JP3457450B2 - Noodle conveying 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 noodle transporting device including a belt conveyor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a belt conveyor has been generally known as one form of a conveyor, and the belt conveyor is used in various places.

[0003] For example, in noodle manufacturing factories and the like, an automatic noodle making machine incorporating a conveying device composed of a belt conveyor is used, which makes it possible to automatically convey noodles to each process, which is efficient. Automatic noodle making is now possible.

That is, in the above automatic noodle making machine, as raw noodles or semi-raw noodles produced in a state of being elongated and cut into a predetermined length, they are gathered into a predetermined amount (usually one serving) as a set noodle. The product is transported to the packaging machine by the transport device and packaged by the packaging machine.

[0005]

However, the above-described transporting device has no problem in packaging the collective noodles as long as it is a single serving package. For example, in the case of packaging a plurality of servings together, The work of putting a plurality of required collective noodles into the input port of the packaging machine was manually performed.

Therefore, when picking up a set noodle,
There is a problem in that when a plurality of aggregated noodles are piled up and put into a packaging machine, the shape of the aggregated noodles is destroyed, resulting in a high incidence of defective products.

Further, the labor cost is still increased, which is an obstacle to the reduction of noodle making cost.

Therefore, in order to further rationalize, it has been desired to develop a noodle transporting device which can be automated even when the noodles are loaded into the packaging machine.

An object of the present invention is to provide a noodle transporting device which can solve the above problems.

[0010]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, there is provided a shuttle conveyor having a front end portion configured to be reciprocally movable back and forth, and a set noodle which has been conveyed and conveyed is dropped from a rear end portion and transferred, and a conveyance speed adjusting device. A conveyor provided with a conveyor speed adjustable, and a width-shifting means for pressing both side edges of an endless conveyor belt wound between pulleys inward to deform the conveyor belt into a ship bottom shape, The width-adjusting conveyer conveyable in a state where the aggregated noodles on the conveyor belt are width-adjusted to the center of the belt, is connected in order from the upper side, and a packaging machine is arranged on the lower side of the width-changing conveyer. The present invention relates to a noodle carrier.

Further, the width-adjusting means is characterized by a pair of width-adjusting rollers disposed in a confronting state with the conveyor belt sandwiched therebetween, in the middle of the conveying path formed by the conveyor belt.

The shuttle conveyor is also characterized in that it can transport and drop a plurality of noodles in parallel in the width direction of the transport path.

Further, by adjusting the conveying speed, the collective noodles dropped from the shuttle conveyor are individually or selectively received in a stack, and the collective noodles are received by the width-shifting conveying conveyor in a single-stage or multiple-stage conveying posture. It is also characterized in that it is configured to pass.

[0014]

[0015]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The noodle carrier according to the present invention can be suitably used, for example, as a noodle carrier for conveying noodles in an automatic noodle making machine, and the embodiment of the noodle carrier will be described below. In order to make noodles into a packaged product, a noodle transporting device configured to be automatically transportable to a packaging machine will be described.

[0016] The noodles as a product to be conveyed are raw noodles or semi-raw noodles that are thinly formed, cut into a predetermined length and gathered for each meal, and laid in a folded state. Yes, it will be referred to as a set noodle hereinafter.

The noodle transfer device comprises a shuttle conveyor, a transfer conveyor, and a side-by-side transfer conveyor, which are capable of placing and transferring the above-mentioned collective noodles, which are sequentially connected.

The shuttle conveyor makes it possible to place and convey the set noodles in a folded state in a folded state at regular intervals, and at the same time, to make the tip part reciprocally move back and forth intermittently. It is configured such that the collected noodles can be dropped from the end portion without breaking the posture of each predetermined amount.

Further, the intermittent reciprocating movement of the tip portion is controlled so as to be made in accordance with the interval between the placed collective noodles.

Further, the shuttle conveyor can be of a wide type capable of carrying and dropping and delivering a set noodle for each plurality of meals in parallel in the width direction of the carrying path. By
The efficiency of noodle production can be greatly improved.

Further, the transfer conveyor which communicates with the shuttle conveyor is installed such that the front end portion is located below and forward of the end portion of the shuttle conveyor, and the collected noodles that have fallen can be received and transferred.

The transfer conveyor is capable of adjusting the transfer speed, and by adjusting the transfer speed, the collected noodles that have fallen from the shuttle conveyor can be individually or substantially simultaneously received in layers. I am able to do it.

Therefore, the collective noodles can be conveyed by selecting either one stage or a plurality of stages.

As described above, by combining the shuttle conveyor and the transfer conveyor described above, not only a single collective noodle but also a plurality of collective noodles can be easily bundled and conveyed. For example, When the collective noodles are stacked in two layers, it is possible to transport the two servings as a whole, and the packaging machine can automatically manufacture a noodle product containing and serving the two servings.

The width-conveying conveyor is particularly an essential part of the conveying device according to the present invention. The width-conveying conveyor is installed with its tip close to the end of the conveying conveyor, and the inherited collective noodles are moved to the central portion of the belt. A width adjusting means is provided.

Therefore, the set width noodles can be smoothly fed to the packaging machine in the state where the set noodles are gathered to the central portion of the belt by the same width transfer conveyor, and the transfer conveyor can be used to collect the set noodles for a plurality of meals. Even if there is, it is possible to cause the packaging machine to perform the packaging work without forcibly operating the packaging machine, prevent the packaging machine from malfunctioning or malfunction, and perform the smooth packaging work.

That is, when the two sets of noodles for noodles are conveyed in parallel to the shuttle conveyor and they are inherited in a two-tiered manner on the respective conveyors, the noodles for four meals are collected and packaged on the width-shifting conveyor. Will be transported to the machine.

Further, the width-adjusting means can be constituted by a pair of width-adjusting rollers which are arranged in a confronting state with the conveyor belt sandwiched between them in the middle of the conveying path formed by the conveyor belt.

The width-shifting conveyor has such a simple structure, but can perform width-shifting of the assembled noodles reliably and easily.

As described above, the noodle transporting apparatus according to the present invention can automatically manufacture a noodle product in which noodles for a plurality of meals are accommodated and packaged in the noodle manufacturing, and the overall rationalization can be achieved. Moreover, since the structure is simple, there are few failures and maintenance is easy.

[0031]

[0032]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIGS. 1 to 3 show a noodle transfer device A in an automatic noodle making machine as a noodle transfer device according to the present invention.

The noodle transfer device A is a thin noodle, cut into a predetermined length and gathered for each meal, and the raw noodles or half-raw noodles B laid down in a folded state. In order to make the packaging product into a packaging product, it is possible to automatically convey it to the packaging machine C, and the shuttle conveyor 1, the conveyance conveyor 2, and the side-by-side conveyance conveyor 3 are configured to be connected in order from the superior side. .

A packaging machine C is disposed below the width-shifting conveyor 3 via a relay conveyor 4. C1
Is a noodle feeding portion of the packaging machine C facing the end of the relay conveyor 4, and the lateral width of the transportation path of the noodle transportation device A (each conveyor
It is narrower than the belt width of 1,2,3).

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the collective noodles B are conveyed to the upper side of the shuttle conveyor 1 in a state of being folded in two in a folded state on a noodle conveyance rod laid horizontally between endless chains. A chain-type transfer device D is provided.

The shuttle conveyor 1 takes over the collected noodles B in a folded state from the chain-type carrier device D, allows them to be placed and carried at regular intervals, and has a slide provided at the tip. The moving part 10 is reciprocally movable back and forth so that a predetermined amount of the assembled noodles B that have been placed and conveyed can be dropped from the end portion without losing its posture. Reference numeral 15 is a drive pulley, 16 is a sliding portion floating pulley, 17 is a fixed guide pulley, and 18 is a movable guide pulley.

That is, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the crank mechanism 11 is interlockingly connected to the sliding portion 10,
11 is linked to the drive unit 13 via the drive chain 12,
As shown in FIG. 4, the two collected noodles B, B conveyed are reciprocated at a speed at which they can be dropped at substantially the same time.

The drive unit 13 is linked to the packaging machine C via the interlocking rod 14 so that the reciprocating movement of the sliding unit 10 and the working operation with the packaging machine C are synchronized with each other. . In addition,
The timing of the intermittent movement is matched with the timing of pulling out the noodle carrying rod from the chain-type carrying device D, and is controlled according to the interval between the placed collective noodles B.

Further, the shuttle conveyor 1 is of a wide type capable of transporting and dropping two or more sets of a predetermined amount of the assembled noodles B in the width direction of the transport path in parallel.

As described above, by using the wide type, the efficiency of noodle production can be doubled.

Further, the transfer conveyor 2 communicating with the shuttle conveyor 1 is arranged such that the tip end portion is located below the terminal end portion of the shuttle conveyor 1 and the front end portion of the shuttle conveyor 1 can be inherited and transferred, and the collected noodles B can be transferred. An endless transfer conveyor belt 23 is wound between a drive pulley 21 that is interlockingly connected to a drive motor and a floating pulley 22 that is disposed at a position facing the drive pulley 21.

In addition, the transfer conveyor 2 is provided with a transfer speed adjusting device 24 so that the transfer speed can be adjusted.

Therefore, by collecting the collected noodles B dropped from the shuttle conveyor 1 individually at a normal speed or by lowering the transportation speed to half of the shuttle conveyor 1, as shown in FIG. The two set noodles B, B that have fallen can be received in layers on the set noodle B that has been received first, and the conveying posture of the set noodle B can be selected as one stage or a plurality of stages. I am trying.

It should be noted that the set noodles B can be placed in a stacked transfer posture by dropping the set noodles B one by one from the shuttle conveyor 1 and by making the transfer speed of the transfer conveyor 2 extremely slow. it can.

As described above, the noodle-conveying apparatus A according to the present invention
By connecting the shuttle conveyor 1 and the transfer conveyor 2 configured as described above, both the single collective noodles B and the plurality of collective noodles B can be put together and their posture can be maintained. Can be transported.

For example, when the collective noodles are stacked in two layers, it is possible to transport the two servings as a whole, and the noodle product containing the two servings can be automatically produced in the packaging machine.

Further, the width-conveying conveyer 3 is installed with its tip close to the end of the conveyer 2 and is provided with width-adjusting means E for moving the inherited collective noodles B to the central portion of the belt.

That is, an endless conveyor belt 33 is wound between a drive pulley 31 which is interlockingly connected to an electric motor (not shown) and an idle pulley 32 which is arranged at a position facing the drive pulley 31, Further, in the middle of the conveying path of the width-shifting conveyor 3, as the width-shifting means E, both side edges 33 of the conveyor belt 33 are formed so as to have a ship-bottom shape in cross section.
A pair of width-shifting rollers E1 and E1 for pressing a and 33a inward are made to face each other with a width narrower than that of the conveyor belt 33, and three sets are arranged at regular intervals in the conveying direction. There is. E2 is the axis of each width-adjusting roller E1.

Therefore, in the same width shifting conveyor 3, as shown in FIG. 5, the gathered noodles B can be smoothly fed to the packaging machine C in a state where they are gathered in the central portion of the belt. Even if the collective noodles B for a plurality of meals are bundled, they can be easily supplied to the narrow noodle-loading part C1 of the packaging machine C, and the bundled noodles B are grouped in good shape. It is possible to smoothly perform the packaging work without forcing the packaging machine C to operate unnecessarily.

That is, the two sets of collective noodles B and B are placed in parallel on the shuttle conveyor 1 and conveyed, and these are dropped simultaneously from the tip of the shuttle conveyor 1 to the second.
When each of them is inherited in a two-stage stack on the transport conveyor 2 (the two stacked ones on the transport conveyor 2 are arranged side by side), the side-by-side transport conveyor 3 collects four servings of noodles. They will be collected and transported to the packaging machine.

Therefore, even for four servings, the packaging machine C
In addition to being smoothly supplied to the narrow noodle feeding section C1, the packaging machine C is not overpowered, and failure and malfunction can be prevented in advance.

As described above, the width-shifting conveyor 3 can reliably shift the width of the assembled noodles B with such a simple structure and can be manufactured at low cost.

As described above, the noodle-conveying apparatus A in this embodiment can be rationalized with a simple structure and can automatically manufacture a noodle product containing a plurality of servings. it can. Moreover, there are few breakdowns and maintenance is easy.

[0055]

The present invention is carried out in the form described above, and has the following effects.

(1) A shuttle conveyor having a front end portion configured to reciprocate back and forth, and a collective conveyor that has been placed and conveyed is dropped from the end portion and delivered, and a conveyance speed adjusting device is provided to freely adjust the conveyance speed. And a width-shifting unit that presses both side edges of an endless conveyor belt wound between pulleys inward to deform the conveyor belt into a ship bottom shape, and the collective noodles on the conveyor belt With the width-shifting conveyer conveyable in a state of being width-shifted to the center of the belt, and in order from the upper side, by arranging the packaging machine on the lower side of the width-shifting conveyer,
Even when the gathered noodles are spread on the conveyor belt, they can be smoothly conveyed in a state where they are gathered together in the central portion of the belt. In addition, even if the number of the collected noodles is one, or even if there is a plurality of the collected noodles, it is possible to easily carry them in a bundle without losing their posture.

Therefore, for example, when the collective noodles are packed or packed as they are, it is not necessary to manually adjust the transportation posture of the collective noodles, and rationalization can be achieved.

(2) The width-shifting means is constituted by a pair of width-shifting rollers arranged in a confronting state with the conveyor belt sandwiched therebetween, in the middle of the conveying path formed by the conveyor belt. With a simple structure, the conveyed articles can be effectively centered on the conveyor belt and can be manufactured at low cost.

(3) Since the shuttle conveyor is constructed so that a plurality of aggregated noodles can be conveyed / dropped in parallel in the width direction of the conveying path, the conveying efficiency is improved.

(4) By adjusting the conveying speed, the aggregated noodles dropped from the shuttle conveyor are individually or selectively received in a stack, and the aggregated noodles are conveyed to the width-shifting conveyor in a single-stage or multiple-stage conveying posture. By being configured to hand over the noodles, the collective noodles can be collected in a two-tiered stack, and, for example, two meals can be conveyed in one batch, and two noodles serve as one pack. Can be automated and streamlined.

[0061]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of a noodle carrying device as one form of a carrying device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the noodle conveyor device.

FIG. 3 is a schematic explanatory view of the noodle transportation device.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which a collective noodle as a conveyed product is transferred from a shuttle conveyor to a conveyor.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view of the width-shifting conveyance conveyor as viewed from the front.

[Explanation of symbols]

A noodle transporter B Set noodle E width adjustment means E1 Rolling roller 1 shuttle conveyor 2 Conveyor 3 width-shifting conveyor 33 conveyor belt

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (56) Reference JP 54-49772 (JP, A) JP 5-305927 (JP, A) JP 57-19206 (JP, A) JP 4- 190493 (JP, A) Actual opening 52-123154 (JP, U) Actual opening 53-64491 (JP, U) Actual opening Flat 1-96412 (JP, U) Actual public Sho-35-33658 (JP, Y1) (58) Fields surveyed (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) B65G 15/08 B65G 15/60 B65G 47/28 B65G 47/52 A21C 9/08

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A tip portion is configured to be capable of reciprocating back and forth and placed.
Collected noodles (B) that have been conveyed are dropped from the end and handed over.
The shuttle conveyor (1) and the transfer speed adjusting device (24) are installed.
The conveyor conveyor (2) with adjustable transfer speed.
Endless conveyor belt (33) wound between pulleys (31) (32)
Press both side edges (33a) and (33a) of the
Equipped with width-shifting means (E) for deforming the bolt (33)
Then, the collective noodles (B) on the conveyor belt (33) are in the belt.
A width-conveying conveyor container that can be conveyed while being centered.
Please contact the ya (3) in order from the better side, and
A noodle carrier , wherein a packaging machine (C) is arranged on the lower side of the gathering conveyor (3) . 2. The width adjusting means (E) is a conveyor belt (3).
In the middle of the transportation path formed by 3), the conveyor bell
A pair of width-adjusting rows that are placed facing each other with the tongue (33) in between.
La (E1), (E1) consisting of
Noodle conveyor . 3. The shuttle conveyor (1) comprises a plurality of sets.
Conveying and dropping noodles (B) in parallel in the width direction of the conveyance path
The device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the device is configured to be handable.
The noodle transport device described. 4. A shuttle conveyor by adjusting the transfer speed.
Collected noodles (B) dropped from (1) individually or in layers
Selectively catches in one or more stages
In any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized by being configured to pass a set noodles (B) to the centering conveyor (3)
Noodles conveying device according to.