CN212654643U - Material detects and pile up neatly device - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a material detecting and stacking device, which comprises a plurality of sections of bending and arranging conveying lines for conveying materials, a line changing mechanism, a detecting mechanism and a stacking mechanism; the wire replacing mechanism is arranged at the bending butt joint of two adjacent sections of conveying lines and used for pushing the materials from one section of conveying line to the other adjacent section of conveying line along the conveying direction of the materials; the detection mechanism is arranged on one section of the conveying line and used for detecting and acquiring the material information transmitted by the conveying line; the stacking mechanism is in butt joint with the tail ends of the conveying lines and comprises a rack, a gripper and a driving mechanism, wherein the gripper and the driving mechanism are arranged on the rack, the driving mechanism is used for driving the gripper to move vertically, horizontally and forwards and backwards, and the gripper is used for gripping materials; above-mentioned material detects and pile up neatly device can accomplish the detection and the pile up neatly of material voluntarily, need not transfer the material many times to effectively improve work efficiency.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a technical field is put things in good order under the shaping article, especially relates to a material detection and pile up neatly device.
Background
In a production line, after boxing and off-line, molded products generally undergo detection and stacking procedures, wherein the detection in the step mainly comprises the steps of detecting whether target materials are contained in boxes, whether accessories are completely boxed in place and the like, and then stacking and storing the detected boxes. Among the prior art, to the vanning product of packing completion, generally transport testing platform to the product earlier and weigh, detect such as scan, then transport the product after detecting the completion to appointed place and carry out artifical pile up neatly, whole process needs to remove the vanning product many times, damages the box easily, appears the false retrieval and leaks the detection moreover easily, consequently, is difficult to guarantee the quality and the efficiency of packing operation.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims at providing a material detects and pile up neatly device for solving above-mentioned technical problem, can accomplish the detection and the operation of putting things in good order of material automatically through an operation line, improve packing operation quality and efficiency.
In order to achieve the purpose, the utility model discloses a material detecting and stacking device, which comprises a plurality of sections of bending and arranging conveying lines for conveying materials, a line changing mechanism, a detecting mechanism and a stacking mechanism;
the wire replacing mechanism is arranged at the bending butt joint of two adjacent sections of conveying lines and used for pushing the materials from one section of conveying line to the other adjacent section of conveying line along the conveying direction of the materials;
the detection mechanism is arranged on one section of the conveying line and used for detecting and acquiring the material information transmitted by the conveying line;
the stacking mechanism is in butt joint with the tail ends of the conveying lines and comprises a rack, a gripper and a driving mechanism, wherein the gripper and the driving mechanism are arranged on the rack, the driving mechanism is used for driving the gripper to move vertically, horizontally and longitudinally, and the gripper is used for gripping materials.
Compared with the prior art, the material detecting and stacking device of the utility model has the advantages that firstly, the detecting mechanism and the stacking mechanism are connected through the conveying line comprising a plurality of sections of bending arrangement, after the material is placed on the conveying line, the material is automatically detected and stacked, and the material is not required to be transferred for many times, thereby effectively improving the working efficiency; secondly, because bend between a plurality of transfer chain and arrange, can carry out effectual utilization to working space, through line changing mechanism with the material propelling movement to adjacent another section transfer chain from one of them transfer chain, realized the automatic switching-over of material in transportation process.
Preferably, the line changing mechanism comprises a push plate and a linear driver, the linear driver is used for driving the push plate to move back and forth along the line changing direction, and the push plate is used for pushing the material to change the direction to enter another adjacent conveying line.
Preferably, a plurality of detachable stop levers arranged at intervals are arranged on the side edge of the push plate.
Preferably, guardrails are arranged on two sides of the conveying line, the guardrails are connected with a fixing frame of the conveying line through supports, and adjusting mechanisms used for adjusting the distance between the two guardrails are arranged on the supports.
Preferably, the conveying line comprises a feeding line, a detection line and a discharging line, the feeding line is used for receiving materials to be processed, the detection mechanism is arranged on the detection line, and the tail end of the discharging line is in butt joint with the stacking mechanism;
the feeding line and the blanking line are respectively butted at the head end and the tail end of the detection line, and the feeding line and the blanking line have different conveying directions from the detection line; the wire changing mechanisms are respectively a first wire changing mechanism and a second wire changing mechanism, and the first wire changing mechanism is arranged at the connection part of the feeding line and the detection line and used for pushing the materials on the feeding line to the detection line; the second wire replacing mechanism is arranged at the connecting position of the detection wire and the blanking wire and used for pushing the materials on the detection wire to the blanking wire.
Preferably, the detection mechanism includes a shielding case arranged above the conveying line at one section, and an RFID reader and an RFID antenna arranged in the shielding case, the RFID reader is used for reading the material information in the electronic tag on the material through the RFID antenna, and the shielding case is used for shielding the entering of external interference signals.
Preferably, the detection mechanism further comprises a weighing frame arranged right below the shielding case, a conveying belt in butt joint with the conveying line is arranged on the weighing frame, and the weighing frame is used for detecting the weight of the material.
Preferably, the driving mechanism includes a first displacement driver installed on the frame and capable of sliding up and down along the frame, and a second displacement driver slidably connected to the first displacement driver, the frame is further provided with a lifting driver for driving the first displacement driver to slide up and down along a Z axis, the hand grip is slidably connected to the second displacement driver, the second displacement driver is used for driving the hand grip to slide left and right along an X axis, and the first displacement driver is used for driving the second displacement driver to slide back and forth along a Y axis.
Preferably, the first displacement drivers are arranged into two sets, the two sets of first displacement drivers are respectively connected with the two ends of the second displacement driver in a sliding manner, the lifting driver comprises two sets of synchronous belts which move synchronously, and each set of synchronous belts is respectively connected with the two ends of one of the first displacement drivers in a transmission manner.
Preferably, still include the pallet that the bottom has the walking wheel, be provided with a plurality of locating pieces on the pallet, it is a plurality of form the district of placing of stacking the material between the locating piece, the below of frame still is provided with a pair of pull formula slide rail, the pallet slidable only is in the slide rail.
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Fig. 1 is the utility model discloses material detects and pile up neatly device's spatial structure schematic diagram.
Fig. 2 is the utility model discloses material detects and pile up neatly device's planar structure schematic diagram.
Fig. 3 is a schematic view of an installation structure of the thread-changing mechanism in the embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is an enlarged view of a portion a in fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is a schematic perspective view of an embodiment of the detection mechanism of the present invention.
Fig. 6 is the utility model discloses in the embodiment of the utility model provides a spatial structure schematic diagram of pile up neatly structure.
Fig. 7 is a schematic structural view of the driving mechanism in fig. 6.
Fig. 8 is a schematic perspective view of a pallet according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 9 is a schematic view illustrating an operating state of the pallet according to the embodiment of the present invention, wherein the pallet is in a state of being placed in place.
Fig. 10 is a schematic view illustrating an operating state of the pallet according to the embodiment of the present invention, wherein the pallet is in a drawing state.
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In order to explain technical contents, structural features, and objects and effects of the present invention in detail, the following description is given in conjunction with the embodiments and the accompanying drawings.
As shown in fig. 1 to 3, the invention discloses a material detecting and stacking device, which comprises a conveying line 1, a line changing mechanism 2, a detecting mechanism 3 and a stacking mechanism 4, wherein the conveying line 1 is used for conveying a plurality of sections of materials and is arranged in a bending manner.
The wire changing mechanism 2 is arranged at the bending butt joint of the two adjacent conveying lines 1 and used for pushing the materials from one conveying line 1 to the other adjacent conveying line 1 along the conveying direction of the materials.
And the detection mechanism 3 is arranged on one section of the conveying line 1 and is used for detecting and acquiring the material information transmitted by the conveying line 1.
The stacking mechanism 4 is in butt joint with the tail ends of the conveying lines 1 and comprises a rack 40, a gripper 41 and a driving mechanism 42, wherein the gripper 41 and the driving mechanism 42 are arranged on the rack 40, the driving mechanism 42 is used for driving the gripper 41 to move vertically, horizontally and forwards and backwards, the gripper 41 is used for gripping materials, and when the materials are conveyed to the rack 40, the driving mechanism 42 drives the gripper 41 to move downwards to grip the materials and move spatially to place the materials at a specified position.
The material detects and pile up neatly device with above-mentioned structure, at first, bend the transfer chain 1 of arranging through a plurality of sections and couple together detection mechanism 3 and pile up neatly mechanism 4, place the material back on transfer chain 1, when the material is carried to detection mechanism 3 place station, accomplish the detection to the material automatically, then continue to carry the material to terminal pile up neatly mechanism 4 department by transfer chain 1 to accomplish the detection and the pile up neatly of material automatically, need not transfer the material many times, effectively improve work efficiency. Secondly, because bend between a plurality of transfer chain 1 and arrange, can effectively utilize work space. The material is pushed from one conveying line 1 to the other adjacent conveying line 1 through the line changing mechanism 2, so that the automatic reversing of the material in the conveying process is realized.
As shown in fig. 3, the thread changing mechanism 2 includes a push plate 20 and a linear driver 21, the linear driver 21 is used for driving the push plate 20 to move back and forth along the direction of the thread to be changed, and the push plate 20 is used for pushing the material to change the direction into the adjacent other conveying line 1. The linear actuator 21 in this embodiment is a rodless cylinder, and preferably, a plurality of detachable bars 22 are disposed at intervals on the side edge of the push plate 20, and the bars 22 can be inserted into the long and/or wide edge of the push plate 20 to increase the size of the push plate 20, so that the push plate 20 can adapt to materials of different specifications.
As shown in fig. 1, 3 and 4, to prevent the materials from deflecting during the conveying process, guardrails 13 are disposed on two sides of the conveying line 1, the guardrails 13 are connected to a fixing frame 15 of the conveying line 1 through a bracket 14, and an adjusting mechanism for adjusting the distance between the two guardrails 13 is disposed on the bracket 14. A pair of guardrails 13 on either side of the conveyor line 1 form a conveying track for the material to avoid shifting of the material during the conveying process. As for the adjusting mechanism, it includes a first fixing block 140, a second fixing block 141, a first connecting rod 142, and a second connecting rod 143. The first fixing block 140 is fixed on the fixing frame 15 of the conveyor line 1, the first connecting rod 142 is vertically installed, the second connecting rod 143 is horizontally installed, the lower end of the first connecting rod 142 is slidably and lockingly connected with the first fixing block 140 to adjust the height of the upper end of the first connecting rod 142, and the second fixing block 141 is installed at the upper end of the first connecting rod 142. One end of the second connecting rod 143 is connected to the guard rails 13, and the other end of the second connecting rod 143 is slidably and lockingly connected to the second fixing block 141 to adjust the extension length of the second connecting rod 143, thereby adjusting the distance between the two guard rails 13.
In another preferred embodiment of the material detecting and stacking device of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the conveying line 1 includes a feeding line 10, a detecting line 11 and a discharging line 12, and the included angle between the feeding line 10, the discharging line 12 and the conveying direction of the detecting line 11 is 90 °, so that the whole conveying line 1 is in the shape of "]". The feeding line 10 is used for receiving materials to be processed, the detection mechanism 3 is arranged on the detection line 11, and the tail end of the discharging line 12 is in butt joint with the stacking mechanism 4. The feeding line 10 and the blanking line 12 are respectively butted at the head end and the tail end of the detection line 11. As shown in fig. 2, two sets of line changing mechanisms 2 are provided, namely a first line changing mechanism 2 'and a second line changing mechanism 2 ", the first line changing mechanism 2' is arranged at a connection part of the feeding line 10 and the detection line 11, and is used for pushing the material on the feeding line 10 to the detection line 11; the second wire changing mechanism 2 ″ is arranged at a connection part of the detection wire 11 and the blanking wire 12, and is used for pushing the materials on the detection wire 11 to the blanking wire 12.
Further, as shown in fig. 5, the detection mechanism 3 includes a shielding case 30 disposed above the detection line 11, and an RFID reader 31 and an RFID antenna 32 disposed in the shielding case 30, wherein the RFID reader 31 is used for reading the material information in the electronic tag on the material through the RFID antenna 32, and the shielding case 30 is used for shielding the entry of external interference signals. In this embodiment, when a material enters the shielding case 30, the RFID reader 31 and the RFID antenna 32 may be used to read the electronic tag information on the material, so as to complete the detection and collection of the information of the material to be palletized. In addition, a mounting frame 35 for mounting the RFID antenna 32 is disposed on the inner wall of the shielding case 30, and a long slot 36 is opened on the mounting frame 35, and the long slot 36 is used for adjusting the mounting height of the RFID antenna 32.
Preferably, the detecting mechanism 3 further includes a weighing frame 33 disposed directly below the shielding case 30, a conveyor belt 34 abutting against the conveyor line 1 is disposed on the weighing frame 33, and the weighing frame 33 is used for detecting the weight of the material. In this embodiment, conveyer belt 34 and transfer chain 1 dock, and the material can be directly carried to the conveyer belt 34 above weighing frame 33 by transfer chain 1 on to when reading the electronic tags of material through RFID reader 31, still weigh the material through weighing frame 33, whether with this material weight of detection in required within range, and then judge wrong dress, neglected loading.
Further, as shown in fig. 6 and 7, the driving mechanism 42 includes a first displacement driver 420 installed on the frame 40 and capable of sliding up and down along the frame 40 and a second displacement driver 421 connected with the first displacement driver 420 in a sliding manner, the frame 40 is further provided with a lifting driver 422 for driving the first displacement driver 420 to slide up and down along the Z axis, the gripper 41 is connected with the second displacement driver 421 in a sliding manner, the second displacement driver 421 is used for driving the gripper 41 to slide left and right along the X axis, and the first displacement driver 420 is used for driving the second displacement driver 421 to slide back and forth along the Y axis. When the material is conveyed to the end of the blanking line 12, the lifting driver 422 drives the first displacement driver 420 and the second displacement driver 421 to move downwards, the plane position of the hand grip 41 is adjusted by the first displacement driver 420 and the second displacement driver 421 to grab the material, then the lifting driver 422 drives the first displacement driver 420 and the second displacement driver 421 to ascend to a certain height, the plane position of the hand grip 41 is adjusted by the first displacement driver 420 and the second displacement driver 421, and finally the material is moved downwards by the lifting driver 422 to be placed at a specified position, so that the material is stacked and stacked.
Preferably, the first displacement drivers 420 are provided in two sets, and the two sets of the first displacement drivers 420 are slidably connected to two ends of the second displacement driver 421 respectively. By the arrangement of two sets of first displacement drivers 420, even if the second displacement driver 421 is relatively long due to the size of the material, smooth operation of the second displacement driver 421 can be ensured. The lifting driver 422 comprises two sets of synchronous belts moving synchronously, each set of synchronous belts is in transmission connection with two ends of one of the first displacement drivers 420. Specifically, connect through a transmission shaft 424 transmission between two hold-in ranges, the both ends of first displacement driver 420 are provided with a splint 423 respectively, and this splint 423 is used for holding the hold-in range, drives two hold-in ranges simultaneously and rotates when transmission shaft 424 rotates to realize the synchronous lift of two first displacement drivers 420.
As shown in fig. 1 and 7 to 10, the material detecting and stacking apparatus of the present invention further includes a pallet 50 having a walking wheel at the bottom, a plurality of positioning blocks 51 are disposed on the pallet 50, a placing area 52 for stacking the material is formed between the positioning blocks 51, a pair of pull-out sliding rails 53 is disposed below the frame 40, and the pallet 50 can slide in and out of the sliding rails 53. During operation, will be used for supporting the cardboard 6 of material and place in locating piece 51 on pallet 50, then promote pallet 50, push away pallet 50 to between two slide rails 53, the material is put things in good order one by one on cardboard 6, after putting things in good order a take the altitude, shifts out cardboard 6 through fork truck. In this embodiment, the pallet 50 and the pull-out slide rail 53 which can be walked are arranged, so that the clamping plate 6 can be conveniently and rapidly fixed in place, the work efficiency is improved, and the labor is saved.
The above disclosure is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention, therefore, the invention is not limited thereto.
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1. A material detecting and stacking device is characterized by comprising a plurality of sections of conveying lines, a line changing mechanism, a detecting mechanism and a stacking mechanism, wherein the conveying lines are used for conveying materials and are arranged in a bending mode;
the wire replacing mechanism is arranged at the bending butt joint of two adjacent sections of conveying lines and used for pushing the materials from one section of conveying line to the other adjacent section of conveying line along the conveying direction of the materials;
the detection mechanism is arranged on one section of the conveying line and used for detecting and acquiring the material information transmitted by the conveying line;
the stacking mechanism is in butt joint with the tail ends of the conveying lines and comprises a rack, a gripper and a driving mechanism, wherein the gripper and the driving mechanism are arranged on the rack, the driving mechanism is used for driving the gripper to move vertically, horizontally and longitudinally, and the gripper is used for gripping materials.
2. The material detecting and palletizing device as in claim 1, wherein the thread changing mechanism comprises a pushing plate and a linear driver, the linear driver is used for driving the pushing plate to move back and forth along a direction of changing threads, and the pushing plate is used for pushing the material to change the direction to enter another adjacent conveying line.
3. The material detecting and palletizing device as in claim 2, wherein a plurality of detachable stop levers are arranged at intervals on the side edge of the push plate.
4. The material detecting and stacking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein guardrails are arranged on two sides of the conveying line, the guardrails are connected with a fixed frame of the conveying line through a support, and an adjusting mechanism for adjusting the distance between the two guardrails is arranged on the support.
5. The material detecting and palletizing device according to claim 1, wherein the conveying line comprises a feeding line, a detecting line and a discharging line, the feeding line is used for receiving materials to be processed, the detecting mechanism is arranged on the detecting line, and the tail end of the discharging line is butted with the palletizing mechanism;
the feeding line and the blanking line are respectively butted at the head end and the tail end of the detection line, and the feeding line and the blanking line have different conveying directions from the detection line; the wire changing mechanisms are respectively a first wire changing mechanism and a second wire changing mechanism, and the first wire changing mechanism is arranged at the connection part of the feeding line and the detection line and used for pushing the materials on the feeding line to the detection line; the second wire replacing mechanism is arranged at the connecting position of the detection wire and the blanking wire and used for pushing the materials on the detection wire to the blanking wire.
6. The material detecting and stacking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the detecting mechanism comprises a shielding case arranged above one section of the conveying line, and an RFID reader and an RFID antenna which are arranged in the shielding case, the RFID reader is used for reading material information in an electronic tag on the material through the RFID antenna, and the shielding case is used for shielding external interference signals from entering.
7. The material detecting and palletizing device according to claim 6, wherein the detecting mechanism further comprises a weighing frame arranged right below the shielding case, a conveyor belt in butt joint with the conveyor line is arranged on the weighing frame, and the weighing frame is used for detecting the weight of the material.
8. The material detecting and palletizing device according to claim 1, wherein the driving mechanism comprises a first displacement driver and a second displacement driver, the first displacement driver is mounted on the frame and can slide up and down along the frame, the second displacement driver is slidably connected with the first displacement driver, a lifting driver for driving the first displacement driver to slide up and down along a Z-axis is further arranged on the frame, the hand grip is slidably connected with the second displacement driver, the second displacement driver is used for driving the hand grip to slide left and right along the X-axis, and the first displacement driver is used for driving the second displacement driver to slide back and forth along the Y-axis.
9. The material detecting and palletizing device according to claim 8, wherein the first displacement drivers are provided in two sets, the two sets of first displacement drivers are respectively connected with two ends of the second displacement driver in a sliding manner, the lifting driver comprises two sets of synchronous belts which move synchronously, and each set of synchronous belts is respectively connected with two ends of one of the first displacement drivers in a transmission manner.
10. The material detecting and stacking device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a pallet with a walking wheel at the bottom, wherein a plurality of positioning blocks are arranged on the pallet, a placing area for stacking materials is formed between the plurality of positioning blocks, a pair of pull-out slide rails is further arranged below the frame, and the pallet is slidably arranged only on the slide rails.
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