JPS5911051Y2 - Bottle transfer device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed explanation of the invention] When filling bottles with mayonnaise or other foods, a bottle gripping device takes out the empty bottles from a box containing a large number of empty bottles, sends them to a filling device, fills them with food, and then puts them back into the bottles. Although empty bottles are stored in boxes using a gripping device, the current situation is that the empty boxes from which empty bottles are removed are temporarily accumulated in the vicinity or at the filling location, and then reused as boxes for filled bottles. There were deficiencies such as the need for a collection operation and collection location for empty boxes, and the need to transport empty boxes to a packaging location for filled bottles.

The present invention improves these defects and allows the empty boxes from which empty bottles are removed to be immediately used continuously as storage boxes for filled bottles. A pair of left and right bottle gripping devices are provided above the transfer conveyor so as to be able to reciprocate orthogonally thereto, and the bottle gripping device on the start side of the box transfer conveyor grabs the bottles on the box transfer conveyor and holds them on the bottle transfer conveyor. The bottle gripping device on the end side is shaped to grip the bottle on the bottle transfer conveyor and place it on the box transfer conveyor, and further corresponds to the pair of left and right bottle gripping devices on the box transfer conveyor. A box locking stopper is provided at the front of each position to open and close, and a filled bottle locking stopper is installed at the rear of the position corresponding to the bottle gripping device that grips and places bottles on the box transfer conveyor. The gist is that a stopper is provided.

To explain an embodiment of the present invention with reference to the drawings, a box conveyor 1 and a bottle conveyor 2 which are installed in parallel are shaped to move in opposite directions, and the bottle conveyor 2, which is not shown, is arranged in parallel. The starting end is connected directly or optionally via a transfer device to the outlet of the filling device, and the terminal end is connected directly or optionally via a transfer device to the inlet portion of the filling device.

Above the intermediate parts of the box transfer conveyor and the bottle transfer conveyor 2, respectively, an arbitrary lifting device 3 such as a cylinder is provided.
, 4 are provided, and the pair of left and right bottle gripping devices 5, 6 are arranged so as to be perpendicular to each other above the box transfer conveyor 1 and the bottle transfer conveyor 2 by means of a reciprocating device 7. The pair of left and right bottle gripping devices 5 and 6 are movably provided and are designed to operate in opposite directions.

That is, the right bottle gripping device on the start side of the box transfer conveyor 1 grabs the bottles on the box transfer conveyor 1 and places them on the bottle transfer conveyor 2, and the left bottle gripping device on the end side of the box transfer conveyor 1 6
In order to grasp a bottle on the bottle transfer conveyor 2 and place it on the box transfer conveyor 1, the bottle gripping devices 5 and 6 are constructed so that their gripping and placing operations are opposite to each other.

In addition, box locking stoppers 8 and 9 are provided on the front side of the box transfer conveyor 1 at positions corresponding to the pair of bottle gripping devices 5 and 6, respectively, so as to be openable and closable. A filling bottle locking fixing stopper 10 is installed on the rear side, and in particular, box locking stoppers 8 and 9 are installed.
The timing of opening and closing is related to the operation of a pair of bottle gripping devices 5 and 6,
The box locking stopper 8 opens after the empty bottle A is grabbed and taken out from the empty bottle storage box B containing the empty bottle A, and the box locking stopper 9 releases the locking of the empty bottle storage box B. After the filled bottle C is stored in the storage box B, it is opened so that the bottle storage box B can be transferred.

Although the embodiment of the present invention is constructed as described above, when the bottle storage box B containing empty bottles A is transferred from the starting end of the box transfer conveyor 1 and is locked in the box locking stopper 8, a pair of The bottle gripping devices 5 and 6 are moved by the reciprocating device 7, and by the operation of the lifting device 3, the bottle gripping device 5 picks up the empty bottle A into the bottle storage box B.
The empty bottle A is grabbed and picked up and transferred and placed on the bottle transfer conveyor 2, and the placed empty bottle A is transferred to the filling device by the bottle transfer conveyor 2 and filled, and the bottle storage box B is replaced with a box. When the locking stopper 8 is opened, the box is transferred to the box transfer conveyor 1 and locked by the box locking stopper 9.

On the other hand, the filled bottles C filled with the filling device are transferred to the bottle transfer conveyor 2.
Fixed stopper 1 that locks the filling bottle as it is fed from the starting end of the bottle.
When the bottle gripping device 5 acts to place an empty bottle, the bottle gripping device 6 grabs and lifts the filled bottle C and places it in the bottle storage box B on the box transfer conveyor 1. Then, the box locking stopper 9 is opened, and the bottle storage box B containing the filled bottles is transferred to the left by the box transfer conveyor 1. By continuously performing this action, empty bottles are removed. The filled bottle C can be immediately stored in the bottle storage box B that has received the bottle A and transferred.

The present invention provides a pair of left and right bottle gripping devices that operate in opposite directions above a parallel box transfer conveyor and a bottle transfer conveyor that move in opposite directions to each other and are movable in a reciprocating manner. Since the box locking stopper can be opened and closed freely, and the bottle transfer conveyor is provided with a fixed stopper that locks filled bottles, the empty bottle storage box from which empty bottles are taken out can immediately be continuously used as a storage box for filled bottles. This eliminates the need for the conventional work of collecting empty bottle storage boxes and the need for a collection site for that purpose, making it possible to efficiently carry out bottle transfer and filling work. Since it only includes a gripping device and a stopper for locking bottles and boxes, it does not take up much space and has an extremely simple structure, which has excellent features and practicality.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a plan view of the main parts of the present invention.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] Above the box transfer conveyor and the bottle transfer conveyor, which are parallel to each other and move in opposite directions, a pair of left and right bottle gripping devices are provided so as to be reciprocally movable so as to be orthogonal thereto. The device is configured to grip the bottles on the box transfer conveyor and place them on the bottle transfer conveyor, and the bottle gripping device on the end side is configured to grab the bottles on the bottle transfer conveyor and place them on the box transfer conveyor; Furthermore, a box locking stopper is provided in the front portion of the box transfer conveyor at a position corresponding to a pair of left and right bottle gripping devices, respectively, so as to be openable and closable, and a bottle gripping device grips and places a bottle on the box transfer conveyor. A bottle transfer device equipped with a fixed stopper that locks the filled bottle at the rear of the corresponding position.