JPH04327403A - Automatic warehouse containing panel processing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide an automatic warehouse with a raised layout minimizing the installation area and containing a panel working machine which improves work efficiency, by integrally combining the automatic warehouse with the panel processing machine, achieving thus high efficiency that could not be realized by a conventional flat layout. CONSTITUTION:An automatic warehouse 1 comprises a processing machine 5 installed in the frame 3 of the warehouse main body; lifters 7F and 7R which bring in and out workpieces W and are provided on both front and rear sides of the automatic warehouse 1; and a loading device 19 and an unloading device 51 which are equipped with work attracting devices 47F and 47R, movable up and down between an upper position of the lifters 7F and 7R warehouse shelves, and which can move left and right.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic warehouse housing a plate processing machine.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art Conventional automated warehouses are comprised of racks for storing workpieces such as plates, and loading/unloading devices for loading and unloading workpieces into and out of the racks. The plate processing machine is placed in front of the automatic warehouse, and a loading device and an unloading device are placed on the left and right sides of the plate processing machine, respectively, and the workpieces are placed between the loading device, unloading device, and the automatic warehouse. A transporting trolley or the like is provided, and a rack containing predetermined workpieces is taken out from an automated warehouse onto the trolley using a loading/unloading device, and then transported to a loading device by the trolley to supply the necessary workpieces to the plate processing machine.

[0003] After the plate processing is completed, the plate materials are transported from an unloading device via a trolley and stored at a predetermined position in an automated warehouse by the carrying-in/out device.

0004

However, the above-mentioned conventional automated warehouse has the disadvantage that the line spreads out in a flat manner, resulting in a large installation area, resulting in increased work effort and waste of labor.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and its object is, for example, to incorporate a plate processing machine into an automatic warehouse to construct a three-dimensional production line for plate materials and to minimize the installation area. The aim is to provide an automated warehouse that houses processing machines.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems] To achieve the above object, an automatic warehouse housing a sheet processing machine of the present invention has a sheet processing machine housed in the main body of the automatic warehouse, and is provided on both front and rear sides of the automatic warehouse. Each of the lifters is provided with a lifter, and a loading/unloading device that is movable in the left-right direction and is equipped with a workpiece suction device that is movable up and down is provided between the positions above these lifters and the warehouse shelves. It is.

[0007]

[Operation] According to the automatic warehouse that houses the plate processing machine configured as described above, when the front lifter transports the work pallet to be processed to the loading position, the loading device uses the work suction device to pick up the work. Take one sheet and load it into the board processing machine. While the plate processing machine is processing this workpiece, the loading device picks up the next workpiece and waits. The processed workpieces are accumulated on, for example, a rear lifter by an unloading device.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3.

The automatic warehouse 1 includes a box-shaped main body frame 3 vertically erected, a board processing machine 5 housed within the main body frame 3, and a main body frame 3 provided on the front and rear sides of the main body frame 3, respectively. It is composed of lifters 7F and 7F.

[0010] The main body frame 3 includes a plurality of support frames 3.
A and a side frame 3B installed between support frames 3A. A plurality of pallets 9 on which workpieces W such as plate materials are placed are arranged on the side frame 3B. A plurality of rollers (not shown) are provided at the bottom of the pallet 9, and the rollers allow the pallet 9 to be moved in the left-right direction on the side frames 3B of the same stage. A skid (not shown) is provided on the upper surface of such a pallet 9, and the works W are stacked onto a plurality of plates via this skid.

A reinforcing frame 11 surrounded by reinforcing members as shown in FIG. It is now set up. This plate material processing machine 5 is, for example, a punch press or the like, and the bed 13 is
A workpiece W is placed thereon, and while being held by a workpiece clamp 15, the workpiece is moved in the X-axis and Y-axis directions, positioned at a predetermined position, and punched. In such a plate processing machine 5, the longitudinal direction of the bed 13 is arranged at right angles to the longitudinal direction of the main body frame 3 (see FIG. 1). The workpiece W sent from the main body frame 3 of the automated warehouse 1 is fed onto the bed 13 of the plate processing machine 5 from the front side of the main body frame 3, and is sent to the rear side of the main body frame 3 after processing. It has become.

The mechanism for feeding the workpiece W from the main body frame 3 onto the bed 13 is performed by a lifter 7F and a loading device 19.

The lifters 7F and 7R are provided on the front and rear sides of the main body frame 3, respectively, and accommodate the gate-shaped post 21 and the pallet 9 (not shown), as shown in FIG. It consists of an upper frame and a lower frame having a width sufficient to accommodate the width of the vehicle, and the lower frame is movably mounted as a trucker crane 23 on a trucker crane guide rail 25. As shown in FIG. 3, the tracker crane guide rails 25 are two rails each provided along the main body frame 3 on the front side and the rear side of the main body frame 3. The tracker crane 23 is movably provided. The post 21 is erected in the center of the trucker crane 23, and an upper frame is attached to the upper end of the post 21. The post 21 having such a configuration is configured to be moved along the frame body 3.

Furthermore, in FIG. 2, a guide (not shown) is provided in the vertical direction on the corresponding inner surface of the post 21, and the pallet 9 on which the workpiece W is placed is housed in this guide. Lifter cases 27F and 27R are slidably provided. The lifter cases 27F and 27R are moved up and down along the guide by a hoisting wire 31 wound around a lifter elevating motor 29 provided outside the post 21. It goes without saying that a pulley (not shown) is provided at the head of the post 21 to guide the hoisting wire 31. Such a lifter 7R is also provided on the rear side of the main body frame 3, and this front side lifter 7F stores the pallet 9 on the main body frame 3 in the lifter case 27F and supplies the workpiece W to the plate processing machine 5. The rear lifter 7R is for returning the workpiece W returned from the plate processing machine 5 to the main body frame 3.

The work W on the pallet 9 lowered from the main body frame 3 by the front lifter 7F is taken out one by one by the loading device 19, loaded, and placed on the bed 13 of the plate processing machine 5. It is configured to

This loading device 19 is connected to the reinforcing frame 1 of the main body frame 3 in which the plate processing machine 5 is housed.
It is provided near 1. That is, the reinforcing frame 1
A first guide rail 33 is installed along the side frame 3B on the side frame 3B of the main body frame 3 provided with the first guide rail 33.
is provided, and first ball screws 35F and 35R are installed along this first guide rail 33 (see FIGS. 2 and 3).

A mounting member 37 is engaged with the first guide rail 33 and the first ball screws 35F, 35R. This mounting member 37 is attached to the first guide rail 33.
A member that protrudes further and is installed vertically below,
The main body frame 3 is moved over the first guide rail 33 by the rotation of the first ball screws 35F and 35R.
(X-axis direction). Below this mounting member 37 are arm members 39F and 39R.
is provided so as to be rotatable in a right angle direction, and this arm member 3
A second guide rail (not shown) and a second ball screw 41 are provided at 9F and 39R. A vacuum loader 43 is installed between the second guide member and the second ball screw 41.
The vacuum loader 43 is equipped with a Y-axis motor M.
It is configured to be moved in the Y-axis direction along the arm member 39 by rotation of the second ball screw 41 driven by Y.

This vacuum loader 43 has a shaft portion 45 below the center that moves up and down by air pressure.
Workpiece suction devices 47F and 47R are provided below 5. The workpiece suction devices 47F and 47R are mesh-like members of approximately the same size as the workpiece W, and suction pads 49 are attached to the intersections of the meshes.
When the shaft portion 45 of is pushed down and the suction pad 49 is pressed against the surface of the work W, the inside of the suction pad 49 is made to have a negative pressure and the work W is suctioned, and one of the upper surfaces of the work W on which it is loaded is held by suction. It is supposed to be done.

The unloading device 51 provided on the rear side of the main body frame 3 has a similar structure, and the workpiece W processed by the plate processing machine 5 is adsorbed by the unloading device 51, and It is designed to be loaded on the rear lifter 7R provided at the rear side lifter 7R.

The automatic warehouse 1 that accommodates the plate material processing machine 5 of this embodiment having the above-described configuration is arranged so that the front panel is placed in a row at a selected position of the pallets 9 stored in the main body frame 3 of the automatic warehouse 1. The side lifter 7F is moved and the lifter case 27 is raised to the storage stage of the pallet 9. When this lifter case 27 is placed adjacent to a predetermined position, a traverse 27a provided on the lifter case 27 pulls out and stores the pallet 9. Lifter case 2 that stores this pallet 9
7 is being lowered, the front lifter 7F is carried to the vicinity of the loading device 19 by the tracker crane 23.

Next, the loading device 19 loads the arm member 3
9F along the first ball screw 35F, and the work suction device 47 is attached to the pallet 9 in the lifter case 27 by the first ball screw 35F and the second ball screw 41.
The shaft portion 45 of the vacuum loader 43 is lowered, and the suction pad 49 of the workpiece suction device 47F is brought into pressure contact with the workpiece W, creating a negative pressure inside the suction pad 49 and lifting the workpiece W.
to be adsorbed. Only one of the attracted workpieces W is lifted up by the lifting of the shaft portion 45, and taken out of the lifter case 27 by the operation of the first ball screw 35F. In this state, the arm member 39F is rotated, the workpiece W is loaded and placed on the bed 13 of the plate processing machine 5, and the first ball screw 35F and the second ball screw 4
1 and fixed by the work clamp 15.

Next, the workpiece W is subjected to a predetermined processing, and during the operation of the plate processing machine 5, the loading device 1
9 returns to the initial state and waits. Further, the lifter 7R starts moving in response to the next instruction signal. On the other hand, the unloading device 51 has an arm member 39R extended in a direction perpendicular to the main body frame 3, and a work suction device 47R is placed on standby at the rear side of the plate processing machine 5.

The workpiece W that has been processed is sent to the rear side of the plate processing machine 5 and unloaded by the unloading device 51.
The workpiece is adsorbed by the workpiece adsorption device 47R, and the arm member 39R
It is unloaded by bending and is carried to the rear lifter 7R while being positioned by the second ball screw 35R and the second ball screw 41. At this time, the front lifter 7F starts carrying out the pallet 9, and the above-described operations can be repeated continuously.

The plate processing machine 5 may be a laser processing machine or the like, and the plate processing machine 5 is housed in the main body frame 3 of the automated warehouse 1, and the plate material is processed through the loading device 19 that carries out the workpiece W by the front lifter 7F. Since it is supplied to the processing machine 5 and recovered by the rear lifter 7R via the unloading device 51, the installation area is sufficient even in a small place, and work efficiency is streamlined.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, but can be implemented in other embodiments by making appropriate changes.

[0026]

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, since the structure is as described in the claims, by housing the plate processing machine in the main body of the automatic warehouse, it is possible to Since the line is configured three-dimensionally, there is an advantage that the installation area can be minimized.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of an automatic warehouse that accommodates a plate processing machine of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view in FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a side view in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Automatic warehouse 3 Main frame 5 Plate processing machine 7F Front side lifter 7R Rear side lifter 19 Loading device 47 Work suction device 51 Unloading device

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: A plate processing machine is housed in the main body of an automatic warehouse, and lifters are provided on both the front and rear sides of the automatic warehouse, and a workpiece suction device that is vertically movable between the upper position of these lifters and the warehouse shelf is provided. An automatic warehouse housing a plate processing machine characterized by being equipped with a loading/unloading device that can move freely in the left and right directions.