CN110720755B

CN110720755B - Bagged snack food storage cabinet and quality guarantee period sorting method thereof

Info

Publication number: CN110720755B
Application number: CN201911002929.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 周丽华; 丁康康; 李娟娟; 陈梁玉; 吴帆; 方素平
Original assignee: Hefei University of Technology
Current assignee: Hefei University of Technology
Priority date: 2019-10-22
Filing date: 2019-10-22
Publication date: 2021-03-23
Anticipated expiration: 2039-10-22
Also published as: CN112474418B; CN112474418A; CN110720755A

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of articles for daily use, and discloses a bagged snack food storage cabinet and a quality guarantee period sorting method thereof. The bagged snack food storage cabinet comprises an inner shell and a sorting mechanism arranged on the inner shell. The sorting mechanism comprises an access pipe, a first sorting sub mechanism, a second sorting sub mechanism, a controller and a plurality of conveying belts. One sorting sub-mechanism comprises a circular truncated cone, a flat laying assembly, a pushing assembly and a plurality of code scanning instruments. According to the storage cabinet, the controller controls the sorting mechanism to sort the packaging bags to the corresponding storage areas according to the expiration date of the quality guarantee period acquired by the code scanner, and the packaging bags in the storage areas are timed. When the timing exceeds the set time limit, the packaging bags are sorted again, so that the snacks in the packaging bags are correctly classified and displayed within the quality guarantee period, the economic loss of families and the hidden danger of personal health caused by the fact that consumers cannot timely process foods to be overdue or eat overdue foods by mistake can be effectively avoided, and the timing sorting method has very remarkable practical value.

Description

Bagged snack food storage cabinet and quality guarantee period sorting method thereof

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of articles for daily use, in particular to a bagged snack food storage cabinet and a quality guarantee period sorting method thereof.

Background

In daily life of people, a plurality of snacks are packaged in plastic bags, which are commonly called bagged snacks. Bagged snacks are typically stored in food bins. However, the existing food cabinet cannot timely acquire the shelf life information of the bagged snacks, so that the foods are overdue, and the family economic loss and the resource waste are caused.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention provides a bagged snack food storage cabinet and a quality guarantee period sorting method thereof, and aims to solve the technical problem that a consumer cannot obtain quality guarantee period information of bagged snacks in time to cause food expiration. The bagged snack food storage cabinet can accurately classify snack foods in the packaging bag and has effective area prompt so that consumers can take proper treatment when consuming the snack foods.

The invention is realized by adopting the following technical scheme: a cabinet is accomodate to bagged snack food, its sorting mechanism that includes the inner shell and install on the inner shell:

the inner space of the inner shell is sequentially divided into a first space, a second space, a third space and a fourth space by the first partition plate, the second partition plate and the third partition plate; the first partition plate is provided with a central hole for communicating the first space with the second space, and the central hole is positioned in the central area of the first partition plate; the second partition plate is provided with a plurality of second drop holes for communicating the second space with the third space, an automatic closing door is installed in each second drop hole, and the third partition plate is provided with a third drop hole for communicating the third space with the fourth space;

the sorting mechanism comprises an access pipe, a first sorting sub mechanism, a second sorting sub mechanism, a controller and a plurality of conveying belts;

the access pipe is positioned in the first space, one end of the access pipe is fixed on the first partition plate and covers the central hole, the other end of the access pipe receives the packaging bags to be classified and stored through the top of the inner shell, and the packaging bags fall into the second space through the access pipe; the snack food packaging bag comprises a packaging bag, a snack food, a product information code and a control module, wherein the snack food is contained in the packaging bag, the surface of the packaging bag is provided with the product information code, and the information contained in the product information code comprises the expiration date of the snack food in the packaging bag;

the sorting sub mechanism I is positioned in the space II and comprises a circular table, a flat laying assembly, a pushing assembly and a plurality of code scanning instruments;

the circular truncated cone is positioned in the second space, the lower table surface is fixed on the second partition plate, and the upper table surface is positioned below the access pipe to receive the packaging bag from the access pipe;

the tiling assembly comprises at least one baffle and at least one driver I corresponding to the at least one baffle; the first driver drives the corresponding baffle to rotate around the circular truncated cone along the side surface of the circular truncated cone, and the baffle flatly spreads the packaging bag on the side surface of the circular truncated cone in the rotating process;

the pushing assembly comprises a plurality of push plates corresponding to the plurality of the drop holes and a plurality of pushers corresponding to the plurality of push plates; the pusher drives the push plate to push the packaging bag on the side surface of the circular truncated cone along the side surface of the circular truncated cone;

each second falling hole corresponds to two code scanning instruments: one code scanner is installed on the automatic closing door at the second drop hole, and the other code scanner is installed on the inner wall of the inner shell in the second space and corresponds to the second drop hole in position; the code scanning instrument is used for scanning the code of the packaging bag pushed by the push plate on the automatic closing door at the second falling hole to obtain the product information code on the corresponding packaging bag;

the second sorting sub mechanism is positioned in the third space and comprises an impeller, the impeller is arranged on the center of the third partition plate, and the central shaft of the impeller is vertical to the third partition plate; a containing area is formed between two adjacent blades of the impeller, and each containing area is communicated with the second space through one of the second drop holes; the falling hole is positioned in one of the containing areas;

the side wall of the inner shell is provided with at least one second outlet, at least one second inlet and at least one second outlet, wherein the second outlet corresponds to the at least one second outlet;

the controller defines the second falling holes corresponding to the third falling holes as overdue falling holes by encoding the second falling holes, and defines the other second falling holes as falling holes within the quality guarantee period step by step according to the descending grade from the expected maximum day to zero; the controller calculates the difference of days between the current date and the expiration date in the product information code, judges whether the difference of days is greater than zero, controls the corresponding pusher to drive the push plate to push the corresponding packaging bag to the overdue falling opening falling position when the difference of days is not greater than zero, and controls the automatic closing door under the corresponding packaging bag to be opened, so that the corresponding packaging bag falls through the overdue falling opening, falls into the containing area where the falling hole III is located, and enters the space IV through the falling hole III; and the controller judges whether the number of days difference is greater than zero, and judges whether the number of days is within the number of days of the quality guarantee period of the corresponding grade step by step according to the number of days of the quality guarantee period defined step by the descending grade, if so, the corresponding pusher is controlled to drive the push plate to push the corresponding packaging bag to the second position of the corresponding drop hole, and the automatic closing door under the corresponding packaging bag is controlled to be opened, so that the corresponding packaging bag falls into the corresponding containing area.

As a further improvement of the above scheme, the side wall of the inner shell is provided with at least one first outlet, and at least one first inlet corresponding to the at least one first outlet; the first outlets and the second partition plate are positioned on the same horizontal plane and are communicated with the second space, the first inlets are communicated with the first space, and each first outlet is pivoted with the corresponding first inlet through a first conveying belt;

and when the controller judges that the number of days difference is greater than the expected maximum number of days, the corresponding pusher is controlled to drive the push plate to push the corresponding packaging bag to one of the outlets, the first overlapped conveying belt at one outlet is controlled to be started, and the corresponding packaging bag is conveyed to the first space through the corresponding first conveying belt so as to be sorted again after n days.

Furthermore, the first partition board is provided with a first drop hole for communicating the first space with the second space; the sorting mechanism further comprises a collector arranged in the first space; the collector includes collecting plate and rotating ware, and the one end of collecting plate is rotated and is installed at the center of baffle one, and the other end is unsettled on baffle one, the one end at collector drive collecting plate use fixed baffle center is rotatory as the rotation point, makes the wrapping bag in the unsettled one end rotation space of collecting plate one fall into in the space two from the hole that falls one.

Further, if the expected maximum number of days is B days, defining the interval of 0 days to A days as the first mouth falling within the quality guarantee period, A +1 days to B-1 days as the second mouth falling within the quality guarantee period, A, B is a positive integer and B is greater than A;

the number of the second dropping holes is 3, and the second dropping holes correspond to overdue dropping openings, first dropping openings within the quality guarantee period and second dropping openings within the quality guarantee period respectively; the number of the accommodating areas is 3 corresponding to the second falling hole.

As a further improvement of the above scheme, the second outlet and the third partition are located on the same horizontal plane and are communicated with the third space, the second inlet is communicated with the first space, and the second conveying belt extends into the corresponding accommodating area through the corresponding second outlet;

after m days after the bagged snack food storage cabinet finishes sorting, the controller controls to start the second conveyor belt overlapped at each second outlet, and the corresponding packaging bag is conveyed into the first space through the corresponding second conveyor belt so as to be sorted again after n days.

As a further improvement of the above scheme, the side wall of the inner shell is provided with a second outlet and a second inlet corresponding to the second outlet; the second outlet and the third partition plate are positioned on the same horizontal plane and are communicated with the third space, the second inlet is communicated with the first space, the second outlet and the second inlet are pivoted through a second conveying belt, and the second conveying belt extends into the corresponding accommodating area through the second outlet;

the second sorting sub-mechanism further comprises a rotator, the impeller is mounted on the center of the third partition plate through a rotating shaft, and the rotator drives the impeller to rotate by driving the rotating shaft to rotate;

after m days of sorting of the bagged snack food storage cabinet, the controller controls to start the second conveyor belt overlapped at the second outlet, and the corresponding packaging bags are conveyed into the first space through the corresponding second conveyor belt so as to be sorted again after n days; meanwhile, the controller controls the rotator to drive the impeller to rotate, and the current storage area is rotated to the position above the third drop hole.

As a further improvement of the above scheme, the side wall of the inner shell is provided with a second outlet and a second inlet corresponding to the second outlet; the second outlet and the third partition plate are positioned on the same horizontal plane and are communicated with the third space, the second inlet is communicated with the second space, the second outlet and the second inlet are pivoted through a second conveying belt, and the second conveying belt extends into the corresponding accommodating area through the second outlet;

after m days after the bagged snack food storage cabinet finishes sorting, the controller controls to start the second conveyor belt overlapped at the second outlet, and the corresponding packaging bags are conveyed into the second space through the corresponding second conveyor belt for re-sorting; meanwhile, the controller controls the rotator to drive the impeller to rotate, and the current storage area is rotated to the position above the third drop hole.

As a further improvement of the above scheme, if the expected maximum number of days is B days, then 0-a days are defined as first mouth falls within the quality guarantee period, a + 1-B-1 days are defined as second mouth falls within the quality guarantee period, more than B days are defined as third mouth falls within the quality guarantee period, A, B is a positive integer and B is greater than a;

the number of the second dropping holes is 4, and the second dropping holes correspond to overdue dropping openings, first dropping openings within the quality guarantee period, second dropping openings within the quality guarantee period and third dropping openings within the quality guarantee period respectively; the number of the accommodating areas is 4 corresponding to the second falling hole.

As a further improvement of the scheme, the bagged snack food storage cabinet comprises a cabinet body, an inner shell is positioned in the cabinet body, and the top of the cabinet body is provided with a window communicated with an access pipe.

The invention also provides a quality guarantee period sorting method of any bagged snack food storage cabinet, which comprises the following steps:

by coding the plurality of second falling holes, defining the second falling holes corresponding to the third falling holes as overdue falling holes, and defining the rest second falling holes as falling holes within the quality guarantee period step by step according to the descending grade from the predicted maximum day to zero;

calculating the difference of the number of days between the current date and the expiration date in the product information code, and judging whether the difference of the number of days is greater than zero;

when the difference value of the days is not more than zero, controlling the corresponding pusher to drive the push plate to push the corresponding packaging bag to the overdue falling opening and controlling the automatic closing door below the corresponding packaging bag to be opened, so that the corresponding packaging bag falls through the overdue falling opening, falls into the containing area where the falling hole III is located and enters the space IV through the falling hole III;

and judging whether the number of days difference is larger than zero, judging whether the number of days is within the number of days of the quality guarantee period of the corresponding grade step by step according to the number of days of the quality guarantee period defined step by the descending grade, if so, controlling the corresponding pusher to drive the push plate to push the corresponding packaging bag to the second position of the corresponding drop hole, and controlling the automatic closing door under the corresponding packaging bag to be opened, so that the corresponding packaging bag falls into the corresponding containing area.

The invention has the beneficial effects that: according to the storage method, the sorting mechanism is controlled to sort the bagged snacks to the corresponding storage areas according to the expiration date of the quality guarantee period, so that the consumers can conveniently do appropriate response treatment; the invention times the timing of the bagged snacks in each storage area, and when the timing exceeds the set time limit, the foods are sorted again, so that the correct classification display of the foods in the quality guarantee period is ensured, the problems that the quality guarantee period information of the foods cannot be obtained by consumers in time and the household economic loss and the resource waste are caused by processing the foods which are about to expire can be effectively avoided, and the invention has very remarkable practical value.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a pouch snack food storage cabinet provided in embodiment 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of a portion of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic perspective view of a portion of FIG. 2 from another perspective;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a method of sorting a data processor in a bagged snack food holding cabinet;

fig. 5 is a flowchart of a food sorting method for a pouch snack food storage cabinet according to embodiment 2 of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is a schematic perspective view of fig. 5 with the corresponding inner case 2 removed.

Fig. 7 is a top view of fig. 6.

Fig. 8 is a side view of fig. 6 at one of the viewing angles.

Fig. 9 is a side view of fig. 6 from another perspective thereof.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a shelf life sorting method for the controller of the snack food storage cabinet of FIG. 1.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

Please refer to fig. 1, which is a schematic perspective view of a pouch snack food storage cabinet according to the present invention. The bagged snack food storage cabinet is used for sorting the quality guarantee periods of the packaging bags 100, snack foods are contained in the packaging bags 100, product information codes are arranged on the surfaces of the packaging bags 100, and the product information codes record various information of the snack foods in the packaging bags 100, such as production dates, production places, quality guarantee periods, quality guarantee period expiration dates T, manufacturers, production batches and the like. The product information code can be a two-dimensional code or a bar code, and can be conveniently scanned and put in storage by a seller for unified sale and management. Different snack foods have different bag surface patterns, colors and sizes of the packaging bags 100, and the invention is used for sorting the snack foods packaged by the packaging bags 100. The bagged snack food storage cabinet comprises a cabinet body 1, an inner shell 2 arranged in the cabinet body 1 and a sorting mechanism arranged on the inner shell 2.

The cabinet body 1 may have a cylindrical shape, and a through hole communicating with the inside of the inner case 2 is formed on a top end surface thereof, and serves as a window 10 for collecting a plurality of packing bags 100. The structure for performing the snack food sorting function is provided inside the cabinet 1, so that the cabinet 1 may be designed in various forms according to the needs of commercial popularization, and is not limited to the cylindrical shape of the embodiment. In other embodiments, the cabinet 1 may not be provided.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a schematic perspective view of a pouch food storage cabinet, wherein the cabinet body 1 is transparently processed for displaying the internal structure.

A first partition plate 21, a second partition plate 22 and a third partition plate 23 are sequentially arranged from the top to the bottom in the inner shell 2. The first partition 21, the second partition 22, and the third partition 23 divide the internal space of the inner casing 2 into a first space 210, a second space 220, a third space 230, and a fourth space 240 in this order. The shape of the inner shell 2 is consistent with the shape of the cabinet body 1, and the inner shell can also be cylindrical, so that the inner shell 2 can be coaxially contained in the cabinet body 1, and a certain gap is reserved between the inner shell 2 and the cabinet body 1 for mounting a transmission belt (see below). These spacers may be fixed to the inner side wall of the inner casing 2 by welding.

Referring to fig. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, the first partition 21 has a central hole and at least one first drop hole 211 (two in this embodiment) for connecting the first space 210 and the second space 220. The center hole is located in the center area of the first partition plate 21, and the location of the first drop hole 211 is not particularly limited.

The second partition 22 is provided with a plurality of second falling holes 221 for communicating the second space 220 with the third space 230, and an automatic closing door (not shown) is installed in each second falling hole 221. The automatic closing door may be a simple solenoid valve to prevent the bag 100 on the second partition 22 from entering the third space 230 under not only the allowable conditions, but also to smoothly let the bag 100 enter the third space 230 when necessary. The number of the second drop holes 221 is three in this embodiment, and the three second drop holes 221 are circumferentially arranged on the second partition 22 at equal intervals as much as possible.

The third partition 23 is provided with a third drop hole 231 communicating the third space 230 with the fourth space 240. The first drop hole 211 and the third drop hole 231 may or may not be provided with automatic closing doors, and in this embodiment, automatic closing doors are not provided. The third drop hole 231 is aligned with one of the second drop holes 221 as much as possible, that is, is located right below the corresponding second drop hole 221. The sizes of all the falling holes in the embodiment can be designed correspondingly according to the maximum size of the packaging bag 100, so as to ensure the passing rate of the packaging bag 100 on the falling holes.

The side wall of the inner shell 2 is provided with at least one first outlet 24, at least one second outlet and a plurality of inlets, the first outlet 24 and the second partition 22 are positioned on the same horizontal plane and are communicated with the second space 220, the second outlet and the third partition 23 are positioned on the same horizontal plane and are communicated with the third space 230, the inlets are communicated with the first space 210, each first outlet 24 is allocated with one inlet, and each second outlet is also allocated with one inlet. In this embodiment, the number of the first outlet 24 and the second outlet is one, and the number of the inlets is two.

The sorting mechanism comprises an access pipe 3, a first sorting sub mechanism, a second sorting sub mechanism, a controller, a plurality of conveying belts and a collector.

The access pipe 3 is located space 210, and the one end of the access pipe 3 is fixed on the partition plate 21 and covers the center hole, and the other end of the access pipe 3 penetrates through the top of the inner shell 2 to receive the packaging bag 100 to be stored in a classified mode. The window 10 at the top of the cabinet 1 is communicated with the access pipe 3, so that the packing bag 100 falls into the second space 220 through the access pipe 3. The access pipe 3 may be fixed to the first partition 21 by welding.

The first sorting sub-mechanism is located in the second space 220 and comprises a circular truncated cone 4, a tiling assembly, a pushing assembly, a plurality of code scanning instruments and a prompting device.

The circular truncated cone 4 is located in the second space 220, the lower table is fixed on the second partition 22, and the upper table is located below the access pipe 3 to receive the packaging bag 100 from the access pipe 3. In this embodiment, the slope of the side surface of the circular truncated cone 4 may be designed according to the size of the packaging bag 100, as long as the packaging bag 100 can smoothly slide down on the side surface of the circular truncated cone 4.

The tiling assembly includes at least one baffle 42 and at least one driver corresponding to the at least one baffle 42. The driver drives the corresponding baffle 42 to rotate around the circular truncated cone 4 along the side surface of the circular truncated cone 4, and the baffle 42 flatly lays the packaging bag 100 on the side surface of the circular truncated cone 4 in the rotating process. The shutter 42 may be a plate body having an arc shape as a whole, and the driver may be a stepping motor. In this embodiment, the baffle 42 is spaced apart from the side of the circular truncated cone 4 by a certain height, which is the thickness of the packing bag 100, so as to prevent the packing bag 100 from being stacked and not achieving the flat-laying effect.

The pushing assembly includes a plurality of pushing plates 43 corresponding to the plurality of second drop holes 221 and a plurality of pushers corresponding to the plurality of pushing plates 43. The pusher drives the push plate 43 to push the packing bag 100 on the side of the circular truncated cone 4 along the side of the circular truncated cone 4.

Each second drop hole 221 corresponds to two code scanners: one code scanner is arranged on the automatic closing door at the second falling hole 221, and the other code scanner is arranged on the inner wall of the inner shell 2 in the second space 220 and corresponds to the second falling hole 221. The code scanning instrument is used for scanning the code of the packaging bag 100 pushed by the push plate 43 on the automatic closing door at the second falling hole 221 so as to acquire the product information code on the corresponding packaging bag 100. A trigger switch for controlling the power-on of the code scanner 7 can be arranged on the inner wall of the inner shell 2 near the corresponding second drop hole 221. When the push plate 43 moves to the corresponding second drop hole 221, the push plate touches the trigger switch, so that the code scanner is triggered, and the code scanner is powered on to start code scanning.

The second sorting sub-mechanism is located in the third space 230 and comprises an impeller and a rotator. The impeller is installed on the center of the third partition plate 23 through a rotating shaft, the central shaft is perpendicular to the third partition plate 23, and the rotator drives the impeller to rotate by driving the rotating shaft to rotate. A receiving area 52 is formed between two adjacent blades 51 of the impeller, and each receiving area 52 is communicated with a second space (220) through a second drop hole 221; the third drop hole 231 is located in one of the receiving areas 52.

And each outlet I24 is pivoted with the corresponding inlet and each outlet II is pivoted with the corresponding inlet through a conveying belt. If the first outlet 24 and the second partition 22 are located on the same horizontal plane and are communicated with the second space 220, the first inlet is communicated with the first space 210, each first outlet 24 is pivoted with the corresponding first inlet through a first conveying belt 61, if the second outlet and the third partition 23 are located on the same horizontal plane and are communicated with the third space 230, the second inlet is communicated with the first space 210, each second outlet is pivoted with the corresponding second inlet through a second conveying belt 62, and the second conveying belt 62 extends into the corresponding accommodating area 52 through the corresponding second outlet.

The controller defines the second drop hole 221 corresponding to the third drop hole 231 as an overdue drop hole by encoding the second drop holes 221, and defines the other second drop holes 221 as drop holes within the quality guarantee period step by step according to the descending grade from the expected maximum number of days to zero. The predicted maximum number of days may be B days, defining the interval of 0 days-A days as the first mouth in the quality guarantee period, A +1 days-B-1 days as the second mouth in the quality guarantee period, A, B is a positive integer and B is greater than A. In this example, B is 60 days and A is 30 days. The number of the second dropping holes 221 is 3, and the second dropping holes correspond to overdue dropping openings, first dropping openings within the quality guarantee period and second dropping openings within the quality guarantee period respectively; the number of the receiving areas 52 is 3 corresponding to the second dropping hole 221.

The controller calculates the number of days difference between the current date and the shelf life deadline T in the product information code, and judges whether the number of days difference is greater than zero, and controls the corresponding pusher to drive the push plate 43 to push the corresponding packaging bag 100 to the overdue drop opening drop position when the number of days difference is not greater than zero, and controls to open the automatic closing door under the corresponding packaging bag 100, so that the corresponding packaging bag 100 falls through the overdue drop opening, falls into the containing area 52 where the drop hole III 231 is located, and enters the space IV 240 through the drop hole III 231.

And the controller judges whether the number of days difference is greater than zero, and judges whether the number of days is within the number of days of the quality guarantee period of the corresponding grade step by step according to the number of days of the quality guarantee period defined step by the descending grade, if so, the corresponding pusher is controlled to drive the push plate 43 to push the corresponding packaging bag 100 to the corresponding drop hole II 221, and the automatic closing door under the corresponding packaging bag 100 is controlled to be opened, so that the corresponding packaging bag 100 falls into the corresponding containing area 52.

Otherwise, the controller continues to judge until the controller judges that the difference value of the days is larger than the maximum preset value, the pusher is controlled to drive the push plate 43 to push the corresponding packaging bag 100 to one of the first outlets 24, the overlapped conveying belts at the first outlets 24 are controlled to be started, and the corresponding packaging bag 100 is conveyed to the first space 210 through the corresponding conveying belts.

And when the controller judges that the difference value of the days is larger than the expected maximum days, the corresponding pusher can be controlled to drive the push plate 43 to push the corresponding packaging bag 100 to one of the outlets I24, the overlapped conveying belt I61 at the outlet I24 is controlled to be started, and the corresponding packaging bag 100 is conveyed into the space I210 through the corresponding conveying belt I61 so as to be sorted again after n days.

The collector is installed in the first through space 210 and comprises a collecting plate 7 and a rotator. One end of the collecting plate 7 is rotatably installed at the center of the first partition plate 21, the other end of the collecting plate 7 is suspended on the first partition plate 21, the collecting plate 7 is driven by the collector to rotate by taking one end of the center of the first partition plate 21 as a rotating point, and therefore packaging bags in the first space 210 are rotated by the suspended end of the collecting plate 7 and fall into the second space 220 from the first falling hole 211.

After m days after the bagged snack food storage cabinet finishes sorting, the controller controls to start the second conveyor 62 overlapped at each second outlet, and the corresponding packaging bag 100 is conveyed into the first space 210 through the corresponding second conveyor 62 so as to be sorted again after n days.

In other embodiments, the expected maximum number of days is B days, defining an interval of 0 days-a days as the first mouth within shelf life, a +1 days-B-1 days as the second mouth within shelf life, more than B days as the third mouth within shelf life, A, B is a positive integer and B is greater than a. The number of the second dropping holes 221 is 4, and the second dropping holes correspond to overdue dropping holes, first dropping holes in quality guarantee periods, second dropping holes in quality guarantee periods and third dropping holes in quality guarantee periods respectively; the number of the receiving areas 52 is 4 corresponding to the second falling hole 221. Thus, the packaging bags 100 which are longer than B days are not conveyed into the first space 210 by the first conveying belt 61, but are directly conveyed into the third space 230, and finally conveyed into the second space 220 by the second conveying belt 62 for re-sorting.

The prompting device is used for alarming and prompting. The prompting device in this embodiment may be a voice broadcast device, and in other embodiments, the prompting device may also be a buzzer, or other devices as long as the prompting of people by the prompting device is not affected. The prompting of the prompting device has certain periodicity. When the package 100 is pushed into the corresponding receiving area 52, the controller may drive the prompting device to alarm to a corresponding degree. The staff can set the alarm period according to actual needs. The alarm device can enable people to know whether food is overdue in time and process food to be overdue or overdue food.

In summary, referring to fig. 10, the method for sorting the shelf life of the controller according to the present embodiment includes the following steps.

And calculating the difference value of the number of days between the current date and the expiration date in the product information code, and judging whether the difference value of the number of days is greater than zero.

When the difference of the number of days is not greater than zero, the corresponding pusher is controlled to drive the push plate 43 to push the corresponding packaging bag 100 to the overdue drop opening, and the automatic closing door below the corresponding packaging bag 100 is controlled to be opened, so that the corresponding packaging bag 100 drops through the overdue drop opening, falls into the containing area 52 where the drop hole three 231 is located, and enters the space four 240 through the drop hole three 231.

And when the difference value of the days is larger than zero, judging whether the difference value of the days is between 0 day and A day, if so, controlling the corresponding pusher to drive the push plate 43 to push the corresponding packaging bag 100 to the corresponding second drop hole 221, and controlling to open the automatic closing door below the corresponding packaging bag 100 so that the corresponding packaging bag 100 falls in the storage area 52 corresponding to the 0 day and A day.

And when the difference value of the days is larger than zero and the difference value of the days is beyond 0 day-A day, continuously judging whether the difference value of the days is between A +1 day-B-1 day, if so, controlling the corresponding pusher to drive the push plate 43 to push the corresponding packaging bag 100 to the corresponding drop hole II 221, and controlling to open the automatic closing door below the corresponding packaging bag 100 so that the corresponding packaging bag 100 falls into the containing area 52 corresponding to the A +1 day-B-1 day.

When the difference of the days is larger than the expected maximum days (i.e., B days), the corresponding pusher is controlled to drive the pushing plate 43 to push the corresponding packaging bag 100 to the first outlet 24, the overlapped conveying belt 61 at the first outlet 24 is controlled to be started, and the corresponding packaging bag 100 is conveyed into the first space 210 through the corresponding conveying belt 61 to be sorted again after n days.

After m days after the bagged snack food storage cabinet finishes sorting, the controller controls to start the second conveyor 62 overlapped at the second outlet, and the corresponding packaging bag 100 is conveyed into the first space 210 through the corresponding second conveyor 62 so as to be sorted again after n days. Meanwhile, the controller controls the rotator to drive the impeller to rotate, so that the current accommodating area 52 is rotated above the third drop hole 231. Therefore, the contents of all the receiving areas 52 are changed, the receiving areas 52 are empty after being conveyed by the second conveying belt 62, and the third dropping hole 231 is located therein after the impeller rotates, so that the passing area of the expired packaging bags 100 is formed.

After n days, the collector drives the collecting plate 7 to rotate by taking one end of the center of the first fixed partition plate 21 as a rotating point, so that the packaging bags in the first rotating space 210 at the suspended end of the collecting plate 7 fall into the second rotating space 220 from the first falling hole 211, and secondary sorting is performed.

In summary, the present embodiment has the following advantages: according to the bagged snack food storage cabinet, the controller controls the sorting mechanism to sort bagged snacks to corresponding storage areas according to the shelf life deadline acquired by the code scanning instrument, and the bagged snacks in the storage areas are timed. When the timing exceeds the set time limit, the food is sorted again, the correct classified display of the food in the quality guarantee period is ensured, the household economic loss and the resource waste caused by the fact that a consumer cannot obtain the quality guarantee period information of the food in time and process the food which is about to expire can be effectively avoided, and the method has very obvious practical value.

The present invention is not limited to the above preferred embodiments, and any modifications, equivalent substitutions and improvements made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A cabinet is accomodate to snacks in bags, its characterized in that, it includes inner shell (2) and installs the sorting mechanism on inner shell (2):

a first partition plate (21), a second partition plate (22) and a third partition plate (23) are sequentially arranged in the inner shell (2) from top to bottom, and the first partition plate (21), the second partition plate (22) and the third partition plate (23) divide the inner space of the inner shell (2) into a first space (210), a second space (220), a third space (230) and a fourth space (240) in sequence; the first partition plate (21) is provided with a central hole for communicating the first space (210) with the second space (220), and the central hole is positioned in the central area of the first partition plate (21); the second partition plate (22) is provided with a plurality of second falling holes (221) for communicating the second space (220) with the third space (230), an automatic closing door is installed in each second falling hole (221), and the third partition plate (23) is provided with a third falling hole (231) for communicating the third space (230) with the fourth space (240); the sorting mechanism comprises an access pipe (3), a first sorting sub mechanism, a second sorting sub mechanism, a controller and a plurality of conveying belts;

the access pipe (3) is positioned in the first space (210), one end of the access pipe is fixed on the first partition plate (21) and covers the center hole, the other end of the access pipe penetrates through the top of the inner shell (2) to receive packaging bags (100) to be classified and stored, and the packaging bags (100) fall into the second space (220) through the access pipe (3); the snack food packaging bag comprises a packaging bag (100), wherein snack food is contained in the packaging bag (100), a product information code is arranged on the bag surface of the packaging bag (100), and the information contained in the product information code comprises the expiration date of the snack food in the packaging bag (100);

the first sorting sub mechanism is positioned in the second space (220) and comprises a circular truncated cone (4), a tiling assembly, a pushing assembly and a plurality of code scanners;

the round platform (4) is positioned in the second space (220), the lower platform surface is fixed on the second partition plate (22), and the upper platform surface is positioned below the access pipe (3) to receive the packaging bag (100) from the access pipe (3);

the tiling assembly comprises at least one baffle (42) and at least one driver I corresponding to the at least one baffle (42); the first driver drives the corresponding baffle (42) to rotate around the circular truncated cone (4) along the side surface of the circular truncated cone (4), and the baffle (42) flatly spreads the packaging bag (100) on the side surface of the circular truncated cone (4) in the rotating process;

the pushing assembly comprises a plurality of pushing plates (43) corresponding to the plurality of second drop holes (221) and a plurality of pushers corresponding to the plurality of pushing plates (43); the pusher drives the push plate (43) to push the packaging bag (100) on the side surface of the circular truncated cone (4) along the side surface of the circular truncated cone (4);

each second falling hole (221) corresponds to two code scanners: one code scanner is arranged on the automatic closing door at the second drop hole (221), and the other code scanner is arranged on the inner wall of the inner shell (2) in the space II (220) and corresponds to the second drop hole (221); the code scanning instrument is used for scanning the code of the packaging bag (100) pushed by the push plate (43) to the automatic closing door at the second falling hole (221) so as to obtain the product information code on the corresponding packaging bag (100);

the second sorting sub-mechanism is positioned in the space III (230) and comprises an impeller, the impeller is arranged on the center of the partition plate III (23), and the central axis of the impeller is vertical to the partition plate III (23); a receiving area (52) is formed between two adjacent blades (51) of the impeller, and each receiving area (52) is communicated with a second space (220) through a second drop hole (221); the third drop hole (231) is positioned in one of the receiving areas (52);

the side wall of the inner shell (2) is provided with at least one second outlet, and at least one second inlet corresponding to the at least one second outlet, and each second outlet is pivoted with the corresponding second inlet through a second conveying belt (62);

the controller defines the second drop hole (221) corresponding to the third drop hole (231) as an overdue drop hole by encoding the second drop holes (221), and defines the other second drop holes (221) as drop holes within the quality guarantee period step by step according to the descending grade from the expected maximum number of days to zero; the controller calculates the difference of days between the current date and the expiration date in the product information code, judges whether the difference of days is greater than zero, controls the corresponding pusher to drive the push plate (43) to push the corresponding packaging bag (100) to an overdue falling opening falling position when the difference of days is not greater than zero, and controls the automatic closing door under the corresponding packaging bag (100) to be opened, so that the corresponding packaging bag (100) falls through the overdue falling opening, falls into the containing area (52) where the falling hole III (231) is located, and enters the space IV (240) through the falling hole III (231); and the controller judges whether the number of days difference is larger than zero, and judges whether the number of days is within the number of days of the quality guarantee period of the corresponding grade step by step according to the number of days of the quality guarantee period defined step by the descending grade, if so, the corresponding pusher is controlled to drive the push plate (43) to push the corresponding packaging bag (100) to the corresponding drop hole II (221), and the automatic closing door under the corresponding packaging bag (100) is controlled to be opened, so that the corresponding packaging bag (100) falls into the corresponding containing area (52).

2. A pouch snack food cabinet as defined in claim 1 wherein the side walls of the inner housing (2) are provided with at least one first outlet (24), corresponding to the at least one first outlet (24) and at least one first inlet; the first outlets (24) and the second partition plates (22) are positioned on the same horizontal plane and are communicated with the second space (220), the first inlets are communicated with the first space (210), and each first outlet (24) is pivoted with the corresponding first inlet through a first conveying belt (61);

and when the controller judges that the day difference value is larger than the expected maximum days, the corresponding pusher is controlled to drive the push plate (43) to push the corresponding packaging bag (100) to one of the first outlets (24), the overlapped first conveying belt (61) at the first outlet (24) is controlled to be started, and the corresponding packaging bag (100) is conveyed to the first space (210) through the corresponding first conveying belt (61) so as to be sorted again after n days.

3. The pouch snack food cabinet of claim 2 wherein the first partition (21) defines a first drop hole (211) communicating between the first space (210) and the second space (220); the sorting mechanism further comprises a collector mounted in the first space (210); the collector includes collecting plate (7) and rotating device, and the one end of collecting plate (7) is rotated and is installed at the center of baffle (21), and the other end is unsettled on baffle (21), collector drive collecting plate (7) use the one end at fixed baffle (21) center to rotate as the rotation point, make collecting plate (7) unsettled one end rotate the wrapping bag in space one (210) and fall into in space two (220) from falling hole one (211).

4. The pouch snack food cabinet of claim 2, wherein said expected maximum number of days is day B, defining a shelf life drop of one between day 0 and day a, a +1 day-B-1 day being a shelf life drop of two, A, B being a positive integer and B being greater than a;

the number of the second dropping holes (221) is 3, and the second dropping holes respectively correspond to overdue dropping openings, first dropping openings within the quality guarantee period and second dropping openings within the quality guarantee period; the number of the receiving areas (52) is 3 corresponding to the second falling hole (221).

5. The pouch snack food storage cabinet of claim 1 wherein said second outlet is located at the same level as said third partition (23) and communicates with said third space (230), said second inlet communicates with said first space (210), and said second conveyor (62) extends into the corresponding receiving area (52) through the corresponding second outlet;

after m days after the bagged snack food storage cabinet finishes sorting, the controller controls to start the two-outlet overlapped conveyor belt (62), and the corresponding packaging bag (100) is conveyed into the first space (210) through the corresponding second conveyor belt (62) so as to be sorted again after n days.

6. The bagged snack food storage cabinet of claim 1, wherein the side wall of the inner casing (2) is provided with a second outlet and a second inlet corresponding to the second outlet; the second outlet and the third partition plate (23) are positioned on the same horizontal plane and are communicated with a third space (230), the second inlet is communicated with the first space (210), the second outlet and the second inlet are pivoted through a second conveying belt (62), and the second conveying belt (62) extends into the corresponding accommodating area (52) through the second outlet;

the second sorting sub-mechanism further comprises a rotator, the impeller is mounted on the center of the third partition plate (23) through a rotating shaft, and the rotator drives the impeller to rotate by driving the rotating shaft to rotate;

after m days of sorting of the bagged snack food storage cabinet, the controller controls to start the second conveyor belt (62) overlapped at the second outlet, and the corresponding packaging bag (100) is conveyed into the first space (210) through the corresponding second conveyor belt (62) so as to be sorted again after n days; meanwhile, the controller controls the rotator to drive the impeller to rotate, and the current accommodating area (52) is rotated above a third drop hole (231).

7. The bagged snack food storage cabinet of claim 1, wherein the side wall of the inner casing (2) is provided with a second outlet and a second inlet corresponding to the second outlet; the second outlet and the third partition plate (23) are positioned on the same horizontal plane and are communicated with a third space (230), the second inlet is communicated with a second space (220), the second outlet and the second inlet are pivoted through a second conveying belt (62), and the second conveying belt (62) extends into the corresponding accommodating area (52) through the second outlet;

after m days after the bagged snack food storage cabinet finishes sorting, the controller controls to start the second conveyor belt (62) overlapped at the second outlet, and the corresponding packaging bag (100) is conveyed into the second space (220) through the corresponding second conveyor belt (62) for sorting again; meanwhile, the controller controls the rotator to drive the impeller to rotate, and the current accommodating area (52) is rotated above a third drop hole (231).

8. The pouch snack food cabinet of claim 1, wherein said expected maximum number of days is day B, defining day 0-day a as the first mouth drop within shelf life, day a + 1-day B-1 as the second mouth drop within shelf life, day B or more as the third mouth drop within shelf life, A, B being a positive integer and B being greater than a;

the number of the second dropping holes (221) is 4, and the second dropping holes respectively correspond to overdue dropping openings, first dropping openings within the quality guarantee period, second dropping openings within the quality guarantee period and third dropping openings within the quality guarantee period; the number of the receiving areas (52) is 4 corresponding to the second falling hole (221).

9. A pouch food storage cabinet according to claim 1, comprising a cabinet body (1), wherein the inner casing (2) is located in the cabinet body (1), and a window (10) is formed at the top of the cabinet body (1) and communicated with the access pipe (3).

10. A method of shelf-life sorting a bagged snack food holding cabinet according to any of claims 1 to 9, comprising the steps of:

by encoding a plurality of second drop holes (221), defining the second drop holes (221) corresponding to the third drop holes (231) as overdue drop holes, and defining the other second drop holes (221) as shelf-life drop holes step by step according to the descending grade from the expected maximum number of days to zero;

when the difference value of the days is not more than zero, controlling the corresponding pusher to drive the push plate (43) to push the corresponding packaging bag (100) to the overdue drop opening and controlling the automatic closing door under the corresponding packaging bag (100) to be opened, so that the corresponding packaging bag (100) falls through the overdue drop opening, falls into the containing area (52) where the drop hole III (231) is located, and enters the space IV (240) through the drop hole III (231);

and judging whether the number of days difference is larger than zero, judging whether the number of days is within the number of days of the quality guarantee period of the corresponding grade step by step according to the number of days of the quality guarantee period defined step by the descending grade, if so, controlling the corresponding pusher to drive the push plate (43) to push the corresponding packaging bag (100) to the corresponding drop hole II (221), and controlling to open the automatic closing door below the corresponding packaging bag (100) so that the corresponding packaging bag (100) falls into the corresponding containing area (52).