JPH07101550A - Article processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the cost of a device for processing a case having a cover by organically jointing a depalletizer, an uncaser and a palletizer to one another. CONSTITUTION:A loaded case 4 is placed on a pallet 4 and elevated to reference height with a lifter 6. Then, the cover 7 of the case 4 is supplied to a cover storage magazine 8 at the side of a palletizer 3. Subsequently, the loaded case 4 is placed on a case transfer station equipped with a case feed conveyor 9 via a case transfer device 1, moved to an article transfer device 10 and placed at an article takeout position. At this position, an article contained in the case 4 is discharged to a conveyor 11. An emptied case 12 is, then, carried from a depalletizer 2 to the palletizer 3 on an empty case discharge conveyor 13. Also, the cover 7 housed in the magazine 8 is coupled to the emptied case 12 carried on another empty case transfer conveyor 14 via the case transfer device 1. Subsequently, the cases having a cover are stacked on an empty case pallet 5' via the device 1 and carried to the next process.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an article processing apparatus for processing a case with a lid by organically connecting a depalletizer, an anchor and a palletizer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as one apparatus for transporting articles between a load receiving surface and a loading surface having different horizontal planes (see Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 62-249824) and a transfer inspection apparatus for articles. , A palletizer and a depalletizer are organically combined (see Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-192024).

[0003]

However, the above-mentioned conventional apparatus for carrying articles conveys articles on two different horizontal planes with one robot. Further, as the transfer inspection apparatus for articles, a palletizer and a depalletizer are organically connected. However, in the article processing apparatus for taking out articles from the case with lid, there is a problem that there is no depalletizer, an anchor, and a palletizer that are organically connected in a small space, and the lid cannot be processed. In view of these circumstances, the present invention provides an actual case pallet, a pallet carry-in conveyor, an empty case pallet, a pallet carry-out conveyor, a case supply conveyor, an empty case discharge conveyor, an article transfer device, a case transfer device, an empty case transfer conveyor, and a case An object of the present invention is to provide an article processing apparatus in which lid magazines are organically connected.

[0004]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is an article processing apparatus for taking out an article in a case covered with a lid from the case, wherein the case containing the article is provided. A real case pallet stacked a predetermined number of stages,
Empty case pallets that stack a predetermined number of empty cases from which articles have been taken out, a case supply conveyor that conveys cases containing articles from a position near the actual case pallet to an article take-out position, and a case that is placed at the article take-out position On the actual case pallet, and an empty case transfer conveyor that is installed in parallel with the case supply conveyor and that discharges the empty case by the article transfer device to the position near the empty case pallet. A case transfer device that transfers the stacked real cases to the case supply conveyor, transfers the cases on the empty case transfer conveyor to the empty case pallet, and a magazine that temporarily stores the lid of the actual case. The case lid is removed and stored in the magazine. With the lid open, the articles are taken out by the article transfer device and empty. Adopted the technology means that the load on the empty case palette to become the case is covered with a lid in the magazine.

[0005]

As a result of adopting the above technical means, the present invention minimizes the arrangement space by organically coupling the respective devices, and further makes the case transfer device and the article transfer device (a so-called robot) effective. Since it is arranged so that it can be used (one robot can perform various jobs), it can realize the functions of a depalletizer, an anchor, and a palletizer in a small functional space.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The embodiment shown in FIG. 1 is an embodiment according to the present invention and is a schematic perspective view showing the entire layout. First, as can be understood from FIG. 1, the arrangement state of the respective devices will be described. The case transfer device 1 is arranged so as to be surrounded by a line of the depalletizer 2 and a line of the palletizer 3. This is a case in which a real case 4 in which contents are stored as a depalletizer 2 is loaded on a real case pallet 5, and this is introduced into a lifter 6 and is raised to a reference height by the lifter 6. Then, the case transfer device 1 inserts the lid 7 of the actual case 4 into the magazine 8 for storing the lid on the palletizer 3 side. Subsequently, the case transfer device 1 places the actual case 4 on the case transfer station equipped with the case supply conveyor 9,
Is moved to the article transfer device 10 and placed at the article take-out position, and the article in the case is discharged onto the article conveyor 11.
The empty case 12 is laid side by side on the case supply conveyor 9 and emptied by the article transfer device 10.
An empty case discharge conveyor 13 for transporting the empty case transfer conveyor 14 to a position near the empty case transfer conveyor 14 is provided so as to extend horizontally from the depalletizer 2 side to the palletizer 3 side. Further, the empty case 12 conveyed to the empty case transfer conveyor 14 is covered by the case transfer device 1 with the lid 7 stored in the magazine 8. Then, the case with lid is used as the case transfer device 1
Then, when the stacking is completed and the stacking is completed, it is carried to the next process.

Here, the case transfer device 1 and the article transfer device 1
0 will be described in more detail. The case transfer device 1 is provided with a suction cup 15 for holding a lid and a hook 16 for holding a case by a so-called robot, and a gripping device 17 including the suction cup 15 and the hook 16 is provided between the depalletizer 2 and the palletizer 3. It is configured to be able to turn. Further, as the article transfer device 10, a device having a gripper corresponding to a conventionally known gripping article is applied.

With the configuration described above, the operations are performed in the following order. First, the operation is performed in the order shown by the circled numbers 1 to 12 in the figure. That is, the case transfer device 1 raises the lifter 6 to a reference height when the actual pallet loaded with the case is introduced into the lifter 6. And the case transfer device 1
The lid 7 of the actual case 4 filled with the
Then, the real case 4 is placed in a case transfer station equipped with a case supply conveyor 9,
Is moved to the take-out section and uncased. Further, the empty case discharge conveyor 13 discharges the empty case. Then, the empty case is transferred by the empty case transfer conveyor 14, the lid is moved from the magazine onto the empty case 12, the empty case is lifted, and the lid is attached. Further, the empty case is palletized and the pallet loaded with the empty case is discharged. Further, the operation is performed in the order shown by the numerals 1 to 6 in the figure. The article transfer device 10 introduces an empty hakama into the article conveyor 11, pushes it into the empty hakama lifter, further raises the empty hakama, transfers it to the bottle insertion part into the empty hakama, and lowers the lifter. It is discharged on the goods conveyor.

In addition to what has been described above, the case on the pallet does not have to have a lid, but may have a lid only on the top. Then, the removal and attachment of the lid may be performed by another robot. Further, if a predetermined number of lids are stored in the magazine, the removed lids may be put on the empty case immediately.

[0010]

As a result of adopting the above configuration, the present invention provides
The following effects can be obtained. (1) With a small space for processing the case with lid, organically connecting the depalletizer, the caser, and the palletizer, and having the functions of each, it is significantly more than a machine that collects them separately. Since it can be obtained at low cost, the cost is reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view showing an overall layout of an article processing apparatus of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Case transfer device 2 ... Depalletizer 3 ... Palletizer 4 ... Real case 5 ... Real case pallet 5 '... Empty case pallet 6 ... Lifter 7 ... Lid 8 ... Magazine 9 ... 10 ... article transfer device 11 ... article conveyor 12 ... empty case 13 ... empty case discharge conveyor 14 ... empty case transfer conveyor 15 ... sucker 16 ... hook 17 ...・ Gripping device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An article processing apparatus for taking out an article in a case covered with a lid from the case, and an actual case pallet in which a predetermined number of cases in each of which the article is housed are stacked.
Empty case pallets that stack a predetermined number of empty cases from which articles have been taken out, a case supply conveyor that conveys cases containing articles from a position near the actual case pallet to an article take-out position, and a case that is placed at the article take-out position On the actual case pallet, and an empty case transfer conveyor that is installed in parallel with the case supply conveyor and that discharges the empty case by the article transfer device to the position near the empty case pallet. A case transfer device that transfers the stacked real cases to the case supply conveyor, transfers the cases on the empty case transfer conveyor to the empty case pallet, and a magazine that temporarily stores the lid of the actual case. The case lid is removed and stored in the magazine. With the lid open, the articles are taken out by the article transfer device and empty. Article processing apparatus characterized by loading onto an empty case pallet capped in the magazine since the case.