JP2000281182A - Cap take-out device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent breakage of a ring band portion for anti-theft guarantee function weak in strength in delivering a cap which is caused due to the request for a high speed machine. SOLUTION: A cap take-out device comprises a wheel type cap disk 2 for receiving a cap and a wheel type cap disk 3 for feeding a cap, an outer guide 16 to guide support surfaces opposite to each other of the cap supported by a cap support member provided on the wheel type cap disk for receiving the cap is provided so as to be abutted on an upper part of a ring band for anti- theft guarantee function below a cap side surface at a cap receiving position 20, and an outer guide to guide support surfaces opposite to each other of the cap supported by the cap support member provided on the wheel type cap disk 3 for feeding cap is provided at the cap take-out position 21 so as to be abutted at the position lower than the abutting height at the cap receiving position 20.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cap removing device for a cap with respect to a cap having an anti-theft function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a cap removing wheel fixed to a rotating shaft and a cap supporting portion provided on an outer periphery of the cap removing wheel are provided, and the cap from the chute is received by the cap supporting portion. In the cap removing device to be delivered to the capper, the cap supporting portion is a step portion supporting the bottom and side surfaces of the cap, and a cap guide for guiding the cap supported by the cap supporting portion from outside is used for removing the cap. Cap removal device fixed separately from the wheel (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-40
080).

[0003]

However, in the conventional cap removal apparatus, when handling caps with a theft-preventing and assuring function, particularly in recent years, high-speed machines have been demanded. In the support part that holds the cap, the ring band part for the anti-theft function is supported by the guide and sent out, so the ring band part of the cap is damaged when it is removed from the cap chute. There was a problem.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and has a cap-type wheel-type cap disc for receiving a cap supplied from a cap chute, and a cap-supplying wheel for receiving a cap kicked out of the cap-receiving wheel-type cap disc. By installing the mold cap disc in front of the capper, two star wheels are formed, and the cap supplied from the cap chute is transported by the cap receiving wheel mold cap disc. In this cap receiving wheel mold cap disc, A part other than the ring band for the anti-theft security function, which is a weak part of the cap, can be guided, and a wheel supply wheel type cap rotating in synchronization with the cap receiving wheel type cap disc. The cap supply wheel type cap disc has a cap receiving position and a cap receiving position by guiding a ring band portion for a theft prevention assurance function which is a weak portion of the cap. It is an object of the present invention to provide a cap removing device that facilitates grasping with a chuck for delivering a cap by changing a guide height at a removing position.

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided a cap removing apparatus for receiving a cap provided with an anti-piracy assurance function supplied from a cap chute and supplying the cap to a capper. Consisting of a receiving wheel type cap disk and a cap supplying wheel type cap disk,
The cap support member provided on the cap receiving wheel-type cap disk and the outer guide for guiding the support opposing surface of the cap supported by the support member are provided by the ring band for theft prevention and assurance function below the side of the cap at the cap receiving position. It is provided so that it contacts upwards,
The cap support member provided on the cap-supplying wheel-type cap disc and the outer guide that guides the support opposing surface of the cap supported by the support member are located at a position lower than the contact height at the cap receiving position at the cap removal position. The technical means of providing so as to abut on is adopted.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention is a cap removing apparatus for transferring caps transferred by a cap receiving wheel type cap disc from a cap sorter via a cap chute to a cap supplying wheel type cap disc at equal intervals. A cap receiving wheel-type cap disc provided with a cap supporting portion for supporting the bottom and side surfaces of the cap fixed to the rotating shaft on the outer periphery, and a cap held by the cap supporting portion and conveyed to the cap receiving wheel type An outer guide for guiding the cap is provided at an appropriate portion outside the cap-receiving wheel-type cap disc so that the cap can be transported while being securely held on the cap disc. This outer guide guides the middle of the sturdy cap. An outer guide for guiding the cap is provided on an outer peripheral portion of the cap-supplying wheel-type cap disk, which is provided with a cap-supplying wheel-type cap disk in synchronization with the cap-receiving wheel-type cap disk. Have been. The outer guide is thinned around the cap receiving position and the position where the cap is taken out to the capper so as to guide the weak ring band, and the cap height is changed by changing the guide height at the cap receiving position and the cap removing position. Is designed to be easy to grasp.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of the cap removing device of the present invention.

First, an overall image of the present invention will be described briefly. The caps 12 transferred from the cap sorter via the cap chute 1 by the cap receiving wheel type cap disk 2 are provided one by one at regular intervals in synchronization with the cap receiving wheel type cap disk 2. It is transported to the disk 3. It is delivered to the capper 6 from the cap-supplying wheel-type cap disc 3 via a chuck or the like and capped. At this time, the container is sent from the conveyor 4 to the capper 6 via the inlet starwheel 5, capped, and transferred from the outlet starwheel 7 via the discharge conveyor 8.

Next, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3. A cap receiving wheel type cap disk rotating shaft 9 is rotatably provided and connected to a driving source (not shown). I have. The cap receiving wheel-type cap disk 2 can be rotated integrally with the cap receiving wheel-type cap disk rotating shaft 9 by a first positioning collar 10 or the like fitted and fixed to the cap receiving wheel-type cap disk rotating shaft 9. It has become. Similarly, the cap-supplying wheel-type cap disc 3 is also provided with a cap-supplying wheel-type cap disc rotating shaft 11 that is rotatable, is connected to a drive source (not shown), and is capable of synchronous rotation.

The cap receiving wheel-type cap disc 2 is provided with a disk 13 for supporting the cap 12 and a star wheel 14 as a cap support member for supporting the side surface of the cap 12. Further, an outer guide 16 is provided at a position for guiding a side surface of the cap 12 opposite to a side surface supported by the star wheel 14, and an upper holding guide 15 is provided at a position for holding the upper portion of the cap 12. In this embodiment, the star wheel 14 and the outer guide 16 are always provided at a height that abuts the substantially middle portion of the side surface of the cap 12 while the cap 12 is supported by the star wheel 14.
It is sufficient that the ring band part is avoided at 0, and it may abut on a desired position other than the cap receiving position 20.

A wheel 17 for supporting the cap 12 is provided on the wheel-type cap disc 3 for supplying the cap.
A star wheel 18 is provided as a cap support member for supporting the side surface of the cap 12. In addition, an upper holding guide 15 is provided at a position where the upper part of the cap 12 is held, extending from the upper part of the cap receiving wheel type cap disc 2.

Further, the star wheel 1 of the cap 12
A stepped outer guide 19 is provided at a position for guiding a side surface opposite to the side surface supported by the wheel 8. At the position where the cap 12 is delivered to the disk 3 and the cap removal position 21, the cap 3 comes into contact with only the vicinity of the ring band for the anti-theft protection function below the side of the cap, and at other positions, it moves downward from the substantially middle portion of the side of the cap 12. There is a step so that it touches. That is, the other positions are configured to be thick so as to abut both the ring band portion and the strong middle portion of the cap 12 that are weak in strength.

By forming the thin portion of the stepped outer guide 19 at the cap removal position 21 in this manner,
Capping by the chuck of the capper 6 can be reliably performed. In addition, at positions other than the cap removal position 21, a substantially middle portion of the side surface of the cap 12 is supported, so that the conveyance of the cap is stabilized.

In the above arrangement, the caps 12 aligned by the cap sorter (not shown) and conveyed through the cap chute 1 are received on the disk 13 supporting the caps 12 provided on the wheel-type cap disk 2 for receiving caps. It is delivered to the cap-supplying wheel-type cap disc 3, which is rotating synchronously while being guided by the star wheel 14, the upper holding guide 15, and the outer guide 16.

The cap-supplying wheel-type cap disk 3 includes a star wheel 18 and an upper holding guide 1.
5. The outside guide 16 provided on the cap receiving wheel-type cap disc 2 is extended to guide the inside, and further guided by the stepped outside guide 19, chucked by the capping head (not shown) of the capper 6 and received by the capper 6. It is intended to be passed.

Next, another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. Compared to the embodiment shown in FIG.
Since the position of the cap-supplying wheel-type cap disc 3 is provided above the inlet starwheel 5, the cap-supplying wheel-type cap disc 3 and the inlet starwheel 5 overlap in FIG. The other configuration is the same as that of the above-described embodiment except that the cap-supplying wheel-type cap disk 3 is provided above the inlet starwheel 5. With this configuration, the mounting interval between the inlet starwheel 5 and the outlet starwheel 7 can be narrowed. However, the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 is more suitable for a high-speed machine. .

[0017]

According to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained based on the above configuration. (1) It is possible to prevent the ring band for the anti-theft assurance function, which is weak in strength, from being damaged when a cap is delivered due to a demand for a high-speed machine. (2) Stability is improved for taking out a cap having a high cap height (for example, a sports cap).

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a cap removing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a main part of the cap removing device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a side view of the main part.

FIG. 4 is a schematic plan view of a cap removing device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1) Cap chute 2) Wheel-type cap disk for receiving cap 3) Wheel-type cap disk for supplying cap 4) Conveyor 5) Inlet starwheel 6) Capper 7) Outlet starwheel 8) Discharge Conveyor 9 ‥‥ Rotating shaft for wheel-type cap disk for receiving cap 10 ‥‥ First positioning collar 11 ‥‥ Rotating shaft for wheel-type cap disk for supplying cap 12 ‥‥ Cap 13 ‥‥ Disc 14 ‥‥ Star wheel 15 ‥‥ Upper holding guide 16 ‥‥ Outer guide 17 ‥‥ Disc 18 ‥‥ Star wheel 19 ‥‥ Stepped outer guide 20 ‥‥ Cap receiving position 21 ‥‥ Cap removal position

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A cap removal device that receives a cap with a theft prevention and guarantee function supplied from a cap chute and supplies the cap to a capper, wherein the cap removal device includes a cap receiving wheel-type cap disk and a cap supplying wheel-type cap disk. And
The cap support member provided on the cap receiving wheel-type cap disk and the outer guide for guiding the support opposing surface of the cap supported by the support member are provided by the ring band for theft prevention and assurance function below the side of the cap at the cap receiving position. It is provided so that it contacts upwards,
The cap support member provided on the cap-supplying wheel-type cap disc and the outer guide that guides the support opposing surface of the cap supported by the support member are located at a position lower than the contact height at the cap receiving position at the cap removal position. A cap removing device provided so as to be in contact with the cap.