JP2015000013A - Noodle transfer device and noodle transfer method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To fulfill the number of transfer of noodles to a following process in unit of time and send out the noodles by directing downward an upper part with a dense and strong structure to the following process even if the noodles have coarse and fragile structure of noodle strings at a lower part.SOLUTION: A noodle transfer device includes: a heat treatment conveyor 10 for sending out noodles 1 while being received in a basket 13 from a fryer; and a transfer conveyor 40 for receiving the noodles 1 supplied from the basket 13 and sending out them to the following process. The transfer conveyor 40 is a hanging type with a pallet 6 hung to an endless chain 44, and is disposed of a pusher 78 reciprocated along a moving direction of the pallet 6 to the transfer conveyor 40 and pushing forward the noodles 1 from the pallet 6.

Description

  The present invention relates to a noodle delivery apparatus and a noodle delivery method for delivering noodles fed from a fryer or other heat treatment apparatus in a production process of instant noodles to the next packaging process or the like.

  For example, Patent Document 1 discloses an apparatus for transferring instant noodles fried in a fryer to the next process. That is, the apparatus which delivers the noodles fried from the heat treatment conveyor which passed the fryer to the next process is illustrated in the literature 1. Specific examples of conventional devices for transferring noodles from the heat treatment conveyor to the next conveyor and transferring them to the next process are shown in FIGS. What is shown in FIG. 5A is a heat treatment conveyor 100 that has passed through a fryer, not shown, on the left side of the figure, and a guide face plate 200 at a turning portion at the tip of the conveyor 100. An oscillating plate 300 that oscillates up and down between a position continuous with the face plate 200 and a position below the rotating plate 300 on the lower side of the turning portion of the conveyor 100 and the oscillating plate 300 in a lowered position. It consists of a continuous push bar type conveyor 400. The heat treatment conveyor 100 has a basket 102 installed between parallel endless chains 101. Many baskets 102 are erected in the continuous direction of the endless chain 101 at the same interval, and pass through the fryer together with the endless chain 101 in a state where the noodles 1 are accommodated. Therefore, at this stage, the noodles 1 are fried, and the noodles 1 shown in the figure are fried in a folded state of a set of noodle strings folded in a rectangle, and the whole is flat and flat. Each one is put into a bag and commercialized.

  The noodles 1 immediately after frying carried by the heat treatment conveyor 100 are supported by the face plate 200 and stay in the basket 102 when the basket 102 turns at the turning portion at the tip, and reach the swinging plate 300 as it is. Then, the swinging plate 300 swings downward about the shaft 302 due to its own weight, the weight of the noodles, and the cam 301, so that the noodles on the swinging plate 300 slide down on the swinging plate 300. To the push bar type conveyor 400.

  The push bar type conveyor 400 has a push bar 402 installed between parallel endless chains 401. A large number of push bars 402 are installed at the same interval in the continuous direction of the endless chain 401, and the swing plate swings downward on the lower side of the forward path of the endless chain 401 (portion that proceeds to the right in FIG. 5). A cocoon-shaped guide rail 403 continuing to 300 is installed in parallel with the endless chain 401, and the noodles 1 slid down from the swinging plate 300 are pushed on the guide rail 403 by the push bar 402 to the right of the figure. It is supplied to the next process.

  Here, paying attention to the posture of the noodle 1, the noodle 1 shown in FIG. 5 (a) is folded in half as described above and is flat as a whole in a plane quadrangle. Then, when the front end is folded in half and the creased front end is conveyed toward the front in the traveling direction, the conveyor 400 is reversed in the front and rear direction, and the rear end folded in half is directed toward the front in the traveling direction and conveyed to the next process. . FIG. 5B shows the change in the posture, and the posture of the noodle 1 is changed from the upper posture to the lower posture in FIG. This means that in the noodle 1, not only the front-rear direction is reversed, but also the vertical direction is reversed and the noodle 1 is conveyed to the next process. FIG. 5 (c) shows that the noodle 1 is not put into a bag and commercialized as described above, but is put in a packaging container in a later process, more specifically, a cup-shaped container so-called cup noodle. It will be Also in the case of this noodle 1, when it is delivered by the apparatus of FIG. 5A, the noodle 1 is transported to the next process with the front and back directions reversed in the same manner as in FIG. 5B. Will be. In addition, the heat treatment conveyor 100 for conveying the noodle 1 shown in FIG. 5C has the same shape as the outer surface of the noodle 1 inside the basket 102 so that the noodle 1 is formed by the basket 102 during the heat treatment. It has become.

  6A, the heat treatment conveyor 100 and the face plate 200 are the same as those shown in FIG. 5A. Here, however, a push bar type conveyor 400 is added to the heat treatment conveyor 100. Directly continuous. That is, the rear end of the push bar type conveyor 400 faces the lower side of the front end turning portion of the heat treatment conveyor 100, the face plate 404 is disposed outside the rear end turning portion of the conveyor 400, and the face plate is also provided on the inner side. 405 is arranged, and while being sandwiched between them, a parallel endless chain 401 and a push bar 402 installed on the endless chain 401 pass therethrough. The inner face plate 405 continues from the position where the face plate 200 is interrupted to the position where the rear end turning portion ends, and the outer face plate 404 continues from the start position of the rear end turning portion to the starting end position of the hook-shaped guide rail 403. doing.

  Therefore, in this example, the noodles 1 falling from the basket 102 at the lower portion of the front end turning portion of the heat treatment conveyor 100 are supplied to the upward surface of the face plate 405 inside the rear end turning portion of the push bar type conveyor 400. After that, the noodle 1 is pushed by the push bar 402 and moves while rotating between the face plates 404 and 405 to reach the guide rail 403 and is continuously supplied to the next process.

  Therefore, in this example as well, attention is paid to the posture of the noodle 1. In the example of FIG. 6A, the noodle 1 conveyed by the heat treatment conveyor 100 is turned twice and turned upside down twice. As shown in FIGS. 6B and 6C, the noodles 1 supplied to the next process by 400 are both in the same state as when the front and back and front and rear are conveyed by the heat treatment conveyor 100.

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  The apparatus described in Patent Document 1 and described in FIGS. 5 and 6 has the following problems. That is, in the apparatus of FIG. 5, each time the swing plate 300 handles one noodle 1 by the action of the cam 301 with respect to the weight of the swing plate 300 and the force of swinging downward due to the weight of the noodle 1, the swing plate 300 repeatedly swings up and down. Move. For this reason, the swing plate 300 repeatedly reciprocates up and down in opposite directions. In order to place the noodle 1 on this and guide it to the guide rail 403, the speed of the reciprocation of the swing plate 300 is too high. It is necessary to suppress the speed to a certain speed (according to the experiments by the inventors, up to about 40 reciprocations per minute, that is, the speed at which noodles 1 are conveyed to about 40 per minute). That is, when the speed is increased (the number of reciprocations per minute is higher than about 40 times), the noodle 1 does not rest on the rocking plate 300 in a stable state, and even if it is placed, the guide rail 403 can be stably and smoothly. It is because it does not move to. Therefore, in the apparatus of FIG. 5A, there is a problem that the delivery efficiency of the noodles 1 is not sufficient.

  On the other hand, according to the apparatus described in FIG. 6, there is no member that reciprocates in the opposite direction every time one noodle 1 is handled, like the swinging plate 300 in FIG. Is for moving the noodle 1 while moving smoothly in a certain direction, so that the conveyance speed of the noodle 1 can be greatly improved as compared with the apparatus of FIG. According to the experiments by the inventors, it was possible to move 90 noodles 1 per minute on the guide rail 403. However, in the apparatus shown in FIG. 6 (a), the noodles 1 sent to the next process by the conveyor 400 have the same orientation as when the noodles 1 are conveyed by the heat treatment conveyor 100 as shown in FIG. 6 (c). Will remain. For this reason, when the shape and the density of the noodle strings are remarkably different from each other like the noodles in which the noodles 1 are put in a cup-shaped container, there are the following problems.

  That is, when the noodle 1 is flat as shown in FIG. 6B, there is not much problem, but in the case of the noodle 1 (cup noodle) put in a cup-shaped container, it is higher than the diameter of the upper surface of the noodle 1. When the ratio of the thickness is larger than that of the noodles put in the bag, the density of the noodle strings at the lower part of the noodles 1 becomes low and becomes brittle. This is because when the noodles 1 are heat-treated by the heat treatment apparatus, the noodle strings are pressed against the lid (not shown) of the basket 102 from below by the upward flow generated by the influence of the buoyancy of the noodle strings and bubbles rising in the oil. This is because the structure of the noodle 1 is dense on the top and rough on the bottom. Even when heat treatment is performed by hot air instead of frying, if hot air is blown from the bottom of the basket 102, the density is similarly formed. Then, when the brittle lower portion is placed on the conveyor 403 and sent to the next process, the weight of the noodle 1 is loaded on the brittle lower portion or vibrations are applied, so that the noodle 1 is easily broken. There is a problem that a large amount of broken debris comes out.

  Thus, according to the apparatus of FIG. 5 (a), even when the structure of the lower noodle strings is rough as in the case where the noodles 1 are cup noodles, the upper part having a dense structure and a large overall strength is directed downward. However, since the number of delivery per unit time is not sufficient, there is a problem that the production efficiency of the noodles 1 is not good. On the other hand, according to the apparatus of FIG. 6 (a), the number of deliveries per unit time is sufficient, but in the case of noodles 1 having a rough and brittle noodle string structure, the brittle lower part faces downward. Since it is put on 403 and sent out, there is a problem that the noodles 1 are easily broken and the yield is poor.

  The present invention has been made in order to solve such a problem, and the number of noodles delivered to the next process per unit time is sufficient, and even when the noodle strings in the lower part are rough and brittle. An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and a method for delivering tissue to the next process with the dense and strong upper part facing downward.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, a noodle delivery device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a chain or other endless body that moves endlessly and a plurality of baskets that are continuously moved in a traveling direction. A heat treatment conveyor that feeds noodles while being accommodated, and a receiving portion that faces the lower end of the front end of the heat treatment conveyor, receives noodles supplied from the basket that is turned downward by reversing the front end at the receiving portion, and pushes out the noodles A transfer conveyor for sending to the next process, and a chain or other endless body that moves endlessly, and a number of these endless bodies are suspended at equal intervals in the direction of travel of the endless body, each mounted on the upper surface A hanging type having a pallet that moves with noodles placed on the surface, and the push of the delivery conveyor The out unit, formed by arranging a pusher for pushing the noodles from the pallet by the forward and back and forth along the moving direction of the pallet.

  According to this embodiment, unlike the swing plate of FIG. 5 (a), a member that reciprocates up and down every time one noodle is handled is not used, so the delivery efficiency of the noodle to the next process is increased. And contribute to mass production of noodles. In addition, a hanging pallet is used for the delivery conveyor so that the loading surface of the noodles faces upwards before and after the turning part of the delivery conveyor. It can be passed to the next process as it is.

Further, the pallet is released at the front part in the moving direction at the extrusion part of the delivery conveyor, so that the noodles are pushed by the pushing tool and slide down from the mounting surface of the pallet through the released front part. It should be. Thereby, noodles can be smoothly sent out from a mounting surface.
Moreover, it is good to arrange | position the rocking | fluctuation control tool which regulates rocking | fluctuation of the said pallet at least in the said receiving part and the said extrusion part in the said delivery conveyor. Thereby, since the attitude | position of a suspension type pallet is stabilized, supply and sending out of the noodles to a mounting surface can be made smooth.

  Further, in the receiving portion of the delivery conveyor, the pallet moves in the same direction as the lower end of the front end of the heat treatment conveyor, and the pallet is reversed in the push-out portion of the delivery conveyor and is opposite to the receiving portion. The delivery conveyor may be arranged to move in a direction away from the heat treatment apparatus. This facilitates the transfer of the noodles from the heat treatment conveyor to the delivery conveyor when both conveyors are moving in the same direction. Further, when the noodles are pushed out to the next process, the noodles are moved away from the heat treatment apparatus, which is convenient for supplying the noodles to the next treatment apparatus following the heat treatment apparatus.

  Furthermore, one aspect of the noodle delivery method of the present invention is a chain that performs endless movement by discharging noodles with the basket facing down after feeding the noodles after heat treatment while being accommodated in a basket from a fryer or other heat treatment apparatus. An extruding unit that receives and moves the discharged noodles onto the mounting surface of the upper surface of the pallet in which a large number of the endless bodies are suspended at equal intervals in the advancing direction of the endless body, and then sends the noodles to the next process In this method, the noodles on the pallet are pushed out to the next step by an extruding tool which advances and retreats along the moving direction of the pallet and pushes the noodles out of the pallet by forward movement.

Also by this method, since the member which reciprocates up and down is not used every time one noodle is handled, the delivery efficiency of the noodles to the next process can be improved. Moreover, the noodles received in a downward posture from the heat treatment conveyor can be transferred to the next process while being kept downward.
Further, the noodles are noodles to be put in a packaging container in a subsequent process, and when the noodles are discharged from the basket and received in the pallet, the noodles face downward, and are pushed down to the next process by the pusher while being downward. If there is, the dense part of the noodle strings can be handled on a conveyor or the like.

  In the present invention, the number of noodles delivered to the next process in a unit time is sufficiently maintained, and even when the noodle strip structure is rough and brittle, the structure is dense and strong with the upper part facing downward. Can be sent to the process.

The front view which shows embodiment of this invention. AA sectional view taken on the line AA of FIG. FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line BB in FIG. 1. The front view which shows the outline of the modification which applied the apparatus of FIG. 1 to half-folded noodles. It shows a prior art, (a) is a front view showing an outline of the apparatus, (b) is an explanatory diagram showing a change in the posture of a folded noodle, (c) is a change in the posture of a noodle put in a cup-shaped container. FIG. It shows another prior art, (a) is a front view showing the outline of the apparatus, (b) is an explanatory diagram showing the change in the attitude of the folded noodles, (c) is the attitude of the noodles to be put in the cup-shaped container Explanatory drawing which shows a change.

  FIG. 1 to FIG. 3 are views showing the first embodiment. A heat treatment conveyor 10 is provided in the upper stage of the machine frame 2, and the noodle 1 is received from the heat treatment conveyor 10 in the middle stage below the tip of the machine frame 2. A delivery conveyor 40 is provided, and an extrusion device 70 is provided at the lower stage below the delivery conveyor 40.

  In the heat treatment conveyor 10, support frames 12 are laid between left and right parallel endless chains 11 that move endlessly, and a large number of support frames 12 are laid at equal intervals in the continuous direction of the chains 11. A plurality of baskets 13 (two in the figure) are fixedly supported in the left-right direction. The left and right endless chains 11 are composed of roller chains, and the rollers roll on a guide rail 22 made of an angle member fixed to the upper frame 21 of the machine frame 2 to endlessly move using a motor (not shown) as a drive source. It is like that. Since the support frame 12 is fixed to the two front and rear pins of the endless chain 11, the basket 13 has the same orientation as the plate between the front and rear pins of the endless chain 11. Accordingly, at the turning portion of the tip of the heat treatment conveyor 10 by the sprocket 14 with which the endless chain 11 meshes, the basket 13 is also turned together with the turning of the chain 11 so that the upper side is turned downward.

  This heat treatment conveyor 10 is for frying noodles 1 through a fryer as a heat treatment apparatus, and the portion of the illustrated heat treatment conveyer 10 comes out of the fryer and takes the already fried noodles 1 for the next step. It is a tip part for making it transfer to. Accordingly, there is a fryer not shown on the left side of the heat treatment conveyor 10 shown in FIG. The heat treatment conveyor 10 passing through the fryer is covered with a lid (not shown) on the upper surface of the basket 13 so that the noodles 1 remain in the basket 13. A small hole is formed in the bottom of the basket 13 and the lid so that hot oil can enter and exit the basket 13 in the fryer. For this reason, the illustrated noodle 1 is formed as a cup noodle using the basket 13 as a molding die, and the density of the noodle strings increases as it approaches the upper surface, and decreases as it approaches the lower surface.

  The upper side of the rear end portion of the delivery conveyor 40 faces the lower side of the front end of the heat treatment conveyor 10. The receiving portion 41 on the upper side of the rear end portion of the delivery conveyor 40 faces the lower end of the front end of the heat treatment conveyor 10, and the noodles 1 supplied from the basket 13 turned downward by reversal at the front end of the heat treatment conveyor 10 are The receiving unit 41 is adapted to receive the transfer conveyor 40. In the heat treatment conveyor 10, the guide plate is formed along the opening surface of the basket 13 so that the noodles 1 in the basket 13 remain in the basket 13 as the basket 13 is turned from the top to the side by the sprocket 14 at the front end and further downward. 20 is supported by the lower part of the upper frame 21 of the machine frame 2. A portion where the guide plate 20 is interrupted is a receiving portion 41 of the delivery conveyor 40.

  The delivery conveyor 40 is suspended via left and right parallel endless chains 44 that are spanned between the front and rear sprockets 42 and 43 and endlessly moved, and a suspension mechanism 5 that is spanned between the parallel chains 44. Pallet 6. A large number of suspension mechanisms 5 and pallets 6 are provided at equal intervals in the continuous direction of the chain 44, and the delivery conveyor 40 is configured in an endless manner. In the delivery conveyor 40, the left end (the one closer to the flyer (not shown)) in FIG. 1 forms the rear end, and the right end (the one far from the flyer (not shown)) has the front end.

  The suspension mechanism 5 passes through the longitudinal member 51 and the transverse member 52 which are fixed to each other in a cross shape, the intersection of the longitudinal member 51 and the transverse member 52 and the pin of the endless chain 44, and the longitudinal member 51 and the transverse member 52. A connecting shaft 53 that rotatably connects the material 52 to the endless chain 44, and a beam 54 that is bridged between the lower portions of the left and right vertical members 51 of the vertical members 51 and the horizontal members 52 connected to the left and right endless chains 44. Consists of. Since the beam 54 is positioned below the connecting shaft 53 and has a function of a weight, the suspension mechanism 5 is always below the connecting shaft 53 by the weight of the beam 54 and the pallet 6. Thus, the pallet 6 is of a suspended type that can be swung by the connecting shaft 53.

  The pallet 6 includes a fitting portion 61 that is fitted and fixed to the outside of the beam 54 from above, and a snook made of a plurality of horizontal bars that are integrated with the upper portion of the fitting portion 61 and extend back and forth. 62 and a rising portion 63 that rises from the rear end of each bar forming the slat 62 (the end on the rear end side of the delivery conveyor 40). A mounting surface for the noodles 1 is formed by the upper surface of the snowboard 62. The rear surface of the mounting surface is closed by the rising portion 63 at the rear end when the pallet 6 is moved toward the front end of the transfer conveyor 40, while the front side is released without the rising portion as described above. Therefore, the noodle 1 can be slid down from the front part of the mounting surface when the delivery conveyor 40 moves in the front end direction. Although there are no raised portions on the left and right sides of the mounting surface, the mounting surface is made of a bar extending in the front-rear direction, so that the noodles 1 have a structure that is difficult to slide in the left-right direction. Further, since the raised portion 63 is formed on the pallet 6, the end of the guide plate 20 has a comb shape as shown in FIG. 3 in order to avoid interference with the raised portion 63. In the drawing, reference numeral 20 a denotes the terminal portion of the guide plate 20.

In FIG. 1, in order to make the structure easy to understand, a part of the suspension mechanism 5 (for example, the vertical member 51 and the horizontal member 52) is omitted for some of the pallets 6.
As described above, the pallet 6 is suspended from the endless chain 44 through the connecting shaft 53 so as to be swingable. Usually, the pallet 6 has a stable posture due to the weight of the beam 54, the pallet 6 and the like. In a portion where it is necessary to suppress the swing of the swing control tool 23, the swing restrictor 23 is disposed. The swing restricting tool 23 is in the form of a horizontal long plate supported by an arm 24 provided in the machine frame 2, and the upper side or the lower side is in contact with the lower or upper surface of the moving cross-shaped cross member 52. Thus, the cross member 52 is kept horizontal. By maintaining the horizontal member 52 horizontal, the pallet 6 moves while maintaining horizontal without swinging. In this embodiment, the swing restricting tool 23 is arranged on the whole other than the rotating parts before and after the delivery conveyor 40, that is, the part where the pallet 6 moves horizontally.

In FIG. 2, the chain 44 constituting the transfer conveyor 40 is guided and moved on the guide rail 28 supported by the arm 24 in the lower forward path. Even in a reverse route, the vehicle is guided by a guide rail (not shown).
A passage 7 for guiding the noodles 1 from the delivery conveyor 40 to the next process is formed at the front end of the delivery conveyor 40, and the noodles 1 are pushed out from the delivery conveyor 40 into the passages 7 at an extruding unit 45.

  The extrusion device 70 extrudes the noodle 1 from the pallet 6 into the passage 7 by the extrusion unit 45. The push-out device 70 is provided on a machine base 25 that forms the bottom of the machine casing 2, a flywheel 71 that is connected to a drive source (not shown) and rotates, and a crank arm that has a rear end connected to the flywheel 71. 72, a swing arm 73 whose upper end is connected to the middle of the crank arm 72 and whose lower end is pivotally attached to a member (not shown) on the machine base 25, and each guide installed on the left and right blocks 26 on the machine base 25 Two sliders 74 engaged with the rail 27 individually and reversibly, and a lifting frame 76 supported by a vertical bar 75 erected from each slider 74 so as to be movable up and down and connected to the tip of the crank arm 72; The left and right push arms 77 extend forward from the upper end of the lifting frame 76, and a rod-like pusher 78 horizontally mounted on the front ends of the push arms 77. The elevating frame 76 includes elevating blocks 76a externally fitted to the left and right vertical bars 75, a lower beam 76b installed between the elevating blocks 76a, and left and right columns 76c rising from the lower beam 76b. It consists of an upper beam 76d installed between the upper ends of both columns 76c, and the front end of the crank arm 72 is connected to the lower beam 76b by a bolt nut 79.

  Thus, when the crank arm 72 swings with the swing of the swing arm 73 by the rotation of the flywheel 71, the bolt nut 79 at the tip of the crank arm 72 moves forward and backward along the path indicated by the arrow X in FIG. Accordingly, the lifting frame 76 moves in the same manner, and the pusher 78 moves forward and backward along the same path as shown by the arrow Y in FIG. At this time, the pushing tool 78 advances at a pushing portion 45 in the delivery conveyor 40 faster than the pallet 6 by the movement of the track Y to push the noodle 1 on the pallet 6 from the pallet 6 to the passage 7 and then the succeeding noodle 1 In order to extrude, the upper part of the succeeding noodle 1 is detoured and retracted.

The drive sources of the heat treatment conveyor 10, the transfer conveyor 40, and the extrusion device 70 are the same electric motor, and the electric motor and the devices 10, 40, 70 are connected to each other through a transmission device (not shown).
The noodle delivery device thus configured operates as follows. The noodles 1 fried in the fryer while being mounted on the heat treatment conveyor 10 are taken out of the fryer by the heat treatment conveyor 10 and moved forward. The noodle 1 rolls together with the basket 12 at the front end of the heat treatment conveyor 10, and is temporarily lowered (returned to the fryer direction) while being kept downward by the face plate 20 while being restrained by the face plate 20. In the state where the basket 12 is faced downward, the noodle 1 is slid on the face plate 20 with the top face facing downward. Then, the receiving part 41 at the position past the end of the face plate 20 is received by the transfer conveyor 40 while being directed downward.

  Here, the pallet 6 of the delivery conveyor 40 moves to the receiving portion 41 so as to receive the noodle 1 in a timely manner, and the noodle 1 is transferred onto the mounting surface of the pallet 6. In the receiving portion 41 to which the noodles 1 are transferred, the pallet 6 moves in the same direction as the upper basket 13, so the movement directions of the noodles 1 and the pallet 6 are the same. At this position, since the posture of the pallet 6 is controlled by the swing restricting tool 23, the mounting surface of the pallet 6 is not inclined. Next, the pallet 6 descends to the rear end turning portion of the delivery conveyor 40 and then turns forward. At this time, since the pallet 6 is rotated and moved forward while being suspended from the chain 42, the noodles 1 on the pallet 6 are conveyed forward while facing downward.

The noodles 1 transported by the pallet 6 reach the extrusion unit 45 and are extruded from the pallet 6 by the extrusion tool 78 of the extrusion device 70.
When the crank arm 72 swings with the swing of the swing arm 73 by the rotation of the flywheel 71, the push-out device 70 moves forward and backward along the locus of the arrow X in FIG. The elevating frame 76 also moves forward and backward along the same trajectory with the same posture. At this time, the vertical bar 75 moves back and forth along the guide rail 27 of the slider 74, and the lifting frame 76 moves up and down along the vertical bar 75 in the lifting block 76a. This elevating frame 76 also has the same locus as the arrow X by the above elevating and lowering. For this reason, the pushing arm 77 attached to the upper end of the elevating frame 76 and the pushing tool 78 at the front end thereof also advance and retreat with the same locus, but the locus of the pushing tool 78 is as shown by the arrow Y. By the advancement of the pusher 78, the noodles 1 on the pallet 6 are pushed out later at a speed higher than that of the pallet 6, and then retreat around the subsequent noodles 1, and the subsequent noodles 1 are pushed out in the same manner again. .

  The noodles 1 pushed out from the mounting surface of the pallet 6 reach the passage 7 and are slid here with the upper surface facing downward and supplied to the subsequent process. In the subsequent process, the noodle 1 reaches the top of the cup supply device in a downward posture, and is supplied so that the cup as a container faces downward and embraces the noodle 1 from above. In this state, the downward cup is covered with the downward noodle 1 on the table, the noodle 1 is located in the cup, and then the table and the cup are inverted, and the noodle 1 is also inverted accordingly. The noodle 1 and the cup face up. In this state, the upward noodles 1 are accommodated in the upward cup, and the process proceeds to the next step as it is to supply ingredients, seasonings, and the like into the cup.

  As described above, in this embodiment, since the heat treatment conveyor 10 and the transfer conveyor 40 are moved in the same direction in the transfer section 41 of the noodle 1, the noodle 1 is transferred from the heat treatment conveyor 10 to the transfer conveyor 40. Transfer is facilitated, and the conveying speed of the noodles 1 of both conveyors 10 and 40 can be increased (for example, about 90 pieces per minute). Further, the noodles 1 coming out of the heat treatment conveyor 10 are brought into contact with the mounting surface of the pallet 6 of the delivery conveyor 40 and the subsequent passages 7 in the subsequent process while the density of the noodle strings is increased and the upper surface is high in strength. Since it is conveyed, problems such as broken noodle strings can be avoided.

FIG. 4 shows a modification of the above embodiment. That is, the heat treatment conveyor 10, the transfer conveyor 40, and the extrusion device 70 are the same as those in FIGS. 1 to 3, and the difference is the shape of the basket 13 of the heat treatment conveyor 10 and the passage 7 of the push bar type conveyor 80. This is a point forming the guide rail 83.
The noodles 1 handled by the apparatus shown in FIG. 4 are fried in a state in which an assembly of noodle strings gathered in a rectangular shape is folded in two, and the whole is flat and flat, and is put into a bag one by one. It will be commercialized. Therefore, the basket 13 of the heat treatment conveyor 10 is flatter, has a larger flat area and is square than the noodle 1 shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 in order to specify the shape of the noodle 1. The present invention can also be applied to an apparatus for handling the noodle 1 for the bag noodle.

  Further, the conveyor 80 is constructed by laying a push bar 82 between parallel endless chains 81. A large number of push bars 82 are installed in the continuous direction of the endless chain 81 at the same interval, and a saddle-like guide rail 83 is parallel to the lower side of the forward path of the endless chain 81 (portion that proceeds to the right in FIG. 4). is set up. Thereby, the noodle 1 supplied from the delivery conveyor 40 is pushed on the guide rail 83 by the push bar 82 and supplied to the next process on the right side of the drawing. Other configurations and operations are the same as those in FIGS.

  In the above embodiment, although the heat processing apparatus was demonstrated with the example of the fryer, other heat processing apparatuses, such as a hot air drying apparatus, may be sufficient. Further, the chain 11 is used as an endless body in which a large number of baskets 13 of the heat treatment conveyor 10 are continuous, and the chain 44 is used as an endless body for suspending a large number of pallets 6 of the delivery conveyor 40. The use of an endless continuous rope or belt is not excluded as the present invention. Moreover, although the extrusion apparatus 70 of the said embodiment was made to advance and retract the extrusion tool 78 by the mechanism from the flywheel 71 to the extrusion arm 77, and pushed out the noodle 1, the extrusion tool 78 repeats the operation | movement which extrudes the noodle 1 repeatedly. Other mechanisms can be employed as long as the structure is suitable. Further, in the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 3, two baskets 13 are supported on each support frame 12 of the heat treatment conveyor 10, and two pallets 6 are installed on the suspension mechanism 5 of the delivery conveyor 40, The entire apparatus conveys and delivers the noodles 1 in two rows, but it is of course possible to have three or more rows.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Noodle 10 Heat processing conveyor 11 Endless chain 12 Support frame 13 Basket 20 Guide plate 40 Delivery conveyor 41 Receiving part 44 Endless chain 45 Extruding part 5 Suspension mechanism 6 Pallet 62 Snowboard 63 Starting part 70 Extruding device 71 Flywheel 72 Crank arm 78 Extruder

Claims (6)

A heat-treating conveyor for continuously feeding baskets in the direction of travel by a chain or other endless body that moves endlessly, and feeding noodles while being contained in the basket from a fryer or other heat-treatment device;
A receiving conveyor is provided with a delivery conveyor that faces the lower end of the front end of the heat treatment conveyor, accepts the noodles supplied from the basket turned downward by reversing at the front end at the receiving section, and sends the noodles to the next process at the extrusion section ,
Chain and other endless bodies that move endlessly, and a pallet on which a large number of the endless bodies are suspended at equal intervals with respect to the endless body, each moving noodles on the mounting surface on the upper surface Have a hanging type
An noodle delivery device, wherein an extruding tool for advancing and retreating along the moving direction of the pallet and pushing the noodle out of the pallet by advancing is arranged at the extrusion portion of the delivery conveyor.   In the pallet, the front part in the moving direction in the extrusion part of the delivery conveyor is released, and the noodles are pushed by the pusher and slide down from the mounting surface of the pallet through the released front part. The noodle delivery device according to claim 1, wherein: 3. A swing restricting tool for restricting swing of the pallet is disposed at least in the receiving portion and the pushing portion in the delivery conveyor.
The noodle delivery device described in 1.   In the receiving part of the delivery conveyor, the pallet moves in the same direction as the lower side of the front end of the heat treatment conveyor, and in the push-out part of the delivery conveyor, the pallet is reversed and is in a direction opposite to the receiving part. The noodle delivery device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the delivery conveyor is arranged to move in a direction away from the heat treatment device.   After feeding the noodles after heat treatment while being accommodated in the basket from a fryer or other heat treatment apparatus, the noodles are discharged with the basket facing downward, and a large number of endless bodies in the advancing direction of this endless body with respect to endlessly moving chains and other endless bodies The ejected noodles are received and moved to the mounting surface on the upper surface of the pallet suspended at equal intervals, and then moved forward and backward along the direction of movement of the pallet at the push-out unit that sends the noodles to the next process. The noodle delivery method, wherein the noodles on the pallet are extruded to the next step by an extrusion tool for extruding the noodles from the pallet.   The noodles are noodles to be put in a packaging container in a subsequent process, and when the noodles are discharged from the basket and received in the pallet, the noodles face downward and are pushed out to the next process by the pusher while being downward. The method for delivering noodles according to claim 5.

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