JP2011041502A - Marine product-processing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a well-operable marine product-processing apparatus enabling nonedible parts to be fully removed in a short time to perform a processing treatment to obtain a highly valuable commercial product. <P>SOLUTION: The marine product-processing apparatus is such that: in an internal organ remover 10, a drill 14 is attached to a drive 12, covered with a drill cover 16, and fixed onto the drive 12; one end of a hose 20 is joined to the opening 28 formed in the drill cover 16, while the other end is joined to an opening 30 in a waste container 18; the one end of the hose 36 is joined to the other opening 32 in the waste container 18; while the other end is joined to the opening 34 of a suction part 22. The drive 12 of the thus prepared apparatus is driven and rotated in a given direction; and the suction part 22 is operated to start a suction; for example, the tip of the drill 14 is inserted into the mouth opened on a sea urchin to remove its unnecessary internal organs. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a marine product processing device, and the marine product processing device according to the present invention is suitable for use in removing seafood that has been landed, in particular, internal organs that are unnecessary contents from sea urchin shells.

  Among seafood, for example, sea urchins and oysters are known to be in demand and have high commercial value. In general, when providing these desired products, an operator removes unnecessary built-in parts from the shell with chopsticks or tweezers, and transfers the stripped material washed with salt water to a tray.

  This removal process is very time consuming and may reduce the work efficiency and the product value. In view of this, several apparatuses and devices for solving such a problem have been proposed.

  Patent Document 1 is a marine product processing instrument and processing method, which uses a nozzle that can replace and replace a plurality of suction parts with different suction holes, and eliminates unnecessary digestive organs of seafood such as sea urchins and kelp ingestion residues by the nozzle. The purpose is to have only the gonad attached to the shell. The seafood processing instrument has a removable suction nozzle that is set to a hole diameter and removes unnecessary contents of seafood, a hose connected to the suction nozzle, and a suction machine connected to the hose. The seafood processing equipment is completely sanitized by using a suction nozzle suitable for removing medium-sized and small-diameter holes and residues attached to it. Can keep.

  Patent Document 2 is a sea urchin viscera removal device, and aims to remove viscera, which is an inedible part of shelled raw sea urchin, in a short time without leaving it. Patent Document 2 is attached to this apparatus by suction means, a separator connected to the suction means, a flexible hose having a base end connected to the separator, and a tip of the hose. A taper-shaped suction nozzle, and the suction nozzle is inserted into the opening of the sea urchin shell to suck and remove the internal organs inside the sea urchin shell.

  Furthermore, Patent Document 3 is a sea urchin processing apparatus and method for drawing out the germ line. The sea urchin processing apparatus includes a conveyor for transferring the sea urchin to a cutting site, a cutter disposed on the conveyor, an alignment plane for directing and maintaining the sea urchin on the conveyor, and loading the conveyor in the direction of the alignment plane. The cutter includes a laser beam or a cutting element of a belt-like saw blade.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-17245 Utility model registration No. 3054992 JP-A-7-194347

  However, since the patent document 1 uses the suction nozzle of the hole diameter suitable for the removal of the sea urchin internal organs residue with respect to each sea urchin, complicated attachment / detachment is requested | required. Moreover, even if the removal apparatus of patent document 2 is actually used for removal of the internal organs, there is a current situation where the internal organs cannot be sufficiently removed. For this reason, even if an expensive removal device such as several hundred thousand is purchased, the removal device remains unused.

  Furthermore, the sea urchin processing apparatus of Patent Document 3 is a large-scale apparatus, which is owned by an individual and difficult to install. Moreover, this processing apparatus may damage the commercial value of sea urchins by cutting.

  In view of such problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a marine product processing device that has good operability and that can sufficiently remove an edible portion in a short time and process it into a high-value product.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention is a marine product processing device that removes tissue that is taken out from seafood as unnecessary, and this processing device hooks the tissue to be taken out and directs the caught tissue in the discharge direction from the seafood. Rod means to be taken out, a drive means to which the rod means is attached and rotating the attached rod means in a fixed direction, a cover means which is formed in a tubular shape penetrating the rod means and covers the rod means, and the removed tissue And a suction means for sucking the tissue taken out of the container, and the processor further includes an opening formed in the cover means and a first hose connecting one opening in the container. And a second hose connecting the other opening of the container and the opening of the suction means.

  According to the present invention, the rod means is attached to the drive means, the attached rod means is covered with the cover means, fixed to the drive means, one end of the first hose is connected to the opening formed in the cover means, and the first Connect the other end of the hose to one opening in the container, connect one end of the second hose to the other opening in the container, and connect the other end of the second hose to the opening of the suction means. Drive the drive means, rotate it in a certain direction, and simultaneously operate the suction means to start suction, for example, simply insert the tip of the rod means into the mouth open to the sea urchin and easily remove unwanted tissue The suction means is pulled through the first hose while the hooked tissue is taken out in the direction of discharging from the seafood, and the cover means prevents scattering of the extracted tissue due to the rotation of the rod means. Carry the unwanted tissue sucked by the suction force to the container, save. By such simple operation, it is possible to significantly reduce the time required for removing unnecessary tissues from marine products without washing with water as compared with the conventional apparatus.

It is a figure which shows schematic structure of the viscera remover to which the marine product processor according to the present invention is applied. It is the external view which looked at the drill of FIG. 1 from the side surface side.

  Next, an embodiment of a marine product processor according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Referring to FIG. 1, an embodiment of a marine product processing device according to the present invention is applied to a viscera remover 10. The viscera remover 10 has a drill 14 attached to a drive unit 12, the attached drill 14 is covered with a drill cover 16 and fixed to the drive unit 12, and one end of the hose 20 is connected to an opening 28 formed in the drill cover 16. The other end of the hose 20 is connected to one opening 30 in the waste container 18, one end of the hose 36 is connected to the other opening 32 in the waste container 18, and the other end of the hose 36 is connected to the suction part 22. Connected to the opening 34, the drive unit 12 is driven to rotate in a certain direction, and the suction unit 22 is operated to start suction. For example, the tip of the drill 14 is simply inserted into the opening of the sea urchin Unnecessary tissue that is taken out in (1) is easily hooked, and the hooked tissue is oriented in the direction of discharge from the seafood, and the hose 20 is removed while preventing the scattered tissue from being scattered by the rotation of the drill (14) with the drill cover (16). Through the suction force of the suction part 22 Carry the unwanted tissue pull up to the container, save. By such simple operation, it is possible to significantly reduce the time required for removing unnecessary tissues from seafood without washing with water as compared with the conventional apparatus.

  The illustration and description of parts not directly related to the present invention are omitted. In the following description, the signal is indicated by the reference number of the connecting line in which it appears.

  The present embodiment is a viscera remover 10 to which a marine product processor according to the present invention is applied. The viscera remover 10 includes a drive unit 12, a drill 14, a drill cover 16, a waste container 18, hoses 20 and 36, and a suction unit 22, as shown in FIG.

  The drive unit 12 has a function of rotating the drill 14 in removing the internal organs contained in the sea urchin shell in the internal organ remover 10, for example. The drive unit 12 may be a 100-volt power supply motor or a battery-driven motor. These motors only need to generate torque that prevents the internal organs wound between the drill 14 and the drill cover 16 from biting into the drill 14 so that the drill 14 does not stop rotating, that is, does not cause clogging of the internal organs.

  The drive unit 12 is formed with a drill chuck having, for example, three claws, although a fastening mechanism is not shown, on the side where the drill 14 described later is mounted. The drive unit 12 is threaded with a rod clamp so as to grip and fix the drill 14. The rod clamp has a through hole through which the drill 14 is inserted, and a screw for receiving a rod clamp screw is cut. The rod clamp has an inner side formed so that the drill chuck is tightened when the screw is tightened while the drill 14 is passed through and held by the drill chuck. Thus, the drive unit 12 fixes the gripped drill 14 by fastening the rod clamp. Thus, the drive unit 12 makes the drill 12 detachable.

  The drill 14 is not limited to the above-described fixing to the driving unit 12, but may be fixed to the rotation shaft of the driving unit 12 using at least two screws.

  The drill 14 has a function of winding the internal organs in contact with the internal organs when the internal organs are removed. The drill 14 is a drill rod. The drill 14 in the present embodiment has a tip that is polished in a spiral shape so as to facilitate hooking of the internal organs when contacting the internal organs. Further, as shown in FIG. 2, the drill 14 has a length 24 spirally polished in the longitudinal direction so that not only the tip portion but also the internal organs are not clogged as described above.

  It should be noted that the drill 14 is not limited to a spiral shape at the tip end, and may be formed by hooking the viscera by forming the tip end into a nail shape.

  Further, the drill 14 forms a spiral in the direction opposite to the conventional spiral direction over several turns in the vicinity of the position 26 of the length 24 polished in a spiral manner in accordance with the attachment position 26 of the hose 20. Even if the drill 14 is rotated by the drive unit 12 in a certain direction, the taken-in internal organs are carried along the formed spiral, and as a result, the internal organs carried at the position 26 are in the drill cover 16 to which the hose 20 is attached. It is discharged from the opening 28 to the hose 20. When the drill 14 is formed in this way, the viscera remover 10 does not send the viscera taken out from the position 26 to the drive unit 12 side without providing a complicated stopper mechanism. Thereby, it can prevent that the rod clamp of the drive part 12 gets dirty.

  Returning to FIG. 1, the drill cover 16 is a penetrating tube having both ends opened. Even if the drill cover 16 covers the drill 14 and rotates the drill 14, the drill cover 16 has a function of preventing the hooked internal organs from scattering and preventing rust. Further, one end of the drill cover 16 is fixed to the drive unit 12.

  The drill cover 16 is set such that when the drill cover 16 is fixed to the drive unit 12, the length of the drill cover 16 protrudes about several millimeters from the tip of the drill 14. By setting the drill cover 16 in this way, the drill 14 can eliminate the risk of damaging a product portion, and can hook only an unnecessary sea urchin internal organ, for example.

  The drill cover 16 has an opening 28 at a position where the hose 20 is attached. The viscera remover 10 discharges the viscera through the opening 28. Although not shown, the opening 28 is formed so as to project slightly larger than the diameter of the hose 20 in order to attach the hose 20. When the hose 20 is attached to the opening portion 28 of the drill cover 16, the hose 20 is firmly fixed to the projecting portion of the drill cover 16 formed in a branch shape, although not shown due to the elasticity of the hose 20. be able to.

  The waste container 18 is a container for storing the discharged internal organs. The waste container 18 has two openings 30 and 32. The openings 30 and 32 are preferably formed at a position higher than the upper limit of the accumulation limit of the waste container 18 in order to prevent the stored internal organs from flowing back into the hose 20 or being sucked into the suction part 22. In this embodiment, the openings 30 and 32 are provided on the upper surface side of the waste container 18. The waste container 18 can be sealed when the openings 30 and 32 are sealed. At the position of the opening 30, a protruding portion is formed with the same diameter as the opening 28 of the drill cover 16.

  The hose 20 only needs to be flexible. The hose 20 connects the opening 28 and the opening 30 by being closely attached to the projecting portion. The internal organ remover 10 can freely move the drill cover 14 integrated with the drive unit 12 by connecting the drill cover 16 and the waste container 18 with a hose 20. For this reason, the viscera remover 10 can improve operability.

  The suction unit 22 has a function of sucking air. The suction unit 22 only needs to have a suction function such as a simple vacuum pump or a vacuum cleaner. The suction part 22 preferably has a suction force such that the internal organs do not clog the hose 20. The suction part 22 also connects the opening 32 of the waste container 18 and the opening 34 of the suction part 22 with a hose 36.

  By connecting the hose 36 and driving the suction unit 22 in this way, the internal organs sent to the hose 20 are sent to the waste container 18 without clogging. The hose 236 may be any one having flexibility.

  More specifically, the viscera remover 10 is configured so that the open portion in the space formed in the drill cover 16, the pipes of the hoses 20 and 36, and the waste container 18 is limited to the opening 38 on the distal end side of the drill cover 16. ing. For this reason, the viscera remover 10 sucks the removed viscera into the waste container 18 by sucking the viscera with the suction part 22, and stores the viscera as waste.

  Next, the operation of the viscera remover 10 will be briefly described. In assembly in preparation for use, the drill 14 is fixed straight to the drive unit 12. Next, the drill 12 is inserted into the pipe of the drill cover 16. Then, the drill cover 16 is fixed to the drive unit 12.

  Next, one end of the hose 20 is attached to the opening 28 of the drill cover 16, and the other end is attached to the opening 30 of the waste container 18. Further, one end of the hose 36 is attached to the opening 32 of the waste container 18, and the other end is attached to the opening 34 of the suction unit 22.

  The drive unit 12 and the suction unit 22 are connected to a power source, and the power source is turned on. Thereby, the drive unit 12 and the suction unit 22 operate. That is, the drive of the drive unit 12 causes the drill 14 to rotate within the pipe of the drill cover 16. Further, air is sucked from the opening 38 on the distal end side of the drill cover 16 by driving the suction portion 22.

  For example, the tip portion of the drill cover 16 is inserted into the portion where the sea urchin has been broken. When the internal organ comes into contact with the tip of the drill 12 protruding from the tip portion, the drill 14 hooks the internal organ. The internal organs are wound up spirally according to the rotation of the drill 14. The adjustment of the suction force required by the expensive suction-type visceral removal devices so far is almost unnecessary.

  When the internal organs reach the position 26 of the drill 14, the internal organs are fed in the opposite direction to the previous rotation. At this time, the internal organs are sucked into the hose 20 from the opening 28 by the suction of the suction part 22. The internal organs in the hose 20 are stored in the waste container 18 by suction from the suction unit 22. Use of the viscera remover 10 eliminates the need for water washing after treatment, which has been necessary until now. Even if the water is washed after this removal treatment, the amount of water used is small, and a great saving can be achieved.

  By configuring as described above, for example, when processing a sea urchin that has been caught, unnecessary internal organs can be easily caught and the internal organs can be removed. Since the internal organ remover 10 separates the waste container 18 and the suction part 22 with the hose 20 so as not to be involved in the operation of other parts of the internal organ remover 10, the user mainly operates the drive part during operation. 12, only the drill 14 and the drill cover 16 should be operated with the hand-held weight. Therefore, the viscera remover 10 can provide a small and light device with good operability. Moreover, by operating in this way, the processing time for removing the internal organs can be reduced to about 1/3 compared with the case of using a conventional apparatus.

10 Viscera remover
12 Drive unit
14 Drill
16 Drill cover
18 Waste container
20, 36 hose
22 Suction unit

Claims (3)

In a marine product processing device that removes tissue extracted as unnecessary from seafood, the processing device includes:
Rod means for hooking the tissue to be taken out, and taking out the hooked tissue in the direction of discharge from the seafood;
A drive means to which the rod means is attached and which rotates the attached rod means in a fixed direction;
Cover means for forming a tubular shape penetrating the rod means and covering the rod means;
A container for storing the extracted tissue;
A suction means for sucking the extracted tissue into the container;
The processing device further includes a first hose connecting an opening formed in the cover means and one opening in the container;
A marine product processing device comprising: a second hose connecting the other opening of the container and the opening of the suction means.   2. The processing machine according to claim 1, wherein the cover means defines the length of the exposed portion of the rod means by the length of the cover means.   The processing device according to claim 1, wherein the rod means is formed in a spiral shape and is formed in a reverse spiral shape in the direction of the spiral from the vicinity of the opening formed in the cover means. vessel.

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