CN115336655A

CN115336655A - Chocolate coating apparatus

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Publication number: CN115336655A
Application number: CN202210988622.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 冯魏; 郑雅丹; 杨鹏
Original assignee: Hangzhou Hengmei Food Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Zhejiang Hengmei Health Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-08-17
Filing date: 2022-08-17
Publication date: 2022-11-15
Anticipated expiration: 2042-08-17
Also published as: CN115336655B

Abstract

The application discloses chocolate coating equipment, it belongs to chocolate production field. The method comprises the following steps: a processing conveyor; a support frame; a dropping tube; the conveying belt is provided with a plurality of leakage holes; the coating liquid diffusion device is arranged below the conveying belt; the coating diffusion device comprises: the mounting box is fixedly mounted with the support frame and is positioned below the dropper; the sealing plate is slidably arranged in the mounting box and is abutted against the inner wall part of the mounting box; the lifting plate is slidably arranged in the mounting box, is completely abutted against the inner wall of the mounting box and is positioned below the sealing plate; the driving piece is arranged on the installation box and connected with the lifting plate so that the lifting plate has a lifting motion state; wherein, a plurality of ejector plates are fixedly arranged on the lifting plate. The application has the advantage of providing the chocolate coating device which can adhere more coating liquid on the outer surface of the chocolate.

Description

Chocolate coating device

Technical Field

The application relates to the field of chocolate production, in particular to chocolate coating equipment.

Background

Chocolate is made by mixing a plurality of raw materials, but the flavor of the chocolate is mainly determined by the taste of cocoa. Chocolate coating is to apply cream to the outside of chocolate to make it more palatable.

The structure of the product can refer to an automatic coating device for chocolate production disclosed in Chinese patent document CN213369724U, which comprises a mounting column (7) and is characterized in that: one side of erection column (7) is provided with convenient material loading subassembly (1), convenient material loading subassembly (1) includes electric putter (11), driven plate (12), material loading chamber (13) and perforated plate (15), wherein, one side of erection column (7) is provided with material loading chamber (13), the inside in material loading chamber (13) is provided with electric putter (11), the upper end of electric putter (11) is provided with driven plate (12), be provided with perforated plate (15) between material loading chamber (13) and erection column (7), the surface of erection column (7) is provided with rotates chamber (5), the upper end of rotating chamber (5) is provided with watering machine (2).

In the structure, firstly, the spherical chocolate is added into the feeding cavity 13, then the electric push rod 11 is started to drive the driven plate 12 to rotate along the pin shaft 14, the spherical chocolate slides to one side of the rotating cavity 5 along the porous plate 15 when the driven plate 12 rotates, and when the placing groove 3 turns to the porous plate 15, the spherical chocolate falls into the placing groove 3 to coat the chocolate, but the coating is carried out on the whole area of the spherical chocolate, and the partial coating can not be carried out on the square chocolate; in other solutions there may be partial coatings that are achieved, but there is no guarantee that the bottom and sides of the square chocolate have a thicker coating.

There is no chocolate coating apparatus that adheres more coating liquid to the outer surface of chocolate.

Disclosure of Invention

This summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the detailed description. This summary is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used to limit the scope of the claimed subject matter.

To solve the technical problems mentioned in the background section above, some embodiments of the present application provide a chocolate coating apparatus including: the processing conveyor is provided with a conveying belt for conveying the chocolate; the supporting frame is fixed on the ground; the liquid dropping pipe is arranged below the supporting frame and is used for dropping the coating of the chocolate on the conveying belt; wherein the conveying belt is provided with a plurality of leak holes; the chocolate coating apparatus further comprises: the coating liquid diffusing device is arranged below the conveying belt and is used for supporting the coating liquid dripped by the dripping pipe to diffuse on the conveying belt to form an area for adhering a coating to the bottom and the side of the chocolate; the coating diffusion device comprises: the mounting box is fixedly mounted with the support frame and is positioned below the dropper; the sealing plate is slidably arranged in the mounting box and is abutted against the inner wall part of the mounting box; the lifting plate is slidably arranged in the installation box, is completely abutted against the inner wall of the installation box and is positioned below the sealing plate; the driving piece is arranged on the installation box and connected with the lifting plate so that the lifting plate has a lifting motion state; wherein, a plurality of pushing plates are fixedly arranged on the lifting plate; the area of the graph formed by the projection of the push-out plate on the ground is smaller than that of the graph formed by the projection of the leak hole on the ground, so that the push-out plate can slide and lift in the leak hole.

Chocolate when the dropping liquid pipe below, the driving piece makes the lifter plate upward movement, extrudes the coating liquid in the installation box outwards, makes the coating liquid spill over more height to make the ejector plate upwards lift up chocolate, make chocolate the bottom more with the coating liquid adhesion, improved the area of chocolate bottom and coating liquid adhesion greatly.

Further, the mounting box is open at both ends; the install bin includes: a mounting portion and a connecting portion; the connecting part and the mounting part are integrally formed; the driving member includes: the driving cylinder is fixedly arranged on the connecting part; the first hinge seat is fixedly arranged on the push rod part of the driving cylinder; the connecting rod is hinged to the first hinge seat; the second hinge base is hinged to the connecting rod and fixedly installed on the lower surface of the lifting plate.

Furthermore, two driving parts and two connecting parts are arranged; the two connecting parts are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the mounting part.

Further, a clamping and connecting plate is fixedly arranged on the lower surface of the sealing plate; a limiting plate is fixedly arranged on the inner wall of the mounting part; the limiting plate is located between the clamping plate and the sealing plate.

Furthermore, a plurality of guide rods which are connected with the lifting plate in a sliding manner are fixedly arranged on the lower surface of the sealing plate; the guide rod is provided with an elastic piece; one end of the elastic piece is abutted against the lower surface of the sealing plate and the other end is abutted against the upper surface of the lifting plate.

Furthermore, a guide cylinder is fixedly arranged on the lower surface of the sealing plate; the lifting plate comprises a lifting part and a guide part; a gap is formed between the lifting part and the guide part; the guide cylinder is inserted into the gap and is abutted with the guide part and the lifting part; the lower surface of the guide part is fixedly provided with a connecting rod; the lower surface of the lifting part is fixedly provided with an angle-shaped plate fixedly connected with the connecting rod.

Furthermore, two sealing plates are arranged and are respectively positioned at two sides of the mounting part; a plurality of ejector plates are located between the two seal plates.

Further, the projections of the two sealing plates on the ground do not intersect the projections of the plurality of ejector plates on the ground.

Further, when the limit plate is abutted against the lower surface of the sealing plate, the sealing plate is completely positioned inside the mounting part; when the limiting plate is abutted to the clamping plate, at least part of the sealing plate is positioned outside the mounting part and abutted to the conveying belt.

The beneficial effect of this application lies in: a chocolate coating apparatus is provided that adheres more coating liquid to the outer surface of the chocolate.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, serve to provide a further understanding of the application and to enable other features, objects, and advantages of the application to be more apparent. The drawings and their description illustrate the embodiments of the invention and do not limit it.

Further, throughout the drawings, the same or similar reference numerals denote the same or similar elements. It should be understood that the drawings are schematic and that elements and components are not necessarily drawn to scale.

In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is an overall schematic diagram according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a part of the embodiment, mainly illustrating the structure of the coating liquid diffusing means;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of a portion of the embodiment, mainly illustrating the structure of the mounting case and part of the surrounding parts;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view of a portion of the embodiment, mainly illustrating a limiting plate and clamping plate structure;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural view of a portion of the embodiment, showing primarily the explosive structure of the guide cylinder and a portion of the surrounding parts;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of a part of the embodiment, mainly illustrating the structure of the guide and lifter and the position of the gap.

Reference numerals:

a processing conveyor 1 and a conveying belt 11;

a support frame 2;

a dropping tube 3;

the coating liquid spreading device 4, the mounting box 41, the sealing plate 42, the lifting plate 43, the driving member 44, the mounting portion 411, the connecting portion 412, the clamping plate 421, the limiting plate 422, the guide rod 423, the elastic member 424, the guide cylinder 425, the connecting rod 426, the angle plate 427, the push-out plate 431, the lifting portion 432, the guide portion 433, the driving cylinder 441, the first hinge seat 442, the connecting rod 443, and the second hinge seat 444.

Detailed Description

Embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. While certain embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the drawings, it is to be understood that the disclosure may be embodied in various forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided for a more thorough and complete understanding of the present disclosure. It should be understood that the drawings and embodiments of the disclosure are for illustration purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of the disclosure.

It should be noted that, for convenience of description, only the portions related to the related invention are shown in the drawings. The embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present disclosure may be combined with each other without conflict.

It should be noted that the terms "first", "second", and the like in the present disclosure are only used for distinguishing different devices, modules or units, and are not used for limiting the order or interdependence relationship of the functions performed by the devices, modules or units.

It is noted that references to "a", "an", and "the" modifications in this disclosure are intended to be illustrative rather than limiting, and that those skilled in the art will recognize that "one or more" may be used unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.

The present disclosure will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with embodiments.

Referring to fig. 1, a chocolate coating apparatus includes: the device comprises a processing conveyor 1, a support frame 2, a dropping liquid pipe 3 and a coating liquid diffusion device 4. The processing conveyor 1 is provided with a conveying belt 11 for conveying chocolate; the support frame 2 is fixed on the ground; the dropping liquid pipe 3 is arranged below the supporting frame 2. The drip tube 3 is used to drip a coating of chocolate onto the conveyor belt 11. The conveyor belt 11 has a plurality of orifices. The coating liquid diffusing device 4 is installed below the conveyor belt 11. The coating liquid spreading device 4 is used for supporting the coating liquid dropped from the dropping liquid pipe 3 and spreading the coating liquid on the conveyer belt 11 to form an area for adhering the coating to the bottom and the side of the chocolate. The conveyor belt 11 in this embodiment is prior art and will not be described.

Referring to fig. 2, the coating diffusion device includes: a mounting case 41 and a sealing plate 42. The mounting box 41 is fixedly mounted with the support frame 2. A box 41 is mounted and located below the drop tube. The sealing plate 42 is slidably mounted inside the mounting case 41. The sealing plate 42 abuts against an inner wall portion of the mounting case 41.

Referring to fig. 3, the coating diffusion device further includes: lifting plate 43, driving piece 44. The installation case 41 includes: a mounting portion 411 and a connecting portion 412. The driver 44 includes: driving cylinder 441, first hinge base 442, connecting rod 443, and second hinge base 444.

The lifting plate 43 is slidably mounted inside the mounting box 41. The inner wall of the mounting case 41 of the elevating plate 43 is entirely abutted and positioned below the sealing plate 42. The driving member 44 is installed at the installation case 41 and connected to the elevating plate 43 to allow the elevating plate 43 to have a moving state of elevating. The mounting case 41 is open at both ends. The connecting portion 412 and the mounting portion 411 are integrally formed. The driving cylinder 441 is fixedly mounted on the connection portion 412. The first hinge base 442 is fixedly installed at the push rod portion of the driving cylinder 441. The link 443 is hinged to the first hinge base 442. The second hinge base 444 is hinged to the link 443 and fixedly installed on the lower surface of the elevation plate 43. Two of the driving member 44 and the connecting portion 412 are provided; two connection portions 412 are symmetrically installed at both sides of the installation portion 411.

Referring to fig. 4, the coating diffusion device further includes: ejector plate 431, clamping plate 421, limiting plate 422. The push-out plate 431 is fixedly installed on the elevating plate 43. The ejection plate 431 has a plurality. The chucking plate 421 is fixedly installed at the lower surface of the sealing plate 42. The stopper plate 422 is fixedly mounted on the inner wall of the mounting portion 411. The stopper plate 422 is located between the click plate 421 and the sealing plate 42. Two sealing plates 42 are provided, respectively located at both sides of the mounting portion 411; a plurality of ejector plates 431 are located between the two seal plates 42.

Referring to fig. 4-5, the coating diffusion device further comprises: a guide rod 423, an elastic member 424, a guide cylinder 425, a connecting rod 426, an angular plate 427. The lifting plate 43 includes a lifting portion 432 and a guide portion 433.

The guide rod 423 is provided in plurality. The guide rod 423 is fixedly installed on the lower surface of the sealing plate 42 and slidably coupled to the elevating plate 43. The elastic member 424 is mounted on the guide rod 423. The elastic member 424 has one end abutting the lower surface of the sealing plate 42 and one end abutting the upper surface of the elevating plate 43. The guide cylinder 425 is fixedly installed on the lower surface of the sealing plate 42. The connecting bar 426 is installed on the lower surface of the guide portion 433. Is fixedly installed on the lower surface of the elevating part 432 and is fixedly connected with the connecting rod 426. A gap is provided between the lifting part 432 and the guide part 433. The guide cylinder 425 is inserted into the gap and abuts against the guide portion 433 and the lifting portion 432.

Specifically, the area of the pattern formed by the projection of the push-out plate 431 on the ground is smaller than the area of the pattern formed by the projection of the leak hole on the ground, so that the push-out plate 431 has a state of sliding up and down in the leak hole. The projections of the two sealing plates 42 on the ground do not intersect the projections of the plurality of push-out plates 431 on the ground. When the stopper plate 422 abuts against the lower surface of the sealing plate 42, the sealing plate 42 is completely positioned inside the mounting portion 411; when the stopper plate 422 abuts against the click plate 421, the sealing plate 42 is at least partially positioned outside the mounting portion 411 and abuts against the conveyor belt 11.

In other modes of operation, a recovery tank may be placed below the conveyor belt 11 to recover the coating liquid.

In other working modes, the mounting frame is provided with an infrared sensor.

Working condition and gain:

chocolate is placed on the conveyor belt 11 and is conveyed along the feeding direction of the conveyor belt 11.

In the first step, the dropping pipe 3 continuously flows downwards to flow out the coating liquid, and the coating liquid flows above the installation box 41; specifically, the coating liquid flows on the sealing plate 42 and the lifting plate 43, and the mounting part 411 positioned above the lifting plate 43 is filled along the gap between the sealing plate 42 and the lifting plate 43, the coating liquid can continuously flow out after the coating liquid is filled, and then the coating liquid continuously overflows from the mounting part 411, and the coating liquid covers a coating area above the conveying belt 11.

Secondly, the chocolate passes through a coating area when being conveyed; be equipped with infrared inductor on the mounting bracket, infrared inductor senses chocolate and can give the signal after reaching the picture layer region, and driving piece 44 can start after receiving the signal at this moment.

In a third step, the two driving members 44 are started, specifically: the push rod portion of the driving cylinder 441 pushes outwards, the push rod portion of the driving cylinder 441 pushes the first hinge base 442 to move, and the first hinge base 442 drives the lifting plate 43 to move upwards through the connecting rod 443 and the second hinge base 444. The upward movement of the elevating plate 43 drives the angular plate 427 to move upward together, and the angular plate 427 is connected to the guide portion 433 by the connecting rod 426 as a unit of synchronous movement, so that the guide portion 433 also moves upward. The guide portion 433 moves the sealing plate 42 upward through the elastic member 424, the sealing plate 42 drives the engaging plate 421 to move upward together, and then the engaging plate 421 abuts against the limiting plate 422, so that the engaging plate 421 cannot move upward, and therefore the sealing plate 42 cannot move upward. However, the lifting plate 43 continues to move upward, so that the elastic member 424 is compressed to make the sealing plate 42 stationary and the lifting plate 43 continues to move upward.

The sealing plate 42 can be moved to the top as long as the lifting plate 43 moves upwards, the sealing plate 42 is abutted to the conveying belt 11, the leak hole in the conveying belt 11 is blocked, the lifting plate 43 moves upwards, the coating liquid in the mounting part 411 can be pushed out only at the position of the pushing plate, the coating liquid can overflow out only at one position, the higher height can be reached, the leaking hole can be exposed by the pushing plate, the chocolate is pushed to move upwards for a part of distance, and the bottom of the chocolate can be adhered to the coating liquid more.

The foregoing description is only exemplary of the preferred embodiments of the disclosure and is illustrative of the principles of the technology employed. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the scope of the invention in the embodiments of the present disclosure is not limited to the specific combinations of the above-mentioned features, and other embodiments in which the above-mentioned features or their equivalents are combined arbitrarily without departing from the spirit of the invention are also encompassed. For example, the above features and (but not limited to) technical features with similar functions disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are mutually replaced to form the technical solution.

Claims

1. A chocolate coating apparatus comprising:

the processing conveyor is provided with a conveying belt for conveying the chocolate;

the supporting frame is fixed on the ground;

the liquid dropping pipe is arranged below the supporting frame and is used for dropping the coating of the chocolate on the conveying belt;

wherein the conveying belt is provided with a plurality of leak holes;

the method is characterized in that:

the chocolate coating apparatus further comprises:

the coating liquid diffusing device is arranged below the conveying belt and is used for supporting the coating liquid dripped by the dripping pipe to diffuse on the conveying belt to form an area for adhering a coating to the bottom and the side surface of the chocolate;

the coating diffusion device comprises:

the mounting box is fixedly mounted with the support frame and is positioned below the dropper;

the sealing plate is slidably arranged in the mounting box and is abutted against the inner wall part of the mounting box;

the lifting plate is slidably arranged in the installation box, is completely abutted against the inner wall of the installation box and is positioned below the sealing plate;

the driving piece is arranged on the installation box and connected with the lifting plate so that the lifting plate has a lifting motion state;

wherein a plurality of pushing plates are fixedly arranged on the lifting plate; the area of the graph formed by the projection of the push-out plate on the ground is smaller than that of the graph formed by the projection of the leak hole on the ground, so that the push-out plate can slide and lift in the leak hole.

2. The chocolate coating apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the two ends of the installation box are open;

the installation case includes: a mounting portion and a connecting portion;

the connecting part and the mounting part are integrally formed;

the driver includes:

the driving cylinder is fixedly arranged on the connecting part;

the first hinge seat is fixedly arranged on the push rod part of the driving cylinder;

the connecting rod is hinged to the first hinge seat;

the second hinge base is hinged to the connecting rod and fixedly installed on the lower surface of the lifting plate.

3. Chocolate coating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

two driving pieces and two connecting parts are arranged;

two the connecting portion symmetry is installed in the both sides of installation department.

4. The chocolate coating apparatus of claim 3, wherein:

the lower surface of the sealing plate is fixedly provided with a clamping and connecting plate;

a limiting plate is fixedly arranged on the inner wall of the mounting part;

the limiting plate is located between the clamping plate and the sealing plate.

5. Chocolate coating apparatus according to claim 4, wherein:

a plurality of guide rods which are connected with the lifting plate in a sliding manner are fixedly arranged on the lower surface of the sealing plate;

the guide rod is provided with an elastic piece;

one end of the elastic piece is abutted against the lower surface of the sealing plate, and the other end of the elastic piece is abutted against the upper surface of the lifting plate.

6. The chocolate coating apparatus of claim 5, wherein:

the lower surface of the sealing plate is fixedly provided with a guide cylinder;

the lifting plate comprises a lifting part and a guide part;

a gap is formed between the lifting part and the guide part;

the guide cylinder is inserted into the gap and is abutted with the guide part and the lifting part;

the lower surface of the guide part is fixedly provided with a connecting rod;

and the lower surface of the lifting part is fixedly provided with an angle-shaped plate fixedly connected with the connecting rod.

7. The chocolate coating apparatus of claim 6, wherein:

the two sealing plates are respectively positioned at two sides of the mounting part;

a plurality of said ejector plates are located between two seal plates.

8. The chocolate coating apparatus of claim 7, wherein:

the projections of the two sealing plates on the ground do not intersect the projections of the plurality of ejector plates on the ground.

9. The chocolate coating apparatus of claim 8, wherein:

when the limiting plate is abutted against the lower surface of the sealing plate, the sealing plate is completely positioned in the mounting part;

when the limiting plate is abutted to the clamping plate, at least part of the sealing plate is located outside the mounting part and abutted to the conveying belt.