JP2003335415A - Sectioning supplying device for conveyed article - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sectioning supply device for conveyed articles used for easy-deformable conveyed articles, and sectioning the conveyed articles without changing the attitude of the conveyed articles. <P>SOLUTION: This sectioning supplying device for the conveyed articles comprises a sectioning device 3 for sectioning the conveyed articles W continuously conveyed from a conveying device 2 of a former process by a predetermined number or a predetermined time, and a supplying device for successively receiving the conveyed articles W sectioned by the sectioning device 3, from the sectioning device 3, and supplying the same to a conveying device of a next process. The sectioning device 3 comprises two conveyor devices 10, 20 receiving the conveyed articles W from the conveying device 2 by the predetermined number or predetermined time, stopping the driving to transfer the received conveyed articles W to the supplying device 4, and restarting the driving. It further comprises a sorting device 20 for successively sorting the conveyed articles continuously conveyed from the conveying device 2 to one of the conveyor devices 10, 20 during standby by every predetermined number or predetermined time. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a conveying device for the next process by dividing a conveyed product such as a PET bottle or a paper container continuously conveyed from the conveying device in the preceding process into a predetermined number or every predetermined time. The present invention relates to a sorting / feeding device for conveyed articles to be fed to.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 4 is a plan view schematically showing an example of a conventional device. The sorting / supplying device a is provided with a sorting device c that sequentially sorts the articles W to be conveyed such as a paper container, which are continuously conveyed from the conveying device b in the previous process such as a filling process, at a predetermined number or every predetermined time. There is. Further, there is also provided a supply device e that sequentially receives the conveyed articles W sorted by the sorting device c from the sorting device c and supplies them to the transporting device d in the next process such as a sterilization process.

The sorting device c is attached to the transporting device b in the previous process, and temporarily suspends the transported products W continuously transported from the transporting device b to transfer the transported products W for a predetermined number or every predetermined time. It is provided with a line stopper device c1 that collects at W. The line stopper device c1 is also provided with a stopper c2 that is attached to the transfer device b on the downstream side in the transfer direction and that stops the conveyed articles W collected by the line stopper device c1. The supply device e is arranged between the transfer device b in the previous process and the transfer device d in the next process, and transfers a set of the articles W to be transferred at a predetermined number or at a predetermined time sequentially from the transfer device b to the transfer device d. The device e1 is provided. Also,
A set of the articles W to be conveyed, which are stopped by the stopper c2 at a predetermined number or at a predetermined time, are transferred from the transfer device b in the previous process to the transfer device e.
There is also provided a pushing device e2 that sequentially pushes into 1 and a scraping device e3 that sequentially scrapes a set of a predetermined number or every predetermined time of the conveyed articles W from the transfer device e1 to the conveying device d of the next process.

Therefore, in the sorting and feeding device a, the articles W to be continuously conveyed from the conveying device b are temporarily stopped by the line stopper device c1 and conveyed by a predetermined number or every predetermined time. Collected in item W. The articles W to be conveyed are collected by the line stopper device c.
It is released from 1 and stopped again with stopper c2,
It is pushed into the transfer device e1 by the pushing device e2.
Then, the transfer device e1 transfers the scraping device e.
3 is scraped from the transfer device e1 to the transfer device d,
It is transported to the next process by the transport device d.

[0005]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION In the sorting and feeding device a,
The articles W to be conveyed that are continuously conveyed from the conveying device b are
Line stopper device c1 or stopper c of sorting device c
When divided by 2, the transfer device b is temporarily stopped and receives a deformation pressure from the transfer device b based on the transfer force of the transfer device b. For this reason, in the sorting and supplying device a, for example, a conveyed product W such as a pouch container for drinking water is provided.
However, there is a problem in that the section supply device a cannot be used when the article is an article that is easily deformed.

Further, the articles W to be conveyed continuously from the conveying device b collide with each other when the articles W are sorted by the line stopper device c1 or the stopper c2 of the sorting device c. Then, the posture of the article W to be transported on the transport device b may have a shape that is likely to change. In this case, if the posture of the article W to be transported on the transport device b changes, for example, an inconvenience may occur in the inspection process on the transport downstream side of the sorting supply device a, or the printing process on the transport downstream side of the sorting supply device a. Therefore, when the serial number or the like is printed on each of the transported articles W, the printing position may be displaced. Therefore, there is also a problem that the sorting supply device a may not be able to be used when the posture of the transported article W is likely to change when sorting the transported article W.

Therefore, the present invention can be applied to a conveyed product that is easily deformed, and can also divide the conveyed product without changing the posture of the conveyed product. The purpose is to provide a device.

[0008]

According to the present invention, there is provided a sorting device for sorting articles to be conveyed which sequentially conveys articles to be conveyed continuously from a conveying device in a preceding process at a predetermined number or every predetermined time. And a feeder for sequentially feeding the conveyed articles sorted by the sorting apparatus from the sorting apparatus and supplying the conveyed articles to the conveying apparatus in the next step, wherein the sorting apparatus is a front The driving is stopped after receiving a predetermined number of articles to be conveyed from the conveying apparatus of the process for a prescribed period of time, and the received conveyed articles are transferred to the supply device to restart the driving, and the conveying apparatus of the preceding step again specifies the conveyed articles. A pre-process in which at least two conveyor devices that receive a certain number of times or a predetermined time, and a conveyor device that is placed between these conveyor devices and the transport device in the previous process and is on standby among the at least two conveyor devices. The transported goods being transported continuously from the transport device and a sequential distributes distributor every predetermined number or a predetermined time.

Therefore, the articles to be conveyed which are continuously conveyed from the conveying device in the previous process are sequentially transferred to a conveyor device on standby among at least two conveyor devices at a predetermined number or every predetermined time by a distribution device. Sorted articles are sorted into a predetermined number or a predetermined time period according to the stoppage of driving of the conveyor device that receives the sorted transported articles.

Therefore, the articles to be conveyed continuously conveyed from the conveying device in the previous step are not stopped until they are classified into the articles to be conveyed at a predetermined number or every predetermined time.
Therefore, according to the conveyed goods sorting / supplying device of the present invention, it is possible to divide the conveyed goods into a predetermined number without applying deformation pressure to the conveyed goods, and even for the conveyed goods that are easily deformed. A segment feeder can be used. It is also possible to classify the conveyed products without changing the posture of the conveyed products.

Further, in the sorting / feeding device for conveyed articles according to the present invention, a sorting device is constituted by two conveyor devices and a sorting device which are arranged in parallel, and the placing table of the transfer device in the feeding device is the both conveyor devices. By arranging between them, the sorting device and the feeding device can be arranged compactly,
It is also possible to reduce the installation space for the section supply device.

It should be noted that the goods to be conveyed are not limited to containers such as cans, bottles, PET bottles, paper containers, pouch containers, etc., but can also be confectionery, bread, etc., as long as they are continuously conveyed by a conveyor device. May be.

[0013]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An example of an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the present embodiment, the transported product refers to a pouch container filled with drinking water or the like.

FIG. 1 is a plan view schematically showing a sorting / feeding device for conveyed articles according to an embodiment of the present invention. Figure 2
It is the schematic diagram which looked at the division | segmentation supply apparatus shown in FIG. 1 from the right side. The sorting / supplying device 1 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 sequentially sorts the transported articles W successively transported from the transporting apparatus 2 in the previous step such as the filling step into the transported articles W at predetermined time intervals. Equipped with 3. There is also provided a supply device 4 that sequentially receives the conveyed articles W sorted by the sorting device 3 at predetermined time intervals from the sorting device 3 and supplies them to the transporting device 5 in the next process such as a sterilization process. Further, a control device (not shown) for controlling the sorting device 3 and the supply device 4 is also provided.

The sorting device 3 comprises a belt type first conveyor device 10 and a second conveyor device 20, which are arranged in parallel.
The distribution device 30 is arranged between the two conveyor devices 10 and 20 and the transport device 2. Under the control of the control device, both conveyor devices 10 and 20 stop driving when the articles W to be conveyed are received from the conveying device 2 in the previous step through the distribution device 30 for a predetermined time. When the received article to be conveyed W is delivered to the supply device 4, the driving is restarted, and the article to be conveyed W is received again from the conveying device 2 through the sorting device 30 for a predetermined time.

As the distribution device 30, KW431AW manufactured by Anritsu Corporation is adopted. The distribution device 30 includes an endless belt in which many round bars are arranged in parallel,
A drive device for moving the belt, a carrier slidably attached to each round bar of the belt, and a guide device for guiding and sliding the carrier to the conveyor device 10 side or the conveyor device 20 side, Under the control of the control device, the articles W to be conveyed, which are continuously conveyed from the conveying device 2 in the previous process, are alternately distributed by the carrier to the conveyor device on standby at predetermined intervals.

The supply device 4 is equipped with a transfer device 40 for transferring the articles W to be conveyed, which have been sorted by the sorting device 3, from both conveyor devices 10 and 20 to the transport device 5 in the next step.
Further, it is mounted on the first transfer device 50 and the second conveyor device 20 for transferring the segmented transported articles W mounted on the first conveyor device 10 onto the mounting table 41 of the transfer device 40. A second transfer device 60 for transferring the divided conveyed articles W onto the mounting table 41 of the transfer device 40 is also provided. Further, a third transfer device 70 for transferring the transferred article W on the mounting table 41 to the transfer device 5 in the next process is also provided.
The mounting table 41 of the transfer device 40 includes the two conveyor devices 10, 20.
It is located in between.

FIG. 3 is a right side view of the sorting and feeding device shown in FIG. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a drive pulley 43 is fixed to a rotation shaft of a drive motor 42 of the transfer device 40, and the drive pulley 43 and the driven pulley 44 are connected by a timing belt 45. One end of a connecting rod 46 is rotatably attached to the outer peripheral portion of the driven pulley 44, and the other end of the connecting rod 46 is rotatably attached to the lower end of a leg portion 41 b of the mounting table 41. The mounting table 41 is composed of a mounting table main body 41a on which the articles W to be conveyed are placed, and a leg portion 41b fixed to the lower surface of the mounting table main body 41a. A cylindrical sliding sleeve 47 is provided below the leg portion 41b.
Is fixed, and the sliding sleeve 47 is slidably assembled to a vertically arranged vertical shaft 48.

Therefore, the mounting table body 41a of the mounting table 41 is
Is driven by the drive motor 42 so that both conveyor devices 1
It moves up and down between a receiving position between 0 and 20 and a delivering position below the receiving position. The delivery position is set at the same height as the belt position of the transport device 5 in the next process. The transfer device 5 and the mounting table body 4 at the delivery position
A guide plate 49 for transferring the article to be conveyed W placed on the mounting table main body 41a to the conveyance device 5 is arranged between the guide plate 49 and 1a.

A drive pulley 51 is fixed to the rotary shaft of the drive motor 51 of the first transfer device 50, and the drive pulley 5
2 and the driven pulley 53 are connected by a timing belt 54. A connecting rod 55 is provided on the outer peripheral portion of the driven pulley 53.
One end of the connecting rod 55 is rotatably attached, and the other end of the connecting rod 55 is rotatably attached to a cylindrical sliding sleeve 56. The sliding sleeve 56 is slidably mounted on a horizontally arranged horizontal shaft 57.

On the lower surface of the sliding sleeve 56, a pair of scraping plates 58, 58 for transferring the transferred article W received by the first conveyor device 10 onto the mounting table 41 are fixed. The pair of scraping plates 58, 58 face each other at a width wider than the width of the transported product W so that the transported product W received by the first conveyor device 10 can be accommodated between the scraping plates 58, 58. The driving motor 51 drives the drive motor 51 to horizontally reciprocate between a standby position directly above the first conveyor device 10 and a transfer position immediately above the mounting table 41 at the receiving position.

A drive pulley 62 is fixed to the rotation shaft of the drive motor 61 of the second transfer device 60, and the drive pulley 6 is
2 and the driven pulley 63 are connected by a timing belt 64. A connecting rod 65 is provided on the outer peripheral portion of the driven pulley 63.
One end of the connecting rod 65 is rotatably attached, and the other end of the connecting rod 65 is rotatably attached to a cylindrical sliding sleeve 66. The sliding sleeve 66 is slidably attached to the horizontal shaft 57.

On the lower surface of the sliding sleeve 66, a pair of scraping plates 68, 68 for transferring the transported article W received by the second conveyor device 20 onto the mounting table 41 are fixed. The pair of scraping plates 68, 68 face each other at an interval wider than the width of the transported product W so that the transported product W received by the second conveyor device 20 fits between the both scraping plates 68, 68. The driving motor 61 is driven to horizontally reciprocate between a standby position immediately above the second conveyor device 20 and a transfer position immediately above the mounting table 41 at the receiving position.

The drive pulley 71 is fixed to the rotary shaft of the drive motor 71 of the third transfer device 70.
2 and the driven pulley 73 are connected by a timing belt 74. The rotary shaft of the driven pulley 73 has a chain 75
A drive sprocket 76 that meshes with is fixed, and the drive sprocket 76 is connected to the first driven sprocket 81, the second driven sprocket 82, the third driven sprocket 83, and the chain 75. The first driven sprocket 81 is located laterally of the drive sprocket 76,
A tension sprocket 84 that applies tension to the chain 75 is arranged between the first driven sprocket 81 and the drive sprocket 76.

The second driven sprocket 82 is arranged on the outer side of the first conveyor device 10, and the third driven sprocket 83 is arranged on the outer side of the second conveyor device 20. Five push-in bars 77 for transferring a predetermined number of articles W to be transported placed on the mounting table 41 at the transfer position to the transport device 5 are attached to the chain 75 at equal intervals. These push-in bars 77 are intermittently moved together with the chain 75 by being driven by the drive motor 71 while sequentially stopping at the standby position below the first conveyor device 10 and the transfer position immediately above the end of the transport device 5. .

Here, the movement of the entire sorting and feeding apparatus 1 will be described along the flow of the article W to be conveyed. The articles W to be conveyed that are continuously conveyed from the conveying device 2 in the previous step are the first waiting objects.
Is distributed to the conveyor device 10 for a predetermined time by the distribution device 30. After a lapse of a predetermined time, the carrier of the sorting device 30 slides in the orthogonal direction orthogonal to the transport direction of the transport device 2 by the guide device, and the transported articles W continuously transported from the transport device 2 are transferred to the second direction. Distribute to the conveyor device 20.

The first conveyor device 10 stops driving when the article W to be conveyed is received for a predetermined time, and the conveyor device 10
The article W to be conveyed that has been divided is arranged between the scraping plates 58, 58 of the first transfer device 50. In the first transfer device 50, when the first conveyor device 10 is stopped, both the scraping plates 58, 58 move from the standby position to the transfer position, and the conveyed articles W sorted on the conveyor device 10 are transferred. Are transferred to the mounting table 41 of the transfer device 40. Transfer device 40
Receives the segmented transported articles W from the first transfer device 50, the mounting table 41 descends from the receiving position to the delivering position and stands by. With this descent, in the first transfer device 50, the both scraping plates 58, 58 return from the transfer position to the standby position.

In the third transfer device 70, when the mounting table 41 of the transfer device 40 is lowered to the delivery position, the drive motor 71 is rotated and the pushing bar 77 is moved from the standby position to the transfer position, and the mounting table 41 is moved. The article W to be conveyed that has been divided is transferred to the conveyance device 5 in the next step. At this time, the push-in bar 77 disposed immediately behind the push-in bar 77 that has transferred the article W to be transported to the transport device 5 is located at the standby position, and the transport device 40 causes the mounting table 41 to move from the transfer position to the receive position. To return. Then, the transfer device 40 receives the sorted conveyed articles W from the second conveyor device 20 this time by the second transfer device 60.

As described above, in the sorting and feeding device 1, the articles W to be continuously conveyed from the conveying device 2 in the previous process are transferred to the standby conveyor device of the both conveyor devices 10 and 20. The sorting apparatus 30 sorts the articles W by turns every predetermined time, and the articles W to be conveyed are sorted by stopping the drive of the conveyor apparatus that has received the articles W for a predetermined time. Therefore, the articles W to be conveyed that are continuously conveyed from the conveying device 2.
Can be classified without stopping the transportation.
Therefore, the transported articles W can be sorted without applying a deformation pressure to the transported articles W, and the sorting / supplying device 1 can be used for the transported articles W that are easily deformed. Also,
It is also possible to classify the transported articles W without changing the posture of the transported articles W.

In addition, in the sorting supply device 1, the sorting device 3
Is a pair of conveyor devices 10, 20 arranged in parallel
And a distribution device 30. Supply device 4
Means that the mounting table 41 of the transfer device 40 is disposed on both conveyor devices 10,
It is located between 20. Therefore, the sorting device 3 and the feeding device 4 can be arranged compactly, and the installation space of the sorting and feeding device 1 can be reduced.

In the sorting and feeding device 1, the sorting device 3
Divides the articles W to be conveyed that are continuously conveyed from the conveying device 2 in the previous process at predetermined time intervals. However, the sorting device may include a counting device that counts the number of transported articles W continuously transported from the transporting apparatus 2 in the previous process, and sorts the transported articles W by a predetermined number. good.

[0032]

According to the apparatus for supplying and conveying articles to be conveyed according to the present invention, the conveyed articles continuously conveyed from the conveying apparatus in the preceding step are the conveyor apparatuses in standby among at least two conveyor apparatuses. In addition, the sorting device sequentially sorts the articles to be conveyed at a predetermined number or every predetermined time, and when the conveyor device that receives the sorted articles to be conveyed is stopped, the articles are sorted into the predetermined number or every predetermined time. For this reason,
The articles to be conveyed that are continuously conveyed from the conveying device in the previous step are not stopped until they are sorted at a predetermined number or every predetermined time. Therefore, the conveyed products can be divided into a predetermined number without applying a deformation pressure to the conveyed products, and the sorting supply device can be used even for the conveyed products that are easily deformed. It is also possible to classify the conveyed products without changing the posture of the conveyed products.

Further, a sorting device is composed of two conveyor devices arranged in parallel and a sorting device, and the placing table of the transfer device in the feeding device is arranged between the two conveyor devices to feed the sorting device. The device and the device can be arranged compactly, and the installation space of the sorting and supplying device can be reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view schematically showing a sorting / feeding device for conveyed articles according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the sorting and feeding device shown in FIG. 1 viewed from the right side.

FIG. 3 is a right side view of the sorting and feeding device shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a plan view schematically showing an example of a conventional product.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 division supply device 2 Conveyor device in the previous process 3 sorting device 4 feeder Transfer device for the 5th process 10,20 Conveyor device 30 Sorting device 40 Transfer device 41 mounting table 41a Mounting table body 41b leg 42, 51, 61, 71 drive motor 43, 52, 62, 72 Drive pulley 44, 53, 63, 73 Driven pulley 45, 54, 64, 74 Timing belt 46,55,65 connecting rod 47,56,66 sliding sleeve 48 vertical shaft 49 Guide plate 50 First Transfer Device 57 horizontal shaft 58, 68 scraping board 60 Second transfer device 70 Third Transfer Device 75 chains 76 drive sprocket 77 Push-in bar 81,82,83 Driven sprockets 84 Tension sprocket W Transported product

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A sorting device for sequentially sorting a predetermined number or a predetermined time of conveyed products continuously conveyed from a conveying device of a previous step, and a conveyed device divided by the dividing device from the separating device. A sorting and feeding device for a conveyed product, comprising: a feeding device that sequentially receives and supplies to a conveying device in the next process, wherein the sorting device receives a prescribed number or a predetermined time of the conveyed product from the conveying device in the previous process. At least two conveyor devices that stop the driving, transfer the received conveyed products to the supply device, restart the driving, and again receive the conveyed products from the conveying device in the previous process for a predetermined number or for a predetermined time, and these conveyors. The article to be conveyed that is continuously conveyed from the conveying apparatus of the previous step is placed on the standby conveyor apparatus of at least two conveyor apparatuses arranged between the apparatus and the conveying apparatus of the previous step. A sorting / feeding device for a conveyed article, comprising: a sorting device that sorts a fixed number or a predetermined time. 2. The sorting device is composed of two conveyor devices arranged in parallel and the sorting device, and the supply device feeds the conveyed goods sorted by the sorting device from both conveyor devices. Equipped with a transfer device that sequentially receives and transfers to the transfer device of the next process, this transfer device has a mounting table on which the articles to be transferred alternately received from both conveyor devices are placed, and this mounting table is disposed between both conveyor devices. The sorting / supplying device for conveyed articles according to claim 1, wherein