JP2007319149A - Food producing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a food producing apparatus for hamburger or the like, capable of taking out without transforming or destroying, a mix food material filled in a mold from a mold, and excellent in maintenancability and production efficiency. <P>SOLUTION: This food producing apparatus 10 has a rotating body 13 which is pivoted with a support shaft arranged in a standing condition on an apparatus main body 11, and horizontally rotates, molds 14-16 which go through the horizontal plane of the rotating body 13 and are arranged, and a piston member 17 which is engaged with the opened upper part of the mold and coveringly set in a vertically movable manner. Furthermore, the apparatus has a mounting disk 18 which touches the bottom of the rotating body and fixedly arranged on the apparatus main body, a food material supplying part 19 into which a mix food material is pressed fit from the opened lower part of the mold, and a food material discharging part 20 which is openedly set on the bottom of the rotating body 13. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a food manufacturing apparatus that forms a mixed food such as meat mince into a hamburger or croquette before cooking.

  Conventionally, when providing hamburgers molded with compound ingredients such as minced meat at restaurants and fast food stores, or manufacturing hamburger ingredients for home cooking, this compounded ingredient is filled into a mold and molded The way to do it is taken. For example, the following techniques are known in relation to food production apparatuses such as hamburgers using such a mold.

  Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-337170) discloses a rotary drum-shaped or flat plate-shaped transport member that has a molding recess and is movable in one direction, and can be projected and retracted behind the molding recess of the transport member. A food molding apparatus is described in which a molding material is supplied to the filling pressurization chamber surrounded by the molding recess and the blade as the transport member moves.

Patent Document 2 (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-222537) discloses a filling apparatus having a rotating body having a mold part that receives a material supplied from a material supply hopper and a mold that can slide in the mold part. There is described a high viscosity material filling apparatus in which a pressing means is arranged in front of the material supply hopper in the rotation direction of the rotary drum.
JP 10-337170 A JP 2004-222537 A

  However, in the case of using the rotating drum described in Patent Documents 1 and 2, since the mold mold hole filled with the mixed food is located on the outer peripheral surface of the rotating drum, the surface of the extruded hamburger is the outer periphery. There was a tendency for the formed hamburger to bend and bend according to the curvature. Especially in large hamburgers, this tendency is remarkable, and the yield may be reduced or the product value may be impaired.

Further, in Patent Document 1, there is one in which a plate-like conveyance member on which a mold is arranged is reciprocated horizontally to fill and discharge meat material. However, there is a drawback that the apparatus itself is enlarged.
Particularly, in the high-viscosity material filling apparatus disclosed in Patent Document 2, since a mold having a slidable cam mechanism is built in the mold part of the rotating drum, it is difficult to perform maintenance such as disassembly and cleaning. Were likely to adhere to and accumulate on moving parts, and there were problems in hygiene management such as propagation of various bacteria.
The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and can be taken out from the mold without deforming or collapsing the mixed food filled in the mold, and is excellent in maintainability and production efficiency. An object is to provide a food production apparatus such as a hamburger.

The food production apparatus of the present invention according to claim 1,
A food manufacturing apparatus for supplying compounded ingredients into a mold and forming them into a predetermined shape,
A rotating body that is pivotally supported by a support shaft erected on the apparatus main body and rotates horizontally, a plurality of molds that are arranged to penetrate the horizontal surface of the rotating body, and an upper part of the mold that is open. A piston member that is movably covered, a mounting board that is in contact with the bottom of the rotating body and fixedly disposed on the apparatus main body, and a prepared food that is provided through the mounting board as described above. And a food material discharge section provided open at the bottom of the rotating body.

  The food manufacturing apparatus according to a second aspect of the present invention is the food preparation apparatus according to the first aspect, in which the mixed food filled in the mold is in contact with the top of the piston member that horizontally rotates at the upper position of the food discharging portion. It is characterized by having a piston push-down mechanism that pushes down and discharges.

  A food production apparatus according to a third aspect of the present invention is characterized in that, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, a mixed food supply device that supplies mixed food is connected to the food supply unit.

  According to the present invention, a piston member that is movably fitted up and down is molded by press-fitting the prepared food material from the lower part of the mold that covers the upper part thereof, and the rotating body having the mold is rotated to form from the bottom of the mold. Since the prepared food material is taken out, the prepared food material filled in the mold can be taken out from the mold without being deformed or broken, and a food production apparatus excellent in maintainability and production efficiency can be provided.

  The food production apparatus according to the present embodiment is a food production apparatus that supplies a mixed food such as meat mince into a mold whose periphery is formed in a circular shape or an oval shape, and shapes the food into a predetermined shape. A rotating body that is pivotally supported by a support shaft that is erected and rotates horizontally, a plurality of molds that are concentrically arranged through a horizontal plane of the rotating body, and an upper portion of the mold that is open. A piston member that is movably covered up and down, a substantially semicircular mounting board that is in contact with the bottom of the rotating body and fixedly disposed on the apparatus main body, and is provided through the mounting board. A food supply part into which the mixed food is press-fitted from the opened lower part of the mold, and a food discharge part provided open to the bottom of the rotating body facing the mounting plate are configured. By pushing down the piston member due to its own weight or the like, the compounded food material filled in the mold and formed into a hamburger shape or the like can be taken out without applying an excessive load. Moreover, since the adhering food material can be surely removed by the vertical movement of the piston member without remaining in the mold, the sanitary condition can be maintained well.

  The food manufacturing apparatus is provided with a mold for forming a hamburger such as a circular shape, an elliptical shape, an oval shape, etc., using as a raw material a mixed food material such as meat minced meat, chopped onion, bread crumbs, and spices as a hamburger material It is a filling molding device. In addition, the compounded food material molded into a predetermined shape is forcibly pushed out of the mold by the slide lowering operation of the piston member fitted to the upper part of the mold, and falls freely, on the conveyor of the food material discharging unit arranged below. It is supplied and supplied to cooking processing apparatuses such as a heating furnace.

  The rotating body has a disc shape made of a synthetic resin, a metal such as stainless steel or aluminum, and is pivotally supported by a support shaft erected on the apparatus body of the food production apparatus via a driving apparatus such as an electric motor. It is rotated in the horizontal plane.

  The mold penetrates the horizontal surface of the rotating body and is arranged in a plurality of concentric circles at equal intervals, and its horizontal cross section is formed in a substantially circular shape or a substantially oval shape. The mixed food material is filled and supplied into the mold, so that it is shaped into a hamburger shape.

  The piston member is a member that is fitted over the open top of the mold so as to be movable up and down, and the upper end side of the piston member in the horizontal direction in order to prevent it from falling into the mold. It also has a stopper that has a large diameter.

  The mounting board is a substantially semicircular support member that is in contact with the bottom of the rotating body and is fixed to the apparatus main body. Thus, the bottom of the mold formed by opening in the bottom of the rotating body is shielded so that the mixed food filled in the mold does not fall during the rotation of the rotating body.

  The food supply unit is a portion of a supply hole for the mixed food having a diameter of about 5 to 20 mm provided through the mounting board. Via this food supply part, it arrange | positions so that the compounded foodstuff which consists of meat mince previously prepared with the foodstuff preparation apparatus provided with the pumping mechanism etc., a minced onion, bread crumbs, a spice, etc. may be filled in a mold.

  The food material discharging unit is provided open to the bottom of the rotating body, and the formed mixed food material dropped from the cold body of the rotating body is transferred to a heating cooking device or the like via a conveying device such as a belt conveyor.

The food manufacturing apparatus according to the present embodiment is in contact with the top of the piston member that horizontally rotates together with the rotating body at the upper position of the food discharge unit, and pushes down and discharges the prepared food filled in the mold. A piston push-down mechanism can also be provided.
With this piston push-down mechanism, the mixed food filled in the mold can be forcibly dropped to the food discharge portion below the mold, and the hamburger can be surely removed when the molding speed is increased, and the molded food is molded. By applying a predetermined pressing force to the blended food material, the strength necessary to maintain the form can be increased, and the yield can be improved.

  The piston push-down mechanism is composed of a pressing member provided so as to abut on the top of the piston member that rotates horizontally at the upper position of the food discharge unit, and the prepared food filled in the mold is pushed down by the piston member to discharge the food. It has a function of discharging to the part. The pressing member is a member that is provided above the food discharging unit and is entirely attached to be inclined downward along the rotation direction of the rotating body, and the top portion of the piston member rotates while contacting the pressing member. The piston member is gradually pushed down.

  In the food production apparatus according to the present embodiment, the food supply unit is connected to a food preparation supply device that presses the food preparation filled in a cylindrical container in the cylinder axial direction, and is at a rotation angle position of the rotating body. It can also be driven synchronously. This prevents excessive pressure applied to the ingredients during hamburger molding and prevents changes in texture and flavor after cooking, and suppresses variations in hamburger molding speed due to uneven filling of ingredients. Thus, the productivity of the food production can be stably maintained.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of a food manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a front view of a food production apparatus according to the present embodiment, FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a rotating body portion thereof, and FIG. 3 is a front view of a belt conveyor portion in the food discharge portion. Is a plan view thereof.

  1 to 4, 10 is a food production apparatus for producing hamburger or the like from the mixed food material, 11 is an apparatus main body of the food production apparatus 10, 12 is a support shaft standing on the apparatus main body 11, and 13 is a support shaft. Rotating body that is pivotally supported by 12 and rotates horizontally, 14 to 16 are three-hole molds that are arranged concentrically penetrating vertically on the front and back horizontal surfaces of the rotating body 13, and 17 is an opening of the molds 14 to 16. A piston member that is fitted to the upper part and is provided so as to be movable up and down, 18 is a substantially semicircular mounting board that is fixed to the apparatus main body 11 in contact with the bottom of the rotating body, and 19 is a mounting board 18. A prepared food supply pipe 20 serving as a food supply section provided penetrating in the food is provided at the bottom of the rotating body 13 and is a food discharge section provided with a belt conveyor 20a for receiving and transporting a dropped hamburger.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the food manufacturing apparatus 10 has a pressing member 21 curved downward so as to abut along the top of the piston member 17 that moves horizontally while sliding up and down at the upper position of the food discharging unit 20. Is provided. Such a pressing member 21 functions as a piston push-down mechanism for pushing down and discharging the prepared food material filled in the molds 14 to 16 by pressing the piston member 17. A stopper portion 17a is attached to the upper end of the piston member 17 so as to expand from the periphery of the mold.

  In addition, the upper part of the apparatus main body 11 has an open / close frame 22 provided via left and right support members 11a and 11b. The open / close frame 22 supports a rotating shaft 11c provided on the support member 11a. It is arrange | positioned so that rotation is possible. The pressing member 21 is attached to a locking member 22 a provided at the lower part of the opening / closing frame 22. The locking member 22a also has a function of restricting the rise so that the piston member 17 is pushed up by the pressure of the mixed food filled from the lower portions of the molds 14 to 16 and does not jump out of the state of being fitted in the mold. ing.

Further, the food manufacturing apparatus 10 includes a not-shown mixed food supply device that is connected to a food supply unit formed through the mounting board 18 via a mixed food supply pipe 19. As such a mixed food supply device, for example, a general-purpose sausage filling machine (stuffer) that extrudes the mixed food by a pumping mechanism using a cylinder can be applied.
Further, the food manufacturing apparatus 10 includes a limit switch, a pair of a light receiver and a light emitter, and a position sensor for detecting a relative rotation angle of the rotating body 13 with respect to the apparatus main body 11 is provided as necessary. be able to. Thereby, only when each mold 14-16 of the rotary body 13 exists in the supply possible range (for example, rotation angle range of 45 degree | times-70 degree | times) by the preparation ingredient supply pipe 19 of an ingredient supply part, it becomes a preparation ingredient supply apparatus. The stuffer can be driven. By closing the end of the compounded food supply pipe 19 at a position where it can be supplied to the molds 14 to 16 at the bottom of the rotating body 13 to be rotated, an excessive pressure is applied to the compounded food, and the hamburger is compressed. It is possible to control so that the texture when cooked is not changed.

As described above, the mixed food material including the meat material adjusted for hamburger is fed from the lower side of the apparatus main body 11 from a general-purpose sausage filling machine (stuffer), and is cut into the rotating body 13 that rotates in the horizontal plane. It press-fits into the respective molds 14 to 16 formed from below.
When the rotating body 13 rotates and reaches the discharge position of the food discharging section 20 where the lower part is opened, the prepared ingredients that serve as ingredients such as hamburger are respectively installed on the upper parts of the molds 14 to 16 of the rotating body 13. As the member 17 slides downward, the mixed food filled in the mold is pushed out. The piston member 17 is placed in the molds 14 to 16 of the rotating body 13 at the press-fitting position of the mixed food by a cam plate (pressing member 21) stacked on an opening / closing frame 22 provided on the upper portion of the rotating body 13. A belt conveyor provided in the apparatus main body 11 as shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 to generate a press-fitting space by being fixed to the upper part, and at the discharging position of the food discharging part 20, it moves downward to push out the formed mixed food. 20a is sequentially supplied.
An electric motor 23 serving as a driving source for the rotating body 13 and the belt conveyor 20a is disposed at the lower portion of the apparatus main body 11. The food discharge unit 20 below the mold 13 is provided with a scraping member driving mechanism (not shown) for reciprocatingly sliding a scraping member such as a piano wire along the bottom surface of the rotating body 13. As a result, the molded hamburger sticks to the pressing surface of the piston member 17 and is scraped off from the belt conveyor 20a so that it can be forcibly separated from the piston member.

  As described above, in the conventional food manufacturing apparatus in which the rotating shaft of the rotating body is provided in the horizontal direction, the mold hole for extruding the mixed food material serving as the ingredient is located on the outer peripheral surface of the drum. The surface of the resulting hamburger bends according to the curvature of the outer periphery, and there is a tendency that the formed large-size hamburger is warped. According to the food manufacturing apparatus 10 of the present embodiment, this is avoided. be able to. Compared to the conventional plate-shaped mold that reciprocates horizontally and fills and discharges meat material, it is superior in production efficiency, and there is no vibration associated with reciprocation, and the device body can be made compact. It also has advantages.

  That is, the food manufacturing apparatus of the present invention is configured to press the compounded food material from the lower part of the mold whose upper part is covered by a piston member that can be freely moved up and down, and then the food material formed from the bottom part of the mold that rotates. The gist of the present invention is that it can be taken out without being deformed or broken, and the corresponding one belongs to the scope of the right of the present invention. For example, in the present embodiment, a hamburg was described as an example of a food to be manufactured. However, the food manufacturing apparatus of the present invention is also applicable to the manufacture of confectionery, croquettes, etc. that are formed into a predetermined shape based on viscous food. be able to.

It is a front view of the foodstuff manufacturing apparatus concerning this embodiment. It is a top view which shows the rotary body part of the foodstuff manufacturing apparatus. It is a front view of the belt conveyor part of the foodstuff manufacturing apparatus. It is a top view of the belt conveyor part of the foodstuff manufacturing apparatus.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Food manufacturing apparatus 11 Apparatus main body 11a, 11b Support member 11c Rotating shaft 12 Support shaft 13 Rotating body 14-16 Mold 17 Piston member 17a Stopper part 18 Mounting board 19 Compounding food supply pipe (foodstuff supply part)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 20 Food discharging part 20a Belt conveyor 21 Press member 22 Opening-closing frame 22a Locking member 23 Electric motor

Claims (3)

A food manufacturing apparatus for supplying compounded ingredients into a mold and forming them into a predetermined shape,
A rotating body that is pivotally supported by a support shaft erected on the apparatus main body and rotates horizontally, a plurality of molds that are arranged to penetrate the horizontal surface of the rotating body, and an upper part of the mold that is open. A piston member that is movably covered, a mounting board that is in contact with the bottom of the rotating body and fixedly disposed on the apparatus main body, and a prepared food that is provided through the mounting board as described above. A food production apparatus comprising: a food material supply unit that is press-fitted from the lower portion; and a food material discharge unit that is provided open at the bottom of the rotating body.   The piston push-down mechanism is provided that abuts on the top of the piston member that rotates horizontally at an upper position of the food discharge portion, and pushes down and discharges the prepared food filled in the mold. The food production apparatus according to 1. The food manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a mixed food supply device that supplies mixed food is connected to the food supply unit.

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