JP2694236B2 - Aligning and conveying device for flanged articles - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION a. Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to an aligning and conveying apparatus for conveying flanged articles at equal intervals under an aligned state.

b. Conventional technology and its problems Plastic cup bodies are filled with food products such as jelly and yogurt, and are widely available. As is well known, this type of article has a flange on the upper end of the cup body, and a film-like lid is attached to the flange to cover the upper opening of the cup body.

By the way, in such a flanged article conveyance line, it is necessary to convey the articles in a line at regular intervals in order to measure the weight and pack the articles. Therefore, in reality, there is a demand for the development of an aligning / conveying device having a simpler structure than the conventional ones and capable of arranging the articles in a line at equal intervals.

The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide an aligning / conveying device for flanged articles as described above, which has been conventionally desired.

c. Problems to be Solved by the Invention In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, in the present invention, (A) a conveyor that conveys a large number of flanged articles in a predetermined direction, and (B) is arranged on an upper portion of the conveyor, And a pair of endless belts arranged in parallel at a predetermined interval and rotated at a transfer speed lower than the transfer speed of the conveyor, and (C) a flanged article transferred by the conveyor. Position regulating means for regulating the position toward the inlet side of the pair of endless belts, respectively, and between the pair of endless belts via the position regulating means the flanged article conveyed by the conveyor. To convey the flange of the flanged article on the pair of endless belts, and at the outlet of the pair of endless belts. By transferring the flanged article from the pair of endless belts having a relatively low transfer speed to the conveyor having a relatively high transfer speed, a plurality of flanged articles that are continuously transferred are aligned under an aligned state. , And they are conveyed at equal intervals.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIGS. 1 and 2 show an aligning and conveying apparatus 1, which is a conveyor 3 for conveying a large number of flanged articles 2 in a predetermined direction, and a longitudinal direction (conveying direction) of the conveyor 3. Endless belt device 4 arranged on the upper portion of the conveyor 3 so as to correspond to a part of the conveyor 3, and a pair of position regulating members 5 arranged on the inlet side of the endless belt device 4.
It is composed of The flanged article 2 to be conveyed is, as shown in FIG. 3, integrated with a cup body 2a made of synthetic resin filled with food 6 such as jelly or yogurt, and the entire circumference of the upper end of the cup body 2a. Molded flange
2b and a film-like lid body 2c which is attached to the flange portion 2b and covers the upper opening of the cup body 2a.

The above-mentioned conveyor 3 is a main conveyor that extends over the entire length of the article manufacturing line, and is driven in the direction of arrow A at a constant transport speed V ₁ .

Further, the above-mentioned endless belt device 4 has a pair of endless belts 8a and 8b arranged in a frame body 7 made of steel. That is, the frame 7 has four pairs of pulleys 9a ...
9h, each pair of pulleys 9a and 9b, 9c and 9d, 9
e and 9f, and 9g and 9h are arranged so as to face each other at regular intervals. Then, one endless belt 8a is stretched over the pulleys 9a, 9c, 9e and 9g, and the pulleys 9b, 9d, 9f and
One endless belt 8b is stretched around 9h, and the pair of endless belts 8a and 8b are arranged in parallel with each other at a predetermined height and at a predetermined interval. Then, these endless belts 8a and 8b are respectively the fourth
As shown in the figure, it is driven along a substantially trapezoidal orbit. Further, a drive motor 10 is housed in the frame body 7, the rotational driving force of the drive motor 10 is transmitted to the drive shaft 12 via the transmission belt 11, and the pulleys 9a and 9b are rotated as the drive shaft 12 rotates. By the endless belt 8
It is configured such that a and 8b are interlocked and rotated at the same rotation speed. The driving speed (conveying speed) V ₂ of the endless belts 8a and 8b is set lower than the conveying speed V ₁ of the conveyor 3, but the conveying speed of the endless belts 8a and 8b is set under the condition of V ₂ <V _1. Speed V ₂ is speed controller 13
It can be set arbitrarily by adjusting.

Further, a guide rod 14 made of a steel round bar or the like is provided at a position substantially at the center of the pair of endless belts 8a, 8b and slightly higher than the upper tracks of these belts 8a, 8b. Are arranged along the upper track.

As shown in FIG. 2, the endless belt device 4 is installed on a partial area of the conveyor 3 in the longitudinal direction, and the pair of endless belts 8a and 8b are arranged as shown in FIG. It is arranged above the conveyor 3.

Further, the above-mentioned position restricting member 5 is composed of a pair of guide plates 15a and 15b arranged to face each other so as to have a divergent shape, and is above the conveyor 3 and on the inlet side of the pair of endless belts 8a and 8b ( It is arranged on the upstream side in the transport direction). The distance between the pair of guide plates 15a, 15b is gradually narrowed as they approach the endless belts 8a, 8b. Corresponding to the entrance end of.

The distance l ₁ between the pair of endless belts 8a and 8b and the distance l ₂ between the end portions 16a and 16b of the guide plates 15a and 15b are substantially equal (see FIG. 1), and the distance l ₁ and l ₂ is made smaller than the diameter l ₄ of large and articles 2 flange 2b than the diameter l ₃ of the upper end portion of the cup main body 2a of the flanged article 2.

 Next, the operation of the aligning and conveying apparatus 1 of this example will be described.

First, the food 6 is packed in the cup body 2a and the lid 2c
A large number of flanged articles 2 adhered to the flanges 2b are placed on the conveyor 3 in an unrestricted arrangement and conveyed in the direction of arrow A in FIG. Then, when these articles 2 reach the position of the position regulating member 5, a pair of guide plates 15a, 15b
Is guided to the entrance of the endless belt device 4 by the guiding action (position regulating action) so as to form a single line in the center of the conveyor 3. Next, the articles 2 with flanges whose positions are regulated in a row are successively carried in between the pair of endless belts 8a, 8b one by one, and the cup body 2a of the article 2 is arranged between the endless belts 8a, 8b. The flange 2b has endless belts 8a, 8 as shown in FIG.
Hooked on b and transferred diagonally upward. Therefore, the article 2 is separated from the conveyor 3 and its flange 2b
Is carried on the pair of endless belts 8a, 8b together with these belts 8a, 8b in the direction of arrow B in FIG. In the endless belt device 4, the guide rods 14 reliably prevent the articles 2 from floating, and the flanges 2b of the articles 2 adjacent to each other are not overlapped, and the flanges 2b of the articles 2 adjacent to each other are not overlapped. It is transferred continuously with almost no space between them.

Then, these articles 2 are conveyed along an obliquely downward trajectory as they approach the exits of the endless belts 8a, 8b, and at the exit, the bottom of the cup body 2a is conveyed by the conveyor 3
Abutting against the endless belts 8a, 8b and moving onto the conveyor 3. In this case, since the convey speed of the conveyor 3 is set to be higher than the convey speed of the endless belts 8a and 8b, the flanged articles 2 sequentially supplied from the endless belt device 4 to the conveyer 3 at predetermined intervals are on the conveyer 3. In, in the state of being aligned in a line at a constant interval L, the sheet is sent to the next step (measuring step, etc.). The interval L is adjusted by adjusting the speed controller 13 and the conveyor 3
The required distance can be set by adjusting the relative speed of the endless belts 8a and 8b with respect to.

According to the aligning and conveying device 1 as described above, the endless belt device 4 and the position regulating member 5 each having a simple structure are attached to the existing conveyor 3, and the articles 2 with flanges can be uniformly arranged under the aligned condition. It can be transported at intervals. Therefore, the device 1 can be used at a low cost and can be used as it is without any design change of the conveyor 3, which is very advantageous in practice.

As described above, one embodiment of the present invention has been described, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications and changes can be made based on the technical idea of the present invention.

For example, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the article 2 having the flange 2b on the upper end of the cup body 2a is conveyed is described.
It may be various kinds of articles in which the flange 2b is provided in the middle portion of the cup body 2a.

d. Effects of the Invention As described above, according to the present invention, a pair of endless belts and a position regulating means having a conveying speed slower than that of a conveyor are arranged on the upper part of a conveyor that conveys a large number of flanged articles in a predetermined direction. By transferring the attached article from the pair of endless belts having a relatively low conveyance speed to the conveyor having a relatively high conveyance speed, a plurality of flanged articles that are continuously conveyed are aligned and under each other. Since it is designed to convey at equal intervals, a simple and inexpensive aligning and conveying device can be provided without the need for special design changes simply by attaching a pair of endless belts and position regulating means to the existing main conveyor. it can.

[Brief description of the drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a plan view of an aligning and conveying apparatus, FIG. 2 is a side view of the same, FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a flanged article, and FIG. FIG. 5 is a side view schematically showing a transportation state of the flanged article, and FIG. 5 is a plan view of the same. 1 ... Aligning and conveying device, 2 ... Flanged article, 2a ... Cup body, 2b ... Flange, 4 ... Endless belt device, 5 ... Position regulating member, 8a, 8b ... Endless belt, 13 ... Speed controller, 14 …… Guide rod, 15a, 15b …… Guide plate.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. (A) A conveyor for transporting a large number of flanged articles in a predetermined direction, and (B) a conveyor which is arranged above the conveyor and arranged in parallel with each other at a predetermined interval and in parallel. A pair of endless belts rotated at a transporting speed lower than the transporting speed of (1), and (C) a position regulating means for regulating the position of the flanged article conveyed by the conveyor toward the inlet side of the pair of endless belts. And, the flanged article conveyed by the conveyor is supplied between the pair of endless belts via the position restricting means so that the flange of the flanged article is provided on the pair of endless belts. The flanged article at the exit of the pair of endless belts, the pair of ends having a relatively slower transport speed. By transferring from the sbelt to the conveyor having a relatively high transfer speed, it is possible to transfer a plurality of flanged articles that are continuously transferred in an aligned state and at equal intervals. A featured aligning and conveying device for flanged articles.