JP2005271935A - Manufacturing method and apparatus for packed food in container, and small bag having seasoning enclosed therein - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method for a packed food in a container which prevents a sealing failure on a sealed part between the cup-shaped container and a sealing lid. <P>SOLUTION: By the manufacturing method for the packed food in the container, a small bag 5 having a seasoning enclosed therein is inserted into the cup-shaped container 3 containing the packed food such as an instant noodle 2, and an opening of the cup-shaped container 3 is sealed up with the sheet-like sealing lid 6. Four corners of the small bag 5 are cut diagonally or arcuately by a cutter mechanism 8 before the small bag 5 is inserted into the container 3. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a method for producing food in a container such as cup noodles, an apparatus for producing the same, and a sachet enclosing a seasoning material, and in particular, a container food having a sachet in which a seasoning material such as seasoning, soup, and ingredients is enclosed. The present invention relates to a manufacturing method, a manufacturing apparatus thereof, and a seasoning material-enclosed sachet.

Conventionally, this type of food in a container is a seasoning of soup, ingredients, etc. in a cup-shaped container containing instant noodles such as fried noodles and non-fried noodles, as disclosed in Patent Document 1, for example, if it is instant noodles After the sachet filled with the material is put in, a sheet-like seal lid that seals the opening of the cup-shaped container is heat-sealed to the opening edge of the cup-shaped container.
JP-A-11-178530 (FIG. 6)

However, conventionally, when a sachet is put into a cup-shaped container containing food, the corner 5a of the sachet 5 may ride on the opening edge 3a of the cup-shaped container 3 as shown in FIG. is there. For this reason, when the sealing lid 6 is heat-sealed to the opening edge 3 a of the cup-shaped container 3 in such a state, the corner 5 a of the small bag 5 is between the opening edge 3 a of the cup-shaped container 3 and the sealing lid 6. Since the sealing lid 6 is heat-sealed while being sandwiched, a sealing failure occurs in the sealing portion, and air or the like may enter the cup-shaped container from the sealing failure portion.
The present invention has been made paying attention to such problems, and a method for producing a food in a container capable of preventing a seal failure from occurring in a seal portion between a cup-shaped container and a seal lid, and its It aims at providing a manufacturing apparatus and a seasoning material enclosure sachet.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 1 is characterized in that, after a flat quadrilateral sachet filled with a seasoning material is put into a cup-shaped container containing food, the opening of the cup-shaped container is formed into a sheet shape. A method for producing a food in a container produced by hermetically sealing with a sealing lid, wherein the four corners of the sachet are cut in advance into a hypotenuse or arc before the sachet is put into the cup-shaped container. It is characterized by that.

  The invention of claim 2 is a conveyor for transferring cup-shaped containers containing foods, a sachet charging device for loading a plane quadrilateral sachet into the cup-shaped containers transferred to a predetermined position by the conveyor, and the sachet charging. An apparatus for producing food in a container comprising a lid sealing device disposed on the downstream side of the device, wherein the sachet feeding device is configured such that a predetermined amount of the seasoning material is predetermined for each unit between front and back films. The strips are housed in rows at intervals, and between each unit, the front and back films are bonded together by welding or the like so that each unit of the seasoning material is independently continuous, and the introduction portion of the introduction portion It is characterized by having a cutter mechanism section that cuts the belt-like body into a seasoning-enclosed sachet on the downstream side into a seasoning-enclosed sachet and cuts off the four corners of the sachet.

A third aspect of the present invention is the apparatus for manufacturing a food in a container according to the second aspect, wherein the cutter mechanism section cuts the band-like body in a width direction with a cut-off portion at the four corners of the sachet. The blade has a blade so that the remaining cutting portion of the belt-like body includes a continuous portion continuous in the continuous direction of the belt-like body and a cut-off portion integral with the continuous portion.
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the apparatus for manufacturing a food in a container according to the second or third aspect, a winding device for winding the remaining cut portion of the band-shaped body cut by the cutter mechanism portion is provided in the sachet feeding device. It is characterized by.
The invention of claim 4 is a seasoning-enclosed sachet manufactured by filling and packaging a seasoning material of a packaged food in a packaging film and then cutting the packaging film into a flat quadrilateral sachet shape, the four corners of which are It is characterized by being cut into a hypotenuse or arc.

  In the method for producing a food in a container according to the present invention, the corners of the sachet are cut into four sides of the sachet in advance by cutting the four corners of the sachet into an oblique side or an arc before putting the sachet into the cup-shaped container containing the food. As a result, when the small bag is put into the cup-shaped container, a part of the small bag does not get on the opening edge of the cup-shaped container. It is possible to prevent the occurrence of defective sealing.

  Further, in the containerized food manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention, the sachet filling device stores a predetermined amount of the seasoning material between the front and back films in rows at predetermined intervals for each unit. The front and back films are bonded by welding or the like, so that each unit of the seasoning material is independently continuous, and the band-like body is provided for each unit of the seasoning material on the downstream side of the introduction portion. By cutting into a seasoning-enclosed sachet and having a cutter mechanism that cuts off the four corners of the sachet, there are no corners at the four corners of the sachet, thereby obtaining the same effect as the invention of the method be able to.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of a containerized food manufacturing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, instant noodles are shown as food contained in a cup-shaped container. However, the present invention can be applied to all foods stored in a cup-shaped packaging container and provided with a seal lid. it can. In the figure, reference numeral 1 is a conveyor for transferring a cup-shaped container 3 containing instant noodles 2 in the direction of the arrow in the figure, and 4 is a small-bag loading for inserting a small bag 5 into the cup-shaped container 3 transferred to a predetermined position by the conveyor 1. This sachet throwing device 4 is provided with an introduction part 12 for the belt-like body 11 and a cutter mechanism part 8 for cutting the sachet 5 formed by cutting the belt-like body 11 and containing a seasoning material such as soup. It has been. The strip 11 has a predetermined amount of seasoning material between the front and back films, that is, one unit such as seasoning, ingredient, powder or liquid soup is accommodated at a predetermined interval in one row here, and between each unit of the seasoning And both sides are heat sealed. Thereby, the seasoning material enclosure part 5c and the heat seal part 5d are formed in the strip | belt shaped object 11. FIG. Such a strip 11 is elongated in the continuous direction of each seasoning material enclosure 5c, and is supplied from the top to the bottom in FIG. Are introduced into the cutter mechanism 8.

  The cutter mechanism unit 8 has cutter blades 8a and 8b, and the belt-like body 11 is cut here to become a pouch 5 in which a seasoning material is enclosed. As shown in FIG. 2, the pouch 5 is cut into a substantially octagonal shape by the cutter blades 8 a and 8 b of the cutter mechanism 8. As shown in FIG. 2, the cutter blades 8 a and 8 b have a C shape with a substantially octagonal cross section. The cutter blades 8 a and 8 b serve as the heat seal portion 5 d of the strip 11 and the longitudinal direction of the strip 11 on the side of the strip 11. And a portion between the front and rear seasoning material enclosing portions 5c. The pouch 5 thus cut off has a substantially octagonal shape with the four corners of the plane quadrilateral being cut off. In addition, the cutter blades 8a and 8b are moved toward the other fixed cutter blade 8b in synchronism with the introduction of the strip 11, and the heat seal portion 5d is moved by the cutter blades 8a and 8b. Here, the remaining cutting portion 5b other than the portion of the strip 11 which has become the pouch 5 is cut so as to be connected together. For this reason, the part which comprised the strip | belt-shaped object 11 does not become a small piece, and is not scattered.

The remaining cutting part 5b includes a continuous part 5b-1 continuous in the continuous direction (longitudinal direction) of the strip 11, a part 5b-2 between parts cut out as front and rear sachets 5, and parts cut off at the four corners of the sachet 5. 5b-3.
Further, the sachet throwing device 4 is provided with a winding device 9, and the uncut portion 5 b of the belt-like body 11 generated by the cutter mechanism portion 8 is wound around the winding device 9. A lid supply device (not shown) is provided on the downstream side of the sachet throwing device 4, and a sheet-like seal lid 6 for sealing the opening of the cup-shaped container 3 is provided on the downstream side of the lid supply device. A heat sealing device 7 for heat sealing is provided. The sachet 5 is produced by filling and packaging a seasoning material in a packaging film by a filling and packaging machine (not shown) on the upstream side of the sachet feeding device 4.

  In such a configuration, when the cup-shaped container 3 containing the instant noodles 2 is transferred to a predetermined position by the conveyor 1, the cutter mechanism unit 8 is activated, and the belt-like body 11 is cut into a small bag by the cutter mechanism unit 8. The At this time, the strip 11 cut by the cutter mechanism 8 becomes a seasoning-enclosed sachet 5 and is guided by the chute 14 and put into the cup-shaped container 3 containing the instant noodles 2. Further, the uncut portion 5 b of the belt-like body 11 generated in the cutter mechanism unit 8 is taken up by the winding device 9. In the pouch 5, the seasoning enclosing portion 5 c in the strip 11 remains as it is, and an edge portion 5 e formed by a part of the heat seal portion 5 d in the strip 11 is formed around it. In this case, the edge 5e is formed in four rounds. However, in the case where the strip 11 is formed by folding a single film vertically and the crease is not heat-sealed, FIG. As shown, the edge 5e is not formed on one side, but only on the three sides.

  FIG. 3 is a view showing a state when the sachet 5 cut by the cutter mechanism portion 8 is put into the cup-shaped container 3. As is clear from the figure, the four corners of the pouch 5 are cut into a hypotenuse by cutting the pouch 5 before being put into the cup-shaped container 3 into a substantially octagonal shape by the cutter mechanism 8. As a result, there are no corners at the four corners of the sachet 5, and when the sachet 5 is put into the cup-shaped container 3, a part of the sachet 5 hardly gets on the opening edge 3 a of the cup-shaped container 3. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of poor sealing at the heat seal portion between the cup-shaped container 3 and the seal lid 6 as much as possible.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the take-up device 9 that winds up the remaining cutting portion 5b of the strip 11 cut by the cutter mechanism portion 8 is provided in the pouch feeding device 4, so that the remaining cutting portion 5b of the strip 11 is cup-shaped. It is also possible to prevent contamination as foreign matter in the vessel 3.
In the above-described embodiment, the sachet 5 put into the cup-shaped container 3 is cut into a substantially octagonal shape by the cutter mechanism 8, but the sachet 5 put into the cup-shaped container 3 is similar to the octagonal shape. You may make it cut | disconnect in the shape which carried out. In the embodiment described above, the four corners of the sachet 5 are cut into oblique sides and then the sachet 5 is put into the cup-shaped container 3. However, as shown in FIG. 5, the four corners of the sachet 5 are cut into arcs. Then, even if the sachet 5 is put into the cup-shaped container 3, the same effect can be obtained.

It is a figure which shows schematic structure of the manufacturing apparatus for foodstuffs in a container which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is II-II sectional drawing of FIG. It is a figure which shows a state when the small bag cut | disconnected by the cutter mechanism part of FIG. 1 is thrown into the cup-shaped container. It is a figure which shows the cutter blade which cut | disconnects this strip | belt-shaped body in the shape of a substantially octagonal small bag, and the strip | belt-shaped body in which the crease | fold part is not heat-sealed. It is a figure for demonstrating other embodiment of this invention. It is a figure for demonstrating the problem which arises when manufacturing instant noodles with a container by the conventional method.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Conveyor 2 Instant noodles 3 Cup-shaped container 3a Opening edge part 4 Small bag feeding apparatus 5 Small bag 5a Corner | angular part 5b Uncut part 5c Seasoning material enclosure part 5d Heat seal part 6 Seal lid 7 Heat seal apparatus 8 Cutter mechanism part 8a, 8b Cutter blade 9 Winding device 11 Strip body 12 Introduction part 14 Chute

Claims (5)

  Manufacture of food in a container manufactured by filling a cup-shaped container containing food with a flat quadrilateral sachet filled with a seasoning and sealing the opening of the cup-shaped container with a sheet-like sealing lid A method for producing a food in a container, characterized in that the four corners of the sachet are cut in advance into an oblique side or arc before the sachet is put into the cup-shaped container.   A conveyor for transferring a cup-shaped container containing food, a sachet feeding apparatus for placing a planar quadrilateral sachet into the cup-shaped container transferred to a predetermined position by the conveyor, and a downstream side of the sachet feeding apparatus. A device for producing food in a container comprising a lid sealing device, wherein the sachet feeding device accommodates a predetermined amount of the seasoning material in rows at predetermined intervals between the front and back films. In between each unit, the front and back films are adhered by welding or the like so that each unit of the seasoning material is independently and continuously introduced, and the strip on the downstream side of the introduction unit. An apparatus for producing food in a container, comprising: a cutter mechanism section for cutting a seasoning material into a sachet filled with a seasoning material and cutting off four corners of the sachet.   The cutter mechanism has a cutter blade that cuts a part of the band-shaped body in the width direction together with the cut-off portions of the four corners of the sachet, and thereby the cutting remaining part of the band-shaped body has a continuous direction of the band-shaped body. 4. The apparatus for producing a containerized food according to claim 3, wherein a continuous portion that is continuous with the first portion and a cut-out portion that is integral with the continuous portion are included.   The apparatus for producing food in a container according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the sachet feeding device is provided with a winding device that winds up the remaining cutting portion of the band-shaped body cut by the cutter mechanism portion.   A seasoning material-enclosed sachet produced by filling a packaged food seasoning material in a packaging film and then cutting the packaging film into a flat quadrilateral sachet shape, with the four corners cut into diagonal or arcuate shapes. A sachet filled with seasoning, which is characterized by being made.

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