CN113395905A

CN113395905A - Surface receiving device

Info

Publication number: CN113395905A
Application number: CN202080011617.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 森本隆之; 野村光生
Original assignee: Nissin Flour Group Corp
Current assignee: Nissin Flour Group Corp; Nisshin Seifun Group Inc
Priority date: 2019-07-11
Filing date: 2020-05-25
Publication date: 2021-09-14
Also published as: JPWO2021005901A1; KR20220032512A; WO2021005901A1; TW202102132A; JP7357677B2

Abstract

A noodle receiving device (2) for filling a container (6) with a boiled noodle (4), the noodle receiving device (2) comprising: bowls (22 a-22 d) for storing the boiled noodles; a hopper (24) having an inlet (24a) for introducing the boiled noodle located in the bowl and an outlet (24b) for discharging the boiled noodle to the container; a conveying unit (14) that conveys the container to a position below the discharge port; a moving part which moves the funnel between the bowl and the conveying part; and a controller configured to lower the hopper after the container is conveyed below the discharge port by the conveyor, to raise the hopper after the container is filled with the boiled noodle, to stop the conveyance of the container while the conveyor is lowered and raised, and to restart the conveyance of the container after the hopper is raised.

Description

Surface receiving device

Technical Field

The invention relates to a noodle receiving device for filling a container with cooked noodle.

Background

Due to changes in lifestyle caused by various factors such as aging of minority carriers, core familiarization, individual diet, and isolated meal, convenient-to-eat cooking noodles such as udon noodles, buckwheat noodles, and stretched noodles have been developed and kept in store.

In these cooking noodle production sites, automation is difficult to deal with a change of products or a variety of products in a short time, and thus cooked noodles are mainly filled into containers such as food trays by hand. However, even in the field of manufacturing these cooking surfaces, the reduction of labor population causes a chronic shortage of labor, and automation is desired.

For example, patent document 1 discloses a loosening device (noodle receiving device) for spraying a loosening agent while rotating a receiving pan into which cooked noodles are put, and filling the cooked noodles discharged from the receiving pan into a container through a noodle receiving guide.

Documents of the prior art

Patent document

Patent document 1: japanese patent laid-open publication No. 2003-9795

Disclosure of Invention

Problems to be solved by the invention

However, when the boiled noodle is filled in the container using the loosening device described in patent document 1, the noodle overflows from the container, and the overflowing noodle must be corrected by a person, and thus labor saving and manpower saving cannot be achieved. Further, since the shape of the container, the area of the cooked noodle, and the like vary depending on the product, it is necessary to fill the cooked noodle in a predetermined area for each container.

The invention aims to provide a noodle receiving device which can accurately and reliably fill cooked noodles into a container.

Means for solving the problems

A noodle receiving apparatus according to the present invention is a noodle receiving apparatus for filling a container with boiled noodle, the noodle receiving apparatus including: a bowl for accommodating the boiled noodle; a hopper having an inlet for introducing the boiled noodle located in the bowl and an outlet for discharging the boiled noodle to the container; a conveying unit that conveys the container to a position below the discharge port; a moving part which moves the funnel between the bowl and the conveying part; and a controller configured to lower the hopper after the container is conveyed below the discharge port by the conveyor, to raise the hopper after the container is filled with the boiled noodle, to stop the conveyance of the container while the conveyor is lowered and raised, and to restart the conveyance of the container after the hopper is raised.

In the noodle receiving device of the present invention, the container may be provided with a discharge port through which the boiled noodle is discharged from the discharge port to the inner wall surface of the funnel.

In the above noodle receiving device, the control unit may be provided with a noodle pouring detection unit for detecting that the cooked noodle is poured into the bowl at a timing when the hopper is lowered.

Further, the surface receiving apparatus of the present invention includes: a container supply unit that supplies the container to the transport unit; a container detection unit that detects that the container is supplied from the container supply unit to the conveyance unit.

In the funnel of the surface receiving apparatus according to the present invention, the funnel is lowered until the discharge port is positioned in the container, and is raised until the discharge port is positioned above an upper edge of the container.

Effects of the invention

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a noodle receiving device capable of accurately and reliably filling a container with a cooked noodle.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a surface receiving apparatus according to an embodiment.

Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of the surface receiving apparatus according to the embodiment.

Fig. 3 is a diagram for explaining air injection to the inner wall surface of the funnel according to the embodiment.

Fig. 4 is a flowchart for explaining a process when the first set of cooked noodles is filled in the first tray using the noodle receiving apparatus of the embodiment.

Fig. 5 is a diagram showing an initial standby state of the surface receiving apparatus of the embodiment.

Fig. 6 is a diagram showing a state after one jog from an initial standby state of the surface receiving apparatus according to the embodiment.

Fig. 7 is a diagram showing a state after the secondary jog from the initial standby state of the surface receiving apparatus according to the embodiment.

Fig. 8 is a diagram showing a state after three jog motions from an initial standby state of the surface receiving apparatus according to the embodiment.

Fig. 9 is a diagram for explaining a process when filling the nth cooked noodle in the nth tray using the noodle receiving apparatus of the embodiment.

Detailed Description

Hereinafter, a surface receiving apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Fig. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a surface receiving apparatus according to an embodiment. The noodle receiving apparatus 2 of this embodiment is an apparatus for filling cooked and boiled noodles 4 such as udon noodles, buckwheat noodles, and stretched noodles into a tray (container) 6, and as shown in fig. 1, includes a tray supplier 8, a spraying device 10, an upstream side conveyor 12, a noodle receiving conveyor 14, and a downstream side conveyor 16.

The tray feeder 8 is a tray feeding unit that feeds the tray 6 to the surface receiving conveyor 14 via the upstream conveyor 12, and includes a storage unit 18 that stores the tray 6. The tray feeder 8 feeds the tray 6 accommodated in the accommodating portion 18 to the upstream conveyor belt 12. The upstream conveyor 12 moves and conveys the tray 6 supplied from the tray supplier 8 in the direction of an arrow a1 shown in fig. 1, and conveys the tray to the surface receiving conveyor 14.

The surface receiving conveyor 14 is, for example, a two-belt conveyor (conveying unit) that conveys the tray 6 conveyed from the upstream conveyor 12 in the direction of arrow a1 shown in fig. 1 to the spraying apparatus 10, and conveys the tray 6 to a position below the discharge port 24b (see fig. 1) of the hopper 24 provided in the spraying apparatus 10. In the spraying apparatus 10, the noodle receiving conveyor 14 fills the tray 6 with the cooked noodle 4, and then moves and conveys the tray 6 in the direction of arrow a1 to convey the noodle to the downstream conveyor 16. The surface receiving conveyor 14 moves by repeating a jog action of driving and stopping for a short time. The downstream-side conveyer 16 moves the tray 6 conveyed from the surface-receiving conveyer 14 in the direction of arrow a1 shown in fig. 1.

The sprayer 10 has four bowls 22 a-22 d and a funnel 24. Each of the four bowls 22a to 22d is a bowl-shaped bowl, and an opening portion for receiving the cooked noodle 4 is directed upward from the cooked noodle inlet 26 and is attached to the peripheral edge portion of the rotating plate 27 at 90-degree intervals. The rotary disk 27 is configured to be intermittently rotatable clockwise by 90 degrees about the center of the rotary disk 27. The four bowls 22a to 22D are positioned at any one of the four positions a to D by the intermittent rotation of the rotating disk 27. In fig. 1, a state in which the first bowl 22a is positioned at the first position a, the second bowl 22B is positioned at the fourth position D, the third bowl 22C is positioned at the third position C, and the fourth bowl 22D is positioned at the second position B is illustrated. Each of the bowls 22a to 22d is configured to be rotatable about an axis in a direction perpendicular to the disk surface of the rotating disk 27. Further, each of the bowls 22a to 22D is configured to be inverted about the horizontal direction when positioned at the fourth position D.

The cooked noodles 4 are thrown from the cooked noodle inlet 26 into the bowl (first bowl 22a in fig. 1) positioned at the first position a, and the loosening liquid is sprayed onto the cooked noodles 4 in the first bowl 22 a. The loosening solution is water soluble soybean polysaccharides or salad oil, and prevents boiled noodle 4 from forming into pill. The boiled noodle 4 in the first bowl 22a is stirred by the rotation of the first bowl 22a, and therefore the loosened liquid sprayed into the first bowl 22a is uniformly attached to the boiled noodle 4. Depending on the kind of noodles to be cooked, it may be possible to use a loose liquid.

The loosening liquid is sprayed to the cooked noodles 4 in the bowls (the fourth bowl 22d and the third bowl 22C in fig. 1) positioned at the second position B and the third position C. Since the boiled noodles 4 in the fourth bowl 22d and the third bowl 22c are stirred by the rotation of the fourth bowl 22d and the third bowl 22c, the loosened liquid sprayed into the fourth bowl 22d and the third bowl 22c is uniformly attached to the boiled noodles 4.

The bowl (second bowl 22b in fig. 1) positioned at the fourth position D is inverted about the horizontal direction so that the opening faces downward, and the cooked noodle 4 in the second bowl 22b is put into the hopper 24.

It should be noted that when the liquid slurry is sprayed into the first bowl 22a positioned in the first position a (when the liquid slurry is sprayed into the fourth bowl 22D and the third bowl 22C positioned in the second position B and the third position C, and the cooked surface 4 in the second bowl 22B positioned in the fourth position D is discharged), the rotating disk 27 rotates clockwise by 90 degrees. That is, the first bowl 22a moves to the second position B, the fourth bowl 22D moves to the third position C, the third bowl 22C moves to the fourth position D, and the second bowl 22B moves to the first position a.

The hopper 24 has an inverted truncated cone-shaped cylindrical shape, and includes an inlet 24a for introducing the cooked noodle 4 in a bowl (second bowl 22b in fig. 1) positioned at the fourth position D, and an outlet 24b for discharging the cooked noodle 4 onto the tray 6. The hopper 24 is connected to a moving section 25, and the moving section 25 moves the hopper 24 between the second bowl 22b and the surface receiving conveyor 14, i.e., in the direction of arrow a2 shown in fig. 1. In the standby state in which the funnel 24 waits for the cooked surface 4 to be discharged from the second bowl 22b positioned at the fourth position D, the funnel is positioned at the position shown in fig. 1, that is, the discharge port 24b is positioned above the upper edge of the tray 6. Funnel 24 descends until discharge port 24b is located within tray 6 immediately before cooked noodle 4 is discharged from second bowl 22b positioned at fourth position D and after tray 6 is conveyed below discharge port 24b by noodle receiving conveyor 14 (see fig. 9). After the cooked noodle 4 is fed from inlet 24a and discharged from outlet 24b, funnel 24 is raised to such an extent that outlet 24b is positioned above the upper edge of tray 6 (the position shown in fig. 1).

Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of the surface receiving apparatus 2 of this embodiment. As shown in fig. 2, the surface receiving apparatus 2 includes a control unit 30. The control section 30 controls the movement of the various parts of the surface receiving apparatus 2 in unison, and in particular the hopper 24, which hopper 24 moves between the bowl positioned in the fourth position D (the second bowl 22b in fig. 1) and the surface receiving conveyor 14. The control unit 30 is connected to a tray supply unit 32, a tray detection sensor 20, a conveyor drive unit 34, a surface input detection sensor 28, a revolution drive unit 36, a first rotation drive unit 38, a second rotation drive unit 40, a third rotation drive unit 42, a fourth rotation drive unit 44, a first loosening liquid spray unit 46, a second loosening liquid spray unit 48, a third loosening liquid spray unit 50, a funnel drive unit 60, and an air injection unit 62.

The tray supply unit 32 supplies the trays 6 accommodated in the tray accommodating unit 18 of the tray supply machine 8 to the upstream conveyor belt 12 one by one at a predetermined interval. The control unit 30 controls the tray supply unit 32 to operate the tray feeder 8. As shown in fig. 1, the tray detection sensor 20 is provided near the conveying path of the surface receiving conveyor 14, and detects that the tray 6 is supplied from the tray supplier 8 to the surface receiving conveyor 14. That is, the tray detection sensor 20 detects whether the tray 6 is located at the position P1 on the surface receiving conveyor 14. The control unit 30 acquires the detection result from the tray detection sensor 20, and controls the distance for which the hopper 24 is lowered based on the acquired detection result.

The belt driving section 34 controls the surface to receive the driving of the belt 14. The control unit 30 controls the belt driving unit 34 to drive the surface receiving belt 14. That is, the control unit 30 controls the conveyor driving unit 34 to stop the conveyance of the tray 6 by receiving the driving of the conveyor 14 by the stop surface during the period from the descent to the ascent of the hopper 24, and to restart the conveyance of the tray 6 by driving the surface-receiving conveyor 14 after the ascent of the hopper 24. Similarly, the control unit 30 controls an upstream conveyor driving unit and a downstream conveyor driving unit, not shown, to drive the upstream conveyor 12 and the downstream conveyor 16, respectively.

As shown in fig. 1, a noodle-throwing detection sensor 28 is provided in the vicinity of the noodle-boiling supply port 26, and detects that the noodle-boiling 4 is thrown into the bowl positioned at the first position a in order to lower the hopper 24. That is, the noodle-feeding detection sensor 28 detects whether or not the boiled noodle 4 is supplied from the boiled noodle supply port 26 to the spray apparatus 10. Control unit 30 acquires the detection result from surface-input detection sensor 28, and controls the timing of lowering hopper 24 based on the acquired detection result.

The revolution driving part 36 controls the rotation of the rotary disk 27. The controller 30 controls the revolution driving unit 36 to intermittently rotate the rotary disk 27. The first rotation driving unit 38 controls the rotation (rotation) of the first bowl 22 a. Similarly, the second rotation driving unit 40, the third rotation driving unit 42, and the fourth rotation driving unit 44 control the rotation (rotation) of the second bowl 22b, the third bowl 22c, and the fourth bowl 22d, respectively. The controller 30 controls the first rotation driving unit 38, the second rotation driving unit 40, the third rotation driving unit 42, and the fourth rotation driving unit 44, respectively, to rotate the first bowl 22a, the second bowl 22b, the third bowl 22c, and the fourth bowl 22d, respectively.

The first trub spraying section 46 sprays trub into a bowl (the first bowl 22a in fig. 1) positioned at the first position a. Similarly, the second and third loose

liquid spraying sections

48 and 50 spray the loose liquid into bowls (the fourth bowl 22d and the third bowl 22C in fig. 1) positioned at the second position B and the third position C, respectively. The controller 30 controls the first loosened liquid spraying unit 46, the second loosened liquid spraying unit 48, and the third loosened liquid spraying unit 50, respectively, to put the cooked noodle 4 into the first bowl 22a, the fourth bowl 22d, and the third bowl 22C (the bowls positioned at the first position a, the second position B, and the third position C), and then to spray the loosened liquid onto the cooked noodle 4, respectively.

The hopper driving unit 60 controls the driving of the moving unit 25. The control unit 30 controls the hopper driving unit 60 to move the hopper 24 in the vertical direction (the direction of arrow a2 shown in fig. 1). That is, control unit 30 controls funnel drive unit 60 to lower funnel 24 after tray 6 is conveyed to a position below discharge port 24b of funnel 24 by surface receiving conveyor 14, and to raise funnel 24 after cooked surface 4 is filled in tray 6 via funnel 24.

As shown by arrows in fig. 3, air jetting unit 62 jets air from inlet port 24a of funnel 24 toward outlet port 24b to the inner wall surface of funnel 24. The controller 30 controls the air ejector 62 to eject air from the time when the tray 6 is filled with the cooked noodles 4 until the funnel 24 is raised. The air ejection intensity, the ejection time, and the number of ejections are set in advance so that boiled noodle 4 remaining on the inner wall surface of funnel 24 can be reliably ejected from ejection port 24b, and boiled noodle 4 accommodated in tray 6 does not overflow by the air ejection.

Next, a method of filling the tray 6 with the boiled noodles 4 using the noodle receiving apparatus 2 of the present embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. Fig. 4 is a flowchart for explaining a process executed by the control section 30 of the noodle receiving apparatus 2 to fill the first tray 6a with the first cooked noodle 4 a.

First, the control unit 30 operates the tray feeder 8, the upstream conveyor 12, and the surface receiving conveyor 14 so as to be in the initial standby state shown in fig. 5. That is, the control unit 30 outputs a control signal to the upstream conveyor driving unit and the conveyor driving unit 34, not shown, and drives the upstream conveyor 12 and the surface receiving conveyor 14. Then, the control unit 30 instructs the tray supply unit 32 to supply the tray 6a accommodated in the tray accommodating portion 18 of the tray supply device 8 to the upstream conveyor belt 12, and to supply the tray 6a to the upstream conveyor belt 12 (step S1). The control unit 30 outputs a control signal to the tray supply unit 32 at a predetermined interval, and the tray supply unit 32 sequentially supplies the

trays

6b and 6c … … to the upstream conveyor belt 12 as shown in fig. 5.

Next, when the tray detection sensor 20 detects that the tray 6a is located at the position P1 (step S2), the control unit 30 temporarily stops the driving of the upstream conveyor 12 and the surface receiving conveyor 14 until the surface cooking input detection sensor 28 detects that the cooked surface 4a is input. Specifically, the control unit 30 outputs a control signal to the upstream conveyor driving unit and the conveyor driving unit 34, not shown, to stop the upstream conveyor 12 and the surface receiving conveyor 14. Then, based on the detection result of tray detection sensor 20, control unit 30 determines the descending distance of hopper 24 in the front of the three pitches, that is, when tray 6a is positioned below hopper 24 (step S3).

The descent distance of the hopper 24 is determined by the tray detection sensor 20 based on whether or not the tray 6 is at the position P1. When the noodle receiving apparatus 2 detects that the boiled noodle 4 is inserted by the noodle insertion detection sensor 28, the atomizing device 10 and the noodle receiving conveyor 14 start the jog operation even when the tray 6 is not at the position P1. Therefore, even if the tray 6 is not supplied from the tray supplier 8 due to a certain accident and the tray detection sensor 20 detects that the tray 6 is not at the position P1, the spraying device 10 and the noodle receiving conveyor 14 operate when the cooked noodle 4 is supplied from the cooked noodle supply port 26. Therefore, when the tray detection sensor 20 detects that the tray 6 is not at the position P1, the control unit 30 sets the lowering distance so that the discharge port 24b of the hopper 24 is lowered to a position where the surface can be reliably dropped between the belts of the surface receiving conveyor 14, which is a two-belt conveyor. By lowering the discharge port 24b to the lower side of the surface receiving conveyor 14, the boiled surface 4 discharged from the discharge port 24b is reliably collected, and the boiled surface 4 is prevented from remaining on the surface receiving conveyor 14.

On the other hand, when tray detection sensor 20 detects that tray 6 is at position P1, controller 30 sets the lowering distance such that discharge port 24b of funnel 24 is positioned within tray 6 (discharge port 24b is positioned below the upper edge of tray 6). In the present embodiment, the tray 6 having a rectangular receiving opening has been described as an example of a container for receiving the cooked surface 4, but a container for receiving the cooked surface 4 other than the tray 6, for example, a rice-covered container, may be used. The descending distance of the hopper 24 is set in advance in accordance with the shape of the container (the area in which the boiling surface 4 is stored, the depth of the container, and the like), and is stored in a storage unit and the like, not shown. The control unit 30 reads the descending distance of the hopper 24 corresponding to the container from the storage unit or the like, and determines the descending distance.

In the initial standby state shown in fig. 5, the control unit 30 acquires the detection result by the noodle-insertion detection sensor 28, and determines whether or not the cooked noodle 4a is inserted into the first bowl 22a (step S4). When the cooked noodle 4a is put into the first bowl 22a (yes at step S4), the controller 30 outputs a control signal to the first liquid mist sprayer 46 to spray the liquid mist onto the cooked noodle 4a in the first bowl 22a (step S5). Then, the controller 30 outputs a control signal to the revolution driving unit 36 to rotate the rotary disk 27 clockwise by 90 degrees so as to bring the state shown in fig. 6, thereby moving the first bowl 22a from the first position a to the second position B (step S6).

Since the first rotation driving unit 38 rotates the first bowl 22a at all times under the control of the control unit 30, the cooked noodle 4a and the liquid loosened are stirred by the rotation of the first bowl 22a, and the liquid loosened is uniformly attached to the cooked noodle 4 a. Similarly, the second rotation driving unit 39 rotates the second bowl 22b, the third rotation driving unit 40 rotates the third bowl 22c, and the fourth rotation driving unit 41 rotates the fourth bowl 22d all the time under the control of the control unit 30.

When the cooked noodle 4a is put into the first bowl 22a (yes in step S4), the control unit 30 resumes the driving of the upstream conveyor 12 and the noodle receiving conveyor 14 simultaneously with the processing in steps S5 and S6, and moves the tray 6a from the position P1 to the position P2 as shown in fig. 6 (step S7). The control unit 30 outputs a control signal to a downstream belt driving unit, not shown, to drive the downstream belt 16, while restarting the driving of the upstream belt 12 and the surface contact belt 14.

Next, the control unit 30 acquires the detection result by the noodle-insertion detection sensor 28, and determines whether or not the cooked noodle 4b is inserted into the second bowl 22b (step S8). When the cooked noodle 4b is put into the second bowl 22b (yes at step S8), the controller 30 outputs a control signal to the second porous liquid spraying unit 47 to spray the porous liquid onto the cooked noodle 4a in the first bowl 22a (step S9). Then, the controller 30 outputs a control signal to the revolution driving unit 36 to rotate the rotary disk 27 clockwise by 90 degrees so as to bring the state shown in fig. 7, thereby moving the first bowl 22a from the second position B to the third position C (step S10). Since the first rotation driving unit 38 rotates the first bowl 22a at all times, the cooked surface 4a and the liquid loosened are stirred by the rotation of the first bowl 22a, and the liquid loosened is uniformly attached to the cooked surface 4 a.

When the cooked noodle 4b is put into the second bowl 22b (yes in step S8), the controller 30 moves the tray 6a from the position P2 to the position P3 simultaneously with the processing in steps S9 and S10 (step S11).

Next, the control unit 30 acquires the detection result by the noodle-insertion detection sensor 28, and determines whether or not the cooked noodle 4c is inserted into the third bowl 22c (step S12). When the cooked noodle 4c is put into the third bowl 22c (yes at step S12), the controller 30 outputs a control signal to the third porous liquid spraying unit 48 to spray the porous liquid onto the cooked noodle 4a in the first bowl 22a (step S13). Then, the controller 30 outputs a control signal to the revolution driving unit 36 to rotate the rotary disk 27 clockwise by 90 degrees so as to bring the state shown in fig. 8, thereby moving the first bowl 22a from the third position C to the fourth position D (step S14). Since the first rotation driving unit 38 rotates the first bowl 22a at all times, the cooked surface 4a and the liquid loosened are stirred by the rotation of the first bowl 22a, and the liquid loosened is uniformly attached to the cooked surface 4 a.

When the cooked noodle 4c is put into the third bowl 22c (yes in step S12), the controller 30 moves the tray 6a from the position P3 to the position P4 simultaneously with the processing in steps S13 and S14 (step S15).

Next, the controller 30 outputs a control signal to the hopper driving unit 60 to lower the hopper 24 by the lowering distance determined in step S3 via the moving unit 25 (step S16). When the first bowl 22a is positioned at the fourth position D in the process of step S14, the opening is reversed from the top to the bottom with the horizontal direction as the axis, and the cooked surface 4a in the first bowl 22a is poured from the pouring port 24a into the hopper 24. Boiled noodle 4a is discharged from discharge port 24b of hopper 24 and filled into tray 6. The control unit 30 outputs a control signal to the air injection unit 62, and as shown in fig. 3, injects air to the inner wall surface of the funnel 24 (step S18) and discharges the boiled noodle 4a remaining in the funnel 24. Then, the control unit 30 outputs a control signal to the hopper driving unit 62 to raise the hopper 24 via the moving unit 25 (step S19).

Next, the control unit 30 acquires the detection result by the noodle-insertion detection sensor 28, and determines whether or not the cooked noodle 4d is inserted into the fourth bowl 22d (step S20). When the cooked noodle 4D is dropped into the fourth bowl 22D (yes in step S20), the controller 30 outputs a control signal to the revolution driving unit 36 to rotate the rotary disk 27 clockwise by 90 degrees, thereby moving the first bowl 22a from the fourth position D to the first position a (step S21). Further, the control section 30 conveys the tray 6a from the position P4 (the surface receiving conveyor 14) to the downstream side conveyor 16 (step S22).

The process performed by the controller 30 to fill the first tray 6a with the first cooked noodle 4a has been described, but the controller 30 repeats the same process for filling the second and subsequent

cooked noodles

4b, 4c, 4d … … into the second and

subsequent trays

6b, 6c, 6d … … at every pitch (the noodles 4 to be cooked are fed from the cooked noodle inlet 26 each time) simultaneously with these processes.

That is, as shown in FIG. 9, the noodle 4 cooked from the (n +2) th serving_n+2Adding into spraying device 2, and decocting to (n +3) th part of cooked noodle 4_n+3While the surface is being charged into the spraying device 2 (n is a natural number of 1 or more), the controller 30 performs the processing of steps S13, S14, and S16 to S19 shown in fig. 4 on the nth cooked surface 4n, and performs the processing of step S15 shown in fig. 4 on the nth tray 6 n.

Meanwhile, as shown in fig. 9, the control section 30 controls the (n +5) th tray 6_n+5The processing of step S1 shown in fig. 4 is performed for the (n +3) th tray 6_n+3The processing of steps S2 to S3 shown in fig. 4 is executed. At the same time, the control part 30 controls the (n +2) -th cooked noodles 4_n+2The processing of steps S5, S6 shown in FIG. 4 is executed for the (n +2) th tray 6_n+2The process of step S7 shown in fig. 4 is executed. Further, at the same time, the control part 30 cooks the (n +1) -th part of the cooked noodles 4_n+1The processing of steps S9, S10 shown in FIG. 4 is executed for the (n +1) th tray 6_n+1The process of step S11 shown in fig. 4 is executed. Then, the above-described processes are sequentially repeated.

According to the noodle receiving device 2 of the present embodiment, since the hopper 24 is vertically movable, the cooked noodle 4 can be accurately and reliably filled in the tray 6. That is, since tray 6 is disposed below hopper 24, hopper 24 is lowered to discharge port 24b and positioned in tray 6, and cooked noodle 4 is put into input port 24a of hopper 24, it is possible to prevent cooked noodle 4 from overflowing tray 6. In addition, even when a different area for placing a noodle cup or an area for containing seasoning is provided in the tray 6 from the area for containing the boiled noodle 4, the boiled noodle 4 can be prevented from flowing into an area other than the area for containing the boiled noodle 4. In addition, since hopper 24 is raised after cooked noodles 4 are filled in tray 6, hopper 24 and tray 6 do not come into contact when tray 6 moves on noodle receiving conveyor 14.

In addition, according to the noodle receiving apparatus 2 of the present embodiment, since the boiled noodle 4 is thrown into the hopper 24 and then the air is jetted to the inner wall surface of the hopper 24, the tray 6 can be reliably filled with the boiled noodle 4 which does not slip down in the hopper 24 and remains. Therefore, the overflow of the cooked noodles 4 from the tray 6, which is a problem in automating the process of filling the cooked noodles 4 into the tray 6, can be eliminated, and labor saving can be achieved.

Claims

1. A noodle receiving device for filling a container with boiled noodle, comprising:

a bowl for accommodating the boiled noodle;

a hopper having an inlet for introducing the boiled noodle located in the bowl and an outlet for discharging the boiled noodle to the container;

a conveying unit that conveys the container to a position below the discharge port;

a moving part which moves the funnel between the bowl and the conveying part;

and a controller configured to lower the hopper after the container is conveyed below the discharge port by the conveyor, to raise the hopper after the container is filled with the boiled noodle, to stop the conveyance of the container while the conveyor is lowered and raised, and to restart the conveyance of the container after the hopper is raised.

2. The noodle receiving apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a jetting unit that jets air from the inlet toward the outlet to an inner wall surface of the funnel during a period from when the boiled noodle is filled in the container until when the funnel is raised.

3. The noodle receiving apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit includes a noodle-throwing detection unit that detects that the cooked noodle is thrown into the bowl in order to lower the hopper.

4. The surface receiving apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, comprising: a container supply unit that supplies the container to the transport unit;

a container detection unit that detects that the container is supplied from the container supply unit to the conveyance unit.

5. The surface receiving device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the funnel descends until the discharge port is located in the container and ascends until the discharge port is located above an upper edge of the container.