JPH06227656A - Hanger hanging device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To conduct work to hang a garment on a hanger efficiently without burdening a worker. CONSTITUTION:A hanger 1 is taken off from a hanger jig 6 while being held by means of a takeout mechanism 20 when movement is made by one arrangement pitch by means of a conveyor 10 and stopped, and then is taken off from the takeout mechanism 20 by means of a contraction mechanism 30 and moved to a furnishing position while extension/contraction arms 4, 4 are being contracted. At the furnishing position, a worker A holds a garment so that catching portions 5, 5 at the tips of the extension/contraction arms 4, 4 may be inserted into its opening portion, and then the extension/contraction arms, 4, 4 are released from their contraction and extended due to energization and put into a stretched state with the catching portions 5, 5 caught on the inside of the opening portion of the garment, and the hanger 1 in the state of being hung with the garment remains within reach of the worker A.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a hanger hanging device for efficiently carrying out work for hanging clothes such as pants and skirts having an open upper part on a hanger.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a physical distribution system in the apparel industry, clothes are carried on a hanger in order to prevent the clothes from wrinkling and losing their shape.
If the garment has an opening at the top, such as pants or a skirt, use a hanger with a telescopic arm that is biased in the extension direction, and insert the telescopic arm in the retracted state into the opening of the garment. After that, the telescopic arm is extended by urging and the tip is hooked inside the opening of the clothes, so that the clothes are hung on the hanger.

[0003]

However, in the past, an operator manually hangs clothes on a hanger without using a machine. Specifically, the tip of one of the telescopic arms is hooked inside the opening of the clothes, the hooked part is applied to a part of the operator's body, and the tip of the other telescopic arm is pressed by hand. By doing so, both telescopic arms are contracted and inserted into the opening of the clothes, and then the hands are released and the two telescopic arms are extended to hook the tip of the other telescopic arm to the opening of the clothes. It was done.

However, such a manual method is not only a heavy burden on the operator, but also has the drawback that the number of pieces that can be processed is about 70 pieces in one hour and the work efficiency is low. There has been a demand for a device that can efficiently carry out the work to be carried out on the operator, while reducing the burden on the worker.

[0005]

As a means for solving the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a plurality of hangers comprising a hanger body having a hook and a telescopic arm biased in a left-right extending direction. , A hanger jig that supports a plurality of hangers by arranging them in a fixed pitch, a conveyor that moves the hangers supported by the hanger jig by the arranging pitch, and a hanger that holds the hangers on the hanger jig. It was composed of a take-out mechanism for removing from the jig, and a retracting mechanism for removing the hanger from the take-out mechanism and moving the retractable arm to the mounting position while retracting the telescopic arm.

[0006]

According to the present invention having the above-mentioned structure, the hanger jig supporting and arranging the hangers is moved by a pitch of one array by the conveyor and stopped, and the hangers on the hanger jig are held one by one by the take-out mechanism. Then, the hanger is removed from the hanger jig, and the hanger removed from the hanger jig is removed from the take-out mechanism by the contraction mechanism and is moved to the mounting position while the telescopic arm is contracted.

In this mounting position, the operator holds the clothes so that the telescopic arm can be inserted into the opening of the lever, and in this state, the operator pushes a button or the like to operate the contraction mechanism. The contraction of the telescopic arms is released, and the two telescopic arms are extended by being biased, so that the tips of the telescopic arms are hooked inside the opening of the garment and stretched.

As a result, the operation of hanging the clothes on the hangers is completed, and the hangers on which the clothes are hung are removed from the contraction mechanism and remain in the hands of the operator. After this, the worker hangs the hanger on which the clothes are hung on an appropriate hanging device, waits for the next hanger to be transferred to the mounting position with the new clothes in his hand.

By repeating the above operation, the work of hanging clothes on the hanger is continuously performed.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The hanger 1 includes an elongated hanger body 2 provided with a hook 3 protruding upward at a central position in the length direction,
It consists of a pair of left and right telescopic arms 4 and 4 which project from the left and right ends of the hanger body 2 to freely move forward and backward and are urged by springs (not shown) in the hanger body 2 in the projecting direction. Hook portions 5, 5 are formed so as to project obliquely downward to the outside.

The insides of the openings of clothes (not shown) whose upper portions such as pants and skirts are opened are hooked on the hook portions 5 and 5, so that
Clothes can be hung on the hanger 1.

FIG. 4 shows a hanger jig 6 for supporting and transporting a plurality of hangers 1. Hanger jig 6
Positioning grooves 7 in the direction perpendicular to the transport direction are formed on the upper surface of with constant pitches, and a partition frame 8 is provided upright between the adjacent positioning grooves 7, 7. A plurality of hangers 1 are placed on the hanger jig 6 with the central portion of the hanger body 2 being locked in the positioning groove 7, and the hook 3 is placed between the adjacent partition frames 8 and 8. It is supposed to be supported in a state where it gets in.

The plurality of hangers 1 supported by the hanger jig 6 in this manner include two pairs of sprockets 11 and 1.
By a conveyor 10 composed of a pair of chains 12, 12 that are bridged between the two, the same distance as the arrangement pitch of the hangers 1 is intermittently conveyed in one direction.

In front of the end of the conveyor 10, a collection rack 15 is driven up and down between a position at the same height as the conveying surface of the conveyor 10 and a position at a height lower than the conveyor, and a large number of juxtaposed shelves. There is provided a hanger jig collecting mechanism 14 including a collecting path 16 in which a rearwardly inclined surface is formed by the roller 17.

Above the terminal end of the conveyor 10, there is provided a take-out mechanism 20 for lifting the hangers 1 on the hanger jig 6 one by one and transferring them to a shrinking mechanism 30 which will be described later.

The take-out mechanism 20 is rotatably supported by an elevating body 22 driven up and down while being guided by a guide 21 by an elevating mechanism (not shown), and a horizontal axis perpendicular to the carrying direction of the hanger 1 on the elevating body 22. The holding tool 23 including the receiving plate 24 and the pressing spring 25, the turning bar 26 supported so as to rotate integrally with the holding tool 23, and the turning bar 26 when the lifting body 22 rises to a certain height. And a locking pin 27 positioned so as to abut.

In the take-out mechanism 20, the holding tool 23 takes a posture in which the receiving plate 24 and the tip of the pressing spring 25 face downward, and the turning rod 26 faces diagonally upward without abutting the locking pin 27. Lifting body 22 with the
By lowering, the holding spring 25 of the holding tool 23 is elastically deformed, and the hanger body 2 of the hanger 1 is fitted and held from above with the receiving plate 24 as shown by the alternate long and short dash line in FIG. It has become.

When the lifting / lowering body 22 is raised to a predetermined height, the turning bar 26 contacts the locking pin 27 from below as shown by the chain double-dashed line in FIG. 3, and the lifting / lowering body 22 is further raised from this height. Along with this, the turning bar 26 and the holding tool 23 rotate integrally, and as shown by the solid line in FIG. 3, when the holding tool 23 takes a posture in which the receiving plate 24 and the tip of the pressing spring 25 are oriented horizontally, The ascent of 22 has stopped.

A contraction mechanism 30 is provided in front of the take-out mechanism 20. The contraction mechanism 30 is provided with a movable support 32 on the substrate 31 so as to guide the horizontal movement freely in the front-rear direction, and a front-rear driving gear 34 of a motor 33 fixed to the substrate 31 is fixed to the movable support 32 for front-rear movement. Rack 35
It will be configured to mesh with.

The movable support 32 is provided with a telescopic motion gear 36 which is driven to rotate about a vertical axis by a motor (not shown), and has a pair of front and rear wheels which are elongated in the left-right direction and have meshing teeth formed on the side surfaces. Rack for telescopic movement 3
7, 37, with their meshing teeth extending from the front and rear sides of the telescopic gear 3
It is guided so as to be movable in the left-right direction in a state of being meshed with 6.

One of the two hanger holders 38, 38 disposed on both the left and right sides of the movable support 32 is integrally moved to one end of the front expansion / contraction racks 37, 37 protruding from the movable support 32. The hanger holder 38 has one end projecting from the movable support 32 of the rear expansion / contraction rack 37 movably pierced through the hanger holder 38. In addition, the movable support 3 of the expansion / contraction rack 37 on the rear side.
The other end protruding from 2 has two hanger holders 38, 3
The other of 8 is fixed so as to move integrally,
The hanger holder 38 has a rack 3 for expansion and contraction on the front side.
The other end protruding from the movable support 32 of 7 is movably penetrated.

At the rising portions of the rear ends of the hanger holders 38, 38 attached to the two expansion / contraction racks 37, 37, the tips of the retractable arms 4, 4 of the hanger 1 are hit from the rear side and the left and right outer sides. Holding portions 39, 39 that are fitted by being in contact with each other are formed. This holding portion 39
Has the same height as the height of the telescopic arm 4 of the hanger 1 held by the holding tool 23 of the take-out mechanism 20 in a horizontal posture.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. First,
A plurality of hangers 1 are supported on a hanger jig 6, placed on a conveyor 10 and conveyed, and when the hanger 1 at the front end reaches a predetermined position below the take-out mechanism 20, the conveyor 10
The transportation due to is once stopped.

The take-out mechanism 20 is actuated to lower the holding tool 23 together with the lifting / lowering body 22, and the holding spring 25 of the holding tool 23 is elastically deformed, as shown by the one-dot chain line in FIG.
And the hanger body 2 of the hanger 1 at the front end position is fitted and clamped from above.

After this, the elevating body 22 rises and the turning bar 26
Is brought into contact with the locking pin 27 from below as shown by the chain double-dashed line in FIG.
The turning bar 26 continues to rise together with the lifting body 22 while rotating integrally, and the lifting body 22 stops when the holding tool 23 has taken a horizontal posture as shown by the solid line in FIG.

At this time, the movable support 3 of the contraction mechanism 30
2 stands by at the rear position, and the holding portions 39, 39 of the left and right hanger holding bodies 38, 38 and the tips of the telescopic arms 4, 4 of the hanger 1 held by the holding tool 23 are shown in FIG.
The corresponding state is shown as.

Thereafter, the telescopic motion gear 36 rotates in the clockwise direction in FIG. 5 so that both telescopic motion racks 37,
37 moves in the opposite directions together with the hanger holders 38, 38 fixed to the hanger holders 38, 38, respectively.
8 and 38 approach each other.

Along with this, both hanger holders 38,
The holding portions 39, 39 of 38 engage with the tips of the two telescopic arms 4, 4 of the hanger 1 to contract the both telescopic arms 4, 4. When the telescopic arms 4 and 4 of the hanger 1 contract to a predetermined amount, the telescopic gear 36 stops, and the telescopic racks 37 and 37 and the hanger holders 38 and 38 stop moving.

After that, the front-rear driving gear 34 meshing with the front-rear moving rack 35 is rotated, and the movable support 32, the expansion-contraction racks 37 and 37, and the hanger holders 38 and 38 are integrally moved forward. . Along with this, the hanger 1 held by the hanger holders 38, 38 is detached from the holding tool 23 of the take-out mechanism 20 and is moved forward as shown in FIG. When the hanger 1 reaches the mounting position shown by the solid line in FIG. 1, the movement stops.

At the mounting position, an operator A who waits with the opening of clothes (not shown) held in his hand toward the hanger 1 moves the opening of the clothes of the retractable arms 4 and 4 of the hanger 1. Both hook portions 5 and 5 are covered.

Thereafter, when the operator A pushes a button (not shown) or the preset time elapses, the telescopic gear 36 rotates counterclockwise in FIG. The expansion / contraction racks 37, 37 move in a direction in which the hanger holders 38, 38 are separated from each other.

As a result, the holding of the hanger 1 by the hanger holders 38, 38 is released, so that the telescopic arms 4, 4 of the hanger 1 extend according to the biasing force so that both hook portions 5, 5 are garmented. In the state in which the hanger 1 is hooked inside the opening portion and stretched, and the hanger 1 remains in the hand of the worker A while clothes are hung on.

When the clothes are hung on the hangers 1 in this way, the worker A hangs the hangers 1 on which the clothes are hung on a hanging device (not shown), and with the new clothes in hand, the next hanger 1 All you have to do is wait for it to be transferred to the mounting position.

While the above-described operation is being performed, the hanger jig 6 removes the hanger 1 at the front end and then the conveyor 1
Driven by 0, the hanger 1 is advanced by the same distance as the arrangement pitch of the hanger 1, and the take-out mechanism 20 moves from the holding tool 23 to the hanger 1.
5 is removed, the elevating body 22 descends to bring the nipping tool 23 into correspondence with the hanger 1 on the hanger jig 6, and the contraction mechanism 30 releases the holding of the hanger 1 by the hanger holding body 38, and then, as shown in FIG. Return to the position shown.

By repeating the above operation, the work of hanging clothes on the hanger 1 is continuously performed.

The hanger jig 6 moves forward every time the supported hanger 1 is taken out by the take-out mechanism 20, and gradually moves onto the collecting rack 15 of the hanger jig collecting mechanism 14 so that the supported hanger 1 is When all are gone, the transfer from the conveyor 10 to the collection shelf 15 is completed, and at the same time, a sensor (not shown) detects this. The collection shelf 15 descends according to the detection signal from this sensor, and the hanger jig 6 is placed on the upper surface of the collection path 16 during the descending operation.
While rotating the roller 17, the roller 17 is moved downward on the recovery path 16 to be recovered.

[0037]

As described in detail in the above embodiments, in the hanger hooking device of the present invention, the work of taking out the hangers one by one and extending and retracting the expansion and contraction arms thereof is performed mechanically without the operator's hand. Therefore, there is an effect that the burden on the worker is small and the work efficiency is high.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a right side view.

FIG. 2 is a partially cutaway plan view.

FIG. 3 is a partially enlarged right side view showing an operation of taking out the hanger from the hanger jig by the take-out mechanism.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged front view showing a state in which the hanger is supported by a hanger jig.

FIG. 5 is a partially cutaway plan view showing a state before the contraction mechanism operates.

FIG. 6 is a partially cutaway plan view showing an operating state of the contraction mechanism.

[Explanation of symbols]

1: Hanger 2: Hanger body 3: Hook 4: Telescopic arm 6: Hanger jig 10: Conveyor 20:
Extraction mechanism 30: Shrinkage mechanism

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of hangers comprising a hanger body having a hook and a telescopic arm urged in a leftward and rightward extension direction, and a hanger jig for arranging and supporting the plurality of hangers with a fixed pitch. A conveyor for moving the hangers supported by the hanger jig by the arrangement pitch thereof, a take-out mechanism for holding the hanger on the hanger jig and removing it from the hanger jig, and a hanger for removing the hanger from the take-out mechanism. A hanger hooking device comprising a retracting mechanism for removing the telescopic arm and moving the retractable arm to the mounting position while contracting the retractable arm.