JP2000189080A - Apparatus for coating common salt on food - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To uniformly coat common salt and improve the efficiency of the operation by using an apparatus for coating the salt on a food, and automating the salt coating on the lower surface of a cooked rice body or the like. SOLUTION: This apparatus for coating common salt on a food has a first intermittently rotating turntable 6 having common salt-scattering tables 9 of the required number, installed at a constant interval in the circumferential direction so as to be freely lifted and lowered, a second intermittently rotating turntable 7 having two or more molding molds 10 installed at a constant interval in the circumferential direction, a common salt-scattering mechanism 12 scattering the salt on one salt-scattering table 9 of the first turntable 6 while stirring the salt (a), a food-conveying mechanism 13 intermittently transporting a food (b) to a prescribed position, and a food-supplying mechanism 18 for moving and supplying the food (b) from the conveyance mechanism 13 to one molding mold 10 of the second turntable 7. The second turntable 7 and the first turntable 6 are vertically arranged, and pivotally supported so that one molding mold 10 to which food (b) is supplied and one salt-scattering table 9 to which the salt (a) is scattered may vertically agree with each other.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automated salt coating apparatus for applying an appropriate amount of salt to the lower surface of a rice ball at the same time as, for example, automatically forming a rice ball by a machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art It is well known to apply an appropriate amount of salt when holding a diaper because the taste of cooked rice increases.

[0003]

However, it is difficult to apply a constant amount and a uniform application by manually applying salt to the rice body.
In particular, in manufacturing equipment such as diapers, since the manufacturing speed is fast, not only quantitative, uniform coating is difficult,
In the manufacturing device, in order to put ingredients on the upper surface of the rice body,
Salt cannot be applied to the upper surface of the rice body, and salt application must be performed after the diaper production, which leads to a problem that the operation is complicated, time-consuming, and reduces production efficiency.

[0004]

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and is configured so that a salt is applied to the lower surface of a rice body in advance and the salt is formed into a predetermined shape and hardness. Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an automated diaper and other food salt coating apparatus capable of efficiently forming diapers and the like coated with salt.

[0005]

[Function] When the start button is turned on, the motor starts,
The stirring blades in the salt storage chamber of the salt spraying mechanism rotate, and the salt is loosened by stirring and uniformly spread on the upper surface of one salt spraying table of the lower first turntable. When a predetermined amount of salt is sprayed on the upper surface of the salt spraying table, the first turntable intermittently rotates by a predetermined angle, coincides with one mold of the second turntable, and stops at the lower portion.

On the other hand, a rice body or the like placed on the food transport mechanism is transported in a predetermined direction by rotation of the mechanism, and
Above the food transport mechanism, it is disposed substantially perpendicular to the mechanism and abuts a stop bar to stop.

[0007] Next, the food supply mechanism moves forward, and the rice body is moved from the above-mentioned transport mechanism to the above-mentioned one mold of the second turntable by the food moving plate at the tip of the extrusion bar. The rice body is supplied by dropping into the mold, and then the press head is lowered to compress the rice body into a predetermined shape and hardness in the mold. At this time, the salt sprayed on the upper surface of the salt sprayer is uniformly applied to the lower surface of the rice body. In addition, the salt spraying table, during the rice body compression molding,
Functions as a lower mold.

Next, the first and second turntables are rotated by a predetermined angle in a predetermined direction and stopped, and the other one of the salt-spreading bases on which the salt is sprayed on the upper surface as described above, and another salt-spraying base. 1
The molds coincide with each other, and the rice body on the transport mechanism is moved and supplied between the molding dies by the food supply mechanism, and compressed by the press head. The rice body that has been compression molded earlier is transferred to the lower part of the ingredient supply mechanism in the next process while being held in the mold,
Ingredients are supplied on the upper surface, and diapers are manufactured.

Next, the second turntable is rotated and stopped, and the lower die rises to release the rice balls upward. By repeating the above operation, the diaper with salt is automatically manufactured intermittently.

[0010]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of a food salt coating apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG.
Shows a partially cutaway front view of an embodiment of the salt coating device, FIG. 2 shows a partially cutaway plan view of the above device,
FIG. 3 is an enlarged vertical sectional view of a salt spraying mechanism in the same device.

As shown in FIG. 1, two rotating shafts 2 and 3 are provided on a horizontal surface of a substrate 1 at regular intervals on bearings 4 and 3.
The first turntable 6 having a small diameter is provided at the upper end of one rotating shaft 2, and the second turntable 7 having a large diameter is provided at the upper end of the other rotating shaft 3. It is fixed to.

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the first turntable 6 has a plurality of holes 8 for inserting a salt spraying table in the shape of a diaper or the like to be formed, for example, a triangle or a circle.
Are formed to penetrate vertically in the same circumferential line and at a constant interval in the circumferential direction. Each of these holes 8, 8 ...
As shown in FIG. 1, the upper part is formed in the large hole 8a, and the lower part is formed in the small hole 8b, so that an upward step 8c is provided between the large and small holes 8a and 8b. The salt spreader 9 provided with the flat plate portion 9b at the upper end of the portion 9a does not fall down, and the upper surface of the flat plate portion 9b is flush with or slightly lower than the upper surface of the first turntable 6. It is inserted and held so that it can move up and down.

On the second turntable 7, a plurality of molds 10, 10... Are formed to penetrate in the vertical direction on the same circumferential line and at regular intervals in the circumferential direction. Each of the molding dies 10, 10,... Is formed in the same shape as each of the salt spraying bases 9 of the first turntable 6 and the insertion holes 8 thereof. Molding tool 1 that matches the position of the unillustrated component supply mechanism and the unillustrated molded diaper, etc.
A lower mold (not shown) is arranged in a lower part of the “0”.

At least one of the first turntables 6
The second and first turntables 7 and 6 are vertically supported so that the salt spreader 9 and at least one molding die 10 of the second turntable 7 coincide with each other in the vertical direction. In addition, as shown in FIG. 1, a molding press head 11 is arranged on the upper part of one molding die 10 corresponding to one salt spraying table 9 so as to be able to move up and down.

As shown in FIG. 1, a salt spraying mechanism 12 is disposed above another salt spraying table 9 on the first turntable 6. As shown in FIG. 3, the salt dispersing mechanism 12 includes a substantially cylindrical main body 12a and a main body 1a.
Hopper 12b for charging salt a fitted and fixed to the upper part of 2a
A rotating shaft 12f rotatably supported at the center of the salt storage chamber 12e inside the main body 12a via a bearing 12d on a cover plate 12c of the main body 12a, and interlocked with the rotating shaft 12f via a gear transmission mechanism 12g. A motor 12h connected thereto, a stirring blade 12i fixed to a lower portion of the rotating shaft 12f, a rotating body 12j fixed to a lower axis of the rotating shaft 12f, and a main body 12
a salt spraying amount adjusting body 12n fitted into a through hole 12l formed at the center of the bottom wall 12k of a, and fixed to the main body 12a with a screw 12m, and a shaft vertically extending downward from the center of the lower end of the rotating body 12j. The main column 12 is composed of a salt scattering blade 12q fixed to 12o with a screw 12p, and a salt scattering prevention tube 12r fixed to the lower end of the main body 12a and vertically suspended downward. 17 supported.

The stirring blade 12i is formed in a substantially rectangular shape, and disperses the salt a by rotating along the tapered surface 12s below the salt storage chamber 12e. The rotating body 12
j is formed in a substantially frusto-conical shape, and a plurality of concave grooves 12t are vertically provided on the peripheral surface thereof at regular intervals in the circumferential direction from the upper end to the vicinity of the lower end.

At the center of the salt spray amount adjusting body 12n, a salt spray hole 12u is formed to penetrate vertically.
The salt spray hole 12u is formed in a substantially drum shape having a small diameter at a substantially middle portion in the vertical direction and a gradually increasing diameter at an upper end portion and a lower end portion. The grooves 12v are vertically arranged at regular intervals in the circumferential direction, and the rotating body 12j is rotatably fitted in the lower half of the salt spray hole 12u, so that the salt is formed. The salt a in the storage chamber 12e falls downward through the concave grooves 12t, 12v,.

The salt agitating blades 12q are formed by projecting a plurality of salt agitating blades 12w in the radial direction at regular intervals in the circumferential direction. Of salt a falling from
The salt a is evenly sprayed on the upper surface of.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the transport mechanism 13 for the rice b and the like is located between the second turntable 7 and the salt spraying mechanism 12, and is in the front-rear direction (vertical direction in FIG. 2). And is arranged at the same height as or slightly higher than the second turntable 7.

In the illustrated example, the transport mechanism 13 includes an endless conveyor belt 13 with a driving roller 13a and a driven roller 13b.
Although a belt conveyor wound with c is shown, the invention is not limited to this, and a not-shown intermittently rotating turntable or other known mechanism can be used. The illustrated belt conveyor has a drive roller shaft 1 as shown in FIG.
3a and the drive shaft 14a of the motor 14
, It is rotated backward as shown by the arrow c in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 2, the rice body b is located above the rear portion of the transport mechanism 13, that is, at a position corresponding to the molding die 10 corresponding to the salt spraying table 9 of the second turntable 7 described above.
The stop bar 16 is disposed substantially at right angles to the transport mechanism 13.

Further, on the left side of the above-mentioned stopping bar 16 in FIGS. 1 and 2, the rice body b or the like stopped in contact with the stopping bar 16 on the transport mechanism 13 is placed on one side of the second turntable 7. Supply mechanism 1 which presses and moves to the upper part of the molds 10
8 is arranged. The supply mechanism 18 is configured as follows. A guide rail 21 is long laid in the left-right direction on an upper surface of an auxiliary base 20 fixed horizontally by supporting columns 19 erected on the upper surface of the substrate 1, and is engaged with the guide rail 21 slidably in the left-right direction. Rice body b from 18a to the right
An extruding bar 18b is horizontally protruded, and a moving body 18c such as a rice body b is fixedly formed at the tip.

In the illustrated example, the sliding body 18a of the supply mechanism 18 is formed to reciprocate in the left-right direction by being interlocked with a motor shaft (not shown) via a link mechanism 22, as shown in FIG. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a crank mechanism (not shown) or the like may be used.

When the supply mechanism 18 is used, the rotation of a motor (not shown) causes the sliding body 18a to advance (to the right in FIGS. 1 and 2) with the pushing bar 18 via the link mechanism 22 to move the moving plate 18c. Pushes the rice body b stopped on the transport mechanism 13 rightward from the side, and moves to the upper part of one molding die 10 of the second turntable as shown by a two-dot chain line in FIG. The rice body b is formed by the above-mentioned mold 1 by its own weight.
It is supplied after falling to zero.

[0025]

The present invention is constructed as described above. Conventionally, it takes time and effort to apply salt to rice or the like, but it is easy and uniform by applying automation. In addition, it can be performed efficiently, and the salt is applied to the lower surface of the rice body or the like, so that, for example, even when manufacturing ingredients by placing the ingredients on the upper surface of the rice body, salt is not attached to the ingredients and umami, It is possible to produce an ideal rice ball in terms of texture.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing a partially sectioned embodiment of a food salt application apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing the same device.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged vertical sectional view showing a salt spraying mechanism in the same device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 6 First turntable 7 Second turntable 9 Salt spraying base 10 Mold 12 Salt spraying mechanism 13 Food transport mechanism 18 Food supply mechanism a Salt b Food (such as rice)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A first turntable, which is provided with a required number of salt spreaders at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction and is rotatable and rotates intermittently, and a plurality of moldings at fixed intervals in a circumferential direction. A second turntable provided with a mold and intermittently rotating;
A salt spraying mechanism for spraying the salt on the upper surface of one salt spraying table of the first turntable while stirring the salt, a food transporting mechanism for intermittently transporting the food to a predetermined position, and the second turning of the food from the transporting mechanism; A food supply mechanism for moving and supplying to one molding die of the table, wherein one molding die to which the food is supplied and one salt spraying base on which the salt is sprayed coincide with each other in the vertical direction. A salt coating apparatus for foods, wherein the second turntable and the first turntable are pivotally supported vertically.