JPH10329936A - Glass bottle lining up device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a glass bottle lining up device which loads glass bottles on a turn table having a truncated conical face and turns it, and lines up them as they are transported. SOLUTION: This lining up device has a cylindrical member 1 having an opened upper face; a turn table which is installed inside the cylindrical member 1, and has a truncated conical face, and loads glass bottles 22 thrown into a central part and transports them from the center toward the outside as they are turned; and a glass bottle guide plate 3 which is arranged so that its lower end may approach the upper face of the turn table and has a spiral path 4 formed above the turn table. The lining up device lines up the thrown-in glass bottle 22 as they are transported along the glass bottle guide plate 3 toward the outer periphery of the turn table, and discharges them in the direction of the tangent of the outer periphery.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a glass bottle aligning apparatus for aligning glass bottles collected as recycled resources when identifying and sorting the glass bottles.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In order to easily and reliably identify and sort glass bottles, it is necessary to arrange bottles one by one so as not to overlap. Conventionally, in order to identify and sort glass bottles, rotating blades and fins etc. are arranged above a linearly arranged conveyor, and glass bottles conveyed on the conveyor are conveyed to the rotating blades and fins. Hit
The feed speed of the glass bottles is changed to align.

[0003]

As described above, since the conveyors are arranged in a straight line, a wide space is required in the length direction of the conveyor. Further, when supplying the glass bottles to the conveyor, since a bucket or a finned conveyor is used, the supply varies depending on the size of the glass bottles. Therefore, the supply amount has to be reduced. In addition, a screen or the like was required to remove cullets such as cracked bottles.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and is compact, does not require a large space, and has a large variation in the supply amount of glass bottles. It is an object of the present invention to provide a glass bottle aligning apparatus which does not require a screen or the like for removing cullet.

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided, in accordance with the present invention, a cylindrical member having an open top surface, a frusto-conical surface disposed in the cylindrical member, and A turntable for transferring the glass bottle put in the center from the center outward while rotating while placing the glass bottle, and a spiral passage above the turntable, the lower end being disposed near the upper surface of the turntable. A glass bottle guide plate forming a glass bottle guide plate, wherein the loaded glass bottles are aligned while being transferred toward the outer peripheral direction of the turntable along the glass bottle guide plate, and are discharged in the outer peripheral tangential direction. Is provided.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a bin is provided at the entrance of the spiral passage, the lower end of which is located above the turntable and rotates in a direction opposite to the rotation direction of the turntable. It is preferable to provide a rotating brush for adjusting the excess supply of the oil.

According to the embodiment of the present application, a gap provided between the cylindrical member and the outer peripheral end of the turntable, a ring-shaped cullet receiving groove provided below the gap, It is preferable to provide a cullet discharge brush which is disposed on the lower surface of the outer peripheral end of the table and discharges the cullet from the cullet discharge port while rotating while the lower end is in contact with the upper surface of the cullet receiving groove.

Further, according to the embodiment of the present invention, it is preferable that the overlap preventing member is suspended downward in the spiral passage.

Further, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the duplication preventing member is preferably a bendable member such as a spring.

Next, the operation of the present invention will be described. Since the glass bottles are supplied to the center of the turntable and turned, and are arranged and discharged while being transferred along the spiral glass bottle guide plate, the apparatus can be made compact. In addition, the excess supply of the bins is adjusted by the rotating brush disposed at the entrance of the spiral passage, and the bins are aligned by the overlap preventing member. Therefore, the excessive supply adjustment and the alignment of the bins can be easily performed. Further, a cullet or a small bin outside the target is dropped from a gap between the cylindrical member and the outer periphery of the turntable into a ring-shaped cullet receiving groove arranged below the outer periphery of the turntable,
Since the cullet is discharged by the cullet discharge brush attached to the lower surface of the turntable, the cullet is not mixed in the bin, and the clogging of the bin on the sorting side can be prevented.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 and 2 show an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a plan view of a glass bottle aligning device according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a view taken along the line AA of FIG. In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a cylindrical member having an open upper surface. 2 is a glass bottle 2 installed in the cylindrical member 1, having a frusto-conical surface 2a, and
2 is a turntable that transports outward from the center while rotating with the 2 placed on it. Reference numeral 3 denotes a glass bottle guide plate, which is disposed so that the lower end is close to the upper surface of the turntable 2,
A spiral path 4 for transferring the bin 22 is formed above the turntable 2. 4a is an entrance of the spiral passage 4, and 4b is an exit of the spiral passage 4. Reference numeral 5 denotes a bendable overlap preventing member formed of a coil spring or a chain made of steel, the upper end of which is attached to a reinforcing bar 6 disposed above the cylindrical member 1, and the lower end thereof is close to the upper surface of the turntable 2. Suspended above the spiral passage 4 as described above.

Reference numeral 7 denotes a rotating shaft that supports the center of the turntable 2 and rotates the turntable 2. The rotating shaft 7 is rotatably supported by a bearing (not shown) provided on the base 10. 9 is an arm member for supporting the turntable 2. Reference numeral 11 denotes a turntable driving device which drives the driven gear 11b disposed on the rotating shaft 7 as the driving gear 1.
The turntable 2 is rotated in mesh with 1a.

Reference numeral 12 denotes a ring-shaped cullet receiving groove which is disposed below a gap 21 provided between the cylindrical member 1 and the outer peripheral end of the turntable 2 and whose upper part is open. 1
Reference numeral 3 denotes a cullet discharge port opened at the bottom of the cullet receiving groove 12, and reference numeral 13a denotes a cullet discharge chute disposed at the cullet discharge port 13. Reference numeral 14 denotes a cullet discharge brush which is disposed on the lower surface of the outer peripheral end of the turntable 2 and whose lower end contacts the upper surface of the cullet receiving groove 12 and discharges the cullet 23 from the cullet discharge port 13 while rotating with the turntable 2.

Reference numeral 15 denotes a bin throwing chute attached substantially at the center of the reinforcing bar 6 disposed above the cylindrical member 1 as shown in FIG. Numeral 16 denotes a fin conveyor for transporting the bin 22 and throwing the bin 22 onto the turntable 2. The cylindrical member 1 has a downstream side located above the bin chute 15.
It is arranged above. Reference numeral 16a denotes a fin of the finned conveyor 16.

Reference numeral 17 denotes a rotary brush provided at the entrance 4a of the spiral passage 4, the lower end of which is located above the turntable 2 and rotates in the direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the turntable 2. A driving device 18 drives the rotating brush 17 (FIG. 2). As shown in FIG. 1, reference numeral 19 denotes a bin discharge chute disposed at the outlet 4b of the spiral passage 4, and reference numeral 20 denotes a bin discharge conveyor.

Reference numeral 24 denotes an arrow indicating the direction of rotation of the turntable 2, and reference numeral 25 denotes an arrow indicating the direction of rotation of the rotary brush 17 (FIG. 1).

Next, the operation based on the embodiment will be described. The bins 22 to be identified and sorted are conveyed by the conveyor 16 and placed on the center of the turntable 2. The turntable 2 is turned to transport the bins 22 in the spiral path 4, and the bins 22 are aligned and discharged by the unloading conveyor 20 while preventing the bins 22 from overlapping. The bin 22 loaded on the turntable 2 is subjected to excessive supply adjustment and alignment of the bin 22 to the spiral passage 4 by a rotating brush 17 disposed at the entrance 4a of the spiral passage 4. Further, the cullet 23 is formed in a ring-shaped cullet receiving groove 1 disposed below the outer periphery of the turntable 2 from the gap 21 between the cylindrical member 1 and the outer periphery of the turntable 2.
2 and the cullet discharge brush 14 is rotated together with the turntable 2 and discharged from the cullet discharge port.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, but can be variously modified without departing from the gist of the present invention.

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention, when identifying or sorting glass bottles, the bottles are turned on a turntable having a frusto-conical surface so as to follow the glass bottle guide plate of the spiral passage. Since they are aligned and discharged while being transported, there is no need for a large space for installing a long conveyor. In addition, since the excessive supply of the bins is adjusted by the rotating brush that rotates on the turntable in the direction opposite to the rotation direction of the turntable, the supply does not vary depending on the size of the bins. In addition, cullet such as cracked bottle,
Since the cullet discharge brush discharges while turning the turntable, no screen is required. It has excellent effects such as.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a glass bottle aligning apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a view as viewed in the direction of arrows AA in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cylindrical member 2 Turntable 2a Frustoconical surface 3 Glass bottle guide plate 4 Spiral passage 4a Spiral passage entrance 4b Spiral passage exit 5 Overlap prevention member 6 Reinforcement bar 7 Rotating shaft 9 Arm member 10 Base 11 Turntable driving device 11a Drive gear 11b Follower gear 12 Cullet receiving groove 13 Cullet discharge port 13a Cullet discharge chute 14 Cullet discharge brush 15 Bin input chute 16 Bin input conveyor 16a Fin 17 Rotary brush 18 Rotary brush drive 19 Bin discharge chute 20 Bin discharge conveyor 21 Gap 22 glass bottles 23 cullet

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Mitsuhiro Yamashina 3-1-1-15 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A cylindrical member having an open upper surface and a glass bottle installed in the cylindrical member, having a frusto-conical surface, and having a glass bottle put in a center portion mounted thereon and being turned outward from the center while rotating. A turntable for transferring the glass bottle into a glass bottle having a lower end disposed close to the upper surface of the turntable and having a glass bottle guide plate forming a spiral passage above the turntable. A glass bottle aligning device, wherein the glass bottle is aligned along the glass bottle guide plate while being transported toward the outer peripheral direction of the turntable, and discharged in the outer peripheral tangential direction. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the lower end of the spiral passage is provided at an entrance of the spiral passage, and a lower end thereof is positioned above the turntable. The glass bottle alignment device according to claim 1, further comprising a rotating brush. 3. A gap provided between the cylindrical member and the outer peripheral end of the turntable, a ring-shaped cullet receiving groove disposed below the gap, and a lower surface of the outer peripheral end of the turntable. 3. The glass bottle aligning device according to claim 1, further comprising a cullet discharge brush configured to discharge the cullet from the cullet discharge port while rotating at a lower end abutting on an upper surface of the cullet receiving groove. 4. The glass bottle alignment device according to claim 1, wherein an overlap preventing member is suspended downward in the spiral passage. 5. The glass bottle aligning device according to claim 4, wherein the overlap preventing member is a bendable member such as a spring.