CN113289543B

CN113289543B - Automatic batching system and essence batching machine for cigarettes

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Publication number: CN113289543B
Application number: CN202110763836.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张占涛; 马骥; 屈展; 崔凯; 王琳; 陶智麟; 霍现宽; 徐加贵; 王凯; 张其东
Original assignee: Baoying Renheng Industrial Co ltd; Zhengzhou Yisheng Tobacco Engineering Design Consulting Co ltd; Zhengzhou Tobacco Research Institute of CNTC
Current assignee: Baoying Renheng Industrial Co ltd; Zhengzhou Yisheng Tobacco Engineering Design Consulting Co ltd; Zhengzhou Tobacco Research Institute of CNTC
Priority date: 2021-07-06
Filing date: 2021-07-06
Publication date: 2023-04-07
Anticipated expiration: 2041-07-06
Also published as: CN113289543A

Abstract

The invention relates to an automatic batching system and an essence batching machine for cigarettes. An automatic batching system, comprising: the batching guide rail is provided with a batching base in a guiding way; the batching base driving device is used for driving the batching base to move; the discharging nozzles are respectively used for being connected with corresponding raw material containers to form a plurality of discharging point positions, and the discharging point positions are distributed along the extending direction of the batching guide rail; the discharging valve is arranged between the discharging nozzle and the raw material container; a weighing device is arranged on the batching base, or the discharging nozzle is connected with a flowmeter; the automatic batching system further comprises a control device, wherein the control device is connected with the batching base driving device, the discharging valve and the weighing device/flowmeter, so that the batching base drives the batching container to move to the lower part of the corresponding discharging nozzle, and the discharging valve is controlled to be opened to add materials with set mass into the batching container. The invention can solve the problems of poor accuracy and large workload of manual batching of a plurality of raw materials in the prior art.

Description

Automatic batching system and essence batching machine for cigarettes

Technical Field

The invention relates to an automatic batching system and an essence batching machine for cigarettes.

Background

With the rapid development of tobacco industry in China, the formation of large brands and the further improvement of tobacco varieties, the number of people smoking, the planting area of flue-cured tobacco, the cigarette output and sales volume and the cigarette production increasing speed in China are the first in the world, and meanwhile, the demand on high-quality tobacco essence and flavor is increasing day by day.

The tobacco essence can eliminate the difference between tobacco leaves of different grades, purposefully increase and enhance the fragrance, enrich the tobacco flavor, reduce the dry feeling, eliminate the rough feeling, improve the smoking flavor, endow the cigarette with characteristic fragrance and increase the attraction to consumers. The tobacco essence has various types, compounds are separated from the smoke through the research on the aroma characteristics and aroma components of the tobacco leaves and the smoke, and key components influencing the aroma are found out through the compounds to form a preparation formula of the tobacco essence.

The preparation process of the tobacco essence needs to accurately control the input proportion of various raw materials, the existing flavoring process generally depends on manual configuration, and different essences are manually weighed on a weighing platform by a worker. However, once the raw materials are too many in types, the weight deviation is easy to occur due to manual operation, and the problem of inaccurate proportion matching is caused; meanwhile, the workload is large, and the time and the labor are consumed.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide an automatic batching system, which solves the problems of poor batching accuracy and large workload of manual batching of a plurality of raw materials in the prior art. The invention also aims to provide the tobacco essence batching machine which can realize automatic batching of various tobacco essences.

The automatic batching system adopts the following technical scheme:

an automatic batching system, comprising:

the batching guide rail is provided with a batching base in a guiding way, and the batching base is used for placing a batching container;

the batching base driving device is used for driving the batching base to move;

the discharging nozzles are respectively used for being connected with corresponding raw material containers to form a plurality of discharging point positions, and the discharging point positions are distributed along the extending direction of the batching guide rail;

the discharging valve is arranged between the discharging nozzle and the raw material container and used for controlling the discharging of the discharging nozzle;

a weighing device is arranged on the batching base, or the discharging nozzle is connected with a flowmeter;

the automatic batching system further comprises a control device, wherein the control device is connected with the batching base driving device, the discharging valve and the weighing device/flowmeter, so that the batching base drives the batching container to move to the lower part of the corresponding discharging nozzle, and the discharging valve is controlled to be opened to add materials with set mass into the batching container.

Has the beneficial effects that: adopt above-mentioned technical scheme, the batching container can remove to the ejection of compact position that corresponds with the ejection of compact mouth on the batching guide rail, through the corresponding ejection of compact valve of controlling means control, can be with the material that adds needs in the storage to realize the configuration of material addition through weighing device or flowmeter, compare with artifical batching among the prior art, can realize automatic batching, the accuracy is good, is favorable to reducing workman working strength.

As a preferred technical scheme: more than two discharging nozzles are arranged at least one discharging point position, and each discharging nozzle is used for discharging materials with different components.

Has the advantages that: by adopting the technical scheme, the quantity of the discharging point positions can be reduced, the size is favorably reduced, and the structure is more compact.

As a preferred technical scheme: more than three discharging nozzles are arranged at least one discharging point position, and the discharging nozzles are circularly arranged.

Has the advantages that: by adopting the technical scheme, the material discharging device can correspond to a circular material mixing container, and the material discharging nozzles are guaranteed to be accurately aligned to the material mixing container.

As a preferred technical scheme: the batching guide rail is a linear guide rail, and the discharge nozzles are arranged along a straight line.

Has the advantages that: by adopting the technical scheme, the structure is simple, and the manufacturing is convenient.

As a preferred technical scheme: the automatic batching system comprises raw material containers which are symmetrically arranged on two sides of a straight line corresponding to the batching guide rail.

Has the advantages that: by adopting the technical scheme, the structure is compact, and the arrangement is convenient.

As a preferred technical scheme: the discharge valve is a coupling valve, the automatic batching system also comprises a coupling driver, and the coupling driver is used for driving the coupling valve to open;

the coupling valves are arranged in a row, and the coupling driver is arranged along the arrangement direction of the coupling valves in a guiding mode and used for moving to the coupling valve to be opened to open the corresponding coupling valve.

Has the advantages that: by adopting the technical scheme, the number of the coupling drivers can be reduced, and the system complexity and the cost are favorably reduced.

As a preferred technical scheme: the coupling valves are more than two lines in the vertical direction, the coupling drivers are correspondingly more than two, and the coupling drivers are vertically arranged and are used for corresponding to the corresponding coupling valves one by one.

Has the advantages that: by adopting the technical scheme, the space utilization rate can be improved, the moving stroke of the coupling driving driver is shortened, and the batching efficiency is improved.

As a preferred technical scheme: and the batching base is provided with a waste liquid container for collecting waste liquid discharged by the discharge nozzle.

Has the advantages that: adopt above-mentioned technical scheme can realize the discharge of waste liquid in the ejection of compact mouth, be favorable to improving the batching precision.

As a preferred technical scheme: a waste liquid funnel is arranged on the batching base, and the waste liquid funnel and a container placing position on the batching base, where a batching container is placed, are arranged along the guiding direction of the batching base;

the waste funnel has an outlet for discharging waste to the waste container.

Has the advantages that: adopt above-mentioned technical scheme can conveniently control the position of waste liquid funnel, and the structure is succinct.

The tobacco essence dosing machine adopts the following technical scheme:

the tobacco essence batching machine comprises a machine body, wherein an automatic batching system is arranged on the machine body and is used for batching different types of tobacco essences;

an automatic batching system, comprising:

the batching base driving device is used for driving the batching base to move;

the automatic batching system further comprises a control device, the control device is connected with the batching base driving device, the discharging valve and the weighing device/flowmeter, the batching base can drive the batching container to move to the lower side of the corresponding discharging nozzle, and the discharging valve is controlled to be opened to add materials with set mass into the batching container.

Has the advantages that: by adopting the technical scheme, the quantity of discharging point positions can be reduced, the size is favorably reduced, and the structure is more compact.

As a preferred technical scheme: the batching guide rail is a linear guide rail, and the discharging nozzles are arranged along a straight line.

As a preferred technical scheme: the automatic batching system comprises raw material containers which are symmetrically arranged on two sides of a straight line corresponding to the batching guide rails.

Has the beneficial effects that: by adopting the technical scheme, the structure is compact, and the arrangement is convenient.

Has the beneficial effects that: by adopting the technical scheme, the number of the coupling drivers can be reduced, and the system complexity and the cost are favorably reduced.

As a preferred technical scheme: the coupling valves are provided with more than two lines in the vertical direction, the coupling drivers are correspondingly provided with more than two lines, and the coupling drivers are vertically arranged and are used for corresponding to the corresponding coupling valves one by one.

Has the beneficial effects that: by adopting the technical scheme, the space utilization rate can be improved, the moving stroke of the coupling driving driver is shortened, and the batching efficiency is improved.

the waste funnel has an outlet for discharging waste to the waste container.

Has the advantages that: by adopting the technical scheme, the position of the waste liquid funnel can be conveniently controlled, and the structure is simple.

For the subject to be protected by the present patent, each preferred technical solution under the same subject may be adopted alone, and when the preferred technical solutions under the same subject can be combined, two or more preferred technical solutions under the same subject may be arbitrarily combined, and the technical solutions formed by the combination are not specifically described here, and are included in the description of the present patent in this form.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment 1 of the tobacco flavor dispensing machine of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of FIG. 1 at A;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the tobacco flavor dispenser of FIG. 1 with the housing and access door removed;

FIG. 4 is a front view of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a left side view of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a front view of the mounting structure of the source container;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of a portion of FIG. 3 at C;

FIG. 8 is an enlarged view of a portion of FIG. 4 at D;

FIG. 9 is a first perspective view of the material container mounting structure;

FIG. 10 is a second perspective view of the mounting structure of the raw material container;

FIG. 11 is a schematic view of the raw material container;

FIG. 12 is a perspective view of the dosage control unit with the front side plate removed;

FIG. 13 is a schematic view of the structure of FIG. 12 from another perspective, including a side panel on the front side;

FIG. 14 is a schematic diagram of the structure at the coupling driver of FIG. 3;

the names of the components corresponding to the corresponding reference numerals in the drawings are: 10. a housing; 11. a frame; 12. closing the plate; 13. an access door; 14. a gas-collecting hood; 15. air draft equipment; 16. an operation port; 17. an internal partition; 18. a bottom closing plate; 19. transferring an avoidance port; 110. a long dodging port; 21. a container temporary storage module; 22. a feeding guide rail; 23. a container base; 24. a container positioning slot; 31. a cover body operation module; 32. a fixed seat; 33. the cover body drives the electric cylinder; 34. a cover rotating device; 35. a cover rotating motor; 36. a cover body clamp; 37. a cover body clamping jaw; 38. an ink jet printer; 39. a lifting seat; 41. a container transfer module; 42. a lifting guide seat; 43. a container body fixture; 44. a semi-annular jaw; 51. a raw material container; 52. an air inlet; 53. a transparent liquid level tube; 541. a first suspension loop; 542. a second hanger; 55. a discharge joint; 56. a card slot; 57. a small-sized portion; 58. a support portion; 61. a container hanger; 621. a first hanging plate; 622. a second hanging plate; 631. a first hanging hole; 632. a second hanging hole; 64. an intake branch pipe; 65. an intake manifold; 66. an open end; 67. a horizontal portion; 68. a tail end; 71. a dispensing container; 72. a container body; 73. a container cover; 81. a feeding connecting pipeline; 82. a compounding amount control unit; 83. a discharging nozzle; 84. a valve fixing plate; 85. a discharge valve; 86. a valve feed pipe; 87. a valve discharge pipe; 88. a valve connecting pipe; 89. a coupling driver; 810. a movable seat; 811. a driver guide seat; 90. weighing a batching module; 91. a dosing guide rail; 92. a dosing base; 93. a container tray; 94. a weighing platform; 95. a waste liquid funnel; 96. a waste liquid container.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating the preferred embodiment of the invention, are intended for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. The components of embodiments of the present invention generally described and illustrated in the figures herein may be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations.

Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention, presented in the figures, is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, as claimed, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments of the present invention without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

It is noted that the relational terms such as "first" and "second," and the like, which may be present in the embodiments of the present invention, are used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, the possible appearances of the phrase "comprising one of the elements 8230 \8230;" defining elements does not exclude the presence of additional like elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises such elements.

In the description of the present invention, unless otherwise expressly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" when they are used are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly through intervening media, or may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meanings of the above-mentioned terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art through specific situations.

In the description of the present invention, unless otherwise specifically stated or limited, the term "provided" may be used in a broad sense, for example, the object of "provided" may be a part of the body, or may be arranged separately from the body and connected to the body, and the connection may be detachable or non-detachable. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art from specific situations.

The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to examples.

Embodiment 1 of the tobacco flavor dosing machine of the present invention:

as shown in figure 1, essence batching machine for cigarette includes shell 10, and shell 10 is fixed in frame 11 of inside, including setting up shrouding 12 around and setting up access door 13 in the left and right sides, forms relative confined space, can prevent that essence for cigarette from diffusing to the external environment in. In addition, the top of the frame 11 is provided with a gas collecting hood 14, and the gas collecting hood 14 can be connected with an air draft device 15 and used for sucking the odor emitted in the closed space and better avoiding the odor from diffusing. In this embodiment, the air draft device 15 is a silent fan connected to the top of the air collecting channel 14. The front part of the housing 10 is provided with a concave space forming an operation opening 16 as a feeding operation area. The bottom wall of the groove of the concave space and the sealing plate 12 corresponding to the lower side wall form a partition plate which is isolated between the closed space in the machine body and the feeding operation area. When the tobacco essence batching machine is used, the batching container 71 used for containing essence batching is placed in a feeding operation area and enters the interior of the machine from the operation opening 16, the tobacco essence with different components is added into the batching container 71 by the automatic batching system of the tobacco essence batching machine, and the batching container 71 returns to the operation opening 16 after batching is finished so as to be taken down by an operator. As shown in fig. 2, the ingredient container 71 used in this embodiment has a cylindrical structure and includes a container body 72 and a container cover 73, and the container cover 73 is screwed to the container body 72.

The operation opening 16 is provided with a container temporary storage module 21 (shown in fig. 1), a cover body operation module 31 (shown in fig. 2) and a container transfer module 41 (shown in fig. 3) for opening the cover of the ingredient container 71 at the operation opening 16 and then sending the opened cover to the inside of the housing 10, and for closing the cover of the ingredient container 71 after the ingredients in the interior are finished and sending the closed cover back.

In particular, as shown in fig. 3 and 5, the container buffer module 21 includes a loading guide 22 and a container base 23. The feeding guide rail 22 is arranged inside the closing plate 12, the container base 23 is suspended forward and fixed on a slide block arranged on the feeding guide rail 22 in a guiding way, a long avoiding opening 110 extending left and right is arranged on the closing plate 12 on the front side of the shell 10, and the container base 23 is provided for extending forward to the outside of the shell 10 under the condition that the shell 10 is relatively closed. As shown in fig. 2, five container positioning slots 24 are provided on the container temporary storage module 21, which can be used for positioning and placing five ingredient containers 71 at the same time. The container base 23 can move left and right under the driving of a feeding driving device arranged on the frame 11, so as to realize the conveying of the batching containers 71, wherein the feeding driving device is an electric cylinder in the embodiment.

The cover body operation module 31 is used for picking up the ingredient container 71 on the container base 23 and cooperating with the container transfer module 41 to open and close the ingredient container 71. Specifically, as shown in fig. 2, the cover operating module 31 includes a fixing base 32, the fixing base 32 is fixed on the frame 11, a cover driving electric cylinder 33 is fixed on the fixing base 32, the lowermost end of the output shaft of the cover driving electric cylinder 33 is connected to an L-shaped lifting base 39, the horizontal side wall of the L-shaped lifting base 39 is fixedly connected to the output shaft of the cover driving electric cylinder 33, and the vertical side wall is in guiding fit with the cylinder side wall of the cover driving electric cylinder 33 up and down. The vertical side wall of the lifting base 39 is provided with a cover rotating device 34 in an up-and-down direction, and the cover rotating device 34 can move in the up-and-down direction to match the up-and-down position change of the container cover 73 during rotation. The cover rotating device 34 comprises a clamping jaw rotating device, the clamping jaw rotating device is a cover rotating motor 35, a cover body clamp 36 is arranged on an output shaft of the cover rotating device, the cover body clamp 36 comprises two cover body clamping jaws 37 arranged in a front-back guiding mode, the cover body clamping jaws 37 are semicircular, and the cover 73 of the batching container 71 can be clamped and fixed. After the cover body clamp 36 clamps and fixes the cover 73, the jaw turning device rotates to open and close the cover 73. The cover body clamping jaw 37 can adopt the forms of pneumatic clamping, electric clamping, electromagnetic clamping and the like, can be purchased from the market, and the specific structure is not described here. The lifting driving device drives the cover rotating device 34 to move up and down, so that the cover body operation module 31 and the container temporary storage module 21 are prevented from interfering under the condition that the cover rotating device 34 clamps the batching container 71. Of course, the cover rotating device 34 can also adopt a rotating and lifting matching mode to match the thread pitch of the cover 73; specifically, the movement in the up-down direction may be realized by a lead screw nut transmission structure, for example, to match up-down positional change when the container lid 7 is rotated.

In order to identify different ingredient containers 71, an ink jet printer 38 is further disposed below the cover body operation module 31, and can spray marks on the ingredient containers 71, the ink jet printer 38 is a purchased part, the structure of the ink jet printer is the prior art, and details are not repeated in the present invention. The two-dimensional code is sprayed to the ingredient container 71 through the code spraying machine 38, and a user can scan the two-dimensional code to know the composition of the spice in the ingredient container 71.

As shown in fig. 4, 5 and 7, the container transfer module 41 is disposed below the cover handling module 31 for lowering the ingredient container 71 onto the weighing and ingredient module 90 or retrieving the ingredient container 71 after the ingredients from the interior of the machine. The container transfer module 41 comprises a lifting guide seat 42, the lifting guide seat 42 is provided with a container body clamp 43 along the up-down direction in a guiding way, and the container body clamp 43 moves up and down under the driving of the transfer driving device. In this embodiment, the transfer driving device employs an electric cylinder. The container body holder 43 comprises two semi-annular holding jaws 44 which are guided in a front-rear direction and are able to hold a container body 72 of a fixed ingredient container 71. After the container body 72 is clamped and fixed by the container body clamp 43, the clamping jaw rotating device on the cover body operation module 31 rotates to open and close the container cover 73. Likewise, the semi-annular clamping jaw 44 may take the form of a pneumatic clamp, an electric clamp, an electromagnetic clamp, etc., which are commercially available and the specific structure will not be described herein.

In order to better avoid the smell of the tobacco essence from diffusing outwards, a transfer avoiding opening 19 is formed in the bottom sealing plate 18 of the operation opening 16, and the container body clamp 43 of the container transfer module 41 moves up and down to enter the inside of the shell 10.

The automatic batching system further comprises a raw material storage module, a material conveying module and a weighing batching module 90.

As shown in fig. 3, 4, 5, 6 and 13, the ingredient storage module includes an ingredient container 51 and a container hanger 61, and the ingredient container 51 is mounted in a hanging manner. The material container 51 is a can body welded member, i.e., a welded can body. In the embodiment, the raw material container 51 is a stainless steel tank with a square cross section, a discharge joint 55 is arranged at the top of the tank body, a discharge pipe is fixed on the discharge joint 55, and the discharge pipe extends downwards to the bottom of the tank body; the top of the tank is also provided with an air inlet 52 for introducing high-pressure gas to provide pressure for discharging the feed liquid. In order to facilitate the observation of the residual amount of the materials, a transparent liquid level pipe 53 is arranged on the side wall of each raw material container 51, and the upper end and the lower end of each transparent liquid level pipe 53 are communicated with the inner cavity of the tank body.

As shown in fig. 5, 9, 10, and 11, the container body of each raw material container 51 includes two containers, and the two containers are welded and fixed side by side in a pair. A first engaging lug 541 and a second engaging lug 542 are fixed to the left and right sides of each raw material container 51, respectively, for fixing to the container hanger 61. The container hanger 61 on the left and right sides comprises two hanging plates which are arranged at left and right intervals, and the hanging plates are respectively a first hanging plate 621 and a second hanging plate 622, the two hanging plates are respectively fixed on an angle steel and a square steel pipe, a first hanging hole 631 is arranged on the first hanging plate 621, and a second hanging hole 632 is arranged on the second hanging plate 622. As shown in fig. 9, the distance between the first hanging plate 621 and the second hanging plate 622 > the dimension of the container body in the left-right direction + the height of the first hanging lug 541 protruding from the container body in the left-right direction.

The front side and the rear side of the first hanging lug 541 are planes, the lower side is provided with a clamping groove 56, the clamping groove 56 is used for being downwards clamped to the lower side edge of the first hanging hole 631, a step stop structure is formed with the first hanging plate 621, and left and right positioning is formed by a vertical step surface formed by the side wall of the clamping groove 56 and the first hanging plate 621. The second hanging lug 542 is of a T-shaped structure and is provided with a small-size part 57 and a supporting part 58, the small-size part 57 is positioned on one side of the supporting part 58 close to the container body, and the front and back sizes of the small-size part 57 are smaller than the front and back sizes of the supporting part 58; correspondingly, a vertical channel is connected below the second hanging hole 632, so that the small-sized portion 57 of the second hanging lug 542 can enter the second hanging hole 632 from bottom to top when the container body and the first hanging lug 541 are located between the first hanging plate 621 and the second hanging plate 622. When the raw material container 51 is installed, a downward-upward installation mode is adopted, the right side face of the container body of the raw material container 51 is made to be close to the second hanging plate 622 firstly, the container body and the first hanging lugs 541 are located between the first hanging plate 621 and the second hanging plate 622, the small-size portions 57 of the second hanging lugs 542 are aligned to the lower end opening of the vertical channel, then the raw material container 51 moves upwards until the first hanging lugs 541 completely move into the first hanging holes 631 and the second hanging lugs 542 completely move into the second hanging holes 632, at the moment, the raw material container 51 is moved leftwards, the clamping grooves 56 on the lower sides of the first hanging lugs 541 are aligned to the lower side edges of the first hanging holes 631, at the moment, the supporting portions 58 of the second hanging lugs 542 correspond to the lower side edges of the second hanging holes 632, then the raw material container 51 moves downwards, the first hanging lugs 541 and the second hanging lugs 542 are supported on the first hanging holes 631 and the second hanging holes 632 respectively, left-right positioning is realized by the clamping grooves 56, and the raw material container 51 is kept in a hanging state. In order to maintain the left-right balance, the second hanging lug 542 is arranged higher than the first hanging lug 541, and after the clamping groove 56 on the first hanging lug 541 is clamped on the first hanging plate 621, the supporting part 58 of the second hanging lug 542 is just supported on the second hanging plate 622. In addition, in order to achieve the front-rear positioning of the material container 51, the front-rear dimension of the first hanging ring 541 is adapted to the front-rear dimension of the first hanging hole 631, and the front-rear dimension of the supporting portion 58 of the second hanging ring 542 is adapted to the front-rear dimension of the second hanging hole 632.

The raw material container 51 can be conveniently disassembled and assembled by adopting the hanging lugs and the hanging holes.

In this embodiment, the container hangers 61 are arranged in two rows, and the two rows of container hangers 61 are arranged in bilateral symmetry. After each group of the vessels is hung on the vessel hanger 61, two raw material vessels 51 adjacent to each other in the longitudinal direction of the hanging plate on the same hanging plate are in contact with each other, and can be positioned with each other.

The air inlets 52 of the left and right two groups of raw material containers 51 are connected to an air inlet main pipe 65 through air inlet branch pipes 64, and the air inlet main pipe 65 is a square metal pipe, is fixed on the rack 11, and is used as a support beam of the rack 11; the air inlet manifold 65 is connected with an air supply pipe, and is connected with an external air source. To facilitate connection, a hose is used for the intake manifold 64.

Referring to fig. 3, 4 and 14, the feeding module comprises a feeding connecting pipeline 81 and a plurality of dosage control units 82, and each dosage control unit 82 comprises a unit housing, four groups of feeding pipelines, a discharging valve 85 and a discharging nozzle 83. Each group of the feeding pipelines comprises a first feeding pipeline and a second feeding pipeline. The supply connection 81 has one end detachably connected to the discharge connector 55 at the top of the raw material container 51 and the other end for connection to the amount control unit 82. The feeding connecting pipeline 81 is divided into an upper section and a lower section, one section is positioned above the angle steel in the container hanger 61, the other section is positioned below the angle steel in the container hanger 61, the upper section and the lower section are connected through a connector fixed on a transverse folding edge of the angle steel, the structure is neat, and the connection is convenient. In order to facilitate the filling of the raw material, the discharge connector 55 at the top of each raw material container 51 is screwed to the body of the raw material container 51, and after the supply connecting line 81 is removed, the discharge connector 55 can be screwed down to fill the raw material.

The ingredient quantity control units 82 are fixed on the rack 11 and arranged in a straight line, as shown in fig. 12 and 13, the unit housing of each ingredient quantity control unit 82 includes valve fixing plates 84 arranged at intervals from left to right, four discharge valves 85 are fixed on the valve fixing plate 84 on each side, and the four discharge valves 85 are arranged in the up-down direction. The front side and the rear side of the valve fixing plate 84 are provided with side plates which surround a closed space, a valve feeding pipe 86 and a valve discharging pipe 87 are arranged inside the valve fixing plate, each valve feeding pipe 86 is connected with a feeding connector, the same raw material container 51 is correspondingly provided with two feeding connectors, and the two feeding connectors are connected with valve connecting pipes 88 with different diameters to form the first feeding pipeline and the second feeding pipeline which are arranged in parallel. One of the valve connecting pipes 88 forms a smaller pipe diameter section on the corresponding supply line, constituting a throttle structure. The two valve connecting pipes 88 are connected to the same raw material container 51 by the supply connecting pipe 81 through a tee and a tee structure. The two valve connecting pipes 88 have different diameters and can form two different flows, and the two corresponding discharge valves 85 are respectively a large-flow control valve and a small-flow control valve. Valve outlet pipe 87 extends to the bottom of dosage control unit 82 for connection to outlet nozzle 83. Each ingredient amount control unit 82 includes 8 discharge nozzles 83, and four kinds of tobacco flavors can be added to the ingredient container 71, and each kind of tobacco flavor can be added to the ingredient container 71 at different speeds through the respective discharge nozzles 83. 8 ejection of compact mouths 83 are the syringe needle form, are circular and arrange, form a ejection of compact point location. The large-flow control valve and the small-flow control valve have the same structure and size, and the flow is realized by the difference of the pipe diameters of the two valve connecting pipes 88. For the convenience of maintenance, each valve connecting pipe 88 is connected with a stop valve, which is a manual stop valve.

The material conveying modules in the invention adopt a centralized and multi-row distribution mode, thereby greatly saving the installation space, greatly improving the uniformity, facilitating the maintenance of each dosage control unit 82 in the later period, simultaneously facilitating the widening of the quantity of the raw material containers 51 and the material conveying modules and meeting the raw material requirements of various formulas.

The discharge valve 85 is a coupling valve adapted to the coupling actuator 89 and is opened by the coupling actuator 89. The coupling valves are arranged in a row, and the coupling actuators 89 are arranged on the actuator guide seats 811 in a front-rear direction, i.e., an arrangement direction of the coupling valves, to be moved to the coupling valve to be opened by the driving device to open the corresponding coupling valve. Specifically, the coupling drivers 89 are suction cup type electromagnets, which are arranged on the movable seat 810 that extends and retracts left and right, and four of the suction cup type electromagnets are arranged up and down and are used for corresponding four coupling valves one-to-one; after the movable seat 810 extends out, a valve core in the coupling valve can act under the action of the sucker type electromagnet to open the coupling valve. The form of the coupling valve and coupling actuator 89 described above is prior art and will not be described in detail herein.

As shown in fig. 7 and 8, the weighing and batching module 90 includes a batching guide rail 91, the batching guide rail 91 is provided with a batching base 92 in a guiding manner, the batching base 92 is provided with a container tray 93, the container tray 93 is provided with a container positioning groove 24, and a container placing position for placing the batching container 71 is formed. Weighing and batching module 90 further comprises a batching base driving device for driving batching base 92 to move. In this embodiment, batching base drive arrangement is the electric jar. The batching base 92 is provided with a weighing platform 94 to form a weighing device, and the container tray 93 is arranged on the weighing platform 94 and is used for weighing the weight of the tobacco essence discharged into the batching container 71 from the material outlet 83. Still be equipped with waste liquid funnel 95 and waste liquid container 96 on the batching base 92, waste liquid funnel 95 arranges along the direction of batching base 92 with the container tray 93 on the batching base 92, can move under the drive of batching base drive arrangement to corresponding ejection of compact position. The bottom of the waste funnel 95 is connected to an elbow forming an outlet for discharging waste to the waste container 96. In this embodiment, the waste liquid container 96 is a waste liquid tank. Every ejection of compact mouth 83 is before adding the batching to batching container 71, opens discharge valve 85, utilizes raw materials liquid to wash pipeline and ejection of compact mouth 83, then carries out the batching again, and in the waste liquid funnel 95 was discharged to abluent waste material at every turn, in collecting waste liquid container 96 again.

The weighing precision of the weighing platform is very high, and vibration or airflow in the environment can affect the reading of the weighing platform, so that the addition of essence is affected; moreover, the essence raw materials are generally some alcohols, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or esters, which easily cause the essence to be emitted into the working environment to cause air pollution, and if people exist in the working area, the polluted air is inhaled for a long time, which also causes influence on the human body, such as stimulation to respiratory tract. As shown in fig. 5, an internal partition 17 is disposed above the weighing module 90, and the internal partition 17 is mounted on the frame 11, so that only the discharge nozzle 83 extends out, thereby more effectively preventing the odor from diffusing into the surrounding space. Moreover, disturbance of other components to the weighing platform 94 can be avoided, and the accuracy of the weighing platform 94 is ensured.

The automatic batching system also comprises a control device which adopts a programmable numerical control system PLC with stable performance. The control system can realize automatic control over the container temporary storage module 21, the cover body operation module 31, the ink-jet printer 38, the container transfer module 41, the raw material storage module, the material conveying module, the weighing and batching module 90 and the like, so that the batching base 92 drives the batching container 71 to move to the lower part of the corresponding discharging nozzle 83, and the discharging valve 85 is controlled to be opened to add materials with set quality into the batching container 71.

The use process of the tobacco essence dosing machine comprises the following steps:

s1: starting the container temporary storage module 21, wherein the container temporary storage module 21 drives the container base 23 to be close to the cover body operation module 31, so that the batching container 71 to be clamped is positioned right below the cover rotating device 34;

s2: starting the cover body operation module 31, the cover body operation module 31 driving the cover rotating device 34 to approach the ingredient container 71, the cover rotating device 34 clamping the container cover 73, the cover body operation module 31 driving the ingredient container 71 to leave the container base 23;

s3: starting the container transfer module 41, enabling the container transfer module 41 to drive the container body clamp 43 to be close to the batching container 71, enabling the container body clamp 43 to clamp the container body 72, enabling the cover body operation module 31 to drive the cover body 73 to rotate, and enabling the container body 72 to be separated from the cover body 73; the container transfer module 41 drives the container body clamp 43 to descend, the container body 72 moves along with the container body clamp 43, when the container body 72 approaches the weighing and proportioning module 90, the container body clamp 43 releases the container body 72, and the container body 72 falls into the container tray 93 on the weighing and proportioning module 90;

s4: starting the material weighing module 90, driving the container body 72 to move to a required discharge point position by the material weighing module 90, stopping the container body, aligning the waste liquid funnel 95 with the discharge point position, opening the large-flow control valve and the small-flow control valve in sequence, cleaning the large-flow control valve and the small-flow control valve by using raw materials, and enabling the cleaned waste material to flow into the waste liquid funnel 95; then weighing the batching module 90 to drive the container body 72 to move, enabling the container body 72 to be aligned to the discharging nozzle 83, sequentially opening the large-flow control valve and the small-flow control valve according to the requirement, and enabling the raw materials to enter the batching container 71 in accurate weight;

s5: repeating S4, and preparing a plurality of required raw materials into the container body 72;

s6: after the preparation is finished, the weighing and proportioning module 90 is started, and the weighing and proportioning module 90 drives the container body 72 to move to the position right below the container body clamp 43;

s7: starting the container transfer module 41, enabling the container transfer module 41 to drive the container body clamp 43 to be close to the container body 72, enabling the container body clamp 43 to clamp the container body 72, enabling the container transfer module 41 to drive the container body clamp 43 to ascend, enabling the container body 72 to move along with the container body clamp 43, enabling the cover rotating device 34 to clamp the position of the container cover 73 when the container body 72 is close to the container cover 73, enabling the cover operating module 31 to drive the container cover 73 to rotate, and enabling the container body 72 to be connected with the container cover 73; the container body gripper 43 releases the container body 72;

s8: the lid operating module 31 places the ingredient container 71 into the container base 23.

Embodiment 2 of the tobacco flavor dosing machine of the present invention:

the difference between the embodiment and the embodiment 1 is that in the embodiment 1, a weighing device is arranged on the batching base, the weighing device is used for determining the discharging stopping time, and the discharging amount of the discharging nozzle 83 is ensured; in this embodiment, the discharging nozzle 83 is connected to a flow meter, and the discharging amount of the discharging nozzle 83 is calculated by the flow meter.

Embodiment 3 of the tobacco flavor dosing machine of the present invention:

the difference between this embodiment and embodiment 1 is that in embodiment 1, the discharging valve 85 is a coupling valve, and in this embodiment, the discharging valve 85 is an electromagnetic valve.

Additionally, in other embodiments, each coupling valve may have a respective coupling actuator 89 disposed therein.

Embodiment 4 of the tobacco flavor dosing machine of the present invention:

the difference between the present embodiment and embodiment 1 is that in embodiment 1, more than two kinds of discharging nozzles 83 are arranged at each discharging point, while in the present embodiment, only one kind of discharging nozzle 83 is arranged at each discharging point for discharging the material with one component.

Embodiment 5 of the tobacco flavor dosing machine of the present invention:

the difference between this embodiment and embodiment 1 is that in embodiment 1, each raw material container 51 can add materials to the batching container 71 through two flow rates, which is beneficial to balancing the discharging speed and the control accuracy of the feeding amount, while in this embodiment, each raw material container 51 is directly connected with the discharging valve through a pipeline, and materials are added to the batching container 71 through one flow rate.

Embodiment 6 of the tobacco flavor dosing machine of the present invention:

the difference between this embodiment and embodiment 1 lies in that, in embodiment 1, the front portion of the housing 10 is provided with an indent space to form the operation opening 16, and in this embodiment, the tobacco flavor blending machine is not provided with the operation opening 16, the container temporary storage module 21, the cover body operation module 31 and the container transfer module 41, and the housing 10 is provided with a pick-and-place opening corresponding to the blending module 90 to be weighed, so as to directly place the blending container 71 on the blending base 92 of the blending module 90 to be weighed for blending.

Embodiment 7 of the tobacco flavor dosing machine of the present invention:

the difference between this embodiment and embodiment 1 is that in embodiment 1, the raw material storage module is a self-contained module of the automatic batching system, and in this embodiment, the raw material storage module is an external module and is connected to the automatic batching system when in use.

In other embodiments, the material storage modules and discharge valves may be arranged in other ways.

The embodiment of the automatic batching system in the invention comprises the following steps: the embodiment of the automatic blending system, that is, the automatic blending system described in any embodiment of the above tobacco flavor blending machine, is not specifically described here.

It should be noted that, the automatic blending system is used for blending tobacco essence, and in other embodiments, the automatic blending system can also be used in blending occasions other than tobacco essence.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and not intended to limit the present invention, the scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims, and all structural changes that can be made by using the contents of the description and the drawings of the present invention are intended to be embraced therein.

Claims

1. Automatic batching system, its characterized in that includes:

the batching guide rail (91) is provided with a batching base (92) in a guiding way, and the batching base (92) is used for placing a batching container (71);

the batching base driving device is used for driving the batching base (92) to move;

the discharging nozzles (83) are respectively used for being connected with the corresponding raw material containers (51) to form a plurality of discharging point positions, and the discharging point positions are distributed along the extending direction of the batching guide rail (91);

the discharging valve (85) is arranged between the discharging nozzle (83) and the raw material container (51) and is used for controlling the discharging nozzle (83) to discharge;

a weighing device is arranged on the batching base (92), or the discharging nozzle (83) is connected with a flowmeter;

the automatic batching system also comprises a control device, the control device is connected with the batching base driving device, the discharging valve (85) and the weighing device/flowmeter, the batching base (92) can drive the batching container (71) to move below the corresponding discharging nozzle (83), and the discharging valve (85) is controlled to be opened to add materials with set mass into the batching container (71);

the automatic batching system also comprises a material conveying module, the material conveying module comprises a material supply connecting pipeline (81) and a plurality of batching amount control units (82), and each batching amount control unit (82) comprises a unit shell, four groups of material supply pipelines, a discharging valve (85) and a discharging nozzle (83); each group of feeding pipelines comprises a first feeding pipeline and a second feeding pipeline; one end of the feeding connecting pipeline (81) is detachably connected to a discharging joint (55) at the top of the raw material container (51), and the other end of the feeding connecting pipeline is used for being connected with a dosage control unit (82);

the batching control units (82) are fixed on the rack (11) and are arranged in a straight line, the unit shell of each batching control unit (82) comprises valve fixing plates (84) which are arranged at intervals left and right, four discharging valves (85) are fixed on the valve fixing plate (84) on each side, and the four discharging valves (85) are arranged in the vertical direction; the front side and the rear side of the valve fixing plate (84) are provided with side plates to form a closed space, a valve feeding pipe (86) and a valve discharging pipe (87) are arranged in the closed space, each valve feeding pipe (86) is connected with a feeding joint, two feeding joints correspond to the same raw material container (51), and the two feeding joints are connected with valve connecting pipes (88) with different diameters to form a first feeding pipeline and a second feeding pipeline which are arranged in parallel; one valve connecting pipe (88) forms a smaller-caliber section on the corresponding feeding pipeline to form a throttling structure; the two valve connecting pipes (88) are connected to the same raw material container (51) through a three-way pipe and a three-way structure by a feeding connecting pipeline (81); the two valve connecting pipes (88) have different diameters and can form two different flows, and the corresponding two discharge valves (85) are respectively a large-flow control valve and a small-flow control valve; the valve discharge pipe (87) extends to the bottom of the batching quantity control unit (82) and is connected with a discharge nozzle (83); each ingredient amount control unit (82) comprises 8 discharge nozzles (83), four types of tobacco essence can be added into the ingredient container (71), and each type of tobacco essence can be added into the ingredient container (71) through the respective discharge nozzles (83) at different speeds; 8 ejection of compact mouth (83) are the syringe needle form, are circular and arrange, form a ejection of compact point location.

2. The automated compounding system of claim 1, wherein the compounding rail (91) is a linear rail and the tap (83) is linearly arranged.

3. An automatic dosing system according to claim 2, characterized in that the automatic dosing system comprises material containers (51), said material containers (51) being symmetrically arranged on both sides of a line corresponding to the dosing guide (91).

4. The automatic dispensing system of claim 1, wherein the dispensing valve (85) is a coupling valve, the automatic dispensing system further comprising a coupling actuator (89), the coupling actuator (89) for actuating the coupling valve to open;

the coupling valves are arranged in a row, and the coupling driver (89) is guided along the arrangement direction of the coupling valves and is used for moving to the coupling valve to be opened to open the corresponding coupling valve.

5. The automatic batching system according to claim 4, wherein said coupling valves are provided in more than two rows in the up-down direction, said coupling actuators (89) are correspondingly provided in more than two, each coupling actuator (89) being arranged up and down for one-to-one correspondence with a respective coupling valve.

6. The automated batching system according to claim 1, wherein said batching base (92) is provided with a waste container (96) for collecting waste discharged by the tap (83).

7. The automatic batching system according to claim 6, wherein said batching base (92) is provided with a waste funnel (95), the waste funnel (95) being aligned with the container placement positions of the batching base (92) for the batching containers (71) along the direction of guidance of the batching base (92);

the waste funnel (95) has an outlet for discharging waste to a waste container (96).

8. The tobacco essence batching machine comprises a machine body, wherein an automatic batching system is arranged on the machine body and is used for batching different types of tobacco essences; an automatic dispensing system according to any one of claims 1 to 7.