JPH1156158A - Egg gatherer for plural centralized egg-gathering conveyors - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an egg gatherer capable of corresponding to plural centralized egg-gathering conveyors. SOLUTION: In an egg gatherer for centralized egg-gathering conveyors installed adjacent to the end of egg-gathering conveyors 4 in a multiple shelf cage unit 1 having the egg-gathering conveyor 4 in every cage row 3 of each shelf, and installed with an endless conveyor 11 driven almost in a perpendicular direction, and plural egg-gathering baskets 12 and roll out means 13 which roll out eggs held in the egg-gathering baskets onto centralized egg-gathering conveyor 6, the egg gatherer is constituted by installing the egg-gathering conveyors in upper and lower two levels, the roll out means to each centralized egg-gathering conveyor and the egg-gathering baskets to be operable to selectively roll out eggs in a predetermined centralized egg-gathering conveyor.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an egg collecting machine for a centralized egg collecting conveyor for collecting eggs collected by an egg collecting conveyor for each cage row in a multistage cage unit and further collecting the eggs on a centralized egg collecting conveyor. Regarding improvement.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, eggs collected in an egg collecting conveyor for each cage row in a multi-stage cage unit are collectively transferred to a predetermined egg stuffing plant or the like. Eggs collected on a conveyor are collected on one centralized egg collection conveyor using an egg collector. FIG.
It has shown the schematic side view of the cage unit provided with the conventional egg collection machine. In the drawing, reference numeral 1 indicates a cage unit in a multistage manner. The cage unit 50 is formed by stacking six rows of cages 52 partitioned into a plurality of cage chambers 51, and each cage row 52 is provided with an egg collecting conveyor 53 along its longitudinal direction. The eggs produced by the chickens housed in each cage room 51 on the conveyor 53 are transferred to the cage unit 5.
0 is transported toward one end (the left end in FIG. 5). The egg collecting machine 55 is provided at the left end of the cage unit 50 to which the eggs are transferred by the egg collecting conveyor 53 as described above. Further, a concentrated egg collecting conveyor 56 extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the driving direction of the egg collecting conveyor 53 is installed adjacent to the upper part of the egg collecting machine 55. The egg collecting machine 55 is an endless conveyor (usually constituted by an endless chain) that is driven substantially vertically from below the egg collecting conveyor 53L located at the lowermost stage of the cage unit 50 to above the centralized egg collecting conveyor 56. ,
It does not have to be a chain. ) 55a, and a plurality of egg collecting baskets 55b are fixed to the endless conveyor 55a, and the baskets 57 are transferred at positions corresponding to the respective egg collecting conveyors 53 while the egg collecting basket 55b moves upward. Is configured to receive the eggs from the egg collection conveyor 53 via the. The endless conveyor 55a is changed so that the trajectory of a portion corresponding to the centralized egg collecting conveyor 56 in the upper part is once inclined to the centralized egg collecting conveyor 56 side by the transfer guide member 55c and the transfer sprocket 55d. Thereby, the egg collecting basket 55b fixed to the endless conveyor 55a is moved out of the guide member 5 for transfer.
While passing between the sprocket 5c and the transfer sprocket 55d, the tip thereof is inclined so as to descend toward the transfer surface of the concentrated egg collecting conveyor 56, and the held eggs are moved to the concentrated egg collecting conveyor 56.
Transfer to the top. With the above-described configuration, each cage row 52
Eggs transferred from the egg collecting conveyor 53 from the egg collecting machine 5
5, collected on one centralized egg collection conveyor 56,
The concentrated egg collection conveyor 56 transports the eggs to a desired boxing processing plant or the like.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional egg collecting machine 55, only one guide member 55c for transfer and one sprocket 55d for transfer are provided, and these are fixed. However, there is a problem that only one concentrated egg collection conveyor can be handled. In particular, in recent years, since the demand for diversification of eggs has been increasing, there has been a change in the usage of cage units, such as housing cages separately by dividing cage units in half in the longitudinal direction. In some cases, it may be required to sort and pack even eggs collected in one cage unit.However, as described above, if the egg collection machine can handle only one centralized egg collection conveyor, Since they cannot be collected by collecting them, a problem arises in that after collecting them at one place on a centralized egg collection conveyor, it is necessary to perform further sorting work. In addition, as described above, if the egg collecting machine can handle only one centralized egg collecting conveyor, when performing maintenance of a processing device downstream of the centralized egg collecting conveyor, for example, an automatic box packing device, etc., the egg collection work Must be stopped, which causes a problem that the working efficiency is reduced. An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the conventional egg collecting machine and to provide an egg collecting machine capable of coping with a plurality of centralized egg collecting conveyors.

[0004]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a plurality of egg collecting machines for a centralized egg collecting conveyor according to the present invention are provided with a multi-stage cage having an egg collecting conveyor for each row of cages. An endless conveyor that is provided adjacent to an end of the egg collection conveyor in the unit, and is driven in a substantially vertical direction; and a plurality of egg collections that are provided on the endless conveyor and receive eggs from the egg collection conveyor of each stage. A basket and a transfer means for transferring the eggs held in the egg collection basket onto a centralized egg collection conveyor arranged so as to be driven in a direction substantially perpendicular to the driving direction of the egg collection conveyor; In the centralized egg collecting conveyor egg collecting machine configured to collect the eggs received in the centralized egg collecting conveyor, the centralized egg collecting conveyor is provided at least vertically in two stages, and the transfer means is concentrated in each of the centralized egg collecting conveyors. Provided for each egg conveyor, these transfer-out means, is characterized in selectively be egg operably configure Ni egg collection basket attempts to move out of the desired concentration collector egg conveyor. The transfer means is a centralized egg collection conveyor at a position corresponding to each concentrated egg collection conveyor, at least to a position inclined at an angle at which the eggs held by the egg collection basket can be transferred onto the centralized egg collection conveyor. And at least one of the plurality of transfer sprockets can move the trajectory of the endless conveyor to the egg transfer position of the egg collection basket and the trajectory of the endless conveyor. The egg basket can be configured to be movable to and from an original egg holding position where eggs are held.

[0005]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a plurality of egg collecting machines for a centralized egg collecting conveyor (hereinafter simply referred to as egg collecting machines) according to the present invention will be described below with reference to an embodiment shown in the accompanying drawings. Will be described. FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of a cage unit provided with an egg collecting machine according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 and FIG.
FIG. 4 is a partially enlarged view of the egg collecting machine showing the operation of the transfer means in the egg collecting machine. In the drawing, reference numeral 1 indicates a multi-stage cage unit. The cage unit 1 includes a plurality of cage chambers 2.
The cage rows 3 divided into 6 rows are stacked, and egg collecting conveyors 4 are provided along each cage row 3, and the chickens housed in each cage room 2 are born on these egg collecting conveyors 4. Place the egg at one end of the cage unit 1 (left end in FIG. 1)
It is constituted so that it may transfer to. As described above, a transfer device 5 and an egg collecting machine 10 are provided at the left end of the cage unit 1 to which the eggs are transferred by the egg collection conveyor 4, and a cage unit is provided above the transfer device 5. Two concentrated egg collecting conveyors 6 and 7 extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the egg collecting machine 10 are installed adjacent to the upper part of the egg collecting machine 10. The transfer device 5 includes a plurality of transfer baskets 5a corresponding to the egg collecting conveyors 4 in each stage, and the basket 5a includes
The eggs of each egg collecting conveyor 4 are placed on the egg collecting machine 10 and changed. The egg collecting machine 10 includes an endless conveyor 11 driven along a substantially vertical trajectory from below at least the egg collecting conveyor 4L located at the lowermost stage of the cage unit 1 to above the centralized egg collecting conveyor 7 above, A plurality of egg collection baskets 12 are fixed to the endless conveyor 11. In addition, an adjacent centralized egg collecting conveyor 6 in the upper part of the egg collecting machine 10.
And 7 are located at positions corresponding to transfer means 13U and 13U, respectively.
L is provided. Each transfer means 13 (U, L) includes a pair of guide rollers 14 (U, L) and 15 (U, L)
L), and a transfer sprocket 16 (U, L) disposed between the upper and lower guide rollers 14 and 15. The guide rollers 14 and 15 are disposed outside the endless conveyor 11, the transfer sprocket 16 is disposed inside the endless conveyor 11, and each transfer sprocket 16 (U, L) moves in the left-right direction in the figure. It is configured to be possible.

The operation of the egg collecting machine 10 constructed as described above will be described. For example, when the eggs are collected by the lower centralized egg collecting conveyor 6, as shown in FIG. Move the sprocket 16L for transfer of the lower transfer means 13L to the right (that is, outside the normal track range of the endless conveyor 11), and the sprocket 16U for transfer of the upper transfer means 13U moves to the left (that is, the endless conveyor 11L).
Inside the normal orbit range of This allows
The transfer sprocket 16L of the lower transfer means 13L is
Guide rollers 14L and 15 in endless conveyor 11
The portion between L and L is pushed out to the concentrated egg collecting conveyor 6 side, and the track between the guide rollers 14L and 15L of the endless conveyor 11 is changed. At this time, since the transfer sprocket 16U of the upper transfer means 13U is located inside the normal track range of the endless conveyor 11, the track between the guide rollers 14U and 15U is vertical as usual. . When the endless conveyor operates in this state, the egg collecting basket 12 that has received the eggs via the change baskets 5a at the position corresponding to each egg collecting conveyor 4 is moved out of the lower transfer means 13L.
When passing between the guide roller 14L and the transfer sprocket 16L, the tip thereof is inclined so as to be lowered toward the transfer surface of the concentrated egg collecting conveyor 6, and the held eggs are placed on the concentrated egg collecting conveyor 6. Move out. Thereby, the eggs collected by each egg collecting conveyor 4 of the cage unit 1 are collected by the egg collecting machine 10 to the lower centralized egg collecting conveyor 6.
When using the upper concentrated egg collecting conveyor 13U, the transfer sprocket 16L of the lower transfer means 13L is located on the left side (that is, inside the normal track range of the endless conveyor 11) as shown in FIG. Returned, upper transfer means 13U
Is moved to the right (that is, outside the normal track range of the endless conveyor 11). As a result, the portion of the endless conveyor 11 corresponding to the lower transfer means 13L returns to the normal vertical trajectory, and the portion of the upper transfer means 13U corresponding to the position between the guide rollers 14U and 15U is the upper concentrated collection. It is pushed out to the egg conveyor 7 side. Thereby, the egg collection basket 12 passes through the portion corresponding to the lower transfer means 13L as it is, but the tip thereof faces the transfer surface of the centralized egg collection conveyor 7 at the portion corresponding to the upper transfer means 13U. The eggs are tilted so as to descend and the held eggs are transferred to the centralized egg collection conveyor 7 on the upper side. Although not shown, when a plurality of the cage units 1 are arranged side by side in the poultry house, the egg collecting machine 10 is provided for each cage unit, and the centralized egg collecting conveyors 6 and 7 are , Egg collecting machine 1 for all cage units 1
0, and concentrated egg collection conveyors 6 and 7
So that eggs of all cage units 1 can be collected. By operating the transfer means 13U and 13L as described above, it is possible to selectively use the two centralized egg collecting conveyors 6 or 7, and it is possible to interrupt the sorting and collecting of eggs and the collecting operation of eggs. No centralized egg collection conveyor can be maintained downstream.

In the embodiment described above, two transfer means are provided for selectively using the two centralized egg collection conveyors 6 and 7 provided above and below, but the number of transfer means is equal to the number of the present embodiment. Without being limited to the example, it can be appropriately determined according to the number of concentrated egg collection conveyors to be used. Further, in the above-described embodiment, the moving-out means is constituted by the two guide rollers and the moving sprocket for moving left and right provided between the two guide rollers. The present invention is not limited to this, and any configuration may be used as long as the trajectory of a portion corresponding to the concentrated egg collecting conveyor in the endless conveyor can be selectively changed. Further, in the above-described embodiment, both the upper and lower transfer means include the two guide rollers 14 and 15,
This is not limited to the present embodiment. For example, the upper guide roller 15U in the upper transfer means 13U may not be provided. Furthermore, in the present embodiment, both of the sprockets 16 for the upper and lower transfer means are configured to be movable left and right, but this is not limited to the present embodiment, and for example, as shown in FIG. Upper transfer means 13
The U transfer sprocket 16U is fixed in a state where the trajectory of the endless conveyor 11 is changed, and the lower transfer means 13L
May be configured such that only the transfer sprocket 16L can move left and right. However, in this case, it is necessary to provide a tensioner at an appropriate position on the endless conveyor 11.

[0008]

As described above, in the egg collecting machine for a plurality of concentrated egg collecting conveyors according to the present invention, the concentrated egg collecting conveyor is provided at least in two stages, and the transfer means is provided for each concentrated egg collecting conveyor. The transfer means are provided so that the egg collection basket can be operated so as to selectively transfer the eggs to a desired centralized egg collection conveyor, so that at least two centralized egg collection conveyors are selectively used. This makes it possible to maintain the downstream device of the centralized egg collection conveyor without interrupting the sorting and collecting of eggs and the collecting operation of eggs. Further, in the egg collecting machine for a plurality of concentrated egg collecting conveyors according to claim 2 of the present invention, at least the egg collecting basket holds the transfer means, the orbit of the endless conveyor at a position corresponding to each concentrated egg collecting conveyor. A plurality of transfer sprockets that can be changed to a centralized egg collection conveyor side to a position where the eggs can be transferred to an angle at which the eggs can be transferred onto the centralized egg collection conveyor, and at least one of the plurality of transfer sprockets is a track of an endless conveyor. And the endless conveyor is configured to be movable between the position where the egg collection basket is moved to the egg transfer position and the original egg holding position where the egg collection basket holds eggs. There is an effect that it can be easily applied to a conventional egg collecting machine.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of a cage unit provided with an egg collecting machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partially enlarged view of the egg collecting machine showing an operation of a transfer means in the egg collecting machine.

FIG. 3 is a partially enlarged view of the egg collecting machine showing another operation of the transfer means in the egg collecting machine, which is different from FIG.

FIG. 4 is a partial enlarged view of the egg collecting machine corresponding to FIGS. 2 and 3 showing another embodiment of the transfer means in the egg collecting machine.

FIG. 5 is a schematic side view of a cage unit provided with a conventional egg collecting machine.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Multi-stage type cage unit 2 Cage room 3 Cage row 4 Egg collecting conveyor 4L Egg collecting conveyor at the bottom 5 Changing device 5a Changing basket 6 Centralized egg collecting conveyor (lower side) 7 Centralized egg collecting conveyor (upper side) 10 Egg collecting machine 11 Endless conveyor 12 Egg collecting basket 13U Outlet means (upper side) 13L Outlet means (lower side) 14 (U, L) Lower guide roller 15 (U, L) Upper guide roller 16 (U, L) For transfer Sprockets (prior art) 50 Multi-stage cage unit 51 Cage room 52 Cage row 53 Egg collecting conveyor 53L Egg collecting conveyor 55 at the bottom 55 Egg collecting machine 55a Endless conveyor 55b Egg collecting basket 55c Transfer guide member 55d Transfer sprocket 56 Concentrated egg collection conveyor 57 Basket for changing

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An endless conveyor which is provided adjacent to an end of an egg collecting conveyor in a multi-stage cage unit provided with an egg collecting conveyor for each row of cages, and which is driven in a substantially vertical direction; A plurality of egg collection baskets provided on the endless conveyor and receiving eggs from the egg collection conveyor of each stage, and on a centralized egg collection conveyor arranged to be driven in a direction substantially perpendicular to the driving direction of the egg collection conveyor And a transfer means for transferring out the eggs held in the egg collection basket, wherein the eggs received by the egg collection basket are collected on the centralized egg collection conveyor. Egg collection conveyors are provided at least in two stages at the top and bottom, and the transfer means are provided for each centralized egg collection conveyor, and these transfer means will selectively transfer eggs to a desired centralized egg collection conveyor. More centralized collection Egg conveyor for collecting eggs machine, characterized in that operably configured to egg collection basket. 2. A position where the transfer means inclines the trajectory of the endless conveyor at a position corresponding to each centralized egg collection conveyor at an angle at which at least the eggs held by the egg collection basket can be transferred onto the centralized egg collection conveyor. A plurality of transfer sprockets that can move to the concentrated egg collecting conveyor side, and at least one of the plurality of transfer sprockets, a position for changing the track of the endless conveyor to the egg transfer position of the egg collection basket, and the track of the endless conveyor. The egg collecting machine for a centralized egg collecting conveyor according to claim 1, wherein the egg collecting basket is configured to be movable between an original egg holding position at which the egg collecting basket holds eggs.