RU36364U1 - Device for loading, storage and delivery of products - Google Patents

Description

DEVICE FOR LOADING, STORAGE AND DELIVERY OF PRODUCTS

The utility model relates to devices for loading, storage and single-piece delivery of products from addressable cells and can be used, in particular, in railway transport in the process of repairing wheel pairs for automatic selection of bearing rollers after dimensional sorting.

As a prototype of the claimed technical solution, a device for storing products containing is selected; its frame with a base, which is a matrix-type drive with nests for products located in the form of longitudinal and transverse rows, means for fixing products in nests and and issuing products from nests, made in the form of strips located on each transverse and longitudinal row and equipped with actuators made in the form of pneumatic cylinders, with the help of which the strips are moved, and control units (total the number of longitudinal and transverse rows) with pneumatic electroconverters associated with the corresponding pneumatic cylinders. The operation of the device proceeds under the control of a computer (1). Each pneumatic cylinder is equipped with a signal hole that performs the functions of a coordinate sensor of the corresponding socket. The non-pneumatic connection between the pneumatic cylinder and the pneumatic-electric converter provides information on the open or closed state of the inlet of the socket and on the address of the corresponding socket.

Loading products into the drive is carried out manually. The product is placed in the socket, and the strips above it form a shutter, fixing the product in the socket. To issue products to the control units connected to the respective slats, commands are sent from the computer, as a result of which the shutter opens and the product is pushed out of the socket.

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The disadvantages of the known device are the low reliability due to the structural complexity and organization of the coordinate sensor nests, using the pneumatic principle of information transfer, and the low level of automation associated with the lack of means of automatic loading and delivery of products from the nests.

The task solved by the utility model is to increase the level of automation and reliability of the device.

This problem is solved in that the device for loading, storing and dispensing products, including; its drive mounted on the frame with cells, made in the form of a matrix, consisting of M rows and N columns, means for addressing the cells, and a control unit connected to the computer is equipped with means for automatically loading and unloading products from cells made in the form of a traverse installed in a guide rigidly connected to the frame, placed on the traverse of the manipulator and drives for vertical movement of the traverse and horizontal placement and capture of the manipulator connected to the control unit; and the means for addressing the cells include a proximity switch located on the manipulator, M proximity switches located opposite the drive strings, N proximity switches mounted on the traverse and opposite the drive columns, and closing lobes located on the beam and the manipulator, while the switches connected to the computer.

The utility model is illustrated in the drawing. In FIG. 1 schematically depicts the inventive device.

A device for loading, storage and delivery of products consists of a drive 1 with cells 2 for products, which is an M x N matrix consisting of M rows and N columns, and a coordinate transport mechanism consisting of a beam 3 and placed on it

the manipulator 4. The traverse 3 is connected with the carriage 5 installed in the guide 6. The drive 1 and the guide 6 are rigidly connected to the supporting frame 7. The carriage 5 is equipped with a vertical displacement drive 8, the manipulator 4 is equipped with a horizontal displacement drive 9 and a stepping electric drive capture 10. For addressing cells 2, the device is equipped with proximity inductive limit switches 11 and 12, located, respectively, opposite each row and column of the drive, and a proximity inductive limit switch 13, located and the manipulator 4, the switches 12 are placed on the plate 3 (FIG. breakers are shown only for one row and one column). The total number of switches is thus M + N + 1.

Drives 8, 9 and 10 are connected to the control unit 14. The device runs under the control of a computer 15, the inputs of which are connected to the switches 11, 12, 13, and the output to the input of the control unit 14. The traverse 3 and the manipulator 4 are equipped with closing petals 16 and 17, respectively. The device is equipped with a tray 18 for receiving and dispensing products.

The proposed device operates as follows. After sorting by size groups of the product, for example, the bearing rollers 19, enter piece by piece into the tray 18. At the same time, the operator enters all the necessary information about the roller (group number, size) into the memory of computer 15. Computer 15 generates a command that arrives at block 14, which, in turn, controlling the operation of the drives 8, 9, 10, provides the movement of the beam 3 with the manipulator 4 in the vertical and horizontal directions, as a result of which the manipulator 4 grabs the roller 18 from the tray 17 and transfers it to one of the free cells 2. ayuschy tab 16 located on the robot arm 4, triggers the limit switch 12 and closing tab 17. located on the traverse 3, triggers the limit switches 11. The switch 13, placed on the manipulator, is triggered at the time of capture of the roller 19. The corresponding signals from the limit switches are sent to the computer 15, which stores the X and Y coordinates of the cell in which the roller is placed. Thus, information on the location of the roller 19 in the drive 1, as well as its parameters, is stored in the computer memory. Further automatic loading of the rollers into the drive 1 is carried out similarly as described above, with the difference that each time the computer 15 corrects the route of the coordinate transport mechanism taking into account the current filling of the cells 2. The constructive solution of the cells 2 ensures reliable storage of the rollers and eliminates the possibility of them falling out during storage . Unloading the rollers from the drive 1 is as follows. The operator types on the computer keyboard 15 a request to issue a video of a desired size group. In accordance with the information on the array of rollers and their parameters stored in its memory, computer 15 sets the corresponding route of the coordinate transport mechanism, as a result of which the manipulator 4 captures the roller 19 from the cell 2 with the required parameters and transfers it to the tray 18. Simultaneously with the moment the roller is captured 19, limit switches 11, 12, 13 are triggered from cell 2, and information is received on computer 15 that this cell is free. The introduction of the coordinate transport mechanism in the device, made in the form of a traverse and placed on it with a manipulator, and equipped with drives, makes it possible to increase the level of automation compared to the prototin device, and the organization of the nest addressing mechanism in the form of contactless limit switches and trailing lobes located on the traverse and the manipulator allows you to simplify the design of the device and increase its reliability.

LITERATURE

1. RF patent No. 2 191 731, cl. B65G 1/02, 2002, (prototype).

Claims (1)

A device for loading, storing and dispensing products, including a frame-mounted drive with cells, made in the form of a matrix consisting of M rows and N columns, means for addressing cells and a control unit connected to a computer, characterized in that it is equipped with means for automatic loading and the issuance of products from cells made in the form of a traverse installed in the guide, rigidly connected with the frame, placed on the traverse of the manipulator and drives for vertical movement of the traverse and horizontal movement and gripper of the manipulator connected to the control unit, and the means for addressing the cells include a proximity switch located on the manipulator, M proximity switches located opposite the drive rows, N proximity switches mounted on the traverse and opposite the drive columns, and closing lobes located on the traverse and the manipulator, while the switches are connected to the computer.