JPH0613142Y2 - Container collecting device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of use] The present invention relates to a container collecting device that collects a plurality of rows of containers conveyed by a plurality of rows of supply conveyors by a guide member to a plurality of rows of one-row conveyors and collects them in one row. .

[Prior Art] Container transporting devices for transporting containers such as bottles and small boxes are used in various fields including the food and drink manufacturing field. A container collecting device, which is one of the container conveying devices, is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 56-161216 and Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 57-424.
As described in Japanese Patent No. 13 and Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 63-24125, a plurality of rows of containers that have been continuously conveyed are grouped and delivered. As shown in FIG. 2, such a container collecting apparatus includes a plurality of rows of parallel feed conveyors 1, 2, 3 and a plurality of parallel rows of single row conveyors 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, a guide member 10 obliquely arranged so as to cross the supply conveyor and the line-up conveyor, and the carry-out conveyor 1
1 and 1. Multiple rows of supply conveyors 1,
The plurality of rows of the containers A transported by the two or three are arranged in a row along the guide member 10 in the single row conveyors 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Will be guided to. Multiple rows of single row conveyors 4, 5, 6,
Since 7, 8 and 9 are set so that the traveling speed becomes higher as the distance from the supply conveyors 1, 2, 3 increases, the intervals of the containers A guided by the guide member 10 are gradually increased and the intervals between them are increased. The container A is inserted into the container to arrange the containers in a line. The carry-out conveyor 11 carries out the containers A thus grouped in a row at a speed suitable for the next step.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, such a container collecting apparatus has a configuration in which the traveling speeds of the in-line conveyors 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are set to be higher as the distance from the supply conveyor is increased. The traveling speed of the single-row conveyors 8 and 9 near the final row becomes high. In order to widen the space between the containers in such high-speed single-row conveyors 8 and 9, the inclination of the guide member 10 is made gentle to increase the moving distance of the containers on the high-speed single-row conveyors 8 and 9, or It is necessary to increase the number of rows of the chemical conversion conveyor, and in any case, there is a problem that the container collecting device becomes large.

In addition, there is a problem that the traveling speed difference between the high-speed final line-up conveyor 9 and the relatively low-speed carry-out conveyor 11 becomes very large, and the containers cannot be smoothly moved between them.

Further, in order to surely arrange the containers in a line while smoothly moving the containers, the guide member 10 must be set to have a complicated curve, which requires high precision machining of the guide members, resulting in an increase in cost. I was invited.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a container assembling apparatus capable of smoothly assembling a plurality of rows of containers without making the shape of the guide member particularly complicated and without enlarging the entire size. .

[Means for Solving the Problem] In order to achieve this object, the present invention provides a plurality of rows of parallel feed conveyors on which a plurality of rows of containers are respectively placed, and adjacent to the plurality of rows of feed conveyors. As such, a plurality of rows of parallel conveyors arranged in parallel with each other, and a guide member obliquely arranged so as to cross them with respect to the supply conveyor and the conversion conveyor, and is conveyed by the supply conveyor. In the container collecting device that collects the plurality of rows of containers in one row while transferring the plurality of rows of containers along the guide member to the plurality of rows of one-row conveyors, the plurality of rows of one-row conveyors are a plurality of rows of speed-up conveyors and a plurality of rows. Of the speed increasing conveyor of the plurality of rows and the speed reducing conveyor of the plurality of rows are arranged so that one of them is interposed between the other, the speed increasing conveyor of The traveling speed is set to be higher than that of the deceleration conveyor adjacent to the traveling speed.

In this configuration, it is preferable that the plurality of rows of speed increasing conveyors and the plurality of rows of decelerating conveyors are alternately arranged, and the traveling speeds of the plurality of rows of decelerating conveyors are substantially equal or sequentially higher.

Further, it is desirable that the deceleration conveyors are arranged at every plural rows of the plural rows of speed increasing conveyors.

Further, the traveling speeds of the plurality of rows of speed-up conveyors are set to be substantially equal or sequentially higher from the speed-up conveyor on the side adjacent to the supply conveyor to the speed-up conveyor on the opposite side. Is preferred.

[Operation] The plurality of rows of containers conveyed by the plurality of rows of supply conveyors contact the guide member and are guided along the guide members. The containers guided by the guide member are transferred to the in-line conveyor in a plurality of rows including an inner row that is in contact with the guide member and is continuous with an outer row that is in contact with the guide member.

When the containers in the inner row enter the speed-increasing conveyor of the single-row conveyors in a plurality of rows, a space between the containers in the rear row is opened, and the containers in the outer row are inserted into the open space to proceed the single-row formation.

In addition, the containers in the inner row and the containers in the outer row that have proceeded in a direction substantially perpendicular to the guide member are such that when one of the containers is in the deceleration conveyor, the other container is on the speed-up conveyor next to the deceleration conveyor. The relative speed difference between the two containers becomes very large, and the relative positional relationship between the two containers changes from the conventional substantially parallel juxtaposition to the guide member to the position in the front-rear direction along the guide member. For this reason, the line-up on the next speed increasing conveyor is promoted.

By repeating this, the containers are collected in a line.

[Embodiment] An embodiment of the container collecting apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG. 1 in which the same parts as those in FIG.

In FIG. 1, a conveyor frame 12 has a plurality of rows of supply conveyors 1, 2, and 3 arranged in parallel with each other, and a plurality of parallel rows of single row conveyors arranged adjacent to the supply conveyor 3. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
And a carry-out conveyor 11 adjacent to the line-up conveyor 9
And are placed respectively. The traveling speeds of the supply conveyors 1, 2, 3 are sequentially increased in consideration of the deceleration when coming into contact with the guide member. The single row conveyor row includes a relatively low speed deceleration conveyor 4, 6, 8 and a high speed acceleration conveyor 5,
The speed reduction conveyors 4, 6, 8 and the speed-increasing conveyors 5, 7, 9 are arranged alternately. The traveling speeds of the deceleration conveyors 4, 6 and 8 are set to be substantially equal to each other or sequentially set to a speed Vs which is slightly higher than the high speed traveling speed Vc, and the speed increasing conveyors 5, 7 and 9 are considerably higher than the speed Vs of the deceleration conveyor. It is set to the speed Vg.
That is, the relationship between the traveling speed Vc of the supply conveyor, the traveling speed Vs of the deceleration conveyor, and the traveling speed Vg of the acceleration conveyor is Vc.
<Vs <Vg. Further, the traveling speeds Vg of the speed increasing conveyors 5, 7, 9 may be set equal to each other as long as they are higher than the speed Vs of the decelerating conveyor, or may be different from each other, for example, increase as the distance from the supply conveyor row increases. Can also be set.

Container drop prevention walls 13, 14, and 15 are attached to the supply conveyor 1, the supply conveyor 3, and the carry-out conveyor 11.

Supply conveyors 1, 2, 3 and in-line conveyors 4, 5, 6,
A guide member 10 is arranged at 7, 8 and 9 so as to cross each conveyor diagonally. One end of the guide member 10 is connected to one end of the container fall prevention wall 13 and the other end extends along the carry-out conveyor 11.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

On each of the supply conveyors 1, 2, and 3, a plurality of containers A are placed in a mutually connected state. The plurality of rows of containers A conveyed by the respective supply conveyors 1, 2, 3 abut on the oblique guide member 10 and change their orientations along this guide member 10 to contact the guide member 10 And two or more outer rows of the outer container rows or mixed outer rows of the outer container rows are transferred to the single row conveyor row. The three rows of containers A are lined up along the guide member 10 while diagonally crossing each of the lined conveyors 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. The containers A arranged in a line are transferred to the carry-out conveyor 11 and thus carried out to the next step.

The lining up of the containers by the lining up conveyors 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 is performed as follows.

When the containers A in the inner row along the guide member 10 enter the speed-increasing conveyors 5, 7 and 9, a space is opened with the containers A behind them, and the containers A in the outer row enter the opened space to form one row. Progressing.

The inner row container and the outer row container, for example, A1 and A2, which are arranged substantially vertically to the guide member 10, have one container located on the deceleration conveyor and the other container located on the speed increasing conveyor. As a result, the difference in speed between the two containers A1 and A2 becomes very large, so that the positional relationship between the two containers A1 and A2 rapidly changes from the vertically juxtaposed state of the guide member to the state of being aligned along the guide member. Due to this change, the lineup by the speed increasing conveyors 5, 7, and 9 described above is further promoted.

As described above, since the single-row conveyors are composed of the deceleration conveyors 4, 6, 8 and the speed-increasing conveyors 5, 7, 9 which are alternately arranged, the relative speed difference between the adjacent deceleration conveyors and speed-increasing conveyors. The traveling speed of the final single-row conveyor 9 does not become too high even if is set to be relatively large, so that the container A can be smoothly transferred from the final single-row conveyor 9 to the relatively low-speed carry-out conveyor 11. .

Further, the guide member 10 can have a simple shape that is relatively straight as compared with the conventional one.

In the above-described embodiment, the deceleration conveyor and the speed-up conveyor are alternately arranged so that the deceleration conveyor 4 is adjacent to the supply conveyor 3. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the speed increasing conveyor and the speed decreasing conveyor may be alternately arranged so that the speed increasing conveyor is adjacent to the supply conveyor 3.

In addition, the deceleration conveyors and the speed-up conveyors are not limited to being completely alternately arranged, and, for example, the speed-reduction conveyors may be arranged every two rows or every three rows of the speed-up conveyors.

[Effects of the Invention] As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, a plurality of rows of single-row conveyors include a plurality of rows of speed-up conveyors and a plurality of rows of speed-down conveyors. And the plurality of rows of deceleration conveyors are arranged so that one of them is interposed between the other, and the traveling speed of the speed-up conveyor is determined to be higher than that of the deceleration conveyors adjacent to it, so that the final row The relative speed difference between adjacent single-row conveyors can be increased without extremely increasing the traveling speed of the single-row conveyor. Therefore, it is possible to achieve collective lining up of containers with a relatively small number and relatively short lining up conveyor. Further, the guide member can have a simpler shape than the conventional one.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an embodiment of a container collecting device according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a conventional container collecting device. 1, 2, 3 ... Supply conveyor, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
…… Single-row conveyor, 4, 6, 8 …… Decelerator,
5, 7, 9 ... Speed-up conveyor, 10 ... Guide member.

Claims (4)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A plurality of rows of parallel feed conveyors on which a plurality of rows of containers are placed, respectively, and a plurality of parallel rows of single row conveyors arranged side by side so as to be adjacent to the plurality of rows of feed conveyors. A plurality of the plurality of rows of containers conveyed by the supply conveyor, the guide conveyor being diagonally arranged so as to cross them with respect to the supply conveyor and the line-up conveyor. In a container collecting device that collects in one row while transferring to one row of conveyors, the plurality of rows of single row conveyors include a plurality of rows of speed increasing conveyors and a plurality of rows of speed reducing conveyors, and a plurality of rows of speed increasing conveyors. The plurality of rows of deceleration conveyors are arranged so that one of them is interposed between the other, and the traveling speed of the speed-up conveyor is higher than that of the deceleration conveyor adjacent to it. Container collection apparatus characterized by defined. 2. The plurality of rows of speed increasing conveyors and the plurality of rows of decelerating conveyors are alternately arranged, and the traveling speeds of the plurality of rows of decelerating conveyors are substantially equal or sequentially higher. Item 1. The container collecting device according to item 1. 3. The container collecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the deceleration conveyors are arranged at intervals of a plurality of rows of the plurality of rows of speed-up conveyors. 4. The traveling speeds of the plurality of rows of speed increasing conveyors are set so as to be substantially equal to or sequentially higher from the speed increasing conveyor on the side adjacent to the supply conveyor to the speed increasing conveyor on the opposite side. The container collecting device according to claim 1, wherein the container collecting device is a container collecting device.