Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a pipe needle sorting device, which adopts the following technical scheme that:
The utility model provides a pipe needle sorting equipment, includes frame and letter sorting wheel, the letter sorting wheel rotates to be connected in the frame, is driven rotatory by driving motor, defines the pivot of this letter sorting wheel as first pivot, and the axial of this first pivot is fore-and-aft direction, and vertical direction is the upper and lower direction;
the pipe needle sorting equipment comprises a pipe needle counting and feeding device and a pipe needle receiving device;
the pipe needle counting and feeding device comprises a feeding box and a sensing counter;
The feeding box is positioned on the frame, the upper end of the feeding box is opened to serve as a feeding hole, the lower end of the feeding box is opened to serve as a discharging hole, the discharging hole is arranged corresponding to the sorting wheel, and in a corresponding arrangement state, the discharging hole is attached to one position on the surface of the sorting wheel, and surrounds a needle groove on the surface of the sorting wheel for feeding the sorting wheel;
the pipe needle receiving device comprises a conveying turntable and a plurality of hoppers;
The conveying turntable is driven to rotate by a stepping motor controlled by the control circuit, and is rotatably arranged on the frame, and a rotating shaft of the conveying turntable is defined as a second rotating shaft, and the axial direction of the second rotating shaft is in the up-down direction;
the upper ends of the hoppers are open to serve as material receiving openings, when the sorting wheel is in operation, the hoppers are driven to move to the material receiving positions below the material receiving openings successively through the conveying rotary table, and when the hoppers are located at the material receiving positions, the material receiving openings of the hoppers are aligned with the material receiving openings of the sorting wheel in the up-down direction.
Further, the stylet counting and feeding device also comprises an adjusting plate and a guide rail;
The adjusting plate is assembled in the feeding box in a sliding way along the front-back direction, a feeding space with adjustable front-back width is divided into the feeding box, and the width refers to the distance between the adjusting plate and the inner wall of the feeding box in the front-back direction;
the guide rail positioning paste is established the circumference surface of letter sorting wheel, the guide rail upper end with the discharge gate of feeding box corresponds, and the guide rail lower extreme corresponds with the feed opening of letter sorting wheel, the sensor counter location is in the guide rail lower extreme.
Further, the feeding box is in a prismatic frustum funnel shape, a larger opening is a feeding hole, a smaller opening is a discharging hole, the funnel is positioned on the frame, and the funnel is arranged above the sorting wheel in a mode that the feeding hole faces upwards and the discharging hole faces downwards and corresponds to the sorting wheel;
The regulating plate is a trapezoid plate, the wide bottom of the trapezoid plate is matched with the feeding hole of the feeding box, the narrow bottom of the trapezoid plate is matched with the discharging hole of the feeding box, and the regulating plate is assembled in the feeding box;
The guide rail is provided with a semicircular cambered surface, the semicircular cambered surface is attached to the sorting wheel and is arranged beside the circumferential surface on one side which moves from top to bottom, the upper end of the semicircular cambered surface corresponds to the discharge hole, and the lower end of the semicircular cambered surface corresponds to the discharge hole.
The pipe needle sorting equipment further comprises a base, wherein the base is positioned on the frame in a sliding mode, the sliding direction is the front-back direction, the feeding box, the sensing counter and the guide rail are fixedly arranged on the base, and the sorting wheel is rotatably positioned on the base.
Further, the base is provided with a slotted hole at the connection part of the base and the frame, and the length of the slotted hole is arranged along the front-back direction.
The hopper is in a bucket shape, the shovel openings of the shovel are correspondingly arranged on the jacking bolts one by one, so that the shovel is positioned on the hopper placing surface in an inclined state, the conveying turntable is provided with a plurality of hopper positioning grooves, one jacking bolt is arranged in each hopper positioning groove, and the shovel openings of the shovel are correspondingly positioned in the hopper positioning grooves one by one.
Further, each hopper constant head tank has all seted up the light-transmitting mouth along upper and lower direction in the frame, be equipped with photoelectric sensor in the frame, photoelectric sensor arrange in carry carousel below and with control circuit electric connection, when carrying the carousel in the rotation, each hopper constant head tank moves to photoelectric sensor top one by one, and when hopper constant head tank is located photoelectric sensor top, photoelectric sensor is counterpointed with the light-transmitting mouth of each hopper constant head tank in upper and lower direction.
The relevant content explanation in the technical scheme is as follows:
1. In the above scheme, the sensing counter is used for replacing manual or weighing counting, the sensing counter can be an opposite-emission optical fiber sensing counter, the optical fiber sensing counter is arranged in the feed opening, and when the pipe needle falls down to pass through the opposite-emission optical fiber sensing counter, the optical fiber sensing counter sends a counting signal to the control circuit;
The sensing counter can also be a switch counter, and when the tooth tops beside each needle groove of the sorting wheel touch the switch counter, the switch counter sends a counting signal to the control circuit.
2. In the above scheme, the control circuit is used for receiving the counting signal of the sensing counter, and when the counting of the control circuit reaches a threshold value, if the counting is cleared or reaches the upper limit, a control signal is sent to control the stepping motor to control the rotation of the conveying turntable, so that the conveying turntable is stopped or rotated, and each hopper receives the tube needles in batches according to the fixed quantity;
Meanwhile, the control circuit is also used for receiving signals of the photoelectric sensor, when the hopper is not placed in the hopper positioning groove, the photoelectric sensor sends signals to the control circuit, and the control circuit triggers an alarm or the scram of equipment so as to prevent the pipe needle from falling into the hopper;
The control circuit capable of realizing the above functions is the prior art, and the present invention is not described in detail.
3. In the above scheme, in the pipe needle receiving device, the hopper is in a bucket shape, the bucket head is a shovel opening in an open state, a groove for containing the pipe needle is arranged in the middle of the bucket, and the opening of the groove faces upwards to form a receiving opening;
the open mouth that is the receiving mouth has been seted up to the hopper upper end for receive the stylet that falls from the feed opening, the stylet is placed in the recess of hopper in the transportation, has reduced the stylet and has lost the probability because of equipment shake in the transportation.
4. In the above scheme, be equipped with the jack-up bolt on the transport carousel, when the hopper was placed on the transport carousel, the spillway of hopper was set up on the jack-up bolt for the spillway is raised, originally the recess of hopper is opened the state that the three sides was enclosed for one side all around, its opening is the spillway promptly, under the state that the spillway was raised, its recess is the state of surrounding all around, promptly by except that the three-sided recess wall of spillway and four faces that the shovel end of slope constitutes surround, when this when the pipe needle falls into the recess of hopper, can not roll everywhere because of shake or unevenness, moreover the spillway that the hopper one side was opened is convenient to pour pipe needle wherein when packing.
5. In the scheme, in the tubular needle receiving device, the upper surface of the conveying turntable is a hopper placing surface, and hopper locating grooves are formed in the hopper placing surface, and each hopper locating groove is internally provided with a hopper;
The hopper locating groove can be a concave structure on the hopper placing surface, the groove bottom plane of the hopper locating groove is lower than the hopper placing surface, the hopper locating groove can also be a basin-shaped structure on the hopper placing surface, the bottom surface of the hopper locating groove is equal to or higher than the hopper placing surface, and the periphery of the hopper locating groove is a fence structure, so that the hopper is surrounded and located in the hopper locating groove.
6. In the above-mentioned scheme, among the pipe needle count feeding device, the regulating plate cuts apart a width adjustable reinforced space with the feed box inside to this when adding the pipe needle, the operator can adjust the width in reinforced space around, makes the pipe needle of its different length of adaptation, this width refers to regulating plate and feed box inner wall interval in the fore-and-aft direction, when the pipe needle falls into the reinforced space, the pipe needle is with its length direction along the state of fore-and-aft direction, put into the feed inlet, when pipe needle length and this width assorted time, can avoid when pipe needle length is less than the charge door width, the scattered condition that produces the card material of pipe needle pan feeding.
7. In the above scheme, in the tube needle counting and feeding device, the guide rail is positioned and attached to the circumferential surface of the sorting wheel, the upper end corresponds to the discharge port, the lower end corresponds to the blanking port, and the size of a gap corresponding to the two ends of the guide rail is smaller than the diameter of the tube needle, so that when the tube needle falls into a needle groove of the sorting wheel and is brought to the lower blanking port from the discharge port above, the guide rail can block one side of an opening of the needle groove on the sorting wheel, and the tube needle cannot be separated from a trough of the sorting wheel in the process of rotating from the discharge port to the blanking port;
when the pipe needle moves to the lower end of the guide rail along with the sorting wheel and the blocking limit of the guide rail is lost, the pipe needle can fall off from the needle groove, so that the lower end of the guide rail is the position of the blanking opening.
8. In the scheme, in the tube needle counting and feeding device, the tube needle counting and feeding device is fixedly arranged on the base, the base is in sliding positioning connection with the frame through the long round hole, in the connection state, the bolt is in threaded connection with the frame through the long round hole, and when the base is moved, the position of the base relative to the frame can be changed by only loosening the bolt to enable the base to slide back and forth relative to the bolt;
The sliding positioning mode of the base and the frame can also be that a plurality of threaded holes are formed in the base along the front-back direction, a plurality of threaded holes are correspondingly formed in the frame on the sliding path of the base, and the base is connected with the different threaded holes of the frame through bolts so as to change the position of the base on the frame.
9. In the above scheme, among the pipe needle receiving device, be equipped with the light-passing hole in the hopper constant head tank, the light-passing hole below is fixed with photoelectric sensor, photoelectric sensor is prior art for detect hopper in the hopper constant head tank, when the operator uses the hopper to carry out the packing operation of pipe needle, if the operator is not in time put back the hopper, then when the hopper constant head tank of vacancy rotates the material receiving position to the discharge gate below, the pipe needle that drops just can scatter out, cause unnecessary loss, therefore when photoelectric sensor detects not placing the hopper in the hopper constant head tank, its signal can pass to control circuit, control circuit connects alarm or the scram switch of equipment, make alarm or carry the carousel stop rotation, thereby reduce the loss that the error of operator brought.
The working principle of the invention is as follows:
Under the working state, the sorting wheel is driven by the driving motor to rotate by taking the front and back directions as a rotating shaft, the conveying turntable rotates by taking the upper and lower directions as rotating shafts, the pipe needles enter from a feeding hole of the feeding box and pass through a feeding space separated by an adjusting plate in the feeding box, the pipe needles slide into needle grooves of the sorting wheel one by one from a discharging hole of the feeding box, the pipe needles rotate along with the sorting wheel in the needle grooves, and in the rotating process, the guide rail is attached to one side of the sorting wheel, which rotates from top to bottom, of the pipe needles are prevented from falling from the sorting wheel;
The pipe needle receiving device is positioned below the blanking port, the stepping motor drives the conveying turntable to drive each hopper to sequentially move to a receiving position below the blanking port of the sorting wheel in a working state, and when the hopper is positioned at the receiving position, the receiving port of the hopper is aligned with the blanking port of the sorting wheel in the up-down direction, so that the hopper can receive the pipe needle when the pipe needle falls down;
When one of the hoppers stops on the receiving position to receive the pipe needles, the stepping motor pauses to drive the conveying turntable, so that the hoppers are temporarily stationary relative to the blanking opening, the pipe needles fall from the blanking opening, the pipe needles pass through the sensing counter in the falling process, and the sensing counter sends a signal to the control circuit once every time the pipe needles pass through the pipe needles, so that the count is increased by one;
When the count reaches the upper limit, the control circuit controls the stepping motor to drive the conveying turntable to rotate, so that the hopper with a batch of pipe needles is removed from the receiving position, the count is cleared after the hopper is removed, and the control circuit drives the conveying turntable to rotate by the empty stepping motor to drive the next empty hopper to move towards the receiving position;
When the next empty hopper reaches the receiving position, the stepping motor pauses driving the conveying turntable again, so that the empty hopper is stopped on the receiving position, the pipe needle continues to fall down and count again until the count reaches the upper limit, and the material is circularly fed;
In the conveying state, the hopper is positioned in the hopper positioning groove, the shovel opening of the hopper is lifted by the jacking bolt, and in the lifting state of the shovel opening, the groove in the bucket is in a surrounding state, namely is surrounded by the groove walls of the three sides of the bucket and the inclined shovel bottom, so that when a pipe needle falls into the groove of the hopper, the pipe needle cannot roll around due to shaking or unevenness, the shovel opening on one side of the hopper conveniently pours out the pipe needle when packaging, and the hopper positioning groove enables the hopper not to roll over due to shaking or instability of equipment, so that the risk of scattering the pipe needle is reduced;
When the hopper is conveyed to the packaging position, an operator takes the hopper to package the pipe needles in the hopper, the empty hopper is returned after the packaging is finished, the empty hopper is returned to the material level along with the conveying turntable, the dropped pipe needles are continuously connected, and if the hopper is not returned by mistake, a sensor below the empty hopper sends a signal to a control circuit, and the control circuit controls an alarm to alarm or controls a driving motor to stop rotating the sorting wheel.
The invention has the following advantages:
1. The material is difficult to block, and the regulating plate is arranged in the feed inlet, and the regulating plate is matched with the pipe needle by regulating the width, so that the phenomenon that the pipe needle is mutually collided and blocked in the falling process of the pipe needle due to overlarge feeding space is avoided.
2. The transportation is stable, and the bucket-shaped design of the hopper ensures that the pipe needle can not roll around in the transportation process, so that the pipe needle is more stable in the transportation process.
3. The counting is accurate, and compared with manual counting and weighing counting, the optical fiber sensing counter is faster and more accurate.
Detailed Description
The invention is further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples:
Examples the present invention will be described in detail in the drawings and detailed description below, and any person skilled in the art, after having the knowledge of the examples of the present invention, may make variations and modifications in the techniques taught by the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure. Singular forms such as "a," "an," "the," and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, as used herein.
The terms "first," "second," and the like, as used herein, do not denote a particular order or sequence, nor are they intended to be limiting, but rather are merely used to distinguish one element or operation from another in the same technical term.
As used herein, "connected" or "positioned" may refer to two or more components or devices in physical contact with each other, or indirectly, or in operation or action with each other.
As used herein, the terms "comprising," "including," "having," and the like are intended to be open-ended terms, meaning including, but not limited to.
The term (terms) as used herein generally has the ordinary meaning of each term as used in this field, in this disclosure, and in the special context, unless otherwise noted. Certain terms used to describe the disclosure are discussed below, or elsewhere in this specification, to provide additional guidance to those skilled in the art in light of the description of the disclosure.
The terms "front", "rear", "upper", "lower", "left", "right" and the like used herein are directional terms, and are merely used to describe positional relationships among the structures in the present application, and are not intended to limit the specific directions of the present application in protecting reactions and practical implementations.
Referring to fig. 1 to 9, a stylet sorting apparatus comprises a frame 1, a sorting wheel 2, a base 16, a stylet counting and feeding device and a stylet receiving device, wherein the sorting wheel 2 is rotationally positioned on the base 16 and is driven to rotate by a driving motor 24, the driving motor 24 and the stylet counting and feeding device are positioned on the base 16, and the base 16 and the stylet receiving device are both positioned on the frame 1;
The base 16 is provided with a slotted hole 17 at the connection part with the frame 1, and the length of the slotted hole 17 is arranged along the front-back direction, so that the base 16 is positioned on the frame along the front-back direction in a sliding way;
the rotation axis of the sorting wheel 2 is defined as a first rotation axis 3, the axial direction of the first rotation axis 3 is the front-back direction, the vertical direction is the up-down direction, and the direction perpendicular to the first rotation axis 3 in the horizontal plane is the left-right direction.
As shown in fig. 3 to 5, the stylet counting and feeding device comprises a feed box 4, a sensing counter 5, an adjusting plate 14 and a guide rail 15;
A plurality of needle grooves 23 are uniformly distributed on the circumferential surface of the sorting wheel 2, the upper end of the circumferential surface provided with the needle grooves 23 in the up-down direction is a feeding hole, and the lower end is a discharging hole 8;
The feeding box 4 is positioned on the base 16, the feeding box 4 is in a prismatic funnel shape, a larger opening of the feeding box is upwards opened, the feeding box is a feeding hole 6, a smaller opening of the feeding box is downwards opened, the hopper is arranged above the sorting wheel 2, the feeding hole 6 is upwards, the discharging hole 7 is downwards and correspondingly stuck on a feeding hole of the sorting wheel 2, and the discharging hole 7 surrounds a needle slot of the sorting wheel 2 at the feeding hole, so that a pipe needle is prevented from leaking in the feeding process;
The adjusting plate 14 is a trapezoid plate, the wide bottom of the trapezoid plate is matched with the feed inlet 6 of the feed box 4, the narrow bottom of the trapezoid plate is matched with the discharge outlet 7 of the feed box 4, the adjusting plate 14 is assembled in the feed box 4, a feeding space with adjustable front-back width is formed in the feed box 4, the adjusting plate 14 is matched with the inner wall of the front side of the feed box 4, the width of the feeding space is changed, the width of the feeding space is matched with the length of a pipe needle, but the length of the feeding space in the left-right direction is unchanged;
A buffer plate 26 is arranged in the feeding box 4, a gap 27 is formed in the narrow bottom of the adjusting plate 14, and when the buffer plate 26 is arranged in the discharge hole 7 of the feeding box 4 and embedded in the gap 27, so that when a pipe needle falls into the feeding box 4, the pipe needle falls onto the buffer plate 26 and rolls into the needle groove 23 of the sorting wheel 2, and damage to the pipe needle caused by too fast falling is avoided;
the guide rail 15 is positioned and attached to the circumferential surface of the sorting wheel 2, the guide rail 15 is provided with a semicircular cambered surface, the semicircular cambered surface is attached to the sorting wheel 2 and is arranged beside the circumferential surface on one side of the sorting wheel, which moves from top to bottom, the upper end of the semicircular cambered surface is in butt joint with the discharge port 7 of the feeding box 4, and the lower end of the semicircular cambered surface is in butt joint with the discharge port 8 of the sorting wheel 2, so that the opening side of the needle groove 23 on the sorting wheel 2 is blocked, and a pipe needle is not separated from the sorting wheel 2 in the rotating process;
The sensing counters 5 are a pair of optical fiber sensing counters electrically connected with the control circuit, wherein one optical fiber sensing counter is arranged at the lower end of the guide rail 15, the other optical fiber sensing counter is fixedly arranged on the base through a bracket, and the two optical fiber sensing counters are positioned in the position of the feed opening 8.
As shown in fig. 6 to 9, the pipe needle receiving device comprises a conveying turntable 9, a plurality of hoppers 10 and a photoelectric sensor 22;
The conveying turntable 9 is driven to rotate by a stepping motor 25 controlled by the control circuit, the stepping motor 25 is arranged on the frame 1, the conveying turntable 9 is rotatably arranged on the stepping motor 25, a rotating shaft of the conveying turntable 9 is defined as a second rotating shaft 11, and the axial direction of the second rotating shaft 11 is in the up-down direction;
The upper surface of the conveying turntable 9 is a hopper placing surface 12, the hopper placing surface 12 is provided with a plurality of hopper positioning grooves 20, the hopper positioning grooves 20 are used for positioning the hopper 10, the groove bottom plane of the hopper positioning grooves is lower than the hopper placing surface 12 in the up-down direction, each hopper positioning groove 20 is internally and respectively connected with a jacking bolt 18 in a threaded manner, each jacking bolt 18 is arranged around the second rotating shaft 11 at equal intervals, the jacking bolts 18 can be lifted up and down through the threaded connection, and the distance between the upper ends of the jacking bolts 18 and the hopper placing surface 12 is adjusted;
The hoppers 10 are bucket-shaped, the shovel openings 19 of the buckets are correspondingly arranged on the jacking bolts 18 one by one, and are positioned in the hopper positioning grooves 20 in an inclined state, so that the buckets are uniformly distributed on the hopper placing surface 12 around the second rotating shaft 11, and the lifting heights of the shovel openings 19 of the buckets can be adjusted when the jacking bolts 18 are lifted up and down;
The photoelectric sensor 22 is fixedly arranged on the frame 1, and the photoelectric sensor 22 is arranged below the conveying turntable 9 and is electrically connected with the control circuit;
the hopper positioning grooves 20 are respectively provided with a light transmission opening 21 along the up-down direction, the light transmission openings 21 are through holes penetrating through the conveying turntable 9 from top to bottom, when the conveying turntable 9 rotates, the hopper positioning grooves 20 are gradually moved to the upper side of the photoelectric sensor 22, and when the hopper positioning grooves 20 are positioned above the photoelectric sensor 22, the photoelectric sensor 22 is aligned with the light transmission openings 21 of the hopper positioning grooves 20 along the up-down direction.
The following description is made with respect to other embodiments and structural variations of the present invention:
1. in the above embodiment, the sensing counter is an optical fiber sensing counter, and may also be a switch sensing counter, where the switch of the switch sensing counter is disposed at the tooth top passing position of the sorting wheel, when one needle slot rotates, the tooth top will touch the switch, so that the switch counter counts, and the structure can also realize the effect of rapid and accurate counting, and such a sensing counter should be included in the present invention, as will be understood and accepted by those skilled in the art.
2. In the above embodiment, the feeding box may be funnel-shaped or rectangular box-shaped, so long as the box-shaped feeding box is opened up and down, and the wall surface of the box-shaped feeding box is provided with a feeding space with adjustable front-back width, which can be matched with the adjusting plate, and the structure of the feeding box is included in the invention, which can be understood and accepted by those skilled in the art.
3. In the above embodiment, the light transmitting opening is a through hole, and may be a light transmitting material embedded in the conveying turntable, such as glass or transparent plastic, which is included in the present invention, as will be understood and accepted by those skilled in the art.
The above embodiments are provided to illustrate the technical concept and features of the present invention and are intended to enable those skilled in the art to understand the content of the present invention and implement the same, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. All equivalent changes or modifications made in accordance with the spirit of the present invention should be construed to be included in the scope of the present invention.