CN207141519U - The preliminary collator of sausage - Google Patents
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It the utility model is related to a kind of preliminary collator of sausage, including sausage elevator and pipeline, pipeline includes lateral transfer line and longitudinally fed line, sausage is delivered on the head end of lateral transfer line by elevator, the sausage of lateral transfer line end is entered on longitudinally fed line, lateral transfer line includes transverse onveyer and the marker board above transverse onveyer, and for laterally arranging and being spaced apart sausage, marker board is "eight" shape or V-arrangement.The preliminary collator of sausage can realize the transformation to neat rows of sausage by sausage in heaps, be ready for subsequent packages, during the sequence, it is not necessary to which worker participates in, and after being applied on packing machine, can significantly improve the automaticity of packing machine.
Description
Technical field
It the utility model is related to sausage packaging facilities field, and in particular to a kind of preliminary collator of sausage.
Background technology
Sausage is one of food that people commonly use, and has single dress, also there is multiple dresses.Existing sausage packaging facilities is certainly
Dynamicization degree is relatively low, when particularly packing double double-deck a fairly large number of sausage, is less applicable, it is also necessary to more
It is artificial to participate in, cause conveying, packaging efficiency low.
Utility model content
The purpose of this utility model is to provide a kind of preliminary collator of sausage, to improve the automation of sausage packaging facilities
It is horizontal.
To achieve the above object, the preliminary collator of the utility model sausage adopts the following technical scheme that:Sausage is tentatively arranged
Sequence device, including sausage elevator and pipeline, pipeline includes lateral transfer line and longitudinally fed line, elevator are defeated by sausage
Deliver on the head end of lateral transfer line, the sausage of lateral transfer line end is entered on longitudinally fed line, and lateral transfer line includes
Transverse onveyer and the marker board above transverse onveyer, for laterally arranging and being spaced apart sausage, marker board is
"eight" shape or V-arrangement, or marker board have two kinds of "eight" shape or V-arrangement.
Further, lateral transfer line includes the first lateral transfer line, the second lateral transfer line, and the second lateral transfer line is high
Degree is less than the first lateral transfer line, and the second lateral transfer line includes two parallel sub- conveyer belts, to realize the shunting of sausage.
Further, dividing plate is provided between two sub- conveyer belts, dividing plate is provided with some to inclined catch, paired catch
Surround V-arrangement marker board.
Further, the first lateral transfer line is provided with "eight" shape and V-arrangement marker board, "eight" shape marker board and V-arrangement
Marker board interlaced arrangement on the conveying direction of the first lateral transfer line.
Further, the conveying frame of the second lateral transfer line is provided with coaming plate, and coaming plate surrounds sub- conveying band logical with dividing plate
The passage crossed.
Further, two sub- conveyer belts are respectively the first sub- conveyer belt, the second sub- conveyer belt, the length of the first sub- conveyer belt
More than the length of the second sub- conveyer belt, the first sub- conveyer belt, the end of the second sub- conveyer belt are respectively positioned on above traveling bed, with
So that sausage to form two rows in longitudinally fed take.
Further, the conveying frame of the first lateral transfer line is provided with some struts, the bearing of trend of strut and first
The conveying direction of lateral transfer line is vertical, and marker board is fixed in the middle part of corresponding strut.
The beneficial effects of the utility model:The preliminary collator of this novel sausage is raw when being applied on sausage packing machine
Produce in packaging process, the sausage in feed bin is promoted to the head end of lateral transfer line by elevator, and lateral transfer line line is provided with discharge
Plate, when sausage is conveyed on the conveyor belt, marker board can be guided the flow direction of sausage because of its specific shape so that sausage is horizontal
To arrangement, the sausage after transverse direction is transported on longitudinally fed line again, and the sausage after transverse direction will be fitly in longitudinally fed line
It is arranged in rows, is ready for the counting of subsequent processing, packaging etc..During the sequence, it is not necessary to which worker participates in, application
After on to packing machine, the automaticity of packing machine can be significantly improved.
Brief description of the drawings
Fig. 1 is the structural representation of sausage automatic packaging machine, at the same for the preliminary collator of this novel sausage in packing machine
The schematic diagram of upper application;
Fig. 2 is the principle schematic of the preliminary collator of the utility model sausage;
Fig. 3 is the structural representation of sequence counting device in Fig. 1;
Fig. 4 is the structural representation of sack-filling device in Fig. 1;
Fig. 5 is the structural representation (plate insert state) of sausage sack-filling device;
Fig. 6 is the structural representation of scraping wings in Fig. 4;
Fig. 7 is the structural representation of vacuum packing device in Fig. 1;
Fig. 8 is the structural representation of bag opening mechanism in Fig. 7;
Fig. 9 is the view of another angle of vacuum packing device in Fig. 1;
Figure 10 is the partial enlarged drawing in Fig. 9;
Figure 11 is the part-structure schematic diagram after sausage automatic packaging machine flips an angle on the basis of Fig. 1.
Corresponding title is marked in accompanying drawing:1st, feed bin, 2, elevator, 3, lateral transfer line, 4, longitudinally fed line, 5, sequence meter
Counting apparatus, 7, vacuum packing device, 8, sack-filling device, the 31, first lateral transfer line, 311, stull, 312, "eight" shape row
Flitch, 313, V-arrangement marker board, 314, main conveyor belt, the 32, second lateral transfer line, the 321, first sub- conveyer belt, the 322, second son
Conveyer belt, 323, catch, 50, sequence frame, 51, separate conveyer belt, 52, separator, 521, spaced apart teeth, 53, separation trough, 54,
Intermediate conveyor belt, 55, close-up conveyer belt, 56, pusher, 70, stand-up bag shelf, 71, bag taking mechanism, 711, vacuum cup, 712, take
Bag guide rail, 72, mainframe, 73, bag opening mechanism, 731, support bag crossbeam, 732, support bag cylinder, 733, cylinder connector, 734, first
Strut, the 735, second strut, 736, connecting rod, the 737, first fagging, the 738, second fagging, 74, vacuum-pumping heat sealing machine structure, 741, true
Sky cover, 742, tumble cylinder, 743, heat-sealing supporting plate, 744, control cylinder, 745, hinged block, 75, move bag mechanism, 751, push
Plate.
Embodiment
Below in conjunction with the accompanying drawing in the utility model embodiment, the technical scheme in the embodiment of the utility model is carried out
Clearly and completely describing, it is clear that described embodiment is only the utility model part of the embodiment, rather than whole
Embodiment.Based on the embodiment in the utility model, every other embodiment that those of ordinary skill in the art are obtained all belongs to
In the scope of the utility model protection.
Before the embodiment of the preliminary collator of the utility model sausage is introduced, first integrally it is situated between from sausage automatic packaging machine
Continue, in order to more fully understand the structure and principle of the preliminary collator of this novel sausage.
As shown in figure 1, sausage automatic packaging machine includes the preliminary collator of sausage elevator 2, sausage, the row set gradually
Sequence counting device 5, pusher, sack-filling device 8 and vacuum packing device 7, the preliminary collator of sausage include elevator 2,
Sausage a is delivered on lateral transfer line 3 by lateral transfer line 3 and longitudinally fed line 4, elevator 2, and lateral transfer line 3 is used for will
Sausage a is laterally arranged and is spaced apart, and the sausage of lateral transfer line end is entered on longitudinally fed line 4, longitudinally fed line 4 it is defeated
Transporting velocity of the speed less than lateral transfer line is sent so that the close arrangement in sausage longitudinal direction, sequence counting device include by each sausage according to
The secondary separator and sensor for countering separated so as to counting, pusher include the close-up conveying for making sausage closely arrange again
The sausage of setting quantity on close-up conveyer belt is pushed into sack-filling device 8 by band and pusher, pusher, and sack-filling device 8 will quota
Sausage be sent into vacuum packing device 7, vacuum packing device 7 is to the vacuum packaging of the sausage of the quota into bag.
Specifically, as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2, feed bin 1 is provided with the lower end of sausage elevator 2, elevator includes lifting conveyer belt,
Lifting conveying drives with motor, and lifting conveyer belt is provided with translot, so that sausage enters, and it is elevated.
The lateral transfer line 3 of the preliminary collator of the utility model sausage includes lateral transfer frame, lateral transfer frame
It is provided with transverse onveyer.Lateral transfer line includes the first lateral transfer line 31, the second lateral transfer line 32, the first lateral transfer
Line 31, the second lateral transfer line 32 join end to end, and the head end of the second lateral transfer line 32 is less than the end of the first lateral transfer line 31
End, the second lateral transfer line 32 is less than the first lateral transfer line 31, to cause sausage smoothly to be conveyed.First lateral transfer line 31
Inclined marker board is provided with, the marker board includes "eight" shape marker board 312 and V-arrangement marker board 313, "eight" shape marker board
With conveying direction of the V-arrangement marker board along the first lateral transfer line successively interlaced arrangement, with to the preliminary sequence of sausage.Marker board is fixed
The middle part of strut 311 on lateral transfer frame is arranged on, strut 311 have some and bearing of trend and the first lateral transfer line
Conveying direction is vertical.
Conveyer belt on first lateral transfer line 31 is main conveyor belt 314, and the second lateral transfer line 32 is parallel including two
Sub- conveyer belt, be designated as the first sub- conveyer belt 321, the second sub- conveyer belt 322 respectively, to realize the shunting of sausage, and to insult
Random sausage is horizontal.Frame is provided with the dividing plate for separating two sub- conveyer belts, and lateral transfer frame is provided with coaming plate, and dividing plate is with enclosing
Two transfer passages are formed between plate, are passed through for sub- conveyer belt.Marker board on second lateral transfer line corresponds to sub- conveyer belt, the
Marker board on two lateral transfer lines includes two catch 323 being arranged on dividing plate, and two catch 323 surround V-arrangement marker board.
Longitudinally fed line 4 includes longitudinally fed frame, and longitudinally fed frame is provided with two traveling beds arranged side by side, the
One sub- conveyer belt, the end of the second sub- conveyer belt are respectively positioned on above traveling bed, from the sausage to drop on sub- conveyer belt, are divided
Do not fall on it is longitudinally fed take, formed two rows.Two son conveying strip lengths of the second lateral transfer line differ, the first sub- conveyer belt
Length is more than the length of the second sub- conveyer belt, to be adapted to traveling bed, is connected.
As shown in figure 3, sequence counting device includes sequence frame 50, definition sequence frame 50 extends along the longitudinal direction.Point
It is arranged on every device 52 in sequence frame 50, separator 52 includes rotating disk, and spaced apart teeth 521 is evenly equipped with disk peripheral, two neighboring
The separation trough 53 of a receiving sausage is formed between spaced apart teeth 521.The counting device that sorts also includes separating conveyer belt 51, separates defeated
The transporting velocity V2 of band 51 is sent to be less than the transporting velocity V1 of longitudinally fed line (namely pipeline of upstream).The left and right of separator 52
Both sides are respectively equipped with a separation conveyer belt.Sequence counting device also includes intermediate conveyor belt 54, and intermediate conveyor belt 54, which is located at, to be divided
Between device 52 and close-up conveyer belt 55.The height on the top of separator 52 is to be higher than the conveyer belt of both sides, namely separator
Top separate conveyer belt, intermediate conveyor belt higher than both sides, meanwhile, the position of rotating disk, which is in, separates conveyer belt and centre is defeated
Send the region with docking.To realize sausage is transferred between adjacent two conveyer belt.The linear velocity V3=V2 of separator 52, it is middle defeated
Send band transporting velocity V4>V3.The transporting velocity V5 of close-up conveyer belt 55<V4, make the close-packed arrays again of the sausage after separating.Separator
52 have arranged side by side two groups, correspond to two groups of sausages on longitudinally fed line respectively.Sausage close-packed arrays on conveyer belt is separated, pass through
Separator disperses, and sausage is independent, enters intermediate conveyor belt 54, and light nearby is housed in intermediate conveyor belt in the frame that sorts
Electric transducer or capacitance type sensor count detection.Sausage is separated and come, and has gap between each sausage, can improve counting essence
Degree.Control the speed of each conveyer belt, 13, sausage on close-up conveyer belt is one group, there are arranged side by side two groups, totally 26, is pushed away
Dynamic device 56 is pushed into sack-filling device, 26 conducts, first group of sausage.Pusher includes push frame, and push frame is provided with scraper plate, in gas
Under the promotion of cylinder, it can move back and forth.
As Figure 4-Figure 6, sack-filling device includes pack frame 80, and pack frame 80 is provided with material-receiving device, material-receiving device
Including receiver 81, splicing seat 85, receiver 81 can be along pack frame transverse shifting.Receiver 81 has what is be horizontally arranged at interval
Two groups.Receiver 81 is assemblied on splicing seat 85, and splicing seat 85 is oriented in left-right direction to be assemblied in pack frame, packs frame
80 are provided with the horizontal guide rail 86 extended laterally.Riser guide is additionally provided with splicing seat 85, splicing seat is oriented to about 85 and is assemblied in
, can be with oscilaltion to drive the oscilaltion of receiver 81 on riser guide 87.Receiver has the splicing groove for holding sausage.Dress
Bagging apparatus also includes along receiver is longitudinally inserted into receiver being allowd to hold the plate 88 of second group of sausage, plate 88
It can move forward and backward.Pack frame is additionally provided with the scraping wings 82 moved with receiver, and scraping wings 82 is used to be placed on to connect
In one group of sausage push-in sausage packaging bag on charging tray 81.Scraping wings 82 includes scraping wings body 820, before scraping wings body 820
Lower vertical is provided with cutting plate 821.Cutting plate 821 is located at the bearing of trend one of the bearing of trend and receiver above receiver
Cause, cutting plate there are three and left and right is arranged at intervals so that splicing groove 811 of the receiver formed with corresponding two groups of sausages side by side,
Splicing groove is in drawer-type structure, and cutting plate 821 is provided with the slot 822 for supplying plate 88 to insert, and the front portion of plate 88, which is provided with to avoid, to be divided
The escape groove of flitch 821.After receiver 81 receives first group of 26 sausages, receiver declines, and plate 88 inserts, second group
26 sausages are placed on plate, and plate is retracted, and make that first group of sausage, second group of sausage are stacked on top of one another, and 52 sausages are formed finally
Packages groups to be packaged.First group of 26 sausages are include being respectively in two splicing grooves 13.Inserted in plate
Afterwards, it is also formed with two splicing grooves between plate and cutting plate.
The oscilaltion of receiver and the action of scraping wings are driven by corresponding cylinder, such as control scraping wings
Pusher cylinder 83.Receiving cylinder is provided with the lower section of receiver on splicing seat 85, receiving cylinder drives the lifting of receiver.Splicing
The transverse shifting on horizontal guide rail of disk splicing seat 85 relies on chain drive.
The both sides of pack frame are additionally provided with oil buffer 89, spacing simultaneously with the extreme position of the transverse shifting to receiver
Play a part of buffering.Oil buffer is also changed to other limiting buffer devices, such as gas spring, or polyesters is spacing
Cylinder.
As illustrated in figures 7-11, vacuum packing device 7 includes stand-up bag shelf 70, mainframe 72, and mainframe 72, which is provided with, moves bag
Mechanism 75, bag taking mechanism 71, bag opening mechanism 73, vacuum-pumping heat sealing machine structure 74.It is stacked with packing sausage in advance in stand-up bag shelf
Packaging bag b.Bag taking mechanism 71 includes vacuum cup 711, and vacuum cup 711 is oriented to by bag taking seat and is assemblied in bag taking guide rail 712
On, bag taking seat is driven by Rodless cylinder, and under Rodless cylinder driving, vacuum cup moves back and forth along bag taking guide rail, Ke Yi
Region switching between working position and stand-up bag shelf.Vacuum pan 711 is moved to above stand-up bag shelf, effect of the vacuum pan in lift cylinder
Under, decline, and packaging bag is picked up, it is subsequently moved at working position, now, bag opening mechanism 73 can act, and bag opening mechanism 73 will
Packaging bag is strutted, and 52 sausages that heap is folded are sent into packaging bag under the promotion of scraping wings.Vacuum packing device has left and right
Two groups, corresponding two groups of receivers, to improve packaging efficiency.
Bag opening mechanism 73 includes support bag crossbeam 731, and the both ends of support bag crossbeam 731 are by bearing rolling assembling in mainframe
On.Support bag crossbeam and be provided with elongated hole, air cylinder fixed plate 739, support bag cylinder 732 is rotatable to be fixed in air cylinder fixed plate 739.Support
The rotation of bag crossbeam 731 is driven by rotary cylinder 730.The end of support bag cylinder 732 is connected with cylinder connector 733, cylinder connector
Place is hinged with the first strut 734, and the first strut penetrates the elongated hole of support bag crossbeam and support bag crossbeam is hinged at cylinder connector
On, support and be also hinged with the second strut 735 on bag crossbeam, connected between the first strut 734, the second strut 735 by connecting rod 736,
One end of connecting rod is coaxially hinged at cylinder connector 33 with the first strut 734.First strut, the lower end of the second strut connect respectively
There are the first fagging 737, the second fagging 738.First fagging, the second fagging are L shaped plate.The lower end of first fagging, second fagging
Bending plate section is as support bag portion.
After 52 sausages are installed in packaging bag, packaging bag is sent at vacuum heat-seal mechanism in the presence of bag mechanism is moved.
Moving bag mechanism includes pushing plate 751 and drives the push cylinder of pushing plate, and push cylinder is using Rodless cylinder and is arranged on main frame
The downside of frame.Corresponding open slot is set on the support panel of mainframe, pushing plate is moved and stepped down.Vacuumize heat-sealing
Mechanism can be with oscilaltion to open or close, very including vacuum (-tight) housing 741, the vacuum (-tight) housing 741 being placed in heat-sealing supporting plate 743
The up and down motion of sky cover 741 is driven by control cylinder 744, and the principle vacuumize, sealed belongs to prior art, is no longer described in detail.Very
Sky cover rise after, packaging bag enter vacuumizes region, in place after, vacuum (-tight) housing decline, vacuumized, heat-seal process.Heat-sealing branch
Fagging 743 is provided with the heat-sealing groove at corresponding packaging bag enclosing.The side for sealing the bottom of supporting plate 743 is be hinged by hinged block 745
In the fixed seat 746 being arranged on mainframe, opposite side is provided with tumble cylinder 742, and tumble cylinder 742 can drive heat-sealing branch
Hinge axes inclination flip of the fagging at hinged block 745, tilted with to seal supporting plate 743, the packaging bag sealed can
To slide, into next process, it is transported away.Buffer 747 is additionally provided with mainframe, with to the heat-sealing branch in reseting procedure
Fagging buffers, and buffer 747 also uses oil buffer.
In other embodiments, the marker board on the first lateral transfer line also can be only with V shaped slab, or splayed plate.
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1. the preliminary collator of sausage, it is characterised in that:Including sausage elevator and pipeline, pipeline includes lateral transfer line
With longitudinally fed line, sausage is delivered on the head end of lateral transfer line by elevator, and the sausage of lateral transfer line end enters
On longitudinally fed line, lateral transfer line includes transverse onveyer and the marker board above transverse onveyer, for by sausage
Laterally arrange and be spaced apart, marker board is "eight" shape or V-arrangement, or marker board has two kinds of "eight" shape or V-arrangement.
2. the preliminary collator of sausage according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:It is laterally defeated that lateral transfer line includes first
Line sending, the second lateral transfer line, the second lateral transfer line are highly less than the first lateral transfer line, and the second lateral transfer line includes two
The parallel sub- conveyer belt of bar, to realize the shunting of sausage.
3. the preliminary collator of sausage according to claim 2, it is characterised in that:Dividing plate is provided between two sub- conveyer belts,
Dividing plate surrounds V-arrangement marker board provided with some to inclined catch, paired catch.
4. the preliminary collator of sausage according to claim 2, it is characterised in that:First lateral transfer line is provided with " eight "
Font and V-arrangement marker board, "eight" shape marker board and V-arrangement marker board on the conveying direction of the first lateral transfer line interlock cloth
Put.
5. the preliminary collator of sausage according to claim 3, it is characterised in that:The conveying frame of second lateral transfer line
Coaming plate is provided with, coaming plate surrounds the passage that sub- conveyer belt passes through with dividing plate.
6. the preliminary collator of sausage according to claim 2, it is characterised in that:Two sub- conveyer belts are respectively that the first son is defeated
Band, the second sub- conveyer belt are sent, the length of the first sub- conveyer belt is more than the length of the second sub- conveyer belt, the first sub- conveyer belt, second
The end of sub- conveyer belt is respectively positioned on above traveling bed, to cause sausage to form two rows in longitudinally fed take.
7. the preliminary collator of sausage according to claim 6, it is characterised in that:The conveying frame of first lateral transfer line
Some struts are provided with, the bearing of trend of strut is vertical with the conveying direction of the first lateral transfer line, and marker board is fixed on correspondingly
Strut in the middle part of.
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