JPH01122808A - Tube body housing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attempt the automation of space saving and warehousing and delivery by inputting at a control board the kinds and the number of pieces of tube bodies transferred to a travel truck, and moving the truck to a loading position by means of a control board command, and conducting a transfer to an ascent and descent cradle, and arranging so that lifting to a predetermined rack and transferring to the rack may be conducted. CONSTITUTION:A tube body which arrived by truck is loaded into a travel truck 2, and a kind and the number of pieces are inputted into a control board. The control board determines a warehousing rack by means of a predetermined procedure. As a result, the travel truck 2 is moved to a loading position, and transfer to an ascent and descent cradle 5 is conducted by means of a transfer means 6 of a pallet 18. Next, the ascent and descent cradle 5 is made to rise to a predetermined rack 3. And, the tube body is sent into the rack 3 by means of the sending-in means of the ascent and descent cradle 5. The tube body is roll-moved downward along the inclining rack 3. Delivery is conducted in a reverse procedure. Thus, the automation of space saving and warehousing and delivery is attempted.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention stores pipes used for various purposes by classifying them by type based on material and caliber, and stores the pipes of the specified type according to the order. This invention relates to a tube storage device that takes out and ships a predetermined number of tube bodies.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, various types of pipes have been stored in separate sections for each type and laid flat.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, there is a problem in that it requires a considerable amount of space and is uneconomical if many types of tube bodies are to be stored horizontally. ' In order to solve these problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a tube storage device that stores various tubes three-dimensionally, saves space, and automates loading and unloading.

[Means for Solving the Problems] A tube storage device according to the present invention includes a tube storage device that stores tubes by sorting them by type, and a tube storage device that stores a plurality of tubes in the tube storage device. The tube storage means consists of a traveling trolley for loading and unloading, and a storage rack having an appropriate number of tube storage rack shelves arranged vertically inclined, and a storage rack for loading and unloading the tubes onto any desired rack shelf. An elevating crane having a feeding means for feeding pipes by rods, a feeding means disposed on the exit side of each rack shelf carried in by the foot rack and feeding the pipes one by one, and a feeding means for feeding the pipes one by one to any rack shelf. It is composed of an elevating body that receives a predetermined number of pipe bodies sent out by raising and lowering and transports them to the traveling truck, and sends the pipe bodies to the rack shelf corresponding to the type of pipe body for which storage is commanded. The present invention is characterized by comprising a control means for controlling each of the devices so as to take out a designated number of tubes from a rack shelf corresponding to the type of tubes.

[Function] In the pipe storage device of the present invention, when storing pipes, the pipes loaded on a truck are loaded onto a traveling truck in units of multiple pieces using a crane, and the type of pipes, The number of tubes is input into the control panel, and a rolling start command is issued. The traveling truck loaded with tubes travels to the loading position below the tube storage means, and the tubes loaded on the traveling truck are transferred to the lifting cradle by the transfer means. will be moved to The lifting cradle is extended to the rack shelf corresponding to the specified pipe type.

It is sent to the rack shelf by the feeding means of the lifting cradle.

When taking pipes out of storage, the type and number of pipes to be taken out is input into the control panel, and an operation start command is issued to move the elevating body that carries out the pipes up and down to the rack shelf corresponding to the specified type of pipe. , A predetermined number of tubes are delivered to the elevating body while counting the tubes sent out one by one by the feeding means installed on the exit side of the rack shelf.If there is a reservation for other types of tubes, the elevating body is of that type. After moving up and down to the rack shelf corresponding to the pipe body and receiving the pipe body in the same manner as above, it descends and delivers the pipe body to a traveling trolley. After that, they are loaded onto trucks using cranes and shipped.

[Example] Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained based on embodiments shown in the drawings.

First, to explain the general structure of the tube storage device, the tube storage device includes a tube storage means 1 that stores tubes by classifying them by type based on material and diameter, and a tube storage device 1 that stores a plurality of tubes. It is composed of a traveling cart 2 that carries in and out the tubes in units. Furthermore, the tube body storage means l has an appropriate number of tube body storage rack shelves 3a, 3b, . . . 3n (hereinafter referred to collectively as simply 3
A storage rack 4 in which the pipes carried in are vertically arranged at an angle, an elevating cradle 5 for elevating and lowering the carried pipe bodies to an arbitrary rack shelf, and a lifting cradle 5 for transporting the pipe bodies carried in by the traveling cart 2 into the elevating cradle 5. and a transport means 6 for transporting.

It is constituted by an elevating body 7 that ascends and descends to an arbitrary rack shelf 3, receives the discharged tube body, and carries it out to the traveling carriage 2.

Next, the structure of each of the above devices will be explained in order.

FIG. 3 shows a schematic planar arrangement of each of the above-mentioned devices (the storage rack 4 is omitted). The tubes are carried in and out by reciprocating between the loading stage (referred to as nj) and the lower position of the elevating body 7 (hereinafter referred to as the tube loading/unloading station j). The traveling trolley 2 is shown in Fig. 4.
As shown in FIG. 5, wheels 10 are arranged on the front, rear, left and right sides of the lower part of the trolley body 9, and are movable on the rails laid between the pipe volume loading stage and the pipe loading/unloading station. It travels by the forward and reverse rotation of the drive motor 12, and the limit switches 13 installed on the front and rear sides of the trolley body 9 are set on the front and rear sides of the trolley body 9. Part 1
A chain conveyor 16 for transporting the tube in a direction perpendicular to the rail 11 is disposed on a support stand 15 erected at both ends of the bogie main body 9, which stops running upon detection of contact with the rail 11. , the transfer means 6 by forward and reverse rotation of the drive motor 17.
Send and take in the tube body.

The pipes P are carried in and out in units of a plurality using a pallet 18, and two pallets 18 are prepared, one for carrying in and one for carrying out.

This usage will be explained later.

The transfer means 6 is a traveling trolley placed between the tube loading/unloading station and the lifting cradle 5 and located at the tube loading/unloading station. The pallet 18 that has been sent out is transferred to the lifting cradle 5, or the pallet 18 that has been stored and placed on the transfer means 6 is changed in the transfer direction and sent to the traveling cart 2 located at the tube loading/unloading station. The drive motor of the transfer means 6 is capable of forward and reverse rotation, and in the embodiment, a chain conveyor is used as the transfer means.

The elevating cradle 5 uses a cradle body 19 to lift both ends of a tube placed on a pallet 18 transferred by a transfer means 6, and raises it along a guide rail 20 to an arbitrary rack shelf 3. Cradle body 1
The chain 21 with both ends fixed to the guide rail 20
The gears installed at the upper and lower ends of the
It can be raised and lowered by forward and reverse rotation, and an inverter is used to achieve variable speed, and an encoder is used to control the speed and position. The lifting cradle 5 has a means for feeding the lifted tube to any rack shelf 3, and as shown in FIG. A belt 24 is provided that lifts the tubular body P and sends it out to the chain conveyor 23. One end of this belt 24 is fixed to a fixed part 25 of the cradle main body, and the other end is wound around a shaft 27 via a roller 26, and the chain 24 is rotated forward and backward by a drive motor 28 attached to the cradle main body 19.
9, the shaft body 27 is rotated forward and backward to wind in and let out the belt 24, and when the cradle main body 19 is at the lowest position as shown in FIG. , the tube body P is lifted by the cradle main body 19 in the state where the belt is fed out, and when it ascends to an arbitrary rack shelf 3, the belt 24 is wound around it, and the tube body P is sent to the chain conveyor 23 as shown in FIG. A limit switch 30 is installed on the entry side of the pipe P, and detects when the pipes P are carried into the rack shelf 3 in a stacked state, and when the pipes P are carried into the rack shelf 3 in a stacked state, the edge of the belt 24 is set. By reversing the chain conveyor 23 and retracting the tube body P toward the cradle body side, the tube body P is fed again to the rack shelf 3 without being stacked.

The rack shelf 3 is arranged on the exit side of the rack shelf 3 by rolling the pipe body fed by the feeding means of the lifting cradle 5 along a slightly inclined shelf surface, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8. The channel members 31 are stopped by a stopper 32 erected and stored in a row on a shelf. On the exit side of the rack shelf 3, a push-up member 34 is disposed as a feeding means for feeding out the tubes P one by one, and moves up and down by the expansion and contraction of the piston rod of the cylinder 33. As the push-up member 34 rises, the tubes P are moved up and down. They are pushed up one by one, rolled along the inclined surface formed on the upper surface of the push-up member 34, and are discharged beyond the stopper 32. The number of pipes dispensed is detected by a limit switch 35.

The elevating body 7 waits at the position shown in Fig. 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "home station of the elevating body"), and upon receiving a command to carry out the tubes, lifts and lowers the predetermined number of tubes sent out to an arbitrary rack shelf. The pipe is picked up by the receiver and handed over to the traveling trolley 2 waiting at the pipe loading/unloading station. A chain 37 with both ends fixed to the elevating body 7 is rotated by gears disposed at the upper and lower ends of the guide rail 36, and the elevating cradle 5 is raised and lowered by forward and reverse rotation of the drive motor 38. Similarly, an inverter is used to achieve variable speed.

Speed and position control is performed using an encoder.

In the above-mentioned configuration, when the tubes are to be stored or removed from the warehouse, the designation of the storage/unloading, the code number of the type of tube, and the number of tubes are entered through the input means 39, as shown in FIG. Register the entered tube type code in the CPU section in advance °C
The rack shelf address determination 41 is performed by referring to the shelf address file 40, and then the rack shelf address-inventory number file 4 in the storage section is determined based on the entered number of pipes in and out.
2, the stock number calculation 43 is performed and stored.

Then, at the start of loading/unloading, data on the rack shelf address and the number of pipes are applied to the loading/unloading control means 44, and each device 45 is controlled by a loading/unloading program programmed in advance.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the storage processing means, and FIG. 1θ is a flowchart showing the storage processing means.

In the figure, 5t-571 represents each step of each processing procedure.

Two pallets (1B) are used for loading and unloading tubes, one for loading and one for loading and unloading. When waiting for completion of loading and unloading, as shown in FIG. 1, the loading pallet 18 is located at a position M above the transfer means 6 (hereinafter referred to as "home station 1 for loading pallets"), and the loading pallet 18 is located at the home station. It is placed on the elevating body 7.

When performing a warehousing operation for pipes, when a warehousing operation start command is issued, it is first determined whether the pipe is being unloaded (St), and if it is being unloaded, the system waits until the warehousing operation is completed (S2), and then the warehousing operation is performed after completion. is started. If it is not being unloaded, the warehousing operation is started, and the traveling trolley 2 that was waiting at the pipe loading station
travels to the pipe loading/unloading station and stops (S3)
. The chain conveyor 16 of the traveling trolley 2 rotates in reverse 34
), then the transfer means 6 rotates in the opposite direction (SS), and the carrying pallet 18 placed on the transfer means 6 is moved to the traveling trolley 2.
When moving upward (S6), the rotation of the chain conveyor 16 of the traveling trolley 2 is stopped (S7), and the rotation of the transfer means 6 is also stopped (Sa). (S9)
, the worker loads the pipes in units of multiple pieces onto the carrying pallet 18 using the crane 8 (S10), and turns on the travel push button switch of the traveling trolley 2 (Sit), and the traveling trolley 2 loads the pipes. It travels to the pipe loading/unloading station and stops (S12), and the transfer means 6 rotates forward (S12).
13) When the chain conveyor 16 of the traveling truck 2 rotates in the forward direction (314), when the carrying-in pallet 18 on which the pipe body is placed moves onto the transfer means 6 (S15), the chain conveyor 16 of the traveling truck 2 rotates. When the loading pallet 18 is stopped (S16), the carrying pallet 18 is transported by the moving means 6, and when it is moved onto the lifting cradle 5 (S17), the carrying pallet 18 is transported by the moving means 6.
The rotation of the tube stops (318), and the lifting cradle 19 rises to lift the tube body. In parallel with this operation, the transfer means 6 rotates in the reverse direction (320), the empty loading pallet 18 is moved to the home station (521), the rotation of the transfer means 6 is stopped (S22), and the traveling cart 2 travels to the tube loading station and stops (323), and the elevated lifting cradle 5 stops at the specified rack shelf address (324).
The chain conveyor 23 is rotated (525), the tube feeding belt 24 is wound (526), and the tubes are fed one by one to the rack shelf. When the feeding of the tubes is completed (
327), the elevating cradle 5 descends 528) and stops at the home station, which is the standby position of the elevating cradle 5 529), completing the warehousing operation. If the warehousing operation is to be continued, the warehousing operation start command is issued again.

When performing an unloading operation for a pipe body, when a command to start the unloading operation is issued, it is first determined whether or not the pipe body is being stored (530), and if the pipe body is being stored, it is to wait until the storage operation is completed (S31), and after completion. Start the shipping operation. If the storage is not in progress, the unloading operation is started, and the elevating body 7 rises with the unloading pallet 18 on it (532), and in parallel, the traveling cart 2 waiting at the tube loading station unloads the tubes. The elevating body 7 travels to the entry station and stops (S33), and the raised elevating body 7 stops at the top of the rack shelf address specified at the start of the unloading operation (534). 336)
, If the reservation is made, the elevating body 7 will descend to the next designated rack shelf address and stop (337), and the designated number of racks will be dispensed by the delivery means at the exit of the rack shelf 3 (S35), and the reservation for other rack shelf addresses will disappear. For example, the elevating body 7 descends (538), stops at the pipe loading/unloading station where the traveling carriage 2 is waiting, and places the conveyance pallet 18 on the traveling carriage 2.

(S39), the transfer means 6 is rotated forward 540), the chain conveyor 16 of the traveling trolley 2 is rotated forward (541), and the unloading pallet 18 loaded with the tubes on the elevating body 7 is moved onto the transfer means 6. (S42), the rotation of the transfer means 6 is stopped (543), the rotation of the chain conveyor 16 of the traveling trolley 2 is stopped (S44), the elevating body 7 is raised (545), and stopped at the home station. Then (
546), the chain conveyor 16 of the traveling trolley 2 rotates in the opposite direction (S47), and the transfer means 6 rotates in the opposite direction 54
8), the unloading pallet 1 being moved onto the transfer means 6
8 onto the traveling trolley 2 (349), the rotation of the chain conveyor 16 of the traveling trolley 2 is stopped (550), and the rotation of the transfer means 6 is also stopped (S51). When it travels to the loading station and stops (S52), the worker bundles the tubes 553) and unloads the tubes with the crane 8 554), and turns on the travel push button switch of the traveling trolley 2 (S55). The traveling trolley travels to the pipe loading/unloading station and stops (556)
, rotate the transfer means 6 in the forward direction 557), rotate the chain conveyor 16 of the traveling trolley 2 in the forward direction 358), move the unloading pallet 18 on the traveling trolley 2 onto the transport means 6 and temporarily store it 559), Stop the rotation of means 6 560
), the rotation of the chain conveyor 16 of the traveling trolley 2 is stopped (S61), the elevating body 7 is lowered (362), and when the traveling trolley 2 stops at the waiting pipe loading/unloading station (
S63), the chain conveyor 16 of the traveling trolley 2 rotates in the opposite direction 564), the transfer means 6 also rotates in the opposite direction 565), and when the unloading pallet 18 moves to the elevating body 7E (S66),
The rotation of the chain conveyor 16 of the traveling trolley 2 has stopped.5
67), the rotation of the transfer means 6 is also stopped (368), and the elevating body 7 starts to rise with the unloading pallet 18 placed thereon (56).
9), the traveling trolley 2 stops at the home station (370), travels to the tube loading station, which is a standby position, and stops (571), completing the unloading operation. If you wish to continue unloading, issue the unloading operation start command again.

In addition, although the above embodiment shows an example in which two pallets 18 for carrying out are used to improve the efficiency of carrying in and out of pipes,
One pallet may be used for both loading and unloading.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, an appropriate number of rack shelves are provided above and below to store tubes by type three-dimensionally, thereby saving space for storing tubes. In addition, it is possible to automate the loading and unloading of pipes, resulting in labor savings.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a schematic front view of the device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a left side view of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a diagram explaining the arrangement of the device of the present invention, and FIG.
The figure is a front view of the traveling truck, Figure 5 is a right side view of Figure 4, Figure 6 is an explanatory diagram of the feeding means of the lifting cradle, Figure 7 is an explanatory diagram of the rack shelf exit side, and Figure 8 is an explanatory diagram of the rack shelf exit side. 7 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line A-A in FIG. 7, FIG. 9 is a block diagram of the control means of the apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the warehousing program stored in the memory of the warehousing/unloading control means, and FIG. is a flowchart showing a shipping program. 1... Tube storage means 2... Traveling trolley 3... Rack shelf 4... Storage rack 5... Ladle for lifting
6...transportation means 7...elevating body

Claims (1)

[Claims] It consists of a tube storage means that stores tubes by sorting them by type, and a traveling cart that carries a plurality of tubes into and out of the tube storage means, and the tube storage means stores an appropriate number of tubes. Body storage rack A storage rack with shelves tilted up and down,
an elevating cradle having a feeding means for ascending and feeding the carried pipe body to an arbitrary rack shelf; a transfer means for transferring the pipe body carried in by a traveling cart to the elevating cradle; It is composed of a sending means that is arranged to send out the pipe bodies one by one, and an elevating body that moves up and down to an arbitrary rack shelf, receives a predetermined number of pipe bodies sent out, and carries them out to the traveling cart. control means for controlling each of the devices so as to send the tubes to the rack shelves corresponding to the types of tubes ordered, and to take out a specified number of tubes from the rack shelves corresponding to the types of tubes for which the shipping command has been issued; A tube storage device characterized by: