CN112108927A

CN112108927A - Successive layer feed mechanism

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Publication number: CN112108927A
Application number: CN202011034821.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 缪磊; 王坤; 章朝阳
Original assignee: Suzhou RS Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Suzhou RS Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-09-27
Filing date: 2020-09-27
Publication date: 2020-12-22

Abstract

The invention discloses a layer-by-layer feeding mechanism, which comprises: the blanking platform is provided with a blanking through hole penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface of the blanking platform; the clamping driver is arranged on the blanking platform; the material blocking plates are arranged around the edges of the blanking through holes to form clamping spaces between the material blocking plates; wherein the dam is arranged to consist of one movable dam sub-set and at least one fixed dam sub-set; each fixed material blocking subset comprises a pair of fixed material blocking plates which are oppositely arranged relative to the blanking through hole, and the fixed material blocking plates are fixedly arranged at the edge of the blanking through hole; the movable material blocking subset comprises a pair of movable material blocking plates which are oppositely arranged relative to the blanking through hole, and the movable material blocking plates are movably arranged relative to the blanking platform; the clamping driver is in transmission connection with the two movable material blocking plates. According to the invention, the cost can be greatly saved and the feeding efficiency can be improved.

Description

Successive layer feed mechanism

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of nonstandard automation, in particular to a layer-by-layer feeding mechanism.

Background

In the non-standard automation field, it is well known to adopt feeding mechanisms with different structural forms to realize batch-by-batch feeding of materials. During the process of researching and realizing batch-by-batch feeding of materials, the inventor finds that the layer-by-layer feeding mechanism in the prior art has at least the following problems:

the existing feeding mechanism is realized by adopting a mechanical arm to carry materials from a material box one by one, the purchase cost of the mechanical arm is high by adopting the mechanism, and the feeding efficiency is also affected by the coordination of the mechanical arm and the materials and is difficult to guarantee.

In view of the above, there is a need to develop a layer-by-layer feeding mechanism to solve the above problems.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to overcome the problems of the feeding mechanism, the invention provides a layer-by-layer feeding mechanism which can greatly save the cost and improve the feeding efficiency.

As for the layer-by-layer feeding mechanism, the layer-by-layer feeding mechanism for solving the above technical problems of the present invention comprises:

the blanking platform is provided with a blanking through hole penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface of the blanking platform;

the clamping driver is arranged on the blanking platform; and

at least four material blocking plates arranged around the edges of the blanking through holes to form clamping spaces between the material blocking plates;

wherein the dam is arranged to consist of one movable dam sub-set and at least one fixed dam sub-set; each fixed material blocking subset comprises a pair of fixed material blocking plates which are oppositely arranged relative to the blanking through hole, and the fixed material blocking plates are fixedly arranged at the edge of the blanking through hole; the movable material blocking subset comprises a pair of movable material blocking plates which are oppositely arranged relative to the blanking through hole, and the movable material blocking plates are movably arranged relative to the blanking platform; the clamping driver is in transmission connection with the two movable material blocking plates so as to drive the two movable material blocking plates to approach or move away from each other.

Optionally, the blanking platform is further provided with an adjusting through hole penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface of the blanking platform, and the adjusting through hole is communicated with the blanking through hole.

Optionally, the movable material blocking plate is movably arranged right above the adjusting through hole and adjacent to the joint of the adjusting through hole and the blanking through hole.

Optionally, the adjusting through hole is communicated with the blanking through hole in the length direction of the blanking through hole.

Optionally, the width dimension of the blanking through hole is defined as E, and the width dimension of the adjusting through hole is defined as D, then:

D：E＝1.1～1.3。

optionally, the length of the blanking through hole is defined as H, and the width of the adjusting through hole is defined as L, then: h: and L is 2-3.

In practice, it is found that the existing feeding mechanism can only feed materials of a specific size due to the fact that most materials of the existing feeding mechanism receive the size, if materials of other sizes need to be fed, the adaptability adjustment needs to be carried out on a carrier or a bin, the debugging time is prolonged, the related cost is increased, and the layer-by-layer feeding mechanism is further improved for solving the problem: the blanking platform is fixedly provided with a translation driver, the clamping driver is in sliding connection with a power output end of the translation driver, and the clamping driver is communicated with a movable material blocking plate connected with the clamping driver and driven by the translation driver to be close to or far away from the fixed material blocking plate.

Found in practice, this successive layer feed mechanism has little probability to appear because the material that the centre gripping unstability leads to drops the scheduling problem at the blowing in-process, for solving this problem, has made further improvement to successive layer feed mechanism: the bottom sprag of blanking platform has the blanking support, be equipped with jacking subassembly under the blanking through-hole, jacking subassembly includes:

a jacking driver; and

the jacking bearing plate is in transmission connection with the power output end of the jacking driver;

the jacking bearing plate is aligned with the blanking through hole in the vertical direction; the jacking bearing plate is driven by the jacking driver to pass through the blanking through hole to reciprocate in and out of the clamping space along the vertical direction.

One of the above technical solutions has the following advantages or beneficial effects: because it can directly erect on the transfer line of non-standard automation assembly line, need not additionally to dispose the manipulator that is used for carrying the material, can save the cost by a wide margin and improve material loading efficiency.

Another technical scheme in the above technical scheme has the following advantages or beneficial effects: because the translation driver is fixedly installed on the blanking platform, the clamping driver is in sliding connection with the power output end of the translation driver, the clamping driver is communicated with the movable material blocking plate connected with the clamping driver, and the movable material blocking plate is driven by the translation driver to be close to or far away from the fixed material blocking plate, so that the layer-by-layer feeding mechanism can feed materials according to various sizes without the need of adaptive adjustment of an additional loading disc or a material box, and the debugging time is greatly shortened and the related cost is also reduced.

Another technical scheme in the above technical scheme has the following advantages or beneficial effects: because the bottom support of blanking platform has the blanking support, be equipped with the jacking subassembly under the blanking through-hole for at the blanking in-process, this jacking subassembly can carry out the bearing to the material, prevents that the accident from falling and damaging the material.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings of the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is apparent that the drawings in the following description relate only to some embodiments of the present invention and are not limiting thereof, wherein:

fig. 1 is a perspective view of a layer-by-layer feeding mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which a plurality of layers of materials to be fed are loaded;

fig. 2 is a perspective view of a layer-by-layer feeding mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a right side view of a layer-by-layer feeding mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a top view of a layer-by-layer feeding mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a perspective view of a layer-by-layer feeding mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention, with clamping drivers hidden;

FIG. 6 is a right side view of FIG. 5;

fig. 7 is a top view of a layer-by-layer loading mechanism according to an embodiment of the invention, with clamping actuators and jacking assemblies removed.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying 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 obtained by a person skilled in the art without any inventive step based on the embodiments of the present invention, are within the scope of the present invention.

In the drawings, the shape and size may be exaggerated for clarity, and the same reference numerals will be used throughout the drawings to designate the same or similar components.

Unless defined otherwise, technical or scientific terms used herein shall have the ordinary meaning as understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The use of "first," "second," and similar terms in the description and claims of the present application do not denote any order, quantity, or importance, but rather the terms are used to distinguish one element from another. Also, the use of the terms "a," "an," or "the" and similar referents do not denote a limitation of quantity, but rather denote the presence of at least one. The word "comprise" or "comprises", and the like, means that the element or item listed before "comprises" or "comprising" covers the element or item listed after "comprising" or "comprises" and its equivalents, and does not exclude other elements or items. "upper", "lower", "left", "right", and the like are used merely to indicate relative positional relationships, and when the absolute position of the object being described is changed, the relative positional relationships may also be changed accordingly.

In the following description, terms such as center, thickness, height, length, front, back, rear, left, right, top, bottom, upper, lower, etc., are defined with respect to the configurations shown in the respective drawings, and in particular, "height" corresponds to a dimension from top to bottom, "width" corresponds to a dimension from left to right, "depth" corresponds to a dimension from front to rear, which are relative concepts, and thus may be varied accordingly depending on the position in which it is used, and thus these or other orientations should not be construed as limiting terms.

Terms concerning attachments, coupling and the like (e.g., "connected" and "attached") refer to a relationship wherein structures are secured or attached, either directly or indirectly, to one another through intervening structures, as well as both movable or rigid attachments or relationships, unless expressly described otherwise.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, it can be seen that the layer-by-layer feeding mechanism 12 includes:

the blanking platform 123 is provided with a blanking through hole 127 penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface of the blanking platform;

a clamping driver 1232 mounted on the blanking platform 123; and

at least four dam plates arranged around the edges of the blanking through holes 127 to form clamping spaces between the dam plates;

wherein the dam is arranged to consist of one movable dam sub-set and at least one fixed dam sub-set; each fixed dam subset includes a pair of fixed dam plates 1221 oppositely disposed with respect to the blanking through-hole 127, and the fixed dam plates 1221 are fixedly disposed at edges of the blanking through-hole 127; the movable material blocking subset comprises a pair of movable material blocking plates 1222 oppositely arranged about the blanking through hole 127, and the movable material blocking plates 1222 are movably arranged relative to the blanking platform 123; the clamping driver 1232 is drivingly connected to the two movable fence plates 1222 to drive the two movable fence plates 1222 to move toward or away from each other. Specifically, referring to fig. 1, in use, the layer-by-layer feeding mechanism 12 is erected on a conveying line, so that a clamping space is located right above the conveying line, the material 124 is stacked in the clamping space limited by a plurality of material blocking plates layer by layer through an opening above the material blocking plates, a clamping driver 1232 drives two movable material blocking plates 1222 to approach each other to clamp and fix the material in the clamping space, and in a material discharging process, the clamping driver 1232 drives two movable material blocking plates 1222 to move away from each other to release the material in the clamping space, so that the single-layer material 124 falls into the conveying line from the bottom of the clamping space, so that the layer-by-layer blanking type feeding of the material 124 is realized.

Referring to fig. 4 and 7, the blanking platform 123 is further provided with an adjusting through hole 126 penetrating through the upper and lower surfaces thereof, and the adjusting through hole 126 is communicated with the blanking through hole 127. The arrangement of the adjusting through holes 126 can meet the material discharging requirements of various sizes, and the applicability is improved.

Further, the movable blocking plate 1222 is movably disposed right above the adjusting through hole 126 and adjacent to the joint of the adjusting through hole 126 and the blanking through hole 127.

Specifically, in the embodiment shown in fig. 7, the adjusting through hole 126 communicates with the blanking through hole 127 in the length direction of the blanking through hole 127.

Further, in the embodiment shown in fig. 7, if the width dimension of the blanking through hole 127 is defined as E, and the width dimension of the adjusting through hole 126 is defined as D, then: d: e is 1.1 to 1.3. In a specific implementation, D: e ═ 1.2.

Further, in the embodiment shown in fig. 7, the length dimension of the blanking through hole 127 is defined as H, and the width dimension of the adjusting through hole 126 is defined as L, then: h: and L is 2-3. In a specific implementation, H: and L is 2.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, a translation driver 1231 is fixedly mounted on the blanking platform 123, the clamping driver 1232 is slidably connected to a power output end of the translation driver 1231, and the clamping driver 1232 is communicated with the movable material blocking plate 1222 connected thereto to be close to or far away from the fixed material blocking plate 1221 under the driving of the translation driver 1231. Because the translation driver is fixedly installed on the blanking platform, the clamping driver is in sliding connection with the power output end of the translation driver, the clamping driver is communicated with the movable material blocking plate connected with the clamping driver, and the movable material blocking plate is driven by the translation driver to be close to or far away from the fixed material blocking plate, so that the layer-by-layer feeding mechanism can feed materials according to various sizes without the need of adaptive adjustment of an additional loading disc or a material box, and the debugging time is greatly shortened and the related cost is also reduced.

Referring to fig. 2 and 5, the blanking support 121 is supported at the bottom of the blanking platform 123, a jacking assembly 125 is arranged right below the blanking through hole 127, and the jacking assembly 125 includes:

a jacking driver 1251; and

the jacking bearing plate 1252 is in transmission connection with the power output end of the jacking driver 1251;

wherein the jacking bearing plate 1252 is aligned with the blanking through hole 127 in the vertical direction; the jacking bearing plate 1252 is driven by the jacking driver 1251 to reciprocate in and out of the clamping space along the vertical direction through the blanking through hole 127. Because the bottom support of blanking platform has the blanking support, be equipped with the jacking subassembly under the blanking through-hole for at the blanking in-process, this jacking subassembly can carry out the bearing to the material, prevents that the accident from falling and damaging the material.

The working principle is as follows: when the device is used, the layer-by-layer feeding mechanism 12 is erected on a conveying line, so that a clamping space is positioned right above the conveying line, materials 124 are stacked in the clamping space limited by a plurality of material blocking plates layer by layer through openings above the material blocking plates, a clamping driver 1232 drives two movable material blocking plates 1222 to approach each other oppositely to clamp and fix the materials in the clamping space, and a jacking bearing plate 1252 bears the materials 124 at the bottommost layer; during emptying, the clamping driver 1232 drives the two movable material blocking plates 1222 to move away from each other to release the material in the clamping space, so that the bottommost material 124 is freely released from the bottom of the clamping space onto the jacking bearing plate 1252, normally, the top surface of the jacking bearing plate 1252 is higher than the height of the conveying line, the jacking driver 1251 drives the jacking bearing plate 1252 to descend, so that the two sides of the bottommost material 124 are supported by the conveying line, and then the material 124 can be transferred to the next station to perform subsequent operation under the conveying of the conveying line; the layer-by-layer blanking type feeding of the material 124 can be realized, and the feeding device can be directly erected on a conveying line of a nonstandard automatic assembly line, so that a manipulator for carrying the material is not required to be additionally configured, the cost can be greatly saved, and the feeding efficiency can be improved.

The number of apparatuses and the scale of the process described herein are intended to simplify the description of the present invention. Applications, modifications and variations of the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art.

The features of the different implementations described herein may be combined to form other embodiments not specifically set forth above. The components may be omitted from the structures described herein without adversely affecting their operation. Further, various individual components may be combined into one or more individual components to perform the functions described herein.

Furthermore, while embodiments of the invention have been described above, it is not limited to the applications set forth in the description and the embodiments, which are fully applicable in a variety of fields of endeavor to which the invention pertains, and further modifications may readily be made by those skilled in the art, it being understood that the invention is not limited to the details shown and described herein without departing from the general concept defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. A layer-by-layer feeding mechanism is characterized by comprising:

the blanking platform (123) is provided with a blanking through hole (127) penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface of the blanking platform;

a clamping driver (1232) mounted on the blanking platform (123); and

at least four material blocking plates arranged around the edges of the blanking through holes (127) to form clamping spaces between the material blocking plates;

wherein the dam is arranged to consist of one movable dam sub-set and at least one fixed dam sub-set; each fixed material blocking subset comprises a pair of fixed material blocking plates (1221) oppositely arranged about the blanking through hole (127), and the fixed material blocking plates (1221) are fixedly arranged at the edge of the blanking through hole (127); the movable material blocking subset comprises a pair of movable material blocking plates (1222) oppositely arranged about the blanking through hole (127), and the movable material blocking plates (1222) are movably arranged relative to the blanking platform (123); the clamping driver (1232) is in transmission connection with the two movable material blocking plates (1222) to drive the two movable material blocking plates (1222) to move close to or away from each other.

2. The layer-by-layer feeding mechanism of claim 1, wherein the blanking platform (123) is further provided with an adjusting through hole (126) penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface of the blanking platform, and the adjusting through hole (126) is communicated with the blanking through hole (127).

3. The layer-by-layer feeding mechanism of claim 2, wherein the movable dam plate (1222) is movably disposed directly above the regulating through hole (126) and adjacent to a junction of the regulating through hole (126) and the blanking through hole (127).

4. The layer-by-layer feeding mechanism according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the adjusting through hole (126) is communicated with the blanking through hole (127) in a length direction of the blanking through hole (127).

5. The layer-by-layer feeding mechanism according to claim 4, wherein defining the width dimension of the blanking through hole (127) as E and the width dimension of the adjusting through hole (126) as D, there are: d: e is 1.1 to 1.3.

6. The layer-by-layer feeding mechanism of claim 4, wherein the length dimension of the blanking through hole (127) is defined as H, and the width dimension of the adjusting through hole (126) is defined as L, then: h: and L is 2-3.

7. The layer-by-layer feeding mechanism according to claim 2 or 3, wherein a translation driver (1231) is fixedly installed on the blanking platform (123), the clamping driver (1232) is slidably connected with a power output end of the translation driver (1231), and the clamping driver (1232) is communicated with a movable material blocking plate (1222) connected with the clamping driver and driven by the translation driver (1231) to be close to or far away from the fixed material blocking plate (1221).

8. The layer-by-layer feeding mechanism according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a blanking support (121) is supported at the bottom of the blanking platform (123), a jacking assembly (125) is arranged right below the blanking through hole (127), and the jacking assembly (125) comprises:

a jacking driver (1251); and

the jacking bearing plate (1252) is in transmission connection with the power output end of the jacking driver (1251);

wherein the jacking bearing plate (1252) is aligned with the blanking through hole (127) in the vertical direction; the jacking bearing plate (1252) is driven by the jacking driver (1251) to pass through the blanking through hole (127) to and fro in and out of the clamping space along the vertical direction.