CN219897921U - Fertilizer distribution device for breeding seeds with high stress resistance - Google Patents

Fertilizer distribution device for breeding seeds with high stress resistance Download PDF

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CN219897921U
CN219897921U CN202320610962.3U CN202320610962U CN219897921U CN 219897921 U CN219897921 U CN 219897921U CN 202320610962 U CN202320610962 U CN 202320610962U CN 219897921 U CN219897921 U CN 219897921U
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The utility model relates to a fertilizer preparation device for seed selection with high stress resistance, and relates to the technical field of seed selection. The utility model provides a high stress resistance seed breeding is with joining in marriage fertile device, includes that the bottom sets up into half circular box, and the top intercommunication of box has the feeder hopper, and the bottom intercommunication of box one side has the drain pipe, and the bottom intercommunication of feeder hopper one side has the inlet tube, still includes broken wall subassembly, is located the inside of feeder hopper for smash the fertilizer of caking; the filter screen is arranged in a semicircular shape, is positioned below the wall breaking assembly and is fixedly connected with the inner wall of the feed hopper; the stirring assembly comprises a second scraping plate and a stirring blade, and the second scraping plate and the stirring blade rotate in opposite directions through a transmission part. The utility model has the effects of improving the uniformity of water and fertilizer mixing, improving the quality of the water and fertilizer and improving the working efficiency of users.

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Fertilizer distribution device for breeding seeds with high stress resistance
Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of seed selection, in particular to a fertilizer preparation device for seed selection with high stress resistance.
Background
Seeds are the most basic production quality in agricultural production, and the seed quality has great influence on the yield and quality of crops. Seeds are infected by harmful germs in the mature harvesting and storage processes, so that the seeds become one of the sources of disease, if the seeds with germs enter a production system without control, the germs can cause serious harm to crop production once the germs are spread. Many diseases on crops are carried and transmitted by seeds, the seeds are treated by a certain method before the crops are sown, and the inhibition of the harm of seed-borne germs becomes a primary link for ensuring the normal production of the crops. In addition, the germination process of seeds is extremely easy to be disturbed by the environment and has great influence on the later growth, and the application of various means for adjusting the germination and the growth of crop seeds is always a research hot spot.
At present, the soil is needed to absorb moisture and nutrients in seed planting, so that the conditions of the soil, the moisture and the nutrients determine the growing condition of horticultural plants, the precise concentration control of the water and the fertilizer is the key to obtaining high yield and high quality of crops, generally, water and various fertilizers are mixed according to a certain proportion, but partial fertilizers may be agglomerated or raw materials are larger in the mixing process, uneven mixing may be caused in the mixing process, the quality of the water and the fertilizer is influenced, and the practical use is not facilitated, so that the fertilizer preparation device for high stress resistance seed breeding is provided to solve the problems.
Disclosure of Invention
According to the defects existing in the prior art, the utility model aims to provide the fertilizer preparation device for the seed selection with high stress resistance, which has the effects of improving the uniformity of water and fertilizer mixing, improving the quality of water and fertilizer and improving the working efficiency of a user.
The technical aim of the utility model is realized by the following technical scheme:
the utility model provides a high stress resistance seed breeding is with joining in marriage fertile device, includes that the bottom sets up into semicircular box, the top intercommunication of box has the feeder hopper, the bottom intercommunication of box one side has the drain pipe, the bottom intercommunication of feeder hopper one side has the inlet tube, still includes
The wall breaking component is positioned in the feed hopper and used for breaking up the agglomerated fertilizer;
the filter screen is arranged in a semicircular shape, is positioned below the wall breaking assembly and is fixedly connected with the inner wall of the feed hopper;
the stirring assembly comprises a second scraping plate and a stirring blade, and the second scraping plate and the stirring blade rotate in opposite directions through a transmission part;
the driving box is internally provided with a driving assembly for simultaneously driving the wall breaking assembly and the stirring assembly to work, and the driving box is fixedly connected with the box body.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, throw in fertilizer into the inside of feeder hopper, broken wall subassembly smashes caking or large granule fertilizer, the fertilizer after smashing is filtered through the filter screen and then enters into the box inside, discharge water to the box from the inlet tube, fertilizer is dissolved at the box, stirring subassembly stirs fertilizer and water, it dissolves to accelerate fertilizer, can improve liquid manure misce bene degree through the stirring, improve liquid manure quality, improve user work efficiency simultaneously, drive scraper blade two and stirring leaf and carry out reverse rotation, can strengthen the friction force to fertilizer, further strengthen stirring effect, accelerate liquid manure's mixing efficiency, further improve user's work efficiency.
The present utility model may be further configured in a preferred example to: the wall breaking assembly comprises a first rotating shaft and a plurality of wall breaking blades, the first rotating shaft is rotationally connected with the feeding hopper, the wall breaking blades are fixedly connected with the first rotating shaft, and one end of the first rotating shaft penetrates through the box body.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the axis of rotation drives broken wall blade and rotates, can smash into the fertilizer of macroparticle or caking and discharge from the filter screen to the going on of water-fertilizer mixing work of next step is convenient for.
The present utility model may be further configured in a preferred example to: one end that broken wall blade kept away from axis of rotation one fixedly connected with scraper blade one, one side of scraper blade one is laminated with the inner wall of filter screen.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, drive broken wall blade and rotate when the axis of rotation rotates to drive scraper blade rotation and scrape the inner wall of filter screen, avoid large granule's fertilizer to pile up on the filter screen and cause the jam, improve filtration efficiency, scrape large granule fertilizer through scraping and move, can scrape large granule fertilizer and move and break once more, strengthen broken wall effect, improve user's work efficiency.
The present utility model may be further configured in a preferred example to: the stirring assembly comprises a sleeve and a second rotating shaft which is connected with the sleeve in a rotating mode, the sleeve is connected with the box in a rotating mode, the second scraping plate is fixedly connected with the sleeve, the stirring blade is fixedly connected with the second rotating shaft, and the outer wall of the second scraping plate is attached to the inner bottom wall of the box.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, axis of rotation two rotate and drive stirring leaf and rotate, can stir liquid manure and make it mix more abundant, and sleeve drive scraper blade two rotates, can scrape the interior bottom wall of box and move, avoid the box inner wall to adhere to fertilizer, participate in the stirring once more through scraping to move fertilizer, improve liquid manure misce bene degree, improve liquid manure quality.
The present utility model may be further configured in a preferred example to: the transmission part comprises two first bevel gears, one end, located outside the box body, of the second rotating shaft and the sleeve is fixedly connected with the two first bevel gears in the driving box respectively, the two first bevel gears are meshed through the two bevel gears, and the two bevel gears are connected with the driving box in a rotating mode through a connecting shaft.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, bevel gear one and bevel gear two rotate, make sleeve and axis of rotation two rotate towards opposite direction, drive scraper blade two and stirring leaf and carry out opposite direction rotation, can strengthen the friction force to the fertilizer, further strengthen stirring effect, accelerate the mixing efficiency of liquid manure, improve user's work efficiency.
The present utility model may be further configured in a preferred example to: the driving assembly comprises a motor fixedly connected inside the driving box, the output end of the motor is fixedly connected with a second rotating shaft through a coupler, and one end, located outside the box body, of the first rotating shaft is connected with one end, located outside the box body, of the second rotating shaft through belt transmission.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, motor and belt drive axis of rotation one and axis of rotation two simultaneously and rotate, can drive broken wall subassembly and stirring subassembly and rotate, need not to set up extra power supply, practice thrift the cost.
In summary, the present utility model includes at least one of the following beneficial technical effects:
1. according to the fertilizer preparation device for high stress resistance seed breeding, the first rotating shaft is arranged to drive the wall breaking blade to rotate, so that large particles or agglomerated fertilizer can be broken into small particles to be discharged from the filter screen, the next step of water and fertilizer mixing operation is convenient, the second rotating shaft is arranged to drive the stirring blade to rotate, the water and fertilizer mixing uniformity degree can be improved, the water and fertilizer quality is improved, meanwhile, the working efficiency of a user is improved, the transmission part drives the second scraping plate and the stirring blade to rotate in opposite directions, friction force on the fertilizer can be enhanced, the stirring effect is further enhanced, the mixing efficiency of the water and fertilizer is accelerated, and the working efficiency of the user is further improved;
2. this high stress-resistant seed breeds with joining in marriage fertile device is through setting up scraper blade one and scraper blade two to filter screen and bottom half are set to semicircle, and scraper blade one and scraper blade two of being convenient for scrape filter screen and bottom half respectively scrape the inner wall of filter screen and move, avoid large granule's fertilizer to pile up on the filter screen and cause the jam, improve filtration efficiency, scrape large granule fertilizer through scraping, can scrape large granule fertilizer and move and carry out crushing once more, the reinforcing broken wall effect, improve user's work efficiency, scraper blade two scrapes the interior bottom wall of box, avoid the box inner wall to adhere to fertilizer, participate in the stirring once more with fertilizer through scraping, improve liquid manure misce bene degree, improve liquid fertilizer quality.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic overall structure of the present embodiment.
Fig. 2 is a schematic perspective view of the present embodiment.
Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a cross-sectional structure of the present embodiment.
Fig. 4 is an enlarged view a of fig. 3 of the present embodiment.
In the figure, 1, a box body; 2. a feed hopper; 3. a liquid outlet pipe; 4. a water inlet pipe; 5. breaking the wall of the component; 6. a filter screen; 7. a stirring assembly; 8. a drive box; 9. a drive assembly; 71. a second scraping plate; 72. stirring the leaves; 73. a transmission part; 74. a sleeve; 75. a second rotating shaft; 731. bevel gears I; 732. bevel gears II; 51. a first rotating shaft; 52. breaking the wall of the blade; 53. a first scraping plate; 91. and a motor.
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The present utility model will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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referring to fig. 1-4, the fertilizer preparing device for breeding seeds with high stress resistance disclosed by the utility model comprises a box body 1 with a semicircular bottom, wherein the top of the box body 1 is communicated with a feed hopper 2, the bottom of one side of the box body 1 is communicated with a liquid outlet pipe 3, the bottom of one side of the feed hopper 2 is communicated with a water inlet pipe 4, and the fertilizer preparing device also comprises
The wall breaking assembly 5 is positioned in the feed hopper 2 and is used for breaking up the agglomerated fertilizer;
the filter screen 6 is arranged in a semicircular shape, the filter screen 6 is positioned below the wall breaking assembly 5, and the filter screen 6 is fixedly connected with the inner wall of the feed hopper 2;
the stirring assembly 7 comprises a second scraper 71 and a stirring blade 72, and the second scraper 71 and the stirring blade 72 rotate in opposite directions through a transmission part 73;
the driving box 8, be provided with drive assembly 9 in the driving box 8 for drive broken wall subassembly 5 and stirring subassembly 7 simultaneously and carry out work, driving box 8 and box 1 fixed connection.
In this embodiment, when needs mix liquid manure, discharge inside box 1 through inlet tube 4, inside fertilizer with needs is thrown into feeder hopper 2, open drive assembly 9 and drive broken wall subassembly 5 and rotate this moment, smash caking or large granule fertilizer, the fertilizer after smashing filters then gets into box 1 through filter screen 6 inside, the fertilizer is dissolved in water, at this moment through setting up stirring subassembly 7 and stirring fertilizer and water, it dissolves to accelerate fertilizer, can improve liquid manure misce bene degree through the stirring, improve liquid manure quality, improve user work efficiency simultaneously, drive scraper blade two 71 and stirring leaf 72 through setting up drive portion 73 and carry out reverse rotation, can strengthen the friction force to the fertilizer, further strengthen stirring effect, accelerate liquid manure's mixing efficiency, further improve user's work efficiency.
In a further preferred embodiment of the present utility model, as shown in fig. 1, 3 and 4, the wall breaking assembly 5 includes a first rotating shaft 51 and a plurality of wall breaking blades 52, the first rotating shaft 51 is rotatably connected with the feeding hopper 2, the wall breaking blades 52 are fixedly connected with the first rotating shaft 51, and one end of the first rotating shaft 51 penetrates through the case 1
In this embodiment, the rotation shaft is rotated to drive the wall breaking blade 52 to rotate, so that the large particles or the agglomerated fertilizer can be broken into small particles to be discharged from the filter screen 6, so that the next water-fertilizer mixing operation can be conveniently performed.
In a further preferred embodiment of the present utility model, as shown in fig. 1, 3 and 4, a first scraper 53 is fixedly connected to an end of the wall breaking blade 52 away from the first rotation shaft 51, and one side of the first scraper 53 is attached to the inner wall of the filter screen 6.
In this embodiment, through the scraper blade one 53 that sets up, drive broken wall blade 52 and rotate when axis of rotation one 51 rotates to drive to scrape and move the inner wall that rotates filter screen 6 and scrape and move, avoid large granule's fertilizer to pile up on filter screen 6 and cause the jam, improve filtration efficiency, scrape through to large granule fertilizer and move, can make large granule fertilizer carry out crushing once more, strengthen broken wall effect, improve user's work efficiency.
In a further preferred embodiment of the present utility model, as shown in fig. 1 and 3, the stirring assembly 7 includes a sleeve 74 and a second rotating shaft 75 rotatably connected to the inside of the sleeve 74, the sleeve 74 is rotatably connected to the case 1, the second scraper 71 is fixedly connected to the sleeve 74, the stirring vane 72 is fixedly connected to the second rotating shaft 75, and an outer wall of the second scraper 71 is attached to an inner bottom wall of the case 1.
In this embodiment, the rotation shaft two 75 rotates and drives the stirring blade 72 to rotate, can stir the liquid manure and make its mixture more abundant, drives scraper blade two 71 through setting up sleeve 74 and rotates, can scrape the interior bottom wall of box 1 and move, avoids box 1 inner wall to adhere to fertilizer, participates in the stirring once more through scraping the movement with fertilizer, improves liquid manure misce bene degree, improves liquid manure quality.
In a further preferred embodiment of the present utility model, as shown in fig. 1, the transmission part 73 includes two bevel gears 731, wherein the second rotating shaft 75 and one end of the sleeve 74 located outside the case 1 are fixedly connected with the two bevel gears 731 in the driving case 8, respectively, the two bevel gears 731 are engaged with each other by the second bevel gear 732, and the second bevel gear 732 is rotatably connected with the driving case 8 by the rotating shaft.
In this embodiment, by setting the bevel gears one 731 and two 732, the sleeve 74 and the second rotating shaft 75 are rotated in opposite directions, so as to drive the second scraper 71 and the stirring blade 72 to rotate in opposite directions, so that friction force on the fertilizer can be enhanced, stirring effect can be further enhanced, mixing efficiency of the water and fertilizer can be accelerated, and working efficiency of a user can be improved.
In a further preferred embodiment of the present utility model, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the driving assembly 9 includes a motor 91 fixedly connected inside the driving box 8, an output end of the motor 91 is fixedly connected with a second rotating shaft 75 through a coupling, and the first rotating shaft 51 is in transmission connection with one end of the second rotating shaft 75 located outside the box 1 through a belt.
In this embodiment, through setting up motor 91 and driving axis of rotation one 51 and rotate, axis of rotation one 51 drives axis of rotation two 75 through the belt and rotates, can drive broken wall subassembly 5 and stirring subassembly 7 simultaneously and rotate, need not to set up extra power supply, practices thrift the cost.
The implementation principle of the embodiment is as follows: when needs mix liquid manure, inside the box 1 is discharged through inlet tube 4, inside the fertilizer of needs is put in feeder hopper 2, this moment open motor 91 and drive axis of rotation two 75 and rotate, drive axis of rotation one 51 through the belt and rotate, the axis of rotation drives broken wall blade 52 and rotate, smash caking or large granule fertilizer, meanwhile, scraper blade one 53 scrapes the inner wall of filter screen 6, avoid large granule fertilizer to pile up on filter screen 6 and cause the jam, improve filtration efficiency, through scraping large granule fertilizer, can make large granule fertilizer turn and carry out crushing once more, strengthen broken wall effect, the fertilizer after smashing filters then gets into box 1 through filter screen 6 inside, fertilizer dissolves in the water, simultaneously axis of rotation two 75 drive stirring leaf 72 and rotate, can stir liquid manure and make its mix more abundant, through bevel gear one 731 and bevel gear two transmissions, make sleeve 74 drive scraper blade two 71 and stirring leaf 72 and rotate in opposite direction, can strengthen the friction force to fertilizer, and through scraping inner bottom wall to box 1, avoid fertilizer adhesion to the inner wall 732 of box 1, evenly scrapes the fertilizer through the filter and then get into box 1, the improvement quality of mixing fertilizer, simultaneously, the improvement quality of mixing efficiency is used.
The embodiments of the present utility model are all preferred embodiments of the present utility model, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present utility model in this way, therefore: all equivalent changes in structure, shape and principle of the utility model should be covered in the scope of protection of the utility model.

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1. The utility model provides a high stress resistance seed breeds with joining in marriage fertile device, sets up semicircular box (1), its characterized in that including the bottom: the top intercommunication of box (1) has feeder hopper (2), the bottom intercommunication of box (1) one side has drain pipe (3), the bottom intercommunication of feeder hopper (2) one side has inlet tube (4), still includes
The wall breaking assembly (5) is positioned in the feed hopper (2) and is used for breaking up the agglomerated fertilizer;
the filter screen (6) is arranged in a semicircular shape, the filter screen (6) is positioned below the wall breaking assembly (5), and the filter screen (6) is fixedly connected with the inner wall of the feed hopper (2);
the stirring assembly (7) comprises a second scraper (71) and a stirring blade (72), and the second scraper (71) and the stirring blade (72) rotate in opposite directions through a transmission part (73);
the wall breaking device comprises a driving box (8), wherein a driving assembly (9) is arranged in the driving box (8) and used for simultaneously driving the wall breaking assembly (5) and the stirring assembly (7) to work, and the driving box (8) is fixedly connected with the box body (1).
2. The fertilizer preparation device for breeding high stress-resistant seeds according to claim 1, wherein: the wall breaking assembly (5) comprises a first rotating shaft (51) and a plurality of wall breaking blades (52), the first rotating shaft (51) is rotationally connected with the feeding hopper (2), the wall breaking blades (52) are fixedly connected with the first rotating shaft (51), and one end of the first rotating shaft (51) penetrates through the box body (1).
3. The fertilizer preparation device for breeding high stress-resistant seeds according to claim 2, wherein: one end of the wall breaking blade (52) far away from the first rotating shaft (51) is fixedly connected with a first scraping plate (53), and one side of the first scraping plate (53) is attached to the inner wall of the filter screen (6).
4. The fertilizer preparation device for breeding high stress-resistant seeds according to claim 1, wherein: the stirring assembly (7) comprises a sleeve (74) and a second rotating shaft (75) which is rotationally connected with the inside of the sleeve (74), the sleeve (74) is rotationally connected with the box body (1), the second scraping plate (71) is fixedly connected with the sleeve (74), the stirring blade (72) is fixedly connected with the second rotating shaft (75), and the outer wall of the second scraping plate (71) is attached to the inner bottom wall of the box body (1).
5. The fertilizer device for breeding high stress-resistant seeds according to claim 4, wherein: the transmission part (73) comprises two first bevel gears (731), one end, located outside the box body (1), of the second rotating shaft (75) and the sleeve (74) is fixedly connected with the two first bevel gears (731) in the driving box (8), the two first bevel gears (731) are meshed with each other through second bevel gears (732), and the second bevel gears (732) are rotatably connected with the driving box (8) through connecting shafts.
6. The fertilizer preparation device for breeding high stress-resistant seeds according to claim 2, wherein: the driving assembly (9) comprises a motor (91) fixedly connected inside the driving box (8), the output end of the motor (91) is fixedly connected with a second rotating shaft (75) through a coupler, and one end, located outside the box body (1), of the first rotating shaft (51) is connected with one end, located outside the box body (75), of the second rotating shaft through belt transmission.
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