JP2504052Y2 - Clip member alignment device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a clip member aligning device for automatically aligning a plurality of clip members such as a substantially C-shaped clip member for fixing a wrapping paper member to be wound around the mouth of a mushroom cultivation container. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A typical C-shaped clip member for fastening a wrapping paper member wound around the mouth of a mushroom cultivation container will be described below as a typical example.

As shown in FIGS. 10 and 11, a number of standardized and commercially available substantially C-shaped clip members 1 are superposed and aligned in a suspended state on a long support plate 50 in a cassette case 52. A long fastening plate 51 is fastened to the upper part of the support plate 50, and a plurality of clip members 1 superposed and aligned are fastened and fixed, and stored in this state.

If necessary, a large number of the clip members 1 in the aligned state are taken out together with the long support plate 50 and the long tightening plate 51, and the automatic paper-wrapping device 53 ( For example, set in Jitsugan Sho 60-118792),
With this automatic wrapping device 53, the inner surface of the base of the wrapping paper member 55 for cultivation is wrapped around the outer peripheral surface of the mushroom cultivation container 54, and one clip member 1 is quickly taken out from the clip member 1 in the aligned and polymerized state to the outer peripheral surface of the mouth. The base of the wrapped paper member 55 which is fitted and wound is automatically pressure-bonded and fixed.

Conventionally, various automatic paper-wrapping devices 53 have been developed and the paper-wrapping work has been automated. However, there is no device for aligning a large number of the clip members 1 with each other. The clip members 1 are aligned by hand in an alignment storage portion or the like provided in the automatic paper winding device 53.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In the present invention, a large number of clip members 1 for which clip members are to be overlapped and aligned in this way are automatically aligned and overlapped. For example, the cassette case 52 described above or the automatic paper-wrapping device 53 is aligned and stored. It is a technical problem to provide a clip member aligning device that can be supplied to a unit or the like in an aligned state and can also increase the utility value of the automatic paper winding device 53.

[0007]

The gist of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

A large number of substantially C-shaped clip members 1 are aligned, and a screw rod body 4 having a screw groove 3 formed on a peripheral surface is provided in a clip member supply portion 2 to which the clip members 1 are successively dropped and supplied. The screw member 4 is rotatably arranged, and the diameter of the screw rod 4 and the width of the screw groove 3 are set to a size at which the clip member 1 can be fitted, and the clip member 1 fitted in the screw groove 3 is rotated in the direction of the screw groove 3. The screw rod 4 is set in such a direction that it can move forward in the longitudinal direction, and the end of the clip member 1 fitted in the screw groove 3 abuts to support the clip member 1 at least the support portion 5 that supports the clip member 1. A clip that is provided at the base of the screw rod body 4 and that guides the transfer of the clip member 1 is provided along the length direction of the screw rod body 4 and is sequentially fed to the screw rod body 4 from the front end of the screw rod body 4. An alignment storage portion 6 for storing the member 1 is provided, When the clip supporting member 19 or a part of the guide supporting member 19 is pressed by the clip member 1 that does not fit in the screw groove 3 normally, the guide member 19 is opened to the side of the screw rod member 4 and the clip member 1 falls. The present invention relates to a clip member aligning device characterized in that the opening / closing plate 19A is obtained.

A guide portion 7 for guiding the clip member 1 to above the screw rod body 4 is provided between the clip member supply portion 2 and the base portion of the screw rod body 4, and the guide portion 7 is close to the screw rod body 4. 2. The clip member aligning device according to claim 1, further comprising a correction guide rotating body 8 rotatably provided for correcting and rotating the clip member 1 which comes into contact with the rotating peripheral surface 8'at least.

[0010]

Based on the invention of claim 2, the invention of claims 1 and 2 will be described.

The clip member 1 which is successively dropped and supplied from the clip member supply unit 2 is guided by the guide unit 7 to the screw rod body 4.
Is guided above the base of.

This clip member 1 comes into contact with the rotating peripheral surface 8'of the correction guide rotating body 8 which is rotating while being partially supported by the guide portion 7 as well as the rotating screw rod body 4 and correctively rotates, The C-shaped portion of the clip member 1 is fitted in the screw groove 3 on the peripheral surface of the screw rod body 4 aligned in a predetermined direction.

The end portion of the clip member 1 is supported by a support portion 5 provided at the base of the screw rod body 4 and fitted into the screw groove 3 one after another.

Since the fitting gap of the screw groove 3 is moved to the front end by the rotation of the screw rod body 4, the clip member 1 fitted in the screw groove 3 is supported by the support portion 5 or the guide support body 19, Move to the front edge.

In this way, the clip members 1 are sent to the front end with their orientations aligned one after another, and are stored in the aligned storage portion 6 in an aligned and stacked state.

[0016]

EXAMPLE In this example, the clip member 1 is sent to the clip member supply unit 2 by an appropriate amount (supply amount in a predetermined time), and from the clip member supply unit 2 by an appropriate amount to the upper side of the screw rod body 4. A drum-shaped clip member supply device 9 for dropping and supplying is provided in the clip member supply unit 2.

First, the configuration of each part of this embodiment will be described.

A drop discharge port is provided as the clip member supply unit 2 above the inclined plate 10, and the drop discharge port and the discharge unit 11 of the clip member supply device 9 are connected in series.

A rotary drive unit 13 is provided below the tilt plate 10 so as to project through the rotary shaft 12, and on the back side (outer side) of the tilt plate 10 a rotary drive device 13 for driving the rotary shaft 12 and the rotary shaft of the correction guide rotor 8 is provided. A rotary shaft 12 protruding to the front side (inner side) of the plate 10 is slightly inclined upward, and a screw rod body 4 is rotatably projected.

On the peripheral surface of the screw rod body 4, there is formed a screw groove 3 having a fitting gap in which the illustrated C-shaped clip member 1 can be fitted over the screw rod body 4, and the screw groove 3 rotates the screw rod body 4. Is formed so as to move forward by a predetermined speed.

On the lower left and right sides of the base of the screw rod body 4, bearing parts 5 on which the left and right lower ends of the C-shaped clip member 1 fitted across are abutted are provided side by side on the screw rod body 4.

At the front end of the screw rod body 4, an aligned storage portion 6 is provided in an extended state.

The aligned storage section 6 is extended to the front end of the screw rod body 4 and the long bearing plate 14 is detachably installed on the front end of the screw rod body 4,
The clip member 1 transferred from the screw rod body 4 is accommodated in the long support plate 14 as it is in a suspended state, and in this manner, the long support plate 14 is placed in a suspended state in which a large number of clip members 1 are aligned and superposed. For example, it is detached and set in the automatic paper-wrapping device 53 as described in the conventional example.

A correction mechanism provided between the clip member supply portion 2 and the screw rod body 4 will be described.

A guide plate 15 is provided on one side of the inclined plate 10 and a correction guide rotating body 8 is provided on the other side to form a guide portion 7. The clip member 1 is dropped and supplied from the clip member supply portion 2 to some extent. The clip member 1 supplied while falling is regulated so that it does not stick out and fall.
While being held between the guide plate 15, the rotating screw rod body 4 and the correction guide rotating body 8, the clip member 1 has the screw groove 3 of the screw rod body 4 on the rotation peripheral surface 8 ′ of the screw rod body 4 and the correcting guide rotating body 8. It is constituted so that it can be corrected and rotated until it fits over the.

In the present embodiment, the rotary peripheral surface 8'is formed into a knurled shape having a large friction, and the protrusions 16 are provided at two places on the rotary peripheral surface 8 ', and the screw rod body 4 serves as the correction guide rotary body 8. The clip member 1 that fits in between is corrected by flipping up.

The clip member feeding device 9 is devised by the present inventor (Japanese Patent Application No. 2-197500), and the outer diameter of the clip member 1 is approximately equal to the outer diameter of the rotary drum container 17 on the circumferential surface of the rotary drum container 17. By rotating 17 the rotating drum container 17
A plurality of discharge windows 18 through which the clip members 1 are discharged one by one are opened.

The clip member supply section 2 is connected to the discharge section 11 discharged from the discharge window 18.

In the figure, reference numeral 20 is a clip dropping rod for dropping the clip member 1 which is suspended from the discharge window 18 and which rises as the rotary drum container 17 rotates into the rotary drum container 17 below. It is installed close to the inner drum surface of the rotary drum container 17 and is slightly swingable and vibrable.

Reference numeral 21 denotes a drum support plate for supporting the rotary drum container 17, which does not fall even by the clip dropping rod 20 and which goes out from the discharge window 18 to the outside.
Even if there is a bad clip member 1 falling on the upper side, the clip member 1 pushes the drum support plate 21 downwards against the support spring 22, and the space between the lower surface of the rotary drum container 17 and the drum support plate 21 is pushed. By the rotation of the rotary drum container 17,
It is configured to be transferred to the discharge unit 11 and dropped and discharged from the discharge unit 11.

The operation of this embodiment will be described.

Rotating drum container of clip member supply device 9
When a large number of clip members 1 are put into 17 and the rotary drum container 17 is rotated, they are discharged one by one from one discharge window 18 to the discharge part 11 and dropped into the clip member supply part 2 to be introduced. From the supply part 2, it directly drops along the inclined plate 10 to the upper side of the base of the screw rod body 4.

The clip member 1 is held by the inclined plate 10, the guide plate 15, the rotating screw rod body 4 and the correction guide rotating body 8, and the rotating peripheral surface 8'of the screw rod body 4 and the correction guide rotating body 8 is held. Is rotated and corrected, and is fitted over the screw groove 3 of the screw rod body 4.

When the screw rod body 4 is fitted over the screw rod body 4, the left and right lower end portions of the screw rod body 4 are supported by the support portion 5, and the screw rod body 4 is always rotated in this orientation in the straddle-fitted state. With the movement of the screw groove 3, the clip member 1 moves to the front end while being fitted.

At this time, the upper projection of the clip member 1 is also sent while being guided and supported by a guide bearing 19 arranged in parallel above the screw rod 4.

The clip members 1 thus sent one after another are suspended as they are from the long supporting plate 14 of the aligning and accommodating portion 6 and are accommodated in the long supporting plate 14 in a suspended state.

The present embodiment has the following features.

The guide support portion 19 for guiding the transfer of the clip member 1 may be provided with a fixed guide shaft that abuts on the upper end side portion of the clip member 1 along the length direction of the screw rod body 4. In the embodiment, a plate-shaped guide bearing portion 19 is arranged along the length direction of the screw rod body 4, and an opening / closing plate 19A whose hinged upper end is attached from the base portion to the middle portion of the screw rod body 4 is hinged. It is configured so that it can be opened and moved to the side of the screw rod body 4.

Therefore, as shown in FIG. 3, when the clip member 1 that is supplied and dropped does not fit into the screw groove 3 of the screw rod body 4, the clip member 1 pushes the open / close plate 19A sideways to drop it. Become.

In the case of a mere fixed guide shaft, the clip member 1 may be sent to the screw rod body 4 in a dangling state and the clip member 1 may be clogged, and the clip member 1 may be damaged. Since the opening / closing plate 19A is pushed open and the clip member 1 having a bad fitting is dropped, such a problem does not occur.

The opening / closing plate 19A is not urged by a spring, but the clip member 1 is normally fitted in the screw groove 3.
Does not apply a force to open the opening / closing plate 19A to the opening / closing plate 19A, so that it does not support the transfer of the clip member 1 and normally functions properly as the guide support portion 19.

Further, in this embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 8, an excluding pin 23 having a predetermined length is provided in the middle of the screw rod 4 so as to project.

The expulsion pin 23 is provided so as to project at the groove-side end of the screw groove 3, and is provided at a position where the clip member 1 that is normally fitted into the screw groove 3 and is transferred has no bearing. There is.

As shown in FIG. 4, when the clip member 1 is transferred to the expulsion pin 23 in a torturous state, if it is transferred as it is, the end of the screw rod body 4 is terminated. It gets stuck up. Therefore, the purpose of eliminating such a situation is to remove the pin 23
Is rotating with the rotation of the screw rod body 4, and when the clip member 1 in a torturous state reaches the excluding pin 23,
The clip member 1 is knocked off by the exclusion pin 23. That is, the rejecting pin 23 pushes the defective clip member 1 to the side and pushes the open / close plate 19A to drop it.

At this time, the opening / closing plate 19A is opened so that the clip member 1 which is normally fitted is also dropped at the same time.

Further, in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 7, the peripheral surface portion of the bottom of the screw groove 3 at the base of the screw rod body 4 to which the clip member 1 is dropped and supplied is cut out to form a hexagonal cross section.

The following effects are exhibited as compared with a mere circular cross section.

Since the cross-sectional area is small, the clip member 1 can be easily fitted into the screw groove 3.

Further, when the clip member 1 is normally fitted, the contact portion with the clip member 1 is only the hexagonal edge portion, so that the clip member 1 can be rotated without giving a force to rotate the clip member 1. It can be transferred smoothly.

When the clip member 1 is dropped and fitted,
The falling clip member 1 is easily corrected and rotated, and the clip member 1 is easily fitted normally.

If the number of corners of this cross section is too small, the falling clip member 1 becomes difficult to rotate, and the gap between the left and right bottom support portions 5 expands, and the clip member 1 fits into this gap. However, if the number of corners is too large, machining becomes difficult and the above-mentioned effect is reduced.

Further, in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 5, a defective drop resupply device 24 is attached as an optional device of this device.

The defective drop resupply device 24 is provided with the screw rod 4
Is provided with a defective drop collecting hopper section 25, and the defective drop collecting hopper section 25 is provided with a belt-holding type ascending transfer section 26 for ascending and transferring the clip member 1 to the upper clip member supply device 9. A discharge / re-supply unit 27 is provided above the transfer unit 26 to re-supply the clip member 1 that has been lifted and transferred into the rotary drum container 17 of the clip member supply device 9.

Further, in this embodiment, the transfer system for the clip member 1 using the above-mentioned screw rod body 4 is arranged in two rows below the rotary drum body 17, and when the clip members 1 are aligned in the aligned storage portions 6 arranged in parallel. The alignment storage parts 6, 6 are slid sideways in parallel, and the alignment storage parts 6, 6 are taken out.

As shown in FIG. 9, the parallel sliding movement function of the aligning / accommodating portions 6 and 6 is configured such that the support frame 28 supporting the aligning and accommodating portions 6 and 6 is slidable in parallel by using a link mechanism. are doing. The present invention is not limited to this embodiment, and the design of each member and the arrangement of the entire apparatus can be designed as appropriate.

Further, the clip portion 1 is not limited to the one for pressing the wrapping paper member for mushroom cultivation as long as it can be fitted over the screw groove 3 of the screw rod body 4.

[0057]

Since the present invention is constructed as described above,
A clip member aligning device capable of automatically aligning and storing a large number of clip members.

In particular, the present invention uses a screw groove provided on the peripheral surface of the screw rod body to combine the aligning function and the feeding function,
An excellent clip member aligning device that can be accurately aligned and stored with an extremely simple structure.

Further, a guide portion for guiding the clip member to the upper side of the screw rod body is provided between the clip member supply portion and the screw rod body, and the guide portion is brought close to the screw rod body to contact the rotating peripheral surface. If the correction guide rotating body for correcting and rotating the clip member is rotatably provided, the aligning efficiency of fitting and aligning the screw groove straddling the screw groove is significantly improved.

Particularly, according to the present invention, when the guide bearing or a part of the guide bearing is pressed by a clip member that does not normally fit in the screw groove, it is opened to the side of the screw rod body to drop the clip member. Since the opening and closing plate is configured as shown in FIG. 3, when the clip member that is supplied and dropped does not fit into the screw groove of the screw rod body as shown in FIG. 3, or the clip member is sent in a dumpling state on the screw rod body, This defective clip member is surely dropped and discharged, and the clip member is not clogged,
It will be transferred smoothly.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of a schematic configuration in which a part of the present embodiment is cut away.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged side view of a schematic configuration in which a part of the present embodiment is cut away.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged front view of a screw rod base portion as seen from the front which is a transfer front side of the present embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged front view of the intermediate portion of the screw rod body as seen from the front which is the transfer front side of the present embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a schematic configuration front view of the present embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a side view of the screw rod body according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a view of the base portion of the screw rod body of the present embodiment taken along the line AA shown in FIG.
It is a line sectional view.

FIG. 8 is a B- portion of the intermediate portion of the screw rod body according to the present embodiment shown in FIG.
It is a B sectional view.

FIG. 9 is a plan view showing a parallel slide movement mechanism of the alignment storage unit of the present embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a perspective view in which a clip member is aligned and superposed in a suspended state on a long support plate.

FIG. 11 is a front view of the cassette case in a stored state.

FIG. 12 is a schematic view of an automatic paper winding device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Clip member 2 Clip member supply part 3 Screw groove 4 Screw rod 5 Support part 6 Alignment storage part 7 Guide part 8 Correcting guide rotating body 8'Rotating peripheral surface 19 Guide supporting body 19A Opening plate

Claims (2)

(57) [Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A plurality of substantially C-shaped clip members are aligned, and a screw rod body having a screw groove formed on a peripheral surface is rotatably provided in a clip member supply portion to which the clip members are successively dropped and supplied. The diameter of the screw rod and the width of the screw groove are set so that the clip member can be fitted, and the screw groove direction is set in the length direction of the screw rod body in which the clip member fitted in the screw groove rotates. A guide for setting the direction in which the clip member can be moved forward and for supporting the clip member by contacting the ends of the clip member fitted in the screw groove is provided at least at the base of the screw rod body, and a guide for guiding the transfer of the clip member. A support body is provided along the length direction of the screw rod body, and this screw rod body is provided with an alignment storage portion for storing the clip members successively fed from the front end of the screw rod body, and one of the guide support body or the guide support body is provided. Part, positive A clip member aligning device, characterized in that the clip member aligning device is configured so that when the clip member that does not always fit in the screw groove is pressed, it opens to the side of the screw rod body and the clip member can drop. 2. A guide portion for guiding the clip member to the upper side of the screw rod body is arranged between the clip member supply portion and the base portion of the screw rod body, and the guide portion is brought close to the screw rod body to rotate the peripheral surface. 2. A correction guide rotating body that rotatively rotates a clip member that comes into contact with the correction member is rotatably provided.
The described clip member aligning device.