An automatic dental floss box tray placement device

Abstract

This utility model discloses an automatic dental floss box tray placement device, which is applied in the technical field of automatic dental floss box tray placement devices. The key technical points are: it includes a flipping feeding component, a feeding conveyor line, a dental floss box receiving component, and a tray feeding component for feeding empty trays. It also includes a dental floss box transfer component for transferring several dental floss boxes from the feeding conveyor line to the dental floss box receiving component for tray placement. The technical effects are: improved packaging efficiency and reduced packaging costs.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] This utility model relates to the technical field of automatic dental floss box tray placement equipment, and in particular to an automatic dental floss box tray placement equipment. Background Technology

[0002] In the production and packaging of dental floss boxes, to ensure effective plastic sealing and aesthetic packaging, the boxes are typically arranged neatly on plastic packaging trays before subsequent sealing and cutting. Currently, the industry commonly uses manual placement of dental floss boxes onto trays. However, this manual method is inefficient and cannot meet the demands of large-scale production, significantly limiting the production and packaging speed. Furthermore, it greatly increases production costs. Therefore, it is necessary to design a device that can automatically arrange dental floss boxes on trays to solve this problem. Utility Model Content

[0003] The purpose of this invention is to provide an automatic dental floss box tray placement device, which has the advantages of improving packaging efficiency and reducing packaging costs.

[0004] The above-mentioned technical objective of this utility model is achieved through the following technical solution: an automatic dental floss box tray placement device, including a flipping feeding component, a feeding conveyor line, a dental floss box receiving component, and a tray feeding component for feeding empty trays. It also includes a dental floss box transfer component for transferring several dental floss boxes from the feeding conveyor line to the dental floss box receiving component for tray placement in one go.

[0005] The present invention is further configured such that: the flipping feeding assembly includes a flipping cylinder fixedly connected to the starting end of the feeding conveyor line along the conveying direction of the dental floss box, and a synchronous clamping cylinder fixedly connected to the flipping cylinder based on the flipping shaft, wherein the clamping end of the synchronous clamping cylinder is fixedly connected to a clamping block for clamping the dental floss box.

[0006] The present invention is further configured such that: the material tray feeding assembly includes a fixed feeding seat and a first slide rail symmetrically fixedly connected to the feeding seat; a set of storage bins for storing material trays are slidably connected to the first slide rail; a lifting and jacking assembly for lifting the material tray is connected vertically at the bottom of the storage bin; a feeding sliding cylinder is fixedly connected to the feeding seat and is arranged parallel to the first slide rail for driving the storage bins to slide synchronously on the first slide rail; limiting blocks for blocking the storage bins are fixedly connected to both ends of the first slide rail along the sliding direction; and a material tray conveying assembly for transferring the empty material tray in the storage bin located at the feeding station to the dental floss box receiving assembly is fixedly connected to the feeding seat.

[0007] The present invention is further configured such that: the storage bin includes a first storage sliding seat slidably connected to the first slide rail along the horizontal direction and a plurality of baffle rods fixedly connected to the storage sliding seat; the first storage sliding seat is also fixedly connected to the top of the storage bin based on the fixed rods to a separation brush for separating empty material trays and a sensing sensor for detecting the storage status in the storage bin.

[0008] The present invention is further configured such that: the lifting assembly includes a lifting plate that is slidably connected in the horizontal direction and vertical direction within the storage bin, and a plurality of guide sliding rods that are fixedly connected in the vertical direction to the bottom of the lifting plate; a lifting drive screw with its axis arranged in the vertical direction is rotatably connected to the first storage sliding seat; a screw lifting seat that cooperates with the lifting drive screw to drive the lifting plate to lift is fixedly connected to the bottom end of the guide sliding rod away from the lifting plate; and a screw drive motor that drives the lifting drive screw to rotate is fixedly connected to the first storage sliding seat.

[0009] The present invention is further configured such that: the material tray conveying assembly includes a horizontal lead screw conveying slide fixedly connected to the loading seat in the horizontal direction and a vertical lead screw lifting slide fixedly connected to the sliding end of the horizontal lead screw conveying slide in the vertical direction; the sliding end of the vertical lead screw lifting slide is fixedly connected to a horizontal conveying seat arranged in the horizontal direction; and a plurality of material tray vacuum nozzles for adsorbing the material tray are fixedly connected to the horizontal conveying seat.

[0010] The present invention is further configured such that: the dental floss box receiving assembly includes a fixed receiving seat and a second slide rail symmetrically fixedly connected to the receiving seat; a set of tray receiving bins for storing trays are slidably connected to the second slide rail; a second horizontal screw slide is fixedly connected to the receiving seat, which is arranged parallel to the second slide rail and is used to drive the tray receiving bins to slide synchronously on the second slide rail; and a tray lifting plate for lifting trays is slidably connected in the vertical direction within the tray receiving bin based on the screw lifting slide.

[0011] The present invention is further configured such that: the dental floss box transfer assembly includes a fixedly mounted transfer robotic arm and a horizontal transfer plate fixedly connected to the transfer robotic arm along the horizontal direction; a plurality of lifting cylinders arranged in the vertical direction are evenly arranged and fixedly connected on the horizontal transfer plate; and a dental floss box vacuum nozzle arranged in the vertical direction for picking up dental floss boxes is fixedly connected to the telescopic end of the lifting cylinder.

[0012] The present invention is further configured such that: the two ends of the feeding conveyor line along the conveying direction are adjustablely and fixedly connected with positioning plates for positioning dental floss boxes, and the positioning plates are flared at the starting end along the conveying direction.

[0013] In summary, this utility model has the following beneficial effects:

[0014] 1. By setting up a material tray feeding component and a dental floss box receiving component, the system automatically transports empty material trays to the dental floss box receiving component. Simultaneously, by setting up a flipping feeding component, a feeding conveyor line, and a dental floss box transfer component, the system automatically feeds dental floss boxes and transports them to the dental floss box receiving component, where they are automatically placed into the material tray located in the receiving component. This process repeats, achieving automatic feeding of dental floss boxes without the need for manual tray placement, greatly improving tray placement efficiency and reducing tray placement costs. Attached Figure Description

[0015] Figure 1 This is a schematic diagram of the overall structure of this embodiment;

[0016] Figure 2 This is a structural schematic diagram of the flip-feed assembly and the feeding conveyor line in this embodiment;

[0017] Figure 3 This is a schematic diagram of the dental floss box collection assembly in this embodiment;

[0018] Figure 4 This is a front structural diagram of the material tray feeding assembly in this embodiment;

[0019] Figure 5 This is a schematic diagram of the bottom structure of the material tray feeding assembly in this embodiment;

[0020] Figure 6 This is a schematic diagram of the lifting and jacking assembly in this embodiment;

[0021] Figure 7 This is a schematic diagram of the material tray conveying assembly in this embodiment;

[0022] Figure 8 This is a schematic diagram of the dental floss box transport assembly in this embodiment.

[0023] Reference numerals: 1. Tilting feeding assembly; 11. Tilting cylinder; 12. Tilting shaft; 13. Synchronous clamping cylinder; 14. Clamping block; 2. Feeding conveyor line; 21. Positioning plate; 3. Dental floss box receiving assembly; 31. Receiving seat; 32. Second slide rail; 33. Material tray receiving bin; 34. Second horizontal screw slide; 36. Screw lifting slide; 4. Material tray feeding assembly; 41. Feeding seat; 42. First slide rail; 43. Storage bin; 431. First storage sliding seat; 432. Stop bar; 433. Fixing rod; 434. Separating brush; 435. 44. Induction sensor; 441. Lifting and jacking assembly; 442. Lifting and lifting plate; 443. Guide sliding rod; 444. Lifting drive screw; 445. Screw lifting seat; 446. Screw drive motor; 47. Feeding sliding cylinder; 48. Limit block; 49. Material tray conveying assembly; 401. Horizontal screw conveying slide; 41. Vertical screw lifting slide; 42. Horizontal conveying seat; 43. Material tray vacuum nozzle; 44. Dental floss box transfer assembly; 51. Transfer robotic arm; 52. Horizontal transfer plate; 53. Lifting cylinder; 54. Dental floss box vacuum nozzle. Detailed Implementation

[0024] The present invention will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[0025] Example:

[0026] refer to Figures 1 to 8 An automatic dental floss box tray placement device includes a flip-feeding component 1, a feeding conveyor line 2, a dental floss box receiving component 3, and a tray feeding component 4 for feeding empty trays. It also includes a dental floss box transfer component 5 for transferring multiple dental floss boxes from the feeding conveyor line 2 to the dental floss box receiving component 3 for placement. By setting up the tray feeding component 4 and the dental floss box receiving component 3, the device automatically feeds empty trays into the dental floss box receiving component 3. Simultaneously, by setting up the flip-feeding component 1, the feeding conveyor line 2, and the dental floss box transfer component 5, the device automatically feeds dental floss boxes and automatically transports them to the dental floss box receiving component 3 for automatic placement. Located in the material tray of the dental floss box receiving component 3, the feeding of dental floss boxes is automatically achieved through reciprocating motion, eliminating the need for manual tray placement, greatly improving tray placement efficiency and reducing tray placement costs. Positioning plates 21 for positioning dental floss boxes are fixedly and adjustable at both ends of the feeding conveyor line 2 along the conveying direction. The starting end of the positioning plates 21 along the conveying direction is flared to facilitate the entry of dental floss boxes into the gap between the positioning plates 21. The gap between the positioning plates 21 can be adjusted manually or by an electric cylinder to adapt to the feeding and tray placement requirements of products of different sizes. The starting end of the feeding conveyor line 2 along the conveying direction is directly connected to the dental floss box production platform to achieve automatic feeding and tray placement after the dental floss boxes are produced.

[0027] refer to Figure 2 Specifically, the flipping feeding assembly 1 includes a flipping cylinder 11 fixedly connected to the starting end of the feeding conveyor line 2 along the conveying direction of the dental floss box, and a synchronous clamping cylinder 13 fixedly connected to the flipping cylinder 11 based on the flipping shaft 12. A clamping block 14 for clamping the dental floss box is fixedly connected to the clamping end of the synchronous clamping cylinder 13. The flipping cylinder 11 drives the synchronous clamping cylinder 13 to flip, and the synchronous clamping cylinder 13 drives the clamping block 14 to move, thereby realizing the loosening and clamping of the dental floss box, so as to realize the clamping and conveying of the dental floss box to the feeding conveyor line 2 to complete the automatic feeding of the dental floss box.

[0028] refer to Figures 4 to 7 Specifically, the material tray feeding assembly 4 includes a fixed feeding base 41 and a first slide rail 42 symmetrically fixedly connected to the feeding base 41. A set of storage bins 43 for storing material trays is slidably connected to the first slide rail 42. A lifting and jacking assembly 44 for lifting and jacking the material trays is vertically connected to the bottom of the storage bins 43 to ensure that the top empty material trays stacked in the storage bins 43 are always kept on the same plane for easy suction and conveying. A feeding sliding cylinder 45 is fixedly connected to the feeding base 41, arranged parallel to the first slide rail 42, for driving the storage bins 43 to slide synchronously on the first slide rail 42. The rail 42 is fixedly connected at both ends along the sliding direction with limiting blocks 46 for blocking the storage bin 43. The loading seat 41 is fixedly connected with a tray conveying component 47 for transferring the empty tray in the storage bin 43 located at the loading station to the dental floss box receiving component 3. The loading seat 41 has three stations, of which the middle station is the loading station and the two stations on both sides of the loading station are two preparation stations for manually placing stacked empty trays into the storage bin 43. This ensures that one of the storage bins 43 in a set is always in the loading station for tray loading, and the other storage bin 43 is always in the preparation station for unloading, thus improving the efficiency of unloading and loading.

[0029] refer to Figure 4Specifically, the storage bin 43 includes a first storage sliding seat 431 that is slidably connected to the first slide rail 42 along the horizontal direction, and several baffle rods 432 that are fixedly connected to the storage sliding seat. On the first storage sliding seat 431, based on the fixed rods 433, there are also a separation brush 434 for separating empty trays and a sensing sensor 435 for detecting the storage status in the storage bin 43. The separation brush 434 is used to prevent the trays from sticking together and ensure that the empty trays can be separated smoothly. The sensing sensor 435 can sense whether there are still trays in the bin so as to remind the user to add material. The baffle rods 432 are arranged around the first storage sliding seat 431 to form a storage tray in the storage bin 43. The baffle rods 432 are locked and fixed to the first storage sliding seat 431 based on locking screws. An adjustment groove is also provided on the first storage sliding seat 431 so that the position of the baffle rods 432 can be adjusted to adapt to the storage needs of trays of different sizes. The lifting assembly 44 includes a lifting plate 441 that is slidably connected in the horizontal direction and vertical direction within the storage bin 43, and several guide sliding rods 442 that are fixedly connected in the vertical direction to the bottom of the lifting plate 441. A lifting drive screw 443 with its axis arranged in the vertical direction is rotatably connected to the first storage sliding seat 431. A screw lifting seat 444 that cooperates with the lifting drive screw 443 to drive the lifting plate 441 to lift is fixedly connected to the bottom end of the guide sliding rod 442 away from the lifting plate 441. A screw drive motor 445 that drives the lifting drive screw 443 to rotate is fixedly connected to the first storage sliding seat 431. The screw drive motor 445 of the lifting assembly 44 drives the lifting drive screw 443 to rotate, so that the lifting plate 441 lifts the material tray along the guide sliding rods 442 through the screw lifting seat 444, thereby ensuring that the top empty material tray stacked in the storage bin 43 is always kept on the same plane.

[0030] refer to Figure 7 Specifically, the tray conveying assembly 47 includes a horizontal screw conveying slide 471 fixedly connected to the loading seat 41 in the horizontal direction and a vertical screw lifting slide 472 fixedly connected to the sliding end of the horizontal screw conveying slide 471 in the vertical direction. A horizontal conveying seat 473 is fixedly connected to the sliding end of the vertical screw lifting slide 472 in the horizontal direction. A plurality of tray vacuum suction nozzles 474 for adsorbing the tray are fixedly connected on the horizontal conveying seat 473. The tray vacuum suction nozzles 474 are driven to reciprocate between the storage bin 43 and the tray receiving bin 33 of the dental floss box receiving assembly 3 to realize the loading of the tray.

[0031] refer to Figure 3Specifically, the dental floss box receiving assembly 3 includes a fixed receiving base 31 and a second slide rail 32 symmetrically fixedly connected to the receiving base 31. A set of tray receiving bins 33 for storing trays are slidably connected to the second slide rail 32. A second horizontal screw slide 34, arranged parallel to the second slide rail 32, is fixedly connected to the receiving base 31 to drive the tray receiving bins 33 to slide synchronously on the second slide rail 32. Inside the tray receiving bin 33, a tray lifting plate is slidably connected in the vertical direction based on a screw lifting slide 36 for lifting the trays. The upper part also has three workstations. The middle workstation is the tray placement workstation, and the two workstations on either side of the tray placement workstation are the unloading workstations. This ensures that one of the tray receiving bins 33 is always at the tray placement workstation for placing and loading dental floss boxes, while the other tray receiving bin 33 is always at the unloading workstation to unload the trays full of dental floss boxes, thus improving the efficiency of tray placement and unloading. The tray lifting plate is lowered by the screw lifting slide to ensure that the top tray stacked in the tray receiving bin 33 is always kept on the same plane so that the dental floss box transfer component 5 can load it.

[0032] refer to Figure 8 Specifically, the dental floss box transfer assembly 5 includes a fixedly mounted transfer robotic arm 51 and a horizontal transfer plate 52 fixedly connected to the transfer robotic arm 51 along the horizontal direction. Several vertically positioned lifting cylinders 53 are evenly arranged and fixedly connected on the horizontal transfer plate 52. The telescopic ends of the lifting cylinders 53 are fixedly connected to dental floss box vacuum nozzles 54, which are vertically positioned and used to pick up dental floss boxes. The transfer robotic arm 51 drives the horizontal transfer plate 52 to move, and the lifting cylinders 53 drive the dental floss box vacuum nozzles 54 to simultaneously pick up multiple dental floss boxes and transfer them to the material tray of the receiving assembly in one go to complete the tray placement.

[0033] Brief description of the usage process: First, the storage bin 43 of the material tray loading assembly 4 slides to the loading station on the first slide rail 42 via the loading sliding cylinder 45. The screw drive motor 445 of the lifting assembly 44 drives the lifting drive screw 443 to rotate, causing the lifting plate 441 to lift the material tray along the guide slide rod 442 via the screw lifting seat 444. The horizontal screw conveying slide 471 and the vertical screw lifting slide 472 of the material tray conveying assembly 47 work together to transfer the empty material tray to the material tray receiving bin 33 of the dental floss box receiving assembly 3 through the material tray vacuum suction nozzle 474. The separation brush 434, together with the sensing sensor 435, realizes the precise removal of the empty material tray. In the pre-separation phase, the material tray lifting plate, based on the screw lifting slide, lifts the material tray. At the same time, the flipping cylinder 11 of the flipping loading component 1 drives the synchronous clamping cylinder 13 to flip the dental floss box through the flipping shaft 12. The clamping block 14 places the dental floss box on the loading conveyor line 2. The adjustable positioning plates 21 at both ends of the conveyor line position and transport the dental floss box. The transfer robotic arm 51 of the dental floss box transfer component 5 drives the horizontal transfer plate 52 to move. The lifting cylinder 53 drives the dental floss box vacuum nozzle 54 to simultaneously pick up multiple dental floss boxes and transfer them to the material tray of the receiving component in one go to complete the tray placement. The material tray receiving bin 33 slides through the second horizontal screw slide 34 to achieve multi-station material receiving.

[0034] This specific embodiment is merely an explanation of the present utility model and is not intended to limit the present utility model. After reading this specification, those skilled in the art can make modifications to this embodiment that make creative contributions as needed, but as long as they are within the scope of the claims of the present utility model, they are protected by patent law.

Claims

1. An automatic dental floss box tray placement device, characterized in that, It includes a flip-feeding assembly (1), a feeding conveyor line (2), a dental floss box receiving assembly (3), and a material tray feeding assembly (4) for feeding empty material trays. It also includes a dental floss box transfer assembly (5) for transferring several dental floss boxes from the feeding conveyor line (2) to the dental floss box receiving assembly (3) for tray placement.

2. The automatic tray arranging apparatus for a dental floss cartridge according to claim 1, wherein The flipping feeding assembly (1) includes a flipping cylinder (11) fixedly connected to the starting end of the feeding conveyor line (2) along the conveying direction of the dental floss box, and a synchronous clamping cylinder (13) fixedly connected to the flipping cylinder (11) based on the flipping shaft (12). The clamping end of the synchronous clamping cylinder (13) is fixedly connected to a clamping block (14) for clamping the dental floss box.

3. The automatic tray arranging apparatus for a dental floss cartridge according to claim 1, wherein The feeding assembly (4) includes a fixed feeding base (41) and a first slide rail (42) symmetrically fixedly connected to the feeding base (41). A set of storage bins (43) for storing the feeding trays are slidably connected to the first slide rail (42). A lifting assembly (44) for lifting the feeding trays is connected vertically at the bottom of the storage bins (43). A support assembly (44) for lifting the feeding trays is fixedly connected to the feeding base (41) in a direction parallel to the first slide rail (42). The loading sliding cylinder (45) drives the storage bin (43) to slide synchronously on the first slide rail (42). The loading seat (41) has a limiting block (46) fixedly connected at both ends of the first slide rail (42) along the sliding direction to block the storage bin (43). The loading seat (41) is fixedly connected to a tray conveying assembly (47) for transferring the empty tray in the storage bin (43) located at the loading station to the tray conveying assembly (3) in the dental floss box receiving assembly (3).

4. The automatic tray arranging apparatus for a dental floss cartridge according to claim 3, wherein The storage bin (43) includes a first storage sliding seat (431) slidably connected to the first slide rail (42) along the horizontal direction and a plurality of baffle rods (432) fixedly connected to the storage sliding seat. The first storage sliding seat (431) is also fixedly connected to the top of the storage bin (43) based on the fixed rod (433) to a separation brush (434) for separating empty material trays and a sensing sensor (435) for detecting the storage status in the storage bin (43).

5. The automatic tray loading apparatus for a dental floss cartridge according to claim 4, wherein The lifting assembly (44) includes a lifting plate (441) that is slidably connected in the horizontal direction and vertical direction within the storage bin (43), and a plurality of guide sliding rods (442) that are fixedly connected in the vertical direction to the bottom of the lifting plate (441). A lifting drive screw (443) with its axis arranged in the vertical direction is rotatably connected to the first storage sliding seat (431). A screw lifting seat (444) that cooperates with the lifting drive screw (443) to drive the lifting plate (441) to lift is fixedly connected to the bottom end of the guide sliding rod (442) away from the lifting plate (441). A screw drive motor (445) that drives the lifting drive screw (443) to rotate is fixedly connected to the first storage sliding seat (431).

6. The automatic tray arranging apparatus for a dental floss cartridge according to claim 3, wherein The material tray conveying assembly (47) includes a horizontal screw conveying slide (471) fixedly connected to the loading seat (41) in the horizontal direction and a vertical screw lifting slide (472) fixedly connected to the sliding end of the horizontal screw conveying slide (471) in the vertical direction. The sliding end of the vertical screw lifting slide (472) is fixedly connected to a horizontal conveying seat (473) arranged in the horizontal direction. A plurality of material tray vacuum nozzles (474) for adsorbing material trays are fixedly connected to the horizontal conveying seat (473).

7. The automatic tray arranging apparatus for a dental floss cartridge according to claim 1, wherein The dental floss box receiving assembly (3) includes a fixed receiving seat (31) and a second slide rail (32) symmetrically fixedly connected to the receiving seat (31). A set of tray receiving bins (33) for storing trays are slidably connected on the second slide rail (32). A second horizontal screw slide (34) is fixedly connected on the receiving seat (31) and is arranged in a direction parallel to the second slide rail (32) to drive the tray receiving bins (33) to slide synchronously on the second slide rail (32). A tray lifting plate for lifting trays is slidably connected in the vertical direction based on the screw lifting slide (36) inside the tray receiving bin (33).

8. The automatic tray arranging apparatus for a dental floss cartridge according to claim 1, wherein The dental floss box transfer assembly (5) includes a fixedly mounted transfer robotic arm (51) and a horizontal transfer plate (52) fixedly connected to the transfer robotic arm (51) in the horizontal direction. A plurality of lifting cylinders (53) arranged in the vertical direction are evenly arranged and fixedly connected on the horizontal transfer plate (52). The telescopic end of the lifting cylinder (53) is fixedly connected to a dental floss box vacuum nozzle (54) arranged in the vertical direction for picking up the dental floss box.

9. The automatic tray arranging apparatus for a dental floss cartridge according to claim 1, wherein The feeding conveyor line (2) has a positioning plate (21) for positioning dental floss boxes that can be adjusted and fixedly connected at both ends along the conveying direction. The positioning plate (21) is flared at the starting end along the conveying direction.

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