KR101845749B1 - Carrying apparatus for wrapping books - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a loading and carrying apparatus to wrap books for each binding unit, comprising: a support plate including first and second carrying units; first and third cylinders horizontally carried to the first carrying unit; second and fourth cylinders horizontally carried to the second carrying unit; a support tray installed in an operation rod end of the first and third cylinders to load books of a small unit for each packing unit; a rear support installed in an operation rod end of the second and fourth cylinders to selectively block a rear side of the support tray to prevent the loaded books from being separated; a pulling means installed in a lower part of the support tray to push out the books loaded for each packing unit from the support tray; and first and second conveyors installed adjacent to the rear side of the support tray to carry the books of the packing unit. Accordingly, the books are continuously loaded by the packing unit, and are alternately divided and transferred to a following packing step without delay to perform a book packing work; thus, providing an effect capable of smoothly performing the book packing work and book shipping by the packing unit.

Description

[0001] Carrying apparatus for wrapping books for bundled booklets [

The present invention relates to a stacking and transferring apparatus for stacking bound booklets. More particularly, the present invention relates to a stacking and transferring apparatus for stacking booklets, It is loaded in the required packing unit and is quickly transported to the next packaging stage so that booklet packing work can be performed smoothly.

As we all know, books are bundled with a number of pages, and various books, reference books, brochures, diaries, etc. are made and sold or distributed.

These brochures are produced sequentially through various processes by an automation system, and are largely divided into a bookbinding process and a packaging process.

Bookbinding is a process in which pages printed with contents are matched through a gathering machine and pasted in a matched state or a bundle side while passing through various arranged devices along a conveyor and a transfer device in a matched state The booklet is completed through the processes of attaching and pressing with the book cover, folding the book cover, laminating and transferring with a predetermined number of cuts, edge cutting, and the like.

The booklets thus completed as described above are supplied to the packaging process in a predetermined number of turns, that is, in units of three (for example, three, five, ten, etc. according to the thickness of the booklet) A process of reversing the booklet inversion, a process of sequentially loading the booklet with the reversed booklet and the booklet which is not inverted, and a process of folding the top and bottom packing markers on the stacked booklets, It is wrapped in a cross-banding banding operation and delivered to the publisher.

In the process of loading and reversing the booklet as described above, it is possible to easily identify the advantage of wrapping the booklets and the number of booklets per unit by loading the booklets in an uneven manner, so that the loading packages of the booklets are inter- As shown in Fig.

As described above, the booklet is reversed by unit, and the booklet, which is passed through the booklet reversing unit at once, and is transported on the neighboring conveyor, can be manually or automatized in the loading process, the package marking supply, and the bending operation.

However, it is not possible to manually process the booklets continuously supplied per unit in a shorter period of time, and in particular, in the case where the continuous packaging process is performed in the above-described bookbinding process, it is difficult to handle manually.

Unlike the above, the automatic loading device can be installed and operated efficiently in order to automatically load the booklets continuously supplied. However, the section of the conveying conveyer for transferring the booklets to be reversed for each sub-unit must be long and the booklets can be received It has conditions to build up a loading device along with a device that can transport the time to the optimum speed.

Examining the source technology related to the booklet automatic loading device, Korean Registered Utility Model No. 20-0459729 (titled "automatic loading device", published on April 03, 2012, hereinafter referred to as "patent document") has been disclosed .

The automatic bookbinding device of the patent document includes stacking means for stacking a booklet continuously until a predetermined amount is received and discharging a stack of the booklets when the predetermined amount of stacking is completed; Conveying means which is formed in an endless track form and connected to one end of the stacking means to arrange and stack the stacked sheets of the booklets discharged from the stacking means at regular intervals; A conveying means for taking a stack of the booklets reached when the stack of the booklets reaches the other end of the conveying means and for conveying the same; A positioning means main body fixed on the sheet surface when a moving direction of the conveying means is a first direction, a vertical direction, and a direction perpendicular to the first direction is a second direction; Or a stacked body of the booklet, which is rotatable about 180 degrees with respect to a direction perpendicular to the second direction as a central axis, so that the stacked body of the booklet can be rotated upward or downward A placement means comprising placement means hands arranged to appear as a < RTI ID = 0.0 > And lead-in means for taking a stack of the booklets arranged by the placing means and drawing the stack of the booklets into the stacking box.

Such a patent document as described above is intended to provide a booklet automatic loading device that automatically reduces the waste of manpower and maximizes the efficiency of the loading operation by automatically loading booklets discharged from the terminal block, And there is an inevitable disadvantage in loading bookbinding finished booklets that supply and package the books in order of promptly requesting booklets that are sequentially supplied.

Disclosure 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 a stacking and transferring device in a process line for transferring booklets completed in a staggered manner, And to provide a stacking and conveying device for a bound booklet package that can be quickly conveyed to a next packaging stage so that the booklet packaging operation can be performed smoothly.

In order to accomplish the above object, according to the present invention, there is provided a stacking and conveying apparatus for booklet packaging according to the present invention, comprising a first conveying unit in a lower direction and a second conveying unit in parallel with the first conveying unit, A support stand standing up from the surface; A first cylinder and a third cylinder which are installed so as to be reciprocated respectively from the center of the rear surface of the first transfer part; A support tray fixed to the operation rod ends of the first cylinder and the third cylinder and sequentially guiding the booklets supplied for each sub-group sequentially; A second cylinder and a fourth cylinder which are installed so as to be shifted left and right from the front center of the second transfer part; A rear bracket fixed to the operation rod ends of the second cylinder and the fourth cylinder respectively and selectively positioned at the rear of the backing tray to prevent vertical holding and rearward departure of the booklets supplied by each subunit; A pulling means installed at a rear side of a lower first conveyance unit where the support tray is located to move backward the booklets stacked in a package unit in the support tray; And a first conveyor and a second conveyor spaced apart from each other on a rear side of the support tray and conveying the booklets stacked in a package unit in parallel backward.

A pair of moving bodies are provided so as to be opposed to each other inside the first and second transfer units according to the present invention and connected to the first cylinder, the second cylinder, the third cylinder and the fourth cylinder, respectively, , The third cylinder, and the fourth cylinder.

The moving body according to the present invention is characterized by being a pneumatic rodless cylinder.

The first cylinder, the second cylinder, the third cylinder, and the fourth cylinder according to the present invention are electric cylinders in which lifting and lowering are performed by realizing forward and backward movement of an operating rod by driving a servo motor.

The supporting tray according to the present invention is characterized in that the upper and the front and rear portions are opened except the side portion and the receiving portion and the inclined portion for guiding the booklets is formed outwardly on the side surface and a pair of guide grooves are formed on the receiving portion .

The pulling means according to the present invention includes a pedestal extending to a rear side of a first conveying portion and having a guide rail on one side of an upper surface thereof, a first pneumatic cylinder fixedly installed on the pedestal, A second pneumatic cylinder installed vertically to the block body and connected to the operating rod of the second pneumatic cylinder and selectively penetrating the bottom of the bottom tray selectively, And a pusher for pushing the lower side of the booklets stacked in the package unit and transferring them to the first conveyor and the second conveyor.

The stacking and transferring apparatus for booklet packaging according to the present invention is characterized in that the booklets for each sub-unit are operated as one set of the first and second cylinders, the third cylinder and the fourth cylinder, And the booklet of the package unit is moved to the first conveyor or the second conveyor side through the pulling means, thereby providing an advantage that the next packaging step can be smoothly proceeded.

That is, by repeating the stacking of the booklets continuously supplied by the subunit through the reversing unit in a package unit, the loading and packaging time of the booklets of the subunit conveyed on the second conveying conveyor can be drastically reduced.

In this respect, there is no need to provide a long section of the second conveying conveyor unnecessarily, and there is no need to transport the booklet at the optimum delay time, thereby reducing the final booklet packaging time.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a state in which a booklet conveying and transferring unit is installed on a packaging line,
FIG. 2 is a rear view showing a booklet carrying and transferring apparatus according to the present invention;
Fig. 3 is a plan view showing a main part of the booklet conveying apparatus in Fig. 1,
FIG. 4 is a front view showing an operation state of first and second cylinders, in which the first and second cylinders are horizontally conveyed and elevated and lowered,
FIG. 5 is a perspective view illustrating a support tray, a rear support, and a pulling means installed in first to fourth cylinders according to the present invention,
6 is a perspective view illustrating a state in which booklets according to the present invention are sequentially stacked in a package unit;
FIG. 7 to FIG. 9 are side views showing a state in which booklets for each sub-unit are supplied and loaded through a stacking and conveying apparatus according to the present invention,
10 and 11 are side views illustrating a state in which the booklets stacked in a package unit are trained and transferred to the stacking and conveying apparatus according to the present invention,
FIGS. 12 to 16 are rear views showing the operation of the stacking and conveying apparatus according to the present invention and the state in which the booklets are stacked in a package unit.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Prior to this, terms and words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed as limited to ordinary or dictionary terms, and the inventor should appropriately interpret the concepts of the terms appropriately It should be interpreted in accordance with the meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention based on the principle that it can be defined.

Therefore, the embodiments described in the present specification and the configurations shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the technical ideas of the present invention are described. Therefore, It should be understood that various equivalents and modifications may be present.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, before describing the booklet stacking and conveying apparatus 100 for booklet wrapping according to the bound sheets, a first conveying conveyor (not shown) for stacking booklets, (200) for transferring the booklets (B) for each sub-sector sequentially conveyed through the first conveying conveyor (C1) and the first conveying conveyor in a state in which they are alternately inverted and inverted by 180 degrees, The booklet conveying apparatus 100 is installed on one side of the second conveying conveyor C2 for conveying the booklets B by sub-unit to load booklets for each sub-unit.

Such a booklet conveying apparatus 100 is shown in FIGS. 2 to 5 attached hereto.

A support stand 110 is installed on one side of the second conveyance conveyor C2 from the bottom.

The supporting table 110 is generally in the form of a gate. When the structure of the supporting table is examined, a first conveying unit 102 is provided in a lower portion and a second conveying unit 104 is provided in an upper portion in parallel with the first conveying unit. Respectively.

The first cylinder 120 and the third cylinder 130 face each other from the center of the rear surface of the first transfer part 102 provided on the support table 110 to be transferred from left to right.

A support tray 140 is installed at the end of the operation rod of the first cylinder 120 and the third cylinder 130 to sequentially guide the booklets B supplied to the first cylinder 120 and the third cylinder 130.

As shown in FIG. 5, the support tray 140 is open at the top and front and rear except for the side 141 and the support portion 142, and at the front of the side 141, An inclined portion 141a for guiding is formed to be outwardly and a pair of guide grooves 142a is formed in the receiving portion 142. [

The support tray 140 can be detached from the operating rod of the first cylinder 120 and the third cylinder 130 and the width of the side portion of the third cylinder 120 and the third cylinder 130 can be adjusted in consideration of the width size of the booklets B guided by the sub- So that the length of the tray can be replaced with another tray.

On the other hand, the second cylinder 150 and the fourth cylinder 160 are installed on the support base 110 so as to be moved in the left-right direction from the front center of the second transfer unit 104, respectively.

A rear support 170, which is selectively positioned at the rear of the support tray 140 and prevents vertically holding and rearward release of booklets supplied by each sub-unit, is provided at the end of the operation rod of the second cylinder 150 and the fourth cylinder 160, Respectively.

A pair of moving bodies 112 are provided so as to be opposed to each other in the first transfer part 102 and the second transfer part 104 so that the first cylinder 120, the second cylinder 150, the third cylinder 130, And the fourth cylinder 160 so as to transfer the first and second cylinders, the third cylinder, and the fourth cylinder.

The first and third cylinders 120 and 130 and the second and fourth cylinders 150 and 160 are coupled to the longitudinal sides of the first and second conveyance units 102 and 102, A movable slit is secured.

The moving body 112 is moved in the lateral direction in a range set in the longitudinal direction of the first and second conveyance units 102 and 104 by applying a rodless cylinder operated by pneumatic operation .

The first cylinder, the second cylinder, the third cylinder, and the fourth cylinder use an electric cylinder in which lifting and lowering are realized by implementing the forward and backward movement of the operating rod by driving the servo motor.

That is, the first cylinder and the third cylinder, and the second cylinder and the fourth cylinder each constitute a pair of the support trays and the rear supports to implement the forward and backward movement of the operation rod so as to be separated from each other, So that the forward and backward lengths of the lowering operating rod of the rear support can be operated by a program set for the overall thickness of the booklets by sub-division.

On the rear side of the lower side first transfer part 102 where the support tray 140 is located, a pulling unit 180 for moving the booklets B stacked in a package unit to the support tray is installed.

5, the pulling unit 180 includes a pedestal 181 extending to the rear side of the first conveying unit 102 and having a guide rail 181a at one side of the upper surface thereof, A first pneumatic cylinder 182 fixedly mounted on the pedestal 181 and a block 183 guided by the guide rail 181a of the pedestal 181 and connected to the operating rod of the first pneumatic cylinder 182, A second pneumatic cylinder 184 vertically installed on the block body 183 and connected to the operation rod of the second pneumatic cylinder 184 to guide the bottom surface side guide groove 142a of the support tray 140, And a pusher 185 for pushing down one side of the booklets B stacked in a package unit and vertically feeding the same to the first conveyor C3 and the second conveyer C4 to be described later do.

The push rod 185 is formed at one side by bending a pair of pawls guided through the guide groove 142a at right angles to pull one side of the lower portion of the booklets B stacked in a package unit .

A first conveyor C3 and a second conveyor C4 for conveying the booklets stacked in a package unit in parallel backward are spaced apart from each other on the back side of the support tray 140, To the next process line.

On the other hand, a sensing sensor S for detecting the conveyance of the booklets B conveyed by the sub-conveyor 200 is provided at one side of the second conveyance conveyor C2 to be conveyed to the support tray 140 And the signal processing and control are performed so that booklets can be stacked in a package unit on the support tray.

The operation according to the operation of the stacking and conveying apparatus for the bound booklet packaging according to the present invention having the above-described structure is described as follows.

First, the booklets that have been finished binding and are conveyed through the first conveyance conveyor C1 are conveyed by subunit 200, and the booklets B by sub 180 degrees are rotated through the inverter 200, To the second conveying conveyor C2 (see Fig. 1).

The booklets according to the sub-titles are counted in the second conveying conveyor C2, and the counted booklets are guided to the support tray 140 constituting the booklet conveying apparatus 100 according to the present invention.

The booklet conveying and conveying apparatus 100 includes a first conveying unit 102 constituting a support table 110 and first and second cylinders 120 and 150 installed in a second conveying unit 104, a third cylinder 130, The first conveying unit 102 and the second conveying unit 104 are moved in the horizontal direction by the moving body 112 divided into the first conveying unit 102 and the second conveying unit 104 as shown in FIG. Small booklets (B) can be packed in packages.

The first and second cylinders 120 and 150 for stacking the booklets B by unit size in a package unit are moved by the moving body 112 to the longitudinal center of the first transfer unit 102 and the second transfer unit 104 The support tray 140 is lifted by the first cylinder 120 to a position where it can receive the subheading booklets B from the upper surface of the second conveyance conveyor C2, The operating rod of the second cylinder 150 located at the lower end of the second cylinder 150 is lowered to place the rear support 170 in the open rear side of the support tray 140 to block the rear side and guide the sub- (See Figs. 7 and 13).

This state is first guided on the receiving portion 142 through the inclined portion 141 of the receiving tray 140 in Fig. 7 with the sub-sectoral booklets B attached thereto, and in the guided state, The operating rod of the second cylinder 150 is lowered and the operating rod of the second cylinder 150 is lowered to keep the rear of the backing tray 140 closed.

This can be achieved by counting the booklets B by subdivision by the sensing sensor unit S located on the second conveying conveyor C2 and by operating the operating rod The operating rod of the second cylinder 150 is lowered (advanced) to a height enough to guide the next sub-booklets B as shown in FIG. 8 attached thereto, (B).

In the state in which the booklets B are sequentially guided and loaded on the supporting tray 140 in the same manner as described above, that is, in a state as shown in FIG. 9 attached thereto, as shown in FIGS. 13 and 14, And the second cylinders 120 and 150 move to the right in the longitudinal direction of the first transferring part 102 and the second transferring part 104 by the moving body 112.

The third cylinder 130 and the fourth cylinder 130 provided in the first transferring part 102 and the second transferring part 104 are moved in the longitudinal direction right direction of the first transferring part 102 and the second transferring part 104, The cylinder 160 is moved to the longitudinal center of the first transferring part 102 and the second transferring part 104 by the moving body 112 (see Fig. 14).

The operation rod of the third cylinder 130 and the fourth cylinder 160 moved in the longitudinal center of the first transfer part 102 and the second transfer part 104 is advanced to move the operation part of the support tray 140 And the operating rod of the fourth cylinder 160 is lowered to move the rear support 170 to the position of receiving the booklets B on the support tray 140 (B) on the second conveying conveyor in the same manner as described above to the package unit (B) on the second conveying conveyor Load.

The stacking of the booklets (B) by sub-division is carried out so that the stacking of the support trays and the rear supports are performed by separating the first cylinder and the third cylinder and the second cylinder and the fourth cylinder respectively By implementing the forward and backward movement of the load, it is possible to reduce the number of booklets (B) for each sub-unit by loading the program .

When the third cylinder 130 and the fourth cylinder 160 are positioned at the center of the first transferring part 102 and the second transferring part 104, the length of the first transferring part 102 and the length of the second transferring part 104 In the first and second cylinders 120 and 150 transferred in the rightward direction, the operating rod of the second cylinder rises (moves back) to disengage the rear pedestal 170 from the pedestal tray 140, Open.

In the above state, the booklet B stacked in a package unit is conveyed to the first conveyor C3 side by the pulling means 180 located on the lower side of the backing tray (Fig. 10 and Fig. 11).

The first and second cylinders 120 and 150 are kept in the standby state while the booklets of the package unit are transferred to the first conveyor C3 side, and the packing units of the third and fourth cylinders 130 and 160, The first and second cylinders 120 and 150 are moved in the longitudinal direction of the first transfer unit 102 and the second transfer unit 104 after the stacking of the booklets is completed, The process is repeated in such a manner that the booklets are transferred to the center in the longitudinal direction of the transferring unit 104 and the booklets for each sub-unit are loaded up to the packaging unit as described above.

As described above, when the third cylinder 130 and the fourth cylinder 160 are moved to the left from the center of the first conveyance unit 102 and the second conveyance unit 104, (See FIG. 16) to the second conveyor in the vicinity of the rear of the backing tray.

The operation of the pulling means 180 raises the plunger 185 by means of the second pneumatic cylinder 184 and the claw portion of the plunger 185 is brought into contact with the guide groove 142 A block 183 which is located at one side of the stacked booklets B passing through the first pneumatic cylinder 142a and then connected to the actuating rod by the actuating rod backward movement of the first pneumatic cylinder 182 located above the pedestal 181 Is slid from the guide rail 181a on the pedestal 181, the booklets B stacked in the package unit can be transported.

The height of the plunger 185 is lower than the stacking height of the package unit booklets, but the booklets stacked by the weight of the stacked booklets can be pushed to the first conveyor C3 or the second conveyor C4 at a time have.

The packed unit booklets transferred to the first conveyor C3 or the second conveyor C4 are then folded in the crosswise form of the final booklets through the process of attaching the packaging mark to the top and bottom of the booklet packing process, It is bundled as a binding work and delivered to the relevant publisher.

As described above, the present invention has been described with reference to particular embodiments, such as specific elements, and specific embodiments and drawings. However, it should be understood that the present invention is not limited to the above- And various modifications and changes may be made thereto by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains.

Accordingly, the spirit of the present invention should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments described, and all of the equivalents or equivalents of the claims, as well as the following claims, belong to the scope of the present invention .

100: booklet loading transfer device 102: first transferring part
104: second transfer part 110: support
112: Moving object 120: First cylinder
130: Third cylinder 140: Base tray
141: side portion 141a:
142: Support part 142a: Guide groove
150: second cylinder 160: fourth cylinder
170: rear support 180: pulling means
181: pedestal 181a: guide rail
182: first pneumatic cylinder 183: block body
184: second pneumatic cylinder 185:
200: Reversal B: Booklets
C1: 1st conveying conveyor C2: 2nd conveying conveyor
C3: first conveyer C4: second conveyor
S: detection sensor unit

Claims (5)

A booklet carrying apparatus for wrapping a bound booklet, comprising:
The booklet-carrying transfer device comprises:
A first conveying unit disposed at a lower portion thereof in a transverse direction and a second conveying unit provided at an upper portion thereof in parallel with the first conveying unit,
A first cylinder and a third cylinder which are installed so as to be reciprocated respectively from the center of the rear surface of the first transfer part;
A support tray fixed to the operation rod ends of the first cylinder and the third cylinder and sequentially guiding the booklets supplied for each sub-group sequentially;
A second cylinder and a fourth cylinder which are installed so as to be shifted left and right from the front center of the second transfer part;
A rear bracket fixed to the operation rod ends of the second cylinder and the fourth cylinder respectively and selectively positioned at the rear of the backing tray to prevent vertical holding and rearward departure of the booklets supplied by each subunit;
A pulling means installed at a rear side of a lower first conveyance unit where the support tray is located to move backward the booklets stacked in a package unit in the support tray;
And a first conveyor and a second conveyor spaced apart from each other at a rear side of the support tray and each carrying booklets stacked in a package unit in a rearward direction parallel to each other. Device.
The method according to claim 1,
A pair of moving bodies opposed to each other in the first and second conveyance units are connected to the first cylinder, the second cylinder, the third cylinder, and the fourth cylinder, respectively, so that the first and second cylinders, And the fourth cylinder is transported to the stacking unit.
3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the movable body is a pneumatic rodless cylinder or an electric cylinder driven by a servo motor.
The method according to claim 1,
The pulling means comprises:
A pedestal extending to the rear side of the first conveying unit and having a guide rail at one side of the upper surface thereof,
A first pneumatic cylinder fixedly installed on the support object,
A block guided by a guide rail of the pedestal and connected to an operation rod of the first pneumatic cylinder,
A second pneumatic cylinder installed vertically to the block body,
And a plunger connected to the operating rod of the second pneumatic cylinder and selectively pushing down the bottom side of the booklets stacked in a package unit from the bottom of the bottom tray and transferring the lower side of the booklets to the first conveyor and the second conveyor A stacked transfer unit for booklet packaging of each binding unit. delete

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