CN211108220U - Automatic packaging machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The automatic packing machine for vacuum packing bag filled with material includes one turntable and four work station fixing points set outside the turntable, and the turntable is controlled to rotate and drives at least one work box combined onto the turntable to move corresponding to the four work station fixing points.

Description

Automatic packaging machine

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a material packaging device; in particular to an automatic packaging machine integrating multiple functions.

Background

For materials such as tea, wheat, rice and beans, they must be kept cool and dry to preserve freshness and avoid spoilage. In order to effectively store the materials for a long time and facilitate transportation, the materials need to be well and reliably packaged. Because the packaging process requires caution and the sanitation is emphasized, the known packaging equipment in a workshop completes the packaging operation by at least six workstations, including workstations for taking and taking packaging bags, blowing and inflating the packaging bags, delivering materials, shaking the materials, vacuumizing the packaging bags, sealing bag openings and the like, so that the derivative packaging equipment has the problems of large whole volume and occupying space, and the design of too many workstations increases the complexity and inconvenience of maintenance, therefore, the known packaging equipment still has incompleteness and needs to be improved.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of this, the present invention provides an automatic packaging machine, which simplifies the work station and reduces the volume of the packaging machine.

The utility model provides an automatic change packagine machine possesses along in order to reach above-mentioned purpose, the utility model provides an automatic change packagine machine is for carry out the vacuum packaging operation to the bag body that the material was filled in to inside, and it contains a carousel and four workstation fixed points and sets up in the peripheral outside of this carousel, and this carousel is controlled the rotation and drives to combine at least one work box on this carousel and move corresponding these four workstation fixed points, and these four workstations include first workstation, second workstation, third workstation and fourth workstation. The first workstation comprises a material preparation platform and a picker, wherein the material preparation platform stores empty bag bodies, and the picker is used for placing the empty bag bodies into the work box; the second workstation comprises a feeding mechanism and a shaking mechanism, wherein the feeding mechanism is used for feeding materials into the bag body in the working box, and the shaking mechanism is used for generating vibration to the bag body; the third workstation comprises a vacuum pump and a sealing mechanism, wherein the vacuum pump is used for pumping out air in the bag body, and the sealing mechanism is used for sealing the bag body; the fourth station includes a gripper mechanism for taking out and releasing the pouches in the box to an area outside the box.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the work box includes a box body and a movable plate, the bottom of the box body has an opening, the movable plate can be placed in the box body to move up and down and cover the opening, and the bag body is placed above the movable plate.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the at least one work box is four in number and is coupled to the periphery of the turntable at intervals.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the pick-up device of the first workstation includes a rotating arm and a sucking disc set, the rotating arm can swing between a first position and a second position, the sucking disc set is disposed at one end of the rotating arm, wherein when the rotating arm is located at the first position, the sucking disc set absorbs the bag body placed on the material preparation table, and when the rotating arm is located at the second position, the sucking disc set releases the bag body to make the bag body fall into the working box.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the second station includes a blower for injecting air into the bag to blow the bag before the feeding mechanism feeds the material.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the shaking mechanism of the second workstation comprises a retractable and movable top rod, which passes through the opening of the working box from bottom to top and repeatedly pushes the movable plate.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the feeding mechanism includes a hopper and a gate, the hopper stores the material, the gate has two half claws, the two half claws are controlled to be opened or clamped, the material drops into the bag body when the two half claws are opened, and the material can not drop into the bag body when the two half claws are clamped.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the sealing mechanism of the third station includes two heat pressing members, and the two heat pressing members heat-press the bag body together after the vacuum pump pumps out the air in the bag body.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the clamping mechanism of the fourth workstation includes a telescopic unit and a clamping jaw, one end of the telescopic unit is pivoted to swing between a third position and a fourth position, the telescopic unit has a telescopic rod with a telescopic displacement, the clamp is arranged at one end of the telescopic rod, wherein when the telescopic unit is located at the third position and the telescopic rod extends out, the clamping jaw clamps the bag body inside the working box, when the telescopic unit is located at the third position and the telescopic rod retracts, the clamping jaw pulls the bag body to leave the working box, and when the telescopic unit is located at the fourth position, the clamping jaw releases the bag body.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the clamping mechanism of the fourth station includes a press cylinder, the press cylinder has a movable rod capable of moving reciprocally, one end of the movable rod is pivoted to the retractable unit, and the retractable unit is driven to pivot between the third position and the fourth position during the moving reciprocally.

The utility model has the effect that the partial workstation is provided with a plurality of functions to simplify the workstation and reduce the volume of the packing machine.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an automatic packaging machine according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the internal structure of the automatic packaging machine according to the preferred embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a top view of the turntable and four stations of the automated packaging machine;

FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the work box of the automated packaging machine;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the automated packaging machine, showing the components of the first station;

FIGS. 6 and 7 are front views of FIG. 5, revealing placement of an empty bag into a first work box;

FIG. 8 is similar to FIG. 3 and shows the turntable rotating and moving the first work box to the second work station;

FIG. 9 is a simplified schematic of an automated packaging machine, primarily illustrating the components of the second station;

FIG. 10 is like FIG. 9 and shows the air tube of the blower of the second station extending into the empty bag;

FIG. 11 is like FIG. 9 and shows the second workstation with the feed mechanism open with both jaws closed;

FIG. 12 is an enlarged view of FIG. 11, revealing the dithering mechanism of the second station;

FIG. 13 is similar to FIG. 3 and shows the turntable rotating and moving the first work box to a third work station;

FIG. 14 is a simplified schematic of an automated packaging machine, primarily illustrating components of a third station;

FIG. 15 is a partial view of FIG. 14, revealing the sealing mechanism and sealing mechanism of the third station;

FIG. 16 is like FIG. 3 and shows the turntable rotating and moving the first work box to a fourth work station;

FIG. 17 is a simplified schematic of an automated packaging machine, primarily illustrating the components of the fourth station;

FIG. 18 is the front view of FIG. 17, showing the telescoping unit of the fourth station in the third position with the telescoping rod extended downwardly and the jaws open;

FIG. 19 is an enlarged fragmentary view of FIG. 18, showing the jaws of the fourth station removing the bag bodies from the first box; and

FIG. 20 is like FIG. 18 and shows the telescoping unit of the fourth station in a fourth position.

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[ the utility model ]

100 automatic packaging machine

10 turnplate

11 first working box 111A is opened

112 flap 12 second working box 13 third working box

14 fourth work box

S1 first workstation

20 stock preparation table 22 picker 221 rotating arm

222 suction cup group 23 telescopic cylinder

S2 second workstation

30 blower 301 air pipe 32 feeding mechanism

321 half claw of sluice gate 322a of bucket 322

34 shaking mechanism 341 ejector rod

S3 third workstation

40 vacuum pump 401 air needle 42 is to moulding-die

44 heat pressing piece 46 jacking unit 461 top rod

S4 fourth workstation

Pivoting end of telescopic unit 521 of 50 clamping mechanism 52

522 telescopic rod 54 clamping jaw 56 pressure cylinder

561 active rod

60 lead-out rail

B1 hollow bag

B2 solid bag

Finished bag B3

Detailed Description

To illustrate the present invention more clearly, a preferred embodiment is described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Referring to fig. 1 to 4, an automatic packaging machine 100 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention is used for vacuum packaging a bag filled with materials, such as but not limited to rice, beans or tea, and the bag is a plastic bag.

The automated packaging machine 100 includes a turntable 10 and four stations defined as a first station S1, a second station S2, a third station S3 and a fourth station S4, which are located outside the periphery of the turntable 10. The rotary table 10 is controlled to rotate, the rotary table 10 is provided with at least one work box which can change position along with the rotation of the rotary table 10 at the periphery, in the embodiment, the number of the work boxes is four and are combined at intervals at the periphery of the rotary table 10, the first work box 11, the second work box 12, the third work box 13 and the fourth work box 14 are defined and included in the definition, each work box corresponds to one work station, the rotary table 10 rotates in an indexing mode, and the work box after each rotation can still correspond to the next work station. As shown in fig. 4, each work box includes a rectangular box body and a movable plate, for example, the first work box 11 has an opening 111a at the bottom of the box body 111, the movable plate 112 is disposed in the box body 111 in a vertically movable manner and covers the opening 111a, and a bag body is disposed above the movable plate 112.

The following is for each station. The first station S1 includes a preparation table 20 and a picker 22, the preparation table 20 is used for storing a plurality of empty bags B1 stacked and not filled with materials, the picker 22 is used for placing the empty bags B1 into the first work box 11, the picker 22 of the embodiment includes a rotary arm 221 and a suction cup set 222 composed of a plurality of suction cups, the rotary arm 221 is elevated in a manner of pivoting between a first position in a vertical state shown in fig. 2 and a second position in a horizontal state shown in fig. 5, and the suction cup set 222 is disposed at one end of the rotary arm 221. When the rotating arm 221 is located at the first position, the suction cup set 222 can suck the empty bag B1 placed on the preparation table 20 by the suction cup; when the rotating arm 221 pivots to the second position, as shown in fig. 5 to 7, the pickup 22 is driven by another set of telescopic cylinders 23 to move downwards, and then the suction cup set 222 releases the empty bag B1 to make the empty bag B1 naturally fall into the first working box 11. In other application examples, the rotating arm can be a person with a telescopic function, so that the flexibility of taking and placing the bag body is improved.

After the empty bag body B1 is placed in the first work box 11, the turntable 10 is controlled to rotate and moves the first work box 11 to the second work station S2 (see fig. 8 and 9). The second station S2 includes a blower 30, a feeding mechanism 32 and a shaking mechanism 34, in which the blower 30 includes an air pipe 301 that can extend into an empty bag B1 (see fig. 10), and the empty bag B1 is inflated by air supply before the feeding mechanism 32 feeds the material; the feeding mechanism 32 is configured to feed a material into an empty bag B1 in the first work box 11, the feeding mechanism 32 includes a bucket 321 and a gate 322, the bucket 321 stores the material (see fig. 1), the gate 322 is composed of two symmetrical half claws 322a, as shown in fig. 11, the air pipe 301 moves upward, the two half claws 322a of the feeding mechanism 32 are changed from an original butt-clamping state to a split state, so that the material falls into the empty bag B1 naturally due to gravity, otherwise, when the two half claws 322a return to the butt-clamping state, the material cannot fall into the bag; in the process that the material falls into the empty bag B1, the shaking mechanism 34 vibrates the bag to make the material more intensively accumulated, as shown in fig. 12, the shaking mechanism 34 of the present embodiment is a hydraulic cylinder, which includes a top rod 341 capable of stretching and moving, the top rod 341 is controlled to pass through the opening 111a of the first work box 11 from bottom to top and push the movable plate 112, the top rod 341 can push the movable plate 112 repeatedly within a short stroke, so as to achieve the effect of shaking the bag.

After the material filling and shaking operations are completed, the turntable 10 is controlled to rotate and move the first work box 11 to a third work station S3 (see fig. 13), which defines the bag now located in the first work box 11 and filled with the material as a solid bag B2. As shown in fig. 14, the third station S3 includes a vacuum pump 40, a sealing mechanism and a sealing mechanism, wherein the vacuum pump 40 includes a flat air needle 401 capable of extending into the upper half of the solid bag B2, and the sealing mechanism is located below the sealing mechanism, or above the sealing mechanism in other embodiments. The sealing mechanism comprises two opposite pressing dies 42, the sealing mechanism comprises two hot pressing pieces 44, as shown in fig. 15, the two pairs of pressing dies 42 clamp and press the upper half part of the solid bag body B2 from the left and right sides, the air outlet end of the flat air needle 401 is positioned below the two pairs of pressing dies 42, when the vacuum pump 40 is started to draw the air in the solid bag body B2 outwards to the nearly vacuum state in the bag body, the air needle 401 is withdrawn, then the two preheated hot pressing pieces 44 clamp and press the upper half part of the bag body from the left and right sides, and the bag opening of the solid bag body B2 is sealed by hot pressing after a moment. Thereafter, the counter die 42 of the sealing mechanism and the heat pressing member 44 of the sealing mechanism are separated again to release the solid bag body B2. In the aforesaid operation process, in order to ensure the smoothness of the sealing operation, the third station S3 may optionally include a lifting unit 46, the lifting unit 46 has a top rod 461 that supports the movable plate 112 from bottom to top to push the solid bag B2 to the upper half of the solid bag B2 exposed outside the box 111, so as to facilitate the operation of the sealing mechanism and the sealing mechanism without interference. The lift unit 46 is different from the shaking mechanism 34 in that: the former push rod 461 pushes out and then stops at a fixed point, and the latter push rod 341 repeatedly extends and contracts.

Thereafter, the turntable 10 is continuously controlled to rotate and drives the first work box 11 to move to a fourth work station S4 (refer to fig. 16), and the bag body in the first work box 11 at this moment is filled with the material and subjected to the vacuum-pumping and heat-pressure sealing operations, and the bag body in the above state is defined as a finished bag body B3. The fourth station S4 includes a pick-up mechanism 50 and a take-off rail 60, the pick-up mechanism 50 being configured to take out the finished bag B3 in the first work box 11 and release the finished bag B3 to the take-off rail 60 to bring the finished bag B3 to an area outside the first work box 11. Referring to fig. 17 to 20, the gripping mechanism 50 of the present embodiment includes a telescopic unit 52, a clamping jaw 54 and a hydraulic cylinder 56, wherein the telescopic unit 52 has a pivot end 521 disposed at a certain point so as to be capable of pivoting between the third position shown in fig. 18 and the fourth position shown in fig. 20, the telescopic unit 52 has a telescopic rod 522 capable of telescopic displacement, and one end of the telescopic rod 522 is connected to the clamping jaw 54. As shown in fig. 18, when the turntable 10 brings the finished bag B3 to the fourth station S4, the retractable unit 52 is located at the third position, the retractable rod 522 thereof extends downward, and the clamping jaws 54 are opened, fig. 19 shows that the clamping jaws 54 clamp the upper portion of the finished bag B3, then the retractable rod 522 retracts upward to take the finished bag B3 away from the first work box 11, and then the hydraulic cylinder 56 is activated to push out a movable rod 561 thereof, since one end of the movable rod 561 is pivoted to the retractable unit 52, the retractable unit 52 can be pushed to pivot from the third position to the fourth position when the movable rod 561 extends outward, and when the clamping jaws 54 are controlled again to be opened, the finished bag B3 will naturally fall to the exit rail 60 due to gravity and fall outside for centralized management. At this point, the automatic packaging machine 100 completes the vacuum packaging operation of the bag filled with the material therein.

The above-mentioned automatic packaging machine 100 can achieve the purpose of simplifying the work station and reducing the volume of the packaging machine by performing multiple functions through some work stations. It should be noted that, in the manner of providing four work boxes around the periphery of the turntable 10 of the present embodiment, when the first work box 11 moves to the corresponding second work station S2, the second work box 12 just corresponds to the first work station S1; when the second station S2 performs the filling and shaking operation on the empty bag body B1, the first station S1 synchronously puts another empty bag body B1 on the material preparation table 20 into the second work box 12, and according to the operation principle, the work efficiency can be improved.

The above description is only a preferred and practical embodiment of the present invention, and all equivalent changes to the description and claims of the present invention should be considered as included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. The utility model provides an automatic change packaging machine, its characterized in that for carry out the vacuum packaging operation to the bag body that inside was filled with the material, this automatic packaging machine contains a carousel and four workstation fixed points and sets up in the peripheral outside of this carousel, this carousel is controlled the rotation and drives at least one work box that combines on this carousel and move corresponding these four workstation fixed points, these four workstations include first workstation, second workstation, third workstation and fourth workstation, wherein:

the first workstation comprises a material preparation platform and a picker, wherein the material preparation platform stores empty bag bodies, and the picker is used for placing the empty bag bodies into the work box;

the second workstation comprises a feeding mechanism and a shaking mechanism, wherein the feeding mechanism is used for feeding materials into the bag body in the working box, and the shaking mechanism is used for generating vibration to the bag body;

the third workstation comprises a vacuum pump and a sealing mechanism, wherein the vacuum pump is used for pumping out air in the bag body, and the sealing mechanism is used for sealing the bag body; and

the fourth station includes a gripper mechanism for taking out and releasing the bag from the work box to an area outside the work box.

2. The automatic packaging machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the work box comprises a box body and a movable plate, the bottom of the box body has an opening, the movable plate is movably placed in the box body up and down and covers the opening, and the bag body is placed above the movable plate.

3. The automated packaging machine according to claim 2, wherein the at least one work box is four in number and is coupled at intervals to a periphery of the turntable.

4. An automated packaging machine as claimed in claim 3, wherein the picker of the first station comprises a rotary arm pivotable between a first position and a second position and a set of suckers provided at one end of the rotary arm, wherein when the rotary arm is in the first position, the set of suckers sucks the pouches placed on the preparation table, and when the rotary arm is in the second position, the set of suckers releases the pouches to allow the pouches to fall into the work box.

5. An automated packaging machine according to claim 3, wherein said second station comprises a blower for injecting air into said bag to inflate the bag prior to the material being dispensed by said dispensing mechanism.

6. An automated packaging machine according to claim 3, wherein the shaking mechanism of the second station comprises a telescopically movable ejector rod which passes through the opening of the work box from bottom to top and repeatedly pushes the movable plate.

7. An automated packaging machine as claimed in claim 5 or 6, wherein the feeding mechanism comprises a hopper for storing the material and a gate having two half-jaws controlled to be half-opened or half-clamped, wherein the material falls into the bag when the two half-jaws are half-opened and the material cannot fall into the bag when the two half-jaws are half-clamped.

8. An automated packaging machine according to claim 3, wherein said sealing mechanism of said third station comprises two heat pressing members for heat pressing said bag body after said vacuum pump evacuates the air in said bag body.

9. The automated packaging machine of claim 3, wherein the gripping mechanism of the fourth station comprises a telescoping unit pivotally connected at one end to swing between a third position and a fourth position, the telescoping unit having a telescoping rod that can be telescopically displaced, and a gripper disposed at one end of the telescoping rod, wherein the gripper grips the bag in the work box when the telescoping unit is in the third position and the telescoping rod is extended, the gripper pulls the bag away from the work box when the telescoping unit is in the third position and the telescoping rod is retracted, and the gripper releases the bag when the telescoping unit is in the fourth position.

10. The automated packaging machine as claimed in claim 9, wherein the gripping mechanism of the fourth station comprises a hydraulic cylinder having a movable rod capable of reciprocating, one end of the movable rod being pivotally connected to the retractable unit and driving the retractable unit to swing between the third position and the fourth position during reciprocating.

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