JP6865558B2 - A device for determining the binding state of a linear object binding product. - Google Patents

Description

In the present invention, the weight of a linear object binding product obtained by accumulating and binding soft and hard linear objects such as somen noodles, pasta, incense sticks, and wire is determined, and the suitability of the binding state is determined and sent to a transport device. It relates to a product binding state pass / fail judgment device (hereinafter referred to as a judgment device).

After being bound, this type of bound product was sent to a station for packaging or the like by a transport device or the like, and was finally packed in a box. However, defective products were visually selected at the time of packing. According to this, it was not very efficient because it was misunderstood and required manpower and time. Therefore, the weight and the binding state are detected by a sensor, and if it is judged to be unacceptable, it is selected. This selection can be done automatically, but the transfer device had to be temporarily stopped, which delayed the work.

Patent Document 1 below also describes this type of defective product discriminating device, but when a defective product is detected, the transport device is stopped and the defective product is pulled out by the stretching means, and the machine is also temporarily stopped. I was stopping.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2005-329977

According to the present invention, while transporting a bundled product, a sensor automatically determines whether the product has passed or is defective, and the defective product is discharged to a line different from the transport line by the discharging means while the passing product is being transported as it is. Is. During this time, normal transport can be continued without stopping the transport device, so that no time loss occurs.

As a specific example, when the defective product described in claim 2 is transferred to the discharge bucket, the discharge bucket is raised, thrown into the exclusion tray, and lowered. At this time, the downstream pocket of the walking beam is Provided is a configuration in which the transfer device is moved to the transport device on the downstream side while remaining empty.

As a specific example of this, the present invention has two pockets on the upstream side and the downstream side where the walking beam receives the bound product, which is described in claim 2, and the pockets on the upstream side are from the carry-in bucket to the discharge bucket. A configuration in which a pocket on the downstream side sends a product from a discharge bucket to a transport position of a transport device on the downstream side. When a defective product is transferred to a discharge bucket according to claim 3, the discharge bucket is raised to remove a tray. The downstream pocket of the walking beam scoops the sky and moves to the downstream transport device.

According to claims 1 to 3, when the pass / fail determination sensor determines the pass / fail of the bound state of the bound product received in the carry-in bucket as a defective product, the discharge bucket rises and discharges out of the transport path, and determines that the product is acceptable. It will be sent to the transport path on the downstream side as it is. During this time, the transportation of the bound product can be continued regardless of whether it is a defective product or a accepted product.

It is a top view of the pass / fail judgment apparatus of this invention. It is a front view of the pass / fail determination device of this invention. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam when the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention determines that it is a defective product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam when the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention determines that it is a defective product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam when the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention determines that it is a defective product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam when the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention determines that it is a defective product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam when the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention determines that it is a defective product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam when the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention determines that it is a defective product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam when the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention determines that it is a defective product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam when the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention determines that it is a defective product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam when the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention determines that it is a defective product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam after the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention ejects a defective product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam after the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention ejects a defective product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam after the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention ejects a defective product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam after the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention ejects a defective product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam after the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention ejects a defective product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam after the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention ejects a defective product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam when the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention determines that it is a passing product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam when the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention determines that it is a passing product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam when the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention determines that it is a passing product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam when the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention determines that it is a passing product. It is explanatory drawing of the movement of the walking beam when the pass / fail determination apparatus of this invention determines that it is a passing product.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1 is a plan view of the pass / fail judgment device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a front view, FIGS. 3 to 11 are explanatory views of processing when the pass / fail judgment device determines that the product is defective, and FIGS. 12 to 17 are pass / fail views. It is explanatory drawing of the process after the determination device discharges a defective product. Since there are many drawings of the same type, the reference numerals of the members related to the processing are concentrated in the first FIG. 3, but they are also appropriately attached to the drawings with new movements. The bound product (hereinafter referred to as a work) 10 after binding is determined by the determination device 11. A transport device such as a bucket conveyor or a belt conveyor (not shown) is connected to the determination device 11 on the downstream side and the upstream side (sometimes referred to as a transport side, a lower side, an anti-transport side, or an upper side), and the work 10 conveys the work 10. It is placed on a predetermined transport position of the device and carried into the determination device 11, and a pass / fail judgment is made and the device is carried out. These operations are operated by the operation unit 6.

At the entrance of the determination device 11, a carry-in bucket 3 for receiving the work 10 carried by the transfer device is provided, and the work 10 is temporarily held here. A binding pass / fail judgment sensor (hereinafter referred to as a sensor) 1 consisting of at least a weighing scale 5 and equipment 5'such as a camera and a photoelectric sensor for checking the binding state is provided in or near the carry-in bucket 3 itself, and the carry-in bucket 3 is provided. The sensor 1 determines whether or not the suspended work 10 has passed or failed as a bound product.

A member called a walking beam 4 is provided on the transport side of the determination device 11 with respect to the carry-in bucket 3. The walking beam 4 is a two-plate-shaped object that reciprocates while moving up and down in the downstream and upstream directions, and is composed of an upstream pocket 12a and a downstream pocket 12b that are recessed downward in the upper part of the upstream side and the downstream side. Two pockets 12 are formed. The swing of the walking beam 4 consists of wheels 13 and pins 14 provided on the upstream side and the downstream side of the frame of the determination device 11, and these are formed into parallel links by two links 15 and the foil 13 is rotated. Is going.

A funnel-shaped discharge bucket 7 on which the work 10 is temporarily placed is provided in the middle of the walking beam 4 (FIG. 3). The work 10 stopped in the carry-in bucket 3 is scooped up by the upstream pocket 12a when the walking beam 4 moves to the downstream side and is moved to the discharge bucket 7 (FIGS. 4 to 6). On the other hand, the work 10 placed on the discharge bucket 7 is scooped up by the downstream pocket 12b and moved to a predetermined transfer position of the transfer device connected to the downstream side (FIGS. 18 to 22). That is, the upstream pocket 12a reciprocates between the carry-in bucket 3 and the discharge bucket 7, and the downstream pocket 12b reciprocates between the discharge bucket 7 and the downstream transfer device. Naturally, the distance between the pockets 12 is the same as the distance between the carry-in bucket 3, the discharge bucket 7, and the transport positions of the downstream transport devices, and the trajectory of the sway of each pocket 12 passes through these members.

Next, processing when the work 10 placed on the discharge bucket 7 is a defective product 10a will be described. The discharge bucket 7 is moved up and down by a rod 17 housed in the sheath 16 (the sheath 16 does not rise above a certain level), and the discharge bucket 7 and the sheath 16 are connected by a link 18. When the discharge bucket 7 rises with the work 10a related to the defective product placed on it, the discharge bucket 7 tilts due to the action of the link 18 after the sheath 16 stops (the link 18 does not tilt any more when it hits the tipping stopper 9). , The work 10a is excluded from the exclusion tray 8 provided on the downstream side of the determination device 11 (FIGS. 8 to 10). Next, the discharge bucket 7 descends (FIGS. 11 to 12), during which the transfer device operates without stopping the movement, and all the works 10 are continuously conveyed. Further, the above operation is executed until the walking beam 4 makes one round trip.

Next, the processing when the bound product is the work 10b of the accepted product will be described with reference to FIGS. 13 to 22. After the work 10a related to the defective product is discharged to the exclusion tray 8, the next work 10 is supplied to the carry-in bucket 3 (FIG. 13), which is scooped by the upstream pocket 11a of the walking beam 4 and discharged to the discharge bucket 7. (FIGS. 14 to 16). When the sensor 1 determines that this bound product is a pass product 10b, the discharge bucket 7 is left as it is (without rising), and the downstream pocket 12b is provided on the downstream side by scooping the work 10b of the pass product of the discharge bucket 7 and is provided in the transport device. Send out (FIGS. 20 to 22).

As described above, in short, the work 10 conveyed by the upstream transfer device is retained in the carry-in bucket 3, and the upstream pocket 12a of the walking beam 4 scoops the work 10 and transfers it to the discharge bucket 7. On the other hand, the work 10 in the discharge bucket 7 is scooped up by the downstream pocket 12b of the walking beam 4 and sent to the transport position of the transport device on the downstream side. This is the same regardless of whether the work 10 is a pass product 10b or a defective product 10a. In the case of the pass product 10b, this procedure is used, but in the case of the defective product 10a, the downstream pocket 12b rotates. When it comes, the discharge bucket 7 has already risen and the defective product 10a is discharged to the exclusion tray 8 and is empty. Therefore, the downstream pocket 12b moves while remaining empty.

During this time, the transport device does not stop, and it is not necessary to stop the attached equipment. Since it takes the longest time to raise, tilt, and lower the discharge bucket 7 in the case of the defective product 10a, the cycle time for moving the transport device is set accordingly. The determination device 11 is independent and can be set in front of any device at any place after binding. By the way, each member must be moved at the specific timing described above, but it may be moved in each sequence using a known cam, cylinder, or the like as a drive source.

1 Cohesion pass / fail judgment sensor (sensor)
2 Work confirmation sensor 3 Carry-in bucket 4 Walking beam 5 Weight scale 5'Unity confirmation sensor 6 Operation unit 7 Discharge bucket 8 Exclusion tray 9 Fall stopper 10 Work 10a Defective work 10b Passed product work 11 Judgment device 12 Walking beam pocket 12a 〃 Upstream pocket 12b 〃 Downstream pocket 13 Foil 14 Pin 15 Link 16 Sheath 17 Rod 18 Link

Claims (4)

While transporting a bundled product that has been bundled by accumulating linear objects with a transport device, the bound state and weight of the bundled product are judged by a pass / fail judgment sensor and sorted into acceptable products and defective products. In the determination device, this binding state pass / fail determination device has a walking beam that transfers the binding product to the downstream side, and the walking beam has two pockets on the upstream side and the downstream side on which the binding product is placed. , and wherein the upstream side of the pocket is transported to the discharge buckets from the loading buckets for receiving the binding product, downstream of the pocket is intended to transport the accepted product of bundling products to the transport device downstream from the discharge bucket A device for determining the binding state of a linear object binding product. When a defective product is transferred to the discharge bucket, the discharge bucket is raised, thrown into the exclusion tray, and lowered. At this time, the downstream pocket of the walking beam remains empty and shifts to the downstream transport device. The device for determining the pass / fail of the binding state of the linear object binding product according to claim 1. A device for determining the binding state of a linear object bound product according to any one of claims 1 and 2, wherein the pass / fail determination sensor comprises a weighing scale for measuring the weight of the bound product. Acceptance judgment sensor bundled state acceptance judgment apparatus of claim 1 either linear product tying product that consists of things like cameras and photoelectric sensors for observing the binding state of the binding product.

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