CN116160279A

CN116160279A - Tool magazine and method for taking and placing tool boxes with tools

Info

Publication number: CN116160279A
Application number: CN202211654926.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 朱红光; 蔡锋达
Original assignee: Ningbo Premium Automotive Parts Co ltd
Current assignee: Ningbo Premium Automotive Parts Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-12-22
Filing date: 2022-12-22
Publication date: 2023-05-26

Abstract

The invention discloses a tool magazine and a method for taking and placing tool boxes with tools, wherein a storage device of the tool magazine is a vertical grid-shaped storage library, a plurality of storage spaces for storing the tool boxes with tools are distributed at equal intervals in each row and each line, each storage space is composed of two box supporting plates fixed on a plurality of vertical rods, each box supporting plate is an inclined plate, the inlet end and the outlet end of each tool box are high, and one end of each tool box is low is provided with a tool box limiting part; the picking and placing device comprises a vertical lifting mechanism and a horizontal driving mechanism for driving the vertical lifting mechanism to move horizontally, and the horizontal driving mechanism is positioned at the bottom of one side of the inlet and outlet ends of the cutter box of the vertical grid-shaped storage warehouse; the vertical lifting mechanism is provided with a picking and placing mechanism which is used for stretching into the space between each pair of box supporting plates from the inlet and outlet ends of the cutter box to take out the cutter box or place the cutter box on each pair of box supporting plates. The tool magazine has the advantages of relatively simple structure, single and corresponding tool taking and placing, strong pertinence, high taking and placing speed, high efficiency, relatively small volume and relatively low equipment cost.

Description

Tool magazine and method for taking and placing tool boxes with tools

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of machining tool storage and taking equipment, in particular to a tool magazine and a method for taking and placing tool boxes with tools.

Background

Along with the increasing variety of machining tools, the use amount of the tools is increased, the use frequency of the tools is increased, and the requirements of people on the automation degree of tool library management are also increased.

The prior art tool magazine or tool cabinet has various types, different structures, various advantages and various defects.

If a tool magazine is used, a plurality of tool vertical storage pipes are concentrated on a large disc driven by a servo motor, and under the cooperation of a storage mechanism, a driving mechanism, an extraction mechanism and a control system, the tools are put into or taken out of a certain tool vertical storage pipe, so that the tool magazine has automation. However, any cutter is taken, all cutters are required to be rotated, the sequence is not adjustable, the rotary tables are required to rotate by corresponding angles to take out or store, the taking and placing speed is relatively low, the efficiency is relatively low, a plurality of holes are required to be aligned for putting in and taking out, the structure is relatively complex, the operation is relatively troublesome, and the energy consumption in the taking and placing process is relatively high.

In another example, a tool cabinet is provided, each tool is placed in one tool box, and the tool cabinet has the functions of dust prevention, water prevention and rust prevention. Each tool box is placed in a storage space and is taken out through a conveying mechanism and a control mechanism, and the taking out is also automated. But does not have an automatic storage function, and in order to be automatically taken out, each layer with a plurality of storage spaces needs a horizontal conveyor belt, each storage space needs an electric push rod and other pushing mechanisms, each cutter box only occupies a small part of one storage space, the space waste is large, the size of the cutter cabinet is relatively large, and the equipment cost is relatively high.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the technical problem of providing the tool magazine which has the advantages of relatively simple structure, single and corresponding tool taking and placing, strong pertinence, high taking and placing speed, high efficiency, relatively small volume and relatively low equipment cost.

The technical scheme of the invention is that the tool magazine comprises a storage device, a picking and placing device and a control system; the storage device is at least one vertical grid-shaped storage library, and a plurality of storage spaces for storing cutter boxes with cutters are distributed at equal intervals in each row and each column;

each storage space is composed of two first box supporting plates which are fixed on a plurality of first upright posts and are equal in height and parallel, each first box supporting plate is an inclined plate, the cutter box inlet and outlet ends of the first box supporting plates of each storage space are high, one end of each first box supporting plate, which is low, is provided with a cutter box limiting part, the side part of each first box supporting plate is provided with a side blocking part, and the bottom of each first box supporting plate is provided with a box supporting part;

the picking and placing device comprises a vertical lifting mechanism and a horizontal driving mechanism for driving the vertical lifting mechanism to move horizontally, and the horizontal driving mechanism is positioned at the bottom of one side of the inlet and outlet ends of the cutter boxes of the first box supporting plate in the storage space of the vertical grid-shaped storage warehouse; the vertical lifting mechanism is provided with a picking and placing mechanism which is used for stretching into the space between each pair of first box supporting plates from the inlet and outlet ends of the cutter box to pick out the cutter box or place the cutter box on each pair of first box supporting plates.

After adopting the structure, the tool magazine has the following advantages: at least one vertical grid-shaped storage warehouse stores all cutter boxes with cutters in each row and each column in a storage space, and the cutters are arranged in the cutter boxes and have the functions of dust prevention, water prevention and rust prevention. In particular, each storage space is located at a certain point of the warp and weft, and the control system controls the horizontal driving mechanism, the vertical lifting mechanism and the picking and placing mechanism to quickly and pertinently place the cutter box with the cutters at a designated position, such as a cutter box picking and placing port described below, by inputting the related information of the cutter box with the cutter. The set of picking and placing device can be taken out and stored. The device has the advantages of strong pertinence, simple picking and placing operation, high picking and placing speed, high picking and placing efficiency and relatively less energy consumption in the picking and placing process. Only one horizontal driving device, one vertical lifting mechanism and one picking and placing mechanism are needed for one vertical grid-shaped storage library of the tool library, and the equipment cost is greatly reduced. Each storage space is almost occupied by one cutter box except for a gap for inserting and operating a picking and placing plate of the picking and placing mechanism, and the waste of the storage space is small. The vertical grid-shaped storage warehouse is quite simple in structure, each storage space is formed by only two first box supporting plates fixed on a plurality of first upright posts, each first box supporting plate is an inclined plate, the cutter box inlet and outlet ends of the first box supporting plates are high, one end of each first box supporting plate is provided with a cutter box limiting part, the side part of each first box supporting plate is provided with a side blocking part, the bottom of each first box supporting plate is provided with a box supporting part, the structure is simple, the advantages are outstanding, the plate taking and placing operation of a taking and placing mechanism is convenient, the whole thickness of the vertical grid-shaped storage warehouse is thinned to save materials, and the gravity of the cutter box with a cutter is lower than that of the cutter box limiting part and the side blocking parts of the first box supporting plates and the limiting parts of the box supporting parts, so that all the stored cutter boxes can not shake even if the vertical grid-shaped storage warehouse is integrally moved, and the placement of each cutter box is stable and reliable.

Further, the two vertical grid-shaped storage libraries are symmetrically arranged, the inlet and outlet ends of the cutter boxes of the first box supporting plate of the storage space of the two vertical grid-shaped storage libraries are oppositely arranged, and the horizontal driving mechanism and the vertical lifting mechanism are arranged in the middle of the two vertical grid-shaped storage libraries; the tool magazine also comprises a rotating mechanism which drives the picking and placing mechanism to rotate 180 degrees to pick or place the tool boxes in any storage space in each row and each column of the two vertical grid-shaped storage libraries respectively. After the structure is adopted, the storage space is doubled, a horizontal driving mechanism is shared, a vertical lifting mechanism is shared, and a picking and placing mechanism is shared, so that the technical effects of high pertinence, simplicity in picking and placing operation, high picking and placing speed, high picking and placing efficiency, less energy consumption in the picking and placing process, capability of picking and placing and relatively low equipment cost are further ensured.

Further, the rotating mechanism comprises a large first driven gear fixed on the lifting table of the vertical lifting mechanism, a small first driving gear fixed on the output shaft of the second stepping motor on a rotating seat, and the small first driving gear is meshed with the large first driven gear, so that the rotating seat is driven and the picking and placing mechanism is driven to rotate 180 degrees around the shaft of the large first driven gear. After the structure is adopted, the rotating mechanism has simple, flexible and reliable structure, further ensures that the storage space is doubled, and still shares a horizontal driving mechanism, a vertical lifting mechanism and a picking and placing mechanism.

Further, get and put the mechanism and include fixing the slope sliding seat on rotating the seat, be fixed with the third step motor on the slope sliding seat, the second driving gear of third step motor output shaft and at least one second driven gear meshing, the second driven gear and the rack meshing of slip fit in getting the board bottom of putting on the slope sliding seat, get and put the bottom stopper and the top stopper that are fixed with the cutter box on the upper surface of board. After the structure is adopted, the structure of the energy taking and placing mechanism is simple, the process of taking or storing the cutter box with the cutters is more flexible, reliable and stable, and the technical effects of strong pertinence, simple taking and placing operation, high taking and placing speed, high taking and placing efficiency and relatively less energy consumption in the taking and placing process are further ensured.

Further, the cutter storehouse is still including establishing the cutter box of establishing at a vertical latticed repository side and is got and put the mouth, and the cutter box is got and is put the mouth and include two vertical curb plates and fix two equal high parallel second support box boards of two vertical curb plate top inclined planes inboardly, and every second holds in the palm the box board and is the swash plate, and the mechanism business turn over end is high to get to put of second support box board, and the staff business turn over end of second support box board is low, and the one end that the second holds in the palm the box board is low has cutter box limiting plate, and the lateral part of every second support box board has vertical curb plate, bottom to hold in the palm the box bottom plate. After the structure is adopted, the cutter box taking and placing opening is simple in structure, and the cutter box is stable and reliable to place, so that the cutter box is convenient to take out or place by hands and is convenient to take out or place by the taking and placing mechanism.

Further, the bottoms of the two vertical side plates are provided with a sliding plate and a sliding rail which are matched with each other in the horizontal direction, the inner end of the sliding rail is provided with an inner limiting plate limiting the position of the sliding plate at which the cutter box is taken and placed by the taking and placing mechanism, the outer end of the sliding rail is provided with an outer limiting plate limiting the position of the sliding plate at which the cutter box is taken and placed by a human hand, and the front ends of the two vertical side plates are provided with handles for dragging the two vertical side plates on the sliding plate to the front end or pushing the two vertical side plates to the rear end. By adopting the structure, when the hand operation is needed, the hand operation position is dragged to, and when the taking and putting mechanism is needed to operate, the hand operation position is pushed to, so that the hand injury caused by misoperation of the taking and putting mechanism is avoided, the personal safety and the equipment operation safety are ensured, and the equipment normal operation is ensured.

Further, first support box board and second support box board be the angle steel, cutter box spacing portion and cutter box spacing plate are the vertical steel baffle of fixing at the angle steel low end, side fender portion and vertical curb plate be the riser of angle steel, support box portion and support box bottom plate be the diaphragm of angle steel. After the structure is adopted, the structure of the storage space and the cutter box taking and placing opening is simpler, the space utilization rate is higher, the placement of the cutter box is more stable and reliable, the process of taking out or placing the cutter box with the cutter is more flexible, reliable and stable, and the technical effects of strong pertinence, simple taking and placing operation, high taking and placing speed, high taking and placing efficiency and relatively less energy consumption in the taking and placing process are further ensured.

Another technical problem to be solved by the invention is to provide a method for taking out a tool box with tools from a tool magazine, wherein the tool is single in taking out, high in pertinence, quick in taking out speed, high in efficiency and relatively less in energy consumption in the taking out process.

Another technical solution of the present invention is to provide a method for taking out a tool magazine containing tools according to any one of the above technical solutions, comprising the steps of:

(1) Inputting relevant information of the cutter box to be taken out at the input end of the control system;

(2) The main controller of the control system controls the horizontal driving mechanism and the vertical lifting mechanism to align the picking and placing mechanism to a certain storage space in a certain row of a certain column of the vertical grid-shaped storage library;

if the method is applied to a tool magazine with two vertical grid-shaped memory libraries, the step comprises the step of controlling a rotating seat of a rotating mechanism to rotate 180 degrees by a main controller;

(3) The main controller of the control system controls the picking and placing plate of the picking and placing mechanism to be obliquely inserted into the storage space and right below the cutter box to be picked, and then the cutter box is lifted up and retracted to the initial position;

(4) The main controller of the control system controls the horizontal driving mechanism and the vertical lifting mechanism to align the picking and placing mechanism of the supported cutter box with the picking and placing opening of the cutter box;

(5) The main controller of the control system controls the taking and placing plate of the taking and placing mechanism to be obliquely inserted into the position right above the middle of the two second box supporting plates of the taking and placing opening of the cutter box, then the taking and placing plate is lowered to enable the cutter box to be placed on the two second box supporting plates of the taking and placing opening of the cutter box, and the taking and placing plate is retracted to the initial position;

(6) And holding the handle to drag the second box supporting plate with the cutter box, the two vertical side plates and the sliding plate to the position where the cutter box is taken out by hands, and taking out the cutter box.

After the steps are adopted, the method for taking out the cutter box with the cutters from the cutter library according to any one of the technical schemes has the following advantages:

the whole process of taking out the cutter boxes filled with cutters in all storage spaces of the whole cutter warehouse only needs a horizontal driving device, a vertical lifting mechanism and a taking and placing mechanism, so that the equipment cost is greatly reduced. In the process of taking out, the control system controls the horizontal driving mechanism, the vertical lifting mechanism and the taking and placing mechanism to quickly and pertinently place the cutter box with the cutter at a designated place, such as the cutter box taking and placing opening. The device has the advantages of strong pertinence, simple taking operation, high taking speed, high taking efficiency and relatively less energy consumption in the taking process.

Still another technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method for storing a tool box with tools, wherein the tool storage is single, the pertinence is strong, the storage speed is fast, the efficiency is high, and the energy consumption in the storage process is relatively low.

Still another technical solution of the present invention is to provide a method for storing a tool magazine containing tools according to any one of the above technical solutions, comprising the steps of:

(1) Scanning the two-dimensional code on the cutter box to be stored by a code scanner electrically connected with a main control of the control system;

(2) Placing the cutter box on two second box supporting plates of the cutter box taking and placing opening and limiting the cutter box by a cutter box limiting plate, and holding a handle to push the second box supporting plates with the cutter box and the two vertical side plates and the sliding plate to the position of the cutter box taking and placing mechanism;

(3) The main controller of the control system controls the horizontal driving mechanism and the vertical lifting mechanism to align the picking and placing mechanism with the picking and placing port of the cutter box;

(4) The main controller of the control system controls the picking and placing plate of the picking and placing mechanism to be obliquely inserted under the cutter box to be stored, and then lifts the cutter box and retracts to an initial position;

(5) The main controller of the control system controls the horizontal driving mechanism and the vertical lifting mechanism to align the picking and placing mechanism to a certain storage space in a certain row of a certain column of the vertical grid-shaped storage library;

(6) And the main controller of the control system controls the taking and placing plate of the taking and placing mechanism to be obliquely inserted into the storage space and right above the middle of the two first box supporting plates, and then the taking and placing plate is lowered to enable the cutter box to be placed on the two first box supporting plates of the storage space and limited by the cutter box limiting part, and the taking and placing plate is retracted to the initial position.

After the steps are adopted, the method for storing the cutter box with the cutters in the cutter warehouse disclosed by any one of the technical schemes has the following advantages: only one horizontal driving device, one vertical lifting mechanism and one picking and placing mechanism are needed to place the cutter box with the cutters into any storage space of the whole cutter warehouse, and the equipment cost is greatly reduced. In the storage process, as long as the cutter box is placed at the cutter box taking and placing opening after the two-dimensional code is scanned, the control system can control the horizontal driving mechanism, the vertical lifting mechanism and the taking and placing mechanism to store the cutter box with the cutter into the storage space appointed by the main controller in a targeted manner. The storage device has the advantages of strong pertinence, simple storage operation, high storage speed, high storage efficiency and relatively less energy consumption in the storage process.

Further, after the step (4) or before the step (1), the tool box picking and placing device further comprises a second box supporting plate without the tool box, two vertical side plates and a sliding plate which are dragged to the position of the tool box by hand holding the handle. After the steps are adopted, the cutter box is conveniently placed by hands, the safety of the operation of the hands is ensured, the smoothness of the placing process is ensured, and the technical effects of high storage speed and high storage efficiency are further ensured.

Further, if applied to a tool magazine having two vertically grid-like storage libraries, step (3) or/and step (5) includes the step of controlling the rotating seat of the rotating mechanism to rotate 180 ° by the main controller. After the steps are adopted, the storage space is doubled, a horizontal driving mechanism is shared, a vertical lifting mechanism is shared, and a picking and placing mechanism is shared, so that the technical effects of high pertinence, simplicity in storage operation, high storage speed, high storage efficiency, less energy consumption in the storage process and relatively low equipment cost are further ensured.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a tool magazine according to the invention provided with a housing and a universal wheel.

Fig. 2 is a schematic view of a tool magazine according to the present invention, which is provided with a base and a universal wheel (the control system is not shown, and the following fig. 4 and 13 are also the same).

Fig. 3 is an enlarged schematic view of the structure of fig. 2 a.

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a tool magazine according to the present invention with a base and universal wheels.

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of the connection structure of the horizontal driving mechanism, the vertical lifting structure and the picking and placing mechanism in the tool magazine according to the present invention.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged schematic view of the structure of fig. 5B.

Fig. 7 is an exploded view of the components of the pick-and-place mechanism of fig. 5.

Fig. 8 is an enlarged schematic view of the structure of C in fig. 7.

Fig. 9 is an exploded view of another part of the pick-and-place mechanism of fig. 5 (including the exploded part of fig. 7).

Fig. 10 is an enlarged schematic view of the structure of D in fig. 9.

Fig. 11 is a schematic view (front side view) of the housing of the magazine pick-and-place port structure and the explosive structure of the placed magazine in the magazine of the present invention.

Fig. 12 is an exploded view (side plan view) of the housing of the magazine access structure in the magazine of the present invention.

Fig. 13 is a schematic view of a tool magazine according to the present invention with a base and universal wheels.

The figure shows: 1. the display screen, 2, universal wheels, 3, a cutter box taking and placing port, 4, a shell, 5, a storage space, 6, a vertical grid-shaped storage warehouse, 7, a second housing, 8, a bracket, 9, a fourth stepping motor, 10, a base, 11, a cutter box limiting part, 12, a first upright post, 13, a first box supporting plate, 14, a cutter box inlet and outlet end, 15, a vertical L-shaped plate, 17, a box supporting part, 18, a cutter box, 19, a second guide rail, 20, a second upright post, 21, a first guide rail, 22, a vertical lifting mechanism, 23, a lifting platform, 24, a supporting seat, 25, a horizontal driving mechanism, 26, an elongated guide groove, 27, a rotating mechanism, 28, a taking and placing mechanism, 29, a first lead screw, 30, a first stepping motor, 31, a first housing, 32, a taking and placing plate, 33 and a rack, 34, a second stepping motor, 35, a first driven gear, 36, an L-shaped guide plate, 37, a third stepping motor, 38, a top end limiting block, 39, a bottom end limiting block, 40, a first driving gear, 41, a rotating seat, 42, a reinforcing plate, 43, a first roller, 44, a second roller, 45, a tilting sliding seat, 46, a second driving gear, 47, a second driven gear, 48, a second box supporting plate, 49, a taking and placing mechanism inlet and outlet end, 50, a vertical side plate, 51, a cutter box limiting plate, 52, an outer limiting plate, 53, a handle, 54, a human hand inlet and outlet end, 55, a box supporting bottom plate, 56, an inner limiting plate, 57, a sliding rail, 58, a sliding plate, 59, a top plate, 60, a transverse connecting rod, 61, a bottom plate, 62, a side blocking part, 63, a vertical side plate, 64 and a sliding groove.

Detailed Description

The following describes the embodiments of the present invention further with reference to the drawings. It should be noted that the description of these embodiments is for aiding in understanding the present invention, but is not to be construed as limiting the invention. In addition, the technical features of the embodiments of the present invention described below may be combined with each other as long as they do not collide with each other.

As shown in fig. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13.

The tool magazine comprises a storage device, a picking and placing device and a control system.

The storage means is at least one vertical grid-like storage 6. Each vertical grid-shaped storage warehouse 6 comprises a plurality of first upright posts 12, the first upright posts 12 are arranged in two rows, each storage space 5 described below is formed by fixing two first box supporting plates 13 on four first upright posts 12, one end of each first box supporting plate 13 is fixed with one first upright post 12 of one row, and the other end of each first box supporting plate 13 is fixed with the other first upright post 12 of the other row. One row being shown in fig. 4 as the row closest to the first rail 21 and the second rail 19 and the other row being shown as the row further from the outside of the first rail 21 and the second rail 19. The bottoms of the first upright posts 12 are fixed with the bottom plate 61, and the tops are fixed with the top plate 59. Several can be understood as tens or so. The first upright 12 can be rectangular steel with a vertical through hole in the middle of the cross section and vertical grooves in the four sides, and the vertical through hole and the vertical groove vertically penetrate through the first upright 12.

A plurality of storage spaces 5 for storing cartridges 18 containing tools are equally spaced in each column and each row. The storage space 5 can also be understood as a magazine receiving space or magazine receiving structure.

As described above, each storage space 5 is constituted by two equal-height and parallel first pallet plates 13 fixed to a plurality of, for example, four first columns 12, and each first pallet plate 13 is fixed to one first column 12 at both ends. Each first box supporting plate 13 is an inclined plate, the cutter box inlet and outlet ends 14 of the first box supporting plates 13 of each storage space 5 are high, the cutter box limiting parts 11 are arranged at the lower ends of the first box supporting plates 13, the side parts of each first box supporting plate 13 are provided with side blocking parts 62, and the bottom parts are provided with box supporting parts 17. It will be understood that the storage spaces 5 are equally spaced in each column and each row, that is, the first box supporting plates 13 in each column are on the same vertical line, the vertical spacing of each first box supporting plate 13 is equal, the first box supporting plates 13 in each row are on the same horizontal line, and the spacing of each pair of first box supporting plates 13 is equal. It will be understood that, except for the two first upright posts 12 at the outermost side, the two sides of the remaining two first upright posts 12 of each vertical grid-shaped storage warehouse 6 are both fixed with a first box supporting plate 13, that is, a first box supporting plate 13 is fixed on the left side of the two first upright posts 12, and a first box supporting plate 13 is also fixed on the right side of the two first upright posts 12.

A plurality of transverse connecting rods 60 can be fixed to the outer side of the first upright posts 12 of the vertical grid-like storage 6, which are located away from the cutter box access end 14 of the first box supporting plate 13, i.e., at the lower end of the first box supporting plate 13.

As shown in fig. 4, 5, 7 and 9, the picking and placing device comprises a vertical lifting mechanism 22 and a horizontal driving mechanism 25 for driving the vertical lifting mechanism 22 to move horizontally, wherein the horizontal driving mechanism 25 is positioned at the bottom of the first box supporting plate 13 on the side of the cutter box inlet and outlet end 14 of the storage space 5 of the vertical grid-shaped storage 6. The vertical lift mechanism 22 has a pick and place mechanism 28 for picking up or placing or depositing a tool box 18 on each pair of first pallet plates 13 extending from the tool box access end 14 between each pair of first pallet plates 13. The pick-and-place device may further comprise a turning mechanism 27 described below.

The control system is a prior art, and generally comprises a main controller, such as a PLC chip, a single-chip microcomputer, a computer host, etc., a display screen 1 can be provided on a panel of a housing 4 described below, and the control system may further comprise a plurality of control components electrically connected to the main controller, such as a code scanner, a plurality of sensors, a plurality of relays, etc., for controlling the start or stop of a first stepping motor 30, a second stepping motor 34, a third stepping motor 37, and a fourth stepping motor 9 described below, thereby controlling a horizontal driving mechanism 25, a vertical lifting mechanism 22, a rotating mechanism 27, and a picking and placing mechanism 28 to accurately and rapidly pick or place a tool box 18 containing tools. The top surface of the top plate of the tool box 18 may be provided with a two-dimensional code (not shown in the figure), where the two-dimensional code contains information about the tool box 18, and it may also be understood that the two-dimensional code contains information about the tools contained in the tool box 18, such as a number or a numerical code of the tool box 18, that is, a number or a numerical code of the tools contained in the tool box and the tools contained in the tool box, and other information about the tools, such as a model number of the tools, a specification of the tools, a size of the tools, a use of the tools, performance parameters of the tools, a manufacturer of the tools, a date of production of the tools, and the like. The outer top surface of the top plate of the cutlery box 18 may be provided with a numerical number of the cutlery box 18.

As shown in fig. 4 to 10, the two vertical grid-shaped storage libraries 6 are preferably symmetrically arranged, the cutter box inlet and outlet ends 14 of the first box supporting plates 13 of the storage spaces 5 of the two vertical grid-shaped storage libraries 6 are oppositely arranged, and the horizontal driving mechanism 25 and the vertical lifting mechanism 22 are arranged in the middle of the two vertical grid-shaped storage libraries 6. As described above, the magazine further includes the rotating mechanism 27 that drives the pick and place mechanism 28 to rotate 180 ° to pick and place the magazine 18 for any one of the storage spaces 5 in each row and column of the two vertically meshed stores 6, respectively.

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the tool magazine of the present invention may also be referred to as a tool cabinet, and may include a housing 4, so that the entire tool magazine may have functions of dust prevention, water prevention, rust prevention, and loss prevention of tools and a tool box 18. The middle upper part of the panel of the shell 4 can be provided with a display screen 1 of the control system, and one side of the panel of the shell 4 can be provided with a cutter box taking and placing opening 3. The tool magazine of the invention can also comprise a base 10, wherein the vertical grid-shaped storage 6, the horizontal driving mechanism 25 and the bracket 8 for placing the tool taking and placing port 3 are all arranged on the base 10. The base 10 may be provided at its bottom with a plurality of universal wheels 2 for movement within the workshops and even between each other to meet certain specific requirements for the concentrated use of a large number of tools.

As shown in fig. 2, 4, 5, 7 and 9, the horizontal driving mechanism 25 may have a specific structure that a fourth stepping motor 9 is provided on the base 10, and an output shaft of the fourth stepping motor 9 drives a second screw of a second nut screw pair to rotate through a worm gear or a bevel gear or directly or through a gearbox, so as to drive a supporting seat 24 of the vertical lifting mechanism 22 fixed with the second nut to linearly move along an elongated guide groove 26 of the first guide rail 21. Gearboxes are also known as gearboxes. The fourth stepper motor 9 is schematically shown. The elongated guide slot 26 may also be referred to as a guide slot. The horizontal driving mechanism can be specifically structured that a fourth stepping motor drives a driving synchronous pulley, an annular synchronous belt and a driven synchronous pulley to rotate, and the synchronous belt drives a supporting seat of a vertical lifting mechanism fixed on the synchronous belt to linearly move. The horizontal driving mechanism can also be that a fourth stepping motor drives the driving chain wheel, the annular chain and the driven chain wheel to rotate, and the chain drives the supporting seat of the vertical lifting mechanism fixed on the chain to linearly move.

As shown in fig. 2, 4, 5, 7 and 9, the specific structure of the vertical lifting mechanism 22 may be that a second upright post 20 is fixed on a supporting seat 24 connected with a horizontal driving structure 25, for example, connected with a second nut of a second nut screw pair and driven, a first stepping motor 30 is installed at the top end of the second upright post 20, a first screw rod 29 of the first nut screw pair is coaxially connected with an output shaft of the first stepping motor 30, a first nut of the first screw nut pair is fixed with a lifting table 23, the second upright post 20 also serves as a third guide rail, a sliding block connected with the first nut is slidingly matched in a sliding groove 64 on the inner side surface of the second upright post 20, that is, a vertical groove of the second upright post 12 described below, and a rolling bearing sleeved at the bottom of the first screw rod 29 may be arranged on the supporting seat 24. The second guide rail 19 parallel to the first guide rail 21 of the horizontal driving mechanism 25 can be arranged on the inner top wall of the shell 4 or the vertical grid-shaped storage warehouse 6, and a sliding block which is in sliding fit with the second guide rail 19 can be fixed at the top end of the vertical lifting mechanism 22, so that the horizontal movement of the vertical lifting mechanism 22 is better in guiding performance, and the horizontal movement is more flexible, stable and reliable. The second upright post 20 can also be rectangular steel with a vertical through hole in the middle and vertical grooves in the four sides, and the vertical through hole and the vertical groove vertically penetrate through the second upright post 20.

As shown in fig. 6, 8 and 10, the rotation mechanism 27 includes a large first driven gear 35 fixed to the elevating table 23 of the vertical elevating mechanism 22, a small first driving gear 40 fixed to the output shaft of the second stepping motor 34 on a rotation seat 41, and the small first driving gear 40 is engaged with the large first driven gear 35 to drive the rotation seat 41 and rotate the pick-and-place mechanism 28 by 180 ° around the axis of the large first driven gear 35.

As shown in fig. 6, 8 and 10, the picking and placing mechanism 28 comprises an inclined sliding seat 45 fixed on the rotating seat 41, a third stepping motor 37 is fixed on the inclined sliding seat 45, a second driving gear 46 on an output shaft of the third stepping motor 37 is meshed with at least two second driven gears 47 as shown in the drawing, the second driven gears 47 are meshed with racks 33 at the bottom of a picking and placing plate 32 which is in sliding fit on the inclined sliding seat 45, and a bottom end limiting block 39 and a top end limiting block 38 of the cutter box 18 are fixed on the upper surface of the picking and placing plate 32. The inclined sliding seat 45 is provided with a plurality of first rollers 43 which are vertically arranged, the bottom surface of the taking and placing plate 32 is in rolling fit with the top surfaces of the plurality of first rollers 43, and the taking and placing plate 32 is in threaded connection with an L-shaped guide plate 36 positioned on the bottom surface through a plurality of screws. The inclined sliding seat 45 is also provided with a plurality of second rollers 44 which are transversely arranged, the inner side surface of the rack 33 is in rolling fit with the outer side surfaces of the second rollers 44, and the taking and placing plate 32 is in threaded connection with the rack 33 through a plurality of screws. The outer end surfaces of the shaft of the second driving gear 46 and the shaft of the second driven gear 47 can be connected with a reinforcing plate 42 through a plurality of screws in a threaded manner, so that the second driving gear 46 and the second driven gear 47 can be axially limited and the gear shaft can be reinforced. The first cover 31 is also fixed on the inclined sliding seat 45 for safety protection.

As shown in fig. 1, 2, 4, 11, and 12.

The tool magazine further comprises a tool box taking and placing opening 3 arranged on the side edge of the vertical grid-shaped storage magazine 6, the tool box taking and placing opening 3 comprises two vertical side plates 50 and two second box supporting plates 48 which are fixed on the inner sides of the inclined planes of the tops of the two vertical side plates 50 and are equal in height, each second box supporting plate 48 is an inclined plate, a taking and placing mechanism inlet and outlet end 49 of each second box supporting plate 48 is high, a hand inlet and outlet end 54 of each second box supporting plate 48 is low, one end of each second box supporting plate 48 which is low is provided with a tool box limiting plate 51, the side part of each second box supporting plate 48 is provided with a vertical side plate 63, and the bottom of each second box supporting plate 48 is provided with a box supporting bottom plate 55.

The bottoms of the two vertical side plates 50 are provided with a horizontal sliding plate 58 and a sliding rail 57 which are matched with each other, the inner end of the sliding rail 57 is provided with an inner limiting plate 56 which limits the position of the sliding plate 58 at the position of the cutter box taken and put by the taking and putting mechanism 28, the outer end of the sliding rail 57 is provided with an outer limiting plate 52 which limits the position of the sliding plate 58 at the position of the cutter box taken and put by a hand, and the front ends of the two vertical side plates 50 are provided with two second box supporting plates 48 on the sliding plate 58, two vertical side plates 50 and a handle 53 which drags the sliding plate 58 to the front end or pushes the sliding plate 58 to the rear end. A second housing 7 is fixed on the bracket 8 for safety protection. The bracket 8 is fixed on the base 10.

Since the structure of the magazine access port 3 is similar to that of each storage space 5, any one of the storage spaces 5 at which a person can easily access the magazine can be used as the magazine access port. However, the above special tool box taking and placing opening 3 is preferably adopted, and the main consideration is that if the housing 4 is arranged in the tool box, the tool box taking and placing opening 3 is arranged independently, so that the operation is more striking and more convenient. It is also contemplated that the horizontal slide 58 and the slide rail 57 may be added after the knife box pick-and-place opening 3 is separately provided, so that the knife box pick-and-place opening 3 is located at a manual operation position or an operation position of the pick-and-place mechanism 28, respectively, and is safer.

As shown in fig. 3, the first box supporting plate 13 and the second box supporting plate 48 are preferably angle steel, the cutter box limiting portion 11 and the cutter box limiting plate 51 are vertical steel baffles fixed at the lower end of the angle steel, the side blocking portion 62 and the vertical side plate 63 are vertical plates of the angle steel, and the box supporting portion 17 and the box supporting bottom plate 55 are transverse plates of the angle steel. The vertical steel baffle is preferably a vertical L-shaped plate 15 as shown in figure 3, which has a higher strength than the vertical flat plate. Or may be a vertical flat plate with a large contact area with the end face of the tool box 18. Two ends of the vertical plate of the angle steel can downwards extend to form an ear plate, through holes for penetrating screws can be formed in the ear plate, and the screws penetrate through the through holes and then are screwed into threaded holes of the first upright post 12 or the vertical side plate 50 to be fixed.

The fixing is generally screw-connected or welded, and the sheet metal parts can be integrally formed. The nut screw pair is also called a ball screw pair or a ball screw pair. The terms chute 64 and elongate guide slot 26 described above are used interchangeably. The terminology of the side guards 62 and the vertical side plates 63 described above is generic. The terms of the above cartridge stop 11 and cartridge stop plate 51 are generic. The above terms of the tray portion 17 and the tray bottom 55 are generic.

As shown in fig. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

The method for taking out the tool box with the tools from the tool magazine according to any one of the above technical solutions of the present invention comprises the following steps:

(1) The relevant information of the tool box 18 to be taken, such as one or more relevant information on two-dimensional codes of the number of the tool box, the specification model of the tool and the like, is input at the input end of the control system.

(2) The main controller of the control system controls the horizontal drive mechanism 25 and the vertical lift mechanism 22 to align the pick and place mechanism 28 with a certain storage space 5 in a certain column and a certain row of the vertical grid-like storage library.

If applied to a magazine having two vertically meshed stores 6, this step may include the step of controlling the rotation seat 41 of the rotation mechanism 27 to rotate 180 ° by the main controller.

(3) The main controller of the control system controls the pick-and-place plate 32 of the pick-and-place mechanism 28 to be obliquely inserted into the storage space 5 and to be right below the cutter box 18, and then lifts the cutter box 18 and retracts to the initial position.

(4) The main controller of the control system controls the horizontal driving mechanism 25 and the vertical lifting mechanism 22 to align the picking and placing mechanism 28 of the supported cutter box 18 with the cutter box picking and placing port 3.

(5) The main controller of the control system controls the picking and placing plate 32 of the picking and placing mechanism 28 to be obliquely inserted into the right upper part between the two box supporting plates 48 of the cutter box picking and placing port 3, and then lowers the picking and placing plate 32 to enable the cutter box 18 to be placed on the two second box supporting plates 48 of the cutter box picking and placing port 3, at the moment, the cutter box 18 is limited by the cutter box limiting plate 51, and the picking and placing plate 32 is retracted to the initial position.

(6) The second supporting box plate 48 supporting the cutter box 18, the two vertical side plates 50 and the sliding plate 58 are pulled to the position where the cutter box 18 is taken and placed by a human hand by holding the handle 53, and the cutter box 18 is taken and removed.

The method for storing the tool boxes with tools in the tool magazine according to any one of the above technical schemes is characterized by comprising the following steps:

(1) And scanning the two-dimensional code on the cutter box 18 to be stored by a code scanner electrically connected with the main control of the control system.

(2) The cutter box 18 is placed on the two second box supporting plates 48 of the cutter box taking and placing opening 3 and limited by the cutter box limiting blocks 51, and the handle 53 is held by hand to push the second box supporting plates 48, the two vertical side plates 50 and the sliding plate 58 which support the cutter box 18 to the position of the cutter box 18 taken and placed by the taking and placing mechanism 28.

(3) The main controller of the control system controls the horizontal driving mechanism 25 and the vertical lifting mechanism 22 to align the picking and placing mechanism 28 with the picking and placing port 3 of the cutter box.

(4) The main controller of the control system controls the pick-and-place plate 32 of the pick-and-place mechanism 28 to be inserted obliquely right below the tool box 18 to be stored, and then lifts the tool box 18 and retracts to the initial position.

(5) The main controller of the control system controls the horizontal drive mechanism 25 and the vertical lift mechanism 22 to align the pick and place mechanism 28 with a certain storage space 5 in a certain column and a certain row of the vertical grid-like storage library.

(6) The main controller of the control system controls the picking and placing plate 32 of the picking and placing mechanism 28 to be obliquely inserted right above the middle of the two first box supporting plates 13 of the storage space 5, and then the picking and placing plate 32 is lowered to enable the cutter box 18 to be placed on the two first box supporting plates 13 of the storage space 5, at the moment, the cutter box 18 is limited by the cutter box limiting part 11, and the picking and placing plate 32 is retracted to the initial position.

After step (4) or before step (1), the second box-supporting plate 48 without the cutter box 18, the two vertical side plates 50 and the sliding plate 58 are pulled to the position of taking and placing the cutter box by hands by holding the handle 53.

If applied to a magazine having two vertically meshed stores 6, the step (3) and/or the step (5) includes a step of controlling the rotation seat 41 of the rotation mechanism 27 to rotate 180 ° by the main controller.

It will be appreciated that the lifting action described above is performed by the vertical lift mechanism 22 and that the oblique insertion and retraction is performed by the pick-and-place mechanism 28.

It will be appreciated that the cartridges 18 described above refer to cartridges 18 containing cutters. If the tool magazine is provided with only one vertical grid-shaped storage magazine 6, the picking and placing mechanism 28 can be directly fixed on the lifting table 23 without rotating the mechanism 27. The stepper motor can also be replaced by a servo motor. When the tool magazine is used initially, the original warehouse of the tool boxes 18 with tools is realized, after two-dimension codes of the tool boxes 18 to be stored are scanned by a code scanner electrically connected with a main control system, each storage space 5 is manually placed, and all the tool boxes 18 can be placed into each storage space 5 one by adopting the method for storing the tool boxes with tools into the tool magazine. The code scanner can be a single handheld code scanner or a code scanner arranged on the cutter box pick-and-place opening 3.

The above plural storage spaces 5 for storing the cartridges 18 with tools per vertical grid-like storage library 6 are understood to be several, such as several tens, one hundred, etc., such as several tens per column, several tens per row, etc.

The above-noted components or structures or numbers are not shown in the figures. The drawings are schematic only, and the text descriptions will be followed if the drawings do not coincide with the text descriptions or if the drawings do not coincide with each other.

The above description is only of the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and variations of the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A tool magazine comprises a storage device, a picking and placing device and a control system; the storage device is at least one vertical grid-shaped storage library, a plurality of storage spaces for storing cutter boxes with cutters are distributed at equal intervals in each row and each line, and the storage device is characterized in that:

2. The tool magazine according to claim 1, wherein: the two vertical grid-shaped storage libraries are symmetrically arranged, the inlet and outlet ends of the cutter boxes of the first box supporting plate of the storage space of the two vertical grid-shaped storage libraries are oppositely arranged, and the horizontal driving mechanism and the vertical lifting mechanism are arranged in the middle of the two vertical grid-shaped storage libraries; the tool magazine also comprises a rotating mechanism which drives the picking and placing mechanism to rotate 180 degrees to pick or place the tool boxes in any storage space in each row and each column of the two vertical grid-shaped storage libraries respectively.

3. The tool magazine according to claim 2, wherein: the rotating mechanism comprises a large first driven gear fixed on a lifting table of the vertical lifting mechanism, a small first driving gear fixed on an output shaft of a second stepping motor on a rotating seat, and the small first driving gear is meshed with the large first driven gear, so that the rotating seat is driven and the picking and placing mechanism is driven to rotate 180 degrees around the shaft of the large first driven gear.

4. A tool magazine according to claim 3, wherein: the picking and placing mechanism comprises an inclined sliding seat fixed on the rotating seat, a third stepping motor is fixed on the inclined sliding seat, a second driving gear of an output shaft of the third stepping motor is meshed with at least one second driven gear, the second driven gear is meshed with a rack at the bottom of a picking and placing plate which is in sliding fit on the inclined sliding seat, and a bottom end limiting block and a top end limiting block of a cutter box are fixed on the upper surface of the picking and placing plate.

5. The tool magazine according to claim 1, wherein: the cutter storehouse is still including establishing the cutter box of establishing at a vertical latticed repository side and is got and put the mouth, and the cutter box is got and is put the mouth and include two vertical curb plates and fix two equal high parallel second of two vertical curb plate top inclined planes and hold in the palm the box board, and every second holds in the palm the box board and is the swash plate, and the mechanism business turn over end is high to get to put the mechanism of second holds in the palm the box board, and the staff business turn over end of second holds in the palm the box board is low, and the one end that the second holds in the palm the box board is low has cutter box limiting plate, and the lateral part of every second holds in the palm the box board has vertical curb plate, and the bottom has to hold in the palm the box bottom plate.

6. The tool magazine according to claim 5, wherein: the bottoms of the two vertical side plates are provided with horizontal sliding plates and sliding rails which are matched with each other, the inner ends of the sliding rails are provided with inner limiting plates limiting the positions of the sliding plates at the positions of the cutter boxes of the picking and placing mechanism, the outer ends of the sliding rails are provided with outer limiting plates limiting the positions of the sliding plates at the positions of the cutter boxes of the hand picking and placing mechanism, and the front ends of the two vertical side plates are provided with handles for dragging the two vertical side plates on the sliding plates to the front ends or pushing the two vertical side plates to the rear ends.

7. The tool magazine according to claim 5, wherein: the first box supporting plate and the second box supporting plate are angle steels, the cutter box limiting part and the cutter box limiting plate are vertical steel baffle plates fixed at the lower end of the angle steels, the side baffle parts and the vertical side plates are vertical plates of the angle steels, and the box supporting part and the box supporting bottom plate are transverse plates of the angle steels.

8. A method of removing a magazine containing tools according to any one of claims 1-7, characterized in that: the method comprises the following steps:

9. A method of storing a magazine containing tools according to any one of claims 1-7, comprising the steps of:

(6) And the main controller of the control system controls the taking and placing plate of the taking and placing mechanism to be obliquely inserted right above the middle of the two first box supporting plates of the storage space, and then the taking and placing plate is lowered to enable the cutter box to be placed on the two first box supporting plates of the storage space and limited by the cutter box limiting plate, and the taking and placing plate is retracted to the initial position.

10. The method of storing tool boxes containing tools according to claim 9, wherein:

after the step (4) or before the step (1), the tool box picking and placing device further comprises a second box supporting plate without a tool box and two vertical side plates and sliding plates which are dragged to the position of the tool box to be picked and placed by a hand by holding the handle;

if applied to a tool magazine having two vertically grid-like storage libraries, step (3) or/and step (5) includes the step of controlling the rotating mount of the rotating mechanism to rotate 180 ° by the main controller.