CN207497542U - A kind of sterilizing logistics system - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a kind of sterilizing logistics systems, including a plurality of spaced apart sterilizing material flow line, each sterilizing material flow line includes the sabot station docked successively, disc stack station, the station that sterilizes, tears disk station open and unload disk station, the disc stack car hauler for the pallet at sabot station placing end to be dispatched to each disc stack station is connected between each sterilizing material flow line, be also associated between each material flow line that sterilizes for the pallet at the station placing end that sterilizes is dispatched to respectively tear disk station open tear disk car hauler open.The utility model have the advantages that it is simple and compact for structure, adaptable, production capacity can be improved.
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Technical field
The utility model relates generally to food, pharmacy packaging field more particularly to a kind of sterilizing logistics system.
Background technology
In sterilizing logistics system, bottle is loaded on pallet after high-temperature sterilization, needs to carry out through subsequent cooling section
Cool processing, to reach the bottle outlet temperature close with room temperature.Conventional sterilization logistics system is using single sterilizing object
Streamline, i.e. bottle successively through bottle inlet, sabot, disc stack, sterilize, tear disk open, unload disk and bottle outlet process, then blank panel carry out back again disk into
Row next circulation.On the one hand, this single sterilizing material flow line can not meet production capacity in itself；On the other hand, it is more when being configured
During item sterilizing material flow line, each item sterilizing material flow line is mutual indepedent, can not realize the disk body scheduling of adaptability.
Utility model content
The technical problems to be solved in the utility model be overcome the deficiencies of the prior art and provide it is a kind of it is simple and compact for structure,
Sterilizing logistics system adaptable, that production capacity can be improved.
In order to solve the above technical problems, the utility model uses following technical scheme：
A kind of sterilizing logistics system, including a plurality of spaced apart sterilizing material flow line, it is right successively that each material flow line that sterilizes includes
The sabot station that connects, the station that sterilizes, tears disk station open and unloads disk station disc stack station, is connected with and is used between each material flow line that sterilizes
The pallet at sabot station placing end is dispatched to the disc stack car hauler of each disc stack station, is also associated with using between each material flow line that sterilizes
In the pallet at the station placing end of sterilizing is dispatched to respectively tear disk station open tear disk car hauler open.
As a further improvement of the above technical scheme：
The disc stack scheduling car bottom is equipped with the disc stack vertical with each sterilizing material flow line and dispatches bottom rail, described to tear disk scheduling open
Car bottom is equipped with the tear disk vertical with each sterilizing material flow line and dispatches bottom rail.
The side of two of which sterilizing material flow line be equipped with one with the sabot station of the material flow line that accordingly sterilizes into disk end and
Unload disk station placing end docking return disk track, two return disk track into disk end be connected with one with remaining sterilize material flow line unload
First common rail of disk station placing end docking, two placing ends for returning disk track are connected with one and remaining sterilizing material flow line
The second common rail that sabot station is docked into disk end, two times disk track is opposite with the conveying direction at placing end into disk end.
It returns disk track described in two to set up separately in the side of both ends sterilizing material flow line, two are returned disk track in close to time disk end
Position be equipped with disc stack cache mechanism, two return disk tracks in close to placing end position be equipped with tear disc mechanism open.
Described time disk track is set as U-shaped shape, and traversing section is parallel with sterilizing material flow line, two vertical sections and sterilizing object
Streamline is vertical, and traversing section is equipped with back disk commutation track with the place of docking of vertical section.
First common rail is docked with returning the vertical section at disk track into disk end, the first common rail and sterilizing material flow line
Vertically, first common rail is equipped with the first commutation track with the place of docking at each sterilizing material flow line placing end.
Second common rail is docked with returning the vertical section at disk track placing end, the second common rail and sterilizing material flow line
Vertically, second common rail is equipped with the second commutation track with the place of docking at each sterilizing material flow line into disk end.
The disc stack, which is dispatched bottom rail and torn open between disk dispatches bottom rail, is installed with twilight orbit.
The sabot station is equipped with bottle inlet track, and the disk station that unloads is equipped with bottle outlet track.
A kind of sterilizing material-flow method is carried out with above-mentioned sterilizing logistics system, included the following steps：
S1：Bottle inlet sabot：Bottle and blank panel are entered the sabot work for carrying out bottle by sabot station；
S2：Disc stack is dispatched：Each sterilizing material flow line enters disc stack car hauler by the pallet that sabot station comes out, according to each sterilizing
Pallet is dispatched to the disc stack station for each sterilizing material flow line for needing disc stack by the subsequent disc stack progress of material flow line, disc stack car hauler；
S3：Disc stack：Orderly disc stack is carried out in disc stack station；
S4：Sterilizing：The centipede space of disc stack is sent into sterilizing station and carries out sterilization treatment；
S5：Tear disk scheduling open：The pallet that each sterilizing material flow line is come out by sterilizing station, which enters, tears disk car hauler open, according to each sterilizing
Material flow line is subsequent to tear disk progress open, and that tears that pallet is dispatched to each sterilizing material flow line for needing to tear open disk by disk car hauler open tears disk station open；
S6：Unload disk bottle outlet：It is transported unloading disk station and carrying out unloading disk, bottle and blank panel by unloading disk station；
S7：S1 to S6 cycles is kept to carry out.
Compared with prior art, the utility model has the advantage of：
The sterilizing logistics system of the utility model, including a plurality of spaced apart sterilizing material flow line, each material flow line packet that sterilizes
The sabot station docked successively is included, disc stack station, the station that sterilizes, disk station is torn open and unloads disk station, is connected between each material flow line that sterilizes
The disc stack car hauler for the pallet at sabot station placing end to be dispatched to each disc stack station is connected to, between each material flow line that sterilizes also
Be connected with for the pallet at the station placing end of sterilizing is dispatched to respectively tear disk station open tear disk car hauler open.During the system operation, support
Disk is entered by the sabot station of each sterilizing material flow line, and bottle also accordingly enters from the sabot station of each sterilizing material flow line, by sabot
The pallet that station comes out enters disc stack car hauler, and according to each sterilizing subsequent disc stack progress of material flow line, disc stack car hauler is by pallet
It is dispatched to the disc stack station for each sterilizing material flow line for needing disc stack, then sterilized station, then, the pallet come out by sterilizing station
Into tearing disk car hauler open, according to each sterilizing, material flow line is subsequent tears disk progress open, and tearing disk car hauler open and being dispatched to pallet needs to tear disk open
The disk station of tearing open of each sterilizing material flow line carry out tearing disk open, then through unloading disk station bottle outlet and placing.More traditional single sterilizing logistics
For line, the sterilizing logistics system a plurality of sterilizing material flow line in parallel simultaneously substantially increases production capacity；And entirely sterilize logistics
Line is by disc stack car hauler and tears disk car hauler open and carries out the disk body of adaptability and dispatches, can be according to subsequent handling progress into row major disk
Body is dispatched, and is on the one hand made overall structure more simple and compact, is on the other hand substantially increased adaptability.
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Fig. 1 is the structure diagram of the utility model sterilizing logistics system.
Fig. 2 is the flow diagram of the utility model sterilizing material-flow method.
Each label represents in figure：
1st, sterilize material flow line；11st, sabot station；111st, bottle inlet track；12nd, disc stack station；13rd, sterilize station；14th, disk is unloaded
Station；141st, bottle outlet track；15th, disk station is torn open；2nd, disc stack car hauler；21st, disc stack scheduling bottom rail；3rd, disk car hauler is torn open；31st, it tears open
Disk dispatches bottom rail；4th, disk track is returned；41st, disc stack cache mechanism；42nd, disc mechanism is torn open；43rd, disk commutation track is returned；5th, it first shares
Track；51st, the first commutation track；6th, the second common rail；61st, the second commutation track；7th, twilight orbit.
Specific embodiment
The utility model is described in further details below with reference to Figure of description and specific embodiment.
As shown in Figure 1, a kind of embodiment of the utility model sterilizing logistics system, including a plurality of spaced apart sterilizing object
Streamline 1, each material flow line 1 that sterilizes include the sabot station 11 docked successively, disc stack station 12, sterilizing station 13, tear disk station 15 open
With unload disk station 14, be connected with the pallet at 11 placing end of sabot station being dispatched to each disc stack between each material flow line 1 that sterilizes
The disc stack car hauler 2 of station 12 is respectively also associated with the pallet scheduling for the 13 placing end of station that will sterilize between sterilizing material flow line 1
Disk car hauler 3 is torn open to respectively tear disk station 15 open.During the system operation, pallet is entered by the sabot station 11 of each sterilizing material flow line 1,
Bottle also accordingly enters from the sabot station 11 of each sterilizing material flow line 1, and the pallet come out by sabot station 11 enters disc stack scheduling
Vehicle 2, according to each sterilizing 1 subsequent disc stack progress of material flow line, pallet is dispatched to each sterilizing object for needing disc stack by disc stack car hauler 2
The disc stack station 12 of streamline 1, then sterilized station 13, then, the pallet come out by sterilizing station 13, which enters, tears disk car hauler 3 open,
According to each sterilizing, material flow line 1 is subsequent tears disk progress open, and tearing disk car hauler 3 open and being dispatched to pallet needs each sterilizing material flow line for tearing disk open
1 progress of disk station 15 4 of tearing open tears disk open, then through unloading 14 bottle outlet of disk station and placing.It, should for more traditional single sterilizing material flow line
The logistics system that sterilizes a plurality of sterilizing material flow line 1 in parallel simultaneously, substantially increases production capacity；And entirely sterilizing material flow line 1 passes through
Disc stack car hauler 2 and tear the disk body scheduling that disk car hauler 3 carries out adaptability open, it can be according to subsequent handling progress into row major disk body tune
Degree, on the one hand makes overall structure more simple and compact, on the other hand substantially increases adaptability.
In the present embodiment, 2 bottom of disc stack car hauler is equipped with the disc stack vertical with each sterilizing material flow line 1 and dispatches bottom rail 21,
Tear open 3 bottom of disk car hauler be equipped with it is each sterilizing material flow line 1 it is vertical tear open disk dispatch bottom rail 31.In the structure, disc stack scheduling bottom
Rail 21 and the convenience for setting convenient for disc stack car hauler 2 and tearing open the movement of disk car hauler 3 for tearing disk scheduling bottom rail 31 open, are carrying out unloading disk
When, it first to carry out tearing disk open, i.e., the disk body of stacking be splitted into single disk body, therefore in sterilizing station 13 and tear open between disk scheduling bottom rail 31
Disk station 15 is torn in setting open, and disk body, which is delivered to any one by tearing disk car hauler 3 open, the sterilizing material flow line 1 for unloading disk demand, structure
It is simple and practical.
In other embodiments, disc stack car hauler 2 and tear open disk car hauler 3 can set it is multiple, can be with when one of them is broken
Start remaining work, guarantee continuous production, each car hauler is arranged on corresponding disc stack scheduling bottom rail 21 and tears disk scheduling bottom rail 31 open
Bad vehicle is placed in both ends, the vehicle that one end places, one end.
In the present embodiment, the side of two of which sterilizing material flow line 1 is equipped with a sabot with corresponding sterilizing material flow line 1
Station 11 is into disk end and that unloads the docking of disk station 14 placing end return disk track 4, and two are returned disk track 4 and are connected with one into disk end
The first common rail 5 docked at 14 placing end of disk station is unloaded with remaining sterilizing material flow line 1, two placing ends for returning disk track 4 connect
Be connected to one and remaining the second common rail 6 for dock into disk end of sterilizing 1 sabot station 11 of material flow line, two times disk tracks 4 into
Disk end is opposite with the conveying direction at placing end.For more traditional single sterilizing material flow line, the sterilizing logistics system is in parallel simultaneously
A plurality of sterilizing material flow line 1, substantially increases production capacity；And entirely sterilizing material flow line 1 is common by the first common rail 5 and second
Disk track 4 is returned with two with track 6 to dock, form Double-directional back disk channel, do not need to all set back in each sterilizing material flow line 1
Disk channel, the structure on the one hand greatly optimizing whole sterilizing logistics system is simple, makes overall structure more simple and compact, another
Aspect reduces the occupied space of system.
In the present embodiment, two return disk tracks 4 set up separately both ends sterilizing material flow line 1 side, two return disk tracks 4 in
Disc stack cache mechanism 41 is equipped with close to the position for going back to disk end, two times disk tracks 4 are equipped in the position at close placing end and tear disk machine open
Structure 42.Time disk track 4 is arranged on to the side of the sterilizing material flow line 1 of end, can more save the sky between each sterilizing material flow line 1
Between, the also more conducively setting of the first common rail 5 and the second common rail 6.In the structure, pallet is returned at two on disk track 4
Can disc stack caching be carried out by disc stack cache mechanism 41, to improve two conveying scale of constructions for returning disk track 4, then by tearing disc mechanism 42 open
The single disk body of dish type tear open into the second common rail 6, it is simple in sturcture, ingenious in design.
In the present embodiment, return disk track 4 and be set as U-shaped shape, traversing section is parallel with sterilizing material flow line 1, and two vertical
Section is vertical with sterilizing material flow line 1, and traversing section is equipped with back disk commutation track 43 with the place of docking of vertical section.In the structure, blank panel by
The vertical section entrance at disk end is returned, time through the other end again back into traversing section change for the first time by returning disk commutation track 43
Disk commutation track 43 is changed the vertical section back into the other end for the second time, then is sent to each item and gone out by the second common rail 6
Fungus streamline 1, it is simple in structure, space can be saved.
In the present embodiment, the first common rail 5 dock with returning the vertical section at disk track 4 into disk end, the first common rail 5 and
The material flow line 1 that sterilizes is vertical, and the first common rail 5 is equipped with the first commutation track with the place of docking at 1 placing end of each sterilizing material flow line
51.In the structure, the blank panel of each item sterilizing material flow line 1 is changed by the first commutation track 51 back into the first common rail 5, then by
First common rail 5 is sent into back disk track 4, simple and practical in structure.
In the present embodiment, the second common rail 6 dock with returning the vertical section at 4 placing end of disk track, the second common rail 6 and
The material flow line 1 that sterilizes is vertical, and the second common rail 6 is equipped with the second commutation track with the place of docking at each sterilizing material flow line 1 into disk end
61.In the structure, return disk track 4 blank panel enter the second common rail 6 after through respective second commutation track 61 commutate after give
Enter corresponding sterilizing material flow line 1, it is simple and practical in structure.
In the present embodiment, disc stack, which is dispatched bottom rail 21 and torn open between disk dispatches bottom rail 31, is installed with twilight orbit 7.When any one
When the item sterilizing sterilizing of material flow line 1 does not reach requirement, disk body is sterilized through 7 loopback of twilight orbit by others sterilizing material flow line 1,
Loop-back path is substantially reduced, improves efficiency.
In the present embodiment, sabot station 11 is equipped with bottle inlet track 111, unloads disk station 14 equipped with bottle outlet track 141.The structure
In, bottle is sent into sabot station 11 by bottle inlet track 111 and is carried on pallet, finally unload disk station 14 carry out bottle outlet, then by
Bottle outlet track 141 is sent out.
As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, a kind of embodiment of the utility model sterilizing material-flow method, with the sterilizing logistics of above-mentioned item
System carries out, and includes the following steps：
S1：Bottle inlet sabot：Bottle and blank panel are entered the sabot work for carrying out bottle by sabot station 11；
S2：Disc stack is dispatched：Each sterilizing material flow line 1 enters disc stack car hauler 2 by the pallet that sabot station 11 comes out, according to each
Sterilize 1 subsequent disc stack progress of material flow line, and pallet is dispatched to the folded of each sterilizing material flow line 1 for needing disc stack by disc stack car hauler 2
Disk station 12；
S3：Disc stack：Orderly disc stack is carried out in disc stack station 12；
S4：Sterilizing：The centipede space of disc stack is sent into sterilizing station 13 and carries out sterilization treatment；
S5：Tear disk scheduling open：The pallet that each sterilizing material flow line 1 is come out by sterilizing station 13, which enters, tears disk car hauler 3 open, according to each
Sterilizing, material flow line 1 is subsequent to tear disk progress open, and tearing disk car hauler 3 open and being dispatched to pallet needs tearing open for each sterilizing material flow line 1 for tearing disk open
Disk station 15；
S6：Unload disk bottle outlet：It is transported unloading disk station 14 and carrying out unloading disk, bottle and blank panel by unloading disk station 14；
S7：S1 to S6 cycles is kept to carry out.
For more traditional single line sterilization method, this method a plurality of sterilizing material flow line 1 in parallel simultaneously substantially increases production
Energy；And entirely sterilizing material flow line 1 is dispatched by disc stack car hauler 2 with the disk body for tearing the progress adaptability of disk car hauler 3 open, can basis
Subsequent handling progress is dispatched into row major disk body, is on the one hand made overall structure more simple and compact, is on the other hand substantially increased
Adaptability.
Although the utility model is disclosed as above with preferred embodiment, it is not limited to the utility model.It is any
Those skilled in the art, in the case where not departing from technical solutions of the utility model range, all using the disclosure above
Technology contents technical solutions of the utility model are made with many possible changes and modifications or is revised as the equivalent of equivalent variations
Embodiment.Therefore, every content without departing from technical solutions of the utility model, according to the utility model technical spirit to above real
Any simple modifications, equivalents, and modifications that example is done are applied, should all be fallen in the range of technical solutions of the utility model protection.
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1. a kind of sterilizing logistics system, it is characterised in that：Including a plurality of spaced apart sterilizing material flow line（1）, respectively sterilize logistics
Line（1）Including the sabot station docked successively（11）, disc stack station（12）, sterilizing station（13）, tear disk station open（15）With unload disk
Station（14）, respectively sterilize material flow line（1）Between be connected with for by sabot station（11）The pallet at placing end is dispatched to each disc stack
Station（12）Disc stack car hauler（2）, respectively sterilize material flow line（1）Between be also associated with to sterilize station（13）Placing end
Pallet, which is dispatched to, respectively tears disk station open（15）Tear disk car hauler open（3）.
2. sterilizing logistics system according to claim 1, it is characterised in that：The disc stack car hauler（2）Bottom is equipped with
With each sterilizing material flow line（1）Vertical disc stack scheduling bottom rail（21）, it is described to tear disk car hauler open（3）Bottom is equipped with and each sterilizing object
Streamline（1）Vertical tears disk scheduling bottom rail open（31）.
3. sterilizing logistics system according to claim 2, it is characterised in that：Two of which sterilizing material flow line（1）Side
It is equipped with one and corresponding sterilizing material flow line（1）Sabot station（11）Into disk end and unload disk station（14）The docking of placing end is returned
Disk track（4）, two are returned disk track（4）Into disk end be connected with one with remaining sterilizing material flow line（1）Unload disk station（14）Go out
First common rail of disk end docking（5）, two are returned disk track（4）Placing end be connected with one with remaining sterilizing material flow line
（1）Sabot station（11）The second common rail docked into disk end（6）, two are returned disk track（4）Into the defeated of disk end and placing end
Send direction opposite.
4. sterilizing logistics system according to claim 3, it is characterised in that：Disk track is returned described in two（4）Set up separately two
End sterilizing material flow line（1）Side, two return disk tracks（4）Disc stack cache mechanism is equipped in the close position for going back to disk end
（41）, two are returned disk track（4）Disc mechanism is torn open in being equipped with close to the position at placing end（42）.
5. sterilizing logistics system according to claim 4, it is characterised in that：Described time disk track（4）U-shaped shape is set as,
Its traversing section and sterilizing material flow line（1）It is parallel, two vertical sections and sterilizing material flow line（1）Vertically, traversing section and vertical section
Disk commutation track is equipped with back at docking（43）.
6. sterilizing logistics system according to claim 5, it is characterised in that：First common rail（5）With returning disk rail
Road（4）Vertical section into disk end is docked, the first common rail（5）With the material flow line that sterilizes（1）Vertically, first common rail
（5）With each sterilizing material flow line（1）The first commutation track is equipped at the docking at placing end（51）.
7. sterilizing logistics system according to claim 6, it is characterised in that：Second common rail（6）With returning disk rail
Road（4）The vertical section docking at placing end, the second common rail（6）With the material flow line that sterilizes（1）Vertically, second common rail
（6）With each sterilizing material flow line（1）The second commutation track is equipped at into the docking at disk end（61）.
8. sterilizing logistics system according to claim 7, it is characterised in that：The disc stack dispatches bottom rail（21）With tearing disk tune open
Spend bottom rail（31）Between be installed with twilight orbit（7）.
9. sterilizing logistics system according to claim 1 or 2, it is characterised in that：The sabot station（11）Equipped with bottle inlet
Track（111）, it is described to unload disk station（14）Equipped with bottle outlet track（141）.
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