CN85102738A

CN85102738A - Peeling machine

Info

Publication number: CN85102738A
Application number: CN198585102738A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 铃木昭藏
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1985-04-15
Filing date: 1985-04-15
Publication date: 1986-10-15
Also published as: CN85102738B

Abstract

A kind of automatically is the machine of vegetables (especially onion bulb) and some fruit peeling.This peeling machine comprises a conveyer belt, and the device of the single onion bulb of plurality of fixed is arranged on this conveyer belt, and they are along transmitting spaced apart.A cutting tool unit, when conveyer belt is passed by this device, pruned in the two ends of onion bulb.By two rotatable drums and the device that air ejector is formed, two skins of onion bulb are peelled off from this device in order to two skins cutting onion bulb and one for blade that can move back and forth.

Description

Peeling machine

The invention relates to a kind of can automatically be the machine of vegetables Lay (especially onion bulb) and some fruit peeling.

As shown in Figure 6, onion bulb 1 comprises a crust 2(, and this is that of onion bulb is thin outer), this layer of endothelium 3(skin is positioned at above-mentioned crust 2, its thickness is about 1-2mm) and an edible part 4(be positioned at above-mentioned internal layer 3).Undoubtedly, crust 2 can not be used as food.It is because this one deck or may variable color or may be damaged that endothelium 3 can not eat.Therefore, be necessary in the past crust 2 and endothelium 3 are peeled off cooking onion bulb.

Onion bulb normally carries out peeling by following step: at first be along the two ends of A-A ' line (Fig. 5) with onion 1, i.e. and root and stem, the out of use part of the 1a of onion bulb and 1b() prune; Then, crust 2 and endothelium 3 are peeled off from edible part 4.

Some other vegetables Lay (as verdant), some fruit (as pineapple) also adopt and the same peeling method of onion bulb usually.At first, pruned in the two ends (out of use part) of vegetables Lay or fruit, peel off the crust of vegetables Lay or fruit then.

In a word, peeling work is finished by hand, and needs a large amount of work and time, and is especially true under the situation that has a large amount of vegetables Lays and fruit to need peeling.

The objective of the invention is to provide a kind of and can automatically be vegetables Lay and fruit, the especially machine of onion bulb peeling.

By a kind of machine, this purpose reaches, the useful device at vegetables Lay two ends of pruning automatically of this machine, and the device of peelling off vegetables Lay crust is automatically arranged.

Fig. 1 is a front view, and a peeling machine of the present invention has been described.

Fig. 2 is the plane of certain part (direction of arrow A indication in Fig. 1) of an above-mentioned machine.

Fig. 3 is a phantom explanation vegetables Lay fixture.

Fig. 4 is a cutaway view of getting an amplification of part along IV among Fig. 3-IV line.

Fig. 5 is onion bulb of a view specification.

Fig. 6 is a cutaway view getting part along VI among Fig. 5-VI line.

With reference to the accompanying drawings the present invention is described.

Numeral 10 represents the frame of peeling machine of the present invention. Conveyer belt 11(such as an a kind of chain conveyor that is driven by the drive unit (not illustrated) that adapts with it) be installed on this frame, this conveyer belt 11 preferably is in heeling condition. Several vegetables Lay fixtures 12 keep suitable interval to be fixed along conveyer belt. Vegetables Lay fixture 12 comprises that a vegetables Lay bearing 13 is the right that is positioned at vegetables Lay bearing 13 with vegetables Lay hold down gag 14(this vegetables Lay hold down gag in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 relative with this vegetables Lay bearing). Vegetables Lay bearing 13 preferably includes its global shape and is the L shaped angle bar member (seeing Fig. 3 and Fig. 4) of letter. Vegetables Lay hold down gag 14 should be able to be with a vegetables Lay 1(such as an onion bulb) thus be pressed on the vegetables Lay bearing 13 and make vegetables Lay 1 in position. This vegetables Lay hold down gag 14 comprises for example following parts: a support cylinder 17 that is installed on the above-mentioned conveyer belt 11, a pushing ram 16, end at pushing ram has a pressure surface 15, the other end cunning of this pushing ram 16 join insert that 17, one of this support cylinder are positioned at these pushing ram 16 other ends (the inner) thereby and this spring 18 of the spring between the blind end of this support cylinder 17 always push this pushing ram 16(towards the direction of this vegetables Lay bearing 13 and see Fig. 3).

A kind of topping machanism 19 of vegetables Lay one end that is used to prune is respectively settled one on the both sides of conveyer belt 11, and this device is installed on the frame 10.Each topping machanism 19 comprises a cutting tool supporting member 21, its front end (left end of Fig. 2) is hinged on the pivot 23, and rotate according to pivot on the face that should be able to parallel along surface with conveyer belt 11, the rear portion of this cutting tool supporting member 21 (right part among Fig. 2) inwardly pushes away it (towards the center line of conveyer belt 11) by spring assembly 20, installs a cutting tool 22 at the inner face of this cutting tool supporting member 21.The cutting edge of this cutting tool 22 preferably keeps certain inclination with the plane of movement of conveyer belt 11, but also can keep vertically or also can adopt the cutting disc that is rotated by electrical motor driven.Further situation about cutting tool supporting member 21, a pivot 23 is vertically mounted on each limit of conveyer belt, the front end of cutting tool supporting member 21 is connected on this pivot 23, and above-mentioned spring assembly 20 is installed in the rear portion of this cutting tool supporting member 21 and is vertically mounted between the spring fastening 24 on the frame 10.When the plane of movement of cutting tool 22 with conveyer belt 11 keeps under the situation of inclination, preferably an assisted machining cutter 25 is fixed in the cutting tool supporting member 21, and being positioned at the following (see figure 1) of cutting tool 22, the cutting edge of this assisted machining cutter tilts along the direction opposite with the incline direction of cutting tool 22.When this assisted machining cutter 25 be fixed on cutting tool 22 below the time, can guarantee more to be pruned in the two ends of vegetables Lay.

Cutting knife 26 places one side of conveyer belt 11, and it does not belong to some in the vegetables Lay end topping machanism 19, and this cutting knife 26 should be able to be along seesawing with the perpendicular substantially direction of the feed direction of conveyer belt 11.For example, on certain one side of conveyer belt, a cylinder 27 is installed in the back of topping machanism 19, and its direction is perpendicular with the feed direction of conveyer belt 11 substantially, and cutting knife 26 is fixed on the end (see figure 2) of the piston rod 28 of cylinder 27.Cutting knife 26 inserts the crust (being crust 2 and endothelium 3) of vegetables Lay concerning onion, so that peel off the crust of vegetables Lay, this cutting knife 26 should be able to move rapidly, so that can be consistent with the feeding time of vegetables Lay.

The delivery end of conveyer belt 11 is connected with the device that can peel off vegetables Lay crust automatically by a chute 29.This device comprises a pair of cylinder of installing near chute 29 30 and 31, drives vegetables Lay rotation thereby keep suitable distance between this cylinder 30 and 31 so that place the vegetables Lay and can rotate in the same direction.In the place near this cylinder 30 and 31 air nozzle 32 is arranged, this air nozzle 32 should be able to be used for the compressed air from air compressor (not shown) is sprayed to the vegetables Lay to remove the crust of vegetables Lay.Have at least one to be to move forward and backward according to the time interval of control in the cylinder 30 and 31, thereby change two spacings between the cylinder.For example, cylinder 30 can be in a certain fixed position and drive a belt by an electro-motor 33, chain or suchlike thing (not shown) are fixed on the end of piston rod 35 of some cylinders 34 so that move (for example per 2 seconds to 3 seconds) according to the time interval of timer control to order about it towards rotating another cylinder 31 in a certain respect, this cylinder 31 can lean on above-mentioned electro-motor 33 to drive power transmission (not shown) and order about its rotation, and its direction is identical with cylinder 30 direction of rotation.

To be that example is described the operation of peeling machine of the present invention below with the onion.Should be noted in the discussion above that following explanation is applicable to the situation that other vegetables Lays (as verdant) and fruit (as pineapple) are carried out peeling too.

At the front end (left end of Fig. 1 and Fig. 2) of conveyer belt 11, each onion 1 is placed on the vegetables Lay bearing 13 of a vegetables Lay fixture 12 from one side.Then, be pressed over onion 1 on the vegetables Lay bearing 13 by a vegetables Lay hold down gag 14 and be fixed on firmly between device 13 and 14.Especially when vegetables Lay bearing 13 comprises that its global shape is the L shaped angle bar member of letter, onion 1 can very be fixed securely, and this is because it is by 2 points (C and d point) of the vertical component of vegetables Lay bearing 13 and other two point-supported (seeing Fig. 3 and Fig. 4) of horizontal component.When in the middle of the topping machanism 19 of two vegetables Lay ends, passing through under the drive of onion 1 at conveyer belt fixing like this by vegetables Lay fixture 12, onion 1 with cutting tool supporting member 21 to extrapolation, opposite with the power of spring assembly (as shown in phantom in Figure 2), and the two ends 1a of

onion

1 and 1b are cut cutter 22 and the assisted machining cutters 25 that are fixed in the cutting tool supporting member 21 cut away.Even have the different size onion and also can be cut into its suitable size respectively because onion according to its size with the topping machanism 19 on conveyer belt 11 both sides to extrapolation.After onion 1 passed through topping machanism 19, topping machanism 19 returned to original position by spring assembly 20.Prune when the two ends of this onion of onion 1(have been cut device 19) when taking near cutting knife 26 by conveyer belt 11, thereby cutting knife 26 moves the crust 2 and the endothelium 3(that pass across conveyer belt 11 incision onions 1 rapidly by the promotion of cylinder 27 sees Fig. 3), and cutting knife 26 returns to original position rapidly by cylinder 27 afterwards.When vegetables Lay fixture 12 arrives the delivery end of conveyer belt 11 (right-hand member of Fig. 1 and Fig. 2), the distance between vegetables Lay hold down gag 14 and the vegetables Lay bearing 13 widens (shown in the dotted line of Fig. 1) thereby vegetables Lay fixture 12 has been removed fixing onion 1.Then, onion 1 drops on cylinder 30 and 31 by chute 29, keeps suitable distance so that hold onion between these two cylinders.Because cylinder 30 and 31 is towards same direction rotation, onion 1 also is towards same direction rotation (seeing the direction of arrow indication among Fig. 1).Meanwhile, the blast injection that sprays from air nozzle 32 is on onion 1.Like this and since onion 1(it to be cut edges of a knife and its two ends 1a and 1b by cutting knife 26 cut) on cylinder 30 and 31, also be compressed the injection of air in the rotation, the crust 2 and the endothelium 3 of onion 1 have just broken away from edible part 4.When cylinder 31 to the left side of Fig. 1 move with increase between the cylinder 30 and 31 apart from the time, the edible part 4 of onion 1, the opening that crust 2 and endothelium 3 pass cylinder 30 and 31 respectively falls.Afterwards, cylinder 31 is got back to its original position.Like this, the crust 2 of onion and endothelium 3 just automatically break away from the edible part.

As mentioned above, if the vegetables Lay as onion is placed on the vegetables Lay bearing of vegetables Lay fixture, peeling machine of the present invention can automatically be the peeling of vegetables Lay. Therefore, peeling machine has been saved a large amount of time and work, and when needs were processed a large amount of vegetables Lay, situation was especially true. Although peeling machine is described by the peeling to onion, the present invention is not limited to this, and as what can obviously find out from specification and accompanying drawing, this machine also is applicable to other vegetables Lay and some fruit and carries out peeling.

Claims

1, a kind of peeling machine, it comprises:

Conveyer belt by some frame support, be used to drive the device of this conveyer belt, several vegetables fixtures, they are fixed on this conveyer belt with proper spacing, and above-mentioned each vegetables fixture comprises a vegetables bearing and a vegetables hold down gag staggered relatively with this vegetables bearing.

A kind of vegetables end topping machanism that is installed on the above-mentioned frame, respectively install one on each limit of above-mentioned conveyer belt, each topping machanism comprises a cutting tool supporting member, its front end hinge joint is on above-mentioned frame, and this supporting member should be able to along with face that the surface of above-mentioned conveyer belt parallels on rotate according to pivot, the rear portion of this cutting tool supporting member inwardly pushes away it by spring assembly, install a cutting tool at the inner face of this cutting tool supporting member, an end that is fixed on the vegetables on the above-mentioned vegetables fixture when above-mentioned conveyer belt by this cutting tool the time is pruned by it.

The a pair of cylinder that is installed in the delivery end adjacent of above-mentioned conveyer belt, this cylinder turns in the same direction, and keeps certain spacing to be rotated so that lay vegetables and drive above-mentioned vegetables.

An air nozzle that is installed in above-mentioned cylinder adjacent is removed the crust of these vegetables thereby this air nozzle should be able to spray compressed air to above-mentioned vegetables.

Thereby in above-mentioned cylinder, have at least one should be able to after the time interval of a certain needs, can leave the vegetables of another cylinder above-mentioned peeling and the peeling of vegetables provides an outlet for row lays down.

2, a kind of peeling machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cutting edge of the cutting tool of each above-mentioned vegetables Lay end topping machanism all keeps certain inclination with the plane of movement of above-mentioned conveyer belt.

3, a kind of peeling machine as claimed in claim 2, it further comprises an assisted machining cutter, this cutter is fixed in each cutting tool supporting member, and be positioned at above-mentioned cutting tool below, the cutting edge of this assisted machining cutter tilts along the direction opposite with the incline direction of above-mentioned cutting tool.

4, a kind of as any one described apparatus for peeling off in the claim 1 to 3, wherein each vegetables Lay bearing comprises that all its global shape is the L shaped angle bar of letter.

5, a kind of peeling machine, it comprises:

Conveyer belt by some frame support, be used to drive the device of this conveyer belt, several vegetables Lay fixtures, they are fixed on this conveyer belt with proper spacing, and above-mentioned each vegetables Lay fixture comprises a vegetables Lay bearing and a vegetables Lay hold down gag staggered relatively with this vegetables Lay bearing.

A kind of vegetables Lay end topping machanism that is installed on the above-mentioned frame, respectively install one on each limit of above-mentioned conveyer belt, each topping machanism comprises a cutting tool supporting member, its front end hinge joint is on above-mentioned frame, and this supporting member should be able to along with face that the surface of above-mentioned conveyer belt parallels on rotate according to pivot, the rear portion of this cutting tool supporting member inwardly pushes away it by spring assembly, install a cutting tool at the inner face of this cutting tool supporting member, an end that is fixed on the vegetables Lay on the above-mentioned vegetables Lay fixture when above-mentioned conveyer belt by this cutting tool the time is pruned by it.

A cutter, it is installed on above-mentioned conveyer belt one side frame, its position is in the front of above-mentioned certain vegetables Lay end topping machanism, thereby this cutting knife should be able to move and passes across the crust that conveyer belt inserts above-mentioned vegetables Lay, and should be able to return to its original position after this.

The a pair of cylinder that is installed in the delivery end adjacent of above-mentioned conveyer belt, this cylinder turns in the same direction, and keeps certain spacing to be rotated so that lay the vegetables Lay and drive above-mentioned vegetables Lay.

An air nozzle that is installed in above-mentioned cylinder adjacent, thus this air nozzle should be able to spray the crust that compressed air is removed this vegetables Lay to above-mentioned vegetables Lay.

Thereby in above-mentioned cylinder, have at least one should be able to after the time interval of a certain needs, can leave the vegetables Lay of another cylinder above-mentioned peeling and the peeling of vegetables Lay provides an outlet for row lays down.

6, a kind of peeling machine as claimed in claim 5, wherein the cutting edge of the cutting tool of each above-mentioned vegetables Lay end topping machanism all keeps certain inclination with the plane of movement of above-mentioned conveyer belt.

7, a kind of peeling machine as claimed in claim 6, it further comprises an assisted machining cutter, this cutter is fixed in each cutting tool supporting member, and be positioned at above-mentioned cutting tool below, the cutting edge of this assisted machining cutter tilts along the direction opposite with the incline direction of above-mentioned cutting tool.

8, a kind of as any one described apparatus for peeling off in the claim 5 to 7, wherein each vegetables Lay bearing comprises that all its global shape is the L shaped angle bar of letter.