CN113264224A - Automatic change a cigarette packagine machine and many brands cigarette packagine machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses an automatic cigarette carton packing machine, which comprises stacking equipment, wherein the stacking equipment comprises a stacking machine; the stacking equipment comprises a turnover conveying mechanism, a coaming, a blocking structure, a first pushing mechanism and a stacking station; the overturning conveying mechanism is used for outputting the cigarettes turned to the side standing state one by one; the coaming is matched with the limiting groove to prevent the cigarettes from collapsing; the first pushing mechanism is used for pushing the cigarettes out to the stacking station to obtain cigarette carton rows; the stacking station can accommodate a plurality of horizontal rows of cigarette cartons; the automatic cigarette carton packing machine further comprises a carton packing device and an output device. The invention can realize automatic stacking, boxing, carton sealing and output of the side-standing cigarettes, thereby improving the efficiency and reducing the labor intensity. The invention also provides a multi-brand cigarette carton packaging machine.

Description

Automatic change a cigarette packagine machine and many brands cigarette packagine machine

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of cigarette packaging, in particular to an automatic cigarette packaging machine and a multi-brand cigarette packaging machine.

Background

At present, when the carton of cigarette was cased, need carry out the stack back with a plurality of cartons of cigarette in the stack region, again with a plurality of cartons of cigarette that the stack is good pack into the case, however, current carton cigarette packagine machine is when the stack carton cigarette, and the carton cigarette level is placed, leads to occupation horizontal space great.

Please refer to patent document CN210000658U, patent document CN210000658U — a cigarette strip output device for cigarette in strip, which discloses a way of turning over a track to make the cigarette strip in a vertical state during outputting, so as to reduce the occupation of horizontal space; however, in the technical solution of the existing patent document CN210000658U, because the stability of the side cigarette is poor, in order to avoid that the next cigarette hits the previous cigarette and turns over, the existing cigarette needs to push out the next cigarette after receiving the next cigarette, and then turns over next time, which is inefficient; simultaneously, adopt the manual work to place it in the case after the level is exported and is released to required volume to through placing vertical stack of completion and vanning many times, later carry out artifical joint sealing again, intensity of labour is big.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to overcome the defects of the prior art, one of the purposes of the invention is to provide an automatic cigarette carton packaging machine which can realize automatic stacking, boxing, carton sealing and output of side-standing cigarettes so as to improve the efficiency and reduce the labor intensity.

The invention also aims to provide a multi-brand cigarette packing machine which can realize simultaneous packing of two brands of cigarettes and avoid the waste of assets.

One of the purposes of the invention is realized by adopting the following technical scheme:

an automated cigarette carton packaging machine comprising a stacking apparatus; the stacking equipment comprises a turnover conveying mechanism, a coaming, a blocking structure, a first pushing mechanism and a stacking station; wherein,

the overturning and conveying mechanism is used for receiving the horizontally placed cigarettes, overturning the horizontally placed cigarettes to a side-standing state and outputting the cigarettes one by one;

the surrounding plate is provided with a limiting groove, and the wall of the limiting groove is provided with a discharge hole communicated with the limiting groove and the outside;

the blocking structure is used for blocking the discharge hole to form a limiting cavity by enclosing with the groove wall of the limiting groove; the limiting cavity is used for receiving the cigarettes in the side standing state output by the overturning conveying mechanism and preventing the cigarettes from collapsing; the limiting cavity can also accommodate at least two cigarettes in a side standing state to be vertically stacked;

the first pushing mechanism is used for pushing at least two cigarettes vertically stacked in the limiting cavity out to the stacking station through the discharge hole so as to obtain a cigarette row; the stacking station can accommodate a plurality of horizontal rows of cigarette carton rows in parallel;

the automatic cigarette carton packaging machine further comprises:

packaging the box equipment; the carton packing and sealing equipment is used for packing and sealing a plurality of rows of cigarette cartons in the stacking station;

an output device; the output device is used for outputting the boxed boxes from the box packaging device.

Further, the stacking apparatus further comprises:

lifting the supporting plate; the lifting supporting plate is used for receiving the cigarettes received by the limiting cavity and can lift relative to the limiting cavity;

a lifting drive mechanism; the lifting driving mechanism is used for driving the lifting supporting plate to lift.

Further, the first material pushing mechanism comprises a push plate, a push plate driving motor, a support plate and a support plate driving motor; the push plate can push at least two vertically stacked cigarettes; the push plate driving motor is used for driving the push plate to push the cigarette carton towards the discharge hole; the support plate is arranged opposite to the discharge hole and is used for abutting against the side surfaces of at least two vertically stacked cigarettes; the supporting plate driving motor is used for driving the supporting plate to move in the pushing direction of the pushing plate, so that the supporting plate is close to or far away from the pushing plate.

Furthermore, the lifting supporting plate comprises two supporting parts which are horizontally arranged at intervals, and the two supporting parts are used for supporting the cigarette carton in a matching manner; the push plate is arranged between the two bearing parts at intervals.

Further, the push plate comprises a push plate body used for pushing the cigarette carton and a support plate body formed by horizontally extending the top end of the push plate body to the direction far away from the support plate; the supporting plate body is used for receiving the cigarettes in the side standing state turned by the turning conveying mechanism when the pushing plate body pushes the cigarettes.

Further, the box packing equipment further comprises:

a boxing station;

a transfer device; the transfer device is used for transferring a plurality of rows of cigarette carton rows in the stacking station to the boxing station;

a packaging box device; the carton packing and sealing device is used for arranging and packing a plurality of rows of cigarettes in the carton packing station and sealing the cartons.

Further, the number of the stacking devices is at least two;

the transfer device comprises a stack pushing mechanism, a loading station, a transfer mechanism, a bearing conveying mechanism and at least two supporting tools; wherein,

the number of the loading stations is at least two, and the at least two loading stations are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the at least two stacking devices;

the number of the transfer mechanisms is at least two, and the at least two transfer mechanisms are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the at least two loading stations and are used for transferring the support tool between the corresponding loading station and the bearing conveying mechanism;

the stacking devices are arranged on the stacking station and used for pushing a plurality of rows of cigarette carton rows on the stacking station into the supporting tool corresponding to the loading station;

the bearing and conveying mechanism is used for bearing the supporting tools and transferring the supporting tools provided with a plurality of rows of cigarette carton rows to the boxing station one by one.

Further, the box packaging and sealing device comprises a positioning mechanism, a box supply mechanism, a second pushing mechanism and a box sealing mechanism; wherein,

the positioning mechanism comprises a positioning plate, a positioning column and a telescopic cylinder; the positioning plate is used for abutting against one side of the supporting tool positioned at the boxing station; the positioning column is used for abutting against the other side of the support to be matched with the positioning plate to clamp the support; the telescopic cylinder is used for driving the positioning column to stretch so as to enable the positioning column to be abutted against or far away from the supporting tool;

the box feeding mechanism is used for providing unsealed boxes;

the second pushing mechanism is used for pushing the cigarettes on the supporting tool of the boxing station into a box;

the box sealing mechanism is used for sealing the box.

The second purpose of the invention is realized by adopting the following technical scheme:

a multi-brand cigarette carton packaging machine comprising:

two of the automatic cigarette carton packaging machines, wherein the two supporting and conveying mechanisms of the two automatic cigarette carton packaging machines are close to each other;

the transition transfer device is used for transferring the supporting tool between the two supporting and conveying mechanisms of the two automatic cigarette carton packing machines.

Further, an RFID chip is mounted on the support;

each loading station is provided with a mark code and a first RFID reader-writer; the first RFID reader-writer is used for reading the code information corresponding to the loading station and inputting the code information into the RFID chip of the support corresponding to the loading station;

and each boxing station is provided with a second RFID reader-writer, and the second RFID reader-writer is used for reading the code information of the chip on the support entering the boxing station.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:

according to the invention, the turnover conveying mechanism, the enclosing plate, the blocking structure and the first material pushing mechanism are matched, so that the enclosing plate and the blocking structure can enclose to form a limiting cavity when the turnover conveying mechanism is used; therefore, after the horizontally placed cigarettes are turned to a side standing state by the turning conveying mechanism and output, the cigarettes in the side standing state are received by the limiting cavity, the limiting cavity can prevent the cigarettes from collapsing, and meanwhile, the limiting cavity can accommodate at least two cigarettes in the side standing state to be vertically stacked, so that the vertical stacking of the at least two cigarettes in the limiting cavity can be completed; then, the packaging and sealing equipment and the output equipment are matched, so that the packaging, sealing and output from the packaging and sealing equipment can be completed; the process realizes automatic stacking, boxing, carton sealing and output of the cigarettes, and reduces labor intensity.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the multi-brand cigarette carton packaging machine of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the configuration of the automated cigarette carton packaging machine of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the automated cigarette carton packaging machine of the present invention (with the carton sealing device and output device removed);

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the configuration of the automated cigarette carton packaging machine of the present invention (with the carton sealing device and the output device removed);

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the stacking apparatus of the present invention (with the inverted transport mechanism removed);

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a stacking mechanism, a supporting tool and a positioning bracket of the stacking device of the invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural view of the transfer mechanism of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of a positioning bracket according to the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural view of the box packing and sealing apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a partial schematic view of FIG. 9 according to the present invention.

In the figure: 10. an output device; 11. a lifting mechanism; 12. a conveyor belt conveying mechanism; 20. a stacking device; 21. a turnover conveying mechanism; 211. a conveyor belt; 212. a turnover plate; 22. enclosing plates; 23. a barrier structure; 24. a first pushing mechanism; 241. pushing the plate; 2411. a push plate body; 2412. a support plate body; 242. a support plate; 25. lifting the supporting plate; 251. a bearing part; 30. a transfer device; 31. a stack pushing mechanism; 32. a transfer mechanism; 321. jacking a cylinder; 322. a mounting frame; 323. a conveyor belt; 33. a bearing conveying mechanism; 34. a support; 341. a baffle plate; 342. a support plate; 343. a screw; 40. a packaging box device; 41. a positioning mechanism; 411. positioning a plate; 412. a positioning column; 413. a telescopic cylinder; 42. a box supply mechanism; 43. a second pushing mechanism; 44. a box sealing mechanism; 50. positioning the bracket; 60. a transition transfer device; 70. a positioning structure; 71. a first positioning member; 72. positioning the air cylinder; 80. a striker plate; 90. a cigarette is cut; 100. and a stacking station.

Detailed Description

As shown in fig. 1-10, an automated cigarette carton packaging machine includes a stacking apparatus 20; the stacking device 20 comprises an overturning conveying mechanism 21, a coaming 22, a blocking structure 23, a first pushing mechanism 24 and a stacking station 100; wherein,

the overturning conveying mechanism 21 is used for receiving the horizontally placed cigarettes 90, overturning the horizontally placed cigarettes 90 to a side-standing state and outputting the cigarettes one by one; it should be noted that, in practical use, it is preferable to output the cigarette carton 90 in a state of being laterally erected, and the height of the cigarette carton 90 after being erected can be controlled; here, the horizontally placed cigarette 90 can be turned over to a transverse side standing state by rotating by 90 degrees around an axis parallel to the length direction of the cigarette;

the surrounding plate 22 is provided with a limiting groove, and the wall of the limiting groove is provided with a discharge hole communicated with the limiting groove and the outside;

the blocking structure 23 is used for blocking the discharge hole to form a limiting cavity by enclosing with the groove wall of the limiting groove; the limiting cavity is used for receiving the cigarettes 90 in the side standing state output by the overturning conveying mechanism 21 and preventing the cigarettes 90 from collapsing; it can be understood here that the collapse of the cigarette 90 is prevented by the fact that the wall of the limiting cavity is attached to the cigarette 90 or only a small gap is formed, which is not enough for the cigarette 90 to tilt; the limiting cavity can also accommodate at least two cigarettes 90 in a side standing state to be vertically stacked, and in practical application, the height of the limiting cavity can be designed according to the vertical number of the cigarettes 90 which are actually stacked;

the first pushing mechanism 24 is used for pushing out at least two vertically stacked cigarettes 90 in the limiting cavity to a stacking station 100 through the discharge port to obtain a cigarette row; the stacking station 100 is capable of accommodating a plurality of horizontal rows of cigarette cartons side by side;

this automatic change strip cigarette packagine machine still includes:

packaging the box equipment; a casing and sealing device for casing and sealing the rows of cigarette cartons at the stacking station 100;

an output device 10; the output device 10 is used for outputting the boxed boxes from the boxing device.

On the basis of the structure, when the automatic cigarette carton packing machine is adopted, the overturning conveying mechanism 21 outputs cigarette cartons 90 in a side-standing state one by one, and the blocking structure 23 is adopted to block the discharge port to form a limiting cavity in a surrounding manner; at the moment, the cigarettes 90 in the side standing state are received by the limiting cavities one by one, and the limiting cavities prevent the cigarettes 90 from collapsing, so that the cigarettes 90 are stacked vertically; then, the blocking structure 23 is canceled to block the discharge port, the first pushing mechanism 24 is adopted to push at least two cigarettes 90 out to the stacking station 100 through the discharge port, and at the moment, a cigarette row is formed on the stacking station 100; then, the vertical stacking of the cigarette carton 90 and the pushing of the first pushing mechanism 24 are repeated, and the horizontal stacking of the cigarette carton 90 can be completed; then, the packing and sealing equipment and the output equipment 10 are adopted to realize the packing, sealing and box output of the cigarette rows; therefore, the cigarette carton 90 can be automatically packaged, and the labor intensity is reduced.

Specifically, the above-described reversing conveying mechanism 21 may include a conveying belt 211, a motor, and a reversing plate 212; wherein the conveying belt 211 is used for conveying the horizontally placed cigarette carton 90 to the turnover plate 212; the turning plate 212 guides the cigarette 90 to turn to a side standing state when the cigarette 90 moves downwards under the self-weight of the cigarette, and the cigarette 90 turns under the self-weight of the cigarette, so that power energy is saved; at this time, the cigarette 90 in the side standing state falls toward the stopper chamber under its own weight.

It is worth mentioning that, can be divided into by last two at least spacing districts of arranging in proper order with spacing chamber, spacing district is used for holding a strip cigarette 90, and every spacing district corresponds sets up the detector, and the detector is used for detecting whether spacing district has a cigarette 90 to avoid lacking the strip.

Further, the stacking apparatus 20 further includes a lifting plate and a lifting drive mechanism; the lifting supporting plate 25 is used for receiving the cigarette carton 90 received by the limiting cavity and can lift relative to the limiting cavity; the lifting driving mechanism is used for driving the lifting supporting plate 25 to lift; when the cigarette carton is used, the lifting support plate 25 is positioned at a higher position to receive the cigarette carton 90, and after receiving the cigarette carton 90 each time, the cigarette carton descends by a distance equal to the width of the cigarette carton 90, so that the next cigarette carton 90 is overlapped on the cigarette carton 90 on the lifting support plate 25; at this time, the cigarette carton 90 is held by the lifting support plate 25, so that huge impact between the cigarette carton 90 is avoided, and the appearance of the cigarette carton 90 is protected.

Specifically, the first pushing mechanism 24 includes a push plate 241, a push plate driving motor, a support plate 242, and a support plate 242 driving motor; the push plate 241 can push at least two vertically stacked cigarettes 90; the push plate driving motor is used for driving the push plate 241 to push the cigarette carton 90 towards the discharge hole; the supporting plate 242 is arranged opposite to the discharge port and is used for abutting against the side surfaces of at least two vertically stacked cigarettes 90; the supporting plate 242 driving motor is used for driving the supporting plate 242 to move in the pushing direction of the pushing plate 241, so that the supporting plate 242 is close to or far away from the pushing plate 241; thus, when the cigarette carton 90 with the limiting groove needs to be pushed out, the push plate 241 driving mechanism drives the push plate 241 to abut against the surface, opposite to the discharge port, of the cigarette carton 90, the supporting plate 242 driving mechanism drives the surface, opposite to the discharge port, of the cigarette carton 90, then the push plate driving motor and the supporting plate 242 driving motor can synchronously drive the push plate 241 and the supporting plate 242 correspondingly in the same direction, at the moment, the push plate 241 and the supporting plate 242 abut against the two opposite sides of the cigarette carton 90 respectively, and collapse of the cigarette carton 90 in the transferring process can be avoided; meanwhile, the two move synchronously, so that excessive clamping force on the cigarette carton 90 can be avoided.

It should be noted that, in the above structure, the distance that the pushing plate 241 pushes out the cigarette carton 90 each time may be equal to or close to the thickness of the cigarette carton 90, at this time, the cigarette carton 90 can be separated from the limiting groove and close to the discharge hole, so that when the pushing plate 241 releases the pushing of the cigarette carton 90 and the blocking structure 23 blocks the discharge hole again, the blocking structure 23 can also support the pushed cigarette carton 90, and further prevent the cigarette carton 90 from collapsing.

Specifically, the limiting groove is provided with an avoiding opening which is opposite to the discharge opening, and the avoiding opening can allow the push plate 241 to enter and exit the limiting groove; the push plate 241 can move linearly along the arrangement direction of the discharge hole and the discharge hole; the push plate driving motor is used for driving the push plate 241 to do linear motion; when the pushing plate 241 extends out of the limiting groove through the avoiding opening, the contact area between the limiting cavity and the cigarette carton 90 can be reduced due to the arrangement of the avoiding opening, so that the friction is reduced.

The invention also provides an embodiment of the blocking structure 23, specifically, the blocking structure 23 includes a blocking piece and a blocking cylinder; the telescopic rod of the blocking cylinder is in transmission connection with the blocking piece and drives the blocking piece to block the discharge hole or open the discharge hole when the blocking cylinder is telescopic; alternatively, the blocking structure 23 includes a blocking member rotatably mounted on the enclosing plate 22 and an elastic member providing an elastic stress urging the blocking member to rotate to a horizontal position to block the outlet, so that when the cigarette carton 90 is pushed out, the blocking member opens the outlet under the pushing of the cigarette carton 90 to smoothly push out the cigarette carton 90.

Preferably, the lifting support plate 25 comprises two horizontally spaced supporting portions 251, and the two supporting portions 251 are used for matching and supporting the cigarette carton 90; the push plate 241 is arranged between the two supporting parts 251 at intervals, and at the moment, the movement of the push plate 241 is not interfered with the movement track of the supporting parts 251; therefore, after the pushing plate 241 pushes the cigarette carton 90 away from the supporting portion 251, the supporting portion 251 can be lifted again in time to receive the next cigarette carton 90, the pushing plate 241 does not need to wait for resetting, and the efficiency is improved.

More preferably, the pushing plate 241 comprises a pushing plate body 2411 for pushing the cigarette 90, and a supporting plate body 2412 formed by horizontally extending the top end of the pushing plate body 2411 in a direction away from the supporting plate 242; the supporting plate body 2412 is used for receiving the cigarettes 90 turned over by the turning conveying mechanism 21 in a side standing state when the pushing plate body 2411 pushes the cigarettes 90, and it can be understood that when the pushing plate body 2411 pushes the cigarettes 90, the supporting plate body 2412 is positioned right below the position where the turning conveying mechanism 21 outputs the cigarettes 90, so that the cigarettes 90 turned over by the turning conveying mechanism 21 can be received in time; thus, even if the cigarette 90 is not pushed out of the receiving portion 251, a new round of cigarette 90 can be received, and efficiency is further improved.

Specifically, the box packaging equipment further comprises a box packaging station, a transfer device 30 and a box packaging device 40; the transfer device 30 is used for transferring a plurality of rows of cigarette carton rows in the stacking station 100 to the boxing station; the carton packing and sealing device 40 is used for packing and sealing a plurality of rows of cigarette cartons at the packing station; therefore, the stacking and the boxing are separated, and the mutual interference between the stacking and the boxing during operation can be avoided.

More specifically, the number of stacking devices 20 is at least two; the transfer device 30 comprises a stack pushing mechanism 31, a loading station, a transfer mechanism 32, a bearing conveying mechanism 33 and at least two pallets 34; wherein,

the number of the loading stations is at least two, and the at least two loading stations are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the at least two stacking devices 20;

the number of the transfer mechanisms 32 is at least two, and the at least two transfer mechanisms 32 are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the at least two loading stations and are used for transferring the supporting device 34 between the corresponding loading station and the supporting and conveying mechanism 33;

the number of the stacking mechanisms 31 is at least two, and the at least two stacking mechanisms 31 are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the at least two stacking devices 20 and used for pushing the multiple rows of cigarette carton rows on the corresponding stacking stations 100 into the holders 34 of the corresponding loading stations;

the supporting and conveying mechanism 33 is used for supporting the pallets 34 and transferring the pallets 34 loaded with a plurality of rows of cigarette carton rows to a boxing station one by one.

On the basis of the structure, at least two stacking devices 20 can simultaneously stack, so that the feeding efficiency of the cigarette carton 90 is improved; meanwhile, after stacking is finished, the tobacco carton can be transferred to the bearing conveying mechanism 33 in time through the corresponding transfer mechanism 32, at the moment, the tobacco carton is converged at the bearing conveying mechanism 33, the tobacco carton can be conveyed to a loading station one by one, the loading station is prevented from being bundled, meanwhile, the tobacco carton 90 after stacking is finished can be conveyed to the carton packing and sealing device 40 in time, and the carton packing and sealing device 40 is prevented from waiting; moreover, by arranging the supporting tool 34, the cigarette carton 90 can be supported, so that the transfer mechanism 32 and the supporting and conveying mechanism 33 can transfer the cigarette carton 90 by transferring the supporting tool 34, and the cigarette carton 90 is prevented from dropping in the transferring process.

The above-mentioned stacking mechanism 31 may adopt a structure combining a stacking plate and a motor, and the motor drives the stacking plate to make a linear motion so as to push the cigarette carton 90; it should be noted that the cigarette carton stacking machine can also be provided with a material blocking mechanism corresponding to the loading station, wherein the material blocking mechanism comprises a material blocking plate 80 and a motor, and the motor drives the material blocking plate 80 to move to one side of the loading station far away from the stacking station 100 so as to abut against the cigarette carton 90 when the cigarette carton 90 is pushed onto the supporting device 34 of the loading station, and prevent the cigarette carton 90 from separating from the supporting device 34.

Specifically, a positioning bracket 50 is arranged on the charging station; the positioning bracket 50 is used for supporting the supporting tool 34; the transfer mechanism 32 comprises a jacking cylinder 321, a mounting frame 322, a conveying belt 323 and a conveying belt 323 driving mechanism; the jacking cylinder 321 is used for driving the mounting rack 322 to lift; the conveyor belt 323 is movably mounted on the mounting frame 322; the conveyor 323 is used to support the holder 34 on the positioning bracket 50 without interfering with the positioning bracket 50 when the conveyor is lifted up with the mounting bracket 322, and is also used to support the holder 34 on the support conveying mechanism 33 without interfering with the support conveying mechanism 33 when the conveyor is lifted up with the mounting bracket 322; the conveyor 323 drive mechanism is used to drive the conveyor 323 to move so that the conveyor 323 transports the pallet 34 between the positioning frame 50 and the backup conveyor mechanism 33.

On the basis of above-mentioned structure, during the use, when jacking cylinder 321 drive mounting bracket 322 rose, conveyer belt 323 can jack up the die-pad 34 on locating support 50 or the bearing conveying mechanism 33, at this moment, will transfer die-pad 34 between locating support 50 and bearing conveying mechanism 33 at conveyer belt 323, and when jacking cylinder 321 drive mounting bracket 322 descends, die-pad 34 can be located the support of support 50 or the bearing conveying mechanism 33 bearing conveying, at this moment, need not to open and close locating support 50, bearing conveying mechanism 33 and conveyer belt 323 actuating mechanism, can raise the efficiency.

In the above structure, it can be understood that there are vertically overlapped portions where the conveyor belt 323 is located and the positioning bracket 50 and the supporting conveyor mechanism 33 are located, respectively, so that the carrier belt 323 can be supported to the positioning bracket 50 or the supporting conveyor mechanism 33 when ascending; it should be noted that the positioning bracket 50 is provided with a notch, and the notch avoids the conveying belt 323, so that the conveying belt 323 can ascend relative to the positioning bracket 50 and contact with the supporting device 34, thereby jacking the supporting device 34, and realizing that the ascending and descending processes of the positioning bracket 50 and the conveying belt 323 do not interfere with each other; similarly, the support conveyor 33 also has a gap avoiding the conveyor 323, and in the present invention, the support conveyor 33 may employ a roller turnover conveyor 21, and the gap avoiding the conveyor 323 is formed between adjacent rollers at intervals.

In order to avoid the movement of the pallet 34 when pushing the cigarettes 90 of the stacking station 100 to the pallet 34 of the loading station, the positioning bracket 50 is preferably located on one side of the stacking station 100; the automatic cigarette carton packaging machine further comprises a positioning structure 70; the positioning structure 70 comprises a first positioning piece 71, a second positioning piece and a positioning cylinder 72; the first positioning piece 71 is fixed on one side of the positioning bracket 50 far away from the stacking station 100; the positioning cylinder 72 is used to drive the second positioning element to push against one side of the holder 34, so that the other side of the holder 34 is pressed against the first positioning element 71, thereby fixing the holder 34.

Preferably, the tray 34 includes a supporting plate 342 and two baffles 341 spaced apart and disposed opposite to each other; the two baffles 341 can be mounted on the support plate 342 close to or far from each other to adjust the distance between the two baffles 341; each baffle 341 is correspondingly provided with a locking structure and can be locked on the bearing plate 342 through the corresponding locking structure; the two baffles 341 and the supporting plate 342 form an accommodating area; thus, the size of the accommodating area is adjusted by adjusting the distance between the two baffles 341, so that the cigarette carton is suitable for the stacked cigarettes 90 with different volumes, and the flexibility is improved.

It is worth mentioning that the bottom surface of the carrier 34 is provided with wear plates to reduce wear during transfer or transportation.

Specifically, the locking structure comprises a screw hole formed on the baffle 341, a waist-shaped groove formed on the bearing plate 342 and a screw 343; the shaft of the screw 343 passes through the waist-shaped groove and is screwed with the screw hole, and at this time, the head of the screw 343 presses the baffle 341 and the support plate 342 tightly.

Further, the box packaging and sealing device 40 includes a positioning mechanism 41, a box supplying mechanism 42, a second pushing mechanism 43 and a box sealing mechanism 44; wherein,

the positioning mechanism 41 comprises a positioning plate 411, a positioning column 412 and a telescopic cylinder 413; the positioning plate 411 is used for abutting against one side of the supporting tool 34 positioned at the boxing station; the positioning column 412 is used for abutting against the other side of the holder 34 to be matched with the positioning plate 411 to clamp the holder 34; the telescopic cylinder 413 is used for driving the positioning column 412 to stretch so as to enable the positioning column 412 to be abutted against or away from the support 34;

a case supply mechanism 42 for supplying unsealed cases;

the second pushing mechanism 43 is used for pushing the cigarette carton 90 on the supporting device 34 of the boxing station into the box;

the box sealing mechanism 44 is used to seal the box.

On the basis of the structure, the holder 34 is fixed by the positioning mechanism 41, so that the holder 34 can be prevented from moving together when the second pushing mechanism 43 pushes the cigarette carton 90, and the cigarette carton 90 can be pushed out smoothly.

The box sealing mechanism 44 can adopt a structure of a novel adhesive tape box sealing machine disclosed in patent document CN201320789617.7, or adopt a structure of an adhesive tape box sealing device in an adhesive tape box sealing machine for realizing integration of packaging automation disclosed in patent document CN 201911326729.7; the box supply mechanism 42 may include a box magazine in which unsealed boxes are placed, and a robot arm that takes out the boxes and directs the openings of the boxes to the boxing station; of course, the box sealing mechanism 44 and the box feeding mechanism 42 may have other structures as long as the corresponding functions are achieved.

Further, each boxing station is provided with an image strip missing detection mechanism, and the image strip missing detection is used for judging whether the strip cigarette 90 of the support 34 on the loading station is missing; specifically, the image missing strip detection comprises a camera and a controller; the controller stores a standard appearance diagram; the camera captures the appearance of the cigarette carton 90 of the holder 34 and matches the standard appearance chart, and if the two are not consistent, the carton is missing, and if the two are consistent, the carton is not missing.

It should be noted that the above-mentioned holder 34 is only provided with two side supporting plates, so that one side of the cigarette 90 can be exposed, and the image strip missing detection mechanism can obtain the appearance of the cigarette.

Moreover, can set up the bar code scanner on output device 10's output, the bar code scanner is used for acquireing the sign indicating number of waiting to export the case to can correspond case output time and the sign indicating number of case, so that the later stage carries out the spot check to the strip cigarette 90 of exporting in the certain time, promptly, is convenient for trace to the source.

Moreover, a material taking device can be arranged and used for moving the cigarette carton 90 on the material loading station when the image strip missing detection mechanism detects that the image strip missing detection mechanism is unqualified; the lifting device may be a robot.

The output device 10 comprises a lifting mechanism 11 and a conveyor belt conveying mechanism 12; the lifting mechanism 11 is used for transferring the boxes packaged by the box packaging equipment to the conveyor belt conveying mechanism 12, and then outputting the boxes through the conveyor belt conveying mechanism 12; the lifting mechanism 11 may be a robot.

As shown in fig. 1-10, the present invention also discloses an automated cigarette carton packaging machine multi-brand cigarette carton packaging machine, comprising:

the two automatic cigarette carton packing machines can pack two brands of cigarette cartons 90 at the same time; the two supporting and conveying mechanisms 33 of the two automatic cigarette carton packaging machines are close to each other;

a transition transfer device 60; the transitional transfer device 60 is used for transferring the carrier 34 between the two supporting and conveying mechanisms 33 of the two automatic cigarette carton packaging machines, so as to transfer the cigarette carton 90 on the carrier 34 between the two supporting and conveying mechanisms 33 of the two automatic cigarette carton packaging machines; in this way, when the quantity of the cigarettes 90 of one brand is small and all the stacking devices 20 of the automatic cigarette packaging machine are not needed, the rest of the stacking devices 20 can be used for another brand, and then the cigarettes 90 stacked in one automatic cigarette packaging machine are conveyed to the packing and sealing device of another automatic cigarette packaging machine through the transition transfer device 60 to be packed, so that the waste of assets is avoided.

Preferably, the holder 34 has an RFID chip mounted thereon; each loading station is provided with a mark code and a first RFID reader-writer; the first RFID reader-writer is used for reading the code information of the corresponding loading station and inputting the code information into the RFID chip of the support 34 of the corresponding loading station; each boxing station is provided with a second RFID reader-writer, and the second RFID reader-writer is used for reading the code information of the chip on the support 34 entering the boxing station; in practical application, when a cigarette 90 wrapped by at least one stacking device 20 of one automatic cigarette packaging machine needs to be wrapped at a packaging box device of another automatic cigarette packaging machine, at this time, the second RFID reader-writer can know which stacking device 20 the carrier 34 outputs from, so as to determine whether the cigarette 90 output by the stacking device 20 on the carrier 34 is packaged on the packaging box device of the automatic cigarette packaging machine, so as to avoid disordered packaging.

The above embodiments are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and the protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereby, and any insubstantial changes and substitutions made by those skilled in the art based on the present invention are within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. An automated cigarette carton packaging machine, characterized by comprising a stacking device (20); the stacking equipment (20) comprises an overturning conveying mechanism (21), a coaming (22), a blocking structure (23), a first pushing mechanism (24) and a stacking station (100); wherein:

the overturning conveying mechanism (21) is used for receiving the horizontally placed cigarettes (90), overturning the horizontally placed cigarettes (90) to a side standing state and outputting the cigarettes one by one;

the surrounding plate (22) is provided with a limiting groove, and the wall of the limiting groove is provided with a discharge hole communicated with the limiting groove and the outside;

the blocking structure (23) is used for blocking the discharge hole to form a limiting cavity by enclosing with the groove wall of the limiting groove; the limiting cavity is used for receiving the cigarettes (90) in the side standing state output by the overturning conveying mechanism (21) and preventing the cigarettes (90) from collapsing; the limiting cavity can also accommodate at least two cigarettes (90) in a side standing state to be vertically stacked;

the first pushing mechanism (24) is used for pushing at least two vertically stacked cigarettes (90) in the limiting cavity out to the stacking station (100) through the discharge hole so as to obtain a cigarette row; the stacking station (100) can accommodate a plurality of horizontal rows of cigarette carton rows;

the automatic cigarette carton packaging machine further comprises:

boxing and sealing equipment for boxing and sealing a plurality of rows of cigarette cartons in the stacking station (100);

an output device (10), the output device (10) being for outputting the boxed boxes from the boxing device.

2. The automated cigarette packaging machine according to claim 1, characterized in that the stacking device (20) further comprises:

the lifting supporting plate (25) is used for receiving the cigarette carton (90) received by the limiting cavity and can lift relative to the limiting cavity;

and the lifting driving mechanism is used for driving the lifting supporting plate (25) to lift.

3. The automated cigarette packaging machine according to claim 2, characterized in that the first pusher mechanism (24) comprises a push plate (241), a push plate (241) drive motor, a support plate (242) and a support plate (242) drive motor; the push plate (241) can push at least two vertically stacked cigarettes (90); the push plate (241) driving motor is used for driving the push plate (241) to push the cigarette carton (90) towards the direction of the discharge hole; the supporting plate (242) is arranged opposite to the discharge hole and is used for abutting against the side surfaces of at least two vertically stacked cigarettes (90); the supporting plate (242) driving motor is used for driving the supporting plate (242) to move in the pushing direction of the pushing plate (241), so that the supporting plate (242) is close to or far away from the pushing plate (241).

4. An automated cigarette packaging machine according to claim 3, characterized in that the lifting pallet (25) comprises two horizontally spaced-apart bearing portions (251), the two bearing portions (251) being adapted to cooperate to bear a cigarette (90); the push plate (241) is arranged between the two bearing parts (251) at intervals.

5. The automated cigarette carton packaging machine according to claim 4, characterized in that the push plate (241) comprises a push plate (241) body for pushing the cigarette carton (90) and a support plate (242) body formed by a top end of the push plate (241) body extending horizontally away from the support plate (242); the supporting plate (242) body is used for receiving the cigarette carton (90) in a side standing state turned by the turning conveying mechanism (21) when the pushing plate (241) body pushes the cigarette carton (90).

6. The automated cigarette packaging machine of any one of claims 1-5, wherein the cartoning apparatus further comprises:

a boxing station;

-transfer means (30), said transfer means (30) being intended to transfer a plurality of rows of cigarette carton bars within said stacking station (100) to said boxing station;

and the box packing device (40) is used for packing and sealing the rows of the cigarette cartons at the packing station.

7. The automatic cigarette packaging machine according to claim 6, characterized in that the stacking devices (20) are at least two in number;

the transfer device (30) comprises a stack pushing mechanism (31), a loading station, a transfer mechanism (32), a bearing conveying mechanism (33) and at least two supporting tools (34); wherein:

the number of the loading stations is at least two, and the at least two loading stations are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the at least two stacking devices (20);

the number of the transfer mechanisms (32) is at least two, and at least two transfer mechanisms (32) are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with at least two loading stations and are used for transferring the supporting device (34) between the corresponding loading stations and the supporting and conveying mechanism (33);

the number of the stacking mechanisms (31) is at least two, and the at least two stacking mechanisms (31) are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the at least two stacking devices (20) and used for pushing a plurality of rows of cigarette carton rows on the corresponding stacking station (100) into the supporting tool (34) corresponding to the loading station;

the supporting and conveying mechanism (33) is used for supporting the supporting device (34) and transferring the supporting device (34) provided with a plurality of rows of cigarette carton rows to the boxing station one by one.

8. An automated cigarette packaging machine according to claim 7, characterised in that the box packaging device (40) comprises a positioning mechanism (41), a box feeding mechanism (42), a second pusher mechanism (43) and a box sealing mechanism (44); wherein:

the positioning mechanism (41) comprises a positioning plate (411), a positioning column (412) and a telescopic cylinder (413); the positioning plate (411) is used for abutting against one side of the supporting tool (34) positioned at the boxing station; the positioning column (412) is used for abutting against the other side of the support (34) to be matched with the positioning plate (411) to clamp the support (34); the telescopic cylinder (413) is used for driving the positioning column (412) to stretch and retract so that the positioning column (412) is abutted to or far away from the support (34);

the box supply mechanism (42) is used for supplying unsealed boxes;

the second pushing mechanism (43) is used for pushing the cigarette carton (90) on the supporting device (34) of the boxing station into a box;

the box sealing mechanism (44) is used for sealing the box.

9. A multi-brand cigarette carton packaging machine, comprising:

two automatic cigarette carton packaging machines according to any one of claims 7 to 8, the two supporting and conveying mechanisms (33) of which are close to each other;

a transition transfer device (60), wherein the transition transfer device (60) is used for transferring the supporting device (34) between the two supporting conveying mechanisms (33) of the two automatic cigarette carton packing machines.

10. The multi-brand cigarette packaging machine of claim 9,

the holder (34) is provided with an RFID chip;

each loading station is provided with a mark code and a first RFID reader-writer; the first RFID reader-writer is used for reading the code information corresponding to the loading station and inputting the code information into an RFID chip of the support (34) corresponding to the loading station;

and each boxing station is provided with a second RFID reader-writer, and the second RFID reader-writer is used for reading the code information of the chip on the support (34) entering the boxing station.

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