CN212075342U

CN212075342U - Cross belt sorting device and cross belt sorting system

Info

Publication number: CN212075342U
Application number: CN201922221658.6U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 蔡熙; 陈丽荣
Original assignee: Suzhou Jinfeng Iot Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Suzhou Jinfeng Iot Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2019-12-12
Filing date: 2019-12-12
Publication date: 2020-12-04
Anticipated expiration: 2029-12-12

Abstract

The utility model discloses a crossover band sorting device and crossover band letter sorting system, wherein the crossover band sorting device, including annular track, can be provided with a set of dolly along it with removing on the track, articulated between the adjacent dolly and driven by drive arrangement, the dolly includes roll connection orbital chassis, the both sides that the chassis is relative are provided with the leading truck, belt feeder roll connection and/or sliding connection leading truck, its edge of drive is connected to the belt feeder the elevating system that the leading truck goes up and down. This scheme design is exquisite, has the raising and lowering ability through making every dolly in crossing area to combine guide structure, the stability of operation when can effectual assurance dolly goes up and down, thereby can effectively satisfy the needs of multilayer check mouth letter sorting, and, this kind of structure has also made things convenient for and has docked with the transfer chain of different height differences, thereby the effectual flexibility that improves the application, and the suitability is wider, can utilize widely.

Description

Cross belt sorting device and cross belt sorting system

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of letter sorting equipment and specifically relates to crossover band sorting device and crossover band letter sorting system.

Background

The cross belt sorting system is assembled by a main driving belt conveyor and a trolley (trolley for short) carrying a small belt conveyor, and when the trolley moves to a specified sorting position, a belt is rotated to complete the task of sorting and delivering commodities. A cross belt is referred to because the main drive belt conveyor is crossed with the belt conveyor on the "car".

Traditional crossing belt is the individual layer structure of tiling, drives every dolly through chain drive structure and removes, and this kind of individual layer crossing belt is used with individual layer letter sorting check usually in a complete set, can't satisfy the letter sorting needs of thin, many customers such as medicine, clothing, tobacco, bank, can't satisfy the use needs of multilayer check or multilayer goods shelves.

Meanwhile, the single-layer crossed belt cannot effectively transfer articles among conveying lines with different heights, and the application flexibility is poor.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims at providing a cross area sorting device and cross area letter sorting system in order to solve the above-mentioned problem that exists among the prior art.

The purpose of the utility model is realized through the following technical scheme:

the cross belt sorting device comprises an annular track, a group of trolleys are movably arranged on the track along the track, adjacent trolleys are hinged and driven by a driving device, each trolley comprises a chassis in rolling connection with the track, guide frames are arranged on two opposite sides of the chassis, a belt conveyor is in rolling connection and/or sliding connection with the guide frames, and the belt conveyor is connected with a lifting mechanism for driving the belt conveyor to lift along the guide frames.

Preferably, in the cross belt sorting device, the rail is arranged on the ground or hung on a roof, and the trolley is arranged on or hung on the rail.

Preferably, in the cross belt sorting device, adjacent trolleys are connected through a rod end joint bearing.

Preferably, in the cross belt sorting device, the lifting mechanism uses a motor or a hydraulic cylinder as a power source.

Preferably, the cross-belt sorting device in, elevating system includes the second lead screw that the level set up and drives its screw rod pivoted transverse motor, the internal thread opposite direction that has two movable blocks and two movable blocks on the second lead screw, two be provided with at least one deck elevating system on the movable block, elevating system includes that two are X-shaped and articulated bracing piece, a pivot connection slider respectively in the top of two bracing pieces of the elevating system at top layer, set up on the slide rail of belt conveyer bottom slidable.

Preferably, in the cross belt sorting device, the lifting mechanism is a first lead screw which is fixed on the chassis and positioned at two sides of the belt conveyor and extends vertically, a movable block of the first lead screw is connected with the belt conveyor, and a screw of the first lead screw is driven by a longitudinal motor.

Preferably, in the cross belt sorting device, the lifting mechanism is at least one electric pushing cylinder vertically arranged on the chassis and connected with the belt conveyor.

Preferably, in the cross belt sorting device, the driving device includes at least one U-shaped slot linear motor fixed in position and a sensing plate fixed on part or all of the trolleys and corresponding to the U-shaped slot of the U-shaped slot linear motor.

Preferably, in the cross belt sorting device, the driving device includes a friction wheel driven by a friction motor with a fixed position to rotate, and a friction plate fixed on part or all of the trolleys and capable of clinging to the surface of the friction wheel.

A cross-belt sorting system comprising any of the above cross-belt sorting apparatus.

The utility model discloses technical scheme's advantage mainly embodies:

this scheme design is exquisite, simple structure, and every dolly through making the crossing area has the lift ability to combine guide structure, the stability of operation when can effectual assurance dolly goes up and down, thereby can effectively satisfy the needs of multilayer check mouth letter sorting, and this kind of structure has also made things convenient for and has docked with the transfer chain of different difference in height, thereby the effectual flexibility of using that has improved, and the suitability is wider, can utilize widely.

The cross belt sorting device can effectively adapt to different application environments, the installation mode of the equipment can be selected according to needs, the design is more humanized, and the selectivity is better.

The adjacent trolleys adopt the rod end joint bearing to fully exert the characteristics of parts, so that the position relation of the trolleys different in a curve area and a straight area is adapted, and the connection reliability and the running stability of the trolleys are ensured.

The trolley of the scheme is stable in structure, and is stable when the belt conveyor is guided and limited by the guide frame and can effectively guarantee lifting of the belt conveyor, and the power structure of the trolley can be selected in multiple modes as required, so that the trolley is better in application flexibility.

The driving structure of the scheme is more flexible in design, small in occupied space, easy to arrange and convenient to achieve.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a top view of the present invention (only a partial structure of a cross-belt sorting apparatus is shown in the figure);

fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of the hinge joint between the trolleys of the present invention (only the structure of the chassis region is shown in the figure);

fig. 3 is a schematic view of a first embodiment of the trolley of the invention;

fig. 4 is a plan view of a first embodiment of the cart of the present invention (the structure of the support plate and the motor are not shown);

fig. 5 is a schematic view of a second embodiment of the cart of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the carriage of the present invention driven by a lead screw and an X-shaped lifting mechanism;

fig. 7 is a schematic view of a third embodiment of the cart of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic view of a fourth embodiment of the trolley of the invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic view of a first embodiment of the drive arrangement of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic view of a second embodiment of the drive device of the present invention.

Detailed Description

Objects, advantages and features of the present invention will be illustrated and explained by the following non-limiting description of preferred embodiments. These embodiments are merely exemplary embodiments for applying the technical solutions of the present invention, and all technical solutions formed by adopting equivalent substitutions or equivalent transformations fall within the scope of the present invention.

In the description of the embodiments, it should be noted that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "front", "rear", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, but do not indicate or imply that the devices or elements referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance. In the description of the embodiment, the operator is used as a reference, and the direction close to the operator is a proximal end, and the direction away from the operator is a distal end.

The cross belt sorting device disclosed in the present invention is explained below with reference to the accompanying drawings, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, it includes an annular rail 12, a set of trolleys 11 can be movably disposed on the rail 12, the adjacent trolleys 11 are hinged and driven by a driving device 13, each trolley 11 includes a chassis 111 connected to the rail 12 in a rolling manner, guide frames 112 are disposed on two opposite sides of the chassis 111, a belt conveyor 113 is connected in a rolling manner and/or slidably connected to the guide frames 112, and the belt conveyor 113 is connected to a lifting mechanism for driving the belt conveyor 113 to lift along the guide frames 112.

Specifically, the track 12 may be a circular, oval, kidney-shaped or other irregular closed track, and the shape of the track 12 may be adaptively designed as required, and preferably, as shown in fig. 3, the track 12 includes two spacing grooves 121 for a wheel to roll and to limit, and a side baffle 122 located below each spacing groove 121 to maintain a gap.

Meanwhile, in one embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, the track 12 is disposed on the ground 14, and if the height of the track is low, the trolley 11 is erected on the track 12, that is, the conveying surface of the trolley 11 is located above the track 12; if the height of the rail 12 is high, the trolley 11 can be suspended on the rail 12, i.e. the transport surface of the trolley 11 is lower than the rail.

Of course, in another embodiment, the track 11 may also be suspended from the roof, and in this case, the trolley is preferably suspended from the track 12 in a manner suitable for a space with a relatively large height.

In order to ensure the stability of the whole structure and avoid the occurrence of large vibration of the trolleys 11 in the moving process, as shown in fig. 2, the adjacent trolleys are connected through the rod end knuckle bearing 15, and specifically, two ends of the rod end knuckle bearing are connected to the chassis 111 of the two adjacent trolleys 11.

The chassis 111 may be any known frame structure or plate-shaped structure with sufficient bearing capacity, as shown in fig. 3, two sides of the chassis 111 corresponding to the input and output ends of the belt conveyor 113 are provided with rollers 111a corresponding to the limiting grooves on the rails and limiting wheels 111b attached to the side plates on the rails, so that the chassis 111 moves along the rails 12 to drive the structure thereon to move.

As shown in fig. 3 and 4, the guide frames 112 are located on two sides of the belt conveyor 113, the guide frame 112 on each side may be two square pipes 112a arranged at a gap, and two sides of the belt frame 113 are respectively provided with a limiting roller 113a attached to two vertical side walls of each square pipe 1131, so that the position of the belt conveyor 113 is limited by the cooperation of the limiting rollers 113a and the guide frames 112. Moreover, the height of the guide frame 112 can be adaptively designed according to the required use environment, and generally the height of the guide frame can be 1-8 m.

Guide frame 112 is located the both sides of belt feeder 113, the guide frame 112 of each side can be the square pipe that two clearances set up, the both sides of belt frame 113 are provided with respectively with the spacing gyro wheel 1131 of two vertically lateral walls laminating of every square pipe to restrict the position of belt feeder 113 through spacing gyro wheel 1131 and guide frame 112 cooperation. Moreover, the height of the guide frame 112 can be adaptively designed according to the required use environment, and generally the height of the guide frame can be 1-8 m.

In a preferred embodiment, as shown in fig. 5, the guide frame 112 may be replaced by a telescopic rod 1119, the telescopic rod 1119 is vertically fixed on the chassis 111, and the top of the telescopic rod 1119 is fixed at the bottom of the belt machine 113, in such a structure, since the telescopic rod 1119 is located at the bottom of the belt machine 113, it does not occupy the space at both sides of the belt machine 113, and therefore it does not interfere with the bag loading and unloading operation of the belt machine 113, and meanwhile, the telescopic rod 1119 has a small structure in a normal state, and occupies a small space, thus it can simplify the structure.

The belt conveyor 113 may be a known belt conveyor structure of various types, which is a known technology and is not described herein, and the conveying belt of the belt conveyor 113 may be a complete belt or a plurality of narrow belts; also, in other embodiments, the belt conveyor 113 may be replaced by a roller conveyor or a deflecting wheel conveyor.

The lifting mechanism uses a motor or a hydraulic cylinder as a power source, and the specific structure of the power source driving the belt conveyor 113 can have various implementation modes.

In a possible embodiment, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the lifting mechanism is a first lead screw 114 fixed on the chassis 111 and located at two sides of the belt conveyor 113 and extending along the vertical direction, two ends of a screw 114a of the first lead screw 114 are rotatably (connected by a bearing) fixed on a support plate 112b at the top of the guide frame 112 and the chassis 111, one end of the screw 114a is connected to a longitudinal motor 115 for driving the screw to rotate, the longitudinal motor 115 may be fixed on the support plate 112b of the guide frame 112 or on the chassis 111, and a movable block 114b of the first lead screw 114 is connected to a side portion of the belt conveyor 113.

When the device works, the two longitudinal motors 115 drive the screws of the two first lead screws 114 to rotate so as to drive the two movable blocks to synchronously lift, and the movable blocks lift and drive the belt conveyor 113 to lift and descend along the guide frame 112.

In a further possible embodiment, as shown in fig. 6, the lifting mechanism comprises a horizontally arranged second screw 116 and a transverse motor 117 driving the screw to rotate, the second screw 116 has two movable blocks 118 with opposite internal threads, i.e. the two movable blocks move in opposite directions, at least one layer of lifting mechanism is arranged on the two movable blocks 118, the lifting mechanism comprises two support rods 119 in an X shape and hinged to each other, the lifting mechanism can be multi-layer according to different lifting height requirements, and the two support rods 119 on each layer are respectively pivoted to the two support rods 119 on the other layer, and the top parts of the two support rods 119 of the lifting mechanism on the top layer are respectively pivoted to a sliding block 1110, and the sliding block 1110 is slidably arranged on a sliding rail 1111 at the bottom of the belt conveyor 113.

During operation, the transverse motor 117 drives the screw of the second screw 116 to rotate, so as to drive the two movable blocks to move in opposite directions or in opposite directions, so as to drive the support rod 119 to rotate, so as to adjust the height of the upper end of the support rod 119, and further drive the belt conveyor 113 to move along the guide frame 112.

In another embodiment, as shown in fig. 7, the lifting mechanism is at least one electric pushing cylinder 1123 or one hydraulic cylinder vertically arranged on the chassis 111 and connected with the belt conveyor 113, and this structure can be used for small lifting space applications because the telescopic rod of the electric pushing rod and the hydraulic cylinder needs to occupy a large space.

In another possible embodiment, as shown in fig. 8, the lifting mechanism includes hydraulic cylinders 1120 located at the sides of the belt conveyor, a chain wheel 1121 is rotatably disposed at the top of a piston rod of each hydraulic cylinder 1120, a chain 1122 is hung on the chain wheel 1121, one end of the chain 1122 is fixed at the side of the belt conveyor, the other end of the chain 1122 is fixed on the chassis 111, and when the hydraulic cylinders are located at the sides of the belt conveyor, the height of the hydraulic cylinders do not limit the lowest height of the belt conveyor.

During operation, the hydraulic cylinder 1120 drives the chain wheel 1121 to ascend, and the chain wheel 1121 ascends, so that the end of the chain 1122 connected with the belt conveyor moves upwards, and the belt conveyor is pulled to move upwards, and on the contrary, when the hydraulic cylinder 1120 drives the chain wheel 1121 to move downwards, the belt conveyor moves downwards.

Of course, in other embodiments, the lifting mechanism may be in other forms, which are not described herein.

The driving device 13 may be a chain driving structure of a conventional cross belt sorting device, or may be other feasible structures, in a preferred embodiment, as shown in fig. 9, the driving device 13 includes at least one U-shaped slot linear motor 131 with a fixed position and a sensing plate 132 fixed on part or all of the trolleys 11 and corresponding to the U-shaped slot position of the U-shaped slot linear motor 131, the sensing plate 132 is driven by the U-shaped slot linear motor 131 to move, so as to drive the driving trolleys 11 to move, the trolleys are hinged to each other, so as to move integrally, and the number and installation position of the U-shaped slot linear motors 131 are reasonably adjusted, so that the whole trolley loop line can reach a set operation speed.

In another possible embodiment, as shown in fig. 10, the driving device 13 includes a friction wheel 134 that is driven by a fixed friction motor 133 to rotate, and a friction plate 135 that is fixed on part or all of the cart 11 and can be tightly attached to a surface of the friction wheel 134, and the number of the friction wheels 134 may be two and a gap is maintained, and they may be respectively driven by one friction motor or may be driven by the same friction motor through a certain transmission structure, where the corresponding structure is the prior art and is not described in detail. The friction plate 135 is located between the two friction wheels 134, and when the two friction wheels 134 rotate, the friction plate 135 is driven to move, so that the trolley 11 is driven to move.

The scheme further discloses a cross-belt sorting system (not shown in the figure), which comprises the cross-belt sorting device, a wrapping line supplying device and a lower wrapping grid opening which are positioned at two sides of the track, wherein code scanning equipment and image acquisition equipment of a DWS conveying line of the wrapping line supplying device are triggered by at least two opposite photoelectric sensors which have height difference and are opposite in position; the lower packing grid is provided with a plurality of layers of grids.

When the whole device works, the start-stop and working state of each electrical element can be controlled by various control devices (such as a PLC and an upper computer or an industrial control computer) and various sensors (such as a photoelectric sensor, a proximity sensor, a distance sensor and the like).

The utility model has a plurality of implementation modes, and all technical schemes formed by adopting equivalent transformation or equivalent transformation all fall within the protection scope of the utility model.

Claims

1. Cross belt sorting device, including endless track (12), can follow a set of dolly (11) of track (12) removal and drive device (13) that drive dolly (11) removed, characterized in that: the adjacent trolleys (11) are hinged, each trolley (11) comprises a chassis (111), a lifting mechanism is arranged on each chassis (111), each lifting mechanism is connected with a belt conveyor (113) and drives the belt conveyors to lift, the belt conveyors (113) are connected in a rolling mode and located on two sides of the chassis (111) and provided with guide frames (112) or the bottoms of the belt conveyors (113) are vertically provided with a group of telescopic rods (1112) fixed on the chassis (111).

2. The cross-belt sorter as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the rail (12) is of a floor type or a top-hung type, and the trolley (11) is erected or hung on the rail (12).

3. The cross-belt sorter as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the adjacent trolleys (11) are connected through a rod end joint bearing.

4. The cross-belt sorter as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the lifting mechanism takes a motor or a hydraulic cylinder as a power source.

5. The cross-belt sorter as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the lifting mechanism is a first lead screw (114) which is fixed on the chassis (111) and positioned on two sides of the belt conveyor (113) and extends vertically, a movable block of the first lead screw (114) is connected with the belt conveyor (113), and a screw rod of the first lead screw is driven by a longitudinal motor (115).

6. The cross-belt sorter as claimed in claim 1, wherein: elevating system includes second lead screw (116) that the level set up and drives its screw rod pivoted transverse motor (117), the internal thread opposite direction that has two movable blocks (118) and two movable blocks on second lead screw (116), two be provided with at least one deck elevating system on movable block (118), elevating system includes that two are X shape and articulated bracing piece (119), and pivot connection slider (1110) respectively in the top of two bracing pieces (119) of the elevating system of top layer, slider (1110) slidable sets up on slide rail (1111) of belt feeder (113) bottom.

7. The cross-belt sorter as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the lifting mechanism is an electric push rod which is vertically arranged on the chassis (111) and is connected with the belt conveyor (113).

8. The cross-belt sorter as claimed in any of claims 1-7, wherein: the driving device (13) comprises at least one U-shaped groove linear motor (131) with a fixed position and an induction plate (132) which is fixed on part or all of the trolley (11) and corresponds to the U-shaped groove position of the U-shaped groove linear motor (131).

9. The cross-belt sorter as claimed in any of claims 1-7, wherein: the driving device (13) comprises a friction wheel (134) driven by a friction motor (133) with a fixed position to rotate and a friction plate (135) which is fixed on part or all of the trolley (11) and can be closely attached to the surface of the friction wheel (134).

10. Crossed belt letter sorting system, its characterized in that: comprising the cross-belt sorting apparatus of any one of claims 1-9.