阅读说明：本技术 一种生产玻璃管材的离心连续成型设备及方法 (Centrifugal continuous forming equipment and method for producing glass tube ) 是由 彭寿 张军 耿杰忠 刘尧龙 江龙跃 周祥 于 2020-10-12 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了一种生产玻璃管材的离心连续成型设备及方法,包括：供料装置、导料装置和成型装置；导料装置对准供料装置设置,成型装置包括旋转滚筒、内压辊、支撑座和动力组件,旋转滚筒设置在支撑座上,旋转滚筒倾斜设置,且靠近导料装置的一端高于背离所述导料装置的一端,内压辊伸入旋转滚筒内且可自转,内压辊的圆周面正对导料装置的出料口,导料装置背离供料装置的一端伸入旋转滚筒内,动力组件设置于支撑座内,并与旋转滚筒驱动连接,以驱动旋转滚筒低转速转动。该装置可以连续生产而且生产出直径较大的玻璃管材。(The invention discloses centrifugal continuous forming equipment and a method for producing glass tubes, wherein the centrifugal continuous forming equipment comprises the following steps: the device comprises a feeding device, a material guiding device and a forming device; the guide device aims at the feedway setting, and forming device includes rotary drum, interior compression roller, supporting seat and power component, and rotary drum sets up on the supporting seat, and rotary drum slope sets up, and the one end that is close to the guide device is higher than deviating from the one end of guide device, but interior compression roller stretch into rotary drum and rotation, but the periphery of interior compression roller just stretches into the discharge gate of guide device, and the one end that the guide device deviates from the feedway stretches into rotary drum in, and power component sets up in the supporting seat to be connected with the rotary drum drive, rotate with the rotatory cylinder low-speed of drive. The device can be used for continuously producing and producing glass tubes with larger diameters.)

1. A centrifugal continuous molding apparatus for producing glass tubing, comprising: the device comprises a feeding device, a material guiding device and a forming device;

the guide device aims at the feedway setting, forming device includes rotary drum, interior compression roller, supporting seat and power component, rotary drum sets up on the supporting seat, rotary drum slope sets up, and is close to the one end of guide device is higher than deviating from the one end of guide device, interior compression roller stretches into but rotation in the rotary drum, the periphery of interior compression roller is just right the discharge gate of guide device, the guide device deviates from the one end of feedway stretches into in the rotary drum, power component set up in the supporting seat, and with the rotary drum drive is connected, with the drive rotary drum rotates.

2. The centrifugal continuous forming device for producing the glass tube according to claim 1, wherein the forming device further comprises a cooling and heat-insulating assembly, the cooling and heat-insulating assembly is arranged outside the rotary drum, and the temperature of the rotary drum is regulated and controlled in real time according to the detected temperature of the rotary drum, so that the forming condition of the glass tube in the rotary drum is controlled.

3. The centrifugal continuous forming device for producing glass tubes according to claim 1, wherein the material guide device comprises a material guide pipe and a material guide spoon, the material guide pipe is aligned with the material supply device, one end of the material guide spoon is aligned with the material guide pipe, the other end of the material guide spoon extends into the rotary drum, and a discharge hole of the material guide spoon is aligned with the circumferential surface of the inner pressing roller.

4. The centrifugal continuous forming apparatus for producing glass tubes according to claim 1, further comprising a drawing device provided on an output path of the glass tubes for drawing the glass tubes to move away from the rotating drum.

5. The centrifugal continuous forming apparatus for producing glass tubes according to claim 4, wherein the traction device comprises a plurality of rollers, and the rollers are uniformly arranged around the glass tubes.

6. The centrifugal continuous forming apparatus for producing glass tubing according to claim 4, further comprising a follow-up cutting device disposed on an output path of the glass tubing and after the drawing device to cut the glass tubing to a desired length dimension.

7. The centrifugal continuous forming apparatus for producing glass tubes according to claim 6, wherein the follow-up cutting device comprises a support, a driving member and a cutting knife, the support is fixed on the support, the driving member is fixed on the support and is in driving connection with the cutting knife so as to drive the cutting knife to move along the axis direction of the glass tube along with the glass tube and move downwards to cut the glass tube.

8. The centrifugal continuous forming apparatus for producing glass tubing according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein a distance between the inner pressing roll and an inner wall of the rotating drum is greater than or equal to a wall thickness of the glass tubing to be formed.

9. The centrifugal continuous forming apparatus for producing glass tubes according to claim 8, further comprising a heating and heat-insulating assembly disposed on an output path of the glass tubes and between the traction device and the rotary drum, wherein the support base is further provided with a roller table in rolling contact with the glass tubes.

10. A centrifugal continuous forming method for producing a glass tube using the apparatus of any one of claims 1 to 9, comprising the steps of:

s1, preparing glass liquid;

s2, adding the molten glass into the feeding device;

and S3, enabling the molten glass to flow to the inner pressing roller through the feeding device and the material guide device, and enabling the inner pressing roller and the rotary roller to rotate automatically to coat the molten glass on the inner wall of the rotary roller to form a glass pipe.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of glass tube production, in particular to centrifugal continuous forming equipment and a centrifugal continuous forming method for producing glass tubes.

Background

The large special glass (such as microcrystalline glass, high borosilicate glass, high alumina glass and the like) tube is widely used in the industries of chemical industry, steel, coal, medicine, experimental instruments and the like due to the characteristics of excellent temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, wear resistance, high strength, low expansion and the like, and has high technical content and high added value when being used as a high-temperature, high-corrosivity and high-abrasiveness medium conveying pipe or lining pipe, transition material and the like. Because of special material properties and the like, the special glass tube produced at present is mostly formed by an intermittent centrifugal method, the length is within hundreds of millimeters, and the daily production is within 3t due to discontinuous production, so that the application of a large special glass tube produced by a tube drawing method to the industries is difficult to replace. The large special glass tube is difficult to be made thick, has poor wear resistance and hardness and higher cost.

Disclosure of Invention

Aiming at the problems in the prior art, the invention aims to provide centrifugal continuous forming equipment and a centrifugal continuous forming method which can produce glass tubes with larger diameters in a continuous production mode.

The specific technical scheme is as follows:

a centrifugal continuous forming device for producing glass tubes mainly comprises: the device comprises a feeding device, a material guiding device and a forming device;

the guide device aims at the feedway setting, forming device includes rotary drum, interior compression roller, supporting seat and power component, rotary drum sets up on the supporting seat, rotary drum slope sets up, and is close to the one end of guide device is higher than deviating from the one end of guide device, interior compression roller stretches into but rotation in the rotary drum, the periphery of interior compression roller is just right the discharge gate of guide device, the guide device deviates from the one end of feedway stretches into in the rotary drum, power component set up in the supporting seat, and with the rotary drum drive is connected, with the drive rotary drum rotates.

In the above centrifugal continuous forming device for producing glass tubes, the forming device further comprises a cooling and heat-insulating assembly, the cooling and heat-insulating assembly is arranged outside the rotary drum, and the temperature of the rotary drum is regulated and controlled in real time according to the detected temperature of the rotary drum, so that the forming condition of the glass tubes in the rotary drum is controlled.

The centrifugal continuous forming equipment for producing the glass tube is further characterized in that the material guide device comprises a material guide pipe and a material guide spoon, the material guide pipe is arranged in a manner of aligning with the feeding device, one end of the material guide spoon is aligned with the material guide pipe, the other end of the material guide spoon extends into the rotary drum, and a discharge hole of the material guide spoon is aligned with the circumferential surface of the inner compression roller.

In the above centrifugal continuous forming apparatus for producing glass tube, the apparatus further comprises a traction device, which is disposed on an output road of the glass tube and is used for drawing the glass tube to move in a direction away from the rotating drum.

In the above centrifugal continuous molding equipment for producing glass tubes, the drawing device further comprises a plurality of rollers, and the rollers are uniformly arranged around the glass tubes.

In the above centrifugal continuous forming apparatus for producing a glass tube, there is also a feature that the apparatus further comprises a follow-up cutting device disposed on an output path of the glass tube and after the drawing device to cut the glass tube into a desired length size.

The centrifugal continuous forming equipment for producing the glass tube is further characterized in that the follow-up cutting device comprises a support, a driving piece and a cutting knife, the support is fixed on the supporting seat, the driving piece is fixed on the support and is in driving connection with the cutting knife so as to drive the cutting knife to move along the axis direction of the glass tube along with the glass tube and move downwards to cut the glass tube.

In the above centrifugal continuous forming apparatus for producing a glass tube, it is further characterized in that the distance between the inner pressing roll and the inner wall of the rotating drum is greater than or equal to the wall thickness of the glass tube to be formed.

The centrifugal continuous forming equipment for producing the glass tube is characterized by further comprising a heating and heat-insulating assembly, wherein the heating and heat-insulating assembly is arranged on an output road of the glass tube and is positioned between the traction device and the rotary drum, and a roller way which is in rolling contact with the glass tube is further arranged on the supporting seat.

A centrifugal continuous forming method for producing glass tubes by adopting the equipment mainly comprises the following steps:

s1, preparing glass liquid;

s2, adding the molten glass into the feeding device;

and S3, enabling the molten glass to flow to the inner pressing roller through the feeding device and the material guide device, and enabling the inner pressing roller and the rotary roller to rotate automatically to coat the molten glass on the inner wall of the rotary roller to form a glass pipe.

The positive effects of the technical scheme are as follows:

the centrifugal continuous forming equipment and the method for producing the glass tube provided by the invention have the advantages that through arranging the inclined and rotating rotary drum and the inner pressing roller, when glass liquid drops into the inner pressing roller, the inner pressing roller rotates to coat the glass liquid on the rotary drum to form the glass tube, and the glass tube with larger diameter can be produced while continuous production is realized.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a centrifugal continuous forming apparatus for producing glass tubing according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the drawings:

1. a feeding device; 11. a material flowing port; 2. a material guiding device; 21. a material guide pipe; 22. a material guide spoon; 3. a molding device; 31. rotating the drum; 32. an inner compression roller; 33. a supporting seat; 331. a roller bed; 34. a power assembly; 35. a cooling and insulating assembly; 351. a water-cooling spraying structure; 352. a heat preservation structure; 4. a traction device; 41. a roller; 5. a follow-up cutting device; 51. a support; 52. a drive member; 53. a cutting knife; 6. a heating and insulating assembly; 7. a piano type conveying roller bed; 10. a glass tube.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is described in further detail below by way of embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

The numbering of the components themselves, such as "first", "second", etc., is used herein only to distinguish between the objects depicted and not to have any sequential or technical meaning. The term "connected" and "coupled" when used in this application, unless otherwise indicated, includes both direct and indirect connections (couplings). In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "clockwise", "counterclockwise", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, but do not indicate or imply that the referenced devices or elements must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the first feature "on" or "under" the second feature may be directly contacting the first and second features or indirectly contacting the first and second features through an intermediate. Also, a first feature "on," "over," and "above" a second feature may be directly or diagonally above the second feature, or may simply indicate that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature may be directly under or obliquely under the first feature, or may simply mean that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.

The technical features of the above embodiments can be arbitrarily combined, and for the sake of brevity, all possible combinations of the technical features in the above embodiments are not described, but should be considered as the scope of the present specification as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features.

The above examples only show some embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is more specific and detailed, but not construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. It should be noted that, for a person skilled in the art, several variations and modifications can be made without departing from the inventive concept, which falls within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present patent shall be subject to the appended claims.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a centrifugal continuous forming apparatus for producing a glass tube according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The embodiment of the invention discloses centrifugal continuous forming equipment for producing glass tubes, which comprises: a feeding device 1, a material guiding device 2 and a forming device 3.

The material guide device 2 is arranged in alignment with the material supply device 1.

Specifically, feedway 1 is the feeder, and the feeder is poured into to the glass liquid that the blending is good, and the feeder is equipped with material flow 11, and the glass liquid flows out the feeder from material flow 11. Preferably, the feeding machine is a refining type feeding machine, and the feeding channel is heated by gas or electricity to meet the requirement of higher and stable feeding temperature; the uniform material feeder has no punch and shearing mechanism, and only the rotary tube mechanism is reserved to meet the requirements of the uniformity of the glass liquid flow and the adjustment of the flow.

Specifically, the material guiding device 2 includes a material guiding pipe 21 and a material guiding spoon 22.

The material guiding pipe 21 is aligned with the feeding device 1, specifically, the material guiding pipe 21 is vertically arranged, the upper end of the material guiding pipe is aligned with the material flowing port 11 of the feeding machine, and the lower end of the material guiding pipe is arranged as a material guiding spoon 22.

The upper end of the guide scoop 22 is aligned with the guide pipe 21, and the lower end thereof extends into the forming device 3.

Preferably, the scoop 22 is an air-cushion type scoop for guiding the stream of molten glass into the forming device 3. The air cushion type material guide spoon can retract in an emergency so as to discharge molten glass.

The forming device 3 comprises a rotary drum 31, an inner pressing roller 32, a supporting seat 33 and a power assembly 34.

Specifically, the rotary drum 31 is disposed on the support base 33. The rotary drum 31 is of a cylindrical structure with opposite ends open.

The rotating drum 31 in this embodiment is disposed obliquely, and one end of the rotating drum close to the material guiding device 2 is higher.

One end of the material guiding device 2, which is far away from the material supplying device 1, extends into the rotary drum 31. The molten glass flows from the material guide 2 into the rotary drum 31.

The inner compression roller 32 extends into the rotary drum 31 and can rotate, and the circumferential surface of the inner compression roller 32 is over against the discharge hole of the material guide device 2. The discharge hole of the material guiding device 2 is the discharge hole of the material guiding spoon 22, the material guiding spoon 22 extends into the rotary drum 31, the discharge hole of the material guiding spoon 22 is aligned with the circumferential surface of the inner pressure roller 32, and the circumferential surface of the inner pressure roller 32 is opposite to the discharge hole of the material guiding spoon 22.

In this embodiment, the inner press roll 32 is disposed below the discharge port of the scoop 22, and the molten glass flows toward the inner press roll 32 by gravity.

Specifically, the inner pressing roller 32 is a cylindrical structure, the axial direction of the inner pressing roller 32 is parallel to the axial direction of the rotating drum 31, and the distance between the inner pressing roller 32 and the inner wall of the rotating drum 31 is determined according to the wall thickness of the glass tube 10 to be formed. For example, the distance between the inner pressing roll 32 and the inner wall of the rotating drum 31 may be greater than or equal to the wall thickness of the glass tube 10 to be formed, so as to obtain the desired wall thickness of the finally formed glass tube 10.

The inner pressure roller 32 is provided with a driving structure (not shown), and the driving structure drives the inner pressure roller 32 to rotate.

The power assembly 34 is disposed in the supporting seat 33 and is in driving connection with the rotary drum 31 to drive the rotary drum 31 to rotate at a low speed. Specifically, the power assembly 34 in this embodiment is also disposed obliquely in the same direction as the rotating drum 31.

The inner press roll 32 rotates, the rotary drum 31 rotates, the inner press roll and the rotary drum 31 form relative motion, and the inner press roll 32 flatly coats the glass liquid flowing to the inner wall of the rotary drum 31 to form the glass tube 10.

Preferably, the rotating drum 31 rotates at a low speed which generates a centrifugal force not less than 1g (gravity acceleration) according to the diameter of the glass tube 10, so as to maintain the molten glass to be tightly adhered to the inner wall of the rotating drum 31. The centrifugal force is specifically selected according to the particular circumstances of the glass tubing 10 to be formed.

The diameter and length of the rotary drum 31 are designed according to the variety and yield of the glass tube 10 to be formed.

Specifically, in order to make the rotation of the rotary drum 31 smooth, the supporting seat 33 is further provided with a roller table 331 in rolling contact with the rotary drum 31. The glass tube 10 coming out of the rotary drum 31 rotates together with the rotary drum 31, and the roller table 331 extends to an output path of the glass tube 10 in order to make the glass tube 10 rotate smoothly.

The inclined arrangement of the rotary drum 31 in the embodiment is convenient for feeding, reduces the process height and has the comprehensive advantages of horizontal and vertical in the aspect of gravity uniformity.

Further, the temperature of the molten glass is relatively high, even up to one thousand degrees, so the forming device 3 further comprises a cooling and heat-insulating assembly 35, the cooling and heat-insulating assembly 35 is arranged outside the rotary drum 31, the temperature of the rotary drum 31 is regulated and controlled in real time according to the detected temperature of the rotary drum 31, and the forming condition of the glass tube 10 in the rotary drum 31 is further controlled.

Specifically, the cooling and heat-insulating assembly 35 includes a cooling structure, which may adopt a water-cooling spraying structure 351 and is disposed outside the rotary drum 31 to cool the molten glass tightly attached to the inner wall of the rotary drum 31. The cooling and heat-insulating assembly 35 further comprises a heat-insulating structure 352, the heat-insulating structure 352 being used for realizing heat insulation of the rotary drum 31.

In the centrifugal continuous forming equipment for producing the glass tube 10 in the embodiment, the forming device 3 is obliquely arranged to rotate the roller 31, the glass liquid flows from the discharge hole of the material guide device 2 to the inner pressing roller 32, and the inner pressing roller 32 and the rotating roller 31 rotate relatively to level the glass liquid on the inner wall of the rotating roller 31 to form the glass tube 10.

Further, the equipment further comprises a traction device 4, wherein the traction device 4 is arranged on an output path of the glass tube 10 and is used for drawing the glass tube 10 to move forwards in a direction away from the rotating drum 31. The front in this embodiment corresponds to the output direction of the glass tube 10, specifically, the axial direction of the rotating drum 31 and the glass tube 10.

Specifically, the drawing device 4 is disposed on the supporting base 33 and spaced from the end of the rotating drum 31 by a certain distance to draw the formed glass tube 10 forward continuously.

Specifically, the traction device 4 includes a plurality of rollers 41, and the rollers 41 are uniformly disposed around the glass tube 10.

In the embodiment, one side of the glass tube 10 rotates along with the rotating roller 31, and the other side of the glass tube 10 is subjected to a forward traction force along the axial direction of the rotating roller 31, the roller 41 and the glass tube 10 rotate together to keep the contact part at a point-to-point static state so as to generate a friction force to pull the glass tube 10 to move forward, so that the circumferential surface of the roller 41 is tangent to the circumferential surface of the glass tube 10, the axial line of the roller 41 and the axial line of the glass tube 10 are arranged at a certain angle, and the specific angle is determined according to the force effect synthesis between the roller 41 and the glass tube 10.

Alternatively, the number of the rollers 41 is at least two, three, four … …, etc., and the specific number can be designed according to actual situations.

Further, the equipment also comprises a follow-up cutting device 5, wherein the follow-up cutting device 5 is arranged on the output path of the glass tube 10 and behind the traction device 4 so as to cut the glass tube 10 into the required length size.

In particular, the follower cutting device 5 comprises a support 51, a driving member 52 and a cutting knife 53.

The support 51 is fixed on the support seat 33, and the driving member 52 is fixed on the support 51 and is in driving connection with the cutting knife 53, so as to drive the cutting knife 53 to move forward along the axis of the glass tube 10 along with the glass tube 10 and move downward to cut the glass tube 10.

Specifically, the driving member 52 is used to drive the cutting knife 53 to follow the glass tube 10 along the drawing direction of the glass tube 10, and to drive the cutting knife 53 to move downward to cut the glass tube 10 along the direction perpendicular to the drawing direction of the glass tube 10 until the glass tube 10 is completely cut.

In the present embodiment, a plurality of short glass tubes 10 with different length sizes can be cut by setting the time interval between two cuts.

Further, the equipment also comprises a heating and heat-insulating assembly 6, wherein the heating and heat-insulating assembly 6 is arranged on the output path of the glass tube 10 and is positioned between the traction device 4 and the rotary drum 31. Since the glass tube 10 is exposed to the outside and the temperature is lowered, the heating and insulating member 6 is provided at this section to prevent the glass tube 10 from being cracked.

Optionally, the end of the apparatus in this embodiment is provided with a piano type roller conveyor 7 for conveying the cut short glass tube 10.

The low-speed rotation of the rotary drum 31 in this embodiment makes it possible to arrange and operate the processes such as rear end drawing and cutting, thereby achieving the continuity, large-scale and low-cost formation of the special glass tube.

The embodiment of the invention also discloses a centrifugal continuous forming method for producing the glass tube, which is realized by adopting the equipment described in any embodiment, and concretely comprises the following steps:

s1, preparing glass liquid.

Specifically, the molten glass is prepared according to the material of the glass tube 10.

And S2, adding the molten glass into the feeding device.

Specifically, the molten glass is fed into a feeder, flows out from a material flowing port 11 of the feeder and enters a material guiding device.

And S3, enabling the molten glass to flow to the inner pressing roller through the feeding device and the material guide device, and enabling the inner pressing roller and the rotary roller to rotate automatically to coat the molten glass on the inner wall of the rotary roller to form a glass pipe.

The above-mentioned embodiments only express several embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is more specific and detailed, but not construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. It should be noted that, for a person skilled in the art, several variations and modifications can be made without departing from the inventive concept, which falls within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present patent shall be subject to the appended claims.