Rotary wheel cleaning device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10603757-B2
Application number	US-201815893140-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 9, 2018
Priority date	Dec 29, 2017
Publication date	Mar 31, 2020
Grant date	Mar 31, 2020

Abstract

A rotary wheel cleaning device is composed of a feeding station, a cleaning station, a blowing station and a discharging station. The feeding station completes positioning, jacking and clamping of a wheel; the cleaning station completes cleaning of the wheel; the blowing station completes blowing of the wheel; and the discharging station transfers the cleaned wheel. The device can continuously perform the operations of feeding, cleaning, blowing and discharging of a wheel to be cleaned by rotating the wheel into different angular position on a station turntable, thereby automatic continuous production is achieved.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rotary vehicle wheel cleaning device, comprising a frame, a jacking cylinder, a guide post, a support plate, a guide sleeve, a lifting table, an air compressor, a central post, two guide rails, a gear rack, a first sliding plate, a second sliding plate, a clamping cylinder, two upright posts, two positioning wheels, a support, a servo motor, a bearing seat, a bearing, a shaft, a station turntable, a first servo motor, a second servo motor, a third servo motor, a fourth servo motor, a feeding station manipulator, a cleaning station manipulator, a blowing station manipulator, a discharging station manipulator, sixteen drive motors, sixteen clamping wheels for clamping a vehicle wheel, a first water tank, a first water pump, a first water spray rack, a cylinder, a waterproof cover, a second water tank, a second water pump, a water return pipeline, a second water spray rack, a first air compressor, a first blowing rack, a second air compressor, a second blowing rack and a photoelectric sensor;
wherein each of the first servo motor, the second servo motor, the third servo motor and the fourth servo motor is mounted on the station turntable at intervals of 90 degrees in a circumferential direction of the station turntable from the adjacent ones, an output end of the first servo motor is connected with the feeding station manipulator, an output end of the second servo motor is connected with the cleaning station manipulator, an output end of the third servo motor is connected with the blowing station manipulator, an output end of the fourth servo motor is connected with the discharging station manipulator, each of the feeding station manipulator, the cleaning station manipulator, the blowing station manipulator and the discharging station manipulator has two arms, two drive motors of the sixteen drive motors are mounted on each arm of the two arms of each of the feeding station manipulator, the cleaning station manipulator, the blowing station manipulator and the discharging station manipulator, and a clamping wheel of the sixteen clamping wheels is mounted at an output end of each drive motor of the sixteen drive motors;
wherein after the vehicle wheel is clamped, the sixteen drive motors are configured to drive the vehicle wheel to rotate in a horizontal plane, and the first servo motor, the second servo motor, the third servo motor and the fourth servo motor are configured to drive the vehicle wheel to turn over;
wherein the first water tank and the first water spray rack are mounted on the frame above the cleaning station manipulator, and the first water pump is arranged in the first water tank to supply water to the first water spray rack;
wherein the rotary vehicle wheel cleaning device further comprises:
four first nozzles that are uniformly distributed on the first water spray rack in a circumferential direction of the first water spray rack and five first nozzles that are arranged in a row on the first water spray rack in a first direction;

wherein the second water tank and the second water spray rack are mounted on the frame below the cleaning station manipulator, and the second water pump is arranged in the second water tank to supply water to the second water spray rack;
wherein the rotary vehicle wheel cleaning device further comprises:
four second nozzles that are uniformly distributed on the second water spray rack in a circumferential direction of the second water spray rack and five second nozzles that are arranged in a column on the second water spray rack in a second direction;

wherein the first direction is perpendicular to the second direction;
wherein the first water pump and the second water pump are started to clean the vehicle wheel; and
wherein the station turntable is configured to continuously rotate the vehicle wheel to one of a feeding station, a cleaning station, a blowing station or a discharging station, and a corresponding cleaning operation for the vehicle wheel is carried out at each of the feeding station, the cleaning station, the blowing station, and the discharging station.

2. The rotary vehicle wheel cleaning device according to claim 1 , wherein the first blowing rack is mounted on the frame above the blowing station manipulator and the second blowing rack is mounted on the frame below the blowing station manipulator, nine first air outlets are arranged on the first blowing rack and nine second air outlets are arranged on the second blowing rack, four first air outlets of the nine first air outlets are uniformly distributed on the first blowing rack in a circumferential direction of the first blowing rack and a remaining five first air outlets of the nine first air outlets are arranged in a row on the first blowing rack in the first direction, and four second air outlets of the nine second air outlets are uniformly distributed on the second blowing rack in a circumferential direction of the second blowing rack and a remaining five second air outlets of the nine second air outlets are arranged in a column on the second blowing rack in the second direction.

Assignees

• Citic Dicastal Co Ltd

Inventors

• Liu Huiying
• Lu Yuexin

Classifications

• B08B13/00

  Accessories or details of general applicability for machines or apparatus for cleaning · CPC title

• B24B47/10

  for rotating or reciprocating working-spindles carrying grinding wheels or workpieces · CPC title

• B24B5/44 Primary

  for grinding rims of vehicle wheels, e.g. for bicycles · CPC title

• B08B3/022 Primary

  Cleaning travelling work (B08B3/042 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B08B3/10

  with additional treatment of the liquid or of the object being cleaned, e.g. by heat, by electricity or by vibration · CPC title