ES1209940U9 - An embuchadora machine and packaging of food products - Google Patents

Description

An embuchadora machine and packaging of food products

5 Technical sector of the invention The present invention relates to a product packaging and packaging machine food based on meat and / or fish, comprising a loading module and conformation of the food product to be stuffed, a sausage module and a module of final packaging by stapling of a packaged embuchada piece.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION It is well known that today the mass production of meat-based food products, such as sausage pieces, is carried out by using stuffing machines that are made from meat pieces and other ingredients.

15 are properly shaped and stuffed in a gut of animal or artificial collagen origin, or in a mesh container, depending on the product. Once the meat product has been stuffed, tension adjustment of the package on the product is carried out, closing its two ends by stapling or tying.

20 Utility model ES1172483U describes a machine for loading, stuffing, tensioning, stapling and / or tying of food products that allows the realization of all stages of loading meat pieces, stuffed, stapling and / or tied in a manner Consecutive without using different machines depending on the operation.

25 The chains of distribution of food products demand more and more uniformity in the products, that is to say, that there are no appreciable differences in terms of section and length of the stuffed piece delivered. Differences in sizes for the same type of product complicate their transportation, storage and marketing. To date, the length of mostly made final stuffed products

30 from whole pieces of beef or pork is determined by the length of those original whole pieces of meat, which results in the pieces of the final packaged stuffed product not always having the same length.

Thus, it would be desirable to have a stuffing and packaging machine for food products based on meat (and / or fish) that produce stuffed pieces and

packaged of the same length for a type of product selected, so that at any time the machine operator can select a specific length for the final pieces packed and packaged from pieces of meat from the batches he is making. Being able to choose product lengths would facilitate their logistics within the food and marketing sector, as consumers would not notice differences between food products.

Explanation of the invention In order to provide a solution to the problems set forth, a stuffing and packaging machine for food products based on meat and / or fish is disclosed, comprising a loading and shaping module of the food product to be stuffed, a module of embuchado and a module of final packaging by stapling or tied and of the package of packaged embuchada piece.

In essence, the embuchadora and packaging machine is characterized in that it comprises a module of selection and cut to measure of the length of the piece to embuchar, arranged between the module of load and conformation and the module of embuchado, in which the module of Selection and cutting to measure includes: -a receiver mold of the food product loaded in the loading and forming module, divided into two facing semi-molds whose closure configures an oblong female type cavity with two longitudinal ends, the first longitudinal end being an end open in communication with a forming mold included in the loading and forming module; -a linear actuator regulating the length provided with a cylinder whose rod is topped with a piston configured and connected to a means of logical control for the introduction of the piston inside the receiving mold at a certain distance from the second longitudinal end, constituting the piston a tight side closure stop of the oblong cavity of the receiving mold; -a means of selecting the distance of introduction of the plunger into the oblong cavity of the receiving mold, the selection means being connected to the logical control means; -a opening means of the receiving mold connected to the two semi-molds whose activation produces the tilting of the two semi-molds with respect to a tilting axis parallel to the longitudinal direction in which the receiving mold extends and the opening of the oblong cavity at its lower end; Y

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a cutting device of the workpiece, provided with a cutting blade, slidable in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction in which the forming mold and the receiving mold extend, and a guide for the advance or recoil of the cutting blade in said direction, the guide being disposed between the exit of the forming mold and the first longitudinal end of the receiving mold.

According to another characteristic of the machine of the invention, the opening means of the receiving mold comprise at least two supports, in which each support is fixedly attached to a respective semi-mold and is also articulated coupled to the tilting axis, located above of the semi-molds with respect to which they are tiltable and also each support is articulated jointly to a respective end of an opening and closing cylinder driven by a servomotor.

According to another feature of the machine of the invention, the cutting device comprises a cutting activation and deactivation cylinder, connected to a logical control means, whose stem is attached to the cutting blade for sliding in the perpendicular direction. to the longitudinal direction in which the forming mold and the receiving mold extend.

According to another characteristic of the machine of the invention, the forming mold of the loading and forming module is a mold divided into a lower half-mold that forms a U-shaped cavity and an upper half-mold whose lower face, oriented to the lower half-mold, it is formed by a concave surface with the same radius of curvature as the U-shaped cavity of the lower half-mold, the upper half-mold being coupled to vertical sliding means for the pressure introduction of the half- upper mold in the U-shaped cavity of the lower semi-mold until both semi-molds form a cylindrical cavity.

According to another characteristic of the machine of the invention, the loading and forming module comprises compression cylinders whose stems are coupled to the upper half-mold and are extensible in the approach direction and introduction into the U-shaped cavity of the semi- bottom mold.

According to another feature of the machine of the invention, the loading and forming module further comprises a load-pushing piston, located next to a first end of the lower half-mold of the forming mold, said first being

end opposite the end of the forming mold that is in communication with the first longitudinal end of the receiving mold of the selection and cutting module to measure, the thrust piston being linearly movable in and along the entire U-shaped cavity of the semi-mold upper.

According to another characteristic of the machine of the invention, the oblong cavity of the receiver mold of the selection and cut-to-measure module is a cylindrical cavity with the same configuration as the cylindrical cavity that together form the two semi-molds of the forming mold of the loading and forming module when the upper half-mold is inserted into the U-shaped cavity of the lower half-mold.

According to another characteristic of the machine of the invention, the machine further comprises a module for collecting and transporting the piece cut to size, located between the selection and cutting module and the embuchado module, in which the collection module and transport comprises a collection mold arranged below the receiver mold of the selection and cut-to-measure module, divided into a first part formed by a flat surface with downward vertical inclination topped at its lower end by a concave U-shaped surface rotated 90º counterclockwise, and by a second part located next to the upper end of the flat surface of the first part, the second part being configured by a movable and movable concave lateral surface with respect to the first part along the surface inclined plane, whose maximum approach displacement configures a cylindrical cavity, and in which the module the collection and transport further comprises a thrust piston of the collected part, located on one side of one end of the collection mold, which is linearly movable inside and along the part of the cavity that forms the concave surface in the form of U rotated 90º counterclockwise of the first part of the collection mold.

According to another characteristic of the machine of the invention, the receiver mold 20 of the selection and cutting module 2 is removable from the module chassis for easy removal and cleaning.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The attached drawings illustrate, by way of non-limiting example, a preferred embodiment of the embuchadora and packaging machine object of the invention. In these drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the embuchadora and packaging machine object of the invention; Fig. 2 is another perspective view of the embuchadora and packaging machine of Fig. 1 but not including the final packaging module and part of the embuchado module; Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views of the embuchadora and packaging machine of Fig. 2 shown partially uncovered to make visible the components of some of the modules, specifically the loading and forming module, the selection and cutting module, and the module for collecting and transporting the piece cut to size; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the receiving mold of the loaded food product and of the linear actuator regulating the length of the selection and cutting module shown in Figs. 3 and 4, in a closed mold position; Fig. 6 is the same perspective view of the receiving mold shown in Fig. 5 but in an open mold position; Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the main components of the loading and forming module; Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the main components of the module for collecting and transporting the piece cut to size; and Fig. 9 is a perspective view of the cutting device that is part of the selection and custom cutting module.

Detailed description of the drawings Fig. 1 shows a stuffing and packaging machine 100 for meat and / or fish based food products, comprising a loading and forming module 1 of the food product to be stuffed (see also Fig. 7), a module of selection and cut to measure 2 of the length of the piece to be stuffed (see also Figs. 5, 6 and 9), a module of collection and transport 4 of the piece cut to size (see also Fig. 8), a embuchado module 5 and a final packaging module 6 by stapling or tying and cutting the package of a packaged embucado piece.

Figs. 2, 3 and 4 show the same embossing and packaging machine 100, but not including the final packaging module 6 and part of the embuchado module 5. In particular, the representation of the final packaging module 6 where the gut is stressed is excluded or mesh around the embuchado piece for its adjustment and later closing by stapling or tied, whereas of the embuchado module 5 only the tubular portion has been represented

on which the casing casing is placed with the meat piece or pieces that run through the inside of this tubular portion.

In Figs. 3 and 4 some of the covers and / or gates of the chassis of some of the different modules have been removed to see the components that perform the corresponding functions.

The process carried out in the embuchadora and packaging machine 100 begins in the loading and forming module 1, where an operator manually loads the raw material to be stuffed, that is, the whole pieces of meat, placing the pieces of meat in the U-shaped cavity of a semi-mold 11a shown in detail in Fig. 7. The lower half-mold 11a together with an upper half-mold 11b constitute a forming mold 11 in which the part or pieces of Loaded meat will be shaped according to the shape of the cylindrical cavity of the forming mold 11. In fig. 7 it can be seen that the upper half-mold 11b has a lower face, oriented to the lower half-mold 11a, of concave surface with practically the same radius of curvature as the U-shaped cavity of the lower half-mold 11a. The upper half-mold 11b is coupled to vertical sliding means to move vertically downwards and pressurized into the U-shaped cavity of the lower half-mold 11a acting as a press on the loaded piece or pieces of meat. The displacement and the pressure action on the loaded meat pieces to be molded is carried out, in the example shown, by means of compression cylinders 12 whose stems are coupled to the upper semi-mold 11b and are extensible in the approach and introduction direction. the U-shaped cavity of the lower half-mold 11a. The actuation of these compression cylinders 12 is controlled by means of logical control means 7. In other variants not shown, the upper half-mold 11b can be moved vertically down and up manually.

In Fig. 7 it is also observed that the loading and forming module 1 further comprises a thrust piston 13 of the load, located next to a first end of the lower half-mold 11a, said first end being the opposite of the end of the mold of conformation 11 which is in communication with the first longitudinal end 21 of the receiver mold 20 of the selection and cut-off module 2 that follows and which will be explained later. The thrust piston 13 is linearly movable in and along the entire U-shaped cavity of the lower half-mold 11a so that it pushes the piece or pieces of meat loaded and shaped by the forming mold 11 towards the receiving mold 20

with which the lower half-mold 11a is aligned.

Once the piece or pieces of meat of a load, already formed, have been transferred by the thrust piston 13, the following operations are carried out in the module of selection and cut to measure 2 of the length of the piece to be stuffed (see Fig. 4)

In Fig. 5 the main components of the selection and cutting module 2 are shown, comprising: a receiver mold 20 of the food product loaded and formed in the loading and forming module 1, divided into two semi-molds 20a and 20b facing each other whose closure forms an oblong female type cavity with two longitudinal ends, the first longitudinal end 21 being an open end in communication with the output of the forming mold 11 of the loading and forming module 1; -a linear actuator regulating the length 23 provided with a cylinder whose rod 24 is topped with a piston configured and connected to the logic control means 7 for the introduction of the piston inside the receiving mold 20 at a certain distance from the second longitudinal end 22, the piston constituting a stop 25 of a lateral seal of the oblong cavity of the receiving mold 20; -a means of selecting the distance of introduction of the plunger inside the oblong cavity of the receiving mold 20, the selection means being connected to the logical control means 7 that control the operations of the different components of the modules of the machine 100; -a opening means of the receiver mold 20 connected to the two half-molds 20a and 20b whose activation produces the tilting of the two half-molds 20a and 20b with respect to a tilting axis parallel to the longitudinal direction in which it extends the receiving mold 20 and the opening of the oblong cavity at its lower end (see Fig. 6); and -a cutting device 3 of the workpiece, shown in Fig. 9, provided with a cutting blade 31, slidable in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction in which the forming mold 11 and the mold extend receiver 20, and a guide 32 for advancing or retracting the cutting blade 31 in said direction, the guide being disposed between the outlet of the forming mold 11 and the first longitudinal end 21 of the receiving mold 20 (see its position in Fig. 3).

The opening means of the receiver mold 20 comprise at least two supports 26a and 26b. The support 26a is fixedly attached to the half-mold 20a and is also coupled

articulated to a tilting axis located above the semi-molds 20a, 20b with respect to which these are tiltable. In addition, the support 26a is also articulated jointly to a respective end of an opening and closing cylinder 27 driven by a servomotor. In Figs. 5 and 6 it can be seen that the support 26a is articulated jointly to the end of the housing of the opening and closing cylinder 27, while the other support, 26b, is connected to the end of the rod that extends when activated the opening of the receiving mold 20. The support 26b is also fixedly attached to the body of the semi-mold 20b and, on its upper part, is also articulated to the tilting axis (acting as a hinge). When the opening is activated, the rod extends protruding from the housing of the opening and closing cylinder 27 and with this, the tilting of the semi-molds 20a and 20b and the lower opening of the cylindrical cavity they formed are produced. With the opening of the receiver mold 20 the piece cut to the desired length will fall down by gravity, passing to the collection mold 40 of the collection and transport module 4 (see Fig. 8). In addition to the supports 26a and 26b, the articulated connection of the half-molds half molds 20a and 20b to the pivot axis as a hinge is reinforced by auxiliary supports 28.

The oblong cavity of the receiver mold 20 of the selection and cut-to-measure module 2 is a cylindrical cavity with the same configuration as the cylindrical cavity that the two lower and upper half-molds 11a and 11b of the forming mold 11 of the module module together form. loading and shaping 1 when the upper half-mold 11b is inserted into the U-shaped cavity of the lower half-mold 11a.

When the requirements of the stuffed and packaged product require a certain length of final piece, the user will select or enter the desired length through a selection means, for example, through a screen connected to the logical control means 7. The selected or indicated distance will determine the distance or depth at which the piston of the cylinder of the linear actuator regulating the length 23 will be introduced inside the cavity of the receiving mold 20. The further the piston or stopper 25 is entered, the shorter it will be the length of the stuffed and packaged end pieces. The thrust piston 13 of the loading and forming module 1 will push the shaped piece or pieces of meat after loading until it hits the stop 25.

It may be that the final stuffed and packaged piece that is needed has to have a certain length and that the meat pieces loaded in the loading module and

conformation 1 are each shorter than that length, so that to reach the required final length, the stuffed meat must be formed by an entire piece plus a portion of another piece to be cut, so that the sum of the length of the first piece plus the cut portion of the second piece is the required length.

For this, it will be necessary to cut the second piece of meat that has been formed together with the first one in the loading and forming module 1 and that has passed together with the first piece to the receiving mold 20. The cutting operation is performed by the cut 3 provided between the forming mold 11 and the receiving mold 20. In Fig. 9 it is shown that the cutting device 3 comprises a cutting activation and deactivation cylinder 33, connected to a logical control means 7, whose stem it is connected to the cutting blade 31 for its sliding in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction in which the forming mold 11 and the receiving mold 20 extend. It can be seen how the cutting blade 31 is configured by a through hole that it is superimposed on the cylindrical cavity of the molds described when the cut is to be made to the selected length. In Fig. 9 the mentioned hole is seen, one of whose edges is formed by the cutting edge 34 as an inclined straight section.

Once the cut has been made, with the receiver mold 20 in the closed position, it is opened, as shown in Fig. 6, and the piece cut to size, which can actually be formed by a single piece of meat or by the union of two or more pieces of meat whose sum of lengths is selected, passes to the collection and transport module 4, located between the selection and cutting module 2 and the embuchado module 5.

The collection and transport module 4, shown in detail in Fig. 8, comprises a collection mold 40 disposed below the receiving mold 20 of the custom selection and cutting module 2 and is divided into a first part 41 and a second part 44. The first part 41 of the collection mold 40 is formed by a flat surface 42 with downward vertical inclination topped at its lower end by a concave U-shaped surface rotated 90 ° counterclockwise 43. The second part 44 is located following the upper end of the flat surface 42 of the first part 41, and is configured by a movable and movable concave lateral surface with respect to the first part 41 along the inclined flat surface 42, whose maximum approach displacement configures a cylindrical cavity The inclined flat surface 42 will cause

the piece cut to the measure that has fallen when the receiver mold 20 is opened rolls by its cylindrical configuration and by the inclination, until reaching the area near the concave U-shaped surface rotated 90 ° counterclockwise 43. The second part 44 , when moving approaching the U-shaped concave surface rotated 90º in the direction

5 counterclockwise 43 will cause the piece cut to size and collected to be pressed against this part.

The collection and transport module 4 further comprises a thrust piston 45 of the collected part, located on one side of one end of the collection mold 40, which is

10 linearly movable inside and along the part of the cavity that forms the U-shaped concave surface rotated 90 ° counterclockwise 43 of the first part 41 of the collection mold 40. When activated, the thrust piston 45 will push the part collected and will push it to the embuchado module 5 where it will be introduced into the gut.

15 It should be mentioned that the receiver mold 20 of the selection and cutting module 2 is removable from the module chassis, so that it can be removed and cleaned conveniently. To disassemble it, unscrew or remove bolts 29 (see Figs. 3, 5 and 6).

Also the forming mold 11 included in the loading and forming module 1

20 is arranged in the chassis of the machine 100 in such a way that it can be accessible from the outside for cleaning, removing from the chassis a front drawer 14 adjacent to the lower half-mold 11a (in Fig. 4 the front drawer has been removed) . This part of the chassis also has a horizontal cover15 (see Fig. 3) hinged that can be folded and rotated 180º and serve as support for the pieces of meat before the operator loads them.

Claims (8)

1.-A machine (100) embuchadora and packaging of food products based on meat and / or fish, comprising a loading and forming module (1) of the food product to be stuffed, a module of embuchado (5) and a module of final packaging (6) by stapling or tying and cutting of the package of a packaged embuchado piece, characterized in that the machine (100) comprises a module of selection and cut to measure (2) of the length of the piece to embuchar, arranged between the loading and forming module (1) and the embuchado module (5), in which the selection and cutting module (2) comprises: - a receiving mold (20) of the food product loaded and formed in the loading and shaping module (1), divided into two facing semi-molds (20a, 20b) whose closure configures an oblong female type cavity with two longitudinal ends, the first longitudinal end (21) being an open end in communication with a mold of conformation (11) included in the loading and forming module (1); -a linear actuator regulating the length (23) provided with a cylinder whose rod (24) is topped with a piston configured and connected to a logic control means (7) for the introduction of the piston inside the receiving mold (20 ) at a certain distance from the second longitudinal end (22), the piston constituting a stop (25) of a lateral seal of the oblong cavity of the receiving mold (20); -a means of selecting the distance of introduction of the plunger into the oblong cavity of the receiving mold (20), the selection means being connected to the logical control means (7); -a opening means of the receiver mold (20) connected to the two semi-molds (20a, 20b) whose activation produces the tilting of the two semi-molds (20a, 20b) with respect to a tilting axis parallel to the direction longitudinal in which the receiver mold (20) extends and the opening of the oblong cavity at its lower end; and -a cutting device (3) of the piece to be stuffed, provided with a cutting blade (31), slidable in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction in which the forming mold (11) and the receiving mold extend (20), and of a guide (32) for the advance or retraction of the cutting blade (31) in said direction, the guide being disposed between the exit of the forming mold (11) and the first longitudinal end (21) of the receiving mold (20). 2. The embossing and packaging machine (100) of claim 1, wherein the opening means of the receiving mold (20) comprise at least two supports (26a, 26b), 10 wherein each support (26a; 26b) is fixedly attached to a respective semi-mold (20a; 20b) and is also articulated coupled to the tilting axis, located above the semi-molds (20a, 20b) with respect to which they are tiltable and also each support (26a; 26b) is articulated jointly to a respective end of an opening and closing cylinder

(27)

Powered by a servomotor.

3. The embuchadora and packaging machine (100) of claim 1 or 2, wherein the cutting device (3) comprises a cutting activation and deactivation cylinder (33), connected to a logical control means, whose shank is attached to the cutting blade

(31)

 for sliding in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction in which the forming mold (11) and the receiving mold (20) extend.

4. The embuchadora and packaging machine (100) according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the forming mold (11) of the loading and forming module (1) is a mold divided into a lower semi-mold (11a ) which forms a U-shaped cavity and an upper half-mold (11b) whose lower face, oriented to the lower half-mold (11a), is formed by a concave surface with the same radius of curvature as the U-shaped cavity of the lower half-mold (11a), the upper half-mold (11b) being coupled to vertical sliding means for the pressure introduction of the upper half-mold (11b) into the U-shaped cavity of the lower half-mold ( 11a) to configure both lower and upper half-molds (11a, 11b) a cylindrical cavity. 5. The embuchadora and packaging machine (100) according to claim 4, wherein the loading and forming module (1) comprises compression cylinders (12) whose stems are coupled to the upper semi-mold (11b) and are extensible in the approach direction and introduction into the U-shaped cavity of the lower half-mold (11a). 6. The embuchadora and packaging machine (100) according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the loading and forming module (1) further comprises a thrust piston (13) of the load, located next to a first end of the lower half-mold (11a) of the forming mold (11), said first end being the opposite of the end of the forming mold (11) which is in communication with the first longitudinal end (21) of the receiving mold (20) of the custom selection and cutting module (2), the thrust piston (13) being linearly movable inside and along the entire U-shaped cavity of the lower half-mold (11a). 7. The embuchadora and packaging machine (100) according to any one of the preceding claims 4 to 6, wherein the oblong cavity of the receiving mold (20) of the 5 module of selection and cut to measure (2) is a cylindrical cavity with the same configuration as the cylindrical cavity that together form the two lower and upper half-molds (11a, 11b) of the forming mold (11) of the load module and shaping (1) when the upper half-mold (11b) is introduced into the U-shaped cavity of the lower half-mold (11a). The machine and packaging machine (100) according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the machine (100) further comprises a collection and transport module (4) of the piece cut to size, located between the module of selection and cut to measure (2) and the module of embuchado (5), in which the module of collection and The transport (4) comprises a collection mold (40) arranged below the receiving mold (20) of the selection and cutting module (2), divided into a first part (41) formed by a flat surface (42) with descending vertical inclination topped at its lower end by a concave U-shaped surface rotated 90º counterclockwise (43), and by a second part (44) located next to the end 20 of the flat surface (42) of the first part (41), the second part (44) being configured by a movable and movable concave lateral surface with respect to the first part (41) along the flat surface ( 42) inclined, whose maximum approach displacement configures a cylindrical cavity, and in which the collection and transport module (4) further comprises a thrust piston (45) of the collected part, located at 25 one side of one end of the collection mold (40), which is linearly movable inside and along the part of the cavity that forms the U-shaped concave surface rotated 90 ° counterclockwise (43) of the first part ( 41) of the collection mold (40). 9. The embuchadora and packaging machine (100) according to any one of the 30 preceding claims, wherein the receiver mold (20) of the selection and cut-to-measure module (2) is removable from the module chassis. DRAWINGS 7 29 23 5 29 72 5 27 3 Fig. 9 32