JP3181414U - Packaging equipment for dripping and filling bittern into natural salt - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is a natural salt infusion filling and packaging apparatus that achieves mixing by instilling and filling a stable concentration of bittern.
SOLUTION: In a rotary packaging apparatus in which natural salt is metered and filled in a packaging bag 13, the bittern is instilled and the bag mouth is sealed with a sealer, the bittern is instilled into the natural salt, and is packaged. An auger type filling machine 30 for filling natural salt is installed in the package filling section, a drip nozzle 40 as a drip device is installed in a drip section for dripping a solution containing bittern, and bittern is included. A bag vibration device 50 for uniformly mixing the solution with natural salt is installed in the vibration section.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a packaging apparatus for filling a natural salt with a mineral liquid such as a bittern and packaging the bittern into a natural salt.

  Salinity and hypertension have been often used for a long time, but natural salts containing minerals that are highly health-conscious and have excellent antihypertensive measures and dieting effects have attracted attention. The mineral is so-called bittern (mainly magnesium chloride), and is generally contained in natural salt (crude salt) by 1.2 to 1.5%.

  Recently, in order to enhance the effect, garlic products have been heavily used at a high concentration of 3 to 4%, but in order to produce and fill and pack this, usually the bittern ingredients are stirred into the natural salt in the previous process. It is necessary to use a mixer for mixing, spray spray mixing of liquid bittern in the flow processing part, or use a liquid mixer.

JP 2007-306893 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-314602

  However, the former method of stirring and mixing bittern components with natural salt has problems such as segregation with uneven distribution and separation when work is interrupted because batch mixing is performed in large units. Further, even when the liquid bittern is sprayed and mixed in the latter flow portion or a liquid mixer is used, it is difficult to maintain and ensure a uniform concentration because it is mixed in the flow. In addition, since the liquid content increases in the transport to the filled packaging after mixing, the air transport is unstable, the auger filling accuracy becomes unstable, and problems such as clogging and liquid separation are back to back in various places. Met.

  Accordingly, the present invention aims to provide a natural salt infusion filling and packaging apparatus that solves the problems of the preceding process at once and achieves mixing by instilling and filling a stable concentration of bittern. .

  The packaging device for dripping and filling bittern into natural salt, which is the present invention, weighs and fills natural salt in a packaging bag, drops bittern and seals the bag mouth with a sealer, drops bittern into natural salt. In the packaging equipment for filling, the auger type filling machine that fills the packaged natural salt is installed in the packaging filling section, and the instilling equipment is installed in the dropping section that drops the solution containing bittern. A bag vibration device for uniformly mixing a solution containing bittern into natural salt is installed in the vibration section.

  In addition, the present invention installs a drip device in a drip section for dripping a solution containing bittern, and also installs a weight measuring device for weighing the natural salt dripped with a solution containing bittern, The weight of the packaging bag filled with natural salt was reset to zero from the auger filling machine, the solution containing bittern was dropped from the dropping device, and the solution containing bittern was dropped by the weight measuring device. The weight of the subsequent natural salt is weighed, and it is determined whether or not the solution containing bittern has been dripped into the packaging bag based on whether or not the threshold value is exceeded.

In addition, the present invention installs a weight weighing device for weighing the natural salt filled by the auger type filling machine between the package filling section and the drip section, and between the drip section and the vibration section. In the meantime, weighed a natural weighing device to measure the weight of natural salt dripped with a solution containing bittern, and the measured value of the former natural salt and the concentration of natural salt dripped with the latter solution containing bittern. A difference from the measured value is calculated, and it is determined whether or not the solution containing bittern has been dripped into the packaging bag.

Further, the present invention is characterized in that the natural salt from the auger type filling machine is filled in a plurality of times.

  In the present invention, the bittern is accurately filled in the packaging bag with respect to the natural salt by the above-described configuration, and the bitter mixture is dramatically simpler and more stable than the conventional one.

The top view of the rotary packaging apparatus which shows an example of this invention Schematic which typically represented a part of rotary packaging apparatus of Example 1 of this invention. Schematic which typically represented a part of rotary packaging apparatus of Example 2 of this invention. Schematic which typically represented a part of rotary packaging apparatus of Example 3 of this invention.

Example 1
FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of the present invention applied to a rotary packaging apparatus. In FIG. 1, the rotary packaging device M is supported by eight sets of clamp arms 20, each having two sets on the periphery of the circular rotor 10, and each clamp arm 20 has both side edges of the packaging bag at the tip. A clamp 11 is provided. When the power of a motor (not shown) is transmitted to the central axis of the circular rotor 10 via an intermittent rotation transmission mechanism (not shown), the circular rotor 10 is 45 ° corresponding to the circumferential interval of the eight sets of clamp arms 20. Is intermittently rotated clockwise (arrow R1).

  The circular rotor 10 includes a packaging bag supply section (1) for supplying an empty packaging bag 13, a bag opening section (2) for printing the expiration date on the packaging bag 13 and performing a bag opening process for the packaging bag 13. A package filling section (3) in which natural salt as a package is filled with an auger filling machine (3), and a dripping section (4) in which a solution containing bittern is dripped with a dripping device (drip nozzle 40) A vibration section (5) that vibrates the packaging bag 13 with the bag vibration device 50 to uniformly mix the bittern with natural salt, and a seal that seals the bag mouth of the packaging bag 13 filled with the package with a sealer 15 Sections (1) to (6), a section (6), a cooling section (7) for cooling the sealing portion of the packaging bag 13 by the cooling device 16, and a carry-out section (8) for carrying the packaged packaging bag 13 by the carry-out conveyor 17 8) Smell And stopped for a predetermined time. Therefore, the packaging bag 13 supplied to the clamp arm 20 in the packaging bag supply section (1) is suspended from the outer periphery of the circular rotor 10 at a pitch of 45 °, with both side edges held by the clamp 11. It is intermittently conveyed toward the unloading section (8) along the circular orbit R2.

  FIG. 2 is a schematic view schematically showing a part of the rotary packaging apparatus. In FIG. 2, a package filling section (3) for filling natural salt from the left side, a dripping section (4) for dripping a solution containing bittern, and a solution containing bittern are uniformly mixed with natural salt. The vibration section (5) is shown. The packaging bag supply section (1), the bag opening section (2), the seal section (6), the cooling section (7), and the carry-out section (8) are the same as those of the conventional rotary packaging apparatus.

  In Example 1, an example in which 1 kg of general natural salt is packaged in a packaging bag 13 is shown. Therefore, in the package filling section (3) in FIG. 2, the auger type filling machine 30 is installed on the upper part of the circular track R2, and the natural salt is input by the bag opening signal from the suction cup that opens the bag opening. When permission is given, 1 kg of natural salt is filled by the auger type filling machine 30. The auger-type filling machine 30 is well known in the art, and includes a hopper 31 at the top, a cylinder 32 equipped with a screw at the bottom of the hopper 31, and a screw installed in the cylinder 32 is rotated by a motor. Then, the natural salt in the hopper 31 is filled into the packaging bag 13 from the lower end of the cylindrical body.

  In the drip section (4), the solution containing bittern is dripped by the drip nozzle 40 so that the bittern is 3 to 4% with respect to the weight of the natural salt. As mentioned above, natural salt (crude salt) contains 1.2 to 1.5% bittern, but it contains 3 to 4% bittern in order to prevent hypertension and enhance the diet effect. Instill the solution. Therefore, in this instillation section (4), in order to increase the amount of bittern, 1.5 to 2.8% bittern is dripped into the natural salt.

At this time, in order to better mix the bittern into the natural salt, the dripping nozzle 40 is preferably a spray-type dripping device, and in the vibration section (5), vibration is applied in order to ensure the mixing of the bittern. Therefore, vibration is applied by the bag vibration device 50. The bag vibration device 50 applies vibrations from the bottom of the packaging bag 13 and vibrations from both sides of the packaging bag 13.

By the above, 1.5 to 2.8% of bittern is dripped to the weight part of 1 kg of natural salt, and the natural salt in which the amount of bittern is accurately increased to 3 to 4% is packaged in the packaging bag 13. It is possible to mix the bittern with natural salt much easier than before.
(Example 2)

  FIG. 3 is a schematic view schematically showing a part of the rotary packaging apparatus M according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The rotary wrapping apparatus M of the second embodiment uses a low-speed type rotary wrapping apparatus M of approximately 12 bags / min. In the package filling section (3) of FIG. An open signal permits the input of natural salt, and the auger-type filling machine 30 charges 1 kg of natural salt.

  In the second embodiment, in addition to the dropping nozzle 40, a weight measuring device (such as a holding load cell device 60) is installed in the dropping section (4). In this instillation section (4), the solution containing bittern is instilled by the instillation device (instillation nozzle 40) so that the bittern is 3 to 4% with respect to the weight of the natural salt. For example, when the solution containing bittern leaks outside without the drip nozzle 40 being inserted into the packaging bag 13, there is a problem in selling natural salt without adding a predetermined amount of bittern. Therefore, the packaging bag 13 is weighed to ensure that the bittern is instilled in the packaging bag.

However, since the amount of bittern dripping with respect to natural salt is extremely small, the normal weight check after packaging will fall within the error range of filling by the auger type filling machine 30. Therefore, the load cell device 60 is installed in the rotary packaging device M, the natural bag is filled with the natural salt from the auger-type filling machine 30, and the packaging bag 13 supported by the clamp arm 20 is replaced as shown in FIG. The weight is reset to zero, and immediately after the resetting, the solution containing bittern is dripped from the dripping nozzle 40 installed in the section (4), and the load cell value is read after the stabilization time. Whether it is OK or NG is determined depending on whether or not the threshold value is exceeded.

Also in this Example 2, in the vibration section (5), in order to ensure mixing of bittern, vibration is applied by the bag vibration device 50, and the solution containing bittern is uniformly mixed with natural salt. In addition, in order to mix the solution containing bittern into natural salt better, it is the same as in the first embodiment that the spray nozzle 40 is preferably spray spray type.
(Example 3)

  FIG. 4 is a schematic view schematically showing a part of the rotary packaging apparatus M according to the third embodiment of the present invention. This Example 3 is a rotary packaging apparatus M when a high speed of approximately 25 bags / min or more is required, and the section is 10 sections. In the package filling section (3) in FIG. 4, as in the first and second embodiments, the salt opening permission is given by the bag opening signal, and 1 kg of natural salt is filled by the auger filling machine 30. Is made. The dropping section (5) for dropping a solution containing bittern is the same as in Example 1, and the vibrating section (7) for uniformly mixing bittern with natural salt is the same as in Examples 1 and 2. It is.

  In Example 3, the first changeover section (4) shown in FIG. 4 is used to measure the amount of natural salt charged by the first weight measurement device (first changeover load cell device) 61, and in the instillation section (5), Drop the solution containing bittern. Further, in the second transfer section (6), the amount of the natural salt filled with the solution containing bittern is measured by the second weight weighing device (second transfer load cell device) 62. And the bitterness by the measurement value of the natural salt of the 1st change load cell device 61 of the 1st change section (4) and the 2nd change load cell device 62 of the 2nd change section (6) was included by the arithmetic unit which is not illustrated. The difference from the measured value of the natural salt into which the solution is instilled is calculated, and whether the difference between the calculated values is equal to or greater than a threshold value is determined as OK or NG.

  As described above, in the third embodiment, the number of the changeable sections is two in the first changeable section (4) and the second changeable section (6). High speed of M can be achieved.

Example 4
In Example 1-3, the packaged material filling section (3) was filled with 1 kg of natural salt at a time from the auger type filling machine 30, but the filling of natural salt was divided into a plurality of times. May be. For example, when 1 kg of natural salt is filled in the packaging bag 13, 700 g in the first section, 290 g in the second section, and 10 g of natural salt in the third section are filled in three portions. explain.

  Although not shown, the packaging bag 13 sandwiched between the clamps 11 of each clamp arm 20 in the first filling object filling section is changed by the holding load cell device 60, and the weight is reset to zero. Immediately after filling 700 g of natural salt from an auger type filling machine installed in the same section, the packaging bag 13 is transferred to the clamp 11.

Next, the packaging bag 13 sandwiched between the clamps 11 in the second packaging object filling section after the first packaging object filling section is exchanged by the holding load cell device, and the weight is reset to zero. Immediately after resetting, after filling 290 g of natural salt from the auger type filling machine installed in the same section, the packaging bag 13 is transferred to the clamp 11.

Next, the packaging bag 13 sandwiched between the clamps 11 in the third packaging object filling section after the second packaging object filling section is exchanged by the holding load cell device, and the weight is reset to zero. Immediately after resetting, the remaining 10 g of natural salt is filled from the auger type filling machine installed in the same section, and then the packaging bag 13 is delivered to the clamp 11. At that time, instead of simply filling 10 g, the remaining amount obtained by subtracting the amount accurately measured by the transfer load cell device in the first and second package filling sections from the target 1 kg is filled. The packaging bag 13 is filled with exactly 1 kg of natural salt.

  In this Example 4, after the third package-filling section, an instillation section for instilling a solution containing bittern, and a vibration section for uniformly mixing the bittern into natural salt are the same as in Example 1-3. The same shall apply.

In Example 4, the example in which the package filling section is 3 sections and the natural salt is divided into 3 sections has been described, but the dripping section is 3 sections, bittern, seasoning, additive, etc. These three types may be filled in three times.
Moreover, although the example which applied this invention to the rotary packaging apparatus M was shown in the said Example 1-4, this invention is not limited to the rotary packaging apparatus M, The packaging bag 13 is linearly formed. It may be such that while being transported, it is filled with an article to be packaged and the bag mouth is sealed.

  The present invention is useful for a packaging device in which bittern is dripped into natural salt in the packaging bag 13 and sealed with a sealer for packaging.

M Rotary packaging device 13 Packaging bag
30 auger type filling machine 40 drip injection device (drip injection nozzle)
50 Bag vibration device 60 Weight weighing device (carrying load cell device)

Claims (4)

In a packaging device that weighs and fills natural salt in a packaging bag, drops the bittern and seals the bag mouth with a sealer, and drops the bittern into natural salt.
An auger-type filling machine that fills the packaged natural salt is installed in the packaged filling section, a dropping device is installed in the dropping section that drops the solution containing bittern, and the solution containing bittern is added. A packaging device for dripping and filling bittern into natural salt, characterized in that a bag vibration device that uniformly mixes with natural salt is installed in the vibration section. In addition to installing an instillation device in the instillation section for instilling a solution containing bittern, a weight weighing device for weighing the natural salt into which the solution containing bittern was instilled,
The weight of the packaging bag filled with natural salt was reset to zero from the auger filling machine, the solution containing bittern was dropped from the dropping device, and the solution containing bittern was dropped by the weight measuring device. Weigh the natural salt later to determine whether the solution containing bittern has been dripped into the packaging bag based on whether or not the threshold is exceeded.
A packaging apparatus for dripping and filling bittern into natural salt according to claim 1. A first weight weighing device for weighing the natural salt filled by the auger filling machine is installed between the package filling section and the drip section, and the bittern is placed between the drip section and the vibration section. Installed a second weight weighing device that measures the weight of natural salt dripped with a solution containing salt, the measured value of the former natural salt, and the measured value of the natural salt dropped with the latter solution containing bittern To determine whether the solution containing bittern has been dripped into the packaging bag,
A packaging apparatus for dripping and filling bittern into natural salt according to claim 1.   4. The package for instilling and filling natural salt according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein filling with natural salt or bittern from an auger type filling machine is performed in a plurality of times. apparatus.

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