JP3789282B2 - Article conveying device - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an article conveying apparatus for conveying a raw material of a copper solution used in continuous casting of copper, that is, a plate-like material such as electrolytic copper.
[0002]
[Prior art]
The raw material of the copper solution used in the continuous casting of copper, that is, electrolytic copper (cathode plate) is, for example, a plate-like material having a vertical and horizontal length of 1 m and a thickness of 15 to 20 mm. As shown in FIG. 5, such an electric copper transfer operation is performed by a transfer conveyor means 200 such as a chain conveyor or a belt conveyor as an electric copper laminate 100 in which a plurality of sheets of electric copper 100 a are stacked. When this electrolytic copper laminate 100 is transported to the upper floor of the factory where the melting furnace is installed, it is unloaded by the elevator 201.
[0003]
Conventionally, the transfer operation of the electrolytic copper laminate 100 from the transport conveyor means 200 to the elevator 201 is performed between the transport conveyor means 200 and the transport conveyor means 202 installed in the elevator 201. And the connecting roller 204 is provided.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, the surface of the electric copper 100a has uneven protrusions that are about the size of the thumb tip, and if there is a protrusion on the bottom bottom surface of the laminated electric copper, It may slip or cause load collapse.
[0005]
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to work even from a plurality of stacked plate-like articles such as electrolytic copper to a predetermined position such as in an elevator without causing load collapse. It is an object to provide an article conveying apparatus that can be transferred well.
[0006]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The above object is achieved by the article conveying apparatus according to the present invention. In summary, the present invention is an article conveying apparatus for transferring an article conveyed by a conveying conveyor means from the conveying conveyor means into an elevator adjacent to an end of the conveying conveyor means ,
A fixed frame that is a frame structure;
A rail attached to the gantry and provided to extend from the upper end of the conveyor means to the elevator position by a predetermined length;
A travel mechanism that travels along the rail, the base having a rectangular frame structure, and drive means for reciprocating the base along the rail;
A chucking mechanism that is provided on the front side of the elevator direction of the base of the traveling mechanism and grips an article on the conveyor means;
An elevating mechanism that is provided on the base of the traveling mechanism, operates the chucking mechanism, and elevates and lowers articles on the conveyor means;
It has a, when the base of the running mechanism is moved into the elevator along said rail, said chucking mechanism gripped article is characterized in that so as to be positioned within said elevator It is an article conveying apparatus.
[0008]
According to one embodiment of the present invention, the lifting mechanism comprises a lifting drive means attached to said base, and a support frame which is raised and lowered the lifting drive means.
[0009]
According to another embodiment of the present invention, the chucking mechanism includes chuck means attached to the support frame of the elevating mechanism, and the chuck means moves the base that moves along the rail. A pair of arm members arranged to face each other in a direction perpendicular to the direction so as to be movable, and chuck drive means for driving the arm members. According to another embodiment, the arm member has a vertically extending arm arranged in parallel, and an upper end of the arm is carried on the support frame via a sliding bearing member, and a lower end of the arm Can be folded inward and brought into contact with the lower surface of the article on the conveyor means to lift the article.
[0010]
According to still another embodiment of the present invention, the article is a laminate in which a plurality of electrolytic coppers are laminated.
[0011]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, the article conveying apparatus according to the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings.
[0012]
1 and 2 show a schematic configuration of an embodiment of an article conveying apparatus according to the present invention. According to the present invention, the conventional intermediate conveyor means 203 and the connecting roller 204 shown in FIG. 5 are unnecessary.
[0013]
According to the present embodiment, the article transporting apparatus 1 is disposed between a transport conveyor means 200 that is a stock conveyor such as a chain conveyor or a belt conveyor, and an elevator 201. The article conveying device 1 is a chucking that holds a raw material, that is, a laminated body 100 of electrolytic copper (cathode plate) that is a plate-like material having a length and width of 1 m and a thickness of 15 to 20 mm, for example. It has a mechanism 30, a lifting mechanism 20 for lifting the raw material, and a traveling mechanism 10 for transferring the raw material.
[0014]
The article conveying apparatus 1 has a gantry 2 that is a frame structure. The gantry 2 extends from the upper end of the conveying conveyor means 200 close to the elevator 201 to the elevator position, and the rails 3 are separated from each other. Are installed in parallel. The traveling mechanism 10 is disposed on the rail 3 so as to freely reciprocate.
[0015]
The traveling mechanism 10 includes a base 11 that is a rectangular frame structure equipped with the lifting mechanism 20 and the chucking mechanism 30. An axle 12 is rotatably mounted on the base 11 by a bearing 13, and wheels 14 that run in conformity with the U-shaped rail 3 are provided at both ends of the axle 12. Further, a driving force is transmitted to one axle by driving means 15 which is an electric motor in this embodiment. With such a configuration, the base 11 can reciprocate along the rail 3.
[0016]
According to this embodiment, the base 11 is provided with traveling means such as an axle 12, a bearing 13, and wheels 14 in the rear end region, that is, in the portion located on the left side in FIG. That is, the elevating mechanism 20 and the chucking mechanism 30 are installed in a portion located on the right side in FIG.
[0017]
As is better understood with reference also to FIG. 3, the elevating mechanism 20 is suspended by, for example, a hydraulic cylinder 21 and a piston rod 22 of the hydraulic cylinder 21 as elevating drive means attached to the base 11. And a support frame 23. The support frame 23 includes a guide rod 24 protruding upward, and the guide rod 24 is fitted to a rod guide 16 provided on the base 11. Therefore, the support frame 23 can be moved up and down by urging the hydraulic cylinder 21.
[0018]
The chucking mechanism 30 has chuck means 31 attached to the support frame 23 of the lifting mechanism 20 as will be better understood with reference also to FIG. The chuck means 31 forms a pair that is arranged so as to face and move in a direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the base 11 that moves along the rail 3, that is, in the width direction of the transport conveyor means 200. An arm member 32 is provided.
[0019]
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3 , the arm member 32 includes a vertically extending arm 32 </ b> A arranged in parallel and a lateral joint 32 </ b> B connecting both the arms 32 </ b> A in this embodiment. . The upper end of the arm 32A is supported on the support frame 23 via the sliding bearing member 34, and the lower end of the arm 32A is bent inward to form a chuck portion 32C, which enables the chucking of the raw material.
[0020]
Both arm members 32 are connected to, for example, a piston rod 36 of a hydraulic cylinder 35 as chuck driving means attached to the support frame 23, and approach each other by energizing the hydraulic cylinder 35. Or move away from each other, that is, away from each other.
[0021]
Next, the operation | movement aspect of the goods conveyance apparatus 1 which concerns on this invention of the said structure is demonstrated.
[0022]
In the present embodiment, the electrolytic copper (cathode plate) 100a that is a plate-like material, for example, having a vertical and horizontal length of 1 m and a thickness of 15 to 20 mm is, for example, an electrolytic copper in which 18 sheets are stacked. It is conveyed by the conveyor means 200 as the laminated body 100, and is conveyed to the edge part position of the conveyor means 200 in which the articles | goods conveying apparatus 1 of this invention was installed.
[0023]
As indicated by an imaginary line in FIG. 1, the transport conveyor means 200 temporarily stops when the electrolytic copper laminate 100 reaches a predetermined position at the end of the transport conveyor means 200. This position is a position where the arm member 32 of the chucking mechanism 30 is located when the base 11 of the traveling mechanism 10 is located on the rear end side of the rail 3, that is, on the left side in FIG. That is, the arm members 32 are positioned on both sides of the copper electroplated body 100 on the transport conveyor means 200. At this time, the support frame 23 is positioned at the lowest position by the hydraulic cylinder 21.
[0024]
Next, by energizing the hydraulic cylinder 35 , as shown in FIG. 2, the both arm members 32 are moved closer to each other. Thereby, both the arm members 32 approach the electric copper laminated body 100 from both sides of the electric copper laminated body 100, respectively, and the chuck portion 32C bent inward below the respective arm members 32 has the electrolytic copper laminated body. The two ends of 100 are disposed at lower positions. Of course, both ends of the electric copper laminate 100 protrude in the width direction from the conveyer means 200 by making the width of the conveyer means 200 smaller than the width of the electric copper laminate 100, for example.
[0025]
Subsequently, by energizing the hydraulic cylinder 21, both arm members 32 move upward, and the lower surfaces of both ends of the electrolytic copper laminate 100 in which the chuck portion 32 </ b> C protrudes in the width direction from the conveyor means 200. Abut. Furthermore, by energizing the hydraulic cylinder 21, the both arm members 32 lift the electrolytic copper laminate 100 upward.
[0026]
When the electric motor 15 is driven in this state, the base 11 moves along the rail 3 toward the front end side of the rail 3, that is, toward the elevator 201. Thereby, the electrical copper laminated body 100 is also conveyed toward the elevator 201. Although the rail 3 extends only to a position close to the elevator 201, the chucking mechanism 30 is provided on the front side of the base 11, so that the base 11 moves forward along the rail 3. The copper electroplated body 100 is carried on both arm members 32 and conveyed into the elevator 201. As indicated by an imaginary line in FIG. 1, when the base 11 reaches the foremost end position of the rail 3, the electrolytic copper laminate 100 is located above the transport conveyor means 202 in the elevator 201. In this state, the driving of the electric motor 15 is stopped and the movement of the base 11 is stopped.
[0027]
Next, by operating the hydraulic cylinder 21 and lowering both the arm members 32, the electrolytic copper laminate 100 is placed on the conveyor means 202. Further, the both arm members 32 are lowered, and the hydraulic cylinder 35 is operated in a state where the chuck portion 32C is separated from the electrolytic copper laminate 100 to move the both arm members 32 away from each other, and at the same time or thereafter. Then, the hydraulic cylinder 21 is operated to lift both arm members 32 to the uppermost position.
[0028]
Thereafter, the electric motor 15 is driven to return the base 11 to the operation initial position shown by a solid line in FIG.
[0029]
On the other hand, the elevator 201 on which the electrolytic copper laminate 100 is transferred rises upward to a predetermined floor and stops. After that, when the transporting conveyor means 202 is driven to unload the electrolytic copper laminate 100, it is lowered again and stopped, and waits for transfer of an article from the next article transport apparatus 1.
[0030]
When the article conveying apparatus 1 according to the present invention removes the intermediate conveying conveyor means 203 and the connecting roller 204 that are conventionally provided, a plurality of plate-like objects such as electrolytic copper 100a are stacked and conveyed. In addition, the problem that the copper copper laminates 100 stacked due to a slight impact caused by the intermediate conveyer means 203 and the connecting roller 204 that are slippery from each other causes collapse of the load and the transfer operation is completely solved. The
[0031]
In the above embodiment, the article to be conveyed has been described as being an electrolytic copper laminate. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the article conveying apparatus of the present invention is conveyed by a conveyor means, and then conveyed. The present invention is similarly applied to the conveyance of any article transferred from the conveyor means to another predetermined position, and the same effect can be achieved.
[0032]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, the present invention is an article transport apparatus for transferring an article transported by the transport conveyor means from the transport conveyor means to an elevator close to the end of the transport conveyor means. A fixed frame that is a structure , a rail that is attached to the frame and extends from the upper end of the transfer conveyor means to the elevator position by a predetermined length, and a rectangular frame structure And a driving mechanism that reciprocates the base along the rail. The travel mechanism travels along the rail, and is provided on the front side in the elevator direction of the base of the travel mechanism. a chucking mechanism for gripping the articles on the means, provided on the base of the running mechanism, a chucking mechanism actuates, have a, a lifting mechanism for raising and lowering the articles on the conveyor means, the traveling mechanism When the base is moved into the elevator along the rails, since article is gripped by the chucking mechanism is configured such that so as to be positioned in the elevator, the plurality stacked sheets, for example, electrolytic copper as Even a plate-shaped article can be transferred from the conveyor means to a predetermined position such as in the elevator without causing collapse of the cargo.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a front view showing a schematic configuration of an article conveying apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a side view showing a schematic configuration of an article conveying apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a front view showing an elevating mechanism and a chucking mechanism of the article transport device according to the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a side view showing an elevating mechanism and a chucking mechanism of the article transport device according to the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a front view showing a schematic configuration of a conventional article conveying apparatus.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Article conveying apparatus 2 Base 3 Rail 10 Traveling mechanism 11 Base 13 Wheel 20 Elevating mechanism 21 Elevating drive means 23 Support frame 30 Chucking mechanism 31 Chuck means 32 Arm member 35 Chuck driving means 200 Conveying conveyor means

Claims (5)

An article conveying apparatus for transferring an article conveyed by a conveying conveyor means from an conveying conveyor means to an elevator adjacent to an end of the conveying conveyor means ,
A fixed frame that is a frame structure;
A rail attached to the gantry and provided to extend from the upper end of the conveyor means to the elevator position by a predetermined length;
A travel mechanism that travels along the rail, the base having a rectangular frame structure, and drive means for reciprocating the base along the rail;
A chucking mechanism that is provided on the front side of the elevator direction of the base of the traveling mechanism and grips an article on the conveyor means;
An elevating mechanism that is provided on the base of the traveling mechanism, operates the chucking mechanism, and elevates and lowers articles on the conveyor means;
It has a, when the base of the running mechanism is moved into the elevator along said rail, said chucking mechanism gripped article is characterized in that so as to be positioned within said elevator Article conveying device. 2. The article transporting apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the elevating mechanism includes elevating drive means attached to the base and a support frame elevating and lowering by the elevating drive means. The chucking mechanism has chuck means attached to the support frame of the elevating mechanism, and the chuck means is separated from and contacted in a direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the base moving along the rail. 3. The article conveying apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a pair of arm members that face each other so as to be movable, and a chuck driving unit that drives the arm members. The arm member has a vertically extending arm arranged in parallel, and an upper end of the arm is supported on the support frame via a sliding bearing member, and a lower end of the arm is bent inward. 4. The article conveying apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the article can be lifted by contacting the lower surface of the article on the conveying conveyor means. The article transport apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4 , wherein the article is a laminate in which a plurality of sheets of electrolytic copper are laminated.

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