JP3232436B2 - Size mixing equipment for fixed quantity packing - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a sorting and packaging operation for wrapped articles such as eggs, spherical fruits and confectionery, for example, when a predetermined number of eggs are mixed in a plurality of sizes (weights) and packed by a certain weight. The present invention relates to a device for mixing eggs of different sizes in one container and transporting the mixed eggs to a sorting and packaging machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the case of sorting and packaging eggs, for example, chickens of the same age are bred in one poultry house, so that eggs of the same size are produced from the same poultry house. Therefore, when the eggs of the same poultry house are transported by a conveyor and sorted by a weight sorter of a sorting and packaging machine for the sorting and packaging work of the eggs, the eggs are biased to the same size. This size deviation also occurs in an in-line system in which eggs are supplied from an egg feeding conveyor in a chicken house, or in an offline system in which eggs collected from a chicken house are once packed in a container and eggs are supplied from the container.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to prevent the objects to be packed from being biased to the same size (weight) in the sorting and packing operation of the objects to be packed in fixed quantity. .

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is characterized in that, for example, an even number of transport paths for transporting articles to be packaged, such as eggs, are divided into two sets, each of which is a set of adjacent halves. A first intermediate conveyor and a second intermediate conveyor respectively connected to the conveying path;
An intermediate conveyor, a connection conveyor disposed between the first and second intermediate conveyors and having an even number of conveying paths, connected to the connection conveyor, and connected to the first and second intermediate conveyors; Then, each set of conveying paths is merged with the conveying path connected to the connecting conveyor, and the merging conveyor forms a sum of the number of conveying paths of the branching conveyor and the number of conveying paths of the connecting conveyor. is there.

[0005]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIGS. 1 and 2 show the present apparatus for sorting and packaging chicken eggs, wherein 1 is a first feeding conveyor, and 2 is a first aligning device connected to the first conveyor. . 3 is a second supply conveyor installed above the first supply conveyor 1, and 4 is a second supply conveyor connected to the second supply conveyor 3.
It is an alignment device. Both the first supply conveyor 1 and the second supply conveyor 3 are formed by known bar conveyors.
Also, both the first aligning device 2 and the second aligning device 4 are well-known, for example, disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 3-297716 as a chicken egg aligning device. The alignment devices 2 and 4
A predetermined number of eggs, which are randomly sent from the supply conveyor, are sent out in a predetermined number of eggs, six in this embodiment. Therefore, six rows of eggs are each sent out from the first sorting device 2 and the second sorting device 4.

[0006] Reference numeral 5 denotes a diverter, which is connected to the first aligning device 2. As shown in FIG.
The chicken eggs E are transported along transport paths A1, A2,..., A6 formed between the partition plates 8 by a bar 7 pivotally supported by an endlessly rotating chain 6. One set of transport paths A1, A2, and A3 extends straight as it is, and the other set of transport paths A4, A5, and A6 extend diagonally straight and diverge from one set of transport paths A1, A2, and A3. A
It extends in parallel with 1, A2 and A3. The transport path A3
The distance between the transport paths A4 and A4 is slightly larger than the width of the transport paths A1, A2,.

Reference numeral 9 denotes a first intermediate conveyor which forms one set of transport paths A1, A2, A3, and 10 denotes another set of transport paths A4,
A second intermediate conveyor forming A5 and A6, which is connected to the shunt conveyor 5. 11 is a connection conveyor,
6 comprising transport paths B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, and B6
A row of conveying paths is formed, and is lowered from the second aligning device 4 and installed between the intermediate conveyors 9 and 10.

As shown in FIG. 4, the first intermediate conveyor 9, the second intermediate conveyor 10, and the connection conveyor 11 form a drum-shaped support member 13 pivotally supported by an endlessly rotating chain 12. A known conveyor is used, which is constituted by a bar 14 having a holding seat 15 for the egg E between the supporting members 13 facing each other. The first intermediate conveyor 9 and the second intermediate conveyor 10 each have three rows of accommodating seats, and the connection conveyor 1
Reference numeral 1 denotes six rows of accommodation seats 15.

Reference numeral 16 denotes a merging conveyor, which uses a bar conveyor similar to the branch conveyor 5, and includes a first intermediate conveyor 9,
It connects to the connecting conveyor 11 and the second intermediate conveyor 10. One set of transport paths A1, A2, A3 and the other set of transport paths A4, A5, A6 are straight forward and then are inclined toward the transport path paths B1, B2,. B1, B2,... Therefore, after the merging, the conveying paths of the merging conveyor 16 are A1, A2, A3,
B1, B2,... B6, A4, A5, and A6.

Reference numeral 17 denotes a first transfer conveyor, which includes a set of transport paths A1, A2, A3, and transport paths B1, B on the assembly side.
2. Connect to B3. Reference numeral 18 denotes a second transfer conveyor, which includes transport paths B4, B5, B6 and transport paths A4, A5,
Connect to A6. The transfer end of the first transfer conveyor 17 is connected to the first single-row conveyor 19, and the transfer end of the second transfer conveyor 18 is connected to the second single-row conveyor 20, via a weighing device and a transfer device (not shown). Connected. The first single-row conveyor 19 and the second single conveyor 20 include:
A sorting and packaging machine (not shown) is connected to each.

Reference numeral 21a denotes a first auto-feeder which feeds eggs to the diversion conveyor 5. 21b is a second autoloader,
The egg is fed to the connection conveyor 11. Reference numeral 22 denotes a third auto-feeder, which feeds eggs to the first intermediate conveyor 9, the connecting conveyor 11, and the second intermediate conveyor 10. These autoloaders 2
Nos. 1a, 21b and 22 are known, which absorb chicken eggs transported in a tray from a chicken house and transfer them to a conveyor.

First, the supply of chicken eggs to the sorting and packaging machine by the inline method will be described. For example, it is assumed that the first supply conveyor 1 is connected to the poultry house and the second supply conveyor is connected to the poultry house B. As described above, there is a bias in the size of the eggs in the same poultry house, and there is a difference in the size of the eggs produced in the poultry house and the poultry house.

Therefore, the eggs of the chicken house supplied to the first supply conveyor 1 pass through the first sorting device 2 and are separated by the split conveyor 5 into one set of transfer paths A1, A2, A3 and another set of transfer paths. The flow is divided into roads A4, A5, and A6. The eggs of the poultry house B supplied to the second supply conveyor 3 are conveyed through the second aligning device 4 along the conveying paths B1, B2,... B6 of the connection conveyor 11.

In the merging conveyor 16, the transport paths are A1, A
2, A3, B1, B2,..., B6, A4, A5, A6 are arranged in parallel in this order, and the transport paths A1, A2, A3, B1, B2,
The eggs of B3 are transported to the first single-row conveyor 19. The eggs in the transport paths B4, B5, B6, A4, A5, A6 are transported to the second single-row conveyor 20. Therefore, in the first single-row conveyor 19 and the second single-row conveyor 20, three chicken eggs of the chicken house and three chicken eggs of the chicken house are transported, respectively, and they are mixed in half with the chicken eggs of the chicken house and chicken eggs. Eggs of the required size are selected from the eggs of the single-row conveyor and are put into a container.

In the off-line system, the eggs of the chicken house, once collected in the container for collecting eggs, are placed in the first auto-loader 21a.
The conveying path A of the diversion conveyor 5 at the position before the diversion
1, A2,..., A6, and the chicken eggs of the chicken house B once collected in the same manner as described above are supplied to the transport paths B1, B2,. You. First and second autoloaders 21a, 21
In the case where the third auto-loader is installed in place of the b, the eggs of the chicken house are transferred to the transport paths A1, A2, A3 of the first intermediate conveyor 9 and the second intermediate conveyor 1 immediately before the merging conveyor 16.
, And the chicken eggs of the chicken house B are supplied to the transport paths B1, B2,..., B6 of the connection conveyor 11, respectively.

In the first single row conveyor 19 and the second single row conveyor 20, as in the above-mentioned in-line system, three chicken eggs of the chicken house and three chicken eggs of the chicken house are transported respectively. Chicken eggs and chicken eggs of chicken house B are mixed in half. The same applies to the case where both the in-line method and the offline method are used.

In addition, as shown in FIG.
After three rows of the set of transport paths A1, A2, and A3 and three rows of the other set of transport paths A4, A5, and A6 are formed so as to be bifurcated from each other, they can also go straight.

Further, the first intermediate conveyor 9, the second intermediate conveyor 10, and the connection conveyor 11 can be constituted by bar conveyors, and all the conveyors 1, 3, 9 according to the properties of the articles to be packaged. , 10, 11, 17, 18 can be replaced by any suitable known conveyor. Further, the supply of the packaged goods is independent of the auto-loaders 21a, 21b, 22.
It is also possible to carry out manually or by a known conveyor.
Further, the number of transport paths can be appropriately selected according to the number of articles to be packed in the container.

[0019]

According to the present invention, since the unevenness in size can be avoided by packing the articles to be packaged in a fixed amount, the product production rate can be improved, the work time for producing the product can be reduced, and the work efficiency can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view.

FIG. 2 is a schematic side view.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged plan view of a shunt conveyor on the upstream side of an intermediate conveyor.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged plan view of a connection conveyor.

FIG. 5 is a schematic plan view of another embodiment of a diverter conveyor.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 1st supply conveyor 3 2nd supply conveyor 5 Split flow conveyor 9 1st intermediate conveyor 10 2nd intermediate conveyor 11 Connection conveyor 16 Merging conveyor 17 1st transfer conveyor 18 2nd transfer conveyor 19 1st single row conveyor 20 2nd Single row conveyor A1-A6, B1-B6 transport path

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Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] The present invention relates to a diversion conveyor which divides an even number of conveyance paths for conveying a packaged object into two sets each having an adjacent half as one set, and a first intermediate conveyor and a second intermediate respectively connected to each set of conveyance paths. A connection conveyor disposed between the first intermediate conveyor and the second intermediate conveyor and having an even number of conveying paths, connected to the connection conveyor, and connected to the first intermediate conveyor and the second intermediate conveyor; For each set of conveying paths to the conveying path connected to the connecting conveyor, and a consolidation conveyor for forming the sum of the number of conveying paths of the branching conveyor and the number of conveying paths of the connecting conveyor. Size mixing equipment. 2. The size mixing apparatus for fixed quantity packing according to claim 1, wherein the splitter conveyor and the connecting conveyors having the same number of conveying paths as the splitter conveyor are respectively connected to the supply conveyor to which the eggs are supplied via the aligning device. . 3. The size-mixing device for fixed-quantity filling according to claim 2, wherein at least the branching conveyor and the merging conveyor are constituted by bar conveyors, and the conveying path is formed by a partition plate installed on the bar conveyor. .