JP4627677B2 - Stick-shaped confectionery cutting and packaging equipment - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a bar- shaped confectionery cutting and packaging apparatus for packaging a cut bar-shaped confectionery as it is .

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a conventional bar-shaped food cutting device. The conventional bar-shaped food cutting device 40 is composed of a cutting means 42, a first transport conveyor 44 installed upstream of the cutting means 42, and a second transport conveyor 46 disposed downstream of the cutting means 42. Met. The rod-shaped food cutting device 40 is for cutting food (conveyed body) consisting of a number of rows supplied from the food supply device 48 into a predetermined length. For example, when the food supply device 48 supplies the confectionery to be transported 50a, the transported material 50a is transported by the first transport conveyor 44 and cut into a predetermined length by the cutting means 42. The paper is transported by the second transport conveyor 46 and packed in the tray 54 by the packaging machine 52. The packaging machine 52 is a device that performs tray packaging.

On the other hand, when replacing the tray packaging with the pillow packaging, the conventional bar-shaped food cutting apparatus 40 has to collect the cut transported bodies 50b once, and take out a predetermined number from them to be packaged. If the bundles are bundled and conveyed from the second conveyor 46, there is no need to take out a predetermined number of the objects to be conveyed 50b, and the packaging operation can be performed efficiently. In addition, the packaging can be speeded up, and mass production becomes possible.
As a method of transporting an amount to be packed in advance from the second transport conveyor 46, a plurality of guides are provided upstream (or on the first transport conveyor 44) of the cutting means 42, and a predetermined amount of coated material is provided for each transport destination including the guides. A method of distributing and transporting the transport body 50a, cutting the distributed food 50a in a bundled state by the cutting means 42, and transporting the transported body 50b that has been cut and bundled to the packaging machine 52 by the second transport conveyor 46 Can be considered. (For example, Patent Document 1)

JP-A-4-308117

  The distribution conveyance device shown in Patent Document 1 discloses that one conveyance object is reliably conveyed to a conveyance conveyor at a conveyance destination including an air outlet and a guide. However, the food supply apparatus 48 of FIG. 6 is for conveying the conveyed object 50a consisting of a large number of rows to the first conveying conveyor 44, and the conveying method is intended to convey a single conveyed object. Then, it is impossible to distribute the transported bodies 50a formed of a large number of rows to the transport destination provided with the guides, and it is not possible to carry out pillow packaging for each of the predetermined numbers.

  Further, there is a possibility that the transported body 50a may not be guided well by the guide using only the guide. In particular, in the case where the transported body 50a is a food that is easily broken like a stick-shaped confectionery, there has been a problem that the transported body 50a breaks due to contact with the guide. Further, in this case, there is a problem that the subsequent transported body 50a is clogged and the production line is stopped. Furthermore, even if the transported bodies 50a bundled with the guide are cut, the transported bodies 50b bundled by the force applied at the time of cutting are scattered, and there is a problem that a predetermined number cannot be packaged.

The present invention solves the above-described problem, and can bundle a bar-shaped confectionery into a predetermined number, transport it to a cutting means, cut it in a bundled state, and transport and package the cut bar-shaped confectionery in a bundled state. An object of the present invention is to provide a bar-shaped confectionery cutting and packaging apparatus .

Rod-like confectionery cutting packaging apparatus of the present invention, a cutting means for cutting the rod-like confectionery, a first conveyor for conveying the bar-like confectionery comprising a number of columns be those provided upstream of the cutting means, downstream of the cutting means A second transport conveyor for transporting the cut bar-shaped confectionery, a packaging machine for packaging the bar- shaped confectionery transported by the second transport conveyor, and installed upstream of the cutting means. A guide member that bundles the bar-shaped confectionery conveyed by one conveyor and guides it to the cutting means, and is installed upstream of the guide member, and air is injected from above into the gap between the bar-shaped confectionery on the first conveyor. and the aligned so bundling rod-like confectionery and a first food aligning means for distributing the transfer port having a guide member Te, air nozzle of the first food alignment means is provided the same number and the guide member, a guide It is obtained so as to one placed upstream of the member.
In addition, the second confectionery is arranged downstream of the cutting means, and is arranged so as to bundle the cut confectionery by injecting air from above into the gap between the cut confectionery bundles on the second transport conveyor. Two food aligning means are provided, and the same number of air nozzles of the second food aligning means as the guide members are provided, and one is arranged downstream of one guide member .
Further, the guide member is formed such that the width on the upstream side is narrow and the width on the downstream side is wide.

The stick-shaped confectionery cutting and packaging apparatus of the present invention enables the stick-shaped confectionery to be packaged as it is by transporting the stick-shaped confectionery in a bundle. Thereby, the working efficiency of packaging can be improved and mass production can be performed.

  This invention implement | achieves conveying to a cutting means and a packaging machine in the state which bundled the to-be-conveyed body.

The present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of the stick-shaped candy cutting and packaging apparatus of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a side view of FIG.
The bar-shaped confectionery cutting and packaging apparatus of the present invention is installed downstream of the cutting means 14 for cutting the transported body 12a into a predetermined length, the first conveyor 16 installed upstream of the cutting means 14, and the cutting means 14. The bar-shaped food cutting device 10 provided with the second transport conveyor 18, the packaging machine 28 for wrapping the transported body 12a transported by the second transport conveyor 18 , the guide member 20 forming the transport port 19, and the transport port The first food aligning means 22 aligns the transported body 12a so as to form four bundles for transporting to 19. The transported body 12a in FIG. 1 is a bar-like confectionery, and is supplied onto the first transport conveyor 16 from the food supply device 24 in a number of rows. In FIG. 1, 96 ( 96 rows) to-be-conveyed bodies 12 a (bar-shaped confectionery) are supplied from the food supply device 24 at an equal pitch on the first conveyor 16.

  The cutting means 14 includes a cutter 26 and cuts the transported body 12a transported from the first transport conveyor 16 to a predetermined length. Then, the cutting means 14 can send the cut transported body 12 b to the second transport conveyor 18.

The first transport conveyor 16 transports the transported body 12a before cutting to the cutting means 14 continuously.
The second transport conveyor 18 carries out the transported body 12b after cutting from the cutting means 14 and continuously transports it to the packaging machine 28.
The packaging machine 28 pillow-wraps four to-be-conveyed bodies 12b after cutting into a product 30 (FIG. 7). The product 30 is conveyed to the boxed packaging line by the product conveying conveyor 32.
1 and 2 show that the transported bodies 12a and 12b and the packaging machine 28 are on the same line. However, this schematically shows the flow of the production line, and the food supply device 24 and the packaging machine 28 do not necessarily have to be on the same line. Rather, when a special packaging machine that wraps four of the transported bodies 12b by four is used, after the transported bodies 12b are bundled 33, they are sent to a dedicated packaging line (not shown) with the packaging machine 28. It is desirable to

The guide member 20 is provided upstream of the cutting means 14 so that one end thereof communicates with the cutting means 14, and the guided member 12 is guided to the cutter 26 of the cutting means 14 as four bundles to be conveyed 12 a before cutting. It is. In FIG. 1, 25 guide members 20 are provided.
FIG. 3 is a view showing the guide member 20. The guide member 20 includes an upstream guide member 20a and a downstream guide member 20b. The upstream guide member 20a has a width on the upstream side that is narrower than the width on the downstream side, and the downstream guide member 20b is formed with an equal width on the upstream side and the downstream side. Further, two guide members 20 form a conveyance port 19 as a pair. The four transported bodies 12a transported to the transport port 19 are sandwiched between the upstream guide members 20a, transported to the cutter 26 while being bundled, and cut. A bundle 33 of four transported bodies 12b cut to a predetermined length is sent from the cutting means 14 to the second transport conveyor 18.

As shown in FIG. 4, the food alignment means of the present invention has an air nozzle 22 a (air injection portion) that ejects air 34 at a high speed. In addition, an air supply passage 22b and an air supply device 22c (air supply unit) for supplying air 34 to the air nozzle 22a, and an air controller 22d (air supply control unit) for controlling injection of the air 34 are provided. .
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the first food alignment means 22 is installed upstream of the guide member 20. The 1st food alignment means 22 is installed in the 1st conveyance conveyor 16 so that the air 34 may be intermittently injected from the upper part into the clearance gap between the to-be-conveyed bodies 12. FIG. 25 air nozzles 22 a of the first food aligning means 22 are provided in the same number as the guide member 20, and one air nozzle 22 a is arranged upstream of one guide member 20.
The air ejection unit is an air ejection unit that ejects air 34 for bundling the transported bodies 12 and is not limited to the air nozzle 22a.

1 and 2, the bundles 33 of the transported bodies 12b are sent from the cutting means 14 to the second transport conveyor 18 at an equal pitch. A second food alignment means 36 having the same function as the first food alignment means 22 is provided downstream of the cutting means 14.
The second food alignment means 36 is set so that the air controller 36d jets air 34 from the air nozzle 36a through the air supply passage 36b and the air supply device 36c at a predetermined timing in conjunction with the cutting operation of the cutting means 14. (FIG. 4). The air 34 is set so as to be blown from above into the gap between the bundles 33 of the cut transported bodies 12b (FIG. 2).

Next, the food alignment method of the present invention using the food alignment means 22 and 36 will be described with reference to FIG. 5A is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA in FIG. 1, FIG. 5B is a cross-sectional view taken along line BB in FIG. 1, and FIG. 5C is a cross-sectional view taken along line CC in FIG. FIG.
In the food alignment method of the present invention, in the case where the conveyed object 12a is supplied to the conveying conveyor of the first conveying conveyor 16 in a large number of rows and supplied at an equal pitch (FIG. 5 (a)), the conveyed object The air 34 is sprayed onto the gaps 38 from above to move the transported bodies 12a to the left and right to align the transported bodies 12a in a predetermined row (FIG. 5B). The aligned transported bodies 12 are transported to the transport port 19 formed by the guide member 20 by the first transport conveyor 16 while being bundled.
Further, when a large number of transported bodies 12b of the bundle 33 are delivered to the transport conveyor of the second transport conveyor 18 at an equal pitch, the air 34 is sprayed from above onto the gap 39 of the bundle 33 of the transported bodies 12b, The bundles 33 of the conveying bodies 12b are collected and aligned so as to be bundled (FIG. 5C). The aligned bundles 33 of the conveyed objects 12b are conveyed to the packaging machine 28 by the second conveyor 18 while being bundled.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, when the first food alignment means 22 is installed upstream of the guide member 20, the first food alignment means 22 is conveyed side by side on the first conveyance conveyor 16 at an equal pitch. Four transported bodies 12a can be bundled (FIG. 5B) and distributed to the transport port 19 formed by the guide member 20. The transported body 12 a is smoothly guided to the cutting means 14 without contacting the upstream end of the guide member 20. Thereby, since the to-be-conveyed body 12a is not broken and clogged in the vicinity of the conveyance port 19, the problem that the production line stops can be solved.
Further, when the second food aligning means 36 is installed downstream of the cutting means 14, even if the bundle 33 of the transported bodies 12b on the second transport conveyor 18 is separated after the cutting, the second food aligning means 36 is The transported bodies 12b can be bundled by bundling and aligning with the air 34 (FIG. 5C). Thereby, even if the bundle 33 of the transported bodies 12b is separated by the force applied at the time of cutting, it can be surely packaged in a predetermined number. Further, the bundle 33 of the transported bodies 12b can be pillow-wrapped as it is, so that the packaging work is efficient and mass production is possible.

Next, the stick food cutting method of the present invention using the stick food cutting device 10 will be described with reference to FIGS.
On the first conveyor 16, 96 bars (96 rows) of the confectionery to be conveyed 12 a are fed at equal pitches from the food supply device 24 and transported toward the downstream cutting means 14 (FIGS. 1, 2, and 2). 5 (a)).

  The 96 transported bodies 12a are aligned into a total of 24 bundles of four rows and one bundle by the air 34 ejected from the 25 air nozzles 22a of the first food alignment means 22 upstream of the guide member 20 (FIG. 4 and FIG. 4). FIG. 5B). The aligned 24 bundles are distributed and transported to 24 transport ports 19 formed by 25 guide members 20, respectively. Further, when the aligned transport target 12a is transported to the transport port 19, the transported member 12a is transported to the transport port 19 without touching the distal end portion of the upstream side 20a of the guide member 20 (FIGS. 1 and 3).

  The four conveyed objects 12a conveyed to the conveying port 19 are pressed and bundled by the two guide members 20 forming the conveying port 19 while passing through the guide member 20, and the cutting means remains bundled. 14 and is cut by the cutter 26 (FIG. 3).

The to-be-conveyed body 12b cut | disconnected by the cutter 26 is sent to the 2nd conveyance conveyor 18 with the four bundles 33 being left. Thereafter, the transported bodies 12b in the form of four bundles 33 are transported to the packaging machine 28 and pillow-wrapped (FIGS. 1 and 2) or sent to a separate packaging line (not shown). )
Furthermore, the to-be-conveyed body 12b on the 2nd conveyance conveyor 18 is bundled into four with the air 34 injected from the air nozzle 36a of the 2nd foodstuff alignment means 36 provided in the downstream of the cutting | disconnection means 14. FIG. And the to-be-conveyed body 12 (or bundle | flux 33) bundled into 4 can be easily packaged 4 each by the packaging machine 28 (FIG.5 (c)).

It is a figure which shows the structure of the stick-shaped food cutting device of this invention. It is a side view of FIG. It is a figure which shows a guide member. It is a figure which shows an example of the foodstuff alignment means of this invention. It is the sectional view on the AA line of FIG. 1, BB sectional drawing, and CC sectional drawing. It is a figure which shows the conventional stick-shaped food cutting device. It is a figure which shows the packaging film of pillow packaging.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Bar-shaped food cutting device 12 To-be-conveyed body 14 Cutting means 16 1st conveyance conveyor 18 2nd conveyance conveyor 19 Conveyance port 20 Guide member 22 1st food alignment means 26 Cutter 28 Packaging machine 33 Bundles 34 Air 36 2nd food alignment means 38 Gap 39 Gap

Claims (3)

Cutting means for cutting the rod-like confectionery, a first conveyor for conveying the bar-like confectionery comprising a number of columns be those provided upstream of the cutting means, is cut be those provided on the downstream of the cutting means bundling a second conveyor for conveying the bar-like confectionery, a packaging machine which the second conveyor for wrapping a rod confectionery for transporting the rod-shaped snack first conveyor conveys be one that is located upstream of the cutting means A guide member that guides to the cutting means, and is arranged upstream of the guide member, and is arranged so as to bundle the bar-shaped confectionery by injecting air from above into the gap between the bar-shaped confectionery on the first conveyor. and a first food aligning means for distributing the transfer port having a guide member, as the air nozzle in the first food alignment means is provided the same number and the guide member is one arranged upstream of the one guide member Rod-like confectionery cutting packaging apparatus, characterized in that the. The second food, which is installed downstream of the cutting means and is arranged so as to bundle the cut sticky confectionery by injecting air from above into the gap between the cut sticky confectionery bundles on the second conveyor. 2. The bar-shaped confectionery cutting and packaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an alignment means is provided, and the number of air nozzles of the second food alignment means is the same as the number of guide members, and one is arranged downstream of one guide member. . The bar-shaped confectionery cutting and packaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the guide member has a narrow width on the upstream side and a wide width on the downstream side.

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