JPH01168958A - Automatic loading-unloading apparatus for cheese-press lid in cheese-dyeing carrier - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the title apparatus so designed that an arm loader free to rotate in the horizontal direction is lowered to hold the press lid followed by raising said loader again to unload said lid from a carrier and then rotating the loader to the waiting position of a second carrier loaded with the next cheese to load said lid efficiently. CONSTITUTION:When a cheese-press lid 16 is to be unloaded after cheese dyeing, an arm loader 10 is lowered and an annular disc 20 is pushed down by the action of a fluid cylinder 19 to push the rear end of the stopper 17 to effect unlocking. Said arm loader 10 is raised again by the actuation of a cylinder 14 with a click 15 holding said press lid 16 to unload said lid 16 from the carrier spindle 22. Thence, said arm 10 is horizontally turned to the waiting position of a second carrier loaded with the next cheese to load said press lid 16, thus accomplishing automatic loading of the press lid collectively and in high efficiency for all the spindles 22.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to an automatic cheese presser lid attachment/detachment device for a carrier for dyeing cheese. More specifically, the present invention relates to an apparatus for automatically and effectively attaching and detaching a cheese presser lid which covers the upper part of the spindle of a cheese dyeing carrier loaded with cheese and presses the cheese.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in order to hold the cheese loaded on the spindles of a cheese dyeing carrier under a predetermined pressure, a presser plate is placed on top of each spindle, and this is tightened and pressed with a nut. On the other hand, it has been proposed that such pressure and holding of cheese be performed on all spindles at once to improve work efficiency (Utility Model Application No. 58-1).
40198).

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

However, in the past, the work of pressing and holding the cheese loaded on the spindle of the dyeing carrier as described above was done manually, and therefore it is extremely difficult to save labor and make this work sufficiently efficient. This is desirable.

Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus that can automatically and effectively attach and detach the cheese presser lid of a carrier for dyeing cheese.

[Means for solving problems]

According to the present invention, there is provided an automatic cheese presser lid attachment/detachment device for a carrier for cheese dyeing, which device includes a support frame, and a support frame that is movable up and down with respect to the support frame and horizontally arranged in an arc shape. It comprises a rotatably fixed arm, and a cheese presser lid gripping means and a cheese presser lid detaching means attached to the distal end of the arm.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a side view showing an example of a device according to the present invention,
FIG. 2 is a plan view thereof. 1 is a channel that constitutes a support frame, and is fixed to the floor surface. A fluid cylinder 2 is fixed to the channel 1, and an arm loader fixing base 3 connected to the fluid cylinder 2 is moved up and down. That is, the fixed base 3
Sliding means 5 attached to the channel 1 are engaged with a rail 4 fixed to the channel 1, so that the fixed platform 3 can be moved up and down along the channel 1.

An arm loader is fixed to the fixed base 3 so as to be horizontally rotatable within a predetermined angular range. This arm loader includes an arm 10 and a loader stand 13 attached to its tip. The arms 10 are each fixed to be rotatable around a rotating shaft 11 attached to a fixed base 3, and are fixed to an arm lO that engages with a rack 8 fixed to the tip of a shaft 7 of a fluid cylinder 6. It can be rotated horizontally in a circular arc within a predetermined angular range by the provided pinion 9. On the other hand, the tip of the arm IO engages with the rotating shaft attached to the loader stand 13, thereby causing the loader stand 1
3 is supported. And on this loader stand 13,
Fluid cylinder 14 for gripping cheese presser lid 16
is installed. In FIG. 1, 21 is a holding rod for the dyeing carrier, 22 is a spindle, and 23 is a cheese.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged plan view of the loader stand portion, and FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along the line X-x in FIG. 3. Moreover, FIG. 5 is an enlarged view for explaining the mechanism for locking the cheese presser lid to the holding rod of the carrier. A claw 15 is attached to the tip of the shaft of the fluid cylinder 4'-14 attached to the loader stand 13, and the presser lid 16 is gripped by this claw. The presser foot 1116 gripped by the arm loader by the loader stand 13 in this way is moved by the lowering of the arm loader.
The carrier descends to cover all the spindles 22 and hold the cheese under pressure, and by the action of the spring 18, the stopper 17 engages with the groove of the holding rod 21 and is locked (see FIG. 5). Next, the engagement of the claw 15 is released by the action of the cylinder 14, the arm loader rises, and the operation of attaching the presser cover is completed.

After the dyeing operation is completed, the presser cover is removed. When removing the presser cover, after the arm loader is lowered, the annular disc 20 fixed to the tip of the shaft of the fluid cylinder 19 for removing the presser cover is inserted into the cylinder 19. The lock is released by pressing the rear end of the stopper 17, and on the other hand, the presser foot 1i16 is gripped by the claw 15 due to the action of the cylinder 14, and then the arm loader rises and the presser foot 116 is removed from the carrier. It is attached and detached.

As mentioned above, the arm loader moves 6 times in the horizontal direction, so move the tip of the arm loader to the standby position for the carrier loaded with cheese, attach the presser lid at this position, and start the dyeing operation. After this is completed, the presser cover can be attached and detached at the position of the tip of the arm loader that has been rotated at a predetermined angle, so that the presser cover can be attached and detached extremely efficiently.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the apparatus of the present invention, the cheese presser lid of the carrier for cheese dyeing can be automatically attached to and removed from all the spindles of the carrier at once in an extremely efficient manner, thus greatly simplifying the cheese dyeing operation. Enables you to do it efficiently.

[BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS] FIG. 1 is a side view showing an example of the device according to the present invention,
FIG. 2 is a plan view thereof. FIG. 3 is an enlarged plan view of the loader stand portion, and FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line XX in FIG. 3. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a mechanism for locking the cheese presser lid to the holding rod of the carrier. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Channel, 2.6, 14.19... Cylinder, 3... Fixation stand, 1O... Arm, 11, 12...
Rotating shaft, 13... Loader stand, 16... Presser cover, 17... Stopper, 21... Holding rod, 22... Spindle. 30th 40th 50th

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A support frame, an arm fixed to the support frame so as to be movable up and down and rotatable in an arc in the horizontal direction, and a cheese presser lid gripping means and a cheese presser attached to the tip of this arm. An automatic cheese presser lid attachment/detachment device for a cheese dyeing carrier, comprising a lid attachment/detachment means.