JP2917249B2 - Shrimp cutting and stretching 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 shrimp streak cutting and stretching apparatus used for processing shrimp used as a food material such as tempura and fry.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Shrimp used as a food ingredient for tempura and fry shrinks when shredded in oil while peeled and has a poor appearance. After it is set, it is fried with clothes. Conventionally,
Most of the work relied on manual work, but in recent years companies,
With the spread of frozen foods for schools and other schools and the spread of frozen foods, it has been required to be provided in large quantities and at low cost.
The conventional method of cutting and stretching shrimp is to cut the peeled shrimp streaks with the tip of a kitchen knife or the like, then arrange them on a belt conveyor and press them evenly with a roller or belt from above. was there.

[0003]

According to this method, the entire shrimp on the belt conveyor is pressed down uniformly, so that the shrimp is simply stretched flat and the original shape of the rounded shrimp is reduced. I can't get it. Furthermore, it was not possible to sufficiently extend the shrimp because it was merely pressed. According to the conventional method, 30 to 40
% Of the shrimp is the limit, and there is a problem that the shrimp shape is broken or torn off if further extension is attempted.
Further, in the conventional apparatus, the work of cutting, stretching, and peeling the shrimp from the belt cannot be performed consistently, and there is a problem in work efficiency. The present invention provides a device that eliminates the problems of the above-described conventional shrimp streaking and stretching methods, so that the shrimp streaking used for tempura and fry, etc., aims to increase the efficiency of the work of stretching, It is another object of the present invention that even a person without special skills can easily perform the task.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above objects, the present invention provides a shrimp placing bucket having a plurality of grooves formed on a back surface thereof continuously mounted on an endless annular belt. A pressing roller for pressing a shrimp placed upward with its abdomen facing downward and correcting a bend; and while the holding roller is pressing the shrimp, the shrimp enters into a number of grooves of the shrimp mounting bucket from below. A cutting blade for cutting muscle,
A lower bucket having a number of projections continuously mounted on an endless annular belt moving in synchronization with the advance of the shrimp placing basket while being fitted with the plurality of grooves; and a shrimp on the shrimp placing bucket. It is characterized by comprising a rolling roller that extends while rolling sequentially from the tail to the head, and a shrimp extraction belt that sandwiches the tail of the stretched shrimp between upper and lower belts and removes the shrimp from the shrimp placing bucket.

[0005] A large number of grooves of the shrimp placing bucket are formed by comb teeth directed downward, and a depression with a lower curved side is formed substantially at the center of the shrimp placing bucket. The cutting blades that enter the numerous grooves of the shrimp placing bucket and cut the streaks of the shrimp are a plurality of round blades corresponding to the number of grooves. The lower bucket is formed with a comb-shaped protruding piece that fits into the groove of the shrimp mounting bucket, and the center of the protruding piece is cut out in a shape corresponding to the depression of the shrimp mounting bucket. And The pressing roller and the rolling roller have several spiral elastic plates formed on the peripheral surface. Further, the shrimp take-out belt comprises two endless annular belts rotating in the same direction, sandwiching the tail of the shrimp placed on the shrimp placing bucket between the two belts, and peeling off the shrimp placing bucket. And

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a side view showing the entire shrimp muscle cutting and extending device according to the present invention, and FIGS.
FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing each main part, and FIG. 7 is a process diagram from the cutting of the shrimp to the extension. The apparatus comprises an endless annular first belt 1 attached to a frame A extending in the longitudinal direction,
The second belt 2, which is located substantially at the middle to the terminal side of the first belt 1 and rotates in the same direction as the first belt 1,
Roller 3, which is located on the belt 1 and presses the shrimp to be conveyed from above, a cutting blade 4 which can move up and down to cut the streak of the shrimp from below while the press roller 3 is pressing the shrimp, and the streak is cut. Roller 5 for extending the shrimp by gradually pressing the shrimp from the tail side and the upper and lower two endless annular belts which are located near the end of the first belt 1 and rotate in the same direction sandwiching the tail of the extended shrimp. And a belt 6 for extracting shrimp.

The first belt 1 has a shrimp placing bucket 7
Are continuously attached. The shrimp placing bucket 7 is substantially rectangular and has stepped portions 7a and 7b at both ends, and a large number of grooves 7c are formed on the back surface side. Further, on the upper surface of the shrimp placing bucket 7, a recess 7d having a lower curved side for shrimp placing is formed. The depression 7d is formed on a diagonal line of the shrimp placing bucket 7 so as to correspond to a spiral movement of a pressing piece 3b attached to the pressing roller 3 described later. First belt 1
Is stretched over substantially the entire frame A and is driven by the drive motors 1a and 1b. The holding roller 3 is attached to the frame A substantially at the center of the first belt 1. The pressing roller 3 has a configuration in which a pressing piece 3b made of an elastic material such as a silicone resin is spirally attached to a cylindrical rotating body 3a. The position where the pressing roller 3 is attached to the frame A is such that the upper surface of the rotating pressing piece 3b abuts on the shrimp placed in the recess 7d of the mounting bucket 7 and can be pressed softly. Fixed to.

The pressing roller 3 attached to the frame A
It is connected to a rotating shaft of a driving motor 8 of the cutting blade 4 described later by a chain and rotates. The rotation speed of the press roller 3 is
One end of the holding piece 3b enters into the recess 7d of the shrimp placing bucket 7, and has such a speed that the other end can hold the recess 7d while rotating spirally. The cutting blade 4 is attached between the upper and lower belts of the first belt 1 and substantially below the pressing roller 3. The cutting blade 4 has a configuration in which a number of round blades 4 a corresponding to a number of grooves 7 c of the mounting bucket 7 are attached in parallel to a shaft 4 b, and is rotated by a drive motor 8. The cutting blade 4 cuts the streak by the round blade 4a penetrating into the many grooves 7c of the mounting bucket 7, and the upper edge thereof hits the abdomen side of the shrimp mounted on the recess 7d of the mounting bucket 7. To the frame A so that it can be moved up and down. Fine adjustment of the round blade 4a in the vertical direction is performed by rotating the adjustment bolt 4c. By rotating the adjustment bolt 4c in an appropriate direction, the cutting blade 4
Move up and down for fine adjustment.

A second belt 2 running in parallel with the first belt 1
Is stretched inside the first belt 1 and from almost the middle to the end side. The second belt 2 is driven by a drive motor 2a. On this second belt 2, a substantially rectangular lower basket 9 on which a large number of comb-shaped projecting pieces 9a are formed is continuously attached. Lower bucket 9
The width and length of the comb-shaped protruding piece 9a formed in the groove 7c of the shrimp placing bucket 7 can be fitted and united.
Further, a depression 9b similar to the depression 7d formed on the shrimp placing bucket 7 and having a curved lower side is formed on the surface of the lower bucket 9.
To form The rotation speed of the second belt 2 to which the lower bucket 9 is attached is such that when the moving shrimp placing bucket 7 approaches the second belt 2, the protrusion 9 a of the lower bucket 9 causes the shrimp placing bucket to move. 7, and is adjusted to a speed at which it can run parallel to near the end of the second belt 2 while being united.

The rolling roller 5 is mounted on the frame A above the first belt almost at the middle of the second belt 2 so as to be vertically movable. The rolling roller 5 has a configuration in which a pressing piece 5b made of an elastic material such as silicone resin is spirally attached to a cylindrical rotating body 5a in the same manner as the above-described pressing roller 3, and the upper surface of the pressing piece 5b is shrunk. The height is adjusted so that the entire shrimp placed in the depression 7d of the placing bucket 7 can be pressed. The rotation speed of the rolling roller 5 is set such that one end of the holding piece 5b enters from one side of the depression 7d of the shrimp placing bucket 7 and the other end can press the other end of the depression 7d while rotating spirally. , The speed synchronized with the speed of the first belt 1.

Near the end of the first belt 1, a shrimp extraction belt 6 is attached. Shrimp removal belt 6
Is composed of two belts 6a and 6b rotating in the same direction, and is stretched so that the insides of the belts are in contact with each other. Further, the take-out belt 6 is attached such that the insides of the belts that are in contact with each other substantially contact the step 7a of the shrimp placing bucket 7. The tail of the shrimp is pinched at the position where the belts 6a and 6b overlap, and in this state, the shrimp is advanced to near the end of the belt 6 and is dropped to the exit chute 10.

Next, the actual use of the shrimp streak cutting and stretching apparatus according to the present invention having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIG. (A) The peeled shrimp 11 is placed in the recess 7d of the shrimp placing bucket 7 with its abdomen facing downward so that its tail protrudes from the step 7a of the shrimp placing bucket 7. (B) When the shrimp placing bucket 7 moves forward according to the first belt 1 and advances to the lower side of the press roller 3, the pressing piece 3b of the rotating press roller 3 presses the shrimp 11 from the tail side to the whole. The upper end of the round blade 4a of the cutting blade 4 rotating while the presser piece 3b is pressing the shrimp 11 abuts on the abdomen of the shrimp, and cuts the streak. (C) When the shrimp placing bucket 7 further moves forward and reaches the second belt 2, each protruding piece 9 a of the lower bucket 9 rising from the lower side becomes a groove 7 of the shrimp placing bucket 7.
c... and the shrimp placing bucket 7 and the lower bucket 9 are united. (D) The shrimp placing bucket 7 is further advanced in a state of being integrated with the lower bucket 9, and when reaching below the rolling roller 5, the pressing piece 5 b of the rotating rolling roller 5 spirally rotates the shrimp 11 to the tail. Hold down gradually from the side to the head side,
Extend the whole shrimp. (E) The lower bucket 9 separates as the shrimp placing bucket 7 on which the extended shrimp 11 is placed advances.
Further, when the shrimp placing bucket 7 moves forward and approaches the shrimp take-out belt 6, the tail of the shrimp 11 jumping out of the step 7 a of the shrimp placing bucket 7 is attached to the upper and lower belts 6.
a and 6b, and are held. (F) The shrimp 11 whose tail is sandwiched between the belts 6a and 6b,
Since the shrimp placing bucket 7 advances downward at the end of the first belt 1, the shrimp placing bucket 7 is peeled off from the recess 7 d of the shrimp placing bucket 7. The shrimp 11 peeled from the shrimp placing bucket 7 is
It is released near the end of the shrimp removal belt 6 and falls into the lower exit chute 10.

【The invention's effect】

The shrimp streaking and extending device according to the present invention having the above-described structure only requires that the peeled shrimp be lined up with the abdomen facing down on the mounting bucket, and furthermore, the cutting and stretching are mechanically performed. Since it can be performed, no special skills are required for the work, and even a part-timer who has no experience can work satisfactorily. Therefore, it is possible to prevent an increase in processing costs due to a rise in wages caused by a shortage of skilled workers. Since the shrimp is extended by the pressing piece of the rolling roller that rotates in a spiral,
The whole can be gradually and uniformly stretched from the tail to the head. It can be stretched to more than 50 to 80%, exceeding the limit of 30 to 40% that can be stretched by the conventional manual work, and since it is stretched uniformly, it does not tear off. Since these pressing and extending operations are gradually performed by a pressing piece having elasticity and spirally rotating, unlike the operation of crushing the whole at once, the shrimp does not lose its original roundness. Further, since the cutting and the extension are continuously performed in accordance with the advance of the shrimp placing bucket mounted on the first belt, it can be performed efficiently and in large quantities. In the conventional apparatus for cutting and stretching, the processing of 30 to 40 tails per minute was the limit, but in the apparatus according to the present invention, the processing was 40 to 40 tails.
60 tails can be processed. In addition, the work requires only human labor when arranging the shrimp on the shrimp placing bucket, so that the work can be performed by a single worker who has no particular experience. As described above, the shrimp muscle cutting and stretching device according to the present invention can efficiently cut and stretch a large amount of shrimp, and thus requires a large amount of tempura and fry shrimp. It can sufficiently meet the demands of the frozen food industry and the like. Further, in the apparatus of the present invention, the bucket, the pressing and extending roller main body and the like are made of synthetic resin or light metal by die-casting, and the pressing piece of the pressing and extending roller is made of an elastic silicone resin or the like, and the belt If you make the water resistant, etc., after the work is completed, you can wash the whole and wash off the dirt,
The whole can always be kept clean. In addition, since the whole is mounted on the frame and exposed, it is easy to perform maintenance and the like, and has many excellent effects as a shrimp streaking and extending device.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of an entire shrimp muscle cutting and stretching device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a shrimp placing bucket of the shrimp cutting and extending device according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a lower bucket of the shrimp muscle cutting and extending device according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a pressing roller of the shrimp streaking and extending device according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing the entire cutting blade of the shrimp streaking and extending device according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a rolling roller of the apparatus for cutting and extending a shrimp streak according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing a step of cutting and extending a shrimp by the cutting and extending apparatus according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 1st belt 2 2nd belt 3 press roller 3b press piece 4 cutting blade 4a round blade 5 rolling roller 5b press piece 6 shrimp removal belt 7 shrimp placing bucket 7c groove 7d recess 9 lower bucket 9a protrusion 9b recess 11 Shrimp

Claims (6)

(57) [Claims] 1. A shrimp mounting bucket having a plurality of grooves continuously formed on an endless annular belt formed on a back surface thereof, and a shrimp mounted on the shrimp mounting bucket with its abdomen facing downward. A press roller that corrects a bend; a cutting blade that penetrates into a number of grooves of the shrimp placing bucket from below while the press roller is pressing the shrimp to cut the streaks of the shrimp; A lower bucket having a large number of protrusions continuously mounted on an endless annular belt moving in synchronization with the advance of the shrimp placing basket, and rolling the shrimp on the shrimp placing bucket from tail to head sequentially. A shrimp stripping and stretching device comprising a rolling roller that extends while shrimp and a shrimp take-out belt that sandwiches the tail of the stretched shrimp between upper and lower belts and peels the shrimp from a shrimp placing bucket. 2. The shrimp streak cutting and extending device according to claim 1, wherein a concave portion having a curved lower side is formed substantially at the center of the shrimp mounting bucket having a plurality of grooves formed on the back surface. 3. The shrimp line cutting device according to claim 1, wherein the cutting blades that enter into a number of grooves of the shrimp placing bucket and cut the lines of the shrimp are a plurality of round blades corresponding to the number of grooves. Extension device. 4. The lower bucket has a comb-shaped projection which is fitted into a groove of the shrimp placement bucket, and a substantially center of the projection is cut out in a shape corresponding to the depression of the shrimp placement bucket. The shrimp streak cutting and stretching device according to claim 1, wherein: 5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the pressing roller and the rolling roller have several spiral elastic plates formed on the peripheral surface. 6. A shrimp removal bucket comprising: an upper and lower two endless annular belts rotating in the same direction; a tail portion of the shrimp placed on the shrimp placement bucket sandwiched between the two belts; Shrimp streaking and stretching device characterized in that it is peeled from the surface.