JPH02273738A - Continuous processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To miniaturize the above device and to facilitate the maintenance thereof by constituting the device in such a manner that a material to be processed and a processing means move in company with each other and the processing means moving in accompany at the previous time and the processing means moving in accompany in the circumferential rotation of this time vary when the means return to a processing turret again after the circumferential rotation. CONSTITUTION:The device is so constituted that the material 6 to be processed and the processing means 10 provided on the processing turret 2 move in accompany with each other in at least a part of the process to turn around the processing turret 2. The device is so constituted that the processing means 10 moving in accompany at the previous time and the processing means 10 moving in accompany of this time vary when the unprocessed material 6 to be processed returns again to the processing turret 2 after making the circumferential rotation. Namely, a cartridge 6 supplied to the supply turret 1 is transferred to a holder 5 of a chain 4 after the turret 1 rotates at a certain angle. Since the processing that the material receives before and the processing that the material receives this time are different, the material receives all of the processing in the process of turning around the processing turret 2 several times. The device is miniaturized in this way and the maintenance thereof is facilitated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a continuous processing apparatus that performs processing such as inspection on cartridges and the like.

[Conventional technology]

Prior to shipping, a cartridge containing photographic film is required to undergo multiple inspections, including its surface irregularities and length.

Conventionally, when fishing on a boat, an inspection device is fixed and a cartridge is intermittently supplied to the inspection device. However, this method requires intermittent supply and testing of cartridges, resulting in slow testing speed and is unsuitable for large-volume testing. Moreover, in the case of multiple inspections, this problem becomes even more obvious.

Therefore, the present applicant previously proposed a continuous inspection device in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 62-38349. This inspection device has a plurality of inspection turrets provided with inspection sensors on a one-to-one basis.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, although the inspection apparatus disclosed in the above publication has a relatively fast inspection speed, the more inspection items there are, the more inspection turrets are required, which increases the exclusive space and increases the size of the apparatus. It is extremely difficult to adjust the positions of the turret and the object to be inspected transported by the transport means so that they are synchronized at all locations.

Therefore, the main object of the present invention is to provide a continuous processing device that is compact and easy to maintain such as position adjustment.

[Means to solve the problem]

The above-mentioned problem consists of a supply means for sequentially and intermittently supplying the objects to be processed, a rotating processing turret, a plurality of processing means integrated with the processing turret, and a system for receiving the objects to be processed supplied by the supply means. move this continuously,
After traveling around the processing turret, the endless conveying means returns to the initial supply position of the workpiece through a discharge position of the workpiece, and the transport means transports the workpiece and the processing object during at least a part of the process of traveling around the processing turret. The turret is configured to be accompanied by a processing means provided on the turret, and when an unprocessed workpiece is transported by the transport means and accompanied during a certain round, and then returns to the processing turret again after one or more rounds. This can be achieved by configuring the processing means that accompanied the previous round to be different from the processing means that accompanied the current round.

In the present invention, processing, as will be described later, refers to inspection processing, when non-defective products or defective products are discharged to be sent to a corresponding location, or while being transported, together with the inspection processing, or independently of the inspection processing. This includes cases where a workpiece is subjected to multiple processes. However, such other examples can be easily guessed by explaining the inspection process.
The following will mainly explain the inspection process.

[Effect]

In the present invention, the object to be processed and the processing means provided on the processing turret are configured to accompany each other during at least a part of the process around the processing turret, and the unprocessed object is transported around the processing turret by the conveying means or at multiple stations. When the robot returns to the processing turret after going around, the processing means that accompanied it last time was configured to be different from the processing means that carried the mouth, so the processing that was received in the previous accompanying process and the processing that carried the mouth were different. Since they are different, you can receive all the treatments by visiting the processing turret several times.

Furthermore, instead of providing one inspection (processing) means on one inspection (processing) turret as in the past, multiple inspection means are provided on one inspection turret, which reduces the number of inspection turrets. This makes it possible to downsize the device. Furthermore, since the number of inspection turrets is reduced, the number of locations where synchronization between the inspection turret and the workpiece transported by the transport means must be adjusted is reduced, which facilitates maintenance.

〔Example〕

The present invention will be explained in more detail below with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment, which is equipped with a supply turret 1, an inspection turret 2 as a processing turret, and an inspection/separation turret 3, each of which has a disk shape and rotates at the same circumferential speed (rotation means is a motor or the like). . A chain 4, which together with each turret 1.2.3 constitutes an endless conveyance means according to the present invention, is wound around the inspection turret 2 and the inspection/sorting turret 3, and the supply turret 1 is connected between each turret 2.3. The outer periphery is engaged. A plurality of holders 5 are integrated into the chain 4 at intervals.

As shown in FIG. 2, a cartridge 6 is detachably provided on this holder 5.

On the other hand, a supply conveyor 7 is connected to the supply turret 1, and the cartridges 6 are sequentially and intermittently supplied to the supply turret 1 on this supply conveyor 7. The cartridge 6 supplied to the supply turret l is transferred to the holder 5 of the chain 4 after the supply turret l rotates by a certain angle. The transferred Patrone 6 is
As the chain 4 moves, it moves around the inspection turret 2,
Items that have reached the inspection/sorting turret 3 and have been inspected there are sorted into non-defective items and defective items by the selection/exclusion means 11 provided in the inspection/sorting turret 3, and are transferred to the non-defective conveyor 8 or defective item conveyor 9, respectively. It will be transferred to.

The holder 5 from which the cartridge 6 has been removed receives a new cartridge 6 from the supply turret 1 again.

Items that have not yet been inspected will be inspected again in the process of visiting the inspection turret several times.

A plurality of inspection means IO are integrally attached to each of the inspection turret 2 and the inspection/separation turret 3. Inspection means 1 adjacent to the center of each turret 2 and 3
The angle formed by 0.10 is the same as the angle formed by the center of each turret 2 and 3 and the adjacent holder 5.5. Therefore, the cartridge 6 mounted on the holder 5 and the inspection means 10 are configured to move together in close opposition to each other during the inspection steps Sa and sb.

On the other hand, the inspection/separation turret 3 is provided with selection/exclusion means 11. Therefore, as is clear from the drawings, the number of holders 5 is nine and the number of inspection means 10 is seven, but since the selection/exclusion means also constitute the processing means of the present invention, the number of processing means is nine. As a result, there are 8 pieces.

In the apparatus configured in this way, the supply conveyor 7
The cartridges 6 are supplied to the supply turret 1 every fourth of the number of holders 5, and in the process of making four revolutions,
Seven types of tests are performed by each test means IO. The order in which a certain cartridge 6 (1) is inspected by the inspection means 10 is 1-2-3-4-5-6-7, and finally the selection and exclusion means 11 sorts the cartridges into good and defective products. Conversely, the order of the cartridges 6 to be inspected by one of the inspection means 10 is as follows:
1-5-9→4-8-3-7-2-6.

A simpler inspection device is shown in FIG.

In this example, the number of holders 5 is four and the number of inspection means 10 is three. In the inspection apparatus shown in FIG. 4, the number of holders 5 is five and the number of inspection means 10 is four.

In such an inspection device, when the circumference of the inspection turret is L1 and the number of inspection means integrated into one inspection turret is N, the pitch between the holders is L/N, and the number n of holders is N+x. , the total length of the chain is L(N+x
)/N. Here, X is an integer, and is usually not an integer multiple of N.

In the above example, a chain is used as the endless conveyance means, but it may be one that moves the holder continuously along an endless hole or groove.

On the other hand, in FIG. 5, three inspection turrets 0 are provided, the number of processing means is 12, and the number of holders 6 is 1.
It is one piece. Therefore, as the above X,
While the previous example was a positive integer, this example is a negative integer.

Further, on each side, the pitch of the processing means and the pitch of the holder are the same, but the pitch may be different so that the pitch shifts by half a pitch after one round, and it accompanies the next processing means after two rounds (this (Example not shown).

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, the present invention provides advantages such as being able to downsize the device.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a first embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an elevational view showing the relationship between the inspection turret and the inspection means, and FIGS. 3, 4, and 5 show different aspects. FIG. 1... Supply turret 2... Inspection turret (processing turret) 3... Inspection/separation turret 4... Chain 5.
...Holder 6...Patrone (processed object) lO・
...Inspection means (processing means) 11... Selection and exclusion means patent applicant Konica Co., Ltd. Accountant Patent attorney Yoshihisa Mizuben

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A supply means for sequentially and intermittently supplying the workpiece, a rotating processing turret, a plurality of processing means integrated with the processing turret, and a system for receiving the workpiece supplied by the supply means. an endless conveyance means for continuously moving the processing turret, returning to the initial supply position of the processing material through a discharge position of the processing material, and at least a portion of the transporting means moving the processing turret; In the process, the object to be processed and the processing means provided on the processing turret are configured to accompany each other, and the unprocessed object is transported by the transport means and is accompanied in a certain round, and then after one round or multiple rounds. . A continuous processing apparatus characterized in that when returning to the processing turret again, the processing means that accompanied the last time is different from the processing means that accompanies this round.