CN113046221A

CN113046221A - Material taking-out equipment and medicine processing system

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Publication number: CN113046221A
Application number: CN201911362263.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 任向阳; 张良; 裘峰
Original assignee: Beijing Peking University WBL Biotech Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Peking University WBL Biotech Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-12-26
Filing date: 2019-12-26
Publication date: 2021-06-29

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a material taking-out apparatus and a medicine processing system. The material take-out apparatus includes: the material bottle turning mechanism is used for holding and turning over a plurality of material bottles (300) so as to enable materials in the material bottles (300) to be separated from bottle openings under the action of gravity; the stirring mechanism (400) is arranged on the outer side of the material bottle turnover mechanism and used for stirring materials in the material bottles (300); and the bottle shaking mechanism (500) is at least partially arranged in the material bottle overturning mechanism and is used for shaking the bottle bodies of the material bottles (300) back and forth. This openly can make things convenient for the material of less volumetric material container to take out. The present disclosure enables more adequate removal of material from within the container.

Description

Material taking-out equipment and medicine processing system

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to a material taking-out apparatus and a medicine processing system.

Background

In the field of pharmaceutical processing, some processes require that a fermentation vessel be filled with a pharmaceutical raw material and then transferred to a fermentation chamber for fermentation treatment. After the pharmaceutical raw material is fermented for a period of time, the fermented pharmaceutical raw material is taken out of the fermentation vessel for further processing. Currently, the removal of fermented pharmaceutical raw materials is usually done manually by an operator through a hand-held tool. Some of the related art techniques have employed apparatus to invert the fermentation vessel to allow the fermented drug material to fall out of the vessel under the influence of gravity.

Disclosure of Invention

The inventor finds that the manual material taking mode in the related art is time-consuming and labor-consuming, and for the mode of turning over the fermentation container by adopting the equipment, the medicine raw materials are combined into a large lump or adhered to the inner wall of the container because of certain viscosity after fermentation, and are difficult to cleanly separate from the container through gravity, so that manual assistance in taking out the medicine raw materials is still needed.

In view of this, the present disclosure provides a material taking-out apparatus and a medicine processing system, which can make the material taken out from the container more sufficient.

In one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a material withdrawal apparatus comprising:

the material bottle turnover mechanism is used for holding and turning over a plurality of material bottles so as to enable materials in the material bottles to be separated from the bottle openings under the action of gravity;

the stirring mechanism is arranged on the outer side of the material bottle turnover mechanism and used for stirring materials in the material bottles; and

and the bottle shaking mechanism is at least partially arranged in the material bottle overturning mechanism and is used for shaking the bottles of the plurality of material bottles back and forth.

In some embodiments, the agitation mechanism comprises:

a plurality of paddles;

the stirring paddle driving mechanism is connected with the stirring paddles and is configured to drive the stirring paddles to enter and separate from the plurality of material bottles and drive the plurality of stirring paddles to rotate; and

the clamping mechanism is positioned on one side, adjacent to the stirring paddles, of the material bottle turnover mechanism, and is configured to clamp and fix the outer walls of the material bottles before the stirring paddles enter the material bottles, and release clamping and fixing of the material bottles after the stirring paddles are separated from the material bottles.

In some embodiments, the clamping mechanism comprises:

the clamping rods which are parallel to each other are positioned on one side of the material bottle turnover mechanism, which is adjacent to the stirring paddle, and point to each gap of the material bottles respectively.

In some embodiments, the bottle shaking mechanism includes at least one pair of bottle shaking cylinders, which are respectively located at two sides of the plurality of material bottles along the extending direction of the overturning axis of the material bottle overturning mechanism, and are configured to respectively extend out and retract at different times so as to push the plurality of material bottles to move back and forth along the overturning axis.

In some embodiments, the material bottle turnover mechanism comprises a rack and a rotating cage mechanism rotatably arranged on the rack, wherein the rotating cage mechanism is provided with a plurality of accommodating grooves, and each accommodating groove accommodates a plurality of material bottles; the plurality of receiving grooves are circumferentially distributed at positions corresponding to different angles of the rotating cage mechanism.

In some embodiments, the rotational travel of the cage mechanism includes a plurality of processing stations including: follow the bottle feeding station, stirring station and the ejection of compact station that the direction of rotation of rotating cage mechanism set gradually, rotating cage mechanism is configured to be in the material bottle that advances the bottle station and receive the entering, rabbling mechanism is configured to be in the stirring station is right the material in the material bottle in the rotating cage mechanism stirs, so that the material in the material bottle is in rotating cage mechanism arrives break away from the material bottle under the action of gravity behind the ejection of compact station, tremble a bottle mechanism and be configured to be located the material bottle of ejection of compact station trembles the bottle operation.

In some embodiments, the bottle feeding station is located above a rotating shaft of the rotating cage mechanism, the stirring station and the bottle feeding station have a 90-degree difference in angle, the discharging station and the bottle feeding station have a 180-degree difference in angle, the plurality of accommodating grooves comprise four accommodating grooves distributed in positions corresponding to four angles of the rotating cage mechanism, and the angle difference between two adjacent accommodating grooves in the four accommodating grooves is 90 degrees.

In some embodiments, the plurality of processing stations further comprises:

and the bottle outlet station is positioned behind the discharging station along the rotating direction of the rotating cage mechanism and shares the same spatial position with the bottle inlet station.

In some embodiments, the plurality of processing stations further comprises:

the cleaning station is positioned between the discharging station and the bottle discharging station along the rotating direction of the rotating cage mechanism;

the material take-out apparatus further comprises:

and the cleaning mechanism is arranged on the outer side of the rotating cage mechanism and is configured to clean the discharged material bottle.

In some embodiments, the cage mechanism comprises:

a plurality of side panels; and

the connecting rods penetrate through and are fixed on at least two side plates in the side plates;

wherein at least a portion of the plurality of connecting rods forms a groove wall of each receiving groove.

In some embodiments, the plurality of side plates are each perpendicular to an axis of the cage mechanism, and the plurality of connecting rods are each parallel to the axis of the cage mechanism.

In some embodiments, the plurality of connecting rods includes a plurality of groups of connecting rods having the same number as the plurality of receiving grooves, and each group of connecting rods includes two rows of connecting rods, and the two rows of connecting rods respectively form two side groove walls of each receiving groove.

In some embodiments, the radial position and adjacent gap of each connecting rod in each row of connecting rods is configured to constrain the outer wall of the plurality of material bottles in a radial direction of the rotating cage mechanism.

In some embodiments, the material bottle inverting mechanism further comprises:

and the bottle blocking mechanism is arranged on the radial outer side of the plurality of accommodating grooves and is configured to block the material bottles in the plurality of accommodating grooves from being separated from the plurality of accommodating grooves in the radial direction.

In some embodiments, the bottle blocking mechanism comprises:

the plurality of annular retainer rings are fixed on the rack and distributed along the axis of the rotating cage mechanism;

at least one of the annular retainer rings is provided with a notch in the circumferential direction, and the notch is positioned on one side, close to the stirring mechanism, of the rotating cage mechanism so that the stirring mechanism can go in and out of the notch conveniently.

In some embodiments, the distance between two adjacent annular retaining rings in the plurality of annular retaining rings is smaller than the maximum projection length of the bottle mouth of the material bottle in the axial direction of the rotating cage mechanism.

In some embodiments, the material withdrawal apparatus further comprises:

and the conveying mechanism is positioned on at least one side of the material bottle turnover mechanism and is configured to input a plurality of material bottles containing materials into the material bottle turnover mechanism or convey the plurality of material bottles taking out the materials outwards from the material bottle turnover mechanism.

In some embodiments, the delivery mechanism comprises:

a first conveyor belt having a movable support surface;

a second conveyor belt positioned on at least one side of the first conveyor belt in a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of the first conveyor belt; and

the blocking mechanism is connected with the second conveying belt and can translate under the driving of the second conveying belt;

wherein the blocking mechanism is configured to switch between a blocking state blocking the material bottle and a non-blocking state out of position from blocking the material bottle.

In some embodiments, the delivery mechanism further comprises: the driving wheels are arranged at two ends of the bracket, and the second conveying belt is sleeved on the driving wheels; the guide rod is arranged on the bracket and is parallel to the conveying direction of the second conveying belt; the stopping mechanism comprises a sliding seat, a stopping cylinder and a stopping rod, the stopping cylinder is arranged on the sliding seat, a cylinder rod of the stopping cylinder is connected with the stopping rod, and the sliding seat is sleeved on the guide rod and can move horizontally along the guide rod.

In one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a pharmaceutical processing system comprising: the material extraction device is described above.

Therefore, according to this disclosed embodiment, carry out the physical action through rabbling mechanism and shake a bottle mechanism respectively to the inside and the outside of a plurality of material bottles for the material can break away from the inner wall of material bottle more easily, thereby after material bottle tilting mechanism overturns the material bottle, breaks away from the material bottle under the action of gravity more easily, thereby makes the material take out from the material bottle more fully.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the disclosure and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.

The present disclosure may be more clearly understood from the following detailed description, taken with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of some embodiments of a material withdrawal apparatus according to the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the embodiment of FIG. 1 from a left side perspective;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view from above of some embodiments of a material withdrawal apparatus according to the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view at a front perspective of some embodiments of a material withdrawal apparatus according to the present disclosure;

fig. 5 and 6 are schematic diagrams of a conveyor mechanism in front and top views, respectively, in some embodiments of a material withdrawal apparatus according to the present disclosure.

It should be understood that the dimensions of the various parts shown in the figures are not drawn to scale. Further, the same or similar reference numerals denote the same or similar components.

Detailed Description

Various exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The description of the exemplary embodiments is merely illustrative and is in no way intended to limit the disclosure, its application, or uses. The present disclosure may be embodied in many different forms and is not limited to the embodiments described herein. These embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in the art. It should be noted that: the relative arrangement of parts and steps, the composition of materials, numerical expressions and numerical values set forth in these embodiments are to be construed as merely illustrative, and not as limitative, unless specifically stated otherwise.

The use of "first," "second," and similar terms in this disclosure is not intended to indicate any order, quantity, or importance, but rather are used to distinguish one element from another. The word "comprising" or "comprises", and the like, means that the element preceding the word covers the element listed after the word, and does not exclude the possibility that other elements are also covered. "upper", "lower", "left", "right", and the like are used merely to indicate relative positional relationships, and when the absolute position of the object being described is changed, the relative positional relationships may also be changed accordingly.

In the present disclosure, when a specific device is described as being located between a first device and a second device, there may or may not be intervening devices between the specific device and the first device or the second device. When a particular device is described as being coupled to other devices, that particular device may be directly coupled to the other devices without intervening devices or may be directly coupled to the other devices with intervening devices.

All terms (including technical or scientific terms) used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this disclosure belongs unless specifically defined otherwise. It will be further understood that terms, such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries, should be interpreted as having a meaning that is consistent with their meaning in the context of the relevant art and will not be interpreted in an idealized or overly formal sense unless expressly so defined herein.

Techniques, methods, and apparatus known to those of ordinary skill in the relevant art may not be discussed in detail but are intended to be part of the specification where appropriate.

As shown in fig. 1, is a schematic perspective view of some embodiments of a material withdrawal apparatus according to the present disclosure. Referring to fig. 1 in conjunction with fig. 2-6, in some embodiments, a material withdrawal apparatus includes: a material bottle turnover mechanism, a stirring mechanism 400 and a bottle shaking mechanism 500. The material bottle turning mechanism is used for holding and turning over a plurality of material bottles 300 so that the materials in the material bottles 300 can be separated from the bottle openings under the action of gravity. The stirring mechanism 400 is disposed outside the material bottle turnover mechanism, and is configured to stir the materials in the plurality of material bottles 300. The bottle shaking mechanism 500 is at least partially disposed in the material bottle turning mechanism, and is configured to shake the bottles of the plurality of material bottles 300 back and forth.

This embodiment carries out the physical action through rabbling mechanism and shake a bottle mechanism respectively to the inside and the outside of a plurality of material bottles for the material can break away from the inner wall of material bottle more easily, thereby after material bottle tilting mechanism overturns the material bottle, breaks away from the material bottle under the action of gravity more easily, thereby makes the material take out more fully from the material bottle.

The material bottle turnover mechanism comprises a frame and a rotating cage mechanism 100 which is rotatably arranged on the frame. The frame can be a platform which is fixedly or movably arranged on a production site, can be independent of other procedures and can also be shared with other procedures. The rotating cage mechanism 100 is rotatably disposed on the frame and has a receiving groove 150. In some embodiments, the rotating cage mechanism 100 comprises a plurality of receiving grooves 150, each receiving groove 150 receives at least one material bottle 300, and the plurality of receiving grooves 150 are circumferentially distributed at positions corresponding to different angles of the rotating cage mechanism 100. Referring to fig. 1, each receiving channel may contain more than two material bottles 300, for example 8 material bottles 300 in fig. 1. The plurality of receiving slots 150 of the rotating cage mechanism 100 allows for a continuous process of material removal for more material bottles 300.

Referring to fig. 1, in some embodiments, the cage mechanism 100 includes: a plurality of side plates 110 and a plurality of connecting rods 120. The plurality of connecting rods 120 are inserted through and fixed to at least two of the plurality of side plates 110. At least a portion of the plurality of connecting rods 120 may form a groove wall of each receiving groove 150.

The axis of the cage mechanism 100 in fig. 1 may be provided with a rotating shaft so as to form a rotatable connection with the frame through the rotating shaft. In fig. 2, a shaft hole 140 through which the rotation shaft passes may be provided at the center of the side plate 110. Connect fixedly through a plurality of connecting rods 120 to side board 110 to form the groove wall of every holding tank 150, it is structurally more succinct, and weight is lighter, easily observes the behavior, and can adjust as required. In addition, the rotating cage structure is easier to clean.

In some embodiments, the plurality of side plates 110 are perpendicular to the axis of the cage mechanism 100, and the plurality of connecting rods 120 are parallel to the axis of the cage mechanism 100. This takes up more axial space and creates a receiving groove 150 of uniform width. For the embodiment where the rotating cage mechanism 100 includes a plurality of receiving slots 150, the plurality of connecting rods 120 may include a plurality of sets of connecting rods 120 having the same number as the plurality of receiving slots 150, each set of connecting rods 120 includes two rows of connecting rods 120, and the two rows of connecting rods 120 respectively form two side slot walls of each receiving slot 150.

In order to enable the material taking device of the present disclosure to be applied to material bottles with more complicated outer contours, in some embodiments, the radial position and adjacent gap of each connecting rod 120 in each row of connecting rods 120 may be configured to constrain the outer wall of the material bottle 300 in the radial direction of the rotating cage mechanism 100. For example, there is a recessed structure in the height direction for the bottle body of the material bottle, and then can include the connecting rod just right with the recessed structure and can imbed the recessed structure in every row of connecting rods, and there is a protruding structure for the bottle body of the material bottle, then can set up the connecting rod that can block the protruding structure in one side that the axis of rotating cage mechanism 100 was kept away from to the protruding structure. Thus, when the material bottle 300 receives the axial pushing action along the rotating cage mechanism 100, the material bottle 300 can be prevented from overturning in the translation process under the constraint action of the connecting rod 120 on the outer wall of the bottle body.

Referring to fig. 2, in some embodiments, the rotational stroke of the rotating cage mechanism 100 includes a plurality of processing stations. The plurality of processing stations includes: and the bottle feeding station WP1, the stirring station WP2 and the discharging station WP3 are sequentially arranged along the rotation direction of the rotating cage mechanism 100. Here, the tumbler mechanism 100 is configured to receive an incoming material bottle 300 at the bottle feed station WP 1. The material bottles 300 may be inserted from the radial side of the bottle feeding station WP1 or from the axial side of the bottle feeding station WP 1.

Referring to fig. 2, the stirring mechanism 400 may be configured to stir the material in the material bottle 300 in the tumbler mechanism 100 at the stirring station WP2, so that the material in the material bottle 300 is separated from the material bottle 300 under the action of gravity after the tumbler mechanism 100 rotates to the discharging station WP 3. In some embodiments, the agitation mechanism 400 is disposed outside of the cage mechanism 100. When the material bottle does not rotate to the stirring station WP2 along with the rotating cage mechanism 100, the whole stirring mechanism 400 is located outside the rotating cage mechanism 100, and does not interfere with the operation of the rotating cage mechanism 100, and when the material bottle rotates to the stirring station WP2 along with the rotating cage mechanism 100, the stirring mechanism 400 enters the rotating cage mechanism 100 again to stir the material in the material bottle 300.

Referring to fig. 2 and 3, in some embodiments, the agitation mechanism 400 includes: a plurality of paddles 410, a paddle drive mechanism, and a clamping mechanism 420. Each of the stirring paddles 410 may include a rotation shaft 411 and a stirring blade 412 provided on the rotation shaft 411, and the stirring blade 412 may include a screw-type blade, a straight blade, or an inclined blade, etc. The paddle drive mechanism is coupled to the paddles 410 and is configured to drive the paddles 410 into and out of the material bottles 300 at the mixing station WP2 and to rotate the paddles 410. The paddle drive mechanism may include an electric motor, a hydraulic motor, or a starter motor, and the output end of the electric motor, the hydraulic motor, or the starter motor may be directly fixedly connected to the rotating shaft 411 or connected to the plurality of rotating shafts 411 through a rotating mechanism (e.g., a gear set, a transmission belt, a chain, etc.) so as to output torque to the rotating shaft 411. The rotation of the rotating shaft 411 drives the stirring paddle 412 to rotate in the material bottle 300, so as to loosen the material in the bottle and make the material more easily separated from the material bottle 300.

The clamping mechanism 420 is located on a side of the rotating cage mechanism 100 adjacent to the paddle 410, and is configured to clamp and fix the outer wall of the material bottle 300 before the paddle 410 enters the material bottle 300, and release the clamping and fixing of the material bottle 300 after the paddle 410 is separated from the material bottle 300. The material bottle is clamped and fixed, so that the stirring paddle can aim at the center of the material bottle as far as possible, the material bottle can enter the bottle mouth more accurately, and the stirring paddle is prevented from being scratched with the bottle wall during stirring. On the other hand, through the centre gripping fixed to the material bottle, also avoid the material bottle to rotate along with the rotation of stirring rake 410 to influence the not hard up effect of material.

In fig. 3, the clamping mechanism 420 may specifically include a plurality of clamping bars parallel to each other. A plurality of gripper bars are located on the side of the basket mechanism 100 adjacent to the paddles 410 and are each directed to a respective gap of a plurality of material bottles 300 located at the mixing station WP 2. When the material bottle rotated stirring station WP2 along with rotating cage mechanism 100, at least part of a plurality of supporting rods stretched into between the adjacent material bottle, and partial supporting rod can stretch into the axial outside of a plurality of material bottles, realized that the centre gripping of adjacent material bottle is fixed, then carried out the stirring operation of material bottle.

Since the rotating cage mechanism 100 needs to rotate during operation, in order to avoid the situation that the material bottle 300 is separated from the accommodating groove 150, in some embodiments, the material bottle turning mechanism further includes: and a bottle blocking mechanism disposed radially outside the receiving groove 150. The bottle blocking mechanism can block the material bottle 300 in the accommodating groove from being separated from the accommodating groove 150 in the radial direction. Specifically, referring to fig. 1-4, in some embodiments, a bottle blocking mechanism includes: a plurality of annular retaining rings 130 secured to the frame. A plurality of annular retaining rings 130 are distributed along the axis of the mechanism 100. When the rotating cage mechanism 100 rotates, the plurality of annular retaining rings 130 do not rotate with the rotating cage mechanism 100. In order to ensure that the material bottle 300 does not fall out of the receiving groove 150 or get stuck between the annular retaining rings 130, the distance between two adjacent annular retaining rings 130 in the plurality of annular retaining rings 130 is preferably smaller than the maximum projection length of the bottle mouth of the material bottle 300 in the axial direction of the rotating cage mechanism 100.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 2, to avoid the annular retaining rings 130 from interfering with the movement of the clamping mechanism 420 and the paddles 410 of the stirring mechanism 400 into and out of the tumbler mechanism 100, at least one of the plurality of annular retaining rings 130 has a notch in the circumferential direction, which is located radially outward of the stirring station WP2 of the tumbler mechanism 100, such that the stirring mechanism 400 can move into and out of the tumbler mechanism 100 via the notch.

In some embodiments, discharge station WP3 is not limited to a particular rotational angle of the mechanism 100, and any number of positions at which material within the material bottle 300 can fall out of the material bottle 300 under the force of gravity can be used as discharge station WP 3. For example, at least a portion of the lower half of the circumference of the transfer cage mechanism 100 of FIG. 2 can be referred to as an outfeed station WP 3. Accordingly, a bin or conveyor receiving material may be provided below the cage mechanism 100.

Like this, get into the rotating cage mechanism along with the material bottle of smaller size to progressively carry out the stirring of inside material not hard up along with the rotation of rotating cage mechanism, and the ejection of compact that drops downwards under the action of gravity makes taking out of the material of less volumetric material holding container more convenient, and rotating cage mechanism can account for the ejection of compact process flow that is used for realizing the material bottle more fast in succession with less space moreover.

The material bottle that has been taken out of the rotating cage mechanism 100 needs to be taken out in time, so as to leave a space for accommodating other material bottles that need to be discharged in the rotating cage mechanism 100, and referring to fig. 2, in some embodiments, the plurality of processing stations further include: a bottle exit station WP 4. The bottle outlet station WP4 can be located after the bottle outlet station WP3 in the rotation direction of the rotating cage mechanism 100 and share the same spatial position with the bottle inlet station WP 1. The bottle feeding process and the bottle discharging process can be connected, for example, when the entering material bottle enters the accommodating groove, the empty bottle which takes out the material is pushed laterally by the material bottle to leave the accommodating groove, and therefore the treatment efficiency can be effectively improved.

In some embodiments, the plurality of processing stations further comprises: and the cleaning station WP5 is positioned between the discharging station WP3 and the bottle discharging station WP4 along the rotation direction of the rotary cage mechanism 100. Correspondingly, the material taking-out equipment further comprises: and the cleaning mechanism 600 is arranged on the outer side of the rotating cage mechanism 100 and is configured to clean the discharged material bottle. In some embodiments, cleaning mechanism 600 specifically includes an air cap. The air tap is communicated with the high-pressure air source and is configured to blow high-pressure air into the material bottle so as to clean the interior of the material bottle. In other embodiments, the cleaning mechanism may also use a cleaning fluid to clean the interior of the vial.

In fig. 2, the feed station WP1 is located above the axis of rotation of the mechanism 100 to stabilize the material bottles 300 as they enter the mechanism 100. The stirring station WP2 and the cleaning station WP3 are positioned on two sides of the rotating shaft of the rotating cage mechanism 100 in the horizontal direction. The discharge station WP3 is located at least one angular position below the axis of rotation of the tumbler mechanism 100. The out-of-pin station WP4 may be co-located with the in-pin station WP 1.

The angle difference between two adjacent holding tanks 150 in the plurality of holding tanks 150 included in the tumbler mechanism 100 is at least substantially the same as the angle difference between the bottle feeding station WP1 and the stirring station WP2, and may also be substantially the same as the angle difference between the pre-discharge treatment station WP2 and the discharge station WP 3. For example, in fig. 2, the angle differences of the bottle feeding station WP1, the stirring station WP2, the discharging station WP3, and the cleaning station WP4 are all 90 degrees, the plurality of holding grooves 150 may include four holding grooves 150 distributed at positions corresponding to four angles of the rotating cage mechanism 100, the angle differences of two adjacent holding grooves 150 in the four holding grooves 150 are all 90 degrees, and the rotating cage mechanism with such a structure not only can improve the bottle washing efficiency, but also occupies a relatively small space. In other embodiments, the mechanism 100 may include more receiving slots 150 to further increase bottle washing efficiency, and accordingly, the angular difference between circumferentially adjacent receiving slots may be 45 degrees or 60 degrees.

Based on the arrangement structure of the accommodating groove, when the rotating cage mechanism works, the rotating cage mechanism rotates for 90 degrees every time, then stops rotating for a preset time, continues rotating for 90 degrees, stops rotating for a preset time, and is repeated all the time. The preset time length can be determined according to the maximum value of the processing events of each station, for example, the time lengths of bottle entering and bottle exiting of the bottle entering station WP1 and the bottle exiting station WP4, the overall time length of clamping, bottle entering stirring, bottle leaving and clamping releasing of the stirring station WP2, the time length of material leaving from the bottle body of the discharging station WP3 and the like.

Referring to fig. 1-4, in some embodiments, a shaker mechanism 500 may be disposed at least partially within the basket mechanism 100 to shake material bottles 300 at the discharge station WP 3. When the material bottle 300 rotates to the discharging station WP3 along with the rotating cage mechanism 100, the bottle shaking mechanism 500 can make the material in the bottle more easily separate from the bottle body by the bottle shaking operation of the material bottle 300. Especially for the material that easily bonds in the bottle inside, make it more easily fall out from the bottle inside through the vibration of bottle, reduce the waste of material because of failing to take out like this on the one hand, on the other hand also makes follow-up bottle washing flow more convenient.

In fig. 2-4, the jar shaking mechanism 500 may specifically include at least one pair of jar shaking cylinders 510. At least one pair of bottle shaking cylinders 510 may be respectively located at two sides of all the material bottles 300 in the discharge station WP3 along an extending direction of an overturning axis of the material bottle overturning mechanism (i.e. an axis of the rotating cage mechanism 100), and configured to respectively extend and retract at different times to push all the material bottles 300 in the discharge station WP3 to reciprocate along the overturning axis.

For example, in fig. 4, the left and right bottle shaking cylinders 510 on the left and right sides may first squeeze the left and right ends of the row of material bottles 300 located at the discharge station WP3 by the squeezing portions 520 at the ends of the cylinder rods, then the cylinder rod of the left bottle shaking cylinder 510 extends rightward, the cylinder rod of the right bottle shaking cylinder 510 retracts leftward, the squeezing portion 520 connected to the end of the cylinder rod of the left bottle shaking cylinder 510 may apply a rightward squeezing force to the material bottle 300 located at the leftmost end of the row of material bottles 300 located at the discharge station WP3, so that the row of material bottles 300 is entirely rightward, and the squeezing portion 520 connected to the end of the cylinder rod of the right bottle shaking cylinder 510 maintains a squeezing effect on the rightmost material bottle 300 during the retraction process of the cylinder rod, thereby ensuring that the material bottle 300 does not tip over. After the material bottle reaches the farthest right side, the whole leftward movement process of the row of material bottles 300 can be realized by switching the extending and retracting directions of the cylinder rods of the bottle shaking cylinders 510 on the left side and the right side, so that the material in the bottles can be separated from the bottle wall as much as possible by shaking back and forth at least once. The number of times of shaking back and forth can be determined according to the bottle sticking condition of the material, for example, three to five times of shaking back and forth can be set for the case that the material is easy to stick the bottle, and only one time of shaking back and forth can be set for the case that the material is loose and not easy to stick the bottle.

Tremble bottle cylinder 510 and can also adopt the mode of assaulting the bottle to realize trembling the bottle operation, for example, the left side trembles the jar pole of bottle cylinder 510 and stretches out fast right earlier, the right side is trembled bottle cylinder 510 and is in the withdrawal state this moment, the bottle is whole move right under the impact action and is more close to the position that the bottle cylinder was trembled on the right side like this, then the left side is trembled bottle cylinder 510 withdrawal and is kept the withdrawal state, and the right side is trembled the jar pole of bottle cylinder 510 and is stretched out fast left, it arrives the position that the bottle cylinder was trembled on the left side more to impact the bottle, tremble the round trip shake of material bottle.

Referring to fig. 1 and 5-6, in some embodiments, the material withdrawal apparatus further comprises: the conveying mechanism 200. The conveying mechanism 200 is located on at least one side of the bottle feeding station WP1 of the rotating cage mechanism 100 along the extending direction of the axis of the rotating cage mechanism 100. In some embodiments, the conveyor mechanism 200 may be coupled to an upstream device (e.g., a stirring device, a jar removal device, etc.) to facilitate feeding material bottles 300 containing material from the upstream device into the cage mechanism 100. In other embodiments, the conveying mechanism 200 may be connected to a downstream device (e.g., a bottle washing device, etc.) to convey the material bottles 300, after they are removed, outward from the rotating cage mechanism 100. The conveying mechanism 200 can effectively reduce the manpower occupied by the material bottle moving in or out of the rotating cage mechanism 100, improve the discharging efficiency and further improve the operation efficiency of the whole production line.

Referring to fig. 5 and 6, in some embodiments, the delivery mechanism 200 includes: a first conveyor belt 210, a second conveyor belt 240, and a blocking mechanism 260. The first conveyor belt 210 has a movable support surface that is flush with the bottom surface of the bottle feed station WP 1. The support surface may support the material bottle 300 entering or leaving the mechanism 100 and drive the movement of the material bottle 300 by friction of the support surface against the bottom of the material bottle 300. The second conveyor belt 240 is positioned on at least one side of the first conveyor belt 210 in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction of the first conveyor belt 210. The blocking mechanism 260 is coupled to the second conveyor belt 240 and is capable of translating under the drive of the second conveyor belt 240. The blocking mechanism 260 is configured to switch between a blocking state blocking the material bottle 300 and a non-blocking state out of position blocking the material bottle 300. The blocking mechanism 260 can move to a side of the predetermined number of material bottles away from the rotating cage mechanism 100, pushing the material bottles to move toward the receiving groove of the rotating cage mechanism 100. Also, after a group of material bottles 210 enters the tumbler mechanism 100, the blocking mechanism 260 can block other material bottles from continuing to enter the tumbler mechanism 100.

When the rotating cage mechanism 100 rotates, the blocking mechanism 260 blocks the material bottles 300 on the first conveyor belt 210, so that the material bottles 300 on the first conveyor belt 210 are separated from the material bottles 300 located in the rotating cage mechanism 100, and the interference of the material bottles 300 on the first conveyor belt 210 on the operation of the rotating cage mechanism 100 is avoided. When the rotating cage mechanism 100 is operated to a working position, the blocking mechanism 260 can release the blocking function in the time interval of stopping the rotation, so that the material bottles 300 on the first conveyor belt 210 can enter the rotating cage mechanism 100.

When the bottle outlet station WP4 and the bottle inlet station WP1 are at the same position, the material bottles from the first conveyor belt 210 enter the bottle inlet station WP1 of the rotary cage mechanism 100 under the pushing action of the blocking mechanism 260, the material bottles entering the rotary cage mechanism 100 extrude the empty material bottles at the station (which is also the bottle outlet station WP4), and the extruded empty material bottles can be conveyed downstream through another conveying mechanism.

In fig. 6, the second conveyor belt 240 may be disposed on a bracket 220 located at one side of the first conveyor belt 210, a driving wheel 230 may be disposed at both ends of the bracket 220, and the second conveyor belt 240 is sleeved on the driving wheel 230 and is driven by the rotation of the driving wheel 230 to move the second conveyor belt 240. A guide rod 250 may be further disposed on the bracket 220, wherein the guide rod 250 is parallel to the conveying direction of the second conveyor belt, the blocking mechanism 260 may include a sliding seat 262 sleeved on the guide rod 250, and the sliding seat 262 may be further connected to the second conveyor belt 240 and may be translated along the guide rod 250 along with the movement of the second conveyor belt 240.

A blocking cylinder 263 can be arranged on the slide 262, the cylinder rod of which can be connected to the blocking rod 261, the blocking of the material bottles 300 located on the first conveyor belt 210 by the blocking rod 261 is achieved by the extension of the blocking cylinder 263, and the blocking of the material bottles 300 located on the first conveyor belt 210 by the blocking rod 261 is released by the retraction of the blocking cylinder 263. The blocking lever 261 may be driven to move by the rotation of the driving wheel 230, so as to realize a pushing action on the material bottle.

The material taking-out equipment is suitable for various production processes which bear materials through the bottle body and need to take the materials out of the bottle body, and is particularly suitable for medicine processing systems which relate to material fermentation processes, such as fermentation of food or medicines. Accordingly, the present disclosure also provides a pharmaceutical processing system including an embodiment of any of the foregoing material withdrawal apparatus. Correspondingly, the material bottle comprises a fermentation reaction bottle for accommodating the material which is the fermented medicine raw material.

Thus, various embodiments of the present disclosure have been described in detail. Some details that are well known in the art have not been described in order to avoid obscuring the concepts of the present disclosure. It will be fully apparent to those skilled in the art from the foregoing description how to practice the presently disclosed embodiments.

Although some specific embodiments of the present disclosure have been described in detail by way of example, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing examples are for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes may be made in the above embodiments or equivalents may be substituted for elements thereof without departing from the scope and spirit of the present disclosure. The scope of the present disclosure is defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A material withdrawal apparatus, comprising:

the material bottle turning mechanism is used for holding and turning over a plurality of material bottles (300) so as to enable materials in the material bottles (300) to be separated from bottle openings under the action of gravity;

the stirring mechanism (400) is arranged on the outer side of the material bottle turnover mechanism and used for stirring materials in the material bottles (300); and

and the bottle shaking mechanism (500) is at least partially arranged in the material bottle overturning mechanism and is used for shaking the bottle bodies of the material bottles (300) back and forth.

2. The material withdrawal apparatus of claim 1, wherein the agitation mechanism (400) comprises:

a plurality of paddles (410);

a paddle drive mechanism coupled to the paddles (410) and configured to drive the paddles (410) into and out of the plurality of material bottles (300) and to rotate the plurality of paddles (410); and

the clamping mechanism (420) is positioned on one side, adjacent to the stirring paddles (410), of the material bottle turnover mechanism, and is configured to clamp and fix the outer walls of the material bottles (300) before the stirring paddles (410) enter the material bottles (300), and release clamping and fixing of the material bottles (300) after the stirring paddles (410) are separated from the material bottles (300).

3. The material withdrawal apparatus of claim 2, wherein the clamping mechanism (420) comprises:

the clamping rods which are parallel to each other are positioned on one side, adjacent to the stirring paddle (410), of the material bottle turnover mechanism and point to gaps of the material bottles (300) respectively.

4. The material taking-out apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the bottle shaking mechanism (500) comprises at least one pair of bottle shaking cylinders (510) respectively located on both sides of the plurality of material bottles (300) along an extending direction of an overturning axis of the material bottle overturning mechanism, and configured to respectively extend and retract at different times to push the plurality of material bottles (300) to reciprocate along the overturning axis.

5. The material taking-out equipment according to claim 1, wherein the material bottle overturning mechanism comprises a rack and a rotating cage mechanism (100) rotatably arranged on the rack, the rotating cage mechanism (100) is provided with a plurality of accommodating grooves (150), and each accommodating groove (150) accommodates the plurality of material bottles (300); the plurality of receiving grooves (150) are circumferentially distributed at positions corresponding to different angles of the rotating cage mechanism (100).

6. The material withdrawal apparatus of claim 5, wherein the rotational travel of the cage mechanism (100) comprises a plurality of processing stations including: the material bottle shaking device comprises a bottle feeding station (WP1), a stirring station (WP2) and a discharging station (WP3), wherein the bottle feeding station (WP1), the stirring station (WP2) and the discharging station (WP3) are sequentially arranged along the rotating direction of the rotary cage mechanism (100), the rotary cage mechanism (100) is configured to receive an entering material bottle (300) at the bottle feeding station (WP1), the stirring mechanism (400) is configured to stir materials in the material bottle (300) in the rotary cage mechanism (100) at the stirring station (WP2), so that the materials in the material bottle (300) are separated from the material bottle (300) under the action of gravity after the rotary cage mechanism (100) rotates to the discharging station (WP3), and the bottle shaking mechanism (500) is configured to shake the material bottle (300) located at the discharging station (WP 3).

7. The material taking-out equipment according to claim 6, wherein the bottle feeding station (WP1) is located above a rotating shaft of the rotating cage mechanism (100), the stirring station (WP2) and the bottle feeding station (WP1) are different in angle by 90 degrees, the discharging station (WP3) and the bottle feeding station (WP1) are different in angle by 180 degrees, the plurality of accommodating grooves (150) comprise four accommodating grooves (150) distributed in positions corresponding to four angles of the rotating cage mechanism (100), and the angle difference of two adjacent accommodating grooves (150) in the four accommodating grooves (150) is 90 degrees.

8. The material withdrawal apparatus of claim 7, wherein the plurality of processing stations further comprise:

and the bottle outlet station (WP4) is positioned behind the discharging station (WP3) along the rotating direction of the rotating cage mechanism (100) and shares the same spatial position with the bottle inlet station (WP 1).

9. The material withdrawal apparatus of claim 8, wherein the plurality of processing stations further comprise:

a cleaning station (WP5) located between the discharge station (WP3) and the bottle discharge station (WP4) in the rotation direction of the rotating cage mechanism (100);

the material take-out apparatus further comprises:

and the cleaning mechanism (600) is arranged on the outer side of the rotating cage mechanism (100) and is configured to clean the discharged material bottle (300).

10. The material withdrawal apparatus of claim 5, wherein the cage mechanism (100) comprises:

a plurality of side panels (110); and

a plurality of connecting rods (120) which are arranged on at least two side plates (110) in the plurality of side plates (110) in a penetrating way and fixed;

wherein at least a portion of the plurality of connecting rods (120) forms a groove wall of each receiving groove (150).

11. The material withdrawal apparatus of claim 10, wherein the plurality of side plates (110) are each perpendicular to an axis of the basket mechanism (100) and the plurality of connecting rods (120) are each parallel to the axis of the basket mechanism (100).

12. The material withdrawal apparatus of claim 10, wherein the plurality of connecting rods (120) comprises a plurality of sets of connecting rods (120) in an equal number to the plurality of receiving slots (150), each set of connecting rods (120) comprising two rows of connecting rods (120), the two rows of connecting rods (120) forming two side slot walls of each receiving slot (150), respectively.

13. The material withdrawal apparatus of claim 12, wherein the radial position and adjacent clearance of each connecting rod (120) in each row of connecting rods (120) is configured to constrain the outer walls of the plurality of material bottles (300) in a radial direction of the rotating cage mechanism (100).

14. The material take-out apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the material bottle turnover mechanism further comprises:

and the bottle blocking mechanism is arranged at the radial outer side of the plurality of accommodating grooves (150) and is configured to block the material bottles (300) in the plurality of accommodating grooves (150) from being separated from the plurality of accommodating grooves (150) in the radial direction.

15. The material withdrawal apparatus of claim 14, wherein the bottle blocking mechanism comprises:

the annular retainer rings (130) are fixed on the rack and distributed along the axis of the rotating cage mechanism (100);

wherein at least one of the annular retainer rings (130) has a gap in the circumferential direction, and the gap is positioned on one side of the rotating cage mechanism (100) adjacent to the stirring mechanism (400), so that the stirring mechanism (400) can go in and out of the gap.

16. The material extraction apparatus of claim 15, wherein the spacing between two adjacent annular collars (130) of the plurality of annular collars (130) is less than the maximum projection length of the mouth of the material bottle (300) in the axial direction of the rotating cage mechanism (100).

17. The material withdrawal apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

and the conveying mechanism (200) is positioned on at least one side of the material bottle turnover mechanism and is configured to input a plurality of material bottles (300) containing materials into the material bottle turnover mechanism or convey the plurality of material bottles (300) taking out the materials outwards from the material bottle turnover mechanism.

18. The material withdrawal apparatus of claim 17, wherein the conveyor mechanism (200) comprises:

a first conveyor belt (210) having a movable support surface;

a second conveyor belt (240) located on at least one side of the first conveyor belt (210) in a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of the first conveyor belt (210); and

a blocking mechanism (260) connected to the second conveyor belt (240) and capable of translating under the drive of the second conveyor belt (240);

wherein the blocking mechanism (260) is configured to switch between a blocking state blocking the material bottle (300) and a non-blocking state out of a position blocking the material bottle (300).

19. The material withdrawal apparatus of claim 18, wherein the conveyor mechanism (200) further comprises: the conveying device comprises a bracket (220), a driving wheel (230) and a guide rod (250), wherein the driving wheel (230) is arranged at two ends of the bracket (220), and the second conveying belt (240) is sleeved on the driving wheel (230); the guide rod (250) is arranged on the bracket (220) and is parallel to the conveying direction of the second conveying belt (240); the blocking mechanism (260) comprises a sliding seat (262), a blocking cylinder (263) and a blocking rod (261), the blocking cylinder (263) is arranged on the sliding seat (262), the cylinder rod of the blocking cylinder (263) is connected with the blocking rod (261), and the sliding seat (262) is sleeved on the guide rod (250) and can be translated along the guide rod (250).

20. A pharmaceutical product processing system, comprising:

the material withdrawal apparatus of any one of claims 1 to 19.