JP2009101433A - Processing device of root vegetable - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To uniformly divide and slice root vegetables. <P>SOLUTION: This processing device for root vegetable comprises: a root vegetable guide means 10 for elastically holding and guiding a carrot 1 inserted in the vertical direction; a vertically splitting means 60 disposed under the root vegetable guide means 10 and vertically splitting the carrot 1 into a plurality of pieces; a slice means 70 disposed under the vertically splitting means 10; and a root vegetable pressing means 90 for downwardly pressing the carrot 1 held by the root vegetable guide means 10. The root vegetable guide means 10 comprises: an upper guide roller 22 for elastically holding and guiding the generally intermediate part of the carrot 1; lower first guide members 30, 31 for holding and guiding the lower end outer periphery of the carrot 1; and lower second guide members 47, 47 disposed between the upper guide member 22 and the lower first guide members 30, 31 and elastically holding and guiding the carrot 1. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a processing apparatus for root vegetables such as carrots and radishes.

Patent document 1 is mentioned, for example as a root vegetable vertical division apparatus. In this structure, an object to be cut (root vegetables) put in the feeding path is fed into a cutting blade portion in which cutting blades are radially arranged by a reciprocating pushing member, and is divided and cut radially. A guide device for guiding an object to be cut is arranged in the feeding path immediately before the cutting blade portion. The guide device includes a plurality of pressing guide members that press the outer periphery of the object to be cut toward the center direction with substantially equal pressure, and an elastic member that biases the pressing guide members in the center direction.
Utility Model Registration No. 2560124 (Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 5-37498)

A slicing apparatus for slicing root vegetables rotates a rotating disk provided with a slicing blade to slice root vegetables on the rotating disk. An example of this type of slicing device is Patent Document 2.
Utility Model Registration No. 3127860

  In Patent Document 1, root vegetables are sent from the lateral direction to the cutting blade portion through a guide device. The pressing guide member of the guide device is biased in the center direction by the elastic member. However, when the root vegetables are sent to the guide device, gravity is applied to the lower portion of the elastic member due to the weight of the root vegetables. For this reason, the center of root vegetables shifts to the lower position with respect to the center of the cutting blade, and the root vegetables are not evenly divided. In particular, when the elastic member deteriorates with the passage of time, the above-described tendency becomes remarkable.

  Conventionally, the root vegetables are only divided as in Patent Document 1, and the root vegetables are only sliced as in Patent Document 2. That is, as in Patent Document 1, it is difficult to send root vegetables in the horizontal direction and divide them, and to slice the divided root vegetables.

  The subject of this invention is providing the processing apparatus of the root vegetables which can divide a root vegetable equally and can be sliced.

  Claim 1 of the present invention for solving the above-mentioned problem is arranged below the root vegetable guide means, root vegetable guide means for elastically holding and guiding the root vegetables inserted in the longitudinal direction, Vertically dividing means for vertically dividing the root vegetables into a plurality of pieces, slicing means disposed below the vertically divided means, and root vegetables pressing means for pressing the root vegetables held by the root vegetables guide means downward It is characterized by comprising.

  A second aspect of the present invention for solving the above-mentioned problems is that, in the first aspect, the root vegetable guide means includes an upper guide member that elastically holds and guides a substantially middle portion of the root vegetable, and a root vegetable. The lower part first guide member that holds and guides the outer periphery of the lower end of the lower part, and is arranged between the upper part guide member and the lower part first guide member to elastically hold and guide the root vegetables It consists of a lower part 2nd guide member, It is characterized by the above-mentioned.

  A third aspect of the present invention for solving the above-mentioned problems is the first aspect of the present invention, wherein the vertically dividing means has a first cutter that divides the root vegetables into two, and the root vegetables are held by the root vegetables guide means. A second cutter disposed so as to divide the upper portion of a certain length from the lower end of the two into two, and a cutter driving means for simultaneously driving the second cutter forward and backward. A lower end portion is divided into two parts by the first cutter, and a portion of the root vegetables divided into two parts by the second cutter is further divided into two parts by the first cutter.

  According to the first aspect, the root vegetables are supplied in the vertical direction, and the root vegetables guide means for guiding the root vegetables holds the outer periphery of the root vegetables uniformly and elastically. Will improve. In addition, the root vegetables divided by the vertically dividing means can be sliced by the slicing means. Since the root vegetable guide means comprises three lower part first guide members, a lower part second guide member, and an upper part guide member in which the root vegetable guide means is arranged in the vertical direction, the root vegetables are mostly in the vertical direction. The location is elastically held by the guide member, and root vegetables can be supplied stably.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, the second cutter is used to cut and divide the root vegetable from the lower end portion of the root vegetable into a part of a certain length, so that the thin portion of the root vegetable is fed downward. The thin part is divided into half-circles by the first cutter, and the part of a certain thickness is divided into two by the second cutter and then divided into two, that is, four by the first cutter, so that the slice sizes can be adjusted to some extent. From this point, the quality is further improved.

  An embodiment of a root vegetable processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. Hereinafter, the case of carrots as root vegetables will be described. In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, a root vegetable guide means 10 that guides the carrot 1 in the vertical direction, a vertical dividing means 60 disposed below the root vegetable guide means 10, The slicing means 70 disposed below the means 60 and the root vegetables pressing means 90 for feeding the carrot 1 to the vertically dividing means 60 are included. In the present embodiment, two carrots 1 are processed at the same time. Since the two root vegetable guide means 10 and the vertically dividing means 60 have the same structure, only one (left side) root vegetable guide means 10 and vertically split means 60 will be described. In addition, since the code | symbol is hard to describe to the member of the center part of FIG. 4, the center part of FIG.

  First, the structure of the root vegetable guide means 10 will be described with reference to FIGS. A support substrate 12 is disposed on the base substrate 11 so as to be openable and closable. Holes 11 a and 12 a into which the carrots 1 are inserted are formed in the base substrate 11 and the support substrate 12. The base substrate 11 is fixed on the frame body 13. Two guide shafts 14 and 14 are arranged in parallel immediately above the support substrate 12, and two guide shafts 15 and 15 are arranged opposite to the guide shafts 14 and 14. The four guide shafts 14, 14 and 15, 15 are fixed to the fixing plates 16, 17 at the outer end and the inner end, respectively. The inner fixing plate 17 includes a guide shaft fixing portion 17a for fixing the guide shafts 14 and 15, and a support shaft fixing portion 17b extending upward at a right angle to the outside of the guide shaft fixing portion 17a. A support shaft 18 is fixed to the support shaft fixing portions 17b facing each other. Two bearings 19 are rotatably supported on the two support shafts 18, and a U-shaped support plate 20 is fixed to the bearings 19. Two support plates 21 that extend upward and extend toward the center, that is, four support plates 21, are fixed to the two support plates 20, respectively. An upper guide roller 22 that guides a substantially middle portion of the roller 1 is rotatably supported.

  Lower guide first guide members 30 and 31 for guiding the lower part of the carrot 1 are slidably fitted on the guide shafts 14, 14 and 15 and 15, respectively. The opposing surfaces 30a and 31a are formed in a V shape, and an inclined guide surface that guides the carrot 1 is formed on the upper surfaces of the opposing surfaces 30a and 31a. A spring hook 32 is fixed to the lower portion of the support shaft 18 of the U-shaped support plate 20, and a spring hook 33 is provided on the outer side surface of the lower first guide members 30 and 31 corresponding to the spring hook 32. A spring 34 is hung on the spring hooks 32 and 33. The upper guide roller 22 is urged downward by the spring 34, and the lower first guide members 30, 31 are urged in the central direction.

  Support shafts 40 and 41 are arranged in parallel with the guide shafts 14, 14, 15, and 15 at the front and rear of the center of the lower first guide members 30 and 31, and both ends of the support shafts 40 and 41 are supported. It is fixed to fixed plates 42 and 42 fixed to the substrate 12. Oscillating levers 44 and 44 are rotatably supported on the support shafts 40 and 41 via two bearings 43 and 43, respectively. The swing levers 44, 44 have stopper portions 44 a that abut against the support substrate 12 and restrict inward rotation. A support shaft 45 is fixed to the guide member support portions 44b and 44b at the upper ends of the swing levers 44 and 44, and the lower second guide members 46 and 47 are rotatably supported on the support shaft 45. Yes. The opposing surfaces 46a and 47a of the lower second guide members 46 and 47 are formed in a V shape, and an inclined guide surface for guiding the carrot 1 is formed on the upper surfaces of the opposing surfaces 46a and 47a. A stopper 48 that restricts the inward rotation of the lower second guide members 46 and 47 is fixed to the swing levers 44 and 44. Spring hooks 49, 49 are fixed to the support shafts 40, 41, and spring hooks 50, 50 are fixed to the lower second guide members 46, 47. A spring 51 is hung on the spring hooks 49 and 50.

  Next, the structure of the vertically dividing means 60 will be described with reference to FIGS. On the back surface of the support substrate 12, a first cutter 61 is disposed across the hole 12 a of the support substrate 12, and two second cutters 62, 62 are perpendicular to the first cutter 61 toward the center of the hole 12 a. Is arranged, and cutting edges are formed on the upper surfaces of the first and second cutters 61, 62, 62. Both end portions of the first cutter 61 are fixed to fixing plates 63 and 63, and the fixing plates 63 and 63 are fixed to the back surface of the support substrate 12. End portions of the second cutters 62 and 62 are fixed to fixed plates 64 and 64, and the fixed plates 64 and 64 are fixed to the back surface of the support substrate 12. Here, the cutting edge 62a on the upper surface of the second cutters 62, 62 is formed such that the inner side is substantially the same height as the first cutter 61 and the outer side is inclined upward.

  Next, a structural diagram of the slicing means 70 will be described with reference to FIGS. At the center of the two root vegetable guide means 10 and the vertically dividing means 60, a rotating disk 71 is disposed below the vertically dividing means 60. In the rotating disk 71, four slice holes 71a are formed at portions corresponding to the first and second cutters 61, 62, 62. A spacer 72 is fixed to the portion of the rotating disk 71 corresponding to the slice hole 71a. On the spacer 72, the slicing blade 73 is fixed so as to form a gap 71b of the slicing hole 71a in the rotation direction A of the rotating disk 71. Therefore, by removing the spacer 72 or changing the thickness of the spacer 72, the sliced thickness can be changed. A holder 74 is fixed to the lower end of the rotating disk 71, and the upper end of the rotating shaft 75 is fixed to the holder 74. The rotating shaft 75 is rotatably supported by bearings 77 and 78 fixed to the frame body 76. A pulley 79 is fixed to the lower end of the rotating shaft 75, and a belt 80 driven by a motor (not shown) is hung on the pulley 79.

  Finally, the structure of the root vegetable pressing means 90 will be described with reference to FIG. A guide bar 91 is fixed on the base substrate 11, and a cylinder support plate 92 is fixed to the upper end of the guide bar 91. A bearing 93 is inserted into the guide rod 91 so as to be movable up and down, and a vertical moving plate 94 is fixed to the bearing 93. An output shaft of a cylinder 95 fixed to the cylinder support plate 92 is fixed to the vertical movement plate 94. A support bar 96 is fixed to the lower surface of the vertical moving plate 94 above the center of the four upper guide rollers 22, and four pressing bars 97 are fixed to the support bar 96. Here, the four pressing rods 97 are arranged so as not to interfere with the first and second cutters 61, 62, 62.

  Next, the operation will be described. A motor (not shown) that rotates the pulley 79 is driven. When the pulley 79 is rotated, the rotating disk 71 is rotated via the rotating shaft 75. In this state, the carrot 1 is inserted into the four upper guide rollers 22 with the tip of the carrot 1 downward. Thereby, the four upper part guide rollers 22 hold the upper part of the carrot 1 by the urging force of the spring 34. The lower part is held by the lower part second guide members 46 and 47 by the biasing force of the spring 51. That is, the upper and lower two portions of the carrot 1 are held by the four upper guide rollers 22 and the lower second guide members 46 and 47. Therefore, when a switch (not shown) is turned on, the cylinder 95 is operated and the operating rod of the cylinder 95 protrudes. Accordingly, the vertical moving plate 94 is lowered and the carrot 1 is pressed downward by the pressing rod 97.

  When the carrot 1 is pressed downward by the pressing rod 97, the lower end of the carrot 1 is divided into four parts, that is, ginkgo cut by the first and second cutters 61, 62, 62 arranged in a cross shape. When the lower end portion thus divided into four reaches the rotating disc 71, the rotating disc 71 is sequentially sliced into the thicknesses of the spacer 72 and the slicing blade 73. The carrot 1 divided into four and sliced is discharged downward from the gap 71b of the rotating disk 71 through the slice hole 71a. When the lower end of the carrot 1 is sequentially sliced and the upper end of the carrot 1 is separated from the upper guide roller 22, the lower first guide members 30 and 31 are now urged by the spring 34 and the outer periphery of the lower end of the carrot 1. Hold. That is, the carrot 1 is sent to the lower part by holding the upper and lower portions by the lower second guide members 46 and 47 and the lower first guide members 30 and 31, and is sliced after being divided into four parts. When the upper end of the carrot 1 is separated from the lower second guide members 46 and 47, the carrot 1 is held only by the lower first guide members 30 and 31. However, since the remaining length of the carrot 1 is short, the ginseng 1 is pressed evenly against the first and second cutters 61, 62, 62 without being misaligned, and is equally divided.

  In this way, the carrot 1 is supplied in the vertical direction, and the root vegetable guide means 10 that guides the carrot 1 holds the outer circumference of the carrot 1 evenly and elastically by the urging force of the springs 34, 51. There is no deviation and the quality of the division is improved. The carrot 1 divided by the vertically dividing means 60 can be sliced by the slicing means 70. If three lower first guide members 30 and 31, lower second guide members 46 and 47, and upper guide roller 22 are provided in the vertical direction, the carrot 1 is elasticated by guide members in almost two vertical directions. The carrot 1 can be supplied stably.

  Another embodiment of the root vegetable processing apparatus of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the same or equivalent member as the said embodiment, and the detailed description is abbreviate | omitted. The present embodiment is different from the previous embodiment only in the method of dividing the carrot 1. In the embodiment, the carrot 1 is divided into four parts (ginkgo cutting) from the lower end. In the present embodiment, the thin lower end of the carrot 1 is not divided into four parts, but is divided into four parts from a part having a certain length from the lower end part.

  In the embodiment, the first and second cutters 61, 62, 62 are attached to the support substrate 12, and the carrot 1 is divided into four from the lower end of the carrot 1. In the present embodiment, the first and second cutters 61, 62, 62 in the above embodiment are removed, and one first cutter 100 replaces the second cutters 62, 62 with the holes 12 a of the support substrate 12. The both ends of the first cutter 100 are fixed to the support substrate 12 via the cutter fixing plates 101 and 101. That is, the lower end of the carrot 1 is divided into two by the first cutter 100.

  Two second cutters 102, 102 extending perpendicularly to the center of the hole 12 a of the support substrate 12 at a right angle to the first cutter 100 and extending upward from the height at which the lower second guide members 46, 47 are disposed. Opposed to each other. A blade edge is formed at the tip and upper surface of the second cutters 102, 102. The second cutters 102 and 102 are respectively fixed to cutter fixing plates 103 and 103 formed in an L shape or an inverted L shape, and operation plates 104 and 104 are fixed to the cutter fixing plates 103 and 103, respectively. A cylinder 105 is disposed in the center of the operation plates 104, 104, and the cylinder 105 is fixed on the support substrate 12 via a support base 106. On the left and right sides of the cylinder 105, there are operating rods 107, 107, 108, 108 that advance and retreat at the same time, and operating plates 104, 104 are fixed to the operating rods 107, 107, 108, 108, respectively. Since other structures are the same as those in the above embodiment, description thereof is omitted.

  Next, the operation will be described. The same operation as that of the above embodiment will be described briefly. Moreover, before inserting the carrot 1, as shown in FIG. 7, the 2nd cutters 102 and 102 are in the open state. As in the previous embodiment, the front end of the carrot 1 is placed downward and inserted into the four upper guide rollers 22, and a switch (not shown) is turned on. As a result, after the cylinder 105 is actuated, a motor (not shown) that rotates the cylinder 95 and the pulley 79 is driven as in the above-described embodiment.

  When the cylinder 105 is operated, the operating rods 107, 107, 108, 108 are retracted from the state shown in FIG. As a result, the second cutters 102 and 102 move inward via the operation plates 104 and 104 and the cutter fixing plates 103 and 103. When the second cutters 102 and 102 move inward, the kerf is cut so that the carrot 1 portion corresponding to the height of the cutting edge at the tip of the second cutters 102 and 102 is divided into two. When the carrot 1 is pushed downward by the pressing rod 97 and the carrot 1 is lowered, the portion cut by the second cutters 102 and 102 to divide the carrot 1 into two parts as described above. The upper part is divided into two with a kerf formed by the upper blades of the upper surfaces of the second cutters 102, 102.

  When the carrot 1 is pressed downward by the pressing rod 97, the lower end portion of the carrot 1 is divided into two parts by the first cutter 100 and then sliced by the slicing blade 73 provided on the rotating disk 71. In this case, the lower part of the carrot 1 that is not divided into two parts by the second cutters 102 and 102 is only divided into two parts by the first cutter 100. That is, it is sliced into half-moon circles. As described above, when the part of the carrot 1 divided into two parts by the second cutters 102 and 102 reaches the first cutter 100, the part above this part is further divided into two parts by the first cutter 100. That is, the second cutters 102 and 102 and the first cutter 100 are divided into four (ginkgo cutting). The carrot 1 divided into four in this way is sliced by the slicing blade 73 by the rotation of the rotating disk 71.

  In the present embodiment, the entire length of the carrot 1 is not divided into four parts as in the previous embodiment, but the thin part at the tip of the carrot 1 is divided into two parts (half-moon circles) to a certain extent. Since the portion having a thickness is divided into four parts (ginkgo cutting), an effect that cannot be obtained in the above-described embodiment that a small size of the sliced carrot 1 does not occur is obtained.

  In each of the above embodiments, the case where the carrot 1 is divided into four parts has been described, but it goes without saying that the carrot 1 can also be divided into two parts. In this case, in the case of the first embodiment (FIGS. 1 to 6), it is obtained by removing one of the first cutter 61 or the second cutters 62 and 62. In the case of the second embodiment (FIGS. 7 and 8), the second cutters 102 and 102 and the members 103 to 108 that drive the second cutters 102 and 102 are obtained. Particularly in the case of the second embodiment, when the first cutter 100 is removed while leaving the second cutters 102 and 102, the lower part of the carrot 1 that has not been divided into two by the second cutters 102 and 102 is sliced. A portion that is sliced into a circle by the blade 73 and divided into two by the second cutters 102 and 102 is divided into two (half-moon circles). Therefore, the thin part of the carrot 1 is not divided into two parts, and the part of a certain thickness is divided into two parts, so that the sizes of the sliced carrots 1 can be made uniform. In this case, the number of the second cutters 102 and 102 is not two, but three or four may be provided and divided into three or four. Moreover, although the case of the carrot as root vegetables was demonstrated, it cannot be overemphasized that it is applicable, for example to a radish.

It is a front view which shows one Embodiment of the processing apparatus of root vegetables of this invention. It is a principal part enlarged front view of FIG. FIG. 3 is a side view of FIG. 2. FIG. 3 is a plan view of FIG. 2. FIG. 5 is an enlarged plan view of a central portion in FIG. 4. The slicing means is shown, (a) is a plan view, (b) is a cross-sectional view, and (c) is an enlarged cross-sectional view along the line BB. It is a top view which shows other embodiment of the processing apparatus of root vegetables of this invention. FIG. 8 is a side view of FIG. 7.

Explanation of symbols

1 carrot 10 root vegetable guide means 11 base substrate 12 support substrate 14, 15 guide shafts 20, 21 support plate 22 upper part guide rollers 30, 31 lower part first guide member 34 spring 44 swing levers 46, 47 lower part second Guide member 51 Spring 60 Vertically splitting means 61 First cutter 62 Second cutter 70 Slicing means 71 Rotating disk 73 Slicing blade 90 Root vegetables pressing means 95 Cylinder 97 Pressing rod 100 First cutter 102 Second cutter 103 Cutter fixing plate 105 Cylinder

Claims (3)

  A root vegetable guide means that elastically holds and guides the root vegetables inserted in the vertical direction, a vertical section means that is arranged below the root vegetable guide means and vertically divides the root vegetables into a plurality, An apparatus for processing root vegetables, comprising slice means disposed below the vertically dividing means and root vegetables pressing means for pressing the root vegetables held by the root vegetable guide means downward.   The root vegetable guide means includes an upper guide member that elastically holds and guides a substantially middle portion of the root vegetable, a lower first guide member that holds and guides an outer periphery of a lower end portion of the root vegetable, and the upper The root vegetable according to claim 1, further comprising a lower second guide member disposed between the lower guide member and the lower first guide member to elastically hold and guide the root vegetables. Kind of processing equipment.   The vertically dividing means has a first cutter that divides the root vegetables into two, and opposes so as to divide the upper part of a certain length from the lower end of the root vegetables held by the root vegetables guide means into two. And a cutter driving means for simultaneously driving the second cutter forward and backward. The lower end portion of the root vegetables is divided into two by the first cutter and divided into two by the second cutter. The root vegetable processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the root vegetable part is further divided into two parts by the first cutter.

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