JP3310718B2 - Oil-based confectionery food manufacturing equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for producing fat and oil confectionery foods for producing chocolate foods incorporating food grains such as puffed cereals, other biscuits, crackers and dried pulp sugar.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, so-called crunchy chocolate is known as an oil-based confectionery food in which various food grains are attached or mixed with an oil-based confectionery material such as chocolate so that the flavor and texture of the food grains are simultaneously tasted. In the production of crunched chocolate food, a large number of food particles are continuously dropped and adhered to the surface of unsolidified oily confectionery using a vibration feeder or a belt conveyor, and then cooled and solidified, 2. Description of the Related Art An apparatus for filling an oily confectionery material into a tray mainly containing food grains and solidifying the material is often used.

[0003]

In this conventional manufacturing apparatus, mixing and adhesion of food grains are difficult to equalize, the dispersion is large, the processing steps are complicated, and the efficiency is low. It is difficult to cut out continuously without excess / deficiency, resulting in poor appearance.The mold is in a specified block shape, making it impossible to finish in a natural hand-crafted style, which is unsatisfactory. However, there is a problem that the process of attaching the food granules corresponding to the shape is complicated and inefficient, resulting in poor productivity and high production cost. The present invention is intended to eliminate these conventional disadvantages, and can be used as an oil-based confectionery to obtain an oil-based confectionery containing food grains irrespective of the shape of the food grains. It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus for producing an oil-based confectionery food product which can be equalized by the method, the commercial value can be enhanced, and the productivity can be greatly improved.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, there is provided a transport mechanism for continuously and intermittently moving a mold plate for shaping an oil-based confectionery food, and supplying the shaped confectionery material on the mold plate. A food grain feeder having a feeding mechanism, a mixer that is connected to the food grain feeder and mixes the oily material dissolved in the food grain, and an injector for the melted oily material, A slidable filling mechanism for leveling the shaped confectionery material supplied from the supply mechanism on the mold plate; and a horizontal reciprocating motion for removing excess surplus of the shaped confectionery material placed on the running mold plate from the mold plate. In addition to providing a free scraper mechanism, a plate collection mechanism that removes and collects the molded plate placed and transported on the transport mechanism from the molded confection, and applies vibration on the transport mechanism to the molded confection having the mold plate removed. To mold It is those with a Pupingu mechanism.

[0005]

Function The mold plate is carried in by the plate supply mechanism by the transport mechanism and is transported immediately below the supply mechanism of the shaped confectionery material. The food grain supply mechanism receives the food granules from the food grain feeder and the oil-based material injector. The melted oily material is charged, mixed and stirred by a mixer to form a shaped confectionery material, and placed and supplied on a mold plate. Next, the molding confectionery material is placed on the mold plate, and the molding confectionery material is slid into the mold portion while being spread and leveled by the leveling mechanism that reciprocates on the mold plate while being held and held. Then, the mold plate is further transferred by a transport mechanism and positioned below a scraper which is reciprocated horizontally and reciprocated, and the upper surface of the shaped confectionery material placed on the mold plate is scraped with a scraper, and the excess is removed. After finishing, the mold plate is taken out by the plate collection mechanism,
A large number of greasy confectionery foods are formed and transported on a transport mechanism, and furthermore, the greedy confectionery foods are vibrated while being softened before being solidified by a tapping mechanism, and the appearance is smoothed to give a natural state, especially hand-made style. And can be efficiently manufactured in a good quality form.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, a mold plate 1 for shaping an oily confectionery is placed and conveyed to run continuously or intermittently. A conveyor mechanism 2 for the conveyor, a food grain feeder 3 such as a puff provided with a feed mechanism for feeding the shaped confectionery material onto the mold plate 1, and a food grain feeder 3, which is connected to the food grain feeder 3 and melts into the food grains. Mixer 4 for mixing oily materials such as chocolate
And a syringe 5 for a melted oily material, and further, the molded confectionery material supplied from the supply mechanism is supplied to the mold plate 1.
A sliding filling mechanism 7 having a leveling mechanism 6 for leveling the top, and a horizontally reciprocating scraper mechanism for removing excess surplus of the shaped confectionery material placed on the running mold plate from the mold plate 1 8, a plate collecting mechanism 9 for removing and collecting the molded plate 1 placed and conveyed on the conveying mechanism 2 from the shaped confection, and a vibration on the conveying mechanism 1 for the shaped confection having the molded plate 1 removed. It comprises a tap pin <br/> grayed mechanism 22 for molding giving have configured manufacturing apparatus oleaginous confectionery food.

The mold plate 1 has a large number of through-holes 23 for inserting a shaped confectionery material, and the through-holes 23 have an inclined surface or a tapered surface 24 having a gradually decreasing diameter toward an upper end edge. The lower plate 29 having a vertical through hole 26 having a size and a depth, for example, a diameter of 30 to 35 φ and a depth of 15 mm when the cup tray 25 is fitted therein, The upper plate 28 is provided with an inverted conical through hole 27 having a small diameter, for example, a diameter of 24 to 26φ and a depth of 5 mm. The through holes 26 are arranged concentrically to form the through hole 23.

In this case, the inverted conical through-hole 27 may be formed as a through-hole having a spherical curved surface, and the material raised from the cup tray 25 is taken into a heaped shape. Further, the upper plate 28 and the lower plate 29 may have a thickness of 1: 3 and may be configured to be separable or freely openable and closable, or may be a molded plate 1 having an integral structure. Further, the cup tray 25 has a through hole 26 when an underlay sheet is used.
However, when the cup tray 25 is not used, it is sufficient to directly mold the through-hole 26 on the conveyor belt for conveyance, and the through-hole 26 is not limited to the vertical through-hole, but may be a conical or other shaped through-hole. The lower plate 29 provided can be used. Further, when using the cup tray 25,
After the upper plate 28 is removed from the lower plate 29 and the cup tray 25 is fitted and set in the vertical through hole 26 of the lower plate 29, the upper plate 28 is superposed and fixed, and then carried into the plate supply mechanism 90, or It is preferable that the cup tray 25 is fitted and set in the vertical through hole 26 from the bottom side of the plate 29, turned over, and carried into the plate supply mechanism 90.

As shown in FIGS. 5 to 8, pre-gelatinized grains such as puffers and conflakes, nuts, sugar confectionery such as buttersquatch and food granules such as dried pulp can be fed into the food grain feeder 3 as shown in FIGS. A screw housing 31 provided with a hopper 30 and a screw 32 rotatably provided in the housing 31 are driven by a motor 34, and a discharge port 33 formed in the housing 31 is provided in communication with the mixer 4 to be provided. is there.

As shown in FIG. 9, the mixer 4 has a shaft 11 rotatably provided in an open casing 10 by a speed change motor 12, and a plurality of agitating blades 13 protrude from the shaft 11 to agitate the fat and oil confectionery material. It is configured so that it can be transferred to one end side, fed out from the outlet 14 and fed and supplied onto the conveyed mold plate 1, and the outlet 14 is provided with a shutter that can be opened and closed. In addition, the chocolate pump 16 connected to the jacket-type chocolate tank 15 has the injector 5 open at one end by piping with a pipe, and the screw housing 31 of the food grain feeder 3 opening near the injector 5 is provided. I have.

Further, the sliding-filling mechanism 7 is provided in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 12 to FIG. 12, a leveling mechanism 4 having a leveling plate that reciprocates in a direction perpendicular to the traveling direction of the mold plate 1 and a cooling water surrounded by a substantially U-shaped surrounding of the mold plate 1. A sliding wall 72 provided with a jacket wall 70 through which air flows and a stirring blade 71 rotatably provided on the jacket wall 70 is provided in communication with a speed change motor 73, and is disposed on the upper surface of the traveling transport mechanism 2. ing. In this jacket wall 70, a cooling water inlet 74 and an outlet 75 are connected to a cooling water tank 17 having a heater 18 through a pipe 19 through a pipe 19, and the cooling water tank 17 and the pump 19 are connected to the chocolate tank. 15 is also communicated as a circulatory system.

The jacket wall 70 is a substantially U-shaped frame wall surrounded on both sides.
Are provided so as to pass therethrough, and a slider 79 provided on a guide rod 78 is provided with a holding piece 77 oscillating by a motor 76 on a wall opposed to the traveling direction of the mold plate 1. Support is provided by the guide cam pieces 80 on both sides,
It is designed so that it can be optimized.

As the leveling mechanism 4, a leveling plate is provided on a guide 40 so as to freely reciprocate horizontally.
Although it is driven by one rotation and can travel on the mold plate 1, another transport drive mechanism can be used instead of the screw shaft 41. The transport mechanism 2
Is mounted so as to run freely by using a net conveyer or a chain conveyer through a drive wheel 20 via a drive wheel 20 so that the mold plate 1 can be conveyed or stopped in each process.

Further, the scraper mechanism 8 has a
As shown in FIG. 16 to FIG. 16, a slider 82 reciprocatingly moved by a cylinder 81 in the traveling direction of the mold plate 1 is slidably provided on a guide 83, and a scraper plate 84 is pivotally attached to the slider 82 so as to swing. Non-contact control switches 85, 85 for driving the cylinder are provided at the reverse position of
It is configured to reciprocate. In this case, the scraper plate 84 is supported by a support shaft 86, the support shaft 86 is connected to a cylinder 88 by a lever 87, and the tip of the scraper plate 84 is pressed against the upper surface of the mold plate 1 by driving the cylinder 88. Then, the surplus of the shaped confectionery material is scraped to a finished surface, and at the time of return, the tip of the scraper plate 84 is lifted to prepare for the next processing. The scraping surplus is collected in a plug-in tray 89 provided at the end of the frame, and the material adhered on the conveyor is also conveniently collected in the scraping tray 89 with the doctor knife 59. is there.

Further, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a plate supply mechanism 90 is provided on the transfer mechanism 2 for the mold plate 1, and a return transfer path 91 for the mold plate 1 recovered from the plate recovery mechanism 9. The plate collection mechanism 9 and the plate supply mechanism 90 are provided with a grip portion 92 for holding the mold plate 1 so as to be movable up and down.
The grip portion 92 is provided on a traveling slider 93 that slides back and forth. The grip portion 92 is provided in communication with the mold body transport path 2 and the mold plate return transport path 91, and a pusher 94 is attached to the plate supply mechanism 90. It is.

The return conveyance path 91 of the mold plate 1
Is used together with the plate supply mechanism 90 only in the case of fully automatic operation, and includes a tunnel dome 95 for carrying in the conveyor, and a mold plate heating comprising a heater 96 and a blower 97 provided in the tunnel dome 95. Although a mechanism is provided so that the mold plate 1 can be cleaned, it may be omitted together with the plate supply mechanism in the case of semi-automatic operation.

That is, the return transport path 91 has a group of rotating rolls 98 for holding and transporting the mold plate 1 fed out by a conveyor as shown in FIGS. 17 and 18, and a heating means for heating the mold plate 1. A certain tunnel dome 95 is provided. The heating means for the tunnel dome 95 includes a heater 96 and a blower 9 for blowing air to the heater 96 group.
And a hood 99 for floating hot air on the mold plate 1 passing therethrough. When the hood 99 is transferred to the rotating rolls 98 and moves, the passage is detected by a sensor 52 such as a photoelectric tube. Upon detection, the blower 97 is driven to blow the warm air that has passed through the heater 96 onto the mold plate 1 to heat it, and during travel in the tunnel dome 95, the mold plate 1 is pinched by the group of vertically rotating rolls 98. Then, the sheet is held and conveyed, and is sent out below the plate supply mechanism 90 by a high-speed feeding roll 51. Then, the heated mold plate 1 is placed and moved to a transport mechanism of a conveyor that runs continuously or intermittently, and serves as a supply mechanism that supplies the shaped confectionery material onto the mold plate 1.

The return transport path 91 of the mold plate 1
Is moved by receiving the mold plate 1 from the plate collection mechanism 9 and carried into the tunnel dome. This passage is detected by a sensor such as a photoelectric tube, and the blower is driven, so that warm air that has passed through the heater is blown onto the mold plate to be heated. During traveling in the tunnel dome, it is preferable that the mold plate is sandwiched and held and conveyed by a rotating roll group, and sent out to the conveying mechanism by a high-speed feeding roll. Next, the mold plate heated by this transport mechanism is transported immediately below the supply mechanism of the shaped confectionery material, and the food grain supply mechanism dissolves the food grains from the food grain feeder and the oil-based material injector. A fat-and-oil material is charged, mixed and stirred with a mixer to form a shaped confectionery material, and put into an adjustment box for the shaped confectionery material to adjust the softness and the supply amount, and then supply it onto a mold plate. It is made possible by the work of.

In the tapping mechanism 22, a vibrator mechanism with a motor is used to apply vibration to the conveyor to change the appearance finish of the shaped confection on the conveyor into a hand-made style, and to the carry-out conveyor 61 including the cooling conveyor 60. It is designed to transport shaped confectionery. In the figure, 62, 63, and 64 are collection trays, 65 is a base, 66 is a caster, 67 is a fixed leg, and 68 is a step.

[0020] The present invention includes a food grain supply equipped with a supplying mechanism for supplying the build confectionery material transported makes the chromophore at the distal end Rudo board,
The food granule feeder is provided with a mixer for mixing the oily material dissolved in the food granules, and an injector for the melted oily material, and further molds the shaped confectionery material supplied from the supply mechanism. A sliding refilling mechanism for leveling on the plate, and a horizontally reciprocating scraper mechanism for removing excess surplus of the shaped confectionery material placed on the running mold plate from the mold plate are provided. By providing a plate collection mechanism that removes and collects the molded plate placed and conveyed from the molded confectionery from the molded confection, and a tapping mechanism that applies vibration to the molded confectionery from which the molded plate has been removed on the transport mechanism to form the molded confectionery easy to make the appearance finishing a good homemade wind a variety of food grains containing fats and oils of confectionery food regardless of the food grain shape
In addition to accurate rubbing work, the mold is also good, the moldability and the mixing ratio are even, helping to improve the quality, the taste is not persistent, and the confectionery food that can enjoy a flavorful texture can be efficiently productive. Can also be greatly enhanced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall plan view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the example of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a mold plate used in the example of FIG.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged vertical sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a plan view of a modeling portion of the confectionery food of FIG. 1;

6 is a side view of the example of FIG.

FIG. 7 is a front view of the example of FIG. 5;

FIG. 8 is a side view of a food grain supply mechanism.

FIG. 9 is a cut-away plan view of the open mixer.

FIG. 10 is a partially cut plan view of the sliding filling mechanism.

FIG. 11 is a partially cutaway side view of the example of FIG. 8;

FIG. 12 is a front view of the example of FIG. 8;

FIG. 13 is a plan view of the scraper mechanism.

14 is a longitudinal sectional view taken along line BB of FIG.

FIG. 15 is a front view taken along line CC of FIG. 14;

FIG. 16 is a partially enlarged longitudinal sectional view taken along line DD of FIG. 15;

FIG. 17 is an enlarged plan view of a part of a return transport path.

FIG. 18 is a side view of the example of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Mold plate 2 Transport mechanism 3 Food grain feeder 4 Mixer 5 Oil and fat material injector 6 Equilibration mechanism 7 Sliding filling mechanism 8 Scraper mechanism 9 Plate recovery mechanism 10 Open casing 11 Shaft 12 Motor 13 Stirrer blade 15 Chocolate tank 16 Chocolate pump 17 Cooling water tank 18 Heater 19 Pump 20 Drive wheel 21 Motor 22 Tapping mechanism 23 Through hole 24 Tapered surface 25 Cup tray 26 Vertical through hole 27 Inverted conical through hole 28 Lower plate 29 Upper plate 30 Hopper 32 Screw 70 Jacket wall 71 Stirring Wing 81 Cylinder 82 Slider 90 Plate supply mechanism 91 Return transport path 95 Tunnel dome 96 Heater 97 Blower

Claims (6)

(57) [Claims] 1. A transport mechanism for mounting and transporting a mold plate for shaping oil-and-fat confectionery food and continuously or intermittently traveling,
Bei supply mechanism for supplying the build confectionery material into said mold board
A food granule feeder, a mixer connected to the food granule feeder, which mixes the oily material dissolved in the food granule, and an injector for the melted oily material, and further supplied from the supply mechanism. A sliding filling mechanism for leveling the shaped confectionery material to be formed on the mold plate, and a horizontally reciprocating scraper mechanism for removing the surplus of the shaped confectionery material placed on the running mold plate from the mold plate. while deployed, giving a plate recovery mechanism <br/> recovered by removing from the shaping confectionery mold plate coming placed conveyed on the transport mechanism, the vibration on the transport mechanism into shaped confection removed the mold plate An apparatus for producing oil-and-fat confectionery foods, comprising a tapping mechanism for molding. Wherein said mold plate, e plurality Bei a through hole can be filled with molding confectionery material oleaginous material dissolved in food grains are mixed, the through hole is gradually decreasing diameter inclined towards the upper edge An inverted conical through-hole having a surface or a face tapered surface, and the inverted conical located at a lower end side of the inverted conical through-hole.
Claim 1 Symbol comprising a vertical through hole continuing concentrically to the through hole
Production equipment for oil-based confectionery foods. 3. The mold plate comprises a lower plate having a vertical through-hole and an upper plate having an inverted conical through-hole having a diameter smaller than that of the vertical through-hole, and the through-holes are arranged concentrically. 3. The apparatus for producing an oil-based confectionery food according to 1 or 2. 4. A plate feeding mechanism is provided on the mold plate transport mechanism, and is connected to a return transport path of the mold plate recovered from the plate recovery mechanism.
Or the manufacturing apparatus of the fat-and-oil confectionery food of Claim 3. 5. The mold plate transport mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the plate supply / recovery mechanism is provided with a grip portion for holding the mold plate so as to be able to move up and down, and is provided on a traveling slider that reciprocates the grip portion. The apparatus for producing an oil-based confectionery food according to claim 4, wherein the apparatus is connected to the mold plate return conveyance path and the mold plate return conveyance path. 6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the return path of the mold plate comprises a transfer conveyor, and includes a tunnel dome for carrying the transfer conveyor, and a mold plate heating mechanism including a heater and a blower provided inside the tunnel dome. Item 6. An apparatus for producing an oil-based confectionery food according to item 4 or 5.