CN211916498U

CN211916498U - Automatic feeder

Info

Publication number: CN211916498U
Application number: CN201922401464.4U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杨智聪; 林进
Original assignee: Guangdong Ke Tuo Automation Machinery Equipment Co ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Ke Tuo Automation Machinery Equipment Co ltd
Priority date: 2019-12-27
Filing date: 2019-12-27
Publication date: 2020-11-13
Anticipated expiration: 2029-12-27

Abstract

The utility model discloses an automatic feeder, including base, storage device and extracting device, storage device includes a plurality of gag lever posts, a lift drive and holds the material frame, the vertical setting of gag lever post and pedestal connection, and a plurality of gag lever posts are parallel interval relatively and set up, and a lift drive fixes and can drive on the base and hold the relative gag lever post axial displacement of material frame to the position of keeping away from the gag lever post terminal surface, extracting device can remove to the position of putting corresponding material frame, when holding the position that the material frame moved to keeping away from under the gag lever post terminal surface, extracting mechanism can be with the material level to taking out. The utility model has the advantages that the automatic material taking and the grinding of the material in the grinding equipment can be realized, the manpower resource is saved, and the feeding efficiency is high; the material storage device can be adjusted according to the size of the material, is suitable for placing materials of various specifications, can be adjusted according to the thickness of the material, can ensure that only one material can be taken out at each time, and has stable performance and high precision.

Description

Automatic feeder

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an autoloading ware especially is applicable to the autoloading ware of sword scissors class plane grinding.

Background

In the industry of hardware knife scissors, a knife sharpener is a metal grinding treatment machine commonly used in factories, when workers grind metal plates such as shear blades and blades, the traditional method is that the metal plates are put into the knife sharpener one by one for grinding treatment by manual operation, and the mode that the metal plates are pushed by hands to be ground requires a large amount of manpower resources, is low in working efficiency and has certain danger.

Along with the progress of the technology, the feeder is produced at present, most of the existing feeders adopt the joint mechanical arm for feeding, the joint mechanical arm is large in using space, large in size, inconvenient to operate, low in efficiency and impractical, in the production of the hardware processing industry, raw material conveying needs to be carried out by one worker, the manual conveying speed cannot meet the equipment requirement of mechanized production, the working efficiency is reduced, safety accidents are easily caused, and the labor and labor cost are increased.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve at least one technical problem, and aims to provide an automatic feeder which can save manpower resources, replace manual feeding, and has high feeding efficiency and stable performance.

The utility model discloses a following technical scheme realizes.

The utility model provides an automatic feeder, which comprises a base, a storage device and a material taking device, wherein the storage device comprises a plurality of limiting rods, a first lifting driving device and a material bearing frame, the limiting rods are vertically arranged and connected with the base, the limiting rods are arranged in parallel and at intervals, the first lifting driving device is fixed on the base and can drive the material bearing frame to axially move relative to the limiting rods, and the material bearing frame can move to a position far away from the lower end face of the limiting rods;

the material taking device comprises a first horizontal driving device, a second lifting driving device and a material taking mechanism, the first horizontal driving device is connected with the second lifting driving device and can drive the first horizontal driving device to reciprocate horizontally upwards, the second lifting driving device is connected with the material taking mechanism and can drive the second lifting driving device to ascend and descend vertically, the material taking mechanism can move to a position corresponding to the material bearing frame under the driving of the first horizontal driving device and the second lifting driving device, and when the material bearing frame moves to a position far away from the lower end face of the limiting rod, the material taking mechanism can take out materials horizontally from a space surrounded by the limiting rods;

in the technical scheme, under the coordination of the limiting rod, the material bearing frame and the first lifting driving device, only when the material bearing frame moves to a position far away from the lower end face of the limiting rod, the material arranged in a space defined by the limiting rods can be horizontally taken out from a gap between the lower end face of the limiting rod and the material bearing frame. Particularly, the numerical control system controls the material taking mechanisms of the first horizontal driving device and the second lifting driving device to move to the position corresponding to the material bearing frame and to be away from the end face of the limiting rod by a distance of one material according to a preset program, at the moment, the first lifting driving device drives the material bearing frame to axially move relative to the limiting rod and to be away from the lower end face of the limiting rod, so that the material falls on the material taking mechanisms, after the material taking mechanism is contacted with the materials, the first horizontal driving device drives the material taking mechanism to move horizontally to take out the materials, the materials can be horizontally taken out from a gap between the lower end surface of the limiting rod and the material taking mechanism and then are conveyed to the knife sharpener equipment for grinding, the rest materials can be left in a space surrounded by a plurality of limiting rods due to the blocking of the limiting rods, after the material taking mechanism takes out the material, the first lifting driving device drives the material bearing frame to axially move to the original position relative to the limiting rod, and the material taking device repeatedly acts to realize continuous material taking action.

Preferably, the top end of the limiting rod is connected with the top surface of the base through a horizontal adjusting mechanism capable of adjusting the horizontal position of the limiting rod. Therefore, the limiting rod can adjust the size of the enclosed space according to the projection area of the materials to be placed so as to place the materials with different specifications.

Preferably, horizontal adjustment mechanism is including the connecting block that is equipped with the bar hole and wear to locate the downthehole screw of bar, the top and the connecting block of gag lever post are connected fixedly, the top surface threaded connection of screw and base. The structure is simple, and the horizontal position of each limiting rod can be adjusted to adapt to the placement of materials with different specifications.

Preferably, the first lifting driving device comprises a first air cylinder, a first air cylinder mounting seat and a first guide sliding rod, the first air cylinder is fixedly connected with a side plate of the base through the first air cylinder mounting seat, a piston rod of the first air cylinder is vertically arranged and connected with the material bearing frame, and the first guide sliding rod penetrates through the vertical arrangement of the first mounting seat and guides the lower end of the first sliding rod to be connected with the material bearing frame. Therefore, the material bearing frame can descend to a position far away from the lower end of the limiting rod to conveniently place materials, and meanwhile, the distance between the material bearing frame and the lower end of the limiting rod can be controlled to be maintained at the distance of at least one material thickness according to the specific thickness of a single material, so that the material positioned at the lowest part can be horizontally taken out from the gap between the lower end of the limiting rod and the material bearing frame, and other materials are blocked by the limiting rod and cannot be taken out.

Preferably, the first horizontal driving device comprises a second cylinder, an extension rod connecting plate, a first bearing and a dragging plate, wherein a cylinder body of the second cylinder is fixed through a supporting body, a piston rod of the second cylinder is connected with the extension rod connecting plate, the same side of the extension rod connecting plate is connected with the end parts of two parallel extension rods arranged at intervals, the first bearing is fixed on the base, the extension rod penetrates through the first bearing, the other end of the extension rod is connected with the dragging plate, and the dragging plate is connected with the second lifting driving device. Like this, through the flexible piston rod of control second cylinder, can realize extracting device's level to removing.

Preferably, the second lifting driving device comprises a second guide sliding rod, an upper fixing plate, a lower fixing plate, a second bearing and a third cylinder, the top end of the second guide sliding rod is fixedly connected with the upper fixing plate, the second bearing is fixed on the lower fixing plate, the lower fixing plate is connected with the first horizontal driving device, the lower end of the second guide sliding rod penetrates through the second bearing and the lower fixing plate to be connected with the material taking mechanism, the cylinder body of the third cylinder is fixed with the lower fixing plate, the piston rod of the third cylinder penetrates through the lower fixing plate to be connected with the material taking device, and the position, corresponding to the cylinder body of the third cylinder, of the upper fixing plate is provided with an avoiding opening. Like this, through the flexible piston rod of control third cylinder, can realize extracting device in vertical lift.

Preferably, the feeding agencies includes L template and fourth cylinder, the L template is including the diaphragm and the riser that become 90 degrees connections each other, the inboard of diaphragm and riser all is equipped with the connecting seat, the cylinder body and the second lift drive arrangement of fourth cylinder are connected, the cylinder body front end of fourth cylinder extends forward has two linking arms, the linking arm is with the inboard connecting seat pin joint of riser, the piston rod of fourth cylinder passes through the connecting rod and the inboard connecting seat pin joint of diaphragm, the outside of diaphragm is equipped with the first flitch of getting the material from storage device, be equipped with the electro-magnet that is used for adsorbing the material on the first flitch of getting. Like this, through the control electro-magnet, can adsorb the material on first getting the flitch with the material level to taking out, get the flitch at first and take out the back with the material, flexible through the piston rod of control fourth cylinder, can control the upset of L template, can make first getting the flitch from horizontal position upset to vertical position to make things convenient for first getting the material that the flitch will get to place sharpedge grinding machine equipment on.

Preferably, a second material taking plate is arranged on the outer side of the vertical plate, and an electromagnet for adsorbing materials is arranged on the second material taking plate. Like this, can get the flitch at the second and adsorb the back of taking off from sharpedge grinding machine equipment with the material that has ground on the sharpedge grinding machine equipment, make the L template take place to overturn to on placing sharpedge grinding machine equipment with the material on the first flitch of getting, realize full-automatic material loading, unloading action.

Preferably, the top surface of the base is provided with a through hole at a position corresponding to the material, a material pressing rod penetrates through the through hole, and the bottom end of the material pressing rod is contacted with the material under the action of gravity. Certain frictional force in the right side when material side contacts with the gag lever post, when material weight is lighter, or gag lever post and material side contact are tighter, the material probably appears by the unable circumstances that descends of card owner and appears, presses the setting of material stick to avoid this kind of circumstances to take place, presses the material stick to utilize the weight of itself to push down the material and can make the bottom material taken out the back, all the other materials can descend smoothly.

The utility model has the advantages that the automatic material taking and the grinding of the material in the grinding equipment can be realized, the manpower resource is saved, and the feeding efficiency is high; the material storage device can be adjusted according to the size of the material, is suitable for placing materials of various specifications, can adjust the distance between the material bearing plate and the lower end of the limiting rod according to the thickness of the material, can ensure that only one material can be taken out at each time, and has stable performance and high precision.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a three-dimensional structure of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic view of a three-dimensional structure of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is the structure diagram of the base and the storing device of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a second lift driving device according to the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of the material taking mechanism of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be further explained with reference to the accompanying drawings. The drawings are for illustrative purposes only and are not to be construed as limiting the patent.

In order to explain the embodiment more simply, some parts of the drawings or descriptions that are well known to those skilled in the art but are not relevant to the main content of the present invention will be omitted. In addition, some components in the drawings may be omitted, enlarged or reduced for convenience of description, but do not represent the size or the entire structure of an actual product.

As shown in fig. 1, the utility model provides an automatic feeder, including base 1, storage device 2, extracting device and numerical control system, storage device 2 includes four gag lever posts 21, first lift drive and holds material frame 22, holds material frame 22 for having open-ended frame structure, and the shape is "T" shape, gag lever post 21 vertical setting is connected with base 1, in this embodiment, the top of gag lever post 21 is connected with the top surface of base 1, and four gag lever posts 21 are parallel interval setting relatively, first lift drive fix on base 1 can drive hold material frame 22 relative gag lever post 21 axial displacement, and hold material frame 22 can move to the position that is less than gag lever post 21 lower extreme face;

the material taking device comprises a first horizontal driving device 3, a second lifting driving device 4 and a material taking mechanism 5, wherein the first horizontal driving device 3, the first lifting driving device, the second lifting driving device 4 and the material taking mechanism 5 are connected with a numerical control system and controlled to act by the numerical control system.

As shown in fig. 1 and 3, the first lifting driving device includes a first cylinder 24, a first cylinder mounting seat 23, and a first guide sliding rod 25, the first cylinder mounting seat 23 includes two metal plates which are vertically distributed and spaced and arranged in parallel, one side of each metal plate is connected and fixed with a side plate of the base 1, the first cylinder 24 is placed between the two metal plates and connected and fixed with the metal plates, a piston rod of the first cylinder 24 is vertically arranged to penetrate through the metal plate below and connected with the material bearing frame 22, the first guide sliding rod 25 penetrates through the upper and lower metal plates and is vertically arranged, and the lower end of the first guide sliding rod 25 is connected with the material bearing frame 22. Therefore, the material bearing frame 22 can descend to a position far away from the lower end of the limiting rod 21 to conveniently place materials, and meanwhile, the distance between the material bearing frame 22 and the lower end of the limiting rod 21 can be controlled to be maintained at the distance of at least one material thickness according to the specific thickness of a single material, so that the material positioned at the lowest part can be horizontally taken out from the gap between the lower end of the limiting rod 21 and the material bearing frame 22, and other materials are blocked by the limiting rod 21 and cannot be taken out.

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, in this embodiment, the first horizontal driving device 3 includes a second cylinder 31, an extension rod 33, an extension rod connecting plate 32, a first bearing 34, and a carriage 35, a cylinder body of the second cylinder 31 is fixed by a support body, the support body may be a frame (not shown in the drawing) of a knife sharpener apparatus, a piston rod of the second cylinder 31 is connected and fixed to a middle portion of the extension rod connecting plate 32, two ends of the extension rod connecting plate 32 on the same side are respectively connected to end portions of two extension rods 33 arranged in parallel at intervals, the number of the first bearings 34 corresponds to the number of the extension rods 33, the two first bearings 34 are fixed on the base 1, the extension rods 33 are arranged by passing through the first bearings 34, the carriage 35 is connected to the other end of the extension rods 33, and the carriage 35 is used for being connected to the second lifting driving device 4.

As shown in fig. 4, in this embodiment, the second lifting driving device 4 includes two second guide sliding rods 41, an upper fixing plate 42, a lower fixing plate 43, a second bearing 44 and a third air cylinder 45, the number of the second guide sliding rods 41 is two, the top end of the second guide sliding rods is fixedly connected to the upper fixing plate 42, the number of the second bearings 44 is two, the second bearings are fixedly connected to the lower fixing plate 43, the lower fixing plate 43 is fixedly connected to the carriage 35 of the first horizontal driving device 3, the lower end of the second guide sliding rods 41 passes through the second bearing 44 and the lower fixing plate 43 and then is connected to the material taking mechanism 5, the cylinder body of the third air cylinder 45 is fixed to the lower fixing plate 43, the piston rod of the third air cylinder 45 passes through the lower fixing plate 43 and is connected to the material taking device 5, the upper fixing plate 42 is provided with an avoiding opening corresponding to the cylinder body of the third air cylinder 45, the second lifting driving device 4 further, the upper end of the side protection plate 46 is connected with the outer side of the upper fixing plate 42, and the lower end of the side protection plate 46 is connected with the material taking mechanism 5.

As shown in fig. 5, the material taking mechanism 5 includes an L-shaped plate 52 and a fourth cylinder 51, the L-shaped plate 52 includes a horizontal plate and a vertical plate which are connected with each other at 90 degrees, a connecting seat 521 is disposed on the inner side of the horizontal plate, a connecting seat 522 is disposed on the inner side of the vertical plate, a cylinder body of the fourth cylinder 51 is fixedly connected with a piston rod of the third cylinder 45, a lower end of the second guide slide rod 41 and a lower end of the side protection plate 46 through connecting plates, two connecting arms 511 extend forward from the front end of the cylinder body of the fourth cylinder 51, the connecting arms 511 are pivotally connected with the connecting seats 522 on the inner side of the vertical plate through rotating shafts 56, a piston rod of the fourth cylinder 51 is pivotally connected with the connecting seat 521 on the inner side of the horizontal plate through a connecting rod 55, a first material taking plate 53 capable of taking materials from the material storing device 2 is disposed on the outer side of the horizontal plate, the second material taking plate 54 is provided with an electromagnet 541 for adsorbing materials.

As shown in fig. 4, as a further improvement, the top end of the limiting rod 21 is connected to the top surface of the base 1 through a horizontal adjusting mechanism capable of adjusting the horizontal position of the limiting rod 21, in this embodiment, the horizontal adjusting mechanism includes a connecting block 26 provided with a strip-shaped hole 261 and a screw (not shown in the figure) penetrating through the strip-shaped hole 261, the top end of the limiting rod 21 is connected and fixed to the connecting block 26, and the screw is in threaded connection with the top surface of the base 1, so that the horizontal position of each limiting rod 21 can be adjusted to adapt to the placement of materials of different specifications.

As shown in fig. 4, as a further improvement, a through hole is formed in the top surface of the base 1 at a position corresponding to the material, a pressing rod 27 is inserted into the through hole, a sleeve 28 is sleeved outside the pressing rod, the sleeve 28 is fixedly connected with the top surface of the base 1 so as to facilitate the up-and-down sliding of the pressing rod 27, and the pressing rod 27 is used for pressing the material downwards to overcome the friction force when the material contacts with the limiting rod 21, so that the material can smoothly descend.

The utility model discloses a use method as follows:

firstly, debugging a machine according to materials to be processed, specifically, placing the materials to be processed on a material bearing frame 22 in an up-down stacking mode, adjusting the horizontal positions of four limiting rods 21 to enable the limiting rods 21 to surround the materials to be processed so that the materials cannot be separated from a space surrounded by the limiting rods 21 in the horizontal direction, and lifting the material bearing frame 22 to a position higher than the lower end face of the limiting rods 21 by controlling a first air cylinder 24.

Secondly, the thickness of a single material is input in the numerical control system so as to correct the stroke of each driving device.

And finally, starting the automatic feeding device, wherein the specific flow is as follows:

the third cylinder 45 drives the material taking mechanism 5 to move to a position where the first material taking plate 53 is located below the material and the first material taking plate 53 is away from the lower end surface of the limiting rod 21 by a material distance according to preset parameters, at the moment, the first cylinder 24 acts to drive the material receiving frame 22 to descend by a certain distance, the distance is larger than a material thickness and is smaller than two material thicknesses, after the material falls on the first material taking plate 53, the electromagnet 531 starts to adsorb the bottommost material on the first material taking plate 53, at the moment, the second cylinder 31 acts to drive the first material taking plate 53 to move horizontally to take out the material, after the material is taken out, the first cylinder 24 acts to drive the material receiving frame 22 to lift to the original position, the second cylinder 31 and the third cylinder 45 cooperate to drive the material taking mechanism 5 to the working position of the knife sharpener equipment, at the moment, the electromagnet 541 of the second material taking plate 54 starts to adsorb the ground material on the knife sharpener equipment on the second material taking plate 54, the fourth cylinder 51 acts to push the L-shaped plate to turn over so that the first material taking plate 53 at the original upper horizontal position rotates to the vertical position in front, the second material taking plate 54 at the original front vertical position rotates to the horizontal position below, the electromagnet 531 and the electromagnet 541 are closed at this time, the material on the first material taking plate 53 can be placed on the knife sharpener equipment, and the material on the second material taking plate 54 can fall off for subsequent processes. The full automation of the process of taking materials and putting the materials into the knife sharpener equipment for grinding can be realized by repeating the above actions circularly.

The above-described embodiments of the present invention do not limit the scope of the present invention. Any modification, equivalent replacement, and improvement made within the spirit and scope of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims

1. An automatic feeder comprises a base, a material storage device and a material taking device, and is characterized in that,

the material storage device comprises a plurality of limiting rods, a first lifting driving device and a material bearing frame, wherein the limiting rods are vertically arranged and connected with the base, the limiting rods are arranged in parallel relatively at intervals, the first lifting driving device is fixed on the base and can drive the material bearing frame to axially move relative to the limiting rods, and the material bearing frame can move to a position far away from the lower end face of the limiting rods;

the material taking device comprises a first horizontal driving device, a second lifting driving device and a material taking mechanism, the first horizontal driving device is connected with the second lifting driving device and can drive the first horizontal driving device to move horizontally and upwards, the second lifting driving device is connected with the material taking mechanism and can drive the second horizontal driving device to move up and down, the material taking mechanism can move to the position corresponding to the material bearing frame under the driving of the first horizontal driving device and the second lifting driving device, and when the material bearing frame moves to the position far away from the lower end face of the limiting rod, the material taking mechanism can take out materials horizontally from the space surrounded by the limiting rods.

2. The automatic feeder according to claim 1, wherein the top end of the stopper rod is connected to the top surface of the base through a horizontal adjusting mechanism capable of adjusting the horizontal position of the stopper rod.

3. The automatic feeder according to claim 2, wherein the horizontal adjusting mechanism comprises a connecting block provided with a strip-shaped hole and a screw penetrating through the strip-shaped hole, the top end of the limiting rod is fixedly connected with the connecting block, and the screw is in threaded connection with the top surface of the base.

4. The automatic feeder according to claim 1, wherein the first lifting driving device comprises a first air cylinder, a first air cylinder mounting seat and a first guide sliding rod, the first air cylinder is fixedly connected with a side plate of the base through the first air cylinder mounting seat, a piston rod of the first air cylinder is vertically arranged and connected with the material bearing frame, the first guide sliding rod penetrates through the first mounting seat and is vertically arranged, and the lower end of the first guide sliding rod is connected with the material bearing frame.

5. The automatic feeder according to claim 1, wherein the first horizontal driving device comprises a second cylinder, an extension rod connecting plate, a first bearing and a carriage, a cylinder body of the second cylinder is fixed by a support body, a piston rod of the second cylinder is connected with the extension rod connecting plate, the same side of the extension rod connecting plate is connected with the end parts of two parallel extension rods arranged at intervals, the first bearing is fixed on the base, the extension rod penetrates through the first bearing, the other end of the extension rod is connected with the carriage, and the carriage is connected with the second lifting driving device.

6. The automatic feeder according to claim 1, wherein the second lifting driving device comprises a second guide sliding rod, an upper fixing plate, a lower fixing plate, a second bearing and a third air cylinder, the top end of the second guide sliding rod is fixedly connected with the upper fixing plate, the second bearing is fixed on the lower fixing plate, the lower fixing plate is connected with the first horizontal driving device, the lower end of the second guide sliding rod penetrates through the second bearing and the lower fixing plate to be connected with the material taking mechanism, the cylinder body of the third air cylinder is fixed with the lower fixing plate, the piston rod of the third air cylinder penetrates through the lower fixing plate to be connected with the material taking device, and an avoiding opening is formed in the position, corresponding to the cylinder body of the third air cylinder, of the upper fixing plate.

7. The automatic feeder according to claim 1, characterized in that the material taking mechanism comprises an L-shaped plate and a fourth cylinder, the L-shaped plate comprises a transverse plate and a vertical plate which are mutually connected in a 90-degree mode, connecting seats are arranged on the inner sides of the transverse plate and the vertical plate, a cylinder body of the fourth cylinder is connected with the second lifting driving device, two connecting arms extend forwards from the front end of the cylinder body of the fourth cylinder, the connecting arms are pivoted with the connecting seats on the inner sides of the vertical plates, a piston rod of the fourth cylinder is pivoted with the connecting seats on the inner sides of the transverse plates through a connecting rod, a first material taking plate for taking materials from the material storing device is arranged on the outer side of the transverse plate, and an electromagnet for adsorbing the materials is arranged on.

8. The automatic feeder according to claim 7, wherein a second material taking plate is arranged on the outer side of the vertical plate, and an electromagnet for adsorbing materials is arranged on the second material taking plate.

9. The automatic feeder according to claim 1, wherein the top surface of the base is provided with a through hole at a position corresponding to the material, a material pressing rod is inserted into the through hole, and the bottom end of the material pressing rod is in contact with the material under the action of gravity.