JPS5944246B2 - glass bottle storage device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a storage device for glass bottles, and more specifically, the present invention relates to a storage device for glass bottles. The present invention relates to a device for storing a cell in such a manner that its long axis direction is oriented substantially diagonally to the cell.

Conventionally, the cross section of the torso was almost elliptical (in addition to a pure ellipse,
A glass bottle 1 (hereinafter referred to as a glass bottle) having a shape close to an ellipse (including a rectangular shape with short side arcs, etc.) is:
As shown in FIG. 1, the lengths of the long side 3'a and short side 3'b partitioned by the partition plate 2' are approximately equal to the long axis 1a and short axis Ib of the glass bottle 1, respectively. Each cell 3 of a storage case 4' having a large number of cells 3' having a rectangular cross section
' was stored with its long axis 1a direction parallel to the long side 3'a of the cell.

In this case, since the long axis ends 1a' of adjacent glass bottles 1 and the short axis ends lb' of adjacent glass bottles face each other, they are thick and have excellent cushioning properties to prevent troubles caused by shocks during transportation or handling. It is necessary to use the inner partition plate 2',
Therefore, there was a problem of increased costs. The present invention aims to solve the problems of the prior art as described above.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has a plurality of glass bottles, each of which has a body whose cross section is approximately elliptical, which are arranged in a line in the longitudinal direction and in contact with each other. but,
A first side parallel to the long axis direction in the aligned state of a rectangular cross section formed by the partition plate of the storage case;
A device for dropping and storing cells simultaneously in a substantially diagonal direction of cells having a second side perpendicular to the first side, the device comprising: A gripper for the mouth of the glass bottle is provided to be rotatable downward and has the same number of glass bottles as the arranged glass bottles and has an equal center spacing, and a gripper is attached to the gear ring and engages with the gripper. means for simultaneously rotating each of the grippers by a predetermined angle so that the long axis direction of the glass bottle is aligned with the diagonal direction of the cell; a spring cam-shaped guide having a guiding cylindrical body for guiding the glass bottle that is released from the gripper and falls at a fixed position; The width parallel to the side is approximately equal to the sum of the length of the first side and the distance between the adjacent glass bottles in the first side direction after the rotation, and the depth parallel to the second side is approximately equal to the length of the second side, and the lower end of the guide tube has a cross-sectional dimension approximately equal to that of the cell. .

The present invention will be described below with reference to drawings showing embodiments.

FIG. 2 shows a state in which the glass bottle 1 is stored in the storage case 4 according to the present invention, and the glass bottle 1 is stored so that the long axis 1a of the glass bottle 1 is approximately parallel to the diagonal line 3c of the cell 3. There is.

Therefore, the portion 1d of the glass pin 1 in contact with the long side 3a of the cell,
Neither of the portions 1e in contact with the cell short sides 3b are opposed to the adjacent glass bottles 1, and therefore troubles due to impact between opposing ends do not occur, so the partition plate 2 is relatively thin. Moreover, it has the advantage of lower material costs because it does not require much cushioning properties. The glass bottle 1 as described above is stored in the following manner.

Glass bottles 1 formed from molten glass and subjected to various processes such as annealing and inspection are conveyed to a storage station 6 by a conveyor 5G, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4.

The glass bottles 1 are usually conveyed in several rows (four rows in the figure), with a certain interval t between the rows, and so that they advance in one row in the long axis direction, that is, in a straight line. In order to do this, a side guide plate 7 is provided on the conveyor 5 along the direction of movement of the conveyor 5 (in the direction of the arrow).
The above-mentioned interval t will be described later. Further, since a baffle plate 8 is provided at the end of the conveyor 5, adjacent glass bottles 1 in each row come into contact with each other in the storage station 6. Now, as shown in Figure 2, the storage case 4 is
When the cells 3 are arranged in five rows, the corresponding number of glass bottles 1 are simultaneously grasped by the holding tool from the storage station 6 and stored in the storage case 4. An example of a gripping tool is shown.

The gripping tool 9 includes a gripping part 10, a shaft part 11, and a rotating part 12. The rotating part 12 is connected to a fixed shaft 14 provided at a predetermined interval in the lower part of the gear ring 13, and the center of each grip part 10 and the center of the mouth part 1c of each glass bottle 1 in the storage station 6 coincide with each other. The predetermined interval is determined as follows. A glass bottle 1 is attached to the bottom of the grip part 10.
An opening 15 is provided through which the mouth 1c of the
Furthermore, the grip portion 10 is provided with a cavity 16 that can accommodate the mouth portion 1c and has a diameter larger than the diameter of the opening portion 15. The cavity 16 protrudes a guide hole 17 passing through the shaft portion 11, the rotating portion 12, and the fixed shaft 14, a hollow chamber 18 of the gear ring 13, and a conduit 19, and communicates with a compressed air source (not shown). The mouth of the bag body 20 is attached to the end of the opening 15, and pressurized air is supplied from the compressed air source to the cavity 1.
When the glass bottle 1 is fed into the glass bottle 6, the bag body 20 comes into close contact with the threaded part of the mouth part 1c, and the glass bottle 1 is gripped.
FIG. 6 shows the structure of the rotating part 12, in which the rotating part 12 is rotated around the fixed shaft 14 via a ball bearing 21 and an O-ring 22 (for airtightness). It is becoming more and more like this.

As shown in FIG.
side holes 25 provided at regular intervals in the parallel frame 24a of
is inserted. On the other hand, a piston rod 27 of your cylinder 26, which is fixed to the gear ring 13, is fixed to a frame 24b of the frame 24, which is perpendicular to the parallel frame 24a. Therefore, by advancing the piston rod 27 a certain distance to the left in the diagram, the glass glass glass A No. 1 changes from the initial position where its major axis 1a is shown by the dotted line parallel to the parallel frame 24a to the major axis 1a.
Each glass bottle 1 can be rotated at the same time to a position shown by a solid line where the angle is at a predetermined angle with the parallel frame 24a (approximately equal to the angle formed by the long side 3a of the cell 3 and the diagonal line 3c). The distance X between each parallel frame 24a, and therefore the distance parallel to the frame 24b between the centers of the fixed shafts 14, is the length y of the short side 3b of the cell.
l:. It is determined equally. And the interval t(
3) is defined equal to x-y. Using the above-described device, glass bottles are stored in the storage case in the following manner.

First, move the gear ring 13 onto the storage station 6, and when each gripper 9 comes directly above the corresponding glass bottle 1, insert the gear ring 13 so that the opening 1c of the glass bottle 1 is inserted into the bag body 20 of the gripper 10. Then, pressurized air is introduced into the cavity 16 and the opening 1c is grasped.

After that, the gear ring 13 is raised and moved to above the storage case 4, and the parallel frame 24a of the frame 24 is aligned with the storage case 4.
The center of the gripping part 10 at the center in the direction of the parallel frame 24a is aligned parallel to the long side 3e of the storage case 4 (the cell corresponding to the outermost gripping part 10). 3 is the outermost cell). Next, the air cylinder 26 is operated to move the piston rod 27 until the width of the glass bottle 1 in the direction of the frame 24b is approximately equal to the length of the short side 3b of the cell 3, that is, the long axis 1a of the glass bottle 1 is approximately equal to the length of the short side 3b of the cell 3. diagonal 3
Proceed to the left in FIG. 7 until heading in direction c. In this state, as is clear from FIG. 7, the glass bottles 1 are separated by a distance m in the direction of the parallel frame 24a. When stored in the storage case 4, it is desirable that this distance m is approximately equal to the thickness of the partition plate 2. To that end, the 8th
As shown in the figure, the cross section of the upper end portion 28a is a rectangle whose width is approximately m larger than the long side 3a of the cell and whose depth is approximately equal to the short side 3b-, and the lower end portion 28b has a cross section approximately equal to each cell 3. A spring cam-shaped guide 29 consisting of the same number of guide tubes 28 as the glass bottles 1 is disposed directly above the storage case 4 as shown in FIG.
After the glass bottle 13 is lowered until it enters the upper end portion 28a, the pressurized air is released, the grip on the mouth portion 1c is released, and the glass bottle 1 is allowed to fall into the storage case 4. The device of the present invention is capable of dropping and storing a plurality of glass bottles whose bodies have a substantially elliptical cross section at the same time with their long axes aligned with the diagonal direction of the cells in the storage case, which improves work efficiency. Moreover, since adjacent glass bottles do not face each other with a partition plate interposed between them after storage, there is no risk of trouble caused by impact between adjacent glass bottles, and the partition plate is relatively thin. It also has the economical advantage of being able to use inexpensive partition plates since it does not require much cushioning properties. Furthermore, the device of the present invention has the effect of being able to efficiently drop and store a plurality of glass bottles at the same time with a simple structure, with their long axes reliably aligned substantially in the diagonal direction of the cells of the storage case.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a plan view showing the state of glass bottles stored by a conventional device, Fig. 2 is a plan view showing an example of the state of glass bottles stored by the method of the present invention, and Fig. 3 is a plan view showing the state of glass bottles stored by the method of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a front view of the storage station in FIG. 3, FIG. 5 is a partially cutaway front view of an embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is taken along the - line in FIG. Fig. 7 is a plan view taken from the - line in Fig. 5;
FIG. 8 is a longitudinal sectional view showing an example of a guide used for storing glass bottles in a storage case from the apparatus of the present invention. 1...Glass bottle, 1a...Long axis, 1
c...Drawing part, 2...Inner partition plate, 3...
...Cell, 3c...Diagonal, 4...
・Storage case, 9...Gripper, . 10...
...Gripping part, 12...Rotating enemy 13...
・Gearin, 23...Pin, 25...Junior L26...Air cylinder.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Each of a plurality of glass bottles whose bodies have a substantially elliptical cross section, which are arranged in a line in the long axis direction and in contact with each other, is arranged so that the long axis direction is aligned with the partition plate of the storage case. The thus formed rectangular cross section has a first side parallel to the long axis direction in the aligned state, and a second side perpendicular to the first side, so that the cells are aligned approximately in the diagonal direction, A device for simultaneously falling into and storing the corresponding cells, the device being rotatably provided below the carriage;
and grippers for the glass bottle openings having the same number and center spacing as the aligned glass bottles, and are attached to the carriage and engaged with the grippers to hold each of the glass bottles at the same time. a means for rotating the bottle by a predetermined angle so that the longitudinal axis of the bottle is aligned with the diagonal direction of the cell; A honeycomb-shaped guide having a guide tube for guiding the released and falling glass bottle is provided, and the width of the upper end of the guide tube parallel to the first side is equal to or greater than the width of the first side. approximately equal to the sum of the length of the side and the distance between the adjacent glass bottles in the first side direction after the rotation, and the depth parallel to the second side is approximately the length of the second side. and the lower end of the guide tube has a cross-sectional dimension substantially equal to that of the cell.