JP2002053223A - Transfer device for battery to be fried - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transfer device for a batter to be fried capable of successively transferring the batter before frying of the predetermined quantity into a frying frame of a fryer conveyor from a carrying conveyor at a correct timing without damaging the batter. SOLUTION: A slide relay plate 25 which receives the carried batter F, and is evacuated by the sliding action, and drops the received batter F into frying frames B, B, etc., of the fryer conveyor 30, a pusher plate 21 for forcibly urging the batter F, F, etc., on the carrying conveyor 10 onto the slide relay plate 25, and a stopper plate 26 for stopping and positioning the urged batter F on the slide relay plate are provided on a downstream end of the carrying conveyor 10 for carrying the batter F, F, etc., to the fryer conveyor 30. The frying frame B is carried downward of the slide relay plate 25, and the slide relay plate 25 which receives the batter F, F, etc., is evacuated to the stopper plate 26 side.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a fried dough transfer apparatus for transferring fried dough before frying such as oil frying into a frying frame of a fryer conveyer in order from a conveyer on a fixed quantity basis. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An automatic manufacturing apparatus for frying is composed of a series of apparatuses arranged in a time series according to a processing process and combined with each other, and includes a conveyor for conveying fried dough before frying. A fryer for frying the fried dough is provided, and a fryer conveyor having a large number of fry frames attached to an oil tank of the fryer. A number of lifting frames are connected to form a series by maintaining a predetermined horizontal spacing, and the lifting frames of each series are supported at both ends by a pair of left and right drive chains circulating between a pair of sprockets of the flyer conveyor. It is installed horizontally. There is also a type in which the sprocket is provided only on one side. The multiple lifting frames are arranged at predetermined vertical intervals in the traveling direction of the drive chain. In the flyer conveyor, the frying frame located above the sprockets at the upstream end and the downstream end travels above the oil level with respect to the oil tank of the flyer, and the frying frame located below the sprocket runs below the oil level. Assembled to circulate. The fried dough includes not only oil fried but also fried dough before processing of raw fried and soybean processed products. Oil fried is a type of fried tofu that is fried tofu in oil.

[0003] Such fried dough is a kind of tofu obtained by coagulating soy milk using the properties of soy protein contained therein and cutting the soy milk into a size for frying. A large number of cut fried doughs are arranged on a conveyor belt in accordance with the horizontal and vertical intervals of the fry frames of the flyer conveyor, and are transported to the flyer side. Then, the fried dough that has been conveyed is sequentially put into the frying frame on the oil level of the fryer at each downstream row of the conveying conveyor at the downstream end of the conveyer, and the fried dough put into the frying frame Is a mechanism in which the frying frame is fried in a period during which it passes below the oil level of the fryer.

[0004] Tofu as fried dough has the property of being difficult to handle for a mechanical device that is difficult to peel off at the bottom side because it contains moisture and is fragile. Conventionally, several proposals have been made regarding the transfer of fried dough (for example, JP-A-5-193728). However, at present, it is impossible to improve the yield characteristics as a whole of the automatic frying apparatus due to the difficulty in transfer.

[0005] The technical content disclosed in the above-mentioned publication is that a support plate with a receiving plate whose angle can be changed by driving a rotation shaft is arranged at a downstream end of a conveyor in an inclined posture, After the dough slides on the support plate by its own weight from the downstream end of the conveyor, the transfer operation is performed by inverting the support plate on which the fried dough is placed so as to cover the fry frame. The conveyor is operated intermittently, and the receiving plate is
The fried dough slid on the support plate is once positioned on the support plate to prevent the fried dough from directly falling on the fry frame.

[0006]

However, although the fried dough on the conveyor belt is produced by a machine, each of the fried doughs has some individuality and is displaced along the width direction of the belt. Further, since the fried dough is transported in a state of being adhered, the total number of fried doughs arranged side by side does not simultaneously slide down on the support plate. That is, since the fried dough contains water and is transported in a state in which it adheres to the belt and is difficult to peel off, the support plate must wait for a period until the total number of fried doughs has been slid down. Must be inverted. The waiting time at this time is about 15 to 20 minutes for the frying process by the fryer, but the waiting time differs for each row of fried dough in a row (waiting time varies one after another), so that the continuous operation speed of the fryer conveyor is changed. Alternatively, it is necessary to change the intermittent operation interval accordingly. Therefore, since the conveyor is an intermittent operation and the flyer conveyor needs to be changed in accordance with the operation, the mechanism of the conveyor becomes complicated and expensive, and all processes such as a packaging process, a stacking process, etc., following the frying process are performed. The timings of the steps are irregular.

In addition, when the fried dough is put into the fry frame,
There is a problem that the fried dough is damaged due to the rotation of the support plate about a rotation axis within a certain angle range. In other words, when the support plate operates slowly, the flexible fried dough starts to bulge under its own weight when the support plate changes from the inclined posture receiving the fried dough to the upright posture, and furthermore, the support plate is slightly lifted by the fry frame. When inclined to the side, the fried dough lying side by side on the support plate leaves the support plate and falls into the fry frame one after another. The falling time of the fried dough at this time is naturally random, and the posture of falling into the fry frame does not become exactly the horizontal posture, and an accident such as loss of the corner of the fried dough occurs. . On the other hand, in order to avoid such inconvenience, it is conceivable to rotate the support plate at a high speed. If the support plate is rotated at a high speed, the fried dough will be forced into the fry frame while maintaining the state of being pressed against the support plate by static inertia. And the throwing posture can be made uniform. However, in this case, the influence of the centrifugal force is not negligible, and the inverted fried dough will fall obliquely downward toward the tip of the support plate instead of immediately below the support plate, and the fried dough will be lost. An accident occurs, and it is not easy to find the optimum rotation speed of the support plate for various types of fried dough.

According to the present invention, there is provided a time lag when a row of fried dough moves from a transport conveyor to a support plate, a time lag when the fried dough on the support plate moves to a fry frame, and irregularities in the loading posture. An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for transferring fried dough which can solve the difficulty of adjusting the operation speed of the support plate and improve the yield characteristics without impairing the operation timing of the entire automatic frying apparatus. And

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, a fried dough transferring apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention comprises a plurality of frying doughs arranged at predetermined horizontal and vertical intervals. A conveyor that conveys the fried dough before processing on a belt, and is operated in synchronization with the conveyor to receive the fried dough in order from the conveyor and into the multiple frying frames for frying in a certain quantity and convey it to the fryer. A flyer conveyor, and a slide relay plate that is slidably laid horizontally at a downstream end of the conveyor along a traveling direction of the belt via a driving means along a traveling direction of the belt, and receives the fried dough from the conveyor at every line in the downstream end. A fixed stopper plate which is laterally provided on the upper surface side of the slide relay plate along the width direction of the belt to stop the movement of the fried dough, and a fried raw material at the downstream end of the conveyor. And a pusher plate for urging the slide dough on the slide relay plate via a driving means.The pusher plate urges the fried dough on the belt side by side into the slide relay plate via the drive cylinder for each row. To return to the standby position, and the slide relay board is temporarily retracted from the back surface of the received fried dough to the stopper plate side via the drive cylinder and returned to the standby position on the fry frame of the flyer conveyor. .

When the fried dough flowing on the conveyor at a predetermined horizontal and vertical interval reaches the downstream end of the conveyor, at this position, the pusher plate is moved horizontally by the driving means at this position. Are forcibly urged on the slide relay board line by line. Therefore, all the fried doughs in a row move to the slide relay board at the same time, and the pusher board returns to the standby position. Next, the slide relay plate slides via the driving means to temporarily retreat from the back surface of the received fried dough to the stopper plate side. At this time, the fried dough cannot be moved together with the slide relay plate because it is blocked by the fixed stopper plate laterally provided on the upper surface side of the slide relay plate. Keep stopping. All the fried doughs that have lost the support member on the back surface fall exactly into the lower fry frame at the same time while maintaining the posture at that time. This is because the transport conveyor and the flyer conveyor are operated while maintaining a predetermined synchronous relationship.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the apparatus for transferring fried dough, wherein the pusher plate is a combination of a drive cylinder serving as a driving means for vertical movement and a drive cylinder serving as a driving means for horizontal movement. The lowering operation of lowering the fried dough in a row side by side from the standby position, the urging operation to push the fried dough onto a slide relay board until it reaches a stopper plate, and the front of the next row of fried dough in a next row It is characterized by repeating four operation steps including a retreat operation of retreating upward and a biasing operation and a return operation in the opposite direction.

According to this invention, the pusher plate descends to the rear of the fried dough by the descending operation, pushes the fried dough in a row in a row to the slide relay plate by the urging operation, and advances the next-order fried dough by the retreat operation. Without being hindered, the returning operation allows the fried dough to return to the standby position, so that the fried dough can be urged one by one in a row. By performing these series of operations in four operation steps of a descending operation, an urging operation, a retreat operation, and a return operation, each operation step can be constituted by a linear operation. The four operations are realized only by two types of drive cylinders, namely, and a drive cylinder responsible for horizontal movement.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for transferring fried dough, wherein a downward slope is provided between the downstream end of the conveyor and the slide relay plate from the conveyor side to the slide relay plate. Wherein the pusher plate urges the fried dough from the transport conveyor onto the slide relay plate via the slide relay plate.

According to the present invention, the fried dough is temporarily moved from the downstream end of the conveyor onto the inclined relay board, and thereafter,
It slides on the fixed inclined relay board which forms a downward slope, and moves to the slide relay board. Therefore, even if there is a head equivalent to the head of the slide relay plate between the downstream end of the conveyor and the slide relay plate, the fried dough is smoothly crushed, deformed, and damaged without damage such as corner loss. It moves from the conveyor to the slide relay board.

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

An apparatus 20 for transferring fried dough according to this embodiment
Are transported conveyors 10 for transporting the fried doughs F, F... Before processing, a fryer conveyor 30 for receiving the fried doughs F, F... Relay plate 25 installed at a location where the downstream end of the airbag and the upstream end of the flyer conveyor 30 partially overlap, and the stopper plate 2
6 and a pusher plate 21 for urging the fried dough onto the slide relay plate via a driving means (FIG. 1).

The conveyor 10 circulates and drives a wide belt 13 made of a permeable and strong sheet member so as to be folded at an end member 11 disposed at the downstream end. The upper surface of the belt 13 refers to a range from the upstream end of the conveyor 10 (not shown) to a position passing over the end member 11 and wrapping around the back surface of the end member 11. It refers to the range that passes through the back surface side and reaches the upstream end side. Here, the upper surface of the belt 13 is indicated by an arrow A shown in FIG.
In one direction, the lower surface of the belt 13 is driven in the direction of arrow A2. The upper surface of the belt 13 is supported by a plurality of intermediate support rolls 12 and 12 so as to be kept flat.

The end member 11 has a box structure of a thick plate of a resin having self-lubricating properties or a solid structure of the same material, and is formed in a triangular prism shape as a whole. When viewed from the side, the end member 11 has a right-angled triangle in which the length of the opposite side to the hypotenuse is kept short, and is assembled with the hypotenuse facing upward (FIGS. 1 and 2). Therefore, the downstream end of the conveyor 10 forms a gentle downward slope with a sloping angle, and the belt 13 passes through the downward slope, returns at an acute tip portion, and returns to the upstream end side. An extremely thin metal wire 14 is stretched at the distal end of the downstream end of the conveyor 10 in a state of being in close contact with the distal end (FIG. 1).

The flyer conveyor 30 is provided with a pair of left and right drive chains 32, 32 which are circulated and driven between sprockets 31, 31 arranged at an upstream end thereof and corresponding sprockets arranged at a downstream end not shown. A plurality of fry frames 33, 33,... Are attached at predetermined vertical intervals so as to straddle between a pair of drive chains 32, 32. The series of frying frames 33 are composed of individual frying frames B, B,... Connected at predetermined horizontal intervals. The entire frying frames B, B... Are arranged with predetermined horizontal and vertical intervals. The lower side of the sprockets 31, 31 of the flyer conveyor 30 is positioned below the oil level of the oil tank of the flyer, and the flyer conveyor 30 is driven in the opposite direction to the conveyor 10. That is, the frying frames B, B ... on the oil surface are
It flows in the direction of arrow A2, reaches the upstream end of the flyer conveyor 30, turns back and reverses with the sprockets 31, 31, and is driven to flow toward the downstream end in an oil bath state. The drive chain 32,
A guide plate 34 made of a punching metal is provided along the direction 32 and the lift frames B, B
Are adapted to move along the guide plate 34 (FIGS. 1 and 2).

The fried doughs F, F,... Are placed on the belt 13 of the conveyor 10 by the frying frames B, B,.
The conveyors 10 and the flyer conveyor 30 are transported in a state where they are arranged with the horizontal and vertical intervals corresponding to the horizontal and vertical intervals. ... Electrically driven synchronously via a detection sensor. However, the two do not always correspond at a one-to-one transport speed, and the synchronous drive includes speed-up synchronous drive and deceleration synchronous drive. Therefore, in this case, the vertical arrangement intervals of the fried doughs F, F... Do not always correspond to the fried frames B, B. Further, the aspect of the synchronous drive includes intermittent synchronous drive in addition to continuous synchronous drive.

Conveyor 10 and Flyer Conveyor 3
Numeral 0 is accompanied by vertical and horizontal frames as fixing members, and the fried dough transfer device 20 is attached using the frames of the transport conveyor 10 and the flyer conveyor 30.

That is, at a position above the downstream end of the conveyor 10, a pair of guide rails 22, 22 are fixed in parallel to the slope of the end member 11, and a pair of guide rails 2 are provided.
A slider 23 having a bracket 23b provided upright is slidably supported between the brackets 2 and 22. The slider 23 has a drive cylinder C2 as a drive unit for up and down movement.
Is attached with the operating rod r2 facing downward,
A pusher plate 21 covering the entire width of the belt 13 is attached to the operating rod r2 of the drive cylinder C2 in a direction crossing the belt 13. On the upstream side of the slider 23, a driving cylinder C1 as a driving means for performing horizontal movement in parallel with the guide rails 22, 22 is provided with an operating rod r1.
To the drive cylinder C2 side, and the fixed grip bracket 2
4 and the operating rod r of the drive cylinder C1
1 is connected to the bracket 23b of the slider 23. Therefore, when the drive cylinder C1 is driven, the slider 23, the drive cylinder C2 attached to the slider 23, and the pusher plate 21 attached to the drive cylinder C2 are integrated along the guide rails 22,22. Move horizontally. When the drive cylinder C2 is driven,
The pusher plate 21 moves up and down at that position. By the operations of both the drive cylinders C1 and C2, the lowering operation, the urging operation, the retreat operation, and the return operation of the pusher plate 21 described later are realized.

A slide relay plate 25 slidably supported by a pair of left and right guide rails 27 is attached below the end of the end member 11 of the conveyor 10 and above the upstream end of the flyer conveyor 30. The pair of guide rails 27 are horizontally arranged along the flyer conveyor 30, and the slide relay plate 25 is supported via a base plate 25b having an L-shaped cross section. Further, the base plate 25b is connected to the flyer conveyor 30.
The operating rod is directed from the lower end side to the upstream end side, and is connected via a fixed gripping bracket 28 to an operating rod r3 of a drive cylinder C3 horizontally arranged on a flyer conveyor 30. Therefore, when the drive cylinder C3 is driven, the slide relay plate 23 moves horizontally from the lower end of the conveyor 10 toward the downstream end of the flyer conveyor 30 or to return to that position. Can be.

On the slide relay plate 25, a stopper plate 2
6 is provided horizontally. The stopper plate 26 is laterally provided so as to approach the rear end of the slide relay plate 25, that is, the drive cylinder C3 side of the slide relay plate 25, in a state very close to the surface 25s of the slide relay plate 25 (FIG. 1, FIG. 3), both ends of the stopper plate 26 are fixed to the frame of the flyer conveyor 30. Surface 25s of slide relay plate 25
Are formed in a waveform in which ridges and grooves are alternately engraved along the sliding direction (FIG. 3). The slide operation of the slide relay plate 25 can be performed not only by the drive cylinder C3 at the center but also by providing a pair of guide rails (not shown) on the left and right. It is also possible to provide a plurality of drive cylinders C3.

The fried dough transfer apparatus 20 operates as follows in relation to the operations of the transport conveyor 10 and the flyer conveyor 30 (FIGS. 3 to 7). The fryer conveyor 30 is provided with a detection sensor S1 for detecting the position of the frying frames B, B..., While the transport conveyor 10 is provided with a detection sensor S2 for detecting the fried dough F, F. Are provided, and the timing at which the fried doughs F, F... Are dropped on the fried frames B, B. In addition, the conveyor 1
It is also possible to set a timer instead of the sensor S2 for detecting 0.

Drive cylinder C for driving pusher plate 21
1 and C2 retreat the operating rods r1 and r2, respectively, and the tip of the pusher plate 21 is located above the upstream end corresponding to one fried dough from the tip of the downstream end of the conveyor 10 (FIG. 3). . This position is the standby position of the pusher plate 21. On the other hand, the drive cylinder C3 on the flyer conveyor 30 advances the operating rod r3 to move the slide relay plate 2
5 is located at a position where the leading end thereof partially overlaps with the leading end of the conveyor 10. This position is the standby position of the slide relay plate 25.

The pusher plate 21 operates under the condition that the front row of the fried dough F, F... Forming the front row on the belt 13 driven in the direction of arrow A1 has passed under the pusher plate 21 (FIG. 4). ). At this time, first, the pusher plate 21 enters the lowering operation a by the drive cylinder C2 advancing the operating rod r2, and the lowering operation a is performed at the rear position of the fried dough F through which the distal end of the pusher plate 21 has passed. It descends until it comes very close to the belt 13 and is completed.
Next, the pusher plate 21 enters the urging operation b when the drive cylinder C1 advances the operating rod r1 (FIG. 5). The urging operation b is performed by moving the drive cylinder C2 along the slope of the end member 11 in the direction of the slide relay plate 25 along the slope of the end member 11 while maintaining the pusher plate 21 that has been lowered. The process is completed when the section passes through the leading end of the conveyor 10. Therefore, one row of the fried doughs F, F ... located in the traveling direction of the pusher plate 21
1 and is urged to be forcibly pushed to reach the slide relay plate 25. The conveyor 10 shown in FIG.
When the fried dough F, F,... Moves from the conveyor 10 onto the slide relay plate 25, the metal wire 14 at the end of the flap D, F. Are prevented from going around the lower surface of the belt 13 while the leading ends of the fried doughs F, F ... pressed by the plate 21 adhere to the surface of the belt 13.

After the completion of the urging operation b, the pusher plate 21
The operating rod r2 of the drive cylinder C2 is retracted to enter a retreating operation c in which the next row of fried dough F, F,... Moves upward from the front side of the next row (FIG. 6), and the fried dough F, F,. The slide relay plate 25 retreats the operating rod r3 of the drive cylinder C3, thereby making the stopper plate 26
To the side in the direction of arrow A1 (FIG. 7). At this time, a series of the lifting frames 33 of the fryer conveyor 30 are positioned immediately below the slide relay plate 25. The fried dough F, which has been on the slide relay plate 25, is temporarily attached to the slide relay plate 25 and moved to the stopper plate 26 side by the retreating operation of the slide relay plate 25, thereby forming a row of fried dough. Each of the F, F,... Is forcibly stopped on a series of the fry frames 33 by contacting the advancing side with the stopper plate 26. Therefore, the slide relay plate 25 is fried dough F,
By retreating from the back of the fried dough F, F ... at a speed that can utilize the static inertia of F ..., all the fried dough F, F ... can be stably and accurately placed at the same timing in the lower fried frames B, B ... Is dropped (dropped). The falling distance of the fried dough F, F ... at this time is about 40 mm including the relationship with the depth of the frying frame 33, and the falling posture is such that the horizontal posture is maintained or slightly inclined. It is. Therefore, there is no danger of damaging the fried dough F, unlike the conventional example of the inverted structure.

As described above, the flyer conveyor 30 may be operated regularly in accordance with the operation timing of the slide relay plate 25. After this, the pusher plate 21
The drive cylinder C1 retreats the operation rod r1 to enter the return operation d, and returns to the standby position. At the same time, the slide relay plate 25 returns to the standby position by the drive cylinder C3 advancing the operating rod (FIGS. 7 and 3), and the above-described series of transfer is performed in accordance with the operations of the transport conveyor 10 and the flyer conveyor 30. The loading operation can be repeated. Therefore, the mechanism is not complicated and the cost is not high unlike the conventional conveyor or the like which is operated intermittently.

Here, although not specifically shown, the slide relay plate 25 is provided with a drive cylinder for further moving it up and down together with the drive cylinder C3 as its drive source, so that not only the slide operation but also the up and down operation is possible. is there. That is, by enabling the vertical movement by a plurality of drive cylinders as in the case of the pusher plate 21, the fried doughs F, F... Are transferred from the conveyor 10 where the end member 11 is not provided via the pusher plate 21. It is also possible to perform a sliding operation after receiving and descending vertically.

In the above-described embodiment, the corrugated shape of the surface 25s of the slide relay plate 25 is
Are placed relative to each other when the slide relay plate 25 on which the...
5 functions to facilitate sliding on the surface 25s. The fried doughs F, F... Contain fine water bubbles between the connective tissues of soybean proteins, and if the surface 25 s of the slide relay plate 25 s is a flat surface, the fried doughs F, F.
A water film is formed between the surface and the surface 25s of the slide relay plate 25, and this water film acts as a strong adhesive sufficient to prevent the sliding of the fried dough F, F. That is, the unevenness of the surface 25s of the slide relay plate 25 prevents the formation of the water film.

As the shape of the surface 25s of the slide relay plate 25, other shapes that can prevent the formation of a water film can be adopted (FIGS. 8A, 8B, and 8C). For example, square irregularities are used as reference shapes, and each convex portion has an acute angle of 2 °.
One having a ridge and a concave groove (FIG. 8 (A)), one having an acute waveform (FIG. 8 (B)), a U-shaped concave groove and a ridge having a flat portion at the top. (FIG. 8)
(C)). However, from the viewpoint of handling food, it is desirable to avoid shapes that are difficult to clean.

In the above embodiment, the end member 11 at the downstream end of the conveyor 10 is
It acts to eliminate the drop between the top level of 0 and the top level of the flyer conveyor 30 (FIG. 2). This is because the fried doughs F, F... Must eventually move between them regardless of the intermediate route. Then, from the viewpoint of eliminating the head, an inclined relay plate 29 having a downward inclination from the transport conveyor 10 to the flyer conveyor 30 is interposed between the transport conveyor 10 and the slide relay plate 25. (FIG. 9).

In this embodiment, a large-diameter rotary end roll 15 is used at the downstream end of the conveyor 10.
The belt 13 is driven to circulate through a rotating end roll 15. The inclined relay plate 29 is made of a resin plate whose surface is formed in a wavy shape similar to the surface 25s of the slide relay plate 25, and its front end and rear end are formed as knife edges. The inclined relay plate 29 is fixed to the frame of the flyer conveyor 30 with its front end being very close to the rotating end roll 15 of the conveyor 10 and its rear end being close to just above the front end of the slide relay plate 25. Have been. Further, the slider 23 of the pusher plate 21
Is set in parallel with the inclined relay plate 29, and the completion position of the lowering operation “a” of the pusher plate 21 is set at a position diagonally above and forward of the rotary end roll 15.

The fried doughs F, F... Flowing on the belt 13 of the conveyor 10 are driven by the belt 13 to gradually move onto the inclined relay board 29, and at the same time, are fried doughs F, F by the belt 13. The driving force for ... decreases. The pusher plate 21 moves the fried dough F,
F. are urged from behind, and the fried doughs F, F. Since the large-diameter rotary end roll 15 can be used at the downstream end of the conveyor 10, the useful life of the belt 13 can be greatly extended. Further, since the conveyor 10 is not operated intermittently as in the conventional example, there is an advantage that the control mechanism is not complicated.

[0036]

The apparatus for transferring fried dough according to the present invention forcibly moves the fried dough conveyed by the conveyer onto the slide relay plate by a pusher plate for each horizontal row, and the slide relay plate. The upper fried dough is retracted at the same time by retracting the slide relay board and forcibly dropping it into the fry frame while blocking the advancing side with a stopper plate, so that all the fried dough in a row is at the same timing, and Since the transfer is carried out regularly from the transport conveyor to the flyer conveyor while maintaining the same posture, troubles in the subsequent process due to uneven transfer timing and loss of fried dough due to uneven transfer posture are eliminated. Thus, the stability and the yield of the entire automatic frying apparatus can be improved.

[0037]

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a mounted state according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a view taken in the direction of the arrow X in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken along line YY of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of the operation as viewed in the direction of arrow X in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of the operation as viewed in the direction of arrow X in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of the operation viewed from the arrow X in FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a view for explaining the operation viewed from the arrow X in FIG. 1;

FIG. 8 is a sectional view corresponding to a vertical sectional view taken along the line YY of FIG. 1, showing another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is an operation explanatory view corresponding to the view on arrow X in FIG. 1 showing another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 a Lowering operation b Urging operation c Retreating operation d Returning operation F Fried dough B Lifting frame C1 Driving cylinder (driving means) C2 Driving cylinder (driving means) C3 Driving cylinder (driving means) 10 Conveyor 13 Belt 20 Transfer of fried dough Mounting device 21 Pusher plate 25 Slide relay plate 26 Stopper plate 29 Inclined relay plate 30 Flyer conveyor

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A conveyor for transporting a plurality of rows of fried dough before frying on a belt while maintaining a predetermined horizontal interval and a vertical interval on a belt; A flyer conveyor that receives the dough into a plurality of frying frames for a fixed quantity and conveys it to the fryer, and slidably laid horizontally on the downstream end of the conveyer via driving means along the direction of travel of the belt. At the downstream end, a slide relay plate that receives the fried dough from the transport conveyor at each row in a row at the downstream end, and a fixed stop that is horizontally disposed on the upper surface side of the slide relay plate along the width direction of the belt and stops the movement of the fried dough. A stopper plate, and a pusher plate for urging the fried dough on the slide relay plate at the downstream end of the transport conveyor via a driving means, and the pusher plate is The fried dough on the belt is urged on the slide relay board via the driving means for each row in a row and returned to the standby position, and the slide relay board is placed on the fry frame of the flyer conveyor, on the back side of the received fried dough. Characterized by being temporarily retracted to the stopper plate side via a driving means and returned to a standby position. 2. The pusher plate is moved from the standby position to the rear of a row of fried dough by a combination of a drive cylinder serving as a driving means for performing vertical movement and a drive cylinder serving as a driving means for performing horizontal movement. A descending movement to descend,
A biasing operation of pushing the fried dough onto the slide relay board, a retracting operation of retracting the fried dough in the next row in a row from the front to an upward direction, and a return operation in a direction opposite to the biasing operation 4
2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operation process is repeated. 3. A fixed inclined relay plate, which is inclined downward from the conveyor side to the slide relay plate side, is disposed between the downstream end of the conveyor and the slide relay plate;
3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the pusher plate urges the fried dough from the transport conveyor onto the slide relay plate via the inclined relay plate. 4.