CN214493386U

CN214493386U - Filling device

Info

Publication number: CN214493386U
Application number: CN202023024856.2U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 卢应志; 丁阳; 唐鸣; 杨硕
Original assignee: Wuxi Dingjia Hongsi Drinks Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Wuxi Dingjia Hongsi Drinks Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-01-02
Filing date: 2020-12-16
Publication date: 2021-10-26
Anticipated expiration: 2030-12-16
Also published as: CN214216188U; CN214216185U; CN111017277A; CN113060314A; CN214216187U; CN113060313A; CN214493384U; CN214216186U; CN214493387U; CN214493385U

Abstract

The utility model provides a filling device, include: the lower part of the buffer hopper is communicated with a transverse conveying mechanism, and a first material level sensor is arranged on the buffer hopper; the filling frame is provided with a metering cone hopper, and the transverse conveying mechanism is communicated with the metering cone hopper; the lower end of the metering cone hopper is provided with a filling head, and the filling head comprises a filling pipe and a screw rod arranged in the filling pipe; the driving assembly is used for driving the screw to rotate and arranged in the power box, and a second material level sensor for detecting the height of the material in the measuring cone hopper is arranged in the power box; and the hanging prevention cup assembly is arranged outside the filling pipe and used for separating the cup body from the filling pipe. The utility model provides a capsule coffee filling device of prior art structure complicated and the inefficient problem of filling.

Description

Filling device

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a powder filling field, more specifically relates to a filling device.

Background

The capsule coffee is a capsule beverage, coffee beans are firstly ground into coffee powder and then put into an aluminum capsule, and the problems of acid change, oxidation and the like of common coffee beans or coffee powder after contacting air are solved.

When the capsule coffee is produced, coffee powder is required to be filled in a pretreated cup body and then packaged. However, the existing devices for filling and packaging capsule coffee on the market are not only complicated in structure, but also low in filling efficiency.

In view of the above, there is a need to improve the prior art capsule coffee filling apparatus to solve the above problems.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to disclose a filling device to solve the complicated and inefficient problem of filling of prior art's capsule coffee filling device structure.

The utility model discloses a further purpose is in order to solve the cup and the filling head be difficult to reliably separate and the problem of hanging the cup phenomenon appears.

In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a filling device, include:

the buffer hopper is communicated with a transverse conveying mechanism below and provided with a first material level sensor;

the filling frame is provided with a metering cone hopper, and the transverse conveying mechanism is communicated with the metering cone hopper;

the lower end of the metering cone hopper is provided with a filling head, and the filling head comprises a filling pipe and a screw rod arranged in the filling pipe;

the driving assembly is used for driving the screw to rotate and is arranged in the power box, wherein a second material level sensor used for detecting the height of the material in the metering cone hopper is arranged in the power box; and the number of the first and second groups,

arrange in the filling tube outside and be used for with the cup subassembly is prevented hanging of filling tube separation.

As a further improvement of the utility model, the anti-hanging cup component comprises:

the fixed sleeve is fixed outside the straight pipe of the filling pipe;

the movable sleeve can move up and down and is sleeved outside the fixed sleeve, a sleeving hole is formed in the movable sleeve, the sleeving hole comprises a first hole in the upper part and a second hole which is positioned on the lower part of the first hole and is communicated with the first hole, the aperture size of the second hole is matched with the outer diameter size of the fixed sleeve, and the aperture of the first hole is larger than the outer diameter of the fixed sleeve;

the filling tube butt joint structure comprises a cup body, a movable sleeve, a fixed sleeve, a sealing bulge and a movable sleeve, wherein the outer edge of the cup body when the filling tube is in butt joint with the lower end of the movable sleeve abuts against the lower end of the fixed sleeve, the outer wall of the fixed sleeve is provided with the sealing bulge, the sealing bulge is attached to the hole wall of a first hole, a cavity is formed between the movable sleeve and the fixed sleeve and below the sealing bulge, and the movable sleeve is provided with an air hole communicated with the cavity.

As a further improvement, the fixed sleeve is provided with a position-limiting fixed ring above the movable sleeve.

As a further improvement of the utility model, the spacing solid fixed ring is formed with vertical downwardly extending in order to stretch into to the annular extension in first hole, just the annular extension respectively with the pore wall in first hole the laminating of adapter sleeve's outer wall.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the spacing fixing ring is further formed with an annular protrusion extending vertically upward and attached to the outer wall of the fixing sleeve.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the sealing protrusion is provided with a plurality of sealing pieces, and a sealing member is provided in the cavity formed between the adjacent sealing protrusion and the hole wall of the first hole, and the sealing protrusion is located at the bottom of the cavity.

As a further improvement, the outer wall diameter of the fixed sleeve is smaller than the flaring size of the flaring part of the cup body, and the outer wall diameter of the movable sleeve is not smaller than the outer edge diameter of the cup body.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the present invention further comprises:

the stirring assembly comprises a stirring motor, a stirring shaft and stirring blades, wherein the stirring motor and the stirring shaft are arranged in the power box, the stirring shaft is positioned in the metering cone hopper and is arranged on the stirring shaft, and the stirring shaft is in transmission connection with an output shaft of the stirring motor through a gear assembly.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the filling heads are provided with two or more filling heads, and the two or more filling heads are arranged side by side in the horizontal direction at the lower end of the metering cone;

the number of drive assemblies matches the number of filling heads.

As a further improvement, the drive assembly includes filling servo motor, filling speed reducer and arrange in the transfer line in the measurement awl is fought, filling servo motor's output with the input transmission of filling speed reducer is connected, the output of filling speed reducer with the upper end transmission of transfer line is connected, just the lower extreme of transfer line with the upper end of screw rod links to each other.

Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that:

the utility model discloses a filling device is through horizontal conveying mechanism with the material in the buffer memory fill stable and convey to the measurement awl fill effectively in fighting to drive the screw rod fast turn in the filling head through the drive assembly in the headstock, in the cup of material filling to filling head below effectively under the effect of screw rod fast turn. Therefore, the utility model discloses a filling device is simple structure not only, and is fast to the filling of material moreover to the problem that the capsule coffee filling device structure of prior art is complicated and the filling is inefficient has been solved.

Further, the utility model discloses in prevent hanging cup subassembly and pass through the gas pocket and input atmospheric pressure in to the cavity, then fill the lift cylinder drive support cup of the support cup subassembly of station department through the powder and rise for cup and filling tube butt joint in the saucer. In the process of continuously rising the cup body, the outer edge of the cup body is abutted against the lower end of the movable sleeve, so that the cup body moves upwards to drive the movable sleeve to move upwards. After the filling, the lift cylinder that is located the support cup subassembly of powder filling station department descends, because the inside gaseous pressurized of cavity, the movable sleeve pipe stretches out downwards under the effect of atmospheric pressure, drives the cup and moves down for cup and filling tube reliably separate, with the cup phenomenon of avoiding appearing hanging. From this, solved among the prior art cup and the problem that the filling head is difficult to reliably separate and the phenomenon of hanging the cup appears.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a filling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic exploded view of a powder filling mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic connection structure diagram of a filling head and an anti-hang cup assembly;

fig. 4 is a schematic enlarged structural view at a in fig. 3.

Detailed Description

The present invention is described in detail with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, but it should be understood that these embodiments are not intended to limit the present invention, and those skilled in the art should understand that the functions, methods, or structural equivalents or substitutions made by these embodiments are within the scope of the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "clockwise", "counterclockwise", "axial", "radial", "circumferential", "positive", "negative", 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, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

Please refer to fig. 1 to 4, which illustrate a specific embodiment of a filling device according to the present invention.

As shown in fig. 1, the present embodiment provides a filling apparatus, which includes a vacuum feeder 301, a buffer hopper 302, a horizontal conveying mechanism 303, and a powder filling mechanism 304, which are sequentially communicated with each other. The horizontal conveying mechanism 303 is a screw conveyor, and may be disposed below the buffer hopper 302. The buffer hopper 302 is provided with a first level sensor 305.

As shown in fig. 2, the powder filling mechanism 304 includes a filling frame 3041, a metering cone 306, a power box 3042 and a filling head 3043, wherein the metering cone 306 is mounted on the filling frame 3041, and the horizontal conveying mechanism 303 is communicated with the metering cone 306. A filling head 3043 is arranged at the lower end of the metering cone 306, the filling head 3043 comprising a filling tube 307 and a screw 315 disposed within the filling tube 307. The power box 3042 is installed on the upper portion of the measuring cone 306, and a driving assembly for driving the screw 315 to rotate is installed in the power box 3042. The powder filling mechanism 304 is further provided with a second level sensor 314, which can be arranged in the power box 3042 to detect the height of the material in the metering cone 306, supplement the material in real time, and ensure the relative stability of the powder level in the metering cone 306, thereby ensuring the filling precision and improving the filling effect of the material. The powder filling mechanism 304 further comprises an anti-hang cup assembly 316 arranged outside the filling tube 307 and used for separating the cups from the filling tube 307.

Wherein, the filling heads 3043 are configured with two or more, and the two or more filling heads 3043 are arranged side by side in the horizontal direction at the lower end of the metering cone 306; the number of drive assemblies matches the number of filling heads 3043. In the embodiment of fig. 2 or 3, the filling heads 3043 are configured in two, the corresponding driving assemblies are also configured in two, and the two driving assemblies are respectively connected with the two filling heads 3043 correspondingly. It should be noted that the number of the filling heads 3043 may be set based on the actual working requirement, such as the number of the filling heads 3043 is set to be one or three or four or five, and the like, and is not limited to the scope defined by the embodiment.

In order to improve the installation stability of the horizontal conveying mechanism 303, the filling frame 3041 is configured with a mounting plate 3044, a support frame 3045 is configured on the mounting plate 3044, the horizontal conveying mechanism 303 is horizontally arranged on the support frame 3045, and the discharge end of the horizontal conveying mechanism 303 is communicated with the feed end 3061 of the metering cone 306 positioned on the mounting plate 3044. Further, a tapered mounting portion 3046 is arranged at the end of the supporting frame 3045, and a fixing ring 3047 for fixing the horizontal conveying mechanism 303 is formed on a mounting surface of the tapered mounting portion 3046, so that the fixing connection of the horizontal conveying mechanism 303 is quickly realized through the fixing ring 3047, and the stability of the horizontal conveying mechanism 303 in the working process is further improved. The mounting plate 3044 is disposed on the open surface 3062 of the measurement cone 306, and the mounting plate 3044 is detachably connected to the measurement cone 306.

The driving assembly comprises a filling servo motor 309, a filling speed reducer 310 and a transmission rod 308 arranged in the metering cone hopper 306, the output end of the filling servo motor 309 is in transmission connection with the input end of the filling speed reducer 310, and the output end of the filling speed reducer 310 is in transmission connection with the upper end of the transmission rod 308. The upper end of the screw 315 extends into the measuring cone 306, and the upper end of the screw 315 is fixedly connected with the lower end of the transmission rod 308. Therefore, the filling servo motor 309 drives the filling speed reducer 310 to drive the transmission rod 308 to operate, so that the transmission rod 308 drives the screw 315 to rotate at a high speed, and the process of filling the material is rapidly realized.

The powder filling mechanism 304 further comprises a stirring component, the stirring component comprises a stirring motor 311, a stirring shaft 312 and a stirring sheet 313, the stirring motor 311 is installed in the power box 3042, the stirring shaft 312 is in transmission connection with an output shaft of the stirring motor 311 through a gear component, the stirring sheet 313 is installed on the stirring shaft 312, and the stirring sheet 313 is located in the metering cone 306. Therefore, in the process that the driving component drives the screw 315 to rotate, the stirring shaft 312 is driven by the stirring motor 311 to rotate so as to drive the stirring sheet 313 to rotate in the metering cone hopper 306, so that the material can be prevented from being adhered to the inner wall of the metering cone hopper 306 in the filling process, and the stability and the reliability of material filling are effectively guaranteed.

It should be understood that the filling apparatus of the present embodiment stably and effectively transfers the material in the buffer hopper 302 to the metering cone 306 through the horizontal conveying mechanism 303, and drives the screw 315 in the filling head 3043 to rotate rapidly through the driving assembly in the power box 3042, so as to effectively fill the material into the cup body below the filling head 3043 under the action of the rapid rotation of the screw 315. Therefore, the filling device of the embodiment is simple in structure, high in filling speed of materials and high in filling quality of the materials, and the problems that the capsule coffee filling device in the prior art is complex in structure and low in filling efficiency are solved.

The filling pipe 307 comprises a conical pipe 3071 on the upper part and a straight pipe 3072 on the lower part, the inner diameter of the conical pipe 3071 is gradually decreased from top to bottom, the upper end of the conical pipe 3071 is connected with the discharge hole of the metering conical hopper 306, and the lower end of the conical pipe 3071 is connected with the upper end of the straight pipe 3072. So set up, when carrying out the filling material to the cup, the material that gets into filling pipe 307 makes the material density that gets into in the cup obtain increasing through conical tube 3071, straight tube 3072 in proper order, from this, has increased the closely knit degree of filling material.

It should be noted that the "material" referred to in this embodiment may be powder or solid particles, such as powdered coffee, powdered milk, flour, and other powdery objects, which are not illustrated herein.

In the above embodiment, the lower portion of the filling tube 307 is mounted with the anti-hang cup assembly 316. Wherein, prevent hanging cup subassembly 316 includes: a fixed sleeve 317 fixed to the outside of the straight tube of the filling tube 307; the movable sleeve 318 can move up and down and is sleeved outside the fixed sleeve 317, the movable sleeve 318 is provided with a sleeving hole, the sleeving hole comprises a first hole 3181 at the upper part and a second hole 3182 which is positioned at the lower part of the first hole 3181 and is communicated with the first hole, and the aperture size of the second hole 3182 is matched with the outer diameter size of the fixed sleeve 317, so that the hole wall of the second hole 3182 is attached to the outer wall of the fixed sleeve 317. Also, the first hole 3181 has a hole diameter larger than the outer diameter of the fixing sleeve 317. The wall of the second hole 3182 is attached to the outer wall of the retaining sleeve 317 by at least one sealing ring 3183. Wherein, the outer edge 1032 of the cup 1031 when abutting against the filling tube 307 abuts against the lower end of the movable sleeve 318, the outer wall of the fixed sleeve 317 is provided with a sealing bulge 321, the sealing bulge 321 is attached to the hole wall of the first hole 3181, a cavity 322 is formed between the movable sleeve 318 and the fixed sleeve 317 below the sealing bulge 321, and the movable sleeve 318 is provided with an air hole 3191 communicated with the cavity 322. The air vent 3191 is configured with an air inflation fitting 319. The number of the air holes 3191 is configured to be one.

A plurality of sealing protrusions 321 are arranged, a sealing member 3211 is arranged in a cavity formed between adjacent sealing protrusions 321 and the hole wall of the first hole 3181, and a cavity 322 is formed among the lowermost sealing protrusion 321, the movable sleeve 318 and the fixed sleeve 317.

Notably, the outer wall diameter of the stationary sleeve 317 is smaller than the flared dimension of the flared portion of the cup, and the outer wall diameter of the movable sleeve 318 is not smaller than the outer edge diameter of the cup 1031.

It will be appreciated that air pressure may be introduced into the cavity 322 via the air hole 3191 (e.g., 0.1MPa at the air charging connector 319), and then the lift cylinder (not shown) of the cup holder assembly at the powder filling station may drive the cup holder 103 to move up, such that the cup body in the cup holder 103 is in abutment with the filling tube 307. As the cup continues to rise, the upward movement of the cup causes the movable sleeve 318 to move upward as the outer edge 1032 of the cup abuts the lower end of the movable sleeve 318. After the filling, the lifting cylinder of the cup supporting assembly located at the powder filling station descends, and due to the pressure of the gas inside the cavity 322, the movable sleeve 318 extends downwards under the action of the air pressure to drive the cup 1031 to move downwards, so that the cup 1031 and the filling tube 307 are reliably separated, and the cup hanging phenomenon is avoided. From this, solved among the prior art cup and the problem that the filling head is difficult to reliably separate and the phenomenon of hanging the cup appears.

It should be noted that the lifting cylinder passing through the cup holding assembly at the powder filling station in this embodiment is a conventional arrangement in the art, and the specific arrangement structure is not described in detail.

Further, the fixed sleeve 317 is sleeved with a position-limiting fixed ring 320 above the movable sleeve 318. The limiting fixing ring 320 is formed with an annular extension part 3201 extending longitudinally downward to extend into the first hole 3181, and the annular extension part 3201 is respectively attached to the hole wall of the first hole 3181 and the outer wall of the fixing sleeve 317. The retaining ring 320 is also formed with an annular boss 3202 extending longitudinally upward and engaging the outer wall of the retaining sleeve 317. So set up, after cup 1031 docks with filling tube 307, the cup continues the in-process that rises, and the outer edge 1032 of cup drives movable sleeve 318 and shifts up, bumps spacing solid fixed ring 320 until movable sleeve 318 tops to the size that shifts up of movable sleeve 318 plays spacing effect.

The above list of details is only for the practical implementation of the present invention, and they are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all equivalent implementations or modifications that do not depart from the technical spirit of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.

Furthermore, it should be understood that although the present description refers to embodiments, not every embodiment may contain only a single embodiment, and such description is for clarity only, and those skilled in the art should integrate the description, and the embodiments may be combined as appropriate to form other embodiments understood by those skilled in the art.

Claims

1. A filling apparatus, comprising:

2. The filling device of claim 1, wherein the anti-hang cup assembly comprises:

the fixed sleeve is fixed outside the straight pipe of the filling pipe;

3. The filling device according to claim 2,

the fixed sleeve is sleeved with a limiting and fixing ring above the movable sleeve.

4. A filling device according to claim 3,

the limiting fixing ring is formed with an annular extending portion which extends downwards longitudinally to extend into the first hole, and the annular extending portion is attached to the hole wall of the first hole and the outer wall of the fixing sleeve respectively.

5. A filling device according to claim 3,

the limiting fixing ring is also provided with an annular bulge which extends upwards in the longitudinal direction and is attached to the outer wall of the fixing sleeve.

6. The filling device according to claim 2,

the sealing bulge is provided with a plurality of sealing bulges, a sealing element is arranged in a cavity formed between the adjacent sealing bulge and the hole wall of the first hole, and the sealing bulge is positioned at the lowest part, the movable sleeve and the fixed sleeve form the cavity.

7. The filling device according to claim 2,

the diameter of the outer wall of the fixed sleeve is smaller than the flaring size of the flaring part of the cup body, and the diameter of the outer wall of the movable sleeve is not smaller than the diameter of the outer edge of the cup body.

8. The filling device according to any one of claims 1 to 7, further comprising:

9. The filling device according to claim 8,

the filling heads are configured with two or more than two, and the two or more than two filling heads are arranged at the lower end of the metering cone hopper side by side in the horizontal direction;

the number of drive assemblies matches the number of filling heads.

10. The filling device according to claim 8,

the drive assembly comprises a filling servo motor, a filling speed reducer and a transmission rod arranged in the metering cone hopper, the output end of the filling servo motor is in transmission connection with the input end of the filling speed reducer, the output end of the filling speed reducer is in transmission connection with the upper end of the transmission rod, and the lower end of the transmission rod is connected with the upper end of the screw rod.