JPH085457B2 - Fruit boxing equipment - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a fruit packaging device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A form in which a plurality of fruits are adsorbed at the same time and packed into a box is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Publication No.
It is known from, for example, Japanese Patent Publication No. 8-38398. By the way, in the form described in the above publication, a space for adsorbing fruits is separately formed from the drawing conveyor, fruits are packed in this space, and the fruits are hung by a vacuum suction board from above, and laterally moved into a cardboard case. Since it is a method of inserting, when it is necessary to stack a plurality of stages of fruits in a corrugated cardboard case, it is necessary to manually supply the partition material.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is intended to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and the selected fruit F is provided in the transfer intermediate portion of the partition material conveyor 12 which receives and transfers the partition materials 2, 2.
To the partition material 2 on standby on the partition material conveyor 12 except for the end side of the drawer conveyor 7 to be transferred, and at the transfer end part of the partition material conveyor 12, the fruits F on the partition material 2 are A fruit boxing device is provided in which a carrier 1 for boxing is provided in a corrugated bowl case 5 that integrally lifts the partition member 2 and stands by in the vicinity.

[0004]

Effect of the Invention In the transfer intermediate portion of the partition material conveyor 12 which receives and transfers the partition material 2, 2, the selected fruits F should be transferred onto the partition material 2 waiting on the partition material conveyor 12. The end side of the pull-out conveyor 7 is looked into, and at the transfer end portion of this partition material conveyor 12, each fruit F on the partition material 2
Since the corrugated cardboard case 5 that lifts up the partition material 2 and the partition material 2 together is provided with the carrier 1 for packing the box, the fruit F is placed on the partition material 2 that is transferred by the partition material conveyor, and as it is. It is transferred, and at the terminal end thereof, it is lifted up with the partitioning material mounted state and is housed in the corrugated cardboard case 5 in the vicinity, and is housed in a plurality of stages in this corrugated cardboard case, which is advantageous in terms of labor saving. Is.

Further, the partition material conveyor 12 is connected to the pull-out conveyor 7
Since it can be configured along with the above, and can be arranged below it, in a sorting apparatus in which it is necessary to provide a plurality of drawing conveyors 7 in parallel, the space is not increased by installing the partitioning material conveyor 12.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The sorting device 8 includes a plurality of sorting conveyors and, for example, cup-shaped receiving bodies 6, 6 ... On which fruits F (persimmons in the illustrated example) are placed and transferred.
When the size thereof is detected, it is configured such that it is classified and discharged for each equal grade and class at a preset sorting position and a sorting section having the pull-out conveyors 7, 7, ... Below.

The pull-out conveyor 7 comprises a fruit receiving part in the form of a belt conveyor, a vibrating conveyor 15, an aligning device 9 and the like. Of these, the aligning device 9 is configured as an aligning conveyor section 18 that is connected to the vibrating conveyor 15 and is provided with partition plates 16 and 16 on the belt conveyor to form three transfer paths 17.

Reference numeral 11 designates a supply conveyor for the partition members 2, 2 provided along the longitudinal direction of the sorting device 8, which is orthogonal to the supply conveyor 11 and particularly below the aligning device 9 of the drawing conveyor 7. The partition material conveyor 12 is provided. The partitioning material conveyor 12 is configured so that a large number of the partitioning materials 2 stacked and transferred on the supply conveyor 11 are fed out and supplied one by one by a feeder 33 provided on one side of the partitioning material conveyor 12 on the transfer upper side. The partitioning members 2 are arranged so as to be lined up in a line at regular intervals and transferred.

Reference numeral 10 denotes a fruit F adsorbing body 2 at a lower end of a telescopic rod of an air cylinder 28 mechanism which is vertically rotatably provided around a shaft 27 provided above the apparatus frame 26.
9 is provided, and an air cylinder mechanism 31 in a horizontal position is provided between the lower portion of the air cylinder mechanism 28 and the mounting portion 30 of the apparatus frame 26 located at the rear, and a suction configured by each of the cylinder mechanisms and the suction body. Three sets of mechanisms 32 are arranged corresponding to the three transfer paths 17 of the alignment conveyor section 18, respectively.

The end of the aligning conveyor section 18, which is the end side of the pull-out conveyor 7, is located above the middle portion of the partitioning material conveyor 12 provided along the lower side of the conveyors 7 to 18,
The adsorbing mechanism 32 is configured such that the fruits F are adsorbed and lifted and then lined up side by side on the partitioning material 2 on the partitioning material conveyor 12 in a zigzag pattern for every three fruit rows. Carrier 1
A boxing frame 34 provided so as to straddle between the end position a of the partition material conveyor 12 and a predetermined corrugated cardboard case 5 position b of the distribution conveyor 14 provided in parallel with the partition material conveyor 12.
And is configured as follows.

That is, a movable body 38 having a pair of plate-shaped rails 36, 36 with a fitting recess 37 formed therein is provided between the left and right pillars 35, 35. A vertically extending air cylinder mechanism 40 is provided at the center of the bottom surface portion 39 of the moving body 38 with its telescopic rod 41 protruding below the bottom surface portion 39.
A suction box body 44, in which an air pipe 43 to be connected to the vacuum pump 42 via an electromagnetic valve is installed and the fruit suction body 3 and the partition material suction body 4 are to be mounted, is provided at the lower end of the. On the upper surface 45 of the suction box body 44, there is provided a guide rod 47 which is slidably fitted in a hole of a guide body 46 which is protruded upward and is provided around the air cylinder mechanism 40 provided in the moving body 38. The carrier 1 is formed by arranging them. To one side of the moving body 38, a telescopic rod end portion of an air cylinder mechanism 48 having the cylinder portion mounted on the column portion 35 is pivotally connected, and the moving body 38 is extended and contracted by the extension and contraction of the air cylinder mechanism 48. It is configured to move between a and b.

The partition member 2 is made of corrugated cardboard and is provided in conformity with the shape of the bottom surface of the corrugated cardboard case 5. The fruits F are arranged on the upper side of the partition member 2 so that the partition member adsorbing member 4 alone does not bend it. Is molded into. The fruit adsorbent 3 has an adsorbing port 49 to be adsorbed by bringing the lower opening into contact with the surface of the fruit F. An attachment portion 50 having a hole to be fitted to the air pipe 43 protruding downward from the lower surface of the suction box body 44 is formed so as to be connected to the upper small diameter portion, and is attached to the air pipe 43.

Similar to the fruit adsorbent 3, the partition adsorbent 4 is provided with a size smaller than that of the fruit adsorbent 3, and two partition adsorbents 4 are provided in the left and right spaces of the fruit adsorbent 3 arranged in a staggered manner. Set up. The corrugated cardboard case 5 has a flap portion 51 that serves as a lid on the upper side of the cube. Fruit etc. on the outer surface
The class is printed.

The case conveyor 14 is a chain conveyor stretched between a pair of left and right chains 52 along the transfer direction C, and the chains 52 are provided with receiving portions 53 for receiving the corrugated cardboard cases 5 at their respective links. Further, at the position B of the case 5, the vertical air cylinder mechanism 54 and the upper and lower guide rods 5 are provided in the space between the chains 52 on the left and right sides.
5, a lift device 57 including a receiving member 56 and the like located above these and receiving the bottom of the case 5 is provided. The lift device 57 has a position in which the receiver 56 is lower than the receiving portion 53 of the chain 52, a position slightly higher than the receiving surface 53, and an upper stuffing position of the fruits to be stacked in the case 5 in upper, middle, and lower three tiers.
The control is configured to move up and down in five steps from low to high in the middle position and the lower position. In front of the lift device 57, the transfer of the subsequently transferred case 5 is stopped, and the chain 5 is stopped.
2 is composed of an air cylinder mechanism 59 provided with a stopper device 58 to be continuously rotated in a vertical posture, and a stop plate 60 provided at an end portion of an upward expansion rod thereof.
The vertical movement of the and the lift device 57 are associated and interlocked.

At the transfer end of the case conveyor 14, a horizontal printing device 61 for printing an equal grade mark on the side of the corrugated cardboard case 5 in which the fruits have been packed in the transfer direction and a pre-printing device 62 for printing on the front surface of the case are provided. . At the transfer end portion, a conveyor 63 for transferring the case 5 in succession in a direction orthogonal to the transfer direction C is provided. Incidentally, 24 is a fruit reversing device, which is provided at the front and rear divisions of the alignment conveyor unit 18,
The rotary roll 20, an air cylinder mechanism 22 for connecting the rolls vertically and moving the rolls up and down, a roll 20 rotation interlocking motor 21, a support leg 23 and the like. Reference numeral 25 is a color sensor on the transfer side of the fruit reversing device 24 for recognizing the loose portion. The edge detection information is used as a drive system signal for the air cylinder mechanism 22.

The operation of the above example will be described. Sorting device 8
The fruits F sorted according to size are dropped onto the pull-out conveyor 7 of the size class when the receiver 6 falls. The fruits F aligned through the vibrating conveyor 15 and the aligning device 9 are adsorbed by the three adsorbing devices 32 of the extracting device 10 one by one, and arranged in a zigzag manner on the partition material 2 transferred by the partition material conveyor 12. .

The partition material 2 on which the fruits F are arranged is transferred to the end portion of the partition material conveyor 12, that is, a predetermined position a.
On the other hand, of the cardboard case 5 on the distribution conveyor 14,
When the leading corrugated cardboard case 5 reaches the predetermined position (b), the controlled lift device 57 raises the corrugated cardboard case 5, and at the same time, the stopper device 58 operates to stop the transfer of the subsequent case 5.

When the fruit F is placed at the position a and the cardboard case 5 is placed at the position b, the suction box body 44 of the carrier 1 is lowered, and each fruit suction body 3 presses the fruit F from above and sucks the partition material. The body 4 holds the partition member 2 and applies suction negative pressure to adsorb it. Next, the air cylinder mechanism 40 is contracted and floated to a predetermined height. Further, the air cylinder mechanism 48 is extended and moved, and when it reaches the position b, it stops. The lift device 57 that holds the cardboard case 5 on the receiving body 56 rises to the highest position and stops due to the extension of the air cylinder mechanism 54, and the air cylinder mechanism 40 of the carrier 1 extends and the suction box body 44. When is lowered, the partition material 2 that has been adsorbed and transferred bottoms on the inner bottom surface of the cardboard case 5.

At the same time as the air cylinder mechanism 40 is contracted and raised by releasing the adsorption of the adsorbents 3 and 4, the cardboard case 5 is contracted by the air cylinder mechanism 54 and lowered. Carrier 1 returns to position a and the next partition 2 and fruit F
When and are sucked, floated, moved laterally and stopped at the position b, the lift device 57 moves up to a position where the second stage in the case 5 should be packed and the carrier 1 is packed with the partition material 2 and the fruit F. Similarly, at the third time, when the lifting device 57 rises to the height at which it can be packed in the uppermost stage of the three-stage stack in the case 5 and finishes the packing, the next descending descends to the bottom of the five stages, so packing in the box. The bottom surface of the corrugated cardboard case 5 thus received is received by the receiving portion 53 of the chain 52 of the distribution conveyor 14, and the transfer is started in the transfer direction C, and at the same time, the stop plate 60 of the stopper device is started.
Moves down to feed the next corrugated cardboard case 5 onto the lift device 57, and the stopper device 58 completes the feeding of each case.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a part thereof.

FIG. 3 is a front view in which a part thereof is enlarged.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view thereof.

FIG. 5 is a partial side view.

FIG. 6 is a front sectional view thereof.

FIG. 7 is a partial front view.

8 (a) and 8 (b) are views showing the jam of fruits.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Carrier 2, 2 ... Partition material 3 Fruit adsorbent body 4 Partition material adsorbent body 5 Corrugated cardboard case 7 Drawer conveyor 8 Sorting device 9 Aligning device 10 Extracting device 12 Partition material conveyor 29 Adsorbent body 32 Adsorbing device 38 Moving body 44 Adsorbing box packing body

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A partition material for receiving and transferring the partition material 2, 2.
The transfer intermediate part of the conveyer 12, sorting fruit F was demanded a terminal end of the pull-out conveyor 7 to transferring on the partition member 2 to wait at the partition member conveyor 12 above, the transfer end of the partition member conveyor 12 In the part, a step button that integrally lifts each fruit F on the partition member 2 and the partition member 2 and stands by in the vicinity.
A fruit boxing device in which a carrier 1 for boxing is provided in a casing 5.