CN218195928U - Turnover demoulding device with good protection effect for sleeper mould - Google Patents

Turnover demoulding device with good protection effect for sleeper mould Download PDF

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CN218195928U
CN218195928U CN202122457644.1U CN202122457644U CN218195928U CN 218195928 U CN218195928 U CN 218195928U CN 202122457644 U CN202122457644 U CN 202122457644U CN 218195928 U CN218195928 U CN 218195928U
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The utility model relates to the technical field of sleeper molds, in particular to a sleeper mold is with upset shedder with good protection effect, which comprises a bearing beam, the inner wall of the bearing beam is connected with two movable beams in a sliding way, the arc-shaped far-away one end of the two movable beams is fixedly connected with clamping arms, one side of the two clamping arms is provided with a rotating hole, the rotating hole is connected with a rotating shaft in a rotating way, and one side of the two rotating shafts which are close to each other is provided with a mold body; the utility model discloses can actuating mechanism drive two walking beams, two press from both sides tight arm and axis of rotation and be close to each other, the axis of rotation removes and drives fixed plate, gag lever post and L shape extrusion stem and removes, L shape extrusion stem removes and drives and pass the slide opening and extrude the slider and remove, the slider removes and drives the stopper and remove and block this internal sleeper of mould, realized blocking this internal sleeper of mould for the mould body is at the in-process of upset, can prevent that the sleeper from directly droing and breaking, and then cause the loss.

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Sleeper mould is with upset shedder that protecting effect is good
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a sleeper mould technical field specifically is a sleeper mould is with upset shedder that protecting effect is good.
Background
Sleepers, also known as crossties, are one type of railway accessory. The sleepers are required to support the rails, maintain the position of the rails, and transfer the large pressure transmitted by the rails to the track bed. It must possess certain flexibility and elasticity, be hard and soft. When a train passes by, the train can be properly deformed to buffer pressure, but the train is recovered to the original state as far as possible after the train passes by, and in the processing of the cement sleeper, a mould is used for molding cement. After the sleeper is formed, the sleeper is taken out of the mould, namely the demoulding is carried out.
In the prior art, the following problems exist:
(1) Most of the existing turnover demoulding devices for sleeper moulds have unsatisfactory protection effect and cannot effectively block sleepers, so that the sleepers are easy to fall off in the turnover process, and further the sleepers are damaged;
(2) And when most sleepers overturn the sleeper mould, because single driving source applies force to the one end of sleeper and drives the upset of whole sleeper, and then reduced the stability of sleeper upset.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
An object of the utility model is to provide a sleeper mould is with upset shedder that protecting effect is good to solve the problem that proposes in the above-mentioned background art.
The technical scheme of the utility model is that: the utility model provides a sleeper mould is with upset shedder that protecting effect is good, including the bearing crossbeam, the inner wall sliding connection of bearing crossbeam has two walking beams, the one end fixedly connected with that the arc of two walking beams was kept away from presss from both sides tight arm, the rotation hole has been seted up to one side that two pressed from both sides tight arm, it is connected with the axis of rotation to rotate downthehole rotation, one side that two axes of rotation are close to each other is equipped with the mould body, the both sides fixedly connected with installation piece of mould body, the slot has all been seted up to one side of two installation pieces, two slots are corresponding with two axes of rotation respectively, two protecting crust of the top fixedly connected with of mould body, install protection machanism on the protecting crust, install actuating mechanism on the walking beam.
Preferably, actuating mechanism includes fixed connection in the servo motor of bearing beam inner wall, and servo motor's output has the actuating lever through the coupling joint, and the bottom fixedly connected with drive bevel gear of actuating lever meshes on the drive bevel gear and installs driven bevel gear, and driven bevel gear's a side key-type connection threaded rod rotates on the threaded rod and connects the fixed block, and the bottom fixed connection of fixed block is in the bottom inner wall of bearing beam, and the spiro union has the L shaped plate on the threaded rod, and the one end difference fixed connection in the one end of two walking beams of two L shaped plates.
Preferably, the protection machanism includes four slide rails of difference fixed connection in two protecting crust top inner walls, sliding connection has the slider on two slide rails, the one end fixed connection dog of slider, two slide openings have been seted up to one side inner wall of protecting crust, the one end of two dogs runs through outside two slide openings respectively, the round hole has been seted up to one side inner wall of two protecting crust, two round holes are located the mid point position of two sliders respectively, the movable hole has all been seted up to one side of two sliders, sliding connection has the cylinder pole in the movable hole, one end fixed connection on the cylinder pole is in one side inner wall of protecting crust, the fixed cover has been cup jointed reset spring on the cylinder pole, reset spring's both ends difference fixed connection is on slider and protecting crust, the extrusion unit is installed to the adaptation on the slider.
Preferably, the extrusion unit comprises two fixing plates fixedly connected to the two rotating shafts respectively, the top parts of the two fixing plates are fixedly connected with L-shaped extrusion rods, one ends of the two L-shaped extrusion rods are respectively matched with the two sliding blocks, and the rotating shafts are provided with speed reduction elements.
Preferably, two equal fixedly connected with two gag lever posts in one side of fixed plate, two spacing grooves have all been seted up to one side of two installation pieces, and the one end of two gag lever posts is corresponding with two spacing grooves respectively.
Preferably, the speed reducing element comprises two speed reducing gears which are respectively in key connection with one ends of two rotating shafts, a rotating gear is meshed on the speed reducing gear, a rotating column is in key connection with one side of the rotating gear, one end of the rotating column is fixedly connected to one side of the clamping arms, mounting bearings are fixedly connected to the top ends of the two clamping arms, a driving shaft is rotatably connected to the inner wall of each mounting bearing, driving wheels are fixedly sleeved on the driving shaft and the rotating column, driving belts are sleeved on the two driving wheels in a tensioning mode, a mounting plate is fixedly connected to one side of one of the clamping arms, a reciprocating motor is fixedly connected to one side of the mounting plate, the output end of the reciprocating motor is connected with a reciprocating shaft through a coupling, and one end of the reciprocating shaft is fixedly connected to one end of one of the driving shafts.
Preferably, one end of each of the two driving shafts close to each other is sleeved with a connecting shaft in a sliding mode, the connecting shaft is sleeved with a fixed bearing in a rotating mode, and the bottom of the fixed bearing is fixedly connected to the top of the bearing cross beam.
The utility model discloses an improve and provide a sleeper mould here with upset shedder that protecting effect is good, compare with prior art, have following improvement and advantage:
one is as follows: the utility model discloses a actuating mechanism drives two walking beams, two clamping arms and axis of rotation and is close to each other, and the axis of rotation removes and drives fixed plate, gag lever post and the removal of L shape extrusion stem, and the removal of L shape extrusion stem drives and passes the slide opening and extrude the slider and move, and the slider removes and drives the stopper removal and blocks the sleeper in the mould body, has realized blocking the sleeper in the mould body for the mould body is in the in-process of upset, can prevent that the sleeper from directly coming off and breaking, and then causes the loss;
and the second step is as follows: the utility model discloses a reciprocating motor rotates and drives two drive shafts through the connecting axle and rotate, and two drive shafts rotate and drive through drive wheel and drive belt and rotate post and transmitting gear, and transmitting gear rotates and drives reduction gear, axis of rotation and mould body and rotate, has realized that the both ends that can drive the mould body under the effect of same driving source rotate in step, and then has improved the pivoted stability of mould body.
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fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the cross-sectional three-dimensional structure of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic perspective view of the utility model at a in fig. 2;
fig. 4 is a schematic perspective view of the speed reduction element of the present invention;
fig. 5 is a schematic view of the three-dimensional structure of the protection mechanism of the present invention.
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1. a load-bearing beam; 101. a movable beam; 102. a clamp arm; 103. a rotating shaft; 104. mounting blocks; 105. a mold body; 106. a protective shell; 107. a fixing plate; 108. a limiting rod; 109. an L-shaped extrusion stem; 2. a servo motor; 201. a drive bevel gear; 202. a driven bevel gear; 203. a threaded rod; 204. a fixed block; 205. an L-shaped plate; 3. a slide rail; 301. a slider; 302. a stopper; 303. a cylindrical rod; 304. a return spring; 4. mounting a bearing; 401. a drive shaft; 402. a reciprocating motor; 403. a driving wheel; 404. a transmission belt; 405. rotating the column; 406. a rotating gear; 407. a reduction gear; 408. fixing the bearing; 409. and (7) connecting the shafts.
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The present invention will be described in detail below, and it is apparent that the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are described clearly and completely. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative efforts all belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
The utility model discloses an improve and provide a sleeper mould here with upset shedder that protecting effect is good, the technical scheme of the utility model is:
as shown in fig. 1-5, an overturning demolding device with a good protection effect for a sleeper mold comprises a bearing beam 1, wherein two movable beams 101 are slidably connected to the inner wall of the bearing beam 1, clamping arms 102 are fixedly connected to the ends, away from the arc-shaped ends of the two movable beams 101, of the two clamping arms 102, rotating holes are formed in one sides of the two clamping arms 102, rotating shafts 103 are rotatably connected in the rotating holes, a mold body 105 is arranged on one side, close to each other, of the two rotating shafts 103, mounting blocks 104 are fixedly connected to the two sides of the mold body 105, slots are formed in one side of each of the two mounting blocks 104 and correspond to the two rotating shafts 103, two protective shells 106 are fixedly connected to the top of the mold body 105, a protection mechanism is mounted on each protective shell 106, and a driving mechanism is mounted on each movable beam 101; with the above configuration, the rotation shaft 103 can lift the die main body 105 by the provision of the insertion groove.
Further, the driving mechanism comprises a servo motor 2 fixedly connected to the inner wall of the bearing beam 1, the output end of the servo motor 2 is connected with a driving rod through a coupler, the bottom end of the driving rod is fixedly connected with a driving bevel gear 201, a driven bevel gear 202 is installed on the driving bevel gear 201 in a meshed mode, one side of the driven bevel gear 202 is connected with a threaded rod 203 in a key mode, the threaded rod 203 is connected with a fixing block 204 in a rotating mode, the bottom of the fixing block 204 is fixedly connected to the inner wall of the bottom of the bearing beam 1, an L-shaped plate 205 is connected to the threaded rod 203 in a threaded mode, and one end of each of the two L-shaped plates 205 is fixedly connected to one end of each of the two movable beams 101; by means of the structure, the driving bevel gear 201 rotates to drive the two driven bevel gears 202 and the threaded rod 203 to synchronously rotate through the arrangement of the driving bevel gear 201, and the two movable beams 101 can be driven to synchronously approach or keep away from each other.
Further, the protection mechanism comprises four slide rails 3 fixedly connected to the inner walls of the tops of the two protection shells 106 respectively, the two slide rails 3 are connected with a slide block 301 in a sliding manner, one end of the slide block 301 is fixedly connected with a stop block 302, one side inner wall of each protection shell 106 is provided with two slide holes, one end of each stop block 302 penetrates through the two slide holes respectively, one side inner wall of each protection shell 106 is provided with a round hole, the two round holes are located at the middle point positions of the two slide blocks 301 respectively, one side of each slide block 301 is provided with a movable hole, each movable hole is connected with a cylindrical rod 303 in a sliding manner, one end of each cylindrical rod 303 is fixedly connected to the inner wall of one side of each protection shell 106, each cylindrical rod 303 is fixedly sleeved with a return spring 304, two ends of each return spring 304 are fixedly connected to the slide block 301 and the protection shell 106 respectively, and extrusion units are installed on the slide blocks 301 in a matching manner; by means of the structure, the reset spring 304 is arranged, so that the reset spring 304 can drive the sliding block 301 and the stop block 302 to reset.
Further, the extrusion unit comprises two fixing plates 107 fixedly connected to the two rotating shafts 103 respectively, the tops of the two fixing plates 107 are fixedly connected with the L-shaped extrusion rods 109, one ends of the two L-shaped extrusion rods 109 are respectively matched with the two sliders 301, and the rotating shafts 103 are provided with speed reducing elements; borrow by above-mentioned structure, through the setting of L shape extrusion pole 109, L shape extrusion pole 109 removes to drive and passes the slide opening and extrude slider 301 and dog 302 and remove, has realized can preventing that the sleeper directly drops and break.
Furthermore, two limiting rods 108 are fixedly connected to one side of each of the two fixing plates 107, two limiting grooves are formed in one side of each of the two mounting blocks 104, and one end of each of the two limiting rods 108 corresponds to each of the two limiting grooves; borrow by above-mentioned structure, through the setting of gag lever post 108, when having realized driving mould body 105 upset, effectual mould body 105 that prevents skids.
Further, the speed reducing element comprises two speed reducing gears 407 which are respectively in key connection with one ends of the two rotating shafts 103, a rotating gear 406 is meshed on the speed reducing gear 407, one side of the rotating gear 406 is in key connection with a rotating column 405, one end of the rotating column 405 is fixedly connected to one side of the clamping arms 102, the top ends of the two clamping arms 102 are respectively and fixedly connected with a mounting bearing 4, the inner wall of the mounting bearing 4 is rotatably connected with a driving shaft 401, driving wheels 403 are fixedly sleeved on the driving shaft 401 and the rotating column 405, a driving belt 404 is tightly sleeved on the two driving wheels 403, one side of one of the clamping arms 102 is fixedly connected with a mounting plate, one side of the mounting plate is fixedly connected with a reciprocating motor 402, the output end of the reciprocating motor 402 is connected with a reciprocating shaft through a coupling, and one end of the reciprocating shaft is fixedly connected to one end of one of the driving shafts 401; with the above structure, by the provision of the reduction gear 407, the rotation of the die body 105 is more stabilized.
Furthermore, one end of each of the two driving shafts 401, which is close to each other, is slidably sleeved with a connecting shaft 409, a fixed bearing 408 is rotatably sleeved on the connecting shaft 409, and the bottom of the fixed bearing 408 is fixedly connected to the top of the bearing beam 1; with the above structure, the two driving shafts 401 can rotate synchronously by the arrangement of the connecting shaft 409.
The working principle is as follows: the servo motor 2 rotates to drive the driving rod and the driving bevel gear 201 to rotate, the driving bevel gear 201 rotates to drive the two driven bevel gears 202 and the threaded rod 203 to rotate, the L-shaped plate 205 moves on the threaded rod 203, the L-shaped plate 205 moves to drive the two movable beams 101 to approach each other, the two movable beams 101 approach each other to drive the two clamping arms 102 and the rotating shaft 103 to approach each other, the rotating shaft 103 moves to drive the fixing plate 107, the limiting rod 108 and the L-shaped extrusion rod 109 move, the limiting rod 108 and the L-shaped extrusion rod 109 respectively enter the slot and the limiting groove, the L-shaped extrusion rod 109 moves to drive the sliding hole to penetrate through and extrude the sliding block 301 to move, the sliding block 301 moves to drive the stop block 302 to move the sleeper in the mold body 105, the blocking of the sleeper in the mold body 105 is realized, and the mold body 105 can be prevented from directly falling off and breaking in the overturning process, and further loss is caused.
The reciprocating motor 402 rotates to drive one of the driving shafts 401 to rotate, one of the driving shafts 401 rotates to drive the other driving shaft 401 to rotate through the connecting shaft 409, the two driving shafts 401 rotate to drive the rotating column 405 and the rotating gear 406 to rotate through the driving wheel 403 and the driving belt 404, the rotating gear 406 rotates to drive the reduction gear 407 and the rotating shaft 103 to rotate, the two rotating shafts 103 synchronously rotate to drive the mold body 105 to rotate, the effect that the two ends of the mold body 105 can be driven to synchronously rotate under the action of the same driving source is achieved, and the rotating stability of the mold body 105 is further improved.
The previous description is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to make or use the present invention. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.

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1. The utility model provides a sleeper mould is with upset shedder that protecting effect is good, includes bearing beam (1), its characterized in that: the inner wall sliding connection of bearing crossbeam (1) has two walking beams (101), the one end fixedly connected with clamp arm (102) that the arc of two walking beams (101) was kept away from, the rotation hole has been seted up to one side of two clamp arm (102), rotate downthehole rotation and be connected with axis of rotation (103), one side that two axis of rotation (103) are close to each other is equipped with mould body (105), both sides fixedly connected with installation piece (104) of mould body (105), the slot has all been seted up to one side of two installation pieces (104), two slots are corresponding with two axis of rotation (103) respectively, two protecting crust (106) of top fixedly connected with of mould body (105), install protection machanism on protecting crust (106), install actuating mechanism on walking beam (101).
2. The sleeper mould is with upset shedder device that protecting effect is good according to claim 1, characterized in that: actuating mechanism includes servo motor (2) of fixed connection in bearing crossbeam (1) inner wall, there is the actuating lever servo motor's (2) output through the coupling joint, the bottom fixedly connected with of actuating lever drives bevel gear (201), driven bevel gear (202) are installed in the meshing on driving bevel gear (201), one side key-type connection threaded rod (203) of driven bevel gear (202), rotate on threaded rod (203) and connect fixed block (204), the bottom fixed connection in the bottom inner wall of bearing crossbeam (1) of fixed block (204), the spiro union has L shaped plate (205) on threaded rod (203), the one end difference fixed connection in the one end of two walking beams (101) of two L shaped plates (205).
3. The turnover demoulding device with good protection effect for the sleeper mould as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that: protection machanism includes two slide rails (3) of four difference fixed connection in two protecting crust (106) top inner walls, sliding connection has slider (301) on two slide rails (3), one end fixed connection dog (302) of slider (301), two slide holes have been seted up to one side inner wall of protecting crust (106), the one end of two dog (302) runs through outside two slide holes respectively, the round hole has been seted up to one side inner wall of two protecting crust (106), two round holes are located the mid point position of two slider (301) respectively, the activity hole has all been seted up to one side of two slider (301), sliding connection has cylinder pole (303) in the activity hole, one end fixed connection in one side inner wall of protecting crust (106) on cylinder pole (303), it has reset spring (304) to fix the cover on cylinder pole (303), the both ends of reset spring (304) are fixed connection respectively on slider (301) and protecting crust (106), the extrusion unit is installed to the adaptation on slider (301).
4. The sleeper mould is with upset shedder device that protecting effect is good according to claim 3, characterized in that: the extrusion unit comprises two fixing plates (107) fixedly connected to two rotating shafts (103) respectively, L-shaped extrusion rods (109) are fixedly connected to the tops of the two fixing plates (107), one ends of the two L-shaped extrusion rods (109) are matched with the two sliding blocks (301) respectively, and speed reduction elements are mounted on the rotating shafts (103).
5. The sleeper mould is with upset shedder device that protecting effect is good according to claim 4, characterized in that: two equal fixedly connected with two gag lever post (108) in one side of fixed plate (107), two spacing grooves have all been seted up to one side of two installation pieces (104), and the one end of two gag lever post (108) is corresponding with two spacing grooves respectively.
6. The sleeper mould is with upset shedder device that protecting effect is good according to claim 4, characterized in that: the speed reducing element comprises two speed reducing gears (407) which are respectively in key connection with one ends of two rotating shafts (103), rotating gears (406) are meshed on the speed reducing gears (407), one side of each rotating gear (406) is in key connection with a rotating column (405), one end of each rotating column (405) is fixedly connected to one side of each clamping arm (102), mounting bearings (4) are fixedly connected to the top ends of the two clamping arms (102), the inner walls of the mounting bearings (4) are rotatably connected with a driving shaft (401), the driving shaft (401) and the rotating columns (405) are fixedly connected with driving wheels (403), a transmission belt (404) is connected to the two driving wheels (403) in a tensioning and sleeved mode, one side of one clamping arm (102) is fixedly connected with a mounting plate, one side of the mounting plate is fixedly connected with a reciprocating motor (402), the output end of the reciprocating motor (402) is connected with a reciprocating shaft through a coupler, and one end of the reciprocating shaft is fixedly connected to one end of one driving shaft (401).
7. The sleeper mould is with upset shedder device that protecting effect is good according to claim 6, characterized in that: two one end that drive shaft (401) are close to each other slides and has cup jointed connecting axle (409), rotates on connecting axle (409) and has cup jointed fixing bearing (408), and fixing bearing's (408) bottom fixed connection is in the top of bearing crossbeam (1).
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