JPH0245318A - Bottle holder - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate preliminary operations such as replacement and adjustment of bottle holders, by providing a compressive springs to close respective pairs of grippers by pushing levers and by providing axes to relieve the grippers by rotating the levers supported to slide within a frame against the compressive springs. CONSTITUTION:Grippers 3, 3a are fixed at axes 15 piercing through upper and lower faces of a frame 1 by spring pins and movable around the axes 15. The grippers 3, 3a are kept in the closing position to hold the neck of a bottle C by the compression of levers 4 due to the compressive spring 13 force. The levers 4 transfer against the force of the compressive spring 13 by pushing of pins 8 in accordance with the transfer of shafts 11, 11a. And then the grippers 3, 3a rotate to the opening position to relieve the bottle C.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention is applicable to bottle washing machines, rinsers, fillers, cappers, etc.
The present invention relates to a container or bottle holder that is applied to devices such as casers, uncasers, and conveyors.

[Conventional technology]

As a carrier for a container, the one described in Japanese Utility Model Application Publication No. 52-882 is conventionally known, and as a carrier for a bottle washing machine, one described in Japanese Utility Model Application Publication No. 53-88437 is known. are known in the art, but currently there is no simple device that can simultaneously hold and center a container or bottle.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Handling equipment for a wide variety of containers in expansion plants or canning plants handles handling in a broad sense (transportation,
When performing indexing, positioning, holding, gripping, etc., special container holders are replaced or adjusted according to the size and shape of the container. Equipment (bottle washing machine, rinser, filler,
A dedicated container holder is required for each (capper ξ-, caser, uncaser conveyor, etc.), which increases the number of types of container holders and requires a lot of setup work to replace and adjust container holders. There were issues such as the amount of time required.

The present invention aims to solve the above problems and provide a container holder that does not require replacing the holder even when the container size is changed.

[Means to solve the problem]

A pair of grits that open and close the container from both sides of the container and hold and center the container when they come into contact with the container, and a pair of shafts that cause the grippers to perform the above operations. A container holder is constituted by a different container gripping mechanism and a link mechanism that drives the container gripping mechanism. To enable opening and closing of grits J- to be performed independently.

[For production]

(1) Activate the link mechanism to move the pair of shafts in the axial direction, move the pair of grippers toward the container from both sides of the container, perform a closing operation, bring them into contact with the container, and hold and center the container. conduct.

(2) Since the opening operation of the grippers can be performed individually, when it is necessary to take out defective containers individually from the containers held by a pair of grippers, it is possible to release the grip on the containers individually. It is possible to remove each container.

〔Example〕

In FIGS. 1 to 5, reference numeral 1 denotes a cassette type frame, and a plurality of holes 2 are provided in the lower part. 3,
3a is a grit, which is fixed by a spring pin (not shown) to a shaft 15 extending through the upper and lower surfaces of the frame 1, and is rotatable 150 times. 3
and 3a form a pair. 4 is liver, grits”-5p
3a is fixed by a key 7 coaxially with a shaft 15 to which it is attached, and is rotatable around the shaft 15 in the same way as Grino/2-3, 3a.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a holding member, which is installed symmetrically at both ends of a cassette type frame 10 and connects the frame 1 with bolts 17. 6 is a roller and shaft 11. 6 attached to the end of the lla and engaged with the pusher 9
7 is a key for fixing the lever 4 to the shaft 15. 8 is a pin,
A shaft 11 that performs forward and backward movement by rotating the operating lever 10 around a pin 12. It is planted in lla. A pusher 9 is a device for pushing the roller 6. When the shaft 9b slides inside the slider 9a and presses the roller 6 (in the direction of arrow A), the inner shaft 11 moves in the direction of arrow A, and the outer shaft 11a moves through the actuating lever 10 and joint 14. , move in the direction of arrow B, and press lever 4.
The Glitz"-3, 3a is opened via the "grits"-3, 3a. Reference numeral 10 denotes an operating lever, which is pivotally supported by a pin 12, and is operated by a pusher 9.
By moving the grippers forward, the grippers 3, 3a are swung in the direction of opening, and in the free state, they are held in the state shown in FIG. 1 by the compression spring 13. 11 and lla are shafts connected to a joint 14 at the end of the actuating lever 10 and sliding along a long hole provided in the frame 1.

Reference numeral 12 denotes a pin, which serves as the center of rotation of the operating lever 10. 13
are compression springs, which are incorporated into each recess of the frame 1 as shown in the figure, and are assembled with the shafts 11 and lla wound around them. This compression spring 13 connects the lever 4 to the shaft 11, lla
In the free state shown in FIG. 1, the grippers 3, 3a are in a container gripping state. Numeral 17 is a bolt that connects the frame 1 and the holding members 5 at both ends together.

Next, the operation of this device will be explained.

■ The compression spring 13 pushes the pin 8, the shaft 11a moves in the direction of arrow A, the shaft 11 moves in the direction of arrow B, and the actuating lever 1
0 is in the position shown in FIG. The force of the compression spring 13 causes the lever 4 to be pushed, and the grippers 3, 3a are held in the closed position and grip the neck of the bottle C. The bottle C is thus held in a hanging state by the container holder. Since the grippers 3 and 3a are operated in the closing direction to grip the neck of the bottle C in this manner, the bottle C can be gripped reliably even if the diameters of the necks are different. The shape of the holding portions of the opposing grippers 3 and 3a may be an arc, a V-shape, a U-shape, or the like.

■ When releasing the grip on the bottle C, the pusher 9 as a pushing means is activated and the row 26 is pushed in, thereby rotating the operating lever 10 around the pin 12 and moving the shaft 11a in the direction indicated by the arrow B in FIG. 11 in the direction of arrow A
Slide it in the direction of .

As the shafts 11 and lla move, the lever 4 is pushed by the pin 8 and moves against the force of the compression spring 13, and the gripper 3
, 3a rotate to the closed position. As a result, the grip on the bottle C is released, and one neck of the bottle C is scooped and taken out from the frame 1 by a bottle gripping device (not shown) that moves in the vertical direction.

■ In this way, each gripper 3, 3a overcomes each compression spring 13 and moves in the opening direction to release the grip on the bottle C. It can be opened and closed independently, and it is possible to release the multiplication grip.

〔Effect of the invention〕

The present invention comprises: a set of two grippers installed at intervals to grip a container at an intermediate portion; a frame rotatably supporting each of the plurality of grippers; and a frame that rotates integrally with the gripper. Consisting of a lever, a compression spring that presses the lever to close each set of grippers, and a shaft that is slidably supported within a frame and rotates the lever against the compression spring to open the grippers. It produces the following effects.

(1) Preparation work for replacing and adjusting container holders can be eliminated. It can also be used in common with many types of containers.

(2) Since containers are transported in units of multiple containers using container holders, conventional transport conveyors are not required.

(3) There is no need to adjust the holder when handling the container.

(4) Containers can be gripped and released on a container-by-container basis, and defective containers can be taken out individually.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of an embodiment of the container holder of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a side view of FIG. 1, showing the state in which the bottle is gripped. 3 is a view taken in the direction of the arrow ■ in FIG. 1, FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view in FIG. 1, and FIG. 5 is a perspective view of FIG. l... Frame 3, 3a... Kuritsuno 4... Lever 5... Holding material 10
...Operating lever 11.11a...Shaft 13.
・Compression spring

Claims (1)

[Claims] A pair of grippers are installed at intervals and grip a container at an intermediate portion; a frame rotatably supports each of the plurality of grippers; a lever that rotates integrally with the gripper; and a lever. A container holder comprising: a compression spring that presses a compression spring to close each set of grippers; and a shaft that is slidably supported within a frame and rotates a lever against the compression spring to open the grippers. .