JP2014047002A5 - - Google Patents

Claims (6)

A carry-in conveyor that is arranged on the carry-in side and conveys articles;
An unloading conveyor disposed on the unloading side for conveying the article, and an unloading conveyor disposed between the unloading conveyor and the unloading conveyor, each receiving the articles conveyed from the unloading conveyor and A plurality of buckets capable of accommodating articles in an upright or inclined state are provided, and the articles received in the bucket are conveyed along the loop in the accommodated state in the bucket, and are accommodated and conveyed in the bucket. A servo loop device is provided that enables the articles to be aligned at regular intervals and carried out to the carry-out conveyor,
Between the carry-in conveyor and the servo loop device, an input chute for delivering the article conveyed by the carry-in conveyor in an upright or inclined state to the bucket that has arrived at the article receiving position of the servo loop device Is arranged,
Between the servo loop device and the carry-out conveyor, the article that is housed in an upright or inclined state in the bucket of the servo loop device and is conveyed to the article delivery position is carried out to the carry-out conveyor. An article alignment and supply device, wherein a carry-out chute is disposed. The servo loop device is disposed to be inclined in the vertical direction with respect to the carry-in conveyor and the carry-out conveyor ,
Due to the inclination of the servo loop device, the receiving direction of the article by the charging chute and the delivery direction of the article to the carry-out chute are following the accommodation height direction of the bucket,
Further, the traveling direction of the bucket at the article receiving position of the servo loop device is an ascending direction, and the traveling direction of the bucket at the article delivery position of the servo loop device is an inclined downward direction. The article alignment supply apparatus according to claim 1, wherein   The carry-in conveyor is arranged at a position higher than the carry-out conveyor, and the servo loop device is arranged horizontally between the carry-in conveyor and the carry-out conveyor in the height direction. The article alignment supply apparatus according to claim 1. The servo loop device is
Bases each provided with an inclined surface arranged in a vertical direction and parallel to each other on the left and right sides and placed in a common plane.
A slide body arranged so as to be slidable in the direction of elevation of the base between the two inclined surfaces;
Two rotating bodies that are spaced apart from the slide body in the inclined up-and-down direction and are rotatably supported and arranged in a plane parallel to the inclined surface;
The loop is formed by including two winding travel paths wound around the two rotating bodies and a carry-in travel path and a carry-out travel path that connect the both travel travel paths, and the bucket includes the bucket An endless belt that is mounted side by side along the loop so as to be movable along the inclined surface of the base, and is disposed in the carry-in side travel path and the carry-out side travel path, respectively. Timing of receiving the article to the bucket and delivering the article from the bucket to the carry-out conveyor by independently controlling the running of the endless belt and the running of the endless belt of the carry-out side travel path article alignment supply device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that it comprises two servo motors that control the. The base has a discharge hole connected to the carry-out chute corresponding to the article delivery position,
When the bucket traveling on the carry-out side travel path is aligned with the discharge hole, the article housed in the bucket is transferred from the bucket to the carry-out chute through the discharge hole ,
Further, in order to counter the falling force in the downward direction acting on the slide body, an air cylinder that applies an air force upward to the slide body and a precision regulator that precisely controls the pressure in the air cylinder are provided. article alignment supply device according to claim 4, characterized in <br/> Being. The article is a thin plate-like food such as rice cracker, and the next processing step after the article alignment is a packaging process by a horizontal bag making and filling machine for bag-wrapping the rice cracker. article alignment supply device according to any one of 1-5.