JP2549641Y2 - Tangerine splitting device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a tangerine splitting device, and more particularly, to a tangerine irrespective of the size of the tangerines without damaging the moles and efficiently in a short time. The present invention relates to a tangerine splitting device capable of splitting.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the manufacturing process of canned tangerines, the mashing operation must be mashed so that the peeled fruit is not damaged or crushed. For example, Japanese Patent Publication No. 42-3812, Japanese Patent Publication No. 44-29304, or Japanese Utility Model Publication No.
As can be seen in JP-A-6-395, etc., a tangerine after peeling, which is thrown in from above, is used by using a mortaring device in which a large number of mortar-shaped dividing baskets that open upward in a water tank are installed. In addition, a method is employed in which the basket is divided horizontally by a pressurized water flow injected from above through a water injection nozzle while swinging the basket horizontally.

[0003] In these conventional methods,
On the slope of the mortar-shaped dividing basket, in order to release the tangerines after breaking into the water without damaging them, an elastic thread such as rubber or plastic is attached at an appropriate interval, or a piano wire or the like. Stretch the metal elastic wire radially,
For example, a bend that is bent in the opposite direction from the end toward the center of the cone and whose end is fixed to the lower wheel is used. Among these methods, rubber is often used as an elastic thread, and a rubber material having a width of about 5 mm, which is commercially available as a rubber band, is usually stretched over an upper annular ring and a lower fixing member. Use things.

[0004] However, when a rubber material is radially stretched on the inclined surface of the mortar-shaped dividing basket that swings in the horizontal direction during the splitting, the tangerines before the splitting dance due to the elasticity of the rubber. As a result, the jet flow from above does not accurately hit the target object, and as a result, not only is the division efficiency inferior, but also the durability of the rubber material is usually 1%.
It is about a week, and in that case, there is a problem of time uneconomical necessity of renewing the rubber material over a long time. In addition, even when a piano wire or the like is used as the elastic wire, it is difficult to achieve efficient splitting in a short period of time due to low splitting efficiency, which may cause twin moles or damage the moles. It is difficult, and there is a reality that improvement is desired.

In order to improve such prior art, the applicant of the present invention has provided a "basket-shaped dividing basket for dividing tangerines by a water pressure from above while horizontally oscillating in a water tank. In the swarf splitting device, the mortar-shaped dividing basket is such that a hard filament material having a plurality of bulging portions is stretched in an inverted conical shape at an appropriate interval from an upper annular member. Invented a tangerine splitting device characterized by the following, and filed a patent application as Japanese Patent Application No. 4-53623 (hereinafter referred to as the "prior application invention").

[0006]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] The present inventors have further tried the above-mentioned invention of the prior application and continued research to achieve a more effective splitting effect. By fixing the fixing portion of the strip to the support via the spring member, the wire moves up and down only by the expansion and contraction portion of the spring member due to the swinging of the device during the splitting operation, and the wire is moved along with this movement. We discovered a phenomenon in which oranges sandwiched between filaments could be split more effectively because they moved up and down, and completed the present invention.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a tangerine splitting device which can reliably and quickly generate twin moles without damaging the tangerine moles. is there.

[0008]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been proposed to achieve the above-mentioned object, and a specific material is used as a structural material of a basket for splitting a mortar-like shape, and a slicing operation is performed. It is characterized in that the linear material constituting the basket is fixed to the support via a spring member so that the basket can move up and down.

In other words, according to the present invention, in a mortaring apparatus provided with a mortar-shaped dividing basket which divides oranges by a jet water pressure from above while oscillating horizontally in a water tank. -Shaped dividing basket, a hard wire having a plurality of bulges at appropriate intervals from the upper annular member is stretched in an inverted conical shape, and
A tangerine splitting device is provided, wherein a fixing portion fixing a lower end portion of the hard linear material is vertically engaged with a support by a spring member. Further, according to the present invention, there is provided a tangerine splitting device in which a protruding portion having a gentle mountain-shaped tip is formed above an annular fixing portion at a lower end portion of the wire. .
Further, according to the present invention, there is provided a tangerine splitting device in which the hard filament material is a ball chain.

[0010]

[Specific explanation of the invention] Dividing basket to be mounted on the tangerine splitting device of the present invention (indicated as 1 as a whole)
In FIG. 1 showing a preferred example in a side sectional view and FIG. 2 showing a top view, a hard filament material 2 having a plurality of bulges at fixed intervals is stretched over an upper annular member 11. Locking portion 18 is formed, and an engaging piece 16 for suspending the splitting device is protruded around the locking portion 18.

A support 13 for supporting the annular member in a bridge state is provided below the annular member 11, and a lower end portion of the linear material 2 is fixed in an annular shape at a fixing portion 12. For example, as shown in the partial cross-sectional view of FIG. 5, the fixed portion has a linear bulge inserted between the double flanges, and as shown in the top view of FIG. A linear connecting member is fitted into the engagement groove, which is engraved around the flange, and is further connected to a binding member 19 such as a wire through a groove provided on the circumference of the middle portion of the upper flange. Preferably, it is fixed. An engaging member 14 having a spiral groove extending downward from the center of the fixing portion 12 is extended. The engaging member is inserted into a through hole opened at an intermediate point of the support body 13, and a spring member is provided. It is fixed to the engagement member 14 by a screw 15 via 3.

FIG. 1 discloses an example in which a coil spring is used as a spring member. In addition to this, an intermediate portion of a leaf spring is opened, an engaging member 14 is inserted, and this portion is brought into contact with a screw. It is also possible to adopt a configuration in which both ends are arranged so as to contact the support. As described above, since the wire member is fixed to the support via the spring member, during the splitting operation, the wire member moves up and down only by the cushion portion of the spring member due to the swinging of the device. Due to the vertical movement, the stretched state of the filament material repeats tension and relaxation. By this operation, the tillering efficiency of tangerines is further enhanced, and a good tangerine tillering is achieved in a short time.

It is preferable that a projecting portion 17 having a gentle mountain shape is formed on the upper surface of the fixing portion. By having this protruding part, appropriate swinging is given without fixing the tangerine after peeling to a certain place, creating a state where the pressurized water flow from above hits the whole tangerine uniformly, and at the bottom Since the wire material having no elasticity is stretched, the splitting effect is remarkably improved.

The greatest technical feature of the present invention is that, as described above, a plurality of bulges are formed as a wire member which is stretched in an inverted conical shape at an appropriate interval from the annular member above the mortar-shaped dividing basket. The present invention is characterized in that a hard wire having a protrusion is used, and the wire is moved up and down by swinging of the device.

That is, the material for supporting the tangerines after peeling in the separating basket in the conventional slicing device has a technical problem that the mashing must be performed without damaging the moles. There is technical common sense that it must be composed of something with elasticity like rubber, and even when using piano wire, there is a restriction that it must be stretched while having elasticity, in any case However, there is also a problem in terms of the splitting effect as described above.

However, according to repeated experiments by the present inventors, as will be apparent from the results of the embodiment described later, the wire member stretched over the dividing basket has a plurality of bulging portions. Using a hard wire material, the dividing basket stretched with this wire material moves up and down by the action of the spring member during the splitting operation, so it does not damage oranges and does not generate twins. In the situation, it was found that the splitting work was quickly achieved.

In the present invention, the hard wire having a plurality of bulging portions is, for example, a plurality of spheres, a rugby ball or a gourd as shown in FIG. It is intended to mean a shape in which flat spherical bodies are connected by a hard linear material, and a linear body in which hollow spherical bodies that are generally sold as a ball chain are connected is preferably exemplified. Can be. The spherical bodies need only be connected to each other by a linear material, and the linear body may be composed of a single continuous material throughout, but when it is stretched on a dividing basket, it has a moderate deflection. As shown in FIG. 4, the one configured as a connecting hand 21 for connecting the hollow spherical bodies 22, 22 is preferably used in that the hollow spherical bodies 22 are connected to each other.

The size of the bulging portion and the interval between the bulging portions are as follows.
It is appropriately determined according to the length of the linear body to be stretched, the stretching angle of the linear body, and the like, and is not particularly limited, but the stretch length of the linear body is about 8 cm. When the stretching angle is set to about 20 degrees, the size of the bulging portion is about 3 to 6 mm in diameter, preferably about 4 to 5 mm.
The distance is about 1 to 4 m as the length of the linear body.
m, preferably about 2 to 3 mm, are preferably used.

The length of the spring member interposed between the support 13 and the fixing portion varies depending on the size of the splitting device, but is generally preferably 20 to 30 mm, particularly preferably about 23 to 27 mm. The spring constant is 100
To 140 g / m, especially 110 to 130 g / m
A degree is preferable in order to efficiently achieve the smashing operation.

[0020]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to embodiments.

Example 1, Comparative Examples 1 and 2 <Structure of the dividing basket> The inner diameter is 11.5 cm, the outer diameter is 13.3 cm, and the thickness is 2 m.
A linear member comprising a ball chain having 18 engagement portions provided at equal intervals on an annular member having a diameter of 4 m, a bulge having a diameter of a sphere of 4 mm in the engagement portions, and an interval between the spheres of 2 mm. Engage
The other end of the linear body was fixed to a disk-shaped fixing member having a diameter of 3 cm. The length of the linear body is 8.5 cm and the stretch angle is about 20
Set to degree. Further, the engaging member extending below the fixing member was inserted into the opening at the intermediate portion of the support, and was fixed with a screw 15 near the distal end thereof with a coil spring having a free length of 25 mm interposed below the support. The wire diameter of the coil spring was 0.8 mm, and the outer shape was 8.0 mm.

<Outline of Slitting Operation> Into a 98 × 65 cm water tank, one dividing basket having the above structure was mounted so as to be submerged, and peeled M-size oranges were continuously charged. While rocking the entire water tank, the upper nozzle is rotated 80 times per minute with an eccentricity of 19 mm, and the water pressure is 0.3 kg / cm from the upper nozzle.
² sprayed water was sprayed. The time until the mashing was completed, the division ratio and the broken ratio were measured. Five experiments were performed under the same conditions, and the results are shown in Table 1.

The same splitting operation was carried out for the material using the O band as the filament material, and the results are shown in Table 1 as Comparative Example 1. As Comparative Example 2,
Table 2 shows the measurement results of the splitting effect when the linear material was fixed without the interposition of a spring member in the prior invention.
It was also described in.

[0024]

[0025]

[0026]

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, as a fruit supporting material for a dividing basket attached to a tangerine splitting device,
A hard wire having a plurality of bulging portions is used, stretched in a mortar shape, and furthermore, the basket is configured to be movable up and down by swinging at the time of a splitting operation. The present invention provides a splitting device capable of reducing the damage to the dies, minimizing the formation of twins in a short time, and achieving a stable splitting.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side sectional view showing an example of a dividing basket mounted on the splitting device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a top view of the same.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a hard filament having a bulge used as a fruit support for the dividing basket.

FIG. 4 is a partial sectional view of the linear material.

FIG. 5 is a partial cross-sectional view showing an example of a locking portion of a linear material on a protruding portion disposed in the center of the dividing basket.

FIG. 6 is a top view of the locking portion.

[Description of sign]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Dividing basket 2 Wire material 3 Spring member 11 Ring member 12 Fixing part 13 Support body 14 Engaging member 15 Screw 16 Engaging piece 17 Projecting part 18 Wire locking part 19 Wire binding tool 21 Swelling part Connection wire material 22 bulge

Claims (3)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] 1. A mortaring device provided with a mortar-shaped dividing basket for arranging tangerines by a jet pressure from above while horizontally oscillating in a water tank. A hard filament having a plurality of bulges is stretched in an inverted conical shape at appropriate intervals from the upper annular member, and the lower end of the rigid filament is fixed. A tangerine splitting device, wherein a fixing portion is vertically engaged with a support by a spring member. 2. The splitting device for tangerines according to claim 1, wherein a projecting portion having a gently mountain-shaped tip is formed above the annular fixing portion at the lower end of the wire. 3. An apparatus for splitting tangerines according to claim 1, wherein said hard filament material is a ball chain.