JPH09104526A - Method of carrying snack package in l-shape, and method of carrying in l-shape and boxing snack package - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly carry snack packages on an L-shaped horizontal carrying passage as a specified number of them are tightly applied to each other to stand erect in a line by an extremely simple means for the sake of a unique form of the snack packages. SOLUTION: The maximum number of snack packages W, W,... that can be contained in a corrugated board box H as combined in a lateral line in a laterally provided aperture are set on a table 1 to be tightly applied to each other in a line in a vertical direction, they are vertically fed by a vertical feed pusher 4, and they are laterally fed by a lateral feed means to be contained at once. For vertical feed, the snack packages W are guided as both end edge parts W1, W1 of lateral seal parts of them are placed on a short horizontal guide rail 2 and a long horizontal guide rail 3 to be guided, so they are transferred from the short horizontal guide rail 2 to a gate guide rail 5, when they are held by a lateral feed guide-stopper 6 and the vertical feed pusher 4 to be stopped. Lateral feed is performed after the gate guide rail 5 is oscillated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a snack confectionery packaging bag and a snack confectionery packaging bag which can be conveyed in an L-shaped horizontal conveying path by standing up a snack confectionery packaging bag in a three-side sealed packaging form and adhering it in a line. L-shaped transportation / boxing method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Snack confectionery packaging bags are packaged by a vertical bag-making filling and packaging machine. The center of the back of the bag is vertically sealed, and the upper and lower ends of the bag are laterally sealed. It has a unique three-way seal packaging form in which the packed snacks are swollen with air to avoid breakage of the snack, and both ends of the upper and lower horizontal seal parts project more than the inner space part. Conventionally, the transportation of snack confectionery packaging bags is generally carried by a belt conveyor after being produced in a vertical bag-making filling and packaging machine, and the packaging of snack confectionery packaging bags has been often the case for snack confectionery. Due to the inability to grip the snack confectionery packaging bag to avoid damage and the unique form of the snack confectionery packaging bag, the snack confectionery packaging bags that are conveyed at a constant interval on the belt conveyor are manually picked up one by one and corrugated cardboard. Currently, it is packed in a box. So far, a method of mechanically packing snack confectionery packaging bags has been developed by several packaging machine manufacturers, but using an industrial robot with a vacuum hand, each snack confectionery packaging bag is picked up one by one into a cardboard box. Although they are packed, it is impossible to pack them neatly in a line, the processing capacity cannot be increased compared to manual work, and sometimes snacks are damaged. Further, the method of mechanically packing the snack confectionery packaging bag that has been adopted by the applicant of the present invention is to drop several bags on a belt conveyor having a step and shift them little by little and then feed them sideways and drop them into a cardboard box, However, it was not possible to neatly line up and pack them in a line. Box packaging of snack confectionery packaging bags is like packaging air, unlike other commodities, and how to properly pack and increase the number of packaging remains a problem.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION However, if the present inventors can stand up the snack confectionery packaging bags that are conveyed on the belt conveyor with a certain pitch apart one after another and adhere them in a line, then As a process, if the maximum number of snacks that can be comfortably accommodated in rows in the opening of a cardboard box is kept standing upright and brought into close contact in a line to transfer the L-shaped horizontal transport path, the lower lid is closed and the upper lid is closed. I proposed the idea that snacks can be placed in rows in the opening of a cardboard box that was opened and laid on its side like an instant noodle box.

The present invention has been devised in view of the above-mentioned points, and an L-shaped horizontal conveying path is formed by a very simple means because of the unique shape of the snack confectionery packaging bag in which a required number of snack confectioneries are set up and closely adhered in a line. Can be smoothly transported, there is no fear of damaging snacks, and the maximum number of snack confectionery packaging bags can be accommodated in the opening of a cardboard box that has been laid down with the lower lid closed and the upper lid open. An object of the present invention is to provide a method for transporting a snack confectionery packaging bag in an L shape, and an L-shaped transportation / boxing method for a snack confectionery packaging bag.

[0005]

In the first invention of the present application, a required number of snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ...
It is a method of standing upright and arranging them in a line in the vertical direction so as to be in close contact with each other, and then longitudinally feeding, and the longitudinally feeding is a round bar-shaped short horizontal guide rail 2 and long horizontal guide rail 3 for snack snack packaging bags. Both ends of the horizontal seal at the upper end of W W1
, W1 are placed and guided by the vertical feed pushers 4, and the ears W1 mounted on the short horizontal guide rails 2 on the upper ends of all snack confectionery packaging bags W are aligned with the short horizontal guide rails 2. The vertical feed pusher 4 is stopped when the front snack food packaging bag W that has been transferred to the round bar-shaped gate guide rail 5 and comes into contact with the front horizontal feed guide / stopper 6 and the horizontal feed is Use the gate guide rail 6 as a snack snack packaging bag W
Swing upward in a direction away from the ear portion W1 of the bag, and then the required number of snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... sandwiched between the vertical feed pusher 4 and the horizontal feed guide / stopper 5 are connected to the gate guide. The present invention provides a method for transporting a snack confectionery packaging bag in an L shape, which is laterally fed by a lateral feed means 7A in a lateral direction in which the rail 6 is separated.

In the second invention of the present application, the maximum number of snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... Which can be stacked in a row in the opening of the horizontally folded cardboard box H are placed on the table 1 in the vertical direction. L-shaped transport of snack confectionery packaging bags that accommodates the maximum number of snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... In the box feeding method, the vertical feed is guided by a round bar-shaped short horizontal guide rail 2 and a long horizontal guide rail 3 with both ends W1 and W1 of the horizontal seal portion at the upper end of the snack confectionery packaging bag W placed. In this state, the vertical feed pushers 4 are pushed, and the ears W1 placed on the short horizontal guide rails 2 on the upper ends of all the snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... are aligned with the short horizontal guide rails 2. The vertical feed pusher 4 is stopped at the time when the foremost snack confectionery packaging bag W is transferred to the round bar-shaped gate guide rail 5 and comes into contact with the front horizontal feed guide / stopper 6, and the horizontal feed is performed as described above. The gate guide rail 5 is swung upward in the direction away from the ear portion W1 of the snack confectionery packaging bag W, and subsequently, the required number of snack confectionery packaging bags W sandwiched between the vertical feed pusher 4 and the horizontal feed guide / stopper 6 are provided. W, ... is a plate-like lateral feed pusher 7 in the lateral direction away from the gate guide rail.
The present invention provides an L-shaped transportation / boxing method for snack confectionery packaging bags, which is characterized by pushing with B.

[0007]

1 (a), 1 (b) and 1 (c) show a snack confectionery packaging bag adopting a method for transporting a snack confectionery packaging bag in an L-shape according to the first embodiment of the present invention. 2 shows an L-shaped transport device. The snack confectionery packaging bag of this embodiment is L
The method for conveying the snacks in a letter shape is as follows.
The standing portions of the snack confectionary packaging bags W, W, ... Are erected on the table 1 by the standing movement of the ...
Place W1 vertically aligned in a line in close contact with each other and feed vertically with a plate-like vertical feed pusher 4, and move one ear W1 from the short horizontal guide rail 2 to the round bar-shaped gate guide rail 5 and feed horizontally. The sheet is vertically fed to the start position and then horizontally fed by the lateral feeding means 7A having a sandwiching plate structure. In this embodiment, the cardboard box H is located under the table and the snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... Are dropped and accommodated therein. However, the first invention of the present application is the snack confectionery packaging bags W, W. , ... are arranged in a line in the vertical direction so as to be in close contact with each other, and are vertically fed and then horizontally fed, and the raising and boxing of the snack confectionery packaging bag W are shown in a related manner. In this embodiment, the snack confectionery packaging bag W is packaged by a vertical bag-making filling and packaging machine (not shown) and conveyed onto the conveyor 8 which is constantly driven by the motor 11. The conveyor belts 10a, 10a are separated from each other on the left and right sides by the bag raising claws 9, 9, ... Attached to the endless chain 8a of the chain winding device 8 which is intermittently driven by the servomotor 12 at required equal intervals. Slits 1a provided on the table 1 adjacent to the downstream side of the conveyor 10 in the standing state by swinging from the lower side of the belt 10 through the gap 10b between the belts toward the downstream side in the conveying direction.
By gradually performing the operation of sinking through, the snack confectionery packaging bag W in the three-sided seal packaging form conveyed on the conveyor 10 is brought into contact with the bag raising claw 9 standing on the downstream side and the next bag. Launching claw 9
The snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ..., which are started up one after another, are arranged in a line on the table 1. If this method is used, the snack confectionary packaging bag in the three-way seal packaging form that is conveyed on the belt conveyor at a certain pitch in a state where the upper and lower ends of the bag are tilted in the front-rear direction is vertically erected in one line. It can be reliably aligned to the condition, resulting in extremely high throughput. Then, on the side of the table 1 on the lateral feed side of the snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... Arranged in a line, a round bar-shaped short horizontal guide rail 2 supported by a support 13 to the table 1 is provided. , A round bar-shaped gate guide rail 5 which is arranged so as to be aligned with the short horizontal guide rail 2 in correspondence with the transverse feed start position and swings to a lifting position 5 ′ by an air cylinder device 14.
And a long horizontal guide rail 3 in the shape of a round bar having a length equal to the combined length of the short horizontal guide rail 2 and the gate guide rail 5 is required in parallel with the short horizontal guide rail 2 and the gate guide rail 5. The short-width horizontal guide rails are provided at both ends ears W1 and W1 of the lateral seal portion at the upper end of the snack confectionery packaging bag W, which are arranged so as to be separated from each other and adjusted to the required height, and are raised by the bag raising claws 9 one by one. 2 and the long horizontal guide rail 3 are received so as to be sandwiched between them and guided vertically. In this case, if
Short horizontal guide rail 2 and long horizontal guide rail 3
When guiding along the middle of the height of the snack confectionery packaging bag W, or when the short horizontal guide rail 2 and the long horizontal guide rail 3 are made of two plates that are also the height of the snack confectionery packaging bag W, the snack confectionery packaging bag When guiding W, the snack confectionery packaging bag W falls forward and separates from the support of the short horizontal guide rails 2 and the long horizontal guide rails 3 by its own weight. However, the present invention does not so. Since the horizontal guide rail 2 and the long horizontal guide rail 3 are in the shape of a round bar and both end ears W1 and W1 of the horizontal seal portion at the upper end of the snack confectionery packaging bag W are placed, the short horizontal guide rail 2 and the long guide rail 3 are long. The horizontal guide rail 3 carries the weight through the both end ears W1 and W1 of the horizontal seal portion at the upper end of the snack confectionery packaging bag W, and slides smoothly. Next, the vertical feed pusher 4 is moved in the vertical feed direction by the rodless cylinder 15 from the upstream rising standby position, and the cam follower 18 is guided by the inclined surface of the triangular plate cam 17 so that the air cylinder device 16 causes the bag to move. The vertical feeding pusher 4 is lowered so as not to interfere with the rising operation of the rising claw 9, and the vertical feed pusher 4 is erected on the table 1 and has the required number of snack confectionery packaging bags W, W ,.
.. are pushed in the vertical direction so as to be taken over from the bag raising claws 9 and the required number of snack confectionery packaging bags W
One of the ears W1 mounted on the short horizontal guide rail 2 of the horizontal seal portion at the upper end of is transferred from the short horizontal guide rail 2 to the gate guide rail 5. In this case, if the gate guide rail 5 is not provided, the required number of snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ...
On the side where the gate guide rails 5 are not present, they fall apart forward and backward, but in the present invention, the aforementioned gate guide rails 5 prevent the above-mentioned separation and falls. Then, the vertical feed pusher 4 is stopped when the front snack confectionery packaging bag W comes into contact with the forward feed guide / stopper 6 at the front. Then, the required number of snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... Are positioned at the lateral feed start position. Next, the gate guide rails 5 which are laterally fed, but which functioned vertically, are provided with snack snack packaging bags W,
Since it is on the front side in the lateral feed direction with respect to W, ...
Swings upward in the direction away from the ear portion W1 indicated by reference numeral 5 '. Thereafter, the required number of snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... Between the vertical feed pusher 4 and the horizontal feed guide / stopper 6 are pushed laterally by the lateral feed means 7A in the direction in which the gate guide rail 5 is separated. To send. The transverse feed in the present invention is performed by the required number of snack snack packaging bags W, W, ...
.. A short distance is sufficient to move laterally from the vertical feed route, and it is not necessary to feed a long distance. In this embodiment, in order to traverse a long distance, the traverse feed means 7A is moved closer to the mini-cylinder 20 provided on the moving stage of the rodless cylinder 19.
The required number of the snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... Composed of a pair of enclosing plates 7a, 7a capable of enclosing and sandwiching the snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... Of the snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... Before the gate guide rail 5 swings and separates, the plates 7a, 7a are narrowed to sandwich the snack confectionery packaging bags W, W ,.
9 is driven to slide the snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... Then, when the snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... Come to the end position of the lateral feed and correspond to the opening 1b opened in the table 1, the plates 7a,
7a is opened, the snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... Are dropped through the opening 1b and housed in the cardboard box H. When the plates 7a, 7a are replaced by a plate-shaped pusher and pushed, it is preferable to traverse a short distance, but to traverse a long distance, guide plates are installed upright on both sides. To do. As described above, the required number of snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... Which are arranged in close contact with each other in the vertical direction on the table 1 are provided with the vertical feed pusher 4 no matter how long the vertical distance is. With the extremely simple guide rail, it can be smoothly transferred, and since it is sufficient to change the direction by 90 degrees and push it out at the end point of the transfer, the required number of snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... Can be manufactured at extremely low cost. It is possible to build a transportation line that can perform transportation as a group.

FIGS. 2 (a) and 2 (b) show an L-shaped conveying / boxing device for a snack confectionery packaging bag which employs the method for packaging a snack confectionery packaging bag according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The L-shaped transporting / boxing method of the snack confectionery packaging bag according to this embodiment is such that the maximum number of snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... Which can be stacked in a row in the opening of the cardboard box H that has been laid down side by side.・ Pouch raising claws 9, 9, ...
Is erected on the table 1 by the standing motion of the table, and the round bar-shaped short horizontal guide rails 2 and the long horizontal guide rails 3 put the ear portions W1 and W1 of the snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... And feed them vertically with a plate-like vertical feed pusher 4 and transfer one ear W1 from the short horizontal guide rail 2 to the round bar-shaped gate guide rail 5 and feed vertically to the horizontal feed start position. By laterally feeding with the lateral feed pusher 7B consisting of a plate-shaped pusher,
Cardboard box H with lower lid closed and upper lid open
, And the maximum number of snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... Regarding the embodiment of the second invention, the same parts as those of the embodiment of the first invention described above are designated by the same reference numerals,
The description has been omitted or simply described. In this embodiment, two horizontal rod-shaped short horizontal guide rails 2 and a gate guide rail 5 are arranged on the horizontal feed side of the table 1 so as to form a straight line in the vertical direction, and the gate guide rail 5 is arranged in the horizontal direction. The round bar-shaped long horizontal guide rail 3 having a length equal to the combined length of the short horizontal guide rails 2 and the gate guide rails 5 is made parallel to the short horizontal guide rails 2 and the gate guide rails 5 in correspondence with the feed start position. Arrange them so that they are separated by the required dimensions. Then, as in the case of FIG. 1, the bag raising claws 9, 9, ...
The snack confectionery package conveyed on the conveyor 10 by oscillating from the lower side through the belt gap 10b toward the downstream in the conveying direction to stand up and gradually sink through the slit 1a provided in the table 1. The bag W is brought into contact with the bag-raising claw 9 standing on the downstream side, and the bag-raising claw 9 on the rear side is started up by the standing-up operation, and the snack confectionery packaging bags W are started up one after another.
.. are arranged one by one on the table 1 and placed on the table 1 one by one. Then, the snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... which are started up one after another are received so as to be sandwiched between the short horizontal guide rails 2 and the long horizontal guide rails 3, and the lateral concealed portion of the upper end of the snack confectionery packaging bag W is Both ends W1 and W1 are placed on the short horizontal guide rail and the long horizontal guide rail.
Then, the vertical feed pusher 4 pushes the package vertically to push the required number of snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, ... One end W1 of the lateral seal portion on the upper end of the horizontal guide rail 2 to the gate guide rail 5. The transfer and front snack confectionery packaging bag W is the forward feed guide / stopper 6 as well.
The vertical feed pusher 4 is stopped when it comes into contact with. Next, the gate guide rail 5 is swung upward in a direction away from the ear W1 of the snack confectionery packaging bag W, and subsequently, the required number of snack confectionery packaging bags sandwiched between the vertical feed pusher 4 and the horizontal feed guide / stopper 6 , Are pushed in the direction in which the gate guide rail 5 is separated by the plate-shaped lateral feed pusher 7B and fed laterally, so that the required number of snack confectionery packaging bags W, W ,. It is accommodated in the opening. The upper lid pieces h, h at the left and right positions of the opening of the cardboard box H are opened by a lid opening plate 22 that is rotated by a rotation actuator 21. When the cardboard box H is to be stored in two stages, the L-shaped conveyance is repeated twice. When played, it means that the cardboard box H can be accommodated in two stages with the opening facing upward.

The maximum number of three-side-seal-wrapped snack snack packaging bags W that can be stacked in a row in the lateral opening of the cardboard box H is the number of bags when tightly packed, or
Includes the number of bags that can be accommodated comfortably and there is a gap between the other bags. When the snack confectionery packaging bags W are erected on the table 1 and arranged in a line in the vertical direction, it is not limited to the case where the snack confectionery packaging bags W are processed one by one, but includes the case where a plurality of bags are manually processed at one time.

[0010]

As described above, according to the method of conveying the snack confectionery packaging bag of the present invention in the L-shape, only three guide rails, a vertical feed pusher and a horizontal feed means are provided on the table. Make sure that the required number of snack confectionery packaging bags are stood upright in a row so that they do not fall forward and that no vertical force is applied to the snack confectionery packaging bag, which is an external force that damages the snack confectionery, and the vertical direction is securely reached to the horizontal feed start position. It can be fed, and lateral feed depends on the configuration of horizontal feed,
It can be performed short or long, and it can be reliably transported in an L-shape, which makes it possible to build a highly reliable transport line at an extremely low cost, which is suitable for transporting long lines, and is also laid down. The maximum number of snack confectionery packaging bags can be stored at one time in the opening of the cardboard box, and there is no fear of damaging the snack confectionery. In addition, according to the L-shaped transporting / packing method of the snack confectionery packaging bag of the present invention, by simply providing three guide rails and two pushers on the table, the required number of snack confectionery packaging bags are erected and adhered in a line. It is possible to reliably feed vertically to the horizontal feed start position without applying any clamping force, which is an external force that damages the snack food to the snack food packaging bag, so that it does not fall forward and the horizontal feed is a plate-like horizontal feed. Since it is carried out by the pusher, the snack confectionery packaging bag can be pushed to the root position of the sideways opening of the cardboard box, and the maximum number of snack confectionery packaging bags can be reliably accommodated at one time in the cardboard box with the sideways opening.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of an L-shaped conveyor device for a snack confectionery packaging bag that employs a method for conveying a snack confectionery packaging bag in an L shape according to the embodiment of the first invention of the present application; and (b) is a front view. ,
(c) is bb sectional drawing in (b).

FIG. 2 relates to the embodiment of the second invention of the present application, (a) is a plan view of an L-shaped conveying / boxing device for a snack confectionery packaging bag that adopts an L-shaped conveying / boxing method for a snack confectionery packaging bag, and (b).
Is a front view.

[Explanation of symbols]

H ・ ・ ・ Cardboard box W ・ ・ ・ Snack confectionery packaging bag W1 ・ ・ ・ Side edge of the snack confectionery packaging bag 1 ・ ・ ・ Table 2 ・ ・ ・ Short horizontal guide rail 3 ・ ・ ・ Long horizontal guide rail 4・ ・ ・ Vertical feed pusher 5 ・ ・ ・ Gate guide rail 6 ・ ・ ・ Horizontal feed guide / stopper 7A ・ ・ ・ Horizontal feed means 7B ・ ・ ・ Horizontal feed pusher

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A required number of snack confectionery packaging bags W, W,
Are arranged vertically in a line in a row in the vertical direction so that they are in close contact with each other so as to be in close contact with each other and then fed longitudinally. The longitudinal feeding is a round bar-shaped short horizontal guide rail 2 and a long horizontal guide rail. 3 and the two end ears W1 and W1 of the horizontal seal portion on the upper end of the snack confectionery packaging bag W are placed and guided by the vertical feed pushers 4, and the short horizontal guide rails are provided on the upper ends of all the snack confectionery packaging bags W. The ear W1 placed on 2 is placed on the round bar-shaped gate guide rail 5 arranged in line with the short horizontal guide rail 2 and transferred, and the foremost snack confectionery packaging bag W is placed on the front lateral feed guide / stopper 6 as well. Vertical feed pusher 4 at the time of contact
And the lateral feed swings the gate guide rail 6 upward in a direction away from the ear portion W1 of the snack confectionery packaging bag W,
Then, the required number of snack snack packaging bags W sandwiched between the vertical feed pusher 4 and the horizontal feed guide / stopper 5
A method for conveying a snack confectionery packaging bag in an L shape, wherein W, ... Is laterally fed by a lateral feeding means 7A in a lateral direction in which the gate guide rail 6 is separated. 2. The maximum number of snack confectionery packaging bags W that can be stacked in a row in the opening of a cardboard box H that has been laid down.
By arranging W, ... standing on the table 1 in a line in the vertical direction so as to be in close contact with each other and longitudinally fed, and then laterally fed, the above-mentioned maximum number of snack confectionery packaging bags W, W, W, W, Is a L-shaped conveying / boxing method of a snack confectionery packaging bag that accommodates at one time, and the vertical feed is a round bar-shaped short horizontal guide rail 2 and a long horizontal guide rail 3 at the upper end of the snack confectionery packaging bag W. The two end ears W1 and W1 of the horizontal seal part are placed and guided by the vertical feed pusher 4 and placed on the short horizontal guide rails 2 at the upper ends of all snack confectionery packaging bags W, W ,. A round bar-shaped gate guide rail 5 in which the ear W1 is aligned with the short horizontal guide rail 2
The vertical feed pusher 4 is stopped when the front snack food packing bag W that has been transferred to and comes into contact with the front horizontal feed guide / stopper 6 is used, and the horizontal feed causes the gate guide rail 5 to move to the snack food packing bag W. Swing upwards away from the ear W1 of
Subsequently, the required number of snack confectionery packaging bags W sandwiched between the vertical feed pusher 4 and the horizontal feed guide / stopper 6 are provided.
W is pushed by the lateral feed pusher 7B in the lateral direction away from the gate guide rail.