JPH0514037U - Container stacking and stacking device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] It is intended to provide a series of automated devices in which containers stacked in multiple stages before processing are transferred again in multiple stages after processing, without any manual intervention, and in particular To provide a container stacking device capable of continuous processing that has a simple structure and can be provided at low cost, has a small occupied volume, is easy to maintain and manage, and is extremely easy to control. [Structure] Unpacking container 3 The apparatus A and the stacking apparatus C are sequentially arranged on both sides of a suitable container processing apparatus B, and the step-out apparatus A lifts the lifting means 14 for lifting the containers 3 in the second and higher stages and the second-stage container. Transfer means 1 for sending the lowermost container to the processing device during the operation
9, the stacking device C is composed of lifting means 27 for lifting the lowermost container 3 upward, and transfer means 19 for sending out the containers 3 when a predetermined number of stacked containers are stacked.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial applications]

 According to the present invention, the containers moving in a plurality of stacked states on the transfer means are separated one by one and sent to a predetermined processing device, and the containers sent out from the processing device are stacked in a plurality of stages as they are. The present invention relates to an unstacking stacking device for a container to be repaired.

[0002]

[Prior art and problems]

 When performing mechanical processing on bottles and other arbitrary items, it is widely practiced to put them in a container and to collectively process them on the line, not as a single unit. This is because it is more efficient to collectively process each container than to individually machine the individual parts. For example, in the case of artificial cultivation of mushrooms, the culture medium is packed in a culture bottle and sterilized in a sterilization kettle, then seeded with inoculum to spread hyphae, mushrooms are grown and then harvested, and the used culture medium is scraped out. The procedure is carried out again by packing new culture medium, but each work is not carried out in individual culture bottles as a unit, but is usually carried out in a processing unit which is a container capable of holding 16 culture bottles. This container is a box-shaped container with the top open, and has a flange formed around the upper edge for easy transportation.

The processing of each work is performed in a container unit, but during the work, it moves in a state of being stacked in a plurality of stages, and when it is transferred to a target place, the container is moved. It is separated for each and processing is performed. The applicant has already proposed, as a device for performing this work, a "container sequential feeding device to an automatic bottling device for mushroom culture medium" in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 59-3923, and mechanically implements the sequential feeding of containers that can be conventionally processed only manually. The solution was that the sprocket was symmetrically arranged on both sides of the container, and a chain was placed on this sprocket, and an engaging rod was projected on this sprocket. To the horizontal position so that it engages the flange of the container and lifts the second and higher containers, while delivering the lowest container and then the second container that was lifted. Is the one at the bottom.

Therefore, although a device for disassembling multi-tiered containers in a container processing device and sending them one by one has been solved, the multi-tiered containers before processing are again multi-tiered and transferred after processing. There was no set of automated equipment.

[0005]

[Means for solving problems]

 The present invention has been made in view of such a point, and its purpose is to transfer containers that have been stacked in multiple stages before processing and then stacked in multiple stages after processing without any manual intervention. It is intended to provide a series of automated equipment that can be continuously processed, especially because the entire structure is simple and can be provided at a low cost, the occupied volume is small, the maintenance is easy to perform, and the control is extremely easy. The purpose is to provide a destacking stacking device, and the main point is that the container destacking device and the stacking device are arranged in order on both sides of an appropriate container processing device, and the destacking device is the second stage. The stacking device comprises an elevating means for lifting the containers above the eye and a transfer means for sending the lowermost container to the processing device while the second-stage container is being lifted. Elevating means and containers for lifting the lower or more containers above is characterized in that consisting of consisting of a transport means for feeding them when piled predetermined number.

First, the present invention relates to an appropriate container processing device and the entire device provided on both sides thereof, and further to both sides thereof, a device for transferring stacked containers may be attached. is there. Here, appropriate container processing devices (or simply processing devices) include all devices that perform some work in each container. For example, in artificial cultivation of mushrooms, each container contains a culture bottle stored in the container. Culture medium bottling device that fills the culture medium into the bottle, capping device that caps the culture bottle, seed bacteria planting device that inoculates the seed culture in the bottle, device for removing dead sterilization remaining in the bottle mouth after culturing, and device that scrapes the culture medium from the culture bottle. And so on. The present invention comprises a stacking and stacking device including such a processing device and located on both sides thereof.

The destacking device is a device that sends out containers stacked in a plurality of stages to the next process step by step, and the stacking device receives the containers from the previous processing device one by one, and requests them. Is a device for stacking a plurality of stages. More specifically, the stage disassembling device is an elevating means for raising the containers of the second stage and above, and a transfer means for sending the bottommost container to the processing device while the second stage containers are being raised. The elevating means is an engaging member that moves up and down or rotates on both sides of the container, and the transfer means is a conveyor configured by a chain or a belt. In this specification, the lowermost conveyor is a container placed directly on the conveyor, and the container stacked thereon is the second-stage container.

As a means for raising and lowering the containers of the second stage and above, for example, rails are hung vertically on both sides of the apparatus, and an elevating member for elevating and lowering guided by the rails is attached to each rail. The crank means reciprocates at a predetermined interval in the vertical direction. The lift member is provided with an opening / closing member that is biased toward the inside, that is, toward the container so that the opening / closing piece rotates upward when opened. The opening / closing member may be, for example, a hinge, and it is preferable that the opening / closing member is held at a right angle by a spring when opened, and the opening / closing piece is opened to a substantially horizontal position when opened against this. On the other hand, the rail is provided with a play member which is always held at its lower limit position by its own weight along the rail and is freely movable above and below the rail, and the lower limit position is determined by a stopper. This play member has a pawl that opens and closes the opening / closing member toward the container when the opening / closing member of the opening / closing member is raised above the flange of the lowermost container and abuts against the opening / closing member. The projecting and opening / closing member of the opening / closing member has its tip reaching below the flange of the second-stage container when opened by the claw.

On the other hand, the stacking device for the containers, which is connected to the delivery side of the container processing device, includes a lifting device for lifting the containers at the lowest level and above and a stacking device when the containers are stacked by a predetermined number. It is composed of a transfer means for sending out. The elevating means for lifting the container at the lowest stage and above upward is composed of an engaging member that elevates or rotates on both sides of the container, and the transfer means is a conveyor constituted by a chain or a belt. The transfer of the containers onto the equipment is performed by the feeding means of the previous processing equipment, but if there is a distance between the processing equipment and the stacking equipment, the transfer means of the stacking equipment will transfer the containers at the bottom stage. You may guide the container from the processor below.

The elevating means is configured as follows, for example. Rails are erected on both sides of the device, and elevating members are fitted to the rails so as to be vertically movable, and engaging members are symmetrically projected toward the inside, that is, toward the container. The elevating member moves on the rail by a reciprocating engine such as a crank, and the engaging member connected to the elevating member moves up and down correspondingly. This engaging member may be one that uses one piece as a supporting member and another piece that is elastically held like a hinge, or may consist of only a rotating piece that is directly attached to the lifting member. In any of these cases, the engaging member is elastically held substantially horizontally when opened, and can be rotated only by an external force upward.

Further, when the engaging member is horizontal in the opened state, the tip of the engaging member is long enough to reach the position where it engages with the flange of the container disposed inside, and The engaging member reciprocates from a position below the flange of the lowermost container to a position where the container is lifted to a height below which the next lowermost container can be inserted.

[0012]

[Action]

 Since the present invention is configured as described above, when a multi-tiered container is sent to the destacking device and stopped, the elevating means is driven and the second and higher containers are lifted and detected. Then, the transfer means is driven, and the lowermost container is transferred to the container processing device. When the transfer is complete, the entire container is unloaded onto the conveyor, and the second and higher level containers are lifted again. In the processing equipment, when the processing is completed for the containers, they are sent out, and then sent to the stacking equipment that is connected to the sending side. When the first container is fed onto the stacking device, the elevating means is driven and the container is lifted by the engaging means. The next container is fed by the transfer means into the space formed therebelow, and when it is confirmed, the engagement means again lifts the bottommost container to form a feeding space for the next container. When the predetermined number of stages is reached, the sheets are sent out from the apparatus in a stacked state by the transfer means.

[0013]

【Example】

 An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a simplified side view of the device 1 of the present invention, where A is a destacking device, B is a mushroom culture medium bottling device, and C is a stacking device. .. FIG. 2 is an enlarged perspective view showing a part of the step-out device A, and FIG. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the operation of raising and lowering the raising and lowering member when empty containers are stacked. 2 is a frame material, 3 is a container, 4 is a plurality of bottles stored in the container 3, 5 is rails provided on both sides of the apparatus A, and 6 is a stopper for stopping the multi-tiered container 3 at a predetermined position. There is a passage through which only the lowest container 3 passes. Reference numeral 7 is a fence for preventing the container from falling sideways.

A play member 10 having an elongated notch 9 inside is loosely fitted to the rail 5 via a roller 8, the lower limit position of which is restricted by a stopper 11, and a claw 12 extending upward in the direction of the container 3 is provided. 2 are horizontally installed on the left and right, and a bridge 13 is bridged on the bridge, and the fence 7 is erected on the bridge 13. The elevating member 14 is made of a plate material, and is located between the play member 10 and the rail 5, a crank bar 15 is connected to the lower part thereof, and an opening / closing piece 16 urged to rotate upward when opened by a spring or a plate spring. The opening / closing member 17 has is attached.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view for explaining stepwise operations of the opening / closing member and the claw when moving up and down. In (1), the opening / closing piece 16 is opened horizontally and the tip end is engaged with the flange 18 of the container 3. In this state, the container 3 is lowered, and the bottom of the container 3 is lowered to the conveyor 19. FIG. 4 (2) shows a state in which the opening / closing member 17 is further lowered from the position (1) and the opening / closing piece 16 is opened and returned to the vertical position. In FIG. 4 (3), the opening / closing member 17 rises from the state of (2) and comes into contact with the claw 12 provided laterally on the play member 10 protruding upward, and the opening / closing piece 16 opens against its elasticity. It shows a state in which it is about to be tried.

4 (4), the opening / closing member 17 further rises from the state of (3) in a state in which the opening / closing member 17 is opened together with the play member 10, and the opening / closing piece 16 is engaged with the flange 18 of the second-stage container 3. In addition, the state is shown in which the upper second-stage container 3 is lifted upward. As is clear from the above, the opening / closing piece 16 of the opening / closing member 17 in the open state is raised between the flange 18 of the lowermost container 3 and the flange 18 of the second-stage container 3 at any position, and The element 12 abuts the opening / closing piece 16 and resists the urging force of the opening / closing piece 16 to open it substantially horizontally to the container side. The mushroom culture medium bottling device B is provided with a hopper-21, which is supported by rails 20 and contains culture medium, leaving room for the conveyor 19 and the container 3 to pass through. Drilling rods 22 for drilling holes are arranged in a row in the vertical direction.

The stacking device C has a conveyor 19 arranged in the base frame 2. Rails 23 are erected on both sides of the device C, and an elevating member 25 that is elevated by a crank 24 is fitted on the rails 23. Reference numeral 26 is a roller for guiding. Reference numeral 27 is an engaging member that is provided so as to project inside the elevating member 25. The engaging member 27 has a hinge shape, and includes a supporting member 28 and a rotating piece 29. Although not shown, the engaging member 27 is kept horizontal when opened by a spring and is rotatable only upward. The tip of the rotating piece 29 of the engaging member 27 extends to the bottom of the flange 18 of the container 3 when it is horizontal, and when moving downward, it hits the flange 18 and is elastically pressed upward to rotate and clear the flange 18. However, when it moves upward, it keeps horizontal and engages the flange 18 to lift the container 3. Then, the engaging member 27 lifts the upper container 3 to a height at which the lowermost container 3 can enter, and lowers below the flange 18 of the lower container 3 to move between them. It reciprocates together with the lifting member 25. 30 is a bar for preventing the container from falling sideways.

[0018]

【effect】

 As described above, in the present invention, since the stacking device and the destacking device are arranged on both sides of the container processing device, the containers carried in the multi-stage stack without any human hands are re-sent in the multi-stage stack after processing. In addition, it can be automatically transferred to the next processing step in a multi-stage stacking state, and it has a remarkable effect in terms of labor saving. Since the container is only lifted up and down, the structure of the device is simple and it can be provided at low cost, the occupying volume is small, the maintenance is easy, and the control is extremely simple.

[0019]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a simplified side view of the device.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged perspective view showing a part of the step-out device.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of an opening / closing member, a claw, etc. of the disassembling device as viewed from the inside.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing an operation of raising and lowering an elevating member of the step-out device.

FIG. 5 is a partially enlarged view of an engaging member of the stacking device.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view of a state in which an attempt is made to clear the flange of the lowermost container when the engaging member of the stacking device is lowered.

FIG. 7 is a state explanatory view showing a state in which the engagement member of the stacking and guilt device lifts the second-stage container and the lowest-stage container enters the container.

[Explanation of sign]

1-apparatus main body, 2-frame material, 3-container, 4-bottle, 5-
Rail, 6-stopper, 7-fence, 8-roller, 9-notch, 10-play member, 11-stopper, 12-pawl, 13
-Bridge, 14-elevating member, 15-crank, 16-
Opening / closing piece, 17-opening / closing member, 18-flange, 19-conveyor, 20-rail, 21-hopper, 22-drilling rod, 23-rail, 24-crank, 25-elevating member,
26-roller, 27-engaging member, 28-supporting member, 29
-Rotating piece, 30-bar A-stage disassembling device, B-mushroom culture medium bottling device, C-stage stacking device

Claims (2)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A container destacking device and a stacking device are arranged in order on both sides of an appropriate container processing device, and the destacking device includes a lifting means for lifting a container of a second stage or higher and a second stage container. And a transfer means for sending the lowermost container to the processing device while being lifted,
A stacking and stacking device for containers, characterized in that the stacking device comprises lifting means for lifting the lowermost container upward and transfer means for sending out the containers when a predetermined number of stacked containers have been stacked. 2. The container processing means comprises a culture base bottling device for filling culture medium in a culture bottle housed in a container, a capping device for capping the culture bottle, an inoculum planting device for inoculating the inoculum into the bottle, and a bottle mouth after culturing. Claim for utility model registration, characterized in that it is either a device for removing the remaining dead sterilizer or a device for scraping out the culture medium from the culture bottle.
Unstacking and stacking device for containers