JP2013202339A - Linen facility - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a linen facility capable of performing a function of discharging irregularly-laid clothes even if a gap between a feeding machine and a roll ironer is narrow.SOLUTION: A linen facility comprises a feeding machine 1, a roll ironer 2 and a folding machine 3 that are arranged in this order. The feeding machine 1 comprises an abnormality detector 21 for detecting abnormal bulky state of clothes. The roll ironer 2 comprises therein an ejecting apparatus 40 disposed above a heating roller 12 for discharging irregularly-laid clothes, in which the heating roller 12 is disposed at the closest position to a feeder side on a feeder-side conveyer 31. The ejecting apparatus 40 comprises a folding means 41 for pushing irregularly-laid clothes upward and an upwardly discharging conveyer 42 for sandwiching the pushed-up clothes and discharging upward. Since the abnormality detector 21 disposed at the feeding machine 1 signals when the clothes C is moving near a feeding side in the feeding machine 1, the ejecting apparatus 40 can ensure the timing of discharging irregularly-laid clothes.

Description

  The present invention relates to linen equipment. More specifically, the present invention relates to a linen facility for ironing and folding cloths such as washed towels and sheets.

A large amount of towels, sheets, clothing, and other cloths are used in hotels and hospitals, and the used cloths are collected, washed, ironed and folded in a laundry factory, and transported to hotels and hospitals again. It is common to be used there.
One of the linen facilities installed in a laundry factory is a set of a charging machine, a roll ironer, and a folding machine (for example, Patent Document 1). As shown in FIG. 8, the linen equipment is connected to the exit side of the roll ironer 112 on the exit side of the input device 111 and connected to the entrance side of the folding machines 113 and 114 on the exit side of the roll ironer 112. A processing line is formed by the apparatus. When the washed fabric is put into the throwing machine 111, it is adjusted to a slender figure, ironed by the roll ironer 112, and folded by the folding machines 113, 114.

In the conventional linen equipment, a large distance D is provided between the charging machine 111 and the roll ironer 112 and between the roll ironer 112 and the folding machine 113. The distance D is actually about 1 to 2 m, and this length is necessary even for a long cloth such as a sheet. This is because a discharge mechanism for ejecting is provided.
Generally, the discharge mechanism is configured to be able to swing the conveyor downward so that the cloth is dropped downward.

As described above, since the charging device 111 and the roll ironer 112 are arranged apart from each other, the conventional linen equipment has a problem that it has a long overall length and takes a place for installation.
In addition, since the cloth needs to pass through a long linen facility, there is a problem that the time required for the treatment becomes long and the treatment speed per cloth is slow.
Therefore, as a result of the inventor's ingenuity, the inventor completed a completely new layout in which the interval between the feeding machine and the roll ironer was shortened and the roll ironer and the folding machine were combined and arranged. Filed as 894.
With this new layout linen equipment, the installation space can be small, and the processing speed of cloth can be increased.

However, as described above, when the interval between the charging machine and the roll ironer becomes narrow, it is not possible to install a mechanism for discharging defective fabrics in which the dressed state is broken as in the prior art.
However, sending defective fabrics directly to the roll ironer or further to the folding machine will cause failure, and it will take time and labor for manual inspection and removal in the final process, thus hindering productivity. .

JP 2001-113100 A

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above circumstances, an object of the present invention is to provide a linen facility capable of exhibiting a function of discharging a defective fabric whose shape is broken even if the interval between the charging machine and the roll ironer is narrow.

A linen facility according to a first aspect of the present invention is a linen facility provided with an input machine that inputs cloth in an expanded state, and a roll ironer that irons the cloth fed from the input machine. Is provided with an abnormality detector for detecting an abnormally bulky state of the cloth, and the roll ironer includes a plurality of heating rolls disposed between the entry side and the exit side, and a plurality of units from the entry side. There is a conveyor disposed to the exit side through the heating roll, and an ejecting device that discharges defective fabrics near the entrance side of the conveyor and above the heating roll closest to the entrance side. The ejecting device is activated by a signal from the abnormality detector.
The linen equipment according to a second aspect of the present invention is the linen facility according to the first aspect, wherein the ejecting device ejects upward with a folding means for pushing up the defective cloth upward, and the cloth pushed upward by the folding means. And an upper discharge conveyor.
The linen equipment according to a third invention is characterized in that, in the first invention or the second invention, the folding means comprises a folding lever having an insertion plate attached to the tip and an air cylinder for swinging the folding lever up and down. And

According to the first aspect of the invention, the abnormality detector provided in the charging machine outputs a signal while the cloth is moving near the entry side in the charging machine, so the ejecting device is provided in the roll ironer. Even so, it is possible to secure the timing for discharging the defective fabric. Moreover, since the ejecting device is provided in the upper space of the heating roll closest to the entry side, it can be applied to a linen facility in which the interval between the feeder and the roll ironer is narrowed.
According to the second aspect of the invention, since the ejecting device in the roll ironer discharges the defective cloth upward, it can be discharged without interfering with the front heating drum or the conveyor in the roll ironer.
According to the third invention, the folding lever that swings in the vertical direction by the expansion and contraction operation of the air cylinder is used as the main member. Therefore, the structure is simple and the installation space is small. For this reason, it can be installed even inside a roll ironer with little excess space.

It is a side view of the roll ironer and ejector in the linen equipment concerning a 1st embodiment of the present invention. It is action | operation explanatory drawing of the eject apparatus provided in the roll ironer of FIG. It is a whole side view of the linen installation in 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic explanatory drawing of the injection machine in the linen installation which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a side view of the roll ironer and eject device in 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a side view of the roll ironer and eject device in 3rd Embodiment of this invention. It is a side view of the roll ironer and ejector in 4th Embodiment of this invention. It is a whole side view of the conventional linen equipment.

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
(First embodiment)
As shown in FIG. 3, the linen equipment A according to the first embodiment of the present invention includes a charging machine 1, a roll ironer 2, and a folding machine 3. The entry side of the roll ironer 2 is connected to the exit side of the feeding machine 1, the entrance side of the folding machine 3 is connected to the exit side of the roll ironer 2, and a processing line is formed by these devices. In addition, in this specification, the entrance side of a roll ironer means the side close | similar to the injection machine 1, and the exit side means the side close | similar to the folding machine 3. FIG.
The washed cloth C is adjusted to a slender shape when it is put into the throwing machine 1, ironed by the roll ironer 2, and folded by the folding machine 3.

A loading machine 1 shown in FIG. 4 is a device that spreads and suspends a cloth C such as a sheet, and takes in the cloth C that has been spread and shaped so that there is no slack, and feeds the cloth C into a roll ironer 2.
In the figure, reference numeral 11 denotes a delivery section, and a carriage that runs in the lateral direction is positioned above the transfer section so that the upper edge of the cloth to be loaded can be grasped and spread laterally by a clamp of the carriage. It has become. The state shown in the figure is a state in which the delivery unit 11 has received the cloth C from the carriage clamp. This delivery part 11 can reciprocate in the depth direction (left-right direction in the figure) in the machine, and the cloth C can be transferred onto the lower conveyor 12. Further, another conveyor 13 is disposed on the exit side of the conveyor 12, and is connected to the entry side of the roll ironer 2.
These configurations are arbitrary, and the charging machine 1 in the present invention only needs to have a function of spreading cloths and feeding them to the roll ironer 2.

Further, an abnormality detector is provided in the charging machine 1.
This anomaly detector is means for detecting a bulky part when a cloth sheet or the like is entangled and there is a bulky part, or a bag-like part is filled with a pillow and is bulky.
The abnormality detector that performs such a function is a detector that detects the bulkiness of the cloth C by light or image analysis, or a detector that detects the movement of the detection plate that swings when the bulky portion passes, Or what a person judges visually and turns on and off a manual switch etc. can be illustrated.
A length detector 25 detects the length of the cloth C. As the length detector, a known detector in which an optical sensor and a timer are combined can be arbitrarily used.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the roll ironer 2 includes two heating rolls, a front heating roll 11 and a rear heating roll 12. Among these, the front heating roll 11 is arrange | positioned at the entrance side (left side in FIG. 4), and the back heating roll 12 is arrange | positioned at the exit side (right side in FIG. 4). That is, the front heating roll 11 is disposed adjacent to the front of the rear heating roll 12. Further, the rear heating roll 12 is disposed above the front heating roll 11, and an introduction conveyor 39 connected to the folding machine 3 is disposed in the lower space.

The roll ironer 2 further includes first to fourth conveyors 31 to 34, a front pressing belt 35, and a rear pressing belt 36.
The first conveyor 31 is an entrance-side conveyor and is connected to the exit side of the dosing machine 1. The starting end of the first conveyor 31 protrudes forward (to the left in FIG. 1) of the roll ironer 2 so that it can be connected to the charging machine 1. The end portion of the first conveyor 31 is connected to the start end portion of the second conveyor 32 inside the roll ironer 2. The terminal end of the second conveyor 32 is connected to the front upper side of the rear heating roll 12.
Therefore, the cloth C delivered from the feeder 1 is conveyed to the rear heating roll 12 by the first conveyor 31 and the second conveyor 32.

The rear heating roll 12 has a high temperature surface, and steam is ejected from the inside toward the outside. Further, the rear heating roll 12 rotates clockwise.
The rear pressing belt 36 is provided so as to go around its outer periphery in synchronization with the rotation of the rear heating roll 12. The rear pressing belt 36 has a start end disposed near the front upper side of the rear heating roll 12, and is wound around the rear heating roll 12 in the order of the upper side, the rear side, and the lower side. It is arranged on the lower side. Therefore, the rear pressing belt 36 is wound over approximately 3/4 of the outer periphery of the rear heating roll 12. The rear end portion of the rear pressing belt 36 is connected to the start end portion of the third conveyor 33.

  The fabric C conveyed by the second conveyor 32 moves according to the rotation of the rear heating roll 12 while being sandwiched between the rear heating roll 12 and the rear pressing belt 36. At this time, the cloth C is pressed against the rear heating roll 12 by the rear pressing belt 36, and the wrinkles are stretched by the heat and steam of the rear heating roll 12.

The 3rd conveyor 33 and the 4th conveyor 34 are arrange | positioned between the front heating roll 11 and the back heating roll 12, and the cloth C passed from the back pressing belt 36 is sent to the 3rd conveyor 33 and the 4th conveyor. It is comprised so that it may pinch | interpose and convey to 34, and it may guide to the front heating roll 11. FIG. Terminal portions of the third conveyor 33 and the fourth conveyor 34 are connected to the rear upper side of the front heating roll 11.
For this reason, the fabric C in which the wrinkles are extended by the rear heating roll 12 is conveyed to the front heating roll 11 by the third conveyor 33 and the fourth conveyor 34.

The front heating roll 11 has a high surface, and steam is jetted from the inside toward the outside. Further, the front heating roll 11 rotates counterclockwise.
The front pressing belt 35 is provided so as to go around its outer periphery in synchronization with the rotation of the front heating roll 11. The front pressing belt 35 has a start end portion disposed near the rear upper side of the front heating roll 11, and is wound around the front heating roll 11 in the order of the upper side, the front side, and the lower side. It is arranged on the lower side. Therefore, the front pressing belt 35 is wound over approximately 3/4 of the outer periphery of the front heating roll 11. Further, the end portion of the front pressing belt 35 is led to the starting end portion of the introduction conveyor 39.

  The cloth C conveyed by the third conveyor 33 and the fourth conveyor 34 moves according to the rotation of the front heating roll 11 while being sandwiched between the front heating roll 11 and the front pressing belt 35. At this time, the cloth C is pressed against the front heating roll 11 by the front pressing belt 35, and the wrinkles are stretched by the heat and steam of the front heating roll 11.

  As described above, the fabric C circulates around the outer periphery of the rear heating roll 12, then circulates around the outer periphery of the front heating roll 11, is ironed, and then conveyed to the introduction conveyor 39.

As shown in FIG. 1, an eject device 40 is provided in the first conveyor 31 on the entry side inside the roll ironer 2.
The ejecting device 40 includes a folding means 41, an upper discharge conveyor 46, and a side discharge conveyor 48.
As shown in FIG. 2A, the folding means 41 includes a folding lever 42 and an air cylinder 43. An insertion plate 43 is attached to the distal end portion of the folding lever 42, an intermediate portion of the folding lever 42 is supported by a pin, and a base portion of the folding lever 42 is connected to a piston rod of the air cylinder 44.
For this reason, when the air cylinder 44 is expanded and contracted, the folding lever 42 can be swung up and down.

  The upper discharge conveyor 46 is a conveyor configured to convey a pair of cloths between a pair of conveyors 46a and 46b. The upper discharge conveyor 46 is characterized in that it is arranged to convey the cloth upward. That is, because the front heating roll 11 and the front pressing belt 35 exist below the first conveyor 31, there is no space for discharging defective fabrics downward from the first conveyor 31. .

  The side discharge conveyor 48 is composed of a single conveyor, and discharges the fabric C received from the upper discharge conveyor 46 to the side (front or back in the drawing). The cloth C discharged out of the system by the side discharge conveyor 48 is removed from the system or untangled, and is fed again from the feeder 1.

As shown in FIG. 1, the folding means 41 is disposed approximately at the middle of the total length of the first conveyor 31 and the second conveyor 32.
If the defective fabric is sandwiched between the tip of the second conveyor 32 and the guide conveyor 37, the defective fabric can no longer be discharged.
In the installation position, even the longest sheet C can be fed into the upper discharge conveyor 46 by operating the folding means 41 until the tip reaches the tip of the second conveyor 32. .

Next, the operation of the eject device 40 according to the present invention will be described.
As shown in FIG. 2A, in the normal state, the folding lever 42 is in the lowered position, and the fabric C is fed toward the second conveyor 32 by the first conveyor 31.
When the dosing machine 1 shown in FIG. 4 is putting cloth C, when the cloth C is tangled or a pillow is taken in, the detector 21 in the throwing machine 1 outputs a detection signal. Further, the length of the cloth C fed on the conveyor is measured by the length detector 25. When the length of the cloth C is known by the measurement of the length detector 25, the air cylinder 44 of the folding means 41 is extended after a predetermined delay time has elapsed after the detector 21 transmits a signal.

  As shown in FIG. 2B, when the air cylinder 44 contracts, the folding lever 42 swings counterclockwise and the insertion plate 43 pushes up near the center of the cloth C, so that the pair of conveyors 46a, 46b Push in between. The pushed-in cloth C is sandwiched between the pair of conveyors 46 a and 46 b and sent upward, and further sent to the side discharge conveyor 48. Defective fabrics thrown into the side discharge conveyor 48 are discharged out of the system.

As described above, since the cloth C, which is a defective cloth, can be discharged out of the system, only the cloth in a normal state can be fed into the roll ironer 2 and the folding machine 3.
And since the eject apparatus 40 was provided in the upper space formed by arranging the front heating roll 11 and the rear heating roll 12 back and forth, the ejecting apparatus 40 is also applicable to a linen facility in which the interval between the charging machine 1 and the roll ironer 2 is narrowed. it can.

(Second embodiment)
FIG. 5 shows a second embodiment of the present invention. The ejecting device 40 is located near the entry side near the entry side and above the heating roll 11 closest to the entry side. Two heating rolls are used, the heating roll 11 is disposed slightly below the entry side in the housing of the roll ironer 2, and the heating roll 12 is near the exit side and slightly above. Has been placed. As in the first embodiment, the first conveyor 31 is arranged so as to be introduced into the housing from the feeder side, and the second conveyor 32 feeds the cloth from the tip of the first conveyor 31 toward the heating roll 11. It is provided to send. In addition, the cloth is heated using another conveyor, sent from the roll 11 to the heating roll 12, and discharged from the heating roll 12. The ejecting device is installed on the first conveyor 31 on the entry side, and includes a folding means 41, an upper discharge conveyor 46, and a side discharge conveyor 48, as in the first embodiment. Also in this embodiment, since the ejecting device 40 is provided above the heating roll 11 closest to the entry side in the roll ironer, even in the linen equipment in which the interval between the charging machine and the roll ironer is narrowed. , Defective fabrics can be discharged.

(Third embodiment)
FIG. 6 shows a third embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, three heating rolls are used, and in the housing of the roll ironer 2, the heating roll 11, the heating roll 12, and the heating roll 13 are installed in that order from the entry side to the exit side. ing. As in the first embodiment, the first conveyor 31 is arranged so as to be introduced into the housing from the feeder side, and the second conveyor 32 feeds the cloth from the tip of the first conveyor 31 toward the heating roll 11. It is provided to send. In addition, the cloth is heated using another conveyor, sent from the roll 11 to the heating roll 12, and discharged from the heating roll 13. The eject mechanism 40 is installed on the first conveyor 31 on the entry side, and includes a folding means 41, an upper discharge conveyor 46, and a side discharge conveyor 48 as in the first embodiment. Also in this embodiment, since the ejecting device 40 is provided above the heating roll 11 closest to the entry side in the roll ironer, even in the linen equipment in which the interval between the charging machine and the roll ironer is narrowed. , Defective fabrics can be discharged.

(Fourth embodiment)
FIG. 7 shows a fourth embodiment of the present invention. In the present embodiment, five heating rolls are used, and the heating rolls 11 to 15 are installed in the housing of the roll ironer 2. The heating call 11 is installed below the entrance side of the roll ironer 2, the heating rolls 12 and 13 are obliquely downward and obliquely upward at the intermediate position, and the heating roll 14.15 is obliquely upward and obliquely downward at the entry side position. is set up. As in the first embodiment, the first conveyor 31 is arranged so as to be introduced into the housing from the feeder side, and the second conveyor 32 feeds the cloth from the tip of the first conveyor 31 toward the heating roll 11. It is provided to send. Further, the cloth is heated using another conveyor, sent from the roll 11 to the heating rolls 12, 13 and 14, and discharged from the heating roll 15. The eject mechanism is installed on the first conveyor 31 on the entry side, and includes a folding means 41, an upper discharge conveyor 46, and a side discharge conveyor 48, as in the first embodiment. Also in this embodiment, since the ejecting device 40 is provided above the heating roll 11 closest to the entry side in the roll ironer, even in the linen equipment in which the interval between the charging machine and the roll ironer is narrowed. , Defective fabrics can be discharged.

(Other embodiments)
In the present invention, the number and arrangement position of the heating rolls in the roll ironer are arbitrary, and the present invention can be applied to any arrangement. Further, the ejecting device 40 may discharge not only the cloth upward but also the cloth downward.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Loading machine 2 Roll ironer 3 Folding machine 11 Heating roll 12 Heating roll 31 1st conveyor 32 2nd conveyor 33 3rd conveyor 34 4th conveyor 35 Front pressing belt 36 Back pressing belt 40 Ejecting device 41 Folding means 42 Folding lever 43 Air cylinder 44 Air cylinder 46 Upper discharge conveyor 48 Side discharge conveyor C Cloth

Claims (3)

A linen facility equipped with a dosing machine that is put in a state in which the cloths are spread, and a roll ironer that irons the cloths fed from the dosing machine,
The charging machine is provided with an abnormality detector for detecting an abnormally bulky state of the cloth,
The roll ironer includes a plurality of heating rolls disposed between the entry side and the exit side, and a conveyor disposed from the entry side to the exit side through the plurality of heating rolls,
An ejection device is provided near the entrance side of the conveyor and above the heating roll closest to the entrance side to discharge the defective fabrics.
The linen equipment is characterized in that the ejecting device is activated by a signal from the abnormality detector. The ejecting device includes folding means for pushing up the defective fabric upward,
2. The linen equipment according to claim 1, further comprising an upper discharge conveyor that discharges the cloth upwardly pushed by the folding means and discharges the cloth upward. The linen equipment according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the folding means includes a folding lever having an insertion plate attached to a tip thereof, and an air cylinder that swings the folding lever up and down.

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