CN210305419U - Automatic bending foot equipment and automatic operation device thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses an automatic operation device, which comprises a transfer hopper, an operation mechanism and a controller, wherein the transfer hopper comprises a bearing part and a blanking part which is connected with the bearing part and is arranged obliquely, the operation mechanism comprises a driving unit arranged on the side part of the transfer hopper and a grabbing unit connected with the driving unit, and the driving unit can slide along three vertical directions to drive the grabbing unit to move between the transfer hopper and a front-end station; the controller is electrically connected with the driving unit and the grabbing unit, the controller controls the driving unit to slide so as to drive the grabbing unit to move, grab the pipe fitting at the front end station and transfer the pipe fitting to the upper part of the blanking part, and the grabbing unit is controlled to automatically release the pipe fitting so as to enable the pipe fitting to automatically slide into the bearing part along the blanking part for temporary storage. Through the automatic operation, the temporary storage to the pipe fitting, improve the operating efficiency by a wide margin, and then improve holistic production efficiency, reduction in production cost. The utility model discloses still disclose a curved foot automation equipment of having this automatic operation device.

Description

Automatic bending foot equipment and automatic operation device thereof

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a pipe fitting automated processing technical field especially relates to a curved foot automation equipment and automatic operation device thereof.

Background

The infant carrier is widely applied to families with infants, more and more diversified infant carriers bring convenience to users, and the frame body of each infant carrier is formed by independently processing and assembling pipe fittings with different shapes and different functions, so that the processing quality of the pipe fittings directly influences the safety of the infant carrier, and meanwhile, the processing efficiency of each pipe fitting also directly influences the production efficiency of the infant carrier.

Taking a bent foot tube as an example, one end of the foot tube is closed or semi-closed after being processed by tube wrapping, and the foot tube is provided with a mounting hole. Specifically, an operator puts a straight pipe into the pipe wrapping machine to wrap one end of the pipe, the depth and the length of the wrapped pipe need to be controlled manually in the process, then the operator takes the pipe out and carries the pipe to the pipe wrapping machine to conduct pipe bending operation, the operator takes the pipe out and puts the pipe into a punch press to punch a hole after the pipe is completed, and the punched pipe is taken out by the operator and put into a material receiving device. In the existing processing mode, each process is completed by manual operation, each process is carried by manpower, a lot of time and energy are consumed, the processing efficiency is not high enough, and the overall production efficiency is further influenced.

Therefore, there is a need to provide a transfer device capable of automatically transferring a pipe and an automatic bending apparatus having the same, so as to solve the above problems in the prior art.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to provide a can realize pipe fitting automatic handling's automatic operation device to improve production efficiency.

Another object of the utility model is to provide a can realize pipe fitting automatic handling's curved foot automation equipment to improve production efficiency.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical scheme of the utility model is that: the automatic operation device is used for automatically operating and temporarily storing the pipe fittings and comprises a transfer hopper, an operation mechanism and a controller; the transfer hopper comprises a bearing part and a blanking part which is connected with the bearing part and is obliquely arranged, and the pipe fitting can slide into the bearing part along the blanking part; the operation mechanism comprises a driving unit arranged on the side part of the transfer hopper and a grabbing unit connected to the driving unit, and the driving unit can slide along three vertical directions to drive the grabbing unit to move between the transfer hopper and a front-end station; the controller is electrically connected with the driving unit and the grabbing unit, the controller controls the driving unit to slide so as to drive the grabbing unit to move, grab the pipe fitting at the front end station and transfer the pipe fitting to the upper part of the blanking part, and controls the grabbing unit to automatically release the pipe fitting so that the pipe fitting automatically slides into the bearing part along the blanking part for temporary storage.

Preferably, the gripping unit comprises a gripper fixed to an end of the driving unit, the gripper being adapted to automatically grip and automatically release the tubular.

Preferably, the gripping unit further comprises a pushing member disposed on one side of the gripper, the pushing member is electrically connected to the controller and has a retractable pushing rod, and the pushing rod can push the pipe on the gripper to separate from the gripper after extending out.

Preferably, the hand grip is a permanent magnet, and the pushing piece is an air cylinder.

Preferably, the grabbing unit further comprises a fixing plate fixed at the end of the driving unit, the hand grip and the pushing piece are mounted on the same side face of the fixing plate, and the pushing rod is arranged at one end, far away from the fixing plate, of the pushing piece.

Preferably, the driving unit includes a first mechanical arm disposed along a first direction, a second mechanical arm slidably connected to the first mechanical arm and disposed along a second direction, and a third mechanical arm slidably connected to the second mechanical arm and disposed along a third direction, the end of the third mechanical arm is provided with the grasping unit, and the first mechanical arm is slidable along the third direction, wherein the first direction, the second direction, and the third direction are perpendicular to each other.

Preferably, the second mechanical arm is connected with a third mechanical arm in a sliding manner, and at least one grabbing unit is mounted at the end of the third mechanical arm.

Preferably, the second mechanical arm is connected with at least one third mechanical arm in a sliding manner, and one grabbing unit is mounted at the end of each third mechanical arm.

Correspondingly, the utility model also provides a hook automation equipment is applicable to and carries out automatic processing to the pipe fitting, and it includes tube packaging machine, bending machine and the automatic operation device of looks interval setting, wherein, the transfer hopper is located the tube packaging machine between the bending machine, the operation mechanism is connected the tube packaging machine the transfer hopper, through drive unit's slip is in order to drive snatch the unit and grab the warp the tube packaging machine carries out the pipe fitting after the tube packaging is handled and will the pipe fitting is transferred extremely the transfer hopper is kept in.

Preferably, the automatic pin bending apparatus further includes a feeding pneumatic clamp disposed between the carrying portion and the pipe bending machine, and configured to automatically transfer the pipe fitting in the transfer hopper to the pipe bending machine.

Compared with the prior art, because the utility model discloses an automatic operation device has transfer hopper and the operation mechanism of corresponding installation with it, and this operation mechanism have can follow the gliding drive unit of looks vertically three direction and connect in drive unit's the unit of snatching snatchs the unit through drive unit along the slip of three direction and remove in order to drive to the messenger snatchs the unit and snatchs the pipe fitting automatically and shift this pipe fitting to the top of the blanking portion of transfer hopper, snatchs behind the unit automatic release pipe fitting, this pipe fitting is followed blanking portion automatic sliding goes into the bearing part of transfer hopper and keeps in. This automatic operation device can carry out automatic operation, temporary storage to the pipe fitting, improves the operating efficiency by a wide margin, and then improves holistic production efficiency, and manpower and materials are saved to unmanned on duty operation mode, but reduction in production cost. Correspondingly, the automatic pin bending equipment with the automatic operation device also has the same technical effect.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of the automatic operation device of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of the grasping unit in fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a schematic top view of the present invention.

Detailed Description

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings, wherein like element numerals represent like elements throughout. The utility model provides an automatic operation device 100 mainly is applicable to the automatic equipment 1 of dog-ear in order to carry out automatic handling to pipe fitting 2, nevertheless does not use this as the limit, can also be used for other pipe fitting automatic production lines or be used for carrying other pipe fittings 2.

Referring to fig. 1, the present invention provides an automatic operation device 100, which includes an operation mechanism 110, a transfer hopper 120, and a controller 130. The transfer hopper 120 includes a carrying portion 121 and a material dropping portion 122 connected to the carrying portion 121 and disposed obliquely, and the pipe 2 can slide into the carrying portion 121 along the material dropping portion 122 automatically. The operation mechanism 110 includes a driving unit 111 disposed at a side of the transfer hopper 120 and a grabbing unit 112 connected to the driving unit 111, the driving unit 111 can slide along three perpendicular directions to drive the grabbing unit 112 to move between the transfer hopper 120 and the front end station, and the grabbing unit 112 can grab at least one pipe 2 at a time. The controller 130 is electrically connected to the driving unit 111 and the grabbing unit 112, and the controller 130 controls the driving unit 111 to slide to drive the grabbing unit 112 to move, and controls the grabbing unit 112 to grab and release the pipe 2 automatically, so that the pipe 2 automatically slides into the carrying portion 121 along the blanking portion 122 for temporary storage.

More specifically, the carrying portion 121 of the transfer hopper 120 is mounted on the bottom frame and is horizontally disposed, the blanking portion 122 is a plate member mounted on the bottom frame and connected to one side of the carrying portion 121, and the blanking portion 122 extends from the carrying portion 121 in an upward inclined manner. Of course, the blanking portion 122 is not limited to a plate, for example, in another embodiment, the blanking portion 122 is two parallel guide rails, the two guide rails are connected to one side of the bearing portion 121 at intervals and extend obliquely upward, and the distance between the two guide rails corresponds to the length of the pipe 2, so that the pipe 2 can slide down to the bearing portion 121 along the two guide rails after falling on the two guide rails.

Referring to fig. 2, the gripping unit 112 includes a fixing plate 1121, a gripping device 1122 and a pushing device 1123 mounted on the same side of the fixing plate 1121, the gripping device 1122 is used for automatically gripping the pipe 2, the pushing device 1123 is electrically connected to the controller 130 and has a retractable pushing rod 1123a, the pushing rod 1123a is disposed at an end of the pushing device 1123 away from the fixing plate 1121, and when the controller 130 controls the pushing rod 1123a to extend, the gripping device 112 pushes the pipe 2 to be separated from the gripping device 1122.

The utility model discloses in, tongs 1122 is preferred to be the permanent magnet, and the permanent magnet has great magnetic force, absorbs pipe fitting 2 through the permanent magnet and shifts, can guarantee absorbent stability. In addition, the pushing member 1123 is preferably an air cylinder, when the pipe 2 is transferred to the upper portion of the transfer hopper 120, the controller 130 controls the pushing rod 1123a of the pushing member 1123 to extend to push the pipe 2, and when the acting force overcomes the attraction force of the permanent magnet, the pipe 2 automatically falls off under the gravity, and then automatically slides into the carrying portion 121 along the blanking portion 122. Of course, other components, such as suction cups, may be used for the hand grip 1122 depending on the material of the pipe 2 to be processed.

With continued reference to fig. 1, the driving unit 111 includes a first robot 1111, a second robot 1112, a third robot 1113, and a mounting base 1114, the first robot 1111 is slidably connected to the mounting base 1114 and disposed along a first direction (x-axis direction), the second robot 1112 is slidably connected to the first robot 1111 and disposed along a second direction (y-axis direction), the second robot 1112 is reciprocally slidable along the first direction, the third robot 1113 is slidably connected to the second robot 1112 and disposed along a third direction (z-axis direction), the gripping unit 112 is mounted at an end of the third robot 1113, the third robot 1113 is reciprocally slidable along the second direction, and the first robot 1111 is slidable up and down within the mounting base 1114 along the third direction. Therefore, the first robot 1111 slides back and forth in the z-axis direction to move the hand 1122 down to grab the pipe 2 and then move up to a predetermined height, and the second robot 1112 slides along the first robot 1111 or/and the third robot 1113 slides along the second robot 1112 to drive the hand 1122 to move above the transfer hopper 120.

With continued reference to fig. 1, in an embodiment of the present invention, at least one third robot 1113 is slidably connected to the second robot 1112, and a grabbing unit 112 is installed at an end of each third robot 1113, for example, in this embodiment, three third robots 1113 are installed on the second robot 1112, and a grabbing unit 112 is installed at an end of each third robot 1113, so that three pipes 2 can be handled simultaneously at each time to improve the handling efficiency.

It is understood that it is also possible to provide only one third robot 1113 on the second robot 1112 and to mount at least two gripping units 112 at the end of the third robot 1113, as well as to achieve gripping of a plurality of pipes 2.

Referring to fig. 1 and 3, the present invention provides a pin bending automation device 1, which includes an automatic operation device 100, a tube wrapping machine 200, a feeding pneumatic clamp 300, and a tube bending machine 400. The automatic operation device 100 has the structure as described above, the tube wrapping machine 200 and the tube bending machine 400 are arranged at intervals, the transfer hopper 120 is arranged between the tube wrapping machine 200 and the tube bending machine 400, the operation mechanism 110 is connected with the tube wrapping machine 200 and the transfer hopper 120, and the driving unit 111 slides to drive the gripper 1122 to move between the tube wrapping machine 200 and the transfer hopper 120, so that the gripper 1122 automatically grips the tube 2 wrapped by the tube wrapping machine 200 and transfers the tube 2 to the transfer hopper 120 for temporary storage. The feeding pneumatic clamp 300 is disposed between the transfer hopper 120 and the pipe bender 400, and is used for automatically transferring the pipe 2 in the transfer hopper 120 to the pipe bender 400 for pipe bending operation.

The tube wrapping machine 200, the feeding pneumatic jig 300, and the tube bending machine 400 are preferably controlled by the controller 130, but may be controlled by another control system.

With continued reference to fig. 1 and 3, the tube wrapping machine 200 includes a transfer sliding table 210 and a tube wrapping mechanism 220 disposed on one side of the transfer sliding table, a plurality of tube wrapping processing stations are disposed on the tube wrapping mechanism 220, and are arranged along the y-axis direction, and a plurality of tubes 2 are simultaneously fed into the tube wrapping mechanism 220 through the transfer sliding table 210 for tube wrapping processing, so as to improve the tube wrapping efficiency. For example, in one embodiment, three tube wrapping processing stations 221 are provided on the tube wrapping mechanism 220 at intervals, so that the transfer slide table 210 can simultaneously feed three tubes 2 into the tube wrapping mechanism 220 for automatic tube wrapping at a time.

The operation and principle of the automatic operation device 100 and the automatic bending apparatus 1 according to the present invention will be described with reference to fig. 1-3.

Before the work is started, the moving height of the first mechanical arm 1111 in the z-axis direction is set through an operation interface, and the sliding distance of the second mechanical arm 1112 on the first mechanical arm 1111 is set, wherein the distance corresponds to the distance between the transfer hopper 120 and the transfer sliding table 210; then, the positions of the three third mechanical arms 1113 on the second mechanical arm 1112 are adjusted to correspond to the three tube wrapping processing stations on the tube wrapping machine 200. Then, the controller 130 controls the first robot 1111 to ascend or descend along the mounting base 1114 such that the first robot 1111 is at a predetermined height, and controls the second robot 1112 to slide along the first robot 1111 to an initial position, for example, to slide to the end of the first robot 1111 in the negative direction of the x-axis, when the second robot 1112 is located above the transfer hopper 120.

After the work is started, the transfer sliding table 210 sends the three pipe fittings 2 into the pipe wrapping mechanism 220 for pipe wrapping treatment, the pipe wrapping mechanism 220 can automatically control the processing depth of the pipe fittings 2, and after the pipe wrapping is completed, one end of the pipe fitting 2 with a hollow structure forms a closed or semi-closed structure.

Then, the controller 130 controls the driving unit 111 to move to drive the grabbing unit 112 to move, specifically, the controller 130 controls the second robot 1112 to slide on the first robot 1111 for a preset distance along the x-axis forward direction, so that the third robot 1113 slides above the transfer platform 210; then, the first robot 1111 is controlled to slide along the z-axis by a predetermined height to drive the gripper 1122 to move down to a designated height, and the gripper 1122 can simultaneously pick up the three pipes 2 on the transfer slide table 210.

Then, the controller 130 controls the first robot 1111 to slide along the z-axis by a predetermined height, controls the second robot 1112 to slide along the x-axis in the negative direction to an initial position, and then the controller 130 controls the ejector 1123a of the ejector 1123 to extend, so that the ejector 1123a ejects the pipe 2, when the ejecting force overcomes the suction force of the gripper 1122, the pipe 2 falls into the transfer hopper 120 under the action of gravity, and the pipe 2 automatically slides into the carrier 121 along the blanking portion 122 for temporary storage, thereby completing a transportation process. Thereafter, the controller 130 again controls the second robot 1112 to slide along the x-axis in the forward direction, and repeats the above steps to cyclically grip the tube 2 and automatically transfer the tube.

While the automatic operation device 100 is transferring the pipe 2, the feed air jig 300 is operated to move the pipe 2 in the transfer hopper 120 to the pipe bending machine 400, and the pipe bending machine 400 is controlled to perform a pipe bending operation on the pipe 2.

In summary, because the utility model discloses an automatic operation device 100, it has transfer hopper 120 and the operation mechanism 110 of installing corresponding to it, and this operation mechanism 110 has can follow gliding drive unit 111 of looks vertically three direction and connect in the unit 112 that snatchs of drive unit 111, slide along three direction through drive unit 111 and move in order to drive the unit 112 that snatchs, make and snatch unit 112 and snatch pipe fitting 2 automatically and shift this pipe fitting 2 to the top of blanking portion 122 of transfer hopper 120, after grabbing unit 112 automatic release pipe fitting 2, this pipe fitting 2 is followed blanking portion 122 automatic slip into bearing portion 121 and is kept in. This automatic operation device 100 can carry out automatic operation, temporary storage to pipe fitting 2, improves the operating efficiency by a wide margin, and then improves holistic production efficiency, and manpower and materials are saved to unmanned on duty operation mode, but reduction in production cost.

Accordingly, the automatic leg bending apparatus 1 having the automatic operation device 100 has the same technical effects.

The structure, arrangement mode, etc. of other parts of the automatic device for bending feet 1 related to the present invention are conventional designs in the field, and detailed description is not provided herein.

The above disclosure is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention, therefore, the invention is not limited thereto.

Claims (10)

1. An automatic operation device for automatically operating and temporarily storing pipe fittings is characterized by comprising:

the transfer hopper comprises a bearing part and a blanking part which is connected with the bearing part and is obliquely arranged, and the pipe fitting can slide into the bearing part along the blanking part;

the operation mechanism comprises a driving unit arranged on the side part of the transfer hopper and a grabbing unit connected to the driving unit, and the driving unit can slide along three vertical directions to drive the grabbing unit to move between the transfer hopper and a front-end station;

the controller is electrically connected with the driving unit and the grabbing unit, controls the driving unit to slide to drive the grabbing unit to move, grab the pipe fitting at the front end station and transfer the pipe fitting to the upper part of the blanking part, and controls the grabbing unit to automatically release the pipe fitting so that the pipe fitting automatically slides into the bearing part along the blanking part for temporary storage.

2. The automatic handling device according to claim 1, wherein the gripping unit comprises a gripper fixed to an end of the driving unit for automatically gripping and automatically releasing the tubular.

3. The automatic handling device of claim 2, wherein the gripping unit further comprises an ejector member disposed on one side of the gripper, the ejector member being electrically connected to the controller and having a retractable ejector rod, the ejector rod being extendable to eject the tubular member from the gripper to disengage the tubular member from the gripper.

4. The automatic operation device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the hand grip is a permanent magnet, and the pushing member is an air cylinder.

5. The automatic operation device according to claim 3, wherein the grasping unit further includes a fixing plate fixed to an end of the driving unit, the grasping unit and the pushing unit are mounted on a same side of the fixing plate, and the pushing rod is provided at an end of the pushing unit away from the fixing plate.

6. The automatic operation device according to claim 1, wherein the driving unit includes a first robot arm disposed along a first direction, a second robot arm slidably coupled to the first robot arm and disposed along a second direction, and a third robot arm slidably coupled to the second robot arm and disposed along a third direction, the third robot arm having an end portion on which the grasping unit is mounted, the first robot arm being slidable along the third direction, wherein the first direction, the second direction, and the third direction are perpendicular to each other.

7. The automatic handling device according to claim 6, wherein said second robot arm is slidably connected to a third robot arm, and at least one of said gripping units is mounted to an end of said third robot arm.

8. The automatic handling device according to claim 6, wherein said second robot arm is slidably connected to at least one third robot arm, and one of said gripping units is mounted to an end of each of said third robot arms.

9. An automatic device for bending feet, which is suitable for automatically processing pipe fittings and comprises a pipe wrapping machine and a pipe bending machine which are arranged at intervals, and is characterized by further comprising an automatic operation device according to any one of claims 1-8, wherein the transfer hopper is arranged between the pipe wrapping machine and the pipe bending machine, the operation mechanism is connected with the pipe wrapping machine and the transfer hopper, and the driving unit slides to drive the grabbing unit to grab the pipe fittings which are wrapped by the pipe wrapping machine and transfer the pipe fittings to the transfer hopper for temporary storage.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a feed pneumatic clamp disposed between the carrier and the tube bender for automatically transferring the tubes in the transfer hopper to the tube bender.

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