CN221295392U - Disc folding device - Google Patents

Abstract

The application discloses a folding tray device which comprises a conveying line body and a folding tray mechanism arranged on one side of the conveying line body, wherein the folding tray mechanism comprises a lifting mechanism capable of moving in the vertical direction, a tray clamping mechanism connected with the lifting mechanism and used for clamping a tray, and a rotating mechanism capable of driving the tray clamping mechanism to rotate around the lifting mechanism.

Description

Disc folding device

Technical Field

The application is applied to the field of automatic conveying, and particularly relates to a disc folding device.

Background

In the prior art, the tray on the conveying line is folded, a folding disc device is needed to be used for finishing folding of a plurality of trays, and the folding disc device is used for carrying out splitting conveying on the folded trays, and the conveying line body is mainly used as the center to be symmetrically arranged on two sides of the conveying line body, so that larger space occupation is caused.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above, the application discloses a folding tray device, which comprises a conveying line body and a folding tray mechanism arranged on one side of the conveying line body, wherein the folding tray mechanism comprises a lifting mechanism capable of moving in the vertical direction, a tray clamping mechanism connected with the lifting mechanism and used for clamping a tray, and a rotating mechanism capable of driving the tray clamping mechanism to rotate around the lifting mechanism, the lifting mechanism and the tray clamping mechanism are used for folding the tray, and the rotating mechanism drives the tray clamping mechanism to rotate so as to release and avoid the tray.

Preferably, the lifting mechanism comprises a first cylinder, a base plate and a supporting plate, the first cylinder is fixedly arranged on one side of the conveying line body through the base plate, the movable end of the first cylinder is connected with the lower end of the supporting plate, the upper end of the supporting plate is connected with the tray clamping mechanism, and the first cylinder drives the tray clamping mechanism to move up and down.

Preferably, the supporting plate comprises a horizontal bottom plate and vertical plates extending upwards vertically at two ends of the bottom plate, a sliding block is arranged at one end, close to the base plate, of the vertical plates, a vertical linear sliding rail is arranged at the corresponding position of the base plate, and the sliding block is connected with the linear sliding rail in a matched mode.

Preferably, the tray clamping mechanism comprises two clamping arms which are oppositely arranged, a clamping space is formed between the two clamping arms, one end of each clamping arm is hinged with the upper end of the vertical plate, and the other end of each clamping arm is provided with a clamping part which is oppositely arranged.

Preferably, the clamping component comprises a second cylinder and clamping blocks, the fixed end of the second cylinder is fixedly connected with the corresponding clamping arm, the movable end of the second cylinder is fixedly provided with the clamping blocks, and the two clamping blocks are oppositely arranged and can horizontally displace relative to the clamping arm.

Preferably, the rotating mechanism comprises a third cylinder, a rotating pull rod and a rotating shaft, a bearing seat is arranged at the top end of the vertical plate, the rotating shaft penetrates through the two sides of the bearing seat, two ends of the rotating shaft are respectively and fixedly connected with one end of the clamping arm far away from the clamping part, the fixed end of the third cylinder is hinged to the upper end of the bottom plate, one end of the rotating pull rod is fixedly connected with the rotating shaft, the other end of the rotating pull plate is hinged to the movable end of the third cylinder, and the rotating shaft is driven to axially rotate around the vertical plate through expansion and contraction of the third cylinder.

Preferably, a first limiting part is arranged at the upper end of the vertical plate and used for limiting the rotation angle of the clamping arm.

Preferably, a second limiting piece is arranged on the side of the linear sliding rail and used for limiting the vertical displacement distance of the tray clamping mechanism.

Preferably, the automatic folding device comprises a first detection component, wherein the first detection component is arranged on the conveying line body and is used for detecting whether the tray is located at a preset position to be folded or not.

Preferably, the tray protection device comprises a second detection part and a tray protection frame, wherein the tray protection frame is sleeved on the conveying line body and the folding tray mechanism, and is used for protecting a tray to be folded, and the second detection part is arranged at the upper end of the tray protection frame and used for detecting whether the stacking height of a plurality of trays is higher than a preset height.

The application has the advantages that the lifting mechanism is utilized to drive the tray clamping mechanism to move up and down to finish folding of the tray, the tray clamping mechanism is arranged to rotate relative to the lifting mechanism, so that the tray which does not need folding is avoided, the tray clamping mechanism is integrated on one side of the conveying line body, the space is saved, the whole mechanism is driven by a plurality of air cylinders, and the structure is simple and the beat is stable.

Additional specific features and advantages of the application will be set forth in the description which follows, or in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the techniques of the disclosure.

In order to make the above objects, features and advantages of the present application more comprehensible, preferred embodiments accompanied with figures are described in detail below.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings that are needed in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described, and it is obvious that the drawings in the description below are some embodiments of the present invention, and other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

Fig. 1 is an overall schematic of the present application.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a folding tray mechanism according to the present application.

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a folding tray mechanism according to the present application.

FIG. 4 is a side view of the construction of the folding tray mechanism of the present application.

In the figure: 1. a first cylinder; 2. a substrate; 3. a conveyor line body; 4. a cylinder mounting rack; 5. a floating joint; 6. a bottom plate; 7. a vertical plate; 8. a bearing seat; 9. a rotation shaft; 10. a clamping arm; 11. a lock sleeve; 12. a limiting block; 13. a second cylinder; 14. a clamping block; 15. a linear guide hole; 16. a guide post; 17. a third cylinder; 18. an earring mount; 19. rotating the pull rod; 20. a fish eye joint; 21. a slide block; 22. a linear guide rail; 23. a limit rod; 24. a limit nut; 25. an air pressure regulating valve; 26. a first correlation sensor; 27. a tray protection frame; 28. a second correlation sensor; 29. and a protective cover plate.

Description of the embodiments

For the purpose of making the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention more apparent, the technical solutions of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, in one embodiment, the free end of the first cylinder 1 is fixedly connected to one side of the conveyor line body 3 through the substrate 2, specifically, the free end of the first cylinder 1 is fixedly connected to the fixed end of the first cylinder 1 through the cylinder mounting frame 4 disposed on one side of the substrate 2, in some possible embodiments, the first cylinder 1 adopts a three-position cylinder, and the free end of the cylinder is quickly positioned at three preset positions through an electric control signal, so that stable beat and quick action are ensured. The free end of the first cylinder 1 is in floating connection with the lower surface of the bottom plate 6 through the floating connector 5, the floating connector 5 is adopted to prevent damage to a cylinder shaft in the cylinder stretching process, the service life of the mechanism is guaranteed, the direction of the free end of the first cylinder 1 is vertical to the conveying plane upwards, and when the free end of the first cylinder 1 stretches up and down, the bottom plate 6 is driven to move up and down vertical to the direction of the conveying plane. The both ends of bottom plate 6 are equipped with the riser 7 that upwards vertically extend respectively, perpendicular fixed connection between riser 7 and the bottom plate 6, the one end of bottom plate 6 is kept away from to riser 7, wear to be equipped with bearing frame 8, the bearing frame 8 of both sides highly is the same, and set up relatively, wear to be equipped with rotation axis 9 in the bearing frame 8, rotation axis 9's both ends protrusion is in the outside of bearing frame 8, and respectively with the one end fixed connection of two arm 10, concretely, can be rotation axis 9 wear to establish the preset hole of arm 10 one end, and pass through key connection with arm 10, fixed spacing between arm 10 and the rotation axis 9 through lock sleeve 11, arm 10 accessible rotation axis 9 rotates to the opposite plate 7 this moment, two arm 10 set up relatively, form tray clamping space between two arm 10.

In some embodiments, a first limiting component is disposed at the upper end of the vertical plate 7, and a limiting block 12 is disposed at the upper end of the vertical plate 7, when the clamping arm 10 rotates to a preset angle relative to the vertical plate 7, the limiting block 12 contacts with the clamping arm 10 to limit the rotation angle, and the limiting position of the rotation of the clamping arm 10 can be adjusted by adjusting the position and the size of the limiting block 12.

The other end of the clamping arm 10 is provided with a clamping component for clamping the tray, in some embodiments, the clamping component is a second air cylinder 13 and a clamping block 14, the fixed ends of the two second air cylinders 13 respectively penetrate through the clamping arms 10 on two sides and are fixedly connected with the clamping arm 10, the free ends of the two second air cylinders 13 are arranged in opposite directions, the free ends are fixedly provided with the clamping blocks 14, and the clamping blocks 14 can be driven by the second air cylinders to move relatively close to the horizontal or move relatively far away from the horizontal, so that the clamping action on the tray is completed. The connection between the fixed end of the second cylinder 13 and the clamp arm 10 is not limited to the through-fixing, and may be fixed to the inner side of the clamp arm 10 or other parts.

In some embodiments, the clamping arm 10 is provided with a horizontal linear guide hole 15, the length direction of the linear guide hole 15 is the same as the telescopic direction of the second air cylinder 13, a guide column 16 is sleeved in the linear guide hole 15, one end of the guide column 16 is fixedly connected with the clamping block 14, the guide column 16 and the linear guide hole 15 play a role in guiding the clamping block 14 in an auxiliary manner, the radial stress of the second air cylinder 13 is reduced, and the structural stability and strength are improved.

The fixed end of the third air cylinder 17 is hinged with the upper surface of the bottom plate 6 through an earring mounting piece 18, the free end of the third air cylinder 17 is upwards relatively and is connected with the rotating shaft 9 through a rotating pull rod 19, one end of the rotating pull rod 19 is hinged with the free end of the third air cylinder 17, the other end of the rotating pull rod 19 is fixedly connected with the middle section of the rotating shaft 9, when the third air cylinder 17 stretches and contracts, the rotating pull rod 19 displaces to drive the rotating shaft 9 to rotate, and meanwhile the rotating shaft 9 drives the clamping arms 10 at the two ends to rotate.

In some embodiments, the free end of the third cylinder 17 is hinged to the rotary pull rod 19 by means of a fish eye joint 20, thereby creating a greater rotational margin, protecting the free end of the third cylinder 17 axially against overstress.

In some embodiments, two opposite outward sides of the vertical plate 7 are fixedly provided with a sliding block 21, the base plate 2 is provided with a linear guide rail 22 perpendicular to the ground direction, the sliding block 21 is sleeved with the linear guide rail 22, and an auxiliary guiding function is achieved in the process that the first air cylinder 1 drives the vertical plate 7 to move up and down. At one side of the linear guide 22, a second limiting part is arranged, the second limiting part can be a limiting rod 23 and a limiting nut 24, the length direction of the limiting rod 23 is the same as that of the linear guide 22, the limiting nut 24 is sleeved and fixed on the limiting rod 23, when the first cylinder 1 drives the vertical plate 7 to move up and down to a preset limit position, the sliding block 21 can be contacted with the limiting nut 24, so that the height of the vertical displacement is limited, and the vertical displacement range of the vertical plate 7 can be adjusted by adjusting the fixed position of the limiting nut 24 on the limiting rod 23.

In some embodiments, one side of the bottom plate 6 is provided with air pressure regulating valves 25, and the air pressure regulating valves 25 are connected to the first, second and third cylinders 1, 13 and 17, respectively, and regulate the respective air inlet and outlet amounts thereof, it should be noted that the number and installation positions of the air pressure regulating valves 25 are not fixed.

In some embodiments, a first detection mechanism is provided at a position to be folded on the tray of the conveying line body 3, specifically, a first correlation sensor 26 is disposed opposite to the first correlation sensor 26, and a laser sensing direction of the first correlation sensor 26 is perpendicular to a conveying direction of the tray, so as to detect whether the tray reaches a preset position to be folded, and control start and stop of the conveying line body 3 according to a detection result. It should be noted that the first detecting mechanism may be other sensing devices with detecting functions, such as other position detectors, pressure sensors, visual detectors, etc., and may determine the real-time position of the tray, and control the conveyor line body according to the detection result, which is not limited herein.

In some embodiments, the outside of the conveying line body 3 and the folding disc mechanism is provided with a tray protection frame 27, the tray protection frame 27 is a cuboid frame formed by encircling aluminum profiles, the folded tray can be placed in the tray protection frame 27, people and the outside environment can be protected under the condition of accidental dumping, meanwhile, a second detection mechanism is arranged on the profile diagonally arranged at the upper end part of the tray protection frame 27, the second detection mechanism can be a second correlation sensor 28, the correlation sensing direction of the second correlation sensor 28 is parallel to the conveying direction of the tray and is arranged at a preset height higher than a conveying plane, so that whether the height of a tray folding code is higher than the preset folding code height is detected, the folding disc mechanism is controlled to start and stop according to the detection result, the conveying line body 3 performs the next step of releasing and other actions, the second detection mechanism can be other sensing devices with detection functions, such as other position detectors, a touch sensor, a visual detector and the like, the tray stacking real-time height can be determined according to the detection control result, and the folding disc folding mechanism is not limited here.

In some embodiments, the conveying line body 3 is further provided with a protective cover plate 29, the protective cover plate 29 can be made of metal or plastic with certain strength, and the protective cover plate 29 is covered on the conveying line body 3 and used for protecting the conveying line body 3, and the conveying line body 3 is protected and prevented from falling onto the conveying line body 3 under the condition that the stacked trays accidentally fall down.

It should be noted that, the conveying line body 3 may be further provided with a stopping member for stopping the tray, and the tray guiding member guides the tray, which are conventional in the art, and are not limited herein.

The following describes the operation of the application.

The tray stacking operation process is described: (since the first cylinder 1 is a three-position cylinder with its free end projecting height being a first height, a second height and a third height from top to bottom, which will hereinafter be referred to as "high position", "medium position" and "low position"), the first cylinder 1 is in a high position, the second cylinder 13 is retracted at its free end, the third cylinder 17 controls the gripper arm 10 to be in a horizontal conveying plane position, the first pallet is conveyed to a preset position to be stacked under the action of the conveyor line body 3, at this time, the first correlation sensor 26 detects that the pallet is in the preset position to be stacked, the conveyor line body 3 stops running, the stop member stops stopping the pallet, the first cylinder 1 is retracted from the high position to the low position, the second cylinder 13 is extended at its free end, the gripper block 14 is in contact with the pallet side and grips it, after the gripping action is completed, the first cylinder 1 is moved from the low position to the high position, the first correlation sensor 26 detects that the tray leaves the conveying plane, the conveying plane 3 continues to run, the second tray is conveyed to a preset tray to be stacked position under the action of the conveying plane 3, at the moment, the second tray is located right below the first tray, the first cylinder 1 moves from a high position to a position, the first tray is stacked on the second tray, the second cylinder 13 retracts, the clamping block 14 is loosened relative to the first tray, then the first cylinder 1 moves from the position to a low position, the second cylinder 13 extends out, the clamping block 14 clamps the side edge of the second tray, after the clamping action is completed, the first cylinder 1 moves from the low position to the high position, the second tray and the first tray stacked above the second tray are driven to leave the conveying plane 3 and lift upwards, and the whole set of circulation action is performed, until the second correlation sensor 28 detects that the stacking height of the trays reaches the preset stacking height, at this time, the first cylinder 1 moves to a low position, the second cylinder 13 retracts, the third cylinder 17 retracts to drive the clamping arm 10 to rotate to a position perpendicular to the conveying plane in a direction away from the conveying plane, the stacking trays are avoided, the stopping component is released, and the stacking trays are moved out.

The tray disassembling process is described: the first cylinder 1 is located at the middle position, the free end of the second cylinder 13 is retracted, the third cylinder 17 controls the clamping arm 10 to be at an avoiding position perpendicular to a conveying plane, a stacked tray with a certain height is conveyed to a preset tray to be dismounted under the action of the conveying line body 3, at the moment, the first correlation sensor 26 detects that the tray is at the preset tray to be dismounted, the conveying line body 3 stops running, the stopping component stops stopping the tray, the third cylinder 17 controls the clamping arm 10 to rotate to be parallel to the conveying plane, the tray is located in a tray clamping space formed between the two clamping arms 10, the second cylinder 13 stretches out to clamp the second tray from bottom to top, then the first cylinder 1 moves to a high position to drive the second tray and the tray above to be separated from the first tray and lift upwards, the stopping component is in a releasing state, the conveying line body 3 drives the first tray to continue running along the conveying line body at the moment, after the first correlation sensor 26 detects that the first tray completely moves out of the tray to be dismounted, the first cylinder 1 moves to the position from the low position to the whole tray to the position, the second cylinder 13 moves to the position from top to bottom to the position, and the second cylinder 1 moves to the position to move from top to the position to the top to the position, and the second cylinder is retracted to move to the position to move the tray freely, and the tray is moved to the second cylinder is moved to the top to the position to move from the top position to the top position to the tray to be dismounted position.

The application has the advantages that the lifting mechanism is driven by the three-position air cylinder to cooperate with the tray clamping mechanism to finish the folding of the tray, and meanwhile, the tray clamping mechanism is driven by the third air cylinder 17 to rotate, so that the tray which does not need to be folded is avoided, the whole device is integrated on one side of the conveying line body 3, the space is saved, the structure is simple, the beat is stable, the whole device can be removed only by removing the substrate 2 when the folding tray position needs to be replaced, and meanwhile, the tray position is detected by a plurality of detection parts to control the operation of the conveying line body and the folding tray mechanism.

In the description of the present application, it should be noted that the directions or positional relationships indicated by the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", etc. are based on the directions or positional relationships shown in the drawings, are merely for convenience of describing the present application and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the devices or elements referred to must have a specific orientation, be configured and operated in a specific orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present application. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above examples are only specific embodiments of the present application, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present application, but it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the present application is not limited thereto, and that the present application is described in detail with reference to the foregoing examples: any person skilled in the art may modify or easily conceive of the technical solution described in the foregoing embodiments, or perform equivalent substitution of some of the technical features, while remaining within the technical scope of the present disclosure; such modifications, changes or substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, and are intended to be included in the scope of the present application.

Claims (10)

1. The utility model provides a fold disk device, its characterized in that, including the transfer chain body with set up in fold disk mechanism that folds of transfer chain body one side, fold disk mechanism including but vertical direction displacement's elevating system, with elevating system is connected and is used for carrying out the tray fixture of centre gripping and can drive tray fixture winds elevating system rotatory rotary mechanism, elevating system with tray fixture is used for folding the tray, rotary mechanism drives thereby tray fixture is rotatory to carry out the letting go to the tray and dodge.

2. The disc folding device according to claim 1, wherein the lifting mechanism comprises a first cylinder, a base plate and a supporting plate, the first cylinder is fixedly mounted on one side of the conveying line body through the base plate, the movable end of the first cylinder is connected with the lower end of the supporting plate, the upper end of the supporting plate is connected with the tray clamping mechanism, and the first cylinder drives the tray clamping mechanism to move up and down.

3. The disc folding device according to claim 2, wherein the supporting plate comprises a horizontal bottom plate and vertical plates extending vertically upwards from two ends of the bottom plate, a sliding block is arranged at one end of each vertical plate, which is close to the base plate, a vertical linear sliding rail is arranged at a corresponding position of the base plate, and the sliding block is connected with the linear sliding rail in a matched manner.

4. A disc de-stacking device according to claim 3, wherein the tray clamping mechanism comprises two clamping arms arranged oppositely, a clamping space is formed between the two clamping arms, one end of each clamping arm is hinged with the upper end of the vertical plate, and the other end of each clamping arm is provided with a clamping component arranged oppositely.

5. The disc folding device according to claim 4, wherein the clamping member comprises a second cylinder and clamping blocks, the fixed end of the second cylinder is fixedly connected with the corresponding clamping arm, the movable end of the second cylinder is fixedly provided with the clamping blocks, and the two clamping blocks are oppositely arranged and can horizontally displace relative to the clamping arm.

6. The disc folding device according to claim 4, wherein the rotating mechanism comprises a third cylinder, a rotating pull rod and a rotating shaft, a bearing seat is arranged at the top end of the vertical plate, the rotating shaft penetrates through the bearing seats at two sides, two ends of the rotating shaft are fixedly connected with one ends of the clamping arms, which are far away from the clamping parts, respectively, the fixed end of the third cylinder is hinged with the upper end of the bottom plate, one end of the rotating pull rod is fixedly connected with the rotating shaft, the other end of the rotating pull rod is hinged with the movable end of the third cylinder, and the rotating shaft is driven to axially rotate around the vertical plate through the expansion and the contraction of the third cylinder.

7. The disc folding device according to claim 4, wherein a first limiting member is provided at an upper end of the vertical plate for limiting a rotation angle of the clamping arm.

8. A disc folding device according to claim 3, wherein the linear slide rail side is provided with a second limiting member for limiting the vertical displacement distance of the tray clamping mechanism.

9. The folding tray device according to claim 1, comprising a first detecting member provided on the conveyor line body for detecting whether the tray is located at a predetermined position to be folded.

10. The disc folding device according to claim 1, comprising a second detecting member and a tray protecting frame, wherein the tray protecting frame is sleeved on the conveying line body and the disc folding mechanism, and protects the trays to be folded, and the second detecting member is arranged at the upper end of the tray protecting frame and is used for detecting whether the stacking height of the plurality of trays is higher than a preset height.