JPH0459511A - Aligning distribution device for transfer article - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enhance the working efficiency and enable speedup and reduction of installation space, by sending out, up to a prescribed height, the transfer articles being continuously supplied by a plurality of parallel transferring means that have been piled up one above the other, after they have been alternately received and rearranged in a plurality of rows. CONSTITUTION:After an underside parallel transferring means 20 has been moved in the feeding position of a feeding conveyor 10, a transfer article S is supplied from the conveyor 10 and is moved on the transferring means 20. Then, the transferring means 20 is horizontally moved, so that the part thereof where no transfer article S lies on the transfer surface can be arranged in the feeding position of the conveyor 10, thereby a new transfer article S can be moved thereon. After two transfer articles S have been placed on the transferring means 20, the transferring means 20 is lowered so as to be moved to the position of a prescribed treating rack 41 of a drying device 40. Then, the transferring means 20 is operated to send out the transfer articles S to the rack 41. And an upper-side transferring means 30 that has been moved upward in the stage the underside transferring means 20 is placed in the feeding position of the conveyor 10 is lowered up to the feeding position of the conveyor 10 after the underside transferring means 20 has been moved, and in the same procedure as above, two transferring articles S are placed on the transferring means 20 and is transferred on the rack 41.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to an apparatus for arranging and distributing conveyed objects, and in detail,
For example, when feeding construction sheet materials to a drying device, the construction sheet materials that are continuously supplied from a belt conveyor etc. are rearranged into multiple rows according to the structure of the drying device.
The present invention also relates to a device that arranges and distributes conveyed items into multiple rows and multiple stages for convenience in subsequent processes, such as by distributing them into multiple stages while feeding them.

[Conventional technology]

Architectural board materials such as inorganic boards are formed into continuous long sheets at the manufacturing stage, and after cutting these long sheets into appropriate lengths, they are fed to drying and other processing steps. We have obtained the desired architectural board products. In processing equipment such as drying equipment, in order to perform processing efficiently or to save installation space for the equipment, sheet materials cut from the long sheet are arranged in multiple rows or spaced apart. Many processes are performed by stacking them in multiple stages. As mentioned above, sheet materials are sequentially cut from long sheets and supplied in one row, so this one row of sheet materials is rearranged into multiple rows or distributed into multiple stages before being sent to the drying device. There is a need. For this purpose, a device for aligning and distributing sheet material or conveyances is used.

FIG. 3 shows a schematic structure of a conventional aligning and distributing device. First, the long sheet 1 in a rolled state is sequentially pulled out from one end and cut into pieces of a certain length using an appropriate cutting device (not shown) to obtain the sheet material 1a. The cut sheet material 1a is 1 along the longitudinal direction of the long sheet 1.
A knitting conveyor 2 is provided at a position where the food is continuously fed in rows. The knitting conveyor 2 has multiple rows of sheet materials 1a.
An endless conveyor surface having a width that allows the sheet material 1a to be placed thereon conveys the sheet material 1a by moving parallel to the direction in which the sheet material 1a is supplied, and the entire knitting conveyor 2 moves in parallel to the direction in which the sheet material 1a is supplied, and the entire knitting conveyor 2 It is movable in the horizontal direction. Then, by feeding the sheet materials 1a from a fixed supply position while moving the forming conveyor 2 from side to side, a plurality of rows of sheet materials 1a are formed on the conveying surface of the forming conveyor 2.
It is now possible to line up the a.

A loader conveyor 3 is provided in the traveling direction of the knitting conveyor. Similarly to the knitting conveyor 2, the loader conveyor 3 has an endless conveyance surface that has a width that allows multiple rows of sheet materials 1a to be placed thereon, and moves parallel to the direction in which the sheet materials 1a are supplied. Loader conveyor 3
In this case, the entire structure can be raised and lowered in the vertical direction. A drying bag W4 is installed in front of the loader conveyor 3 that vertically conveys the plurality of rows of sheet materials 1a transferred from the a-forming conveyor 2 to the loader conveyor 3. The drying device 4 has a width capable of processing multiple rows of sheet materials 1a at once, and is equipped with a plurality of upper and lower processing shelves (not shown), and processes multiple rows and multiple stages of sheet materials 1a at once. It is now possible to process Therefore, if the loader conveyor 3 carrying multiple rows of sheet materials 1a is raised and lowered to the position of each processing shelf of the drying device 4, and then the multiple rows of sheet materials 1a are sent out from the raw conveyor 3, the drying device 4 A plurality of rows of sheet materials 1a are fed into each stage of processing shelves.

As described above, in the conventional aligning and distributing apparatus, the knitting conveyor 2 and the loader conveyor 30 combine two types of conveying means to rearrange the sheet materials 1a into multiple rows and distribute them into multiple stages.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, the conventional aligning and distributing apparatus as described above has a drawback that the work efficiency is poor and speed-up cannot be achieved.

This is because, while the sheet material 1a cut from the long sheet 1 described above can be fed continuously at high speed, the knitting conveyor 2 and the loader conveyor 3 are operated at the same timing as each other. When the conveyor 2.3 has moved to the predetermined position, it is necessary to move the conveyed object S from the forming conveyor 2 to the loader conveyor 3, which causes a time loss and limits speed-up. It was. In other words, the task of transferring the conveyed articles S from the formation conveyor 2 to the loader conveyor 3 has become a bottleneck for the speed amplifier.

Furthermore, the conventional apparatus requires an installation area large enough to arrange the knitting conveyor 2 and the loader conveyor 3 side by side, so there is a problem in that a large installation space is required.

The above-mentioned problems occur not only when feeding construction sheet materials into drying equipment, but also in sorting and distributing equipment that sorts various conveyed items into multiple rows and distributes them into multiple stages. This has become a problem, and improvements have been requested.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a sorting and distributing device as described above, which can improve work efficiency and increase speed, and can also reduce the installation space of the device. .

[Means to solve the problem]

A sorting and distributing device according to the present invention that solves the above problems is a sorting and distributing device that rearranges a plurality of continuously supplied conveyed objects into a plurality of rows, distributes them into a plurality of stages, and sends them out. A plurality of parallel conveyance means are provided above and below, each of which is capable of conveying the conveyed articles side by side in the sending-out direction, and each parallel conveying means is movable in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the conveying article supply direction from a conveyed article supplying position, and It is provided so that it can be raised or lowered from the conveyed object supply position.

The conveyed object may be a sheet-like object or a plate-like object such as the above-mentioned construction sheet material, or an object of any shape and material, such as a thick object or an object with three-dimensional unevenness.

The articles are continuously supplied to the supply position by conventional conveyor systems or other conveying means. Usually, the conveyed objects are fed in one line, but sometimes they are fed in two or more lines.In this case, the sorting and distributing device is used to feed the objects in multiple lines, which is several times the number of lines fed. It will be sorted into columns and sent out.

Parallel conveyance means are basically ordinary belt conveyors, etc.
Any conveyance mechanism can be used as long as it can support the conveyed object and send it out in a fixed direction. The parallel conveyance means needs to have a width sufficient to simultaneously convey a plurality of objects to be conveyed side by side. The parallel conveyance means is movable from the supply position where it receives the conveyed articles supplied from the conveyor of the previous stage, in the supply direction in which the conveyed articles are sent, that is, in the horizontal direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction of the parallel conveyance means. It has become. Further, the parallel conveyance means is provided so as to be able to rise or fall from the conveyed object supply position. A plurality of such parallel conveyance means are provided above and below. Among the plurality of parallel conveyance means, the parallel conveyance means arranged on the upper side only needs to be able to rise freely from the supply position of the conveyed object to a predetermined position higher than this supply position, and the parallel conveyance means arranged on the lower side The means may be capable of freely lowering from the supply position of the conveyed object to a predetermined position lower than the supply position. In order to horizontally move and raise/lower the parallel conveyance means, it is sufficient to combine ordinary operating mechanisms employed in various mechanical devices, such as cylinder mechanisms, link mechanisms, rank and pinion mechanisms, and other mechanisms. It will be done.

[For production]

First, one of the parallel conveyance means installed vertically is moved to the conveyance object supply position, and the parallel conveyance means is moved horizontally to feed the conveyance objects in sequence. can be transferred to the parallel conveyance means in a state where they are arranged in multiple rows. Next, by raising or lowering the parallel conveyance means to a predetermined height position, and then sending out the plurality of rows of objects, the plurality of rows of objects can be distributed to the predetermined height positions.

At the stage when the parallel conveyance means has been raised or lowered and is no longer in the supply position, by moving another parallel conveyance means to the supply position, the next plurality of rows of articles to be conveyed can be immediately transferred. The parallel transport means to which the plurality of rows of objects have been transferred is raised or lowered in the opposite direction to the previous parallel transport means to perform the same work as described above. That is, when the earlier parallel conveyance means is raised, the later parallel conveyance means is lowered.

In this way, the two parallel conveyance means can pick up the conveyed articles from the same supply position, rearrange them in a plurality of rows, and send them to any vertical position at any height without colliding with each other. It is only necessary for each parallel conveyance means to move within the range from the supply position to the upper limit position or from the supply position to the lower limit position among the upper and lower limit ranges of height positions at which objects need to be distributed.

In the alignment and distribution apparatus according to the present invention as described above, the step of transferring the conveyed objects from the forming conveyor to the loader conveyor, which was necessary in the conventional apparatus, is eliminated, and as a result, the working time is reduced accordingly. Furthermore, since the functions of the knitting conveyor and loader conveyor, which were conventionally installed side by side, are performed by the parallel conveyance means installed one above the other, the required installation area is halved.

〔Example〕

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIGS. 1 and 2 show the overall structure of the aligning and distributing device. First, the sheet-like conveyed object S is transported to the supply conveyor 10.
They are continuously supplied one after another in a line on the top. In front of the supply conveyor 10, parallel conveyance means 20.
30 are arranged one above the other. Parallel conveyance means 20
．． 30 basically has the same structure as a normal belt conveyor, and has an endlessly moving conveyance surface that moves in the same direction as the running direction of the supply conveyor 10, and conveys objects S placed on the conveyance surface.
It is now possible to transport. Parallel conveyance means 20.3
The width of 0 is set so that two conveyed objects S can be placed side by side. The parallel conveyance means 20, 30 is movable in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the traveling direction of the supply conveyor 10, that is, the supply direction of the conveyed articles S (in the direction of the dotted arrow in FIG. 2) by the action of a cylinder mechanism or the like. In addition, a drying device 40 is installed in front of the parallel conveyance means 20.30, which can move up and down in the vertical direction. The drying device 40 has a plurality of processing shelves 41 arranged above and below that can process the objects S arranged in two rows, and the objects S can be placed on each processing shelf 41 and processed at the same time. It is now possible to perform drying processing. Note that the objects S placed on the processing shelves 41 are sequentially sent forward in the drying device 40 and subjected to a drying process.

The operation of the aligning and distributing device having the above structure will be explained.

For example, in the state shown in FIG. 1, one of the parallel conveyance means, the lower parallel conveyance means 20 in the figure, is moved to the supply position of the supply conveyor 10, and then the conveyed object S is transferred from the supply conveyor 10.
The figure shows the stage where the material has been supplied and transferred onto the parallel conveyance means 20. Next, when the parallel conveyance means 20 is moved in the horizontal direction, the part of the conveyance surface where there is no conveyed article S is placed at the supply position of the supply container 10, and a new conveyed article S is transferred thereon. After the two objects S are thus placed on the parallel transport means 20, the parallel transport means 20 is lowered and moved to a predetermined processing shelf 41 of the drying device 40. Next, the parallel conveyance means 20 is activated,
The conveyed object S is sent to the processing shelf 41 of the drying device 40.

The upper parallel conveyance means 30, which had moved upward when the lower parallel conveyance means 20 was at the supply position of the supply conveyor 10, moved to the supply position of the supply conveyor 10 after the lower parallel conveyance means 20 moved. Then, two objects S to be transported are placed thereon in the same process as described above. The parallel conveyance means 20 on the upper side moves upward and sends out the articles S to a predetermined processing shelf 41.

In this way, the upper and lower parallel conveyance means 20.30 arrange the articles S from the supply conveyor 10 in two rows while alternately moving between the supply position of the supply conveyor 10 and the upper or lower processing shelf 41. While changing the trays, the receivers are removed, and the two rows of objects S are distributed and sent out to each processing shelf 41 in order. The movement range of each parallel conveyance means 20.30 may be at most the distance from the supply position of the supply conveyor 10 to the processing shelf 41 at the top or bottom of the drying device, and covers all processing shelves 41 of the drying device. . . are held by one parallel conveyance means 20.30.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the above-described apparatus for arranging and distributing conveyed objects according to the present invention, the plurality of parallel conveying means arranged one above the other alternately receive and pick up the conveyed objects that are continuously supplied. After sorting the picked up objects into multiple rows, the receiver can carry them to a predetermined height and send out the multiple rows of objects.

Therefore, unlike conventional devices, there is no need to transfer the conveyed objects from the formation conveyor to the loader conveyor. As a result of being able to reduce the time taken to transfer objects between the conveyors, which was a bottleneck for conventional speed amplifiers, it has become possible to significantly improve efficiency or speed up the entire alignment and distribution work.

In addition, since the parallel conveyance means can be installed one above the other, the installation area is halved compared to conventional equipment in which the formation conveyor and loader conveyor are installed side by side. reduction becomes possible. This means that with the same amount of installation space, the length of objects that can be handled can be doubled compared to conventional methods.
It is now possible to transport long items that could not be applied in the past, and it is possible to develop new fields of use and expand applications.

Furthermore, each parallel conveyor only needs to move up and down the range from the supply position to the top or bottom, compared to conventional equipment where one loader conveyor has to move all the way up and down. The elevating mechanism of the parallel conveyance means is simplified, and the structure of the entire apparatus can be simplified.

[BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS] Fig. 1 is a front structural view showing an arrangement and distribution device for conveyed objects according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a plan structural view, and Fig. 3 is a schematic perspective view showing a conventional example. be. 10... Supply conveyor 20.30... Parallel conveyance means 40... Drying device 4... Processing shelf S...
Agent for conveyed goods Patent attorney Takehiko Matsumoto

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A sorting and distributing device that rearranges a plurality of continuously supplied objects into a plurality of rows, distributes them into a plurality of stages, and sends them out. Each of the parallel conveyance means is movable in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the supply direction of the conveyed object from the conveyed object supply position, and is provided so as to be freely upwardly or downwardly movable from the conveyed object supply position. An apparatus for aligning and distributing conveyed objects.