CN207158348U - A kind of polaroid cleans automatic putting device - Google Patents

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CN207158348U
CN207158348U CN201721012749.3U CN201721012749U CN207158348U CN 207158348 U CN207158348 U CN 207158348U CN 201721012749 U CN201721012749 U CN 201721012749U CN 207158348 U CN207158348 U CN 207158348U
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It the utility model is related to a kind of polaroid and clean automatic putting device, including Machinery Control Console, mobile handcart, polaroid cleaner and film-taking in means;Pushed to after mobile handcart feeding fixed in the U-shaped region of Machinery Control Console, adsorbed, counted by Machinery Control Console, transferring polaroid to the cleaning of polaroid cleaner, film-taking in means sieves to qualified and underproof product after cleaning, qualified products are stacked in upper strata, and substandard product is stacked in lower floor;Operating process of the present utility model is convenient and swift, only needs people's feeding, a people to take up, saves manpower and time cost, improve operating efficiency, the quality of obtained polarisation flake products is guaranteed, and improves the satisfaction of client.

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A kind of polaroid cleans automatic putting device
Technical field
Cleaning machine field is the utility model is related to, particularly a kind of polaroid cleans automatic putting device.
Background technology
To ensure product cleannes before polaroid packaging, polaroid need to be cleaned, conventional cleaning process flow is: Personnel are in the manual film releasing of film releasing mouth of polaroid cleaner one end, and polaroid passes through cleaner, and another two people is in the cleaner other end The mouth that takes up take up manually, this cleaning procedure mode for take up personnel on one side take up, on one side viewing arrow print position, while counting Polaroid quantity, every 50 one bags simultaneously separate then rear stream subsequent processing with PS plates, due to taking up, seeing arrow print position, counting entirely For the personnel's manual control that takes up, often there are the bad problems such as quantity is deficient, arrow print position is inconsistent, film surface inverts and occur(Partially Angle Position has arrow to print on mating plate diaphragm, and mating plate arrow print position should be in same position after all packagings), brought to client Very bad Consumer's Experience.
Utility model content
The purpose of this utility model is that providing a kind of polaroid cleans automatic putting device, reduces human cost, improves Operating efficiency and product quality.
To achieve the above object, the utility model employs following technical scheme:
A kind of polaroid cleans automatic putting device, including Machinery Control Console, mobile handcart, polaroid cleaner and receipts Sheet devices;The Machinery Control Console includes two symmetrically arranged frames, is connected and composed between described two frames by crossbeam The U-shaped region of mobile handcart can be accommodated, the frame is provided with the first hoistable platform driven by lifting motor;The movement pushes away Car includes car body, and the car body is provided with upright guide rail, is connected with the second hoistable platform on the upright guide rail, and described Two hoistable platforms are provided with polaroid rest area;When the mobile handcart enters in U-shaped region, the first lifting described in two Platform is respectively protruding into the lower section of the second hoistable platform, and second hoistable platform lifts with the lifting of the first hoistable platform;
Frame described in one of them is provided with by the screw mandrel slide unit of servomotor driving, right in the frame described in another Transplanting guide rail and the sliding block being flexibly connected with transplanting guide rail should be provided with, shifting is connected between the slide unit of sliding block and the screw mandrel slide unit Plant crossbeam, the transplanting crossbeam is provided with counter and lift cylinder, the tailpiece of the piston rod of the lift cylinder straight down and in Tailpiece of the piston rod is fixed with needle beam, and several suction nozzles straight down are evenly distributed with the needle beam;
The polaroid cleaner is placed between Machinery Control Console and film-taking in means, the guide rail of the screw mandrel slide unit and shifting Above the upstream end for planting the conveyer belt that guide rail extends to polaroid cleaner;The film-taking in means includes the transition platform and double of taking up Layer takes up frame, and the transition platform that takes up is the movable platform being driven by the cylinder, and one end of the movable platform and polaroid are clear The submitting end of the conveyer belt of clean machine connects;The bilayer take up frame include positioned at upper strata the qualified sheet material arranged in the horizontal direction Frame, and the unqualified sheet material frame of the arrangement that is inclined upwardly positioned at lower floor;When the piston rod of cylinder normally stretches out, the activity Platform keep level and it is generally aligned in the same plane with the conveyer belt of polaroid cleaner, the polaroid that the polaroid cleaner is sent out Qualified sheet material frame is entered by movable platform;When the piston rod of cylinder shrinks, the movable platform tilts down, the polarisation The polaroid that piece cleaner is sent out enters unqualified sheet material frame by movable platform.
Further, it is provided with the positive main blowning installation of mobile handcart on the crossbeam, and towards mobile handcart side The auxiliary blowning installation in face, the main blowning installation are provided with the hairbrush for being used for peeling off overlapping polaroid.
Further, the side of the Machinery Control Console is provided with electrical control cabinet.
Further, the frame, which is provided with, is used to fix the fastening screw of mobile handcart, be correspondingly provided with mobile handcart with The plate that fastening screw is engaged.
Further, the periphery of the polaroid rest area is provided with the column for spacing polaroid.
Further, the frame is provided with the inductor for the stack height for being used to sense the polaroid on mobile handcart.
Further, the polaroid cleaner is provided with CCD detectors and thickness gauge.
The beneficial effects of the utility model are:Structure of the present utility model according to existing polaroid cleaner, in The entry design increase Machinery Control Console of polaroid cleaner, the outlet increase film-taking in means of polaroid cleaner;Mechanical course The supporting mobile handcart of platform, staff only need polaroid being stacked on the second hoistable platform on mobile handcart, will moved Fixed in the U-shaped region of dynamic stroller push-in Machinery Control Console, Machinery Control Console is automatically performed absorption to polaroid, counts and turn Move;Polaroid is transferred on the conveyer belt of polaroid cleaner and cleaned, and qualified polarisation flake products can deliver to the dress that takes up after cleaning The upper strata put stacks, and underproof product is then sent into lower floor's stacking;Whole operation process is convenient and swift, only needs people's feeding, one People is taken up, and saves manpower and time cost, improves operating efficiency, and the quality of obtained polarisation flake products is protected Card, improve the satisfaction of client.
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Fig. 1 is structural representation of the present utility model;
Fig. 2 is the structural representation of Machinery Control Console;
Fig. 3 is the structural representation of mobile handcart;
Fig. 4 is the combination diagram of Machinery Control Console and mobile handcart;
Fig. 5 is the structural representation of polaroid cleaner;
Fig. 6 is the structural representation of film-taking in means;
Fig. 7 is the partial enlarged drawing in A portions in Fig. 2.
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The utility model is described further below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings:
A kind of polaroid shown in reference picture 1 cleans automatic putting device, including Machinery Control Console 1, mobile handcart 2, partially Mating plate cleaner 3 and film-taking in means 4.
Shown in reference picture 2, the side of the Machinery Control Console 1 is provided with electrical control cabinet 19, and Machinery Control Console 1 includes two Symmetrically arranged frame 5, connects and composes the U-shaped region that can accommodate mobile handcart 2 between described two frames 5 by crossbeam 6, and two The first hoistable platform 8 driven by lifting motor 7 is equipped with individual frame 5.The frame 5, which is provided with, to be used to fix mobile handcart 2 fastening screw 21, the plate 23 being engaged with fastening screw 21 is correspondingly provided with mobile handcart 2.
Shown in reference picture 3, the mobile handcart 2 includes car body 22, and the car body 22 is provided with four upright guide rails 24, and four The individual joint activity of upright guide rail 24 is connected with the second hoistable platform 25, and second hoistable platform 25 is put provided with two polaroids Put area 26.The periphery of each polaroid rest area 26 is provided with six columns for being used for spacing polaroid 27, one of column 26a It is connected through the second hoistable platform 25 and the bottom of car body 22, five column 26b and the activity of the second hoistable platform 25 in addition connects Connect, front and rear can adjust, the placement of convenient compatible different size polaroids 27.
Shown in reference picture 4, when the mobile handcart 2 enters in U-shaped region, fastening screw 21 is connected with plate 23 Mobile handcart 2, two the first hoistable platforms 8 are respectively protruding into the lower section of two jags of the second hoistable platform 25, and the second lifting is flat Platform 25 can then be lifted with the lifting of the first hoistable platform 8, and polaroid 27 is sent into suitable position to be transferred.
The inductor of the stack height for the polaroid 27 being respectively provided with two frames on sensing mobile handcart 2 20, the height of inductor 20 is fixed on correct position(According to the falling head scope of suction nozzle 16 and the maximum of the second hoistable platform 25 Depending on lifting height), when starting operation.Whole folded polaroid 27 moves from bottom to top on mobile handcart 2, when inductor 20 senses During to whole folded polaroid most upperstratum position, whole folded polaroid just stops moving, and waits to be transferred.
Shown in reference picture 2 and Fig. 7, the frame 5 described in one of them is provided with the screw mandrel slide unit 9 driven by servomotor, Transplanting guide rail 10 and the sliding block 11 being flexibly connected with transplanting guide rail 10, the sliding block are correspondingly provided with frame 5 described in another Transplanting crossbeam 12 is connected between 11 and the slide unit of screw mandrel slide unit 9, the transplanting crossbeam 12 is provided with two counters 13 and risen Sending down abnormally ascending cylinder 14, the tailpiece of the piston rod of the lift cylinder 14 straight down and are fixed with needle beam 15, the small horizontal stroke in tailpiece of the piston rod Eight suction nozzles 16 straight down are evenly distributed with beam 15(Each four of the right and left).
After the whole folded polaroid 27 on mobile handcart 2 stops moving up, polaroid 27 is just parked in below suction nozzle 16, Now by electrical control upgrading cylinder 14 can be made to decline suction nozzle 16 simultaneously to adsorb polaroid 27.The screw mandrel slide unit 9 is led Above the upstream end for the conveyer belt 28 that rail extends to polaroid cleaner 3 with transplanting guide rail 10.
Meanwhile the positive main blowning installation 17 of mobile handcart 2 is provided with the crossbeam 6, and towards mobile handcart 2 The auxiliary blowning installation 18 of side, the main blowning installation 17 are provided with the hairbrush 17a for being used for peeling off overlapping polaroid 27.This be by Electrostatic Absorption be present in whole folded polaroid 27 is stacked for a long time, when can cause to inhale a piece of topmost, it is secondary above a piece of quilt Band gets up, and the polaroid that so band can be caused to get up causes folding line bad.When the suction piece of suction nozzle 16 rises, the main He of blowning installation 17 Auxiliary blowning installation 18 to the front of the polaroid 27 of stacking and side not blow off gas, whole folded polaroid is dispelled, avoids two respectively Piece, which is attached together to be taken up, to be come;And the front end of main blowning installation 17 is provided with hairbrush 17a, polaroid 27 in uphill process its Edge need to move upwards by hairbrush 17a, and the overlapping polaroid 27 that band is got up using hairbrush 17a bendability characteristics is swept, and enters One step prevents lamination phenomenon.
The polaroid cleaner 3 is placed between Machinery Control Console 1 and film-taking in means 4, and polaroid cleaner 3 is existing Equipment, the polaroid cleaner 3 is provided with CCD detectors 29 and thickness gauge 30 shown in reference picture 5;CCD detectors 29 It is outsourcing device with thickness gauge 30, CCD detectors 29 are mainly responsible for the arrow print color of detection polaroid 27, arrow is pulled a print And a problem that being inverted without arrow print, arrow print;Thickness gauge 30 is then to further prevent two polaroids 27 from adsorbing Bad situation is produced together.
Shown in reference picture 6, the film-taking in means 4 includes taking up transition platform and bilayer takes up frame, the transition that takes up is put down Platform is the movable platform 31 driven by cylinder 32, one end of the movable platform 31 and the conveyer belt 28 of polaroid cleaner 3 End is sent out to connect;The bilayer frame that takes up includes the qualified sheet material frame 33 arranged in the horizontal direction positioned at upper strata, and is located at The unqualified sheet material frame 34 of the arrangement that is inclined upwardly of lower floor;It is qualified for being detected through CCD detectors 29 and thickness gauge 30 Sheet material, the piston rod of cylinder 32 normally stretch out, now the keep level of movable platform 31 and with the conveyer belt 28 of polaroid cleaner 3 It is generally aligned in the same plane, the polaroid 27 that polaroid cleaner 3 is sent out enters qualified sheet material frame 33 by movable platform 31.
For detecting underproof sheet material through CCD detectors 29 and thickness gauge 30, the piston rod of cylinder 32 shrinks, living Moving platform 31 tilts down about 60 degree of, polarisations that now polaroid cleaner 3 send out relative with the inclination of unqualified sheet material frame 34 Piece 27 then enters unqualified sheet material frame 34 by movable platform 31.
The course of work of the present utility model is as follows:
First, stacked in the polaroid rest area 26 on mobile handcart 2 and place polaroid 27, then by mobile handcart 2 Push in U-shaped region, the left and right sides projection of the second hoistable platform 25 on mobile handcart 2 is just placed on the of both sides On one hoistable platform 8, fastening screw 21 and plate 23 are connected mobile handcart 2, start operation.
Lifting motor 7 drives the first hoistable platform 8 to move upwards, so as to drive the second hoistable platform 25 to rise, the superiors Polaroid 27 when rising at inductor 20, stop rising;Now the polaroid 27 of the superiors is located at the lower section of suction nozzle 16, rises Level cylinder 14 acts the polaroid 27 for causing suction nozzle 16 to decline the absorption the superiors, main blowning installation 17 and auxiliary air blowing in adsorption process Device 18 to the front of the polaroid 27 of stacking and side not blow off gas, whole folded polaroid is dispelled, avoids two panels from adsorbing respectively It is taken up and together;Hairbrush 17a, which serves, simultaneously peels off overlapping polaroid.
Lift cylinder 14, which acts, after absorption causes polaroid 27 to rise, then servomotor rotate drive screw mandrel slide unit 9 to Preceding motion, the polaroid 27 of absorption is transported to the upstream end of conveyer belt 28 of polaroid cleaner 3, then lifts the decline of 14 cylinders Polaroid 27 is placed on conveyer belt 28, then the grade of suction nozzle 16 component resets, so repeatedly until will be whole folded on mobile handcart 2 Polaroid 27 is all transferred on polaroid cleaner 3.
Due to the whole folded polaroid on mobile handcart 2 siphon away it is a piece of then few a piece of, so to a certain degree after suction nozzle just contact Less than polaroid, to solve this problem, 5 polaroids are often siphoned away using software and electrical control setting, the first lifting is flat Platform 8 then rises the distance of 5 polaroid thickness upwards;Simultaneously can be on the second hoistable platform 25 with inductor 20 correspondence position Perforate, when after whole folded polaroid is sucked inductor 20 sense below have perforate when then whole Machinery Control Console 1 move automatically Polaroid 27 is planted, the second hoistable platform 25 of mobile handcart 2 drops to extreme lower position, into treating feeding state.
During polaroid 27 is transplanted, often adsorbing a piece of polaroid 27, then counter 13 counts 1, by that analogy, when Two counters 13 count full 200 simultaneously when, Machinery Control Console 1 stops film releasing;Wherein there was only side full 200, opposite side less than When 200, then completely 200 sides first stop suction piece, continue suction piece less than 200 sides, and expiring 200 after tables until both sides stops, and waits to take up After personnel have packed, zero is counted, continues to start counting up from 0, count numbers simultaneous display is aobvious on electrical control cabinet 19 Show on device, be easy to feeding personnel's control.
The polaroid 27 being transferred on polaroid cleaner 3 detects by CCD detectors 29 and thickness gauge 30, does not conform to The sheet material of lattice is admitted to the unqualified sheet material frame 34 of lower floor through excessive platform, and qualified sheet material is admitted to the qualified sheet material frame on upper strata 33, staff is correspondingly reclaimed by class.
Embodiment described above is only that preferred embodiment of the present utility model is described, not to this practicality New scope is defined, and on the premise of the utility model design spirit is not departed from, those of ordinary skill in the art are to this The various modifications and improvement that the technical scheme of utility model is made, the protection of the utility model claims book determination all should be fallen into In the range of.

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1. a kind of polaroid cleans automatic putting device, it is characterised in that:It is clear including Machinery Control Console, mobile handcart, polaroid Clean machine and film-taking in means;The Machinery Control Console includes two symmetrically arranged frames, passes through horizontal stroke between described two frames Beam connects and composes the U-shaped region that can accommodate mobile handcart, and the frame is provided with the first hoistable platform driven by lifting motor; The mobile handcart includes car body, and the car body is provided with upright guide rail, the second lifting is connected with the upright guide rail Platform, second hoistable platform are provided with polaroid rest area;When the mobile handcart enters in U-shaped region, two institutes The first hoistable platform stated is respectively protruding into the lower section of the second hoistable platform, second hoistable platform with the first hoistable platform liter Drop and lift;
Frame described in one of them is provided with the screw mandrel slide unit driven by servomotor, is correspondingly set in the frame described in another There are transplanting guide rail and the sliding block being flexibly connected with transplanting guide rail, it is horizontal to be connected with transplanting between the slide unit of sliding block and the screw mandrel slide unit Beam, the transplanting crossbeam are provided with counter and lift cylinder, and the tailpiece of the piston rod of the lift cylinder is straight down and in piston Rod end is fixed with needle beam, and several suction nozzles straight down are evenly distributed with the needle beam;
The polaroid cleaner is placed between Machinery Control Console and film-taking in means, and the guide rail of the screw mandrel slide unit is led with transplanting Rail is extended to above the upstream end of the conveyer belt of polaroid cleaner;The film-taking in means includes take up transition platform and double-deck receipts Horse, the transition platform that takes up are the movable platform being driven by the cylinder, one end of the movable platform and polaroid cleaner The submitting end of conveyer belt connect;The bilayer take up frame include positioned at upper strata the qualified sheet material frame arranged in the horizontal direction, And the unqualified sheet material frame of the arrangement that is inclined upwardly positioned at lower floor;When the piston rod of cylinder normally stretches out, the activity is flat Platform keep level and it is generally aligned in the same plane with the conveyer belt of polaroid cleaner, the polaroid that the polaroid cleaner is sent out leads to Cross movable platform and enter qualified sheet material frame;When the piston rod of cylinder shrinks, the movable platform tilts down, the polaroid The polaroid that cleaner is sent out enters unqualified sheet material frame by movable platform.
2. a kind of polaroid according to claim 1 cleans automatic putting device, it is characterised in that:The crossbeam is provided with Towards the positive main blowning installation of mobile handcart, and the auxiliary blowning installation towards mobile handcart side, the main blowning installation It is provided with the hairbrush for being used for peeling off overlapping polaroid.
3. a kind of polaroid according to claim 1 cleans automatic putting device, it is characterised in that:The Machinery Control Console Side be provided with electrical control cabinet.
4. a kind of polaroid according to claim 1 cleans automatic putting device, it is characterised in that:The frame is provided with For fixing the fastening screw of mobile handcart, the plate being engaged with fastening screw is correspondingly provided with mobile handcart.
5. a kind of polaroid according to claim 1 cleans automatic putting device, it is characterised in that:The polaroid is placed The periphery in area is provided with the column for spacing polaroid.
6. a kind of polaroid according to claim 1 cleans automatic putting device, it is characterised in that:The frame is provided with For the inductor for the stack height for sensing the polaroid on mobile handcart.
7. a kind of polaroid according to claim 1 cleans automatic putting device, it is characterised in that:The polaroid cleaning Machine is provided with CCD detectors and thickness gauge.
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