JPH05132025A - Mounting apparatus for sheet with long vegetable - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To place long vegetables correctly one after another to each of mounting parts of a corrugated sheet and to save man power therewith by a method wherein the long vegetables assorted in the same grade by assortment executed in a preceding stage of processings are arranged lengthwise in a line, and are transferred one after another to each of the mounting parts of the corrugated sheet. CONSTITUTION:Cucumbers K, arranged in good order on an arranging conveyer, are transferred one after another to each of buckets 3a of a bucket conveyer 3, and grading is made to the cucumbers K when the cucumbers pass through a grading device 4. Then a solenoid provided to a grade assorting section (a) is actuated in accordance with the grading made by the grading device, and thereby the buckets 3a mounted with the cucumbers K in the same grade are rolled sideways. The cucumbers K, dropped by the sideways rolling, are then thrown onto a supply conveyer 5a. The cucumbers are then arranged lengthwise in a line on the supply conveyer and are carried one after another. The cucumbers K are then thrown one after another into a throwing guide 22 and are placed, being guided with the throwing guide 22, in each of recessed mounting parts Sb of a sheet Sa that is supplied to the underside of the throwing guide. Then wrapping is made to the sheet with a film wrapping machine.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sheet placement device for long fruits and vegetables which is used for packing long fruits and vegetables such as cucumber, carrot, potato, and eggplant.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when cucumbers such as those mentioned above are boxed according to grade, for example, as shown in FIG. 6, after the cucumber K brought in from the producer side is sorted according to the grade, the cucumber K of the same grade is processed. There is a method in which the operator grips with two hands and sequentially packs the plastic bags Ba laid inside the box B in the box.

[0003]

However, when the long-sized cucumber K is packed in a box as described above, it is very difficult to mechanically hold the cucumber K having a peculiar shape. By hand so as not to damage the product value of
Each box must be packed in a box, and if the amount of cucumber K that is brought in from the producer side is large, the packing work takes time and labor, and the work efficiency decreases. Also, since many cucumbers K are directly stacked and packed in a box, the cucumbers K ... packed in the box rub against each other due to the vibration generated during transportation, the projections on the surface of the cucumber K are peeled off, or the surface of the cucumber K is scratched. There is also a problem that the product value of cucumber K may be impaired due to scratches and abrasions.

In view of the above problems, the present invention arranges long fruits and vegetables of the same grade in one row in the longitudinal direction and sequentially transfers the fruits and vegetables to the respective placing portions of the corrugated sheet. An object of the present invention is to provide a sheet placement device for long fruits and vegetables which can accurately transfer one by one long fruits and vegetables to a set, and can save labor and improve efficiency.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is a grade sorting for sorting long fruits and vegetables placed on the sorting conveyor on a transport path of a sorting conveyor for transporting long fruits and vegetables. A sorting section is provided, and an sorting conveyor that sorts and conveys long-sized fruits and vegetables of the same grade in one row in the longitudinal direction is provided in the sorting section according to the grade set on the transportation path of the sorting conveyor, and the sorting is performed. At the transport-side end of the conveyor, a supply roller for accelerating and conveying the long fruits and vegetables supplied from the alignment conveyor in the longitudinal direction is supported, and each corrugated sheet is placed at the loading position set on the feeding side of the supply roller. A sheet placing device for long fruits and vegetables provided with sheet feeding means for sequentially feeding the placing portions.

[0006]

According to the present invention, in the grade sorting section set on the conveying route of the sorting conveyor, the long fruits and vegetables placed on the sorting conveyor are sorted according to the grade,
The long fruits and vegetables to be sorted by grade are sequentially transferred to an alignment conveyor arranged in the grade sorting unit, and the long fruits and vegetables transferred to the alignment conveyor are aligned and conveyed in one row in the longitudinal direction. And, the long fruits and vegetables supplied from the alignment conveyor are accelerated and conveyed by the supply roller, and the front-rear distance with the subsequent long fruits and vegetables is widened, and each corrugated sheet is supplied to the loading position by the sheet supply means on each mounting portion. Transfer long fruits and vegetables one by one.

[0007]

According to the present invention, long fruits and vegetables of the same grade are arranged in a line and are sequentially transferred to the respective mounting portions of the corrugated sheet. It is possible to accurately transfer each shaku and vegetable one by one, and at the time of transfer, it is possible to save the trouble and work of correcting the loading position and the loading attitude of the long vegetables and vegetables, and the long shape with a unique shape such as cucumber and carrot. The work of loading fruits and vegetables can be done mechanically.

Moreover, since a predetermined number of long fruits and vegetables are placed in a box while being placed on a corrugated sheet, it is troublesome to manually put the long fruits and vegetables brought in from the producer side as in the conventional example. In addition, the work can be omitted, the number of times of packaging and the working time can be significantly reduced, and the labor can be saved and the efficiency can be improved.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. The drawing shows a cartoning device used for cartoning a cucumber of a grade with a large sorting amount as an example of long fruits and vegetables. In FIG. 1, this cartoning device 1 is a large amount of cucumber K brought in from a producer side. For arranging and conveying in a horizontal example, four sorting conveyors 3 for sorting the cucumber K transferred from the sorting conveyor 2 according to grades, and the sorting conveyors 3 for each. Grade determination device 4 for determining the grade of the cucumber K placed on each of the buckets 3a, and the corrugated sheets supplied at the loading position by arranging the cucumber K sorted according to the grade in one row in the longitudinal direction. A sheet loading machine 5 that is sequentially transferred onto S, and a sheet forming machine 6 that sequentially feeds a roll-shaped paper sheet Sa to a loading position while pressure-forming it into a waveform.
A film wrapping machine 7 for coating a synthetic resin film F on the upper surface side of the corrugated sheet Sa, and a sheet cutting machine 8 for cutting the continuously supplied sheet Sa to a predetermined length.
A perforation forming machine 9 for forming perforations on a corrugated sheet S cut into a predetermined length, and a corrugated sheet S in which a predetermined number of cucumbers K are packaged.
It is composed of a sheet cartoning machine 10 for cartoning.

The above-mentioned aligning conveyor 2 includes a first conveyer 2a and a second conveyer 2 which compose the aligning conveyer 2.
b and the third conveyor 2c are sequentially arranged in the carrying direction, and the carrying speeds of the respective conveyors 2a, 2b, 2c are sequentially increased to arrange a large amount of cucumber K brought in from the producer side in the carrying direction. To transport. That is, the cucumbers K are put in the container C brought in from the producer side in advance in the same direction, and each container C brought in from the producer side is rolled over artificially or mechanically at the time of receiving the cargo. A large amount of cucumber K put in each of these containers C ...
a, the second conveyor 2b, and the third conveyor 2c are sequentially transferred, and the overlapping cucumbers K are sequentially arranged in a horizontal row while being separated in the transfer direction.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the above-mentioned sorting conveyor 3 includes a circulating chain 3b, which is stretched right and left.
A bucket 3a having an L-shaped cross section is pivotally supported between 3b so as to be swingable back and forth, and a large number of buckets 3a ... Are erected at predetermined equal intervals in the length direction of the orbiting chains 3b and 3b. The support rods 3c that horizontally project from one end of each of the buckets 3a are engaged with the traveling rail 11 that is installed on the lower portion of the same side to horizontally guide the orbiting posture. That is, the orbiting chains 3b, 3b are synchronously rotated by the driving force of a motor with a reducer (not shown), and the multiple buckets 3a ... Are orbitally moved in the same direction. The cucumbers K arranged and conveyed in a line are transferred one by one to each bucket 3a ... Moreover, one cucumber K was not transferred to each bucket 3a of the sorting conveyor 3 ...
Is manually corrected by a worker standing by at the same position.

As shown in FIG. 2, the grade judging device 4 sets an image pickup position for picking up an image of the cucumber K on the starting end side conveyance path of the sorting conveyor 3 and a bucket is located above the image pickup position. The image capturing camera 12 facing the upper surface side of 3a.
The image pickup camera 12 is connected to an apparatus main body 13 that determines the grade of cucumber K and a monitor 14 that displays an image of the cucumber K. Below the image pickup position, an address sensor 1 for detecting the bucket 3a on which the cucumber K is placed in correspondence with the size reading by the image pickup camera 12 described above.
5, the addresses are sequentially set in each of the buckets 3a ... From the start of the start, and the address of the bucket 3a is determined in response to the address sensor 15 detecting the bucket 3a. Moreover, the bucket 3a, the address, and the size data are stored in the apparatus main body 13 in association with each other.

The apparatus main body 13 described above includes an image pickup camera 12.
The image signal of the cucumber K captured by is amplified, noise-removed, binarized and image-processed, and the area value of the monochrome image projected on the screen of the monitor 14 is arithmetically processed to calculate the area of the cucumber K alone, The size data stored in the apparatus main body 13 is compared with the image data of the picked cucumber K, and which of the L, M, and S size data the cucumber K placed on one bucket 3a corresponds to. To judge.

On the rear end side conveying path of the sorting conveyor 3, for example, sorting sections a for sorting the cucumber K according to the grades of L, M and S are set, respectively. Counters 16 for counting the number of passing buckets 3a are provided immediately before the lower part of the separate sorting section a ..., and the step value of each counter 16 ... Is counted in association with the address of each bucket 3a. Moreover, the sorting section a for each of these grades ...
T-shaped guide rods 17 are respectively installed on the respective separated ends 11a of the traveling rails 11 corresponding to the above, and the respective solenoids 18 disposed on the lower part of the same side are connected to the base ends of the respective guide rods 17 ... Then, each solenoid 18 is operated based on the determination by the grade determination device 4 described above to horizontally guide the supporting rod 3c protruding from the bucket 3a and the supporting rod 3c protruding from the bucket 3a is dropped. Move back and forth to the retracted position.

The above-described sheet loader 5 is shown in FIGS.
, The supply conveyors 5a are respectively arranged at the lower positions corresponding to the above-mentioned graded sorting sections a ... Orthogonal to the transport direction of the sorting conveyor 3, and the transports of these respective feeding conveyors 5a. The concave conveying surfaces 5b for placing the cucumbers K in the lengthwise direction in the lengthwise direction in a row are respectively formed, and the upper portions of the supply conveyors 5a ... Shooters 19 are arranged at the respective positions. That is, each bucket 3 of the sorting conveyor 3
The cucumber K dropped and fed from a is guided by each shooter 19 and each supply conveyor 5a arranged at the lower position.
Are sequentially transferred onto the respective concave transport surfaces 5b of the supply conveyors 5a, and the cucumbers K transferred onto the respective concave transport surfaces 5b of the respective supply conveyors 5a are aligned and transported in one line in the longitudinal direction. ..

As shown in FIG. 4, at the transfer-side end portion of the above-mentioned supply conveyor 5a, a synthetic drum or the like is provided around the outer peripheral surface at the transfer-side end portion of the supply conveyor 5a. Of the supply rollers 20 and 20 in close proximity to each other, and the supply conveyors 5 are provided below the supply side of the supply rollers 20 and 20.
The feed conveyor 21 is arranged orthogonally to the conveyance direction of a, and the loading guide 22 is arranged at the loading position set on the feed conveyor 21 corresponding to the feeding side of the supply rollers 20, 20. There is. That is, the cucumber K supplied from the supply conveyor 5a by making the rotation speed of the supply rollers 20, 20 faster than the conveying speed of the supply conveyor 5a.
Is accelerated and conveyed by the supply rollers 20 and 20, and the cucumber K supplied from the supply rollers 20 and 20 is guided by the loading guide 22 arranged at the loading position, and each concave shape of the sheet Sa supplied to the lower portion of the same position. Cucumber K is dropped and thrown into the mounting portions Sb ... one by one. Moreover, the cucumber K that has not been stored in the concave mounting portions Sb ... Of the sheet Sa is manually corrected by an operator standing by at the same position.

As shown in FIG. 1, the above-mentioned sheet forming machine 6 is made of a paper sheet S whose entire upper surface is resin-coated.
a is wound in a roll shape and is supported by the sheet loading portion 6a, and the paper sheet Sa wound in the roll shape is stretched around each of the three rollers 6b ..., and the sheet Sa is appropriately tensioned. While it is sequentially supplied to the molding machine main body 6c, a concave mounting portion Sb having a size for accommodating one cucumber K in a lateral position in the width direction of the upper surface of the sheet Sa formed in a long dimension is formed. The concave mounting portions Sb are continuously formed at a predetermined equal interval in the length direction of the upper surface of the sheet Sa. In addition, the sheets Sa are sequentially supplied to the feeding conveyor 21 arranged orthogonal to the above-described feeding direction of the feeding conveyor 5a.

The above-mentioned film wrapping machine 7 winds a transparent or translucent synthetic resin film F in a roll shape, bearings it in the film loading portion 7a, and winding the film F in the same roll shape. While properly tensioning the packaging machine body 7
Then, the film F is vacuum-wrapped or shrink-wrapped while welding or adhering the film F on the upper surface side of the sheet Sa conveyed and supplied from the above-mentioned feed conveyor 21. The sheet cutting machine 8 arranged at the latter stage of the packaging position sequentially cuts the continuously supplied long-sized sheets Sa into a length corresponding to the boxed size by a rotary cutter or the like. The perforation forming machine 9 arranged at the latter stage of the cutting position forms perforations at the connecting portions of the respective concave mounting portions Sb ... Formed on the corrugated sheet S.

The above-described sheet box packing machine 10 has a suction unit 10a disposed above the suction position set on the end side transport path of the transport conveyor 23, and runs so as to extend from above the suction position to above the box packing position. Rails 10b, 10b
The suction unit 10a is attached between them, and the suction unit 10a is horizontally moved above the suction position and above the packing position by an air cylinder or a drive motor, and the suction unit 10a is moved between the suction position and the packing position by an air cylinder or a drive motor. Move vertically up and down. That is, as shown in FIG. 5, the adsorbents 10c, which are vertically provided on the lower surface side of the suction unit 10a, are pressed onto the corrugated sheet S conveyed to the suction position, and a negative pressure of a suction blower (not shown) is used. The corrugated sheet S is suction-held. Moreover, when the vinyl bag Ba is laid in advance inside the box B made of cardboard or synthetic resin that is transported to the boxing position, and the corrugated sheet S is stored in the vinyl bag Ba laid inside the box B, The negative pressure by the suction blower (not shown) is cut off to release the suction holding of the corrugated sheet S.

The illustrated embodiment is configured as described above, and for example, the operation of packing the cucumber K of a grade with a large sorting amount by the packing device 1 will be described. First, Fig. 1
As shown in, each container C brought from the producer side ...
Is sequentially rolled over to transfer a large amount of cucumber K loaded into each of these containers C onto the aligning conveyor 2 and also a large amount of cucumber K transferred onto the aligning conveyor 2 into four containers. The sorting conveyors 3 are aligned and conveyed to positions corresponding to the sorting conveyors 3, and the buckets 3a of the sorting conveyors 3 ...
Transfer cucumber K one by one.

Next, as shown in FIG. 2, the bucket 3a is detected in correspondence with the bucket 3a detected by the address sensor 15 when passing through the imaging position set on the sorting conveyor 3.
The cucumber K placed on a is picked up by the image pickup camera 12, the video signal of the cucumber K picked up by the image pickup camera 12 is binarized and image-processed, and the black and white image projected on the monitor 14 is turned into a cucumber K Only the area of the cucumber is calculated, the size data stored in the apparatus main body 13 is compared with the image data of the picked cucumber K, and the cucumber K placed on the bucket 3a is L, M, S.
It is determined which of the size data corresponds to, and the size data and the address of the bucket 3a are stored in association with each other. Moreover, the sorting section a for each grade corresponding to the judgment data ...
The number of passing vehicles until the bucket 3a moves to the counter 1
Count at 6.

For example, at the same time that the bucket 3a having an address of "M" size moves to the classification sorting section a,
As shown in FIG. 5, the solenoid 18 provided in the sorting section a of the same grade is operated to sequentially roll over the bucket 3a on which the cucumber K of the same grade is placed on the supply conveyor 5a that constitutes the sheet loader 5. , The cucumber K dropped and supplied from the bucket 3a is guided by the shooter 19, and the cucumber K is sequentially transferred onto the concave conveying surface 5b of the supply conveyor 5a arranged at the lower portion of the same position. The cucumbers K transferred onto the concave conveying surface 5b of the 5a are arranged in a line in the longitudinal direction and are conveyed sequentially.

At the same time, the sheet forming machine 6 is driven to sequentially supply the respective concave mounting portions Sb ... to the rolled-up sheet Sa at the loading position while performing pressure forming, and the sheet is supplied from the supply conveyor 5a. Supply cucumber K supply roller 20, 20
Loading guide 22 that is accelerated and transported at the loading position
1 cucumber K is sequentially loaded into the container, and the dropping guide 22 guides the cucumber K to drop, so that 1 cucumber K is directed toward each concave mounting portion Sb of the sheet Sa supplied to the lower portion of the same position. Drop books one by one.

Next, the film wrapping machine 7 is driven to perform vacuum wrapping or shrink wrapping while bonding the synthetic resin film F to the upper surface side of the continuously supplied sheets Sa, and the sheet cutting machine 8 is driven. , The long-sized sheet Sa is sequentially cut into a length corresponding to the boxed size, and the conveyor 2 for conveyance
3 are transferred in sequence. The perforation forming machine 9 is driven to form perforations on the corrugated sheet S conveyed by the conveyor 23, and then the sheet box packing machine 10 is driven to move the adsorbents 10c ... After being pressed against the upper surface side of S for suction holding, the suction unit 10
a is moved to the boxing position, and the corrugated sheet S is stored in the vinyl bag Ba inside the box B conveyed to the boxing position.
At the same time, by separating each of the adsorbents 10c of the suction unit 10a from the corrugated sheet S, the boxing work for one corrugated sheet S is completed. Similarly, as shown in FIG. 5, the suction unit 10a is moved to the suction position and the packing position, and the corrugated sheets S are sequentially stored one by one in the vinyl bag Ba laid inside the box B, and the same waveform is obtained. The sheets S are sequentially stacked in the vertical direction, and the front and rear portions of the box B are packed in a plurality of stages.
In addition, the cucumber K of a grade with a small sorting amount is manually boxed. Then, the box body B, in which a predetermined number of corrugated sheets S are packed in a box, is subjected to a boxing process by an automatic boxing machine (not shown) and shipped.

As described above, the cucumbers K of the same grade are sequentially transferred onto the supply conveyor 5a of the sheet loader 5, and the cucumbers K transferred onto the supply conveyor 5a are arranged in a line. The cucumber K supplied from the supply conveyor 5a is conveyed while being accelerated and conveyed by the supply rollers 20 and 20 to widen the front-rear distance with the subsequent cucumber K, and each concave shape of the corrugated sheet S supplied to the loading position. Since the cucumbers K are sequentially transferred one by one to the mounting portions Sb, each concave mounting portion Sb of the corrugated sheet S.
It is possible to transfer cucumber K one by one surely,
The cucumber K has a peculiar shape, saving the labor and work of correcting the loading position and the loading attitude of the cucumber K during transfer.
The loading work can be done mechanically.

Moreover, since a predetermined number of cucumbers K are placed on the corrugated sheet S and packed together, the cucumbers K brought in from the producer side as in the conventional example are manually packed. It is possible to save troublesome work and work, significantly reduce the number of times of boxing and work time, and save labor and improve efficiency. In addition, since a prescribed number of cucumbers K are packed in a box in a separated state, it is possible to prevent the cucumbers K from contacting each other, and the protrusions on the surface of the cucumbers K may peel off, or the surface of the cucumbers K may be scratched or scratched. It can be surely prevented from deteriorating the commercial value of cucumber K during transportation without being attached.

In the correspondence between the configuration of the present invention and the above-described embodiment, the sheet placing device of the present invention corresponds to the sheet loader 5 of the embodiment, and hereinafter, similarly, long fruits and vegetables are cucumber K. Correspondingly, the aligning conveyor corresponds to the feeding conveyor 5a of the sheet loading machine 5, and the sheet feeding means includes the sheet forming machine 6, the film packaging machine 7, and the feeding conveyor 21.
However, the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the above-described embodiment.

For example, a long-sized corrugated sheet S wound in a roll is sequentially fed out, and one cucumber K is transferred to each concave mounting portion Sb formed in advance on the corrugated sheet S one by one. Alternatively, the corrugated sheets S preformed in a size corresponding to the boxed size may be sequentially supplied one by one,
Cucumber K on each concave mounting portion Sb formed on the corrugated sheet S.
It is also possible to transfer one by one.

Further, a plurality of supply conveyors 5a ... May be provided side by side at a lower position corresponding to the grade-based sorting section a set on the conveying path of the sorting conveyor 3.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan configuration diagram of a boxing device for boxing cucumbers.

FIG. 2 is a side view of a sorting conveyor showing a cucumber sorting operation.

FIG. 3 is a partially enlarged plan view of a sorting conveyor showing a placed state of cucumbers.

FIG. 4 is a partially enlarged perspective view of a supply conveyor showing a cucumber feeding operation.

FIG. 5 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of a box body showing a boxed state of corrugated sheets.

FIG. 6 is a lateral cross-sectional view of a box body showing a cucumber packaging state according to a conventional method.

[Explanation of symbols]

 K ... Cucumber S ... Corrugated sheet Sa ... Sheet Sb ... Concave placement part 1 ... Box packing device 3 ... Sorting conveyor 3a ... Bucket 4 ... Grade determination device 5 ... Sheet loader 5a ... Supply conveyor 5b ... Concave conveying surface 6 ... Sheet forming machine 7 ... Film packaging machine 20 ... Supply roller 21 ... Conveyor for feeding

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Takamichi Shimomura, 1-32, Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture Yanmar Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. (72) Toru Ishii 66, Takaoka-cho, Matsuyama-shi, Ehime Prefecture Ishii Industrial Co. In the company

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A sorting section for sorting long fruits and vegetables placed on the sorting conveyor according to a grade is provided on a transport path of a sorting conveyor for transporting long fruits and vegetables, and the sorting conveyor is provided. In the grade-based sorting unit set on the transport path of, an alignment conveyor for aligning and transporting long-sized fruits and vegetables of the same grade in one row in the longitudinal direction is disposed, and at the transport-side end of the alignment conveyor, Sheet supply that supports a supply roller that accelerates and conveys the long fruits and vegetables supplied from the alignment conveyor in the longitudinal direction, and sequentially supplies the respective placement portions of the corrugated sheet to the loading position set on the feeding side of the supply roller. A sheet mounting device for long fruits and vegetables provided with means.