Automatic Feeding and Discharging System

Overall

The system is used for transfer and connection of production materials in the workshops of aseptic lyophilized powders for injection and preparations in pharmaceutical companies. The system mainly includes: feeding integration system(bottle sorting conveyor belt); automatic feeding system(bottle sorting and feeding platform); Feeding and discharging AGV moving cart; feeding and discharging cart transmission system; discharging integration system (discharging platform); Bottle distributing system (conveyor belt for entering and exiting the capping machine); AGV cart power supply system; automatic feeding and discharging control system.

Process Flow

◆ Feeding: The vials after filling are conveyed by the conveyor belt to the bottle feeding port work station of the bottle unscrambling pushing disc. When the counter detects sufficient vials, the pushing disc and bottle unscrambling conveyor belt will kick off counting until the bottle pushing track is full. Then the linear mechanical bottle unscrambling track rises, and the bottle pushing robot pushes the bottles onto the loading platform with accordance of the preset path. After the bottle pushing rod returns, the bottle unscrambling track falls, which enters the bottle feeding procedure. Bottle unscrambling and pushing are carried out repeatedly until the layer of freezing-drying machine plate is full, whilst the final travel path will increase to ensure that there is a certain distance between bottles of the previous plate and those of the next plate, so that no pause will occur between plates and continuous production is realized.

◆ Receiving materials by the cart: The AGV cart automatically runs from the feeding port to the loading platform. Its platform is strand etched to connect with the loading platform, and then the mechanical arm is strand etched to pull the vials to the cart platform. After the platform returns, the cart gets rotated by 90° and moves to the preset freezing-drying machine door through the ground track.

◆ Feeding: When the cart runs onto the door of the freezing-drying machine, it faces the freezing-drying machine plate. After its platform is strand etched to connect with the plate, the mechanical arm moves to push the bottles into the plate, and then the mechanical arm and cart platform return.

◆ Discharging: The bottles that have been freezed, dried and stoppled will be transferred to the AGV discharging cart by reversing the operations in the above feeding section. After they are conveyed to the discharging platform through the ground track, the cart gets rotated by 90° and connects with the discharging platform, whilst the bottles are moved by the mechanical arm to the discharging platform.

◆ Bottle distribution to the capping machine: According to the bottle consumption of the front bottle distributing conveyor belt, the push rod of the discharging platform continuously pushes towards the conveyor belt. When there are too many bottles on the front conveyor belt, the push rod will automatically stop pushing. Bottle distribution is carried out by adopting the world’s most advanced parallel reverse conveyor belt, which is featured by small volume and no occurrence of bottle falling compared with the traditional rotary table bottle discharging mode.