JPH066092Y2 - Article storage device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of application] The present invention makes it easy to handle articles when they are taken in and out of a storage box that is connected to an endless belt inside a main body case and is movable. The present invention relates to an article storage device configured to do so.

[Problems to be solved by the conventional technology and the present invention]

Conventionally, in a main body case of an article storage device, a plurality of storage boxes connected to an endless belt such as a chain at appropriate intervals can be circulated and moved, and each storage box can be loaded and unloaded in the main body case. As a prior art of an article storage device in which an article is put in and taken out of a storage box at a place where the mouth is stopped, as a prior art, JP-B-56-122.
Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 0 discloses a configuration in which a front opening is provided in a storage box, and the storage box, its bottom plate, and the table upper surface at the article loading / unloading port stop substantially on the same plane.

According to this prior art, the article on the table can be slid inward and stored in the storage box, but conversely, when the article is taken out from the storage box, the depth of the storage box is large. At times, it becomes difficult to take out the article on the back side.

JP-B-62-418 as a technique for solving this inconvenience
In Japanese Patent Publication No. 9, a drawer with a standing front plate is provided in each of the storage boxes so as to be movable back and forth, and the drawer can be pulled out onto the table at an article loading / unloading port in a main body case of the article storage device. Is disclosed.

According to this configuration, by pulling out the substantially entire length of the drawer onto the table, there is an advantage that even if the depth of the drawer is large, the articles can be stored on the back side thereof.

However, since the drawer has an opening on the top surface, it is necessary to temporarily lift the articles above the table and put the articles inside the drawer from the top surface. I can't.

Therefore, when handling a heavy article, there is a problem that the work of putting it in and out is still troublesome.

The present invention aims to solve these problems.

[Means for Solving the Problems]

Therefore, according to the present invention, the front opening of an arbitrarily selected storage box among the storage boxes that are vertically connected to the endless belt and are cyclically moved up and down is opened in the main body case. In the article storage device configured to stop when facing the article loading / unloading port, a horizontal table is provided on the main body case in front of the lower end edge of the article loading / unloading port, and in each of the storage boxes. , A front and rear drawer movable shelf plate is provided, and a stop position of the arbitrary storage box is set such that a top surface of the storage box in the storage box is substantially flush with the table top surface and a bottom surface of the shelf plate is the table. It is configured so that it can be selected at a position close to the upper surface so that the shelf can be pulled out.

[Function and effect of device]

In this way, each storage box is provided with a shelf plate that can be moved back and forth, and since this shelf plate has no front plate like a drawer and is flat and open front, the front edge side of the shelf plate is concerned. It is easy to put items in and take them out.

Then, the stop position of the storage box according to the present invention is stopped at a height position where the upper surface of the shelf inside the storage box substantially coincides with the upper surface of the table at the article loading / unloading port, or the lower surface of the shelf is close to the upper surface of the table. Since it is possible to select the height position where it can be pulled out in the table direction, when the stop position is selected so that the upper surface of the shelf plate and the upper surface of the table are substantially aligned, the article on the upper surface of the table is simply slid. It is possible to transfer to a shelf board with, or to pull it out from the shelf board side onto the table, and there is no need to lift a heavy article.

When the lower surface of the shelf board is substantially aligned with the upper surface of the table and the shelves are selected to stop at a high position where the shelves can be drawn toward the upper surface of the table, the shelf board is pulled out to the table, Items placed in the back position (corresponding to items stored in the back position of the storage box) can be easily dropped onto the table, or conversely, placed on the shelf from the table. it can.

In these cases, since the drop dimension between the shelf top surface and the table top surface is only slightly larger than the vertical thickness dimension of the shelf board, even if the article is heavy, the article between the table and the shelf board is This has a remarkable effect that handling of the articles at the time of transferring becomes extremely convenient.

As described above, according to the present invention, the accommodation box is provided with a shelf plate that can be moved back and forth, and the stop height position with respect to the lower end edge of the article loading / unloading port of the accommodation box can be selected in combination, This has the effect of making the handling of articles much more convenient than in the past.

〔Example〕

Next, an embodiment will be described. Reference numeral 1 indicates an article storage device, and reference numeral 3 is a storage box arranged in one side of the main body case 2 in an annular shape at appropriate intervals in the vertical direction.

Reference numeral 4 is a drive device that cyclically moves the storage box 3 up and down. The drive device 4 is a pair of upper and lower chain sprockets 5 and an endless belt wound around the upper and lower chain sprockets 5. A pair of chains 6 is arranged on the left and right sides of the rows of the storage boxes 3 so as to face each other.
Can be rotated in either forward or reverse directions.

A table 8 is provided so as to project forward on the front surface of the main body case 2, and an article loading / unloading port 10 with an outer door 9 that is movable left and right along a front plate 2a of the main body case 2 is provided on one side above the table 8. .

An inner door 11 is provided at the front opening of each of the storage boxes 3 so as to be movable left and right substantially in parallel with the outer door 9.

Each of the storage boxes 3 is connected to the chain 6 via a connecting arm 13 that is rotatably connected to a support shaft 12 provided on both left and right sides of the storage box 3, while the support shaft 12 on one side of the storage box 3 is connected to the chain 6. A V-shaped support arm 14 in a side view is non-rotatably provided, and one of a pair of roller-shaped engaging portions 14a at the tip of the support arm 14 is provided with a vertical longitudinal straight portion and a substantially arcuate portion at a vertical position. It is configured to be engaged and guided by a guide rail 15 composed of and so that each storage box 3 can move up and down in a horizontal state.

The guide rail 15 is arranged at a position facing one side surface of the storage box 3. Reference numeral 16 is an auxiliary guide rail vertically arranged along the chains 6 and 6 between the pair of upper and lower chain sprockets 5 and 5. At the auxiliary guide rail 16, a guide roller 17 at the tip of the connecting arm 13 is covered. It is fitted and guided.

When a command button (not shown) on the command panel 18 on the front of the main body case 2 is pressed to call a specific storage box 3, the central controller 19 controls the motor 7 to rotate in either the forward or reverse direction, thereby moving the articles in or out. The storage box 3 is configured to move from above or below toward the article loading / unloading port 10 via a path close to the port 10 and stop there.

Reference numeral 20 is a driving means for opening and closing the outer door 9, and a pulling chain 22 along a pair of upper and lower guide rail bodies 21 arranged along the upper edge of the inner surface of the article loading / unloading port 10.
Is wound around a pair of left and right chain sprockets 23, 23, and an appropriate portion of the pulling chain 22 is connected via an upper surface locking body 24 of the outer door 9, and a control motor 25 causes an electromagnetic brake and a reduction mechanism 26 with a clutch. Timing belt 2
One of the chain sprockets 23 through 7, 27
Drive forward and reverse.

Reference numeral 28 is an upper frame 30 located in front of the guide rail.
A sliding piece 31 made of synthetic resin or the like for guiding the upper side of the outer door 9 is fitted on the upper rail 28 by the upper rail attached to the upper rail 28.

Reference numeral 32 is a suspension rail provided near the front edge of the upper plate 3a of each of the storage boxes 3, and a lower rail 32a of the suspension rail 32 is fixed to the storage box 3 and the middle rail 3
The upper rail 32c is fixed to the lower surface of the upper edge of the inner door 11 via 2b.

Reference numeral 33 is a guide piece fixed to the upper surface of the upper plate 3a of the housing box 3 in parallel with the suspension rail 32. The positioning piece 34 is attached to one side of the upper end of the inner door 11 and a downward spring biased ball at the lower end of the positioning body 34 is a guide piece. The open position and the closed position of the inner door 11 can be regulated by fitting into the recesses 35 formed near the left and right ends of the upper surface of the inner wall 33, respectively.

Further, reference numeral 36 is a guide rail that guides the lower end of the inner door 11 to the left and right, and reference numeral 37 is a rotating roller fitted and inserted in the guide rail 36.

A first embodiment of the engaging means capable of engaging both the inner door 11 and the outer door 9 with each other is provided at one end of the inner door 11 as shown in FIGS. 5, 7, and 8. Vertical communication type vertical groove 38
A structure in which the attached door 39 and the projection 40 that can be inserted into the engagement member 39 are provided on the outer door 9 so that the inner door 11 and the outer door 9 can integrally move left and right. Is.

That is, in the state where the outer door 9 is closed so as to cover the article loading / unloading port 10, with respect to the protrusion 40 attached to this,
The vertical groove 38 of the engaging body 39 in the inner door 11 of the ascending or descending storage box 3 can pass through.

Then, when the storage box 3 stops at 10 locations of the article loading / unloading port, the protrusion 40 of the outer door 9 is located in the vertical groove 38 location of the engaging body 39 of the inner door 11 of the storage box 3, so that the outer door When 9 is opened and moved, the inner door 11 is also opened and moved via the engaging means.

Another embodiment of the engaging means is shown in FIG. 9, and in this embodiment, a projection body that appears directly or indirectly by an electromagnetic solenoid 41 provided on the inner surface of the outer door 9 or through a lever link mechanism or the like. 42 may be configured to be insertable into an upper and lower communication type engaging body 39 with a vertical groove 38 provided at one end of the inner door 11.

In this embodiment, when the electromagnetic solenoid 41 is turned on, the projection 42 projects and is inserted into the vertical groove 38, and when the electromagnetic solenoid 41 is off, the projection 42 is held in the retracted state. The boxes 3 do not interfere with each other when moving up and down.

Further, it may be configured such that the same protrusions as those in the above two embodiments are provided on the inner door 11 side, and the vertically communicating type vertical grooved engagement bodies are provided on the outer door 9 side.

As still another embodiment of the engaging means, an electromagnet may be provided on either the inner door 11 or the outer door 9, and an iron piece capable of being attracted to the electromagnet may be fixed on the other door.

Reference numeral 44 denotes a shelf plate laid on the bottom plate 3b of each storage box 3 so as to be movable back and forth along a slider 45 made of slippery synthetic resin or the like, and the shelf plate 44 is L-shaped in a side view. At the rear end of the flat plate having the shape, that is, the thickness dimension (H), a backward fall prevention fence plate 44a is provided upright.

Reference numeral 46 is a pull tab that is formed in a recess near the front edge of the shelf board 44.

Further, reference numeral 47 is a positioning body for restricting the front and rear drawing position of the shelf board 44, and a ball urged by an upward spring of the lower end of the positioning board 47 is a recess formed in the lower surface of the shelf board 44 near the front and rear ends. By fitting each into the 48, the pull-out position and the push-in position of the shelf board 44 can be regulated.

Further, reference numerals 49 and 50 denote the storage box identification markers 51 attached to the storage boxes 3 in order to stop the storage boxes 3 at a predetermined height position at the article loading / unloading port 10.
The photoelectric sensor 49 at the lower position is a photoelectric sensor that is sensitive to, and can be stopped at a position where the upper surface of the shelf board 44 of the storage box 3 is substantially the same as the upper surface of the table 8 or slightly lower.

On the other hand, the photoelectric sensor 50 at the higher position is for stopping the shelf plate 44 in the storage box 3 close to the upper surface of the table 8 at a high position where it can be pulled out, as shown by the chain double-dashed line in FIG. .

Various choices of operation of these photoelectric sensors can be considered as described later.

Further, reference numeral 52 is an illuminating lamp such as an incandescent lamp mounted in the main body case 2 in the vicinity of the article loading / unloading port 10. The illuminating lamp 52 faces each illuminating lamp 52 with a multi-hole or a transparent hole at an appropriate position of the side plate 3c. Window 5 for lighting with a light plate
3 is provided so that the light from the illuminating lamp 52 enters the housing box 3 through the window 53.

The illuminating lamp 52 is configured such that the central control unit 19 can stop the arbitrary housing box 3 at the article loading / unloading port 10 and irradiate light by turning on the current only when the inner door 11 is open.

Then, in order to take an article in and out, a predetermined accommodation box 3 is called by a command button at 18 places on the command panel.

By this command, the chain 6 is driven by the control of the central control device 19 until the predetermined storage box 3 stops at the back side of the article loading / unloading port 10. In that case, the location of the protrusion 40 protruding from the inner surface of the outer door 9 The engaging body 39 in each of the storage boxes
The vertical groove 38 of the above does not interfere with each other.

The mark of the containing box identifying marker 51 is displayed on the photoelectric sensor 49.
Alternatively, when the storage box 3 is read at 50 and senses that it is a predetermined storage box 3, and the storage box 3 is stopped so as to face the outer door 9 of the article loading / unloading port 10, the protrusion 40 and the engagement body 39 are vertically moved. The groove 38 is overlapped.

In this state, when the outer door 9 is opened by an opening command of the outer door 9, the inner door 11 is also opened integrally with the engaging means, so that the articles on the table 8 are opened at the front of the storage box 3. It is only necessary to push it from the inside or take out the article from the storage box 3.

Even when the outer door 9 is closed, the outer door 9 and the inner door 11 are integrally moved via the engaging means in the same manner as described above, so that the opening and closing work thereof is simplified.

There are two types of selection of the stop height position of the storage box 3 described above, that is, it is automatically executed by the control software installed in the central controller 19 beforehand, and that it is possible by an operator's operation.

The first selection is when the articles are stored on the command panel 18 (when the storage box 3 having no articles inside is selected).
When the command button of No. 1 is pressed, only the photoelectric sensor 49 at the lower position operates, and conversely, when the command button of the command to take out the necessary article is pressed, only the photoelectric sensor 50 at the higher position operates. Control.

In this case, when storing the article, it becomes easy to slide the article along the upper surface of the table 8 and place it on the shelf plate 44 of the storage box 3, while when the article is taken out from the storage box 3, With the plate 44 pulled out onto the table 8 (see the chain double-dashed line in FIG. 7), the articles can be transferred onto the table 8, and it is not necessary to put a hand behind the storage box 3. Therefore, the work of taking out the article becomes extremely easy.

In the second selection, the article to be handled is once placed on the weight detector 56 provided at an appropriate position on the upper surface of the table 8, its weight is measured, and the measurement result of the weight is determined by the central controller 19.
When the weight is stored and it is determined that a certain weight or more is a heavy weight, the photoelectric sensor 50 is operated so as to stop the storage box 3 at a high position, and the shelf board 44 is used as a table in both cases of loading and unloading articles. 8 and the photoelectric sensor 49 so as to stop the containing box 3 at a low position when it is determined that the article is light.
When is operated and stopped, the article can be pushed along the upper surface of the table 8.

According to this selection control, it is possible to transfer the article between the shelf plate 44 and the table 8 with less labor than sliding the heavy object on the table 8.

The third selection is to push the selection button (not shown) on the command panel 18 in response to the operator's request, and then the storage box 3
This is a case where it is selected to stop in both the high position and the low position.

If the operator can make the selection even after the first or second selection control is executed, the work becomes more convenient.

The present invention can also be applied to an embodiment in which shelf plates 44 that can be moved back and forth are arranged in a plurality of upper and lower stages in the housing box 3. In that embodiment, the upper and lower shelves are used. On the other hand, it suffices if it is configured so that the same selection as described above can be made.

In addition, reference numerals 54a and 54b and 55a and 55b represent the storage box 3
A light-transmissive photoelectric sensor for determining whether or not the front part of the article to be stored inside protrudes from the front edge of the storage box. When the article protrudes, the outer door 9 and the inner door 11 Is prohibited from operating in the closing direction.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 1 is a front view of an article storage device, Fig. 2 is a side sectional view, and Fig. 3 is III-III of Fig. 1.
FIG. 4 is an enlarged side view of FIG. 4, and FIG. 4 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line IV-IV of FIG.
FIG. 5 is an enlarged plan view of an essential part of the article loading / unloading port, FIG. 6 is a front view as seen from VI-VI in FIG. 5, and FIG. 7 is VII-VII in FIG.
FIG. 8 is an enlarged side sectional view of a main part of the engaging means, and FIG. 9 is a side sectional view showing another embodiment of the engaging means. 1 ... Article storage device, 2 ... Main body case, 3 ... Storage box, 4 ... Drive device, 5 ... Chain sprocket, 6
…… Chain, 8 …… Table, 9 …… Outer door, 10 ……
Item entrance / exit, 11 …… Inner door, 18 …… Command panel,
19 ... Central control unit, 22 ... Tension chain, 25 ...
... control motor, 28 ... upper rail, 32 ... suspension rail, 34, 47 ... positioning body, 38 ... vertical groove, 39 ... engaging body, 40, 42 ... projection body, 44 ...
Shelf, 45 ... Slider, 46 ... Puller, 49,50
...... Photoelectric sensor, 52 ...... illumination lamp, 53 ...... window, 56
...... Weight detector.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. An article in which a front opening of a storage box arbitrarily selected from storage boxes which are vertically connected to an endless belt in a main body case and cyclically move vertically is opened in the main body case. In the article storage device configured to stop facing the loading / unloading port, in the main body case, a horizontal table is projected in front of the lower end edge of the loading / unloading port, while in each of the storage boxes, A shelf board that can be pulled out forward and backward is provided, and a stop position of the arbitrary storage box is set such that a top surface of the storage board in the storage box is substantially flush with the table top surface and a lower surface of the shelf board is an upper surface of the table. An article storage device characterized in that it is configured so that it can be selected at a position where it can be pulled out of the shelf board in the vicinity of.