CN86105684A - Container transfering system - Google Patents

Abstract

The plastic container that a kind of container transfering system is used for the uncoated that will just make run to subsequent handlings such as coating, slaking.Conveyance in the system and airborne carrier are arranged in parallel, coordination operation.The toter of airborne carrier is stretched to the container on the conveyance of translation and clamps its neck by cam actuated, take to subsequent processing with horizontality, so the container appearance can all expose for further processed.Toter can also make container rotation in order to subsequently coating and maturation process.System also has device to make unloaded toter not participate in next procedure and along dividing open-circuit line to move, stained by coating to avoid holding device.

Description

Current, some soft drinks (for example soda pop) normally are contained in the interior retail of plastic container (being called pet container) and give the customer's.In addition, other plastic container also are being used to or are being developed and are being used for beer packed, romaine lettuce condiment and other food, and are used to pack cosmetics, medicine and other materials.

At the production and/or the can factory of container, this class container will experience the operation of a series of different disposal contents, comprises moulding, cleans, sprays barrier coat and makes it slaking, decals mirror and can.

The present invention is conceived to a kind of system that transports plastic container, comes rapidly and effectively container to be moved between each procedure with it.

According to the present invention, this system comprises that is sent into a conveyer, and it has been will be just produced, form a line without the plastic container of coating and deliver to one and handle and transfer system.According to an optimum implementation of the present invention, these plastic container are come by the reception of the conveyance of a lattice under upright mode, and fallen by the latter, being that the row toter of mode on an airborne carrier of level coordinated to move in time with on the space basically.

An airborne carrier is installed in the next door of conveyance, and it is received the container of horizontal positioned on the conveyance and comes, and is delivering the manufacturing procedure of these containers by subsequently.The device for continuously conveying of the annular chain formation of setting up in a suitable manner and driving is housed on the airborne carrier.On the delivery chain row container carrying equipment is housed, their containers on conveyance are being coordinated to move in time with on the space.These toters shift near container, clamp the neck of each container, then it are removed and deliver to subsequently manufacturing procedure from the rotation machine.Adopt this means of conveyance to make the following entire container of neck ring all expose outside, can carry out coating, decals mirror, lettering etc. thereon.

In one representative type manufacturing procedure, the above-mentioned toter that is moving is sent container into a coating chamber, rotating on one side container with guarantee coating equably be attached on the container all sidedly and prevent that coating from hanging down or drip so that separate at last, and then carried in containers gone into a curing oven and in stove, pass through.A co-pending patent application (registration number 666741) of registration disclosed a kind of method and apparatus that is used for applying coating on plastic container and carries out maturation process on October 31st, 1984.

Do not receive container if any one or several toter in some cases, there is a covering device this toter can be imported an other route in addition, make it exempt the operation that participates in subsequently, for example coating, because there is not the toter of container will be sprayed coating, thereby the chuck on it is stain.

A target of the present invention provides a kind of container and transports system, be used for container, particularly plastic container are being delivered by a series of relative containers and processing or the operation of can, for example applying one deck barrier coating and carry out maturation process subsequently so that daily necessitiess such as can soda pop, catsup in the container outside.

Further aim of the present invention provides a kind of mechanical device of novelty, and it is used for receiving, clamp each this class container and with its rotation with delivering operation by a series of processing.

Further object of the present invention provides a kind of device, makes any toter that does not receive container to advance via different approach with those toters that receives container.

The further purpose of another one provides the neck that a kind of rotative mechanism arrangement is clamped container, makes the outside face of entire container can freely accept the processing to it, for example applies, checks, labels, lettering etc.

Other and further purpose, for those those skilled in the art that, will be open-and-shut after having read this specification sheets, perhaps when the present invention is done actual application, will present clearly.

For the purpose of illustrating, an optimum implementation of the present invention is described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.These accompanying drawings are:

Fig. 1 is an incomplete planar view, and it shows the conveyer of sending into conveyer, transhipment conveyer and carrier mechanism.

Fig. 2 is the transparent view of Fig. 1, and it shows container and is becoming horizontal mode from upright mode conversion, and shows the process of container being inserted in carrier mechanism.

Fig. 3 is a width of cloth end elevation, and it shows container moving and the situation of supporting when uprightly transforming to horizontality.

Fig. 4 is the lateral plan of carrier bar conveyance when supporting the container of horizontal positioned.

Fig. 5 is the planar view of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a width of cloth planar view, it show airborne carrier and carrier mechanism with conveyance on the container combination process in operation program.

Fig. 7 is the decomposition diagram of carrier mechanism chuck, and this chuck is used for clamping container and it is moved.

Fig. 8 is a kind of transparent view of embodiment of remodeling, and it shows delivers to the situation of collecting for airborne carrier on the conveyance with cylindrical vessel.

Now describe in conjunction with Fig. 1.Container transfering system 10 comprises that is sent into a conveyer 12, and it is sent into flat container 14 by guide slot 16, with its turn to make side 18 and belt conveyor move towards parallel.Have the container of cylindrical shell for other, can use as shown in Figure 8 another delivery pipe that container is lined up and deliver on the conveyance after single-row.Conveyance 20(Fig. 1) comprise the inlet conveyer 22 that a carrier bar non junction belt conveyor 24 constitutes, the latter one by one is positioned the container of sending into to transmit on the zone face by dividing plate 26 at regular intervals.Conveyance comprises that also one also is the vessel supporting conveyer 28 of carrier bar, and it has upright dividing plate 30, is used for supporting at regular intervals the container of changing into horizontal positioned from the mode of vertically-arranged.Representative type arranges it is that each carrier bar is made up of dividing plate spaced apart 30 and middle dull and stereotyped 32, container with regard to horizontal on middle flat board.The shape of these carrier bars and arrangement are suitable for Fig. 1 to the sort of shapes of containers shown in Figure 5.Certainly, the shape of conveyance upper link plate can be revised to adapt to difform container, comprises cylindrical vessel as shown in Figure 8.

Conveyance also comprises a turret vessel neck support and location conveyer 34, and it has one group of frame 36, and the latter is equipped with the neck that wing support 38 is used for supporting each container.Neck brace 38 just in time is positioned at the centre of per two vessel back plates 32, and cooperating with the latter give each container on conveyance with enough supportings, and located.Concrete visible Fig. 4 and Fig. 5.

As can be seen from Figures 2 and 3, each carrier bar 24,26,30,32 and 36 on inlet, transhipment and the neck conveyer all is equipped with bracket 40 and links to each other with the conveyer chain 42 that they and parallel interval are arranged, they are moved by the direction that transmits.The gear 44 that conveyer chain is contained on the transmission shaft 46 in a usual manner drives.

From Fig. 1 to Fig. 3 machine that as seen rotates a neck guide frame 48 is housed also, it is directed to the state of horizontal positioned with each container that is moving from upright state, make container from the inlet conveyer effectively horizontal transfer come to vessel supporting conveyer and neck support conveyer.Certainly can understand, each carrier bar on the conveyance with delivery single container airborne carrier on carrier mechanism 49 on space length and time gap, all cooperating mobile, as Fig. 1 and person seen in fig. 2.

Carried in containers machine 50 comprise one with the transhipment conveyer conveyer 52 coordinating in time to move, and the supporting rail 54 and the positioning rail 56 that are keeping certain distance, they outside end bearing carrier mechanism.

Carried in containers mechanism comprises a delivery chain 58(Fig. 6 who is made up of two chains 60), it is being supported by guide rail 62,64 in the mode of cantilever, guide rail 62 be positioned at outer chain 66 above, guide rail 64 then be positioned at chain 68 below.Rod like parts 70 is fixed on the chain link and extends the total length of carrier mechanism 49 basically.This delivery bar and delivery chain are to be used for moving and carrying out keeping in the overall process of process operation it in horizontal state at container.Outer tube 72 on the delivery bar can be in axial sliding on static bar and coaxial transhipment.Outer tube 72 and inner sleeve are enclosed within on the delivery bar by the plain bearing (not shown), make carrier mechanism can be on bar telescopic slide.Preferably, inner sleeve 74 can only slide on bar, and outer tube 72 then links to each other with inner sleeve by a rotating joint 76, and can be with respect to inner sleeve and the transhipment of delivery bar.In one the spring 78 of dress withstand be fixed in delivery on the bar 70 the collar 80 and push sleeve pipe the position of retraction to its elastic force, shown in right figure among Fig. 6.A cam follower 82 is arranged on the sleeve pipe, and when it moved along with camming surface 84, the position that makes sleeve pipe right side from Fig. 6 went out against the thrust of spring is pushed outwards.

According to this programme, carrier mechanism can rotate on static inner sleeve round the delivery bar.It in addition,, carrier mechanism links to each other, so also can move axially on the delivery bar with inner sleeve because passing through runner spare 76.

There is one to be used for entangling the also chuck 86 of each container neck 14a of clamping in the carrier mechanism.Preferably, this holding device is a collet chuck 88 that is enclosed within the opening of outer tube 72 ends, this collet chuck 88(Fig. 7) be columnar, its outer wall has several seams 92 and preferably is divided into three sections cylindrical wall is divided into several sections 90(from the open end to the medium position).The cylinder of this segmentation can " bullet lock " on the neck of container and support this container.The shape 94 of collet chuck inwall matches with the outer wall shape 96 of container neck 14a.One has the outside that suitable elastomeric urceolus 98 is enclosed within collet chuck 88, and the segmentation on the collet chuck is clamped on the container neck.

The course of action of carrier mechanism can be as seen from Figure 6: the delivery chain is being supported by upper rail (62) and lower guideway (64) mode with cantilever among the right figure.Be appreciated that the delivery bar is to be distributed at regular intervals on the continuous non junction delivery chain that parallel chain is housed.Delivery bar 70 is installed in the lining of each chain link, and almost extends the total length of sleeve pipe in the inside of sleeve pipe.The free end of delivery part by a supporting rail holder, and the latter has certain friction drag that sleeve pipe is free to slide or rotates that prevents.For container, carrier mechanism makes the delivery sleeve pipe axially stretch out against the elastic force of contained spring is outside with camming surface 84 contacts.Because the chuck of carrier mechanism and bottle are to coordinate in time mutually to move, chuck puts each container and it is clamped.Shown in left figure among Fig. 7.As can be seen, the cooperation between the shoulder 14a of delivery collet chuck 88 and container makes the space 100(s of delivery sleeve pipe in the middle of crossing cam member 84 and 85 see Fig. 1) time still can keep this chuck being drawn out the position.The sort of when needing in the also available embodiment shown in Figure 8 compresses to bring pushes down container.From figure, also can notice, as a certain locational container is vacancy, then chuck is not just held, when carrier mechanism by the space between the cam 84 and 85 time, will carrier mechanism be shunk back, move on another route outside the wall of coating chamber fluting, stain in order to avoid in spraying process, spray into coating in the collet chuck 88.

Shown in Fig. 8 is the remodeling embodiment of the present invention when being used for cylindrical vessel 14.Conveyance 110 in this scheme generally comprises the non junction chain 112 that drives in a suitable manner of spaced apart, and the latter has one group of V-shape base 114 and admit the container of sending here from built on stilts delivery pipe 116.Each V-shape base a pedestal 118 is arranged and intersect by inclined-plane 122 above it and the V-arrangement opening 120 that forms to hold columnar container.As shown in FIG., the antetheca 124 of each V-shape base has a breach 126, is inserted in for the neck of container neck ring 14c back.Neck ring is the reference plane as the carrier mechanism alignment.Breach 126 is meshed to prevent that container y direction along container in V-shape base from moving with the neck ring 14c and the shoulder 14d of container.As shown in Figure 8, carrier mechanism shifts near to bottle, clamps them at neck, their bands is gone forth carry out subsequently the processing to container then.

There is a built on stilts endless belt 128 to move at the same rate and pushes down container, container is not lifted up from V-shape base after carrier mechanism 49 puts.This action of pushing down needs when carrier mechanism is crossed space 100 between the cam especially.

Obviously, for those those skilled in the art that, can make all remodeling and still not depart from scope and spirit of the present invention container transfering system.

Claims (10)

1, a kind of carried in containers mechanical device, it can be used for delivering the container that has longitudinal axis and be divided into neck and body, it is characterized in that this device has the container that a reception brings and holds it in is the conveyance of horizontality basically, this conveyance has the carrier bar of a plurality of receiving vessels, and container neck supported towards same direction, fasten and support each container neck on the conveyance in addition, prevent the device that container moves at its y direction, this mechanical device also has an airborne carrier, it is equipped with a plurality of delivery parts, described delivery part can be in axial sliding with its actuation arm that extends, also be equipped with and make the delivery part stretch out the device of the neck of clamping each container individually, thereby make container break away from conveyance and be sent to following together or down several procedures that container is processed.

2, by the container transfer mechanism of claim 1 defined, the conveyance that it is characterized in that it comprises the inlet conveyer of the container that the vertically-arranged mode of a reception sends, the supporting conveyer of a turret vessel body, and a turret vessel neck support conveyer; Described body supporting conveyer and neck support conveyer are worked in coordination, and container is remained on horizontality; Conveyance also comprises the device from the vertically-arranged state exchange to the horizontal positioned state with container.

3, by the container transfer mechanism of claim 2 defined, it is characterized in that its guide piece rearranges container, again they are laterally shifted out from the inlet conveyer simultaneously.

4,, it is characterized in that the carrier bar of its receiving vessel matches with the neck of container with restriction container moving at axis direction by the carried in containers mechanical device of claim 1 defined.

5,, it is characterized in that the carrier bar of receiving vessel has the usefulness of a groove for storage container, and have an antetheca that has breach to move to limit it with the container set merging by the carried in containers mechanical device of claim 4 defined.

6, a kind of carried in containers mechanical device, it can be used for having longitudinal axis and is divided into neck and body and has the container of neck ring, it is characterized in that it comprises the container that the device of sending into container and reception are sent here and it is remained on is the conveyance of horizontality basically, this conveyance has the carrier bar of a plurality of receiving vessels, and container neck supported towards same direction, fasten and support each container neck on the conveyance in addition, prevent the device that container moves at least one direction of its longitudinal axis, block the container side in addition, keep its device in carrier bar, this mechanical device also has an airborne carrier, it is equipped with a plurality of delivery parts, described delivery part can be in axial sliding with its actuation arm that extends, the device that makes the delivery part stretch out the neck of clamping each container individually also is housed, when the trend of conveyance and airborne carrier was separated, the delivery part made container break away from conveyance and is sent to the next procedure that container is processed.

7,, it is characterized in that in the carrier bar of receiving vessel V-shaped groove being housed holds columnar container by the carried in containers mechanical device of claim 6 defined.

8, by the container transfer mechanism of claim 7 defined, it is characterized in that the carrier bar of receiving vessel has an antetheca, have breach on it, be inserted between the neck ring and shoulder of container so that container is inserted its antetheca breach of back.

9, by the container transfer mechanism of claim 6 defined, it is characterized in that keeping holding the jointless belt feeder that container side wall and the device that relevant parts contact comprise a stand sky, its moving velocity is consistent with the moving velocity of conveyance.

10, by the container transfer mechanism of claim 1 to 6 defined, it is characterized in that conveyance and airborne carrier move together with the time and the spatial relationship that cooperatively interact.

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