JP5667370B2 - Cosmetic filling device and filling method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a cosmetic filling apparatus and a filling method.

  Cosmetics such as foundation, eye color, and blusher are usually filled in a compact container. For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a technique for pressing and filling cosmetics in an inner dish. Patent Document 2 discloses a technique in which a partition plate is disposed in an inner dish and different types of powder cosmetics are filled for each partition.

JP-A-5-213717 JP 59-44205 A

  Cosmetics may be cracked or peeled off when impact is applied. Since cosmetics emphasize aesthetics, it is not preferable that cracks occur. Therefore, it is desirable that the cosmetic filled in the inner dish is solidified so as to have a uniform hardness in order to prevent the formation of fragile parts.

  Here, if the powdery cosmetic is put on the inner plate, it can be considered that if the upper side is worn or flattened by applying vibration and then pressed, the hardness becomes uniform. However, even if the upper side of the cosmetic before pressing is flat, the hardness of the cosmetic after pressing is not uniform unless the density is uniform. Since the higher the height of the powder piled up, the higher the density, the higher the density, the higher the density of the central part than the peripheral part. Therefore, it is difficult to obtain a uniform hardness even if the powdery cosmetic is put on the inner plate and then pressed after the upper side is flattened.

  This invention is made | formed in view of such a subject, and makes it a subject to provide the filling apparatus and the filling method of the cosmetics which suppress the dispersion | variation in the hardness of the cosmetics with which it fills the dish of a compact container. To do.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention places cosmetics after partitioning the inner tray into a plurality of partitions.

  Specifically, it is a cosmetic filling device that fills the powdery cosmetic material in the middle dish of a compact container, and partitions the inner dish substantially equally, and each compartment of the partitioned middle dish, And a pressing means for compressing and solidifying the powdery cosmetics stacked on the inner dish, and a partition for each of the sections. The size is set such that the variation in hardness of the solidified cosmetic is within a predetermined range.

According to the filling device, the powdery cosmetic is substantially evenly provided in each compartment. Here, when attention is paid to each section, the density of the cosmetic in the specific section inevitably varies between the central portion of the section and the peripheral portion thereof. However, when all the sections are macroscopically viewed, the density of the cosmetics does not vary as a whole compared to the case where the cosmetics are served without partitioning with partitions. As a result, variation in hardness of the solidified cosmetic is suppressed.

  In addition, the said press means may pre-compress the said powdery cosmetics in the state in which the said partition has divided the said inside dish. If the cosmetic is pre-compressed in a state where the inner plate is still partitioned, the cosmetic accumulated in each section will not flow to the adjacent section before the cosmetic is pressed and solidified.

  Moreover, the said press means may compress and solidify the said powdery cosmetics in the state in which the said partition has not divided the said inside dish. By compressing the cosmetics placed in the middle dish or the pre-compressed cosmetics placed in the middle dish with the partition removed, the middle dish is left without leaving any traces at the part where the partition is located. Can be filled with cosmetics.

  In addition, this invention can also be caught from the side as a production method. For example, a cosmetic filling method for filling powdery cosmetic material in a middle dish of a compact container, wherein the middle dish is divided into a plurality of regions having the same shape and size, and the medium is divided. In each region of the dish, the powdery cosmetic material is substantially evenly placed, and the powdery cosmetic material stacked in the inner plate is compressed and solidified to partition the inner plate. The inner plate may be partitioned so that the size of the hardened cosmetic can be within a certain range.

  It is possible to suppress variations in the hardness of the cosmetic material filled in the middle dish of the compact container.

It is an external appearance perspective view of a compact container. It is a block diagram of a filling apparatus. It is a perspective view of a partition. It is sectional drawing of a partition. FIG. 3 is a first process diagram illustrating a filling process. FIG. 4 is a second process diagram illustrating the filling process. It is a figure which shows distribution of the density of the cosmetics which concern on embodiment. It is a figure which shows distribution of the density of the cosmetics concerning a prior art example. It is a process figure showing the filling process concerning a modification. It is a process figure showing the filling process concerning a modification. It is the table | surface which showed the experimental result. It is the figure which showed the measurement point of the altitude.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described. Embodiment described below shows the embodiment of this invention exemplarily, and this invention is not limited to such embodiment.

  The cosmetic filling device according to the present embodiment fills the cosmetic 3 in the inner tray 2 accommodated in the compact container 1 as shown in FIG. FIG. 2 shows the configuration of the cosmetic filling device according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 2, the filling device 4 includes a control unit 5, a press unit 6, a handling unit 7, a fixed amount supply unit 8, and a transport unit 9. The filling device 4 includes a cosmetic tank 10, a pressing die 11, a nozzle 12, and a partition 13.

The control unit 5 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a memory, an input / output interface, a display, and the like. By executing a computer-readable program prepared in advance, the press unit 6, the handling unit 7, and the quantitative supply The unit 8 and the transport unit 9 are controlled electronically.

  The press unit 6 is a drive device that moves the die 11 up and down. When the air pressure or hydraulic pressure is controlled by the control unit 5, the built-in cylinder devices expand and contract to move the die 11 up and down.

  The handling unit 7 drives the electric motor or the like controlled by the control unit 5, so that the nozzle 12 and the partition 13 are put in and out and positioned. More specifically, the handling unit 7 arranges the nozzles 12 on the upper side of the intermediate dish 2 and places the partition 13 on the intermediate dish 2 based on a command from the control unit 5.

  The fixed amount supply unit 8 is provided in the middle of the powder cosmetic path connecting the cosmetic tank 10 and the nozzle 12, and is accommodated in the cosmetic tank 10 in accordance with a command from the control unit 5. The powder cosmetic is quantitatively sent to the nozzle 12.

  The transport unit 9 is a transport device that moves the inner tray 2 in the horizontal direction. The transport unit 9 carries in the inner tray 2 before filling the powder cosmetic, or unloads the middle tray 2 after filling with the powder cosmetic. Or

  The cosmetic tank 10 is a tank for storing powder cosmetics to be sent to the quantitative supply unit 8. The cosmetic cosmetic tank 10 may be replenished with the powder cosmetic from an insertion port provided above the tank by the operator, or may be automatically replenished from the host device.

  The pressing mold 11 is a mold for pressing the powder cosmetic placed on the inner dish 2. The pressing die 11 has a flat bottom surface and a side surface along the inner wall of the inner tray 2.

  The nozzle 12 is a tapered tube that guides the powder cosmetics quantitatively sent from the quantitative supply unit 8 to the inner tray 2. The nozzle 12 is moved by the handling unit 7 so that the tip is positioned on the inner tray 2.

  The partition 13 is a jig for partitioning the intermediate dish 2 into four compartments when the powder cosmetic is placed on the intermediate dish 2. The partition 13 is configured so that the size of each section is such that the variation in hardness of the powdery cosmetic 3 after being solidified by the stamp 11 can fall within a predetermined range. It is something to divide. Here, the predetermined range is an allowable range of hardness variation required for the cosmetic to be shipped, for example, an allowable range of hardness variation arbitrarily set by a supplier filling the cosmetic. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the partition 13. As shown in FIG. 3, the partition 13 includes a cross-shaped partition portion 14 in which the two plates of the inner tray 2 are divided into four parts vertically and horizontally, and a frame portion 15 that surrounds the partition portion 14 and supports the partition portion 14. Is provided. The partition part 14 is comprised with the board whose thickness is 1 mm or less.

  FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the partition 13. As shown in FIG. 4, the frame portion 15 of the partition 13 has two stages of inner walls 16. The upper side inner wall 16U has a shape and a size along the inner wall 17 of the inner tray 2. The lower inner wall 16 </ b> B has a shape and a size along the outer wall 18 of the inner tray 2. When the partition 13 is placed on the inner tray 2 and the side surface of the inner tray 2 and the inner wall 16B come into contact with each other, the step surface 19 between the inner wall 16U and the inner wall 16B comes into contact with the upper edge 20 of the inner plate 2. The lower edge 21 of the partition 14 abuts against the bottom surface 22 of the inner tray 2.

  Next, the filling process when filling the cosmetic dish 2 in the inner dish 2 will be described. 5 and 6 are process diagrams illustrating the present filling process.

  When the filling device 4 is activated and a program for performing the filling process is executed, the control unit 5 controls the transport unit 9 to transfer the intermediate tray 2 to a predetermined filling position. Then, the handling unit 7 is controlled, and the partition 13 is lowered (see FIG. 5 (1)). When the step surface 19 abuts on the upper edge 20 and the lower edge 21 abuts on the bottom surface 22 and the partition 13 can no longer be lowered, the control unit 5 assumes that the partition 13 is placed on the inner tray 2. Is stopped (see FIG. 5B).

  The control unit 5 controls the position of the nozzle 12 with the handling unit 7 and controls the quantitative supply unit 8 after placing the partition 13 on the inner tray 2, and sets a fixed amount in each of the four sections partitioned by the partition 13. (See FIG. 5 (3)). Each section is partitioned into substantially the same shape and size. Therefore, when viewed microscopically, the density of the powder cosmetic placed in each compartment may vary, but a certain amount of powder cosmetic is placed in each compartment having substantially the same shape and size. If it is thick, macroscopically, that is, if it sees as the whole middle plate 2, the dispersion | variation in the density of the powder cosmetics piled on the middle plate 2 will reduce.

  The control unit 5 controls the handling unit 7 to move the partition 13 away from the inner plate 2 and move it to the side after the constant amount of powder cosmetic is placed in each of the sections partitioned by the partition 13 (FIG. 6 ( 4)).

  When the control unit 5 moves the partition 13 to the side, the control unit 5 controls the transport unit 9 to vibrate the inner tray 2. Thereby, the powder cosmetics piled up in the inner dish 2 become substantially flat (refer FIG. 6 (5)). In addition, when making the powder cosmetics piled up in the inner tray 2 flat, you may make it scrape off with a plate-shaped thing other than the method of vibrating the inner tray 2, for example.

  The control unit 5 controls the press unit 6 to lower the pressing die 11 to press the powder cosmetic when the powder cosmetic placed on the inner tray 2 becomes almost flat, and raises the pressing die 11 again (FIG. 6). (See (6)). Thereby, the powder cosmetics piled up in the inner dish 2 are solidified. When the control unit 5 presses the powder cosmetic placed on the inner tray 2, the control unit 5 controls the transport unit 9 to carry out the inner tray 2.

  According to the filling device 4, since the inner tray 2 is divided into four by the partition 13, the density of the powdery cosmetics accumulated in the inner tray 2 is more varied than the case where the density is increased without division. Absent. FIG. 7 shows the distribution of the density of the cosmetics placed on the four middle plates, and FIG. 8 shows the density distribution of the cosmetics placed on the middle plates that are not divided. In FIG. 7 and FIG. 8, (a) shows the density distribution before flattening the powder cosmetic placed on the middle dish, and the density distribution after flattening the powder cosmetic placed on the middle dish. (B), and a graph showing the relationship between the density and the position of the powder cosmetic placed in the inner dish is shown in (c). As apparent from FIGS. 7 and 8, it can be seen that the density of the powder cosmetic is less varied when the partition 13 is used than when the partition 13 is used without using the partition 13. For this reason, the hardness distribution after pressing the powder cosmetic is also less uniform and substantially uniform.

  The filling device 4 may further include a preliminary mold that preforms the powder cosmetic with the partition 13 left in place. In this case, the filling process is performed as follows. The control unit 5 does not move the partition 13 as shown in FIG. 6 (4), after the constant amount of powder cosmetic is put in each of the sections partitioned by the partition 13, and further sets the preliminary mold 23. Lower (see FIG. 9 (1)). The preliminary mold 23 has approximately the same shape and size as the described pressing mold 11, but a slit 24 is provided to avoid interference with the partition portion 14 of the partition 13.

The control unit 5 lightly presses the cosmetic 3 with the preliminary mold 23 and preforms it (FIG. 9 (2)).
reference). After completing the preliminary forming, the control unit 5 controls the press unit 6 to raise the preliminary mold 23 (see FIG. 9 (3)). When the control unit 5 raises the preliminary mold 23, the control unit 5 controls the handling unit 7 to move the partition 13 away from the inner tray 2 and move it to the side (see FIG. 9 (4)). Although the trace of the partition part 14 remains in the cosmetic preformed on the inner tray 2, the trace of the partition part 14 also disappears when the control unit 5 presses with the pressing die 11.

  In addition, when the force at the time of pressing the preform 23 is strong, it may be difficult to remove the partition 13 from the cosmetic 3 after the preforming. In order to cope with such a case, the control unit 5 controls the handling unit 7 with the preliminary mold 23 fixed, after pressing the cosmetic 3 with the preliminary mold 23 (see FIG. 10A). Only the partition 13 may be raised upward (see FIG. 10B). Then, since the partition 13 goes up in a state where the cosmetic 3 is pressed against the preliminary mold 23, the partition 13 can be removed from the cosmetic 3 without breaking the shape of the preformed cosmetic 3. When the control unit 5 raises the partition 13 with the preliminary mold 23 fixed, the control unit 5 then controls the press unit 6 and the handling unit 7 to simultaneously raise the preliminary mold 23 and the partition 13 (see FIG. 10 (3)).

  By the way, although the partition 13 of the filling device 4 has divided the inner tray 2 into four, if the shape and size of each section are substantially the same, it may be divided into two or three, or more than five. It may be.

  Since the effect of this embodiment was verified by experiment, the result is shown below. FIG. 11 is a table showing experimental results. In the table of FIG. 11, the data shown as “Conventional Example 1” is obtained by pressing cosmetics in the center of the middle dish without using a partition, and the data shown as “Conventional Example 2” without using a partition. The cosmetics were placed and pressed in 6 locations on the middle dish, and the data shown as "Example 1" was pressed with the cosmetics using the partition into which the middle dish was divided into four as in the above embodiment. The data shown as “Example 2” is obtained by pressing the cosmetics using a partition that divides the inner plate into six parts. For “Conventional Example 1”, “Example 1”, and “Example 2” excluding “Conventional Example 2”, three test specimens (test specimens 1 to 3) under the same conditions were prepared, and the hardnesses were measured. did. Note that “measurement points 1 to 6” shown in the table of FIG. 11 correspond to the portions indicated by the circled numbers in FIG. “R” indicates a value obtained by subtracting the minimum value from the maximum value of hardness in the test specimen, in other words, the maximum value of hardness variation.

Each test specimen is a middle dish filled with 12 g of pressed powder obtained by pressing and compacting powdery cosmetics, and the size of the middle dish is 52 mm × 46 mm. The pressure at the time of pressing is 30 kg / cm ² which is slightly higher than that at the time of producing a normal product. The hardness of the cosmetic was measured using an Olzen hardness meter (2 pounds). When filling cosmetics, in the case of “Conventional Example 1”, 12 g of powder cosmetic is placed in one place and pressed, and in the case of “Conventional Example 2”, 2 g of powder cosmetic is placed in 6 places. "Example 1" has 3g of powder cosmetics in 4 sections, and "Example 2" has 2g of powder cosmetics in 6 sections.

As is clear from the table of FIG. 11, “Conventional Example 1” and “Conventional Example 2” have a maximum hardness variation of 10 to 21 , whereas “Example 1” has a maximum hardness variation. Values between 6 and 8
It is. In the “Example 2”, the maximum hardness variation is 3 to 7. From this, it can be seen that, when the powder cosmetic is put on the middle dish using the partition, it is possible to suppress the variation in hardness of the cosmetic after pressing and to make it substantially uniform.

1. ・ Compact container: 2. ・ Inner tray: 3. ・ Cosmetics: 4. ・ Filling device: 5. ・ Control unit: 6. ・ Press unit: 7. ・ Handling unit: 8. ・ Quantitative supply unit: 9.
・ ・ Conveying unit: 10 ・ ・ Cosmetic tank: 11 ・ ・ Die: 12 ・ ・ Nozzle: 13 ・ ・ Partition: 14 ・ ・ Partition: 15 ・ ・ Frame: 16, 16U, 16B, 17 18. ・ Outer wall: 19. ・ Step surface: 20. ・ Upper edge: 21 ・ ・ Lower edge: 22 ・ ・ Bottom surface: 23 ・ ・ Preliminary mold: 24 ・ ・ Slit

Claims (4)

A cosmetic filling device for filling powdery cosmetics in a middle dish of a compact container,
A partition that divides the inner plate into substantially equal sizes ;
In each section of the partitioned inner plate, the serving means for substantially uniformly depositing the powdery cosmetic material of the same component ;
A pressing means for solidifying by compressing the powdery cosmetic of each compartment piled in said dish at the same time, Ru provided with,
Cosmetic filling equipment. The pressing means pre-compresses the powdery cosmetic in a state where the partition divides the inner dish.
The cosmetic filling apparatus according to claim 1. The pressing means compresses and solidifies the powdery cosmetic in a state where the partition does not divide the inner dish.
The cosmetic filling apparatus according to claim 1 or 2. A cosmetic filling method for filling powdery cosmetics in a dish of a compact container,
Dividing the inner plate into substantially equal sizes ;
In each compartment of the compartmentalized compartment, the powdery cosmetic material of the same component is provided almost evenly,
Simultaneously compressing and solidifying the powdery cosmetics in each of the compartments stacked in the inner dish ;
Cosmetic filling method.

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