JPH09315554A - Conveyed material mounting face changing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve workability by performing work of changing magazines, conveyed being bundled in a vertical position, into a lateral position and work of changing the positions of bundled parts and open parts if necessary, simultaneously by one work process. SOLUTION: Magazines 13 conveyed on a conveyor 8 being bundled in a vertical position are clamped by face plates 3a, 3b of a clamping part 2. A rotating device 5 is then actuated to rotate the clamping part in circular arc shape by about 90 deg.. The magazines 13 are thereby rotated by about 90 deg. in the state of being clamped by the face plates 3a, 3b so as to be changed into a lateral position. At the same time, a rotating device 7 is put in action, and the face plates 3a, 3b clamping the magazines 13 are rotated by 180 deg. to change the positions of bound parts and open parts. The magazines 13 after the change are placed in the lateral position with the bound parts and open parts in the changed state. As to the magazines 13 conveyed to a device 1, only the rotating device 5 is actuated, and the rotating device 7 is suspended according to circumstances.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device for converting a placement surface of a conveyed object for automatically converting the placement surface of the conveyed object flowing on a conveyor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, a magazine or the like is bundled in a vertical position and conveyed, converted into a horizontal position, and further, in order to stabilize stacking of magazines, a binding portion and an opening portion of magazines having different thicknesses are used. In the placement surface conversion process of alternately converting the positions of and, the device for converting the magazines bundled and conveyed in the vertical position to the horizontal position, and the position of the binding portion and the opening portion are alternately converted. Work was being done with the device. However, according to the above-mentioned means, since the work process is performed in two stages, there is a problem that workability is poor, and in addition, a complicated and expensive machine such as a rotating drum is required.

[0003]

In view of the above situation, the present invention provides, for example, a work of converting magazines bundled and conveyed in a vertical position to a horizontal position, a binding portion and an opening portion. Since it is possible to simultaneously perform the work of converting the position of the machine as needed by a single work process, the workability is excellent and the placement of the transported object can significantly reduce the cost of the device. It is an object of the present invention to provide a surface conversion device.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the apparatus for converting the placement surface of a conveyed article according to the present invention has push shafts having face plates arranged at the tips thereof, which are arranged opposite to each other. It is provided with a clamp part, a rotating device for rotating the clamp part in an arc shape by about 90 degrees, and a rotating device for rotating the face plate.

[0005]

According to the apparatus for converting the placement surface of conveyed articles according to the present invention, for example, magazines which are conveyed while being bundled in a vertical position on the conveyor are first clamped by the face plate of the clamp section and then rotated. Is operated and the clamp part is rotated in an arc shape by about 90 degrees, the magazine is rotated by about 90 degrees while being clamped by the face plate, whereby the magazine is converted to the lateral position,
At the same time, when the rotating device operates to rotate the face plate holding the magazine 180 degrees, the positions of the binding portion and the opening portion are changed. Therefore, the converted magazine is in the lateral position and the positions of the binding portion and the open portion are converted. After that, it may be appropriately conveyed to a conveyor, a stacking device, or the like. Then, with respect to the magazine conveyed to this device next time, if only the rotating device is operated and the rotating device is stopped, the magazine is converted to the horizontal position, but the position of the binding portion and the opening portion is changed. Will be transported to the conveyor, stacking equipment, etc. without being converted.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A carrying object placement surface conversion apparatus according to the present invention will be described. In the drawing, reference numeral 1 is a device for converting a placement surface of a conveyed object according to the present invention, 2 is a clamp portion, and the face plates 3a and 3b are provided at the tip end portions.
The push shafts 4a and 4b in which are arranged are opposed to each other. In this embodiment, the push shaft 4a is fixed, and the push shaft 4b is movable back and forth by the air pressure controlled by an air engine (a publicly known one, so details will be omitted). Further, 5 is a rotating device, which is a rotating element 6 connected to the clamp portion 2.
And a rotating mechanism (rotating roller, belt, motor, etc.) that gives a rotating force to the rotating element 6 (the details are omitted because it is publicly known), and the clamp portion 2 can be rotated in an arc shape by about 90 degrees. I am trying. Further, 7 is a rotating device, which is provided with a mechanism (which is publicly known and will not be described in detail) for automatically rotating the face plate 4b by air pressure controlled by an air engine. In the figure, 8 and 9 are conveyors for feeding magazines bundled in the vertical position, and 10 and 11
Is a conveyor for receiving magazines with the loading surfaces converted and transferring them to the stacking device, 12 is an air pipe, and 13 is a magazine. Further, it is needless to say that the rotating device 5 and the rotating device 7 described above are not limited to the embodiments and various known configurations can be adopted. Also in the above-mentioned face plate, in this example, the face plate 3a is rotatably pivotally attached to the push shaft 4a and the face plate 3b is rotatable by air pressure.However, the double face plate is rotated by air pressure or other automatic rotation means. Alternatively, the shape of the face plate is not limited to the embodiment.
Furthermore, regarding the push shaft, the push shaft 4a is fixed and
4b can be moved back and forth by air pressure, but both push shafts 4b can be moved back and forth. Needless to say, the object to be conveyed is not limited to the magazine.

[0007]

As described above, according to the apparatus for converting the placement surface of conveyed articles according to the present invention, the operation of converting the magazines bundled and conveyed in the vertical position to the horizontal position and the binding portion are performed. The work of converting the positions of the opening and the opening portion as needed can be performed simultaneously by one work process, and therefore, the workability is excellent and the cost of the device can be significantly reduced. Is obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic top view showing an example of a placement surface conversion device for conveyed articles according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic explanatory view showing a work process by the device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic explanatory view showing a work process by the device of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Mounted surface conversion device 2 Clamping part 3a Face plate 3b Face plate 4a Push shaft 4b Push shaft 5 Rotating device 6 Rotating element 7 Rotating device 8 Transport conveyor 9 Transport conveyor 10 Transport conveyor 11 Transport conveyor 12 Air pipe 13 magazine

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A clamp part having a push shaft having a face plate arranged at the tip end, and a clamp shaft facing each other, and the clamp part having an arc shape of about 90.
A placement surface conversion device for a conveyed article, comprising: a rotation device that can rotate freely and a rotation device that rotates the face plate.