Tea capsule production equipment and system

By setting up a cutting and vacuum exhaust mechanism in the suction unit of the tea capsule production equipment, the problem of packaging interference caused by large tea leaves is solved, and the complete packaging and efficient production of tea capsules is achieved.

CN111891495BInactive Publication Date: 2025-03-14XIAMEN UNIV OF TECH
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Application Number
CN202010878699.7
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Patents(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2020-08-27
Publication Date
2025-03-14
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Technical Problem

During the production process of tea capsules, the tea leaves are large in size, and some of the tea leaves will fall at the mouth of the shell, resulting in interference during packaging and inability to fully encapsulate.

Method used

A tea leaf cutting and adsorption device is designed. By setting a cutting mechanism and a vacuum generation mechanism in the suction unit of the tea capsule production equipment, the tea leaves are cut off and the chopped part is extracted through vacuum, thereby forming a tea capsule that does not interfere with the packaging.

Benefits of technology

It effectively solves the problem of tea interference packaging, ensures that tea capsules can be fully encapsulated, and improves production efficiency and product quality.

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Abstract

The present invention relates to a tea capsule production device and a tea capsule production system. The tea capsule production device comprises a feeding unit, comprising a base and a bearing mechanism opened on the base for fixing the tea capsule; a feeding unit, which is arranged in the feeding path of the tea capsule and is used to provide a first semi-finished tea capsule containing tea leaves; a suction unit, comprising a cutting mechanism with a ring-shaped cutter part and a vacuum generating mechanism, wherein the cutting mechanism can abut against the opening end edge of the first semi-finished tea capsule to cut off the tea leaves at the opening end edge thereof, and the vacuum generating mechanism has an exhaust channel ring-shaped around the outer periphery of the suction mechanism to extract the cut tea leaves to form a second semi-finished tea capsule; and a sealing unit, which has a non-woven fabric packaging device and an aluminum film packaging device, so as to be able to sequentially package the non-woven fabric and the aluminum film on the second semi-finished tea capsule to form the tea capsule.
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Technical Field

[0001] The invention relates to the field of tea capsule equipment, and in particular to tea capsule production equipment and a tea capsule production system. Background Art

[0002] With the advancement of intelligent equipment, tea brewing is gradually replaced by machines; there are many automatic tea brewing machines on the market, and more and more tea capsules are used in conjunction with automatic tea brewing machines. In tea brewing machines, the upper and lower surfaces of the tea capsules are often punctured by equipment, and then water is introduced from top to bottom into the tea capsule to brew the tea.

[0003] In the production process of tea capsules, it is necessary to fill the shell for holding dry granular tea leaves and then seal it. In the process of realizing the present invention, the inventor found that due to the existing mechanical filling method, the volume of tea leaves is large, and some tea leaves will fall at the mouth of the shell, resulting in interference during packaging, and the effect of complete packaging cannot be achieved. Summary of the invention

[0004] In order to solve the above problems, the present application provides a tea cutting and adsorption device and a tea capsule processing method, wherein the cutting and adsorption device is used to cut tea leaves so as to prevent them from interfering with the packaging of tea capsules.

[0005] To achieve the above object, one embodiment of the present invention provides a tea capsule production device, comprising:

[0006] A feeding unit, comprising a base and a supporting mechanism provided on the base for fixing the tea capsule;

[0007] A feeding unit is arranged in a feeding path of the tea capsule and is used to provide a first semi-finished tea capsule filled with tea leaves;

[0008] a suction unit, comprising a cutting mechanism having a ring-shaped cutter portion and a vacuum generating mechanism, wherein the cutting mechanism can abut against the opening edge of the first semi-finished tea capsule to cut off the tea leaves at the opening edge thereof, and the vacuum generating mechanism has an exhaust passage ring-shaped around the suction mechanism to extract the cut tea leaves to form a second semi-finished tea capsule; and

[0009] The sealing unit comprises a non-woven fabric packaging device and an aluminum film packaging device, so as to be able to sequentially package the non-woven fabric and the aluminum film on the second semi-finished tea capsule to form the tea capsule.

[0010] Preferably, the feeding unit comprises:

[0011] A cup dropping device, comprising a barrel for holding capsule cup bodies stacked up and down and a separation component for separating a capsule cup body from the barrel; and

[0012] The material discharge device comprises a multi-head scale and a hopper, wherein the hopper has a material discharge opening;

[0013] The multi-head weigher conveys tea leaves of a preset weight to the separated capsule cup body through the feeding port to form the first semi-finished tea capsule.

[0014] Preferably, the inner diameter of the drop opening is smaller than the inner diameter of the opening of the capsule cup body, and is not smaller than half of the inner diameter of the opening of the capsule cup body.

[0015] Preferably, the non-woven fabric packaging device comprises a pressing plate assembly, a punching knife assembly and a heat sealing head assembly, the pressing plate assembly presses the non-woven fabric onto the second semi-finished tea capsule, the punching knife assembly moves downward to cut the non-woven fabric, and the heat sealing head assembly heat-seals the cut non-woven fabric onto the second semi-finished tea capsule.

[0016] Preferably, the non-woven fabric packaging device comprises a pressing plate assembly, a punching knife assembly and a heat sealing head assembly, the pressing plate assembly presses the non-woven fabric onto the second semi-finished tea capsule, the punching knife assembly moves downward to cut the non-woven fabric, and the heat sealing head assembly heat-seals the cut non-woven fabric onto the second semi-finished tea capsule.

[0017] Preferably, the cut aluminum film grabbing mechanism comprises:

[0018] A storage bin, wherein the storage bin is vertically arranged along a first direction so that each aluminum film is stacked along the first direction and placed in an internal volume of the storage bin; the storage bin comprises a top discharge port and a bottom discharge port connected to the internal volume;

[0019] A supporting mechanism is arranged opposite to the discharge port, and each aluminum film is stacked in the storage bin along a first direction, and the aluminum film at the bottom is supported and placed by the supporting mechanism;

[0020] The transfer mechanism comprises an adsorption member and a transfer driving member for driving the adsorption member to move, wherein the adsorption member can adsorb the aluminum film located at the bottom of the storage bin to be separated from the supporting mechanism, and the remaining aluminum film moves downward in a first direction due to gravity and is still placed on the supporting mechanism, and the adsorption member is driven by the transfer driving member to correspondingly move the adsorption member back and forth between adsorbing the aluminum film and moving the aluminum film to the second semi-finished tea capsule.

[0021] The suction unit includes a cutting drive mechanism, the vacuum generating mechanism includes a sleeve arranged on the outer peripheral side of the cutter part, and the exhaust channel is sandwiched between the cutter part and the sleeve; the vacuum generating mechanism is configured to be able to take away the tea fragments chopped between the sleeve and the cutter part through the exhaust channel.

[0022] The present invention further provides a tea capsule production system, which is used for the tea capsule production equipment in any of the above schemes, and the tea capsule production system includes a control device electrically connected to the tea capsule production equipment, and the control device is configured to implement the tea capsule production method by executing a computer program stored therein; the tea capsule production control includes feeding control, adding control, suction control and sealing control; the feeding control can feed the station for fixing the tea capsule to the feeding unit, suction unit and sealing unit;

[0023] In the feeding control, the separation component of the feeding unit is controlled to separate a capsule cup body from the barrel of the feeding unit, and the multi-head weigher of the feeding unit is controlled to convey tea leaves of a preset weight into the capsule cup body to form a first semi-finished tea capsule;

[0024] After the feeding control is executed, in the suction control, the first semi-finished tea capsule is controlled to abut against the cutting mechanism, and the vacuum generating mechanism is controlled to draw away the chopped tea leaves from the exhaust passage to form a second semi-finished tea capsule;

[0025] After executing the material suction control, in the sealing control, the non-woven fabric control device is controlled to heat-seal the non-woven fabric at the opening of the second semi-finished tea capsule, and the aluminum film packaging device is controlled to package the aluminum film on the second semi-finished tea capsule packaged with the non-woven fabric to form a tea capsule.

[0026] Preferably, the non-woven fabric packaging device comprises a pressing plate assembly, a punch assembly and a heat sealing head assembly, and the sealing control comprises:

[0027] Controlling the pressing plate assembly to move toward the first semi-finished tea capsule to press the non-woven fabric thereon;

[0028] Controlling the punching blade assembly to move toward the first semi-finished tea capsule to cut the non-woven fabric into a desired structure; and

[0029] The heat sealing head is controlled to move toward the first semi-finished tea capsule to heat-seal the cut non-woven fabric on the second semi-finished tea capsule.

[0030] Preferably, the aluminum film packaging device comprises an aluminum film grabbing mechanism with an adsorbent and an aluminum film sealing mechanism, and the sealing control comprises:

[0031] Controlling the adsorbent of the aluminum film grabbing mechanism to adsorb an aluminum film and place it on the second semi-finished tea capsule encapsulated with the non-woven fabric; and

[0032] The second semi-finished tea capsule is controlled to be pressed against the heat sealing head so as to heat-seal the aluminum film on the second semi-finished tea capsule encapsulated with the non-woven fabric to form the tea capsule.

[0033] By adopting the above technical solution, the present invention can achieve the following technical effects:

[0034] In the tea capsule production equipment and tea capsule production system provided by the present invention, the suction unit includes a cutting mechanism and a vacuum generating mechanism. The cutting mechanism is used to abut the opening end edge of the tea capsule so as to be able to cut the tea leaves at that position into pieces. The vacuum generating mechanism enables the cut tea leaves to be recovered through the vacuum generating mechanism, thereby achieving the purpose of preventing the tea leaves from interfering with the packaging at the sealing end of the tea capsule. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0035] Figure 1 It is a structural schematic diagram of the tea capsule production equipment of the present invention;

[0036] Figure 2 It is a structural schematic diagram of the cup dropping device of the present invention;

[0037] Figure 3 It is a structural schematic diagram of the blanking device of the present invention;

[0038] Figure 4 It is a structural schematic diagram of the material suction unit of the present invention;

[0039] Figure 5 and Figure 6 It is a structural schematic diagram of the woven fabric packaging device of the present invention;

[0040] Figure 7 It is a structural schematic diagram of the aluminum film grabbing mechanism of the present invention;

[0041] Figure 8 It is a structural schematic diagram of the aluminum film sealing mechanism of the present invention.

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[0043] 1. Feeding unit; 11. Base; 12. Carrying platform; 13. Storage slot; 14. Carrying drive; 2. Feeding unit; 21. Cup dropping device; 211. Cylinder; 212. Separation assembly; 22. Unloading device; 221. Multi-head scale; 222. Hopper; 223. Unloading port; 3. Suction unit; 31. Cutting mechanism; 32. Cutter part; 33. Vacuum generating mechanism; 34. Cutting drive mechanism; 4. Non-woven fabric packaging device; 41. Punch knife assembly; 42. Heat sealing head assembly; 43. Non-woven fabric packaging drive; 44. Press plate assembly; 5. Aluminum film packaging device; 51. Aluminum film grabbing mechanism; 511. Supporting mechanism; 512. Transfer mechanism; 513. Storage bin; 52. Aluminum film sealing mechanism; 6. Capsule grabbing unit. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0044] In order to make the purpose, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below in conjunction with the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by ordinary technicians in this field without creative work are within the scope of protection of the present invention. Therefore, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention provided in the drawings is not intended to limit the scope of the invention claimed for protection, but merely represents selected embodiments of the present invention.

[0045] In the description of the present invention, it needs to be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "length", "width", "thickness", "up", "down", "front", "back", "left", "right", "upper end", "lower end", "upper section", "lower section", "upper side", "lower side", "middle", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inside", "outside", "clockwise", "counterclockwise" and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the accompanying drawings, and are only for the convenience of describing the present invention and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the referred device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and therefore cannot be understood as limiting the present invention.

[0046] Now combined Figures 1 to 8 The structure and function of the solution of this application are described in detail.

[0047] One embodiment of the present invention provides a tea capsule production device, referring to Figure 1, which includes a feeding unit 1, a feeding unit 2, a suction unit 3 and a sealing unit. The feeding unit 1 includes a base 11 and a bearing mechanism for fixing tea capsules provided on the base 11. The bearing mechanism is supported on the base 11 so as to be movable up and down relative to the base 11. The base 11 has bearing mechanisms arranged in an array in sequence along the feeding direction, each bearing mechanism has a receiving groove 13 for fixing the capsule cup body, the receiving groove 13 is adapted to the capsule cup body, and the end edge of the opening of the capsule cup body is supported on the end edge portion of the receiving groove 13. A feeding drive mechanism is arranged on the base 11, and the base 11 has a bearing platform 12 in an annular structure, and a plurality of workstations are provided on the bearing platform 12, and each workstation is equipped with a bearing mechanism. The bearing platform 12 is supported on the base 11 in a rotatable manner relative to the base 11, and rotates under the drive of the feeding drive assembly to feed the corresponding workstation, so that each bearing mechanism can correspond to the feeding unit 2, the suction unit 3 and the sealing unit. The bearing mechanism has a bearing drive 14, which is supported on the bearing platform 12 and is used to push the bearing mechanism up and down so that the capsule cup body in the storage groove 13 cooperates with the feeding unit 2, the suction unit 3 and the sealing unit. The bearing drive 14 can include one of an air cylinder, an oil cylinder, a screw rod and a linear slide rail.

[0048] Combined with reference Figure 1 and Figure 2 The feeding unit 2 includes a cup dropping device 21 and a feeding device 22. The cup dropping device 21 has a barrel 211 for holding capsule cup bodies stacked up and down and a separation component 212 for separating a capsule cup body from the barrel 211. The separation component 212 has a separation piece with a conical structure inserted between two radially stacked capsule cup bodies, and the conical structure is used to separate the capsule cup body on the lower side from the upper capsule cup body, and the capsule cup body falls into the storage groove 13. It can be understood that the separation component 212 has a separation drive mechanism for driving the separation piece to reciprocate, wherein the separation drive mechanism can include one of a cylinder, an oil cylinder, a screw and a linear slide rail. The capsule cup body at the cup dropping device 21 can be transported to the feeding unit 1 to the feeding device 22.

[0049] Combined with reference Figure 1 and Figure 3The unloading device 22 includes a multi-head scale 221 and a hopper 222. The hopper 222 has a drop opening 223, and the drop opening 223 is aligned with a capsule cup body. The multi-head scale 221 delivers tea leaves of a preset weight to the separated capsule cup body through the drop opening 223 to form a first semi-finished tea capsule. Among them, the multi-head scale 221 is a conventional technology and will not be described in detail here. The inner diameter of the drop opening 223 is smaller than the opening inner diameter of the capsule cup body and not less than half of the opening inner diameter of the capsule cup body, so that the tea leaves can be completely delivered to the capsule cup body. The diameter is not less than half of the opening inner diameter of the capsule cup body to reduce the delivery time of the tea leaves. In a preferred embodiment, the inner diameter of the drop opening 223 is not less than two-thirds of the opening inner diameter of the capsule cup body, so that the tea leaves delivered to the capsule cup body will not be stacked too high and exceed the height of the chamber of the capsule cup body, so that it will not interfere with the suction control and sealing control of the subsequent process.

[0050] Combined with reference Figure 1 and Figure 4 The suction unit 3 includes a cutting mechanism 31 having a cutter portion 32 arranged in an annular manner and a vacuum generating mechanism 33. The cutting mechanism 31 can abut against the opening end edge of the first semi-finished tea capsule to cut off the tea leaves at the opening end edge thereof. The vacuum generating mechanism 33 has an exhaust passage arranged around the outer periphery of the suction mechanism to extract the cut tea leaves to form a second semi-finished tea capsule. The suction unit 3 also includes a cutting drive mechanism 34. The vacuum generating mechanism 33 includes a sleeve arranged around the outer periphery of the cutter portion 32, and the exhaust passage is sandwiched between the cutter portion 32 and the sleeve. The vacuum generating mechanism 33 is configured to be able to take away the tea fragments cut between the sleeve and the cutter portion 32 through the exhaust passage. Among them, the bearing drive member 14 pushes the first semi-finished tea capsule toward the cutting mechanism 31 so that the cutter portion 32 is tightly abutted against the opening end edge of the first semi-finished tea capsule. Among them, the cutting drive mechanism 34 is used to drive the cutter portion 32 to rotate to achieve the cutting of the tea leaves at the opening end edge of the first semi-finished tea capsule. The cutting drive mechanism 34 can include one of an air cylinder, an oil cylinder, a screw and a linear slide rail. The vacuum generating mechanism 33 includes a vacuum generator and a vacuum pipe connected between the vacuum generator and the exhaust passage. The vacuum generator can be an air pump. The cutting drive mechanism 34 also includes a rocking arm, which is connected to the cutting mechanism 31. The cutting mechanism 31 passes through the exhaust passage to be rotatably supported on the rocking arm. The cutting drive mechanism 34 can push the rocking arm to rotate around an axis to rotate the rocking arm.

[0051] Combined with reference Figure 1 and Figures 5 to 8 The sealing unit comprises a non-woven fabric packaging device 4 and an aluminum film packaging device 5, and the feeding unit 1 feeds the second semi-finished tea capsule to the non-woven fabric packaging device 4 and the aluminum film packaging device 5 in sequence. Figure 1 , Figure 5 and Figure 6 The non-woven fabric packaging device 4 has a pressing plate assembly 44, a punching knife assembly 41 and a heat-sealing head assembly 42. The pressing plate assembly 44 presses the non-woven fabric onto the second semi-finished tea capsule, the punching knife assembly 41 moves downward to cut the non-woven fabric, and the heat-sealing head assembly 42 heat-seals the cut non-woven fabric onto the second semi-finished tea capsule. An opening is provided on the pressing plate for the blade head of the punching knife assembly 41 to pass through to cut the non-woven fabric. In this embodiment, the bearing drive member 14 drives the second semi-finished tea capsule to move up and down so that the pressing plate presses the non-woven fabric onto the second semi-finished tea capsule. In other embodiments, the pressing plate assembly 44 can move up and down so that the pressing plate on it can press the non-woven fabric and the second semi-finished tea capsule. After the cutting is completed, the heat-sealing head assembly 42 moves downward to heat-seal the cut non-woven fabric onto the second semi-finished tea capsule. Among them, the punching knife assembly 41 and the heat-sealing head assembly 42 respectively have a punching knife driving member and a heat-sealing head driving member to drive them to reciprocate up and down. In one embodiment, the punching knife assembly 41 and the heat sealing head assembly 42 are reciprocated up and down through a non-woven fabric packaging driving member 43.

[0052] Combined with reference Figure 1 , Figure 7 and Figure 8 The feeding unit 1 feeds the second semi-finished tea capsule with heat-sealed non-woven fabric to the aluminum film packaging device 5, which includes an aluminum film grabbing mechanism 51 and an aluminum film sealing mechanism 52. The aluminum film grabbing mechanism 51 includes a storage bin 513, a supporting mechanism 511 and a transfer mechanism 512. The storage bin 513 is vertically arranged along the first direction, so that each aluminum film is stacked and placed in the internal cavity of the storage bin 513 along the first direction. The storage bin 513 includes a top discharge port and a bottom discharge port connected to the internal cavity. The supporting mechanism 511 is arranged opposite to the discharge port, and each aluminum film is stacked in the storage bin 513 along the first direction and the aluminum film at the bottom is supported and placed by the supporting mechanism 511. The transfer mechanism includes an adsorbent and a driving member for driving the adsorbent to move. The adsorbent can adsorb the aluminum film at the bottom of the storage bin 513 to separate from the supporting mechanism 511, and the remaining aluminum film moves downward in the first direction by gravity and is still placed on the supporting mechanism 511. The driving member drives the adsorbent to correspondingly adsorb the aluminum film and move the aluminum film to the second semi-finished tea capsule. The aluminum film sealing mechanism 52 has an aluminum film heat sealing head, which moves toward the second semi-finished tea capsule to seal the aluminum film at the second semi-finished tea capsule thereon. The aluminum film sealing mechanism 52 has a heat sealing head driving member to drive the aluminum film heat sealing head to reciprocate up and down.

[0053] In one embodiment, the tea capsule production equipment also includes a detection unit, wherein the detection unit includes a first detection device, which can be a reflective photoelectric pair or a transmissive photoelectric pair, and the first detection device is located at a station between the cup dropping device 21 and the unloading device 22, and is used to detect whether the capsule cup body is conveyed to the storage groove 13 at the cup dropping device 21.

[0054] In one embodiment, the detection unit includes a second detection device, wherein the second detection device can be a reflective photoelectric pair or a transmissive photoelectric pair, and the second detection device is located at a station between the unloading device 22 and the suction unit 3, and is used to confirm whether there is tea in the capsule cup.

[0055] In one embodiment, the tea capsule production equipment further comprises a capsule grabbing unit 6 for grabbing the tea capsule in the receiving groove 13, wherein the capsule can be transferred to the next water line after being pushed upward.

[0056] An embodiment of the present invention provides a tea capsule production system, which is used for the tea capsule production equipment in any of the above schemes. The tea capsule production system includes a control device electrically connected to each driving member of the tea capsule production equipment, and the control device is configured to implement tea capsule production control by executing a computer program stored therein. The tea capsule production control includes feed control, feeding control, suction control and sealing control. The feed control can feed the station for fixing the tea capsule to the feeding unit 2, the suction unit 3 and the sealing unit. Among them, the tea capsule production control also includes:

[0057] S100, in the feeding control, the separation component 212 of the feeding unit 2 is controlled to separate a capsule cup body from the barrel 211 of the feeding unit 2, and the multi-head weigher 221 of the feeding unit 2 is controlled to convey tea leaves of a preset weight into the capsule cup body to form a first semi-finished tea capsule.

[0058] S200, after performing the feeding control, in the suction control, the first semi-finished tea capsule is controlled to abut against the cutting mechanism 31, and the vacuum generating mechanism 33 is controlled to draw away the chopped tea leaves from the exhaust channel to form the second semi-finished tea capsule.

[0059] S300, after executing the material suction control, in the sealing control, the non-woven fabric control device is controlled to heat-seal the non-woven fabric at the opening of the second semi-finished tea capsule, and the aluminum film packaging device 5 is controlled to package the aluminum film on the second semi-finished tea capsule packaged with the non-woven fabric to form a tea capsule.

[0060] The non-woven fabric packaging device 4 comprises a pressing plate assembly 44, a punch assembly 41 and a heat sealing head assembly 42, and the sealing control includes:

[0061] S310, controlling the pressing plate assembly 44 to move toward the first semi-finished tea capsule to press the non-woven fabric thereon.

[0062] S320, control the punching assembly 41 to move toward the first semi-finished tea capsule to cut the non-woven fabric into a desired structure, for example, cutting into an opening that can seal the capsule cup body and has a diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the capsule cup body, so that the aluminum film can cover the non-woven fabric.

[0063] S330, control the heat sealing head to move toward the first semi-finished tea capsule to heat-seal the cut non-woven fabric on the second semi-finished tea capsule. In a preferred embodiment, the pressing plate assembly 44, the punching knife assembly 41, the heat sealing head assembly 42 and the non-woven fabric packaging driver 43 are supported on a base, and the non-woven fabric packaging driver 43 is used to push the pressing plate assembly 44, the punching knife assembly 41, and the heat sealing head assembly 42 to move downward. The pressing plate assembly 44 and the punching knife assembly 41 are supported on the base through a mounting seat, and move in a direction parallel to the bearing platform under the push of the driver supported on the base, so that the first semi-finished tea capsule on the bearing platform 12 is switched between the position corresponding to the pressing plate assembly 44 and the punching knife assembly 41 and the position corresponding to the heat sealing head assembly 42. In other embodiments, the pressing plate assembly 44 and the punching knife assembly 41 are at a station on the bearing platform, and the heat sealing head assembly 42 is at a station.

[0064] The aluminum film packaging device 5 includes an aluminum film grabbing mechanism 51 with an adsorbent and an aluminum film sealing mechanism 52. The sealing control includes: S340, controlling the adsorbent of the aluminum film grabbing mechanism 51 to adsorb an aluminum film and place it on the second semi-finished tea capsule encapsulated with non-woven fabric.

[0065] S350, controlling the second semi-finished tea capsule to press against the heat sealing head to heat-seal the aluminum film on the second semi-finished tea capsule encapsulated with the non-woven fabric to form a tea capsule.

[0066] In a preferred embodiment, the tea capsule production system includes a computer, and the computer is equipped with the above-mentioned control device. The computer can be a conventional industrial PLC control system.

[0067] The above are only preferred embodiments of the present invention and are not intended to limit the present invention. For those skilled in the art, the present invention may have various modifications and variations. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention shall be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A tea capsule production equipment, characterized in that: include: A feeding unit (1) comprises a base (11) and a supporting mechanism provided on the base (11) and used for fixing a tea capsule; A feeding unit (2) is arranged in a feeding path of the tea capsule and is used to provide a first semi-finished tea capsule containing tea leaves; The material suction unit (3) comprises a cutting mechanism (31) having a cutting knife portion (32) arranged in an annular manner and a vacuum generating mechanism (33), wherein the cutting mechanism (31) can abut against the opening end edge of the first semi-finished tea capsule to cut off the tea leaves at the opening end edge thereof; wherein the bearing mechanism comprises a bearing driving member (14), wherein the bearing driving member (14) pushes the first semi-finished tea capsule toward the cutting mechanism (31) to make the cutting knife portion (32) abut against the opening end edge of the first semi-finished tea capsule; the material suction unit (3) further comprises a cutting driving mechanism (34), wherein the cutting driving mechanism (34) is used to drive the cutting knife portion (32) to rotate so as to cut off the tea leaves at the opening end edge of the first semi-finished tea capsule; and the cutting driving mechanism (34) further comprises a rocking arm , the rocking arm is connected to the cutting mechanism (31), the cutting mechanism (31) passes through the exhaust channel to be rotatably supported on the rocking arm, the cutting drive mechanism (34) pushes the rocking arm to rotate around an axis to rotate the rocking arm, the vacuum generating mechanism (33) has an exhaust channel arranged around the outer periphery of the suction mechanism to extract the cut tea leaves to form a second semi-finished tea capsule, the vacuum generating mechanism (33) includes a sleeve arranged around the outer periphery of the cutting knife part (32), the exhaust channel is sandwiched between the cutting knife part (32) and the sleeve, the vacuum generating mechanism (33) is configured to be able to remove the tea leaves cut between the sleeve and the cutting knife part (32) through the exhaust channel, and the vacuum generating mechanism (33) also includes a vacuum generator and a vacuum pipe connected between the vacuum generator and the exhaust channel; and The sealing unit comprises a non-woven fabric packaging device (4) and an aluminum film packaging device (5), so as to be able to sequentially package the non-woven fabric and the aluminum film on the second semi-finished tea capsule to form a tea capsule; the non-woven fabric packaging device (4) comprises a pressing plate assembly (44), a punching knife assembly (41) and a heat sealing head assembly (42), the pressing plate assembly (44) presses the non-woven fabric on the second semi-finished tea capsule, the punching knife assembly (41) moves downward to cut the non-woven fabric, and the heat sealing head assembly (42) moves downward to cut the non-woven fabric. The component (42) is heat-sealed on the second semi-finished tea capsule after the cut non-woven fabric; the aluminum film packaging device (5) comprises an aluminum film grabbing mechanism (51) and an aluminum film sealing mechanism (52), the aluminum film grabbing mechanism (51) can grab the aluminum film and place it on the second semi-finished tea capsule packaged with the non-woven fabric, and the aluminum film sealing mechanism (52) can abut against the second semi-finished tea capsule and seal the aluminum film thereon; the aluminum film grabbing mechanism (51) comprises: A storage bin (513), wherein the storage bin (513) is arranged vertically along a first direction so that each aluminum film is stacked along the first direction and placed in an internal cavity of the storage bin (513); the storage bin (513) comprises a top discharge port and a bottom discharge port connected to the internal cavity; A supporting mechanism (511) is arranged opposite to the discharge port, and each aluminum film is stacked in the storage bin (513) along a first direction, and the aluminum film at the bottom is supported and placed by the supporting mechanism (511); The transfer mechanism comprises an adsorption member and a transfer driving member for driving the adsorption member to move, wherein the adsorption member can adsorb the aluminum film located at the bottom of the storage bin (513) to be separated from the supporting mechanism (511), and the remaining aluminum film moves downward along a first direction due to gravity and remains on the supporting mechanism (511), and the adsorption member is driven by the transfer driving member to move back and forth between adsorbing the aluminum film and moving the aluminum film to the second semi-finished tea capsule.

2. A tea capsule production equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that: The feeding unit (2) comprises: A cup dropping device (21) comprises a barrel (211) for holding capsule cup bodies stacked up and down and a separation component (212) for separating a capsule cup body from the barrel (211); and A material discharge device (22) comprises a multi-head scale (221) and a hopper (222), wherein the hopper (222) has a material discharge port (223); The multi-head weigher (221) transports tea leaves of a preset weight into the separated capsule cup body through the feeding port (223) to form the first semi-finished tea capsule.

3. The tea capsule production equipment according to claim 2, characterized in that: The inner diameter of the drop opening (223) is smaller than the inner diameter of the opening of the capsule cup body, and is not smaller than half of the inner diameter of the opening of the capsule cup body.

4. A tea capsule production system, characterized in that: The tea capsule production system comprises the tea capsule production device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the tea capsule production system further comprises a control device electrically connected to the tea capsule production device, wherein the control device is configured to implement tea capsule production control by executing a computer program stored therein; the tea capsule production control comprises feeding control, adding control, sucking control and sealing control; the feeding control can feed a station for fixing tea capsules to a feeding unit (2), a sucking unit (3) and a sealing unit; In the feeding control, the separation component (212) of the feeding unit (2) is controlled to separate a capsule cup body from the barrel (211) of the feeding unit (2), and the multi-head weigher (221) of the feeding unit (2) is controlled to convey tea leaves of a preset weight into the capsule cup body to form a first semi-finished tea capsule; After the feeding control is executed, in the suction control, the first semi-finished tea capsule is controlled to abut against the cutting mechanism (31), and the vacuum generating mechanism (33) is controlled to draw away the chopped tea leaves from the exhaust passage to form a second semi-finished tea capsule; After the suction control is executed, in the sealing control, the non-woven fabric control device is controlled to heat-seal the non-woven fabric at the opening of the second semi-finished tea capsule, and the aluminum film packaging device (5) is controlled to package the aluminum film on the second semi-finished tea capsule packaged with the non-woven fabric to form a tea capsule.

5. The tea capsule production system according to claim 4, characterized in that: The non-woven fabric packaging device (4) comprises a pressing plate assembly (44), a punch assembly (41) and a heat sealing head assembly (42), and the sealing control comprises: Controlling the pressing plate assembly (44) to move toward the first semi-finished tea capsule to press the non-woven fabric thereon; Controlling the punching blade assembly (41) to move toward the first semi-finished tea capsule to cut the non-woven fabric into a desired structure; and The heat sealing head is controlled to move toward the first semi-finished tea capsule to heat-seal the cut non-woven fabric on the second semi-finished tea capsule.

6. The tea capsule production system according to claim 4, characterized in that: The aluminum film packaging device (5) comprises an aluminum film grabbing mechanism (51) having an adsorption member and an aluminum film sealing mechanism (52), and the sealing control comprises: Controlling the adsorption member of the aluminum film grabbing mechanism (51) to adsorb an aluminum film and place it on the second semi-finished tea capsule encapsulated with the non-woven fabric; and The second semi-finished tea capsule is controlled to be pressed against the heat sealing head so as to heat-seal the aluminum film on the second semi-finished tea capsule encapsulated with the non-woven fabric to form the tea capsule.

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  • Tea capsule production equipment

    CN212290633U