JPH062967Y2 - shelf - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of application] In the present invention, an article placing portion located lower toward the front end side is attached to a frame, and a stopper for receiving an article is attached to the front end of the article placing portion. And a display unit for displaying the information of taking out articles is arranged at the front part of the stopper.

[Conventional technology]

Such a shelf is, as shown in FIG. 11, capable of moving the article on the article placing section to the front end side by its own weight, and has an advantage that the article can be taken out well, and The present invention also has the advantage that the display device can display the product removal information such as the product removal amount and the like so that the proper product removal can be performed.

And in the conventional shelf, the said indicator was attached to the article mounting part.

[Problems to be solved by the device]

However, according to the above-mentioned conventional shelf, since the stopper is also attached to the article placing portion, when the article is placed on the article placing portion from the rear of the shelf and moved to the front end side by its own weight, It is unavoidable that the impact force of stopping the collision with the stopper is transmitted to the display device through the article placing portion. Problems such as malfunction of the display unit of the display unit, malfunction of the input SW unit such as input error, and trouble of the display unit are likely to occur.

An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks.

[Means for Solving the Problems]

In order to achieve this object, the shelf according to the present invention is characterized in that the indicator is attached to a frame installed separately from the frame.

[Action]

That is, since the indicator for displaying the article take-out information is attached to the frame body installed separately from the frame body to which the article placing section is attached, the article is attached to the stopper attached to the front end of the article placing section. The impact force at the time of collision and stopping is not directly transmitted to the display.

Moreover, it is conceivable that the indicator is attached to the article mounting portion via a vibration-proof rubber, but in this case, one vibration-proof is added as a design condition. On the other hand, according to the present invention,
Since only one additional frame is required and no vibration proof technology is required, it can be constructed under the same design conditions as the conventional one.

[Effect of device]

Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a shelf that can be maintained in a stable state without malfunction or failure of the display and can be easily implemented.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, a case where the embodiment of the present invention is applied to an article sorting facility will be described.

As shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the illustrated article sorting facility has a plurality of shelves (1) for storing a plurality of types of articles (Xa).
Are arranged side by side, and a roller conveyor (2) for loading and unloading the container (Z) for storing articles is provided in front of the shelf (1), and the article take-out display information is provided. Based on the above, a predetermined number of predetermined articles are taken out from each shelf (1) and stored in the container (Z), and then the roller conveyor.
It is equipment for transporting the container (Z) according to (2).

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the shelf (1) is located in an inclined posture in which the front end side is located lower, and the shelves (3) are vertically slid to move the mounted article toward the front end side by its own weight. The article placing parts (B) of (1) are attached to the frame body (24), the article receiving stoppers (S) are attached to the respective front ends of the article placing parts (B), and the front portions of the stoppers (S) are attached. Further, a display device (H) for displaying the information of taking out the article from the article placing section (B) is arranged.

The frame body (4) includes a pair of left and right side frames (24A) and left and right side frames.
A horizontal frame (24B) connecting (24A), an upper frame (24C) and a lower frame (24D) connecting the front and rear side frames (24A) at upper and lower portions, an upper frame (24C) and a lower frame ( 24D) and a slanting frame (24E) for reinforcement for connection.

The article placing portion (B) is configured such that the lower one has a longer depth length, and is attached to the frame body (24) in a state of protruding forward of the frame body (24), It is constructed so that articles can be easily taken out from the. The article placing section (B) is composed of a plurality of rows of roller conveyors (R).

Another frame body (24 ') is installed at a front portion of the frame body (24).

The other frame (24 ') includes a pair of left and right side frames (24A') formed in a triangular shape in a side view, and left and right side frames (24 ').
A ') and a horizontal frame (24B') connecting the two. Then, between the side frames (24A ′), a holder (24H) is laid horizontally in a state of being positioned in front of each of the article placing parts (B), and each holder (24H) has the above-mentioned Three indicators (H) are attached.

As shown in FIG. 4, the holder (24H) is bolted to the side frame (24A ′) at the upper and lower portions of the left and right ends thereof, respectively.
(24a), (24b) is pivotally attached via the side frame (24A ')
Among these bolt insertion holes, the lower bolt insertion hole (24c) is formed as an elongated hole along an arc centered on the upper bolt insertion hole. Therefore, the indicator (H) attached to the holder (24H) can swing up and down around the axis (P) of the upper bolt (24a), and the desired swing by tightening the lower bolt (24b). It is configured so that it can be fixed in position.

Further, as shown in FIGS. 3, 5, and 6, the left and right frame bodies (24) adjacent to each other and the frame bodies (24 ′) among the frame bodies (24) and (24 ′) are It is connected via a connector (25). The connecting tool (25) includes a strip-shaped member (25A) having the same length as the vertical width of the frame bodies (24) and (24 '), and a plate-shaped engagement member attached to the back side of the strip-shaped member (25A). And a locking part forming member (25B), and the locking part forming member (25B) is a pair of upper and lower hook-shaped locked parts (26) formed in each of the frame bodies (24) and (24 '). ) Is provided with a pair of upper and lower square hole-shaped locking portions (27) that can be engaged and disengaged. That is, the frame bodies (24) and (24 ') are detachably attached.

Next, an article sorting facility including the above-mentioned shelf (1) will be described.

As shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 8, the shelf (1) is divided into a plurality of parts along the conveying direction of the roller conveyor (2) for conveying containers, and each of the divided shelf portions (1A). Is provided with upper and lower three-stage article placement parts (B), and each of the article placement parts (B) is
Three types of boxed articles (Xa) are stored in the lateral direction.

Therefore, on the front side of the shelf (1), a plurality of article take-out workers are provided in a state where one person is assigned to each shelf part (1A), and the article take-out worker takes the article take-out described later. By carrying out the work of storing the articles taken out based on the instruction of the information in the container (Z) that is sequentially transported,
Plural types of articles can be stored in the same shipping container (Z).

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 10, when the contents of the order form (3) issued by the customer or the like is input to the host controller (4),
The host controller (4) creates an order form (5) according to the contents of the order form (3), and purchases the goods in accordance with the contents of the order form (5). Also, host controller (4)
Is a work data storage means (6) for creating work data based on the contents of the order form (3) entered in advance and storing the work data in a storage medium such as a floppy disk.
Output to.

A work controller (7) including a work data reading means (7A) and an arithmetic processing unit (7B) is provided corresponding to the shelf (1), and the storage medium is used for the work controller (7). Work data is input. However, a management worker who manages the work controller (7) is deployed, and this management worker inputs work data to the work controller (7) and an empty container on the container transfer conveyor (2). (Z)
Will be carried out.

When the work data is input to the work controller (7) and the work preparation is completed, the starting light (8) (see FIG. 8) is turned on, and based on this lighting, the management worker is emptied as described above. With the supply of the container (Z) to the roller conveyor (2) for container transfer, the work controller (7) executes the processing corresponding to each of the means (D) and (G). Become.

As shown in FIG. 7, the container transfer means (G) is an electromagnetic operation type withdrawal stopper (9) for receiving the container (Z) at a position facing the front of each of the shelves (1A). By using the, to control the container transport, a photointerrupter type container detection sensor (S) for detecting the passage of the container (Z) located at the transport lower side position of each stopper (9), and, The work controller (7) moves the stopper (9) in and out based on the information of the reset switch provided on the display (H) described later.

That is, with the stopper (9) receiving the container (Z),
When the article take-out worker performs the article storage work in the container (Z), and when the reset switch is operated with the completion of the article storage work, the stopper (9) is withdrawn and the container (9) is retracted.
(Z) is sent to the lower side of the conveyance, and the container detection sensor (S) once detects the presence of the container and then detects the absence of the container again, and the stopper (9) is projected, and the subsequent container (Z ) Will be accepted.

Incidentally, (9a) in the figure, the container (Z) on the shelf side, that is, the working section side.
It is an electromagnetic operation type exit / return stopper that controls the transportation of the container, and container presence / absence information in the shelf part (1A) on the uppermost side of the transfer, and a photo interrupter type container detection sensor located on the lower side of the transfer. Based on the information of (Sa), the work controller (7) operates to move in and out.

The instructing means (D) is, as shown in FIG.
Main indicator lights (11), one on top of A), each shelf
(1A) upper and lower pairs of auxiliary indicator lights (12) provided corresponding to the upper and lower three-stage article placement parts (B), and different types of articles stored in each shelf portion (1A), respectively It is equipped with an indicator (H) provided in correspondence with the above, and the main indicator light (11) is lit to indicate that there is an article to be taken out on the shelf part (1A), and the auxiliary indicator light (12) is lit. , Upper, middle and lower article placement parts (B), (B),
Indicate which side of (B) the article placing section (B) has an article to be taken out, and further, by the display (H), indicate the article to be taken out and the amount taken out. is there.

That is, the display unit (H) includes a lamp that indicates the article to be taken out, a numerical value display section that indicates the amount of taken out article, and the reset switch described above.

The main and auxiliary indicator lights (11), (12) and the indicator (H) are operated by the work controller (7). In other words, the work controller (7) manages the positions of the containers (Z) that are sequentially transported, while controlling each container (Z).
The main and auxiliary indicator lights (1
1), (12) and the indicator (H) are operated based on the work data. Then, the lamp provided for each indicator (H) will be turned off with the operation of the reset switch provided for the indicator (H), and the auxiliary indicator lamp (12)
Will be extinguished as all the articles are taken out from the corresponding article placement section (B), and the main indicator light (11)
Will be extinguished when all the articles in the corresponding shelf portion (1A) have been taken out.

A signal transfer configuration between the work controller (7) and each display (H) will be described. As shown in FIG.
The work controller (7) is connected to a transmission unit (17A) for electric-optical conversion and a reception unit (17B) for optical-electrical conversion, respectively, to each display (H), optical-electrical conversion. The receiver (18a) for electric power and the transmitter (18b) for electric-optical conversion are provided in a state of being assembled to the control board (19). Then, the transmitter (18b) and the receiver (18a) of each adjacent display (H) are connected in series by the optical fiber cable (20),
Among the indicators (H) connected in series, the receiver (18a) of the indicator (H) at the beginning of the information transmission direction and the transmitter (17A) on the controller side are connected by an optical fiber cable (21). The optical fiber cable (2) connects the transmitter (18b) of the indicator (H) at the end of the information transmission direction and the receiver (17B) on the controller side.
They are connected in 2) to form a loop-shaped information transmission line.

Therefore, the work controller (7) outputs various information together with the address number, and the display (H)
Function as a relay that receives only the information that matches its address number and sends other information to the lower side of the line, and outputs various information along with the address number to the work controller (7). become.

Although not illustrated, the main indicator light (11) is the shelf part (1A)
All the indicators (H) provided in the above are OR-connected, and a lighting command is given from each indicator (H). Further, the auxiliary indicator lamp (12) has a corresponding mounting position. All display units (H) provided in section (B) are OR-connected to each display unit.
A lighting command will be given from (H).

However, reference numeral (23) in the figure denotes a power supply box provided for each of the shelf portions (1A), and is supplied with power from the main power supply (E). Then, the indicator (H) of each shelf portion (1A) is electrically connected to the power supply box (23), and the auxiliary indicator light (12) is
Similarly, it is electrically connected to the power supply box (23), and further, the main indicator light (11) is connected to the power supply box (23).

It should be noted that reference numerals are added to the claims of the utility model for convenience of comparison with the drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the structure of the accompanying drawings by the entry.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the shelf according to the present invention. Fig. 1 is a side view, Fig. 2 is a front view, Fig. 3 is a partially cutaway side view, and Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of essential parts. Is a sectional view of the shelf connecting portion, FIG. 6 is a cutaway front view of the shelf connecting portion, FIG. 7 is a plan view of the article sorting facility, FIG. 8 is the same front view, FIG. 9 is the same signal transmission block diagram, FIG. 10 shows the same control block diagram, and FIG. 11 shows a side view of a conventional shelf. (24) …… Frame, (24 ′) …… Separate frame, (B) …… Item loading section, (H) …… Display, (S) …… Stopper.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A frame (24) is provided with an article placing part (B) located downward toward the front end side, and a stopper (S) for receiving an article is attached to the front end of the article placing part (B). A shelf (24) that is installed separately from the frame (24), which is a shelf in which an indicator (H) for displaying the article take-out information is arranged at the front part of the stopper (S). A shelf to which the display (H) is attached in ′).