JP2854367B2 - Method and apparatus for preventing binding of noodle belt - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to, for example, loosening noodle bands (including noodle strings) known as macaroni, spaghetti, vermicelli, noodles or udon to prevent binding. The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for preventing binding of a noodle band, which are suitably used for the present invention.

[Conventional technology]

Generally, when manufacturing instant noodles such as macaroni, spaghetti, vermicelli, noodles, etc., water is added to a powder mainly composed of flour and mixed (kneaded), and the mixed raw dough is shaped into a predetermined shape by a molding machine. The raw noodles are formed into noodle bands, and the noodle bands are steamed, then loosened, and then dried to produce instant noodles.

In this loosening work, stickiness is given by steaming,
The noodle band which has become easy to bind is taken in a cup or the like, and the noodle band is agitated and loosened from above the cup with a stirring rod, air, or injection of an emulsion.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional technology, the noodle band filled in the cup by steaming is loosened only from above, so that the noodle band is in a dense state on the bottom side of the cup, and the noodle band on the bottom side is It is difficult to sufficiently unravel, and if the noodle band which is not sufficiently loosened is dried as it is in the drying step on the downstream side, the noodle band is bound, and when the hot water is reconstituted, this bound portion is There is a problem in that it is not easily unraveled, resulting in a poor texture during eating.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems of the related art, and can efficiently remove the noodle band of the cup from both the upper and lower sides, and reliably removes the entire noodle band in the cup to remove the noodle band between the noodle bands. An object of the present invention is to provide a method for preventing binding of a noodle band and a device for preventing the binding, which can prevent binding.

[Means for solving the problem]

Means adopted by the method of the present invention in order to solve the above-described problems are a primary loosening step in which a noodle band molded as a raw noodle having a predetermined shape is steamed and then loosened from above, and a noodle band loosened in the primary loosening step. And a secondary loosening step of loosening the noodle belt, which has been turned upside down and upside down again from above, from above.

Means adopted by the apparatus of the present invention includes a reversing cup receiving portion on both sides, a reversing cup in which a noodle belt is filled, and a reversing cup supported by a reversing cup via a support shaft. A first transporting means for transporting the noodle strips inside to the downstream side while steaming, and a first transporting means for loosening the steamed noodle strips transported by the first transporting means from above the reversing cup.
Disengaging means and a reversing cup located downstream of the first disengaging means and abutting on the reversing cup conveyed by the first conveying means, wherein the reversing cup is attached to the support shaft. An inverting means for inverting the noodle band together with an inversion cup in an upside-down direction by pushing the noodle band in an eccentric position with respect to the noodle band; A receiving cup for receiving the noodle strips received on the lower side of the conveying means and turned upside down and conveyed to the downstream side by the second conveying means, and a noodle band turned upside down and inverted in the receiving cups; It comprises a second loosening means provided in the middle of the second transport means so as to be loosened from above.

[Action] According to the method of the present invention, the steamed noodle belt is efficiently removed from both the upper and lower sides by unraveling the steamed noodle belt from above, reversing it and re-pulling it. The density can be made uniform and the whole can be reliably loosened.

According to the device of the present invention, since the noodle belt in the inversion cup is inverted upside down and transferred to the receiving cup by the inversion means, the noodle band is located at the bottom in the inversion cup,
The lower part of the noodle band in the dense state can be turned upside down and filled in the receiving cup. By loosening the noodle band in the receiving cup from above, the coarse density of the noodle band is made uniform and the entire noodle band is Can be reliably unraveled.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 6.

In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a conveyor which constitutes a first conveying means. The conveyor 1 is composed of a chain conveyor or the like, is disposed at an upstream end in the conveying direction, and has a pair of sprockets on the driving side which are rotationally driven from the outside ( (Not shown) and a pair of driven sprockets 2 and 2 (second
And a pair of chains 3 wound around the driven sprocket 2 and the driving sprocket, respectively.
(Only one is shown). here,
As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, each chain 3 of the conveyor 1 has link plates 3A, 3A,...
3B, 3B,... Rotatably connected to both ends of the
Among the B, 3B,..., A support shaft 3D integrally molded with each pin 3B located at a fixed interval and protruding toward the reversing cup 4 described later.
Each of the support shafts 3D rotatably supports both sides of a fixing member 4B of the reversing cup 4 described later. A pair of guide rails (not shown) are disposed on both sides of the conveyor 1 between a driving sprocket and a driven sprocket, and each roller 3C of each chain 3 rolls on this guide rail. It is supposed to.

Reference numerals 4, 4,... Are reversing cups located between the chains 3 of the conveyor 1 and arranged at regular intervals in the transport direction. The reversing cups 4 are molded as raw noodles of a predetermined shape on the upstream side of the conveyor 1. The noodle band 5 is conveyed downstream by the conveyor 1 in a state where the noodle band 5 is filled in each container 4A. As shown in FIG. 2, each of the reversing cups 4 has a bottomed (mesh-shaped bottom) containers 4A, 4A,...
Are arranged in parallel, and these are integrally fixed by a square frame-shaped fixing member 4B. On both sides of each fixing member 4B, a reversing rod receiving portion 4C , 4C are formed in a planar shape. Further, both sides of the fixing member 4B are rotatably mounted on the respective support shafts 3D of the respective chains 3 above the respective reversing rod receiving portions 4C, and the fixing members 4B are centered on the respective support shafts 3D together with the respective containers 4A. It is configured to be inverted as described later.

Numeral 6 denotes a steaming device arranged in the middle of the conveyor 1, and the steaming device 6 steams the noodle band 5 in the reversing cup 4 conveyed by the conveyor 1 with steam at 100 ° C. under normal pressure for several minutes, for example. It has become. Reference numeral 7 denotes a first swirling nozzle as a first unraveling means which is located on the downstream side of the steaming device 6 and is provided in the middle of the conveyor 1. Air of a predetermined pressure is supplied to the first swirling nozzle 7. An air hose 7A to be supplied is connected to an emulsion supply hose 7B to supply an emulsion mixed with, for example, 5 parts of hardened palm oil, 95 parts of water and 0.1 part of sugar ester of HLB14. Then, the first swirl nozzle 7 uniformly blows the air mixed with the emulsified liquid to the entire noodle band 5 in the inversion cup 4 when the inversion cup 4 is conveyed directly below in FIG. In the direction of the arrow. Reference numeral 8 denotes a recovery tank located below the swirl nozzle 7 and arranged in the middle of the conveyor 1. The recovery tank 8 recovers the emulsion sprayed from the swirl nozzle 7 from below the reversing cup 4. It has become.

9 is provided on the downstream end side of the conveyor 1,
Cup reversing device as reversing means for reversing the reversing cup 4 conveyed by the cup reversing device 9
A base 10 as a support base, two guide rods 11, 11 attached in parallel to the base 10, a slider 13 slidably supported on the guide rod 11 via a slide bearing 12, It is fixed to the base 10 and has a rod
By expanding and contracting 14A, the slider 13 is
An air cylinder 14 that reciprocates along, and a base end side rotatably mounted on the slider 13, and a contact roller 16 mounted on the front end side supports each of the chains 3 on the reversing rod receiving portion 4 </ b> C of the reversing cup 4. As shown in FIG. 6, a pair of rollers 17 mounted on the base 10 and supporting the reversing rod 15 from above and below by contacting the shaft 3D at a position eccentric from the shaft 3D. , 17. Here, the reversing rod 15 of the reversing device 9 has a bent portion 15A having a middle portion in the longitudinal direction bent in a crank shape or a substantially rectangular shape, and the bent portion 15A is formed by the slider 13 on the base end side of the reversing bar 15. When it is pushed in the direction of arrow A in FIG. 6, it passes between the support rollers 17, 17 and pushes the contact roller 16 at the tip forward and upward as shown in FIG. 6 by rotating the reversing cup 4 conveyed in the direction of arrow B by the chain 3 of the conveyor 1 in the direction of arrow C about the support shaft 3D of the chain 3. As shown in (c), it is reversed instantaneously.

Reference numeral 18 denotes a hopper disposed below the reversing cup 4 inverted by the reversing device 9, and 19 denotes a second hopper disposed below the hopper 18 and disposed below the downstream end of the conveyor 1. The conveyor 19 is a conveyor 1
And a pair of sprockets (only one is shown) provided on the upstream end side in the transport direction and a pair of other sprockets (not shown) provided on the downstream end side. These sprockets 20
A pair of chains 21 (only one is shown) wound therebetween is provided, and each of the chains 21 is disposed so as to pass through the inside of the drying device 22. Reference numerals 23, 23,... Denote receiving cups located between the chains 21 and arranged at predetermined intervals in the conveying direction of the conveyor 19, and each receiving cup 23 has a rectangular frame Fixing member (not shown)
, For example, four containers 23A, 23A,... Are arranged in parallel. And each receiving cup 23 is a conveyor 19
When the sheet is conveyed to the lower side of the hopper 18 by the
As a result, the noodle band 5 turned upside down from the inside of the reversing cup 4 is received via the hopper 18, and the noodle band 5 turned upside down and down is delivered to the downstream side by the conveyor 19. ing.

The conveyor 24 is located between the hopper 18 and the drying device 22.
The second swirl nozzle 24 is provided in the middle of the second swirl nozzle 24, and the receiving cup 23 is conveyed directly below the second swirl nozzle 24, similarly to the first swirl nozzle 7. When the air from the air hose 24A is
The noodle belt 5 is blown while being swirled toward the noodle belt 5, thereby loosening the noodle belt 5 evenly. Then, the swirling nozzle 24 is turned upside down and blows air as a swirling flow onto the noodle band 5 filled in the receiving cup 23, so that the emulsification blown with the air to the first swirling nozzle 7. The liquid is evenly adhered to the surface of the noodle band 5, the excess emulsion is removed, and the noodle band 5 is shaped so that the noodle band does not shift in the receiving cup 23.

The apparatus of the present embodiment is configured as described above. Next, a method of preventing the binding of the noodle band 5 using the present apparatus will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, water is added to a powder mainly composed of flour and mixed, and raw dough as a mixture is formed into a noodle band 5 as raw noodles in a predetermined shape by a molding machine. To fill each container 4A of the reversing cup 4. And
The noodle belt 5 filled in the reversing cup 4 is conveyed downstream by the conveyor 1 and steamed in the steaming device 6 and then conveyed to the lower side of the first swirl nozzle 7 to perform a primary loosening step. . In this primary loosening step, the swirl nozzle 7 is turned toward the noodle band 5 in the reversing cup 4 while turning the swirl nozzle 7 from above the cup 4 so that the noodle band 5 that is easily bound in the reversing cup 4 by steaming is turned. The noodle band 5 is uniformly loosened in the inversion cup 4 by spraying air and an emulsion. At this time, in order to spray the emulsion, the noodle bands 5 are not bound to each other in the subsequent drying step.

Next, in the reversing step, the noodle band 5 loosened from above in the primary loosening step is transported along the sprocket 2 along the sprocket 2 along the sprocket 2 together with the reversing cup 4 in the arrow B direction. On the other hand, in the cup reversing device 9, when the slider 13 is pushed in the arrow A direction by the air cylinder 14 and the bent portion 15 </ b> A of the reversing rod 15 passes through the support rollers 17, the tip of the reversing rod 15 abuts. The roller 16 is pressed forward (in the direction of arrow A) and upward. As a result, as shown in FIGS. 6 (a), (b) and (c), the contact roller 16 is turned over by the reversing cup 4 which is conveyed in the direction of arrow B by the chain 3 of the conveyor 1.
Is rotated in the direction of arrow C about the support shaft 3D of the chain 3, as shown in FIG. 6 (c) from the state of FIG. 6 (a) through the state of FIG. 6 (b). , The reversing cup 4 is reversed instantaneously. Thereby, the inversion cup 4
The upper and lower noodle belts 5 are completely inverted, and the inverted cup 4
With the lower surface of the noodle band 5 located on the bottom side facing upward inside, the noodle belt 5 is transferred to the receiving cup 23 conveyed by the conveyor 19 via the hopper 18.

Next, in the secondary loosening step, when the noodle band 5 transferred to the receiving cup 23 is conveyed by the conveyor 19 directly below the second turning nozzle 24, the turning nozzle 24 is turned while the receiving cup 23 is turned. Air is blown from above toward the noodle band 5 filled in each container 23A, and the noodle band 5 that has not been sufficiently loosened in the primary loosening step is evenly loosened. Then, the emulsion adhered in the primary loosening step is evenly adhered to the surface of the noodle band 5, and the excess emulsion is removed so that the noodle band 5 is not offset in each container 23A of the cup 23. And then shape it.

Thereafter, the noodle band 5 in the receiving cup 23 is conveyed into the drying device 22 and uniformly dried in each of the containers 23A, thereby producing instant noodles for one meal.

Thus, according to the method of the present embodiment, after the noodle band 5 in the reversing cup 4 is steamed, the noodle band 5 is once loosened from the upper side, and then the noodle band 5 is inverted together with the reversing cup 4 so that the upper and lower sides are reversed. To the receiving cup 23, and the lower portion of the noodle band 5 located on the bottom side in the reversing cup 4 is loosened again toward the upper side. It can be loosened evenly, the noodle bands 5 can be efficiently prevented from binding to each other in the downstream drying step, and the texture during eating can be improved.

In addition, the cup reversing device 9 pushes the reversing rod 15 in the direction of arrow A in FIGS. 5 and 6 by the air cylinder 14 via the slider 13, and the bent portion 15A of the reversing rod 15 17
The contact roller 16 is pressed forward and upward against the reversing cup 4 which is conveyed in the direction of arrow B by the chain 3 of the conveyor 1 while being positioned upward, and the reversing cup 4 is rotated in the direction of arrow C. As a result, the inverting cup 4 can be instantaneously inverted by the cup inverting device 9, and the inside noodle band 5 is surely inverted so that the upper and lower sides thereof are inverted, and the noodle belt 5 is placed in the receiving cup 23. The lower portion of the noodle band 5 located on the bottom side in the reversing cup 4 can be surely turned upward, and can be loosened with air from the swirling nozzle 24. , It can be loosened evenly from below to reliably prevent binding.

In addition, in the said Example, although the case where the noodle band 5 was put into each container 4A of the reversing cup 4 and processing was performed was explained as an example, this invention is not limited to this, for example, many The same action and effect can be obtained even when the noodle belt 5 for serving is put into one cup and subjected to the primary loosening, inversion and secondary loosening.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, after the noodle band is once loosened from above, the noodle band which has been turned upside down and inverted is moved upward and loosened again from above.
Uniform coarse density of the noodle strips allows the whole to be loosened evenly from above and below. When drying the noodle strips that have become easy to bind by steaming, it is effective to bind the noodle strips to each other. Can be prevented. In particular, it becomes possible to instantly invert the inversion cup by the inversion means, and when transferring the noodle band in the inversion cup to the receiving cup, it is possible to prevent the noodle band from protruding from the receiving cup, and the like. It produces various effects.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a binding prevention device for a noodle band according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a partial perspective view showing a reversing cup conveyed around a sprocket by a conveyor,
FIG. 3 is a partial longitudinal sectional view showing a coupling state between one side of the reversing cup and the chain, FIG. 4 is a plan view showing a main part of the chain having a support shaft, and FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a cup reversing device. 6 (a), 6 (b) and 6 (c) are schematic explanatory views showing different states when the reversing cup is reversed by the cup reversing device. 1 ... Conveyor (first transport means), 3 ... Chain,
3D: support shaft, 4: reversing cup, 6: steaming device, 7
...... First swirl nozzle (first loosening means), 9 ... cup reversing device, 15 ... reversing rod, 19 ... conveyor (second transport means), 23 ... receiving cup, 24 ... 2 swirl nozzles (second loosening means).

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A primary loosening step of steaming a noodle band molded as raw noodles having a predetermined shape and then loosening the noodle band from above, and a reversing step of inverting the noodle band loosened in the primary loosening step up and down. A method of preventing the binding of the noodle band, which comprises a secondary loosening step of loosening the noodle band turned upside down and upside down again from above in the reversing step. 2. A reversing cup having a reversing rod receiving portion on both sides, in which a noodle band is filled, and the reversing cup is reversibly supported via a support shaft, and the noodle band in the reversing cup is steamed. A first transporting means for transporting the steamed noodle belt transported downstream by the first transporting means, and a first loosening means for loosening the steamed noodle belt from above the reversing cup; It is located downstream of the unraveling means and is disposed so as to contact the reversing cup conveyed by the first conveying means, and pushes the reversing cup at a position eccentric with respect to the support shaft. By doing so, the noodle belt is turned upside down with
A reversing means for reversing the noodle band in the reverse direction, and a noodle band in the reversing cup inverted by the reversing means is received below the first conveying means, and the noodle band turned upside down and in a second direction is placed in a second direction. A receiving cup to be transported to the downstream side by the transporting means, and a second loosening provided in the middle of the second transporting means to loosen the noodle band turned upside down in the receiving cup from above. And a device for preventing binding of the noodle belt.