CN109739075B

CN109739075B - Automatic assembling machine for clock wheel

Info

Publication number: CN109739075B
Application number: CN201811602743.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 谢安; 陈军; 郝西虎; 陈洪海; 黄存儒
Original assignee: Sinuowei Xiamen Precision Manufacturing Co ltd; Xiamen University of Technology
Current assignee: Sinuowei Xiamen Precision Manufacturing Co ltd; Xiamen University of Technology
Priority date: 2018-12-26
Filing date: 2018-12-26
Publication date: 2021-08-10
Anticipated expiration: 2038-12-26
Also published as: CN109739075A

Abstract

The invention discloses an automatic assembling machine for a clock wheel, which comprises a rack with a table board, a core conveyor belt mechanism and a finished product output conveyor belt mechanism, wherein the core conveyor belt mechanism is erected on the right side of the table board and used for conveying a core, the left side of the table board is used for outputting a finished product, and a core conveying device used for stepping and shifting the core from the core conveyor belt mechanism to the finished product output conveyor belt mechanism is arranged at the front part of the table board; at least two automatic wheel passing assembling machines which are matched with the core conveying device and are used for automatically assembling core wheels, a CCD detector used for detecting wheel passing assembling precision and a blanking machine used for removing the core with poor wheel passing assembling are sequentially arranged on the rear part of the table board from right to left; the invention can automatically load the idle wheel into the machine core and test the idle wheel transmission, can automatically detect the assembly precision of the idle wheel in the machine core, does not need manual work in the whole process, has high automation degree, can greatly reduce the production cost of enterprises, and greatly improves the assembly efficiency and the yield of the idle wheel in the machine core.

Description

Automatic assembling machine for clock wheel

Technical Field

The invention relates to an automatic assembling machine for a clock wheel, in particular to automatic assembling equipment for a clock movement, which is used for quickly installing a transition wheel into the clock movement.

Background

In the field of clock movements, a transition gear is also called a transition wheel and is an indispensable important component for internal tooth transmission of the clock movement, the transition gear (such as a first transition wheel, a second transition wheel and the like) needs to be installed in the clock movement and assembled with other components to form a gear transmission system in the movement, because the transition wheel needs to be meshed with other matched gears, teeth need to be assembled by naked eyes during assembly, a hand tool needs to be used for forward and reverse dial rotation after assembly to determine whether the transition wheel is installed in place, and the problem of manual assembly of the transition wheel is that: firstly, identifying the type and the installation position of a transition wheel is difficult: because the gear transmission system of the clock movement belongs to precision mechanical transmission, transition wheels of different types and shapes, roles and installation positions are different, the sizes of the shapes of the transition wheels are almost the same, and the transition wheels are difficult to identify by naked eyes, so that workers are tired in working for a long time and sometimes choose to miss the transition wheels or choose wrong positions to install; secondly, the labor cost is high: because the gear transmission of the clock movement is very precise, ordinary workers need to go to a production line to operate and assemble the clock movement after a long-term training, the workers cannot work uninterruptedly for a long time, and once the movement has large shipment volume and tight construction period, a large number of skilled workers need to work for a long time to complete the order task of assembling the clock movement; assembly and inspection inefficiency: the assembly of the transition wheel by workers needs concentration, different transition wheels are adjusted to be in proper postures and then are clamped to corresponding mounting positions by tools to be mounted, the transition wheels are turned to check whether transmission is abnormal or not, the assembly operation is complex, the labor intensity is high, the workers are easy to fatigue, the assembly efficiency is low, and the yield of assembled machine core finished products is low.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve the problems, the invention provides an automatic clock wheel assembling machine which can automatically adjust the positions of the idle wheels to the corresponding mounting positions in the movement at different idle wheel mounting stations, can be meshed with other matched gears in a self-adaptive manner to complete transmission testing, can automatically detect the assembling precision of the idle wheels in the movement, does not need manual work in the whole process, has high automation degree, and can greatly improve the assembling efficiency and the yield of the idle wheels in the movement.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an automatic assembling machine for a timepiece wheel, including a frame having a table top, a movement conveyor mechanism for conveying a movement and a left output conveyor mechanism, wherein the right side of the frame is erected on the table top, and the left side of the frame is erected on the table top for outputting a finished product, the automatic assembling machine is characterized in that: a core conveying device used for stepping and shifting the core from the core conveying belt mechanism to the finished product output conveying belt mechanism is arranged at the front part of the table board; at least two automatic wheel-passing assembling machines which are matched with the machine core conveying device and are used for automatically assembling machine core wheel-passing machines, a CCD detector used for detecting wheel-passing assembling precision and a blanking machine used for removing the machine core with poor wheel-passing assembling are sequentially arranged on the rear part of the table board from right to left.

The machine core conveyor belt mechanism is provided with a time delay brake for uniformly distributing the machine cores to be assembled at intervals; the adjacent cores to be assembled are uniformly spaced by the braking of the delay brake, so that the cores are sequentially conveyed to the core conveying device by the core conveying device to be moved step by step, and the automatic over-wheel assembling machine, the CCD detector and the blanking machine can correspondingly operate the moved cores.

The machine core carrying device comprises a machine core guide rail erected on a table board and used for connecting a machine core conveyor belt mechanism, a support plate is fixed on the table board in front of the machine core guide rail, a first base plate driven by a first air cylinder to slide back and forth is mounted on the support plate, a second base plate driven by a second air cylinder to slide left and right is mounted on the first base plate, and a plurality of double-port shifting forks are mounted on the second base plate at intervals from left to right; the shifting fork is used for shifting the movement on the movement conveyor belt mechanism to the finished product output conveyor belt mechanism through the movement guide rail in a stepping manner; through the cooperation action of the first cylinder and the second cylinder, each shifting fork moves the machine core from right to left in a stepping mode.

The automatic assembly machine for the idler wheel, the CCD detector and the blanking machine are positioned on the rear side of the guide rail of the machine core, the idler wheel is automatically assembled into the machine core by the automatic assembly machine for the idler wheel at the pause time interval of the machine core on the guide rail of the machine core shifted by the shifting fork, the CCD detector carries out image contrast detection on the installation precision of the idler wheel in the machine core, and the blanking machine removes the machine core with unqualified assembly precision from the guide rail of the machine core.

The automatic idle wheel assembling machine comprises an idle wheel feeding disc, an idle wheel feeding groove and an idle wheel assembling manipulator, wherein the idle wheel feeding disc can convey an idle wheel to the double-groove idle wheel feeding groove in a vibrating mode to feed materials, and the idle wheel assembling manipulator can transfer the idle wheel on the idle wheel feeding groove to a machine core on a machine core guide rail to press and install the idle wheel in the machine core.

The over-wheel assembling manipulator comprises a bracket, a transverse plate is fixed at the top of the bracket, a transverse plate capable of sliding back and forth is arranged on the left side surface of the transverse plate, a third air cylinder for driving the transverse plate to slide is fixed at the rear end of the transverse plate, a mechanical arm capable of sliding up and down is arranged on the left side surface of the transverse plate, and a fourth air cylinder for driving the mechanical arm to slide is fixed at the top end of the transverse plate; the mechanical arm can buffer the picking and placing idler wheel and the rotating idler wheel. Through third cylinder and fourth cylinder, make arm about can and back-and-forth movement to assemble on shifting the core on the core guide rail with the idle transport on the silo on the idle.

The mechanical arm is provided with two suction rods for taking and placing the idler wheel, and the suction rods can rotate on the mechanical arm and can axially move up and down on the mechanical arm; a buffer spring for buffering the downward pressure of the suction rod is arranged between the root of the suction rod and the bottom of the mechanical arm, and a fifth cylinder for driving the suction rod to rotate is arranged at the top of the mechanical arm; when the suction rod presses the suction idler wheel, the buffer spring buffers the pressure of the suction rod pressing the grabbing idler wheel so as to avoid operating the idler wheel; when the suction rod moves onto the guide rail of the machine core, the suction rod moves downwards to press the idler wheel into the machine core, and the buffer spring buffers the installation force of the suction rod pressing the idler wheel downwards so as to avoid damaging the idler wheel; and the fifth cylinder rotates to enable the suction rod to drive the idle wheel to rotate so as to detect whether the idle wheel is in meshing transmission with other gears in the machine core or not.

The CCD detector is connected by the sixth cylinder fixed on the table board, the sixth cylinder can drive the CCD detector to move left and right so as to photograph and detect the assembly precision of the idler wheel in the two machine cores which are moved to the lower part of the CCD detector by the shifting fork, if the assembly precision of the idler wheel in the installation matching position of the machine cores reaches the standard through detection, the machine cores are moved to the machine core conveyor belt mechanism by the shifting fork in a stepping mode to be conveyed out.

The blanking machine comprises a clamping finger and a defective product bin arranged on the table board, and the clamping finger on the blanking machine can move out a movement with poor assembly from a movement guide rail and convey the movement to the defective product bin for storage and recovery.

The invention has the beneficial effects that: the invention can automatically load the idle wheel into the machine core and test the idle wheel transmission, can automatically detect the assembly precision of the idle wheel in the machine core, does not need manual work in the whole process, has high automation degree, can greatly reduce the production cost of enterprises, and greatly improves the assembly efficiency and the yield of the idle wheel in the machine core.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a partially enlarged view of the front view structure of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a partially enlarged top view of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a schematic perspective view of the automatic wheel-passing assembling machine of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of the automatic assembly machine for the idler of the invention for loading the idler into the movement.

The figures in the drawings are identified as: 10. a frame; 11. a table top; 20. a core conveyor belt mechanism; 21. a time-delay brake; 30. a finished product output conveyor belt mechanism; 40. a movement carrying device; 41. a movement guide rail; 42. a shifting fork; 401. a support plate; 402. a first substrate; 403. a first cylinder; 404. a second substrate; 405. a second cylinder; 50. a wheel passing automatic assembling machine; 51. a feeding plate of a third wheel; 52. a material feeding groove is arranged on the idler; 53. a third wheel assembling manipulator; 531. a support; 532. a transverse plate; 533. transversely moving the plate; 534. a third cylinder; 535. a mechanical arm; 536. a fourth cylinder; 537. a suction rod; 538. a buffer spring; 539. a fifth cylinder; 60, a CCD detector; 61. a sixth cylinder; 70. a blanking machine; 71. clamping fingers; 72. a defective product bin; m, a machine core; w. passing wheel.

Detailed Description

The invention is further illustrated with reference to the following figures and examples.

An automatic timepiece wheel assembling machine as shown in fig. 1 to 4 includes a frame 10 having a table 11, and a movement conveyor mechanism 20 for conveying a movement M and a finished product output conveyor mechanism 30, which are mounted on the right side and left side of the table 11, respectively, and a movement carrying device 40 for moving the movement M stepwise from the movement conveyor mechanism 20 to the finished product output conveyor mechanism 30 is mounted on the front portion of the table 11; two automatic wheel-passing assembling machines 50 which are matched with the core conveying device 40 and are used for automatically assembling core wheels, a CCD detector 60 used for detecting wheel-passing assembling precision and a blanking machine 70 used for removing the core with poor wheel assembly are sequentially arranged on the rear part of the table board 11 from right to left.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, the movement conveyor belt mechanism 20 of the present invention is provided with the delay brakes 21 for distributing the movement M to be assembled at uniform intervals, that is, the adjacent movement M to be assembled is uniformly spaced by braking of the delay brakes 21, so that the movement M is sequentially conveyed to the subsequent movement conveying device 40 to be shifted leftward by steps.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, the core carrying device 40 of the present invention includes a core guide rail 41 erected on a table top 11 for engaging with a core belt conveyor mechanism 20, a support plate 401 fixed on the table top 11 in front of the core guide rail 41, a first substrate 402 driven by a first cylinder 403 to slide back and forth mounted on the support plate 401, a second substrate 404 driven by a second cylinder 405 to slide left and right mounted on the first substrate 402, and a plurality of double-ported shifting forks 42 mounted on the second substrate 404 at intervals from left to right; the shifting fork 42 is used for stepping and shifting the movement M on the movement conveyor mechanism 20 to the finished product output conveyor mechanism 30 through the movement guide rail 41.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, the automatic wheel-passing assembling machine 50, the CCD detector 60 and the unloader 70 of the present invention are located at the rear side of the movement guide rail 41, the movement transporting device 40 sequentially shifts the movement M on the movement guide rail 41 step by step to the right, the automatic wheel-passing assembling machine 50 assembles the wheel-passing into the movement M while the movement of the movement M is stopped, the CCD detector 60 detects the movement with the wheel-passing W, and the unloader 70 removes and recovers the movement with the wheel-passing assembly failure from the movement guide rail 41.

As shown in fig. 1-4, the present invention is equipped with two automatic assembly machines 50 for over wheels, and the movement is assembled by using one automatic assembly machine 50 for over wheels according to the type of over wheels (for example, one over wheel and two over wheels) required by the gear transmission system for assembling the movement; as shown in fig. 1 to 5, the automatic wheel mounting machine 50 of the present invention includes a wheel feed tray 51, a wheel loading chute 52, and a wheel mounting robot 53, wherein the wheel feed tray 51 can deliver wheels to the double-grooved wheel loading chute 52 in a vibrating manner to dispense the materials, and the wheel mounting robot 53 can transfer the wheels W on the wheel loading chute 52 to the movement M on the movement guide rail 41 to be press-mounted.

As shown in fig. 5 and 6, the third wheel assembling manipulator 53 of the present invention comprises a bracket 531, a horizontal plate 532 is fixed on the top of the bracket 531, a traverse plate 533 capable of sliding back and forth is attached to the left side of the horizontal plate 532, a third cylinder 534 for driving the traverse plate 533 to slide is fixed on the rear end of the horizontal plate 532, a robot arm 535 capable of sliding up and down is mounted on the left side of the traverse plate 533, a fourth cylinder 536 for driving the robot arm 535 to slide is fixed on the top end of the traverse plate 533, and the robot arm 535 of the present invention is used for buffering taking and placing of the third wheel W and rotating the third wheel W; the mechanical arm 535 is provided with two sucking rods 537 for taking and placing the wheel W, and the sucking rods 537 can rotate on the mechanical arm 535 and can axially move up and down on the mechanical arm 535; a buffer spring 538 for buffering the downward pressure of the suction rod 537 is arranged between the root of the suction rod 537 and the bottom of the mechanical arm 535, and a fifth air cylinder 539 for driving the suction rod 537 to rotate is arranged at the top of the mechanical arm 535. The third cylinder 534 actuates the traverse plate 533 to move back and forth, so that the mechanical arm 535 moves in front of the over-wheel loading chute 52 and the movement guide rail 41, and the fourth cylinder 536 can actuate the mechanical arm 535 to move up and down, so that the suction rod 537 of the mechanical arm 535 takes out the over-wheel W from the over-wheel loading chute 52 and presses the over-wheel W into the movement M. In particular, when the suction rod 537 is pressed downwards to take and place the over wheel W, the suction rod 537 can press the buffer spring 538 to move upwards so as to prevent the suction rod 537 from impacting and damaging the over wheel, and in the process of assembling the suction rod 537 to the movement M, the fifth air cylinder 539 always drives the suction rod 537 to rotate so as to press the over wheel W into the movement M while rotating, so that the over wheel W is self-adaptively meshed with other gears in the movement M and the transmission is tested for abnormalities. As shown in fig. 6, the movement M with the wheel W assembled thereon is further shifted leftward on the movement guide 41 by the shift fork 42.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, when the movement M equipped with the third wheel W is moved to the lower side of the CCD detector 60 and stops, the sixth cylinder 61 drives the CCD detector 60 to detect the two movements M therebelow, and if the assembly accuracy of the third wheel W in the movement M is qualified, the third cylinder is moved to the left by the fork 42 to the finished product output conveyor mechanism 30 for output. If the movement M is detected to be unqualified, when the shifting fork 42 shifts the movement M with unqualified assembly of the idle wheel to the operation station of the blanking machine 70, the clamping finger 71 on the blanking machine 70 moves the movement M with unqualified assembly out of the movement guide rail 41 and carries the movement M to a unqualified product bin 72 for centralized storage, and the movement M is recovered for processing.

The above embodiments are provided only for illustrating the present invention and not for limiting the present invention, and those skilled in the art can make various changes or modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, all equivalents are intended to fall within the scope of the invention, which is defined in the claims.

Claims

1. An automatic assembly machine for timepiece wheels, comprising a frame (10) having a table (11) and, mounted on the table (11), a movement conveyor mechanism (20) for conveying the movement (M) on the right and a finished product output conveyor mechanism (30) on the left, characterized in that:

a core carrying device (40) is arranged at the front part of the table board (11), and the core carrying device (40) is used for moving the core (M) to a finished product output conveyor belt mechanism (30) from the core conveyor belt mechanism (20) in a stepping manner;

the movement carrying device (40) comprises a movement guide rail (41) erected on a table board (11) and used for connecting a movement conveyor belt mechanism (20), a support plate (401) is fixed on the table board (11) in front of the movement guide rail (41), a first base plate (402) driven by a first air cylinder (403) to slide back and forth is installed on the support plate (401), a second base plate (404) driven by a second air cylinder (405) to slide left and right is installed on the first base plate (402), and a plurality of double-port shifting forks (42) are installed on the second base plate (404) at intervals from left to right; the shifting fork (42) is used for shifting the movement (M) on the movement conveyor belt mechanism (20) to the finished product output conveyor belt mechanism (30) through the movement guide rail (41) in a stepping manner;

at least two automatic wheel-passing assembling machines (50) which are matched with the core conveying device (40) and are used for automatically assembling the wheel-passing of the core, a CCD detector (60) used for detecting the wheel-passing assembling precision and a blanking machine (70) used for removing the core with poor wheel-passing assembling are sequentially arranged on the rear part of the table board (11) from right to left;

the automatic assembling machine (50) comprises a wheel passing assembly manipulator (53), a mechanical arm (535) capable of sliding up, down, left and right in multiple directions is arranged on the manipulator (53), two suction rods (537) for taking and placing the wheel passing (W) are arranged on the mechanical arm (535), and the suction rods (537) can rotate on the mechanical arm (535) and can axially move up and down on the mechanical arm (535); a buffer spring (538) used for buffering the downward pressure of the suction rod (537) is arranged between the root of the suction rod (537) and the bottom of the mechanical arm (535), and a fifth cylinder (539) used for driving the suction rod (537) to rotate is arranged at the top of the mechanical arm (535).

2. An automatic timepiece wheel assembling machine according to claim 1, wherein: the machine core conveyor belt mechanism (20) is provided with a time delay brake (21) for uniformly distributing the machine cores (M) to be assembled at intervals.

3. An automatic timepiece wheel assembling machine according to claim 2, wherein: the automatic wheel passing assembly machine (50), the CCD detector (60) and the blanking machine (70) are positioned on the rear side of the movement guide rail (41).

4. An automatic timepiece wheel assembling machine according to claim 3, wherein: the automatic idler wheel assembling machine (50) further comprises an idler wheel feeding disc (51), an idler wheel feeding groove (52) and an idler wheel assembling mechanical arm (53), wherein the idler wheel feeding disc (51) can convey idler wheels to the double-groove type idler wheel feeding groove (52) in a vibrating mode to be distributed, and the idler wheel assembling mechanical arm (53) can transfer the idler wheels (W) on the idler wheel feeding groove (52) to a machine core (M) on a machine core guide rail (41) to be installed in a pressing mode.

5. An automatic timepiece wheel assembling machine according to claim 4, wherein: the over-wheel assembling manipulator (53) further comprises a support (531), a transverse plate (532) is fixed to the top of the support (531), a transverse moving plate (533) capable of sliding back and forth is attached to the left side face of the transverse plate (532), a third air cylinder (534) used for driving the transverse moving plate (533) to slide is fixed to the rear end of the transverse plate (532), a mechanical arm (535) capable of sliding up and down is mounted on the left side face of the transverse moving plate (533), and a fourth air cylinder (536) used for driving the mechanical arm (535) to slide is fixed to the top end of the transverse moving plate (533); the mechanical arm (535) can buffer the pick-and-place wheel (W) and the rotating wheel (W).

6. An automatic timepiece wheel assembling machine according to claim 3, wherein: the CCD detector (60) is connected with a sixth air cylinder (61) fixed on the table board (11), and the sixth air cylinder (61) can drive the CCD detector (60) to move left and right.

7. An automatic timepiece wheel assembling machine according to claim 3, wherein: the blanking machine (70) comprises a clamping finger (71) and a defective product bin (72) which is erected on the table board (11), and the clamping finger (71) on the blanking machine (70) can move the movement (M) which is not assembled well out of the movement guide rail (41) and convey the movement to the defective product bin (72) for storage.