JPH0155185B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to a novel cheese conveying and stocking device used in the cheese rolling process, cheese stocking process and cheese packing process of textile companies.

[Conventional technology]

A cheese stocking device having a stocking capacity corresponding to the cheese winding capacity of a group of winders is arranged in series, with a plurality of winders as one unit, and the cheese rolled up by the winders is stored in predetermined cheese stocking parts according to variety or count. The device is known. As a specific example of such a device, the present inventors have previously disclosed Japanese Patent Publication No. 53-42808 or Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 52-
A cheese conveyance and storage device as described in Japanese Patent No. 95472 has been proposed.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

By using these devices, the cheese rolled up by the winder is automatically stored in a state where it is sorted by variety or count, so there is no chance of contamination with cheese of different counts or different varieties in subsequent processes. It has become possible to significantly reduce the Although it is true that the adoption of such cheese conveyance and stocking systems has reduced the labor required to sort out defective cheese and brought about remarkable improvements in product quality control, the use of these devices has As an unsolvable problem,
As long as the cheeses are of the same type or variety, it is impossible to transport and stock each winder machine separately.

Generally, the cheese rolling process maintains a systematic process sequence with the preceding process, such as the spinning process or the roving process. That is, in a general operation mode, a specific winder is supplied with spun tube yarn spun by a specific spinning machine in the preceding process and wound up as cheese. By maintaining a systematic in-process status between these processes, if defective cheese is discovered in a subsequent process, it becomes easy to trace back the machine that produced the defective product, and prevent a large number of defective products from occurring. This makes it possible to prevent However, conventional cheese conveyance and storage devices were not provided with such a winder machine number identification mechanism at all.

The main object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned defects found in conventional devices and to provide a cheese conveying and stocking device which has excellent productivity with a low incidence of defective cheese.

[Means to solve the problem]

In view of such an object, the present invention connects a plurality of winders and a plurality of cheese stockers with a cheese transport device consisting of an overhead conveyor, and connects a cheese stocker group and a packing device with a cheese transport device. In a cheese conveyance and stocking device connected by a discharge conveyor device and a good cheese conveyance conveyor, the cheese stocker is
It is composed of a multi-stage endless conveyor that can move intermittently and vertically, and the cheese discharge conveyor device is equipped with a cheese amount detection device, a defective cheese separation device, and a good cheese selection and supply device, Further, as a means for storing the machine number of the winder that has rolled up the cheese, a memory circuit for a machine number display signal transmitted from the control circuit of the winder is provided on the operation panel of the cheese stocker, and the machine number of the winder is stored. A first beam switch for confirming the cheese transfer operation, a beam switch for detecting the leading cheese, and a second cheese confirmation beam switch for issuing a 1-line ejection completion signal are installed in the cheese stocker corresponding to the memory circuit of the cheese stocker. Further, a beam switch for stopping the cheese discharging conveyor device and a third cheese confirmation beam switch for issuing a 1-line discharging completion signal are provided on the cheese conveyance path of the cheese discharging conveyor device, The gist is that the cheese can be supplied as one lot from the winder to the packing device after being divided by winder machine, type, and number of threads making up the cheese. The scope of the present invention should not be limited to the following specific examples, but can include various embodiments without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on the illustrations of the accompanying drawings. In the drawings, FIG. 1 is a plan view showing the overall arrangement of the cheese conveying and stocking system according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a plan view showing the overall arrangement of the cheese conveying and stocking system according to the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a control circuit. Also the third
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a control circuit for conveying cheese between the winder and the cheese stocker, and a control circuit for conveying cheese between the cheese stocker and the packing device, respectively.

First, a specific example of an apparatus suitable for carrying out the present invention will be explained based on FIG. In FIG. 1, reference numerals 1 and 1' each refer to a cheese stocker having a plurality of rows of endless conveyors (not shown) for cheese stock that can be moved intermittently along the cheese conveying direction. The device described in Japanese Patent No. -95472 can be mentioned. The endless conveyor is configured to be able to move vertically depending on the cheese storage situation.
2 and 2' are overhead conveyors that form a circulation conveyance path for conveying cheese between a plurality of winders (indicated by the symbol W in FIG. 2) and the cheese stockers 1 and 1'; It works in conjunction with a transfer device and an unloading device (not shown) installed at the cheese receiving ends of the cars 1 and 1', and the cheese rolled up by the winder is sorted by variety and number and by machine number of the winder. The pieces are continuously conveyed as one lot to the cheese receiving end of the cheese stocker 1 or 1'. In order to realize this function, in the present invention, as shown in FIG. A storage circuit 40 for storing the winder machine number display signal transmitted from the circuit 50 is also provided. In the specific example shown in the figure, a 60-spindle 5
Five cheese stockers 1 each having a maximum number of cheeses stored in one stage of 60 cheeses are conveyed through two sets of overhead conveyors 2 and 2', and each winder W has an endless conveyor for 5 stages of cheese stock. or connected to 1'. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 12 denotes a cheese discharging conveyor device extending from the cheese discharging ends of the cheese stockers 1 and 1' toward the cheese packing device 4. A detection device 15, a pusher 16 that pushes out the defective cheese whose amount has been detected onto the branch conveyor 13, and a pusher 16 which moves along the cheese discharge conveyor 12 and pushes the cheese whose amount has been detected onto the branch conveyor 13 or the one for conveying good cheese. It is comprised of a gate 17 that guides the cheese onto the second conveyor 14, a second pusher 18 that pushes the good cheese onto a predetermined conveyor 14 for conveying good cheese, and the like. Also 1
0 is an electronic display device that displays the cheese stored on the endless conveyor of the cheese stockers 1, 1 by the machine number of the cheese stocker, the number of cheese receiving stages, and the machine number of the cheese winder by variety and number of cheese. and an operation panel which is provided at a position that can be read and confirmed from the packing device 4, and which, while connected to the electronic display device 10, sends a command signal for receiving and discharging desired cheese to the cheese stockers 1, 1'. 19 are provided. The interlocking situation between these devices will be easily understood by referring to FIG. 2 and subsequent figures.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4. As mentioned above, between the cheese rolling process and the cheese stocking process, and between the cheese packing process that follows the cheese stocking process, the cheese is sorted by winder machine number, cheese count, and cheese variety. A control circuit for transporting and stocking is provided. Therefore, when winding of cheese is completed in a particular winder, for example, the first winder, the operator presses a push button switch provided on the winder to transmit a winder machine number display signal to the control circuit. The winder machine display signal, together with the cheese variety display signal and the cheese number display signal, is transmitted to a memory circuit indicated by 40 in FIG.
to store these electrical signals. The cheese rolled up by the winder is transferred to the cheese stocker 1 by an overhead conveyor 2 or 2', with a predetermined number of pieces being made into one lot for each machine number of the winder.
or 1', but as shown in FIG. Since it is stored in the storage circuit 40 along with the signal,
The cheese transported is sorted by winder machine number.
The cheese is transferred onto a predetermined endless conveyor for cheese stock in a memorized and controlled state via the cheese transfer device and unloading device according to the type and number of cheese. The embodiment illustrated in FIG. 2 explains a case where cheese rolled up by winder No. 1 is being received into the first stage of the endless conveyor of cheese stocker No. 1.

As shown in FIG. 3, when the cheese stocker receives a cheese transfer operation signal from the unloading device through the operator's operation of the push button switch on the operation panel 19, the target cheese is transferred to the cheese stocker 1 or 1'. The attached No. 1 for checking the cheese delivery operation.
The beam switch is blocked from light, and the drive motor (not shown) of the endless conveyor for cheese stock is started.
The endless conveyor is caused to perform an intermittent pitch feeding operation corresponding to the length of one piece of cheese. That is, the cheese carried onto the endless conveyor of the cheese stocker 1 or 1' is processed into one pitch by blocking light and passing light through a beam switch for confirming one pitch feed provided in the movement path of the cheese. Using this example, up to 60 pieces of cheese of the same type and having the same number of ends, rolled up by the same winder, are stored on the endless conveyor of the first stage of the first cheese stocker. . When the conveyance operation of the specific cheese onto the endless conveyor is completed and the leading cheese blocks light from a leading cheese detection beam switch (not shown) provided at the end of the endless conveyor, the endless conveyor stops, and then The endless conveyor lift motor (not shown) provided in each of the cheese stockers 1 or 1' is activated to raise the endless conveyor containing the cheese by one step, and then move the empty endless conveyor located below the cheese stocker up and down by one step. Move it to an acceptable position. In addition, by blocking the beam switch for detecting the first cheese with the first cheese, a cheese stocking completion signal is transmitted from the cheese stocker 1 or 1' to notify that the following cheese can be accepted to the empty endless conveyor. . However, if the leading cheese blocks the beam switch for detecting the leading cheese on the endless conveyor at the last stage, the endless conveyor will not rise, and instead a stock full signal for the cheese stocker 1 or 1' will be sent. Ru. FIG. 4 shows a control circuit for conveying cheese between the cheese stocker 1 or 1' and the packing device 4, and the cheese is discharged from the cheese stocker 1 or 1' in accordance with the following procedure.

That is, in order to discharge cheese having a specific count and variety that has been rolled up by a predetermined winder from the cheese stocker 1 or 1' and supply it to the packing device 4, the operator uses the electronic display device 10 to display the cheese stocker. After confirming the cheese storage condition of cheese stocker 1 or 1', a push button switch on operation panel 19 is operated to transmit a cheese supply signal from cheese packing device 4 to cheese stocker 1 or 1'. At this time,
When the cheese stocker 1 or 1' is receiving cheese from the overhead conveyor 2 or 2', the cheese stocker 1 or 1' will not eject cheese from the endless conveyor even if a cheese ejection command signal is sent from the packaging line. After the operation of receiving cheese onto the endless conveyor of the cheese stocker 1 or 1' is completed, the operation of discharging cheese to the conveyor device 12 for discharging cheese is started.
On the other hand, when the cheese stocker 1 or 1' is not in the state of receiving cheese from the unloading device, that is, when a predetermined number of cheeses are stored on the endless conveyor by winder machine number, type, and number. The cheese stocker 1 that has completed the cheese storage is shown below.
Alternatively, the endless conveyor 1' descends one stage and transfers the cheese sequentially from the bottom to the cheese discharging conveyor device 1.
2. Discharge onto the top. At the same time as the endless conveyor is started, the winder machine number, cheese variety, and cheese number display signals are sent from the memory circuit 40 to the packing device 4.
and at the same time conveyor device 1 for cheese discharge.
2 is activated by its drive motor (not shown). When discharging cheese from this endless conveyor to the cheese discharging conveyor device 12, the cheese placed on the endless conveyor of the cheese stocker is moved to the cheese discharging conveyor device 12 by starting the drive motor of this endless conveyor. of the predetermined number of cheeses discharged from a specific endless conveyor of the cheese stocker 1 or 1', the cheese fall detection beam switch 11 provided on the cheese discharge conveyor device 12 is moved toward the cheese stocker 1 or 1'. When the last cheese (the 60th cheese in this example) is shaded, the cheese discharge conveyor device 12 stops its forward movement. That is, when the cheese transferred onto the cheese discharge conveyor device 12 moves forward and the final cheese blocks light from the cheese fall detection beam switch 11 provided at the starting end of the conveyance path,
The endless conveyor of the cheese stocker 1 or 1' and the cheese discharge conveyor device 12 are stopped and wait for a tray supply signal sent from the packing device 4. The tray is conveyor device 1 for cheese discharge
2, is a cheese holding device that gives cheese a stable conveyance position suitable for bagging and boxing in the packing device 4;
Additionally, an insertion stud for fixing the cheese is vertically installed on the top surface. An appropriate number of trays are arranged on the cheese discharging conveyor device 12 according to the number of cheeses to be packaged, and the cheese discharging conveyor device 12 is activated by a tray supply signal transmitted from the packaging device 4. In conjunction with the stop, the operation of receiving cheese from the endless conveyor of the cheese stocker 1 or 1' is repeated. The rolling motion of the endless conveyor of the cheese stocker 1 or 1' and the conveyor device 12 for discharging cheese is repeated by the light blocking and light passing of the beam switch for stopping the conveyor device, so that the cheese stocker is stocked on the specific endless conveyor of the specific cheese stocker. When all the cheese has been discharged onto the cheese discharging conveyor device 12, one line discharging is completed, which informs the packing device 4 and the packaging line connected thereto that cheese for one row of cheese stockers has been discharged. A signal is sent. This 1-line discharge completion signal is transmitted to a first cheese confirmation beam switch (not shown) provided at an appropriate position on the endless conveyor of the cheese stocker and to a The final cheese passes through the third beam switch for checking the cheese, which is not in use, and these beam switches turn on to transmit light, thereby transmitting the signal.
Thereafter, according to the same procedure, the cheese is stocked by winder machine, type, and number into the cheese stocker 1 or 1', and the cheese stocker 1 is stocked by cheese stocker 1 or 1'.
Alternatively, a selective cheese ejection operation from 1' to the packing device 4 takes place. The cheeses that have been transported are sorted by winder machine number, type, and number, and then packed in a heat-shrinkable film one by one in a predetermined number, such as 16 pieces, in the packaging device 4, and then packed into cardboard boxes, etc. The memory circuit 4 stores information such as the variety, yarn count, number of cheeses stored, weight, machine number of the winder that wound the cheese, etc.
The printed product is printed out according to the memory of No. 0, is supplied to a steaming chamber (not shown) by the conveyor 20, and is steamed in the steaming chamber to be finished as a final product. In order to ensure the above-mentioned functions of the present invention, when carrying out the present invention, it is necessary to prevent different types of cheese from being discharged from two or more lines of endless conveyors at the same time, and to prevent malfunctions between the conveying devices. Abnormal operation detection mechanisms are provided at appropriate locations along the cheese conveyance and stock paths to ensure that no malfunctions occur. Furthermore, if a cheese discharge command signal is sent from the packing device 4 before a predetermined number of cheeses are stored on the endless conveyor of the cheese stocker 1 or 1', the cheese is removed from the overhead conveyor 2 or 2'. The memory circuit 40 and the operation panel 19 are configured so that the cheese supplied to the stocker 1 or 1' passes through the cheese stocker without being stocked by the cheese stocker and is directly discharged onto the cheese discharge conveyor device 12. The connection relationship is regulated. Further, when the cheese storage stage of the cheese stocker 1 or 1' is full, a full signal is sent from the cheese stocker, and the cheese suspended on the overhead conveyors 2 and 2' is transferred to the cheese stocker 1 or 1'. The cheese is circulated along the traveling path of the overhead conveyor until the predetermined storage area of ' is ready to receive cheese.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As is clear from the above description, according to the apparatus of the present invention, the cheese rolled up by the winder is stored in an identifiable state that not only stores the variety and count but also the machine number of the winder that rolled the cheese. If defective cheese is found in a subsequent process, such as a packing process or a knitting/weaving process, it is extremely easy to conduct a retrospective investigation of the cause of the defective yarn occurring in the spinning process, etc. can. Therefore, by adopting the apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to improve the quality control level of the final product, cheese, and furthermore, it is possible to significantly reduce the incidence of defective products compared to conventional methods. can.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

In the drawings, FIG. 1 is a plan view showing the overall arrangement of the cheese conveyance and storage system according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a plan view showing the overall arrangement of the cheese conveyance and storage system according to the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a control circuit of FIG. Also the third
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a control circuit for conveying cheese between the winder and the cheese stocker and a control circuit for conveying cheese between the cheese stocker and the packing device, respectively. 1,1'...Cheese stocker, 2,2'...Overhead conveyor, W...Winder, 50...
...Winder machine number display circuit, 40...Memory circuit, 10...Electronic display device, 19...Operation panel, 4
...Packing device, 12...Conveyor device for discharging cheese.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1 A plurality of winders and a plurality of cheese stockers are connected by a cheese conveyance device consisting of an overhead conveyor, and a cheese discharge conveyor is connected between the cheese stocker group and the packing device. In the cheese conveyance and stocking device connected by a device and a conveyor for conveying good cheese, the cheese stocker is constituted by a plurality of endless conveyors that can be moved intermittently and vertically, and the cheese discharge conveyor device is provided with: It is equipped with a cheese quantity detection device, a defective cheese separation device, and a good cheese sorting and feeding device, and is also installed on the operation panel of the cheese stocker as a means of storing the machine number of the winder that rolled up the cheese. A storage circuit for a machine number display signal transmitted from a control circuit of the winder is provided, and a first beam switch for confirming the cheese delivery operation is connected to the cheese stocker in correspondence with the memory circuit for the machine number of the winder. , a beam switch for detecting the leading cheese and a second cheese confirmation beam switch for transmitting a 1-line discharge completion signal are provided, and a beam for stopping the cheese discharging conveyor device is provided in the cheese conveyance path of the cheese discharging conveyor device. A switch and a third cheese confirmation beam switch for issuing a 1-line ejection completion signal are installed, and a predetermined number of cheeses are divided into one lot by winder machine, type, and number of threads making up the cheese. What is claimed is: 1. A cheese conveying and stocking device, characterized in that it is configured to be able to supply cheese from a winder to a packing device.