KR200428565Y1 - Lighter automatic supply system of sales promotion lighter surface printer device - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a printing apparatus for printing a constant ad text on the surface of a disposable lighter used for promotion, and more particularly, a plurality of lighters are stacked in a tray, and the input lighters are sequentially extracted from the bottom row. It is about automatic supply of lighter for supplying to automatic printing device. The device is simple to configure by discharging the lighter to the conveyor by only one axial extraction drive, and the work speed is greatly improved, productivity is increased and device failure rate is increased. In order to provide a lighter automatic supply device for the surface of the lighter promotional lighter for printing, a cylinder 2 uniaxially moved in the axial direction orthogonal to the moving axis of the automatic printing machine conveyor 110, and provided at the tip of the cylinder 2 An extraction port 3 having a plurality of extraction pins 31 is formed, and the tip of the extraction port 3 and the controller Located between the bayer 110 and vertically receiving a plurality of lighter bundles built in the tray 8 to form a lighter loading / discharging opening (4) consisting of a tower for sequentially discharging the first row of lighters, the cylinder Combining the lighter loading / discharge port with one bracket on the bracket (1) characterized in that the tray built-in lighter to the conveyor of the automatic printing apparatus for automatic discharge supply by row.

Lighter, printing, feeding, automatic, ejecting, cylinder.

Description

Lighter automatic supply system of sales promotion lighter surface printer device

1 is a schematic device configuration diagram showing a lighter surface printing apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

Figure 2 is a perspective view showing a lighter automatic feeding device of the present invention.

3 is an exploded perspective view of the design of FIG. 2;

4 is a left side state configuration diagram of the design of FIG.

Figure 5 is a plan state configuration diagram of the design of FIG.

Figure 6 is a back state configuration diagram of the invention of FIG.

7 is an enlarged plan view of the present invention.

Figure 8 is an extract cylinder extract configuration of the present invention.

*** Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawing ***

1: bracket 2: cylinder

3: Dispenser 4: Lighter Load / Discharge

10: Automatic lighter feeder 12: Tray outlet

21: first auxiliary cylinder 22: second auxiliary cylinder

24: compression spring 26, 424: butterfly nut

31: extraction pin 32: extraction plate

41, rear plate 42: front plate

44: width adjustment plate 410: opening hole

412: length control plate 414: width adjustment fixture

416: fixed lever 422: pin

The present invention relates to a printing apparatus for printing a constant ad text on the surface of a disposable lighter used for promotion, and more particularly, a plurality of lighters are stacked in a tray, and the input lighters are sequentially extracted from the bottom row. The present invention relates to a lighter automatic supply for supplying an automatic printing device.

As is well known, in the case of a disposable gas lighter used as a promotional material, certain promotional texts are printed and distributed on one or both surfaces of the lighter to achieve the purpose of the promotion.

Look at the prior art to achieve printing on the lighter surface.

The lighter has a relatively rectangular cross-sectional shape and has a surface to which printing can be added on opposite sides.

Silk screen printing is mainly used for printing the surface of the lighter. In the past, lighters were individually supplied by manpower and screen printing was performed manually. However, in the near future, printing is performed through an automatic screen printing apparatus due to a decrease in productivity and high cost. It is coming true.

For automatic printing, the lighter to be processed should also be automatically supplied. As such an automatic feeding device, Korean Patent Registration No. 449540 is known.

According to the patent, there is provided a first-stage loading means including a plate facing in the lateral direction to continuously feed the lighter tray horizontally, a first cylinder and a push bar for pushing the lighter in the plate to the discharge position, and a lighter contained in the tray. The second stage loading means including a second cylinder swinging to push the back of the lighter to the package for discharge in a single row unit, and the first row of lighters moved slightly facing the second stage loading means with the transfer conveyor between magnets. It consists of a three-stage loading means including a forward and backward cylinder and a lifting cylinder to be pulled and placed on the conveyor, and a frame supporting the first and second loading means.

This is to supply a single row of trays with a large number of lighters arranged in a row, face to side horizontally, and to move lighters in the lower row from the supplied trays slightly, and to transfer the lighter rows to the magnets. Act to mount on the conveyor.

However, according to this conventional technology, the first stage loading means pushes the lighter into the tray and pushes it to the push bar interlocking with the cylinder so that it is continuously supplied to the lighter, making it difficult to extract the lighter. In this case, since the first cylinder must be driven to move the push bar in the reverse direction (or the initial position), it is troublesome to supply a new workpiece lighter.

In addition, in order to mount the lower lighter row on the conveyor in the tray of the lighter bundle supplied horizontally, a second cylinder for lighter movement for forming another lighter discharge is formed at a position orthogonal to the horizontal supply position at the horizontal supply position. It is an electromagnet that horizontally moves up and down one row of lighters, which absorbs the metal part of the lighter, finally extracts it from the tray, and mounts it on the conveyor, thereby discharging the lighter through three-axis movement in the X, Y, and Z directions. Due to the complicated process of mounting the lighter, even if the printing speed of the lighter is increased, the supply may not be smoothly generated, resulting in a problem of reduced productivity.

In addition, the lighter manufacturing mold is manufactured at a low cost due to economical efficiency when the first row of lighters discharged from the stack is stacked. There is a problem that is caught between each other and the output of the first lighter is not smoothly discharged because the automatic printing device does not detect the workpiece to stop the printing device or often cause the printing failure.

In addition, according to this technology, the lighter to be treated has a wide variety of appearances, and the structure of the lighter is complex, with the disadvantage that the lighter's appearance width and thickness is not constant and the product type that can be handled by wide, narrow, thick and thin is limited. There are many problems such as slowing down the work.

The present invention has been made to solve the problems of the prior art as described above has the following object.

The present invention allows the lighter to be mounted on the conveyor by only one axial extraction drive and discharges the lighter. The lighter of the promotional lighter surface printing device for simple device configuration, greatly improved work speed, increased productivity, and reduced device failure rate It is to provide an automatic feeder.

The present invention has a structure in which lighters supplied as work-pieces are packed in trays and stacked in a vertical column, so that the lighter can be simply inserted without preliminary operation during continuous supply of lighters. It is to provide a lighter automatic feeder for the lighter surface printing apparatus for.

The present invention is designed to be adjustable according to the length, thickness and width of the lighter as a work piece, so that the work can be automatically supplied even if the work is changed, and the lighter automatic feeding device of the promotional lighter surface printing device can be easily adjusted according to the change. To provide.

The present invention solves the problem that presser and injection parts are difficult to be caught or stuck with the corresponding parts of adjacent lighters while the lighter manufactured using a low-cost lighter manufacturing mold is assembled into a finished product. It is to provide a lighter automatic feeder of the printing apparatus.

The present invention made to achieve the above object is to form an extraction port having a cylinder uniaxially moving in the axial direction orthogonal to the automatic printing device conveyor moving axis, and the extraction port having a plurality of extraction pins provided at the cylinder tip, the tip of the extraction port And a lighter loading / exhaust port formed of a tower for sequentially discharging a plurality of lighter bundles embedded in the tray vertically between the conveyor and the conveyor, and forming a bracket for the cylinder and the lighter loading / exit outlet. It is coupled to one axis on the automatic printing device conveyor by the tray built-in lighter by one row so that it is configured to automatically supply.

The lighter loading / exhaust port has a lower end open so that the extraction pin of the ejection port is inserted through one side, and a lower end open so that the lighter is discharged to the other side, and the width of the lighter can be accommodated according to the size of the lighter as the workpiece. It is made to be adjustable.

Further, first and second auxiliary cylinders are installed on both lower sides of the lighter loading / exiting ports to push the lighters in the bottom row of the lighters and the upper row of lighters in opposite directions to avoid the difficulty of extraction by overlapping due to the vertical load acting on the lighter. It is done by

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described with respect to the specific technical configuration of the present invention.

Figure 1 shows a schematic device configuration showing a lighter surface printing apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

Conveyor 110 for extracting and transporting the lighter to be processed in units of columns, unit article supply unit 120 for separately supplying and extracting lighters extracted in units of units, and transport unit for fixing and supporting lighters supplied in units of units. 130, automatic supply of the lighter of the promotional lighter surface printing apparatus comprising a printing unit 140 for applying the prepared print to the individual lighters to be transported, and a drying unit 150 for rapidly drying the printed lighter surface on one axis. In the automatic lighter supply apparatus of the promotional lighter surface printing apparatus 100 to supply the lighter to the conveyor in units of heat to the conveyor 10, to the conveyor shaft of the conveyor 110 of the printing apparatus 100 An extraction port 3 having a cylinder 2 uniaxially axially moving in the orthogonal axial direction and a plurality of extraction pins 31 provided at the tip of the cylinder; Located between the conveyors 110 and vertically stacked and stacked a plurality of lighter bundles built in the tray 8 to form a lighter loading / discharge port (4) consisting of a tower for sequentially discharging the first row of lighters. The cylinder (2) and the lighter loading / ejecting opening (4) are coupled to the bracket (1) on one axis, and the single-axis discharge drive of the cylinder (2) automatically drives the tray built-in lighter on the conveyor 110 of the automatic printing device one by one. It is made to supply.

The bracket 1 has a flat plate shape in which a tray outlet 12 is drilled in the front part and an extraction hole 3 mounted on the rear part is driven by the cylinder 2.

The extraction port 3 is formed by combining the number of lighter rows and the same number of extraction pins 31 to the extraction plate 32 and the extraction plate of the rectangular plate coupled to the rod of the cylinder (2), extraction to the extraction plate (32) The nut is formed by fastening the rear end portion of the extraction pin by forming a long hole at both sides and a central extraction pin hole so that the width between the pins 31 can be adjusted.

The lighter loading / exhaust port 4 is formed of a long bending plate having a cross-sectional shape “ㄷ” to one side and opens and holds a lower end so that the extraction pin 31 of the extraction port 3 is inserted thereinto hold and stack a tray. The rear plate 41 is formed by forming an opening hole 410 for the other side, and the other side is made of a long bending plate of the cross-sectional shape of "C" type, and open the lower end so that the lighter is discharged, and the upper portion forms a curved guide 420 By forming the front plate 42 made to face each other to assemble the opposite lighter in the opposite inner space to form a length adjusting plate 412 and the pin 422 of the long hole so that the length of the front and rear can be adjusted according to the size of the lighter It is made to secure with the nut 424.

Inside the rear plate 41, the width adjusting plate 44 is built in both plates 41 and 42, and the pins of the width adjusting plate 44 are coupled to the width adjusting fixture 414 to be adjusted by the fixing lever 416. The position is made to screw fastening.

The first and second auxiliary cylinders on the lower both sides of the lighter loading / exiting port 4 push the lighters in the lowest row and the upper row of lighters in opposite directions to avoid the difficulty of extraction by overlapping by the vertical load acting on the lighter. 21 and 22 are formed.

The operation of the present invention constituting the configuration as described above will be described in more detail below.

As shown in FIG. 1, a printing apparatus 100 that prints a predetermined promotional text on the surface of a lighter, which is a workpiece, automatically supplies the lighter to the conveyor 110 continuously, and supplies the lighter to be supplied at a predetermined distance from the unit. The lighter 120 is spaced apart from each other by the lighter unit through the article supply unit 120.

The transferred lighter prints on the surface according to the silk print driving of the printing unit 140 at a predetermined position, and after drying the printing ink in the drying unit 140, is discharged along the conveying unit 130 to complete printing. .

The present invention for automatically supplying the lighter to the conveyor 110 is to discharge the lighter heat by driving the cylinder uniaxially driven in the axial direction orthogonal to the moving axis of the printing apparatus conveyor (110).

That is, the lighters are contained in the tray 8 and supplied in approximately 100 units, and the lighter internal trays are gripped and stacked vertically on the lighter loading / exiting ports 4. At this time, loosen the four nuts 424 according to the length of the lighter, and adjust the length of the back and forth direction between the rear plate 41 and the front plate 42 to fix the nut 424 to the front and rear plates 42 and 41. The length control plate 412 is firmly maintained in the coupled state.

Depending on the width of the lighter, loosen the fixing lever 416 to adjust the width adjusting plate 44 on both sides, and tighten the fixing lever 416 to firmly adjust the width adjusting plate 44 pin-coupled to the width adjusting fixture 414. Is maintained.

When the length and width adjustment is completed, the lighter built-in tray 8 is gripped and stacked on the lighter loading / exiting port 4 in the form of a tower. The opening hole 410 acts to freely move the hand of the worker who holds the tray. The curved guide 420 on the front plate 42 prevents the lighter from pouring out of the tray when the lighter is inserted.

When a large number of trays are stacked, the driving of the printing apparatus is started, and the operation timing is synchronized (implemented by a normal control technique) to operate the cylinder 2 and the auxiliary cylinders 21 and 22 intermittently to discharge the lighter heat. do.

See how the lighter is ejected in rows.

The first and second auxiliary cylinders 21 and 22 are configured to facilitate lighter discharge in units of rows, and the two cylinders are vertically as shown in FIG. 6 by the gap d1 horizontally as shown in FIG. 7. It is located in the diagonal direction of the cylinder axial direction shifted by the gap (d).

When the lighter is stacked in a tray at the lighter loading / discharging port 4 in the form of a tower, the cylinder 2 is driven to advance the extraction port 3 at the tip of the rod. At this time, the first and second auxiliary cylinders 21 and 22 are stacked. Push the lighters in the lowest row and the upper row of lighters in opposite directions to shift the lighters rows from each other in the transverse direction, and then the extraction pins 31, which are advanced by the cylinders 2, push the center of the bottom surface of each lighter. Mounted in the 110, the discharge of the lighter in the lowest row 1 is completed by the retraction of the cylinder (2).

After the extraction pin 31 is retracted to its original position, the stacked upper row of lighters is lowered back to the surface of the bracket 1, and the tray 8 is partially moved to the tray outlet 12, and the lighter is repeatedly discharged. This finished tray is collected by falling under the tray discharge port 12 by its own weight.

When the lighter loaded is exhausted while the lighter is automatically supplied, the lighter can be continuously supplied to the automatic printing apparatus by a work order in which the worker stacks the lighter internal tray again.

There is no preliminary work or mechanical actuation for restacking the lighter tray. The reason is that all work is done by simply inputting from the lighter loading / discharging port upward direction so as to be stacked in the vertical direction.

The lighter to be printed through the automatic printing device varies in appearance and size, and even if the lighter length and width are different, the lighter can be stably supplied by adjusting the lighter loading / exiting port easily by using the automatic feeding device of the present invention. The description is as described above.

Here, the extraction pin 31 for pushing the lighter needs to push out the bottom center of each lighter, and the extraction pin also needs to adjust its position and spacing according to the size of the lighter.

This is compressed by fastening one side fixing the cylinder 2 to the bracket 1 with the bolt and nut 26 via the compression spring 24 as shown in FIG. 8 to adjust the degree of locking of the nut 26. The tip of the cylinder 2 is lifted and lowered from the horizontal state by the spring force 24, and the extraction port 3 coupled to the rod is also lifted and lowered so that the position of the end of the extraction pin 31 is adjusted. In the case of setting the position by adjusting the lower end of the extraction pin 31, and in the case of thick to set the position to increase the lighter can be easily adjusted according to the thickness.

On the other hand, in order to control the extraction pin 31 according to the width of the lighter, the extraction port 3 is fixed to the center of the extraction pin is coupled to the center position, the pins on both sides to form a long hole in the extraction plate 32 By combining in the hole it is possible to achieve the left and right position control in the hole.

Therefore, the extraction port 3 for discharge according to the variation in the thickness and width of the lighter to be supplied is also adjustable, so it is useful to be able to print a variety of lighters because it accurately pushes the bottom center of the lighter.

The present invention as described in detail above, even if the type of lighter as the workpiece is changed by adjusting the guide according to the discharge, even if the length and thickness of the lighter can be automatically supplied, depending on the low-cost implementation of the lighter manufacturing mold When the lighter is pushed and discharged in the stacked state, when the lighters are caught between the lighters due to the manufacturing errors of the lighter, the number of lighters is prevented from being discharged. Even if the lighter product is somewhat poor, there is an effect that it can be automatically supplied, and since the lighter is discharged in units of heat by one single-axis movement, the device structure is simple, so the failure rate is small and the working speed is greatly improved.

Therefore, it is a very practical design that solves a number of problems by a complicated drive in the three-axis direction for discharging one row of lighters as in the prior art.

Claims (5)

Conveyor 110 for extracting and transporting the lighter to be processed in units of columns, unit article supply unit 120 for separately supplying and extracting lighters extracted in units of units, and transport unit for fixing and supporting lighters supplied in units of units. 130, automatic supply of the lighter of the promotional lighter surface printing apparatus comprising a printing unit 140 for applying the prepared print to the individual lighters to be transported, and a drying unit 150 for rapidly drying the printed lighter surface on one axis. In the automatic lighter feeder of the promotional lighter surface printing apparatus 100 to achieve automatic printing by supplying the lighter to the conveyor in units of heat, A cylinder 2 uniaxially moved in the axial direction orthogonal to the moving axis of the conveyor 110 of the printing apparatus 100, Combining the extraction port 3 having a plurality of extraction pins 31 to the cylinder rod end, Lighter stacking / consisting of a tower located between the tip of the extraction port 3 and the conveyor 110 and vertically stacking a plurality of lighter bundles built in the tray 8 to sequentially discharge the lighters of the lowest row 1 Forms an outlet (4), Combining the cylinder 2 and the lighter loading / ejecting opening 4 into the bracket 1 on one axis, the tray built-in lighter is arranged on the conveyor 110 of the automatic printing apparatus by one-axis discharge driving of the cylinder 2. Lighter automatic supply of promotional lighter surface printing apparatus, characterized in that the automatic discharge supply. The method according to claim 1, wherein the bracket (1) is made of a flat plate having a tray outlet for drilling the tray outlet 12 in the front portion and mounting the extraction port (3) to go out by the cylinder (2) to the rear portion Lighter automatic supply of lighter surface printing device. According to claim 1, wherein the extraction port 3 is made by combining the number of lighter rows and the same number of extraction pins 31 to the rectangular extraction plate 32 and the extraction plate coupled to the rod of the cylinder (2) extraction plate (32) Automatic lighter of the promotional lighter surface printing apparatus, characterized in that by forming the central extraction pin hole and the long hole on both sides so that the width between the extraction pin 31 can be adjusted to combine the extraction pin and nut the rear end nut Feeding device. The tray of claim 1, wherein the lighter loading / discharging port 4 is formed of a long bending plate having a cross-sectional shape of a "c" shape to one side, and opens one end of the lower end so that the extraction pin 31 of the extraction hole 3 is inserted therethrough. The rear plate 41 is formed by forming an opening hole 410 for holding and stacking, and the other end is formed of a long bending plate of cross-sectional shape "C" shape and the lower end is opened so that the lighter is discharged. 420 formed to form a front plate (42) made to face each other to assemble the lighter as the workpiece in the opposing inner space, but the length adjustment plate 412 and the pin of the long hole so that the front and rear length can be adjusted according to the size of the lighter ( 422 is formed to be fixed by a nut 424, and the rear plate 41 has a width adjusting plate 44 in both plates 41 and 42, and the pins of the width adjusting plate 44 are fixed to the width adjusting fixture. A lighter automatic supply device for a promotional lighter surface printing apparatus, characterized in that the screwing is fixed to the position adjusted by the fixing lever 416 by penetrating the 414. The method according to claim 4, wherein the lower both sides of the lighter loading / discharging port (4) pushes the lighter in the bottom row of the lighter and the row directly above the lighter in the opposite direction to avoid the difficulty of extraction by overlapping by the vertical load acting on the lighter A lighter automatic supply device for a promotional lighter surface printing apparatus, characterized by further comprising one or two auxiliary cylinders (21, 22).

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