JP2006035071A - Sorting arrangement of predetermined length article - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sorting arrangement of the predetermined length article, in which the predetermined length articles can be surely sorted out among the articles having different lengths. <P>SOLUTION: The sorting arrangement of the predetermined length article comprises a first moving means 6 with a thin and long groove 12 moving the articles having different lengths (A>B>C), a first receiving plate portion 7 receiving the article having a length A via a gap X from the first moving means 6, a second moving means 8 with a thin and long groove 17 receiving the articles of the lengths B, C falling down from the gap X, a second receiving plate portion 9 receiving the article having the length B via a gap Y from the second moving means 8, a slide portion (support) receiving the article of the length C from the gap Y, and an oscillating means oscillating the first and second moving means, the first and second receiving plate portions, and the slide portion (support). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a sorting apparatus that sorts articles of a predetermined length from articles of different lengths mixed together, and in particular, individual sausages separated by cutting a chained sausage at each knot or the like to a predetermined length. The present invention relates to an article sorting apparatus of a predetermined length that can be sorted into sausages.

  In a general sausage manufacturing process, a raw material (minced meat, etc.) is packed in a casing (intestine) with a meat filling machine, and twisted at a predetermined interval to form a chained sausage (raw), and this chained sausage is smoked ( Wrap in a spiral loop around a firewood smoker, put it in a smoke room, put it in a smoke room, smoke the sausage (heat treatment), and after the smoke is finished, take the car out of the smoke room and wrap it around the firewood A chain of sausages is separated into individual sausages.

  However, even when separating into individual sausages, parts other than the chained sausage bundling section are accidentally cut, the separated sausages are broken during work, or in the state of chained sausages (raw) The bundling part may return and adjacent sausages may be connected to form a long sausage. Therefore, the sausages of different lengths and other lengths must be selected from these different lengths before bagging the individual sausages. Therefore, in the past, selection was performed while checking with human eyes. Therefore, it takes time and effort and is inefficient. In addition, if the person is not an expert, a selection mistake may be made.

  Therefore, the sausage of the predetermined length and the sausage of other lengths are not used by the human eye, but by using a sorting device including a plate having a plurality of long holes for dropping only the sausage of a predetermined length. It is also considered to sort the plate by moving it on the above plate, but the tip of the sausage moving to the end of the long hole is caught and the sausage of a predetermined length is not necessarily surely It was not something that could be dropped and sorted.

In addition, there are the following documents as reference documents concerning the sorting apparatus.
Japanese Patent Application No. 11-236392 JP-A-6-125760

  The present invention has been developed in view of the above points, and its purpose is to be able to reliably select an article having a predetermined length from a mixture of articles having different lengths (such as sausages). It is to provide a length article sorting device.

  In order to effectively achieve the above object, the present invention according to claim 1 includes a plurality of articles in which different lengths (A> B> C) are mixed and provided in parallel on the first placement unit. The first mounting means described above so that the first moving means for dropping into the elongated groove and moving it forward and the article of length A and the articles of other lengths B and C can be selected. A first receiving plate provided to receive an article of length A with an interval of dropping articles of length B and C in front of the section, and the articles of length B and C dropped as described above Are moved into a plurality of elongated grooves provided in parallel to the second placement section and moved forward, and an interval for dropping an article of length C in front of the second placement section. Accordingly, the second receiving plate portion provided so as to receive the article having the length B, the first moving means, the first receiving plate portion, the second moving means, and the second receiving plate portion. To a predetermined length article sorting apparatus characterized in that it comprises a vibration means for vibrating for moving the article.

  The present invention according to claim 2 is provided on the support, the support provided on the support via the elastic means, the vibration means for vibrating the support, and the support. A first moving means for dropping an article having different lengths (A> B> C) into a plurality of elongated grooves provided in parallel to the first placement section and moving the article forward; The length A is separated by an interval at which the articles B and C are dropped in front of the first placement portion so that the articles A and the other lengths B and C can be selected. The first receiving plate part provided so as to receive the article and the articles having the dropped lengths B and C are dropped into a plurality of elongated grooves provided in parallel with the second placement part and moved forward. The second moving means and the second mounting portion are provided in front of the second mounting portion so as to receive the article of length B with an interval of dropping the article of length C. It is provided with a receiving plate portion, which is a predetermined length article sorting apparatus according to claim.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the configuration of the predetermined length article sorting device according to the first or second aspect, the second receiving plate is disposed above the end portion of the first receiving plate portion on the first mounting portion side. An article sorting apparatus having a predetermined length, characterized in that a guide bar for guiding an article moved by vibration is provided above an end of the part on the second mounting part side.

  According to the predetermined length article sorting apparatus of the present invention, an article (A or B or C) having a desired length is automatically and reliably efficiently obtained from an article having different lengths (A> B> C). Can be sorted. In addition, since the first mounting portion and the second mounting portion are provided with a plurality of elongated grooves, each of the different lengths (A> B> C) dropped into the respective elongated grooves due to vibration by the vibration means. The article is forcibly directed at the tip in the downstream movement direction, and the transfer from the placement unit to the receiving plate unit can be performed without any problem.

  Furthermore, by providing a guide bar for guiding the article, the articles of different lengths fall due to the collapse of the center of gravity balance from the first moving means to the first receiving plate part and from the second moving means to the second receiving plate part. Sometimes, the falling articles can be brought into contact with each other to provide guidance for the advance, and the selection of articles having different lengths can be made more reliable.

The best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
1 to 4 are diagrams relating to an example of a predetermined length article sorting apparatus (hereinafter referred to as a sorting apparatus) according to the present invention. The illustrated sorting apparatus 1 has different lengths (A>B> C). An article having a predetermined length B is sorted out from other articles having a predetermined length A and C from a mixed article, and includes a gantry 2, a resilient means 3, a support 4, a vibrating means 5, and a first moving means. 6, the 1st receiving plate part 7, the 2nd moving means 8, and the 2nd receiving plate part 9 are comprised.

  In this sorting device 1, articles of different lengths A, B, and C can be taken out separately. Moreover, sausages are illustrated as articles of different lengths A, B, and C.

  Therefore, the sorting device 1 will be described in more detail. First, the gantry 2 (see FIGS. 1 and 4) supports the four corners of the rectangular parallelepiped frame 2a with support legs 2b, and the upper portion of the frame 2a. The support portion 2c is provided on one side (upstream side of the article flow).

  A coil spring is used as the elastic means 3, and the coil spring 3a is directly connected to the upper ends of the support portions 2c provided on both sides of the upstream side of the frame body 2a and both sides on the downstream side of the frame body 2a. It is provided.

  Said support body 4 consists of both horizontal flange parts 4a and 4b, and the above-mentioned slide-like slide part 20 which made the upstream side high and made the downstream side low. The horizontal flanges 4a and 4b are provided so as to be bridged on the coil springs 3a on both the upstream side and the downstream side of the frame 2a. Further, the slide portion 20 is provided so that the bottom portions near both ends are supported by the both lateral flange portions 4a and 4b.

  The slide portion 20 is provided with a first moving means 6, a first receiving plate portion 7, a second moving means 8, and a second receiving plate portion 9 which will be described later.

  In the center of the back surface of the support 4, the vibration means 5 for vibrating the first moving means 6, the first receiving plate portion 7, the second moving means 8, and the second receiving plate portion 9 through the support 4. Is provided. Although the vibration means 5 is not shown, the eccentric cam is rotated by a drive motor or the like, and the slide portion 20 with which the eccentric cam abuts is vibrated, so that the first moving means 6, the first receiving plate portion 7, and the second movement. The means 8 and the second receiving plate portion 9 are vibrated simultaneously.

  The first moving means 6 (see FIG. 1) is provided on the upstream side of the slide portion 20 via a plurality of support pillars 10. The first moving means 6 (see FIGS. 2 and 3) has a plurality of elongated grooves 12 formed in parallel at the bottom of the first mounting portion 11 formed in a substantially concave cross section. The elongated groove 12 is an elongated vertical groove that can drop and slide the sausage as an example article by the vibration of the vibration means 5 described above, and move it forward (downstream), and is formed by continuous uneven processing. ing. The width of the elongated groove 12 is larger than the diameter of the sausage S as shown in FIGS. 5 (a) and 5 (b). Straight sausages as well as bent sausages are dropped into the elongated grooves 12 with a margin. It is a size that can be slid.

  On the downstream side (see FIG. 1) of the first placement unit 11 of the first moving means 6, with an interval X (A> X> B> C) for dropping sausages having lengths B and C, A first receiving plate portion 7 that receives a sausage having a length A is provided at an intermediate position of the slide portion 20 via support pillars 10a and 10b.

  Further, a guide bar 13 is provided above the end portion 7 a on the first placement portion 11 side of the first receiving plate portion 7. Even if the balance of the center of gravity is lost when the sausage having a length A moved from the first placement portion 11 side by the vibration described above is sent out from the first placement portion 11, the guide bar 13 The tip of the sausage is received and prevented from falling from the gap 14 having the above-mentioned interval X, so that the sausage can be surely transferred from the first mounting portion 11 to the first receiving plate portion 7 side.

  Furthermore, sausages using natural intestines are more bent than straight ones, and when bent from the first mounting portion 11 as shown in FIGS. 6 (a) (b) (c), they are bent. In the sausage S, as shown in (c), there is a possibility that the tip part will fall from the gap X before reaching the first receiving plate part 7 side. It hits the top and is passed to the first backing plate 7 side. Therefore, the bent sausage S can be reliably sent to the first backing plate 7 side. In addition, by changing the dimensions of H and L in FIG.

  Said 1st receiving plate part 7 (refer FIGS. 1-3) is a deformation | transformation slide-shaped thing formed so that the sausage of length A might be slid by said vibration and it guides to the side, A discharge port 15 is provided on the side of. The sausage having a length A is discharged from the discharge port 15 and is recovered, for example, in a recovery box (not shown).

  The second moving means 8 for receiving sausages having lengths B and C dropped from the gap 14 is provided along the upper portion of the slide section 20 with the one end 8 a positioned below the gap 14.

  The second moving means 8 (see FIGS. 1, 2 and 4) has the same configuration as the first moving means 6 described above, and is the second mounting portion 16 formed in a substantially concave cross section. A plurality of elongated grooves 17 are formed in parallel at the bottom. The sausages having the lengths B and C are moved to the downstream side while slipping into the elongated groove 17 of the second placement portion 16 due to the vibration described above.

  A sausage having a predetermined length B is provided in front (downstream side) of the second placement portion 16 of the second moving means 8 with an interval Y (B> Y> C) for dropping the sausage having a length C. The second receiving plate portion 9 is provided on the downstream side of the slide portion 20 with the bottom portion 9 inclined.

  Further, a guide bar 18 having the same function as the above-described guide bar 13 is provided above the end portion 9b on the second placement portion 16 side of the second receiving plate portion 9, and the second placement portion 9 Even if the sausage of length B moved by the vibration described above from the 16 side is sent out from the second mounting portion 16, even if the balance of the center of gravity is lost, the tip of the sausage is received by the guide bar 18, The sausage of a predetermined length B can be reliably transferred to the second receiving plate 9 side by preventing the Y gap 19 from falling.

  The second receiving plate portion 9 has a shape like a slide, receives sausage of a predetermined length B from the second moving means 8 side, and can slide and move forward.

  Further, the sausage having a length C (the shortest length) falling from the gap 19 falls on the slide plate portion 20. On the lower end portion 20a side of the slide plate portion 20, a discharge port 21 for discharging a sausage having a length C is provided. The sausage of length C discharged from the discharge port 21 is collected in the collection box 22.

  In order to sort an article (sausage) having a predetermined length B from sausages having different lengths (A> B> C) by the article sorting apparatus 1 having a predetermined length configured as described above, first, the vibration means 5 And the first moving means 6, the first receiving plate portion 7, the second moving means 8, and the second receiving plate portion 9 are vibrated simultaneously via the support 4.

  After doing so, sausages having different lengths (A> B> C) are placed on the first placement portion 11 of the first moving means 6. The sausages having different lengths fall into the respective elongated grooves 12 of the first placement unit 11 due to vibration and move while sliding toward the first receiving plate unit 7 side.

  Each said sausage which reached | attained the edge 11a of the 1st mounting part 11 is further sent out to the 1st receiving plate part 7 side. At this time, sausages having lengths B and C shorter than the gap X between the end 11a of the first mounting portion 11 and the end portion 7a of the first receiving plate portion 7 are the second of the second moving means 8 below. It falls on the mounting part 16.

  Further, the sausage having a length A longer than the gap X is transferred to the first receiving plate portion 7 with the assistance of the guide bar 13, and is discharged from the discharge port 15 by sliding due to vibration.

  On the other hand, the sausages having lengths B and C dropped on the second placement portion 16 of the second moving means 8 fall into the respective elongated grooves 17 of the second placement portion 16 due to vibration and slide to the second receiving plate. It moves to the part 9 side.

  The sausages having lengths B and C that have reached the end 16a of the second placement portion 16 are sent out to the second receiving plate portion 9 side. At this time, the sausage having a length C shorter than the gap Y between the end 16 a of the second mounting portion 16 and the end 9 a of the second receiving plate portion 9 falls on the slide plate portion 20 below.

  In addition, the sausage having a length B longer than the gap Y is transferred to the second receiving plate portion 9 with the assistance of the guide bar 18 and is discharged from the discharge port 23 by sliding due to vibration.

  On the other hand, the sausage of length C dropped on the slide plate part 20 is discharged from the discharge port 21 while sliding by vibration.

  As described above, according to the sorting apparatus 1 of the present invention, a sausage having an appropriate length (predetermined length) can be automatically and reliably obtained from sausages having different lengths (A> B> C). Can be sorted.

  The first moving means and the second moving means according to the present invention may be a belt in which a plurality of elongated grooves are formed in parallel on the surface portion. Further, the ends of the first receiving plate 7 and the second receiving plate 9 on the side of the mounting portions 11 and 16 are formed in a continuous uneven shape, and are transferred from the mounting portions 11 and 16 side. A slightly bent article may come into contact with the convex portion at the end to smoothly transfer and be selected.

It is a front view of the predetermined length goods sorter of the present invention. It is a top view of the predetermined length goods sorter of the present invention. It is explanatory drawing of the VV position of FIG. It is explanatory drawing of the WW position of FIG. FIGS. 5A and 5B are explanatory views showing the relationship between the elongated groove and the sausage. 6A, 6B, and 6C are explanatory views showing the relationship between the sausage, the gap X, and the guide bar 13. FIG.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Predetermined length goods selection apparatus 2 Base 3 Ejection means 4 Support body 5 Vibration means 6 1st moving means 7 1st receiving plate part 8 2nd moving means 9 2nd receiving plate part 11 1st mounting part 12 Elongated groove 13 Guide bar 16 2nd mounting part 17 Elongated groove X space | interval Y space | interval

Claims (3)

  A first moving means for dropping an article having different lengths (A> B> C) into a plurality of elongated grooves provided in parallel to the first placement section and moving the article forward; The length A is separated by an interval at which the articles B and C are dropped in front of the first placement portion so that the articles A and the other lengths B and C can be selected. The first receiving plate part provided so as to receive the article and the articles having the dropped lengths B and C are dropped into a plurality of elongated grooves provided in parallel with the second placement part and moved forward. A second receiving plate portion provided so as to receive an article having a length B at an interval at which an article having a length C is dropped in front of the second placement section; Vibrating means for applying vibration for moving the article to the first moving means, the first receiving plate portion, the second moving means, and the second receiving plate portion; Predetermined length article sorting apparatus characterized.   A gantry, a support provided on the gantry via a resilient means, a vibration means for vibrating the support, and different lengths (A> B> C) provided on the support The first moving means for moving the article having a mixture into a plurality of elongated grooves provided in parallel to the first placement section and moving the article forward, the article having the length A and the other length B among the articles The first A is provided so as to receive the article of length A with an interval of dropping the articles of length B and C in front of the first placement portion so that the article of C can be selected. A receiving plate part, a second moving means for dropping the articles having the dropped lengths B and C into a plurality of elongated grooves provided in parallel to the second placement part and moving them forward, and the second A second receiving plate portion provided to receive an article having a length B at an interval at which an article having a length C is dropped in front of the placement section. Predetermined length article sorting apparatus characterized and.   A guide bar that guides an article that is moved by vibrations above the end portion of the first receiving plate portion on the first placement portion side and above the end portion of the second receiving plate portion on the second placement portion side. The apparatus for sorting articles having a predetermined length according to claim 1 or 2, characterized by comprising:

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