CN114802938A

CN114802938A - Packaging device and method

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Publication number: CN114802938A
Application number: CN202110119003.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 姜凯; 傅强; 朱辰; 未杏龙
Original assignee: Beijing Sankuai Online Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Sankuai Online Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-01-28
Filing date: 2021-01-28
Publication date: 2022-07-29

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a packaging device and method, the packaging device comprises a frame, a conveying mechanism, a bag taking and opening mechanism, an article supply mechanism and a control assembly; the frame is provided with a storage station, a charging station and a sealing station for storing the paper packaging bags, and the storage station, the charging station and the sealing station are sequentially arranged along the conveying direction of the paper packaging bags; the bag taking and opening mechanism is used for conveying the paper packaging bag to the conveying mechanism from the storage station and opening the opening of the paper packaging bag in the conveying process; the conveying mechanism is used for conveying the paper packaging bags to a loading station and a sealing station in sequence; the article to be packaged supplied by the article supply mechanism falls into the paper packaging bag from the bag opening; a sealing mechanism is arranged at the sealing station; get bag opening mechanism, article feed mechanism, conveying mechanism, seal the mechanism and be connected with the control assembly electricity respectively to realized the automatic packing of paper packing bag to a certain extent, improved packing efficiency.

Description

Packaging device and method

Technical Field

The disclosure relates to the technical field of packaging of articles, in particular to a packaging device and method.

Background

When buying and selling goods, the merchant needs to pack the goods. The packing of article is carried out to the mode that prior art adopted artifical packing usually, promptly, struts the packing bag, adorns article to the packing bag in, seals the packing bag to the realization is to the packing of article.

However, with the rapid development of electronic commerce, the transaction amount of commodities is larger and larger, and when a large number of sales are encountered, the packing mode causes the labor intensity of operators to be larger and the packing efficiency to be lower.

Disclosure of Invention

To solve the above technical problem or at least partially solve the above technical problem, the present disclosure provides a packing apparatus and method.

In a first aspect, the present disclosure provides a packaging apparatus, including a frame, a conveying mechanism, a bag taking and opening mechanism, an article supply mechanism, and a control assembly;

the machine frame is provided with a storage station for storing paper packaging bags, a loading station for loading articles to be packaged into the paper packaging bags and a sealing station, and the storage station, the loading station and the sealing station are sequentially arranged along the conveying direction of the paper packaging bags; the storage station stores a plurality of paper packing bags which are arranged in a stacked manner, and the bag openings of all the paper packing bags are in the same direction;

the bag taking and opening mechanism is used for conveying the paper packaging bags from the storage station to the conveying mechanism and opening the bag openings of the paper packaging bags in the conveying process; the conveying mechanism is used for conveying the paper packaging bags to the loading station and the sealing station in sequence; the article supply mechanism is positioned above the loading station, so that the articles to be packaged supplied by the article supply mechanism fall into the paper packaging bag from the bag opening; a sealing mechanism for sealing the paper packaging bag filled with articles is arranged at the sealing station;

the bag taking and opening mechanism, the article supply mechanism, the conveying mechanism and the sealing mechanism are respectively electrically connected with the control assembly.

Optionally, a bag opening station is further arranged on the machine frame;

the bag opening station is located on a movement path of the paper packaging bag, and the bag taking and opening mechanism is used for opening the bag opening of the paper packaging bag.

Optionally, the bag taking and opening mechanism comprises a driving assembly, a first fitting piece capable of taking the paper packaging bag from the storage station, and a second fitting piece matched with the first fitting piece to open the bag opening;

the second matching piece is located at the bag opening station, the driving assembly can drive the first matching piece to move between the storage station and the bag opening station so as to open the bag opening, and the paper packaging bag with the opened bag opening is transmitted to the conveying mechanism.

Optionally, the first fitting piece is a first vacuum chuck, the second fitting piece is a second vacuum chuck, the first vacuum chuck and the second vacuum chuck can be adsorbed on the two opposite sides of the bag opening to open the bag opening.

Optionally, the bag opening station is located above the storage station;

and/or, open bag station department and be provided with the gas blow pipe, the gas blow pipe with control assembly connects, the paper packing bag remove extremely when opening the bag station, the mouth of blowing of gas blow pipe is located the top of sack, the gas blow pipe be used for to blow in the paper packing bag.

Optionally, the baling device further comprises a vibrating carding mechanism;

vibrations carding mechanism with the control assembly electricity is connected, vibrations carding mechanism is used for falling the article of treating the packing extremely drive in the paper packing bag after in the paper packing bag vibrations, in order to right article in the paper packing bag comb.

Optionally, the vibrating carding mechanism is arranged on the conveying mechanism;

the paper packaging bag conveying mechanism is characterized in that a supporting table used for supporting the paper packaging bag is arranged on the conveying mechanism, and the vibration carding mechanism is located below the supporting table and drives the supporting table to vibrate.

Optionally, a sensor for detecting the height of the article falling into the paper packaging bag is arranged at the loading station;

the sensor is electrically connected with the control assembly, and the control assembly is used for controlling the vibration carding mechanism to work when the sensor detects that the height of the article exceeds the packaging line of the paper packaging bag, so that the position of the article in the paper packaging bag is lower than the packaging line through vibration.

Optionally, a bag opening retaining mechanism is arranged at the charging station;

the bag opening and holding mechanism is located below the article supply mechanism and electrically connected with the control assembly, and the bag opening and holding mechanism is used for pulling the bag opening of the paper packaging bag when the paper packaging bag moves to the loading station, so that the bag opening is kept in an open state.

Optionally, the bag opening and holding mechanism comprises a driving piece, a third vacuum chuck and a fourth vacuum chuck, wherein the third vacuum chuck and the fourth vacuum chuck are capable of being adsorbed on two opposite sides of the opening of the paper packaging bag;

the driving piece is used for driving the third vacuum chuck and the fourth vacuum chuck to move relatively so as to pull the bag opening open.

Optionally, the article feeding mechanism comprises a receiving hopper;

the top of receiving the hopper has the feed inlet, the bottom of receiving the hopper has the discharge gate, the bore of discharge gate is less than the opening bore of paper package bag under the state of opening.

Optionally, the bag opening of the paper packaging bag is placed at the storage station in an upward manner;

and/or at least two storage racks used for storing paper packaging bags with different sizes are arranged on the storage station, and one bag taking and opening mechanism selects one bag to take the bag from the storage rack.

Optionally, the seal station department still is provided with the printer, the printer with the control assembly electricity is connected, the printer is used for printing the article label, the article label has the corresponding information of the article of packing on.

Optionally, a label information checker is further disposed at the sealing station, the label information checker is electrically connected with the control component, and the label information checker is used for checking correctness of information on the article label.

In a second aspect, the present disclosure provides a method for packaging by using the packaging apparatus as described above, the method comprising:

taking a paper packaging bag at a storage station through a bag taking and opening mechanism, and transmitting the paper packaging bag to a conveying mechanism, wherein a bag opening of the paper packaging bag is opened in the transmission process;

conveying the paper packaging bag with the opened bag opening to a loading station through a conveying mechanism so that the to-be-packaged articles supplied by an article supply mechanism fall into the paper packaging bag;

and conveying the paper packaging bag containing the articles to a sealing station so as to seal the paper packaging bag through a sealing mechanism of the sealing station.

Compared with the prior art, the technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the disclosure has the following advantages:

the packing device and the packing method provided by the disclosure are characterized in that a rack, a conveying mechanism, a bag taking and opening mechanism, an article supply mechanism and a control component are arranged, a paper packing bag storage station, a loading station and a sealing station are sequentially arranged on the rack along the conveying direction of a paper packing bag, when the packing is carried out, the bag taking and opening mechanism is controlled by the control component to work, the bag taking and opening mechanism is enabled to convey the paper packing bag from the storage station to the conveying mechanism, the bag opening of the paper packing bag is opened in the conveying process, the conveying mechanism is controlled by the control component to convey the paper packing bag with the opened bag opening to the loading station, as the article supply mechanism is arranged above the loading station, when the paper packing bag moves to the loading station, the article supply mechanism supplies articles to be packed into the paper packing bag, namely, the articles to be packed supplied by the article supply mechanism fall into the paper packing bag from the bag opening, then the control assembly controls the conveying mechanism to convey the paper packaging bags filled with the articles to the sealing station, and the sealing mechanism at the sealing station seals the paper packaging bags filled with the articles, so that the automatic packaging of the articles by the paper packaging bags is realized to a certain extent, the labor intensity of operators is greatly reduced, and the packaging efficiency is improved. In addition, before the paper packing bag is conveyed to the charging station, the bag taking and opening mechanism opens the bag opening of the paper packing bag, so that the paper packing bag can be charged immediately when reaching the charging station without waiting, and when the sales order is more, the paper packing bag at the charging station can be used for containing articles, and meanwhile, the bag taking and opening mechanism can be used for simultaneously carrying out the bag taking and opening action of the next single paper packing bag, so that when the sales order is more, the packaging continuity of the whole packaging device can be ensured, and the whole packaging efficiency is further improved.

Drawings

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

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments or technical solutions in the prior art of the present disclosure, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without inventive exercise.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a housing of a packaging apparatus according to an embodiment of the disclosure;

fig. 2 is a schematic perspective view of a packaging apparatus according to an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a rear view corresponding to FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a left side view corresponding to FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural view of a packaging device according to an embodiment of the disclosure when a paper packaging bag is at a storage station;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural view of a packaging device according to an embodiment of the disclosure when a paper packaging bag is conveyed to a loading station;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a packaging device according to an embodiment of the disclosure when a paper packaging bag with a filled article is conveyed to a sealing station;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural view of a paper packaging bag according to an embodiment of the present disclosure when a bag opening is opened.

Fig. 9 is a schematic structural view of a paper packaging bag according to an embodiment of the present disclosure when a bag opening is not completely opened.

Wherein, 1, a frame; 10. paper packaging bags; 100. a bag opening; 101. packaging the wires; 11. storing the station; 111. a storage rack; 12. a bag opening station; 13. a loading station; 14. a sealing station; 15. a housing; 151. an outlet; 16. a guide rail; 2. a bag taking and opening mechanism; 21. a drive assembly; 22. a first mating member; 23. a second mating member; 24. an air blowing pipe; 3. a conveying mechanism; 31. a support table; 32. a fifth vacuum chuck; 4. an article supply mechanism; 41. a receiving hopper; 411. a feed inlet; 412. a discharge port; 42. a chute; 5. a sealing mechanism; 6. a printer; 7. a control component; 8. vibrating the carding mechanism; 9. a bag opening holding mechanism; 91. a third vacuum chuck; 92. and a fourth vacuum chuck.

Detailed Description

In order that the above objects, features and advantages of the present disclosure may be more clearly understood, aspects of the present disclosure will be further described below. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments of the present disclosure may be combined with each other without conflict.

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present disclosure, but the present disclosure may be practiced in other ways than those described herein; it is to be understood that the embodiments disclosed in the specification are only a few embodiments of the present disclosure, and not all embodiments.

The prior art adopts artifical packing mode to carry out the packing of article usually, and when the transaction volume of commodity was great, artifical packing mode can lead to operating personnel intensity of labour great, and packing efficiency is lower. Therefore, the embodiment provides the packing device and the packing method, which can realize automatic packing of articles to a certain extent and improve packing efficiency.

The packaging device and method are described in detail below with specific embodiments:

the present embodiment provides a packaging apparatus adapted to package articles through a paper packaging bag (i.e., a paper bag).

Referring to fig. 1 to 9, the packing apparatus includes: the automatic bag opening and taking machine comprises a frame 1, a conveying mechanism 3, a bag taking and opening mechanism 2, an article supply mechanism 4 and a control assembly 7.

The machine frame 1 is provided with a storage station 11 for storing the paper packaging bag 10, a charging station 13 for charging the to-be-packaged articles into the paper packaging bag 10 and a sealing station 14, and the storage station 11, the charging station 13 and the sealing station 14 are sequentially arranged along the conveying direction of the paper packaging bag 10.

The bag taking and opening mechanism 2 is used for conveying the paper packaging bags 10 from the storage station 11 to the conveying mechanism 3, and opening the bag openings 100 of the paper packaging bags 10 in the conveying process. It will be appreciated that the paper bags 10 stored at the storage station 11 are in a collapsed condition, i.e. the mouth 100 is in an unopened condition.

The conveying mechanism 3 is used for conveying the paper packaging bags 10 to a loading station 13 and a sealing station 14 in sequence. The article supply mechanism 4 is positioned above the loading station 13, so that the articles to be packaged supplied by the article supply mechanism 4 fall into the paper packaging bag 10 from the bag opening 100; a sealing mechanism 5 for sealing the paper packaging bag 10 containing the articles to be packaged is arranged at the sealing station 14; the bag taking and opening mechanism 2, the article supply mechanism 4, the conveying mechanism 3 and the sealing mechanism 5 are respectively electrically connected with the control component 7, that is, the control mechanism is used for controlling the bag taking and opening mechanism 2, the article supply mechanism 4, the conveying mechanism 3 and the sealing mechanism 5 to work, and automatic packaging is realized.

It can be understood that the bag taking, bag opening, bag filling and bag sealing are carried out in sequence and are positioned at different stations in the whole packaging process.

When the paper packaging bag is packaged, the bag taking and opening mechanism 2 is controlled to work through the control assembly 7, the bag taking and opening mechanism 2 takes the paper packaging bag 10 from the storage station 11, then the paper packaging bag 10 is opened, and the opened paper packaging bag 10 is conveyed to the conveying mechanism 3. The paper packaging bag 10 with the bag opening 100 opened is conveyed to the loading station 13 by the conveying mechanism 3, and when the paper packaging bag 10 is located at the loading station 13, namely the paper packaging bag 10 is located right below the article supply mechanism 4 at the moment. It will be appreciated that the article supply mechanism 4 is connected to an upstream device which feeds the articles to be packed to the article supply mechanism 4, and that when the paper bag is moved to the filling station 13, the article supply mechanism 4 above the filling station 13 supplies the articles to be packed into the paper packaging bag 10, and the articles to be packed fall from the mouth 100 into the paper packaging bag 10. Then the conveying mechanism 3 conveys the paper packaging bag 10 containing the articles to a sealing station 14, and the control component 7 controls the sealing mechanism 5 to seal the paper packaging bag 10, so that the packaging of the articles is completed.

In a specific implementation, as shown in fig. 1, the packaging apparatus may further include a housing 15, the frame 1 is located in the housing 15, and an outlet 151 is provided at a position of the housing 15 corresponding to the sealing mechanism 5, so that the conveying mechanism 3 sends out the packaged paper packaging bag 10 through the outlet 151. Specifically, a downstream device is located at the outlet 151, which delivers the baled paper bags to a designated location. That is, the packaging apparatus can achieve flexible interfacing between upstream and downstream equipment.

In some embodiments, the sealing mechanism 5 may be embodied as an automatic multi-way stapler having a multi-way staple set, for example, 4 to 7 rows of staple sets may be provided to achieve multi-position fixing of the bag opening 100, as shown in fig. 2 and 3. The automatic multi-path stapler can temporarily store 1000 staple needles, and the staple operation time is less than 2 seconds, so that the packaging requirement under large sales volume can be met. For example, as shown in fig. 2, the sealing mechanism 5 specifically includes a five-way staple set.

The packaging device is particularly applicable to take-away packaging, such as packaging of medicines, for example. When a take-out order is present, an upstream device (which may be, for example, a navigation robot, a conveyor line, or the like) conveys the pharmaceutical product of the cassette package corresponding to the order to the article supply mechanism 4. The bag taking and opening mechanism 2 takes a bag from the storage station 11, opens the bag opening 100, and then conveys the paper packaging bag 10 with the bag opening 100 opened to the loading station 13 through the conveying mechanism 3, the article supply mechanism 4 enables the boxed medicine to fall into the paper packaging bag 10 below the article supply mechanism, after the paper packaging bag is loaded, the conveying mechanism 3 conveys the paper packaging bag 10 containing the boxed medicine to the sealing station 14, the sealing mechanism 5 seals the bag opening 100 of the paper packaging bag 10, the conveying mechanism 3 outputs the packed boxed medicine, and the packed packaging bag is conveyed to a designated position through downstream equipment, so that the automatic packing of the boxed medicine is realized.

It should be noted that the packaging device provided in this embodiment is not limited to packaging of boxed medicine, and may also be applied to other different types of materials that can be packaged with paper bags, such as bagged fruit, bagged vegetables, boxed fruit, books, clothes, etc., and may also be used to pack different types of articles, so that the packaging device may be applied to automatic packaging of various types of products and materials.

During specific implementation, a plurality of paper packing bags 10 can be stored in advance in the storage station 11, and the plurality of paper packing bags 10 can be stacked on the storage station 11, so that the continuity of the whole packing process can be ensured when a sales order is more. Wherein, the bag mouths of a plurality of paper packing bags 10 can be oriented in the same direction, so as to improve the packing efficiency.

The packing device provided by the embodiment comprises a rack 1, a conveying mechanism 3, a bag taking and opening mechanism 2, an article supplying mechanism 4 and a control component 7, wherein a storage station 11, a loading station 13 and a sealing station 14 of a paper packing bag 10 are sequentially arranged on the rack 1 along the conveying direction of the paper packing bag 10, when packing is performed, the control component 7 controls the bag taking and opening mechanism 2 to work, so that the bag taking and opening mechanism 2 conveys the paper packing bag 10 from the storage station 11 to the conveying mechanism 3, the bag opening 100 of the paper packing bag 10 is opened in the conveying process, the control component 7 controls the conveying mechanism 3 to convey the paper packing bag 10 with the opened bag opening to the loading station 13, and as the article supplying mechanism 4 is arranged above the loading station 13, when the paper packing bag 10 moves to the loading station 13, the article supplying mechanism 4 supplies articles to be packed into the paper packing bag 10, that is, the article to be packed supplied by the article supply mechanism 4 falls into the paper packing bag 10 through the bag opening 100, then the control component 7 controls the conveying mechanism 3 to convey the paper packing bag 10 containing the article to the sealing station 14, and the sealing mechanism 5 at the sealing station 14 seals the paper packing bag 10 containing the article, so that the automatic packing of the article by using the paper packing bag 10 is realized to a certain extent, the labor intensity of operators is greatly reduced, and the packing efficiency is improved.

In addition, before the paper packaging bags 10 are conveyed to the loading station 13, the bag opening and taking mechanism 2 opens the bag openings 100 of the paper packaging bags 10, so that the paper packaging bags 10 can be immediately filled with medicine when reaching the loading station 13 without waiting, and when a large number of sales orders exist, the paper packaging bags 10 of the loading station 13 can be filled with the goods, and simultaneously the bag opening and taking mechanism 2 can simultaneously perform the bag opening and taking action of the next single paper packaging bag 10, namely, when the paper packaging bag of the previous single paper packaging bag is filled with the goods to be packaged at the loading station 13, the bag opening and taking mechanism 2 takes the single paper packaging bag from the storage station 11 and opens the paper bag, when the goods filled in the previous single paper packaging bag leave the loading station 13, the paper bag opened next single paper bag immediately reaches the loading station 13 to be packaged at the next time, so that when a large number of sales orders exist, the packaging continuity of the whole packaging device can be ensured, and the overall packaging efficiency is further improved.

The packing apparatus that this embodiment provided can realize the automatic packing to article under unmanned little storehouse scene, and broken through the article class restriction of handing-over commodity to a certain extent.

Preferably, at least two storage shelves 111 for storing paper bags 10 of different sizes may be disposed at the storage station 11, and the bag taking and opening mechanism 2 selects one bag from the storage shelf 111. At least two storage shelves 111 may be arranged side by side at the storage station 11. Illustratively, referring to fig. 2 to 4, the storage station 11 has two storage shelves 111 thereon, and the two storage shelves 111 respectively store paper packaging bags 10 of different sizes, for example, the sizes of the paper bags of the two sizes are respectively: 1)11cm by 18cm by 32cm, wherein the unfolded thickness is 11 cm; 2)15cm 23cm 40cm, wherein the developed thickness is 15 cm. The two storage shelves 111 may be arranged horizontally or vertically side by side. The control component 7 can control the bag taking and opening mechanism 2 to take the bag on which storage rack 111 according to the number of the articles to be packaged, so that the packaging device is more flexible to use.

Referring to fig. 8 and 9, due to the characteristics of the paper packaging bag 10, in the folded state, the bottom thickness of the paper packaging bag 10 is greater than the upper thickness, for example, the bottom thickness of the paper packaging bag 10 is 4 times of the upper thickness, and if a plurality of paper packaging bags 10 are horizontally stacked, there is a possibility that the paper packaging bags will topple when the number of the paper packaging bags reaches a certain value. Based on this, in some embodiments, the paper bags 10 are stored vertically at the storage station 11, i.e., the mouth 100 of the paper bags 10 is placed facing upward at the storage station 11. Specifically, a push plate for preventing the paper packaging bag 10 from toppling over is provided at a position of the storage rack 111 facing the bag-taking side. The storage rack bottom has the conveyer belt, and the conveyer belt can drive the storage rack and remove to get the bag from paper bale bag material loading position, then drive the storage rack again and remove to storage station 11 after getting the bag.

In addition, when the paper packaging bag 10 is folded, two opposite main bag surfaces of the paper packaging bag 10 may be both single-layer structures, or may be double-layer or three-layer or more structures folded together, so that the capacity of the paper packaging bag can be increased, and the space of the storage station 11 does not need to be increased.

With reference to fig. 2 to 5, in detail, the frame 1 is further provided with a bag opening station 12, the bag opening station 12 is located on a movement path of the paper packaging bag 10, and the bag taking and opening mechanism 2 opens a bag opening 100 of the paper packaging bag 10 at the bag opening station 12. That is, in this embodiment, the bag taking and opening mechanism 2 first takes a bag from the storage station 11, then conveys the paper-based packaging bag to the bag opening station 12, and performs bag opening work at the bag opening station 12 to open the bag opening 100, and then conveys the paper-based packaging bag with the bag opening 100 opened to the conveying mechanism 3, and conveys the paper-based packaging bag to the loading station 13 and the sealing station 14 in sequence through the conveying mechanism 3. Of course, in other implementations, the bag taking and opening mechanism 2 may also open the bag opening 100 at the same time as the bag is taken.

Referring to fig. 2 and 3, the bag taking and opening mechanism 2 may specifically include: a drive assembly 21, a first mating member 22 for accessing the paper bags 10 from the storage station 11, and a second mating member 23 for mating with the first mating member 22 to open the mouth 100. Specifically, the second fitting member 23 is located at the bag opening station 12, and the driving assembly 21 can drive the first fitting member 22 to move between the storage station 11 and the bag opening station 12 to open the bag opening 100 and transfer the paper packaging bag 10 with the bag opening 100 opened to the conveying mechanism 3.

The first fitting 22 may be a first vacuum cup, the second fitting 23 may be a second vacuum cup, and the first vacuum cup and the second vacuum cup may be attached to two opposite sides of the bag opening 100 to open the bag opening 100. Through setting up first fitting piece 22 and second fitting piece 23 as vacuum chuck, not only can realize its reliable absorption to paper package bag, and can not harm paper package bag.

In particular, the control assembly 7 comprises a vacuum pump, which may be in particular a silent vacuum pump, and an air compressor, which may be in particular a silent air compressor. A control cabinet may be provided with the vacuum pump and the air compressor disposed within the control cabinet. That is, the overall control of the present embodiment may specifically be air path control. Wherein, the first vacuum chuck and the second vacuum chuck are connected with the control component 7 through air pipes. When the paper packaging bag opening device is used, the driving assembly 21 drives the first vacuum chuck to move towards the storage station 11, so that the first vacuum chuck sucks the paper packaging bag 10 from the storage station 11, specifically, the first vacuum chuck is adsorbed on one side of the bag opening 100 of the paper packaging bag 10, then the driving assembly 21 drives the first vacuum chuck adsorbed with the paper packaging bag 10 to move towards the bag opening station 12 until the first vacuum chuck is opposite to the second vacuum chuck, so that the first vacuum chuck and the paper packaging bag 10 are controlled to move towards the second vacuum chuck, so that the second vacuum chuck is adsorbed on the other side of the bag opening 100 of the paper packaging bag 10, namely, the first vacuum chuck and the second vacuum chuck are adsorbed on two opposite sides of the bag opening 100 of the paper packaging bag 10, then the first vacuum chuck moves towards the direction far away from the second vacuum chuck, so that the bag opening 100 is pulled open, and then the second vacuum chuck is released, the driving assembly 21 drives the first vacuum chuck adsorbing the opened paper packaging bag 10 to move towards the conveying mechanism 3, so that the opened paper packaging bag 10 is placed on the conveying mechanism 3 and is further conveyed to the loading station 13 through the conveying mechanism 3.

Of course, the first mating member 22 and the second mating member 23 may also be clips, the first mating member 22 may clip one side of the paper packaging bag 10 to clip the paper packaging bag 10 away from the storage station 11, and the first mating member 22 and the second mating member 23 clamp two sides of the bag opening 100 of the paper packaging bag 10, so as to pull the bag opening 100 open.

Illustratively, the driving assembly 21 may specifically include: a left and right driving component for driving the first matching component 22 to move left and right, and an up and down driving component for driving the first matching component 22 to move up and down. The left and right driving components may include, for example, a screw and a moving member linearly movable along the screw, and the first mating member 22 is disposed on the moving member. The upper and lower driving assembly comprises a fixed seat, the screw rod is arranged on the fixed seat, a guide rail is arranged on the machine frame 1, and the fixed seat can move up and down along the guide rail so as to drive the first fitting piece 22 to move up and down.

In some embodiments, the bag opening station 12 may be disposed above the storage station 11, and in particular, after the first vacuum cups suck the paper packaging bags 10, the driving assembly 21 drives the first vacuum cups sucking the paper packaging bags 10 to move upwards, so as to reach the bag opening station 12. By arranging the bag opening station 12 above the storage station 11, the space occupied by the packing device in the horizontal direction can be saved to some extent.

As shown in fig. 2 to 4, a blowing pipe 24 is arranged at the bag opening station 12, the blowing pipe 24 is connected with the control component 7, when the paper packaging bag 10 moves to the bag opening station 12, a blowing port of the blowing pipe 24 is located above the bag opening 100, and the blowing pipe 24 is used for blowing air into the paper packaging bag 10, so that the paper packaging bag 10 is opened more smoothly and more fully.

Wherein, a guide rail 16 is arranged on the frame 1, and the conveying mechanism 3 can move along the guide rail 16 to convey the paper packaging bags 10 with the opened bag mouths 100 to the loading station 13 and the sealing station 14 in sequence.

Specifically, conveying mechanism 3 can set up fifth vacuum chuck 32 including a supporting bench 31 that is used for supporting paper package bag 10 on supporting bench 31, and when paper package bag 10 was located a supporting bench 31, fifth vacuum chuck 32 adsorbs on the bottom surface of paper package bag 10 to can improve the stability of paper package bag 10 in the packaging process, improve packing efficiency.

Continuing to refer to fig. 6, further, the packaging device further comprises a vibration carding mechanism 8, the vibration carding mechanism 8 is electrically connected with the control component 7, and the vibration carding mechanism 8 is used for driving the paper packaging bag 10 to vibrate after the articles to be packaged fall into the paper packaging bag 10, so as to comb the articles in the paper packaging bag 10.

The discharge of items dropped into the paper packaging bag 10 can be made more orderly and compact by the shock. For example, when the article to be packaged falls into the paper bag packaging bag, the height of the article is higher than the packaging line 101 of the paper packaging bag 10, and when the article moves to the sealing station 14, poor sealing effect or sealing failure may be caused. After the paper packaging bag 10 filled with articles is vibrated by the driving of the vibration carding mechanism 8, the articles in the paper packaging bag 10 become neat and compact, and then the height of the articles is lower than that of the packaging line 101, so that the sealing standard is achieved, the sealing effect is ensured, and the feeling of a purchaser can be improved.

In a specific implementation, a sensor for detecting the height of the articles falling into the paper packaging bag 10 may be provided at the loading station 13. The sensor is electrically connected with the control component 7, and the control component 7 is used for controlling the vibration carding mechanism 8 to work when the sensor detects that the height of the article exceeds the packaging line of the paper packaging bag 10, so that the position of the article in the paper packaging bag 10 is lower than the packaging line through vibration, namely the sealing standard is reached. In particular, the sensor may be located, for example, flush with the encapsulation line 101, and the sensor may be an infrared sensor.

In some embodiments, the vibration carding mechanism 8 is disposed on the conveying mechanism 3, specifically below the supporting platform 31, and the control component 7 controls the vibration carding mechanism 8 to vibrate, so as to drive the supporting platform 31 to vibrate, and further drive the paper packaging bag 10 to vibrate. Illustratively, the vibration carding mechanism 8 specifically comprises an air cylinder, and the control component 7 controls a piston rod of the air cylinder to reciprocate up and down, so as to realize vibration.

With continued reference to fig. 2 to 7, a bag opening holding mechanism 9 is disposed at the loading station 13, the bag opening holding mechanism 9 is located below the article supply mechanism 4, and the bag opening holding mechanism 9 is electrically connected to the control assembly 7 and is used for pulling the bag opening 100 of the paper packaging bag 10 when the paper packaging bag 10 moves to the loading station 13, so as to keep the bag opening 100 in an open state. Open bag retaining mechanism 9 through the setting for the material falls to the in-process of paper baling bag 10, sack 100 keeps opening the state, thereby guarantees the smooth and easy entering of article, avoids the material to scatter to paper baling bag 10 outsidely, further improves packing efficiency and packing effect, guarantees the normal operating of whole device.

In particular, the bag opening holding mechanism 9 may include: a driving piece, a third vacuum suction cup 91 and a fourth vacuum suction cup 92 which can be adsorbed at two opposite sides of the opening of the paper packing bag 10. The driving member is used for driving the third vacuum chuck 91 and the fourth vacuum chuck 92 to move relatively, so as to pull the bag opening 100 open. For example, in some embodiments, the third vacuum chuck 91 is fixed on the frame 1, and the fourth vacuum chuck 92 can move toward the third vacuum chuck 91 or away from the third vacuum chuck 91 under the driving of the driving member.

The article supply mechanism 4 includes a receiving hopper 41, a feeding port 411 is provided at a top end of the receiving hopper 41, and a discharging port 412 is provided at a bottom end of the receiving hopper 41. That is, the object to be packed enters the receiving hopper 41 through the feeding hole 411, and then falls out of the discharging hole 412, and further enters the paper packing bag 10. Preferably, the diameter of the discharge hole 412 of the receiving hopper 41 is smaller than the opening diameter of the paper packaging bag 10 in the opened state. Therefore, the articles can be ensured to smoothly enter the paper packaging bag 10, and the articles are prevented from scattering to the outer side of the paper packaging bag 10. Specifically, the hopper 41 may be formed in an inverted trapezoidal shape or an inverted conical shape.

During specific implementation, a chute 42 is further arranged above the receiving hopper 41, the chute 42 is arranged in a downward inclined manner, the outlet end of the chute 42 corresponds to the feeding hole 411 of the receiving hopper 41, and articles to be packaged provided by upstream equipment slide down into the receiving hopper 41 through the chute 42. The specific inclination angle of the chute can be set according to actual requirements.

In some embodiments, a printer 6 is further provided at the sealing station 14, the printer 6 is electrically connected to the control component 7, and the printer 6 is used for printing an article label with corresponding information of the packaged article. The printer 6 may be, for example, a thermal label printer. The printing width of the printer 6 may be, for example, 100 mm. In a specific implementation, the control component 7 may be specifically electrically connected to the cloud server, and when the paper packaging bag 10 containing the articles moves to the sealing station 14, the printer 6 prints the article labels corresponding to the packaging list, where the information corresponding to the articles on the article labels may include, for example, the number of the articles, the names of the articles, the distribution addresses, and the contact information of the selling parties.

In particular, the label outlet of the printer 6 is specifically opposite to the sealing mechanism 5, and when the sealing mechanism 5 seals and orders the bag opening 100, the label of the object discharged from the label outlet can be simultaneously bound on the paper packing bag 10. Of course, the article label may be affixed to the paper packaging bag 10 by means of an adhesive. By providing the printer 6 at the sealing station 14, the degree of automation of the packing can be further improved.

In addition, a label information checker (not shown in the figure) is further disposed at the sealing station 14, and the label information checker is electrically connected with the control component 7 and used for checking correctness of information on the article label. For example, a bar code or a two-dimensional code representing corresponding information of the article is provided on the article label, and the label information checker judges whether the printed content is correct by reading the bar code or the two-dimensional code. If the printing is correct, the conveying mechanism 3 outputs the packed paper packaging bags 10 to downstream equipment. If the printed content is wrong, an incorrect packaging placing position can be specifically arranged on the rack 1, and the corresponding paper packaging bag 10 containing the articles is temporarily stored to the incorrect packaging placing position for subsequent processing.

The present embodiment also provides a packing method, which may be performed by part or all of the packing apparatus provided in the above embodiments.

The packing method of the embodiment specifically includes:

the method comprises the following steps: the paper packaging bags 10 are taken at a storage station 11 by the bag taking and opening mechanism 2, and the paper packaging bags 10 are conveyed to the conveying mechanism 3, wherein the bag openings 100 of the paper packaging bags 10 are opened in the conveying process.

Step two: the paper packaging bag 10 with the bag opening 100 opened is conveyed to the loading station 13 by the conveying mechanism 3, so that the articles to be packaged supplied by the article supply mechanism 4 fall into the paper packaging bag 10.

Step three: the paper packaging bag 10 containing the articles is conveyed to a sealing station 14, so that the paper packaging bag 10 is sealed through a sealing mechanism 5 of the sealing station 14.

In the packing method provided by this embodiment, the control component 7 controls the bag taking and opening mechanism 2 to work, so that the bag taking and opening mechanism 2 transfers the paper packaging bags 10 from the storage station 11 to the conveying mechanism 3, and the bag mouths 100 of the paper packaging bags 10 are opened during the transfer process, the control component 7 controls the conveying mechanism 3 to convey the opened paper packaging bags 10 to the loading station 13, because the article supply mechanism 4 is arranged above the loading station 13, when the paper packaging bags 10 move to the loading station 13, the article supply mechanism 4 supplies the to-be-packed articles to the paper packaging bags 10, that is, the to-be-packed articles supplied by the article supply mechanism 4 fall into the paper packaging bags 10 from the bag mouths 100, then the control component 7 controls the conveying mechanism 3 to convey the paper packaging bags 10 containing the articles to the sealing station 14, and the paper packaging bags 10 containing the articles are sealed by the sealing mechanism 5 at the sealing station 14, therefore, the automatic packing of the articles by the paper packing bag 10 is realized to a certain extent, the labor intensity of operators is greatly reduced, and the packing efficiency is improved. In addition, before the paper packing bag is conveyed to the charging station, the bag taking and opening mechanism opens the bag opening of the paper packing bag, so that the paper packing bag can be charged immediately when reaching the charging station without waiting, and when the sales order is more, the paper packing bag at the charging station can be used for containing articles, and meanwhile, the bag taking and opening mechanism can be used for simultaneously carrying out the bag taking and opening action of the next single paper packing bag, so that when the sales order is more, the packaging continuity of the whole packaging device can be ensured, and the whole packaging efficiency is further improved.

The specific implementation principle and other technical features are the same as those of the above embodiments, and specific reference may be made to the description of the above embodiments, which is not repeated herein.

It is noted that, in this document, relational terms such as "first" and "second," and the like, 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, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

The foregoing are merely exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, which enable those skilled in the art to understand or practice the present disclosure. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the disclosure. Thus, the present disclosure is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.

Claims

1. The packaging device is characterized by comprising a rack (1), a conveying mechanism (3), a bag taking and opening mechanism (2), an article supply mechanism (4) and a control assembly (7);

the packaging machine is characterized in that a storage station (11) for storing a paper packaging bag (10), a loading station (13) for loading articles to be packaged into the paper packaging bag (10) and a sealing station (14) are arranged on the rack (1), and the storage station (11), the loading station (13) and the sealing station (14) are sequentially arranged along the conveying direction of the paper packaging bag (10); the storage station (11) stores a plurality of paper packaging bags (10), the paper packaging bags (10) are arranged in a stacked mode, and the bag openings of all the paper packaging bags (10) are in the same direction;

the bag taking and opening mechanism (2) is used for conveying the paper packaging bags (10) from the storage station (11) to the conveying mechanism (3) and opening the bag openings of the paper packaging bags (10) in the conveying process; the conveying mechanism (3) is used for conveying the paper packaging bags (10) to the loading station (13) and the sealing station (14) in sequence; the article supply mechanism (4) is positioned above the loading station (13) so that the articles to be packaged supplied by the article supply mechanism (4) fall into the paper packaging bag (10) from the bag opening; a sealing mechanism (5) for sealing the paper packaging bag (10) filled with articles is arranged at the sealing station (14);

the bag taking and opening mechanism (2), the article supply mechanism (4), the conveying mechanism (3) and the sealing mechanism (5) are respectively and electrically connected with the control component (7).

2. The packaging device according to claim 1, characterized in that the frame (1) is further provided with a bag opening station (12);

the bag opening station (12) is located on a motion path of the paper packaging bag (10), and the bag taking and opening mechanism (2) is used for opening the bag opening station (12) to open the bag opening of the paper packaging bag (10).

3. Packaging unit as in claim 2, characterized in that said bag-removing and-opening mechanism (2) comprises a driving assembly (21), a first fitting member (22) for removing said paper bags (10) from said storage station (11), and a second fitting member (23) for cooperating with said first fitting member (22) to open said mouth;

the second matching piece (23) is positioned at the bag opening station (12), and the driving assembly (21) can drive the first matching piece (22) to move between the storage station (11) and the bag opening station (12) so as to open the opening of the bag and transfer the paper packaging bag (10) with the opened opening of the bag to the conveying mechanism (3).

4. Packing apparatus as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that the first cooperating member (22) is a first vacuum cup and the second cooperating member (23) is a second vacuum cup, the first and second vacuum cups being attachable to opposite sides of the bag mouth for opening the bag mouth.

5. The packaging device according to any one of claims 2 to 4, characterized in that the bag opening station (12) is located above the storage station (11);

and/or, it is provided with gas blow pipe (24) to open bag station (12) department, gas blow pipe (24) with control assembly (7) are connected, paper package bag (10) move extremely when opening bag station (12), the mouth of blowing of gas blow pipe (24) is located the top of sack, gas blow pipe (24) be used for to blow in paper package bag (10).

6. Packaging unit according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that it further comprises a vibrating comb mechanism (8);

vibrations carding mechanism (8) with control assembly (7) electricity is connected, vibrations carding mechanism (8) are used for waiting that the article of packing fall extremely in paper baling bag (10) interior back drives paper baling bag (10) vibrations, in order to right article in the paper baling bag (10) comb.

7. Packaging unit according to claim 6, characterized in that said vibrating comb means (8) are arranged on said conveyor means (3);

the paper packaging bag is characterized in that a supporting table (31) used for supporting the paper packaging bag (10) is arranged on the conveying mechanism (3), and the vibration carding mechanism (8) is located below the supporting table (31) to drive the supporting table (31) to vibrate.

8. Packaging unit according to claim 6, characterized in that a sensor for detecting the height of the articles falling into the paper packaging bag (10) is provided at the filling station (13);

the sensor with control assembly (7) electricity is connected, control assembly (7) are used for when the sensor detects article height surpasses packaging line (101) of paper package bag (10), control vibrations carding mechanism (8) work to make through vibrations the article position in paper package bag (10) is less than packaging line (101).

9. The packaging device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that an open bag holding mechanism (9) is provided at the filling station (13);

the bag opening and holding mechanism (9) is located below the article supply mechanism (4), the bag opening and holding mechanism (9) is electrically connected with the control component (7), and the bag opening and holding mechanism (9) is used for pulling the bag opening of the paper packaging bag (10) when the paper packaging bag (10) moves to the loading station (13) so as to keep the bag opening in an open state.

10. The packaging device of claim 9, wherein said bag opening holding mechanism (9) comprises a driving member, a third vacuum suction cup (91) and a fourth vacuum suction cup (92) which can be attached to opposite sides of the mouth of said paper packaging bag (10);

the driving piece is used for driving the third vacuum chuck (91) and the fourth vacuum chuck (92) to move relatively so as to pull the bag mouth open.

11. Packaging unit according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that said item supply means (4) comprise a receiving hopper (41);

the top end of the material receiving hopper (41) is provided with a feeding hole (411), the bottom end of the material receiving hopper (41) is provided with a discharging hole (412), and the caliber of the discharging hole (412) is smaller than the opening caliber of the paper packaging bag (10) in an open state.

12. Packaging unit as in any claim from 1 to 4, characterized in that said paper packaging bags (10) are placed with their mouths facing upwards at said storage station (11);

and/or at least two storage racks (111) used for storing paper packing bags (10) with different sizes are arranged on the storage station (11), and one bag taking and opening mechanism (2) selects one bag to take the bag from the storage rack (111).

13. The packaging device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that a printer (6) is further provided at the sealing station (14), the printer (6) is electrically connected with the control component (7), the printer (6) is used for printing an article label, and the article label has corresponding information of the packaged article thereon.

14. The packaging device according to claim 13, characterized in that a label information checker is further provided at the sealing station (14), the label information checker being electrically connected to the control component (7) and being configured to check the correctness of the information on the article label.

15. A method of packing by means of a packing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 14, characterized in that the method comprises: