An automatic feeding system for a flat plate medium sub-packaging production line

Abstract

The application relates to an automatic feeding system of a flat plate culture medium sub-packaging production line, which comprises two racks, the upper surfaces of the two racks are fixed with the same conveying belt, the lower surface of the left rack is fixed with an electrical control cabinet, the front and back surfaces of the conveying belt are fixed with vertical plates, two base rods are vertically fixed between the opposite sides of the two vertical plates, the outer sides of the base rods are fixed with multiple equidistantly distributed and vertical channel plates, and the upper side of the left rack is provided with a feeding mechanism. The automatic feeding system of the flat plate culture medium sub-packaging production line is used for placing the culture dishes on the conveying belt when the culture dishes are fed to the hopper, multiple channels of the conveying belt are formed by using multiple channel plates, the culture dishes are conveyed to the object carrying plate along with the conveying belt, the object carrying plate is pushed backward by the operation of a first cylinder, reaches the hopper, the object on the object carrying plate is pushed to fall into the hopper by the pushing of a second cylinder, and the feeding of the culture dishes is completed.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The present application relates to the technical field of culture medium production, in particular to a flat plate culture medium sub-packaging production line automatic feeding system. BACKGROUND

[0002] Culture medium refers to a nutrient medium prepared by combining different nutrients to provide growth and reproduction for microorganisms, plants or animals (or tissues), generally containing carbohydrates, nitrogen-containing substances, inorganic salts (including trace elements), vitamins and water, etc. Culture medium is not only a basic substance that provides cell nutrition and promotes cell proliferation, but also a survival environment for cell growth and reproduction.

[0003] In the existing culture medium flat plate production field, most of them are still in the state of manual plate production during the production process, which leads to waste of manpower, affects the quality of products, and increases the production cost, so that the production cost is high. Secondly, a small part of the existing technology uses an automatic feeding structure of the flat plate culture medium to replace manual plate feeding, but during the process of transferring the culture plate into the hopper, the culture plate may slide off the transfer platform due to the hard transfer structure movement and turning inertia force. Therefore, the present application provides a flat plate culture medium sub-packaging production line automatic feeding system to solve the above problems. SUMMARY

[0004] In view of the deficiencies of the prior art, the present application provides a flat plate culture medium sub-packaging production line automatic feeding system, which has the advantages of novel design, high automation degree, liberation of manpower during production, automatic completion by the device, optimized practical performance, etc. It solves the problem that most of the existing culture medium flat plate production field is still in the state of manual plate production during the production process, which leads to waste of manpower, affects the quality of products, and increases the production cost, so that the production cost is high.

[0005] To achieve the above purpose, the present application provides the following technical scheme: a flat plate culture medium sub-packaging production line automatic feeding system, comprising two racks, the upper surfaces of the two racks are fixed with the same conveying belt, the lower surface of the left rack is fixed with an electrical control cabinet, the front and back surfaces of the conveying belt are fixed with vertical plates, two base rods are vertically fixed between the opposite sides of the two vertical plates, a plurality of equidistantly distributed and vertical channel plates are fixed on the outer side of the base rod, and an feeding mechanism is arranged on the upper side of the left rack.

[0006] The feeding mechanism comprises two bottom plates fixed on the upper surface of the left rack, the upper surface of the left bottom plate is vertically fixed with two mounting plates, three slide rods are vertically fixed between the opposite sides of the two mounting plates, two sliding blocks are slidingly connected to the outer side of each slide rod, the upper and lower sides of the sliding block are fixed with movable plates, the back surface of the front mounting plate is fixed with a first air cylinder, one end of the output shaft of the first air cylinder is fixed with a lower movable plate, the upper surface of the upper movable plate is fixed with a second air cylinder, one end of the output shaft of the second air cylinder is fixed with a connecting plate, and the connecting plate is provided with a limiting assembly for limiting the culture medium.

[0007] Further, the electrical control cabinet is built-in with a PLC controller, and a stacking plate is fixed on the upper surface of the right rack and located to the right of the conveying belt.

[0008] Further, the right side of the upper movable plate is fixed with a horizontal object carrying plate, the object carrying plate is located to the left of the conveying belt, and the upper surface of the object carrying plate is flush with the upper surface of the conveying belt.

[0009] Further, the length of the bottom plate is greater than the width of the rack, the three slide rods are equidistantly distributed at the top between the opposite sides of the two mounting plates, and the sliding blocks move linearly forward and backward on the outer side of the slide rod.

[0010] Further, the limiting assembly comprises two support rods fixed to the right of the connecting plate, the top ends of the two support rods are fixed with a same horizontal top plate, a plurality of limiting pieces are fixed to the lower surface of the top plate and located to the right of the connecting plate, two side plates are vertically fixed to the lower surface of the top plate, a small motor is fixed to the front surface of the front side plate, the output shaft of the small motor is fixed with a connecting rod which penetrates and extends to the rear side of the limiting piece and is rotatably connected to the rear side plate through a bearing, a movable rod is fixed to the outer side of the connecting rod, and a rubber sleeve is fixed to the outer side of the movable rod.

[0011] Further, the limiting piece comprises two limiting plates which are fixed in a V shape between the two limiting plates and face the direction of the channel plate.

[0012] Further, the horizontal height of the limiting plate is greater than the horizontal height of the object carrying plate, and the limiting plate moves linearly left and right on the upper side of the object carrying plate.

[0013] Further, the upper surface of the left rack is fixed with a positioning plate, the lower surface of the object carrying plate is vertically fixed with a positioning piece which faces the positioning plate and is located to the left of the positioning plate, and the right side of the rear mounting plate is fixed with a limiting plate which faces the direction of the object carrying plate.

[0014] Compared with the prior art, the technical scheme of the present application has the following advantages:

[0015] 1. The automatic feeding system of the petri dish medium dispensing production line, when the petri dishes are fed to the hopper, they are placed on the conveyor belt, and the conveyor belt is formed with multiple channels by multiple channel plates, the petri dishes are conveyed to the loading plate, at this time, the loading plate is pushed backward by the operation of the first cylinder, and reaches the hopper, at this time, the material on the loading plate is pushed off by the second cylinder, and reaches the hopper, to complete the feeding of the petri dishes.

[0016] 2. The automatic feeding system of the petri dish medium dispensing production line, multiple channels are formed between multiple channel plates, so that the petri dishes in each channel can reach the limiting piece to be limited, in order to avoid the petri dishes from falling off the loading plate during feeding movement, at this time, the operation of the small motor in the limiting assembly makes the movable rod rotate, and the petri dish is in contact with the rubber sleeve, and is limited by the limiting piece, to avoid the petri dish from falling off during feeding. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0017] Figure 1 It is a structural schematic diagram of the application;

[0018] Figure 2 It is a structural schematic diagram of the base rod and channel plate connection of the application;

[0019] Figure 3 It is a structural schematic diagram of the application Figure 1 It is an enlarged schematic diagram of the structure at A in the application;

[0020] Figure 4 It is a schematic diagram of the feeding mechanism of the application;

[0021] Figure 5 It is a schematic diagram of the limiting assembly of the application;

[0022] Figure 6 It is a process structure schematic diagram of the application.

[0023] In the figure: 1 rack, 2 conveyor belt, 3 electrical control cabinet, 4 vertical plate, 5 base rod, 6 channel plate, 7 feeding mechanism, 701 bottom plate, 702 mounting plate, 703 sliding rod, 704 sliding block, 705 movable plate, 706 first cylinder, 707 second cylinder, 708 connecting plate, 709 support rod, 710 top plate, 711 limiting piece, 712 side plate, 713 small motor, 714 connecting rod, 715 movable rod, 716 rubber sleeve, 8 loading plate, 9 stacking plate. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0024] With reference to the drawings of the embodiments of the present application, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be described clearly and completely. Obviously, the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present application, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without creative work fall within the protection scope of the present application.

[0025] Please refer to Figures 1-6 The automatic feeding system of the plate culture medium split production line in the embodiment includes two racks 1, the upper surfaces of the two racks 1 are fixed with the same conveying belt 2, the length and the number of the conveying belt can be increased or decreased according to the production capacity demand, the lower surface of the left rack 1 is fixed with an electrical control cabinet 3, the front and back surfaces of the conveying belt 2 are fixed with vertical plates 4, two base rods 5 are vertically fixed between the opposite sides of the two vertical plates 4, a plurality of equidistantly distributed and vertical channel plates 6 are fixed on the outer sides of the base rods 5, and the upper side of the left rack 1 is provided with a feeding mechanism 7.

[0026] In the embodiment, the electrical control cabinet 3 is built-in with a PLC controller, the upper surface of the right rack 1 and located at the right side of the conveying belt 2 is fixed with a stacking plate 9, the culture dishes are fed at the stacking plate 9, in the feeding process, the workers place the culture dishes on the conveying belt 2 and between the adjacent two channel plates 6, at this time, through the operation of the driving motor in the conveying belt 2, the culture dishes on the upper side of the belt body move leftward between the channel plates 6.

[0027] When the culture dishes reach the object plate 8, the PCL controller controls the driving motor in the conveying belt 2 to reverse, so that the culture dishes on the object plate 8 leave a certain gap with the subsequent culture dishes and do not interfere with the movement and feeding of the subsequent culture dishes.

[0028] It should be noted that the control mode of the present application is controlled by the PLC controller, the control circuit of the PLC controller can be realized by simple programming of those of ordinary skill in the art, and the power supply also belongs to the common knowledge in the art, so the control mode and the circuit connection of the present application will not be explained in detail, the electrical appliances appearing in the present application are common electrical appliances in the prior art, and the present application will not be described in detail.

[0029] In order to improve the automation of the culture dish feeding, the feeding mechanism 7 in the embodiment includes two bottom plates 701 fixed on the upper surface of the left rack 1, the upper surface of the left bottom plate 701 is vertically fixed with two mounting plates 702, three slide rods 703 are vertically fixed between the opposite sides of the two mounting plates 702, two sliding blocks 704 are slidingly connected to the outer side of each slide rod 703, the upper and lower sides of the sliding block 704 are fixed with movable plates 705, the back of the front mounting plate 702 is fixed with a first air cylinder 706, when the output shaft of the first air cylinder 706 is elongated, the lower movable plate 705 will move, further sliding the sliding block 704 on the outer side of the slide rod 703 to improve the stability of the culture dish during movement, one end of the output shaft of the first air cylinder 706 is fixed with the lower movable plate 705, the upper surface of the upper movable plate 705 is fixed with a second air cylinder 707, one end of the output shaft of the second air cylinder 707 is fixed with a connecting plate 708, the connecting plate 708 is provided with a limiting assembly for limiting the culture medium, under the operation of the second air cylinder 707, the output shaft is elongated to move the connecting plate 708 and the supporting rod 709 to the right, further moving the limiting piece 711 to the right, at this time the culture dish will fall from the object plate 8 under the pushing of the limiting piece 711, and reach the hopper to complete the feeding of the culture dish.

[0030] In the embodiment, the right side of the upper movable plate 705 is fixed with a horizontal object plate 8, the object plate 8 is located on the left side of the conveyor belt 2, and the upper surface of the object plate 8 is flush with the upper surface of the conveyor belt 2, the length of the bottom plate 701 is greater than the width of the rack 1, the three slide rods 703 are equally distributed on the top between the opposite sides of the two mounting plates 702, and the sliding block 704 moves linearly on the outer side of the slide rod 703.

[0031] The upper surface of the left rack 1 is fixed with a positioning plate, the lower surface of the object plate 8 is vertically fixed with a positioning piece facing the positioning plate, and the positioning piece is located on the left side of the positioning plate, and the right side of the rear mounting plate 702 is fixed with a limiting plate facing the direction of the object plate 8.

[0032] It should be noted that when the culture dish is fed to the hopper, it is placed on the conveyor belt 2, and the conveyor belt 2 is formed into multiple channels by the plurality of channel plates 6, the culture dish will reach the object plate 8 with the conveying of the conveyor belt 2, at this time the object plate 8 is pushed backward by the operation of the first air cylinder 706, and reaches the hopper, at this time the object plate 8 is pushed down by the second air cylinder to reach the hopper, to complete the feeding of the culture dish.

[0033] In order to avoid the culture dish slipping, the limiting assembly in the embodiment comprises two support rods 709 fixed on the right side of the connecting plate 708, the top ends of the two support rods 709 are fixed with the same horizontal top plate 710, the lower surface of the top plate 710 and located on the right side of the connecting plate 708 is fixed with a plurality of limiting pieces 711, the culture dish will move to the left and reach the object plate 8, and the culture dish in each channel is initially limited by a single limiting piece 711, the lower surface of the top plate 710 is vertically fixed with two side plates 712, the front side of the front side plate 712 is fixed with a small motor 713, when the output shaft of the small motor 713 rotates, it will rotate with the connecting rod 714, further rotating with the movable rod 715, at this time the movable rod 715 is in contact with the culture dish through the rubber sleeve 716, the output shaft of the small motor 713 is fixed with the connecting rod 714 which penetrates and extends to the rear side of the limiting piece 711 and is rotatably connected with the connecting rod 714 through the bearing located on the rear side of the side plate 712, the outer side of the connecting rod 714 is fixed with the movable rod 715, the outer side of the movable rod 715 is fixed with the rubber sleeve 716, after the culture dish is initially positioned between the two V-shaped limiting plates, it is secondarily positioned by the movable rod 715, so as to limit the moving path of the culture dish on the object plate 8, therefore, during the subsequent culture dish feeding process, it will not fall off the object plate 8.

[0034] In the embodiment, the limiting piece 711 comprises two limiting plates which are fixed in a V shape between the two limiting plates and face the direction of the channel plate 6, the upper movable plate 705 moves with the object plate 8 and the second cylinder 707 and the limiting assembly, when the culture dish moves to the designated place, the small motor 713 reverses, rotating the connecting rod 714, further moving the movable rod 715 upward, at this time the movable rod 715 no longer limits the culture dish.

[0035] The horizontal height of the limiting plate is greater than the horizontal height of the object plate 8, and the limiting plate moves linearly left and right above the object plate 8.

[0036] It should be noted that a plurality of channels are formed between the plurality of channel plates 6, so that the culture dish in each channel can reach the limiting piece 711 to be limited, in order to avoid the culture dish falling off the object plate 8 during the feeding and moving process, at this time the operation of the small motor 713 in the limiting assembly makes the movable rod 715 rotate and contact the culture dish through the rubber sleeve 716, in cooperation with the limiting piece 711, the culture dish is multiple limited to avoid falling during feeding.

[0037] Wherein, the PLC controller keeps the push plate cylinder in the retracted state when collecting the plate, the limiting part 711 is in the three-point semi-enclosed structure at this time, which can fit the culture plate, ensures smooth operation during translation, pushes the culture plate in the carrier plate 8 into the hopper, and after a period of time, the PLC sends a command to the second cylinder 707 to retract, and the first cylinder 706 translates the platform to the starting position. The conveyor belt advances to deliver the culture plate to the carrier plate 8, the conveyor belt reverses, completes a cycle, and repeats the cycle.

[0038] Finally, all the structures of the present application adopt SUS304 high-quality stainless steel and aluminum profiles, ensuring that they never rust, are environmentally friendly and pollution-free, and meet the GMP standard.

[0039] The working principle of the above embodiment is:

[0040] (1) The culture plate is loaded at the stacking plate 9. During the loading process, the worker places the culture plate on the conveyor belt 2 between the adjacent two channel plates 6. At this time, the culture plate on the upper side of the belt body moves left between the channel plates 6 through the operation of the drive motor in the conveyor belt 2. At this time, the culture plate will move left and reach the carrier plate 8, and the culture plate in each channel corresponds to a single limiting part 711 for initial limiting. When the culture plate reaches the carrier plate 8, the PCL controller controls the drive motor in the conveyor belt 2 to reverse, leaving a certain gap between the culture plate on the carrier plate 8 and the subsequent culture plate, and not interfering with the movement of the subsequent culture plate. At the same time, in order to avoid the culture plate from falling off the carrier plate 8 during loading, a small motor 713 is used at this time. When the output shaft of the small motor 713 rotates, it will rotate with the connecting rod 714, further rotating the movable rod 715. At this time, the movable rod 715 contacts the culture plate through the rubber sleeve 716, and the culture plate is initially positioned between the two V-shaped limiting plates, and then positioned again by the movable rod 715 to limit the movement path of the culture plate on the carrier plate 8. Therefore, during the subsequent culture plate loading process, it will not fall off the carrier plate 8.

[0041] (2) After the completion of the limiting of the culture dish, first, the first cylinder 706 operates, and when the output shaft is elongated, the lower movable plate 705 is moved, further bringing the sliding block 704 to slide outside the sliding rod 703, to improve the stability of the culture dish during the moving process, at the same time, the upper movable plate 705 moves the object plate 8 and the second cylinder 707 and the limiting assembly, when the culture dish moves to the designated place, the small motor 713 reverses, bringing the connecting rod 714 to rotate, further making the movable rod 715 move upwards, at this time, the movable rod 715 no longer limits the culture dish, under the operation of the second cylinder 707, the output shaft is elongated, bringing the connecting plate 708 and the supporting rod 709 to move to the right, further making the limiting piece 711 move the culture dish to the right, at this time, the culture dish will fall from the object plate 8 under the pushing of the limiting piece 711, and reach the hopper, to complete the feeding of the culture dish, when the object plate 8 moves to the right at the collection, the positioning sheet contacts the positioning plate, to limit the right side of the object plate 8, when the object plate 8 moves backward, it will contact the limiting plate, to limit the back side of the object plate 8, to ensure the accuracy of the stroke of the object plate 8.

[0042] It should be noted that the relational terms herein such as first and second and the like are used solely to distinguish one from another entity or action, without necessarily requiring or implying any such actual relationship or order between such entities or actions. Moreover, the terms "comprises", "comprising", or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but can include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. An element proceeded by "comprises... a" does not, without more constraints, exclude the existence of additional identical elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

[0043] While the embodiments of the application have been shown and described, it is to be understood that the embodiments described are only by way of example and are not limiting of the scope of the application. The scope of the application is limited only by the claims and the full scope of equivalents of the claims.

Claims

1. A flat plate culture medium sub-packaging production line automatic feeding system comprising two racks (1), characterized in that: The upper surface of two racks (1) is fixed with the same conveying belt (2), the lower surface of the left rack (1) is fixed with the electrical control cabinet (3), the electrical control cabinet (3) is built-in with the PLC controller, the upper surface of the right rack (1) and the right side of the conveying belt (2) are fixed with the stacking plate (9), the front and back of the conveying belt (2) are fixed with the vertical plate (4), two base rods (5) are vertically fixed between the opposite sides of the two vertical plates (4), a plurality of equidistantly distributed and vertical channel plates (6) are fixed on the outer side of the base rod (5), the upper side of the left rack (1) is provided with the feeding mechanism (7); The feeding mechanism (7) comprises two bottom plates (701) fixed on the upper surface of the left rack (1), the upper surface of the left bottom plate (701) is vertically fixed with two mounting plates (702), three slide rods (703) are vertically fixed between the opposite sides of the two mounting plates (702), two slide blocks (704) are slidably connected to the outer side of each slide rod (703), the upper and lower sides of the slide block (704) are fixed with the movable plate (705), the back of the front mounting plate (702) is fixed with the first air cylinder (706), one end of the output shaft of the first air cylinder (706) is fixed with the lower movable plate (705), the upper surface of the upper movable plate (705) is fixed with the second air cylinder (707), the right side of the upper movable plate (705) is fixed with the horizontal carrier plate (8), the carrier plate (8) is located on the left side of the conveying belt (2), and the upper surface of the carrier plate (8) is flush with the upper surface of the conveying belt (2), one end of the output shaft of the second air cylinder (707) is fixed with the connecting plate (708), and the connecting plate (708) is provided with the limiting assembly for limiting the culture medium.

2. The automatic feeding system of a flat plate medium sub-packaging production line according to claim 1, characterized in that: The length of the bottom plate (701) is greater than the width of the rack (1), the three slide rods (703) are equidistantly distributed on the top between the opposite sides of the two mounting plates (702), and the slide blocks (704) move linearly forward and backward on the outer side of the slide rod (703).

3. The automatic feeding system of a flat plate medium sub-packaging production line according to claim 1, characterized in that: The limiting assembly comprises two support rods (709) fixed on the right side of the connecting plate (708), the top ends of the two support rods (709) are fixed with the same horizontal top plate (710), a plurality of limiting pieces (711) are fixed on the lower surface of the top plate (710) and located on the right side of the connecting plate (708), the lower surface of the top plate (710) is vertically fixed with two side plates (712), the front side of the side plate (712) is fixed with the small motor (713), the output shaft of the small motor (713) is fixed with the connecting rod (714) which penetrates and extends to the rear side of the limiting piece (711) and is rotatably connected to the rear side of the side plate (712) through the bearing, the outer side of the connecting rod (714) is fixed with the movable rod (715), and the outer side of the movable rod (715) is fixed with the rubber sleeve (716).

4. The automatic feeding system of a flat plate medium sub-packaging production line according to claim 3, characterized in that: The limiting piece (711) comprises two limiting plates which are fixed in a V shape between the two limiting plates, and the limiting piece (711) faces the direction of the channel plate (6).

5. The automatic feeding system of a flat plate medium sub-packaging production line according to claim 4, characterized in that: The horizontal height of the limiting plate is greater than the horizontal height of the object plate (8), and the limiting plate moves linearly left and right on the upper side of the object plate (8).

6. The automatic feeding system of a flat plate medium sub-packaging production line according to claim 1, characterized in that: The upper surface of the left rack (1) is fixed with a positioning plate, the lower surface of the object plate (8) is vertically fixed with a positioning piece facing the positioning plate, and the positioning piece is located on the left side of the positioning plate, and the right side of the rear mounting plate (702) is fixed with a limiting plate facing the direction of the object plate (8).

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