JPH0638009Y2 - Holding device for article take-out tool - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of use] The present invention relates to a holding device for holding an article take-out tool including an article take-out tool body and a slide body for opening and closing the opening of the article take-out tool body, and more specifically, The present invention relates to a holding device that can be suitably used for holding an article take-out tool for taking out an article from a container such as a cardboard box or a plastic container having an opening.

[Conventional technology]

As a conventional technique related to the holding device for the article take-out tool, the one described in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 57-140940 is known.

Explaining the conventional technique described in the above publication, in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 57-140940, both end faces of a rod-shaped member having a center hole in the end face are axially tightened, and both ends of the rod-shaped member at the time of tightening are tightened. A support device for a rod-shaped member having a support that is fixed by friction with a surface is described.

Since the supporting device for the rod-shaped member supports the end face of the rod-shaped member by friction with the support, it does not damage the center hole, can be very easily supported without requiring positioning accuracy of the support, and has a large number of members. The supporting device can be supported regardless of dimensional accuracy and changes in the amount of deflection of the autoloader with respect to various rod-shaped members.

[Problems to be solved by the device]

However, the above conventional techniques have the following problems.

That is, the rod-shaped member supporting device described in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 57-140940 merely supports the rod-shaped member without damaging it, and holds an article take-out tool provided with a sliding body, especially There is no description about holding the sliding body together, and there is no suggestion.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to securely hold an article take-out tool including an article take-out tool body and a slide body that slides in the opening of the article take-out tool body to open and close the opening. In particular, it is an object of the present invention to provide a holding device for an article take-out tool that can reliably hold the sliding body in the state of being mounted in the opening.

[Means for Solving the Problems]

The present invention comprises an article take-out tool main body 20a for taking out the articles B stored in the container 10 in a fixed arrangement, and a sliding body 22 which slides at the opening of the article take-out tool main body 20a to open and close the opening. An article transfer device for stacking and reversing the article take-out tool 20 onto the opening of the container 10 and sliding the slide body 22 to drop the article B from the opening of the container 10 and take it out. A holding device for holding the article take-out tool 20 in A by a pair of grip plates 45,
The article take-out tool main body 20a has a partition 21 that partitions the articles B stored in the container 10 according to the arrangement of the storage state, and at least one of the pair of grip plates 45,
The object described above is achieved by providing a holding device for an article take-out tool, which is provided with an engaging portion 45a that engages with the sliding body 22.

It is preferable that the article take-out tool main body 20a is provided with a notch 23, and the engaging portion 45a of the grip plate 45 engages with the sliding body 22 through the notch 23.

[Action]

According to the holding device for the article take-out tool of the present invention, when the article take-out tool body of the article take-out tool is held by the pair of grip plates, the sliding body that opens and closes the opening of the article take-out tool body is also held. Hold at about the same time.

〔Example〕

First, a holding device for an article take-out tool according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described based on an example of an article transfer device using the article take-out tool holding device. The present embodiment is suitable for taking out bottle-shaped articles such as kitchen detergent, laundry detergent, shampoo, and rinse from a container having an opening.

FIGS. 1 (a) and 1 (b) are perspective views showing an example of an article transfer device using the holding device for the article take-out tool according to the present embodiment, and FIG. 1 (a) applies the article transfer device. FIG. 2B is a view showing a state in which the container and the article take-out tool are inverted to the article cutting tool side by the reversing device of the article transfer apparatus, and FIG. 2 is FIG. 1A. It is a figure which shows the side surface in.

As shown in FIGS. 1 (a) and 2, an article transfer device A using the article take-out tool holding device of the present embodiment is provided with a storage facility C for storing articles B stored in a container 10. The container 10 is taken out and only the article B in the container 10 is transferred to the article supply device D, which is disposed between the storage facility C and the article supply device D.

Thus, the article transfer device A corresponds to the arrangement of the plurality of articles B stored in the container 10 in the stored state, and
The container is provided with partitions 21 arranged in a cross shape for partitioning each of the
Article take-out tool main body 20a provided with a guide member 27 for guiding the partition 21 between the articles B accommodated in the article 10, and a sliding body that slides along the opening of the article take-out tool main body 20a and opens and closes the opening. An article take-out tool 20 including a (shutter) 22, a container take-out device 30 for taking out the container 10 from the storage facility C, and a pair of grip plates (first gripping hands) 45 for holding the article take-out tool 20. A reversing device 40 including a second gripping hand 47 for gripping the container 10 and a stacking device 41 for respectively holding and stacking the article take-out tool 20 and the container 10, and the container take-out device 30 and the reversing device 40.
And a stacker crane 60 that supports the carriage 50 so that the carriage 50 can move up and down.
The first gripping hand 45 that constitutes the device for holding the article take-out tool of this embodiment is provided with an engaging portion (first engaging convex portion) 45a that engages with the shutter 22. Further, the article take-out tool main body 20a is provided with a notch 23 into which the first engaging convex portion 45a is fitted and engaged.

In addition, the storage facility C is a plurality of columns and a plurality of stages of fluidized shelves to be described later.
The article supply device D is provided with the article transfer device A.
A spiral chute 90 provided with an article cutting tool 80 for cutting the article B from is mainly configured.

Next, each of the above components will be described in more detail.

First, the article take-out tool 20, the container take-out apparatus 30, the reversing apparatus 40, and the like of the present embodiment, which constitute the article transfer apparatus A, will be described.

The article take-out tool 20 is shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 (a), (b).
As shown in FIG. 2, the partition 21 is arranged in a cross shape, the article take-out tool main body 20a including a guide member 27 having an upper portion formed in a conical shape, and a shutter 22.
The article take-out tool main body 20a projects from the base 24 along the opening, and its tip is formed in a mountain shape. Also, the partition 21
A guide member 27 is provided at the intersection of the above so as to project from the tip of the partition 21. Also, the article take-out tool body 20a
Is formed by including the partition 21 and the guide member 27 in a frame body 20b having a U-shaped planar shape, and a groove 26 is formed inside the frame body 20b (see FIG. 4 (a)). Then, the pair of side surfaces of the article take-out tool body 20a facing each other are provided with a notch 23 through which the first engaging protrusion 45a of the first gripping hand 45 penetrates and a second engaging protrusion 45b of the first gripping hand 45. Engagement recess 2 to engage
5 and are provided respectively. Further, the shutter 22 is
All the articles B are made of a single plate and are slid along the groove 26 of the article take-out tool main body 20a so that all the articles B can be transferred to the article cutting tool 80 of the article feeding device D described later at substantially the same time. It is configured to open the opening of the extractor 20. Further, on both opposite sides of the shutter 22, engaging recesses 22a are provided at positions corresponding to the cutouts 23 of the article take-out tool main body 20a when the shutter 22 is in the closed state. Engaging protrusion 45a and engaging recess 22a
And are configured to engage. Then, after stacking the container 10 on the article take-out tool 20, the article take-out tool 20
When the container B and the container 10 are reversed as shown in FIG. 3, the article B is partitioned by the projecting partition 21 and placed on the shutter 22, and is taken out to the article take-out tool 20 in the arrangement state as it is stored in the container 10. And waits until it is transferred to the component cutting tool 80. Thus, when there is a transfer command to the article cutting tool 80, the shutter 22 is opened, and the article B stored in the container 10 is transferred to the article cutting tool 80, and then the article is ordered according to the picking command. The B is cut out to the spiral chute 90 via the chute 91 and the loads are aligned.

Further, the container take-out device 30 includes a pantograph type lifting device (not shown) provided on the carriage 50 of the stacker crane 60, a fixed conveyor 31 placed on the lifting device, and a container take-out device at the pivot 32. It is configured to include a traveling conveyor 33 that can swing up and down on the side and that travels so as to advance to the fluidized shelf 70.

Further, the reversing device 40, the flow direction of the container 10 stored in the fluidized shelf 70 on the carriage 50 of the stacker crane 60, that is, a traveling platform 42 that travels along the front-back direction with reference to the fluidized shelf 70, A frame 43 erected on the traveling table 42, a rotating shaft 44 supported near the upper end of the frame 43, and a rotating shaft 44.
The first gripping hand 45 that grips the article take-out tool 20 by opening and closing in the axial direction of the first gripping hand 45 (hereinafter, referred to as the left-right direction), and the guide member 46 that hangs near the rotation shaft 44 side of the first gripping hand 45.
And a second gripping hand 47 that moves up and down along the guide member 46 while gripping the container 10, and superimposes the container 10 on the article take-out tool 20 gripped by the first gripping hand 45. Of these, the first and second gripping hands 45, 47
And the guide member 46 constitutes the superposing device 41,
The reversing device 40 includes a superimposing device 41 with the rotating shaft 44 as a fulcrum.
Are integrally rotated. The first gripping hand 45 includes a screw shaft 48 that is supported by the frame 43 in parallel with the rotating shaft 44, that is, a screw shaft 48 in which a right screw is formed on one side and a left screw is formed on the other side from the center of the shaft. It is configured to open and close by driving. Also, the first
As described above, the gripping hand 45 includes the article take-out tool main body 20a.
The engaging recess 22a on the side surface of the shutter 22 through the notch 23 of
The first engaging protrusion 45a that engages with the article take-out tool body 20a
Second engaging projection that engages with the engaging recess 25 provided on the side surface of the
45b is provided so that the first grasping hand 45 can grasp the article take-out tool main body 20a and the shutter 22 simultaneously and surely. Is designed so that it will not come out. Also, the second gripping hand
Reference numeral 47 is a parallelogram type link mechanism (not shown) whose one side is a gripping hand base that moves up and down along the guide member 46.
The container 10 is configured to move in the left-right direction to a desired gripping interval and grip the container 10. A screw shaft (not shown) is provided inside the guide member 46, and the second grip handle 47 is moved up and down by driving the screw shaft.

Further, the stacker crane 60 is configured to travel along the traveling rail 61 shown in FIG. 1 (a) arranged along the takeout opening 71 of each fluidized shelf 70, and the container takeout device mounted on the carriage 50. 30 and a reversing device 40 are provided so as to be able to move up and down.

Next, the fluidized shelf 70 and the article supply device D that make up the storage facility C.
The article slicing tool 80 and the spiral chute 90 constituting the above will be described respectively.

The fluidized shelf 70 of the storage facility C is composed of a plurality of rows and a plurality of stages of inclined roller conveyors, a take-out opening 71 is formed at the inclined front end thereof, and a stopper 72 is provided at the front end portion of the inclined roller conveyor to be supplied. The container 10 is configured to slide down the inclined roller conveyor by its own weight and to be engaged with the stopper 72.

Further, the article cutting tool 80 of the article supply device D is a casing 81 configured to store the articles B transferred from the article removing tool 20 and to cut the articles B one by one, and the article B is spirally chute 90. It is fixedly installed on the upper part of the chute 91 that guides to. A partition 82 for partitioning the articles B one by one corresponding to the partition 21 of the article take-out tool body 20a.
And a shutter 83 (see FIG. 3) for cutting out the stored articles B one by one to the chute 91. Further, a guide plate that guides the article take-out tool 20 so that the article take-out tool 20 is smoothly stacked on the article cutting tool 80.
84 is provided on the upper end of the article cutting tool 80 (see FIG. 2).

Further, the spiral chute 90 is configured to convey and supply the cut-out articles B from the respective article cutting-out tools 80 to a desired container or the like (not shown) via the plurality of chutes 91.

Further, in the space formed between the spiral chute 90 and the article cutting tool 80, as shown in FIG. 2, the article retrieving tool 20 is reversed by the reversing device 40 of the article transferring apparatus A so that the article retrieving tool 20 can be reversed. Container under 80 stacked
Empty container discharge conveyor 100 aligned with the same height position as 10
Is provided (not shown in FIG. 1),
The empty container 10 is transferred to the empty container discharge conveyor 100 by the second gripping hand 47, and the empty container 10 is discharged to the outside of the system.

Further, when the container 10 is a cardboard box having an opening 11 on the top surface, a plastic container, or the like, it may be supplied to the fluidized shelf 70 as it is, but when the container 10 is packaged in a cardboard box or the like. For example, the top surface may be cut in advance to form the opening 11, and then the top 11 may be supplied to the fluidized shelf 70.

Next, an example of an item transfer mode by the above-described item transfer device A using the device for holding an article takeout tool of the present invention will be described.

In each extraction frontage 71 of the fluidized shelf 70 in the storage facility C,
A plurality of containers 10 each containing one type of article B are stored.

On the other hand, when the article B stored in the article take-out tool 20 is transferred to the article cut-out tool 80, the reversing device 40 becomes empty due to the traveling of the stacker crane 60 and the raising and lowering of the carriage 50. The container 10 which has moved to a position opposite to the empty container 10 is ejected to the empty container discharge conveyor 100 by the tip of the second gripping hand 47. That is, with the distance between the second gripping hands 47 being slightly smaller than the width of the container 10, the traveling table 42 is advanced toward the empty container discharge conveyor 100, that is, when the fluidized shelf 70 is used as a reference, it is moved backward.
The empty container 10 is transferred to the empty container discharge conveyor 100. When the empty empty container 10 is transferred, the shutter 22 has already been closed, so
The engagement protrusion 45a is located outside the engagement recess 22a of the shutter 22, and the second engagement protrusion 45b of the first gripping hand 45 is located outside the engagement recess 25 of the article take-out tool body 20a. Therefore, the first gripping hand 45 is closed and the article take-out tool 20 is gripped. That is, the first gripping hand 45 causes the article removing tool body 20 to
The shutter 22 and the shutter 22 are gripped substantially at the same time through the notch 23 of the article take-out tool body 20a. When the first gripping hand 45 grips the article take-out tool 20, the first gripping hand 45 rotates clockwise by approximately 10 ° in the side view shown in FIG. Advance to the position shown by the solid line in the figure, the first gripping hand 45 further rotates clockwise by about 170 ° in that state, and the first gripping hand 45 becomes the state shown by the solid line in FIG. During this reversing operation, the shutter 22 is held by the first engaging protrusion 45a of the first holding hand 45, so the shutter 22 does not fall out.

Further, as the stacker crane 60 travels and the carriage 50 moves up and down, the reversing device 40 moves to a desired position, and the container take-out device 30 takes out the container 10 stored in the desired take-out opening 71. That is, when the carriage 50 of the stacker crane 60 stops at a desired position, the traveling conveyor 33 advances toward the take-out opening 71, and the container take-out side is swung upward around the pivot point 32 thereof, thereby causing the container 10 to move. When one is taken out, the traveling conveyor 33 moves backward and the container 10 is carried into the fixed conveyor 31 at a predetermined position.

After that, when the fixed conveyor 31 and the traveling conveyor 33 are raised to the centering position via a pantograph-type lifting device (not shown), the second gripping hand 47 supports the bottom surface of the taken-out container 10 while supporting it. Grip the sides and center. After centering, the second gripping hand 47
Is lifted along the guide member 46 to hold the container 10 near the base 24 of the article take-out tool 20, and insert the tip of the partition 21 protruding downward from the base 24 and the guide member 27 into the container 10. Put into a state and stop. Therefore, since the guide member 27 is first inserted into the gap between the articles B stored in the container 10 and the tip of the partition 21 is inserted, the articles B stored in the container 10 can be reliably and individually separated. Can be partitioned.

As described above, when the base portion 24 of the article take-out tool 20 and the opening 11 of the container 10 are overlapped with each other, the reversing device 40 is driven to move the article take-out tool 20 and the container 10 to each other as shown in FIG. Reverse as shown in. That is, the first and second gripping hands 45, 47 and the guide member 46 are reversed in the counterclockwise direction in FIG. 2 with the rotary shaft 44 as the fulcrum. If this reversal operation is further detailed,
After the first gripping hand 45 rotates approximately 170 ° in the counterclockwise direction,
The traveling table 42 moves backward, and the article take-out tool 20 in the reverse process
After positioning the above-mentioned article cutting tool 80 substantially above,
The grasping hand 45 rotates counterclockwise by about 10 °, and the article take-out tool 20 and the container 10 are superposed on the article cutting tool 80. By this reversing operation, the articles B stored in the container 10 are partitioned one by one by the partition 21 and the shutter 22
The article is taken out by the article take-out tool 20 while being placed on the container 10 and stored in the container 10. During this reversing operation, the shutter 22 is held by the first engaging convex portion 45a of the first gripping hand 45, so the shutter 22 does not fall out and the article B does not fall.

When the article take-out tool 20 and the container 10 overlap each other on the article take-out tool 80, the first gripping hand 45 opens to open the article take-out tool.
20 is released, the second gripping hand 47 is also opened, and the container 10 is opened.
, The traveling platform 42 moves forward, and then stands by for the transfer of the article B.

The articles B stored in the article slicing device 80 shoot the articles B by sequentially opening the shutters 83 corresponding to the article rows.
When all the articles B have been cut out from the article cutting tool 80 and dropped into 91, the shutter 22 of the article removing tool 20 is continuously opened in the direction of the arrow in FIG. All of them are automatically transferred to the article cutting tool 80.

As described above, the articles B transferred to the article slicing tool 80 are cut out in accordance with the desired number of picking commands, for example, by opening the shutter 83 and sequentially cutting out the articles B as shown in FIG. The discharged article B is passed through the chute 91 and the spiral chute 90 to a desired container or the like (not shown).
Is transported to. Since a plurality of chutes 91 are connected to one spiral chute 90 at different heights, a plurality of article slicing tools 80 from which a plurality of articles B of different types are provided at substantially the same time in one container. Etc. can be automatically sorted.

As described above, one embodiment of the holding device for the article take-out tool of the present invention,
Although one example of the apparatus for transferring an article using the same and the mode of transferring the article have been described, the present invention is not limited to these examples and embodiments. The engaging concave portion 25 and the second engaging convex portion 45b of the first gripping hand 45 may be omitted. In addition, the first engaging protrusion 45a of the first gripping hand 45 is one of the first
It may be provided only on the gripping hand 45. In addition, the tip of the first engagement protrusion 45a may be flat and the engagement recess 22a may not be provided in the shutter 22.

[Effect of device]

As described above, the holding device for the article take-out tool of the present invention is provided with an engaging portion for holding the sliding body on the gripping plate, and the sliding body for opening and closing the article take-out tool body and the opening of the article take-out tool body. Can be held almost simultaneously and reliably, and the sliding body can be prevented from falling off while the article take-out tool is being inverted.

Further, according to the article transfer device using the article take-out holder holding device of the present invention, the articles stored in the container in a certain arrangement can be taken out in the arrangement state as they are stored in the container.

Further, by providing the notch in the article take-out tool main body, the article take-out tool main body can be engaged at the same time to facilitate gripping of the sliding body.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIGS. 1 (a) and 1 (b) are perspective views showing an example of an article transfer device using a holding device for an article take-out tool according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 (a) is an article transfer operation. The figure which shows the apparatus which applied the apparatus, the figure (b) is the figure which shows the state which reversed the container and the article take-out tool to the article cut-out tool side by the reversing device of the article transfer apparatus, and FIG. 2 is FIG. FIG. 3A is a side view of FIG. 3A, FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state in which a container accommodating an article and an article take-out tool are reversed and overlapped with the article cutting-out tool, and FIG. FIG. 4 (a) is an enlarged plan view of a main part of FIG. 4 (a), and FIG. 4 (b) is an enlarged perspective view of the article take-out tool and the first gripping hand shown in FIG. 10; container 20; article take-out tool 20a; article take-out tool main body 22; shutter (sliding body) 23; notch 45; first grasping hand (grasping plate) 45a; first engaging convex portion (engaging portion)

Claims (2)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. An article take-out tool main body 20a for taking out articles B housed in a fixed arrangement in a container 10, and a slide body 22 for sliding at the opening of the article take-out tool main body 20a to open and close the opening. The article take-out tool 20 provided is superposed on the opening of the container 10 and inverted, and then the sliding body 22 is slid to drop the article B from the opening of the container 10 and transfer the article. A holding device for holding the article take-out tool 20 in the device A by a pair of grip plates 45, wherein the article take-out tool main body 20a is a partition for partitioning the article B stored in the container 10 according to the arrangement of the stored state. 21 and the sliding body 22 is provided on at least one of the pair of grip plates 45.
A holding device for an article take-out tool, characterized in that an engaging portion 45a for engaging with is provided. 2. A notch 23 in the article take-out tool body 20a.
Through the notch 23, the engaging portion 45a of the grip plate 45
The holding device for the article take-out tool according to claim 1, wherein the engaging member engages with the sliding body 22.