JP2002096926A - Product take-out device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [PROBLEMS] To provide an apparatus for collecting and taking out articles in which a boxed state of articles having a high display effect can be obtained. SOLUTION: There is provided a plurality of holding plates 14 provided at intervals capable of accommodating articles, and a first conveyance for conveying an article A supplied between the holding plates 14 toward an article take-out unit 40. A device 10 and a pusher device 50 for pushing out the articles A housed between the holding plates 14 in the article take-out section 40 to one side of the first transport apparatus 10 are provided. The plurality of holding plates 14 in the first transfer device 10 are inclined such that the upper portions fall backward in the article transfer direction, and the articles A stored between the inclined holding plates 14 are pushed out by the pusher device 50,
A plurality of articles A are taken out in an overlapped state in which the front and back surfaces are inclined and a part of the front surface appears on the front side, and in the taken out state, they are conveyed to a box packing unit and packed in a box.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for removing a plurality of articles packed in a flexible package like a standing pouch from one side of a transport path in an assembled state in which the front and back surfaces overlap and are arranged in a line. The present invention relates to an apparatus for taking out an article.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As shown in FIG. 8, a standing pouch A is formed by filling a liquid content such as a refilling shampoo or a liquid detergent in a flexible package a so that a folded portion at the bottom is formed. It is open and self-sufficient. Such a standing pouch A is distributed in a state packed in a cardboard box.

On the other hand, the dealer such as a supermarket, as shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, remove the top and divide the body of the cardboard box B ₀ of the exterior upper and lower, Hakosoko section B the top of the standing pouch A often display in a state of being exposed from _1.

In a box packing apparatus for automatically packing standing pouches A as described above, a plurality of standing pouches A are usually taken out in a boxed state in a line, and packed in a cardboard box at the box packing parts. ing.

An apparatus for collecting and unloading standing pouches A into one unit and taking out the standing pouches A for each unit into a box packing portion is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent No. 2651555. Are known.

[0006] In the article collecting and unloading device described in the above publication, a chain conveyor having a chain spanned between a driving sprocket and a driven sprocket is provided in left and right double rows.
A plurality of holding plates having both ends fixed to the left and right chains are provided at intervals in the movement direction of the chain, and standing pouches supplied at predetermined intervals from a supply conveyor are sequentially received between the holding plates. Both side edges are held in the upside down position, and the standing pouch is conveyed to the take-out part, and the comb-shaped pusher provided at the take-out part is moved in a direction intersecting the conveying direction of the standing pouch. By reciprocating, a plurality of standing pouches are taken out from the box packing section.

[0007]

In the article removing apparatus described in the above-mentioned publication, the holding pouch holding the standing pouch is in a vertical standing state, and therefore, the standing pouch held between the holding plates is provided. Will be taken out in the box-packing part in a state where the both side edges are arranged vertically. For this reason, when the standing pouch is packed in a box in the box packing section, the standing pouch is stored in the box with both front and back surfaces overlapping.

Usually, in a standing pouch,
When the front and back are printed with the product name etc., and as described above, the front and back are overlapped and each print is packed in a cardboard box with the front and back standing pouches covered, the cardboard box In a display state of a product in which the body is divided into upper and lower parts and the upper part of the cardboard box is removed, the printed surface applied to the standing pouch is hardly visible, so that the display effect is poor.

An object of the present invention is to pack a plurality of articles, such as standing pouches, in a display state in which the articles are stored at the bottom of the box of a cardboard box so that the printed surfaces applied to the front and back of each article appear largely on the front. An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for taking out and collecting articles as described above.

[0010]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, according to the present invention, there is provided an interval which can hold an article packaged in a flexible package in a prone state with both sides up and down. A plurality of holding plates provided in the holding device, a conveying device for conveying the articles supplied between the holding plates toward the article take-out unit, and a direction intersecting the conveying direction of the articles by the conveying device. It has a pusher movably provided, reciprocates the pusher, and moves the article between the holding plates conveyed to the article take-out section by a comb-shaped pressing piece provided on the pusher to one side of the conveying device. A pusher device configured to extrude the pusher device, wherein a holding plate of the transfer device is inclined so that an upper part thereof is inclined backward in a direction of transferring the article, and a comb-shaped pressing piece formed on the pusher. Before Employs a slanted and the configuration corresponding to the inclination of the holding plate.

As described above, the holding plate is inclined so that the upper portion is inclined rearward in the conveying direction of the article, so that the article supplied between the holding plates is conveyed to the take-out section with both front and back surfaces inclined. . For this reason, the pusher having a comb-shaped pressing piece is reciprocated to push out a plurality of articles to one side of the conveying device, so that the front and back surfaces of the plurality of articles overlap each other in an inclined manner, and the printed front and back sides are printed. Are extracted in the form of a line that appears in the table. Therefore,
As shown in FIG. 10, when the articles in the aggregated state are packed in a cardboard box as they are, the articles at the front and rear ends arranged in one direction are displayed at the time of display when removing the upper part by dividing the trunk of the cardboard box. Then, the entire printed front and back surface will appear on the front side, and the other remaining items will be displayed with most of the front and back surfaces appearing on the front side, and the arrangement direction of the articles and the direction orthogonal to the arrangement direction Thus, the printing surface can be visually recognized from above, and the display can be made highly effective.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, a first conveyor 10 and a second conveyor 10 arranged in multiple rows are provided below a discharge end of a supply conveyor 1 that supplies articles A composed of standing pouches at predetermined intervals. The supply end of the transport device 20 faces.

The first transfer device 10 and the second transfer device 20
Has a common first drive shaft 30a and a second drive shaft 30b provided at intervals in the transport direction of the article A, and each of the drive shafts 30a and 30b is connected to a shaft end portion of the motor M shown in FIG. It is adapted to be rotated alone, respectively, by _1, M _2.

The first transporting device 10 has two drive wheels 11 fitted to a first drive shaft 30a to prevent rotation, and is rotatably supported by each drive wheel 11 and a second drive shaft 30b. Endless transport belt 13 between the driven wheels 12
, And a plurality of holding plates 14 are attached between the transport belts 13 facing each other at an interval capable of accommodating the articles A.

On the other hand, the second transporting device 20 includes the first drive shaft 3
0a, two driven wheels 21 are rotatably mounted, and an endless transport band 23 is provided between the driven wheels 21 and the two drive wheels 22 stopped by the second drive shaft 30b.
, And a plurality of holding plates 24 are attached between the transport belts 23 facing each other at an interval capable of accommodating the articles A.

As shown in FIG. 3, the interval between the pair of transport bands 13 in the first transport device 10 is wider than the interval between the pair of transport bands 23 in the second transport device 20, and A pair of transport bands 23 of the second transport device 20 are arranged between the bands 13.

The holding plate 1 in the first transfer device 10
The fourth group and the group of holding plates 24 in the second transport device 20 are arranged to be displaced in the transport direction of the article A.

Here, as the drive wheels 11, 22 and the driven wheels 12, 21 in the first transfer device 10 and the second transfer device 20, besides the sprockets shown in the figure, toothed pulleys can be adopted. Conveyor belt 1
Appropriate wheels 3 and 23 are used according to the types of the drive wheels 11 and 22 and the driven wheels 12 and 21. For example, when sprockets are used as the drive wheels 11 and 22 and the driven wheels 12 and 21, chains are used as the transport belts 13 and 23. When toothed pulleys are used, a timing belt is used.

FIG. 5 shows the holding plate 14 of the first transfer device 10. The holding plate 14 is provided with an inclined plate portion 14a whose upper part falls backward in the conveying direction of the article A. Also,
The holding plate 14 is provided with a support plate portion 14 b for supporting the article A, and the support plate portion 14 b is connected to the transport belt 13.

As shown in FIG. 1, the holding plate 24 of the second transfer device 20 is also formed with an inclined plate portion 24a and a support plate portion 24b, similarly to the holding plate 14 of the first transfer device 10.

The first transfer device 10 includes a motor M ₁ shown in FIG.
The second transporting device 20 is driven by a motor M
Driven by _two . The driving of the holding plate 14,
24 is moved in the direction of the arrow in FIG.

When the motors M ₁ and M ₂ receive the article A supplied from the supply conveyor 1 between the holding plates 14 and 24, the mounting pitch of the holding plates 14 and 24 is used as a stroke amount to set each of the holding plates 14 and 24. 24 is intermittently moved in synchronization with the article supply speed of the supply conveyor 1, and the articles A supplied from the supply conveyor 1 are sequentially received between the holding plates 14 and 24. .

The motors M ₁ and M ₂ are connected to the holding plate 14,
24, the articles A are sequentially supplied, and when the number reaches a preset number, the holding plates 14, 24 are moved at high speed toward the article take-out section 40 provided in the middle of the transport path. It has become.

A pusher device for taking out a plurality of articles A stored between the holding plates 14 and 24 of the first and second transporting devices 10 and 20 to one side of the first transporting device 10 is provided in the article removing section 40. 50 are provided. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, the pusher device 50 is provided with two guide bars 51 extending on the first and second transporting devices 10 and 20 in a direction perpendicular to the transporting direction of the article A. An upper portion of a support member 53 is connected to a carriage 52 movably supported along a guide bar 51, and a plurality of holding plates 1 are mounted on a lower portion of a plate-shaped pusher 54 attached to a lower end of the support member 53.
A pressing piece 54a that can be inserted between 4, 24 is provided in a comb shape,
The pusher 54 is caused to reciprocate from the position where the pusher 54 faces the other side of the first transfer device 10 by the reciprocating device 55 by the reciprocating device 55, and the pusher 54 pushes out the article A between the holding plates 14 and 24. .

As shown in FIG. 1, the pressing piece 54a of the pusher device 50 is formed in a comb-like shape having a slit inclined in accordance with the shape of the inclined plate portion 14a. The shape does not collide.

The reciprocating device 55 is provided with a guide hole 56 which is long in a direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the carriage 52, and a crank pin 58 provided at the tip of a crank arm 57 is inserted into the guide hole 56. inserted, and the carriage 52 by the crank arm 57 is one revolution by the motor M ₃ so as to reciprocate once.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, a table 60 and a table 60
A bucket conveyor 70 is provided on one side, and a plurality of articles A extruded from the holding plates 14 and 24 in the article take-out section 40 are sent into a bucket 71 of the bucket conveyor 70, and are not shown by the bucket conveyor 70. It is transported to the filled box and is pushed into the cardboard box while maintaining the same state as in the bucket 71.

Here, in the bucket conveyor 70, a plurality of buckets 71 are attached at equal intervals between endless chains 72 of a plurality of rows, and each bucket 71 is provided with a plurality of slats 7.
1a is arranged in parallel with the moving direction of the chain 72, and side plates 71b are provided on slats 71a located before and after in the moving direction.

FIG. 1 shows the structure of the article collecting and extracting apparatus shown in the embodiment, in which the leading holding plate 24 of the plurality of holding plates 24 in the second conveyor 20 stops at the article supply position of the supply conveyor 1. Indicates a state in which

The second transfer device 20 is intermittently transferred in the direction of the arrow in FIG. 1 by operating the motor M ₂ from the above-mentioned state with the stroke amount corresponding to the mounting pitch of the holding plate 24. Therefore, the articles A discharged from the discharge end of the supply conveyor 1 are sequentially received between the holding plates 24, and are stored between the holding plates 24 with both side edges positioned vertically. When a predetermined number of articles A are supplied between the holding plates 24, the second transporting device 20 is brought into a high-speed operation state by the operation of the motor M ₂ , and the set number of articles A stored between the holding plates 24. Is transported at a high speed toward the article take-out unit 40.

At the same time that the second conveying device 20 starts to convey a set number of articles A toward the article take-out section 40, the holding plates 14 in the first conveying apparatus 10 cause the discharge of the supply conveyor 1 from the article take-out section 40. It is conveyed toward the lower part (article supply position) of the end. When the set number of articles A is conveyed to the article take-out section 40 and stopped by the second conveying apparatus 20, the leading holding plate 14 of the plurality of holding plates 14 in the first conveying apparatus 10 is conveyed to the article supply position and stopped. Is held.

When a plurality of articles A accommodated between the holding plates 24 of the second conveying apparatus 20 are conveyed to the article take-out section 40 and stopped, the reciprocating carriage 52 of the pusher device 50 makes one reciprocation. At the time of forward movement, the plurality of articles A between the holding plates 24 are pushed out from between the holding plates 24 by the comb-shaped pushers 54 and stored in the bucket 71 of the bucket conveyor 70.

Here, the holding plate 2 for accommodating a plurality of articles A
Since the upper part 4 has an inclined shape in which the upper part is inclined backward in the conveying direction of the article A, the plurality of articles A pushed into the bucket 71 by the pressing of the pusher 52 have front and back surfaces which are vertical as shown in FIGS. They are inclined with respect to the surface, and are arranged in a line so that one side of the surface is exposed.

The articles A in the bucket 71 are conveyed to the box packing section by the driving of the bucket conveyor 70, and are packed in a cardboard box in the box packing section while keeping a single row.

For this reason, after the article A is packed in a folded state, the box is raised, and when the article A is displayed in an upright state, the body of the cardboard box is vertically divided and the upper part is removed. As shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, the plurality of articles A are displayed with one side of the printed surface of each article A appearing on the front.

For this reason, a wide portion of the printing surface can be visually recognized from two directions, ie, the direction in which the articles A are arranged and the direction orthogonal to the direction in which the articles A are arranged. be able to.

When taking out the article A between the holding plates 24 in the stopped state in the second transport device 20, the first transport device 1
_No. 0 holding plate 14 is intermittently conveyed by the motor M ₁ with the stroke corresponding to the dimension corresponding to the mounting pitch, and holds the articles A supplied from the supply conveyor 1.
Receive in order.

On the other hand, the second transfer device 20, the pusher 54 of the pusher device 50 by the operation of the motor M ₃ is stopped at the standby position one reciprocation becomes a high-speed operation state by the operation of the motor M _2, the empty holding plate 24 is conveyed toward the article supply position. At the same time as the transfer, the first transfer device 10
A predetermined number of articles A supplied between the holding plates 14 are conveyed toward the article take-out section 40.

Thereafter, the above operation is repeatedly performed, and the set number of articles A is stored in the bucket 71 of the bucket conveyor 70.
Are carried in order.

As in the embodiment, the first transporting device 10 and the second transporting device 20 are provided in a double row, and when the article A is taken out between the holding plates of one transporting device, the first transporting device 10 and the second transporting device 20 are removed. By supplying the articles A to the A, the collection and removal of the articles A can be performed very efficiently, but the supply and removal of the articles may be alternately performed by using a single transport device.

In the embodiment, the support plates 14b and 24b for supporting the article A are provided on the holding plates 14 and 24. However, the support plates 14b and 24b are omitted, and the second transport device is used instead. A support plate having a length extending from the article supply position to the article take-out section 40 may be provided between the transport belts 23 on the carrier side of 20, and the support plate may receive the articles.

[0042]

As described above, according to the present invention, a plurality of holding plates provided in the transfer device are inclined so that the upper portions are inclined backward in the transfer direction of the products, so that a predetermined number of the products can be stored. The front and back sides are inclined, and one side of the printed front and back sides can be assembled in a row with the front side appearing. For this reason, by packing the cardboard box in the cardboard box in the assembled state, it is easy to confirm the goods at the time of display by removing the upper part by dividing the body of the cardboard box up and down, and it is possible to obtain a highly effective display.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional front view of an apparatus for collecting and extracting articles according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a plan view of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional plan view of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a longitudinal sectional side view of a pusher device of the collective take-out device for articles shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a holding plate group in the collective take-out apparatus for articles shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a front view of a bucket section in the collective take-out device for articles shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a plan view of FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a perspective view showing a standing pouch.

FIG. 9 is a plan view showing a display state of the standing pouch shown in FIG. 8;

FIG. 10 is a front view of FIG. 9;

[Explanation of symbols]

 A article 10 first transport device 14 holding plate 20 second transport device 24 holding plate 40 article take-out section 50 pusher device 54 pusher 54a pressing piece

Claims (1)

[Claims] A plurality of holding plates are provided at intervals so as to hold an article packaged in a flexible package in a prone state with both sides up and down, and between the holding plates. A transport device that transports the supplied article toward the article take-out unit, and a pusher that is provided to be movable in a direction that intersects the transport direction of the article by the transport device, has the pusher reciprocate, A pusher device configured to push out the article between the holding plates conveyed to the article take-out section by a comb-shaped pressing piece provided on a pusher to one side of a conveying apparatus; The holding plate of the apparatus has an inclined shape in which the upper part is inclined backward in the conveying direction of the article, and the comb-shaped pressing piece formed on the pusher has an inclined shape corresponding to the inclination of the holding plate. Removal of goods apparatus.