CN115303775A

CN115303775A - Distribution device

Info

Publication number: CN115303775A
Application number: CN202210965761.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 翁端文; 吕新; 郑锡川
Original assignee: INA Intelligent Technology Zhejiang Co Ltd
Current assignee: INA Intelligent Technology Zhejiang Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-08-12
Filing date: 2022-08-12
Publication date: 2022-11-08
Also published as: WO2024031934A1

Abstract

The invention discloses a distribution device, which comprises a distribution plate, a one-way bearing and a driving device, wherein the one-way bearing comprises a distribution shaft and an outer shaft sleeve in transmission connection with the driving device; divide the periphery of driver plate to have seted up and divide and dial the tooth, two adjacent branches are dialled the tooth and are just can buckle the crotch of a carrier and backstop next carrier with the slide rail cooperation for when drive arrangement drive one-way bearing carried out unidirectional rotation, divide the driver plate to rotate thereupon and release the crotch of the carrier and the buckle of buckled next carrier one by one. The invention is used for allocating the carriers (clothes hangers) on the hanging track one by one, so that the carriers are ordered and controllable, and various production requirements and functions are realized in a matching way.

Description

Distribution device

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of distribution, in particular to a distribution device.

Background

In the existing production line, a plurality of carriers run on a track, and the hanging density of a conveying area is different from that of a functional area, so that the carriers on the track need to be limited, stopped and the like, and are distributed and released one by one according to actual requirements to adjust the hanging density; the functions such as rail changing, mounting combination, uploading process and the like are realized in a matching way.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve the problems in the prior art, the invention provides a distribution device which is used for distributing carriers (clothes hangers) on a hanging rail one by one to enable the carriers to be ordered and controllable and to be matched with various production requirements and functions.

The technical scheme for solving the problems is that the invention provides a distribution device, which comprises a distribution plate, a one-way bearing and a driving device, wherein the one-way bearing comprises a distribution shaft and an outer shaft sleeve in transmission connection with the driving device; the periphery of the branch driving plate is provided with branch driving teeth, two adjacent branch driving teeth are matched with the sliding rail and can just clamp a hook of one carrier and stop the hook (to enable the hook not to slide downwards) of the next carrier, so that when the driving device drives the one-way bearing to rotate in a single direction, the branch driving plate can rotate along with the branch driving plate to release the clamped carriers (to enable the carriers to slide downwards) one by one and clamp the hook of the next carrier.

Furthermore, a plurality of the sub-dial teeth are distributed on the periphery of the sub-dial plate at equal intervals; the distance between the lowermost minute driving tooth on the minute driving plate and the slide rail is smaller than the diameter of the hook.

Furthermore, a gap between the two lowermost distributing teeth on the distributing plate is over against the sliding rail. In the initial state, no clothes rack is arranged in the tooth gap at the lowest part, and subsequent clothes racks can continuously and effectively enter the clothes rack, so that the clothes racks can be buckled one by one and released one by one.

Furthermore, the lower end of the fixed plate is fixed at the bottom of the slide rail, the upper end of the fixed plate is parallel to the inner side of the slide rail, and the distributing shaft is perpendicular to the fixed plate and is in rotating connection with the fixed plate.

The deep groove ball bearing fixing device is characterized by further comprising a deep groove ball bearing, wherein an annular clamping plate is clamped on an outer ring of the deep groove ball bearing, a mounting hole with the same diameter as the outer ring is formed in the fixing plate, and a bearing pressing plate is arranged on the mounting hole in an aligned mode, so that the bearing pressing plate and the fixing plate can clamp the clamping plate to fix the deep groove ball bearing on the fixing plate; the rear end of the minute hand shaft is provided with a group of annular clamping grooves, and the distance between the two clamping grooves is the same as the length of the inner ring of the deep groove ball bearing, so that the rear end of the minute hand shaft can be fixed on the inner ring of the deep groove ball bearing through two calipers, and the minute hand shaft is rotatably connected with the fixing plate.

Preferably, connect through the equalizer ring equidistant in proper order between a plurality of spin in the deep groove ball bearing for a plurality of spin evenly distributed just do not influence normal rotation effect in the bearing, can balance the diversified atress of minute hand-lever, keep the gesture balanced.

Further, still include damping device, damping device include damping piece, rigid coupling in on the fixed plate and be located outer axle sleeve with damping seat, damping piece between the fixed plate, damping piece spiro union in the damping seat to with the rigid coupling in the damping piece front end the damping piece compress tightly extremely divide the surface of dialling the axle.

Furthermore, the contact surface of the damping block and the minute shifting shaft is of an arc-shaped structure. The whole structure of the damping block can be arc-shaped, the thickness is large, and the service life is long. The material of the damping block can be reasonably selected.

Preferably, the force application direction of the damping block to the shifting shaft is opposite to the sliding direction of the carrier, so that the position deviation of the shifting shaft in the long-term collision process can be avoided.

Furthermore, a bearing seat is fixedly connected to the outer shaft sleeve, and a connecting plate is arranged at the upper end of the bearing seat and is in transmission connection with the output end of the driving device.

Further, the driving device is an air cylinder, and a telescopic shaft of the air cylinder is rotatably connected with the connecting plate; a supporting plate is fixedly connected to the side edge of the upper end of the fixing plate, a fixing piece used for mounting the air cylinder is arranged on the supporting plate, and a base of the air cylinder is rotatably connected with the fixing piece; when the cylinder drives the one-way bearing, the sub-driving plate continuously rotates in one direction.

Further, the single driving stroke of the air cylinder is matched with the rotation angle of the sub-driving plate when the sub-driving plate releases one carrier.

The beneficial effects of the invention are as follows:

the invention relates to a distribution device, which aims at the design of a carrier taking a hook as a hanging means, and can realize the stable and effective one-by-one distribution effect on the hook structure by matching with a hanging track, so that the hanging carrier is ordered and controllable, and various requirements, functions and the like carried by a production line are realized.

The utility model provides a device rotation is allocated, drive structure all is located orbital upside, can not produce the interference to clothing, material etc. of in orbit operation.

This application adopts the cylinder for the drive to the reciprocating motion cooperation one-way bearing of setting for the stroke realizes the one-way drive to the minute driver plate, and the pivoted angle homogeneous phase is the same at every turn, and each minute on the minute driver plate dials the utilization ratio of tooth the same, long service life, low cost.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of the specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings, like reference numerals are used to indicate like elements. The drawings in the following description are directed to some, but not all embodiments of the invention. To a person skilled in the art, without inventive effort, other figures can be derived from these figures.

Fig. 1 is a front view structural diagram of a distribution device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a front structural view of a dispensing device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a rear structural view of a dispensing device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a partial structural view of a dispensing device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a partial exploded view of a dispensing device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the damping device and the one-way bearing according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram illustrating a distance between the sub-dial and the slide rail according to the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic view of a deep groove ball bearing according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic view of an internal structure of a deep groove ball bearing according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure: 1. a sub-drive plate; 2. a one-way bearing; 3. a bearing seat; 4. a damping device; 5. a cylinder; 6. a deep groove ball bearing; 7. a fixing plate; 8. a support plate; 9. a slide rail; 21. a dial shaft; 22. an outer sleeve; 23. a card slot; 24. a caliper; 31. a connecting plate; 41. a damping block; 42. a damping seat; 43. a damping member; 51. a telescopic shaft; 61. clamping a plate; 62. a gimbal ring; 71. a bearing pressure plate; 81. and a fixing member.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be obtained by a person skilled in the art without any inventive step based on the embodiments of the present invention, are within the scope of the present invention.

The distribution device is mainly suitable for unpowered hanging rails, and the use environment of the sliding rail 9 is taken as an example for illustration.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a distribution device, which is applied to a hanging rail to perform distribution processing on a carrier, please refer to fig. 1-9, and mainly comprises a distribution plate 1, a one-way bearing 2 and a driving device, wherein the one-way bearing 2 comprises a distribution shaft 21 and an outer shaft sleeve 22 in transmission connection with the driving device, the distribution plate 1 is coaxially and fixedly connected to the front end of the distribution shaft 21, the rear end of the distribution shaft 21 is extended and rotatably connected with a fixing plate 7 on a slide rail 9, and the distribution plate 1 is erected above the slide rail 9 along the direction of the slide rail 9; the periphery of the sub-drive plate 1 is provided with sub-drive teeth, two adjacent sub-drive teeth are matched with the slide rail 9 to just clamp the hook of one carrier and stop the hook of the next carrier, so that when the driving device drives the one-way bearing 2 to rotate in a one-way mode, the sub-drive plate 1 can rotate along with the sub-drive plate to release the clamped carriers one by one and clamp the hook of the next carrier.

In this application, the device is allocated and is attached to fixed plate 7 and install fixedly. Specifically, the lower end of the fixing plate 7 is fixed at the bottom of the sliding rail 9, so that in order to avoid collision between the fixing plate 7 and the hook, the structure of the fixing plate 7 located on the inner side of the sliding rail 9 can be sunk to form a groove and then extends upwards, the upper end plate structure of the fixing plate 7 is parallel to the inner side of the sliding rail 9, and the distribution device is installed and fixed without affecting normal operation of the hook-type hanging carrier.

The dial dividing shaft 21 is perpendicular to the upper end plate structure of the fixing plate 7, and the dial dividing shaft 21 is perpendicular to the direction of the slide rail 9, so that the dial dividing plate 1 fixedly connected to the front end face of the dial dividing shaft 21 can stand right above the slide rail 9 along the direction of the slide rail 9, and the dial dividing plate 1 is in limit fit with the slide rail 9.

In the embodiment of this application, the periphery of minute dial 1 is provided with divides and dials the tooth, and a plurality of minute dial teeth equidistant distribution is in minute dial 1 periphery, like the gear form. The distance between the lowermost indexing tooth of the indexing plate 1 and the slide rail 9 should always be smaller than the diameter of the hook, so that the carrier must be indexed by the indexing plate 1 if the carrier wants to pass smoothly. It is understood that the diameter of the hook as described herein refers to the diameter (size/thickness) of the material forming the hook itself, not the diameter of the arc formed by the hook structure.

It should be noted that, based on the relative position shown in fig. 1, the dial 1 is suspended over the slide rail 9, and the distance between the dial 1 and the slide rail 9 is adjusted, so that the gap formed between two adjacent dial teeth is matched with the slide rail 9 to just clamp the hook of one carrier, and the hook does not slide down any more, and meanwhile, the dial tooth located at the rear side can stop the hook of the next carrier from sliding down. It can be understood that, in practical application, the slide rail 9 is in an inclined state, and the relative posture between the dial 1 and the slide rail 9 is not changed.

Furthermore, the size of the fluted disc of the sub-drive plate 1 can be adjusted, so that the opening angle between the next sub-drive tooth and the slide rail 9 can meet the requirement that the hook of the next carrier enters the tooth gap; when the sub-dial 1 rotates, the former carrier is released and the latter carrier is locked.

In a specific embodiment, there is no carrier hook to be fastened between the dispensing plate 1 and the slide rail 9 in the initial state, at this time, the gap between the two dispensing teeth at the bottom of the dispensing plate 1 may be directly opposite to the slide rail 9, the subsequent dispensing teeth have an appropriate angle to fasten the carrier hook, and the dispensing device has a condition to continuously perform dispensing operation.

In the present application, the minute hand shaft 21 is rotatably connected to the fixed plate 7, and in a specific embodiment, the rotation connection may be formed by a deep groove ball bearing 6. Specifically, mounting holes can be formed in the upper end plate structure of the fixing plate 7, bearing pressing plates 71 are arranged in the aligning mounting holes, and the diameters of the mounting holes are the same as the diameter of an outer ring of the deep groove ball bearing 6, so that the deep groove ball bearing 6 can be inserted into the mounting holes to complete primary positioning and mounting; further, the outer ring of deep groove ball bearing 6 goes up the joint and has annular cardboard 61, and the diameter of cardboard 61 is greater than the mounting hole, and accessible bearing clamp plate 71 withholds it to fixed plate 7 on, forms the effect of centre gripping cardboard 61 to fix deep groove ball bearing 6 on fixed plate 7.

A group of annular clamping grooves 23 can be formed in the rear end of the dial shaft 21, the distance between the two clamping grooves 23 is the same as the length of the inner ring of the deep groove ball bearing 6, the two clamping grooves 23 can be respectively exposed to the two sides of the inner ring, the dial shaft 21 can be fixed with the inner ring of the deep groove ball bearing 6 by matching with two calipers 24, and therefore the dial shaft 21 is rotatably connected with the fixing plate 7.

It can be understood that the opening position of the mounting hole is one of the direct influencing factors for determining the distance between the sub-dial 1 and the slide rail 9, and the distance between the sub-dial 1 and the slide rail 9 can be adjusted by adjusting the opening position of the mounting hole.

In the application, only one-way stress driving exists between the outer shaft sleeve 22 of the one-way bearing 2 and the distributing shaft 21; when the rotation is reversed, the minute hand shaft 21 is not stressed and does not rotate, and only the outer shaft sleeve 22 can realize the reset.

In a specific embodiment, a bearing seat 3 may be fixedly connected to the outer sleeve 22, and the bearing seat 3 may be fastened by screws to clamp the outer sleeve 22, so that the bearing seat 3 and the outer sleeve 22 may rotate synchronously. The upper end of the bearing seat 3 is provided with a connecting plate 31, and the upper end of the connecting plate 31 is in transmission connection with the output end of the driving device, so that the outer shaft sleeve 22 can be driven by the driving device to rotate for a certain angle around the branch poking shaft 21, and the release of the hook carrier is realized.

Specifically, the bearing housing 3 may be provided with a through hole corresponding to the size of the outer sleeve 22, and be sleeved to the outer sleeve 22, and an expansion/contraction gap is provided at the upper end thereof, so as to achieve a fastening effect by a screw, as shown in fig. 1 and 5.

In a specific embodiment, the driving device adopts a telescopic cylinder 5, and a supporting plate 8 is arranged on the basis of a fixing plate 7 to realize the installation of the cylinder 5. A supporting plate 8 is fixedly connected to the side edge of the plate structure at the upper end of the fixing plate 7, a fixing piece 81 for installing the air cylinder 5 is arranged on the supporting plate 8, the base of the air cylinder 5 is rotatably connected with the fixing piece 81, and the rotating shaft is parallel to the minute-dialing shaft 21; the telescopic shaft 51 of the air cylinder 5 is rotatably connected with the connecting plate 31, and the rotating shaft is parallel to the minute-dialing shaft 21.

When the telescopic shaft 51 of the air cylinder 5 extends/contracts, the air cylinder 5 rotates downwards/upwards around the fixing part 81, the included angle between the telescopic shaft 51 and the bearing seat 3 becomes smaller/larger, and the bearing seat 3 rotates clockwise/anticlockwise.

When the telescopic shaft 51 of the cylinder 5 reciprocates, the dial 1 always rotates clockwise, the rotating angle is limited by the stroke of the cylinder 5, and the stroke can be automatically adjusted to adapt to different sizes of dial 1/carrier hooks.

It is necessary, the single drive stroke of cylinder 5 should be with divide the required turned angle phase-match when dialling 1 releases a carrier for a reciprocating motion of cylinder 5 can release a carrier, accomplish the buckle spacing of a follow-up carrier simultaneously, namely, the angle of each time rotation of dialling 1 is fixed, only releases the carrier by the buckle at every turn, and the latter carrier just is blocked by the tooth that divides, and the present carrier is released, and the latter carrier is blocked.

In the embodiment of the application, the inclination of the slide rail 9 is limited, when the loaded articles on the carrier are heavy, the impact force on the distributing teeth is large, and the distributing disc 1 driven in one direction can be impacted to rotate, so that the driving of the air cylinder 5 is damaged. Therefore, the damping device 4 can be added on the dial shaft 21 to counteract the rotation effect caused by the impact, so that the rotation of the dial plate 1 can be triggered only by the expansion and contraction of the air cylinder 5.

In a specific embodiment, the damping device 4 includes a damping block 41, a damping seat 42 fixed on the fixing plate 7 and located between the outer sleeve 22 and the fixing plate 7, and a damping member 43, where the damping member 43 may be a long screw screwed into the damping seat 42, and presses the damping block 41 fixed to the front end of the damping member 43 against the outer surface of the dial shaft 21 to limit the unpowered rotation of the dial shaft 21. The damping force between the damping block 41 and the distributing shaft 21 can be adjusted by rotating the damping piece 43, and the damping force can be adjusted according to actual requirements.

If necessary, the contact surface between the damping block 41 and the minute dialing shaft 21 can be designed to be an arc structure, so that the contact area is enlarged, and the damping effect is improved. It will be appreciated that the driving force of the cylinder 5 is sufficient to drive the rotation of the minute shaft 21 against the frictional resistance.

Based on the rotation characteristic of the dial 1 of the present application, the damping device 4 can be mounted on the lower side of the slide rail 9, so that the direction of the force applied to the dial shaft 21 by the damping block 41 is opposite to the sliding direction of the carrier, and the dial shaft 21 can be prevented from generating position deviation in a long-term collision process.

In the drawings of the present application, the cylinder 5 and the damper 4 are separately provided on both sides of the one-way bearing 2, which is a preferred embodiment in the case of a space-saving situation, and the position of the cylinder 5 may be adjusted based on actual needs and external environmental restrictions, and the installation angle of the bearing housing 3 may be adjusted accordingly.

In one embodiment, a plurality of rolling balls in the deep groove ball bearing 6 are sequentially connected at equal intervals through the balance ring 62, so that the rolling balls are uniformly distributed in the bearing without influencing the normal rotating effect, the multi-directional stress of the minute poking shaft 21 can be balanced, and the posture balance is kept.

It can be understood that the dial shaft 21 is an inner shaft (inner ring) of the bearing structure, the outer shaft sleeve 22 is an outer ring of the bearing structure, and the dial shaft 21 and the outer shaft sleeve 22 of the one-way bearing 2 further include a connection structure for realizing one-way rotation, so that when the outer shaft sleeve 22 rotates, only one direction has a force driving effect on the dial shaft 21.

It should be clear that, the unidirectional bearing 2, the connection structure for realizing unidirectional rotation between the dial-up shaft 21 and the outer sleeve 22, which is adopted in the present application, can adopt various forms, such as a ratchet type unidirectional rotation structure, a unidirectional force-bearing structure of a bicycle rear sprocket, etc., and can realize the function of unidirectional rotation.

The above-described embodiments can be implemented individually or in various combinations, and such variations are within the scope of the present invention.

It is noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be 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 a component of 8230means that the element does not exclude the presence of another like element in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

The foregoing is a more detailed description of the invention in connection with specific preferred embodiments and it is not intended that the specific embodiments of the invention be limited to these descriptions. For those skilled in the art to which the invention pertains, several simple deductions or substitutions can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention, and all shall be considered as belonging to the protection scope of the invention.

Claims

1. The distribution device is characterized by comprising a distribution plate (1), a one-way bearing (2) and a driving device, wherein the one-way bearing (2) comprises a distribution shaft (21) and an outer shaft sleeve (22) in transmission connection with the driving device, the distribution plate (1) is coaxially and fixedly connected to the front end of the distribution shaft (21), the rear end of the distribution shaft (21) is extended and is rotationally connected with a fixing plate (7) on a sliding rail (9), and the distribution plate (1) is erected above the sliding rail (9) along the moving direction of the sliding rail (9); the periphery of the branch driving plate (1) is provided with branch driving teeth, two adjacent branch driving teeth are matched with the sliding rail (9) to just clamp a hook of a carrier and stop the hook of the next carrier, so that when the driving device drives the one-way bearing (2) to rotate in a one-way mode, the branch driving plate (1) can rotate along with the branch driving plate to release the clamped carriers one by one and clamp the hook of the next carrier.

2. A dial arrangement according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the dial teeth are equally spaced around the periphery of the dial (1); the distance between the lowermost minute dial tooth on the minute dial (1) and the slide rail (9) is less than the diameter of the hook.

3. A dial arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the gap between the two lowermost dial teeth of the dial (1) is aligned with the slide track (9).

4. A dispensing device according to claim 1, wherein the lower end of the fixing plate (7) is fixed to the bottom of the slide rail (9), the upper end of the fixing plate (7) is parallel to the inner side of the slide rail (9), and the dispensing shaft (21) is perpendicular to the fixing plate (7) and is rotatably connected thereto.

5. The distribution device according to claim 4, further comprising a deep groove ball bearing (6), wherein an annular clamping plate (61) is clamped on an outer ring of the deep groove ball bearing (6), a mounting hole with the same diameter as the outer ring is formed in the fixing plate (7), and a bearing pressing plate (71) is arranged at the position corresponding to the mounting hole, so that the bearing pressing plate (71) and the fixing plate (7) can clamp the clamping plate (61) to fix the deep groove ball bearing (6) on the fixing plate (7); a group of annular clamping grooves (23) are formed in the rear end of the dial shaft (21), the distance between the two clamping grooves (23) is the same as the length of an inner ring of the deep groove ball bearing (6), so that the rear end of the dial shaft (21) can be fixed to the inner ring of the deep groove ball bearing (6) through two calipers (24), and the dial shaft (21) is rotatably connected with the fixing plate (7).

6. The distribution device according to claim 1, further comprising a damping device (4), wherein the damping device (4) comprises a damping block (41), a damping seat (42) fixedly connected to the fixing plate (7) and located between the outer shaft sleeve (22) and the fixing plate (7), and a damping member (43), wherein the damping member (43) is screwed in the damping seat (42) and compresses the damping block (41) fixedly connected to the front end of the damping member (43) to the outer surface of the distribution shaft (21).

7. A dispensing device according to claim 6, characterised in that the contact surface of the damping mass (41) with the dispensing shaft (21) is of arcuate configuration.

8. A dispensing device according to claim 1, wherein a bearing seat (3) is fixedly connected to the outer sleeve (22), and a connecting plate (31) is arranged at the upper end of the bearing seat (3) and is in transmission connection with the output end of the driving device.

9. A dispensing device according to claim 8, wherein the driving means is a pneumatic cylinder (5), and a telescopic shaft (51) of the pneumatic cylinder (5) is rotatably connected with the connecting plate (31); a supporting plate (8) is fixedly connected to the side edge of the upper end of the fixing plate (7), a fixing piece (81) used for installing the air cylinder (5) is arranged on the supporting plate (8), and the base of the air cylinder (5) is rotatably connected with the fixing piece (81); when the cylinder (5) drives the one-way bearing (2), the sub-driving plate (1) continuously rotates in a one-way mode.

10. A dial arrangement according to claim 9, wherein the single drive stroke of the cylinder (5) matches the angle of rotation of the dial (1) when releasing one of the carriers.