Ruler body arranging machine for horizontal ruler production
By designing a ruler body sorting machine with a conveyor belt, feeding trough, pushing device and flipping mechanism, the fully automatic sorting and posture correction of ruler bodies in the production of horizontal rulers is realized, which solves the problem of manual feeding in the existing technology, reduces labor costs and improves production safety.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202520428392.5
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2025-03-12
- Publication Date
- 2026-01-09
- Estimated Expiration
- 2035-03-12
AI Technical Summary
In the current production of level rulers, the feeding of the ruler body is still done manually or semi-automatically, which results in high labor costs and safety risks. Existing material sorting equipment is not suitable.
A ruler-shaped material sorting machine was designed, which includes a conveyor belt, a feeding trough, a pushing device, and a flipping mechanism. The machine automatically identifies and corrects the ruler's posture through the conveyor belt, sorting rollers, proximity sensors, and laser sensors, and achieves fully automatic sorting and flipping under the action of the flipping mechanism.
It achieves fully automatic sorting and posture correction of the ruler body, identifies the front and back orientation of the lying position, and automatically flips it over for output. It is easy to adapt to existing automated installation equipment for level rulers, reducing labor costs and improving production safety.
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Abstract
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The utility model relates to a level production equipment, especially a level production scale body sorting machine. BACKGROUND
[0002] The level is a kind of measuring instrument using the principle of liquid level, with bubble level directly showing angular displacement, measuring the deviation degree of the relative horizontal position, plumb position, inclined position of measured surface.Its structure is composed of scale body and bubble level, scale body is generally made of aluminum alloy, bubble level is generally fixed on the mounting position of scale body by glue.Now level production industry has developed the equipment that scale body and bubble level can be automatically assembled, wherein bubble level can be automatically fed by vibration disc, and the size of scale body is larger, and it has directionality, the existing material sorting equipment is not suitable for scale body, so far, it still uses manual or semi-automatic way to carry out scale body feeding, which leads to high labor cost, and there is production safety risk. SUMMARY
[0003] The utility model provides a kind of level production scale body sorting machine;Solve the problem that still manual or semi-automatic way is carried out in prior art scale body feeding.
[0004] The above technical problems of the utility model are mainly solved by the following technical scheme: a kind of level production scale body sorting machine, comprising: at least two pairs of horizontal interval parallel distribution's conveyer belt, feeding chute, two pairs of pusher and turnover mechanism, the feeding chute is located in the front end upside of two pairs of the conveyer belt, the feeding chute is constituted by front inclined plate, rear limiting plate and two side plates, and defines feeding port and outlet, the scale body can be placed from the feeding port of the feeding chute and slide from the outlet to two the conveyer belt, the rear side of the feeding chute and above the conveyer belt are further provided with sorting roller, the sorting roller is constituted by shaft body and the plurality of elastic sheets that are circumferentially arrayed on the shaft body, the sorting roller is rotatably arranged, and the tangent line moving direction of its bottom is opposite to the conveying direction of the conveyer belt;The turnover mechanism is located at the rear end of the conveyer belt, including stepper motor, shaft and at least two coaxial pieces of turntable, the turntable is circumferentially arrayed with a plurality of open slots, the scale body on the conveyer belt can be slid into the open slot, the sorting machine is further provided with proximity sensor that can detect whether the scale body is completely slid into the open slot and laser sensor that detects whether there is gap on the scale body, two pairs of the pusher are located at the front and rear sides of the turntable, and the pusher device is also opposite to the guide groove on the other side of the conveyer belt, the pusher device can push the scale body in the open slot into the guide groove.
[0005] The utility model discloses an operation principle is: the ruler body is in the machining processing, according to the unified length direction is stored in piles, the worker only needs to put these ruler bodies into the feeding chute in time, and the two ends of the ruler body need to be opposite the direction of two side plates when feeding, and the spacing of two side plates is slightly greater than the length of the ruler body, then these ruler bodies will be accumulated in the feeding chute, and the ruler body at the bottom will be transmitted to the rear along with the conveyer belt, in the transmission process, the spacing between the sorting roller and the conveyer belt is only slightly greater than the thickness of the ruler body in the flat lying state, so when the stacked ruler body or the ruler body in the vertical state passes, the sorting roller can rearrange the posture, so that the ruler body can only pass in the flat lying state, then these flat lying ruler bodies are conveyed to the open slot on the front side of the turnover mechanism, and the proximity sensor can detect that the ruler body completely enters the open slot, so the laser sensor is triggered to detect, and the laser path emitted by the laser sensor passes through the installation slot in the middle of the ruler body, so when the laser sensor detects the signal, it indicates that the direction of the ruler body is correct, and the pushing device on the front side of the turnover mechanism can push the ruler body into the corresponding guide slot, and the ruler body in the guide slot is conveyed to the automatic installation equipment of the level ruler, if the laser sensor cannot detect the light signal, it indicates that the light signal is blocked by the ruler body, that is, the posture of the ruler body is not correct, so the turnover mechanism starts to act, and turns over by a certain angle, so that the idle open slot rotates to the rear end of the conveyer belt to receive the new ruler body, and the ruler body that needs to be turned over is shifted backward until the turning over is completed, and the ruler body that is turned over is also shifted to the corresponding guide slot under the pushing of the corresponding pushing device. Therefore, the utility model can automatically sort and posture correct the ruler body, recognize the front and back directions of the flat lying state, automatically turn over the ruler body, and output the fixed direction, which is convenient for adapting to the existing automatic installation equipment of the level ruler.
[0006] Further, the utility model also includes two limit air cylinders, is located two conveyer belts's both sides and is located the front side of turnover mechanism, be equipped with the pressing block on the push rod of limit air cylinder. The action of limit air cylinder is also triggered by proximity sensor, and the position of the ruler body on the conveyer belt can be corrected after the pressing block of two limit air cylinders is pushed out mutually, so that the ruler body is located in the middle, so that the ruler body does not appear the solid interference with the pushing device after entering the open slot.
[0007] Further, the pushing device is composed of a pushing cylinder and a pushing block fixed on the push rod of the pushing cylinder, and the pushing cylinder can also be replaced by an electric cylinder.
[0008] Further, one side of the open slot is provided with a concave notch, and the rotating disc can be rotated to make the notch opposite the pushing block position on the two pushing devices.
[0009] Therefore, the utility model has the following characteristics compared with prior art: 1. The utility model can sort and posture correct the ruler body automatically, and identify the front and back direction of the lying state, and automatically turn over the ruler body to output the fixed direction, which is convenient for adapting the existing horizontal ruler automatic installation equipment. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
[0010] Figure 1 is a structural schematic diagram of the utility model; Figure 1 Figure 1 is a structural schematic diagram of the utility model;
[0011] Figure 1 is a structural schematic diagram of the utility model; Figure 2 Figure 1 is a structural schematic diagram of the utility model; DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0012] The technical scheme of the utility model will be further specifically explained below by combining with the drawings.
[0013] In the description of the utility model, it is understood that the orientation or position relationship indicated by the terms "center", "longitudinal", "transverse", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "clockwise", "counterclockwise" and the like is based on the orientation or position relationship shown in the drawings, and is only for the convenience of describing the utility model and simplifying the description, and does not indicate or imply that the indicated device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore cannot be understood as a limitation on the utility model.
[0014] Example 1: see Figure 1 and Figure 2The application discloses a ruler body sorting machine for level ruler production, which comprises two pairs of conveying belts 100, a feeding chute 200, two pairs of pushing devices 300 and a turning mechanism 400. The feeding chute is arranged on the upper side of the front end of the two pairs of conveying belts. The feeding chute is composed of a front inclined plate 210, a rear limiting plate 220 and two side plates 230, and defines a feeding opening 240 and an outlet 250. The ruler body 10 can be put into the feeding opening of the feeding chute and slide from the outlet to the two conveying belts. Two sorting rollers, namely a first sorting roller 501 and a second sorting roller 502, are arranged on the rear side of the feeding chute and above the conveying belts. The gap between the first sorting roller and the conveying belt is smaller than the gap between the rear limiting plate and the conveying belt. The height of the second sorting roller is lower than that of the first sorting roller. The sorting roller is composed of a shaft body 510 and a plurality of elastic sheets 520 arranged on the shaft body in a circumferential array. The sorting roller is driven by a motor to rotate at a constant speed. The tangential moving direction of the bottom of the sorting roller is opposite to the conveying direction of the conveying belt. The turning mechanism is arranged at the rear end of the conveying belt and comprises a stepping motor 430, a rotating shaft 410 and two rotating discs 420 coaxially arranged on the rotating shaft. Six open grooves 421 are arranged on the rotating disc in a circumferential array. The ruler body on the conveying belt can slide into the open groove. The sorting machine is further provided with a proximity sensor 20 capable of detecting whether the ruler body completely slides into the open groove and a laser sensor 30 capable of detecting whether there is a gap on the ruler body. The two pairs of pushing devices are arranged on the front and rear sides of the rotating disc. The pushing device on the other side of the conveying belt is further provided with a guide groove 40. The sliding end of the guide groove is provided with an expanded opening. The pushing device can push the ruler body in the open groove into the guide groove.
[0015] The operation principle of the embodiment is as follows: after the ruler bodies are machined, they are stored in a unified length direction; workers only need to put the ruler bodies into the feeding groove at regular time, and need to pay attention to the direction of the two ends of the ruler body when feeding, that is, the two ends of the ruler body are opposite to the two side plates, and the distance between the two side plates is slightly greater than the length of the ruler body; then the ruler bodies are stacked in the feeding groove, and the ruler bodies at the bottom are transmitted backward along with the conveying belt; in the transmission process, the material arranging roller drives the elastic sheet to rotate continuously; at this time, the distance between the material arranging roller and the conveying belt is only slightly greater than the thickness of the ruler body in the flat state, so when the stacked ruler body or the ruler body in the vertical state passes, the material arranging roller can re-arrange the posture of the ruler body, so that the ruler body can only pass in the flat state; then the flat ruler body is conveyed into the open groove in front of the turning mechanism; the proximity sensor can detect that the ruler body has completely entered the open groove; at this time, the laser sensor is triggered to detect; the laser path emitted by the laser sensor passes through the mounting groove in the middle of the ruler body, so when the laser sensor detects the signal, it indicates that the direction of the ruler body is correct; the pushing device in front of the turning mechanism can push the ruler body into the corresponding guide groove; the ruler body in the guide groove is conveyed to the automatic installation equipment of the level ruler; if the laser sensor cannot detect the light signal, it indicates that the light signal is blocked by the ruler body, that is, the posture of the ruler body is not correct; at this time, the turning mechanism starts to act, and turns a certain angle, so that the empty open groove is turned to the rear end of the conveying belt to receive the new ruler body, and the ruler body that needs to be turned will be shifted backward until the turning is completed; the ruler body that has completed the turning will also be shifted to the corresponding guide groove under the pushing of the corresponding pushing device. Therefore, the embodiment can automatically sort and correct the posture of the ruler body, recognize the front and back directions of the flat state, and automatically turn the ruler body to fix the direction for output, which is convenient for adapting to the existing automatic installation equipment of the level ruler.
[0016] See Figure 2 The embodiment also includes two limiting cylinders 600, which are arranged on the two sides of the two conveying belts and located in front of the turning mechanism; the pushing rod of the limiting cylinder is provided with a pressing block 610. The action of the limiting cylinder is also triggered by the proximity sensor; after the pressing blocks of the two limiting cylinders are pushed out, the positions of the ruler bodies on the conveying belt can be corrected, so that the ruler bodies are located in the middle; in this way, when the ruler body enters the open groove, the ruler body will not interfere with the pushing device in reality.
[0017] See Figure 2 The pushing device is composed of a pushing cylinder 310 and a pushing block 320 fixed on the pushing rod of the pushing cylinder.
[0018] See Figure 1 One side of the open groove is provided with a concave notch 422, and the rotating disc can be rotated to make the notch opposite to the positions of the pushing blocks on the two pushing devices. The end face of the ruler body is a hollow structure; in order to increase the contact area between the pushing block and the end face of the ruler body, the embodiment realizes reliable contact between the pushing block and the end face of the ruler body by arranging the notch on the open groove.
[0019] It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications can be made to the embodiments described above without departing from the scope of the application. Such modifications are to be considered within the scope of the application.
Claims
1. A ruler body sorting machine for producing level rulers, characterized in that, include: The system includes at least two horizontally spaced parallel conveyor belts, a feeding trough, two pushing devices, and a flipping mechanism. The feeding trough is located above the front end of the two conveyor belts and consists of a front inclined plate, a rear limiting plate, and two side plates, defining the feeding port and the outlet. The ruler can be inserted into the feeding port of the feeding trough and slide down onto the two conveyor belts from the outlet. A sorting roller is also provided behind the feeding trough and above the conveyor belts. The sorting roller consists of a shaft and several elastic plates arranged circumferentially on the shaft. The sorting roller is rotatable, and the tangential movement direction of its bottom is parallel to the conveyor belt's conveying direction. The directions are opposite; the flipping mechanism is located at the rear end of the conveyor belt and includes a stepper motor, a rotating shaft, and at least two coaxial turntables. The turntables are provided with a plurality of open slots in a circumferential array. The ruler on the conveyor belt can slide into the open slots. The material handling machine is also provided with a proximity sensor that can detect whether the ruler has completely slid into the open slot and a laser sensor that can detect whether there is a notch on the ruler. Two sets of pushing devices are located on the front and rear sides of the turntable. The pushing device is also opposite to a guide groove on the other side of the conveyor belt. The pushing device can push the ruler in the open slot into the guide groove.
2. The ruler body feeding machine for producing level rulers according to claim 1, characterized in that: It also includes two limiting cylinders, located on both sides of the two conveyor belts and in front of the flipping mechanism, with pressure blocks on the push rods of the limiting cylinders.
3. The ruler body feeding machine for producing level rulers according to claim 1, characterized in that: The material feeding roller is provided with two rollers, namely a first material feeding roller and a second material feeding roller. The gap between the first material feeding roller and the conveyor belt is smaller than the gap between the rear limiting plate and the conveyor belt. The height of the second material feeding roller is lower than the height of the first material feeding roller.
4. The ruler body feeding machine for producing level rulers according to claim 1, characterized in that: The pushing device consists of a pushing cylinder and a pushing block fixed to the pushing rod of the pushing cylinder.
5. The ruler body feeding machine for producing level rulers according to claim 4, characterized in that: One side of the opening slot has a recessed notch, and the turntable can be rotated so that the notch is simultaneously aligned with the push block positions on both pusher devices.
6. The ruler body feeding machine for producing level rulers according to claim 1, characterized in that: The sliding end of the guide groove is flared.