JPH0651530B2 - Transfer cart for rod-shaped material - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial field of application) The present invention has a function of supplying and discharging a rod-shaped material to a quality assurance device that stamps or attaches a label on the end surface of the rod-shaped material, and transfers a lot of the rod-shaped material. The present invention relates to a bar-shaped material transfer cart having a function of stacking in a stack.

(Prior art and its problems) For the work of refining a rod-shaped material, the work of marking on the end surface of the rod-shaped material, the work of attaching a label to the end surface of the rod-shaped material, and the length / diameter / head of the rod-shaped material Since there is a difference, there is work to sort the lots and transfer the lots of rod-shaped materials.

Conventionally, a device for supplying rod-shaped material to a device for marking the end face of a rod-shaped material or a device for attaching a label to the end surface of the rod-shaped material, and a device for sorting the rod-shaped material into lots and transferring the lot of rod-shaped materials are individually provided. Had changed. For this reason, there has been a problem that the apparatus becomes complicated and the equipment cost increases at the same time.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention is a multifunctional device capable of supplying and discharging a rod-shaped material to a device for marking the end surface of the rod-shaped material and a device for attaching a label to the end surface of the rod-shaped material, and transferring the rod-shaped material lot in an aligned state, and stacking The purpose is to provide a truck.

(Means for Solving Problems) According to the present invention, a collecting material in which a rod-shaped material conveying roller, a sorting roller, a material collecting skid, and a cradle are sequentially arranged in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the rod-shaped material is conveyed by the conveying roller. A transfer cart for rod-shaped materials in equipment, the guide post having an upper end lower than the upper surface of the roller and a protrusion having a vertical flat surface and an inclined lower surface on the upper end, a V-shaped groove on the upper end, and an arm on the side edge. And a swing roller contacting the inclined lower surface of the protrusion provided on the guide post and the vertical plane, and a loading platform provided with a stopper which can be tilted up and down at the tip of the arm, and the loading platform is provided with a rod-shaped member on the V-shaped groove. A dolly for raising and lowering the rod-shaped member on the arm along the guide post over a range where it can be placed and transferred and the bar-shaped material on the arm can be transferred to the bottom of the cradle. The rod-shaped member placed on the above, wherein the swing roller comes into contact with the protrusion to raise the stopper while the upper surface of the arm is positioned at least above the upper surface of the skid skid. It is a transfer truck.

Next, the rod-shaped transfer truck of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

A substantially rectangular guide post 8 is fixed on the trolley 1, a through hole is provided in the loading platform 11, and the guide post 8 is inserted into the through hole of the loading platform 11 so that the loading platform 11 can move up and down along the guide post 8. Therefore, it is preferable that a guide device such as a guide roller 13 or a guide liner attached via the pin 12 is provided on the loading platform 11.

The guide post 8 is provided with a protrusion 25 having an upper end lower than the upper faces of the conveying roller 29, the fixed receiving base 30, and the sorting roller 32, and an upper end thereof having a vertical plane and an inclined lower face.

A V-shaped groove on which the rod-shaped member 16 can be placed at the upper end of the loading platform 11.
14 is provided, and an arm 15 on which a plurality of rod-shaped members 16 can be placed is provided on the side edge of the loading platform 11 below the groove 14. This arm
The upper surface of 15 may be tapered so that the rod-shaped member 16 can roll.

A stopper 19 pivotally supported by a stopper pin 18 is provided at the tip of the arm 15. The stopper 19 is attached to the swing rod 23 via a connecting pin 22, and a swing arm 21 rotatable about the swing pin 20 is attached to the other end of the swing rod 23.
A swing roller 24 is attached to the other end of the swing arm 21. When the swing roller 24 comes into contact with the slope of the protrusion 25 provided on the guide post 8, the stopper 19 at a position lower than the upper surface of the arm 15 starts to stand up centering on the stopper pin 18, and the swing roller 24 is placed on the plane of the protrusion 25. While 24 is in contact, the stopper is held upright.

As described above, the loading platform 11 having the V-shaped groove 14, the arm 15 and the stopper 19 is provided with the bracket 10 having the support pin 9 adjacent to the loading platform 11, and the lifting device 17 can be rotated through the pin 9. Installed on. The lifting nut on the lifting device 17
By providing the 26, the lifting screw 28, and the electric motor 27, the loading platform 11 moves up and down. The lifting and lowering of the loading platform 11 was performed by the lifting nut and the lifting screw, but other lifting means can be adopted.

The above-described rod-shaped material transfer carriage 1 of the present invention travels on the rail 7 by the chain 3, the drive sprocket 4 and the driven sprocket 5 which are stopped by the stoppers 2 provided at the front and rear ends of the carriage, and is illustrated. The transfer trolley can be driven and stopped by rotating and stopping the drive sprocket 5 by an actuator that does not exist.

Next, based on FIGS. 2 to 6, an example of the arrangement of the transfer cart for the rod-shaped material of the present invention that moves in synchronization and the handling of the rod-shaped material will be described.

As shown in FIG. 2, a conveying roller 29 for the rod-shaped material 16, a fixed receiving base 30 having a V-shaped upper portion, a marking machine 31, a sorting roller 32, a labeling machine 33, a collecting skid 34, a cradle 35 and a rod-shaped material. The transfer carriage 1 is arranged. The rod-shaped member 16 is conveyed in the direction of the arrow A, and when stopped at the stop reference position, the rod-shaped member 16 is transferred to the fixed pedestal 30 by the transfer carriage 1 and is stamped on the tip surface of the rod-shaped member 16 by the marking machine 31. Next, a rod-shaped material stamped with the transfer cart 1.
16 is transferred to the sorting roller 32, and the label is attached to the end surface of the rod-shaped material by the label attaching machine 33. After applying the label,
It is necessary to sort the rod-shaped materials according to the length, diameter and destination of the rod-shaped material, and the rod-shaped material is sorted into lots by setting a plurality of sorting zones (in FIG. 2, the sorting zones are set to I to III). . At this time, in order to facilitate binding and handling of a plurality of rod-shaped materials that form a lot, the sorting rollers 32 are controlled so that the centers of the rod-shaped materials are substantially the same, and they are conveyed to a predetermined sorting zone. To lining. The rod-shaped material that has been aligned is transferred by the transfer carriage 1 to the collecting skid 34 having an inclined upper surface and a stopper at the tip, and the rod-shaped material rolls on the inclined surface of the collecting skid to collect. Align the material skid 34 with the stopper surface as the reference. When the number of rods on the collecting skid reaches a specified number, the transfer cart 1
Then, it is transferred to the cradle 35 and stacked.

From the transfer roller 29 of the transfer cart 1 described above to the fixed pedestal 30
Transfer of the rod-shaped material to the sorting table 32, transfer of the rod-shaped material from the fixed support 30 to the sorting roller 32, transfer of the rod-shaped material that has been aligned to the collecting skid 34 from the sorting roller 32, and a predetermined number of The transfer of the rod-shaped material from the collecting skid 34 to the clade 35 will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 to 6.

Third, transfer of the rod-shaped material 16 from the transport roller 29 to the fixed receiving table 30 and transfer of the rod-shaped material 16 from the fixed receiving table 30 to the sorting roller 32 are performed.
A description will be given based on the figure. First, at the position where the center of the groove 14 of the loading platform 11 and the center of the carrying roller 29 are aligned, move the groove 14 into
It is made to stand by in the descending 1st position lower than 29, and then the loading platform 11 is raised and the bar 16 is placed in the groove 14 and stopped in the ascending 1st position. In this state, the carriage 1 is moved in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 2, and when the rod-shaped member 16 comes to the center of the fixed receiving base 30, the carriage 1 is stopped, and then the groove 14 of the loading platform 11 is fixed. The rod-shaped member 16 is lowered to the lower first position, and the conveying roller 29
It is transferred to the fixed pedestal 30. Further, the transfer of the rod-shaped material from the fixed receiving table 30 to the sorting roller 32 is similarly performed.

Next, the sorting roller 32 for the rod-shaped material that has been aligned
The transfer to the collecting skid 34 will be described with reference to FIG. First, at the position where the center of the groove 14 of the loading platform 11 and the center of the sorting roller 32 coincide with each other, the groove 14 of the loading platform is made to stand by at the lower first position where the groove 14 is lower than the sorting roller 32. Then the loading platform 11
And the rod-shaped material 16 for which the aligning is completed is placed in the groove 14 and lifted to a second elevated position higher than the upper surface of the collecting skid 34. In this state, the carriage 1 is moved in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 2, and when the groove 14 of the loading platform 11 reaches the position shown in FIG. 4, the carriage is stopped. After that, the groove 14 of the loading platform 11 is lowered to the lowering first position lower than the upper surface of the collecting skid 34, and the rod-shaped material is transferred to the collecting skid 34. This operation is performed until the number of rod-shaped members on the collecting skid reaches a predetermined number.

Further, a state in which a predetermined number of rod-shaped members 16 are transferred from the gathering skid 34 to the cradle 35 will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6. When the number of rod-shaped members 16 on the collecting skid 34 reaches a predetermined number, the loading platform 11 is moved to make the arm 15 of the loading platform 11 stand by at a position lower than the collecting skid 34. Thereafter, the loading platform 11 is raised, and at a position where the upper surface of the skid skid 34 and the upper surface of the arm 15 substantially coincide with each other, the swing roller 24 shown in FIG. Stand up,
Make sure that the bar 16 does not fall from the arm 15. Furthermore,
The platform 11 is raised to raise the arm 15 of the platform 11 to the third elevated position shown in FIG. After that, the carriage is moved in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 2 and stopped at the position shown by the chain double-dashed line in FIG. After that, the arm 15 also descends with the lowering of the loading platform 11, and the rod-shaped material 16 on the arm 15 is cradleed during the lowering.
After transferring to 35 and stopping the loading platform at the lowered position shown in FIG. 6, the cart is moved in the direction opposite to the arrow B direction shown in FIG. 2 and stands by at a position lower than the conveyance roller 29 shown in FIG. Let Further, when stacking the rod-shaped materials on the cradle 35, after stopping the lowering of the arm 15 just above the rod-shaped materials on the cradle 35, the carriage is moved in the direction opposite to the direction B shown in FIG. To complete. In this case, the effective depth of the cradle is determined so that the upper surface of the arm is lower than the upper surface of the collecting skid.

Further, as shown in FIG. 7, a proximity sensor 37 is provided on the lower side of the arm 15 so that when the arm 15 descends and the rod 37 on the cradle 35 is detected by the proximity sensor 37, the arm 15 of the loading platform is stopped. You can also

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, the bogie of the present invention is a stamper for stick-shaped material,
Since it has a function of supplying / discharging to / from the label sticking machine and a function of transferring a plurality of aligned rod-shaped members forming a lot in an aligned state and stacking them, the facility cost can be significantly reduced. Further, since the carriage of the present invention has no restriction on the amount of movement in the direction perpendicular to the rod-shaped material, a marking machine, a labeling machine,
Positions of sorting rollers etc. can be determined without waste, and a compact layout can be achieved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a view showing an embodiment of a bogie of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view of a rod-shaped material adjusting facility in which the bogie of the present invention is arranged, and FIGS. 3, 4, and 5 are FIG. 6 is a view taken along the line AA of FIG. 2, showing a transfer state of a rod-shaped material, FIG. 6 is a view showing a state in which the rod-shaped material is transferred to a cradle and completed, and FIG. It is an aspect of the present invention showing a luggage carrier suitable for stacking materials. 1 ... Truck 2 ... Stopper 3 ... Chain 4 ... Drive sprocket 5 ... Drive sprocket, 6 ... Wheel 7 ... Rail, 8 ... Guide post 9 ... Support pin, 10 ... Bracket 11 …… Loading platform, 12 …… Pin 13 …… Guide roller, 14 …… Groove 15 …… Arm, 16 …… Bar material 17 …… Lift device, 18 …… Stopper pin 19 …… Stopper, 20 …… Swing pin 21 …… Swing arm, 22 …… Connecting pin 23 …… Swing rod, 24 …… Swing roller 25 …… Protrusion, 26 …… Elevating nut 27 …… Electric motor, 28 …… Elevating screw 29 …… Conveying roller, 30… … Fixed cradle 31 …… Stamping machine, 32 …… Sorting roller 33 …… Labeling machine, 34 …… Collecting skid 35 …… Cradle, 36 …… Proximity sensor

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ───Continued from the front page (56) References JP-A-51-116563 (JP, A) Actually opened 53-29083 (JP, U) Actually opened 59-88027 (JP, U) JP-B 45- 11256 (JP, B1) Japanese Patent Sho 55-2385 (JP, B2) Actual 53-24532 (JP, Y2)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A transfer cart for a rod-shaped material in a material gathering facility in which a rod-shaped material conveying roller, a sorting roller, a collecting skid and a cradle are sequentially arranged in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the conveying roller conveys the rod-shaped material. A guide post having a protrusion whose upper end is lower than the upper face of the roller and which has a vertical plane and an inclined lower face at its upper end;
A V-shaped groove on the upper end, an arm on the side edge, a swing roller contacting the inclined lower surface of the protrusion provided on the guide post and a vertical plane, and a loading platform provided with a retractable stopper at the tip of the arm, The loading platform is moved up and down along the guide post over a range in which the rod-shaped member can be moved while the rod-shaped member is placed on the V-shaped groove and a height where the rod-shaped member on the arm can be transferred to the bottom of the cradle. The lifting means and the lifting means are mounted on a trolley, and while the upper surface of the arm is located at least above the upper surface of the skid skid, the swing roller comes into contact with the protrusion to raise the stopper. Characteristic rod-shaped transfer truck.