JP2003072839A - Plastic container and apparatus for mounting article therein - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plastic container by which cost is decreased and work efficiency is improved. SOLUTION: A plastic container 1 is constituted by continuously forming a number of container bodies 3 each with a storing cavity 3a in which an article can be stored at established intervals. In addition, a mounting apparatus is constituted in such a way that the tape-like plastic container is reeled on a reel and in a drawing process where it is drawn in the horizontal direction by means of a feeder, the articles are respectively filled into the storing cavity of each of the container bodies.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a plastic container and an apparatus for mounting articles in the plastic container.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a transparent or translucent plastic container 51 called a blister pack is known.
A storage recess 53 is formed in the storage recess 53 so that daily necessities, tools, toys, stationery, etc. can be stored in the storage recess 53. On both right and left side surfaces, side surface return pieces 54, 54 are formed by folding back, and an upper end return piece 55 is formed on the upper end side, and a hooking through hole 56 is formed below it. And the storage recess 5
With the article placed in 3, the backing board 57 is inserted into the side folding pieces 54, 54, and the backing board 57 is stapled or the like.
The article is fixed to the main body plate 52 to prevent the articles in the storage recess 53 from falling off. It is hung on shelves and displayed.

[0003] Such a conventional plastic container 51
The main body plates 52 having the storage recesses 53 are formed one by one, and the articles are stored in the storage recesses 53, and the
Since the backing sheets 57 are fitted one by one, there is a problem that it takes time and effort to pack the articles and the cost also increases.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been devised in view of the above problems of the prior art. A plastic container and a plastic container into which the cost is reduced and the packing work of the article is extremely easy are provided. The first gist of the present invention is to provide a device for mounting articles, and the first gist thereof is to form a plastic container by forming a plurality of container bodies having storage recesses capable of storing articles, which are continuously formed at intervals with a tape shape. That is what I did. The mounting apparatus according to the second aspect is configured such that the tape-shaped plastic container is wound around the reel and the storage recess of each container can be filled with the article in the process of pulling out in the horizontal direction by the feeding device. Is.

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a plan view of a plastic container,
The plastic container 1 is a long tape form in which a plurality of container bodies 3, 3, 3, 3 each having a storage recess 3a are continuously formed on a tape plate 2 at predetermined intervals, and can be wound up by a reel. Are formed in each container body 3, 3,
The outer peripheries of 3 and 3 are punched by a punching outer peripheral line 4, and about four connecting portions 4a, 4a, 4a, 4a are formed on the punching outer peripheral line 4, and these connecting portions 4a, 4a, 4a, At 4a, the container body 3 is held by the tape plate 2.
Further, on one side surface side of the tape plate 2, feed holes 6, 6, 6 are continuously formed at predetermined intervals in the longitudinal direction. The plastic container 1 in the form of a tape in which a large number of container bodies 3, 3, 3 are continuous is integrally formed of transparent or translucent plastic. In addition, each container body 3
Through holes 5, 5, 5 for hooking are formed therethrough.

The plastic container 1 thus formed in a tape shape is placed in the accommodating recess 3a of each container body 3 by using a mounting apparatus as shown in a plan view of FIG. 2 and a side view of FIG. The article can be filled efficiently. That is, various articles can be stored in the storage recess 3a of each container body 3, for example, daily necessities, tools, toys, stationery, and the like.

The mounting device comprises a main reel 10 and a spare reel 1.
3 is provided, and the tape-shaped plastic container 1 shown in FIG. 1 can be wound around the reels 10 and 13, respectively. On the main reel 10,
The intermittent motor 11 is provided, and the intermittent motor 11
The main reel 10 can be intermittently rotated via the shaft 12 by intermittently rotating.

Further, a spare reel 13 is arranged at a position displaced from the main reel 10 by 180 degrees.
Is configured to drive an intermittent motor 14 so that it can be intermittently rotated via a shaft 15. The spare reel 13 is rotated 180 degrees as shown by an arrow and placed at the position of the main reel 10. Can be the main reel 1
When the plastic container 1 wound around 0 is gone,
The spare reel 13 is rotated to the position of the main reel 10 so that the plastic container 1 can be continuously pulled out in the horizontal direction.

A pair of rollers 16 and 17 provided on a shaft 18 are arranged on the downstream side of the main reel 10, and a shaft 20 rotated by a servomotor 19 is provided on the downstream side thereof. A pair of sprocket rollers 21 and 22 are arranged so that the plastic container 1 can be held horizontally between the rollers 16 and 17 and the rollers 21 and 22 and the servo motor 19 can be operated to pull it out in the horizontal direction. Is configured. That is, the servo motor 19 constitutes a feeding device, and the sprocket roller 2 rotated by the servo motor 19 is rotated.
The sprocket 1 is the feed hole 6 of the plastic container 1.
The plastic container 1 is fitted in the inside 6 and is pulled out horizontally from the left side to the right side by the rotation of the sprocket roller 21.

The roller 17 is movable with respect to the shaft 18 so that the width with the roller 16 can be adjusted. Similarly, the width can be adjusted by adjusting the position of the roller 22 with respect to the shaft 20. Is configured. That is, when the plastic containers 1 having different widths are set, the positions of the rollers 17 and 22 can be adjusted to adjust the width, and the plastic container 1 having any width can be adapted. ing.

Roller 16 and sprocket roller 21
A mount case 27 is disposed between the mount cases 27, and a large number of mounts 57 can be stacked and set in the mount case 27 as shown in FIG. The stacked mounts 57 can be extruded from the lower end side one by one onto the respective container bodies 3 of the plastic container 1 by the extrusion cylinder 28, and in this state, the heat seal portion 29 covers the mounts 57 with each container. Body 3
It is configured so that it can be attached on top. That is, the heat seal portion 29 includes a heat plate 30 and a cylinder 31, and the heat plate 30 is pressed by the cylinder 31 to attach the mount 57 to each container body 3 and the storage recess 3 a of each container body 3 a. It can cover the.

An article sensor 33 is arranged on the upstream side of the heat seal portion 29, and the sensor 33 detects whether or not an article is stored in the storage recess 3a of each container body 3. Then, when no articles are stored in the storage recess 3a, the servo motor 19 is controlled to be stopped. That is, on the upstream side of the article sensor 33, the worker can insert the article into the accommodation recess 3 a of each container body 3, and the accommodation recess 3
The mount 57 is arranged on the article stored in a, the mount 57 is attached by the heat seal part 29, and the mount 57 is continuously moved to the downstream side.

As shown in FIG. 3, a bending roller 23 is arranged below the sprocket rollers 21 and 22, and a tape is provided between the bending roller 23 and the sprocket rollers 21 and 22. The plate 2 is sandwiched so that the tape plate 2 can be abruptly bent. By this abrupt bending,
The connecting portion 4a of the punching outer peripheral line 4 is cut so that the container bodies 3 can be dropped one by one from the shooter 25 into the product box 26 satisfactorily. Further, the tape plate 2 that has passed through the folding roller 23 is in a state in which the container body 3 has already been removed, and is collected in the scrap box 24. In some cases, a cutter or the like may be provided so that the container body 3 can be removed from the tape plate 2.

As shown in FIG. 3, the reel 10
Below the upper sensor 34 and below the lower sensor 35.
And the upper sensor 34 detects the lower end of the plastic container 1 hanging from the main reel 10,
The intermittent motor 11 is operated to rotate the main reel 10 so that the plastic container 1 is hung further downward from the main reel 10 to give slack. The intermittent motor 11 is configured to stop when it is detected. Therefore, the plastic container 1 is always sent out from the main reel 10 in a slackened state, and can be favorably continuously drawn out in the horizontal direction by the servomotor 19.

When the plastic container 1 wound around the main reel 10 is used up and the plastic container 1 is switched to the spare reel 13, as shown in FIG. By accommodating the storage recess 3a at the end of the plastic container 1 already sent out from the main reel 10 with the storage recess 3a at the lower side, the spare reel 13 can be continuously taken over. The plastic container 1 wound around the reel 13 can be pulled out horizontally by the servomotor 19.

With such a mounting apparatus, articles can be put into the storage recesses 3a of the respective container bodies 3 of the tape-shaped plastic container 1 and the work can be carried out continuously, and finally the product box 26 can be placed. Since it can be collected as an independent container body 3 in which articles are packed, work efficiency can be improved and the cost of each container body 3 can be reduced. Similar to the conventional plastic container shown in FIG. In addition, it can be hung on a shelf in a supermarket or the like for display.

[0017]

The plastic container of the present invention has a plurality of container bodies having storage recesses capable of storing articles, which are formed in a continuous tape form at intervals to form individual tape-like containers as in the conventional case. Since it is not necessary to manufacture them one by one, the cost can be reduced, and the mounting device can continuously store the articles in the storage recesses of the respective container bodies.

Further, in the apparatus for mounting an article in a plastic container, in the process of winding a tape-shaped plastic container around a reel and pulling it out in the horizontal direction by a feeding device, the article can be filled in the storage recess of each container body. With this configuration, the tape-shaped plastic container is wound around the reel, and is horizontally drawn out by the feeding device, and in the process, the articles are continuously filled in the storage recess of each container body. This has the effect of improving work efficiency.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an enlarged plan configuration diagram of a main part of a plastic container.

FIG. 2 is a plan configuration diagram of a mounting apparatus including a reel around which a plastic container is wound.

3 is a side configuration diagram of FIG. 2. FIG.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of main parts of a mount case and a heat seal part in the mounting apparatus.

FIG. 5 is a work process diagram in which an end portion of a plastic container is overlapped and taken over when switching to a spare reel.

FIG. 6 is a rear perspective view showing the configuration of a conventional plastic container.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 plastic container 2 tape plate 3 container 3a Storage recess 4 Punching peripheral line 4a connecting part 5 Through hole for hooking 6 feed holes 10 main reels 11 Intermittent motor 12 axes 13 spare reel 14 intermittent motor 15 axes 16,17 roller 18 axes 19 Servo motor (feed device) 20 axes 21 Sprocket roller 22 roller 23 Bending roller 24 scrap boxes 25 shooter 26 product boxes 27 mount case 28 Extrusion cylinder 29 Heat seal part 30 heater plate 31 cylinders 33 Item sensor 34 Upper sensor 35 Lower sensor 57 Back Mount

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A plastic container characterized in that a plurality of container bodies having storage recesses capable of storing articles are formed in a tape shape by continuously connecting a plurality of them at intervals. 2. The tape-shaped plastic container according to claim 1 is wound around a reel, and in the process of pulling out in the horizontal direction by a feeding device, the storage recess of each container can be filled with articles. An apparatus for mounting an article in a plastic container, which is characterized in that: