JP2000142962A5 - - Google Patents

Description

[0007]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, according to the posture determination and alignment apparatus of the film unit recycling line of the present invention, the lens-equipped film unit having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped after taking out the film is erected on the front side with its longitudinal direction in the transport direction. Transport means for sequentially transporting in any one of standing, front side upside down, and reverse side upside; and which one of the above four postures is the posture of the lens-fitted photo film unit transported by the conveyance means; A first transport path including: a posture determination means for determining the position; a left and right reversing means for inverting the lens unit with the lens in the transport direction and aligning the film unit with the front or back side; A second transport path provided with up-down reversing means for up-down reversing the lens-fitted photo film unit and aligning it with one of upright and upside-down posture; A third transport path having left and right reversing means and up and down reversing means; a fourth transport path for transporting the film unit with a lens without changing the attitude; and the attitude determined by the attitude determination means; the film unit and sorting Ru vibration Ri interface unit in a predetermined conveying path of the conveying path of the so that any one of the position first to fourth of its attitude the four postures; the And a merging means for merging the lens-fitted photo film units transported from the first to fourth transport paths in a line while maintaining the posture.

[0027]
The merging mechanism 27 merges and transports the film units 13 sequentially transported from the first to fourth transport paths 23 to 26 so as not to collide with each other. As a result, the film unit 13 is conveyed toward the roll mechanism 56 as shown in FIG. As the merging mechanism 27, three merging devices described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-169425, etc. are provided, and two lanes are merged each time to be finally unified into one flow. Merging apparatus of the publication, the two transport means that are arranged offset in the vertical direction are merged at the downstream side, the film unit is not a colliding at the merging portion with a stopper disposed in front of the merging portion of each conveying means Stop the film unit intermittently. Note that, instead of the stoppers, the film transport unit may be intermittently stopped by stopping the transport means.

[0035]
The posture determination mechanism 21, the distribution mechanism 22, the first to fourth conveyance paths 23 to 26, and the merging mechanism 27 constituting the posture determination alignment unit 20 are provided in parallel with the storage process 70 and the standing posture alignment mechanism 14. The film unit 13 is unified into a predetermined posture, that is, a posture of erecting the surface in the present embodiment, by passing them.

[0036]
The rollover mechanism 56 and the kind sorting mechanism 61 are provided in parallel with the posture determination and alignment unit 20. The film unit 13 is transported to the sorting mechanism 57 after being overturned to a posture in which the surface is turned upward by the rollover mechanism 56 in order to prevent the film unit 13 from falling down during sorting, and is sorted here for each type. In the present embodiment, the transport conveyors are connected to the plurality of discharge units 64 for stocking the film units 13 sorted by type, and the sorted film units 13 are again transported to the rollover mechanism 56 . The rollover mechanism 56 rolls over the film unit 13 in the lying position in order to efficiently store the film unit 13 in the container, and for example, stands up in the standing posture of the surface inversion and transports it to the unloading step 74.

[0038]
In the delivery process 74, a plurality of delivery units 75 provided with a transfer machine for storing the sorted film units 13 in an empty container are provided in parallel with the rollover mechanism 56 and the kind sorting mechanism 61. An empty container is supplied to the delivery unit 75 by an unmanned transport vehicle, and the film unit 13 is stored therein. Its actual container is conveyed again taken into the AGV to the container and out box step 76. The actual containers transported to the container loading and unloading step 76 are respectively supplied to the recycling line corresponding to the type of the film unit 13. Among the types of the film unit 13, there are those in which the outer casing is covered with an outer case such as a paper box or a label. These types are transported to the delivery unit 75 in a form in which the outer case and the label are removed by the label peeling machines 77 and 78 and the outer case removal machine 79 disposed before being transported to the delivery unit 75.

[0042]
Thereafter the film unit 13 is transferred to the index table, the lid opening process 82 takes out the battery lid and the cartridge by the intermittent rotation of the index table, the front cover removed step 83, the strobe switches off step 84, whether the inspection process 85 of the power supply battery, The exposure unit from which the photographing lens has been removed is sequentially passed through a battery removal step 86, a cartridge presence / absence check step 87, a strobe unit removal step 88, a photographing lens removal step 89, and a back cover / rolling knob etc. The main body unit is taken out in the form of a main body unit attached to the main body base, and the main body unit is transported from the recycling line to the inspection step 92, where it is reused after inspection and the like.

Claims (1)

In the posture determination and alignment apparatus for a lens-equipped film unit recycling line, which uniformly aligns and aligns in one posture in order to supply a lens-equipped film unit after taking out a film to a recycling line for recycling.
Transport means for sequentially transporting the substantially cuboid lens-fitted photo film unit with any one of front erect, back erect, front inverted, and back inverted with the longitudinal direction in the transport direction;
Attitude determination means for determining which one of the four attitudes the attitude of the lens-fitted photo film unit transported by the transport means is;
A first transport path provided with left and right reversing means for reversing the lens attached film unit in the transport direction and aligning it with one of the front and back surfaces;
A second transport path provided with vertical reversing means for vertically reversing the lens-equipped film unit with respect to the transport direction and aligning it with one of upright and inverted postures;
A third transport path provided with the left and right reversing means and the up and down reversing means;
A fourth transport path for transporting the lens-equipped film unit without changing its posture;
According to the posture determined by the posture determination means, the lens unit with a film is set to a predetermined one of the first to fourth transport paths so that the posture becomes one of the four postures. a vibration Ri interface unit Ru distributed to the transport path of
Merging means for merging the lens-fitted photo film units transported from the first to fourth transport paths in a line while maintaining the one posture;
An attitude determination and alignment device for a lens-equipped film unit recycling line comprising: