JP2000333589A - Noodle-making machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a noodle-making machine enabling noodles to be mass-produced in a short time. SOLUTION: In this noodle-making machine 10, a cylinder 90 is attached to holding metal fittings in a state that dough for noodles is housed in the cylinder 90 and then a driving motor 34 makes a piston 80 press the dough for noodles in the cylinder 90 so as to extrude it from through holes 98 formed in the bottom wall 92 of the cylinder 90. Thus the machine 10 can produce noodles by only two operations basically composed of an operation accepting the noodle dough in the cylinder 90 and an operation pushing the driving switch 42 of the motor 34, and can improve working efficiency.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a noodle making machine for making noodle dough made by adding water to buckwheat flour or wheat flour.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A noodle making machine of the type disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. Hei 7-23726 is a noodle making machine for making noodles, for example, buckwheat dough made by adding water to buckwheat flour and kneading the mass. There is a noodle machine.

[0003] This noodle making machine is provided with a cylinder having a plurality of small-diameter extruding ports formed at the bottom. When the buckwheat dough is accommodated in the cylinder and the buckwheat dough is pressed by a piston, the buckwheat dough is removed from the cylinder. It is pushed out from the extrusion opening. The buckwheat dough extruded from the cylinder becomes a string-shaped noodle body having an outer diameter corresponding to the inner diameter of the extrusion opening, and is made. Further, a boiling container such as a pan is arranged below the cylinder, and buckwheat noodles (noodle bodies) pushed out from the cylinder bottom and dropped are accommodated in the boiling container. The interior of the boiling container is filled with boiling water previously heated to a temperature suitable for boiling the buckwheat noodles, and the buckwheat noodles pushed out from the bottom of the cylinder and dropped are boiled in the boiling container.

[0004] In the above-mentioned noodle making machine, since the noodle body can be manufactured basically by pressing and sliding the piston in the cylinder, there is an advantage that a complicated buckwheat cutting operation is not required.

[0005]

However, the noodle making machine disclosed in the above publication has a configuration in which a piston is moved by manually operating a lever. However, there is still room for improvement in terms of workability.

An object of the present invention is to provide a noodle making machine capable of making a large amount of noodles in a short time in consideration of the above fact.

[0007]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a noodle making machine, wherein a plurality of through-holes are formed in a bottom portion, and a bottomed cylindrical cylinder for accommodating dough for noodle making therein. By inserting and pressing, the noodle dough in the cylinder is extruded from a plurality of through holes to form a string-like noodle body, and one end rotates in a predetermined direction around a predetermined rotation center by a driving force of a motor. , The other end of which is rotatably connected to the piston on the side opposite to the bottom of the cylinder and has an arm that reciprocates with the piston, and converts the torque of the motor into reciprocating motion by the arm to reciprocate the piston in the vertical direction. Drive means for moving, a switch means for detecting that the arm has rotated to a rotation position corresponding to a state where the piston has reached the set position where the piston has detached from the cylinder, and a switch means for stopping the drive means; Holding means for movably holding,
It has.

According to the above-described noodle making machine, when the cylinder containing the dough for noodle making is set at the predetermined position of the holding means and the driving means is operated, one end of the arm is rotated around the predetermined rotation center. To move the piston having the other end of the arm at the set position downward (i.e., the arm together with the piston constitutes a so-called crank-piston mechanism). As a result, the piston is fitted into the cylinder, and the noodle dough stored in the cylinder is pressed toward the bottom of the cylinder by the piston. The noodle-making dough that has received the pressing force of the piston is extruded from a plurality of through-holes formed at the bottom of the cylinder, and falls as a plurality of string-shaped noodle bodies.

Here, the above-mentioned arm is mechanically
The sliding speed of the other end of the arm increases from one end to the middle part between the top dead center and the top dead center and the bottom dead center, and decelerates from the middle part to the bottom dead center. By this, the piston is quickly moved until the piston comes into contact with the noodle-making dough accommodated in the cylinder without using special shifting means, and pressing of the noodle-making dough is started. The dough for noodle making is slowly pressed. For this reason, quick and good noodle making becomes possible.

Next, the piston that has moved (forwarded) to the bottom of the cylinder starts to return and separates from the bottom of the cylinder. Then, the piston comes out of the upper end opening of the cylinder and returns to the set position. When the switch detects the rotation of one end of the arm so far, the switch stops the motor and stops the piston at the set position. In this state, the noodle making dough is stored in the cylinder in a standby state.

As described above, by stopping the motor when the piston reaches the set position, the piston is not inserted into the empty cylinder continuously after one noodle-making process is completed. This eliminates the need for visual monitoring of the piston, and without losing the opportunity to load new noodle-making dough into the cylinder or replace it with another cylinder containing the noodle-making dough without special attention. Therefore, the working efficiency in the noodle making operation is improved. In addition, while one noodle-making process is being performed, the worker can engage in other work and the like, and thus the work efficiency is improved in this sense.

Further, as described above, since the holding means is configured to hold the cylinder so as to be movable in the horizontal direction (that is, the direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the cylinder and the piston), the dough for noodle-making is transferred to the cylinder. When the cylinder is removed from the holding means, for example, when housed in the cylinder, the cylinder moves in the horizontal direction. Therefore, the cylinder can be removed as long as the piston comes out of the cylinder.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the noodle making machine according to the first aspect, the bottom of the cylinder is detachable.

According to the noodle making machine having the above structure, since the bottom of the cylinder is detachable, for example, the size and shape of the through-hole formed in the bottom are changed for each bottom, and the hardness of the dough for noodles is reduced. By appropriately replacing the bottom according to the material or the like, it is possible to produce noodles having a desired thickness.

[0015]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a noodle making machine 10 according to one embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the noodle making machine 10 includes a flat base 12, on which a container 18 for accommodating a noodle body 100 dropped from a cylinder 90 described later is placed.

At the rear end (the right end in FIG. 1) of the base 12, a column 20 is erected, and at the upper end of the column 20, a driving unit 30 as driving means is arranged. . The drive unit 30 includes a box-shaped cover 32, and a motor 34 provided with a speed reducer including gears 46 and 60 described later is provided inside the drive unit 30. As shown in FIG. 2, the motor 34 is supported by a vertical wall portion 40 of a support plate 38 fixed inside the cover 32 in a state where the rotation shaft 36 is on the front side of the apparatus (the left side in FIG. 2). It is electrically connected to a start switch 42 and a stop switch 43 provided on the cover 32 via connection means (not shown) such as a cord. These start switch 42 and stop switch 43
Is electrically connected to a connector 44 provided on the back surface of the support column 20 via another connecting means (not shown). When the connector 44 is connected to an external power outlet or the like, power is supplied to the motor 34. It becomes possible.

The rotating shaft 36 of the motor 34 is
8, and protrudes toward the front of the device through the vertical wall portion 40,
A gear 46 is fitted to the tip.

On the other hand, a bearing 48 is provided above the motor 34, and one end of the bearing 48 penetrates the vertical wall 40 of the support plate 38.
It is screwed to. A shaft 56 is rotatably supported inside the bearing 48. This shaft 56
A flange 58 is screwed to the rear end of the device.
The shaft 56 is prevented from falling out of the bearing 48. The shaft 56 protrudes toward the front side of the device with respect to the vertical wall portion 40, and a gear 60 having a diameter sufficiently larger than that of the gear 46 is fitted to a tip end of the shaft 56.

The gear 60 meshes with the gear 46 described above, and when the motor 34 is activated and the rotating shaft 36 rotates,
The gear 60 rotates via the gear 46. In the present embodiment, the motor 34 is rotated so that the gear 60 rotates twice per minute.
Is set, and the gear ratio between the gear 60 and the gear 46 is set, but the gear ratio and the rotation speed of the motor 34 are not limited thereto. Further, in the present embodiment, the reduction gear is constituted by the gear 46 and the gear 60 as described above, but the reduction gear is not limited to the constitution using the gear, but may be constituted by a sprocket and a chain. Such a reduction gear is not an essential requirement of the present invention. For example, if the torque of the motor 34 is sufficiently large, the gear 60
The rotary shaft 36 and the motor 34 may be directly connected.

A shaft 62 is provided on an end face of the gear 60 on the front side of the apparatus. The shaft 62 is the shaft 5
6 is screwed to the gear 60 in a state of being eccentric to the outside in the radial direction. Therefore, when the gear 60 starts rotating, the shaft 62 rotates around the axis of the gear 60. Further, one end of an arm 66 is rotatably supported on the shaft 62 via a bush 64.

Also, as shown in FIG.
The bottom wall 114 has a cylindrical piston support 78 whose axial direction is the vertical direction, and is fixed so as to penetrate the bottom wall 114. Inside the piston support 78,
A piston 80 is slidably accommodated in the up-down direction. The piston 80 has a bottomed cylindrical shape with an open upper end. As shown in FIG. 2, a shaft support 82 is fitted near the inner bottom of the piston 80, and a shaft 84 is
Is supported.

The other end of the above-described arm 66 is supported by the shaft 84 so as to constitute a so-called piston-crank mechanism in which the piston 80 reciprocates in the vertical direction when the gear 60 rotates.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a cylinder 90 is provided below the piston 80. The cylinder 90 has a bottomed cylindrical shape with an open upper end, and is arranged coaxially with the piston 80 below the piston 80 and below the cover 32. The piston 80 descends and fits into the cylinder 90. It is supposed to. Also,
As shown in FIG. 2, the bottom of the cylinder 90 is provided with a bottom plate 9.
2 is detachably fitted.

The bottom plate 92 has a plurality of through holes 98 penetrating in the thickness direction. These through holes 98
Is a circular, elliptical, rectangular, square, etc.
The shape corresponding to the outer shape of the noodle body 100 (see FIG. 7) to be manufactured is set to 0. An annular engagement groove 102 as a holding means is formed on an outer peripheral portion of the cylinder 90,
The cylinder 90 is engaged with the engaging groove 102 at the portion of the engaging groove 102.
Also, it is fitted into a holding fitting 104 constituting a holding means.

The holding fitting 104 is a flat plate having a U-shaped opening 106 which engages with the engaging groove 102 of the cylinder 90.
Holding the cylinder 90 coaxially with the piston 80;
The cylinder 90 can be held so as to be able to be freely inserted and removed from the front side of the apparatus. The holding fitting 104 is suspended from a bottom wall 114 of the support plate 38 by a bolt 112 via a sleeve 118.

On the other hand, as shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, an engagement plate 132 as a switch means is eccentrically fixed to the end face of the gear 60 on the rear side of the device, eccentrically from the axis of the gear 60. On the rear side of the gear 60, a microswitch 134 is provided which constitutes a switch together with the engagement plate 132. This microswitch 134
Is a main body 136 supported by the vertical wall portion 40 of the support plate 38.
And a cam 138 projecting from the main body 136 and penetrating the vertical wall portion 40.

The cam 138 is always urged toward the gear 60 by urging means (not shown) such as a compression coil spring, and is always in contact with the end face of the gear 60. When the gear 60 rotates in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 3 and the connecting portion between the arm 66 and the gear 60 moves to the uppermost set position, the cam 138 engages against the urging force of the urging means. I get on the combined plate 132.

On the other hand, inside the main body 136 that houses the base end side of the cam 138, there are provided fixed contacts and movable contacts (both not shown) that move toward and away from the fixed contacts as the cam 138 moves. And the cam 138 is engaged with the engagement plate 1
When the movable contact moves to 32, the movable contact moves to the fixed contact and contacts the fixed contact to conduct. The fixed contact of the main body 136 is electrically connected to the stop switch 43 by connecting means (not shown). When the fixed contact of the main body 136 comes into contact with the moving contact and becomes conductive, the stop switch 43 is operated to forcibly drive the motor 34. To stop.

Next, the operation and effect of this embodiment will be described.

First, in a state where the piston 80 comes out of the cylinder 90, that is, in a state where the piston 80 is located at the set position, the cylinder 90 is pulled out horizontally from the holding metal fitting 104 toward the opening side thereof and removed.
The dough 150 for noodle making is accommodated in the inside. The noodle-making dough 150 referred to here is, for example, a semi-solid mass kneaded by adding water and, if necessary, flour as a binder to buckwheat flour. It has the strength of In addition, as the dough 150 for noodle making,
The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned buckwheat-based products, and may be other cereal flours such as so-called udon, spaghetti, ramen or the like mainly made of flour.

Here, in the present noodle making machine 10, as described above, by removing the cylinder 90 from the holding fitting 104, the noodle making dough 150 is stored in the cylinder 90 such as the piston 80 and the cover 32. Since the obstacle that can be an obstacle can be removed, the dough 150 for noodle-making can be easily accommodated in the cylinder 90, and the workability can be improved.

After accommodating the dough 150 for noodle making in the cylinder 90, the cylinder 90 is held by the holding fitting 104 coaxially with the piston 80. In this state, when the start switch 42 is pressed to operate the motor 34, the rotating shaft 36
At the same time, the gear 46 rotates. When the gear 46 starts rotating, the gear 60 starts rotating in the direction of arrow B in FIG. As a result, the upper end of the arm 66 at the set position rotates about the axis of the gear 60 and moves gradually downward.
As a result, the piston 80 constituting the piston-crank mechanism together with the arm 66 moves downward,
Fit inside.

As shown in FIG. 7, the dough 150 for noodle making in the cylinder 90 is pressed against the bottom plate 92 of the cylinder 90 by the descending piston 80 and is pushed out from the through hole 98. The noodle-making dough 150 that has passed through the through-hole 98 becomes a string-shaped noodle body 100 whose cross-sectional shape corresponds to the cross-sectional shape of the through-hole 98. In this state, the gear 60 is further rotated so that the upper end of the arm 66 is located at the lowermost position, and the piston 80 comes into contact with the bottom plate 92 of the cylinder 90 or moves to a pushing position in the vicinity thereof. Almost all of the stored noodle-making dough 150 is extruded from each of the through holes 98 to become the noodle body 100, and falls into the container 18 below.
Housed within.

Here, while one end of the arm 66 rotates from the top dead center to the intermediate portion between the top dead center and the bottom dead center, the piston 80 connected to the other end of the arm 66 immediately descends. Then, the piston 80 slowly descends from the middle portion to the bottom dead center. That is, the piston 80 is
The noodle-making dough 150 descends immediately until it comes into contact with the noodle-making dough 150, but slowly descends from the point at which the piston 80 starts pressing the noodle-making dough 150. When the piston 80 presses the noodle-making dough 150, the piston 80 naturally receives a pressing reaction force from the noodle-making dough 150.
If 0 rapidly presses the noodle-making dough 150, good noodle-making cannot be performed, and an excessive load is applied to the motor 34.
However, if the reciprocating movement of the piston 80 takes too much time, the working efficiency of the noodle-making process deteriorates.

On the other hand, in the present noodle-making machine 10, as described above, the piston 80 is quickly moved until the motor 34 is not overloaded until the piston 80 comes into contact with the noodle-making dough 150. Since the piston 80 is moved down and the piston 80 is pressed down on the noodle-making dough 150, the piston 80 is slowly lowered, so that the noodle-making can be performed satisfactorily and quickly without applying an excessive load to the motor 34.

If the stop switch 43 is pressed in this state, the motor 34 is stopped and the movement of the piston 80 is stopped. If the stop switch 43 is not pressed, the gear 60 moves in the same direction as before. Rotate. As a result, the upper end of the arm 66 starts to rise, and rises so that the piston 80 is separated from the bottom plate 92.

When the piston 80 comes out of the cylinder 90 and the arm 66 reaches the set position again, the cam 138 rides on the engagement plate 132 provided on the gear 60, and the moving contact in the main body 136 of the micro switch 134 is moved. Conducts by contacting the fixed contact. As a result, the stop switch 43 is forcibly activated, and the motor 34 is stopped. That is, if the cylinder 90 can be pulled to the front side of the apparatus and moved to the front side of the apparatus beyond the cover 32 without performing any special operation, the motor 34 is automatically stopped and restarted. The motor 34 will not operate unless the switch 42 is pressed.

That is, when the piston 80 is again inserted into the empty cylinder 90 after one noodle-making process, a new noodle-making dough 150 is inserted into the cylinder 90 until the piston 80 comes out of the cylinder 90 again. New noodle making cannot be performed, for example, by throwing in or replacing with another cylinder 90 containing the noodle making dough 150 in advance. If the operator constantly monitors the position of the piston 80, such a problem can be prevented, but in this case, the efficiency is poor because the operator cannot perform another operation. However, in the present noodle making machine 10, as described above, even if no special operation is performed, if the cylinder 90 is pulled to the front side of the apparatus and can be moved to the front side of the apparatus with respect to the cover 32, the automatic operation is performed. The motor 34 stops, and the start switch 4
Unless the motor 2 is pressed, the motor 34 does not operate. Therefore, even if the operator does not monitor the position of the piston 80, the noodle making machine 10 puts a new noodle-making dough 150 into the cylinder 90. There is no chance that the opportunity to replace it with another cylinder 90 containing the dough 150 for noodle-making in advance is lost.

As can be seen from the above description, in the present noodle making machine 10, when manufacturing the noodle body 100, the worker presses the operation for accommodating the noodle making dough 150 in the cylinder 90 and the start switch 42. The noodle body 100 can be manufactured (made in a large amount) easily and in a large amount in a short time only by performing two operations.

Further, the holding fitting 104 constituting the holding means
Is configured to slidably hold the cylinder 90 toward the front side of the apparatus, so that the noodle-making dough 150 can be accommodated without increasing the vertical distance between the piston 80 and the cylinder 90. Can be smaller.

Further, as described above, in the present noodle making machine 10, the bottom plate 92 can be easily removed from the cylinder 90 by applying an external force to the bottom plate 92 from below. Therefore, the thickness, cross-sectional shape, etc. of the noodle body 100 can be freely changed as desired, and it is possible to cope with various types of noodles.

In the present embodiment, the holding member 104 constituting the holding means holds the cylinder 90 so as to be slidable in the front (lateral) direction of the apparatus. However, the holding means holds the cylinder 90 in the horizontal direction. (That is, cylinder 9
Any configuration is possible as long as it is movably held in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the piston 0 and the piston 80). Therefore, the holding means (holding fitting 104) holds the cylinder 90 movably in the left-right direction of the apparatus (that is, the opening direction of the U-shaped holding fitting 104 is set to the left or right of the apparatus). It does not matter. Further, in the present embodiment, the slide of the cylinder 90 with respect to the holding fitting 104 is linear. For example, the holding means may hold the cylinder 90 so as to be pivotable about an axis whose vertical direction is the axial direction.

[0044]

As described above, in the noodle making machine according to the present invention, noodle making can be performed easily and efficiently, and as a result, a large amount of noodles can be made in a short time.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a noodle making machine according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the noodle making machine according to one embodiment of the present invention, showing a state where a piston is at a set position.

FIG. 3 is a front view of the noodle making machine according to one embodiment of the present invention, showing a state in which a piston enters a cylinder.

FIG. 4 is a rear view of the noodle making machine according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a plan view showing a configuration of a switch means.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing a state where a cylinder is removed from a holding unit.

FIG. 7 is a side view showing a state in which a noodle body is manufactured by a pressing force of a piston.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Noodle-making machine 30 Drive part (drive means) 80 Piston 90 Cylinder 92 Bottom plate (bottom part) 98 Through-hole 100 Noodle body 102 Engagement groove (holding means) 104 Holding metal fitting (holding means) 134 Micro switch (switch means) 150 Dough for noodles

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A bottomed cylindrical cylinder having a plurality of through-holes formed in a bottom portion and accommodating dough for noodle making, and a dough for noodle making in the cylinder being fitted and pressed into the cylinder. A piston which is extruded from a plurality of through holes into a string-shaped noodle body, one end of which rotates around a predetermined rotation center in a fixed direction by a driving force of a motor, and the other end of which rotates to the piston on a side opposite to the bottom of the cylinder. A driving means for rotatably connected and having an arm reciprocating with the piston, converting the rotational force of the motor into reciprocating movement by the arm to reciprocate the piston in a vertical direction, and a set position where the piston is disengaged from the cylinder. Switch means for detecting that the arm has rotated to a rotation position corresponding to the state of reaching the position, and stopping the driving means; and holding means for holding the cylinder movably in the horizontal direction. That noodle making machine. 2. The noodle making machine according to claim 1, wherein said bottom portion of said cylinder is detachable.