KR101464552B1 - Automatic feeder for a playing card - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus for automatically supplying playing cards in which various combinations are possible. The apparatus for automatically supplying playing cards includes multiple unit card magazines slantly filling and stacking playing cards and continuously arranged while abutting against each other; a card withdrawal device absorbing and withdrawing the playing card slantly stacked on the unit card magazines on an undermost surface, one at a time, to rotate and drop the card; a card transfer device transferring the playing card rotated and dropped from the card withdrawal device toward a wrapping device; a screen operation unit controlling various combinations of the playing cards; and a control unit forming a card combination of the screen operation unit and controlling the card withdrawal device and the card transfer device. The playing cards slantly stacked on the unit card magazines are absorbed and dropped using a vacuum absorption pad and thus, is not affected by the stacked amount, thickness, and strength of the playing cards. Also, an apparatus for supplying cards in which no defects occur at card surfaces is provided to minimize defective card combinations or defective products.

Description

{AUTOMATIC FEEDER FOR A PLAYING CARD}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to an automatic feeding device for a play card having various combinations.

There are various types of cards for play, and each card consists of a combination of cards with different pictures or patterns. Such play cards include a card supply device for supplying different cards one by one from the respective loading boxes on which the cards are loaded, a combination of cards supplied from the card supply device, And a card packing machine for packing the card into a card.

1 is a side view of a conventional card supply device according to the related art. As shown in the figure, the cards 20 are horizontally stored and the storage compartments 20 are stacked vertically. And a latching piece 31 configured to push out a card one by one on the upper surface of the operation tube 30 is provided and is positioned in front of the storage portion 20 and pushed A roller 40 for moving the card 10 to be conveyed to the conveying guide 50 is rotatably installed by the drive shaft. The conveyance guide 50 is long in front of the roller 40 and the guide groove 52 is formed in the center of the roller 40 so that the protrusion 53 can be moved to the next accommodating portion 20 The card 10 is pushed out by the retaining piece 31 when the card feeding device is driven and the retaining piece 31 pushes out the card 10 located under the stored water 20, And passes between the rollers 40 and is placed in the conveying guide 50.

However, as in the conventional technique described above, there is a problem in that the card feeding device for pushing the card, which is vertically stacked on the receiving portion, from the lower side by pushing the catching piece horizontally.

First, when the force acting downward is different or the thickness and strength are different according to the amount of cards loaded in the storage part, the card push-out of the jamming piece often fails and the card combination is defective.

Second, when the card loaded with the weight of the upper part is pushed horizontally, a scratch defect occurs on the card surface, or the contact part of the engaging piece is squeezed and deformed, resulting in defective product.

1. Korean Patent No. 10-0747732 (Aug. 2, 2007) 2. Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2010-0100001 (September 15, 2010) 3. Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2013-0119106 (Oct. 31, 2013) 4. Korean Registration Office 20-0391699 (July 27, 2005)

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic feeding device for a play card which is not affected by the amount, thickness and strength of a card stacked on the card storage portion, The purpose.

It is another object of the present invention to provide an automatic feeding device for a play card that prevents scratches or squeezing deformation on the surface of a card loaded in a loading box, thereby preventing product failure.

An automatic supply device for a play card according to the present invention for supplying a plurality of play cards in various combinations and supplying them to a packaging device includes a unit card magazine in which a plurality of play cards are continuously disposed adjacent to each other, A card withdrawing device for sucking and withdrawing the lowest playing cards sloped and loaded on the magazine in a one-to-one correspondence, a card transferring device for transferring the playing cards falling down from the card withdrawing device to the packaging device, And a control section for generating a card combination of the screen control section and controlling the card withdrawing device and the card conveying device.

The unit card magazine includes an inclined bottom surface and an inclined side surface which slantly load the play card toward the conveying direction of the card transporting device and an end stop which is formed at the lower end of the inclined bottom surface or the inclined side surface, Jaws and are arranged in plural in the conveying direction of the card conveying device.

The card withdrawing device includes a vacuum adsorption pad and a vacuum adsorption pad integrally joined to the surface of the lowest playing card located at the lower end of the unit card magazine, A pivoting pivotal cam mechanism for pivoting, a tilting discharge chute for guiding a play card dropped from the vacuum pads onto a card conveying conveyor, a vacuum pneumatic direction switching valve for controlling the vacuum pressure of the vacuum pads, And a vacuum pump for providing vacuum pressure to the vacuum pump.

The swiveling cam mechanism includes a driving cam driven by a driving motor, a horizontal displacement portion interlocked with the driving cam and displaced in the horizontal direction, and a horizontal displacement portion coupled to the upper end of the horizontal displacement portion, And an operating mechanism for turning.

The operating mechanism includes a horizontal sliding bar fixed to the longitudinal side walls of the a-character fixing frame and the a-character fixing frame, a sliding unit inserted into the sliding bar at the side and moving forward and backward in the horizontal direction, And a support hollow tube integrally coupled to the vacuum adsorption pad is coupled and fixed to the L-shaped fixture and is fixedly coupled to the pivot shaft so that the longitudinal direction And an inclined fixing unit fixed to the transverse side wall of the? -Magnet fixing frame and having inclined guide grooves for guiding the end portions of the longitudinal bars.

The card transporting device includes a transporting guide which is installed in the transporting direction to receive a play card descending through a discharge chute of the takeout device and has a guide groove formed in the transport direction, A conveyor belt having protrusions for conveying a play card, and a driving device for driving the conveyor belt.

The screen control unit includes a touch screen and operation switches. The touch screen includes a pack setting screen and an operation screen. The pack setting screen includes a column for selecting a unit card magazine for selecting a combination of play cards, And the operation screen displays the operation status of the play card supply device together with the matrix screen.

The apparatus for automatically supplying a play card according to the present invention is characterized in that the play card loaded on the unit card magazine is attractively dropped using a vacuum adsorption pad so that the play card is not affected by the amount, thickness, and strength of the play card, It is possible to provide a card feeding device that does not cause flaws on the surface, and thus it is possible to minimize defective card combination and product defects.

1 is a side view of a typical card feeder according to the prior art;
2 is a front view (a), a top view (b), and a side view (c) of an automatic feeding device for a play card according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a side view and an enlarged view of an internal structure of an automatic feeding device for a play card according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a photograph showing the front part (a) and the rear part (b) of the main part of Fig. 2;
FIG. 5 is a photograph (a) of a partial enlargement of the front face of FIG. 4 from another angle and a photograph (b) of the transfer apparatus viewed from above.
6 is a photograph showing the main part of Fig.
FIG. 7 is a photograph showing an operation sequence for attracting and dropping a play card according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG.
8 is a photograph of a screen control unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The drawings and description of conventional electrical and control circuits, vacuum piping, etc., which are not essential to the present invention, are omitted.

2 is a front view (a), a top view (b), and a side view (c) of an automatic feeding device for a play card according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, an automatic feeding apparatus (00) for a play card according to the present invention includes a plurality of play cards (CDs) provided at a front end of a packaging apparatus and constituting a pack, Lt; / RTI >

The automatic feeding device 00 of the play card of the present invention includes a plurality of unit card magazines 100 arranged in a line toward a packaging device with a playing card CD slantingly loaded thereon, A discharge chute 230 for slidably discharging a play card CD dropped from the card take-out device 200, and a discharge chute 230 for slidably discharging the loaded play card CD, A card transporting device 400 for transporting a playing card CD slid down from the discharging chute 230 to a packaging device, a screen operating part 500 for operating a combination pattern of a playing card CD, A control unit 600 for controlling the apparatus 00, and a vacuum pump and a vacuum pipe (hose) not shown.

The most significant feature of the present invention is that a playing card (CD) to be combined is loaded on a unit card magazine (100) in an inclined manner, and a playing card (CD) And discharged to a transfer device 400 constituted by a conveyor belt. Of course, the unit card magazine 100 may be turned in the vertical direction without being necessarily tilted. However, in order to visually check the remaining amount of the playing card (CD) loaded on the magazine 100, (100).

In the present invention, the unit card magazine 100 and the card transfer device 400 disposed at the front end of the packaging device may be arranged in a circular shape, but the card withdrawing device 200 of each unit card magazine 100, It is preferable to arrange them linearly in order to simplify the structure.

FIG. 3 is a side view and an enlarged view of a main portion of the automatic feeding device 00 of the playing card, FIG. 4 is a photograph showing the front part (a) and the rear part (b) (A) showing a partial enlargement of the front face of FIG. 4 from another angle, FIG. 6 (b) showing a top view of the transfer device, and FIG. 6 is a photograph showing the main part of FIG.

3 to 6, the unit card magazine 100 includes an inclined bottom surface 110 and an oblique side surface 120 for slantingly loading the play card CD toward the transport direction of the card transport apparatus 400 And an end stopping jaw 130 formed at the lower end of the inclined bottom surface 110 and the inclined side surface 120 to stop the play card CD on the lowermost side. And are arranged in a line.

The end stopping jaw 130 is folded at right angles by a certain distance toward the inside from the inclined bottom surface 110 and the lower end of the inclined side surface 120, To make contact with the edge. Thus, the playing card (CD) no longer slips down and stands by for stopping by contacting the outer edge of the playing card (CD) with the end stopping jaw (130).

As described above, the play cards (CDs) loaded on the unit card magazine 100 are sucked one by one by the card withdrawing device 200 and discharged to the card transporting device 400.

The card withdrawing device 200 includes a vacuum adsorption pad 210 for vacuum adsorbing the surface of the lowest playing card CD located at the lower end of the unit card magazine 100, A swing cam mechanism 220 for swinging the swinging pad 210 in the up and down direction and swinging the swinging pad 210 in the up and down direction and a playing card CD falling from the swinging pad 210, A vacuum pumping direction changing valve 240 for controlling the vacuum pumping pressure of the vacuum pumping pad 210 and a vacuum pump 240 for supplying vacuum pumping pressure to the vacuum pumping pad 210, (Not shown).

The swiveling cam mechanism 220 includes a drive cam 222 driven by a drive motor (not shown), a horizontal displacement portion 224 that is coupled with the drive cam 222 to be displaced in the horizontal direction, And an actuating mechanism 230 coupled to the upper end of the vacuum adsorption pad 210 for moving the vacuum adsorption pad 210 forward and backward and swinging in accordance with the horizontal displacement.

The revolving cam mechanism 220 can be configured for each unit card magazine 100. However, in order to simplify the structure and simplify the operation, all the unit card magazines 100 arranged in one unit .

When the drive cam 222 is eccentrically rotated by a drive motor (not shown), the linear displacement bar closely attached to the outer ring of the drive cam 222 linearly reciprocates by a predetermined distance in the horizontal direction. When the linear displacement rod is moved, the horizontal displacement portion 224 coupled to the sliding mechanism moves in the horizontal direction, horizontally moving the rotation unit 236 coupled to the end portion, and the operation mechanism 230 ) Periodically.

The operating mechanism 230 includes a horizontal sliding bar fixed to the longitudinal side walls of the a-character fixing frame 231 and the a-character fixing frame 231 fixed to the body of the card supply device 00, An L-shaped fastener 234 coupled to the upper end of the sliding unit 232 to be rotatable and coupled to the pivot shaft 233, A support hollow tube 212 integrally coupled to the vacuum adsorption pad 210 is fixedly coupled to the L-shaped fixture 234 and is fixedly coupled to the pivot shaft 233, And an inclined fixing part 300 which is fixedly coupled to the transverse side wall of the a-shaped fixing frame 231 and which has an inclined guide groove 310 for guiding the end of the barrel 235.

The horizontal displacement portion 224 makes a reciprocating linear motion due to the rotation of the eccentric drive cam 222 of the revolving cam mechanism 220 and is coupled to the end portion of the horizontal displacement portion 224, The rotatable unit 236, which is integrally coupled, moves backward and forward toward the lowermost side of the play card (CD) waiting to stop, and attracts and drops the play card (CD).

The vacuum adsorption pad 210 coupled to the rotating unit is brought into close contact with the lowest surface of the play card CD during forward movement and when the play card CD is moved backward, The position of the inclined fixing part 300 is adjusted so as to turn toward the chute 230. In addition, when the vacuum adsorption pad 210 is advanced, the direction switching valve 240 connected to the vacuum pump (not shown) is controlled by the control unit to supply and maintain the vacuum pressure at the point of contact with the surface of the play card CD And when it drops backward, it switches to atmospheric pressure. At this time, the direction switching valve 240 is installed in the card withdrawing device 200 of each unit magazine 100, and the vacuum pressure is supplied to one vacuum pump and the collecting pipe.

The inclined fixing portion 300 is provided with an inclined guide groove 310 which is coupled to the pivot shaft 233 of the actuating mechanism 230 and inserted into the inclined rod 235 extending in the conveying direction of the card conveying device 400, In a diagonal direction. It is preferable to insert the bearing so that the end of the end bar 235 inserted into the inclined guide groove 310 is moved smoothly.

FIG. 7 is a photograph showing an operation procedure for dropping a play card CD by suction, and proceeds in the order of A, B, C, and D. FIG. The rotation unit 236 is advanced so that the vacuum adsorption pad 210 is brought into contact with the playing card (CD) surface located at the lowermost end of the lower end of the unit card magazine 100 substantially in parallel, (A). At this time, the directional valve 240 is opened to provide a pneumatic pressure to suck and play back the play card (CD).

The vacuum adsorption pad 210 adsorbing the play card CD is moved back together with the rotation unit 236. At this time, the slope guide groove 310 of the inclined fixing unit 300 is coupled to the rotation unit 236, The swing rod 235 inserted in the rotary unit 236 is tilted upward to pivot the vacuum adsorption pad 210 coupled to the rotation unit 236 toward the discharge chute 230.

The direction switching valve 240 is switched to the vacuum releasing direction to remove the vacuum pressure applied to the vacuum adsorption pad 210 to drop the play card CD into the discharge chute .

The play card (CD) dropped on the inclined discharge chute 230 slides down by its own weight, and the play card (CD) slipping down is put on the floor of the transport guide 410.

The conveying guide 410 of the card conveying device 400 is long in the conveying direction and has a long guide groove 412 formed at the center thereof in the conveying direction. The conveyor belt 420 is closely attached to the lower surface of the conveyance belt 410 and the upper portion of the conveyor belt 420 is formed with a projection 422 for conveying the play card CD while passing through the guide groove 412 . Conveyor belt 420 is preferably a sprocket driven chain belt and is coupled to drive device 430.

The play card CD mounted at the center of the bottom of the conveyance guide 410 is moved in the conveying direction by engaging with the projection 422 protruding from the upper portion of the conveyor belt 420 when the conveyor belt 420 is driven.

The play cards CD falling from the selected unit card magazines 100 to the conveyance guide 410 are gathered until they are assembled at the latching portions provided at the rear of the conveyance guide 410 and then intermittently And transported to the packaging apparatus.

The screen control unit 500 includes a touch screen 510 and operation switches 520. The touch screen 510 includes a pack setting screen and a driving screen. The pack setting screen includes a combination of play cards (CD) And a matrix screen composed of a column for selecting a card pack and a column for selecting a unit card magazine 100 for selection. The operation screen shows the operation state of the card supply device 00 together with the matrix screen.

When the card supply device 00 is started by the operation switch 520, the control unit 600 causes the card withdrawing device 200 to start the card supply device 00, The control sequence is operated and the card transfer device 400 is driven.

In addition, the operator loads the play card (CD) to be packed into the unit card magazine 100 for each card type, freely sets the combination of the play cards and the number of pieces of the play while viewing the matrix screen displayed on the touch screen 510 .

CD: Playing cards
00: Card feeder
100: unit card magazine 110: inclined bottom surface
120: sloping side 130: end stop jaw
200: Card withdrawing device 210: Vacuum adsorption pad
212: support hollow tube
220: turning cam mechanism 222: driving cam
224: horizontal displacement part 230: actuating mechanism
231: a-shaped fixing frame 232: sliding unit
233: pivot shaft 234: L-shaped fastener
235: Bottom pole 236: Rotating unit
240: Discharge chute 250: Directional switching valve
300: inclined fixing portion 310: inclined guide groove
400: Card transporting device 410: Transporting guide
412: guide groove
420: conveyor belt 422: projection
430: sprocket wheel 440: driving device
450: Conveyor belt
500: Screen control unit 510: Touch screen
520: Operation switch
600:

Claims (7)

An automatic supply device for a play card for supplying a plurality of play cards in various combinations to a packaging device by a card transfer device,
A unit card magazine in which the play cards are loaded obliquely, and a plurality of the card slots are disposed adjacent to each other;
A vacuum adsorption pad integrally coupled to the vacuum adsorption pad to move the vacuum adsorption pad forward and backward while being swung in the up and down direction; A tilting discharge chute for guiding the playing card drawn out from the vacuum adsorption pad to the card transporting device, a vacuum pneumatic direction switching valve for controlling the vacuum pressure of the vacuum adsorption pad, A card withdrawing device including a vacuum pump for providing a vacuum pressure to the vacuum adsorption pad and sucking and discharging the lowest playing cards sloped and loaded on the unit card magazine by one by one,
A card transporting device for transporting the play card falling down from the card take-out device to the packaging device;
A screen operation unit for controlling various combinations of the play cards;
And a control unit for generating a card combination of the screen control unit and controlling the card withdrawing device and the card transporting device.
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The swiveling cam mechanism includes a driving cam driven by a driving motor, a horizontal displacement portion that is coupled with the driving cam in a horizontal direction and is coupled to an upper end portion of the horizontal displacement portion, And an automatic feeding device for playing cards including a backward and pivoting operation mechanism.
The method of claim 4,
The operating mechanism includes a horizontal sliding bar fixed to a longitudinal side wall of the a-letter fixed frame and the a-letter fixed frame, a sliding unit inserted in the sliding bar and moving back and forth in a horizontal direction, And a support hollow pipe integrally coupled to the vacuum adsorption pad is coupled and fixed to the L-shaped fixture, and the support pipe is integrally fixed to the pivot shaft, And a tilting fixed portion formed with a tilting guide groove which is fixedly coupled to the transverse side wall of the? -Work stationary frame and guides the end of the tilting rod. The automatic supplying device for the play card.
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