CN215121903U - Beet seed pelleting feeding speed self-adaption device - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a beet seed pelleting feeding speed self-adapting device, which comprises a shell, wherein the upper surface of the shell is connected with a processing cylinder by bolts, and the upper end of the processing cylinder is provided with a seed feeding pipe and a pelleting powder feeding pipe; the adjusting mechanism is arranged in the processing cylinder and used for adjusting the feeding speed; the auxiliary mechanism is arranged on the side wall of the shell and used for increasing the adjusting precision of the adjusting mechanism; power unit, power unit installs in the inside of shell for whole equipment provides power, the utility model relates to a seed pill ization technical field utilizes the weight automatically regulated feed rate who rotates the frame, under the prerequisite that does not influence equipment efficiency, prevents equipment low-load or overload operation.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a seed pill ization technical field specifically is a beet seed pill ization feed rate self-adaptation device.
Background
The vegetable seed pelleting technology is a technology which coats nutrient substances in vegetable seeds to form pills and is more beneficial to growth, and along with the increasingly wide adoption of vegetable seed heterosis and precision sowing technology, the seed pelleting technology is widely popularized in European and American countries. In the uk, about 95% of lettuce seeds are pelleted, and tomato seeds are also pelleted to a degree of 20%. The appearance and the shape of the pelletized seeds are uniform, and the mechanical sowing is facilitated. Meanwhile, because the medicament and the growth hormone are added in the pelleting process, the germination rate of the seeds is high, the seedlings are tidy, and the seedlings grow robustly. The vegetable seed pill is prepared from lettuce, Chinese cabbage, folium Allii tuberosi, herba Apii Graveolentis, radix Raphani, radix Dauci Sativae, Bulbus Allii Cepae, fructus Lycopersici Esculenti, Capsici fructus, fructus Solani Melongenae, and beet.
At present, beet seed pelleting machines on the market mix seeds and pelleting powder under the condition of moving humidity, and then stir, so that the surface of vegetable seeds is wrapped by a layer of pelleting powder, the weight and the volume of the seeds can be increased, and the shape of the seeds can be regulated, and the subsequent mechanical seeding is convenient to carry out, but the shapes of all the seeds have certain differences, the adhesion degree with the pelleting powder is different in the stirring process, when the adhesion speed of the beet seeds and the pelleting powder in the equipment is slower, the seeds and the pelleting powder are stacked in the equipment, so that the equipment is blocked, the existing technology is that the feeding speed is manually adjusted, so that the material stacking is prevented by reducing the production efficiency, the labor intensity of operators is high, and the production efficiency is reduced.
To this end, we propose a sugar beet seed pelleting feeding speed adaptive device to solve the above problems.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
An object of the utility model is to provide a beet seed pelletization input speed self-adaptation device to solve the beet seed pelletization machine on the existing market that above-mentioned background art provided when the beet seed in the equipment and the attachment velocity of pellet powder when slower, will appear seed and pellet powder and pile up in the equipment, lead to the equipment card to die and present technique is through manual regulation input speed, prevent with reduction production efficiency that the material from piling up, it is big not through operating personnel intensity of labour, and reduced production efficiency's problem.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme:
a beet seed pelleting feeding speed self-adaptive device comprises:
the upper surface of the shell is connected with a processing cylinder through a bolt, and the upper end of the processing cylinder is provided with a seed feeding pipe and a pill powder feeding pipe;
the adjusting mechanism is arranged in the processing cylinder and used for adjusting the feeding speed;
the auxiliary mechanism is arranged on the side wall of the shell and used for increasing the adjusting precision of the adjusting mechanism;
and the power mechanism is arranged in the shell and used for providing power for the whole equipment.
Preferably, the adjusting mechanism comprises a lifting rod, an adjusting block and the like, a side wall of one side of the processing barrel is provided with a long hole, an adjusting slide hole and a discharging notch, the long hole is positioned right above the adjusting slide hole, an adjusting rod is arranged in the long hole in a sliding manner, the upper surface of one end, positioned outside the processing barrel, of the adjusting rod is fixedly connected with a first adjusting spring, the upper end of the first adjusting spring is fixedly connected with an end cover of the processing barrel, the lower surface of the adjusting rod is fixedly connected with a lifting rod, the lifting rod is positioned right below the first adjusting spring, an adjusting slide rod is inserted in the adjusting slide hole in a sliding manner, an inclined plane is arranged at one end, positioned inside the processing barrel, of the adjusting slide rod, the upper surface of the adjusting slide rod abuts against the lower end of the lifting rod, a through hole is formed in the side wall above the adjusting slide rod, and a second adjusting spring is fixedly connected between one end, positioned far away from the processing barrel, of the adjusting slide rod and the shell, the adjusting rod is fixedly connected with an adjusting block on the lower surface inside the processing cylinder.
Preferably, the auxiliary mechanism includes supplementary slide opening, supplementary slide bar, recess, logical groove, lifter and auxiliary spring, supplementary slide opening has been seted up to one side lateral wall of a processing section of thick bamboo, and just supplementary slide opening is located and adjusts the slide opening directly over, slide in the supplementary slide opening and insert and be equipped with supplementary slide bar, and the upper surface of supplementary slide bar sets up fluted and logical groove, and the recess sets the inclined plane near the lateral wall of a processing section of thick bamboo, the lower fixed surface of adjusting the pole is connected with the lifter, and the lower extreme and the recess phase-match of lifter, fixedly connected with auxiliary spring between the one end that the processing section of thick bamboo was kept away from to supplementary slide bar and the shell.
Preferably, power unit includes motor, dwang, spacing groove, rotation frame and power spring, and the lower fixed surface of a processing section of thick bamboo installs the motor, and the output shaft of motor runs through a processing section of thick bamboo lateral wall fixedly connected with dwang, the spacing groove has been seted up to the circumference lateral wall of dwang, and the outside slip cap of dwang is equipped with the rotation frame, and rotates the inside of frame and set to leak hopper-shaped, the outside cover of dwang is equipped with power spring, and power spring's both ends offset with rotation frame and a processing section of thick bamboo internal surface respectively.
Preferably, the height of the rotating frame is smaller than the distance between the auxiliary sliding rod and the adjusting sliding rod, and the peripheral side walls of the auxiliary sliding rod are respectively abutted against the inner wall of the auxiliary sliding hole.
Preferably, the depth of the groove is set to be half of the height of the long hole.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that:
1. through the rotating frame, the extrusion rod, the groove and the like, when the rotating frame moves upwards, the operating pressure of equipment is low, the inclined plane of the groove pushes the extrusion rod upwards, the extrusion rod moves upwards to drive the adjusting rod to move upwards for a certain distance, and at the moment, beet seeds and pellet powder enter the equipment at a low speed, so that the production efficiency is improved under the condition of not increasing the operating pressure of the equipment, and meanwhile, the shortage of the storage space in a temporary storage area can be prevented;
2. through bracing piece, through-hole and lifter etc. when adjusting pole downstream, the lifter can insert the through-hole completely, and the feed rate stops completely this moment for input device's beet seed and pill powder are at first stored in temporary storage area, reduce the running pressure of equipment this moment, guarantee equipment processingquality.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an external overall structure of a beet seed pelleting feeding speed adaptive device provided by the utility model;
fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an adjusting mechanism of a beet seed pelleting feeding speed adaptive device provided by the utility model;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a power mechanism of a beet seed pelleting feeding speed adaptive device provided by the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a rotating frame of a self-adaptive device for the feeding speed of beet seeds;
FIG. 5 is a schematic structural view of a processing cylinder of a beet seed pelleting feeding speed adaptive device provided by the present invention;
fig. 6 is an enlarged view of a structure in fig. 2.
In the figure: 1. a housing; 2. an adjustment mechanism; 201. a long hole; 202. adjusting the sliding hole; 203. a discharge notch; 204. adjusting a rod; 205. a first regulating spring; 206. a lifting rod; 207. adjusting the sliding rod; 208. a through hole; 209. a second regulating spring; 210. an adjusting block; 3. a seed feeding pipe; 4. an auxiliary mechanism; 401. an auxiliary slide hole; 402. an auxiliary slide bar; 403. a groove; 404. a through groove; 405. an extrusion stem; 406. an auxiliary spring; 5. a pill powder feeding pipe; 6. a power mechanism; 601. a motor; 602. rotating the rod; 603. a limiting groove; 604. rotating the frame; 605. a power spring; 7. and (5) processing the cylinder.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all 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 to 6, a sugar beet seed pelleting feeding speed adaptive device comprises:
the upper surface of the shell 1 is connected with a processing cylinder 7 through bolts, and the upper end of the processing cylinder 7 is provided with a seed feeding pipe 3 and a pill powder feeding pipe 5;
the adjusting mechanism 2 is arranged inside the processing cylinder 7 and used for adjusting the feeding speed;
the auxiliary mechanism 4 is arranged on the side wall of the shell 1 and used for increasing the adjusting precision of the adjusting mechanism 2;
and the power mechanism 6, wherein the power mechanism 6 is arranged inside the shell 1 and is used for providing power for the whole equipment.
The adjusting mechanism 2 comprises a lifting rod 206, an adjusting block 210 and the like, a long hole 201, an adjusting slide hole 202 and a discharging notch 203 are formed in the side wall of one side of the processing barrel 7, the long hole 201 is positioned right above the adjusting slide hole 202, an adjusting rod 204 is slidably arranged in the long hole 201, a first adjusting spring 205 is fixedly connected to the upper surface of one end of the adjusting rod 204, which is positioned outside the processing barrel 7, the upper end of the first adjusting spring 205 is fixedly connected with the end cover of the processing barrel 7, a lifting rod 206 is fixedly connected to the lower surface of the adjusting rod 204, the lifting rod 206 is positioned right below the first adjusting spring 205, an adjusting slide rod 207 is slidably inserted in the adjusting slide hole 202, an inclined surface is arranged at one end of the adjusting slide rod 207, which is positioned inside the processing barrel 7, the upper surface of the adjusting slide rod 207 abuts against the lower end of the lifting rod 206, a through hole 208 is formed in the side wall above the adjusting slide rod 207, a second adjusting spring 209 is fixedly connected between one end of the adjusting slide rod 207, which is far away from the processing barrel 7, and the shell 1, the lower surface of the adjusting rod 204 inside the processing cylinder 7 is fixedly connected with an adjusting block 210.
The auxiliary mechanism 4 comprises an auxiliary sliding hole 401, an auxiliary sliding rod 402, a groove 403, a through groove 404, an extrusion rod 405 and an auxiliary spring 406, the auxiliary sliding hole 401 is formed in the side wall of one side of the processing barrel 7, the auxiliary sliding hole 401 is located right above the adjusting sliding hole 202, the auxiliary sliding rod 402 is inserted into the auxiliary sliding hole 401 in a sliding mode, the groove 403 and the through groove 404 are formed in the upper surface of the auxiliary sliding rod 402, the groove 403 is arranged to be an inclined plane close to the side wall of the processing barrel 7, the extrusion rod 405 is fixedly connected to the lower surface of the adjusting rod 204, the lower end of the extrusion rod 405 is matched with the groove 403, and the auxiliary spring 406 is fixedly connected between one end, far away from the processing barrel 7, of the auxiliary sliding rod 402 and the shell 1.
When using, when the inside material of equipment is less, can drive supplementary slide bar 402 and remove to the direction of keeping away from a processing section of thick bamboo 7, at the removal in-process, the inclined plane of recess 403 can upwards promote the squeeze bar 405, the squeeze bar 405 rebound can drive adjusting lever 204 rebound certain distance, material input speed is slower this moment, beet seed and pill powder get into equipment with less speed, increase production efficiency under the condition that does not aggravate equipment running pressure, also can prevent simultaneously that temporary storage area inside storage space is not enough.
Power unit 6 includes motor 601, dwang 602, spacing groove 603, rotate frame 604 and power spring 605, the lower fixed surface of a processing section of thick bamboo 7 installs motor 601, and the output shaft of motor 601 runs through a processing section of thick bamboo 7 lateral wall fixedly connected with dwang 602, spacing groove 603 has been seted up to the circumference lateral wall of dwang 602, and the outside slip cover of dwang 602 is equipped with rotates frame 604, and the inside of rotating frame 604 sets into leaks hopper-shaped, the outside cover of dwang 602 is equipped with power spring 605, and power spring 605's both ends offset with rotating frame 604 and a processing section of thick bamboo 7 internal surface respectively.
The motor 601 drives the rotating rod 602 to rotate, the rotating frame 604 is driven by the limiting groove 603 to rotate synchronously with the rotating rod 602, when the weight of the material inside the rotating frame 604 is heavy, the rotating frame 604 moves downwards and compresses the power spring 605, and when the weight of the material inside the rotating frame 604 is light, the power spring 605 pushes the rotating frame 604 upwards
The height of the rotating frame 604 is smaller than the distance between the auxiliary sliding rod 402 and the adjusting sliding rod 207, the peripheral side walls of the auxiliary sliding rod 402 are respectively abutted against the inner wall of the auxiliary sliding hole 401, the rotating frame 604 cannot simultaneously extrude the adjusting sliding rod 207 and the auxiliary sliding rod 402 due to the arrangement, the equipment is prevented from being blocked, and meanwhile, finished products after processing are prevented from falling through the auxiliary sliding hole 401, and the practicability of the equipment is improved.
The depth of the groove 403 is half of the height of the long hole 201, and the arrangement enables the adjusting rod 204 to move only half of the stroke when the extrusion rod 405 is clamped into the groove 403, so that the beet seeds and the pellet powder are input into the equipment at a lower speed, the production efficiency is improved, and meanwhile materials in the equipment can be prevented from being accumulated.
In the utility model, when the sugar beet seeds and the pill powder are accumulated in the equipment, the adjusting slide rod 207 moves towards the outside of the processing cylinder 7, the through hole 208 is aligned with the lifting rod 206, the first adjusting spring 205 can push the adjusting rod 204 to move downwards, and meanwhile, the lifting rod 206 can be pushed downwards and inserted into the through hole 208, and the temporary storage area can be started when the adjusting rod 204 moves downwards, so that the sugar beet seeds and the pill powder input at the moment can enter the temporary storage area, and the burden of the equipment is reduced;
further, after beet seeds and pill powder stop getting into equipment, the burden of equipment alleviates gradually, when the seed in the equipment with the pill powder is less, power unit 6 can upwards extrude regulating block 210 for adjust pole 204 rebound, and untie the temporary storage area, make the seed of storage in the temporary storage area and pill powder get into equipment, equipment continues work, so relapse can guarantee the long-term effectual operation of equipment, prevent that equipment overload or low efficiency from moving, increase the production efficiency of equipment.
The above, only be the concrete implementation of the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art is in the technical scope of the present invention, according to the technical solution of the present invention and the utility model, the concept of which is equivalent to replace or change, should be covered within the protection scope of the present invention.
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1. A beet seed pelleting feeding speed adaptive device is characterized by comprising:
the device comprises a shell (1), wherein the upper surface of the shell (1) is connected with a processing cylinder (7) through bolts, and the upper end of the processing cylinder (7) is provided with a seed feeding pipe (3) and a pill powder feeding pipe (5);
the adjusting mechanism (2) is arranged inside the processing barrel (7) and used for adjusting the feeding speed;
the auxiliary mechanism (4) is mounted on the side wall of the shell (1) and used for increasing the adjusting precision of the adjusting mechanism (2);
the power mechanism (6) is arranged inside the shell (1) and used for providing power for the whole equipment.
2. The sugar beet seed pelleting feeding speed self-adapting device according to claim 1, wherein the adjusting mechanism (2) comprises a lifting rod (206) and an adjusting block (210), one side wall of the processing barrel (7) is provided with a long hole (201), an adjusting slide hole (202) and a discharging notch (203), the long hole (201) is positioned right above the adjusting slide hole (202), the long hole (201) is provided with an adjusting rod (204) in a sliding manner, the upper surface of one end of the adjusting rod (204) positioned outside the processing barrel (7) is fixedly connected with a first adjusting spring (205), the upper end of the first adjusting spring (205) is fixedly connected with an end cover of the processing barrel (7), the lower surface of the adjusting rod (204) is fixedly connected with the lifting rod (206), the lifting rod (206) is positioned right below the first adjusting spring (205), an adjusting slide rod (207) is inserted in the adjusting slide hole (202) in a sliding manner, and the one end that adjusts slide bar (207) and be located processing section of thick bamboo (7) inside is provided with the inclined plane, and the upper surface of adjusting slide bar (207) offsets with the lower extreme of lifter (206), through-hole (208) have been seted up to the top lateral wall of adjusting slide bar (207), and adjust fixedly connected with second adjusting spring (209) between the one end that slide bar (207) kept away from processing section of thick bamboo (7) and shell (1), adjust pole (204) and be located the inside lower fixed surface of processing section of thick bamboo (7) and be connected with regulating block (210).
3. The sugar beet seed pelleting feeding speed self-adapting device according to claim 2, wherein the auxiliary mechanism (4) comprises an auxiliary slide hole (401), an auxiliary slide rod (402), a groove (403), a through groove (404), an extrusion rod (405) and an auxiliary spring (406), the auxiliary slide hole (401) is formed in one side wall of the processing barrel (7), the auxiliary slide hole (401) is located right above the adjusting slide hole (202), the auxiliary slide rod (402) is slidably inserted into the auxiliary slide hole (401), the groove (403) and the through groove (404) are formed in the upper surface of the auxiliary slide rod (402), the groove (403) is arranged to be an inclined surface close to the side wall of the processing barrel (7), the extrusion rod (405) is fixedly connected to the lower surface of the adjusting rod (204), the lower end of the extrusion rod (405) is matched with the groove (403), and the auxiliary slide rod (402) is fixedly connected between one end, far away from the processing barrel (7), and the shell (1) A spring (406).
4. The sugar beet seed pelleting feeding speed self-adapting device according to claim 1, wherein the power mechanism (6) comprises a motor (601), a rotating rod (602), a limiting groove (603), a rotating frame (604) and a power spring (605), the motor (601) is fixedly installed on the lower surface of the processing barrel (7), the output shaft of the motor (601) penetrates through the side wall of the processing barrel (7) and is fixedly connected with the rotating rod (602), the limiting groove (603) is formed in the side wall of the circumference of the rotating rod (602), the rotating frame (604) is slidably sleeved on the outer side of the rotating rod (602), the rotating frame (604) is arranged in the rotating frame (604) in a funnel shape, the power spring (605) is sleeved on the outer side of the rotating rod (602), and two ends of the power spring (605) respectively abut against the inner surfaces of the rotating frame (604) and the processing barrel (7).
5. The sugar beet seed pelleting feeding speed adaptive device according to claim 4, wherein the height of the rotating frame (604) is smaller than the distance between the auxiliary slide bar (402) and the adjusting slide bar (207), and the peripheral side walls of the auxiliary slide bar (402) are respectively abutted against the inner wall of the auxiliary slide hole (401).
6. A sugar beet seed pelleting feeding speed adaptive device according to claim 3, characterized in that the depth of the groove (403) is set to half of the height of the long hole (201).
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