JP3499676B2 - Flyer carrier 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 carrier device for a fryer that can smoothly perform setup change when frying a product such as deep-frying when the product size is different.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a large amount of products such as frying is produced, a flyer is used which conveys the material through a carrier device and soaks it in hot oil in an oil tank for continuous frying.

This one is equipped with an oil tank provided with a burner, a pair of left and right carrier chains running in the longitudinal direction of the oil tank, and a large number of carriers mounted between the carrier chains.
The carrier is formed with product pockets corresponding to the size of the product. Therefore, this product can be manufactured by pouring the material into a product pocket of a carrier and moving the material in an oil tank through a transport chain, thereby frying the material.

[0004]

According to the prior art, since the product pocket of a specific size is formed on the carrier, the size of the product pocket is different when frying the products having different product sizes. Since it is necessary to prepare another carrier and replace all the carriers on the carrier chain, the setup work is complicated and the setup time is too long, which is one of the causes of lowering production efficiency. there were.

In view of the problems of the prior art, therefore, the object of the present invention is to switch product sizes by forming product pockets of different sizes on the front and back of the carrier and providing a tiltable engaging lever. It is an object of the present invention to provide a carrier device for a flyer capable of minimizing the setup time.

[0006]

The structure of the present invention for achieving the above object is to form a pair of left and right conveyor chains that run in the longitudinal direction of an oil tank and product pockets of different sizes on the front and back sides of the conveyor chain. A carrier rotatably mounted between the carrier and an engaging lever that is arranged so as to be able to move up and down on one side of the oil tank. The engaging lever engages with an engaging rod attached to the carrier. The gist of the invention is that it can have an upright position for reversing and an inclined position for not engaging with the engaging rod.

The engagement rod can be provided so as to project from the support rod of the carrier.

Further, the engagement lever can be driven via an air cylinder arranged parallel to the oil tank, and the tip can be formed in an arc shape.

Further, the carrier may be provided with reinforcing plates on its left and right end faces, and the reinforcing plates may correspond to a pair of left and right support rails arranged in parallel with the transport chain.

[0010]

According to the structure of the present invention, since the engaging lever can take the standing position where the carrier is inverted and the inclined position, the carrier is moved through the transport chain and the engaging rod is driven to the standing position. Then, the carrier
The product size can be changed all at once by engaging with the engaging rod and automatically reversing in sequence. This is because the carrier has product pockets of different sizes formed on the front and back sides and is rotatably mounted on the carrier chain.

When the engagement rod is projected on the support rod of the carrier, the engagement rod engages with the engagement lever, so that the carrier can be smoothly rotated around the support rod and inverted. .

When the engagement lever is driven via the air cylinder, the air cylinder has its drive direction matched with the raising and lowering direction of the engagement lever and the traveling direction of the transport chain, and thus an extremely compact drive system is provided as a whole. Can be configured.

If the tip of the engaging lever is formed in an arc shape,
When the engaging lever is engaged with the engaging rod, the contact portion with the engaging rod is smooth, so that the carrier can be inverted more smoothly.

When the reinforcing plates corresponding to the left and right support rails are attached to the carrier, the carrier in the middle of reversing can be further rotated by the interference of the reinforcing plate with the supporting rails, and the reversing operation can be surely completed. .

[0015]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

The carrier device of the flyer comprises a pair of left and right carrier chains 11 running in the longitudinal direction of the oil tank U,
Carrier 2 that moves via the transport chains 11, 11.
0, 20 ... and an engagement lever 31 (see FIG. 1,
(Fig. 2). However, in each carrier 20, the supporting rods 26, 26 protruding from the left and right end surfaces are inserted into the links 11a, 11a with the attachments of the transport chains 11, 11 so that the carrier chains 11, 11 have equal pitches. It is rotatably mounted on.

The oil tank U is partitioned into a low temperature tank Ua on the upstream side and a high temperature tank Ub on the downstream side through an intermediate partition plate U1. The transport chains 11, 11 include sprocket 12, 12 on the upstream side of the oil tank U, sprocket 13, 1 on the downstream side of the oil tank U.
3. It is wound around intermediate tension sprockets 13a, 13a and can circulate vertically along the longitudinal direction of the oil tank U (arrows K1, K1 in FIG. 2). However, FIG. 2 shows only one of the transport chains 11, 11, the sprockets 12, 12, 13, 13, and the tension sprockets 13a, 13a.

Each carrier chain 11 has a normal link 11
Link 11 with attachment for b, 11b ...
a, 11a ... Are mixed and connected at a predetermined pitch. Each of the transport chains 11 is supported by the guide rails 14 at the upper part of the oil tank U (FIGS. 1 and 3) and is pressed by the press rails 15. However, the guide roller 11a1 is attached to the link 11a with the attachment via the support rod 26 of the carrier 20, and the pressing rail 15 is connected to the guide roller 11a1.
Corresponds to a1.

Each carrier 20 is provided with standing back plates 22 and 22 facing upward and downward along the front and rear edges of a perforated bottom plate 21 made of punching metal (FIGS. 1 and 4), and partitioning the front and back sides of the bottom plate 21. By vertically arranging the plates 23, 23 ..., Product pockets 20a, 20a ...
0b ... Is formed on the front and back (FIGS. 4 and 5). Each partition plate 23 has the same height as the back plate 22, and the two sides on the side in contact with the bottom plate 21 and the back plate 22 are bent to form fixed portions 23a and 23a, and the corners on the open side are , Finished in an arc shape.

Reinforcing plates 24, 24 having two upper and lower sides bent outward are attached to the left and right end surfaces of the carrier 20 (FIGS. 1 and 5), and the center portion of each reinforcing plate 24 has a large diameter. A support rod 26 having a mounting portion 26a is provided in a protruding manner.
Further, a pair of engagement rods 27, 27 are provided on the mounting portion 26a of the one support rod 26 so as to symmetrically project in the radial direction. Therefore, the carrier 20 includes support rods 26, 26.
Is rotatably mounted between the transport chains 11, 11 by inserting the links into the links 11a, 11a with attachments of the transport chains 11, 11.

At the top of the oil tank U, the carriers 20, 20 ...
A pair of left and right support rails 16a, 16a, 16b, 16b are provided corresponding to the left and right reinforcing plates 24, 24 (FIGS. 1 and 2). That is, the carriers 20, 20
Is a support rail 16 together with the transport chains 11 and 11 in the upper traveling portion of the transport chains 11, 11.
It is possible to proceed by sliding on a, 16a, 16b, 16b. However, the downstream ends of the support rails 16a, 16a on the upstream side in the traveling direction of the carriers 20, 20, ... And the upstream ends of the support rails 16b, 16b on the downstream side in the traveling direction are diagonally downward bent portions 16a1, 16a1, 16b, respectively.
1 and 16b1 face each other, and the inversion region B is provided in the middle.
Is formed.

The lower running portions of the transport chains 11, 11 run in the oil tank U and are supported via guide plates 17 for guiding the carriers 20, 20. The guide plate 17 is smoothly curved upward at the position of the partition plate U1 of the oil tank U, and the sprocket 1 is provided on the upstream side.
Sprocket 12, which is curved in an arc shape on the outside of 2, 12
12, covering the sprocket 13, 13 on the downstream side.
It has been extended to just below.

The engagement lever 31 is arranged on one side of the oil tank U so as to correspond to the inversion area B of the support rails 16a, 16a, 16b, 16b (FIGS. 1 and 3). The engaging lever 31 has a V-shaped notch 31a formed on the side end surface of the tip end portion corresponding to the upstream side in the traveling direction of the carriers 20, 20 ... And the tip end is finished in an arc shape. The engagement lever 31 is integrally formed with a sleeve 32 and an arm 33, and a shaft 35 fixed to a frame (not shown) is inserted into the sleeve 32 so as to be relatively rotatable. Also, arm 3
The tip of 3 is connected to a rod 34a of an air cylinder 34 arranged in parallel with the oil tank U via a connecting pin 33a, and the base of the air cylinder 34 is vertically swingable via a support shaft 34b. It is supported.

The engaging lever 31 can be tilted back and forth through the arm 33 and the sleeve 32 by expanding and contracting the air cylinder 34 (arrow K in FIGS. 1 and 6).
2 directions). That is, the engaging lever 31 is in an upright position in which the tip portion projects above the guide rail 14 and the support rails 16a and 16b by extending the rod 34a of the air cylinder 34 (solid line in FIG. 6), By shortening the rod 34a of 34, an inclined position can be taken (two-dot chain line in the figure).

In the carrier device of such a flyer, the carriers 20, 20, ...
Of the product pockets 20a, 20 of each carrier 20 at the downstream end of the oil tank U.
By feeding the material S into one of a ..., 20b, 20b ... (direction of arrow Ka in FIG. 2), the material S is fried through the oil tank U and discharged from the downstream end of the oil tank U as a product. It is possible (direction of arrow Kb in the figure). However,
At this time, all the carriers 20, 20 ... In the upper traveling portion of the transport chains 11, 11, the product pockets 20a, 20a ... Or the product pockets 20b, 20b ...
Is held upward, and the engagement lever 31 is placed in an inclined position where it does not engage with the engagement rods 27, 27 of each carrier 20. That is, the carriers 20, 20 ...
Can pass through the reversal region B as it is without interfering with the engaging lever 31 in the inclined position.

The guide plate 17 includes the carriers 20, 2
0 swivels downward around the sprockets 12, 12 to prevent the material S from falling off the carriers 20, 20 ... When traveling downward in the oil tank U.

When manufacturing products of different sizes, the carrier chains 1 are emptied of all the carriers 20, 20 ...
While running Nos. 1 and 11, the engagement lever 31 is driven to the upright position via the air cylinder 34. At this time,
The engagement lever 31 has a notch 31a engaged with a downward engagement rod 27 of the carrier 20 passing through the reversal region B in the direction of arrow K1 in FIG.
The carrier 20 can be rotated forward around 6, 26 (in the direction of arrow K3 in the figure). After that, the engagement lever 31 can smoothly rotate the carrier 20 by driving the engagement rod 27 along the arcuate tip as the carrier 20 advances (the one-dot chain line in FIG. Dash-dotted line). At this time, presser rail 1
The reference numerals 5 and 15 prevent the carrier 20 from being carelessly lifted via the guide rollers 11a1 and 11a1 attached to the transport chains 11 and 11.

When the carrier 20 further advances, the engagement lever 31 and the engagement rod 27 are disengaged, but the carrier 20 at this time is still in the process of reversing, and the reversing operation is incomplete (see the same figure). Dash-dotted line). However, the carrier 20 has the left and right reinforcing plates 2 at the end of the reversal region B.
4 and 24 are support rails 16b and 16b on the downstream side in the traveling direction.
By interfering with the support rails 16b, 16b, the support rails 16b and 16b are rotated until they are parallel to each other (in the direction of arrow K4 in the figure), and the reversing operation can be completed (dotted line in the figure). In the same manner, the subsequent carriers 20, 20, ... Can also be sequentially inverted by passing through the inversion area B, so that all the carriers 2 on the transport chains 11, 11 can be inverted.
0, 20 ... At the time of reversal, the engaging lever 31 is returned to the inclined position, and another product pocket 20a, 20a ...
b ... may be used to manufacture the product.

In the above description, the engaging rods 27, 2
7 is engaged with the engagement lever 31 in the upright position to engage the carrier 2
As long as 0 can be smoothly inverted, its shape can be set arbitrarily. For example, the engagement rods 27, 27
May be formed in a suitable plate cam shape. Further, the engagement rods 27, 27 and the engagement lever 31 may be arranged on both sides of the carrier 20 and the oil tank U instead of one side.

After the engaging lever 31 is driven to the standing position, a counter (not shown) counts the carriers 20, 20 ... Which are reversed by passing through the reversal region B, and all the carriers are used by utilizing the counting result. It is possible to detect the completion of the reversing operation of 20, 20, ... And automatically return to the inclined position.

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention, the carriers forming the product pockets of different sizes on the front and back are rotatably mounted between the pair of left and right carrier chains, and can be tilted up and down. By arranging the levers, each carrier, when moving through the transport chain, is automatically inverted in sequence by the engagement rods of each carrier engaging the engagement levers in the upright position, which results in the size of the product pocket. Therefore, the setup time required for switching the product size can be minimized, which is an excellent effect.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the overall configuration

[Figure 2] Usage status explanatory diagram

3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken along line XX of FIG.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken along line YY of FIG.

FIG. 5: Front view of carrier

[Fig. 6] Operation explanatory diagram

[Explanation of symbols]

U ... Oil tank 11 ... Transport chain 16 ... Support rail 20 ... Carrier 20a, 20b ... Product pocket 24 ... Reinforcing plate 26 ... Support rod 27 ... Engaging rod 31 ... Engaging lever 34 ... Air cylinder

Claims (5)

(57) [Claims] 1. A pair of left and right carrier chains running in the longitudinal direction of the oil tank, a carrier having product pockets of different sizes formed on the front and back sides, and a carrier rotatably mounted between the carrier chains, and one side of the oil tank. An engaging lever arranged so as to be able to move up and down, the engaging lever engaging with an engaging rod attached to the carrier to reverse the carrier, and an engaging position for the engaging rod. A carrier device for a flyer, wherein the carrier device can take a tilted position that does not match. 2. The flyer carrier device according to claim 1, wherein the engagement rod is provided to project from a support rod of the carrier. 3. The flyer carrier device according to claim 1, wherein the engagement lever is driven via an air cylinder arranged in parallel with the oil tank. 4. The flyer carrier device according to claim 1, wherein a tip of the engagement lever is formed in an arc shape. 5. The carrier is provided with reinforcing plates on its left and right end surfaces, and the reinforcing plates correspond to a pair of left and right support rails arranged in parallel with the transport chain. A carrier device for a flyer according to claim 4.