JP2011144486A - Apparatus for preparing dyeing liquid - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for preparing dyeing liquids capable of more accurately carrying out preparation of the dyeing liquids in compact construction. <P>SOLUTION: The apparatus includes a liquid feeding device 10 capable of feeding two or more kinds of dyeing liquids, a preparation vessel 20 for housing the fed dyeing liquids, an agitation device 30 for agitating the dyeing liquids housed in the preparation vessel 20 and a conveying device 40 for conveying a dyeing vessel 90 for collecting the mixed dyeing liquid, wherein the preparation vessel 20 is equipped with a liquid discharge part 21a disposed in the lower part and an opening/closing device for opening/closing the liquid discharge part 21a, the conveying device 40 conveys the dyeing vessel 90 toward under the liquid discharge part 21a. Further, a withdrawing device 50 for moving the preparation vessel 20 between a liquid feeding position just above the dyeing vessel 90 carried by the conveying device 40 and a washing position withdrawn from the liquid feeding position, and a washing device 60 for jetting a washing liquid into the inside of the preparation vessel 20 at the washing position are equipped therewith. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&amp;INPIT

Description

 The present invention relates to a dye preparation device that prepares a plurality of types of dye solutions, and more particularly to a dye preparation device that can supply the prepared dye solution to a dyeing container.

  2. Description of the Related Art A pot-type dyeing machine is known in the past in which a dough is stored in a pot in which a dye solution is stored, and the dough is dyed by rotating the pot. For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a dyeing machine in which a plurality of units capable of rotating a dyeing container for storing an object to be dyed and a dyeing liquid are arranged. Such a pot type dyeing machine needs to adjust the dyeing liquid for each unit and supply it to the dyeing container. Therefore, when many dyeing containers are provided, the preparation and supply of the dyeing liquid are complicated.

  Therefore, an apparatus for automatically mixing such raw materials is also conventionally known. For example, Patent Document 2 discloses that a preparation container can be transported and circulated so as to sequentially pass through a raw material charging station, a stirring station, a filling station, and a washing station, so that a product container can be filled with contents at the filling station. A configuration is disclosed.

  However, in the case where the dyeing solution is supplied into the dyeing pot using such an apparatus, the equipment for transporting the preparation container to each station becomes excessive, which may increase the manufacturing cost.

JP 2002-309476 A JP 2001-321654 A

  Then, an object of this invention is to provide the dye liquid preparation apparatus which can perform the preparation of a dye liquid accurately with a compact structure.

  The object of the present invention is a dye liquid preparation apparatus for preparing a plurality of dye liquids, a liquid supply means capable of supplying a plurality of types of dye liquids, a preparation container containing the supplied dye liquids, Stirring means for stirring the dye liquor contained in the mixing container, discharging means for discharging the dye liquid mixed by the stirring means from the mixing container, and collecting the dye liquid discharged from the mixing container And a conveying unit that conveys a dyeing container capable of accommodating the dyeing solution up to a predetermined position.

  In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the discharge means comprises a dye solution discharge portion provided at a lower portion of the preparation container and an opening / closing device for opening and closing the discharge portion, and the transport means includes the discharge portion. The dyeing container is transported below the container.

  In a further preferred embodiment of the present invention, the dye liquid preparation apparatus is located at the retracted position, with the retracting means for moving the preparation container from the position directly above the staining container transported by the transporting means to the retracted position. It further comprises cleaning means for injecting a cleaning liquid into the preparation container.

  In the above-described configuration of the present invention, the liquid supply means can include a plurality of dispensers capable of discharging the dye solution stored in the cylinder by pressing the piston. In this configuration, the cylinders are preferably arranged in parallel so as to extend in the horizontal direction, and the pistons are preferably connected by a connecting member so as to move integrally, and correspond to at least two connected pistons. It is preferable that the diameters of the cylinders are different from each other. In this case, the dispenser may be divided into a plurality of groups, and the pistons may be connected to each other by the connecting member. The dispenser is preferably supported by a tilting plate so that the cylinder can tilt up and down.

  According to the dye liquor preparation apparatus of the present invention, the dye liquor can be accurately prepared with a compact configuration.

It is a perspective view which shows the whole structure of the dye liquid preparation apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view of the arrow A direction in FIG. It is an expansion perspective view of the arrow C direction in FIG. It is an expansion perspective view of the arrow D direction in FIG. It is a schematic sectional drawing for demonstrating the action | operation of a liquid supply apparatus. It is a schematic sectional drawing for demonstrating the usage example of a tilting board.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. 1 and 2 are perspective views showing the overall configuration of the dye liquor preparation device according to one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows a state viewed from the direction of arrow A in FIG. In the following drawings, some members are made transparent to facilitate understanding of the configuration.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the dye liquid preparation device 1 includes a liquid supply device 10, a preparation container 20, a stirring device 30, a transport device 40, a retracting device 50, and a cleaning device 60, which are attached to the frame body 2. It is supported.

  The liquid supply apparatus 10 includes a plurality of dispensers 11 that respectively supply the dye solution. Each dispenser 11 is connected to a tank (not shown) for storing a dye solution, an auxiliary agent, and the like. After the piston 13 is retreated, the cylinder 12 is filled with the dye solution and the like, and then the piston 13 is pressed. Thus, the liquid can be discharged toward the preparation container 20. The dispensers 11 are grouped into a plurality (two in this embodiment), and are arranged in parallel so that the longitudinal direction of the cylinder 12 is horizontal on the upper surface of the tilting plate 19 provided corresponding to each group. Has been placed.

  The tilting plate 19 is attached to the support bar 3 fixed to the frame 2 so as to extend horizontally through a hinge. The rotation axis of the hinge extends in the horizontal direction so as to be orthogonal to the axis of each cylinder 13, and each tilt plate 19 is tilted so that each cylinder 13 can tilt up and down (in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 1). It is supported to be individually tiltable. The tilting of each tilting plate 19 can be performed manually, or can be automatically performed by operating an air cylinder or the like.

  In the plurality of dispensers 11, the rear end of the piston 13 is connected to the protruding portion 14 a of the connecting member 14 for each group. The connecting member 14 is supported along the guide rail 19a on the tilting plate 19 so as to be able to reciprocate in the forward / backward direction of the piston 13, and can move the connected piston 13 integrally by the same distance. The drive control of the connecting member 14 is performed with high accuracy by a control motor 15 such as a stepping motor.

  The cylinder 12 has at least two types of bores in each group, and in the present embodiment, the cylinder 12 is configured by combining a predetermined number of two types, a large-diameter cylinder 121 and a small-diameter cylinder 122. The combination pattern of the cylinders 121 and 122 having different diameters is preferably different for each group. In the present embodiment, one of the two groups includes two large-diameter cylinders 121 and six small-diameter cylinders 122. The other group is composed of one large-diameter cylinder 121 and eight small-diameter cylinders 122.

  Dyeing liquid and the like are supplied from the liquid supply device 10 to the mixing container 20. 3 and 4 are enlarged perspective views of the blending container 20. FIGS. 3 and 4 show states viewed from the arrow C direction and the D direction in FIG. 1, respectively. The blending container 20 is configured such that the upper opening portion of the container body 21 is covered with a lid body 22, and a supply block 23 is attached to the lid body 22. The supply block 23 has a plurality of openings 23 a to which tips of pipes (not shown) for supplying a dye solution and the like from the dispensers 11 of the liquid supply device 10 are respectively connected. Dyeing liquid or the like can be supplied to the container body 21 through the portion 22a.

  The lower part of the container body 21 is formed in a tapered shape so as to taper downward, and a discharge part 21a is formed at the lower end part. The discharge part 21a can be sealed by a plug 21c attached to the lower end of the rod 21b, and the discharge part 21a can be opened and closed by the vertical movement of the rod 21b by the air cylinder 21d.

  The stirring device 30 is provided at a lower end of the rotating rod 32, a driving motor 31 provided on the upper surface of the lid 22, a rotating rod 32 connected to the driving motor 31 so as to be rotatable inside the container body 21. The dyeing solution supplied to the container main body 21 can be agitated and mixed by the rotation of the rotating blade 33. The rotating rod 32 is disposed in the vicinity of the rod 21b so as to be parallel to the rod 21b passing through the axis of the container body 21.

  The conveying device 40 dyes the dyeing container 90 toward the mixing container 20 in the direction indicated by arrow E in FIG. 1 and the mounting table 5 provided near the conveying terminal end of the belt conveyor 41. And a pusher 42 for pushing out the container 90. A weight sensor 5 a for detecting the weight of the staining container 90 is provided on the upper surface of the mounting table 5.

  The retracting device 50 includes a guide rail 51 that supports the mixing container 20 so as to be movable in the horizontal direction (the direction indicated by the arrow F in FIG. 3), and an air cylinder that drives the mixing container 20 along the guide rail 51. The mixing container 20 is placed between the cleaning position immediately above the cleaning liquid recovery tray 61 shown in FIG. 3 and the liquid supply position directly above the mounting table 5 shown in FIG. It can be reciprocated. The guide rail 51 and the actuator 52 are attached to the frame body 2.

  As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the cleaning device 60 includes an injection nozzle 62 provided on the lid 22, and the injection nozzle 62 is provided from a cleaning liquid tank (not shown) through a pipe (not shown). By supplying the cleaning liquid to the liquid, the cleaning liquid can be sprayed on the entire inner surface of the preparation container 20. In the present embodiment, two injection nozzles 62 are arranged on both sides of the rotating rod 32 of the stirring device 30.

  Next, the operation of the dye liquid preparation apparatus 1 having the above-described configuration will be described. As shown in FIG. 5, the dispenser 11 of the liquid supply apparatus 10 is connected to a tank 11a for storing dye liquor, an auxiliary agent and the like via an upstream pipe 11b, and is connected to the upstream pipe 11b on the upstream side. A valve 11c is provided. Further, on the discharge side of the dispenser 11, a downstream pipe 11d for supplying a dye solution or the like to a preparation container (not shown) is provided, and a downstream valve 11e is provided in the downstream pipe 11d. Is provided.

  First, as shown in FIG. 5 (a), with the upstream valve 11c opened and the downstream valve 11e closed, the piston 13 is retracted, whereby the dye solution or the like is sucked into the cylinder 12 and dispensed. The vessel 11 is filled with a dye solution or the like. Next, as shown in FIG. 5B, the dye solution or the like is discharged by advancing the piston 13 with the upstream side valve 11c closed and the downstream side valve 11e opened. As shown in FIG. 5C, when the upstream valve 11c is opened and the downstream valve 11e is closed while the piston 13 is moving forward, the dyeing liquid remaining in the cylinder 12 is returned to the tank 11a. Since the piston 13 of each dispenser 11 is connected by a connecting member (not shown) for each group and is integrally driven at a constant speed by the control motor 15, each dispenser during discharge of the dyeing liquid or the like. 11 by controlling the switching timing of the upstream valve 11c and the downstream valve 11e, the amount corresponding to the movement amount of the piston 13 (the length L in FIG. 5C) while the downstream valve 11e is open. Is discharged from each dispenser 11, and an amount set in advance for each dispenser 11 can be discharged.

  Further, as in the present embodiment, each group of cylinders 12 has at least two types of bores, so that the discharge amount of each dispenser 11 is not limited to the valve switching timing described above, but also the bores of the cylinders 12. Since it can be adjusted also by selection, the selection range of the discharge amount can be expanded.

  The grouping of the dispensers 11 can be made to correspond to the type of required dyeing solution, and by setting the type of dyeing solution and the discharge amount for each group in advance, a wide variety of dyeing solutions can be prepared. Can be performed quickly and accurately.

  In this way, the dyeing solution or the like is supplied to the mixing container 20, and the dyeing container 90 is transported onto the mounting table 5 by the transport device 40 in a state in which the objects to be dyed such as socks and underwear are stored in advance. . The dyeing liquid supplied to the mixing container 20 is stirred by the operation of the stirring device 30 at the liquid supply position directly above the mounting table 5, and then the dyeing container 90 is opened by opening the discharge part 21a of the container main body 21. To be supplied. It is possible to determine whether or not the supply amount of the mixed dye liquid to the dyeing container 90 is appropriate based on the detection by the weight sensor 5 a provided on the mounting table 5. In this way, by preparing the dye solution in the preparation container 20 and supplying it to the dyeing container 90, there is no possibility that the undiluted undiluted solution directly adheres to the object to be dyed in the dyeing container 90, and the color unevenness of dyeing. Etc. can be reliably prevented.

  The dyeing container 90 supplied with the mixed dyeing solution is conveyed to a dyeing apparatus as a next process by a conveying device (not shown), while the mixing container 20 is moved to the cleaning position by the operation of the retracting device 50. At the cleaning position, the cleaning liquid is sprayed from the spray nozzle 62 into the preparation container 20 to clean the preparation container 20. The sprayed cleaning liquid is discharged from the discharge portion 21 a of the container body 21 and is recovered through the cleaning liquid recovery tray 61. Thereafter, the preparation of the next dyeing liquid can be started by moving the preparation container 20 to the liquid supply position again by the operation of the retracting device 50. In this manner, a wide variety of prepared dyeing liquids can be quickly and efficiently supplied to the staining container 90 that is sequentially transported onto the mounting table 5 by the transport device 40.

  The tilting plate 19 can support each dispenser 11 so that the axis of the cylinder 13 is horizontal. By tilting the tip end side (discharge side) of the cylinder 13 upward, FIG. ), When air a is mixed into the cylinder 13, the air a can be collected in the vicinity of the downstream pipe 11d. Accordingly, by moving the piston 13 forward with the upstream valve 11c closed and the downstream valve 11e opened, air can be easily discharged from the downstream pipe 11d together with the dye solution and the like. On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 6B, when the tip end side of the cylinder 13 is inclined downward, the liquid 1 in the cylinder 13 can be collected in the vicinity of the upstream pipe 11b. Therefore, when the liquid in the cylinder 13 needs to be replaced, all the liquid can be easily returned to the tank 11a through the upstream piping 11b by the advance of the piston 13, so that the replacement work can be performed quickly. it can.

  The means for tilting the tilting plate 19 up and down is not particularly limited. For example, as shown in FIGS. 6A and 6B, in the tilting plate 19, the support rod 3 is interposed via a hinge 19b. The air cylinder 19c is provided on the edge opposite to the edge attached to the frame, and the tip of the rod 19d of the air cylinder 19c is brought into contact with the frame body 2 from above to support the tilting plate 19. The tilting plate 19 can be tilted up and down by moving the rod 19d back and forth.

  As mentioned above, although one Embodiment of this invention was described, the specific aspect of this invention is not limited to the said embodiment. For example, in the present embodiment, an opening / closing device including a plug 21c, a rod 21b, and an air cylinder 21d, which is provided with a dye liquid discharge portion 21a at the lower end portion of the preparation container 20 and can open and close the discharge portion 21a. By providing in the mixing container 20, the dyeing liquid after being mixed by the stirring device 30 is discharged from the mixing container 20, but this is not necessarily the discharging means for discharging the dyeing liquid from the mixing container 20. It is not necessary to be limited to.

  For example, the discharging means is connected to the liquid suction pipe whose one end is drawn into the preparation container 20, the liquid discharge pipe whose one end is drawn into the staining container 90, and the other ends of the liquid suction pipe and the liquid discharge pipe, respectively. The suction device is driven after the stirring by the stirring device 30 so that the dyeing liquid in the preparation container 20 is sucked up by the water absorption pipe and discharged into the staining container 90 by the discharge pipe. It may be.

  Further, after stirring by the stirring device 30, only the mixing container 20 containing the dye solution is removed from the unit including the lid 22, the mixing container 20, the stirring device 30 and the retracting device 50. The dyeing solution may be discharged from the compounding container 20 to the dyeing container 90 by tilting the compounding container 20 upward.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Dye liquid preparation apparatus 2 Frame body 5 Mounting stand 10 Liquid supply apparatus 11 Dispenser 12 Cylinder 13 Piston 14 Connecting member 15 Control motor 19 Tilt plate 20 Preparation container 21 Container main body 21a Discharge part 21b Rod 21c Plug 22 Lid DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 30 Stirring device 40 Conveying device 50 Retraction device 51 Guide rail 52 Actuator 60 Cleaning device 61 Cleaning liquid collection tray 62 Injection nozzle

Claims (6)

A dye liquid preparation device for preparing a plurality of dye liquids,
A liquid supply means capable of supplying a plurality of types of dyeing liquid;
A mixing container for containing the supplied dye liquor;
A stirring means for stirring the dye solution contained in the preparation container;
Discharging means for discharging the dye liquor mixed by the stirring means from the preparation container;
A dye liquid preparation apparatus comprising: a conveying unit that conveys a dyeing container capable of storing the dye liquid to a predetermined position for collecting the dye liquid discharged from the preparation container.   The discharge means includes a dye solution discharge portion provided at a lower portion of the preparation container and an opening / closing device that opens and closes the discharge portion, and the transfer means transfers the staining container below the discharge portion. The dye liquid preparation apparatus according to claim 1. Retreating means for moving the preparation container between a liquid supply position directly above the staining container conveyed by the conveying means, and a washing position retreated from the liquid supply position;
The dye liquid preparation apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising cleaning means for injecting a cleaning liquid into the preparation container at the cleaning position. The liquid supply means includes a plurality of dispensers capable of discharging the dye liquid stored in the cylinder by pressing the piston,
The cylinders are arranged in parallel so as to extend in the horizontal direction, and the pistons are connected by a connecting member so as to move integrally,
4. The dye liquor preparation device according to claim 1, wherein the diameters of the cylinders corresponding to the at least two connected pistons are different from each other.   The dye dispenser according to claim 4, wherein the dispensers are grouped into a plurality of groups, and the pistons are connected by the connecting members for each group.   The dye dispenser according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the dispenser is supported by a tilting plate so that the cylinder can tilt up and down.

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