Material collecting device and electronic cigarette heating body manufacturing equipment

Abstract

The invention discloses a material receiving device and electronic cigarette heating element manufacturing equipment, and the material receiving device comprises a feeding assembly which is provided with a feeding port and a discharging port for receiving a to-be-processed material; the discharging assembly comprises a guide plate, a baffle and a driving part, the guide plate and the baffle are arranged in a mutually inclined mode, the driving part is used for driving the guide plate and the baffle to be switched between a material collecting position and a material discharging position, when the driving part is located at the material collecting position, the baffle and the guide plate define a guide space located below the discharging port, and when the driving part is located at the material discharging position, the baffle and the guide plate rotate. The baffle and the guide plate are away from each other and form a discharging interval. The material collecting assembly is located below the discharging interval. According to the material collecting device, the position can be automatically adjusted in the material collecting process, the manual material arranging process is reduced, manpower is saved, and the material collecting efficiency is improved.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of electronic cigarette production and manufacturing equipment, and in particular to a material receiving device and electronic cigarette heating element manufacturing equipment. Background Art

[0002] In mechanical equipment such as electronic cigarette heating element manufacturing equipment, in order to achieve the purpose of collecting materials, it is generally necessary to set up a material receiving device. The material passes through the feed port of the material receiving device, enters the conveying channel along the feed pipe, and then falls into the material frame.

[0003] However, the material receiving device in the prior art cannot guarantee the consistency of the direction and position of the product when it falls due to the randomness of the material discharge. After the material falls into the material frame, it is necessary to manually adjust the direction of the product, resulting in increased labor costs during production; moreover, when the number of materials is large, it cannot be guaranteed that all materials can enter the feed port smoothly, resulting in low material receiving efficiency.

[0004] Therefore, how to improve the reliability of the material receiving device is a technical problem that technicians in this field currently need to solve. Summary of the invention

[0005] The purpose of the present invention is to provide a material collecting device and an electronic cigarette heating element manufacturing device, which can realize automatic adjustment of the position during the material collection process, reduce the process of manual material sorting, save manpower, and improve material collection efficiency.

[0006] To achieve the above object, the present invention provides the following technical solutions:

[0007] A material receiving device, comprising:

[0008] A feed assembly, having a feed inlet and a discharge outlet for receiving materials to be processed;

[0009] A discharging assembly, the discharging assembly comprising a guide plate and a baffle plate arranged obliquely to each other, and a driving component for driving the guide plate and the baffle plate to switch between a material collecting position and a material discharging position, wherein at the material collecting position, the baffle plate and the guide plate enclose a guide space below the material discharging port, and at the material discharging position, the baffle plate and the guide plate are away from each other and form a material discharging interval;

[0010] The aggregate assembly is located below the discharge interval.

[0011] Preferably, the feed opening has edges of different heights.

[0012] Preferably, a limiting portion is further provided on a side of the baffle away from the material discharge port, and the limiting portion can abut against an end of the material when the material slides into the guide space.

[0013] Preferably, the limiting portion is formed by bending one end of the baffle away from the discharge port toward the guide plate.

[0014] Preferably, it further comprises a support frame, and the feed assembly, the discharge assembly and the collection assembly are arranged on the support frame in sequence from top to bottom.

[0015] Preferably, the material collection assembly comprises a placement table and a material collection tray, the material collection tray is detachably arranged on the placement table, and the material collection tray is provided with a plurality of material collection troughs for containing the material, and the plurality of material collection troughs are distributed in an array.

[0016] Preferably, the feed assembly includes an internally hollow feed piece, an adsorption piece and a guide piece connected to the bottom of the feed piece, and the end of the guide piece away from the feed piece forms the discharge port; the adsorption piece is arranged on the side of the feed piece close to the feed port.

[0017] Preferably, the guide component comprises a vertical section, a transition section and a horizontal section, one end of the vertical section is connected to the feed member, the other end is connected to one end of the transition section, the other section of the transition section is connected to one end of the horizontal section, and the discharge port is located at the other end of the horizontal section;

[0018] The guide plate and the baffle are parallel to the extension direction of the horizontal section, and the guide plate and the baffle are respectively arranged to be inclined with respect to the extension direction of the vertical section.

[0019] Preferably, the feed member has a support plate extending upwardly from a side wall of the feed port, and the adsorption member is arranged on the support plate.

[0020] Preferably, the adsorption member is an electromagnet, and the electromagnet is used to provide a magnetic attraction force to attract the material to the feed port when the driving component drives the baffle to move to the collection position relative to the guide plate.

[0021] Preferably, the feed port is in the shape of a polygon, and at least two opposite sides of the polygon have different heights.

[0022] Preferably, a side of the feed member facing away from the adsorption member is further provided with a rib, and the rib extends toward the outside of the feed member.

[0023] The present invention also provides an electronic cigarette heating element manufacturing device, comprising a wire winding machine and any one of the above-mentioned material collecting devices, wherein the wire winding machine is used to provide the heating element wound into a columnar shape and to be collected to the material collecting device.

[0024] The material collecting device provided by the present invention drives the baffle plate through a driving component. When the baffle plate and the guide plate are at the collecting position, the baffle plate and the guide plate are arranged tilted to form a guiding space for the material, so that the material can automatically correct the direction of the position when entering the guiding space. When the baffle plate and the guide plate are separated to form a material unloading interval, the material in the guiding space will automatically fall onto the collecting assembly, thereby realizing automatic adjustment of the position during the material collection process, reducing the process of manual material sorting, saving manpower, and improving material collection efficiency.

[0025] The electronic cigarette heating element manufacturing equipment provided by the present invention is provided with the above-mentioned material receiving device. Since the material receiving device has the above-mentioned technical effects, the electronic cigarette heating element manufacturing equipment provided with the material receiving device should also have corresponding technical effects. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0026] In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings required for use in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly introduced below. Obviously, the drawings described below are only some embodiments of the present invention. For ordinary technicians in this field, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without paying creative work.

[0027] Figure 1 A schematic structural diagram of a specific implementation of the material receiving device provided by the present invention;

[0028] Figure 2 for Figure 1 A schematic diagram of the structure of the feeding assembly in the receiving device shown;

[0029] Figure 3 for Figure 1 The structural schematic diagram of the discharging assembly in the material receiving device shown;

[0030] Figure 4 for Figure 1 A schematic diagram of the structure of the material collecting assembly in the material collecting device shown;

[0031] in:

[0032] Feeding assembly 1; supporting plate 11; feeding member 12; retaining edge 121; guiding member 13; vertical section 131; transition section 132; horizontal section 133; adsorption member 14;

[0033] Discharging assembly 2; guide plate 21; baffle 22; limiting portion 221; driving component 23; bracket 231;

[0034] Aggregation assembly 3; placement table 31; aggregation tray 32; aggregation trough 321;

[0035] Material 4;

[0036] Support frame 5. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0037] The core of the present invention is to provide a material receiving device and electronic cigarette heating element manufacturing equipment, which can effectively improve production efficiency, ensure product position accuracy, and save labor costs.

[0038] The following will be combined with the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention to clearly and completely describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by ordinary technicians in this field without creative work are within the scope of protection of the present invention.

[0039] Please refer to Figures 1 to 4 , Figure 1 A schematic structural diagram of a specific implementation of the material receiving device provided by the present invention; Figure 2 for Figure 1 A schematic diagram of the structure of the feeding assembly in the receiving device shown; Figure 3 for Figure 1 The structural schematic diagram of the discharging assembly in the material receiving device shown; Figure 4 for Figure 1 A schematic diagram of the structure of the aggregate assembly in the collecting device shown.

[0040] The embodiment of the present application provides a material receiving device, which can be applied to the field of electronic atomization equipment production and manufacturing technology, specifically, it can be used to manufacture the heating element of electronic cigarettes, but it is not limited to this. Among them, the material receiving device includes a feeding component 1, a discharging component 2 and a collecting component 3; the feeding component 1 is used to collect materials 4 to be collected and processed from other manufacturing equipment, wherein the materials 4 include but are not limited to spiral heating wires, heating tubes, needle-shaped heating elements, columnar heating elements, columnar atomization cores and other columnar or long strip parts or modular component products of electronic atomization equipment, the discharging component 2 is used to receive the material 4 from the feeding component 1, and after adjusting the position of the material 4, release the material 4, and the material 4 enters the collecting component 3, and the collecting component 3 is used to hold the arranged whole material 4 for subsequent use.

[0041] In this embodiment, if Figure 1 and Figure 3 As shown, the feed component 1 has a feed port and a discharge port for receiving the material 4 to be processed; the discharge component 2 includes a guide plate 21 and a baffle 22 arranged obliquely to each other, and a driving component 23 for driving the guide plate 21 and the baffle 22 to switch between the collection position and the discharge position. When in the collection position, the baffle 22 and the guide plate 21 enclose a guide space below the discharge port, and when in the discharge position, the baffle 22 and the guide plate 21 are away from each other and form a discharge interval; the collection component 3 is located below the discharge interval.

[0042] Specifically, the guide plate 21 and the baffle plate 22 are both inclined relative to the vertical direction. When the guide plate 21 and the baffle plate 22 are close to each other, a V-shaped guide space is formed between the bottom edge of the baffle plate 22 and the bottom edge of the guide plate 21. The guide space preferably extends in the horizontal direction, that is, the bottom edge of the baffle plate 22 and the bottom edge of the guide plate 21 both extend in the horizontal direction, so that the material 4 is in a horizontal state in the guide space, ensuring that the material 4 falls into the aggregate assembly 3 smoothly and accurately.

[0043] In some embodiments, the position of the guide plate 21 is fixed, and the position of the baffle 22 can be moved under the action of the driving component 23. When material 4 enters the feeding component 1 and the discharging component 2, the driving component 23 drives the baffle 22 to approach the guide plate 21, thereby forming a guide space. When the material 4 has entered the guide space, the driving component 23 drives the baffle 22 away from the guide plate 21, so that a discharge gap is formed between the guide plate 21 and the baffle 22, and the material 4 falls from the discharge gap into the aggregate component 3.

[0044] It can be understood that in other embodiments, the position of the baffle 22 is fixed, and the driving component 23 is used to drive the guide plate 21 to move closer to or away from the baffle 22 to move between the collection position or the discharge position, or the driving component 23 simultaneously drives the baffle 22 and the guide plate 21 to move closer to or away from each other to move between the collection position or the discharge position.

[0045] The material collecting device provided by the present invention can utilize the movement of the baffle 22 to realize the function of receiving and placing the material 4 through the arrangement of the guide plate 21 and the baffle 22. At the same time, the spatial position of the material 4 is adjusted by utilizing the guide space between the guide plate 21 and the baffle 22 to ensure that the position and direction of the material 4 falling into the aggregate component 3 are consistent, thereby reducing the process of manual arrangement of the material 4, saving manpower, and improving the position accuracy of the material 4 in the aggregate component 3, thereby realizing automatic adjustment of the position during the material collection process, reducing the process of manual arrangement of the material, saving manpower, and improving the material collection efficiency.

[0046] In some embodiments, a limiting portion 221 is further provided on the side of the baffle plate 22 away from the discharge port, and the limiting portion 221 can abut against the end of the material 4 when the material 4 slides into the guide space. Specifically, since the feed assembly 1 is located above the guide space, the material 4 will fall into the guide space under the action of gravity. In order to prevent the material 4 from escaping from the guide space under the action of inertia, a limiting portion 221 is provided on the baffle plate 22 to limit the moving position of the material 4 and ensure the position accuracy of the material 4. The position of the limiting portion 221 should be matched with the position of the collection trough 321 in the collection assembly 3. Preferably, the limiting portion 221 is formed by bending the end of the baffle plate 22 away from the discharge port toward the guide plate 21, which is convenient for processing and has low manufacturing cost.

[0047] In some embodiments, a support frame 5 is also included, and the feed assembly 1, the discharge assembly 2, and the collection assembly 3 are sequentially arranged on the support frame 5 from top to bottom, and the feed assembly 1, the discharge assembly 2, and the collection assembly 3 can be directly connected to the support frame 5, or indirectly connected to the support frame 5 through a fixed connection. Further, the baffle 22 and the driving component 23 in the discharge assembly 2 are both installed on the support frame 5, and can be specifically connected through a plate body, for example, a U-shaped plate, a U-shaped steel plate, etc., resulting in a U-shaped plate connected to the baffle 22 on one side and connected to the driving component 23 on the other side through a bracket 231, and the bracket 231 can be formed by bending a metal plate.

[0048] In some embodiments, Figure 4 As shown, the material collection assembly 3 includes a placement table 31 and a collection tray 32. The collection tray 32 is detachably arranged on the placement table 31. The collection tray 32 is provided with a plurality of collection troughs 321 for holding the material 4. The plurality of collection troughs 321 are distributed in an array, including but not limited to a linear array, a rectangular array, etc. Specifically, the placement table 31 is installed on the support frame 5. The collection tray 32 can be directly placed on the placement table 31, or the collection tray 32 can be detachably installed on the placement table 31 through a connecting mechanism. When the material 4 in the collection tray 32 is full, it can be transferred to other positions. After the material 4 is used, the collection tray 32 can be reused to save costs.

[0049] In some specific embodiments, such as Figure 2 As shown, the feed assembly 1 includes an internally hollow feed piece 12, an adsorption piece 14 and a guide component 13 connected to the bottom of the feed piece 12, and the end of the guide component 13 away from the feed piece 12 forms a discharge port; the adsorption piece 14 is arranged on the side of the feed piece 12 close to the feed port.

[0050] Specifically, the two sides of the feed piece 12 can be installed on the support frame 5 by means of fixing parts, for example, L-shaped fixing parts can be used; the above-mentioned setting, through the suction effect of the adsorption part 14, adsorbs the material 4 to the pre-falling position, so that the material 4 can smoothly enter the feed piece 12, and correct the spatial position state of the material 4 through the feed piece 12 to ensure that the direction of each material 4 is consistent when falling into the guide part 13.

[0051] In some specific embodiments, the guide component 13 can be a guide tube, wherein the guide tube can be made of a flexible soft material so that the guide tube forms a flexible hose or has a flexible software function to complete the flexible positioning of the guide tube in the vertical and horizontal directions. It can be understood that the guide tube can also be made of a hard material, and the present application does not impose any specific restrictions on this.

[0052] In some embodiments, the guide member 13 includes a vertical section 131, a transition section 132, and a horizontal section 133, the discharge port is located in the horizontal section 133 of the guide member 13, one end of the vertical section 131 is connected to the feed member 12, and the other end is connected to one end of the transition section 132, the other end of the transition section 132 is connected to one end of the horizontal section 133, and the discharge port is located at the other end of the horizontal section 133; the guide plate 21 and the baffle 22 are parallel to the extension direction of the horizontal section 133, and the guide plate 21 and the baffle 22 are respectively arranged to be inclined with respect to the extension direction of the vertical section 131. Specifically, the horizontal section 133 can also be tilted downward, with a projection in the horizontal direction, so that the material 4 can be changed from the vertical direction to the horizontal direction and smoothly fall into the guide space.

[0053] In some embodiments, the feed member 12 has a support plate 11 extending upward from one side wall of the feed port, and the adsorbent 14 is disposed on the support plate 11. Specifically, with the adsorption effect of the adsorbent 14, the external material 4 can be adsorbed to the side of the support plate 11 close to the opening, so that the material 4 can enter the feed port more conveniently.

[0054] In some embodiments, the adsorption member 14 is an electromagnet, which is used to provide a magnetic attraction force to attract the material to the feed port when the driving component 23 drives the baffle plate 22 to move to the material collection position relative to the guide plate 21. Specifically, the electromagnet is an electrical component composed of an iron core and a coil; when current passes through the coil, a magnetic field is generated around the iron core; this magnetic field can adsorb objects around the iron core.

[0055] In some embodiments, the feed port has edges of different heights. When the material 4 is poured toward the feed port, multiple materials 4 will not interfere with each other even if they enter the feed port at the same time, and can flow in an orderly manner into the guide space surrounded by the guide plate 21 and the baffle 22.

[0056] In some specific embodiments, the feed port is in the shape of a polygon, and at least two opposite sides of the polygon have different heights; that is, the heights of the two sides of the feed port of the feed member 12 are different. As an example, the feed port is in the shape of a quadrilateral, with one high and one low left and right sides, and the heights of the front and rear sides are the same. When the material 4 enters the feed port, if it is in the vertical direction, it will directly fall into the material guide component. If it is tilted to the left, it will fall vertically into the material guide component after the left side of the feed member 12. If it is tilted to the right, it will fall vertically into the material guide component after the right side of the feed member 12, thereby adjusting the spatial position of the material 4.

[0057] Of course, the shape of the feed opening may also be other shapes, such as a circle.

[0058] In some embodiments, a side of the feed member 12 facing away from the adsorption member 14 is further provided with a retaining edge 121 , which extends toward the outside of the feed member 12 to prevent the material 4 from falling from the side of the feed member 12 facing away from the adsorption member 14 .

[0059] In a specific embodiment, the material collecting device includes an adsorption member 14, a feeding member 12, a material guiding member, a guide plate 21, a baffle 22, a driving member 23 and a collecting tray 32. The discharge port of the material guiding member can be glued to the inner side of the guide plate 21 with a certain slope with glue, and the adsorption member 14 is fixed on the support plate 11. The guide plate 21 and the support plate 11 are assembled in cooperation. Specifically, the driving member 23 can be a structural member such as an electric cylinder or an electric push rod with a push rod. The baffle 22 is assembled on the guide rod of the driving member 23. The guide plate 21 and the driving member 23 are assembled in cooperation on the support frame 5. The driving member 23 drives the baffle 22 and the guide plate 21 to open and close through forward and backward movements, thereby realizing the function of receiving and releasing the material 4.

[0060] The specific working process is: the adsorption component 14 adsorbs the material 4 to the pre-falling position, then the adsorption component 14 is powered off and the material 4 falls into the feeding component 12, the feeding component 12 corrects the spatial position state of the material 4 to ensure that the direction of the material 4 is consistent when it falls into the material guiding component, then the material 4 slides to the guide plate 21 through the material guiding component, the driving component 23 moves back and forth to drive the baffle 22 to cooperate with the guide plate 21 to realize the receiving and placing function of the material 4.

[0061] The material receiving device ensures the consistency of repeated placement of materials in four directions, improves production efficiency and saves labor costs.

[0062] In addition to the above-mentioned material receiving device, the present invention also provides an electronic cigarette heating element manufacturing equipment including a wire winding machine and the above-mentioned material receiving device. The wire winding machine is used to provide the heating element wound into a column and to be collected to the material receiving device. For the structure of other parts of the electronic cigarette heating element manufacturing equipment, please refer to the prior art and will not be repeated in this article.

[0063] The various embodiments in this specification are described in a progressive manner, and each embodiment focuses on the differences from other embodiments. The same or similar parts between the various embodiments can be referenced to each other.

[0064] The above is a detailed introduction to the material receiving device provided by the present invention. Specific examples are used in this article to illustrate the principles and implementation methods of the present invention. The description of the above embodiments is only used to help understand the method of the present invention and its core idea. It should be pointed out that for ordinary technicians in this technical field, without departing from the principle of the present invention, several improvements and modifications can be made to the present invention, and these improvements and modifications also fall within the scope of protection of the claims of the present invention.

Claims

1. A material receiving device, characterized in that: include: A feed assembly, having a feed inlet and a discharge outlet for receiving materials to be processed; A discharging assembly, the discharging assembly comprising a guide plate and a baffle plate arranged obliquely to each other, and a driving component for driving the guide plate and the baffle plate to switch between a material collecting position and a material discharging position, wherein at the material collecting position, the baffle plate and the guide plate enclose a guide space below the material discharging port, and at the material discharging position, the baffle plate and the guide plate are away from each other and form a material discharging interval; The aggregate assembly is located below the discharge interval.

2. The material receiving device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The feed opening has edges of different heights.

3. The material receiving device according to claim 1, characterized in that: A limiting portion is further provided on a side of the baffle away from the material discharge port, and the limiting portion can abut against an end of the material when the material slides into the guide space.

4. The material receiving device according to claim 3, characterized in that: The limiting portion is formed by bending one end of the baffle away from the discharge port toward the guide plate.

5. The material receiving device according to claim 1, characterized in that: It also includes a support frame, and the feed assembly, the discharge assembly and the collection assembly are arranged on the support frame in sequence from top to bottom.

6. The material receiving device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The material collection assembly comprises a placing table and a material collection tray. The material collection tray is detachably arranged on the placing table. The material collection tray is provided with a plurality of material collection troughs for containing the materials. The plurality of material collection troughs are distributed in an array.

7. The material receiving device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that: The feed assembly includes a feed piece with a hollow interior, an adsorption piece, and a guide piece connected to the bottom of the feed piece, wherein the end of the guide piece away from the feed piece forms the discharge port; the adsorption piece is arranged on the side of the feed piece close to the feed port.

8. The material receiving device according to claim 7, characterized in that: The guide component includes a vertical section, a transition section and a horizontal section, one end of the vertical section is connected to the feed member, the other end is connected to one end of the transition section, the other section of the transition section is connected to one end of the horizontal section, and the discharge port is located at the other end of the horizontal section; The guide plate and the baffle are parallel to the extension direction of the horizontal section, and the guide plate and the baffle are respectively arranged to be inclined with respect to the extension direction of the vertical section.

9. The material receiving device according to claim 7, characterized in that: The feed member is provided with a support plate extending upwardly from a side wall of the feed port, and the adsorption member is arranged on the support plate.

10. The material receiving device according to claim 7, characterized in that: The adsorption member is an electromagnet, and the electromagnet is used to provide a magnetic attraction force to attract the material to the feed port when the driving component drives the baffle to move to the collection position relative to the guide plate.

11. The material receiving device according to claim 7, characterized in that: The feed port is in the shape of a polygon, and at least two opposite sides of the polygon have different heights.

12. The material receiving device according to claim 7, characterized in that: A side of the feed member facing away from the adsorption member is further provided with a retaining edge, and the retaining edge extends toward the outside of the feed member.

13. An electronic cigarette heating element manufacturing device, characterized in that: include: A wire winding machine and a material receiving device as described in claims 1 to 12, wherein the wire winding machine is used to provide the heating element wound into a column and to be collected to the material receiving device.

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