CN214820295U - Sleeve feeding mechanism - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to a sleeve feed mechanism. This sleeve feed mechanism includes vibration dish and rotatory piece, is equipped with at least one in the rotatory piece and gets the material stick, and the vibration dish is arranged the sleeve level order and sends out, and the sleeve is emboliaed in getting the material stick or gets the material stick and insert the sleeve, and rotatory piece is used for getting the sleeve on the material stick rotatory to telescopic length direction and is vertical state. The utility model discloses a see off the sleeve level, then rotatory to vertical state with the sleeve through rotatory piece, avoided the sleeve directly to become the skew that probably brought or the condition that drops occasionally from the direct whereabouts of level, the probability of the abnormal conditions appears when having reduced the sleeve transmission, improved the precision, avoid the workshop subaerial to go out the sleeve that has dropped.

Description

Sleeve feeding mechanism

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a hardware automatic assembly technique, the more specifically sleeve feed mechanism that says so.

Background

In the injection molding process, it is often necessary to mount hardware (such as nuts, sleeves, etc.) in place and then perform the integral injection molding. In the prior art, manual feeding is needed, operation is complex, low efficiency and high cost are caused, the injection molding period is influenced, and the requirement on the operating skill of a technician is high. Some dispensing mechanisms have subsequently been developed which automatically load the jaws with nuts/sleeves. The common technique is to send out the sleeves in an array by a vibrating disk, and then transmit the sleeves to a receiving hole obliquely below the vibrating disk by a gradually-bent downward conveying channel, so that the sleeves are automatically vertical when reaching the receiving hole. However, the method may cause the sleeve to shift or fall off during transmission, and needs to be improved.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to overcome the above defect of prior art, provide a sleeve feed mechanism to the probability of the abnormal conditions appears when reducing the sleeve transmission.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme: the utility model provides a sleeve feed mechanism, sleeve feed mechanism include vibration dish and rotatory piece, are equipped with at least one in the rotatory piece and get the material stick, and the vibration dish is arranged the sleeve level order and sees off, and the sleeve is emboliaed to getting in the material stick or get the material stick and insert the sleeve, and rotatory piece is used for being vertical state to telescopic length direction with getting the sleeve on the material stick.

When the vibration plate sequentially arranges the sleeves and sends out the sleeves, the sleeves are arranged in the front and back direction along the length direction of the sleeves. The material taking rod of the rotating block is aligned to the arrangement and discharging direction of the sleeve at the initial position, and the sleeve is pushed to be sleeved into the material taking rod. The rotating block is driven to rotate by a rotating cylinder.

When the vibration plate sequentially arranges the sleeves and sends out the sleeves, the sleeves are arranged in a front-back manner along the direction vertical to the length direction of the sleeves. The material taking rod of the rotating block is perpendicular to the arranged material discharging direction of the sleeve at the initial position, and the rotating block is driven to move forwards so as to insert the material taking rod into the sleeve. A propelling cylinder drives the rotating block to move forward, and a rotating cylinder drives the rotating block to rotate.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model beneficial effect be: through seeing off the sleeve level, then rotatory to vertical state with the sleeve through rotatory piece, avoided the sleeve directly from the direct whereabouts of level to become the skew that probably brought occasionally or the condition that drops of vertical state, the probability of the unusual circumstances appears when having reduced the sleeve transmission, improved the precision, avoid the workshop subaerial to have the sleeve that drops.

The foregoing is a summary of the present invention, and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments, which is provided for the purpose of illustration and understanding of the present invention.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is an assembly perspective view of the hardware charging device of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a partial perspective view of one of the sleeve feeding mechanisms of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a partial perspective view of one of the sleeve feeding mechanisms of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the manipulator of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is an exploded view of the gripper and nut separating mechanism of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is an exploded view of the feeding mechanism for the gripper and the hybrid hardware of the present invention.

Fig. 7 and 8 are exploded views of the feeding mechanism of the hybrid hardware of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more clearly understood, the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the following detailed description.

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative efforts belong to the protection 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" 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 to simplify the description, but 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.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically limited otherwise.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "secured" are to be construed broadly and can, for example, be connected or detachably connected or integrated; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly through intervening media, either internally or in any other relationship. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood according to specific situations by those skilled in the art.

In the present disclosure, unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, the first feature "on" or "under" the second feature may comprise direct contact between the first and second features, or may comprise contact between the first and second features not directly. Also, the first feature being "on," "above" and "over" the second feature includes the first feature being directly on and obliquely above the second feature, or merely indicating that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature includes the first feature being directly under and obliquely below the second feature, or simply meaning that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.

In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above should not be understood to necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. Furthermore, various embodiments or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art.

The following embodiments will describe the sleeve feed mechanism of the present invention in a unified manner in a hardware loading device.

A hardware loading apparatus is shown in figure 1. As shown in fig. 1, the apparatus includes a sleeve feed mechanism 10, a robot 30, a nut feed mechanism 40, and a mixing hardware feed mechanism 50. The sleeve feeder mechanisms 10 are two in number, and are used to intermittently push out the first sleeve 101 and the second sleeve 102, respectively. And the robot 30 is used to remove the first sleeve 101 and the second sleeve 102 from the sleeve feeder 10 and place them on the gripper 20. The gripper 20 has two states, in a first state the gripper 20 (gripper 20 on the left in fig. 1) is arranged to receive the first sleeve 101 and the second sleeve 102. As shown in fig. 1, the nut dispensing mechanism 40 and the mixing hardware feed mechanism 50 are positioned side-by-side. With the gripper 20 in the second position (gripper 20 on the right in fig. 1), the gripper 20 is positioned between the nut dispenser 40 and the mixing hardware feeder 50. One side of the gripper 20 is butted with the nut distributing mechanism 40 and the nut is pushed into the corresponding position of the gripper 20 by the nut distributing mechanism 40, and the other side of the gripper 20 is butted with the mixed hardware feeding mechanism 50 and the other nut hardware and the special-shaped hardware 501 are pushed into the corresponding position of the gripper 20 by the mixed hardware feeding mechanism 50.

Fig. 2 shows a sleeve feeder 10 for feeding out a first sleeve 101. The sleeve feeding mechanism 10 includes a vibration plate 11, a rotation block 12, and a rotation motor 13. The rotary motor 13 is used for driving the rotary block 12 to rotate. A material taking rod 121 is arranged in the rotating block 12. The vibratory pan 11 is used to deliver the first sleeves 101 horizontally in a sequential arrangement, with the first sleeves 101 nested into the take off pins 121. When the vibratory plate 11 sequentially feeds the first sleeves 101, the first sleeves 101 are arranged in the longitudinal direction thereof. The material taking rod 121 of the rotating block 12 is aligned with the arrangement discharging direction of the first sleeve 101 at the initial position (horizontal), when the vibrating disk 11 sequentially arranges and sends out the first sleeves 101, the first sleeve 101 at the forefront is pushed to advance and is sleeved in the material taking rod 121, then the rotating motor 13 drives the rotating block 12 to rotate, and the rotating block 12 rotates the first sleeve 101 (horizontal) on the material taking rod 121 to the length direction of the first sleeve 101 to be in a vertical state.

Shown in fig. 3 is the sleeve feeder mechanism 10 for feeding out the second sleeve 102. The sleeve feed mechanism 10 includes a vibratory pan 14, a rotary block 15, a rotary cylinder 16, and a propulsion cylinder 17. The vibrating plate 14 is used for sequentially discharging the second sleeves 102, and when the vibrating plate 14 sequentially discharges the second sleeves 102 horizontally, the second sleeves 102 are arranged back and forth along a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the second sleeves. The rotating block 15 is provided with 2 material taking rods 151, and the material taking rods 151 of the rotating block 15 are perpendicular to the arrangement discharging direction of the second sleeve 102 in the initial position (horizontal). When the vibrating plate 14 sequentially sends out the second sleeves 102, the second sleeve 102 at the forefront moves to be flush with the two material taking rods 151, the air pushing cylinder 17 pushes the rotating block 15 to translate towards the second sleeve 102, so that the two material taking rods 151 are inserted into the second sleeve 102, then the rotating motor 16 drives the rotating block 15 to rotate, and the rotating block 15 rotates the second sleeves 102 (horizontally) on the material taking rods 151 to the vertical state along the length direction of the second sleeves 102.

As shown in fig. 4, the gripping end of the manipulator 30 is provided with 2 air cylinder jaws 31, and the air cylinder jaws 31 are respectively used for gripping a first sleeve 101 (fig. 1) and a second sleeve 102 (fig. 1). The robot 30 is a three-axis robot.

As shown in fig. 5, the nut distributing mechanism 40 includes a vibrating plate 45, a cover plate 46, a distributing plate 44, and a push rod 43. The largest surface of the cover plate 46 is parallel to the largest surface of the material distributing plate 44 and the cover plate 46 is tightly attached to the material distributing plate 44. The cover plate 46 and the material distribution plate 44 are vertical panels. The material separating plate 44 is provided with a buffer area 443, a plurality of mounting holes 441, and slide ways 442 corresponding to the mounting holes 441 one to one. The slide 442 communicates with the mounting hole 441 and the buffer area 443. The vibratory plate 45 sequentially feeds nuts into the material-separating plate 44, the nuts are lowered to the positions of the mounting holes 441 and then fill the slide ways 442, respectively, and the excess nuts stay in the buffer zone 443. The position of the mounting hole 441 is set according to the position where the nut is actually required to be fitted. The push rods 43 are perpendicular to the material separating plate 44 and correspond to the mounting holes 441 one by one. The push rod 43 is provided on a push plate 42, and the push plate 42 and the material-distributing plate 44 are parallel to each other. The push plate 42 is pushed by a horizontal cylinder 41, and the horizontal cylinder 41 drives the push rod 43 to penetrate into the mounting hole 441 through the push plate 42. The cover plate 46 has docking holes 461 corresponding to the mounting holes 441, and the claws 20 have movable rods 221 corresponding to the docking holes 461. When the gripper 20 is abutted against the nut distributing mechanism 40, the movable rod 221 is pushed into the abutting hole 461, and the push rod 43 pushes the nut in the mounting hole 441 towards the abutting hole 461 and enables the nut to be sleeved on the movable rod 221. In addition, a proximity sensor 444 is arranged on the material distributing plate 44, the proximity sensor 444 penetrates through the cover plate 46, and the proximity sensor 444 is used for sensing whether the gripper 20 is in butt joint with the material distributing plate.

As shown in fig. 5, a fixed plate 21 is fixedly connected to the gripper 20, and a movable plate 22 is connected to the fixed plate 21, wherein the movable plate 22 and the fixed plate 21 are parallel to each other. In fig. 5, the fixed plate 21 and the movable plate 22 are vertical plates. The inner end of the movable rod 221 is fixedly connected to the fixed plate 21, and the movable rod 221 passes through the corresponding movable sleeve 222 on the movable plate 22. The fixed plate 21 is provided with a paw cylinder 23, an output shaft of the paw cylinder 23 penetrates through the fixed plate 21 and is fixedly connected with the movable plate 22, and the paw cylinder 23 is used for pushing the movable plate 22 and the movable sleeve 222 to reciprocate. When the nut separating mechanism 40 is butted, the movable rod 221 penetrates out of the movable sleeve 222, and when the nut needs to be pushed into the mounting position, the movable rod 221 needs to be retracted, namely the gripper cylinder 23 extends out to push out the movable sleeve 222 for loading the nut.

In fig. 5, the fixed plate 21 of the gripper 20 is provided with two movable plates 22 and two gripper cylinders 23, and thus two sets of movable rods 221 are provided. Thus, two sets of upper and lower mounting holes 441 are correspondingly formed on the material distributing plate 44, and two sets of upper and lower push rods 43 are correspondingly formed (the lower set of push rods is not shown). Such upper and lower two sets of structures can once cross and realize that two sets of nuts are loaded, are favorable to improving production efficiency.

The specific construction of the mixing hardware feed mechanism 50 is shown in fig. 6-8. As shown in connection with fig. 6 and 7, the mixing hardware feeding mechanism 50 includes a mixing material-separating plate 53, a front plate 52 and a vibrating disk 51. The front plate 52 is attached to a mixing material-distributing plate 53. The vibration plate 51 is connected with the mixing material-separating plate 53, and the mixing material-separating plate 53 is provided with nut mounting holes 531, and the vibration plate 51 is used for conveying the nut hardware into the mixing material-separating plate 53 and allowing the nut hardware to drop into the nut mounting holes 531, respectively. The gripper 20 is provided with a nut attachment rod 24 that is engaged with the nut attachment hole 531. Push rods 541 corresponding to the nut mounting holes 531 one to one are further provided at the other side of the mixing and distributing plate 53. The push rods 541 are provided on the intermediate plate 54, and 2 flat push cylinders 542 are fixed to the mixing and distributing plate 53. The output shaft end of the horizontal pushing cylinder 542 is connected with the intermediate plate 54. The horizontal push cylinder 542 is used for pushing the intermediate plate 54 and the push rod 541 to reciprocate along the length direction of the push rod 541. When the gripper 20 is docked with the hybrid hardware feed mechanism 50, the push rod 541 pushes the nut hardware in the nut mounting hole 531 into the nut mounting bar 24.

As shown in fig. 6, a paw cylinder 203 is provided on the paw 20, and the paw cylinder 203 pushes the mounting sleeve 205 to translate through a vertical plate 204. The nut mounting rod 24 extends through the mounting sleeve 205. When it is desired to remove the nut hardware from the nut mounting bar 24, the gripper cylinder 203 pushes the mounting sleeve 205 to translate and remove the nut hardware from the nut mounting bar 24 via the mounting sleeve 205. In fig. 6, the nut mounting rods 24 are divided into two groups, i.e., an upper group and a lower group, and each group of nut mounting rods 24 corresponds to one gripper cylinder 203. The mixing and distributing plate 53 is provided with upper and lower nut mounting holes 531, and the intermediate plate 54 is provided with upper and lower push rods 541 (see fig. 8). In addition, as shown in fig. 6, the mixing and dispensing plate 53 is further provided with a proximity sensor 533 penetrating the front plate 52, and the proximity sensor 533 is used for sensing whether the gripper 20 is in the butt joint position.

As shown in fig. 7, the hybrid hardware feeding mechanism 50 further includes a pusher cylinder 55 and a chute 56 extending up and down. A plurality of special-shaped hardware 501 are stacked up and down in each trough 56. As shown in fig. 6 and 7, the mixing and distributing plate 53 is provided with a through hole 532 for passing the shaped hardware 501. When the gripper 20 is in the second position, as shown in figure 6, the side of the gripper 20 facing the mixing hardware feeding mechanism 50 is provided with a loading arm 25. The pushing cylinder 55 is used for pushing the profiled hardware 501 at the lowest layer in the trough 56 to the through hole 532 and to the material bearing arm 25. In fig. 6, the paw 20 is also provided with an upper material-receiving arm 25 and a lower material-receiving arm 25, the mixing hardware feeding mechanism 50 is correspondingly provided with an upper material-pushing cylinder 55 and a lower material-pushing cylinder 55, and the mixing material-distributing plate 53 is correspondingly provided with an upper through hole 532 and a lower through hole 532.

As shown in fig. 7, an output shaft of each pushing cylinder 55 is fixedly connected with a push plate 551, and the pushing cylinder 55 pushes the special-shaped hardware 501 through the push plate 551. In addition, a sensor 555 is arranged on one side of the push plate 551, and the sensor 555 is used for sensing whether the profiled hardware 501 exists at the bottom in the material tank 56. A stop hole 552 is provided in the push plate 551 and the mixing hardware feed mechanism 50 further includes a stop rod 553 that moves up and down. When the push plate 551 is in a state of not being inserted into the trough 56, the stop lever 553 penetrates the stop hole 552 of the push plate 551. The stopper rod 553 is driven by a linear driving member 554 to move vertically up and down. As shown in fig. 8, each push plate 551 has a corresponding conveying groove 556, the conveying groove 556 penetrates into the through hole 532, and the shaped hardware 501 is pushed out of the conveying groove 556 when the push plate 551 pushes the shaped hardware 501.

As shown in fig. 7, two parallel material tanks 56 are provided corresponding to the same material pushing cylinder 55. After the irregular hardware 501 in one of the material troughs 56 is emptied, the material pushing cylinder 55 starts to push the irregular hardware 501 in the other material trough 56 to the through hole 532, so that uninterrupted material pushing action can be realized. The two side discharge slots 56 are provided on a back plate 58, and the back plate 58 is slidably connected to the mixing material distribution plate 53 by a slide block and slide rail mechanism 57 (see fig. 8). The back plate 58 is connected to a lateral pushing cylinder 59, and the lateral pushing cylinder 59 slides relative to the mixing material-distributing plate 53 by pushing the back plate 58. When the special-shaped hardware 501 of one of the material troughs 56 is emptied, the transverse pushing cylinder 59 pushes the back plate 58 to translate so as to align the other material trough 56 with the material pushing cylinder 55, thus realizing the matching work of two material troughs 56 side by side and the material pushing cylinder 55 in turn.

As shown in fig. 7, the hybrid hardware feeding mechanism 50 is provided with an upper pushing cylinder 55 and a lower pushing cylinder 56, and a material slot 56 corresponding to the upper and lower material-receiving arms 25 of the gripper 20 in fig. 6, so that the upper and lower special-shaped hardware 501 can be loaded simultaneously, and the production efficiency is improved.

The technical content of the present invention is further described by the embodiments only, so that the reader can understand it more easily, but the embodiments of the present invention are not limited thereto, and any technical extension or re-creation according to the present invention is protected by the present invention. The protection scope of the present invention is subject to the claims.

Claims (7)

1. The sleeve feeding mechanism is characterized by comprising a vibrating disc and a rotating block, wherein at least one material taking rod is arranged in the rotating block, the vibrating disc is used for horizontally and sequentially arranging and sending out sleeves, the sleeves are sleeved into the material taking rods or the material taking rods are inserted into the sleeves, and the rotating block is used for rotating the sleeves on the material taking rods to the length direction of the sleeves to be in a vertical state.

2. The cartridge feed mechanism of claim 1, wherein said vibratory tray delivers cartridges sequentially, said cartridges being arranged in tandem along their length.

3. The sleeve feeding mechanism according to claim 2, wherein the take-out bar of the rotary block is aligned with the aligned discharge direction of the sleeve in the initial position, and the sleeve is pushed to be nested in the take-out bar.

4. A sleeve feeder mechanism according to claim 3, wherein said rotary block is rotated by a rotary cylinder.

5. The cartridge feed mechanism of claim 1, wherein said vibratory tray delivers cartridges in a sequential array, with said cartridges being arranged in tandem perpendicular to their length.

6. A sleeve feeder mechanism according to claim 5, wherein the take-out bars of the rotary block are perpendicular to the aligned take-out direction of the sleeve in the home position, the rotary block being driven forward to insert the take-out bars into the sleeve.

7. The sleeve feeder mechanism of claim 6, wherein said rotating block is advanced by a propulsion cylinder and rotated by a rotation cylinder.

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