JP2018188303A - Carrier device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device which discriminates between calyxes and tails of red peppers to carry them with their direction uniformalized with a simple mechanical structure without using an expensive image processing device or the like, at a low cost.SOLUTION: This carrier device for sending red peppers by aligning their calyxes forward comprises: a conveyor for carrying red peppers; protruding bodies which are arranged in parallel to the conveyer and move at a higher speed than the conveyor while aligned with a predetermined interval; a feed mechanism which bridges over the conveyor and the protruding bodies, and in which intervals of feeding ports at the upper part is wider and intervals of exhaust port at the lower part is narrower, and further which has a wall at least on the protruding bodies side; and a determination part which is provided at the lower part of the feed mechanism, and has a gap larger than the diameter of the calyx of the red peppers and smaller than the diameter of the tail, and in which the protruding body side is higher and the conveyor side is lower to be inclined.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

The present invention relates to a device for discriminating and aligning a head and a tail for packing peppers.

  The current pack of chili peppers is mostly manual and they depend on older women. The harvest season for chili peppers is concentrated seasonally, and during the busy season, these women alone are not enough, and agricultural cooperatives rent out office staff and work overtime for a long time. For this reason, the production of chili peppers is limited by the limits of manpower.

  In such a situation, it is desired to mechanize the packing in order to expand the production amount of chili. In the packing of the peppers, it is necessary to distinguish between the tail and the tail at the front stage of the packing from the shape unique to the peppers.

  As a method for discriminating between the back and the tail, there has been proposed an image processing method for calculating the center of gravity or the like from image data photographed by a camera to discriminate between the back and the tail (Patent Documents 1 and 2). In such a case, the apparatus becomes large-scale, the price becomes high, and maintenance and inspection must be relied on by a specialized engineer, and the maintenance cost becomes expensive.

JP-A-8-91550 JP-A-8-99070

  The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a device that can identify the peppers and tails of chilis and transport them with the shears aligned first without using an image processing device or the like and with a simple mechanism at a low unit price. It is for the purpose.

  The present invention includes a conveyor for transporting chili, a protruding body that is arranged in parallel with the conveyor and moves at a high speed in the same direction as the conveyor, and an upper portion of the conveyor and the protruding body A gap between the upper inlets is wide, a lower outlet is narrower, and at least the protrusion-like body has a wall, and a lower part of the pepper It has a discriminating part having an inclined gap that is larger than the diameter, smaller than the diameter of the tail, higher on the protrusion-like body side, and lower on the conveyor side, and is characterized in that chili peppers are aligned and sent first.

  With such a configuration, if the gap of the discriminating portion is larger than the maximum diameter of the spatula and smaller than the minimum diameter of the tail, if there is a spatula on the discriminating unit side, the spatula falls directly below it, When the spatula that has fallen down is pushed by the protrusion and the spatula is transported first, on the other hand, if the tail is on the discriminating part side, it cannot fall down at that position, and the discriminating Since the projecting body side is high and the conveyor side is low and inclined, the part falls off while being obliquely displaced. At this time, the sag falls from the tail first, and the sag comes into contact with the conveyor and the conveyor comes into contact with the conveyor. Is pulled, and the head is aligned and transported first.

  Here, it is preferable that the width of the surface of the protrusions in the traveling direction is equal to or greater than the length of the flats. With such a structure, the curled material is naturally separated from the projecting body as the projecting body moves forward without catching the curled material.

  On the other hand, if U-shaped or V-shaped alignment chutes are arranged at a lower position below the extension in the direction of travel of the conveyor, the alignment chutes are transported in a straight line in the direction of travel.

  Further, the feeding mechanism and the determination unit are inclined at an angle of up to 80 degrees from the direction perpendicular to the traveling direction of the conveyor, with the discharge port of the charging mechanism and the conveyor side of the determining unit directed in the traveling direction. If it is installed, the effect of aligning the stapling is increased and conveyed.

  According to the present invention, since an image processing apparatus or the like is not used, the manufacturing cost is low, maintenance and inspection are not required, a technician in the field can perform the maintenance, the maintenance cost is low, and the processing amount is also low. There is an advantage that it increases.

(A) It is a top view of the conveying apparatus of this invention. (B) It is a side view of the conveying apparatus of this invention. (A) It is a perspective view of an injection | throwing-in mechanism and a discrimination | determination part. (B) It is a side view of an injection | throwing-in mechanism and a discrimination | determination part. (C) It is the perspective view which abbreviate | omitted the near side of the insertion discrimination | determination part which attached the fall speed adjustment mechanism to the discharge port of the insertion mechanism. (A) It is the side view which showed the motion in the discrimination | determination part of chili when throwing into the protrusion-like body side. (B) It is the side view which showed the motion in the discrimination | determination part of chilies when throwing into the conveyor side. (A) It is the top view which showed the movement of the chili peppers when throwing into the conveyor side. (B) It is the side view which showed the movement of the chili peppers when throwing into the conveyor side. It is the top view which showed the movement of the chili peppers when throwing a sticker into the protrusion side. It is the top view which showed the state which attached the throwing mechanism and the discrimination | determination part with an angle.

    Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 (a) and 1 (b), the input mechanism 5 and the determination unit 1 are arranged across the protrusions 3 that move at high speed in the same direction as the conveyor 2 and the conveyor 2 so as to straddle them. Are arranged on the protruding body 3 side. Further, as shown in FIGS. 2 (a) and 2 (b) and FIGS. 3 (a) and 3 (b), the discriminating unit 1 is arranged so that the protruding body 3 side is high and the conveyor 2 side is low and inclined. The minimum interval of the discriminating unit 1 is set to a predetermined value from the diameter of the spatula and the tail depending on the kind of the chili, so that only the spatula is allowed to pass without passing the tail of the chili 10. That is, the diameter is appropriately set so as to be larger than the diameter of the peppers and smaller than the diameter of the tail.

  As shown in FIG. 3 (a), the thrower inserted and placed on the discriminating unit 1 is dropped as it is, and the tail is tilted as shown in FIGS. 2 (a) and 2 (b). As shown in FIG. 3 (b), it is shifted and moved away from the protruding body 3 obliquely downward.

  The falling posture / speed adjusting mechanism 7 made of a soft rubber-like body shown in FIG. 2 (c) has an effect of adjusting the falling speed by bringing peppers falling in a posture deviating from the horizontal state close to the horizontal state.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 (a) and 1 (b), the protrusions 3 are attached to the conveyor 4 similar to the conveyor 2 at a predetermined interval. Is pushed forward as shown in FIG. Further, the protruding body 3 may be attached to a moving member made of metal or the like.

  Although the conveyor 2 and the conveyor 4 are driven at different speeds by two motors 8 and 9 shown in FIG. 1B, a mechanism for changing the speed by one motor may be used.

  Further, when the spatula is bent, if the horizontal width of the surface of the protrusion 3 facing the traveling direction is small, the spatula is wound around the protrusion 3, so that the protrusion 3 has a horizontal direction. By making the width equal to or greater than the length of the spatula, the spatula naturally leaves without being wound around the protrusion 3.

  As shown in FIG. 3 (b), the tail cannot fall down at the position of the discriminating unit 1 but falls while being displaced obliquely. At this time, as shown in FIGS. 4 (a) and 4 (b). In this case, the sticker falls first from the tail, the sticker comes into contact with the conveyor 2 first, is pulled by the conveyor 2 by friction, and the sticker is conveyed first.

  When there is little effect that the scrap is pulled by the conveyor 2 due to friction and the scrap is transported first, as shown in FIG. 6, the discharge port of the input mechanism 5 and the end of the determination unit 1 on the conveyor 2 side are set in the traveling direction. The effect that hesitation is sent ahead by setting up is increased.

  As shown in FIG. 4A and FIG. 5, regardless of whether the throwing mechanism 5 is on the conveyor 2 side of the feeding mechanism 5 or on the opposite projection 3 side, the pepper is facing forward. The conveyor 2 is transported in a uniform manner.

  Further, as shown in FIGS. 4A and 5, if the cross section is U-shaped or V-shaped, and the front of the alignment chute 6 is placed high below the extension line in the direction of travel of the conveyor, the hesitation will be advanced. As shown in FIG.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Discriminating part 2 Conveyor 3 Protruding body 4 Conveyor 5 Loading mechanism 6 Alignment chute 7 Drop posture and speed adjustment mechanism 8 Motor 9 Motor 10 Pepper

Claims (4)

  A conveyor for conveying chili, a projecting body arranged in parallel with the conveyor and arranged at a predetermined interval moving at a high speed in the same direction as the conveyor, and straddling the upper part of the conveyor and the projecting body In addition, the interval between the upper inlets is wide, the interval between the lower outlets is narrow, and at least the protrusion mechanism side has a wall, and the lower part of the input mechanism is larger than the diameter of the peppers, A conveying device having a discrimination portion having an inclined gap that is smaller than the diameter of the tail, is higher on the protruding body side, and is lower on the conveyor side, and feeds the peppers together.   The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the protrusion has a plate shape in which a width in a horizontal direction of a surface facing the traveling direction is equal to or more than a length of a stutter.   The conveying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an alignment chute having a U-shaped or V-shaped cross section is disposed at a lower position below an extended line in the traveling direction of the conveyor.   The charging mechanism and the determination unit are disposed at an angle of up to 80 degrees from the direction perpendicular to the traveling direction of the conveyor, with the discharge port of the charging mechanism and the conveyor side of the determining unit directed in the traveling direction. The conveyance apparatus in any one of Claims 1 thru | or 3.

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