CN115231059A - Automatic bag making and packaging integrated machine for tea - Google Patents
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Abstract
An automatic tea bag making and packaging integrated machine belongs to the technical field of tea packaging equipment. The method is characterized in that: the bag making device comprises a conveying device, and a folding device, a longitudinal heat sealing device (7) and a transverse heat sealing device (6) which are sequentially arranged from top to bottom; the bagging device comprises a weighing device, a mouth opening device and a sealing device which are arranged from top to bottom in sequence, wherein the mouth opening device is arranged on the output side of the packaging bag of the transverse heat sealing device (6); the opening expanding device comprises a fixed sucker (28), a movable sucker (29) and a telescopic cylinder (30), wherein the fixed sucker (28) and the movable sucker (29) are arranged right opposite to each other, and a piston rod of the telescopic cylinder (30) is connected with the movable sucker (29). The opening of the packaging bag is stable, and because the two sides of the packaging belt are provided with the supports, the bag opening of the packaging bag can be prevented from being torn in the packaging process, and the position of the bag opening of the packaging bag can be accurate.
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Technical Field
An automatic tea bag making and packaging integrated machine belongs to the technical field of tea packaging equipment.
Background
China is a big country for tea production, and the demand of tea packaging machinery is large. At present, the automatic tea packaging machine is divided according to the continuity of the packaging bag manufacturing process and can be divided into an intermittent automatic tea packaging machine and a continuous automatic tea packaging machine. Both types of packaging machines have advantages and disadvantages. The intermittent automatic tea packaging machine is high in precision, but low in efficiency, large in overall dimension, large in occupied area and large in working space. The continuous tea packaging machine is compact in transmission structure, small in overall size and higher in processing efficiency compared with an intermittent type tea packaging machine. However, both of these two kinds of packaging machines can only use the existing packaging bags for packaging, that is, only the weighing of tea leaves can be completed, and the action of loading the weighed tea leaves into the packaging bags needs to be matched with packaging bag production equipment for use, and an independent packaging bag conveying device needs to be arranged between the two devices, and the matching installation between the two devices is troublesome, and the use is inconvenient.
The utility model discloses a chinese utility model patent of application number 201720462263.3 discloses a grain filling wrapping bag transmission device's discharge mechanism, its description note carries the following scheme: after the wrapping bag location, get the material frame and make under getting the bag frame and drive actuating cylinder effect and get the bag sucking disc and compress tightly the wrapping bag, suck the back with the wrapping bag through getting the bag sucking disc, get the bag frame and move up under getting the bag frame and drive actuating cylinder drive, raise the wrapping bag, simultaneously, wrapping bag one side is sucked and unsettled, the opposite side is under the action of gravity, the opening part of wrapping bag struts under the action of gravity, the follow-up bag of getting of being convenient for props the mouth operation. The utility model discloses a technical scheme has following technical problem: the bags are typically fed through two squeeze rollers during the bag making process, and after production the bags are typically packaged in rolls, which results in the sides of each bag being in close contact. By sucking one side of the packaging bag and opening the other side under the action of gravity, the two sides of the packaging bag are tightly attached, so that the packaging bag is difficult to open; even if the opening of the packaging bag can be realized, only one side of the packaging bag is fixed, so that when articles are filled into the packaging bag, the upper opening of the packaging bag is easily torn, the position of the opened packaging bag is difficult to determine, and the materials fall out of the packaging bag.
The invention patent application with the application number of 201710755310.8 discloses tea leaf packaging equipment which can be uniquely determined by the attached figure 1 of the specification and the sections [ 0017 ] and [ 0018 ] of the specification, wherein a cylindrical inner bag is wound on an inner bag winding disc, sequentially passes through an inner bag opening, a bottom sealing and cutting, and is sent into a shaping box after tea leaves are put into the bag and a top sealing, and is sent into an outer bag through the shaping box.
Disclosure of Invention
The technical problem to be solved by the invention is as follows: overcome prior art's not enough, provide one kind and can be with the packaging film fifty percent discount and make the wrapping bag, absorb the both sides of wrapping bag, can stabilize and prop the mouth to the wrapping bag, can also avoid tealeaves to go into the automatic system bag packaging all-in-one of the tealeaves that the bag tearing was wrapped in the bag in-process.
The technical scheme adopted by the invention for solving the technical problems is as follows: this automatic system bag packaging all-in-one of tealeaves, its characterized in that: the bag making device comprises a bag making device and a bag filling device, wherein the bag filling device is arranged on the output side of a packaging bag of the bag making device;
the bag making device comprises a conveying device, and a folding device, a longitudinal heat sealing device and a transverse heat sealing device which are sequentially arranged from top to bottom, wherein the conveying device is arranged at the lower side of the folding device;
the bagging device comprises a weighing device, a mouth opening device and a sealing device which are arranged from top to bottom in sequence, wherein the mouth opening device is arranged on the output side of the packaging bag of the transverse heat sealing device;
the mouth opening device comprises a fixed sucker, a movable sucker and a telescopic cylinder, the fixed sucker and the movable sucker are arranged oppositely, and a piston rod of the telescopic cylinder is connected with the movable sucker and drives the movable sucker to be close to or far away from the fixed sucker; the opening expanding device also comprises a swing cylinder, and the swing cylinder is connected with the telescopic cylinder and drives the telescopic cylinder to swing back and forth between the fixed sucker and the transverse heat sealing device;
the folding device comprises a forming die, a forming cavity is arranged in the forming die, the two sides of the forming cavity are both arc-shaped or inclined shapes gradually inwards along the conveying direction of the conveying device, a discharging opening communicated with the forming cavity is formed in the bottom of the forming die, and the discharging opening is flat.
Preferably, the conveying device comprises a first conveying device and a second conveying device, wherein the first conveying device is arranged between the folding device and the longitudinal heat-sealing device, and the second conveying device is arranged between the longitudinal heat-sealing device and the transverse heat-sealing device. First conveyor and second conveyor cooperate and carry plastic film, can guarantee that plastic film carries more reliably, and can avoid plastic film to take place to fold in transportation process.
Preferably, the forming device further comprises a forming frame, the forming frame is arranged between the second conveying device and the transverse heat sealing device, the upper portion of the forming frame is a vertically arranged guiding-in portion, and the lower portion of the forming frame is a forming portion gradually widened from top to bottom. The shaping frame shapes the film cylinder, and the folding direction of the film cylinder is changed before transverse heat sealing, so that the longitudinal heat sealing position of the formed packaging bag is positioned in the middle of the packaging bag.
Preferably, the longitudinal heat sealing device comprises two heat sealing discs and a power device, the two heat sealing discs are arranged side by side, a longitudinal heat sealing part is formed between the two heat sealing discs, and the power device is connected with the two heat sealing discs simultaneously and drives the two heat sealing discs to rotate in opposite directions synchronously. The continuous longitudinal heat sealing of the plastic film is realized by the extrusion heating of the two heat sealing discs, and the heat sealing speed is high.
Preferably, the transverse heat sealing device comprises a fixed heat sealing plate, a movable heat sealing plate and a power device, the movable heat sealing plate is arranged opposite to the fixed heat sealing plate, the power device is connected with the movable heat sealing plate and pushes the movable heat sealing plate to move towards the direction close to or far away from the fixed heat sealing plate, and a cutting knife is arranged on the upper side of the movable heat sealing plate. The power device pushes the movable heat sealing plate to compress the fixed heat sealing plate, so that the end part of the film cylinder is heat sealed, and the cutting knife can cut off the film cylinder while heat sealing is carried out.
Preferably, the weighing device include the feed bin, carry the auger and weigh the hopper, weigh the hopper setting in bottom one side of feed bin, carry the input port of auger and the bottom intercommunication of feed bin, carry the delivery outlet setting of auger at the upside of weighing the hopper, the bottom of weighing the hopper is provided with weighing sensor. Carry the auger to carry the tealeaves in the feed bin to weighing in the hopper to the tealeaves in the real-time weighing hopper is weighed, makes the transport of tealeaves stable, and then guarantees to weigh the weight accuracy of the tealeaves in the hopper.
Preferably, the packaging bag opening device further comprises a packaging bag guide groove, the packaging bag guide groove is arranged right below the transverse heat sealing device, the bottom of the packaging bag guide groove is inclined downwards gradually along the direction far away from the transverse heat sealing device, and the output opening of the packaging bag guide groove is arranged on the upper side of the opening device. The packaging bag guide groove can receive the packaging bag of the transverse heat sealing device and move the packaging bag to the upper side of the opening device.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
the folding device of the automatic tea bag making and packaging integrated machine can fold two sides of a plastic film, the longitudinal heat sealing device can heat seal the opening of the folded plastic film to form a tubular film, the transverse heat sealing device can seal and cut off the top of the tubular film to form a packaging bag, the conveying device conveys the plastic film to enable the bag making device to continuously produce the packaging bag, the opening device can accept the packaging bag and open the opening of the packaging bag, tea weighed by the weighing device directly falls into the packaging bag, the sealing device can seal the packaging bag, automatic packaging of the tea is achieved, continuous packaging of the tea can be achieved, the automatic tea bag making and packaging integrated machine does not need to be matched with packaging bag production equipment for use, and the degree of automation is high.
The fixed sucker and the movable sucker respectively suck two sides of the packaging bag, and the telescopic cylinder drives the movable sucker to move towards a direction far away from the fixed sucker, so that the opening of the packaging bag is opened; one side of wrapping bag is inhaled to fixed sucking disc, and the opposite side of wrapping bag is inhaled to the activity sucking disc, and telescopic cylinder drives the activity sucking disc and moves to the direction of keeping away from the wrapping bag to prop open the wrapping tape, make the wrapping bag prop the mouth reliable, guarantee that the wrapping bag props the mouth stable, moreover because the both sides of wrapping tape all have the support, can avoid the sack of bagging-off in-process to tear, and can make the sack position of wrapping bag accurate, guarantee that tealeaves can be accurate send into in the wrapping tape.
The swing cylinder drives the telescopic cylinder to swing, so that the swing cylinder can swing to one side of the transverse heat-sealing device to accept the packaging bag, the fixed sucker and the movable sucker can be matched to open the packaging bag, the packaging bag can be transferred between the bag making device and the bag filling device, and the bag making device and the bag filling device are prevented from interfering with each other.
The two sides of the forming cavity of the folding device are inclined or arc-shaped, so that the two sides of the plastic film are bent and folded, the folded plastic film is conveyed downwards through the feed opening and is longitudinally heat-sealed through the longitudinal heat-sealing device, and the cylindrical packaging bag is formed.
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Fig. 1 is a front cross-sectional view of an automatic tea bag making and packaging machine.
Fig. 2 is a partially enlarged view of a point a in fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a schematic top view of an automatic tea bag making and packaging machine.
Fig. 4 is a schematic top cross-sectional view of the first conveyor.
FIG. 5 is a schematic top cross-sectional view of the longitudinal heat seal apparatus.
Fig. 6 is a schematic top cross-sectional view of the second conveyor.
FIG. 7 is a schematic sectional top view of the transverse heat-sealing apparatus.
Fig. 8 is a partial enlarged view of fig. 7 at B.
Fig. 9 is a left side cross-sectional view of the automatic tea bag making and packaging machine.
In the figure: 1. the machine frame 2, a bag making motor 3, a speed reducer 4, a bag making main shaft 5, a cam 6, a transverse heat sealing device 7, a longitudinal heat sealing device 8, a first conveying device 9, a forming die 901, a feed opening 10, a guide roller 11, a buffer roller mounting plate 1101, a buffer roller mounting groove 12, a film roller mounting plate 13, a film roller 14, a bin 15, a conveying auger 16, a conveying motor 17, a weighing hopper 18, a packaging bag guide groove 19, a guide cylinder 20, a sealing cylinder 21, a heat sealing block 22, a guide cylinder 23, a conveying cylinder 24, a bearing cylinder 25, a bearing plate 26, a sealing cylinder 27, a sealing plate 28, a fixed suction cup 29, a movable suction cup 30, a telescopic cylinder 31, a swing cylinder 32, a lifting cylinder 33, a lifting plate 34, a weighing plate 35, a weighing sensor 36, a guide cylinder 37, a shaping frame 38, a buffer roller 39, a first conveying roller 40, a first driven bevel gear 41, a first driving bevel gear 42, a first synchronous gear 43, a heat sealing plate 44, a heat sealing plate 45, a supporting sleeve 46, a heat sealing plate synchronous gear 47, a driven bevel gear 48, a return spring 49, a second movable bevel gear 50, a heat sealing plate conveying roller 51, a heat sealing knife protective sleeve 53, a driving knife protective sleeve 53 and a heat sealing knife 53.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be further described with reference to specific embodiments, however, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the detailed description given herein with respect to the drawings is for better explanation and that the present invention is necessarily limited to those embodiments, and that equivalents and common means not specifically described herein are nevertheless deemed to be within the scope of the present application.
FIG. 1~9 is a preferred embodiment of the present invention, which is further described below in conjunction with 1~9.
The automatic tea bag making and packaging integrated machine comprises a bag making device and a bagging device, wherein the bagging device is arranged on the packaging bag output side of the bag making device; the bag making device comprises a conveying device, and a folding device, a longitudinal heat sealing device 7 and a transverse heat sealing device 6 which are sequentially arranged from top to bottom, wherein the conveying device is arranged at the lower side of the folding device; the bagging device comprises a weighing device, a mouth opening device and a sealing device which are sequentially arranged from top to bottom, wherein the mouth opening device is arranged on one side of the packaging bag output of the transverse heat sealing device 6. This automatic system bag of tealeaves packaging all-in-one's fifty percent discount device can be with the both sides fifty percent discount of plastic film, the opening heat-seal of the plastic film after the longitudinal sealing device 7 will be fifty percent discount, form the tube-shape film, horizontal sealing device 6 can seal and cut off the top of tube-shape film, form the wrapping bag, conveyor carries plastic film, so that system bag device continuous production wrapping bag, prop the mouth device and can accept the wrapping bag and prop the mouth to the wrapping bag, tealeaves after the weighing device weighs directly falls into in the wrapping bag, closing device can seal the wrapping bag, the automatic packing of tealeaves has been realized, and can realize the continuous packing of tealeaves, do not need to cooperate wrapping bag production facility to use, degree of automation is high.
Specifically, the method comprises the following steps: as shown in fig. 1~3: this automatic bag of tealeaves packaging all-in-one machine of making still includes frame 1, wrapping bag guide way 18, the fifty percent discount device, vertical sealing device 7 and horizontal sealing device 6 are installed in one side of frame 1 from top to bottom, weighing device, prop mouthful device and closing device and install the opposite side at frame 1 from top to bottom, wrapping bag guide way 18 is installed in frame 1, the uncovered setting in top of wrapping bag guide way 18, the input setting of wrapping bag guide way 18 is under horizontal sealing device 6, and accept the plastic bag of horizontal sealing device 6, the delivery outlet setting of wrapping bag guide way 18 is in the upside that props mouthful device, conveniently prop a mouthful device and accept the wrapping bag. The bottom of the packaging bag guide groove 18 is inclined downwards gradually along the direction close to the opening device, so that when the packaging bag falls into the packaging bag guide groove 18, the packaging bag can slide to the upper side of the opening device, and the opening device is convenient to accept the packaging bag.
The folding device comprises a forming die 9 arranged on the upper part of the frame 1, a forming cavity with an upward opening is arranged in the forming die 9, two sides of the forming cavity are inclined from top to bottom gradually, a flat blanking opening 901 is arranged at the bottom of the forming die 9, the blanking opening is communicated with the forming cavity, after a plastic film enters the forming cavity, the plastic film is folded from the middle part through two sides of the forming cavity, the folded plastic film is sent out downwards through the blanking opening 901, and the blanking opening 901 can not only send out the plastic film, but also can flatten the folded plastic film.
The automatic tea bag making and packaging all-in-one machine further comprises a film roller 13, a buffer roller 38 and a guide roller 10, wherein the guide roller 10, the film roller 13 and the buffer roller 38 are all installed at the top of the machine frame 1, and the guide roller 10 is located right above the forming die 9. The guide roller 10 is rotatably installed on the frame 1, and the guide roller 10 is horizontally arranged. Vertical film roller mounting panel 12 is installed at the top of frame 1, and the top of film roller mounting panel 12 is provided with film roller mounting groove, and film roller mounting panel 12 has two that just the interval set up side by side, and film roller 13 sets up between two film roller mounting panels 12, and rotatable the installing in film roller mounting groove respectively in the both ends of film roller 13 makes things convenient for the dismouting of film roller 13, and then makes things convenient for the change of film roller 13, and film roller 13 is on a parallel with guide roll 10 and sets up. The buffer roller 38 is arranged between the guide roller 10 and the film roller 13, the buffer roller 38 is arranged in parallel to the guide roller 10, the buffer roller mounting plates 11 are arranged at the top of the rack 1, the buffer roller mounting plates 11 are arranged side by side and at intervals, the buffer roller mounting grooves 1101 are arranged at the top of the buffer roller mounting plates 11, two ends of the buffer roller 38 are slidably mounted in the buffer roller mounting grooves 1101 respectively, and the buffer roller 38 and the buffer roller mounting grooves 1101 can be arranged in a relatively sliding mode. After the plastic film bypasses the lower side of the buffer roller 38 and the upper side of the guide roller 10, the plastic film enters the forming die 9 from the upper side of the forming die 9, the buffer roller 38 compresses the plastic film, and the buffer roller 38 can be lifted, so that the plastic film can be ensured to maintain a certain tension and play a role in compensation through the gravity of the buffer roller 38.
This automatic bag of tealeaves packaging all-in-one of making still includes power device, power device includes system bag motor 2, speed reducer 3 and system bag main shaft 4, and system bag main shaft 4 is rotatable installs in frame 1, and the vertical setting of system bag main shaft 4, and system bag motor 2 and speed reducer 3 are all installed in frame 1, and the output shaft of system bag motor 2 links to each other with the input shaft of speed reducer 3, and the output shaft of speed reducer 3 links to each other with system bag main shaft 4 to drive its rotation. The output shaft of the speed reducer 3 and the bag-making spindle 4 are driven by engaged bevel gears.
The conveying device includes a first conveying device 8 and a second conveying device, the first conveying device 8 is disposed between the forming die 9 and the longitudinal heat-seal device 7, and the second conveying device is disposed between the longitudinal heat-seal device 7 and the transverse heat-seal device 6.
The automatic tea bag making and packaging all-in-one machine further comprises a shaping frame 37, the upper portion of the shaping frame 37 is arranged between the first conveying device 8 and the longitudinal heat sealing device 7, the upper portion of the shaping frame 37 is a vertically arranged leading-in portion, the end portion of the leading-in portion is bent rightwards and is fixedly connected with the machine frame 1, the lower portion of the shaping frame 37 is a shaping portion, the width of the shaping portion is gradually widened from top to bottom, the plane where the shaping portion is located is perpendicular to the plane where the feed opening 901 is located, the packaging bag can be unfolded in the other direction, the longitudinal heat sealing device 7 is located in the middle of the packaging bag, and the longitudinal heat sealing device 7 is right opposite to the middle of the leading-in portion, so that the shaping frame 37 can stretch into the packaging bag before longitudinal heat sealing.
This automatic bag of tealeaves packaging all-in-one that makes bag still includes feed bin 14, carries auger 15 and conveying motor 16, and the installation of weighing device liftable is in frame 1, and weighing device is connected with the lift cylinder 32 that drives its lift, and lift cylinder 32 vertical mounting is in frame 1, and the piston rod of lift cylinder 32 links to each other with weighing device to drive its lift. The storage bin 14 is installed on the rack 1, the storage bin 14 is arranged on the upper side of the weighing device, the conveying auger 15 is horizontally arranged between the storage bin 14 and the weighing device, the conveying auger 15 is installed on the rack 1, an input port of the conveying auger 15 is communicated with the bottom of the storage bin 14, an output port of the conveying auger 15 is arranged right above the weighing device, the tea in the storage bin 14 is conveyed into the weighing device, and the conveying speed is constant. The conveying motor 16 is arranged on the frame 1, and an output shaft of the conveying motor 16 is connected with the conveying auger 15 and drives the conveying auger to rotate.
Prop a mouthful device setting at the downside of weighing device, the delivery outlet of wrapping bag guide way 18 is located the upside that props a mouthful device, props the downside of mouthful device and is provided with guide cylinder 19, and guide cylinder 19 just to setting up with propping a mouthful device, and guide cylinder 19's diameter from top to bottom reduces gradually to the wrapping bag that fills with tealeaves leads.
This automatic bag of tealeaves packaging all-in-one machine of making still is including deriving a section of thick bamboo 22 and supporting device, derives a section of thick bamboo 22 and supporting device and all installs in frame 1, derives a section of thick bamboo 22 interval setting under guide cylinder 19, and sealing device sets up and derives between a section of thick bamboo 22 and guide cylinder 19, and supporting device sets up the downside at a section of thick bamboo 22 of deriving to carry out the bearing to the wrapping bag, in order to make things convenient for the sealing of sealing device to the wrapping bag suitable for reading.
This automatic bag of tealeaves all-in-one of making bag and packaging still includes a transport cylinder 23, and transport cylinder 23 installs in frame 1, and the upper end setting of transport cylinder 23 is deriving a section of thick bamboo 22 under, and transport cylinder 23 sets up the downside at bearing device, and the lower part of transport cylinder 23 is the arc to one side bending, and the wrapping bag after the convenience will be sealed is derived.
The weighing device comprises a weighing hopper 17, a blocking plate 27, a weighing plate 34, a lifting plate 33, a guide cylinder 36 and a weighing sensor 35, wherein the lifting plate 33 can be arranged on the rack 1 in a lifting way, the lifting plate 33 is horizontally arranged, and a piston rod of a lifting cylinder 32 is connected with the lifting plate 33 and drives the lifting plate to lift. The weighing plates 34 are arranged on the upper side of the lifting plate 33 at intervals, the weighing sensors 35 are arranged between the lifting plate 33 and the weighing plates 34, the weighing sensors 35 are arranged on the lifting plate 33, and the weighing sensors 35 are connected with the weighing plates 34. The weighing hopper 17 is arranged on the weighing plate 34, and the weighing hopper 17 is positioned right below the output port of the conveying auger 15. The blocking plate 27 is slidably mounted on the weighing plate 34, the blocking plate 27 is connected with the blocking cylinder 26, the blocking cylinder 26 is mounted on the weighing plate 34, a piston rod of the blocking cylinder 26 is connected with the blocking plate 27 and pushes the blocking plate to extend to the lower side of the weighing hopper 17 or be sent out from the lower side of the weighing hopper 17 so as to block and release the falling of tea leaves. The guide-in barrel 36 is vertically arranged, the upper end of the guide-in barrel 36 sequentially penetrates through the lifting plate 33 and the weighing plate 34 and then is arranged under a discharge port in the bottom of the weighing hopper 17 and receives tea leaves sent out by the weighing hopper 17, the guide-in barrel 36 is fixedly connected with the lifting plate 33 and synchronously ascends and descends along with the lifting plate, the guide-in barrel 36 is connected with the weighing plate 34 in a sliding mode, and the weighing of the weighing plate 34 is prevented from being influenced.
The opening expanding device comprises a fixed sucker 28, a movable sucker 29, a telescopic cylinder 30 and a swing cylinder 31, wherein the fixed sucker 28 is installed on the rack 1, the swing cylinder 31 is installed on the rack 1, the telescopic cylinder 30 is installed on a piston rod of the swing cylinder 31 and swings in a vertical plane along with the piston rod, and the movable sucker 29 is installed on a piston rod of the telescopic cylinder 30. Swing cylinder 31 drives telescopic cylinder 30 and swings to vertical position, telescopic cylinder 30 stretches out this moment, make movable sucking disc 29 absorb one side of the wrapping bag in the wrapping bag guide way 18, then telescopic cylinder 30 resets, swing cylinder 31 drives telescopic cylinder 30 and swings to the level, fixed suction cup 28 is just to setting up with movable sucking disc 29 this moment, telescopic cylinder 30 stretches out, and make fixed suction cup 28 absorb the opposite side of wrapping bag, then telescopic cylinder 30 resets, make fixed suction cup 28 and movable sucking disc 29 cooperate, the mouth that props of wrapping bag has been realized.
The sealing device comprises a heat sealing block 21 and a sealing cylinder 20, the heat sealing block 21 is symmetrically arranged on two sides of the guide cylinder 19, each heat sealing block 21 is connected with the sealing cylinder 20, the sealing cylinder 20 is installed on the frame 1, the two sealing cylinders 20 drive the two heat sealing blocks 21 to synchronously move in opposite directions, and heating wires are arranged in the heat sealing blocks 21.
The supporting device comprises a supporting cylinder 24 and a supporting plate 25, the supporting plate 25 is slidably mounted on the rack 1, the supporting cylinder 24 is mounted on the rack 1, and a piston rod of the supporting cylinder 24 is connected with the supporting plate 25 and pushes the supporting plate to move horizontally. When bearing board 25 extends to and derives under section of thick bamboo 22, can carry out the bearing to the wrapping bag to make things convenient for the sealing of wrapping bag, when bearing board 25 shifts out by deriving a section of thick bamboo 22 downside, can make the wrapping bag after sealing enter into transport cylinder 23 in, and derive through transport cylinder 23.
As shown in fig. 4: the first conveying device 8 comprises two first conveying rollers 39, the two first conveying rollers 39 are arranged side by side, the two first conveying rollers 39 are mutually pressed, and the plastic film passes through the two first conveying rollers 39. The end of each first conveying roller 39 is coaxially provided with a first synchronous gear 42, and the two first synchronous gears 42 are meshed with each other, so that the two first conveying rollers 39 synchronously rotate in opposite directions to convey the plastic film. The end of any one of the first conveying rollers 39 is coaxially connected with a first driven bevel gear 40, a first driving bevel gear 41 is coaxially installed on the bag making spindle 4, and the first driving bevel gear 41 is meshed with the first driven bevel gear 40, so that the bag making spindle 4 drives the two first conveying rollers 39 to synchronously rotate. The first conveyor roller 39 is rotatably mounted on the frame 1 by a bearing block, and the axis of the first conveyor roller 39 is arranged parallel to the feed opening 901.
As shown in fig. 5: the longitudinal heat sealing device 7 includes two heat sealing plate mounting shafts 43 and two heat sealing plates 44, the two heat sealing plate mounting shafts 43 are arranged side by side, the heat sealing plate mounting shafts 43 are rotatably mounted on the frame 1 through bearing seats, and the heat sealing plate mounting shafts 43 are arranged in parallel to the first conveying rollers 39. All coaxial arrangement has heat-seal dish 44 on each heat-seal dish installation axle 43, and two heat-seal dishes 44 compress tightly each other, and plastic film passes through between two heat-seal dishes 44, carries out the heat-seal to plastic film through two heat-seal dishes 44, all is provided with the heating wire on each heat-seal dish 44, and the wire on the heating wire passes through the sliding ring connection frame 1.
Each heat-seal disk mounting shaft 43 is coaxially provided with a heat-seal disk synchronizing gear 46, and the two heat-seal disk synchronizing gears 46 are meshed with each other to synchronously rotate the two heat-seal disks 44 in opposite directions. A heat-sealing driven bevel gear 47 is coaxially installed on any one heat-sealing disc installation shaft 43, a heat-sealing driving bevel gear is coaxially installed on the bag making spindle 4, and the heat-sealing driving bevel gear is meshed with the heat-sealing driven bevel gear 47 to further drive the two heat-sealing disc installation shafts 43 to rotate.
As shown in fig. 6: the second conveying device comprises a second conveying roller 49, the second conveying roller 49 is rotatably arranged on the frame 1, the second conveying roller 49 is perpendicular to the first conveying roller 39, a second synchronizing gear is coaxially arranged on each second conveying roller 49, and the two second synchronizing gears are meshed to enable the two second conveying rollers 49 to synchronously rotate in opposite directions. Any one second conveying roller 49 is provided with a driven sprocket 50, the rack 1 is rotatably provided with a middle shaft, the middle shaft is provided with a driving sprocket, the driving sprocket is connected with the driven sprocket 50 through a chain, the middle shaft is coaxially provided with a second driven bevel gear, the bag making main shaft 4 is coaxially provided with a second driving bevel gear, and the second driving bevel gear is meshed with the second driven bevel gear so as to drive the second conveying roller 49 to rotate.
As shown in fig. 7~8: the transverse heat sealing device 6 comprises a fixed heat sealing plate 51, a movable heat sealing plate 52, a cam 5, a push rod 54 and a return spring 48, wherein the fixed heat sealing plate 51 and the movable heat sealing plate 52 are arranged in parallel to a second conveying roller 49, the fixed heat sealing plate 51 is arranged on the rack 1, the movable heat sealing plate 52 is arranged opposite to the fixed heat sealing plate 51, the push rod 54 is slidably arranged on the rack 1, the push rod 54 is connected with the movable heat sealing plate 52 and pushes the movable heat sealing plate to move along the direction close to or far away from the fixed heat sealing plate 51, electric heating wires are arranged on the fixed heat sealing plate 51 and the movable heat sealing plate 52, a cutting knife 53 is further arranged on the upper side of the movable heat sealing plate 52, and a supporting part opposite to the cutting knife 53 is arranged on the upper side of the fixed heat sealing plate 51. The cam 5 is arranged on the bag making main shaft 4, one end of the pushing rod 54 close to the cam 5 is rotatably provided with a roller, and the return spring 48 is connected with the pushing rod 54 and pushes the pushing rod 54 to move towards the direction close to the cam 5, so that the roller presses the cam 5.
The push rod 54 is sleeved with a support sleeve 45, one end of the support sleeve 45 is provided with an inward flange, the inward flange is fixedly connected with the push rod 54, the support sleeve 45 and the push rod 54 move synchronously, the reset spring 48 is sleeved outside the push rod 54, one end of the reset spring 48 is supported on the rack 1, the other end of the reset spring 48 extends into the support sleeve 45 and is supported on the inward flange of the support sleeve 45, the reset spring 48 is in a compression state, and the push rod 54 is pushed by the support sleeve 45 to move towards the direction close to the cam 5.
The frame 1 is provided with a protective sleeve 55, the protective sleeve 55 is mounted on the frame 1, and the open end of the support sleeve 45 slidably extends into the protective sleeve 55, so that the return spring 48 is integrally positioned between the protective sleeve 55 and the support sleeve 45, thereby preventing the work of the return spring 48 from being hindered.
As shown in fig. 9: in this embodiment, weigh hopper 17 and be located one side of feed bin 14, carry the tealeaves in feed bin 14 to weigh hopper 17 in through carrying auger 15, can guarantee that the speed that tealeaves carried is invariable, and then can accurate control weigh the tealeaves in the hopper 17, eliminate weighing error.
The working process of the automatic tea bag making and packaging integrated machine is as follows: the plastic film on the film roller 13 passes by the lower side of the buffer roller 38 and the upper side of the guide roller 10, enters the forming die 9, passes through the forming die 9, is folded in half and enters between the two first conveying rollers 39, the two first conveying rollers 39 are matched with each other to convey the folded plastic film, the plastic film enters between the two heat sealing discs 44 for longitudinal heat sealing to form a plastic cylinder, and the shaping frame 37 enters between the two folded plastic films before entering between the two heat sealing discs 44.
After the plastic cylinder after heat sealing is shaped by the shaping frame 37, the plastic cylinder is spread in the other direction, at the moment, the plastic cylinder enters between the two second conveying rollers 49, and the two second conveying rollers 49 are matched to convey the plastic cylinder. The plastic tube passes between the fixed heat-sealing plate 51 and the movable heat-sealing plate 52, and after the passing length reaches a specified length, the cam 5 pushes the movable heat-sealing plate 52 to move towards the direction close to the fixed heat-sealing plate 51, so that the plastic tube is heat-sealed and cut off to form a packaging bag. The formed packaging bag falls into the packaging bag guide groove 18.
The swing cylinder 31 drives the telescopic cylinder 30 to swing to a vertical position, the telescopic cylinder 30 drives the movable sucker 29 to suck the packaging bag, and then the telescopic cylinder 30 swings to a horizontal position along with the swing cylinder 31 and is matched with the fixed sucker 28 to stretch the opening of the packaging bag.
The lifting cylinder 32 drives the lifting plate 33 to descend, so that the guide cylinder 36 extends into the packaging bag, and the opening of the packaging bag faces upwards. The blocking cylinder 26 drives the blocking plate 27 to open the weighing hopper 17, and the weighed tea leaves in the weighing hopper 17 enter the packaging bag.
The fixed sucker 28 and the movable sucker 29 loosen the packaging bag, the packaging bag falls into the guide cylinder 22 through the guide cylinder 19 and is supported on the bearing plate 25, the opening of the packaging bag is just positioned between the two heat sealing blocks 21, the two sealing cylinders 20 drive the heat sealing blocks 21 to synchronously move inwards and seal the packaging bag, and the sealing cylinders 20 reset after sealing.
The bearing air cylinder 24 drives the bearing plate 25 to move out from between the guide-out cylinder 22 and the conveying cylinder 23, and the packaged tea leaves are sent out.
The foregoing is directed to preferred embodiments of the present invention, other and further embodiments of the invention may be devised without departing from the basic scope thereof, and the scope thereof is determined by the claims that follow. However, any simple modification, equivalent change and modification of the above embodiments according to the technical essence of the present invention are within the protection scope of the technical solution of the present invention.
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1. The utility model provides an automatic system bag packaging all-in-one of tealeaves which characterized in that: comprises a bag making device and a bag filling device, wherein the bag filling device is arranged on one output side of a packaging bag of the bag making device;
the bag making device comprises a conveying device, and a folding device, a longitudinal heat sealing device (7) and a transverse heat sealing device (6) which are sequentially arranged from top to bottom, wherein the conveying device is arranged at the lower side of the folding device;
the bagging device comprises a weighing device, a mouth opening device and a sealing device which are arranged from top to bottom in sequence, wherein the mouth opening device is arranged on the output side of the packaging bag of the transverse heat sealing device (6);
the mouth opening device comprises a fixed sucker (28), a movable sucker (29) and a telescopic cylinder (30), wherein the fixed sucker (28) and the movable sucker (29) are arranged oppositely, and a piston rod of the telescopic cylinder (30) is connected with the movable sucker (29) and drives the movable sucker to be close to or far away from the fixed sucker (28); the opening expanding device also comprises a swing cylinder (31), wherein the swing cylinder (31) is connected with the telescopic cylinder (30) and drives the telescopic cylinder to swing back and forth between the fixed sucker (28) and the transverse heat sealing device (6);
the folding device comprises a forming die (9), a forming cavity is arranged in the forming die (9), the two sides of the forming cavity are both arc-shaped or inclined shapes gradually inwards along the conveying direction of the conveying device, a feed opening (901) communicated with the forming cavity is formed in the bottom of the forming die (9), and the feed opening (901) is flat.
2. The integrated machine for automatically making and packaging tea leaves as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the conveying device comprises a first conveying device (8) and a second conveying device, wherein the first conveying device (8) is arranged between the folding device and the longitudinal heat sealing device (7), and the second conveying device is arranged between the longitudinal heat sealing device (7) and the transverse heat sealing device (6).
3. The integrated machine for automatically making and packaging tea leaves as claimed in claim 2, wherein: the horizontal heat sealing device is characterized by further comprising a shaping frame (37), wherein the shaping frame (37) is arranged between the second conveying device and the horizontal heat sealing device (6), the upper portion of the shaping frame (37) is a vertically arranged guiding-in portion, and the lower portion of the shaping frame is a shaping portion gradually widened from top to bottom.
4. The integrated machine for automatically making and packaging tea leaves as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the longitudinal heat sealing device (7) comprises two heat sealing discs (44) and a power device, wherein the two heat sealing discs (44) are arranged side by side, a longitudinal heat sealing part is formed between the two heat sealing discs (44), and the power device is simultaneously connected with the two heat sealing discs (44) and drives the two heat sealing discs (44) to synchronously rotate in opposite directions.
5. The integrated machine for automatically making and packaging tea leaves as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the transverse heat sealing device (6) comprises a fixed heat sealing plate (51), a movable heat sealing plate (52) and a power device, wherein the movable heat sealing plate (52) is arranged opposite to the fixed heat sealing plate (51), the power device is connected with the movable heat sealing plate (52) and pushes the movable heat sealing plate to move towards the direction close to or far away from the fixed heat sealing plate (51), and a cutting knife (53) is arranged on the upper side of the movable heat sealing plate (52).
6. The integrated machine for automatically making and packaging tea leaves as claimed in claim 1, wherein: weighing device include feed bin (14), carry auger (15) and weigh hopper (17), weigh hopper (17) and set up in bottom one side of feed bin (14), carry the input port of auger (15) and the bottom intercommunication of feed bin (14), carry the delivery outlet setting of auger (15) at the upside of weighing hopper (17), the bottom of weighing hopper (17) is provided with weighing sensor (35).
7. The integrated machine for automatically making and packaging tea leaves as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the packaging bag heat-sealing device is characterized by further comprising a packaging bag guide groove (18), wherein the packaging bag guide groove (18) is arranged under the transverse heat-sealing device (6), the bottom of the packaging bag guide groove (18) is gradually inclined downwards along the direction far away from the transverse heat-sealing device (6), and an output port of the packaging bag guide groove (18) is arranged on the upper side of the opening expanding device.
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