Blanking device for crown block
By designing a feeding device for overhead cranes, and utilizing drive components and a vibrating mechanism to quickly clear the hopper, the problem of hopper blockage was solved, ensuring the continuity and efficiency of electrolytic aluminum production.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202520440407.X
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2025-03-13
- Publication Date
- 2026-01-23
- Estimated Expiration
- 2035-03-13
AI Technical Summary
In existing technologies, hoppers are prone to clogging during the electrolytic aluminum production process due to uneven particle size and humidity of the material, which makes disassembly and unclogging inconvenient and affects production efficiency.
A feeding device for overhead cranes was designed, comprising a feeding hopper, an L-shaped plate, a conveying pipe, an auxiliary mechanism, and a vibrating mechanism. The auxiliary hopper is controlled to move in the reverse direction by a drive component. The auxiliary hopper is detachably connected to the feeding hopper and the conveying pipe. Combined with the vibrating mechanism, the vibrating hammer shakes off the adhering material, thereby achieving rapid unblocking of the blockage.
This device can quickly separate the feed hopper from the conveying pipe, reducing maintenance difficulty, ensuring production continuity, reducing manual intervention, and achieving the dual effects of automatic unblocking and blockage prevention.
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Abstract
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The utility model relates to anode pre-culture technical field, concretely is a discharging device for crown block. BACKGROUND
[0002] In the electrolytic aluminium production process, when the electrolytic cell completes the anode replacement work, the solid granular broken material needs to be put on the anode. At present, the commonly used method is to install the hopper on the crown block, and the material is transported by the help of the bucket elevator, and the material is transported to the designated position through the discharging pipe at the bottom of the hopper. However, in the actual conveying process, due to the uneven distribution of the material particle size, and affected by the humidity and other factors, the hopper is easy to be blocked, and the hopper is installed on the crown block, so the disassembly and dredging operation is very inconvenient, which will undoubtedly affect the production efficiency. UTILITARIAN CONTENT
[0003] The utility model aims at providing a discharging device for crown block, which solves the problem of hopper blockage and inconvenient dredging in the above background technology, and affects the production efficiency.
[0004] In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model provides the following technical scheme: a discharging device for crown block, which comprises a feeding hopper arranged on the crown block, an L-shaped plate rotatably connected to the bottom of the crown block, a material conveying pipe detachably connected with the L-shaped plate and located at the bottom of the crown block, and an auxiliary mechanism arranged between the feeding hopper and the material conveying pipe, wherein the auxiliary mechanism comprises support plates arranged at the bottom of the crown block and located on both sides of the bottom of the feeding hopper, sliding plates transversely connected with the two support plates respectively, two C-shaped auxiliary hoppers arranged on one end of the sliding plate and arranged oppositely, and a driving assembly arranged on the support plate; the driving assembly is drivingly connected with the two auxiliary hoppers to drive the two auxiliary hoppers to move synchronously and reversely, the upper part of the auxiliary hopper is detachably connected with the bottom of the feeding hopper, and the bottom of the auxiliary hopper is detachably connected with the material conveying pipe.
[0005] Further, it further comprises a rapping mechanism, the rapping mechanism comprises a push rod connected with the other end of the sliding plate and abutting against the side wall of the feeding hopper, a vertical block arranged on the feeding hopper, and a rapping hammer connected with the vertical block through a spring; one end of the push rod is located on the side of the rapping hammer close to the feeding hopper.
[0006] Further, the driving assembly comprises a motor arranged on one of the support plates, and a screw rod rotatably connected with the two support plates and connected with the output shaft of the motor; the screw rod is threadedly connected with the two auxiliary hoppers through a cross plate.
[0007] Further, the bottom of the auxiliary hopper is conical.
[0008] Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the advantages of:
[0009] 1. The device controls the synchronous reverse movement of the two C-shaped auxiliary hoppers through the driving assembly, can quickly separate the feeding hopper and the conveying pipe when blocked, and directly exposes the blocked part; the auxiliary hopper, the feeding hopper and the conveying pipe are detachably connected in a buckle type, do not need to be disassembled as a whole, shorten the dredging time, reduce the maintenance difficulty, and ensure the production continuity.
[0010] 2. The vibration mechanism is linked with the auxiliary hopper, in the process of separating the hopper, the slide plate drives the stirring rod to trigger the vibration hammer action, the impact force generated by spring return directly acts on the outer wall of the feeding hopper, and the adhered material is vibrated off, so that the double effects of blockage prevention and automatic dredging are realized, and the frequency of manual intervention is reduced. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
[0011] Figure 1 It is a whole structure diagram of the utility model;
[0012] Figure 2 It is a rear view of the utility model;
[0013] Figure 3 It is a top view of the utility model;
[0014] Figure 4 It is a first part structure diagram of the utility model;
[0015] Figure 5 It is a sectional view of the utility model;
[0016] Figure 6 It is a second part structure diagram of the utility model.
[0017] In the drawing:
[0018] 1, headstock; 2, feeding hopper; 3, L-shaped plate; 4, conveying pipe; 5, supporting plate; 6, slide plate; 7, auxiliary hopper; 8, stirring rod; 9, vertical block; 10, spring; 11, vibration hammer; 12, motor; 13, screw; 14, cross plate. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0019] Please refer to Figures 1 to 6 A headstock unloading device is composed of a feeding hopper 2 arranged on a headstock 1, an L-shaped plate 3 rotatably connected at the bottom of the headstock 1, a conveying pipe 4 detachably connected with the L-shaped plate 3 through a hoop, buckle, bolt and the like, and an auxiliary mechanism arranged between the feeding hopper 2 and the conveying pipe 4 for connecting the feeding hopper 2 and the conveying pipe 4; the upper part of the auxiliary mechanism is detachably connected with the bottom of the feeding hopper 2, and the lower part of the auxiliary mechanism is detachably connected with the upper end of the conveying pipe 4, so that the material is dredged through the auxiliary mechanism when the material feeding hopper 2.
[0020] The auxiliary mechanism comprises two support plates 5, two sliding plates 6, two auxiliary hoppers 7 and a driving assembly; the two support plates 5 are arranged at the bottom of the crown block 1 and located at the two sides of the bottom of the feeding hopper 2 respectively, the two sliding plates 6 pass through the two support plates 5 and are in transverse sliding cooperation with the support plates 5, the two auxiliary hoppers 7 are in C shape as a whole and the bottom is conical, the two auxiliary hoppers 7 are oppositely arranged and adapted to the bottom of the feeding hopper 2, and the two auxiliary hoppers 7 are connected to the ends of the two sliding plates 6 which are close to each other, the driving assembly comprises a motor 12 arranged on one of the support plates 5 and a screw rod 13 rotatably connected to the two support plates 5 and connected to the output shaft of the motor 12, and the screw rod 13 is threadedly connected to the two auxiliary hoppers 7 through a cross plate 14; when the motor 12 drives the screw rod 13 to rotate, the two auxiliary hoppers 7 are driven to move close to each other through the cross plate 14, and when the two auxiliary hoppers 7 move to the opposite side and fit, the upper part of the auxiliary hopper 7 wraps the bottom of the feeding hopper 2, and the protrusions arranged on the outer wall of the feeding hopper 2 are clamped into the grooves arranged on the upper part of the inner wall of the auxiliary hopper 7, and the lower part of the auxiliary hopper 7 wraps the upper part of the conveying pipe 4, and the protrusions arranged on the conveying pipe 4 are clamped into the grooves arranged on the lower part of the inner wall of the auxiliary hopper 7.
[0021] In order to improve the material dredging efficiency, a vibrating mechanism cooperating with the two sliding plates 6 is further arranged, which comprises two lever rods 8, two vertical blocks 9 and two vibrating hammers 11; the two lever rods 8 are connected to the ends of the two sliding plates 6 which are away from each other and abut against the side wall of the feeding hopper 2, the part of the two lever rods 8 abutting against the side wall of the feeding hopper 2 is rotatable (realized by hinging, bearing connection and the like, and a limiting mechanism such as a bolt type limiting mechanism is arranged on the lever rod, not shown in the figure), the two vertical blocks 9 are arranged on the vertical walls on the two sides of the feeding hopper 2, and the two vibrating hammers 11 are connected to the two vertical blocks 9 through springs 10 respectively, specifically, one end of the spring 10 is connected to the vertical block 9 and the other end is connected to the vibrating hammer 11 (the connection mode is detachable by screwing a bolt into a mounting seat or a connecting plate, so as to replace the spring), in order to increase the connection strength, a supporting rod with elasticity can be connected between the vertical block 9 and the vibrating hammer 11, since one end of the lever rod 8 is located on the side of the vibrating hammer 11 close to the feeding hopper 2, when the motor 12 reverses, drives the two sliding plates 6 to move away from each other, drives the two lever rods 8 to move away from each other, and drives the two vibrating hammers 11 to move, the spring 10 is bent, until the end of the lever rod 8 is away from the vibrating hammer 11, the vibrating hammer 11 loses the limitation, the spring 10 is reset, the vibrating hammer 11 is driven to knock the outer wall of the feeding hopper 2 by the elasticity of the spring 10, and the material is vibrated and dropped, so as to assist dredging the feeding hopper 2.
[0022] The motor 12 is specifically a self-locking stepping motor, an electromagnetic brake motor and the like, and the power is provided by the power supply system of the production plant.
[0023] The utility model discloses a working principle: when the material is blocked, needs to dredge feeding hopper 2, stops material delivery after, reverse starting motor 12 is driven by motor 12 screw rod 13 reverse rotation, and then through two horizontal boards 14 drive two auxiliary hoppers 7 along the direction of mutual removal and move, after two auxiliary hoppers 7 move to certain distance, the bottom of feeding hopper 2 and the upper portion of material conveying pipe 4 completely leak, and check the position of blocking, if material conveying pipe 4 is blocked, then remove material conveying pipe 4 (subsequent dredging), replace the material conveying pipe 4 of not blocking, and forward starting motor 12 drive two auxiliary hoppers 7 reset, if feeding hopper 2 is blocked, then first material conveying pipe 4 is rotated to one side, and the staff directly dredges feeding hopper 2, and when two auxiliary hoppers 7 along the direction of mutual removal and move, will drive two vibration hammers 11 to move, spring 10 is bent, and the end of shift lever 8 is away from vibration hammer 11, and vibration hammer 11 loses the restriction, and spring 10 resets, and vibration hammer 11 is knocked to the outer wall of feeding hopper 2 through the elasticity of spring 10, and the material is shaken off, to assist dredging feeding hopper 2, and after dredging is completed, forward starting motor 12 drive two auxiliary hoppers 7 reset, in the slide plate 6 drive shift lever 8 reset, rotate the end of shift lever 8 direction, make vibration hammer 11 will not hinder shift lever 8, after complete reset, shift lever 8 end turns back to the original direction, and is fixed the position at this time through the limiting mechanism, so that subsequent use.
Claims
1. A feeding device for an overhead crane, comprising a feeding hopper (2) mounted on an overhead crane (1), an L-shaped plate (3) rotatably connected to the bottom of the overhead crane (1), a conveying pipe (4) detachably connected to the L-shaped plate (3) and located at the bottom of the overhead crane (1), and an auxiliary mechanism disposed between the feeding hopper (2) and the conveying pipe (4), characterized in that, The auxiliary mechanism includes a support plate (5) located at the bottom of the overhead crane (1) and on both sides of the bottom of the feed hopper (2), a sliding plate (6) that is laterally slidably connected to the two support plates (5), two C-shaped auxiliary hoppers (7) located on one end of the sliding plate (6) and arranged opposite to each other, and a drive assembly located on the support plate (5); the drive assembly is connected to the two auxiliary hoppers (7) to drive the two auxiliary hoppers (7) to move synchronously in opposite directions, the upper part of the auxiliary hopper (7) is detachably connected to the bottom of the feed hopper (2), and the bottom of the auxiliary hopper (7) is detachably connected to the conveying pipe (4).
2. The overhead crane unloading device as described in claim 1, characterized in that, It also includes a vibrating mechanism, which includes a lever (8) connected to the other end of the slide plate (6) and abutting against the side wall of the feed hopper (2), a vertical block (9) provided on the feed hopper (2), and a vibrating hammer (11) connected to the vertical block (9) by a spring (10); one end of the lever (8) is located on the side of the vibrating hammer (11) near the feed hopper (2).
3. The overhead crane unloading device as described in claim 2, characterized in that, The drive assembly includes a motor (12) mounted on one of the support plates (5) and a screw (13) rotatably connected to the two support plates (5) and connected to the output shaft of the motor (12); the screw (13) is threadedly connected to the two auxiliary hoppers (7) via a cross plate (14).
4. The overhead crane unloading device as described in claim 1, characterized in that, The bottom of the auxiliary hopper (7) is conical.