JP2829584B2 - Dry seaweed manufacturing equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dry laver production apparatus for producing dry laver sheet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A dry laver manufacturing apparatus for producing a sheet of dry laver uses a conveyor provided along the conveyor to spread the raw laver on a laver in a sheet form while conveying a holder holding the laver. Then, after dehydrating the raw seaweed spread on the sea laver with a dehydrator, the holder is sent into the drying room, and the raw seaweed spread on the sea laver is dried while slowly transporting through the drying room, and the drying is completed. Then, dry laver is peeled off from the laver cage by a laminator and collected (for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 7-115938).

[0003] This type of holder is constructed by assembling a horizontal bar and a vertical bar into a frame shape, and holds a plurality of laver cages between the horizontal bar and the vertical bar.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to increase the production capacity of a dried laver production apparatus, the holder must be lengthened in the lateral direction,
It is desirable to keep as many laver cages as possible. Incidentally, the conveyor in the drying room is a pair of left and right (2
Conventionally, the holder has been transported in the drying chamber with both ends of the holder supported by a pair of left and right endless chains.

[0005] The holder is transported upright on a conveyor in the drying chamber. However, if the number of laver cages is increased and the holder becomes longer in the horizontal direction, its posture becomes unstable. Easy to fall in the transport direction).
FIG. 4 shows this state. In the drawing, reference numeral 50 denotes a drying chamber, 51 denotes an endless chain, and 52 denotes a holder which is leaned on the endless chain 51 at a large pitch and conveyed by the endless chain 51. .

[0006] Of the holders 52, the holders 52 indicated by reference numerals a and b are leaning in the transport direction (arrows) and leaning on the holders 52 before and after the holders. If the holder 52 is upright, the warm air can blow up as shown by the dashed arrow a, but if the holder 52 falls down as shown by a and b, the pitch (gap) between the holder 52 and the holder 52 Is blocked, and it is difficult for the warm air to blow upward as indicated by the dashed arrow b. Therefore, there is a problem that the raw seaweed spread on the seaweed cage held by the holder 52 tends to be poorly dried. . Incidentally, according to the knowledge of the present inventor, the problem shown in FIG. 4 does not easily occur when the number of the horizontal laver held by the holder is six or less, but when the number is seven or more, the problem shown in FIG. The following problems are likely to occur. The above-described problem does not occur in the holder shown in FIG. 2 of JP-A-7-115938 because it holds three seaweed cages in the lateral direction.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a dry laver manufacturing apparatus provided with a transport means in which a long holder holding a large number of laver cages does not fall down in a drying chamber.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a conveyor for transporting a holder, a plow portion for raising fresh laver on a laver cage which is laterally held by a plurality of holders transported by the conveyor, and a laver. A dehydration unit for dehydrating the raw nori that has been lifted up on the cage, a drying chamber for drying the raw laver spread on the laver while transporting the holder with an endless chain,
In a dry laver manufacturing apparatus provided with a peeling portion for removing dry laver spread on the laver cage after drying is completed, at least three endless chains are disposed in parallel in the drying chamber, and the three endless chains are arranged in parallel. The endless chain has projecting ribs projecting from both sides of the holder and the vertical bar at the center, and abuts the upper and lower surfaces of the center endless chain to guide the straight running of the center endless chain. Thus, an upper surface guide rail and a lower surface guide rail for preventing the wobble of the support bone are provided.

[0009]

According to the present invention, both ends and the center of the holder are supported by the support ribs projecting from the endless chain, and the running of the center endless chain is guided by the upper and lower guide rails. In order to prevent the long holder from falling down in the horizontal direction and dry the raw seaweed spread on the laver cage held by the holder while transporting the holder upright with at least three bones in the drying room. be able to.

[0010]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a side view of a dried seaweed manufacturing apparatus,
FIG. 2 is a front view of a holder holding the laver, and FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a guide portion of the holder.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a conveyor made up of an endless chain.
Pitch is conveyed in one direction. Reference numeral 2 denotes a sprocket on which the conveyor 1 is adjusted. The upper traveling portion of the conveyor 1 is provided with a plow portion 3 and a dewatering portion 4, and the lower traveling portion is provided with a stripping portion 5 and a washing portion 6.

A drying chamber 10 is provided behind the conveyor 1. An opening 9 is opened in the lower part of the drying chamber 10. The air heated by the burner (not shown) becomes warm air from the opening 9 and is introduced into the drying chamber 10 and blows up as shown by the dashed arrow. Inside the drying chamber 10, an upper endless chain 11 and a lower endless chain 11 are provided.
Are provided in two upper and lower stages. Reference numeral 13 denotes a sprocket on which the endless chain 11 is adjusted. The endless chain 11 is provided with a large number of support bones 14 at a pitch. Holder 2
Numeral 0 is positioned between the supporting bones 14 in an upright posture, and is conveyed in a pitch in the directions of arrows N2 to N5.

In front of the upper endless chain 11 and the lower endless chain 11, a rotating wheel 15 having a number of blades is provided. The rotating wheel 15 rotates in the pitch direction in the direction of the arrow N <b> 6, and transfers the holder 20 sent to the end of the lower traveling portion of the upper endless chain 11 to the lower endless chain 11. There are various mechanisms for transferring the holder 20 from the upper endless chain 11 to the lower endless chain 11, and FIG. 1 simply shows an example thereof.

In FIG. 2, a holder 20 is constructed by assembling a horizontal bar 21 and a vertical bar 22 in a frame shape. Immediately below the upper horizontal bar 21, there is a sub horizontal bar 23, and the laver 25 is fixed to the sub horizontal bar 23 and the lower horizontal bar 21 by a stopper 26. Reference numeral 24 denotes a sub-horizontal bar, and reference numeral 27 denotes a raw laver which is plowed on the surface of the laver cage 25 in the plow portion 3. The holder 20 has a large number of laver 25 in the horizontal direction (8 in this example).
The holder 20 is elongated in the lateral direction. Incidentally, the conventional holder generally holds no more than six laver cages, and therefore has a significantly shorter lateral length than the holder 20 of the present example shown in FIG.

FIG. 2 shows a holder 20 which is conveyed at a pitch on the upper traveling portion of the endless chain 11 in the drying chamber 10. As shown in the figure, three endless chains 11 are arranged in parallel, and are located at both ends and the center of the holder 20, respectively. Each of the three endless chains 11 is provided with the above-mentioned support bone 14. The distal end of the support bone 14 is a free end having a bent portion 14a that bends in a key shape (see also FIG. 3). As shown in FIG. 3, the proximal end of the support bone 14 is attached to the endless chain 11, and the bent portion 14a contacts the vertical rod 22 as shown in FIG.
Support the vertical bar 22 so that it does not tilt in the transport direction by the endless chain 11.

As shown in FIG. 2, three endless chains 11
A lower guide rail 28 is disposed in the upper traveling portion of the endless chain. The endless chain 11 is guided by the lower guide rail 28 and travels in the directions of arrows N2 and N4 in FIG.
Further, as shown in FIG. 3, an upper surface guide rail 29 is disposed directly above the endless chain 11 at the center. Therefore, the center endless chain 11 is disposed so as to be sandwiched between the upper surface guide rail 29 and the lower surface guide rail 28 from above and below.
8, the vehicle is guided in a straight line, and is directed in the direction of arrow N2 or arrow N4.
Move in the direction. In FIG. 2, the vertical bars 22 on both sides are
The movement is guided by a guide portion 19 made of an angle material attached to the inner wall of the drying chamber 10.

As shown in FIG. 1, the holder 20 is a
It is positioned between the support 4 and the skeleton 14, and is transported in the directions of the arrows N2 to N5. However, since the long holder 20 has the both ends and the vertical bar 22 at the center thereof supported by the support 14, As in the conventional example shown in FIG. 4, the holder 20 does not fall in the transport direction and lean on the front and rear holders 20, and a pitch (gap) is reliably secured between the holders 20. Therefore, the warm air introduced from the lower opening 9 of the drying chamber 10
The raw seaweed 27 spread on the seaweed cage 25 can be blown through the gap between 0 and is dried uniformly without drying.

In particular, since the center endless chain 11 is guided to travel straight by being sandwiched between the upper and lower guide rails 29 and 28, the center endless chain 11 is guided.
Does not fluctuate, so the central endless chain 1
The support ribs 14 protruding from the base 1 do not fluctuate in the left-right direction A (FIG. 3), and the support ribs 14 can reliably support the central vertical bar 22 at the bent portions 14a. In FIG. 1, in the lower traveling portion of the endless chain 11, the holder 20 is transported in a suspended state, so that the holder 20 does not fall in the front-rear direction, and therefore, the guide on the upper surface side of the endless chain 11. Rails are not required.

This apparatus for producing dried laver has the above-described configuration, and the overall operation will be described next. In FIG. 1, the holder 20 stops at the plow portion 3, and the raw laver 27 is swept up on the laver cage 25 in a sheet shape. Next, the holder 20 is sent to the dewatering unit 4, and the raw laver 27 is dewatered by press. Next, the holder 20 is fed between the supporting bones 14 of the endless chain 11 in the upper stage of the drying chamber 10. When the endless chain 11 rotates by a pitch, the holder 20 moves to the arrow N2.
The raw nori 27 is conveyed at a pitch in the N3 direction, and is gradually dried.

Next, the holder 20 is connected to the upper endless chain 11.
When it is sent to the end of the lower traveling section,
Is transferred to the endless chain 11 at the lower stage. When the lower endless chain 11 rotates by a pitch, the holder 20 is conveyed at a pitch in the directions of arrows N4 and N5, and the raw laver 27 is further dried. When the holder 20 is sent to the end of the lower traveling portion of the lower endless chain 11, it is delivered to the conveyor 1. Then, when the dried seaweed is sent to the torpedo part 5, the dried seaweed is dried.
It is stripped off and collected. Next, the holder 20 is sent to the washing unit 6, and the laver 25 is washed with water, and then sent to the plow unit 3, and the above-described operation is repeated.

The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment. For example, the holder may be one holding two pieces in the vertical direction, and the present invention can be advantageously applied to a holder which is long in the horizontal direction. It is. In addition, the endless chain provided in the drying chamber may be one stage. In the above-described embodiment, three endless chains 11 are provided. However, four or more endless chains are provided, and two or more vertical rods are supported at the central portion of the holder by supports protruding from the endless chain. Is also good.

[0022]

According to the present invention, both ends and the center of the holder are supported by the support ribs projecting from the endless chain, and the running of the center endless chain is guided by the upper guide rail and the lower guide rail. In this way, dry raw seaweed spread on the laver cage held by the holder while transporting the holder in an upright position with at least three bones so that the long holder does not fall down Can be.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of a dry laver manufacturing apparatus.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a holder for holding the sea laver.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a guide portion of the holder.

FIG. 4 is a partial side view of a conventional drying chamber.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Conveyor 3 Plow part 4 Dehydration part 5 Peel part 10 Drying room 11 Endless chain 14 Support bone 20 Holder 21 Horizontal bar 22 Vertical bar 25 Seaweed cage 27 Raw seaweed 28 Lower surface guide rail 29 Upper surface guide rail

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁶ identification code FI A23L 1/337 103 A23L 1/337 103Z (56) References JP-A-52-156973 (JP, A) JP-A-7-115938 (JP, A) Japanese Utility Model Showa 51-73392 (JP, U) Japanese Utility Model Showa 56-153197 (JP, U) Japanese Utility Model Showa 5-51087 (JP, U) (58) Field surveyed (Int. Cl. ⁶⁾ , DB name) A23L 1/337 103

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A conveyor for transporting a holder, a plow portion for plowing raw nori on a laver cage held in a plurality of sheets in a lateral direction by the holder conveyed by the conveyor, and a raw material for laminating the laver on a laver cage. A dehydration unit for dehydrating the laver, a drying room for drying the raw laver spread on the laver while transporting the holder by the endless chain, and a stripper for removing the dried laver from the laver to the end of the drying and spreading on the laver. The endless chain is disposed at least three in parallel in the drying chamber, and the three endless chains are in contact with the vertical rods at both sides and the center of the holder. An upper surface guide rail and a lower surface which project from the center endless chain to contact the upper and lower surfaces of the central endless chain to guide the centerless endless chain in a straight line so as to prevent the support bone from wobbling. Dried edible seaweed production apparatus characterized in that a Idoreru.