Device for producing ice cups

Abstract

A device for producing ice cups comprises a base, an ice cup female die, a female die upper plate, a hopper, a feeding screw, a rotating shaft, an ice cup male die and a demolding mechanism. The ice cup female die is a conical cylinder with an upper opening and a lower opening and is communicated with the base through hole; a feeding hole is formed in the upper plate of the female die, and the hopper injects smoothie into the female die through a feeding screw. The rotating shaft is driven by a vertical air cylinder to ascend and descend, the ice cup male die and the ice cup female die on the rotating shaft are matched for pressing forming, and the pressing degree is adjusted through a locking assembly. The demolding air cylinder drives the male mold ejection beam to drive the movable ring sleeve to achieve ice cup demolding, and the overturning air cylinder enables the rotating shaft to rotate to complete mold reversing. The lifting platform controls the material conveying rods to move synchronously through synchronous belt transmission, and uniform feeding is ensured. The device is simple in structure, the ice cup with the heat preservation and edible characteristics can be rapidly produced with smoothie as the raw material, the problems that a traditional container is prone to melting and the ice cup is difficult to demould are solved, and the device is suitable for efficient packaging of cold drinks such as ice cream.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The invention relates to a device for producing an ice cup. Background Art

[0002] Cold drink products including ice cream are very popular in summer. Ice cream products are generally packaged in paper cups or plastic cups, see Chinese patent CN201610566876.1 for details. However, in the high temperature environment of summer, traditional paper cups or plastic cups will cause the ice cream to quickly exchange heat with the outside world, causing the ice cream to melt quickly and affect the taste. Some manufacturers use frozen ice cups as containers, but the frozen ice cups made by pouring water into molds and freezing them are too hard and difficult to eat. Summary of the invention

[0003] The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a device for producing ice cups. The device has a simple structure and uses ice smoothies as raw materials to produce ice cups, which can not only form a stable ice cup structure but also be easy to eat after being crushed.

[0004] In order to solve the above technical problems, the present invention provides a device for producing an ice cup:

[0005] It comprises a base which is arranged horizontally and has a length direction extending left and right, and legs extending downward are respectively provided at the left and right ends of the base;

[0006] The base is provided with a plurality of ice cup dies arranged at intervals on the left and right. The ice cup dies are generally vertically arranged and open at the top and bottom of the cylinder. The inner cavity thereof has a taper with a small diameter on the upper side and a large diameter on the lower side. The base is provided with a through hole matching the open lower side of the ice cup dies and penetrating the base in the vertical direction at each ice cup dies corresponding to the base. The lower side of each cylindrical ice cup dies is connected to the base and connected to the corresponding through hole. The upper side of all cylindrical ice cup dies is provided with a horizontally arranged long strip dies upper plate with a length direction running left and right. The dies upper plate is connected to the upper sides of all cylindrical ice cup dies and closes the upper sides of all cylindrical ice cup dies. A feed hole penetrating the dies upper plate in the vertical direction is provided at the position of the dies upper plate corresponding to the center of each ice cup dies.

[0007] A hopper with an open top and the top plate of the die is provided on the upper side of the die upper plate;

[0008] The lower part of the feed hole is provided with an outward-expanding bell mouth with a large lower diameter and a small upper diameter, a feed screw arranged vertically and matching the feed hole is provided in the feed hole, and a sealing door plate matching the bell mouth is provided at the lower side of the feed screw corresponding to the bell mouth;

[0009] A rotating shaft arranged horizontally and with an axis direction extending left and right is provided below the base. Vertical cylinders are provided on the upper side of the base at positions corresponding to the left and right ends of the rotating shaft. The piston rod of the vertical cylinder passes vertically downward through the base and is provided with a bearing sleeve with an axis direction extending left and right at the end. The bearing sleeves on the two vertical cylinders are both matched with the rotating shaft, and the left and right ends of the rotating shaft extend beyond the outer sides of the two bearing sleeves that are away from each other in the left and right directions.

[0010] A square slider is provided at one end of the left and right sides of the rotary shaft, and two first and second sliders are arranged at intervals from top to bottom and matched with the slider at the position below the base corresponding to the slider. The first and second sliders are arranged vertically and their opening directions are directly opposite to the slider, wherein the upper side of the first slider located on the upper side is connected to the base, and the slider is located in the first slider and slides with the first slider in the vertical direction, and the second slider located on the lower side is provided with a flip cylinder on the back side away from the slider in the left and right directions, the output shaft of the flip cylinder is arranged horizontally in the left and right directions and its end is connected to the second slider, and the body of the flip cylinder is fixedly connected to the base;

[0011] An ice cup punch is provided at each ice cup die on the upper side of the rotating shaft, and a square shaft structure is adopted for the area corresponding to the installation of the ice cup punch at the middle position in the length direction of the rotating shaft. Each ice cup punch includes a first part, a second part, a third part and a fourth part which are arranged vertically and connected coaxially from top to bottom in sequence. The first part is a punch body, which is a truncated cone with a small diameter on the upper side and a large diameter on the lower side, and its taper matches the taper of the inner cavity of the ice cup die. The second part, the third part and the fourth part are all cylindrical and their diameters increase in sequence, wherein the diameter of the second part is the same as the diameter of the lower side of the first part, the diameter of the third part is consistent with the diameter of the through hole on the base, and the diameter of the fourth part is larger than the diameter of the through hole on the base. A movable ring sleeve is provided on the circumferential outer part of the second part, and the movable ring sleeve is slidably matched with the circumferential outer wall of the second part in the vertical direction. The outer diameter of the movable ring sleeve is consistent with the diameter of the third part, and the sum of the vertical height of the movable ring sleeve and the vertical height of the third part is consistent with the length of the through hole on the base in the vertical direction.

[0012] The rotary shaft is provided with a plurality of locking components which are evenly spaced along the left and right directions, each of the locking components comprises two locking tongues, the locking tongue is a vertically arranged rectangular block, the installation position of the locking tongue on the rotary shaft is in the gap between the two ice cup convex molds, a through hole matching the locking tongue is provided at the position of the base corresponding to each locking tongue, the upper part of the locking tongue exceeds the through hole and slides with the through hole in the vertical direction, the upper part of each locking tongue is provided with a through groove running forward and backward, the upper side surface of the through groove cavity is an inclined surface with a high front side and a low rear side, a locking slider is provided at the position above the locking tongue corresponding to the base and the upper plate of the concave mold, and the lower side of the front part of the locking slider is provided with a horizontally backward bending The wedge-shaped barb has a tip that is directly opposite to the upper portion of the notch on the front side of the through slot, and the inclination angle of the upper side slope of the wedge-shaped barb matches the inclination angle of the upper side slope of the through slot cavity. Two ice cup dies are spaced between the two locking tongues in each locking assembly. The rear sides of the two locking sliders in each locking assembly extend beyond the ice cup dies and are connected through a horizontally arranged locking push plate with a length direction extending left and right. A locking cylinder is provided at the front side of the base at a gap between two ice cup dies spaced between the two locking tongues in each locking assembly. The piston rod of the locking cylinder extends horizontally backward through the gap between the two ice cup dies at the corresponding positions and is connected to the middle of the corresponding locking push plate.

[0013] A channel extending vertically downward and penetrating to the lower side of the fourth part is provided on the upper side surface of the third part of each ice cup punch, corresponding to the front and rear sides of the ice cup punch. Each channel is provided with a vertically arranged connecting rod, and the connecting rod and the channel slide in the vertical direction. The upper ends of the two connecting rods in each ice cup punch are connected to the movable ring sleeves at the corresponding positions, and the lower ends of the two connecting rods in each ice cup punch extend beyond the lower side of the fourth part.

[0014] A plurality of demoulding cylinders are arranged at equal intervals in the left-right direction on the lower side of the rotary shaft, and the piston rods of the demoulding cylinders are arranged vertically downward. The lower sides of the piston rods of all demoulding cylinders are commonly connected to a horizontally arranged punch ejection beam with a length direction extending left-right. The cross-sectional shape of the punch ejection beam is a U-shape with an opening upward, and it includes a bottom plate with a length direction extending left-right, and two vertical plates arranged at the front and rear sides of the bottom plate and extending vertically upward. The lower ends of the connecting rods located at the front side of all ice cup punches are connected to the upper side of the vertical plate located at the front side of the bottom plate, and the lower ends of the connecting rods located at the rear side of all ice cup punches are connected to the upper side of the vertical plate located at the rear side of the bottom plate;

[0015] A slide rail extending vertically upward is symmetrically arranged on the upper side of the base corresponding to the left and right sides of the hopper, the height of the two slide rails exceeds the height of the hopper, a lifting platform is arranged above the hopper at the position between the two slide rails, the left and right sides of the lifting platform are respectively slidably matched with the slide rails on the corresponding sides along the vertical direction, at least one slide rail is provided with a vertically arranged lifting component, the fixed part of the lifting component is installed on the slide rail, and the movable part of the lifting component is connected to the lifting platform;

[0016] The lifting platform includes a horizontally arranged long box body with a left-right length direction. A vertically arranged feed rod is provided at a position inside the box body corresponding to each feed screw. The feed rod is a round rod. The lower end of each feed rod extends downward beyond the long box body and is coaxially connected to the feed screw at the corresponding position. A rotating motor is installed on the box body. The output shaft of the rotating motor extends into the box body and is connected to all the feed rods through a transmission mechanism and drives all the feed rods to rotate synchronously.

[0017] Preferably, an adjusting screw is coaxially provided on the rear side of the piston rod of the locking cylinder, and a nut connector matching the adjusting screw is provided at the middle position of the locking push plate directly opposite to the adjusting screw, and the rear end of the adjusting screw is screwed and fixed to the nut connector.

[0018] Preferably, the rotating motor is arranged on the upper side of the box body corresponding to one of the feed rods, the output shaft of the rotating motor is coaxially connected to the corresponding feed rod vertically downward, and the other feed rods not connected to the rotating motor are synchronously driven with the feed rod through a synchronous belt drive.

[0019] Preferably, the rotating motor is arranged on the upper side of the box body at a position corresponding to a feed rod near the middle position in the left-right direction, and the output shaft of the rotating motor is vertically downwardly connected to the corresponding feed rod coaxially, and the feed rod is provided with two first synchronous wheels arranged coaxially up and down;

[0020] All feed rods on the left side of the feed rod are provided with a second synchronous wheel matching the specification and height of one of the first synchronous wheels, and the first synchronous wheel forms a synchronous belt transmission with all the second synchronous wheels through a first synchronous belt and a corresponding tensioning wheel;

[0021] All feed rods located on the right side of the feed rod are provided with a third synchronous wheel matching the specifications and height of another first synchronous wheel. The first synchronous wheel forms a synchronous belt transmission with all third synchronous wheels through a second synchronous belt and a corresponding tensioning wheel.

[0022] Preferably, each of the slide rails comprises two vertical cylinders arranged at intervals in front and behind, and the left and right sides of the lifting platform are respectively slidably matched with the two vertical cylinders on the corresponding side in the vertical direction, and a horizontally arranged long strip-shaped first mounting seat with a length direction running forward and backward is provided above the corresponding lifting platform at each slide rail position, and each first mounting seat is fixedly connected to the two vertical cylinders of the slide rail on the corresponding side, and a vertically arranged screw rod is provided in the middle part of each first mounting seat in the front and back direction, and the upper side of each screw rod exceeds the first mounting seat and is coaxially installed with a fourth synchronous wheel, and the two fourth synchronous wheels are synchronously driven by a third synchronous belt, and the lifting platform is provided with a screw rod nut matching the screw rod and arranged vertically at each screw rod, and the lower side of each screw rod exceeds the first mounting seat and extends downward through the corresponding screw rod nut and cooperates with its thread;

[0023] The lifting assembly includes a lifting motor with a vertically arranged output shaft arranged upward. The lifting motor is arranged below the lifting platform. The lifting motor is fixedly connected to two vertical cylinders on the corresponding side through a second mounting seat. The output shaft of the lifting motor extends vertically upward and is coaxially connected to the corresponding screw rod.

[0024] For the purpose of simple explanation, the device for producing ice cups described in the present invention is referred to as the present device below.

[0025] The working process of this device is:

[0026] In the initial state of the device, the sealing door plate on the lower side of the feed screw cooperates with the bell mouth at the lower part of the feed hole, the feed hole is in a closed state, the first part of the ice cup punch is located in the ice cup die, the movable ring sleeve on the ice cup punch and the columnar body formed by the third part cooperate with the through hole on the base, and a space is left between the upper side of the fourth part and the lower side of the base. At this time, the feed screw, the die upper plate, the ice cup die, the through hole on the base and the ice cup punch together form a closed accommodating chamber;

[0027] First, pour the slush into the hopper from the upper opening of the hopper, then start the lifting motor, under the action of the two fourth synchronous wheels and the third synchronous belt, the screw rods on the left and right sides of the lifting platform rotate synchronously, and the screw nuts on the left and right sides of the lifting platform drive the entire lifting platform to move downward along the slide rail under the drive of the screw rods. At this time, the feeding rod connected to the long strip box body in the lifting platform will drive the feeding screw on its lower side to move downward synchronously, and the sealing door plate on the lower side of the feeding screw will be separated from the horn mouth at the lower part of the feeding hole, and the feeding hole will be in an open state. Then start the rotating motor, and the rotating motor drives the coaxially arranged feeding rod. Other feeding rods also rotate synchronously under the coordinated action of the first synchronous wheel, the second synchronous wheel, the third synchronous wheel, the first synchronous belt, the second synchronous belt and the corresponding tensioning wheel. Under the drive of its own gravity and the feeding screw, the slush in the hopper enters the corresponding feeding hole from the bottom of the hopper, and then continues downward through the feeding screw into the accommodating chamber;

[0028] When the accommodating chamber is filled with ice cream, the motor stops rotating and controls the lifting motor to reverse. The lifting motor reverses and drives the entire lifting platform to move upward along the slide rail. At this time, the feeding rod connected to the long strip box body in the lifting platform drives the feeding screw on the lower side to move upward synchronously. The sealing door plate on the lower side of the feeding screw cooperates with the trumpet mouth at the lower part of the feeding hole, and the feeding hole returns to a closed state.

[0029] Then the locking cylinder is started, and the piston rod of the locking cylinder pushes the locking push plate backward, and the locking push plate drives the locking sliders on the corresponding sides to move backward, and the wedge-shaped barb of the locking slider extends backward into the through groove of the corresponding lock tongue, and the upper side inclined surface of the wedge-shaped barb cooperates with the upper side inclined surface of the through groove cavity to push the lock tongue upward, and the lock tongue drives the ice cup punch upward to squeeze the locking mold through the rotating shaft until the upper side of the fourth part of the ice cup punch is in contact with the lower side of the base, at this time, the ice smoothie in the accommodating cavity is compressed, and the ice cup is formed;

[0030] After the ice cup is formed, the locking cylinder drives the ice cup punch to reset, the locking push plate is disengaged from the locking tongue, and then the vertical cylinder is started to control the rotary shaft to move downward, and the square slider at the end of the rotary shaft moves downward along the first slide slot, and after leaving the first slide slot, it continues to move downward into the second slide slot, and the formed ice cup and the ice cup punch move downward along the rotary shaft until they are completely separated from the ice cup die. When the slider continues to move downward to the middle of the length direction of the second slide slot, it stops, and then the flip cylinder is started. The flip cylinder drives the rotary shaft to rotate 180° by rotating the second slide slot. After the formed ice cup and the ice cup punch rotate 180° along the rotary shaft, the demoulding cylinder is started, and the demoulding cylinder pushes the punch ejector beam, and the punch ejector beam drives the movable ring sleeve on the ice cup punch downward through the connecting rod, thereby demoulding the formed ice cup attached to the ice cup punch, and the demoulded ice cup is collected by other equipment located below and sent to the next station for subsequent processing;

[0031] Finally, the demoulding cylinder drives the movable ring sleeve to reset through the punch ejector beam and the connecting rod. The flipping cylinder drives the rotary shaft to rotate 180° again by rotating the second slide groove. The vertical cylinder is started to control the rotary shaft to move upward. The square slider at the end of the rotary shaft moves upward along the second slide groove, leaves the second slide groove, continues to move upward into the first slide groove to reset, and returns to the initial state of the device. Then the above operations are repeated for continuous production.

[0032] Advantages of the device: The device has a simple structure and uses ice smoothies as raw materials to produce ice cups. Not only can a stable ice cup structure be formed to be used as an ice cream container to keep warm, but the ice cream can also be mashed and eaten together with the ice cream to increase the taste.

[0033] An adjusting screw is coaxially arranged on the rear side of the piston rod of the locking cylinder. By adjusting the number of turns of the adjusting screw and the nut connecting head, the depth of the wedge-shaped barb inserted into the locking tongue groove cavity can be controlled, thereby controlling the extrusion stroke of the ice cup punch, that is, controlling the tightness of the pressed ice cup.

[0034] The rotating motor is arranged on the upper side of the box body, corresponding to a feeding rod near the middle position along the left and right directions, so that the loads of the first synchronous belt and the second synchronous belt on both sides can be more balanced. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0035] Figure 1 It is a three-dimensional diagram of the device.

[0036] Figure 2 It is another stereogram of the device.

[0037] Figure 3 It is a structural sectional view of the lifting platform in this device.

[0038] Figure 4 It is a side cross-sectional view of the device.

[0039] Figure 5 yes Figure 4 A partial enlarged view of part A in the middle.

[0040] Figure 6 It is the assembly drawing of the ice cup die in this device.

[0041] Figure 7 yes Figure 6 Longitudinal cross-sectional view of .

[0042] Figure 8 It is the assembly drawing of the ice cup punch in this device.

[0043] Fig. 9 This is the assembly drawing of the feed screw and feed rod in this device.

[0044] Fig.10 It is a structural schematic diagram of the locking assembly in the present device (in order to reflect the structural features, the upper plate of the die and the related structures of the ice cup die are not shown in the figure).

[0045] Fig.11 A schematic side cross-sectional view of the locking assembly in the device (only part of the locking assembly structure is shown). DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0046] See also Figure 1-Figure 11 ;

[0047] A device for producing ice cups (this embodiment takes a 6-link ice cup mold as an example):

[0048] It comprises a base 1 which is arranged horizontally and has a length direction extending left and right, and the left and right ends of the base 1 are respectively provided with supporting legs 11 extending downwards;

[0049] The base 1 is provided with a plurality of ice cup dies 12 arranged at intervals on the left and right. The ice cup dies 12 are generally vertically arranged and open cylindrically at the top and bottom. The inner cavity thereof has a taper with a small diameter on the upper side and a large diameter on the lower side. The base 1 is provided with a through hole 13 corresponding to each ice cup die 12, which matches the open lower side of the ice cup die 12 and penetrates the base 1 in the vertical direction. The lower side of each cylindrical ice cup die 12 is connected to the base 1 and is connected to the corresponding through hole 13. A horizontally arranged long strip die upper plate 14 with a length direction extending left and right is provided on the upper side of all cylindrical ice cup dies 12. The die upper plate 14 is connected to the upper sides of all cylindrical ice cup dies 12 and closes the upper sides of all cylindrical ice cup dies 12. A feed hole 141 penetrating the die upper plate 14 in the vertical direction is provided at the position of the die upper plate 14 corresponding to the center of each ice cup die 12.

[0050] A hopper 142 with an open top and the top plate 14 of the die is provided on the upper side of the die.

[0051] The lower part of the feed hole 141 is provided with an outward-expanding bell mouth 143 with a large lower diameter and a small upper diameter, and a feed screw 2 arranged vertically and matching the feed hole 141 is provided in the feed hole 141, and a sealing plate 21 matching the bell mouth 143 is provided at the lower side of the feed screw 2 corresponding to the bell mouth 143;

[0052] A horizontally arranged rotating shaft 3 with an axial direction extending left and right is provided below the base 1. Vertical cylinders 31 are provided on the upper side of the base 1 at positions corresponding to the left and right ends of the rotating shaft 3. The piston rod of the vertical cylinder 31 passes vertically downward through the base 1 and is provided with a bearing sleeve 311 with an axial direction extending left and right at the end. The bearing sleeves 311 on the two vertical cylinders 31 are both matched with the rotating shaft 3, and the left and right ends of the rotating shaft 3 are both beyond the outer sides of the two bearing sleeves 311 away from each other in the left and right direction.

[0053] A square slider 32 is provided at one end of the rotary shaft 3 on one side in the left and right directions. Two first slide grooves 33 and second slide grooves 34 are arranged at intervals up and down and matched with the slider 32 at the position below the base 1 corresponding to the slider 32. The first slide groove 33 and the second slide groove 34 are both arranged vertically and their opening directions are directly opposite to the slider 32. The upper side of the first slide groove 33 located on the upper side is connected to the base 1, and the slider 32 is located in the first slide groove 33 and slides with the first slide groove 33 in the vertical direction. The second slide groove 34 located on the lower side is provided with a flip cylinder 35 on the back side away from the slider 32 in the left and right directions. The output shaft of the flip cylinder 35 is arranged horizontally in the left and right directions and its end is connected to the second slide groove 34. The body of the flip cylinder 35 is fixedly connected to the base 1.

[0054] An ice cup punch 4 is provided at the upper side of the rotating shaft 3 corresponding to each ice cup die 12. The area corresponding to the installation of the ice cup punch 4 at the middle position in the length direction of the rotating shaft 3 adopts a square shaft structure. Each ice cup punch 4 includes a first part 41, a second part 42, a third part 43 and a fourth part 44 which are arranged vertically and connected coaxially from top to bottom. The first part 41 is a punch body, which is a truncated cone with a small diameter on the upper side and a large diameter on the lower side. Its taper matches the taper of the inner cavity of the ice cup die 12. The second part 42, the third part 43 and the fourth part 44 are The cylindrical 7-shaped body has a diameter that increases in sequence, wherein the diameter of the second portion 42 is the same as the diameter of the lower side of the first portion 41, the diameter of the third portion 43 is consistent with the diameter of the through hole 13 on the base 1, and the diameter of the fourth portion 44 is larger than the diameter of the through hole 13 on the base 1. A movable ring sleeve 421 is sleeved on the circumferential outer portion of the second portion 42, and the movable ring sleeve 421 is slidably matched with the circumferential outer wall of the second portion 42 in the vertical direction. The outer diameter of the movable ring sleeve 421 is consistent with the diameter of the third portion 43, and the sum of the vertical height of the movable ring sleeve 421 and the vertical height of the third portion 43 is consistent with the length of the through hole 13 on the base 1 in the vertical direction;

[0055] The rotary shaft 3 is provided with a plurality of locking components equidistantly distributed along the left and right directions, each of which includes two locking tongues 5, each of which is a vertically arranged rectangular block, and the installation position of the locking tongue 5 on the rotary shaft 3 is in the gap between the two ice cup punches 4, and the position of the base 1 corresponding to each locking tongue 5 is provided with a through hole 15 matching the locking tongue 5, and the upper part of the locking tongue 5 exceeds the through hole 15 and slides with the through hole 15 in the vertical direction, each The upper part of the locking tongue 5 is provided with a through groove 51 extending forward and backward. The upper side surface of the through groove 51 is an inclined surface with a high front side and a low rear side. A locking slider 52 is provided between the base 1 and the upper plate 14 of the concave mold at the upper position of the locking tongue 5. The lower side of the front part of the locking slider 52 is provided with a wedge-shaped hook 521 bent horizontally backward. The tip of the wedge-shaped hook 521 is directly opposite to the upper part of the notch on the front side of the through groove 51, and the inclination angle of the upper inclined surface of the wedge-shaped hook 521 is the same as that of the through groove 51. The inclination angles of the upper inclined surfaces of the through grooves 51 match each other, two ice cup dies 12 are spaced between the two locking tongues 5 in each locking assembly, the rear sides of the two locking sliders 52 in each locking assembly extend beyond the ice cup dies 12 and are connected by a horizontally arranged locking push plate 53 with a length direction extending left and right, a locking cylinder 54 is provided at the front position of the base 1 at the gap between the two ice cup dies 12 spaced between the two locking tongues 5 in each locking assembly, the piston rod of the locking cylinder 54 extends horizontally backward through the gap between the two ice cup dies 12 at the corresponding positions and is connected to the middle part of the corresponding locking push plate 53; an adjusting screw 541 is coaxially provided at the rear side of the piston rod of the locking cylinder 54, a nut connector 542 matching the adjusting screw 541 is provided at the middle position of the locking push plate 53 directly opposite to the adjusting screw 541, and the rear end of the adjusting screw 541 is screwed and fixed to the nut connector 542.

[0056] A channel 45 extending vertically downward and penetrating to the lower side of the fourth portion 44 is provided on the upper side of the third portion 43 of each ice cup punch 4, corresponding to the front and rear sides of the ice cup punch 4. A vertically arranged connecting rod 451 is provided in each channel 45. The connecting rod 451 and the channel 45 slide in the vertical direction. The upper ends of the two connecting rods 451 in each ice cup punch 4 are connected to the movable ring sleeve 421 at the corresponding position, and the lower ends of the two connecting rods 451 in each ice cup punch 4 are beyond the lower side of the fourth portion 44.

[0057] A plurality of demoulding cylinders 6 are arranged at equal intervals in the left-right direction at the lower side of the rotary shaft 3, and the piston rods of the demoulding cylinders 6 are arranged vertically downward. The lower sides of the piston rods of all demoulding cylinders 6 are commonly connected to a horizontally arranged punch ejection beam 61 with a length direction of left and right. The cross-sectional shape of the punch ejection beam 61 is a U-shape with an opening upward, and it includes a bottom plate 611 with a length direction of left and right, and two vertical plates 612 arranged at the front and rear sides of the bottom plate 611 and extending vertically upward. The lower ends of the connecting rods 451 located at the front side of all ice cup punches 4 are connected to the upper side of the vertical plate 612 located at the front side of the bottom plate 611, and the lower ends of the connecting rods 451 located at the rear side of all ice cup punches 4 are connected to the upper side of the vertical plate 612 located at the rear side of the bottom plate 611.

[0058] A slide rail extending vertically upward is symmetrically arranged on the upper side of the base 1 corresponding to the left and right sides of the hopper 142, and the height of the two slide rails exceeds the height of the hopper 142. A lifting platform is arranged above the hopper 142 at a position between the two slide rails. The left and right sides of the lifting platform are respectively slidably matched with the slide rails on the corresponding sides in the vertical direction, wherein a vertically arranged lifting component is arranged on the left slide rail, the fixed part of the lifting component is installed on the slide rail, and the movable part of the lifting component is connected to the lifting platform;

[0059] Each of the slide rails includes two vertical cylinders 7 arranged at intervals in front and back, and the left and right sides of the lifting platform are respectively slidably matched with the two vertical cylinders 7 on the corresponding side in the vertical direction. A horizontally arranged long strip first mounting seat 71 with a length direction of front and back is provided above the corresponding lifting platform at each slide rail position. Each first mounting seat 71 is fixedly connected to the two vertical cylinders 7 of the slide rail on the corresponding side. A vertically arranged screw rod 711 is provided in the middle of each first mounting seat 71 in the front and back direction. The upper side of each screw rod 711 exceeds the first mounting seat 71 and is coaxially mounted with a fourth synchronous wheel 712. The two fourth synchronous wheels 712 are synchronously driven by a third synchronous belt. A screw rod nut 713 matching the screw rod 711 and arranged vertically is provided at each screw rod 711 of the lifting platform. The lower side of each screw rod 711 exceeds the first mounting seat 71 and extends downward through the corresponding screw rod nut 713 and cooperates with its thread.

[0060] The lifting assembly includes a lifting motor 72 with a vertically arranged output shaft arranged upward. The lifting motor 72 is arranged below the lifting platform. The lifting motor 72 is fixedly connected to the two vertical cylinders 7 on the corresponding side through a second mounting seat 721. The output shaft of the lifting motor 72 extends vertically upward and is coaxially connected to the corresponding screw rod 711.

[0061] The lifting platform comprises a horizontally arranged long strip box body 8 with a length direction extending left and right. A vertically arranged feeding rod 81 is provided at a position corresponding to each feeding screw 2 in the box body 8. The feeding rod 81 is a round rod. The lower end of each feeding rod 81 extends downward beyond the long strip box body 8 and is coaxially connected to the feeding screw 2 at the corresponding position. A rotating motor 82 is installed on the box body 8. The rotating motor 82 is arranged at a position on the upper side of the box body 8 corresponding to a feeding rod 81 near the middle position along the left and right direction. The output shaft of the rotating motor 82 is vertically downward and coaxially connected to the corresponding feeding rod 81. The feeding rod 81 is provided with two first synchronous wheels 83 coaxially arranged up and down.

[0062] All the feed rods 81 on the left side of the feed rod 81 are provided with a second synchronous wheel 84 that matches the specifications and height of one of the first synchronous wheels 83. The first synchronous wheel 83 forms a synchronous belt transmission with all the second synchronous wheels 84 through a first synchronous belt and a corresponding tensioning wheel 86.

[0063] All feed rods 81 on the right side of the feed rod 81 are provided with a third synchronous wheel 85 matching the specifications and height of another first synchronous wheel 83 . The first synchronous wheel 83 forms a synchronous belt transmission with all third synchronous wheels 85 through a second synchronous belt and a corresponding tensioning wheel 86 .

[0064] The working process of this device is:

[0065] In the initial state of the device, the sealing door plate 21 at the lower side of the feed screw 2 cooperates with the bell mouth 143 at the lower part of the feed hole 141, and the feed hole 141 is in a closed state. The first part 41 of the ice cup punch 4 is located in the ice cup die 12. The movable ring sleeve 421 on the ice cup punch 4 and the columnar body formed by the third part 43 cooperate with the through hole 13 on the base 1, and there is space between the upper side of the fourth part 44 and the lower side of the base 1. At this time, the feed screw 2, the die upper plate 14, the ice cup die 12, the through hole 13 on the base 1 and the ice cup punch 4 together form a closed accommodating chamber;

[0066] First, pour the slush into the hopper 142 from the upper opening of the hopper 142, then start the lifting motor 72, and under the action of the two fourth synchronous wheels 712 and the third synchronous belt, the screw rods 711 on the left and right sides of the lifting platform rotate synchronously, and the screw nuts 713 on the left and right sides of the lifting platform drive the entire lifting platform to move downward along the slide rail under the drive of the screw rods 711. At this time, the feeding rod 81 connected to the long strip box body 8 in the lifting platform will drive the feeding screw 2 on the lower side thereof to move downward synchronously, and the sealing door plate 21 on the lower side of the feeding screw 2 and the lower side of the feeding hole 141 are connected. The bell mouth 143 of the hopper 142 is disengaged, and the feed port is in an open state. Then the rotating motor 82 is started, and the rotating motor 82 drives the coaxially arranged feed rod 81. The other feed rods 81 also rotate synchronously under the coordinated action of the first synchronous wheel 83, the second synchronous wheel 84, the third synchronous wheel 85, the first synchronous belt, the second synchronous belt and the corresponding tension wheel 86. The slush in the hopper 142 enters the corresponding feed hole 141 from the bottom of the hopper 142 under its own gravity and the drive of the feed screw 2, and then continues downward through the feed screw 2 into the accommodating chamber;

[0067] When the accommodating chamber is filled with ice cream, the motor 82 is stopped and the lifting motor 72 is controlled to reverse. The lifting motor 72 reverses and drives the entire lifting platform to move upward along the slide rail. At this time, the feeding rod 81 connected to the long strip box body 8 in the lifting platform drives the feeding screw 2 on the lower side thereof to move upward synchronously. The sealing door plate 21 on the lower side of the feeding screw 2 cooperates with the bell mouth 143 at the lower part of the feeding hole 141, and the feeding hole returns to a closed state.

[0068] Then, the locking cylinder 54 is started, and the piston rod of the locking cylinder 54 pushes the locking push plate 53 backward, and the locking push plate 53 drives the locking sliders 52 on the corresponding sides to move backward, and the wedge-shaped barbs 521 of the locking sliders 52 extend backward into the through grooves 51 of the corresponding locking tongues 5, and the upper side inclined surfaces of the wedge-shaped barbs 521 cooperate with the upper side inclined surfaces of the grooves of the through grooves 51 to push the locking tongues 5 upward, and the locking tongues 5 drive the ice cup punch 4 to squeeze the locking mold upward through the rotary shaft 3 until the upper side of the fourth part 44 of the ice cup punch 4 is in contact with the lower side of the base 1, at which time the ice smoothie in the accommodating cavity is compressed, and the ice cup is formed;

[0069] After the ice cup is formed, the locking cylinder 54 drives the ice cup punch 4 to reset, the locking push plate 53 is disengaged from the locking tongue 5, and then the vertical cylinder 31 is started to control the rotary shaft 3 to move downward, and the square slider 32 at the end of the rotary shaft 3 moves downward along the first slide groove 33, and after leaving the first slide groove 33, it continues to move downward into the second slide groove 34. The formed ice cup and the ice cup punch 4 move downward with the rotary shaft 3 until they are completely separated from the ice cup die 12. When the slider 32 continues to move downward to the middle of the length direction of the second slide groove 34, it stops, and the flip air cylinder 31 is started at this time. Cylinder 35, the flip cylinder 35 drives the rotary shaft 3 to rotate 180° by rotating the second slide groove 34. After the formed ice cup and the ice cup punch 4 rotate 180° along with the rotary shaft 3, the demoulding cylinder 6 is started. The demoulding cylinder 6 pushes the punch ejection beam 61. The punch ejection beam 61 drives the movable ring sleeve 421 on the ice cup punch 4 downward through the connecting rod 451, so that the formed ice cup attached to the ice cup punch 4 is demoulded. The demoulded ice cup is collected by other equipment located below and sent to the next station for subsequent processing;

[0070] Finally, the demoulding cylinder 6 drives the movable ring sleeve 421 to reset through the punch ejection beam 61 and the connecting rod 451, and the flip cylinder 35 drives the rotating shaft 3 to rotate 180° again by rotating the second slide groove 34. The vertical cylinder 31 is started to control the rotating shaft 3 to move upward, and the square slider 32 at the end of the rotating shaft 3 moves upward along the second slide groove 34, leaves the second slide groove 34, and continues to move upward into the first slide groove 33 to reset, returning to the initial state of the device, and then repeats the above operations to achieve continuous production.

[0071] Advantages of the device: The device has a simple structure and uses ice smoothies as raw materials to produce ice cups. Not only can a stable ice cup structure be formed to be used as an ice cream container to keep warm, but the ice cream can also be mashed and eaten together with the ice cream to increase the taste.

[0072] An adjusting screw 541 is coaxially provided on the rear side of the piston rod of the locking cylinder 54. By adjusting the number of turns of the adjusting screw 541 and the nut connector 542, the depth of the wedge-shaped barb 521 inserted into the groove cavity of the locking tongue 5 through groove 51 can be controlled, thereby controlling the extrusion stroke of the ice cup punch 4, that is, controlling the tightness of the pressed ice cup.

[0073] The rotating motor 82 is arranged on the upper side of the box body 8 corresponding to a feeding rod 81 near the middle position along the left-right direction, so that the loads of the first synchronous belt and the second synchronous belt on both sides can be more balanced.

[0074] The synchronous belt drive is a conventional transmission structure. The matching method of the synchronous belt, synchronous wheel and tension wheel is well known to those skilled in the art. In order to simplify the drawings and simply illustrate the problem, all synchronous belts are not shown in this embodiment.

Claims

1. A device for producing ice cups, characterized in that: It comprises a base which is arranged horizontally and has a length direction extending left and right, and legs extending downward are respectively provided at the left and right ends of the base; The base is provided with a plurality of ice cup dies arranged at intervals on the left and right. The ice cup dies are generally vertically arranged and open at the top and bottom of the cylinder. The inner cavity thereof has a taper with a small diameter on the upper side and a large diameter on the lower side. The base is provided with a through hole matching the open lower side of the ice cup dies and penetrating the base in the vertical direction at each ice cup dies corresponding to the base. The lower side of each cylindrical ice cup dies is connected to the base and connected to the corresponding through hole. The upper side of all cylindrical ice cup dies is provided with a horizontally arranged long strip dies upper plate with a length direction running left and right. The dies upper plate is connected to the upper sides of all cylindrical ice cup dies and closes the upper sides of all cylindrical ice cup dies. A feed hole penetrating the dies upper plate in the vertical direction is provided at the position of the dies upper plate corresponding to the center of each ice cup dies. A hopper with an open top and the top plate of the die is provided on the upper side of the die upper plate; The lower part of the feed hole is provided with an outward-expanding bell mouth with a large lower diameter and a small upper diameter, a feed screw arranged vertically and matching the feed hole is provided in the feed hole, and a sealing door plate matching the bell mouth is provided at the lower side of the feed screw corresponding to the bell mouth; A rotating shaft arranged horizontally and with an axis direction extending left and right is provided below the base. Vertical cylinders are provided on the upper side of the base at positions corresponding to the left and right ends of the rotating shaft. The piston rod of the vertical cylinder passes vertically downward through the base and is provided with a bearing sleeve with an axis direction extending left and right at the end. The bearing sleeves on the two vertical cylinders are both matched with the rotating shaft, and the left and right ends of the rotating shaft extend beyond the outer sides of the two bearing sleeves that are away from each other in the left and right directions. A square slider is provided at one end of the left and right sides of the rotary shaft, and two first and second sliders are arranged at intervals from top to bottom and matched with the slider at the position below the base corresponding to the slider. The first and second sliders are arranged vertically and their opening directions are directly opposite to the slider, wherein the upper side of the first slider located on the upper side is connected to the base, and the slider is located in the first slider and slides with the first slider in the vertical direction, and the second slider located on the lower side is provided with a flip cylinder on the back side away from the slider in the left and right directions, the output shaft of the flip cylinder is arranged horizontally in the left and right directions and its end is connected to the second slider, and the body of the flip cylinder is fixedly connected to the base; An ice cup punch is provided at each ice cup die on the upper side of the rotating shaft, and a square shaft structure is adopted for the area corresponding to the installation of the ice cup punch at the middle position in the length direction of the rotating shaft. Each ice cup punch includes a first part, a second part, a third part and a fourth part which are arranged vertically and connected coaxially from top to bottom in sequence. The first part is a punch body, which is a truncated cone with a small diameter on the upper side and a large diameter on the lower side, and its taper matches the taper of the inner cavity of the ice cup die. The second part, the third part and the fourth part are all cylindrical and their diameters increase in sequence, wherein the diameter of the second part is the same as the diameter of the lower side of the first part, the diameter of the third part is consistent with the diameter of the through hole on the base, and the diameter of the fourth part is larger than the diameter of the through hole on the base. A movable ring sleeve is provided on the circumferential outer part of the second part, and the movable ring sleeve is slidably matched with the circumferential outer wall of the second part in the vertical direction. The outer diameter of the movable ring sleeve is consistent with the diameter of the third part, and the sum of the vertical height of the movable ring sleeve and the vertical height of the third part is consistent with the length of the through hole on the base in the vertical direction. The rotary shaft is provided with a plurality of locking components which are evenly spaced along the left and right directions, each of the locking components comprises two locking tongues, the locking tongue is a vertically arranged rectangular block, the installation position of the locking tongue on the rotary shaft is in the gap between the two ice cup convex molds, a through hole matching the locking tongue is provided at the position of the base corresponding to each locking tongue, the upper part of the locking tongue exceeds the through hole and slides with the through hole in the vertical direction, the upper part of each locking tongue is provided with a through groove running forward and backward, the upper side surface of the through groove cavity is an inclined surface with a high front side and a low rear side, a locking slider is provided at the position above the locking tongue corresponding to the base and the upper plate of the concave mold, and the lower side of the front part of the locking slider is provided with a horizontally backward bending The wedge-shaped barb has a tip that is directly opposite to the upper portion of the notch on the front side of the through slot, and the inclination angle of the upper side slope of the wedge-shaped barb matches the inclination angle of the upper side slope of the through slot cavity. Two ice cup dies are spaced between the two locking tongues in each locking assembly. The rear sides of the two locking sliders in each locking assembly extend beyond the ice cup dies and are connected through a horizontally arranged locking push plate with a length direction extending left and right. A locking cylinder is provided at the front side of the base at a gap between two ice cup dies spaced between the two locking tongues in each locking assembly. The piston rod of the locking cylinder extends horizontally backward through the gap between the two ice cup dies at the corresponding positions and is connected to the middle of the corresponding locking push plate. A channel extending vertically downward and penetrating to the lower side of the fourth part is provided on the upper side surface of the third part of each ice cup punch, corresponding to the front and rear sides of the ice cup punch. Each channel is provided with a vertically arranged connecting rod, and the connecting rod and the channel slide in the vertical direction. The upper ends of the two connecting rods in each ice cup punch are connected to the movable ring sleeves at the corresponding positions, and the lower ends of the two connecting rods in each ice cup punch extend beyond the lower side of the fourth part. A plurality of demoulding cylinders are arranged at equal intervals in the left-right direction on the lower side of the rotary shaft, and the piston rods of the demoulding cylinders are arranged vertically downward. The lower sides of the piston rods of all demoulding cylinders are commonly connected to a horizontally arranged punch ejection beam with a length direction extending left-right. The cross-sectional shape of the punch ejection beam is a U-shape with an opening upward, and it includes a bottom plate with a length direction extending left-right, and two vertical plates arranged at the front and rear sides of the bottom plate and extending vertically upward. The lower ends of the connecting rods located at the front side of all ice cup punches are connected to the upper side of the vertical plate located at the front side of the bottom plate, and the lower ends of the connecting rods located at the rear side of all ice cup punches are connected to the upper side of the vertical plate located at the rear side of the bottom plate; A slide rail extending vertically upward is symmetrically arranged on the upper side of the base corresponding to the left and right sides of the hopper, the height of the two slide rails exceeds the height of the hopper, a lifting platform is arranged above the hopper at the position between the two slide rails, the left and right sides of the lifting platform are respectively slidably matched with the slide rails on the corresponding sides along the vertical direction, at least one slide rail is provided with a vertically arranged lifting component, the fixed part of the lifting component is installed on the slide rail, and the movable part of the lifting component is connected to the lifting platform; The lifting platform includes a horizontally arranged long box body with a left-right length direction. A vertically arranged feed rod is provided at a position inside the box body corresponding to each feed screw. The feed rod is a round rod. The lower end of each feed rod extends downward beyond the long box body and is coaxially connected to the feed screw at the corresponding position. A rotating motor is installed on the box body. The output shaft of the rotating motor extends into the box body and is connected to all the feed rods through a transmission mechanism and drives all the feed rods to rotate synchronously.

2. The device for producing ice cups according to claim 1, characterized in that: An adjusting screw is coaxially arranged at the rear side of the piston rod of the locking cylinder, and a nut connector matching the adjusting screw is arranged at the middle position of the locking push plate opposite to the adjusting screw, and the rear end of the adjusting screw is screwed and fixed to the nut connector.

3. The device for producing ice cups according to claim 1, characterized in that: The rotating motor is arranged on the upper side of the box body corresponding to one of the feed rods, and the output shaft of the rotating motor is coaxially connected to the corresponding feed rod vertically downward, and the other feed rods not connected to the rotating motor are synchronously driven with the feed rod through a synchronous belt drive.

4. The device for producing ice cups according to claim 3, characterized in that: The rotating motor is arranged on the upper side of the box body at a position corresponding to a feed rod near the middle position in the left and right directions, and the output shaft of the rotating motor is vertically downwardly connected to the corresponding feed rod coaxially, and the feed rod is provided with two first synchronous wheels arranged coaxially up and down; All feed rods on the left side of the feed rod are provided with a second synchronous wheel matching the specification and height of one of the first synchronous wheels, and the first synchronous wheel forms a synchronous belt transmission with all the second synchronous wheels through a first synchronous belt and a corresponding tensioning wheel; All feed rods located on the right side of the feed rod are provided with a third synchronous wheel matching the specifications and height of another first synchronous wheel. The first synchronous wheel forms a synchronous belt transmission with all third synchronous wheels through a second synchronous belt and a corresponding tensioning wheel.

5. The device for producing ice cups according to claim 1, characterized in that: Each of the slide rails comprises two vertical cylinders arranged at intervals in front and back, and the left and right sides of the lifting platform are respectively slidably matched with the two vertical cylinders on the corresponding side in the vertical direction, and a horizontally arranged long strip-shaped first mounting seat with a length direction of front and back is provided above the corresponding lifting platform at each slide rail position, and each first mounting seat is fixedly connected to the two vertical cylinders of the slide rail on the corresponding side, and a vertically arranged screw rod is provided in the middle part of each first mounting seat in the front and back direction, and the upper side of each screw rod exceeds the first mounting seat and is coaxially installed with a fourth synchronous wheel, and the two fourth synchronous wheels are synchronously driven by a third synchronous belt, and the lifting platform is provided with a screw rod nut matching the screw rod and arranged vertically at each screw rod, and the lower side of each screw rod exceeds the first mounting seat and extends downward through the corresponding screw rod nut and cooperates with its thread; The lifting assembly includes a lifting motor with a vertically arranged output shaft arranged upward. The lifting motor is arranged below the lifting platform. The lifting motor is fixedly connected to two vertical cylinders on the corresponding side through a second mounting seat. The output shaft of the lifting motor extends vertically upward and is coaxially connected to the corresponding screw rod.

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