JPS63178920A - A device that feeds confectionery packaged in small bags to a large bag packaging machine. - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of Industrial Application The present invention is a confectionery packaging line in which an arbitrary number of small confectionery bags, which are packaged in small bags by a small bag packaging machine, are collected and supplied to a large bag packaging machine. The present invention relates to an automated device for a line that re-packs an arbitrary number of small bags of confectionery into large bags.

Conventional Technology The confectionery manufacturing industry, especially the rice cracker industry, has been promoting unmanned production lines year by year.

Currently, the task of supplying small bags of rice crackers packaged by a small bag packaging machine to a large bag packaging machine, which has been a long-standing problem, is still carried out manually.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention Conventionally, the small bags (US and UK) packed by the small bag packaging machine are fed to the large bag packaging machine by workers stationed on the production line, which makes the packaging process inefficient. This increases the production cost of confectionery because workers must be placed on the production line, and even though the confectionery is packaged, it is hygienic for workers to directly touch the confectionery with their hands. It was.

Means for Solving the Problems The present invention solves the problems in the prior art, and provides an apparatus for automating the operation of feeding small bag confectionery to a large bag packaging machine, thereby promoting automation of the packaging line for confectionery manufacturing. The purpose is to provide the following.

That is, an introduction conveyor mechanism having an arbitrary number of pool boxes capable of storing an arbitrary number of small bags of rice crackers, which are sweets packaged in small bags, and a function of supplying the small bags of rice crackers to the pool boxes, and a pool containing small bags of rice crackers. A forwarding conveyor mechanism having a function of forwarding boxes, a supply conveyor mechanism having a function of feeding the pool boxes to a position table of a slide mechanism, and small bags of rice crackers stored in several pool boxes supplied to the position table. Take out the
Confectionery packaged in small bags, characterized by comprising a slide mechanism having an arbitrary number of pairs of hands for arranging the supply on the top chain of a large bag packaging machine, and a collection conveyor function having a function of conveying empty pool boxes. The present invention provides a device for supplying large bag packaging machines with large bag packaging machines.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the entire apparatus of the present invention, and 4 is a pool box for storing the sachet rice crackers 3 discharged from the sachet packaging machine 2. 3, a forwarding conveyor mechanism 5 that transports the pool box 4 containing the small bags of rice crackers 3, a supply conveyor mechanism 6 that supplies the pool box 4 to the slide mechanism, and A slide mechanism 7 that takes out the stored small bags of rice crackers 3 and supplies them to the large bag packaging machine 12, and a collection conveyor mechanism 47 that takes out the stored small bags of rice crackers 3 and collects the empty pool box 4 work together. be.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a forwarding conveyor mechanism, which works together with the introducing conveyor mechanism 1 to forward the pool box 4 containing the small bags of rice crackers 3 and transfer it to the fifth supply conveyor mechanism 6.

A supply conveyor mechanism 6 is a mechanism for supplying the pool box 4 transferred from the one-time conveyor mechanism 5 to the slide mechanism 7.

Reference numeral 7 denotes a slide mechanism, and the pool boxes 4 supplied to the slide mechanism 7 by the supply conveyor mechanism 6 are stopped by a stopper, and when an arbitrary number of pool boxes 4 are left in place, they are arranged on the position table 9 by a second air cylinder 40. Rare.

This is a mechanism for transferring a small bag of rice crackers 3 from inside a pool box 4 onto a conveyor of a large bag packaging machine 12 using a hand 10 and a slide device 11.

Reference numeral 47 denotes a collection conveyor mechanism, which has the function of discharging the stored small bags of rice crackers 3 using the slide mechanism 7, and in other words, transferring the empty pool box 4 to the forwarding conveyor mechanism 5 using the third air cylinder 48. .

As shown in FIG. 2, the pool box 4 is open at the top to supply and store the small bags of rice crackers 3 from above, and is designed so that the hand 10 of the slide mechanism 7 can easily grasp the stored small bags of rice crackers 3. The pool box 4 has a cube or rectangular parallelepiped shape with a notch 13 for adjusting the width and depth of the pool box 4. The width and length of the small bag of rice crackers 3 are manufactured to be slightly larger than the width, height, and thickness of the entire number of stored rice crackers, and the size of the small bag of rice crackers 3 to be supplied to the large bag packaging machine 12 is It is assumed that the pool boxes 4 are arranged so that the number of pool boxes 4 is larger than the number of pool boxes 4.

The introduction conveyor mechanism 1 includes a belt conveyor 16 continuously provided with holes 15 of any shape as shown in FIG. A phototube 18 that detects the small bags of rice crackers 3 that are connected without being cut, an air jet nozzle 20 that removes the empty bags 19 and the small bags of rice crackers 3 that are connected without being cut, and the small bags of rice crackers 3 are placed in a pool box. The box supply section 8 is the tip of a belt conveyor 16 that supplies rice crackers 4 to the rice crackers 4, and the small bags of rice crackers 3 sent from the small bag packaging machine 2 are transferred onto the belt conveyor 16 provided with appropriate holes 15. , when the empty bag 19 and the small bag packaging machine 2 produce a small bag of rice crackers 3 in a state where the small bag of rice crackers 3 is connected without being cut, it is detected by the phototube 18, and an air jet nozzle that is timed with the phototube 18 is detected. The normal small bags of rice crackers 3 removed at step 20 are arranged in a straight line on the belt conveyor 16 by three pairs of plate-shaped alignment rollers 17 on the left and right, and then jet air is applied to them by the alignment air nozzle 53. After being wiped down, the small bags of rice crackers 3 are aligned in a straight line at a desired position on the belt conveyor 16 by the alignment plate 54.

The alignment roller 17 is connected to an electric motor (
(not shown).

A box supply section 8 which is the tip of the introduction conveyor mechanism 1
As shown in FIG. 5, it has a knife shape, and there is a suction tube 22 inside the knife.
is piped to the blower 23.

The suction pipe 22 suctions the small bag of rice crackers 3 onto the belt conveyor 16 via the perforated conveyor belt 16.

Reliably through the box supply section 8 at its tip.

It is designed to be supplied into the pool box 4 at a desired position.

As shown in FIG. 2, the forwarding conveyor mechanism 5 transfers the pool box 4 to the conveyor device 24 that conveys the pool box 4 containing the small rice crackers 3 by means of a pouch receiving device and the next supply conveyor mechanism 6. The device consists of a pinion gear 25a which also serves as a stop function for the empty pool box 4, and a pinion gear 25a which also serves as a stop function for the pool box 4, which always continuously moves several empty pool boxes 4.
25b to the desired location.

The small bags of rice crackers 3 sent from the introduction conveyor mechanism 1 are stored in the pool box 4 via fiber sensors 26a and 26b.

When the fiber sensors 26a and 26b detect the next small bag of rice crackers 3 that are being transported in sequence, an electric signal is sent to a pulse motor (not shown) synchronized with the fiber sensors 26a and 26b. - rotates.

At this time, the rotating pulse motor is set to one of the rice cracker bags 3 in advance.
rack gears 14a, 14b and pinion gears 25a, 25b so that the pool box 4 moves by the thickness of
The rotation of the motor and the pulse motor is adjusted and determined.

The pool box 4 in which the desired number of small bags of rice crackers 3 (eight in this embodiment) is stored has a pinion gear 25.
At the same time, the next pool box 4 which is continuously arranged is sent to the next pool box 4 and stopped at a predetermined position by the pinion gears 25a and 25b.

They are continuously stored in the pool box 4.

The pool box 4 containing the small bags of rice crackers 3 in this manner is transported by the conveyor device 24 at regular intervals, albeit intermittently, and is stopped by a stop plate 27 attached to the conveyor device 24 as shown in FIG. .

A contact-type limit switch 28 is attached to the stop plate 27, and when the limit switch 28 detects the pool box 4, the first air cylinder 30 having an L-shaped guide 29 at the tip moves the pool box 4. 4 is transferred to the next supply conveyor mechanism 6.

The side surface of the mold guide 29 is for holding the next pool box 4 in the same state.

The arrangement is such that when the first air cylinder 30 returns to its original position, the next pool box 4 advances to the stop plate 27.

Further, as shown in FIG. 6A, the conveyor device 24 is provided so as to be driven by an electric motor 34 via a chain 31 with a plate, a sprocket wheel 32, and a roller chain 33.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 7, the supply conveyor mechanism 6 is composed of a belt conveyor 35, a stop plate 36, and a second air cylinder 40 for transferring and loading an arbitrary number of pool boxes 4 onto the slide mechanism 7. The pool box 4 supplied from the mechanism 5 is pushed out by the first air cylinder 30 and is transferred onto the belt conveyor 35 with its traveling surface changed by 90'' from the conveyor device 24. is transported and stopped by a stop plate 36 as shown in FIG.

The stop plate 36 also has a contact type limit switch 3 as described above.
7 is attached, and the desired number (in this example, three) of pool boxes 4, the last pool box 4
When the contact type limit switch 37 and the phototube 38 detect that the desired number of pool boxes 4 have been arranged, the L-shaped guide 39 with the same metal fittings as described above is installed. Second installed
The air cylinder 40 allows the desired number of pool boxes 4 to be fed to the next slide mechanism 7.

As shown in FIG. 8, the slide mechanism 7 includes a hand 10 for grasping the small bag of rice crackers 3, and a cylinder 41 for raising and lowering the hand 10. It is composed of a slide ball 42 that moves the cylinder 41 back and forth, and a third air cylinder 48 that ejects the empty pool box 4 from which the rice crackers 3 have been ejected. The box 4 is detected by the proximity switch, and the hand 10 grabs a desired number of small bags of rice crackers 3 stored in a desired number of pool boxes 4 from the notch 13, and the cylinder 41
The small bag of rice crackers 3 is raised slightly above the top of the pool box 4 and then moved by the slide ball 42.

This slide ball 42 is provided to be driven by a servo motor 43 that is synchronized with the large bag packaging machine 12, and detects attachments 45a, 45b of the top chain 44 of the large bag packaging machine 12 with a phototube 46 to detect the attachments 45a.

It is provided so that the traveling speed is the same as that of 45b.

The cylinder 41 that raises and lowers the hand 10 descends during running, and places the small bag of rice crackers 3 grabbed by the hand 10 between the attachments 45a and 45b, and when the hand 10 opens, the small bag of rice crackers 3 becomes a large bag. It is supplied to the packaging machine 12.

The recovery conveyor mechanism 47 is composed of a conveyor 49 that takes out the stored rice crackers 3 and conveys the empty pool box 4, and a fourth air cylinder 50 that supplies the pool box 4 to the forwarding conveyor mechanism 5. The pool box 4, which has been emptied by discharging the small bags of rice crackers 3 using the hand 10, is transferred to the conveyor 4 by means of a third air cylinder 48 with a guide 51 attached to the tip.
The pool box 4 that was transferred to the air cylinder 9 and stopped by colliding with the stopper 52 is moved to the fourth air cylinder 5 having the same structure as the third air cylinder 48.
0 is supplied to the forwarding conveyor mechanism 5.

The number of pool boxes 4 is slightly larger than the number of small bags of rice crackers 3 to be supplied to the large bag packaging machine 12, and several empty pool boxes 4 are placed on standby in front of the introduction conveyor mechanism 1 to store small bags of rice crackers. 3 can be stored continuously.

By holding a slightly larger number of small bags of rice crackers 3 in the pool box 4 than the number of small bags of rice crackers 3 to be supplied to the large bag packaging machine 12 in the forwarding conveyor mechanism 5 and the supply conveyor mechanism 6. Even if the small bag packaging machine 2 stops, the large bag packaging machine 12 does not stop and continues to work continuously.

Operation In the present invention, the following technical configuration is used to supply the confectionery packaged in small bags (in this embodiment, the small bag rice crackers 3) to the large bag packaging machine 12.

In other words, the American and British products manufactured by the conventional method are packaged in small bags by the small bag packaging machine 2 and discharged, and then transferred to the introduction conveyor mechanism 1.
Empty bags 19 and connected small bags of rice crackers 3 are transported by a belt conveyor 16 provided with holes 15.
8 is detected, removed by the air jet nozzle 20, aligned by the alignment roller 17, and further conveyed by the belt conveyor 16, by spraying jet air from the alignment air nozzle 53.
holes 15 of the belt conveyor 16
The liquid is sucked into the suction pipe 22 of the blower 23 via the air filter, and is sequentially supplied into the pool box 4 via the tip of the knife-shaped belt conveyor 16.

The small bags of rice crackers 3 sent by the belt conveyor 16 of the introduction conveyor mechanism 1 are sent to the fiber sensors 26a and 26b.
When a predetermined number of pieces are stored in the pool box 4, the rack gears 14a and 14b on both sides of the outside of the pool box 4 and the pinion gear 25 meshed with the rack gears 14a and 14b are
a, 25b, the pool box 4 is sent out by the conveyor device 24 at the forward conveyor end 5, contacts the stop plate 27 and is detected by the limit switch 28, and the first air cylinder 30 moves the pool box 4 in the traveling direction. It is transferred to the supply conveyor mechanism 6 in a state in which the position has been rotated by 90 degrees.

The pool boxes 4 containing the transferred small bags of rice crackers 3 are conveyed by the belt conveyor 35 of the supply conveyor mechanism 6, and come into contact with the stop plate 36 and stop, and the pool boxes 4 are filled with the desired number of rice crackers 3. (Three in this embodiment), this is detected by the limit switch 37 and the phototube 38, and the second air cylinder 40 pushes it onto the position table 9 and supplies it to the slide mechanism 7.

When the small bag of rice crackers 3 stored in the pool box 4 placed on the position table 9 is detected by the proximity switch, the hand 10 of the slide mechanism 7 moves up and down by the cylinder 41 and grabs it from inside the pool box 4. The large bag packaging machine 12 is moved by the rotation of the slide ball 42.
It is placed between the attachments 45a and 45b of the top chain 44. At this time, the hand 10 releases the opened bag of rice crackers 3 and returns to its original position by rotation of the slide pole 42.

The small bag rice crackers 3 sandwiched between the attachments 45a and 45b of the top chain 44 are conveyed and supplied to the large bag packaging machine 12 by the top chain 44, and are packaged in large bags by the large bag packaging machine 12.

On the other hand, the pool box 4, which has become empty after the small bag of rice crackers 3 stored therein has been grabbed by the hand 10, is pushed out by the third air cylinder 48 of the collection conveyor mechanism 47, transferred to the conveyor 49, and transported m. The transport conveyor 49 is stopped by contacting a stopper 52 provided toward the tip thereof, and is transferred to the conveyor unit @ 24 of the forwarding conveyor mechanism 5 by the fourth air cylinder 50 and conveyed, and the small bag rice crackers are transported by the introducing conveyor mechanism 1. 3 is stored.

In this way, the pool box 4 is circulated.

It transports and supplies small bags of rice crackers 3.

Effects Since the present invention is configured as described above, the device for supplying sweets packaged in small bags to the large bag packaging machine 12 automates the operation of feeding sweets packaged in small bags to the large bag packaging machine 12 without requiring manual labor. This has the effect of realizing automation of the packaging line for confectionery production.

The device of the present invention can be applied not only to a feeding device for confectionery packaged in sachets, but also to the feeding arrangement of various other articles.

Further, according to the present invention, it can also be used as a device for arranging sweets or other articles packaged in sachets on a tray.

According to the present invention, it is possible to improve confectionery production efficiency and reduce confectionery production costs because it is automated and does not require manpower to package sweets that have been packaged in small bags into large bags. Since packaging does not require any labor at all, it has the effect of making the confectionery production and packaging process sanitary.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawing shows an embodiment of an apparatus for supplying confectionery packaged in small bags to a large bag packaging machine according to the present invention. FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the pool box supply section. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the introduction conveyor mechanism. FIG. 4 is a plan view of the introduction conveyor mechanism. FIG. 5 is a detailed sectional view of the discharge of the inlet conveyor mechanism. Figure 6A is a perspective view of the forwarding conveyor mechanism, Figure 6B is 1
FIG. 3 is a plan view of the forwarding conveyor mechanism. Figure 7A is a side view of the end of the supply conveyor, Figure 7B is
FIG. 3 is a plan view of the supply conveyor mechanism. FIG. 8 is an enlarged perspective view of main parts showing details of the slide mechanism. 1... Introducing conveyor mechanism 2... Small bag packaging machine
3... Small bag of rice crackers 4... Pool box 5
... Forward conveyor mechanism 6 ... Supply conveyor mechanism 7 ... Slide mechanism
8...Box supply unit 9...Position table 10...Hand 11...
Slide device 12... Large bag packaging machine 13...
・Notches 14a, 14b...Rack gear 15
...hole 16...belt conveyor 17...
Alignment roller 18...Photocell 19...Empty bag
20...Air jet nozzle 21...Drive belt 22...Suction pipe 23...Blower 24
... Conveyor equipment [t 25a, 25b... Pinion gear 26a, 26b... Fiber sensor 27... Stop plate 28... Limit switch 29... L-shaped guide 30... First air cylinder 31...Chain with plate 32...Sprocket wheel 33
...Roller chain 34...Electric motor 35...
Belt conveyor 36...Stopping plate 37...Limit switch 38...Phototube 39...L-shaped guide 40...Second air cylinder 41...Cylinder 42...Air cylinder 43...
- Servo motor 44...Top chain 45a, 45b...Attachment 46...Phototube 47...Collection conveyor mechanism 48...Third air cylinder 49...Transfer conveyor 50...Fourth
Air cylinder 51... Guide 52... Stopper 53... Alignment air nozzle
54... Alignment board

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. An arbitrary number of pool boxes capable of storing an arbitrary number of sweets packaged in sachets, an introduction conveyor mechanism for supplying the sweets packaged in sachets to the pool boxes, and a pool containing sweets packaged in sachets. A forwarding conveyor mechanism for forwarding boxes, a supply conveyor mechanism for supplying the pool box, and a pair of hands for taking out small bag-wrapped sweets stored in the pool box and supplying and arranging them on the chain of the large bag packaging machine. A device for supplying confectionery packaged in small bags to a large bag packaging machine, characterized by comprising a sliding mechanism having an arbitrary number and a collection conveyor mechanism for conveying empty pool boxes. 2. The pool box is a box-shaped confectionery packaged in a small bag according to claim 1, wherein the pool box is box-shaped with an opening at the top, has a notch on the opposite side, and has rack gears on both outer sides. A device that feeds packaging machines. 3. The introduction conveyor mechanism includes a belt conveyor provided with a large number of appropriately shaped holes, alignment rollers provided on both sides of the belt conveyor, alignment air nozzles arranged on the belt conveyor, and the tip of the belt conveyor. 2. An apparatus for supplying small bag-wrapped confectionery to a large bag packaging machine as claimed in claim 1, comprising a suction tube provided on the inside of the container. 4. Claim 1 in which the slide mechanism comprises a hand that can be opened and closed, a cylinder that raises and lowers the hand, and a slide ball that moves the hand.
A device for feeding small bag-wrapped confectionery as described in 1. to a large bag packaging machine.