JPS6020247B2 - Quantitative accumulation and delivery method and device for plate-shaped articles - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a fixed quantity collection and delivery method and device for plate-shaped articles, and in particular, to collect a predetermined number of plates of chewing gum that have been continuously loaded one by one while carrying out the next packaging process. The present invention relates to an integrated transportation method and device for transferring to.

Conventionally, when packaging chewing gum in the form of a plate, first pieces of gum are cut into predetermined dimensions and wrapped one by one, and if necessary, a sheet of label paper is wrapped around each piece of gum.
Next, it is common practice to continuously supply each packaged piece of gum, collect and hold a predetermined number of pieces of gum, and then transfer the collected and held pieces of gum in that state to apply outer packaging. ing.

In conventional packaging devices for chewing gum in the form of a plate, the work of packaging gum pieces one by one uses a packaging drum that rotates intermittently, so there is a limit to the number of pieces that can be wrapped per minute. The use of a conveying mechanism such as a belt conveyor to collect and transport the packaged gum pieces to another packaging process has been sufficient to achieve the intended purpose.

However, in recent years, improvements have been made to this type of packaging equipment, and as the ability to wrap each piece of gum has improved, it is now possible to quickly and reliably collect a predetermined number of pieces of gum, and to smoothly proceed to the next packaging process. It is now required to be transferred to Therefore, as a result of extensive research, the inventors supplied and transferred individually wrapped pieces of gum along the circumferential surface of a rotating drum, and placed them close to a part of the circumference of the rotating drum. A rotating body having a claw portion on the circumferential surface is disposed adjacent to the stacking holding member, and when a predetermined number of plate pieces are stacked on the stacking holding member, the rotating body By transferring the plate pieces accumulated by the claws in that state to the next packaging process, the plate pieces are transferred in that state to the next packaging process, in synchronization with the continuous rotation drive of the rotary body having the claws at positions separated by a predetermined interval. A predetermined number of pieces of gum are accumulated and held during the time interval until the separating claws arrive at the accumulation holding member, and as a result, even if gum pieces are accumulated at a high speed against the accumulation holding member, the rotation transfers the gum pieces. It has been found that increasing the rotation speed of the body can significantly increase packaging processing capacity and improve work efficiency. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a continuously rotating rotating drum for continuously transporting wrapped plate pieces one by one, and to sequentially accumulate the plate pieces transferred by the rotating drum and transfer them while continuously rotating. To provide a method and device for quantitatively concentrating and sending out saccharide of a plate-shaped article, which is composed of a rotating drum and a rotating body, and is capable of accumulating and transferring plate pieces at high speed while the rotating drum and the rotating body are constantly rotating, and can operate at high speed. It is in.

In order to achieve the above object, in the present invention, individually wrapped plate pieces are held one by one on the circumferential surface of a rotating drum that continuously rotates and are continuously transferred to an accumulation holding position. A predetermined number of plate pieces are fed onto the holding member at time intervals until the claws provided on the circumference of a rotating body that continuously rotates at the position reach the plate piece accumulation and holding position, and these plate pieces are rotated. The plate pieces are successively accumulated and held between a lever member that is displaced by cam operation and a resiliently supported roller, and when a predetermined number of plate pieces have been accumulated, the accumulated plate pieces are engaged with a claw provided on the rotating body, It is characterized by being transferred along a guide member.

Furthermore, when the plate pieces accumulated by the rotating body are transferred by engaging the claws, if the accumulating speed of a predetermined amount of plate pieces is adjusted to match the circumferential speed of the rotating body, smooth continuous operation can be achieved. achieved.

For this reason, an roller is disposed adjacent to the claw portion of the rotating body, and when the plate pieces accumulated by the claw portion are sent out, the roller holds the first plate piece to be accumulated next. Make it. In addition, as a device for achieving the above-mentioned purpose, "a continuously rotating drum for continuously transporting packaged plate pieces with a large number of article holders provided on the circumferential surface, and a circumferential surface of the rotating drum. a rotating body that is provided close to a part of the rotary drum and that engages with and transfers a predetermined number of plate pieces held by the rotary drum, and a rotary body that is located at a position where the rotary drum and the rotary body are close to each other. A holding member for holding a number of plate pieces is provided, and a lever member that is displaced toward the rotating body in accordance with the number of accumulated plate pieces by operating a rotating cam with respect to the holding member, and plates are supplied one by one from a rotating drum. A roller is provided to elastically hold the pieces one after another between the lever member and engage with a predetermined number of plate pieces accumulated and held on the holding member at a predetermined distance from the circumference of the rotating body. It is characterized in that a claw part is provided, and a guide member is further provided along the outer circumference of the rotating body to transfer the plate pieces accumulated on the claw part.

Further, the rotating body is provided with a roller adjacent to the pawl, and when transferring a predetermined number of plate pieces accumulated by the pawl, the roller transfers the next plate piece that is accumulated to the first plate. By being configured to capture and hold the plate pieces, it is possible to achieve smooth accumulation and holding as the plate pieces are continuously transferred. Next, regarding the method for packaging plate-shaped articles according to the present invention, a quantitative accumulation device in a packaging device for plate-shaped chewing gum will be exemplified, and the relationship with this device will be explained in detail below.

FIG. 1 shows an example of an apparatus for carrying out the method of the present invention, in which a pre-packaged plate of chewing gum is continuously fed, a predetermined number of chewing gums are accumulated, and the chewing gums are transported to a desired location. The device of this embodiment basically includes a rotating drum 12 that captures and holds prepackaged gum pieces 10 one by one and transfers them, and a piece of gum located close to a part of the circumference of the rotating drum 12. Means 1 for accumulating and holding pieces 10 up to a predetermined number
4, and a rotating body 16 that engages with and transfers a predetermined number of pieces of gum held by the collecting and holding means 14.

A plurality of article holders 18 are provided on the rotating drum 12 at predetermined intervals on the circumferential surface, and each article holder 18 is configured to hold one packaged piece of gum 10 at a time. In addition, when continuously supplying the pieces of gum 10 one by one to this rotating drum 12, for example, a packaging drum 20 having substantially the same configuration as the rotating drum 12 and rotating at the same circumferential speed is placed adjacent to the rotating drum 12 so that the gum pieces 10 are continuously packaged. It is preferable that the gum pieces 10 are directly pressed and transferred one by one to the article holder 18 of the rotating drum 12. The pieces of gum captured on the rotating drum 12 are held inside guide members 22 appropriately disposed along the circumferential surface of the rotating drum 12, and placed in a layer of a gum piece accumulation holding means 14, which will be described later. It will be reliably transferred to the destination. In this embodiment, when transferring the gum pieces 10 one by one to the collecting and holding means 14, by using the above-mentioned rotating drum 12, a paper feeding mechanism 24 is attached to a part of the rotating drum 12, and a guide member 22 is used. Rotating drum 12 as part of
It is possible to provide a belt conveyor 26 that transfers at the same peripheral speed as the circumferential speed of the gum pieces, and as a result, the pieces of gum can be smoothly transferred to the collecting and holding means 14 while being wrapped with a label or the like.

The gum piece 10 accumulation/holding means 14 includes a gum piece holding member 28 disposed close to a part of the outer periphery of the rotating drum 12 and elastically feeding the gum pieces 10 of the rotating drum 12 onto the holding portion 28 one after another. a lever member 3 that elastically holds a plurality of pieces of gum accumulated on the holding member 28 in opposition to each other;
It is composed of 2. That is, in this embodiment, seven pieces of gum are assembled and held, and three loaves are pivotally connected to one end of the bell crank 34, and the end of the bell crank 34 is fixed via a coil spring 36. The cam piece placed on the article holder 18 of the rotary drum 12 is successively delivered onto the holding member 28 by applying elastic force from inside the rotary drum 12 in the centrifugal direction. Also,
The lever member 32 is composed of a lever 38 whose one end is positioned opposite to the roller 30, and a support member 42 which elastically fixes the other end of the lever 38 via a coil spring 40. The other end of the lever 38 is disposed in abutment to the rotating cam 44, and one end of the lever 38 is sequentially displaced in accordance with the number of pieces of gum 10 accumulated by the rotational displacement of the rotating cam 44. Therefore, the rotation of the rotating cam 44 is controlled in accordance with the circumferential speed of the rotating drum 12. When a predetermined number of gum pieces are held in the accumulation holding means 14 in this manner, these gum pieces are transferred in a predetermined direction by the action of the rotating body 16.

That is, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the rotating body 1
6 consists of two disks 46a and 46b facing each other in parallel, and claw portions 48 are provided on the outer peripheries of these disks 46a and 46b at equal intervals, and a roller 50 is provided adjacent to each claw portion 48. will be established. The roller 50 is constructed and arranged so that its circumferential surface projects slightly outward from the outer periphery of the disks 46a and 46b, respectively. The rotary body 16 configured in this manner is arranged such that the claw portion 48 engages with the accumulated gum pieces located on the holding member 28 of the accumulation holding means 14, and further engages the accumulated gum pieces with the claw. The rotating body 16 from the engagement position with the portion 48
A guide member 52 is disposed along the outer periphery of the rotating body 16 to ensure that the accumulated gum pieces are transferred to a predetermined angular position of the rotating body 16.

Note that the pieces of gum transferred in this manner are appropriately sent to the belt conveyor 54 and transferred to the next packaging process.
Next, based on FIGS. 3 to 5, the accumulation and delivery of gum pieces, which are essential parts of the present invention, will be explained in detail.

Pieces of gum 10 continuously transported by a rotating drum 12
The roller 30 is located at a position facing the holding member 28.
The holding member 28 is pushed outward one by one by the action of
It is taught at the top. In this case, the lever 38 that faces the roller 30 and holds the pieces of gum is displaced in accordance with the number of pieces of gum that are pushed out onto the holding member 28 by the action of the rotating cam 44. In this way, when a predetermined number of pieces of gum are accumulated on the holding member 28, the claw portion 48 of the rotating body 16 comes to a position where it engages with the pieces of gum accumulated on the holding member 28 (the third (see figure). Next, the accumulated gum pieces are engaged with the claws 48' of the rotating body 16 and transferred in the direction of rotation of the rotating body 16. In this case, the accumulated gum pieces are held by the holding member 28.
The lever 38 is rotated by a cam 44 for smooth transfer from above.
(See Figure 4).
In addition, since the pieces of gum are continuously transferred even while the lever 38 is held in the maximum displacement state, in the present invention, the roller 50 is provided on the rotating body 16 adjacent to the claw portion 48, so that The first piece of gum is this roller 50 and roller 3.
0, it can be reliably captured and held on the holding member 28 (see FIG. 4). Therefore, when the second piece of gum is supplied, the lever 38 can hold the pieces of gum accumulated by the action of the rotating cam 44 (see FIG. 5). As is clear from the above, according to the present invention, a rotating body having claw portions spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance is provided on the circumference, and pieces of gum are continuously accumulated and held around the outer periphery of the rotating body. Then, while the rotating body is continuously rotated, a predetermined number of gum pieces accumulated at predetermined time intervals can be sequentially and smoothly transferred to the next packaging process by the claws of the rotating body at predetermined time intervals.

Therefore, according to the present invention, the gum piece accumulation holding means can be displaced to a holding state according to the number of accumulated gum pieces in accordance with the timing of supplying gum pieces, so that the accumulation and holding of gum pieces can be extremely reliably carried out. Moreover, since the structure of this accumulation holding means is simple, it is easy to incorporate it into a high-speed gum packaging device, and as a result, it becomes possible to significantly improve the packaging processing capacity for plate-shaped chewing gum.

In particular, if it is directly connected to a packaging device that uses a continuously rotating drum to cut and package pieces of gum, it is possible to manufacture a gum packaging device that is extremely functional and has excellent workability at a low cost. The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above, but it goes without saying that according to the present invention, not only plate-shaped chewing gum but also other similar plate-shaped articles can be easily accumulated and delivered. Various design changes may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an overall mechanical diagram showing an embodiment of an apparatus for carrying out the method of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a sectional view along the Rolo line of FIG. 1, and FIGS. 3 to 5 are explanatory diagrams of operating states of main parts of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1. 10... Gum piece, 12... Rotating drum, 14... Accumulating holding means, 16... Rotating body, 18... Article holder, 20...Packaging drum,
22... Guide member, 24... Paper feeding mechanism, 26...
Belt conveyor, 28... Holding member, 30...
...Roller, 32...Lever member, 34.
... Bell crank, 36 ... Coil spring, 3
8...Lever, 40...Coil spring, 42...
Support member, 44... Rotating cam, 46. ．． ...
- Disc, 48...Claw portion, 50...Roller, 52...Guide member, 54...Belt conveyor. FIG. lFIG. 2 FIG. 3 FIG・muFIG. 5

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A rotation system in which individually wrapped plate pieces are held one by one on the circumferential surface of a rotating drum that continuously rotates and are continuously transferred to an accumulation holding position, and the pieces are continuously rotated at the accumulation holding position. A predetermined number of plate pieces are fed onto the holding member at time intervals until the claws provided on the circumference of the body reach the plate piece accumulation and holding position, and these plate pieces are displaced by rotating cam operation. When a predetermined number of plate pieces have been accumulated, the accumulated plate pieces are engaged with claws provided on the rotary body, and the plate pieces are stacked along the guide member. 1. A method for collecting and transmitting plate-shaped articles in a quantitative manner, characterized by transferring the plate-shaped articles by passing them through a wire. 2. A patent for adjusting the accumulating speed of a predetermined amount of plate pieces to match the peripheral speed of the rotating body when the plate pieces accumulated by the rotating body are engaged with the claw portion and transferred along the guide member. A method for collecting and delivering a fixed quantity of plate-shaped articles according to claim 1. 3. When the plate pieces accumulated by the rotating body are engaged with the claws and transferred along the guide member, a roller is disposed adjacent to the claws of the rotating body, and the plate pieces accumulated by the claws are transferred. 3. A method for accumulating and delivering a quantitative amount of plate-like articles according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the roller holds the first sheet of the plate-like articles to be stacked next when the plate-like articles are fed out. 4. The quantitative accumulation and delivery method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the plate-shaped article is a plate-shaped chewing gum. 5. A continuously rotating drum provided with a large number of article holders on its circumferential surface for continuously transporting packaged plate pieces, and a drum provided close to a part of the circumference of the rotating drum and said a rotating body that engages with and transfers a predetermined number of plate pieces held on the drum, and a holding member that holds the predetermined number of plate pieces in a position where the rotating drum and the rotating body are close to each other. At the same time, the plate pieces supplied one by one from the rotating drum are sequentially placed between the lever member and the lever member, which is displaced toward the rotating body in accordance with the number of accumulated plate pieces by operating the rotating cam with respect to the holding member. a roller for elastically holding the rotating body; a claw portion that engages with a predetermined number of plate pieces held on the holding member at predetermined intervals on the circumferential portion of the rotating body; 1. A method for collecting and delivering a fixed quantity of plate-shaped articles, characterized in that a guide member is provided along the outer periphery for transferring the plate pieces accumulated on the claw portion. 6. When transferring a predetermined number of plate pieces accumulated by the claw portion of the rotating body along the guide member, a roller for catching and holding the next plate piece to be accumulated first is moved to the rotating body. 6. The quantitative accumulation and delivery device for plate-shaped articles according to claim 5, wherein the device is provided adjacent to the claw portion. 7. The quantitative accumulation and delivery method according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the plate-shaped article is a plate-shaped chewing gum.