JP5205740B2 - Automatic noodle measuring method and apparatus - Google Patents

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  The present invention relates to an apparatus for weighing udon, soba, spaghetti, sweet potato, white ball dumpling, etc. to a predetermined weight.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the automatic measuring device for candy noodles which is currently mainstream is provided with a stirring finger 2 and a spouted water flow 4 in a hopper 3, so that the candy noodle 1 can be put into a measuring container 5 without clogging. Can supply. The squirting water stream 4 is generated by feeding water from the squirting water flow funnel 3a having a large number of holes upward installed in the squirting water stream housing 9. The measuring container 5 is composed of a perforated plate, and is filled only with crab noodles by pouring together with water, and the measuring container 5 is slid sideways by an air cylinder 6 or the like to open the lower surface of the measuring container from the lower surface opening 11 of the measuring container. According to the method, the noodles are dropped into the lower transport basket 8 through the chute 7 through the opening 12a or 12c of the fixing plate 12 in contact with the base plate. Such a positive displacement metering device is a method of separating noodle strings mainly using a pumped water stream, so that the device is simply configured and excellent in cleaning and maintenance. However, according to the above method, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, when the measuring container slides sideways, the noodles 31 straddling the crab noodle hopper and the measuring container are separated from the supply port 32 of the hopper and the inlet of the measuring container. The short noodles 34 and 35 cut | disconnected by the edge part 33 and cut | disconnected by both the hopper side and the measurement container side had the problem of reducing a commercial value.

  JP-A-60-14124 (Patent Document 1) is known as a method for measuring noodles without cutting them with a positive displacement type noodle automatic measuring device. In JP-A-60-14124, a jet water flow tube is crossed between a bowl noodle hopper and a measuring container, and the noodle string straddled between the dropped dropper and the measuring container is poured out in the direction of the jet water stream. Yes. However, the noodle strings that are washed out by the jet water flow are not only straddled noodle strings, but the noodles in the hopper are sucked one after another, so that they are washed out with a strong impact, so the circulating water tends to become cloudy and drained. As the noodle strings are refluxed into the hopper, the measurement is postponed, and quality deterioration such as dandruff with time is expected. In addition, the hanging dropper is desired to have a certain thickness or more in order to efficiently fill the noodles, but on the other hand, it is preferable that the dripping drop is surely blocked by the crossing water flow. That is, it is unreasonable as a method to combine the functions of filling the noodles and blocking the outflow of the succeeding noodles with the same dropper.

  JP-A-1-273553 (Patent Document 2) is known as a method for measuring the noodle strings without cutting them by a gravimetric method. In JP-A-1-273553, noodles in a noodle hopper are scooped up by several noodle strings by protrusions on a conveyor surface, dropped onto a weighing pan one after another, and moved from the weighing pan when a predetermined weight is reached. And we can weigh without cutting noodle strings. However, the apparatus is complicated and requires time for cleaning. Moreover, it is uneconomical that the equipment to be determined and discharged from the measured value is expensive.

  Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-159396 (Patent Document 3) is known as a measuring method for noodle strings in which a plurality of ball noodles weighed with a positive displacement type noodle noodle automatic weighing device are combined so as to be within an allowable weight range. As for the method of weighing without cutting the noodle strings, the method of making the shutter into a fork shape is mentioned, but the noodles are inevitably damaged to some extent, and the cutting is suppressed.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 60-14124 JP-A-1-273553 JP 2002-159396 A

  In recent years, straight noodle strings without bending are often required as a requirement for increasing the value of the noodle products. This is because the appearance quality of hand-made udon noodles raised in a cauldron or hand-rolled noodles is required. For this purpose, many meals are often baked together in a relatively large kettle, and as a result, opportunities for using an automatic measuring device for crab noodles increase. However, there is a problem that the mainstream mash noodle weighing method when mashing up multiple meals at the same time can not avoid cutting a part of the noodles shortly, deteriorating the quality of the product and not meeting customer needs . As a position involved in the manufacture and sale of noodle products, it was a problem to be solved. That is, according to the present invention, the first problem is to eliminate the cutting of the noodle strings generated by the current mainstream positive displacement automatic metering by a rational method. The second problem is to suppress the phenomenon of large variations within a practical range.

  Currently, the mainstream automatic noodle noodle measuring method is a measuring container that has a multi-meal noodle stocked in water in the hopper drooping out from the hopper bottom supply port and placed under the hopper and provided with a water passage hole A positive displacement type that repeats a filling step of flowing water together with the water and a discharging step of sliding the measuring container filled with the noodles horizontally and dropping the noodles from the opening of the fixed plate in contact with the lower surface of the measuring container However, as shown in FIG. 2, a measuring container 5 is generally provided in a double-sided manner, and a double-sided weighing device capable of alternately filling and discharging left and right.

  The inventors first conducted an experiment with an apparatus as shown in FIG. 5 by measuring and discharging alternately left and right. The tunnel portion 52 was fixed between the hopper 3 and the weighing container built-in slide 51, and the water flow was discharged from the spray nozzles 53a and 53b at both ends toward the center, so that the noodles in the hopper did not flow out. Other configurations are the same as those shown in FIGS. As a result, the granular noodle 54 such as a bowl was smoothly weighed as shown in FIG. 6, but in the measurement of the long noodle strings 55 as shown in FIG. 7, some noodles were placed in the left and right measuring containers 51a and 51b. Both ends entered, and noodles 56 blocking the tunnel were generated. The adjustment valve 57 can be removed after several slides by strengthening the water flow of the spray nozzles 53a and 53b at the tunnel end. However, due to troubles that block the tunnel, Measurement error occurred due to narrowing of the entrance of the.

  Therefore, as shown in FIG. 8, a measurement container built-in slide was prepared in which the measurement container was changed to only one side (51b), and the experiment was conducted by single-side measurement in which the measurement container was returned to the empty state and filled again. First, when the water flow is discharged from the spray nozzles 53a and 53b at both ends of the tunnel toward the center, when the measuring container moves and discharges the noodles, there is a problem that a part of the noodles 3 in the hopper flows out. there were. The reason is that the water pressure from the hopper cannot be received by the injection nozzle 53b in a state where the injection water cancels right and left. Next, an adjustment valve 58 is provided in the water flow path from the injection nozzle 53a, and the opening degree is 20%. When the water flow of the injection nozzle 53a was weakened to the extent, the outflow of noodles could be stopped.

  However, since the short noodles were still slightly scattered from the product, the cause was investigated. As shown in FIG. 9, a part of the noodles 59 was discharged at the inlet edge portion of the measuring container by the water flow of the injection nozzle 53b. It was found that the lower end 61 of the noodle was cut by the weighing container outlet edge 62 while staying pressed against 60 and hanging down.

  Therefore, this time, when the injection nozzle 53b was inserted obliquely in the middle of the tunnel, the trouble that short noodles were generated due to the noodles remaining could be avoided. Furthermore, when filling noodles, by balancing the pressure of the right and left jet water, it is possible to blow up excess noodles immediately after filling into the hopper and reduce the number of noodle strings straddling, thus reducing the variation in noodle weight. As a result, the present invention was completed.

  That is, a filling process in which multi-meal rice cake noodles stocked in the water in the hopper is drooped and discharged from the hopper bottom supply port, and flows together with water into a measuring container inlet disposed below the hopper and provided with a water passage hole, In the positive displacement weighing method, in which the measuring container filled with noodles is slid horizontally and the discharging process of dropping the noodles from the lower surface opening of the measuring container is repeated, the hopper bottom supply port and the noodles are put in In addition, in the filling process, a water flow is injected from the injection nozzle provided in the tunnel toward the hopper bottom supply port by a tunnel that always connects the measurement container inlet with a space. A part of the noodles is pushed back into the hopper, and in the discharging process, the remaining noodles that pass over the noodles pass through the tunnel while protruding from the measuring container. A linear and granular crab noodle automatic weighing method (claim 1) characterized in that the water flow toward the hopper bottom supply port is provided in the middle of the tunnel by the tunnel described above The automatic noodle noodle weighing method according to claim 1, wherein the noodles are noodle strings, and are discharged only on one side by a single measuring container. The automatic noodle noodle weighing method according to claim 2 (Claim 3) or the filling process, wherein a flow that hangs out from the hopper bottom supply port is sandwiched in the filling step, toward the hopper bottom supply port. A method for automatically measuring crab noodles according to claim 3 or claim 4 or more, wherein one ball is equivalent to 0.5 meal of a predetermined weight. Weigh at the same time, An automatic noodle noodle weighing method according to claim 3 and claim 4, characterized in that a heavy ball and a light ball are combined so as to be close to the weight, and a noodle hopper provided with a supply port at the bottom, A measuring container with a water passage hole below it and an opening at the top and bottom, a slide that can be suspended by mounting the measuring container on the top plate and moved in the horizontal direction, and a fixed opening that is in contact with the lower surface of the measuring container In the positive displacement measuring device provided with a plate, a tunnel that always connects the crab noodle hopper supply port and the upper opening of the measuring container with a space is provided on the slide, and the bottom surface of the tunnel is formed by the upper surface of the top plate of the slide. And a linear and granular crab noodle automatic metering device characterized in that a jet nozzle capable of generating a jet water flow toward the crab noodle hopper supply port is provided in the tunnel (Claim 6). Before The said injection | spray nozzle can be injected diagonally from the middle of a tunnel, It is related with the noodles automatic metering apparatus (Claim 7) of Claim 6.

  The noodles suitable for the measurement of the present invention are noodles such as udon, soba, spaghetti, etc., and granular, such as sweet noodles, white ball dumplings, etc. It can be used widely if it requires a break.

  For noodles such as udon and soba, a noodle product that does not mix short noodles can be obtained. For example, in a restaurant restaurant, it is possible to create a cooking operation without worrying about the presence or absence of scum noodles even in the menus in the colander, which can contribute to the creation of customer-oriented products.

  Further, in production lines such as udon and soba, noodles that have been cut short often move while adhering to the inside of the transport basket and fall on the reverse path. If it is also produced all day, a large amount of noodles will fall. It is possible to reduce waste caused by such loss and maintain the basket conveyor in a sanitary manner.

  If it is granular noodles such as soy sauce, there is no risk of scratches and section contamination, and the weight of the weighed ball noodles can be easily adjusted, and it is not necessary to introduce an expensive computer scale or other gravimetric measuring device. It is.

Although the form which can implement both a noodle string and a granular noodle by this invention is demonstrated concretely with FIG.10 and FIG.11, this invention is not limited to these.

  If the hopper 101 is provided with a squirting water flow 104 that can be adjusted to a necessary pressure at any time around the oscillating device 103 of the finger and the supply port 106 of the hopper, it can widely cope with the difference in specific gravity and physical properties of the noodles. good. By these functions, the noodle strings loosened to the spout center 105 of the hopper bottom are continuously supplied, and the noodle strings can be continuously and dispensed without clogging the supply port 106 of the hopper.

  It is preferable that the diameter of the hopper supply port 106 can be changed depending on the fluidity of the target noodle strings and the diameter size of the grains. Noodles with high fluidity such as udon are 18 to 26 mm, preferably 20 to 24 mm, and noodles with low fluidity such as spaghetti are 22 to 30 mm, preferably 24 to 28 mm.

  Further, when the water jet funnel 110 for generating the water jet 104 and the water jet housing 111 are made of a transparent material such as an acrylic resin or a polycarbonate resin, the movement of the noodles can be observed closely.

  The diameter of the measuring container inlet 107b is 15 to 30 mm, preferably 20 to 25 mm for noodles having high fluidity such as udon, and 20 to 35 mm, preferably 25 to 30 mm for noodles having low fluidity such as spaghetti.

  The shape of the upper part of the weighing container is preferably a skirt shape whose side area decreases as it approaches the inlet. That is, in order to reduce the variation in noodle weight, it is necessary to minimize the noodle strings straddling the hopper and the measuring container. Therefore, it is important to reduce the amount of noodle strings flowing into the measuring container just before the end of filling. The amount of noodle strings that flows in is proportional to the amount of water that hangs down and flows from the hopper into the measuring container. Therefore, in the case of a measuring container that has a constant wall area, the surface area should be narrowed toward the top.

The tunnel that always connects the hopper bottom supply port and the weighing container inlet containing crab noodles in a space, the hopper bottom supply port is fixed, and moves the shortest distance in the horizontal direction whenever the weighing container inlet fills and discharges. Therefore, it naturally forms a straight line in the horizontal direction and has an important role in the discharge process. In other words, the tunnel 108b between the hopper 101 and the weighing container built-in slide 107 serves as an escape path for preventing the noodle strings 118a protruding from the weighing container from being cut when the weighing container moves from the filling position 117 to the discharge position 114. Thereafter, the noodle strings filled in the weighing container are dropped from the opening 116 of the fixing plate and discharged as part of the weighed noodles. The noodle strings that protrude from the measuring container are weighed in an extra amount, but may be within an allowable weight range. Even if there are 1 or 2 more noodle strings, the value as a noodle product is not impaired.
In addition, the tunnel where the noodles are placed and always connected in the space is free to block after the noodles are discharged. For example, a means for blocking may be provided as appropriate for the purpose of eliminating noodle strings that occasionally stay at the inlet of the measuring container.

  The tunnel may be configured by a top surface of the weighing container built-in slide and a tunnel portion fixed under the hopper. That is, as shown in FIG. 11, the tunnel 108 b is configured by the tunnel portion 108 tightly fixed to the spouted water flow housing 111 and the top plate 107 a of the weighing container built-in slide. In this case, since the tunnel portion 108 has a simple structure in which a groove is dug in the back of the plate and a through hole is provided at the filling position 117 that hits the hopper supply port, the cleaning can be easily performed by removing the measuring container built-in slide 107. It is good to go to. As another example, it is possible to slide the side wall portion of the tunnel as a part on the slide side and fix only the ceiling portion, and the tunnel configuration may be freely performed.

  The length of the tunnel portion may be 8 to 15 cm from the filling position 117 to the discharge position 114. That is, if the distance is too long, the apparatus becomes large, the slide time is long, and the processing efficiency is lowered. On the contrary, even if it is shortened, there is a design limit due to the positional relationship between the spray nozzle 112b and the squirting water flow housing 111. The size of the cross section of the tunnel part may be determined in consideration of the shape and size of the target noodle like the entrance of the weighing container, but the tunnel part is generally easy to handle as a fixed part, so the groove to dig is It is better to design with the maximum possible size. For example, in the case of noodles such as strawberry udon and spaghetti, the height 108a of the tunnel is 5 to 15 mm, preferably 8 to 12 mm, and the width depends on the hopper supply port and the inlet size of the weighing container. ~ 30mm is good.

  In addition, the water flow sprayed toward the hopper bottom supply port has an important role by the tunnel that always connects the hopper bottom supply port and the measuring container inlet containing the noodles in a space. In other words, the water flow from the injection nozzle 112b serves to push the excess noodles 118b that do not enter the weighing container at the filling position 117 back into the hopper. Further, during the time when the noodle strings 118a protruding from the measuring container straddling the supply port 106 of the hopper and the measuring container inlet 107b are slid to the discharge position 114 and the noodles are discharged from the opening 116 of the fixed plate and returned, the injection nozzle 112b This counteracts the water flow caused by the hopper water pressure and prevents the noodles from flowing through the tunnel. In other words, it acts as a valve or weir in the tunnel.

  As is apparent from the above description, the reason why the present invention can reasonably prevent the subsequent noodles from flowing out is that the hopper bottom supply port and the measurement container inlet are suspended as the optimum diameter in order to increase the filling efficiency of the measurement container. The thickness of the inflow channel can be secured. On the other hand, when discharging the filled noodles, the height and width of the tunnel can be appropriately reduced to reduce the cross-sectional area of the tunnel, the jet water flow facing the outflow can be secured in the necessary section of the tunnel, and the drooping water flow is guided horizontally. To do.

  Note that the diameter of the injection nozzle is preferably about 10 to 15 mm with respect to the tunnel width of 20 to 30 mm, and the shape of the injection hole can be round or a slit that covers the tunnel width.

  When measuring noodle strings, if the water flow toward the hopper bottom supply port is ejected obliquely from the middle of the tunnel through the tunnel, part of the noodle string does not stagnate in the middle of the tunnel, thereby avoiding the occurrence of short noodles. Good to be able to. The position of the injection nozzle provided in the middle of the tunnel may be provided anywhere as long as it avoids the vicinity of the inlet of the measuring container at the discharge position 114, but is preferably in the range of 3 to 6 cm from the discharge position 114. Moreover, the entrance angle 113 of the injection nozzle is 20 to 60 °, preferably 40 to 50 °.

  The present invention is premised on a weighing method that slides a measuring container filled with crab noodles in the horizontal direction and drops the crab noodles from the lower surface opening of the measuring container. However, you can slide it with a slight inclination. Further, the slide may be continuously performed while rotating in one direction a plurality of measuring containers attached to the drum peripheral surface by drum rotation, without reciprocating motion. In addition, the slide with built-in weighing container is discharged on one side by a single container, returned to empty and filled again (single-side weighing), and when filling and discharging alternately by two weighing containers ( There are two-sided weighing). In one-side weighing, it is preferable that long noodle strings do not cause troubles that block the tunnel part and can be processed regardless of the shape of the noodles. Both-side weighing does not cause troubles that block the tunnel part if it is limited to noodle strings or granular noodles shorter than the distance between the two weighing containers. Further, it is efficient that the time for discharging and returning when the measuring container slides can be used effectively.

  When performing one-side weighing, in the filling step, it is preferable to inject a water flow opposite to the water flow toward the hopper bottom supply port with the flow flowing out from the hopper bottom supply port interposed therebetween. That is, in the filling step, the flow of noodles is made smooth by equally halving the water flow of the injection nozzles 112a and 112b. In the discharge step, the injection nozzle 112a is stopped and the water flow is supplied to the injection nozzle 112b. Concentration can prevent the noodle strings from flowing out of the hopper. In that case, it is preferable that only the injection nozzle 112a is provided with an automatic opening / closing valve 119 capable of stopping the water flow injection and automatically switched according to filling and discharging of the noodles. FIG. 12 shows the position of the measuring container and the switching state of the injection nozzle in the above filling process and discharging process. Moreover, if each of 112a and 112b can be automatically started independently, it can be efficiently processed if the opposite water flow is jetted weakly at the beginning of the filling step and the latter half of the filling step is jetted strongly. In either case, in order to efficiently perform the one-side weighing, it is preferable to stop the slide at the time of discharging in the shortest time and to return to the filling position 117. It can be dropped and discharged instantly by water pressure from the inlet side of the measuring container.

  By measuring with the above method, the noodle weight variation can be suppressed to a practical range without cutting the noodle strings, but in order to further suppress the variation of the weighed ball noodle weight. In addition, weigh four or more balls at a time so that one ball is equivalent to 0.5 meal of the predetermined weight, and combine the weight measurement method that combines heavy balls and light balls so that they are close to the average weight among them. Also good. At least 4 balls are required for the convenience of performing a 1: 1 combination that is not excessive and selectable, and the larger the number, the higher the probability that the total weight will approach the average. Therefore, it is necessary to provide weight weighing pans for the number of balls to be set, and there is a limit to the design of the device. Therefore, 6-12 balls are preferable as the number of weighing 0.5 meals at the same time.

  EXAMPLES Hereinafter, although an Example demonstrates this invention further more concretely, this invention is not limited to these illustrations.

Weighing udon 1260 ml of 10% saline as kneading water for 3 kg of noodle flour, kneaded in an atmosphere of 65 cmHg in a vacuum mixer, and then noodles by a conventional method, diameter 3.3 mm, length 45 cm 3 kg of raw noodle strings were obtained. Boil 30L of pH 5.5 water in a 50L capacity kettle, put together, stir well immediately after addition, boil for 12 minutes, boil for 10 minutes, cool to 10 ° C, length 50cm, weight per noodle string 6 kg of 7-8 g of crab noodles was obtained and weighed at a processing capacity of 550 balls per hour by the method shown in FIG. 12 with the single weighing device shown in FIG. 10 having a supply port diameter of 22 mm and a measuring container inlet diameter of 20 mm. The single weighing device is a device for processing with one supply port in the hopper and one set of measuring container built-in slide, and the processing capacity per hour is 500 to 1000 balls as a standard. When increasing the processing capacity, it is possible to cope with a production capacity of several thousand meals by increasing the supply port of the hopper and the slide incorporating the weighing container to 2 to 12 sets and performing parallel processing. The weighed ball noodles were weighed, and the whole amount was divided into a non-cut noodle strip, a cut noodle strip of 20 cm or more, and a noodle strip of less than 20 cm, and the weight ratio was determined to confirm the cutting status of the noodle strip. . As a result, as shown in Table 1, the average was 255.6 g, the standard deviation was 4.76 g, and all the data was within ± 9 g of the average. The noodle strings were cut at 0%, and almost no cut noodle strings were recognized and the quality was excellent.

(Comparative Example 1) Conventional Udon Noodle Weighing Udon from Example 1 is a single weighing device shown in FIG. 1 having a supply port diameter of 22 mm and a measuring container inlet diameter of 20 mm. Was weighed with a processing capacity of 550 balls per hour so as to be 240 g. The weighed ball noodles were taken into weight data, and then the entire amount was divided into a continuous noodle string, a cut noodle string of 20 cm or more, and a noodle string of less than 20 cm, and the weight ratio was determined to confirm the cutting condition of the noodle strings. . As a result, as shown in Table 2, the average was 239.3 g, the standard deviation was 2.69 g, and all the data was within ± 6 g of the average, but the noodle strings that had been cut in some form reached 39%. The quality was impaired.

Weighing udon by combination The same amount of udon as in Example 1 is a single weighing device shown in FIG. 10 having a supply port diameter of 22 mm and a measuring container inlet diameter of 20 mm. The weight of one ball is 130 g according to the method shown in FIG. The weighing container was adjusted so that 30 balls were weighed with a processing capacity of 650 balls per hour. The weighed noodles are divided into 3 groups of 10 balls in the order weighed, arranged in order of weight within each group, the heaviest and lightest balls, the second and heaviest balls, and the third. A heavy ball, a third light ball, a fourth heavy ball, a fourth light ball, a fifth heavy ball, and a fifth light ball were combined to obtain a total of 15 noodles equivalent to 260 g. As a result, as shown in Table 3, with an average of 259.0 g and a standard deviation of 3.4 g, the variation in weight was greatly reduced and improved compared to Example 1. The noodle strings were cut at 0%, and almost no cut noodle strings were recognized and the quality was excellent.

Weighing 3 kg of spaghetti 3 kg of dried spaghetti with a thickness of 1.7 mm, boiled with 30 L of pH 5.5 water, boiled for 12 minutes, cooled to 10 ° C., length 25 cm, weight per noodle string 1.5-2. 6 kg of 0 g of noodles was obtained and weighed at a processing capacity of 550 balls per hour by the method shown in FIG. 12 with the single weighing device shown in FIG. 10 having a supply port diameter of 27 mm and a measuring container inlet diameter of 30 mm. The weighed ball noodles were weighed, and the whole amount was divided into a non-cut noodle strip, a cut noodle strip of 20 cm or more, and a noodle strip of less than 20 cm, and the weight ratio was determined to confirm the cutting status of the noodle strip. . As a result, as shown in Table 4, the average was 256.2 g, the standard deviation was 6.92 g, and all data was within ± 15 g of the average. The noodle strings were cut at 1%, and almost no cut noodle strings were recognized and the quality was excellent.

(Comparative Example 2) Conventional Spaghetti Weighing by Scraping With a single weighing device as shown in FIG. 1, the spaghetti of Example 3 is 550 balls per hour so that the weight of one ball is 250 g by a conventional method. Weighed by processing capacity. The weighed ball noodles were taken into weight data, and then the entire amount was divided into a continuous noodle string, a cut noodle string of 20 cm or more, and a noodle string of less than 20 cm, and the weight ratio was determined to confirm the cutting condition of the noodle strings. . As a result, as shown in Table 5, the average of 260.4 g, standard deviation of 2.42 g, and all the data were within ± 6 g of the average, but 20% of the noodle strings were cut in some way And the quality was impaired.

Weighing 1,500 ml of 2% saline as kneaded water for 3 kg of flour for measuring noodles, kneading in an atmosphere of 40 cmHg of vacuum in a vacuum mixer, and then making noodles by a conventional method, having a diameter of 20 mm and a thickness of 4 mm 3 kg of raw sweet potato was obtained. Boil 30L of pH 5.5 water in a 50L capacity kettle, put together, stir well immediately after addition, boil for 18 minutes, boil for 18 minutes, cool to 10 ° C, diameter 25mm, thickness 4mm, weight about 2g About 4.5 kg of rice cake was obtained and weighed at a processing capacity of 600 balls per hour with a single weighing device shown in FIG. 6 having a supply port diameter of 22 mm and a measuring container inlet diameter of 20 mm. The weight of the sampled weight is adjusted as needed, and weight data is collected. After that, the entire amount is checked for cuts and scratches. As a result, as shown in Table 6, the average was 177.2 g, the standard deviation was 2.98 g, and all the data was within ± 6 g of the average. Noodle strings were not cut or scratched at 0%.

The whole figure which shows embodiment of the conventional automatic noodle measuring method by rubbing. FIG. 5 is a detailed cross-sectional view around the weighing container of a conventional bowl noodle automatic weighing device. The noodle filling state of the measuring container in the conventional bowl noodle automatic measuring device is shown. The middle of the sliding of the measuring container in the conventional automatic noodle measuring apparatus is shown. FIG. 3 is a detailed cross-sectional view of the vicinity of the weighing container according to the both-side weighing of the present invention. The state of measurement of granular noodles, such as a bowl, in the experimental apparatus of the present invention. The state of measurement of long noodle strings in the experimental apparatus of the present invention. The state of the experiment which changed the experimental apparatus of this invention to the one-side measurement. The figure explaining the cause by which the noodle strings are cut by the experimental apparatus in FIG. 1 is an overall view showing an embodiment of an automatic noodle measuring method according to the present invention . FIG. 3 is a detailed cross-sectional view around the weighing container of the automatic noodle weighing apparatus of the present invention . The schematic diagram explaining the implementation condition of the automatic noodle measuring method of this invention .

[References in FIGS. 1 to 9 ]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Crab noodle 2 Stirring finger 3 Hopper 3a Spout water flow funnel 4 Spout water flow 5 Metering container 6 Air cylinder 7 Chute 8 Transport basket 9 Spout water flow housing 10 Pump 11 Lower surface opening 12 of the measurement container Fixed plate 12a in contact with the lower surface of the measurement container Fixed plate opening 12b in contact with the lower surface of the container Drainage pore 12c at the filling position of the measuring container 31 Fixed plate opening in contact with the lower surface of the measuring container 31 Noodles straddling the noodle hopper and the measuring container 32 Feed port 33 of the hopper inlet edge portion 34 a short cut to short noodle 35 weighing container side cut into the hopper side noodle 51 weighing container embedded slides 51a left weighing container
5 1b right of the weighing container
5 2 Tunnel part
5 3a Spray nozzle 53b Spray nozzle 54 Granular noodles such as sweetfish
5 5 long noodle
5 6 closes the enters tunnel across the left and right of the weighing container noodles 57 water control valve 58 water control valve 59茹麺60 weighing container inlet edge portion 61 hangs down noodles lower end 62 weighing container spout edges
[ References in FIGS. 10 to 12]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 101 Hopper 102 Measuring container 103 Finger rocking device 104 Blow-up water flow 105 Spouting center part of hopper bottom 106 Hopper supply port 107 Measuring container built-in slide 107a Top plate 107b of measuring container built-in slide Measuring container inlet 108 Tunnel part 108a Tunnel height 108b Tunnel 109 Crab noodle 110 Spout water flow funnel 111 Spout water flow housing 112a Left injection nozzle 112b Right injection nozzle 113 Injection nozzle entrance angle (θ °)
114 Discharging position 115 Lower surface opening 116 of measuring container 116 Opening of fixing plate 117 Filling position 118a Noodle string 118b protruding from the measuring container Excess noodles 119 not entering the measuring container 119 Automatic opening / closing valve

Claims (7)

A filling process in which multi-meal rice noodles stocked in the water in the hopper are drooped and discharged from the hopper bottom supply port, and flowed together with water into a measuring container inlet disposed below the hopper and provided with a water passage hole, In the positive displacement weighing method, in which the filled measuring container is slid horizontally and the discharging process of dropping the noodles from the lower surface opening of the measuring container is repeated, the hopper bottom supply port and the noodles containing the noodles By injecting water flow from the injection nozzle provided in the tunnel toward the hopper bottom supply port by a tunnel that always connects the measurement container inlet with a space, in the filling process, the noodles straddling the hopper and the measurement container While pushing a part back into the hopper, in the discharging step, the rest of the crabs noodles that pass over the tunnel pass through the tunnel and are discharged as a part of the weighed noodles. Linear and茹麺automatic weighing granular characterized by. The automatic noodle noodle weighing method according to claim 1, wherein the water flow toward the hopper bottom supply port is sprayed obliquely from a spray nozzle provided in the middle of the tunnel by the tunnel described above.   The automatic noodle noodle weighing method according to claim 2, wherein the noodles are noodle strings and are discharged only on one side by a single weighing container.   The automatic noodles noodles according to claim 3, wherein in the filling step, a water flow opposite to the water flow toward the hopper bottom supply port is injected across a flow flowing down from the hopper bottom supply port. Weighing method.   4 or more balls are weighed simultaneously so that one ball corresponds to 0.5 meal of a predetermined weight, and a heavy ball and a light ball are combined so as to be close to the average weight among them. And 4, the automatic noodle noodle weighing method. And茹麺hopper supply port provided at a bottom portion, a metering vessel vertical forms an opening water flow holes provided in its lower, a movable slide to the embedded horizontally hung the weighing container to the top plate, wherein in the metering device of the volumetric type with fixed plate having an opening in contact with the lower surface of the weighing container, provided with the weighing container on opening and the茹麺hopper supply port, a tunnel connecting an always space on the slide, the tunnel the bottom formed Rutotomoni by the upper surface of the top plate of the slide, an injection nozzle capable of generating a water jet towards the茹麺hopper feed opening, characterized in that provided in the tunnel, linear and Granular bowl noodle automatic weighing device.   7. The automatic noodle noodle metering device according to claim 6, wherein the spray nozzle is capable of spraying obliquely from the middle of the tunnel.

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