CN116022564A - Destacking device - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses an unstacking device, which is used for sequentially taking out materials of a material stack from bottom to top and comprises the following steps: the clamping mechanisms are oppositely arranged at two sides of the material stack and move relatively to clamp or unclamp the material stack above at least one material; the lifting mechanism is further included to control lifting of the materials clamped by the clamping mechanism. The unstacking device provided by the invention consists of a left unstacking mechanism and a right unstacking mechanism, has the advantages of simple structure, low failure rate and small volume, does not need to be provided with a special site, and can be directly unstacked above a production line. The materials below are sequentially taken out from bottom to top, materials do not need to be taken from the upper part of the material stack like the conventional technology, workers do not need to climb higher heights, potential safety hazards are reduced, and material damage is avoided.

Description

Destacking device

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of workpiece conveying, in particular to an unstacking device.

Background

In order to ensure that the household appliances are not damaged in the transportation process, foam is generally adopted to wrap and cover the products, so that the purpose of shock absorption is achieved. In some large appliance production, the packaging foam is bulky and lightweight, and is typically stacked in multiple layers to reduce floor space. Because the stacking height is higher, the multilayer stacked packaging foam in the current production is manually unstacked by means of a tool, and then is placed on a production line, staff repeatedly acts for a long time, the labor intensity is high, and the manual unstacking is easy to damage the packaging foam due to different operation modes, so that the product quality is affected.

Therefore, a substitute for manual unstacking devices is a great need in the industry.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve the problem of the production disadvantage caused by manual unstacking, the invention provides a mechanized unstacking device which adopts a clamping mechanism to clamp a material stack and controls the material stack to lift, thereby facilitating the material to be taken out from the lower part of the material stack.

The technical scheme adopted by the invention is that an unstacking device is designed and used for sequentially taking out materials of a material stack from bottom to top, and the unstacking device comprises: the clamping mechanisms are oppositely arranged at two sides of the material stack and move relatively to clamp or unclamp the material stack above at least one material; the lifting mechanism comprises a lifting conveying belt arranged on the clamping mechanism, the conveying direction of the lifting conveying belt is arranged up and down, and the clamping mechanism clamps the material stack through the lifting conveying belt.

In certain embodiments, a conveyor is also included below the stack to remove material from below the stack.

In certain embodiments, the conveyor is a conveyor belt.

In some embodiments, the gripping mechanism includes a gripping plate facing the side of the stack, and the lifting conveyor is disposed on the gripping plate.

In some embodiments, the number of lifting conveyors on the gripping mechanism on each side of the stack is at least two arranged side by side.

In some embodiments, the pulleys of the parallel lifting conveyor belts are connected with the same rotating shaft, and the rotating shaft is driven to rotate by a motor arranged on the clamping plate.

In some embodiments, the length of the lifting conveyor is no less than the height at which two materials are stacked adjacent to each other.

In some embodiments, the clamping mechanism further comprises a support frame, a telescopic mechanism is arranged on the support frame, and the clamping plate is controlled by the telescopic mechanism to move relative to the material stack.

In some embodiments, the telescopic mechanism comprises a plurality of guide rods connected with the clamping plates, the support frame is provided with guide sleeves through which the guide rods slide, the support frame is fixedly provided with an air cylinder, and the clamping plates are controlled to move by the air cylinder.

In some embodiments, the guide rods are connected to the same connecting plate, and the piston of the cylinder is connected to the connecting plate to control the guide rods to move synchronously.

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

according to the invention, the manual work is replaced by the unstacking device, so that the automatic unstacking of the material stack is realized; adjusting and switching materials with different types and sizes through the stroke of the air cylinder; the air pressure is controlled to control the clamping force of the air cylinder, so that the shape of the material is ensured to be complete; the unstacking device uses a continuous unstacking mechanism, and after the stacked materials are lifted, the unstacking device continuously drops one by one, so that the unstacking efficiency is high; the unstacking device clamps the stacking foam by utilizing the thrust of the air cylinder, has strong compatibility and simple operation, and ensures that materials of different types can be used universally without switching programs; the unstacking device consists of a left unstacking mechanism and a right unstacking mechanism, has the advantages of simple structure, low failure rate and small volume, does not need to be provided with a special field, and can be directly unstacked above a production line. The materials below are sequentially taken out from bottom to top, materials do not need to be taken from the upper part of the material stack like the conventional technology, workers do not need to climb higher heights, potential safety hazards are reduced, and material damage is avoided.

Drawings

The present invention will now be described in detail with reference to specific embodiments and drawings, which are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead being placed upon illustrating the principles of the invention. The drawings illustrate generally, by way of example and not limitation, embodiments discussed herein. Wherein:

fig. 1 is a schematic view of an unstacking apparatus according to a first embodiment.

Fig. 2 is a schematic view of the unstacking device on one side of the stack.

Fig. 3 is a schematic view of the structure of the lifting conveyor belt on the clamping plate.

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the bottom material of the pile being conveyed by the conveyor belt.

In the figure, 1, materials; 2. lifting the conveyor belt; 3. a clamping plate; 4. a rotating shaft; 5. a driving wheel; 6. a transmission belt; 7. a support frame; 8. a guide rod; 9. a guide sleeve; 10. a connecting plate; 11. a cylinder; 12. a conveyor belt; 13. and a motor.

Detailed Description

The following are specific examples of the present invention and the technical solutions of the present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited to these examples, and the following embodiments do not limit the inventions according to the claims. Furthermore, all combinations of features described in the embodiments are not necessarily essential to the inventive solution.

The principles and structures of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the drawings and the examples.

Example 1

As shown in fig. 1, 2 and 3, an unstacking device is used for sequentially taking out materials 1 of a stack from bottom to top, the materials 1 of this embodiment are packages of home appliances, the packages are made of foam materials and are rectangular groove bodies, so that the volume is large, the mass is small, and stacking is tidy and stable.

The unstacking device comprises clamping mechanisms which are oppositely arranged at two sides of the material stack and used for clamping the material stack, and the clamping mechanisms move relatively so as to clamp or unclamp the material stack above at least one material 1; the lifting mechanism is further included to control lifting of the materials 1 clamped by the clamping mechanism, the material stack is lifted to enable the materials 1 below to be not overlapped by the materials 1 above, so that the materials 1 below can be conveniently taken away, materials do not need to be taken from the upper side of the material stack like a conventional technology, workers do not need to climb higher heights, and potential safety hazards are reduced. After the material 1 below is taken out, the lifting mechanism enables the material 1 clamped by the clamping mechanism to descend, so that the material stack is placed at the original position for supporting the material stack, and when the next material 1 needs to be taken out, the above actions can be repeated.

As shown in fig. 4, the lifting mechanism of this embodiment includes a lifting conveyor belt 2 disposed on the clamping mechanism, the conveying direction of the lifting conveyor belt 2 is set up and down, the clamping mechanism clamps the stack by the lifting conveyor belt 2, and the belt body surface of the conveyor belt faces the side of the stack, so that the stack is clamped between the lifting conveyor belts 2 on two sides, and the conveying in the up-down direction on the conveyor belt makes the stack move up and down. Further, the clamping mechanism of the embodiment comprises a clamping plate 3 facing the side surface of the material stack, and the lifting conveyor belt 2 is arranged on the clamping plate 3 so as to realize the installation and control of the lifting belt.

The number of the lifting conveyor belts 2 on the clamping plate 3 of the clamping mechanism on each side of the material stack is at least two, which are arranged in parallel, the number of the lifting conveyor belts is two in this embodiment, so that stable clamping of the material stack is realized, two pulleys of the lifting conveyor belts 2 are connected with the same rotating shaft 4, the rotating shaft 4 is driven to rotate by a motor 13 arranged on the clamping plate 3, a driving wheel 5 is arranged in the middle of the rotating shaft 4, and the motor 13 controls the driving wheel 5 to drive the rotating shaft 4 to rotate through a driving belt 6, so that the two lifting conveyor belts 2 are controlled to synchronously rotate.

The clamping mechanism further comprises a supporting frame 7 for supporting the clamping plate 3, and a telescopic mechanism for controlling the clamping plate 3 to horizontally move relative to the material stack is arranged on the supporting frame 7 so as to clamp or unclamp the material stack.

The telescopic machanism includes the several is connected guide bar 8 of grip block 3, be provided with the confession on the support frame 7 guide bar 8 slip pass's uide bushing 9, for the flexible guide effect that provides of guide bar 8, the quantity of guide bar 8 on the telescopic machanism of every side of this embodiment is four, guide bar 8 end connection is in on four directions of grip block 3 face, guide bar 8 middle part connection is on same connecting plate 10, be fixed with cylinder 11 on the support frame 7, the piston connection of cylinder 11 connecting plate 10 is in order to control guide bar 8 is flexible in step.

In order to facilitate removal of the underlying material 1, a conveyor is also included below the stack to remove the material 1 from below the stack. The conveying device in this embodiment is a conveying belt 12, that is, the conveying belt 12 is located below the stack, when the stack above the bottom material 1 is lifted, the conveying belt 12 rotates to convey the bottom material 1 to other places, for example, the conveying belt 12 may be abutted with a production line in a workshop to convey the materials 1 to a required station. When the material 1 at the bottom is taken away, the lifting conveyor belt 2 rotates to enable the clamped material stack to descend, so that the material 1 below falls onto the conveying conveyor belt 12 and is continuously conveyed away by the conveyor belt, and the material 1 is sequentially taken out from bottom to top.

Preferably, the length of the lifting conveyor belt 2 is not less than the height of two materials 1 stacked adjacently, so as to facilitate stable clamping of the stack and continuous lifting of the lifting conveyor belt 2 to the stack, and the lifting conveyor belt 2 in this embodiment is greater than the height of three materials 1 stacked.

The material stacks above one material 1 are clamped and then controlled to rise and fall once one material 1 needs to be taken out, the material stacks above two materials 1 are clamped and then controlled to fall and fall once two materials 1 need to be taken out, and the material stacks above several materials 1 need to be clamped and then controlled to fall and fall once several materials 1 need to be taken out.

Of course, the clamping plate 3 may be used to directly clamp the stack, and the lifting mechanism is used to control the lifting of the clamping plate 3, so that the material 1 can be sequentially taken out from bottom to top, and in this manner, only after the lower material 1 is taken out each time, the clamping plate needs to descend to place the stack on the conveying belt 12 and then the clamping plate 3 is loosened, and the lifting mechanism makes the clamping plate 3 move upwards, so that the clamping plate 3 clamps the upper material 1 again, so that the lower material 1 is transported away again.

Although some terms are used more herein, the possibility of using other terms is not excluded. These terms are used merely for convenience in describing and explaining the nature of the invention; they are to be interpreted as any additional limitation that is not inconsistent with the spirit of the present invention. The order of execution of the operations, steps, and the like in the apparatuses and methods shown in the specification and the drawings may be any order as long as the order is not particularly limited, and the output of the preceding process is not used in the following process. The use of similar ordinal terms (e.g., "first," "then," "second," "again," "then," etc.) for convenience of description does not necessarily imply that they are necessarily performed in such order.

It will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that all directional references (e.g., above, below, upward, downward, top, bottom, left, right, vertical, horizontal, etc.) are descriptive of the drawings to aid the reader in understanding, and do not denote (e.g., position, orientation, use, etc.) limitation of the scope of the invention defined by the appended claims, only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and unless otherwise indicated, these orientation terms do not indicate and imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation or be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, the orientation terms "inside, outside" referring to the inside and outside of the profile of the respective component itself.

Spatially relative terms, such as "above … …," "above … …," "upper surface at … …," "above," and the like, may be used herein for ease of description to describe one device or feature's spatial location relative to another device or feature as illustrated in the figures. It will be understood that the spatially relative terms are intended to encompass different orientations in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if the device in the figures is turned over, elements described as "above" or "over" other devices or structures would then be oriented "below" or "beneath" the other devices or structures. Thus, the exemplary term "above … …" may include both orientations of "above … …" and "below … …". The device may also be positioned in other different ways (rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.

Additionally, some ambiguous terms (e.g., substantially, certain, generally, etc.) may refer to slight imprecision or slight deviation of conditions, amounts, values, or dimensions, etc., some of which are within manufacturing tolerances or tolerances. It should be noted that, the terms "first," "second," and the like are used for defining the components, and are merely for convenience in distinguishing the corresponding components, and the terms have no special meaning unless otherwise stated, so they should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present application.

The specific embodiments described herein are offered by way of example only to illustrate the spirit of the invention. Those skilled in the art may make various modifications or additions to the described embodiments or substitutions thereof without departing from the spirit of the invention or exceeding the scope of the invention as defined in the accompanying claims.

Claims (10)

1. The unstacking device for take out the material of material buttress from bottom to top in proper order, its characterized in that includes: the clamping mechanisms are oppositely arranged at two sides of the material stack and move relatively to clamp or unclamp the material stack above at least one material; the lifting mechanism comprises a lifting conveying belt arranged on the clamping mechanism, the conveying direction of the lifting conveying belt is arranged up and down, and the clamping mechanism clamps the material stack through the lifting conveying belt.

2. The unstacking apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a conveyor positioned below said stack to remove material from below the stack.

3. The unstacking apparatus of claim 2 wherein said conveyor is a conveyor belt.

4. The unstacking apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said gripping means comprises a gripping plate facing a side of said stack, said lifting conveyor being disposed on said gripping plate.

5. The unstacking apparatus according to claim 4 wherein the number of said lifting conveyors on said gripping means on each side of said stack is at least two in parallel.

6. The unstacking apparatus according to claim 5 wherein pulleys of said elevating conveyor in parallel are connected to the same shaft, said shaft being driven in rotation by a motor provided on said holding plate.

7. The unstacking apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the length of said lifting conveyor is no less than the height of two adjacent stacks of material.

8. The unstacking apparatus according to claim 4 wherein said clamping mechanism further comprises a support frame having a telescoping mechanism disposed thereon, said clamping plate being controlled by said telescoping mechanism to move relative to said stack.

9. The unstacking device according to claim 8 wherein the telescopic mechanism comprises a plurality of guide rods connected with the clamping plates, guide sleeves through which the guide rods slide are arranged on the support frame, air cylinders are fixed on the support frame, and the clamping plates are controlled to move by the air cylinders.

10. An unstacking apparatus according to claim 9 wherein said guide bars are connected to the same connecting plate, and wherein the piston of said cylinder is connected to said connecting plate to control simultaneous extension movement of said guide bars.

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