Material sorting mechanism and sorting method based on clip sorting principle to achieve no missing materials

Abstract

The present invention discloses a material sorting mechanism and a sorting method based on the principle of clip sorting to achieve no missing materials, which includes setting a material conveying unit, setting a silo unit connected to the material conveying unit at the output end, setting a partition conveying unit with a plurality of material receiving troughs arranged at the bottom of the silo unit, and installing a sensor in the silo unit. When the sensor detects that the material in the silo unit reaches a set height, each time a material enters the silo unit, a product is released from the bottom of the silo unit into the material receiving trough in the partition conveying unit. At the same time, the partition conveying unit moves forward the distance of a material receiving trough. The present invention is based on the principle of clip sorting. After the materials in the silo unit are accumulated to a set height, a "clip" is formed. Each time a material enters, a material is output, ensuring that the materials arranged on the partition conveying unit are fully loaded without missing materials.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present invention belongs to the technical field of material arrangement devices, and in particular relates to a material arrangement mechanism and an arrangement method for achieving no missing materials based on the clip arrangement principle. Background Art

[0002] Chocolate bars and wafer sticks are very popular among consumers in daily life. At present, the chocolate boxing process is done manually. Due to the current high demand for products, manual packaging consumes a lot of manpower and is not efficient. Chocolate manufacturers urgently need a set of automatic chocolate boxing equipment to replace manual packaging to improve packaging efficiency and quality and reduce boxing costs. Due to the uneven material spacing of the front-end production line, the robot in the automatic boxing equipment cannot quickly and effectively grab the product.

[0003] Therefore, it is necessary to provide a new material sorting mechanism and sorting method based on the magazine sorting principle to achieve no missed material sorting to solve the above problems. Summary of the invention

[0004] One of the main purposes of the present invention is to provide a material sorting mechanism based on the clip sorting principle to achieve no missing material, realize full load no missing material sorting operation, simple and compact, stable and reliable operation; can adapt to different specifications of products for feeding sorting.

[0005] The present invention achieves the above-mentioned purpose through the following technical scheme: a material sorting mechanism based on the principle of magazine sorting to achieve no missed materials, which includes a material conveying unit, a silo unit connected to the output end of the material conveying unit, and a partition conveying unit located below the silo unit, wherein the silo unit is provided with a sensor assembly for detecting a set stacking height of the material, a material support guide plate for carrying stacked materials is provided at the bottom of the silo unit, a plurality of partitions are arranged on the partition conveying unit at equal intervals, and two adjacent partitions form a material receiving trough, and an outlet for only one material output is formed between the material support guide plate and the silo unit, and the height of the partition is within the height range of the bottom layer of materials in the silo unit.

[0006] Furthermore, a pair of the material support guide plates are provided, and the partition in the partition conveying unit is located between the two material support guide plates.

[0007] Furthermore, the material support guide plate is provided with a guide slope for guiding the material into the material receiving trough, and the end of the guide slope is placed on the conveyor belt of the partition conveying unit; the partitions are evenly arranged on the conveyor belt.

[0008] Furthermore, the material supporting guide plate forms a supporting bottom plate of the silo unit and is lower than the conveying surface of the material conveying unit.

[0009] Furthermore, the silo unit includes a front baffle, a rear baffle, a left baffle and a right baffle, and the front baffle, the rear baffle, the left baffle and the right baffle together form a storage bin, and the storage bin has an input port formed at the front end to connect with the end of the material conveying unit.

[0010] Furthermore, the sensor assembly includes a transmitting end of a through-beam sensor fixed on the left baffle plate and a receiving end of a through-beam sensor fixed on the right baffle plate.

[0011] Furthermore, the material input direction and the material output direction of the silo unit are distributed perpendicularly.

[0012] Another main purpose of the present invention is to provide a material sorting method based on the principle of magazine sorting to achieve no missed materials, which includes: setting up a material conveying unit, setting up a silo unit connected to the output end of the material conveying unit, setting up a partition conveying unit with a plurality of material receiving troughs arranged at the bottom of the silo unit, and installing a sensor in the silo unit. When the sensor detects that the material in the silo unit reaches a set height, each time a material enters the silo unit, a product is released from the bottom of the silo unit into the material receiving trough in the partition conveying unit. At the same time, the partition conveying unit moves forward the distance of a material receiving trough.

[0013] Furthermore, a material support guide plate for carrying stacked materials is provided at the bottom of the silo unit, and a guiding slope for guiding the materials into the material receiving trough is provided on the material support guide plate.

[0014] Furthermore, a material outlet for only one material is formed between the material lower supporting guide plate and the silo unit, and the height of the partition is within the height range of the bottom layer of material in the silo unit.

[0015] Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the material sorting mechanism and sorting method of the present invention based on the clip sorting principle to achieve no missed materials are: it achieves full load material sorting operation without missed materials, is simple and compact, and has stable and reliable operation; it can adapt to the feeding and sorting of products of different specifications, and can reach a maximum of 420 products per minute. Specifically, the present scheme realizes the accumulation and storage of materials by setting up a silo unit, and a sensor for detecting the material height is set in the silo unit. When the material accumulation reaches the set height, the silo unit releases one material each time a material enters, which is similar to the magazine sorting principle - each time a bullet is put into the front end of the magazine, all the bullets previously put into the magazine move forward one bullet position as a whole; at the same time, a partition conveying unit is set under the silo unit, which moves synchronously with the material output rhythm of the silo unit to ensure that the partition conveying unit will take over one material for each movement of a receiving trough, thereby ensuring that the materials taken over by the partition conveying unit are arranged continuously without missing materials, thereby ensuring that the subsequent manipulator has materials for it to clamp each time it performs a clamping action, thereby ensuring the smooth subsequent packaging or collection of materials. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0016] Figure 1 It is a structural schematic diagram of an embodiment of the present invention;

[0017] Figure 2 This is a schematic diagram of the structure of a silo unit in an embodiment of the present invention;

[0018] Figure 3 It is a structural schematic diagram of a partition conveying unit in an embodiment of the present invention;

[0019] 100 A material sorting mechanism and a sorting method based on the principle of magazine sorting to achieve no missing materials; 101 Products;

[0020] 1 material conveying unit; 2 silo unit, 21 front baffle, 22 rear baffle, 23 left baffle, 24 right baffle; 3 partition conveying unit, 31 partition, 32 material receiving trough, 33 conveyor belt; 4 material lower support guide plate, 41 guide slope; 5 discharge port; 6 support plate. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0021] Example:

[0022] Please refer to Figure 1-Figure 3, the present embodiment is a material sorting mechanism 100 for achieving no missing material based on the principle of clip sorting, which includes a material conveying unit 1, a silo unit 2 connected to the output end of the material conveying unit 1, and a partition conveying unit 3 located below the silo unit 2, the silo unit 2 is provided with a sensor component (not shown in the figure) for detecting the set stacking height of the material, the bottom of the silo unit 2 is provided with a material support guide plate 4 for carrying stacked materials, a plurality of ballasts 31 are arranged at equal intervals on the partition conveying unit 3, two adjacent ballasts 31 form a material receiving trough 32, the material support guide plate 4 is provided with a guiding inclined surface 41 for guiding the material into the material receiving trough 32, a material discharge port 5 for only one material output is formed between the material support guide plate 4 and the silo unit 2, the height of the ballast 31 is within the height range of the bottom material in the silo unit 2, so that the ballast 31 can and can only bring out the bottom material along the material support guide plate 4 during the movement.

[0023] A pair of material support guide plates 4 is provided, and the partition plate 31 in the partition conveying unit 3 is located between the two material support guide plates 4 .

[0024] The end of the guide slope 41 is placed on the conveyor belt 33 of the partition conveying unit 3. The partitions 31 are evenly arranged on the conveyor belt 33.

[0025] The material supporting guide plate 4 forms a supporting bottom plate of the silo unit 2 and is lower than the conveying surface of the material conveying unit 1 .

[0026] The silo unit 2 includes a front baffle 21, a rear baffle 22, a left baffle 23 and a right baffle 24, which together form a storage bin (not shown in the figure), and the storage bin has an input port formed at the front end to connect with the end of the material conveying unit 1.

[0027] The sensor assembly includes a transmitting end of a through-beam sensor fixed on the left baffle 23 and a receiving end of a through-beam sensor fixed on the right baffle 24. When the material stacking height reaches a set height, the sensor assembly detects the signal and uploads it to the controller, which then controls the movement of the partition conveying unit 3.

[0028] The silo unit 2 is mounted on the partition conveying unit 3 through a pair of support plates 6. The material input direction of the silo unit 2 is perpendicular to the material output direction.

[0029] The cavity size of the storage bin formed by the bin unit 2 is larger than each side of the material by 2-3 mm.

[0030] The width of the partition 31 is 3-4 mm greater than the width of the material.

[0031] This embodiment also provides a material sorting method based on the principle of clip sorting to achieve no missing materials, which includes: after the product strip comes out of the front-end production equipment, it enters the material conveying unit 1, then enters the silo unit 2 from the material conveying unit 1, and is stacked on the material lower support guide plate 4; when the materials are stacked to the height of the position detected by the shooting sensor, the partition conveying unit 3 starts to rotate, and each time a material enters the silo unit 2, the partition conveying unit 3 rotates the distance of a partition 31. Since the height of the partition 31 is higher than the height of the material lower support guide plate 4, and lower than the height of the first piece of material on the material lower support guide plate 4, the stacked materials are introduced into the receiving trough 32 one by one by the partition 31 along the guide direction of the material lower support guide plate 4, starting from the bottom material, thereby realizing the full-load material sorting function of the partition conveying unit 3 without missing materials; and the sorting efficiency and stability are high, and the maximum speed can reach 420 pieces / minute.

[0032] The present embodiment provides a material sorting mechanism and sorting method 100 based on the magazine sorting principle to achieve no missed material sorting operation with full load and no missed material, which is simple and compact, and has stable and reliable operation; it can adapt to the feeding and sorting of products of different specifications, and can reach 420 products per minute at the fastest; the present scheme realizes the accumulation and storage of materials by setting a silo unit, and a sensor for detecting the material height is set in the silo unit. When the material accumulation reaches the set height, the silo unit releases one material each time a material enters, which is similar to the magazine sorting principle-each time a bullet is put into the front end of the magazine, all the bullets previously put into the magazine move forward one bullet position as a whole; at the same time, a partition conveying unit is set under the silo unit, which moves synchronously with the material output rhythm of the silo unit to ensure that the partition conveying unit will take over one material for each movement of a receiving slot, thereby ensuring that the materials taken over by the partition conveying unit are continuously arranged without missed material, thereby ensuring that the subsequent manipulator has materials for it to clamp each time it performs a clamping action, thereby ensuring the smooth progress of subsequent packaging or collection of materials.

[0033] The above are only some embodiments of the present invention. For those skilled in the art, several modifications and improvements can be made without departing from the creative concept of the present invention, which all belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A material sorting mechanism based on the principle of magazine sorting to achieve no missing materials, characterized by: It includes a material conveying unit, a silo unit connected to the output end of the material conveying unit, and a partition conveying unit located below the silo unit. The silo unit is provided with a sensor component for detecting the set stacking height of the material, and the bottom of the silo unit is provided with a material support guide plate for carrying stacked materials. A plurality of partitions are arranged on the partition conveying unit at equal intervals, and two adjacent partitions form a material receiving trough. An outlet for only one material output is formed between the material support guide plate and the silo unit, and the height of the partition is within the height range of the bottom layer of material in the silo unit.

2. The material sorting mechanism based on the clip sorting principle to achieve no missing materials as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: A pair of the material support guide plates are provided, and the partition in the partition conveying unit is located between the two material support guide plates.

3. The material sorting mechanism based on the clip sorting principle to achieve no missing materials as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: The material lower support guide plate is provided with a guide slope for guiding the material into the material receiving trough, and the end of the guide slope is placed on the conveyor belt of the partition conveying unit; the partitions are evenly arranged on the conveyor belt.

4. The material sorting mechanism based on the clip sorting principle to achieve no missing materials as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: The material supporting guide plate forms a supporting bottom plate of the silo unit and is lower than the conveying surface of the material conveying unit.

5. The material sorting mechanism based on the clip sorting principle to achieve no missing materials as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: The silo unit includes a front baffle, a rear baffle, a left baffle and a right baffle, which together enclose a storage bin, and the storage bin has an input port formed at the front end to dock with the end of the material conveying unit.

6. The material sorting mechanism based on the clip sorting principle to achieve no missing materials as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that: The sensor assembly includes a through-beam sensor transmitting end fixed on the left baffle plate and a through-beam sensor receiving end fixed on the right baffle plate.

7. The material sorting mechanism based on the clip sorting principle to achieve no missing materials as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: The material input direction and the material output direction of the silo unit are vertically distributed.

8. A material sorting method based on the principle of clip sorting to achieve no missing materials, characterized by: It includes a material conveying unit, a silo unit connected to the output end of the material conveying unit, a partition conveying unit with a plurality of material receiving troughs arranged in an array at the bottom of the silo unit, and a sensor installed in the silo unit. When the sensor detects that the material in the silo unit reaches a set height, each time a material enters the silo unit, a product is released from the bottom of the silo unit into the material receiving trough in the partition conveying unit. At the same time, the partition conveying unit moves forward the distance of a material receiving trough.

9. The material sorting method based on the clip sorting principle to achieve no missing materials as claimed in claim 8, characterized in that: A material support guide plate for carrying stacked materials is disposed at the bottom of the silo unit, and a guide slope for guiding the materials into the material receiving trough is disposed on the material support guide plate.

10. The material sorting method based on the clip sorting principle to achieve no missing materials as claimed in claim 9, characterized in that: A material outlet for only one material is formed between the material lower supporting guide plate and the silo unit, and the height of the partition plate is within the height range of the bottom layer of the material in the silo unit.

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