JP2007055640A - Fixed quantity soft packaging device and fixed quantity soft packaging method using the device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixed quantity soft packaging device which fluffily packages food and gives the food an additional value, and allows mass production by automating conventional manual processes of packaging dalicatessen such as cooked bean curd refuse, a mixture with tofu and cooked food, and cooked seaweed named hijiki. <P>SOLUTION: The device includes a fixed quantity measuring means for food and a stirring means for a fixed quantity of food. The stirring means includes a rotary vane and a drive mechanism for rotating the rotary vane. Food discharged and falling from the fixed quantity measuring means is stirred by the rotary vane of the stirring means so that the food is softly packaged. An exemplified fixed quantity measuring means includes a casing composing a valve chamber having an inlet port and an outlet port. It also includes a rotary valve rotatably disposed along the internal circumference of the valve chamber of the casing. It further includes a rotary type fixed quantity measuring valve having a rotating means for rotating the rotary valve and used for packaging a fixed quantity of food. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a quantitative soft filling apparatus that can fill a packaging container with a certain amount of food such as camellia flowers and whitening, and a quantitative soft filling method using the quantitative soft filling apparatus.

  Conventionally, when manufacturing foods etc. in a factory, raw materials, semi-finished products, foods, etc. are transferred through channels such as pipes, and quantitative filling into containers has been performed, and this channel and flow rate can be controlled, A rotary-type filling valve was used for quantitative filling. The rotary filling valve includes a casing that forms a valve chamber having an inlet and an outlet, a rotary valve that is rotatably arranged along the inner periphery of the valve chamber of the casing, and a rotating means that rotates the rotary valve. (For example, refer to Patent Documents 1 to 5).

  On the other hand, depending on the food, as a technique devised so that it can be softly accommodated in the container as if it was served by hand, it was carried into the processing station and the machine body having a processing station where the content filling container was carried in and out. A lifting body disposed above the container, a loosening member attached to the lifting body in a hanging manner so that the lower part can be moved forward and backward with respect to the container, and entering the container as the lifting body descends A food manufacturing machine (see, for example, Patent Document 6) provided with an operation means for operating the loosening member so that the central portion of the contents in the container is raised by the loosening member, and fried In order to prevent lumps when cooking food, a cylindrical cooking container that contains cooking ingredients is provided, and the cooking container is heated by rotating it around the axis while heating. A plurality of agitation devices provided on the inner peripheral surface of the cooking container and having an interval in the axial direction of the cooking container and directed to the front side in the direction of rotation of the cooking container. There is known an automatic stirrer equipped with a jar (for example, see Patent Document 7).

Japanese Patent No. 3030492 JP 2000-335503 A JP 2001-88806 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-236435 JP-A-8-301391 JP 2000-219202 A JP-A-6-311928

  When using a conventional rotary filling valve to fill a container with food such as sugar beet, if the food such as sugar beet supplied to the rotary filling valve is pressed by the piston and filled into the packaging container from the outlet In the meantime, food such as sugar beet is stored in the packaging container in a hardened state. In the case where sugar beet flowers, white bean paste, hijiki, etc. are so hard, the taste is also halved, which affects the purchasing power of consumers. Conventionally, in a device using a rotary filling valve, when filling a packaging container with food such as sugar beet that has been transported from the outlet, the filling to increase the volume and give a soft feeling can only be done manually. There wasn't. The object of the present invention is to add the added value of foods that can be easily served with appetite, such as sugar beet flowers (Okara), white rice, hijiki, etc. An object of the present invention is to provide a quantitative soft filling apparatus that can be mass-produced and a quantitative soft filling method using the quantitative soft filling apparatus.

  The present inventors have earnestly researched about a method for mechanically and gently preparing a prepared meal, and proposed as a conventional technique for loosening and increasing the volume of food, in a container containing food, for example, on a lifting body High-speed fixed-quantity filling cannot be performed by means for lowering the attached unraveling member so as to actuate and a means for loosening by using a plurality of stirring rods provided on the inner peripheral surface of the container. Therefore, after changing the idea and loosening before filling the container with sugar beet, etc., after quantifying using the rotary filling valve, the flower that is supplied to the packaging container from the outlet of the rotary filling valve, It has been found that it can be softly arranged by loosening with a stirring blade provided between the outlet of the rotary filling valve and the packaging container, and the present invention has been completed.

  That is, the present invention comprises (1) a food quantification means and a quantified food loosening means, the loosening means comprising a rotary blade and a drive mechanism for rotating the rotary blade, and is discharged from the quantitative means and dropped. The present invention relates to a quantitative soft filling device characterized in that it is configured to loosen a coming food by a rotating blade of a loosening means and to fill the food softly.

  The present invention also provides (2) a casing in which the metering means constitutes a valve chamber having an inlet port and an outlet port, a rotary valve disposed rotatably along the inner periphery of the valve chamber of the casing, The quantitative soft filling device according to (1) above, which is a rotary quantitative valve used for quantitative filling of foods provided with a rotating means for rotating a rotary valve, and (3) a rotary quantitative valve, The quantitative software filling device according to (1) above, characterized in that it has a rotary valve having a cylinder chamber and a coma that can move forward and backward in the cylinder chamber, and (4) a rotary shaft on which a rotary blade is horizontally supported. The quantitative software filling device according to the above (1) or (2), or (5) a plurality of rotating blades projecting from the rotating shaft at different standing angles and / or standing positions. straight The quantitative software filling device according to any one of the above (1) to (4) characterized by having a body-like protruding piece, and (6) the loosening means has a scattering prevention hood (1) The quantitative software filling device according to any one of (1) to (5), or (7) the loosening means has a shutter below the rotary blade. Any of the above (2) to (7), comprising a filling device, and (8) a food introduction means having a hopper and a screw conveyor extending horizontally from the bottom of the hopper to the entrance of the metering means The quantification according to any one of (1) to (8) above, comprising: a quantitative software filling device according to claim 9; and (9) a container transport means having a container transport conveyor and a conveyor intermittent drive mechanism. Soft filling equipment To.

  Further, the present invention is (10) a quantitative soft filling method for foods using the quantitative soft filling device according to any one of (1) to (9) above, wherein the rotational speed of the rotary blade is 3000 to 4000 rpm. (11) A quantitative soft filling method for foods using the quantitative soft filling device according to any one of (1) to (9) above, wherein the volume is 1.5 by a loosening means. It relates to a quantitative soft filling method characterized by ˜3 times, and (12) the quantitative soft filling method according to (10) or (11) above, wherein the food is a camellia flower, whitened or hijiki.

  The metering software filling device of the present invention is mechanized without requiring manual labor, and can easily serve sugar beet flowers, white bean paste, hijiki and other sugar beet in the packaging container. Furthermore, quantitative, sanitary and mass productivity can be achieved. Has an excellent effect.

  The quantitative soft filling device of the present invention comprises a food quantitative means and a quantitative food loosening means, the loosening means comprises a rotary blade and a drive mechanism for rotating the rotary blade, and is discharged from the quantitative means and dropped. The food is not particularly limited as long as it is a device configured to loosen the incoming food with the rotating blades of the loosening means and fill the food softly. Examples include chopped spinach, sautéed konjac with tofu, boiled hijiki, squid salted seaweed, seaweed such as thread mozuku, and potato salad.

  Any means can be used for determining the amount of food as long as it can measure a substantially constant weight of food. Therefore, when using a quantitative means for obtaining a constant volume by using this constant volume, it is preferable to use a quantitative means for making the food in a compressed state, since the unraveling effect of the present invention can be demonstrated directly. As a quantitative means for compressing such food, a casing constituting a valve chamber having an inlet port and an outlet port, a rotary valve disposed rotatably along the inner periphery of the valve chamber of the casing, and the rotation A rotary metering valve used for metering food with a rotating means for rotating the valve can be suitably exemplified.

  The rotary metering valve used for the quantitative filling of the food can include a known rotary filling valve for quantitative filling, and the valve chamber has an inlet port (upper) at a position facing each other in the radial direction. Rotation provided with an outlet port (lower part), a rotary valve having a cylinder chamber capable of communicating with the inlet port and the outlet port at the same time, and having a shuttle-type frame that can reciprocate in the cylinder axial direction within the cylinder chamber A type metering valve (hereinafter sometimes referred to as “rotary metering valve (type 1)”) and a valve chamber are provided with an inlet port (upper part) and an outlet port (lower part) at positions facing each other in the radial direction, A communication port (side) is provided on the end wall or peripheral wall, and the inlet port and the outlet port are alternately connected to the communication port as the rotary valve rotates. A rotary metering valve (hereinafter referred to as “rotating type”) is provided with a curved filling passage, a metering cylinder that incorporates a piston and that introduces and discharges food into and from the valve chamber by the stroke of the piston. Metering valve (sometimes referred to as “type 2”), and the valve chamber is extruded at a position perpendicular to each other in the inlet port (side part) and outlet port (lower part), and in the radial direction. A port (upper part), an air discharge hole at a position opposed to the inlet port in the radial direction, and a rotary valve having a cylinder chamber provided in the radial direction capable of communicating with the inlet port or the outlet port; It has a shuttle-type frame that can reciprocate in the cylinder axial direction in the cylinder chamber, has a built-in discharge piston, and is provided with a stroke of the discharge piston. Cylinder for discharging the food to the valve chamber is, there can be mentioned rotary metering valve which is communicated with the extrusion port (hereinafter "rotary metering valve (Type 3)" may be referred to). As the rotary metering valve, a ball valve having a spherical rotary valve or a rotary valve having a cylindrical rotary valve can be suitably exemplified. As the rotating means, a rotary actuator, a servo motor or the like is driven to rotate. Means can be exemplified.

  In the rotary metering valve (type 1) and the rotary metering valve (type 3), both ends of the top are curved surfaces matching the outer peripheral shape of the rotary valve, and relative rotation of the top in the cylinder chamber is prevented. It is preferable that the rotation restricting means is provided. The rotation restricting means corresponds to, for example, a flat key that is fixed to the cylinder chamber inner surface and has a partly flat surface along the cylinder axial direction. The outer peripheral surface of the top can be configured with a cutout part that is partly cut out in a flat shape, and the casing is provided with a stopper that prevents the top from moving to at least the valve chamber outlet port side. preferable. Further, in order to make it possible to adjust the filling amount per time, for example, the top can be constituted by two top members and a length adjusting screw for connecting the top members.

  In the rotary metering valve (Type 1), the upper inlet port of the valve chamber of the casing is connected to the discharge port of a separately provided pump, and food is supplied by the pump at a position where one end of the cylinder chamber communicates with the inlet port. Then, the top moves to the lower outlet port side by the pressure from the pump, the food is fed into the cylinder chamber, the rotary valve rotates 180 degrees from that position, and the other end of the cylinder chamber is connected to the inlet port. The food is supplied again by the pump at the position where it is communicated with, the top moves again to the outlet port side under pressure from the pump, and the food is sent into the cylinder chamber. It will be sent out and will be loosened by the loosening means. Next, quantitative filling is performed by repeating the operation of reversing the rotary valve by approximately 180 degrees so that the cylinder chamber communicates with the inlet port and the outlet port.

  As a rotary metering valve (type 2), the upper inlet port of the valve chamber is connected to the filling tank, the lower outlet port is connected to the loosening means, and the front end of the metering cylinder is connected to the opening edge of the communication port The first passage (for inlet port connection) extends in the radial direction so as to reach from the outer peripheral surface of the rotary valve to the shaft center, and is spaced apart from the first passage by 90 degrees in the circumferential direction. A passage (for outlet port connection) extends in the radial direction, a third passage (for connection port connection) extends in the axial direction from the rear end face of the valve, and the first to third passages communicate with each other at the center of the rotary valve. Those equipped with a rotary valve are preferred.

  The rotary metering valve (type 2) is filled with food when the metering piston is retracted and the introduction stroke is made with the rotary valve connected to the supply position, that is, with the first passage connected to the inlet port and the second passage closed. Introduced into the metering cylinder from the material tank via the inlet port and the rotary valve, the rotary valve is rotated 90 degrees by the operation of the actuator, the first passage is closed, and the second passage is connected to the outlet port. When the piston is advanced to make a discharge stroke, the food in the metering cylinder is discharged from the casing through the outlet port, and the discharged food is sent to the loosening means. Next, the rotary valve is inverted approximately 90 degrees so that the inlet port communicates with the communication port, and thereafter, the filling operation is repeated in the same manner to perform quantification.

  In the rotary metering valve (type 3), the inlet port on the side surface of the valve chamber of the casing is connected to a discharge port of a screw conveyor provided separately, and one end of the cylinder chamber communicates with the inlet port. When the food is pumped by the top, the top located at the inlet port moves horizontally in the cylinder chamber to the opposite side while exhausting the air behind the top from the casing through the air discharge hole, and the food is fed into the cylinder chamber. When the rotary valve rotates 90 degrees from that position, one end of the cylinder chamber communicates with the upper push-out port, and the other end communicates with the lower outlet port. The top of the cylinder chamber is pushed down, and the food in the cylinder chamber is sent to the loosening means. Next, when the rotary valve rotates backward by 90 degrees and food is pumped by the screw conveyor at a position where one end of the cylinder chamber communicates with the inlet port, the piece positioned at the inlet port moves to the opposite side. Quantification is performed by repeating this operation.

  At least the inlet port of the rotary type metering valve as described above is provided with a hollow cylindrical cutter member that is mounted so that one end thereof is forcibly brought into contact with the peripheral surface of the rotary valve by the biasing means. You can also The hollow cylindrical cutter member preferably has a thickness at which one end thereof is in surface contact with the peripheral surface of the rotary valve, and has a thickness at which the other end can hold a biasing means such as a spring. Is preferred. Furthermore, one end of the cutter member in contact with the peripheral surface of the rotary valve is tapered toward the center of the inlet port so that the contact surface increases (one end of the cutter member has a positive rake angle). When the rotary valve is rotated, the food can be smoothly raised along the tapered surface to reduce the possibility of food being caught between the outer peripheral surface of the rotary valve and the inner peripheral surface of the valve chamber. Is preferable. Further, examples of the urging means of the cutter member forcibly contacting the peripheral surface of the rotary valve include a spring and elastic hard rubber, but a spring is preferable in that a strong urging force can be obtained. The hollow cylindrical cutter member can be mounted not only on the inlet port of the valve chamber but also on the outlet port. Furthermore, in the case of a rotary metering valve (type 2) or a rotary metering valve (type 3), a hollow cylindrical cutter member can be attached to the communication port and the extrusion port.

  The loosening means includes a rotating blade and a driving mechanism such as a motor that rotates the rotating blade. The food discharged from the quantitative means is dropped by the rotating blade rotating the loosening means, and the food is filled softly. It is not particularly limited as long as it is configured to be able to, but it has a cylindrical scattering prevention hood connected to the outlet of the rotary metering valve, and is horizontally supported in the scattering prevention hood It is preferable that a rotating blade having a rotating shaft is provided and a shutter is provided at the hood outlet below the rotating blade. The rotation axis of the rotary blade may be supported vertically or obliquely, but if it is supported horizontally, the unraveling effect can be enhanced. Moreover, as a blade | wing of a rotary blade, what has the several rectangular parallelepiped protrusion piece which protruded radially from the rotating shaft at different standing angles and / or standing positions is preferable. The number of rotations of the rotating blades depends on the type of food to be loosened and the shape of the blades, but when rotating at 3000 to 4000 rpm, preferably 3200 to 3800 rpm, the food becomes soft from a state where the food has hardened in a short time. It can be changed to the state.

  It is preferable to dispose container transport means having a container transport conveyor and a conveyor intermittent drive mechanism below the loosening means. A certain amount of food is discharged from the quantitative means, and the food loosened by the loosening means in the middle of dropping is quantitatively filled into the container on the container transporting conveyor immediately below the loosening means. If a shutter is provided, it is possible to prevent food from falling during transport of the container. The container transport pitch is 4 to 10 seconds, preferably 4 to 6 seconds, from the viewpoint of increasing productivity. For example, when a rotary metering valve (type 3) is used, a food introduction means having a hopper containing food such as camellia flowers and a screw conveyor extending horizontally from the bottom of the hopper to the inlet of the rotary metering valve. Those provided are preferred.

  Furthermore, as a rotary valve, a plurality of, for example, a rotary metering valve having a cylindrical rotary (columnar) valve having five cylinder chambers (filling passages) in the axial direction of the rotary valve is used. It is also possible to increase the productivity by configuring the quantifying means, the loosening means, and the container conveying means in multiple rows.

  The quantitative soft filling method of the present invention is a method using the quantitative soft filling device of the present invention, and the volume compressed by the quantitative means is 1.5 to 4000 by setting the rotation speed of the rotating blades to 3000 to 4000 rpm. It can be 3 times, preferably 1.7 to 2.5 times, more preferably 2 times, and the container can be filled plumply.

  EXAMPLES Hereinafter, although an Example demonstrates this invention more concretely, the technical scope of this invention is not limited to these illustrations.

  An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a side sectional view of a quantitative soft filling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 4 is an overall view of a filling and packaging machine 50 on which the quantitative soft filling device of the present invention is mounted.

  The quantitative software filling apparatus 1 includes a food introduction unit 10, a quantitative unit 20, a loosening unit 30, and a container transport unit 40. The food introduction unit 10 includes a hopper 11 in which camellia flowers are accommodated, and a bottom portion of the hopper 11. A metering means (rotating metering valve; type 3) 20 is provided which is extended horizontally to the entrance of the transport pipe 13 and is provided with a screw conveyor 12 for pressure-feeding the iris flower. The lower part of the hopper 11 is provided with a pushing blade 14 that rotates above the screw conveyor 12 around an axis parallel to the axis of the screw conveyor 12, and the flower in the hopper 11 is pushed into the screw conveyor 12 by the blade 14. It is.

  The metering means (rotating metering valve; type 3) 20 has a housing 22 for housing a stainless steel casing 21 constituting a cylindrical valve chamber, and a cylinder chamber 23 penetrating in the radial direction. A cylindrical rotary valve 24 disposed in the casing 21 so as to be rotatable along the inner periphery, and a pneumatic rotary actuator 29 attached to the housing 22 and connected to the rotary valve 24 via a rotary drive shaft 28 The exhaust piston 26 waits in a discharge cylinder 25 provided in the housing 22 and reciprocates up and down in the cylinder chamber 23 of the rotary valve 24 in the cylinder axis direction so as to discharge the flower in the cylinder chamber 23. Is provided.

  An inlet port 21a of the valve chamber is provided on the side peripheral surface of the casing 21, an air discharge hole 21b is provided on the peripheral surface on the opposite side to the inlet port 21a, and an extrusion port 21c of the valve chamber is provided on the upper peripheral surface of the casing 21. An outlet port 21d of the valve chamber is provided on the lower peripheral surface of the casing 21 opposite to the port 21c in the axial direction, the inlet port 21a is connected in communication with the discharge port of the transport pipe 13, and the air discharge hole 21b is a housing. The extrusion port 21 c communicates with the discharge cylinder 25 formed in the upper part of the housing 22, and the outlet port 21 d is opened in the scattering prevention hood 31 of the loosening means 30.

  In the cylinder chamber 23 of the rotary valve 24, there is a shuttle-type frame 27 that can reciprocate in the cylinder axis direction. Both end surfaces of the frame 27 are curved surfaces that match the shape of the outer peripheral surface of the rotary valve 24. In order to prevent relative rotation of the top 27 in the cylinder chamber, a flat key fixed to the cylinder chamber inner surface and partially flattening the cylinder chamber inner surface along the cylinder axial direction, and a frame corresponding to the flat key There is provided a rotation restricting mechanism comprising a notch part in which the outer peripheral surface is partly flattened, and a stopper for preventing the top 27 from moving outside the cylinder chamber is provided on the casing 21 side at both ends of the cylinder chamber. Is provided.

  The loosening means 30 has a rectangular tube-shaped anti-scattering hood 31 that extends downward so as to surround the outlet port 21d of the valve chamber, and a rotating shaft 32a that is pivotally supported horizontally below the anti-scattering hood 31. The rotary blade 32, the motor 34 for rotating the rotary blade, and a shutter 33 provided at the lower end outlet of the anti-scattering hood 31 below the rotary blade 32. The blade 32b of the rotating blade 32 is fixed to the rotating shaft 32a as three rectangular parallelepiped projecting pieces protruding in the rotating radial direction so as to be spaced from each other by 180 degrees from the rotating shaft 32a.

  The said container conveyance means 40 can mount the container P, and has the container conveyance conveyor 41 provided under the said loosening means 30, and a conveyor intermittent drive mechanism (not shown). The operation of filling the container P located in the loosening means 30 with a certain amount of bud flowers will be described below.

  The camellia flower introduced into the hopper 11 is pumped by the screw conveyor 12 extending horizontally from the bottom of the hopper 11 to the inlet port 21a of the valve chamber of the metering means 20 via the transport pipe 13, and the inlet port 21a While pressing the top 27 located at the inlet port 21a side end of the cylinder chamber 23 of the rotary valve 24 located in the communicating state to the opposite end, 50 g of camellia flowers are precisely and quantitatively filled into the cylinder chamber 23 in 2 seconds. The At this time, the air on the back side of the top 27 is discharged out of the housing 22 through the air discharge hole 21b (see FIGS. 3A to 3B). When a certain amount (50 g) of camellia flowers is accommodated in the cylinder chamber 23, the top 27 turns on the switch 51. By this ON operation, the rotary actuator 29 is driven and the rotary valve 24 is rotated 90 degrees clockwise in 0.6 seconds, and one end of the cylinder chamber 23 (the one with the top 27) is positioned at the extrusion port 21c. The other end of 23 is located in the exit port 21d (refer FIG.3 (b)-FIG.3 (c)). Next, the discharge piston 26 waiting in the discharge cylinder 25 provided in the housing 22 is lowered, the top 27 in the cylinder chamber 23 is pushed down, and the flower of 50 g in the cylinder chamber 23 is discharged from the outlet port 21d in one second. Then, it is discharged into the anti-scattering hood 31 (see FIGS. 3C to 3D). After the discharge piston 26 has been lifted and returned to the initial standby position in 0.6 seconds, it is driven by the rotary actuator, and the rotary valve 24 rotates 90 degrees counterclockwise in 0.6 seconds. 27 is located at the inlet port 21a, and the other end of the cylinder chamber 23 is located at the air discharge hole 21b (see FIGS. 3D to 3A). This completes one filling operation. In this state, the screw conveyor 12 is driven again for 2 seconds, and 50 g of camellia flowers are densely filled into the cylinder chamber 23 in a fixed quantity. Thereafter, this operation is repeated.

  The camellia flower discharged into the anti-scattering hood 31 is collided and crushed by the rotating blades 32 rotating at a rotational speed of 3600 rpm in the middle of dropping, and is loosened from the hard and dense state by the containers P on the container transporting conveyor 41. Quantitative filling is performed in a soft state in which the volume is doubled. When the fixed filling is completed, the shutter 33 provided at the lower end outlet of the anti-scattering hood 31 is closed for 2 seconds, and the container transporting conveyor 41 advances one pitch during that time. In this way, a soft camellia flower product of 750 packs / hour per quantitative soft filling device could be obtained.

  FIG. 4 is an overall view of a filling and packaging machine in which the quantitative soft filling device 1 of the present invention is mounted. The filling and packaging machine 50 includes a container supply device 2 that supplies the container P filled with camellia flowers to the filling and packaging machine 50, a container cleaning device 3 that cleans the supplied containers by applying a negative pressure, and filling the iris flowers. A lid supply device 4 for supplying a film-like lid material to the opening of the container P, a sealing device 5 for sealing the lid material to the container P, and a film-like lid material sealed to the container P for each container P And a cutting device 6 for punching and cutting, and a product discharging device 7 for discharging the product container P filled with herb flowers and sealed. The quantitative soft filling device 1 of the present invention is arranged between the container cleaning device 3 and the lid material supply device 4 so that the container P cleaned by the container cleaning device 3 can be filled with camellia flowers. The container transporting conveyor 41 sequentially transports the containers P to the series of devices. The container transfer conveyor 41 can also hold a plurality of containers P in a direction orthogonal to the transfer direction and transfer the containers P in a plurality of rows. When the container transporting conveyor 41 transports the containers P in a plurality of rows, the quantitative software filling device 1 may be provided with the food introduction means 10, the quantitative means 20, and the loosening means 30 in the left-right direction in FIG. In this case, the rotary valve 24 and the rotary blade 32 can be provided on the same rotary shaft, respectively, and the rotary actuator 29 and the motor 34 which are driving means thereof can be unified.

  Instead of the camellia flower of Example 1, a white-salted mixture containing carrots, dried shiitake mushrooms, and konnyaku boiled foods was similarly used and quantitatively filled. Also in this case, 60 g of whitened product having a soft texture with a volume doubled could be obtained at a high productivity of 750 packs / hour per quantitative soft filling device.

It is a side view longitudinal cross-sectional view of the fixed quantity soft filling apparatus which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. It is AA sectional drawing of FIG. It is operation | movement explanatory drawing of a fixed quantity software filling apparatus. 1 is an overall view of a filling and packaging machine equipped with a quantitative soft filling device of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Fixed quantity soft filling apparatus 2 Container supply apparatus 3 Container cleaning apparatus 4 Cover material supply apparatus 5 Sealing apparatus 6 Cutting apparatus 7 Product discharge apparatus 10 Food introduction means 11 Hopper 12 Screw conveyor 13 Conveying pipe 14 Pushing blade 20 Determination means 21 Entrance of casing 21a Port 21b Air exhaust port 21c Extrusion port 21d Outlet port 22 Housing 23 Cylinder chamber 24 Rotary valve 25 Discharge cylinder 26 Discharge piston 27 Top 28 Rotation drive shaft 29 Rotary actuator 30 Unwinding means 31 Scattering prevention hood 32 Rotating blade 32a Rotating shaft 32b Blade 33 Shutter 34 Motor 40 Container transport means 41 Container transport conveyor 50 Filling and packaging machine 51 Switch P Container

Claims (12)

A food quantification means and a quantified food loosening means, wherein the loosening means comprises a rotating blade and a drive mechanism for rotating the rotating blade, and the food discharged from the quantitative means and falling is rotated by the loosening means. A quantitative soft filling device characterized in that it can be loosened by a rotating blade and filled with food softly. A casing that constitutes a valve chamber having an inlet port and an outlet port; a rotary valve that is rotatably arranged along the inner periphery of the valve chamber of the casing; and a rotary means that rotates the rotary valve. 2. A quantitative soft filling device according to claim 1, wherein the quantitative soft filling device is a rotary quantitative valve used for quantitative filling of foods. 2. The quantitative soft filling device according to claim 1, wherein the rotary quantitative valve has a rotary valve having a cylinder chamber and a coma capable of moving back and forth in the cylinder chamber. 3. The quantitative software filling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the rotary blade has a rotary shaft that is horizontally supported. 5. The quantitative soft filling device according to claim 1, wherein the rotary blade has a plurality of rectangular parallelepiped projecting pieces projecting from the rotating shaft at different standing angles and / or standing positions. . The quantitative soft filling device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the loosening means has a scattering prevention hood. The quantitative soft filling device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the loosening means has a shutter below the rotary blade. 8. The quantitative soft filling apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a food introduction means having a hopper and a screw conveyor extending horizontally from the bottom of the hopper to the entrance of the quantitative means. The quantitative software filling apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 8, further comprising a container transport unit having a container transport conveyor and a conveyor intermittent drive mechanism. A quantitative soft filling method for foods using the quantitative soft filling device according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the rotational speed of a rotary blade is 3000 to 4000 rpm. A quantitative soft filling method for food using the quantitative soft filling device according to claim 1, wherein the volume is increased 1.5 to 3 times by a loosening means. 12. The quantitative software filling method according to claim 10 or 11, wherein the food is a camellia flower, whitening or hijiki.