Background
The edge grinding machine for optical lens is a fine processing equipment for processing the edge of optical lens to raise the size and angle accuracy of optical lens, improve the edge characteristics of lens and solve the problems of burr, crack and overflow of glue. Therefore, the edge grinding machine is also an essential important equipment in optical lens processing.
At present, the edge grinding machine for optical lenses comprises a manual edge grinding machine, a plane special-shaped edge grinding machine and a bevel edge grinding machine and a numerical control edge grinding machine. Manual edging mainly relies on the subsidiary guide post of emery wheel direction to the edging is accomplished to manual continuous adjustment grinding feed volume and grinding direction, and not only intensity of labour is big, production efficiency is low, and factor such as operation proficiency, dynamics all can influence the edging quality moreover, causes product quality unstable. The plane special-shaped edge grinding machine needs to be used together with the bevel edge grinding machine to finish contour line grinding and chamfering respectively, so that the equipment cost is high, the occupied area is large, the machining process is complex, and edges and corners can appear on the product after edge grinding. The numerical control edge grinding machine can finish three-dimensional edge grinding, and grinding and chamfering are finished simultaneously; however, four-axis linkage is required, and the manufacturing cost, the use cost and the maintenance cost of the equipment are high. In addition, although the grinding principle, the grinding efficiency and the grinding quality of the edge grinding machine are different, most of the edge grinding machines need manual direct or auxiliary loading and unloading, the labor intensity is high, the manual lens taking and placing is easy to collide with a chuck to generate potential safety hazards and cause poor edge grinding quality, the edge grinding operation needs to use edge grinding oil to cause damage to operating personnel, the labor cost is high, the operation efficiency is low, the consistency is poor, the quality is unstable, and the reject ratio is high. Therefore, automatic feeding and discharging are achieved by the aid of the multi-axis robot in the prior art, the structure is complex, the price is high, later maintenance is difficult, feeding and discharging of the robot can be completed only by two times, and an edge grinding machine needs to idle and wait during feeding after discharging, so that production efficiency is difficult to improve. In addition, there is a technical scheme of loading and unloading in a vertical and horizontal structure in the prior art, although the structure is simple and easy to maintain compared with a multi-axis robot, the problems of large occupied area of the vertical and horizontal structure and difficulty in centering of the lens exist, the edge grinding quality is unstable due to direct application, and an automatic centering mechanism is required to be added to improve the quality so that the structure and maintenance are complicated, so that only the edge grinding of the low-end lens is needed.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide the automatic optical lens feeding and discharging system of the horizontal edge grinding machine and the horizontal edge grinding machine, which are simple in structure, high in production efficiency, good in stability, safe and reliable.
The automatic optical lens feeding and discharging system of the horizontal edge grinding machine is realized as follows: comprises a frame, a material tray, a feeding device, a material taking device, a feeding and taking device and a controller, wherein the frame is fixedly arranged at one side of the horizontal edge grinding machine, the controller is fixedly arranged on the frame,
the feeding device comprises a guide chute and a pushing mechanism, the guide chute is parallel to a grinding main shaft of the horizontal edge grinding machine and is arranged on one side of the outer end of the frame far away from a grinding wheel, a longitudinally extending long hole is formed in the bottom of the material direction chute, a disc outlet is formed in the lower portion of the side wall close to the grinding side, the material discs are stacked in the guide chute, the pushing mechanism is arranged at the bottom of the guide chute, and a feeding push rod extends into the long hole and pushes the material discs to move out of the disc outlet in a stepping mode;
the material taking device comprises a vertical moving mechanism, a guide frame and a rotating mechanism, wherein a body of the vertical moving mechanism is vertically and fixedly arranged on a rack on the outer side of a disc outlet, the guide frame is vertically and fixedly arranged on the rack on one side of a moving end of the vertical moving mechanism, one end of the rotating mechanism is connected with the moving end and is also in sliding connection with a guide groove or a guide rod of the guide frame, a sucker I is arranged at the top end of a rotating rod of the rotating mechanism, and the sucker I is communicated with a vacuum system through a control valve I;
The feeding and taking device comprises a rotary base, a mechanical arm and two-finger clamping jaws, the rotary base is rotatably arranged on a rack between the feeding device and a grinding main shaft of the horizontal edge grinding machine, a rotating shaft of the rotary base is parallel to the grinding main shaft of the horizontal edge grinding machine, one end of the mechanical arm is vertically and fixedly connected with the rotating shaft of the rotary base, and the two-finger clamping jaws are arranged at the other end of the mechanical arm and are communicated with a vacuum system through a control valve II or are connected with a power supply through a control switch I;
the pushing mechanism, the vertical moving mechanism, the rotating base, the control ends of the control valve I, the control valve II and the control switch I are respectively electrically connected with the controller.
The horizontal edge grinding machine of the invention is realized as follows: the automatic optical lens feeding and discharging system comprises the horizontal edge grinding machine.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. according to the invention, through the sequential connection of the feeding device, the material taking device and the feeding and material taking device, the same material tray can be shared by feeding and discharging, automatic tray changing of stacked material trays can be realized, the problems that the occupied area is too large due to two material trays required by the traditional manual feeding and discharging and the vertical and horizontal feeding structure in the prior art, and manual auxiliary material tray changing is required due to manual material tray replacement and vertical and horizontal feeding and discharging in the manual feeding and discharging can be solved, the structure is simple and compact, the labor intensity is reduced and improved, the adverse effect of manual operation on the quality is effectively avoided, a plurality of edge grinding machines can be managed and protected by one person, and the production efficiency and the quality stability are effectively improved.
2. According to the automatic feeding and discharging robot, automatic feeding and discharging are realized through the feeding device, the material taking device and the feeding and material taking device, manual work only needs to regularly change the material plate, and compared with the robot, the automatic feeding and discharging robot is simpler in structure, easy to maintain and lower in cost, personal injury can be avoided compared with traditional manual operation, and safety of edge grinding operation is effectively improved; especially through increasing the transfer mechanism to can be when waiting to grind the lens at II adsorptions of sucking disc of transfer mechanism, feed extracting device and can take out and transmit sucking disc I for extracting device with edging lens, thereby can be with waiting to grind the lens and transfer to the edging machine from sucking disc II, effectively realize the cross-linking of material loading and unloading process, the idle running time of edging machine when shortening the unloading, effectively improved edging production efficiency.
3. The material taking device and the transfer mechanism adopt the sucking discs to adsorb the lenses, the feeding and taking device adopts the pneumatic lens clamping, the damage to the lenses in the adsorption and clamping process can be avoided, and the material feeding device, the material taking device, the transfer mechanism and the feeding and taking device adopt oil pressure or pneumatic driving, so that the moment of the feeding and discharging movement is larger, the positioning precision of the feeding and discharging is higher, and the edging processing quality of the lenses is favorably improved.
In conclusion, the invention has the characteristics of simple structure, high production efficiency, good stability, safety and reliability.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a top view of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of the pushing mechanism of FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of the tray of FIG. 3;
FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of the take-off device of FIG. 1;
FIG. 7 is a right side view of FIG. 6;
FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the structure of the two-finger gripper of FIG. 1;
in the figure: 1-a frame, 2-a tray, 2A-a tray body, 2B-a conic cavity, 3-a guide chute, 3A-a tray outlet, 4-a pushing mechanism, 4A-a feeding push rod, 4B-a telescopic rod, 4C-a ratchet mechanism, 5-a vertical moving mechanism, 5A-a body, 5B-a moving end, 6-a guide frame, 7-a rotating mechanism, 7A-a rotating rod, 7B-a sliding block, 7C-a stop block, 7D-a torsion spring, 7E-an adjusting screw, 8-a sucker I, 9-a rotating base, 10-a mechanical arm, 11-a two-finger clamping jaw, 11A-a pneumatic clamping jaw, 11B-a finger plate, 12-a reciprocating mechanism, 13-a supporting rod, 14-a sucker II, 15-a collecting chute, 16-lifting mechanism, 17-grinding head and 18-grinding wheel.
Detailed Description
The invention is further illustrated by the following figures and examples, which are not intended to limit the invention in any way, and any variations or modifications which are based on the teachings of the invention are intended to be within the scope of the invention.
As shown in fig. 1 to 8, the automatic loading and unloading system for optical lenses of a horizontal edge grinding machine of the present invention comprises a frame 1, a material tray 2, a feeding device, a material taking device, a feeding and material taking device, and a controller, wherein the frame 1 is fixedly arranged at one side of the horizontal edge grinding machine, the controller is fixedly arranged on the frame 1,
the feeding device comprises a guide chute 3 and a pushing mechanism 4, the guide chute 3 is parallel to a grinding main shaft of the horizontal edge grinding machine and is arranged on one side of the outer end of the frame 1 far away from a grinding wheel, a longitudinally extending long hole is formed in the bottom of the material feeding groove 3, the lower portion of the side wall close to the grinding side is arranged, the material trays 2 are stacked in the guide chute 3, the pushing mechanism 4 is arranged at the bottom of the guide chute 3, and a feeding push rod 4A extends into the long hole and pushes the material trays 2 to move out of the tray outlet 3A in a stepping mode;
the material taking device comprises a vertical moving mechanism 5, a guide frame 6 and a rotating mechanism 7, wherein a body 5A of the vertical moving mechanism 5 is vertically and fixedly arranged on a rack 1 at the outer side of a disc outlet 3A, the guide frame 6 is vertically and fixedly arranged on the rack 1 at one side of a moving end 5B of the vertical moving mechanism 5, one end of the rotating mechanism 7 is connected with the moving end 5B and is also in sliding connection with a guide groove or a guide rod of the guide frame 6, a sucker I8 is arranged at the top end of a rotating rod 7A of the rotating mechanism 7, and the sucker I8 is communicated with a vacuum system through a control valve I;
The feeding and taking device comprises a rotary base 9, a mechanical arm 10 and two-finger clamping jaws 11, wherein the rotary base 9 is rotatably arranged on the rack 1 between the feeding device and a grinding main shaft of the horizontal edge grinding machine, a rotating shaft of the rotary base 9 is parallel to the grinding main shaft of the horizontal edge grinding machine, one end of the mechanical arm 10 is vertically and fixedly connected with the rotating shaft of the rotary base 9, and the two-finger clamping jaws 11 are arranged at the other end of the mechanical arm 10 and are communicated with a vacuum system through a control valve II or are connected with a power supply through a control switch I;
the pushing mechanism 4, the vertical moving mechanism 5, the rotating base 9, and the control ends of the control valve I, the control valve II and the control switch I are respectively electrically connected with the controller.
The charging tray 2 comprises a tray body 2A, the tray body 2A is rectangular, a plurality of frustum-shaped conical holes 2B used for placing optical lenses are formed in the upper surface of the tray body at intervals along the length direction, and the lower surface of the tray body 2A is provided with a feeding groove or a feeding hole which is consistent with the interval of the conical holes 2B and matched with a feeding push rod 4A.
The opening diameter of the conical cavity 2B is larger than the diameter of the optical lens, the bottom of the conical cavity 2B penetrates through the disc body 2A to form a feeding hole, and the diameter of the feeding hole is smaller than the diameter of the optical lens.
One end of a telescopic rod 4B of the pushing mechanism 4 is provided with a ratchet mechanism 4C, and a plurality of feeding push rods 4A are fixedly arranged on one side of a ratchet wheel of the ratchet mechanism 4C at intervals along the circumferential direction.
The height of the disc outlet 3A is larger than the thickness of a single disc body 2A and smaller than the thickness of two disc bodies 2A.
Rotary mechanism 7 still includes slider 7B, reset spring, dog 7C, slider 7B's top and removal end 5B fixed connection and one side and guide slot or guide arm sliding connection of leading truck 6, the opposite side proximal end portion that sucking disc I8 was kept away from to rotary rod 7A is articulated with slider 7B, dog 7C is fixed to be set up in frame 1 of removal end 5B one side, the articulated portion of rotary rod 7A keep away from the outer end of sucking disc I8 can make rotary rod 7A rotatory to horizontal position with dog 7C butt, reset spring sets up on rotary rod 7A and makes rotary rod 7A rotatory to vertical position when not with dog 7C butt.
The reset spring is a torsion spring 7D sleeved on a hinged shaft of the rotating rod 7A, or an extension spring of which two ends are respectively fixed on the rotating rod 7A far away from the stop block 7C and the rack 1 on one side of the stop block 7C; the slider 7B is provided with an adjusting screw 7E, the bottom of which can be abutted against the rotating rod 7A to adjust the horizontal position, on the side of the hinge shaft of the rotating rod 7A away from the stopper 7C.
The feeding and taking device further comprises a reciprocating mechanism 12, the reciprocating mechanism 12 is arranged on the rack 1 between the feeding device and a grinding main shaft of the horizontal edge grinding machine and is parallel to the grinding main shaft, the rotating base 9 is rotatably arranged on a moving end of the reciprocating mechanism 12, and a control end of the reciprocating mechanism 12 is electrically connected with the controller.
Two finger grip 11 include pneumatic grip 11A, fingerboard 11B is arc or "V" shaped plate column structure, respectively fixed connection fingerboard 11B and fingerboard 11B's open end is greater than the link interval on pneumatic grip 11A's two gripping jaws.
The inner side of the fingerboard 11B is provided with an anti-slip layer or is integrally sleeved with an anti-slip sleeve.
The fingerboard 11B is an elastic board.
The automatic transfer machine further comprises a transfer mechanism, wherein the transfer mechanism comprises a supporting rod 13 and a sucker II 14, the supporting rod 13 is horizontally and fixedly arranged on the rack 1 on the other side of the mechanical arm 10 far away from the rotating rod 7A, the sucker II 14 is fixedly arranged on one side, facing the rotating rod 7A, of the supporting rod 13, the sucker II 14 is coaxial with the sucker I8 when the rotating rod 7A is in the horizontal position, the sucker II 14 is communicated with a vacuum system through a control valve II, and the control end of the control valve II is electrically connected with a controller.
The other side of the frame 1, which is far away from the material tray 2, is also provided with a material receiving groove 15 for receiving the material tray 2, the bottom end of the material receiving groove 15 is provided with a lifting mechanism 16, the moving end of the lifting mechanism 16 is connected with the material receiving groove 15 and used for enabling the material receiving groove 15 to move up and down, and the control end of the lifting mechanism 16 is electrically connected with the controller.
The controller is an industrial personal computer or a PLC controller.
The pushing mechanism 4, the vertical moving mechanism 5 and the reciprocating mechanism 12 are cylinders or oil hydraulic cylinders; the rotating base 9 is a stepping motor, or a connecting rod pair driven by an air cylinder or an oil hydraulic cylinder.
The present invention provides a horizontal edge grinding machine for optical lens, which comprises an automatic loading and unloading system for optical lens of the horizontal edge grinding machine.
The working principle and the working process of the invention are as follows:
as shown in fig. 1 to 8, after the self-test is completed, the method of the present invention is started and then works according to the following steps:
1. placing an optical lens to be polished in a conical cavity 2B of a long-strip-shaped material tray 2 and automatically centering, then integrally taking and stacking the optical lens and the material tray 2 in a material guide groove 3, controlling a piston rod 4B of a cylinder 4 to retract by a controller, driving a ratchet mechanism 4C at the top end of the piston rod 4B to be clamped, enabling a feeding push rod 4A to clamp a feeding groove or a feeding hole on the lower surface of the material tray 2A, and pulling out the material tray 2 and the optical lens to be polished in the material tray 2 to a feeding and discharging position outside a tray outlet 3A; and then the piston rod 4B of the control cylinder 4 extends, the feeding push rod 4A enables the ratchet mechanism 4C at the top end of the piston rod 4B to rotate due to the blocking of the material tray 2, the feeding push rod 4A rotates a certain angle along with the material tray 2 to be separated from the material tray, and then the feeding push rod 4A moves to the lower part of the next conical cavity 2B of the material tray 2 along with the piston rod 4B to be ready, so that the feeding process of the material tray 2 of the optical lens to be edge-polished is completed.
2. After the optical lens to be ground in the tray 2 is conveyed to a loading and unloading position, the controller controls the piston rod 5B of the cylinder 5 to extend out, so as to drive the sliding block 7B to slide downwards along the guide groove or guide rod of the guide frame 6, the rotating rod 7A moves downwards and rotates from the horizontal position to the vertical position under the action of the torsion spring 7D1 or the extension spring 7D2, finally, the suction disc I8 at the top end of the rotating rod 7A abuts against the lens to be ground in the tray 2, and the control valve I is controlled to enable the suction disc I8 to be communicated with a vacuum system to suck the lens to be ground; and then the piston rod 5B of the control cylinder 5 retracts to drive the sliding block 7B to move upwards along the guide groove or the guide rod of the guide frame 6, and when the rotating rod 7A moves to the top end, the rotating rod 7A rotates from the vertical position to the horizontal position due to the blocking of the stop dog 7C on the end surface, so that the material taking and reversing of the lens to be ground are completed.
3, the controller controls the reciprocating mechanism 12 to extend the moving end, then controls the rotary base 9 to rotate to enable the two-finger clamping jaws 11 on the mechanical arm 10 to rotate above the suction disc I8, then the reciprocating mechanism 12 retracts the moving end to enable the two-finger clamping jaws 11 to move to two sides of an optical lens of the suction disc I8, controls the two-finger clamping jaws 11 to clamp the optical lens on the suction disc I8, then cuts off a vacuum system connected with the suction disc I8, transfers the lens to be edged to the two-finger clamping jaws 11 (the middle of the connection of lens edging, the reciprocating mechanism 12 extends the moving end to enable the optical lens clamped by the two-finger clamping jaws 11 to abut against the suction disc II 14, then controls the control valve II to enable the suction disc II 14 to be communicated with the vacuum system, simultaneously controls the two-finger clamping jaws 11 to be loosened, transfers the lens to be edged to the suction disc II 14, transfers the grinded lens to the suction disc I8 by the two-finger clamping jaws 11, and then obtains the lens to be grinded from the suction disc II 14); then, the reciprocating mechanism 12 is controlled to move the two-finger clamping jaw 11 which clamps the mirror piece to be ground again to the edge grinding feeding position, then the rotary base 9 is controlled to rotate to enable the two-finger clamping jaw 11 on the mechanical arm 10 to rotate the mirror piece to the coaxial position of the grinding spindle, the reciprocating mechanism 12 is controlled to retract the moving end to enable the mirror piece to be abutted to the grinding head, the two-finger clamping jaw is loosened after the grinding ejector rod tightly abuts against the mirror piece on the grinding head, then the rotary base 9 is controlled to rotate to enable the mechanical arm 10 to return to the standby position, and the mirror piece to be ground feeding process is completed.
4. After edging is finished, the controller controls the rotary base 9 to rotate to enable the mechanical arm 10 to rotate the two-finger clamping jaws 11 to two sides of a ground lens on the grinding head, the two-finger clamping jaws 11 are controlled to clamp the ground lens and simultaneously loosen the grinding ejector rod, then the reciprocating mechanism 12 is controlled to extend the moving end to enable the lens to be separated from the grinding head, then the rotary base 9 is controlled to rotate to enable the mechanical arm 10 to rotate the ground lens on the two-finger clamping jaws 11 to be coaxial with the suction disc I8, then the reciprocating mechanism 12 is controlled to retract the moving end to enable the lens to be abutted to the suction disc I8, the suction disc I8 is connected with a vacuum system and loosens the two-finger clamping jaws 11, the ground lens is transferred to the suction disc I8, the ground lens rotates along with the suction disc I8 and moves downwards to be transferred to the material tray 2 below, and the ground lens discharging process is finished.
5. After the lens in current charging tray 2 has all ground, move in the receiving groove 15 under the promotion of a charging tray 2 at back, charging tray 2 removes and falls into receiving groove 15 completely in the time, trigger sensor starts 16 the height that makes receiving groove 15 move down a charging tray 2 of elevating system, make receiving groove 15 continue to accept next charging tray 2, treat that elevating system 16 descends when predetermineeing the height, trigger audible and visual alarm device and report to the police, wait for the staff, the staff starts 16 reset switch of elevating system, the staff of being convenient for that elevating system 16 rises takes out charging tray 2 in receiving groove 15, if the staff is in the future to reset then the whole device of automatic stop waits and continue to report to the police. The alarm of the last material tray in the material guide groove 3 is similar to the material receiving groove 15.
The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any changes or substitutions that can be easily conceived by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the present invention are included in the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.