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CN110923656B - Front fork hanger for vacuum coating - Google Patents

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CN110923656B
CN110923656B CN201911417030.1A CN201911417030A CN110923656B CN 110923656 B CN110923656 B CN 110923656B CN 201911417030 A CN201911417030 A CN 201911417030A CN 110923656 B CN110923656 B CN 110923656B
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The front fork hanger comprises a frame body and a rotating shaft arranged on the central line of the frame body, wherein a placing rack and a limiting rack are arranged in the frame body, the placing rack comprises a cross rod arranged on the frame body, a plurality of placing seats for clamping front fork hooks are arranged on the cross rod, and the placing seats are uniformly arranged along the length direction of the cross rod; the limiting frame comprises limiting rods which are used for being abutted against the fork shoulders of the front fork, and the limiting rods are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the front fork. The limiting rod is abutted with the fork shoulder of the front fork, the front fork is limited to rotate by taking the cross rod as an axis and slide in the length direction of the cross rod, the stability of the front fork during rotation along with the frame body is guaranteed, meanwhile, the contact area between the limiting rod and the cross rod and the front fork is reduced as much as possible, most of the surface of the front fork can be coated, the frame body can uniformly coat the surface of the front fork by driving the front fork to rotate, the process difficulty of twice coating is avoided, and the coating effect of the front fork is guaranteed.

Description

Front fork hanger for vacuum coating
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of coating, in particular to a front fork hanger for vacuum coating.
Background
Vacuum coating refers to the deposition of a vaporized substance and its reaction product on a workpiece, also called Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD), by using a low-voltage, high-current arc discharge technique under vacuum conditions, utilizing gas discharge to vaporize a target and ionize both the vaporized substance and the gas, and utilizing the acceleration of an electric field. The existing vacuum coating technology mainly comprises three methods of evaporation coating, sputtering coating and ion plating.
In the prior art, the vacuum coating equipment mainly adopts a cylindrical cavity, a target is erected in the middle of the cavity, and electrons are released by electrifying. The product to be coated is fixed around the electrode in the form of a hanger, and the surface to be coated faces the electrode. After the cavity is vacuumized and filled with inert gas, the electrode discharges, and the surface of the product to be coated facing the electrode receives electrons to finish the deposition of the coating.
As shown in fig. 1, the front fork comprises a connecting pipe, a vertical pipe and a fork shoulder combining the connecting pipe and the vertical pipe, a claw hook for connecting with a front wheel is arranged on one side of the vertical pipe away from the fork shoulder, the vertical pipe and the fork shoulder are generally in a circular tubular structure, the front fork is only rotated by a central line of a vacuum coating device to be difficult to form uniform coating films on a circular arc surface of the front fork, and the thickness of the coating films is different for two times after the front fork is rotated, so that the requirements on the process are quite high, and the prior art is improved.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the technical problems, the invention provides a front fork hanger for vacuum coating, which enables a front fork to rotate along with a frame body by arranging a placement frame and a limiting frame for fixing the front fork in the frame body, so that the surface of the front fork formed by round pipes is uniformly coated, and the coating effect of the front fork is ensured.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical scheme of the invention is as follows: the front fork hanger comprises a frame body and a rotating shaft arranged on the central line of the frame body, wherein a placing rack and a limiting rack are arranged in the frame body, the placing rack comprises a cross rod arranged on the frame body, a plurality of placing seats for clamping front fork hooks are arranged on the cross rod, and the placing seats are uniformly arranged along the length direction of the cross rod; the limiting frame comprises a limiting rod which is used for being abutted against the fork shoulder of the front fork.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the front fork passes through the seat of placing on the horizontal pole and fixes a plurality of front forks on the horizontal pole, the yoke shoulder butt of gag lever post and front fork, the restriction front fork takes place to rotate and the front fork takes place to slide on horizontal pole length direction as the axis with the horizontal pole, guarantee the front fork stability when rotating along with the frame body, gag lever post and horizontal pole have reduced the area of contact with the front fork as far as possible simultaneously, make the vast majority of surfaces of front fork can carry out the coating film, the frame body makes the surface of front fork can be even carry out the coating film through driving the rotation of front fork, the technological degree of difficulty of twice coating film has been avoided, the coating film effect of front fork is guaranteed.
The invention is further provided with: the rack comprises a first center rod fixedly connected with the frame body, a plurality of cross rods are uniformly distributed in the length direction of the first center rod, and placing seats on the cross rods are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the first center rod.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the horizontal pole that first center pole bilateral symmetry set up makes even in the horizontal pole both ends hand, and guarantees that the focus of frame body still is located the pivot axis nearby, appears rocking after avoiding the frame body to rotate, improves the stability of front fork when rotating, makes the front fork fix outside the frame body, reduces the influence of frame body when to the front fork coating film, avoids appearing the less phenomenon of front fork local coating film thickness, and then improves the coating film effect of front fork.
The invention is further provided with: the frame body is internally provided with a plurality of groups of placing racks along the axis direction of the rotating shaft, and the limiting racks are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the placing racks.
By adopting the technical scheme, the arrangement quantity of the front fork in the frame body is improved, the quantity of the front fork hung in the frame body is improved, and the film coating efficiency of the front fork is greatly improved.
The invention is further provided with: the limiting frame further comprises a connecting seat and a second central rod, wherein the connecting seat is connected with the frame body in a sliding mode, the second central rod is connected with the two connecting seats, the limiting rod is parallel to the second central rod, and the limiting rod penetrates through all cross rods of the first central rod.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the locating rack connecting seat slides and sets up in the frame body, makes the locating rack can take place to slide in the fork direction of height, especially when installing or dismantling the front fork on the horizontal pole, can reduce the interference between gag lever post and the front fork, makes things convenient for the operator to carry out the operation on the one hand, and on the other hand avoids the surface contact of gag lever post and front fork to cause the surface fish tail.
The invention is further provided with: the frame body is along offer the groove that slides in the axis direction, the connecting seat is including the joint spare of frame body, the second center pole is penetrated the joint spare with the groove that slides, threaded connection has two to be located on the second center pole fastening bolt of joint spare side.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the fastener makes the fastener fixed on the frame body through the fastening bolt of both sides screwing, makes things convenient for the high and second center pole of operator adjustment spacing to follow self length direction's position, and the second center pole can rotate on the fastener simultaneously, makes things convenient for the operator to adjust the height of second center pole both sides gag lever post.
The invention is further provided with: the placing seat comprises a supporting rod parallel to the cross rod, the supporting rod is in supporting connection with the front fork claw hook, and two ends of the supporting rod are fixed on the cross rod.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the front fork claw hook passes through horizontal pole and the butt pole butt simultaneously, makes the front fork claw hook have two contact points to restrict the rotation of front fork on the horizontal pole, guarantee the fixed stability of front fork.
The invention is further provided with: the included angle between the abutting rod and the vertical surface of the frame body is 10-15 degrees.
By adopting the technical scheme, the supporting rod and the vertical surface of the frame body form 10-15 degrees, so that the front fork positioned on the cross rod is obliquely fixed on the placing seat, electrons and the inclination of the front fork are impacted on the front fork during film coating, and the film coating quality of the front fork is improved.
The invention is further provided with: the placing seats on the cross bars on the two sides of the first center rod are oppositely arranged, and the frame body rotates towards the inclined side of the front fork.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, make the front fork slope of center pole both sides opposite fix on the horizontal pole, frame body orientation front fork slope one side rotates simultaneously can avoid the front fork body to take place to rock when rotatory, improves the stability of fixing the front fork on the frame body.
The invention is further provided with: the limiting rods are provided with abutting rods which are in one-to-one correspondence with the front forks, and the abutting rods are inserted into connecting pipes of the front forks.
By adopting the technical scheme, the contact area between the limiting rod and the front fork is further reduced, the coating area of the front fork is improved as much as possible, the quality of products is improved, and the repair of the missing coating area in the subsequent process is reduced.
The invention is further provided with: the included angles of the abutting rod, the abutting rod and the vertical surface of the frame body are equal.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, guarantee to support the fixed effect of feeler lever.
In summary, the invention has the following effects:
1. The front fork is fixed on the cross rod through the placing seat on the cross rod, the limiting rod is abutted with the fork shoulder of the front fork, the front fork is limited to rotate by taking the cross rod as an axis and slide in the length direction of the cross rod, and the stability of the front fork when rotating along with the frame body is ensured;
2. the frame body drives the front fork to rotate so that the surface of the front fork can be uniformly coated, the process difficulty of coating the film twice is avoided, and the coating effect of the front fork is ensured;
3. The supporting rod and the vertical surface of the frame body form 10-15 degrees, so that the front fork positioned on the cross rod can be obliquely fixed on the placing seat, electrons and the inclination of the front fork impact on the front fork during film coating, and the film coating quality of the front fork is improved.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below.
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the overall structure of a front fork;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a first front fork hanger;
Fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of a second front fork hanger.
In the figure; 1. a front fork; 11. a connecting pipe; 12. a standpipe; 13. fork shoulders; 14. a claw hook; 2. a frame body; 3. a rotating shaft; 4. a placing rack; 41. a cross bar; 42. a placement seat; 421. a butt joint rod; 43. a first central rod; 5. a limiting frame; 51. a limit rod; 52. a second central rod; 53. a connecting seat; 531. a clamping piece; 532. a fastening bolt; 54. the contact rod.
Detailed Description
The invention is described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
As shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, a front fork hanger for vacuum coating comprises a frame body and a rotating shaft arranged on the central line of the frame body, wherein a placing rack and a limiting rack are arranged in the frame body, the placing rack comprises a cross rod arranged on the frame body, a plurality of placing seats for clamping front fork claw hooks are arranged on the cross rod, the placing seats are uniformly arranged along the length direction of the cross rod, the placing seats in the scheme are the cross rod, and the diameter of the cross rod is the diameter of the claw hooks clamped on the cross rod; the limiting frame comprises a limiting rod which is used for being abutted with the fork shoulder of the front fork.
The rack comprises a first center rod fixedly connected with the frame body, a plurality of cross rods are uniformly distributed in the length direction of the first center rod, and the placing seats on the cross rods are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the first center rod.
A plurality of groups of placing racks are arranged in the frame body along the axis direction of the rotating shaft, and the limiting racks are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the placing racks.
The limiting frame further comprises a connecting seat and a second central rod, wherein the connecting seat is slidably connected with the frame body, the second central rod is connected with the two connecting seats, the limiting rod is parallel to the second central rod, and the limiting rod penetrates through all cross rods of the first central rod.
The frame body is provided with a sliding groove along the axial direction, the connecting seat comprises a clamping piece which is clamped with the frame body, the second central rod penetrates through the clamping piece and the sliding groove, and the second central rod is connected with two fastening bolts which are positioned on the side of the clamping piece in a threaded manner.
The limiting rods are provided with abutting rods which are in one-to-one correspondence with the front forks, and the abutting rods are inserted into connecting pipes of the front forks.
In order to improve the coating effect of the front fork, as shown in fig. 3, the placement seat in the scheme comprises a supporting rod parallel to the cross rod, the supporting rod is in supporting connection with the front fork claw, and two ends of the supporting rod are fixed on the cross rod.
The included angle between the abutting rod and the vertical surface of the frame body is 10-15 degrees.
The placing seats on the cross bars on the two sides of the first center rod are oppositely arranged, and the frame body rotates towards the inclined side of the front fork.
The contact rod is equal to the included angle between the rod and the vertical straight surface.
It should be noted that modifications and improvements can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the inventive concept, and these are all within the scope of the present invention.

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1. The front fork hanger for vacuum coating is characterized by comprising a frame body and a rotating shaft arranged on the central line of the frame body, wherein a placing rack and a limiting rack are arranged in the frame body, the placing rack comprises a cross rod arranged on the frame body, a plurality of placing seats for clamping front fork hooks are arranged on the cross rod, and the placing seats are uniformly arranged along the length direction of the cross rod; the limiting frame comprises a limiting rod for abutting against the fork shoulder of the front fork;
The rack comprises a first central rod fixedly connected with the frame body, a plurality of cross rods are uniformly distributed in the length direction of the first central rod, and placing seats on the cross rods are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the first central rod;
The placing seat comprises a supporting rod parallel to the cross rod, the supporting rod is in supporting connection with the front fork claw hook, and two ends of the supporting rod are fixed on the cross rod.
2. The front fork hanger according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of groups of placing frames are arranged in the frame body along the axis direction of the rotating shaft, and the limiting frames are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the placing frames.
3. The front fork hanger of claim 2, wherein the limit frame further comprises a connecting seat slidably connected with the frame body and a second center rod connected with the two connecting seats, the limit rod is parallel to the second center rod, and the limit rod penetrates through all cross rods of the first center rod.
4. The front fork hanger of claim 1, wherein the angle between the abutment bar and the vertical surface of the frame body is 10 ° to 15 °.
5. The front fork hanger of claim 4, wherein the seats on the cross bar on both sides of the first center bar are oppositely disposed and the frame body is rotated toward the inclined side of the front fork.
6. The front fork hanger of claim 5, wherein the limiting rods are provided with abutting rods corresponding to the front forks one by one, and the abutting rods are inserted into connecting pipes of the front forks.
7. The front fork hanger of claim 6, wherein the interference bar is at an angle to the vertical with respect to the bar.
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