JPH09184U - Flower sorting equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] An object of the present invention is to provide a flower selection device capable of automatically removing and selecting flower leaves of chrysanthemums. [Structure] A leaf drop means 1 which is arranged so as to sandwich a base end of a stem Pa of the flower P while being conveyed by a conveyor 7 for carrying the flower P in a horizontal posture and driven by a motor 16.
5, the leaf Pb at the base end is scraped off. Further, in this case, in order to prevent the posture of the flower P from collapsing at the time of leaf removal by the leaf removal means 15, it is arranged above the conveyor 7 along the conveyor 7 and the conveyor 7
The pressing member 22 that elastically presses the flower P conveyed in a horizontal posture from above onto the conveyor 7 and the flower P that is provided on the conveyor 7 and positions the flower P from the rear side in the conveying direction N of the flower P. The P positioning portion 12 was provided to configure the flower leaf drop portion A.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

[Industrial applications]

 The present invention relates to a flower selecting device for weighing and selecting flowers after dropping them.

[0002]

[Prior art]

 For chrysanthemums and other flowers, the leaves at the base end of the stem are dropped and the flowers are sorted according to weight and length and shipped to the market for the convenience of holding and handling. However, conventionally, there has been no device capable of automatically and efficiently performing the leaf removal of flowers and the selection subsequent to the leaf removal. Therefore, it has been desired to realize a device capable of automatically performing the leaf removal and the selection subsequent to the leaf removal.

[0003]

[Problems to be solved by the device]

 Therefore, the present invention provides a flower sorting device that can automatically and efficiently remove leaves from a flower, and that can automatically perform flower sorting following a drop of flowers as a series of operations. The purpose is to

[0004]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 To this end, the present invention provides a support member 2 for supporting the flower P in a horizontal position, a transport path 1 for the support member 2, and a support member 2 provided on the transport path 1 and supported by the support member 2. A flower selecting section B including a flower measuring section 3 for measuring and selecting the selected flower P, and a stacking section 4 on which the flower P measured by the measuring section 3 falls, and a flower selecting section. A flower sorting device comprising a flower leaf drop portion A for supplying a flower P to B, wherein the flower leaf drop portion A described above is arranged in a horizontal posture of the flower leaf P toward the flower sorting portion B. The conveyor 7 which is laid on the conveyor 7 and is arranged so as to sandwich the base end portion of the stem Pa of the flower P which is conveyed to this conveyor 7 is driven by the motor 16 to move the leaf Pb of this base end portion. The leaf removing means 15 for dropping and preventing the posture of the flower P from collapsing when the leaf is removed by the leaf removing means 15. For this purpose, a pressing member which is arranged above the conveyor 7 along the conveyor 7 and elastically presses the flower P conveyed in a horizontal posture by the conveyor 7 from above to the conveyor 7. 22 and a positioning portion 12 of the flower P for positioning the flower P from the rear side in the conveying direction N of the flower P provided on the conveyor 7.

Further, a cutter 18 for cutting the base end portion of the stem Pa of the flower P is provided.

[0006]

[Action]

 According to the above configuration, the leaf drop means 15 of the flower leaf drop portion A can reliably drop the leaf Pb at the base end portion of the flower leaf P. Further, by sending the flower P dropped by the leaf drop means 15 of the flower drop portion A to the flower selection section B, it is possible to automatically select the flower P after the leaf drop. Further, before the leaves are removed by the leaf removing means 15, the base end of the stem Pa can be cut by the cutter 18 to make the lengths of the flowers P uniform.

[0007]

[Embodiment of the invention]

 (Embodiment 1) FIG. 1 is an overall side view of a flower sorting device. This flower sorting device is a leaf drop part A of a flower and a flower drop connected downstream of this leaf drop part A. It consists of Part B. As will be described later, the flower P from which the leaves at the base end of the stem have been removed by the leaf drop section A is supplied to the sorting section B for sorting.

First, the flower selection unit B will be described. Reference numeral 1 denotes an endless rotary chain that constitutes a transportation path for the flower P, and reference numeral 2 denotes an arm-shaped support member that lays and supports the flower P. The flowers P are transported by being supported by the supporting member 2 by the rotation of the chain 1, sorted by weight or length by the weighing unit 3 arranged on the transport path, and dropped onto the lower stacking unit 4. The stacking unit 4 is composed of a conveyor and carries out the collected flowers P to the outside. Next, referring to FIGS. 1 to 3 in combination, the details of the flower leaf drop portion A will be described.

In FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the leaf drop portion A of the flower plant is a conveyor 7 composed of an endless belt 6 for carrying the flower plant P on its side, and leaf dropers arranged on the sides of the conveyor 7. The part 8 and the flutter prevention part 9 above the conveyor 7 prevent the stalk Pa from wobbling when the leaves are dropped.

There is an upslope 1a with an inclination angle θ1 in the conveyance path of the flower sorting section B, and the conveyor 7 is connected to the upslope 1a. Therefore, by synchronizing the traveling of the endless rotary chain 1 and the endless belt 6, the flower P after the leaf removal is automatically transferred from the leaf removal section A 1 to the support member 2 of the sorting section B, and following the leaf removal. Sorting work is performed. In addition, the conveyor 7 is installed obliquely with a gentler inclination angle θ2 than the above-mentioned inclined portion 1a so that the flower P can be transferred to the sorting portion B smoothly, and the leaf drop portion 8 and stagger prevention The portion 9 is also provided with a similar inclination angle θ2 so as to be parallel to the conveyor 7.

In FIG. 1, the endless belt 6 is banded on a sprocket 10 and is driven by a motor (not shown) via a driving sprocket 11 (see FIG. 2). Reference numeral 12 is a positioning portion for the stem Pa, which is a rod-shaped body projecting from the endless belt 6 at a constant pitch. When the leaf drop member (described later) 15 is used to drop leaves, the positioning portion 12 supports and positions the flower P on the conveyor 7 that is conveyed forward, from the rear side in the conveyance direction N. Further, the sliding contact frictional force of the leaf drop member 15 prevents the posture of the flower P from collapsing.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the leaf drop portion 8 serves as a pair of upper and lower leaf drop means arranged so as to sandwich the base end portion of the stem Pa protruding laterally of the conveyor 7 from above and below. It has a leaf drop member 15. The leaf drop member 15 is mounted with a base member 15a on a rotary shaft 17 driven by a drive unit 16 including a motor, and a bendable sliding contact member 15b such as a steel wire is projected on the base member 15a. It is formed as a brush material, and is brought into sliding contact with the base end portion of the stem Pa passing between them, and the leaves thereof are slid off. As shown in FIG. 3, the sliding contact member 15b of the upper leaf drop member 15 and the lower leaf drop member 15 slides into the base end portion at the same time to drop leaves, and at the same time, on the opposite side (see the chain line in the figure). Move out.

In FIG. 3, reference numeral 18 denotes a cutter disposed on the upstream side of the leaf drop member 15 of the conveyor 7, and is driven by a driving means (not shown) to cut the stem Pa to a predetermined length. Align If the cutter 18 is movable in the lateral direction, that is, the length direction of the stem Pa, the length of the stem Pa can be adjusted by adjusting the position thereof. The cutter may be a rotary blade, or may be set in the sorting section B without being set in the leaf drop section A. Reference numeral 19 denotes a stopper at the end of the stem Pa, which prevents the flower P from unnecessarily moving in the same direction when the leaf drop member 15 is rotated in the (a) direction to drop the leaf.

In FIG. 1, the anti-sway portion 9 is composed of a belt conveyor including a pulley 21 and a belt 22 as a pressing member. The lower running part of the belt 22 is arranged parallel to the upper running part of the conveyor 7 and is in the same direction or substantially the same speed as the running direction N of the upper running part. Rotate with.

The belt 22 is a stretchable elastic belt such as a rubber belt, and the flower P is pressed from above by the belt 22 so that the flower P laid on the conveyor 4 does not sway when leaves are dropped (see FIG. 4). In this case, since the belt 22 has elasticity, the flower P can be elastically and firmly pressed from above, and even if the flower P is strongly pressed, it is not damaged.

The flower selecting device has the above-described structure, and the operation of the whole device will be described below. In FIG. 1, the flower P is conveyed to the conveyor 7 and sent between the upper and lower leaf drop members 15, where the upper and lower leaf drop members 15 rotate about the rotating shaft 17 as shown in FIG. Leaves are dropped. In this case, since the leaf drop member 15 rotates in the (a) direction and slides toward the terminal end of the stem Pa, the leaf Pb extending in the tip direction (b) can be easily and reliably slid off. it can.

Further, the stem Pa of the flower P is positioned on the positioning portion 12 of the conveyor 7, and the flower P is elastically pressed from above by the belt 22, so that the sliding contact member 15b is the flower P. The flower P does not fluctuate due to the frictional frictional force when it comes into contact with and leaves the leaves, and the leaves can be reliably removed. Further, the specific shape and structure of the pressing member are not limited to those in the present embodiment. For example, a long plate-shaped plate spring having elasticity is provided, and the plate spring is elastically applied from above by the plate spring. However, if the pressing member is constituted by the belt 22 that rotates in the same direction as the conveyor 7, as in the present embodiment, the structure may be determined as desired. The conveyance of the flower P by the conveyor 7 is not hindered, and the leaves can be surely dropped while the flower P is smoothly conveyed.

Second Embodiment Next, another embodiment of the leaf drop section will be described. FIG. 5 is a side view of the leaf drop portion. The leaf drop member 15 of the leaf drop section 30 has the same structure as that of the first embodiment, but two leaf drop members 15 are attached to the rotating shaft 17 and two leaf drop members 15 are arranged side by side at the base end of the stem Pa. The defoliation capacity and defoliation range are increased.

[0019]

[Effect of the invention]

 As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to surely drop the leaves of the base end portion of the flower by the leaf drop part of the flower. In addition, by sending the flowers that have been removed at the flower drop section to the flower selection section, it is possible to automatically select the flowers after the drop. Also, the length of the flowers can be made uniform by cutting the base end of the stem with a cutter.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall side view of a flower sorting device according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a main part of a leaf dropping portion of the flower plant according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a side view of a main part of a leaf dropping portion of the flower plant according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a partial side view of a leaf drop portion of the flower plant according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a partial side view of a leaf drop portion of the flower plant according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Endless rotation chain (conveying path) 2 Support member 3 Measuring part 7 Conveyor 12 Positioning part 15 Leaf dropping member (leaf dropping means) 15b Sliding contact member 16 Drive part 17 Rotary shaft 18 Cutter 22 Belt (pressing member)

Claims (2)

[Utility model registration claims] 1. A support member for supporting flowers by laying them in a horizontal position, a transport path of the support members, and measuring and selecting the flowers provided in the transport path and supported by the support members. A flower sorting unit having a measuring section for flowers to be measured, an accumulation section on which the flowers measured by the measuring section fall, and a leaf dropping section for supplying flowers to the sorting section for flowers. A sorting apparatus, wherein the leaf dropping part of the flower is transported by laying the flower in a horizontal posture toward the sorting part of the flower, and a base of a stem of the flower transferred to the conveyor. A leaf dropping means which is disposed so as to sandwich the end and is driven by a motor to drop leaves at the base end, and the conveyor for preventing the posture of the flowers from collapsing at the time of leaf dropping by the leaf dropping means. This conveyor is located above this conveyor along A pressing member that elastically presses the flowers conveyed in a horizontal posture on the conveyor from above, and a positioning portion of the flowers provided on the conveyor and positioning the flowers from the rear side in the conveying direction of the flowers. A flower sorting device, comprising: 2. The flower sorting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a cutter for cutting a base end of the flower stem.