CN1036910C

CN1036910C - Reel storage unit

Info

Publication number: CN1036910C
Application number: CN93106235A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 菲奥伦佐·德拉格蒂
Original assignee: GD SpA
Current assignee: GD SpA
Priority date: 1992-05-26
Filing date: 1993-05-26
Publication date: 1998-01-07
Anticipated expiration: 2013-05-26
Also published as: GB9310784D0; GB2267281A; IT1257812B; CN1085182A; DE4317562C2; ITBO920212A0; DE4317562A1; ITBO920212A1; GB2267281B

Abstract

A storage unit wherein a horizontal row of reels arranged on edge is supported on an arm extending through the reels in the row and movable between a position wherein the reels are loaded, and an operating position wherein the free end of the arm is positioned facing a reel pickup member (40); the arm presenting a conveyor belt extending through the reels so as to support the reels coaxial with one another, and feed them to the free end of the arm.

Description

Reel storage unit

The present invention relates to a kind of reel storage unit.

The present invention is specially adapted to deposit the horizontal reel made from strip material, these reels are erect side by side, and axis separately is level substantially, and extract head by one and extract, this extracts headband has one to extract parts, and these parts are designed to be meshed with that reel core that is positioned at above-mentioned reel formation one end securely.

In known the above-mentioned type storing unit, reel is placed in the conveying trough usually, and the base plate of this groove limits with a belt conveyor, and described belt conveyor is used to support the edge of reel, and reel is sent to the mouth of storing unit continuously and extracts head.

Because reel, the dish core of extraction parts and reel can not remain coaxial, so with regard to the extraction of extracting head, there is serious problem in the arrangement mode of this reel.Although generally speaking; reel is similar each other; but in fact reel may have different slightly diameters; and, owing to be that " setting " places, so; above-mentioned reel can produce radial deformation; thereby can cause the size of randomness unstable usually, and, the phenomenon of reel and reel, reel and the extraction parts skew heart caused.

In order to overcome because of reel departs from the given defective that fixed axis produced, common way is to use and has the extraction head that parts are extracted in taper.Though this way is very effective, it causes the nonvolatil radial deformation of reel dish core sometimes, like this, just is difficult to the above-mentioned reel of unwinding.

An object of the present invention is to provide a kind of simple, the reel storage unit that cost is cheap relatively, this device can overcome above-mentioned defective.

According to the present invention, a kind of storing unit that is used for reel is provided, said reel has tubular center's dish core separately, and erects side by side, lines up a formation basically; Above-mentioned storing unit comprises: a storage compartment, this storehouse are used for placing above-mentioned reel formation; A mouth; Carrying and conveyer, this device is used for carrying above-mentioned reel formation, and the reel in this formation is sent to above-mentioned mouth continuously; Described storing unit is characterised in that: above-mentioned carrying and conveyer comprise forwarder, and this forwarder is meshed with said dish core, and have one with contacted transmissions of the inside face of above-mentioned dish core section; Bidirectional driving apparatus, this device are used for above-mentioned removable transmission section is sent to described mouth; Above-mentioned transmission section is arranged essentially parallel to a given horizontal axis.

According to a most preferred embodiment of above-mentioned storing unit, said carrying and conveyer comprise: one is parallel to the armed lever of described axis; One forwarder, it comprises a power wheel and a belt conveyor, and described power wheel is supported on the described armed lever and can rotates, and belt conveyor is then around above-mentioned power wheel.

Indefiniteness embodiment of the present invention is described below with reference to accompanying drawings by way of example, in the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is the perspective cut-away schematic view of a use machine, has for clarity sake omitted subelement, and described machine has been equipped according to storing unit of the present invention;

Fig. 2 be among Fig. 1 the storing unit details the amplification sectional side elevation;

Fig. 3 is the amplification profile along III-III line among Fig. 2.

In Fig. 1, the machine of one group of reel 2 is just being handled in label 1 expression one, and described reel includes one by rolling up the band 3 that laminate materials is made, and this band is wrapped on the cylindrical center dish core 4 of a tubulose.

Shown in fully schematically example in, machine 1 is one to be used to produce and/or the cigarette handler of rolling cigarette.

Machine 1 comprises a storing unit 5, and this device comprises: storage compartment 6, this storehouse are used to receive a certain amount of reel 2; And a device 7, this device is used for making storage compartment 6 mobile between operating position (shown in solid line among Fig. 1) and " loaded " position (as shown in phantom in Figure 1).

Device 7 comprises: the ground way 8 with axis 9; An and slide 10 that slides along slideway 8, this slide is by being supported in motor 12 on the slide 10 reel extracting position 11 that slides to or slip away, and having an output gear (not shown), this gear is nibbled in a known way-is closed in a guide rail (not shown) along slideway 8 extensions.

Storage compartment 6 comprises an armed lever 13, this armed lever imbeds the dish core 4 of reel 2, and fuse with mode and the supporting member 14 that protrudes, described supporting member then is the part of device 7, and be connected with sleeve 15 in rotatable mode, above-mentioned sleeve then fuses with described slide 10, thereby makes above-mentioned supporting member to rotate around vertical pivots 16 with respect to slide 10.Supporting member 14 is because of being installed in motor 16 on the sleeve 15 ' rotate around pivot 16, thereby make supporting member 14 between a primary importance and the second place (as shown in phantom in Figure 1), rotate, on primary importance, the longitudinal axis 17 of armed lever 13 just coincides with the machine axis 18 of fixing level, this machine axis be parallel to pass extracting position 11 and with the perpendicular axle 9 of axle 16; On the second place, the axle 17 of armed lever 13 is perpendicular to axle 18.

As shown in Figures 2 and 3, armed lever 13 is limited by an elongated C-type tubular base 19, the concave surface of this tubular base up, and this armed lever is carrying horizontal reel 2 formations 21 coaxial with the longitudinal axis 17 by means of forwarder 20.

When axle 17 coincided with axle 18, forwarder 20 was used for reel 2 is sent to extracting position 11 continuously, and this forwarder comprises a belt conveyor 22 on two track adjusting wheels 23 and 24, and first track adjusting wheel is driven by motor 26 substeps.Track adjusting wheel 23 and 24 is installed in separately the rotating shaft 25, and these rotating shafts then are installed on the armed lever 13 in rotating mode, and all vertical with the plane at Fig. 2 place with axis 17.Track adjusting wheel 23 and 24 comprises that a central cylindrical shape part 27 and two sides are frustoconical part 28 substantially, above-mentioned each frustoconical part laterally limits by 29 of convex surfaces, and this convex surface then all has identical radius of curvature with the inside face 30 of dish core 4.Track adjusting wheel 23 and 24 is divided into belt conveyor 22 and transmits section 31 and backhaul section 33, transmits section 31 and extends above base 19 and have lateral parts 32 round part 28, and lateral parts 32 then contacts with the surface 30 of coiling core 4; Backhaul section 33 is base 19 inner extensions.

With reference to Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, forwarder 20 also comprises a long slab 34, and this long slab and base 19 are linked as one, and extends between track adjusting wheel 23 and 24, and parallel with axle 17, thereby has sealed base 19.Long slab 34 is externally limited by a convex surface 35, and this curved surface to be extending with the tangent mode of band section 31 negative cambers 36, and has: a smooth middle longitudinal component 37 that aligns with middle bodies 27 track adjusting wheel 23 and 24; And the sidepiece longitudinal component 38 of two protrusions, the appropriate section 28 of this sidepiece and track adjusting wheel 23 and 24 aligns, and identical radius of curvature is arranged with it.

As shown in Figure 1, machine 1 comprises a kind of known extraction 39, and this is used for extracting continuously the reel 2 that is sent to extracting position 11; And described extraction pedestal comprises the axle 41 that cylindrical shape extraction parts 40, these parts have and axle 18 parallels.

Extract 39 and be supported on the handling device 42, this device comprises: one with the perpendicular ground way 43 of slideway 8; And slide 44, this slide 44 is installed on the slideway 43 in mode in axial sliding, and by a motor 45 that is installed on the slide 44, extracting position 11 slides to or slips away, and, described slide also has an output gear (not shown), and this gear engages with 43 one-tenth single-piece guide rails of slideway (not shown) with one in a known way.Device 42 also comprises a pole 46 of extending along the vertical substantially longitudinal axis 47, is installed with on this pole top to extract 39, is then connecting one and slide 44 all-in-one-piece sleeves 48 in rotatable mode in this pole bottom.Pole 46 is rotated around axle 47 relative to slide 44 with sleeve 48 all-in-one-piece motors 49 by one.

The operational process of storing unit 5 below will be described, this operational process is from following state: slide 10 retreats and leaves extracting position 11 (Fig. 1); Armed lever 13 transfers to and axle 9 perpendicular " loaded " position (as shown in phantom in Figure 1); Storage compartment 6 is empty; And extracting 39 places to extract axis 41 and axle 18 is coincided.

Under above-mentioned state, motor 26 turns round so that the transmission section 31 on the belt conveyor 22 is progressively reversed to supporting member 14, and reel 2 formations 21 are loaded on the armed lever 13; Motor 16 ' and motor 12 running so that earlier armed lever 13 is placed the operating position place coaxial with axle 18, armed lever is moved forward up to its free end arrives on the extracting position 11.At this moment, motor 26 rotates forward move to transmit 22, and this band moves forward a step along axle 18 towards extracting platform 11 with reel 2 formations 21, thus make in the formation 21 first reel 2a place can with extract the position that parts 40 engage.

After extraction parts 40 join the dish core 4 of reel 2a to, motor 45 running is so that extract 39 and return from extracting platform 11, and reel 2a is sent to operating position place (not shown) on the machine 1, at this moment extract 39 and move back on the extracting position 11 position coaxial again, next reel 2 is sent to extract 39 with axle 18.

In the formation 21 during last reel 2, slide 108 retreats along axle 18, and supporting member 14 rotates so that armed lever places " loaded " position once more around axle 16 on having transmitted armed lever 13.

Thus, except reel 2 can not produce when being sent to extracting position 11 external deformation, armed lever 13 also makes each reel coaxial mutually basically and mutually coaxial basically with the head on being in extracting position on the direction of edge axle 18.

About installing 7, should be pointed out that in some cases reel 2 formations 21 can be loaded on the armed lever 13 along axle 18 simple reversing by making slide 10, in this case, supporting member 14 can fuse with slide 10, motor 16 ' then can save.

Claims

1. storing unit (5) that is used for a certain amount of reel (2), above-mentioned reel (2) has tubulose central disc core (4) separately, and upright be arranged in a formation (21), described storing unit (5) comprising: a storage compartment (6), this storehouse is used for reel (2) is put into above-mentioned formation (21), a mouth; And carrying and conveyer (13,14,200) this device is used to carry above-mentioned reel (2) formation (21), and continuously the reel (2) in the described formation (21) is sent to above-mentioned mouth, it is characterized in that, described carrying and feedway comprise a mono-forwarder (20), and this forwarder is used to engage described dish core (4), and have one and the contacted transmission section of above-mentioned dish core (4) inside face (30) (31); Arm (13) is parallel to a given substantially horizontal axle (17) and has an areal of support (35), and areal of support (35) has the lateral cross section of a protrusion, and this cross section is crooked as the inside face of dish core (4); Described transmission section (31) in mode in axial sliding with above-mentioned carrying surface (35) joint and engage with assurance dish core (4) coaxial mutually in described formation (21) with the inside face (30) of each described dish core (4); Bidirectional driving apparatus (26), this device are used for the above-mentioned section (31) that movably transmits is sent to mouth; Above-mentioned transmission section (31) is substantially parallel with described axle (17).

2. storing unit as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described carrying and conveyer (13,14,20) comprising: an armed lever (13), this armed lever are parallel to described axle (17); Conveyer (20), it comprises in rotary mode and being supported on; Track adjusting wheel (23,24) on the described armed lever (13) and a transmission section (22) that is looped around on the described track adjusting wheel (23,24).

3. storing unit as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described carrying and conveyer (13,14,20) also comprise a supporting member (14), and this support bar and armed lever (13) connect together; Actuating device (12,26 '), this device are used to make supporting member (14) to move between operating position and " loaded " position, and on operating position, described reel (2) is sent to extraction element (39), and on " loaded " position, described reel is put into storage compartment (6).

4. as the described storing unit of above-mentioned arbitrary claim, it is characterized in that described storing unit also comprises a movably driving device (10), this device is used to support above-mentioned carrying and conveyer (13,14,20); Described driving device (10) comprises one first actuating device (12), this actuating device is used to make driving device (10) to move to or move apart operating position (11), on operating position, above-mentioned reel (2) is transferred into an extraction element (39) storing unit 5. as claimed in claim 4, it is characterized in that, described movable fixture comprises a slideway (8), a slide, this slide is installed into and can slides along slideway (8) by described first actuating device (12), and described slideway (8) extends between described operating position (11) and described position when packing described reel (2) into storage compartment (6).

6. as one of claim 1 or 2 or 3 described storing unit, it is characterized in that, described storing unit also comprises a movably driving device (10), this device is used to support above-mentioned carrying and conveyer (13,14,20), described carrying and conveyer (13,14,20) comprise a supporting member (14), this supporting member and armed lever (13) are connected as a single entity; Above-mentioned supporting member (14) is assemblied on the above-mentioned movable fixture (10), thereby can rotate around the axle (16) vertical with described armed lever; And second actuating device (16 '), this device is used to make described supporting member (14) to rotate and go to or leave an angle around above-mentioned axle (16), and on this angle position, above-mentioned armed lever (13) aligns with extracting position.