CN113526302B

CN113526302B - Bidirectional conveying elevator

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Publication number: CN113526302B
Application number: CN202010295945.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张利华; 王永来
Original assignee: Shennan Circuit Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shennan Circuit Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-04-15
Filing date: 2020-04-15
Publication date: 2023-06-02
Anticipated expiration: 2040-04-15
Also published as: CN113526302A

Abstract

The invention provides a bidirectional conveying elevator which comprises a lifting device, a conveying device and a main control device, wherein the main control device controls the lifting device and the conveying device, external equipment reaches a conveying port of the lifting device, the main control device controls the conveying device to move to the conveying port to acquire an object to be conveyed, the object to be conveyed is lifted to a designated conveying port by the lifting device along a first direction, a conveying device part moves in a second direction to convey the object to be conveyed to the outside of the lifting device, and the external equipment is notified to convey the object to be conveyed again. According to the technical scheme, automatic goods conveying of the elevator is achieved, the elevator is in communication connection with external equipment, participation of manpower is reduced, and conveying efficiency is improved.

Description

Bidirectional conveying elevator

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of logistics transmission equipment, in particular to a bidirectional conveying elevator.

Background

In the existing production workshop, a large amount of cargoes are placed at a cargo collecting and distributing place, cargoes placed at the cargo collecting and distributing place are required to be tidied by a transport tool and transported to a designated position for processing and production, in the process, special tools are required to lift and lower the cargoes so as to realize loading and unloading of the cargoes, the elevator just belongs to one of the special tools, the existing elevator is used for unidirectional transportation and can only transport the cargoes from one layer to the other layer, automatic transportation of the cargoes cannot be realized, and the cargoes are transported and further need to be added by external transport equipment, the elevator in the prior art has less communication of manual operation and external transport equipment, and the working efficiency is low.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the prior technical problems of realizing automatic conveying of the elevator and improving the working efficiency by interconnecting the elevator with external conveying equipment.

In order to solve the technical problems, the present invention provides a bidirectional conveying elevator, comprising: the lifting device is provided with conveying stations at least at two preset heights, and conveying openings are formed in the side surfaces of the conveying stations; the conveying device is at least partially arranged inside the lifting device and driven by the lifting device to move in a first direction, and the conveying device part moves in a second direction so as to acquire or place objects to be conveyed; the main control device is in signal connection with the lifting device and the conveying device, controls the working states of the lifting device and the conveying device, and is in communication connection with external equipment.

Further, the lifting device comprises a lifting main body, a lifting motor, a lifting rope and a guide rail group; the lifting main body is of a hollow rectangular frame structure and is used for bearing the conveying device; the lifting motor is arranged at the upper end of the lifting main body, the driving end of the lifting motor is connected with the lifting rope, and the lifting rope is connected with the conveying device; the guide rail group is vertically arranged on the inner wall of the lifting main body, and the conveying device is arranged on the guide rail group in a sliding manner.

Further, the guide rail group comprises a plurality of guide rails, and the guide rails are vertically arranged on the inner wall of the lifting main body; the driving end of the lifting motor is connected with a driving wheel, a lifting rope is wound on the wheel surface of the driving wheel, and one end of the lifting rope is fixedly connected with the upper end of the conveying device.

Further, an automatic door is arranged at the conveying port, and is opened when the conveying device obtains or places objects to be conveyed at the conveying port, or is closed.

Further, the conveying device comprises a hanging bin and a fetching and delivering device; the hanging cabin is of a hollow rectangular frame structure, the upper end of the hanging cabin is fixedly connected with the lifting rope, the hanging cabin is arranged on the guide rail group in a sliding mode, the hanging cabin is provided with a through hole at the position of the conveying hole, and the goods taking and delivering device is arranged at the bottom of the hanging cabin.

Further, the picking and delivering device comprises a driving device, a fixing piece, a connecting piece and a pallet; one end of mounting is fixed to be set up in the hanging cabin bottom, and the other end of mounting is fixed to be provided with the connecting piece, and drive arrangement sets up the one side that is close to the hanging cabin bottom at the connecting piece, and the pallet slides the one side that sets up in the connecting piece and keep away from the hanging cabin bottom, and drive arrangement drives the pallet and slides along the connecting piece side to side.

Further, the pallet is provided with a locating pin at a predetermined position.

Further, the main control device comprises a processing device and a communication device; the communication device is arranged at the conveying port, is in signal connection with the processing device, and is in signal connection with the lifting device; the communication device is in communication connection with external equipment.

Further, the communication device receives signals sent by the external equipment when the external equipment reaches the conveying port and transmits the signals to the processing device, the processing device controls the lifting device to enable the conveying device to reach the conveying port to obtain the objects to be conveyed, and when the conveying device conveys the objects to be conveyed to the conveying port, the processing device sends signals to the external equipment to inform the external equipment to obtain the objects to be conveyed.

Further, a wire slot is arranged on one side of the lifting main body of the lifting device, and the wire slot is used for accommodating a communication line between the communication device and the processing device and a power line of the lifting motor.

The invention comprises a lifting device, a conveying device and a main control device, wherein the main control device controls the lifting device and the conveying device, external equipment reaches a conveying port of the lifting device, the main control device controls the conveying device to move to the conveying port to acquire an object to be conveyed, the object to be conveyed is lifted to a designated conveying port by the lifting device along a first direction, and the conveying device part moves in a second direction to convey the object to be conveyed to the outside of the lifting device and inform the external equipment to convey the object to be conveyed again. According to the technical scheme, automatic goods conveying of the elevator is achieved, the elevator is in communication connection with external equipment, participation of manpower is reduced, and conveying efficiency is improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings required for the description of the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is apparent that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

FIG. 1 is a block schematic diagram of a bi-directional conveyor hoist of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the front view of the bi-directional conveyor elevator of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a sitting view of the bi-directional conveyor elevator of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic top view of the bi-directional conveyor elevator of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a pick-and-place device according to the present invention.

Detailed Description

The invention is described in further detail below with reference to the drawings and examples. It is specifically noted that the following examples are only for illustrating the present invention, but do not limit the scope of the present invention. Likewise, the following examples are only some, but not all, of the examples of the present invention, and all other examples, which a person of ordinary skill in the art would obtain without making any inventive effort, are within the scope of the present invention.

The terms "first," "second," "third," and the like in this disclosure are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying a relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defining "a first", "a second", and "a third" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present invention, the meaning of "plurality" means at least two, for example, two, three, etc., unless specifically defined otherwise. All directional indications (such as up, down, left, right, front, back … …) in embodiments of the present invention are merely used to explain the relative positional relationship, movement, etc. between the components in a particular gesture (as shown in the drawings), and if the particular gesture changes, the directional indication changes accordingly. The terms "comprising" and "having" and any variations thereof in the embodiments of the present application are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions. For example, a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not limited to only those listed steps or elements but may alternatively include other steps or elements not listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

Reference herein to "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment may be included in at least one embodiment of the invention. The appearances of such phrases in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. Those of skill in the art will explicitly and implicitly appreciate that the embodiments described herein may be combined with other embodiments.

Please refer to fig. 1, which is a block diagram of a bidirectional conveying elevator according to the present invention.

The invention provides a bidirectional conveying hoister which comprises a hoisting device 1, a conveying device 3 and a main control device 2. At least two predetermined heights of the lifting device 1 are provided with conveying stations, and conveying openings are also arranged at the positions of the conveying stations. The conveying device 3 is at least partially arranged inside the lifting device 1, the lifting device 1 drives the conveying device 3 to move in a first direction so as to lift the object to be conveyed, part of equipment of the conveying device 3 moves in a second direction so as to acquire or place the object to be conveyed, the first direction is a vertical direction in the embodiment, the second direction is a horizontal direction, and the first direction and the second direction can be other arbitrary directions in other embodiments. The main control device 2 controls the lifting device 1 and the conveying device 3, the external equipment conveys the object to be conveyed to the conveying port, the main control device 2 obtains information that the external equipment reaches the conveying port, the main control device 2 controls the lifting device 1 to lift the conveying device 3 to the conveying port to obtain the object to be conveyed, the object to be conveyed is lifted to a designated conveying port by the lifting device 1 along the vertical direction, part of equipment of the conveying device 3 moves in the horizontal direction to convey the object to be conveyed to the outside of the lifting device 1, and the main control device 2 informs the external equipment of conveying the object to be conveyed again. According to the technical scheme, automatic goods conveying of the elevator is achieved, the elevator is in communication connection with external equipment, participation of manpower is reduced, and conveying efficiency is improved.

Please refer to fig. 2, which is a schematic diagram of a front view structure of the bidirectional conveying elevator of the present invention. Please refer to fig. 3, which is a schematic diagram of a sitting structure of the bidirectional conveying elevator of the present invention. Fig. 4 is a schematic top view of the bidirectional conveying elevator according to the present invention.

The lifting device in this embodiment comprises a lifting body 7, a lifting motor 4, lifting cords and a set of guide rails. The lifting body 7 is a hollow rectangular frame structure, in this embodiment a steel metal frame, for carrying a conveying device, which is slidably arranged inside the lifting body 7. The lifting motor 4 is arranged at the upper end of the lifting main body 7, the driving end 41 of the lifting motor 4 is connected with a lifting rope, the lifting rope is connected with a conveying device, the guide rail group is vertically arranged on the inner walls of the four corners of the lifting main body 7, and the conveying device is arranged on the guide rail group in a sliding manner. The guide rail group in this embodiment includes a plurality of guide rails, and the plurality of guide rails are vertically provided on the inner walls of the four corners inside the lifting main body 7. The drive end 41 of the lifting motor 4 is connected with a drive wheel through a chain, the drive wheel comprises a first drive wheel 5 and a second drive wheel 6, lifting ropes are respectively wound on wheel faces of the first drive wheel 5 and the second drive wheel 6, the other ends of the two lifting ropes are fixedly connected with the upper end of the conveying device, and the stability of the movement of the conveying device in the vertical direction is ensured. The lifting rope is in this embodiment a chain cooperating with racks of the tread of the first driving wheel 5 and the second driving wheel 6.

At least two predetermined heights of the lifting main body 7 of the lifting device are provided with conveying stations, the conveying stations are used for the conveying device to acquire or place objects to be conveyed at the conveying stations, the side face of the conveying stations is provided with a conveying opening, an automatic door is arranged at the conveying opening and is opened when the conveying device is located at the conveying opening to acquire or place objects to be conveyed, otherwise, the automatic door is closed, a photoelectric sensor can be arranged at the automatic door in the embodiment, when the conveying device stays at the photoelectric sensor for more than a predetermined time, the automatic door is opened until the conveying device leaves the sensing range of the photoelectric sensor, and the automatic door is closed. One side of the outside of the lifting main body 7 is provided with a wire slot 10, the wire slot 10 is used for accommodating a communication line between a communication device of the main control device and the processing device and also is used for lifting a power line of the motor 4, and one side of the lifting main body 7 provided with the wire slot is not provided with a conveying port.

The conveying device comprises a hanging bin 8 and a taking and delivering device 11 in the embodiment. The hanging cabin 8 is of a hollow rectangular frame structure, in this embodiment, can be a steel metal frame, the upper end of the hanging cabin 8 is provided with a lifting lug 9 fixedly connected with a lifting rope, the hanging cabin 8 is arranged on the guide rail set in a sliding manner, the hanging cabin 8 is provided with a through hole at the position of the conveying hole, the through hole corresponds to the conveying hole, and the goods taking and conveying device 11 is arranged at the bottom of the hanging cabin 8. When external equipment arrives at the conveying port, the main control device controls the conveying device to arrive at the conveying station, the automatic door is opened, the goods taking and conveying device 11 obtains the to-be-conveyed object, the automatic door is closed, the lifting device lifts the conveying device to the appointed conveying station, the automatic door of the conveying station is opened, the goods taking and conveying device 11 conveys the to-be-conveyed object out, the external equipment obtains the to-be-conveyed object to leave for processing, and the automatic door is closed.

With continued reference to fig. 5, in an embodiment of the invention, the pick-and-place device 11 includes a driving device 16, a fixing member 14, a connecting member 15 and a pallet 13. One end of the fixing piece 14 is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the hanging bin 8, the other end of the fixing piece 14 is fixedly provided with a connecting piece 15, the connecting piece 15 is of a hard platform structure, the driving device 16 is arranged on one surface, close to the bottom of the hanging bin 8, of the connecting piece 15, the driving device 16 can be a motor, the pallet 13 is arranged on one surface, far away from the bottom of the hanging bin 8, of the connecting piece 15 in a sliding mode, the driving device 16 drives the pallet 13 to slide left and right along the connecting piece 15, and in other embodiments, the pallet 13 can be replaced by a fork. In this embodiment, a sliding plate 12 is disposed below the pallet 13, the sliding plate 12 is slidably disposed above the connecting member 15, and a positioning pin is disposed at a predetermined position of the pallet 13 for fixing the object to be carried. When picking up goods, the driving device 16 drives the sliding plate 12 to move to one side of the connecting piece 15, at this time, a part of the sliding plate 12 is still at the upper end of the connecting piece 15, then the driving device 16 continues to drive the pallet 13 to move on the sliding plate 12, the pallet 13 moves to one side of the sliding plate 12, at this time, a part of the pallet 13 is still at the upper end of the sliding plate 12, the external equipment places the goods to be transported on the pallet 13, the external equipment will set up the carrier plate below the goods to be transported when transporting the goods to be transported, the carrier plate is provided with locating holes, the external equipment places the carrier plate together with the goods to be transported on the pallet 13, and the locating pins on the pallet 13 are inserted into the locating holes to fix the carrier plate and the goods to be transported. The drive means 16 then drive the pallets 13 inwardly to the upper ends of the skid plates 12, and the drive means 16 then drive the skid plates 12 together with the pallets 13 inwardly to the upper ends of the connection members 15. At this time, the object to be carried is in the hanging bin 8, and the goods taking action is completed. The lifting device lifts the conveying device to the appointed conveying station for delivery. During delivery, the driving device 16 drives the sliding plate 12 to move to one side of the connecting piece 15, at this time, a part of the sliding plate 12 is still at the upper end of the connecting piece 15, then the driving device 16 continues to drive the sliding plate 13 to move on the sliding plate 12, the sliding plate 13 moves to one side of the sliding plate 12, at this time, a part of the sliding plate 13 is still at the upper end of the sliding plate 12, at this time, the carrier plate is conveyed to the outside of the hanging bin 8 together with the object to be conveyed, the external equipment obtains the object to be conveyed, then the driving device 16 drives the sliding plate 13 to move inwards to the upper end of the sliding plate 12, and then the driving device 16 drives the sliding plate 12 to move inwards to the upper end of the connecting piece 15 together with the sliding plate 13, so that delivery is completed.

The main control device comprises a processing device and a communication device, the communication device is arranged at the conveying port, the main control device is arranged at the top end of the lifting device, the communication device is in signal connection with the processing device, the communication line is arranged inside the wire slot 10, the processing device is in signal connection with the lifting device, and the communication device is in communication connection with external equipment. When the external equipment conveys the object to be lifted to the conveying port, the communication equipment acquires signals sent by the external equipment, the signals comprise the position where the external equipment is located and the position where the object to be conveyed needs to be conveyed, the main control device acquires the signals and then controls the lifting device to lift the conveying device to the conveying port, the automatic door is opened, the driving device 16 of the goods taking and conveying device 11 drives the sliding plate 12 to move to the side, close to the conveying port, of the connecting piece 15, at the moment, a part of the sliding plate 12 is still at the upper end of the connecting piece 13, then the driving device 16 continues to drive the pallet 13 to move on the sliding plate 12, the pallet 13 moves to the side of the sliding plate 12, at the moment, a part of the pallet 13 is still at the upper end of the sliding plate 12, the external equipment places the carrier plate together with the object to be conveyed, and the positioning pins on the pallet 13 are inserted into the positioning holes of the carrier plate, so that the carrier plate and the object to be conveyed are fixed. The drive means 16 then drive the pallets 13 inwardly to the upper ends of the skid plates 12, and the drive means 16 then drive the skid plates 12 together with the pallets 13 inwardly to the upper ends of the connection members 15. At this time, the object to be carried is in the hanging cabin 8, and the automatic door is closed. The main control device controls the lifting device to lift the conveying device to the appointed conveying station, and the automatic door is opened to carry out delivery. During delivery, the driving device 16 of the delivery device 11 drives the sliding plate 12 to move to one side of the connecting piece 15, which is close to the opened automatic door, at the moment, a part of the sliding plate 12 is still at the upper end of the connecting piece 15, then the driving device 16 continues to drive the pallet 13 to move on the sliding plate 12, the pallet 13 moves to one side of the sliding plate 12, at the moment, a part of the pallet 13 is still at the upper end of the sliding plate 12, at the moment, the carrier is conveyed to the outside of the hanging bin 8 along with the objects to be conveyed, external equipment obtains the objects to be conveyed, then the driving device 16 drives the pallet 13 to move inwards to the upper end of the sliding plate 12, at the moment, the driving device 16 drives the sliding plate 12 to move inwards along with the pallet 13 to the upper end of the connecting piece 15, and the automatic door is closed, so that the delivery is completed.

The foregoing description is only a partial embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all equivalent devices or equivalent processes using the descriptions and the drawings of the present invention or directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields are included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A bi-directional conveyor hoist, comprising:

the lifting device is provided with conveying stations at least two preset heights, and conveying openings are formed in the conveying stations;

the conveying device is at least partially arranged inside the lifting device and driven by the lifting device to move in a first direction, and the conveying device part moves in a second direction so as to acquire or place objects to be carried;

the main control device is in signal connection with the lifting device and the conveying device, controls the working states of the lifting device and the conveying device, and is in communication connection with external equipment;

the lifting device comprises a lifting main body, a lifting motor, a lifting rope and a guide rail group;

the lifting main body is of a hollow rectangular frame structure and is used for bearing the conveying device;

the lifting motor is arranged at the upper end of the lifting main body, the driving end of the lifting motor is connected with the lifting rope, and the lifting rope is connected with the conveying device;

the guide rail group is vertically arranged on the inner wall of the lifting main body, and the conveying device is arranged on the guide rail group in a sliding manner;

the conveying device comprises a hanging bin and a taking and delivering device;

the lifting bin is of a hollow rectangular frame structure, the upper end of the lifting bin is fixedly connected with the lifting rope, the lifting bin is arranged on the guide rail group in a sliding manner, a through hole is formed in the position of the conveying hole of the lifting bin, and the goods taking and delivering device is arranged at the bottom of the lifting bin;

the picking and delivering device comprises a driving device, a fixing piece, a connecting piece and a pallet;

one end of the fixing piece is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the hanging bin, the other end of the fixing piece is fixedly provided with a connecting piece, the driving device is arranged on one surface of the connecting piece, which is close to the bottom of the hanging bin, the pallet is arranged on one surface of the connecting piece, which is far away from the bottom of the hanging bin, in a sliding manner, and the driving device drives the pallet to slide left and right along the connecting piece;

the pallet is provided with locating pins at predetermined positions.

2. The bi-directional conveyor elevator of claim 1, wherein the set of rails comprises a plurality of rails, and the plurality of rails are vertically disposed on an inner wall of the lifting body;

the lifting motor driving end is connected with a driving wheel, a lifting rope is wound on the wheel surface of the driving wheel, and one end of the lifting rope is fixedly connected with the upper end of the conveying device.

3. The bi-directional conveyor elevator according to claim 1, wherein an automatic door is provided at the conveyor port, said automatic door being opened when the conveyor device takes or places objects to be handled at the conveyor port, and being closed otherwise.

4. A bi-directional transportation elevator according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein the main control means comprises processing means and communication means;

the communication device is arranged at the conveying port, the communication device is in signal connection with the processing device, and the processing device is in signal connection with the lifting device;

the communication device is in communication connection with the external equipment.

5. The bidirectional conveying elevator as set forth in claim 4, wherein the communication device receives a signal from the external device when the external device reaches the conveying port, and transmits the signal to a processing device, and the processing device controls the lifting device to enable the conveying device to reach the conveying port to acquire the object to be conveyed, and transmits a signal to the external device to notify the external device to acquire the object to be conveyed when the conveying device conveys the object to the conveying port.

6. The bi-directional conveyor elevator according to claim 4, wherein a wire slot is provided on one side of the lifting body of the lifting device, the wire slot being for receiving a communication line between the communication device and the processing device and a power line of the lifting motor.