53-stirring sheet;
6-material storage channel, 7-pressure sensor;
occlusion blanking mechanism: 81-upper cushion, 82-rectangular cylinder, 83-spring, 84-limiting plate, 85-baffle, 86-feed opening and 87-lower cushion;
9-material receiving groove, 10-material discharging pipe and 101-scattering rod; 13-controller, 14-timer.
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The feeding and blanking device of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.
In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
Referring to fig. 1-3, the feeding and blanking device of this embodiment, on the basis of good use effect, realizes the use effect of cleanness and sanitation, avoiding the feed from being accumulated in the trough for a long time, and being capable of taking the feed according to the eating amount of the pigs, the structure of this embodiment includes a storage hopper 1, an occlusion blanking mechanism and a control system, a feed inlet 11 is arranged on the upper portion of the storage hopper 1, a discharge outlet 12 is arranged on the lower portion of the storage hopper 1, a knife gate valve 2 is arranged at the discharge outlet 12 of the storage hopper 1, a vertical mixing channel 4 is arranged on the lower portion of the storage hopper 1, a water inlet pipe 31 is connected to the upper side wall of the mixing channel 4, and an electromagnetic valve 32 is arranged on the water inlet pipe 31.
Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the mixing mechanism is arranged inside the mixing channel 4 at the lower part of the water inlet pipe 31 of the embodiment, the inclined material guide plates 41 are arranged in the mixing channel 4 at the lower part of the mixing mechanism in a staggered manner, the circulation time of the feed in the mixing channel 4 is longer, so that the mixing of the water and the feed can be increased, meanwhile, the caking of the feed can be reduced, and the feed can be eaten by pigs for a longer time. The compounding mechanism includes that the level articulates the (mixing) shaft 52 on the wall body in compounding passageway 4, the one end of (mixing) shaft 52 is connected with agitator motor 51, and the stirring piece 53 that has arranged on the (mixing) shaft 52, the fodder that falls from storage hopper 1, the stirring through stirring piece 53 can be realized the breakage to the bold fodder to make things convenient for the unloading.
Referring to fig. 1 and 2, 4 bottoms intercommunications of compounding passageway of this embodiment have material storage channel 6, material storage channel 6's shape sets up to circular-arcly, can follow vertical commentaries on classics level with the circulation direction of fodder, material storage channel 6 is provided with transparent material, fodder circulation direction in the storage hopper 1 is downward, material storage channel 6 can turn to into the level with the circulation direction of fodder, make things convenient for in the fodder blanking to the pig's mouth, material storage channel 6 sets up to transparent material and can provide a direction for the pig, make the pig independently go to chew interlock unloading mechanism, thereby impel this feeding doffer's unloading. The discharging pipe 10 is arranged at the discharging end of the material storage channel 6, the occlusion discharging mechanism is arranged at the discharging pipe 10, the discharging pipe 10 is in a rectangular pipe shape, the length in the vertical direction of the rectangular pipe is shorter than the length in the horizontal direction, the shape of a pig mouth is met, the pig can bite the discharging pipe 10, and accordingly discharging of the occlusion discharging mechanism is achieved.
Referring to fig. 1 and 2, a pressure sensor 7 is disposed on the left side of the occluding and discharging mechanism of the present embodiment, and a receiving groove 9 is disposed right below the opening of a discharging pipe 10. The occlusion blanking mechanism comprises a rectangular barrel 82 fixed on the upper half part of the discharge pipe 10, the pressure sensor 7 is arranged on the left side wall body of the rectangular barrel 82, a spring 83 is connected in the rectangular barrel 82, a limiting plate 84 is fixed at the end part of the spring 83, the limiting plate 84 is connected with a baffle plate 85, a rectangular blanking opening 86 is arranged at the lower part of the baffle plate 85, the height of the blanking opening 86 is the same as the radius of the discharge pipe 10, the height of the baffle plate 85 is the same as the radius of the discharge pipe 10, and the baffle plate 85 can just shield the lower half part of the rectangular barrel 82 in an initial state, so that the limitation on the feed is realized; be provided with on the baffle 85 that baffle 85 and feed opening 86 meet the department and break up pole 101, when baffle 85 rebound, break up pole 101 and can be to a power of the fodder of discharging pipe 10 bottom, prevent that the fodder from piling up in feed opening 86 department, influence the unloading. The lower part of feed opening 86 is provided with down blotter 87, limiting plate 84 sets up inside a rectangular cylinder 82, can reciprocate inside a rectangular cylinder 82, when interlock unloading mechanism gets into the mouth of pig, the mouth lower part of pig and lower blotter 87 contact, the mouth upper portion and the contact of last blotter 81 of pig, the mouth is exerted oneself in backplate 85 gets into a rectangular cylinder 82, feed opening 86 and discharging pipe 10 communicate with each other, thereby realize that the fodder enters into the mouth of pig from feed opening 86, realize the unloading of feeding, the unloading under the condition that the pig was independently chewed, thereby can get food, clean health according to the edible volume of pig.
Referring to fig. 1 and 3, the control system of this embodiment includes a controller 13, the controller 13 adopts a PLC controller 13, the controller 13 is connected to a timer 14, the knife gate valve 2, the pressure sensor 7, the electromagnetic valve 32 and the stirring motor 51 are all connected to the controller 13, the setting of the timer 14 provides a periodic use for the controller 13, so as to feed pigs at regular time, when the feeding state is started, the control switches of the knife gate valve 2 and the stirring motor 51 are simultaneously started, and the feeding starts, when the amount of feed in the feed storage channel 6 is sufficient, the feeding speed of the pigs cannot reach the feeding speed, that is, when the pressure sensor 7 reaches a certain value, the control switches of the knife gate valve 2 and the stirring motor 51 are closed, the pigs eat the feed through the occlusion feeding mechanism, and when humidity needs to be provided for the feed or wet feed is needed for the pigs, the controller 13 is set and the knife gate valve 2 is simultaneously started at the initial state, When the timer 14 is in an idle state, the knife gate valve 2 and the stirring motor 51 are both in an idle state, and at the moment, a certain amount of feed is contained in the storage channel, so that the pigs can slowly eat the feed, the feed is prevented from being accumulated in the trough for a long time, and the using effect is good; stock material passageway 6 sets up to transparent material and can provide a direction for the pig, makes the pig independently go to chew interlock unloading mechanism to make this doffer of feeding's unloading.
The application principle and the application method of the embodiment are as follows: firstly, whether the electromagnetic valve 32 is used or not is determined according to whether the fed feed is wet feed or dry feed, when the feed to be fed is wet feed and is set by the timer 14 for feeding, the knife gate valve 2 and the control switch of the stirring motor 51 are simultaneously started through the controller 13, feeding is started, the pigs automatically feed through the occluding feeding mechanism, when the feed amount in the storage channel 6 is enough, the eating speed of the pigs cannot catch up with the feeding speed, namely the pressure sensor 7 reaches a certain value, the control switches of the knife gate valve 2 and the stirring motor 51 are closed, and when the value of the pressure sensor 7 is reduced to the set value of the pressure sensor 7, feeding is continued; when the timer 14 is in an idle state, the knife gate valve 2 and the stirring motor 51 are both stopped to be used, and the pig can slowly eat the feed due to the fact that the feed is in the idle state and the feed is stored in the storage channel, the feed is prevented from being accumulated in the trough for a long time, and the using effect is good; deposit material passageway 6 and set up to transparent material and can provide a direction for the pig, make the pig independently go to chew interlock unloading mechanism, the shape of discharging pipe 10 sets up to the rectangular pipe, and its length in the vertical direction is shorter than the length of horizontal direction, accords with the shape of pig's mouth to make this doffer of feeding's unloading, the feed that the doffer of feeding leaked from feed opening 86 is caught by connecing silo 9, prevents the waste of feed.
Unless defined otherwise, technical or scientific terms used herein shall have the ordinary meaning as understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The use of the terms "a" or "an" and the like in the description and in the claims of this application do not necessarily denote a limitation of quantity. The word "comprising" or "comprises", and the like, means that the element or item listed before the word covers the element or item listed after the word and its equivalents, but does not exclude other elements or items. The terms "connected" or "coupled" and the like are not restricted to physical or mechanical connections, but may include electrical connections, whether direct or indirect.
The exemplary embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments, however, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications and changes may be made to the specific embodiments without departing from the concept of the present invention, and various combinations of the technical features and structures of the present invention may be implemented without departing from the scope of the present invention.
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1. The utility model provides a doffer of feeding, includes storage hopper and control system, storage hopper upper portion is provided with the feed inlet, and the storage hopper lower part is provided with discharge gate, its characterized in that: a knife gate valve is arranged at a discharge port of the storage hopper, a vertical mixing channel is arranged at the lower part of the storage hopper, a water inlet pipe is connected to the side wall of the upper part of the mixing channel, an electromagnetic valve is arranged on the water inlet pipe, a mixing mechanism is arranged in the mixing channel at the lower part of the water inlet pipe, and inclined guide plates are arranged in the mixing channel at the lower part of the mixing mechanism in a staggered manner; the material mixing device is characterized in that the bottom of the material mixing channel is communicated with a material storage channel, a discharging pipe is arranged at the discharging end of the material storage channel, an occlusion discharging mechanism is arranged at the position of the discharging pipe opening, a pressure sensor is arranged on the left side of the occlusion discharging mechanism, and a material receiving groove is arranged under the discharging pipe opening.
2. The feeding and blanking device of claim 1, wherein: the shape of material storage channel sets up to circular-arc, can change the circulation direction of fodder into the level from vertical, and the material storage channel is provided with transparent material.
3. The feeding and blanking device of claim 1, wherein: the mixing mechanism comprises a mixing shaft horizontally hinged to the inner wall of the mixing channel, one end of the mixing shaft is connected with a mixing motor, and mixing blades are distributed on the mixing shaft.
4. The feeding and blanking device of claim 3, wherein: the shape of discharging pipe sets up to the rectangle pipe.
5. The feeding and blanking device of claim 4, wherein: interlock unloading mechanism is including fixing the rectangle section of thick bamboo first half at the discharging pipe, and pressure sensor sets up on the left side wall body of a rectangle section of thick bamboo, rectangle section of thick bamboo in-connection has the spring, the end fixing of spring has the limiting plate, limiting plate connection has the baffle, the lower part of baffle is provided with the feed opening of rectangle, the lower part of feed opening is provided with down the blotter, the limiting plate sets up inside a rectangle section of thick bamboo, can reciprocate inside a rectangle section of thick bamboo.
6. The feeding and blanking device of claim 5, wherein: be provided with on the baffle of the department that meets of baffle and feed opening and break up the pole, when the baffle rebound, break up the pole and can prevent that the fodder from piling up in feed opening department, influencing the unloading to the fodder of discharging pipe bottom.
7. The feeding and blanking device of claim 6, wherein: the height of feed opening is the same with the radius of discharging pipe, and the height of baffle is the same with the radius of discharging pipe, and the baffle just can shelter from for the lower half of a rectangle section of thick bamboo under initial condition to realize spacingly to the fodder.
8. The feeding and blanking device of claim 3 or 6, characterized in that: the control system comprises a controller, the controller is connected with a timer, and the knife gate valve, the pressure sensor, the electromagnetic valve and the stirring motor are all connected with the controller.
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