JPH05294450A - Tile loader into container and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To promote labor-saving for a tile manufacturing process by loading a lot of tiles into a container automatically. CONSTITUTION:This loader is provided with a takeout device 16 which takes out a tile 13 from an existing trolley conveyor 15. The tile 13 taken out is conveyed to a spot nearby a container 1 by means of a conveying mechanism 17. In the midway of conveyance, a rising mechanism 18 is provided which makes the tile 13 upright. Then, plural pieces of tiles 13 are aligned at equi- pitches by an aligning mechanism 19. Also a separating mechanism 20, which sets up the number of specified sheets among these aligned tiles 13 in an adjacent position of the container 1. In the state that an upper storage part of the container 1 is uplifted by a lifter, the tiles 13 are stored in a lower storage part by a loader 21, thus these tiles are loaded in orderin plural stages of storage parts from the downside.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for automatically loading a large number of roof tiles in a container prior to the roof tile firing process.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in the process of firing roof tiles, a large number of roof tiles are loaded in a container and loaded into a furnace for firing. As a container, as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, a container having a rack structure in which parts made of a refractory material are disassembled and assembled is widely used. The container 1 includes a pair of front and rear and upper and lower storage sections 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B,
5A and 5B are provided, and each storage unit is configured by connecting two left and right side plates 6 with front and rear two shelf bars 7. The side plates 6 are piled up and down on the bed 8 via the spacers 9, the support rods 11 are inserted in the lower portions of the side plates 6 in the second and higher stages, and the liner is placed on the side plates 6 in the fourth stage. One through one
1 is placed. A large number of pins 12 are detachably inserted from above at a predetermined equal pitch on these support rods 11, and the lower ends of the pins 12 hang down. Then, a predetermined number of roof tiles 13 are laterally inserted into the respective storage portions 2A, 2B, ..., 5A, 5B, and the roof tiles 13 are stored with the lower end placed on the shelf rod 7 and the upper ends held by the pins 12 at intervals. It

[0003]

However, since the roof tile 13 is formed in a wavy shape as is well known, it is very difficult to automate the roof tile 13 by inserting it into the narrow gap of the pin 12 from the side. It was Therefore, conventionally, it has been necessary to manually perform a series of container stacking operations, and the worker takes out the tile 13 after molding from the trolley conveyor and uses a step to lift the heavy tile 13 when necessary. They were stored one by one in the storage units 2A, 2B, ..., 5A, 5B. Therefore, the conventional manual method requires a considerable amount of heavy labor and is also a factor that prevents labor saving in the entire roof tile manufacturing process.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a novel method and apparatus capable of automatically loading a large number of roof tiles in a container and realizing labor saving in the roof tile manufacturing process.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the tile stacking apparatus according to the present invention has a take-out mechanism for taking out roof tiles from an existing trolley conveyor, and transports the roof tiles taken out to the vicinity of the container. A transfer mechanism, an erecting mechanism for erecting roof tiles in the middle of transportation, an alignment mechanism for aligning a plurality of erect roof tiles at an equal pitch, and a predetermined number of roof tiles separated from the aligned roof tiles and placed in front of the container. And a loading mechanism that clamps the separated roof tiles and loads them into a container.

According to the method of stacking tiles in a container according to the present invention, a plurality of storage units in which a predetermined number of tiles are stored with the lower end placed on a shelf bar and the upper ends held with a space between them are stacked in a vertically separable manner. Using a container made of the above, a step of clamping a predetermined number of roof tiles at an interval equal to the pitch of the pins by the clamp means, a step of lifting the second or more storage section from the bottom by a lifter, and one step of the roof tiles by the clamp means. Each of the storage units is repeated by the steps of storing the storage units in the eye storage unit, lowering the storage units in the second and higher stages onto the storage unit in the first stage by a lifter, and the process of unclamping the roof tile by the clamping means. The roof tiles are sequentially loaded.

[0007]

According to the container loading apparatus of the present invention, the series of steps from the removal of the roof tiles to the loading of the roof tiles are all automated, so that the labor of the worker is greatly reduced and the labor of the whole roof tile manufacturing process can be saved. become. Further, according to the container stacking method of the present invention, since the roof tiles are stored in the lower storage portion in a state where the upper storage portion is lifted, even if the container has a structure in which the roof tiles are held at intervals by a pin, The roof tiles can be stored neatly without being hindered by pins, and the container loading process can be automated.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a plan view showing the entire container stacking apparatus of this embodiment. In the figure, 15 is an existing trolley conveyor that conveys the tiles 13 after molding along two lines, and 16 is, for example, 3 from the trolley conveyor 15.
This is a take-out mechanism for taking out the roof tiles 13 at the same time. 17 is a transport mechanism for transporting the roof tile 13 taken out to the vicinity of the container 1,
Reference numeral 18 denotes an upright mechanism that erects the roof tile 13 during transportation. 1
9 is a roof tile 13 that has been raised, for example, 41 mm, for example
Alignment mechanism for arranging at equal pitch, 20 is an aligned roof tile 1
It is a separating mechanism that separates, for example, 20 roof tiles 13 out of 3, and arranges them at a position immediately in front of the container 1. The mechanisms 16 to 20 are installed in two rows along the trolley conveyor 15. The existing container shown in FIGS. 8 and 9 is used as the container 1.

Reference numeral 21 is a loading mechanism for clamping 20 roof tiles 13 and loading them into the container 1 from both front and rear sides at the same time.
Reference numeral 22 denotes a straightening mechanism that inspects each component of the container 1 before loading and corrects the positions of the components. A container component mounting table 23, which is a roller conveyor around which replacement components are placed, and the replacement components are moved up and down. Table lifter 2
4 are provided. 25 is a standby station for waiting a plurality of straightened containers 1 and 26 is a chain pusher for transporting a trolley carrying the containers 1 from a firing furnace (not shown) to a loading mechanism 21 through a straightening mechanism 22 and a standby station 25. It is a carriage transport mechanism.

The take-out mechanism 16 is constructed as shown in FIG. A stopper 29, a lifting cylinder 30, and a round belt conveyor 31 are arranged on the gantry 28.
The lift cylinder 30 supports a rodless cylinder 32, and the movable portion 33 thereof is provided with three scooping plates 34. Then, with the stopper 29 temporarily stopping the hanger 35 of the trolley conveyor 15, the scooping plate 34 moves up and down and traverses to take out the roof tile 13 from the hanger 35 onto the round belt conveyor 31.

The transport mechanism 17, the standing mechanism 18 and the alignment mechanism 19 are constructed as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. The transport mechanism 17 includes the round belt conveyor 31, a subsequent flat belt conveyor 37, and a traveling body 38 installed above the connecting portion between the conveyors 31 and 37. The traveling body 38 includes a reversing machine 39.
A clamp 40 for vertically holding the roof tile 13 is vertically provided on the ceiling. The reversing machine 39 operates only on one trolley conveyor 15 side to reverse the direction of the roof tile 13 by 180 °. The standing mechanism 18 includes a pulley 41 at the end of the round belt conveyor 31.
Is provided with a drum 42 that integrally rotates with, and is provided with a plurality of upright plates 43 that raise the roof tile 13 from the round belt conveyor 31 and transfer it to the clamp 40. The traveling body 38 travels along the guide rod 44 and conveys the roof tile 13 to the starting end of the flat belt conveyor 37.

The aligning mechanism 19 includes a pressing plate 4 which is long in the carrying direction.
5 and an auxiliary pressing plate 46 shorter than that by one roof tile. The pressing plate 45 is moved up and down by the cylinder 47, and is reciprocally moved in the longitudinal direction by a flat belt driving device (not shown) at a stroke of 41 mm, which is the same as the intermittent feed amount of the flat belt conveyor 37. Twenty-eight roof tiles 13 are arranged on the flat belt conveyor 37 at an equal pitch. The auxiliary pressing plate 46 is lowered by the cylinder 48 when the pressing plate 45 moves up, and holds the roof tile 13 in the upright state.

As shown in FIG. 4 and FIG. 5, the separating device 20 has a bracket 50 and a cylinder 51, and the separating device 20 is vertically separated.
It is configured by attaching a single clamp plate 52. The bracket 50 is reciprocated along the rail 54 by the cylinder 53. And the 20 roof tiles 13 are the clamp plates 5.
It is gripped from the container 1 side by 2 and is separated from the remaining eight roof tiles 13 as the bracket 50 moves forward and is arranged at the position immediately before the container 1. In addition, in FIG.
Reference numeral 55 is a long bed that receives the roof tile 13 together with the flat belt conveyor 37.

The loading mechanism 21, as shown in FIG.
Two lifters 57 that sandwich the container 1 from the transport direction are provided, and a claw 59 that is inserted into and removed from a notch 58 formed in the side plate 6 of the container 1 is provided below each lifter 57. The lifter 57 is connected to a vertical cylinder 61 via a chain 60, and is lifted and lowered along a guide frame 62 by controlling the stroke of the cylinder 61, and a claw 59 allows the lifter 57 to be stored at the second or higher stage from the bottom of the container 1. 3A, 3
B, 4A, 4B, 5A, 5B can be lifted. Reference numeral 63 is an upper lifter installed on the upper portion of the loading mechanism 21, and is provided with a claw 64 for lifting the tilt bar 11 of the container 1.

A pair of sliders 65 (only one is shown) are slidably supported on the upper portion of the loading mechanism 21 by a horizontal cylinder 66 along a guide plate 67 in a direction orthogonal to the carrying direction. A motor 68 is mounted on each slider 65, and a support frame 69 and a screw shaft 70 are vertically provided. An elevating plate 71 is supported by the support frame 69, and is elevated by a motor 68 via a screw shaft 70 and gears 72, 73. Twenty roof tiles 13 are placed on the lifting plate 71 in the container 1
Is provided with a pair of upper and lower loading clamps 74 that are gripped from the outside (the direction opposite to the clamp plate 52 of the separating mechanism 20), and the outer position for receiving the roof tile 13 from the separating mechanism 20 as the slider 65 moves. It is arranged at an inner position where the roof tile 13 is stored inside the container 1.

As shown in FIG. 7, the correction mechanism 22 is provided with a lifter 76, a pin inspection member 77, and an alignment member 78. The lifter 76 has substantially the same structure as the lifter 57 of the loading mechanism 21, and is configured to lift the storage units 3A, 3B, ..., 5A, 5B in the empty container 1 at the second and higher stages. The pin inspection member 77 is moved up and down together with the lifter 76, and the pin 1 inserted into the support rod 11 is attached.
2 is provided with a pair of pressing pieces 79 that move up and down at a set pressure so that an abnormality can be detected when the pin 12 bends and does not move. The alignment member 78 is arranged to face the lower end of the container 1 and includes a pressing portion (not shown) that pushes the side plate 6 and the bed 8 of the container 1 back and forth and left and right, and the side plate 6 for the cart 80 on which the container 1 is placed. The position of the bed 8 is corrected. In addition, the correction device 22 is also provided with a photoelectric switch (not shown) for inspecting the bending of the shelf rod 7 and the tilt rod 11.

Next, a method of stacking roof tiles in a container using the apparatus configured as described above will be described. The roof tile 13 after molding is transferred to the container 1 by the trolley conveyor 15.
1 and 2, the three roof tiles 13 are taken out from the hanger 35 by the scooping plate 34 of the take-out mechanism 16 onto the round belt conveyor 31 of the carrying mechanism 17. At the end of the round belt conveyor 31,
As shown in FIG. 3, the roof tile 13 causes the standing plate 43 of the standing mechanism 18 to move.
After being lifted up by the moving body 38, it is transferred to the clamp 40 of the traveling body 38 and is conveyed by the traveling body 38 onto the starting end portion of the flat belt conveyor 37. At this time, one trolley conveyor 1
On the 5th side, the reversing machine 39 operates to turn the roof tile 13 180 degrees.

Next, the pressing plate 45 of the aligning mechanism 19 is lowered, the roof tile 13 is held upright on the flat belt conveyor 37, and the pressing plate 45 and the flat belt conveyor 37 are moved in the conveying direction by a distance equal to the alignment pitch of the roof tiles 13. The roof tile 13 is moved and held at that position by the auxiliary pressing plate 46.
After ascending, 5 is returned to the original position. With this intermittent feed,
Subsequent roof tiles 13 are sequentially carried in to the container 1 side and aligned on the flat belt conveyor 37 at an equal pitch. When the 28 roof tiles 13 are aligned on the flat belt conveyor 37,
Among them, the 20 tiles 13 from the beginning are gripped by the clamp plate 52 of the separating mechanism 20, and are arranged at the position immediately before the container 1 as the bracket 50 moves.

Subsequently, as shown in FIG. 6, the loading mechanism 21
In the above, the roof tiles 13 are stored in the storage parts 2A, 2B of the container 1,
, 5A, 5B are stored in order from the bottom. in this case,
First, the 20 roof tiles 13 are clamped by the loading clamp 74 at an interval equal to the arrangement pitch, that is, the pitch of the pins 12, and then, on the opposite side, the clamp plate 52 of the separating mechanism 20 releases the roof tiles 13 and then the original. Returned to position. Next, the claws 59 of the lifter 57 are inserted into the notches 58 in the second side plate 6 from the bottom, and in this state, the lifter 57 is lifted by the vertical cylinder 61 so that the storage parts 3A, 3 of the second and higher stages are stored.
B, ~, 5A, 5B are lifted. By this time,
A pin 12 is inserted into the second or higher stage of the tilting rod 11, and naturally the pin 12 can be lifted together.

Then, the horizontal cylinder 66 is driven, the loading clamp 74 is moved inward together with the slider 65 and the support frame 69, and the roof tile 13 is inserted into the first-stage storage sections 2A and 2B from both sides of the container 1. Is stored. At this time,
Since the pin 12 is lifted as described above, the roof tile 13
Is easy to insert. After that, the storage unit 3 of the second stage or higher
A, 3B, ..., 5A, 5B are lowered by the lifter 57 onto the first-stage storage sections 2A, 2B, and the second-stage support rod 11 is moved.
With the pin 12 holding the space between the roof tiles 13, the loading clamp 74 releases the roof tiles 13 and is moved to the outside.

Thus, when the first stage is completed, the lifter 5
7 is moved up to the third step position, and the claws 59 lift the storage sections 4A, 4B, 5A, 5B at the third step and above. The loading clamp 74 holding the roof tile 13 is lifted up to the second-stage position by the motor 68 via the screw shaft 70, and the roof clamp 13 moves the roof tile 13 into the second-stage storage portions 3A, 3B.
Stored in. When the second step is completed, the lifter 57 moves up to the fourth step position to lift the storage sections 5A and 5B, and the loading clamp 74 moves up to the third step position to move the roof tile 13 to the third step storage section 4A ,. Store in 4B. Then, when the third step is completed, the upper lifter 63 moves up the uppermost support rod 11 and the loading clamp 74 moves up to the fourth step position to move the roof tile 13 into the fourth step storage portion. Store in 5A and 5B.

When the loading of all the stages is completed, the container 1 is transported from the loading mechanism 21 to the firing furnace, and the next container 1 is automatically loaded into the loading mechanism 21 from the waiting station 25 by the carriage transport mechanism 26. The straightened container 1 is carried into the waiting station 25 from the straightening mechanism 22, and the empty container 1 from which the roof tile is taken out after firing is carried into the straightening mechanism 22. In the correction mechanism 22, the position of the side plate 6 and the bed 8 with respect to the carriage 80 is corrected by the alignment member 78 while the upper storage portion is lifted by the lifter 76, and the pin 12 is inspected by the pin inspection member 77. At the same time, the shelf bar 7 and the support bar 11 are inspected by a photoelectric switch (not shown), and if a defective product is detected, an alarm device provided on a control panel (not shown) is activated. The parts are replaced by manual operation.

Therefore, according to the container loading apparatus and method of this embodiment, the series of steps from the removal of the roof tiles 13 to the loading and straightening of the container 1 are all automated, so the labor of the worker is greatly reduced. Thus, labor saving in the entire roof tile manufacturing process can be realized. Particularly, in the loading process, since the roof tiles 13 are stored in the lower storage portion in a state where the upper storage portion is lifted, even if the container 1 has a structure in which the roof tiles 13 are held by the pins 12 at a predetermined number of sheets, Roof tile 13
The container can be stored neatly without being hindered by pins, and the container loading process can be automated.

The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment, and a loading / unloading mechanism to which a loading mechanism is applied may be added to the roof tile container loading / unloading device so that it can be automatically loaded / unloaded. For example, the shapes and configurations of the respective portions can be appropriately modified and embodied without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

[0025]

As described in detail above, according to the invention described in claim 1, since a series of steps from the removal of tiles to the loading of tiles are all automated, the labor of the worker is greatly reduced, The excellent effect that the labor saving of the whole roof tile manufacturing process can be realized is exhibited.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the roof tiles are stored in the lower storage portion in a state where the upper storage portion is lifted, the roof tiles can be stored in an orderly manner without being obstructed by the pins, and the stacking can be performed in a container. The effect is that the process can be automated.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an entire container stacking device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view showing an ejection mechanism of the apparatus shown in FIG.

3 is a front view showing a transport mechanism, a standing mechanism, and an alignment mechanism of the apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of FIG.

5 is a side view showing a separating mechanism of the apparatus of FIG. 1. FIG.

6 is a side view showing a loading mechanism of the apparatus of FIG. 1. FIG.

7 is a front view showing a correction mechanism of the apparatus of FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 8 is a front view of the container.

9 is a side view of FIG. 8. FIG.

[Explanation of Codes] 1 Container 2A, 2B
First stage storage section 3A, 3B Second stage storage section 4A, 4B
Third-stage storage section 5A, 5B Fourth-stage storage section 7 Shelf bar 12 pins 13 Roof tile 15 Trolley conveyor 16 Extraction mechanism 17 Transfer mechanism 18 Standing mechanism 19 Alignment mechanism 20 Separation mechanism 21 Loading mechanism 22 Straightening mechanism 57 Lifter 74 loading clamp

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A take-out mechanism for taking out roof tiles from an existing trolley conveyor, a carrying mechanism for carrying the taken-out roof tiles to the vicinity of a container, a standing mechanism for standing up the roof tiles in the middle of carrying, and a plurality of standing roof tiles. Equipped with an alignment mechanism that aligns at equal pitch, a separation mechanism that separates a predetermined number of roof tiles from the aligned roof tiles and places them in front of the container, and a loading mechanism that clamps the separated roof tiles and loads them into the container. Tile roof container loading equipment. 2. A container in which a plurality of storage units in which a predetermined number of roof tiles are placed with a lower end on a shelf bar and an upper end held at intervals by pins are stacked in a vertically separable manner, A step of clamping a certain number of roof tiles at an interval equal to the pitch of the pins by the clamp means, a step of lifting the second or more storage compartments from the bottom by a lifter, and a step of storing the roof tiles in the first storage compartment by the clamp means. And a step of lowering the second or more storage parts onto the first storage part by a lifter, and a step of unclamping the roof tile by the clamping means,
This is a method of stacking tiles in a container by sequentially stacking tiles in each storage unit.