JP2022064221A - Supply device for attachment - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a supply device for an attachment, which has a high processing capability that makes it possible to efficiently obtain a product containing an attachment in a container together with an article.SOLUTION: A supply device for an attachment includes: a support unit 11 on an upper side of which an attachment document 10 is supported; and a holding unit 12 that is moved by moving means to a receiving position S1 below the support unit 11 and to a packing position S2 apart from the receiving position S1. The attachment document 10 supported by the support unit 11 is pressed into the holding unit 12 sandwiched by sandwiching means 17 from a thickness direction and positioned at the reception position S1, thereby holding the attachment document 10 by the holding unit 12 while keeping the attachment document bent. An article 14 held by loading means 16 is pressed against an upper surface of an attached document 10 held by the holding unit 12 positioned at the packing position S2, and the attached document 10 is packed into a container 15, positioned below the packing position S2, together with the article 14 that has passed through the holding unit 12.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

The present invention relates to an attachment supply device for packing an attachment such as an instruction manual of an article into a container or the like together with the article.

When packing an article, an attached document (attachment) such as a manual describing how to use the article may be enclosed with the article. As a supply device that packs the attached documents into the carton (container) together with the articles, the attached documents are placed in front of the opening of the carton, and the attached documents are pushed by the articles, so that the attached documents are folded and stored in the carton together with the articles. Various devices have been proposed. Such an attached document supply device is a strong attached document in which a sheet material made of a thick paper material or the like is folded, and the article is loaded and deformed, the carton itself is deformed, or the carton becomes a carton. Various problems may occur, such as the repulsive force of the contained attachments pushing the article back toward the opening side of the carton and preventing it from being contained in the carton.

Therefore, Patent Document 1 proposes a supply device in which the attached documents are packed in a carton together with the articles after the attached documents are bent before being sent by the article. The supply device disclosed in Patent Document 1 sets an attached document at the entrance of the molded frame, sandwiches the attached document from the thickness direction by a sandwiching means, and passes the through port from the entrance to the inside of the molded frame. A folding habit is given to the extension base of the attached document extending to the left and right from the means, and the attached document is held in the molded frame in a bent state. Then, by pushing the inside of the attached document held in the molded frame with an article and passing it through the passage to the outside of the formed frame, the attached document whose both sides are bent along the side of the article is cartoned with the article. It is packed in.

Japanese Patent No. 5432216

In the supply device disclosed in Patent Document 1, four molding frames are arranged at intervals of 90 ° on a horizontally rotating support, and each molding frame is attached by intermittently rotating the support at intervals of 90 °. It is configured to intermittently move to the setting position of the document, the molding position to give the attached document a crease, and the packing position of the attached document and the article into the carton, and perform each process at each position. Therefore, until the processing at each position is completed, the support base cannot be rotated to move the molding frame to the next position, and the processing capacity per unit time is low.

An object of the present invention is to provide a device for supplying an attachment having a high processing capacity, which can efficiently obtain a product in which an attachment is contained in a container together with an article.

The supply device for the attachment of the invention according to claim 1 of the present application is
A support (11) with an opening (11c) through which the upper supported attachment (10) can pass downwards,
The attachment (10), which is positioned at the receiving position (S1) below the support portion (11) and has passed through the opening (11c) of the support portion (11) at the receiving position (S1), is attached to the attachment (10). A holding portion (12) having an opening (12b) through which the attachment (10) can pass downward, while being held in a bent state with the end of 10) facing upwards.
A moving means (13) for moving the holding portion (12) to the receiving position (S1) and the packing position (S2) separated from the receiving position (S1).
The article (14) is pressed against the upper surface of the attachment (10) held by the holding portion (12) positioned at the packing position (S2) by the moving means (13), and extends from the article (14). The article (14) whose end portion of the attachment (10) to be ejected is bent along the side portion of the article (14) and has passed through the opening (12b) of the holding portion (12) is placed in the packing position (S2). ) Is provided with a loading means (16) for packing the container (15) together with the attachment (10).
According to the first aspect of the present invention, the holding portion to which the attachment is delivered from the support portion is configured to move between the receiving position and the packing position of the article and the attachment in the container with respect to the support portion. Therefore, the work of transferring the attachment to the support portion and the work of packing the article and the attachment in the container can be performed in parallel, and the processing capacity per unit time can be improved.

The invention according to claim 2 is provided with a holding means (17) for holding the attachment (10) supported on the support portion (11) from the thickness direction thereof.
By sandwiching the attachment (10) with the holding means (17) and lowering the holding means (17), the attachment (10) is passed through the opening (11c) of the support portion (11) to pass the attachment. It is characterized in that the end portion extending from the holding means (17) of (10) is bent and the attachment (10) is delivered to the holding portion (12).
According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the attachment is sandwiched by the holding means from the thickness direction, the end portion extending from the holding means of the attachment can be appropriately bent and delivered to the holding portion.

In the invention according to claim 3, a stocker (18) that supports the laminated attachment (10) and can be moved to a supply position (S3) and a replenishment position (S4) away from the supply position (S3).
The transfer means (19) for picking up the attachments (10) laminated on the stocker (18) at the supply position (S3) one by one from the top and transferring them to the support portion (11).
A pedestal (28) that supports the attachment (10) laminated on the stocker (18) at the supply position (S3) from below and can move in the vertical direction is provided, and the pedestal (28) is moved and laminated. A lifter (25) that maintains the height of the top surface of the attachment (10),
A temporary support means (34) for supporting the laminated attachment (10) when the remaining amount of the laminated attachment (10) becomes a predetermined amount or less is provided.
By supporting the attachment (10) with the temporary support means (34) and lowering the pedestal (28) from the stocker (18), the stocker (18) can be moved to the replenishment position (S4). It is characterized by being configured as follows.
According to the third aspect of the present invention, since the height of the upper surface of the laminated attachments is maintained, the pick-up position of the attachments by the transfer means does not change, and the attachments picked up by the transfer means are supported. It can be transferred to the department in an appropriate posture. If the remaining amount of the laminated attachment is less than the specified amount, the stocker is moved to the replenishment position while the remaining amount of the laminated attachment is supported by the temporary support means, and a new laminated attachment is attached. The object can be replenished, and it is not necessary to interrupt the process of picking up the attachment to replenish the attachment, and the processing capacity can be improved.

In the invention according to claim 4, the packing positions (S2) are provided at a plurality of places.
The moving means (13) is configured to move the holding portion (12) to a plurality of packing positions (S2) in order each time the attachment (10) is received from the supporting portion (11). It is a feature.
According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, since the holding portion can be moved to a plurality of packing positions in order to pack the article and the attachment into the container, the packing operation can be efficiently performed.

The invention according to claim 5 includes an article transport conveyor (20) for transporting the article (14).
The loading means (16) holds a pair of support pieces (59,59) that support the article (14) conveyed by the article transfer conveyor (20) from both sides, and an article holder that holds the upper portion of the article (14). With means (60)
When the article (14) is packed into the container (15), the loading means (16) passes through the opening (12b) of the holding portion (12) and is inserted into the container (15). , 59) is characterized in that the article (14) is pushed out from the support piece (59, 59) by lowering the article holding means (60).
According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, when the article is packed in the container, it is possible to prevent a packing error that the article does not separate from the support piece and to properly pack the article and the attachment in the container.

In the invention according to claim 6, a plurality of the support portions (11) are provided side by side in a direction intersecting the moving direction of the holding portion (12), and the holding portion (12) is provided with the support portion (11). Prepared side by side with the same number of intervals as
The moving means (13) is characterized in that a plurality of holding portions (12) are integrally configured to move to the receiving position (S1) and the packing position (S2).
According to the invention of claim 6, since the article and the attachment can be packed in a plurality of containers at once, the processing capacity can be further improved.

According to the present invention, by performing the work of transferring the attachment to the support portion and the work of packing the article and the attachment in the container in parallel, the product in which the attachment is housed together with the article is efficiently produced. Therefore, the processing capacity can be improved.

It is a schematic plan view which shows the feeding device. It is a schematic side view which shows the collecting part, the transfer means, and the container transporting apparatus. It is a schematic plan view which shows the accumulation part, a temporary place stand, and a moving table. It is a schematic front view which shows the accumulation part and the transfer means. It is a schematic front view which shows the holding means, the temporary place stand and the moving table. It is a schematic front view which shows the moving table and the loading means. It is a schematic side view which shows the article conveyor, the container conveyor, and the loading means. It is explanatory drawing which shows the process of packing an article with the attachment document into a container, (a) shows the state which the attachment document supported by the support part was sandwiched by the holding means, (b) is the state which sandwiched the attachment document by the holding means. (C) shows the state of pressing the article against the upper surface of the attached document held by the holding part, and (d) shows the state of packing the attached document together with the article in the container.

Next, a preferred embodiment of the attachment supply device according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in FIGS. 1, 2, and 7, the supply device of the embodiment has a support portion 11 capable of supporting the attachment 10 on the upper side and a receiving position directly below the support portion 11 below the support portion 11. With the holding portion 12 that can move to S1 and the packing position S2 separated from the receiving position S1 and can hold the attachment 10 that has passed through the support portion 11 at the receiving position S1 in a bent state with the end facing upward. The article 14 is pressed against the upper surface of the moving means 13 that moves the holding portion 12 to the receiving position S1 and the packing position S2 and the attachment 10 held by the holding portion 12 located at the packing position S2, and the attachment is attached. A loading means 16 for packing the article 14 that has passed through the holding portion 12 together with the 10 into a container 15 located below the packing position S2 is provided. Further, the supply device sandwiches the attachment 10 supported by the support portion 11 from the thickness direction thereof, and delivers the sandwiched attachment 10 to the holding portion 12, and a stocker 18 that supports the laminated attachment 10. And the transfer means 19 for picking up the laminated attachments 10 supported by the stocker 18 one by one from the upper part and transferring them to the support portion 11. Further, the supply device includes an article transfer conveyor 20 for transporting the article 14 and a container transport device 21 for transporting the container 15. In the embodiment, a plurality (7) of the support portions 11 and the holding portions 12 are provided side by side in a direction intersecting the moving direction of the holding portions 12, respectively, and a plurality of attachments 10 are collectively provided from the supporting portions 11 to the holding portions. An example will be described in which a plurality of articles 14 are collectively delivered to the container 12 together with the attachments 10 and packed in the container 15. The attachment 10 includes an attachment 10 such as a manual describing how to use the article 14, and the attachment 10 is formed into a rectangular shape by folding a paper sheet. In the embodiment, the moving direction of the holding portion 12 is designated as the front-rear direction, the direction intersecting the moving direction is designated as the left-right direction, and the front-back direction and the left-right direction are shown in each figure.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, an accumulation portion 22 for accumulating the attached documents 10 in a laminated state is provided at a distance from the arrangement position of the support portion 11. The accumulating portion 22 includes a fixed stock portion 23 in which a plurality (seven) of substantially square cylinder frame-shaped guide portions 23a corresponding to the outer shape of the attached document 10 are arranged side by side in the left-right direction (horizontal direction), and the fixed stock. Below the portion 23, supported by guide rails 24, 24 extending in the front-rear direction, by an operating means (not shown) such as an air cylinder, the supply position S3 directly below the fixed stock portion 23 (solid line in FIG. 2). Position) and the stocker 18 that moves horizontally between the supply position S3 and the replenishment position S4 (two-dot chain line position in FIG. 2) separated from the support portion 11 on the side opposite to the arrangement side. .. In the stocker 18, guide portions 18a formed in the same substantially square tubular frame shape corresponding to the guide portions 23a of the fixed stock portion 23 are provided side by side in the left-right direction by the same number.

Here, in the embodiment, as the attached document 10, a form is adopted in which a paper sheet is folded into a strip shape and then folded back from the center in the longitudinal direction to form a folded portion at one end in the longitudinal direction. .. Then, the attached documents 10 of this form are laminated in the guide portions 18a and 23a of the integrated portion 22 in a posture in which the longitudinal direction is along the front-rear direction and the folded portion is on the front side (support portion side).

A lifter 25 is provided to lift the attached documents 10 laminated in the guide portion 18a of the stocker 18 positioned at the supply position S3 to the guide portion 23a of the fixed stock portion 23. As shown in FIG. 2, the lifter 25 includes an elevating body 27 that is moved in the vertical direction by the elevating means 26, and a plurality of lifters 25 that are arranged on the elevating body 27 and on which the attached documents 10 in each guide portion 18a are placed ( It is provided with a pedestal 28 (7). Further, each pedestal 28 is rotatably supported by the elevating body 27 on one end side (front side in the longitudinal direction) in the longitudinal direction of the attached document 10, and is supported by a tilting cylinder 29 such as an air cylinder provided on the elevating body 27. It is tilted to lift the side opposite to the folded part in Attachment 10. As the elevating means 26, a ball screw (none of which is shown) operated by a drive motor composed of a servomotor is adopted, and the ball screw is rotated by the drive motor to move the pedestal 28 up and down together with the elevating body 27. Further, the elevating means 26 moves the pedestal 28 upward when the detecting means (not shown) for detecting the decrease in the attached document 10 detects the decrease in the attached document 10, and guides the fixed stock portion 23. It is configured to maintain the upper surface height (upper surface height level) of the uppermost attached document 10 in the laminated attached document 10 lifted up to the portion 23a. At the bottom of each guide portion 18a in the stocker 18, mounting portions (not shown) for supporting the attached document 10 are provided at four corners that do not interfere with the pedestal 28 that moves up and down.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, the transfer means 19 has a first moving member 31 provided with the same number of suction means 30 as the guide portions 18a and 23a in the integrated portion 22 separated in the left-right direction in the front-rear direction. A first advancing / retreating mechanism 32 for advancing / retreating and a first elevating / retracting mechanism 33 for moving up and down in the vertical direction are provided. The suction means 30 are arranged apart from each other in the front-rear direction at the extending portion 31a extending to the front side of the first moving member 31, and are capable of sucking the upper surface of the attached document 10 (two in the embodiment). It is composed of suction portions 30a and 30a. The first advancing / retreating mechanism 32 of the transfer means 19 has the first moving member 31 at the document pick-up position S5 (solid line position in FIG. 2) in which the suction means 30 faces above the guide portion 18a in the stacking portion 22 and the suction means. 30 moves in the front-rear direction between the document supply position S6 (two-dot chain line position in FIG. 2) facing above the support portion 11 of the temporary storage table 37, which will be described later. Further, the first elevating mechanism 33 of the transfer means 19 moves up and down the first moving member 31 (suction means 30) at the document picking position S5 and the document supply position S6. The transfer means 19 sucks the seven attached documents 10 arranged in the left-right direction in the accumulation unit 22 by each suction means 30 and picks them up at once, and transfers them to the seven support portions 11 provided on the temporary storage table 37 at once. do.

When the remaining amount of the laminated attached documents 10 becomes less than a predetermined amount due to the pick-up process of the attached documents 10 from the fixed stock portion 23 by the transfer means 19, a new laminated attached document 10 is attached to the stocker 18. Temporary support means 34 is provided to temporarily support the stacked attachments 10 being picked up for replenishment. As shown in FIG. 3, the temporary support means 34 is a pair of support members 35, 35 which face each other in the front-rear direction and are provided with the same number of receiving pieces 35a as the guide portion 23a of the fixed stock portion 23 separated in the left-right direction. Each support member 35 includes support cylinders 36, 36 such as an air cylinder in which the receiving piece 35a moves between a support position in which the receiving piece 35a projects in the gap between the fixed stock portion 23 and the stocker 18 and a retracted position in which the receiving piece 35a does not project. .. Then, when the position detection sensor (not shown) detects that the remaining amount of the stacked attached documents 10 (the lower surface position of the stacked attached documents 10) exceeds the arrangement level of the receiving pieces 35a, 35a on the supporting members 35, 35. In addition, by moving the support members 35 and 35 to the support positions by the support cylinders 36 and 36, the support members 35 and 35 are supported by the pieces 35a and 35a at two locations in the longitudinal direction of the lower surface of the stacked attachments 10 being picked up. That is, when the pedestal 28 is lowered to release the support of the laminated attached document 10 for replenishing the newly laminated attached document 10, the lower surface of the laminated attached document 10 being picked up is supported by the support member 35. Support at 35. Then, by lowering the pedestal 28 from the stocker 18, the stocker 18 is allowed to move to the replenishment position S4, and the stacked attachments 10 can be replenished to the stocker 18 that has moved to the replenishment position S4. It has become like.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the temporary stand 37 is arranged forward away from the integrated portion 22. The temporary stand 37 is provided with the same number of support portions 11 as the guide portions 18a and 23a in the integrated portion 22 side by side in the left-right direction at the same interval as the guide portions 18a and 23a. The support portion 11 is formed in a rectangular frame shape, and has a mounting portion 11a formed in a rectangular shape substantially the same as the outer shape of the attached document 10 at a position one step lower than the upper surface of the support portion, and the mounting portion 11. An inclined surface 11b that is inclined so as to expand from each side of the portion 11a toward the upper surface of the support portion is formed (see FIG. 8). The attached document 10 transferred from the accumulating portion 22 by the transfer means 19 is placed on the mounting portion 11a and is supported in a plane on the upper side of the supporting portion 11. Further, a through hole (opening) 11c that penetrates up and down is formed in the center of the mounting portion 11a, and the attached document 10 is placed on the mounting portion 11a across the through opening 11c. The width of the through-hole 11c in the left-right direction is set to be slightly larger than the width of the attachment 10 in the left-right direction, and the length of the through-hole 11c in the front-rear direction is set to the holding members 41, 42 described later in the holding means 17. The length of the sandwiched portions 41a, 42a is set to be larger than the length in the front-rear direction, and the attached document 10 sandwiched by the sandwiched portions 41a, 42a is configured to be able to pass downward from the through opening 11c together with the sandwiched portions 41a, 42a (FIG. 8 (a), (b)).

A moving table 38 is arranged so as to be movable in the front-rear direction below the temporary table 37. As shown in FIG. 3, on the moving table 38, the same number of holding portions 12 as the supporting portions 11 in the temporary placing table 37 are provided side by side in the left-right direction at the same interval as the separation interval of the supporting portions 11. The holding portion 12 is formed in a rectangular frame shape, and as shown in FIGS. 2 and 8, a taper that inclines toward the inner wall facing the front-rear direction so as to expand from the lower side to the upper side. The surfaces 12a and 12a are formed, and the attached document 10 delivered by the sandwiching means 17 is configured to be held in a state of being bent into a concave shape having an inverted trapezoidal shape by the tapered surfaces 12a and 12a. Further, in the center of the holding portion 12, a through hole (opening) 12b that opens up and down is formed. The width of the passage 12b in the left-right direction is set to be larger than the width of the article 14 in the left-right direction, and the length of the passage 12b in the front-rear direction is larger than the length of the article 14 in the front-rear direction and is bent. It is set shorter than the length of the attached document 10 held in the state, and is configured to allow the article 14 held by the loading means 16 to pass downward from the through hole 12b together with the attached document 10 (FIG. 8 (FIG. 8). c), see (d)). The holding portion 12 is provided with restricting portions 12c and 12c protruding into the frame from the upper ends of the tapered surfaces 12a and 12a to restrict the longitudinal end of the bent attachment 10 from moving upward. It has become possible.

As shown in FIG. 3, the moving means 13 serves as a driving means for operating the linear slide mechanisms 39, 39 connected to the left and right ends of the moving table 38 and extending in the front-rear direction, and the linear slide mechanisms 39, 39. The servo motors 40, 40 are provided, and the linear slide mechanisms 39, 39 are operated by the servo motors 40, 40, so that the moving table 38 (plural holding portions 12) can be moved to the receiving position S1 (solid line in FIG. 2). Position) and the packing position S2 (two-point chain line position in FIG. 2) above the article storage position S9 set on the container transport device 21 are configured to move in the front-rear direction. In the embodiment, the packing positions S2 are provided at two places, and the moving means 13 sets the moving table 38 at two places every time the attached document 10 is delivered from the support portion 11 to the holding portion 12. It is configured to move alternately (in order) to S2 and S2. The supply side of the attached document 10 and the article 14 is set above the moving table 38 positioned at the packing position S2, and the sending side of the attached document 10 and the article 14 is set below.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 5, the holding means 17 includes a pair of holding members 41, 42 facing up and down positions of the temporary standing table 37, and each holding member 41, 42 is a holding cylinder 43A such as an air cylinder. , 43B moves up and down with respect to the temporary storage table 37, respectively. The pinching means 17 includes a first pinching member 41 located above the temporary stand 37 and a second pinching member 42 located below the moving table 38 located at the receiving position S1 directly below the temporary stand 37. Each of the holding members 41, 42 is provided with the same number of holding portions 41a, 42a as the support portion 11 and the holding portion 12 side by side in the left-right direction. Then, by moving the first sandwiching member 41 and the second sandwiching member 42 close to each other, the attached document 10 mounted on the mounting portion 11a of the corresponding support portion 11 by the sandwiching portions 41a, 42a can be obtained. It is configured to be sandwiched from the thickness direction (see FIG. 8A). Each of the sandwiching portions 41a and 42a is configured such that the contact portion with the attached document 10 is set longer than the front-rear length of the bottom surface of the article 14 to sandwich the central portion in the longitudinal direction of the attached document 10. Further, the sandwiching portion 41a of the first sandwiching member 41 is set to a size capable of passing through the through port 11c of the support portion 11, and the sandwiching portion 42a of the second sandwiching member 42 is the through port 11c and the holding portion 12. It is set to a size that allows it to pass through the through port 12b. Then, both ends in the longitudinal direction of the attached document 10 extending in the front-rear direction from the portion sandwiched by the sandwiched portions 41a, 42a pass through the through openings 11c of the support portion 11 together with the sandwiched portions 41a, 42a holding the attached document 10. By contacting the edge of the mounting portion 11a (the edge defining the through hole 11c), a crease is formed along the lateral direction, and the crease is added to form an inverted trapezoidal shape. The attached document 10 in a folded state is delivered to the holding portion 12 (see FIG. 8 (b)).

As shown in FIG. 1, the article transport conveyor 20 is arranged so as to be separated forward from the temporary stand 37. The article transport conveyor 20 is provided with two endless chains 44, 44 traveling in the left-right direction in parallel with each other separated in the front-rear direction, and both endless chains 44, 44 are independently provided by servomotors 45, 45 as driving means, respectively. It is configured to run and drive. In each endless chain 44, a plurality of bucket sets 46 composed of seven buckets 46a for accommodating articles 14 are arranged apart from each other in the traveling direction, and both endless chains 44, 44 are independently traveled. The transfer means 19 is configured so that the bucket assembly 46 of one endless chain 44 and the bucket assembly 46 of the other endless chain 44 can be alternately positioned at the article pick-up position S7 where the article 14 is picked up.

As shown in FIG. 1, an article supply device 47 that supplies articles 14 to the bucket 46a one by one is arranged on the upstream side (right side of the paper surface) of the article pick-up position S7 in the article transfer conveyor 20. The article supply device 47 supplies the article 14 pillow-wrapped by a filling machine such as a horizontal bag-making filling machine to the bucket 46a in a posture of extending in the front-rear direction where the selvage portion intersects the traveling direction of the endless chain 44. A pair of guide members 48, 48 extending in a predetermined length in the article transport direction (traveling direction of the endless chain 44) sandwiching the article transport path in the article transport conveyor 20, and the article 14 supplied to the bucket 46a. Both ears are configured to be bent along the article body by the guide members 48, 48 during transportation. The upstream ends of the pair of guide members 48, 48 are formed so as to expand toward the upstream side so that the article 14 can be smoothly introduced between the pair of guide members 48, 48. ..

As shown in FIG. 1, the container transport device 21 is arranged between the temporary stand 37 and the article transport conveyor 20. The container transport device 21 has a container transport body 49 that is movably supported along a transport rail (not shown) extending in the left-right direction and teeth that are connected to the container transport body 49 and travel in the left-right direction. A belt (not shown) and a servomotor 50 as a driving means for driving the toothed belt in a traveling manner are provided. A plurality of container transport devices 21 (two in the embodiment) are arranged in parallel at intervals in the front-rear direction, and the packing positions S2 are also provided at a plurality of locations. The container carrier 49 is provided with seven container holders 51 for holding the containers 15 side by side in the left-right direction at the same intervals as the support portions 11 provided on the temporary storage table 37, and the container holder 51 has an opening facing upward. The container 15 is held. The container transport device 21 intermittently moves the container transport body 49 to the container receiving position S8, the article accommodating position S9, and the article unloading position S10 set in order from the upstream side to the downstream side (paper surface right to left) in the container transport direction. It is configured so that it can be positioned. The container carrier 49 is provided with an elevating cylinder 52 such as an air cylinder that integrally moves the seven container holders 51 in the vertical direction, and when returning from the article carrying-out position S10 to the container receiving position S8, the container holder It is configured to lower the 51 and raise the container holder 51 at the article storage position S9 (see FIG. 2).

As shown in FIG. 1, a container transport conveyor 53 for transporting a plurality of containers 15 toward the container receiving position S8 is arranged on the side (lower side of the paper surface) corresponding to the container receiving position S8 in the container transport device 21. .. In this container transfer conveyor 53, seven containers 15 in a posture with the opening facing downward are conveyed toward the container receiving position S8 in a state of being assembled side by side in the left-right direction. On the downstream side of the container transport conveyor 53, a container transfer device 54 for transferring the container 15 from the container transport conveyor 53 to the container holder 51 of the container transport body 49 located at the container receiving position S8 of each container transport device 21. Be placed. The container transfer device 54 collectively picks up seven side-by-side containers 15 transported to the downstream end of the container transport conveyor 53, turns them upside down, and sets the distance in the left-right direction to the distance between the container holders 51 in the container transport body 49. After conversion, the seven containers 15 with the openings facing upward are configured to be collectively transferred to the seven container holders 51 of the container carrier 49.

As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, in the loading means 16, the same number of holding devices 55 as the buckets 46a in the bucket assembly 46 of the article transport conveyor 20 are attached to the second moving member 56 extending in the left-right direction in the left-right direction. The second moving member 56 is provided with a second moving forward / backward moving mechanism 57 that moves forward and backward in the front-rear direction and a second raising / lowering movement mechanism 58 that moves up and down in the vertical direction. The holding device 55 includes a pair of support pieces 59, 59 capable of supporting the article 14 conveyed to the article pick-up position S7 by the article transfer conveyor 20 from the front and back, and a suction unit (article holding means) 60 for sucking the upper portion of the article 14. And, each of the seven articles 14 positioned at the article pick-up position S7 is held by the corresponding holding device 55 and can be picked up collectively. In the second advancing / retreating mechanism 57 of the loading means 16, the second moving member 56 (seven holding devices 55) is placed above the article pick-up position S7 set on the article transport conveyor 20, and each container transport device 21, It moves in the front-rear direction between the article storage positions S9 and S9 set on the 21. The pair of support pieces 59, 59 are opened and closed by an opening / closing air cylinder 61 as an operating means arranged on the second moving member 56, and the suction portion 60 is used as an operating means arranged on the second moving member 56. The elevating air cylinder 62 is configured to move up and down with respect to the support pieces 59 and 59. Further, the elevating air cylinder 62 lowers the suction portion 60 with respect to the support pieces 59 and 59 inserted in the container 15 when the article 14 held by the holding device 55 is packed into the container 15 together with the attached document 10. , Article 14 is configured to be pushed out of the support pieces 59,59.

Next, the operation of the supply device according to the embodiment will be described.
As shown in FIG. 2, the attached document 10 laminated on the guide portions 18a and 23a of the accumulating portion 22 has the first moving member 31 of the transfer means 19 positioned at the document picking position S5. 1 By lowering and ascending the first moving member 31 by the elevating mechanism 33, the upper surface is adsorbed by each of the suction means 30 and is picked up one by one from the upper part. The first moving member 31 from which the attached document 10 is picked up by each suction means 30 is moved to the document supply position S6 above the temporary storage table 37 by the first advancing / retreating mechanism 32, and is moved to the document supply position S6 by the first elevating mechanism 33. 1 By releasing the suction by the suction means 30 when the moving member 31 is lowered, the attached document 10 is moved to the mounting portion 11a of each support portion 11 in the temporary mounting table 37 in a posture in which the longitudinal direction faces the front-back direction. Will be posted. Since the support portion 11 is formed with an inclined surface 11b that expands from each side of the mounting portion 11a toward the upper surface of the support portion, the attached document 10 released from the suction means 30 is placed on the mounting portion 11a. Even if the position is displaced with respect to the above, the attached document 10 is guided toward the mounting portion 11a by the inclined surface 11b and is placed in an appropriate position.

Here, the attached documents 10 laminated on the guide portions 18a and 23a of the integrated portion 22 are laminated in a posture in which the folded portion is located on the front side, and the attached document 10 is on the front side where the folded portion is located and the folded portion. When the thickness is different from that of the rear side without the surface and the number of stacked layers is large, the upper surface of the attached document 10 at the uppermost portion is inclined downward from the front side to the rear side. Therefore, in the supply device of the embodiment, the pedestal 28 of the lifter 25 is tilted upward by the tilting cylinder 29 from the front side to the rear side, and the upper surface of the attached document 10 at the uppermost portion is made substantially horizontal. Further, when the attached document 10 is picked up from the accumulating portion 22 and the detection means detects a decrease in the stacked attached documents 10, the elevating means 26 of the lifter 25 operates to move the pedestal 28 upward. The top surface height level of the top attached document of the laminated attached document 10 mounted on the pedestal 28 is maintained.

When the position detection sensor detects that the position of the lower surface of the attached documents 10 in which the attached documents 10 of the integrated portion 22 are reduced and stacked exceeds the arrangement level of the receiving pieces 35a and 35a of the temporary support means 34. , The support cylinders 36, 36 operate to move the receiving pieces 35a, 35a to the support position. Further, the lifter 25 operates the elevating means 26 to lower the pedestal 28 from the stocker 18. When the pedestal 28 is lowered, the lower surface of the stacked attached documents 10 being picked up is supported at two places by the receiving pieces 35a and 35a of the temporary support means 34, and the picking up process can be continued. Then, when the stocker 18 is moved from the supply position S3 to the replenishment position S4, the stocker 18 is replenished with the newly laminated attached document 10, and then the stocker 18 is moved to the supply position S3, the elevating means 26 is activated. The newly laminated attached document 10 is placed on the pedestal 28 and lifted, and the new laminated attached document 10 is superposed on the lower side of the laminated attached document 10 being picked up, and all the laminated attached documents 10 are stacked. Is supported by the pedestal 28. When all the laminated attachments 10 including the laminated attachments 10 being picked up are supported by the pedestal 28, the support cylinders 36 and 36 of the temporary support means 34 operate to support the receiving pieces 35a and 35a. By moving from the to the retracted position, the operation of maintaining the top surface height level of the attached documents 10 stacked based on the detection of the detection means is performed without any problem thereafter.

As shown in FIG. 8A, the moving table 38 is positioned at the receiving position S1 directly below the temporary table 37, and the first holding member 41 arranged above the temporary table 37 and the receiving member 41 are received. In the longitudinal direction of the attachment 10, the second holding member 42 arranged below the moving table 38 at the position S1 moves so as to approach each other and is supported across the through hole 11c in the support portion 11. The center is sandwiched by the sandwiching portions 41a, 42a of both sandwiching members 41, 42. By moving both holding members 41, 42 holding the attached document 10 downward by the holding portions 41a, 42a, the attached document 10 passes through the through opening 11c and the moving table 38, as shown in FIG. 8B. It is pushed into each holding portion 12. When the sandwiching portion 41a of the first sandwiching member 41 sandwiching the attached document 10 passes through the through opening 11c, the front and rear ends of the attached document 10 extending from the front and rear edges of the sandwiching portion 41a are sandwiched. With the edge of the portion 41a as a base point, it is pushed by the edge of the mounting portion 11a and bent upward, and the attached document 10 is provided with a crease along the edge of the sandwiching portion 41a.

The attached document 10 pushed into the holding portion 12 of the moving table 38 by the holding means 17 has an inverted trapezoidal shape in which the front and rear ends thereof expand upward due to the folding habit. The first holding member 41 and the second holding member 42 are separated from each other to release the attached document 10, and the attached document 10 is delivered to the holding portion 12, so that the attached document 10 is held in a bent state. Is held in.

Here, the article transport conveyor 20 moves the bucket set 46 in which the article 14 is supplied to the seven buckets 46a by the article supply device 47 to the article pick-up position S7, so that the article pick-up position S7 has seven articles. 14 are positioned side by side. Further, one of the two container transporting devices 21 and 21 moves the container transporting body 49 whose container 15 is supplied to the seven container holders 51 by the container transfer device 54 to the article storage position S9. Seven containers 15 are positioned side by side at the article storage position S9.

When the attached document 10 is released from the holding means 17 and the holding portion 42a of the second holding member 42 descends from the moving table 38 at the supply position S3, the moving table 38 is moved by the moving means 13 into two container transporting devices 21. Of the 21 and 21, the bucket assembly 46 is moved to the article accommodating position S9 and is moved to the packing position S2 above the article accommodating position S9 in the container transport device 21. Further, in the loading means 16 in which the second moving member 56 is positioned above the article picking position S7 of the article transport conveyor 20, the second moving member 56 is lowered by the second elevating mechanism 58 to form a pair. The suction portion 60 is brought close to the upper surface of the article 14 until the support pieces 59, 59 of the above do not come into contact with the guide members 48, 48. Then, the suction portion 60 of each holding device 55 is lowered by the elevating air cylinder 62 to suck the upper portion of the article 14 supplied to the corresponding bucket 46a, and then the suction portion 60 is raised by the elevating air cylinder 62. By doing so, the article 14 is picked up from the bucket 46a. Then, when the article 14 picked up by the suction unit 60 rises between the pair of support pieces 59, 59, the pair of support pieces 59, 59 are closed by the opening / closing air cylinder 61, and the article 14 is moved from both front and rear sides. Be supported. At this time, the selvage portion of the article 14 is pressed along the article body portion by the pair of support pieces 59, 59 and does not extend laterally. Further, the loading means 16 raises the article 14 holding the second moving member 56 by the second elevating mechanism 58 to an upper position where the article 14 held by each holding device 55 does not interfere with the moving table 38 positioned at the packing position S2. Let me.

Next, the loading means 16 moves the second moving member 56 to the upper part of the packing position S2 where the moving table 38 is positioned by the second advancing / retreating mechanism 57. Then, by lowering the second moving member 56 by the second elevating mechanism 58, as shown in FIG. 8C, the bottom of the article 14 held by each holding device 55 is moved to each of the moving tables 38. It is pressed against the upper surface of the portion of the attached document 10 held by the holding portion 12 located above the through hole 12b. When the attached document 10 pressed by the article 14 passes downward through the through hole 12b of the moving table 38, each of the ends extending back and forth from the bottom of the article 14 is bent at a habitual crease. It is bent and guided along the side portion of the article 14. Then, as shown in FIG. 8D, the attached document 10 is packed together with the article 14 into each container 15 located at the article accommodating position S9 from above. Since the article 14 is supported from both sides by the support pieces 59 and 59, it can be reliably packed in the container 15 together with the attached document 10. Further, the suction portion 60 is lowered by the elevating air cylinder 62, and the article 14 is pushed out from the support pieces 59, 59 to separate the article 14 from the support pieces 59, 59. After that, the suction of the suction unit 60 is released, and the second moving member 56 is raised by the second elevating mechanism 58 to obtain a product in which the article 14 is housed in the container 15 together with the attached document 10. The loading means 16 moves the second moving member 56 from above the article accommodating position S9 to above the article picking position S7 to prepare for the next article loading. Further, the container transport device 21 in which the article 14 is packed together with the attached document 10 in the container holder 51 of the container transport body 49 at the article storage position S9 moves the container transport body 49 to the article carry-out position S10 on the downstream side. At the same time, the other container transport device 21 moves the container transport body 49 to which the container 15 is supplied at the container receiving position S8 to the article accommodating position S9 to prepare for the next article loading.

The attached document 10 is bent when passing through the through hole 11c of the support portion 11 in the temporary storage table 37, and is properly kept in a bent state when packed in the container 15, so that the attached document 10 is together with the article 14. It can be reliably packed in the container 15. In particular, since the attached document 10 is sandwiched from the thickness direction when making a crease, the crease of the attached document 10 does not become an arc shape, and after packing in the container 15, the article is repelled by the attached document 10. It is also possible to avoid pushing the 14 back into the opening of the container 15. In addition, it is possible to prevent problems such as the attached document 10 being displaced during habituation and the habituation position being displaced, or the attached document 10 being scratched. Further, when the article 14 is packed in the container 15, the attached document 10 habituated in advance is held in a bent state by the holding portion 12 of the moving table 38, and the article 14 is pressed against the inside of the front and rear folding habits to move. Therefore, the attached document 10 can be packed in the container 15 without shifting the position of the end portion of the attached document 10 along the side portion of the article 14.

In the supply device of the embodiment, the moving table 38 for holding the attached document 10 in a bent state is provided to the temporary storage table 37 on which the attached document 10 is transferred from the collecting unit 22, and the attached document 10 is provided from the temporary storage table 37. Since it is configured to move between the receiving position S1 to receive and the packing position S2 for packing the article 14 into the container 15 together with the held attached document 10, the work of transferring the attached document 10 to the temporary storage table 37 and the attachment The work of packing the document 10 and the article 14 into the container 15 can be performed in parallel, and the processing capacity per unit time can be improved. Further, since a plurality of attached documents 10 and articles 14 can be collectively packed in the same number of containers 15, the processing capacity per unit time can be further improved.

The attached documents 10 and the article 14 are alternately placed in the container 15 of each container transport body 49 in which the two container transport devices 21 are arranged in parallel and are alternately positioned in the two article accommodating positions S9 and S9 by the loading means 16. Since it is configured so that it can be packed, it is not necessary to wait until the empty container 15 is transported to the article storage position S9, and the cycle time required for packing the article 14 and the attached document 10 can be shortened. That is, while the container 15 transported to the article storage position S9 by one container transport device 21 is being packed, the container can be supplied to the container transport body 49 of the other container transport device 21. When the packing work of the container transport device 21 into the container 15 is completed, the container transport body 49 for which the container supply of the other container transport device 21 is completed is immediately moved to the article storage position S9 and the next packing work is completed. Can wait. Further, the moving means 13 alternately shifts the moving table 38 to two packing positions S2 and S2 each time the attached document 10 is delivered from each support portion 11 of the temporary placing table 37 to the holding portion 12. It can be dealt with by moving. Further, the article transport conveyor 20 is also configured so that the article 14 can be transported to the article pick-up position S7 by two independently traveling endless chains 44, 44, so that the cycle for packing the article 14 and the attached document 10 is taken. The time can be shortened.

When the attached documents 10 and the article 14 are packed by the loading means 16, the article 14 supported by the support pieces 59, 59 is extruded by the suction unit 60, so that the article 14 is pushed out from the support pieces 59, 59. It can be reliably detached, and when the support pieces 59 and 59 are pulled out from the container 15, the article 14 can be prevented from being lifted and protruding from the container 15, and the attached document 10 and the article 14 can be properly packed in the container 15. can.

Since the detection means and the lifter 25 are configured to maintain the height level of the upper surface of the uppermost portion of the laminated attachments 10 placed on the pedestal 28, the attachments are attached by the suction portion 30a of the transfer means 19. The pick-up position for sucking the 10 does not change, and the attached document 10 at the top can be reliably sucked by the suction means 30 of the transfer means 19 and picked up one by one. That is, when the attached document 10 picked up from the collecting portion 22 is placed on the mounting portion 11a of the support portion 11, it is possible to prevent the attached document 10 from being not placed in an appropriate posture. be able to. When the remaining amount of the laminated attached documents 10 becomes less than a predetermined amount in the accumulating portion 22, the stocker 18 is replenished in a state where the laminated attached documents 10 being picked up are supported by the temporary support means 34. Since it is configured to be able to replenish the newly stacked attached document 10 by moving to the position S4, it is not necessary to interrupt the pick-up process of the attached document 10 for the replenishment of the attached document 10, and the processing capacity is improved. Can be done.

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The present invention is not limited to the configuration of the embodiment, and can be modified as follows, for example. Further, not limited to the following modified examples, various embodiments may be adopted within the scope of the gist of the present invention for the configurations described in the examples.
(1) In the embodiment, a plurality of support portions 11 and holding portions 12 are provided side by side, but the support portion 11 and holding portion 12 may be one, and the number of guide portions 18a and 23a of the integrated portion 22. , The number of articles 14 positioned at the article pick-up position S7 on the article transport conveyor 20 and the number of containers 15 positioned at the article accommodating position S9 on the container transport device 21 may be set correspondingly.
(2) The integrated unit 22 can be composed of only the stocker 18.
(3) The container transport device 21 may adopt a configuration in which one or three or more are arranged.
(4) In the embodiment, the suction portion 60 of the loading means 16 is configured to suck the upper surface of the article 14, but the side portion of the article 14 may be sucked, or the upper portion of the article may be sucked by a gripping member instead of the suction portion 60. A configuration such as gripping can be adopted.
(5) The attachment is not limited to the document, but may be an attachment or the like that needs to be packed in a container together with the article.

10 Attachments (Attachments), 11 Supports, 11c Throughouts (Openings), 12 Holdings 12b Throughouts (Openings), 13 Transportation Means, 14 Articles, 15 Containers, 16 Loading Means 17 Holding Means, 18 Stockers, 19 Transfer means, 20 article transfer conveyor 25 lifter, 28 pedestal, 34 temporary support means, 59 support piece 60 suction part (article holding means), S1 receiving position, S2 packing position, S3 supply position S4 replenishment position

Claims (6)

A support with an opening through which attachments supported on the upper side can pass downward,
An attachment that is positioned below the support and has passed through the opening of the support at the receiving position can be held in a bent state with the end of the attachment facing up, and the attachment A holder with an opening that allows it to pass downwards,
A moving means for moving the holding portion to the receiving position and a packing position away from the receiving position.
The moving means presses the article against the upper surface of the attachment held by the holding portion positioned at the packing position, and the end portion of the attachment extending from the article is bent along the side portion of the article. An attachment supply device comprising:, a loading means for packing an article that has passed through the opening of the holding portion into a container located below the packing position together with the attachment. A holding means for holding the attachment supported on the support portion from the thickness direction thereof is provided.
By sandwiching the attachment with the holding means and lowering the holding means, the attachment is passed through the opening of the support portion, the end portion extending from the holding means of the attachment is bent, and the holding portion is covered with the attachment. The attachment supply device according to claim 1, wherein the attachment is configured to be delivered. A stocker that supports the stacked attachments and can be moved to a supply position and a replenishment position away from the supply position.
A transfer means for picking up the attachments laminated on the stocker at the supply position one by one from the top and transferring them to the support portion.
A lifter that supports the attachments laminated on the stocker at the supply position from below and is provided with a pedestal that can move up and down, and that moves the pedestal to maintain the height of the upper surface of the laminated attachments.
A temporary support means for supporting the laminated attachment when the remaining amount of the laminated attachment becomes a predetermined amount or less is provided.
The attachment according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the attachment is supported by the temporary support means, and the stocker can be moved to the replenishment position by lowering the pedestal from the stocker. Supply device. The packing positions are provided at a plurality of places, and the packing positions are provided at a plurality of places.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the moving means is configured to move the holding portion to a plurality of packing positions in order each time an attachment is received from the supporting portion. Attachment feeder. Equipped with an article transport conveyor for transporting the article,
The loading means includes a pair of support pieces that support the article conveyed by the article transfer conveyor from both sides, and an article holding means that holds the upper portion of the article.
When the article is packed in the container, the loading means lowers the article holding means with respect to the supporting piece inserted into the container through the opening of the holding portion, thereby supporting the article together with the attachment. The attachment feeding device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the container is configured to be extruded from the container. A plurality of the support portions are provided side by side in a direction intersecting the moving direction of the holding portion, and the holding portions are provided side by side in the same number as the support portions at the same intervals.
The attachment supply device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the moving means is configured to integrally move a plurality of holding portions to the receiving position and the packing position.

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