阅读说明：本技术 一种装盘机及其装盘方法 (Tray loading machine and tray loading method thereof ) 是由 陈华明 李俊 于 2019-10-21 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了一种装盘机,包括带挡瓶闸板的托盘、进盘输送机构、出盘输送机构、托盘旋转平台、输瓶机构、瓶体抓取机构以及护瓶件,进盘输送机构和出盘输送机构均与托盘旋转平台对接。本发明进一步公开了一种装盘方法,包括步骤：装盘准备：托盘旋转平台带动托盘旋转至倾斜状态,挡瓶闸板打开,护瓶件移动至托盘位置较高的一侧；瓶体抓取机构抓取输瓶机构上的瓶体转移至托盘位置较高的一侧并将瓶体旋转至与托盘垂直；装盘：瓶体抓取机构将瓶体放于托盘内,直至托盘装满,护瓶件退出托盘；出盘：挡瓶闸板关闭,然后托盘旋转平台带动托盘旋转至水平状态,出盘输送机构将托盘从托盘旋转平台输出。本发明具有结构简单、可靠,不易倒瓶等优点。(The invention discloses a tray loader which comprises a tray with a bottle blocking flashboard, a tray feeding conveying mechanism, a tray discharging conveying mechanism, a tray rotating platform, a bottle conveying mechanism, a bottle grabbing mechanism and a bottle protecting piece, wherein the tray feeding conveying mechanism and the tray discharging conveying mechanism are in butt joint with the tray rotating platform. The invention further discloses a disc loading method, which comprises the following steps: preparing a tray: the tray rotating platform drives the tray to rotate to an inclined state, the bottle blocking flashboard is opened, and the bottle protecting piece moves to the higher side of the tray; the bottle body grabbing mechanism grabs the bottle bodies on the bottle conveying mechanism and transfers the bottle bodies to the higher side of the tray and rotates the bottle bodies to be vertical to the tray; loading a plate: the bottle body grabbing mechanism is used for placing the bottle bodies in the tray until the tray is full, and the bottle protecting piece is withdrawn from the tray; discharging: and the bottle blocking flashboard is closed, then the tray rotating platform drives the tray to rotate to a horizontal state, and the tray is output from the tray rotating platform by the tray discharging and conveying mechanism. The invention has the advantages of simple and reliable structure, difficult bottle falling and the like.)

1. The utility model provides a tray loader which characterized in that: the bottle grabbing mechanism comprises a tray (1) with a bottle blocking flashboard (11), a tray feeding conveying mechanism (2), a tray discharging conveying mechanism (3), a tray rotating platform (4), a bottle conveying mechanism (5), a bottle grabbing mechanism (6) and a bottle protecting piece (7) capable of moving along the tray rotating platform (4) after rotation, wherein the tray feeding conveying mechanism (2) and the tray discharging conveying mechanism (3) are all in butt joint with the tray rotating platform (4).

2. The tray loader of claim 1, characterized in that: the bottle protecting piece (7) is of a telescopic structure and is obliquely arranged below the tray rotating platform (4).

3. The tray loader of claim 1, characterized in that: bottle snatchs mechanism (6) and includes vacuum chuck (61), is used for driving flexible driving piece (62) of vacuum chuck (61), is used for driving rotatory driving piece (63) of vacuum chuck (61) and is used for driving vacuum chuck (61) at defeated bottle mechanism (5) and tray rotary platform (4) between translation driving piece (64) reciprocating motion.

4. A tray loader as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that: the vacuum chuck (61) is arranged on the telescopic driving piece (62), the telescopic driving piece (62) is arranged on the rotary driving piece (63), and the rotary driving piece (63) is arranged on the translation driving piece (64).

5. A disc loader as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that: and a fixed disc opening mechanism (8) used for fixing the tray (1) and opening the bottle blocking flashboard (11) is arranged on the tray rotating platform (4).

6. The tray loader of claim 5, characterized in that: tray (1) is articulated with a linking arm (12), keep off bottle flashboard (11) and locate on linking arm (12), fixed disk opening brake mechanism (8) include first lift driving piece (81) and link to each other connecting piece (82) with first lift driving piece (81), connecting piece (82) both ends are equipped with and are used for compressing tightly first briquetting (83) of tray (1), two be equipped with between first briquetting (83) and be used for driving linking arm (12) are around articulated rotatory second briquetting of locating.

7. A disc loader as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that: tray rotating platform (4) are close to one side of play set conveying mechanism (3) is equipped with transition conveying mechanism (41), transition conveying mechanism (41) are located on a second lifting drive spare (42), it locates to advance set conveying mechanism (2) play set conveying mechanism (3) below.

8. The tray loader of claim 7, characterized in that: the disc feeding conveying mechanism (2), the disc discharging conveying mechanism (3) and the transition conveying mechanism (41) are all roller conveying mechanisms.

9. A tray loading method of a tray loader according to any one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that: the method comprises the following steps:

a. preparing a tray: the tray feeding conveying mechanism (2) conveys the tray (1) to the tray rotating platform (4), the tray rotating platform (4) drives the tray (1) to rotate to an inclined state, the bottle blocking flashboard (11) is opened, and then the bottle protecting piece (7) moves to the side, higher than the tray (1); the bottle body grabbing mechanism (6) grabs the bottle bodies on the bottle conveying mechanism (5) and transfers the bottle bodies to the higher side of the tray (1) and rotates the bottle bodies to be vertical to the tray (1);

b. loading a plate: the bottle body grabbing mechanism (6) puts the bottle bodies into the tray (1), then the bottle body grabbing mechanism (6) grabs and puts the bottles again, when one row of bottle bodies are put into the tray, the bottle protecting part (7) moves the distance of one row of bottle bodies to the lower side of the tray (1) until the tray (1) is full, and the bottle protecting part (7) is withdrawn from the tray (1);

c. discharging: the bottle blocking flashboard (11) is closed, then the tray rotating platform (4) drives the tray (1) to rotate to a horizontal state, and the tray discharging and conveying mechanism (3) outputs the tray (1) from the tray rotating platform (4).

10. A method of loading a disc as claimed in claim 9, wherein: in the steps a and b, the bottle body grabbing mechanism (6) horizontally moves the bottle body to the side with the higher position of the tray (1) and then rotates the bottle body to be vertical to the tray (1).

Technical Field

The invention relates to the packaging technology of food and medicine, in particular to a tray filling machine and a tray filling method thereof.

Background

Plastic ampoule bottle etc. need tray filling before the filling is accomplished the back sterilization to carry out the batchization and disinfect, filling line efficiency is higher, and artifical tray filling inefficiency is difficult to satisfy the requirement, and intensity of labour is big. The existing turntable machine mostly adopts the mechanical arm to grab the bottle and directly place the bottle on the tray, the bottle falling is easy to occur when the bottle is separated from the mechanical arm, the bottle in the tray is easy to fall due to the large gap when the bottle is transferred to the subsequent station, and the positions of the mechanical arm for placing the bottle at each time are different, so that the structure and the control process of the mechanical arm are very complicated.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to overcome the defects of the prior art and provide the tray filler which is simple and reliable in structure and is not easy to pour bottles.

The invention further provides a tray loading method of the tray loader.

In order to solve the technical problems, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

the tray loader comprises a tray with a bottle blocking flashboard, a tray feeding conveying mechanism, a tray discharging conveying mechanism, a tray rotating platform, a bottle conveying mechanism, a bottle grabbing mechanism and a bottle protecting piece capable of moving along the rotated tray rotating platform, wherein the tray feeding conveying mechanism and the tray discharging conveying mechanism are in butt joint with the tray rotating platform.

As a further improvement of the above technical solution: the bottle protecting piece is of a telescopic structure and is obliquely arranged below the tray rotating platform.

As a further improvement of the above technical solution: the bottle body grabbing mechanism comprises a vacuum chuck, a telescopic driving piece used for driving the vacuum chuck to stretch, a rotary driving piece used for driving the vacuum chuck to rotate and a translation driving piece used for driving the vacuum chuck to reciprocate between the bottle conveying mechanism and the tray rotating platform.

As a further improvement of the above technical solution: the vacuum chuck is arranged on the telescopic driving piece, the telescopic driving piece is arranged on the rotary driving piece, and the rotary driving piece is arranged on the translation driving piece.

As a further improvement of the above technical solution: and a fixed disc opening mechanism used for fixing the tray and opening the bottle blocking flashboard is arranged on the tray rotating platform.

As a further improvement of the above technical solution: the tray is articulated with a linking arm, it locates to keep off the bottle flashboard on the linking arm, the connecting piece that fixed disk separating brake mechanism includes first lift driving piece and links to each other with first lift driving piece, the connecting piece both ends are equipped with and are used for compressing tightly the first briquetting of tray, two be equipped with between the first briquetting and be used for driving the linking arm is around articulated rotatory second briquetting of department.

As a further improvement of the above technical solution: one side of the tray rotating platform, which is close to the disc discharging conveying mechanism, is provided with a transition conveying mechanism, the transition conveying mechanism is arranged on a second lifting driving piece, and the disc feeding conveying mechanism is arranged below the disc discharging conveying mechanism.

As a further improvement of the above technical solution: the tray feeding conveying mechanism, the tray discharging conveying mechanism and the transition conveying mechanism are all roller conveying mechanisms.

A tray loading method of the tray loader comprises the following steps:

a. preparing a tray: the tray feeding conveying mechanism conveys the tray to the tray rotating platform, the tray rotating platform drives the tray to rotate to an inclined state, the bottle blocking flashboard is opened, and then the bottle protecting piece moves to the side with the higher position of the tray; the bottle body grabbing mechanism grabs the bottle bodies on the bottle conveying mechanism and transfers the bottle bodies to the higher side of the tray and rotates the bottle bodies to be vertical to the tray;

b. loading a plate: the bottle body grabbing mechanism puts the bottle bodies into the tray, then the bottle body grabbing mechanism grabs the bottles again and puts the bottles, when one row of bottle bodies are put into the tray, the bottle protecting piece moves the distance of one row of bottle bodies to the lower side of the tray until the tray is full, and the bottle protecting piece is withdrawn from the tray;

c. discharging: and the bottle blocking flashboard is closed, then the tray rotating platform drives the tray to rotate to a horizontal state, and the tray is output from the tray rotating platform by the tray discharging and conveying mechanism.

As a further improvement of the above technical solution: in the steps a and b, the bottle body grabbing mechanism horizontally moves the bottle body to the side with the higher position of the tray and then rotates the bottle body to be vertical to the tray.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that: the invention discloses a tray loader, which comprises a tray rotating platform and a bottle protecting piece capable of moving along the rotated tray rotating platform, wherein the tray rotating platform is used for driving a tray to rotate to an inclined state, the bottle protecting piece is used for protecting bottles during tray loading in the inclined state, the tray is rotated to the inclined state and matched with the bottle protecting piece, the bottles are not easy to fall down after being separated from a grabbing mechanism, gaps among all rows of bottles can be eliminated under the action of gravity, the bottle falling is avoided, meanwhile, the problem of height space can be solved, the reliability is higher compared with that of a conventional tray loader, the bottle protecting piece can retreat by the distance of one row of bottles after each row of bottles is loaded, the bottle placing positions of the grabbing mechanism are kept consistent each time, and the structure and the movement process of the grabbing mechanism are simpler.

The tray loading method disclosed by the invention has high efficiency, the tray is rotated to an inclined state and then loaded, the gap between each row of bottles can be eliminated, the bottle falling is avoided, the problem of height space is solved, the bottle protecting piece retreats by the distance of one row of bottles after each row of bottles are loaded, the bottle placing positions of the grabbing mechanism are kept consistent each time, and the action of the grabbing mechanism is simpler.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a front view schematically showing the structure of the disk loader of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic top view of the tray loader of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a schematic sectional view of the bottle grasping mechanism according to the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a top view of fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a schematic view of the structure of the tray in the present invention.

Fig. 6 is a process diagram of an embodiment of the method of loading a disc of the present invention.

The reference numerals in the figures denote: 1. a tray; 11. a bottle blocking gate plate; 12. a connecting arm; 2. a tray feeding and conveying mechanism; 3. a disc discharging conveying mechanism; 4. a tray rotating platform; 41. a transition conveying mechanism; 42. a second lifting drive member; 5. a bottle conveying mechanism; 6. a bottle body grabbing mechanism; 61. a vacuum chuck; 62. a telescopic driving member; 63. a rotary drive member; 64. a translation drive; 7. a bottle protecting member; 8. a fixed disc opening mechanism; 81. a first lifting drive member; 82. a connecting member; 83. a first pressing block.

Detailed Description

The invention is described in further detail below with reference to the figures and specific examples of the specification.

Fig. 1 to 5 show an embodiment of a tray loader according to the present invention, which includes a tray 1 with a bottle blocking shutter 11, a tray feeding and conveying mechanism 2, a tray discharging and conveying mechanism 3, a tray rotating platform 4, a bottle conveying mechanism 5, a bottle grasping mechanism 6, and a bottle protecting member 7 movable along the rotated tray rotating platform 4, wherein both the tray feeding and conveying mechanisms 2 and 3 are butted against the tray rotating platform 4.

This tray filler, including tray rotary platform 4 and the bottle spare 7 that protects that can follow tray rotary platform 4 after the rotation and remove, tray rotary platform 4 is used for driving tray 1 and rotates to the tilt state, protect the bottle when bottle spare 7 is used for the sabot under the tilt state, owing to adopt and rotate to the tilt state sabot, cooperation bottle spare 7 is protected, the bottle is difficult for falling the bottle after with snatching mechanism 6 separation, and can eliminate the clearance between each row of bottle under the action of gravity, be favorable to avoiding falling the bottle, can solve the high space problem simultaneously, it is higher to compare conventional tray filler reliability, it can retreat the distance of a row of bottle to protect bottle spare 7 after every row of bottle of packing into, make the position that snatchs mechanism 6 and put the bottle at every turn keeps unanimous, the structure and the motion process of snatching mechanism 6 are simpler.

In the present embodiment, the bottle protector 7 is of a telescopic structure (e.g., a cylinder, a screw nut pair, etc.) and is disposed obliquely below the tray rotating platform 4. Protect bottle 7 and adopt extending structure to realize removing and protect the bottle to the slope arranges in the below of tray rotary platform 4, and the structure is simpler, compact, and occupation space is few, before the sabot, tray rotary platform 4 drives tray 1 rotatory to parallel with protecting bottle 7, then protects in bottle 7 stretches into tray 1, the sabot in-process, every one row of bottle of packing into, then protects the distance that bottle 7 withdraws one row of bottle. In other embodiments, the bottle protecting plate can be adopted and the translation mechanism can be arranged in a matched manner to realize bottle protection in the tray loading process, and the defect that the structure is complex and the occupied space of the equipment is large is caused.

Further, in this embodiment, the bottle gripping mechanism 6 includes a vacuum chuck 61, a telescopic driving member 62 (e.g., a cylinder, a screw nut pair, etc.) for driving the vacuum chuck 61 to extend and retract, a rotary driving member 63 (e.g., a motor shaft, a rotary cylinder, etc.) for driving the vacuum chuck 61 to rotate, and a translational driving member 64 (e.g., a cylinder, a slide rail, etc.) for driving the vacuum chuck 61 to reciprocate between the bottle conveying mechanism 5 and the tray rotating platform 4. This bottle snatchs mechanism 6 and snatchs or release the bottle through vacuum chuck 61, flexible driving piece 62 is used for driving vacuum chuck 61 oscilaltion and business turn over tray 1, rotatory driving piece 63 is used for driving the bottle on the vacuum chuck 61 rotatory to perpendicular with tray 1 by the horizontality, be convenient for put the bottle, translation driving piece 64 is used for driving vacuum chuck 61 at defeated bottle mechanism 5 and tray rotary platform 4 between reciprocating motion, thereby realize shifting the bottle on defeated bottle mechanism 5 to tray 1 in, compare the manipulator, the structure is simpler, the cost is lower, the action is reliable.

As a preferred technical solution, in this embodiment, the vacuum chuck 61 is disposed on the telescopic driving member 62, the telescopic driving member 62 is disposed on the rotary driving member 63, and the rotary driving member 63 is disposed on the translational driving member 64, that is, the telescopic driving member 62 independently drives the vacuum chuck 61 to ascend and descend and to enter and exit the tray 1, the rotary driving member 63 drives the vacuum chuck 61 and the telescopic driving member 62 to integrally rotate, and the translational driving member 64 drives the vacuum chuck 61, the telescopic driving member 62 and the rotary driving member 63 to integrally translate. Of course, in other embodiments, the connection relationship between the driving members may be adjusted, and the required action of the vacuum chuck 61 may be achieved.

Further, in the present embodiment, the tray rotating platform 4 is provided with a fixed tray opening mechanism 8 for fixing the tray 1 and opening the bottle stopper 11. Can be fixed in tray 1 on tray rotary platform 4 through setting up fixed disk switching-off mechanism 8 and be convenient for drive tray 1 rotatory to will keep off bottle flashboard 11 and open and be convenient for put the bottle, fixed disk switching-off integration can practice thrift the space, retrench the mechanism. Of course, in other embodiments, the tray 1 may have the opening and closing member of the bottle stopper 11.

Furthermore, in the present embodiment, the tray 1 is hinged to a connecting arm 12, the bottle-blocking shutter 11 is disposed on the connecting arm 12, the fixed-tray opening mechanism 8 includes a first lifting driving member 81 (such as an air cylinder, a screw-nut pair, etc.) and a connecting member 82 connected to the first lifting driving member 81, first pressing blocks 83 for pressing the tray 1 are disposed at two ends of the connecting member 82, and a second pressing block (not shown) for driving the connecting arm 12 to rotate around the hinged portion is disposed between the two first pressing blocks 83. After the tray 1 is conveyed to the tray rotary platform 4, the first lifting driving piece 81 drives the connecting piece 82, the first pressing pieces 83 at the second pressing piece and the two ends descend, so that the tray 1 is pressed on the tray rotary platform 4, the second pressing pieces enable the connecting arm 12 to rotate around the hinged part when pressed downwards, the bottle blocking gate plate 11 is driven to be opened, after the tray is installed, the first lifting driving piece 81 drives the connecting piece 82, the first pressing pieces 83 at the second pressing pieces and the two ends ascend, the bottle blocking gate plate 11 is closed, the tray 1 can be output from the tray rotary platform 4, and the structure is simple and reliable.

Further, in this embodiment, a transition conveying mechanism 41 is disposed on a side of the tray rotating platform 4 close to the tray discharging conveying mechanism 3, the transition conveying mechanism 41 is disposed on a second lifting driving member 42 (e.g. an air cylinder, a screw nut pair, etc.), and the tray feeding conveying mechanism 2 is disposed below the tray discharging conveying mechanism 3. Preferably, the tray feeding mechanism 2, the tray discharging mechanism 3, and the transit conveying mechanism 41 may be roller conveying mechanisms, for example. When advancing the dish, second lift driving piece 42 drives transition conveying mechanism 41 and descends and advance 2 parallel and level of a set conveying mechanism, tray 1 shifts to on transition conveying mechanism 41, then second lift driving piece 42 drives transition conveying mechanism 41 and rises to 4 parallel and level with tray rotary platform, transition conveying mechanism 41 starts to shift tray 1 to on tray rotary platform 4, accomplish the sabot back, transition conveying mechanism 41 starts to shift tray 1 on the tray rotary platform 4 to on going out a set conveying mechanism 3, the transformation of high level and low level is realized through the lift mode to the business turn over dish, moreover, the steam generator is compact in structure, and the occupied space is few.

Fig. 6 shows an embodiment of the tray loading method of the tray loader of the present invention, and the tray loading method of the tray loader of the present embodiment includes the following steps:

a. preparing a tray: the tray feeding and conveying mechanism 2 conveys the tray 1 to the tray rotating platform 4, the tray rotating platform 4 drives the tray 1 to rotate to an inclined state, the bottle blocking flashboard 11 is opened, and then the bottle protecting piece 7 moves to the higher side of the tray 1; the bottle body grabbing mechanism 6 grabs the bottle bodies on the bottle conveying mechanism 5 and transfers the bottle bodies to the higher side of the tray 1 and rotates the bottle bodies to be vertical to the tray 1; it should be noted that the positioning of the tray 1 and the bottle protecting member 7 and the positioning of the bottle grasping mechanism 6 for grasping the bottles are preferably performed at the same time to improve the efficiency, and certainly may be performed sequentially (for example, the tray 1 starts to output after being filled, and the bottle grasping mechanism 6 can grasp the next row of bottles at this time, or the bottle grasping mechanism 6 grasps the bottles after the tray 1 is positioned first), without any mandatory requirement.

b. Loading a plate: the bottle body grabbing mechanism 6 puts the bottle bodies into the tray 1, then the bottle body grabbing mechanism 6 grabs and puts the bottles again, when one row of bottle bodies are put in, the bottle protecting part 7 moves to the lower side of the tray 1 by the distance of one row of bottle bodies until the tray 1 is full, and the bottle protecting part 7 exits from the tray 1;

c. discharging: the bottle blocking gate plate 11 is closed, then the tray rotating platform 4 drives the tray 1 to rotate to a horizontal state, and the tray discharging conveying mechanism 3 outputs the tray 1 from the tray rotating platform 4.

Preferably, in this embodiment, in steps a and b, the bottle gripping mechanism 6 moves the bottle horizontally to the higher side of the tray 1 and then rotates the bottle to be perpendicular to the tray 1. The bottle body is kept in a horizontal state in the translation process, and the bottle body rotates after being moved in place, so that the stability in the translation process is kept, and the best rotation angle can be found conveniently during equipment debugging.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments, it is not intended to be limited thereto. Those skilled in the art can make numerous possible variations and modifications to the present invention, or modify equivalent embodiments to equivalent variations, without departing from the scope of the invention, using the teachings disclosed above. Therefore, any simple modification, equivalent change and modification made to the above embodiments according to the technical spirit of the present invention should fall within the protection scope of the technical scheme of the present invention, unless the technical spirit of the present invention departs from the content of the technical scheme of the present invention.