NZ736680B2 - Object transporting device and conveying and weighing device provided with such transporting devices - Google Patents

Object transporting device and conveying and weighing device provided with such transporting devices Download PDF

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NZ736680B2
NZ736680B2 NZ736680A NZ73668016A NZ736680B2 NZ 736680 B2 NZ736680 B2 NZ 736680B2 NZ 736680 A NZ736680 A NZ 736680A NZ 73668016 A NZ73668016 A NZ 73668016A NZ 736680 B2 NZ736680 B2 NZ 736680B2
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receptacle
support
bearing surface
ball
vertical
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Philippe Blanc
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Maf Agrobotic
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G17/00—Conveyors having an endless traction element, e.g. a chain, transmitting movement to a continuous or substantially-continuous load-carrying surface or to a series of individual load-carriers; Endless-chain conveyors in which the chains form the load-carrying surface
    • B65G17/12—Conveyors having an endless traction element, e.g. a chain, transmitting movement to a continuous or substantially-continuous load-carrying surface or to a series of individual load-carriers; Endless-chain conveyors in which the chains form the load-carrying surface comprising a series of individual load-carriers fixed, or normally fixed, relative to traction element
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G2201/00—Indexing codes relating to handling devices, e.g. conveyors, characterised by the type of product or load being conveyed or handled
    • B65G2201/02—Articles
    • B65G2201/0202—Agricultural and processed food products
    • B65G2201/0211—Fruits and vegetables
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/74—Feeding, transfer, or discharging devices of particular kinds or types
    • B65G47/94—Devices for flexing or tilting travelling structures; Throw-off carriages
    • B65G47/96—Devices for tilting links or platform
    • B65G47/962—Devices for tilting links or platform tilting about an axis substantially parallel to the conveying direction
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01G—WEIGHING
    • G01G13/00—Weighing apparatus with automatic feed or discharge for weighing-out batches of material
    • G01G13/16—Means for automatically discharging weigh receptacles under control of the weighing mechanism
    • G01G13/22—Means for automatically discharging weigh receptacles under control of the weighing mechanism by tilting or rotating the weigh receptacle

Abstract

object transporting device comprising a receptacle for receiving at least one object, a support (22) which can be associated with a driving device for driving along a longitudinal driving direction, and a connecting mechanism for connecting the receptacle to the support, this connecting mechanism being configured to: interlock the receptacle and the support in longitudinal translation, permit a lateral tilting of the receptacle for the purpose of laterally discharging each object carried by the receptacle, and allow a relative displacement of the receptacle in vertical translation with respect to the support with a stroke adapted for the weighing of the receptacle and of the at least one object which it carries, wherein said connecting mechanism comprises at least one ball (51) interposed and imprisoned between at least one bearing surface of the receptacle and at least one bearing surface of the support in order to be able to roll without sliding on at least one of said bearing surfaces. The disclosed connecting mechanism permits vertical displacement of the receptacle while allowing tilting on both sides of the conveying line, thereby improving the operational flexibility and the performance of conveying devices, in particular sorting devices, provided with the instant transporting device.

Claims (17)

1. Object transporting device comprising a receptacle suitable for receiving at least one object, a support which can be associated with a driving device for driving along a direction, named the longitudinal driving direction, and a connecting mechanism for connecting the receptacle to the support, this connecting mechanism being configured to: - interlock the receptacle and the support in longitudinal translation, - permit a lateral tilting of the receptacle for the purpose of laterally discharging each object carried by the receptacle, - and allow a relative displacement of the receptacle in vertical translation with respect to the support with a stroke adapted for the weighing of the receptacle and of the at least one object which it carries, wherein said connecting mechanism comprises at least one ball interposed and imprisoned between at least one bearing surface of the receptacle and at least one bearing surface of the support in order to be able to roll without sliding vertically on at least one of these bearing surfaces.
2. Device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one bearing surface of the receptacle is a vertical, at least partly transverse bearing surface.
3. Device as claimed in any one of claims 1 or 2, wherein the at least one bearing surface of the support is a vertical, at least partly transverse bearing surface.
4. Device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the connecting mechanism for connecting the pair of parts formed of the receptacle and the support has: - a front vertical bearing surface and a rear vertical bearing surface of one of these two parts, these front and rear vertical bearing surfaces being spaced from one another along the longitudinal direction, - at least one anteroposterior ball, enclosed in a vertical slot of the other part passing through the thickness of the latter in the longitudinal direction, this anteroposterior ball having a diameter less than the spacing of said front and rear vertical bearing surfaces, and greater than the thickness of said vertical slot in the longitudinal direction so as to be able to come into contact with one of the front and rear vertical bearing surfaces, wherein one or more balls of the at least one ball is the at least one anteroposterior ball.
5. Device as claimed in claim 4, wherein said connecting mechanism has two vertical slots spaced laterally from one another, each comprising at least one anteroposterior ball.
6. Device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the two vertical slots extend in a same transverse plane and at a top part of said other part.
7. Device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the connecting mechanism for connecting the pair of parts formed of the receptacle and of the support has at least one front ball interposed and imprisoned between at least one front bearing surface of the receptacle and at least one front bearing surface of the support in order to be able to roll without sliding vertically on and between these front bearing surfaces, wherein one or more balls of the at least one ball is the at least one front ball, the at least one front bearing surface of the receptacle is one or more of the at least one bearing surface of the receptacle, and the at least one front bearing surface of the support is one or more of the at least one bearing surface of the support.
8. Device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the connecting mechanism for connecting the pair of parts formed of the receptacle and of the support has at least one rear ball interposed and imprisoned between at least one rear bearing surface of the receptacle and at least one rear bearing surface of the support in order to be able to roll without sliding vertically on and between these rear bearing surfaces, wherein one or more balls of the at least one ball is the at least one rear ball, the at least one rear bearing surface of the receptacle is one or more of the at least one bearing surface of the receptacle, and the at least one rear bearing surface of the support is one or more of the at least one bearing surface of the support.
9. Device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the connecting mechanism for connecting the pair of parts formed of the receptacle and of the support comprises a pivot with a longitudinal axis permitting a lateral tilting of the receptacle to at least one side of the support for the purpose of discharging the at least one object.
10. Device as claimed in claim 9, wherein said longitudinal pivot is at least partly formed of a ball interposed between a vertical bearing surface of the receptacle oriented upstream with reference to the longitudinal driving direction and a vertical bearing surface of the support oriented downstream with reference to the longitudinal driving direction.
11. Device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 10, wherein the connecting mechanism is adapted to permit a tilting of the receptacle to each side of the support.
12. Device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 11, wherein each receptacle is a small dish adapted to receive individually an object.
13. Object conveying and weighing device comprising: - an endless chain having a horizontal upper section, - a driving device for driving with continuous running of the endless chain along a longitudinal driving direction of said upper section, - object transporting devices distributed along the endless chain, carried by the latter and interlocked in translation with the latter, - at least one weighing station comprising, on said upper section of the endless chain: ? at least one slide arranged along a portion of said upper section of the endless chain in order to be able to cooperate with the receptacles so as to displace them with respect to the supports vertically upwards into the high, weighing position, ? and at least one weighing device for weighing the receptacles in the high, weighing position, wherein each object transporting device is a device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 12.
14. Device as claimed in claim 13, wherein each receptacle is interposed on the endless chain between two rollers mounted freely rotatably about transverse axes of rotation driven in translation along the longitudinal direction by said endless chain.
15. Device as claimed in claim 14, wherein said endless chain is formed by the supports of the transporting devices articulated to one another in pairs successively in the longitudinal direction, each support thus forming a link of the chain, and wherein each support of a transporting device carries a receptacle and an adjacent roller.
16. Device as claimed in claim 1, substantially as herein described with reference to any embodiment disclosed.
17. Device as claimed in claim 13, substantially as herein described with reference to any embodiment disclosed.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
FR1553455A FR3035087B1 (en) 2015-04-17 2015-04-17 DEVICE FOR TRANSPORTING OBJECTS AND DEVICE FOR CONVEYING AND WEIGHING EQUIPPED WITH SUCH TRANSPORT DEVICES
PCT/FR2016/050761 WO2016166439A1 (en) 2015-04-17 2016-04-04 Device for transporting objects and conveying and weighing device provided with such transporting devices

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NZ736680B2 true NZ736680B2 (en) 2024-02-27

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