JPH11147610A - Aligning guide device for articles - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the article storage efficiency by connecting an operation member with one end of a connection member row and moving a connection shaft by the operation of the operation member to adjust an interval between guide plates. SOLUTION: An operation member 8 of a connection member row 7 is operated so as to protrude an operation rod 11. Consequently, each connection shaft 6-2 to 6-6 moves to the right and comes in contact with a terminal part on a machine frame 5 side of long holes 9-1 to 9-5 in which they are slide-fitted, and an interval between each guide plate 3 attached to each connection shaft 6-2 to 6-6 is a narrow interval corresponding to a full length of articles 2 in six rows. To arrange articles in five rows, the operation member 8 is operated to pull in the operation rod 11, and each connection shaft 6-2 to 6-6 moves to the left and comes in contact with a terminal part on an operation member 8 side of long holes 9-1 to 9-5 in which they are slide-fitted. Consequently, an interval between each guide plate 3 attached to each connection shaft 6-2 to 6-6 becomes a wide interval corresponding to five rows.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an article alignment guide device for aligning articles transferred by article transfer means.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a beer factory or the like, a beer bottle filled with beer is transferred by an article transfer means such as a conveyor, and is transferred by a container transfer means such as a conveyor in a direction crossing the article transfer means. It is common practice to store it in a container such as a coming caser. Therefore, the following description of the present invention will be made with reference to such a case, but the article to be processed is not limited to this.

[0003] When the conventional beer bottles are stored in the container as described above, the beer bottles conveyed by the article transfer means are aligned and stored in the container along the traveling direction of the beer bottles. A plurality of arranged guide plates are provided. Then, a group of beer bottles guided by this guide plate and having a predetermined number of rows and a row width,
It is gripped by the gripping member located above it, moved up, and laterally moved above the container, where it is moved down and stored in the container.

At this time, since there are beer bottles of different sizes, large and small, the spacing between the guide plates must be changed for each different size, and the guide plates are moved in the width direction. When possible, the operator has to select a suitable spacer when necessary and insert it between the guide plates to manually change the type of the spacer.

[0005]

In the conventional article alignment guide apparatus, every time the bottle type is changed, the operator must change the spacer between the guide plates as described above. In addition, there is a problem that the manual labor of the worker is required, and the number of spacers to be changed at this time is large, so that the bottle storing process is interrupted due to a long working time, and the efficiency is reduced. .

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the conventional article alignment guide apparatus, and eliminate the need for an operator to change the type of spacer between guide plates each time. It is an object of the present invention to provide an article alignment guide device that can perform guide efficiently in a short time and does not reduce the efficiency of bottle storage.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a plurality of articles arranged along a traveling direction of articles for aligning articles transported by article transport means. In the article alignment guide device in which a guide plate is provided and the interval between the guide plates is adjusted, the invention according to claim 1 is such that a plurality of connecting members orthogonal to the guide plate are connected by a connecting pivot. A connecting member row is provided, a guide plate is attached to the connecting pivot, each connecting pivot is movably supported in a direction orthogonal to the guide plate, and connects an operating member to one end of the connecting member row, By moving the connecting pivot by the operation of the operating member, the interval between the guide plates is adjusted.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the number of rows of the gap is increased or decreased by one by adjusting the gap between the guide plates. It is characterized by the following.

The invention described in claim 3 is the first or second invention.
In the invention described in the above, one connecting pivot of each connecting member is provided immovably on the connecting member, and the connecting pivot is supported by the other adjacent connecting member so as to be movable in a direction orthogonal to the connecting pivot. It is characterized by having.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the third aspect of the invention, the mechanism for supporting the connecting pivot so as to be movable in a direction orthogonal to the connecting pivot is a connecting member in which the connecting pivot supports the connecting pivot. , Characterized in that it is constituted by a mechanism that slides into a long hole provided in the longitudinal direction.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In the embodiment of the present invention shown in the drawings, articles 2 composed of beer bottles transported by an article transporting means 1 composed of a conveyor belt can be switched between 6 rows and 5 rows. However, the number of columns is not limited to this. In this embodiment, a plurality of guide plates 3 are arranged above the article transfer means 1 along the traveling direction of the article 2, and a plurality of connecting members 4 orthogonal to the respective guide plates 3 are continuously connected by a connecting pivot 6. The connecting member row 7 is provided. One end of the connecting member row 7 is fixed to the machine frame 5, the other end side is movably supported by the machine frame 5, and the other end is connected to a machine frame (not shown). It is connected to an operating member 8 consisting of an attached operating cylinder. Reference numeral 10 denotes a stop plate for stopping the transferred articles 2. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 21 denotes a container conveying means, 22 denotes a container, and FIG.
Denotes a container gripping member.

The connecting pivots 6-1 and 2-2 at both ends of the connecting member 4-1 connected to the operating member 8 of the connecting member row 7.
Is attached to a fixed position of the connecting member 4-1. One connecting pivot 6-2 is slidably fitted in a long hole 9-1 provided at one end of the adjacent connecting member 4-2 in the longitudinal direction. Connecting member 4
-2, a connecting pivot 6-3 attached to a fixed position at the other end of
Is slidably fitted in a long hole 9-2 provided in one end of the connecting member 4-3 in the longitudinal direction. The connecting pivot 6-4 attached to the fixed position at the other end of the connecting member 4-3 is connected to the connecting member 4-4.
Is slidingly fitted in a long hole 9-3 provided in one end of the base member in the longitudinal direction. Attached to a fixed position at the other end of the connecting member 4-4,
The connection pivot 6-5 is slidably fitted in a long hole 9-4 provided at one end of the connection member 4-5 in the longitudinal direction. Connecting member 4-5
The connecting pivot 6-6 attached to the fixed position at the other end of
One end of a connecting member 4-6 fixed to the machine frame 5 is slidably fitted in a long hole 9-5 provided in the longitudinal direction.

FIGS. 1 to 3 show the operation when the articles are aligned in six rows. In this case, the operation member 8 is moved to the position shown in FIGS.
As shown in FIG. 3, the operating rod 11 is operated so as to protrude, whereby the connecting pivots 6-2 to 6-6 move to the right, and the connecting pivots 6-2 to 6-6 slide into the elongated holes 9-1 to 5-5. The gap between the guide plates 3 attached to the connecting pivots 6-2 to 6 is brought into contact with the terminal end of the machine frame 5, thereby setting a narrow interval corresponding to the passing of the articles 2 in six rows.

FIG. 4 shows the operation when the articles are aligned in five rows. In this case, as shown in FIG. 4, the operating member 8 is operated so as to retract the operating rod 11 thereof. Each of the connecting pivots 6-2 to 6-6 moves to the left and abuts on the end of the elongated hole 9-1 to 5 on which the sliding member is fitted on the operating member 8 side. The distance between each of the guide plates 3 attached to 6 to
, And the number of columns in the interval is reduced from six to five. The number of rows at the interval of five rows is automatically increased to six rows by operating the operating member 8 as in the case of the six-row alignment.

[0015]

As described above, the present invention provides a plurality of guide plates arranged in the traveling direction of articles for aligning articles transported by the article transport means. In the article alignment guide device in which the distance between the guide plates is adjusted, the invention according to claim 1 is characterized in that a plurality of connecting members orthogonal to the guide plate are provided with a connecting member row continuous by a connecting pivot. , The guide plate is attached to the connecting pivot,
Each connecting pivot is supported so as to be movable in a direction orthogonal to the guide plate, and an operating member is connected to one end of the connecting member row, and the connecting pivot is moved by the operation of the operating member. Adjust the interval,
According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the number of rows of the gap is increased or decreased by one by adjusting the gap between the guide plates. When adjusting the spacing between the plates and the number of rows of the spacing, there is no need for the operator to change the type of the spacer between the guide plates each time, and the alignment of the articles can be performed in a short time and efficiently. There is an effect that the storage efficiency is not reduced.

The third aspect of the present invention is the first or second aspect.
In the invention described in (1), one connecting pivot of each connecting member is provided to the connecting member immovably, and the connecting pivot is supported by the other adjacent connecting member so as to be movable in a direction orthogonal to the connecting pivot. According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the invention according to the third aspect, the mechanism for supporting the connecting pivot so as to be movable in a direction orthogonal thereto is a connecting member in which the connecting pivot supports the connecting pivot. However, since it is constituted by a mechanism that slides into a long hole provided in the longitudinal direction, it is not necessary for an operator to change the spacer between the guide plates with a simple configuration, and to align the articles. There is an effect that the guide can be reliably performed in a short time and the article storage efficiency is not reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway plan view of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a main part when six rows are aligned in the above.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of the same.

FIG. 4 is a plan view similar to FIG. 3 when the same five rows are aligned.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Article transfer means 2 Article 3 Guide plate 4 Connecting member 5 Machine frame 6 Connecting pivot 7 Connecting member row 8 Operating member 9 Slot 10 Stop plate 11 Operating rod

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Takanori Terada 1-1-1, Midori, Moriya-cho, Kitasoma-gun, Ibaraki Pref.

Claims (4)

[Claims] A plurality of guide plates arranged along a traveling direction of the articles for aligning the articles transported by the article transport means, and an interval between the guide plates is adjusted. In the article alignment guide device, a plurality of connecting members orthogonal to the guide plate are provided with a continuous connecting member row by a connecting pivot, the guide plate is attached to the connecting pivot, and each connecting pivot is connected to the guide plate. It is movably supported in a direction perpendicular to the connecting member row, and an operating member is connected to one end of the connecting member row, and by operating the operating member, the connecting pivot is moved to adjust the distance between the guide plates. A featured article alignment guide device. 2. The article alignment guide device according to claim 1, wherein the number of rows of the gaps is increased or decreased by one row by adjusting the gap between the guide plates. 3. One connecting pivot of each connecting member is immovably provided on the connecting member, and the connecting pivot is supported by the other adjacent connecting member so as to be movable in a direction orthogonal to the connecting pivot. The article alignment guide device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein: 4. A mechanism for supporting a connecting pivot so as to be movable in a direction orthogonal to the connecting pivot, wherein the connecting pivot is slidingly fitted in a long hole provided in a longitudinal direction of a connecting member supporting the connecting pivot. 4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the mechanism is constituted by a mechanism.
4. The article alignment guide device according to claim 1.