Online Wheel Cleaning Device with Adjustable Radial Brushes
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Solution Overview
Problem
The manual removal of bottom powder from the ring flange and center hole of aluminum alloy wheels in the wheel spraying process is inefficient and ineffective, necessitating an automatic online cleaning device for improved efficiency and cleanliness.
Innovation Solution
An online wheel cleaning device comprising a frame, jacking cylinder, radial brushes, clamping rollers, gear racks, and a motor-driven belt system that positions and rotates brushes to effectively clean the flange face and center hole, ensuring thorough powder removal with adjustable radial brushes for various wheel sizes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual removal of bottom powder is used, then labor flexibility is maintained, but cleaning efficiency is very low and cleaning effect is not good
Solution Approach 1:
The cleaning device automatically positions and rotates the radial brushes through motor-driven mechanisms, enabling the system to clean wheels without manual intervention. The brushes self-adjust to contact the wheel surface and automatically remove bottom powder during the wheel spraying process
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical cleaning with an automated mechanical system featuring motor-driven radial brushes, belt transmissions, and hydraulic positioning. This substitution eliminates manual labor while achieving high-speed automated cleaning in the wheel spraying production line
2Adaptability or versatility
If fixed radial brushes are used, then device structure is simple, but the device cannot adapt to wheels with center holes of any sizes
Solution Approach 1:
The radial brushes are designed with adjustable positioning mechanisms that allow dynamic adjustment of brush radius and position. The brushes can move radially outward or inward to accommodate different wheel diameters and center hole sizes, transforming a static cleaning system into an adaptive one
Solution Approach 2:
The cleaning device incorporates universal adjustment capabilities that enable the same radial brushes to clean various wheel types and sizes. The adjustable mechanism allows the device to adapt to different production requirements without requiring multiple specialized brush sets
3Productivity
If online cleaning is implemented, then production efficiency is improved, but device structure and automation requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The cleaning device performs bottom powder removal as a preliminary action before the wheel enters the spraying process. By positioning and activating the radial brushes in advance, the system ensures complete cleaning is achieved before painting begins, preventing defects in the final coating
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The device achieves high efficiency and ideal cleaning results, reduces labor intensity, and offers advanced automation, universality, safety, and stability, enhancing the wheel spraying process.
Implementation Method 1
four radial brushes are respectively fixed on the four slide blocks... the motor drives the first belt wheel, the spline housing and the spline shaft to rotate through the synchronous belt and the second belt wheel, so as to enable the brush chassis and the radial brushes to simultaneously rotate
Implementation Method 2
the jacking cylinder fixedly provided with the transition end cover at the output end is fixed below the bottom plate... the jacking cylinder jacks up the brush chassis and the radial brushes through the spline shaft
Implementation Method 3
the inner sides of the four radial brushes are respectively connected with one spring, and the other end of each spring is connected with the pull ring at the same time
Implementation Method 4
two left clamping rollers and two right clamping rollers to clamp the wheel... the lower ends of the left clamping rollers and the right clamping rollers are thin and the upper ends thereof are slightly thicker to form inverted cones, so as to effectively press the wheel when clamping the same
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AI summary
The present invention discloses an on-line wheel cleaning device, having a frame, a cylinder, a motor, a brush chassis, radial brushes, a spline shaft and a spline housing, wherein a sensor enables a wheel to be primarily positioned; a clamping cylinder enables two left clamping rollers and right clamping rollers to clamp the wheel by way of gears, left racks, right racks and a guide rail; a jacking cylinder is used for jacking the brush chassis and the radial brushes through the spline shaft and enabling the brush chassis and the radial brushes to touch a flange plate and a center hole of the wheel, respectively; the motor drives a first belt pulley, the spline housing and the spline shaft to rotate through a synchronous belt and a first belt pulley; an adjusting cylinder jacks up an apex to drive the four radial brushes to move outwards respectively.