JP2953860B2 - Vegetable and fruit processing 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 processing apparatus for automatically removing and cutting the core of vegetables or fruits having a core such as onions and apples.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The applicant of the present invention has previously proposed a cutting device for cutting stems and roots of bulbs such as onions as Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 3-216177. However, in this case, since the root is cut by a cutting blade having a horizontal cut surface, a portion of a vertical core continuous to the root cannot be removed, and the main body after removing the stem and the root is removed. Since a cutting device for cutting must be separately installed, the device is bulky and requires a large processing space.

[0003] Further , there is no cradle on which an object to be cut can be placed.
Provided on an edge-shaped carrier, and intermittently move the carrier by the pitch of the cradle.
Drive, and insert it into the cradle at the stop position.
The cutting blade that can cut the object to be cut in the state is movable up and down
And a cylindrical centering blade in the center.
The blades close to the carrier,
Remove the vertical core of the cut and cut it vertically
Spherical fruit and vegetable cutting equipment is now available
No. 20888. In addition, intermittent drive
The receiver on which the fruit is placed on the endless chain
Cuts above and below the fruit on the receiver
Cutters are arranged so that they can come and go with each other,
A cut is formed in the flesh excluding the pulp, and this cut shape
The upper and lower enucleation cutters are placed downstream of the
The nucleus is positioned by the cutter for enucleation.
Automatic nucleus removal machine for removing fruits
No. 7. According to these, one processing device
Remove vegetables and fruits by removing their vertical cores
Can be cut vertically, so it is
Can also be installed on the ground. But these things
Has no means of collecting the removed wicks in one place
The core is scattered, the appearance is poor, and there is a problem in work safety.
Not only is it tricky, but it takes too much time to collect and discard cores
Call

[0004] In addition, on a conveyor path for transporting fruits,
De-patterning station, de-centering station and cutting
Stations are sequentially installed, and the de-patterning station and
Install a drain below the station and remove it from the fruit.
Rinsed handle and wick are flushed out and collected in drain.
The fruit processing equipment that was made is Japanese Patent Publication No. 44-24300.
It is disclosed in the gazette. However, this one is
Requires a large amount of water to treat
Therefore, the flavor of the fruit may be lost.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to automatically perform centering and cutting by one apparatus, and to efficiently process vegetables and fruits in a narrow place . Remove the core without washing it.
An object of the present invention is to provide a vegetable and fruit processing apparatus which is collected at a place and does not scatter .

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, a vegetable and fruit processing apparatus according to the present invention is provided with an object mounting apparatus which intermittently moves horizontally, and one of the object mounting apparatuses. A centering device installed above the workpiece stop position, and a cutting device installed above the other workpiece stop position, wherein the centering device and the cutting device have upper and lower end surfaces, respectively.
It has an open cylindrical centering blade and a cutting blade, and the centering blade and the cutting blade are supported so as to be accessible to the one and other workpiece stop positions respectively when the workpiece mounting device is stopped. , And communicate with the upper end of the centering blade.
Install an interlocking core receiving box and move it downward from the core receiving box.
The core discharge gutter extends .

[0007]

When a vegetable or fruit having a core is conveyed by a workpiece mounting device and reaches one workpiece stop position and stops, the centering blade is placed on the workpiece or fruit loading apparatus. When the vegetable or fruit from which the core has been removed is further transported and reaches another workpiece stop position, the cutting blade approaches the workpiece placement device,
Cutting vegetables and fruits. The removed core is passed through the centering blade.
It is pushed up and discharged to the upper lead receiving box.
It is discharged to a predetermined place through a gutter.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. 1 and 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a vegetable and fruit processing apparatus, which is a processing object placing apparatus for transferring a processing object 12 made of a vegetable or fruit having a core such as onion or apple in one direction on a horizontal track. 2, a centering device 3 installed above the workpiece mounting device 2, and a cutting device 4 installed above the workpiece mounting device 2 and downstream of the centering device 3 in the transport direction.
And a gantry 5 for supporting these devices.

The workpiece mounting device 2 is provided at one end in the longitudinal direction, and includes a belt 41 and a driven pulley 4 of a rotation controller 42.
3, a sprocket 7 connected to the drive motor 6 via a drive pulley 44, a belt 45, and a pulley 46 of a rotation controller, a sprocket 8 provided at the other end in the longitudinal direction, and winding around the sprockets 7, 8 As shown in FIG. 3, two chains 9, 9a are provided, and a large number of mounting plates 10 are provided between the chains 9, 9a at regular intervals. , Two funnel-shaped holes 11 inclined so that the lower part has a small diameter are formed side by side in the width direction. Also, minimum diameter of the hole 11 Yes formed smaller than the diameter of the object to be treated 12, when placed on top of the plate 10 mounting the object to be treated 12, only the lower portion of the workpiece 12 hole 11 immersive to fall is turned so that is prevented. Further, the processing object mounting device 2 is intermittently driven, and by one operation, the adjacent mounting plates 10 sequentially move to the same position as the preceding mounting plate 10 and stop there. .

The centering device 3 extends in the horizontal direction from one side in the width direction of the vegetable and fruit processing apparatus 1 to the center, and is rotatably supported by the horizontal support 5a of the gantry 5;
The vertical shaft 14 which is suspended downward through the crank mechanism 13a at the inner end of the shaft 14 and moves up and down with the rotation of the rotating shaft 13
And a centering blade support plate 15 protruding from the lower end of the vertical shaft 14 to the left and right sides in the width direction via a pivot pin 14a, and the cutting edge is hung down on both sides of the centering blade support plate 15 with the cutting edge facing downward. A pair of centering blades 16 and a press plate 17 suspended below and parallel to the centering blade support plate 15 so as to be able to freely contact and separate therefrom are provided. It should be noted that, the left and right of the core up blade 16 is it
The upper and lower ends have a hollow cylindrical shape, and both have the same configuration. Therefore, only one centering blade 16 is shown, and the other side is omitted.

Further, the centering device 3 is provided with an object placing device 2.
Is provided above one workpiece stop position 18 where the mounting plate 10 stops, and the centering blade 16 passes through the centering blade support plate 15 immediately above the hole 11 at the one workpiece stop position 18. The guide shafts 22 are provided upright on both sides of the upper surface of the centering blade support plate 15, respectively. The guide shaft 22 is slidably inserted through a projection 37 protruding from the horizontal frame 23 provided on the gantry 5 via a linear bush or the like, thereby preventing the centering blade support plate 15 from oscillating.
Go. Moreover, the load block 24, which is respectively erected so as to surround the centering edge 16 on the upper surface sides of the holding plate 17, as shown in FIG. 4, extends through the centering blade support plate 15 slidably.
Pressing plates 19 are respectively suspended from the lower surfaces on both sides of the pressing plate 17 via springs 20, and the pressing plate 17 and the pressing plates 19
Is provided with a through hole 21 through which the centering blade 16 is inserted.
The lower portion of the through-hole 21 of the holding plate 17 and the through-hole 21 of the elastic plate 19 are inclined so that the lower portion has a large diameter, and when the vertical shaft 14 descends, the through-hole 21 of the elastic plate 19 The workpiece 12 is sandwiched between the inclined surfaces of the holes 11.

Further, on the upper surface of the centering blade support plate 15,
A core receiving box 38 communicating with the upper end of the centering blade 16 is provided, and a core discharging gutter 39 extends outward and downward from the core receiving box 38. When the vertical shaft 14 moves downward, the core discharging gutter 3
The tip of 9 is connected to a guide gutter 40 projecting obliquely downward from the side surface of the gantry 5.

[0013] As shown in FIG.
A rotating shaft 25 that extends horizontally from one side in the width direction of the fruit processing apparatus 1 to the center in the width direction and is rotatably supported by the horizontal support 5 a of the gantry 5, and a crank mechanism 25 a
And a cutting blade support plate protruding from the lower end of the vertical shaft 26 to both left and right sides in the width direction via a pivot pin 26a from the lower end of the vertical shaft 26. 27, and a pair of cutting blades 28 attached to both sides of the lower surface of the cutting blade support plate 27 with the cutting edges facing down.

The cutting device 4 is provided above another workpiece stop position 29 where the mounting plate 10 of the workpiece mounting device 2 stops downstream of one workpiece stop position 18 in the transport direction. The hole 1 at the other workpiece stop position 29
1 above. The cutting blade 28 has a plurality of blades 28 ′ radially attached in accordance with the number of cuts of the workpiece 12, and the tip of the cutting blade 28 is formed in a tapered shape so as to adapt to the shape of the hole 11. Further, the cutting blade support plate 2
Guide shafts 30 are erected on both sides of the upper surface of 7, respectively. The guide shafts 30 are slidably inserted through protruding pieces 52 protruding from a horizontal frame 31 fixed to the gantry 5 via linear bushes or the like. In addition, the cutting blade support plate 27 is prevented from laterally oscillating.

As shown in FIG. 1, pulleys 32 and 33 are attached to the outer sides of the rotating shafts 13 and 25 of the centering device 3 and the cutting device 4, respectively.
The centering device 3 is provided by a belt 34 wound around
And the cutting device 4 are connected to each other, and the rotating shaft 25 of the cutting device 4 is connected.
Is connected to the drive motor 6 via the drive pulley 47, the belt 48, the pulley 49, the belt 50, and the pulley 51 of the rotation controller 42, and the centering blade 16 and the cutting blade 28 are moved by the operation of the drive motor 6. It descends at the same time. In addition, in the figure, 35 is a caster provided at the lower end of the leg of the gantry 5, and 36 is an operation panel.

Next, the vegetable and fruit processing apparatus 1 of the above embodiment
How to use will be described. When the power switch of the vegetable / fruit processing apparatus 1 is turned on, the drive motor 6 starts and rotates via the belt 41, the driven pulley 43 of the rotation controller 42, the drive pulley 44 of the rotation controller 42, the belt 45, and the pulley 46. The mounting plate 10 intermittently moves with the intermittent rotation of the sprocket 7 by the operation of the controller 42, and the mounting plate 10
The workpiece 12 placed on the hole 11 is intermittently conveyed on the horizontal plane toward one end in the longitudinal direction. When the workpiece 12 reaches one workpiece stop position 18 and stops, the belt 41, the driven pulley 43 of the rotation controller 42, the driven pulley 47, the belt 48, the pulley 49, and the belt 50 , Pulley 51, pulley 33, and belt 34, the motion is transmitted to pulley 32,
But Ru is rotated. Then , the vertical shaft 14 of the centering device 3 descends via the crank mechanism 13a, the resilient plate 19 comes into contact with the upper surface of the workpiece 12, and when the vertical shaft 14 further descends, the centering blade supporting plate 15 descends. Then, the resilient plate 19 is
With elastically pressing the object to be treated 12, and the centering edge 16 is lowered core of the workpiece 12 is extracted by.

Next, the vertical shaft 14 is raised and the centering blade 1 is moved.
6 is removed from the processing target 12, and when the pressing plate 19 is separated from the processing target 12, the mounting plate 10 starts moving again.
When the workpiece reaches another stop position 29 and stops, the drive motor 6 drives the belt 41 and the rotation controller 42 in the same manner as described above.
The rotating shaft 25 is rotated via the driven pulley, the driving pulley 47, the belt 48, the pulley 49, and the belt 50, and the vertical shaft 26 of the cutting device 4 and the cutting blade 28 provided at the lower end thereof are rotated via the crank mechanism 25a. The object to be processed 12 placed on the hole 11 of the mounting plate 10 is vertically divided into appropriate numbers. At this time, the centering device 3 simultaneously performs the core removing process on the subsequent workpiece 12 at one workpiece stop position 18. The core extracted by the centering device 3 is pushed up in the centering blade 16 to reach the core receiving box 38, and is guided by the slope portion 38 a to change its direction, from the core receiving box 38 to the core discharge gutter 39, the guide gutter. It is discharged to the outside through 40 in sequence.

[0018]

According to the vegetable and fruit processing device of the present invention, a centering device and a cutting device are provided above one of the intermittently moving workpiece mounting devices and the other workpiece stop position, respectively. When the workpiece placement device is stopped, the centering blade of the centering device and the cutting blade of the cutting device are supported so as to be able to approach the workpiece stop position. And can efficiently process a large amount of vegetables and fruits, and the apparatus is compact and does not require a large installation space. It was also extracted
The core can be moved with the centering blade
It is automatically pushed up to the core receiving box,
Further, it is discharged from the core receiving box through the core discharge gutter to a predetermined location.
Is not scattered around the equipment, and post-processing is also possible.
Easy.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of a vegetable and fruit processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partially cutaway side view of a vegetable and fruit processing apparatus showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a cutaway side view of a main part of the centering device.

FIG. 4 is a partially cutaway front view of the centering device.

FIG. 5 is another side view of the cutting device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Vegetable and fruit processing apparatus 2 Processing object mounting apparatus 3 Centering apparatus 4 Cutting apparatus 5 Mount 6 Drive motor 7,8 Sprocket 9,9a Chain 10 Mounting plate 11 Hole 12 Processing object 13,25 Rotating shaft 13a, 25a Crank mechanism 14,26 Vertical axis 15 Centering blade support plate 16 Centering blade 17 Pressing plate 18 One workpiece stop position 19 Resilient plate 20 Spring 21 Through hole 22,30 Guide shaft 23,31 Horizontal frame 24 Hanging tool 27 Cutting blade support plate 28 Cutting blade 28 'Blade 29 Other workpiece stop position 32, 33 Pulley 34 Belt 35 Caster 36 Operation panel 37, 52 Projection piece 38 Core receiving box 39 Core discharge gutter 40 Guide gutter 41 Belt 42 Rotation Controller 43 Driven pulley 44 Drive pulley 45 Belt 46 Pulley 47 Drive pulley 48 Belt 49 Pulley 50 bell G 51 Pulley 52 Motor

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] An object mounting device that intermittently moves horizontally, a centering device installed above one object stopping position of the object mounting device, and another object to be processed. And a cutting device installed above the stop position, the centering device and the cutting device each have a cylindrical centering blade and a cutting blade whose upper and lower end surfaces are open , and the centering blade and the cutting blade are It is accessible supported by the object to be treated stopping position of the one and the other, respectively when stopping treatment object supporting means, prior
A core that communicates with the upper end of the centering blade and works with it
A receiving box is installed, and a core discharge gutter is directed downward from the core receiving box.
A vegetable and fruit processing apparatus characterized by extending .