CN114889888B - Hardware material multi-column parallel sorting assembly line - Google Patents

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CN114889888B
CN114889888B CN202210634240.1A CN202210634240A CN114889888B CN 114889888 B CN114889888 B CN 114889888B CN 202210634240 A CN202210634240 A CN 202210634240A CN 114889888 B CN114889888 B CN 114889888B
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陈建锌
莫胜
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Abstract

The invention provides a hardware material multi-column parallel sorting assembly line, which comprises: the material distributing units are used for feeding the hardware materials part by part and counting the feeding quantity; the packaging device is used for packaging the hardware materials; a feeding device; each material distributing unit is respectively arranged at the outer side of the feeding device; the type of the material distributing unit comprises a large material distributing unit and a small material distributing unit; the large material distributing unit and the small material distributing unit comprise a hopper, a feeding mechanism and a material distributing and conveying mechanism; the output ends of the material distribution conveying mechanisms of the large material distribution unit and the small material distribution unit are respectively provided with a counting module; the output ends of the material distribution conveying mechanisms of the large material distribution unit and the small material distribution unit are respectively arranged towards the feeding device; the output end of the feeding device is connected with the packaging device. The assembly line can realize automatic sorting, metering and packaging of hardware materials, can improve sorting efficiency and save labor cost, avoids error conditions of manual sorting, is safe and reliable, and has a simple structure and small occupied area.

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Hardware material multi-column parallel sorting assembly line
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of material packet sorting, in particular to a hardware material multi-column parallel sorting assembly line.
Background
When the custom furniture is shipped, the matched hardware in the order is required to be packaged and shipped to the home of the owner for product installation. The existing hardware sorting method basically adopts a manual sorting mode. Along with the continuous improvement of plate production line automation process, production efficiency is also higher and higher, traditional manual sorting line can't with automation line assorted in efficiency, and constitutes bigger manual sorting line through increasing the manpower and can cause the manpower cost to increase sharply. And manual operation errors can not be avoided, the working intensity of sorting personnel is high, the sorting error rate is high, and the hardware is put more, less or misplaced or missed.
Related hardware automatic sorting projects exist at home and abroad, however, because the hardware is various in variety, different in shape and large in size difference, and the number of hardware to be sorted for batch orders is huge, all the hardware automatic equipment needs to sweep a code for each hardware and feed and then sort one by one, so that the sorting efficiency is not high, and in order to adapt to hardware of various shapes and sizes, the sorting equipment is huge in occupied area, the sorting device is complex in structure and is not very expensive.
The existing custom furniture hardware sorting has the following characteristics: the supporting hardware in order, wherein the counting letter sorting of hardware count accounts for the vast majority, like a plurality of package screw, nut, board hold in the palm, trinity connecting piece, slide rail, drawer track, handle, hinge, support frame … these metal hardware's volume and weight are all not big, and among the supporting hardware of every order, this kind of metal hardware quantity accounts for the vast majority, if provide one kind and accomplish metal hardware letter sorting work to metal hardware automation letter sorting assembly line high efficiency, other non-metals and the special hardware of condition accomplish through secondary letter sorting line or sort under the line, improvement whole letter sorting efficiency that like this can be very big. But at present, no sorting pipeline of the type is available; therefore, it is needed to design a production line capable of realizing hardware sorting and having a simple structure.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the defects and shortcomings in the prior art, the invention aims to provide a hardware material multi-column parallel sorting assembly line; the assembly line can realize automatic sorting, metering and packaging of hardware materials, can improve sorting efficiency and save labor cost, avoids error conditions of manual sorting, is safe and reliable, and has a simple structure and small occupied area.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the invention is realized by the following technical scheme: a hardware material multi-column parallel sorting assembly line is characterized in that: comprising the following steps:
the material distributing units are used for feeding the hardware materials part by part and counting the feeding quantity;
the packaging device is used for packaging the hardware materials;
the feeding device is used for receiving the hardware materials output by each material distribution unit and conveying the hardware materials output by each material distribution unit to the packaging device;
each material distributing unit is respectively arranged at the outer side of the feeding device; the type of the material distributing unit comprises a large material distributing unit and a small material distributing unit; the large material distributing unit and the small material distributing unit comprise a hopper for storing the hardware materials, a feeding mechanism for moving the hardware materials out of the hopper part by utilizing the magnetic force, and a material distributing and conveying mechanism for conveying the hardware materials; the output ends of the material distribution conveying mechanisms of the large material distribution unit and the small material distribution unit are respectively provided with a counting module for detecting the number of the passed hardware materials; the output ends of the material distribution conveying mechanisms of the large material distribution unit and the small material distribution unit are respectively arranged towards the feeding device; the output end of the feeding device is connected with the packaging device.
Enterprises pack the hardware into a plurality of types of hardware materials according to the matching and types of products, so that the products after delivery are convenient to install; for example, a plurality of screws and nuts are packed in one piece of hardware material, and the hinges and screws required for installing the hinges are packed in one piece of hardware material; the hardware with larger partial volume does not need to be packaged by using a material package. The working principle of the sorting assembly line of the invention is as follows: dividing the hardware materials to be sorted into small hardware materials and large hardware materials according to the volume weight, wherein each small hardware material corresponds to a small material distributing unit for feeding, and each large hardware material corresponds to a large material distributing unit for feeding;
each large material distributing unit and each small material distributing unit respectively feed the hardware materials from the hopper part by part in parallel into a single row for transmission on the material distributing and conveying mechanism, and the hardware materials are counted by the counting module in the transmission process;
according to the types and the quantity of the hardware materials in the orders, controlling the corresponding large material distributing units and the corresponding small material distributing units to count the hardware materials of the corresponding types according to the quantity of the orders, then conveying the hardware materials to a material conveying device, and then conveying the hardware materials to a packaging device by the material conveying device; after all the hardware materials in the order are conveyed to the packaging device, the packaging device packages the hardware materials in the order, and the whole sorting process is completed.
According to the sorting assembly line, the hardware materials do not need to be pasted with labels or scanned for identification, the hardware materials are only required to be classified and placed in the hoppers of the large material distributing unit/the small material distributing unit, the types of the corresponding hardware materials in the order can be automatically sorted out to be required in quantity, and packaging is achieved; the sorting efficiency can be improved, the labor cost can be saved, and the error condition of manual sorting can be avoided; the equipment is safe and reliable, and the structure is simple and the occupied area is small; according to the invention, the hardware materials are grabbed by magnetic force to separate, so that most of automatic sorting, metering and packaging of the hardware materials can be realized.
Preferably, the feeding mechanism comprises a feeding magnetic disk body and a feeding magnetic disk rotating module; the feeding magnetic disk body is rotatably arranged at one side of the hopper through the feeding magnetic disk rotating module; and a plurality of feeding magnets are arranged on the surface of the feeding magnetic disk body, which is close to the hopper.
Preferably, the large material distributing unit further comprises a stirring mechanism; the stirring mechanism comprises a stirring magnetic disk body and a stirring magnetic disk rotating module; the structure of the large material distributing unit is as follows:
the middle partition board is arranged in the hopper, so that the hopper is divided into a buffer space and a feeding space which are distributed up and down; a sliding channel is reserved between the middle partition plate and the hopper at one side close to the material distribution conveying mechanism; the stirring magnetic disk body is rotatably arranged at one side of the hopper far away from the feeding mechanism through the stirring magnetic disk rotating module; a plurality of stirring magnets I are arranged on the surface of the stirring magnetic disk body, which is close to the hopper; the middle partition plate is provided with a feeding opening at the joint of the middle partition plate and the hopper, which is close to one side of the feeding mechanism, and the feeding opening is positioned on the horizontal projection of the feeding magnet rotating path.
The using method of the large material distributing unit hopper comprises the following steps: after pouring the hardware materials into the hopper, part of the hardware materials slide on the middle partition plate and then fall into the feeding space through the sliding-in channel, and part of the hardware materials stay above the middle partition plate due to friction force; the feeding mechanism utilizes magnetic force effect to adsorb and laminate the hardware material in the material loading space on the hopper lateral wall portion by portion, along with feeding mechanism's drive, by the magnetically adsorbed hardware material from the material loading space through the material loading opening, later output hopper, realize hardware material portion by portion material loading.
The stirring mechanism has the functions that: 1. the stirring mechanism is used for stirring the hardware materials in the feeding space to one side of the feeding opening under the action of magnetic force, the hardware materials close to one side of the feeding opening can be adsorbed and rotated towards the middle partition plate, after the hardware materials touch the bottom of the middle partition plate, the hardware materials break away from the magnetic force adsorption of the stirring mechanism and slide back to the bottom of the feeding space, so that the hardware materials close to one side of the feeding opening are ensured not to be accumulated together and are mutually blocked, and the feeding magnet is easier to successfully adsorb and drive the hardware materials to move; 2. the stirring mechanism can adsorb and drive the hardware materials on the middle partition plate into the feeding space part by part, and the hardware materials can be gradually supplemented into the feeding space while the hardware materials are taken away from the feeding space by the feeding mechanism, so that the number of the hardware materials in the feeding space is ensured not to be excessive and the gear is not broken.
Preferably, in the large material distributing unit, the hopper is connected with the material distributing and conveying mechanism through a material storing chute; the input end and the output end of the storage chute are respectively provided with a storage sensing module for detecting the quantity of hardware materials on the storage chute.
The storage sensing module has the advantages that: when the number of hardware materials in the material storage chute is smaller than the set material storage number, the feeding mechanism and the stirring mechanism start to work; when the number of the hardware materials in the material storage chute is not less than the set material storage number, the feeding mechanism and the stirring mechanism pause working. The design can suspend feed mechanism and rabbling mechanism work under the abundant circumstances of hardware material, can save the energy consumption, still can avoid hardware material to pile up in the storage chute owing to not in time send to feed conveying mechanism, influence the state of arranging of hardware material feed by feed. The acquisition of the number of the hardware materials in the material storage chute can be realized by arranging photoelectric sensing modules at the input end and the output end of the material storage chute.
Preferably, the middle partition plate gradually inclines downwards when extending from one end far away from the material distribution conveying mechanism to one end close to the material distribution conveying mechanism; the middle partition plate is provided with a coaming plate at the outer side of the feeding opening. The bounding wall can carry out space separation with the material loading opening with the space that is used for the five metals material loading and stores on the middle baffle, avoid the five metals material to collide and influence each other with the five metals material that adsorbs on the feed mechanism when pouring into the hopper.
Preferably, the small material distributing unit has the structure that:
the feeding magnetic disk body is further provided with a plurality of stirring magnets II on the surface close to the hopper; the distance between the feeding magnet and the rotation center of the feeding magnetic disk body is greater than the distance between the stirring magnet II and the rotation center of the feeding magnetic disk body. In the small material distributing unit, the rotation of the material feeding magnetic disk body can drive the material feeding magnet and the stirring magnet II to rotate at the same time; when the feeding magnet drives the feeding of the hardware materials, the stirring magnet II adsorbs and drives the hardware materials on the upper layer to realize stirring, so that the hardware materials are prevented from being mutually extruded, and the feeding magnet can adsorb and drive the feeding of the hardware materials more smoothly.
Preferably, the hopper is provided with a wedge-shaped space with a wide upper part and a narrow lower part; the bottom of the wedge-shaped space is arc-shaped. The wedge-shaped space bottom is narrow, can shorten the distance between five metals material and the hopper lateral wall, ensures that feed mechanism or feed mechanism and rabbling mechanism can adsorb the five metals material smoothly. The bottom of wedge space is circular-arc, and the five metals material can concentrate wedge space bottom, still can make the five metals material adsorb the baffle bottom after moving to touching by rabbling mechanism and slide wedge space bottom along the circular arc.
Preferably, the material distributing and conveying mechanism is divided into more than two stages of conveying units; the conveying units of all stages are sequentially arranged from front to back from one side close to the feeding device to one side close to the hopper; the conveying speed of the former stage conveying unit is greater than that of the latter stage conveying unit.
The input end of the front-stage conveying unit is opposite to the output end of the rear-stage conveying unit, and is positioned below the output end of the rear-stage conveying unit. After the hardware material moves to the output end of the next-stage conveying unit, the hardware material slides down from the next-stage conveying unit to the previous-stage conveying unit by means of self gravity; the distance between the front and rear hardware materials is increased by utilizing the conveying speed difference of the front and rear two-stage conveying units, so that the technical problems that the quantity statistics cannot be carried out or the quantity statistics is easy to make mistakes due to the lack of the distance between the front and rear hardware materials are solved.
Preferably, each hopper is respectively arranged on the frame; the bottom of the frame is provided with a guide roller; the guide rollers are supported on the ground by guide rails. The design has the advantages of being convenient for the position adjustment of each material distributing unit, and being simple and convenient to use.
Preferably, the device also comprises a lifting device for conveying the hardware materials from a low place to a high place; the lifting device is positioned between the packaging device and the feeding device. The lifting device can be used for conveying the hardware materials from a low place to a high place, so that the hardware materials can be conveniently conveyed into the packaging device.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages and beneficial effects:
1. according to the sorting assembly line, the hardware materials do not need to be pasted with labels or scanned for identification, the hardware materials are only required to be classified and placed in the hoppers of the large material distributing unit/the small material distributing unit, the types of the corresponding hardware materials in the order can be automatically sorted out to be required in quantity, and packaging is achieved; the sorting efficiency can be improved, the labor cost can be saved, and the error condition of manual sorting can be avoided; the equipment is safe and reliable, and the structure is simple and the occupied area is small; according to the invention, the hardware materials are grabbed by magnetic force to separate, so that most of automatic sorting, metering and packaging of the hardware materials can be realized;
2. the large material distributing unit and the small material distributing unit bear hardware materials with different sizes and different weights, can be suitable for sorting, metering and packaging of various hardware materials, and can be suitable for mass production of customized furniture;
3. according to the invention, the large material distribution unit can be used for feeding the hardware materials with slightly larger volume and slightly heavier mass, the hardware materials can be stirred to prevent the hardware materials from being blocked in the hopper, the hardware materials can be gradually supplemented into the feeding space, and the quantity of the hardware materials in the feeding space is ensured not to be excessive and the gear is not broken;
4. the invention uses the conveying speed difference of the front and rear two-stage conveying units to enlarge the distance between the front and rear hardware materials, and solves the technical problems that the quantity statistics cannot be carried out or the quantity statistics is easy to make mistakes due to the lack of the distance between the front and rear hardware materials.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a sorting line of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is one of the schematic structural views of the small sorting unit of the sorting line of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a second schematic view of the small dispensing unit of the sorting line of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is one of the schematic structural views of the large sorting unit of the sorting line of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a second schematic diagram of the large sorting unit of the sorting line of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of the structure of a large feed unit hopper of the sorting line of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a schematic view of the internal structure of a large feed unit hopper of the sorting line of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of the structure of a large feed unit feeding disk body of the sorting assembly line of the present invention;
FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of the structure of a small feed unit feeding disk body of the sorting assembly line of the present invention;
the device comprises a hopper 1, a middle partition plate 11, a sliding channel 12, a feeding port 13, a feeding space 14, a feeding opening 15, a coaming 16, a buffer space 17, a guide plate 18, a feeding mechanism 2, a feeding magnetic disk body 21, a feeding magnetic disk body 22, a feeding magnetic disk rotating module 23, a stirring magnetic disk rotating module 24, a stirring magnetic disk body 3, a stirring magnetic disk body 31, a stirring magnetic disk body 32, a stirring magnetic disk rotating module 33, a storage chute 4, a positioning strip 41, a material distributing and conveying mechanism 5, a conveying unit 51, a counting module 6, a large material distributing unit 7, a small material distributing unit 8, a feeding device 91, a lifting device 92, a packaging device 93, a guide roller 94, a guide rail 95, a frame 96, a common roller 97 and a hardware material 10.
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The invention is described in further detail below with reference to the drawings and the detailed description.
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As shown in fig. 1 to 9, the multi-column parallel sorting assembly line for hardware materials of this embodiment includes: a plurality of material distributing units, a feeding device 91, a lifting device 92 and a packaging device 93.
The material distributing unit is used for feeding the hardware materials part by part and counting the feeding quantity; the feeding device 91 is configured to receive the hardware materials output by each material distributing unit, and convey the hardware materials output by each material distributing unit to the packaging device 93; the packing device 93 is used for packing the hardware materials.
Each material distributing unit is respectively arranged on the outer side of the feeding device 91; the types of the dividing units include a large dividing unit 7 and a small dividing unit 8. In the embodiment, each material distributing unit is arranged on one side of the feeding device side by side; in practical application, it may also be: each material distributing unit is distributed on two sides of the feeding device in two rows.
The structure of the large material distributing unit 7 is as follows: the large material distributing unit 7 comprises a hopper 1 for storing hardware materials, a feeding mechanism 2 for moving the hardware materials out of the hopper 1 part by utilizing the magnetic force effect, and a material distributing and conveying mechanism 5 for conveying the hardware materials. The large distributing unit 7 further comprises a stirring mechanism 3.
The hopper 1 is provided with a wedge-shaped space with a wide upper part and a narrow lower part; the bottom of the wedge-shaped space is arc-shaped. The wedge-shaped space bottom is narrow, can shorten the distance between five metals material and the hopper 1 lateral wall, ensures that feed mechanism 2 and rabbling mechanism 3 can adsorb the five metals material smoothly. The bottom of wedge space is circular-arc, and the five metals material can concentrate wedge space bottom, still can make the five metals material adsorb and remove to touch behind the baffle 11 bottom along the circular arc landing to wedge space bottom by rabbling mechanism 3.
The feeding mechanism 2 comprises a feeding magnetic disk body 21 and a feeding magnetic disk rotating module 23; the feeding magnetic disk body 21 is rotatably arranged on one side of the hopper 1 through a feeding magnetic disk rotating module 23; a plurality of feeding magnets 22 are arranged on the surface of the feeding magnetic disk body 21 close to the hopper 1. The stirring mechanism 3 includes a stirring disk body 31 and a stirring disk rotation module 33. The middle partition plate 11 is arranged in the hopper 1, so that the hopper 1 is divided into a buffer space 17 and a feeding space 14 which are distributed up and down; a sliding channel 12 is reserved between the middle partition plate 11 and the hopper 1 at one side close to the material distributing and conveying mechanism 5; the stirring disk body 31 is rotatably arranged on one side of the hopper 1 away from the feeding mechanism 2 through a stirring disk rotating module 33; the stirring magnetic disk body 31 is provided with a plurality of stirring magnets I32 on the surface close to the hopper 1; the middle partition plate 11 is provided with a feeding opening 15 at the joint of the hopper 1 near one side of the feeding mechanism 2, and the feeding opening 15 is positioned on the horizontal projection of the rotating path of the feeding magnet 22.
The using method of the hopper 1 of the large material distributing unit 7 comprises the following steps: after pouring the hardware materials into the hopper 1, part of the hardware materials slide on the middle partition plate 11 and then fall into the feeding space 14 through the sliding-in channel 12, and part of the hardware materials stay above the middle partition plate 11 due to friction force; the feeding mechanism 2 utilizes magnetic force effect to adsorb and laminate the hardware material in the feeding space 14 on the lateral wall of the hopper 1 part by part, and along with the drive of the feeding mechanism 2, the hardware material adsorbed by magnetic force passes through the feeding opening 15 from the feeding space 14, and then the hopper 1 is output, and the hardware material is fed part by part.
The stirring mechanism 3 has the functions of: 1. the stirring mechanism 3 stirs the hardware materials in the feeding space 14 to one side of the feeding opening 15 under the action of magnetic force, and can absorb the hardware materials close to one side of the feeding opening 15 and rotate towards the middle partition plate 11, after the hardware materials touch the bottom of the middle partition plate 11, the hardware materials slip back to the bottom of the feeding space 14 after being separated from the magnetic absorption of the stirring mechanism 3, so that the hardware materials close to one side of the feeding opening 15 are ensured not to be accumulated together and are mutually blocked, and the feeding magnet 22 is easier to successfully absorb and drive the hardware materials to move; 2. the stirring mechanism 3 can adsorb and drive the hardware materials on the middle partition plate 11 into the feeding space 14 part by part, and can gradually supplement the hardware materials into the feeding space 14 while the feeding mechanism 2 takes away the hardware materials from the feeding space 14, so that the number of the hardware materials in the feeding space 14 is ensured not to be excessive and the gear is not broken.
The middle partition plate 11 gradually inclines downwards when extending from one end far away from the material distribution conveying mechanism 5 to one end close to the material distribution conveying mechanism 5; the middle partition plate 11 is provided with a coaming 16 outside the feeding opening 15. The coaming 16 can separate the space for feeding and temporarily storing the hardware materials on the middle partition plate 11 from the feeding opening 15, so that the hardware materials are prevented from being mutually influenced by collision with the hardware materials adsorbed on the feeding mechanism 2 when the hardware materials are poured into the hopper 1.
All feeding magnets 22 are distributed on the circumference one on the feeding magnetic disk body 21; the center of the circle one is positioned on the rotating shaft of the magnetic disk body of the feeding mechanism. On the stirring disk body 31, all stirring magnets 32 can be distributed on the same circumference or distributed on different circumferences.
In the large material distributing unit 7, a hopper 1 is connected with a material distributing and conveying mechanism 5 through a material storing chute 4; the input end and the output end of the material storage chute 4 are respectively provided with a material storage sensing module for detecting the quantity of the hardware materials on the material storage chute 4.
The storage sensing module has the advantages that: when the number of hardware materials in the material storage chute 4 is smaller than the set material storage number, the feeding mechanism 2 and the stirring mechanism 3 start to work; when the number of the hardware materials in the material storage chute 4 is not less than the set material storage number, the feeding mechanism 2 and the stirring mechanism 3 pause working. The design can suspend the work of the feeding mechanism 2 and the stirring mechanism 3 under the condition that the hardware materials are sufficient, can save energy consumption, and can also avoid the influence on the arrangement state of the hardware materials in parts by parts feeding because the hardware materials are not timely conveyed to the material distribution conveying mechanism and piled up in the material storage chute 4. The acquisition of the number of the hardware materials in the material storage chute 4 can be realized by arranging photoelectric sensing modules at the input end and the output end of the material storage chute 4. The positioning strips 41 can be arranged in the material storage chute 4 to form a positioning channel with the width matched with the width of the material package, so that the material package can be conveniently arranged on the material storage chute 4.
The structure of the small material distributing unit 8 is as follows: the small material distributing unit 8 comprises a hopper 1 for storing the hardware materials, a feeding mechanism 2 for moving the hardware materials out of the hopper 1 part by utilizing the magnetic force action, and a material distributing and conveying mechanism 5 for conveying the hardware materials. The hopper 1 is provided with a wedge-shaped space with a wide upper part and a narrow lower part; the bottom of the wedge-shaped space is arc-shaped.
The feeding mechanism 2 comprises a feeding magnetic disk body 21 and a feeding magnetic disk rotating module 23; the feeding magnetic disk body 21 is rotatably arranged on one side of the hopper 1 through a feeding magnetic disk rotating module 23; a plurality of feeding magnets 22 are arranged on the surface of the feeding magnetic disk body 21 close to the hopper 1. All the feeding magnets 22 are preferably distributed on a circumference two centered on the rotation center of the feeding magnetic disk body 21. A guide plate 18 is arranged on the inner wall of the hopper 1; the guide plate 18 is located on the horizontal projection of the rotating path of the feeding magnet 22 and above the distributing and conveying mechanism 5.
The preferable scheme is as follows: the feeding magnetic disk body 21 is also provided with a plurality of stirring magnets II 24 on the surface close to the hopper 1; the distance between the feeding magnet 22 and the rotation center of the feeding magnetic disk body 21 is greater than the distance between the stirring magnet two 24 and the rotation center of the feeding magnetic disk body 21.
All the stirring magnets II 24 are preferably distributed on a circle three taking the rotation center of the feeding magnetic disk body 21 as the circle center; the distance between the feeding magnet 22 and the rotation center of the feeding magnetic disk body 21 > the distance between the stirring magnet two 24 and the rotation center of the feeding magnetic disk body 21 means that: the radius of the second circle is larger than the radius of the third circle. The other scheme is as follows: the second stirring magnets 24 are not all distributed on the circumference three, but are distributed in a dispersed manner, and the distance between the feeding magnet 22 and the rotation center of the feeding magnetic disk body 21 > the distance between the second stirring magnet 24 and the rotation center of the feeding magnetic disk body 21 means that: the radius of the second circle is larger than the maximum distance between the second stirring magnet 24 and the rotation center of the feeding magnetic disk body 21.
In the small material distributing unit 8, the feeding magnetic disk body 21 can rotate to drive the feeding magnet 22 and the stirring magnet II 24 to rotate at the same time; when the feeding magnet 22 drives the feeding of the hardware materials, the stirring magnet two 24 adsorbs and drives the hardware materials on the upper layer to realize stirring, so that the hardware materials are prevented from being mutually extruded, and the feeding magnet 22 adsorbs and drives the feeding of the hardware materials more smoothly.
The separation of the guide plate 18 can lead the hardware materials to drop onto the material distributing and conveying mechanism 5 along the guide plate 18 after being separated from the magnetic attraction of the material loading magnet 22. The upper half part of the guide plate 18 is arranged on the inner wall of the hopper 1; a bend is arranged between the lower half and the upper half of the guide plate 18 to form a guide angle; the structure of the guide plate 18 can gradually enlarge the distance between the hardware material and the feeding magnet 22, so that the hardware material is ensured to be separated from the feeding magnet 22 after passing through the guide plate 18; and the hardware material slides under the guiding action of the guide plate 18, so that the hardware material can be prevented from falling to the edge position of the material distribution conveying mechanism 5, and the hardware material conveying is more reliable and safer.
In the large distributing unit 7 and the small distributing unit 8, the feeding magnetic disk rotating module 23 and the stirring magnetic disk rotating module 33 can be made of the prior art, such as motors.
The hoppers 1 of the large material distributing unit 7 and the small material distributing unit 8 are respectively arranged on the frame 96; the bottom of the frame 96 is provided with a guide roller 94; the guide rollers 94 are supported on the ground by guide rails 95. In the invention, the bottom of the frame 96 is also provided with a common roller 97; the common roller 97 is positioned at the bottom of one side of the frame 96; the guide roller 94 is positioned at the bottom of the other side of the frame 96; the design has the advantages of being convenient for the position adjustment of each material distributing unit, and being simple and convenient to use.
The output ends of the material distributing and conveying mechanisms 5 of the large material distributing unit 7 and the small material distributing unit 8 are respectively provided with a counting module 6 for detecting the number of the passed hardware materials; the output ends of the material distribution conveying mechanisms 5 of the large material distribution unit 7 and the small material distribution unit 8 are respectively arranged towards the feeding device 91.
The material-dividing conveying mechanism 5 is divided into two or more conveying units 51; the conveying units 51 of each stage are sequentially arranged from front to back from the side close to the feeding device 91 to the side close to the hopper 1; the conveying speed of the preceding stage conveying unit 51 is greater than that of the following stage conveying unit 51. The arrow direction in fig. 4 is the conveying direction; along the arrow direction, the front conveying unit is positioned at the front, and the rear conveying unit is positioned at the rear.
The input end of the preceding stage conveying unit 51 is located opposite to the output end of the following stage conveying unit 51, and below the output end of the following stage conveying unit 51. After the hardware material moves to the output end of the rear-stage conveying unit 51, the hardware material slides from the rear-stage conveying unit 51 to the front-stage conveying unit 51 by means of self gravity; the distance between the front and rear hardware materials is increased by utilizing the conveying speed difference of the front and rear two-stage conveying units 51, so that the technical problems that the quantity statistics cannot be carried out or the quantity statistics is easy to make mistakes due to the lack of the distance between the front and rear hardware materials are solved.
The counting module 6 is arranged to automatically detect the feeding quantity of the hardware materials; setting a feeding target number according to the order; each stage of conveying units conveys the hardware materials until the hardware material feeding quantity detected by the counting module reaches the feeding target quantity; when the hardware material feeding quantity reaches the feeding target quantity, the conveying units at all levels pause working, the hardware material feeding quantity detected by the counting module is cleared, and the setting of the next feeding target quantity is waited. The scheme can effectively realize the statistics of the number of the hardware materials and carry according to the set loading target number. The counting module 6 may employ an existing sensing module, such as a photo-electric sensing module.
The lifting device 92 is used for conveying the hardware material from a low place to a high place, and is located between the packaging device 93 and the feeding device 91, so that the hardware material is conveniently conveyed into the packaging device 93. The lifting device 92 is a preferred embodiment, and may not be provided in practical applications. The feeding device 91, the lifting device 92 and the packing device 93 may be conventional devices, respectively.
The working principle of the sorting assembly line of the invention is as follows: dividing a metal material type package to be sorted into small hardware materials and large hardware materials according to the volume weight, wherein each small hardware material corresponds to one small material distributing unit 8 for feeding, and each large hardware material corresponds to one large material distributing unit 7 for feeding;
each large material distributing unit 7 and each small material distributing unit 8 are used for feeding and arranging hardware materials from the hopper 1 in parts by parts into a single row for transmission on the material distributing and conveying mechanism 5, and counting is carried out by the counting module 6 in the transmission process;
the corresponding large material distributing unit 7 and the corresponding small material distributing unit 8 are controlled according to the types and the amounts of the hardware materials in the order to convey the hardware materials with the corresponding amounts to the feeding device 91, and then the feeding device 91 conveys the hardware materials to the packaging device 93; after all the hardware materials in the order are conveyed to the packing device 93, the packing device 93 packs the hardware materials in the order, and the whole sorting process is completed.
According to the sorting assembly line, the hardware materials do not need to be pasted with labels or scanned for identification, the hardware materials are only required to be classified and placed in the hoppers of the large material distributing unit/the small material distributing unit, the types of the corresponding hardware materials in the order can be automatically sorted out to be required in quantity, and packaging is achieved; the sorting efficiency can be improved, the labor cost can be saved, and the error condition of manual sorting can be avoided; the equipment is safe and reliable, and the structure is simple and the occupied area is small; according to the invention, the hardware materials are grabbed by magnetic force to separate, so that most of automatic sorting, metering and packaging of the hardware materials can be realized.
The above examples are preferred embodiments of the present invention, but the embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the above examples, and any other changes, modifications, substitutions, combinations, and simplifications that do not depart from the spirit and principle of the present invention should be made in the equivalent manner, and the embodiments are included in the protection scope of the present invention.

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1. A hardware material multi-column parallel sorting assembly line is characterized in that: comprising the following steps:
the material distributing units are used for feeding the hardware materials part by part and counting the feeding quantity;
the packaging device is used for packaging the hardware materials;
the feeding device is used for receiving the hardware materials output by each material distribution unit and conveying the hardware materials output by each material distribution unit to the packaging device;
each material distributing unit is respectively arranged at the outer side of the feeding device; the type of the material distributing unit comprises a large material distributing unit and a small material distributing unit; the large material distributing unit and the small material distributing unit comprise a hopper for storing the hardware materials, a feeding mechanism for moving the hardware materials out of the hopper part by utilizing the magnetic force, and a material distributing and conveying mechanism for conveying the hardware materials; the output ends of the material distribution conveying mechanisms of the large material distribution unit and the small material distribution unit are respectively provided with a counting module for detecting the number of the passed hardware materials; the output ends of the material distribution conveying mechanisms of the large material distribution unit and the small material distribution unit are respectively arranged towards the feeding device; the output end of the feeding device is connected with the packaging device;
the feeding mechanism comprises a feeding magnetic disk body and a feeding magnetic disk rotating module; the feeding magnetic disk body is rotatably arranged at one side of the hopper through the feeding magnetic disk rotating module; a plurality of feeding magnets are arranged on the surface of the feeding magnetic disk body, which is close to the hopper;
the large material distributing unit further comprises a stirring mechanism; the stirring mechanism comprises a stirring magnetic disk body and a stirring magnetic disk rotating module; the structure of the large material distributing unit is as follows:
the middle partition board is arranged in the hopper, so that the hopper is divided into a buffer space and a feeding space which are distributed up and down; a sliding channel is reserved between the middle partition plate and the hopper at one side close to the material distribution conveying mechanism; the stirring magnetic disk body is rotatably arranged at one side of the hopper far away from the feeding mechanism through the stirring magnetic disk rotating module; a plurality of stirring magnets I are arranged on the surface of the stirring magnetic disk body, which is close to the hopper; the middle partition plate is provided with a feeding opening at the joint of the middle partition plate and the hopper, which is close to one side of the feeding mechanism, and the feeding opening is positioned on the horizontal projection of the feeding magnet rotating path;
the small material distributing unit has the structure that:
the feeding magnetic disk body is further provided with a plurality of stirring magnets II on the surface close to the hopper; the distance between the feeding magnet and the rotation center of the feeding magnetic disk body is greater than the distance between the stirring magnet II and the rotation center of the feeding magnetic disk body.
2. The hardware material multi-column parallel sorting assembly line of claim 1, wherein: in the large material distributing unit, a hopper is connected with a material distributing and conveying mechanism through a material storing chute; the input end and the output end of the storage chute are respectively provided with a storage sensing module for detecting the quantity of hardware materials on the storage chute.
3. The hardware material multi-column parallel sorting assembly line of claim 1, wherein: the middle partition plate gradually inclines downwards when extending from one end far away from the material distribution conveying mechanism to one end close to the material distribution conveying mechanism; the middle partition plate is provided with a coaming plate at the outer side of the feeding opening.
4. The hardware material multi-column parallel sorting assembly line of claim 1, wherein: the hopper is provided with a wedge-shaped space with a wide upper part and a narrow lower part; the bottom of the wedge-shaped space is arc-shaped.
5. The hardware material multi-column parallel sorting assembly line of claim 1, wherein: the material distribution conveying mechanism is divided into more than two stages of conveying units; the conveying units of all stages are sequentially arranged from front to back from one side close to the feeding device to one side close to the hopper; the conveying speed of the former stage conveying unit is greater than that of the latter stage conveying unit.
6. The hardware material multi-column parallel sorting assembly line of claim 1, wherein: each hopper is respectively arranged on the frame; the bottom of the frame is provided with a guide roller; the guide rollers are supported on the ground by guide rails.
7. The hardware material multi-column parallel sorting assembly line of claim 1, wherein: the lifting device is used for conveying the hardware materials from a low place to a high place; the lifting device is positioned between the packaging device and the feeding device.
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