Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides an automatic feeding and discharging device, and aims to solve the problem that the work piece feeding operation of feeding equipment is inconvenient. The following presents a simplified summary in order to provide a basic understanding of some aspects of the disclosed embodiments. This summary is not an extensive overview and is intended to neither identify key/critical elements nor delineate the scope of such embodiments. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for automatic feeding and discharging, comprising: the feeding mechanism comprises a discharge hole; the movable material preparing mechanism is movable close to or far away from the feeding mechanism and comprises a substrate capable of bearing a workpiece.
In an alternative embodiment, the apparatus for automatic feeding and discharging further comprises: the material preparing mechanism can move into or out of the outer frame, and the discharge port is arranged on the outer frame; the pushing mechanism can push the workpiece carried by the substrate to a discharge hole in a controllable manner; wherein, the pushing equipment is arranged on the material preparing equipment or on the outer frame.
In an optional implementation mode, the feeding mechanism is provided with a first discharging roller and a second discharging roller which can rotate axially, the first discharging roller and the second discharging roller are horizontally arranged in the same vertical plane, and the first discharging roller and the second discharging roller are arranged in a clamping mode to form a discharging port.
In an optional embodiment, the feeding mechanism is further provided with a discharging pressure applying device, and the discharging pressure applying device drives the first discharging roller to move towards or back to the second discharging roller; or the discharging pressing device drives the first discharging roller and the second discharging roller to move in opposite directions or in opposite directions.
In an alternative embodiment, the feeding mechanism is further provided with a discharge driving device, and the discharge driving device is in driving connection with at least one of the first discharge roller and the second discharge roller to drive at least one of the first discharge roller and the second discharge roller to perform axial rotation.
In an alternative embodiment, the roller bodies of the first and second discharge rollers are composed of a plurality of roller segments.
In an alternative embodiment, the apparatus for automatic feeding and discharging further comprises: locate the anti-overlapping structure of the feeding one side of discharge gate, the work piece that the base plate bore is carried to the discharge gate via preventing overlapping the mechanism.
In an alternative embodiment, the second discharge roller is located below the first discharge roller; the overlap prevention mechanism includes: the device comprises a baffle vertically fixed on the outer frame and a flat plate horizontally arranged towards the discharge port, wherein the height of the upper plate surface of the flat plate is slightly lower than the upper edge of the baffle, and the upper edge of the baffle is approximately flush with the tangent line of the upper roller surface of the second discharge roller.
In an alternative embodiment, the apparatus for automatic feeding and discharging further comprises: locate the spout platform of the wane structure on the flat board, the angle that the one side that the wane is close to the discharge gate passes through the adjustable upwarp of lifter.
In an alternative embodiment, the apparatus for automatic feeding and discharging further comprises: a lifting mechanism which drives the base plate to lift in a set height range is arranged on the periphery of the base plate so that the workpiece on the uppermost layer of the base plate stack is flush with the height of the discharge port; the pushing mechanism pushes the workpieces stacked on the uppermost layer to the discharge hole.
In an alternative embodiment, the lift mechanism comprises: one or more lead screws vertically arranged on the outer frame, wherein the lead screws are positioned on the outer peripheral side of the substrate; one or more guide blocks fixed on the base plate and corresponding to the lead screw, wherein each guide block is provided with a thread through hole which is in threaded sleeve fit with the corresponding lead screw; and the lifting driving device is in driving connection with one or more lead screws so as to drive the lead screws to rotate axially.
In an alternative embodiment, the outer frame further comprises a slide rail extending and formed along the direction opposite to the discharge hole; the bottom of the substrate is provided with a plurality of pulleys, and the substrate can move in or out of the outer frame through the sliding fit of the pulleys and the sliding rail.
In an alternative embodiment, the outer frame is further provided with guide plates positioned on two sides of the substrate to limit the movement of the workpiece in the direction towards the discharge port under the pushing action of the pushing mechanism.
In an alternative embodiment, the outer frame is further provided with a traversing component which can horizontally move along the transverse direction, and the traversing component is connected with the guide plate on at least one side so as to drive the guide plate on at least one side to horizontally move transversely.
In an optional implementation mode, the material pushing mechanism comprises a jacking cylinder and a pushing rod corresponding to the height of the discharge hole, and the pushing rod pushes the workpiece to the discharge hole under the driving of the jacking cylinder.
In an alternative embodiment, the push rod is a threaded spindle or a piston rod.
The feeding mechanism and the material preparing mechanism of the automatic material supplying and discharging device provided by the embodiment of the invention adopt a split design, the material preparing mechanism can be conveniently far away from the feeding mechanism for material supplement and then move into the material supplying mechanism to be close to the feeding mechanism after the material supplement is finished so as to supply and convey supplemented workpieces again, the operation is simple, the material supplement is convenient, and the material supplying efficiency of the automatic material supplying and discharging device is greatly accelerated; (ii) a And due to the separated design of the material preparation mechanism and the feeding mechanism, the material preparation mechanism can be used for preparing a plurality of materials in turn, so that the material supply waiting time is greatly saved, and the purpose of improving the production efficiency is achieved.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the invention, as claimed.
In a specific embodiment, the material preparing mechanism 2 includes a base plate 21 capable of carrying the workpiece 9 or the material, the base plate 21 is used as a carrying platform for the workpiece 9 or the material, and can move with the material preparing mechanism 2 to approach or move away from the feeding mechanism 1, and the workpiece 9 or the material can be stacked on the base plate 21 in a stacked manner.
Fig. 2 is a schematic external frame of the device for automatic feeding and discharging of the invention according to an exemplary embodiment.
In the embodiment, the device for automatic material supply and discharge further comprises an outer frame 3, in the figure, the outer frame 3 is a frame body structure which is approximately a cuboid and is formed by connecting a plurality of supporting arms, and the outer frame 3 is hollow and can be used as a space for accommodating mechanisms such as the material preparation mechanism 2, the feeding mechanism 1 and the like; specifically, the substrate 21 of the material preparation mechanism 2 is disposed in the hollow space inside the outer frame 3, in this embodiment, the substrate 21 is a pallet-shaped structure, and the upper plane thereof can be used for stacking materials such as the workpiece 9 to be supplied, and specifically, the workpiece 9 or the material supplied and conveyed by the automatic material supplying and discharging device in the illustrated embodiment is generally a plate-shaped structure, such as a wood board, a composite board, and the like, so that the workpieces 9 of this type of structure can be sequentially stacked on the upper plane of the substrate 21 from bottom to top; the material preparation mechanism 2 is connected with the outer frame 3 through a sliding structure, and through the sliding structure, the material preparation mechanism 2 can move in or out from the inside of the outer frame 3, so that the stacked workpieces 9 can be replenished to the substrate 21 when the outer frame 3 is moved out, and the replenished workpieces 9 can be moved into the outer frame 3; meanwhile, the discharge port 12 of the feeding mechanism 1 is disposed on one side of the outer frame 3, so that the workpiece 9 of the material preparing mechanism 2 is conveyed from the discharge port 12 to other equipment of the subsequent flow operation for processing and other operations.
In the embodiment of the invention, the device for automatically supplying and discharging materials further comprises a material pushing mechanism, wherein the material pushing mechanism can push the workpiece 9 borne by the substrate 21 to the discharge hole 12 in a controllable manner, so that the material pushing mechanism can be used as a driving mechanism and can at least convey the workpiece 9 or the material on the substrate 21 to the discharge hole 12, and then the feeding mechanism 1 drives the workpiece 9 or the material to convey to the designated equipment; or the workpiece 9 or the material on the substrate 21 is conveyed to the discharge port 12 by the material pushing mechanism, and then the workpiece 9 or the material is conveyed to a designated device by continuously serving as a driving mechanism.
Fig. 3 is a schematic view showing a partial structure of the automatic feeding and discharging device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and mainly shows the structure of the pushing mechanism mounted on a part of the frame body of the outer frame 3.
In an alternative embodiment, the pushing mechanism includes a horizontally disposed pushing cylinder 81, the pushing cylinder 81 has a pushing rod 82 extending toward the discharge port 12, and the pushing cylinder 81 is disposed on the outer frame 3 and corresponds to the height of the discharge port 12, so that when the pushing cylinder 81 drives the pushing rod 82 to extend, the workpiece 9 can be pushed toward the discharge port 12, and the workpiece 9 moves from the substrate 21 to the discharge port 12; then, the top air feeding cylinder 81 drives the pushing rod 82 to contract and reset to the initial position, so that the next workpiece 9 can be continuously pushed to the discharge hole 12; the workpieces 9 can be continuously pushed one by one to the discharge ports 12 by reciprocating extension and contraction of the top air cylinder 81 and the push rod 82.
Preferably, the free end of the pushing rod 82 is provided with a pushing plate perpendicular to the axis of the pushing rod 82, and when the pushing rod 82 extends, the pushing rod 82 abuts against the pushed workpiece 9 through the pushing plate to push the workpiece 9 to the discharge hole 12; the push plate can increase the contact area of the push rod 82 and the pushed workpiece 9, and disperse the extrusion acting force applied to the workpiece 9 by the push rod 82, so that the workpiece 9 can be pushed to the position of the discharge hole 12 more stably, and the problems of deflection, dislocation and the like of the workpiece 9 are reduced.
In the embodiment, the discharge port 12 of the feeding mechanism 1 is located on one side surface of the outer frame 3, the top air cylinder 81 of the pushing mechanism is disposed on the other side surface opposite to the one side surface, the workpiece 9 or the material carried on the substrate 21 is disposed between the discharge port 12 and the top air cylinder 81, so that the piston cylinder of the top air cylinder 81 abuts against the tail end of the workpiece 9 and pushes the whole workpiece 9 to move toward the processing port, the head end of the workpiece 9 moves to the discharge port 12 first, and then the whole workpiece 9 passes through the processing port and moves to the next designated device.
Optionally, the pushing rod is in the form of a lead screw or a piston rod.
Preferably, the direction of the material preparing mechanism 2 moving out of the outer frame 3 (i.e. the direction away from the feeding mechanism 1) moves towards a side face of the outer frame 3 where the material pushing mechanism is located, the side face is of an open structure, the material preparing mechanism 2 can move out of the outer frame 3 through the open structure of the side face to perform material supplementing operation, and after the material supplementing is completed, the material preparing mechanism moves into the outer frame 3 through the side face again.
Fig. 4 is a schematic view of a partial structure for automatic material supply and discharge according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and in the illustration, a partial structure at the discharge port 12 is mainly shown.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the feeding mechanism 1 is provided with the first discharging roller 121 and the second discharging roller 122 which are rotatable, and the first discharging roller 121 and the second discharging roller 122 are horizontally arranged in the same vertical plane (i.e. on the above-mentioned one side surface of the outer frame 3), and are sandwiched to form the discharging opening 12.
In this embodiment, the apparatus for automatically feeding and discharging material of the present invention is applicable to loading, unloading and conveying operations of different types of workpieces 9, and in order to enable more stable conveyance of different types of workpieces 9 at the discharge port 12 and reduce occurrence of slip and deflection, the feeding mechanism 1 of the present invention is further provided with a discharge pressure device 13.
In some optional embodiments, when the workpiece 9 is conveyed on the second discharging roller 122, the discharging pressing device 13 may drive the first discharging roller 121 to descend and approach the second discharging roller 122, so that the first discharging roller 121 contacts the workpiece 9 being conveyed to generate a slight pressure, thereby making the conveying of the workpiece 9 more stable and reducing the slip and skew of the workpiece 9.
As shown in fig. 4, the first discharging roller 121 is a discharging roller located above, the second discharging roller 122 is a discharging roller located below, the discharging pressure applying device 13 includes two small telescopic cylinders, the two telescopic cylinders are respectively disposed above two end portions of the discharging port 12, each telescopic cylinder has a telescopic rod capable of telescopic moving downward, free ends of the two telescopic rods are respectively connected with two end portions of the first discharging roller 121 in a driving manner, so that the first discharging roller 121 can be synchronously driven to move up and down on the vertical surface through the telescopic movement of the telescopic rods of the telescopic cylinders in the vertical direction, and the second discharging roller 122 is fixed; specifically, when the telescopic rod extends, the first discharging roller 121 moves towards the second discharging roller 122, and the distance between the first discharging roller and the second discharging roller is reduced; when the telescopic rod is contracted, the second discharging roller 122 moves back to the second discharging roller 122, and the distance between the second discharging roller and the second discharging roller is increased; thus, the width of the discharge port 12 can be adjusted by controlling the extension and retraction of the two telescopic cylinders.
Alternatively, in another embodiment not shown, the discharging pressing device 13 may also be respectively in driving connection with the first discharging roller 121 and the second discharging roller 122, and may drive the first discharging roller 121 and the second discharging roller to move toward or away from each other; here, when the first discharging roller 121 and the second discharging roller 122 move toward each other, the distance between the two is reduced, so as to achieve the effect of reducing the width dimension of the discharging port 12; when the first discharging roller 121 and the second discharging roller 122 run in opposite directions, the distance between the two rollers is increased, so as to achieve the effect of increasing the width dimension of the discharging hole 12.
Specifically, in the above embodiment, the discharging pressure applying device 13 may include two sets of telescopic cylinders, which are respectively used for controlling the lifting movement of the first discharging roller 121 and the lifting movement of the second discharging roller 122, wherein the design form of the telescopic cylinders for controlling the lifting movement of the first discharging roller 121 may refer to the structure and arrangement manner of the telescopic cylinders disclosed in the previous embodiment; similarly, the design form of the telescopic cylinder for controlling the lifting movement of the second discharging cabinet is as follows: two telescopic cylinder set up respectively in the below at the both ends of discharge gate 12, and each telescopic cylinder all has the telescopic link that can move towards the top is flexible, and the free end of two telescopic links is connected with the both ends drive of second discharge roller 122 respectively, and like this, the telescopic link through telescopic cylinder moves in the ascending flexible of vertical side, can drive the lifting movement of second discharge roller 122 on same vertical face in the aforesaid in step.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the first discharging roller 121 and the second discharging roller 122 may be in a rotation form driven by the friction force applied to the roller surface by the workpiece 9 without being mechanically driven, and may also be in a driving form driven by the mechanical driving of the discharging rollers to rotate, and in the embodiment, the feeding mechanism 1 is further provided with the discharging driving device 14, and the discharging driving device 14 is in driving connection with at least one of the first discharging roller 121 and the second discharging roller 122 to drive at least one of the first discharging roller 121 and the second discharging roller 122 to rotate axially.
For example, as shown in fig. 4, the discharging driving device 14 of the present invention is a driving motor, which is disposed at one side of the discharging opening 12 and is directly or indirectly connected to the second discharging roller 122 located below, and when the driving motor is operated, the second discharging roller 122 can be driven to rotate, so that the second discharging roller 122 can drive the workpiece 9 to move toward the discharging side thereof by the frictional force applied to the workpiece 9 by the roller surface thereof.
Of course, in other embodiments, the driving motor may also rotate with the first storage tank and the second discharge roller 122 respectively to drive the first storage tank and the second discharge roller to rotate in opposite rotation directions, so as to drive the workpiece 9 clamped therebetween to move toward the discharge side.
Preferably, the roller bodies of the first discharging roller 121 and the second discharging roller 122 of the present invention are composed of a plurality of roller sections, and each roller section of a single section can generate a proper amount of dislocation and shaking relative to other adjacent roller sections, so as to adapt to the conveying operation of some workpieces 9 with uneven surfaces and improve the range of the types of the workpieces 9 to which the apparatus of the present invention is applied.
In an embodiment, the device for automatic feeding and discharging further includes an overlap prevention mechanism 4, the overlap prevention mechanism 4 is disposed on the feeding side of the discharging port 12, the workpiece 9 pushed by the pushing mechanism is conveyed to the discharging port 12 through the overlap prevention mechanism 4, and the overlap prevention mechanism 4 can serve as a transition path when the workpiece 9 moves from the substrate 21 to the discharging port 12, and can play a role in supporting the workpiece 9, so that the workpiece 9 can enter the discharging port 12 more stably.
As shown in fig. 4 and 5, specifically, the overlap preventing mechanism 4 includes a vertical baffle plate 41 and a flat plate 42 horizontally disposed toward the discharge port 12. Alternatively, the baffle plate 41 may be vertically fixed to the outer frame 3. The height of the upper plate surface of the flat plate 42 is slightly lower than the upper edge of the baffle plate 41, and the upper edge of the baffle plate 41 is approximately flush with the tangent line of the upper roller surface of the second discharging roller 122. In particular, the baffle 41 may serve as a blocking member (as shown in fig. 5) or as a connecting member between the overlap preventing mechanism 4 and the outer frame 3.
When the pushing mechanism pushes two or more workpieces 9 to the baffle 41, the lower plate surface of the workpiece 9 on the top layer is generally controlled to be parallel to the tangent line of the upper roller surface of the second discharging roller 122, so as to achieve the purpose of conveying the workpieces 9 one by one. However, in the actual production control process, an error is inevitably generated, and it is difficult to make the tangent line of the upper roller surface of the second discharge roller 122, the upper edge of the baffle plate 41, and the lower plate surface of the uppermost workpiece on the same horizontal line, as shown in fig. 5. In the actual production process, since the workpieces 9 may be stuck to each other, a situation may occur in which the adjacent workpieces 9 overlap into the discharge port 12 due to the sticking, and the provision of the baffle 41 can effectively prevent this.
As shown in fig. 5, when the height of the top workpiece 9 is slightly higher than the baffle 41, at this time, even if the top surface of the adjacent lower workpiece 9 is already higher than the upper edge of the baffle 41, the lower workpiece 9 is still blocked by the baffle 41 because the workpiece 9 has a certain thickness, and the pushing device can only push the top workpiece 9 into the discharge hole 12, and the situation that the top workpiece 9 and the adjacent workpiece 9 are pushed into the discharge hole 12 in an overlapped manner does not occur, so that the precise conveying of a single workpiece 9 is realized, and the situation that a plurality of workpieces 9 are overlapped into the discharge hole 12 is avoided.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the overlap preventing mechanism 4 further includes a chute table 43 of a seesaw structure provided on the flat plate 42, and a side of the chute table 43 adjacent to the discharge hole 12 is adjustable in an upward tilting angle by a lifting member.
Fig. 6 is a schematic view showing a part of the structure of the automatic loading and unloading apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, in which the structure of the elevating mechanism assembled with the base plate 21 is mainly shown.
In an embodiment, the height positions of the discharge port 12 and the top air cylinder 81 are corresponding and fixed, and after the top air cylinder 81 pushes the workpiece 9 on the substrate 21 to be output from the discharge port 12, the overall height of the plurality of workpieces 9 is inevitably reduced, and when the uppermost workpiece 9 is lower than the height of the discharge port 12, the top air cylinder 81 cannot push the workpiece 9 any more, so that, to achieve continuous conveying of the workpiece 9, the apparatus for automatic feeding and discharging of the present invention further includes a lifting mechanism, and the lifting mechanism can drive the substrate 21 to lift within a set height range, so that the height of the uppermost workpiece 9 stacked on the substrate 21 is aligned with the height of the discharge port 12, and thus, the pushing mechanism can always push the single uppermost workpiece 9 to the discharge port 12.
Specifically, elevating system includes: one or more lead screws 51 vertically arranged on the outer frame 3, the lead screws 51 being positioned on the outer peripheral side of the base plate 21, each lead screw 51 being provided with a thread formed by extending along the longitudinal direction thereof; one or more guide blocks 52 fixed on the base plate 21 and corresponding to the lead screw 51, each guide block 52 having a through hole for forming a threaded socket fit with the corresponding lead screw 51; and the lifting driving device is in driving connection with one or more lead screws 51 so as to drive the lead screws 51 to rotate axially. Therefore, when the lifting driving device operates in the forward rotation mode, the lead screw 51 is driven to rotate axially along the first rotation direction, the height of the lead screw 51 is unchanged, the guide block 52 is forcibly driven to move upwards along the vertical direction, so as to drive the base plate 21 fixedly connected with the guide block 52 to move upwards, therefore, the workpieces 9 stacked on the base plate 21 can move upwards synchronously, and when the uppermost workpiece 9 moves to a position flush with the feed inlet, the pushing mechanism can push the uppermost workpiece 9 to the feed inlet.
Therefore, after a workpiece 9 is pushed to the discharge port 12 and output to a designated device, the substrate 21 is driven to move upward by a set distance by controlling the operation of the lifting driving device of the lifting mechanism, so that the workpiece 9 on the uppermost layer of the substrate 21 can meet the pushing height requirement of the pushing mechanism. The specific upward movement setting distance may be preset according to the actual thickness of the workpiece 9 to be output.
After all the workpieces 9 on the base plate 21 are pushed, the lifting driving device can reversely rotate, the lead screw 51 is driven to axially rotate in a second rotation direction opposite to the first rotation direction, the height of the lead screw 51 is still unchanged, and the guide block 52 is forcibly driven to move downwards in the numerical direction so as to drive the base plate 21 to also move downwards, so that new workpieces 9 or materials can be stacked on the base plate 21 again.
In the embodiment, two ends of the screw 51 are respectively fixed to the upper and lower frame bodies of the outer frame 3, and the lifting driving device is a driving motor, and the driving motor is directly or indirectly connected with the screw 51 in a driving manner.
In an embodiment, for the aforementioned lifting mechanism of the set of the lead screw 51 and the guide block 52, the lifting mechanism further includes: one or more slide bars are vertically arranged on the outer frame 3, the slide bars are positioned on the outer peripheral side of the base plate 21, and the outer surfaces of the slide bars are smooth; one or more sliding blocks fixed on the base plate 21 and corresponding to the sliding rods, wherein each sliding block is provided with a smooth through hole which is matched with the corresponding sliding rod in a sleeved mode. In this embodiment, the sleeve connection between the sliding rod and the smooth through hole can further limit the substrate 21, thereby preventing the substrate 21 from rotating around the screw 51.
In the foregoing embodiment, the material preparation mechanism 2 is moved into or out of the outer frame 3 by a sliding structure, and the specific structure of the sliding structure includes: a slide rail 61 which is provided on the outer frame 3 and is formed to extend in a direction away from the discharge port 12; a plurality of pulleys 62 disposed at the bottom of the base plate 21, and the base plate 21 can be moved into or out of the outer frame 3 by the sliding engagement of the pulleys 62 and the slide rails 61. The slide rails 61 may constitute a limit for the pulleys 62 so that the pulleys 62 can only be moved in one direction into or out of the outer frame 3.
FIG. 7 is a partial schematic illustration of the present invention for automatic feeding and discharging according to an exemplary embodiment, and in the illustration, the structure of the guide plate 71 and the traverse assembly 72 is mainly shown.
In the embodiment of the invention, in order to prevent the workpieces 9 from deviating and dislocating in the process of conveying the workpieces 9 to the discharge port 12, the outer frame 3 of the invention is further provided with the guide plates 71 positioned at two sides of the base plate 21, and the guide plates 71 can limit the workpieces 9 stacked on the base plate on two sides to define the path direction only facing the discharge port 12, so that the workpieces 9 can be limited to intelligently move in the direction facing the discharge port 12 under the pushing action of the pushing mechanism, and the accuracy of the conveying direction of the workpieces 9 or materials is ensured.
Preferably, the outer frame 3 is further provided with a traverse assembly 72 capable of horizontally moving in the transverse direction, and the traverse assembly 72 is connected with the at least one side guide plate 71 to drive the at least one side guide plate 71 to horizontally move in the transverse direction.
Specifically, the traverse assembly 72 includes one or more crossbars 721 mounted on the upper frame body of the outer frame 3, the crossbars 721 are arranged parallel to the discharge port 12, a slidable cross arm 722 is arranged on the crossbars 721, the longitudinal direction of the cross arm 722 is perpendicular to the discharge port 12, the cross arm 722 is connected with the guide plates 71 through a vertically downward connecting arm 723, so that the guide plates 71 are suspended on the cross arm 722, and the guide plates 71 can horizontally move along with the cross arm 722 in the direction parallel to the discharge port 12 to change the distance between the two guide plates 71, thereby adapting to the path limitation of workpieces 9 with different widths.
It is to be understood that the present invention is not limited to the procedures and structures described above and shown in the drawings, and that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope thereof. The scope of the invention is limited only by the appended claims.