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CN-117508975-B - Tobacco box warehouse-in and warehouse-out device and warehouse-in and warehouse-out method

CN117508975BCN 117508975 BCN117508975 BCN 117508975BCN-117508975-B

Abstract

The invention relates to a tobacco box warehouse-in and warehouse-out device and method, wherein the tobacco box warehouse-in and warehouse-out device comprises a warehouse-in storage area used for storing warehouse-in tobacco boxes, a conveying assembly arranged on one side of the warehouse-in storage area along a first direction, a stacker capable of moving along the first direction in the warehouse-in storage area and used for transferring the tobacco boxes between the warehouse-in storage area and the conveying assembly, a closed conveying line arranged on one side of the conveying assembly away from the warehouse-in storage area along the first direction, a tobacco shred operation area arranged on the outer side of the closed conveying line and used for carrying out production operation on tobacco shreds, and a buffer area arranged in an area close to the closed conveying line and used for temporarily storing empty boxes, wherein a transfer trolley is arranged on the closed conveying line and can move along the closed conveying line and used for transferring the tobacco boxes among the conveying assembly, the tobacco shred operation area and the buffer area.

Inventors

  • KANG JINHUA
  • CAI XUEMING

Assignees

  • 厦门烟草工业有限责任公司

Dates

Publication Date
20260512
Application Date
20231219

Claims (18)

  1. 1. A smoke box warehouse-in and warehouse-out device, comprising: a warehouse-in storage area (1) for storing warehouse-in smoke boxes; A conveying assembly (3) arranged at one side of the warehouse-in storage area (1) along the first direction (x); A stacker (2) movable in the first direction (x) within the warehouse-in storage area (1) for transferring smoke boxes between the warehouse-in storage area (1) and the transport assembly (3); A closed conveying line (4) which is arranged on one side of the conveying assembly (3) far away from the warehouse-in storage area (1) along the first direction (x); The tobacco shred operation area is arranged outside the closed conveying line (4) and is used for carrying out production operation on tobacco shreds and comprises a box filling area (7) for filling the tobacco shreds into a tobacco box, a blending area (8) for blending and mixing the tobacco shreds, a wrapping area (9) for forming a tobacco package for producing finished tobacco shreds, and The buffer area (6) is arranged in an area close to the closed conveying line (4) and is used for temporarily storing empty boxes; The tobacco shred storage and transportation device comprises a closed conveying line (4), wherein a transportation trolley (5) is arranged on the closed conveying line (4), the transportation trolley (5) can move along the closed conveying line (4) and is used for enabling a tobacco box to be transported between a conveying assembly (3) and a tobacco shred operation area and a cache area (6), the first end of the closed conveying line (4) along a first direction (x) is consistent with the whole width of the conveying assembly (3), a first concave area (41) and a second concave area (42) are respectively arranged on two sides of the closed conveying line (4) along a second direction (y), a blending area (8), a wrapping area (9) and a boxing area (7) are all arranged on the outer side of the closed conveying line (4), the blending area (8) and the boxing area (7) are arranged in the first concave area (41), and the wrapping area (9) is arranged in the second concave area (42).
  2. 2. The smoke box warehouse-in and warehouse-out device according to claim 1, characterized in that the warehouse-in storage area (1) is provided with a plurality of sub warehouse-in areas (11) at intervals along a second direction (y), the stacker (2) is arranged in a channel between every two adjacent sub warehouse-in areas (11), and the second direction (y) is perpendicular to the first direction (x); the conveying components (3) are provided with a plurality of groups of conveying components at intervals along the second direction (y), and each sub-warehouse-in area (11) is provided with at least one group of conveying components.
  3. 3. The smoke box warehouse-in and warehouse-out device according to claim 1, characterized in that the first recessed area (41) has a greater recessed depth in the boxing area (7) than in the blending area (8), the boxing area (7) comprises a boxing machine (71), at least part of the buffer area (6) is arranged on the side of the boxing machine (71) away from the closed conveying line (4) along the second direction (y), and an outlet of the boxing machine (71) is provided with an RFID reader (72) for writing relevant information in an RFID label of the smoke box.
  4. 4. The smoke box warehouse-in and warehouse-out device according to claim 1, further comprising a lifter (63), wherein the buffer area (6) comprises a first buffer area (61) located at a lower layer and a second buffer area (62) located at an upper layer, the lifter (63) is used for realizing the transportation of the smoke box between the first buffer area (61) and the second buffer area (62), and the blending area (8), the wrapping area (9) and the boxing area (7) are all located at the lower layer.
  5. 5. The smoke box warehouse-in and warehouse-out device according to claim 4, characterized in that a plurality of buffer stations (60) are arranged in the first buffer area (61), and the adjacent buffer stations (60) can be reached through transportation; the lifter (63) is arranged at intervals along the first direction (x), the boxing area (7) comprises a plurality of boxing machines (71) arranged at intervals along the first direction (x), the lifter (63) is correspondingly arranged with the boxing machines (71), each lifter (63) is arranged with a row of caching platforms (60) on one side, far away from the closed conveying line (4) along the second direction (y), of the lifter (63), each boxing machine (71) is arranged with a row of caching platforms (60) on one side, far away from the closed conveying line (4) along the second direction (y), of the boxing machines (71), and a row of caching platforms (60) corresponding to the lifter (63) are connected with a row of caching platforms (60) through the caching platforms (60).
  6. 6. The smoke box warehouse-in and warehouse-out device according to claim 4, characterized in that a plurality of buffer stations (60) are arranged in the second buffer area (62), and the adjacent buffer stations (60) can be reached through transportation; The elevators (63) are arranged at intervals along the first direction (x), a group of cache stations (60) are correspondingly arranged on each elevator (63), each group of cache stations (60) comprises at least two rows of cache stations (60) arranged at intervals, two adjacent rows of cache stations (60) are connected through one row of cache stations (60) at two ends along the second direction (y), and the second direction (y) is perpendicular to the first direction (x).
  7. 7. A smoke-box in-out and in-in device according to claim 3, characterized in that said blending zone (8) and wrapping zone (9) each comprise: The plurality of feeders (81) are arranged at intervals along the first direction (x), each feeder (81) is correspondingly provided with a docking station (84), and each docking station (84) is used for receiving a tobacco box filled with tobacco shreds provided by the transfer trolley (5) or providing an empty box after the tobacco shreds are poured out to the transfer trolley (5); An arm holding machine (82) which is movably arranged along a first track in a first direction (x), wherein the arm holding machine (82) can be lifted between an upper layer and a lower layer and is used for pouring out tobacco shreds in a tobacco box or opening and closing a box cover, and And the empty box returning trolley (83) is movably arranged along the second track in the first direction (x) and is used for being lifted between the upper layer and the lower layer and transferring the empty boxes.
  8. 8. The smoke box warehouse-in and warehouse-out device according to claim 7, characterized in that the wrapping area (9) further comprises: a boxing ring (90) for receiving the cut tobacco conveyed by the feeder (81) after the cut tobacco is leaked under the condition that the temporary card change needs material returning, and A boxing machine (71) for loading cut tobacco in the boxing station (90) into an empty box; And the RFID reader-writer (72) is used for writing relevant information into the RFID tag of the tobacco box filled with the tobacco shreds so as to be warehoused again.
  9. 9. A smoke box warehouse-in and warehouse-out device according to any one of claims 1-3, characterized in that it further comprises a branch conveying line (4 '), wherein one end of the branch conveying line (4') is connected to the closed conveying line (4), and a rail-changing device (10) is arranged at the connection part of the branch conveying line (4 ') and the closed conveying line (4) for conveying the smoke box along the closed conveying line (4) or the branch conveying line (4').
  10. 10. A method of entering and exiting a smoke box entering and exiting device according to any one of claims 1 to 9, comprising: under the condition that empty boxes are needed in the tobacco shred operation area, enabling the empty boxes in the warehouse storage area (1) or the buffer area (6) to enter the closed conveying line (4), and transferring the empty boxes to the tobacco shred operation area through the transfer trolley (5); Under the condition that empty boxes are generated in the tobacco shred operation area, the empty boxes enter the closed conveying line (4), and the empty boxes are conveyed to the warehouse storage area (1) or the buffer storage area (6) through the conveying trolley (5).
  11. 11. The method for warehousing according to claim 10, wherein, And under the condition that the tobacco shred operation area needs empty boxes and the tobacco shred operation area generates empty boxes, the priority of the buffer area (6) is higher than that of the warehouse-in storage area (1).
  12. 12. The method of warehousing according to claim 10, wherein the step of ex-warehouse tobacco boxes from the warehouse storage area (1) comprises: warehouse management according to order the system requests the smoke box to be delivered out of the warehouse; The stacker (2) is used for placing the smoke box at the target position of the warehouse-in storage area (1) on a transfer trolley (5) of the closed conveying line (4) through the conveying assembly (3); And enabling the transferring trolley (5) to transfer the tobacco box to the tobacco shred operation area.
  13. 13. The method of warehousing of claim 10, wherein the step of boxing the cut tobacco comprises: The empty boxes pass through the first buffer area (61) positioned at the bottom layer of the warehouse-in storage area (1) or the buffer area (6) to reach the box filling machine (71); loading cut tobacco into an empty box through the box filling machine (71); and writing related information into the RFID tag of the smoke box through an RFID reader-writer (72), and waiting for warehousing.
  14. 14. The method of warehousing of claim 10, wherein the step of warehousing the smoke box comprises: Requesting a storage management system for storing the tobacco boxes; Receiving a target platform determined by the warehouse management system according to a specific cargo space, enabling the transfer trolley (5) to receive a smoke box from an initial target platform, and transferring the smoke box to a target platform, close to the closed conveying line (4), of the conveying assembly (3); -transferring the smoke box from the destination station of the transfer assembly (3) to a stacker pick-up station (32); And enabling the stacker (2) to acquire the smoke box from the stacker goods taking station (32) and place the smoke box in the distribution goods position of the warehouse-in storage area (1).
  15. 15. The method according to claim 10, characterized in that in case the blending zone (8) requires the blending of cut tobacco and the wrapping zone (9) requests the finished cut tobacco, the method comprises: Delivering the smoke boxes at the target positions of the warehouse-in storage area (1) out of the warehouse; transferring the smoke box to a docking station (84) through the transfer trolley (5); The tobacco box is held up from the docking station (84) through the arm holding machine (82), the box cover is opened, tobacco shreds are poured into the feeding machine (81), the box cover is covered again, and the empty box is placed on the empty box returning trolley (83); And placing the empty box in the buffer area (6) through the empty box returning trolley (83), and warehousing the empty box under the condition that the buffer area (6) is full.
  16. 16. The method of warehousing according to claim 10, characterized in that the step of transferring empty boxes to said buffer zone (6) comprises: The empty boxes are conveyed to a buffer station (60) corresponding to the second buffer zone (62) on the upper layer for receiving the empty boxes through an empty box returning trolley (83) of the tobacco shred operation zone; Under the condition that the first buffer zone (61) at the lower layer is not full of empty boxes, the empty boxes of the second buffer zone (62) are lowered to the first buffer zone (61) by an elevator; Under the condition that the first buffer zone (61) of the lower layer is full of empty boxes, sequentially moving the empty boxes of the second buffer zone (62) to a buffer station (60) close to the lifter (63); And under the condition that the buffer station (60) of the second buffer zone (62) is full and the second buffer zone (62) has no empty box position, the empty box is lowered to the lower layer and is put in storage through the transfer trolley (5).
  17. 17. The method of warehousing of claim 10, further comprising: in the running process, if a certain stacker (2), a conveying assembly (3) or a transfer trolley (5) fails, the stacker is taken off line, and tasks are suspended to be distributed to the failed equipment.
  18. 18. The method of warehousing of claim 10, further comprising: Under the condition that temporary card changing needs material returning, the cut tobacco is leaked from the lower part of the feeding machine (81); conveying the leaked cut tobacco to a boxing station (90), and filling the cut tobacco into an empty box through a boxing machine (71); Relevant information is written in the RFID tag of the smoke box through an RFID reader-writer (72), and warehousing is applied for again.

Description

Tobacco box warehouse-in and warehouse-out device and warehouse-in and warehouse-out method Technical Field The disclosure relates to the technical field of tobacco automation logistics, in particular to a tobacco box warehouse-in and warehouse-out device and a warehouse-in and warehouse-out method. Background In the existing automatic logistics system of the cigarette factory, AGV trolleys are adopted to convey cigarette boxes, in a narrow storage area, the cigarette boxes are arranged in rows, the number of one row of the cigarette boxes is 8, 16, 20 and the like, when the cigarette boxes are put in batches, only one row of the cigarette boxes is arranged, in a limited number of rows, only one row of the cigarette boxes is arranged, and in some cases, the position of one row of the cigarette boxes can be arranged for 8 cigarette boxes is arranged, and even 20 rows of the cigarette boxes are occupied. The trolley adopts double-lane running, and the running path of the trolley occupies a considerable space in a warehouse area. Because the number of rows of goods space is limited, the situation has the number of rows to waste and put, and the distribution of smoke boxes is unreasonable. Due to the fact that the AGV trolley is used, the trolley has a special running path, once one AGV breaks down on a running path, normal operation of the following AGV trolley is affected, and even though the fault trolley can be manually or otherwise removed, warehouse-in and warehouse-out efficiency of the smoke box is also quite affected, and warehouse-in of a blending area or production of a wrapping area is affected. In addition, because the original empty box buffer memory is less, the warehouse-in operation is often required to be executed first, more empty boxes are required when the tobacco shred is packed in the boxing equipment quickly, and the empty boxes are required to be delivered out of the warehouse from the warehouse area, so that the empty box operation is frequently delivered out of the warehouse, and the transport capacity is wasted. Along with the continuous improvement of the yield, the original conveying mode can not meet the production requirement. Disclosure of Invention The disclosure provides a smoke box warehouse-in and warehouse-out device and a warehouse-in and warehouse-out method, which can improve the warehouse-in and warehouse-out efficiency of a smoke box. The first aspect of the present disclosure provides a smoke box warehouse-in and warehouse-out device, comprising: the warehouse-in storage area is used for storing warehouse-in smoke boxes; the conveying assembly is arranged at one side of the warehouse-in storage area along the first direction; The stacker can move along a first direction in the warehouse-in storage area and is used for transferring the tobacco boxes between the warehouse-in storage area and the conveying assembly; The closed conveying line is arranged at one side of the conveying assembly far away from the warehouse-in storage area along the first direction; a tobacco shred operation area arranged outside the closed conveying line for producing and operating tobacco shreds, and The buffer area is arranged in an area close to the closed conveying line and is used for temporarily storing empty boxes; Wherein, be equipped with the transportation dolly on the closed conveying line, the transportation dolly can follow the motion of closed conveying line for make the smoke box transport between conveying component, pipe tobacco operation district and buffer zone. In some embodiments, the warehouse-in storage area is provided with a plurality of sub warehouse-in areas at intervals along a second direction, and a stacker is arranged in a channel between every two adjacent sub warehouse-in areas, wherein the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction; the conveying components are provided with a plurality of groups of conveying components at intervals along the second direction, and each sub-warehouse-in area is provided with at least one group of conveying components. In some embodiments, the tobacco shred manipulation zone comprises: The boxing area is used for boxing tobacco shreds into the tobacco boxes; a blending area for blending and mixing tobacco shreds, and And the wrapping area is used for producing finished tobacco shreds to form a tobacco packet. In some embodiments, the first end of the closed conveyor line along the first direction is consistent with the overall width of the conveyor assembly, and the two sides of the closed conveyor line along the second direction are respectively provided with a first concave area and a second concave area, the blending area, the wrapping area and the boxing area are all located outside the closed conveyor line, the blending area and the boxing area are located in the first concave area, and the wrapping area is located in the second concave area. In some embodiments, the first recessed area has a greater recessed