CN210776950U

CN210776950U - Collet discharging device and vending machine

Info

Publication number: CN210776950U
Application number: CN201921858764.9U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张胡升; 吕亚军
Original assignee: Guangdong Zhiyuan Robot Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Zhiyuan Robot Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-10-31
Filing date: 2019-10-31
Publication date: 2020-06-16
Anticipated expiration: 2029-10-31

Abstract

The utility model relates to a collet discharging device and vending machine, include: the blanking support is positioned in the area above the blanking hole and is used for arranging a plurality of piled and stacked bottom supports; and the first clamping and supporting mechanism comprises a first clamping and placing component and a second clamping and placing component which are arranged on the blanking support and are arranged along the stacking height direction of the bottom support at intervals, the first clamping and placing component is arranged between the blanking hole and the second clamping and placing component, and the first clamping and placing component and the second clamping and placing component are both used for clamping or releasing the bottom support. The cup discharging operation flow that the cups fall one by one and are taken away one by one can be realized, the reliability is high, the problems of excessive cup discharging and wrong cup discharging can be effectively avoided, the cup discharging efficiency is ensured, and unnecessary economic loss is prevented; and the cup can not be deformed by the cup discharging mode, and the cup discharging position is accurate and controllable.

Description

Collet discharging device and vending machine

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an automatic vending equipment technical field especially relates to a collet discharging device and automatic vending machine.

Background

The appearance of the vending machine provides conditions for more convenient life and entertainment of people. Vending machines such as ice cream vending machines, milk tea vending machines, etc. do not have a mechanism for automatically supplying pallets (e.g., cups, boxes, etc.). With regard to taking cup discharge mechanism, at present, cup discharge mechanism roughly has two kinds of structures and theory of operation: the first is to screw extrude and send out a plurality of cups in a pile one by means of the gear screw extrusion principle. However, due to the influence of factors such as non-uniformity of cup distance during stacking of cups, two or more cups are extruded and sent out simultaneously at one time, the problem of more cups is caused, the cup discharging reliability is influenced, and unnecessary economic loss is caused; the other is completely dependent on the principle that the cup falls out of the cup by itself, although the structure and the working principle are simple, the mode can cause that the lowermost cup can not be separated from the upper cup and fall off due to the fact that the weight of the cup is too light, and the cup outlet efficiency is influenced. In order to solve the problem, an air pipe or a sucker needs to be additionally arranged to assist in cup falling, so that the cost is increased, the cup is easy to deform, and the cup falling position cannot be accurately controlled.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

Based on this, it is necessary to provide a collet discharging device and vending machine, aim at solving prior art and go out the problem that the cup reliability is poor, go out cup inefficiency, with high costs.

The technical scheme is as follows:

on the one hand, this application provides a collet discharging device, it includes:

the blanking support is positioned in the area above the blanking hole and is used for arranging a plurality of piled and stacked bottom supports; and

the first clamping and supporting mechanism comprises a first clamping and placing component and a second clamping and placing component which are arranged on the blanking support and are arranged along the stacking height direction of the bottom support at intervals, the first clamping and placing component is arranged between the blanking hole and the second clamping and placing component, and the first clamping and placing component and the second clamping and placing component are used for clamping or releasing the bottom support.

Foretell collet discharging device is applied to in automatic vending equipment such as ice cream machine, milk tea machine, realizes the automatic discharging of collet such as cup, cutlery box. Particularly, use the collet as the cup as an example, it is formed with the blanking hole to predetermine on the blanking support to the blanking support is located the top region in blanking hole and is used for placing and is piled up a plurality of cups that pile up and pile up the setting. When the cup discharging operation is carried out, the first clamping and placing component close to the blanking hole is firstly opened, the lowest cup is in a free state, and the second clamping and placing component clamps the next lower cup to restrain the freedom degrees of all the cups except the lowest cup. Therefore, the cup positioned at the lowest part can automatically fall into the blanking hole through self gravity and is lifted by the temporary supporting ring to avoid accidental falling, and then the material taking mechanism acts to take away the cup positioned on the temporary supporting ring to enter the next procedure. Then, the first clamping and placing component is changed into a clamping state, the second clamping and placing component is also synchronously changed from the clamping state to an opening state, and all the residual cups automatically fall by one cup distance and are finally limited by the first clamping and placing component. The above action is then repeated until the last cup is removed. In conclusion, through the cooperative matching of the first clamping and placing assembly and the second clamping and placing assembly, the cup discharging operation process that cups fall one by one and are taken away one by one can be realized, the problems of excessive cup discharging and wrong cup discharging can be effectively avoided, the cup discharging efficiency is ensured, the reliability is high, and unnecessary economic loss is prevented; and the cup can not be deformed by the cup discharging mode, and the cup discharging position is accurate and controllable.

The technical solution of the present application is further described below:

in one embodiment, the first clamping and releasing assembly comprises a first driving part, two first clamping arms respectively connected with the first driving part, and two first clamping pieces arranged on the first clamping arms in a one-to-one correspondence manner, wherein the two first clamping arms can approach or depart from each other; first clamping piece include with first vertical installation department that first arm lock is connected, and with first vertical installation department is connected and is extended and be close to the first horizontal clamping part of collet.

In one embodiment, the second clamping and releasing assembly comprises a second driving part, two second clamping arms respectively connected with the second driving part, and two second clamping pieces arranged on the second clamping arms in a one-to-one correspondence manner, and the two second clamping arms can approach or depart from each other; the second clamping piece include with the vertical installation department of second that the second arm lock is connected, and with the vertical installation department of second is connected and is extended and be close to the horizontal clamping part of second of collet.

In one embodiment, the bottom support discharging device further comprises a blanking barrel, and the blanking barrel is arranged above the blanking hole and used for containing the bottom support.

In one embodiment, the number of the blanking holes and the blanking barrels is at least two, and the blanking holes and the blanking barrels are assembled and matched in a one-to-one correspondence mode.

In one embodiment, the bottom support discharging device further comprises a second clamping and supporting mechanism, the second clamping and supporting mechanism is arranged on the blanking support and is opposite to the first clamping and supporting mechanism at a spacing, and the second clamping and supporting mechanism and the first clamping and supporting mechanism are the same in structure and act synchronously.

In one embodiment, the bottom support discharging device further comprises a temporary support ring, and the temporary support ring is arranged on the blanking support and is aligned with the blanking hole.

In one embodiment, the temporary supporting ring comprises a ring body and a blocking convex body arranged on the inner annular wall of the ring body; the temporary supporting ring or the blocking convex body is made of soft elastic materials.

In addition, this application still provides a vending machine, and it includes the collet discharging device as above.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a bottom support discharging device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic bottom view of the structure of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the first clamping mechanism shown therein;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of the temporary supporting ring in fig. 2.

Description of reference numerals:

10. a blanking bracket; 11. a blanking hole; 20. a cup; 30. a temporary supporting ring; 31. a ring body; 32. a blocking protrusion; 40. a first clamping and supporting mechanism; 41. a first clamping assembly; 411. a first driving member; 412. a first clamp arm; 413. a first clip piece; 413a, a first vertical mounting; 413b, a first horizontal clamping part; 42. a second clamping assembly; 421. a second driving member; 422. a second clamp arm; 423. a second clip; 423a, a second vertical mounting part; 423b and a second horizontal clamping part; 50. a material taking mechanism; 51. an X-direction slide rail; 52. a third driving member; 53. an X-direction sliding block; 54. a Y-direction slide rail; 55. a fourth drive; 56. a Y-direction sliding block; 57. connecting blocks; 58. taking a cup clamping jaw; 60. a discharging barrel; 70. and a second clamping and supporting mechanism.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more clearly understood, the present invention will be further described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the following detailed description. It should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating the scope of the invention, are intended for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to," "disposed on" or "disposed on" another element, it can be directly on the other element or intervening elements may also be present. When an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present; the specific manner of fixedly connecting one element to another element can be implemented by the prior art, and will not be described herein, and preferably, a screw-threaded connection is used.

Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used herein in the description of the invention is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used herein, the term "and/or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

In the present invention, the terms "first" and "second" do not denote any particular quantity or order, but are merely used to distinguish names.

The present application claims a vending machine such as, but not limited to, an ice cream maker, a tea maker, and the like. Taking a milk tea machine as an example, the production process of the milk tea machine is generally that a milk tea making device automatically makes a milk tea drink, then a milk tea cup is sent out by a bottom support discharging device, and finally the milk tea making device pours the brewed milk tea into the milk tea cup, packages the milk tea cup and presents the milk tea cup to the hands of consumers.

As shown in fig. 1, it shows a collet discharging device according to an embodiment of the present application, which is used to automatically and continuously discharge the collet one by one and transfer the collet to the processing station. It will be appreciated that the support may be any container capable of holding, such as a cup 20, box, cartridge, etc. In order to facilitate understanding of the technical solution of the present application, the bottom support is taken as an example of the cup 20.

With continuing reference to fig. 1 and 2, in the present embodiment, the bottom tray discharging device includes: the blanking device comprises a blanking support 10, a temporary support ring 30, a first clamping mechanism 40 and a material taking mechanism 50. The blanking support 10 is used as a bearing main body for installing and fixing the temporary support ring 30 and the first clamping support mechanism 40. The first gripping mechanism 40 is used to feed out the cups one by one onto the ring 30. The ring 30 is used to limit the cup 20 from moving excessively and to put the cup 20 into a standby state. The extracting mechanism 50, as its name implies, is used to remove and feed the cups 20 on the ring 30 to a subsequent processing step.

In particular, the blanking support 10 is intended to be mounted at a preset position of the tea machine, which is understood to be a cup-taking station. Blanking support 10 is formed with blanking hole 11, blanking support 10 is located blanking hole 11's top region is used for setting up to be a plurality of collet that pile up and pile up. In order to ensure that the cup 20 is stably placed, in an embodiment, the bottom support discharging device further comprises a discharging barrel 60, and the discharging barrel 60 is arranged above the discharging hole 11 and used for containing the bottom support. Thus, a plurality of cups 20 stacked in a pile can be placed in the blanking cylinder 60, and are protected by the blanking cylinder 60 to avoid pollution; meanwhile, the charging barrel 60 can also play a role in limiting and guiding the up-and-down movement of the cup 20, and is more beneficial to the effectiveness of cup discharging.

As can be understood, the blanking cylinder 60 is a cylindrical cylinder with an opening at the lower end to form a cup outlet, and is fixed on the blanking support 10 through a support plate, and the cup outlet is just right opposite to the blanking hole 11, so as to ensure that the cup 20 can directly and accurately fall from the blanking cylinder 60 into the blanking hole 11. Of course, a cup inlet is formed at the upper end of the blanking cylinder 60, a cover plate is installed at the cup inlet, and the cover plate can be opened and closed, so as to periodically supplement a new cup 20 into the blanking cylinder 60.

The temporary supporting ring 30 is arranged on the blanking support 10 and is aligned with the blanking hole 11; the first clamping and holding mechanism 40 comprises a first clamping and placing component 41 and a second clamping and placing component 42 which are arranged on the blanking support 10 and are arranged at intervals along the stacking height direction of the bottom supports, the first clamping and placing component 41 is arranged between the blanking hole 11 and the second clamping and placing component 42, and both the first clamping and placing component 41 and the second clamping and placing component 42 are used for clamping or releasing the bottom supports; the material taking mechanism 50 is used for taking away the collet falling on the temporary support ring 30.

With reference to fig. 1 to fig. 3, in summary, the following advantages will be achieved by implementing the technical solution of the present application: foretell collet discharging device is applied to in automatic vending equipment such as ice cream machine, milk tea machine, realizes the automatic discharging of collet such as cup 20, cutlery box. Specifically, taking the bottom support as the cup 20 as an example, the blanking support 10 is formed with a blanking hole 11 in advance, and the blanking support 10 is located in an area above the blanking hole 11 for placing a plurality of cups 20 stacked in a pile. When the cup discharging work is performed, the first gripping and placing member 41 adjacent to the blanking hole 11 is first opened, the lowermost cup 20 is in a free state, and the second gripping and placing member 42 grips the next lowermost cup 20 to restrict the freedom of all cups 20 except the lowermost cup. Therefore, the cup 20 located at the lowest position can automatically fall into the blanking hole 11 through self gravity and be supported by the temporary supporting ring 30 to avoid accidental falling, and then the material taking mechanism 50 acts to take away the cup 20 located on the temporary supporting ring 30 to enter the next process. Subsequently, the first gripping and placing element 41 is switched into the gripping position, and the second gripping and placing element 42 is simultaneously switched from the gripping position to the opening position, and all the remaining cups 20 fall by themselves by one cup distance and are finally retained by the first gripping and placing element 41. The above action is then repeated until the last cup 20 is removed. In summary, through the cooperative cooperation of the first clamping assembly 41, the second clamping assembly 42, the temporary support ring 30 and the material taking mechanism 50, the cup discharging operation process that the cups 20 fall one by one and are taken away one by one can be realized, the reliability is high, the problems of excessive cup discharging and wrong cup discharging can be effectively avoided, the cup discharging efficiency is ensured, and unnecessary economic loss is prevented; moreover, the cup 20 cannot be deformed by the cup discharging mode, and the cup discharging position is accurate and controllable.

Referring to fig. 3, in an embodiment, the first clamping and releasing assembly 41 includes a first driving element 411, two first clamping arms 412 respectively connected to the first driving element 411, and two first clamping pieces 413 correspondingly disposed on the first clamping arms 412 one by one, and the two first clamping arms 412 can be close to or far from each other; the first clamping piece 413 comprises a first vertical installation part 413a connected with the first clamping arm 412 and a first horizontal clamping part 413b connected with the first vertical installation part 413a and extending to be close to the bottom support. Specifically, the first driving member 411 is a power device capable of outputting bidirectional linear power, such as a bidirectional motor, a bidirectional cylinder, or the like; the present embodiment preferably employs a bi-directional cylinder. Two first arm lock 412 are connected with two piston rods of two-way cylinder respectively, so just can drive two first clamping pieces 413 and do and be close to each other or keep away from the motion to reach the clamping cup or loosen the purpose that is located the bottom cup 20, action structure and principle are simple, and the reliability is high, and can adjust the stroke of two-way cylinder through the cup footpath of cup 20, thereby effectively avoid two first clamping pieces 413 to remove excessively, cause the clamping-force that cup 20 receives too big and appear deformation.

Similarly, the second clamping and placing assembly 42 includes a second driving member 421, two second clamping arms 422 respectively connected to the second driving member 421, and two second clamping pieces 423 correspondingly disposed on the second clamping arms 422 one by one, and the two second clamping arms 422 can be close to or far away from each other; the second clip 423 includes a second vertical mounting portion 423a connected to the second clip arm 422, and a second horizontal clamping portion 423b connected to the second vertical mounting portion 423a and extending close to the bottom support. The second driving member 421 is a power device capable of outputting bidirectional linear power, such as a bidirectional motor, a bidirectional cylinder, etc.; the present embodiment preferably employs a bi-directional cylinder. Two second arm lock 422 are connected with two piston rods of two-way cylinder respectively, so just can drive two second clamping pieces 423 and do and be close to each other or keep away from the motion to reach the clamping or loosen the purpose of inferior below cup 20, action structure and principle are simple, and the reliability is high, and can adjust the stroke of two-way cylinder through the cup footpath of cup 20, thereby effectively avoid two second clamping pieces 423 to remove excessively, cause the too big and deformation of clamping force that cup 20 receives.

In addition, the thickness of the two bidirectional cylinders arranged up and down is relatively large, so that the distance between the first clamping piece 413 and the second clamping piece 423 is far larger than the gap between two adjacent cups 20 after installation. Therefore, in order to solve the problem, in the present solution, the first clamping piece 413 and the second clamping piece 423 are both designed to be L-shaped structures, that is, the first vertical installation part 413a and the second vertical installation part 423a which are vertically arranged can make up for the gap loss caused by the oversized two-way cylinder, and then the gap between the two cups can be matched with the gap between the two adjacent cups 20 by transversely extending the first horizontal clamping part 413b and the second horizontal clamping part 423b which are close to the cups 20, so that the purpose of reliably limiting the freedom of the lowermost and the next lowermost cups 20 to achieve separation is ensured, and finally the lowermost cups 20 are reliably dropped.

With reference to fig. 2 and fig. 4, in the present embodiment, the temporary supporting ring 30 includes a ring body 31 and a blocking protrusion 32 disposed on an inner annular wall of the ring body 31; the temporary supporting ring 30 or the blocking convex body 32 is made of soft elastic material. That is, the whole temporary supporting ring 30 is made of a silica gel material, or the ring body 31 is made of a hard material such as metal, and only the blocking convex body 32 is made of a silica gel material. Preferably, the temporary support ring 30 is made of a silicone material. Thus, when the lowest cup 20 falls from the blanking cylinder 60 to the blanking hole 11, the cup can firstly fall onto the temporary support ring 30, the blocking convex body 32 supports the lower part of the rim of the cup 20, so as to limit the degree of freedom, and the cup 20 can be stably placed and enters a state of waiting for taking the cup, so that the taking mechanism can take the cup 20. Because the temporary supporting ring 30 is made of silica gel material and has deformation capacity, the material taking mechanism pulls the cup 20 with less force, the convex body 32 is prevented from deforming due to stress, the cup 20 can be taken away, the cup 20 can be prevented from deforming, and the cup taking efficiency and reliability are improved.

Preferably, a plurality of blocking protrusions 32 are uniformly arranged on the inner annular wall of the ring body 31 at intervals along the circumferential direction, and the diameter of the cup passing channel surrounded by the blocking protrusions 32 needs to be smaller than that of the mouth of the cup 20, so as to ensure that the cup 20 is reliably hung.

Further, for improving the discharging capacity of the device, the number of the blanking holes 11, the temporary supporting rings 30 and the blanking barrels 60 is at least two, and the blanking holes, the temporary supporting rings and the blanking barrels are correspondingly assembled and matched one by one. So, different charging barrels 60 fall the lowermost cup 20 in to blanking hole 11 in step promptly, and the cup 20 that falls out is lifted temporarily by temporary support ring 30 and is waited for the feeding agencies to get the cup, has realized promptly that can drop two or more than the cup 20 of quantity simultaneously in once going out the cup operation to can carry out the preparation simultaneously of a plurality of products, promote greatly and go out cup efficiency.

In particular, the bottom support discharging device further includes a second clamping and supporting mechanism 70, the second clamping and supporting mechanism 70 is disposed on the blanking support 10 and is arranged opposite to the first clamping and supporting mechanism 40 at an interval, and the second clamping and supporting mechanism 70 and the first clamping and supporting mechanism 40 have the same structure and act synchronously. This scheme is applicable to in the structure of many cup stations, can improve the cup that falls and to the tight effect of clamp and the reliability of cup 20 that does not drop greatly.

With reference to fig. 1, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the material taking mechanism includes a material taking bracket, an X-direction moving module disposed on the material taking bracket, a Y-direction moving module disposed on the X-direction moving module, and a cup taking clamping jaw 58 disposed on the Y-direction moving module. The material taking bracket is used for supporting and fixing the X-direction moving module and the Y-direction moving module; the X-direction moving module and the Y-direction moving module move independently or are linked synchronously, so that the cup taking clamping jaws 58 can be driven to move to the lower part of the temporary supporting ring 30 accurately, and finally the cup 20 is clamped.

Specifically, the X-direction moving module includes an X-direction slide rail 51 disposed on the material taking bracket, a third driving member 52 disposed on the X-direction slide rail 51, and an X-direction slider 53 slidably disposed on the X-direction slide rail 51 and connected to the third driving member 52; the Y-direction moving module comprises a Y-direction slide rail 54 arranged on the X-direction slide block 53, a fourth driving part 55 arranged on the Y-direction slide rail 54, a Y-direction slide block 56 arranged on the Y-direction slide rail 54 in a sliding manner and connected with the fourth driving part 55, and a connecting block 57 arranged on the Y-direction slide block 56, wherein the cup taking clamping jaw 58 is arranged on the connecting block 57. The moving mechanism is good in reliability, high in moving precision and flexibility, so that the cup taking clamping jaw 58 is suitable for cup taking requirements under different space conditions, and the cup taking action is guaranteed to be carried out reliably.

In addition, in order to ensure that the cup taking is accurate, the cup taking clamping jaw is provided with the position sensor, and the cup taking clamping jaw and the temporary supporting ring 30 can be accurately aligned through the real-time position information detection of the position sensor, so that the phenomenon of deformation caused by the inclined clamping force can be effectively avoided.

The technical features of the embodiments described above may be arbitrarily combined, and for the sake of brevity, all possible combinations of the technical features in the embodiments described above are not described, but should be considered as being within the scope of the present specification as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features.

The above-mentioned embodiments only represent some embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is specific and detailed, but not to be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit of the present invention, several variations and modifications can be made, which are within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be subject to the appended claims.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a collet discharging device which characterized in that includes:

2. The bottom support discharging device according to claim 1, wherein the first clamping and placing assembly comprises a first driving member, two first clamping arms respectively connected with the first driving member, and two first clamping pieces arranged on the first clamping arms in a one-to-one correspondence manner, and the two first clamping arms can approach or move away from each other; first clamping piece include with first vertical installation department that first arm lock is connected, and with first vertical installation department is connected and is extended and be close to the first horizontal clamping part of collet.

3. The bottom support discharging device according to claim 2, wherein the second clamping and placing assembly comprises a second driving member, two second clamping arms respectively connected with the second driving member, and two second clamping pieces correspondingly arranged on the second clamping arms one by one, and the two second clamping arms can approach or move away from each other; the second clamping piece include with the vertical installation department of second that the second arm lock is connected, and with the vertical installation department of second is connected and is extended and be close to the horizontal clamping part of second of collet.

4. The shoe discharging device according to claim 1, further comprising a blanking barrel disposed above the blanking hole and adapted to hold the shoe.

5. The bottom support discharging device according to claim 4, wherein the number of the blanking holes and the blanking barrels is at least two, and the blanking holes and the blanking barrels are assembled and matched in a one-to-one correspondence manner.

6. The shoe discharging device according to claim 1, further comprising a second clamping mechanism disposed on the blanking bracket and spaced apart from and opposite to the first clamping mechanism, wherein the second clamping mechanism is identical in structure and operates synchronously with the first clamping mechanism.

7. The shoe discharging device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising a temporary support ring disposed on the blanking support and aligned with the blanking hole.

8. The bottom support discharging device according to claim 7, wherein the temporary support ring comprises a ring body and a blocking convex body arranged on the inner annular wall of the ring body; the temporary supporting ring or the blocking convex body is made of soft elastic materials.

9. A vending machine comprising a shoe outfeed device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 8.