阅读说明：本技术 码垛机 (Stacking machine ) 是由 胡纯军 黄正烈 张双印 董阳 李壮 于 2019-11-22 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开一种码垛机,包括机架、分拨装置以及下料装置,机架上依次形成有上料工位、码垛工位以及下料工位,上料工位用以供多个模具沿机架的前后向依次排列而形成一模具队列,上料工位和码垛工位沿机架的左右向呈间隔设置,码垛工位和下料工位沿机架的上下向呈间隔设置,分拨装置设于机架,用以将模具队列从上料工位拨动至码垛工位,下料装置设于机架,用以将模具队列从码垛工位移动至下料工位。本发明提出的码垛机在码垛模具时以模具队列的形式进行码垛,工作效率高、自动化程度高,其模具队列也通过堆叠的方式进行码垛,进一步提高工作效率。(The invention discloses a stacker crane which comprises a rack, a distribution device and a blanking device, wherein a feeding station, a stacking station and a blanking station are sequentially formed on the rack, the feeding station is used for sequentially arranging a plurality of dies along the front and back direction of the rack to form a die array, the feeding station and the stacking station are arranged at intervals along the left and right direction of the rack, the stacking station and the blanking station are arranged at intervals along the up and down direction of the rack, the distribution device is arranged on the rack and used for shifting the die array from the feeding station to the stacking station, and the blanking device is arranged on the rack and used for moving the die array from the stacking station to the blanking station. The stacker crane provided by the invention is used for stacking the molds in the form of the mold queue, the working efficiency is high, the automation degree is high, the mold queue is also used for stacking in a stacking mode, and the working efficiency is further improved.)

1. A palletizer, comprising:

the automatic die stacking machine comprises a rack, wherein a feeding station, a stacking station and a discharging station are sequentially formed on the rack, the feeding station is used for sequentially arranging a plurality of dies along the front and back direction of the rack to form a die queue, the feeding station and the stacking station are arranged at intervals along the left and right direction of the rack, and the stacking station and the discharging station are arranged at intervals along the up and down direction of the rack;

the distribution device is arranged on the rack and used for shifting the die queue from the feeding station to the stacking station; and the number of the first and second groups,

and the blanking device is arranged on the frame and used for transferring the die queue from the stacking station to the blanking station.

2. A palletiser as claimed in claim 1, wherein the palletiser further comprises a conveyor belt for carrying a plurality of moulds, the conveyor belt having a forward and rearward travel to bring a plurality of moulds in sequence to the loading station and form the array of moulds.

3. A palletiser as claimed in claim 2, wherein the indexing arrangement includes an indexing plate movably mounted at the loading station and having a left and right direction of travel, the indexing plate being arranged to urge the array of moulds to the palletising station.

4. The stacker according to claim 3 wherein the front end of the allocating plate protrudes towards the right of the rack to form a front baffle for limiting the plurality of dies from being ejected forward from the loading station;

the rear end of the distributing plate protrudes towards the left side of the rack to form a rear baffle, and the rear baffle is used for limiting the die behind the feeding station to enter the feeding station when the distributing plate moves to the stacking station.

5. A palletiser as claimed in claim 4, wherein the blanking means includes a lifting mechanism including a palletising plate mounted at the palletising station, the palletising plate having a vertical travel along the frame, the palletising plate being adapted to allow a plurality of mould rows allocated by the allocating plate to be placed one above the other in a stack from bottom to top so that the uppermost mould row is at the same height as the loading station.

6. A palletiser as claimed in claim 5, wherein the lifting mechanism further comprises a palletising fence disposed circumferentially of the palletising plate to define with the palletising plate a palletising slot, one side of the palletising slot adjacent the dial plate being provided with a feed inlet for entry of a line of moulds.

7. A palletiser as claimed in claim 6, wherein the sides of the palletising rail which meet the feed inlet are each provided with an inwardly inclined guide ramp at the feed inlet.

8. A palletiser according to claim 5 wherein the frame is provided with a stock area for storing a plurality of the mould queues, the stock area being provided at the front side of the lifting mechanism for a forklift plate to enter the stock area to remove the mould queues;

the stacker crane further comprises a material pushing plate, the material pushing plate is movably mounted below the conveyor belt and has a movable stroke along the left-right direction, and the material pushing plate is used for pushing the mold queue to the material storage area from the blanking station.

9. The stacker according to claim 8, wherein the rack is further provided with two guide limit plates located in the stock area, the two guide limit plates are respectively located on the left side and the right side of the stock area and have a front-back moving stroke, and the two guide limit plates are used for moving towards the mold queue to respectively abut against the front end and the back end of the mold queue when the ejector plate pushes the mold queue to the stock area.

10. A palletiser as claimed in claim 8 wherein the frame is further provided with two forklift guide blocks disposed one on each of the front and rear sides of the stock area to co-restrain the front and rear sides of the forklift blade, wherein the side walls of each forklift guide block which abut the forklift blade are arcuately arranged to form a guide curve which slopes to the right of the frame.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of stacking mechanical equipment, in particular to a stacker crane.

Background

The stacker crane is used for stacking materials with regular outlines in industrial production to facilitate carrying. In the prior art, a sorting device for finished product packaging boxes with larger sizes is provided, and a mature means is realized by a mechanical arm and a visual identification system.

In the production process of small boxes such as cigarette boxes and tea box packages, the number of factors is large, and the box stacking is not suitable for realizing the single picking mode by a manipulator. The small-block-shaped objects such as the forming box blanks, the rectangular molds and the like in the production workshop of the small-box packaging boxes still need to be manually participated to a greater degree in the collecting and transferring processes. Therefore, a stacker crane which has higher automation degree and can improve the production efficiency needs to be developed, and the requirements of stacking cigarette cases, tea boxes, fine gift boxes, blocky semi-finished products, molds and other materials in the workshop production process into stacks are met.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention mainly aims to provide a stacker crane, which aims to solve the problems of low automation degree and low production efficiency of stacking and stacking materials such as cigarette cases, tea cases, fine gift cases, blocky semi-finished products, molds and the like in the workshop production process.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a stacker crane, comprising:

the automatic die stacking machine comprises a rack, wherein a feeding station, a stacking station and a discharging station are sequentially formed on the rack, the feeding station is used for sequentially arranging a plurality of dies along the front and back direction of the rack to form a die queue, the feeding station and the stacking station are arranged at intervals along the left and right direction of the rack, and the stacking station and the discharging station are arranged at intervals along the up and down direction of the rack;

the distribution device is arranged on the rack and used for shifting the die queue from the feeding station to the stacking station; and the number of the first and second groups,

and the blanking device is arranged on the frame and used for transferring the die queue from the stacking station to the blanking station.

Optionally, the stacker further includes a conveyor belt for carrying a plurality of molds, and the conveyor belt has a forward and backward moving stroke to drive the plurality of molds to reach the loading station in sequence and form the mold queue.

Optionally, the distribution device includes a distribution plate, the distribution plate is movably mounted at the loading station and has a movable stroke along the left-right direction, and the distribution plate is used for pushing the die array to the stacking station.

Optionally, the front end of the distributing plate protrudes towards the right of the rack to form a front baffle, and the front baffle is used for limiting the plurality of molds to be separated from the feeding station forward;

the rear end of the distributing plate protrudes towards the left side of the rack to form a rear baffle, and the rear baffle is used for limiting the die behind the feeding station to enter the feeding station when the distributing plate moves to the stacking station.

Optionally, the blanking device includes a lifting mechanism, the lifting mechanism includes a stacking plate installed at the stacking station, the stacking plate has an upward and downward moving stroke along the rack, the stacking plate is used for placing a plurality of mold queues allocated by the allocating plate from bottom to top in sequence, so that the mold queues at the top and the feeding station keep at the same height.

Optionally, the lifting mechanism further comprises a stacking rail arranged along the circumferential direction of the stacking plate so as to define a stacking groove together with the stacking plate, and a feed port for entering a mold queue is formed in one side, close to the distributing plate, of the stacking groove.

Optionally, the two side edges that the pile up neatly rail with the feed inlet meets all are equipped with the direction inclined plane of inwards inclining in feed inlet department.

Optionally, the rack is provided with a material storage area for storing a plurality of the mold queues, and the material storage area is arranged on the front side of the lifting mechanism, so that a forklift plate can enter the material storage area to move away the mold queues;

the stacker crane further comprises a material pushing plate, the material pushing plate is movably mounted below the conveyor belt and has a movable stroke along the left-right direction, and the material pushing plate is used for pushing the mold queue to the material storage area from the blanking station.

Optionally, the frame still is equipped with and is located two direction limiting plate in the material stock district, two direction limiting plate divide locate the left and right sides in material stock district, and have along the fore-and-aft activity stroke, two direction limiting plate are used for the scraping wings will the mould queue propelling movement arrives when the material stock district, towards the mould queue activity is and both ends around the butt mould queue respectively.

Optionally, the frame still is equipped with two fork truck guide blocks, two fork truck guide blocks are established respectively both sides around the material stock district for limit fork truck board's front and back both sides jointly, wherein, each the fork truck guide block is the arc setting with fork truck board looks butt's lateral wall, in order to form the court the direction cambered surface of the right-hand slope of frame.

According to the technical scheme, a plurality of dies are arranged in a row of arrays in the front-back direction of a rack to form a die array, then a distribution device shifts the die array to a stacking station, a blanking device transfers the die array at the stacking station to a blanking station, and the distribution device can be repeatedly shifted in the process of removing the die array at the stacking station, so that the die arrays are stacked at the stacking station from bottom to top, and then the die arrays are simultaneously positioned in the blanking station.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the structures shown in the drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of one embodiment of a palletizer provided by the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the palletiser of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged schematic view of detail A of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged schematic view of detail B of FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a portion of the device of FIG. 1

Fig. 6 is a schematic view of the installation of fig. 3.

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the implementation, functional features and advantages of the objects of the present invention will be further explained with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

It should be noted that, if directional indications (such as up, down, left, right, front, and back … …) are involved in the embodiment of the present invention, the directional indications are only used to explain the relative positional relationship between the components, the movement situation, and the like in a specific posture (as shown in the drawing), and if the specific posture is changed, the directional indications are changed accordingly.

In addition, if there is a description of "first", "second", etc. in an embodiment of the present invention, the description of "first", "second", etc. is for descriptive purposes only and is not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In addition, the meaning of "and/or" appearing throughout includes three juxtapositions, exemplified by "A and/or B" including either A or B or both A and B. In addition, technical solutions between various embodiments may be combined with each other, but must be realized by a person skilled in the art, and when the technical solutions are contradictory or cannot be realized, such a combination should not be considered to exist, and is not within the protection scope of the present invention.

In the production process of small boxes such as cigarette boxes and tea box packages, the number of factors is large, and the box stacking is not suitable for realizing the single picking mode by a manipulator. The small-block-shaped objects such as the forming box blanks, the rectangular molds and the like in the production workshop of the small-box packaging boxes still need to be manually participated to a greater degree in the collecting and transferring processes. Therefore, a stacker crane which has higher automation degree and can improve the production efficiency needs to be developed, and the requirements of stacking cigarette cases, tea boxes, fine gift boxes, blocky semi-finished products, molds and other materials in the workshop production process into stacks are met.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a stacker crane, please refer to fig. 1-6, which is an embodiment of the stacker crane provided by the present invention, in this embodiment, the stacker crane includes a frame 1, a distributing device and a discharging device, a feeding station 11, a stacking station 12 and a discharging station 13 are sequentially formed on the frame 1, the feeding station 11 is used for sequentially arranging a plurality of molds 5 along a front-back direction of the frame 1 to form a mold array 51, the feeding station 11 and the stacking station 12 are arranged at intervals along a left-right direction of the frame 1, the stacking station 12 and the discharging station 13 are arranged at intervals along a vertical direction of the frame 1, the distributing device is arranged on the frame 1 for shifting the mold array 51 from the feeding station 11 to the stacking station 12, and the discharging device is arranged on the frame 1 for moving the mold array 51 from the stacking station 12 to the discharging station 13.

Referring to fig. 1, a frame 1 of the stacker crane provided by the present invention is provided with a feeding station 11, at the feeding station 11, a plurality of molds 5 are arranged in a row of rows in a front-back direction of the frame 1 to form a mold array 51, the molds 5 may be placed by a conveyor belt 3, a manipulator or other means to form the mold array 51, then a distributing device shifts the mold array 51 to a stacking station 12, a blanking device transfers the mold array 51 at the stacking station 12 to a blanking station 13, the moving manner of the moving manner may be determined according to the structure of the frame 1 and the actual process flow of the processing production, specifically, in this embodiment, the blanking device transfers by a lifting moving manner, the space below the stacking station 12 is the blanking station 13, and the distributing device may repeatedly shift during the process of transferring the mold array 51 at the stacking station 12, make pile up a plurality of mould queues 51 from bottom to top at pile up neatly station 12 department, then make a plurality of mould queues 51 be located unloading station 13 simultaneously, degree of automation is high, efficient like this, of course, in other embodiments, if the unloader is moved through other movable modes, the device that allocates also can only stir a mould queue 51 at every turn. The stacker crane provided by the invention has the advantages that when the moulds 5 are stacked, the moulds are stacked in the form of the mould queue 51, the working efficiency is high, the automation degree is high, the mould queue 51 is stacked in a stacking mode, and the working efficiency is further improved.

Further, the stacker further comprises a conveyor belt 3 for carrying a plurality of molds 5, wherein the conveyor belt 3 has a moving stroke in a front-back direction so as to drive the plurality of molds 5 to sequentially reach the loading station 11 and form a mold queue 51.

Referring to fig. 1 to 6, the stacker crane of the present invention conveys a plurality of molds 5 by means of a conveyor belt 3, so that it is easy to control the conveying speed and the conveying number, and at the same time, it is possible to simplify the moving stroke of the distribution means.

Further, the distributing device comprises a distributing plate 2, the distributing plate 2 is movably mounted at the feeding station 11 and has a movable stroke along the left-right direction, and the distributing plate 2 is used for pushing the die array 51 to the stacking station 12.

The stacker crane of the invention stirs the die array 51 through the distributing plate 2, has simple and effective structure, is not easy to send interference with the conveyor belt 3 or other devices, and as shown in figure 1, the stacker crane also comprises a linear cylinder for driving the distributing plate 2, the linear cylinder is connected with the right end face of the distributing plate 2, and the linear cylinder can effectively control the motion precision of the distributing plate 2 and the working period of stirring.

Further, the left side of the conveyor belt 3 is also provided with a conveyor belt baffle 31, and when the distribution plate 2 moves to the feeding station 11 along the left direction of the rack 1, the limiting effect can be achieved.

Further, the front end of the distributor plate 2 is arranged towards the right of the frame 1 in a protruding mode to form a front baffle 22, the front baffle 22 is used for limiting the plurality of dies 5 to be separated from the feeding station 11 forwards, the rear end of the distributor plate 2 is arranged towards the left of the frame 1 in a protruding mode to form a rear baffle 21, and the rear baffle 21 is used for limiting the dies 5 located behind the feeding station 11 to enter the feeding station 11 when the distributor plate 2 moves to the stacking station 12.

Divide the preceding baffle 22 of dialling board 2 can effectively restrict a plurality of moulds 5 and deviate from material loading station 11 forward, because divide the stirring speed of dialling board 2 very fast, in this embodiment, when dividing to dial board 2 and stir, conveyer belt 3 keeps the operation, in order to further ensure that mould 5 quantity that stirs at every turn is unanimous, and the mould 5 that does not reach material loading station 11 department collides with the mould 5 of material loading station 11 department, divide and dial board 2 still to be equipped with backplate 21, cut a plurality of moulds 5 on conveyer belt 3, correspondingly, conveyer belt baffle 31 is equipped with the breach 32 that supplies backplate 21 to pass.

In this embodiment, the stacker crane is provided with a plurality of position sensors for detecting whether the mold 5 is in place, taking the position sensor 33 of the back baffle in fig. 1 as an example, when it detects that the position where the mold 5 enters the loading station 11 is in place, a signal that the dial-up plate 2 can be dialed is sent, and then the dial-up plate 2 performs a dialing action, so as to ensure that the number of the molds 5 dialed each time is consistent, obviously, a better embodiment is that the position sensor is also arranged at the front baffle 22, so that the dial-up plate 2 can accurately switch positions between the loading station 11 and the stacking station 12.

Further, the blanking device comprises a lifting mechanism, the lifting mechanism comprises a stacking plate 61 installed at the stacking station 12, the stacking plate 61 has an up-down moving stroke along the rack 1, the stacking plate 61 is used for sequentially stacking a plurality of mold queues 51 distributed by the distributing plate 2 from bottom to top, so that the mold queues 51 positioned at the top and the loading station 11 keep the same height.

Specifically, when the allocating plate 2 shifts a mold array 51 to the stacking plate 61, the stacking plate 61 descends a height value of one mold 5, at the moment, the height of the mold array 51 is consistent with the height of the loading station 11, the allocating plate 2 can continue to shift the next mold array 51, then the stacking plate 61 continues to descend a height value of one mold 5, and the process is repeated, so that when the final stacking plate 61 descends to the lowest position, more mold arrays 51 are borne on the stacking plate 61 in a stacking mode, and the working efficiency is greatly improved.

Further, please refer to fig. 2-4, the lifting mechanism further includes a stacking rail disposed along the circumference of the stacking plate 61 to define a stacking groove together with the stacking plate 61, one side of the stacking groove close to the shifting plate 2 is provided with a feed inlet for the mold array 51 to enter, and the stacking rail can ensure that the position of the mold array 51 does not exceed the stacking station 12 when the shifting plate 2 shifts the mold array 51, thereby ensuring the neatness and accuracy of stacking.

Further, the two side edges of the stacking fence connected to the feeding port are provided with guide inclined surfaces 63a inclined inward at the feeding port, so as to prevent the die 5 from being damaged due to collision with equipment, see fig. 3, which is an embodiment of the guide inclined surfaces 63a of the front wall fence 53.

Further, the rack 1 is provided with a stock area 14 for storing a plurality of mold arrays 51, the stock area 14 is arranged at the front side of the lifting mechanism, so that the forklift plate 8 enters the stock area 14 to remove the mold arrays 51, the stacker further comprises a material pushing plate 77, the material pushing plate 77 is movably arranged below the conveyor belt 3 and has a moving stroke along the left-right direction, and the material pushing plate 77 is used for pushing the mold arrays 51 from the blanking station 13 to the stock area 14.

In this embodiment, in order to further improve the stacking efficiency and the stacking number, the rack 1 is further provided with the material storage area 14, so that more mold queues 51 are stored in the material storage area, and further the forklift plates 8 can be completely removed at a time, specifically, when the stacking plates 61 descend to the lowest position, the material storage area 14 is pushed by the material pushing plate 77, that is, the forklift plates 8, so that the efficiency is high, and meanwhile, the neatness of the plurality of mold queues 51 can be ensured.

Further, referring to fig. 1, the rack 1 is further provided with two guiding position-limiting plates 4 located in the material storage area 14, the two guiding position-limiting plates 4 are respectively disposed at the left and right sides of the material storage area 14 and have a front-back moving stroke, and the two guiding position-limiting plates 4 are used for moving towards the mold array 51 to respectively abut against the front and back ends of the mold array 51 when the material pushing plate 77 pushes the mold array 51 to the material storage area 14.

When the die arrays 51 are stacked, the offset is still possible, and in order to arrange the offset, two guide limit plates 4 are arranged and distributed on the left side and the right side of the material storage area 14, the two guide limit plates 4 move towards each other, the die arrays 51 are arranged in a flapping mode, and the neatness of stacking is kept.

Further, please refer to fig. 6, the rack 1 is further provided with two forklift plate guide blocks 9, the two forklift plate guide blocks 9 are respectively disposed at the front and rear sides of the material storage area 14 to jointly limit the front and rear sides of the forklift plate 8, wherein the side wall of each forklift plate guide block 9 abutting against the forklift plate 8 is disposed in an arc shape to form a guide arc 91 inclined towards the right of the rack 1, which facilitates the alignment of the forklift plate 8, so that a worker can quickly and accurately extend the forklift plate 8 into the material storage area 14, and further improves the working efficiency.

Further, referring to fig. 6, the frame 1 is further provided with a forklift plate baffle 81, and the forklift plate baffle 81 is disposed at the right side of the stacking area to limit the forklift plate 8 and prevent the forklift plate from colliding with the equipment.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all modifications and equivalents of the present invention, which are made by the contents of the present specification and the accompanying drawings, or directly/indirectly applied to other related technical fields, are included in the scope of the present invention.