Disclosure of Invention
The utility model aims to provide a sheet metal welding fixture which can be used for conveniently aligning and uniformly clamping a plurality of sheet metals under stress, reducing damage and deformation of external scratches of the sheet metals, meanwhile, the sheet metal welding fixture can be simply adjusted according to the height of the sheet metals, can be used for quickly adjusting and clamping the sheet metals, reducing the condition that a clamping mechanism is loosened or positioned due to long-time processing, can effectively perform welding work, improves the working efficiency, and reduces the probability of certain potential safety hazards, so that the problems in the background art are solved.
In order to achieve the purpose, the utility model provides the following technical scheme: a sheet metal welding fixture comprises a base, wherein the base is of a convex structure, a slide rail is arranged in the middle of the upper end of the base, two groups of clamping mechanisms are connected inside the slide rail in a sliding mode, and the two groups of clamping mechanisms are symmetrical front and back and are in an opposite structural distribution design;
the clamping mechanism comprises movable plates, semicircular clamping pieces, upright frames, supporting rods and clamping frames, wherein the movable plates are L-shaped, the joints of the movable plates are hinged through hinge shafts, the number of the movable plates is two, the two movable plates are movably connected up and down, the joints of the two movable plates are hinged through the hinge shafts, the two movable plates are integrally W-shaped, the joints of the two movable plates are hinged and fixed in the semicircular clamping pieces, the semicircular clamping pieces are fixedly arranged in the middle positions of the left outer surfaces of the upright frames, the upright frames are movably arranged on the inner sides of the two movable plates, the two supporting rods penetrate through the inner parts of the upright frames, the two supporting rods are symmetrical and respectively penetrate through the upper ends and the lower ends of the upright frames, one ends of the supporting rods are slidably connected in annular grooves formed in the upright frames, and the other ends of the supporting rods penetrate through and extend to the upper ends of the upright frames and are hinged with the movable plates, the clamping frames are symmetrically hinged to the right side positions of the two groups of movable plates respectively;
the clamping device comprises a clamping frame, a soft rubber cushion, a supporting plate, a buffer bag, atrapezoidal groove 351 and a torsional spring, wherein the trapezoidal groove is formed in the clamping frame, the trapezoidal groove is in a structural design that the upper part is wide and the lower part is narrow, the positions of the left side and the right side of the outer surface of the lower end of the clamping frame are movably connected with the arc-shaped clamping plate, the arc-shaped clamping plate and the arc-shaped clamping plate are symmetrically designed, one side of the outer surface of the lower end of the clamping frame is connected with the arc-shaped clamping plate through the torsional spring, the soft rubber cushion is fixedly arranged on the inner surface of the arc-shaped clamping plate, the inner surfaces of the two groups of arc-shaped clamping plates are fixedly provided with the supporting spring, the supporting spring is obliquely arranged, the upper ends of the two groups of the supporting springs are fixedly provided with the supporting plate, the supporting plate is in a structural design that the upper part is narrow and the lower part is wide, the supporting plate penetrates through the inside of the trapezoidal groove, the buffer bag is fixedly provided with thetrapezoidal groove 351, and the upper end surface of the buffer bag is fixedly connected with the inner surface of the trapezoidal groove;
the lower extreme the equal fixed mounting in position that the side surface is close to the lower extreme has the drum about the centre gripping frame, and the intermediate position of the lower extreme surface of drum has seted up logical groove, the position movable mounting that the lower extreme surface of drum is close to the rear end has the gag lever post, the gag lever post is the L shape, and the upper end of gag lever post is through pivot movable mounting at the lower extreme surface of drum, and the pivot runs through the inside of gag lever post and drum respectively, and fixed mounting has torsion spring between pivot and the through hole.
Preferably, the support rod is of a T-shaped structural design, first magnetic blocks are embedded in opposite surfaces of the support rod and the support rod, and the first magnetic blocks are magnetically attracted to each other.
Preferably, the rectangular channel has all been seted up to the side near middle position about the upper end surface slide rail of base, and the quantity of rectangular channel is four groups altogether, four groups the equal fixed mounting in inside of rectangular channel has spacing subassembly, and two sets of from beginning to end spacing subassembly is opposite structure design, and spacing subassembly includes first ball, second ball, first ball is adjacent fixed mounting in the inside of rectangular channel with the second ball, and the upper end of first ball and second ball all runs through the upper end position that extends to the rectangular channel, the diameter of second ball is less than the diameter of first ball, and its interval of being separated by 1cm to 3cm between the two, the surface of first ball and second ball is provided with the mat surface.
Preferably, the resisting mechanism comprises a cross rod, a spring set, a resisting ball and a hemispherical sleeve, the cross rod is movably mounted inside the cylinder, one end of the cross rod is fixedly connected with the inner surface of the cylinder through the spring set, the other end of the cross rod penetrates through the cylinder and is movably connected with the resisting ball, the hemispherical sleeve is rotatably connected to the outer portion of the resisting ball, the middle position of the outer surface of one side, away from the resisting ball, of the hemispherical sleeve is in a flat plane design, and a second magnetic block is embedded in the outer surface of one side of the hemispherical sleeve.
Preferably, a groove is formed in the middle of the outer surface of the lower end of the cross rod, a supporting rod is movably connected inside the groove and matched with the inside of the groove, the lower end of the outer surface of the right side of the supporting rod is connected with the inside of the groove through a rotating ball, and the groove and the through groove are vertically parallel and staggered.
Preferably, the supporting ball is made of hard rubber, a sliding block is fixedly mounted in the middle of the outer surface of one side of the supporting ball, and the sliding block is connected to the inner surface of the hemispherical sleeve in a sliding way matched with the inner surface of the hemispherical sleeve in a sliding way.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the beneficial effects that:
1. through the arrangement of the clamping mechanism, the distance between the two groups of clamping frames can be adjusted up and down according to requirements through the matching of the clamping frames and the upper and lower groups of movable plates, so that metal plates with different heights can be clamped, when the metal plates are clamped, the arc-shaped clamping plates, the abutting springs, the abutting plates and the buffer bags are matched for use, the metal plates are clamped in the trapezoidal grooves, when the lower ends of the metal plates abut against the abutting plates, the abutting plates sink and compress the buffer bags until the abutting plates are clamped in the trapezoidal grooves and matched with the trapezoidal grooves, the abutting plates are clamped and stop moving, when the abutting plates move downwards along with the gravity of the metal plates, the abutting plates drag the abutting springs, so that the included angle ends of the two groups of arc-shaped clamping plates are forced to approach inwards and clamp the metal plates, the bottoms of the metal plates are limited, and the scratch of the metal plates in the clamping process can be reduced by the soft rubber pads arranged on the inner surfaces of the arc-shaped clamping plates in contact with the metal plates, the structure facilitates the alignment of a plurality of metal plates and the metal plates to be uniformly stressed and clamped, the scratch damage and the deformation of the outer part of the metal plate are reduced;
2. by arranging the resisting mechanisms and the limiting assemblies to be matched for use, when the left clamping mechanism and the right clamping mechanism approach to the middle, the two groups of resisting mechanisms firstly contact and collide to force the cross rod to push towards the interior of the cylinder, the spring group is compressed, the distance between the two groups of clamping mechanisms is shortened, when the cross rod moves towards the cylinder under the impact force, one end of the resisting rod loses the inner wall of the cylinder to resist and is separated from the groove, the rotating ball rotates, one end of the resisting rod moves downwards and penetrates through the through groove until the resisting rod is clamped in a gap between the first round ball and the second round ball, at the moment, the resisting rod is in an inclined shape, the bottom of the resisting rod is clamped and resisted in the limiting assembly and then is matched with the limiting rod, the clamping mechanisms cannot move forwards and backwards after being limited, when the reverse acting force generated in the welding process is used for resisting the fixed force, the structure reduces the condition that the clamping mechanisms are loosened or positioned, and can effectively carry out the welding work, the working efficiency is improved, and the probability of potential safety hazards is reduced.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 1 to 6, the present invention provides a technical solution:
a sheet metal welding fixture is shown in figures 1 and 4 and comprises a base 1, wherein the base 1 is of a convex structure, a slidingrail 2 is arranged in the middle of the upper end of the base 1, two groups of clampingmechanisms 3 are connected to the inside of the slidingrail 2 in a sliding mode, and the two groups of clampingmechanisms 3 are symmetrical front and back and are in an opposite structural distribution design;
the clamping mechanism 3 comprises a movable plate 31, a semi-circle clamping piece 32, a vertical frame 33, a support rod 34 and a clamping frame 35, wherein the movable plate 31 is L-shaped, the joint of the movable plate 31 is hinged through a hinge shaft, the number of the movable plate 31 is two, the two movable plates 31 are vertically and movably connected, the joint of the two movable plates is hinged through a hinge shaft, the two movable plates 31 are integrally W-shaped, the joint of the two movable plates 31 is hinged and fixed in the semi-circle clamping piece 32, the semi-circle clamping piece 32 is fixedly arranged in the middle of the left outer surface of the vertical frame 33, the vertical frame 33 is movably arranged in the inner sides of the two movable plates 31, two sets of support rods 34 penetrate through the inner part of the vertical frame 33, the two support rods 34 are symmetrical and respectively penetrate through the upper end and the lower end of the vertical frame 33, one end of each support rod 34 is slidably connected in a circular groove 331 formed in the inner part of the vertical frame 33, the other end of the clamping frame penetrates through and extends to the upper end of the vertical frame 33 to be hinged with the movable plates 31, the number of the clamping frames 35 is two, and the clamping frames are symmetrically hinged to the right side positions of the two groups of the movable plates 31 respectively;
the inside of the holding frame 35 is provided with a trapezoidal groove 351, and the trapezoidal groove 351 is designed to have a structure with a wide upper part and a narrow lower part, the left and right sides of the outer surface of the lower end of the clamping frame 35 are movably connected with arc-shaped clamping plates 352, the two are designed symmetrically, one side of the outer surface of the lower end of the clamping frame 35 is connected with the arc-shaped clamping plate 352 through a torsion spring, and the inner surfaces of the arc-shaped clamping plates 352 are fixedly provided with soft rubber pads, the inner surfaces of the two groups of arc-shaped clamping plates 352 are both fixedly provided with abutting springs 353, the abutting springs 353 are arranged in an inclined shape, the upper ends of the two groups of abutting springs 353 are fixedly provided with abutting plates 354, the abutting plates 354 are in a structural design with a narrow upper part and a wide lower part, the abutting plate 354 penetrates through the inside of the trapezoidal groove 351, a buffer bag 355 is fixedly arranged on the outer surface of the upper end of the abutting plate 354, the buffer bag 355 is matched with the trapezoidal groove 351, and the upper end surface of the buffer bag is fixedly glued with the inner surface of the trapezoidal groove 351;
lower extreme the equal fixed mounting in position that the outside surface is close to the lower extreme hasdrum 36 aboutcentre gripping frame 35, and the intermediate position of the lower extreme surface ofdrum 36 has seted up logical groove 361, the position movable mounting that the lower extreme surface ofdrum 36 is close to the rear end hasgag lever post 362,gag lever post 362 is the L shape, and the lower extreme surface atdrum 36 is passed through pivot movable mounting in the upper end ofgag lever post 362, and the pivot runs through the inside ofgag lever post 362 and drum 36 respectively, and fixed mounting has torsion spring between pivot and the through hole.
When the metal plate clamping mechanism works, firstly, two groups of metal plates to be welded are respectively clamped in the two groups of clamping mechanisms 3, when in clamping, the bottom of each metal plate is clamped in the clamping frame 35 at the lower end, because certain gravity exists in the metal plates, when the metal plates are clamped in the trapezoidal grooves 351, the lower ends of the metal plates are abutted against the abutting plates 354, the abutting plates 354 sink and compress the buffer bags 355 until the abutting plates 354 are clamped to the positions matched with the positions in the trapezoidal grooves 351, the abutting plates 354 are clamped and stop moving, when the abutting plates 354 move downwards along with the gravity of the metal plates, the abutting plates 354 pull the abutting springs 353, so that the included angle ends of the two groups of arc-shaped clamping plates 352 are forced to be close to and clamp the metal plates, the bottom of the metal plates is limited, the soft rubber pads arranged on the inner surfaces of the arc-shaped clamping plates 352 in contact with the metal plates can reduce scratches of the metal plates in the clamping process, and when the metal plates are limited, one side to be welded is pushed out to the position of 3-5 cm on one side of the clamping frame 35 initially, then, the position of the upper clamping frame 35 is adjusted according to the overall height, during adjustment, the distance between the two sets of movable plates 31 can be adjusted, the connection between the two sets of movable plates 31 and the connection at the included angle of the movable plates 31 are hinged through a hinge shaft, when the two sets of movable plates 31 need to be elongated, the plate body connecting the movable plates 31 and the clamping frame 35 is directly pushed upwards or downwards, when the angle of the movable plates 31 is enlarged, the plate body of the movable plates 31 is elongated, the upper clamping frame 35 is upward along with the plate body, and the distance between the upper and lower clamping frames 35 is enlarged, so that the higher sheet metal clamping is adapted; on the contrary, when the angle of the movable plate 31 is reduced, the plate body of the movable plate 31 faces downward, the upper end clamping frame 35 faces downward, the distance between the upper and lower groups of clamping frames 35 is shortened, so that the adjustment is convenient, when the clamping frame 35 at the upper end is adjusted to a proper position, the upper end of the metal plate is clamped in the clamping frame 35, then the movable plate 31 is pulled downward, the clamping frame 35 faces downward, the abutting plate 354 contacts and abuts against the metal plate, the abutting plate 354 is forced to abut against and compress the buffer bag 355, meanwhile, the abutting plate 354 pulls the abutting spring 353, so that the included angle ends of the two groups of arc-shaped clamping plates 352 are forced to approach and clamp the metal plate, the bottom of the metal plate is limited, the other group of metal plate is limited in the clamping mechanism 3 according to the above manner, then the two groups of metal plates are respectively pushed towards the middle of the clamping mechanism 3 until the front and rear groups of metal plates are jointed and aligned, and then the metal plates can be welded, the setting up of this structure not only makes things convenient for polylith panel beating to align and even atress centre gripping, reduces the outside fish tail of panel beating and damages and deformation, simultaneously, can carry out simple adjustment according to the panel beating height, can quick adjustment and centre gripping panel beating, treat to finish to the panel beating welding, can upwards promote upper end fly leaf 31 earlier, the angle of fly leaf 31 self is drawn greatly, centre gripping frame 35 and the panel beating separation of upper end, also separate with the panel beating with centre gripping frame 35 of lower extreme with the same mode again, can take out the panel beating that the welding finishes.
As an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3, the supportingrod 34 is designed to be T-shaped, and the firstmagnetic blocks 341 are embedded in the opposite surfaces of the supporting rod and the supporting rod, and the upper and lower sets of the firstmagnetic blocks 341 are magnetically attracted.
During operation, in a normal state, the upper and lower sets ofsupport rods 34 are attracted by the firstmagnetic block 341 so as to support the upper and lower sets ofmovable plates 31, when themovable plates 31 need to be adjusted, thesupport rods 34 move up and down along with the movable plates, if themovable plates 31 are spread, the upper and lower sets ofsupport rods 34 respectively slide along the upper and lower ends of thering grooves 331, and if themovable plates 31 are retracted, the two sets ofsupport rods 34 respectively approach from the upper and lower ends of thering grooves 331 toward the middle until the two sets of support rods are attached to each other, so that the stability of themovable plates 31 during adjustment can be improved in an auxiliary manner, and the situation that the upper and lower sets of clampingframes 35 are horizontally offset is also reduced.
As an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and 5,rectangular grooves 21 are formed in the left and right sides of the outer surface of the upper end of the base 1 near the middle of theslide rail 2, the number of therectangular grooves 21 is four, limit components 4 are fixedly mounted inside the four groups ofrectangular grooves 21, the front and rear groups of limit components 4 are designed in an opposite structure, each limit component 4 includes a first round ball 41 and asecond round ball 42, the first round ball 41 and thesecond round ball 42 are fixedly mounted inside therectangular groove 21 in an adjacent manner, the upper ends of the first round ball 41 and thesecond round ball 42 extend to the upper end of therectangular groove 21, the diameter of thesecond round ball 42 is smaller than that of the first round ball 41, the first round ball 41 and thesecond round ball 42 are spaced apart by a distance of 1cm to 3cm, and rough surfaces are formed on the surfaces of the first round ball 41 and thesecond round ball 42.
The during operation, when welding two sets of panel beating, will keep suitable distance between its two sets of plate bodys, prevent to receive external environment influence and produce slight displacement to another group's panel beating at welded in-process a set of panel beating, consequently, when promotingfixture 3 to the centre respectively from the front and back end, treat to when promoting suitable position,gag lever post 362 supports first ball 41 and causesfixture 3 can't move forward, thereby reducible welded in-process a set of panel beating receives external environment influence and produces the condition of slight displacement to another group's panel beating.
As an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 5 and 6, the resisting mechanism 5 includes a cross bar 51, a spring set 52, a resistingball 53, and a hemispherical sleeve 54, the cross bar 51 is movably installed inside thecylinder 36, and one end of the cross bar 51 is fixedly connected with the inner surface of thecylinder 36 through the spring set 52, the other end of the cross bar 51 penetrates through thecylinder 36 and is movably connected with the resistingball 53, the hemispherical sleeve 54 is rotatably connected to the outside of the resistingball 53, the middle position of the outer surface of one side of the hemispherical sleeve 54 away from the resistingball 53 is in a flat design, and a secondmagnetic block 531 is embedded in the outer surface of one side of the hemispherical sleeve 54.
When the two groups of clampingmechanisms 3 approach to the middle, the two groups of resisting mechanisms 5 contact and collide firstly, and the front and rear opposite hemispherical sleeves 54 are magnetically adsorbed by the secondmagnetic block 531, so that the two groups of clampingmechanisms 3 carry the clamped metal plates to be limited together, and meanwhile, the two groups of metal plates which are stretched out are kept at a proper distance for welding.
As an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 5 and 6, agroove 511 is formed in the middle of the outer surface of the lower end of the cross bar 51, a resistingrod 512 is movably connected inside thegroove 511, the resistingrod 512 is matched with the inside of thegroove 511, the lower end of the outer surface of the right side of the resistingrod 512 is connected with the inside of thegroove 511 through arotating ball 513, and the positions of thegroove 511 and the through groove 361 are vertically parallel and staggered.
When the clamping mechanism 3 is close to the middle, the two groups of resisting mechanisms 5 contact and collide firstly, so that the cross rod 51 is forced to push towards the interior of the cylinder 36, the spring group 52 is compressed, the distance between the two groups of clamping mechanisms 3 is shortened, when the cross rod 51 moves towards the cylinder 36 under the impact force, one end of the resisting rod 512 loses the inner wall of the cylinder 36 to resist and is separated from the groove 511, the rotating ball 513 rotates, one end of the resisting rod 512 moves downwards and penetrates through the through groove 361 until the resisting rod is clamped in a gap between the first round ball 41 and the second round ball 42, at the moment, the resisting rod 512 is inclined, the bottom of the resisting rod is clamped and resisted in the limiting component 4 and is matched with the limiting rod 362, the clamping mechanism 3 cannot move forwards and backwards after being limited, and when the fixed force of reverse acting force on the clamping mechanism is generated in the welding process, the structure reduces the situation that the clamping mechanism 3 is loosened or positioned by long-time processing, the welding operation can be effectively carried out, the working efficiency is improved, and the probability of certain potential safety hazards is reduced.
As an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 6, theball 53 is made of hard rubber, and a slide block 6 is fixedly installed at a middle position of one outer surface of theball 53, and the slide block 6 is slidably connected to an inner surface of the half ball sleeve 54 inside a sliding groove 61 adapted to the inner surface.
When the plate welding device works, when the plate body is welded, the semi-spherical sleeve 54 can be pushed backwards firstly, the abuttingball 53 is compressed, the two groups of semi-spherical sleeves 54 corresponding to each other in the front and the back are separated, then the semi-spherical sleeves 54 are rotated upwards or downwards, the sliding block 6 slides in the sliding groove 61, the straight surface of the semi-spherical sleeve 54 faces upwards or downwards, the two groups of abuttingballs 53 opposite in the front and the back are staggered, the front and the back secondmagnetic blocks 531 lose the mutual attraction, and therefore the front and the back two groups of clampingmechanisms 3 lose the attraction and can be dragged at will.
The working principle is as follows: when the metal plate clamping device works, firstly, two groups of metal plates to be welded are respectively clamped in two groups of clamping mechanisms 3, when in clamping, the bottom of each metal plate is clamped in the clamping frame 35 at the lower end, because certain gravity exists in the metal plates, when the metal plates are clamped in the trapezoidal groove 351, the lower ends of the metal plates abut against the abutting plates 354, the abutting plates 354 sink and compress the buffer bag 355 until the abutting plates 354 are clamped to the positions matched with the inside of the trapezoidal groove 351, the abutting plates 354 are clamped and stop moving, when the abutting plates 354 move downwards along with the gravity of the metal plates, the abutting plates 354 pull the abutting springs 353, so that the included angle ends of the two groups of arc-shaped clamping plates 352 are forced to be close to and clamp the metal plates, the bottom of the metal plates is limited, when the metal plates are preliminarily limited, one side of the metal plate to be welded is pushed out to the position of 3-5 cm on one side of the clamping frame 35, and then, the position of the clamping frame 35 at the upper ends of the metal plates is adjusted according to the whole height, when adjusting, the distance between the two sets of movable plates 31 can be adjusted, the connection between the two sets of movable plates 31 and the connection at the included angle of the movable plates 31 are hinged through the hinge shaft, when the two sets of movable plates 31 need to be lengthened, the plate body connecting the movable plates 31 and the clamping frame 35 is directly pushed upwards or downwards, when the angle of the movable plates 31 is enlarged, the plate body of the movable plates 31 is lengthened, the upper clamping frame 35 is upwards along with the plate body, and the distance between the upper and lower clamping frames 35 is enlarged, so as to adapt to higher sheet metal clamping; on the contrary, when the angle of the movable plate 31 is reduced, the plate body of the movable plate 31 faces downward, the upper end clamping frame 35 faces downward, the distance between the upper and lower groups of clamping frames 35 is shortened, when the upper end clamping frame 35 is adjusted to a proper position, the upper end of the metal plate is clamped in the clamping frame 35, the movable plate 31 is pulled downward, the clamping frame 35 faces downward, the abutting plate 354 contacts and abuts against the metal plate, the abutting plate 354 is forced to abut against the buffer bag 355 and simultaneously the abutting plate 354 pulls the abutting spring 353, so that the included angle ends of the two groups of arc-shaped clamping plates 352 are forced to approach to and clamp the metal plate, the bottom of the metal plate is limited, the other group of metal plate is limited in the clamping mechanism 3 according to the above manner, the two groups of metal plates are limited, the clamping mechanism 3 is pushed towards the middle respectively until the front and rear groups of metal plates are abutted against and aligned, the front and rear opposite hemispherical sleeves 54 are mutually attracted by the second magnetic blocks 531, the two groups of clamping mechanisms 3 are limited together with the clamped sheet metal, the two groups of resisting mechanisms 5 are contacted and collided firstly, so that the cross rod 51 is forced to advance towards the interior of the cylinder 36, the spring group 52 is compressed, the two groups of clamping mechanisms 3 are drawn close, when the cross rod 51 is impacted and moves towards the cylinder 36, one end of the resisting rod 512 loses the inner wall of the cylinder 36 to resist and is separated from the groove 511, the rotating ball 513 rotates, one end of the resisting rod 512 moves downwards and penetrates through the through groove 361 until being clamped in a gap between the first round ball 41 and the second round ball 42, at the moment, the resisting rod 512 is inclined, the bottom of the resisting rod is clamped and resisted in the limiting component 4 and is matched with the limiting rod 362, the clamping mechanisms 3 cannot move forwards and backwards after being limited, so that the welding can be carried out, when the welding of the sheet metal is finished, the upper end movable plate 31 can be pushed upwards, the angle of the movable plate 31 is enlarged, the clamping frame 35 at the upper end is separated from the metal plate, and then the clamping frame 35 at the lower end is also separated from the metal plate in the same way, so that the welded metal plate can be taken out.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the utility model, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.