CN103321915B - High-performance clean water submersible pump - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a kind of water pump, particularly High-performance clean water submersible pump, comprise handle, the pump housing and discharge conection, handle is hinged on the top of the pump housing, the pump housing water outlet connecting end inwall of discharge conection is hinged with the one-way valve this pump housing water outlet connecting end can closed, a side external surface of the pump housing is connected with the button that this one-way valve can be backed down, the supporting foot connecting rod can doing to pump is connected with in the described pump housing, be provided with transmission eccentric mass below described handle to coordinate with the top transmission of above-mentioned supporting foot connecting rod, the described pump housing is also provided with the automatic control switch assembly controlling water pump unlatching by the water level height of pump working or close.The liquid state which solved in the work of traditional clear water submersible pump in conduit pipe can pass back into the pump housing, the technology drawback of operability difference, can effectively avoid the residual liquid when the liquid in deep-well will be drained in conduit pipe to blow back into the advantage of the pump housing.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of water pump, particularly a kind of High-performance clean water submersible pump.
Background technique
Submersible pump is the drainage machinery that a kind of pump housing and motor can be immersed in the water work, and wherein clear water submersible pump is the one in submersible pump, and it is applicable to clean water, the circulation of softened water and supercharging.
Traditional clear water submersible pump is made up of the pump housing, submersible motor (comprising cable), conduit pipe and control switch four major part, and submersible motor is positioned at the pump housing, and conduit pipe is connected with the water transport port of the pump housing.Its work is as follows: before turn on pump, must be full of liquid in the pump housing; Submersible motor impeller High Rotation Speed after turn on pump, liquid wherein rotates together along with blade, under the influence of centrifugal force, fly away from impeller outwards to penetrate, liquid speed in the explosion chamber of the pump housing of injection is slack-off gradually, and pressure increases gradually, then discharges from the conduit pipe be connected to water transport port; Now, blade center place due to liquid be thrown toward around and formed both do not had air there is no the vacuum low-pressure district of liquid, liquid in liquid pool is under the atmospheric effect in face, pond, flow in the pump housing through suction port, liquid is continuously pumped up and continuously flows out from conduit pipe so exactly from liquid pool.
In concrete use, above-mentioned traditional clear water submersible pump has the following disadvantages: 1), when the liquid in place's deep-well will be drained, when not having the liquid continued to enter the pump housing, Liquid Residue in the conduit pipe of traditional clear water submersible pump is known from experience refluence and is entered the pump housing, then flow out from the suction port of the pump housing, cause and the liquid in deep-well cannot be drained; 2), traditional clear water submersible pump is when being placed in bottom deep-well, and the perpendicular distance between the suction port of its pump housing bottom surface and deep-well bottom surface cannot regulate, and that is the water intake velocity of the suction port of pump housing bottom surface cannot realize regulating, and operability is poor; 3), the control switch part of traditional clear water submersible pump cannot by the control having no liquid to realize submersible motor Push And Release in the pump housing, and intelligent control is poor.
Summary of the invention
The object of the invention is to provide a kind of can effectively avoid the residual liquid when the liquid in deep-well will be drained in conduit pipe to blow back into the pump housing to solve above-mentioned the deficiencies in the prior art, the water absorbing rate of pump housing bottom surface suction port can realize the High-performance clean water submersible pump regulating and be combined with automatic water level switch simultaneously.
To achieve these goals, High-performance clean water submersible pump designed by the present invention, comprise handle, the pump housing and the detachable discharge conection being connected to pump housing water outlet, handle is hinged on the top of the pump housing, the pump housing water outlet connecting end inwall of discharge conection is hinged with the one-way valve this pump housing water outlet connecting end can closed, a side external surface of the pump housing is connected with the button that this one-way valve can be backed down, the supporting foot connecting rod can doing to pump is connected with in the described pump housing, and when this supporting foot connecting rod down moves, the supporting foot part of its bottom can exceed pump housing bottom surface, be provided with transmission eccentric mass below described handle to coordinate with the top transmission of above-mentioned supporting foot connecting rod, the described pump housing is also provided with the automatic control switch assembly controlling water pump unlatching by the water level height of pump working or close.
As preferably, described automatic control switch assembly refers in the described pump housing and is also provided with bar shaped diversion cavity, two madial wall positions of this bar shaped diversion cavity are all fixed with first track, above-mentioned two the first tracks are combined with jointly and can comply with the water pump opening switch and water pump closing switch that two the first tracks do to pump, and the position of water pump opening switch can not lower than the position of water pump closing switch, the inwall of above-mentioned bar shaped diversion cavity is also fixed with the second track that two height differ, second track that wherein position is relatively high slidably connects the float of float or the carry magnet coordinated with water pump opening switch, second track that position is relatively low slidably connects the float of float or the carry magnet coordinated with water pump closing switch.In this preferred version, the structure of automatic control switch assembly is simple, and working stability is high.
The conveniently dismounting of supporting foot connecting rod on the pump housing, assembling, in the present invention provide on the supporting foot connecting rod of High-performance clean water submersible pump and at least offer two waist shaped holes, run through in above-mentioned waist shaped hole and have fastening piece, and the termination of fastening piece is fixed on the inwall of the pump housing.
The High-performance clean water submersible pump that the present invention obtains, on the pump housing water outlet connecting end inwall of discharge conection, the one-way valve this pump housing water outlet connecting end can closed is hinged with in its structure, liquid continues to enter the pump housing under the effect of pressure reduction at work, after being full of liquid in the pump housing, above-mentioned one-way valve can be backed down by liquid thus complete the water delivery of clear water submersible pump, when liquid in deep-well will be drained, do not have continue liquid enter the pump housing cause water power of backing down disappear time, the pump housing water outlet connecting end of discharge conection will be closed by above-mentioned one-way valve under Gravitative Loads, thus avoid residual liquid refluence in conduit pipe to enter the pump housing, then flow out from the suction port of the pump housing, also have after clear water submersible pump takes out from deep-well, in order to the residual liquid in conduit pipe conveniently can be discharged, a side external surface of the pump housing is connected with the button that this one-way valve can be backed down, the opposite side outer surface of simultaneously High-performance clean water submersible pump provided by the present invention is connected with the supporting foot connecting rod can doing to pump, clear water submersible pump be placed in work bottom deep-well time, perpendicular distance between the suction port of its pump housing bottom surface and deep-well bottom surface can realize regulating, and that is the water intake velocity of the suction port of pump housing bottom surface can realize regulating, arranging of last water level switch can promote operative intelligence of the present invention.
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Fig. 1 be embodiment 1 structural representation when providing that in High-performance clean water submersible pump, one-way valve closes;
Fig. 2 is the partial enlarged drawing at A place in Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 be embodiment 1 structural representation when providing that in High-performance clean water submersible pump, one-way valve is backed down by button;
Fig. 4 is the left view of the band partial cutaway of Fig. 1;
Fig. 5 is after in Fig. 4, supporting foot connecting rod down moves, and the supporting foot part of its bottom exceeds structural representation during pump housing bottom surface;
Fig. 6 be embodiment 1 the structural representation of float when bottom in High-performance clean water submersible pump is provided;
Fig. 7 be embodiment 1 provide float in High-performance clean water submersible pump be positioned at top, and with structural representation during automatic control switch component touch;
Fig. 8 be embodiment 2 a kind of structural representation of High-performance clean water submersible pump is provided;
Fig. 9 be embodiment 2 the another kind of structural representation of High-performance clean water submersible pump is provided;
Figure 10 be embodiment 2 the third structural representation of High-performance clean water submersible pump is provided.
In figure: the pump housing 1, pump housing water outlet 1-1, bar shaped diversion cavity 1-2, discharge conection 2, pump housing water outlet connecting end 2-1, handle 3, transmission eccentric mass 3-1, button 4, one-way valve 5, supporting foot connecting rod 6, supporting foot part 6-1, waist-shaped hole 7, fastening piece 8, float 9, magnet 10, automatic control switch assembly 11, first track 12, water pump opening switch 13, water pump closing switch 14, second track 15.
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Below in conjunction with drawings and Examples, the present invention is further described.
Embodiment 1:
As Fig. 1, Fig. 3, shown in Fig. 4 and Fig. 5, the High-performance clean water submersible pump that the present embodiment provides, comprise handle 3, the pump housing 1 and be threaded in the discharge conection 2 of pump housing water outlet 1-1, handle 3 is hinged on the top of the pump housing 1, as shown in Figure 2, the pump housing water outlet connecting end 2-1 inwall of discharge conection 2 is hinged with the one-way valve 5 this pump housing water outlet connecting end 2-1 can closed, a side external surface of the pump housing 1 is connected with the button 4 that this one-way valve 5 can be backed down, described supporting foot connecting rod 6 offers three waist shaped holes 7, run through in each waist shaped hole 7 and have fastening piece 8, and the termination of fastening piece 8 is fixed on the inwall of the pump housing 1, said structure makes supporting foot connecting rod 6 can pump on the inwall of the pump housing 1, and when this supporting foot connecting rod 6 down moves, the supporting foot part 6-1 of its bottom can exceed the pump housing 1 bottom surface, be provided with transmission eccentric mass 3-1 below described handle 3 to coordinate with the top transmission of above-mentioned supporting foot connecting rod 6, as shown in Figure 6 and Figure 7, bar shaped diversion cavity 1-2 is provided with in the described pump housing 1, it is identical that opening direction and the suction port of the pump housing 1 bottom surface of this bar shaped diversion cavity 1-2 offer direction, automatic control switch assembly 11 is fixed with above this bar shaped diversion cavity 1-2, one end of described automatic control switch assembly 11 is drawn outside the pump housing 1, the float 9 of end face with magnet 10 is also provided with in this bar shaped diversion cavity 1-2.
Embodiment 2:
As shown in Figure 8, the High-performance clean water submersible pump that the present embodiment provides, its general structure is consistent with embodiment 1, but the assembly of automatic control switch described in the present embodiment 11 refers in the described pump housing 1 and is also provided with bar shaped diversion cavity 1-2, the two madial wall positions of this bar shaped diversion cavity 1-2 are all fixed with first track 12, above-mentioned two the first tracks 12 are combined with jointly and can comply with the water pump opening switch 13 and water pump closing switch 14 that two the first tracks 12 do to pump, and the position of water pump opening switch 13 can not lower than the position of water pump closing switch 14, the inwall of above-mentioned bar shaped diversion cavity 1-2 is also fixed with the second track 15 that two height differ, second track 15 that wherein position is relatively high slidably connects the float 9 coordinated with water pump opening switch 13, second track 15 that position is relatively low slidably connects the float 9 coordinated with water pump closing switch 14, water pump opening switch 13 in above-mentioned and water pump closing switch 14 are directly triggered by ball float.The structure of the automatic control switch assembly 11 in above-described embodiment is simple, and working stability is high.
As shown in Figure 10, in above-mentioned in reality is implemented, the float 9 that coordinates with water pump opening switch 13 and the float 9 that coordinates with water pump closing switch 14 can be same, and the slip between the second track 15 that two height are inconsistent of this float 9.
As shown in Figure 9, in concrete use, above-mentioned float 9 also can be the float 9 of carry magnet 10 certainly, and at this moment water pump opening switch 13 and water pump closing switch 14 are triggered by the magnetic force of the magnet 10 on ball float 9.
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1. a High-performance clean water submersible pump, comprise handle (3), the pump housing (1) and the detachable discharge conection (2) being connected to pump housing water outlet (1-1), handle (3) is hinged on the top of the pump housing (1), it is characterized in that: being hinged with on pump housing water outlet connecting end (2-1) inwall of discharge conection (2) can by one-way valve (5) closed for this pump housing water outlet connecting end (2-1), a side external surface of the pump housing (1) is connected with the button (4) that this one-way valve (5) can be backed down, the supporting foot connecting rod (6) can doing to pump is connected with in the described pump housing (1), and when this supporting foot connecting rod (6) down moves, the supporting foot part (6-1) of its bottom can exceed the pump housing (1) bottom surface, described handle (3) below is provided with transmission eccentric mass (3-1) and coordinates with the top transmission of above-mentioned supporting foot connecting rod (6), the described pump housing (1) is also provided with the automatic control switch assembly (11) controlling water pump unlatching by the water level height of pump working or close.
2. High-performance clean water submersible pump according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: described automatic control switch assembly refers in the described pump housing (1) and is also provided with bar shaped diversion cavity (1-2), two madial wall positions of this bar shaped diversion cavity (1-2) are all fixed with first track (12), above-mentioned two the first tracks (12) are combined with jointly and can comply with the water pump opening switch (13) and water pump closing switch (14) that two the first tracks (12) work pumps, and the position of water pump opening switch (13) can not lower than the position of water pump closing switch (14), the inwall of above-mentioned bar shaped diversion cavity (1-2) is also fixed with the second track (15) that two height differ, second track (15) that wherein position is relatively high slidably connects the float (9) of float (9) or the carry magnet (10) coordinated with water pump opening switch (13), second track (15) that position is relatively low slidably connects the float (9) of float (9) or the carry magnet (10) coordinated with water pump closing switch (14).
3. High-performance clean water submersible pump according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: described supporting foot connecting rod (6) at least offers two waist shaped holes (7), run through in above-mentioned waist shaped hole (7) and have fastening piece (8), and the termination of fastening piece (8) is fixed on the pump housing (1) outer surface.
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