JPS6338130Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention relates to a conveying device that conveys objects suspended by trolleys between a storage device and a work line.

Conventionally, for example, patterns for clothing are usually stored in various types in a suitable sorting shelf, and when cutting is required, an operator selects the pattern and takes it to a cutting place or the like for use. Therefore, it takes time and effort to carry it, and its efficiency is not good.

Therefore, the present invention aims to improve the efficiency of storage and transportation by storing objects to be transported, such as the above-mentioned paper patterns, by hanging them on a trolley, and transporting them to a work line such as a cutting area while hanging on the trolley. This is the purpose.

In order to achieve this purpose, the present invention provides a storage device for storing a plurality of conveyed objects by suspending each object from a trolley, and has a supply end and a return end arranged in parallel at a position higher than the supply end. A loop-shaped conveyance rail that circulates through the work line is provided, and the switching section between the supply end and the return end has a downward slope toward the supply end;
A connecting rail is provided at an upward slope to the return end and also slopes upward from the storage device to the switching section, and a trolley in the storage device is driven along the communication rail by a projecting piece. A feeding device for pushing up the trolley toward the switching section is provided, and a driving device for circulating the trolley on the transport rail.

Therefore, the transported object can be stored in a state suspended by the trolley, and when transporting the transported object from the storage device to the work line, the trolley with the transported object suspended by the feeding device must be communicated from the storage device. The trolley is pushed up along the rail to the switching section, and from the switching section to the supply end of the transport rail, the trolley is slid using the downward slope, and on the transport rail, a drive device is used to send the trolley to the work line and transport it, as well as the conveyed object. When storing items from the work line to the storage device, the trolley is returned to the return end of the transport rail using the drive device, and from the return end, the trolley is slid using the switching section, communication rail, storage device, and downward slope. In this way, the transported objects can be transported between the storage device and the work line while suspended on the trolley, so it is easy to reload the transported objects when moving from storage to transportation or from transportation to storage. This eliminates the need to carry out such operations, and it is possible to improve the efficiency of conveyance work.

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the drawings. In FIG. 1, 1 is a storage device;
An endless conveyor device 2 disposed at the top, a plurality of hanging bars 3 suspended from the conveyor device 2 and moved by the conveyor device 2, and a plurality of hanging bars 3 disposed below the conveyor device 2.
Guide rails 5 arranged corresponding to
, a bracket 6 attached to the upper part of each hanging bar 3, and a receiving member 7 attached to the center of each hanging bar 3. Bracket 6
A rail 8 is attached to the upper edge of the bracket 6, and the rail 8 is configured to have an upward slope from the base end to the free end of the bracket 6.
A pair of trolleys 9A and 9B are guided by the rail 8, and a pattern holder 10 for clothing as an object to be conveyed is suspended from the trolleys 9A and 9B. The pattern holder 10 is urged toward the proximal end of the bracket 6 by its own weight due to the above-mentioned inclination of the rail 8, and is also received by the receiving member 7, and as a result, as shown in FIG. A plurality of types of paper pattern holders 10 as shown in FIG. 1 are stored in a storage device 1 in a movable state along a conveyor device 2.

On the other hand, reference numeral 11 is a work line for cutting clothing fabrics according to patterns, and a loop-shaped transport rail 12 on which trolleys 9A and 9B can run is provided above the work line. The work line 11 is divided into a plurality of cutting lines 13, and guide rails 14 extending from the transport rail 12 to each cutting line 13 are arranged separately. The conveyor rail 12 has a supply end 15 and a return end 16 for the pattern holder 10, and is configured in an end-shaped configuration. Furthermore, an endless drive device 17 for moving the trolleys 9A, 9B on the transport rail 12 is provided corresponding to the transport rail 12. Note that, as shown by the arrow in FIG. 1, the drive device 17 moves the trolleys 9A and 9B only in one direction, from the supply end 15 to the return end 16.

The storage device 1 and the transport rail 12 are connected by a communication rail 18. This communication rail 1
8 is a single wire, which has a switching section 19 between the supply end 16 and the return end 16, and a slope section 20 that slopes upward from the storage device 1 section to the switching section 19.
have. As is clear from FIG. 2, which is a front view, the return end 16 is provided at a higher position and the supply end 15 is located at a lower position than the connection part 21 between the switching part 19 and the slope part 20. Switching part 1
9 is provided so as to form a downward slope toward the supply end 15 and an upward slope toward the return end 16.

22 is a plurality of trolleys 9 in the storage device 1
This is a take-out device for selectively pushing up A and 9B toward the supply end 15 and sending the required pattern holder 10 to the work line 11. This take-out device 22 includes a frame 23 provided on the floor, a connecting rail 18 and a connecting rail 18 attached to the frame 23.
It has a feeding device 24 disposed above the storage device 1 portion on an extension line of . The feeding device 24 has a protrusion 25 driven by an endless chain or an air cylinder, and when the protrusion 25 pushes the trolley 9B, the pattern holder 10 is taken out.

To take out the pattern holder 10 from the storage device 1 and send it to the work line 11, first, the conveyor device 2 of the storage device 1 positions the desired pattern holder 10 directly below the feeding device 24, and connects the rail 8 and the communication rail 18. to contact you. The switching part 19 is the supply end 1
5, the projecting piece 25 is brought into contact with the trolley 9A or 9B, and the paper pattern holder 10 is moved toward the work line 11 by pushing the trolley 9A or 9B. At this time, as shown by the imaginary line in FIG. 2, since the switching part 19 slopes downward with respect to the moving direction of the trolleys 9A and 9B, the pattern holder 10 after passing the connection part 21 is moved by its own weight to the supply end 15. Head to. After being transferred to the conveyance rail 12, the trolleys 9A and 9B are moved by the drive device 17, and the paper pattern in the holder 10 is manually sent from the conveyance rail 12 to a predetermined cutting line 13. Become.

When the cutting is completed, the paper pattern is placed in the holder 10 and the holder 10 is sent out to the conveyance line 12. Then, the trolley 9 is moved again by the drive device 17.
A, 9B will be moved and sent to the return end 16. If the switching section 19 is directed toward the return end 16 in advance, this switching section 1 will move as shown by the solid line in FIG.
9 has a downward slope with respect to the moving direction of trolleys 9A and 9B. Therefore, if the protruding piece 25 of the feeding device 24 is retracted to an appropriate position, the switching part 19, the slope part 20, and the rail 8 will all be sloped downward, so the pattern holder 10 will be moved to the bracket 6 by its own weight. It moves, is received by the receiving member 7, and is stored again. Here, if the predetermined bracket 6 is separated from the communication rail 18, the predetermined bracket 6 is returned by the conveyor device 2 in the same way as when the paper pattern holder 10 is taken out.

In the above embodiment, a pattern for clothing is conveyed, but there are also cases where large-sized films, drawings, printing plates for newspapers, posters, etc., master plates for textile printing, patterns for automatic gas cutting machines, etc. are conveyed. It can also be applied to

To explain the storage/unloading control, a storage/unloading setting device (not shown) is placed at each cutting line 13 position, and a central control device (not shown) controls the storing position of each pattern holder 10 and the stored patterns. Information about the variety, etc. is stored. When leaving the warehouse, the target paper pattern holder 10 is controlled to arrive at the cutting line 13 by a call signal from the setting device. Further, according to the warehousing setting, the pattern holder 10 is sent from the cutting line 13 to the storage device 1.

As described above, according to the present invention, the objects to be transported can be stored in a suspended state with a trolley, and furthermore, they can be transported between the storage device and the work line while being suspended from the trolley. There is no need to reload the transported objects when moving from storage to storage, and the efficiency of transport work can be improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an enlarged front view of the main parts thereof. 1... Storage device, 9A, 9B... Trolley, 10
... Pattern holder (object to be transported), 11 ... Work line, 12 ... Transport rail, 15 ... Supply end, 16
... Return end, 18 ... Communication rail, 19 ... Switching section, 22 ... Takeout device.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A loop-shaped transport rail that includes a storage device that suspends and stores a plurality of transported objects individually on trolleys, has a supply end and a return end arranged in parallel at a position higher than the supply end, and circulates around a work line. and has a switching section between the supply end and the return end at a position with a downward slope toward the supply end and an upward slope toward the return end, and a communication rail that slopes upward from the storage device toward the switching section. A conveying device comprising: a feeding device for pushing up a trolley in the storage device along the communication rail toward the switching section by a driven protrusion; and a driving device for circulating the trolley on the conveying rail.