JP3485360B2 - Apparatus for attaching food pieces in a food baking machine - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device for attaching one or two foods (eg, chopped shrimp, shrimp, peanuts, etc.) to baking products such as takoyaki, which are mainly composed of wheat flour and the like. Is.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, as this type of food baking machine, a rice cracker baking machine, a steamed bun cooking machine, a castella baking machine, a tako baking machine and the like are known. And takoyaki is flour, vegetables,
Using liquid dough with fluidity, which is made by mixing various kinds of different specific gravity such as tempura and adding and kneading water and soup stock.
Inject the liquid dough into the lower mold with the upper part open, and cut one or two chopped marine molluscs into the desired size.
It is baked together with the individual pieces.

Conventionally, as an takoyaki machine, an endless transfer path formed in a loop shape, an open baking mold having a substantially U-shaped recess that is cyclically transferred on the transfer path, and a baking mold in the middle of the transfer path Top and bottom heating tunnel oven that heats and bakes the liquid dough injected into this, an automatic oiling device that applies oil to the baking mold before feeding the dough, and a recess of the baking mold that has preheated a certain amount of liquid dough It is composed of an automatic dough feeding device for injecting the dough into the rice (see Japanese Patent Application No. 2-409421). The cut pieces are irregularly sized, and it is troublesome to automatically insert the cut pieces one by one, so that the present situation is to attach them manually.

Further, there has been proposed a baking method for a spherical confectionery using a pair of upper and lower baking molds having concave portions deeper than hemispherical shapes (see Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-252917).

[0005]

In the above-mentioned prior art, in the former case, it is troublesome to put the shavings into the baking mold, and it takes a considerable amount of time and labor. In the latter case, the octopus throwing machine is used. , Etc., but the specific configuration is not described.
The present invention has been made in view of the actual situation as described above,
The purpose is to attach a single food item in a food baking machine that can automatically and reliably attach foods such as chopped shrimp, shrimp, and peanuts to 1-2 baked foods. To provide.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention takes the following technical means. That is, the present invention relates to an apparatus stand arranged on the side of a baking mold transfer path, an attached food container provided on the stand so as to be able to move up and down, and to stand on the stand through the container bottom. A plurality of food loading rods provided, a cross girder provided on the pedestal via a support and extending to above the transfer path, and above the baking girder transfer path and above the food container. And a food gripping means provided so as to be capable of reciprocating.

Further, the present invention is characterized in that the food placing rods are erected at the same interval as the center interval of the baking mold recesses, and a cross-shaped groove in plan view for placing a single food item is formed at the upper end thereof. There is. Furthermore, the present invention is characterized in that the food gripping means can be moved up and down.

[0008]

According to the present invention, when the supplemented food is put into the supplemented food container and the container is raised, one or two foods in the container are placed on the upper end of each food loading rod, By lowering the container, one or two foods respectively remain on the upper end of the loading bar. The food gripping means standing by above the loading bars descends and grips the foods on the upper ends of the loading bars and moves up.

The food gripping means that grips the food and ascends moves laterally above the baking mold transfer path, then descends and then releases the food and drops it into the baking mold recess located therebelow. . Then, the food gripping means moves upward and moves laterally above the container to stand by. Then, the above-described operation is repeatedly performed in correspondence with the movement of the baking mold, and the food is automatically and surely put into the baking mold and attached.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 shows an overall plan view of a food (takoyaki) baking machine equipped with the food single piece adhering device 11 according to the present invention. The baking machine is an endless machine formed on the main body frame 1 in a loop shape in plan view. Baking mold transfer path 2, baking mold 3 circulated and transferred on said transferring path 2, baking transfer intermittent transfer means 4, tunnel oven 5 disposed in the middle of baking transfer path 2, baking mold cleaning rotation Brush 6
And an oil supply tank 8 for dropping oil into the food baking recess 7 of the baking mold 3, an automatic oil coating device 9 for applying oil to the inner surface of the recess 7, and a liquid having fluidity in the recess 7. It is composed of an automatic dough feeding device 10 for quantitatively injecting dough (raw material), the aforesaid attachment device 11 for feeding the attached food (cut into pieces) into the baking mold recess 7, and an attached food pushing means 19.

The main body frame 1 is composed of an outer frame 12 framed in the shape of a flat rectangular parallelepiped and an inner frame 13 provided inside, and an endless transfer path 2 is formed in the inner and outer frames 12, 13. Loop-shaped inner and outer guide rails 14 and 15 are provided. The baking mold transfer means 4
Is the vertical rotation shaft 1 at both longitudinal ends of the inner frame 13.
Chain wheel 17 rotatably mounted via 6
And an endless transfer chain 18 wound between the chain wheels 17 and a motor with a speed reducer (not shown). The transfer chain 18 pushes an inner support leg (not shown) of each baking mold 3. A metal fitting (not shown) is attached.

The tunnel oven 5 is provided so as to surround the left half of the loop-shaped baking type transfer passage 2, and although not shown in the drawing, an upper flame made up of an infrared burner and a lower fire made up of a Bunsen burner are predetermined. The baking dies 3 are simultaneously heated from the upper and lower surfaces so that the upper and lower surfaces of the baking dies can be baked simultaneously and uniformly in a short time. The rotary brush 6 is provided on the outer frame 12 at a lower side in front of the baked food product take-out portion 20 in the baking mold transfer direction. In addition, the baking mold recess 7 has a hemispherical bottom and a cylindrical top, and the baked food product is baked into a substantially spherical shape without rotation and inversion during baking, and the baking mold 3 is simply inverted. It is designed to be peeled off from the recess 7 and fall.

The oil supply tank 8 is provided on the lower side of the brush 6 so as to straddle the baking dies 3 inside and outside the frames 12 and 13.
An oil dripping nozzle (not shown) is provided on the lower surface so as to correspond to the baking mold recesses 7, and an appropriate amount of oil is dropped into each recess 7. The automatic oiling device 9 is provided on the lower side of the oil supply tank 8 on the baking mold transfer path 2 across the same. And the automatic dough feeder 10
Is a dough container 2 arranged on the lower side of the automatic oiling device 9.
1 and the dough pumping spoon 22 and the subsequent gutter 2
It consists of a dough injector 24 with 3 and a dough supply device 25.

The food piece attaching device 11 and the food pushing means 19 are arranged on the lower side of the automatic dough feeding device 10. The attachment device 11 according to the present invention is a device mount 27 arranged on the side of the baking mold transfer path 2 and provided with moving wheels 26, and a mount provided on the mount 27 so as to be able to move up and down by a lift cylinder 28. Food container 29, a plurality of (the same number as the baking mold recesses) food loading rods 30 that are erected on the pedestal 27 through the bottom of the container 29, and columnar supports that are erected on the four corners of the pedestal 27. A body 31, a horizontal girder 33 provided on the support 31 via a vertical beam 32 and extending above the transfer path 2, and a transverse beam 33 provided on the horizontal girder 33 so as to be reciprocally movable via a guide rail 34. The food holding means 35 and the control board 36 are provided.

The upper half of the front and rear wall plates 29A of the container 29 is expanded upward to form a hopper shape (see FIG. 3).
The bottom plate 29B is provided with mounting rod insertion holes 37 having the same number and pitch as the baking recesses 7 (see FIG. 4), and the support brackets 38 are fixed to the lower outer surfaces of the front and rear wall plates 29A, respectively. As shown in FIG. 1, on the lower surface of the bracket 38, the piston rod outer end 28A of the cylinder 28 is attached at the center in the left-right direction, and the upper ends of the support guide rods 39, 39 are fixed to the left and right thereof. Has been done.

The elevating cylinder 28 is attached to the mount 27 so as to face upward. Further, the support guide rod 39 is guided by a guide cylinder 40 attached to the gantry 27 so as to slide up and down. Then, as shown in FIG. 4, in the container 29, a rectangular accessory food shake-off frame 41 is disposed so as to be movable back and forth via a support horizontal bar 42, and is provided on a side wall plate 29C of the container 29. The piston rod outer ends 44A of the swing cylinders 44 mounted on the lower surfaces of both ends of the rear wall plate side bracket 38 are connected to both outer ends of the support horizontal bar 42 that penetrates the horizontal guide elongated hole 43.
5 (see FIG. 3).

When the container 29 is positioned at the lower limit, the food loading rod 30 has a height such that its upper end is located above the upper edge of the container 29, and the upper end of FIG.
As shown in (a) and (b), a groove 46 having a cruciform shape in plan view is formed, and a food (eg, cutlet) 4 attached to the groove 46.
Only one 7 is listed. The horizontal beam 33 is
One end (right end) of the vertical beam 32 is fixed to the center in the front-rear direction so as to extend from one side of the mount 27, and a guide rail mounting vertical beam 48 is attached to the lower surface of the extension end. A traverse drive cylinder 49 is attached to the lower surface of the girder 33 in parallel with the girder 33. Further, the guide rails 34 are attached to the vertical beams 32 and 48 in parallel with the front and rear of the cylinder 49 via an attachment member 50.

On the guide rail 34, a traverse carriage 51 of the food gripping means 35 is suspended by a guide member 52 so as to be reciprocally movable.
The outer end of the piston rod 9 is connected, and the traverse carriage 51 is reciprocated by the cylinder 49 between immediately above the container 29 and immediately above the baking mold 3 of the transfer path 2.

An elevating plate 53 is mounted on the traverse vehicle 51 so as to be able to ascend and descend via an elevating cylinder 54, and four guide bars 55 are slidably guided by guide pipes 56 provided on the lower surfaces of the four corners of the traverse vehicle 51. It has become so. Further, the lower surface of the elevating plate 53 is provided with the same number of clampers 57 as the intervals of the baking recesses 7.

The clamper 57, as shown in FIG.
It is composed of a driving air hand cylinder 58, a clamp plate 60 fixed to a clamp arm 59 of the cylinder 58, and a short wire 61. The clamp plate 60 is opened and closed by the cylinder 58, and an attached food 47 by a clamper 57. Clamping and unclamping are performed. That is, the food 47 is clamped on the food loading rod 30, the food 47 is unclamped above the baking mold 3, and the attached foods 47 are dropped into the baking mold recess 7 one by one. There is.

In the above embodiment, description will be given of the case where the attached foods 47 (cut pieces) are attached one by one in each baking die recess 7. First, the baking dies 3 are intermittently transferred at regular time intervals, the dough is injected into the recesses 7 of the baking dies 3 by the automatic supply device 10, and the dough is immediately below the food gripping means 35 of the food applicator 11. When stopped, the lift plate 53 holding the food 47 in each clamper 57 is lowered by the lift cylinder 54 and is lowered to the position indicated by the chain double-dashed line 253 in FIG. When opened, the attached food 47 drops onto the dough in each recess 7 of the baking mold 3 and is attached.

Then, the baking mold 3 having been attached is intermittently transferred, and is submerged to a predetermined depth in the dough by the attached food pushing means 19 and then transferred into the tunnel oven 5. On the other hand, the clamper 57 on which the food 47 has been dropped is left open, and the lifting plate 53 is lifted by the lifting cylinder 54.
At the same time, the traverse drive cylinder 49 causes the traverse carriage 51 to move directly above the food container 29, and
The elevating plate 53 moves to the position indicated by the chain double-dashed line 153.

Incidentally, the lifting plate 53 is shown in FIG.
By the time it stops at the position shown in FIG.
To the position indicated by the chain double-dashed line 129, and
In the groove 46 at the upper end of the attached food 47,
The swing-off frame 41 is rocked by the cylinder 44 in the direction shown by the arrow in FIG. 4 to ensure that one food 47 is placed in the groove 46, and then the food container 29 is lifted by the lifting cylinder 28. The food 47 for each one is placed on the food loading rod 30 after being lowered.

Therefore, the lifting plate 54 is lifted by the lifting cylinder 54.
3 descends, and at the same time the elevator plate 53 stops at the lower limit,
The air hand cylinder 58 operates and the clamp plate 6
0 closes and grabs the food on the food loading rod 30. When the food is grabbed by each clamper 57 in this way, the lifting plate 53 rises by its cylinder 54 and the traverse carriage 51 moves by the traverse drive cylinder 49. Baking mold transfer path 2
To a position immediately before the elevating plate 53 at the position shown by the solid line in FIG.

In this way, one addressed food product is taken out from the food container 29 to each clamper 57, moved to the baking mold transfer path 2, and then dropped into the baking mold recess 7 for attachment. The operation to be performed is sequentially and automatically repeated. The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment, but the design such as the upper end shape of the food loading rod can be changed as appropriate, the baking mold 3 can be adopted for continuous operation, and the pedestal 27 is of a stationary type. can do. Furthermore, the present invention is a rice cracker, a steamed bun maker, a castella maker other than a tako maker,
It can be used in various baking machines such as biscuit baking machine and other cake baking machines, and as a food supplement, other than chopped shrimp, cut squid, peanuts, almonds, chestnuts, cherries, dried grapes, chocolate, cheese, jerry , Nougat candy, etc. can be used.

[0026]

As described above, according to the present invention, the apparatus stand disposed on the side of the baking mold transfer path, the attached food container provided on the stand so as to be vertically movable, and the container bottom are provided. A plurality of food loading rods penetratingly erected on the pedestal, a transverse girder provided on the pedestal via a support and extending above the transfer path, and a baking mold for the transverse girder Since it is characterized by comprising food holding means provided so as to be able to reciprocate above the transfer path and on the food container, a single piece of the attached food is reliably and automatically charged into each baking mold. Since it is not necessary to attach a specialist for attachment work to the food baking machine, it is hygienic and labor saving and cost reduction can be achieved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an overall plan view showing an example of a food (takoyaki) baking machine to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 3 is a left side view of FIG.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of a cross section (partially omitted) taken along the line AA of FIG.

FIG. 5 shows an example of the upper end shape of the food loading rod of the same embodiment,
(A) is a front view and (b) is a plan view.

FIG. 6 is an enlarged side view showing the clamper of the same embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a view taken along the line BB of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

2 Burning type transfer path 3 baking type 11 Food single piece attachment device 27 Device stand 28 Lifting cylinder 29 Attached food containers 29B container bottom 30 food sticks 33 horizontal girders 35 Food Grasping Means 46 cross groove 49 Traverse drive cylinder 51 Traverse trolley 53 Lifting plate 54 Lifting cylinder 57 Clamper

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. An apparatus stand disposed on the side of a baking-type transfer path, an attached food container provided on the stand so as to be able to move up and down, and a stand provided on the stand passing through the bottom of the container. A plurality of food loading rods, a cross girder provided on the pedestal via a support and extending to above the transfer path, and above the baking girder transfer path and above the food container. An apparatus for attaching a single piece of food in a food baking machine, comprising a food gripping means provided so as to be capable of reciprocating. Wherein said food product loaded rod is erected at the same interval and baked shaped recess center spacing claim 1 at its upper end, characterized in that to form a plan view cross-shaped groove for placing the food single number
A device for attaching a single piece of food in the described food baking machine. 3. The food piece attaching device for a food baking machine according to claim 1, wherein the food gripping means is vertically movable.