JP3239013B2 - Tobacco raw material supply device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a tobacco raw material case in which a plate is disposed at a bottom opening in a cylindrical box and a tobacco raw material such as a bone is filled in the box. The present invention relates to a tobacco raw material supply device that supplies a tobacco raw material to a next process by opening and turning over.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a tobacco raw material factory, wooden raw material barrels are generally used for storing tobacco raw materials. However, in consideration of space saving of a storage place, easiness of handling, reduction of cost, and the like. A cardboard case may be used. However, even in such a corrugated cardboard case, since a tobacco raw material packed in a box is stacked and stored for a long time, a certain strength of the corrugated cardboard box is required.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 4, for example, a corrugated cardboard frame B as a box body having a rectangular parallelepiped opening formed by bending a single corrugated cardboard and having a flap f around the opening. When the tobacco raw material case 10 is made up of two moisture-proof papers S for protecting the tobacco raw material from moisture and two, for example, wooden plywoods P for closing the opening of the corrugated cardboard frame B, a suitable case for storing the tobacco raw material. Is obtained.

[0005] That is, as shown in FIG. 5, the inner bone T is accommodated in a corrugated cardboard frame B, and moisture-proof paper S and plywood P are arranged in the opening of the corrugated cardboard frame B and packed. The case itself does not occupy a large volume because it can be made of corrugated cardboard or the like. Further, since the plywood P is disposed in the opening, the strength of the tobacco raw material case 10 is maintained while reducing the width of the flap f. be able to. Note that FIG. 5 is partially broken.

[0005]

By the way, when supplying the stored bones to the next step, in the conventional raw material, the raw material with the top opened is inverted by a reversing machine to make the raw material inside the raw material. The bones are supplied by falling.

[0006] Also, in the case where tobacco raw materials such as bones are taken out from the tobacco raw material case using a plate body such as plywood P and supplied to the next step, a method of inverting and supplying the tobacco is suitable. It is required to automate such reverse supply. However, in such automation, it is necessary to prevent the moisture-proof paper and the plate at the bottom from being mixed with the tobacco raw material in the next step.

The present invention uses a tobacco raw material case for storing tobacco raw materials such as bones, which saves space in a storage place, maintains the strength of the case, and reduces costs, and has a configuration suitable for automation. It is an object of the present invention to be able to supply only tobacco raw materials to the next step.

[0008]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a tobacco raw material supply apparatus comprising: a plate body disposed at a bottom opening of a corrugated cardboard box forming a storage space; Then, the box body is filled with the tobacco raw material in chip form and the top opening of the box body is opened, and the flap around the bottom opening is bent inward to hold the periphery of the plate body. The tobacco raw material case is obtained by inverting the tobacco raw material case so that the top opening of the tobacco raw material case is at the bottom and dropping and supplying the tobacco raw material in the tobacco raw material case to the next step. An apparatus for reversing the tobacco raw material case by supporting a side portion and a bottom portion of the tobacco raw material case, and provided near the bottom of a side surface of a box of the tobacco raw material case provided in the reversing means. A box body of the tobacco material case, comprising: a pair of support forks driven to penetrate the side surface; and drive means for driving the support fork, wherein the reversing means supports the tobacco material case and the support fork is connected to the tobacco material case. The tobacco raw material in the tobacco raw material case is dropped and supplied by holding the plate with the support fork by penetrating the side surface of the tobacco raw material.

[0009]

The tobacco raw material case supplied to the tobacco raw material supply device of the present invention is provided with a plate at the bottom opening in a cylindrical box forming a storage space, and the chip-shaped tobacco raw material is placed in the box. Filled and the top opening of the box is opened,
A flap around the bottom opening is bent inward to hold the periphery of the plate.

[0010] In the tobacco raw material supply apparatus of the present invention, the side portion and the bottom portion of the tobacco raw material case are supported by reversing means,
A pair of support forks provided in the reversing means are driven by the driving means, and the support forks penetrate the side surface of the box of the tobacco raw material case and hold the plate. Then, the tobacco raw material case is inverted by the inverting means, and only the tobacco raw material in the tobacco raw material case is dropped and supplied to the next step.

[0011]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of an essential part of a bone feeder to which a tobacco raw material feeder according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied, FIG. 2 is a side view thereof, and FIG. FIG. 4 is an overall side view of a bone supplying step, in which the bone supplying apparatus of this embodiment is obtained by improving a conventional bone supplying apparatus for a raw material for the tobacco raw material case described with reference to FIGS. .

As shown in FIG. 3, the bone feeder 1 is disposed between a forward / reverse conveyor 2 for feeding a tobacco raw material case 10 and a conveyor 3 for feeding the bone T to the next step. .

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, in the bone feeding device 1, a rotating shaft 12 is supported on a base 11 by a bearing 12a, and a pair of fixed plates 13 is mounted on the rotating shaft 12. Is the rotating shaft 1
2 at right angles. A frame plate 14 is attached to an end portion of the fixing plate 13.
A case holder 15 forming a pair of arc-shaped frames is attached to the opposite side of the rotating shaft 12 of the frame plate 1.
A pair of parallel support arms 16 are attached to the lower end of 4 at right angles to the frame plate 14.

A pair of air cylinders 17 having an angle with respect to the rotary shaft 12 are attached to both lower side surfaces of the pair of case holders 15.
A support fork 18 having a sharpened tip is attached to each of the drive blocks 17a. The driving of the air cylinder 17 causes the support fork 18 to project to the position indicated by the two-dot chain line in FIG.

A sprocket 19a is attached to the rotating shaft 12, and the sprocket 19a
Is connected by a chain 19d to a sprocket 19b attached to a drive shaft of a motor 19c arranged on the side surface of the motor 19c. The rotating shaft 12 is rotated by the driving of the motor 19c, and the fixed plate 13, the frame plate 14, and the case holder 1 are rotated.
5, the support arm 16, the air cylinder 17, and the support fork 18 are integrally rotated about 130 degrees as indicated by an arrow in FIG.

With the above configuration, the operation is as follows.
First, the bone feeder 1 is at the pivot position in FIG. 2, and the air cylinder 17 and the support fork 18 are set at the positions indicated by broken lines in FIG.

The tobacco raw material case 10 is filled with a middle bone. The tobacco raw material case 10 is placed on a pallet 20 with the top part opened, and is rotated forward and backward from the previous step (right side in FIG. 3). The tobacco raw material case 10 is moved by the conveyor 2 and stopped at a position where the leading edge of the tobacco raw material case 10 comes into contact with the case holder 15 of the bone feeder 1.

At this time, the pallet 20 at the bottom of the tobacco raw material case 10 also stops at the end position of the forward / reverse conveyor 2,
The support arm 16 of the bone feeder 1 is engaged with the pallet 20.

Next, the pair of air cylinders 17 are driven to advance the support fork 18 toward the tobacco raw material case 10, and the support fork 18 is made to penetrate the cardboard frame B of the tobacco raw material case 10. Thereby, as shown by the broken line in FIG. 2, the support fork 18 is positioned on the plywood P and the moisture-proof paper S arranged at the bottom of the cardboard frame B.

By driving the motor 19c, the tobacco raw material case 10 is held while the pallet 20 is held by the support arm 16 and the side and bottom of the tobacco raw material case 10 are held by the case holder 15 and the pallet 20 . Invert as shown in FIG. At this time, the support fork 18 penetrated near the bottom of the cardboard frame B causes
The cardboard frame B, plywood P and moisture-proof paper S are supported.

As a result, the inner bone T in the tobacco raw material case 10 is spontaneously dropped onto the conveyor 31 of the conveyor 3 and supplied, and the cardboard frame B, the plywood P, and the moisture-proof paper S are prevented from falling and mixed. You. And the middle bone T
Is gradually transported to the next step by the transport conveyor 31.

As described above, the tobacco raw material case 10 is placed on the pallet 20 and carried into the bone feeder 1. In the bone feeder 1, the air cylinder 17 is driven and the motor 19c is driven. Only the bone T in the tobacco raw material case 10 can be reliably supplied to the next step. In addition, since the middle bone supply device 1 can be operated with simple control, it can be easily automated.

In the above embodiment, the case where the bone is supplied as a tobacco raw material has been described, but other raw materials may be used.

In the above embodiment, the plywood P
Has been described as being made of wood, but the plywood P may be a plate such as plywood or polypropylene board,
The material is not particularly limited.

[0025]

As described above, according to the tobacco raw material supply apparatus of the present invention, the plate is disposed at the bottom opening in the corrugated cardboard cylindrical box forming the accommodation space, and the chip is attached to the box. The tobacco raw material case is filled with a tobacco raw material and the top opening of the box is opened, and the flap around the bottom opening is bent inward to hold the periphery of the plate. Supporting the side and bottom of the tobacco raw material case, and penetrating the support fork near the bottom of the side surface of the tobacco raw material case box, holding the plate with this support fork and inverting the tobacco raw material case Since raw materials are supplied by dropping, when storing tobacco raw materials such as bones, a tobacco raw material case is used to save space at the storage area, maintain case strength, and reduce costs. Only it can be supplied to the next step tobacco material from the raw material case in a configuration suitable for reduction.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a main part of a bone feeding device to which a tobacco raw material feeding device according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the bone feeding device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an overall side view of a bone feeding process using the bone feeding device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view showing a tobacco raw material case according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a partially broken perspective view showing a packed state of the tobacco raw material case in the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Middle bone supply apparatus, 15 ... Case holder, 16 ... Support arm, 17 ... Air cylinder, 18 ... Support fork, P ...
Plywood, B: Corrugated cardboard frame, 10: Tobacco raw material case.

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A plate is disposed at a bottom opening in a cylindrical box made of corrugated cardboard which forms a housing space, and the box is filled with a chip-shaped tobacco raw material and a top opening of the box is formed. Portion of the tobacco material case, in which the flap around the bottom opening is bent inward to hold the periphery of the plate body, the tobacco material case is arranged such that the top opening of the tobacco material case is downward. A tobacco material supply device in which a tobacco material in the tobacco material case is dropped and supplied to a next process by inverting the tobacco material case, wherein the tobacco material case is supported by supporting a side portion and a bottom portion of the tobacco material case. Reversing means for reversing, a pair of supporting forks provided in the reversing means and driven to penetrate the side surface in the vicinity of the bottom of the side surface of the box of the tobacco raw material case; and driving the support fork Driving means for supporting the tobacco material case with the reversing means, and holding the plate with the support fork by passing the support fork through a side surface of a box of the tobacco material case. A tobacco raw material supply device wherein a tobacco raw material in a raw material case is supplied by dropping.