JP2522138B2 - Automatic octopus steaming machine - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic octopus steaming processing device for continuously sliding off a large amount of raw octopus and continuously steaming it.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general, steam processing has become the mainstream of octopus processing for raw octopus such as thawing frozen octopus (raw material octopus). As a processing step, a slipping step peculiar to octopus is performed before the steaming step. Conventionally, the slipping process and the steaming process have been independent and separate operations. For example, as a device used in the sliding step, a rotating drum having a mere predetermined diameter provided with an octopus carrying-in door on a peripheral wall is used, and the rotating drum is filled with octopus and poured with water (or hot water) to rotate for several hours. Sliding off due to rolling friction inside. Also, an octopus steaming device is, for example, the Japanese Utility Model Sho 64-195.
As shown in Japanese Patent Publication, a large number of octopus supporting rods are provided on a shaft (connecting rod) of a chain conveyor laid in a steam tank which becomes a single tunnel path for ejecting steam, and the supporting rods are rotated during rotation. The structure is such that the octopus is hooked on the place where it has been received over the chain shaft (connecting rod) and is transported.

[0003]

However, in the operation of the sliding rotary drum, the worker manually carries in the live octopus properly placed in a container for each single rotary drum.
Even after the completion of sliding, the transition from the drum to the container is done manually, which is a very troublesome and troublesome work. In addition, the octopus that has been subjected to pretreatment (sliding off) is also carried to the steaming device, and the octopus taken out from the rotating drum is transported to the steaming device one by one, and is rotated at the exposed octopus carrying-in port of the steaming device. In the transfer chain, when the support rod of the chain shaft is passed over to the succeeding chain shaft at the re-turn position, the support rod must be set as two units and the octopus must be spread and hooked here.
In the so-called human sea tactics, one octopus and one octopus must be picked up and hooked on a supporting rod within a predetermined time of rotation, and it is inefficient due to troublesome set work that requires skill and is not suitable for mass production system. is there. Of course, since it uses sticks, it cannot handle small octopus. Moreover, since this steaming device has a straight-lined steaming tunnel structure, the device is inevitably long and requires an installation area.

In view of the above situation, the present invention employs multiple rotary drums for sliding to automatically carry out the octopus carrying-in work to the carrying-out work after the sliding-out, and the carrying-in work to the steaming device in the subsequent step is also interlocked with steaming. It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic octopus steaming processing apparatus that solves the above problems by making it possible to continuously (automatically) carry in octopuses by using a multi-stage net conveyor in the process.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, a plurality of rotary drums for removing octopus are provided on a peripheral wall, and a plurality of rotary drums for removing octopus are provided on the peripheral wall. It serves as a laterally-moving conveyer conveyor having an upper part and a stripping device arranged and an octopus drop chute at the upper end that runs to the loading position of a rotating drum placed on the front surface on one side of the sliding device. A traveling type raw octopus carrying-in device, a discharging octopus feeding conveyor laid below the position directly below the longitudinal direction of the rotary drum group arranged in series, and a base end arranged at the end of the discharging octopus feeding conveyor is supported as a fulcrum. A feeding belt type uniform placing means that changes the feeding drop point according to a wide guide conveyor on the swinging steaming tank side, and a square casing type steaming tank in which a steam pipe is installed at the uppermost position of the guidecon end No, the rectangular housing type A plurality of the net conveyor type steamed conveyor and tank, while continuously arranged as multi-stage at predetermined intervals, the upper steaming conveyor and bisected stick stepped,
The dropping point at the end of the steaming conveyor is set as a step hanging on the lower-stage steaming conveyor to form a reversing mechanism for reversing the moving octopus, and a partition plate is interposed between the steaming conveyors at each stage to form a twisted steaming tunnel. Equipped with a reversing type steaming device,
The octopus is inverted several times and steamed.

[0006]

By virtue of the above-mentioned structure, if the separately thawed live octopus is placed on the climbing conveyor of the traveling type live octopus carrying-in device, the octopus is sequentially transferred upward and arranged below the drop chute. In the group of rotating drums, a desired opening / closing door is opened and dropped into a waiting rotating drum to be packed, water (or hot water) is injected, the opening / closing door is closed, and a closed tank is rotated for a predetermined time to perform a sliding operation. If the opening / closing door of the rotary drum is opened at a position directly below after a predetermined time (after completion of sliding), the octopus in the drum is automatically discharged to the octopus feeding conveyor directly below and is fed to the steamer side. At this time, the wastewater that has been scrubbed in the drum is guided to the drainage channel below the octopus feeding conveyor. The octopus placed on the octopus feeding conveyor is transferred to the feeding belt type uniform placing means in which the upper part is swung left and right, and when it is dropped from the end of the belt, it is shaken to the left and right, so that it is wide on the steaming tank side. The octopus is placed on the guide conveyor in full width.
The octopus that proceeded to the steaming tank at the end was steamed by the steam heat sprayed from the surrounding steam pipes while it was being transferred sequentially through multiple net conveyor type steaming conveyors arranged in different stages in the zigzag steam tunnel path. In addition, since the octopus itself is turned over to change its posture when the stepped portion is dropped, the steam spreads to the back side (inner side) of the octopus where it is difficult to receive the steam, and the steaming process without spots can be continuously performed as a whole.

[0007]

The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings of the embodiments.

The drawing shows an automatic octopus steaming apparatus in which ten rotary drums for removing octopus are arranged in series, and 1 is a hollow type for each unit frame portion 2a which is linearly divided into a frame 2 for forming a frame. The octopus slide removing rotary drum 3 has a shaft arrangement and is capable of continuously performing large-scale processing as a whole.
Each of the rotary drums 3 has an opening / closing door 4 provided on the peripheral wall, and an opening / closing mechanism that slides in the peripheral wall direction by inserting guide rollers 6 and 6 into a pair of front and rear arcuate guide rails 5 and 5 projecting from both sides. A known hook-shaped fastener 7 mounted on the peripheral wall near the edge of the opening 3a can be engaged with a stopper 8 at the end of the opening / closing door 4, and a support shaft 9 of the rotary drum 3 is provided on the upper portion of the machine frame 2. The chain 10a hung on the motor 10 makes it rotatable,
The opening / closing door 4 is located at the upper portion of the drum at the loading position and at the lower portion of the drum at the ejection position. Reference numeral 11 denotes an octopus feeding conveyor for discharging receiving, which is a net conveyor installed at a lower portion in the longitudinal direction of the machine frame 2 and directly below the rotary drum 3 group of the linear array,
At the tip of the octopus feeding conveyor 11, there is provided a feeding belt 13 of a net conveyor in which the base end center is supported by a vertical fulcrum shaft 12 and the tip is inclined upward, and the upper portion of the feeding belt 13 is provided. A uniform placing means 18 for a guide conveyor configured so that 13a is supported by a support arm 17 that hangs from a traveling body 16 mounted on a lateral swing rail 15 on a gate-shaped support frame 14.
Is installed, and the operation for constantly changing (falling) the falling point of the feeding belt 13 is obtained. Reference numeral 19 denotes a traveling-type live octopus carrying-in device provided in a traveling machine frame 20 formed in parallel with a work table portion 2b in the front part of the machine frame 2 in which the rotary drum 3 group is arranged. The whole octopus carry-in device 19 is made of a net conveyor type climbing conveyor 23 having lateral S-shaped inclination so that the octopus dropping chute formed on the tip of the octopus dropping chute 23 24
To a position above the carrying-in position of the appropriate rotary drum 3. Further, the construction of the climbing conveyor 23 itself is as shown in FIG.
As shown in 1, among the link plates of the roller chain portion 25, which is a traveling chain located on both sides of the conveyor width, the inner link plates 25a, 25a have a high frame plate structure, and the opposite rear ends thereof are connected by a partition frame 25b. Then, a U-shaped transport box portion 26 is formed as a whole to provide a kind of bucket conveyor that ensures the transfer of the load (octopus) on the inclined surface. Reference numeral 27 denotes a traveling motor mounted on the upper portion of the machine body 23a of the climbing conveyor 23, and transmits the rotation of the motor 27 to the traveling roller 22 rolling on the traveling rail 21. Also,
A traveling sliding frame piece 28a provided at the tip of a supporting arm 28 protruding from the lower portion of the machine body 23a of the climbing conveyor 23 is fitted and guided to a supporting rail 29 laterally arranged in front of the traveling machine frame 20,
By driving the motor 27, the whole octopus carrying-in device 19 is laterally moved by the width of the arrangement of a plurality of rotary drums 3 (10 in the drawing). Reference numeral 30 denotes a reversing type steaming device arranged in front of the uniform placing means 18, and the constitution of the reversing type steaming device 30 is as follows.
A plurality of steam conveyors 32 are formed in the rectangular casing type steam tank 31. The steam chains 32 are wide net conveyors 32 'formed on both sides of a running chain and a net (not shown) stretched over the supporting rod part. , A multi-stage arrangement (three stages in the figure) so as to be sequentially continuous, and a staggered arrangement in which the drop point a at the end of the carrier portion of the upper steam conveyor 32 faces the upper end of the lower steam conveyor 32. In addition, a partition plate 33 is provided below the steam conveyor 32 of each stage as a partition that alternately projects inward from the side wall surface of the tank.
Inward steam tunnel path 31 with a long structure as a whole
a. Moreover, the steam pipe 34 having the small-diameter jet ports 34a at the upper and lower portions of the carrier portion of the steam conveyor 32
Is properly piped. In this case, the uppermost steam conveyor 32, which is a part that receives maximum color development early in the steaming process,
It is further divided into two steam conveyors 32a and 32b,
A reversing operation is given early so that uniform color is obtained. The dropping point a of the steam conveyor 32a is also the succeeding steam conveyor 3
It will be arranged in a stepped manner facing up on 2b. Also, the steaming tank 31
The inclined wide net conveyor type guide conveyor 35 facing the entrance of the is installed in the inclined tunnel-shaped guide casing portion 36, and the steam pipe 34 is also arranged in the guide casing portion 36. Further, the feeding belt 13 of the uniform placing means 18 for the guide conveyor in the preceding step is made to face above the boarding receiving portion 35a which is the lower end of the guide conveyor 35 which has come out of the guide housing portion 36. Further, the leading end drop point a of the guide conveyor 35 faces the upper side of the steaming conveyor 32a to make a step difference. Reference numeral 37 denotes a quenching water tank which is placed below the lower end of the steaming conveyor 32 at the bottom of the steaming tank 31 and which is filled with water. The quenching water tank 37 is provided with a discharge conveyor 38 having one end facing the outside. Reference numeral 39 denotes a large number of vapor leakage preventing belt curtains that hang down at the entrance of the guide housing portion 36.

To explain this action, first, in the octopus sliding step, for example, a soft octopus T in a soft form previously thawed in a separate thawing step (not shown) is fed to the feeding belt 4.
Traveling type raw octopus carrying-in device 19 in front of slide removing device 1
When it is dropped to the base of the carrying conveyor 23, which is rotated by the drive of the motor 41, the carrying surface of the carrying conveyor 23 is formed by the link plates 25a, 25a and the partition frame 25b. Since it is present, the octopus T is received in the frame of the transport box portion 26, so that the octopus T is transferred upward without slipping even when it reaches the slope portion and proceeds to the octopus drop chute 24 at the upper end. In this case, the live octopus carrying-in device 19 itself laterally moves the traveling machine frame 20 in advance by the rotation of the traveling motor 27, and the octopus drop chute 24 waits for the opening / closing door 4 of the empty rotating drum 3 that is in a desired standby state to be directed upward (carry-in). (Position) above the opening 3a opened. When the opening / closing door 4 is slid in the peripheral wall direction (lid opening movement), the lever portion 7a of the hook-shaped fastener 7 holding the end of the opening / closing door 4 is inverted to release the engagement with the door side stop piece 8. The guide rollers 6 protruding to the left and right of the opening / closing door 4 are slidably moved in the grooves of the guide rails 5 to open the opening / closing door 4. The stopper pin 46 provided at the end of the open / close door 4 prevents the door from moving after the open / close door 4 has moved by a predetermined width.
Is laterally slid and inserted into the receiving member 47 at one end of the guide rail 5 for locking. An octopus T fed from an octopus drop chute 24 located above the open opening 3a.
Is dropped and the rotary drum 3 is automatically packed.

After that, when the rotary drum 3 is clogged with a predetermined amount of octopus T, the feeding of the climbing conveyor 23 is stopped.
Separate water pipe 42a and steam pipe 42b into the drum
Water (usually, warm water at about 25 ° C) is poured in an appropriate amount. Also, add an appropriate amount of salt. Here, contrary to the above, the open / close door 4 is returned and slid to close the opening 3a, and the hook-like fastener 7 is tightened to complete the sliding removal setting.

Next, the rotary drum 3 is operated by appropriately operating the switch of the operation panel 43 to drive the rotary motor 10 to rotate for a predetermined time. The rotating drum 3 has a plurality of reversing protrusions 3b on the inner wall of the drum, and the rolling and friction during rotation are combined to cause a so-called scrubbing operation to remove the slippage of the octopus T, and the rotation of the drum causes the octopus T to move. It transforms itself into a rounded shape with the head inside and the legs curved. In addition, at the time of this sliding off, a little coloring agent is added if necessary.

In this way, when the sliding removal is completed, the opening / closing door 4 of the rotary drum 3 is directed right below the discharge position, and in this state, the fastener 7 is unlocked to open the lid. The group of octopus T in the drum falls by its own weight right below, and is placed on the octopus feeding conveyor 11 below. This octopus feeding conveyor 11
Is made of a net conveyor, only the octopus T is received and the dirty wastewater slipped off flows into the drainage channel 48 on the floor. The octopus T placed on the octopus feeding conveyor 11 is automatically fed to the end (front end) in the longitudinal direction and dropped on the feeding belt 13 of the uniform placing device 18 in the next stage.

The octopus T placed on the feeding belt 13 has a so-called swinging structure in which the feeding belt 13 moves the tip end portion to the left and right by a predetermined width with the base end as a fulcrum to change the falling point b. The octopus T is placed over the entire width of the wide guide conveyor 35 in steps. That is, the traveling body 16 mounted on the rail 15 on the gate-type support frame 14 travels by the rotation of the reversible rotation type motor 45, and the motor 45 reverses at the position of the sensor (not shown) provided at the end of the rail 15 to travel the traveling body. A reciprocating movement is performed in which 16 moves backward. Therefore, the leading end of the feeding belt 13 suspended at the top of the traveling body 16 also moves to the left and right (swing), and the falling point b changes accordingly, so that the wide guide conveyor 35 of the next stage is moved. The octopus T is placed on the carrying surface so that it is as wide as possible. Although a part of the feeding belt 13 is inclined and raised, the net stretched here is made to have a slight slack by weakening the tensioned state.
It does not slip off.

Here, the octopus T placed on the guide conveyor 35 falls from the tip of the guide conveyor 35 to the steaming conveyor 32a in the first reversal A, for example, the octopus T which is turned upward is turned upside down. Become. That is, the guide housing 36
The posture of the octopus T steamed by the steam ejected from the steam pipe 34 when passing through the steam pipe 34 changes when the steam conveyor 32a moves to the steam conveyor 32a. The steam hits and prevents the partial burning of steam.

Hereinafter, the octopus T is the second reversal B that drops from the tip of the steam conveyor 32a to the steam conveyor 32b in the steam tank 31 in which the inside is heated to about 90 ° C. or higher with steam as the main steaming step. (See FIG. 12), steam conveyor 3
The third dropping from the tip of 2b to the steam conveyor 32 in the lower stage
Since the posture is changed while being sequentially transferred to the inversion C and the fourth inversion D that drops from the steaming conveyor 32 to the steaming conveyor 32 in the lower stage, the steaming steam hits the entire surface of the octopus T as a whole, resulting in uniform distribution. Can be steamed. In this case, a partition plate 33 for partitioning the tank is provided at the lower surface position of the steam conveyor 32 arranged in the upper, middle and lower stages (three stages in the figure).
Therefore, hot water balls (water droplets) generated by steam do not drop directly on the lower steaming conveyor 32 side, and therefore hot steam balls are transferred to the steamed octopus T transferred on the lower steaming conveyor 32 side. It doesn't touch, so you can get a beautiful steaming without spots.

Finally, since the quenching water tank 37 serving as the primary cooling tank is arranged below the lowermost end of the steaming conveyor 32 of the steaming tank 31, the steamed octopus T passing through the steaming conveyor 32 is dipped in the quenching water tank 37. Upon completion of the steaming process, the color change effect is improved by the temperature change caused by the cooling water. The steamed octopus T that has entered the quenching water tank 37 is fed to the secondary cooling water tank (not shown) at the next stage by the discharge conveyor 38.

[0017]

As described above, according to the automatic octopus steaming apparatus of the present invention, a plurality of rotary drum groups and a octopus steaming apparatus, which serve as octopus sliding devices, are arranged below the rotary drum group. The feeding conveyor and the feeding belt type uniform placing means with a swinging mechanism are arranged in series to continuously connect the slid octopuses to the steaming conveyor of the steaming device, so it was done in a separate process until now. The sliding work and the steaming work are connected, and so-called fully automatic steaming is possible. In this case, the live octopus loading into the rotary drum group is suitable for automatic loading because the octopus drop chute of the traveling type live octopus loading device movable laterally with respect to the rotary drum group in the array causes the octopus to drop into the desired rotary drum. . Also, since the octopus that has slipped out from the rotating drum is changed by a so-called swinging mechanism that swings the falling point to the left or right, the octopus is lined up to the steam conveyor in the steaming tank even if the conveyor is wide, even if the conveyor is wide. It is possible to go through an efficient steaming process. Moreover, at this time, the steaming conveyor is made up of a plurality of staggered multi-stage arrangements to obtain a plurality of inversions, so that uniform steam can be applied to the periphery of the octopus, steaming can be performed without spots, and the raw octopus is a net conveyor. It is not necessary to take out and set one octopus as in the same process as in the conventional process, and since the main transporter is the net conveyor, even small octopus can be steamed easily. From this point as well, a steaming process suitable for mass production is obtained. Of course, in a multi-stage steam conveyor, a partition plate was laid at the bottom of each stage, so there was no drop of water droplets (water droplets) from above on the octopus that passed downward (a spot when the water droplets hit the spot). Increase product value without introducing defects. Further, since the device of the present invention performs a time-consuming sliding operation with a plurality of rotary drums, it has an effect that it can be a pretreatment (sliding) of the efficient steaming process.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view showing an arrangement of the entire apparatus showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view showing a relationship between a traveling-type live octopus carrying-in device, a skidding device, and an octopus-carrying-out conveyor.

FIG. 3 is a side view of a feeding belt type uniform placing means.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view of a swinging operation of the feeding belt type uniform placing means.

FIG. 5 is a side view showing the inside of an inversion type steaming device.

FIG. 6 is a front view of a rotary drum for removing octopus.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a carry-in position of the rotary drum.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of a discharge position of the rotary drum.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing the inside of the rotary drum.

FIG. 10 is a perspective view of a main part of a climbing conveyor.

FIG. 11 is a plan view of the climbing conveyor.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram showing an octopus inverting action in the steam conveyor.

[Explanation of Codes] 1 Sliding device 3 Rotating drum for octopus sliding 4 Opening / closing door 11 Exhaust octopus feeding conveyor 12 Support shaft 13 Feeding belt 18 Uniform placement means 19 Traveling type live octopus loading device 23 Net conveyor type climbing Carrying conveyor 30 Reversing type steaming device 31 Steaming tank 31a Tangled steam tunnel path 32 Steaming conveyor 33 Partition plate 35 Guide conveyor

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. An upper part is a carrying-in position, and a lower part is a discharging position and a slope.
An octopus slide with an opening and closing door that is located at the draining position on the peripheral wall
Sliding with multiple rotary drums for picking up arranged in the upper part of the machine frame
Installed on the front side which is one side of the removing device and the sliding device
An octopus running to the loading position of the rotating drum
A traveling type raw octopus carrying-in device which is a laterally moving climbing conveyor having a lower chute at its upper end, a discharging octopus feeding conveyor laid below the position directly below the longitudinal direction of the series-arranged rotary drum group, and the discharging Supply belt type uniform placing means for supporting the base end arranged at the end of the octopus feeding conveyor and swinging the tip to change the supply drop point according to the wide guide conveyor on the steaming tank side, and the guide connection end. Piping steam pipe on top
Facing the rectangular casing type steaming tank, a plurality of net conveyor type steaming conveyors are continuously arranged in the rectangular casing type steaming tank as a multi-stage at predetermined intervals, and the steaming conveyor of the upper stage is divided into two parts with steps , A reversing mechanism in which the falling point at the end of the steaming conveyor is set to a step on the lower steaming conveyor to reverse the transitional octopus, and a partition plate is interposed between the steaming conveyors at each level to form a twisting steam tunnel. An automatic octopus steaming device, which is equipped with a mold steaming device and inverts the octopus several times to steam.