CN110002027B

CN110002027B - Box flattening device and method

Info

Publication number: CN110002027B
Application number: CN201910399368.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 梁朝祥; 梁增校
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2019-05-14
Filing date: 2019-05-14
Publication date: 2021-05-07
Anticipated expiration: 2039-05-14
Also published as: CN110002027A

Abstract

The invention discloses a box flattening device and a box flattening method, wherein the box flattening device comprises a base, and an opposite side edge folding device and an integral flattening device which are arranged on the base; an operation station is arranged on the machine base; two side edge folding devices are arranged on the opposite side and respectively correspond to the left side and the right side of the operation station; the opposite side edge folding device comprises a supporting positioning plate, a material pushing plate and a translation driving unit; the integral flattening device is arranged above the corresponding operation station and comprises a pressing plate and a lifting driving unit; therefore, the opposite sides of the box are firstly folded and then the box is integrally flattened from top to bottom, so that the automatic folding and flattening actions of the box are realized, the efficiency is high, the labor is saved, and the operation quality is improved; meanwhile, the flattening device is simple in structure, good in design reasonability, simple and feasible in flattening operation steps and good in operation stability.

Description

Box flattening device and method

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of box processing, in particular to a box flattening device and a box flattening method, which are mainly suitable for foldable boxes such as paper boxes.

Background

At present, the packaging paper box is widely applied to various industries. The paper boxes are mostly provided with a bottom plate, a left plate, a right plate, a front plate and a rear plate, the bottom plate of the box is rectangular, the left plate, the right plate, the front plate and the rear plate are respectively connected to the periphery of the bottom plate, and the left plate, the front plate, the right plate and the rear plate are sequentially connected, so that the box with an upper end opening is formed. In order to save volume and facilitate storage and management, the packaging paper boxes are usually folded and formed and then stacked into a pile for storage and transportation, and in the prior art, a manual operation mode is generally adopted, so that the operation efficiency is extremely low; later, some automatic folding equipment for the paper boxes appear in the industry, but the suitable paper box style is limited, the folding operation is troublesome, the stability control of the equipment operation is not facilitated, and the automatic folding equipment is difficult to popularize and apply.

Therefore, a new technical solution needs to be developed to solve the above problems.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above, the present invention is directed to the defects of the prior art, and the main object of the present invention is to provide a box flattening apparatus and method, which can achieve the automatic folding and flattening operation of the box, with high efficiency, saving labor, and improving the operation quality; meanwhile, the flattening device is simple in structure, good in design reasonability, simple and feasible in flattening operation steps and good in operation stability.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

a box flattening device comprises a base, an opposite side edge folding device and an integral flattening device, wherein the opposite side edge folding device and the integral flattening device are arranged on the base; wherein:

an operation station is arranged on the machine base;

two opposite side edge folding devices are arranged and respectively correspond to the left side and the right side of the operation station; the opposite side edge folding device comprises a supporting positioning plate, a material pushing plate and a translation driving unit for controlling the supporting positioning plate and the material pushing plate to translate left and right;

the integral flattening device is arranged above the corresponding operation station; the integral flattening device comprises a pressing plate and a lifting driving unit for controlling the pressing plate to move up and down.

As a preferable scheme, the material pushing plate is arranged above the supporting positioning plate, the inner side of the material pushing plate is provided with a material pushing action part, and the inner side of the supporting positioning plate protrudes inwards to form the material pushing action part; and the supporting positioning plate and the material pushing plate of the same pair of side edge folding devices share the same translation driving unit.

As a preferable scheme, the translation driving unit comprises a translation motor and a horizontal screw rod, and the translation motor drives the horizontal screw rod to rotate; the supporting positioning plate is provided with a horizontal linkage block, the horizontal linkage block is provided with a horizontal internal threaded hole, and the horizontal screw rod penetrates through the horizontal internal threaded hole to be horizontally displaced left and right in a linkage manner.

As a preferable scheme, a horizontal guide rail extending from left to right is arranged on the machine base, correspondingly, a horizontal sliding block is arranged on the supporting and positioning plate, and the supporting and positioning plate and the material pushing plate are guided and positioned by the cooperation of the horizontal sliding block and the horizontal guide rail.

As a preferred scheme, the lifting driving unit comprises a lifting motor and a vertical screw rod, and the lifting motor drives the vertical screw rod to rotate; the pressing plate is provided with a vertical linkage block, the vertical linkage block is provided with a vertical internal thread hole, and the vertical screw rod penetrates through the vertical internal thread hole to move up and down in a linkage manner.

As a preferred scheme, the base is provided with a bottom plate and a side plate arranged on the bottom plate, the bottom plate and the side plate enclose to form an accommodating cavity, and two ends of the elastic element act on the supporting plate and the bottom plate respectively; and the opposite side edge folding devices are connected to the left side plate and the right side plate, the bottom plate is provided with an upright column, the top end of the upright column is provided with a top plate, and the integral flattening device is arranged on the top plate.

A box flattening method is based on the box flattening device and comprises the following steps:

step S1, preparing a waiting state: the supporting and positioning plates on the two sides extend inwards to be positioned on the operation station;

step S2, box placing: placing the box on an operation station, and positioning the box on a supporting positioning plate;

step S3, folding the opposite side of the box: the translation driving units on the two sides control the corresponding material pushing plates to translate inwards and oppositely, the material pushing plates push against the corresponding left side and right side of the box until the left side and right side of the box are folded inwards, and at the moment, the front side and the rear side of the box are also deformed into an inwards oblique state;

step S4, integral flattening: the lifting driving unit controls the pressing plate to move downwards, and the pressing plate firstly abuts against the front side and the rear side of the box from top to bottom and then presses the whole box.

Compared with the prior art, the automatic folding and flattening device has the advantages and beneficial effects that particularly, according to the technical scheme, the opposite side edge folding device and the integral flattening device are arranged, the opposite side edge of the box is firstly folded, and then the box is integrally flattened from top to bottom, so that the automatic folding and flattening action of the box is realized, the efficiency is high, the labor is saved, and the operation quality is improved; meanwhile, the flattening device is simple in structure, good in design reasonability, simple and feasible in flattening operation steps and good in operation stability.

To more clearly illustrate the structural features and effects of the present invention, the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is an assembled perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a view of FIG. 1 from K1;

FIG. 3 is a view of FIG. 1 from K2;

FIG. 4 is a partially assembled perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a view of FIG. 4 from K3;

FIG. 6 is a state diagram of step S1 according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a state diagram of step S2 of an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a state diagram of step S3 of an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a state diagram of step S4 of an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a state diagram of step S5 of an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a state diagram of step S6 of an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 12 is a state diagram of step S7 of an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 13 is a state diagram of step S8 of an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 14 is a state diagram of step S9 (returning to the next ready to feed state) according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 15 is another state diagram of step S9 of the embodiment of the present invention (put in the second box);

FIG. 16 is still another state diagram of step S9 (N boxes placed) of the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 17 is a partial perspective view of the case in which the left and right sides of the case are folded inward in step S3, and the front and rear sides of the case are also deformed to an inwardly inclined state;

fig. 18 is a diagram (top view) of the state of the box after the whole box is flattened in step S4 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

The attached drawings indicate the following:

working station 11 of machine base 10

Bottom plate 101 of abdicating groove 12

Side plate 102 upright post 103

Top plate 104 opposite side hemming device 20

Supporting positioning plate 21 material pushing plate 22

Pushing action part 221 integral flattening device 30

Elastic floating support assembly 40 of pressure plate 31

Packing through slot 411 of support plate 41

Support split plate 412 spring 42

Translation motor 51 horizontal screw 52

Vertical screw 62 of lifting motor 61

Left box 71 and right box 72

Cassette front side 73 cassette back side 74.

Detailed Description

Referring to fig. 1 to 18, which illustrate specific structures of an embodiment of the present invention, the description of directions such as "left, right, front, and rear" herein is not intended to limit technical features, but is defined only for convenience of description, and should not be construed as limiting the technical scope of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 1 to 5, a box pressing, stacking and packaging machine relates to three main links of pressing, stacking and bundling and packaging a box, and is mainly suitable for foldable boxes such as paper boxes and the like; the device comprises a machine base 10, an opposite side edge folding device 20 arranged on the machine base 10, an integral flattening device 30 and an elastic floating support assembly 40; wherein: an operation station 11 is arranged on the machine base 10;

two opposite side edge folding devices 20 are arranged and respectively correspond to the left side and the right side of the operation station 11; the opposite-side flanging device 20 comprises a supporting positioning plate 21, a material pushing plate 22 and a translation driving unit for controlling the supporting positioning plate 21 and the material pushing plate 22 to translate left and right; the material pushing plate 22 is arranged above the supporting positioning plate 21, the inner side of the material pushing plate 22 is provided with a material pushing action part 221, and the inner side of the supporting positioning plate 21 protrudes inwards to form the material pushing action part 221; the supporting positioning plate 21 and the material pushing plate 22 of the same pair of side edge folding devices 20 share the same translation driving unit. The translation driving unit comprises a translation motor 51 and a horizontal screw 52, and the translation motor 51 drives the horizontal screw 52 to rotate; the supporting and positioning plate 21 is provided with a horizontal linkage block, the horizontal linkage block is provided with a horizontal internal threaded hole, and the horizontal screw rod 52 penetrates through the horizontal internal threaded hole to be in linkage with the horizontal left-right displacement of the supporting and positioning plate 21. Here, a horizontal guide rail extending in the left-right direction is provided on the base 10, a horizontal slider is provided on the support positioning plate 21, and the support positioning plate 21 and the pusher plate 22 are guided and positioned in the left-right translational motion by the engagement of the horizontal slider with the horizontal guide rail.

The integral flattening device 30 is arranged above the corresponding operation station 11; the integral flattening device 30 comprises a pressing plate 31 and a lifting driving unit for controlling the pressing plate 31 to move up and down; the lifting driving unit comprises a lifting motor 61 and a vertical screw 62, and the lifting motor 61 drives the vertical screw 62 to rotate; the pressing plate 31 is provided with a vertical linkage block, the vertical linkage block is provided with a vertical internal thread hole, and the vertical screw rod 62 penetrates through the vertical internal thread hole to move up and down in a linkage manner of the pressing plate 31.

The elastic floating support assembly 40 comprises a support plate 41 and an elastic element, wherein two ends of the elastic element respectively act on the support plate 41 and the base 10 to enable the support plate 41 to elastically float up and down relative to the base 10, and here, the elastic element is a spring 42, which can be a compression spring; the support plate 41 is provided with a vertical sliding block, the base 10 is provided with a vertical guide rail extending up and down, and the vertical sliding block is matched with the vertical guide rail to form action guiding and positioning when the support plate 41 moves up and down. The work station 11 is formed above the support plate 41; a packing through groove 411 for a packing belt to extend into is arranged on the supporting plate 41, and the packing through groove 411 penetrates through the upper end and the lower end of the supporting plate 41. Here, the machine base 10 is provided with an abdicating groove 12 which is upward correspondingly communicated with the packing through groove 411, a packing device is arranged below the abdicating groove 12, and the packing device outputs a packing belt to enter the packing through groove 411 through the abdicating groove 12. The packing through slot 411 penetrates through the front side and the rear side of the support plate 41 along the front-rear direction to separate the support plate 41 into two support sub-plates 412, and each support sub-plate 412 is provided with a vertical slider and a corresponding vertical guide rail; and, each support sub-plate 412 is provided with the aforementioned elastic element.

In this embodiment, the base 10 has a bottom plate 101 and a side plate 102 installed on the bottom plate 101, the bottom plate 101 and the side plate 102 form an accommodating cavity, and two ends of the elastic element respectively act on the support plate 41 and the bottom plate 101; the opposite-side edge folding device 10 is connected to the left and right side plates 102, the bottom plate 101 is provided with a column 103, the top end of the column 103 is provided with a top plate 104, and the integral flattening device 30 is arranged on the top plate 104.

As shown in fig. 6 to 18, next, a box pressing, stacking and packing method is introduced, which is based on the box flattening device, and is mainly used for pressing, stacking and packing a box with a bottom plate, a left plate, a right plate, a front plate and a back plate, wherein the upper end of the box is arranged to be open; the bottom plate of the box is rectangular, the left piece, the right piece, the front piece and the rear piece are respectively connected to the periphery of the bottom plate, and the left piece, the front piece, the right piece and the rear piece are sequentially connected, so that the box with an open upper end is formed; the method comprises the following steps:

as shown in fig. 6, step S1, preparing a waiting state: the support positioning plates 21 on both sides extend inwards to be positioned on the working station 11; the inner ends of the support positioning plates 21 on both sides maintain a spacing D1;

as shown in fig. 7, step S2, box-out: placing the box on the work station 11, and positioning the box on the supporting and positioning plate 21;

as shown in fig. 8, step S3, folding the opposite side of the box: the translation driving units on the two sides control the corresponding material pushing plates 22 to translate inwards and oppositely, the material pushing plates 22 push against the corresponding left and right sides of the box until the left and right sides of the box are folded inwards, and at the moment, the front and rear sides of the box are also deformed into an inwards oblique state, as shown in fig. 17; the distance between the inner ends of the support positioning plates 21 on both sides is reduced to D2; the distance between the material pushing plates 22 on the two sides is reduced to D3;

as shown in fig. 9, step S4, integral flattening: the lifting driving unit controls the pressing plate 31 to move downwards, the pressing plate 31 firstly presses the front side and the rear side of the box from top to bottom and then presses the whole box, and the box state is shown in figure 18; generally, the lateral width of the platen 31 is less than D3;

as shown in fig. 10, step S5, the opposite-side hemming device 20 exits: the translation driving unit controls the side flanging device 20 to translate outwards and backwards to be separated from the operation station 11, and at the moment, the supporting positioning plate 21 and the material pushing plate 22 both relieve the limit on the box; the cassette is positioned on the support plate 41;

as shown in fig. 11, step S6, elastic pressing: the lifting driving unit controls the pressing plate 31 to continue to move downwards, and the pressing plate 31 presses the box downwards by a set height value which is the height of the box after being folded; the elastic element is deformed; the top of the box is flush or substantially flush with the bottom end face of the support and positioning plate 21;

as shown in fig. 12, step S7, positioning the opposite side: the translation driving unit controls the side edge folding devices 20 to translate inwards and oppositely, and the supporting positioning plate 21 limits the left side and the right side of the box;

as shown in fig. 13, step S8, platen 31 exits: the lifting driving unit controls the pressing plate 31 to move upwards, and the pressing plate 31 releases the pressing on the box;

as shown in fig. 14 to 16, step S9 is to cyclically press and stack N cassettes: returning to the next material preparation state, namely, the translation driving unit controls the opposite-side flanging device 20 to continue translating inwards and inwards towards each other until the material preparation state of the step S1 is returned as shown in FIG. 14; the support positioning plates 21 on both sides extend inward to allow more area to be located on the work station 11; at this time, the inner ends of the supporting and positioning plates 21 on the two sides keep a distance D1; subsequently, steps S2-S8 are performed, and the process is repeated until N boxes are stacked by pressing, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, as shown in fig. 16;

step S10, packaging: the packing area upwards passes packing through groove 411, and the packing area is located the bottom of lower floor's box to and the packing area extends upwards and forms the location to the top of the superiors box from the preceding, back side direction of box, so, the packing area carries out the closed formula spacingly to four faces in top, bottom, preceding, the back of whole pile box. Said step S10, performed after completing the step S8 of the uppermost box; alternatively, in step S10, after step S8 of the top box is completed, step S9 is performed again, and the process returns to the next preparation standby state and step S10 is performed again. The packaging device is not described in detail in the text, and can adopt a conventional packaging device, and only the machine base 10 is skillfully provided with the abdicating groove 12 which is correspondingly communicated with the packaging through groove 411 upwards, so that the packaging device can output a packaging belt to enter the packaging through groove 411 through the abdicating groove 12, and therefore, a stack of boxes on the two supporting branch plates 412 are bundled by the packaging belt, so that the entering machine platform is a five-sided box which is unfolded, and the boxes are flattened and stacked and packaged into a bundle during blanking, and the storage, transportation and management are very convenient.

Therefore, the box pressing, clamping, stacking and packaging machine provided by the invention realizes a series of full-automatic actions such as pressing, folding, leveling, stacking, packaging and the like, has high efficiency, saves a large amount of labor, effectively reduces the labor intensity of personnel, improves the operation quality, and solves the problem of unstable operation quality caused by manual difference in the traditional technology.

The automatic folding and flattening device is mainly characterized in that the opposite side edge folding device and the integral flattening device are arranged, the opposite side edge of the box is firstly folded, and then the box is integrally flattened from top to bottom, so that the automatic folding and flattening action on the box is realized, the efficiency is high, the labor is saved, and the operation quality is improved; meanwhile, the flattening device is simple in structure, good in design reasonability, simple and feasible in flattening operation steps and good in operation stability.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the technical scope of the present invention, so that any minor modifications, equivalent changes and modifications made to the above embodiment according to the technical spirit of the present invention are within the technical scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A box flattening device is characterized in that: comprises a machine base (10), an opposite side edge folding device (20) arranged on the machine base (10) and an integral flattening device (30); wherein:

an operation station (11) is arranged on the machine base (10);

two opposite side edge folding devices (20) are arranged and respectively correspond to the left side and the right side of the operation station (11); the opposite side flanging device (20) comprises a supporting positioning plate (21), a material pushing plate (22) and a translation driving unit for controlling the supporting positioning plate (21) and the material pushing plate (22) to translate left and right; the pushing plate (22) is arranged above the supporting positioning plate (21), the inner side of the pushing plate (22) is provided with a pushing action part (221), and the inner side of the supporting positioning plate (21) protrudes inwards to form the pushing action part (221); the supporting positioning plate (21) and the material pushing plate (22) of the same side flanging device (20) share the same translation driving unit;

the supporting and positioning plate (21) is used for placing a box, so that the box is positioned on the supporting and positioning plate (21);

the translation driving units on the two sides control the supporting positioning plate (21) and the material pushing plate (22) to translate inwards in opposite directions, the material pushing plate (22) pushes the corresponding left side and right side of the box inwards and is folded inwards, and the supporting positioning plate (21) is supported at the bottom of the box in advance corresponding to the action area of the material pushing plate (22);

the translation driving units on the two sides control the supporting positioning plate (21) and the material pushing plate (22) to translate outwards and backwards, in the outward translation process, the material pushing plate (22) is separated from the operation station (11) before the supporting positioning plate (21), and the material pushing plate (22) is released from the limit of the box before the supporting positioning plate (21);

the integral flattening device (30) is arranged above the corresponding operation station (11); the integral flattening device (30) comprises a pressing plate (31) and a lifting driving unit for controlling the pressing plate (31) to move up and down.

2. A box flattening apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the translation driving unit comprises a translation motor (51) and a horizontal screw rod (52), and the translation motor (51) drives the horizontal screw rod (52) to rotate; the supporting positioning plate (21) is provided with a horizontal linkage block, the horizontal linkage block is provided with a horizontal internal thread hole, and the horizontal screw (52) penetrates through the horizontal internal thread hole to be horizontally displaced left and right in a linkage mode with the supporting positioning plate (21).

3. A cassette flattening apparatus in accordance with claim 2, wherein: the machine base (10) is provided with a horizontal guide rail extending left and right, correspondingly, the supporting positioning plate (21) is provided with a horizontal sliding block, and the supporting positioning plate (21) and the material pushing plate (22) are guided and positioned by the left and right translation motion of the horizontal sliding block and the horizontal guide rail.

4. A box flattening apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the lifting driving unit comprises a lifting motor (61) and a vertical screw rod (62), and the lifting motor (61) drives the vertical screw rod (62) to rotate; the pressing plate (31) is provided with a vertical linkage block, the vertical linkage block is provided with a vertical internal thread hole, and the vertical screw rod (62) penetrates through the vertical internal thread hole to move up and down in order to link the pressing plate (31).

5. A box flattening apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the base (10) is provided with a bottom plate (101) and a side plate (102) arranged on the bottom plate (101), and the bottom plate (101) and the side plate (102) enclose to form an accommodating cavity; the device is characterized by further comprising an elastic floating supporting assembly (40), wherein the elastic floating supporting assembly (40) comprises a supporting plate (41) and an elastic element, and two ends of the elastic element act on the supporting plate (41) and the bottom plate (101) respectively; and the opposite side folding devices (20) are connected to the left side plate and the right side plate (102), the bottom plate (101) is provided with an upright post (103), the top end of the upright post (103) is provided with a top plate (104), and the integral flattening device (30) is arranged on the top plate (104).

6. A box flattening method based on the box flattening apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, comprising the steps of:

step S1, preparing a waiting state: the supporting and positioning plates (21) at two sides extend inwards to be positioned on the operation station (11);

step S2, box placing: placing the box on the operation station (11), and positioning the box on the supporting positioning plate (21);

step S3, folding the opposite side of the box: the translation driving units on the two sides control the corresponding material pushing plates (22) to translate inwards in opposite directions, the material pushing plates (22) push the corresponding left side and right side of the box until the left side and right side of the box are folded inwards, and at the moment, the front side and the rear side of the box are also deformed into an inwards oblique state; in the inward opposite translation process, the supporting and positioning plate (21) is supported in advance in the action area of the corresponding ejector plate (22) at the bottom of the box;

step S4, integral flattening: the lifting driving unit controls the pressing plate (31) to move downwards, and the pressing plate (31) firstly presses the front side and the rear side of the box from top to bottom and then presses the whole box;

and step S5, the opposite side folding device (20) is withdrawn: the translation driving unit controls the supporting positioning plate (21) and the material pushing plate (22) to translate outwards and backwards to be separated from the operation station (11), and at the moment, the supporting positioning plate (21) and the material pushing plate (22) release the limit on the box; in the outward and backward translation process, the material pushing plate (22) is separated from the operation station (11) before the supporting positioning plate (21), and the material pushing plate (22) is released from the limit of the box before the supporting positioning plate (21);

when the material preparation state for the next time is returned, the translation driving unit controls the supporting positioning plates (21) and the material pushing plates (22) to translate inwards in opposite directions, and the supporting positioning plates (21) on the two sides extend inwards to be positioned on the operation station (11).