Material separation mechanism
By designing a material separation mechanism, which uses a motor-driven chain and a bent plate chain to separate bamboo strips, the problem of bamboo strip crossing and nesting is solved, improving the bamboo strip feeding efficiency and equipment stability.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202520498818.4
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2025-03-21
- Publication Date
- 2026-02-13
- Estimated Expiration
- 2035-03-21
AI Technical Summary
When a large number of bamboo strips are put into the existing feeding equipment, the bamboo strips tend to cross and nest, resulting in low automatic feeding efficiency and a gap period, which affects the normal operation of the equipment.
A material separation mechanism was designed, including a pushing component, a feeding component, and a separating component. The mechanism uses a motor-driven chain and a bent plate chain to separate bamboo strips, and combines sensor detection and a kicking mechanism to ensure single-strip delivery.
It effectively separates intersecting or nested bamboo strips, improves feeding efficiency, ensures stable equipment operation, and avoids manual intervention and material jamming.
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Abstract
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The utility model relates to material conveying automation equipment field especially relates to a material separation mechanism. BACKGROUND
[0002] When bamboo is loaded to the planing process, it needs to put bamboo pieces into the planer one by one. The existing feeding equipment has the following problems when putting in a large number of bamboo strips:
[0003] 1. The tail end of the put-in bamboo strip is prone to cross in the transmission process, at which time the bamboo strip is difficult to be automatically separated by the equipment, and manual intervention is required, which greatly reduces the automatic loading efficiency of the bamboo strip.
[0004] 2. Due to the differences in length, thickness and bending degree between different bamboo strips, the upper and lower layers or the left and right layers are prone to nest during the bamboo strip loading process, which will block the loading process and directly cause the loading equipment to stop.
[0005] 3. When the put-in bamboo strips are unevenly distributed, there is a window period during the loading process, which affects the loading efficiency. SUMMARY
[0006] The utility model discloses a kind of material separation mechanisms, bamboo strip can be separated from cross or mutual nest, improve bamboo strip loading efficiency.
[0007] The utility model discloses the technical scheme that is adopted:
[0008] A kind of material separation mechanism, it is characterized by: including rack, push material component on the rack, feeding component on the discharge end of push material component;Material distribution component is arranged on the discharge end of feeding component.
[0009] The push material component includes push material mechanism for providing power on the rack, guide rail for guiding on the rack, sliding block for fixing push material plate on the guide rail, push material plate for flattening and conveying material on the sliding block.
[0010] The feeding component includes first motor for providing power on the rack, chain wheel for transmission on the rack, first chain for conveying material on the discharge end of push material plate, material detection inductor for detecting material on the discharge end of first chain.
[0011] The material distribution component includes second motor for providing power on the rack, second chain for power transmission connected with second motor, bent plate chain and feeding hook for separating material on the discharge end of first chain, positioning inductor for positioning the position of bent plate chain and feeding hook on the side of feeding hook, in-place detection inductor for detecting material on the discharge end of feeding hook.
[0012] Further, in order to improve the effect of leveling and conveying material: the pushing plate is a rectangular pushing plate with chamfer, located on both sides of the first chain, used to assist the first chain to convey material, and the first chain has two chains located on both sides of the frame.
[0013] Further, in order to improve the effect of separating material: the curved plate chain has two chains located on both sides of the frame, and the front end of the feeding hook is provided with a certain height boss to prevent material from falling off, and the feeding hook is installed on the two curved plate chains.
[0014] Further, in order to ensure that the material can be conveyed singly: the material separating mechanism further comprises a kicking component arranged on both sides of the curved plate chain.
[0015] The kicking component comprises a laminated sheet detection inductor arranged on the side of the feeding hook for detecting the overlapping condition of the material, and a kicking mechanism arranged on the side of the laminated sheet detection inductor for removing the excess material.
[0016] Further, in order to improve the kicking effect: the laminated sheet detection inductor is provided with two groups, respectively located on both sides of the curved plate chain, and the front end of the kicking mechanism in contact with the material can be circular or square, and the kicking mechanism is provided with two groups, respectively located on the sides of the two groups of laminated sheet detection inductors.
[0017] Further, the pushing mechanism and the kicking mechanism are air cylinders, electric push rods or cams.
[0018] The above technical scheme has the following beneficial effects:
[0019] 1. The cross or nested bamboo strips can be separated;
[0020] 2. The material separation effect is good, the separation speed is fast, and the feeding efficiency of the rear-end equipment is improved. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
[0021] The utility model will be further described in detail below in combination with the drawings and specific embodiments;
[0022] Figure 1 is the perspective view of the material separating mechanism of the utility model;
[0023] Figure 2 is Figure 1 the local enlarged view of A in figure 1;
[0024] Figure 3 is the front view of the material separating mechanism of the utility model;
[0025] Figure 4 is the left view of the material separating mechanism of the utility model;
[0026] Figure 5It is the overhead view of the material separation mechanism of the utility model;
[0027] In the drawing: 1 - frame, 2 - material pushing assembly, 201 - material pushing mechanism, 202 - guide rail, 203 - sliding block, 204 - material pushing plate, 3 - feeding assembly, 301 - first motor, 302 - chain wheel, 303 - first chain, 304 - material detection inductor, 4 - material separating assembly, 401 - second motor, 402 - second chain, 403 - bent plate chain, 404 - feeding hook, 405 - positioning inductor, 406 - in-place detection inductor, 5 - material kicking assembly, 501 - laminated sheet detection inductor, 502 - material kicking mechanism. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0028] The technical scheme in the embodiments of the utility model will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the utility model. Obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the utility model, rather than all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the utility model, all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative labor fall within the scope of the utility model.
[0029] Please refer to Figures 1-5 The utility model provides a technical scheme:
[0030] A material separation mechanism, characterized by comprising a frame 1, a material pushing assembly 2 arranged on the frame 1, and a feeding assembly 3 arranged at the discharging end of the material pushing assembly 2.
[0031] The material pushing assembly 2 comprises a material pushing mechanism 201 arranged on the frame 1 for providing power, a guide rail 202 arranged on the frame 1 for guiding, a sliding block 203 arranged on the guide rail 202 for fixing the material pushing plate 204, and a material pushing plate 204 arranged on the sliding block 203 for flattening and conveying materials.
[0032] The feeding assembly 3 comprises a first motor 301 arranged on the frame 1 for providing power, a chain wheel 302 arranged on the frame 1 for transmission, a first chain 303 arranged at the discharging end of the material pushing plate 204 for conveying materials, and a material detection inductor 304 arranged at the discharging end of the first chain 303 for detecting materials.
[0033] The material separating assembly 4 comprises a second motor 401 arranged on the frame 1 for providing power, a second chain 402 connected with the second motor 401 for power transmission, a bent plate chain 403 and a feeding hook 404 arranged at the discharging end of the first chain 303 for separating materials, a positioning inductor 405 arranged on one side of the feeding hook 404 for positioning the bent plate chain 403 and the feeding hook 404, and an in-place detection inductor 406 arranged at the discharging end of the feeding hook 404 for detecting materials.
[0034] The pushing plate 204 is a rectangular pushing plate with chamfer, and is arranged on both sides of the first chain 303 to assist the first chain 303 in conveying materials.
[0035] The bending plate chain 403 is arranged on both sides of the frame 1, and the feeding hook 404 is provided with a boss at the front end to prevent materials from falling off.
[0036] The material separating mechanism further comprises a kicking assembly 5 arranged on both sides of the bending plate chain 403.
[0037] The kicking assembly 5 comprises a laminated sheet detection sensor 501 arranged on the side of the feeding hook 404 to detect the overlapping condition of materials, and a kicking mechanism 502 arranged on the side of the laminated sheet detection sensor 501 to remove excess materials.
[0038] The laminated sheet detection sensor 501 is provided with two groups, which are arranged on both sides of the bending plate chain 403, and the front end of the kicking mechanism 502 in contact with the materials can be circular or square.
[0039] The pushing mechanism 201 and the kicking mechanism 502 are air cylinders, electric push rods or cams.
[0040] The working principle and process are as follows:
[0041] S1: A proper amount of bamboo strips are placed on the first chain 303;
[0042] S2: The first motor 301 drives the first chain 303 to move, and at the same time, the pushing mechanism 201 drives the pushing plate 204 to move forward, so that the bamboo strips on the first chain 303 are sent to the front end of the feeding hook 404;
[0043] S3: When the material detection sensor 304 at the discharge end of the first chain 303 detects materials, the feeding device at the front end of the material separating mechanism will no longer feed materials to the first chain 303;
[0044] S4: The second motor 401 drives the second chain 402 to move, and through the transmission of the second chain 402, the two bending plate chains 403 are rotated, and at this time, the feeding hook 404 arranged on the bending plate chain 403 starts to move, and the bamboo strips move upward under the driving of the feeding hook 404 and are separated;
[0045] S5: under the action of the positioning sensor 405, the feeding hook 404 moves upward by a fixed distance each time, the feeding hook 404 is in intermittent motion, so that the feeding hook 404 stays for a short time in front of the laminated sheet detection sensor 501 each time, facilitating detection of the laminated sheet detection sensor 501;
[0046] S6: when the feeding hook 404 stays for a short time, the laminated sheet detection sensor 501 starts to detect the bamboo strips, if there are multiple bamboo strips overlapping, the material kicking mechanism 502 works to kick the redundant bamboo strips back to the first chain 303, ensuring that the bamboo strips are transported to the rear end device one by one;
[0047] S7: when the bamboo strips are detected by the in-place detection sensor 406, if there are bamboo strips in the rear end device of the material separation mechanism, the second motor 401 stops working, the feeding hook 404 stops feeding the bamboo strips, if there are no bamboo strips in the rear end device of the material separation mechanism, the second motor 401 continues to work, and the feeding hook 404 starts to feed the bamboo strips.
[0048] Although the utility model has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those skilled in the art can still modify the technical solutions recorded in the foregoing embodiments, or make equivalent replacement to part of the technical features, any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. within the spirit and principles of the utility model should be included in the protection scope of the utility model.
Claims
1. A material separation mechanism, characterized by: The utility model provides a material pushing and separating device, which comprises a rack (1), a material pushing assembly (2) arranged on the rack (1), a material feeding assembly (3) arranged at the discharging end of the material pushing assembly (2), and a material separating assembly (4) arranged at the discharging end of the material feeding assembly (3). The material pushing assembly (2) comprises a material pushing mechanism (201) arranged on the rack (1) for providing power, a guide rail (202) arranged on the rack (1) for guiding, a sliding block (203) arranged on the guide rail (202) for fixing a material pushing plate (204), and the material pushing plate (204) arranged on the sliding block (203) for flattening and conveying materials. The material feeding assembly (3) comprises a first motor (301) arranged on the rack (1) for providing power, a chain wheel (302) arranged on the rack (1) for transmission, a first chain (303) arranged at the discharging end of the material pushing plate (204) for conveying materials, and a material detection sensor (304) arranged at the discharging end of the first chain (303) for detecting materials. The material separating assembly (4) comprises a second motor (401) arranged on the rack (1) for providing power, a second chain (402) connected with the second motor (401) for power transmission, a bent plate chain (403) and a feeding hook (404) arranged at the discharging end of the first chain (303) for separating materials, a positioning sensor (405) arranged on one side of the feeding hook (404) for positioning the bent plate chain (403) and the feeding hook (404), and a to-position detection sensor (406) arranged at the discharging end of the feeding hook (404) for detecting materials.
2. A material separation mechanism according to claim 1, wherein: The material pushing plate (204) is a rectangular pushing plate with a chamfer, which is arranged on both sides of the first chain (303) and used for assisting the first chain (303) in conveying materials.
3. A material separation mechanism according to claim 1, wherein: The bent plate chain (403) has two chains arranged on both sides of the rack (1), the feeding hook (404) is provided with a boss with a certain height at the front end for preventing materials from falling off, and the feeding hook (404) is installed on the two bent plate chains (403).
4. The material separation mechanism of claim 1, wherein: The material separating mechanism further comprises a material kicking assembly (5) arranged on both sides of the bent plate chain (403). The material kicking assembly (5) comprises a laminated sheet detection sensor (501) arranged on the side of the feeding hook (404) for detecting the overlapping condition of materials, and a material kicking mechanism (502) arranged on the side of the laminated sheet detection sensor (501) for removing excess materials.
5. A material separation mechanism according to claim 4, wherein: The laminated sheet detection sensor (501) is provided with two groups of sensors arranged on both sides of the bent plate chain (403), the front end of the material kicking mechanism (502) in contact with the materials can be circular or square, and the material kicking mechanism (502) is provided with two groups of mechanisms arranged on the sides of the two groups of laminated sheet detection sensors (501).
6. A material separation mechanism according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein: The material pushing mechanism (201) and the material kicking mechanism (502) are air cylinders, electric push rods or cams.