CN217855648U - Resin blender - Google Patents

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CN217855648U
CN217855648U CN202221272512.XU CN202221272512U CN217855648U CN 217855648 U CN217855648 U CN 217855648U CN 202221272512 U CN202221272512 U CN 202221272512U CN 217855648 U CN217855648 U CN 217855648U
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甘树涛
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商秀建
罗宏志
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The utility model relates to the technical field of resin mixing, in particular to a resin mixer, which comprises a frame, a mixing barrel, a driving mechanism, a mixing mechanism and a feeding mechanism; the mixing barrel is connected to the frame and used for containing materials; the driving mechanism is connected to the frame; the mixing mechanism is connected to the driving mechanism and is driven by the driving mechanism to mix materials in the mixing barrel; the feeding mechanism is connected to the driving mechanism and driven by the driving mechanism to perform circumferential surrounding motion, and the feeding mechanism is arranged above the mixing barrel to add materials into the mixing barrel. The utility model discloses inside actuating mechanism can drive compounding mechanism and reinforced mechanism simultaneous movement, can mix when stirring at compounding mechanism to the material, adds the material in to the compounding bucket through reinforced mechanism, makes the material of interpolation fully contact with the material in the compounding bucket, improves the degree of consistency of mixing.

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Resin blender
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a resin mixing technical field, more specifically says, relates to a resin blender.
Background
Resin materials have been widely used in various fields of human social production and life because of their advantages such as light weight and good corrosion resistance. Mixing is an important link of resin material processing, also is the important factor that influences resin material quality, and present resin blender is mostly just mixed all putting into equipment with all raw materialss, can't mix while adding the material, mixes inefficiency, and the effect of mixing is not good enough.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
An object of the utility model is to provide a resin blender to solve the problem among the prior art.
In order to achieve the purpose, the application provides a resin mixer which comprises a frame, a mixing barrel, a driving mechanism, a mixing mechanism and a feeding mechanism;
the mixing barrel is connected to the frame and used for containing materials;
the driving mechanism is connected to the frame;
the mixing mechanism is connected to the driving mechanism and is driven by the driving mechanism to mix materials in the mixing barrel;
the feeding mechanism is connected to the driving mechanism and driven by the driving mechanism to perform circumferential surrounding motion, and the feeding mechanism is arranged above the mixing barrel to add materials into the mixing barrel.
Optionally, the frame comprises a bottom plate, a vertical plate and a transverse plate; the riser is fixed on the bottom plate, and the riser upper end is fixed with the diaphragm, and the one end that the riser was kept away from to the diaphragm is connected with actuating mechanism, is fixed with between bottom plate and the riser and strengthens the extension board.
Optionally, the mixing barrel comprises an outer barrel, an inner barrel and a heating assembly; the supporting legs of the outer barrel are connected to the bottom plate through bolts, the inner barrel is fixed on the inner side of the outer barrel, the inner barrel and the outer barrel form an annular groove with an open top, and a heating assembly is connected in the annular groove.
Optionally, the driving mechanism comprises a driving motor, a transmission shaft and a linkage plate; the feeding device is characterized in that the driving motor is arranged on the transverse plate, one end of the transmission shaft is connected with an output shaft of the driving motor to rotate under the driving of the driving motor, the other end of the transmission shaft is connected with the material mixing mechanism and drives the material mixing mechanism to rotate, a linkage plate is fixed on the transmission shaft and located above the material mixing mechanism, and the transmission shaft is connected with the feeding mechanism through the linkage plate.
Optionally, the drive mechanism further comprises a stationary tube; one end of the fixed tube is fixed on the bottom surface of the transverse plate, a fixed gear is fixed on the fixed tube, and the transmission shaft is rotationally matched in the fixed tube;
optionally, the feeding mechanism comprises a barrel, a feeding tube, a rotary gear, a rotary shaft and a spiral feeding plate; the feed cylinder bottom mounting has the filling tube, and the filling tube middle part is fixed in the through-hole of linkage board one end, rotatory gear and fixed gear meshing, rotatory gear bottom mounting has the rotation axis, and the rotation axis upper end is fixed with the spiral feed plate on rotating on the support on feed cylinder top, and the lower extreme normal running fit of spiral feed plate is in the filling tube.
Optionally, the mixing mechanism comprises a rotating disc, a stirring rod and a stirring impeller; the rotating disc is fixed on the transmission shaft and driven by the transmission shaft to rotate, a stirring rod is fixed at the bottom end of the rotating disc, and a plurality of stirring impellers are uniformly arranged at intervals along the axial direction of the stirring rod so as to perform mixing treatment on materials in the inner barrel through the plurality of stirring impellers.
The utility model provides a pair of resin blender, beneficial effect is:
the utility model discloses inside actuating mechanism can drive compounding mechanism and reinforced mechanism synchronous motion, can mix when stirring at compounding mechanism to the material, adds the material in to the compounding bucket through reinforced mechanism, makes the material of interpolation fully contact with the material in the compounding bucket, improves and mixes the degree of consistency.
In order to make the aforementioned and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention comprehensible, preferred embodiments accompanied with figures are described in detail below.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention or related technologies, the drawings used in the embodiments or related technologies will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following descriptions are some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts.
Fig. 1 is a first overall schematic diagram provided in an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a second overall schematic diagram provided by the embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic view of a rack provided by an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 4 is a first schematic diagram of a mixing barrel according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 5 is a schematic view two of a mixing barrel provided in an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 6 is a schematic view of a driving mechanism provided by an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 7 is a schematic view of a feeding mechanism provided by an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 8 is a schematic view of a mixing mechanism provided by the embodiment of the present invention.
Icon: a frame 1; a base plate 101; a riser 102; a transverse plate 103; a mixing barrel 2; an outer tub 201; an inner barrel 202; a heating element 203; a drive mechanism 3; a drive motor 301; a drive shaft 302; a linkage plate 303; a fixed tube 304; a material mixing mechanism 4; a rotating disk 401; a stir bar 402; a stirring impeller 403; a feeding mechanism 5; a barrel 501; a feed tube 502; a rotary gear 503; a rotating shaft 504; a screw feed plate 505.
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In order to make those skilled in the art better understand the technical solutions in the present application, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.
It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "fixed" or "disposed" on another element, it can be directly on the other element or be indirectly disposed on the other element; when an element is referred to as being "connected to" another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or be indirectly connected to the other element.
It will be understood that the terms "length," "width," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," and the like, refer to an orientation or positional relationship illustrated in the drawings for convenience in describing the present application and to simplify description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present application.
Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present application, "plurality" or "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically limited otherwise.
It should be understood that the structures, ratios, sizes, and the like shown in the drawings and described in the specification are only used for understanding and reading the contents disclosed in the specification, and are not used for limiting the conditions that the present application can implement, so the present invention has no technical significance, and any structural modification, ratio relationship change or size adjustment should still fall within the scope of the technical content disclosed in the present application without affecting the efficacy and the achievable purpose of the present application. In addition, the terms "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "middle" and "one" used in the present specification are for clarity of description, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present application, and changes or modifications in the relative relationship may be made without substantial technical changes.
The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying fig. 1-8.
Fig. 1 and 2 show an alternative embodiment of the invention.
In the optional embodiment, the resin mixer comprises a frame 1, a mixing barrel 2, a driving mechanism 3, a mixing mechanism 4 and a feeding mechanism 5; the mixing barrel 2 is connected to the frame 1 and used for containing materials; the driving mechanism 3 is connected to the frame 1, the mixing mechanism 4 is connected to the driving mechanism 3, and the materials in the mixing barrel 2 are mixed under the driving of the driving mechanism 3; the feeding mechanism 5 is connected to the driving mechanism 3 and driven by the driving mechanism 3 to perform circumferential surrounding motion, and the feeding mechanism 5 is arranged above the mixing barrel 2 to add materials into the mixing barrel 2.
When the resin mixer is implemented, materials to be mixed are placed into the mixing barrel 2, materials to be added in the mixing process are placed into the feeding mechanism 5, the driving mechanism 3 is started, and the mixing mechanism 4 is driven by the driving mechanism 3 to rotate, so that the materials in the mixing barrel 2 are stirred and mixed; when the driving mechanism 3 drives the mixing mechanism 4 to rotate, the feeding mechanism 5 can be driven to perform circular surrounding motion above the mixing barrel 2, and materials in the feeding mechanism 5 can be uniformly added into the mixing barrel 2. This resin blender compares in prior art, can evenly add the material at the stirring in-process, holds the material intensive mixing in making the material in the reinforced mechanism 5 and the compounding bucket 2.
Fig. 3 shows an alternative embodiment of the invention.
In this alternative embodiment, the frame 1 comprises a base plate 101, a riser 102 and a cross plate 103; be fixed with compounding bucket 2 on the bottom plate 101, riser 102 is fixed on bottom plate 101, and is located one side of compounding bucket 2, and riser 102 upper end is fixed with diaphragm 103, and the one end that riser 102 was kept away from to diaphragm 103 is connected with actuating mechanism 3, is fixed with between bottom plate 101 and the riser 102 and strengthens the extension board.
Bottom plate 101 is used for bearing riser 102 and compounding bucket 2, in order to improve the utility model discloses holistic stability, riser 102 are used for cooperating diaphragm 103 to realize bearing actuating mechanism 3, set up the stability that the extension board helps improving riser 102.
Fig. 4 and 5 show an alternative embodiment of the invention.
In this alternative embodiment, the mixing bowl 2 comprises an outer bowl 201, an inner bowl 202 and a heating assembly 203; a plurality of supporting legs of the outer barrel 201 are connected to the bottom plate 101 through bolts, the inner barrel 202 is fixed on the inner side of the outer barrel 201, the inner barrel 202 and the outer barrel 201 form an annular groove with an open top, and a heating assembly 203 is connected in the annular groove; a plurality of discharging pipes penetrating out of the bottom of the outer barrel 201 are fixed at the bottom of the inner barrel 202, and the bottom of each discharging pipe is connected with a pipe cover in a matching way.
When the mixing barrel 2 is implemented specifically, the inner barrel 202 is used for containing materials to complete mixing actions by matching with the mixing mechanism 4, and the heating component 203 is used for heating the barrel wall of the inner barrel 202 in the mixing process so as to prevent the materials contained in the inner barrel 202 from being cooled and solidified to influence the mixing effect; compare and install in compounding barrel head portion or the barrel wall inside among the prior art heating element, heating element 203 sets up in the annular groove, convenient to detach maintenance, and heating element 203 is annular electric heating board, also can be other heating elements that can be used for the resin heating.
Fig. 6 shows an alternative embodiment of the invention.
In this alternative embodiment, the driving mechanism 3 includes a driving motor 301, a transmission shaft 302 and a linkage plate 303; the driving motor 301 is installed on the transverse plate 103, one end of the transmission shaft 302 is connected with an output shaft of the driving motor 301 so as to rotate under the driving of the driving motor 301, the other end of the transmission shaft 302 is connected with the material mixing mechanism 4 and drives the material mixing mechanism 4 to rotate, a linkage plate 303 is fixed on the transmission shaft 302, the linkage plate 303 is located above the material mixing mechanism 4, and the transmission shaft 302 is connected with the feeding mechanism 5 through the linkage plate 303.
When the driving mechanism 3 is implemented, the driving motor 301 is started, the driving motor 301 rotates to drive the transmission shaft 302 to rotate, and the transmission shaft 302 rotates to drive the material mixing mechanism 4 to rotate, so that materials in the inner barrel 202 are mixed through the material mixing mechanism 4; meanwhile, when the transmission shaft 302 rotates, the linkage plate 303 drives the feeding mechanism 5 to perform circumferential motion, so that materials in the feeding mechanism 5 can be uniformly added into the inner barrel 202.
Fig. 7 shows an alternative embodiment of the invention.
In this alternative embodiment, the drive mechanism 3 further comprises a fixed tube 304; one end of the fixed tube 304 is fixed on the bottom surface of the transverse plate 103, a fixed gear is fixed on the fixed tube 304, and the transmission shaft 302 is rotatably matched in the fixed tube 304;
the feeding mechanism 5 comprises a charging barrel 501, a feeding pipe 502, a rotating gear 503, a rotating shaft 504 and a spiral feeding plate 505; the bottom end of the charging barrel 501 is fixedly provided with a charging pipe 502, the middle part of the charging pipe 502 is fixed in a through hole at one end of the linkage plate 303, a rotating gear 503 is meshed with a fixed gear, the bottom end of the rotating gear 503 is fixedly provided with a rotating shaft 504, the upper end of the rotating shaft 504 is rotated on a support at the top end of the charging barrel 501, a spiral feeding plate 505 is fixed on the rotating shaft 504, and the lower end of the spiral feeding plate 505 is rotatably matched in the charging pipe 502.
When 5 concrete implementations of feeding mechanism, feed cylinder 501 is used for holding the material of treating the interpolation, transmission shaft 302 passes through linkage board 303 and drives feed tube 502 to carry out circumference surrounding motion, feed tube 502 drives feed cylinder 501 and uses the axis of transmission shaft 302 to carry out circumference surrounding motion as the center, feed cylinder 501 drives rotatory gear 503 surrounding motion during the motion, because rotatory gear 503 and fixed gear meshing, therefore, can rotate around self axis during the motion of rotatory gear 503, thereby drive rotation axis 504 and rotate, drive spiral feed plate 505 when rotation axis 504 rotates and rotate with the cooperation of feed tube 502, the material output who holds in the feed cylinder 501 is to interior bucket 202.
Fig. 8 shows an alternative embodiment of the invention.
In this alternative embodiment, the mixing mechanism 4 includes a rotating disk 401, a stirring rod 402, and a stirring impeller 403; the rolling disc 401 is fixed on the transmission shaft 302 and is driven by the transmission shaft 302 to rotate, the bottom end of the rolling disc 401 is fixed with a stirring rod 402, the stirring rod 402 is uniformly provided with a plurality of stirring impellers 403 along the axial direction at intervals, so that the materials in the inner barrel 202 are mixed through the stirring impellers 403.
When the material mixing mechanism 4 is specifically implemented, the rotating disc 401 is driven by the transmission shaft 302 to rotate, the rotating disc 401 drives the stirring rod 402 to rotate when rotating, the stirring rod 402 rotates to drive the stirring impellers 403 to rotate, and therefore the materials in the inner barrel 202 are mixed through the stirring impellers 403.
The principle is as follows: the utility model discloses a resin mixer, the material that will wait to mix is put into mixing bucket 2, the material that will add in the mixing process is put into feeding mechanism 5, opens actuating mechanism 3, and mixing mechanism 4 rotates under the drive of actuating mechanism 3 to the material in mixing bucket 2 is stirred and is mixed; when the driving mechanism 3 drives the mixing mechanism 4 to rotate, the feeding mechanism 5 can be driven to perform circular surrounding motion above the mixing barrel 2, and materials in the feeding mechanism 5 can be uniformly added into the mixing barrel 2. This resin blender compares in prior art, can evenly add the material at the stirring in-process, holds the material intensive mixing in making the material in the reinforced mechanism 5 and the compounding bucket 2.
The embodiments are described in a progressive mode in the specification, the emphasis of each embodiment is on the difference from the other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments can be referred to each other. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, it is possible to make several improvements and modifications to the present application without departing from the principle of the present application, and such improvements and modifications also fall within the scope of the claims of the present application.
It is further noted that, in the present specification, relational terms such as first and second, and the like are used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising a … …" does not exclude the presence of another identical element in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

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1. A resin blender which is characterized in that: comprises a frame (1), a mixing barrel (2), a driving mechanism (3), a mixing mechanism (4) and a feeding mechanism (5);
the mixing barrel (2) is connected to the rack (1) and is used for containing materials;
the driving mechanism (3) is connected to the rack (1);
the mixing mechanism (4) is connected to the driving mechanism (3) and is used for mixing materials in the mixing barrel (2) under the driving of the driving mechanism (3);
the feeding mechanism (5) is connected to the driving mechanism (3) and driven by the driving mechanism (3) to perform circumferential surrounding motion, and the feeding mechanism (5) is arranged above the mixing barrel (2) to add materials into the mixing barrel (2).
2. A resin mixer as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the rack (1) comprises a bottom plate (101), a vertical plate (102) and a transverse plate (103); the vertical plate (102) is fixed on the bottom plate (101), a transverse plate (103) is fixed at the upper end of the vertical plate (102), and one end, far away from the vertical plate (102), of the transverse plate (103) is connected with a driving mechanism (3); a reinforcing support plate is fixed between the bottom plate (101) and the vertical plate (102).
3. A resin mixer as claimed in claim 2, wherein: the mixing barrel (2) comprises an outer barrel (201), an inner barrel (202) and a heating assembly (203); a plurality of supporting legs of the outer barrel (201) are connected to the bottom plate (101) through bolts, the inner barrel (202) is fixed on the inner side of the outer barrel (201), the inner barrel (202) and the outer barrel (201) form an annular groove with an open top, and a heating assembly (203) is connected in the annular groove; a plurality of discharging pipes penetrating out of the bottom of the outer barrel (201) are fixed at the bottom of the inner barrel (202), and the bottom of each discharging pipe is connected with a pipe cover in a matching way.
4. A resin mixer as claimed in claim 3, wherein: the driving mechanism (3) comprises a driving motor (301), a transmission shaft (302) and a linkage plate (303); on driving motor (301) installation diaphragm (103), transmission shaft (302) one end and the output shaft of driving motor (301) to rotate under the drive of driving motor (301), compounding mechanism (4) are connected to transmission shaft (302) other end, and drive compounding mechanism (4) and rotate, are fixed with linkage plate (303) on transmission shaft (302), and linkage plate (303) are located compounding mechanism (4) top, and transmission shaft (302) are connected with reinforced mechanism (5) through linkage plate (303).
5. A resin mixer as claimed in claim 4, wherein: the drive mechanism (3) further comprises a fixed tube (304); one end of the fixed tube (304) is fixed on the bottom surface of the transverse plate (103), a fixed gear is fixed on the fixed tube (304), and the transmission shaft (302) is rotationally matched in the fixed tube (304);
the feeding mechanism (5) comprises a charging barrel (501), a feeding pipe (502), a rotating gear (503), a rotating shaft (504) and a spiral feeding plate (505); feed cylinder (501) bottom mounting has filling tube (502), and filling tube (502) middle part is fixed in the through-hole of linkage board (303) one end, rotary gear (503) and fixed gear meshing, rotary gear (503) bottom mounting have rotation axis (504), and rotation axis (504) upper end is rotated on the support on feed cylinder (501) top, is fixed with spiral feed plate (505) on rotation axis (504), and the lower extreme normal running fit of spiral feed plate (505) is in filling tube (502).
6. A resin mixer according to claim 5, wherein: the mixing mechanism (4) comprises a rotating disc (401), a stirring rod (402) and a stirring impeller (403); the rolling disc (401) is fixed on the transmission shaft (302) and is driven by the transmission shaft (302) to rotate, a stirring rod (402) is fixed at the bottom end of the rolling disc (401), and a plurality of stirring impellers (403) are uniformly arranged on the stirring rod (402) along the axial direction at intervals so as to perform mixing treatment on materials in the inner barrel (202) through the stirring impellers (403).
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