CN112474372A - Overturning type sorting vehicle, overturning type sorting device, overturning type sorting system and overturning type sorting method - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a turnover type sorting vehicle, a turnover type sorting device, a turnover type sorting system and a turnover type sorting method, wherein the turnover type sorting vehicle comprises a vehicle frame, a carrying platform is arranged on the vehicle frame in a rotating mode relative to the vehicle frame, a driving mechanism for driving the carrying platform to rotate is arranged on the vehicle frame, the driving mechanism enables the carrying platform to be switched among three states, and the carrying platform is arranged in a righting mode in the first state; when in the second state, the carrying platform inclines to the left; in the third state, the stage is tilted to the right. This scheme can save to turn over board climbing mechanism and drive the microscope carrier through set up the relative frame pivoted actuating mechanism of drive microscope carrier on the frame, consequently does not exist the impact that constitutes to the board jacking machine among the prior art, simultaneously, adopts drive structure can avoid effectively turning over the impact of board climbing mechanism to the microscope carrier, improves the reliability and the stability of letter sorting.

Description

Overturning type sorting vehicle, overturning type sorting device, overturning type sorting system and overturning type sorting method

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of logistics sorting equipment, in particular to a turnover sorting vehicle, a turnover sorting device, a turnover sorting system and a turnover sorting method.

Background

The sorting and conveying system is a material handling system for sorting random and differently oriented articles according to a certain requirement, along with the rapid development of electronic commerce, the logistics industry correspondingly and rapidly develops, various automatic and semi-automatic logistics sorting systems and equipment are researched and developed and applied to actual sorting operation, wherein the turnover plate type sorting equipment utilizes a turnover plate to tilt at a sorting position by a certain angle, so that the articles on the turnover plate type sorting equipment are unloaded to a sorting port or other sorting equipment.

Known turnover plate type sorting equipment is disclosed as application number 201810262046.9, in the structure, a sorting trolley is in a structure without power, a turnover plate is driven to turn over by a turnover plate jacking device, but in the structure, when the sorting trolley runs onto the turnover plate jacking device, the sorting trolley applies larger impact force to a rotating wheel of the turnover plate jacking device, so that the turnover plate jacking device is easily caused to be in failure, and the running stability is poor.

Meanwhile, the turning plate is kept in a horizontal state through the limiting mechanism, when the turning plate is switched between the horizontal state and the inclined state, the turning plate jacking device needs to overcome the acting force of the limiting mechanism, the probability that the turning plate jacking device is damaged is further increased, meanwhile, the vibration of the turning plate during sorting is also increased, and the sorting precision is reduced.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the problems in the prior art and provides a turnover type sorting vehicle, a turnover type sorting device, a turnover type sorting system and a turnover type sorting method.

The purpose of the invention is realized by the following technical scheme:

the turnover sorting vehicle comprises a vehicle frame, a carrying platform is arranged on the vehicle frame in a rotating way relative to the vehicle frame, a driving mechanism for driving the carrying platform to rotate is arranged on the vehicle frame, the driving mechanism enables the carrying platform to be switched among three states,

in the first state, the carrier is righted;

when in the second state, the carrying platform inclines to the left;

in the third state, the stage is tilted to the right.

Preferably, in the turnover sorting vehicle, support rollers are arranged at two ends of the vehicle frame, and the axis of each support roller is perpendicular to the rotating shaft of the carrier and the vehicle frame.

Preferably, in the turnover sorting vehicle, the top surface of the carrying platform includes a first top surface and a second top surface which are symmetrically connected and keep an obtuse angle not less than 120 °, and the connecting edge of the first top surface and the second top surface is lower than the outer side edge of the first top surface and the second top surface.

Preferably, in the turnover sorting vehicle, the driving mechanism comprises a motor, an output shaft of the motor is coaxially connected with a driving wheel, the driving wheel is connected with a driven wheel through a synchronous belt, the driven wheel is coaxially connected with a rotating shaft of the carrying platform and the vehicle frame, and the rotating shaft can rotate relative to the vehicle frame.

Preferably, convertible letter sorting car in, the motor is dual output shaft gear motor, its one end coaxial coupling belt pulley of not being connected with the action wheel, the cover is equipped with the belt on the belt pulley, the belt still suit is on two backing rolls, two backing rolls below be provided with the guide wheel that is located the below of frame on the belt, longitudinal extension is followed to the axis of guide wheel.

Preferably, in the turnover type sorting vehicle, the guide wheel is fixed on a sliding block, and the sliding block is connected with a belt and can be slidably arranged on the guide rail.

Convertible sorting device, including arbitrary convertible letter sorting car of the aforesaid and drive the moving mechanism that convertible letter sorting car removed.

Preferably, in the turnover sorting device, the turnover sorting vehicles are distributed annularly and are driven by the loop driving mechanism to rotate around the loop driving mechanism.

Preferably, in the turnover type sorting device, the axis of the ring shape formed by enclosing the turnover type sorting vehicles is parallel to or vertical to the horizontal plane.

Preferably, the turnover type sorting device further comprises a supporting track, and the turnover type sorting vehicle moves along the supporting track.

Preferably, in the turnover type sorting device, the support rail is in a non-closed shape or a closed ring shape, and a guide groove is formed thereon,

when the support rail is in a non-closed shape, the guide groove extends along the extension direction of the support rail,

when the supporting track is in a closed ring shape, the guide groove is in a ring shape,

when the carrying platform is in a first state, the guide wheel on the turnover type sorting vehicle is positioned in the guide groove, two sides of the guide groove are connected with the left sorting driving groove and the right sorting driving groove in an acute angle, and two sides of the guide groove are also connected with the left straightening guide groove communicated with the output end of the left sorting driving groove and the right straightening guide groove communicated with the output end of the right sorting driving groove.

Preferably, in the turnover type sorting device, a path switching block is arranged at a gap of a connection position of the left sorting driving groove and the right sorting driving groove with the guide groove, and the path switching block is connected with and drives a moving device which moves along a direction perpendicular to the annular guide groove to control a moving path of the guide wheel.

Preferably, in the turnover sorting device, the route switching block is fixed on a sliding block, the sliding block is slidably disposed in a sliding groove which is on the support rail and has an extending direction perpendicular to the annular guide groove, and the sliding block is connected with a moving device for driving the sliding block to move along the sliding groove.

Convertible letter sorting system includes above-mentioned arbitrary convertible sorting device.

The turnover type sorting method comprises the following steps:

s1, providing the turnover type sorting device;

s2, determining the route of the package;

s3, placing the package on a carrying platform of a turnover type sorting vehicle;

s4, when the turnover type sorting vehicle moves to the corresponding sorting grid opening, the driving mechanism starts to drive the carrying platform to rotate, and after the articles on the carrying platform are poured into the corresponding sorting grid opening, the driving mechanism starts to drive the carrying platform to reversely reset and rotate to the upper wrapping point;

s5, repeating S2-S4.

The turnover type sorting method comprises the following steps:

s10, providing the turnover type sorting device with a route switching block;

s20, determining the route of the package;

s30, placing the package on a carrying platform of a turnover type sorting vehicle;

s40, according to the parcel route, determining the positions of the route switching blocks so that the guide wheel of the turnover type sorting vehicle can move into the left sorting driving groove or the right sorting driving groove of the corresponding grid to realize sorting;

s50, after sorting, the guide wheel on which the turnover sorting vehicle moves along the support rail moves from the left-right-swinging guide groove to the guide groove, the carrying platform of the turnover sorting vehicle resets to a first state, and the carrying platform moves along the loop line of the turnover sorting vehicle and can wrap points;

s60, repeating S20-S50.

The technical scheme of the invention has the advantages that:

this scheme can save to turn over board climbing mechanism and drive the microscope carrier through set up the relative frame pivoted actuating mechanism of drive microscope carrier on the frame, consequently does not exist the impact that constitutes to the board jacking machine among the prior art, simultaneously, adopts drive structure can avoid effectively turning over the impact of board climbing mechanism to the microscope carrier, improves the reliability and the stability of letter sorting.

The first top surface of this scheme roof and the structure of second top surface, the aspect can reduce the parcel effectively and follow the probability that the microscope carrier dropped, on the other hand can make the parcel be located the intermediate position of microscope carrier effectively, can avoid effectively that the axis of rotation that causes the motor because of goods weight is too big is twisted round to guarantee the stability of letter sorting, can be used for the letter sorting needs of the article of bigger weight simultaneously.

The support rollers are arranged on the frame, so that the trolley can be effectively arranged on the track in a rolling manner, the abrasion of equipment is reduced, and the running stability is improved.

This scheme adopts the transmission structure of motor and hold-in range, synchronizing wheel, can avoid effectively producing the vibration to the microscope carrier, realizes flexible letter sorting. Meanwhile, the inclination angle of the carrying platform can be flexibly adjusted by adopting the motor drive, so that the inclination angle can be adjusted according to different occasions, and the application flexibility is further enriched.

This scheme adopts dual output shaft gear motor to belt pulley, belt and backing roll are connected to the other end of motor shaft, can reduce the degree of difficulty of motor shaft rotation under the exogenic action effectively, thereby can be used for the letter sorting needs of heavier article.

The belt is further provided with the guide wheel which can be effectively matched with the guide groove and the sorting driving groove on the supporting track, so that the state of the carrier can be effectively limited through the position of the guide wheel, particularly, when the guide wheel is positioned in the guide groove on the carrier, the carrier can be effectively kept in a righting state, the motor is not driven to deflect due to the weight of the articles, and the requirements of conveying and sorting of the articles with various weights can be effectively met.

The convertible sorting device of this scheme can carry out the level according to the occasion needs of difference and lay or lay perpendicularly to can improve the flexibility of using effectively, and provide support and direction for the letter sorting car through the support rail, can guarantee the stability of letter sorting car operation effectively.

The route switching block is arranged on the sliding block, the sliding block is located in the guide groove, impact on the route switching block can be effectively prevented from being transmitted to the moving device for driving the sliding block to move, and the moving device can be protected.

Drawings

Figure 1 is a perspective view (in a straightened condition) of the convertible sorting vehicle of the invention;

figure 2 is an end view (in a straightened condition) of the convertible sorting vehicle of the invention;

figure 3 is a side view (in a straightened condition) of the convertible sorting vehicle of the invention;

figure 4 is a top perspective view (in a straightened condition) of the convertible sorting vehicle of the invention;

figure 5 is a perspective view of the flipper sorter of the present invention;

figure 6 is a front view of the flipper sorter of the present invention;

figure 7 is a front view of a plurality of the flipper sorter vehicles of the present invention with the upper deck hidden;

figure 8 is a top view of the flipper sorter of the present invention;

figure 9 is a partial perspective view of the support track of the flipper sorter of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is an enlarged view of the area O in FIG. 8;

figure 11 is a schematic view of a first embodiment of the present invention of a flipper sortation system;

figure 12 is a schematic diagram of a second embodiment of the present invention of a flipchip sortation system.

Detailed Description

Objects, advantages and features of the present invention will be illustrated and explained by the following non-limiting description of preferred embodiments. The embodiments are merely exemplary for applying the technical solutions of the present invention, and any technical solution formed by replacing or converting the equivalent thereof falls within the scope of the present invention claimed.

In the description of the schemes, it should be noted that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "front", "rear", "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 devices or elements 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. In the description of the embodiment, the operator is used as a reference, and the direction close to the operator is a proximal end, and the direction away from the operator is a distal end.

Example 1

Referring to the drawings, the convertible sorting vehicle disclosed by the present invention is illustrated, as shown in fig. 1, which includes a vehicle frame 100, a carrying platform 200 is rotatably disposed on the vehicle frame 100, a driving mechanism 300 for driving the carrying platform 200 to rotate is disposed on the vehicle frame 100, the driving mechanism 300 switches the carrying platform 200 between three states as shown in fig. 5,

in the first state, the carrier 200 is in a right position, that is, two ends of the carrier 200 are in a state of equal height;

in the second state, the carrier 200 is tilted to the left, that is, the left end of the carrier 200 is lower than the right end;

in the third state, the stage 200 is tilted to the right, i.e., the left end of the stage 200 is higher than the right end.

In the sorting process, the driving mechanism 300 supplies and conveys the carriers 200 in a swing state, when the vehicle frame 100 moves to a target package placing position, the driving mechanism 300 drives the carriers 200 to rotate and switches to the second state or the third state, so that packages on the carriers 200 fall to corresponding package placing positions under the action of gravity, and after sorting is completed, the driving mechanism 300 drives the carriers 200 to reversely rotate and reset to the swing state.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 2, the vehicle frame 100 may have various possible frame structures with sufficient support and a certain installation space, in this embodiment, the vehicle frame 100 includes two parallel long side plates 110, which are approximately trapezoidal as a whole, the two long side plates 110 are connected by a set of connecting members 120, a mounting plate 130 is respectively fixed at a middle position of a top of each of the two long side plates, bearings (not shown) are coaxially disposed on the two mounting plates 130, the carrier 200 is connected to the vehicle frame 100 by a rotating shaft 210 inserted into inner holes of the two bearings and can rotate relative to the vehicle frame 100, and the rotating shaft 210 may be a long shaft or two coaxial and separated short shafts.

In practical use, the carriage 100 may be disposed on a guide rail and supported by a support rail, the carriage 100 and the guide rail may be slidably connected or rollingly connected, in order to realize rolling connection to reduce wear, as shown in fig. 2, support rollers 140 are respectively disposed on the outer sides of the connecting members 120 at both ends of the carriage 100, the number of the support rollers 140 may be selected according to needs, preferably is between 1-3, and more preferably is 2, and the axis of the support roller 140 extends horizontally and is perpendicular to the rotating shaft 210 of the carrier 200 and the carriage 100. Of course, in other embodiments, the support roller 140 is not required and may be omitted.

As shown in fig. 2 and fig. 3, the carrier 200 includes two parallel side plates 220, and the two side plates 220 may be located inside or outside the two long side plates 110. The three vertexes of the side plate 220 are distributed in an isosceles triangle shape and are inverted, that is, two vertexes 221 and 222 corresponding to the base of the isosceles triangle are located above, a vertex 223 connected with two waists is located below, the rotating shaft 210 is vertically connected to the side plate 220 and is close to the vertex 223, and the axis of the rotating shaft 210 is located in a plane formed by the two vertexes 223 of the two side plates and the midpoint 224 of the base. The two side plates 220 are connected by a connecting rod 230, and a top plate 240 is disposed on the top of each side plate, and both ends of the top plate 240 extend out of both ends of the long side plate 110.

The top plate 240 may be a flat plate, and in a more preferable mode, in order to prevent the articles from sliding down due to vibration when the convertible sorting vehicle runs, as shown in fig. 3, the top surface of the top plate 240 adopts two first top surfaces 241 and two second top surfaces 242 which are symmetrically connected and keep an obtuse angle a not less than 120 °, further, the included angle between the first top surfaces 241 and the second top surfaces 242 is not less than 150 °, and the connecting edge of the first top surfaces 241 and the second top surfaces 242 is lower than the outer side edge of the first top surfaces 241 and the second top surfaces 242. Of course, in other embodiments, the first top surface 241 and the second top surface 242 may not be symmetrically disposed, so that the entire top portion 240 presents a V-shaped groove, thereby preventing the articles from being removed from the two ends of the top plate 240 to some extent.

In another embodiment, side barriers (not shown) extending to the top surface of the top plate 240 may be vertically disposed on both sides of the top plate 240, so as to better prevent the parcel from falling off the top plate 240.

As shown in fig. 1, the driving mechanism 300 includes a motor 310 fixed on the frame 100, but in other embodiments, the motor 310 may also be replaced by a rotary cylinder, and the like, the motor 310 is fixed on the motor mounting base 150 which is inside one of the long side plates 110 and keeps a distance from the other long side plate, an output shaft 311 of the motor is tangent to the rotating shaft 210 and coaxially connected to a driving wheel 320, the driving wheel 320 is connected to a driven wheel 340 through a synchronous belt 330, and the driven wheel 340 is coaxially connected to the rotating shaft 210, so that when the motor 310 is started, the rotating shaft 210 can be driven to rotate forward and backward to realize the rotation of the carrying platform 200. Of course, in other embodiments, the driving pulley 320, the timing belt 330 and the driven pulley 340 can be replaced by a chain wheel and a chain or by a gear.

Preferably, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 4, the motor 310 is a dual-output-shaft speed reduction motor, one end 312 of the motor, which is not connected with the driving wheel, is coaxially connected with the belt pulley 350, the belt pulley 350 is sleeved with the belt 360, the belt 360 is further sleeved on the two supporting rollers 370, the two supporting rollers 370 are equal in height, and they are close to the two ends of the long side plate 110, and of course, the distance between the two supporting rollers 370 can also be adjusted as required. Meanwhile, the long side plate 110 is further provided with a tension roller 380 which is located outside the belt 360 and tightly attached to the belt, the belt 360 may be further provided with a trigger (not shown in the figure), and the trigger moves between the two support rollers 370 along with the belt, so that the state of the carrier 200 may be determined by triggering sensors at different positions through the trigger. In this configuration, since motor 310 may rotate when receiving a sufficiently large external torque, the articles generally placed on carrier 200 may be light-weight articles, such as letters, clothing items, etc.

Of course, in a more preferred embodiment, as shown in fig. 4, in order to meet the sorting of heavy articles, the belt 360 is provided with a guide wheel 390 under the carriage 100, and the axis of the guide wheel 390 is vertical and can rotate. The guide wheel 390 is fixed on a sliding block 3100, the sliding block 3100 is connected with the belt 360 and is slidably disposed on a guide rail 3200, the guide rail 3200 is fixed inside the long side plate and both ends thereof extend to two supporting rollers 370, so that the guide wheel 390 follows the belt 360 to move between the two supporting rollers 370 while the motor 310 drives the stage to rotate. When the carrier 200 is in the normal state, the guide wheel 390 is located at the middle of the belt 360; when the carrier 200 is tilted to the left, the guide wheel 390 is located at the right end of the belt 360; when the carrier 200 is tilted to the right, the guide wheel is located at the left end of the belt 360.

Of course, in another embodiment, the convertible sorting vehicle may also adopt a non-powered structure, that is, the motor 310 is eliminated, and a transmission shaft rotatably fixed on the motor mounting seat 160 is used instead of the motor 310, at this time, the guide wheel 390 may be driven to move left and right in other manners, so as to realize the state switching of the carrying platform through the belt 360, the belt pulley 350, the transmission shaft, the driving wheel, and the synchronous belt driven wheel, and a specific implementation structure will be described in detail in the following embodiments, which is not described herein again.

Example 2

The present scheme further discloses a convertible sorting device, as shown in fig. 5, which includes the convertible sorting vehicle 400 of the above embodiment and a moving mechanism for driving the convertible sorting vehicle 400 to move. The number of the convertible sorting vehicles 400 may be designed as desired, for example, in one mode, the number of the convertible sorting vehicles 400 may be only one, and in this case, the moving mechanism may be a device capable of driving the convertible sorting vehicle 400 to move between two points, for example, an air cylinder or a hydraulic cylinder or an electric cylinder.

In a preferred mode, as shown in fig. 5, the convertible sorting vehicle 400 is a plurality of and is distributed in a ring shape, and is driven by the loop driving mechanism 500 to rotate along the ring shape enclosed by the convertible sorting vehicle 400, and the enclosed shape of the convertible sorting vehicle 400 is preferably waist-shaped, but may have other shapes.

The axis of the ring formed by the turnover type sorting vehicle 400 may be horizontal or vertical, as shown in fig. 5, when the axis of the ring formed by the turnover type sorting vehicle 400 is horizontal, the turnover type sorting vehicle 400 preferably forms a waist shape, they are all disposed on the loop driving mechanism 500, and the layout form of the turnover type sorting vehicle 400 is the same as or similar to that of the sorting unit in the cross belt sorting system disclosed in application No. 201810394872.9.

As shown in fig. 6 and 7, the loop driving mechanism 500 includes two first driving wheels 510 and two second driving wheels 520, the two first driving wheels 510 are coaxial and fixed on a first supporting shaft 530 coaxial with the first driving wheels, and the first supporting shaft 530 is horizontally disposed and perpendicular to the rotating shaft 210 of the turnover sorting vehicle 400. The two second driving wheels 520 are coaxial and fixed to a second supporting shaft 540 coaxial with them, the second supporting shaft 540 being parallel and flush with the first supporting shaft 530. The first driving wheel 510 and the second driving wheel 520 may be sprockets or pulleys. The first drive wheel 510 and the second drive wheel 520 on the same side are connected by a drive chain or belt 550, and each of the convertible sorting carts 400 is secured to two of the drive chains or belts 550.

Meanwhile, the first support shaft 530 and the second support shaft 540 are respectively rotatably disposed on a bracket (not shown in the figure), and the first support shaft 530 or the second support shaft 540 is connected to a motor (not shown in the figure) for driving the first support shaft 530 or the second support shaft 540 to rotate, so that when the motor drives the first support shaft 530 or the second support shaft 540 to rotate, the two transmission chains or the transmission belts 550 rotate to drive the turnover type sorting vehicle 400 fixed thereon to rotate clockwise or counterclockwise.

Of course, in another embodiment, the loop driving mechanism 500 may also adopt other feasible structures, for example, a loop driving structure of the existing cross belt sorting system, that is, a driving structure of electromagnetically driving the secondary plate on the convertible sorting vehicle to translate by using a linear motor, or a driving structure of frictionally driving the friction plate on the convertible sorting vehicle by using a friction wheel or a friction belt, in this case, structures such as a chain and a sprocket may not be needed, but the convertible sorting vehicle needs to be disposed on the supporting rail and cannot be separated from the supporting rail, and specifically, refer to the structures shown in application nos. 201821735963.6 and 201811247583.2.

As shown in fig. 12, when the axis of the ring shape enclosed by the convertible sorting vehicle 400 is vertical, that is, the layout form of the convertible sorting vehicle 400 is similar to or the same as the layout form of the conveying mechanism disclosed in application No. 201610728649.4, of course, the convertible sorting vehicle 400 may not be connected with each other, or may be connected end to end in sequence to form a ring shape, and at this time, the ring line driving mechanism 500 may adopt the structure disclosed in application No. 201911390935.4. Of course, other possible configurations may be used.

Because the supporting stability of the turnover sorting vehicle 400 is relatively long by adopting a chain or a synchronous belt, etc., the turnover sorting vehicle 400 is supported better, as shown in fig. 5 to fig. 6, the turnover sorting device 1 further comprises a supporting track 600, and the supporting rollers 140 of the turnover sorting vehicle 400 are arranged on the supporting track 600. The supporting rails 600 can be flexibly adjusted according to the number and arrangement form of the turnover sorting vehicles 400, for example, when the turnover sorting vehicles are distributed in a ring shape, the supporting rails 600 may be a non-closed supporting rail or a closed supporting rail. When the support rail 600 is a non-closed structure, it may be a straight rail or a curved rail. When the support rail 600 has a closed loop shape, the axis of the support rail 600 may be horizontal or vertical.

In the above embodiment 1, the switching of the different states of the carrying platform 200 by the left and right movement of the guide wheel 390 on the turnover type sorting vehicle 400 is described, and another structure for realizing the left and right movement of the guide wheel 390 will be described in detail below. The structure is particularly arranged on the support rail 600.

In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 7, the support rail 600 is illustrated as a kidney-shaped rail with its axis horizontal. Specifically, as shown in fig. 8 and 9, a guide groove 620 is formed on the outer peripheral surface 610 of the support rail 600, the guide groove 620 is a kidney-shaped annular groove, the circumference of the guide groove 620 is the same as the circumference of the support rail 600, and when the carrier 200 on the convertible sorting cart 400 is in the aligned state, the guide wheel 390 at the bottom of the convertible sorting cart 400 is located in the guide groove 620, and the width of the annular guide groove 620 is equal to the diameter of the guide wheel 390, preferably slightly larger. Of course, when the support rail 600 is not in a closed loop shape, the guide groove 620 is also not in a loop shape, which extends in the extending direction of the support rail 600.

As shown in fig. 8 and 9, at least one side of the guide groove 620 is connected to a sorting driving groove at an acute angle, preferably, both sides of the guide groove 620 are connected to a left sorting driving groove 630 and a right sorting driving groove 640, the widths of the left sorting driving groove 630 and the right sorting driving groove 640 are the same as the width of the guide groove 620, the number of the left sorting driving groove 630 and the right sorting driving groove 640 may be designed according to needs, and is not limited herein, in this embodiment, each of the left sorting driving groove 630 and the right sorting driving groove 640 is illustrated as 2, and they are located on the upper straight rail section 601 of the support rail 600. The left sorting driving groove 630 and the right sorting driving groove 640 are arranged on two sides of the guide groove 620 in a staggered mode, namely, the connection positions of the left sorting driving groove 630 and the right sorting driving groove 640 and the guide groove 620 have sequential position relation. Of course, in another embodiment, the left sorting driving groove 630 and the right sorting driving groove 640 may be symmetrically disposed at both sides of the guide groove 620.

The left sorting driving groove 630 and the right sorting driving groove 640 are inclined towards the conveying direction a of the turnover sorting vehicle, and the included angle between the left sorting driving groove 630 and the right sorting driving groove 640 and the guide groove 620 can be designed according to needs, preferably, the included angle between the left sorting driving groove 630 and the right sorting driving groove 640 is 15-60 degrees, and the extending length of the left sorting driving groove 630 and the extending length of the right sorting driving groove 640 can also be designed according to the angle at which the carrying platform 200 is inclined, preferably, the ends of the left sorting driving groove 630 and the right sorting driving groove 640, which are not connected with the guide groove 620, extend to the two side edges of the support guide rail; of course in other embodiments they may be shorter in length, for example they are not through slots and do not extend to the edge of the support rail 600.

As shown in fig. 8 to 10, a route switching block 650 is provided at a position where the left and right sorting driving grooves 630 and 640 are engaged with the guide groove 620, and the route switching block 650 is connected to a moving device 690 driving the movement thereof to control a moving path of the guide wheels. Since the route switching block 650 at the position where the left and right sorting driving grooves 630 and 640 are engaged with the guide groove 620 have the same structure and are only provided in opposite directions, the route switching block 650 at the left sorting driving groove 630 will be described as an example.

As shown in fig. 9 and 10, the route switching block 650 is a triangular block including a first guide surface 651 which can not completely fit with the side wall 621 of the left sorting driving groove 630 and a second guide surface 652 which has the same width as the joining end of the left sorting driving groove 630 and the guide groove 620, and an included angle between the first guide surface 651 and the second guide surface 652 is the same as an included angle between the left sorting driving groove 630 and the guide groove 620. The route switching block 650 is disposed in the notch 6100 at the connection position of the left sorting driving groove 630 and the annular guiding groove 620, and the thickness of the route switching block 650 is equivalent to the depth of the annular guiding groove 620, but may be slightly larger or smaller.

As shown in fig. 10, when the route switching block 650 is positioned at the right side (the main body of the route switching block 650 is positioned in the annular guide groove 620), the first guide surface 651 of the route switching block 650 is engaged with the side wall 621 of the guide groove, the main body of the second guide surface 652 of the route switching block 650 is positioned in the annular guide groove 620, and the rear end thereof is engaged with the inlet end of the inner side wall 631 of the left sorting driving groove 630, so that the annular guide groove 620 is blocked by the route switching block 650, the second guide surface 622 makes the left sorting driving groove 630 conductive, and when moving from the guide wheel 390 positioned in the annular guide groove 620 to the route switching block 650, the belt 360, the pulley 350, the belt pulley 350, and the rear end thereof are driven along the second guide surface 622 when moving in the left sorting driving groove 630, The transmission shaft or the motor, the driving wheel and the synchronous belt driven wheel realize that the carrying platform 200 inclines rightwards to realize blanking.

As shown in fig. 10, when the route switching block 650 is located at the left side (the main body of the route switching block 650 is located at the entrance of the left sorting driving groove 630), the second guide surface 652 is abutted against the outer side wall 632 of the left sorting driving groove 630, and the first guide surface 651 is flush with the joined side wall 622 of the annular guide groove 620, so that the annular guide groove 620 is kept in a conducting state, the left sorting driving groove 630 is blocked, and the guide wheel can continue to move along the annular guide groove 620 without entering the left sorting driving groove 630, and therefore, the carrier can be kept in a straight state without sorting, and can be moved to a subsequent sorting position for sorting.

As shown in fig. 7, the moving device 690 drives the route switching block 650 to reciprocate in a direction perpendicular to the annular guide groove 620, the moving device 690 may be various devices capable of generating linear movement, such as an air cylinder, a hydraulic cylinder, or an electric push rod, and the moving device 690 may be fixed to the bottom of the upper straight rail section 601 of the support rail and connected to the route switching block 650 through a transmission member.

As shown in fig. 9, the route switching block 650 is fixed on a sliding block 6200, the sliding block 6200 is slidably disposed in a sliding groove 6300 extending in a direction perpendicular to the annular guide groove on the support rail 600, the sliding groove 6300 is a through groove in a convex shape, the sliding block 6200 is a matching block in a convex shape, and the sliding block 6200 is connected to a moving device 690 for driving the moving block to move along the sliding groove 6300, so that the linear movement of the route switching block 650 can be more stably realized.

Meanwhile, as shown in fig. 8, a left aligning guide groove 660 communicated with the output end of the left sorting drive groove 630 and a right aligning guide groove 670 communicated with the output end of the right sorting drive groove 640 are further coupled to both sides of the guide groove 620, and the left aligning guide groove 660 and the right aligning guide groove 670 are identical in structure and each include an inlet section 661, 671 identical to the extending direction of the annular guide groove 620 and an inclined section 662, 672 engaged with the distal end of the inlet section 661, 671, so that when the guide wheel is moved from the distal end of the left sorting drive groove 630 or the right sorting drive groove 640, the guide wheel can move to the left aligning guide groove 660 or the right aligning guide groove 670 along the side surface of the support rail and enter the inlet section 661, 671, and then continue to the inclined section 662, 672, and thus move back to the annular guide groove 620.

Also, a left aligning guide groove 660 may be connected to the rear of each left sorting driving groove 630, and a right aligning guide groove 670 may be connected to the rear of each right sorting driving groove 640, that is, a plurality of left aligning guide grooves 660 and right aligning guide grooves 670 may be provided. In a more preferred embodiment, as shown in fig. 8, there is only one left straightening guide slot 660 and one right straightening guide slot 670, and the left straightening guide slot 660 and the right straightening guide slot 670 are located at two end positions of the support rail 600 or the lower straight rail section 602, and preferably, at a far end in the rotation direction of the convertible sorting vehicle 400, that is, at a right end.

Example 3

This scheme further discloses a convertible letter sorting system, as shown in fig. 11, including foretell convertible sorting device 1, convertible sorting device 1 still is connected with supplies to pack and puts 2, supply to pack and put 2 can be known have weigh, sweep the sign indicating number, survey volume and transport function's DWS transfer chain, supply the concrete position that sets up of package device can be according to convertible sorting device's the form of laying adjusts, for example, as shown in fig. 11, when convertible sorting device 1 is arranged for the perpendicular, when the axis of loop line is the horizontally promptly, supply to pack and put 2 settings and be in the one end position department on convertible sorting device upper strata. As shown in fig. 12, when the turn-type sorter 1 is horizontally arranged, that is, when the axis of the loop is vertical, the packing device 2 may be disposed at any position engaged with the turn-type sorter. As shown in fig. 11 and 12, a sorting cell 3 is provided beside each of the left sorting driving groove 630 and the right sorting driving groove 640 of the turnover type sorting device 1.

The turnover sorting system controls the work of the whole system by combining a control device, a sensor and the like, and the work is known in the prior art and is not described in detail.

The following will be a method of sorting based on the structure of different flip-type sorting devices.

Example 4

In this embodiment, the sorting method is based on the motor 310 driving the carrier 200 to rotate for sorting, in this embodiment, the convertible sorting vehicle does not have the guide wheel 390, is supported on a rail, or does not have a corresponding groove structure, and includes the following processes

S1, providing the convertible sorting device of the above embodiment.

And S2, acquiring the route by manual code scanning or determining the route of the package by an automatic package supply station.

S3, placing the package on a carrier of a convertible sorting cart, either manually or through a supply table.

S4, when the loop driving mechanism 500 drives the convertible sorting vehicle 1 to move to the corresponding sorting grid along the supporting track 600, the motor 310 of the driving mechanism 300 starts to drive the carrying platform 200 to rotate and dump the articles thereon into the corresponding sorting grid, and then the motor 310 of the driving mechanism 300 starts to rotate reversely to drive the carrying platform to rotate reversely and reset and rotate back to the wrapping point.

S5, repeating S2-S4.

Example 5

In this embodiment, the sorting method is to drive the guide wheel 390 to move based on the guide slot 620, the left sorting driving slot 630, the right sorting driving slot 640, the route switching block 650, the left aligning guide slot 660 and the right aligning guide slot 670 on the support rail to realize the rotary sorting and resetting alignment of the carrier 200, and includes the following steps:

s10, providing the turnover type sorting device of the supporting rail 600 with the guide groove 620, the left sorting driving groove 630, the right sorting driving groove 640, the route switching block 650, the left swing guide groove 660 and the right swing guide groove 670.

And S20, acquiring the route by manual code scanning or determining the route of the package by an automatic package supply station.

S30, placing the package on a carrier of a convertible sorting cart, either manually or through a supply table.

And S40, determining the positions of the route switching blocks according to the package route so that the guide wheel of the turnover type sorting vehicle can move into the left sorting driving groove or the right sorting driving groove of the corresponding grid to realize sorting. Taking as an example that the sorting cell of an article is the corresponding sorting cell of the second right sorting driving slot 640, when the package is supplied to one of the convertible sorting vehicles from the left end and moves to the right end, the route switching block 650 at the first right sorting driving slot 640 is located in the right sorting driving slot 640, the route switching block 650 at the first left sorting driving slot 630 is located in the left sorting driving slot 630, the route switching block 650 at the second right sorting driving slot 630 is located in the annular guiding slot 620, so that the guiding wheel 390 on the convertible sorting vehicle continuously moves along the annular guiding slot 620 before moving to the second right sorting driving slot 640, and when moving to the route switching block 650 at the second right sorting driving slot 630, and enters the second right sorting drive chute 630 to effect sorting.

And S50, after sorting, the guide wheel on which the turnover sorting vehicle moves along the support rail moves from the left-right-swinging guide groove to the guide groove, the carrying platform of the turnover sorting vehicle resets to the first state, and the carrying platform moves along the loop of the turnover sorting vehicle and can wrap points.

S60, repeating S20-S50.

The invention has various embodiments, and all technical solutions formed by adopting equivalent transformation or equivalent transformation are within the protection scope of the invention.

Claims (16)

1. The turnover sorting vehicle comprises a vehicle frame, a carrying platform is arranged on the vehicle frame in a rotating way relative to the vehicle frame, the carrying platform has the state,

in the first state, the carrier is righted;

when in the second state, the carrying platform inclines to the left;

in a third state, the carrier is inclined to the right;

the method is characterized in that: and the frame is provided with a driving mechanism which drives the carrying platform to rotate and switch among the three states.

2. The convertible sorting vehicle of claim 1, wherein: and supporting rollers are arranged at two ends of the frame, and the axes of the supporting rollers are perpendicular to a rotating shaft of the carrying platform connected with the frame.

3. The tip-up sorter car of claim 1, wherein: the top surface of the carrying platform comprises a first top surface and a second top surface which are symmetrically jointed and keep an obtuse angle not less than 120 degrees, and the joint edge of the first top surface and the second top surface is lower than the outer side edges of the first top surface and the second top surface.

4. The convertible sorting vehicle of any of claims 1-3, wherein: the driving mechanism comprises a motor, an output shaft of the motor is coaxially connected with a driving wheel, the driving wheel is connected with a driven wheel through a synchronous belt, the driven wheel is coaxially connected with a rotating shaft of the carrying platform and the frame, and the rotating shaft can rotate relative to the frame.

5. The convertible sorting vehicle of claim 4, wherein: the motor is a speed reducing motor with double output shafts, one end of the speed reducing motor, which is not connected with the driving wheel, is coaxially connected with a belt pulley, a belt is sleeved on the belt pulley, and the belt is further sleeved on the two supporting rollers.

6. The convertible sorting vehicle of claim 5, wherein: the bottom of the belt below the two supporting rollers is provided with a guide wheel positioned below the frame, the axis of the guide wheel extends along the longitudinal direction, the guide wheel is fixed on a sliding block, and the sliding block is connected with the belt and is slidably arranged on the guide rail.

7. Convertible sorting device, its characterized in that: comprising the roll-over sorter vehicle of any of claims 1-6 and a movement mechanism for driving the roll-over sorter vehicle into movement.

8. The roll-over sorter according to claim 7, wherein: the turnover sorting vehicles are distributed annularly and are driven by the loop line driving mechanism to rotate around the turnover sorting vehicles in a surrounding mode.

9. The roll-over sorter according to claim 8, wherein: the axis of the ring formed by the turnover type sorting vehicles is parallel or vertical to the horizontal plane.

10. The roll-over sorter according to any of the claims 7-9, characterized in that: still include the support track, convertible letter sorting car is followed the support track removes.

11. The roll-over sorter according to claim 10, wherein: the supporting rail is in a non-closed shape or a closed ring shape, a guide groove is formed in the supporting rail, and when the supporting rail is in the non-closed shape, the guide groove extends along the extending direction of the supporting rail; when the supporting track is in a closed ring shape, the guide groove is in a ring shape; when the carrying platform is in a first state, the guide wheel on the turnover type sorting vehicle is positioned in the guide groove, two sides of the guide groove are connected with the left sorting driving groove and the right sorting driving groove in an acute angle, and two sides of the guide groove are also connected with the left straightening guide groove communicated with the output end of the left sorting driving groove and the right straightening guide groove communicated with the output end of the right sorting driving groove.

12. The roll-over sorter according to claim 11, wherein: and the gap at the joint position of the left sorting driving groove, the right sorting driving groove and the guide groove is provided with a route switching block, and the route switching block is connected with a moving device which drives the route switching block to move so as to control the moving path of the guide wheel.

13. The roll-over sorter according to claim 12, wherein: the route switching block is fixed on a sliding block, the sliding block is slidably arranged in a sliding groove which is arranged on the supporting track and has the extending direction vertical to the annular guide groove, and the sliding block is connected with a moving device for driving the sliding block to move along the sliding groove.

14. Convertible letter sorting system, its characterized in that: a roll-over sorter apparatus as claimed in any one of claims 7 to 13.

15. The turnover type sorting method is characterized by comprising the following steps:

s1, providing the roll-over sorter as claimed in any of claims 7-13;

s2, determining the route of the package;

s3, placing the package on a carrying platform of a turnover type sorting vehicle;

s4, when the turnover type sorting vehicle moves to the corresponding sorting grid opening, the driving mechanism starts to drive the carrying platform to rotate, and after the articles on the carrying platform are poured into the corresponding sorting grid opening, the driving mechanism starts to drive the carrying platform to reversely reset and rotate to the upper wrapping point;

s5, repeating S2-S4.

16. The turnover type sorting method is characterized by comprising the following steps: the method comprises the following steps:

s10, providing the roll-over sorter of claim 12 or 13;

s20, determining the route of the package;

s30, placing the package on a carrying platform of a turnover type sorting vehicle;

s40, according to the parcel route, determining the position of the route switching block, so that the guide wheel of the turnover type sorting vehicle can move to the left sorting driving groove or the right sorting driving groove of the corresponding cell to realize sorting;

s50, after sorting, the guide wheel on which the turnover sorting vehicle moves along the support rail moves from the left-right-swinging guide groove to the guide groove, the carrying platform of the turnover sorting vehicle resets to a first state, and the carrying platform moves along the loop line of the turnover sorting vehicle and can wrap points;

s60, repeating S20-S50.

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