Manual tobacco bale collecting device

Abstract

The utility model relates to the technical field of tobacco bale production, in particular to a manual tobacco bale collecting device. The cigarette outlet channel is used for collecting cigarette packets from a cigarette packaging machine, the packet picking channel is used for manually collecting the cigarette packets, and a transfer wheel is arranged between the cigarette outlet channel and the packet picking channel; the transfer wheel comprises a star wheel and a driving part used for driving the star wheel to rotate. A plurality of protrusions are arranged on the surface of the star wheel in the circumferential direction, a transfer part used for receiving or releasing cigarette packets is formed between every two adjacent protrusions, and the included angle between every two adjacent protrusions ranges from 80 degrees to 100 degrees. According to the tobacco bale picking device, the tobacco bales are conveyed into the bale picking channel after being converted from the horizontal state to the side standing state through the transfer wheels, the number of the bales picked by an operator at a time can be increased, and therefore the number of workers of the bale picking channel can be reduced, and the length of the bale picking channel is correspondingly reduced so as to reduce the occupied area.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The utility model relates to the technical field of cigarette pack production, in particular to an artificial cigarette pack collecting device. Background Art

[0002] At present, when heating non-combustible electronic cigarettes are packaged, a special cigarette packaging production line GIMA TT packaging unit produced by the Italian IMA company is adopted, and its products are exported to countries other than China. When selling electronic cigarette products overseas, the country where the products are sold requires that tax stamps be pasted on the small box cigarette packs to facilitate the statistics of the sales quantity and the tax payment work of the products. Since the sizes of tax stamps in different countries are different, some tax stamps cannot complete this process on the GIMA TT packaging unit. It is necessary to first produce small box cigarette packs on the GIMA TT packaging unit. After the cigarette packs are output from the outlet channel of the FLEX-AS small box packaging machine of the GIMA TT packaging unit, they are manually collected, loaded onto trays, and transported through the cigarette pack conveying channel, and then manually pasted.

[0003] For example, the patent document with the publication number CN113955184A discloses such a full product specification combined cigarette automatic sorting and packaging system and method, which is provided with a manual channel and an automatic channel. If the cartons of cigarettes enter the manual channel, manual packaging and manual labeling are carried out.

[0004] In the current manual collecting device, the cigarette packs are horizontally conveyed on the conveyor belt. Since the cigarette output speed of the cigarette packaging machine is fast and the manual picking speed is limited, it is necessary for multiple people to work on the collecting channel to ensure that all the cigarette packs on the collecting channel are collected in time, resulting in problems such as a large amount of labor. At the same time, it is also because of the large amount of labor that the length of the collecting channel also needs to be designed longer to facilitate the work of multiple people. Therefore, there is also a problem that the floor area of the collecting channel is large. At present, the collecting channel is 5 m long, and 5 people are required to collect the cigarette packs on the collecting channel onto the cigarette trays. Summary of the Utility Model

[0005] The utility model aims to solve the above problems and provides an artificial cigarette pack collecting device with less required labor and a small floor area.

[0006] The technical solution for this utility model to solve the problem is to provide an artificial cigarette pack collecting device, which includes a cigarette outlet channel for collecting cigarette packs from a cigarette packaging machine and a picking channel for manual cigarette pack collection operation. A transfer wheel is arranged between the cigarette outlet channel and the picking channel; the cigarette outlet channel includes a conveyor belt, a conveyor belt driving wheel, and a motor for driving the conveyor belt driving wheel; the transfer wheel includes a star wheel and a driving member for driving the star wheel to rotate; the surface of the star wheel includes a number of protrusions along the circumferential direction, and a transfer part for receiving or discharging cigarette packs is formed between two adjacent protrusions, and the included angle between two adjacent protrusions is 80° - 100°; the driving member includes a driving gear coaxially arranged with the conveyor belt driving wheel and a driven gear coaxially arranged with the star wheel, and the driving gear drives the driven gear to rotate.

[0007] As a preference of this utility model, the driving gear and the driven gear are meshed through an intermediate gear.

[0008] As a preference of this utility model, the driven gear is a nylon gear.

[0009] As a preference of this utility model, the cigarette outlet channel is successively provided with a buffer part and an outlet part for feeding the cigarette packs into the transfer part along the conveying direction; a anti-jump guard plate is arranged above the buffer part.

[0010] As a preference of this utility model, the anti-jump guard plate is provided with a deceleration brush that can abut against the cigarette packs.

[0011] As a preference of this utility model, it further includes an adjusting member for adjusting the distance between the anti-jump guard plate and the buffer part.

[0012] As a preference of this utility model, baffles are respectively arranged at both axial ends of the star wheel, and the baffles are provided with stabilizing brushes that can abut against the side surfaces of the cigarette packs.

[0013] As a preference of this utility model, the picking channel includes an inlet part for receiving the cigarette packs discharged from the transfer part, and one end of the inlet part close to the transfer wheel is inclined downward relative to the end far from the transfer wheel.

[0014] As a preference of this utility model, protective plates are respectively arranged on both sides of the inlet part parallel to the conveying direction, and the distance between the two protective plates decreases along the conveying direction and decreases to be equal to the width of the cigarette pack perpendicular to the conveying direction.

[0015] As a preference of this utility model, the protrusion includes an upstream surface and a downstream surface opposite to each other, and a support plate parallel to the downstream surface is arranged on the downstream surface, and the end of the support plate protrudes from the end of the protrusion.

[0016] The beneficial effects of this utility model:

[0017] 1. In this application, a transfer wheel is arranged between the cigarette outlet channel and the cigarette packet picking channel. The cigarette packets are converted from a horizontal state to a standing state by the transfer wheel and then sent into the picking channel. When the operator picks up the cigarette packets, the direction between both hands is the same as the conveying direction, and the ratio of the distance between both hands to the length of the cigarette packet along the conveying direction is approximately the number of cigarette packets that can be collected in a single picking operation. The length of the cigarette packet in the horizontal state along the conveying direction is longer, and the length of the cigarette packet in the standing state along the conveying direction is shorter. Therefore, after the cigarette packets are converted to the standing state and sent into the picking channel by the transfer wheel, the number of cigarette packets picked up by the operator in a single time can be increased, thereby reducing the number of workers in the picking channel and correspondingly reducing the length of the picking channel to reduce the floor area.

[0018] 2. In this application, the driving wheel of the cigarette outlet channel indirectly drives the transfer wheel, reducing power consumption. In some embodiments, the driven gear of the transfer wheel is designed as a nylon gear. When the cigarette packets are blocked, resulting in excessive torque, the nylon gear is damaged and the power is interrupted, realizing the overload protection function.

[0019] 3. In some embodiments, stable brushes that can abut against the side surfaces of the cigarette packets are arranged on both sides of the transfer wheel to restrain the cigarette packets, prevent the cigarette packets from shifting, and ensure the stability of the cigarette packet flipping.

[0020] 4. In some embodiments, the entrance part of the picking channel is set as an inclined surface to prevent the problem that the cigarette packets at the entrance part are prone to tipping towards the transfer wheel when pushed by the protrusion or the support plate. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0021] Figure 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an artificial cigarette packet collection device;

[0022] Figure 2 is Figure 1 the enlarged view at A in

[0023] Figure 3 is a schematic structural diagram of the driving member;

[0024] Figure 4 is a working schematic diagram of the star wheel;

[0025] Figure 5 is a top view of an artificial cigarette packet collection device;

[0026] Figure 6 is a simplified top view of an artificial cigarette packet collection device;

[0027] In the figure: smoke outlet channel 1, outlet part 1a, buffer part 1b, conveyor belt driving wheel 11, motor 12, anti-jump guard plate 13, transfer wheel 2, star wheel 21, protrusion 211, support plate 211a, transfer part 212, baffle 213, driving member 22, driving gear 221, driven gear 222, intermediate gear 223, cigarette packet picking channel 3, inlet part 3a, protection plate 31. Detailed implementation mode

[0028] The following is the detailed implementation mode of the present utility model. In combination with the attached drawings, the technical solutions of the present utility model will be further described, but the present utility model is not limited to these embodiments.

[0029] An artificial cigarette packet collecting device, as Figure 1 and Figure 5 shown, includes a smoke outlet channel 1 for collecting cigarette packets from a cigarette packing machine, a cigarette packet picking channel 3 for manual cigarette packet collection operation, and a transfer wheel 2 is arranged between the smoke outlet channel 1 and the cigarette packet picking channel 3.

[0030] The smoke outlet channel 1 mainly includes a conveyor belt part and a feeding part. As Figure 2 and Figure 3 shown, the conveyor belt part includes a conveyor belt, a conveyor belt driving wheel 11, and a motor 12 for driving the conveyor belt driving wheel 11. Specifically, in this embodiment, the conveyor belt driving wheel 11 is a sprocket, a sprocket is arranged on the output shaft of the motor 12, and the two sprockets are driven by a chain. As Figure 1 and Figure 6 shown, one end of the conveyor belt is arranged below the cigarette packet outlet of the cigarette packing machine, and the other end is provided with a feeding part. The feeding part includes two receiving plates. Both ends of the two receiving plates are in contact with the end of the conveyor belt at one end and are free ends at the other end; the horizontal planes where the surfaces of the two receiving plates are located are not higher than the horizontal plane where the conveyor belt conveying surface is located, and there is an opening between the two receiving plates. When in use, in the direction shown in Figure 1 shown, the cigarette packet falls from the outlet of the cigarette packing machine to the left end of the conveyor belt part of the smoke outlet channel 1, is conveyed to the right end of the conveyor belt, and then is pushed onto the feeding part. When the left end of the cigarette packet is no longer in contact with the conveyor belt, the cigarette packet no longer receives power and stays on the feeding part. In the feeding part, both ends of the cigarette packet in the direction perpendicular to the conveying direction are respectively lapped on the receiving plates, and the central part of the cigarette packet is suspended on the opening between the two receiving plates.

[0031] In some implementation modes, baffles are respectively arranged at both ends of the conveyor belt part and the feeding part perpendicular to the conveying direction to prevent the cigarette packet from deviating in a non-conveying direction.

[0032] In some embodiments, due to the high frequency of cigarette output by the cigarette packing machine, the distance between adjacent cigarette packs on the conveyor belt is small; or due to the slow rotation of the subsequent transfer wheel 2; it may happen that before the transfer wheel 2 has time to push away the cigarette pack here, the next cigarette pack is also pushed here and abuts against the previous one. In this case, when the subsequent star wheel transfer wheel 2 pushes the previous cigarette pack upward, based on the action of friction, it will drive the next cigarette pack to jump up; therefore, as Figure 2 and Figure 4 shown, the end of the conveyor belt part close to the feeding part is set as the buffer part 1b, and the feeding part is the outlet part 1a for feeding the cigarette pack into the transfer part 212. Above the buffer part 1b, there is an anti-jump guard plate 13 to prevent the next cigarette pack from jumping up.

[0033] On this basis, in some embodiments, a deceleration brush that can abut against the cigarette pack is provided on the anti-jump guard plate 13. When the cigarette pack passes through the anti-jump guard plate 13, the upper surface thereof is decelerated by the frictional force of the deceleration brush, so that the cigarette pack slowly enters the feeding part, avoiding unnecessary collisions with the transfer wheel 2 or the previous cigarette pack due to excessive speed and being damaged.

[0034] On this basis, in some embodiments, since cigarette packs have different packaging methods, such as soft packs or hard packs, the pressures that cigarette packs of different packaging methods can withstand are different. Therefore, it also includes an adjusting member for adjusting the distance between the anti-jump guard plate 13 and the buffer part 1a, so that the deceleration brush of the anti-jump guard plate 13 applies different pressures to cigarette packs of different packaging methods. The structure of the adjusting member is not limited. In this embodiment, as Figure 2 shown, the anti-jump guard plate 13 is arranged on the connecting plate, and the connecting plate is connected to the fixing frame arranged near the cigarette outlet channel 1 through an L-shaped connecting member. The L-shaped connecting member includes a horizontal part connected to the fixing frame by screws and a vertical part connected to the connecting plate by screws. When it is necessary to increase the height of the anti-jump guard plate 13, a spacer block with a corresponding thickness is added between the horizontal part and the fixing frame, and the horizontal part, the spacer block, and the fixing frame are sequentially connected with longer screws; at the same time, adjusting the installation position of the horizontal part on the fixing frame can also adjust the horizontal position of the anti-jump guard plate 13 to be applicable to cigarette packs of various lengths.

[0035] The transfer wheel 2 is used to transfer the above-mentioned cigarette packs staying in the feeding part. As Figure 3 and Figure 4 shown, the transfer wheel 2 includes a star wheel 21 and a driving member 22 for driving the star wheel 21 to rotate. As Figure 4 shown, the surface of the star wheel 21 includes a number of protrusions 211 along the circumferential direction. In this embodiment, there are 8 of them, and a transfer part 212 for receiving or discharging cigarette packs is formed between adjacent two protrusions 211. As Figure 6As shown, the width of the protrusion 211 perpendicular to the conveying direction is not greater than the width of the opening between the two receiving plates, so that when the star wheel 21 rotates, the protrusion 211 can pass through the opening; then when there is a cigarette pack at the opening, the protrusion 211 can lift the cigarette pack to make it enter the transfer part 212 and drive the cigarette pack to rotate together. As Figure 4 shown, when the angle between two adjacent protrusions 211 is set to 80° - 100°, preferably 90°, after the star wheel 21 rotates 90°, the cigarette pack originally in a horizontal state can be converted into a standing state on its side.

[0036] In some embodiments, in order to improve the grasping efficiency of the cigarette pack, the protrusion 211 includes an upstream surface and a downstream surface opposite to each other. A support plate 211a parallel to the downstream surface is provided on the downstream surface, and the end of the support plate 211a protrudes from the end of the protrusion, and the cigarette pack is grasped by the lengthened support plate 211a.

[0037] In some embodiments, in order to prevent the cigarette pack on the star wheel 21 from shifting during the rotation of the star wheel 21, as Figure 6 shown, baffles 213 are respectively provided at both axial ends of the star wheel 21, and the baffles 213 are provided with stable brushes that can abut against the side surface of the cigarette pack. Further, as Figure 4 shown, an arc-shaped guard plate can also be provided above the star wheel 21 to limit the cigarette pack within the transfer part 212, and the arc-shaped guard plate can be integrally formed with the above-mentioned anti-jump guard plate 13.

[0038] As Figure 3 shown, the driving member 22 includes a driving gear 221 coaxially arranged with the conveyor belt driving wheel 11 and a driven gear 222 coaxially arranged with the star wheel 21. The driving gear 221 drives the driven gear 222 to rotate, and the power of the cigarette outlet passage 1 drives the star wheel 21 to rotate, which can not only reduce the power consumption, but also facilitate the regulation of the speeds of the cigarette outlet passage 1 and the transfer wheel 2, so that the speeds of the two match. In this embodiment, when the star wheel 21 has 8 transfer parts 212, after 3 transfer parts 212 in the upper half of the star wheel 21 are all grasping cigarette packs, it will drop a cigarette pack approximately every one-eighth of a turn. Therefore, the angular velocity of the star wheel 21 should be set relatively low. In this embodiment, the transmission ratio of the driving gear 221 and the driven gear 222 is 4.

[0039] In some embodiments, a larger transmission ratio means that the pitch circle diameter of the driven gear 222 is larger. If the driving gear 221 and the driven gear 222 are directly meshed, there may be problems such as large load and unstable transmission. Therefore, the driving gear 221 and the driven gear 222 are meshed through an intermediate gear 223 with a medium pitch circle diameter. The transmission ratio of the driving gear 221 and the intermediate gear 223 is 2, and the transmission ratio of the intermediate gear 223 and the driven gear 222 is 2.

[0040] In some embodiments, the driven gear 222 is set as a nylon gear. When a blockage occurs on the transfer wheel 2 or the torque is too large, it will be damaged at the nylon gear, thereby interrupting the power and protecting the power transmission system to achieve the overload protection function.

[0041] As Figure 4 shown, after the star wheel 21 rotates a certain angle, it can convert the cigarette packets originally in a horizontal state into a standing state; when it continues to rotate, the opening of the transfer part 212 begins to face downward, and at this time, the standing cigarette packets can be output to the packet picking channel 3. The packet picking channel 3 sequentially includes an inlet part 3a for receiving the cigarette packets released from the transfer part 212, and a conveying part for conveying the cigarette packets, and the conveying part is a conventional conveyor belt. As Figure 6 shown, the inlet part 3a is similar to the feeding part of the above-mentioned cigarette outlet channel 1, and includes two receiving plates. One end of each of the two receiving plates is a free end, and the other end abuts against the end of the conveying part, and there is an opening between the two receiving plates. When in use, when the star wheel 21 drives the cigarette packets to rotate to the inlet part 3a, the cigarette packets are blocked by the receiving plates and cannot continue to rotate with the star wheel 21, and the cigarette packets are transferred onto the inlet part 3a. At the same time, the star wheel 21 continues to rotate, and its protrusion 211 or support plate 211a can still contact the cigarette packets, thereby continuously applying a driving force to the cigarette packets, so as to push the cigarette packets from the inlet part 3a to the conveying part.

[0042] In some embodiments, as Figure 6 shown, protection plates 31 are respectively provided on both sides of the inlet part 3a parallel to the conveying direction, and the distance between the two protection plates 31 decreases along the conveying direction and decreases to be equal to the width of the cigarette packet perpendicular to the conveying direction. The wider part between the two protection plates 31 is convenient for the cigarette packets to enter the inlet part 3a, prevents the two ends of the cigarette packets from being stuck by the frictional force and cannot smoothly fall onto the inlet part 3a; the narrower part between the two protection plates 31, which is equal to the width of the cigarette packet, is used to keep the advancing direction of the cigarette packets from deviating, and at the same time ensure the standing state of the cigarette packets and prevent the cigarette packets from tipping over.

[0043] In some embodiments, since the star wheel 21 is rotating, the force applied by the protrusion 211 or the support plate 211a to the cigarette packets is tangential, specifically a forward and downward force; at the same time, its force application point is also changing. When the force application point is located at the lower part of the cigarette packet, it is very easy to cause the cigarette packet to fall backward (in the direction of Figure 4 , that is, to the left). Therefore, in this embodiment, the inlet part 3a is inclined, so that the end of the inlet part 3a close to the transfer wheel 2 is inclined downward relative to the end far from the transfer wheel 2; compared with the horizontal inlet part 3a, the deviation between the direction of the supporting force of the inclined inlet part 3a on the cigarette packet and the direction of the thrust of the protrusion 211 or the support plate 211a on the cigarette packet is not large, and the cigarette packet is not easily toppled by the thrust.

[0044] In some embodiments, an input guard plate is further provided above the inlet portion 3a. The input guard plate is parallel to the inlet portion 3a to further ensure the stability of cigarette pack transportation. The input guard plate can be integrally formed with the above-mentioned arc-shaped guard plate.

[0045] The specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the spirit of the present invention. Those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains can make various modifications or supplements to the described specific embodiments or use similar methods for substitution, but will not deviate from the spirit of the present invention or exceed the scope defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. An artificial cigarette pack collecting device, characterized in that: It includes a cigarette outlet channel (1) for collecting cigarette packs from a cigarette packing machine and a picking channel (3) for manual cigarette pack collection operation. A transfer wheel (2) is provided between the cigarette outlet channel (1) and the picking channel (3); The cigarette outlet channel (1) includes a conveyor belt, a conveyor belt driving wheel (11), and a motor (12) for driving the conveyor belt driving wheel (11); The transfer wheel (2) includes a star wheel (21) and a driving member (22) for driving the star wheel (21) to rotate; The surface of the star wheel (21) includes a plurality of protrusions (211) along the circumferential direction. A transfer part (212) for receiving or discharging cigarette packs is formed between two adjacent protrusions (211), and the angle between two adjacent protrusions (211) is 80°-100°; The driving member (22) includes a driving gear (221) coaxially arranged with the conveyor belt driving wheel (11) and a driven gear (222) coaxially arranged with the star wheel (21), and the driving gear (221) drives the driven gear (222) to rotate.

2. The artificial cigarette pack collecting device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The driving gear (221) and the driven gear (222) are meshed through an intermediate gear (223).

3. The artificial cigarette pack collecting device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The driven gear (222) is a nylon gear.

4. The manual cigarette pack collecting device according to claim 1, wherein: The cigarette outlet channel (1) is successively provided with a buffer part (1b) and an outlet part (1a) for feeding the cigarette packs into the transfer part (212) along the conveying direction; A anti-jump guard plate (13) is provided above the buffer part (1b).

5. An artificial cigarette pack collecting device according to claim 4, characterized in that: The anti-jump guard plate (13) is provided with a deceleration brush that can abut against the cigarette pack.

6. An artificial cigarette pack collecting device according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that: It also includes an adjusting member for adjusting the distance between the anti-jump guard plate (13) and the buffer part (1b).

7. The artificial cigarette pack collecting device according to claim 1, wherein: Baffles (213) are respectively provided at both axial ends of the star wheel (21), and the baffles (213) are provided with stabilizing brushes that can abut against the side surface of the cigarette pack.

8. The artificial cigarette packet collecting device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The picking channel (3) includes an inlet part (3a) for receiving the cigarette packs discharged from the transfer part (212), and one end of the inlet part (3a) close to the transfer wheel (2) is inclined downward relative to the end far from the transfer wheel (2).

9. An artificial cigarette pack collecting device according to claim 8, characterized in that: Protective plates (31) are respectively provided on both sides of the inlet part (3a) parallel to the conveying direction, and the distance between the two protective plates (31) decreases along the conveying direction and decreases to be equal to the width of the cigarette pack perpendicular to the conveying direction.

10. The artificial cigarette pack collecting device according to claim 1, wherein: The protrusion (211) includes an upstream surface and a downstream surface opposite to each other. A support plate parallel to the downstream surface is provided on the downstream surface, and the end of the support plate (211a) protrudes from the end of the protrusion.

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