JPS6030235Y2 - Square bottle feeding device for bottle washing machine - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] The present invention relates to a bottle washer supply device with direction regulation, and its purpose is to be able to stably supply bottles with direction regulation, and to cause a change in direction. Our aim is to propose something that is free of fear.

There is a device that receives bottles in an upright position from a conveyor that conveys the bottles in an upright position and supplies them to a carrier basket.

Some such devices include a pick-up arm that rotates about a horizontal axis between a conveyor for transporting bottles and a carrier basket, and a pick-up arm that rotates about a horizontal axis and picks up the carrier basket from the side of the conveyor along the rotation path of the pick arm. and a bottle guide arranged up to the immediate vicinity of the bottle.

According to this type of device, the bottles pushed out to the side of the conveyor are received by the rising part of the bottle guide and the tip of the pick-up arm, and then are pushed back on the ring guide as the pick-up arm rotates. Then, the bottle is changed from an upright position to a lying position and is fed into the carrier basket.

In conventional bottle feeding devices, two bottle guides are provided with a gap between them, and the pickup arm rotates through the gap, which is not very convenient for feeding round rings. Although this did not occur, there was a risk that smooth supply would be obstructed and the direction of the bottle would change when the bottle was supplied due to direction restrictions.

In other words, when the bottle is pushed out to the side of the carrying conveyor and is picked up by the bottle guide and the pickup arm, the corner of the bottle may enter the gap between the two bottle guides, and from this situation, it is immediately removed. If the bottle is pushed back by the pick-up arm, it will not be pushed smoothly into the carrier basket, leading to a change in direction of the bottle.

The present invention has been devised in view of the above, and examples thereof will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

Reference numeral 1 denotes a conveyor for carrying in the dead in the line of duty, and a cylinder 2, which is an example of a lateral extrusion device, is installed on the outside of the conveyor.

3 is a carrier basket, which is formed by connecting a number of baskets 3A.

The carrier basket 3 is configured to meander in the washing machine in a vertical direction and move laterally, so that the dead V stored in each basket 3A can be sent to the washing process.

The carrier basket 3 passes along an ascending path on the side of the carry-in end of the conveyor 1.

4 indicates a ring guide. The ring guide 4 has a curved portion 4A and a straight portion 4B that are smoothly continuous.

This ring guide 4 is disposed between the conveyor 1 and the carrier basket 3 with the curved portion 4A in an upright shape, and in this case, the starting end of the curved portion 4A is located at the pushing position P1 of the killed V by the cylinder 2. set, and also the straight part 4B
The terminal end of the carrier basket 3 faces the receiving part P2 of the carrier basket 3.

As is clear from FIG. 2, two ring guides 4 are provided with an interval between them, and a gap 5 is formed between them.

The two ring guides 4, 4 each have a side wall 6 along the guide surface.
, 6.

Each of the ring guides 4, 4 has a joint piece 7 extending from its starting end, and a sliding plate 8 is provided for each of these joint pieces 7.

This sliding plate 8 is fixed to the machine frame IA of the conveyor 1 and has a cut hole 9 corresponding to the gap 5.

A rotating shaft 10 is arranged at the center of the radius of the ring guide 4, and a base end portion of a pickup arm 11 is fixed to this rotating shaft 10.

The rotating shaft 10 is connected to a drive system 12, and its driving force causes the pickup arm 11 to close the gap 5 described above.
intermittent rotational movement through the inside.

In this case, the tip 11A of the pickup arm 11 is made to protrude through the gap 5.

13 indicates a protruding member, which is the pickup arm 11
It is fixed so that it protrudes in the direction of rotation.

The tip end 13A of the protruding member 13 fits into the gap 5 between the bottle guides 4, 4 to close it, and its end surface 13B is set on the virtual extension surface of the guide surface of the ring guides 4, 4.

In the illustrated example, multiple pieces of ■ that died in the line of duty are simultaneously conveyor 1.
The conveyor 1 and the carrier basket 3 are operated in synchronization with the rotational movement of the pickup arm 10.

In the above, the cylinder 2, which was carried in an upright state on the conveyor 1, is operated by the extrusion operation of the cylinder 2 (indicated by the imaginary line in FIG. 1).

) onto the sliding plate 8, and it slides on this sliding plate 8 and hits the starting end of the curved portion 4A of the ring guide 4.

At this time, the bottom of the bottle of V killed in the line of duty is supported by the tip 11A of the pickup arm 11.

From this state, as the rotating shaft 10 rotates, the pickup arm 11 is rotated in the direction of the arrow 2.

Due to the rotational movement of the pick-up arm 11, the bottom of the bottle 3A is pushed by its tip 11A and moves on the ring guide 4, changing its posture from an upright state to a lying state and being pushed into Basquera 3A. (Fig. 1 virtual line).

After this, the pickup arm 11 further rotates and returns to the pushing position P1 again to support the next death in the line of duty.

In this case, at the extrusion position P1 where the cylinder 2 causes death in the line of duty, the gap 5 formed between the two ring guides 4, 4 is closed by the protruding member 13, so Even if ■ is twisted and pushed out, the death in line■
Since the corner portions are received by the protruding member 13 (imaginary line in Fig. 2), they do not interfere with pushing or change direction.

Therefore, when the pick-up arm 11 backs up the hitter (2), the hitter (2) maintains the desired posture (solid line in FIG. 2), and is smoothly pushed into the basket 3A.

As is clear from the above explanation, according to the present invention, the corner part of the carrier basket is not pushed up on the bottle guide due to crowding in the gap between the ring guides. This allows for smooth pushing and does not cause a change in direction.

It goes without saying that the death-in-duty supply device according to the present invention can also supply round rings.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a longitudinal sectional side view of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line X--X in FIG. P2...Department for receiving deaths in the line of duty, ■...December in the line of duty, P
Machining: Extrusion position, 1: Conveyor,
2...Cylinder (side extrusion device), 3
...Carrier basket, 4...Ring guide, 5...Gap, 10...Rotating shaft,
11...Pickup arm, 11A...
...Pick-up arm tip, 13... Protrusion member, 13A... Tip edge of protrusion member 13, 13B... End face of protrusion member 13.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A conveyor that transports the killed in the line of duty in an upright state, a carrier basket that accommodates the killed in the line of duty and moves it along a predetermined path, a pushing device that pushes out the killed in the line of duty to the side on the conveyor, and a conveyor that smoothly connects the curved part and the straight part. a bottle guide configured with a curved part side rising up and facing the dead extrusion device at the extrusion position, and a straight part side connected to the dead receiving part of the carrier basket; and a pick-up arm that performs intermittent rotational movement and pushes the bottle guide from the pushing position toward the bottle guide receiving section, and a pick-up arm that performs an intermittent rotational movement and pushes the bottle guide from the pushing position toward the bottle guide receiving section. The tip of the pickup arm protrudes through the gap between the ring guides, and the pickup arm is provided with a protruding member that protrudes in the rotational direction and fits into the gap, and the end face of the protruding member is attached to the bottle. A bottle washer supply device for a bottle washing machine, characterized in that it is installed on a virtual extension surface of a guide surface.