JP2898216B2 - Stirring blade - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a stirring blade of a stirring vessel having an opening at the bottom and having a discharge port at the bottom used in, for example, a manufacturing process of foods. , Food manufacturing processes,
A stirring container having a discharge port at the bottom which is suitably used in a process of manufacturing a variety of foods, such as a liquid product having a relatively high viscosity, a paste-like product, a solid-liquid mixed product, etc., stored in the stirring container. A product having physical properties of viscosity can be efficiently stirred in the stirring vessel,
The present invention relates to a new type of agitating blade capable of stably and surely discharging products by efficiently guiding these products sequentially to a discharge port formed at the bottom thereof after stirring.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, various foods such as liquid foods such as curries, stews, soups and sauces, ketchup,
2. Description of the Related Art As an apparatus for producing pasty foods such as mayonnaise, puree, white sauce, kneaded mustard, kneaded wasabi, pizza sauce, and dough paste, in general, pipes for transferring raw materials such as liquid, solid, powder, and paste are used. Into the compounding hopper using, the obtained compounding material is further transferred from the compounding hopper using a transfer pipe to the next processing step, for example,
A continuous manufacturing apparatus that uses a transfer pipe for many of the transfer steps, such as an apparatus that transfers the processed material to the next step, transferring it to the mixing / stirring process step, heat treatment step, etc. Has been used.

[0003] In general, for example, in a continuous food manufacturing apparatus, from the blending of each raw material to the final product, the manufacturing apparatus in each processing step is connected by a transfer pipe, and the transfer pipe is connected. A method of transferring each raw material, a processed product thereof, an intermediate product, and the like through a pipe has been mainly used.

[0004] In some cases, a food processing apparatus has been developed in which a stainless steel container is filled with the contents, the contents are mixed by rolling the container, and then the contents are transferred to each process.

[0005] By the way, the continuous manufacturing apparatus connected by the transfer pipe as described above is suitable for a so-called one-kind, large-scale production in which the same product is mass-produced industrially. On the other hand, it has the following problems.

That is, in a continuous manufacturing apparatus in which each processing apparatus in each processing step is connected by a transfer pipe, since each manufacturing apparatus is connected and fixed by the transfer pipe, It is difficult to change the connection freely. Therefore, for example, in order to simultaneously or sequentially manufacture products in which some of the processing steps are significantly different,
It was necessary to separately arrange a special device suitable for manufacturing the product, or to modify and use the continuous manufacturing device for the product.

[0007] In addition, in a continuous manufacturing apparatus connected by a transfer pipe, once production is started, it is necessary to continuously perform all steps from input of raw materials to preparation of a final product. When the operation of the continuous manufacturing apparatus is started, it is impossible to stop the apparatus in an arbitrary manufacturing process at an arbitrary time, for example, when sequentially manufacturing another type of product. In order to perform necessary cleaning of equipment and maintenance of some equipment, it is necessary to temporarily stop the equipment during all processing steps, and as a result, when manufacturing multiple types of products, However, there is a problem that the production efficiency is significantly reduced.

Further, in order to clean the used equipment in each manufacturing process and to repair a failure, etc., the manufacturing equipment connected by the transfer pipe is completely disassembled and assembled in all the processing steps. Is often required to be performed simultaneously, and the work is extremely extensive and complicated, and requires time and effort. There was a problem.

Further, in a conventional continuous manufacturing apparatus in which processing apparatuses in each processing step are fixedly connected by a transfer pipe, raw materials and the like inevitably accumulate in the transfer pipe after production is stopped. Therefore, there is a problem that a considerable amount of raw materials and the like are lost.

On the other hand, the contents are filled in the above-mentioned stainless steel container, and the contents are mixed by rolling the container.
After that, although the method of transferring to each process is a pipeless method, it is only a method of rolling a transferable cooking tank of a normal form that can be sealed and transferring and cooking, and the contents of cooking are also vacuum. It is limited to special ones such as pasteurized cooking, and it has been difficult to expand and use this as it is as a general food production apparatus.

By the way, in recent years, for example, in the field of food manufacturing and the like, as the types of products to be manufactured on a production line have been diversified, diversified, and the quality of the products has been increased, the conventional products have become It is becoming important to establish not only the same product and manufacturing equipment and manufacturing system suitable for mass production, but also the manufacturing equipment and manufacturing system suitable for high-mix, low-volume production. A large continuous production apparatus fixedly connected to a suitable transfer pipe has various problems as described above. It is becoming more and more difficult to use it as an apparatus or manufacturing system. In view of the above, in the art, it is possible to reliably solve the above-mentioned problems observed in a conventional continuous production apparatus for foods and the like, and it is possible to suitably use the apparatus for high-mix, low-volume production. There has been a strong demand to develop new possible types of manufacturing equipment and systems.

[0012]

In such a situation, the present inventors have fundamentally solved the above-mentioned problems observed in the conventional continuous production apparatus connected by a transfer pipe. As a result of intensive research aimed at developing a completely new type of manufacturing equipment and manufacturing system suitable for high-mix, low-volume production, as a result, a completely new type of multi-function was substituted for the conventional transfer pipe. By developing a transport system and constructing a new production system that movably interposes it between manufacturing equipment in each processing step, it can simultaneously or sequentially manufacture many kinds of foods with high production efficiency. And succeeded in developing an apparatus for producing a wide variety of foods suitable for the above-mentioned applications, and previously filed patent applications (Japanese Patent Application Nos. 5-326614 and 5-3126).
No. 15, Japanese Patent Application No. 5-313616, Japanese Patent Application No. 5-312
617).

Further, the present inventors have proposed various kinds of agitating containers and product filling / discharging machines which can be suitably used, for example, in a food manufacturing process or the like in such a multi-type food manufacturing apparatus. During the development of the product, we succeeded in developing a new type of product agitating vessel and agitating blade that can store and agitate the product efficiently and perform the operation of discharging the product with high efficiency. The invention has been completed.

An object of the present invention is to provide a stirring blade having a specific shape which can be suitably used for a stirring container for filling and discharging products in a variety of food manufacturing processes and the like. is there.

Further, the present invention provides a specific container for use in a stirring vessel which can store and stir the product efficiently and stir and discharge the stored product effectively. It is an object of the present invention to provide a new type of stirring blade having a shape.

[0016]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention for solving the above-mentioned problems is a stirring blade of a stirring vessel having an upper opening having a discharge port at the bottom, the bottom of which rotates close to the bottom of the stirring vessel. The stirring blade of the stirring vessel described above, further comprising a stirring blade that is rotatably installed in the container and has a shape that expands spirally from the center to the outside.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the stirring vessel comprises:
The above-mentioned stirring blade, which is a stirring tank for filling and discharging a food used in a process of manufacturing a variety of foods. further,
Another embodiment of the present invention is the above-described stirring blade which is located below the stirring device and is coaxially connected to a rotation axis of the stirring device.
It is.

Next, the present invention will be described in more detail. The stirring blade of the present invention is, as described above, for example, a stirring blade of a top-opening stirring container having a discharge port at the bottom used in a food manufacturing process, particularly, a manufacturing process of a variety of foods, and the like. A stirrer having a shape that is rotatably installed so that its bottom rotates close to the bottom of the stirring vessel, and has a shape that expands spirally from the center to the outside. is there.

The agitating container used in the present invention is, for example, an agitating container having an upper opening having a discharge port at the bottom used in the production process of various kinds of foods. A drum-shaped container having a suitable discharge port at the bottom thereof, and a stirrer having an appropriate shape and structure rotatably installed around the center of the body as a shaft is preferable. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and any type having the same function can be used in the same manner. The stirring container is preferably detachably connected to a product discharge pipe at an outlet at the bottom in a manufacturing process of a variety of foods, and can be used diversified as a stirring container for a variety of foods. Of course, it is needless to say that it can be similarly used as a stirring container for other products, not limited to food.

The stirring blade of the present invention can be installed in the above-mentioned stirring vessel alone or in combination with another stirring apparatus. For example, a usual stirring apparatus installed rotatably around the center of the stirring vessel as an axis. Are preferably added.

The agitating blade of the present invention is located at the center of the agitating vessel, above the discharge port formed at the bottom of the agitating vessel, and has a spiral wound in a left or right winding direction from the center outward. It is installed so that its bottom part is close to the bottom part of the stirring vessel. Further, the stirring blade is rotatably connected to a driving device located above the stirring vessel, and the product housed in the stirring vessel is moved inward from the enlarged spiral outer end to the center of the product. In the direction, and can be appropriately discharged from a discharge port located at the bottom of the stirring vessel.

The rotating operation of the stirring blade can be adjusted to an appropriate rotation speed by the driving device, and can be continuously or discontinuously rotated. May be set to an appropriate rotation speed and an appropriate rotation interval. Further, the structure of the bottom portion of the stirring blade of the present invention may be any structure that substantially matches the structure of the bottom portion of the stirring vessel. The one formed to be inclined is exemplified as a preferable one. The stirring blade of the present invention,
It is also possible to install the stirrer so as to be connected to a stirrer located above the stirrer. In this case, the stirrer can be rotated in conjunction with the stirrer or independently. In addition, the above-mentioned stirrer efficiently distributes the product stored in the stirring vessel over the entirety of the stirring vessel from the side wall to the bottom of the stirring vessel,
Any material may be used as long as it has a function of uniformly stirring, and is not particularly limited.

[0023]

As described above, the stirring blade of the present invention is, for example, a stirring blade of a stirring vessel having an upper opening having a discharge port at the bottom used in a food production process or the like. It is installed rotatably so as to rotate close to the bottom, and has a shape that expands spirally from the center to the outside, so that high viscosity such as paste-like products stirred in the stirring vessel In discharging the product having the following properties from the outlet at the bottom of the stirring vessel, the spiral is taken inward toward the center from the outer end,
By efficiently guiding the products to the discharge port sequentially, it is possible to reliably perform the discharge operation of the products. In addition, by setting the rotation direction of the stirring blade to the direction opposite to the above-described intake direction, it is possible to efficiently and uniformly stir the product located at the bottom of the stirring vessel.

[0024]

EXAMPLES Next, the present invention will be described more specifically based on examples, but the present invention is not limited to the examples. Embodiment An embodiment of the stirring blade of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing a stirring vessel provided with a conventional stirring device. In the figure, A shows a transverse section of the stirring vessel and the stirring device, and B shows a longitudinal section thereof. In the figure,
Reference numeral 1 denotes a drum-shaped stirring vessel. Reference numeral 2 denotes the bottom of the stirring vessel, and 3 denotes the side wall. Reference numeral 4 denotes a discharge port formed at the center of the bottom of the stirring vessel, 5 denotes a rotating shaft of the stirring device, 6 denotes a side wall blade, 7 denotes a bottom outer blade, and 8 denotes a bottom blade. Reference numeral 9 denotes an end of a driving device (not shown) connected to the rotating shaft 5.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing an embodiment of the stirring blade of the present invention. In the figure, A shows the cross section of the stirring vessel and the stirring blade, and B shows the vertical section, respectively. In the figure, reference numeral 11 denotes a stirring vessel provided with the stirring blade of the present invention. Reference numeral 12 denotes a bottom portion of the stirring vessel, and 13 denotes a side wall. 14 is an outlet located at the center of the bottom of the stirring vessel, 15
Denotes a rotating shaft of the stirring device located above the stirring blade, and 15 'denotes a rotating shaft of the stirring blade of the present invention integrally connected to the rotating shaft of the stirring device. Reference numeral 16 denotes a side wall blade of the stirring device, and 17 denotes a bottom outer blade. Reference numeral 18 denotes a stirring blade of the present invention, which has a shape that expands spirally from the center to the outside, and has a structure in which the bottom is installed so as to rotate close to the bottom 12 of the stirring vessel. 19 is a rotating shaft 15,
Shown is the end of the drive (not shown) connected to 15 '.

A product having a high viscosity such as a pasty food stored in the stirring vessel 1 is supplied to a stirring device and a stirring blade 1.
After the mixture is stirred and mixed under appropriate conditions by rotating 8, the discharge port 14 at the bottom of the stirring vessel is opened, and the spiral stirring blade 18 is rotated so that the product is discharged from the spiral outer end. They are sequentially taken in, guided to the outlet 14 and discharged from the outlet 14. A discharge pipe is detachably connected to the discharge port 14 at the bottom of the stirring vessel. Further, after the above-mentioned product discharging operation is completed, the stirring device and the stirring blade 18 connected to the driving device are moved to the upper outside of the stirring container, and the discharge port 1 is further moved.
4. Disconnect the discharge pipe connected to 4 and stir vessel 11
Can be transported to another step via the transport means, and further, the product can be filled and the above operation can be repeated.

[0027]

As described in detail above, the present invention relates to, for example, the stirring of an agitating container having an opening at the bottom and having an opening at the bottom used in the manufacturing process of food, especially in the manufacturing process of various kinds of food. A blade, which is rotatably installed so that its bottom rotates close to the bottom of the stirring vessel, and has a stirring blade having a shape that expands spirally from the center outward. According to the present invention, the following effects are exerted. (1) In the food manufacturing process and the like, when the product stirred in the stirring vessel is discharged from the discharge port at the bottom of the stirring vessel, the product is sequentially guided efficiently to the discharge port by the spiral stirring blades, and is stabilized. , And can be discharged reliably. (2) In a process of manufacturing a variety of foods, a product having a high viscosity property such as a paste product can be efficiently discharged from the discharge port of the stirring container, particularly. (3) By changing the rotation direction, the stirring and discharging functions can be properly used.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing a conventional stirring device and a stirring container.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing one embodiment of a stirring blade of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Stirring vessel 2 Bottom part 3 Side wall 4 Discharge port 5 Rotating shaft 6 Side wall blade 7 Bottom outer wing 8 Bottom wing 9 Drive end 11 Stirring vessel 12 Bottom 13 Side wall 14 Discharge port 15 Stirrer rotation axis 15 'Stirrer blade rotation Shaft 16 Side wall wing 17 Bottom outer wing 18 Bottom wing 19 Drive end

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Yoshiaki Ishino 1-5-7 Mikitei-Sakaecho, Higashiosaka-shi, Osaka House Foods Co., Ltd. No. 7 House Foods Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Hiroaki Kobayashi 1-5-7 Mikitei Sakaecho, Higashi Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture House Foods Co., Ltd. (56) References Real Opening Sho 64-25043 (JP, U) (58 ) Surveyed field (Int. Cl. ⁶ , DB name) A47J 43/046-43/07 A47J 37/00

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A stirring blade of a stirring vessel having an opening at an upper surface having a discharge port at a bottom, wherein the stirring blade is rotatably installed so that the bottom rotates close to the bottom of the stirring vessel, and extends from the center outward. The stirring blade of the above-mentioned stirring vessel, further comprising a stirring blade having a spirally expanding shape. 2. The stirring blade according to claim 1, wherein the stirring container is a stirring tank for filling and discharging foods used in a process of manufacturing various kinds of foods. 3. The stirring blade according to claim 1, wherein the stirring blade is located below the stirring device and is coaxially connected to a rotation shaft of the stirring device.