Stainless steel drum washing and drying line
By designing a stainless steel drum rinsing and drying line, and adopting an efficient four-station layout and a three-dimensional rotating nozzle device, the problems of low cleaning efficiency, unstable quality, and large equipment footprint of stainless steel drums have been solved, achieving fast and high-quality cleaning results and compact space utilization.
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- SHANGHAI GENIE ELECTROMECHANICAL TECH CO LTD
- Filing Date
- 2025-06-25
- Publication Date
- 2026-06-05
AI Technical Summary
Existing technologies for cleaning stainless steel tanks have low cleaning efficiency, unstable quality, and large equipment footprint, which cannot meet the needs for fast, high-quality cleaning and space saving.
A stainless steel drum rinsing and drying line is designed, adopting a linear four-station layout, including an outer drum cleaning station, an inner drum cleaning station, a drying station, and a unloading station. It combines a high-pressure three-dimensional rotating nozzle and an electric heating device, and uses a clamping and lifting device to achieve efficient handling and cleaning of stainless steel drums. The three-dimensional nozzle device driven by a servo motor achieves comprehensive cleaning inside and outside the drum, and adopts a compact equipment layout to reduce the floor space.
It achieves efficient and stable cleaning inside and outside the tank, with cleaning time controlled within 4-6 minutes, reliable cleaning quality, and the equipment length is only 50% of that of traditional equipment, occupying a small area and with low investment costs.
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Abstract
Description
Technical Field
[0001] This utility model relates to the field of cleaning equipment technology, and in particular to a stainless steel barrel rinsing and drying line. Background Technology
[0002] In existing technologies, the cleaning and drying of stainless steel packaging drums with a capacity of approximately 200L typically presents the following problems:
[0003] Low cleaning efficiency: Traditional cleaning equipment often uses a single cleaning method, such as simple high-pressure spraying, which is not thorough enough for cleaning inside and outside the tank, takes a long time, cannot meet the needs of rapid cleaning, and the cycle time is difficult to control within a short period of time.
[0004] Unstable cleaning quality: The nozzles used have insufficient impact force, and the cleaning cycle is difficult to control precisely, resulting in missed cleaning and repeated cleaning. This leads to inconsistent cleaning quality. The cleaning quality can only be detected by indirect indicators such as the conductivity of the discharged water, which cannot accurately reflect the cleaning effect.
[0005] Large equipment footprint: In order to achieve different cleaning and drying functions, traditional equipment usually has multiple workstations, plus cooling workstations, which makes the overall size of the equipment large, occupies a lot of space, and has high investment costs. Utility Model Content
[0006] The present invention aims to design a stainless steel drum rinsing and drying line to solve many problems in the prior art.
[0007] To achieve the above objectives, the present invention adopts the following technical solution:
[0008] The stainless steel drum rinsing and drying line includes an outer drum cleaning station, an inner drum cleaning station, a drying station, and a unloading station arranged sequentially and side by side. Clamping and lifting devices are installed above the four stations to facilitate the transport of stainless steel drums to the corresponding stations. An infeed roller conveyor is installed at the outer drum cleaning station to transport the stainless steel drums to their designated positions. At least two sets of high-pressure water nozzles are installed around the circumference of the outer drum cleaning station. An upward-extending three-dimensional rotating nozzle device is installed at the inner drum cleaning station. An upward-extending electric heating device is installed at the drying station. An unloading roller conveyor is installed at the unloading station to transport the stainless steel drums outwards.
[0009] Preferably, the roller conveyor is a powered roller conveyor.
[0010] Preferably, a stainless steel tub placement platform is provided at the lower part of the inner tub cleaning station. The three-dimensional rotating nozzle device includes a motor drive device, an inner rod, an outer rod, and a water outlet device. The outer rod is a hollow structure, fitted outside the inner rod, and the outer rod and inner rod are coaxially arranged. The inner rod is connected to the motor drive device. The inner rod is a hollow structure and has a water inlet for connecting to an external water source. The upper end of the inner rod is fixedly connected to the water outlet device. The water outlet device has a rotating nozzle seat that can rotate on its own through a bearing. The rotating nozzle seat has a nozzle. The inner rod is connected to the rotating nozzle seat. The outer rod is fixedly arranged. A first bevel gear is connected to the outer rod, and the first bevel gear is coaxially arranged with the inner rod. A second bevel gear is fixedly arranged on the rotating nozzle seat. The first bevel gear and the second bevel gear mesh. During the rotation of the rotating nozzle seat with the inner rod, the second bevel gear on the rotating nozzle seat rotates around the first bevel gear.
[0011] Furthermore, the motor drive device is installed below the stainless steel drum placement platform, with the inner and outer rods extending upwards through the platform. The motor drive device includes a motor and a gearbox; the outer rod is fixedly connected to the gearbox, and the inner rod passes through the gearbox, being connected to the motor's output via a transmission gear; the water inlet of the inner rod is located at its bottom end.
[0012] Preferably, there are two drying stations arranged side by side.
[0013] Preferably, the drying station is also equipped with a stainless steel drum placement platform, and the electric heating device is an electric heating rod structure, with the electric heating rod extending upward through the stainless steel drum placement platform.
[0014] Preferably, the clamping and lifting device includes a crossbeam frame, with rack-equipped guide rails on both sides of the crossbeam frame. A translation platform is mounted on each of the two guide rails, and gears corresponding to the racks are mounted on both sides of the translation platform. These gears are connected to a drive motor, which drives the gears to move the translation platform along the racks. A lifting device is mounted on the translation platform, and the lifting rod of the lifting device passes through a bushing on the translation platform and is connected to the clamping device. Further, the clamping device is a gripping structure.
[0015] Compared with the prior art, this utility model has the following significant advantages:
[0016] 1. High-efficiency cleaning: It adopts a combination of coarse and fine cleaning with a high-pressure three-dimensional rotating nozzle, and is equipped with an adjustable servo motor to drive the three-dimensional nozzle device. It can achieve a comprehensive and thorough cleaning of the inside of the tank. The cleaning efficiency is high, and the cleaning time for a single item can be controlled within 4-6 minutes. The cleaning quality is stable and reliable, and it can effectively remove contaminants such as electrolyte residue in the tank, meeting the requirements of high-quality cleaning.
[0017] 2. Compact layout: The entire washing and drying line has only 6 stations from feeding to discharging. The length of the equipment is only 50% of that of traditional equipment. It occupies a small area, has low investment costs, and can effectively save factory space, improve the economy and practicality of the equipment. Attached Figure Description
[0018] To more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of this utility model, the accompanying drawings used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below. Obviously, the drawings described below are only some embodiments of this utility model. For those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without creative effort.
[0019] Figure 1 This is a schematic diagram of a stainless steel bucket rinsing and drying line proposed in this utility model.
[0020] Figure 2 This is a schematic diagram of a four-station layout.
[0021] Figure 3 This is a schematic diagram of a clamping and lifting device.
[0022] Figure 4 This is an enlarged schematic diagram of the water outlet device.
[0023] In the diagram: Outer drum cleaning station 1, inner drum cleaning station 2, drying station 3, unloading station 4, clamping and lifting device 5, stainless steel drum 6, crossbeam frame 7, guide rail 8, translation platform 9, gear 10, lifting rod 11, bushing 12, clamping device 13, feeding roller conveyor 14, high-pressure water nozzle 15, stainless steel drum placement platform 16, motor drive device 17, inner rod 18, outer rod 19, water outlet device 20, nozzle rotating seat 21, nozzle 22, first bevel gear 23, second bevel gear 24, water inlet 25, cleaning channel 26, electric heating rod 27, unloading roller conveyor 28. Detailed Implementation
[0024] The technical solutions of the present utility model will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings of the embodiments. Obviously, the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present utility model, and not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present utility model, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without creative effort are within the scope of protection of the present utility model.
[0025] Reference Figure 1 A stainless steel drum washing and drying line adopts a linear four-station layout, consisting of outer drum washing station 1, inner drum washing station 2, drying station 3, and unloading station 4.
[0026] Above the four workstations, a clamping and lifting device 5, approximately 15m in length, is installed to facilitate the transport of stainless steel drums 6 to the corresponding workstations. The clamping and lifting device includes a crossbeam frame 7, with rack-equipped guide rails 8 on both sides. A translation platform 9 is mounted on each guide rail, and gears 10 corresponding to the racks are mounted on both sides of the translation platform. The gears 10 are connected to a drive motor, which drives the gears 10 to move the translation platform 9 along the racks (X-axis movement). A lifting device is installed on the translation platform, driven by a cylinder (Y-axis lifting). The lifting rod 11 of the lifting device passes through a bushing 12 on the translation platform and connects to the clamping device 13. The clamping device 13 is a pneumatic clamping structure (conventional structure).
[0027] A feeding roller conveyor 14 is installed at the outer drum cleaning station 1 to transport stainless steel drums into position. The feeding roller conveyor is a powered roller conveyor. The powered roller conveyor uses 304 stainless steel rollers and is driven by a servo motor. Positioning is achieved via a photoelectric switch (accuracy ±5mm).
[0028] Two sets of high-pressure water nozzles 15 (or multiple sets) are installed around the outer tub cleaning station. The surface of the outer tub is cleaned using the high-pressure water nozzles.
[0029] A stainless steel drum placement platform 16 is installed at the lower part of the inner drum cleaning station. A three-dimensional rotating nozzle device extending upwards is installed at the inner drum cleaning station. The three-dimensional rotating nozzle device includes a motor drive unit 17, an inner rod 18, an outer rod 19, and a water outlet device 20. The motor drive unit 17 is installed below the stainless steel drum placement platform 16 and includes a motor and a gearbox. The outer rod 19 is a hollow structure, fitted over the inner rod 18, and the outer rod 19 and inner rod 18 are coaxially arranged. The inner rod and outer rod extend upwards through the stainless steel drum placement platform 16. The lower end of the outer rod 19 is fixedly connected to the gearbox, and the inner rod 18 passes through the gearbox. The inner rod is connected to the motor output transmission via a transmission gear. The inner rod 18 is a hollow structure, with its water inlet located at the bottom. The upper end of the inner rod 18 is fixedly connected to the water outlet device 20, which rotates synchronously with the inner rod 18. The water outlet device 20 has a rotating nozzle seat 21 inside, which is equipped with bearings. The nozzle seat 21 has a nozzle 22. A water inlet 25 is located in the middle of the nozzle seat, and a cleaning channel 26 is located inside. An inner rod 18 is connected to the nozzle seat 21. A first bevel gear 23 is connected to the upper end of an outer rod 19, and the first bevel gear 23 is coaxial with the inner rod 18. A second bevel gear 24 is fixedly mounted on the nozzle seat 21. The first bevel gear 23 and the second bevel gear 24 mesh. As the nozzle seat rotates with the inner rod, the second bevel gear on the nozzle seat rotates around the first bevel gear. During operation, the stainless steel bucket is placed with its opening facing downwards.
[0030] Working logic: The motor drives the inner rod to rotate, which in turn drives the nozzle rotating seat to rotate. As the nozzle rotating seat rotates with the inner rod, the second bevel gear on the nozzle rotating seat rotates around the first bevel gear. This achieves the rotation of the nozzle rotating seat (compound motion).
[0031] There are two drying stations 3, arranged side by side, to improve drying efficiency. Each drying station 3 also has a stainless steel drum placement platform 16 (shared with the stainless steel drum placement platform of the inner drum cleaning station). The electric heating device uses an electric heating rod structure, with the electric heating rod 27 extending upwards through the stainless steel drum placement platform 16. During operation, the stainless steel drums are placed with their openings facing downwards.
[0032] A discharge roller conveyor 28 is installed at the unloading station to transport stainless steel drums outwards. The discharge roller conveyor is a powered roller conveyor. The powered roller conveyor uses 304 stainless steel rollers and is driven by a servo motor. Positioning is achieved via photoelectric switches (accuracy ±5mm). The entire process of handling / tilting is integrated (covering all station transfers).
[0033] The control system uses a Siemens S7-1200 PLC and a 10-inch Siemens touchscreen HMI. Low-voltage components are Schneider Electric series (DC24V control).
[0034] During cleaning, stainless steel drums are transported upside down to the loading roller conveyor using a forklift. High-pressure water nozzles clean the outer surface of the drums. Then, a clamping and lifting device transports the drums to the inner drum cleaning station and places them on a stainless steel drum placement platform. A three-dimensional rotating spray nozzle extends into the inside of the drum to clean it. After cleaning, the drums are transported to the drying station using the clamping and lifting device to dry the interior. Finally, after drying, the drums are transported to the unloading station for unloading.
[0035] In the description of this specification, references to terms such as "an embodiment," "example," "specific example," etc., indicate that a specific feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with that embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the present invention. In this specification, the illustrative expressions of the above terms do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the specific features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments or examples.
[0036] The preferred embodiments of this utility model disclosed above are merely illustrative of the present utility model. These preferred embodiments do not exhaustively describe all details, nor do they limit the utility model to the specific implementations described. Clearly, many modifications and variations can be made based on the content of this specification. This specification selects and specifically describes these embodiments to better explain the principles and practical applications of this utility model, thereby enabling those skilled in the art to better understand and utilize it. This utility model is limited only by the claims and their full scope and equivalents.
Claims
1. A stainless steel drum rinsing and drying line, characterized in that, The system includes an outer drum cleaning station, an inner drum cleaning station, a drying station, and a unloading station arranged sequentially and side by side. Clamping and lifting devices are installed above the four stations to facilitate the transport of stainless steel drums to the corresponding stations. An infeed roller conveyor is installed at the outer drum cleaning station to transport the stainless steel drums to their designated positions. At least two sets of high-pressure water nozzles are installed around the circumference of the outer drum cleaning station. An upward-extending three-dimensional rotating nozzle device is installed at the inner drum cleaning station. An upward-extending electric heating device is installed at the drying station. An unloading roller conveyor is installed at the unloading station to transport the stainless steel drums outwards.
2. The stainless steel drum rinsing and drying line according to claim 1, characterized in that, The roller conveyor is a powered roller conveyor.
3. The stainless steel drum rinsing and drying line according to claim 1, characterized in that, A stainless steel tub placement platform is provided at the lower part of the inner tub cleaning station. The three-dimensional rotating nozzle device includes a motor drive device, an inner rod, an outer rod, and a water outlet device. The outer rod is a hollow structure, fitted outside the inner rod, and the outer rod and inner rod are coaxially arranged. The inner rod is connected to the motor drive device. The inner rod is a hollow structure and has a water inlet for connecting to an external water source. The upper end of the inner rod is fixedly connected to the water outlet device. The water outlet device has a rotating nozzle seat that can rotate on its own through a bearing. The nozzle rotating seat has a nozzle. The inner rod is connected to the nozzle rotating seat. The outer rod is fixedly arranged. A first bevel gear is connected to the outer rod, and the first bevel gear is coaxial with the inner rod. A second bevel gear is fixedly arranged on the nozzle rotating seat. The first bevel gear and the second bevel gear mesh. As the nozzle rotating seat rotates with the inner rod, the second bevel gear on the nozzle rotating seat rotates around the first bevel gear.
4. A stainless steel drum rinsing and drying line according to claim 3, characterized in that, The motor drive unit is installed below the stainless steel drum placement platform, and the inner and outer rods extend upward through the stainless steel drum placement platform.
5. A stainless steel drum rinsing and drying line according to claim 3, characterized in that, The motor drive device includes a motor and a gearbox. The outer rod is fixedly connected to the gearbox, and the inner rod passes through the gearbox. The inner rod is connected to the output of the motor through a transmission gear. The water inlet of the inner rod is located at the bottom end.
6. A stainless steel drum rinsing and drying line according to claim 1, characterized in that, There are two drying stations, which are arranged side by side.
7. A stainless steel drum rinsing and drying line according to claim 1, characterized in that, The drying station is equipped with a stainless steel drum placement platform, and the electric heating device is an electric heating rod structure that extends upward through the stainless steel drum placement platform.
8. A stainless steel drum rinsing and drying line according to claim 1, characterized in that, The clamping and lifting device includes a crossbeam frame, with rack-equipped guide rails on both sides of the crossbeam frame. A translation platform is mounted on the two guide rails, and gears corresponding to the racks are mounted on both sides of the translation platform. The gears are connected to a drive motor, which drives the gears to move the translation platform along the racks. A lifting device is mounted on the translation platform, and the lifting rod of the lifting device passes through a bushing on the translation platform and is connected to the clamping device.
9. A stainless steel drum rinsing and drying line according to claim 8, characterized in that, The clamping device is a clamping structure.