The present invention relates to a telescopic screed, particularly to a telescopic screed with telescopic section screed thereof being telescopic in the paving width direction relative to a main section screed and also adjustable in the cross slope, and a paving machine comprising the same.
A screed is a very important work unit of a paving machine, responsible for smoothing and compressing the mixture to eventually form a road surface. In order to conveniently adjust the paving width of the paving machine, some screeds include a telescopic section screed and a main section screed. The telescopic section screed is telescopic in a transversal direction (the horizontal direction substantially perpendicular to the travelling direction of the paving machine, i.e. generally a paving width direction) with respect to the main section screed. The screed comprising a telescopic section screed and a main section screed is called a telescopic screed. Typically, the telescoping direction of the telescopic section screed is the paving width direction. It is also obvious that, for some telescopic section screeds, the telescoping direction and the paving width direction form a slight angle.
Telescopic screeds are usually classified into front telescopic screeds and rear telescopic screeds. The telescopic section screeds of the front and rear telescopic screeds are arranged in the front side and the rear side of the main section screed, respectively, and are telescopic transversely relative to the main section screed.
In addition, in regions such as North America and Australia, cross slopes are usually required on both sides of the road surface (the edges on both sides of the road surface are lower than the middle part of the road surface), so as to facilitate water drainage.
The patent with the publication No. CN100564682C (and the priority No. U.S. 60/452,883) discloses an extension screed (i.e. a telescopic screed), comprising: a main screed (i.e. a main section screed); a base member movably connected with the main screed; a vertical actuator for connecting the main screed and the base member, each enabling the base member to move vertically or to pivot in a vertical plane; an inside framework movably connected with the base member; a first horizontal actuator which enables the inside framework to move horizontally with respect to the base member; an outside framework movably connected with the inside framework; a second horizontal actuator which enables the outside framework to move horizontally with respect to the inside framework; and a telescopic section screed connected with the outside framework. The main drawback of such screed lies in that the vertical actuator is connected in a manner of enabling the base member to move vertically and pivot, so the rigidity between the base member and the main screed becomes very poor, which significantly affects the quality of the paved road surface.
The patent with the application No. CN200910165203 (and the priority No. EP09002132) discloses a paving screed (i.e. a screed), comprising: a base screed (i.e. a main section screed); a base guiding structure pivotally connected to the base screed; a guiding sub-structure being transversely guided in the base guiding structure; a first actuator for enabling the guiding sub-structure to slide by a first stroke with respect to the base guiding structure; an extension guiding structure being transversely guided in the guiding sub-structure; a second actuator for enabling the extension guiding structure to slide by a second stroke with respect to the guiding sub-structure; and a base framework structure connected to the extension guiding structure through the vertical guiding part and the height adjustment assembly. The shortcomings of such screed lie in that there are two sets of guiding structures and two sets of actuators distributed in space, and thus a lot of space is occupied, and the spatial distribution of the two sets of guiding parts weakens the rigidity of the entire telescopic structure, further affecting the paving quality of the road surface.
The patent with the publication No. CN101812823B (the priority No. EP08021844.9) and the patent with the publication No. CN101748680B (the priority No. EP08021843.1) disclose a paving screed (i.e. a screed) and a method for laying a paving mat. The paving screed mainly comprises: a base screed (i.e. a main section screed); a main base plate arranged under the base screed; an extension guiding structure transversely and slidably connected to the base screed through several guiding assemblies; and a framework which is connected to the extension guiding structure through the vertical adjustment assemblies and the driving parts and whose relative height can be adjusted; a telescopic section base plate connected to the framework; a lateral inclination adjustment assembly for adjusting the cross slope of the telescopic section base plate with respect to the main section base plate, arranged between the vertical adjustment assemblies and the framework or between the framework and the telescopic section base plate. Disadvantage of such screed lies in that, when the telescopic section screed telescopes, the lateral positions of the intersecting lines between the cross slope surfaces at both sides and the middle horizontal surface will change, which is not allowed in many paving conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to add a complicated control system for controlling the screed, so as to maintain the lateral positions of the intersecting lines unchanged, which not only substantially increases the cost, but also brings about fault points and unreliability.
Directing at the above-mentioned disadvantages of the screeds of the paving machine in the prior art, the present invention provides a telescopic screed which is of high structural rigidity, compact space and reliable performance.
In order to solve the above technical problems, the present invention adopts the technical solution as below:
a telescopic screed, comprising main section screeds and telescopic section screeds, wherein the main section screed comprises a main section screed frame and a main section base plate; the telescopic section screeds are arranged on the left side and/or the right side of the main section screed, and the telescopic section screed comprises:
a cross slope framework, pivotally connected with the main section screed, so that the cross slope framework can pivot relative to said main section screed in a plane which forms an angle of 80°-90° with the travelling direction;
a cross slope driver, which is connected with the main section screed and the cross slope framework, used for adjusting the cross slope of the cross slope framework with respect to the main section screed;
at least two multistage sliding pipes, each of the multistage sliding pipes comprising an outer pipe, at least one intermediate pipe and an inner pipe which are sequentially telescoped and can slide relatively along the axial direction, wherein the outer pipe is transversely fixed to the cross slope framework;
a telescopic frame moving transversely with respect to the cross slope framework, wherein the inner side of the telescopic frame is slidably connected to the outer pipe of the multistage sliding pipe and the outer side thereof is connected to the inner pipe of the multistage sliding pipe;
a telescopic driver for driving the telescopic frame to enable it to move transversely with respect to the cross slope framework;
a telescopic section frame connected to the lower portion of the telescopic frame in a manner of being able to move up and down;
an elevation difference driver connected between the telescopic frame and the telescopic section frame to adjust the height of the telescopic section frame relative to the telescopic frame;
a telescopic section base plate connected at the bottom of the telescopic section frame.
Preferably, the cross slope framework is pivotally connected to the front side of the main section screed by a pin shaft; the front side of the main section screed is provided with several arcuate holes; the cross slope framework and the main section screed are pre-tightened by the fasteners passing through said several arcuate holes.
Preferably, the cross slope driver is a hydrocylinder with one end thereof connected to the main section screed and the other end connected to the cross slope framework.
Preferably, there is one intermediate pipe and the multistage sliding pipe is a two-stage sliding pipe. The intermediate pipe and the outer pipe slide relative to each other, forming a first stroke of the two-stage sliding pipe. The inner pipe and the intermediate pipe slide relative to each other, forming a second stroke of the two-stage sliding pipe. The first stroke equals to the second stroke.
Preferably, there are two multistage sliding pipes, and the two multistage sliding pipes are arranged up and down; the telescopic driver is located at the middle position of the two multi-stage sliding pipes.
Preferably, the telescopic driver is a hydrocylinder, with one end thereof connected to the cross slope framework and the other end connected to the outer side of the telescopic frame.
Preferably, several long holes are arranged in the rear side of the telescopic section frame, and the telescopic section frame and the telescopic frame are pre-tightened by the fasteners passing through said several long holes.
Preferably, the elevation difference driver comprises two sets of transversely-arranged screw thread adjusting mechanisms. The screw thread adjusting mechanism comprises an upper bracket, and a lower threaded seat, and a screw rod, wherein the upper bracket is mounted on the telescopic frame; the lower threaded seat is mounted on the telescopic section frame; and the upper portion of the screw rod and the upper bracket are rotatably connected and the lower portion of the screw rod is provided with external threads matching with the lower threaded seat.
Preferably, the elevation difference driver further comprises a hydraulic motor and a chain. The hydraulic motor drives the rotation of the screw rod of the screw thread adjusting mechanism by the chain, so that the telescopic section frame approaches or departs from the telescopic frame.
The present invention also provides a paving machine comprising the telescopic screed described above.
As compared with the prior art, the telescopic screed and the paving machine thereof of the present invention have the following beneficial effects:
1. The telescopic screed of the present invention takes a multistage sliding pipe as a guiding part, the extended-out portion of the pipe of each stage can be at most about half of its length, namely, the portion that doesn't extend out is at least about half of its length (the inner pipe of the two-stage sliding pipe extends out about half of its length, and the pipe of each stage of a multistage sliding pipe with more than two stages extends out less than half of its length), in this way, the guiding performance will be improved inevitably.
2. Due to the telescopic property of the multistage sliding pipes, the multistage sliding pipes serving as guiding parts have smaller length when in the retracted state, so that the multistage sliding pipes on the left and right sides of the telescopic screed will not intersect with each other or enter into the other's space to cause interference. In this way, even when the telescopic section screed is in the retracted state, the cross slope can still be adjusted, enabling favorable adaptability to various operation condition.
3. The inner side of the telescopic frame supports the multistage sliding pipe while being slidably connected to the outer pipe of the multistage sliding pipe. The outer side of the telescopic frame is connected to the inner pipe. That is, both the inner side and the outer side of the telescopic frame are connected to the multistage sliding pipe, thereby increasing the structural rigidity of the telescopic screed.
4. The telescopic screed realizes transverse telescoping by only adopting two multistage sliding pipes and one telescopic driver, so it is very compact in space, which particularly means a lot to the front telescopic screed (which often requires more compact space).
5. When the telescopic screed telescopes transversely, the lateral positions of the intersecting lines between the cross slope surfaces on both sides and the middle horizontal surface will not change, so no additional control system is necessary.
6. In the telescopic screed provided in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the cross slope framework and the main section screed therebetween, and the telescopic section frame and the telescopic frame therebetween are pre-tightened by fasteners, which increases the structural rigidity of the telescopic screed and further makes the road surface highly flat, achieving favorable road surface paving effect in the practical paving process.
In the drawings:
6—left main section screed frame, 7—right main section screed frame, 8—main section base plate, 9—cross slope framework, 10—pin shaft, 11—arcuate hole, 12—fastener, 13—first hydrocylinder, 14—two-stage sliding pipe, 15—outer pipe, 16—intermediate pipe, 17—inner pipe, 18—telescopic frame, 19—second hydrocylinder, 20—telescopic section frame, 21—long hole, 22—fastener, 23—elevation difference driver, 24—screw thread adjusting mechanism, 25—upper bracket, 26—lower threaded seat, 27—screw rod, 28—hydraulic motor, 29—chain, 30—telescopic section base plate, L—stroke of the two-stage sliding pipe, L1—first stroke, L2—second stroke, M—center plane of the main section screed
To enable those skilled in the art to better understand the technical solution of the present invention, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the specific embodiments.
It should be appreciated that usually a telescopic screed has, at two sides, telescopic section screeds which are substantially symmetrical and transversely telescopic or adjustable with respect to the main section screed, and of course, the telescopic screed can also be provided with the telescopic section screed on only one side.
In the figures, x-axis represents the travelling direction (positive direction indicating Front); y-axis represents the width direction of paving (positive direction indicating Left); z-axis represents the height direction (positive direction indicating Up). In addition, the outer side (inner side) of each part refers to the side far from (near) the center plane M of the main section screed.
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The telescopic section screed comprises: a cross slope framework 9, a cross slope driver, at least two multistage sliding pipes, a telescopic frame 18, a telescopic driver, a telescopic section frame 20, a telescopic section base plate 30 and an elevation difference driver.
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When the elevation difference driver 23 drives the rotation of the screw rod 27 of the screw thread adjusting mechanism 24 by the hydraulic motor 28 and the chain 29, the telescopic section frame 20 moves up and down with respect to the telescopic frame 18. When the external threads at the lower portion of the screw rod 27 and the threaded hole of the matching lower threaded seat 26 of the screw thread adjusting mechanism 24 are right-hand threads, the telescopic section frame 20 moves downward with respect to the telescopic frame 18 if the screw rod 27 rotates counterclockwise (namely the negative direction of z axis from a top view), and the telescopic section frame 20 moves upward with respect to the telescopic frame 18 if the screw rod 27 rotates clockwise (from a top view).
The present invention also discloses a paving machine comprising the screed provided in the above embodiment.
As seen from the structure of the telescopic screed of the present invention and the functions of the specific structure, the telescopic screed of the present invention has the following advantages over the screed in the prior art:
1. The telescopic screed of the present invention takes a multi-stage sliding pipe as a guiding part, and the extended-out portion of the pipe of each stage can be at most about half of its length, namely, the portion that doesn't extend out is at least about half of its length (the inner pipe of the two-stage sliding pipe extends out about half of its length, and the pipe of each stage of a multi-stage sliding pipe with more than two stages extends out less than half of its length), so the guiding performance will be improved inevitably.
2. Due to the telescopic property of the multi-stage sliding pipes, the multi-stage sliding pipes serving as guiding parts have smaller length when in the retracted state, so that the multistage sliding pipes on the left and right sides of the telescopic screed will not intersect with each other or enter into the other's space to cause interference. In this way, even when the telescopic section screed is in the retracted state, the cross slope thereof can still be adjusted, enabling favorable adaptability to various operation condition.
3. The inner side of the telescopic frame 18 supports the multistage sliding pipes while being slidably connected to the outer pipe 15 of the multistage sliding pipe. Moreover, the outer side of the telescopic frame 18 is connected to the inner pipe 17. That is, both the inner side and the outer side of the telescopic frame 18 are connected to the multistage sliding pipes, thereby increasing the structural rigidity of the telescopic screed.
4. The telescopic screed realizes transverse telescoping by only adopting two multi-stage sliding pipes and one telescopic driver at each side, so it is very compact in space, which particularly means a lot to the front telescopic screed (which often requires more compact space).
5. When the telescopic screed telescopes transversely, the lateral positions of the intersecting lines between the cross slope surfaces on both sides and the middle horizontal surface will not change, so no additional control system is necessary.
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201410385319.0 | Aug 2014 | CN | national |
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20160040369 A1 | Feb 2016 | US |