JP2006290554A - Automatic stacking and packaging device of goods - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic stacking and packaging device attaining speeding-up and simplification of the device. <P>SOLUTION: The automatic stacking and packaging device has a plurality of goods collecting paths 3, 4 of a one stack row width provided orthogonally to one side of the end of a conveyance path 1 for conveying goods G in a line and has kicking levers 5-10 provided on the other side corresponding to the number of respective rows of the plurality of goods collecting paths 3, 4 for sequentially and equally supplying the goods G conveyed in a line to the respective rows. A conveyance path 16 for packaging material P is provided orthogonally to the ends of the plurality of goods collecting paths 3, 4. Goods filling devices 24 are respectively provided above the plurality of goods collecting paths 3, 4 for filling the goods G of one stack into the packaging material P by absorbing, transporting and releasing the absorption of the goods lying on the ends of the goods collecting paths 3, 4. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an automatic stacking and packaging apparatus for products, and more specifically, is characterized by speeding up automatic stacking and simplifying the apparatus.

The applicant of the present application is a product that is a cup-shaped product, and is transported first as an automatic stacking (stage stacking) device in which the small-diameter portion and the large-diameter portion of the cup-shaped product are alternately adjacent to each other to eliminate wasteful space. The first-stage product (upper part) is adsorbed by the suction cup and lifted, and then the product is sent down to the next-stage product (lower part), and the first-stage product (upper part) is adsorbed. Has been proposed, and the product stacked in two stages is sent to a boxing device and automatically boxed.
JP-A-11-157508

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic stacking packaging apparatus that achieves high speed automatic packaging and simplification of the apparatus.

  In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the automatic product stacking packaging apparatus according to claim 1 is provided with a plurality of one-column-wide product stacking paths orthogonal to one side of a front end portion of a transport path for transporting products in a line. And the other side is provided with a striking hammer that sequentially and equally supplies the products conveyed in the one row in correspondence with the number of rows of the plurality of product accumulation paths, A conveyance path for packaging materials is provided orthogonal to the front end of the path, and a single-stage product located at the front end of the plurality of product stacking paths is adsorbed, transferred, and desorbed above the plurality of product stacking paths. Thus, a product filling device for filling the packaging material is provided.

  In the present invention, when the product is packaged in two layers in the packaging material, the product accumulation path is provided in two rows, and when the product is packaged in three layers in the packaging material, Product accumulation paths are provided in three rows. Moreover, in this invention, unlike the said patent document 1, it is not necessary to distribute the goods conveyed in one line from the manufacturing process on a wide conveyor, and to accumulate in an appropriate number row and an appropriate number. Therefore, automatic stacking packaging can be speeded up, and the apparatus is further simplified.

  The embodiment of claim 2 is characterized in that the end of the conveyance path for conveying the products in a row is a conveyor on which the products are easy to slide. According to this embodiment, the product is smoothly supplied to the product accumulation path by the hitting hammer.

  An embodiment of claim 3 is characterized in that a cushioning material is provided at the tip of the hammering rod. According to this embodiment, the merchandise is not damaged at the time of transfer to the merchandise stacking path by the hitting hammer.

  One embodiment of claim 4 is characterized in that the packaging material is a corrugated cardboard sheet in the midway forming step. According to this embodiment, it is possible to automatically supply goods to the corrugated cardboard case and perform automatic stacking in synchronism with the molding of the corrugated cardboard case. That is, automatic supply and automatic stacking of products into a corrugated cardboard case that has been molded in advance and only the lid flap is opened is difficult because the opening space is limited.

  Therefore, in addition to the lid flap, products are automatically supplied and automatically stacked on the bottom flap of the cardboard sheet in the molding process in which the end flap and further a part of the side flap are opened, and simultaneously molded into a cardboard case. The method is suitable (for example, see Japanese Examined Patent Publication No. 54-43955).

  An embodiment of claim 5 is characterized in that the transport path of the packaging material is intermittently driven. According to this embodiment, the conveyance of the packaging material and the product filling timing can be easily synchronized.

  The best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 is a schematic plan view of an automatic stacking packaging apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a schematic side view of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a partial cross-sectional view taken along the line XX of FIG. FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a packaging material and a molding process of the packaging material.

  In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a conveyance path through which products G are conveyed in a row from the product manufacturing process. The conveyance path 1 is composed of a roller conveyor, and is an accumulation conveyor that can convey and primarily accumulate the products G. In an embodiment of the present invention, a conveyor 2 on which the commodity G is easy to slide is provided continuously with the leading end of the conveyance path 1. Specifically, the conveyor 2 is formed of a plastic member having a smooth upper surface.

  Next, a plurality of product stacking paths 3 and 4 having a single row width are provided on one side of the front end of the transport path 1, specifically on one side of the conveyor 2, perpendicular to the conveyor 2. In the embodiment of the drawing, six products G are stacked in two stages, and the one-stage row width of the product accumulation paths 3 and 4 is set to three products. In the case of three-stage stacking, the product accumulation paths are provided in three rows.

  Further, on the other side of the front end of the transport path 1, specifically, on the opposite side of the conveyor 2 from the product stacking paths 3 and 4, the number of columns of each of the plurality of product stacking paths 3 and 4 (each 3 rows), that is, corresponding to a total of 6 rows, the products G conveyed in the one row are sequentially and evenly supplied to the respective rows a, b, c, d, e and f. 7, 8, 9 and 10 are provided.

  Each of the striking hammers 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 has a lower end rotatably supported by the fixed shaft 11, and an upper end portion thereof is configured to be swingable. That is, rotors 12 that are independently driven are arranged as shown in FIG. 3 so as to correspond to the respective hammering rods 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, and one end of each rotor 12 is pivoted. The tip portions of the reciprocating rods 13 are connected to the substantially intermediate portions of the hammering rods 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 by pins 14, respectively.

  In the above-mentioned configuration, the upper ends of the hitting rods 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 hit the merchandise G supplied on the conveyor 2 in order to evenly distribute the merchandise onto the merchandise stacking paths 3 and 4. To supply. In the figure, reference numeral 15 denotes a cushioning material provided at the upper end of each of the hitting rods 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.

  Next, a conveying path 16 for the packaging material P is provided at the tip of the product stacking paths 3 and 4 so as to be orthogonal to the product stacking paths 3 and 4. The conveyance path 16 of the packaging material P is a stacking packaging section for the product G located at the tip of the product stacking paths 3 and 4, and a cardboard sheet magazine section 17 and a upstream of the transport path 16 for the packaging material P A corrugated cardboard forming device 18 is provided, and a gluing and sealing device 19 is provided downstream.

  FIG. 5A is an example of the packaging material P supplied to the corrugated packaging portion of the product G, and a developed corrugated cardboard sheet is pulled out from the corrugated cardboard sheet magazine 17 by a sucker or the like, and then the corrugated cardboard In this state, the sheet is formed by the sheet forming apparatus 18 in the middle.

  That is, the side flap 20 is erected, a part of the end flap 21 is bent inward, and the lid flap 22 and the sealing piece 23 are continuously raised to one of the side flaps 20 and erected. It is said that. In addition, such a midway molding state is prevented from being deformed by various guides (not shown) while being transported through the transport path 16. 5B and 5C show the sealed state after the product G is filled, and the packaging is completed by the instantaneous adhesive (hot melt) from the gluing sealing device 19.

Next, the product filling device 24 will be described. Above the product accumulation path 3, 4, a product filling device that sucks, transfers, and desorbs the product G for one stage located at the tip of the product accumulation path 3, 4 and supplies it to the packaging material P 24 are provided. Each of the product filling devices 24 is constituted by six suction cups 25 that slide up and down and above the transport path 16 of the packaging material P.

  That is, a slider 27 that reciprocates by a cylinder (not shown) is supported on a guide rod 26 that is supported on the machine body (not shown), and a suction cup mounted on the lower end of a piston rod 29 of a downward cylinder 28 provided on the slider 27. The six suction cups 25 are provided on the plate 30.

  In the present invention having the above-described configuration, the commodity G is supplied from the manufacturing process onto the transport path 1 and further supplied onto the conveyor 2 provided at the front end of the transport path 1. Next, the hitting rods 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 are driven in accordance with a predetermined order, and the products G on the conveyor 2 are arranged in three rows on the product accumulation paths 3 and 4, respectively. A total of 6 columns (a, b, c, d, e and f columns) are supplied.

  Furthermore, among the products G supplied to the product accumulation paths 3 and 4, first, the suction cups 25 constituting the product filling device 24 are arranged on the six products G reaching the tip of the product accumulation path 3. It is lowered by the cylinder 28 and adsorbed, and further raised by the cylinder 28, and then transferred onto the conveying path 16 of the packaging material P by the slider 27.

  In the conveyance path 16 at the front end portion of the product accumulation path 3, the packaging material P is waiting in advance at the same timing, and the product G adsorbed to the suction cup 25 and the suction cup 25 by the cylinder 28. When the suction of the suction cup 25 is released, the packaging material P is filled with the first stage product G. In FIG. 4, the roller conveyor at the tip of the product stacking path 3, 4 is configured to support the six products G for one step and rise first, and to separate from the subsequent products G. ing.

  Next, the packaging material P filled with the first-stage product G is moved to the tip of the product stacking path 4 by intermittently driving the transport path 16. At the same time, the six products G at the front end of the product stacking path 4 are adsorbed by the suction cups 25 in the same manner as the first stage, are lifted and transferred, and are further lowered and stacked on the first stage products G. Is done.

1 is a schematic plan view of an automatic stack packaging apparatus according to the present invention. It is a schematic side view of FIG. FIG. 3 is a partial cross-sectional view taken along line XX in FIG. 2. It is a schematic side view of a goods filling apparatus part. It is a perspective view which shows the molding process of a packaging material and this packaging material.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 (Commodity) conveyance path 2 Conveyor 3 Commodity accumulation path 4 Commodity accumulation path 5-10 Hammer 16 (Packaging material) conveyance path 24 Merchandise filling device

Claims (5)

A plurality of one-stage-width product stacking paths are provided orthogonal to one side of the front end of the transport path for transporting products in one row, and the other side is configured to correspond to the number of columns of the plurality of product stacking paths. A punching hammer is provided to supply the products conveyed in one row to the respective rows in order, and a conveying path for packaging materials is provided perpendicular to the front ends of the plurality of product accumulation paths. A product filling device is provided above the path, each of which is provided with a product filling device for sucking, transferring and releasing the suction of one stage of products located at the tips of the plurality of product stacking paths to fill the packaging material. Automatic stacking device for products to be used. The apparatus for automatically stacking and stacking products according to claim 1, wherein a product is a slippery conveyor at a leading end of the conveyance path for conveying the products in a row. The automatic stacking packaging apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a buffer member is provided at a tip portion of the hammer. 4. The automatic stacking packaging apparatus for commodities according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the packaging material is a corrugated cardboard sheet in the middle of the forming process. The automatic stacking packaging apparatus for commodities according to claim 1, 2, 3, or 4, wherein the conveyance path of the packaging material is intermittently driven.

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