CN112978394B

CN112978394B - Automatic soft basin separation device, system and separation method

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Publication number: CN112978394B
Application number: CN202110170026.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘权; 王保; 黄浩; 陆昶; 李颖
Original assignee: Nanjing Lanrui Automation Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Nanjing Lanrui Automation Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-02-08
Filing date: 2021-02-08
Publication date: 2023-02-17
Anticipated expiration: 2041-02-08
Also published as: CN112978394A

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of flower transplanting devices, in particular to an automatic soft pot separating device, which comprises: the resistance increasing component is arranged in the separation direction of the basin group and provides resistance to the edge of the basin group when the basin group is separated; the driving piece is arranged in the separation direction of the pot groups, the driving end of the driving piece is provided with a sucker, the sucker can be driven to a first position state, a second position state or a third position state by the driving piece, and the sucker is connected with a negative pressure source; wherein the suction cup is arranged to be attached to the inner wall of the target pot to be separated in the pot group in the first position state. The invention can adsorb the inner wall of the basin group by utilizing the sucking disc, deform the inner wall of the target single basin by adsorbing the inner wall of the target single basin, destroy the negative pressure environment between the basins and enable the basins to be easily separated, and does not adopt a mode of being embedded into the basin edge gap, thereby having low requirements on the basin group production process, having good adaptation to the quality of different basin groups and achieving good soft basin separation effect.

Description

Automatic soft basin separation device, system and separation method

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of flower transplanting devices, in particular to an automatic soft pot separating device, system and method.

Background

In the flower transplanting process, a single soft pot needs to be separated from a stack of soft pots, and the separation of the soft pots one by one is a ring with great workload. The use of the manual separation has the problems of low efficiency, high labor intensity, bad environment and the like, so that the introduction of mechanical automation equipment into the flower industry is imperative.

The existing basin dividing mode mainly comprises the following steps:

the spiral blade is rotated to be gradually released, the spiral blade progressive type structure is simple and stable, the efficiency is high, and the spiral blade progressive type basin group is mainly used for basin groups which are not easy to deform and have gaps at the edges between basins, and is particularly suitable for hard basin groups. The sucking disc is cooperated for adsorption, so that the basin is separated from the basin, and the basin is higher in the requirement on whether the shape of the basin is regular or not.

And the soft basin of plastics of present mainstream is frivolous yielding, and because production technology problem leads to between its basin and the basin edge to glue even glutinous, often is closely compacted in production transportation and piles up, and the gap is very little, and the interval between basin and the basin is also uneven, is difficult to use above-mentioned equipment separation to use. Therefore, an automatic soft basin separating device is needed.

Prior art documents:

patent document 1: automatic pot separating mechanism of CN209554354U potted plant pot loading machine

Patent document 2: CN109729794A gets and divides basin mechanism of full-automatic transplanter of potted flower cave dish seedling

Patent document 3: CN109757166A potted flower plug seedling full-automatic transplanter and control system thereof

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide an automatic soft basin separating device which can overcome the problem that the basin is adhered to the edge of the basin, the soft basin is not separated from the edge of the basin, the soft basin is sucked from the inner wall of a target basin to be deformed, the negative pressure between the basin and the basin is eliminated, and the purpose of separating the soft basin is achieved.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an automated soft basin separation apparatus, comprising:

the resistance increasing component is arranged in the separation direction of the basin group and provides resistance to the edge of the basin group when the basin group is separated;

the driving end of the driving piece is provided with a sucker, the sucker can be driven to a first position state, a second position state or a third position state by the driving piece, and the sucker is connected with a negative pressure source;

the suction disc is arranged to be attached to the inner wall of a target basin to be separated from the basin group in a first position state, and can suck the target basin to move to a second position state, so that the inner wall of the target basin deforms, and the negative pressure state between the target basin and the basin group is damaged;

the driving piece drives the sucker to adsorb the single basin and move to a third position state to be separated from the basin group.

Preferably, the resistance-increasing component comprises a rigid or elastic concave-convex structure capable of contacting with the edge of the basin group.

Preferably, the resistance-increasing component comprises an elastic sheet or a rigid sheet, is arranged above the basin group and prevents the basin group from continuously moving towards the separation direction when the target basin is separated.

Preferably, the resistance increasing member includes a toothed plate or a brush, which is disposed to be located above the tub group or at least to be in contact with a rim of the target tub, to prevent the tub group from continuously moving in the separating direction when the target tub is separated.

Preferably, the resistance-increasing component is arranged to have an arc surface or a plane surface capable of contacting with the edge of the basin group.

Preferably, the basin set comprises a jig arranged at the bottom of the basin set and a supporting wall arranged in the attaching direction of the sucker, so that the target basin is prevented from being deformed outwards when being attached by the sucker.

Preferably, the supporting wall is arranged to extend from the height position of the pot group bottom where the single pot is absorbed to the pot group bottom, and is used for supporting the side wall of the pot group and preventing the side wall from deforming in the longitudinal direction.

Preferably, the sucking discs are arranged into two parts which are distributed in a staggered manner and are parallel to the same radial plane, and the sucking ends of the sucking discs are outward, so that the sucking discs can be attached to the inner wall of the target basin from the inside.

Preferably, the driving member comprises a reciprocating driving member for driving the suction cup to reciprocate between a first position state and a second position state, and a first linear driving member for driving the suction cup to reciprocate between the second position state and a third position state.

Preferably, the reciprocating drive member comprises a Y-clamp finger cylinder.

The invention provides another soft basin separation method, which uses the automatic soft basin separation device and comprises the following steps:

s1, using a driving piece to control a sucker to move to a preset position of a target basin to be separated of a basin group;

s2, driving a sucker to be attached to the inner wall of the target single basin, and after the sucker is communicated with a negative pressure source to suck the target single basin, retracting the sucker inwards to deform the sucked single basin and destroy the negative pressure environment between the basins;

s3, lifting the sucker axially along the pot set by using a driving part, and providing frictional resistance at the edge of the pot set by using a resistance-increasing part so as to limit the whole pot set to move along with the sucking pot set and separate the sucked single pot from the pot set;

and S4, repeating the steps until the basin group is separated.

In step S3, the resistance increasing member is attached to the edge of the tub group before the tub group is separated.

In step S3, the resistance increasing member is brought into close contact with the pot group when the pot group is separated.

The invention provides another technical scheme, an automatic soft basin separation system, comprising:

a plurality of automated soft basin separation devices of the above-described embodiments;

the bearing plate is used for defining a bearing surface for bearing the basin group;

a carrier frame having a space in which the support plate can move in a separating direction, the resistance increasing members being provided to the carrier frame;

the second linear driving part is fixed on the bearing frame and used for driving the bearing plate to move along the separation direction so as to enable the basin group to move below the resistance-increasing part;

and the third driving part can drive the automatic soft basin separating device to reciprocate at the basin taking position and the basin placing position.

Preferably, the resistance-increasing component is arranged to be slidably connected with the bearing frame so as to change the distance between the resistance-increasing component and the edge of the basin group in the radial direction.

Preferably, the third drive member comprises a linear track drive member or an annular track drive member.

Preferably, the basin fixing device further comprises a jig arranged on the bearing plate and provided with a supporting wall arranged in the attaching direction of the sucker, so that the target basin is limited from being deformed outwards when being attached by the sucker.

The invention provides another soft basin separation method, which uses the automatic soft basin separation system in the scheme and comprises the following steps:

s1, placing a plurality of basin groups in a corresponding number of supporting plate jigs;

s2, controlling the sucker to move to a preset position of a basin group to be separated from a target basin by using the driving piece, and driving the bearing plate to continuously or intermittently move to the position below the resistance increasing component by the second linear driving component in the process;

s3, driving the sucker to be attached to the inner wall of the target single basin, and after the sucker is communicated with a negative pressure source to suck the target single basin, retracting the sucker inwards to deform the sucked single basin and destroy a negative pressure environment between the basins;

s4, lifting the sucker along the axial direction of the pot group by using a driving piece, and providing frictional resistance at the edge of the pot group by using a resistance increasing component so as to limit the whole pot group to move along, so that the adsorbed single pot is separated from the pot group;

s5, transferring the separated target single pot from the separation position to a release position by using a third driving part, and disconnecting the suction cup negative pressure source to release the target single pot;

and S6, repeating the steps S2 to S5 until the basin group is separated.

Preferably, in step S2, the target pots in the plurality of pot groups are separated from the pot groups alternately or simultaneously.

Preferably, in step S5, the third driving member drives the first linear driving member to move from the release position to the release position in a reciprocating or circulating manner.

It should be understood that all combinations of the foregoing concepts and additional concepts described in greater detail below can be considered as part of the inventive subject matter of this disclosure unless such concepts are mutually inconsistent. In addition, all combinations of claimed subject matter are considered a part of the presently disclosed subject matter.

The foregoing and other aspects, embodiments and features of the present teachings will be more fully understood from the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Additional aspects of the present invention, such as features and/or advantages of exemplary embodiments, will be apparent from the description which follows, or may be learned by practice of the specific embodiments according to the teachings of the present invention.

Drawings

The drawings are not intended to be drawn to scale. In the drawings, each identical or nearly identical component that is illustrated in various figures may be represented by a like numeral. For purposes of clarity, not every component may be labeled in every drawing. Embodiments of various aspects of the present invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an automated soft basin separation apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of the automatic soft basin separating device of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the automatic soft pot separating device of the present invention when the sucking disc sucks the soft pot to deform;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the automated soft basin separating device of the present invention separating soft basins;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a carrying frame in the automatic soft basin separating device of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a frame body of a bearing frame in the automatic soft basin separating device of the invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a base of a carrying frame in the automated soft basin separation apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic structural view of a support plate in the automatic soft basin separating device of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a resistance increasing component in the automatic soft basin separating device of the invention;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of the structure of the sucking disc and its driving member in the automatic soft pot separating device of the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of a third driving part in the automatic soft basin separating device of the invention.

Detailed Description

In order to better understand the technical content of the present invention, specific embodiments are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In this disclosure, aspects of the present invention are described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which a number of illustrative embodiments are shown. Embodiments of the present disclosure are not necessarily intended to encompass all aspects of the invention. It should be understood that the various concepts and embodiments described above, and those described in greater detail below, may be implemented in any of numerous ways for any automated soft bowl separation device and method of separation, as the disclosed concepts and embodiments are not limited to any embodiment. In addition, some aspects of the present disclosure may be used alone, or in any suitable combination with other aspects of the present disclosure.

The invention aims to realize that the basin is easy to separate by absorbing the inner wall of a target single basin to deform and destroy the negative pressure environment between the basin and the basin, but not by embedding the inner wall of the basin into the basin edge gap, so as to improve the separation effect.

Referring to fig. 2, the first linear driving member 21 is disposed in the separating direction of the pot set 100, and the retractable end of the first linear driving member 21 is provided with a suction cup 24 capable of moving along the radial direction of the pot set 100, wherein the suction cup 24 has a first position state and a second position state, and the suction cup 24 is connected to a negative pressure source.

First linear driving piece 21 aim at drive sucking disc 24 along the motion of basin group 100 axis direction, specifically be, when sucking disc 24 adsorbs soft basin inner wall to inward displacement certain distance makes soft basin deformation back, drive sucking disc 24 upward movement to third position state, makes soft basin and basin group separation, when not adsorbing soft basin on sucking disc 24, drive sucking disc 24 downstream, treats to adsorb soft basin inner wall.

In an alternative example, the first linear driving member 21 is a linear driving member such as an electric cylinder or an air cylinder, and since the suction cup 24 needs to be driven by an air source, the first linear driving member 21 is preferably an air cylinder, and hereinafter, taking the air cylinder as an example, the air cylinder includes a cylinder body and an expansion link, the suction cup 24 is disposed on the expansion link of the air cylinder, and expansion and contraction of the air cylinder is controlled by an electromagnetic valve connected to an air inlet/outlet end of the air cylinder.

Further, as shown in fig. 9, a driving member, especially a reciprocating driving member, an air cylinder, an electric cylinder or a link mechanism, etc., capable of controlling the suction cup 24 to extend and retract in the radial direction (preferably, in a direction perpendicular to the inner wall of the soft basin) of the basin module 100 is provided at the extension and retraction end of the air cylinder.

In this embodiment, since the space in the soft basin is limited, preferably, the space is a Y-shaped finger clamping cylinder 23, the two suckers 24 are parallel and staggered in the space to reduce the space occupied in the diameter direction, and the suckers 24 can be controlled to be in the first position state and the second position state, wherein the suckers 24 are configured to be attached to the inner wall of the single basin to be separated in the basin group in the first position state and can suck the single basin to move to the second position state, so as to deform the inner wall of the single basin.

Thus, in the present embodiment, the first linear driving member 21 and the Y-shaped clamping finger cylinder 23 constitute a driving member for driving the suction cup 24 to switch among the first position state, the second position state and the third position state.

Specifically, a connecting base 22 is screwed to the actuating end 231 of the Y-shaped clamping finger cylinder 23, the connecting base 22 can finely adjust the angle between the actuating end 231 and the actuating end 22, a suction cup 24 is arranged to be screwed to the connecting base 22, so that the suction cup 24 can adapt to the angles of different soft basin inner walls, and an air pipe communicated with the suction cup 24 is arranged on the connecting base 22.

Preferably, sucking disc 24 is set to be two of symmetric distribution, and sucking disc 24's absorption end is outside, makes sucking disc 24 can follow inside attached in basin group's inner wall, and sucking disc 24 chooses thin lip type for use, and the attached inner wall in basin that can be better.

Alternatively, the suction cup 24 may be configured to accommodate more suction cups 24 than two, i.e., the diameter of the soft tub is larger.

Further, resistance increasing members 35 are provided in the direction of separation of tub group 100, and resistance increasing members 35 are provided so as to provide resistance to the edge of tub group 100 when tub group 100 is separated, and may not be in contact with the edge of tub group 100 before separation, or may be provided so as to be in pre-contact with the edge of tub group 100 before separation.

Thus, as shown in fig. 2, the Y-shaped clamping finger cylinder 23 drives the suction cup 24 to adhere to the inner wall of the soft basin, the suction cup 24 is connected to a negative pressure source, and the suction cup 24 adsorbs the inner wall of the soft basin. Referring to fig. 3, the Y-shaped clamping finger cylinder 23 is reset, so that the suction cup 24 is retracted inwards, the soft basin is deformed, air enters between the basins, the negative pressure environment between the basins before the air enters is damaged, and the basins are separated easily. Referring to fig. 4, the first linear driving member 21 pulls the suction cup 24 upward, the suction cup 24 drives the soft pot to move upward, the resistance increasing member 35 provides friction force to the edge of the pot set to prevent the non-target soft pot from moving upward, and the target soft pot is separated when the pulling force is greater than the resistance, so as to separate the soft pot.

Further, as shown in fig. 8, a fixture 331 capable of supporting the outer wall of the basin group 100 is arranged below the basin group 100, the fixture 331 is configured to at least include a supporting wall located outside the basin group, the supporting wall corresponds to the adsorption direction of the suction cup 24, and can prevent the soft basin from deforming when the suction cup 24 collides against the inner wall of the last soft basin or soft basins in the basin group 100, and prevent the resistance increasing component 35 from being unable to contact with the basin rim, or from passing through the resistance increasing component 35.

Further, in order to prevent the soft pot from deforming due to outward expansion when the suction cup 24 sucks the soft pot, a supporting wall is arranged on the outer side of the pot set, and the supporting wall is arranged to extend from the height position of the pot set bottom where the single pot is sucked to the bottom of the pot set and is used for supporting the side wall of the pot set and preventing the side wall from deforming in the longitudinal direction.

In this way, when the last soft pot or pots have insufficient supporting force, the soft pot is prevented from being deformed due to the limiting action of the supporting wall when the suction cup 24 is opened outward, and the support is also formed in the longitudinal direction, so that the soft pot is prevented from being deformed due to the pressing in the longitudinal direction caused by the feeding of the pot set.

Preferably, the fixture 331 is configured to simulate a basin shape, particularly a thin-walled circular truncated cone shape as shown in fig. 8, and has a cavity 332 for receiving the basin set.

In alternative embodiments, the fixture 331 can be configured in other shapes, but at least has a support ring located at the bottom edge of the basin group, and a support wall extending from the support ring to the height position where the last single basin is sucked by the suction cup, wherein the inner wall of the support wall is a cambered surface.

In this embodiment, the deformation amount of the soft pot attracted by the suction cup 24 is obtained according to the actual process test of the soft pot, and the negative pressure state between the pots can be destroyed by keeping the soft pot under the condition that the pot mouth is not deformed.

Further, the resistance-increasing component 35 has a rigid or elastic concave-convex structure contacting with the edge of the pot group 100, and is intended to provide friction force at the edge of the pot group when the target soft pot in the pot group is separated, so as to prevent other soft pots from moving upwards, and achieve good separation effect.

In an alternative example, the resistance-increasing member 35 is a resilient plate or a rigid plate, preferably having a blade portion of 1-3mm at the contact end with the basin pack 100, and is disposed above the basin pack, so that when the target basin is separated, the basin pack is prevented from continuing to move in the separation direction by blocking the basin rim and deforming it, and when the target basin passes the blade portion, separating the two abutting rims.

In an optional example, the resistance increasing component 35 includes a toothed plate or a brush, and is configured to be located above the basin group or at least in contact with the edge of the target basin, so as to prevent the basin group from continuously moving towards the separation direction when the target basin is separated, so that when the target basin is adsorbed to move upwards, the edge of the target basin adheres to the edge of the lower basin, and then upwards, the adhered basin edge is separated under the blocking effect of the toothed plate or the brush surface, and the basin edge in the lower basin group have a better separation effect due to the large contact area of the toothed plate or the brush.

In the above embodiment, the resistance increasing member 35 is provided at one side of the rim of the soft tub, and the resistance increasing member 35 is provided to have an arc surface or a flat surface capable of contacting with the rim of the tub set 100, wherein the thickness of the resistance increasing member 35 and the contact area with the soft tub are determined depending on the selected material.

The invention provides a soft basin separation method, which uses the automatic soft basin separation device in the scheme and comprises the following steps:

the method comprises the following steps:

s1, controlling the suction cup 24 to move to a preset position of a target basin to be separated of the basin group 100 by using a driving piece;

s2, driving a sucker 24 to be attached to the inner wall of the target single basin, and after the sucker is communicated with a negative pressure source to suck the target single basin, retracting the sucker inwards to deform the sucked single basin and destroy the negative pressure environment between the basins;

s3, lifting the suction disc axially along the pot group by using a driving piece, and providing frictional resistance at the edge of the pot group by using a resistance increasing component 35 to limit the whole pot group to move along, so that the adsorbed single pot is separated from the pot group;

and S4, repeating the steps until the basin group is separated.

The invention also provides an automatic soft basin separation system, which is combined with the structure shown in figure 1, and comprises a basin feeding mechanism 3, a basin taking mechanism 2 and a transfer mechanism 1, wherein the basin feeding mechanism 3 is mainly used for containing basin groups and feeding basins to the direction of the basin taking mechanism 2, the basin taking mechanism 2 adsorbs the inner walls of the basins from the inner walls by using a sucking disc and takes the basins upwards to separate the basins, and the transfer mechanism 1 transfers and releases the separated soft basins and then separates the soft basins in the basin groups again.

In order to compensate for the drop in height of the separated pot set 100, as shown in connection with fig. 5, in an alternative embodiment, the suction cups 24 may be actuated to gradually lower their suction height as the soft pots are reduced.

In this embodiment, a supporting plate 33 is disposed below the basin group, and the supporting plate 33 defines a supporting surface for supporting the basin group. Further, the carrying frame 31 has a space for allowing the support plate 33 to move in the separating direction, and the resistance increasing member 35 is fixed to the carrying frame 31. The second linear drive member 34 is fixed to the carrying frame 31.

Thus, the second linear driving member 34 drives the supporting plate 31 to move along the separating direction, so that the basin group 100 moves to the inner side of the resistance increasing member 35, the suction cup 24 can be adsorbed to the inner wall of the soft basin each time when descending to a predetermined height, and then the soft basin is lifted and separated.

Further, the second linear driving member 34 may drive the tub set 100 to move upward in a step-by-step or continuous feeding manner.

In an alternative embodiment, the second linear driving member 34 is selected from an electric cylinder, a belt transmission mechanism, a chain transmission mechanism or a pulley set for cooperating with a heavy object, and preferably, the second linear driving member 34 is an air cylinder in this embodiment.

Referring to fig. 5-7, in the present embodiment, the bottom of the supporting frame 31 is provided with a bottom plate 32, the lower end surface of the bottom plate extends downward to the bottom plate 32 and is provided with a supporting rod 312 and a limiting rod 313 (shown in fig. 6), the upper part of the supporting frame is provided with a mounting end surface 311 for mounting the second linear driving member 34, the output end of the second linear driving member 34 is provided with a sliding block 331, wherein the bottom plate 32 is provided with a slot 321 for mounting the supporting rod 312, and a plug hole 322 for mounting the supporting rod 312. Further, bolt holes 323 for fixing the support plate 33 are provided.

Further, as shown in fig. 8, a hole 335 is formed in the supporting plate 33 and is penetrated by the supporting rod 312, the supporting plate 33 has a fixture 331 capable of supporting the outer wall of the basin group 100, the fixture 331 is configured to at least include a supporting wall located outside the basin group, the supporting wall corresponds to the adsorbing direction of the suction cup 24, so as to prevent the soft basin from deforming when the suction cup 24 abuts against the inner wall of the last soft basin or soft basins in the basin group 100, and prevent the resistance increasing component 35 from contacting the basin rim or passing through the resistance increasing component 35.

In this way, when the supporting force of the last soft pot or soft pots is insufficient, when the suction cups 24 are opened outwards, the soft pots are prevented from being deformed due to the limiting effect of the supporting walls, and the support is also formed in the longitudinal direction, so that the soft pots are prevented from being extruded and deformed in the longitudinal direction due to the feeding of the pot set.

As shown in fig. 6 and 9, the resistance increasing component 35 is slidably connected to the supporting frame 31 to change the distance between the resistance increasing component and the edge of the basin group 100 in the radial direction.

In this embodiment, the resistance-increasing component 35 includes a plate with a circular groove, a handle 351 is disposed on one side of the plate, a friction wall 352 is formed on the inner wall of the circular groove of the plate, the diameter of the friction wall 352 is larger than that of the soft pot, the distance between the friction wall 352 and the edge of the pot set can be controlled by pulling the handle 351, the friction force can be changed, the pot set 100 with different diameters can be adapted, and preferably, the sliding direction of the resistance-increasing component 35 is perpendicular to the separation direction of the pot set.

Referring to fig. 1 and 11, the third driving part can drive the first linear driving element 21 to reciprocate at the pot taking position and the pot placing position, the third driving part comprises a rodless cylinder 11, a fixing seat 13 is arranged on the rodless cylinder 11 and used for fixing the position of the rodless cylinder 11, a sliding table 12 is installed at the moving end of the rodless cylinder 11, and the first linear driving element 21 is installed on the sliding table.

Therefore, the first linear driving parts 21 can be driven to reciprocate at the basin taking position and the basin placing position, basin taking, basin dividing and basin placing are achieved, and the sliding table 12 can be provided with a plurality of first linear driving parts 21.

In alternative embodiments, the rodless cylinder 11 may be replaced by other driving members, for example, a driving member with an annular track, specifically a gear ring or other annular members driven by a motor, or a basin dividing mechanism with a plurality of suckers 24 driven by the first linear driving members 21, which realizes an annular motion track by using a conveyor belt or a transmission chain, so that the first linear driving members 21 do not need to reciprocate, and can perform circular basin taking to achieve a higher basin dividing speed.

The invention provides another technical scheme, in particular to an automatic soft basin separation method, which utilizes the automatic soft basin separation system and comprises the following steps:

s2, controlling the sucker to move to a preset position at a position of a target basin to be separated of the basin group by using the driving piece, wherein the supporting plate 33 is driven by the second linear driving part to continuously or intermittently move to the position below the resistance increasing part 35 in the process;

s3, driving the suction disc 24 to be attached to the inner wall of the target single basin, and after the suction disc is communicated with a negative pressure source to suck the target single basin, retracting the suction disc inwards to deform the sucked single basin and destroy a negative pressure environment between the basins;

s4, lifting the suction disc 24 along the axial direction of the pot group by using a driving piece, and providing friction resistance at the edge of the pot group by using a resistance increasing component 35 to limit the whole pot group to move along, so that the adsorbed single pot is separated from the pot group;

and S6, repeating the steps S2 to S5 until the basin group is separated.

Further, in step S2, when the target pots in the plurality of pot groups are separated from the pot groups alternately or simultaneously, and the transfer mechanism 1 is replaced with the pot taking mechanism 2 separately as shown in fig. 1, two pot groups may be divided into pots alternately by the upper pot taking mechanism 2.

Further, in step S5, the third driving member drives the first linear driving member to move in a reciprocating manner from the release position to the release position, for example, the first linear driving member is a cylinder, and the cylinder drives the first linear driving member to reciprocate between the release position and the release position. Or in a circulating mode, for example, the third driving part is a driving part with an annular track, and a plurality of first linear driving parts 21 drive the pot taking and separating device with the sucking discs 24 below the first linear driving parts in a circulating mode, so that the first linear driving parts 21 do not need to perform reciprocating motion, and the circulating pot taking can achieve higher pot separating speed.

Taking the above-mentioned automatic soft basin separating system as an example, as shown in fig. 1, 5, 8 and 10, the resistance-increasing component 35 is taken out from the carrying frame 31, an appropriate amount of basin groups 100 are placed in the fixture 331 on the supporting plate 33, and then the resistance-increasing component 35 is put back. Each part of the basin separating device returns to the initial position;

the first linear driving part 21 drives a Y-shaped clamping finger cylinder 23 and a suction disc 24 arranged on the cylinder to reach the designated height in the single basin to be separated at the top of the basin group;

then controlling the Y-shaped clamping finger cylinder 23 to drive the suction cup 24 to open, so that the suction cup 24 is attached to the inner wall of the soft basin; then the sucking disc 24 is sucked on the inner wall of the basin under the action of an external vacuum generating device. After a little time, the Y-shaped clamping finger cylinder 23 retracts, and pulls the inner wall of the soft basin to generate a certain amount of deformation and destroy the vacuum environment between the basin and the adjacent basin and the adhesion of the edge;

the first linear driving member 21 pulls out the pots in the vertical direction, so that the target separated pot is separated from the pot group;

the rodless cylinder 11 drives the first linear driving part 21 to linearly move to a designated basin placing point, and then the basin is vertically conveyed to a designated position by the first linear driving part 21;

the Y-shaped clamping finger cylinder 23 is opened, and the vacuum suction is cut off, so that the single basin can be separated from the sucking disc 24 under the action of gravity;

the first linear drive 21 is then vertically repositioned, followed by a one-by-one repositioning of the components, working in cycles until the introduced pots are completely separated.

Specifically, the resistance increasing members 35 are located at the outer edge of the pot set 100, have resistance increasing members in contact with the pot set 100, provide resistance to the edge of the pot set when the pot set is separated, and have a rigid or elastic concave-convex structure in contact with the edge of the pot set.

In combination with the above embodiment, the invention utilizes the suction disc to adsorb the inner wall of the basin group, and the inner wall of the target single basin is adsorbed to deform and destroy the negative pressure environment between the basins, so that the basins are easy to separate, rather than adopting a mode of being embedded into the basin edge gap, therefore, the invention has low requirements on the basin group production process, has good adaptation to the quality of different basin groups, and achieves good soft basin separation effect.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments, it is not intended to be limited thereto. Those skilled in the art can make various changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. An automated soft basin separation device, comprising:

the driving piece is arranged in the separation direction of the pot groups, the driving end of the driving piece is provided with a sucker, the sucker can be driven to a first position state, a second position state or a third position state by the driving piece, and the sucker is connected with a negative pressure source;

the driving piece drives the sucking disc to adsorb the single basin and move to a third position state to be separated from the basin group;

the sucking discs are arranged into two parts which are parallel to the same radial plane and distributed in a staggered manner, and the sucking ends of the sucking discs are outward, so that the sucking discs can be attached to the inner wall of the target basin from the inside.

2. An automated soft bowl separating apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the resistance increasing means comprises a rigid or resilient relief structure contactable with the rim of the bowl stack.

3. The automated soft pot separation device of claim 1, wherein the resistance increasing member comprises a resilient or rigid plate disposed above the pot set to prevent the pot set from continuing to move in the separation direction when the target pot is separated.

4. An automated soft pot separation device according to claim 1, wherein the resistance increasing means comprises a toothed plate or brush arranged to be positioned above the pot group or at least in contact with the rim of the target pot to prevent the pot group from continuing to move in the direction of separation when the target pot is separated.

5. The automated soft basin separation device of claim 1, wherein the drive member comprises a reciprocating drive member driving the suction cup to reciprocate between the first position state and the second position state, and a first linear drive member driving the suction cup to reciprocate between the second position state and the third position state.

6. The automated soft basin separation device of claim 5, wherein the reciprocating drive member comprises a Y-clamp finger cylinder.

7. An automated soft pot separating apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the resistance increasing means is arranged to have an arcuate or flat surface which can contact the rim of the pot group.

8. The automatic soft basin separating device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising a jig disposed at the bottom of the basin group and having a support wall disposed in the attaching direction of the suction cup to limit outward deformation of the target basin when attached by the suction cup.

9. An automated soft pot separation apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the support wall is arranged to extend from a height position at which a single pot is sucked at the bottom of the pot set to the bottom of the pot set for supporting the side wall of the pot set against deformation in the longitudinal direction.

10. A soft basin separation method using the automated soft basin separation apparatus of claim 1, comprising the steps of:

s1, controlling a sucker to move to a preset position of a target basin to be separated of a basin group by using a driving piece;

s2, driving the sucker to be attached to the inner wall of the target single basin, and after the sucker is communicated with a negative pressure source to suck the target single basin, retracting the sucker inwards to deform the sucked single basin and destroy a negative pressure environment between the basins;

s3, lifting the sucker along the axial direction of the pot group by using a driving piece, and providing frictional resistance at the edge of the pot group by using a resistance increasing component so as to limit the whole pot group to move along, so that the adsorbed single pot is separated from the pot group;

and S4, repeating the steps until the basin group is separated.

11. The soft tub separation method according to claim 10, wherein in step S3, the resistance increasing member is brought into contact with the edge of the tub group before the tub group is separated.

12. The soft tub separating method according to claim 10, wherein in step S3, the resistance increasing member is brought into close contact with the tub set at the time of the tub set separation.

13. An automated soft basin separation system, comprising:

a plurality of automated soft-pot separation apparatuses of any one of claims 1-6;

a carrying frame having a space enabling the support plate to move in a separating direction, a plurality of the resistance-increasing members being provided to the carrying frame;

the second linear driving component is fixed on the bearing frame and used for driving the bearing plate to move along the separation direction, so that the basin group moves below the resistance increasing component;

14. The automated soft basin separation system of claim 13, further comprising a fixture disposed on the support plate and having a support wall disposed in the direction of attachment of the suction cup to limit outward deformation of the target basin when attached by the suction cup.

15. The automated soft pot separation system of claim 13, wherein the resistance increasing component is configured to be slidably coupled to the load frame to vary a radial spacing of the resistance increasing component from a pot set rim.

16. The automated soft basin separation system of claim 14, wherein the third drive component comprises a linear track drive component or an annular track drive component.

17. A soft basin separation method using the automated soft basin separation system according to claim 16, comprising the steps of:

s2, controlling the sucker to move to a preset position of a target basin to be separated of the basin group by using the driving piece, wherein the bearing plate is driven by the second linear driving part to continuously or discontinuously move to the position below the resistance increasing part in the process;

s3, driving the sucker to be attached to the inner wall of the target single basin, and after the sucker is communicated with a negative pressure source to suck the target single basin, retracting the sucker inwards to deform the sucked single basin and destroy the negative pressure environment between the basins;

s4, lifting the sucker axially along the pot set by using a driving part, and providing frictional resistance at the edge of the pot set by using a resistance-increasing part so as to limit the whole pot set to move along with the sucking pot set, so that the sucked single pot is separated from the pot set;

and S6, repeating the steps S2 to S5 until the basin group is separated.

18. The soft basin separation method according to claim 17, wherein in step S2, the target basin of the plurality of basin groups is separated from the basin groups alternately or simultaneously.

19. The soft tub separation method of claim 17, wherein in step S5, the third driving part drives the first linear driving member to move in a reciprocating or circulating manner from the separating position/releasing position to the releasing position/separating position.