CN112897092A - Bucket unloading stacker and bucket unloading stacking method - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a bucket unloading stacker crane which comprises a slide rail, a first unloading mechanism and a second unloading mechanism, wherein the slide rail is horizontally arranged, the first unloading mechanism is connected to the slide rail in a sliding mode and used for adsorbing empty buckets in a bucket stack and conveying the empty buckets to a recovery line, the second unloading mechanism is connected to the slide rail in a sliding mode and used for conveying material plates in the bucket stack to a material plate storage position, and the second unloading mechanism and the first unloading mechanism synchronously displace. So set up, first unloading mechanism adsorbs the empty bucket and shifts to the recovery line through the slide rail, second unloading mechanism and first unloading mechanism move to bucket buttress top and adsorb the material board along the slide rail in step simultaneously, then both slide along the slide rail opposite direction together, first unloading mechanism gets back to bucket buttress top and treats continuing to adsorb empty bucket, second unloading mechanism carries the material board and shifts to material board storage department, synchronous motion, the process has been simplified, can with the realization through a power supply, the production cost is saved, and the production efficiency is also improved simultaneously.

Description

Bucket unloading stacker and bucket unloading stacking method

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of filling equipment, in particular to a barrel unloading stacker and a barrel unloading method.

Background

In filling production, the barrel materials are generally recycled after being used up. The recycled barrel material stack (simply called barrel stack) comprises a plurality of layers of empty barrels, and a material plate is placed between every two adjacent layers of empty barrels.

Among the prior art, need retrieve to these empty buckets and recycle, when using mechanical equipment to retrieve the empty bucket in the bucket buttress, need set up corresponding structure component to empty bucket, the different recovery mode of material board, and corresponding process that leads to is complicated, and is comparatively consuming time, has reduced production efficiency.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention is directed to solving at least one of the problems of the prior art. Therefore, the invention provides a bucket unloading stacker crane, which can synchronously unload and convey empty buckets and material plates, save time and improve production efficiency.

The invention also provides a bucket stacking unloading method using the bucket stacking unloading machine.

A bucket destacking stacker according to an embodiment of the invention comprises:

a horizontally arranged slide rail;

the first unloading mechanism is connected to the sliding rail in a sliding mode and used for adsorbing empty barrels in the barrel stack and conveying the empty barrels to the recovery line;

and the second unloading mechanism is connected to the sliding rail in a sliding manner, is used for conveying the material plates in the barrel stack to a material plate storage position, and synchronously displaces with the first unloading mechanism.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the bucket unloading and stacking machine at least has the following beneficial effects: when empty barrels in the barrel stack are recycled, the first unloading mechanism adsorbs the empty barrels in the barrel stack and transfers the empty barrels to a recycling line through a sliding rail, meanwhile, the second unloading mechanism and the first unloading mechanism synchronously move to the upper portion of the barrel stack along the sliding rail, the first unloading mechanism places the empty barrels to the recycling line, the second unloading mechanism adsorbs material plates in the barrel stack, then the second unloading mechanism and the first unloading mechanism slide along the sliding rail in the opposite direction, the first unloading mechanism returns to the upper portion of the barrel stack to continuously adsorb the empty barrels, the second unloading mechanism carries the material plates to transfer the material plates to a material plate storage position, the material plates synchronously move, the process is simplified, the empty barrels can be recycled through one power source, the production cost is saved, and the production efficiency is improved.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the first unloading mechanism comprises a first cylinder and a first suction means connected below the first cylinder, the first cylinder is connected to the slide rail, the first cylinder is used for driving the first suction means downwards to approach the stack of buckets, the first suction means can suck the empty buckets, and the first cylinder can move on the slide rail to transfer the empty buckets to the recovery line.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the first suction attachment is provided as an electromagnet or a vacuum chuck.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the second unloading mechanism comprises a second cylinder and a plurality of second adsorption pieces connected below the second cylinder, the second cylinder is arranged on the sliding rail in a sliding manner, the second cylinder is used for driving the second adsorption pieces to be close to the barrel stack downwards, the second adsorption pieces can adsorb the material plate, and the second adsorption pieces are suction cups.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the apparatus further comprises a third unloading mechanism, the third unloading mechanism comprises a third conveying assembly, a first lifting assembly and a conveying device, the conveying device is a conveying belt or a conveying chain arranged on two sides of the third conveying assembly, the first lifting assembly is arranged on two sides of the tail end of the conveying belt or the conveying chain, and the third conveying assembly and the conveying device are used for conveying fork plates in the barrel stack to the first lifting assembly.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the transfer mechanism further comprises a first transfer assembly and a second lifting assembly, the second lifting assembly is disposed on the first transfer assembly, the first transfer assembly is configured to transfer the stack of buckets to the second lifting assembly, and the second lifting assembly is configured to drive the stack of buckets to be adjacent to the first discharge mechanism or the second discharge mechanism.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the apparatus further comprises a second transfer assembly for uploading the stack of buckets, the first transfer assembly and the second transfer assembly being arranged in parallel, the second transfer assembly having a translation device disposed thereon for transferring the stack of buckets to the first transfer assembly.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the second lifting assembly comprises a lifting cylinder, a guide rail and a pushing frame for placing the barrel stack, the guide rail is arranged on the first transmission assembly, the lifting cylinder is connected with the pushing frame, and the lifting cylinder can enable the pushing frame to move upwards or downwards on the guide rail.

A method for unstacking barrels comprises the following steps:

conveying, namely placing the barrel stack on a conveying mechanism, and lifting the barrel stack to a station to be unloaded by the lifting assembly;

separating the empty barrels, separating the empty barrels on the uppermost layer of the barrel stack from the barrel stack by a first unloading mechanism, and transporting the empty barrels to a recovery line for recovering the empty barrels;

recovering material plates, wherein while the first unloading mechanism transports the empty barrel to a recovery line, the second unloading mechanism separates the material plates for supporting the uppermost empty barrel from the barrel stack and transports the material plates to a material plate storage place, and meanwhile, the first unloading mechanism synchronously displaces and returns to the upper part of the barrel stack, and the step of separating the empty barrel is repeated until the empty barrel and the material plates are recovered;

and after the empty barrel and the material plates on the barrel stack are completely recovered, the transmission mechanism transmits the remaining fork plates in the barrel stack to a third unloading mechanism, and the third unloading mechanism transports the fork plates to fork plate recovery positions and puts the fork plates.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the overall structure of a bucket destacker in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention (shown with a bucket stack included);

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a conveying mechanism of a bucket unstacker in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of a third destacking mechanism of the bucket stacker of the embodiment of the invention.

The device comprises a transmission mechanism 100, a first transmission assembly 110, a second lifting assembly 120, a guide rail 121, a pushing frame 122, a second transmission assembly 130 and a translation device 131;

a first discharge mechanism 200, a first cylinder 210, a first suction fitting 220;

a second discharge mechanism 300, a second cylinder 310, a second adsorption member 320;

a third unloading mechanism 400, a third transmission component 410, a conveying device 420, a first lifting component 430, a third air cylinder 431 and a holding claw 432

A slide rail 500;

a recovery line 600;

a barrel stack 700, a fork plate 710, a material plate 720 and an empty barrel 730.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like or similar reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the accompanying drawings are illustrative only for the purpose of explaining the present invention, and are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be understood that the orientation or positional relationship referred to in the description of the orientation, such as the upper, lower, front, rear, left, right, etc., is based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and is only for convenience of description and simplification of description, and does not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, the meaning of a plurality of means is one or more, the meaning of a plurality of means is two or more, and larger, smaller, larger, etc. are understood as excluding the number, and larger, smaller, inner, etc. are understood as including the number. If the first and second are described for the purpose of distinguishing technical features, they are not to be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated or implicitly indicating the precedence of the technical features indicated.

In the description of the present invention, unless otherwise explicitly limited, terms such as arrangement, installation, connection and the like should be understood in a broad sense, and those skilled in the art can reasonably determine the specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention in combination with the specific contents of the technical solutions.

Referring to fig. 1, a bucket stacker according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a slide rail 500 horizontally disposed, a first unloading mechanism 200 and a second unloading mechanism 300 are slidably connected to the slide rail 500, respectively, the first unloading mechanism 200 can separate an empty bucket 730 in a bucket stack 700 from the bucket stack 700 and transfer the empty bucket to a recovery line 600, the second unloading mechanism 200 can separate a material plate 720 in the bucket stack 700 from the bucket stack 700 and transfer the material plate to a material plate storage place, and the first unloading mechanism 200 and the second unloading mechanism 300 are synchronously displaced on the slide rail 500, that is, when the first unloading mechanism 200 adsorbs the empty bucket 730, the second unloading mechanism 300 is positioned above the material plate storage place, the first unloading mechanism 200 and the second unloading mechanism 300 simultaneously slide backward, the first unloading mechanism 200 moves above the recovery line 600 and places the empty bucket 730 on the recovery line 600, and the second unloading mechanism 300 moves above the bucket 700 and sucks the material plate 720 synchronously, then the two slide forward in step, when second unload branch mechanism 300 placed material board 720 in material board storage department, first unload branch mechanism 200 began to adsorb empty bucket 730 of bucket buttress 700 next floor, so the circulation is reciprocal for adsorb and retrieve and go on in step, reduced man-hour, can practice thrift production simultaneously and rise originally, improve production efficiency.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the bucket unloading and stacking machine at least has the following beneficial effects: when the empty barrels 730 in the barrel stack 700 are recycled, the first unloading mechanism 200 adsorbs the empty barrels 730 in the barrel stack 700 and transfers the adsorbed empty barrels to the recycling line 600 through the slide rail 500, meanwhile, the second unloading mechanism 300 and the first unloading mechanism 200 synchronously move to the position above the barrel stack 700 along the slide rail, the first unloading mechanism 200 puts the empty barrels 730 to the recycling line 600, the second unloading mechanism 300 adsorbs the material plates 720 in the barrel stack 700 and then slides along the opposite direction of the slide rail 500 together, the first unloading mechanism 200 returns to the position above the barrel stack 700 to continuously adsorb the empty barrels 730, the second unloading mechanism 300 carries the material plates 720 to transfer to the material plate storage position, the synchronous movement is realized, the working procedure is simplified, the realization can be realized through one power source, the production cost is saved, and the production efficiency is improved.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, referring to fig. 1, the first unloading mechanism 200 includes a first air cylinder 210 and a first suction member 220, the first suction member 220 is connected below the first air cylinder 210, the first air cylinder 210 can drive the first suction member 220 to move up or down, the first suction member 220 can suck the empty bucket 730, a slide rail 500 is slidably connected above the first air cylinder 210, the slide rail 500 is horizontally arranged in a front-back direction, and the first air cylinder 210 can slide back and forth on the slide rail 500, so as to transfer the empty bucket 730 to the recovery line 600, or return to the upper side of the bucket stack 700 from the recovery line 600 to continuously suck the empty bucket 730.

In the above embodiment, the first suction device 220 may be an electromagnet, or a pneumatic suction device such as a vacuum chuck.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, the second unloading mechanism 300 includes a second cylinder 310 and a plurality of second suction members 320 connected to a lower portion of the second cylinder 310, the upper portion of the second cylinder 310 is slidably connected to the slide rail 500, the second cylinder 310 can slide back and forth on the slide rail 500, i.e. can move back and forth between the material plate storage location and the stack 700, the second cylinder 310 can drive the plurality of second suction members 320 to move downward to approach the stack 700 and suck the material plates 720, and the second suction members 320 are suction cups. It should be noted that the first suction member 220 is used for sucking the empty barrel 730, and the empty barrel 730 is generally made of metal, so the first suction member 220 can be sucked by an electromagnet or a vacuum chuck, and the material plate 720 is generally a wood plate, cannot be sucked by an electromagnet, and can only be sucked by a vacuum chuck.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, referring to fig. 1 or 3, a fork plate is generally disposed at the lowest part of a partial bucket stack 700 for convenient transportation, and therefore, a third unloading mechanism 400 is further included in the bucket stacker, the third unloading mechanism 400 includes a third conveying assembly 410 and a conveying device 420, the conveying device 420 is disposed at both sides of the third unloading mechanism 400, and may be a conveyor belt or a conveyor chain, the third conveying assembly 410 is connected to the conveying mechanism 100, after unloading of an empty bucket 730 and a material plate 720 on the bucket stack 700 is completed, the second lifting assembly 120 moves downward, the first conveying assembly 110 is started and transports the fork plate 710 to the third conveying assembly 410, a pushing mechanism is disposed below the third conveying assembly 410, and the pushing mechanism moves downward to move the third conveying assembly 410 downward until both sides of the fork plate 710 contact the conveying device 420, the fork plate 710 is transported to a fork plate storage place by the conveying device, the pushing mechanism pushes the third transporting assembly 410 to be flush with the first transporting assembly 110 again for the next transportation of the fork plate 710.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, referring to fig. 1 or 3, a first lifting assembly 430 is further included, the first lifting assembly 430 is disposed at both sides of the end of the conveyor 420, the fork plates 710 are transported to the first lifting assembly 430 for storage, when a new fork plate 710 is transported, the first lifting assembly 430 lifts the originally stored fork plate 710 upward, leaving a position where the fork plate 710 enters, and then after the newly transported fork plate 710 enters the end of the conveyor 420, the first lifting assembly 430 drops the upper fork plate 710 and moves downward to extend below the lowest fork plate 710 for the next fork plate 710 transportation.

In the above embodiment, referring to fig. 3, the first lifting assembly 430 includes a third cylinder 431 and a holding claw 432 connected to the third cylinder 431, and further includes a bracket and a fourth cylinder, the third cylinder 431 is vertically installed on the bracket, the fourth cylinder is transversely installed below the third cylinder 431, the holding claw 432 is installed on the fourth cylinder, the third cylinder 431 can drive the fourth cylinder and the holding claw 432 to move up and down, and the fourth cylinder can drive the holding claw 432 to move back and forth to adjust the distance that the holding claw 432 extends into the fork plate 710.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, referring to fig. 1 or 2, a conveying mechanism 100 is further included, the conveying mechanism 100 includes a first conveying assembly 110 and a second lifting assembly 120, the second lifting assembly 120 is disposed on the first conveying assembly 110, in the embodiment shown in fig. 1 or 2, the second lifting assembly 120 is installed at the end of the first conveying assembly 110, the stack 700 is placed on the first conveying assembly 110, the first conveying assembly 110 conveys the stack 700 to the second lifting assembly 120, and then the stack 700 is lifted upwards by the second lifting assembly 120 to be close to the first and second discharging mechanisms 200 and 300, so that the discharging of the empty barrel 730 and the material plate 720 can be performed.

In the above embodiment, the first conveying assembly 110 may be a conveyor belt, a conveyor chain or a conveying roller line.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, referring to fig. 2, the second conveying assembly 130 is further included in the conveying mechanism 100, the first conveying assembly 110 and the second conveying assembly 130 are arranged in parallel, the second conveying assembly 130 is provided with a translation device 131, the stack 700 is conveyed by the second conveying assembly 130, after moving to the translation device 131, the stack 700 is conveyed to the first conveying assembly 110 by the translation device 131, and then the stack 700 is conveyed to the second lifting assembly 120 by the first conveying assembly 110. The second conveying assembly 130 is arranged, so that the length of the first conveying assembly 110 can be shortened, occupied space can be reasonably distributed, and meanwhile, when the barrel stack 700 on the first conveying assembly 110 is not completely unloaded, the translation device 131 cannot be started, so that the subsequent barrel stack 700 can be limited on the second conveying assembly 130.

In the above embodiment, the first conveyance member 110 and the second conveyance member 130 are each provided as a conveyance roller line.

In the above embodiment, referring to fig. 2, the second lifting assembly 120 includes lifting cylinders, a guide rail 121 and a pushing frame 122, the guide rail 121 is disposed at the left and right sides of the first conveying assembly 110, the lifting cylinders are mounted at the lower ends of the two sides of the first conveying assembly 110 or at the back side of the guide rail 121, a specific mounting position of the lifting cylinders is not shown in the drawing, and the lifting cylinders are connected to the pushing frame 122 and can drive the pushing frame 122 to move upwards or downwards, so that the bucket stack 700 on the pushing frame 122 can be driven to move upwards or downwards.

A method for unstacking barrels comprises the following steps:

conveying, namely placing the barrel stack 700 on the conveying mechanism 100, and lifting the barrel stack 700 to a station to be unloaded by the second lifting assembly 120;

separating the empty buckets, separating the uppermost empty bucket 730 of the stack 700 from the stack 700 by the first separating mechanism 200, and transporting the empty bucket 730 to the recovery line 600 that recovers the empty bucket 730;

recovering material plates, while the first separating mechanism 200 transports the empty barrel 730 to the recovering line 600, the second separating mechanism 300 separates the material plates 720 for supporting the uppermost empty barrel 730 from the barrel stack 700 and transports them to a material plate storage place, while the first separating mechanism 200 is synchronously displaced to return to above the barrel stack 700, and the step of separating the empty barrel 730 is repeated until the empty barrel 730 and the material plates 720 are both recovered;

and after the empty barrel 730 and the material plate 720 on the barrel stack 700 are completely recovered, the transmission mechanism 100 transmits the remaining fork plates 710 in the barrel stack 700 to the third unloading mechanism 400, and the third unloading mechanism 400 transmits the fork plates 710 to a fork plate recovery position and puts the fork plates.

In the above-mentioned method for unloading a barrel stack, all the structures involved are the structures in the above-mentioned embodiments.

The embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various changes can be made within the knowledge of those skilled in the art without departing from the gist of the present invention.

Claims (9)

1. A bucket-unloading stacker, comprising:

a horizontally arranged slide rail;

the first unloading mechanism is connected to the sliding rail in a sliding mode and used for adsorbing empty barrels in the barrel stack and conveying the empty barrels to the recovery line;

and the second unloading mechanism is connected to the sliding rail in a sliding manner, is used for conveying the material plates in the barrel stack to a material plate storage position, and synchronously displaces with the first unloading mechanism.

2. A bucket stacker according to claim 1 wherein the first destacking mechanism comprises a first cylinder and a first suction fitting connected below the first cylinder, the first cylinder being connected to the slide track, the first cylinder being adapted to drive the first suction fitting downwardly towards the bucket stack, the first suction fitting being adapted to suck the empty bucket, the first cylinder being movable on the slide track to transfer the empty bucket to the recovery line.

3. A bucket unstacker according to claim 2 wherein the first suction piece is provided as an electromagnet or a vacuum cup.

4. A bucket stacker according to claim 1, wherein the second unloading mechanism comprises a second cylinder and a plurality of second adsorption members connected below the second cylinder, the second cylinder is arranged on the slide rail in a sliding manner, the second cylinder is used for driving the second adsorption members to be close to the bucket stack downwards, the second adsorption members can adsorb the material plate, and the second adsorption members are provided as suckers.

5. A bucket stacker according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising a third unloading mechanism, wherein the third unloading mechanism comprises a third conveying assembly, a first lifting assembly and a conveying device, the conveying device is a conveying belt or a conveying chain arranged on two sides of the third conveying assembly, the first lifting assembly is arranged on two sides of the tail end of the conveying belt or the conveying chain, and the third conveying assembly and the conveying device are used for conveying fork plates in the bucket stack to the first lifting assembly.

6. A bucket stacker according to claim 5 further comprising a transfer mechanism comprising a first transfer assembly and a second lifting assembly, the second lifting assembly being provided on the first transfer assembly, the first transfer assembly being arranged to transfer the bucket stack to the second lifting assembly, the second lifting assembly being arranged to drive the bucket stack towards either the first destacking mechanism or the second destacking mechanism.

7. A bucket stacker according to claim 6 further comprising a second transfer assembly for uploading the bucket stack, the first and second transfer assemblies being arranged in parallel, the second transfer assembly being provided with a translation device for transferring the bucket stack to the first transfer assembly.

8. A bucket stacker according to claim 7 wherein the second lifting assembly comprises a lifting cylinder, a guide rail and a pushing frame for placing the bucket stack, the guide rail is arranged on the first conveying assembly, the lifting cylinder is connected with the pushing frame, and the lifting cylinder can enable the pushing frame to move upwards or downwards on the guide rail.

9. The method for unstacking barrels is characterized by comprising the following steps of:

conveying, namely placing the barrel stack on a conveying mechanism, and lifting the barrel stack to a station to be unloaded by the second lifting assembly;

separating the empty barrels, separating the empty barrels on the uppermost layer of the barrel stack from the barrel stack by a first unloading mechanism, and transporting the empty barrels to a recovery line for recovering the empty barrels;

recovering material plates, wherein while the first unloading mechanism transports the empty barrel to a recovery line, the second unloading mechanism separates the material plates for supporting the uppermost empty barrel from the barrel stack and transports the material plates to a material plate storage place, and meanwhile, the first unloading mechanism synchronously displaces and returns to the upper part of the barrel stack, and the step of separating the empty barrel is repeated until the empty barrel and the material plates are recovered;

and after the empty barrel and the material plates on the barrel stack are completely recovered, the transmission mechanism transmits the remaining fork plates in the barrel stack to a third unloading mechanism, and the third unloading mechanism transports the fork plates to fork plate recovery positions and puts the fork plates.

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