JPH08183529A - Feeding movable bottom panel housing case - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To make a large number of articles freely movable at once to facilitate the taking in and out of them with respect to a housing case by constituting a container of a case main body opened upwardly and having a rectangular vertical cross section and a bottom panel and supporting the bottom panel on the lower part of the case main body so as to make the same movable up and down within the case main body. CONSTITUTION: In a container constituted by providing a bottom panel 2 to a case main body 1 opened upwardly, the bottom panel 2 is provided so as to be freely movable up and down within the case main body 1 and usually supported on the lower part of the case main body 1. When vials 7 being articles to be housed are packed in a housing case, the empty housing case is set on the lift guide rails 4 of a housing part and the groups of the vials 7 are supplied to a supply table 3 to be arranged thereon and, thereafter, the lift guide rails 4 are allowed to fall and an insertion arm 6 is subsequently pushed out to transfer the groups ∥ of the vials 7 to the bottom panel 2. Thereafter, the lift guide rails 4 are raised to obtain such a state that the groups of the vials 7 are housed in the housing case.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an automatic equipment,
The present invention relates to a storage case for transportation that enables easy loading and unloading of an item into and from a storage case, although the product may be transported in the storage case.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, items are stored in a storage case for transportation,
As a means for automating the taking-out, it is generally performed to take in and take out an item using an articulated robot or the like.

[0003]

However, in the conventional technology, it is difficult to grasp with a machine such as a robot, and it is difficult to put small and large numbers of items in and out of the storage case at once, and automation is delayed. There is.

[0004] In particular, in facilities for manufacturing pharmaceutical injections, it is desired to put a container such as an ampoule, a vial bottle, and an injection syringe in a storage case to carry the case. It is difficult to adopt a robot or the like as a foreign matter generation source because it is necessary to perform the cleaning in an environment of cleanliness class 100 or less, which is peculiar to manufacturing.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems of the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a simple method for an article and a device such as a robot as a foreign matter generation source. An object of the present invention is to provide a transport storage case that can be reliably put in and taken out from the storage case without contaminating the stored object.

[0006]

According to the present invention, the object to be stored is not picked up by fingers of a robot or the like and is put in and taken out of the storage case from above, but the bottom plate of the storage case is lifted to the upper end of the side wall of the storage case. Then, the objects to be stored can be stored in the storage case by transferring the aligned items to be transferred onto the bottom plate of the storage case by only lateral movement and lowering the bottom plate.

[0007] In the opposite case, the object to be stored in the storage case can be easily removed from the storage case by lifting the bottom plate of the storage case to the upper end of the side wall of the storage case and moving the storage object laterally. The bottom plate of the storage case can be moved up and down so that it can be moved.

Further, by fixing the bottom plate and moving the housing case body up and down, the level of the upper surface of the bottom plate and the upper surface of the side wall of the housing case can be matched, and as described above,
The same can be done by moving the stored items in and out only by moving laterally.

In addition, in order to reinforce the bottom plate and to smoothly move the bottom plate up and down, it is preferable that the portion contacting the side wall of the storage case has a certain thickness so that the end face of the bottom plate is folded back into an L shape.

[0010]

With the use of the carrying storage case having the movable bottom plate, it is possible to easily handle articles having complicated shapes and independence without using an expensive automatic machine such as a robot for storing and taking out the articles to be stored. It can be stored in and taken out from the storage case.

Further, in the pharmaceutical injection manufacturing facility,
When storing ampoules, vials, injection syringes, etc. in the storage case, above or below the bottom plate of the storage case, or
By moving the storage case main body up and down, the ampoule, the vial bottle, the injection syringe, etc. can be stored in or removed from the storage case only by moving laterally, and at the same time, the storage portion or the upper portion of the storage object of the extraction portion. In the space, it is possible to easily design and manufacture a device that does not have a robot arm, finger, or the like, which is a foreign matter generation source, installed.

[0016]

EXAMPLES Examples will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a transportable bottom plate storage case. The bottom plate 2 can move up and down inside the case body 1 and is supported by the lower portion of the case body.

2 and 3 show a state in which the vial is housed in the case.

The embodiment shown in FIGS. 4, 5 and 6 shows a method of storing a vial in a storage case.

FIG. 4 shows a state in which an empty storage case is set on the elevating guide rails 4 of the storage section, and the vials 7 which are the storage objects are aligned and supplied on the supply table.

In FIG. 5, the elevating guide rail 4 descends,
Along with that, the case body 1 and the bottom plate 2 descend. Bottom plate 2
Descends to the storage unit support 5. The state where the vial 7 is laterally moved onto the bottom plate 2 of the storage case by the pushing-out of the insertion arm 6 after the case main body 1 has been lowered is shown.

In FIG. 6, the vial is laterally moved onto the bottom plate 2 of the storage case, the insertion arm returns to its original position, and finally the elevating guide rail is raised to store the vial in the storage case. The state is shown.

The embodiment shown in FIGS. 7, 8 and 9 shows a method of taking out the vial bottle from the storage case.

FIG. 7 shows a state in which the storage case in which the vial is stored is set on the elevating guide rail 4 of the take-out section.

In FIG. 8, when the elevating guide rail 4 is lowered, both the case body 1 and the bottom plate 2 are also lowered to the take-out portion support base 9. The state where the pushing arm 10 pushes the vial 7 onto the take-out table 8 after the case body 1 has been lowered is shown.

In FIG. 9, the vial 7 is taken out from the table 8.
It shows a state in which the push-out arm 10 is pushed up, the push-out arm 10 is retracted and returned to the original position, the elevating guide rail 4 is raised, and the vial bottle 7 is taken out from the storage case.

The method of lowering the case main body 1 and taking in / out of the vial 7 of the object to be stored in the storage case has been described above. The case main body 1 is fixed and the bottom plate 2 is raised to open the vial bottle. It can also be put in and taken out from the storage case.

[0028]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, it has the following effects.

By raising the bottom plate or lowering the case body, a large number of items can be moved at once to be easily put in and taken out from the storage case, and can be easily incorporated in an automatic machine.

Further, a large number of articles can be automatically stored in the storage case, and the mass transportation can speed up the automatic machine.

In a pharmaceutical injection manufacturing facility that requires operation under a sterile and dust-free environment, when carrying ampoules, vials, injection syringes, etc., under clean air laminar flow. Done. The laminar flow of air in the upper part of the storage case is disturbed because the movable part, which is the source of foreign matter of the machine, is located at the bottom or side of the storage case in the storage part or the extraction part where ampoules are taken in and out of the storage case. Nor. Therefore, by using the storage case of the present invention without causing the ampoules and the like to be contaminated, it is possible to manufacture various automatic machines capable of producing high-quality pharmaceutical products at high speed.

[0032]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view and a sectional view of a movable bottom plate storage case.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of an embodiment in which a vial is stored.

FIG. 3 is a front view of an example in which a vial container is stored.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view showing a state before storing a vial bottle.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view showing a state in which a vial is stored.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view showing a state in which a vial is stored.

FIG. 7 is a sectional view showing a state before taking out a vial bottle.

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view showing a state of taking out a vial bottle.

FIG. 9 is a sectional view showing a state in which a vial is taken out.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Case Main Body 2 Bottom Plate 3 Supply Table 4 Elevating Guide Rail 5 Storage Unit Support Base 6 Insertion Arm 7 Vial Bottle 8 Extraction Table 9 Extraction Part Support Base 10 Push Out Arm

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A container comprising a case body (1) having an open top and a rectangular vertical cross section, and a bottom plate (2), the bottom plate (2) being supported at the bottom of the case body (1). A storage case for transportation that can move up and down inside the case body.