RU2643893C2 - Universal box conveyor - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: technological processes.

SUBSTANCE: disclosed is a device for supplying goods, parts, tools or loose materials, which is a conveyor assembled from similar bases comprising containers with goods enclosed in thin-walled cubic boxes. Device is configured to exchange boxes using elevators and pushers.

EFFECT: device has a high useful volume, high performance, can operate continuously even during maintenance or repair, easy construction and assembly, carried out onsite.

12 cl, 22 dwg

Description

Universal box conveyor belongs to the related field of conveyor engineering and commercial equipment. This invention is a machine for transporting both bulk and solid packaged products. The universal box conveyor can be used in surgery, assembly plants for fast tool feed, in small and large retail stores.

A device is known and widely used [Patent USA US 7784644 B2]. This device is the closest analogue and represents the well-known automatic machine for delivering goods to the consumer, the basis of which is the presence of special screens held or moved on the base [Patent USA US 7837059 B2], and an elevator delivering the selected goods to the consumer at the point of delivery.

The disadvantages of this device is its low productivity, since the goods are delivered individually after a single payment operation. The next disadvantage is the lack of the ability to return the goods, although in some versions of the device this possibility appeared [Patent USA US 7823750 B2]. Also, the useful volume of such a device is quite low, there is no possibility of using this device simultaneously and replenishing empty cells with goods due to a single cover [Patent USA US 5255968]. With such a device, the receipt of goods is carried out only on one side.

The solution to the above disadvantages is the technical result of this invention.

The achievement of the technical result is achieved by creating a device in which the properties of the conveyor and trading equipment are combined (Fig. 1).

The invention is a three-dimensional conveyor. The composition of the conveyor:

1 - the base of the first type;

2 - the base of the second type;

3 - the base of the third type;

4 - base-bottom;

5 - base-cover;

6 - exchange container with boxes;

7 - exchange-user container with boxes;

8 - lateral trunk boxes;

9 - inter-level boxes;

10 - side pushers;

11 - main and lock bottom drives with reference points of connection;

12 - mechanical blinds;

13 - exchange elevators;

14 - inspection gateway with a control scale;

15 - power supply;

16 - control base controllers;

17 - total control board;

18 - barcode scanners on the boxes;

19 - a cover with a braille keyboard that controls the console and with inspection gloves;

20 - reciprocal cap with inspection gloves;

21 - plugs for replacing containers;

22 - plugs for the mine;

23 is a mobile device with an application.

The base of the first, second or third types is intended for installation in it of a container with boxes (Fig. 2). The container has one empty cell 10 for moving the boxes in only one direction: longitudinal 11 or transverse 12. The longitudinal movement of the box is carried out by the side pusher (Fig. 3), while the whole link from the boxes moves. Transverse movement of the box is carried out by bottom drives with reference points of connection (Fig. 4). In this case, only one box moves, or in the mode when one box pushes another. Side pushers have the ability to move in one direction to quickly replace empty containers with full ones. The side pushers are locked with a latch on a double latch. Reference points of connection replaces the known solution with a longitudinally moving loop [Patent USA US 5930433]. This replacement is due to an increase in the density of the arrangement of parts of the device, increasing the total usable volume of the device.

The base includes a mechanical shutter (Fig. 5) that blocks the boxes or releases them for installation in an exchange elevator (Fig. 6). Four cylindrical protrusions with rounded edges 21 are located on the perimeter of the base, and four reciprocal cylindrical etched sections for mounting all the bases on top of each other are located at the same positions at the bottom of the base.

The base of the first type is designed to move the box with the object inside it into the area of inspection, reception and weighing 31. Also, the base of the first type includes a cavity for installing a system for scanning barcode boxes 32. The base of the first type contains two additional zones: the reception area and scan area. The reception zone consists of a control scale (Fig. 7), an additional curtain (Fig. 5) that blocks the boxes or releases them for installation in the reception zone. In the reception area, a section has been etched from above for user access to the selected product. The scanning zone consists of a cavity where the barcode scanner of the boxes is placed. In the scanning area, a section has been etched to access the barcode itself, pasted on the box.

The base of the second type (Fig. 8) instead of the reception zone has a free section 33, and instead of the scanning zone, a shelf for backup storage of objects 34.

The base of the third type (Fig. 9) instead of the receiving zone has a scanning zone 32, and the rest of the space is continuous 35, in which there are 6 cutouts designed to fix the outer cover to the latches. In another design, instead of the reception area, it may simply have a shelf for back-up storage of objects.

The base bottom instead of the container with boxes has a cavity for placing wires from the upper levels, the central control board, and the power supply into it (Fig. 10). The bottom has legs adjustable in height and angle. The bottom has cutouts for gluing magnets in order to more rigidly fix the outer cover to the latches, as well as cutouts for gluing building levels. At the bottom there are reciprocal non-through cutouts for securing the outer cover and the exchange elevator. In another design, instead of building levels, an automatic electronic adjustment of the height and tilt of the legs is used using a gyromagnetic sensor.

The base-cover contains only four reciprocal cylindrical etched sections, cutouts for gluing magnets to more rigidly fix the outer cover to the latches and reciprocal through cuts to secure the outer cover and the exchange elevator.

The basis of the conveyor is containers with boxes designed for the directed movement of boxes with objects in the inspection area, in the exchange elevator or in the reception of the box from the elevator (Fig. 11).

Containers with boxing have two types: exchange and exchange-user containers (Fig. 12).

Exchange are intended only for moving boxes along the base plane and exchange of boxes made through exchange elevators. They have a cutout only for access to the elevator exchange.

User-exchange containers are designed to move boxes along the base plane, exchange boxes done through exchange elevators and move boxes to the gateway for inspection, reception and weighing. Exchange-user containers have cutouts both for access to the exchange elevator, and for access to the gateway for viewing, receiving and weighing.

On the front of the container contains two round holes for access to the cylindrical rods of the pusher, blocking the movement of boxes in the container or carrying out their pushing. At the bottom of the container there are cutouts serving as guides for bottom drives with reference points of connection. There are rollers at the bottom of the container to speed up the replacement of containers in the bases.

The side trunk box is designed to accommodate inter-level signal and supply wires, as well as some versions of hydraulic hoses for side pushers.

A side trunk box is a plastic trunk containing a cable clamp for securing wires. The side trunk box has side guides. The side trunk box has a counterpart etched at the base, it is fixed with latches. This will speed up the assembly of the conveyor.

An inter-level box is designed to store and output into it all the wires of the base of one level, the control board of the base and the output of common wires to the side trunk box. It contains a container for storing the base control board with a system of latches for fixing and guide clamps that output arrays of wires from a specific drive and painted in a certain color. An inter-level box connects the bases.

The universal three-dimensional box conveyor contains two types of paths consisting of inter-level boxes. Two types of tracts differ from each other in purpose, in size, and also in the number of levels. The first path is used to power the inter-level components of the conveyor, and may also include several redundant signal wires. The second path is used to transmit and receive all the inter-level control and information signals of the conveyor representing the bases of various types.

The first tract may also include hydraulic hoses for the main drives of the universal three-dimensional box conveyor.

The lateral pusher (Fig. 3) is designed for longitudinal movement by one step of the array of boxes located one after another, as well as to block the movement of all boxes.

The side pusher consists of an electric motor, a cylindrical guide, a pusher block, a cover of the pusher block, a handle, locks, position locks in the base.

An electric side-pusher motor drives a rotating, flexible, tensioned belt drive. The tape drive locks the push unit on one side. On the other hand, the push block is fixed by a cylindrical guide restricting the movement of the block along the guide itself. The pusher block extends to the side when replacing the containers across the guide with the help of a special handle. The side pusher is part of the base and is a single part with it. The lateral pusher is rigidly fixed in the base and its movement is limited by the latches, which have a counter etched part in the base. Finally, the lateral pusher is secured by an external cover on a double latch. The side pusher can have a one-sided replacement, when it is necessary to increase the useful area of the container, then a special handle, the outer cover is absent, and the body of the side pusher is the same body as the base.

The side pusher may have a different design of a hydraulic or pneumatic drive instead of an electric motor, pumps that are located in an inter-level box.

Boxing has thin walls to increase usable area (Fig. 13). In the boxing there is a thickened bottom with two rounded openings diagonally located in the corners to hook it with a bottom drive. This will allow the box to move one transverse step. The bottom of the box also has rails along which the whole link is pushed from the boxes. Therefore, the correct location of the boxes is important: the direction of the pusher along the rail. The rails themselves are rounded to minimize the area of contact with the bottom of the container. The surface of the container, along which the array moves longitudinally from adjacent boxes, is lubricated with a layer of glycerin, which periodically lubricates it. Thus, such measures will minimize frictional forces.

The bottom drive with reference points of connection (hereinafter DPRTP) (Fig. 4) is intended for lateral movement of the box or transverse movement of one array of two boxes located one after the other.

DPRTP is a one-piece block during assembly of the conveyor. The main part of the DPRTP is a platform moving in the transverse direction with two diagonally located box-connecting rods (hereinafter simply the DPRTP rod), which have two states. The first state is the position of the lowered rod when the platform itself moves without contact with the box. The second position is active, in which the rod is raised and inserted into the counter hole located in the box itself. Thus, due to the cutout in the container, the lateral movement of the box is carried out. The rod moves along the guide metal sleeve, which must be lubricated periodically with the guide.

DPRTP can be mounted both in the base itself and in the inter-level box. At the base there is a special reciprocal cutout for quick and reliable installation of the DPRTP, as a result of which the lid of the shaft is fixed on a double latch.

The DPRTP platform is fixed on one side by a cylindrical guide; on the other hand, it is rigidly fixed by a flexible, highly stretched tape, which drives the entire platform. The tensioned tape, in turn, is set in motion by an electric motor or hydraulic drive. The cylindrical guide also has two motion stops. The DPRTP platform moves along the rollers located in the middle of the DPRTP housing. Thus, a stable sliding movement of the DPRTP platform with a weight-filled box is ensured.

In the case of an electric motor for its supply wires, there is a special cutout with clamps for fixing them in the base of the DPRTP housing. Also, at the base of the DPRTP case there is a cutout for outputting the supply wires to the inter-level box.

DPRTP moves boxing only to discrete positions, i.e. all movements are carried out step by step. DPRTP can have two types: main and gateway.

The lock DPRTP moves the box only in two positions. The first position is the original one located in the container. The second position is the lock, located in the inspection gateway with a control scale. The lock DPRTP is designed to move the box into the inspection gateway. The purpose of such a move is to weigh the contents of the box, inspect the contents of the box, take the contents from the box, or put the contents in the box.

The main DPRTP moves the box in two positions. The first two positions are in the container. They correspond to the step of moving the box on the container. The third position - mine, located in the elevator exchange. The reference contact located in the exchange elevator is powered by a battery built into the exchange elevator platform, which is also charged from the reference point located at the user level of the mine. The main DPRTP is designed for lateral movement of the box along the container, as well as moving it to the exchange elevator.

Each position of the DPRTP position has its own reference point of connection, which represents the contact feeding the electric motor located at the base of the container, a mechanical shutter, an inspection gateway with a control balance, or an exchange elevator. Approaching her, the motor that lifts the DPRTP stem to contact the box is connected to the power supply. The reference contact is turned on only when approaching DPRTP. The de-energization of the contact occurs only when the DPRTP is removed.

DPRTP moves the box only after guaranteed contact with its counterpart. If the contact does not work, the conveyor gives an error signal to the control panel indicating the malfunction, such as the lack of a reference contact, as well as indicating the position and type of the DPRTP itself.

Another important element of the conveyor is a mechanical shutter, which is a wall moving up or down, consisting of two parts: active and passive (Fig. 5).

The active part has a reference contact for powering the DPRTP stem, gears, flexible drive tapes, electric motors that drive the gears and are hidden in the base case of the most active part. The active part also has guides for the movement of the curtain and blocks from above, restricting the movement of the curtain from above. Electric motors can accept executions on a piezoelectric base, for example such [Patent USA US 6479922 B2].

The passive part is the curtain itself, similar to a beam, at the ends of which there are teeth for contact with gears. Also, the curtain has holes on both sides of the guide, in which there is a metal sleeve, which must be periodically lubricated with the guide. The bottom and top of the curtains have rubberized seals.

The active and passive parts are a single integral unit during assembly of the conveyor. At the base there is a special reciprocal cutout for quick and reliable installation of a mechanical shutter, which is finally fixed by a lock lid on a double latch.

The mechanical shutter has two types.

The first type of mechanical shutter is a lock curtain designed to control access of the box to the inspection gateway. The lock curtain has 2 discrete states: open and closed. When closed, the access of the box to the inspection gateway is closed, the curtain itself is raised all the way to the upper limiter of the curtain's movement. When open, the access of the box to the inspection gateway is open, the curtain itself is lowered to the bottom.

The second type of mechanical shutter is a shaft shutter designed to control access of the box to the exchange elevator shaft. The shaft curtain has 2 discrete states: open and closed. When closed, the access of the box to the shaft of the exchange elevator is closed, the curtain itself is raised up to the stop in the upper limit of the curtain movement. When open, the access of the box to the shaft of the exchange elevator is open, the curtain itself is lowered to the bottom.

The main difference between a lock and a shaft mechanical shutter is the length of the beam. The airlock may be longer due to the increased number of boxes supplied for inspection. The prototype of the reference contacts may be the option described in the patent [Patent USA US 7679265 B2].

The exchange between empty and filled conveyor boxes is carried out by the exchange elevator - a single solid block mounted on latches and guide ribs into a universal three-dimensional box conveyor. The exchange elevator is fixed after collecting all the bases and their contents. The joint of the elevator with the assembled conveyor occurs from below to the mate of the base-bottom and from above to the mate of the base-cover at the same time. The basis of the exchange elevator is the lower unit with electric motors that drive two moving flexible tapes. They are twisted so as to translate the elevator platform.

Also, the basis of the elevator is the lower block, in which the baboons rotate, rotating two moving flexible tapes on the other side. The elevator platform moves along the main cylindrical built-in guide, which is also intended for rigid connection of the upper and lower blocks (Fig. 14). The main guide has the form of three rods, combined with each other by a uniform and equidistant intersection of their circles. For higher reliability and uniformity of movement at the other end of the platform in its corners are additional single guides.

The exchange elevator platform can only move along rails. The exchange elevator platform is fixed rigidly on both sides by a drive flexible tape. Thus, its movement is ensured.

The exchange elevator platform contains a cavity for receiving DPRTP with a box, containing in the middle the sliding rollers. Entering the extreme position of the DPRTP, he releases the box after the benchmark contact in the box stand, fixing it from all sides. Further DPRTP returns without boxing to the container with boxes, releasing the mechanical shutter. After that, the box moves with the platform to the base with another container. The DPRTP platform moves along the rollers located in the middle in the cavity of the exchange elevator platform. Thus, a stable sliding movement of the platform with a weight-filled box is ensured up to the exchange elevator.

The delivery for the box has diagonally located limiters for the movement of the DPRTP rods, also diagonally located at the corners of the DPRTP platform. The delivery for the box has three continuous walls for fixing the box and one discontinuous of the smallest height, so that the box can pass through it and, falling down, is securely locked. These four walls fix the box during its movement together with the platform.

As a result, the platform has two cavities: one with rollers for receiving DPRTP with rods, the other for receiving and fixing the box.

Moving the platform of the elevator exchange is carried out discretely at certain steps that make up the height of one base.

The exchange elevator platform has a cutout for the guide, in which a metal sleeve is placed, which must be periodically lubricated with the guide.

The exchange elevator has a certain discrete height, depending on it a certain multiple length is selected for a single shaft cover that reliably fixes the shaft’s DPRTP and its mechanical shutter at the base. Thus, the length of the exchange elevator can be set by two parameters: the dimensions of the base and the number of bases in the conveyor.

Each base has two shafts located in opposite corners. On the one hand, this is the reception of an empty box, and on the other hand, the reception is filled. Therefore, the base elevators are located in opposite corners of the conveyor bases.

If too many bases are reached (for example, more than five), the stability of the exchange elevator platform becomes unacceptably low, so a new exchange elevator is installed on the diagonal opposite sides on the following bases. For this, a special transitional base is installed, which carries out the reception and issuance of boxes from the mines from four sides. Thus, on the transitional base, there is an exchange of boxes between the elevators of the last uppermost base located below the transitional and diagonally opposed by other elevators of the last very lower base located above the transitional.

The prototype of the exchange elevator is a patent [Patent USA US 7823750 B2]. The exchange elevator differs from the prototype in the presence of a special platform described above.

The inspection gateway with a control scale (hereinafter referred to simply as the gateway) is a plastic box with three main functional cutouts (Fig. 7).

The first largest cut-out forms a cavity for receiving the platform of the gateway DPRTP. In order to avoid vibrations from a tangential impact upon the contact of the DPRTP with the lock, the upper edge of the cut is rounded, as well as its counterpart, DPRTP. The DPRTP platform moves along the rollers located at the bottom of the gateway cavity in the middle. Thus, a stable sliding movement of the DPRTP platform with a weight-filled box is ensured. In the middle of the left and right walls of the gateway there are reference connection points supplying the DPRTP rods. The second and third cutouts on the upper platform, formed by the main cutout, are designed to receive two diagonally located DPRTP stem. These cutouts also serve as restraints for the movement of the platform DPRTP.

There is a cutout on the surface of the platform to place electronic scales there.

The gateway is a single one-piece block mounted in a universal three-dimensional box conveyor as a part and closed by a lid on a latch.

The gateway has three wires at the bottom: the supply / control of electronic scales, the supply / control of the reference points for connecting the left and right DPRTP rods. The wires from the gateway are output, as in the other blocks, into the inter-level box through the cutout in the base under the gateway placed in it.

To increase the assortment of objects submitted for inspection, reception or return, several cutouts are located on the platform surface to place several electronic scales there. In this embodiment, the box takes the form of a container into which individual enclosed boxes are placed, each individually weighed by separate weights (Fig. 7).

When moving the box into the gateway, an empty cell opens, which means that the boxes can freely move, that is, one degree of freedom appears for the boxes to move unwanted along the container in case of even slight roll or vibration. Therefore, at the base of the first type, in this vacated cell there is a gateway blocker representing an activator that is embedded in the base itself. The base of the first type and the lock lock is also a single part, which is a module during assembly of the conveyor.

The gateway can also work in the mode of filling containers. When the cart with the goods arrives and the rule for filling containers, the operator fills the empty containers one by one, inserting each object into the gateway, and pokonteinerno when the container with empty boxes is removed from the bottom and replaced with filled ones. In case of container-by-container replacement, after a certain time, when the container fills the last upper or lower level, the operator will be informed of the new need to fill another base, after which the container will fill the most last but one upper or lower level. The pokontainer replacement process will end when the entire conveyor is filled with objects. When filling the upper or lower bases of the conveyor, the operator loads another conveyor standing in the neighborhood. The filling time of one base (container) of the conveyor is known and displayed on the control panel screen or on a mobile application, as well as the approximate (average or median) average load time of a particular container. Thus, an almost continuous replacement of the warehouse part of the conveyor occurs.

An important element of the universal three-dimensional box conveyor is the scanner of internal barcodes pasted on the boxes. Thus, there is a triple identification of the received object: by its predetermined identification number, by its weight and by its barcode.

The conveyor power supply is installed in the bottom-base, there is also installed a common control board. The conveyor power supply unit is intended for the formation of a single path supplying all nodes of the conveyor path, consisting of the main supply wire, inter-level boxes and several reserve places for signal wires, as well as for supplying the exchange elevator. The signal and supply wires from the exchange elevator are displayed immediately on the power supply unit and the common control board, without falling into the inter-level box.

The general control board forms a predetermined algorithm that defines containers with moving boxes and containers with fixed boxes. It depends on the user’s settings, namely, how many active containers are selected for the exchange of empty boxes full between the bases. The number of active containers makes up the active set of conveyor. There should be at least three. It also depends on the condition of filling the container with empty boxes. If the active set of the conveyor contains at least one empty box that cannot be replaced with a full one from the neighboring base, the remaining bases with filled boxes are connected. The size of the active conveyor set is a multiple of three.

A common control board identifies each box. Identification is set by the user in advance, i.e. each box is assigned either an empty value or a value with the name, manufacturer, expiration date and other important information about the product or the delivered product. Another important parameter is the weight of the product or object itself, since there are two types of checks: checking by weight and by barcode. If the weight or barcode does not match the predefined identifier. The conveyor stops with an indication of the exact location of the box with a detected discrepancy. After taking the object from the gateway, the box cell is reset.

Another important feature of the active set of conveyor is the uniform movement of all its boxes. This means that each step of moving the base box is identical to the movement of the neighboring bases from the active set. The location of the boxes is identical at each level and passes one step of moving around the container simultaneously with other containers. One step of moving the box consists of four drive movements, two pusher and two bottom.

After reaching the condition under which further replacement of empty boxes with full ones becomes impossible due to the absence of filled boxes on neighboring bases, immediately the other three filled conveyor bases become an active set, moving their boxes to the same position as the original active set.

The general control board monitors all errors and inconsistencies on each basis, since it receives and processes an array of data from the controllers, knowing the number, location and correspondence of the box at each level. All boxes with the same places but with different bases are identical regardless of whether the container is part of the active set or not.

The scanner of the internal barcode of the box is not located on each base, but depending on the device’s design, it can be present on each base of the first or second type, either selectively or in only one base of the first or second type. The space occupied by the scanner of the internal barcode of the box can be replaced simply by backup shelves closed with glass curtains.

In order to increase the useful area of the conveyor, voids in the corners are filled with shelves for backup storage. At the same time, the control panel displays information on the availability of goods on reserve shelves.

Also, in order to increase the useful area of the conveyor, depending on the design, the gateway can be located only on one side, and the conveyor itself should be doubled with a thin partition. In this version there is a single cutout for the base and its container, which serves as an exchange window between adjacent containers of a single base. Those. at the same level, instead of one container, two containers are located.

Electronic scales can be located not only in the gateway, but also at any control point of any base of the first, second or third type. For this, a special cutout is provided at the base.

The base control controller is designed to control all elements of one base. Each base of the first, second or third type has a base control controller. The base control controller is a tiny printed circuit board with the main element - the base control microcontroller. The control controller collects all compliance control information from an electronic balance, gateway, or barcode scanner, sending its packet to a common control board. Also, the control controller serves as a hub for collecting and branching wires on the bases, powering and controlling its drives from the central command of the common control board. The control controller also collects and transmits information about jamming, de-energization, or about a malfunction of a particular drive, since a signal wire goes parallel to the drive supplying the drive.

When using this conveyor in retail, one of the versions uses a special application in a mobile device that controls the order submission in the conveyor. There are two processing channels: the first channel collects information about paid orders, the second channel collects information about unpaid orders. The first channel is priority, and the machine continuously collects the order, first for paid orders, then for unpaid orders. In this design, instead of the reception gateway, a product receiver is used, representing a pusher that places the goods in a segment of a conventional conveyor belt, the delivered order is collected continuously at the collection point. The first channel also works on priority. First, orders are delivered with the buyer closest in location to the pickup point. The buyer in the application is invited to first set his location relative to the store and the transport by which the customer’s path to the store is carried out, after which the application calculates the time and determines the priority of delivery. Computing functions from the application can be performed by a single processor of the base control controller or a set of microcontrollers that are part of the base control controller, depending on the execution of the conveyor (Fig. 15).

The conveyor closes with two main covers (Fig. 16). One cover is the main one and has a control panel with a Braille on it, the other cover is a response one, without a control panel. The covers have latches, magnets, rubber seals and guides for quick installation. The lids are fastened with latches guiding with magnets. The caps are fixed next to the bolts, connecting the caps to the base, as well as the caps themselves with each other. Lids also include cutouts for changing containers, shelves for back-up storage of goods, a lock cavity, access to which is carried out by gloves made of thin and durable material integrated into the lid case (Fig. 17). With open access, the hinge of the wall with gloves is unlocked and the contents of the cavity become available for use.

The control panel has two parts: the first part is the touch screen for, the second - with the braille keyboard. A single control panel can be adjusted both in height and in angle.

For quick container changes, special cutouts are used in which the side pushers are pushed back, freeing up access to the replaced container. Cutouts are closed by a two-plane plug with a loop, which is mounted on latches and fixed with bolts. The first plane closes / opens access to the side pusher, the other plane closes / opens access to the container itself.

To the left of the airlock cavity on the main and return covers there are special cutouts reaching the base, and continue in it. They are mounted on a flexible spiral hose magnifier for the visually impaired. The cutout is a double cavity for mounting the lens housing itself, its hose. The lens is mounted on a latch.

Under the gateway on the lid, two buttons are integrated for step-by-step manual control of the conveyor. One click on this button means either the conveyor moves one step, or the conveyor moves a certain number of steps, for example, to the next identical object.

In order to accelerate the assembly process, each block or conveyor part has a four-level marking (Fig. 18, 19). The first level of labeling is performance. Depending on the design, the same part or unit has the same purpose at the same level (base), however, it may have features. The second level is the base level. Depending on the level, the same part or unit has the same purpose, but is located on a different base in the same place. The third level determines the type of device, the fourth number - the serial number of devices of the same performance, level and type. In addition to marking, each unit or part has a serial number and a manufacturing date, since the conveyor as a whole is assembled on site by the user. And for assembly of the conveyor assembly shops are not required.

Marking devices that do not belong to any of the levels has a special way of marking. If such a part is a common and reciprocal main cover, an exchange elevator, a power supply unit or a common control board, then their marking is indicated only with the design.

The visual assembly process of the assembled levels is shown in figures 1 and 20. These figures depict the assembly process of the simplest version of the conveyor, consisting of the bases of the first, second and third type.

If the number of levels becomes too large, for example in the case of high ceilings, several exchange elevators are used. In this case, the plane of their location changes to the opposite relative to the diagonal of the upper plane of the conveyor. This allows you to maintain the stability of the exchange of boxes between levels. To do this, use the transition level (Fig. 21).

In order to further increase the useful volume of the conveyor, the inter-level duct can be replaced by cutouts for the location of wiring channels, pumps, printed circuit boards, hydraulic hoses or pneumatic hoses.

This problem is solved by the fact that in special cutouts a multilayer plastic box with different levels of stiffness is placed. The invention can be used in the assembly of complex industrial and domestic installations in the absence of an assembly shop, as well as at home.

The closest analogue in technical essence and the achieved result (prototype) to the proposed one is the world famous designer for children. The prototypes of the proposed boxes are many details of the children's designer, for example:

1) US D 608400S;

2) US 5964635;

3) US 5518434;

4) US 278224;

5) US D 335508.

The application of the ideas of a children's designer in the formation of wiring, hydraulics or pneumatics in the future can have a productive effect on the assembly of many complex devices such as CNC machines, electron microscopes and other industrial equipment.

The technical result of this design is the accelerated, simplified and reliable installation of electrical and hydraulic paths directly into the body of the product. To do this, in the designed complex equipment case, consisting of numerous wires and hoses with discharged or compressed air / liquid, the counterpart is etched where a box with wires and hoses placed in its cavity is placed with a slight interference fit. The device itself is an elongated box, the elongated part of which has various trajectories and shapes. In cross section, the box is a rectangular region with internal cutouts, in the center of which are sections of wires and (or) hoses. In the counterpart there are holes for mounting the box. On the surface of the box there are cylindrical protrusions with rounded ribs. Installation of electrical and hydraulic paths occurs in the mating etched part of the device with cylindrical protrusions in the holes of the mating part (Fig. 22).

The box itself is different in that it can be assembled from several layers with different levels of softness of the plastic. The softest plastic is used to integrate a single hydraulic path into the housing. This allows you to install the path at once in several planes and thereby reduce the number of connections to avoid leakage of discharged or compressed air, liquid.

Another feature of the box is the execution of a single dual multilayer box, in one layer of which there is a signal or supply part of hard plastic with wires, in the other there is a hydraulic part of soft plastic with a hose. Such layers cannot be separated, since they are glued and connected by inter-level cylindrical protrusions with the help of cylindrical protrusions and their reciprocal openings, which are connected to each other with a strong interference under thermal influence. Due to this, there is no possibility of delamination of the box.

Layers are located along the entire length of the box. Lamination can occur in two planes of the box, except for the plane of its section.

At the edges of the box there are either tabs or cutouts, or tabs for contacting the wires from two adjacent boxes. All adjacent boxes are connected to each other with a slight interference fit for reliable electrical contact. For reliable hydraulic or pneumatic contact of the hose connections, suction cups integrated in the box body are used, and also at the ends of the boxes there are special cutouts for installing gaskets with the possibility of lubricating them with an air-tight gel.

In local places of the box, there may be shunt channels, extensions of the box to grip the box, and also extensions to accommodate small printed circuit boards or miniature flat pumps or (and) completely small cutouts up to sizes corresponding to MEMS devices.

Claims (38)

1. A device for supplying goods, parts, tools, bulk materials, which is a conveyor containing: at least one base of the first type, made in the form of a plastic platform elongated in the longitudinal axis, in which there is a central recess for the container with boxes, four double-sided side recesses for the shaft, one double-sided recess for the gateway, one double-sided recess for barcode scanner and one double-sided notch for the side pusher, additional guide notches and two additional guide notches for mechanical curtains, one for the shaft, the other for the gateway, containing double-sided recesses for accommodating latches and double-sided recesses / protrusions for engaging the base with the protective cover of the conveyor, in the depth of / on the surface of which a recess for magnet installation is etched, having two double-sided recesses for the bottom drive: shafts and for airlock, angular cylindrical openings from below and angular cylindrical protrusions from above to connect adjacent bases, two openings for accommodating side main ducts: power supply box on one side, si on the other hand, the lateral pusher is a single unit with a base of the first type, containing guide recesses for the directional movement of the rollers of the container; at least one base of the second type, made in the form of a plastic platform elongated in the longitudinal axis, in which there is a central recess for the container with boxes, two double-sided lateral functional recesses: one double-sided recess for the shaft and one double-sided recess for the lateral pusher, on all functional additional guide recesses and an additional guide recess for a mechanical shutter blocking the shaft containing double-sided recesses for accommodating latches and double-sides are etched lower recesses / protrusions for engaging the base with the protective cover of the conveyor, in the depths / on the surface of which a recess for magnet installation is etched, having one double-sided recess for the bottom drive of the shaft, angular cylindrical openings from below and angular cylindrical protrusions from above to connect adjacent bases, one hole for premises of the side trunk box for power and signal transmission, the side pusher is a single unit with a base of the second type, containing an etched cavity with two walls: l eva lateral and lower, containing guide recesses for the directional movement of the rollers of the container; at least one base of the third type, made in the form of a plastic platform elongated in the longitudinal axis, in which there is a central recess for the container with boxes, three double-sided lateral functional recesses: one double-sided recess for the shaft and one double-sided recess for the side pusher, one double-sided recess for a barcode scanner, additional guide notches and an additional guide notch for a mechanical shutter blocking a shaft containing two third-party recesses for latching and two-sided recesses / protrusions for engaging the base with the protective cover of the conveyor, in the depth / on the surface of which a recess for magnet installation is etched, having one two-sided recess for the bottom drive of the shaft, angular cylindrical openings from below and angular cylindrical protrusions from above for connection neighboring bases, containing two openings for the placement of side trunk boxes: a power box on one side, a signal box on the other hand, containing two rows of tsil -cylindrical holes with rounded edges on three pieces for coupling with a protective cover, the lateral pusher is a single unit with the base of the third type, comprising a guide groove for guiding the rollers of the container; base-bottom, made in the form of a plastic platform elongated in the longitudinal axis, in which there is a central recess for wiring, pumping equipment, hoses and a central control board, one double-sided side functional recess for the shaft, recesses for latching, containing two recesses for placing the block power supply on the one hand and for placing the signal box on the other, containing two-sided recesses / protrusions for engaging the base with the protective cover of the conveyor, the depth / surface of which is etched a recess for mounting a magnet, comprising, on the side faces, rectangular recesses for the magnets elongated in the longitudinal axis and angular cylindrical protrusions from above for connecting the upper bases; a base-cover, containing angular cylindrical holes from below for connecting the lower bases and containing, on the side faces, rectangular recesses for magnets elongated in the longitudinal axis, comprising one double-sided side functional recess for a shaft and a recess for accommodating latches; thin-walled exchange container with two round through holes on the transverse walls, one through hole for accessing the box to the shaft on the longitudinal walls, two guide recesses at the bottom for accessing the bottom drive rod to the shaft and four rollers on the bottom of the container, containing guide tabs for directional movement of the boxes ; exchange-user thin-walled container with two round through holes on the transverse walls, two through holes on the longitudinal walls: for access of the box to the shaft, for access of the box to the gateway, two guide recesses at the bottom for access of the bottom drive rod to the shaft, two guide recesses to the bottom for access of the rod of the bottom drive to the gateway and four rollers on the bottom of the container, containing guide tabs for directional movement of the boxes; a thin-walled box of the container containing thin elongated rounded rails, two cylindrical holes located at different angles of the bottom of the box relative to its diagonal; inter-level box, representing a container with a cavity for placing control boards, wires, pumps, hoses; side trunk box having guide recesses / protrusions, as well as latches for quick installation, representing plastic frame cavities with clamps for fixing wires, hydraulic or pneumatic hoses; lateral pushers are a single unit with a base of the first, second and third types, respectively, having the form of a continuous plastic box with two frontal recesses, in which two identical drives are placed representing the body of the pusher on a cylindrical guide and a flexible corrugated tape driven by an electric motor, containing a system of guide recesses for moving it along the transverse axis of the base of the first, second or third type, a grip in the form of a handle and a loop, as well as a protrusion for placement in its two electric motors and a protrusion for blocking the side pusher in the functional recess of the base of the first, second or third types; main bottom drive with reference points of connection, which is a single unit and represents an elongated platform with side guides, an element of a tape drive on an electric motor, an element of a cylindrical guide fixed and fixed by a movable platform with two rods, raised by gears, driven by electric motors fed by three double-sided reference electric contacts located in three positions of the box: the position of the left corner of the container, the position of the right the first corner of the container and the position of the platform of the elevator exchange, containing in the middle of the platform three sliding rollers; gateway bottom drive with reference points of connection, which is a single unit and representing an elongated platform with side guides, an element of a tape drive on an electric motor, an element of a cylindrical guide, fixed and fixed by them with a movable platform with two rods, raised gears, driven by electric motors fed by two bilateral electrical reference contacts located in two positions of the box: the position of the container and the position of the gateway, containing in the middle of the platform are three sliding rollers; the main mechanical shutter, which is a single unit with lateral guiding protrusions, consisting of a platform, an output element for two-way reference contact of the container’s left corner position, a two-sided gear system driven by an electric mini-motor, a short beam on two cylindrical guides, and upper beam limiters ; mechanical lock curtain, representing a single unit with lateral guiding protrusions, consisting of a platform, a unit for outputting bilateral reference contact of the container position, a two-sided gear system driven by an electric mini-motor, a long beam on two cylindrical guides, and upper beam movement restraints from above; exchange elevator, representing a single unit and consisting of upper and lower platforms with side guiding protrusions, connected by an integrated cylindrical guide, installed by rigid landing in the body of the base-bottom of the lower platform and in the body of the base of the cover of the upper platform, containing two built-in electric motors on the lower platform and four baboons on the upper platform, connected by a stretched twisted tape with a fixed platform for boxing with two rollers in the cavity, the plane of the box and the limiter bo sa; inspection gateway with a control scale, which is a single unit and is cubic with side guiding recesses with a stopper and an etched cavity, in which two rollers are in the middle, a two-sided hole for access to the reference electrical contact of the gateway position, the etched cavity forms an upper console with electronic scales and two guide recesses for access of a rod of a bottom drive; built-in power supply, molded in plastic with a latch for mounting it in the base-bottom; base control controller, built into the inter-level box; general control board, built into the base-bottom; barcode scanner on the boxes; a cover with a height-adjustable and tiltable control console with a built-in Braille keyboard, recesses for access to backup storage shelves, recesses for access to containers, end latches, front latches, guiding protrusions, recesses for metal plates in contact with base magnets, as well as a connector for quick reprogramming of conveyor firmware; a return lid with recesses for accessing the backup storage shelves, recesses for accessing containers, end latches, frontal latches, guiding protrusions, recesses for metal plates in contact with base magnets; plug for mine; a cap for replacing the container. 2. The device according to claim 1, in which marking is engraved on each part of the conveyor. 3. The device according to claim 1, in which the direct and reciprocal caps have an integrated transparent plastic section with two width-adjustable lycra gloves placed on the wall of this section, in which the plastic section is mounted on the cover, the upper edge of which represents the axis on the hinges, and the lower rib is blocked or opened with an electronic lock. 4. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the inspection gateway contains an array of electronic scales on the upper console, the box becomes a composite of nested mini-boxes, the number of nested mini-boxes is equal to the number of electronic scales of the inspection gateway. 5. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that all the recesses of the base of the first, second and third levels are one-sided, so that the two bases are at the same level and overlap with each other by means of a thin longitudinal wall of the base, having guide slots for stable their connections with each other, while the lid and its counterpart become deeper. 6. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that above the uppermost base of the second type there is a transitional base, characterized in that it contains two bilateral recesses for the shaft: one for receiving boxes from the upper levels, the other for receiving boxes from the lower levels, and at least one base of the second type is installed above the transitional base of the second type with the opposite arrangement of all functional recesses. 7. The device according to p. 1, characterized in that the wires, hoses, control boards, pumps are flooded in a housing made of flexible plastic with latches and plugs. 8. The device according to p. 1, characterized in that the wires, hoses, control boards, pumps are flooded in a housing made of flexible and hard plastic with latches and plugs. 9. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the side pusher and bottom drive are driven by a hydraulic motor. 10. The device according to p. 1, characterized in that the side pusher and bottom drive are driven by a pneumatic motor. 11. The device according to claim 2, in which the marking is made in four digits separated by a space, the first leftmost digit corresponds to the execution of the conveyor, this digit is filled in Roman numerals, the second digit next to the leftmost one corresponds to the type of base, this digit is filled in Arabic numerals , the third category corresponds to the type of device that is part of the base, this category is filled in Latin letters, the fourth rightmost category corresponds to the serial number of the part, this category is filled is in Arabic numerals. 12. The device according to p. 3, characterized in that the gloves can consist of microfiber compounds. 13. The device according to p. 12, characterized in that the gloves may consist of rubber.

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