Checking and improve club and correctly locate and arrange the device of the front of club at method and the checking club of pallet or intermediate store location at pallet or intermediate store
Technical field
The correct location that the purpose of this invention is to provide a checking club, and proofread and correct simultaneously club in the method for the arrangement of tobacco industry pallet used or intermediate store, and provide one can verify club in the tram of pallet or intermediate store and arrange the device of the front of club.
Background technology
Tobacco industry often uses pallet, is usually used in transporting cigarette or cigar to packing machine from making device, also is used for transporting and/or interim stored filter device in manufacture process.Traditional tray does not normally have the cuboid of antetheca and upper wall.As for the multistage pallet, be divided into exactly the holder basin of a plurality of sections by inner vertical walls.This pallet is once open in German patent DE1.915.446.The production line of tobacco industry also can use to unload the intermediate store of routine or multistage pallet.Wherein a kind of memory is open in the present patent application people's European Patent Publication No EP2.079.327A1, wherein club is transported to a plurality of segmentations of being separated by vertical partition wall from the holder basin, and then a plurality of segmentations are emptying by the slot that is positioned at the memory bottom separately.At this, intermediate store is made reciprocating action along receiving conveyer independently with the bottom with slot, a plurality of segmentations can be contacted with slot continuously, and the order of emptying a plurality of segmentations becomes rightabout with the direction that conveyer receives club.Described club supplies on conveyer by the chute of long-term connection slot, whether the slot on surface that wherein has a surface, horizontal cross-section of corresponding intermediate store segmentation is taken over segmentation from one at every turn and is received club, and utilize a Sensor monitoring segmentation to be emptied completely.Under the actual conditions of producing, the filling unit of pallet has an opportunity to occur blocking, and consequence to be exactly not necessarily all segmentations all be filled with club.Similarly, when middle memory was drained, being arranged with of club may make mistakes, thereby pause is carried in order, and evacuation procedure is disturbed.In this case, need in production process to interrupt as early as possible, to eliminate irregular situation, detect these irregular situations needs at the diverse location of pallet or intermediate store, sensor to be set.U.S. disclosure of the invention US2008/0181754A1 discloses a device that is used for the unloading pallet, it is particularly related to the device of a unloading multistage pallet, this invention has proposed to use the sensor that is arranged at the top, bottom of reversing pallet, and the quantity of its number and segmentation is corresponding.At this, the tray bottom is provided with perforate along the operating axis of described sensor, can detect the emptying state of pallet by perforate.Another U.S. patent of invention publication number US2008/0213072A1 discloses a device that is used for unloading multistage pallet, and wherein sensor axis is towards club, and its quantity is corresponding to the quantity of segmentation; After the device counter-rotating, sensor is located in the delegation of tray bottom.On the other hand, International Patent Publication No. WO 2008/110390A1 discloses a unloading memory, and it is used for the pallet that emptying Sheng is carried club.At this, alternatively, except the set sensor of U.S. Patent Publication No. 2008/0181754A1, also in pallet central authorities, line up two row, axial club arranges sensor, and wherein two sensors arrange in each segmentation on pallet.U.S. Patent number 7.609.393B2 illustrates a kind of method and device, and its club that utilizes scanner to inspect upper strata or transverse layers is controlled the correct arrangement of club on a normal tray, and utilizes laser at the emptying rear control holder basin of holder basin.German patent DE1.066.118 illustrates a device, and its cigarette is filled on traditional tray, wherein originally only has pallet next door by auto arrangement before filling at an interval to be divided into a plurality of intervals, and above-mentioned next door vertically arranges when filling.After filling was completed, pallet was transported on conveyer belt.In the process of transporting the holder basin, the next door removes from the inside of pallet, and the cigarette of accumulation in perpendicular separation is converged together.Axially displaced for avoiding cigarette to occur in removing the process in next door, thereby utilize reciprocating propeller delivery tray to receiving station, the vertical wall of the area of corresponding pallet front is installed in receiving station, and vertical wall is provided with the vertical trench in the next door of corresponding described device.In the prior art, can not control simultaneously and fill and improve club in the solution of the location of tobacco industry production line pallet used or intermediate store.
Summary of the invention
The present invention relates to one and verify and improve that club is in the method for the location of tobacco industry production line pallet used or intermediate store, the location by the sensor validates club wherein, and the location of improving club, the plane of the end face by arranging club.The method verifies by the collating unit that is provided with sensor the location that the location of club is improved club simultaneously, wherein correct filling and/or the arrangement of sensor detecting club, collating unit will correctly be filled in the plane of end face of club of pallet or intermediate store inside to flat.This method can guarantee all the club in filled trays arrange and all be verified and proofread and correct, so the unloading of pallet can not be disturbed because of the front misarrangement of club.True to filling and/or the offset of club when sensor detecting, this collating unit will be closed, and the operation that is provided with the unit of collating unit also is interrupted.Like this, club is towards mobile being interrupted of pallet (will be refused by production process after a while); Because the pallet of each incorrect filling removes from production line, the club Limited Number with complete value of being refused by production process.This is even more important to the modern production line because pallet average each hold 4000 clubs, the production output quantity is per minute surpasses 16000 clubs, so the loading of a pallet or emptying circulation were kept approximately 15 seconds.Above data are applied in intermediate store equally.
Another characteristics of the present invention are to provide a kind of structure of device, this structure can be verified the correct location of club, and arrange the end face of club in tobacco industry production line pallet used or intermediate store, wherein being verified sensor carries out, sensor is controlled the fill level of pallet or intermediate store, and the plane of arranging the club end face utilizes the axial displacement of club to carry out.According to the present invention, collating unit comprises a flat board, this dull and stereotyped and end contact club, and be provided with the filling that at least one sensor is controlled pallet or intermediate store.Described flat board can comprise a plurality of pushers, its quantity is corresponding to the quantity of the segmentation of a multistage pallet or an intermediate store, and the width in the gap between pusher is also corresponding to the thickness at the interval between segmentation, and in addition, each propeller is provided with at least one described sensor.Sensor can comprise an optical module or a ultrasonic module, and optical module operates in the scope of visible radiation or invisible radiation.When use only had the traditional tray of a compartment or intermediate store, the movable lock that is used for eliminating the gap was located between pusher.The advantage of device of the present invention just has been to provide a method and has removed to detect club and whether correctly be filled in pallet or intermediate store, front with whole layer club is arranged in a plane simultaneously, occur if irregular arrangement is arranged or fill, fill or emptying may being interrupted, irregular arrangement or filling will remove from production line.
Description of drawings
Purpose of the present invention illustrates at the embodiment of accompanying drawing.Fig. 1 is a perspective view, and the equipment shown in it is a collating unit, and this collating unit is in the state in the time of can processing multistage pallet or intermediate store.Fig. 2 is the perspective view of the device of Fig. 1 when loading a multistage pallet.Fig. 3 is that the device of Fig. 1 loads or the perspective view during an emptying multistage intermediate store.Perspective view when Fig. 4 is the emptying multistage pallet of the device of Fig. 1.Fig. 5 is a perspective view, and the equipment shown in it is a collating unit, and this collating unit is in the state in the time of can processing the traditional tray of only having an interval or intermediate store.Fig. 6 is the perspective view of the device of Fig. 5 when loading a traditional tray.Fig. 7 is that the device of Fig. 5 loads or the perspective view during an emptying intermediate store that only has a compartment.Perspective view when Fig. 8 is the emptying traditional tray of the device of Fig. 5.Fig. 9 illustrates a multistage pallet of filling improperly, and it is in vertical area, and is just using a demo plant that is provided with optical pickocff.Figure 10 is a top view, and a multistage pallet of filling improperly is shown, and it is using a demo plant that is provided with ultrasonic sensor.
The specific embodiment
This device comprises a collating unit 1, its have one with front dull and stereotyped 2 of the end contact of club 3.Dull and stereotyped 2 are divided into a plurality of propellers 4, and its quantity is corresponding to the number of the segmentation 5 of a multistage pallet 6 or an intermediate store 7, and the width in the gap 8 between pusher 4 is corresponding to the thickness at the interval 9 between segmentation 5.The top of each propeller 4 of dull and stereotyped 2 is provided with an inclined wall 10, is used for assisting the arrangement of axially projecting club 3 during vertical movement when pallet 6 or intermediate storage 7 are loaded or are emptying.Gap 8 between dull and stereotyped 2 propeller 4 is provided with movable lock 11, and each movable lock is connected to each other by a common lath 12 that is moved horizontally by driver 13.The shape of movable lock 11 is corresponding to the vertical cross-section of flat board 2.If use tradition holder basin 6 ' or the intermediate store 7 ' only have an interval, lath 12 will be moved forward, make movable lock 11 fill up gap 8 between pusher 4, make dull and stereotyped 2 to become a complete monolithic.Dull and stereotyped 2 are provided with axle perpendicular to the sensor 14 of arranging the plane, its, wherein preferably each propeller 4 is provided with a sensor 14 at least.Sensor 14 can comprise an optical module, operate in the scope of visible radiation or invisible radiation, the shortage of ' or intermediate store 7 or 7 ' detecting club 3 respectively at pallet 6 or 6, the club 3 as for seeking inappropriate arrangement needs to use ultrasonic sensor 14.Obviously easy insight, each propeller 4 can arrange two kinds of sensors 14 simultaneously.
Be provided with sensor 14 and be positioned at the operation of collating unit 1 of cigarette industrial production line as follows: device 1 flatly arranges, be preferably located in and load respectively club 3 to pallet 6 or 6 top of the unit of ' or to intermediate store 7 or 7 ', or be positioned at emptying pallet 6 or 6 respectively side under the unit of ' or intermediate store 7 or 7 '.When club 3 moves, collating unit 1 constantly reaches as one man reciprocating on a plane of the axis that is parallel to club 3, by inclined wall 10, the front of the club 3 of continuous multilayer is temporarily arranged, and the rear flat board 2 that passes through is arranged the front of the club 3 of continuous multilayer.Simultaneously, sensor 14 checks the filling of club 3 or the correctness of sequence.Occur if inappropriate location is arranged or fill, the unit will decommission.