JPH0764430B2 - Bookbinding logistics system - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a physical distribution system for bookbinding.

[Conventional technology]

In the bookbinding machine, the completed bookbinding is bundled in a predetermined number of copies by a binding machine, and the bound booklet is loaded on a pallet and conveyed to a booklet warehouse, but the above-mentioned work is conventionally done manually. .

However, mechanization and automation are being promoted for the purpose of improving work efficiency and reducing labor costs, and as a part of this mechanization and automation, loading of bundles of book bundles using robots has been advanced in recent years. There is.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention]

However, it is not possible to stack a plurality of book bundles on a pallet at the same time by using a conventional robot to load the book bundles on a pallet, and a slip sheet for preventing load collapse is set for each stacking stage of book bundles. Is required to be manually operated, a device such as a pallet magazine is required, and the next loading work must be stopped until the pallet on which the bundle of finished books has been loaded is unloaded, resulting in low work efficiency. There is such a problem.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above problems, to provide a bookbinding physical distribution system having extremely high work efficiency and capable of reducing labor costs.

[Means for Solving the Problems]

The present invention relates to a physical distribution system for loading a bound book bundle supplied from a bookbinding machine on a pallet in a predetermined pattern, wherein the physical distribution system includes a robot equipped with an arm that can swing and expand and contract in a radial direction. A booklet supply unit for supplying a booklet bundle arranged at an arbitrary position within the operation range of the robot, at least two stacking units for loading the booklet bundle on a pallet, and the book bundle An interleaving paper supply section for supplying interleaving paper inserted between and a pallet supply section for supplying a pallet are arranged in a substantially circular shape,
The robot stacks the bound book and interleaving paper in a predetermined pattern on a pallet transferred from the pallet supply section to one of the stacking section from the book supply section and the interleaving paper supply section. Then, while carrying out the pallet in which the bundle of the book and book has been loaded from the loading section, the same operation as the above operation is repeated on the pallet transferred from the pallet supply section to the other loading section. It is configured so that the bundle of books and slip sheets can be stacked.

[Action]

The robot bundles the bound book and the interleaf in the bound book supply section that supplies the bound book and the interleaf supply section that supplies the interleaf located at any position within the operating range of the robot. A predetermined pattern on a pallet that is held and transferred from one of at least two stacking units disposed at other positions within the operating range from a pallet supply unit disposed within the operating range. Load stacks of bound books and slip sheets. The robot repeats the same operation as above on a pallet arranged in another stacking unit while carrying out the pallet in which the stack of the bundle of completed books is loaded from the stacking unit. Load paper.

〔Example〕

The bookbinding physical distribution system of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 12.

FIG. 1 is a drawing showing the physical distribution in the bookbinding process, in which the printed matter for bookbinding is sent from the printed matter warehouse 1 to the bookbinding machine 2, and the booklet completed by the bookbinding machine 2 is bound by the binding machine 3. The book bundle 6 becomes the book bundle 6, and the book bundle 6 is loaded on the pallet by the robot 41 capable of swinging movement in the bookbinding physical distribution system 4 and carried into the book warehouse 5.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the bookbinding physical distribution system 4 according to the present invention. The bookbinding physical distribution system 4 includes a robot 41,
Mainly the robot 41, which is arranged inside the operating range of the robot 41, for supplying the bound book 6 and the robot 41 for loading the bound book 6 on the pallet 7a or 7b. The robot that supplies the first stacking unit 43a and the second stacking unit 43b that are located substantially on the diameter line, the interleaf paper supply unit 44 that supplies the interleaf paper 8 that is located on the right side of the book supply unit 42, and the pallet 7. A pallet supply unit 45 located on the opposite side of the book supply unit 42 with respect to 41 is provided.

As shown in FIGS. 3, 4, and 5, the robot 41 has a base 411 that can pivot about a vertical direction and an arm support 4 that can vertically slide a side surface of the base 411.
12, an extendable telescopic arm portion 413 protruding horizontally from the arm support portion 412, and the telescopic arm portion 413.
And a hand unit 414 rotatably installed at the tip of the.

The base portion 411 has a mechanism that pivots about a vertical direction and a mechanism that slides the arm support portion 412 in the vertical direction along the side surface thereof. The arm support portion 412 supports a telescopic arm portion 413 protruding in the horizontal direction, and in the illustrated example, the telescopic arm portion 413 has a two-step telescopic function of a first step portion 413a and a second step portion 413b. . A hand portion 414 is rotatably installed at the tip of the telescopic arm portion 413, and the hand portion 4
In the illustrated example, 14 is a drive unit 414a for rotating the hand unit 414.
And a claw portion 414b which has four claws in the horizontal direction and is slidable in the axial direction of the claw, and a claw portion 414b which is provided above the claw portion 414b so as to face each other, together with the claw portion 414b. A holding member 414c which is provided at four positions which are sandwiched in the horizontal direction and which can be operated in the vertical direction, which is provided in the vertical direction, a suction portion 414d which is provided at the base portion of the claw portion 414b and holds the interleaving paper 8 by suction, and a horizontal portion of the hand portion backplate 414f and the pressing member fixed vertically to the frame f ₁
And a cylinder 414e for vertically moving the 414c in and out. The claw portion 414b is supported by the vertical frame f _2, the vertical frame f ₂ is movable in the transverse direction by a ball screw mechanism (not shown) along the horizontal frame f _1, the ball screw is driven by a motor M It

In the robot 41 as described above, the base 411 is swung, the arm support 412 is moved up and down, the telescopic arm 413 is extended and retracted, the hand 414 is rotated, and the pressing member 414c is operated according to the work purpose. The operation of the suction unit 414d is appropriately performed.

The book supply section 42 supplies the book binding product 6 obtained by binding the book binding completed by the bookbinding machine 2 by the binding machine 3 into the operation range of the robot 41. As shown in FIG. 6 to FIG. 8, the book supply unit 42 includes a large number of rollers 421 (421a, 421b, 421c, 421d, 421e, 421f, 421g), and the bound book 6 sent from the binding machine 3 moves on the roller 421, and stoppers 424a, 424b installed at the tip of the bound book supply section 42. Is locked in place by. Further, the bundled product bundle supply section 42 moves on the rollers 421 in a two-row state near the leading end thereof, and a guide plate 422 for laterally positioning the bundled product bundle 6 and an alignment for moving in the horizontal direction. It has plates 423a and 423b. The bundled product 6 divided into right and left by the guide plate 422
Are pressed against the guide plate 422 by the alignment plates 423a and 423b to be aligned.

The book bundle 6 arranged in this manner is
As shown in FIG. 8 and FIG. 8, the rollers 421 are clamped by the claw portions 414b and the pressing members 414c inserted into the gap formed by the intermediate portion of the rollers 421 and the bound book 6.

Further, the bundled product supply unit 42 may be the one shown in FIGS. 9 to 11. In this case, the book bundle binding unit 42 is provided with a roller 425 (425a, 425b, 425c, 425a, 425b, 425c, in the illustrated example) extending in a direction orthogonal to the flow direction of the book bundle 6.
425d, 425e), which is a stopper that is moved from the binding machine 3 and that moves on the roller 425 and that is installed at the tip of the bound book supply unit 42 and that is vertically movable. Locked in place by 426. In addition, the book bundle supply unit 42 is provided with a pusher near the tip end thereof.
It has 427, a guide plate 428a, and an alignment plate 428b. The pusher 427 pushes the roller 42 by the pusher elevator 429.
Ascending vertically from between 5 and pushing up the book binding product 6 locked at the predetermined position as described above, the claw portion 414b is placed between the work binding product 6 and the roller 425. Form a gap that can be inserted. That is, the robot 41 can appropriately rotate the hand portion 414 to insert the claw portion 414b into the lower portion of the bundled book 6 from the axial direction of the roller 425.

Before the push-up 427 pushes up the book-bound product 6, the product-bundle 6 is usually pressed by the aligning plate 428b against the guide plate 428a to be aligned.

The loading section 43 may be located at any position within the operating range of the robot 41, and in FIG. 2, it is composed of two parts, a first loading section 43a and a second loading section 43b. Pallets 7a and 7b are transferred from the pallet supply unit 45 to the first stacking unit 43a and the second stacking unit 43b.

The pallet supply unit 45 only needs to have the pallets 7 loaded and installed, and does not need to be a device such as a conventional pallet magazine. In the present invention, the transfer arrangement of the pallets from the pallet supply section 45 to the first stacking section 43a and the second stacking section 43b may be performed manually, but it may also be transferred by the robot 41.

The interleaving paper supply unit 44 may be a stack of interleaving papers having substantially the same area as the pallet.

The above-mentioned book bundle supply unit 42, stacking unit 43, interleaf paper supply unit 4
4, the relative position of the pallet supply unit 45, the number of stacking units 43, and the like may be appropriately determined.

Next, with reference to FIG. 2 and FIG. 12, an example of stacking the bundle of book-made products 6 on the pallet by the robot 41 will be described.

The robot 41 first holds the pallet from the pallet supply unit 45 and transfers the pallet 7a to the first loading unit 43a. Next, in the bundle binding product supply unit 42, the hand unit
A plurality of bookbinding products 6 (usually two or four) are held by 414, and the hand part 41 is held by the interleaf paper supply part 44.
The interleaving paper 8 is adsorbed and held by the adsorbing section 414d of 4. Next, the robot 41 turns to the first loading section 43a and the suction section 414
After the suction of d is stopped and the interleaving paper 8 is set on the pallet 7a, the claw portion 414b is driven by the motor M and the back plate 414f presses the binding object 6 while pulling it backward in the axial direction. The article 6 is placed at a predetermined position, and thereafter the finished book bundle 6 is sequentially loaded from the finished book bundle supply unit 42 onto the pallet 7a in accordance with a predetermined pattern to form the first stage of loading. An example of this predetermined stacking pattern is shown in FIG. 10 in Figure 12
64 ^mm × pattern for most effectively stacked can present unity was 6 940 on the pallet 7 ^mm JIS standard having a bottom of 297 ^mm × 235 ^mm is shown. In FIG. 12, four bundles 6 of book-made books are arranged at positions A (A ₁ , A ₂ , A ₃ and A ₄ ) and positions B (B ₁ , B ₂ ,
B ₃ and B ₄ ) and C position (C ₁ , C ₂ , C ₃ and C ₄ ) are sequentially loaded, and finally, two bundles 6 of booklets are placed at D position (D ₁ and
D ₂ ). In this case, as in the illustrated example, the longitudinal direction of the bookbinding product 6 is orthogonal to the A position and B position and the C position and D position.

After the first stage of stacking is completed in this way, the setting of the interleaving paper 8 and the stacking of the bundle of finished books 6 are repeated by the same operation thereafter to stack up to a predetermined number of stages. By carrying out the above-described series of operations in the second stacking section 43b while the pallet 7a in which the stacking is completed is carried out from the first stacking section 43a, the stacking of the bookbinding unit 6 and the interleaving paper 8 are performed on the pallet 7b. Installation is completed, and while the pallet 7b is unloaded from the second stacking unit 43b, the same operation is repeated again in the first stacking unit 43a, and thereafter, the first stacking unit 43a and the second stacking unit 43b alternate. Carry out loading work.

It should be noted that the pallet on which the above-mentioned bundle of book bundles has been loaded may be carried out manually, but if it is automated by an automated guided vehicle, the work efficiency is improved and the production cost is further reduced.

〔The invention's effect〕

According to the bookbinding physical distribution system of the present invention, a plurality of book bindings can be simultaneously loaded on a pallet by a robot, and interleaving paper can be supplied by the same hand unit.
In addition, it is not necessary to stop the loading work while the pallet in which the bundle of book-made books has been loaded is unloaded from the loading section.
The work efficiency is extremely high.

In addition, the robot transfers the pallets to the loading section,
Alternatively, it is possible to automate the unloading of the pallets on which the bundles of finished books have been loaded by using an automatic guided vehicle or the like, which can further improve work efficiency and reduce production costs.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a drawing showing physical distribution in a bookbinding process, FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing an embodiment of a physical distribution system for bookbinding of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a plan view of a robot used in the present invention, and FIG. The same side view, FIG. 5 is a front view of the hand part of the robot, FIG. 6 is a side view of the book binding supply part used in the bookbinding physical distribution system shown in FIG. 2, and FIG. FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the book bundle supply section, FIG. 8 is a front view of the same book bundle supply section,
FIG. 9 is a side view of another bundled book supply unit for use in the bookbinding distribution system shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 10 is a perspective view of the bundled book bundle supply unit, and FIG. 11 is the same. FIG. 12 is a front view of the bundled product bundle supply unit, and FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a pattern for loading bundled product bundles on a pallet. 4 …… Bookbinding distribution system, 41 …… Robot, 42 …… Finished book bundle supply section, 43 …… Loading section, 44 …… Interleaf paper supply section, 45
...... Pallet supply section, 6 ... Bundled product, 7 ... Pallet, 8 ... Slip sheet.

Front Page Continuation (72) Inventor Shigeo Katsu, 1 Hishimachi, Inazawa, Aichi Mitsubishi Electric Co., Ltd. Inazawa Manufacturing (56) Reference JP 60-87128 (JP, A) JP 61-291321 ( JP, A) JP-A-61-291322 (JP, A)

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. In a physical distribution system for loading a bound book bundle supplied from a bookbinding machine on a pallet in a predetermined pattern, the physical distribution system includes a robot having a swingable arm and a radially expandable and contractible arm. A booklet supply section for supplying a booklet bundle arranged at an arbitrary position within the operation range of the robot; at least two stacking sections for loading the booklet bundle on a pallet; An interleaving paper supply unit for supplying interleaving paper to be inserted between the bundles and a pallet supply unit for supplying pallets are arranged in a substantially circular shape, and the robot is configured to operate from the book supply unit and the interleaving paper supply unit. The bound book and the interleaving paper are loaded in a predetermined pattern on the pallet transferred from the pallet supply section to any one of the loading sections, and the loading of the bound book is completed. Loading the book bundle and interleaving paper by repeating the same operation as the above operation on a pallet that is transferred from the pallet supply unit to another stacking unit while the tray is being carried out from the stacking unit. A bookbinding logistics system characterized by: 2. A base part on which the robot can turn about a vertical axis, an arm support part capable of vertically sliding on a side surface of the base part, and an extendable telescopic arm projecting horizontally from the arm support part. 2. The bookbinding physical distribution system according to claim 1, further comprising a section and a hand section rotatably installed at a tip of the telescopic arm section. 3. The bookbinding physical distribution system according to claim 2, wherein the hand portion has a claw portion for holding the bookbinding product and a pressing member. 4. The bookbinding physical distribution system according to claim 2, wherein the hand portion has a suction portion for holding a slip sheet. 5. The bookbinding physical distribution system according to claim 4, wherein the suction section has an air suction mechanism. 6. The bookbinding physical distribution system according to claim 1, wherein the robot transfers pallets from the pallet supply unit to the stacking unit. 7. The stacking unit comprises a first stacking unit and a second stacking unit.
7. The stacking unit comprises one loading section.
The bookbinding physical distribution system according to any one of 1.