JP2006044665A - Method for excluding filling defective cup in continuous filling and packaging line for cup noodle and apparatus for the same - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for excluding a filling defective cup capable of recovering a filling substance and a cup without futility and omitting waste of a seal lid and a useless filling process by metering and judging the filling defective cup and avoiding to cover a lid and to close by sealing. <P>SOLUTION: In a continuous filling and packaging line for a cup noodle, the cups each filled with a main material such as a noodle are hung in parallel on a retainer conveyor and intermittently run, and are respectively covered with the lids and closed by sealing. The method for excluding the filling defective cup in the continuous filling and packaging line for the cup noodle and the apparatus are characterized by that after filling with the main material such as the noodle, the amount of filling the cup is metered at a position before the lid is covered and closed by sealing, and a filling defective cup judged to be excess or deficient from a specified quantity is made to reach the end of a conveyor while the lid is not covered and not closed by sealing, and the filling defective cup is discharged to a retaining lot for goods for inferior quality. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to the elimination of poorly filled cups in continuous filling and packaging lines such as cup noodles. Specifically, the main amount of noodles or soup, ingredients, ingredients, etc. are weighed at the stage when the cup is filled, and the filling amount is excessive. The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus in which a poorly filled cup determined to be insufficient is covered with a cover without closing the seal and discharged to a defective product reservoir or the like.

Conventionally, in a continuous filling and packaging line such as cup noodles, the soup pack, ingredient pack, etc. are sequentially fed and filled on the conveyor into the cup filled with the main ingredients such as noodles, and then the lid is closed and the seal is closed. When an unfilled cup is found by weighing with a meter on the conveyor line of the finished product after filling and the line after full wrap wrapping, it is discharged to a defective product reservoir or the like.
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  Therefore, a poorly filled cup is sealed with a lid cover seal, and further, after being sealed, the entire surface is wrapped and discharged into a defective product reservoir, so the contents cannot be taken out from the cup at all. There is a problem that the noodles, soup, ingredients, etc. and the sealing lid and cup are wasted at all.

  The present invention is a continuous filling and packaging line such as cup noodles in which cups filled with main materials such as noodles are suspended in parallel on a retainer conveyor and run intermittently, covered with a lid and sealed, and sent out. After filling the main material, measure the filling amount in the cup at the position before closing the cover and seal it. The cup was discharged into a defective product reservoir. Because poorly filled cups and containers due to excessive and insufficient filling such as noodles are selected before the lid seal is closed, and the poorly filled cups and containers are discharged to the defective product reservoir at the end of the retainer conveyor without closing the lid seal. It solves this problem by making it possible to collect noodles, cups, etc. from poorly filled cups and containers to eliminate waste, and to eliminate the trouble of closing the lid seal and waste of materials for poorly filled cups. I did it.

  The present invention measures the amount of filling in the cup at a position between filling the main material such as noodles and before closing the lid covering seal, discriminates a poorly filled cup due to excessive or insufficient filling, and covers the poorly filled cup. Since it reaches the end of the conveyor without clogging the cover seal and sorts and discharges it to a defective product reservoir, it collects main materials such as noodles, soup packs, ingredient packs, etc. from the cup without any effort The effect that it can be produced.

  Since the cup and container that have been determined to be poorly filled are covered with the lid so that the seal is not closed, there is an effect that the waste of the seal lid and the trouble of closing the lid seal can be omitted. In addition, cups and containers that have been identified as having a poor filling of the main material can be prevented from being supplied and filled with subsequent soup packs, ingredient packs, etc., so there is no need for any unnecessary filling steps and more time is required for collection. The effect that it can be reduced is produced.

  In the present invention, a large number of cups filled with a main material such as noodles are suspended by a retainer conveyor, and are successively run intermittently. The cups, ingredients, etc. are sequentially filled in the cups, and the lids are covered and sealed. In the continuous filling and packaging line such as cup noodles, the filling amount in the cup is measured at any position between immediately after filling the main material such as noodles and before closing the cover and the seal is closed. Cover the identified poorly filled cup with the lid without closing the seal, and when the excess or shortage of the main material such as noodles is determined, omit the subsequent filling and filling of the soup pack, ingredient pack, etc. It reached the end of the conveyor and was sorted and discharged into a defective product reservoir.

  As shown in FIG. 1 (a), a retainer conveyor 3 having a predetermined length is formed by juxtaposing unit retainers 2 in which eight suspension holes 1 are arranged in parallel, and each suspension hole 1 is connected to a filling cup feeder 4. The cup C filled with the main material such as noodles is suspended and allowed to run intermittently. In the middle of the conveyor 3, a feeder 5 for filling the soup pack, a feeder 6 for the ingredient pack,... A continuous filling and packaging line is formed.

  In the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1 (b), the measuring means 8 is provided between the position A immediately after the filling cup feeder 4 filled with the main material such as noodles and the position B in front of the cover cover closing means 7 at the latest. It was provided to measure the filling amount in the cup. The weighing means 8 may be provided at a plurality of positions.

  As shown in FIG. 2 (b), the weighing means 8 are independently provided in accordance with the number of cups C on the vertical movement means 9 by a cam mechanism, a cylinder mechanism or the like provided below the retainer conveyor 3. As shown in FIG. Eight cups C suspended in the suspension hole 1 of the unit retainer 2 are lifted all at once and separated from the retainer to accurately measure the filling amount, and the result of measurement is controlled by a control device (not shown). ). The control device detects the transmitted signal and compares it with a numerical value including an error / allowable range input in advance to detect whether the cup C is filled or not.

  When the measuring means 8 is provided at a stage immediately after the main material such as noodles is filled, the cup C ′ determined to have a poor filling due to the main material filling amount exceeding or below the predetermined amount is transmitted by a signal transmission from the control mechanism. Then, the supply and filling process of the soup pack, the ingredient pack, etc. can be omitted by passing below the feeders 5, 6, x.

  In any case, the filling amount of the cup C is measured before the cover is closed, and the poorly filled cup C ′ due to the excessive or insufficient filling amount passes through the cover seal closing means 7 by signal transmission and is not covered. As shown in FIGS. 3 to 6, the retainer conveyor 3 is moved by the up-and-down movement of the pedestal 10 that is independently moved up and down by the signal transmission and the rotary extrusion of the push-out bar 11 that moves in synchronization. And is sent to the discharge conveyor 12 and sorted and discharged into a defective product reservoir (not shown). The cup discharged into the defective product reservoir can be easily recovered from the main material, soup pack, ingredient pack, etc. and the cup because the cover is not covered and sealed. Since the defective filling cup C ′ is not covered with the cover, the trouble of the process can be omitted and the waste of the seal cover S can be avoided. As shown in FIGS. 7 to 8, the cup C group that has been determined to be good and has been closed with the cover closed is lifted off from the retainer conveyor 3 by the pedestal 13 that moves up and down all at once, and the conveyor of the filled and packed product by the push rod 14 It is sent out on line 15.

  The present invention can be widely and effectively used in a continuous filling and packaging line in which a cup is filled and a lid is closed and sealed, and a filling failure can be determined by weighing.

(A) is a partial plan view of a retainer conveyor formed by parallel unit retainers, and (b) is an overall side view of a continuous filling and packaging line. (A) is a partially enlarged front view showing a waiting state of the measuring means, (b) is a partially enlarged front view showing a state in which the cup is moved up for weighing the cup and lifted away from the retainer. Expanded side view of retainer conveyor end The side view which shows the state which removed the cup determined to be a filling defect from the retainer by the upper movement of the corresponding base. (A) is a front view in a standby state of the pedestal, (b) is a front view showing a state in which a cup determined to be poorly filled is removed from the retainer by the upward movement of the corresponding pedestal. Side view showing a state in which the removed cup is discharged onto a discharge conveyor by rotary extrusion of an extrusion bar The side view which shows the state by which the cup group determined that filling was good and the cover was closed and the (normal) cup group was pushed up on the retainer all at once by the base. A cup indicated by a chain line indicates a situation in which the cup is then fed onto the delivery conveyor by an extrusion bar. (A) is a front view of the pedestal in a standby state, and (b) is a front view of a state in which the cup group is moved all at once.

Explanation of symbols

1 is a hanging hole 2 is a unit retainer 3 is a retainer conveyor 4 is a filling cup feeder 5, 6, x is a soup pack, a material pack, etc. 7 is a lid covering seal closing means 8 is a weighing means 9 is vertically moved Means 10 is a pedestal that moves up and down independently for discharging defective products, 11 is an extrusion bar, 12 is a discharge conveyor, 13 is a pedestal that moves up and down all at once to push up a completed product, 14 is an extrusion rod, and 15 is a conveyor for a packed product Line C is cup C 'is determined to be poorly filled S is a seal lid

Claims (2)

  Filling cups filled with main ingredients such as noodles on a continuous filling and packaging line such as cup noodles, where cups filled with main ingredients such as noodles are suspended in parallel on a retainer conveyor and then run for a while and closed and sealed. Measure the filling amount in the cup at the position before closing the back cover seal and cover the defective filling cup determined to be over and under the specified amount to reach the conveyor end without closing the cover and seal the defective filling cup. A method of eliminating poorly filled cups in a continuous filling and packaging line such as cup noodles, characterized by being discharged into a reservoir.   A cup containing a main material such as noodles, a bowl such as a bowl is suspended in parallel several times, and a container is continuously installed in the container such as noodles provided with a lid covering and sealing means on the retainer conveyor. In the filling and packaging line, a measuring means for measuring the filling amount in the container is provided at a position before the lid covering seal closing means, and the filling failure determined to be more or less than a predetermined amount between the measuring means and the lid covering seal closing means. Continuous filling of cup noodles, etc., characterized by providing a signal transmission means that does not close the seal on the cup or container, and also provided at the end of the conveyor with the above-mentioned poorly filled cup or container for discharging the container to a defective product reservoir, etc. A device for eliminating poorly filled cups in the packaging line.

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