JP2012223193A - Delivering device of sliced meat pieces - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a delivering device of sliced meat pieces capable of smoothly transferring sliced meat piece from a rotating body conveying sliced meat pieces cut out from a meat slicer while attaching the same on the peripheral surface onto a delivery conveyer.SOLUTION: The delivering device of the sliced meat pieces has the rotating body 9 conveying the sliced meat pieces m while attaching the same to the peripheral surface, a pealing roller 10 approaching to the rotating body 9 rotating in an opposite direction to a travelling direction and pealing out the sliced meat pieces m from the rotating body 9, and the delivering conveyer 17 receiving the peeled sliced meat pieces m at a starting end part and delivering the same outside of the device in the conveying direction of the sliced meat pieces m, the peeling roller 10 is arranged while bringing the same closer to a valley with a delta shape formed by the upper surface in the starting end part of the delivering conveyer 17 and the peripheral surface of the rotating body 9.

Description

The present invention relates to an apparatus for carrying out sliced meat pieces cut out from a meat slicer.

A conventional meat slicer related to the present invention is disclosed in Patent Document 1, for example.
This meat slicer has a holding device that presses the meat placed on the bottom conveyor of the meat box toward the conveyor, and a spring that presses the meat toward the conveyor, providing stable slicing performance even if the size of the meat changes. I try to get it.

However, the left and right sides are regulated by the side walls, the bottom conveyor and the presser that faces the bottom are enclosed and sent out to fill the meat box that has a rectangular cross-sectional shape, and slices multiple meats at once When producing so-called komagire meat and placing it on a tray, it is desirable that the sliced meat pieces to be sliced at a time are quantitative, but since the amount of feed cannot be regulated by the presser of Patent Document 1, quantification is not possible. Have difficulty.

In addition, in order to carry sliced meat pieces out of the machine, sliced meat pieces are relatively small and a large number of sliced pieces are randomly combined, so they can be placed on the tray relatively easily. It is desirable to carry out the collected items to the outside of the machine and connect them to subsequent packaging and pricing lines.
On the other hand, unlike sliced meat, when slicing a single chunk of meat, the orientation of the tray is not uniform, it is folded in half and arranged in a scale shape, or it is wound around every piece called cutting It is difficult to mechanize because sliced meat pieces cut back and forth in order to arrange the shape, or in some cases, it is difficult to mechanize because it is accurately weighed and placed. The actual situation is that it is necessary to manually perform a desired serving after the sheet is taken out in a spread state.

Prior Document 2 has a configuration in which a slice piece cut out from a meat slicer is transported to a dish mounting position at the front end of the transport belt, dropped into a standby tray, and the saucer into which the sliced meat piece has been introduced is sent in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction. It is shown.

However, this Patent Document 2 does not disclose any manual removal on the conveyor that is being transported without putting it in the tray, and if it is processed manually from the slicer to the plate loading position. For example, in order to ensure a certain work efficiency, it is necessary to secure a suitable worker and work space, and for this purpose, the entire length of the conveyor must be extended. Then, the transport distance to the dish mounting position becomes long, and timing errors due to the disorder of the posture and the slipping of the belt during the transport become large, and the work accuracy at the time of placing on the tray decreases.

Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 1-164095 JP-A-4-69196

An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for carrying out a sliced meat piece that can smoothly transfer a sliced meat piece cut out from a meat slicer onto a carry-out conveyor.

The present invention includes a rotating body that receives and transfers a sliced meat piece cut out from a meat slicer on a peripheral surface, a peeling roller that rotates in the reverse direction in the vicinity of the rotating body and peels the sliced meat piece from the rotating body, A slice meat piece unloading device comprising a carry-out conveyor for receiving the sliced meat piece taken at the start end and carrying it out of the machine along the transfer direction of the slice meat piece, the upper surface of the start-up end of the carry-out conveyor and the periphery of the rotating body The strip meat carry-out device is characterized in that the peeling rollers are disposed close to each other between the delta-shaped valleys formed by the surfaces and sandwiched between the peripheral surface of the rotating body and the upper surface of the carry-out conveyor.

According to this invention, the sliced meat pieces cut out from the meat slicer can be smoothly transferred onto the carry-out conveyor and carried out of the machine.

  It is the side view which fractured | ruptured the principal part of the meat slicer which implemented this invention.   It is the same top view.   It is sectional drawing in the exit vicinity of a meat transfer bowl.   It is explanatory drawing which showed typically the reception condition of the slice meat piece of the carrying-out means in a receiving position.

An apparatus for carrying out sliced meat pieces according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a side view with the main part broken, FIG. 2 is a plan view, FIG. 3 shows a cross-sectional shape in the vicinity of the outlet of the meat transfer trough, and FIG. 4 schematically shows the state of receiving the sliced meat pieces of the unloading means at the receiving position. The state where the sliced meat piece is transiting is shown.
The meat slicer is configured to receive a meat transfer trough provided with a means for feeding the placed meat chunk, a blade provided near the exit of the meat transport trough, and a sliced meat piece cut by the blade at a predetermined receiving position. And unloading means for unloading.

The meat slicer used in this example is the one described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2006-224263 filed by the present applicant, and the detailed configuration is omitted.
The meat transfer trough is supported so as to be able to swing up and down within a certain angular range near the horizontal position around a support shaft 3 integrally protruding from the left and right side walls of the rear part of the machine base 2.
The meat transfer trough may be a single meat transport trough, but it is desirable that a plurality of meat transport troughs having substantially the same cross-sectional area in the vicinity of the outlet be arranged in parallel at an appropriate interval to be integrated into this example. As shown in FIG. 3, it consists of two sets of meat transfer rods 1a and 1b.

At the bottom of the meat transfer trough 1a, 1b, a bottom conveyor 4 is filled in the width direction of both transfer troughs 1a, 1b as shown in FIG. 3, and extends from the rear to the outlet as shown in FIG. Since it is laid and widely used, it is appropriately connected to a servo motor and driven, although not described in detail.
Further, side walls 5 and 5 are erected on both the left and right sides of the meat transfer rods 1a and 1b from the rear part to the outlet, and the side walls 5 and 5 are located at the upper position near the outlet of the meat transfer rods 1a and 1b. Upper conveyors 6 and 6 are provided as upper pressing members that form a transfer path having a square cross-sectional shape in the feeding direction of the meat block by the upper surface of the bottom conveyor 4 and the upper surface of the bottom conveyor 4. The upper pressing member is not necessarily a conveyor and may be a simple flat plate.
The latter part (support shaft 3 side) of the meat transfer rods 1a, 1b is open without the upper conveyor 6 and is close to the swing center point, so that the movement of the meat transfer rods 1a, 1b is small and the meat transfer rod 1a, It is easy and safe to supply the meat lump into 1b.

The upper conveyors 6 and 6 have a width dimension slightly smaller than the interval between the side walls 5 and 5 in the meat transfer rods 1a and 1b, and are provided in the vicinity of the outlets of the meat transfer rods 1a and 1b and in the substantially first half. Conveyor belts are wound around rollers 6a and 6b that are axially supported on the front and rear, and rear rollers 6b are supported by the meat transfer troughs 1a and 1b, respectively. The rollers 6b are illustrated as appropriate in synchronization with the bottom conveyor 4. It is intermittently driven by a motor that does not.
The upper conveyors 6 and 6 have a contact surface with the lower meat chunk gradually inclined downward toward the outlet side, and the meat chunk is compressed while being sandwiched and fed out by the bottom conveyor. To increase.
The upper conveyors 6 and 6 are connected and supported by air cylinders 6c and 6c attached to the meat transfer troughs 1a and 1b so as to be able to swing up and down around the axis of the rear roller 6b.

Further, the upper conveyors 6 and 6 can be fixed to a predetermined position within the above-described vertical swing range by an appropriate means, and the position of the front end portion on the outlet side of the upper conveyors 6 and 6 is fixed. The area of the quadrangular cross section in the vicinity of the outlet of the meat transfer trough 1 formed by the conveyor 4, the left and right side walls 5, 5 and the upper conveyor 6 is determined. The amount of feed can be made constant by stuffing meat chunks so as to fill this cross-sectional area.

In this way, at the outlet of the meat transfer rods 1a and 1b having the delivery conveyor 4 at the bottom, the side walls 5 and 5 on both sides, and the upper conveyors 6 and 6 at the top, the position of the slice is adjusted in the delivery direction. A regulating plate 7 to be regulated is provided. A band knife 8 is provided at the upper end of the abutting plate 7 with a cut-out opening, and is placed on the meat transfer rods 1a and 1b when the meat transfer rods 1a and 1b that reciprocate in the vertical direction move up. The front end of the meat chunk is cut by a band knife 8 and cut out from the cut-out opening as a sliced meat piece.

A rotating body 9 that receives a sliced meat piece on the peripheral surface is provided near the cutout opening. The peripheral surface of the rotating body 9 is as close to the cutout opening as possible so that it can be received before the sliced meat pieces are cut off.
Although the rotating body 9 is rotated using a servo motor (not shown) in relation to the moving speed of the meat transfer bowl 1, the sliced meat pieces can be taken out in an orderly manner in a state where they are always spread. The rotating body 9 may not necessarily be cylindrical but may be constituted by an endless belt.

As the peeling member that peels off the sliced meat pieces that adhere to the peripheral surface of the rotator 9 and are transferred to the peripheral surface of the rotator 9 on the side opposite to the cutout opening, the rotator 9 travels in the reverse direction in the vicinity of the peripheral surface of the rotator 9 A peeling roller 10 is provided.

Next, the carrying-out means for carrying out the sliced meat piece transferred by the rotating body 9 and peeled off by the peeling roller 10 will be described.
In this example, two systems of carry-out means, that is, a first carry-out means and a second carry-out means are provided, and can be used properly in association with the switching of the upper pressing member described above.

The first carry-out means comprises a tray transfer member that transfers the empty tray 11 to the slice meat piece receiving position and carries the slice meat pieces peeled off from the rotating body 9 into the tray 11 to the outside of the receiver.
The transfer member for transferring the empty tray 11 to the receiving position where the sliced meat pieces peeled off from the rotating body 9 by the peeling roller 10 are dropped and carrying out the tray 11 on which the sliced meat pieces are stacked at the receiving position is shown in detail. Although not shown, a tray peeling device that peels a large number of trays 11 stacked in the hopper from the lowermost end and takes them downward at the side position of the receiving position, and receives the removed tray 11 and receives sliced meat pieces. In connection with the cutting, the latching pieces of the tray 11 that are transferred in a direction perpendicular to the transfer direction of the sliced meat pieces (the feed direction of the meat chunks in the meat transfer bowl and in the left-right direction in FIG. 1) to the receiving position. And a transfer belt 12 having the same.
The transfer member for carrying out the tray 11 on which the sliced meat pieces are stacked at the receiving position may have an extended transfer band 12 or may be connected to another belt conveyor or the like for the purpose of post-processing.

As shown in FIG. 1, the hopper of the tray transfer member, the transfer band 12, and the like have a movable frame 13 integrated with the backing plate 7, the rotating body 9, the peeling roller 10, etc. as shown in FIG. When the slice thickness is set, the backing plate 7 is moved by the driving device 16 in the direction of feeding the meat chunks in the meat transfer rods 1a and 1b. It is configured to move as it is.

The second unloading means is for unloading the sliced meat pieces to the outside of the receiving machine on the starting end portion of the unloading conveyor 17 at the above-mentioned slice meat piece receiving position, and relates to the slice meat piece unloading device of the present invention.
In this example, the carry-out conveyor 17 is provided so as to run along the transfer direction of the sliced meat pieces perpendicular to the transfer direction of the tray 11 in the first carry-out means.
The carry-out conveyor 17 includes a driving roller to which a driving device such as a motor (not shown) is connected, and a belt conveyor that is wound around a plurality of rollers provided from the start end to the end.

As shown in FIG. 4, the start end of the carry-out conveyor 17 that receives the sliced meat piece is placed in a state of being close to the rotating body 9 and the peeling roller 10 indicated by a solid line when the sliced meat piece is received.
As shown in FIG. 4, the starting end of the carry-out conveyor 17 is configured such that the peeling roller 10 is brought close to each other between the delta-shaped valleys formed by the outer circumference of the rotary body 9, and the upper surface of the carry-out conveyor 17. The tip of the sliced meat piece m that is disposed so as to be sandwiched between and transferred to the peripheral surface of the rotating body 9 is peeled off by rotating the peeling roller 10 in the opposite direction with respect to the traveling direction of the rotating body 9, The direction is changed by approximately 90 degrees and guided toward the carry-out conveyor 17.
Since the peeling roller 10 uses a round bar having a relatively small diameter (6 mm to 30 mm) so that the sliced meat piece m is not attached and pulled, the sliced meat piece m is placed on the contact surface side with the carry-out conveyor 17. Can be transferred smoothly without being pulled in.
It is desirable that the traveling speed of the carry-out conveyor 17 be equal to or higher than the peripheral speed of the rotating body 9 so that the sliced meat piece m does not stagnate at the connecting portion.
This second carry-out means is mainly used when slicing a single meat chunk, so that the sliced meat piece m is larger than the chopped meat piece and is transferred as shown in FIG. If the first half changes, there is no possibility of being pulled by the peeling roll 10.

When the first carry-out means 17 is used, the carry-out conveyor 17 retreats at least the starting end portion to the state indicated by the phantom line in FIG. 4 and opens the fall passage of the sliced meat pieces to the tray 11.
That is, the starting end portion of the carry-out conveyor 17 can secure a passage through which the sliced meat pieces peeled by the peeling roller 10 from the receiving position of the sliced meat pieces close to the rotating body 9 and the peeling roller 10 fall into the tray 11. Appropriate measures are taken to make it possible to retract in the horizontal direction.

The carry-out conveyor 17 may be used by attaching and detaching a ready-made conveyor. However, when the carry-out conveyor 17 is supported by the movable frame 13 to which the tray transfer device is attached as in this example, in order to adjust the slice thickness, Even if the movable frame 13 that supports the plate 7 or the rotating body 9 is moved, the relative position does not change, which is convenient.
It is convenient to connect the drive motor for running the carry-out conveyor 17 to the control device of the slicer.

The usage method of the meat slicer comprised in this way is demonstrated.
First, a method for slicing chopped meat obtained by slicing a plurality of meat chunks at the same time and packing the plurality of meat chunks in the meat transfer rods 1a and 1b will be described.
In this case, first, the upper conveyors 6 and 6 in the meat transfer rods 1a and 1b are fixed at predetermined positions of the meat transfer rods 1a and 1b. In order to determine the fixing position, first, the volume to be sliced at one time is calculated based on the slice thickness and the area of the square cross section near the outlet of the meat transfer bowl 1, and from the clogging condition of the meat chunk in the meat transfer bowl 1 The weight is calculated by multiplying the apparent specific gravity obtained empirically.
In this example, since the number of times of loading into the tray 11 is determined based on the weight sliced at a time, that is, the amount to be deposited, the position of the upper conveyor 6 is determined so that the desired amount of deposit is obtained, and the cross section is rectangular. Adjust the area.

When two sets of the same meat transfer bowl 1 are integrally formed in parallel as in this example, if the position of the upper conveyor 6 is determined and fixed so that the cross-sectional square shape has the same area, each meat transfer bowl 1a , 1b so that the amount of sliced at one time is equal, so when receiving and laying multiple times on one tray 11, it is divided into both meat transfer bowls 1a, 1b and received several times. However, it is convenient because the quantitativeness is not impaired.

Since the topped meat can be easily placed on the tray 11, the first carrying-out means comprising the transfer member of the tray 11 is used as the carrying-out means. Accordingly, the carry-out conveyor 17 that constitutes the second carry-out means moves the starting end away from the sliced meat receiving position so as not to prevent the sliced meat pieces from being put into the tray 11.

A plurality of meat chunks are brought into contact with each other and packed into the meat transfer trough 1 of the meat slicer adjusted as described above, and the slicing operation is started, but two sets of meat transport troughs 1a and 1b are arranged in parallel as in this example. When configured, the number of servings is determined by determining the number of times to put into one tray based on the amount sliced at a time from each meat transfer rod 1a, 1b.
For example, when slicing komagire meat such as pork leg meat, it is packed so as to fill the meat chunk into the meat transfer bowl 1, and the cross-sectional dimensions near the exit of each of the meat transfer bowls 1a and 1b are 145 mm wide and 150 mm long, If the slice thickness is 2 mm, the amount of sliced at one time at the outlets of the meat transfer troughs 1a and 1b is approximately 50 g, so that the upper conveyor 6 faces the bottom conveyor 6 to the upper surface of the bottom conveyor 6. The upper conveyor 6 is fixed at a position where the distance becomes 150 mm.
At this time, the cross-sectional areas in the vicinity of the outlets of the meat transfer rods 1a and 1b are substantially the same so that the quantitative property is not impaired even if the meat trays 1a and 1b are input to the same tray. In particular, attention should be paid to the fixed position of the upper conveyor 6.
Here, in order to obtain a tray with a large production amount of 200 g, it is only necessary to add 50 g for each tray 11 for 4 times, and it is divided into 2 times from each of the meat transfer troughs 1a and 1b. The tray 11 may be transferred so as to be loaded.
In order to slice this chopped meat quantitatively, the meat slicer of this example is packed so that a plurality of meat chunks are made uniform in the meat transfer rods 1a and 1b and filled with no gaps. Must be included.

Next, for example, a case of slicing a meat chunk consisting of a single portion such as pork spine loin will be described.
In this case, the meat chunks are not uniform in outer dimensions, and the height dimension (length dimension in the cutting direction, vertical dimension in FIG. 3) is not uniform. Therefore, the upper conveyor 6 cannot be accurately sliced unless the portion close to the sliced portion of the meat chunk is pressed, so that unlike the case of the above-mentioned Komagile meat, the upper conveyor 6 can move up and down in accordance with the height dimension of the meat chunk. It is supported by air cylinders 6c and 6c.

On the other hand, the unloading means uses the second unloading means including the unloading conveyor 17. This is because in the slicing work other than the chopped meat, the orientation of the trays is not uniform, and as described above, the trays are once spread out on the conveyor and taken out manually, and the desired trays must be manually placed. It is tailored to the actual situation. A motor for driving the carry-out conveyor 17 is connected to the control device of the slicer body, and the carry-out conveyor 17 is caused to travel in association with the slicing operation to obtain a desired receiving form.

In the meat slicer configured as described above, the top conveyor can be fixedly sliced in the top of the sliced meat, and the tray loading operation can be performed using the first unloading means. By combining 17 with the second carrying-out means by making the 17 movable up and down, it is possible to slice the meat lump of a single part with various forms of arrangement, so the versatility as a meat slicer increases and the operation rate improves.

1a, 1b Meat transfer bowl 4 Bottom conveyor 5 Side wall 6 Upper conveyor 9 Rotating body 10 Peeling roller 11 Tray 12 Tray transfer zone 17 Unloading conveyor

Claims (1)

A rotating body that transfers the sliced meat pieces cut from the meat slicer by attaching them to the peripheral surface, a peeling roller that rotates in the opposite direction close to the rotating body and peels the sliced meat pieces from the rotating body, and the sliced pieces A slice meat carry-out device comprising a carry-out conveyor for receiving the meat piece at the start end and carrying it out of the machine along the transfer direction of the slice meat piece, formed by the upper surface at the start end of the carry-out conveyor and the peripheral surface of the rotating body An apparatus for carrying out sliced meat pieces, characterized in that the peeling rollers are arranged close to each other between the delta-shaped valleys so as to be sandwiched between the peripheral surface of the rotating body and the upper surface of the carry-out conveyor.

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