JP2000025939A - Feeder for long agricultural product - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To deliver long agricultural products in respective sorted sections automatically by mounting a collecting and delivering apparatus which receives a lateral line of long agricultural products from the end of an aligning conveyor apparatus and collects and delivers the lateral line of the long agricultural products into a bunch with its alignment attitude maintained. SOLUTION: The respective long agricultural products P are delivered into a collecting and delivering apparatus 12 with each one inserted between the respective blades 1231 of a blade rotating mechanism 123, a bunch of it is brought into contact with a stopper board 122 by the driving rotation of a roller conveyer 121 so that the end of the bunch of long agricultural products may be aligned. The blade rotating mechanisms 123 of two pairs of the collecting and delivering apparatuses 12 are rotated, the bunch of long agricultural products is synchronized from both ends of a delivering conveyor 13 and dropped into a hopper 124 to be collected. The hopper 124 is then moved up to an upward moving position to reduce a dropping impact caused by the collision between long agricultural products P. The hopper 124 is then moved down to the downward moving position, so that the long agricultural products P are transferred into the storage of a carrying-out conveyor.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for supplying a predetermined number of agricultural products sorted in a predetermined sorting category to a packaging device or the like. The present invention relates to an apparatus for supplying long agricultural products with high working efficiency when supplying the same to an apparatus for packaging in a lump.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Sorting and sorting work at a sorting plant for long agricultural products in which a predetermined number of carrots, eggplants, and the like are packaged together is performed in a sorting, measuring, judging, sorting discharging, and packing process. It is almost the same as agricultural products (vegetables), but compared to so-called fruits such as pears, apples, and peaches, it is relatively resistant to impacts, and is packaged in a simple form such as a small bag or a bag. Is common, and the work of grouping is often handled relatively easily.

[0003] For example, for a sorting conveyor for measuring and transporting the required grades and grades of elements and placing and transporting agricultural products for which sorting has been determined, a discharge device for each sorting category and a drawer conveyor corresponding thereto are provided. Further, a work mode is often adopted in which the downstream end of the drawer conveyor is connected to a pool section (reservoir section), and the agricultural products stored in the pool section are manually bagged by the worker while counting the number. This method is significantly different from the fact that even if it is a relatively shock-resistant agricultural product, such as "Mikan", it is common to drop it in a cardboard box with roses. Is attributed to In other words, if you pack long agricultural products by dropping them at random, not only will the appearance of the packed state vary widely compared to spheres but also the appearance of the packaged state will be extremely poor, and bagging using plastic packaging material This is because the packaging material may be damaged.

[0004] However, the manual packaging method has a problem that it is difficult to improve the efficiency because it is troublesome, and it is not easy to secure workers in recent years. A proposal has been made to automate and mechanize the removal of a batch of agricultural products (Japanese Patent Publication No. 6-3).
0743, JP-A-2-4488, JP-A-7
Publication No. 313943).

[0005] In this proposed method, a drawer provided for each sorting section is made to stand by for a sorting conveyor until a predetermined number of agricultural products are discharged and accumulated, and is moved when a batch is discharged. This is an intermittent drawer transfer system, and according to this system, the burden of manually counting a group of packaging units is eliminated, which is advantageous for automation and mechanization of the packaging operation.

[0006] However, this method has further improvements. One of them is that when long products are dropped and discharged from the sorting conveyor onto the drawer that is standing still until the number of batches is reduced, the posture (direction) on the sorting conveyor is not necessarily stable. Agricultural products that cannot be said may change their posture more randomly when they fall.Therefore, there is no guarantee that the posture will be constant even if the number is united on the drawer conveyor. Crossover may be considered, and this causes a problem that it is difficult to apply an automated packaging device at a later stage. Also, due to the temporal relationship between the transport speed of the sorting conveyor and the intermittent operation of the drawer conveyor, the last agricultural product in a batch is discharged and the agricultural products that fall into this sorting category happen to be discharged while the drawer conveyor is operating. If the timing is reached, there is a problem that it is necessary to take countermeasures because the agricultural products cannot be discharged. That is, it is necessary to provide two draw-out conveyors for each sorting section or to provide a path for returning the agricultural products that have passed through to the upstream of the sorting conveyor again.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, the present inventor has determined, after the sorting category has been determined, the long agricultural products of each sorting category that have been discharged in the same category. An object of the present invention is to provide a supply device for long agricultural products which can be automatically sent out to a small bag packaging device or the like in a predetermined number without manual intervention.

[0008] Another object of the present invention is to provide a long agricultural product which can be supplied to a packaging stage such as a small bag packaging apparatus without disturbing the posture of the collective long agricultural product and with its ends aligned. To provide a supply device.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for supplying long agricultural products which can efficiently process a large amount of long agricultural products.

It is another object of the present invention to provide an inexpensive device by realizing the above-described device with a configuration as simple as possible.

[0011]

The above objects are achieved by the invention described in each claim of the present application.

[0012] The invention of a supply apparatus for a long agricultural product according to a first aspect of the present invention is a transport conveyor device for transporting long agricultural products that have been determined to be sorted and sorted sideways in the transport direction, and a part of a transport path of the transport conveyor device. A partition that has a transport track surface that moves in the orthogonal direction from the lower position of the vehicle, and that extends in the transport direction into a plurality of compartments adjacent to the transport track surface in the lateral direction and that accommodates long agricultural products. An aligned conveyor device partitioned by a plurality of units provided along the transport conveyor device so as to discharge long agricultural products of the same sorting section from the transport conveyor device to each of the parallel sections on the alignment conveyor device. After receiving a discharge device and a horizontal row of long produce stored in the parallel section on the sorting conveyor device from the terminal end of the sorting conveyor device, the horizontal row of long produce is removed. Characterized by comprising the as a delivery to the integrated delivery device to be accumulated in a collectively aligned alignment attitude.

In the above-described configuration, various types of transport conveyors for transporting long agricultural products side by side in a horizontal direction with respect to the transport direction can be used. For example, as long as a large number of buckets (pans) are connected to a chain conveyor at regular intervals and endlessly rotate, a bucket conveyor, a belt conveyor, or the like can be used as long as it is applicable to the present invention. Also, it is of course possible to employ a means for adjusting the interval in the conveying direction or an aligning means in the middle of or before the conveyance, if necessary. The purpose of transporting long agricultural products “in a horizontal state” in this transport conveyor device is to continuously transport agricultural products at short intervals in the transport direction. It does not mean that it is in an attitude of °. As long as the posture is substantially horizontal so that it can be discharged to the compartment (storage area) of the next-stage sorting conveyor device, the posture and orientation of the long produce can be corrected by the sorting conveyor device.

The alignment conveyor device arranged perpendicular to the transport conveyor device has a plurality of sections along the transport direction of the transport conveyor device. With respect to this section, this section is partitioned into a plurality of sections in the direction of movement of the track surface. The starting end of the aligning conveyor device may be configured so that long agricultural products are dropped directly below the conveying conveyor device so as to be located immediately below, or may be transported in a case where the product is slanted and slid down. The position may be shifted to the side instead of directly below the conveyor device.
Note that the number of sections is usually the number of packaging units (usually about several) such as packed in small bags, but is not limited to this. Conveyor means constituting this alignment conveyor device,
Normally, a flat belt is preferably used, but a roller conveyor or the like can of course be used. In the case of a flat belt, the "partition" which constitutes the alignment conveyor device together with the conveyor means may be an upward projection extending in the movement direction of the belt itself, or may be fixed and separated from the conveyor means. It can also be provided as a partition wall. In particular, when a fixed partition wall is used, there is an advantage that the posture of a long row of long agricultural products can be adjusted as in the invention of claim 6 described later.

The discharge device employs a configuration corresponding to the form of the transport conveyor device. For example, in the case of a bucket conveyor, it can be configured as a posture changeover switch for tilting each bucket from the transport position to the discharge position. Also, a conventionally known discharge device can be used.

Further, the "accumulating / sending device" in the configuration of the present invention receives the long agricultural products in the aligned state being conveyed from the end portion of the sorting conveyor device, and transfers the products to, for example, a carry-out conveyor device for transferring the products to a packaging stage. It is a means for sending out so as to collectively collectively, and is not particularly limited as long as it fulfills this function, and a hopper mechanism, a belt conveyor mechanism or other various configurations can be used together. Here, "collecting all at once" means changing from a state of being partitioned by a partition or the like to a state in which a predetermined number of long agricultural products come into contact with each other to form a small group by removing the partition. `` Accumulated delivery '' may be performed by dropping a batch of long agricultural products from a sorting conveyor device into a packing box or the like, or may be accumulated on a carry-out conveyor device as described above, For example, the hopper may be interposed and accumulated in the hopper.

According to the present invention, long agricultural products of the same sorting category can be automatically sent out to a packaging stage or the like in a predetermined number without manual intervention. Do not lose your posture.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the above-mentioned invention,
It is characterized by transporting long agricultural products of the same sorting category.

In order to transport long products of the same sorting category on one transport conveyor device, a sorting conveyor used for measuring and judging the sorting category while transporting long agricultural products of a plurality of sorting categories in a mixed manner. Therefore, it is sufficient to sort and discharge to a conveyor device prepared for each sorting section by a discharging device for each sorting section.

According to the present invention, it is suitable for treating a large number of long agricultural products in large quantities, and is particularly effective for constructing equipment having a plurality of sorting conveyors.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the above-mentioned invention,
The transport conveyor device is for transporting long products of different sorts in a mixed manner, and along the transport direction of the transport conveyor device, the sorting conveyor devices that receive the long products of the same sort are arranged for each sort. Features.

As the transport conveyor device according to the present invention, it is possible to use an apparatus corresponding to the above-described sorting conveyor used for measuring and determining the sorting category while transporting a plurality of long agricultural products in the sorting category in a mixed manner. Discharge devices are arranged along the transfer conveyor device (corresponding to a sorting conveyor in this case) by a required number of discharges in a horizontal row to the alignment conveyor device for each sorting division according to the sorting section.

According to the present invention, a facility for packaging and processing a relatively small amount of long agricultural products by omitting the transport conveyor device according to the second aspect, or a facility capable of reducing the processing speed can be provided at low cost.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the above-mentioned invention,
The present invention is characterized by having a carry-out conveyor device that receives a batch of long agricultural products that are sent out and accumulated from the accumulation sending-out device and carries them out to the packaging stage.

According to the present invention, it is possible to appropriately configure equipment in which the packaging device is mechanized and automated.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the above inventions, a plurality of discharge devices for discharging long agricultural products of the same sorting section arranged along the transport conveyor device to the sorting conveyor device are provided on the downstream side of the transport. From upstream to downstream.

According to the present invention, the discharge of one row of long agricultural products discharged from the transport conveyor device to the sorting conveyor device is sequentially discharged from the transport downstream side of the transport conveyor device to the upstream side. The free time between the discharge of the last long produce in one row and the discharge of the first long produce in the next horizontal row can be made sufficiently longer than in the case where the carrying out order is reversed. In addition, the speed and efficiency of the operation of the alignment conveyor device are realized.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in each of the above-mentioned inventions, the horizontal interval between the partitions for partitioning the plurality of sections on the alignment conveyor device is wide at the starting end side for receiving the long produce from the transport conveyor device, and The terminal portion connected to the sending device is provided narrow.

According to the invention, the posture of the long agricultural products moved on the alignment conveyor device is corrected by being guided by the partition for changing the interval, and the plurality of long agricultural products fed into the stacking and sending device intersect. The effect of reducing the possibility of occurrence of the situation is obtained, and the package can be placed in a more uniform posture.

The invention according to claim 7 is characterized in that, in each of the above-mentioned inventions, the collecting and sending apparatus has an end aligning means for aligning one end of the long agricultural product.

As the end aligning means, for example, a long conveyer fed from an aligning conveyer device using a roller conveyer is applied to the leading end wall in the feed direction by rotating the roller, or an aligning means. For example, a long product produced on a belt-type delivery conveyor, which is orthogonal to the conveyor device, is configured to be applied to the tip wall in the feeding direction by another feeding means different from the belt-type conveyor. can do.

According to the present invention, the collective state of the long agricultural products in the carry-out conveyor device for transporting the long agricultural products to the packaging stage is in a state where the end portions are aligned, so that the packing state is further improved.

The invention according to claim 8 is characterized in that, in each of the above-mentioned inventions, the collecting and sending device has means for partitioning adjacent ones of the long agricultural products received from the sorting conveyor device.

The above-mentioned partitioning means can be used, for example, as a delivery means for delivering a batch of long produce in the horizontal direction of the sorting conveyor device.

According to the present invention, for example, since a predetermined number of long agricultural products before being accumulated in the carry-out conveyor device are divided and separated in a horizontal line by the partitioning means or the like, the long agricultural products are accumulated by an automated or mechanized device. There is an advantage that the attitude change of agricultural products can be suppressed.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, in each of the above-mentioned inventions, the accumulation sending device has a sending means for sending long agricultural products for accumulation on one side in the horizontal direction.

According to the present invention, the means for positioning and aligning the longitudinal end of the long agricultural product (the end on the moving front end side of the sorting conveyor) and the direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the sorting conveyor And means for performing the movement can be configured as suitable for each function.

According to a tenth aspect of the present invention, in each of the above-mentioned inventions, the set of the aligning conveyor device and the collecting / sending device connected to the terminal portion thereof is arranged so that the pair of the conveying conveyor device and / or the unloading conveyor device is one. A plurality of sets are provided.

According to the present invention, it is possible to operate the apparatus of the present invention, which is operated by the combination of the transport conveyor apparatus, the unloading conveyor apparatus, and the alignment conveyor apparatus, in the most efficient state.

According to an eleventh aspect of the present invention, in the invention of the tenth aspect, the discharge device for discharging long agricultural products to each of the plurality of aligned conveyor devices arranged in a row in a row is a plurality of the aligned conveyor devices. The long-agricultural products are sequentially discharged from the lowermost section of the conveying conveyor device to the uppermost section.

According to the present invention, the effective use of the discharge time of one row of long agricultural products discharged from the above-mentioned conveyor conveyor to the sorting conveyor, that is, from the discharge of the last long agricultural product of the previous round to the next round. Since the idle time until the discharge of the first long agricultural products can be made longer than in the case where the carrying-out order is reversed, the operation of the sorting conveyor device can be quickly and efficiently realized. .

According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, in the invention of the tenth or eleventh aspect, the position at which a plurality of long products are sent out from the plurality of accumulation sending devices to the unloading conveyor device is determined with respect to the transport direction of the unloading conveyor device. It is characterized in that it is set to deviate from.

According to the present invention, the accumulation of long agricultural products in a lump from a plurality of collecting / sending devices to a carry-out conveyor device,
Feeding can be performed at the same time, thereby simplifying the control and performing the simultaneous work can reduce the number of work steps, thereby shortening the time. In addition, since the interval of the sending time of a batch of long agricultural products sent to the packaging stage can be shortened, the operation efficiency of the packaging device can be improved.

A thirteenth aspect of the present invention is characterized in that, in each of the above-mentioned inventions, the transfer track surface of the alignment conveyor device is intermittently moved.

According to the present invention, it is possible to realize an efficient work in which the time lag between the work of feeding the conveyor and the work of feeding to the packaging stage is eliminated.

According to a fourteenth aspect of the present invention, in each of the above-mentioned inventions, the transport conveyor device discharges the long agricultural products discharged for each sorting category from a plurality of sorting conveyors for measuring and determining the sorting while transporting the long agricultural products. Are combined and transported.

According to the present invention, long agricultural products of the same sorting category, which are conveyed by a plurality of so-called sorting conveyors, can be sorted by a common sorting conveyor device or the like, and the operating efficiency of the packaging device can be improved.

[0048] The feeding device of the present invention comprises ginseng, radish, eggplant,
Long agricultural products such as cucumber and burdock can be used as targets.

[0049]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG.

Embodiment 1 One embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIGS. 1 to 5, wherein FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a path of a supply device 1 from a transport conveyor device to a packaging stage, and FIG. FIG. 3 is a plan view showing the whole of the fruit sorting field including FIG. 1, FIG.
FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along the line CC in FIG.

In FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, reference numeral 2 denotes a sorting conveyor which measures grade / class elements to sort long agricultural products and determines a sorting category by a predetermined judging means. In the example, two lines of sorting conveyors, which form one line with the six sorting conveyors 2, are provided. Reference numeral 201 denotes a measuring device.

Reference numeral 202 denotes a discharge conveyor which sorts and outputs the long agricultural products P from the sorting conveyor 2 so that the long agricultural products in each of the sorting sections are discharged by unillustrated discharge devices provided for each of the sorting sections. In addition, it is branched and connected to the sorting conveyor 2 for each sorting category. In this example, as described above, one discharge conveyor for each sorting section is connected to all the sorting conveyors 2 in the two lines composed of the six sorting conveyor groups.

Numeral 3 is a flat belt type conveyer, in which the long agricultural products P of the same sorting section discharged from the respective sorting conveyors 2 are merged with the above-mentioned two discharge conveyors 202, and supplied through the rowing device 4. It is provided so that it can be transferred to and transferred from one. Note that the rowing device 4 is symmetrically installed so as to form a trough by a pair of belt conveyors 401 and 402 (see FIG. 3), and the long agricultural products P transferred one by one from the combined conveyor 3 are stored in this row. It is arranged to be oriented in a certain direction along the bottom of the conveyor trough.

Reference numeral 5 denotes an automated packaging apparatus, in which the long agricultural products P collected and grouped into a single packaging unit by the supply apparatus 1 are intermittently fed and packed in small bags. Reference numeral 6 denotes a hand-stuffing work unit, which packs long agricultural products in the sorting category, which is advantageous in terms of equipment or cost, rather than being mechanically and automatically packaged, because the distribution amount is small depending on the sorting category. Be prepared for Reference numeral 203 denotes a discharge conveyor for transporting the long agricultural products P to the manual filling unit 6, and reference numeral 204 denotes a discharge conveyor for discharging extraordinary products that do not need to be packed.

Next, the details of the supply device 1 of this embodiment are shown in FIGS.
This will be described with reference to FIG.

As shown in FIG. 3, the feeding apparatus 1 of the present embodiment is provided with a bucket endlessly rotating transfer conveyor device 10. In other words, one drive chain sprocket 102 and three driven chain sprockets 103 driven by a motor 1021 endlessly rotate a link chain 101 in a parallelogram shape in a vertical plane, and buckets are attached to the link chain 101 at regular intervals. A transport conveyor device 10 is provided, which is configured to be connected and transported in the direction of the arrow in FIG. Then, in the middle of the transport trajectory in which the bucket 104 moves obliquely upward from the lower horizontal trajectory toward the upper horizontal trajectory, one long product P is transferred to one bucket 104 from the rowing device 4.
Is transferred so as to be accommodated. It should be noted that the bucket 104 of the present example has a link chain 101 at the downstream end side in the transport direction.
, And is normally locked at the upstream end side in the transport direction in a state in which the long product P is received. However, the long product P is discharged downward by the operation of the discharge device 105 provided at a predetermined position. It is designed to be rotated around a pivot axis in a posture to perform. As described above, the long agricultural products P sent to one transport conveyor device 10 belong to the same sorting section.

The discharging operation of the bucket 104 is described in FIG.
For the bucket for which the agricultural products have been stored in the bucket 104 by the sensor 106 shown in FIG.
In this example, a shift signal is sent by shift feed to one of the eight discharge devices 105 arranged along the transport direction, and the discharge operation is performed when the corresponding bucket reaches that position.

An alignment conveyor device 11 is provided as follows with respect to the transport conveyor device 10 constituted by the link chain 101 and the like which are rotated endlessly as described above. That is, the flat-belt conveyor 111 whose transport track surface moves in a direction orthogonal to the transport conveyor device 10 has its starting end located immediately below a predetermined position of the upper transport track of the bucket 104, and from the bucket transport track. The terminal portion is provided so as to be located at a position shifted laterally. These states are shown in FIGS.

Further, above the conveyor surface of the flat belt conveyor 111 of the alignment conveyor device 11, the conveyor 111
The fixed guide walls (partitions) 112 for partitioning the transfer surface in the horizontal direction (width direction) extend in the transfer direction of the transfer surface, and in this example, three (five inclusive of the caps at both width ends) are provided. Have been. And this fixed guide wall 112 is provided so that the adjacent interval on the end side is smaller than the adjacent interval on the start end side, whereby the posture (orientation) of the long agricultural product P is provided.
Are surely aligned in a certain direction. Reference numerals 113 and 114 denote wheels for rotating the flat belt conveyor 111. In this embodiment, the wheels are provided so as to intermittently move the conveyor 111 by a drive control device (not shown), which will be described later. In addition, the alignment conveyor device 11
In this example, two are provided along the transport direction of the transport conveyor device, which will also be described later.

Numeral 12 denotes an accumulating / sending device of this embodiment. This device 12 of this embodiment is arranged in front of and in contact with the end portion of the flat belt conveyor 111 of the aligning conveyor device 11, and adjusts the width direction of the conveyor 111. A roller conveyor composed of a plurality of (in this example, five) rollers 121 rotating around a rotation axis to be formed, and an end portion of the long agricultural product P that is disposed in front of the roller conveyor 121 and sent from the alignment conveyor device 11 A stopper plate 122 for performing the aligning operation, a blade rotating mechanism 123 for sending the collective long products P sent onto the roller conveyor to one axial side of the roller conveyor 121 while maintaining the aligned state, And a hopper 124 for receiving the collectively long agricultural products P sent out from the roller conveyor in an accumulated state. With the integrated sending device 12 having such a configuration,
The batch of long agricultural products P arranged in an aligned state from the aligning conveyor device 11 is aligned by engaging an end portion (a front end portion of the movement) with the stopper plate 122 on the roller conveyor, and then aligning the blade. Pushed by the rotating blade 1231 by the rotating mechanism 123, the blade is laterally sent out from the roller conveyor, falls into the hopper 124, and is accumulated. In this example, the hopper 124 is provided so as to be able to move up and down by a lifting cylinder device 125 mounted on a frame, and receives the long agricultural product P at an ascending position as close as possible to the roller conveyor. At the time of discharge to the discharge conveyor 131 of the discharge conveyor device 13 described below, the discharge conveyor device 13 is provided so as to descend to the lower movement position and perform a discharge operation. Reference numeral 1251 denotes an elevating cylinder, 1252 a guide bar, 1253 a hopper support frame, and 1254 a support frame guide.
Reference numeral 1241 denotes a hopper opening / closing cylinder device. The above configuration is mainly shown in FIGS.
In the blade rotating mechanism 123, as shown in FIG. 5, a large number of blades 1231 extending radially outward by a rotating link chain 1232 are spaced at predetermined intervals in a rotating direction and fed onto a roller conveyor. The collective long product P is pushed out toward the hopper 124 by the movement of the blade 1231, and the interval between the blades 1231 is equal to the adjacent interval between the terminal ends of the fixed guide walls 12 in the alignment conveyor device 11 described above. The intermittent drive type is stopped at a position where the long agricultural products P can be received from the alignment conveyor device 11 and rotatably moves at the time of sending out.

Reference numeral 13 denotes a carry-out conveyor device, which is arranged in a small bag-packing and packaging device 5 from the position below the hopper 124 described above.
Belt-type unloading conveyor 13 with a transport track up to
In the present example, partitions 132 are provided at regular intervals in the transport direction to collectively collect long agricultural products P.
Is partitioned, and an intermittent driving device (not shown)
It is intermittently driven so that each of the storage sections is located at the position where it is sent from the accumulation sending device 12.

The supply device 1 of this embodiment has two pairs of the alignment conveyor device 11 and the stacking and sending device 12.
The agricultural product delivery positions of the collection and delivery devices 12 and 12 of each set are shifted by one pitch of the accommodating portion of the delivery conveyor 131, and are disposed on both sides of the set and the delivery conveyor 131. A drive control device (not shown) is configured to transmit the long product P in two sets in synchronism with each other by means of a drive control device (not shown), whereby two groups of long product P are fed onto the carry-out conveyor 131 at one time. I am trying to be. Further, with this configuration, in this example, as shown in FIG. 4, the hopper 124 is configured to be shared by these two sets of the stacking and sending devices 12, 12. The cylinder device 1241 is commonly used to effectively use the device and reduce costs.

Next, the operation of the agricultural product supply device 1 configured as described above will be described.

The long produce P whose sorting is determined by the sorting conveyor 2 is the long produce P of one sorting category.
Is discharged to a corresponding discharge conveyor 202 prepared for the sorting by a discharge device (not shown), and is transferred from the combined conveyor 3 via the rowing device 4 to each bucket 104 of the transport conveyor 10 of the supply device 1. They are transferred and stored one by one.

In this example, eight discharge devices 105 correspond to the two sets of the alignment conveyor devices 11 and the buckets 104.
And the discharge operation of the bucket 104 is performed in order from the discharge device 105 at the most downstream position in the transfer direction to the discharge device 105 at the upstream side, and the discharge of the eighth long agricultural product P is completed. At this point, the movement of the flat belt conveyor 111 of the alignment conveyor device 11 is started. FIG. 1 shows the state at this point. The movement of the conveyor 111 is stopped when the long agricultural product P has moved a predetermined distance in the horizontal direction from immediately below the bucket transport trajectory due to the movement of the conveyor 111, and the next group of long agricultural products P is discharged from the bucket 104. At this time, as described above, the long agricultural products P
The discharge from the bucket 104 is performed from the discharge device 105 at the most downstream position in the transport direction. Therefore, after the discharge of the last long produce P in the previous group by the discharge device 105 at the most upstream position, It takes some time before the long agricultural product P is transported to the position of the discharge device 105 at the most downstream side.
By performing the intermittent movement of the conveyor 111 synchronously, it is possible to perform the transportation and transfer without waste.

In the present example, the collective long agricultural products P moved by the flat belt conveyor 111 of the two sets of the alignment conveyor devices 11 are sent to the accumulation sending device 12 at the time of the second stop of the movement. In addition, two sets of alignment conveyor devices 1
1 is equal to 1 of the accommodation unit of the unloading conveyor device 13
Since the pitch belts are different by the pitch, the speeds at the time of intermittent movement of these sets of flat belt conveyors 111 are set differently correspondingly. The long agricultural products P guided by the fixed guide wall 112 during the intermittent movement are generally aligned in a fixed direction.

Each blade 12 of the blade rotating mechanism 123
The batches in which the long products P are fed into the stacking and sending device 12 in such a manner that each of the long products P is interposed between 31 are brought into contact with the stopper plate 122 by the driving rotation of the roller conveyor 121, and these long products are collected. The end of the agricultural product P is aligned. Next, the blade rotating mechanisms 123 of the two sets of the stacking and sending devices 12 rotate and move, so that they are dropped into the hopper 124 from both sides of the unloading conveyor device 13 and are stacked and stacked. At this time, the hopper 124 is raised to the upward movement position so as to reduce a drop impact caused by the collision of the long agricultural products P with each other.

Next, the hopper 124 is the lifting cylinder device 1
25, it is lowered to the lowering position, and the collective long agricultural products P collected in the storage section of the unloading conveyor 131 are transferred.

Thereafter, the take-out conveyor 131 is intermittently moved at the timing of dropping and feeding of the long agricultural products P from the stacking and sending device 12, and the collective long agricultural products P accumulated in the respective storage units are packed. It is sent to the device 5.

By repeating the above operation, a large amount of long products can be sequentially and intermittently sent to the packaging device 5, and a unit of the long products P having the aligned postures and the ends is automated. Can be packaged.

In this embodiment, the unloading conveyor device 1
3 is used to send a batch of long agricultural products P to the packaging device 5, but instead of the unloading conveyor device 13, for example, a packaging box transport conveyor device is installed, and directly from the accumulation / delivery device 12 to the packaging box. It is also possible to accommodate the long produce P, which is suitably adopted, for example, in the case of long produce such as radish.

Embodiment 2 As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, this embodiment is different from Embodiment 1 in that the integrated sending device 14 arranged so as to be connected to the end of the alignment conveyor device 11 is different. It is shown.

That is, the integrated sending device 14 in this example
In the direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the flat belt 111 of the alignment conveyor device 11, a flat belt type conveyor 141 whose transport surface is moved by a pair of wheels 144 and 145 is installed, and the flat belt conveyor 141 has The partition 142 is provided with the same spacing as the adjacent space between the end portions of the fixed guide wall 112 of the alignment conveyor device 11 and the central portion in each section partitioned by the partition 142 has a size sufficiently smaller than the long agricultural product P. It has a characteristic configuration in which the opening 143 is provided.

The stationary flat belt conveyor 14 into which the long product P is fed from the alignment conveyor device 11
On the other hand, a moving mechanism 146 is arranged so as to be able to move up and down so as to face each of the four openings 143 from the lower side of the transport surface, and when the long product P is fed in, the moving mechanism 146 rises and moves to the long product P. The long agricultural products P are engaged with the stopper plate 147 so that the ends are aligned. The moving mechanism 146 is configured such that the engaging portion with the long agricultural product P is an engaging moving portion that moves a fixed length in the width direction of the flat belt conveyor 141, and this is moved up and down by a lifting and lowering cylinder device. be able to.

After the edges are aligned, the moving mechanism 146 descends, and the flat belt conveyor 141 rotates to move the partition 1.
At 42, each long agricultural product P is pushed and dropped and accumulated in the accommodating portion of the carry-out conveyor 131 of the carry-out conveyor device 13.

With the integrated sending device 14 having the structure of the present embodiment, as in the first embodiment, it is possible to carry out packaging processing of a batch of long agricultural products P whose postures are aligned and whose ends are aligned, using an automated device.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, but can be implemented in various modified forms. For example, the conveying conveyor 10 and the summing conveyor 3 described in the first embodiment are omitted, and the sorting conveyor 2 is omitted.
It is also possible to discharge the long agricultural products directly onto the alignment conveyor device 11 from the above. In this case, it is necessary to arrange as many sorting conveyors as the number of sorting sections to be sorted and discharged along the conveying direction of the sorting conveyor, and to arrange the discharging devices correspondingly.

[0078]

As described above, according to the invention of claim 1 of the present application, the long agricultural products of each sorting section which are discharged in the same section are collected into a predetermined number without manual operation, and are packaged in small bags. It can be automatically sent out to a device or the like, and at this time, the posture of the long product is not broken.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, it is possible to configure an apparatus suitable for processing a large number of long agricultural products in large quantities. For example, the apparatus has a plurality of sorting conveyors, This is effective in constructing a facility for combining and processing long agricultural products of the same sorting category from the sorting conveyor.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, there is an advantage that equipment for packaging and processing a relatively small amount of long agricultural products and equipment that can reduce the processing speed can be provided at low cost.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the long agricultural products can be collectively and continuously supplied to the automatic packaging apparatus, and the efficient automatic packaging of the long agricultural products can be realized. .

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, the discharge of one row of long agricultural products discharged from the transport conveyor to the sorting conveyor is sequentially discharged from the transport downstream of the transport conveyor to the upstream. The time between the discharge of the last long produce for one horizontal row and the discharge of the first long produce for the next horizontal row can be extended, resulting in faster and more efficient operation of the alignment conveyor device. This has the effect of being realized.

According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, the posture of the long produce moved on the alignment conveyor is guided to the partition for changing the interval, and the plurality of long produce fed into the stacking and sending device intersect. Is reduced,
This has the effect of achieving a good state of packing with uniform posture.

According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, since the collecting / sending device has the end aligning means, the collecting state of the collective long agricultural products on the carrying-out conveyor device for transporting the long agricultural products to the packaging stage has the ends aligned. Thus, there is an effect that the state of packing can be further improved.

According to the eighth aspect of the present invention, the long agricultural products are divided and separated in a horizontal line by the partitioning means provided adjacent to the long agricultural products provided in the accumulating / sending device, and are accumulated by an automated and mechanized device. The effect that the attitude | position change of long agricultural products at the time can be suppressed is produced.

According to the ninth aspect of the present invention, since the collecting and sending apparatus sends out the long produce in the lateral direction of the sorting conveyor, the means for aligning the long ends of the long produce, and the moving direction of the sorting conveyor are provided. The means for performing the movement in the direction orthogonal to the above can be suitably configured in consideration of the respective functions.

According to the tenth aspect of the present invention, the apparatus of the present invention can be operated efficiently by providing a plurality of sets of the alignment conveyor and the stacking and sending apparatus for one transport conveyor or one unloading conveyor. In particular, the operating efficiency of the automated packaging device can be improved.

According to the eleventh aspect of the present invention, the long agricultural products are sequentially discharged from the lowermost section of the conveying conveyor apparatus to the uppermost section in the horizontal row of sections of the sorting conveyor apparatus. It is possible to sufficiently increase the idle time from the discharge of long produce to the next discharge of the first long produce, and to achieve the effect that the operation of the alignment conveyor device can be performed very quickly and efficiently. You.

According to the twelfth aspect of the present invention, the positions at which the long agricultural products are sent from the plurality of collecting and sending devices to the carry-out conveyor device are set to be shifted from each other. It can be sent out on a conveyor device, and simplification of control can be achieved, and time can be shortened by reducing man-hours by performing simultaneous operations. In addition, since the interval of the time for sending the batch of long agricultural products to be sent to the packaging stage can be shortened, the operation efficiency of the packaging device can be improved.

According to the thirteenth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to realize an efficient work in which the time lag between the work of feeding the conveyor and the work to the packaging stage is eliminated.

According to the fourteenth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to combine the long agricultural products discharged from the plurality of sorting conveyors according to the sorting categories and process them with a common sorting conveyor device or the like. Can be improved. In addition, a large amount of long agricultural products can be efficiently processed.

Further, there is an effect that the apparatus of the present invention having various effects as described above can be supplied at a low cost with a simple configuration.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a path from a transport conveyor device 1 of a supply device to a packaging stage 2 according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing the entire fruit sorting place including the supply device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a view taken in the direction of arrow A in FIG. 1 (however, the alignment conveyor device is a cross section).

FIG. 4 is a view taken in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along line CC of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a plan view showing a configuration of an integrated sending device of a feeding device according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a front view of the apparatus of FIG. 6;

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 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Supply apparatus 10 ... Conveyor apparatus 101 ... Link chain 1011 ... Shaft 102 ... Drive chain sprocket 1021 ... Motor 103 ... Follower chain sprocket 104 ... Bucket 105. ..Ejecting device 106 ... Sensor 11 ... Aligning conveyor device 111 ... Flat belt conveyor 112 ... Fixed guide wall 113 ... Wheel 114 ... Wheel 12 ... Integrated delivery device 121 ... Roller conveyor 122 Stopper plate 123 Blade rotating mechanism 1231 Blade 1232 Link chain 124 Hopper 1241 Chopper device for opening and closing hopper 125 Cylinder device for lifting 1251 ... Cylinder for lifting 1252 ... Guide bar 1253 ..Hopper support frame 1254 Support frame guide 13 Unloading conveyor device 131 Unloading conveyor 14 Stacking and unloading device 141 Flat belt conveyor 142 Partition 143 Opening 144 ··· Wheel 145 ··· Wheel 146 ··· Moving mechanism 147 ··· Stopper plate 2 ··· Sorting conveyor 201 ··· Measuring device 202 ··· Discharge conveyor 203 ··· Discharge conveyor 204 ··· Discharge Conveyor 3 ··· Total conveyor 4 ··· Rowing device 401, 402 ··· Belt conveyor 5 ··· Packaging device.

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Claims (14)

[Claims] 1. A transport conveyor device for transporting long agricultural products that have been determined to be sorted and arranged sideways in a transport direction, and a transport track that moves in a direction orthogonal to a portion of a transport path of the transport conveyor device. An alignment conveyor device having a plurality of compartments, each of which has a surface, and a plurality of compartments, each of which is adjacent to the transport track surface in the lateral direction and accommodates one long produce, is partitioned by a partition extending in the transport direction; and A plurality of discharge devices provided along the transport conveyor device so as to discharge the long products of the same sort from the transport conveyor device to each parallel section on the device, and a plurality of discharge devices arranged along the transport conveyor device. After receiving a horizontal row of long products stored in the section from the terminal end of the alignment conveyor device, the horizontal rows of long products are collected together with their alignment posture being aligned. An integrated sending device for sending
A long-agricultural product supply device, comprising: 2. The long agricultural product supply device according to claim 1, wherein the transport conveyor device transports long agricultural products in the same sorting section. 3. The transport conveyor device according to claim 1, wherein the transport conveyor device transports long products of different sorts in a mixed manner along the transport direction of the transport conveyor device.
An apparatus for supplying long agricultural products, wherein sorting conveyors for receiving long agricultural products of the same sorting category are arranged for each sorting category. 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein
An apparatus for feeding long agricultural products, comprising a carry-out conveyor device for receiving a lump of long agricultural products that are sent out and accumulated from the accumulation sending device and unloading the products to a packaging stage. 5. The method according to claim 1, wherein
A plurality of discharge devices for discharging long agricultural products of the same sorting section arranged along the transport conveyor device to the alignment conveyor device are provided so as to sequentially discharge from the transport downstream side to the upstream side. A long-agricultural product supply device, characterized in that: 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein
The partition for partitioning a plurality of sections on the alignment conveyor device, the horizontal interval, the starting end side for receiving long produce from the transport conveyor device is wide, the terminal end side connected to the accumulation sending device is provided narrow. A long-agricultural produce supply device characterized by the above-mentioned. 7. The method according to claim 1, wherein
The long-agricultural produce supply device, wherein the accumulation / delivery device includes end aligning means for aligning one end of the long-agricultural produce. 8. The method according to claim 1, wherein
The apparatus for feeding long agricultural products, comprising a means for partitioning adjacent ones of long agricultural products in a horizontal row received from an alignment conveyor device. 9. The method according to claim 1, wherein
The long-agricultural product supply device, characterized in that the accumulation and delivery device has a delivery means for delivering long-agricultural products for accumulation on one side in a horizontal row. 10. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a set of the sorting conveyor device and the collecting / sending device connected to the terminal portion thereof is provided in plural for one transport conveyor device and / or one unloading conveyor device. A long-agricultural product supply device, which is provided as a set. 11. The discharge device according to claim 10, wherein the discharge device for discharging long agricultural products to each of a plurality of sections arranged in a row of the aligned conveyor apparatus is a section at the most downstream side of the transport conveyor apparatus as a whole of the plurality of aligned conveyor apparatuses. A long-agricultural product supply device, which sequentially discharges a long-agricultural product from an uppermost section to a most upstream section. 12. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein a position at which a plurality of long products is sent out from the plurality of collecting and sending devices to the carry-out conveyor device is set to be shifted from each other with respect to a transport direction of the carry-out conveyor device. A long-agricultural produce supply device characterized by the above-mentioned. 13. The long-agricultural produce supply device according to claim 1, wherein the alignment conveyor device intermittently moves the conveying track surface. 14. The long product discharged according to the sorting category from a plurality of sorting conveyors according to any one of claims 1 to 13, wherein the transporting apparatus measures and sorts the sorting category while transporting the long product. An apparatus for supplying long agricultural products, wherein the agricultural products are combined and transported.