CN210748373U

CN210748373U - Feeding device and vending machine

Info

Publication number: CN210748373U
Application number: CN201921383318.7U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 吴季泳; 杨桂平; 郭锐
Original assignee: Tianjin Tami Intelligent Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Tianjin Tami Intelligent Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2019-08-23
Filing date: 2019-08-23
Publication date: 2020-06-16
Anticipated expiration: 2029-08-23

Abstract

The utility model relates to an automatic technical field of selling goods discloses a feedway and vending machine. The utility model provides a feedway includes rack, push pedal and two drive assembly, two drive assembly set up relatively and with the rack forms accommodation space jointly, be provided with in the accommodation space push pedal and commodity, the rack supports commodity, two drive assembly can drive jointly the push pedal removes to the part removal is treated promoting in the promotion. After manipulator takeaway the most preceding part of promoting of treating, two drive assembly drive the push pedal jointly, and the push pedal receives the balanced thrust in both sides, realizes treating to promote the part and promotes more steadily, in addition, treats that the part that promotes directly places on the rack for it is enough big to treat the contact surface that promotes part and rack relative slip, therefore slides more steadily, is difficult for empting. The utility model discloses a vending machine can realize more steadily the feed through above-mentioned feedway.

Description

Feeding device and vending machine

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an automatic technical field that sells especially relates to a feedway and vending machine.

Background

With the development of science and technology and the continuous improvement of technical level, the field of robots is rapidly developed, and people have higher and higher expectations for the application of robots in production and life. Robot vending machine bears frame, feedway and manipulator, bears and sets up multirow commodity on the frame, and every row is arranged along the straight line including a plurality of commodities, and when manipulator tak away the commodity that leans on before in a row of commodity, feedway promotes this row of remaining commodity forward at the back to guarantee that follow-up manipulator is to every row of snatching of leaning on preceding commodity.

In order to push the remaining commodities behind the rows forwards, the prior art discloses a feeding device, which comprises a placing rack and a positioning block, wherein the placing rack is rotatably connected with the placing rack, the working principle of the feeding device is that after a manipulator takes away a first commodity, the placing rack rotates and inclines, and the gravity component of the commodity along the inclined bearing rack overcomes the friction force, so that the commodity can slide downwards along the placing rack and is stopped at a proper position by the positioning block at the front end. In the feeding process, when the inclination angle of the placing rack is large, the commodities are easy to topple over due to high gravity center in the sliding process, and when the inclination angle of the placing rack is small, the commodities cannot be issued due to the fact that the gravity component cannot overcome the friction force.

In order to solve the problem that above-mentioned robot vending machine exists, prior art still has another kind of robot vending machine, this robot vending machine's feedway includes the bottom plate that the level set up, the return coil spring, push pedal and two guide rails, two guide rail parallels and relative settings are on the bottom plate, the return coil spring is laid between the guide rail, commodity is placed on two guide rails, return coil spring drive push pedal slides along the guide rail, thereby the push pedal can promote the backward position commodity and move forward, this kind of feedway provides the backward position commodity of horizontal thrust promotion through the return coil spring and moves forward, thereby realize not inclined bottom plate and can realize the feed. However, only part of the bottom surface of the commodity is in contact with the guide rail surface, and most of the bottom surface of the commodity is suspended, so that the movement of the commodity is unstable in the process of being pushed by the push plate, and the commodity is easy to topple.

Therefore, the invention is needed to provide a feeding device for solving the problem of dumping of the goods during the pushing process.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to provide a feedway realizes the more stable promotion to commodity.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a vending machine, which can smoothly supply the vending machine through the above-mentioned supply device.

To achieve the purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical proposal:

the utility model provides a feedway, includes rack and push pedal, feedway still includes:

two drive assembly that set up relatively form accommodation space jointly with the rack, are provided with in the accommodation space the push pedal with treat the promotion part, the rack supports and treats the promotion part, two drive assembly can drive the push pedal jointly and remove in order to promote the part along predetermineeing the direction.

Optionally the drive assembly comprises:

and one end of the coil spring is connected with the placing rack, the other end of the coil spring is connected with the push plate, and the coil spring can drive the push plate to move along the preset direction during rolling.

Optionally, the feeding device further comprises:

the mounting bracket sets up and deviates from one side of treating the promotion part at the push pedal, and the other end of coil spring is connected with the mounting bracket, and the center of rotation line of coil spring sets up along vertical direction.

Optionally, the connection position of the coil spring and the push plate is set at the middle position of the part to be pushed in the vertical direction.

Optionally, be provided with the direction subassembly between push pedal and the rack, the direction subassembly is including setting up the slider on the push pedal and setting up the guide rail on the rack along preset direction, and the slider can slide along the guide rail.

Optionally, the rack comprises a bottom plate, the upper surface of the bottom plate is smooth, and the bottom surface of the part to be pushed abuts against the upper surface of the bottom plate.

Optionally, the rack further comprises a limiting plate disposed at a front side of the rack, the limiting plate being configured to block the part to be pushed from sliding out of the rack.

Optionally, a limiting groove is formed in one side, facing the part to be pushed, of the limiting plate, and the shape of the limiting groove is matched with the shape of the surface of the part to be pushed.

Optionally, the rack further comprises side walls, the side walls are arranged on two sides of the part to be pushed, and one end of the coil spring is fixed on the side walls.

A vending machine comprises the feeding device.

The advantages and the beneficial effects are that:

the utility model discloses a feedway includes rack, push pedal and two drive assembly, and two drive assembly set up relatively and form accommodation space jointly with the rack, are provided with the push pedal in the accommodation space and treat the promotion part, and the rack supports the part, and two drive assembly can drive the push pedal jointly and remove to the promotion is treated the promotion part and is removed. After manipulator tak away the most preceding part of waiting to promote, the setting is waiting to promote the drive assembly drive push pedal jointly of part both sides, and the push pedal receives the balanced thrust in both sides, realizes treating to promote the part and promotes more steadily, treats that the part that promotes directly places on the rack for it is enough big to treat to promote part and rack relative slip's contact surface, therefore slides more steadily, is difficult for empting.

The utility model also provides a vending machine, this vending machine can carry out the feed of commodity through above-mentioned feedway steadily.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a feeding device provided by the present invention for carrying a part to be pushed;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a feeding device provided by the present invention;

fig. 3 is a side view of the feeding device provided by the present invention.

In the figure:

1-placing a rack; 2-pushing the plate; 3-coil spring; 4-a mounting frame; 5-a guide assembly; 6-parts to be pushed;

11-a base plate; 12-a side wall; 13-a limiting plate; 131-a limiting groove; 51-a slider; 52-guide rail.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples. It is to be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not limiting of the invention. It should be further noted that, for the convenience of description, only some of the structures related to the present invention are shown in the drawings, not all of the structures.

In the description of the present invention, unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, the terms "connected," "connected," and "fixed" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning permanently connected, detachably connected, or integral to one another; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly through intervening media, either internally or in any other relationship. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.

In the present disclosure, unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, the first feature "on" or "under" the second feature may comprise direct contact between the first and second features, or may comprise contact between the first and second features not directly. Also, the first feature being "on," "above" and "over" the second feature includes the first feature being directly on and obliquely above the second feature, or merely indicating that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature includes the first feature being directly under and obliquely below the second feature, or simply meaning that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.

In the description of the present embodiment, the terms "upper", "lower", "right", etc. are used in an orientation or positional relationship based on that shown in the drawings only for convenience of description and simplicity of operation, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first" and "second" are used only for descriptive purposes and are not intended to have a special meaning.

The present embodiment provides a vending machine that can be used to vend goods such as beverages. The vending machine of this embodiment includes a carrier, a feeding device, and a robot. The bearing frame is provided with a plurality of rows of commodities, each row of commodities comprises a plurality of commodities which are arranged along a straight line, and when the manipulator takes away the front-most commodity in a row of commodities, the feeding device pushes the rear-most remaining commodities of the row forward, so that the follow-up manipulator can grasp the front-most commodity of each row.

The feeding device of the prior art comprises a bottom plate, a return coil spring, a push plate and two guide rails, wherein the two guide rails are arranged on the bottom plate in parallel and oppositely, the return coil spring is laid between the guide rails, commodities are placed on the two guide rails, the return coil spring drives the push plate to slide along the guide rails, and therefore the commodities are pushed by the push plate to move forwards, but only partial areas of the bottom surfaces of the commodities are in contact with the guide rail surfaces, most areas of the bottom surfaces of the commodities are suspended, the process that the commodities are pushed by the push plate is unstable in movement, and the commodities are prone to toppling.

In order to make the process of pushing the commodity by the feeding device more stable, the embodiment provides the feeding device, in the embodiment, the commodity is represented by the part to be pushed, and the part to be pushed can be a beverage, a living article and the like. As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the feeding device includes a placing frame 4, a push plate 2 and two driving assemblies, the two driving assemblies are arranged oppositely and form a containing space together with the placing frame 1, the push plate 2 and a part 6 to be pushed are arranged in the containing space, the placing frame 1 supports the part 6 to be pushed, and the two driving assemblies can drive the push plate 2 to move together so as to push the part 6 to be pushed to move along the X direction (preset direction). After manipulator tak away the most preceding part 6 of waiting to promote, the setting is waiting to promote the drive assembly drive push pedal 2 jointly of part 6 both sides, and push pedal 2 receives the balanced thrust in both sides, realizes treating to promote part 6 and promotes more steadily, treats that the part that promotes directly places on the rack for it is enough big to treat to promote part 6 and rack relative slip's contact surface, therefore slides more steadily, is difficult for empting.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the placing rack 1 includes a side wall 12, the side wall 12 is disposed on two sides of the part 6 to be pushed, the driving component is a coil spring 3, the two coil springs 3 are respectively disposed on two sides of the part 6 to be pushed, one end of each coil spring 3 is connected to the side wall 12, the other end of each coil spring is connected to the pushing plate 2, and the pushing plate 2 can be driven to move along the X direction when the coil springs 3 are wound. When the rolling force generated by the coil springs 3 is larger than the friction force between all parts 6 to be pushed and the placing rack 1, the coil springs 3 on the two sides roll and push the push plate 2 in the rolling process, so that the parts 6 to be pushed move to the foremost position, and the pushing process completely depends on the properties of the coil springs without additional driving sources to provide energy. In addition, the coil spring 3 is a standard part and is cheap, so that the production and manufacturing cost of the feeding device is reduced.

Further, in order to facilitate the installation of the coil spring 3, as shown in fig. 2, the feeding device further includes a mounting frame 4, the mounting frame 4 is disposed on one side of the push plate 2 departing from the part 6 to be pushed, the other end of the coil spring 3 is connected with the mounting frame 4, and the rotation center line of the coil spring 3 is disposed along the vertical direction. Set up mounting bracket 4, then can install coil spring 3 and mounting bracket 4 together earlier, install mounting bracket 4 on push pedal 2 again, then the process of installing coil spring 3 need not accomplish in feed arrangement's inside for coil spring 3's installation process is more convenient. The mounting rack 4 can support the coil spring 3, so that the coil spring 3 is prevented from offsetting in position in the rolling or extending process, and the pushing stability of the push plate 2 is prevented from being influenced. In addition, mounting bracket 4 sets up in the one side that deviates from to treat to promote part 6, can avoid mounting bracket 4 and treat to promote part 6 contact, prevents that push pedal 2 from treating to promote part 6's in-process mounting bracket 4 bruising in the promotion, guarantees to treat the integrality that promotes part 6, improves customer experience and feels.

Preferably, the connection position of the coil spring 3 and the push plate 2 is arranged at the middle position of the part 6 to be pushed along the vertical direction, and the position arrangement can enable the stress point of the part 6 to be pushed to be close to the gravity center position of a commodity, so that the part 6 to be pushed is more stable and is not easy to topple over in the movement process. Of course, it is within the scope of the present application that the attachment location of the coil spring 3 to the push plate 2 is located slightly above or slightly below the middle of the merchandise.

In order to enable the push plate 2 to better slide along the X direction, as shown in fig. 2, a guide assembly 5 is arranged between the push plate 2 and the placing rack 1, the guide assembly 5 comprises a slide block 51 arranged on the push plate 2 and a guide rail 52 arranged on the placing rack 1 along the X direction, and the slide block 51 can slide along the guide rail 52. Specifically, in this embodiment, the guide rail 52 is disposed on the side wall 12 along the X direction, grooves are disposed at the upper and lower ends of the guide rail 52, protrusions are disposed at the upper and lower ends of the slider 51, the protruding portion of the slider 51 is disposed in the groove of the guide rail 52, and the slider 51 slides along the guide rail 52, so that the push plate 2 is ensured to move along the X direction without deviation.

Preferably, as shown in fig. 3, the sliding block 51 is integrally formed with the mounting frame 4 and is mounted on the side of the push plate 2 facing away from the commodity 5, and the integral formation of the sliding block 51 with the mounting frame 4 can reduce the number of parts of the feeding device, thereby simplifying the mounting process of the feeding device.

In order to avoid the push pedal 2 to wait to promote outside part 6 releases rack 1, rack 1 front side is provided with limiting plate 13, and limiting plate 13 can block and wait to promote part 6 and prevent to wait to promote part 6 and be released rack 1. When the push plate 2 pushes the part 6 to the most front position, the part 6 and the limiting plate 13 are pushed to be abutted, so that the part 6 is prevented from being pushed to be pushed out of the placing frame 1, the limiting plate 13 can limit the part 6 to be pushed, and the manipulator can more accurately grab the part 6 to be pushed to the most front position. Further, the limiting groove 131 has been seted up towards one side of waiting to promote part 6 to limiting plate 13, and the shape of limiting groove 131 suits with the shape of waiting to promote part 6 surface, can avoid limiting plate 13 to treat the rigid of promoting part 6 and collide with, guarantees the integrality of commodity outward appearance.

In order to enable the part 6 to be pushed to move on the placing rack 1 more smoothly, the placing rack 1 further comprises a bottom plate 11, the upper surface of the bottom plate 11 is smooth, the bottom surface of the part 6 to be pushed abuts against the upper surface of the bottom plate 11, and friction force between the smooth upper surface of the bottom plate 11 and the part 6 to be pushed is small, so that the driving assembly is more smoothly used for pushing commodities.

The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, there are variations on the detailed description and the application scope according to the idea of the present invention, and the content of the description should not be construed as a limitation to the present invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a feedway, includes rack (1) and push pedal (2), its characterized in that, feedway still includes:

two drive assembly that set up relatively, with rack (1) forms accommodation space jointly, be provided with in the accommodation space push pedal (2) with treat to promote part (6), rack (1) supports treat to promote part (6), two drive assembly can drive jointly push pedal (2) are along predetermineeing the direction and remove in order to promote treat to promote the part.

2. The feeder apparatus of claim 1, wherein the drive assembly comprises:

and one end of the coil spring (3) is connected with the placing rack (1), the other end of the coil spring is connected with the push plate (2), and the coil spring (3) can drive the push plate (2) to move along a preset direction when being wound.

3. The feeder apparatus of claim 2, further comprising:

mounting bracket (4), the setting is in push pedal (2) deviate from treat one side of pushing away part (6), the other end of coil spring (3) with mounting bracket (4) are connected, the rotation center line of coil spring (3) sets up along vertical direction.

4. The feeder device according to claim 2, characterised in that the connection position of the coil spring (3) to the push plate (2) is arranged at a middle position of the part (6) to be pushed in the vertical direction.

5. The feeder apparatus according to claim 2, characterized in that a guide assembly (5) is arranged between the push plate (2) and the rack (1), the guide assembly (5) comprises a slide block (51) arranged on the push plate (2) and a guide rail (52) arranged on the rack (1) along a preset direction, and the slide block (51) can slide along the guide rail (52).

6. The feeder device according to claim 1, characterised in that the rack (1) comprises a bottom plate (11), the upper surface of the bottom plate (11) is smooth, and the bottom surface of the part to be pushed (6) abuts against the upper surface of the bottom plate (11).

7. The feeder apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the rack (1) further comprises a limit plate (13), the limit plate (13) being arranged at the front side of the rack (1), the limit plate (13) being configured to block the part to be pushed (6) from sliding out of the rack (1).

8. The feeder according to claim 7, characterized in that the limiting plate (13) is provided with a limiting groove (131) on the side facing the part (6) to be pushed, and the shape of the limiting groove (131) is adapted to the shape of the surface of the part (6) to be pushed.

9. The feeder device according to claim 2, characterised in that said rack (1) further comprises side walls (12), said side walls (12) being arranged on both sides of said element to be pushed (6), one end of said coil spring (3) being fixed to said side walls (12).

10. A vending machine comprising a supply device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 9.