JPWO2008035715A1 - Fruit and vegetable conveying method, fruit and vegetable conveying device - Google Patents

Abstract

The article transporting / sending method of the present invention is an article transporting / sending method for sending an article being transported by the article transporter obliquely backward in the transport direction, wherein the article is sent by the sending body, or an article receiver on the side of the article transporter. Or send it out. In addition, the article delivery speed can be reduced. It is also possible to automatically discriminate the article being transported by standard in the discriminating unit, and send the discriminated article to the side in the transport direction by standard. The article transport / delivery apparatus according to the present invention is an apparatus used for carrying out the above method, wherein the article transporter includes a large number of article mounts and an endless traveling body equipped with them, and the articles are transported diagonally by the article mounts. It is designed to be sent backwards. It is also possible to automatically discriminate the article being transported by standard in the discriminating unit, and send the discriminated article to the side in the transport direction by standard.

Description

  The present invention conveys various articles such as primary industrial products such as agricultural products and marine products, and secondary industrial products such as industrial products, and allows the articles to be sent to the side in the conveyance direction at a predetermined position during the conveyance. Methods, especially round fruit vegetables such as tomatoes, peaches, pears and strawberries, and long fruit vegetables such as pepper and eggplant, according to various standards such as size, shape, color and sugar content (by grade) And an article conveying and sending apparatus used for the implementation thereof.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there are various types of article conveyance / delivery devices that convey an article and send the article to a side in the conveyance direction at a predetermined position during the conveyance, and fruit vegetable sorting apparatuses using the article conveyance / delivery apparatus. As one of such fruit vegetable sorting apparatuses, there is a bucket-type fruit and vegetables sorting apparatus as shown in FIGS. This fruit vegetable sorting device carries fruit vegetables A on a bucket C attached to a chain B and conveys them, and measures the size, shape, etc. of the fruit vegetables A by the measuring means D during the conveyance, and discriminates them. When the fruit vegetables A are conveyed to the receiver (pool part) E, the bucket C falls sideways as shown in FIG. 17C so that the fruit vegetables A on the bucket C are discharged to the receiver E. It is a thing. In this case, the standard number of receivers E of fruit vegetables A are arranged beside the chain B, and the determined fruit vegetables A are discharged to the respective receivers E by standard. In this fruit vegetable sorting apparatus, when the fruit vegetables are discharged, the fruit vegetables A may roll on the receiver E and collide with the fruit vegetables A that have been discharged to the receiver E before being damaged.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the applicant of the present application developed various fruit vegetable sorting apparatuses and applied for patents (Patent Document 1).

  As shown in FIGS. 18 (a) and 18 (b), the fruit and vegetable sorting apparatus described in Patent Document 1 has a large number of fruit and vegetable mounting bodies F on which fruits and vegetables A are placed on a chain B, and the fruit and vegetable mounting bodies F are of a belt conveyor type. When the fruit and vegetables A loaded thereon are conveyed to a predetermined position, the fruit and vegetables loaded body F rotates in a direction (arrow b direction) 90 degrees perpendicular to the moving direction (arrow a direction) and the fruit vegetables A are chained B. It is made to send out to the pool conveyor G arrange | positioned to the side. Also in this case, the standard number of pool conveyors G of fruit vegetables A are arranged beside the chain B, and the determined fruit vegetables A are discharged to the respective pool conveyors G by standard. In this fruit vegetable sorting apparatus, when the fruit vegetable A on the fruit vegetable mounting body F is sent to the pool conveyor G, the fruit vegetable A has a momentum in the feeding direction, and the fruit vegetable A falls sideways or the fruit vegetable A is damaged. There was a risk of it.

  The present applicant has developed a fruit vegetable sorting apparatus described in Patent Document 2 in order to solve the above problems. As shown in FIG. 19, a transfer conveyor H that is inclined forward is disposed between the belt conveyor type fruit and vegetable carrier F and the pool conveyor G, and the fruit and vegetable carrier F is placed on the side in the conveying direction (arrow b). The fruit and vegetables A discharged in the direction) pass obliquely forward (in the direction of arrow c) on the transfer conveyor H and are sent to the pool conveyor G that is disposed in front of the transfer conveyor G and rotates in the direction of arrow d. is there.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-53275. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-99285.

  The fruit vegetable sorting apparatus described in Patent Document 2 does not damage the fruit vegetables or collide with other fruit vegetables when the fruit vegetables are discharged, but the structure is complicated and the cost increases because the transfer conveyor H is required. There is a problem that the entire apparatus becomes large.

  The article conveyance and sending method of the present application is a method of sending an article being conveyed by an article conveyance body obliquely backward in the conveyance direction. In this case, the article conveying body being conveyed can be driven obliquely rearward in the conveying direction, and the article being conveyed can be sent obliquely backward. The article being conveyed can also be sent out in the same direction by moving it obliquely backward in the conveying direction. In either case, the article sent obliquely backward in the conveyance direction is placed on the article receiver disposed on the side of the article conveyance body. Articles sent out obliquely backward in the conveying direction can also be reduced in delivery speed. The article transporting and sending method of the present application can also be used as a fruit and vegetable automatic selection method in which fruit vegetables being transported are automatically identified by standard in the discriminating unit, and the identified fruit vegetables are sent diagonally backward in the transport direction by standard.

  The article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present application is capable of sending an article being conveyed by an article conveyance body obliquely backward in the conveyance direction. An article carrier is an endless traveling body such as a chain attached with a large number of article carriers, and the article carrier moves diagonally rearward in the conveying direction during conveyance to send out articles on the article carrier in the same direction. It is possible. It is also possible to send out the article on the article carrying body in the same direction during conveyance by moving the sending body provided separately from the article carrying body obliquely rearward in the conveyance direction.

  The article carrier may be a belt conveyor, and when the belt conveyor moves or rotates obliquely rearward in the article conveyance direction, the article on the article carrier may be sent out in the same direction. An article support is provided on the upper surface of the belt conveyor, the article is supported on the article support and placed on the belt conveyor, and the article support is moved in the same direction by moving or rotating the belt conveyor obliquely backward in the conveying direction. The articles on the belt conveyor can be sent out in the same direction. A latch is projected from the belt conveyor, and a guide body is provided separately from the latch. When the belt conveyor runs, the latch is guided by the guide body and moves obliquely backward in the transport direction. Thus, the belt conveyor can be moved or rotated in the same direction so that articles on the belt conveyor are sent out in the same direction.

  It is also possible to fix the article mounting body and provide a sending body that can move obliquely rearward in the article conveying direction separately from the article mounting body so that the article on the article mounting body is sent out in the same direction by the movement of the sending body. The article mounting body is a plate material, a fixture such as two or more bars arranged at intervals, and the article mounting body is arranged diagonally rearward in the transport direction, and the article mounting body is placed diagonally rearward in the transport direction. The article on the body can be sent out in the same direction.

  The article carrying body is a roller conveyor, and the roller conveyor comes into contact with the driving rotating body that rotates obliquely backward in the conveying direction and rotates in the same direction as the driving rotating body, so that the article on the roller conveyor is sent out in the same direction by the rotation. It can also be. The articles on the roller conveyor can be sent out in the same direction by tilting the roller conveyor downward and obliquely backward in the conveying direction by the driving body.

  When the article mounting body is a large number of support bodies that can be swung in a keyboard shape, and the support body is swung downward and obliquely backward in the transport direction by the swing drive body, the articles on the article mounting body are obliquely rearward in the transport direction. It can also be sent to.

  Among a large number of article mounting bodies attached to the traveling body, two or more adjacent article mounting bodies are used as a set of units, and each unit is wide enough to carry one or more articles. When the article mounting body is operated synchronously, the article can be sent obliquely backward in the conveyance direction.

  It is also possible to dispose an article receiver on the side of the article carrier so that an article sent obliquely rearward from the article carrier is placed on the article receiver.

  It is sent from the article carrier to the article receiver diagonally backward in the transport direction from the article carrier to the outlet side of the article carrier, between the article carrier and the article receiver, or at one or more locations on the inlet side of the article receiver. It is also possible to provide a decelerating body that decelerates the feed speed of the article to be printed. In the article conveying and sending apparatus of the present application, the article carrier is not provided with a speed reducing body, but the upper surface of the article receiver is inclined upward from the article carrier, or the upper surface of the article receiver is higher than the article carrier. It is also possible to decelerate the feed speed of the article that is sent from the article receiver to the article receiver obliquely backward in the conveying direction. A speed reducer can also be provided on the upper surface of the article receiver that is inclined upward or on the upper surface of the article receiver that is higher than the article mounting body.

  The article transport and delivery device of the present invention can be used as an automatic vegetable vegetable sorting device. In this case, the fruit vegetables being transported by the article transporter are automatically discriminated by standard in the discriminator, and the discriminated fruit vegetables are used as articles. It is also possible to carry the sheet further forward than the determination unit by the carrier and send it to the receiver obliquely rearward in the conveyance direction according to the standard.

The article conveying and sending method of the present application has the following effects.
(1) Since the article being conveyed by the article carrier is sent obliquely rearward in the conveyance direction, the delivery speed of the article is reduced, and the article is not easily rolled over or damaged and the article is easily damaged. Even if it is a case, there is almost no damage.
(2) When the article transport body is driven obliquely backward in the transport direction to send out the article, the article being transported can be reliably sent out.
(3) When an article being conveyed is sent out in the same direction by a sending body that moves obliquely backward in the conveying direction, the article is sent out while being placed on the conveying body, so that the article to be sent out is stabilized.
(4) When an article sent obliquely backward in the conveying direction from the article carrier is sent to an article receiver disposed on the side of the article carrier, a transit conveyor is provided between the article carrier and the article receiver. The article can be delivered to the article receiver with a simple configuration without necessity. Further, if two or more article receivers are prepared on the side of the article carrier, articles can be sent to the article receivers separately.
(5) When an article sent from the article transport body obliquely rearward in the transport direction is sent at a reduced delivery speed, the article that is decelerated by being sent obliquely rearward in the transport direction is further decelerated. Even if it is a fruit vegetable, it will hardly roll over at the time of delivery, or it will collide with other fruit vegetables, and it will be damaged, and there is no worry of damage.
(6) In the case of the automatic fruit and vegetable sorting method in which the fruit and vegetable being transported are automatically identified by the standard in the discriminating unit and the identified fruit and vegetables are sent diagonally backward in the transport direction according to the standard, the fruit and vegetables are automatically identified and sent out for each judgment. Can be performed reliably.

The article conveyance and delivery device of the present application has the following effects.
(1) When the article mounting body itself operates obliquely rearward in the conveying direction to send out the article in the same direction, when the article mounting body is driven diagonally backward in the conveying direction by the driving body to send out the article in the same direction, In the case of an apparatus that sends the article in the same direction by moving backward in the conveyance direction, the article delivery direction is diagonally opposite to the conveyance direction in any case, so the delivered article is automatically decelerated and stabilized. .
(2) Since the configuration is such that the article on the article mounting body is sent obliquely rearward in the transport direction by driving the article mounting body itself or moving the sending body different from that, the configuration is simplified.
(3) Since the article carrying body is a belt conveyor and the article support is provided on the belt conveyor, if the article is supported by the article support and placed on the belt conveyor, the article remains in the support state. Since the article is moved, the article is sent obliquely backward in the conveying direction while remaining stationary.
(4) Even when the article carrying body is a belt conveyor and the locking tool protruding from the belt conveyor is guided by the guide body and moves obliquely rearward in the transport direction, the belt conveyor moves or rotates in the same direction. The upper article is sent out stably and reliably.
(5) If the belt conveyor can be reciprocally moved, the belt conveyor can be automatically returned to the original position after the article is sent out, and the next article can be put on standby to speed up the work. it can.
(6) The article mounting body is made of a plate material that moves together with the endless traveling body, two or more bars, etc. Separately, a feeding body that moves obliquely rearward in the conveying direction and sends the article on the bar in the same direction is provided. Therefore, the articles on two or more bars can be sent out stably in a stationary state.
(7) Since the article carrying body is a roller conveyor and the drive rotating body that rotates the roller conveyor obliquely rearward in the conveying direction is provided, the article can be reliably sent out with a simple configuration.
(8) Since the article carrying body is a roller conveyor, and these rollers are arranged so as to be able to rotate obliquely rearward in the article conveying direction, and the article on the roller is sent out in the same direction by the sending body. Can be reliably sent out.
(9) Since the article carrying body is a roller conveyor and the inclination driving means for inclining the roller conveyor is provided, the fruit vegetables on the roller conveyor can be surely inclined obliquely rearward in the article conveying direction simply by inclining the roller conveyor with the inclination driving means. Can be sent out.
(10) Since the article mounting body is made of a number of supports that can be swung in a keyboard shape, and the support tool can be driven to swing downward in a slanting rearward direction in the transport direction by the swing drive body, the support tool is swung. It is possible to send the article on the support tool obliquely rearward in the conveying direction simply by making it happen.
(11) Since two or more of the many article mounting bodies attached to the traveling body are set as a unit and one or more articles can be placed on each unit, one individual article is placed on each unit. It can be put on and sent out reliably.
(12) When an article receiver for receiving an article sent obliquely rearward from the article carrier is disposed on the side of the article carrier, there is no need to provide a transit conveyor between the article carrier and the article receiver. Thus, the article can be reliably sent to the article receiver with a simple configuration.
(13) Since a decelerating body is provided to decelerate the feed speed of the articles sent obliquely backward in the conveying direction from the article carrier, the momentum of the fruit vegetables delivered from the article carrier can be further reduced, and the fruit vegetables are momentarily rolled over There is almost no risk of damage or damage.
(14) The upper surface of the article receiver is inclined upward from the article carrier, or the upper surface of the article receiver is made higher than the article carrier, and is sent from the article carrier to the article receiver obliquely rearward in the conveying direction. Even if the article feeding speed can be reduced, the momentum of the fruit and vegetables to be delivered can be further reduced, and there is almost no possibility that the fruit and vegetables will gain momentum and roll over or be damaged.
(15) On the upper surface of the article receiver that is inclined upward or on the upper surface of the article receiver that is higher than the article carrier, the feeding speed of the article that is fed obliquely rearward from the article carrier to the article receiver in the conveying direction Even when a deceleration body for decelerating is provided, it is possible to further reduce the momentum of the fruit and vegetables that are sent out, and there is almost no possibility that the fruit and vegetables will gain momentum and roll over or be damaged.
(16) When a large number of article mounting bodies are arranged in the transport direction, the article can be transported regardless of the article mounting body, and can be sent obliquely backward during transport.

  When the article transporting and sending device of the present application is used for an automatic fruit vegetable sorting device, fruit vegetables transported by the article transporter are discriminated by standard during transport, and the article is placed on the side of the article transporter based on the determination result. Since it is sent to the arranged article receiver diagonally backward in the conveyance direction, the fruit and vegetables to be sent out are automatically decelerated, and the fruit and vegetables are momentarily rolled over and fall from the article receiver, or other fruit vegetables that have been sent out earlier There is almost no damage caused by collision.

The top view which shows an example at the time of utilizing the goods conveyance delivery apparatus of this invention for fruit vegetable selection. The description top view of the article delivery method from the article conveyance body to the article receiver in the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention. It is another example of the article conveyance / delivery device of the present invention, (a) is a perspective explanatory view of a switching lever before the article is sent obliquely backward in the conveyance direction from the article carrier, and (b) is a fruit vegetable from the article carrier. FIG. Detailed explanatory drawing of the article mounting body shown to Fig.3 (a) (b). FIG. 4 is a perspective explanatory view showing a state in which an article on the article mounting body shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B is sent to an article receiver. Exploded perspective view of the article mounting body shown in FIGS. FIG. 7 is an assembly perspective view of the article mounting body shown in FIG. 6. (A), (b) is plane explanatory drawing of the state which mounted the different articles | goods on the article mounting body. (A) is plane explanatory drawing which shows an example in the case of sending out the articles | goods mounted on the articles | goods mounting body which made two sets of belt conveyors into 1 unit with the belt conveyor rotated to a conveyance direction back in the same direction. (B) is a detailed view of (a). An example of a case where an article placed on an article carrier in which several belt conveyors are united is supported by a support, and the article is fed in the same direction by a belt conveyor that rotates backward in the conveying direction while the article is supported by the support. FIG. The plane explanatory drawing of the article mounting body which made it possible to move the belt in the same direction by moving the locking tool on the back surface of the belt in the conveyance direction, and to send the article on the belt in the same direction. (A) is plane explanatory drawing in case the articles | goods mounting body of the articles | goods conveyance / delivery apparatus of this invention is a roller conveyor, (b) rotates the roller conveyor shown in (a) with a rotating belt, and the article | item on a roller conveyor is shown. Side surface explanatory drawing in the case of sending out diagonally back in the conveyance direction. (A) is plane explanatory drawing in case the article mounting body of the articles | goods conveyance delivery apparatus of this invention is a roller conveyor, (b) tilts the roller conveyor shown to (a), and the conveyance direction is diagonally inclined. Side surface explanatory drawing in the case of sending out back. The top explanatory drawing in the case of sending out the article | item on the article mounting body comprised by two bars in the same direction with the sending body which moves diagonally back in a conveyance direction in the article conveyance delivery apparatus of this invention. (A) is plane explanatory drawing in the case of carrying an article on a support that swings in a keyboard shape in the article transporting and sending device of the present invention, and (b) is a neck that tilts the support tool downward in a keyboard shape. Side surface explanatory drawing in the case of swinging and feeding the article | item on a support tool diagonally back in a conveyance direction. (A) is a plan view during article conveyance in the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention, and (b) is a case where the article being conveyed passes from above the article conveyance body to above the speed reduction body and is sent to the side article reception body. Side explanatory drawing. (A) is a plan view showing an example of a conventional fruit and vegetable sorting device, (b) is a front view of a bucket-type fruit and vegetable mounting body in the device (a), and (c) is a fruit and vegetable mounting body in (b) lying on its side. The front view of the state which sends out fruit vegetables. (A) is a top view which shows the other example of the conventional fruit vegetable selection apparatus, (b) is a front view of the state which sends out fruit vegetables with the conveyor type fruit vegetable mounting body in the apparatus of (a). Plane explanatory drawing of the state which is a conventional fruit vegetable selection device, and sends the fruit vegetables currently conveyed with a conveyance body to a fruit vegetable acceptor by a transfer conveyor.

Explanation of symbols

1 Goods (fruit vegetables)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 2 Article conveyance body 3 Article mounting body 4 Article receiving body 5 Article support tool 6 Discriminating part 7 Discharge part 8 Input part 11 Chain 13 Main frame 14 Chain guide 15 Attachment 18 Endless belt 35 Locking tool 41 Locking tool guide 43 Guide body 44 Switching lever 45 Rotating body 50 Unit 52 Roller 53 Belt conveyor 54 Locking tool 56 Roller conveyor 61 Drive pin 62 Mounting table 63 Sending body 65 Locking tool 100 Support material 101 Support shaft 102 Locking tool 110 Deceleration body

  The article conveyance / delivery method of the present invention is a method in which various articles are conveyed by an article conveyance body, and sent out obliquely backward in the conveyance direction at a predetermined position, and the article conveyance / delivery apparatus is an apparatus for realizing the method. These methods and devices are, for example, various kinds of standards such as round fruit vegetables such as tomatoes, peaches, pears and strawberries, and long fruit vegetables such as peppers and eggplants according to size, shape, color, and sugar content. It is suitable for use as an automatic fruit vegetable sorting method and fruit vegetable automatic sorting device that automatically sorts differently (by grade).

(Embodiment 1 of article conveying and sending method)
An example of an embodiment of an article conveyance / delivery method of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In this example, the goods transporting and sending method can be selected from round-shaped fruit vegetables such as tomatoes, peaches, pears, and strawberries, and long fruit vegetables such as pepper and eggplant, by size, shape, color, and sugar content. An example used as an automatic vegetable vegetable sorting method for automatically sorting by standard (by grade) will be described. As shown in FIG. 1, this article transporting and sending method places an article (fruit or vegetable) 1 on an article carrier 3 of an article transporter 2 and transports it in the direction of arrow a. When it is automatically discriminated according to the standard, and the fruit vegetable 1 after discrimination is conveyed to the side of the pool conveyor (article receiver) 4 arranged on the side of the article carrier, as shown in FIG. This is a method in which the fruit vegetables 1 on the article mounting body 3 are driven obliquely rearward and sent out in the same direction according to the standard to be mounted on the article receiving body 4. As shown in FIG. 1, the article receiver 4 is arranged at several locations on the side of the article carrier 2 according to the specifications of fruit vegetables, and the fruit vegetables 1 are sent out to the respective article receivers 4 according to standards. In this method, the article carrier 3 is an endless belt 18 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, and the fruit vegetable 1 mounted on the endless belt 18 with the article support 5 attached to the upper surface thereof is attached to the article support 5. It can be supported by. 1 to 3, the delivery side of the endless belt 18 is disposed obliquely toward the rear of the article receiver 4, and when the endless belt 18 rotates or moves, the fruit vegetables 1 thereon are moved in the transport direction. It was made to be able to feed diagonally backward, and the speed of fruit vegetable 1 was reduced to save the momentum of fruit vegetable 1.

(Embodiment 2 of article conveyance / delivery method)
In the article conveying and sending method of the present invention, the fruit vegetables 1 being conveyed by the article conveying body 2 are fed obliquely backward in the conveying direction by the article mounting body 3 having one belt conveyor as described in the first embodiment. For example, as shown in FIGS. 9 (a) and 9 (b), two adjacent belt conveyor type article mounting bodies 3 are used as a set of units 50, or as shown in FIG. The four belt conveyor type article carrying bodies 3 to be made into a set of units 50 so that two or more fruit vegetables 1 can be placed on each unit 50, and each belt conveyor is obliquely rearward in the conveying direction. It can also be moved to and sent out.

(Embodiment 3 of article conveyance / delivery method)
The fruit vegetables 1 can be sent out obliquely backward in the conveying direction by a belt conveyor type article mounting body 3 in which two endless belts 18 having a narrow width are arranged in parallel as shown in FIGS.

(Embodiment 4 of article conveyance / delivery method)
The fruit vegetables 1 can be sent obliquely backward in the conveying direction by a roller conveyor type article mounting body 3 that is rotatably provided with rollers as shown in FIGS.

(Embodiment 5 of article conveyance and delivery method)
The fruit vegetables 1 can be sent out obliquely rearward in the conveying direction by a roller conveyor type article mounting body 3 that can be inclined obliquely rearward by an inclination mechanism as shown in FIGS. The tilting mechanism operates based on the determination result to send the article obliquely backward.

(Embodiment 6 of article conveyance / delivery method)
In the article conveying and sending method of the present invention, the fruit vegetables 1 being conveyed by the article conveying body 2 are fed out obliquely rearward in the conveying direction, as shown in FIG. The fruit vegetables 1 placed on the mounting table 62 using the article mounting body 3 composed of a mounting table 62 on which the fruit vegetables 1 can be mounted and a delivery body 63 that can reciprocate along the mounting table 62. Can be pushed out in the direction of the arrow by the movement of the delivery body 63 and sent out to the article receiver 4 obliquely backward in the transport direction. The article mounting body 3 is not limited to the one shown in FIG. 14, and if the fruit vegetable 1 can be sent diagonally backward by pushing the fruit vegetables 1 on the mounting table 62 by the sending body 63, for example, the mounting table is a plate. For example, it may be a fixing tool such as a roller conveyor that is rotatably arranged obliquely rearward in the conveying direction.

(Embodiment 7 of article conveyance / delivery method)
In the article conveying and sending method of the present invention, the feeding of the fruit vegetables 1 being conveyed by the article conveying body 2 obliquely backward in the conveying direction is not limited to the method described in each of the above embodiments, and is shown in FIGS. It can also be performed by a keyboard-like article mounting body 3 as shown. In this case, as shown in FIG. 15 (a), the article mounting body 3 is a rectangular bar-shaped support material 100 arranged obliquely rearward in the transport direction, and a large number of support materials 100 are directed obliquely rearward in the transport direction. It is also possible that the support members 100 can be swung in a keyboard shape around the support shaft 101 by a swing drive body (not shown) so that the fruit vegetables 1 on the article mounting body 3 can be slid diagonally backward in the transport direction. it can.

(Embodiment 8 of article conveyance / delivery method)
In the article conveyance / delivery method of the present invention, as shown in FIGS. 16 (a) and 16 (b), the article carrier is provided by the speed reducer 110 provided between the article carrier 3 and the article receiver 4 of the article carrier 2. It is also possible to reduce the delivery speed of the fruit vegetables 1 that are fed from 3 to the article receiver 4 obliquely backward in the transport direction. At this time, as the speed reducer 110, a plate material, a tape, or the like whose surface is processed with a fluorine resin can be used. The speed reducer 110 can also be arranged in an upward inclination from the article mounting body 3 toward the article receiver 4. In that case, as shown in the figure, the upper surface of the article receiver 4 can be made higher than the upper surface of the article carrier 3, or the article receiver 4 itself can be inclined upward. The speed reducer 110 can also be provided on the outlet side of the article carrier 3 or the inlet side of the article receiver 4. Further, the speed reduction of the feeding speed of the fruit vegetables 1 is not limited to that by the speed reducer 110, and the upper surface of the article receiver 4 is made higher than the upper face of the article mounting body 3 without providing the speed reducer 110, It can also be performed by making the receiving body 4 itself uphill.

(Other embodiments of the article conveying and sending method)
In the article conveyance and delivery method of the present invention, the fruit vegetables 1 being conveyed by the article conveyance body 2 are not limited to those described in the above embodiments, but can be delivered by any other means. it can.

  In the article conveyance / delivery method of the present invention, the delivery of the fruit vegetables 1 from the article conveyance body 2 obliquely rearward in the conveyance direction is not limited to the article receiver 4, and can be performed to any other place. In some cases, the article receiver 4 can be omitted.

(Embodiment 1 of article conveyance / delivery apparatus)
An example of an embodiment of an article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In this example, the goods transporting and sending device is a variety of products such as round fruit vegetables such as tomatoes, peaches, pears and strawberries, and long fruit vegetables such as pepper and eggplant, by size, shape, color, and sugar content. An example used as an automatic vegetable vegetable sorting device for automatically sorting by standard (by grade) will be described. As shown in FIG. 1, the article transporting and sending apparatus places fruit vegetables 1 on an article mounting body 3 of an article transport body 2 and transports the fruit vegetables 1 in the direction of arrow a. When automatically discriminating according to standards such as color, and the fruit vegetables 1 after the discrimination are conveyed to the side of a pool conveyor (article receiver) 4 arranged on the side of the article carrier 2, as shown in FIG. The article mounting body 3 is driven, and the fruit vegetables 1 on the article mounting body 3 are sent out obliquely rearward in the conveying direction to be placed on the article receiving body 4. As shown in FIG. 1, the article receiver 4 is arranged at several locations on the side of the article carrier 2 according to the specifications of fruit vegetables, and the fruit vegetables 1 are sent out to the respective article receivers 4 according to standards. The article carrier 3 is a belt conveyor type as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, and the article support 5 is attached to the upper surface of the endless belt 18 so that the fruit vegetables 1 placed on the article carrier 3 can be supported. There is also provided a locking member 35 projecting downward from the lower surface of the endless belt 18, which is provided along the guide body 43 shown in FIG. 3 on the side opposite to the article receiver 4 (right side in FIG. 4). ), The upper traveling portion of the endless belt 18 rotates toward the article receiver 4 (left rotation in FIG. 4) so that the fruit vegetables 1 placed on the upper traveling portion are sent to the article receiver 4. It is. In this case, the delivery side of the article carrier 3 is disposed obliquely toward the rear of the article receiver 4 as shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, and the delivery speed of the fruit vegetables 1 delivered from the article carrier 3 is reduced. The momentum of fruit vegetables 1 is saved. Hereinafter, the article transport body 2, the article placing body 3 and the like will be described in detail.

  The article carrier 2 shown in FIG. 1 has a plurality of elongated article mounts 3 attached to an endless chain 11 installed on a drive sprocket 10a and a driven sprocket 10b. As a result, the drive sprocket 10a rotates and moves in the same direction when the chain 11 moves in the direction of arrow a. Each of the article mounting bodies 3 is mounted with the delivery side 3a facing diagonally backward in the movement direction of the chain 11 (see FIG. 2).

  As shown in FIG. 3, the transport chain 11 is accommodated in a square hook-shaped chain guide 14 having an upper opening at an upper opening so as to run inside the chain. As shown in FIG. 5, the chain guide 14 is installed on the upper surface of the main frame 13 of the article transport / delivery device. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 6, attachments 15 are attached to the chain 11 at regular intervals, and a frame 16 (FIG. 6) of the article mounting body 3 is attached to the attachment 15.

  1 to FIG. 5 is a belt conveyor provided with a support plate 19 and an endless belt 18 as shown in FIG. 7, and the fruit vegetables 1 placed on the upper surface of the endless belt 18 by rotation of the endless belt 18. To the other side of the rotation direction (receiving body 4 side).

  As shown in FIG. 6, the support plate 19 has a front side plate 21 and a rear side plate 22 on the outer side of the elongated central plate 20, and a guide portion 23 having a substantially triangular shape is formed on the front end of the rear side plate 22. The side plate 21 is projected beyond the front end portion. A front space 24 is formed on the front end side of the support plate 19, and a rear space 25 is formed on the rear end side.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the endless belt 18 is wound around the outer periphery of the front free roller 26, the guide roller 27, and the rear free roller 28, and the lower end of the end portion is inclined upward, and the endless belt 18 is centered on the central plate 20 of the support plate 19. The front end portion of the endless belt 18 and the front free roller 26 and the guide roller 27 are placed in the front space portion 24 of the support plate 19, and the rear end portion and the rear free roller 28 are placed in the rear space portion 25 of the support plate 19. It is arranged in. This fruit and vegetable mounting body 3 is accommodated in the conveyor frame 16 having an upper opening shown in FIG. 4, and the rotation shaft 29 of the front free roller 26 is rotatably supported by the front receiving groove 30 of the conveyor frame 16, and the rotation of the guide roller 27 is performed. The shaft 31 is rotatably passed through the support hole 32 of the conveyor frame 16, and the rotary shaft 33 of the rear free roller 28 is rotatably supported by the rear receiving groove 34 of the conveyor frame 16 to be set as shown in FIG. ing.

  The article support 5 is fixed to the upper surface of the endless belt 18 by fixing means such as an adhesive or a screw. The article support 5 is made of sponge, rubber, soft resin or the like so that the fruit vegetables 1 are not damaged. The fruit support 1 has a truncated cone shape, and the lower part of the fruit vegetables 1 is thin, for example, tomatoes and apples. Even swelled fruit vegetables can be supported stably. The material and shape of the article support 5 are not limited to this and can be arbitrary. The article support 5 can be omitted.

  A locking member 35 (FIG. 6) is attached to the lower surface of the endless belt 18. As shown in FIG. 6, a bolt is used for the illustrated locking device 35, and the bolt 37 is disposed on the bottom plate 36 of the conveyor frame 16, and the top cover is placed above and below the holding device 37. A nut 40 is fastened to a lower end screw of a bolt passing through the plate 38 and the lower plate 39 and fixed to the bottom plate 36 of the conveyor frame 16 so as to protrude downward. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the locking device 35 is guided and moved in a square hook-shaped locking device guide 41 having an upper opening provided in parallel with the chain guide 14. As shown in FIG. 5, the locking tool guide 41 is arranged and fixed in parallel with the chain guide 14 on the upper surface of the main frame 13 of the article transport / delivery device. Moreover, the locking tool guide 41 is not provided in the installation part of the guide body 43, as shown in FIG.

  The article carrier 3 formed as shown in FIG. 7 is fixed to the chain 11 by attaching the conveyor frame 16 (FIG. 4) to the attachment 15 of the chain 11 with screws 42 (FIG. 6). In this case, the delivery side 3a of the article mounting body 3 is attached obliquely toward the rear in the transport direction of the chain 11, and the fruit vegetables 1 on the article mounting body 3 are sent out obliquely rearward in the transport direction. The attachment angle (θ in FIG. 2) of the article mounting body 3 can be set to any angle as long as the fruit vegetables 1 can be fed obliquely backward in the transport direction, and can be, for example, about 30 ° to 60 °. In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 6, a triangular guide portion 23 that protrudes further forward than the front end of the front side plate 21 is formed at the front end portion of the rear side plate 22 of the article mounting body 3. Even if the delivery side 3 a of the mounting body 3 is disposed obliquely rearward with respect to the article transport body 2, the tip of the article mounting body 3 and the article transport body 2 are blocked by the triangular guide portion 23. There are almost no gaps. For this reason, there is no case where the fruit vegetables 1 delivered from the endless belt 18 of the article carrier 3 are difficult to transfer to the article receiver 4 or the fruit vegetables 1 fall.

  Although the width of the article mounting body 3 and the adjacent interval between the article mounting bodies 3 vary depending on the size, shape, etc. of the fruit vegetables 1 to be mounted, the width of the article mounting body 3 is basically as shown in FIG. The width can be set so that one fruit vegetable 1 can be placed, and the adjacent interval can be placed across two or more article mounting bodies 3 as shown in FIG. 8 (b). For example, as shown in FIG. 2, it is preferable to set so that a large rounded fruit vegetable 1 or the like can be placed across two or more article mounting bodies 3.

  The discriminating unit 6 is a part that is provided on the transport path of the article transporter 2 and automatically discriminates the fruit vegetables 1 being transported by standard. The discriminating unit 6 includes various devices necessary for discrimination, such as a camera, a sugar content sensor, and a weigh scale, as in the existing discriminating device, and measures the shape, size, weight, color, sugar content, etc. of the fruit vegetables 1 being conveyed. The standard can be discriminated automatically.

  A large number of guide bodies 43 are arranged in front of the determination unit 6 shown in FIG. 1 and obliquely rearward with respect to the transport direction of the article transport body 2. A switching lever 44 is disposed on the distal end side of each guide body 43. The switching lever 44 switches the movement direction of the locking tool 35 of the article carrying body 3 based on the determination result of the determination unit 6, and the guide body 43 guides the movement of the locking tool 35 along the switching direction. is there. The guide body 43 is an L-shaped elongated plate shown in FIG. 3, and its tip side is arranged obliquely rearward with respect to the chain guide 14 on the main frame 13 of the sorting device as shown in FIG. is there. The switching lever 44 is attached to the rotating body 45 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, and by rotating the rotating body 45, the path invariant position (FIG. 3a) in the direction parallel to the article conveying body 2 and the article conveying It is switched to the course changing position (FIG. 3b) in the direction crossing the body 2, and when it is in the course invariant position (FIG. 3a), it is below the bottom surface of the article carrier 3 conveyed by the article carrier 2. The protruding locking member 35 advances straight without touching the switching lever 44 and the guide body 43, the endless belt 18 of the article mounting body 3 does not operate, and the fruit and vegetables on it are not sent out. When the switching lever 44 is switched to the course changing position (FIG. 3b), the locking member 35 of the article carrying body 3 conveyed by the article conveying body 2 hits the switching lever 44 and is prevented from going straight, leading to the guide body 43 side. Then, it travels along the guide body 43 and moves in the direction of arrow A in FIGS. 3B and 4, and simultaneously, the lower side of the endless belt 18 also moves in the same direction. It moves in the direction of the article receiver 4 arranged on the side (feeding direction: arrow B direction in FIG. 4), and the fruit vegetables 1 on the endless belt 18 are sent to the article receiver 4. Switching of the switching lever 44 by the rotation of the rotating body 45 is controlled by a control device according to the determination result in the determination unit 6.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the article receiver 4 arranged on the side of the article transporter 2 inherits the fruit vegetables 1 sent from the discharge unit 7 of the article transporter 2 and transports them as they are or temporarily pools them. In the case of FIG. 1, a large number of belt conveyors are used, and these belt conveyors are arranged in parallel at two locations so as to be orthogonal to the article carrier 2. In FIG. 1, the article receiver 4 is provided at two places in the carrying direction of the article carrier 2, but the article receiver 4 is provided at several places in the carrying direction of the article carrier 2 for each kind and standard of the fruit vegetables 1. The fruit vegetables 1 can be sent out to the article receivers 4 at the respective locations according to types and standards. Rather than having the same number of belt conveyors for all the article receivers 4, the article conveyor 4 of the article receiver 4 that takes over a large number and variety of fruit vegetables 1 is increased in number, and the article receiver 4 that inherits a small number of fruit vegetables 1. The number of belt conveyors can be reduced. The belt conveyor of the article receiver 4 can be always rotated. However, when the fruit vegetables 1 are not sent out, they are temporarily stopped and kept waiting, and when the fruit vegetables 1 are sent out from the article carrier 3, the fruit vegetables. It can also be controlled so that the fruit vegetables 1 are placed by rotating by one. The rotation control of the belt conveyor is performed by the control device according to the determination result by the determination unit 6.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a return guide body 46 is disposed in the transport direction ahead of the discharge unit 7 of the article transport body 2. The return guide body 46 is disposed obliquely in the opposite direction to the guide body 43. The article mounting body 3 that has sent the fruit vegetables 1 to the article receiver 4 is guided by the guide body 43 when the article carrier 2 is fed to the end of the discharge unit 7 by the article carrier 2 after feeding the article 1 to the article receiver 4. Thus, the locking member 35 located in the direction away from the article receiver 4 can be guided in the reverse direction and returned to the original position.

  The vicinity of the conveyance start point of the article transport body 2 shown in FIG. 1 (the left end side in FIG. 1) is a loading section 8 on which the fruit vegetables 1 are placed on the article mounting body 3, and the loading section 8 can accommodate several workers. The length of is secured.

  In the side of the article receiver 4 in FIG. 1, a work space is secured for the operator to manually take out the fruit vegetables 1 pooled in the article receiver 4 and perform the boxing operation, and several people are also lined up here. The space is large enough to work with. The article receiver 4 is not limited to one having a plurality of belt conveyors arranged side by side as described above, and may be an arbitrary one such as a roller conveyor. Further, instead of the article receiver 4, it is possible to provide a transport line of another device. Further, the article receiver 4 can be omitted.

(Usage example of article transport / delivery device)
In order to convey and sort fruit vegetables by the automatic fruit vegetable sorting apparatus using the article transport and delivery device of the present invention, the following is performed.
(1) Place the fruit vegetables 1 on the article carrier 3 of the article carrier 2 being conveyed in the loading unit 8. In this case, depending on the shape, size, and the like of the fruit vegetables 1, one fruit vegetable 1 is placed on one article placing body 3 or placed across two or more article placing bodies 3.
(2) The fruits and vegetables 1 placed on the input unit 8 are conveyed by the article carrier 2, and the determination unit 6 measures the shape, size, weight, sugar content, etc., and the standard is automatically determined.
(3) The measured fruit vegetables 1 are transported to the discharge unit 7 by the article transport body 2.
(4) The discharge unit 7 is instructed on which article carrier 3 to send out the fruit vegetables 1 to which article receiver 4 based on the determination result. Based on this instruction, the switching operation tool (rotary body) 45 is The switch lever 44 is operated to switch to the course changing position, and the locking tool 35 of the article mounting body 3 on which the fruit vegetables 1 are placed hits the switch lever 44 and is guided to the guide body 43 (see FIG. 4). At this time, when the fruit vegetables 1 are placed across two or more article mounting bodies 3, the two or more switching operation tools (rotating bodies) 45 operate in synchronism, and the two or more article mounting bodies 3 are moved. Are instructed to be guided to the respective guide bodies 43.
(5) When the locking tool 35 of the article mounting body 3 is guided by the guide body 43, the lower side (lower traveling portion) of the endless belt 18 of the article mounting body 3 moves in the same direction as the locking tool 35, Thereby, the upper side (upper travel part) of the endless belt 18 rotates to the opposite side to the lower travel part, and the fruit vegetables 1 placed on the upper travel part are sent to the article receiver 4. At this time, the belt conveyor of the article receiver 4 to which the fruit vegetables 1 are handed over is rotated by one fruit vegetable so that only one fruit vegetable 1 can be placed on the belt conveyor. By repeating this, the fruit vegetables 1 are sequentially sent to the article receiver 4, and the fruit vegetables 1 are pooled on the belt conveyor of the article receiver 4 of a predetermined standard according to the determination result. Further, since the article carrier 3 is directed obliquely rearward in the conveyance direction of the article carrier 2, the fruit vegetables 1 on the article carrier 3 are sent in that direction (the direction opposite to the conveyance direction of the article carrier 2). The fruit and vegetables 1 are not damaged when the delivery speed is reduced, the momentum is too strong to roll over, or when it collides with the fruit and vegetables 1 pooled in the article receiver 4.
(6) The article carrying body 3 that has delivered the fruit vegetables 1 is further conveyed by the article conveying body 2 and is positioned in a direction away from the article receiving body 4 by the return guide body 46 arranged in the middle of the conveying path. The locking tool 35 is guided in the reverse direction and returned to the original position, and returned to the starting end of the article carrier 2.
(7) In (4), when there is an instruction to advance the article mounting body 3 as it is, the switching operation tool (rotating body) 45 does not operate and the switching lever 44 remains stopped at the path invariable position. Then, the locking tool 35 of the article mounting body 3 on which the fruit vegetables 1 are placed passes through the front of the article mounting body 3 without contacting the switching lever 44, and the conveyance is continued. When transported to a predetermined position and arrives at the delivery position, an instruction is issued to switch the switching lever 44 to the course change position based on the measurement result, and the locking device 35 of the article mounting body 3 is Thus, the guide body 43 guides the endless belt 18 of the article mounting body 3 in the same manner as in the above (5), and the fruit vegetables 1 are sent out to the article receiver 4.

(Embodiment 2 of article conveyance / delivery apparatus)
Another example of the embodiment of the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention is shown in FIG. The article carrier 3 of this article transporting and sending apparatus is a belt conveyor system in which two endless belts 18 having a narrow width are arranged in parallel. The two belts 18 in the front in the transport direction (left side in FIG. 11) have their tip positions made longer than those in the front in the transport direction (right side in FIG. 11), so that both belts 18 are inclined backward to the transport body 2. Even if they are arranged, the tip portions of both belts 18 approach the article receiver 4 so that there is almost no gap in the gap 51 between the article holder 3 and the article receiver 4, and the article holder 3 to the article receiver 4. In addition, fruit vegetables 1 are taken over smoothly. The endless belt 18 may be three or more.

(Embodiment 3 of article conveyance / delivery apparatus)
FIGS. 12A and 12B show a third embodiment of the article transport / delivery apparatus of the present invention. The article carrying body of the article transporting and sending apparatus has a roller conveyor structure in which a large number of rollers 52 are rotatably provided. A belt conveyor 53 is provided in contact with each roller 52 under the rollers 52, and the belt conveyor 53 is When rotating, each roller 52 rotates and the fruit vegetables 1 on the roller conveyor are sent out to the article receiver 4. As shown in FIG. 12B, the belt conveyor 53 can be rotated by moving a locking tool 54 provided at the lower traveling portion of the belt conveyor 53 in the left-right direction of FIG. When the locking device 54 is moved to the left, the belt conveyor rotates to the right, each roller 52 rotates to the left, and the fruit vegetables 1 on the roller 52 are sent to the left side of FIG. 12 (b) (the article receiver 4 side). It is like that.

(Embodiment 4 of article conveyance / delivery apparatus)
FIGS. 13A and 13B show a fourth embodiment of the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention. The article carrying body of this article transporting and sending apparatus is a roller conveyor 56 in which a number of rollers 55 are rotatably provided on a frame 57, and the frame 57 is centered on a support shaft 58 as shown in FIG. It is provided on the support base 59 so as to be pivotable to the left and right (seesaw type), and the left and right sides of the support shaft 58 of the frame 42 are connected to the support base 59 by springs 60 to hold the frame 57 horizontally. A drive pin 61 is provided under one end, and when the drive pin 61 is lifted (pushed up) from below, the roller conveyor 56 is inclined downward on the left side (receiver 4 side) in FIG. The fruit vegetables 1 fall on the article receiver 4. When the lifting (pushing up) of the drive pin 61 is released, the roller conveyor 56 returns to the horizontal state by the pulling force of the spring 60.

(Embodiment 5 of article conveyance / delivery apparatus)
FIG. 14 shows a fifth embodiment of the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention. The article carrying body 3 of the article transporting and sending apparatus includes a placing table 62 on which two bars are arranged in parallel so that the fruit vegetables 1 can be placed, and a sending body 63 that can reciprocate along the placing table 62. The fruit vegetables 1 placed on the mounting table 62 can be pushed out in the direction of the arrow by the movement of the sending body 63 and sent out to the article receiver 4. The sending body 63 has a contact surface 64 curved in an arc shape so that the fruit vegetables 1 are stabilized. The bar used for the mounting table 62 preferably has a small sliding resistance and the fruit vegetables 1 are easy to slide. For example, a metal bar coated with a fluororesin or a resin bar is suitable. The sending body 63 can reciprocate a locking tool 65 provided on the lower side thereof by an arbitrary driving mechanism. The article mounting body 3 in FIG. 14 is also attached obliquely rearward with respect to the conveyance direction of the article conveyance body 2 by the bracket 66. The mounting table 62 may be an arbitrary one such as a fixture such as three or more bars or plates, or a roller conveyor that is arranged to be rotatable obliquely rearward in the transport direction, as long as the fruit vegetable 1 can be placed thereon. be able to.

(Embodiment 6 of article conveyance / delivery apparatus)
FIGS. 15A and 15B show a sixth embodiment of the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention. The article carrying body 3 of the article transporting and sending apparatus is a keyboard-like (square bar-like) support material 100 arranged obliquely rearward in the transport direction, and includes a large number of support materials 100 arranged in a keyboard shape in the transport direction. It is a thing. As shown in FIG. 15B, each support member 100 can be swung in a keyboard shape around a support shaft 101 by a swing drive body (not shown). 3 fruit vegetables 1 can be sent out obliquely backward in the conveying direction. On the lower side of the support member 100, there is provided a locking tool 102 that locks the swinged support member 100 so that it does not swing more than necessary. A large number of support materials 100 are arranged close to each other so that the fruit vegetables 1 can be placed on one or more support materials 100 at any position. Further, the support material 100 may be an elongated flat plate.

(Embodiment 7 of article transport / delivery apparatus)
FIGS. 9A and 9B show a seventh embodiment of the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention. In this article transport / delivery apparatus, two adjacent belt conveyor type article mounts 3 are set as a set of units 50 so that two or more fruit vegetables 1 can be placed on each unit 50. That is, two or more article mounting bodies 3 are operated synchronously so that the fruit vegetables 1 can be delivered to the article receiver 4. The unit 50 may be a set of three or more units. The article mounting body 3 of each unit 50 is set on a frame as shown in FIG. 9B, and both frames are connected in parallel and obliquely parallel. In addition, as shown in FIG. 10, the unit 50 may be a set of units 50 including the four adjacent belt conveyor type article mounts 3. In the unit 50 shown in FIG. 10, the article support 5 is provided so as to straddle the four belt conveyor type article platforms 3. Also in this case, it is possible to send the fruit vegetables 1 to the article receiver 4 by synchronously operating the four belt conveyors. Further, the unit 50 is not limited to the combination of the belt conveyor type article mounting bodies 3 and can be formed by combining the article mounting bodies 3 described in any of the above embodiments.

(Embodiment 8 of article conveyance / delivery apparatus)
FIGS. 16A and 16B show a seventh embodiment of the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention. In this article transport / delivery device, a speed reducing body 110 is provided between the article carrier 3 and the article receiver 4 of the article transport body 2. The speed reducer 110 is made of a plate material whose surface is processed with a fluororesin or the like, and is arranged in an upward inclination from the article mounting body 3 toward the article receiving body 4 as shown in FIG. In this case, the upper surface of the article receiver 4 is made higher than the upper surface of the article carrier 3. The inclination angle of the speed reducer 110 can be arbitrarily set, for example, 1 ° to 10 °, but about 3 ° is desirable. The speed reducer 110 can be provided without being inclined. The speed reducer 110 can also be provided on the outlet side of the article carrier 3 or the inlet side of the article receiver 4. With this speed reducer 110, the feeding speed of the fruit vegetables 1 fed obliquely rearward in the transport direction from the article mounting body 3 to the article receiver 4 can be reduced. Further, the speed reducer 110 is omitted, and the feed rate of the fruit vegetables 1 is reduced by making the upper surface of the article receiver 4 higher than the upper surface of the article carrier 3 or by making the article receiver 4 itself incline upward. You can also.

(Other embodiment of article conveyance / delivery apparatus)
In the article transport / delivery apparatus of the present invention, the means for feeding the fruit vegetables 1 being transported by the article transport body 2 diagonally backward in the transport direction is not limited to those described in the above embodiments, and is performed by any other means. Can do.

  In the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention, the article receiver 4 can be omitted, and the fruit vegetables 1 fed from the article conveyance body 2 obliquely backward in the conveyance direction can be sent to an arbitrary place.

  The article conveyance / delivery method, fruit vegetable sorting method, article conveyance / delivery apparatus and fruit vegetable sorting apparatus used for carrying out the method of the present invention are not limited to fruit vegetable sorting, but are two primary industrial products such as agricultural products and marine products, and industrial products. It can also be applied to the transportation, delivery, and sorting of various items such as next industrial products.

  The present invention conveys various articles such as primary industrial products such as agricultural products and marine products, and secondary industrial products such as industrial products, and allows the articles to be sent to the side in the conveyance direction at a predetermined position during the conveyance. Methods, especially round fruit vegetables such as tomatoes, peaches, pears and strawberries, and long fruit vegetables such as pepper and eggplant, according to various standards such as size, shape, color and sugar content (by grade) And an article conveying and sending apparatus used for the implementation thereof.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there are various types of article conveyance / delivery devices that convey an article and send the article to a side in the conveyance direction at a predetermined position during the conveyance, and fruit vegetable sorting apparatuses using the article conveyance / delivery apparatus. As one of such fruit vegetable sorting apparatuses, there is a bucket-type fruit and vegetables sorting apparatus as shown in FIGS. This fruit vegetable sorting device carries fruit vegetables A on a bucket C attached to a chain B and conveys them, and measures the size, shape, etc. of the fruit vegetables A by the measuring means D during the conveyance, and discriminates them. When the fruit vegetables A are conveyed to the receiver (pool part) E, the bucket C falls sideways as shown in FIG. 17C so that the fruit vegetables A on the bucket C are discharged to the receiver E. It is a thing. In this case, the standard number of receivers E of fruit vegetables A are arranged beside the chain B, and the determined fruit vegetables A are discharged to the respective receivers E by standard. In this fruit vegetable sorting apparatus, when the fruit vegetables are discharged, the fruit vegetables A may roll on the receiver E and collide with the fruit vegetables A that have been discharged to the receiver E before being damaged.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the applicant of the present application developed various fruit vegetable sorting apparatuses and applied for patents (Patent Document 1).

  As shown in FIGS. 18 (a) and 18 (b), the fruit and vegetable sorting apparatus described in Patent Document 1 has a large number of fruit and vegetable mounting bodies F on which fruits and vegetables A are placed on a chain B, and the fruit and vegetable mounting bodies F are of a belt conveyor type. When the fruit and vegetables A loaded thereon are conveyed to a predetermined position, the fruit and vegetables loaded body F rotates in a direction (arrow b direction) 90 degrees perpendicular to the moving direction (arrow a direction) and the fruit vegetables A are chained B. It is made to send out to the pool conveyor G arrange | positioned to the side. Also in this case, the standard number of pool conveyors G of fruit vegetables A are arranged beside the chain B, and the determined fruit vegetables A are discharged to the respective pool conveyors G by standard. In this fruit vegetable sorting apparatus, when the fruit vegetable A on the fruit vegetable mounting body F is sent to the pool conveyor G, the fruit vegetable A has a momentum in the feeding direction, and the fruit vegetable A falls sideways or the fruit vegetable A is damaged. There was a risk of it.

  The present applicant has developed a fruit vegetable sorting apparatus described in Patent Document 2 in order to solve the above problems. As shown in FIG. 19, a transfer conveyor H that is inclined forward is disposed between the belt conveyor type fruit and vegetable carrier F and the pool conveyor G, and the fruit and vegetable carrier F is placed on the side in the conveying direction (arrow b). The fruit and vegetables A discharged in the direction) pass obliquely forward (in the direction of arrow c) on the transfer conveyor H and are sent to the pool conveyor G that is disposed in front of the transfer conveyor G and rotates in the direction of arrow d. is there.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-53275. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-99285.

  The fruit vegetable sorting apparatus described in Patent Document 2 does not damage the fruit vegetables or collide with other fruit vegetables when the fruit vegetables are discharged, but the structure is complicated and the cost increases because the transfer conveyor H is required. There is a problem that the entire apparatus becomes large.

The article conveyance and sending method of the present application is a method of sending an article being conveyed by the article conveyance body obliquely backward in the conveyance direction. In this case, it is also possible to feed an article that is being carried on the article carrier of the article carrier by operating the article carrier diagonally backward in the conveyance direction and sending the article being conveyed diagonally backward. It is also possible to send out the article being conveyed in the same direction by moving the delivery body separate from the article carrier inside in the conveyance direction obliquely rearward. The article also sent out to the conveying direction obliquely rearward cases may be to rest in the article receiving body which is arranged on the side of the article transport. Articles sent out obliquely backward in the conveying direction can also be decelerated. The article transporting and sending method of the present application can also be used as a fruit and vegetable automatic selection method in which fruit and vegetables being transported are automatically discriminated by standard in the discriminating unit, and the discriminated fruit and vegetables are sent obliquely backward in the transport direction by standard.

The article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present application is capable of sending an article being conveyed by an article conveyance body obliquely backward in the conveyance direction. An article carrier is an endless traveling body such as a chain attached with a large number of article carriers, and the article carrier moves diagonally rearward in the conveying direction during conveyance to feed articles on the article carrier in the same direction. It is possible. A driving body may be provided, and the article mounting body may be operated obliquely rearward in the conveyance direction by the driving body so that the article on the article mounting body can be sent out in the same direction.

The article carrier may be a belt conveyor, and when the belt conveyor moves or rotates obliquely rearward in the article conveyance direction, the article on the article carrier may be sent out in the same direction. Projecting the locking tool from the lower side of the belt conveyor, it is provided separately from the guide member and the fastener, the fastener locking tool when the belt conveyor is traveling is guided by the guide body conveyance direction diagonally forward The upper side of the belt conveyor can be moved or rotated obliquely rearward in the conveying direction along with the movement of the locking tool so that articles on the belt conveyor are sent out in the same direction. An article support is provided on the upper surface of the belt conveyor, the article is supported on the article support and placed on the belt conveyor, and the article support is moved in the same direction by moving or rotating the belt conveyor obliquely backward in the conveying direction. The articles on the belt conveyor can be sent out in the same direction.

  The article carrying body may be a roller conveyor, and the roller conveyor may contact the driving rotating body and rotate obliquely rearward in the conveying direction so that the article on the roller conveyor is sent out in the same direction by the rotation. The articles on the roller conveyor can be sent out in the same direction by tilting the roller conveyor downward and obliquely backward in the conveying direction by the driving body.

  When the article mounting body is a large number of support bodies that can be swung in a keyboard shape, and the support body is swung downward and obliquely backward in the transport direction by the swing drive body, the articles on the article mounting body are obliquely rearward in the transport direction. It can also be sent to.

In addition to the article mounting body, a sending body that is movable obliquely rearward in the article transport direction may be provided so that the article on the article mounting body is sent out in the same direction by the movement of the sending body. The article mounting body is a plate material, a fixture such as two or more bars arranged at intervals, and the article mounting body is disposed obliquely rearward in the transport direction, and the article mounting body is placed diagonally rearward in the transport direction. The article on the body can be sent out in the same direction. Alternatively, the article carrying body may be a roller conveyor, and a delivery body provided separately from the roller conveyor may move obliquely rearward in the transport direction so that the articles on the roller conveyor are sent out in the same direction.

  Among a large number of article mounting bodies attached to the traveling body, two or more adjacent article mounting bodies are used as a set of units, and each unit is wide enough to carry one or more articles. When the article mounting body is operated, the article can be sent obliquely backward in the transport direction.

  It is also possible to dispose an article receiver on the side of the article carrier so that an article sent obliquely rearward from the article carrier is placed on the article receiver.

  It is sent from the article carrier to the article receiver diagonally backward in the transport direction from the article carrier to the outlet side of the article carrier, between the article carrier and the article receiver, or at one or more locations on the inlet side of the article receiver. It is also possible to provide a decelerating body that decelerates the feed speed of the article to be printed. In the article conveying and sending apparatus of the present application, the article carrier is not provided with a speed reducing body, but the upper surface of the article receiver is inclined upward from the article carrier, or the upper surface of the article receiver is higher than the article carrier. It is also possible to decelerate the feed speed of the article that is sent from the article receiver to the article receiver obliquely backward in the conveying direction. In addition, a speed reducer can be provided on the upper surface of the article receiver.

  The article transport and delivery device of the present invention can be used as an automatic vegetable vegetable sorting device. In this case, the fruit vegetables being transported by the article transporter are automatically discriminated by standard in the discriminator, and the discriminated fruit vegetables are used as articles. It is also possible to carry the sheet further forward than the determination unit by the carrier and send it to the receiver obliquely rearward in the conveyance direction according to the standard.

The article conveying and sending method of the present application has the following effects.
(1) Since the article being conveyed by the article carrier is sent obliquely rearward in the conveyance direction, the delivery speed of the article is reduced, and the article is not easily rolled over or damaged and the article is easily damaged. Even if it is a case, there is almost no damage.
(2) When the article transport body is driven obliquely backward in the transport direction to send out the article, the article being transported can be reliably sent out.
(3) When an article being conveyed is sent out in the same direction by a sending body that moves obliquely backward in the conveying direction, the article is sent out while being placed on the conveying body, so that the article to be sent out is stabilized.
(4) When an article sent obliquely backward in the conveying direction from the article carrier is sent to an article receiver disposed on the side of the article carrier, a transit conveyor is provided between the article carrier and the article receiver. The article can be delivered to the article receiver with a simple configuration without necessity. Further, if two or more article receivers are prepared on the side of the article carrier, articles can be sent to the article receivers separately.
(5) When an article sent from the article transport body obliquely rearward in the transport direction is sent at a reduced delivery speed, the article that is decelerated by being sent obliquely rearward in the transport direction is further decelerated. Even if it is a fruit vegetable, it will hardly roll over at the time of delivery, or it will collide with other fruit vegetables, and it will be damaged, and there is no worry of damage.
(6) In the case of the automatic fruit and vegetable sorting method in which the fruit and vegetable being transported are automatically identified by the standard in the discriminating unit and the identified fruit and vegetables are sent diagonally backward in the transport direction according to the standard, the fruit and vegetables are automatically identified and sent out for each judgment. Can be performed reliably.

The article conveyance and delivery device of the present application has the following effects.
(1) When the article mounting body itself operates obliquely rearward in the conveying direction to send out the article in the same direction, when the article mounting body is driven diagonally backward in the conveying direction by the driving body to send out the article in the same direction, In the case of an apparatus that sends the article in the same direction by moving backward in the conveyance direction, the article delivery direction is diagonally opposite to the conveyance direction in any case, so the delivered article is automatically decelerated and stabilized. .
(2) Since the configuration is such that the article on the article mounting body is sent obliquely rearward in the transport direction by driving the article mounting body itself or moving the sending body different from that, the configuration is simplified.
(3) Since the article carrying body is a belt conveyor and the article support is provided on the belt conveyor, if the article is supported by the article support and placed on the belt conveyor, the article remains in the support state. Since the article is moved, the article is sent obliquely backward in the conveying direction while remaining stationary.
(4) Even when the article carrying body is a belt conveyor and the locking tool protruding from the belt conveyor is guided by the guide body and moves obliquely rearward in the transport direction, the belt conveyor moves or rotates in the same direction. The upper article is sent out stably and reliably.
(5) If the belt conveyor can be reciprocally moved, the belt conveyor can be automatically returned to the original position after the article is sent out, and the next article can be put on standby to speed up the work. it can.
(6) The article mounting body is made of a plate material that moves together with the endless traveling body, two or more bars, etc. Separately, a feeding body that moves obliquely rearward in the conveying direction and sends the article on the bar in the same direction is provided. Therefore, the articles on two or more bars can be sent out stably in a stationary state.
(7) Since the article carrying body is a roller conveyor and the drive rotating body that rotates the roller conveyor obliquely rearward in the conveying direction is provided, the article can be reliably sent out with a simple configuration.
(8) Since the article carrying body is a roller conveyor, these roller conveyors are arranged so as to be able to rotate obliquely rearward in the article conveying direction, and the articles on the roller conveyor are sent out in the same direction by the sending body. It can be reliably sent out by the sending body.
(9) Since the article carrying body is a roller conveyor and an inclined driving body that tilts the roller conveyor is provided, the fruit vegetables on the roller conveyor can be reliably placed diagonally backward in the article conveying direction simply by tilting the roller conveyor with the inclined driving body. Can be sent out.
(10) Since the article mounting body is made of a number of supports that can be swung in a keyboard shape, and the support tool can be driven to swing downward in a slanting rearward direction in the transport direction by the swing drive body, the support tool is swung. It is possible to send the article on the support tool obliquely rearward in the conveying direction simply by making it happen.
(11) Since two or more of the many article mounting bodies attached to the traveling body are set as a unit and one or more articles can be placed on each unit, one individual article is placed on each unit. It can be put on and sent out reliably.
(12) When an article receiver for receiving an article sent obliquely rearward from the article carrier is disposed on the side of the article carrier, there is no need to provide a transit conveyor between the article carrier and the article receiver. Thus, the article can be reliably sent to the article receiver with a simple configuration.
(13) Since a decelerating body is provided to decelerate the feed speed of the articles sent obliquely backward in the conveying direction from the article carrier, the momentum of the fruit vegetables delivered from the article carrier can be further reduced, and the fruit vegetables are momentarily rolled over There is almost no risk of damage or damage.
(14) The upper surface of the article receiver is inclined upward from the article carrier, or the upper surface of the article receiver is made higher than the article carrier, and is sent from the article carrier to the article receiver obliquely rearward in the conveying direction. Even if the article feeding speed can be reduced, the momentum of the fruit and vegetables to be delivered can be further reduced, and there is almost no possibility that the fruit and vegetables will gain momentum and roll over or be damaged.
(15) On the upper surface of the article receiver that is inclined upward or on the upper surface of the article receiver that is higher than the article carrier, the feeding speed of the article that is fed obliquely rearward from the article carrier to the article receiver in the conveying direction Even when a deceleration body for decelerating is provided, it is possible to further reduce the momentum of the fruit and vegetables that are sent out, and there is almost no possibility that the fruit and vegetables will gain momentum and roll over or be damaged.
(16) When a large number of article mounting bodies are arranged in the transport direction, the article can be transported regardless of the article mounting body, and can be sent obliquely backward during transport.

  When the article transporting and sending device of the present application is used for an automatic fruit vegetable sorting device, fruit vegetables transported by the article transporter are discriminated by standard during transport, and the article is placed on the side of the article transporter based on the determination result. Since it is sent to the arranged article receiver diagonally backward in the conveyance direction, the fruit and vegetables to be sent out are automatically decelerated, and the fruit and vegetables are momentarily rolled over and fall from the article receiver, or other fruit vegetables that have been sent out earlier There is almost no damage caused by collision.

  The article conveyance / delivery method of the present invention is a method in which various articles are conveyed by an article conveyance body, and sent out obliquely backward in the conveyance direction at a predetermined position, and the article conveyance / delivery apparatus is an apparatus for realizing the method. These methods and devices are, for example, various kinds of standards such as round fruit vegetables such as tomatoes, peaches, pears and strawberries, and long fruit vegetables such as peppers and eggplants according to size, shape, color, and sugar content. It is suitable for use as an automatic fruit vegetable sorting method and fruit vegetable automatic sorting device that automatically sorts differently (by grade).

(Embodiment 1 of article conveying and sending method)
An example of an embodiment of an article conveyance / delivery method of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In this example, the goods transporting and sending method can be selected from round-shaped fruit vegetables such as tomatoes, peaches, pears, and strawberries, and long fruit vegetables such as pepper and eggplant, by size, shape, color, and sugar content. An example used as an automatic vegetable vegetable sorting method for automatically sorting by standard (by grade) will be described. As shown in FIG. 1, this article transporting and sending method places an article (fruit or vegetable) 1 on an article carrier 3 of an article transporter 2 and transports it in the direction of arrow a. When it is automatically discriminated according to the standard, and the fruit vegetable 1 after discrimination is conveyed to the side of the pool conveyor (article receiver) 4 arranged on the side of the article carrier, as shown in FIG. This is a method in which the fruit vegetables 1 on the article mounting body 3 are driven obliquely rearward and sent out in the same direction according to the standard to be mounted on the article receiving body 4. As shown in FIG. 1, the article receiver 4 is arranged at several locations on the side of the article carrier 2 according to the specifications of fruit vegetables, and the fruit vegetables 1 are sent out to the respective article receivers 4 according to standards. In this method, the article carrier 3 is an endless belt 18 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, and the fruit vegetable 1 mounted on the endless belt 18 with the article support 5 attached to the upper surface thereof is attached to the article support 5. It can be supported by. 1 to 3, the delivery side of the endless belt 18 is disposed obliquely toward the rear of the article receiver 4, and when the endless belt 18 rotates or moves, the fruit vegetables 1 thereon are moved in the transport direction. It was made to be able to feed diagonally backward, and the speed of fruit vegetable 1 was reduced to save the momentum of fruit vegetable 1.

(Embodiment 2 of article conveyance / delivery method)
In the article conveying and sending method of the present invention, the fruit vegetables 1 being conveyed by the article conveying body 2 are fed obliquely backward in the conveying direction by the article mounting body 3 having one belt conveyor as described in the first embodiment. For example, as shown in FIGS. 9 (a) and 9 (b), two adjacent belt conveyor type article mounting bodies 3 are used as a set of units 50, or as shown in FIG. The four belt conveyor type article carrying bodies 3 to be made into a set of units 50 so that two or more fruit vegetables 1 can be placed on each unit 50, and each belt conveyor is obliquely rearward in the conveying direction. It can also be moved to and sent out.

(Embodiment 3 of article conveyance / delivery method)
The fruit vegetables 1 can be sent out obliquely backward in the conveying direction by a belt conveyor type article mounting body 3 in which two endless belts 18 having a narrow width are arranged in parallel as shown in FIGS.

(Embodiment 4 of article conveyance / delivery method)
The fruit vegetables 1 can be sent obliquely backward in the conveying direction by a roller conveyor type article mounting body 3 that is rotatably provided with rollers as shown in FIGS.

(Embodiment 5 of article conveyance and delivery method)
The fruit vegetables 1 can be sent out obliquely rearward in the conveying direction by a roller conveyor type article mounting body 3 that can be inclined obliquely rearward by an inclination mechanism as shown in FIGS. The tilting mechanism operates based on the determination result to send the article obliquely backward.

(Embodiment 6 of article conveyance / delivery method)
In the article conveying and sending method of the present invention, the fruit vegetables 1 being conveyed by the article conveying body 2 are fed out obliquely rearward in the conveying direction, as shown in FIG. The fruit vegetables 1 placed on the mounting table 62 using the article mounting body 3 composed of a mounting table 62 on which the fruit vegetables 1 can be mounted and a delivery body 63 that can reciprocate along the mounting table 62. Can be pushed out in the direction of the arrow by the movement of the delivery body 63 and sent out to the article receiver 4 obliquely backward in the transport direction. The article mounting body 3 is not limited to the one shown in FIG. 14, and if the fruit vegetable 1 can be sent diagonally backward by pushing the fruit vegetables 1 on the mounting table 62 by the sending body 63, for example, the mounting table is a plate. For example, it may be a fixing tool such as a roller conveyor that is rotatably arranged obliquely rearward in the conveying direction.

(Embodiment 7 of article conveyance / delivery method)
In the article conveying and sending method of the present invention, the feeding of the fruit vegetables 1 being conveyed by the article conveying body 2 obliquely backward in the conveying direction is not limited to the method described in each of the above embodiments, and is shown in FIGS. It can also be performed by a keyboard-like article mounting body 3 as shown. In this case, as shown in FIG. 15 (a), the article mounting body 3 is a rectangular bar-shaped support material 100 arranged obliquely rearward in the transport direction, and a large number of support materials 100 are directed obliquely rearward in the transport direction. It is also possible that the support members 100 can be swung in a keyboard shape around the support shaft 101 by a swing drive body (not shown) so that the fruit vegetables 1 on the article mounting body 3 can be slid diagonally backward in the transport direction. it can.

(Embodiment 8 of article conveyance / delivery method)
In the article conveyance / delivery method of the present invention, as shown in FIGS. 16 (a) and 16 (b), the article carrier is provided by the speed reducer 110 provided between the article carrier 3 and the article receiver 4 of the article carrier 2. It is also possible to reduce the delivery speed of the fruit vegetables 1 that are fed from 3 to the article receiver 4 obliquely backward in the transport direction. At this time, as the speed reducer 110, a plate material, a tape, or the like whose surface is processed with a fluorine resin can be used. The speed reducer 110 can also be arranged in an upward inclination from the article mounting body 3 toward the article receiver 4. In that case, as shown in the figure, the upper surface of the article receiver 4 can be made higher than the upper surface of the article carrier 3, or the article receiver 4 itself can be inclined upward. The speed reducer 110 can also be provided on the outlet side of the article carrier 3 or the inlet side of the article receiver 4. Further, the speed reduction of the feeding speed of the fruit vegetables 1 is not limited to that by the speed reducer 110, and the upper surface of the article receiver 4 is made higher than the upper face of the article mounting body 3 without providing the speed reducer 110, It can also be performed by making the receiving body 4 itself uphill.

(Other embodiments of the article conveying and sending method)
In the article conveyance and delivery method of the present invention, the fruit vegetables 1 being conveyed by the article conveyance body 2 are not limited to those described in the above embodiments, but can be delivered by any other means. it can.

  In the article conveyance / delivery method of the present invention, the delivery of the fruit vegetables 1 from the article conveyance body 2 obliquely rearward in the conveyance direction is not limited to the article receiver 4, and can be performed to any other place. In some cases, the article receiver 4 can be omitted.

(Embodiment 1 of article conveyance / delivery apparatus)
An example of an embodiment of an article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In this example, the goods transporting and sending device is a variety of products such as round fruit vegetables such as tomatoes, peaches, pears and strawberries, and long fruit vegetables such as pepper and eggplant, by size, shape, color, and sugar content. An example used as an automatic vegetable vegetable sorting device for automatically sorting by standard (by grade) will be described. As shown in FIG. 1, the article transporting and sending apparatus places fruit vegetables 1 on an article mounting body 3 of an article transport body 2 and transports the fruit vegetables 1 in the direction of arrow a. When automatically discriminating according to standards such as color, and the fruit vegetables 1 after the discrimination are conveyed to the side of a pool conveyor (article receiver) 4 arranged on the side of the article carrier 2, as shown in FIG. The article mounting body 3 is driven, and the fruit vegetables 1 on the article mounting body 3 are sent out obliquely rearward in the conveying direction to be placed on the article receiving body 4. As shown in FIG. 1, the article receiver 4 is arranged at several locations on the side of the article carrier 2 according to the specifications of fruit vegetables, and the fruit vegetables 1 are sent out to the respective article receivers 4 according to standards. The article carrier 3 is a belt conveyor type as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, and the article support 5 is attached to the upper surface of the endless belt 18 so that the fruit vegetables 1 placed on the article carrier 3 can be supported. There is also provided a locking member 35 projecting downward from the lower surface of the endless belt 18, which is provided along the guide body 43 shown in FIG. 3 on the side opposite to the article receiver 4 (right side in FIG. 4). ), The upper traveling portion of the endless belt 18 rotates toward the article receiver 4 (left rotation in FIG. 4) so that the fruit vegetables 1 placed on the upper traveling portion are sent to the article receiver 4. It is. In this case, the delivery side of the article carrier 3 is disposed obliquely toward the rear of the article receiver 4 as shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, and the delivery speed of the fruit vegetables 1 delivered from the article carrier 3 is reduced. The momentum of fruit vegetables 1 is saved. Hereinafter, the article transport body 2, the article placing body 3 and the like will be described in detail.

  The article carrier 2 shown in FIG. 1 has a plurality of elongated article mounts 3 attached to an endless chain 11 installed on a drive sprocket 10a and a driven sprocket 10b. As a result, the drive sprocket 10a rotates and moves in the same direction when the chain 11 moves in the direction of arrow a. Each of the article mounting bodies 3 is mounted with the delivery side 3a facing diagonally backward in the movement direction of the chain 11 (see FIG. 2).

  As shown in FIG. 3, the transport chain 11 is accommodated in a square hook-shaped chain guide 14 having an upper opening at an upper opening so as to run inside the chain. As shown in FIG. 5, the chain guide 14 is installed on the upper surface of the main frame 13 of the article transport / delivery device. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 6, attachments 15 are attached to the chain 11 at regular intervals, and a frame 16 (FIG. 6) of the article mounting body 3 is attached to the attachment 15.

  1 to FIG. 5 is a belt conveyor provided with a support plate 19 and an endless belt 18 as shown in FIG. 7, and the fruit vegetables 1 placed on the upper surface of the endless belt 18 by rotation of the endless belt 18. To the other side of the rotation direction (receiving body 4 side).

  As shown in FIG. 6, the support plate 19 has a front side plate 21 and a rear side plate 22 on the outer side of the elongated central plate 20, and a guide portion 23 having a substantially triangular shape is formed on the front end of the rear side plate 22. The side plate 21 is projected beyond the front end portion. A front space 24 is formed on the front end side of the support plate 19, and a rear space 25 is formed on the rear end side.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the endless belt 18 is wound around the outer periphery of the front free roller 26, the guide roller 27, and the rear free roller 28, and the lower end portion of the endless belt 18 is inclined upward. The front end portion of the endless belt 18 and the front free roller 26 and the guide roller 27 are placed in the front space portion 24 of the support plate 19, and the rear end portion and the rear free roller 28 are placed in the rear space portion 25 of the support plate 19. It is arranged in. This fruit and vegetable mounting body 3 is accommodated in the conveyor frame 16 having an upper opening shown in FIG. 4, and the rotation shaft 29 of the front free roller 26 is rotatably supported by the front receiving groove 30 of the conveyor frame 16, and the rotation of the guide roller 27 is performed. The shaft 31 is rotatably passed through the support hole 32 of the conveyor frame 16, and the rotary shaft 33 of the rear free roller 28 is rotatably supported by the rear receiving groove 34 of the conveyor frame 16 to be set as shown in FIG. ing.

  The article support 5 is fixed to the upper surface of the endless belt 18 by fixing means such as an adhesive or a screw. The article support 5 is made of sponge, rubber, soft resin or the like so that the fruit vegetables 1 are not damaged. The fruit support 1 has a truncated cone shape, and the lower part of the fruit vegetables 1 is thin, for example, tomatoes and apples. Even swelled fruit vegetables can be supported stably. The material and shape of the article support 5 are not limited to this and can be arbitrary. The article support 5 can be omitted.

  A locking member 35 (FIG. 6) is attached to the lower surface of the endless belt 18. As shown in FIG. 6, a bolt is used for the illustrated locking device 35, and the bolt 37 is disposed on the bottom plate 36 of the conveyor frame 16, and the top cover is placed above and below the holding device 37. A nut 40 is fastened to a lower end screw of a bolt passing through the plate 38 and the lower plate 39 and fixed to the bottom plate 36 of the conveyor frame 16 so as to protrude downward. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the locking device 35 is guided and moved in a square hook-shaped locking device guide 41 having an upper opening provided in parallel with the chain guide 14. As shown in FIG. 5, the locking tool guide 41 is arranged and fixed in parallel with the chain guide 14 on the upper surface of the main frame 13 of the article transport / delivery device. Moreover, the locking tool guide 41 is not provided in the installation part of the guide body 43, as shown in FIG.

  The article carrier 3 formed as shown in FIG. 7 is fixed to the chain 11 by attaching the conveyor frame 16 (FIG. 4) to the attachment 15 of the chain 11 with screws 42 (FIG. 6). In this case, the delivery side 3a of the article mounting body 3 is attached obliquely toward the rear in the transport direction of the chain 11, and the fruit vegetables 1 on the article mounting body 3 are sent out obliquely rearward in the transport direction. The attachment angle (θ in FIG. 2) of the article mounting body 3 can be set to any angle as long as the fruit vegetables 1 can be fed obliquely backward in the transport direction, and can be, for example, about 30 ° to 60 °. In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 6, a triangular guide portion 23 that protrudes further forward than the front end of the front side plate 21 is formed at the front end portion of the rear side plate 22 of the article mounting body 3. Even if the delivery side 3 a of the mounting body 3 is disposed obliquely rearward with respect to the article transport body 2, the tip of the article mounting body 3 and the article transport body 2 are blocked by the triangular guide portion 23. There are almost no gaps. For this reason, there is no case where the fruit vegetables 1 delivered from the endless belt 18 of the article carrier 3 are difficult to transfer to the article receiver 4 or the fruit vegetables 1 fall.

  Although the width of the article mounting body 3 and the adjacent interval between the article mounting bodies 3 vary depending on the size, shape, etc. of the fruit vegetables 1 to be mounted, the width of the article mounting body 3 is basically as shown in FIG. The width can be set so that one fruit vegetable 1 can be placed, and the adjacent interval can be placed across two or more article mounting bodies 3 as shown in FIG. 8 (b). For example, as shown in FIG. 2, it is preferable to set so that a large rounded fruit vegetable 1 or the like can be placed across two or more article mounting bodies 3.

  The discriminating unit 6 is a part that is provided on the transport path of the article transporter 2 and automatically discriminates the fruit vegetables 1 being transported by standard. The discriminating unit 6 includes various devices necessary for discrimination, such as a camera, a sugar content sensor, and a weigh scale, as in the existing discriminating device, and measures the shape, size, weight, color, sugar content, etc. of the fruit vegetables 1 being conveyed. The standard can be discriminated automatically.

  A large number of guide bodies 43 are arranged in front of the determination unit 6 shown in FIG. 1 and obliquely rearward with respect to the transport direction of the article transport body 2. A switching lever 44 is disposed on the distal end side of each guide body 43. The switching lever 44 switches the movement direction of the locking tool 35 of the article carrying body 3 based on the determination result of the determination unit 6, and the guide body 43 guides the movement of the locking tool 35 along the switching direction. is there. The guide body 43 is an L-shaped elongated plate shown in FIG. 3, and its tip side is arranged obliquely rearward with respect to the chain guide 14 on the main frame 13 of the sorting device as shown in FIG. is there. The switching lever 44 is attached to the rotating body 45 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, and by rotating the rotating body 45, the path invariant position (FIG. 3a) in the direction parallel to the article conveying body 2 and the article conveying It is switched to the course changing position (FIG. 3b) in the direction crossing the body 2, and when it is in the course invariant position (FIG. 3a), it is below the bottom surface of the article carrier 3 conveyed by the article carrier 2. The protruding locking member 35 advances straight without touching the switching lever 44 and the guide body 43, the endless belt 18 of the article mounting body 3 does not operate, and the fruit and vegetables on it are not sent out. When the switching lever 44 is switched to the course changing position (FIG. 3b), the locking member 35 of the article carrying body 3 conveyed by the article conveying body 2 hits the switching lever 44 and is prevented from going straight, leading to the guide body 43 side. Then, it travels along the guide body 43 and moves in the direction of arrow A in FIGS. 3B and 4, and simultaneously, the lower side of the endless belt 18 also moves in the same direction. It moves in the direction of the article receiver 4 arranged on the side (feeding direction: arrow B direction in FIG. 4), and the fruit vegetables 1 on the endless belt 18 are sent to the article receiver 4. Switching of the switching lever 44 by the rotation of the rotating body 45 is controlled by a control device according to the determination result in the determination unit 6.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the article receiver 4 arranged on the side of the article transporter 2 inherits the fruit vegetables 1 sent from the discharge unit 7 of the article transporter 2 and transports them as they are or temporarily pools them. In the case of FIG. 1, a large number of belt conveyors are used, and these belt conveyors are arranged in parallel at two locations so as to be orthogonal to the article carrier 2. In FIG. 1, the article receiver 4 is provided at two places in the carrying direction of the article carrier 2, but the article receiver 4 is provided at several places in the carrying direction of the article carrier 2 for each kind and standard of the fruit vegetables 1. The fruit vegetables 1 can be sent out to the article receivers 4 at the respective locations according to types and standards. Rather than having the same number of belt conveyors for all the article receivers 4, the article conveyor 4 of the article receiver 4 that takes over a large number and variety of fruit vegetables 1 is increased in number, and the article receiver 4 that inherits a small number of fruit vegetables 1. The number of belt conveyors can be reduced. The belt conveyor of the article receiver 4 can be always rotated. However, when the fruit vegetables 1 are not sent out, they are temporarily stopped and kept waiting, and when the fruit vegetables 1 are sent out from the article carrier 3, the fruit vegetables. It can also be controlled so that the fruit vegetables 1 are placed by rotating by one. The rotation control of the belt conveyor is performed by the control device according to the determination result by the determination unit 6.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a return guide body 46 is disposed in the transport direction ahead of the discharge unit 7 of the article transport body 2. The return guide body 46 is disposed obliquely in the opposite direction to the guide body 43. The article mounting body 3 that has sent the fruit vegetables 1 to the article receiver 4 is guided by the guide body 43 when the article carrier 2 is fed to the end of the discharge unit 7 by the article carrier 2 after feeding the article 1 to the article receiver 4. Thus, the locking member 35 located in the direction away from the article receiver 4 can be guided in the reverse direction and returned to the original position.

  The vicinity of the conveyance start point of the article transport body 2 shown in FIG. 1 (the left end side in FIG. 1) is a loading section 8 on which the fruit vegetables 1 are placed on the article mounting body 3, and the loading section 8 can accommodate several workers. The length of is secured.

  In the side of the article receiver 4 in FIG. 1, a work space is secured for the operator to manually take out the fruit vegetables 1 pooled in the article receiver 4 and perform the boxing operation, and several people are also lined up here. The space is large enough to work with. The article receiver 4 is not limited to one having a plurality of belt conveyors arranged side by side as described above, and may be an arbitrary one such as a roller conveyor. Further, instead of the article receiver 4, it is possible to provide a transport line of another device. Further, the article receiver 4 can be omitted.

(Usage example of article transport / delivery device)
In order to convey and sort fruit vegetables by the automatic fruit vegetable sorting apparatus using the article transport and delivery device of the present invention, the following is performed.
(1) Place the fruit vegetables 1 on the article carrier 3 of the article carrier 2 being conveyed in the loading unit 8. In this case, depending on the shape, size, and the like of the fruit vegetables 1, one fruit vegetable 1 is placed on one article placing body 3 or placed across two or more article placing bodies 3.
(2) The fruits and vegetables 1 placed on the input unit 8 are conveyed by the article carrier 2, and the determination unit 6 measures the shape, size, weight, sugar content, etc., and the standard is automatically determined.
(3) The measured fruit vegetables 1 are transported to the discharge unit 7 by the article transport body 2.
(4) The discharge unit 7 is instructed on which article carrier 3 to send out the fruit vegetables 1 to which article receiver 4 based on the determination result. Based on this instruction, the switching operation tool (rotary body) 45 is The switch lever 44 is operated to switch to the course changing position, and the locking tool 35 of the article mounting body 3 on which the fruit vegetables 1 are placed hits the switch lever 44 and is guided to the guide body 43 (see FIG. 4). At this time, when the fruit vegetables 1 are placed across two or more article mounting bodies 3, the two or more switching operation tools (rotating bodies) 45 operate in synchronism, and the two or more article mounting bodies 3 are moved. Are instructed to be guided to the respective guide bodies 43.
(5) When the locking tool 35 of the article mounting body 3 is guided by the guide body 43, the lower side (lower traveling portion) of the endless belt 18 of the article mounting body 3 moves in the same direction as the locking tool 35, Thereby, the upper side (upper travel part) of the endless belt 18 rotates to the opposite side to the lower travel part, and the fruit vegetables 1 placed on the upper travel part are sent to the article receiver 4. At this time, the belt conveyor of the article receiver 4 to which the fruit vegetables 1 are handed over is rotated by one fruit vegetable so that only one fruit vegetable 1 can be placed on the belt conveyor. By repeating this, the fruit vegetables 1 are sequentially sent to the article receiver 4, and the fruit vegetables 1 are pooled on the belt conveyor of the article receiver 4 of a predetermined standard according to the determination result. Further, since the article carrier 3 is directed obliquely rearward in the conveyance direction of the article carrier 2, the fruit vegetables 1 on the article carrier 3 are sent in that direction (the direction opposite to the conveyance direction of the article carrier 2). The fruit and vegetables 1 are not damaged when the delivery speed is reduced, the momentum is too strong to roll over, or when it collides with the fruit and vegetables 1 pooled in the article receiver 4.
(6) The article carrying body 3 that has delivered the fruit vegetables 1 is further conveyed by the article conveying body 2 and is positioned in a direction away from the article receiving body 4 by the return guide body 46 arranged in the middle of the conveying path. The locking tool 35 is guided in the reverse direction and returned to the original position, and returned to the starting end of the article carrier 2.
(7) In (4), when there is an instruction to advance the article mounting body 3 as it is, the switching operation tool (rotating body) 45 does not operate and the switching lever 44 remains stopped at the path invariable position. Then, the locking tool 35 of the article mounting body 3 on which the fruit vegetables 1 are placed passes through the front of the article mounting body 3 without contacting the switching lever 44, and the conveyance is continued. When transported to a predetermined position and arrives at the delivery position, an instruction is issued to switch the switching lever 44 to the course change position based on the measurement result, and the locking device 35 of the article mounting body 3 is Thus, the guide body 43 guides the endless belt 18 of the article mounting body 3 in the same manner as in the above (5), and the fruit vegetables 1 are sent out to the article receiver 4.

(Embodiment 2 of article conveyance / delivery apparatus)
Another example of the embodiment of the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention is shown in FIG. The article carrier 3 of this article transporting and sending apparatus is a belt conveyor system in which two endless belts 18 having a narrow width are arranged in parallel. The two belts 18 in the front in the transport direction (left side in FIG. 11) have their tip positions made longer than those in the front in the transport direction (right side in FIG. 11), so that both belts 18 are inclined backward to the transport body 2. Even if they are arranged, the tip portions of both belts 18 approach the article receiver 4 so that there is almost no gap in the gap 51 between the article holder 3 and the article receiver 4, and the article holder 3 to the article receiver 4. In addition, fruit vegetables 1 are taken over smoothly. The endless belt 18 may be three or more.

(Embodiment 3 of article conveyance / delivery apparatus)
FIGS. 12A and 12B show a third embodiment of the article transport / delivery apparatus of the present invention. The article carrying body of the article transporting and sending apparatus has a roller conveyor structure in which a large number of rollers 52 are rotatably provided. A belt conveyor 53 is provided in contact with each roller 52 under the rollers 52, and the belt conveyor 53 is When rotating, each roller 52 rotates and the fruit vegetables 1 on the roller conveyor are sent out to the article receiver 4. As shown in FIG. 12B, the belt conveyor 53 can be rotated by moving a locking tool 54 provided at the lower traveling portion of the belt conveyor 53 in the left-right direction of FIG. When the locking device 54 is moved to the left, the belt conveyor rotates to the right, each roller 52 rotates to the left, and the fruit vegetables 1 on the roller 52 are sent to the left side of FIG. 12 (b) (the article receiver 4 side). It is like that.

(Embodiment 4 of article conveyance / delivery apparatus)
FIGS. 13A and 13B show a fourth embodiment of the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention. The article carrying body of this article transporting and sending apparatus is a roller conveyor 56 in which a number of rollers 55 are rotatably provided on a frame 57, and the frame 57 is centered on a support shaft 58 as shown in FIG. It is provided on the support base 59 so as to be pivotable to the left and right (seesaw type), and the left and right sides of the support shaft 58 of the frame 42 are connected to the support base 59 by springs 60 to hold the frame 57 horizontally. A drive pin 61 is provided under one end, and when the drive pin 61 is lifted (pushed up) from below, the roller conveyor 56 is inclined downward on the left side (receiver 4 side) in FIG. The fruit vegetables 1 fall on the article receiver 4. When the lifting (pushing up) of the drive pin 61 is released, the roller conveyor 56 returns to the horizontal state by the pulling force of the spring 60.

(Embodiment 5 of article conveyance / delivery apparatus)
FIG. 14 shows a fifth embodiment of the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention. The article carrying body 3 of the article transporting and sending apparatus includes a placing table 62 on which two bars are arranged in parallel so that the fruit vegetables 1 can be placed, and a sending body 63 that can reciprocate along the placing table 62. The fruit vegetables 1 placed on the mounting table 62 can be pushed out in the direction of the arrow by the movement of the sending body 63 and sent out to the article receiver 4. The sending body 63 has a contact surface 64 curved in an arc shape so that the fruit vegetables 1 are stabilized. The bar used for the mounting table 62 preferably has a small sliding resistance and the fruit vegetables 1 are easy to slide. For example, a metal bar coated with a fluororesin or a resin bar is suitable. The sending body 63 can reciprocate a locking tool 65 provided on the lower side thereof by an arbitrary driving mechanism. The article mounting body 3 in FIG. 14 is also attached obliquely rearward with respect to the conveyance direction of the article conveyance body 2 by the bracket 66. The mounting table 62 may be an arbitrary one such as a fixture such as three or more bars or plates, or a roller conveyor that is arranged to be rotatable obliquely rearward in the transport direction, as long as the fruit vegetable 1 can be placed thereon. be able to.

(Embodiment 6 of article conveyance / delivery apparatus)
FIGS. 15A and 15B show a sixth embodiment of the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention. The article carrying body 3 of the article transporting and sending apparatus is a keyboard-like (square bar-like) support material 100 arranged obliquely rearward in the transport direction, and includes a large number of support materials 100 arranged in a keyboard shape in the transport direction. It is a thing. As shown in FIG. 15B, each support member 100 can be swung in a keyboard shape around a support shaft 101 by a swing drive body (not shown). 3 fruit vegetables 1 can be sent out obliquely backward in the conveying direction. On the lower side of the support member 100, there is provided a locking tool 102 that locks the swinged support member 100 so that it does not swing more than necessary. A large number of support materials 100 are arranged close to each other so that the fruit vegetables 1 can be placed on one or more support materials 100 at any position. Further, the support material 100 may be an elongated flat plate.

(Embodiment 7 of article transport / delivery apparatus)
FIGS. 9A and 9B show a seventh embodiment of the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention. In this article transport / delivery apparatus, two adjacent belt conveyor type article mounts 3 are set as a set of units 50 so that two or more fruit vegetables 1 can be placed on each unit 50. That is, two or more article mounting bodies 3 are operated synchronously so that the fruit vegetables 1 can be delivered to the article receiver 4. The unit 50 may be a set of three or more units. The article mounting body 3 of each unit 50 is set on a frame as shown in FIG. 9B, and both frames are connected in parallel and obliquely parallel. In addition, as shown in FIG. 10, the unit 50 may be a set of units 50 including the four adjacent belt conveyor type article mounts 3. In the unit 50 shown in FIG. 10, the article support 5 is provided so as to straddle the four belt conveyor type article platforms 3. Also in this case, it is possible to send the fruit vegetables 1 to the article receiver 4 by synchronously operating the four belt conveyors. Further, the unit 50 is not limited to the combination of the belt conveyor type article mounting bodies 3 and can be formed by combining the article mounting bodies 3 described in any of the above embodiments.

(Embodiment 8 of article conveyance / delivery apparatus)
FIGS. 16A and 16B show a seventh embodiment of the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention. In this article transport / delivery device, a speed reducing body 110 is provided between the article carrier 3 and the article receiver 4 of the article transport body 2. The speed reducer 110 is made of a plate material whose surface is processed with a fluororesin or the like, and is arranged in an upward inclination from the article mounting body 3 toward the article receiving body 4 as shown in FIG. In this case, the upper surface of the article receiver 4 is made higher than the upper surface of the article carrier 3. The inclination angle of the speed reducer 110 can be arbitrarily set, for example, 1 ° to 10 °, but about 3 ° is desirable. The speed reducer 110 can be provided without being inclined. The speed reducer 110 can also be provided on the outlet side of the article carrier 3 or the inlet side of the article receiver 4. With this speed reducer 110, the feeding speed of the fruit vegetables 1 fed obliquely rearward in the transport direction from the article mounting body 3 to the article receiver 4 can be reduced. Further, the speed reducer 110 is omitted, and the feed rate of the fruit vegetables 1 is reduced by making the upper surface of the article receiver 4 higher than the upper surface of the article carrier 3 or by making the article receiver 4 itself incline upward. You can also.

(Other embodiment of article conveyance / delivery apparatus)
In the article transport / delivery apparatus of the present invention, the means for feeding the fruit vegetables 1 being transported by the article transport body 2 diagonally backward in the transport direction is not limited to those described in the above embodiments, and is performed by any other means. Can do.

  In the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention, the article receiver 4 can be omitted, and the fruit vegetables 1 fed from the article conveyance body 2 obliquely backward in the conveyance direction can be sent to an arbitrary place.

  The article conveyance / delivery method, fruit vegetable sorting method, article conveyance / delivery apparatus and fruit vegetable sorting apparatus used for carrying out the method of the present invention are not limited to fruit vegetable sorting, but are two primary industrial products such as agricultural products and marine products, and industrial products. It can also be applied to the transportation, delivery, and sorting of various items such as next industrial products.

The top view which shows an example at the time of utilizing the goods conveyance delivery apparatus of this invention for fruit vegetable selection. The description top view of the article delivery method from the article conveyance body to the article receiver in the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention. It is another example of the article conveyance / delivery device of the present invention, (a) is a perspective explanatory view of a switching lever before the article is sent obliquely backward in the conveyance direction from the article carrier, and (b) is a fruit vegetable from the article carrier. FIG. Detailed explanatory drawing of the article mounting body shown to Fig.3 (a) , (b). FIG. 3 (a), perspective view of a state be sent to the article the article receiving body on an article placed body shown in (b). FIG. 3 (a), exploded perspective view of an article mounted body shown in (b). FIG. 7 is an assembly perspective view of the article mounting body shown in FIG. 6. (A), (b) is plane explanatory drawing of the state which mounted the different articles | goods on the article mounting body. (A) is plane explanatory drawing which shows an example in the case of sending out the articles | goods mounted on the articles | goods mounting body which made two sets of belt conveyors into 1 unit with the belt conveyor rotated to a conveyance direction back in the same direction. (B) is a detailed view of (a). An example of a case where an article placed on an article carrier in which several belt conveyors are united is supported by a support, and the article is fed in the same direction by a belt conveyor that rotates backward in the conveying direction while the article is supported by the support. FIG. The plane explanatory drawing of the article mounting body which made it possible to move the belt in the same direction by moving the locking tool on the back surface of the belt in the conveyance direction, and to send the article on the belt in the same direction. (A) is plane explanatory drawing in case the articles | goods mounting body of the articles | goods conveyance / delivery apparatus of this invention is a roller conveyor, (b) rotates the roller conveyor shown in (a) with a rotating belt, and the article | item on a roller conveyor is shown. Side surface explanatory drawing in the case of sending out diagonally back in the conveyance direction. (A) is plane explanatory drawing in case the article mounting body of the articles | goods conveyance delivery apparatus of this invention is a roller conveyor, (b) tilts the roller conveyor shown to (a), and the conveyance direction is diagonally inclined. Side surface explanatory drawing in the case of sending out back. The top explanatory drawing in the case of sending out the article | item on the article mounting body comprised by two bars in the same direction with the sending body which moves diagonally back in a conveyance direction in the article conveyance delivery apparatus of this invention. (A) is plane explanatory drawing in the case of carrying an article on a support that swings in a keyboard shape in the article transporting and sending device of the present invention, and (b) is a neck that tilts the support tool downward in a keyboard shape. Side surface explanatory drawing in the case of swinging and feeding the article | item on a support tool diagonally back in a conveyance direction. (A) is a plan view during article conveyance in the article conveyance / delivery apparatus of the present invention, and (b) is a case where the article being conveyed passes from above the article conveyance body to above the speed reduction body and is sent to the side article reception body. Side explanatory drawing. (A) is a plan view showing an example of a conventional fruit and vegetable sorting device, (b) is a front view of a bucket-type fruit and vegetable mounting body in the device (a), and (c) is a fruit and vegetable mounting body in (b) lying on its side. The front view of the state which sends out fruit vegetables. (A) is a top view which shows the other example of the conventional fruit vegetable selection apparatus, (b) is a front view of the state which sends out fruit vegetables with the conveyor type fruit vegetable mounting body in the apparatus of (a). Plane explanatory drawing of the state which is a conventional fruit vegetable selection device, and sends the fruit vegetables currently conveyed with a conveyance body to a fruit vegetable acceptor by a transfer conveyor.

1 Goods (fruit vegetables)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 2 Article conveyance body 3 Article mounting body 4 Article receiving body 5 Article support tool 6 Discriminating part 7 Discharge part 8 Input part 11 Chain 13 Main frame 14 Chain guide 15 Attachment 18 Endless belt 35 Locking tool 41 Locking tool guide 43 Guide body 44 Switching lever 45 Rotating body 50 Unit 52 Roller 53 Belt conveyor 54 Locking tool 56 Roller conveyor 61 Drive pin 62 Mounting table 63 Sending body 65 Locking tool 100 Support material 101 Support shaft 102 Locking tool 110 Deceleration body

The present invention conveys various articles such as primary industrial products such as agricultural products and marine products, and secondary industrial products such as industrial products, and allows the articles to be sent to the side in the conveyance direction at a predetermined position during the conveyance. Methods, especially round fruit vegetables such as tomatoes, peaches, pears and strawberries, and long fruit vegetables such as pepper and eggplant, according to various standards such as size, shape, color and sugar content (by grade) automatically sorted), and fruit vegetables transfer method suitable for use as a fruit vegetable sorting arranging turned out by standard, to a fruiting conveying apparatus used for its implementation.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there are various kinds of fruit and vegetable conveying devices that convey an article and send the article to the side in the conveying direction at a predetermined position during the conveyance, and fruit and vegetable sorting devices that use the vegetable and vegetable conveying apparatus . As one of such fruit vegetable sorting apparatuses, there is a bucket-type fruit and vegetables sorting apparatus as shown in FIGS. This fruit vegetable sorting device carries fruit vegetables A on a bucket C attached to a chain B, and determines the size, shape, and other standards of the fruit vegetables A by the measuring means D during the conveyance and discriminates them. When the fruit vegetables A are transported to the receiver (pool part) E, the bucket C falls sideways as shown in FIG. 17C so that the fruit vegetables A on the bucket C are discharged to the receiver E. It is what. In this case, the standard number of receivers E of fruit vegetables A are arranged beside the chain B, and the determined fruit vegetables A are discharged to the respective receivers E by standard. In this fruit vegetable sorting apparatus, when the fruit vegetables are discharged, the fruit vegetables A may roll on the receiver E and collide with the fruit vegetables A discharged to the receiver E before being damaged.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the applicant of the present application developed various fruit vegetable sorting apparatuses and applied for patents (Patent Document 1).

  As shown in FIGS. 18 (a) and 18 (b), the fruit and vegetable sorting apparatus described in Patent Document 1 has a large number of fruit and vegetable mounting bodies F on which fruits and vegetables A are placed on a chain B, and the fruit and vegetable mounting bodies F are of a belt conveyor type. When the fruit and vegetables A loaded thereon are conveyed to a predetermined position, the fruit and vegetables loaded body F rotates in a direction (arrow b direction) 90 degrees perpendicular to the moving direction (arrow a direction) and the fruit vegetables A are chained B. It is made to send out to the pool conveyor G arrange | positioned to the side. Also in this case, the standard number of pool conveyors G of fruit vegetables A are arranged beside the chain B, and the determined fruit vegetables A are discharged to the respective pool conveyors G by standard. In this fruit vegetable sorting apparatus, when the fruit vegetable A on the fruit vegetable mounting body F is sent to the pool conveyor G, the fruit vegetable A has a momentum in the feeding direction, and the fruit vegetable A falls sideways or the fruit vegetable A is damaged. There was a risk of it.

  The present applicant has developed a fruit vegetable sorting apparatus described in Patent Document 2 in order to solve the above problems. As shown in FIG. 19, a transfer conveyor H that is inclined forward is disposed between the belt conveyor type fruit and vegetable carrier F and the pool conveyor G, and the fruit and vegetable carrier F is placed on the side in the conveying direction (arrow b). The fruit and vegetables A discharged in the direction) pass obliquely forward (in the direction of arrow c) on the transfer conveyor H and are sent to the pool conveyor G that is disposed in front of the transfer conveyor G and rotates in the direction of arrow d. is there.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-53275. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-99285.

  The fruit vegetable sorting apparatus described in Patent Document 2 does not damage the fruit vegetables or collide with other fruit vegetables when the fruit vegetables are discharged, but the structure is complicated and the cost increases because the transfer conveyor H is required. There is a problem that the entire apparatus becomes large.

The fruit and vegetable conveying method of the present application conveys the fruit and vegetables that are placed on the article carrier by traveling of the article carrier that is equipped with a large number of article carriers and moves the fruit and vegetables being conveyed to the side of the article carrier. In the fruit vegetable conveying method, the fruit vegetables placed on the belt conveyor type article carrier are moved by rotating or rotating the belt conveyor obliquely rearward with respect to the fruit vegetable conveying direction during the fruit vegetable conveying . Also, the fruit vegetables placed on the belt conveyor type article carrier are moved or rotated while the fruit vegetables are being conveyed, and are sent obliquely backward with respect to the fruit vegetable conveying direction. It is also possible to return to the original position. It is also possible to feed the fruit vegetables placed on the article carrying part of the belt conveyor type article carrying body obliquely backward with respect to the fruit vegetable conveying direction by moving or rotating the belt conveyor during the fruit vegetable conveying. It can also be a method in which the article placement portions of the article placement body are arranged in one row or substantially one row in the fruit vegetable conveyance direction and the fruit vegetables placed on the article placement body are conveyed. Furthermore, while supporting the fruit vegetables placed on the belt conveyor type article mounting body with the article support tool, the belt conveyor may be moved or rotated during the fruit vegetable conveyance and sent out obliquely backward with respect to the fruit vegetable conveyance direction. In this case, the article support can protrude from the upper surface of the belt conveyor and can be linked to the movement or rotation of the belt conveyor. In either case, the fruit vegetables moving to the side of the article carrier can be placed on the article receiver arranged on the side of the article carrier , and the feeding speed can be reduced. Fruit vegetables transfer method of the present application can also be used as a fruit vegetable transporting method for delivering fruit vegetables being conveyed automatically determined by standard in the determination unit, in the conveying direction obliquely rearward discrimination already fruiting by standard.

The fruit and vegetable conveying device of the present application conveys the fruit and vegetables that are placed on the article carrier by traveling of the article carrier that is equipped with a large number of article carriers, and moves the fruit and vegetables being conveyed to the side of the article carrier. In the fruit vegetable conveying apparatus, the article carrier includes an endless traveling body, and the endless traveling body is equipped with a large number of article mounting bodies using a belt conveyor in the traveling direction of the endless traveling body, and the article mounting body is the endless traveling body. It travels with the body and conveys the fruit and vegetables on the article carrying body in the running direction, and the belt conveyor moves or rotates obliquely rearward with respect to the fruit and vegetables conveying direction during the fruit vegetable transportation, It can be moved .

In the fruit and vegetable conveying device of the present application, the article mounting body travels together with the endless traveling body to convey the fruit and vegetables on the article mounting body in the traveling direction, and the belt conveyor moves or rotates during the conveying of the vegetable vegetables. Thus, it is possible to send the fruit vegetables on the article carrying body obliquely backward with respect to the fruit vegetable conveyance direction, and to return to the original position before the movement or rotation after the fruit vegetables are fed.

In the fruit vegetable conveying device of the present application, the article conveying body includes an endless traveling body, and the endless traveling body is equipped with a large number of article mounting bodies using a belt conveyor in the traveling direction of the endless traveling body, It has an article loading part for placing fruit vegetables, travels with the endless traveling body, conveys the fruit vegetables placed on the article loading part in the traveling direction, and the belt conveyor moves or rotates during the conveyance of the fruit vegetables. It is also possible to send out the fruit vegetables on the loading part obliquely backward with respect to the fruit vegetable conveyance direction. In this case, the article placement portions of a large number of article placement bodies can be arranged in one row or substantially one row in the fruit and vegetable conveyance direction.

In the fruit vegetable conveying device of the present application, the article conveying body includes an endless traveling body, and the endless traveling body is equipped with a large number of article mounting bodies using a belt conveyor in the traveling direction of the endless traveling body, It has an article support that supports fruit vegetables, travels with the endless traveling body, conveys the fruit vegetables on the article mounting body in the traveling direction, and the belt conveyor moves or rotates during the transportation of the fruit vegetables to place the article It can also be possible to send the fruit vegetables on the body obliquely backward with respect to the fruit vegetable conveying direction while supporting the fruit vegetables on the body. In this case, the article support protrudes from the upper surface of the belt conveyor, and can be interlocked with the movement or rotation of the belt conveyor.

The fruit vegetable conveying device of the present application is such that in the above-described fruit vegetable conveying device, a locking tool protrudes from the lower side of the belt conveyor, and the locking tool travels along with the traveling of the belt conveyor by the traveling of the article conveying body. Is guided by a different guide body and moves obliquely forward with respect to the fruit vegetable conveying direction, and the upper side of the belt conveyor moves or rotates obliquely backward with respect to the fruit vegetable conveying direction as the locking tool moves. The fruit vegetables on the belt conveyor can be moved.

Among a large number of article mounting bodies attached to the traveling body, two or more adjacent article mounting bodies are used as a set of units, and each unit is wide enough to carry one or more fruit vegetables . When the article carrier is operated, the fruit vegetables can be moved to the side of the article carrier .

It is also possible to arrange an article receiver on the side of the article carrier so that the fruit vegetables moving from the article carrier to the side of the article carrier are placed on the article receiver.

Movement speed of fruit vegetables moving from the article carrier to the article receiver at one or more places on the outlet side of the article carrier, between the article carrier and the article receiver, or on the inlet side of the article receiver It is also possible to provide a decelerating body that decelerates the motor. In the fruit vegetable conveying device of the present application, instead of providing a speed reducing body, the upper surface of the article receiver is inclined upward from the article mounting body side, or the upper surface of the article receiver is higher than the article mounting body, It is also possible to reduce the moving speed of the fruit vegetables sent to the article receiver obliquely backward in the transport direction. In addition, a speed reducer can be provided on the upper surface of the article receiver.

The fruit vegetable conveying device of the present invention can be used as an automatic vegetable vegetable sorting device. In that case, the fruit vegetables being conveyed by the article carrier are automatically discriminated according to the standard in the discrimination unit, and the identified fruit vegetables are conveyed to the article It is also possible to convey to the front side of the discriminating unit by the body and send it out to the receiving body on the side of the article conveying body by standard.

The fruit vegetable conveying method of the present application has the following effects.
(1) Since the article being conveyed by the article carrier is sent obliquely rearward in the conveyance direction, the delivery speed of the article is reduced, and the article is not easily rolled over or damaged and the article is easily damaged. Even if it is a case, there is almost no damage.
(2) When the article transport body is driven obliquely backward in the transport direction to send out the article, the article being transported can be reliably sent out.
(3) When an article being conveyed is sent out in the same direction by a sending body that moves obliquely backward in the conveying direction, the article is sent out while being placed on the conveying body, so that the article to be sent out is stabilized.
(4) When an article sent obliquely backward in the conveying direction from the article carrier is sent to an article receiver disposed on the side of the article carrier, a transit conveyor is provided between the article carrier and the article receiver. The article can be delivered to the article receiver with a simple configuration without necessity. Further, if two or more article receivers are prepared on the side of the article carrier, articles can be sent to the article receivers separately.
(5) When an article sent from the article transport body obliquely rearward in the transport direction is sent at a reduced delivery speed, the article that is decelerated by being sent obliquely rearward in the transport direction is further decelerated. Even if it is a fruit vegetable, it will hardly roll over at the time of delivery, or it will collide with other fruit vegetables, and it will be damaged, and there is no worry of damage.
(6) In the case of the automatic fruit and vegetable sorting method in which the fruit and vegetable being transported are automatically identified by the standard in the discriminating unit and the identified fruit and vegetables are sent diagonally backward in the transport direction according to the standard, the fruit and vegetables are automatically identified and sent out for each judgment. Can be performed reliably.

The fruit vegetable conveying device of the present application has the following effects.
(1) When the article mounting body itself operates obliquely rearward in the conveying direction to send out the article in the same direction, when the article mounting body is driven diagonally backward in the conveying direction by the driving body to send out the article in the same direction, In the case of an apparatus that sends the article in the same direction by moving backward in the conveyance direction, the article delivery direction is diagonally opposite to the conveyance direction in any case, so the delivered article is automatically decelerated and stabilized. .
(2) Since the configuration is such that the article on the article mounting body is sent obliquely rearward in the transport direction by driving the article mounting body itself or moving the sending body different from that, the configuration is simplified.
(3) Since the article carrying body is a belt conveyor and the article support is provided on the belt conveyor, if the article is supported by the article support and placed on the belt conveyor, the article remains in the support state. Since the article is moved, the article is sent obliquely backward in the conveying direction while remaining stationary.
(4) Even when the article carrying body is a belt conveyor and the locking tool protruding from the belt conveyor is guided by the guide body and moves obliquely rearward in the transport direction, the belt conveyor moves or rotates in the same direction. The upper article is sent out stably and reliably.
(5) If the belt conveyor can be reciprocally moved, the belt conveyor can be automatically returned to the original position after the article is sent out, and the next article can be put on standby to speed up the work. it can.
(6) The article mounting body is made of a plate material that moves together with the endless traveling body, two or more bars, etc. Separately, a feeding body that moves obliquely rearward in the conveying direction and sends the article on the bar in the same direction is provided. Therefore, the articles on two or more bars can be sent out stably in a stationary state.
(7) Since the article carrying body is a roller conveyor and the drive rotating body that rotates the roller conveyor obliquely rearward in the conveying direction is provided, the article can be reliably sent out with a simple configuration.
(8) Since the article carrying body is a roller conveyor, these roller conveyors are arranged so as to be able to rotate obliquely rearward in the article conveying direction, and the articles on the roller conveyor are sent out in the same direction by the sending body. It can be reliably sent out by the sending body.
(9) Since the article carrying body is a roller conveyor and an inclined driving body that tilts the roller conveyor is provided, the fruit vegetables on the roller conveyor can be reliably placed diagonally backward in the article conveying direction simply by tilting the roller conveyor with the inclined driving body. Can be sent out.
(10) Since the article mounting body is made of a number of supports that can be swung in a keyboard shape, and the support tool can be driven to swing downward in a slanting rearward direction in the transport direction by the swing drive body, the support tool is swung. It is possible to send the article on the support tool obliquely rearward in the conveying direction simply by making it happen.
(11) Since two or more of the many article mounting bodies attached to the traveling body are set as a unit and one or more articles can be placed on each unit, one individual article is placed on each unit. It can be put on and sent out reliably.
(12) When an article receiver for receiving an article sent obliquely rearward from the article carrier is disposed on the side of the article carrier, there is no need to provide a transit conveyor between the article carrier and the article receiver. Thus, the article can be reliably sent to the article receiver with a simple configuration.
(13) Since a decelerating body is provided to decelerate the feed speed of the articles sent obliquely backward in the conveying direction from the article carrier, the momentum of the fruit vegetables delivered from the article carrier can be further reduced, and the fruit vegetables are momentarily rolled over There is almost no risk of damage or damage.
(14) The upper surface of the article receiver is inclined upward from the article carrier, or the upper surface of the article receiver is made higher than the article carrier, and is sent from the article carrier to the article receiver obliquely rearward in the conveying direction. Even if the article feeding speed can be reduced, the momentum of the fruit and vegetables to be delivered can be further reduced, and there is almost no possibility that the fruit and vegetables will gain momentum and roll over or be damaged.
(15) On the upper surface of the article receiver that is inclined upward or on the upper surface of the article receiver that is higher than the article carrier, the feeding speed of the article that is fed obliquely rearward from the article carrier to the article receiver in the conveying direction Even when a deceleration body for decelerating is provided, it is possible to further reduce the momentum of the fruit and vegetables that are sent out, and there is almost no possibility that the fruit and vegetables will gain momentum and roll over or be damaged.
(16) When a large number of article mounting bodies are arranged in the transport direction, the article can be transported regardless of the article mounting body, and can be sent obliquely backward during transport.

When the fruit and vegetable conveying device of the present application is used for an automatic fruit and vegetable sorting device, the fruits and vegetables conveyed by the article carrier are identified by standard during conveyance, and the article is arranged on the side of the article carrier based on the determination result Since it is sent to the received article receiver diagonally backward in the transport direction, the fruit and vegetables to be sent out are automatically decelerated, and the fruit vegetables are momentarily rolled over and fall from the article receiver or to other fruit vegetables that have been sent out earlier. There is almost no damage due to collision.

The fruit and vegetable conveying method of the present invention is a method of conveying various articles by an article conveying body and sending them obliquely backward in the conveying direction at a predetermined position, and the fruit and vegetable conveying apparatus is an apparatus for realizing the method. These methods and devices are, for example, various kinds of standards such as round fruit vegetables such as tomatoes, peaches, pears and strawberries, and long fruit vegetables such as peppers and eggplants according to size, shape, color, and sugar content. It is suitable for use as an automatic fruit vegetable sorting method and fruit vegetable automatic sorting device that automatically sorts differently (by grade).

(Embodiment 1 of a fruit vegetable conveyance method )
An example of the embodiment of the fruit vegetable conveying method of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In this example, the transport method for fruit vegetables is round-type fruit vegetables such as tomatoes, peaches, pears, strawberries, etc., and long fruit vegetables such as pepper and eggplant are classified according to size, shape, color, and sugar content. An example used as an automatic vegetable vegetable sorting method for automatically sorting differently (by grade) will be described. As shown in FIG. 1, this fruit vegetable conveying method places an article (fruit vegetable) 1 on an article carrier 3 of an article carrier 2 and conveys it in the direction of arrow a. When it is automatically determined separately and the fruit vegetables 1 after the determination are transported to the side of the pool conveyor (article receiver) 4 arranged on the side of the article transporter, the article carrier 3 is obliquely transported as shown in FIG. In this method, the fruit vegetables 1 on the article mounting body 3 are driven rearward and sent out in the same direction according to the standard to be placed on the article receiving body 4. As shown in FIG. 1, the article receiver 4 is arranged at several locations on the side of the article carrier 2 according to the specifications of fruit vegetables, and the fruit vegetables 1 are sent out to the respective article receivers 4 according to standards. In this method, the article carrier 3 is an endless belt 18 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, and the fruit vegetable 1 mounted on the endless belt 18 with the article support 5 attached to the upper surface thereof is attached to the article support 5. It can be supported by. 1 to 3, the delivery side of the endless belt 18 is disposed obliquely toward the rear of the article receiver 4, and when the endless belt 18 rotates or moves, the fruit vegetables 1 thereon are moved in the transport direction. It was made to be able to feed diagonally backward, and the speed of fruit vegetable 1 was reduced to save the momentum of fruit vegetable 1.

(Embodiment 2 of fruit vegetable conveyance method )
In the fruit vegetable conveying method of the present invention, the fruit vegetables 1 conveyed by the article conveying body 2 are fed out obliquely backward in the conveying direction by the article mounting body 3 having one belt conveyor as described in the first embodiment. The method is not limited, and for example, as shown in FIGS. 9A and 9B, two adjacent belt conveyor type article mounting bodies 3 are formed as a set of units 50, or adjacent as shown in FIG. Four belt conveyor type article mounting bodies 3 are made into a set of units 50 so that two or more fruit vegetables 1 can be placed on each unit 50, and each belt conveyor is inclined rearward in the conveying direction. You can also move it out.

(Embodiment 3 of the fruit vegetable conveying method )
The fruit vegetables 1 can be sent out obliquely backward in the conveying direction by a belt conveyor type article mounting body 3 in which two endless belts 18 having a narrow width are arranged in parallel as shown in FIGS.

(Embodiment 4 of fruit vegetable conveyance method )
The fruit vegetables 1 can be sent obliquely backward in the conveying direction by a roller conveyor type article mounting body 3 that is rotatably provided with rollers as shown in FIGS.

(Embodiment 5 of fruit vegetable conveyance method )
The fruit vegetables 1 can be sent out obliquely rearward in the conveying direction by a roller conveyor type article mounting body 3 that can be inclined obliquely rearward by an inclination mechanism as shown in FIGS. The tilting mechanism operates based on the determination result to send the article obliquely backward.

(Embodiment 6 of fruit vegetable conveyance method )
In the fruit vegetable conveying method of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 14, the fruit vegetables 1 being conveyed by the article conveying body 2 are sent in parallel in the conveying direction obliquely rearward, as shown in FIG. 14. The fruit vegetables 1 placed on the mounting table 62 are used by using the article mounting body 3 constituted by the mounting table 62 on which the fruit vegetables 1 can be placed and the sending body 63 that can reciprocate along the mounting table 62. It is also possible to push in the direction of the arrow by the movement of the sending body 63 and send it to the article receiver 4 obliquely backward in the transport direction. The article mounting body 3 is not limited to the one shown in FIG. 14, and if the fruit vegetable 1 can be sent diagonally backward by pushing the fruit vegetables 1 on the mounting table 62 by the sending body 63, for example, the mounting table is a plate. For example, it may be a fixing tool such as a roller conveyor that is rotatably arranged obliquely rearward in the conveying direction.

(Embodiment 7 of fruit vegetable conveyance method )
In the fruit vegetable conveying method of the present invention, the feeding of the fruit vegetables 1 being conveyed by the article conveying body 2 obliquely backward in the conveying direction is not limited to the method described in each of the above embodiments, and is shown in FIGS. 15 (a) and 15 (b). Such a keyboard-like article mounting body 3 can also be used. In this case, as shown in FIG. 15 (a), the article mounting body 3 is a rectangular bar-shaped support material 100 arranged obliquely rearward in the transport direction, and a large number of support materials 100 are directed obliquely rearward in the transport direction. It is also possible that the support members 100 can be swung in a keyboard shape around the support shaft 101 by a swing drive body (not shown) so that the fruit vegetables 1 on the article mounting body 3 can be slid diagonally backward in the transport direction. it can.

(Eighth Embodiment of Fruit Vegetable Transporting Method )
In the fruit vegetable conveying method of the present invention, as shown in FIGS. It is also possible to reduce the delivery speed of the fruit vegetables 1 that are sent to the article receiver 4 obliquely backward in the transport direction. At this time, as the speed reducer 110, a plate material, a tape, or the like whose surface is processed with a fluorine resin can be used. The speed reducer 110 can also be arranged in an upward inclination from the article mounting body 3 toward the article receiver 4. In that case, as shown in the figure, the upper surface of the article receiver 4 can be made higher than the upper surface of the article carrier 3, or the article receiver 4 itself can be inclined upward. The speed reducer 110 can also be provided on the outlet side of the article carrier 3 or the inlet side of the article receiver 4. Further, the speed reduction of the feeding speed of the fruit vegetables 1 is not limited to that by the speed reducer 110, and the upper surface of the article receiver 4 is made higher than the upper face of the article mounting body 3 without providing the speed reducer 110, It can also be performed by making the receiving body 4 itself uphill.

(Other embodiments of the method for conveying fruit vegetables )
In the fruit vegetable transporting method of the present invention, the feeding of the fruit vegetables 1 being transported by the article transporter 2 obliquely rearward in the transport direction is not limited to that described in the above embodiments, and can be performed by any other means. .

In the fruit vegetable conveying method of the present invention, the delivery of the fruit vegetable 1 from the article carrier 2 obliquely rearward in the conveying direction is not limited to the article receiver 4 and can be delivered to any other place. In some cases, the article receiver 4 can be omitted.

(Embodiment 1 of fruit vegetable conveying apparatus )
An example of the embodiment of the fruit vegetable conveying apparatus of the present invention will be described based on the drawings. In this example, the fruit transporting device is a variety of standards such as round fruit vegetables such as tomatoes, peaches, pears and strawberries, and long fruit vegetables such as pepper and eggplant, according to size, shape, color and sugar content. An example used as an automatic vegetable vegetable sorting device for automatically sorting differently (by grade) will be described. As shown in FIG. 1, the fruit vegetable conveying apparatus places the fruit vegetable 1 on the article carrier 3 of the article carrier 2 and conveys the fruit vegetable 1 in the direction of the arrow a. When the determined fruit vegetables 1 are conveyed to the side of the pool conveyor (article receiver) 4 disposed on the side of the article carrier 2, as shown in FIG. The mounting body 3 is driven, and the fruit vegetables 1 on the article mounting body 3 are sent out obliquely rearward in the conveying direction to be mounted on the article receiving body 4. As shown in FIG. 1, the article receiver 4 is arranged at several locations on the side of the article carrier 2 according to the specifications of fruit vegetables, and the fruit vegetables 1 are sent out to the respective article receivers 4 according to standards. The article carrier 3 is a belt conveyor type as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, and the article support 5 is attached to the upper surface of the endless belt 18 so that the fruit vegetables 1 placed on the article carrier 3 can be supported. There is also provided a locking member 35 projecting downward from the lower surface of the endless belt 18, which is provided along the guide body 43 shown in FIG. 3 on the side opposite to the article receiver 4 (right side in FIG. 4). ), The upper traveling portion of the endless belt 18 rotates toward the article receiver 4 (left rotation in FIG. 4) so that the fruit vegetables 1 placed on the upper traveling portion are sent to the article receiver 4. It is. In this case, the delivery side of the article carrier 3 is disposed obliquely toward the rear of the article receiver 4 as shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, and the delivery speed of the fruit vegetables 1 delivered from the article carrier 3 is reduced. The momentum of fruit vegetables 1 is saved. Hereinafter, the article transport body 2, the article placing body 3 and the like will be described in detail.

  The article carrier 2 shown in FIG. 1 has a plurality of elongated article mounts 3 attached to an endless chain 11 installed on a drive sprocket 10a and a driven sprocket 10b. As a result, the drive sprocket 10a rotates and moves in the same direction when the chain 11 moves in the direction of arrow a. Each of the article mounting bodies 3 is mounted with the delivery side 3a facing diagonally backward in the movement direction of the chain 11 (see FIG. 2).

As shown in FIG. 3, the transport chain 11 is accommodated in a square hook-shaped chain guide 14 having an upper opening at an upper opening, and travels through the inside. As shown in FIG. 5, the chain guide 14 is installed on the upper surface of the main frame 13 of the fruit vegetable conveying device . As shown in FIGS. 2 and 6, attachments 15 are attached to the chain 11 at regular intervals, and a frame 16 (FIG. 6) of the article mounting body 3 is attached to the attachment 15.

  1 to FIG. 5 is a belt conveyor provided with a support plate 19 and an endless belt 18 as shown in FIG. 7, and the fruit vegetables 1 placed on the upper surface of the endless belt 18 by rotation of the endless belt 18. To the other side of the rotation direction (receiving body 4 side).

  As shown in FIG. 6, the support plate 19 has a front side plate 21 and a rear side plate 22 on the outer side of the elongated central plate 20, and a guide portion 23 having a substantially triangular shape is formed on the front end of the rear side plate 22. The side plate 21 is projected beyond the front end portion. A front space 24 is formed on the front end side of the support plate 19, and a rear space 25 is formed on the rear end side.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the endless belt 18 is wound around the outer periphery of the front free roller 26, the guide roller 27, and the rear free roller 28, and the lower end portion of the endless belt 18 is inclined upward. The front end portion of the endless belt 18 and the front free roller 26 and the guide roller 27 are placed in the front space portion 24 of the support plate 19, and the rear end portion and the rear free roller 28 are placed in the rear space portion 25 of the support plate 19. It is arranged in. This fruit and vegetable mounting body 3 is accommodated in the conveyor frame 16 having an upper opening shown in FIG. 4, and the rotation shaft 29 of the front free roller 26 is rotatably supported by the front receiving groove 30 of the conveyor frame 16, and the rotation of the guide roller 27 is performed. The shaft 31 is rotatably passed through the support hole 32 of the conveyor frame 16, and the rotary shaft 33 of the rear free roller 28 is rotatably supported by the rear receiving groove 34 of the conveyor frame 16 to be set as shown in FIG. ing.

  The article support 5 is fixed to the upper surface of the endless belt 18 by fixing means such as an adhesive or a screw. The article support 5 is made of sponge, rubber, soft resin or the like so that the fruit vegetables 1 are not damaged. The fruit support 1 has a truncated cone shape, and the lower part of the fruit vegetables 1 is thin, for example, tomatoes and apples. Even swelled fruit vegetables can be supported stably. The material and shape of the article support 5 are not limited to this and can be arbitrary. The article support 5 can be omitted.

A locking member 35 (FIG. 6) is attached to the lower surface of the endless belt 18. As shown in FIG. 6, a bolt is used for the illustrated locking device 35, and the bolt 37 is disposed on the bottom plate 36 of the conveyor frame 16, and the top cover is applied to the top and bottom of the holding device 37. A nut 40 is fastened to a lower end screw of a bolt passing through the plate 38 and the lower plate 39 and fixed to the bottom plate 36 of the conveyor frame 16 so as to protrude downward. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the locking device 35 is guided and moved in a square hook-shaped locking device guide 41 having an upper opening provided in parallel with the chain guide 14. As shown in FIG. 5, the locking tool guide 41 is arranged and fixed in parallel with the chain guide 14 on the upper surface of the main frame 13 of the fruit and vegetable conveying device . Moreover, the locking tool guide 41 is not provided in the installation part of the guide body 43, as shown in FIG.

  The article carrier 3 formed as shown in FIG. 7 is fixed to the chain 11 by attaching the conveyor frame 16 (FIG. 4) to the attachment 15 of the chain 11 with screws 42 (FIG. 6). In this case, the delivery side 3a of the article mounting body 3 is attached obliquely toward the rear in the transport direction of the chain 11, and the fruit vegetables 1 on the article mounting body 3 are sent out obliquely rearward in the transport direction. The attachment angle (θ in FIG. 2) of the article mounting body 3 can be set to any angle as long as the fruit vegetables 1 can be fed obliquely backward in the transport direction, and can be, for example, about 30 ° to 60 °. In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 6, a triangular guide portion 23 that protrudes further forward than the front end of the front side plate 21 is formed at the front end portion of the rear side plate 22 of the article mounting body 3. Even if the delivery side 3a of the mounting body 3 is arranged obliquely rearward with respect to the article transport body 2, the tip of the article mounting body 3 and the article transport body 2 are blocked by the triangular guide portion 23. There are almost no gaps. For this reason, there is no case where the fruit vegetables 1 delivered from the endless belt 18 of the article carrier 3 are difficult to transfer to the article receiver 4 or the fruit vegetables 1 fall.

Although the width of the article mounting body 3 and the adjacent interval between the article mounting bodies 3 vary depending on the size, shape, etc. of the fruit vegetables 1 to be mounted, the width of the article mounting body 3 is basically as shown in FIG. The width can be set so that one fruit vegetable 1 can be placed, and the adjacent interval can be placed across two or more article mounting bodies 3 as shown in FIG. 8 (b). , for example, it may be set as Ru can be loaded by straddling the large round ball-based fruit vegetables 1 including the two or more articles placed body 3 of the size as shown in FIG.

  The discriminating unit 6 is a part that is provided on the transport path of the article transporter 2 and automatically discriminates the fruit vegetables 1 being transported by standard. The discriminating unit 6 includes various devices necessary for discrimination, such as a camera, a sugar content sensor, and a weigh scale, as in the existing discriminating device, and measures the shape, size, weight, color, sugar content, etc. of the fruit vegetables 1 being conveyed. The standard can be discriminated automatically.

  A large number of guide bodies 43 are arranged in front of the determination unit 6 shown in FIG. 1 and obliquely rearward with respect to the transport direction of the article transport body 2. A switching lever 44 is disposed on the distal end side of each guide body 43. The switching lever 44 switches the movement direction of the locking tool 35 of the article carrying body 3 based on the determination result of the determination unit 6, and the guide body 43 guides the movement of the locking tool 35 along the switching direction. is there. The guide body 43 is an L-shaped elongated plate shown in FIG. 3, and its tip side is arranged obliquely rearward with respect to the chain guide 14 on the main frame 13 of the sorting device as shown in FIG. is there. The switching lever 44 is attached to the rotating body 45 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, and by rotating the rotating body 45, the path invariant position (FIG. 3a) in the direction parallel to the article conveying body 2 and the article conveying It is switched to the course changing position (FIG. 3b) in the direction intersecting with the body 2, and when it is in the course invariant position (FIG. 3a), it is below the bottom surface of the article carrier 3 conveyed by the article carrier 2. The protruding locking member 35 advances straight without touching the switching lever 44 and the guide body 43, the endless belt 18 of the article mounting body 3 does not operate, and the fruit and vegetables on it are not sent out. When the switching lever 44 is switched to the course changing position (FIG. 3b), the locking member 35 of the article carrying body 3 conveyed by the article conveying body 2 hits the switching lever 44 and is prevented from going straight, leading to the guide body 43 side. Then, it travels along the guide body 43 and moves in the direction of arrow A in FIGS. 3B and 4, and simultaneously, the lower side of the endless belt 18 also moves in the same direction. It moves in the direction of the article receiver 4 arranged on the side (feeding direction: arrow B direction in FIG. 4), and the fruit vegetables 1 on the endless belt 18 are sent to the article receiver 4. Switching of the switching lever 44 by the rotation of the rotating body 45 is controlled by a control device according to the determination result in the determination unit 6.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the article receiver 4 arranged on the side of the article transporter 2 inherits the fruit vegetables 1 sent from the discharge unit 7 of the article transporter 2 and transports them as they are or temporarily pools them. In the case of FIG. 1, a large number of belt conveyors are used, and these belt conveyors are arranged in parallel at two locations so as to be orthogonal to the article carrier 2. In FIG. 1, the article receiver 4 is provided at two places in the carrying direction of the article carrier 2, but the article receiver 4 is provided at several places in the carrying direction of the article carrier 2 for each kind and standard of the fruit vegetables 1. The fruit vegetables 1 can be sent out to the article receivers 4 at the respective locations according to types and standards. Rather than having the same number of belt conveyors for all the article receivers 4, the article conveyor 4 of the article receiver 4 that takes over a large number and variety of fruit vegetables 1 is increased in number, and the article receiver 4 that inherits a small number of fruit vegetables 1. The number of belt conveyors can be reduced. The belt conveyor of the article receiver 4 can be always rotated. However, when the fruit vegetables 1 are not sent out, they are temporarily stopped and kept waiting, and when the fruit vegetables 1 are sent out from the article carrier 3, the fruit vegetables. It can also be controlled so that the fruit vegetables 1 are placed by rotating by one. The rotation control of the belt conveyor is performed by the control device according to the determination result by the determination unit 6.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a return guide body 46 is disposed in the transport direction ahead of the discharge unit 7 of the article transport body 2. The return guide body 46 is disposed obliquely in the opposite direction to the guide body 43. The article mounting body 3 that has sent the fruit vegetables 1 to the article receiver 4 is guided by the guide body 43 when the article carrier 2 is fed to the end of the discharge unit 7 by the article carrier 2 after feeding the article 1 to the article receiver 4. Thus, the locking member 35 located in the direction away from the article receiver 4 can be guided in the reverse direction and returned to the original position.

  The vicinity of the conveyance start point of the article transport body 2 shown in FIG. 1 (the left end side in FIG. 1) is a loading section 8 on which the fruit vegetables 1 are placed on the article mounting body 3, and the loading section 8 can accommodate several workers. The length of is secured.

  In the side of the article receiver 4 in FIG. 1, a work space is secured for the operator to manually take out the fruit vegetables 1 pooled in the article receiver 4 and perform the boxing operation, and several people are also lined up here. The space is large enough to work with. The article receiver 4 is not limited to one having a plurality of belt conveyors arranged side by side as described above, and may be an arbitrary one such as a roller conveyor. Further, instead of the article receiver 4, it is possible to provide a transport line of another device. Further, the article receiver 4 can be omitted.

(Usage example of fruit vegetable transport device )
In order to convey and sort fruit vegetables by the automatic vegetable vegetable sorting apparatus using the fruit vegetable conveying apparatus of the present invention, it is as follows.
(1) Place the fruit vegetables 1 on the article carrier 3 of the article carrier 2 being conveyed in the loading unit 8. In this case, depending on the shape, size, and the like of the fruit vegetables 1, one fruit vegetable 1 is placed on one article placing body 3 or placed across two or more article placing bodies 3.
(2) The fruits and vegetables 1 placed on the input unit 8 are conveyed by the article carrier 2, and the determination unit 6 measures the shape, size, weight, sugar content, etc., and the standard is automatically determined.
(3) The measured fruit vegetables 1 are transported to the discharge unit 7 by the article transport body 2.
(4) The discharge unit 7 is instructed on which article carrier 3 to send out the fruit vegetables 1 to which article receiver 4 based on the determination result. Based on this instruction, the switching operation tool (rotary body) 45 is The switch lever 44 is operated to switch to the course changing position, and the locking tool 35 of the article mounting body 3 on which the fruit vegetables 1 are placed hits the switch lever 44 and is guided to the guide body 43 (see FIG. 4). At this time, when the fruit vegetables 1 are placed across two or more article mounting bodies 3, the two or more switching operation tools (rotating bodies) 45 operate in synchronism, and the two or more article mounting bodies 3 are moved. Are instructed to be guided to the respective guide bodies 43.
(5) When the locking tool 35 of the article mounting body 3 is guided by the guide body 43, the lower side (lower traveling portion) of the endless belt 18 of the article mounting body 3 moves in the same direction as the locking tool 35, Thereby, the upper side (upper travel part) of the endless belt 18 rotates to the opposite side to the lower travel part, and the fruit vegetables 1 placed on the upper travel part are sent to the article receiver 4. At this time, the belt conveyor of the article receiver 4 to which the fruit vegetables 1 are handed over is rotated by one fruit vegetable so that only one fruit vegetable 1 can be placed on the belt conveyor. By repeating this, the fruit vegetables 1 are sequentially sent to the article receiver 4, and the fruit vegetables 1 are pooled on the belt conveyor of the article receiver 4 of a predetermined standard according to the determination result. Further, since the article carrier 3 is directed obliquely rearward in the conveyance direction of the article carrier 2, the fruit vegetables 1 on the article carrier 3 are sent in that direction (the direction opposite to the conveyance direction of the article carrier 2). The fruit and vegetables 1 are not damaged when the delivery speed is reduced, the momentum is too strong to roll over, or when it collides with the fruit and vegetables 1 pooled in the article receiver 4.
(6) The article carrying body 3 that has delivered the fruit vegetables 1 is further conveyed by the article conveying body 2 and is positioned in a direction away from the article receiving body 4 by the return guide body 46 arranged in the middle of the conveying path. The locking tool 35 is guided in the reverse direction and returned to the original position, and returned to the starting end of the article carrier 2.
(7) In (4), when there is an instruction to advance the article mounting body 3 as it is, the switching operation tool (rotating body) 45 does not operate and the switching lever 44 remains stopped at the path invariable position. Then, the locking tool 35 of the article mounting body 3 on which the fruit vegetables 1 are placed passes through the front of the article mounting body 3 without contacting the switching lever 44, and the conveyance is continued. When transported to a predetermined position and arrives at the delivery position, an instruction is issued to switch the switching lever 44 to the course change position based on the measurement result, and the locking device 35 of the article mounting body 3 is Thus, the guide body 43 guides the endless belt 18 of the article mounting body 3 in the same manner as in the above (5), and the fruit vegetables 1 are sent out to the article receiver 4.

(Embodiment 2 of fruit vegetable conveying apparatus )
Another example of the embodiment of the fruit vegetable conveying device of the present invention is shown in FIG. The article carrier 3 of this fruit and vegetable conveying apparatus is a belt conveyor system in which two endless belts 18 having a narrow width are arranged in parallel. The two belts 18 in the front in the transport direction (left side in FIG. 11) have their tip positions made longer than those in the front in the transport direction (right side in FIG. 11), so that both belts 18 are inclined backward to the transport body 2. Even if they are arranged, the tip portions of both belts 18 approach the article receiver 4 so that there is almost no gap in the gap 51 between the article holder 3 and the article receiver 4, and the article holder 3 to the article receiver 4. In addition, fruit vegetables 1 are taken over smoothly. The endless belt 18 may be three or more.

(Embodiment 3 of fruit vegetable conveying apparatus )
A third embodiment of the fruit vegetable conveying apparatus of the present invention is shown in FIGS. The article mounting body of this fruit and vegetable conveying device has a roller conveyor structure in which a large number of rollers 52 are rotatably provided. A belt conveyor 53 is provided under the rollers 52 in contact with the rollers 52, and the belt conveyor 53 rotates. Then, each roller 52 rotates so that the fruit vegetables 1 on the roller conveyor are sent out to the article receiver 4. As shown in FIG. 12B, the belt conveyor 53 can be rotated by moving a locking tool 54 provided at the lower traveling portion of the belt conveyor 53 in the left-right direction of FIG. When the locking device 54 is moved to the left, the belt conveyor rotates to the right, each roller 52 rotates to the left, and the fruit vegetables 1 on the roller 52 are sent to the left side of FIG. 12 (b) (the article receiver 4 side). It is like that.

(Embodiment 4 of fruit vegetable conveying apparatus )
The 4th Embodiment of the fruit vegetable conveying apparatus of this invention is shown to Fig.13 (a) (b). The article carrier of this fruit and vegetable conveying apparatus is a roller conveyor 56 in which a large number of rollers 55 are rotatably provided on a frame 57, and the frame 57 is moved horizontally around a support shaft 58 as shown in FIG. The frame 57 is provided on the support base 59 so as to be pivotable (seesaw type), and the left and right sides of the support shaft 58 of the frame 42 are connected to the support base 59 by springs 60 to hold the frame 57 horizontally. When the drive pin 61 is provided below and the drive pin 61 is lifted (pushed up) from below, the roller conveyor 56 is inclined downward on the left side (the receiving body 4 side) in FIG. The fruit vegetables 1 fall on the article receiver 4. When the lifting (pushing up) of the drive pin 61 is released, the roller conveyor 56 returns to the horizontal state by the pulling force of the spring 60.

(Embodiment 5 of fruit vegetable conveying apparatus )
FIG. 14 shows a fifth embodiment of the fruit vegetable conveying apparatus of the present invention. The product mounting body 3 of this fruit and vegetable conveying apparatus includes a mounting table 62 on which two bars are arranged in parallel so that the fruit vegetable 1 can be mounted, and a sending body 63 that can reciprocate along the mounting table 62. The fruit vegetables 1 placed on the mounting table 62 can be pushed out in the direction of the arrow by the movement of the sending body 63 and sent out to the article receiver 4. The sending body 63 has a contact surface 64 curved in an arc shape so that the fruit vegetables 1 are stabilized. The bar used for the mounting table 62 preferably has a small sliding resistance and the fruit vegetables 1 are easy to slide. For example, a metal bar coated with a fluororesin or a resin bar is suitable. The sending body 63 can reciprocate a locking tool 65 provided on the lower side thereof by an arbitrary driving mechanism. The article mounting body 3 in FIG. 14 is also attached obliquely rearward with respect to the conveyance direction of the article conveyance body 2 by the bracket 66. The mounting table 62 may be an arbitrary one such as a fixture such as three or more bars or plates, or a roller conveyor that is arranged to be rotatable obliquely rearward in the transport direction, as long as the fruit vegetable 1 can be placed thereon. be able to.

(Embodiment 6 of fruit vegetable conveying apparatus )
FIGS. 15 (a) and 15 (b) show a sixth embodiment of the fruit vegetable conveying apparatus of the present invention. The article carrier 3 of this fruit vegetable conveying apparatus is a keyboard-like (square bar-like) support material 100 arranged obliquely rearward in the conveyance direction, and includes a plurality of support materials 100 arranged in a keyboard shape in the conveyance direction. Is. As shown in FIG. 15B, each support member 100 can be swung in a keyboard shape around a support shaft 101 by a swing drive body (not shown). 3 fruit vegetables 1 can be sent out obliquely backward in the conveying direction. On the lower side of the support member 100, there is provided a locking tool 102 that locks the swinged support member 100 so that it does not swing more than necessary. A large number of support materials 100 are arranged close to each other so that the fruit vegetables 1 can be placed on one or more support materials 100 at any position. Further, the support material 100 may be an elongated flat plate.

(Embodiment 7 of fruit vegetable conveying apparatus )
A seventh embodiment of the fruit vegetable conveying apparatus of the present invention is shown in FIGS. In this fruit and vegetable conveying apparatus , two adjacent belt conveyor type article carrying bodies 3 are set as a set of units 50 so that two or more fruit vegetables 1 can be placed on each unit 50. This means that more than this number of article mounting bodies 3 are operated synchronously so that the fruit vegetables 1 can be delivered to the article receiver 4. The unit 50 may be a set of three or more units. The article mounting body 3 of each unit 50 is set on a frame as shown in FIG. 9B, and both frames are connected in parallel and obliquely parallel. In addition, as shown in FIG. 10, the unit 50 may be a set of units 50 including the four adjacent belt conveyor type article mounts 3. In the unit 50 shown in FIG. 10, the article support 5 is provided so as to straddle the four belt conveyor type article platforms 3. Also in this case, it is possible to send the fruit vegetables 1 to the article receiver 4 by synchronously operating the four belt conveyors. Further, the unit 50 is not limited to the combination of the belt conveyor type article mounting bodies 3 and can be formed by combining the article mounting bodies 3 described in any of the above embodiments.

(Eighth Embodiment of Fruit Vegetable Conveying Device )
A seventh embodiment of the fruit vegetable conveying apparatus of the present invention is shown in FIGS. In this fruit vegetable conveying apparatus , a speed reducing body 110 is provided between the article placing body 3 and the article receiving body 4 of the article conveying body 2. The speed reducer 110 is made of a plate material whose surface is processed with a fluororesin or the like, and is arranged in an upward inclination from the article mounting body 3 toward the article receiving body 4 as shown in FIG. In this case, the upper surface of the article receiver 4 is made higher than the upper surface of the article carrier 3. The inclination angle of the speed reducer 110 can be arbitrarily set, for example, 1 ° to 10 °, but about 3 ° is desirable. The speed reducer 110 can be provided without being inclined. The speed reducer 110 can also be provided on the outlet side of the article carrier 3 or the inlet side of the article receiver 4. With this speed reducer 110, the feeding speed of the fruit vegetables 1 fed obliquely rearward in the transport direction from the article mounting body 3 to the article receiver 4 can be reduced. Further, the speed reducer 110 is omitted, and the feed rate of the fruit vegetables 1 is reduced by making the upper surface of the article receiver 4 higher than the upper surface of the article carrier 3 or by making the article receiver 4 itself incline upward. You can also.

(Other embodiments of fruit vegetable conveying device )
In the fruit vegetable conveying apparatus of the present invention, the means for feeding the fruit vegetables 1 being conveyed by the article conveying body 2 obliquely rearward in the conveying direction is not limited to those described in the above embodiments, and may be performed by any other means. it can.

In the fruit and vegetable conveying apparatus of the present invention, the article receiver 4 can be omitted, and the fruit and vegetable 1 sent out from the article conveying body 2 obliquely backward in the conveying direction can be sent to an arbitrary place.

Fruit and vegetable transport method , fruit and vegetable sorting method of the present invention, fruit and vegetable transport device and fruit and vegetable sorting device used in the implementation of the method are not limited to fruit and vegetable sorting, primary industries such as agricultural products and marine products, and secondary industries such as industrial products It can also be applied to the transport, delivery, and sorting of various items such as products.

The top view which shows an example at the time of utilizing the fruit vegetable conveying apparatus of this invention for fruit vegetable selection. The description top view of the article delivery method from the article conveyance body to the article receiver in the fruit vegetable conveyance apparatus of the present invention. It is another example of the fruit vegetable conveying apparatus of this invention, (a) is a perspective explanatory view of the switching lever before sending an article diagonally backward in the conveying direction from the article carrier, and (b) is a fruit vegetable from the article carrier. The perspective explanatory view after switching lever change in the case of sending out. Detailed explanatory drawing of the article mounting body shown to Fig.3 (a), (b). FIG. 4 is a perspective explanatory view showing a state in which an article on the article mounting body shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B is sent to an article receiver. Exploded perspective view of the article mounting body shown in FIGS. FIG. 7 is an assembly perspective view of the article mounting body shown in FIG. 6. (A), (b) is plane explanatory drawing of the state which mounted the different articles | goods on the article mounting body. (A) is plane explanatory drawing which shows an example in the case of sending out the articles | goods mounted on the articles | goods mounting body which made two sets of belt conveyors into 1 unit with the belt conveyor rotated to a conveyance direction back in the same direction. (B) is a detailed view of (a). An example of a case where an article placed on an article carrier in which several belt conveyors are united is supported by a support, and the article is fed in the same direction by a belt conveyor that rotates backward in the conveying direction while the article is supported by the support. FIG. The plane explanatory drawing of the article mounting body which made it possible to move the belt in the same direction by moving the locking tool on the back surface of the belt in the conveyance direction, and to send the article on the belt in the same direction. (A) is plane explanatory drawing in case the article mounting body of the fruit vegetable conveyance apparatus of this invention is a roller conveyor, (b) rotates the roller conveyor shown in (a) with a rotating belt, and conveys the articles | goods on a roller conveyor. Side surface explanatory drawing in the case of sending out diagonally back direction. (A) is plane explanatory drawing in case the article mounting body of the fruit vegetable conveying apparatus of this invention is a roller conveyor, (b) inclines the roller conveyor shown in (a), and conveys the articles | goods on a roller conveyor diagonally back. Side surface explanatory drawing in the case of sending out. In the fruit vegetable conveying apparatus of this invention, plane explanatory drawing in the case of sending out the article | item on the article mounting body comprised by two bars in the same direction with the sending body which moves diagonally back in the conveyance direction. (A) is plane explanatory drawing in the case of carrying an article on a support that swings in a keyboard shape in the fruit vegetable transporting apparatus of the present invention, and (b) is a keyboard that swings the support tool downward and in a tilted manner. Side surface explanatory drawing in the case of letting it carry out and sending the article | item on a support tool diagonally back in a conveyance direction. (A) is a plan view during article conveyance in the fruit vegetable conveying apparatus of the present invention, and (b) is a case where the article being conveyed passes from above the article carrier to above the decelerator and is sent to the side article receiver. Side explanatory drawing. (A) is a plan view showing an example of a conventional fruit and vegetable sorting device, (b) is a front view of a bucket-type fruit and vegetable mounting body in the device (a), and (c) is a fruit and vegetable mounting body in (b) lying on its side. The front view of the state which sends out fruit vegetables. (A) is a top view which shows the other example of the conventional fruit vegetable selection apparatus, (b) is a front view of the state which sends out fruit vegetables with the conveyor type fruit vegetable mounting body in the apparatus of (a). Plane explanatory drawing of the state which is a conventional fruit vegetable selection device, and sends the fruit vegetables currently conveyed with a conveyance body to a fruit vegetable acceptor by a transfer conveyor.

1 Goods (fruit vegetables)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 2 Article conveyance body 3 Article mounting body 4 Article receiving body 5 Article support tool 6 Discriminating part 7 Discharge part 8 Input part 11 Chain 13 Main frame 14 Chain guide 15 Attachment 18 Endless belt 35 Locking tool 41 Locking tool guide 43 Guide body 44 Switching lever 45 Rotating body 50 Unit 52 Roller 53 Belt conveyor 54 Locking tool 56 Roller conveyor 61 Drive pin 62 Mounting table 63 Sending body 65 Locking tool 100 Support material 101 Support shaft 102 Locking tool 110 Deceleration body

Claims (23)

  An article conveying and sending method characterized in that an article being conveyed by an article conveying body is sent obliquely backward in the conveying direction.   An article conveying and sending method characterized in that an article conveying body being conveyed is driven obliquely rearward in the conveying direction, and the article being conveyed is sent obliquely backward.   An article conveying and sending method characterized in that an article being conveyed by an article conveying body is sent obliquely backward by a sending body that moves obliquely backward in the conveying direction.   The article transporting and sending method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the article being transported by the article transporter is sent out obliquely rearward in the transport direction from the article transporter and disposed on the side of the article transporter. An article conveying and sending method, characterized in that the article is conveyed to an existing article receiver.   5. The article transport / delivery method according to claim 1, wherein a delivery speed of an article sent obliquely rearward in the transport direction from the article transport body is reduced.   6. The article transport and delivery method according to claim 1, wherein the article being transported is automatically determined by the determination item by the determination unit, and the determined article is sent obliquely backward in the transport direction for each determination content. An article conveying and sending method comprising:   The article carrier includes a large number of article carriers, and an endless traveling body equipped with them, and the article carrier travels by traveling the endless traveling body and conveys articles thereon, and the article conveyor is in the middle of article conveyance. An article conveying and sending apparatus characterized in that the article can be sent in the same direction by operating diagonally rearward in the conveying direction.   The article carrier includes a large number of article carriers, an endless traveling body equipped with them, and a drive body that drives the article carrier diagonally backward in the conveying direction, and the article carrier travels by traveling the endless traveling body. An article conveying and sending apparatus characterized in that an article on the article is conveyed, and the driving body is capable of operating the article carrying body being conveyed obliquely rearward in the conveying direction to send the article being conveyed in the same direction.   The article carrier includes a number of article carriers, an endless traveling body equipped with them, and a delivery body that sends out articles on the article carrier, and the article carrier travels as the endless traveling body travels thereon. An article conveying and sending apparatus characterized in that an article is conveyed and the sending body is moved obliquely rearward in the conveying direction to deliver the article being conveyed in the same direction.   10. The article transport / delivery device according to claim 7, wherein the article carrier is a belt conveyor, and the belt conveyor moves or rotates obliquely rearward in the article conveyance direction so as to remove the article on the article carrier. An article conveying and sending apparatus characterized by being capable of sending in the same direction.   10. The article transport / delivery apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the article carrying body is a belt conveyor, the article conveyor is provided with the article support, and the belt conveyor moves or rotates obliquely rearward in the transport direction. An article transporting and sending apparatus characterized in that an article supported by an article support and placed on a belt conveyor can be sent in the same direction while being supported by the article support.   10. The article transport / delivery device according to claim 7, wherein the article carrying body is a belt conveyor, and a latching tool is projected from the belt conveyor, and the latching tool travels with the running of the belt conveyor. It is guided by a guide body different from the belt conveyor and moves obliquely backward in the conveyance direction, and the belt conveyor can move or rotate in the same direction along with the movement to send out the articles being conveyed in the same direction. An article conveying and sending apparatus characterized by the above.   10. The article transport / delivery apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the article mounting body is a fixture such as a plate or two or more bars, and is placed on the fixture separately from the fixture. An article conveying and sending apparatus comprising a sending body for moving an article obliquely backward in the article conveying direction.   10. The article transport / delivery device according to claim 7, wherein the article carrying body is a roller conveyor, and a rotary driving body that rotates obliquely rearward in the carrying direction is provided separately from the article carrying body, and a roller. An article transporting and sending apparatus characterized in that the conveyor can contact the rotary drive member and rotate obliquely backward in the transport direction to send the articles on the roller conveyor diagonally backward in the transport direction.   The article carrying and sending device according to any one of claims 7 to 9, wherein the article carrying body is a roller conveyor, the sending body is provided separately from the roller conveyor, and the sending body is movable rearward in the carrying direction. An article conveying and sending device characterized in that the article on the roller can be sent out in the same direction by the movement.   10. The article transport / delivery apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the article carrying body is a roller conveyor, and provided with a tilt driving means for tilting the roller conveyor obliquely backward in the transport direction separately from the roller conveyor. An article conveying / sending device characterized in that an article on the roller conveyor can be sent out in the same direction by tilting the roller conveyor downward and obliquely backward in the conveying direction by an inclination driving means.   10. The article transport / delivery device according to claim 7, wherein the article carrying body is a large number of support tools capable of swinging in a keyboard shape, and a swing drive body is provided separately from the support tools. An article transporting and sending apparatus characterized in that an article on a support can be sent out in the same direction when the support tool is swung downward and obliquely backward in the transport direction by a swing driving body.   The article transporting and sending device according to any one of claims 7 to 17, wherein two or more adjacent article placing bodies among a plurality of article placing bodies provided as one unit are a set of units. Alternatively, an article transporting and sending apparatus characterized in that it is large enough to place two or more articles, and the article carrying body of each unit can operate synchronously to send the articles diagonally backward in the transport direction.   The article transport / delivery apparatus according to any one of claims 7 to 18, wherein an article receiver for receiving an article to be sent obliquely rearward from the article carrier is arranged on a side of the article transport body. An article transport and delivery device.   20. The article transport / delivery apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the article carrier is disposed at one or more locations on the outlet side of the article carrier, between the article carrier and the article receiver, or on the inlet side of the article receiver. An article conveying and sending apparatus comprising: a decelerating body that decelerates a feeding speed of an article that is fed obliquely backward in the conveying direction from the article placing body to the article receiving body.   21. The article transport / delivery apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the upper surface of the article receiver is inclined upward from the article carrier, or the upper surface of the article receiver is higher than the article carrier, from the article carrier to the article receiver. An article conveying and sending device characterized in that the feeding speed of an article sent obliquely backward in the conveying direction can be decelerated.   21. The article transport / delivery apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the article receiving body is obliquely rearward from the article receiving body on the upper surface of the article receiving body inclined upward or on the upper surface of the article receiving body higher than the article mounting body. An article conveying and sending apparatus, comprising: a decelerating body that decelerates a feeding speed of an article sent to the machine.   23. The article transport / delivery apparatus according to any one of claims 7 to 22, wherein the article transport body includes a determination unit that automatically determines an article being transported according to a determination item in the middle of the article transport body. A fruit vegetable sorting apparatus characterized in that the identified articles are sent obliquely rearward in the conveying direction for each identification item and sent to an article receiver arranged on the side of the article conveying body.

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