CN105982763B - A kind of medicine feed device - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a kind of medicine feed device, including medicine-chest, the seat cylinder being connected with medicine-chest, the injection cylinder being connected with seat cylinder and the medicine feeding tube for perfusion, cavity for mixing drugs is provided with the medicine-chest, medicine-chest is provided with feed pipe, for medicine seat, feed pipe is provided with feed flow check valve, feed flow check valve can be by the external world to cavity for mixing drugs by direction, injection cylinder includes cylinder body, with cylinder body is slidingly sealed cooperation pushes away liquid piston and with pushing away the piston rod that liquid piston is connected, cylinder body has cylinder liquid outlet, cylinder body is provided with transition conduit, transition conduit one end connects cylinder liquid outlet, the transition conduit other end connects the entrance point of medicine feeding tube, cavity for mixing drugs is connected by supply pipe with transition conduit, supply pipe is provided with supply check valve, supply check valve can be by supply pipe to transition conduit by direction.The beneficial effects of the invention are as follows：It is rational in infrastructure, can effectively to animal carry out liquid preparation feeding, medicine mixing uniformity is good, simple operation, medicine feed efficiency high.
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Technical field
The invention belongs to animal perfusion technical field, more particularly to a kind of medicine feed device.
Background technology
Now in society, animal husbandry, pet industry etc. belong to main flow industry.Regardless of whether being in animal-breeding, pet doctor
The various aspects such as treatment, are required for carrying out medicine feed to animal.If solid pill, generally carried out by the way of being mixed in feed
Medicine feed, and if liquid preparation (be typically medicinal powder is combined with water or nutrient solution after mixed liquor), except inject in addition to, it is necessary to spy
Device is determined to carry out medicine feed to animal.And at present when carrying out liquid preparation feeding to animal, in medicine mixed effect, medicine feed just
In terms of victory, still it has been short of.
The content of the invention
The present invention is of the prior art not enough there is provided one kind is rational in infrastructure in order to overcome, and effectively animal can be carried out
The feeding of liquid preparation, medicine mixing uniformity is good, medicine will not be revealed, simple operation, the medicine feed device of medicine feed efficiency high.
To achieve these goals, the present invention uses following technical scheme：
A kind of medicine feed device, including medicine-chest, the seat cylinder being connected with medicine-chest, the injection cylinder that tin is connected with seat and for perfusion
Cavity for mixing drugs is provided with medicine feeding tube, the medicine-chest, medicine-chest is connected and is used for provided with the feed pipe connected with cavity for mixing drugs, with cavity for mixing drugs
The confession medicine seat of medicine bottle is connected, feed pipe is provided with feed flow check valve, and feed flow check valve can be by the external world to mixed medicine by direction
Chamber, injection cylinder includes cylinder body, be slidingly sealed with cylinder body cooperation push away liquid piston and with pushing away the piston rod that liquid piston is connected, cylinder body has
There is cylinder liquid outlet, cylinder body is provided with transition conduit, and transition conduit one end connection cylinder liquid outlet, the transition conduit other end connects entering for medicine feeding tube
Mouth end, cavity for mixing drugs is connected by supply pipe with transition conduit, and supply pipe is provided with supply check valve, and that supplies check valve can pass through side
To for by supply pipe to transition conduit.
Preferably, also including three-way diverter valve, three-way diverter valve includes valve seat, goes out liquid side for switching three-way reversal valve
To valve element, a liquid inlet channel and two tapping channels are provided with valve seat, transition conduit passes sequentially through liquid inlet channel, a tapping channel connection
To medicine feeding tube, cavity for mixing drugs is connected by return duct with another tapping channel, and return duct is provided with backflow check valve, and flow back check valve
Can by direction be by return duct to cavity for mixing drugs.
Preferably, the valve seat, which is provided with, is used for the rotary switch with movable valve plug switching position.
Preferably, the port of export of the medicine feeding tube is provided with perfusion head, perfusion head has road and at least three fillings in perfusion
Medicine is exported, and each perfusion outlet is connected with road in perfusion.
Preferably, the drug angular separation between at least two perfusion outlets is more than 60 degree.
Preferably, the medicine feeding tube includes straight length, broken pipe section, straight length and broken pipe section are orthogonal, straight length
Entrance point is the entrance point of medicine feeding tube, and the port of export of straight length is connected with the entrance point of broken pipe section, the port of export of broken pipe section and filling
Yao Nei roads are connected.
Preferably, being provided with barrel chamber in the seat cylinder, piston rod is stretched into barrel chamber, and seat cylinder is provided with handle, and handle includes
Fixed handle set bar, the handle push rod for driving piston rod movement and the reset for allowing handle push rod to reset with seat cylinder
Spring.
Preferably, the handle set bar upper end is fixed with handle set, handle set bar lower end is hinged with handle push rod lower end,
Piston rod is provided with the opening connected with barrel chamber provided with two limit bodies, seat cylinder bottom, and handle set bar upper end passes through opening and place
Between two limit bodies, back-moving spring is a torsion spring.
Preferably, the handle push rod is provided with limit base, handle set bar is between handle push rod and cylinder body, seat cylinder
Axis is parallel with pushing away liquid piston axis, and centring ring is arranged with seat cylinder, between centring ring and seat cylinder screw thread coordinate and centring ring with
Seat cylinder is coaxial, and limit base contacts an end face of centring ring.
The beneficial effects of the invention are as follows：It is rational in infrastructure, the feeding of liquid preparation can be effectively carried out to animal, medicine mixing is equal
Even property is good, medicine will not be revealed, simple operation, medicine feed efficiency high.
Brief description of the drawings
Fig. 1 is the structural representation of the present invention；
Fig. 2 is the enlarged drawing at A in Fig. 1；
Fig. 3 is the enlarged drawing at B in Fig. 1；
Fig. 4 is the structural representation at one section of seat cylinder of the present invention；
Fig. 5 is the structural representation at inventive piston bar.
In figure：Medicine-chest 1, feed pipe 11, for medicine seat 12, medicine bottle 121, seat cylinder 2, barrel chamber 21, centring ring 22, injection cylinder 3, cylinder
Body 31, transition conduit 31a, piston rod 32, limit body 321, medicine feeding tube 4, straight length 41, broken pipe section 42, perfusion first 43, perfusion outlet
43a, supply pipe 5, three-way diverter valve 6, valve seat 61, rotary switch 62, handle 7, handle set bar 71, handle push rod 72, limit base
721st, back-moving spring 73, return duct 8.
Embodiment
The present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and detailed description.
In embodiment as shown in Figures 1 to 5, a kind of medicine feed device, including medicine-chest 1, be connected with medicine-chest seat cylinder 2, with
Cavity for mixing drugs is provided with the injection cylinder 3 of seat cylinder connection and the medicine feeding tube 4 for perfusion, the medicine-chest, medicine-chest is provided with and cavity for mixing drugs
The feed pipe 11 of connection, connect with cavity for mixing drugs and for being connected the confession medicine seat 12 of medicine bottle, feed pipe is provided with feed flow check valve, supplies
Liquid check valve can be that, by the external world to cavity for mixing drugs, injection cylinder includes cylinder body 31, pushing away for cooperation is slidingly sealed with cylinder body by direction
Liquid piston and with pushing away the piston rod 32 that liquid piston is connected, cylinder body has cylinder liquid outlet, and cylinder body is provided with transition conduit 31a, transition conduit
One end connects cylinder liquid outlet, and the transition conduit other end connects the entrance point of medicine feeding tube, and cavity for mixing drugs is connected by supply pipe 5 and transition conduit
Logical, supply pipe is provided with supply check valve, and supply check valve can be by supply pipe to transition conduit by direction.Also include threeway
Reversal valve 6, three-way diverter valve includes valve seat 61, goes out to be provided with one in the valve element in liquid direction, valve seat for switching three-way reversal valve
Liquid inlet channel and two tapping channels, transition conduit pass sequentially through liquid inlet channel, a tapping channel and are communicated to medicine feeding tube, and cavity for mixing drugs passes through backflow
Pipe 8 is connected with another tapping channel, and return duct is provided with backflow check valve, and backflow check valve can be by return duct by direction
To cavity for mixing drugs, the valve seat, which is provided with, is used for the rotary switch 62 with movable valve plug switching position.Medicinal powder is mounted in medicine bottle 121, is led to
Cross and enter cavity for mixing drugs for medicine seat, clear water or nutrient solution etc. can be by syringe, feed pipes to being conveyed in cavity for mixing drugs.Various medicines
Agent (liquid and medicinal powder) can be mixed in cavity for mixing drugs.When three-way diverter valve connects transition conduit and medicine feeding tube, transition conduit is blocked
During with return duct, if pushing away liquid piston (piston rod), medicament smoothly can be sent out from cylinder body, transition conduit, medicine feeding tube, so as to
Animal is fed.And when pushing away liquid piston reset, due to being that medicament can pass through supply pipe, mistake in negative pressure, cavity for mixing drugs in cylinder body
Cross pipe and enter cylinder body.When turning knob switch switching spool position, transition conduit is set to be blocked with medicine feeding tube, transition conduit connects with return duct
When logical, if promoting repeatedly, reset pushes away liquid piston (drive and realize by piston rod), when promoting piston rod, pushes away liquid piston by medicine
Agent is pushed into return duct and returns to hybrid chamber, and when reset pushes away liquid piston, then medicament is entered again by supply pipe, transition conduit in cavity for mixing drugs
Enter cylinder body, move in circles achievable medicinal powder and liquid (clear water, nutrient solution etc.) are sufficiently mixed.In addition, medicine feeding tube can be set
Into the form being detachably connected, to be substituted for injection needle occasions such as (be applied to) vaccinating.And supply in medicine seat that two can be set
It is individual to puncture syringe needle (two puncture syringe needle respectively one pipeline of connection, and one of pipeline connection return duct, the connection of another pipeline are supplied
Ying Guan, punctures syringe needle and directly punctures the sealing of medicine bottle to realize and the connection in medicine bottle).The structure of this programme is using totally enclosed
Form, whether piston, pipeline where each check valve, the problem of all without medicine leakage occur.
The port of export of the medicine feeding tube is provided with perfusion first 43, and perfusion head has road and at least three perfusions outlet in perfusion
43a, each perfusion outlet is connected with road in perfusion, and the drug angular separation between at least two perfusion outlets is more than 60 degree.
During perfusion, liquid preparation can be exported from each perfusion to be sprayed, and the single intraoral skin of perfusion outlet contact animal can be avoided easily to be blocked
The problems such as drug is not smooth caused by plug.
The medicine feeding tube includes straight length 41, broken pipe section 42, straight length and orthogonal, the entrance point of straight length of broken pipe section
For the entrance point of medicine feeding tube, the port of export of straight length is connected with the entrance point of broken pipe section, road in the port of export of broken pipe section and perfusion
Connection.The convenient of operation can be improved by setting a broken pipe section preferably to stretch into (such as ox, sheep) in the mouth of some particular animals
Property and perfusion effect.
Barrel chamber 21 is provided with the seat cylinder, piston rod is stretched into barrel chamber, seat cylinder is provided with handle 7, handle includes and seat cylinder
Fixed handle set bar 71, the handle push rod 72 for driving piston rod movement and the reset bullet for allowing handle push rod to reset
Spring 73.The handle set bar upper end is fixed with handle set, and handle set bar lower end is hinged with handle push rod lower end, and piston rod is provided with
Two limit bodies 321, seat cylinder bottom is provided with the opening that connect with barrel chamber, handle set bar upper end pass through opening and be in two it is spacing
Between body, back-moving spring is a torsion spring.It can be promoted using handle to pushing away liquid piston, it is necessary to when promoting liquid piston, to
Before press handle push rod, handle push rod upper end can contact a limit body in front and push the movement of liquid piston rod, from
And drive and push away the movement of liquid piston, after letting go, in the presence of torsion spring, handle push rod resets, and handle push rod upper end can contact rear
A limit body and moved with piston rod, push away liquid piston reset so as to drive.
The handle push rod is provided with limit base 721, and handle set bar is between handle push rod and cylinder body, seat cylinder axis with
Push away liquid piston axis parallel, centring ring 22 is arranged with seat cylinder, screw thread coordinates and centring ring and seat cylinder between centring ring and seat cylinder
Coaxially, limit base contacts an end face of centring ring.When handle push rod resets, limit base can touch centring ring, i.e. as long as fixed
Position circle position is fixed, then handle push rod maximum can forward travel distance and maximum can retract distance (reset distance) be all it is certain,
This is advantageous for controlling to push away the dose that liquid piston is extruded every time, when needing regulation single maximum to extrude dose size, Ke Yixuan
Dynamic centring ring, moves axially centring ring, consequently, it is possible to which the displacement of limit base changes, i.e. handle push rod maximum can
Forward travel distance and the maximum distance that can retract are changed, and are achieved that single maximum extrudes the regulation of dose.
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1. a kind of medicine feed device, it is characterized in that, including medicine-chest, the seat cylinder being connected with medicine-chest, the injection cylinder that is connected with seat tin and use
In being provided with cavity for mixing drugs in the medicine feeding tube of perfusion, the medicine-chest, medicine-chest is provided with the feed pipe connected with cavity for mixing drugs and cavity for mixing drugs connects
Lead to and be used for the confession medicine seat for connecting medicine bottle, feed pipe is provided with feed flow check valve, and feed flow check valve can be by outer by direction
Boundary to cavity for mixing drugs, injection cylinder includes cylinder body, be slidingly sealed cooperation with cylinder body push away liquid piston and with pushing away the piston that liquid piston is connected
Bar, cylinder body has cylinder liquid outlet, and cylinder body is provided with transition conduit, transition conduit one end connection cylinder liquid outlet, the connection of the transition conduit other end
The entrance point of medicine feeding tube, cavity for mixing drugs is connected by supply pipe with transition conduit, and supply pipe supplies check valve provided with supply check valve
Can be that by supply pipe to transition conduit, the port of export of the medicine feeding tube is provided with perfusion head, and perfusion head has in perfusion by direction
Road and at least three perfusions outlet, each perfusion outlet are connected with road in perfusion, the drug between at least two perfusion outlets
Angular separation is more than 60 degree.
2. a kind of medicine feed device according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, also including three-way diverter valve, three-way diverter valve bag
Include valve seat, go out the valve element in liquid direction for switching three-way reversal valve, a liquid inlet channel and two tapping channels, transition are provided with valve seat
Pipe passes sequentially through liquid inlet channel, a tapping channel and is communicated to medicine feeding tube, and cavity for mixing drugs is connected by return duct with another tapping channel, returns
Flow tube is provided with backflow check valve, and backflow check valve can be by return duct to cavity for mixing drugs by direction.
3. a kind of medicine feed device according to claim 2, it is characterized in that, the valve seat, which is provided with, is used for band movable valve plug switching
The rotary switch of position.
4. a kind of medicine feed device according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, the medicine feeding tube includes straight length, broken pipe section, directly
Pipeline section and broken pipe section are orthogonal, and the entrance point of straight length is the entrance point of medicine feeding tube, the port of export and the broken pipe section of straight length
Entrance point is connected, and the port of export of broken pipe section is connected with road in perfusion.
5. a kind of medicine feed device according to claim 1 or 2 or 3, it is characterized in that, it is provided with barrel chamber, piston in the seat cylinder
Bar is stretched into barrel chamber, and seat cylinder is provided with handle, and handle includes the handle set bar fixed with seat cylinder, for driving what piston rod was moved
Handle push rod and the back-moving spring for allowing handle push rod to reset.
6. a kind of medicine feed device according to claim 5, it is characterized in that, the handle set bar upper end is fixed with handle set,
Handle set bar lower end is hinged with handle push rod lower end, and piston rod is provided with two limit bodies, and seat cylinder bottom is provided with to be connected with barrel chamber
Opening, handle set bar upper end is through opening and is in two limit bodies, back-moving spring be a torsion spring.
7. a kind of medicine feed device according to claim 5, it is characterized in that, the handle push rod is provided with limit base, handle
Seat bar is between handle push rod and cylinder body, and seat cylinder axis is parallel with pushing away liquid piston axis, is arranged with centring ring on seat cylinder, is positioned
Screw thread coordinates between circle and seat cylinder and centring ring and seat cylinder are coaxial, and limit base contacts an end face of centring ring.
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