Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
  • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
  • B65G47/52—Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors i.e. discharging or feeding devices
  • B65G47/64—Switching conveyors
  • B65G47/641—Switching conveyors by a linear displacement of the switching conveyor
  • B65G47/642—Switching conveyors by a linear displacement of the switching conveyor in a horizontal plane
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
  • B65G51/00—Conveying articles through pipes or tubes by fluid flow or pressure; Conveying articles over a flat surface, e.g. the base of a trough, by jets located in the surface
  • B65G51/02—Directly conveying the articles, e.g. slips, sheets, stockings, containers or workpieces, by flowing gases
  • B65G51/03—Directly conveying the articles, e.g. slips, sheets, stockings, containers or workpieces, by flowing gases over a flat surface or in troughs
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
  • B65G51/00—Conveying articles through pipes or tubes by fluid flow or pressure; Conveying articles over a flat surface, e.g. the base of a trough, by jets located in the surface
  • B65G51/02—Directly conveying the articles, e.g. slips, sheets, stockings, containers or workpieces, by flowing gases
  • B65G51/03—Directly conveying the articles, e.g. slips, sheets, stockings, containers or workpieces, by flowing gases over a flat surface or in troughs
  • B65G51/035—Directly conveying the articles, e.g. slips, sheets, stockings, containers or workpieces, by flowing gases over a flat surface or in troughs for suspended articles, e.g. bottles
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
  • B65G2201/00—Indexing codes relating to handling devices, e.g. conveyors, characterised by the type of product or load being conveyed or handled
  • B65G2201/02—Articles
  • B65G2201/0235—Containers
  • B65G2201/0244—Bottles
  • B65G2201/0247—Suspended bottles

Definitions

• the present invention relates to the field of conveying loads by means of air conveyors or air conveyors, in particular switches for such conveyors or air conveyors and in particular fixed boxes of such switches, and is intended for such a switch provided with modular fixed boxes.
• Conveyors or air air conveyors are intended for the conveyance of relatively light products, guided in a rail of said conveyors or conveyors, by the action of a flow of air under pressure on said products, at their guide in the rail .
• these conveyors or air air carriers are constituted in the form of boxes delimiting in their lower part a rail for guiding the products to be transported, said rail being provided, on the one hand, at regular intervals, with ejection nozzles pressurized air in the transport direction of the products and, secondly, under the rail, means for holding the upper part of the products in said rail, the box being supplied with pressurized air via pipes corresponding supply and being further provided with control means in the form of sensors or the like connected to a central control unit via electrical wiring. All of these boxes are mounted under a load-bearing structure.
• the boxes are connected to one or more integrated switch devices between said boxes.
• These switching devices generally comprise a cassette movable transversely to the longitudinal axis of the boxes, this mobile cassette being itself inserted into a fixed assembly provided with transverse guides of said cassette and tabular portions junction caissons, successively to a diverting channel of the mobile cassette.
• Such a mobile cassette has, on its connecting sides, a plurality of entrances or outlets of deflection boxes, connected to each other and intended to cooperate with the corresponding end of one or other of the junction boxes of the tabular boxes upstream. and downstream of the mobile cassette, to allow another orientation of the products transported.
• the transverse displacement of the mobile cassette is achieved by means of an actuator of the jack type, which carries out the successive junctions between the deflection caissons and the junction boxes of the transport caissons, according to the requirements.
• a conveyor or air conveyor which is essentially constituted by upstream and downstream transport boxes connected together by a switching device.
• This switching device is produced in the form of a flexible means of transport and guidance relative to its longitudinal axis and fixed at one end to the support infrastructure or to an upstream or downstream transport box, with correspondence of its guiding part with that of a downstream or upstream transport box, the other end of this flexible conveying and guiding means being guided with the possibility of angular displacement on the infrastructure and being connected to a moving means and forth.
• This latter device simpler construction and lighter, allows a significant reduction in inertia, promoting an increase in rate compared to previous devices.
• the switching devices known to date therefore generally allow to fulfill satisfactorily their function of change of direction between the upstream and downstream caissons of connection to conveyors or air air carriers.
• the present invention aims to overcome these disadvantages by providing a switch with fixed boxes can be easily interchanged without requiring significant investment.
• the switch which essentially consists of fixed input and / or output boxes connected to lines of air conveyors or air conveyors and at least one movable switching device products between the caissons fixed input and / or output, is characterized in that the fixed input and / or output boxes are interchangeable modular boxes interconnected and with the mobile switching device products and conveyor lines or Air carriers to air, removably.
• FIG. a partial perspective view of a conveyor or air conveyor switch provided with boxes according to the invention
• Figure 2 is a perspective view of a mounting of a set of boxes according to the invention
• FIG. 3 is a view similar to that of FIG. 2 of a variant of assembly of a set of boxes according to the invention
• FIG. 4 is a plan view in section of the box of deflection of the together according to Figure 3
• Figure 5 is a perspective view of another mounting variant of the set of boxes according to the invention.
• FIG. 1 of the attached drawings represents, by way of example, a conveyor or air conveyor, which consists essentially of fixed input and / or output boxes 1 and 2 connected to a movable switching device 3, the assembly being mounted on a support infrastructure 4.
• the upstream and / or downstream transport boxes 1 and 2 are connected to air conveyor lines or air conveyors, not shown.
• the switch is of the type 2/1 or 1/2, depending on whether the products transported or conveyed, in this case bottles 5, circulate from right to left or from left to right, orientation and / or distribution being effected by the movable switching device 3.
• the fixed input and / or output boxes 1 and 2 are interchangeable modular fixed boxes connected together and with the mobile switching device of the products or bottles 5 and the lines of conveyors or air carriers to air, removably.
• the interchangeable modular fixed boxes are essentially either of the straight box type 1, without a deflection, or of the box type 2 or 2 '(respectively FIGS. 3), with deviation in one direction from the right box 1 (upwards, Figure 2) or in the other direction relative to the right box 1 (downwards, Figures 3 and 4).
• FIG. 4 of the appended drawings shows the juxtaposed mounting of a right interchangeable modular fixed box 1 and an interchangeable modular fixed box 2 ', with a deflection in one direction with respect to the right box 1.
• FIG. 5 of the attached drawings shows an embodiment of the invention, in which the three types of modular fixed boxes 1, 2 and 2 'are represented in an assembly allowing either the grouping of products or bottles coming from three distinct lines. in a single line, ie in a reverse movement, the distribution of products or bottles from a single line in three distinct directions.
• the assembly mode according to FIG. 5 demonstrates that, starting from an assembly of modular fixed boxes according to FIG. 2 or according to FIG. 3, it is possible to produce the set of modular fixed boxes according to FIG. juxtaposition to the assembly according to Figure 2 or according to Figure 3, respectively of a modular fixed box 2 'or a modular fixed box 2.
• a conveyor or transport for example with a 1/2 or 2/1 switch to an installation with a 1/3 or 3/1 switch, it is sufficient to add in the switch at the level of the fixed modular input and / or output boxes 1 and 2 or 2 ', an additional modular fixed box 2' or 2, without requiring the disassembly of the existing switch and in particular the fixed part of said switch.
• the separation of the channels allows to vary the speed in each channel independently of the other. That is to say that it is possible to let the products or bottles in a lane at full speed while in the next lane, said products or bottles are conveyed or transported at a low speed, which makes it possible to avoid crushing said products or bottles against a retaining device for forming a train formation.
• the embodiment according to the invention makes it possible, by means of the modular embodiment of a small number of interchangeable modular fixed boxes, namely, generally of three boxes, to considerably reduce the costs of installation of conveying lines or air transport of products, in particular bottles.

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