Cigarette carton turnover device

By designing a cigarette flipping device, the compatibility issues of scanning and marking operations for irregularly shaped and standard cigarettes were solved by using a flipping guide plate and a pushing mechanism, thus achieving efficient utilization of the production line.

CN223521762UActive Publication Date: 2025-11-07ANHUI TOBACCO CO CHUZHOU CO
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Patent Information

Application Number
CN202423074927.8
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Utility models(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2024-12-11
Publication Date
2025-11-07
Estimated Expiration
2034-12-11

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Technical Problem

The existing inbound palletizing production line is difficult to adapt to the scanning and marking operations of both irregularly shaped and standard cigarettes, resulting in a large footprint of the production line.

Method used

Design a cigarette pack flipping device, including a conveyor, guardrail and flipping guide assembly. By setting a flipping guide plate and a pushing mechanism, the irregularly shaped cigarette packs and standard cigarette packs are flipped and positioned separately, ensuring that the scanning surface and the scribbled surface are correctly aligned during the conveying process.

Benefits of technology

This technology ensures correct alignment of the scanning and scribing surfaces of irregularly shaped and standard cigarettes during transport, reducing the floor space required on the production line and improving production efficiency.

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Abstract

The utility model discloses a piece cigarette turnover device which comprises a conveyor, a guardrail arranged on one side of the top of the conveyor and a turnover guide assembly used for guiding piece cigarettes to turn over. The cigarette cartons are conveyed from the code scanning conveying line to one side of the cutting conveying line by arranging the conveyor, the special-shaped cigarette cartons and the standard cigarette cartons pass through the space between the guardrail and the overturning guide plate during conveying by arranging the guardrail and the overturning guide plate, the width of the special-shaped cigarette cartons is smaller than the distance between the overturning guide plate and the guardrail, and therefore the special-shaped cigarette cartons and the standard cigarette cartons can pass through the space between the guardrail and the overturning guide plate. The width of the standard cigarette is larger than the distance between the overturning guide plate and the guardrail, so that the code scanning surface is laterally overturned and the cut surface is exposed to the top under the guidance of the overturning guide plate when the standard cigarette is conveyed from the conveyor, and the two kinds of cigarette pieces can be normally cut after being output by the conveyor; the operation requirement that two cigarette cartons are firstly scanned and then cut can be met at the same time.
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Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The utility model relates to piece cigarette conveying technical field especially relates to a piece cigarette turnover device. BACKGROUND

[0002] The statements here only provide the background of the utility model related, and not necessarily constitute the prior art.

[0003] In the cigarette production process, the piece cigarette needs to be put into the warehouse and stacked, and there is a need for unboxing operation when taking out of the warehouse. In order to meet the above needs, two separate production lines are generally used in the industry, namely the warehouse stacking production line and the unboxing production line for step operation.

[0004] However, because two independent production lines will occupy a large production area, the inventor installs the device for cutting the sealing tape in the unboxing production line to the warehouse stacking production line, so that the piece cigarette can be put into the warehouse and cut at the same time to reduce the occupied area of the subsequent unboxing production line. However, because there are two types of piece cigarettes, namely special piece cigarettes and standard piece cigarettes, the scanning surface of the special piece cigarette is consistent with the cutting surface, while the scanning surface of the standard piece cigarette is located on the side of the cutting surface, which makes it difficult for the existing warehouse stacking production line to simultaneously adapt to the operation requirements of scanning first and cutting later for both types of piece cigarettes. Therefore, a piece cigarette turnover device is proposed to solve the above problems. UTILITY MODEL CONTENT

[0005] The purpose of the utility model is to provide a piece cigarette turnover device that can simultaneously adapt to the operation requirements of scanning first and cutting later for both types of piece cigarettes to overcome the above-mentioned deficiencies.

[0006] To solve the above technical problems, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme: a piece cigarette turnover device, comprising a conveyor, a guardrail arranged on one side of the top of the conveyor, and a turnover guide assembly for guiding the turnover of the piece cigarette; the turnover guide assembly comprises a turnover guide plate located on the top of the conveyor and a support for supporting the turnover guide plate, the two end faces of the turnover guide plate located at the conveying direction of the conveyor are perpendicular to each other, the distance between the turnover guide plate and the guardrail is greater than the width of the special piece cigarette and less than the width of the standard piece cigarette.

[0007] Further, one end of the turnover guide plate close to the input direction of the conveyor is provided with a guide plate abutting against the top of the conveyor, the guide plate is parallel to the top of the conveyor, and a slope is arranged on the top of the guide plate to guide the movement of the piece cigarette to the side close to the turnover guide plate.

[0008] Further, the top of the conveyor is inclined, and the side of the corresponding guardrail of the conveyor has a ground clearance less than the side of the corresponding turnover guide plate of the conveyor.

[0009] Further, the guardrail is provided with a pushing mechanism for pushing the piece of cigarette to the side of the conveying direction of the conveyor when the piece of cigarette moves.

[0010] Further, the pushing mechanism comprises a plate chain conveyor arranged on the side of the guardrail away from the turnover guide plate, a pushing plate is arranged on the conveying belt of the plate chain conveyor and moves along with the conveying belt, and a strip-shaped hole is arranged on the guardrail and used for allowing the pushing plate to move along with the conveying belt of the plate chain conveyor.

[0011] The beneficial effects of the utility model are shown in that:

[0012] The utility model discloses, through setting up the conveyor, the piece of cigarette is conveyed from the code scanning conveying line to the side of the cutting line, and through setting up the guardrail and the turnover guide plate, the special-shaped piece of cigarette and the standard piece of cigarette are all passed between the guardrail and the turnover guide plate when conveying, wherein the special-shaped piece of cigarette can keep the cutting face upward when being output from the conveyor because the width is less than the distance between the turnover guide plate and the guardrail, and the standard piece of cigarette is guided by the turnover guide plate when being conveyed from the conveyor, and the code scanning face is turned over, and the cutting face is exposed to the top, so that the two kinds of piece of cigarette can be normally cut after being output from the conveyor, and the operation demand that the two kinds of piece of cigarette can be simultaneously adapted to code scanning and cutting can be realized. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0013] Fig. 1 It is the perspective view of the utility model;

[0014] Fig. 2 It is the connection schematic view of the turnover guide plate and the guide-in plate of the utility model;

[0015] Fig. 3 It is the structure view of the pushing mechanism of the utility model.

[0016] In the drawing:

[0017] 1, conveyor;2, guardrail;3, turnover guide assembly;31, turnover guide plate;32, support;4, guide-in plate. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0018] The technical scheme in the embodiments of the utility model will be described clearly and completely in combination with the drawings in the embodiments of the utility model, and obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the utility model, not all the embodiments. The embodiments in the application and the features in the embodiments can be combined with each other without conflict. Based on the embodiments in the utility model, all other embodiments obtained by the person skilled in the art without creative labor belong to the protection scope of the utility model.

[0019] Please refer to Figs. 1-3The utility model discloses a kind of piece cigarette turnover devices, including conveyor 1, guardrail 2 being arranged at the top side of conveyor 1 and be used to guide piece cigarette overturning overturning guide assembly 3;Overturning guide assembly 3 includes overturning guide plate 31 located at the top of conveyor 1 and bracket 32 for supporting overturning guide plate 31, overturning guide plate 31 is perpendicular to each other at the both ends of the conveying direction of conveyor 1, the spacing between overturning guide plate 31 and guardrail 2 is greater than the width of special-shaped piece cigarette, and less than the width of standard piece cigarette.

[0020] The utility model, by setting conveyor 1, piece cigarette is conveyed from the side of code scanning conveying line to cutting line, and by setting guardrail 2 and overturning guide plate 31, special-shaped piece cigarette and standard piece cigarette are all passed between guardrail 2 and overturning guide plate 31 when conveying, wherein special-shaped piece cigarette because width is less than the spacing between overturning guide plate 31 and guardrail 2, can keep cutting face upward when output from conveyor 1, and because standard piece cigarette width is greater than the spacing between overturning guide plate 31 and guardrail 2, when conveying from conveyor 1, be guided by overturning guide plate 31, make code scanning face side turn, and cutting face is exposed to top, so that two kinds of piece cigarette can be normally cut after passing conveyor 1 output, realize the operation demand of being able to simultaneously adapt two kinds of piece cigarette first code scanning and then cutting.

[0021] In an embodiment, the end of overturning guide plate 31 close to the input direction of conveyor 1 is provided with an import plate 4 abutting the top of conveyor 1, the import plate 4 is parallel to the top of conveyor 1, and the top of the import plate 4 is provided with an inclined surface guiding the piece cigarette to move to the side close to the overturning guide plate 31.

[0022] This design makes it easier for standard piece cigarette to move from the import plate 4 to the overturning guide plate 31 after being pushed by the conveyor 1.

[0023] In an embodiment, the top of the conveyor 1 is inclined, and the side of the conveyor 1 corresponding to the guardrail 2 has a ground clearance less than the side of the conveyor 1 corresponding to the overturning guide plate 31.

[0024] This design allows the piece cigarette to move to the side of the guardrail 2 under the action of the top inclined surface and its own gravity after moving to the conveyor 1, so that the piece cigarette abuts the guardrail 2 in the subsequent conveying process, and uses the guardrail 2 as a positioning surface to ensure that the special-shaped piece cigarette is not affected by the overturning guide plate 31 during conveying.

[0025] In an embodiment, the guardrail 2 is provided with a pushing mechanism for pushing the piece cigarette to the side of the output direction of the conveyor 1 when the piece cigarette moves.

[0026] This design uses the pushing mechanism to assist in pushing the piece cigarette to move, thereby providing additional power when the standard piece cigarette is blocked during conveying due to the reduction of the contact surface between the overturning and the conveyor 1, and ensuring that the standard piece cigarette can stably overturn.

[0027] In an embodiment, the pushing mechanism comprises a plate chain conveyor arranged on the side of the guardrail 2 away from the turnover guide plate 31, a pushing plate is arranged on the conveying belt of the plate chain conveyor, and a strip-shaped hole is arranged on the guardrail 2 for the turning movement of the pushing plate following the conveying belt of the plate chain conveyor.

[0028] In this way, the turning movement of the pushing plate driven by the plate chain conveyor enables the pushing plate to repeatedly push the piece of cigarette during the turning process, and the purpose of cooperating with the conveyor 1 is achieved.

[0029] It should be noted that if the embodiments of the utility model have directionality indications (such as up, down, left, right, front, back, etc.), the directionality indications are only used to explain the relative position relationship, movement condition, etc. between the components in a certain specific posture (as shown in the drawings), if the specific posture changes, the directionality indications also change accordingly.

[0030] In addition, if the embodiments of the utility model have descriptions of "first", "second", etc., the descriptions of "first", "second", etc. are only for description purposes, and cannot be understood as indicating or implying the relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of the indicated technical features. Therefore, the features with "first" and "second" can explicitly or implicitly include at least one of the features. In addition, the technical solutions of each embodiment can be combined with each other, but it must be based on the realization of ordinary technical personnel in the art, when the combination of technical solutions appears contradictory or unachievable, it should be considered that the combination of technical solutions does not exist, and is not within the protection scope required by the utility model.

[0031] In addition, "multiple" refers to more than two.

[0032] The above is only the preferred embodiment of the utility model, and is not used to limit the utility model, any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principles of the utility model should be included in the protection scope of the utility model.

Claims

1. A pack of cigarettes inverting apparatus, characterized by: The device comprises a conveyor (1), a guardrail (2) arranged on one side of the top of the conveyor (1), and a turnover guide assembly (3) for guiding the turnover of the cigarettes; the turnover guide assembly (3) comprises a turnover guide plate (31) arranged on the top of the conveyor (1) and a support (32) for supporting the turnover guide plate (31); the turnover guide plate (31) is perpendicular to the two end faces of the conveyor (1) in the conveying direction; the distance between the turnover guide plate (31) and the guardrail (2) is greater than the width of the special-shaped cigarettes and less than the width of the standard cigarettes.

2. The one-piece cigarette flipper of claim 1, wherein: The end of the turnover guide plate (31) close to the input direction of the conveyor (1) is provided with an import plate (4) abutting against the top of the conveyor (1); the import plate (4) is parallel to the top of the conveyor (1); and the top of the import plate (4) is provided with an inclined surface for guiding the movement of the cigarettes to the side close to the turnover guide plate (31).

3. The one-piece cigarette flipper of claim 1, wherein: The top of the conveyor (1) is inclined; and the ground clearance of the side of the conveyor (1) corresponding to the guardrail (2) is less than that of the side of the conveyor (1) corresponding to the turnover guide plate (31).

4. The one-piece cigarette flipper of claim 1, wherein: The guardrail (2) is provided with a pushing mechanism for pushing the cigarettes to the output direction of the conveyor (1) when the cigarettes move.

5. The one-piece cigarette flipper of claim 4, wherein: The pushing mechanism comprises a plate chain conveyor arranged on the side of the guardrail (2) away from the turnover guide plate (31); the conveying belt of the plate chain conveyor is provided with a pushing plate moving along with the conveying belt; and the guardrail (2) is provided with a strip-shaped hole for the turning movement of the pushing plate along with the conveying belt of the plate chain conveyor.