CN111377386A - Perfusion device - Google Patents
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The invention relates to the technical field of food packaging, in particular to a filling device. The perfusion apparatus comprises: a base frame for holding a container; the pressing mechanism is arranged on the basic frame and used for pressing the container when the container is filled; the floating filling unit is arranged corresponding to the container so as to perform product filling and floating operation on the container; and a drive adjusting unit mounted on the base frame; wherein, drive the regulating unit and be connected with the transmission of floating filling unit, realize floating and filling the operation to the product in the container with the floating filling unit of drive, and then provide the support to the container by basic frame, and compress tightly the container through pressing mechanism, floating filling unit carries out product filling and floating operation to the container, and set up the operation that drive the regulating unit and realize floating filling the unit and carry out floating filling work, make process such as filling floating go on automatically, for the operation of filling with the manual work, can promote the efficiency among the work progress of filling greatly.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of food packaging, in particular to a filling device.
Background
At present, in a processing line of products such as ice cream or cheese, when the products such as ice cream or cheese are poured into a large barreled container, the pouring work of the products such as ice cream or cheese is generally realized manually due to the fact that the products such as ice cream or cheese are thick, the pouring work comprises the procedures of pouring, weighing, floating and the like, and finally, the products are increased and decreased according to the weight of the products, so that the pouring work of the large barreled products is realized.
Although the above-mentioned operation can realize the pouring work of products such as ice cream or cheese, the production efficiency of the whole manual pouring is low in the large-scale pouring work. Because personnel can have the error of operation, can lead to appearing the cavity in the ice cream or the cheese in the barreled product, simultaneously because the consistency of products such as ice cream or cheese, be difficult for realizing the increase of weight.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention mainly aims to provide a filling device for barreled products, which is used for solving the problem of low filling efficiency in the filling work in the prior art.
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a filling device for filling a container, comprising:
a base frame for holding the container;
the pressing mechanism is arranged on the basic frame and used for pressing the container when the container is filled;
the floating filling unit is arranged corresponding to the container so as to perform product filling and floating operation on the container; and
a drive adjusting unit mounted on the base frame;
the driving adjusting unit is in transmission connection with the floating filling unit to drive the floating filling unit to realize floating and filling operations of the product in the container.
Further, the driving adjustment unit includes:
the supporting plate is used for installing the floating pouring unit;
and the second cylinder group is arranged on the basic frame and is matched with the supporting plate through a second ejector rod, and the supporting plate can move up and down under the driving of the second cylinder group.
Further, the driving adjustment unit further includes: and the driving motor is arranged between the floating filling unit and the supporting plate and can drive the floating filling unit to rotate.
Further, the pressing mechanism comprises a first cylinder group installed on the basic frame, a pressing plate abutted against the upper edge of the container, and a first ejector rod arranged between the first cylinder group and the pressing plate, and the pressing plate presses the container under the driving force of the first cylinder group.
Further, the base frame includes:
the weighing plate is used as a support plate and can be used for placing the container;
a mounting plate for mounting the cylinder block; and
and the support rod is connected with the weighing plate and the mounting plate.
Further, the floating perfusion unit comprises:
the rotary disc is provided with a discharge port, and the discharge port is communicated with the feeding channel of the floating pouring unit;
and the troweling plate is arranged close to the discharge port and can trowel the feed liquid when the rotating disc rotates and/or rises under the driving of the driving adjusting unit.
Furthermore, a wedge-shaped inclined plane is formed on the troweling plate.
Further, the floating perfusion unit comprises: the position adjusting mechanism comprises a limiting piece protruding out of the rotating disc in the circumferential direction of the rotating disc, and a spring with one end abutted against the limiting piece and the other end abutted against the rotating disc.
Further, the limiting part comprises three bearings protruding from the rotating disc.
Further, the filling device also comprises a vibration type material supplementing mechanism arranged on the floating filling unit, and the vibration type material supplementing mechanism can discharge materials with small flow when the mass of the material supplementing mechanism is close to the preset mass of the container.
The technical scheme of the invention has the following advantages:
in the filling device provided by the invention, the basic frame is arranged to support the container, the pressing mechanism is used for pressing the container tightly, the floating filling unit is used for filling and floating the product into the container, and the driving adjusting unit is arranged to realize floating filling operation of the floating filling unit, so that the filling and floating processes can be automatically carried out, and the efficiency in the filling process can be greatly improved compared with the manual filling operation.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present invention, and other drawings can be obtained by those skilled in the art without creative efforts. In the drawings:
fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a perfusion device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a floating perfusion unit in the perfusion apparatus shown in fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a schematic perspective view of a rotary plate in the floating perfusion unit shown in fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a schematic bottom view of the rotary plate of the floating perfusion unit shown in fig. 2.
FIG. 5 is a schematic front view of the vibrator feeding mechanism of the perfusion apparatus shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 6 is a schematic bottom view of the vibrator feeding mechanism of the perfusion apparatus shown in FIG. 1.
Wherein the reference numerals in the above figures are:
1. a weighing plate; 2. mounting a plate; 3. a support rod; 4. a compression plate; 5. a top rod; 6. a first cylinder group; 7. a support plate; 8. a top rod; 9. a second cylinder group; 11. a drive motor; 13. a container;
10. a floating perfusion unit; 10-1, a connecting seat; 10-2, a feed pipe; 10-3, rotating the disc; 10-4, a rotating shaft; 10-5, a position adjusting plate; 10-6, a sliding block; 10-7, a bearing; 10-8, a spring; 10-9, floating blocks;
12. a flutter type material supplementing mechanism; 12-1, a sealing material valve rod; 12-2, a material sealing cylinder; 12-3, compressing the spring; 12-4, a rotating electrical machine; 12-5, shaking the cam.
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The technical solutions of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it should be understood that the described embodiments are some, but not all embodiments of the present invention. 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.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", etc., indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.
According to the filling device in this application specifically be used for the pouring of the thick product of gluing such as ice cream or cheese, realize the automation of processes such as filling, weigh, floating and go on.
The filling device comprises a basic frame for placing the container; the pressing mechanism is arranged on the basic frame and used for pressing the container when the container is filled; the floating filling unit is arranged corresponding to the container so as to perform product filling and floating operation on the container; and a drive adjusting unit mounted on the base frame; the driving adjusting unit is in transmission connection with the floating filling unit to drive the floating filling unit to realize floating and filling operations of the product in the container. Adopt above-mentioned filling device, provide the support to the container through setting up basic frame to compress tightly the container through pressing mechanism, and carry out the product through floating the filling unit and fill and float the operation with floating the container, and set up the operation that drive adjusting unit realized floating the filling unit and carry out floating the filling work, make process such as filling floating can go on automatically, for the operation of filling with the manual work, can promote the efficiency among the work progress of filling greatly.
Specifically, as shown in fig. 1 to 5, the perfusion apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a base frame, a pressing mechanism, a floating perfusion unit, and a drive adjustment unit.
The basic frame is composed of a weighing plate 1, a mounting plate 2 and four support rods 3. Two groups of cylinders, including a first cylinder group 6 and a second cylinder group 9, are provided on the mounting plate 2, respectively.
First cylinder group 6 and the cooperation of first ejector pin 5 among the pressing mechanism, first ejector pin 5 lower extreme are provided with pressure strip 4, and pressure strip 4 is under the drive of first cylinder group 6 during production, and the border of the container 13 that sticiss down makes container 13 stabilize on weighing plate 1, has avoided the container skew to influence the quality of filling in the work of pouring into.
And a second cylinder group 9 in the driving and adjusting unit is matched with a second ejector rod 8, a supporting plate 7 is arranged at the lower end of the second ejector rod 8, a floating filling unit 10 is arranged on the supporting plate 7, and the floating filling unit can be driven to rotate by a driving motor 11 in the driving and adjusting unit.
During pouring production, when the pressing plate 4 presses the edge of the container 13, the second cylinder group 9 starts to descend, so that the lower plane of the floating pouring unit 10 is close to the bottom of the container 13, meanwhile, the driving motor 11 starts to drive the floating pouring unit 10 to rotate, discharging and pouring are carried out, and according to the discharging speed, the second cylinder group 9 drives the floating pouring unit 10 to move upwards at a constant speed until the filling weight meets the product requirement.
As shown in fig. 2, for the floating pouring unit 10 in the present embodiment, the floating pouring unit 10 is disposed on the pallet 7, specifically, disposed at the lower end of the driving motor 11 through the connecting base 10-1, and rotates under the driving of the driving motor 11 to implement the floating and pouring operations.
The lower end of the connecting seat 10-1 is provided with a feeding pipe 10-2, and the feeding pipe 10-2 is connected with a discharge hole in the rotating disc 10-3. The rotating disc 10-3 is connected with a driving shaft of a driving motor 11 through a rotating shaft 10-4, and drives the rotating disc 10-3 to rotate under the driving of the driving motor 11.
Preferably, the floating pouring unit 10 in this embodiment further comprises a position adjusting mechanism, which can ensure that the floating pouring unit 10 is kept concentric with the container 13 at any moment and does not deflect or topple over by adjusting the position of the rotating disc 10-3.
As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, for the specific structure of the position adjusting mechanism, 3 three groove-shaped structures are arranged on the rotating disk 10-3, a slider 10-6 and a spring 10-8 are arranged in the three groove-shaped structures, one end of the spring 10-8 is pressed against one end of a groove on the rotating disk 10-3, and the other end of the spring is pressed against the slider 10-6. The slider 10-6 is provided with a bearing 10-7 as a limit piece, the slider 10-6 and the bearing 10-7 can slide outwards under the action of a spring 10-8, and the circumferential surface of the bearing 10-8 protrudes out of the circumferential surface of the rotating disk 10-3. A position adjusting plate 10-5 is arranged on a rotating disk 10-3, 3 half-moon-shaped slotted holes are arranged on the position adjusting plate 10-5, the slotted holes are connected with a limiting rod of a sliding block 10-6, when the position adjusting plate 10-5 rotates in the same direction with the rotating disk 10-3, half-moon-shaped grooves of the position adjusting plate 10-5 force the sliding block 10-6 to compress a spring 10-8, so that the sliding block 10-6 and a bearing 10-7 move towards the rotating center direction of the rotating disk 10-3, the circumferential surface of the bearing 10-7 is lower than the circumferential surface of the rotating disk 10-3, at the moment, along with the descending action of the floating perfusion unit 10, the circumferential surface of the rotating disk 10-3 of the floating perfusion unit 10 can smoothly enter the inner part of a container 13, when the lower surface of the rotating disk 10 is, the position debugging plate 10-5 rotates reversely, under the rebound action of the spring 10-8, the sliding block 10-6 and the bearing 10-8 slide outwards and restore to the state that the circumferential surface of the bearing protrudes out of the circumferential surface of the rotating disk 10-3 until the circumferential surface of the bearing contacts with the inner circular surface of the container 13. When the driving motor 11 drives the floating filling unit 10 to rotate, the 3 bearings are adhered to the inner surface of the container to slide, so that the floating filling unit 10 can be kept concentric with the container 13 at any time without deflection and toppling.
In the filling operation, the feed liquid can enter from the feed inlet of the feed pipe 10-2, the lower surface of the rotating disc 10-3 is provided with a discharge outlet from which the feed liquid flows out, one side of the discharge outlet is provided with a leveling block 10-9 which is wedge-shaped and is positioned behind the rotation direction of the discharge outlet, when the rotary filling action of the leveling filling unit 10 is accompanied with the upward action of the second cylinder group 9, the leveling block 10-9 moves in a spiral ascending track, and when the feed liquid flows out of the discharge outlet, the wedge-shaped inclined surface of the leveling block 10-9 can be rapidly contacted, so that the feed liquid is leveled and is overlapped with the previous layer of feed liquid. And (4) performing technical filling action until the weighing plate 1 detects that the filling weight meets the product requirement. Therefore, the automatic filling work of large barreled products is realized.
Preferably, as shown in fig. 4 and 5, a tremble type feeding mechanism 12 is arranged on the feeding pipe 10-2, when the container 13 is normally filled, the tremble type feeding mechanism 12 is in an open state, the feed liquid flows downwards along the arc surface at the front end of the sealing valve rod 12-1, an elongated hole is arranged on the sealing valve rod 12-1, and the rotating shaft 10-4 passes through the hole. When the feed liquid in the container 13 is about to be filled, the sealing air cylinder 12-2 pushes the compression spring 12-3, so that the sealing valve rod 12-1 is pushed to move forwards, the cylindrical surface of the sealing valve rod closes the feed liquid, the feed liquid is organized to flow downwards, the rotating motor 12-4 rotates at the moment to drive the vibration cam 12-5 to rotate, the flange of the vibration cam 12-5 is tangent to the ear-shaped structure on the sealing valve rod 12-1, when the vibration cam 12-5 rotates, the flange structure of the cam can push the ear-shaped structure of the sealing valve rod 12-1 to generate a vibration effect, the sealing position of the sealing valve rod 12-1 is released, small-flow discharging is carried out, the gram weight of the feed liquid in the container 13 is supplemented, and the gram weight requirement of a barreled product is met. And adjusting the tremble discharging frequency and the discharging time according to the deviation amount of the gram weight of the feed liquid calculated by the feedback of the weighing plate 1 until the feed liquid in the container 13 just reaches the required weight of the product, and stopping the tremble discharging action.
It should be understood that the above examples are only for clarity of illustration and are not intended to limit the embodiments. Other variations and modifications will be apparent to persons skilled in the art in light of the above description. And are neither required nor exhaustive of all embodiments. And obvious variations or modifications therefrom are within the scope of the invention.
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1. A filling device for filling a container, comprising:
a base frame for holding the container;
the pressing mechanism is arranged on the basic frame and used for pressing the container when the container is filled;
the floating filling unit is arranged corresponding to the container so as to perform product filling and floating operation on the container; and
a drive adjusting unit mounted on the base frame;
the driving adjusting unit is in transmission connection with the floating filling unit to drive the floating filling unit to realize floating and filling operations of the product in the container.
2. The perfusion apparatus of claim 1, wherein the drive adjustment unit comprises:
the supporting plate is used for installing the floating pouring unit;
and the second cylinder group is arranged on the basic frame and is matched with the supporting plate through a second ejector rod, and the supporting plate can move up and down under the driving of the second cylinder group.
3. The perfusion apparatus of claim 2, wherein the drive adjustment unit further comprises: and the driving motor is arranged between the floating filling unit and the supporting plate and can drive the floating filling unit to rotate.
4. The perfusion apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the pressing mechanism comprises a first cylinder group mounted on the base frame, a pressing plate abutting against an upper edge of the container, and a first ram disposed between the first cylinder group and the pressing plate, the pressing plate pressing against the container under a driving force of the first cylinder group.
5. The perfusion apparatus of claim 1, wherein the base housing comprises:
the weighing plate is used as a support plate and can be used for placing the container;
a mounting plate for mounting the cylinder block; and
and the support rod is connected with the weighing plate and the mounting plate.
6. The perfusion apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the troweling perfusion unit comprises:
the rotary disc is provided with a discharge port, and the discharge port is communicated with the feeding channel of the floating pouring unit;
and the troweling plate is arranged close to the discharge port and can trowel the feed liquid when the rotating disc rotates and/or rises under the driving of the driving adjusting unit.
7. The perfusion apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the trowel plate is formed with a tapered ramp.
8. The perfusion device of claim 6, wherein the troweling perfusion unit comprises: the position adjusting mechanism comprises a limiting piece protruding out of the rotating disc in the circumferential direction of the rotating disc, and a spring with one end abutted against the limiting piece and the other end abutted against the rotating disc.
9. The perfusion apparatus of claim 8, wherein the stop comprises three bearings protruding from the rotatable disk.
10. The perfusion apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising a vibrator feeding mechanism mounted on the floating perfusion unit, the vibrator feeding mechanism being capable of small discharge when approaching a preset mass of the vessel.
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