KR20070061133A - Diverting apparatus of moving-object and diverting method - Google Patents

Abstract

An apparatus and a method for sorting transferred articles are provided to reduce the manufacturing cost by reducing the number of assembling process when the sorting apparatus is manufactured. An apparatus for sorting transferred articles includes an upper endless conveyor belt(20), a plurality of lower endless conveyor belts(30), a rotational member, a diverter(60), and a drive unit. An article is transferred between the upper conveyor belt and the lower conveyor belts. The rotational member is provided between the lower conveyor belts and one end of the rotational member is restored to a shaft. The diverter is provided on the upper conveyor belt opposite to the rotational member. One end of the diverter can be rotated to a shaft. The drive unit rotates the diverter.

Description

Separation apparatus of moving-object and diverting method

1 is a schematic diagram of a classification system to which a conventional conveying object sorting device is applied.

Figure 2 is a perspective view showing the configuration of the classification system classification module shown in FIG.

3 is a side view of FIG. 2;

Figure 4a is a plan view of a conventional conveying object sorting device in which the double overlapping phenomenon of the conveyed matter occurred.

Figure 4b is a plan view of a conventional conveying object sorting device in which the torsional phenomenon of the conveyed matter.

Figure 5a is a reference diagram showing a picture showing a jam state by the conventional sorting apparatus.

Figure 5b is a reference diagram showing a picture showing another jam state by the conventional object sorting device.

Figure 5c is a reference diagram showing a picture showing another jam state by the conventional object sorting device.

Figure 6 is a perspective view showing the configuration of the classification system classification module by the conveying object classification apparatus according to the present invention.

Figure 7 is a side view of Figure 6;

8 is a schematic diagram of a classification system to which a conveying object sorting device according to the present invention is applied;

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of drawings *

5: main body 10: conveyed material

20: upper conveyor belt 30: lower conveyor belt

40: pulley 50, 60: diverter

51, 61: diverter shaft 52: internal auxiliary guide

53, 63: external auxiliary guide 54: diverter header

55, 65, 75: main guide 56: support means

70: rotating member 71: rotating member shaft

73: rolling member 90: housing

100, 600: division module 200: reading module

300: loading and transport module 500, 700: classification system

The present invention relates to a feed sorting device and a sorting method, and more particularly, by optimizing the arrangement and position of the diverter converting the moving position of the feed to prevent or reduce the jam of the conveyed material, it is possible to reduce the jam prevention component The present invention relates to a sorting device and a sorting method for preventing the down and error of the sorting system and improving workability, productivity and reliability.

These days, the sorting system is automated to accurately process a large amount of logistics at high speed, and such a fast automated sorting system is a part or production of various precision machinery for the sorting of conveyed goods including postal mail, parcel delivery, agricultural and marine products, industrial products and money. It is used in the field of industrial field throughout the line, distribution and sorting line, assembly line, etc.

1 is a schematic diagram of a classification system to which a conventional object sorting apparatus is applied, FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a configuration of a classification system classification module shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a side view of FIG. 2, and FIG. 4 is a plan view of a conventional conveying object sorting device in which a twisting phenomenon of the conveying material is generated.

The classification system to which the existing classification apparatus is applied, as shown in FIG. 1, checks the information of the conveyed material by the loading / transfer module 300 for supplying the conveyed object to the system, the image reading, the RFID reading, or the barcode reading method. It is provided on the same line as the reading module 200, the upper and lower conveyor belts 20 and 30, the pulley 40, and the upper and lower conveyor belts 20 and 30, which move the conveyed material at high speed by friction ground. And a sorting module 100 for classifying the read materials to each designated place.

As shown in FIGS. 2, 3, 4a, and 4b, the sorting device of the division module 100 may load the diverter 50 and the conveyance 10 to change the moving direction of the conveyance 10. A diverter shaft 51 including a housing 90 which is a space, and the diverter 50 connected to the main body 5 so as to be rotatable through the support means 56; A main guide 55 for converting the conveying direction of the conveyed material 10 along the inclined surface formed to extend from the diverter shaft 51; Extending from the main guide 55 and assisting the conversion of the conveying direction of the conveying material 10, the internal auxiliary guide 52 and the main guide 55 formed between two branches of the main guide 55; It includes an external auxiliary guide 53 formed on the outside of the two branches.

The conveyed material 10 to be classified in the specific classification module 100 composed of these components is frictionally grounded by the upper conveyor belt 20 and the lower conveyor belt 30 connected to different pulleys 40 and 2. 3 is transferred to the diverter 50 in the state as shown in FIG. 3, and then classified and loaded along the inclined surface of the diverter 50 inclined in the opposite direction to the moving direction of the conveyed material 10.

However, in the above process, the diverter 50 is controlled so that the transfer object 10 can be accurately and quickly classified from the specific classification module 100 to the storage unit 90, but the diverter 50 is The main guide 55 is lowered about the diverter shaft 51 to pass the other conveyance to the different sorting module 100 after finishing the classification of one specific conveyance, or the specific conveyance to the accommodating portion 90. When the main guide 55 lowered for sorting is lifted about the diverter shaft 51, various kinds of materials and systems, such as the correct timing of feeding the workpiece 10 and maintaining the correct distance between the objects 10, The jamming between the diverter header 54 and the conveyed material 10, which is the end of the main guide 55 by the condition is generated, thereby causing a jam phenomenon in which the conveyed materials 10 are pushed, There is a problem that the conveyed material 10 is deformed or broken.

As such a cause and a catch phenomenon, Fig. 4a shows that the conveyed material 10 is conveyed or delayed by overlapping two or more, and Fig. 4b shows that the conveyed material 10 is conveyed or stopped with twist.

Figure 5a is a reference diagram showing a photograph showing a jam state by a conventional conveying sorting device, Figure 5b is a reference diagram showing a photograph showing another jam state by a conventional conveyed sorting device, Figure 5c is a conventional conveyed material It is a reference figure which shows the photograph which shows another jam state by a sorting apparatus.

The locked state of the conveyed material 10 as shown above is well shown in Figs. 5a, 5b and 5c.

In addition, due to the jam and jam of the conveyed material 10, it is necessary to design and add a separate jam prevention component to solve the problem, and thus, the manufacturing process is complicated, and workability and productivity are deteriorated. There is a problem.

In addition, the system is malfunctioning or down, it is necessary to put the maintenance personnel, time and cost to diagnose and restart it normally, there is a problem that the functionality, efficiency and reliability of the overall system is low.

The present invention for solving the above problems is to prevent deformation, breakage and jam of the conveyed material as much as possible in the simplest method, regardless of the type of the conveyed, cost reduction through the diverter position arrangement without the addition of a separate jam phenomenon Its purpose is to provide a feed sorting device and a sorting method for improving the functionality and reliability such as workability, productivity, and error reduction.

The conveying object sorting apparatus according to the present invention includes an endless upper conveyor belt; A plurality of crawler type lower conveyor belts for transferring a conveyance between the upper conveyor belts and having a predetermined interval on the same line; A rotation member provided between the lower conveyor belts and rotatably provided at an end thereof on an upstream side in a conveying direction of the conveyed material about an axis; A diverter provided on the upper conveyor belt opposite to the rotating member, the diverter rotatably provided at one end at an upstream side in a conveying direction of a conveyed object; And driving means for rotating the diverter.

It further comprises an interlocking means for integrally rotating the rotating member in accordance with the rotation of the diverter, the rotating member is preferably provided with a rolling member rotatably freely to reduce the frictional force with the conveyed material.

The diverter is the one end of the diverter shaft rotatably provided; It is preferable to include a main guide extending from the diverter shaft to the other end, the main guide for converting the conveying direction of the conveyed material and the outer auxiliary guide extending outward from the main guide, and assists in the conversion of the conveyed direction of the conveyed material.

The main guides extend in pairs at both ends of the diverter shaft, and become thinner toward both ends, and the external auxiliary guide is located on an extension plane of the main guide, and is formed on two outer sides of the main guide. It is desirable to be.

The lower surface of the diverter in contact with the conveyed material is preferably curved.

The conveying object sorting method according to the present invention is a tracked upper conveyor belt; A plurality of crawler type lower conveyor belts for transferring a conveyance between the upper conveyor belts and having a predetermined interval on the same line; A rotation member provided between the lower conveyor belts and rotatably provided at an end thereof on an upstream side in a conveying direction of the conveyed material about an axis; A diverter provided on the upper conveyor belt opposite to the rotating member, the diverter rotatably provided at one end at an upstream side in a conveying direction of a conveyed object; And a driving means for rotating the diverter, so as to selectively classify the conveyed material through the inclined surface of the diverter rotated by the driving means.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 6 is a perspective view showing the configuration of the classification system classification module by the object sorting apparatus according to the present invention, Figure 7 is a side view of Figure 6, Figure 8 is a schematic diagram of a classification system to which the object sorting apparatus according to the present invention is applied. to be.

As shown in Figure 6, the conveying object sorting apparatus according to the present invention is a tracked upper conveyor belt 20 provided with a pulley 40; A plurality of crawler type lower conveyor belts 30 for transferring the conveyed material 10 between the upper conveyor belts 20 and having a predetermined spacing on the same line and provided together with the pulley 40; A rotating member 70 provided between the lower conveyor belts 30 and rotatably provided at an end thereof on an upstream side in the conveying direction of the conveyed material 10 in an axis; It is provided on the upper conveyor belt 20 opposite to the rotating member 70, and is provided to be rotatable about one end in the conveying direction upstream side of the conveying object 10, and the movement direction of the conveying object 10 and A diverter 60 selectively operating inclined downward in the same traveling direction; And driving means including a motor operated by a controller (not shown) for rotating the diverter 60.

At this time, the diverter 60 for guiding the conveyed material 10 is disposed to be inclined in the same forward direction as the moving direction of the conveyed material, but the starting point of the inclined surface of the diverter 60 in contact with the conveyed material 10 is the conveyed material ( It is preferably formed higher than the position point of 10).

The reason is that the starting point of the inclined surface of the diverter 60 is always higher than the position point of the conveyed material 10, more preferably, the highest position point of the conveyed material 10, so that the conveyed material 10 is The first contact with the inclined surface of the diverter 60 is to be stored in the storage unit 90 naturally along the inclined surface without being deformed or caught.

That is, the conventional sorting device for forming the inclined surface in the opposite direction to the moving direction of the conveying material 10 through the diverter 60, the precise timing of the conveying material 10 and the precise interval between the conveying material (10) According to various conditions and conditions of the conveyed material and the system, such as maintenance, jamming and jamming occur between the diverter header 54 and the conveyed material 10, which are the ends of the main guide 55, this phenomenon is a diverter ( The main guide 55 is lowered about the diverter shaft 51 to pass the other conveyance to the other separation module 100 after finishing the classification of one specific conveyance, or the specific conveyance is received in the receiving portion ( It occurs when the main guide 55, which is lowered to be classified as 90), is in a transient state of being raised and lowered about the diverter shaft 51. In other words, the above phenomenon occurs when the position point of the diverter shaft 61 is formed lower than the highest position point of the conveyed material 10.

In the feed sorting apparatus according to the present invention, the starting point of the inclined surface of the diverter 60 in contact with the conveyed material 10, specifically, the position of the main guide 65 of the diverter shaft 61, which will be described later, is always conveyed material 10. ) And the diverter 60 is configured to be rotatable with respect to the diverter shaft 61 on the upstream side in the conveying direction of the conveyed object 10.

In addition, in this embodiment, the diverter 60 is preferably lowered in the moving direction of the conveyed material 10 so that the conveyed material 10 is arranged to be accommodated in the receiving portion 90, but toward the upper conveyor belt 20. It may be arranged to be lifted in a system in which a belt device for transferring the conveyed material 10 in a separate housing 90 or another process.

The diverter 60 has a diverter shaft 61 which is one end connected to a frame (not shown) so as to be penetrated by a supporting means and rotatable; It is formed by extending a pair from both ends of the diverter shaft 61 to the other end, the thickness is thinner from both ends of the diverter shaft 61 to the other end, the main for converting the conveying direction of the conveyed material (10) Located on the extension plane of the guide 65 and the main guide 65, and assists the conversion of the conveying direction of the conveying material 10, and includes an external auxiliary guide 63 formed on the outside of the main guide 65 do.

The rotating member 70 is preferably a planar member, the rotating member shaft 71 is connected to the main body so as to be rotatable by the support means and the conveying object 10 along the surface extending from the diverter shaft 71. It includes a main guide 75 for converting the conveying direction of.

At this time, the conveying object sorting apparatus according to the present invention may further include an interlocking means such as a gear, a belt, a link connected to rotate the pivot member 70 integrally in accordance with the rotation of the diverter 60, In addition, the rotation member 70 may include a rolling member 73 such as a roller and a ball bearing freely rotatable to reduce friction with the conveying material 10.

The pivot member 70 is a pivotal restorable means that couples one end of an elastic means such as a spring or a torsion coil to the main body and the other end to the main guide 75 so that an external force does not act on the line of movement of the conveyed object 10. The main guide 75 can be located in, and when the external force is applied can be rotated downward about the pivot member shaft (71).

In addition, the inclined surfaces of the diverters 60 and 70 in contact with the conveyed material 10 may be bent or curved in multiple stages in the direction in which the moving direction of the conveyed object 10 is converted, such as by bending in two stages, as shown in FIG. Can be curved into molds.

In addition, as shown in Figure 3, the operating angle of the main guide 55 by the conventional conveying object sorting device is generally 60 degrees, in one embodiment of the present invention range of the normal sorting operation of the conveyed material 10 In order to prevent or reduce the jam of the conveyed material 10 and to allow the diverters 60 and 70 to operate agilely for a high speed sorting system, a minimum operating angle is eliminated. The diverter 60 can be designed.

The sorting apparatus 600 according to the present invention as shown in Figure 8, the classification module 600 of the classification system 700 including a reading module 200, the loading and transport module 300 and the classification module 600. Applies to

Feed object sorting apparatus according to the present invention is a tracked upper conveyor belt (20); A plurality of crawler type lower conveyor belts (30) for transferring the conveyed material (10) between the upper conveyor belts (20) and having a predetermined spacing on the same line; A rotating member 70 provided between the lower conveyor belts 30 and rotatably provided at an end thereof on an upstream side in the conveying direction of the conveyed material 10 in an axis; A diverter (60) provided on the upper conveyor belt (30) opposite to the rotating member (70) and rotatably provided at one end in an upstream side of the conveying direction (10) in an axis; And a driving means for rotating the diverter 60 to selectively classify the conveyed object into a specific accommodating part 90 through an inclined surface of the diverter 60 rotated by the driving means.

That is, the upper conveyor belt 20 and the lower conveyor belt 30 passing through the reading module 200 and connecting the different pulleys 40 in the separation module 600 to which the conveying object sorting apparatus according to the present invention is applied. When the conveyed object 10 is moved to the sorting module 600 at the time of sorting, the main guide 65 and / or the rotating member 70 of the diverter 60 is lowered by a driving means (not shown). It is conveyed to the accommodating part 90 along the inclined surface of the main guide 75. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent or reduce the deformation, breakage and jam of the conveyed material 10 caused by the conveyed state and the conveyed timing of the conveyed material 10.

In addition, the transfer sorting apparatus is described as an example in which the transfer is a paper such as a postal matter, but a process line classifier for a production, distribution, and assembly including a sorting machine for a postal matter and a financial automated machine regardless of the type of the conveyed matter. It can be applied to the classification system including.

The present invention described above is not limited to the above-described embodiments and the accompanying drawings, and various substitutions, modifications, and changes are possible in the art without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. It will be clear to those of ordinary knowledge.

The object sorting apparatus according to the present invention includes a diverter and a rotating member which can be pivotally restored from one end upstream of the conveying direction in the conveying direction, thereby deforming, breaking, and It is possible to prevent jam phenomenon as much as possible by the simplest method regardless of the kind of conveyed material, and it is not necessary to install separate jam prevention parts, and to reduce cost by reducing the number of parts and assembly when manufacturing the classification system accordingly. This has the effect of improving workability and productivity.

In addition, the method of classifying conveyed goods according to the present invention prevents or reduces system malfunctions and statistical errors caused by jams of the conveyed materials, reduces system stoppages, and induces time and cost for maintenance personnel for diagnosis and reactivation. It is possible to improve the reliability, such as reducing the labor and labor, and increasing the overall system throughput.

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Tracked upper conveyor belt; A plurality of crawler type lower conveyor belts for transferring a conveyance between the upper conveyor belts and having a predetermined interval on the same line; A rotation member provided between the lower conveyor belts and rotatably provided at an end thereof on an upstream side in a conveying direction of the conveyed material about an axis; A diverter provided on the upper conveyor belt opposite to the rotating member, the diverter rotatably provided at one end at an upstream side in a conveying direction of a conveyed object; And And driving means for rotating the diverter. Feed sorting device. The method of claim 1, Further comprising an interlocking means for integrally rotating the rotating member in accordance with the rotation of the diverter Feed sorting device. The method of claim 2, The rotating member has a rolling member rotatably freely to reduce the frictional force with the conveyed material. Feed sorting device. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, The diverter is A diverter shaft that is one end rotatably provided; A main guide extending from the diverter shaft to the other end and converting the conveying direction of the conveyed material; An outer auxiliary guide extending outward from the main guide and assisting the transfer direction of the conveyed material; Feed sorting device. The method of claim 4, wherein The main guide Extend in pairs at both ends of the diverter shaft, and become thinner at both ends; The external auxiliary guide Located on the extension plane of the main guide, which is formed outside the two branches of the main guide Feed sorting device. The method of claim 5, The lower surface of the diverter in contact with the conveyance is Curved Feed sorting device. Tracked upper conveyor belt; A plurality of crawler type lower conveyor belts for transferring a conveyance between the upper conveyor belts and having a predetermined interval on the same line; A rotation member provided between the lower conveyor belts and rotatably provided at an end thereof on an upstream side in a conveying direction of the conveyed material about an axis; A diverter provided on the upper conveyor belt opposite to the rotating member, the diverter rotatably provided at one end at an upstream side in a conveying direction of a conveyed object; And A driving means for rotating the diverter, Selectively classifying the conveyed material through the inclined surface of the diverter rotated by the driving means; Method of classifying consignment.

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