JP2001259402A - Stirring device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a stirring device having a small space occupancy and capable of easily performing the sanitary control of the surface of the main body casing and a stirring part and facilitating the switching of a heating medium line for keeping the temperature of a stirring vessel constant. SOLUTION: A projecting part 4 projecting forward to be biased to one lateral side is provided above the long box type main body casing 2 and a stirring tool 8 is arranged on the back surface thereof and a stirring vessel 10 having a heating medium water jacket is supported freely movable up and down and obliquely. An opening 5 is provided to be biased to another lateral side of the front surface of the main body casing 2 and a door 6 is attached to be freely opened and closed. A required stirring part is housed and a pipe line for supplying heating medium water to a heating medium water jacket of the stirring vessel 10 is applied inside the main body casing 2 and a stop valve group for switching the heating medium water is arranged inside the opening 5. The valves are operated by opening the door 6 and the heating medium water having a required temperature is supplied to the heating medium water jacket through a flexible tube.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to pharmaceuticals, cosmetics,
The present invention relates to a stirring device capable of stirring food and other various materials while controlling the temperature.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional stirring device, a main body case is formed in an L-shape by a horizontal case portion with wheels and a vertical case portion rising from one end of the horizontal case portion. Housing heavy components such as circulating pumps, vacuum pumps, pipes, etc., the control equipment in the vertical case, and the stirrer and its drive mechanism on a pole set up in the center of the horizontal case Are known. Also,
There is also known a type in which the vertical case portion and the pole are erected on one trolley, and components such as a heating medium tank and a vacuum pump are mounted on another trolley.

In the case of the type having the L-shaped main body case or the type using two trolleys, a large floor area is occupied by the horizontal case portion and the trolley. And the surfaces of components such as the stirrer drive mechanism and the pole are easily contaminated with dust and the like. Since the surfaces of these parts are formed with complicated curved surfaces, there is an inconvenience that cleaning is difficult when handling products that are difficult to clean and require special attention for hygiene.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, the floor area occupied by the stirring device can be reduced, the main body case of the stirring device is mainly made flat, and the portion of the constituent members that is exposed to the outside is reduced so that the cleaning is performed. It is another object of the present invention to provide a stirrer that facilitates the operation of a valve that switches a hot water or a cold water passage as a heating medium circulated in order to control the temperature of a material to a desired value during stirring.

[0005]

Means for solving the above problems are as described in each claim. The means of claim 1 is provided on one upper portion of a front surface of a vertically long box-shaped main body case. A projecting portion is provided which is biased to the side and protrudes forward from the main body case, and a drive shaft is protruded downward from the lower surface of the protruding portion to connect a stirrer, and a main body case is provided between the stirrer and the front surface. A support member extending from the base is provided so as to be able to move up and down to support a stirring vessel having a heating medium water jacket, and a heating medium water tank, a heating medium water circulation pump, a heating medium water pipe having an on-off valve group, and a vacuum pump inside the main body case. Electrical control equipment and other parts are installed, and the heat medium water pipe is connected to a heat medium water jacket of a stirring vessel by a flexible tube.

According to this means, since components other than the stirrer and the stirrer are installed in the vertically long box-shaped main body case, the floor area is small, and the surface area to which dust and the like adhere is small, so that sanitation is possible. It is easy to manage.

A second aspect of the present invention is that, in the first aspect, an opening and a door for opening and closing the opening are provided on a front surface deflected to the other side of the main body case, and an on-off valve group provided on the heat medium water pipe. Are arranged inside the opening facing the opening. According to this means, all the handles of the on-off valve group for switching the circuit of the heating medium water pipe can be operated by opening the door on the front part of the main body case, so that the switching can be easily and quickly performed.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a front side of a stirring device 1, and reference numeral 2 denotes a main body case having wheels 2a. Three
Is a transmission case on the upper part of the main body case 2 and has an opening / closing lid 3a for maintenance, and includes therein two motors and a power transmission device described later. The front part of the transmission case 3 is provided with a protruding part 4 that protrudes forward on one side, that is, on the left side toward the left, and an opening 5 is opened on the front right side of the main body case 2. A door 6 for opening and closing the opening is pivotally mounted on a support shaft 6a. The illustrated door 6 is of a type in which two plate bodies are bent forward at the pivotal attachment portion 6b, and the ends move to the support shaft 6a side to open. Can be adopted.

A bearing case 7 is fixed to the lower surface of the protruding portion 4, and a well-known multiple shaft is supported on the bearing case 7 as a drive shaft of the stirrer, and a stirrer 8 is connected to the shaft. The multi-axis has a turbine shaft that rotates at high speed at the center, a fixed paddle shaft that is hollow and does not rotate, and a rotary paddle shaft that is hollow and rotates at low speed at the outermost portion. , A stator 8a surrounding the turbine and a fixed paddle 8b extending radially outward above the fixed paddle shaft are connected to the fixed paddle shaft, and the rotating paddle shaft is connected radially inward to the rotating paddle shaft. A rotary paddle 8c that extends and cooperates with a fixed paddle 8b is connected to a scraper 8d that extends radially outward. In addition, as a drive shaft and the stirring tool 8,
Other types can be adopted without being limited to those described above.

A lid 9 is fixed to the lower end of the bearing case 7, and its opening is closed by the lid 9 when the stirring vessel 10 is lifted. The lid 9 has a plurality of screw holes. A joint or a valve is provided to connect the inside of the stirring vessel 10 to a vacuum pump or to connect the raw material vessel 9a.

The stirring vessel 10 is attached to a support member 13 via a band 11 and a roll lever mechanism 12 so that the opening can be inclined and fixed. The support member 13 is fixed to an arm (not shown) passing through a slit 14 opened in the main body case 2 in the up-down direction. This arm is connected to a cylinder 15 provided in the main body case 2. It can be moved up and down. Reference numeral 16 denotes a touch panel for operation, and reference numeral 10a denotes a leg of the stirring container 10. The stirring speed, stirring temperature, stirring time, and the like of the stirring device 1 are set by switches provided on the touch panel 16.

As shown in FIG. 2, the stirring vessel 10 comprises a heating medium water jacket 17 having a double wall as a vessel wall, an inlet 18 and an outlet 19 provided, and a heating medium water tank 20 or a public water pipe. Is supplied from the pipe provided with the on-off valve group 21 to the heating medium water jacket 17 through the inlet 18 through the flexible tube (not shown), and is returned or discharged from the outlet 19 to mix the material to be stirred. Control the temperature.

FIG. 3 diagrammatically shows a circuit of the heat transfer water introduced into the heat transfer water jacket 17, wherein 2 b is a gantry provided in the main case 2, and 5 is the opening of the main case 2. , A heater 20a for controlling the water temperature on the gantry 2b
Water tank 20, pumps, on-off valve group 21, provided with
Manifold block 21 for attaching parts such as pipes and branching or connecting pipes facing opening 5
and a water separator 3 described later.
7 are arranged, and each of the components is incorporated mainly from the back cover side. Reference numeral 21c denotes a water pressure gauge that detects the pressure of the hot soot introduced into the heat medium water jacket 17.

Of the pipes shown, the city water inlet pipe 22 is connected to a public water pipe, and the water passing through the city water return pipe 23 is drained to a reservoir or drain. The hot water inlet pipe 24 is connected downstream of the heat medium water tank 20 and the circulation pump 26, and the hot water return pipe 25 communicates with the upper space of the heat medium water tank 20.

Each of the pipes is provided with a city water inlet valve 22a, a city water return valve 23a, a hot water inlet valve 24a, and a hot water return valve 25a as an on-off valve group 21, and is provided with the city water inlet valve 22a and the hot water inlet valve 24a. Each outlet is connected by a pipe 27 and a normally open valve 28
And the inlets of the city water return valve 23a and the hot water return valve 25a are connected by a pipe 30 and connected to an outflow flexible tube 31 and a normally closed valve 32, respectively. The valve closing valve 32 is connected to the city water inlet pipe 22 by a heating medium water tank water supply pipe 33. A drain valve 34 and an overflow pipe 35 are connected to the heating medium water tank 20, and a heater 20a is installed inside. FIG. 4 shows the arrangement of the components in a three-dimensional manner.

3 and 4, reference numeral 36 denotes a vacuum pump,
7 is a water separator with water in the lower half, 38 is a vacuum valve, 39
Is an outside air valve, and 40 is a vacuum flexible tube. When vacuum stirring the material in the stirring vessel, the vacuum valve 38 is opened, the outside air valve 39 is closed, the vacuum pump 36 is operated, and the air in the discharged air is discharged. The water or the mixture is absorbed by water in the water separator 37 and separated. It is desirable that the vacuum valve 38 and the outside air valve 39 be directly attached to the lid 9 of the stirring vessel 10.

FIG. 5 shows the inside of the opening 5 with the door 6 opened. A city water inlet valve 22a, a hot water inlet valve 24a, a city water return valve 23a, and a hot water return valve 25a are arranged on the right side from below. A normally open valve 28 and a normally closed valve 32 are arranged on the left side from below. In the figure, reference numeral 41 denotes a recorder, and reference numeral 42 denotes a liquid level gauge of the heating medium tank.

FIGS. 6 and 7 show the arrangement of each component in the main body case 2. A heating medium water tank 20 and a control unit 43 are installed behind the cylinder 15, and the on-off valve group 21 and the water Behind the separator 37, a hot water circulation pump 26 and a vacuum pump 36 are provided at a lower portion, and a recorder 41 is provided at an upper portion.
Also, what is indicated by phantom lines in FIG. 6 are the installation positions of the turbine drive motor 44 and the paddle drive motor 45. These motors 44 and 45 are installed in the upper transmission case 3 and are conventionally well known in a stirring device. The drive shaft is rotated via the power transmission mechanism described above to drive the turbine and the rotary paddle of the stirrer 8.

When the material in the stirring vessel 10 is stirred at a low temperature, the city water inlet valve 22a, the city water return valve 23a and the normally open valve 2a
8 is opened, the other valves are closed, and the city water supplied from the tap water flows through the heating medium water jacket 17 of the stirring vessel 10. When the material is stirred at a high temperature, first, the normally closed valve 32 and the hot water return valve 25a are opened, and city water is supplied from the city water inlet pipe 22 to the heat medium water tank water supply pipe 33 and the hot water return pipe 25, and then to the heat medium water tank. Water is supplied into the tank 20, and the heater 20a is operated to heat the water to a set temperature to control the temperature of the hot water in the tank 20. Then, the hot water inlet valve 24a, the normally open valve 28, and the hot water return valve 25a are opened, the other valves are closed, and the circulating pump 26 is operated to transfer the hot water in the heat medium water tank 20 to the heat medium water jacket 1.
Circulate to 7. The opening and closing operations of these valves can be easily and quickly performed by opening the door 6 because the handles of all the valves are arranged in the opening 5.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention, a projecting portion is provided on one side of an upper portion of a main body case, and a stirrer and a stirrer are disposed at a lower portion thereof. Since the components are installed in a vertically long box-shaped main body case, the floor area is small and the surface area of the main body case and the exposed area of the parts are small, so that cleaning is easy and sanitary management can be easily performed. Having. Further, when the door on the front part of the main body case is opened, all the handles of the on-off valve group for switching the circuit of the heating medium water pipe can be operated, so that the switching can be easily and quickly performed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is also a side view

FIG. 3 is a circuit diagram of a heating medium water pipe.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a heating medium water pipe.

FIG. 5 is a partially enlarged front view of the main body case.

FIG. 6 is a plan perspective view of a main body case.

FIG. 7 is a side perspective view of the same.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Stirrer 2 Main body case 3 Transmission case 4 Projection part 5 Opening 6 Door 7 Bearing case 8 Stirrer 9 Lid 10 Stirring container 13 Supporting member 17 Heat medium water jacket 20 Heat medium water tank 21 Opening / closing valve group 21a, 21b Manifold block

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing from the front page (72) Inventor Takashi Nishida 8-16-43 Ebie, Fukushima-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture (72) Inventor Kazuhiko Iida 8- Eie, Fukushima-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 16-43 Tokuseki Kika Kogyo Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Masaaki Furuya 8-16-43 Tokusetsu Kika Kogyo Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Kayo Kayo Fukushima, Osaka, Osaka 8-16-43, Ebi-ku, Tokyo F-Kita Kogyo Co., Ltd. F-term (reference) 4G037 CA03 CA18 DA25 DA30 4G078 AA15 AB09 AB20 BA05 CA01 CA12 CA19 DA01 DA21 DB10 EA03 EA10

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A vertically long box-shaped main body case,
Protruding parts are provided that protrude forward from the main body case biased to one side, and a stirrer is connected by projecting the drive shaft downward from the lower surface of this protruding part, and between the stirrer and the front surface, A support member extending from the main body case is provided so as to be able to move up and down to support a stirring vessel having a heat medium water jacket, and inside the main body case, a heat medium water tank, a heat medium water circulation pump, a heat medium water pipe including an on-off valve group, A stirrer, wherein a vacuum pump, an electric control device, and other parts are installed, and the heat medium water pipe is connected to a heat medium water jacket of a stirring vessel by a flexible tube. 2. An opening and a door for opening and closing the opening on the front surface deflected to the other side of the main body case, wherein a handle of an on-off valve group provided on the heat medium water pipe is connected to the opening. A stirrer characterized by being arranged inside the opening so as to face.