Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a method for conveying beads, which is convenient to swing and aims to solve the problems in the prior art in use.
The technical scheme for solving the existing problems is as follows: a bead conveying method is characterized in that a bead guide rod capable of stringing beads to position beads is arranged, the bead guide rod is suspended at a bead taking station above a bead conveying structure, as an improvement, a bead swinging piece and a first driver are arranged at the output end of the bead guide rod, the first driver drives the bead swinging piece provided with bead through holes to enter the bead taking station to supply the beads, a corresponding number of beads slide into a clamping opening of a clamping arm arranged on a bead conveying clamp component from the bead through holes of the bead swinging piece, the first driver drives the bead swinging piece to be separated from the bead taking station, and the bead conveying clamp component of the bead conveying structure conveys the beads to the bead embroidering station.
As a further improvement, a stop structure is arranged at the position of the non-bead-taking station on the running track of the bead-swinging piece passing through the output port of the hole.
As a further improvement, the stopping structure is set to be a stopping part for stopping the output of the beads and a second driver, and the second driver drives the stopping part to be separated from the stopping position of the bead swinging piece along with the bead swinging piece entering the bead taking station and to be stopped at the bead passing hole output port along with the bead swinging piece being separated from the bead taking station.
As a further improvement, the ball guide rod is arranged into an upper section, a middle section and a lower section, wherein the rigidity of the middle section is smaller than that of the upper section and the lower section.
As a further improvement, the upper and lower sections of the ball guide rod are set as rigid sections, and the middle section is set as a flexible section.
As a further improvement, a positioning column for positioning the beads sliding down from the bead guiding rod in the bead swinging piece is arranged at the clamping station on the bead feeding structure, and the positioning column is positioned at the clamping opening of the clamping arm arranged on the conveying clamp assembly of the bead taking station and is concentric; and a positioning column separation structure is arranged, and when the clamping port of the clamping arm arranged on the conveying clamp assembly is positioned at the non-bead taking station, the positioning column is controlled to be separated from the bead or the clamping port.
As a further improvement, the positioning column can be deflected towards the bead feeding direction of the bead feeding mechanism, an elastic body for driving the positioning column to reset the positioning beads is arranged on the positioning column, a bottom plate is arranged at the position, located at the positioning column, of the bead feeding structure, and a containing groove capable of containing the deflected positioning column is arranged on the bottom plate.
As a further improvement, the ball swinging piece is movably arranged on a support frame in a rotatable mode, and the first driver comprises a driving motor, a connecting motor shaft and a transmission assembly for transmitting the motor to the ball swinging piece.
As a further improvement, the stop element is provided with a switching arm, and the switching arm is rotatably arranged relative to the swinging ball element.
As a further improvement, the stop piece is provided with a switching arm, and the ball swinging piece and the switching arm are concentrically and movably arranged on a support frame of the ball swinging piece in a rotating way.
Compared with the prior art, the bead conveying method has the advantages that the bead swinging assembly and the first driver are arranged at the output end of the bead guide rod, the first driver drives the bead swinging piece provided with the bead through hole to enter the bead taking station to supply beads, a corresponding number of beads slide into the clamping opening of the clamping arm arranged on the bead conveying structure conveying clamp assembly from the bead through hole of the bead swinging piece, the first driver drives the bead swinging piece to be separated from the bead taking station, and the bead conveying clamp assembly of the bead conveying structure conveys beads to the bead embroidering station. Because the pearl will be put into and send pearl structure by pendulum pearl piece at getting pearl station, consequently pendulum pearl piece can put into the pearl structure department of sending with the pearl of different specifications, and the pearl of different specifications will not receive to send pearl structure centre gripping mouth degree of depth influence. The universal beads with different specifications are realized, and the problem that the conventional bead feeding structure directly takes beads depending on the distance between the suspension bead guiding rod and the bead feeding structure and the depth of the clamping port is avoided.
Furthermore, the bead guide rod body comprises an upper section, a middle section and a lower section, the rigidity of the middle section is smaller than that of the upper section and the lower section, so that the resistance of the lower section of the bead guide rod can be reduced on the whole when the lower section swings, the lower section can swing conveniently, and meanwhile, the lower section of the bead guide rod can still keep the precision of relatively high positioning beads in the swing process of the lower section. The ball guide rod is suitable for a ball swinging structure.
Detailed Description
Referring to fig. 1 to 13, in the present embodiment, a bead guiding rod 200 capable of beading to position beads is provided, the bead guiding rod 200 is suspended at a bead taking station above a bead feeding structure, a bead swinging member 101 and a first driver 109 are provided at an output end of the bead guiding rod 200, the first driver 109 drives the bead swinging member 101 provided with bead passing holes to enter the bead taking station to supply beads, a corresponding number of beads slide from the bead passing holes of the bead swinging member 101 into a clamping opening 124 of a clamping arm 122 provided in a bead feeding structure conveying clamp assembly, the first driver 109 drives the bead swinging member 101 to separate from the bead taking station, and the bead feeding structure conveying clamp assembly feeds beads to an embroidery bead station.
A stop structure is arranged at the position of the bead-taking out station on the track of the bead swinging piece 101 passing through the output port of the bead passing hole.
The stopping structure is set to be a stopping part for stopping the output of the beads and a second driver, and the second driver drives the stopping part to be separated from the stopping position of the bead swinging piece 101 when the bead swinging piece 101 enters the bead taking station and to be stopped at the bead passing hole output port when the bead swinging piece 101 is separated from the bead taking station.
The bead guide rod 200 is provided in three sections, an upper section, a middle section and a lower section, wherein the rigidity of the middle section is smaller than that of the upper section and the lower section.
The upper and lower sections of the ball guide rod 200 are set as rigid sections, and the middle section is set as a flexible section.
A positioning column 108 for positioning the beads sliding from the bead guiding rod 200 in the bead swinging piece 101 is arranged at the clamping station on the bead feeding structure, and the positioning column 108 is positioned concentrically with the clamping opening 124 of the clamping arm 122 arranged on the conveying clamp assembly of the bead taking station; a positioning post 108 disengaging structure is provided to control the positioning post 108 to disengage from the bead or clamping opening 124 when the clamping opening 124 of the clamping arm 122 of the transport clamp assembly is in the non-bead-picking position.
The positioning post 108 can be deflected towards the bead feeding direction of the bead feeding mechanism, the positioning post 108 is provided with an elastic body for driving the positioning post 108 to reset the positioning bead, the bead feeding structure is provided with a bottom plate at the position of the positioning post 108, and the bottom plate is provided with a containing groove 126 capable of containing the deflected positioning post 108.
The ball swinging piece 101 is movably arranged on a support frame 103 in a rotatable manner, and the first driver 109 comprises a driving motor, a connecting motor shaft and a transmission assembly for transmitting the motor to the ball swinging piece 101.
In order to facilitate understanding of the method of the invention, the invention also provides a bead conveying mechanism for implementing the method, which comprises a bead feeding structure 100 for receiving the beads from the bead taking station and conveying the beads to the bead embroidering station, and a bead guide rod 200 suspended above the bead feeding structure 100 and provided with a bead output end at the bead taking station for bead supply. The bead guide rod 200 can be pre-strung beads to be suspended above the bead feeding structure 100, or the upper end can be connected with a bead stringing mechanism to directly string scattered beads. The output end of the bead guide rod 200 is provided with a bead swinging assembly, the bead swinging assembly comprises a bead swinging piece 101 capable of swinging to enter a bead taking station to send beads or leave the bead taking station and a first driver 109 for driving the bead swinging piece 101 to swing, the bead swinging piece 101 is provided with a bead through hole 102 capable of allowing beads to pass through the bead guide rod 200, and the lower end of the bead guide rod 200 is arranged in the bead through hole 102. The bead passage hole 102 may be provided with a cut-off portion constituting an observation view port, and a tubular member may be provided to be mounted on the ball oscillating member 101, and a hole of the tubular member may constitute the bead passage hole 102. The size of the passage hole 102 may be adjusted by replacing a tubular member of a bore of a different internal diameter to accommodate a bead of a corresponding external diameter size.
The ball oscillating member 101 can oscillate to and fro in the bead taking station or out of the bead taking station by translation (without possible translation) or deflection.
In this embodiment, the ball-swinging assembly further includes a support frame 103, the ball-swinging member 101 is rotatably and movably disposed on the support frame 103, and the first driver 109 includes a driving motor, a transmission assembly connected to a motor shaft and transmitting the motor to the ball-swinging member 101.
Referring to fig. 1-2 and 4-10, in the present embodiment, the transmission assembly includes a driving arm 110 disposed on the motor shaft and a crank arm 113 rotatably disposed relative to the driving arm, the crank arm 113 is rotatably disposed on a fixed plate, and in the present embodiment, the crank arm 113 is rotatably disposed on an end surface mounting plate of the driving motor of the first driver 109. The crank arm 113 includes a first arm 113a for receiving power and a second arm 113b for transmitting power, and the driving arm 110 is rotatably connected to the first arm 113a, but in this embodiment, a link 111 is provided between the driving arm 110 and the first arm 113a to simplify the swing width of the driving arm 110. The swing ball 101 is movably and rotatably disposed on the supporting frame 103 through a supporting shaft 112, a toggle arm 114 is disposed on the other side of the supporting shaft 112 of the swing ball 101, and a second arm 113b of the crank arm 113 is engaged with the toggle arm 114, such as movably connected to or toggling the toggle arm 114. The first driver 109 can drive the driving arm 110 to rotate through the driving motor, and in combination with the pulling of the connecting rod 111, the turning arm 113 drives the poking arm 114 to finally drive the ball swinging piece 101 to swing, so as to realize ball swinging. The second arm 113b of the crank arm 113 can be a one-way or two-way control of the swinging of the ball-swinging component 101, and if the one-way control is adopted, the ball-swinging component 101 can be provided with a return spring.
Of course, the transmission assembly can also be converted, and other prior art structures can be adopted, and the specific technical structure is based on the process of the ball swinging and takes the driving of the ball swinging piece 101 to swing.
In order to facilitate the use and accurately control the position of the falling beads, the swing assembly is further provided with a stopping structure for stopping the beads of the bead swing piece 101 from falling off from the non-bead-taking station through the beads in the through hole, and the stopping structure is arranged on a swing track of the bead swing piece 101 through hole output port, is positioned at the non-bead-taking station and is matched with the bead swing piece 101 through hole output port. The stopping structure can be simplified into a stopping cover, a stopping plate, a stopping block or other prior art structures which can stop the protective beads from accidentally falling at the non-bead taking station and are arranged on the swing track of the bead output port of the bead passing hole 102 of the bead swinging piece 101, wherein the stopping cover, the stopping plate, the stopping block or the other prior art structures can stop the protective beads from accidentally falling at the non-bead taking station, so that the beads are ensured to fall only from the bead taking station and are supplied to the bead conveying structure.
In order to achieve a better protective stopping effect and facilitate stable bead falling of the bead swinging piece 101 at the bead taking station, the stopping structure comprises a stopping piece 104 which is arranged at the output end spigot of the bead passing hole 102 and used for stopping bead output, and a second driver which drives the stopping piece 104 to be separated from the stopping position of the bead swinging piece 101 when the bead swinging piece 101 enters the bead taking station and to be stopped at the output port of the bead passing hole 102 when the bead swinging piece 101 is separated from the bead taking station. Namely, when the ball swinging piece 101 enters or partially enters the ball taking station, the second driver drives the stop piece 104 to start to be separated from the stop position of the ball swinging piece 101, and when the ball swinging piece 101 swings a ball and then rotates to be separated from the ball taking station, the second driver drives the stop piece 104 to be matched with the ball swinging piece 101 to enter the stop position and stop at the output port of the ball passing hole 102. In order to swing the ball in this embodiment, when the ball swinging member 101 partially enters the ball taking station, the second driver drives the stop member 104 to start to disengage from the stop position of the ball swinging member 101.
The second driver may be independently provided, such as an independent driving motor and a transmission assembly necessary based on the prior art, to drive the stopper 104 to be engaged with the ball oscillating member 101 according to the requirement of the stopper bead.
Referring to fig. 1-2 and 4-10, in this embodiment, the stopper 104 is provided with a transfer arm 105, the transfer arm 105 is rotatably disposed with respect to the ball-swinging member 101, and the stopper 104 is a wedge-shaped bent arm disposed at the distal end of the transfer arm 105, and the wedge-shaped bent arm facilitates insertion of a bead through the outlet port of the hole 102 while not affecting the bead feeding structure 100. The specific shape or structure of the transfer arm 105 can be appropriately adjusted and changed according to the specific structure so that the stopper 104 can be connected, rotated and changed.
In order to simplify the structure, the swing ball 101 and the adapting arm 105 are concentrically and rotatably movably arranged on the support frame 103. The ball-swinging component 101 and the adapting arm 105 can be respectively arranged on a concentric shaft or can be rotatably arranged on the same shaft.
The ball picking device is characterized in that the switching arm 105 is provided with a limit structure for limiting a stop piece 104 connected with the switching arm 105 and entering a ball picking station along with the ball swinging piece 101, the second driver is a transmission elastic body which is arranged between the switching arm 105 and the ball swinging piece 101 and transmits power of the ball swinging piece 101 to the switching arm 105, the elastic body can be a torsion spring arranged between the ball swinging piece 101 and the switching arm 105, the torsion spring can be sleeved on a shaft arranged on the switching arm 105 or/and the ball swinging piece 101, so that the switching arm 105 rotates along with the ball swinging piece 101 under the action of the torsion spring and is matched with the ball swinging piece 101 through hole output port for stopping, and the stop piece 104 is controlled to be separated from the ball swinging piece through hole output port by the limit structure when the ball swinging piece 101 enters and picks up the ball station. The limiting structure comprises a limiting arm 106 arranged on the transfer arm 105 and a stopping arm 107 matched with the limiting arm 106 to stop and control the rotating angle of the transfer arm 105, and the stopping arm 107 can be arranged on the support frame 103. And the stop arm 106 is provided with an adjuster which is matched with the limit arm and used for adjusting the stop position of the limit arm 106. The adjuster can be an adjusting bolt arranged on the support frame 103 or the stop arm 107, the position of the stop arm 107 can be adjusted through the adjusting bolt, or the adjusting bolt is directly matched with the limit arm 106, and the stop position of the limit arm 106 is adjusted through the extending position of the adjusting bolt.
The bead feeding structure 100 may adopt a structure capable of clamping and feeding beads to the position right below the corresponding needle bar in the prior art. The bead conveying structure of this embodiment includes a substrate 120, a conveying clamp assembly slidably disposed on the substrate 120 for taking beads, clamping and positioning the beads, and a bead feeding driving structure for driving the conveying clamp assembly to reciprocate between a bead taking station and an embroidery bead station. The bead feeding driving structure includes a bead feeding driving motor (not shown), a swing rod 121 connected to a shaft of the driving motor, a slider assembly movably engaged with the swing rod 121, and a bead feeding motor mounting plate 130 for fixing the bead feeding driving motor, in which the slider assembly is adopted in this embodiment.
The swing arm 121 is movably connected with a slide block 129 of the slide block component, the conveying clamp component is provided with a clamping opening 124 for clamping a positioning bead, the clamping opening is composed of a pair of openable clamping arms 122,
the bead feeding driving structure drives the conveying clamp assembly to feed beads in a reciprocating manner, and the clamping arm 122 advances along with the driving plate of the conveying clamp assembly, clamps the beads, positions and conveys the beads to an embroidery bead station, namely, right below the embroidery needle; the beads to be picked up are retreated and opened as the conveying clamp assembly retreats, and the driving plate is fixedly connected with the sliding block 129. The conveying clamp assembly and the bead conveying driving structure can adopt the prior art structure.
The bead feeding structure 100 is provided with a positioning column 108 for positioning beads at the bead taking station, and the positioning column 108 is used for positioning the beads sliding down from the bead guiding rod 200, so that the beads can accurately fall into the clamping opening 124. The positioning column 108 is provided with a separation structure for clamping and conveying the beads along with the conveying clamp assembly to separate from the beads. The positioning post 108 is disposed on the substrate 120, and the positioning post 108 is concentric with the clamping opening at the bead-receiving station. The disengaging structure may be a structure that is disposed at a corresponding position of the bead feeding structure 100 to drive the positioning column 108 to sink actively or passively or/and deflect the disengaged beads simultaneously when the bead is fed through the clamping opening 124. Such as a pair of gripper arms 122, grip the bead and advance the bead, forcing the locating post 108 to disengage from the bead.
In this embodiment, the positioning post 108 can be disposed in a deflecting manner toward the bead feeding direction, the positioning post 108 is provided with an elastic body for driving the positioning post to return to the positioning state and positioning the beads, the base plate 120 is disposed at the positioning post and provided with an accommodating groove 126 capable of accommodating the positioning post in the deflecting manner, and the positioning post 108 is disposed in the deflecting manner and the accommodating groove 126 forms a separation structure.
The base plate 120 is provided with a mounting groove 123, the separation structure includes an upper base plate 125 disposed in the mounting groove 123, and the upper base plate 125 is provided with a receiving groove 126 capable of receiving the deflected positioning column 108.
The bottom of the upper bottom plate 125 is provided with a mounting shaft 127, the elastic body is mounted on the mounting shaft 127, the elastic body can be a torsion spring, the torsion spring is mounted on the mounting shaft 127, one end of the torsion spring is directly used as the positioning column 108, and the other end of the torsion spring is placed in the mounting groove of the upper bottom plate 125.
The upper base plate 125 is provided with a base body 128, the base body 128 is provided with a mounting shaft 127 for mounting and positioning and a clamping groove 129 for an elastic body, and the other end of the torsion spring is arranged in the mounting groove of the upper base plate 125.
The pair of openable and closable holding arms 122 are provided with grooves at corresponding positions, and holding openings 124 are formed at corresponding positions of the holding arms 122. The groove is a V-shaped groove.
The ball guide rod 200 comprises an upper section 201, a middle section 202 and a lower section 203. The upper section 201 is used for positioning the bead guide rod body 200, and the upper section 201 can be used for bead threading or bead introduction; the lower segment 203 is used for outputting and positioning the beads. The middle section 202 is used for connecting the upper and lower sections, and the rigidity of the middle section 202 is less than that of the upper section 201 and the lower section 203. Thus, when the bead guide rod is swung from the lower section 201 according to the requirement of the bead embroidering process, because the rigidity of the middle section 202 is small, the swinging deformation can concentrate the middle section with small rigidity, and elastic or plastic deformation occurs at the middle section 202, so that the force required by the swinging of the bead guide rod is reduced, the deformation of the lower section 203 of the bead guide rod is reduced, the influence of the deformation of the lower section on the accuracy of the positioning beads is reduced, meanwhile, the deformation of the upper end 201 is also reduced, and the stability of the upper end 201 in positioning the bead guide rod as a whole is maintained.
Preferably, the middle section 202 is a flexible or elastic section.
The middle section 202 is provided with a connecting hole for connecting the upper and lower sections 201, 203. In this embodiment, the middle section 202 is a hose connecting the upper and lower sections 201, 203.
The outer diameter of the middle section 202 is smaller than the outer diameters of the upper and lower sections 201, 203, that is, the outer diameter of the hose is smaller than or slightly smaller than the outer diameters of the upper and lower sections 201, 203.
As a further preference, the upper section 201 and the lower section 203 are rigid sections, and the middle section 202 is a flexible section or an elastic section.
When the device is used, the clamping port 104 of the clamping arm 122 of the bead feeding structure 100 is positioned at the bead taking station and is in an open state, and the first driver 109 drives the bead swinging piece 101 of the bead swinging assembly to enter the bead station to be set as an original point. The beads on the bead swinging component 101 fall into a bead through the bead passing hole 102 on the bead guiding rod 200 under the self-weight or the pressure of the bead driving and pressing on the bead guiding rod 200 to abut against the substrate 120 in the clamping port 104, the first driver 109 drives the bead swinging component 101 of the bead swinging component to separate from the bead taking station, the beads are prevented from continuously falling into the clamping port 104, the bead feeding driving motor drives the conveying clamp component to convey the beads towards the bead embroidering station and under the embroidery needle, the clamping ports 124 of the two clamping arms 122 advance along with the driving plate of the conveying clamp component and then clamp and position the beads, and the beads are conveyed to the bead embroidering station by the embroidery needle. After embroidering beads, the bead feeding driving motor drives the conveying clamp assembly to retreat to the original point, the clamping ports 124 of the two clamping arms 122 retreat along with the retreating of the conveying clamp assembly and open to return to the original point to receive beads, and the first driver 109 drives the bead swinging piece 101 of the bead swinging assembly to enter a bead station to continue to convey the next bead.
When the beads fall from the bead swing part 101 through the bead through hole 102, the beads can be further positioned under the action of the positioning column 108, when the clamping arm 122 of the conveying assembly conveys the beads, the beads are separated from the positioning column 108 under the action of the separation structure, the positioning column 108 is pressed into the accommodating groove 126, and when the clamping arm 122 returns to the original point, the positioning column 108 is reset to the state of positioning the beads to be fallen.
In order to further accurately control the beads to fall one by one, after the bead swinging piece 101 slides down one bead, the bead swinging piece immediately enters a non-bead taking station, and the bead is stopped by a stop piece 104 combined with a stop structure at the non-bead taking station, so that the beads of the bead swinging piece 101 at the non-bead taking station are ensured not to fall through a hole. Referring to fig. 7-9, in this embodiment, when the ball oscillating element 101 moves towards the ball picking station, the coaxially mounted adapting arm 105 moves or synchronizes with the ball oscillating element 101 towards the ball picking station for a certain stroke (see fig. 7-9) under the action of the transmission elastic body, so as to be stable relative to the ball oscillating element 101, keep the ball stable in the ball passing hole 102 when the ball oscillating element 101 is moving, and when the ball oscillating element 101 enters the ball picking station, the limiting arm 106 of the limiting structure cooperates with the stopping arm 107 to control the adapting arm 105 to rotate continuously, and the adapting arm 105 is limited outside the ball picking station (see fig. 9).
The invention also discloses an embroidery machine, which comprises at least one machine head arranged on the embroidery machine, wherein the bead conveying mechanism in any scheme is arranged on the at least one machine head.