JPH0818668B2 - Plate material take-out device and storage device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial field of application) The present invention relates to a plate take-out device and a storage device for the same.

(Problems to be Solved by Related Art and Invention) A glass plate will be described as an example of the plate material. For example, there is a device in which a glass plate is taken out from a cassette that stores a plurality of glass plates, the surface of the glass plate is processed (such as formation of a conductive film), and the processed glass plate is stored again in the cassette. Here, the cassette is used for facilitating the transportation of a glass plate that is easily damaged, but the problem in this case is how to take out the glass plate from the cassette and how to store the glass plate in the cassette. That is.

There may be various means as long as the glass plate is simply taken out from the cassette or the glass plate is stored in the cassette, but the processing of the glass plate after being taken out from the cassette or the glass plate after being stored in the cassette In consideration of handling, it is necessary to arrange the glass plates in an orderly manner to store the glass plates in the cassette and remove the glass plate from the cassette. Further, it is desirable that the time for storing and taking out the glass plate is short and the device is simple.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above points, and a purpose thereof is to store a plurality of plate materials in a cassette while aligning and storing the plate materials from the cassette. (EN) It is an object to provide a plate material take-out device and a storage device having a simple structure that takes out a short time.

(Means for Solving Problems) A plate material take-out device according to the present invention for solving the above problems is provided with a plate material inlet / outlet on the front surface and an opening on the back surface,
A cassette that stores a plurality of plate materials at an equal pitch, and a cassette inversion support device that supports a cassette in which the doors face upward and a plurality of plate materials are stored in a vertical direction, and reverses 90 ° until the plate materials are horizontally oriented. , A vertical direction endless belt is arranged in parallel with a pay-out cylinder device that enters from the opening on the back of the inverted cassette and horizontally discharges the plate material collectively, and supports the plate material on the outer peripheral surface of the endless belt. It consists of a stock conveyor that stores the dispensed plate materials in a batch by providing support projections for the same pitch.The vertically oriented plate materials are once changed to the horizontal direction, and transferred to the stock conveyor in this state. The stock conveyor is characterized by lowering or raising a horizontally oriented plate material group.

Further, in the plate material storage device of the present invention, two vertical endless belts are arranged in parallel, support projections for supporting the plate material are provided at equal pitches on the outer peripheral surface of the endless belt, and the endless belts are loaded one by one. A stock conveyor that stores plate materials and moves up or down in a stacked form in the height direction, a dispensing cylinder device that horizontally discharges a certain number of plate material groups stored on this stock conveyor horizontally, and a doorway for the plate materials. Equipped on the front,
A cassette for storing the discharged plate materials at an equal pitch; and a cassette reversing support device for supporting the cassette and reversing the plate members 90 ° so that the plate members being stored are oriented vertically, Stock the plates one by one, stack them up and down, and then transfer them to the cassette.
Further, the cassette is turned upside down so that the plate material is oriented vertically.

(Operation) According to the plate material take-out device of the present invention, a plurality of plate materials vertically accommodated in the cassette are inverted by 90 ° until the plate materials are horizontally oriented by the cassette inversion support device, and are collectively collected by the pay-out cylinder device. Are horizontally discharged, are collectively stored on the stock conveyor, are lowered or raised by the stock conveyor, and are conveyed to a rearward processing process or the like.

Further, according to the plate material storage device of the present invention, the processed plate materials are stocked one by one by the stock conveyor in a stacked state, and are raised or lowered in the height direction, and are collectively transferred to the cassette by the dispensing cylinder device. Then, it is discharged horizontally, inverted 90 ° by the cassette inversion support device, and stored vertically.

(Embodiment) A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 12 attached thereto, taking a glass plate as an example. Although the present invention relates to a stock conveyor and a cassette reversing support device, a glass plate take-out device and a storage device for the glass plate including a conveyor and the like arranged before and after the stock conveyor will be described for the sake of easy understanding. .

The overall structure of the device is that the glass plates are taken out one by one from the cassette containing the glass plates, and the glass plate take-out device that conveys the glass plates to the processing step, and the processed glass plates are stored in the cassette. First, the take-out device will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 6 and 12.

First, the cassette K for storing the glass plate L will be described with reference to FIG.
E, KE, bottom plate KB and left and right side plates KS, KS. Inside the side plates KS, KS, supporting protrusions KT, ...
Are vertically provided at a predetermined pitch P in the front-rear direction of the cassette K, and a predetermined number of glass plates L, ... With a predetermined shape are accommodated in the gap between the support protrusions KT ,. Further, a groove KP notched in the front and rear is formed in the central portion of the bottom plate KB, and the glass plates L, ... Inside the cassette K can be collectively pushed out of the cassette K through the groove KP. . KE-
Reference numeral 1 is a transport stopper.

Now, as shown in FIG. 1, the take-out device is a glass plate L, ...
A cassette conveyer 10 for transporting the cassette K storing thereinto, an empty cassette conveyer 20 for discharging an empty cassette K backward, a cassette K received from the cassette conveyer 10, and the cassette K is reversed to the front. The glass plates L, ... Are discharged from the cassette K to the next stock conveyor 40, and the cassette reversal supporting device 30 that conveys the empty cassette K to the empty cassette conveyor 20 and the cassette reversing supporting device 30 are collectively operated. A stock conveyor 40 for intermittently lowering the glass plates L, ... Received at a predetermined pitch P, and a take-out conveyor 60 for horizontally placing and taking out the glass plates L ,. , The first and second brush conveyors 70, 80, etc. for conveying the glass plates L, ... From the take-out conveyor 60 in a predetermined manner and for narrowing the gap between the glass plates L ,. I have. The individual devices will be sequentially described below.

The cassette conveyor 10 is supported on the upper beams 2a, 2a of the gantry 2 arranged on the base 1 in the front-rear direction, and is a glass plate.
The cassette K, ..., accommodating L, ... Is conveyed to the front cassette reversing support device 30. Cassette K is its bottom plate KB
Abutting on the cassette conveyor 10 and front and rear plates KE, KE
One of them (one without the stopper KE-1) is directed forward, and the glass plates L, ...
A cassette stopper 13 is supported on the left and right support plates 11, 11 standing on the upper beams 2a, 2a of the gantry 2 on both sides of the cassette conveyor 10 via a connecting member 12 or the like, and the cassette stopper 13 is attached to the cassette K. The transport stopper KE-1 is engaged to stop movement of the cassettes K, .... Of course, in this case, the cassette conveyor 10 is also stopped. Further, the lateral positioning of the cassettes K, ... Is performed by rollers (not shown) attached to the side plates 14, 14 shown in FIG. Reference numeral 15 is a drive motor for the cassette conveyor 10. The empty cassette conveyor 20 is provided on the lower beams 2b, 2b of the gantry 2 immediately below the cassette conveyor 10 in the front and rear,
The empty cassettes K, ... From the cassette reversing support device 30 are discharged to the rear. This empty cassette conveyor
An additional conveyor 21, which is driven from its drive source via a chain or the like, is connected to the rear side of 20.

The cassette reversing support device 30 is slidably supported in the vertical direction on rails 3a, 3a supported by a substantially triangular support frame 3, 3 supported by the front end of the base 1, and the lower part 31a and the side. Part 31b
The L-shaped cassette base 31, the device base 32 that supports the cassette base 31 and moves up and down along the rails 3a, 3a, and the cassette base attached to the device body 32.
A reversing cylinder 33 for rotating 31 around the apparatus main body 32, and a paying-out cylinder device 34 for collectively paying out the glass plates L, ... Etc.

The cassette table 31 is provided at its lower portion 31a with belt conveyors 35, 35 capable of rotating in the forward and reverse directions. The cassette table 31 receives the cassette K from the cassette conveyor 10 at the elevated position and the cassette table 31 has an empty cassette conveyor at the lowered position. The empty cassette K is delivered to 20. The cassette K transferred to the cassette table 31 is fixed by a fixing device (not shown), and is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise in FIG. 1 by the rotation of the cassette table 31 by the reversing cylinder 33 to rotate the cassette table 31 side. It is supported by 31b and the direction can be changed. In this state, the glass plates L, ...
It is arranged in the groove of the bottom plate KB of the cassette K.
The glass cylinders L in the cassette K are collectively discharged to the stock conveyor 40 by the discharging cylinder device 34 facing the KP. The empty cassette K here is 90 of the cassette stand 31.
Empty cassette conveyor 20 by reversing, descending and releasing fixing
Be paid out to.

The stock conveyor 40 is supported on the front and rear beams 4a, 4a of the supporting frame 4 arranged in front of the cassette reversing support device 30, and the rails on the front and rear beams 4a, 4a are shown in FIG. 8, a base 41 that is movable back and forth along the rails 8, and a left-right symmetrical vertical belt rotating device 42, 42 that is slidably supported left and right by rails 41a, 41a on the base 41. It is a thing.

The central portion of the base portion 41 is screwed with a front-rear feed shaft 43 having feed screws formed in the front-rear direction, and the front-rear feed shaft 43 has its both ends pivotally supported by the left and right beams 4b, 4b of the support frame 4. Since the longitudinal movement motor 44 supported by one of the left and right beams 4b, 4b is driven to rotate, the rotation of the longitudinal movement motor 44 allows the base portion 41 to move back and forth.

Further, the belt rotating devices 42, 42 are separated from each other by a predetermined distance to the left and right, and the lower ends of the main bodies 42a, 42a are supported by the left and right rails 41a, 41a on the base 41, and the main bodies 42a, 42a.
Since the left and right feed shafts 45, which are pivotally supported by the base 41 and have left and right feed screws formed in opposite directions, are screwed together slightly above the lower end portion, two belt rotation devices are rotated by rotation of the left and right drive motor 46. 42, 42 can be moved toward and away from each other in the left-right direction.

Two rotating shafts 47a, 47a are provided at the upper and lower parts of the main body 42a of the belt rotating device 42, and two pulleys 47,
An endless belt 48 that rotates up and down is mounted on the pulleys 47, 47. The belt 48 is provided with horizontal support projections 49 projecting outward at a predetermined pitch P. The device inner part 48a of the belt 48 projects inward from the main body 42a, and the device outer part 48b. Is pulled outward by a tension member 50. The belt 48 is intermittently lowered by a predetermined pitch P by the rotation of the pulley 47 by the stepping motor 51 at the inner part 48a of the apparatus.

Since the support protrusions 49, ... Of the belts 48, 48 of the left and right belt rotating devices 42, 42 are arranged at the same vertical position, the belt is rotated by the width of the glass plate L. apparatus
When the belts 48, 48 of 42, 42 are separated from each other, a plurality of glass plates are vertically arranged at a predetermined pitch P between the supporting protrusions 49 ,.
L, ... Can be supported horizontally, and the glass plates L, ... Can be lowered intermittently at a predetermined pitch P by driving the stepping motors 51,51.

Further, the glass plates L, ... From the cassette K are supplied to the stock conveyor 40 when the belt rotation devices 42,42 are in a stopped state before the next step operation, and the glass plates L are moved downward. Take-out conveyor when descending to a predetermined position
It is carried forward by 60. This stock conveyor
Since the glass plates L, ... For two cassettes K can be supported on the cassette 40, the glass plates L, ... Are supplied by the next cassette K when the upper glass plates L ,.

The take-out conveyor 60 is arranged between the belt rotating devices 42, 42 of the stock conveyor 40, and includes four pulleys 61, ...
It consists of an endless conveyor belt 62 that is circumscribed by 1, ...
The pulleys 61, ... are front and rear, upper and lower support members 4d of the front and rear beams 4a, 4a of the support frame 4, and the upper and lower beams 4c ,. 63, ... It is fixed in the center. In the center of this pulley 61, a V-shaped groove 61
a is formed, and the V-shaped engaging portion 62a is also formed on the conveyor belt 62, so that the V-shaped engaging portion 62a engages with the V-shaped groove 61a, and the conveyor belt 62 rotates to the left and right. The positional shift in the direction is regulated.

Further, the conveyor belt 62 is narrower than the glass plate L and supports the central portion of the glass plate L to convey the glass plate L, and the portion where the conveyor belt 62 passes between the belt rotating devices 42, 42 is It slides on the suction device 64 of the glass plate L located under the belt rotation devices 42, 42. The suction device 64 is supported on the base 41 of the stock conveyor 40, has a V-shaped groove 64b for the conveyor belt 62 as shown in FIG. 6, and has a space 64c in which the inside is maintained in a negative pressure state. Is formed in a box shape and has suction holes 64a, ... Penetrating to the side of the conveyor belt 62 on its upper surface. On the other hand, since the conveyor belt 62 also has suction holes 62b, ... Corresponding to the suction holes 64a in the longitudinal direction of the belt, it is supported by the support projections 49, 49 of the stock conveyor 40 and descends as shown in FIG. When the glass plate L is received by the upper surface of the conveyor belt 62, the glass plate L is sucked by the suction holes 62b, 64a,
It will be adsorbed and supported on the surface of the conveyor belt 62 via the ... And will be taken out from the stock conveyor 40 forward at a predetermined interval as the conveyor belt 62 moves forward.

The first brush conveyer 70 transfers the glass plates L, ..., which are conveyed forward from the take-out conveyer 60, to the next second brush conveyer 80. As shown in FIG. Of the rotary shaft 63a, two sprockets 72, 72 attached to the left and right of the pulley 61, and two sprockets 72, 72 provided at the center of the rotary shaft 71 pivotally supported on the front support frame 4 in the left and right directions. The conveyor belts 73, 73 each having an outer surface in the shape of a brush are meshed with each other and are rotated. The conveyor belts 73, 73 are the first
As shown in the figure, another rotation shaft 74 slightly below the support frame 4 is provided.
Is also engaged via a sprocket, etc.
The tension of the conveyor belts 73, 73 is adjusted by moving the belt up and down.

Further, 75 is a drive sprocket rotated by a drive source (not shown), and the first sprocket 75 drives the first brush conveyor 70, and the take-out conveyor 60 is also driven via a rotary shaft 63a. . Therefore, the glass sheet L from the take-out conveyor 60 is also carried forward by the first brush conveyor 70 at the same speed as the take-out conveyor 60.

Reference numeral 76 is a support plate for preventing the conveyor belt 73 from sagging.

The second brush conveyor 80 is arranged at the frontmost part of the support frame 4 so that the rear part thereof is slightly overlapped with the first brush conveyor 70, and the rotary shaft 81 pivotally supported at the front end of the support frame 4 is provided.
And a rotary shaft 82 disposed slightly rearward of the rotary shaft 71 of the first brush conveyor 70, and a rotary shaft 83 rotatably supported at a slightly lower portion of the support frame 4 through sprockets 84, ... Is a mesh of three brush-shaped conveyor belts 85, .... Here, 86 is a drive sprocket that is rotationally driven by a drive source (not shown), and the rotational speed of the rotary shaft 82 is the rotary shaft of the first brush conveyor 70.
Since it rotates more slowly than 71, the glass plates L, ..., Which have been conveyed by the first brush conveyor 70, will be interspaced between the glass plates L, .. . Reference numeral 87 is a support plate for preventing the conveyor belt 85 from hanging down.

The overall operation of the glass plate take-out device described above will be described below.

The cassette K containing the glass plates L, ... Conveyed by the cassette conveyer 10 is supported by the cassette reversing support device 30 and then reversed 90 degrees forward so that the inner glass plates L ,. Are collectively transferred to the stock conveyor 40 in a horizontal state. The remaining empty cassette K is reversed to the original position by the cassette reversing support device 30, and is lowered to the position of the empty cassette conveyor 20 and transferred to the empty cassette conveyor 20.

The glass plates L, ... Transferred to the stock conveyor 40 are conveyed by a pitch downward by the stock conveyor 40, and the glass plate L at the lowermost end is the take-out conveyor.
It is adsorbed and supported by 60 and transported forward. Take-out conveyor
The suction of the glass plate L by 60 is released at a predetermined position, and is transferred to the next first brush conveyor 70. And the glass plate L,
Is further transferred to the second brush conveyor 80 which moves at a lower speed than the first brush conveyor 70 with the space between the glass plates L, ... It is further conveyed by another conveyer or the like.

Next, the storage device will be described with reference to FIGS. 7 to 11. The basic idea of the storage device is that the method of transporting the cassette K or the glass plate L of the take-out device is reversed, and detailed description of the same device as the take-out device will be omitted.

The basic structure of the storage device is as shown from right to left in FIG. 7, a payout conveyor 100, a first alignment device 110, an input conveyor 120, and a stock conveyor 13.
0, a cassette reversing support device 150, a cassette carrying conveyor 160, an empty cassette carrying conveyor 161, and the like.

The pay-out conveyor 100 is provided at the rearmost part of the pedestal 5 which is long in the front and back, and lowers the front end of the pay-out conveyor 100 to put the defective glass plate L into the waste box 190 below the pay-out conveyor 100. Frame 5 front and rear beams 5a,
Two frame members 102, 102 are fixed to the inner ends of the left and right support shafts 101, 101 pivotally supported by the support members 5c, 5c on 5a,
Two front and rear rotary shafts 103, 103 are pivotally supported between the frame members 102, 102, and a conveyor belt 10 having five brush-shaped outer surfaces via sprockets 104 ,.
5, ... are installed. Therefore, the drive source (not shown)
Conveyor belts 105, ... Glass plates L, ..., which have been conveyed one by one with the upper side moving forward, are transferred to the next conveyor 12
It will be transferred to 0.

Here, the tip ends of the rods 106a, 106a of the rotating cylinders 106, 106 pivotally supported by the support member 5c are pivotally attached to the outer ends of the support shafts 101, 101 via the arm members 107, 107. As the rods 106a, 106a extend, the front ends of the frame members 102, 102 rotate downward via the support shafts 101, 101, so that the glass plate L that has not been machined can be put into the waste box 190.

The infeed conveyor 120 inserts the glass plates L, ... Received from the payout conveyor 100 into the stock conveyor 130 one by one, and places them. The support members 5c on the front and rear beams 5a, 5a of the gantry 5, ... and the upper and lower beams 5b, 4 rotary shafts supported between
121, ... Two endless conveyor belts 124, 124 are stretched in a rectangular shape in a central portion via a sprocket 123 ,. The outer surface of the conveyor belt 124 has a brush shape, and the upper portion of the conveyor belt 124 is moved forward by the drive source 125. In addition, on the rear side of the incoming conveyor 120, two new conveyor belts 127, are provided between another rotary shaft 122 and a rotary shaft 121 at the rear end via sprockets 126 ,.
127 is arranged and the conveyance surface of the glass plate L is wide. Reference numerals 128 and 129 denote support plates that prevent the conveyor belts 124, 127, ...

The first alignment device 110 aligns the horizontal positions of the glass plates L, ... Which are conveyed on the conveyor so that the glass plates L, .. As shown in the figure, it is attached downward at the center of the gate-shaped beam 111 erected on the support frame 5. A cylinder member 112, in which upper and lower two-stage cylinders 112a, 112a facing in the left-right direction are formed, is fixed to the lower part of the gate-shaped beam 111, and two rods 113, 114 are provided in the cylinders 112a, 112a.
Are movably supported in different directions. A gear 115 that is rotated by a drive device (not shown) is fitted in the boundary between the two cylinders 112a, 112a of the cylinder member 112, and the gear 115 is attached to the upper and lower racks 113a, 114a formed on the rods 113, 114. Since the gears 115 are meshed with each other, the rotation of the gear 115 in the counterclockwise direction in FIG. 11 causes the upper rod 113 to move leftward in the figure and the lower rod 114 move rightward in the figure.

L-shaped positioning members 116 and 117 are fixed to opposite ends of the rods 113 and 114, respectively, a positioning plate 118 is provided at one of the opposing ends, and a rotatable positioning roller 119 is provided at the other of the opposing ends. Are installed respectively. The positioning member 116, 117 has the other rod 11
Rod insertion holes 116a and 117a are provided to prevent interference with 3,114. Since the positioning roller 119 and the positioning plate 118 are arranged at the height corresponding to the conveying surface of the glass plates L, ..., The glass plate L obliquely placed on the entrance conveyor 120 is the first plate. 1 When it is carried on the alignment device 110, the positioning plate 118 and the positioning roller 119 that are open to the left and right move to the center by the rotation of the gear 115 and come into contact with the side end portion of the glass plate, so that the glass plate L is removed. Move in the correct direction and position.

Another second alignment device 180 is also symmetrically arranged on the support base 5 behind the stock conveyor 130, and the two second alignment devices 180 are rotationally moved around the rollers 181, ... And separated by the width of the glass plate L. The belts 182, 182 come into contact with the side end portions of the glass plate L to finally adjust the position adjustment of the glass plate L by the first alignment device 110. 183,
Reference numeral 183 is a drive source for the rollers 181, ....

The stock conveyor 130 arranged on the gantry 5 so as to sandwich the entrance conveyor 120 is the stock conveyor 4 described above.
A base 131, which is exactly the same as 0, and can be moved back and forth on the rails 9 and 9 of the gantry 5 by a forward and backward movement motor 133, and
Along with the upper rails 131a, 131a, the left and right motors 134, the shaft 135, and the like can approach and separate from each other in the left-right direction, and are composed of vertical-type and left-right symmetrical belt rotating devices 132, 132 and the like.

The belt rotation device 132 includes a support protrusion 137 having a predetermined pitch P,
An endless conveyor belt 136 having ...
It is mounted between 8 and 138, and the stepping motor 139 causes the inner part 136a of the conveyor belt 136 to intermittently move from below to above at a predetermined pitch P. Left and right belt rotating devices 132, 132, support belts 136, 136 of the supporting belts 137, ...
Are located at positions opposite to each other in the vertical direction, and the distance between the left and right conveyor belts 136, 136 is adjusted to be substantially equal to the width of the glass plate L. Therefore, the glass plate L conveyed by the infeed conveyor 120. Will be inserted and supported on the left and right support protrusions 137, 137 of the conveyor belts 136, 136.

Here, since a glass stopper (not shown) is arranged on the front side of the stock conveyor 130 where the glass plate L is inserted from the entry conveyor 120 to the stock conveyor 130, the glass inserted by the entry conveyor 120 The plate L abuts on the glass plate stopper and the stock conveyor 13
Positioned on 0.

A pay-out cylinder device 170 is fixed to the upper part of the gate-shaped beam 171 arranged on the gantry 5 on the slightly rear side of the stock conveyor 130, and a push plate 172 attached to the tip of the rod.
At the front of the cassette reversing support device, a predetermined number of glass plates (for one box of cassettes) L, ...
It can be extruded toward 150.

The cassette inversion support device 150 is movably supported up and down by the support pedestals 7, 7 on the base 6 arranged in front of the support pedestal 5 via rails 7a, 7a.
The L-shaped cassette base 151 pivotally supported by 53 is capable of reversing 90 degrees, and glass plates L, ... Are placed in a predetermined pitch P from the stock conveyor 130 in the cassette K on the cassette base 151.
After being stored in, the cassette K is transferred to the front cassette conveyor 160. The cassette table 151 includes a cassette K having a glass plate L, ...
After transferring to the
Received empty cassette K from 1 and moved up to stock conveyor 1
The operation of reversing to the 30 side and storing the glass plates L, ... In this empty cassette K is repeated.

 The overall operation of the storage device will be described below.

The processed glass plates L, ... Are placed and conveyed one by one on a conveyor (not shown), but the payout conveyor 10
When transferred to 0, the defective product is discharged into the waste box 190.
The well-processed glass plates L, ... Are transferred to the incoming conveyor 120, the positional deviation on the conveyor is adjusted by the first and second alignment devices 110 and 180, and the stock conveyor 130 is moved up and down one by one at a predetermined pitch P. And transferred intermittently to the upper pitch.

A predetermined amount of glass plate L, ...
Is conveyed to a predetermined height, the glass plates L, ... Are stored in the empty cassette K on the front cassette reversing support device 150 by the payout cylinder device 170. The cassette K is transferred to the cassette conveyor 160 by the reversal of the cassette table 151 of the cassette reversing support device 150 and conveyed to a predetermined place. Further, when the empty cassette K carried from the empty cassette carrying conveyor 161 by the descending of the cassette table 151 is carried into this cassette table 151, the cassette table 151
Rises and turns toward the stock conveyor 130, and repeats the same movement thereafter.

(Effect of the Invention) As is clear from the above, according to the present invention, it is possible to transfer a plurality of plate materials from the cassette to the stock conveyor collectively at a predetermined pitch by the cassette reversing support device and the payout cylinder device, and at the same time, by the payout cylinder device. Since a plurality of plate materials can be collectively transferred from the stock conveyor to the cassette on the cassette inversion support device at a predetermined pitch, the plate materials can be taken out orderly and quickly from the cassette, and the plate materials can be aligned and stored in the cassette quickly. it can.

In addition, since the stock conveyor can intermittently convey plate materials upward or downward, it is possible to collect individual processed plate materials in the vertical direction at a predetermined pitch, or to dispense and process the collected plate materials individually. convenient.

Further, the above-mentioned take-out device and storage device can be constituted by a cassette, a cassette reversing support device, a pay-out cylinder device and a stock conveyor having a simple structure, and the whole device can be miniaturized.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 is a side view of the take-out device, FIG. 2 is a plan view of FIG.
FIG. 3 is a front view of the stock conveyor and the take-out conveyor, FIG. 4 is a side view of FIG. 3, FIG. 5 is a plan view of FIG. 3, and FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of part X of FIG. The figure is a partial side view of the storage device, FIG. 8 is a plan view of FIG. 7, FIG. 9 is a front view of a stock conveyor and an infeed conveyor, FIG. 10 is a plan view of FIG. 9, and FIG. 1 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the alignment device, and FIG. 12 is a view showing a cassette. In the drawing, 30 and 150 are cassette reversal supporting devices, 34 and 170 are payout cylinder devices, 40 and 130 are stock conveyors, K is a cassette, L is a glass plate, and P is a pitch.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A cassette for storing a plurality of plate members at an equal pitch, and a cassette having a plurality of plate members at a front side and openings at a rear side, and a cassette in which the plurality of plate members are stored in a vertical direction with the inlets and outlets facing upward. The cassette reversing support device that supports the plate and turns it 90 degrees until it is horizontally oriented, the ejection cylinder device that enters the plate material horizontally through the opening on the back of the inverted cassette, and the two vertical units. The endless belts of the mold are arranged in parallel, the supporting protrusions for supporting the plate material are provided on the outer peripheral surface of the endless belt at equal pitches, and the stock conveyor for accommodating the discharged plate materials collectively is formed. A plate material take-out device, characterized in that the oriented plate material is once changed to a horizontal direction, transferred in this state to a stock conveyor, and the horizontally oriented plate material group is lowered or raised by this stock conveyor. 2. Two vertical endless belts are arranged in parallel,
A stock conveyor that has support projections for supporting the plate material at equal pitches on the outer peripheral surface of the endless belt, stores the inserted plate materials one by one, and moves up or down in a stacking form in the height direction, and this stock A dispensing cylinder device that horizontally discharges a fixed number of plate materials stored on a conveyor in a horizontal direction, a cassette equipped with a plate material inlet / outlet on the front surface, and a cassette that stores the discharged plate materials at an equal pitch, and supports this cassette. However, it consists of a cassette reversing support device that turns the entrance upwards and turns the stored plate materials 90 ° so that they are oriented vertically. The plate material storage device is characterized in that the plate material is transferred to a cassette, and the cassette is inverted to make the plate material face up.