CN110525741B - Automatic sorting system and sorting method for special-shaped cigarettes - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses an automatic sorting system and a sorting method for special-shaped cigarettes, which comprise a cigarette distribution module, a conveying module, a cigarette posture adjusting module, a code printing module, a code scanning module, a turnout module and a packaging module, wherein the cigarette distribution, conveying, cigarette posture adjusting, code printing, cigarette posture readjusting, code pasting, code scanning and packaging steps are carried out on the cigarettes, and the automatic sorting of the special-shaped cigarettes is completed. The special-shaped cigarette carton sorting machine can realize mechanical distribution and automatic sorting of special-shaped cigarettes, can avoid tipping, jamming or damage of the cigarettes, can not generate distribution jamming and distribution errors, and improves the distribution efficiency of the special-shaped cigarettes.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of tobacco distribution and packaging, in particular to an automatic sorting system and method for special-shaped cigarettes.
Background
The tobacco is distributed from the factory to the point of sale, the tobacco strips (strip packaged tobacco) in the storeroom are distributed according to the quantity of the order of each point of sale, the quantity of the order of the current tobacco strips and the types of the tobacco strips at each point of sale are packaged by plastic films, and then the packaged tobacco strips are conveyed to the point of sale by a delivery person.
The cigarette carton produced by each manufacturer is identical in appearance size and regular in shape, so that mechanized production of cigarette carton distribution in a warehouse is realized, the computer controls the distribution process, the cigarette carton is taken out of a packing box and then stacked in a vertical distributor, the vertical distributor is internally provided with a plurality of cigarette carton bins, the vertical distributor starts the corresponding cigarette carton bins according to the order quantity and the type of the current cigarette carton at each point of sale, the cigarette carton in the cigarette carton bins is selected and falls onto a conveyor belt, a plurality of cigarette cartons with different types and numbers and belonging to the same point of sale are selected from the cigarette carton bins at one time and fall onto the conveyor belt, the conveyor belt conveys the cigarette carton in group to a packing point, and the cigarette cartons are respectively printed with management codes through a code printer in the process of advancing to the packing point; and the cigarette is pasted with the identification code and the identification code is scanned.
On the existing cigarette carton distribution production line, a cigarette carton advances in a direction perpendicular to the advancing direction of a conveyor belt, an interval of about 2-3cm is formed between the cigarette carton and the cigarette carton, a code printer is positioned above the conveyor belt and prints codes for the cigarette carton passing below the code printer, a code pasting machine for pasting identification codes and a scanner for scanning the identification codes are arranged above the conveyor belt, a pasting head of the code pasting machine is just opposite to the cigarette carton passing below a scanning head of the scanner, and the gap between the pasting head and the cigarette carton passing below is 0. After the scanning of the scanner, the cigarettes enter a plastic packaging part, the group of cigarettes is stacked in a pile, then a plastic packaging film is added on the outer part, and the plastic packaging film is subjected to thermal shrinkage to complete packaging.
But this packaging process is not suitable for profile cigarette packaging. The special-shaped cigarettes are cigarettes with special-shaped packaging specifications, when the length of each cigarette is 84mm, 20 cigarettes are packaged in each small packet, the cigarettes with hard or soft outer packages belong to normal packaged cigarettes, and if the cigarette is different from the normal packaged cigarettes, the cigarettes belong to special-shaped packaged cigarettes. The special-shaped cigarette has the advantages that the cigarette shred loading amount is small, the tobacco tar filtering effect is better, the package is novel, small and exquisite, the individuality difference is realized, more smokers can accept the special-shaped cigarette, and more smokers can select the special-shaped cigarette. The packing box shapes of the special-shaped cigarettes are not uniform, so that the difference of the appearance sizes of the special-shaped cigarette sticks is very large, the special-shaped cigarette sticks of certain brands are flat, and the special-shaped cigarette sticks of certain brands are square. Since the shapes of the cigarettes are too different, the following problems arise when entering the cigarette dispensing line: the special-shaped cigarettes are easy to topple in the cigarette carton bin in the vertical distribution machine, the shape of the cigarette carton bin in the vertical distribution machine is fixed, and after the special-shaped cigarettes are placed in the cigarette carton bin, a large gap is formed between some special-shaped cigarettes and the bin wall of the cigarette carton bin, so that the special-shaped cigarettes stacked in the cigarette carton bin are toppled, and therefore when the special-shaped cigarettes are distributed, the special-shaped cigarettes in the cigarette carton bin are stuck due to toppling and cannot be discharged; the code printer needs to keep a small and fixed distance with the cigarettes to finish code printing, but the heights of the special-shaped cigarettes are different, the code printer arranged above the conveyor belt cannot keep a distance with the upper surface of the cigarettes, and is often difficult to adapt to all the cigarettes, so that the code printer cannot adapt to all the cigarettes, and code printing errors often occur; the pasting head of the code pasting machine and the scanning head of the scanner need to complete work, the distance between the pasting head and the scanning head is required to be completely consistent with the distance between the pasting head and the scanning head of the scanner and the distance between the pasting head; the special-shaped cigarettes are new popular tobaccos, the market demand fluctuates greatly, equipment is idle when the market demand is low if a plurality of tobacco packaging lines are established, and the situation that the workload cannot be finished is caused if the number of the packaging lines is small, so that blending is difficult.
Therefore, aiming at the special-shaped cigarette, great difficulty is faced in realizing mechanized distribution, if the problem cannot be solved, when the special-shaped cigarette is mechanically distributed, the cigarette is stuck and cannot be discharged during discharging, or more cigarettes are discharged, and error in cigarette distribution can be caused; or the cigarette carton is mechanically damaged when the cigarette carton is stuck, and more personnel are needed to assist in completing the code printing, code pasting and code scanning.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the problems in the prior art, the invention provides an automatic sorting system and a sorting method for special-shaped cigarettes, which solve the problems in the background technology.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme: an automatic sorting system for special-shaped cigarettes comprises: the cigarette carton coding and decoding device comprises a cigarette carton distributing module, a conveying module, a cigarette carton posture adjusting module, a code printing module, a code scanning module, a turnout module and a packaging module;
the cigarette carton distributing module comprises a vertical distributing machine, and the vertical distributing machine is formed by a plurality of cigarette bins in parallel;
the conveying module comprises a conveying belt which penetrates through the whole sorting system;
the cigarette carton posture adjusting module comprises a cigarette carton posture adjuster and an inclined roller, the cigarette carton posture adjuster is arranged at the starting end of the left side wall in the advancing direction of the conveyor belt, and the cigarette carton with the axis vertical to the conveyor belt is straightened into the cigarette carton with the axis parallel to the conveyor belt; the inclined roller is arranged on the conveyor belt, so that the cigarettes can move tightly along the side wall of the conveyor belt;
the coding module comprises a coder and a code pasting device, the coder is arranged at the bottom of the conveyor belt and close to the left side wall of the conveyor belt, and the management codes are printed on the cigarettes; the code pasting device is arranged on the left side wall of the conveyor belt, and the side edge of the cigarette carton is pasted with the identification code;
the code scanning module comprises a code scanner which is arranged on the left side wall of the conveyor belt and used for scanning the identification code and recording the identification code data;
the turnout module comprises two movable plates which are parallel to each other, the tail ends of the movable plates are movably arranged on the side wall of the conveyor belt, and the front ends of the two vertical plates are connected through a cross beam and synchronously swing; the front ends of the vertical plates respectively correspond to the three parallel conveying belts;
the packaging module comprises three packaging point positions, namely a first group of packaging machine, a second group of packaging machine and a manual packaging table, the three packaging point positions are respectively connected to three parallel conveying belts of the turnout module, the first group of packaging machine and the second group of packaging machine are automatic packaging machines, and the manual packaging table is used for carrying out manual packaging by a plurality of workers.
Preferably, the lateral walls on two sides of the cigarette carton bin in the vertical distribution machine and the front wall close to one side of the conveyor belt are adjustable walls, the upper end of each lateral wall is arranged on the vertical distribution machine through an upper screw rod perpendicular to the lateral wall, the lower end of each lateral wall is arranged on the vertical distribution machine through a lower screw rod perpendicular to the lateral wall, two adjustable nuts are arranged on the screws, the lateral walls are fixed between the two adjustable nuts, the upper end and the lower end of each front wall are provided with pin rods, a shaft sleeve is arranged on the front wall of the vertical distribution machine, the pin rods penetrate into the shaft sleeve, a locking screw is arranged on the shaft sleeve and used for locking a pin shaft, and the adjustable walls are used for adapting to the overall dimensions of various cigarette cartons.
Preferably, the adjustable bin wall is additionally provided with an adjustable partition plate, and the partition plate is made of wood, iron sheet or stainless steel plate.
Preferably, the material of the baffle is stainless steel plate.
Preferably, the bin wall of the vertical type dispensing machine is adjusted through the adjustable bin wall, the gap between the length of the special-shaped cigarettes and the bin wall is 16-24 mm, the gap between the width of the special-shaped cigarettes and the bin wall is 11-19 mm, and the gaps can prevent the cigarettes in the cigarette bin from toppling and blocking.
Preferably, the left end and the right end of the inclined roller are respectively fixed on the left side and the right side of the conveyor belt, and the inclined roller deflects by 40-50 degrees along the advancing direction of the cigarettes by taking the left end as a circle center.
Preferably, the cigarette attitude regulator is a spring leaf, the root of the spring leaf is fixed on the right side of the conveyor belt, extends out of the right side wall of the conveyor belt to the middle part of the conveyor belt, and deflects by 40-50 degrees along the advancing direction of the cigarettes by taking the root of the spring leaf as a circle center, the length of the spring leaf is 180-220 mm, the installation height of the spring leaf is 8-18 mm, and the distance between the top of the spring leaf and the left side wall of the conveyor belt is 550-650 mm.
Preferably, the distance from the top of the spring piece to the left side wall of the conveyor belt is 600mm, the length of the spring piece is 220mm, the deflection angle of the spring piece is 45 degrees, and the installation height of the spring piece is 10 mm.
Preferably, the structure of the conveyor belt at the code printer is that two parallel transmission rollers are horizontally arranged in the direction perpendicular to the advancing direction of the conveyor belt, a plurality of O-shaped belts are arranged between the two transmission rollers, a gap is reserved between the O-shaped belts, the gap is close to the left side of the conveyor belt and is 4cm-7cm, and the code printer is arranged in the gap.
Preferably, the sorting method of the special-shaped cigarette automatic sorting system comprises the following steps:
distributing, namely distributing cigarettes in a plurality of cigarette bins of the vertical distributor;
conveying, by a conveyor belt, the dispensed cigarettes;
adjusting the posture of the cigarette carton, namely aligning the cigarette carton vertical to the advancing direction of the conveyor belt to be parallel to the advancing direction of the conveyor belt by a cigarette carton posture adjuster, and continuing to advance along the advancing direction of the conveyor belt; the cigarette carton passes through the inclined roller and is closely attached to the left side of the conveying belt to move;
coding, namely coding the bottom surface of the cigarette carton by a coder at the bottom of the conveyor belt close to the left side wall of the conveyor belt;
the posture of the cigarette carton is adjusted again, and the cigarette carton with the management code passes through a second inclined roller to enable the cigarette carton to be tightly attached to the left side of the conveying belt to move forward;
pasting codes, namely pasting an identification code on the left side surface of the cigarette carton by a code pasting device on the left side wall of the conveyor belt;
scanning codes, namely scanning the identification codes and recording the identification code data by a code scanner on the left side wall of the conveyor belt;
and packaging, namely distributing a packaging task according to the workload of each packaging point location, and transmitting a plurality of cigarettes of the same standard type (the cigarettes at the same point of sale) to the packaging point locations by a turnout for packaging according to the distributed packaging task.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: the vertical cigarette carton coding and sorting machine has the advantages that the equipment cost is low, the fluctuation of market demands can be adapted, the vertical cigarette carton coding and sorting machine can adapt to high market demands and low market demands, the bin wall of the cigarette carton bin in the vertical cigarette carton distributing machine can be adjusted, special-shaped cigarette cartons with any shapes and sizes can be placed in the cigarette carton bin without toppling, and the bottom of the cigarette carton can be coded, so that the code can be effectively coded regardless of the shape size and height change of the cigarette cartons.
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Fig. 1 is a structural diagram of an automatic sorting system for special-shaped cigarettes.
Fig. 2 is a structural view of the vertical dispenser.
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a vertical dispenser front wall installation.
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a front wall mounting structure of the vertical dispenser.
In the figure, 1-cigarette, 2-conveyor belt, 3-inclined roller, 4-O-shaped belt, 5-code printer, 6-code pasting machine, 7-code scanner, 8-turnout, 9-packing machine, 10-cigarette bin, 11-cigarette attitude regulator, 12-manual packing table, 13-vertical distributor, 13-1-side bin wall, 13-2-upper screw rod, 13-3-adjustable nut, 13-4-lower screw rod, 13-5-pin rod, 13-6-shaft sleeve, 13-7-front bin wall and 13-8-locking screw.
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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. 1-4, the present invention provides an automatic sorting system for irregular cigarettes, comprising: the cigarette carton coding and decoding device comprises a cigarette carton distributing module, a conveying module, a cigarette carton posture adjusting module, a code printing module, a code scanning module, a turnout module and a packaging module;
the cigarette carton distributing module comprises a vertical distributor 13, and the vertical distributor 13 is formed by a plurality of cigarette bins 10 in parallel;
the conveyor module comprises a conveyor belt 2 running through the entire sorting system;
the cigarette carton posture adjusting module comprises a cigarette carton posture adjuster 11 and an inclined roller 3, the cigarette carton posture adjuster 11 is arranged at the starting end of the left side wall of the advancing direction of the conveyor belt 2, and the cigarette carton 1 with the axis vertical to the conveyor belt is straightened into the cigarette carton with the axis parallel to the conveyor belt; the inclined roller 3 is arranged on the conveyor belt, so that the cigarettes 1 can closely cling to the side wall of the conveyor belt to travel;
the coding module comprises a coder 5 and a coder 6, the coder 5 is arranged at the bottom of the conveyor belt 2 close to the left side wall of the conveyor belt, and the cigarette carton 1 is coded with a management code; the code pasting device 6 is arranged on the left side wall of the conveyor belt 2 and is used for pasting the identification code on the side edge of the cigarette 1;
the code scanning module comprises a code scanner 7, the code scanner 7 is arranged on the left side wall of the conveyor belt 2, and is used for scanning the identification code and recording the identification code data;
the turnout module comprises two movable plates which are parallel to each other, the tail ends of the movable plates are movably arranged on the side wall of the conveyor belt, and the front ends of the two vertical plates are connected through a cross beam and synchronously swing; the front ends of the vertical plates respectively correspond to the three parallel conveying belts;
the packaging module comprises three packaging point positions, namely a first group of packaging machines 9, a second group of packaging machines and a manual packaging table 12, the three packaging point positions are respectively connected to three parallel conveying belts of the turnout module, the first group of packaging machines and the second group of packaging machines are automatic packaging machines, and the manual packaging table is used for carrying out manual packaging by a plurality of workers.
The vertical distributor 13 is composed of a plurality of cigarette bins 10 in parallel, and both sides of each cigarette bin and the bin wall close to one side of the conveyor belt are adjustable bin walls for adapting to the overall dimension of the cigarettes. The adjustable bin walls comprise side bin walls 13-1 at two sides of the cigarette carton bin 10 and a front bin wall 13-7 close to one side of the conveyor belt, and the upper ends of the side bin walls 13-1 are arranged on the vertical distributor 13 through upper screws 13-2 vertical to the side bin walls; two adjustable nuts 13-3 are arranged on the upper screw 13-2, and the side bin wall is fixed between the two adjustable nuts.
The lower end of the side bin wall 13-1 is also arranged on the vertical distributor 13 through a lower screw 13-4 vertical to the side bin wall; two adjustable nuts 13-3 are arranged on the lower screw 13-4, and the side bin wall is fixed between the two adjustable nuts.
The upper end and the lower end of the front bin wall 13-7 are provided with pin rods 13-5, the front wall of the vertical distributor 13 is provided with a shaft sleeve 13-6, the pin rods penetrate into the shaft sleeve, and the shaft sleeve is provided with locking screws 13-8 for locking the pin shafts.
The adjustable bin wall is an additional clapboard, and the side bin walls 13-1 at two sides of the cigarette carton bin 10 and the front bin wall 13-7 at one side close to the conveyor belt are both arranged as adjustable clapboards. The material of the partition board can be wood, iron sheet, stainless steel plate, etc. Based on the characteristics of various materials, the group formed wood, iron sheet, and stainless steel sheet. In practical use, stainless steel plate is preferably used as a material for manufacturing the separator in order to take into consideration corrosion resistance, formability, and edge hardness.
After the adjustable bin wall is arranged, the partition plate is fixed to a proper point position according to the size of a corresponding cigarette and the gap standards of depth and width. The following is a comparison table of the sizes of part of standard special-shaped cigarettes and adjustable bin walls:
known by the table, after being provided with adjustable bulkhead, adjust through the bulkhead of vertical distributor 13 for the depth dimension in strip cigarette storehouse can more coincide with the length dimension of heterotypic cigarette strip cigarette, and heterotypic cigarette length can be less clearance with the long (degree of depth) of cigarette storage tank, and after adjusting, the clearance between strip cigarette 1 and the bulkhead is for being less than 25mm, is greater than 15mm, and this clearance can prevent that strip cigarette in the strip cigarette storehouse from empting, the card from pausing.
Known by the table, the bulkhead of vertical distributor is adjusted for the width dimension of strip cigarette storehouse can more coincide with the width dimension of heterotypic cigarette strip cigarette, and heterotypic cigarette strip width can littleer clearance with strip cigarette storehouse width, and after adjusting, the clearance between strip cigarette and the bulkhead is for being less than 20mm, is greater than 10mm, and this clearance can prevent that strip cigarette 1 in the strip cigarette storehouse 10 from empting, the card is pause.
A cigarette carton posture regulator 11 is arranged in the advancing direction of the starting end of the conveyor belt 2 and is used for correcting the cigarette cartons with axes vertical to the conveyor belt into the cigarette carton axes parallel to the conveyor belt. The cigarette carton posture regulator 11 is a spring leaf, the root of which is fixed on the right side of the conveyor belt and extends out of the middle part of the conveyor belt from the right side wall of the conveyor belt, and the spring leaf deflects along the advancing direction of the cigarettes by taking the root of the spring leaf as the center of a circle.
The conveyor belt is provided with an inclined roller 3 for enabling the cigarette carton 1 to closely adhere to the side wall of the conveyor belt to travel. The left end and the right end of the inclined roller 3 are respectively fixed on the left side and the right side of the conveyor belt, and the inclined roller deflects by 40-50 degrees along the advancing direction of the cigarettes by taking the left end as a circle center. As the cigarette 1 travels onto the inclined drum, the cigarette 1 is brought by the inclined drum 3 to travel close to the conveyor side walls due to friction.
The cigarette carton posture regulator 11 can be made of plastic plates, aluminum plates, stainless steel and red steel paperboards. The following are properties of various materials:
according to the comparison and evaluation result, the red vulcanized fiber board is selected as the material for processing and manufacturing the cigarette carton posture regulator.
The effect of strip cigarette posture adjustment ware is right the strip cigarette for being on a parallel with conveyer belt advancing direction, and its effect is: when the cigarette carton is parallel to the travelling direction of the conveyor belt, the bottom coding of the follow-up station is facilitated, and the side edge, the code pasting and the code scanning of the follow-up station are also facilitated. Consequently, the effect direct influence of strip cigarette gesture regulator is worked at the back, and the strip cigarette form of dialling effectively more does benefit to later stage work, and it is better in order to make the effect of dialling, need design position, length, angle, mounting height to strip cigarette gesture regulator, the design is as follows:
and selecting the optimal parameters of the reconstruction part and the installation position. Finally, the purpose of increasing the number of times of reaching the standard of the cigarette coding posture of the cigarette is achieved.
The root of the spring leaf is fixed on the right side of the conveyor belt, extends out of the middle part of the conveyor belt from the right side wall of the conveyor belt, and deflects by 45 degrees and +/-5 degrees along the advancing direction of the cigarettes by taking the root of the spring leaf as a circle center.
The distance from the spring piece to the top of the spring piece and the left side wall of the conveying belt is 600 +/-50 mm, the distance is suitable for most of cigarettes, and the distance is designed as follows: when the cigarette carton is dialled and is being on a parallel with conveyer belt advancing direction, the distance of the top of spring leaf and conveyer belt left side wall is greater than the width of cigarette carton, makes the cigarette carton can pass through the clearance of the top of spring leaf and conveyer belt left side wall, simultaneously, can not make the cigarette carton card pause because of the clearance undersize.
The spring piece is 200 mm plus or minus 20 mm. The installation height of the spring piece is as follows: 10mm + -2 mm.
The spring piece is connected with a production result statistical table obtained by the installation parameters:
analysis according to the results of the table above:
(ii) importance of influence of various factors on results
The maximum R difference has the greatest influence on the result, and the minimum R has the smallest influence.
Best test No. 8, results: the standard reaching rate of the cigarette coding posture of the cigarette is 100 percent.
Through comprehensive evaluation, the optimal conditions are as follows: leaf spring to left edge distance: 600mm, spring leaf length: 220mm, 45 degrees of spring piece deflection, spring piece installation height: 10 mm.
Switches 8 are provided on the conveyor 2 for docking the package parts. The turnout structure specifically comprises: the conveyor belt comprises two movable plates which are parallel to each other, the tail ends of the movable plates are movably arranged on the side wall of the conveyor belt, and the front ends of two vertical plates are connected through a cross beam and synchronously swing; the front ends of the vertical plates correspond to three parallel conveying belts respectively, and the three parallel conveying belts are connected to the first group of packaging machines 9, the second group of packaging machines and the manual packaging table 12 respectively.
The packaging part comprises more than two packaging point positions, and specifically comprises a group of packaging machines and at least one group of manual packaging tables. The packaging part comprises three packaging point positions, specifically a first group of packaging machines 9, a second group of packaging machines and a manual packaging table 12, the first group of packaging machines and the second group of packaging machines are automatic packaging machines, and the manual packaging table is used for performing manual packaging by a plurality of workers.
The parts are arranged in the following order: the vertical distributor 13, the inclined roller 3, the code printer 5, the inclined roller, the code pasting machine 6, the code scanner 7, the turnout 8 and the packaging point.
The invention provides a sorting method of an automatic sorting system for special-shaped cigarettes, which comprises the following steps:
distributing, namely distributing the cigarettes 1 by a plurality of cigarette bins 10 of a vertical distributor 13;
conveying, by a conveyor belt 2, the dispensed cigarettes 1;
adjusting the posture of the cigarette carton, namely turning the cigarette carton 1 vertical to the advancing direction of the conveyor belt 2 into the cigarette carton parallel to the advancing direction of the conveyor belt by a cigarette carton posture adjuster 11, and continuing to advance along the advancing direction of the conveyor belt; the cigarette carton 1 passes through the inclined roller 3 and is closely attached to the left side of the conveyor belt to move;
coding, namely coding the bottom surface of the cigarette 1 with a management code by a coder 5 at the bottom of the conveyor belt, which is close to the left side wall of the conveyor belt;
the posture of the cigarette carton is adjusted again, and the cigarette carton 1 with the management code passes through a second inclined roller to be closely attached to the left side of the conveyor belt to move;
pasting codes, namely pasting an identification code on the left side surface of the cigarette carton by a code pasting device 6 on the left side wall of the conveyor belt 2;
scanning codes, namely scanning the identification codes and recording the identification code data by a code scanner 7 on the left side wall of the conveyor belt 2;
and packaging, namely distributing a packaging task according to the workload of each packaging point location, and transmitting a plurality of cigarettes of the same standard type (the cigarettes at the same point of sale) to the packaging point locations by a turnout for packaging according to the distributed packaging task.
After the cigarette 1 is distributed by the vertical distributor 13, the cigarette posture regulator 11 corrects the cigarette perpendicular to the advancing direction of the conveyor belt 2 into the cigarette parallel to the advancing direction of the conveyor belt, and continues to advance along the advancing direction of the conveyor belt; specifically, after one end of a cigarette carton vertical to the advancing direction of the conveyor belt is collided with the cigarette carton posture regulator 11, the collision end is blocked, the other end continues to advance, the cigarette carton 1 rotates to be parallel to the advancing direction of the conveyor belt, the cigarette carton parallel to the advancing direction of the conveyor belt travels on the inclined roller 3, and the cigarette carton is brought to be closely attached to the left side of the conveyor belt to advance by the friction force of the inclined roller 3.
And a code printer 5 is arranged at the bottom of the conveying belt and close to the side wall of the conveying belt and is used for printing a management code on the cigarette carton. The structure of the conveyor belt at the coder 5 is specifically as follows: the conveying belt conveyor comprises two parallel transmission rollers, wherein the transmission rollers are horizontally arranged and are vertical to the advancing direction of a conveying belt; a plurality of O-shaped belts 4 are arranged between the two transmission rollers, a gap is reserved between the O-shaped belts 4, and a code printer 5 is arranged in the gap; the clearance be 4cm-7cm, the clearance is close to the conveyer belt left side, and when strip cigarette 1 marchd here, the strip cigarette passes through from the code printer 5, no matter how big or small the height size of strip cigarette, when he walked on the conveyer belt, its bottom must be tiled on the conveyer belt, therefore the strip cigarette of different sizes and the distance of code printer are certain to can adapt to the code printer work of special-shaped strip cigarette.
And the side wall of the conveying belt is also provided with a code pasting machine 6 and a code scanner 7 which are used for pasting the identification code on the side edge of the cigarette carton 1 and scanning the identification code. Because the cigarette sticks closely walk on the side wall, when the code pasting machine 6 and the code scanner 7 are arranged on the side wall, the side faces of the cigarette sticks with different sizes are in contact with the code pasting machine 6, the cigarette sticks are not blocked with the code pasting head, and therefore the cigarette sticks are suitable for code pasting and code scanning of special-shaped cigarette sticks.
Conveyer belt 2 both sides limit is left side and right side, and code printer 5, subsides ink recorder 6, bar code scanner 7 all set up the left side at the conveyer belt, and strip cigarette gesture regulator 11 sets up on the right side.
Distributing the packaging tasks according to the workload of each packaging point location; collecting the average time consumption required by processing the packaging once by each packaging point, calculating the remaining time of processing the current packaging task by each packaging point in the current state, and selecting the packaging point with the least remaining time of processing the current packaging task as an execution packaging point of the next packaging task; the selection priority order is: a first group of packaging machines 9, a second group of packaging machines, a manual packaging station 12. The packaging point design reason of the method is as follows: from the whole production line, when only one group of packaging machines is provided, the cost of each component on the vertical type distributing machine, the conveying belt and the upper conveying belt is large, the total cost is about 60%, the occupied area is about 70%, the cost of one group of packaging machines only accounts for 30% of the whole production line and is a small part, but the same standard task is completed once, the time of one group of packaging machines is up to 70%, the previous vertical type distributing, management code printing, code pasting and code scanning are completed very quickly, and the time of the previous vertical type distributing, management code printing, code pasting and code scanning is less than half of the time of packaging and is even faster. If arranged to meet the most demanding market requirements, then conventionally, multiple lines are required, each line containing a vertical dispenser, a conveyor belt, a management code, a labeler, a code scanner, and a packer. But if market demand is down regulated, the multiple pipelines deployed are largely idle. The invention adopts a production line to configure a packaging point, and the packaging point comprises two groups of packaging machines and a group of manual packaging platforms, so that the time difference of the vertical distributing machine and the packaging machines for completing the work can be fully utilized, and the equipment investment is reduced. When market needs are vigorous, two sets of packagine machines and manual packaging platform all participate in packing work, when market demand down-regulates, can reduce manual packaging platform, even reduce to a set of packagine machine to reach the purpose of nimble adaptation market demand.
The method is adopted to carry out three-month use experiments, the three-month special-shaped cigarette sorting efficiency is obtained, statistical analysis is carried out, and the data table is checked by comparing the traditional process before the method with the sorting efficiency of the method:
it can be seen that the sorting efficiency of the special-shaped cigarette sorting line is improved from 2705 cigarettes/hour before to 3736 cigarettes/hour in the invention.
Meanwhile, the method is supervised, when a certain device or part has a fault, the whole assembly line is stopped, time waste is caused, but the device fault is inevitable, and the method is used for reducing the fault rate. By monitoring the method, the down time condition of the sent sorting link is obtained as shown in the following table:
it can be known that the faults of the vertical distributing machine, the code printer, the code pasting machine and the code scanning machine do not affect the whole distributing process.
The sorting efficiency of the special-shaped cigarette sorting line is improved, the requirement is met, the stable propulsion of lean logistics is ensured, and the requirement of lean management is met. The steady state operation of the equipment is ensured, and the operation capacity of the equipment is further improved.
Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes in the embodiments and/or modifications of the invention can be made, and equivalents and modifications of some features of the invention can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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1. An automatic sorting system for special-shaped cigarettes comprises: the cigarette carton coding and decoding device comprises a cigarette carton distributing module, a conveying module, a cigarette carton posture adjusting module, a code printing module, a code scanning module, a turnout module and a packaging module;
the cigarette carton distributing module comprises a vertical distributor (13) which is formed by a plurality of cigarette bins (10) in parallel;
the conveying module comprises a conveying belt (2) which penetrates through the whole sorting system;
the cigarette carton posture adjusting module comprises a cigarette carton posture adjuster (11) and an inclined roller (3), the cigarette carton posture adjuster (11) is arranged at the starting end of the left side wall of the advancing direction of the conveyor belt (2), and the cigarette carton (1) with the axis vertical to the conveyor belt is straightened into the cigarette carton with the axis parallel to the conveyor belt; the inclined roller (3) is arranged on the conveyor belt, so that the cigarettes (1) can move close to the side wall of the conveyor belt;
the coding module comprises a coder (5) and a code pasting device (6), the coder (5) is arranged at the bottom of the conveyor belt close to the left side wall of the conveyor belt, and the cigarette carton (1) is coded with a management code; the code pasting device (6) is arranged on the left side wall of the conveyor belt, and the side edge of the cigarette carton (1) is pasted with the identification code;
the code scanning module comprises a code scanner (7), the code scanner (7) is arranged on the left side wall of the conveyor belt, scans the identification code and records the identification code data;
the turnout module comprises two movable plates which are parallel to each other, the tail ends of the movable plates are movably arranged on the side wall of the conveyor belt, and the front ends of the two vertical plates are connected through a cross beam and synchronously swing; the front ends of the vertical plates respectively correspond to the three parallel conveying belts;
the packaging module comprises three packaging point positions, specifically a first group of packaging machines (9), a second group of packaging machines and a manual packaging table (12), the three packaging point positions are respectively connected to three parallel conveying belts of the turnout module, the first group of packaging machines and the second group of packaging machines are automatic packaging machines, and the manual packaging table (12) is used for carrying out manual packaging by a plurality of workers;
the cigarette carton distributing machine is characterized in that side bin walls (13-1) on two sides of a cigarette carton bin (10) in the vertical distributing machine (13) and a front bin wall (13-7) close to one side of the conveyor belt are adjustable bin walls, the upper end of each side bin wall (13-1) is arranged on the vertical distributing machine through an upper screw rod (13-2) perpendicular to the corresponding side bin wall, the lower end of each side bin wall (13-1) is arranged on the vertical distributing machine (13) through a lower screw rod (13-4) perpendicular to the corresponding side bin wall, two adjustable nuts (13-3) are arranged on the screws, and the side bin walls (13-1) are fixed between the two adjustable nuts (13-3); the upper end and the lower end of the front bin wall (13-7) are provided with pin rods (13-5), the front bin wall of the vertical distribution machine is provided with a shaft sleeve (13-6), the pin rods (13-5) penetrate into the shaft sleeve (13-6), the shaft sleeve (13-6) is provided with locking screws (13-8) for locking the pin shafts, and the bin wall can be adjusted to adapt to the overall dimensions of various cigarettes.
2. The automatic sorting system for irregular cigarettes according to claim 1, characterized in that: the adjustable bin wall is additionally provided with an adjustable partition plate, and the partition plate is made of wood, iron sheet or stainless steel plate.
3. The automatic sorting system for irregular cigarettes according to claim 2, characterized in that: the material of the clapboard is stainless steel plate.
4. The automatic sorting system for irregular cigarettes according to claim 1, characterized in that: the adjustable bin wall adjusts the bin wall of the vertical distributing machine, the gap between the length of the special-shaped cigarettes and the bin wall is 16-24 mm, the gap between the width of the special-shaped cigarettes and the bin wall is 11-19 mm, and the gaps can prevent the cigarettes in the cigarette bin from toppling and blocking.
5. The automatic sorting system for irregular cigarettes according to claim 1, characterized in that: the left end and the right end of the inclined roller (3) are respectively fixed on the left side and the right side of the conveyor belt (2), and the inclined roller (3) deflects by 40-50 degrees along the advancing direction of the cigarettes (1) by taking the left end as a circle center.
6. The automatic sorting system for irregular cigarettes according to claim 1, characterized in that: the cigarette attitude regulator (11) is a spring piece, the root of the spring piece is fixed on the right side of the conveyor belt (2), extends out of the right side wall of the conveyor belt to the middle of the conveyor belt, and deflects by 40-50 degrees along the advancing direction of the cigarette carton (1) by taking the root of the spring piece as the center of circle, the length of the spring piece is 180-220 mm, the installation height of the spring piece is 8-18 mm, and the distance between the top of the spring piece and the left side wall of the conveyor belt is 550-650 mm.
7. The automatic sorting system for irregular cigarettes according to claim 6, characterized in that: the distance from the spring piece to the top of the spring piece to the left side wall of the conveyor belt (2) is 600mm, the length of the spring piece is 220mm, the deflection angle of the spring piece is 45 degrees, and the installation height of the spring piece is 10 mm.
8. The automatic sorting system for irregular cigarettes according to claim 1, characterized in that: the structure of the conveying belt (2) at the code printer (5) is that two parallel transmission rollers are horizontally arranged on the direction perpendicular to the advancing direction of the conveying belt, a plurality of O-shaped belts (4) are arranged between the two transmission rollers, a gap is reserved between the O-shaped belts (4), the gap is close to the left side of the conveying belt and is 4cm-7cm, and the code printer (5) is arranged in the gap.
9. The sorting method of the automatic sorting system for the special-shaped cigarettes according to any one of claims 1 to 8, comprising the following steps:
distributing, namely distributing the cigarettes (1) by a plurality of cigarette bins (10) of the vertical distributor (13);
conveying, by a conveyor belt (2), the dispensed cigarettes (1);
the cigarette carton posture is adjusted, a cigarette carton posture adjuster (11) corrects the cigarette carton (1) which is vertical to the advancing direction of the conveyor belt (2) into the cigarette carton which is parallel to the advancing direction of the conveyor belt and continues to advance along the advancing direction of the conveyor belt; the cigarette carton passes through the inclined roller (3) and is closely attached to the left side of the conveying belt to move;
coding, namely coding the bottom surface of the cigarette carton (1) with a management code by a coder (5) at the bottom of the conveyor belt (2) close to the left side wall of the conveyor belt;
the posture of the cigarette carton is adjusted again, and the cigarette carton (1) with the management code passes through a second inclined roller (3) to be attached to the left side of the conveyor belt (2) to move forward;
pasting codes, namely pasting an identification code on the left side surface of the cigarette carton (1) by a code pasting device (6) on the left side wall of the conveyor belt (2);
scanning codes, namely scanning the identification codes and recording the identification code data by a code scanner (7) on the left side wall of the conveyor belt (2);
and packaging, wherein a packaging task is distributed according to the workload of each packaging point, and a plurality of cigarettes (1) gathered by the cigarettes at the same point of sale are transmitted to the packaging points by a turnout (8) according to the distributed packaging task for packaging.
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