阅读说明：本技术 一种自动装箱系统及其操作方法 (Automatic boxing system and operation method thereof ) 是由 张毓强 吴良龙 钱新江 张溪 钱根良 姜波 于 2021-08-18 设计创作，主要内容包括：本申请公开了一种自动装箱系统,包括机架、输送组件和装箱组件；输送组件包括设置在机架上的导轨、输送架,输送架可滑动地设置在导轨上,用于将空箱输送至第一位置,由装箱组件将产品装入空箱,并将装入产品的载物箱输送至第二位置；装箱组件位于机架的旁侧,并靠近第一位置,用于将产品装入处于第一位置的空箱内。本申请还公开了一种自动装箱系统的操作方法。本申请的自动装箱系统结构紧凑,可实现自动装箱过程,使用方便简单,有效降低了人工劳动强度,并提高了生产效益。(The application discloses an automatic boxing system which comprises a rack, a conveying assembly and a boxing assembly; the conveying assembly comprises a guide rail and a conveying frame which are arranged on the rack, the conveying frame is slidably arranged on the guide rail and is used for conveying the empty boxes to a first position, loading the products into the empty boxes by the box loading assembly and conveying the carrying boxes loaded with the products to a second position; the bin assembly is located alongside the frame and adjacent the first location for loading the product into the empty bin at the first location. The application also discloses an operation method of the automatic boxing system. The automatic boxing system is compact in structure, capable of achieving an automatic boxing process, convenient and simple to use, capable of effectively reducing labor intensity of workers and capable of improving production benefits.)

1. An automatic boxing system is characterized by comprising a rack, a conveying assembly and a boxing assembly;

the conveying assembly comprises a guide rail and a conveying frame which are arranged on the rack, the conveying frame is slidably arranged on the guide rail and is used for conveying empty boxes to a first position, loading the products into the empty boxes by the boxing assembly and conveying the loading boxes loaded with the products to a second position;

the boxing assembly is located beside the rack and close to the first position and used for loading products into the empty boxes located at the first position.

2. The automated boxing system of claim 1, further comprising a positioning assembly disposed on said frame adjacent to said first position for positioning and securing said empty box in said first position.

3. The automatic boxing system of claim 2, wherein the positioning assembly comprises a movable plate, at least one fixed suction cup and a positioning sensor, the movable plate is arranged on the frame and can perform a turning motion of 0 to 90 ° in a vertical direction, the positioning sensor is arranged adjacent to the first position, and the at least one fixed suction cup is arranged on a first side of the conveying assembly and is used for fixing the empty boxes.

4. The automated tote loading system of claim 1 further comprising a flap assembly disposed on said rack and spaced from said tote assembly for flap operation of said tote.

5. The automatic boxing system of claim 4, wherein the folding cover assembly comprises a folding cover sucker and a folding cover push rod, the folding cover sucker comprises an upper sucker and a lower sucker which are oppositely arranged, and the folding cover push rod comprises an upper push rod, a right push rod, a lower push rod and a left push rod which are sequentially arranged in a ring shape.

6. The automatic carton loading system according to claim 1, further comprising a movable support, wherein the movable support is arranged on the frame, the movable support is provided with an adjusting screw rod and an adjusting motor, the adjusting screw rod is connected with the movable support through an adjusting shaft sleeve, and the adjusting motor is connected with the adjusting screw rod to drive the movable support to adjust the width of the movable support along the direction perpendicular to the carton conveying direction.

7. The automated boxing system of claim 6, wherein the movable support is provided with a box backstop baffle positioned downstream of the boxing assembly in the conveying direction.

8. The automated binning system of claim 1, wherein the binning assembly comprises a binning robot including a base, a robot body disposed on the base, and an access bar disposed on the robot body, and a vision camera and a binning sensor disposed on the robot body, both the vision camera and the binning sensor disposed on the robot body and adjacent the access bar, wherein the vision camera is located a predetermined distance above the binning sensor.

9. The automated tote loading system of claim 1, further comprising a transfer assembly disposed alongside the rack and proximate the second location, the transfer assembly including a transfer robot that grasps a packaged tote in the second location and places the tote on a transfer carriage, and a transfer carriage that transports the packaged tote to a third location.

10. The automated binning system of any of claims 1-9, further comprising a control system including a robotic controller in electrically controlled connection with a transfer robot and a binning robot, a visual inspection structure controller in electrically controlled connection with a visual camera, and a control module in electrically controlled connection with the robotic controller, the visual inspection structure controller, a binning sensor, and a positioning sensor, respectively.

11. A method of operating an automated boxing system, applied to the automated boxing system of any one of claims 1 to 10, comprising the steps of:

step S1, selecting the length and width specifications of the empty box;

step S2, conveying the empty box to a first position and fixing the empty box by using a fixed sucker;

step S3, pulling a plurality of box covers of the empty box open, and respectively fixing the box cover on the upper side and the box cover on the lower side of the empty box in an adsorption manner by using an upper sucking disc and a lower sucking disc;

step S4, controlling the boxing robot to act by the control system, identifying the product and inserting and taking the product through the fetching rod under the coordination of the visual camera and the boxing sensor;

step S5, the control system controls the boxing robot to act and controls the fetching rod to load the products into the empty boxes;

and step S6, after the product is loaded into the empty box, the control system controls the upper push rod, the right push rod, the lower push rod and the left push rod of the cover folding assembly to move, and the cover folding operation is carried out on the object carrying box to finish the box loading process.

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of rolled product production equipment, in particular to an automatic boxing system and an operation method thereof.

Background

The production of the glass fiber cloth is that the glass fiber yarn after drawing forming and winding is weaved to form a cloth roll with the width of 900 mm-1600 mm, the roll diameter of 190 mm-260 mm and the roll weight of 20 kg-100 kg, the application field of the glass fiber cloth is wider, and the glass fiber cloth mainly comprises the building bridge industry, the high-pressure oil tank oil pipe industry, the military industry and bulletproof industry, the boat and water transportation industry, the automobile and metal road transportation industry, the chemical industry and the electrical industry, etc.

In the production process of the glass fiber cloth, finished cloth rolls need to be packaged and then packaged and transported, and the conventional packaging mode at present mainly adopts a paper box packaging mode. The packaging process of the cloth roll is a very heavy process, and is usually completed manually, the cloth roll is firstly erected manually, then the paper box is sleeved from top to bottom, and then the paper box is stacked on the tray.

The whole packaging process is high in workload, a large amount of human resources are consumed, the labor intensity of workers is high, and when the boxing operation is carried out on products with the weight of more than 40kg, a plurality of people are required to cooperate to complete the boxing operation. Moreover, in the long-term work of the casing, the labor intensity of workers is high due to high-intensity manual labor, and meanwhile, due to manual operation, working errors are inevitable in the process, the working efficiency is low, and the improvement of the automation degree and the popularization and application of industrial production are not facilitated.

Disclosure of Invention

The present application aims to solve the above-described problems. It is an object of the present application to provide an automatic boxing system and method of operation thereof that solves any of the above problems.

In order to solve the above technical problem, a first aspect of the present application provides an automatic boxing system, including a rack, a conveying assembly and a boxing assembly;

the conveying assembly comprises a guide rail and a conveying frame which are arranged on the rack, the conveying frame is slidably arranged on the guide rail and is used for conveying empty boxes to a first position, loading the products into the empty boxes by the boxing assembly and conveying the loading boxes loaded with the products to a second position;

the boxing assembly is located beside the rack and close to the first position and used for loading products into the empty boxes located at the first position.

The empty box fixing device comprises a rack, and is characterized by further comprising a positioning assembly, wherein the positioning assembly is arranged on the rack, is close to the first position, and is used for positioning and fixing the empty box at the first position.

The positioning assembly comprises a movable plate, at least one fixed sucker and a positioning sensor, the fixed sucker and the positioning sensor are arranged on the movable plate, the movable plate is arranged on the rack and can perform 0-90-degree turnover motion along the vertical direction, the positioning sensor is close to the first position, and the at least one fixed sucker is located on the first side of the conveying assembly and used for fixing the empty box.

Wherein, still cover the subassembly including rolling over, roll over and cover the subassembly and establish in the frame, and with the vanning subassembly interval sets up, be used for right it covers the operation to roll over to carry the thing case, wherein, roll over to cover the subassembly including roll over and cover the sucking disc and roll over a push rod, roll over and cover the sucking disc including relative last sucking disc and the lower sucking disc that sets up, roll over and cover the push rod including last push rod, right push rod, lower push rod and the left push rod that is the annular and arranges in proper order.

The carton conveying device is characterized by further comprising a movable support, the movable support is arranged on the rack, an adjusting screw rod and an adjusting motor are arranged on the movable support, the adjusting screw rod is connected with the movable support through an adjusting shaft sleeve, and the adjusting motor is connected with the adjusting screw rod so as to drive the movable support to adjust the width of the movable support along the direction perpendicular to the carton conveying direction.

The movable support is provided with a box body stopping baffle plate, and the box body stopping baffle plate is positioned at the downstream of the boxing assembly along the conveying direction.

Wherein, the vanning subassembly includes the vanning robot and establishes visual camera and vanning inductor on the vanning robot, the vanning robot includes the base, establishes robot on the base and establishes get the thing pole on the robot, the visual camera with the vanning inductor is all established robot is last and is close to get the thing pole setting, wherein, the visual camera is located vanning inductor top predetermined distance department.

Wherein, still include the transportation subassembly, the transportation subassembly is established the side of frame, and be close to the second position, the transportation subassembly is including transporting the robot and transporting the carriage, it is in to transport the robot snatch the thing case and place after the encapsulation of second position on transporting the carriage, it will to transport the carriage the thing case after the encapsulation is carried to the third position.

Wherein, still include control system, control system includes robot controller, visual detection structure controller and control module, robot controller is connected with the automatically controlled of transfer robot and vanning robot, visual detection structure controller is connected with the automatically controlled of vision camera, control module respectively with robot controller visual detection structure controller, vanning inductor and location inductor are automatically controlled to be connected.

A second aspect of the present application provides an operation method of an automatic boxing system, which is applied to the automatic boxing system, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

step S1, selecting the length and width specifications of the empty box;

step S2, conveying the empty box to a first position and fixing the empty box by using a fixed sucker;

step S3, pulling a plurality of box covers of the empty box open, and respectively fixing the box cover on the upper side and the box cover on the lower side of the empty box in an adsorption manner by using an upper sucking disc and a lower sucking disc;

step S4, controlling the boxing robot to act by the control system, identifying the product and inserting and taking the product through the fetching rod under the coordination of the visual camera and the boxing sensor;

step S5, the control system controls the boxing robot to act and controls the fetching rod to load the products into the empty boxes;

and step S6, after the product is loaded into the empty box, the control system controls the upper push rod, the right push rod, the lower push rod and the left push rod of the cover folding assembly to move, and the cover folding operation is carried out on the object carrying box to finish the box loading process.

Compared with the prior art, the automatic boxing system of this application has following beneficial effect:

through set up conveying assembly and vanning subassembly in the frame, accomplish the vanning process to the product, whole vanning system compact structure can realize automatic vanning process, and convenient to use is simple, has effectively reduced artifical intensity of labour to production efficiency has been improved.

Other characteristic features and advantages of the present application will become apparent from the following description of exemplary embodiments, which is to be read in connection with the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of the specification, illustrate embodiments of the application and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the application. In the drawings, like reference numerals are used to indicate like elements. The drawings in the following description are directed to some, but not all embodiments of the application. For a person skilled in the art, other figures can be derived from these figures without inventive effort.

Fig. 1 schematically shows a structural view of the automatic boxing system of the present application.

Fig. 2 schematically shows a structural view of a movable stand of the automatic boxing system of the present application.

Fig. 3 schematically illustrates a structural view of a flap assembly of the automated case filling system of the present application.

FIG. 4 schematically illustrates a structural view of a positioning assembly of the automated crate system of the present application.

Fig. 5 schematically illustrates a structural view of a boxing assembly of the automatic boxing system of the present application.

FIG. 6 schematically illustrates a flow chart of a method of operation of the automated case filling system of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present application clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present application, but not all 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 application. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be arbitrarily combined with each other without conflict.

The automatic vanning system of this application through set up conveying assembly and vanning subassembly in the frame, accomplishes the vanning process of treating the vanning product, and whole vanning system compact structure can realize automatic vanning process, and convenient to use is simple, has effectively reduced artifical intensity of labour to production efficiency has been improved.

The automated boxing system provided in accordance with the present application is described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 schematically shows a structural view of the automatic boxing system of the present application. Fig. 2 schematically shows a structural view of a movable stand of the automatic boxing system of the present application. Fig. 3 schematically illustrates a structural view of a flap assembly of the automated case filling system of the present application. FIG. 4 schematically illustrates a structural view of a positioning assembly of the automated crate system of the present application. Fig. 5 schematically illustrates a structural view of a boxing assembly of the automatic boxing system of the present application.

According to the present exemplary embodiment, as shown in fig. 1 to 5, the present exemplary embodiment provides an automatic boxing system including a frame 1, a conveying assembly 2, and a boxing assembly 4. The product 100 in the present application includes, but is not limited to, roll products; the empty containers 10 in this application include, but are not limited to, cartons.

Illustratively, as shown in fig. 1, the frame 1 serves as a primary support member of an automated packaging system for providing support to the conveyor assemblies 2 disposed thereon. In this embodiment, the frame 1 may include a frame body 11 and a guardrail 12 disposed on the frame body 11, wherein the frame body 11 may be a truss structure made of steel, so that the frame 1 has good structural strength and safety.

Illustratively, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the conveying assembly 2 is disposed on the frame 1, and is configured to convey the empty box 10 to a first position along a conveying direction of the empty box, and to convey the folded carrier box to a second position, that is, the conveying assembly can perform a linear reciprocating motion on the frame 1 to convey the empty box to the first position and convey the carrier box filled with the product to the second position. Thereby reducing the labor intensity of workers and improving the automation degree and the safety factor in the use process. The moving position of the conveyor unit 2 is not limited to the position between the first position and the second position, and may be a position other than the first position and the second position in the empty box conveying direction.

It should be noted that the empty box may be manually placed at the first position, which is the position to be cased, or may be placed by other mechanical structures, such as a manipulator. The placing mode of the empty box is not limited, and the empty box can be placed in any mode as long as the normal work of the boxing system can be met.

In the present embodiment, the conveying assembly 2 includes a guide rail 21 and a conveying frame 22, the guide rail 21 is mounted on the frame 1, and the conveying frame 22 is slidably disposed on the guide rail 21. Wherein, the conveying frame 22 can be driven by a conveying motor arranged on the frame 1 to do linear reciprocating motion along the guide rail 21. The empty box 10 can be conveyed to the first position by the conveying frame 22, after the empty box 10 is filled with products and the cover folding operation is completed, the carrying box is conveyed to the second position, and then the conveying frame 22 can drive the next empty box 10 to enter the first position again. Thereby effectively reducing the labor intensity of workers and reducing the production cost.

Illustratively, as shown in fig. 1 and 5, the bin assembly 4 is disposed alongside the frame and adjacent the first location for loading products into the empty bins 10 in the first location. In this embodiment, the boxing assembly 4 includes a boxing robot 41, and a vision camera 42 and a boxing sensor 43 which are arranged on the boxing robot 41, the boxing robot 41 includes a base 411, a robot body 412 arranged on the base, and an object-fetching rod 413 arranged on the robot body 412, and the vision camera 42 and the boxing sensor 43 are both arranged on the robot body 412 and adjacent to the object-fetching rod 413. Wherein, the fetching rod 413 is provided at an end of the robot body 412 for fetching a product. The boxing sensor 43 is used for detecting whether the product reaches a required position when the fetching rod 413 on the robot body 412 is grabbing the rolled product, and preventing the fetching rod 413 from being inserted into the product completely, for example, preventing the fetching rod 413 from being inserted into the central tube of the rolled product completely. When the product reaches the detection distance range of the boxing sensor 43, the boxing sensor 43 sends out a sensing signal and feeds the sensing signal back to the control system, and then the control system controls the boxing robot 41 to execute the next action.

The vision camera 42 is located at a predetermined distance above the boxing sensor 43, the vision camera 42 is used for detecting the position of a product to be boxed, and the matching boxing sensor 43 enables the fetching rod 413 to grab the specified position of the product, so that the boxing accuracy is improved. In some embodiments, the boxing sensor 43 is installed at the root of the fetching rod 413 of the robot body 412 in parallel with the vision camera 42. When the fetching rod 413 grabs the product, the distance from the sensing end of the boxing sensor 43 to the end where the product is grabbed ranges from 70 mm to 100mm, and the distance may be 90mm as an example; the distance from the front end of the vision camera 42 to the end of the product book where the product is gripped may range from 110 to 150mm, and may be 130mm for example. Through the arrangement of the two distances, the boxing robot 41 can be effectively prevented from colliding with other components of the automatic boxing system during boxing. For example, when the above-mentioned two distances are interchanged, that is, the installation positions of the boxing sensor 43 and the vision camera 42 are opposite, the vision camera 42 collides with a flap assembly or the like in the automatic boxing system when boxing occurs, and the boxing sensor 43 has a problem in that a product signal is not detected.

The automatic vanning system of this application is through setting up conveying component and vanning subassembly in the frame to can accomplish the vanning process of product fast, whole vanning system compact structure, convenient to use is simple, effectively reduces artifical intensity of labour, and improves production efficiency.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 1 and 4, the automated boxing system further includes a positioning assembly 3, the positioning assembly 3 being disposed on the rack 1 near the first position for positioning and fixing the empty box 10 at the first position.

In the embodiment, the positioning assembly 3 includes a movable plate 31, at least one fixed suction cup 33 disposed on the movable plate 31, and a positioning sensor 32 disposed on the frame 1, wherein the movable plate 31 is disposed on the frame 1 and can perform a tilting motion of 0-90 ° in a vertical direction. At least one fixed suction cup 33 is located on a first side of the conveyor assembly 2 for securing the empty container 10. Wherein, in some embodiments, the number of the fixed suction cups 33 is two, and the fixed suction cups are arranged on the movable plate 31 at intervals. The fixed suction cup 33 sucks one side surface of the flat empty box 10, and the side surface is changed from a horizontal state to a vertical state by being driven by the turning of the movable plate 31, so that the flat empty box 10 is expanded to a three-dimensional state. For example, taking a rectangular carton as an example, the initial state of the carton is a flat state, that is, two end faces and four side faces of the box body are all horizontal, after the fixed suction cup 33 sucks one of the side faces, the movable plate is turned over by 90 degrees to open the carton, the upper side face and the lower side face are horizontal, the left side face and the right side face are vertical, and the end covers of the two end faces are free.

It should be noted that the fixed suction cups 33 in this embodiment adjust the suction force of the suction cups through the first suction cup air pressure regulator 34, so as to achieve the suction positioning of the empty boxes 10 and the loosening operation of the cartons for boxing operation. The first suction cup air pressure regulator 34 may be supplied with air from the air compressor 9.

A position sensor 32 is disposed adjacent the first location for sensing the presence of an empty container 10 at the first location.

The movable plate in the positioning assembly drives the fixed sucker to rotate, so that the empty box in a flat state is expanded and fixed, the positioning sensor is matched, the accuracy of empty box conveying is improved, the manual operation of the carton is not needed in the process, automatic conveying of the carton is realized, the automatic expansion is realized, the accuracy of boxing and the efficiency of boxing are improved, and the production efficiency is improved.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 1 and 3, a flap assembly 5 is further included, and the flap assembly 5 is disposed on the frame 1 and spaced apart from the packing assembly 4 for performing a flap operation on the carrier box.

In the present embodiment, the flap assembly 5 includes a flap suction cup and a flap push rod, and the flap suction cup includes an upper suction cup 51 and a lower suction cup 52 which are oppositely disposed. When the empty box 10 is conveyed to the first position and is adsorbed to one side of the empty box 10 by the fixed sucker 33, the movable plate 31 drives the fixed sucker 33 to overturn to prop open the empty box 10, the cover of the upper side and the cover of the lower side of the empty box 10 are pulled open by the folding cover assembly 5 and are respectively sucked by the upper sucker 51 and the lower sucker 52, so that the product can enter the empty box 10 through the fetching rod 413.

The upper suction cup 51 and the lower suction cup 52 adjust the suction force of the suction cups through the second suction cup air pressure regulator 57, so that the box cover of the empty box 10 is sucked and positioned, and the loosening operation is performed after the loading of the product is completed. The second suction cup air pressure regulator 57 may be supplied with air from the air compressor 9.

In some embodiments, the cover folding assembly 5 further includes a left suction cup and a right suction cup, for example, when the cover of the box body is provided with the cover on the upper side, the cover on the lower side, the cover on the left side and the cover on the right side, the cover is respectively sucked by the upper suction cup, the lower suction cup, the left suction cup and the right suction cup, the cover is completely opened, and the product can be conveniently loaded into the empty box.

The folding cover push rod comprises an upper push rod 53, a right push rod 54, a lower push rod 55 and a left push rod 56 which are sequentially arranged in an annular shape. Wherein, according to the empty box 10 with different box packing requirements, the upper push rod 53 and the lower push rod 55 can be set to simultaneously act, and the right push rod 54 and the left push rod 56 can be set to simultaneously act or not simultaneously act; alternatively, the upper push rod 53 and the lower push rod 55 are simultaneously operated, and the right push rod 54 and the left push rod 56 are simultaneously operated, but there is a time difference between the operations of the upper push rod 53 and the left push rod 56. The upper push rod 53 pushes the cover on the upper side of the empty box 10, the lower push rod 55 pushes the cover on the lower side of the empty box 10, the left push rod 56 pushes the cover on the left side of the empty box 10, and the right push rod 54 pushes the cover on the right side of the empty box 10. The upper push rod 53, the right push rod 54, the lower push rod 55 and the left push rod 56 are matched with the upper suction cup 51 and the lower suction cup 52 to realize the cover folding action of the carton after the carton is packed, wherein the upper push rod 53, the right push rod 54, the lower push rod 55 and the left push rod 56 can adopt the expansion and contraction of the telescopic rods on the air cylinders to complete the respective push rod processes.

In some embodiments, the cover folding assemblies 5 may be provided in two sets, and are respectively located at two end sides of the empty box 10 on the conveying assembly 2, that is, two ends of the empty box 10 where the box cover is located are provided, when in use, the box cover at one end of the empty box 10 may be folded first, and after the product is loaded into the empty box 10, the box cover at the other end is folded.

Specifically, taking the empty case single side (the loading end of the non-rolled product) where the upper case cover and the lower case cover are provided as an example, the case cover folding principle of the empty case 10 is as follows: the upper and lower suction cups 51 and 52 suck the upper and lower covers of one end of the empty box 10 and pull them in opposite directions by a predetermined distance, which may be, but not limited to, 1-2cm, to prevent the left and right push rods 56 and 54 from colliding with each other when pushing the left and right covers of the empty box; then the left push rod 56 and the right push rod 54 push the left cover and the right cover of the end of the empty box towards the inner side direction of the empty box 10; then, the upper push rod 53 and the lower push rod 55 push the upper cover and the lower cover at the end of the empty box toward the inner side of the empty box, and at the same time, the upper suction cup 51 releases the suction force to the upper cover at the end of the empty box, and the lower suction cup 52 releases the suction force to the lower cover at the end of the empty box. After the cover folding operation of one end cover (including the upper cover, the right cover, the lower cover and the left cover) of the empty box is completed, the other end product to be boxed (i.e. rolled product) is put into the empty box, and then the same cover folding operation is executed.

It should be noted that, in the process of conveying the empty box to the first position, in order to ensure that the box cover at the loading end of the non-rolled product does not bounce after being folded, a vertical baffle (not shown in the figure) parallel to and attached to the end face of the empty box may be arranged on one side surface of the rack body, and the inlet side of the vertical baffle is chamfered.

Wherein the robot body 412 is located at the distance of the radius of the rotation of the flap assembly 5.

The cover folding operation is carried out on the loading box filled with the product through the cover folding assembly, convenience is provided for subsequent work of the loading box, and meanwhile the box sealing effect of the loading box can be effectively guaranteed.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the automated boxing system of the present application further comprises a movable bracket 6, and the movable bracket 6 is provided on the rack 1. The movable support 6 may be a slide bar arranged on the frame body 11 along a direction parallel to the conveying direction, the slide bar is provided with a conveying guide rail, and the conveying guide rail may be in a mode of driving a chain by a motor or in a mode of driving a belt by a motor. Be equipped with on the movable support 6 and adjust lead screw 61 and adjusting motor 62, adjust lead screw 61 and be connected with movable support 6 through adjusting axle sleeve 63, adjusting motor 62 is connected with adjusting lead screw 61 to drive movable support 6 and adjust movable support 6 along the width of perpendicular to carton direction of delivery, so that the automatic vanning system of this application can be suitable for the vanning of the empty case of different length specifications or different width specifications, improves the suitability.

In the present embodiment, the movable bracket 6 is provided with a box body retaining baffle 7, wherein the box body retaining baffle 7 is positioned at the downstream of the positioning component 3. The box body stopping baffle 7 is a stainless steel plate which is provided with a spring below and forms an angle of 45 degrees with the horizontal plane, for example, one end of the stainless steel plate which is obliquely arranged along the angle of 45 degrees faces to the direction of the second position, and the oblique angle of the stainless steel plate is not limited to 45 degrees and can be any angle between 30 degrees and 60 degrees. When the carriage 22 of the conveying assembly 2 moves toward the first position, i.e., the product loading position, the box stopping baffle 7 abuts against a vertical surface (the vertical surface is a side surface facing the second position along the conveying direction) at the rear side of the empty box 10, and the empty box in a folded state is opened by the movable plate 31 and the fixed suction cup 33, so that the opened empty box 10 is stably fixed at the first position. After the boxing operation is finished, the spring below the box body stopping baffle 7 is compressed, the conveying frame 22 drives the carton to move towards the second position direction, and after the carton passes through the box body stopping baffle 7, the spring continues to pop out, so that the box body stopping baffle 7 is abutted to the vertical surface at the rear side of the next empty box again. It should be noted that the spring force of the spring below the box body retaining baffle 7 only supports the single box body retaining baffle 7 to be ejected, and when a carton is pressed on the box body retaining baffle 7, the carton cannot be ejected.

In this embodiment, through setting up movable support 6, make the length and the width of the empty case in the automatic vanning system all adjustable, realize the automatic vanning process of multiple specification product, simple structure and convenient to use.

In some embodiments, the automatic box loading system further includes a box body righting assembly (not shown) disposed on the movable support 6, and the box body righting assembly includes a righting rod and a righting cylinder for driving the righting rod to move. When the empty box enters the first position to be fixed, the situation of deviation along the conveying direction can exist, the righting cylinder drives the righting rod to move at the moment, and the empty box in the deviation state is righted. Wherein the empty box may deviate on both sides perpendicular to the conveying direction at the first position, and at this time, two centering assemblies may be disposed on the movable support 6, and the two centering assemblies are disposed on both sides of the empty box at the first position.

In some embodiments, the automated case filling system of the present application further comprises a packaging assembly (not shown) in the second position for packaging the carrier case. It should be noted that the packaging assemblies may be two groups, and are symmetrically disposed on two sides along the conveying direction. The packaging assembly can comprise a packaging cylinder and a packaging plate, a packaging adhesive tape can be arranged on the packaging plate, or a packaging sticker for recording parameters such as specification and size of a product is arranged on the packaging plate, and after the carrying box is conveyed to the second position, the packaging plate is driven by the packaging cylinder to move towards the end side of the carrying box, so that the packaging adhesive tape or the packaging sticker is attached to the carrying box.

In some embodiments, the automated boxing system of the present application further comprises a transfer assembly (not shown) disposed on one side of the conveying assembly 2 and downstream of the positioning assembly 3, i.e., disposed at a predetermined position downstream of the positioning assembly 3 in the conveying direction. Wherein, the subassembly of transporting can be including transporting the robot and transporting the carriage, transports the robot and snatchs the thing case that is in the second position and place on transporting the carriage, transports the carriage and carries the thing case to the third position. It should be noted that the transfer conveyor may be provided with a tray, the transfer robot stacks a plurality of carrier boxes on the tray, and the transfer conveyor conveys the tray to a third position for further operations, such as packing and packaging.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 1, the automated packaging system of the present application further comprises a control system 8, the control system 8 comprising a robotic controller 81, a visual inspection structure controller 82, and a control module 83.

The robot controller 81 is electrically connected to the transfer robot and the boxing robot 41 to control respective actions of the transfer robot and the boxing robot 41.

The vision detection structure controller 82 is electrically connected with the vision camera 42 and used for acquiring information of products, such as the grabbing center position of the rolled product, and feeding back signals transmitted by the vision camera 42, when the vision camera 42 acquires the grabbing center position of the rolled product, the grabbing signals are fed back to the vision detection structure controller 82, the grabbing signals are fed back to the control module 83 by the vision detection structure controller 82, then the control module 83 controls the operation of the boxing robot 41, the grabbing center position of the rolled product is inserted by the fetching rod 413, the rotation is carried out by a preset angle, and the products are loaded into the empty box 10.

The control module 83 is electrically connected to the robot controller 81, the vision inspection structure controller 82, the binning sensor 43 and the positioning sensor 32, respectively. The control module 83 may be a PLC, and is configured to control and feedback actions and signals of the components of the entire automatic boxing system.

When the automatic boxing system is used, firstly, the empty box 10 is fixed through the plurality of fixed suckers 33, the loading end of non-products of the empty box 10 abuts against the vertical baffle, the empty box 10 is righted through the righting component, the upper sucker 51 and the lower sucker 52 adsorb and fix the box cover on the upper side and the box cover on the lower side of the empty box 10, at the moment, the control system sends out a boxing signal and transmits the boxing signal to the robot controller 81, the vision camera 42 and the boxing sensor 43 are matched to acquire the grabbing center position of the products to be boxed, then the robot controller 81 controls the fetching rod 413 of the boxing robot 41 to insert into the grabbing center position and grab the products, then the robot controller 81 controls the fetching rod 413 to rotate 90 degrees to one end of the empty box 10, which needs to be boxed, the fetching rod 413 loads the products to be boxed into the empty box, after the products are loaded into the empty box 10, the control system 8 firstly controls the left push rod 56 and the right push rod 54 to fold and cover the left side and the right side of the empty box 10 Then, the upper push rod 53 and the lower push rod 55 perform a lid folding operation on the upper lid and the lower lid of the empty box 10, and the box packing process is completed.

The automatic vanning system of this embodiment carries out full-automatic vanning to the product through vanning robot and transportation robot, effectively reduces staff intensity of labour, has improved work efficiency, has reduced manufacturing cost. Meanwhile, the control system controls the full-automatic work of the boxing robot and each component, the positioning precision is high, the occurrence of the conditions such as errors caused by manual operation can be effectively avoided, and the boxing robot is convenient to use and simple to operate.

As shown in fig. 6, the present application further provides an operation method of an automatic boxing system, applied to the automatic boxing system, including the following steps:

and S100, selecting the length dimension and the width specification of the empty box.

And S200, conveying the empty box to a first position and fixing the empty box by using a fixed sucker.

Step S300, a plurality of box covers of the empty box are pulled open, and an upper sucker and a lower sucker are respectively used for sucking and fixing the box cover on the upper side and the box cover on the lower side of the empty box.

In step S300, the plurality of covers of the empty box 10 include an upper cover and a lower cover of the empty box 10.

And S400, controlling the boxing robot to act by the control system, and identifying and inserting and taking products through the fetching rod under the coordination of the visual camera and the boxing sensor.

And S500, controlling the boxing robot to act by the control system, and controlling the fetching rod to load the product into the empty box.

Illustratively, in step S500, the control system 8 controls the action of the packing robot 41, and controls the fetching rod 413 to rotate a certain angle to reach one end port of the empty box 10 to be packed, and the fetching rod 413 loads the product to be packed, such as a rolled product, into the empty box 10.

And S600, after the product is loaded into the empty box, the control system controls the upper push rod, the right push rod, the lower push rod and the left push rod of the cover folding assembly to move, the cover folding operation is carried out on the object carrying box, and the box loading process is completed.

For example, in step S600, after the product to be boxed is loaded into the empty box 10, the control system first controls the left push rod 56 and the right push rod 54 to perform the cover folding operation on the left cover and the right cover of the empty box 10, and then the upper push rod 53 and the lower push rod 55 to perform the cover folding operation on the upper cover and the lower cover of the empty box 10, thereby completing the box loading process.

In step S300, a centering operation is performed on the empty box with the offset by the centering component.

Exemplarily, after step S600, the automatic carton loading system of the present application further includes packaging the article box after completing the carton loading process, and then, stacking the carton box after the carton box is sealed on the tray by the transfer robot, and after the carton box on the tray is stacked, transferring the tray to a third position by the transfer conveyor for packaging and packaging.

The operation method of the automatic boxing system is simple to use, can effectively reduce the labor intensity of workers, improves the working efficiency, and is favorable for popularization and use of industrial production.

The above-described aspects may be implemented individually or in various combinations, and such variations are within the scope of the present application.

It is noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an …" does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above examples are only for illustrating the technical solutions of the present application, and are not limited thereto. Although the present application has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it should be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; and such modifications or substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the corresponding technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application.