JPS5820510Y2 - tube answerer - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed explanation of the idea] The present invention relates to a tube anchor.

When empty tubes are taken out of a returnable box, this is generally done manually, or a grid is provided in the returnable box, and the aligned tubes are taken out one row at a time using a finger-type takeout device.

The device of this invention does not have a grid for alignment, and automatically takes out tubes that are randomly arranged in a returnable box.
It also serves to supply tubes to equipment subsequent to this device.

That is, the tube uncaser of the present invention separates the hopper into an inclined hopper and a fixed hopper, pushes a returnable box containing tubes into the inclined hopper, tilts the inclined hopper from a vertical position, and then takes out only the returnable box. , the inclined hopper is made vertical again and the tube inside the inclined hopper is gradually moved to the fixed hopper via a damper.

That is, the present invention provides an inclined hopper which has an entrance large enough to accommodate a returnable tube box, whose lower surface is formed by a shutter that can be opened and closed, and whose entire structure can be tilted from 20° to 160° from the vertical position; A fixed hopper installed at the bottom, without a top surface, and having an outlet on the bottom surface from which at least one tube can be taken out; installed between the tilted hopper and the fixed hopper, the tubes in the tilted hopper are fixed in the fixed hopper; A damper for moving the tube to the hopper; it is located in the uncaser of the tube that is connected to the tube transfer conveyor installed at the bottom of the fixed hopper.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

Figure 1 shows an example of a tube that can be handled by the device of this invention.
Figure 2 shows tubes 1 arranged randomly inside a returnable box 2.
Indicates the status of

The returnable box may not have a flap, but if it does, the flap can be folded back to the side of the returnable box.

FIG. 3 is a front view of the device of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a side view with a portion of the conveyor removed.

After pushing the returnable box 2 containing the tube 1 into the tilted hopper 3, the tilted hopper 3 is tilted from the vertical state shown in FIG. 4 to the tilted state shown in FIG. 5 via the tilted hopper drive device 8.
When the returnable box 2 is taken out as shown in FIG. 5, the tubes 1 inside the returnable box 2 remain in the inclined hopper 3. When the inclined hopper 3 is made vertical again, only the tubes 1 inside the returnable box 2 are removed from the inclined hopper 3. It will be in a state where it has been transferred to.

The angle of inclination of the inclined hopper 3 is preferably at least the angle of repose necessary for the tube 1 to be transferred to the inclined hopper 3, that is, from 20 to 160 degrees from the vertical state, but more preferably from 45 to 90 degrees.
It is 0°.

In the inclined state of the inclined hopper 3 shown in FIG. 5, the air cylinder of the shutter drive device 9 rotates around its lower end support shaft as shown by the arrow in FIG. The shutter 6 forming the lower surface is tilted together with the tilted hopper as shown in FIG. The shutter 6 is moved horizontally by expanding and contracting as shown by the arrow, and the inclined hopper 3
The bottom opens and the tube 1 is dropped onto the damper 7 forming the upper surface of the fixed hopper 4.

In order to prevent the tube 1 in the inclined hopper 3 from freely falling into the fixed hopper 4, the damper 7 opens to guide the tube 1 when it is above it.

That is, as shown in FIG. 6, the damper 7 is opened in the direction of the arrow 20 in the fixed hopper 4 by the damper tilting drive device 10 in a double-door pattern, and then the damper 7 is pulled out of the fixed hopper 4 by the damper slide drive device 11.

After confirming that all the tubes 1 in the inclined hopper 3 have been moved to the fixed hopper 4, the damper tilting drive device 10 is used again to bring the damper 7 into a horizontal state, and the damper slide drive device 11 is used to move the damper 7 again. close.

It is preferable that the contact portions of the left and right dampers 7 have an interlocking mechanism in order to prevent the tube 1 from freely falling from the gap between the left and right dampers 7 when the left and right dampers 7 are opened in a double-door pattern as shown in FIG.

The tube 1 transferred into the fixed hopper 4 is taken out by a tube transfer conveyor 5 provided at the lower part of the fixed hopper 4 and supplied to a subsequent process (see FIG. 3).

Two tube transfer conveyors 5 are provided in FIG.
Although it is designed to be supplied to two locations, it is also possible to supply it to one location.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide an apparatus that easily takes out the randomly arranged tubes 1 from a returnable box 2 and supplies them to a subsequent process.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the tubes used in the present invention, Figure 2 is a perspective view showing the tubes arranged randomly in a returnable box, and Figure 3 is an embodiment of the present invention with some covers removed. Figure 4 is a side view of Figure 3 with the tube transfer conveyor removed, Figure 5 is a perspective view of the tilted hopper with the drive section removed, and Figure 6 is the damper. FIG. 1...Tube, 2...Returnable box, 3.
... Inclined hopper, 4 ... Fixed hopper, 5 ... Tube transfer conveyor, 6 ...
...Shutter, 7... Damper, 8...
...Inclination hopper drive device, 9...Shutter drive device, 10...Damper inclination drive device, 1
1... Damper slide drive device.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] An inclined hopper having a size large enough to accommodate a returnable tube box, whose lower surface is formed by a shutter that can be opened and closed, and whose entire structure can be tilted 20° to 160° from the vertical position; a fixed hopper installed between the inclined hopper and the fixed hopper, which has no upper surface and has an outlet on the lower surface through which at least one tube can be taken out; A moving damper; a tube uncaser that is removed from the tube transfer conveyor installed at the bottom of the fixed hopper.