JP2704696B2 - Fixed-size quantitative splitting device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001] The present invention relates to an apparatus for quantitatively dividing dough and confectionery dough into fixed shapes, and more particularly, to cutting dough formed by batch-type kneading into a flat plate.
Even if the mass of the dough in the hopper is low, it is cut regardless of the remaining amount of the dough, so that the dough does not escape or cause turbulence, and the fixed-size fixed-size division is performed stably to the end. The present invention relates to a fixed-size fixed-quantity dividing apparatus capable of improving the production yield and further promoting the standardization of dough products.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a fixed-size fixed-quantity dividing device for food materials, there is a feeding device for starch and the like disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-128679. In this apparatus, the fixed quantity division is performed by the forming drum so that the cloth pressure is kept at a set value by displaying the cloth pressure in the storage chamber detected by the pressure detecting means.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned apparatus, the pressure of the dough is maintained by applying pressure to the dough by, for example, positioning a roller in the dough, and the dough pressure is kept constant. When the upper surface is lower than the roller position and the upper surface is below the roller position, the dough pressure cannot be kept constant and the mold cannot be filled with a fixed amount of dough in the mold. Can not do. In such a case, a large amount of nonstandard products and fabrics which are not sent out from the hopper are generated and the yield is extremely deteriorated.

[0004]

According to the present invention, the dough is continuously pressed so that the dough pressure in the hopper is always constant.
This is a device that can perform fixed-form quantitative division up to the last part of the dough mass. That is, the present invention provides a bottom surface of the dough hopper by providing a belt wound around the bottom support member and locked to the base before and after the cutting blade, when moving the cutting blade back and forth, Synchronously, the bottom support members of both belts are provided so as to move back and forth at the same speed, and the dough support surface adjacent to the back of the cutting blade forms a flat surface with the cutting blade, and the dough support in front of the cutting blade is formed. The surface is provided below the cutting blade with a predetermined step, and this step is used as a dough discharge port. The cutting blade has two saw blades with their cutting edges aligned and reciprocatingly slid in the longitudinal direction. A fixed-quantity fixed-quantity dividing device, comprising a dough hopper provided with a pushing device having a pressing plate, in a bread / confectionery dough cutting device provided with a split cutting device in which the entire cutting blade can move back and forth.

[0005]

According to the present invention, the inner pressure of the dough can always be kept constant irrespective of the amount of the dough in the hopper, so that the dough having a constant thickness can be cut by the cutting blade until the dough disappears from the hopper. It is now possible to perform a complete fixed quantitative split.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. A hopper 2 containing a dough mass 1 is fixed to a base 4 via a beam 3. A slide rail 7 provided on the base 4 and a slide bearing 6 provided on the frame 5 are slidably combined.
The frame 5 can be moved horizontally back and forth with respect to the base 4. A first plate 8 and a first roller 9 are rotatably mounted on the end of the frame 5, and a first belt 10 having an end is wound therearound. The first belt 9 is supported as a fabric support surface in the hopper 2. A surface 13 is formed. Both ends of the first belt 10 are fixed and stretched on a first bracket 12 extending from a side surface of the hopper 2. This is because even if the relative positions of the first plate 8 and the first roller 9 with respect to the hopper 2 change with the horizontal movement of the frame 5, the upper support surface 13 and the upper bottom surface 14 of the dough mass 1 in the hopper 2 change. This shows that only the area of the upper support surface 13 forming the bottom surface of the hopper 2 changes without changing the relative position.

[0007] The cutting blade 1 close to the tip of the first belt 10
5 is fixed to the frame 5 so that its upper surface is flat at the same height as the upper support surface 13. The cutting blade 15 is composed of an upper saw blade 16 and a lower saw blade 17. The upper saw blade 16 is mounted on the frame 5, and the lower saw blade 17 is provided so as to be able to reciprocate in its longitudinal direction, that is, in the width direction of the hopper 2. The upper saw blade 16 and the lower saw blade 17 have a positional relationship in which the cutting edges are aligned and slidably contact each other. An end of the lower saw blade 17 is fixed to a slide rod 18. The slide rod 18 penetrates the frame 5 and passes through the universal joint 19 to the crank device 20.
It is attached to. The universal joint 19 can be replaced with a connecting rod. The crank device 20 includes a small plate 21 fixed to the frame 5.
It is attached to. A second plate 22 is provided at a position below the cutting blade 15, and a second roller 23 is rotatably attached to an end of the second plate 22, and a second belt 24 having ends is wound around them. A lower support surface 27 is formed. Both ends of the second belt 24 are the first bracket 12
Is fixed to a second bracket 26 extending from the side surface of the hopper 2 on the opposite side of the hopper 2. That is, even if the relative position of the second plate 22 and the second roller 23 with the hopper 2 changes with the horizontal movement of the frame 5, the relative position between the lower support surface 27 and the lower bottom surface 28 of the dough lump 1 does not change, The lower support surface 27 increases and decreases as the bottom surface of the hopper 2. The increase or decrease of the lower support surface 27 in the hopper 2 depends on the upper support surface 1 described above.
3 is configured to be opposed to the increase and decrease in the hopper 2. The lower support surface 27 is provided below the lower end of the hopper 2. Further, a guard 29 for preventing the material from protruding is attached to the second plate 22 near the lower end of the hopper 2.

A rail 31 using a channel material is mounted on the upper part of the hopper 2, and a girder 33 is supported by a slider 32 that slides in the rail 31. An air cylinder 34 is attached to the spar 33 with its longitudinal direction vertical, a rod 35 extends downward, and a pressing plate 36 is attached to a tip of the rod 35. The pressing device 37 is configured as described above. Further, a pressure sensor 38 is provided below the hopper 2.

Next, the operation of the fixed-size fixed-quantity dividing apparatus having the above configuration will be described in detail below. First, at the start of the cutting operation, the dough lump 1 kneaded and supplied to the hopper 2 by the ordinary technique is provided with the lower bottom surface 28 only by the lower support surface 27.
Is supported. At this time, the cutting blade 15 and the upper support surface 13
Is located off the lower part of the hopper 2.

Next, the frame 5 starts to move toward the cutting edge of the cutting blade 15 by a driving device (not shown), and the cutting operation is started. Simultaneously with the start of the movement of the frame 5, the crank device 20 starts to rotate by another driving device (not shown), the slide rod 18 reciprocates via the universal joint 19, and the lower saw blade 17 makes a cutting movement while slidingly contacting the upper saw blade 16. Is started, and the cutting edge of the cutting blade 15 cuts into the side surface of the dough lump 1. This is a cutting motion by a fine cutter formed by the cutting edges of the upper saw blade 16 and the lower saw blade 17, so that it is particularly effective for bread dough with strong cutting resistance and large cutting resistance. The flat dough 30 is cut out. The first belt 10 is also advanced by being guided by the tip of the first plate 8 that advances with the cutting blade 15 by the advance of the frame 5, and the surface of the upper support surface 13 is expanded. At this time, since the end of the first belt 10 is fixed to the first bracket 12 so as not to rotate freely, the first belt 10 in contact with the upper bottom surface 14 on the upper support surface 13 is There is no relative speed difference and the belt can cover the bottom of the fabric. That is, in combination with the smooth cutting of the dough by the cutting blade 15, the convection action does not act on the dough inside the hopper 2, and the divided dough 30 having a uniform internal stress is cut out.

Further, since the second belt 24 retreats simultaneously with the start of the cloth cutting, the lower support surface 27 is reduced. Here, since the end of the second belt 24 is fixed to the second bracket 26 extending from the side surface of the hopper 2, the second belt 24 which forms the lower support surface 27 and the lower bottom surface 28 of the dough lump 1 There is no relative speed difference from the above, and here too, the fabric does not receive any extra pulling action due to the luster.

When the cutting blade 15 finishes cutting the dough lump 1, the sliding operation of the cutting blade 15 is stopped, and the frame 5 starts moving in the direction opposite to that during the cutting operation to return to the initial position. The upper support surface 13 retreats, but at this time, the bread dough 1 is reduced without giving a drawing action. Similarly, the lower support surface 27 expands without giving a convection action to the dough lump 1, and finally, the frame 5 returns to the cutting start position and one cycle of the cutting operation ends.

The dough cutting operation by the above-described cutting operation is continued, and the divided dough 30 is continuously discharged. In the present invention, since the pushing device 38 is provided, the fixed quantity of the dough in the hopper 2 is fixed. Splitting is now possible. That is, if the pressing device 38 is not provided, the cutting resistance of the cutting blade 15 increases when the dough amount in the hopper 2 decreases and the whole dough mass 1 becomes lighter and the dough internal pressure decreases. The cloth becomes larger, and the cloth escapes or is dragged by the sliding force of the lower saw blade 17, so that it is impossible to cut the cloth with a predetermined thickness and weight. Therefore, in the present invention, in order to eliminate the above-mentioned problem, when the cloth in the hopper 2 is reduced to a set amount or less as the cutting operation progresses, the pushing device 37 which is usually located at a position separated from the hopper 2 is used. Is moved onto the hopper 2 and the cloth is pushed in by the pressing plate 36 to increase the internal pressure of the cloth so that the fixed quantity fixed cutting can be continued. The pressing plate 36 has an outer dimension slightly smaller than the inner dimension of the horizontal section of the hopper 2.

In the embodiment of the present invention, after the dough is put into the hopper 2, the remaining amount of the dough 1 in the hopper 2 is monitored and determined, and the dough 1 is pushed in by the pushing device 37. The method is not particularly limited to this method. Other procedures include, for example, immediately after the dough is put in, the pressing device 37 is operated, and the dough mass 1 is set based on the information of the pressure sensor 38 so that the dough internal pressure is always constant. May be continuously applied. At this time, the pressing force is gradually increased as the dough mass 1 in the hopper 2 decreases. In addition, the cutting blade of the embodiment of the present invention is configured to slide two saw blades by overlapping, but there is no limitation of the saw blade.For example, even if the wire cutter is reciprocated or run on an endless track, The cloth can be cut even when the band saw type is run on an endless track.

[0015]

According to the present invention, it is possible to cut and discharge dough according to a predetermined standard without waste, which contributes to cost reduction and, consequently, energy saving and resource saving.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective sectional view of a fixed-size fixed-quantity dividing device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side cross-sectional view of an example of a production process incorporating the fixed-size quantitative dividing device according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Bread dough 2 Hopper 3 Beam 4 Base 5 Frame 6 Slide bearing 7 Slide rail 8 First plate 9 First roller 10 First belt 12 First bracket 13 Upper support surface 14 Upper bottom surface 15 Cutting blade 16 Upper saw blade 17 Lower saw Blade 18 Slide rod 19 Universal joint 20 Crank device 21 Small plate 22 Second plate 23 Second roller 24 Second belt 26 Second bracket 27 Lower support surface 28 Lower bottom surface 29 Guard 30 Split fabric 31 Rail 32 Slider 33 Beam 34 Air cylinder 35 rod 36 pressing plate 37 pressing device 38 pressure sensor

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] A first support member wound around the bottom support member;
The belt hooked to the base is provided before and after the
When the cutting blade is moved back and forth,
The bottom support members of both belts move at the same speed
To move back and forth in degrees, and
The dough support surface is below the dough support surface adjacent to the back of the cutting blade.
And the step is used as a fabric discharge port, and the cutting blade is
The two blades slide back and forth in the longitudinal direction with their edges aligned.
And the entire cutting blade can be moved back and forth.
In a bread and confectionery dough cutting device provided with a device, a press device having a pressing plate is provided on the dough hopper, wherein the fixed-quantity fixed-quantity dividing device is provided. 2. The fixed-size fixed-quantity dividing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a pressure sensor is provided in the dough hopper.