JP3149757B2 - Plate removal equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a caution label (vehicle maintenance,
The present invention relates to a take-out device that is convenient for separating and taking out plate materials such as labels indicating precautions for maintenance and the like one by one.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, the above caution labels are manually adhered to a predetermined portion of a body one by one in an automobile assembly line. Usually, these caution labels are different types depending on a vehicle type or an engine specification. The workplace is equipped with shelves for storing a large number of caution labels, each of which is classified into a number of types, and workers are required to use labels of a type suitable for the type of vehicle, etc. Was selected and removed and pasted one by one by hand.

[0003]

However, since a worker usually wears gloves and works, separating and taking out labels one by one from a state in which a number of labels are stacked, the surface of the label tends to be slippery. It is very troublesome in combination with the small pieces and the thin plate shape, and sometimes two or three pieces are taken out at once, which not only frustrates the worker but also hinders the efficient label attaching work. .

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for taking out a plate material that can quickly and surely take out one by one from a state in which a large number of sheets are superimposed even while wearing gloves. With the goal.

[0005]

Means for Solving the Problems] Therefore, the present invention is, before
The take-out device has the configuration described in each claim. According to the take-out device of the first aspect, when the box body is tilted, the frontmost plate member moves in the surface direction due to frictional resistance with the slide plate and is separated from other plate members. Therefore, it is not necessary to carry out the work itself, so that one sheet material can be quickly and reliably taken out even while gloves are worn, whereby an efficient sticking operation can be performed.

Further, a simple operation of simply tilting the box body
Ensures that only the front row of plates is separated
You.

[0007]

Further , according to the take-out device of the first aspect ,
For example , with the movement of the slide plate due to the tilting of the box, the frontmost plate material in surface contact with the slide plate moves in the surface direction due to frictional resistance with the slide plate and is separated from other plate materials. In order to increase the frictional resistance, it is conceivable to attach a rubber plate or sandpaper to the contact surface of the slide plate with the plate material or to perform notching such as knurling.

[0009]

[0010] Further, according to the take-out device according to claim 1,
For example, the foremost plate is positively pressed against the slide plate, so that the foremost plate is reliably moved in the plane direction with the movement of the slide plate and separated from other plate materials. In addition to the configuration in which the slide plate is provided with a portion having a large frictional resistance as described above and the plate material in the front row is moved by the frictional resistance,
For example, on the rear side of the front row of plate materials, a projecting portion is provided that has a dimension equal to or less than the thickness of one sheet material, and this projection is hooked with the movement of the slide plate, so that the front row of the sheet material in the surface direction. It may be configured to move, even in the case of such a configuration,
The plate material is pressed against the slide plate by the holding member, so that the projection can be reliably hooked.

[0011]

According to the second aspect of the present invention , since the box body is tilted by the operation of the actuator, it is not necessary for the operator to manually tilt the box body. As the actuator, a cylinder or a motor can be used.

[0013]

According to the third aspect of the present invention , different types of plate members are accommodated in the respective boxes of the plurality of extracting devices, and a predetermined type of actuator is operated based on external information. Can be automatically selected and taken out one by one, so that there is no mistake in making a mistake in the type of the plate material as compared with a case where the operator selects and takes out the sheet material one by one.

[0015] The take-out device having such a configuration can be applied, for example, to a caution labeling operation in an automobile assembly line or a labeling operation in a home appliance assembly line. In the case of an automobile assembly line, different caution labels are affixed according to the type of car or engine model, etc., which are sequentially transported along the line. And store them on shelves,
Since the operator selected the required type of label and took it out, sometimes the wrong type of label was picked up or forgotten, and in this respect accurate and efficient labeling was applied. It was an obstacle to work.

However, it is possible to operate a predetermined actuator based on production information (external information) for managing the entire assembly line, thereby automatically selecting a type of caution label suitable for a vehicle type or the like. According to this, it is not necessary for the operator to select the type of caution label by himself, so that there is no mistake in the type to be taken out (wrong or missing). In addition, the caution labels of the type automatically selected are reliably separated and taken out one by one, so that the sticking operation can be performed more efficiently.

[0017]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention.
This will be described with reference to FIG. 1 to 3 show an apparatus 1 for taking out a plate material according to the present embodiment. FIG. 1 shows a state in which no plate material is set, and FIGS. 2 and 3 show a plurality of plate materials P1 to Pn set. The state is shown.

The take-out device 1 according to the present embodiment has a base 2 and a box 4 which is tiltably supported by the base 2 and accommodates a plurality of plate members P1 to Pn in a stacked state.
And a cylinder 5 as an actuator for tilting the box body 4, and a plurality of plate members P 1 to P 4, which are supported by the box body 4 so as to be slidable in the vertical direction and slid upward and accommodated
The slide plate 6 mainly moves only the frontmost plate material P1 out of Pn in the plane direction and separates it from the other plate materials P2 to Pn.

The base 2 has a box shape with a shallow bottom as shown in FIG. 1, and support plates 21 and 21 stand on both sides in the middle in the front-back direction (left-right direction in the drawing). A support shaft 3 is supported between the two support plates 21 and 21 in a bridging manner.
The box body 4 is supported via the support shaft 3 so as to be tiltable in the front-rear direction with respect to the base 2. The two support plates 21 and 21 and the support shaft 3 constitute a "tilt support part" described in the claims.

The upper surface of the box 4 is opened, and a plurality of plate members P
It is an input port 4a for inputting 1 to Pn. Support edges 41, 41 are formed on the rear wall 4b of the box 4 so as to project rearward.
Is rotatably supported by the shaft 3 so that the box body 4 is supported to be tiltable in the front-rear direction.

The bottom plate 42 of the box 4 is provided to be inclined downward toward the front, and a plurality of plate materials P1 to Pn stored through the input port 4a are placed on the bottom plate 42 and stored therein. The plate members P1 to Pn move smoothly forward due to their own weight. Further, near the rear of the upper surface of the bottom plate 42, a holding member 43 having a thin plate shape is provided with a hinge 42.
The presser 43 is pivotally mounted in the front-rear direction via a. The presser 43 is tilted forward and leans on the rear surface of the rearmost plate Pn of the plates P1 to Pn housed therein. The plate materials P1 to Pn also depend on their own weight of 43.
Is pushed forward.

Supporting edges 4e, 4e are formed inwardly on the inner surfaces of both sides 4c, 4c of the box body 4 at the front with a constant width inward. Wall 4
The slide plate 6 is in the vertical direction (the surface direction of the plate material P) between the slide plate 6 and d.
Is slidably supported.

The slide plate 6 is protruded downward from the bottom surface of the box 4 as it is, and is brought into contact with the base 2. The slide plate 6 is only slidably supported by the box 4, and there is no restriction on the movement in the slide direction. Therefore, the slide plate 6 remains in contact with the base 2 without having its own drive source, but is relatively moved with respect to the box 4 by tilting the box 4 back and forth. It slides up and down.

For this reason, the lower edge of the slide plate 6 is always abutted against the base 2 and slides on the upper surface of the base 2 as the box 4 tilts. A slide plate 22 having a small frictional resistance is attached to the upper surface of the base 2 in a pasting manner. The lower edge of the slide plate 6 slides on the upper surface of the slide plate 22 with almost no resistance. The sliding operation in the up-down direction and the tilting operation of the box body 4 in the front-rear direction are smoothly performed without any resistance.

A rubber plate 61 is attached to the rear surface of the slide plate 6 to prevent slippage of the plate material P. The rubber plate 61 is provided with the frontmost plate material P1 of the plurality of plate materials P1 to Pn. Is pressed. Slide plate 6
Due to the frictional resistance of the rubber plate 61 generated by the vertical movement.
The plate material P1 in the first row is separated from the other plate materials P2 to Pn.
You.

Next, a bracket 23 is attached to the rear of the base 2 as shown in FIG.
The rear end of the cylinder 5 as the actuator is rotatably connected to the actuator. On the other hand, a bracket 44 is mounted near the upper end of the rear wall 4b of the box 4, and the tip of the rod of the cylinder 5 is rotatably connected to the bracket 44. The box body 4 is tilted in the front-rear direction about the support shaft 3 by the expansion and contraction operation of the cylinder 5 provided as described above.

According to the take-out apparatus 1 configured as described above, a plurality of plate materials P1 to Pn in a superposed state are separated and taken out one by one as follows. When the cylinder 5 is in the retracted state as shown in FIG. 1, the box 4 is returned to the rear and the slide plate 6 is positioned almost vertically, and this is the original position of the take-out device 1. In this original position, the slide plate 6 protrudes from the bottom surface of the box 4 and abuts against the slide plate 22 of the base 2, and the box 4 is returned to the rear. 4 relative to the lower side.

In this original position, a plurality of plates P1 to Pn in a superposed state are put into the box 4 through the input port 4a, and are placed on the bottom plate 42 between the rubber plate 61 of the slide plate 6 and the presser 43. Is set to In this set state, the plate materials P1 to Pn are such that the bottom plate 42 is inclined forward and downward and the pressing member 43 pushes the plate materials P1 to Pn on the rubber plate 61 of the slide plate 6. It is pressed.

When the cylinders 5 are operated in the protruding direction in the state where the plate materials P1 to Pn are set, the box body 4 is tilted forward around the support shaft 3 as shown in FIG. With the tilt of the box 4, the slide plate 6 slides upward relative to the box 4, while sliding the lower edge abutted against the slide plate 22 backward.
As a result, the frontmost plate material P1 pressed against the rubber plate 61 of the slide plate 6 moves upward while being separated from the other plate materials P2 to Pn, and is taken out from the input port 4a in a protruding state. If only one plate P1 is taken out in a protruding manner, the operator can easily separate and take it out of the other plates P2 to Pn by picking the plate P1 and pulling it out of the box 4.

After taking out one plate material P 1, the cylinder 5 is operated in the retracting direction, whereby the box body 4 is returned to the rear centering on the shaft 3. Then, the slide plate 6 is returned downward with respect to the box body 4 while sliding forward with the lower edge of the slide plate 6 abutting against the slide plate 22, thereby returning the take-out device 1 to the original position. When the slide plate 6 moves relatively downward, the second plate material P2 pressed against the rubber plate 61 becomes the bottom plate 4
2, it does not move downward together with the slide plate 6.

As described above, with a simple and compact structure in which the box 4 is only tilted, only one sheet in the front row is taken out of the box 4 from the plurality of stacked plate members P1 to Pn. Therefore, even if the worker wears gloves as well as bare hands, the plate material P1 can be easily obtained.
Therefore, one plate P1 can be taken out more quickly and more reliably than in the past, and the subsequent sticking operation and the like can be performed quickly.

It should be noted that the take-out device 1 described above can be variously modified. For example, the bottom plate 42 does not necessarily need to be inclined as illustrated, and even if the bottom plate 42 is a horizontal bottom plate in the retracted state (original position) of the cylinder 5, the box body 4 is tilted forward so as to tilt forward and downward. Any configuration may be used as long as it is inclined to the right. In addition, the pressing member 43 is not limited to the illustrated configuration. For example, the pressing plate may be supported on the rear wall 4b of the box body 4 so as to be movable in the front-rear direction. In some cases, the pressing plate is biased forward by a spring. It is good also as a structure which performs.

The rubber plate 61 may be replaced with another member having a large frictional resistance (for example, sandpaper), or may be subjected to notching such as knurling in some cases.

The cylinder 5 as an actuator
May be abolished, and the unloading device 1 may be configured to be a manual type. In this case, a stopper for preventing the box body 4 from tilting rearward is provided at the original position, while a compression spring is interposed between the bottom surface of the box body 4 and the base 2 to oppose the compression spring. It is conceivable to adopt a configuration in which one plate P is separated upward by tilting the box 4 forward by manual operation.

Further, as shown in FIG. 4, it is also possible to adopt a configuration in which the positions of the tilt support portion and the actuator are switched upside down. That is, supporting edges 41 ', 41' are provided above the rear wall 4b 'of the box 4', and the supporting edges 41 ', 4'
1 'is rotatably supported on a support shaft 3' and a box 4 '
Is supported so as to be tiltable in the front-rear direction, while the bracket 44 'is
Is attached to the lower part of the rear wall 4b ', and the rod end of the cylinder 5' is connected to the lower part of the box 4 '. When the cylinder 5' operates in the protruding direction as shown by the two-dot chain line in FIG. ′ Is tilted rearward to the original position, while the box 4 ′ is tilted forward about the support shaft 3 ′ when the cylinder 5 ′ operates in the retracting direction, as shown by the solid line in the drawing. , The slide plate 6 'may be slid relatively upward to take out the plate material P1.

Next, as shown in FIG. 5, the take-out device 1 exemplified above is made into one unit, a plurality of units are provided in parallel, and the operation of the cylinder 5 in each unit is controlled based on external information. It is also possible to develop into an automatic selection type take-out device 100 that can selectively take out necessary ones of a plurality of types of plate materials one by one.

For example, when the plate material P is a caution label to be attached to each part of the automobile, different caution labels are attached depending on the vehicle type or the engine type. It was necessary to select and paste each time, and sometimes the type was incorrectly pasted. However, such automatic selection type unloading device 1
By using 00, for example, as shown in FIG. 6, the operation of the cylinders 5 to 5 is controlled based on the production information (external information) of the automobile assembly line, and only the box 4 in the specific unloading device 1 is tilted. , It is possible to configure an automatic selection type caution label take-out system that takes out only the appropriate caution labels one by one at the appropriate timing. According to such a system, work mistakes such as misapplying the wrong type or forgetting to apply it are possible. Can be reliably eliminated, and the efficiency of the label attaching operation can be significantly improved.

Referring to FIG. 6, the automatic selection type take-out device 10
The cylinder 5 of each unit at 0 is connected to an electromagnetic valve SV, and operates in a retracting or projecting direction by an on / off operation of the electromagnetic valve SV. The on / off operation of the electromagnetic valve SV may be controlled based on production information that is online in conformity with the assembly line L.

This production information is read by a card reader CR on a magnetic card C defined for each completed vehicle to be put into the assembly line L, and the host computer HC collectively processes various information of the read target vehicle. And stored. As the assembly line L progresses,
The required production information is input from the host computer HC to the vehicle type information control device CL via the predetermined terminal TC, and based on this, the operation command is sent from the control device CL to the take-out device 100 via the slave station T at an appropriate timing. Information is emitted.

In the automatic selection type take-out apparatus 100,
When the completed vehicle M to be labeled reaches the label attaching position, the cylinder 5 of the predetermined unloading device 1 operates in the protruding direction based on the operation command information issued via the slave station T. As described above, appropriate caution labels are taken out one by one at an appropriate timing as described above.

Further, the automatic selection type take-out device 100
Even if a large number of take-out devices 1 are installed, the box 4 of one take-out device 1 that has received the command tilts forward, so that the operator can easily see the caution label.

Finally, the take-out device 1 and the automatic-selection-type take-out device 100 described above are not limited to the above-mentioned caution labels of automobiles, but may be labels (name plates) attached to home electric appliances, and further include postcards and the like. Other plate materials such as a ticket of a theater, a leaflet such as a flyer, etc., which can be widely applied to plate materials which are usually taken out and handled one by one from a plurality of stacked states.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention and is an overall perspective view of a take-out device.

FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the periphery of the box, showing a state in which the box is tilted and a frontmost plate member is taken out.

FIG. 3 is a plan view around a box.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing another embodiment.

FIG. 5 is an overall perspective view of an automatic selection type unloading device.

FIG. 6 is an overall configuration diagram of an automatic selection type caution label removal system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 2 ... Base 4 ... Box 5 ... Cylinder (actuator) 6 ... Sliding plate 22 ... Sliding plate 42 ... Bottom plate 43 ... Holder 61 ... Rubber plate P (P1-Pn) ... Plate material P1 ... Front row plate material, Pn ... Last Tail plate 100 ... Automatic selection type take-out device

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A box for accommodating a plurality of plate members in a stacked state, a tilting support portion for tiltably supporting the box above a base, and supporting the box in a vertically slidable manner in the box. A slide plate whose lower end is always in contact with the base due to its own weight, and is a slide plate that moves up and down relative to the box body with the tilting of the box body, and moves the plate material in the front row upward by frictional resistance. And a presser for pressing a plate contained in the box to the side of the slide plate. 2. The take-out device according to claim 1, wherein the box is tilted using an actuator. 3. The plate material according to claim 2, wherein the take-out device according to claim 2 is provided as a single unit, a plurality of the units are provided in parallel, and the operation of the actuator in each unit is selectively performed based on external information. Take-out device.