JPH0881055A - Feeding part structure of long vegetable selector - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To maintain conveying spaces appropriately by releasing sucking action after lifting long vegetables by suction so as to transfer the long vegetables to relay bodies to carry them to the starting edge of a conveyor, and disposing partition members between the adjacent ones of plural relay bodies in the feeding position. CONSTITUTION: A feeding means in a cucumber selector has suction pads 10 for sucking cucumbers, and the suction pads 10 are elevated and moved horizontally in the longitudinal and lateral directions. The sucked cucumbers are placed on relay bodies 43 in a feeding-moving device at the time of releasing suction force. In this case, partition members 61 for impeding the rolling movement of the cucumbers to the lower side in a conveying direction are placed between the adjacent ones of plural relay bodies 43 in the feeding position. These partition members 61 are provided in the position changeable state between an action position of impeding the movement to the lower side in the conveying direction of the cucumbers on a conveyor B and a retreat position of allowing the movement to the lower side in the conveying direction.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

The present invention relates to long vegetables such as cucumber (cucumber), loofah (melon), carrot or radish.
The present invention relates to a sorting machine that sorts and sorts by shape and size, and more particularly, to a structure of a supply unit that conveys long vegetables from a vegetable storage unit such as a container to the starting end of a conveyor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a sorter for sorting long harvested vegetables into shapes and sizes, there is, for example, a cucumber sorter, in which one cucumber stored in a container is placed at the start end of a conveyor. It depended on human power to supply each by hand.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned prior art, the cucumber is supplied manually, which is labor-intensive, and the manual supply operation must be performed in accordance with the transfer behavior of the transfer conveyor. There is also a face,
There was room for improvement. An object of the present invention is to provide a sorting machine that saves labor by automating the supply means.

[0004]

To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a conveyor for conveying long vegetables, a supply means for supplying long vegetables to the conveyor, and a long conveyor conveyed by the conveyor. Equipped with a selection means for selecting and assorting the vegetables, the supply means is capable of adsorbing to the surface of the long vegetables, a suction pump for exhibiting the adsorption action of this suction pad, and the suction pad can be driven up and down. A suction device composed of a moving mechanism and a relay body on which long vegetables are placed, a receiving position for receiving and placing the long vegetables adsorbed on the suction pad, and a long vegetable placed on the relay body. The horizontal moving mechanism capable of driving and moving to the start position of the conveyor end can be driven, and the long-range vegetables placed on these can be placed on the conveyor by acting on the relay at the supply position. Exchange And a feeding moving device having a mechanism, and between the adjacent ones of the plurality of relays at the feeding position, the long vegetables fed by the feeding mechanism are moved to the lower side in the feeding direction of the feeding belt. And a retracting position that allows movement of the long vegetables on the conveyor to prevent downward movement in the conveying direction, and a partitioning member that allows downward movement in the conveying direction. It is characterized in that the position can be freely changed to and.

Further, in the above-mentioned characteristic construction, the retreat position is constructed so as to be revealed by moving the partition member upward from the working position arranged near the upper side of the conveyor, and is located at the working position. Positioning the partition member below the relay at the supply position, and changing the position of the partition member so that the partition member is at the working position prior to the completion of the transfer of the relay from the receiving position to the supply position. It is more preferable that a control device that links the mechanism and the lateral movement mechanism is provided.

[0006]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, long vegetables are adsorbed and lifted by the adsorbing action of the adsorbing pad, then the adsorbing action is released and the long vegetables are transferred to the relay body, and then the supply moving device is used fully. Thus, long vegetables placed in a storage box or the like can be carried to the starting end of the conveyor, and the supply operation can be automated. By picking up by suction, long vegetables can be transported to the transport conveyor while maintaining their original good condition without being damaged. To lift long vegetables and carry them to a conveyor, (1) a means for moving the suction pad itself, and (2) a means for moving the long vegetables delivered from the suction pad with a dedicated moving mechanism. You can think of the street.

In the means (1), the suction pad itself is moved and the whole apparatus is relatively easy to be integrated. Even after suction and lifting, the suction pad must continue to be sucked up to the starting end. It is something that must be done. However, the adsorptive effect on vegetables having a non-uniform surface shape is disadvantageous, and if the suction pump is made too strong, the vegetable surface may be damaged. Therefore, the actual adsorptive power cannot be so strong. Therefore, if a start shock, a stop shock during movement, or other disturbance (for example, strong wind of a blower in another device acts), it may fall relatively easily, and the transport reliability There is room for improvement in this respect (for example, see Japanese Patent Application No. 6-155604 filed earlier).

The means of (2) requires a separate device for the adsorption device and the supply moving device, but since long vegetables can be stably transferred from the receiving position to the starting end of the conveyer conveyor while being placed on the relay. Therefore, it is possible to prevent a drop in the middle of transfer due to a start shock, a stop shock, or a disturbance when the supply moving device is operated. In other words, the time for maintaining the unstable supporting state due to suction is significantly reduced, and the certainty that the conveyance can be performed without a fall error during the operation can be increased. The present application adopts the means (2).

Since the lifting by suction and the transfer to the transfer conveyor can be performed in separate steps, these steps can be performed in duplicate and cannot be performed in duplicate.
It can operate more efficiently than the method (1).
In addition, even if the posture of long vegetables is slightly disturbed when picked up by suction, they can be aligned by being delivered to the relay body, and a posture correction effect that can be supplied to the transport conveyor in a regular posture can be expected. It also becomes like.

By the way, after that, sorting is performed by the sorting means. When long vegetables on the transport conveyor are transported in a narrow space, one element such as shape and size is selected. Since it is difficult to judge and select one vegetable, it is necessary to keep the vegetables apart in the transport direction to some extent. At the feeding position, the feeding mechanism is operated to drop the long vegetables from the relay to the transfer conveyor so that they can be replaced.However, the drop shock at that time causes the long vegetables to move downward or upward in the conveying direction. Rolling,
It is conceivable that the distance between adjacent vegetables in the carrying direction may become narrower or wider than a predetermined distance. The widening is acceptable for selection, but the narrowing is unsatisfactory for the reasons described above.

Therefore, in the present application, since the partition member is provided between the adjacent ones of the plurality of relays at the supply position, the long vegetables dropped on the conveyor are in the conveying direction on the upper side or the lower side. Whichever of the following, the conveyor will immediately drive it into alignment with the partition member in contact with it, and if the partition member is moved to the retracted position, it will be aligned and the appropriate transport direction spacing will be maintained. It becomes possible to carry it while holding it. By the way, in the above configuration, since there is no partition member for long vegetables supplied from the lowermost relay body in the transport direction, it is possible to transport the vegetables even while the transport blocking action of the partition member is being exerted. However, this is not a problem because the distance in the carrying direction becomes wider.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the partition member that moves upward to retreat has the effect of eliminating long vegetables in a bad posture. In other words, when the posture of the storage box is disturbed or the long vegetables are tilted in the lateral direction when sucked by the suction pad, they are not placed in the regular posture on the relay and a plurality of vegetables are not placed. There is a possibility that it may be carried while being laid across the relay body, and if it is transferred to the transport conveyor as it is, it may lead to poor sorting later. Therefore, when a long vegetable is dropped and supplied by the operation of the supply mechanism, the partition member is located below it, so as shown in FIG.
The long vegetables that are diagonally facing are placed on the plurality of partition members 61, 61, and then the partition member 61 is moved upward as shown in FIG. So, it will be possible to remove it in advance.

[0013]

As a result, in the sorting machine according to any one of claims 1 and 2, the pick-up of vegetables by adsorption and the picked-up vegetables are placed and transferred by the relay body to the transfer conveyor. By devising a way to supply long vegetables, it is possible to reduce the risk of falling during transportation, it has excellent reliability, work efficiency is improved, and the feeding means can be automated with little posture disturbance during transportation. The conveyer interval on the conveyor can be maintained properly, which contributes to good sorting operation later. Claim 2
In addition to the above effects, the sorting machine described in (1) has the advantage of being able to remove those with a disturbed posture at the time of supply, and improving reliability more than expected for a better sorting operation.

[0014]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Fig. 1 shows a cucumber sorter, where A is the storage box 1.
Supplying means for supplying the cucumber stored in the inside to a starting end portion of a belt conveyor (corresponding to a conveying device) B in a predetermined posture, and C is an image processing for recognizing the shape and size of the cucumber transferred by the belt conveyor B. Means D are sorting means for sorting and sorting the conveyed cucumbers on the belt conveyor B based on the shape recognition information output from the image processing means C. Further, 2 is a sorting chute, 3 to 6 are collection boxes, and 7 is a waste box.

The general operation of this cucumber sorter is as follows.
The supply means A sucks and lifts the cucumbers in the storage box 1 by negative pressure by suction, and at the starting end of the belt conveyor B in a state where the cucumbers are aligned in a posture orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the conveyor belt 8. Supply. Next, the image processing means C recognizes the shape and size of the cucumber conveyed on the conveyor by the CCD camera 9, and based on the shape recognition information output from the image processing means C, on the belt conveyor B. Push the conveyed cucumber to the side of the belt and discharge it,
The collection box 3 by sliding down the inclined chute 2
Collect in 6. Then, the waste cucumber that is not a commodity such as an immature cucumber that is too thin or too short or an extremely curved cucumber is collected in the scrap box 7 arranged at the end of the belt conveyor B.

Next, each device will be briefly described. As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the supply means A is capable of adsorbing on the surface of a cucumber, a suction pad 10, a suction pump 13 for expressing the suction action of the suction pad 10, and a suction pad 10 that can be driven up and down. The suction device Aa including the moving mechanism 12 and the relay body 43 on which the cucumber is placed are attached to the suction pad 10
The receiving position for receiving and placing the cucumber adsorbed on the cucumber placed on the relay body 43 and the transport conveyor B
It is configured with a supply moving device Ab capable of being driven and moved over a supply position capable of supplying to the starting end portion.

The suction device Aa operates independently of each of the suction pads 10 and a three-dimensional moving mechanism 12 capable of moving a working body 11 provided with a plurality (9 pieces) of suction pads 10 back and forth, right and left, and up and down. And a suction pump 13. The suction pad 10 is configured by fitting and connecting a bellows tube 14 having a suction surface 14A formed at a lower end thereof to a tube rod 10A.
By the function of 4, the suction surface 14A can be vertically displaced and pivotally displaced with respect to the cylindrical rod 10A. The suction pads 10 are arranged in a zigzag pattern in a plan view, and the distance between the adjoining ones in the transport direction is set to a suction-adapted distance suitable for adsorbing cucumber, and the plurality of suction pads are adsorbed. The pad 10 and the fixedly arranged suction pump 13 are connected and connected by a group of suction hoses 18 which are bendable.

The three-dimensional moving mechanism 12 includes a vertically moving mechanism 12A for vertically moving the operating body 11 in a predetermined range and a vertically moving mechanism 12A for moving the vertically moving mechanism 12A in a front-back direction (conveying direction of the belt conveyor B) within a predetermined range. Front and rear moving mechanism 12B,
The front-rear moving mechanism 12B includes a left-right moving mechanism 12C that is movable in a left-right direction (direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction of the belt conveyor B) within a predetermined range.

The up-and-down moving mechanism 12A is composed of an up-and-down cylinder (hydraulic cylinder or electric cylinder).
2B is a base 2 of the vertical movement mechanism 12A that is mounted on the screw shaft 17 and the guide shaft 27 that are laid across the front and rear moving bodies 39 and 37.
The gear motor GM is provided so as to support 8 through and to rotate the screw shaft 17 for rotation. The left and right moving mechanism 12C includes drive units (not shown) provided in the front and rear moving bodies 39 and 37, and is provided with front and rear fixed rails 30 for the wheels 29 driven by these drive units.

The supporting structure of the suction pad 10 will be described in detail. As shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the plate body 31 to which the plurality of suction pads 10 are attached is attached to the working body 1 via the descending urging mechanism 32.
It is attached to No. 1 and has a flexibility in the contact area between the suction pad 10 and the cucumber by the downward movement by the elevating cylinder 12A, and the cushion effect at the time of contact is obtained. The descending urging mechanism 32 fits the insertion rod 33 fixed to the plate body 31 into the boss portion 11 a of the working body 11 via the winding spring 34, and the guide rod 35 fixed to the plate body 31 to the working body 11. It is configured to pass through the notch 11b at the end.

Further, a limit switch 42 is attached to the lower end of the boss 11a so that the limit switch 42 operates when the amount of rise of the plate 31 with respect to the working body 11 reaches a predetermined value. When 42 is operated, the lowering movement of the elevating cylinder 12A is stopped. That is, as shown in FIGS. 6A and 6B, an elevating cylinder (in an elevating mechanism) capable of driving and elevating a plate body (corresponding to an adsorption frame) 31 on which the suction pad 10 is vertically movable within a predetermined range. Equivalent) 12A is the moving mechanism 12
And a spring 34 capable of urging the suction pad 10 downwardly with respect to the plate body 31 is provided, and as the amount of upward movement of the suction pad 10 with respect to the plate body 31 increases, the downward urging force becomes stronger. The spring 34 is arranged and set in such a state that the limit switch 42 and the elevating mechanism 12 are linked so that the downward movement of the plate 31 is stopped by the operation of the limit switch 42 that operates when the amount of upward movement reaches a predetermined value. Has been done.

As shown in FIG. 3, the suction pump 13 is constructed as a reciprocating piston pump in which a piston 13p reciprocates, and a total of nine suction pads 13 are provided for each suction pad 10. A drive bar 36 extending over the nine piston rods 13a is provided, and the drive bar 36 is reciprocally driven and moved by a single drive device 37 having a swing arm 38, whereby the linkage transmission mechanism E is formed. It is configured. Limit switches 40 and 41 for determining the front and rear swing limits of the swing arm 38 are provided. When the switch 37 comes into contact with the front switch 40 of the swing arm 38, the drive device 37 reverses to swing the swing arm 38 rearward. Then, when the rear switch 41 is brought into contact with the rear switch 41, the swing arm 38 is linked to swing forward. Therefore, the moving region of the piston pump 13 can be adjusted and set according to the distance between the storage box 1 and the start end of the belt conveyor B, and there is an advantage that waste of reciprocating more than the actually required amount can be eliminated.

Further, as shown in FIG. 3, the arrangement pitch L'of the suction pads 10, 10 which are adjacent to each other in the conveying direction is smaller than the arrangement pitch L of the cucumbers arranged and accommodated in the storage box 1. , That is, L '<L, and 9
It is arranged that any one of the suction pads 10 sucks on the cucumber without fail.

As shown in FIGS. 7 to 9, the supply moving device A
b is a drive unit 44 capable of reciprocating all the relay bodies 43 in the transport direction at the same time, an interval changing mechanism 45 for expanding and contracting the space in the transport direction between adjacent relay bodies 43, and the relay body 4.
3 and a rotation mechanism (corresponding to a supply mechanism) 57 capable of reversing. First, the relay body 43 is configured by attaching a gutter-shaped tray 43a to the tip of the rotating shaft 43b.
A boss member 46 that rotatably supports b is externally fitted to the screw shaft 48, and the end of the rotary shaft 43b is slidably fitted on a support rail 47 facing the conveying direction.
An operation arm 49 is attached to a protruding end of the rotating shaft 43b from the boss member 46 so as not to be relatively rotatable, and a link plate 50 is erected and connected between adjacent operation arms 49, 49.

A torsion spring 51 is attached to the rotary shaft 43b between the tray 43a and the boss member 46, and the relay body 43 is fixed to the arm piece 43c and the stopper 4 of the boss member 46.
The bosses 46 are provided with fulcrums 52 standing upright, and a pantograph mechanism 53 having the fulcrums 52 as the connection center is provided. It is configured. By the way, of the plurality of boss members 46, only the main boss member 46 closest to the container is screwed into the screw 48, and the others are slidably fitted to the screw shaft 48, and the main boss member 46 is operated. A stopper member 54 acting only on the arm 49 and an electric cylinder 55 for expanding and contracting the pantograph mechanism 53 are provided.

More specifically, the stopper member 54 is fixed to the frame 58 of the supply moving device Ab, and at the side of the conveyor B of each link plate 50, the elongated hole 50a causes a pin to be attached to the adjacent operation arm 49. It is connected. The main body 55 a of the electric cylinder 55 is supported by the main boss member 46, and the piston rod 55
b is pivotally connected to the third fulcrum 52 from the main boss member 46. Further, a motor mechanism 56 is provided which is capable of rotating the screw shaft 48 in the forward and reverse directions. In other words, if the motor mechanism 56 is driven, all the relay bodies 43 can be moved in the transport direction while maintaining their mutual intervals, whereby the drive means 44 is configured, and if the electric cylinder 55 is extendedly driven, the pantograph can be obtained. The mechanism 53 extends to increase the mutual distance between the relay bodies 43, and a distance changing mechanism 45 that can reduce the mutual distance by driving the relay bodies 43 is shortened. Further, the stopper member 54, the operation arms 49, and the links. A rotation mechanism 57 is configured by the plate 50.

The rotating mechanism 57 can be operated only when the cucumber, to which the interval changing mechanism 45 has spread to the maximum and is operated, is supplied to the transport conveyor B. That is, as shown in FIG. 9, when the electric cylinder 55 is fully extended and driven, the connecting pin 49a of each operation arm 49 provided other than the main boss member 46 causes the rear end of the elongated hole 50a of the link plate 50 (in the carrying direction). When the motor mechanism 56 is driven to approach the supply position in that state, the operation arm 49 of the main boss member 46 contacts the stopper member 54 and is rotated counterclockwise. When the supply position is completely reached, each operating arm 49, that is, all the relay bodies 43 are in the supply posture in which the relay bodies 43 are inverted by 90 degrees, and the cucumber can be dropped and supplied onto the conveyor 8. When the driving means 44 is reversely driven from the above state and the relay body 43 is slightly returned to eliminate the interference with the stopper member 54, the biasing force of the torsion spring 51 causes each relay body 43 to automatically return to the mounting posture. become. Therefore, in the suction-adapted spacing state of the relay body 43 in which the spacing changing mechanism 45 is driven back and the boss members 46 contact each other, the connecting pin 49a is located at the front end of the elongated hole 50a, and even in this state, the screwing is performed. The relay body 43 is maintained in the mounting posture by the urging force of the reed spring 51.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 7, between the adjacent ones of the plurality of relay bodies 43 at the feeding position, the cucumber fed by the turning mechanism 57 is moved to the lower side in the feeding direction of the feeding belt B of the feeding belt B. Partition member 61 capable of preventing the rolling movement of the
And the position of the partition member 61 can be freely changed between an operating position that prevents the cucumber on the conveyor B from moving downward in the conveying direction and a retracted position that allows the downward movement in the conveying direction. Configured.

The partition members 61 at four positions are conveyed by the geared motor (corresponding to a position changing mechanism) 62 to the conveyor B.
It can be swung up and down freely, and the retracted position is the partition member 61.
Appears by oscillating upward from an operating position located near the upper side of the conveyor B. Further, as shown in FIG. 11, the partition member 61 in the operating position is disposed below the relay body 43 in the supply position, and before the completion of the movement of the relay body 43 from the receiving position to the supply position. A control device 64 is provided that links the position changing mechanism 62 of the partition member 61 and the motor mechanism 56 (corresponding to a lateral movement mechanism) in a state where the partition member 61 is in the operating position. The control device 64 is also connected to the electric cylinder 55, the vertical movement mechanism 12A, the front-back movement mechanism 12B, and the left-right movement mechanism 12C, and forms a control circuit. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 10, the cucumber in an oblique direction straddling the relay body 43 is lifted by swinging the partition member 61 upward, and at the retracted position where the swing is raised, the cucumber is laterally moved. It will be collected in the collection box 63 placed at.

12 to 14 show a series of operation principle diagrams of the supply means A. Briefly explaining, FIG. 12 (a) shows the initial state, and the operation body 11 is located above the storage box 1. However, the relay body 43 is located outside the front end of the storage box 1. In FIG. 12B, the action body 11 is lowered and the suction pad 1 is moved.
It is a state that cucumber is adsorbed at 0, and as shown in FIG.
Shows the state in which the cucumber is picked up and the cucumber is lifted. FIG. 13A shows a state in which the driving means 44 is driven to move the closely spaced relay bodies 43 to the receiving position. At this time, the partition member 61 is swung down from the retracted position to the working position. FIG. 13B shows a state in which the suction pump 13 is stopped and the suction cucumber drops and is delivered to the relay 43.

FIG. 13C shows a state in which the relay body 43 is moved toward the conveyor B by making full use of the driving means 44 and the interval changing mechanism 45. At this time, the acting body 11 is Begins to move towards the adsorption point.
FIG. 14A shows a state in which the relay body 43 is rotated at the supply position by the contact between the stopper member 54 and the operation arm 49 of the main boss member 46 and the cucumber is supplied to the transport conveyor B (stopper). The driving means 4 is configured so that the inversion driving by the member 54 is simultaneously performed in all the relay bodies 43.
The expansion action of the interval changing mechanism 45 is completed slightly earlier than that of 4). Even if the cucumber rolls, it hits the partition member 61 and stops.
Has moved downward, and the next adsorption operation has started. Immediately after the relay body 43 is rotated, the partition member 61 is swung up toward the retracted position as shown in FIG.

Next, in FIG. 14B, the relay 4
3 is in the middle of returning from the supply position, and the action body 11 that has adsorbed the cucumber is moving upward. Then, as shown in FIG. 14C, the position immediately below the adsorbed cucumber is determined. The relay body 43 that has been returned to the receiving position is returned to the close spacing, and the process is repeated from the state of FIG. Note that the receiving position of the working body 11 is changed little by little as it moves forward, backward, leftward, and rightward in the storage box 1 every time it is outside.

The belt conveyor B is composed of front and rear wheels 15, 1.
6, a conveyor belt 8 wound around these, and a drive source 26 such as an electric motor. By placing and transferring the cucumber on the conveyor belt 8, the cucumber can be conveyed without dropping the warts on the surface of the cucumber. Further, in order to make it easier to maintain the posture adjusted by the relay body 43, it may be convenient to appropriately form a ridge orthogonal to the belt moving direction on the belt surface.

The image processing means C is constructed by disposing a CCD (charge coupled device) camera 9 on an overhang portion of a support tower 19 provided at an intermediate position in the conveying direction of the belt conveyor B. The cucumber is photographed from above and its shape and size are recognized.

The sorting means D is constructed by arranging four sorting actuators (extendable cylinders, etc.) 20 to 23 in parallel in the longitudinal direction of the belt at a position near the side of the belt conveyor B. The first cylinder 20 that extrudes a cucumber that is linear and has a predetermined length or more, the second cylinder 21 that extrudes a cucumber that is linear and has a predetermined length or less, and the curved shape has a predetermined length The third cylinder 22 for extruding the above-mentioned cucumber and the fourth cylinder 23 for extruding a cucumber having a curved shape and having a predetermined length or less are configured.

The supply means A, the drive source 26 of the belt conveyor B, the image processing means C, and the cylinders 20-2
Each of the control valve groups 24 for 3 is electrically connected to the control device 25. As a result, when the sorter is driven, the cucumbers in the storage box 1 are automatically sorted into four types of collected cucumbers and waste cucumbers without requiring human labor and are collected in the respective collection boxes 3 to 6 and 7. Of.

[Other Embodiment] The supply mechanism 57 is connected to the relay body 43.
Alternatively, the bottom plate portion may be slid or slid open / closed. In this case, since the cucumber drops right below, there is a possibility that the cucumber may roll to the lower side or the upper side in the conveying direction due to the reaction when the cucumber falls on the conveyor due to the shape or the bending condition.

Incidentally, reference numerals are written in the claims for convenience of comparison with the drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the attached drawings by the entry.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a schematic structure of a cucumber sorter.

[Figure 2] Plan view of the cucumber sorter

FIG. 3 is a side view showing a suction pad support structure and a suction pump.

FIG. 4 is a bottom view showing an arrangement state of suction pads.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view of a suction pad.

FIG. 6 is an operation diagram showing a suction operation by a suction pad.

FIG. 7 is a plan view showing a supply moving device.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a partial cutout showing a structure of a supply moving device.

FIG. 9 is an operation diagram showing a supply operation state of the supply moving device.

FIG. 10 is a side view showing a state in which the position of the partition member is changed.

FIG. 11 is a system diagram showing a partition member position change control structure.

FIG. 12 is an operation diagram showing an operating state 1 of the supply moving device.

FIG. 13 is an operation diagram showing an operating state 2 of the supply moving device.

FIG. 14 is an operation diagram showing an operating state 3 of the supply moving device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A supply means Aa adsorption device Ab supply movement device B transport conveyor D selection means 10 adsorption pad 12A movement mechanism 13 suction pump 43 relay body 56 lateral movement mechanism 57 supply mechanism 61 partition member 62 position change mechanism 64 control device

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A conveyor (B) for conveying long vegetables, a supply means (A) for supplying long vegetables to the conveyor (B), and a long conveyor conveyed by the conveyor (B). A suction pad (10) capable of adsorbing the supply means (A) on the surface of a long vegetable, and a suction function of the suction pad (10). Adsorption device (Aa) including a suction pump (13) for allowing the suction pad (10) to move up and down, and a plurality of relays (43) on which long vegetables are placed. To the receiving position where the long vegetables adsorbed to the adsorption pad (10) are received and placed, and the long vegetables placed on the relay body (43) are supplied to the starting end of the transfer conveyor (B). Laterally movable to drive possible feeding positions A moving mechanism (56) and a feeding mechanism (57) that acts on the relay body (43) at the feeding position to transfer the long vegetables placed on these to the transport conveyor (B). And a supply moving device (Ab) provided, and between the adjacent ones of the plurality of relay bodies (43) in the supply position, the long vegetables to be supplied by the supply mechanism (57). Partitioning members (61) capable of preventing movement of the conveyor belt (B) to the lower side in the conveying direction are provided, and the partitioning members (61) are arranged in the conveying direction of long vegetables on the conveyor (B). A supply section structure for a long vegetable sorter which is configured to be freely position-changeable between a working position for preventing a downward movement and a retracted position for allowing a downward movement in the carrying direction. 2. The partition member (6) is provided at the retracted position.
1) is configured to be revealed by moving upward from the operating position arranged near the upper side of the transfer conveyor (B), and the partition member (61) in the operating position is The relay body (43) in the supply position
In a state in which the partition member (61) exists in the working position prior to the completion of the movement of the relay body (43) from the receiving position to the supply position.
The supply unit structure for a long vegetable sorter according to claim 1, further comprising a control device (64) that links a position changing mechanism (62) of the partition member (61) and the lateral movement mechanism (56).