CN107628462B - Clamp for attaching adhesive tape to ladder surface - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention relates to the technical field of clamp equipment, in particular to a clamp for attaching adhesive tapes on the surface of a ladder, which comprises a sucker and a negative pressure device, wherein the sucker is provided with a cavity, the cavity is communicated with the negative pressure device, the clamp also comprises a plurality of pressing pieces which are arranged along the length direction of the adhesive tapes, and a driving device which drives each pressing piece to sequentially fall down along the length direction of the adhesive tapes and pass through the corresponding cavity to press the adhesive tapes.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of clamp equipment, in particular to a clamp for attaching adhesive tapes to the surface of a ladder.
Background
Adhesive tape is a widely used product, which is generally made of fiber cloth in the form of a strip and coated on one side with a layer of glue.
The conductive cloth is a conductive adhesive tape with high conductivity and good corrosion resistance, is wrapped with high-elasticity PU foam and is formed by precision machining, and has good electromagnetic wave shielding effect, so that the conductive cloth is applied to electronic products in a large quantity.
The conductive cloth assembly is a main link of an attaching procedure in the production process, and because the quantity of the conductive cloth required to be attached and the required attaching positions of each electronic product are different, the conductive cloth assembly at the present stage is carried out by manually pressing by fingers, so that the problems of low assembly efficiency and difficult guarantee of assembly consistency exist. In addition, the conductive cloth can not be attached to the product completely due to manual pressing, so that bubbles or wrinkles are generated in the middle of the conductive cloth, and the quality of the product is greatly affected.
In addition, for some products with stepped surfaces, as shown in fig. 1, a stepped part exists in the product 1, and the conductive cloth 2 can be pressed by a hand to realize bending and attaching of the conductive cloth 2, but the production efficiency of the manner of pressing by the worker is low, if the conductive cloth 2 is attached by a general sucker, bending operation needs to be performed in advance, a certain time and manufacturing cost are consumed for adding one procedure, and the clamp adsorption is not facilitated for some conductive cloths 2 with smaller sizes, so that a certain influence is caused on the production efficiency.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to overcome the defects in the prior art, and provides a clamp for attaching adhesive tapes on the surface of a ladder.
The aim of the invention is achieved by the following technical scheme: the utility model provides a anchor clamps for attached sticky tape in ladder surface, including sucking disc and the negative pressure device of seting up the cavity, cavity and negative pressure device intercommunication, anchor clamps still include a plurality of along sticky tape length direction's the pressure piece of arranging and drive each pressure piece along sticky tape length direction whereabouts and pass the drive arrangement of sucking disc to press the sticky tape, drive arrangement installs in the top of sucking disc and closely laminates with the top surface of sucking disc, drive arrangement includes a plurality of telescopic links, each telescopic link all passes the top surface of sucking disc and is connected with a corresponding pressure piece.
The driving device comprises a cylinder and an installation seat, a piston rod of the cylinder is clamped with one end of the installation seat, and the other end of the installation seat is connected with each telescopic rod.
The driving device comprises an air cylinder, and the air cylinder is movably connected with the plurality of telescopic rods through a piston mechanism.
Wherein, each telescopic link all is provided with the screw hole, and each pressing piece is kept away from the one end of sticky tape and all is provided with the external screw thread, and each telescopic link is threaded connection with the pressing piece that corresponds.
Wherein, each telescopic link all corresponds through the spring and is connected with each press piece.
Wherein, the sucking disc extends the mounting panel along the length direction of sticky tape, and the mounting panel is vertical installs the setting element, setting element and press the parallel arrangement of piece, and under the operating condition, the vertical distance between setting element and the sticky tape is less than or equal to the vertical distance between sucking disc and the sticky tape.
Wherein, rectangular hole has been seted up to the mounting panel, and the external screw thread has been seted up on the top of setting element, under the assembled state, and rectangular hole is passed and cooperation lock nut locks on the top of setting element.
Wherein, the bottom surface of sucking disc is provided with the blotter, and the bottom surface of blotter sets up along the horizontal direction slope.
The clamp further comprises a connecting plate, a plurality of suckers are arranged on the connecting plate, and the suckers are uniformly distributed on the connecting plate at intervals.
Wherein, a plurality of pressing pieces are arranged in a staggered way in sequence in two rows of straight lines.
The application has the beneficial effects that: according to the clamp for attaching the adhesive tape on the step surface, the negative pressure device is started and enables the cavity of the sucker to form negative pressure, the adhesive tape to be attached is adsorbed, then the clamp moves to the upper side of a product to be processed, the telescopic rod of the driving device drives the pressing piece to sequentially fall down and press the adhesive tape to be attached on the product, and then the adhesive tape attaching process is completed.
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The invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which embodiments do not constitute any limitation of the invention, and other drawings can be obtained by one of ordinary skill in the art without inventive effort from the following drawings.
Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a prior art adhesive tape product to be attached.
Fig. 2 is a partially exploded view of a jig for attaching an adhesive tape to a stepped surface according to the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of a fixture for attaching adhesive tape to a stepped surface according to the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a schematic view of a part of the structure of a clamp for attaching adhesive tape to a stepped surface according to the present invention.
Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view at A-A in fig. 4.
Reference numerals: product 1, conductive cloth 2, sucking disc 3, cavity 31, rectangular hole 32, press piece 4, telescopic link 5, mount pad 6, cylinder 7, setting element 8, blotter 9.
Detailed Description
The invention will be further described with reference to the following examples.
Example 1
As shown in fig. 2 to 5, one embodiment of the fixture for attaching an adhesive tape to a stepped surface of the present invention includes a suction cup 3 provided with a cavity 31, a negative pressure hole is provided on the right side of the suction cup 3, the cavity 31 of the suction cup 3 is communicated with the negative pressure hole, and the negative pressure hole is further communicated with a negative pressure device (not shown in the drawings) through a joint, it should be noted that the suction cup 3 can be designed according to a product to which the adhesive tape is attached, and the suction cup 3 structure of this embodiment adopts a conventional suction cup 3 structure.
As an improvement of this embodiment, the fixture further includes a plurality of pressing members 4 arranged at intervals along the length direction of the adhesive tape and a driving device for driving each pressing member 4 to sequentially drop along the length direction of the adhesive tape and pass through the suction cup 3 to press the adhesive tape.
Please see fig. 5, the driving device is mounted above the suction cup 3 and tightly attached to the top surface of the suction cup 3, the function of tightly attached is to ensure the normal operation of the suction cup 3, in addition, the driving device further comprises an air cylinder 7, a mounting seat 6 and a plurality of telescopic rods 5, a piston rod of the air cylinder 7 is clamped with one end of the mounting seat 6, the other end of the mounting seat 6 is connected with each telescopic rod 5, it should be noted that the connection between the mounting seat 6 and the telescopic rods 5 can be a general fixed connection (welding or threaded connection) or can be connected through a spring, if the spring is used for connection, a certain buffer space can be provided for the telescopic rods 5, and the service life of the fixture is ensured. Each telescopic rod 5 passes through the top surface of the sucker 3 and is connected with a corresponding pressing piece 4.
In the working process of this embodiment, the negative pressure device starts and makes the cavity 31 of sucking disc 3 form negative pressure, and then adsorbs the sticky tape that waits to attach, then anchor clamps remove to the top of waiting to process the product, the piston rod of cylinder 7 drives mount pad 6 and moves down, mount pad 6 drives each telescopic link 5 and moves down, and then each presser 4 drops down in proper order and presses sticky tape to attach on the product, and then accomplish the attached process of sticky tape, because a plurality of pressers 4 all set up independently each other at intervals, the order pressfitting in-process can guarantee the stationarity of attached, can not produce bubble or fold after the sticky tape is attached.
As the preferred scheme, each telescopic link 5 all is provided with the screw hole, each push piece 4 is kept away from the one end of sticky tape and all is provided with the external screw thread, each telescopic link 5 is threaded connection with corresponding push piece 4, and then make each push piece 4 can adjust the projecting amount of push piece 4 freely under screw-thread fit's mechanism, for example the step face of FIG. 1, can shorten the projecting length of push piece 4 of left end, and then can be applicable to the step surface of twice bending, if the step surface of three times bending of "protruding" or "concave", can be through the projecting length adjustment of push piece 4 with the middle part, so as to reach the effect of bending, the anchor clamps of embodiment have fine suitability, screw-fit's simple structure processing, be convenient for adjust, can further improve production efficiency, save the cost. Of course, besides the structure of threaded connection, the mode that each telescopic rod 5 is correspondingly connected with each pressing piece 4 through a spring can be adopted, wherein the spring is equivalent to the threaded adjusting effect, the mode of the spring is more convenient, the adjustment of the extending length is not needed manually, and the automation degree of the clamp is further improved.
In order to better improve the attaching quality and strengthen the positioning of the attaching position of the adhesive tape, the mounting plate extends out of the suction cup 3 along the length direction of the adhesive tape, the positioning piece 8 is vertically arranged on the mounting plate, the positioning piece 8 is arranged in parallel with the pressing piece 4, the vertical distance between the positioning piece 8 and the adhesive tape is smaller than or equal to the vertical distance between the suction cup 3 and the adhesive tape in a working state, when the adhesive tape is sucked by the suction cup 3, the starting end of the adhesive tape can be aligned with the positioning piece 8, the cavity 31 of the suction cup 3 is aligned with the rest of the adhesive tape and is used for adsorbing, the positioning piece 8 is aligned with one of the step surfaces of a product to be attached in the adhesive tape attaching process, the positioning piece 8 is used for attaching and pressing the starting end of the adhesive tape in advance, then the pressing piece 4 in the suction cup 3 is used for pressing the rest of the adhesive tape, the positioning of the adhesive tape is guaranteed, the situation that the adhesive tape cannot shift in the attaching process is avoided, and the bending gap of the adhesive tape can be effectively reserved, the mounting plate is provided with a strip hole 32, the top end of the positioning piece 8 is provided with external threads, and the top end of the positioning piece 8 penetrates through the strip hole 32 and is matched with a locking nut for adjusting and locking the purpose of preventing the adhesive tape from being broken or bending.
In order to better protect the adhesive tape from damage in the attaching process, the bottom end surface of the sucker 3 is provided with a buffer pad 9, the bottom end surface of the buffer pad 9 is obliquely upwards arranged along the horizontal direction, and the obliquely upwards arranged adhesive tape is further guaranteed to be attached in a certain sequence (from left to right), so that attaching stability is further enhanced.
In order to enhance the applicability of the clamp and improve the working efficiency of the clamp, the clamp further comprises a connecting plate, a plurality of suckers 3 are arranged on the connecting plate, and the suckers 3 are uniformly distributed on the connecting plate at intervals, so that the clamping device can be adjusted when a plurality of parts are attached according to the requirement of a product, and further the clamping device can carry out adhesive tape attaching procedures on different places of the same product once in each operation.
Preferably, the pressing piece 4 is a columnar body, and the bottom end surface of the pressing piece 4 is coated with an insulating coating, so that the adhesive tape can be further prevented from being damaged in the attaching process.
Example 2
In the second embodiment of the fixture for attaching an adhesive tape to a stepped surface of the present application, the main technical scheme of the present embodiment is the same as that of embodiment 1, and the unexplained features in the present embodiment are explained in embodiment 1, and are not described herein. This embodiment differs from embodiment 1 in that: the driving device comprises a cylinder, the cylinder is movably connected with a plurality of telescopic rods 5 through a piston mechanism, wherein the telescopic rods 5 can be connected with each pressing piece 4 in a threaded manner or in an elastic manner, the connecting effect is the same as that in the embodiment 1, and the repeated description is omitted.
Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are only for illustrating the technical solution of the present invention, and not for limiting the scope of the present invention, and although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that modifications or equivalent substitutions can be made to the technical solution of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the technical solution of the present invention.
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1. A anchor clamps for ladder surface attachment sticky tape, including sucking disc and the negative pressure device of seting up the cavity, cavity and negative pressure device intercommunication, its characterized in that: the fixture also comprises a plurality of pressing pieces which are arranged along the length direction of the adhesive tape and a driving device which drives each pressing piece to sequentially fall along the length direction of the adhesive tape and pass through the sucker to press the adhesive tape, the driving device is arranged above the sucker and is tightly attached to the top surface of the sucker, the driving device comprises a plurality of telescopic rods, and each telescopic rod passes through the top surface of the sucker and is connected with a corresponding pressing piece;
The sucker extends out of the mounting plate along the length direction of the adhesive tape, the mounting plate is vertically provided with a positioning piece, the positioning piece is aligned with the initial end of the adhesive tape when the adhesive tape is sucked, the initial end of the adhesive tape is firstly attached and pressed when the adhesive tape is attached, the positioning piece and the pressing piece are arranged in parallel, and the vertical distance between the positioning piece and the adhesive tape is smaller than or equal to the vertical distance between the sucker and the adhesive tape in a working state;
each telescopic rod is provided with a threaded hole, one end of each pressing piece far away from the adhesive tape is provided with external threads, and each telescopic rod is in threaded connection with the corresponding pressing piece, or
Each telescopic rod is correspondingly connected with each pressing piece through a spring.
2. A fixture for attaching adhesive tape to a stepped surface according to claim 1, wherein: the driving device comprises an air cylinder and an installation seat, wherein a piston rod of the air cylinder is clamped with one end of the installation seat, and the other end of the installation seat is connected with each telescopic rod.
3. A fixture for attaching adhesive tape to a stepped surface according to claim 1, wherein: the driving device comprises an air cylinder, and the air cylinder is movably connected with the plurality of telescopic rods through a piston mechanism.
4. A fixture for attaching adhesive tape to a stepped surface according to claim 1, wherein: the mounting plate is provided with a strip hole, the top end of the positioning piece is provided with external threads, and in an assembled state, the top end of the positioning piece penetrates through the strip hole and is matched with a locking nut to be locked.
5. A fixture for attaching adhesive tape to a stepped surface according to claim 1, wherein: the bottom end face of sucking disc is provided with the blotter, the bottom end face of blotter sets up along the horizontal direction slope.
6. A fixture for attaching adhesive tape to a stepped surface according to claim 1, wherein: the clamp further comprises a connecting plate, a plurality of suckers are arranged on the connecting plate, and the suckers are uniformly distributed on the connecting plate at intervals.
7. A fixture for attaching adhesive tape to a stepped surface according to claim 1, wherein: the pressing pieces are arranged in a staggered manner in sequence.
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