阅读说明：本技术 一种迷迭香精油加工用的防精油泄漏的设备 (Rosemary essential oil processing is used prevents equipment that essential oil leaked ) 是由 刘文勇 梁洁 于 2019-11-20 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明涉及精油加工技术领域,且公开了一种迷迭香精油加工用的防精油泄漏的设备,包括第一转盘,所述第一转盘的外侧活动连接有第一移动杆；第一转盘转动引起第一移动杆暂时保持在最高点,等待灌装瓶的到来,再暂时保持在最低点,为灌装提供足够的操作时间,第二转盘转动使接料板的接板从灌装头的下方移开,接料板上的精油流入储料仓,顶杆下移远离接料板时,接料板受弹簧作用回到初始位置,使接料板的接板位于灌装头的正下方,便于盛接灌装头滴落下的精油,避免出现精油浪费和污染操作台的情况,第三转盘转动来控制接料板偏移情况,使接料板的偏移与灌装头的运动状态相配合,增加结构之间的联动性,使操作更加便捷。(The invention relates to the technical field of essential oil processing, and discloses equipment for preventing essential oil leakage for rosemary essential oil processing, which comprises a first turntable, wherein the outer side of the first turntable is movably connected with a first moving rod; the first rotary disc rotates to cause the first moving rod to be temporarily kept at the highest point, the filling bottle is waited for coming, the filling bottle is temporarily kept at the lowest point again, enough operation time is provided for filling, the second rotary disc rotates to enable the connecting plate of the material receiving plate to be moved away from the lower portion of the filling head, the essential oil on the material receiving plate flows into the storage bin, when the ejector rod moves downwards to be far away from the material receiving plate, the material receiving plate returns to the initial position under the action of a spring, the connecting plate of the material receiving plate is enabled to be located under the filling head, the filling head can conveniently contain the essential oil dripped by the filling head, the situation that the essential oil is wasted and pollutes an operation console is avoided, the third rotary disc rotates to control the offset condition of the material receiving plate, the offset of the material receiving plate is.)

1. The utility model provides an equipment that prevents essential oil leakage of rosemary essential oil processing usefulness, includes first carousel (1), its characterized in that: the outer side swing joint of first carousel (1) has first carriage release lever (2), the below fixedly connected with storage compartment (3) of first carriage release lever (2), the outside fixedly connected with discharging pipe (4) of storage compartment (3), the outside swing joint of storage compartment (3) connects flitch (5), the below swing joint that connects flitch (5) has ejector pin (6), the outside swing joint of ejector pin (6) has second carriage release lever (7), one side swing joint that ejector pin (6) were kept away from in second carriage release lever (7) has second carousel (8), the outside fixedly connected with gear (9) of second carousel (8).

2. The outer side of the gear (9) is movably connected with a third rotary table (10), the outer side of the third rotary table (10) is fixedly connected with a connecting pipe (11), the inner portion of the connecting pipe (11) is movably connected with a connecting rod (12), the outer side of the third rotary table (10) is fixedly connected with a check block (13), the outer side of the third rotary table (10) is fixedly connected with a first cone pulley (14), and the upper portion of the first cone pulley (14) is movably connected with a second cone pulley (15).

3. An essential oil leakage prevention device for rosemary essential oil processing according to claim 1, wherein: inner channel and outer channel have been seted up respectively to the inside of first carousel (1), its central point puts swing joint has first bull stick, the outside swing joint of first bull stick has the spring, one side swing joint that first bull stick was kept away from to the spring has the lug, the bottom and first carousel (1) fixed connection of lug, first bull stick is by inside channel right side cell wall edge, the outside swing joint of first carousel (1) has the second bull stick, the outside activity of second bull stick has the spring, one side swing joint that the second bull stick was kept away from to the spring has the lug, the bottom and the first carousel (1) fixed connection of lug, the second bull stick is by to the one side the same with first bull stick skew direction.

4. An essential oil leakage prevention device for rosemary essential oil processing according to claim 1, wherein: the top fixedly connected with fixture block of first carriage release lever (2), its size and the interior channel of first carousel (1) and the size looks adaptation of outer channel, the outside fixedly connected with stopper of first carriage release lever (2), the bottom fixedly connected with filling head of first carriage release lever (2), the outside fixedly connected with pipe of filling head.

5. An essential oil leakage prevention device for rosemary essential oil processing according to claim 1, wherein: the outer side of the material receiving plate (5) is movably connected with a spring, the bottom of the spring is movably connected with a material storage chamber (3), a through hole is formed in one side, close to the material receiving plate (5), of the material storage chamber (3), and the material receiving plate (5) is located on the edge of the through hole.

6. An essential oil leakage prevention device for rosemary essential oil processing according to claim 1, wherein: ejector pin (6) present "T" type, and the outside fixedly connected with stopper of its perpendicular body, second carriage release lever (7) present "T" type, and its horizontal pole activity card is in the outside of ejector pin (6) horizontal pole, and second carousel (8) present the water droplet form, and the outside fixedly connected with connecting rod of second carousel (8), one side and gear (9) fixed connection that second carousel (8) were kept away from to the connecting rod, and one side swing joint of connecting rod is kept away from with second carousel (8) to the montant of second carriage release lever (7).

7. An essential oil leakage prevention device for rosemary essential oil processing according to claim 1, wherein: the inside fixedly connected with baffle of connecting pipe (11), the hole has been seted up to the inside of baffle, the outside swing joint of baffle has the spring, one side and connecting rod (12) swing joint that the baffle was kept away from to the spring, the top fixedly connected with kicking block of connecting rod (12), the size looks adaptation of its size and gear (9), dog (13) have two and the size is the same, two dog (13) use the axis of gear (9) to present symmetric distribution for the reference, dog (13) present arc strip, the degree of sinking at dog (13) both ends is less than the degree of sinking at middle part.

8. An essential oil leakage prevention device for rosemary essential oil processing according to claim 1, wherein: the outer side of the first cone pulley (14) is movably connected with a first cone pulley, the top of the first cone pulley is fixedly connected with a connecting rod, the top of the connecting rod is fixedly connected with a second cone pulley, and the outer side of the second cone pulley is movably connected with a second cone pulley (15).

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of essential oil processing, in particular to equipment for preventing essential oil leakage for rosemary essential oil processing.

Background

The rosemary essential oil is colorless or faint yellow volatile liquid, can clean dirt in the skin and improve the skin, has a certain skin care effect, can be smeared on the scalp, promotes blood circulation around the scalp, stabs into hair for regeneration, has certain help to lose weight, can keep the head and the brain clear by people with excessive brain, and can also improve the memory, and is suitable for people at different age stages, the rosemary essential oil is obtained by distillation with rosemary as a raw material, the rosemary essential oil needs to be filled in the production process, and the rosemary essential oil has the following problems in the filling process at present:

when rosemary essential oil is filled, the nozzle moves downwards to be close to the filling bottle to spray essential oil, after a certain amount of rosemary essential oil is filled, the rosemary essential oil moves upwards to wait for an empty bottle to move to the lower side to carry out next round of filling, part of the essential oil can be attached to the inner wall of the nozzle when the nozzle sprays the essential oil, the essential oil on the inner wall of the nozzle is gathered into drops when the nozzle waits for the process that the next empty bottle is transported to a processing position, and finally the drops are dropped on a device platform or a bottle body.

Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides equipment for preventing essential oil leakage for processing rosemary essential oil, which has the advantage of avoiding the essential oil leakage, solves the problem of essential oil waste, provides sufficient time for waiting for the arrival of a filling bottle, also provides sufficient operation time for filling, is convenient for filling, ensures that a connecting plate of a material receiving plate is positioned under a filling head, is convenient for containing the essential oil dripped by the filling head, avoids the situations of essential oil waste and pollution to an operation table, and ensures that the offset situation of the material receiving plate is matched with the motion state of the filling head by rotating a third turntable, thereby increasing the linkage between structures and ensuring that the operation is more convenient.

Disclosure of Invention

Technical scheme (I)

In order to achieve the purpose of avoiding the leakage of the essential oil, the invention provides the following technical scheme: rosemary essential oil processing is used prevents equipment that essential oil leaked including first carousel, first carriage release lever, storage compartment, discharging pipe, connect flitch, ejector pin, second carriage release lever, second carousel, gear, third carousel, connecting pipe, connecting rod, dog, first cone pulley, second cone pulley.

Wherein:

the position and connection relationship among the structures are as follows:

an essential oil leakage prevention device for processing rosemary essential oil comprises a first rotary table, wherein an inner groove channel and an outer groove channel are respectively formed in the first rotary table, when a clamping block of a first moving rod is positioned in different groove channels, the first moving rod is enabled to be in different heights, the center position of the first moving rod is movably connected with a first rotary rod, the outer side of the first rotary rod is movably connected with a spring, one side, away from the first rotary rod, of the spring is movably connected with a convex block, the bottom of the convex block is fixedly connected with the first rotary table, the first rotary rod is close to the groove wall edge of one side of the inner groove channel, the outer side of the first rotary table is movably connected with a second rotary rod, the outer side of the second rotary rod is movably connected with a spring, one side, away from the second rotary rod, of the spring is movably connected with a convex block, the bottom of the convex block is fixedly connected with the first rotary table, the second rotary rod is close to one side with the same as the offset direction of, the outside fixedly connected with second cone of first carousel, the outside swing joint of first carousel has first carriage release lever, the top fixedly connected with fixture block of first carriage release lever, the size of its size and the interior channel of first carousel and the size looks adaptation of outer channel, when making first carousel rotate, the fixture block of first carriage release lever is located its interior channel or outer channel all the time, the outside fixedly connected with stopper of first carriage release lever, the bottom fixedly connected with filling head of first carriage release lever, the outside fixedly connected with pipe of filling head, be convenient for carry essential oil.

A material storage chamber is fixedly connected below the first moving rod, a material discharging pipe is fixedly connected outside the material storage chamber, a material receiving plate is movably connected outside the material storage chamber, a spring is movably connected outside the material receiving plate, the bottom of the spring is movably connected with the material storage chamber, a through hole is formed in one side of the material storage chamber close to the material receiving plate, the material receiving plate is positioned at the edge of the through hole, a top rod is movably connected below the material receiving plate, the top rod is T-shaped, a limit block is fixedly connected outside a vertical body of the top rod to enable the top rod to move in the vertical direction, a second moving rod is T-shaped and movably clamped outside a cross rod of the top rod, the cross rod of the second moving rod moves left and right outside the cross rod in the up-down moving process and drives the top rod to move up and down, a second moving rod is movably connected outside the top rod, and a second, the second carousel presents the water droplet form, and the outside fixedly connected with connecting rod of second carousel, one side and the gear fixed connection of second carousel are kept away from to the connecting rod, and the montant of second carriage release lever and one side swing joint of connecting rod are kept away from to the second carousel, make the second carousel rotate, drive the furthest of second carriage release lever and reciprocate, the outside fixedly connected with gear of second carousel.

The outer side of the gear is movably connected with a third turntable, the outer side of the third turntable is fixedly connected with a connecting pipe, the inner part of the connecting pipe is fixedly connected with a baffle plate, the inner part of the baffle plate is provided with a hole, the outer side of the baffle plate is movably connected with a spring, one side of the spring, which is far away from the baffle plate, is movably connected with a connecting rod, the top part of the connecting rod is fixedly connected with a top block, the size of the top block is matched with that of the gear, the outer side of the third turntable is fixedly connected with two stop blocks, the two stop blocks are the same in size, the two stop blocks are symmetrically distributed by taking the central axis of the gear as reference, the two stop blocks are arc-shaped, the sunken degrees at the two ends of the stop blocks are smaller than the sunken degree in the middle part, the connecting rod can conveniently move on, the upper portion of the first cone pulley is movably connected with a second cone pulley, the outer side of the first cone pulley is movably connected with the first cone pulley, the size of the first cone pulley is matched with the size of the first cone pulley, the top of the first cone pulley is fixedly connected with a connecting rod, the top of the connecting rod is fixedly connected with a second cone pulley, the outer side of the second cone pulley is movably connected with a second cone pulley, and the size of the second cone pulley is matched with the size of the second cone pulley.

(II) advantageous effects

Compared with the prior art, the invention provides equipment for preventing essential oil leakage for processing rosemary essential oil, which has the following beneficial effects:

1. under the combined action of the first rotary disc and the first movable rod, the first rotary disc rotates to drive the first movable rod to move up and down, and because the inner channel and the outer channel of the first rotary disc are arc-shaped in partial areas, when the clamping block of the first movable rod is located in the inner channel of the first rotary disc, the filling head is temporarily kept at the highest point to provide sufficient time for waiting for the arrival of a filling bottle, and when the clamping block of the first movable rod is located in the outer channel of the first rotary disc, the filling head is temporarily kept at the lowest point to provide sufficient operation time for filling, so that filling is facilitated.

2. Through connecing the flitch, the ejector pin, under the combined action of second carriage release lever and second carousel, the second carousel rotates and drives the second carriage release lever and reciprocate, ejector pin synchronous motion, the ejector pin shifts up to promote to connect flitch reverse rotation, make the fishplate bar that connects the flitch remove from the below of filling head, connect essential oil on the flitch to get into in the storage silo along connecing the flitch downstream, when the ejector pin moved down and keeps away from the flitch, connect the flitch to get back to initial position under the effect of its bottom spring, make the fishplate bar that connects the flitch be located the filling head under, be convenient for connect the essential oil that the filling head dripped greatly, avoid appearing the extravagant condition with the pollution operation panel of essential.

3. Through the gear, the third carousel, the connecting pipe, under the combined action of connecting rod and dog, the third carousel rotates and drives connecting pipe and connecting rod synchronous rotation, when the connecting rod does not contact with the dog, the gear is in quiescent condition, when the connecting rod removed to the dog surface, the dog promote the kicking block of connecting rod be close to the gear and with block between the sawtooth of gear, the gear rotates along with the connecting rod, cause the gear to change between rotation and quiescent when making the third carousel rotate, thereby control the motion state of ejector pin, make the ejector pin receive the gear influence, shift up, it is quiescent, move down and change between the quiescent condition, and then reach the effect that the control connects the flitch skew condition, make the skew condition that connects the flitch cooperate with the motion state of filling head, increase the linkage nature between the structure, it is more convenient to make the operation.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of the present invention in which the structures are in an initial state and do not change position;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the movement trace of FIG. 1 according to the present invention, wherein the first rotating disk rotates to cause the first moving rod to move downwards;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view showing the connection relationship between the material storage chamber, the material discharge pipe and the material receiving plate according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the connection between the carrier rod and the second turntable, in which the structures are in the initial state and no position change occurs;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing the movement traces of the push rod and the second turntable according to the present invention, wherein the second turntable rotates to cause the push rod to move upward;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view showing the connection relationship between the gear, the third turntable, the connecting tube, the connecting rod and the stopper of the present invention, wherein each structure is in an initial state and does not change its position;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of the movement traces of the gear, the third turntable, the connecting tube, the connecting rod and the stopper according to the present invention, wherein the third turntable rotates to cause the stopper to push the connecting rod to be clamped between the teeth of the gear, so that the gear rotates synchronously;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the connection between the first cone and the second cone according to the present invention.

In the figure: 1-a first rotating disc, 2-a first moving rod, 3-a material storage chamber, 4-a discharge pipe, 5-a material receiving plate, 6-a top rod, 7-a second moving rod, 8-a second rotating disc, 9-a gear, 10-a third rotating disc, 11-a connecting pipe, 12-a connecting rod, 13-a stop block, 14-a first cone pulley and 15-a second cone pulley.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 1-8, an apparatus for preventing essential oil leakage for processing rosemary essential oil comprises a first rotating disk 1, wherein an inner channel and an outer channel are respectively formed in the first rotating disk 1, when a clamping block of a first moving rod 2 is located in the different channels, the first moving rod 2 is at different heights, the center position of the first moving rod is movably connected with a first rotating rod, the outer side of the first rotating rod is movably connected with a spring, one side of the spring, which is far away from the first rotating rod, is movably connected with a convex block, the bottom of the convex block is fixedly connected with the first rotating disk 1, the first rotating rod is close to the edge of the groove wall on one side of the inner channel, the first rotating rod can be reset under the action of the spring after moving in the opposite direction of the convex block, the outer side of the first rotating disk 1 is movably connected with a second rotating rod, the outer side of the second rotating rod is movably connected with a spring, one side of the spring, which is far away from, the second rotating rod is close to one side with the same offset direction as the first rotating rod, so that the second rotating rod can return to the initial position under the action of a spring after moving towards the direction opposite to the convex block, a second cone wheel 15 is fixedly connected to the outer side of the first rotating disk 1, a first moving rod 2 is movably connected to the outer side of the first rotating disk 1, a clamping block is fixedly connected to the top of the first moving rod 2, the size of the inner groove channel and the outer groove channel of the first rotary disc 1 is matched, so that when the first rotary disc 1 rotates, the fixture block of the first moving rod 2 is always positioned in the inner channel or the outer channel, the outer side of the first moving rod 2 is fixedly connected with a limiting block, have the confining action to the moving direction of first carriage bar 2, make first carriage bar 2 keep vertical direction to remove, the bottom fixedly connected with filling head of first carriage bar 2, the outside fixedly connected with pipe of filling head is convenient for carry essential oil.

A storage chamber 3 is fixedly connected below the first moving rod 2, a discharge pipe 4 is fixedly connected outside the storage chamber 3, a receiving plate 5 is movably connected outside the storage chamber 3, the receiving plate 5 is composed of a receiving plate and a connecting plate, a spring is movably connected outside the receiving plate 5, the bottom of the spring is movably connected with the storage chamber 3, a through hole is arranged on one side of the storage chamber 3 close to the receiving plate 5, the receiving plate 5 is positioned at the edge of the through hole, when the receiving plate 5 rotates anticlockwise, essential oil can flow into the storage chamber 3 through the through hole of the storage chamber 3 along the receiving plate 5, a top rod 6 is movably connected below the receiving plate 5, the top rod 6 is T-shaped, a limit block is fixedly connected outside the vertical body of the top rod, the top rod 6 moves in the vertical direction, the second moving rod 7 is T-shaped, the cross rod is movably clamped outside the cross rod of the top rod 6, so that the second moving rod 7 moves up, its horizontal pole moves about in the outside of 6 horizontal poles of ejector pin, and drive ejector pin 6 and reciprocate, the outside swing joint of ejector pin 6 has second carriage release lever 7, one side swing joint that ejector pin 6 was kept away from to second carriage release lever 7 has second carousel 8, second carousel 8 presents the water droplet form, the outside fixedly connected with connecting rod of second carousel 8, one side and gear 9 fixed connection that second carousel 8 was kept away from to the connecting rod, one side swing joint that connecting rod was kept away from to the montant of second carriage release lever 7 and second carousel 8, when making second carousel 8 rotate, drive 7 furthest's of second carriage release lever and reciprocate, the outside fixedly connected with gear 9 of second carousel 8.

A third turntable 10 is movably connected to the outer side of the gear 9, a connecting pipe 11 is fixedly connected to the outer side of the third turntable 10, a baffle is fixedly connected to the inner portion of the connecting pipe 11, a hole is formed in the baffle, a spring is movably connected to the outer side of the baffle, one side, away from the baffle, of the spring is movably connected with a connecting rod 12, the size of the connecting pipe 11 is matched with the size of the connecting rod 12, the size of a rod body of a spring wrapping area is smaller than that of a rod body of a spring on one side, away from a top block, the size of the rod body of the spring wrapping area is matched with that of the hole of the baffle, the size of the rod body of the spring wrapping area is smaller than that of a rod body of the spring on one side, away from the top block, is larger than that of the hole of the baffle, a connecting rod 12 is, two dog 13 use the axis of gear 9 to present the symmetric distribution as the reference, dog 13 presents the arc strip, the sunken degree at dog 13 both ends is less than the sunken degree at middle part, be convenient for connecting rod 12 moves on dog 13 surface, dog 13 has the pushing action to connecting rod 12, make connecting rod 12 be close to gear 9, the card is between the sawtooth of gear 9, the first cone pulley 14 of outside fixedly connected with of third carousel 10, the top swing joint of first cone pulley 14 has second cone pulley 15, the outside swing joint of first cone pulley 14 has first cone pulley, the size of first cone pulley 14 and the size looks adaptation of first cone pulley, the top fixedly connected with connecting rod of first cone pulley, the top fixedly connected with second cone pulley of connecting rod, the outside swing joint of second cone pulley has second cone pulley 15, the size of second cone pulley and the size looks adaptation of second cone pulley 15.

The working process and the principle of the device are as follows:

when the device is used, the motor drives the first cone pulley 14 to rotate through the output shaft, the first cone pulley is meshed with the first cone pulley 14, the first cone pulley rotates along with the first cone pulley, the second cone pulley synchronously rotates and drives the second cone pulley 15 to rotate, the second cone pulley 15 drives the first rotary disc 1 to rotate, the clamping block of the first movable rod 2 is positioned in the inner channel of the first rotary disc 1, the first rotary rod in the middle of the first rotary disc 1 is gradually close to the first movable rod 2, the first movable rod 2 pushes the first rotary rod to rotate reversely, the clamping block of the first movable rod 2 is separated from the inner channel of the first rotary disc 1 to move to the outer channel, the first movable rod 2 is caused to move downwards, the first movable rod 2 is kept at the position after downwards moving, the second rotary rod on the outer side of the first rotary disc 1 is close to the clamping block of the first movable rod 2, the first movable rod 2 pushes the second rotary rod to rotate reversely, the clamping block of the first movable rod 2 is separated from the outer channel of the first rotary disc 1 to move to the inner channel, causing the first movable rod 2 to move upwards, the filling head synchronously moves up and down, and the filling operation is convenient to carry out.

The above structure and process are shown in fig. 1-3 and fig. 8.

The first cone pulley 14 drives the third rotary table 10 to rotate, the connecting pipe 11 and the connecting rod 12 are driven to synchronously rotate, the connecting rod 12 is not contacted with the stop block 13 at the moment, the gear 9 is in a static state, the second rotary table 8 does not move, the second movable rod 7 is positioned at the lowest point, the ejector rod 6 is also not contacted with the receiving plate 5, the filling head is positioned above the receiving plate of the receiving plate 5, the connecting rod 12 is gradually close to the stop block 13 along with the rotation of the third rotary table 10 and moves to the surface of the stop block 13, the stop block 13 pushes the connecting rod 12 to be close to the gear 9, the connecting rod 12 drives the spring to be close to the baffle plate of the connecting pipe 11, so that the spring is extruded and contracted, the ejector block of the connecting rod 12 is clamped between the saw teeth of the gear 9, the gear 9 is driven to rotate while the connecting rod 12 rotates, the gear 9 drives the second rotary table 8 to synchronously rotate, the, the ejector rod 6 synchronously connects the flitch 5 to reversely rotate by taking the connection part of the flitch 5 and the storage chamber 3 as a rotation point, after the flitch 5 moves to the maximum inclination angle, the connecting rod 12 is separated from the stop block 13, the connecting rod 12 is far away from the gear 9 under the action of a spring, the gear 9 does not rotate any more, the ejector rod 6 moves to the highest point and keeps static, the flitch 5 does not change the angle, the receiving plate of the flitch 5 moves away from the lower part of the filling head, the essential oil on the receiving plate 5 flows into the storage chamber 3, at the moment, the filling head moves downwards along with the first moving rod 2 for filling, after filling, the receiving plate moves upwards, the connecting rod 12 is contacted with another stop block 13, the gear 9 rotates again, the second rotary disc 8 synchronously rotates, the second moving rod 7 moves along with the connecting rod and drives the ejector rod 6 to move downwards, when the ejector rod 6 moves to the, simultaneously because connecing flitch 5 to lose the driving force of ejector pin 6, get back to initial condition under the effect of its bottom spring, the filling head was located the top that connects flitch 5 fishplates this moment, waits for the arrival of filling bottle to carry out next round of filling.

The above structure and process are shown in FIGS. 4-7.

Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.