JPH07309316A - Apparatus for adhesively supplying test tube - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide an apparatus for adhesively supplying test tubes which can easily secure a transfer path of the test tube when numerous automatic test tube label adhering devices are placed together. CONSTITUTION:A plurality of automatic test tube label adhering devices comprising a carry-in opening 101 formed at one of opposite side plates of a hanging case and a carry-out opening 102 oppositely formed at the other side respectively with a transfer conveyer 100 provided from the carry-in opening 101 to the carry-out opening 102 are tightly arranged with their carry-in openings 101 and carry-out openings 102 aligned with one another. Thus the respective transfer conveyers 100 are continuously provided along a direction of the automatic test tube label adhering devices arranged to constitute a path for feeding materials.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a test tube sticking / feeding device for feeding labels to a plurality of test tubes for testing such as clinical tests having different contents in a fully automatic manner. Is.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Labels indicating patient names and test contents are attached to test tubes used for various tests such as serum separation in clinical tests. Therefore, in order to perform this sticking work fully automatically, an automatic sticker for a test tube label has been proposed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 129090/1990.

[0003]

By the way, a stopper is fitted on the mouth side of the test tube so that the upper end has a large diameter and the lower end has an arc shape with a small diameter. For this reason, when packing a large number of test tubes in a box, it is usual that the test tubes are put in the box in the wrong vertical direction in order to enable efficient packing. Therefore, when the test tube is taken out from the box and supplied to the test tube label automatic affixing device, it is necessary to supply the test tube while arranging the test tubes vertically, which is very troublesome.

Therefore, there has been proposed an automatic test tube label sticking device which does not require the work of supplying the test tubes in the same vertical direction and which is capable of automatically sticking the label to the surface of the test tube. It was

[0005] This is a test tube which is supplied from the intermittent drive conveyor by the aligning and feeding device by feeding the test tube on the intermittently driven conveyor with its longitudinal direction aligned with the feeding direction by the test tube supply device. Are aligned and dropped in the same direction, and one by one is attached to the test tubes sent from above by the label attaching device, and the labeled test tubes are discharged to the outside. It is a thing.

By the way, in order to supply a plurality of test tubes to each subject for a test having different contents, a plurality of test tube label automatic affixing devices are installed in parallel to install a test tube affixing and feeding device. Will be configured. Then, in order to collect the test tubes having the labels attached thereto at one time, it is possible to propose a configuration in which the test tubes supplied from the respective carry-out ports are supplied to a single external conveyor. By the way, in such a configuration using an external conveyor, each hospital has its own test content, and the number of attachments varies, so that the test tube label automatic sticking devices installed side by side If you try to attach an external conveyor along the row of, you must design each time according to the respective attachment conditions, it will be made to order and expensive, and the test tube label automatic sticker There is a problem that the number cannot be easily increased or decreased.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a test tube sticking and feeding device capable of solving such problems.

[0008]

The present invention comprises a label sticking device for joining a label to the peripheral surface of a test tube, and carries the label sticking device into one of the opposite side plates of a mounting case. An opening and a carry-out opening are formed on the other side so as to face each other, and a transfer conveyor is provided from the carry-in opening to the carry-out opening, and a test tube having a label attached by the label attaching device is supplied onto the transfer conveyor. By arranging multiple automatic test tube label applicators in parallel with each other so that the loading and unloading openings are aligned with each other, the transfer conveyors of each automatic test tube label applicator are aligned in a straight line. The test tube sticking and feeding device is characterized in that a material feeding passage is formed continuously by the transfer conveyor group along the juxtaposed direction.

[0009]

[Function] An automatic test tube label affixing device is used for each test tube of a different type or test content, and the loading and unloading openings are aligned with each other to form test tube bonding and feeding devices adjacent to each other. . This allows each transfer conveyor to continue in a straight line,
A material feeding path is configured, and a plurality of test tubes of different types or test contents are sequentially transferred from the exit opening at the end and taken out from the end of the transfer conveyor of the sticker at the end. .

[0012]

EXAMPLE A test tube label automatic sticking device 1 applied to a test tube sticking and feeding device of the present invention comprises a test tube feeding device A, an intermittent drive conveyor B, a leveling feeding device C and a label sticking device. D and the transfer conveyor 100.

The structure of the test tube supply device A will be described with reference to FIGS.

A transport gutter 3 and a storage hopper 10, which are long in the front and rear direction, are adjacent to the mounting case 2 having a rectangular cross section through an inner wall 5 and a vertically operating passage 17. The bottom surface of the storage hopper 10 is inclined toward the inner wall 5 side.

In the working path 17 along the inner wall 5, the lift 2
0 is arranged, and the carrying piece 15 is rotatably supported by the shaft 21 on the upper end of the lifting body 20. The elevating body 20 is driven to reciprocate up and down along the inner wall 5 by an elevating control device 22 provided in the mounting case 2.

The lifting control device 22 includes a driving pulley 23 linked to a reversible lifting motor on the lower side and a driven pulley 2 on the upper side.
The belt 25 is stretched over the belt 4, and the belt 25 and the lifting body 20 are connected to each other through the hole 8 formed in the front surface of the inner wall 5 so that the carrying piece 15 is aligned with the inclined bottom surface of the storage hopper 10. The trapping position d where the test tube w is supplied to the upper surface by the guiding action of the inclined bottom surface, and the reciprocating position u which is located near the upper edge side of the inner wall 5 and sends out the test tube w to the transfer gutter 3 side are reciprocally moved up and down. It is something that can be done. The upper surface of the carrying piece 15 has a V-shaped cross-section so that the test tube w can be mounted in a recumbent state at the capture position d, and the capture of the test tube w at the capture position d is ensured. Further, the working path 1 of the lifting body 20
A reversing switch (not shown) is arranged at an appropriate position of 7 to detect the elevating body 20 to define the uppermost position and the lowermost position thereof, and reversely drive the reversible lifting motor. I am trying.

When the reversible lifting motor is driven, the lifting body 20 reciprocates up and down.

On the other hand, as described above, the test tube w on the carrying piece 15 is sent to the transfer gutter 3 side at the outflow position u. This is achieved by the tilting mechanism that tilts the carrier piece 15 toward the transfer gutter 3 side around the shaft 21 at the out-position u.

To explain this structure, a linking claw 31 is projected from the upper edge of the inner wall 5 as shown in FIG. An engagement step 16 is formed on the outer surface of the carrying piece 15. Further, a pulling spring 32 is interposed between the carrying piece 15 and the lifting / lowering body 20, and the carrying piece 15 is held at the steady position shown by the solid line in FIG. 3 by the urging force of the pulling spring 32.

In such a structure, when the carrying piece 15 is raised together with the lifting body 20 in accordance with the operation of the lifting control device 22 and reaches the rolling-out position u, the engagement step 16 comes into contact with the linking claw 31, The supporting piece 15 resists the urging force of the pulling spring 32 and the shaft 2
Rotate counterclockwise about 1 as shown by the chain line in FIG. Then, the test tube w captured by the carrying piece 15 is sent from the upper edge of the inner wall 5 to the transfer gutter 3 side.

On the other hand, the space between the storage hopper 10 and the carrying piece 15 is shielded by a shielding device 24. This shielding device 24
The configuration will be described.

A pulley 30 is rotatably supported on the elevating body 20 so as to be free to rotate substantially on the side of the carrying piece 15, and a reel 27 is wound around a winding shaft 26 at a position directly below the storage hopper 10. It has been turned. The winding shaft 26 is biased in the winding direction. Then, a flexible shutter 28 is wound around the reel 27, and the flexible shutter 28 is wound around the pulley 30 from the transfer gutter 3 side, and its end is fixed to a fixed shaft 29.

As described above, when the lifting / lowering body 20 moves up, the belt 25 follows, which causes the flexible shutter 28 to move from the reel 27 in the working path 17.
As shown by the chain line in FIG. 3, the flexible shutter 28 covers between the carrying piece 15 in the raised position and the outlet of the storage hopper 10. In this operation mode, the exit surface of the storage hopper 10 is provided only by the flexible shutter 28 extending upward.
Does not go up and down. Therefore, for example, the lifting body 20
When a shield plate is provided directly on the elevating body 20, and the elevating body 20 is moved up and down, the test tube is swung up and down by the elevating plate at the corner edge of the outlet 10 at the time of its descending and fluctuating. Or may be damaged in some cases,
In the configuration using the flexible shutter 28 described above,
Since the flexible shutter 28 does not move up and down,
The outlet of the storage hopper 10 is shielded without changing the test tube in the storage hopper 10 along with the movement of the lifting body 20.

The elevating control device 22 described above is always driven, so that the elevating body 20 and the carrier piece 15 continuously reciprocate. Then, as will be described later, when the intermittent drive conveyor B in the transfer gutter 3 is in a non-operating state and the test tube w remains in the transfer gutter 3, the test tube w cannot be transferred to the transfer gutter 3 side. However, it cannot be rolled out from the carrying piece 15 to the transfer gutter 3 side, and it will be lowered as it is with the carrying piece 15 or will be dropped into the storage hopper 10. And test tube w
Is supported on the carrying piece 15 and returns, the new test tube w cannot be supplied at the capture position d, and thus the test piece w is again raised by the carrying piece 15 and transferred to the outflow position u.

In addition, a storage sensor is provided in the storage hopper 10 to determine the presence or absence of the test tube w in the storage hopper 10. If the storage sensor determines that there is no test tube w, the reversible The drive of the lifting motor is stopped, or warning means such as a warning lamp (not shown) is activated.

The intermittent drive conveyor B mounted in the transfer gutter 3 is conveyed to a drive pulley 36 supported by a front portion and driven by a reversible conveyance motor M ₂ and a follower pulley 37 pivotally supported at a rear portion. The belts 38, 38 are stretched around each other. The reversible transport motor M ₂ causes a forward drive, a reverse drive that enables the test tube w to be sent back as described later, and an intermittent composite operation that sequentially causes a non-driven state.

In the above structure, when the test tubes w are supplied to the storage hopper 10 indiscriminately, the reciprocating movement of the carrier piece 15 and its tilting mechanism cause the storage hopper 10 to move forward and backward adjacent to the transfer gutter 3. A plurality of test tubes w are simultaneously supplied from the lateral direction onto the intermittent drive conveyor B with the longitudinal direction thereof aligned with the feed direction. Therefore, the next supply of the test tube w to the aligning and feeding device C can be smoothly performed without causing insufficient feeding.

In addition, the intermittent drive conveyor B, when the test tube w is judged and rotated by the aligning and feeding device C as shown below,
The test tube does not move uniformly because it causes complicated operations such as stopping once. However, in such a configuration, when the test tube w is supplied from the lateral direction to the intermittent drive conveyor B and the test tube w is already present at the position on the intermittent drive conveyor B and cannot be fed, the test tube w is loaded as described above. With the return movement of the piece 15, the test tube w is sent back as it is, or falls into the storage hopper 10 and circulates, and each is again subjected to the feeding operation by the carrying piece 15. Therefore, even if the intermittent drive conveyor B makes a complicated operation, the test tube w can be fed in without any trouble. Therefore, for example, in the structure in which the test tubes are fed longitudinally from the rear of the intermittent drive conveyor, the feeding timing of each test tube must be controlled, but such complicated control is unnecessary. .

Next, the structure of the aligning and feeding device C will be described with reference to FIGS.

A sorting rotary member 40 is provided at the front part of the intermittent drive conveyor B in line with the feeding direction of the intermittent drive conveyor B. That is, a funnel-shaped drop hopper 39 for feeding the test tubes w one by one to the tube insertion portion 61 of the label sticking device D, which will be described later, is provided at the delivery side position of the transfer gutter 3 of the mounting case 2. On the mouth of the drop hopper 39, the sorting rotary body 4 is provided.
0 is provided. The sorting rotary body 40 is mounted on the mounting case 2
It is supported by a drive shaft 41 of a reversible rotation motor M ₃ attached to the side, and the forward rotation and the reverse rotation on the drop hopper 39 are selectively driven and controlled by a rotation angle control means described later.

The sorting rotary body 40 has two guide rollers 43a on the upper side and three guide rollers 43b on the lower side between the rectangular mounting plates 42 and 42 connected to the drive shaft 41. A waiting path 4 in which a single test tube w can stand by between the guide roller 43a row and the guide roller 43b row.
4 to produce the standby path 4 at the steady position.
4 is aligned with the transport path on the intermittent drive conveyor B,
The test tube w is sent in as the intermittent drive conveyor B is driven.

On the other hand, a test tube determination device 50 fixed to the transfer gutter 3 is provided at a position which coincides with the standby path 44 in the front and rear.
Is provided. This test tube determination device 50 is a groove provided with a detection groove 52 that is slightly narrower than the diameter of the test tube w, in which only the tip of the spherical surface portion x of the bottom surface of the test tube w can be immersed at the front position of the standby path 44. The groove member 5 includes a member 51 and sensors S ₄ and S ₅ located on both sides of the groove member 51.
It is fixed to the mounting case 2 side by a fixing screw 55 inserted in a long hole 54 formed in one support plate 53, and the long hole 54 allows the forward and backward movement to be adjusted, so that it can be applied to test tubes w having different lengths. I am trying. And the test tube w is the transfer gutter 3
From the top, they are sequentially fed to the standby path 44.

This feeding is pushed out from behind by another test tube w'which is fed by the intermittently driven conveyor B immediately thereafter as shown in FIG. 7, whereby the front end of the test tube w is It is pressed against the groove member 51 side. In this state, the presence or absence of the test tube is determined by the detection sensor S ₄ having the front surface of the groove member 51 as the detection surface, and further, the test tube w is determined by the determination sensor S ₅ having the inside of the detection groove 52 as the detection surface. It is determined whether or not the spherical surface portion x of the.

That is, when the spherical portion x is immersed as shown in FIG. 6A, both the detection sensor S ₄ and the determination sensor S ₅ are turned on, whereby the direction of rotation thereof is determined, and the selection rotary member. 40 rotates clockwise to slightly over 90 degrees to convert the test tube w into a vertical state with its spherical portion x facing upward, and then drops it from the standby path 44 to the drop hopper 39.

On the other hand, when the stopper y of the test tube w is pressed toward the detection groove 52 side as shown in FIG. 6B, the tip does not go into the detection groove 52 and the detection sensor S ₄ is turned on. However, the determination sensor S ₅ does not turn on. Therefore, after the presence of the test tube w is detected by the detection sensor S ₄ , when the determination sensor S ₅ is in the off state, it is determined that the plug y is at the front end, whereby the sorting rotary body 40 is moved to the position shown in FIG. As shown above, the test tube w is rotated in the counterclockwise direction to make the test tube w vertical with the spherical surface portion x thereof facing upward, and then dropped into the drop hopper 39. Then, as described above, the sorting rotary body 40 rotates in the required direction as the test tube w is inverted, and then returns to the original position shown in FIGS.

When this test tube w is detected by the detection sensor S ₄ , the reversible transport motor M ₂ is driven in reverse so that the test tube w ′ immediately after is retracted so as not to impair the rotation of the sorting rotary body 40. And, the driving is stopped until the sorting rotary body 40 is completed. In other words, the feeding operation by the intermittent drive conveyor B continues until the test tube w is detected by the detection sensor S ₄ , the test tube w in the storage hopper 10 decreases, and the test by the carrying piece 15 is performed. Even when the number of the tubes w captured decreases, the test tubes w can be supplied without any problem because it is not due to the uniform feeding operation.

The above-mentioned rotation angle control is performed as shown in FIG.
Control is performed by detecting the slit 58 of the slit plate 57 provided at the rear end of the drive shaft 41 of the reversible rotation motor M ₃ by the sensor S ₆ . In the figure, the sensor S ₆ is provided at intervals of 90 degrees to control the rotation angle.
It is also possible to control with a single sensor S ₆ by forming a plurality of slits 58. Thus, the rotation angle control means is constructed.

The test tube w whose vertical direction is defined as described above is delivered to the tube insertion portion 61 of the label sticking apparatus D with the spherical portion x facing upward. Next, the configuration of the label sticking device D will be described with reference to FIGS.

As shown in FIGS. 9 to 11, a holder 62 is provided along the up-down direction so as to surround a space which vertically matches the lower end of the drop hopper 39. The holder 62 has a tubular shape with a substantially C-shaped cross section, has an opening 63 extending in the vertical direction on the front surface, and is vertically supported by an internal frame 65. Then, the tube insertion portion 61 is configured within the cylindrical holder 62. In front of the cylindrical holder 62, a driving roller 68 is vertically supported on the inner frame 65 so as to face the opening 63. The rotation of the drive roller 68 is controlled by the driving force of the rotation motor M ₄ transmitted by the transmission belt 69.

Behind the holder 62, a pair of pressing rollers 70a, 70 are supported on the left and right sides of the holder 62 by a shaft support 73.
b is arranged. As shown in FIG. 11, the shaft support 73 is controlled to move forward / backward by an advancing / retreating drive device including a vertical arm 74, a solenoid 76 mounted on the lower bottom, and a spring 78. That is, the upper end of the vertical arm 74 that can be tilted by the support shaft 75 is fixed to the shaft support 73 via the rotation shaft 71, and the arm 7 is positioned below the support shaft 75.
4, an operating rod 77 of a solenoid 76 is connected, and the pushing operation of the operating rod 77 causes the arm 74 to rotate in the left-right direction about the support shaft 75, whereby the pressing roller 70a pivotally supported by the shaft support body 73a. , 70b are provided so as to be pushed out toward the drive roller 68. Since the shaft support 73 is connected to the arm 74 via the rotating shaft 71, the pressing rollers 70a and 70b are vertically vertical along the surface of the test tube w due to the tilt of the shaft support 73. At this time, an elastic body 72 such as a spring is interposed between the arm 74 and the shaft support 73 in order to generate a moderation effect on the shaft support 73. Furthermore, a spring 78 for pulling back is attached to the arm 74, and the spring 78 constantly urges the arm 74 in the backward direction.

On the other hand, an opening / closing seat 81 is provided directly below the pipe insertion portion 61. The opening / closing seat 81 is fixed to the upper end of a screw shaft 82 that is vertically screwed to the lower end of an L-shaped support arm 79 that is vertically supported by a support shaft 80. By changing the screwing position, the height can be adjusted. Due to this height adjustment, when the test tubes w having different lengths are applied, there is an advantage that the label sticking position can be set to a predetermined position.

The support arm 79 is connected to a rod 89 of a solenoid 88, and is further provided with a spring 90 for holding the opening / closing seat 81 at a position directly below the pipe insertion portion 61. There is. Then, when the solenoid 88 is driven, the support arm 79 becomes an open position (chain line in FIG. 11) defined by the other position holding roll 91b against the biasing force of the spring 90 about the support shaft 80. The opening / closing seat 81 is retracted from immediately below the pipe insertion portion 61, and is supported on the opening / closing seat 81 as will be described later.
The test tube w to which is attached will drop downward.

A photoelectric sensor S ₇ for detecting the insertion of the test tube w is arranged at a height position corresponding to the vicinity of the lower end of the test tube w inserted in the holder 62. On the other hand, on the side of the drive roller 68, a label feeder 95 is provided which feeds the label r temporarily attached to the continuous sheet s one by one from the tangential direction to the edge of the drive roller 68 facing the holder 62. It

The label feeder 95 includes a feeding roll 96 that holds the roll-shaped continuous sheet s, a drive winding roll 97 that collects the release sheet t after the label r is removed into a roll shape, and a predetermined roll. A group of guide rolls 98 for applying a tension to guide and supply the paper, and a print head 9 for performing a desired print on the label r fed from the feed roll 96.
9 is a main part, and the feed direction is sharply changed by the reversing guide piece 98a at the side of the tube insertion portion 61, so that only the label r printed by the print head 99 is peeled off. The pipe is sent out to the side of the pipe insertion portion 61.

Next, the label sticking operation will be described.

The test tube w is supplied from the tube insertion portion 61 into the cylindrical holder 62 (FIG. 11), and the test tube w is opened and closed by the opening / closing seat 81.
When it is placed on the top, the photoelectric sensor detects it, the actuation rod 77 of the solenoid 78 is actuated in the pushing direction, and the pressing roller pair 70a, 70b supported by the shaft support 73 is driven through the rotation of the arm 74. It moves in the direction of the roller 68. As a result, the pressing roller pair 70a, 70b is applied to the vicinity of the upper and lower ends of the test tube w from the left and right sides by a copying action described later.
Are respectively pressed, and the test tube w is pushed by the pressing roller pair 70a, 7a.
Drive roller 68 on the opening / closing seat 81 by the pressing action of 0b.
11, the test tube w is pushed out from the opening 63 of the holder 62 as shown in FIG.
Is pressed against.

The rotation motor M ₄ is started at substantially the same time as the operation of the solenoid 78, and the drive roller 68 is rotated by the driving force of the rotation motor M ₄ . Therefore, the drive roller 6
The test tube w pressed against 8 is driven to rotate by the drive roller 68. While the test tube w is rotating in this way, the label feeder 95 is operated, the label r at the leading end is fed out in the tangential direction between the drive roller 68 and the test tube w, and is transferred to the test tube w. The label r is wrapped around the outer peripheral surface of the test tube w by the rotation of the test tube w in pressure contact with the drive roller 68, and is completely attached.

Rotation motor M for rotating the drive roller 68
₄ stops when the label r is attached to the test tube w, and the drive roller 68 also stops accordingly. At the same time, the solenoid 78 is also turned off, and the arm 74 is pulled back by the urging force of the spring 79, and the pressing roller pair 70a, 70b.
And the test tube w is again held by the holder 62. At the same time that the solenoid 78 is turned off,
The supporting arm 79 is driven by the solenoid 88 and the supporting shaft 79 is supported.
Centering on the other side 91b against the urging force of the spring 90.
The open / close seat 81 is retracted from immediately below the pipe insertion portion 61 at this position, and the test tube w supported and labelled on the open / close seat 81 is transferred to the transfer conveyor 10.
It will fall on 0.

Next, the main part of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

Both side plates 2a and 2b of the mounting case 2 facing each other
One side plate 2a has a carry-in opening 101 and the other side plate 2a.
Carrying out openings 102 are formed in b in a facing manner.
A transfer conveyor 100 is provided across the openings 101 and 102 so that the upper surface of the transfer conveyor 100 is vertically aligned with the pipe insertion portion 61. This transfer conveyor 100
Will be passed in the direction orthogonal to the transfer gutter 3.

In this transfer conveyor 100, the driven roll 104 at the rear part, the drive roll 105 at the front part, and the connecting plate 10 are connected.
6 and 106, the material feeding belt 107 is stretched over the rolls 104 and 105, and a small gear 108 provided at the shaft end of the driving roll 105 is fixed to the drive shaft of the material feeding drive motor 110. Meshed with the large gear 109
The drive roll 105 is driven almost constantly, and the material feeding belt 1
07, the support portion thereof carries in from the carry-in opening 101 to the carry-out opening 102
I am trying to move to.

When a plurality of automatic test tube label sticking devices 1 having the above-mentioned structure are densely arranged side by side to form the test tube sticking and feeding device shown in FIG. The transfer openings 100 coincide with each other, the transfer conveyors 100 are continuous in a straight line, and a material feeding path P is formed along the juxtaposed direction of the test tube label automatic sticking devices 1.

When a plurality of test tubes are required for one subject to perform various tests, the test tube label automatic sticking device 1 equipped with test tubes corresponding to each test content is used. If they are arranged side by side as described above, the test tubes w to which the labels r have been adhered by the respective applicators 1 are discharged onto the respective transfer conveyors 100, and as they run, the adjacent test tube label automatic applicators. 1 is transferred from the carry-in opening 101 to the transfer conveyor 100, and is transferred from the carry-out opening 102 of the transfer conveyor 100 of the sticker 1 at the end across the respective stickers 1. In addition, as described above, in order to facilitate the arrangement of the test tube label automatic sticking device 1, a caster 115 is pivotally supported at the lower part of the sticking device 1.

[0054]

As described above, according to the present invention, fully automatic test tube label automatic affixing devices 1 are arranged in parallel, and each transfer conveyor 1 is provided.
Since the test tube sticking and feeding device is constructed by forming the feeding passages P of 00 continuously, the test tubes w to which the label r is stuck by each sticking device 1 are transferred transversely. Since it is designed such that it can be collected from the carry-out opening of the applicator 1 at the end, it is not necessary to separately attach a conveyor as a custom-made product, and each applicator 1 can be simply attached to the required test tube. It is sufficient to set the number corresponding to the number of the above and install them side by side, and there is an excellent effect that it is possible to arbitrarily expand according to the demand of the attached facility.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view showing a test tube sticking and feeding device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a delivery portion of a test tube w.

3 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line EE of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing a straightening feeder C.

5 is a plan view showing the aligning and feeding device C. FIG.

FIG. 6 is a plan view of a main part showing a determination mode of the test tube determination device 50.

FIG. 7 is a vertical cross-sectional side view showing a supply state of the test tube w to the sorting rotary body 40.

FIG. 8 is a vertical cross-sectional side view showing the operation of the sorting rotary body 40.

9 is a plan view of a part of the label sticking device D. FIG.

10 is a plan view showing a manner of holding the test tube w of the label sticking device D. FIG.

11 is a vertical cross-sectional side view of a main part of the label sticking device D. FIG.

FIG. 12 is a front view showing the transfer conveyor 100.

FIG. 13 is a plan view of the transfer conveyor 100.

FIG. 14 is a side view of the test tube label automatic sticking device 1.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Test tube label automatic affixing device 2 Mounting case 3 Transfer gutter 5 Inner wall 10 Storage hopper 15 Carrying piece 20 Elevating body 22 Elevating control device 23 Movable body 26 Winding shaft 27 Reel 28 Flexible shutter 40 Sorting rotating body 44 Standby path 50 Test tube determination device 51 Groove member 52 Detection groove 61 Tube insertion part 79 Support arm 81 Opening / closing seat 88 Solenoid 95 Label feeder 100 Transfer conveyor 101 Carry-in opening 102 Carry-out opening A Test tube feeder B Intermittent drive conveyor C Alignment Feeding device D label sticking device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A label sticking device for joining a label to a peripheral surface of a test tube, wherein a loading opening is provided in one of both side plates facing each other of a mounting case for accommodating the label sticking device and a carrying-out opening is provided in the other. Automatic test tube label that is formed so as to be opposed to each other and is provided with a transfer conveyor from the carry-in opening to the carry-out opening, and the test tube labeled with the label sticking device is supplied onto the transfer conveyor. By arranging a plurality of applicators in close contact with the loading and unloading openings aligned with each other, the transfer conveyors of each test tube label automatic affixing device are made continuous in a straight line, and the transfer conveyor group The test tube sticking and feeding device is characterized in that a material feeding passage is formed along the parallel direction.