JPH061394A - Simultaneous capping method of a number of cyindrical containers - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simultaneously apply a number of caps, by inserting tubes in many holes for erecting tubes, provided in a lower body and fitting caps in an intermediate body having the same numbers of fitting holes to position above the lower body and cover therewith and pressing it at a stroke with a pressing plate in the captioned method for collecting tubes of blood. CONSTITUTION:A number of erecting holes 2 for tubes and relief holes 3 are formed in the lower body 4. Tubes 1 with the opening at the top are erected in the insertion holes 2. On the other hand, a positioning member composed of the same numbers of cap-fitting holes 6 with the insertion holes 2, coil springs 12 for returning, washers 11, and rods with positioning heads 9 is provided in an intermediate body 8. Caps are set on the cap-fitting holes 6 and the intermediate body 8 is placed on the lower body 4. In this time, the positioning heads of the intermediate body 8 are inserted in the relief holes 3 of the lower body 4 and the caps are orderly positioned at the openings of tubes 1. Next, the upper body 15 is placed on the intermediate body 8 and pressed by a pressing plate 49 to fit the caps at a stroke.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is mainly useful for obtaining a tubular container such as a blood collection tube, a urine collection tube, and a stool collection tube containing a powdered reagent. Regarding how to fit.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art It is extremely inefficient to fit caps one by one by hand, and there is also a system in which caps are fitted one by one by an automatic machine. However, this method is preferable because the automatic machine is expensive. Sometimes it doesn't.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the circumstances described in the above prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a novel method capable of fitting a plurality of caps at once.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a lower body having a large number of arranging holes and a plurality of escape holes of a cylindrical container on its upper surface, and the above arranging member. A large number of cap fitting holes are opened in the same arrangement and at the same intervals as the holes, and a rod shaft with a retaining head is installed downward at the location corresponding to the escape hole, and a washer is moved up and down on the rod shaft. An intermediate body that is freely fitted and has a return coil spring that gives elasticity to the washer toward the retaining head is formed on the same shaft, and a blood collection tube or the like is provided in the insertion hole provided in the lower body. The process of placing the cylindrical container with the mouth facing up, and the cap that consists of the knob part with the tapered outer peripheral surface and the plug part is dropped from the top into the fitting placing hole opened in the intermediate body, and the taper of the knob part is fitted. Do the process of fitting in the state of being caught on the edge of the placing hole, then The intermediate body with the cap fitted is lowered from above the lower body with the cylindrical container inserted, the head of the rod shaft is dropped into the escape hole, the washer is locked to the opening edge of the escape hole, and the cap of the cap is closed. The step of positioning the part just above the mouth of the cylindrical container, and then press the top surfaces of all the caps at once with a pressure plate to press the stopper part into the mouth of the cylindrical container. It was done.

[0005]

Since the present invention is as described above, it is possible to fit the caps to a large number of cylindrical containers at once by performing each step.

[0006]

According to the method of the present invention, it is possible to efficiently fit the caps to a large number of cylindrical containers by press fitting, and the method can be carried out without using expensive equipment such as an automatic machine. It is suitable and easy to implement when a large amount of equipment cost cannot be spent.

[0007]

In the embodiment shown in the drawings, a lower body 4 having a large number of insertion holes 2 and a large number of escape holes 3 of a blood collection tube 1 is formed on the upper surface. Further, separately from this, the above-mentioned insertion hole 2
A plurality of fitting holes 6 of the cap 5 are formed at the same arrangement and at the same intervals as the above, and an intermediate body 8 having a plurality of alignment holes 7 formed at appropriate places is formed, and at the lower surface of the intermediate body 8. A bar shaft 10 with a positioning / preventing head 9 is erected downward at a position corresponding to the escape hole 3, a washer 11 is vertically movably fitted to the bar shaft 10, and a washer 11 is attached to the bar shaft 10. Coil spring 12 for return to the lower surface part of the intermediate body 8
Wind up. Separately from these, the recessed holes 1 are formed on the lower surface in the same arrangement and at the same intervals as the insertion holes 2.
The upper body 15 is formed by piercing 3 and arranging the positioning pin 14 at a position corresponding to the positioning concave hole 7.

Separately from these, a reagent tray 19 is erected on the base plate 17 via a leg 18, and the bottom wall 20 of the reagent tray 19 has the same arrangement and the same spacing as the above-mentioned insertion holes 2. A fixed amount hole 21 whose internal volume is determined to be a predetermined amount is opened at the position of, and a shutter 22 is slidable on the lower surface of the bottom wall 20 of the reagent tray 19 along the bottom wall 20 in the left and right directions. (Only one is shown in the figure), and when the shutter 22 is slid to the right, a drop hole slightly larger than the fixed hole 21 is provided at each position located directly below the fixed hole 21. When the shutter 22 is slid to the left, these drop holes 24 are displaced from the fixed amount hole 21 so that the peripheral edge portion closes the fixed amount hole 21. Allow side body 4 to be set in a fixed position A left and right guides 25, 26 for fixing the fixed quantity powder reagent 27 are configured as a batch loading device 28, and a scraping spatula 29 for moving the upper surface of the bottom wall 20 of the reagent tray 19 is used in combination with this device 28. To do so.

Separately from these, a foldable and assemblable outer casing 31 made of cardboard and an outer peripheral size whose height is half the depth of the outer casing 31 have an inner periphery of the outer casing 31. A flat casing-shaped folding and assembling middle casing 32 of the same size and a depth equal to the depth of the outer casing 31 which is erected freely on both left and right edges of the upper plate 33 of the middle casing 32. Main leg plates 34 and 35, auxiliary leg plates 37 and 38 that are half the height of the main leg plates 34 and 35 that are continuously provided on both left and right edges of the lower plate 36 of the middle casing 32, and the upper plate. 33 and the lower plate 36 are provided with a plurality of insertion holes 39 and 40 for the blood collection tube 1 which are opened in a vertically corresponding arrangement and vertically penetrate through the lower plate 36, and the middle casing 32 is stored in the outer casing 31 so that it can be inserted and removed freely. The packaging container 41 is formed.

After that, the stiffening holes 2 provided in the lower body 4 are stood with the hard transparent plastic blood collection tube 1 obtained in the molding step in advance with its mouth facing upward (see FIG. 2). After this placement, the lower body 4 is loaded under the reagent tray 19 in the charging device 28 in a state of being positioned by the guides 25 and 26, and at the same time, a quantifying hole 21 is utilized by using a scraping scraper 29.
A fixed amount of the reagent is put in (see FIG. 3), and after this, the shutter 21 is slid to the right and the reagent in the fixed amount hole 21 is dropped.
4 into the blood collection tube 1 placed on the lower body 4 to obtain the blood collection tube 1 containing the quantitative powder reagent 27 (see FIG. 4). On the other hand, in the fitting hole 6 formed in the intermediate body 8, the knob portion 43 and the plug portion 44 having tapered outer peripheral surfaces are provided.
The plastic cap 5 made of is dropped from above and fitted. At this time, as shown in FIG. 6, the taper of the knob portion 43 is fitted on the edge of the fitting hole 6 so as not to fall down. By placing a flat oscillating plate 45 on the intermediate body 8 and pressing it lightly, the cap 5 is horizontally corrected and the intermediate body 8 with the cap 5 is moved to the oscillating plate 4.
5 is lowered from above the lower body 4 containing the blood collection tube 1 so that the head 9 of the rod shaft 10 is dropped into the escape hole 3 to lock the washer 11 at the opening edge of the escape hole 3 and the cap 5 The plug portion 44 of is applied to the mouth of the blood collection tube 1 (see FIG. 8). After that, the whole is moved onto the work table 47 of the press 46, and all caps 5 are pushed down by the pressure plate 49 fixed to the lower end of the ram 48 to press the plug portion 44 into the mouth of the blood collection tube 1 (FIG. 9). reference).

After the press-fitting, the pressure plate 49 is returned, and as a result, the intermediate body 8 is also returned by the force of the coil spring 12 as shown in FIG. When the intermediate body 8 returns, since the plug portion 44 of the cap 5 is fitted into the blood collection tube 1 by the press-fitting, the blood collection tube 1 is in a state of floating from the bottom of the insertion hole 2 (FIG. 10). reference). After confirming this state, the whole is removed from the press.

Next, the upper body 15 is placed on the intermediate body 8 (see FIG. 11), and the whole body is turned upside down to make the pedestal 50.
The bottom of the lower body 4 is lightly pressed down in this state to bring the coil spring 12 into a contracted state. As a result, the blood collection tube 1 with the cap 5 falls by its own weight into the falling recessed hole 13 of the upper body 15, and the top surface of the cap 5 lands and the blood collection tube 1 stands up (see FIG. 12). The lower body 4 and the intermediate body 8 are removed so that the blood collection tube 1 in the standing state is not collapsed.

After the removal, the inner casing 32 is moved downward in an inverted state as shown in FIG. 13 to obtain a state in which the blood collection tube 1 is inserted in the insertion holes 39 and 40 and the whole body is removed. The upper body 15 is turned upside down and then the upper body 15 is removed (see FIG. 14). After this removal, the inner casing 32 containing the blood collection tube 1 is housed in the outer casing 31 to complete the packaging. It was done like this.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing a lower body.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing a step of inserting a blood collection tube in a lower body.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing a step of loading a lower body containing a blood collection tube on a reagent loading mount.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view showing a step of adding a quantitative reagent.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view showing an intermediate body.

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing a step of fitting a cap on an intermediate body.

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view showing the step of placing a torso plate.

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view showing a step of placing an intermediate body on the lower body.

FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view showing a step of pressing with a press.

FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view showing a process in which pressurization by a press is released.

FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view showing a step of placing the upper body on the intermediate body.

FIG. 12 is a cross-sectional view showing a step of erecting a blood collection tube with a cap on the upper body.

FIG. 13 is a cross-sectional view showing a step of inserting a blood collection tube into the middle casing.

FIG. 14 is a cross-sectional view showing a state in which a blood collection tube has been inserted into the middle casing and finished.

FIG. 15 is a cross-sectional view showing a completed state of packaging.

FIG. 16 is a perspective view of a blood collection tube.

FIG. 17 is a perspective view showing a lower body, an intermediate body, and an upper body.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Blood collection tube 2 Standing hole 3 Escape hole 4 Lower body 5 Cap 6 Fitting hole 7 Positioning hole 8 Intermediate 9 Positioning and retaining head 10 Rod shaft 11 Washer 12 Return coil spring 13 Dropping recessed hole 14 Position Alignment pin 15 Upper body 17 Base plate 18 Platform leg 19 Reagent plate 20 Bottom wall 21 Fixed amount hole 22 Shutter 23 Rail 24 Drop hole 25 Guide 26 Guide 27 Reagent 28 Reagent batch loading device 29 Sliding spatula 31 Outer casing 32 Middle casing 33 Upper plate 34 Main leg plate 35 Main leg plate 36 Lower side plate 37 Auxiliary leg plate 38 Auxiliary leg plate 39 Insertion hole 40 Insertion hole 41 Packaging container 43 Knob part 44 Plug part 45 Omoshi plate 46 Press 47 Working table 48 Ram 49 Pressing plate 50 Stand

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A lower body having a large number of stand-up holes and a plurality of escape holes formed on the upper surface of a cylindrical container, and cap fitting holes at the same arrangement and at the same intervals as the stand-up holes. A large number of rods are opened, and a rod shaft with a retaining head is erected downward at a location corresponding to the escape hole, and a washer is vertically movably fitted to the rod shaft and is retained against the washer on the rod shaft. A step of forming an intermediate body wound with a return coil spring that gives elasticity toward the head, and inserting a tubular container such as a blood collection tube in a setting hole provided in the lower body with the mouth facing up, And a step of dropping a cap made up of a knob portion and a plug portion whose outer peripheral surface is tapered into the fitting hole formed in the intermediate body from the top and fitting the taper of the knob portion to the edge of the fitting hole, Next, the intermediate body with the cap fitted is the lower body with the cylindrical container The step of lowering the head of the rod shaft into the escape hole, locking the washer to the opening edge of the escape hole, and positioning the plug part of the cap directly above the mouth of the cylindrical container, After that, a step of press-fitting the top surfaces of all the caps at once with a press board to press the plugs into the mouths of the tubular containers is performed.