CN211657929U

CN211657929U - Material storage device and feeding equipment

Info

Publication number: CN211657929U
Application number: CN202020169419.0U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杨星星; 叶海涛; 刘中杰
Original assignee: Guangdong Zhiyuan Robot Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Zhiyuan Robot Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-02-13
Filing date: 2020-02-13
Publication date: 2020-10-13
Anticipated expiration: 2030-02-13

Abstract

The utility model provides a material storage device and feeding equipment, wherein the material storage device comprises a storage rack, a feeding mechanism and a pushing assembly, and the storage rack comprises a support piece; the material supplementing mechanism comprises a tray, the tray is provided with a material box containing area for bearing the material box and a material box outlet communicated with the material box containing area, and the tray is detachably arranged on the support piece so that the tray can be pulled out of the support piece of the commodity shelf; when the tray is pulled away from the support of the shelf, the tray moves relative to the shelf, the pushing assembly is arranged on the shelf, so that the tray moves relative to the pushing assembly, the material box in the material box accommodating area is stopped by the pushing assembly, and the material box is transferred to the support through the material box outlet of the tray under the stopping action of the pushing assembly, thereby realizing automatic material supplement; therefore, compared with the existing manual material supplementing method, the material supplementing mode used by the material storage device is convenient, and the material supplementing efficiency is high.

Description

Material storage device and feeding equipment

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an automation equipment field particularly, relates to a material storage device and throw material equipment.

Background

In the material storage device of the existing automatic or semi-automatic cooker, the material boxes filled with food materials are required to be sequentially placed on the support member of the storage rack.

At present, the material placing box is mainly completed manually, and only one part of material can be supplemented at a time during manual material supplementing, so that the material supplementing process is slow, time and labor are wasted, and the efficiency is low.

In addition, in order to deposit more magazine, the supporter is all higher usually to the support piece of magazine is placed to the multilayer in the setting, and this just leads to the feed supplement work to have certain restriction to operator's height, when the operator need place the magazine on the support piece on upper strata, has the possibility that needs come the auxiliary operation with the help of the instrument of ascending a height, makes the work of feed supplement very inconvenient.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model discloses a main aim at provides a material storage device and throw material equipment to solve the lower problem of automatic material storage device's among the prior art feed supplement efficiency.

In order to achieve the above object, according to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a material storage device, including: the shelf comprises a support piece; the feeding mechanism comprises a tray, the tray comprises a material box accommodating area and a material box outlet communicated with the material box accommodating area, the material box accommodating area is used for bearing a material box, and the tray is detachably arranged on the support piece so that at least part of the feeding mechanism is positioned above the support piece; the pushing assembly is arranged on the shelf, so that when the tray is pulled away from the support piece, the material box positioned in the material box accommodating area is transferred through the material box outlet and limited on the support piece under the stopping effect of the pushing assembly.

Furthermore, the material box accommodating area is used for accommodating a plurality of material boxes and is a strip-shaped groove, so that the material boxes are sequentially placed in the strip-shaped groove along the extending direction of the strip-shaped groove; the outlet of the material box is a notch at one end of the strip-shaped groove; the end of the material box containing area far away from the material box outlet is provided with a baffle.

Furthermore, the supporter has the installation entry that is used for supplying the tray to pack into, and pushing assembly includes the catch bar, and the catch bar movably sets up in the installation entry of supporter to make the catch bar have the backstop position that is used for backstop magazine and be used for dodging the installation entry and for the dodging position that the tray was packed into.

Furthermore, the pushing assembly also comprises two connecting rods, the two connecting rods are respectively connected with two ends of the pushing rod, and the two connecting rods are hinged with the storage rack so that the pushing rod can be rotatably arranged between the stopping position and the avoiding position; when the push rod is located at the stopping position, the push rod is located on one side of the material box to stop the material box.

Furthermore, the supporting parts are multiple, the pushing assemblies are multiple, the supporting parts and the pushing assemblies are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence mode, so that when the tray on each supporting part is pulled out, the corresponding pushing assemblies stop the material boxes in the tray on the supporting part; wherein, the push rods of the plurality of push components are connected in a transmission way so as to ensure that all the push rods move synchronously.

Further, the supporting parts are multiple, and the multiple supporting parts are arranged at intervals along the height direction of the supporting parts; the support piece is frame construction, and frame construction includes a plurality of bracing pieces, and the parallel interval of a plurality of bracing pieces sets up, and the extending direction of each bracing piece all is perpendicular to support piece's direction of height.

Further, the feed supplement mechanism further comprises a limiting component, the limiting component is arranged on the tray and protrudes out of the outer surface of the tray, so that the tray is mounted to the supporting piece in the process, and the limiting stop is limited by the limiting component and the storage rack so as to limit the tray.

Further, the tray detachably inserts and establishes on the supporter in order to move to support piece's top, and spacing part includes the gag lever post, and the extending direction of gag lever post is perpendicular with inserting of tray and establishes the direction, and the gag lever post setting is all provided with the gag lever post in the one end of keeping away from the magazine export of tray, the relative both sides of tray.

Furthermore, the tray is of a strip structure, the outlet of the material box is located at one end of the tray, and the other end of the tray is provided with a handle so that the tray can slide out of the support piece by pulling the handle when the tray is detached from the support piece.

Further, the tray includes: a base plate; the two first side plates are oppositely arranged and are arranged on the bottom plate; the second side plate is arranged on the bottom plate and is connected with both the two first side plates; the bottom plate, the two first side plates and the second side plate jointly enclose a material box containing area, and one ends, far away from the second side plates, of the two first side plates form a material box outlet.

According to the utility model discloses an on the other hand provides a throw material equipment, should throw material equipment and include foretell material storage device and throw material mechanism, throw material mechanism and set up on material storage device's supporter, throw at least part of material mechanism and movably set up to snatch the magazine that is located support piece.

By applying the technical scheme of the utility model, in the material storage device of the utility model, the material storage device comprises a storage rack, a material supplementing mechanism and a pushing assembly, wherein the storage rack comprises a support piece; the material supplementing mechanism comprises a tray, the tray is provided with a material box containing area for bearing the material box and a material box outlet communicated with the material box containing area, and the tray is detachably arranged on the support piece, so that at least part of the material supplementing mechanism is positioned above the support piece, and the tray can be detached from the support piece of the commodity shelf; when the tray is detached from the support of the shelf, the tray moves relative to the shelf, the pushing assembly is arranged on the shelf, so that the tray moves relative to the pushing assembly, the material box in the material box accommodating area is stopped by the pushing assembly, and the material box is transferred to the support through the material box outlet of the tray under the stopping action of the pushing assembly, thereby realizing automatic material supplement; obviously, compared with the existing manual material supplementing method, the material supplementing method used by the material storage device is convenient, the material supplementing efficiency is high, and the labor can be saved, so that the problem of low material supplementing efficiency of the automatic material storage device in the prior art is solved.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which form a part of the present application, are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention and not to limit the invention. In the drawings:

fig. 1 shows a schematic structural view of an alternative charging device according to the invention;

fig. 2 shows an enlarged schematic view at a of the material storage means of the dosing apparatus of fig. 1;

FIG. 3 shows a schematic view of the structure of a magazine-carrying tray of the material storage means of the dosing device of FIG. 1;

fig. 4 shows a schematic structural view of a pushing assembly of the material storage device of the dosing apparatus of fig. 1.

Wherein the figures include the following reference numerals:

100. feeding equipment;

10. a rack; 12. a support member; 121. a support bar;

20. a magazine;

30. a material supplementing mechanism; 31. a tray; 311. a first side plate; 312. a second side plate; 32. a limiting component; 321. a limiting rod; 34. a handle;

40. a pushing assembly; 41. a push rod; 42. a connecting rod;

60. a feeding mechanism.

Detailed Description

It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict. The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with embodiments.

The utility model provides a material storage device, please refer to fig. 1 to 4, which comprises a shelf 10, a feeding mechanism 30 and a pushing component 40, wherein the shelf 10 comprises a support member 12; the feeding mechanism 30 comprises a tray 31, the tray 31 comprises a cartridge accommodating area and a cartridge outlet communicated with the cartridge accommodating area, the cartridge accommodating area is used for bearing the cartridge 20, and the tray 31 is detachably arranged on the support 12, so that at least part of the feeding mechanism 30 is positioned above the support 12; the pushing assembly 40 is disposed on the rack 10, so that when the tray 31 is pulled away from the support 12, the magazine 20 located in the magazine accommodating area is transferred through the magazine outlet and is limited on the support 12 under the stopping action of the pushing assembly 40.

In the material storage device of the present invention, a material supplementing mechanism 30 and a pushing assembly 40 are provided, wherein the material supplementing mechanism 30 comprises a tray 31, the tray 31 has a material box accommodating area for bearing the material box 20 and a material box outlet communicated with the material box accommodating area, the tray 31 is detachably mounted on the support member 12 of the material storage rack 10, so that at least part of the material supplementing mechanism 30 is located above the support member 12, and the tray 31 can be pulled away from the support member 12 of the material storage rack 10; when the tray 31 is pulled away from the support 12 of the shelf 10, the tray 31 moves relative to the shelf 10, and the pushing assembly 40 is disposed on the shelf 10, so that the tray 31 moves relative to the pushing assembly 40, and the magazine 20 located in the magazine accommodating area is stopped by the pushing assembly 40, and under the stopping action of the pushing assembly 40, the magazine 20 is transferred to the support 12 through the magazine outlet of the tray 31, thereby realizing automatic material supplement; obviously, compared with the existing manual material supplementing method, the material supplementing method used by the material storage device is convenient, the material supplementing efficiency is high, and the labor can be saved, so that the problem of low material supplementing efficiency of the automatic material storage device in the prior art is solved.

Specifically, the magazine accommodating area is used for accommodating a plurality of magazines 20, and in order to realize automatic feeding of the plurality of magazines 20, the magazine accommodating area is arranged to be a strip-shaped groove, so that the plurality of magazines 20 are sequentially placed in the strip-shaped groove along the extending direction of the strip-shaped groove; the outlet of the material box is a notch at one end of the strip-shaped groove; a baffle is arranged at one end of the material box accommodating area far away from the material box outlet; thus, when the tray 31 is pulled away from the support 12 of the shelf 10, the plurality of magazines 20 in the magazine accommodating area can be sequentially transferred to the support 12 through the magazine outlet under the stopping action of the pushing assembly 40; and a plurality of magazines 20 are still arranged in sequence on the support 12.

In this embodiment, the rack 10 has a mounting entrance for loading the tray 31, the pushing assembly 40 includes a pushing rod 41, the pushing rod 41 is movably disposed at the mounting entrance of the rack 10, so that the pushing rod 41 has a stopping position for stopping the magazine 20 and an avoiding position for avoiding the mounting entrance for loading the tray 31; namely, when the tray 31 needs to be loaded on the support member 12 of the shelf 10, the pushing rod 41 is in the avoiding position to give way to the tray 31; when the tray 31 needs to be pulled out from the support 12, that is, feeding is performed, the pushing rod 41 is in the stopping position, so that the pushing rod 41 can stop the magazine 20 in the magazine accommodating area, as shown in fig. 2, which shows a state diagram of the discharging stage of the feeding mechanism 30 in the feeding process, at this time, the pushing rod 41 is in the stopping position, and the magazine 20 in the tray 31 is transferred and stays on the support 12 when the tray 31 is pulled out from the support 12 under the stopping action of the pushing rod 41.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 4, the pushing rod 41 further includes two connecting rods 42, the two connecting rods 42 are respectively connected to two ends of the pushing rod 41, and the two connecting rods 42 are hinged to the article shelf 10, so that the pushing rod 41 can be rotatably disposed between the stopping position and the avoiding position; namely, when the tray 31 needs to be loaded on the supporting member 12, the two connecting rods 42 are rotated to make the two connecting rods 42 drive the pushing rod 41 to rotate, and the pushing rod 41 is rotated to the avoiding position to avoid the tray 31; when it is desired to extract tray 31 from support 12, push rod 41 is rotated to its stop position, and when push rod 41 is in the stop position, push rod 41 is located to one side of magazine 20 to stop magazine 20.

In the present embodiment, the supporting member 12 is plural, and the plural supporting members 12 are arranged at intervals in the height direction of the supporting member 12; accordingly, the shelf 10 has a plurality of installation entrances, which are disposed in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of supporting members 12; the pushing assembly 40 is provided in plurality, and the plurality of pushing assemblies 40 are arranged at the plurality of installation inlets in a one-to-one correspondence manner. Wherein each mounting inlet is located at the end of one end of the respective support 12.

Optionally, the length of the space of each support 12 in which cartridges 20 are placed is the same as the length of the cartridge receiving area, i.e. the cartridge receiving area can receive the same number of cartridges 20 as the number of cartridges 20 that can be placed on each support 12; thus, once the loading and unloading of the tray 31 are carried out, a support 12 can be filled with the magazine 20, i.e. the replenishing of the support 12 is completed; the loading and unloading of the tray 31 is repeated a corresponding number of times to complete the feeding of the plurality of supports 12.

In this embodiment, there are a plurality of pushing assemblies 40, and the plurality of supporting members 12 and the plurality of pushing assemblies 40 are disposed in a one-to-one correspondence, so that when the tray 31 on each supporting member 12 is pulled away, the corresponding pushing assembly 40 stops the magazine 20 in the tray 31 on the supporting member 12; alternatively, the pushing rods 41 of the plurality of pushing assemblies 40 are in transmission connection so as to enable the pushing rods 41 to move synchronously, i.e. the pushing rods 41 of the plurality of pushing assemblies 40 can rotate synchronously and rotate to the respective stopping positions and avoiding positions simultaneously; thus, a plurality of material supplementing mechanisms 30 can be simultaneously arranged, the plurality of material supplementing mechanisms 30 are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of supports 12, that is, the plurality of material supplementing mechanisms 30 are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of pushing assemblies 40, so that the cartridges 20 in the trays 31 of the corresponding material supplementing mechanisms 30 are transferred to the corresponding supports 12 through the corresponding pushing assemblies 40, and thus, the plurality of supports 12 can be supplemented simultaneously, and the material supplementing efficiency is further improved. In the present embodiment, the supporting member 12 is a frame structure, the frame structure includes a plurality of supporting rods 121, the plurality of supporting rods 121 are disposed in parallel at intervals, and the extending direction of each supporting rod 121 is perpendicular to the height direction of the supporting member 12. For example, the number of the support bars 121 is two, and the distance between the two support bars 121 is smaller than the length of the magazine 20, so that the support 12 composed of the two support bars 121 can support the magazine 20.

Specifically, the supporting member 12 further includes two connecting members disposed in parallel, the plurality of supporting rods 121 are disposed between the two connecting members, and two ends of each supporting rod 121 are connected to the two connecting members, so that the two connecting members and the plurality of supporting rods 121 jointly enclose the frame structure. Alternatively, one of the two connectors is provided at a corresponding installation entrance of the shelf 10, and the corresponding push rod 41 is provided at the connector at the installation entrance.

In order to prevent the tray 31 from completely falling out from the other side of the support 12 far away from the installation entrance when the tray 31 is installed on the support 12, the feeding mechanism 30 further includes a limiting component 32, the limiting component 32 is disposed on the tray 31, and the limiting component 32 protrudes out of the outer surface of the tray 31, so that the tray 31 is limited by the limiting component 32 and the rack 10 during the installation of the tray 31 on the support 12.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 2 and 3, the tray 31 is detachably inserted on the rack 10 to move above the support 12, the limiting part 32 includes a limiting rod 321, an extending direction of the limiting rod 321 is perpendicular to an inserting direction of the tray 31, the limiting rod 321 is disposed at one end of the tray 31 far away from the outlet of the magazine, so that when the tray 31 is loaded on the support 12, the limiting rod 321 can be stopped at the limit of the rack 10, that is, the limiting rod 321 is blocked at the outer side of the rack 10; the opposite sides of the tray 31 are provided with limit rods 321 to ensure the limit stop effect of the limit component 32 and the shelf 10.

In the present embodiment, the tray 31 is a strip structure, the outlet of the cartridge is located at one end of the tray 31, and the other end of the tray 31 is provided with a handle 34, so that when the tray 31 is pulled away from the support 12, the tray 31 can be slid out of the support 12 by pulling the handle 34.

Specifically, the tray 31 includes a bottom plate, a second side plate 312, and two oppositely disposed first side plates 311, the two first side plates 311 and the second side plate 312 are both disposed on the bottom plate, the second side plate 312 is connected to the two first side plates 311, so that the bottom plate, the two first side plates 311, and the second side plate 312 together enclose a cartridge accommodating area, and one end of the two first side plates 311 away from the second side plate 312 forms a cartridge outlet. Wherein, two first curb plates 311 are the bar shaped plate to make tray 31 be the bar structure, the magazine holding area is the bar groove. Wherein the second side plate 312 forms the above-mentioned baffle.

The utility model also provides a throw material equipment 100, this throw material equipment 100 includes foretell material storage device and throws material mechanism 60, throws material mechanism 60 and sets up on material storage device's supporter 10, throws the at least part movablely setting up of material mechanism 60 to snatch the magazine 20 that is located support piece 12, carry out the work of throwing the material. Optionally, the feeding mechanism 60 is disposed on the other side of the storage rack 10 away from each installation entrance.

From the above description, it can be seen that the above-mentioned embodiments of the present invention achieve the following technical effects:

in the material storage device of the present invention, the material storage device comprises a material placing frame 10, a material supplementing mechanism 30 and a pushing assembly 40, wherein the material placing frame 10 comprises a supporting member 12; the feeding mechanism 30 comprises a tray 31, the tray 31 is provided with a cartridge accommodating area for bearing the cartridge 20 and a cartridge outlet communicated with the cartridge accommodating area, the tray 31 is detachably arranged on the support 12, so that at least part of the feeding mechanism 30 is positioned above the support 12, and the tray 31 can be drawn out from the support 12 of the commodity shelf 10; when the tray 31 is pulled away from the support 12 of the shelf 10, the tray 31 moves relative to the shelf 10, and the pushing assembly 40 is disposed on the shelf 10, so that the tray 31 moves relative to the pushing assembly 40, and the magazine 20 located in the magazine accommodating area is stopped by the pushing assembly 40, and under the stopping action of the pushing assembly 40, the magazine 20 is transferred to the support 12 through the magazine outlet of the tray 31, thereby realizing automatic material supplement; obviously, compared with the existing manual material supplementing method, the material supplementing method used by the material storage device is convenient, the material supplementing efficiency is high, and the labor can be saved, so that the problem of low material supplementing efficiency of the automatic material storage device in the prior art is solved.

The utility model discloses a throw charging equipment 100 includes foretell material storage device, so throw charging equipment 100 and have the same technological effect with foretell material storage device at least.

Spatially relative terms, such as "above … …," "above … …," "above … …," "above," and the like, may be used herein for ease of description to describe one device or feature's spatial relationship 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 of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if a device in the figures is turned over, devices described as "above" or "on" other devices or configurations would then be oriented "below" or "under" the other devices or configurations. Thus, the exemplary term "above … …" can include both an orientation of "above … …" and "below … …". The device may be otherwise variously oriented (rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.

It is noted that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments according to the present application. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, and it should be understood that when the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" are used in this specification, they specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, devices, components, and/or combinations thereof, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of this application and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application described herein are, for example, capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or otherwise described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A material storage device, comprising:

a shelf comprising a support;

the feed mechanism comprises a tray, the tray comprises a box accommodating area and a box outlet communicated with the box accommodating area, the box accommodating area is used for bearing a box, and the tray is detachably arranged on the support so that at least part of the feed mechanism is positioned above the support;

the pushing assembly is arranged on the shelf, so that when the tray is pulled out from the support piece, the magazine in the magazine containing area is enabled to pass through the magazine outlet under the stopping effect of the pushing assembly and is limited on the support piece.

2. The material storage device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the magazine accommodating area is used for accommodating a plurality of magazines, and the magazine accommodating area is a strip-shaped groove, so that the plurality of magazines are sequentially placed in the strip-shaped groove along the extending direction of the strip-shaped groove; the outlet of the material box is a notch at one end of the strip-shaped groove; and a baffle is arranged at one end of the material box accommodating area, which is far away from the material box outlet.

3. The material storage device of claim 1, wherein the rack has a mounting entrance for the tray to be loaded into, the push assembly comprising:

the catch bar, catch bar movably sets up the installation entrance of supporter, so that the catch bar has and is used for the backstop position of backstop magazine with be used for dodging the installation entry is with the confession the position of dodging that the tray was packed into.

4. The material storage device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the pushing assembly further comprises two connecting rods, the two connecting rods are respectively connected with two ends of the pushing rod, and the two connecting rods are hinged with the object placing frame so that the pushing rod can be rotatably arranged between the stopping position and the avoiding position; when the push rod is located at the stopping position, the push rod is located on one side of the material box to stop the material box.

5. The material storage device of claim 3, wherein the support member is a plurality of support members, the pushing assembly is a plurality of pushing assemblies, and the plurality of support members and the plurality of pushing assemblies are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence so that when the tray on each support member is pulled out, the corresponding pushing assembly stops the cartridges in the tray on the support member;

wherein the push rods of the plurality of push assemblies are in transmission connection so as to enable the push rods to move synchronously.

6. The material storage device of claim 1, wherein the support member is plural, and the plural support members are arranged at intervals in a height direction of the support member;

the supporting piece is of a frame structure, the frame structure comprises a plurality of supporting rods, the supporting rods are arranged in parallel at intervals, and the extending directions of the supporting rods are perpendicular to the height direction of the supporting piece.

7. The material storage device of claim 1, wherein the feeding mechanism further comprises:

the limiting component is arranged on the tray and protrudes out of the outer surface of the tray, so that the tray is mounted to the supporting piece, and the limiting component and the storage rack are limited in position by stopping.

8. The material storage device of claim 7, wherein the tray is removably inserted on the rack to move above the support member, and the limiting member comprises:

the extension direction of the limiting rod is perpendicular to the inserting direction of the tray, the limiting rod is arranged at one end, far away from the material box outlet, of the tray, and the limiting rods are arranged on two opposite sides of the tray.

9. The material storage device of claim 1, wherein the tray is a bar-shaped structure, the cartridge outlet is located at one end of the tray, and the other end of the tray is provided with a pull handle to allow the tray to be slid out of the support by pulling the pull handle when the tray is detached from the support.

10. The material storage device of claim 1, wherein the tray comprises:

a base plate;

the two first side plates are arranged oppositely and are arranged on the bottom plate;

the second side plate is arranged on the bottom plate and is connected with both the first side plates;

the bottom plate, the two first side plates and the second side plate jointly enclose the material box containing area, and one ends, far away from the second side plates, of the two first side plates form the material box outlet.

11. A charging apparatus, comprising:

a material storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 10 and a dosing mechanism provided on a shelf of the material storage device, at least part of the dosing mechanism being movably arranged to grasp the cartridges on the support.