Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides an automatic packaging system of a graphite heater, which utilizes a packaging bag conveying unit to automatically feed a bag and a mouth opening unit to automatically open a mouth so as to realize automatic bag feeding and mouth opening; the manipulator puts the inside lining, graphite heater and outer lining into the wrapping bag in proper order, make inside lining and outer lining wrap up graphite heater completely, prevent to lead to graphite heater damage because of the collision of external force, the evacuation mouth passes inside the electrode hole of graphite heater inserts the through-hole of seting up on the inside lining, carry out the evacuation, the process of packing messenger's evacuation avoids local press too big, cause graphite heater's edges and corners damaged, the interpolation of inside lining and outer lining, make graphite heater at the in-process of evacuation, can discharge the air completely, make the wrapping bag can laminate the surface of outer lining completely, make the packing more pleasing to the eye, the transportation is more stable, thereby realize the high assembly line operation of degree of automation, avoid the graphite heater that manual operation arouses to damage and bruise, personnel intensity of labour has been reduced, improve the packing quality.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme:
the utility model provides an automatic packaging system of graphite heater, includes the frame, its characterized in that still includes:
a first conveyor for transporting the graphite heater to be packaged;
a second conveyor for conveying the inner liner and the outer liner;
a third conveyor for conveying the packed graphite heater; a packaging workbench is arranged on the side face of one end of the third conveyor, guide supports are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the packaging workbench, guide grooves are formed in the guide supports, positioning grooves are formed in the bottom surface of the packaging workbench, and groove-shaped openings are formed above the positioning grooves;
a robot for grasping and moving the graphite heater, the inner liner, and the outer liner to a packing table, which is disposed at an intersection of center lines of the first conveyor, the second conveyor, and the third conveyor;
the packaging bag conveying unit is arranged below the packaging workbench; the bag conveying device comprises a bag box, a bag conveying roller, a first power unit and a second power unit, wherein the bag conveying roller is arranged on one side of the bag box in a swinging connection mode; a bag outlet is formed in the top of the bag box and communicated with the groove-shaped opening; a sliding plate is arranged in the bag box and is connected with the inner wall of the tail part of the bag box through a group of springs, a window is formed in one side of the bag box, which is close to the bag conveying roller, and the side face of the window is superposed with the opening part of the bag outlet;
the opening supporting units comprise a horizontal moving assembly arranged at the bottom of the rack, a first telescopic assembly connected with the horizontal moving assembly, a support a connected with the output end of the first telescopic assembly and a plurality of suckers uniformly distributed on one side of the support a;
the vacuumizing unit comprises a vacuum machine arranged at the top of the rack, a second telescopic assembly arranged at the bottom of the rack, a support b connected with the second telescopic assembly, and vacuumizing nozzles symmetrically arranged at two sides of the support b, and the vacuumizing nozzles are connected with the vacuum machine through a pipeline; and
the two groups of heat sealing units are symmetrically arranged, the heat sealing units are arranged above the packaging workbench, one end of each heat sealing unit is fixedly connected with the lower end part of the second telescopic assembly, and the other end of each heat sealing unit can horizontally slide along the guide groove; it includes:
one end of the first link assembly is fixedly connected with the lower end part of the second telescopic assembly;
the heat-seal board subassembly, heat-seal board subassembly with first link assembly is connected, first link assembly is used for driving heat-seal board subassembly horizontal migration to carry out the heat-seal to the wrapping bag.
As an improvement, the heat seal plate assembly comprises:
the first heat sealing plate is connected with the first connecting rod assembly, the top of the first heat sealing plate is symmetrically provided with two rotating shafts a, and the side surface of the first heat sealing plate close to the bottom of the first heat sealing plate is symmetrically provided with two through grooves;
the two second heat-sealing plates are symmetrically arranged, the upper ends of the second heat-sealing plates are provided with rotating shafts b, and the two second heat-sealing plates are symmetrically hinged to two ends of the first heat-sealing plate;
the base is arranged at the bottom of the first heat sealing plate and the bottom of the second heat sealing plate in a sliding mode, and penetrates through the through groove through the guide rod to be connected in a sliding mode.
As an improvement, the horizontal moving assembly comprises:
the fixing plate is arranged at the bottom of the rack, and a T-shaped groove is formed in the side face of the fixing plate;
the power part a is arranged at the top of the rack, the output end of the power part a penetrates through the rack and is connected with a gear, and the gear is arranged in the T-shaped groove; and
the sliding rods are symmetrically arranged in the T-shaped grooves in a sliding mode and distributed on two sides of the gear, one side face of each sliding rod is of a tooth-shaped structure, and the gear is in meshing transmission with the sliding rods.
As an improvement, the first connecting rod assembly comprises a first driving rod connected with the second telescopic assembly, a horizontal moving rod in sliding fit with the guide groove, and a connecting rod for connecting the first driving rod and the horizontal moving rod.
As an improvement, the manipulator comprises a horizontal rotating assembly, a vertical telescopic assembly connected with the horizontal rotating assembly, a horizontal telescopic assembly connected with the vertical telescopic assembly, a second connecting rod assembly arranged at one end of the horizontal telescopic assembly and two clamps symmetrically arranged at one end of the second connecting rod assembly; the clamp is matched with the graphite heater in shape.
As an improvement, the second connecting rod assembly comprises a power part b, a second driving rod connected with the power part b and an output rod connected with the second driving rod, and a positioning fork is arranged at the top of the output rod.
As an improvement, a first positioning channel with a groove at the top is arranged on the first conveyor, and the shape of the first positioning channel is matched with that of the graphite heater; and a second positioning channel with a boss at the top is arranged on the second conveyor, and the shape of the second positioning channel is matched with that of the inner lining and the outer lining.
As an improvement, one end of the lining is provided with a groove matched with the width of the electrode of the graphite heater, and the two ends of the groove are provided with through holes matched with the electrode holes of the graphite heater; the outer diameter of the lining is smaller than the inner diameter of the graphite heater, and the height of the lining is matched with that of the graphite heater.
As an improvement, a step is arranged on the inner diameter of one end of the outer lining, the height of the step is matched with that of an electrode of the graphite heater, a U-shaped groove is formed in one end face of the outer lining with the step, the width of the U-shaped groove is matched with that of the electrode, the inner diameter of the outer lining is larger than the outer diameter of the graphite heater, and the inner diameter of the step is matched with that of the inner lining.
As an improvement, the vacuum-pumping nozzle is matched with the electrode hole in position, and the vacuum-pumping nozzle can be deeply inserted into the through hole.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) according to the automatic bag conveying device, the bag conveying roller, the first power unit and the second power unit in the bag conveying mechanism are matched with each other, the automatic bag conveying is realized by combining the sliding plate with the spring, which is arranged at the tail of the material box, the opening part of the bag after being opened is round by the support a made of flexible materials in the opening unit and the bag opening conveyed by the sucking disc arranged on the support a in the bag conveying mechanism, so that the graphite heater, the inner liner and the outer liner can be conveniently placed in the bag, the inner liner, the graphite heater and the outer liner are sequentially placed in the bag by using the manipulator, the multiple purposes are realized, and the equipment investment is reduced;
(2) according to the invention, through two groups of symmetrically arranged heat sealing units, through the split design of the heat sealing plate assembly and the cooperation of the first connecting rod assembly, in the advancing process of the heat sealing plate assembly, the first heat sealing plate firstly heat-seals the packaging bag at the middle part, at the moment, the second heat sealing plate is hinged and moves backwards, the part, corresponding to the packaging bag, of the second heat sealing plate at the edge is not heat-sealed, and the second heat sealing plate is used as an insertion opening of the vacuumizing nozzle, so that the opening size of the opening part is reduced, and the vacuumizing effect is improved;
(3) according to the invention, the through hole matched with the electrode hole position of the graphite heater is formed in the inner liner and is used as the insertion position of the vacuumizing nozzle, and the edge stress of the upper surface and the lower surface of the graphite heater is reduced by matching the protection of the inner liner and the outer liner in the vacuumizing process, so that the edge stress of the upper surface and the lower surface of the graphite heater is symmetrical and uniform, the edge corner damage of the graphite heater caused by overlarge local press is avoided, meanwhile, the air in the packaging bag can be completely discharged, the packaging bag can be completely attached to the surface of the outer liner, the vacuum degree after packaging is ensured, the packaging is more attractive, and the transportation process is more stable;
(4) the graphite heater is positioned by arranging the first positioning channel with the groove at the top part on the first conveyor, the second positioning channel with the boss at the top part is arranged on the second conveyor, the directional positioning of the inner lining and the outer lining is realized, and the positioning forks on the mechanical arm are matched, so that the accurate positions of the graphite heater, the inner lining and the outer lining in the clamping and placing processes are ensured, and the damage of a graphite electrode caused by inaccurate positions is avoided; through the angular distribution of three conveying mechanism, the operation of on-spot assembly line is realized to same manipulator of cooperation, improves packing efficiency, has reduced the cost of labor.
In conclusion, the invention has the advantages of high automation degree, more beautiful package, high efficiency, good safety, better protection of the graphite heater, good package quality and the like, and the vacuum degree after the package is more beautiful.
Detailed Description
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.
In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "clockwise", "counterclockwise", and the like, indicate orientations and positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are used only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the equipment or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, should not be considered as limiting the present invention.
Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically defined otherwise.
Example one
As shown in fig. 1 to 9, the present invention is directed to a particular structure of a graphite heater, in order to improve its packing quality in an automated packing process, and to prevent damage to its edges due to improper control of vacuum packing suction, an inner liner 200 and an outer liner 300 are specially designed to be in a shape following the inner and outer shapes of the graphite heater, wherein,
the lining 200 is a cylindrical structure, one end of the lining 200 is provided with a groove 202 matched with the width of the electrode 101 of the graphite heater 100, two ends of the groove 202 are provided with through holes 201 penetrating through the lining, and the positions of the through holes and the positions of the electrode holes 102 are concentrically arranged;
the outer liner 300 is of a cylindrical structure, a step 301 is arranged on the inner diameter of one end of the outer liner 300, and a U-shaped groove 302 is formed in the end face, with the step 301, of the outer liner 300.
The invention provides an automatic packaging system of a graphite heater, which comprises:
a frame 1;
a first conveyor 2, the first conveyor 2 being used for transporting the graphite heater 100 to be packaged;
a second conveyor 3 for conveying the inner liner 200 and the outer liner 300;
a third conveyor 4, the third conveyor 4 being used for conveying the packed graphite heater 100; a packaging workbench 41 is arranged on the side face of one end of the third conveyor 4, guide brackets 411 are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the packaging workbench 41, guide grooves 4111 are formed in the guide brackets 411, a positioning groove 412 is formed in the bottom face of the packaging workbench 41, and a groove-shaped opening 4121 is formed above the positioning groove 412;
a robot 5 for grasping and moving the graphite heater 100, the inner liner 200 and the outer liner 300 to a packing table 41, which is disposed at the intersection of the center lines of the first conveyor 2, the second conveyor 3 and the third conveyor 4;
a packaging bag conveying unit 6, wherein the packaging bag conveying unit 6 is arranged below the packaging workbench 41; the bag conveying device comprises a bag box 61, a bag conveying roller 62 which is arranged on one side of the bag box 61 in a swinging connection mode, a first power unit 63 which drives the bag conveying roller 62 to swing, and a second power unit 64 which drives the bag conveying roller 62 to rotate; a bag outlet 611 is formed in the top of the bag box 61, and the bag outlet 611 is communicated with the groove-shaped opening 4121; a sliding plate 612 is arranged inside the bag box 61, the sliding plate 612 is connected with the inner wall of the tail part of the bag box 61 through a group of springs 613, a window 614 is formed on one side of the bag box 61 close to the bag conveying roller 62, and the side surface of the window 614 is overlapped with the opening part of the bag outlet 611;
the opening supporting units 7 are symmetrically arranged, and each opening supporting unit 7 comprises a horizontal moving assembly 71 arranged at the bottom of the rack 1, a first telescopic assembly 72 connected with the horizontal moving assembly 71, a support a73 connected with the output end of the first telescopic assembly 72, and a plurality of suckers 74 uniformly distributed on one side of the support a 73;
the vacuumizing unit 8 comprises a vacuum machine 81 arranged at the top of the rack 1, a second telescopic assembly 82 arranged at the bottom of the rack 1, a support b83 connected with the second telescopic assembly 82, and vacuumizing nozzles 84 symmetrically arranged at two sides of the support b83, wherein the vacuumizing nozzles 84 are connected with the vacuum machine 81 through a pipeline; and
two groups of heat sealing units 9 which are symmetrically arranged, wherein the heat sealing units 9 are arranged above the packaging workbench 41, one end of each heat sealing unit 9 is fixedly connected with the lower end part of the second telescopic assembly 82, and the other end of each heat sealing unit 9 can horizontally slide along a guide groove 4111;
wherein the heat-seal unit 9 includes:
one end of the first link assembly 91 is fixedly connected with the lower end part of the second telescopic assembly 82;
and the heat seal plate assembly 92 is connected with the first link assembly 91, and the first link assembly 91 is used for driving the heat seal plate assembly 92 to horizontally move to heat seal the packaging bag.
As shown in fig. 11 to 12, it should be noted that the support a73 is made of flexible material and can be bent into a semicircular shape after being stressed.
It should be noted that a door is arranged on the side of the bag box 61 for adding a packaging bag; one end of the top of the bag box 61, which is close to the bag conveying roller 62, is provided with a positioning step, and the positioning step is matched with the positioning groove 412.
As shown in fig. 13-16, wherein the heat seal plate assembly 92 comprises:
the first heat sealing plate 921, the first heat sealing plate 921 is connected to the first link assembly 91, the top of the first heat sealing plate is symmetrically provided with two rotating shafts a9211, and the side surface of the first heat sealing plate is symmetrically provided with two through grooves 9212 close to the bottom;
the two second heat-sealing plates 922 are symmetrically arranged, the upper ends of the second heat-sealing plates 922 are provided with rotating shafts b9221, and the two second heat-sealing plates 922 are symmetrically hinged to two ends of the first heat-sealing plate 921;
the base 923 is arranged at the bottom of the second heat-sealing plate 922 in a sliding manner, and the first heat-sealing plate 921 passes through the through groove 9212 through the guide rod 924.
It should be noted that the second heat-sealing plate 922 is hinged to the first heat-sealing plate 921 through a connecting sheet 925, during the sealing operation, the opening-supporting unit 7 moves inward and simultaneously relatively, so that the bag opening is reduced and the second telescopic assembly 82 extends downward to drive the first link assembly 91 to move, so as to drive the first heat-sealing plate 921 to move close to the center of the graphite heater 100, at this time, because the hinged second heat-sealing plate 922 moves in the reverse direction and finally is clamped on the inner wall of the base 923 to move forward together, the front end of the first heat-sealing plate 921 is firstly heat-sealed, at this time, the vacuum-pumping nozzle 84 extends into the through hole 201 to perform vacuum-pumping, after the vacuum-pumping is completed, the vacuum nozzle exits and simultaneously drives the first heat-sealing plate 921 to move away from the center of the graphite heater 100, at this time, because the hinged second heat-sealing plate 922 and the third heat-sealing plate move in the reverse, the vacuum nozzle continues to withdraw, and the opening unit 7 moves outwards relatively at the same time, so that the heat-sealing packaging process is completed.
As shown in fig. 10, as a modification, the horizontal movement assembly 71 includes:
the fixing plate 711 is arranged at the bottom of the rack 1, and a T-shaped groove 7111 is formed in the side face of the fixing plate 711;
the power part a712, the power part a712 is arranged at the top of the rack 1, the output end of the power part a712 penetrates through the rack 1 and is connected with a gear 7121, and the gear 7121 is arranged in the T-shaped groove 7111; and
the sliding rods 713 are symmetrically and slidably arranged inside the T-shaped groove 7111 and distributed on two sides of the gear 7121, one side surface of the sliding rod 713 is in a tooth-shaped structure, and the gear 7121 is in meshing transmission with the sliding rods 713.
Meanwhile, the power part a712 controls the movement of the sliding rod 713 at the same time, so as to ensure that the opening process is stably performed, and the center position of the opened bag opening is kept unchanged.
As shown in fig. 9, as a modification, the first link assembly 91 includes a first driving rod 911 connected to the second telescopic assembly 82, a horizontal moving rod 912 slidably fitted in the guide groove 4111, and a connecting rod 913 connecting the first driving rod 911 and the horizontal moving rod 912.
Example two
As shown in fig. 6, in which the same or corresponding components as those in the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals as those in the first embodiment, only the points of difference from the first embodiment will be described below for the sake of convenience; the second embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that:
as shown in fig. 6, the robot 5 includes a horizontal rotation assembly 51, a vertical telescopic assembly 52 connected to the horizontal rotation assembly 51, a horizontal telescopic assembly 53 connected to the vertical telescopic assembly 52, a second link assembly 54 disposed at one end of the horizontal telescopic assembly 53, and two clamps 55 symmetrically disposed at one end of the second link assembly 54; the clamp 55 is shaped to mate with the graphite heater 100.
The bottom end of the horizontal rotating assembly 51 is provided with a rotating motor, and the interior of the clamp 55 is provided with a flexible projection 551, so that the clamp can protect the outer surface of the graphite heater when clamping the graphite heater.
As shown in fig. 6, as an improvement, the second link assembly 54 includes a power portion b541, a second driving rod 542 connected to the power portion b541, and an output rod 543 connected to the second driving rod 542, and a positioning fork 544 is provided at a top of the output rod 543.
It should be noted that the positioning prongs 544 match the width of the graphite electrode in their inner dimension and match the width of the groove 202 of the liner in their outer dimension.
EXAMPLE III
As shown in fig. 18 to 20, in which the same or corresponding components as those in embodiment two are denoted by the same reference numerals as those in embodiment two, only the points different from embodiment two will be described below for the sake of convenience; the third embodiment is different from the second embodiment in that:
as shown in fig. 18, as a modification, a first positioning channel 21 with a groove on the top is arranged on the first conveyor 2, and the first positioning channel 21 is matched with the shape of the graphite heater 100; the second conveyor 3 is provided with a second positioning channel 22 with a boss at the top, and the second positioning channel 22 is matched with the shapes of the inner liner 200 and the outer liner 300.
It should be noted that, during conveying, the electrodes of the graphite heater are positioned and conveyed through the grooves formed at the top of the first positioning channel 21, so as to ensure that the directions of the graphite electrodes conveyed to the position of the manipulator are consistent.
As shown in fig. 19, one end of the liner 200 is provided with a groove 202 matching with the width of the electrode 101 of the graphite heater 100, and both ends of the groove 202 are provided with through holes 201 matching with the positions of the electrode holes 102 of the graphite heater 100; the outer diameter of the liner 200 is smaller than the inner diameter of the graphite heater 100, and the height of the liner 200 is matched with the height of the graphite heater 100.
It should be noted that the groove 202 and the boss are matched for positioning, so as to ensure that the conveying direction of the lining is kept consistent.
As shown in fig. 20, a step 301 is provided on an inner diameter of one end of the outer liner 300, a height of the step 301 matches a height of the electrode 101 of the graphite heater 100, a U-shaped groove 302 is provided on an end surface of the outer liner 300 with the step 301, a width of the U-shaped groove 302 matches a width of the electrode 101, an inner diameter of the outer liner 300 is larger than an outer diameter of the graphite heater 100, and an inner diameter of the step 301 matches an outer diameter of the inner liner 200.
It should be noted that the U-shaped groove 302 is positioned in cooperation with the boss, so as to ensure that the conveying direction of the outer liner is consistent.
As shown in fig. 8, as a modification, the vacuum nozzle 84 is arranged to match the position of the electrode hole 102, and the vacuum nozzle 84 can penetrate into the through hole 201.
The working process is as follows:
the first conveyor 2 conveys the graphite heater, the second conveyor 3 conveys the inner liner 200 and the outer liner 300 to a clamping position of a manipulator 5;
the packaging bag conveying unit 6 conveys the packaging bags to the groove-shaped opening 4121 through the bag conveying roller 62, the first telescopic assembly 72 extends downwards, the horizontal moving assembly 71 controls the support a73 to approach the packaging bags, meanwhile, the suction cups 74 suck the packaging bags, the horizontal moving assembly 71 controls the support a73 to move outwards relatively, so that the openings of the packaging bags are opened, and the first telescopic assembly 72 moves upwards, so that the packaging bags are pulled out of the bag box;
the manipulator 5 sequentially clamps the inner liner 200, the graphite heater 100 and the outer liner 300 into the packaging bag;
the horizontal moving assembly 71 controls the support a73 to move inwards relatively, so that the width of the bag opening is reserved to be the same as the diameter of the vacuumizing nozzle 84;
the vacuum-pumping unit 8 moves downwards, meanwhile, the heat seal plate assembly 92 moves inwards relatively under the action of the first connecting rod assembly 91, the vacuum-pumping nozzle 84 extends into the electrode hole 102, and the first heat seal plate 921 is subjected to heat seal firstly;
opening the vacuum machine 81, vacuumizing, and vacuumizing according to the process time;
after the vacuum control meets the requirement, the vacuum pumping unit 8 moves upwards, the heat sealing plate assembly 92 moves outwards relatively under the action of the first connecting rod assembly 91, the second heat sealing plate 922 moves inwards relatively, the mouth part of the rest part which is not subjected to heat sealing is sealed, and the vacuum pumping nozzle 84 is completely separated from the packaging bag when the sealing is finished, so that the packaging is completed;
the manipulator 5 transfers the packaged graphite heater to the third conveyor 4 for outputting.
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents and improvements made within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.