JPH0331684Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] "Purpose of the invention" The present invention relates to a device for automatically supplying rod-like materials into containers, and is capable of automatically and quickly feeding pins and other rod-like materials for canning or bottling beverages, food, etc. The aim is to provide a new device for supplying

Industrial Applications Equipment that automatically supplies a rod-shaped material such as a pin to puncture and break sealing material in canned goods, bottled food, etc., or to open the seal.

Conventional technology Utilizing exothermic or endothermic effects caused by chemical reactions in canned or bottled products, the contents are heated or cooled to a predetermined temperature before drinking or eating, thereby ensuring delicious drinking or eating at an appropriate temperature. Technology is being adopted. In other words, although vending machines and the like can sell food that has been heated or cooled to a specified temperature, food sold by methods other than vending machines must be kept at room temperature and may not necessarily be delicious. Foods sold in vending machines only maintain temperature conditions suitable for eating and drinking for a short period of time immediately after being sold, so they cannot be used outdoors or when climbing mountains. It goes without saying that it is preferable to heat or cool the food immediately before eating and drinking to create suitable temperature conditions for eating and drinking.

However, in such cases, some of the chemically reacting substances necessary for exothermic or endothermic reactions are hermetically sealed, and by breaking this seal just before eating or drinking, it is possible to mix it with other substances and cause a chemical reaction. However, when such a seal is broken and mixed in, a pin-like object is used, and it is necessary to attach this pin-like object to the canned food or bottle containing the food or drink. That is, as an example, a Japanese sake that is heated before drinking is shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, in which a heating material storage section 101 is provided at the top of a container 100, and the heating material is stored in this section. A storage bag 103 for water necessary for generating heat is housed in the heat generating material 102, and the heat generating material 10
Paper lids 105, 105 like cardboard paper on 2
The paper lid 105 has a cross-shaped cut 108 in the center, an opening 109 in the center of the paper lid 105a, and a perforation 104a in the center on the top surface of the can lid. 104 is attached, and a paper seal 107 is applied to the perforation 104a, on which the insertion member 2 is housed and an overcap 106 is covered.

That is, when drinking, remove the overcap 106, take out the insertion part 2, and attach the paper seal 107.
The storage bag 103 in the heat generating material 102 is inserted through the perforation 104a attached to the heat generating material 102, and the leaked water is poured into the heat generating material 102.
After that, the pin 2 is removed, an overcap 106 is applied, and the container 100 is turned over, so that the amount of heat generated by the exothermic material 102 is effectively applied to the stored beverage. is transmitted to. When drinking, the container 100 is kept in the inverted state as described above, and the lid 110 is opened according to the score line on the bottom side of the container 100 in FIG. 9, and the lid 110 is drunk.

However, in the case of the above-mentioned containers, the work of loading the above-mentioned pin-shaped insertion member into the overcap has conventionally been carried out manually by an operator. 104, the operator inserts the insertion members 2 one after another by pinching them with his or her fingertips.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, in the case of the conventional device as described above, manually inserting the pin-shaped member is extremely troublesome, and it is difficult to use the high-speed production sealing line for canning or bottling. In addition, it places a great psychological burden on workers, as it requires a great deal of effort, especially constant careful operation at a constant line work speed. There is a disadvantage that it may not be loaded or may be loaded twice.

"Structure of the invention" Means for solving the problem The chute is provided with rod-like members that are arranged to engage with the grooves of the chute in sequence at the head;
A control wheel that sequentially receives the rods from the chute, a separate wheel that continuously receives the rods supplied from the control wheel into the groove, and a rod that is received by covering a partial outside of the separate wheel. an outer guide for holding the separator wheel on the separate wheel and transporting it to a predetermined drop position, a holder table that sequentially guides the receiving hole portion to the end of the outer guide, and a bottom surface of the receiving hole within a certain range of the holder table. 1. An apparatus for automatically supplying rod-shaped materials into containers, comprising a slider table for covering and a conveyor means for sequentially conveying the containers to a position where the rod-shaped materials fall from the slider table.

Function: A rod-shaped member with a head is continuously slid and fed by the chute in a hanging state.

The rod-like material supplied as described above is transferred to a separate wheel with the interval adjusted by a control wheel.

The separate wheel works together with an attached outer guide to transport the rod-like material to the receiving position of the holder table, and then holds it in a horizontal state in the receiving hole of the holder table.

The rod-like material sent to the end of the slider table by the rotation of the holder table is supplied into the container that has been sent to that position by conveyor means.

Embodiment A concrete embodiment of the present invention as described above will be described with reference to the attached drawings.As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a conveyor 3 and a timing screw 4 are provided on a machine base 1. , these allow the container 10 as shown in FIG.
Containers 10 are conveyed sequentially and are conveyed in close contact from one side on the conveyor 3.
One side of the 0 group is received in the recess of the rotating screw 4, and the first
As shown in the figure, a predetermined interval is provided between the containers 100 so that the containers 100 are fed toward the other side of the conveyor 3, and the other side of the containers 100 is provided with a star wheel located opposite the screw 4. 17, and are accurately transferred at predetermined intervals.

In the transfer system for the container 100 as described above, the pins 2, the details of which are shown separately in FIG. Then, as shown in FIG.
The chute 5 is configured to slide and be supplied in a sequentially depressed state by the force of gravity, and a control 6 is provided at the tip of the chute 5.
As shown more clearly in FIG. 5, a bevel gear-shaped separate wheel 7 facing the control wheel 6 is inclined at an angle of about 45°, and the peripheral edge of the control wheel 6 is aligned with the groove 7a on the tapered surface of the separate wheel 7. The pins 2 that were fitted into each other and were successively removed from the tip of the chute 5 are connected to the control wheel 6 and the separate wheel 7.
Moreover, an outer guide 8 is provided along the outer periphery of such a separate wheel 7 on a semicircumference in the direction of rotation, and the pin 2 is connected to the concave tooth surface of the separate wheel 7 and the outer guide 8. It is sandwiched between guides 8 and transported under conditions that prevent it from falling off.

The control wheel 6 described above includes sprockets 9, 9a driven by a suitable drive source (not shown) and a chain 19 suspended therebetween.
As shown in the figure, it is attached to the rotation shaft 61 rotated by the shaft 9 of the sprocket 9a.
b is supported by a bearing 10, and this sprocket shaft 9
b and the wheel shaft 61, as shown in FIG.
As shown in the figure, a safety mechanism 11 and a bevel gearbox 12 are provided to drive a sprocket 13 provided on the side surface of the bevel gearbox 12, and the sprocket 13 is connected to the base end of the rotating shaft 71 of the separate wheel 7 described above. A chain 79 is suspended between a sprocket 73 in a gear box 72 and rotates the separate wheel 7.

The pin 2 transferred as described above is attached to the end 8 of the outer guide 8 provided as shown in FIG.
By reaching point e, it separates from the horizontal tapered surface (tooth surface) of the separate wheel 7,
It will fall under its own weight. That is, as shown in FIG. 1 or 3, the pins 2 that have fallen in this way are attached to the holder table 14 and the base table 14a on which the pins 2 are superimposed. 30a and the pin receiving hole 30, and these tables 1
4 and 14a, and is adapted to be received by a slider table 15 provided on the bottom surface thereof as shown in FIG. 4 or 5. However, the holder table 14 and base table 14a described above rotate in synchronization with the separate wheel 7 described above, and are attached to the upper end of the wheel shaft 16 as shown in FIGS. The gear-shaped pin receiving groove 71 of the separate wheel 7 is always aligned with the pin receiving hole 3 by a driving means (which may be linked with the sprocket 9 or 9a).
It is rotated at a speed that substantially aligns with zero. As shown in FIG. 3, the slider table 15 has a half-moon shape that is fixed to the machine base 1 over a range of approximately 200 degrees around the wheel axis 16, and has pin receiving holes 30 as described above. As the holder table 14 and the base table 14a rotate, the pin 2 rotates within the pin receiving hole 30 and slides or rolls on the surface of the slider table 15 until it reaches the end 15e of the slider table 15. reach.

In response to the sliding or rolling speed of the pin 20 as described above, the container 100 is transported by the conveyor 3 and the star wheel 17 as shown in FIG. When the directions are matched, the pin 2 falls from the end 15e and is supplied to the container 100. Since the star wheel 17 receives the container in the recess 17a, the container 100 immediately after leaving the screw 4 as shown in FIG. 2 or 1 receives the drop-in supply of the pin 2 under favorable centering conditions. .

The details of the pin 2 described above are as shown in FIG. 8, and a flat head 22 is formed at one end of the rod-shaped portion 21. Semicircular joint protrusions 23 are provided oppositely, and these joint protrusions 23, 23 are connected to the second
It descends at an incline as shown in the figure. Also, such a pin 2 has a rail groove 51 in the middle as shown in FIG.
The chute 5 engages both sides of the rail groove 51 and slides down, and as shown in FIG. It is received in the fitting recess 61 and transferred and supplied. The flat head 22 as described above allows the rod-shaped portions 21 to be fed within the rail groove 51 under alignment conditions with a constant spacing, and facilitates reception of the control wheel 6 into each fitting recess 61. When the container 100 is dropped into the container 100, rolling by the rod-shaped portion 21 is quickly prevented to form a stable accommodation state.

``Effect of the invention'' According to the invention as explained above, rod-shaped materials such as pins can be accurately and automatically fed into containers such as cans or bottles. , it is industrially effective because workers are not forced to perform complicated and theoretically burdensome work as in the past, and they can respond appropriately and quickly to high-speed mechanical operating conditions. This is a great idea.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show the technical content of the present invention; Fig. 1 is a partially cutaway plan view showing the general relationship of the device of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a side view thereof, and Fig. 3 is a holder table thereof. and a partially cutaway plan view of the base table portion, Figure 4 is a sectional view taken along the line of Figure 3, Figure 5 is a sectional view taken along the line of Figure 1, and Figure 6 is a separate wheel and feeder. 7 is a plan view of the feeder and control wheel portion, FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of the pin-shaped rod-shaped member in the present invention, and FIG. 9 is an illustration of an example of a container equipped with heating means. The sectional view and FIG. 10 are oblique views of the members arranged inside the overcap. In these drawings, 1 is a machine base, 2 is a pin, 3 is a conveyor, 4 is a screw, 5 is a chute, 6 is a control wheel, 7 is a separate wheel, 7a is its groove, 8 is an outer guide, 9, 9a is a sprocket, 10 is a bearing, 11
12 is a safety mechanism, 12 is a bevel gearbox, 13 is a sprocket, 14 and 14a are a holder table and its base table, 15 is a slider table, 16 is a wheel shaft, 17 is a star wheel, 17a is its recess, and 21 is a rod of pin 2. Shabu,
22 is the head, 23 is the joint protrusion, and 100 is the container.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] the chute sequentially feeding rod-like members adapted to engage grooves in the chute at the head;
A control wheel that sequentially receives the rods from the chute, a separate wheel that continuously receives the rods supplied from the control wheel into the groove, and a rod that is received by covering a partial outside of the separate wheel. an outer guide for holding the holder on this separate wheel and transporting it to a predetermined drop position; a holder table that sequentially guides the receiving hole portions to the end of the outer guide; 1. An apparatus for automatically supplying rod-shaped materials into containers, comprising a slider table for covering and a conveyor means for sequentially conveying the containers to a position where the rod-shaped materials fall from the slider table.