CN216444029U - Article delivery box - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses an article distribution box, which comprises a sensing piece and a locking piece controlled by the sensing piece, and specifically comprises the following components: if the sensing piece senses that the article distribution box and an identical article distribution box are stacked up and down, the locking piece is locked, so that the two article distribution boxes are locked together; and/or if the sensing member senses that the article dispensing box and an identical article dispensing box are not stacked on top of each other, the locking member is unlocked, so that the two article dispensing boxes are not locked together. Therefore, even if the road conditions bump, the article distribution boxes stacked up and down cannot be separated, so that the article distribution boxes above can be effectively prevented from falling.

Description

Article delivery box

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of article storage boxes, in particular to an article distribution box.

Background

Some food distribution boxes are smooth surfaced cubes that can be easily stacked. In the transportation process, some road conditions are uneven, and vehicles bump, so that the food distribution boxes stacked above the vehicles fall off, and food materials are easily broken. To this end, the skilled person provides a logistics transit box, such as the patent document CN209441875U, the top wall of which is provided with a raised stacking piece and the bottom wall of which is provided with a stacking groove corresponding to the stacking piece. When stacking a plurality of logistics transfer boxes, the stacking piece of the logistics transfer box on the lower layer is clamped into the stacking groove of the logistics transfer box on the upper layer, so that the phenomenon that the logistics transfer box stacked on the upper part slides and falls off due to jolt of road conditions can be avoided. However, the upper case may be turned up due to bumpy road conditions, and the stacking member of the lower case is separated from the stacking groove of the upper case, thereby causing the upper case to fall down.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims to provide an article distribution box which is convenient to stack and can prevent the article distribution box above from falling off in the transportation process.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides an article dispensing box, including a sensing member and a locking member controlled by the sensing member, specifically:

if the sensing piece senses that the article distribution box and an identical article distribution box are stacked up and down, the locking piece is locked, so that the two article distribution boxes are locked together; and/or

If the sensing member senses that the article distribution box and an identical article distribution box are not stacked on top of each other, the locking member is unlocked, so that the two article distribution boxes are not locked together.

Further, the locking member and the sensing member are both disposed on the bottom surface of the article dispensing box or both disposed on the top surface of the article dispensing box.

Further, the surface of the bottom surface and the top surface of the article dispensing box, on which the locking member is not provided, is provided with a lateral blocking wall corresponding to the locking member, and the locking member is specifically extended laterally to be locked, and in a state where two article dispensing boxes are stacked one on top of the other and locked as described above, the blocking wall of one of the article dispensing boxes blocks the locking member of the other article dispensing box to prevent the two article dispensing boxes from being vertically separated.

Further, in the state that the two article distribution boxes are stacked up and down and locked, a vertical distance H is reserved between the blocking wall and the locking piece to allow the locking piece to vertically move without crossing the blocking wall, if the locking piece vertically moves to the vertical distance with the blocking wall to be less than or equal to H, the sensing piece senses that the article distribution box and one identical article distribution box are not stacked up and down, and then the locking piece retracts and is unlocked, wherein H is less than H.

Furthermore, the article distribution box where the blocking wall is located is provided with a transverse lock hole, the locking piece of another article distribution box transversely extends into the lock hole to realize locking, and the wall of the lock hole close to the other article distribution box is used as the blocking wall.

Further, the locking piece is electromagnetic lock, and the response piece is to the switch that carries out circular telegram, outage control to electromagnetic lock, specifically: if the sensing piece senses that the article distribution box and the same article distribution box are stacked up and down, the electromagnetic lock is switched on and off to be locked; if the sensing piece senses that the article distribution box and the same article distribution box are not stacked up and down any more, the electromagnetic lock is switched on and off in the reverse direction, and therefore the electromagnetic lock is unlocked.

Further, the sensing piece is a micro switch arranged on the top surface or the bottom surface of the article distribution box, and specifically:

if the article distribution box and an identical article distribution box are stacked up and down, the microswitch is extruded by the identical article distribution box to realize induction;

if the article distribution box is separated from another identical article distribution box which is stacked up and down, the micro switch is not extruded by the identical article distribution box any more and is automatically reset, and therefore induction is achieved.

Further, the locking device comprises a controller electrically connected between the sensing element and the locking element, wherein the sensing element controls the locking and/or unlocking of the locking element through the controller.

Furthermore, the top surfaces of the article distribution boxes are provided with first top surface positioning parts, the bottom surfaces of the article distribution boxes are provided with first bottom surface positioning parts corresponding to the first top surface positioning parts, and under the condition that two article distribution boxes are stacked up and down, the first top surface positioning parts of the lower article distribution boxes are clamped with the first bottom surface positioning parts of the upper article distribution boxes to realize transverse positioning.

Further, the locking piece is arranged at the first top surface positioning part or the first bottom surface positioning part, and the blocking wall is arranged at the positioning part without the locking piece.

Furthermore, the positioning part provided with the locking part is a clamping block, the positioning part provided with the blocking wall is a clamping groove, the clamping block is provided with a transverse accommodating groove, the locking part is arranged in the accommodating groove, and the accommodating groove is provided with a through hole for the locking part to transversely extend.

Furthermore, the top surface of the article distribution box is provided with a second top surface positioning part, the bottom surface of the article distribution box is provided with a second bottom surface positioning part corresponding to the second top surface positioning part, and the second top surface positioning part and the second bottom surface positioning part are clamped to realize transverse positioning when two article distribution boxes are stacked up and down.

The article dispensing box includes a sensing member and a locking member controlled by the sensing member. If the sensing piece senses that the article distribution box and an identical article distribution box are stacked up and down, the locking piece is locked, so that the two article distribution boxes are locked together; if the sensing member senses that the article distribution box and an identical article distribution box are not stacked on top of each other, the locking member is unlocked, so that the two article distribution boxes are not locked together. Therefore, even if the road conditions bump, the article distribution boxes stacked up and down cannot be separated, so that the article distribution boxes above can be effectively prevented from falling.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a food distribution box in a right side view with most of the closure doors open;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the food distribution box in a left side view with the food distribution box in place, most of the closure door in an open position;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a food distribution box in an upright position with the closure doors fully closed;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a food distribution box in an inverted configuration with the closure doors fully closed;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the state that the electromagnetic lock is inserted into the lock hole, in order to facilitate the reader to see the size relationship between the locking rod and the lock hole of the electromagnetic lock, the clamping block is hidden in the diagram;

fig. 6 is a geometric schematic diagram of the maximum vertical distance H between the locking rod and the top hole wall of the locking hole and the vertical distance H after the locking rod is vertically moved when the electromagnetic lock is inserted into the locking hole.

Description of reference numerals: 1. a closing door; 11. locking; 12. an electromagnetic lock cylinder; 2. a card slot; 3. a clamping block; 31. a through hole; 4. an electromagnetic lock; 41. a lock hole; 5. a strip-shaped clamping groove; 6. a strip-shaped fixture block; 71. a wireless power-taking induction module; 72. a power plug; 8. a handle; 9. a code scanner; 10. an accommodating cavity; 20. food material packing box.

Detailed Description

As shown in fig. 1, a food distribution box (i.e., an article distribution box) is provided with a plurality of receiving cavities 10 having receiving openings. The food distribution box is provided with a corresponding closing door 1 for each accommodating cavity 10, and the left side of the closing door 1 is hinged with the cavity wall on the left side of the accommodating opening of the accommodating cavity 10. The right side of the closing door 1 is provided with a lock catch 11, and the cavity wall on the right side of the placing opening of the accommodating cavity 10 is provided with an electromagnetic lock core 12 as shown in fig. 2. The food distribution box is provided with a controller which is electrically connected to an electromagnetic lock cylinder 12. As shown in the uppermost closing door 1 on the right side in fig. 2, in a state that the closing door 1 seals the placing opening, the lock catch 11 extends into the electromagnetic lock cylinder 12, and the controller controls the electromagnetic lock cylinder 12 to lock the lock catch 11, so that the closing door 1 is locked.

Each receiving chamber 10 and each electromagnetic cylinder 12 are provided with a corresponding unique number. The controller comprises a storage module, wherein the number of each accommodating cavity 10 and the number of the electromagnetic lock cylinder 12 corresponding to the accommodating cavity are stored in the storage module, and the placing state of each accommodating cavity 10 is recorded and is divided into two situations of empty placement and occupation. The food distribution box is provided with a code scanner 9 electrically connected to the controller. The food material packing box 20 in fig. 1 is filled with food materials, and two-dimensional codes are attached to the outer surface of the box body. If there is a store ordering food, the dispenser takes out the empty food dispensing box, and each accommodating cavity 10 of the dispensing box does not store the food packaging box 20 in fig. 1. The dispenser aims the two-dimensional code of the outer surface of the food package 20 to be dispensed at the code scanner 9. The code scanner 9 scans the two-dimensional code to obtain information of the food packaging box 20, and sends the information to the controller. After receiving the information of the food material packaging box 20, the controller inquires the placement state of each accommodating cavity 10 in the storage module, allocates an empty accommodating cavity 10 for the food material packaging box 20, associates the information of the food material packaging box 20 with the number of the allocated accommodating cavity 10, stores the association relationship into the storage module, changes the placement state of the allocated accommodating cavity 10 from empty to occupied, and meanwhile, controls the electromagnetic lock core 12 corresponding to the allocated accommodating cavity 10 to unlock so as to pop open the closed door 1. The dispenser can put the current food material package 20 into the accommodating cavity 10, and after the food material package 20 is put in, the closing door 1 of the accommodating cavity 10 is manually closed, and the corresponding electromagnetic lock core 12 is locked again. The food distribution box is provided with a refrigeration module and a battery for supplying power to the refrigeration module. The refrigeration module has a plurality of cool air output ends corresponding to the plurality of accommodating cavities 10 one by one. Each cold air output end is communicated with the corresponding accommodating cavity 10 through an electric control one-way valve. The electric control one-way valve is electrically connected with the controller. After the electromagnetic lock core 12 is locked again, the controller starts the refrigeration module and switches on the electric control one-way valve of the cold air output end corresponding to the allocated accommodating cavity 10, so as to refrigerate and keep fresh the food material packaging box 20 placed in the accommodating cavity 10. Likewise, the dispenser puts the respective food packages 20 to be dispensed into the food dispensing box in sequence.

If the number of food packages 20 to be distributed is large, it is necessary to store dozens of food distribution boxes. After storing all the food material packaging boxes 20, the distributor can load the food material packaging boxes. As shown in fig. 3, the top surface of the food distribution box is provided with two slots 2 as a first top surface positioning portion and two strip-shaped slots 5 as a second top surface positioning portion. As shown in fig. 4, the bottom surface of the food distribution box is provided with two blocks 3 as a first bottom surface positioning portion and two strip-shaped blocks 6 as a second bottom surface positioning portion. The bottom surface is equipped with the delivery case and places the board in the transport vechicle carriage, and the upper surface that the board was placed to the delivery case is equipped with a plurality of places the position, every is equipped with two positioning groove that correspond with two fixture blocks 3 and two bar constant head tanks that correspond with two bar fixture blocks 6 in placing the position. Handles 8 are arranged at the left and right sides of the food distribution box. The distributor utilizes 8 transport vechicles of carrying up of a food delivery case of handle to aim at the delivery case and place the position of placing on the board and place, make fixture block 3 and the bar fixture block 6 card of this food delivery bottom of the case face go into respectively and place positioning channel and the bar constant head tank in the position. After the first food distribution box is placed, a distributor lifts the second food distribution box and places the second food distribution box on the first food distribution box, so that the clamping block 3 and the strip-shaped clamping block 6 on the bottom surface of the second food distribution box are clamped into the clamping groove 2 and the strip-shaped clamping groove 5 on the top surface of the first food distribution box below the second food distribution box respectively. A transverse containing groove is arranged in the clamping block 3, and an electromagnetic lock 4 (namely a locking piece) with a telescopic locking rod is arranged in the containing groove. Through holes 31 are formed in the left groove wall of the accommodating groove in the left clamping block 3 and the right groove wall of the accommodating groove in the right clamping block 3, and a locking rod of the electromagnetic lock 4 extends out transversely. And transverse lock holes 41 which are communicated with the left side wall of the food distribution box are formed on the left side groove wall of the left side clamping groove 2 and the right side groove wall of the right side clamping groove 2. The middle of the bottom of the food distribution box is provided with a microswitch 42 (fig. 4) as a sensing member which is electrically connected between the power source (the power source refers to the above-mentioned battery and the dc power source) and the electromagnetic lock 4. In the state that the second food distribution box is stacked on the first food distribution box, the spring piece of the microswitch 42 at the bottom surface of the second food distribution box is extruded by the top surface of the lower food distribution box, so that the electromagnetic lock 4 is electrified, and the electromagnetic lock 4 transversely extends into the lock hole 41, so that the clamping block 3 and the clamping groove 2 are locked together. The distributor places the third food delivery case on the second food delivery case again for fixture block 3 and the bar fixture block 6 of third food delivery case bottom surface are blocked respectively into draw-in groove 2 and the bar draw-in groove 5 of below second food delivery case top surface, then the micro-gap switch 42's of third food delivery case bottom surface spring leaf receives the extrusion of below food delivery case top surface and makes electromagnetic lock 4 circular telegram, makes electromagnetic lock 4 stretch out in lockhole 41, thereby locks fixture block 3 and draw-in groove 2 together. And so on, a plurality of food distribution boxes are stacked into the transport cart. After stacking to the limit height, the distributor finds another placing position adjacent to the placing position where the first food distribution box is placed on the distribution box placing plate, and stacks the plurality of food distribution boxes on the placing position again. After loading is finished, the distributor can start distribution. Because the electromagnetic lock 4 locks the clamping blocks 3 and the clamping grooves 2 of the two food distribution boxes which are stacked up and down together, the food distribution box positioned above cannot be separated from the food distribution box below due to jolt of road conditions in the transportation process, and the food distribution box positioned above is prevented from being overturned and falling.

In this embodiment, the controller of the food distribution box is electrically connected to the electromagnetic lock 4, so that the working state of the electromagnetic lock 4 can be known, and thus the storage module records the working state of the electromagnetic lock 4 in real time.

The transport vehicle is provided with a wireless power supply induction module and a power supply device electrically connected with the wireless power supply induction module. The left side wall and the right side wall of the food distribution box are provided with wireless power-taking induction modules 71 matched with the wireless power supply induction modules, and correspondingly, the food distribution box is provided with a direct-current power supply used for receiving electric energy taken by the wireless power-taking induction modules 71 and electrically connected with the wireless power-taking induction modules 71 and the refrigeration module respectively. After the food distribution box is placed on the transport vehicle, the wireless power-taking induction module 71 is connected with the wireless power supply induction module, so that power is taken from a power supply device in the carriage. The controller is electrically connected with the battery and the direct current power supply through the change-over switch. In a state that power can be taken through the wireless power taking induction module 71, the controller controls the change-over switch to be switched from power supply by the battery to power supply by the direct current power supply.

As shown in fig. 5, the diameter of the lock bar of the electromagnetic lock 4 is 5mm, and the vertical width of the lock hole 41 is 20mm, which is larger than the diameter of the lock bar. The hole wall at the top of the lock hole 41 is used as a blocking wall, and a vertical distance H is reserved between the locking rod and the hole wall at the top of the lock hole 41 under the condition that the locking rod extends into the lock hole 41 to be locked, wherein H is 15mm, so that the locking rod can vertically move in the lock hole 41. In the state that the food distribution boxes are stacked up and down and locked, the vertical displacement generated by the extrusion of the spring piece of the microswitch 42 is 3mm, which is smaller than the maximum vertical distance H of the vertical movement of the locking rod in the locking hole 41. After being transported to a destination, since the locking rod can move vertically in the locking hole 41, in a state where the electromagnetic lock 4 is not unlocked, a dispenser can lift the uppermost food dispensing box up a short distance, in the process, the bottom surface of the uppermost food distribution box is separated from the top surface of the food distribution box which is next to the uppermost food distribution box, the vertical distance between the locking rod and the hole wall at the top of the locking hole 41 is gradually reduced to be less than h, h is 12mm, as shown in fig. 6, at this time, the distance between the bottom surface of the upper food distribution box and the top surface of the lower food distribution box is more than 3mm, so that the spring plate of the micro switch 42 is automatically reset, thereby the electromagnetic lock 4 is powered off, the electromagnetic lock 4 retracts into the locking rod to realize unlocking, the clamping block 3 and the clamping groove 2 are not locked together, the dispenser can then continue to lift the uppermost food dispensing bin until the uppermost food dispensing bin is completely separated from the immediately below food dispensing bin. In other embodiments, the size values of the above components may be changed, and it is only required to ensure that the locking rod can move vertically in the locking hole 41 and the vertical distance that the locking rod can move is not less than the vertical displacement generated by the spring piece of the microswitch 42 being pressed.

The store house is provided with a storage device for storing the food distribution box, and the storage device is provided with a power supply connecting wire. The right side wall of the food distribution box is provided with a power plug 72 which electrically connects the battery to a dc power source. After the food distribution box is delivered to the store by the distributor, the store places the food distribution box in the storage device, and the power connection line of the storage device is in butt joint with the power plug 72 of the food distribution box, so that the battery is charged, and the direct-current power supply is supplied. In the state where the power plug 72 is connected to the external power cord, the controller switches to supplying power from the dc power source to the food distribution box. In other embodiments, the wireless power supply sensing module of the transport vehicle may be changed to a power connection line, or the power connection line in the storage device may be changed to a wireless power supply sensing module.

If the store needs to take out a food packaging box 20, the two-dimensional code corresponding to the food packaging box 20 stored in the mobile phone is aligned to the code scanner 9. The code scanner 9 scans the two-dimensional code to obtain information of the corresponding food material packaging box 20 and then sends the information to the controller, the controller determines the number of the corresponding accommodating cavity 10 according to the incidence relation between the information of the food material packaging box 20 and the number of the accommodating cavity 10, the corresponding electromagnetic lock core 12 is controlled to unlock, and the corresponding closing door 1 can be automatically bounced open. After the store takes out the required food packaging box 20, the closing door 1 is manually closed, and the electromagnetic lock core 12 is automatically locked again.

Non-preferably, the micro switch 42 can be changed to a magnetic induction switch, wherein the induction coil of the magnetic induction switch is disposed on the bottom surface of the food distribution box and electrically connected to the electromagnetic lock 4, and the magnet of the magnetic induction switch is disposed on the top surface of the food distribution box. Under the state that two food delivery casees stack from top to bottom, induction coil induced the magnet then makes electromagnetic lock 4 lock.

In other non-preferred embodiments, the microswitch 42 is electrically connected to the controller, and the on or off of the microswitch 42 triggers a corresponding control signal to be transmitted to the controller, so that the controller controls the locking and unlocking of the electromagnetic lock 4 according to the control signal.

Claims (12)

1. An article dispensing box, characterized by: including response piece and the locking piece of being controlled by the response piece, specifically:

if the sensing piece senses that the article distribution box and an identical article distribution box are stacked up and down, the locking piece is locked, so that the two article distribution boxes are locked together; and/or

If the sensing member senses that the article distribution box and an identical article distribution box are not stacked up and down, the locking member is unlocked, so that the two article distribution boxes are not locked together.

2. The article dispensing box of claim 1, wherein: the locking member and the sensing member are both arranged on the bottom surface of the article distribution box or are both arranged on the top surface of the article distribution box.

3. The article dispensing box of claim 2, wherein: the locking member is provided with a lateral blocking wall corresponding to the locking member, and the locking member is extended laterally to lock, and the blocking wall of one article distribution box blocks the locking member of the other article distribution box to prevent the two article distribution boxes from being vertically separated in a state where the two article distribution boxes are stacked and locked one on top of the other as described above.

4. The article dispensing box of claim 3, wherein: when the two article distribution boxes are stacked up and down and locked, a vertical distance H is reserved between the blocking wall and the locking piece to allow the locking piece to vertically move without crossing the blocking wall, if the vertical distance between the locking piece and the blocking wall is smaller than or equal to H, the sensing piece senses that the article distribution box and one identical article distribution box are not stacked up and down, and then the locking piece retracts, resets and is unlocked, wherein H is less than H.

5. The article dispensing box of claim 3 or 4, wherein: the article distribution box where the barrier wall is located is provided with a transverse lock hole, the locking piece of the other article distribution box transversely extends into the lock hole to realize locking, and the wall of the lock hole close to the other article distribution box is used as the barrier wall.

6. The article dispensing box of claim 1, wherein: the locking piece is electromagnetic lock, and the response piece is to the switch that carries out circular telegram, outage control to electromagnetic lock, specifically: if the sensing piece senses that the article distribution box and the same article distribution box are stacked up and down, the electromagnetic lock is switched on and off to be locked; if the sensing piece senses that the article distribution box and the same article distribution box are not stacked up and down any more, the electromagnetic lock is switched on and off in the reverse direction, and therefore the electromagnetic lock is unlocked.

7. The article dispensing box as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4 and 6, wherein: the response piece is for establishing the micro-gap switch at article delivery case top surface or bottom surface, specifically:

if the article distribution box and an identical article distribution box are stacked up and down, the microswitch is extruded by the identical article distribution box to realize induction;

if the article distribution box is separated from another identical article distribution box which is stacked up and down, the micro switch is not extruded by the identical article distribution box any more and is automatically reset, and therefore induction is achieved.

8. The article dispensing box of claim 1, wherein: the controller is electrically connected between the sensing piece and the locking piece, and the sensing piece controls the locking and/or unlocking of the locking piece through the controller.

9. An article dispensing box as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein: the article distribution box top surface is equipped with first top surface location portion, and the bottom surface is equipped with the first bottom surface location portion that corresponds with first top surface location portion, and under two such article distribution boxes stacked the state from top to bottom, the first top surface location portion of the article distribution box that lives down and the first bottom surface location portion block of the article distribution box that lives up realize horizontal location.

10. The article dispensing box of claim 9, wherein: the locking piece is arranged at the first top surface positioning part or the first bottom surface positioning part, and the blocking wall is arranged at the positioning part without the locking piece.

11. The article dispensing box of claim 10, wherein: the positioning part provided with the locking part is a clamping block, the positioning part provided with the barrier wall is a clamping groove, the clamping block is provided with a transverse accommodating groove, the locking part is arranged in the accommodating groove, and the accommodating groove is provided with a through hole for the locking part to transversely extend.

12. The article dispensing box of claim 9, wherein: the top surface of the article distribution box is provided with a second top surface positioning part, the bottom surface of the article distribution box is provided with a second bottom surface positioning part corresponding to the second top surface positioning part, and the second top surface positioning part and the second bottom surface positioning part are clamped to realize transverse positioning when two article distribution boxes are stacked up and down.

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