JP5521155B2 - Food cleaning equipment - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a food cleaning apparatus for cleaning objects to be cleaned such as seaweed such as seaweed and kombu, vegetables, and seafood.

  The thing of patent document 1 is disclosed as a food cleaning apparatus. That is, in the washing water tank that contains the washing water inside, a conveyance washing path is formed from the food input part on the front end side provided with the flowing water inlet to the food take-out part on the rear end side provided with the flowing water outlet. A take-out conveyor is provided in the food take-out section in an upwardly inclined state from the inside of the wash water tank to the upper rear end of the wash water tank, below the transport washing path, from the food washing section to the food take-out section. An air jetting device for jetting air so as to generate a water flow is provided, and a washing water filtration and circulation device is provided for returning the water flowing out from the flowing water outlet to the flowing water inlet through a filtered water tank.

  JP 2009-254262 A

  According to the technique disclosed in Patent Document 1, the food introduced into the transport cleaning path is ejected from the nozzle tube inclined obliquely in the downstream direction while being flown downstream by the flow in the transport cleaning path. While the flow is promoted by washing, it is brought into the takeout conveyor and taken out, but it is brought into the takeout conveyor immediately after receiving the washing under the flow, There is a disadvantage that the food is taken out without being sufficiently washed.

  The present invention has been made to solve such conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a food cleaning apparatus capable of sufficiently effectively cleaning.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention described in claim 1 is a food cleaning apparatus for cleaning objects to be cleaned such as seaweed such as seaweed and kombu, vegetables, seafood, etc. Washing of seawater, clean water, etc. introduced from a water supply port with a rectangular water tank type that has a wall and front and rear walls, and the side between the side walls is the short side and the front and rear walls are longitudinal. Water can be accommodated at a certain height level by the overflow port, and a sediment receiving wall for receiving sediment on the upper side of the bottom wall, and the sediment is actively driven in the direction of the sediment discharge port by circulation driving. 4 surfaces including a processing tank provided with a means for feeding to each side, side walls corresponding to the both side walls and front and rear walls corresponding to the front and rear walls, and each surface does not pass the object to be cleaned. It has a porosity of about the size, and all four sides are constricted. Washing in which both the upper surface and the bottom surface are open, form a water area that is uniformly partitioned in the treatment tank, and accepts an object to be cleaned introduced from above, so that the object can float in the partitioned water area. A water skirt, a rubber skirt which has four faces and a perforation so as to protrude downward from the lower face of the four faces of the washing water tank, and is continuously provided in a constricted shape as a whole. A belt member having a perforated shape and a lifting fin on the outer periphery, and the belt member is supported by a plurality of rollers including a driving roller so as to be able to circulate in an upward direction and a downward direction. A horizontal portion that is immersed in the cleaning water so as to keep a sealed state corresponding to the bottom opening of the rubber skirt, and a rising portion that rises from the cleaning water onto the treatment tank and forms an inclined shape. A recovery conveyor provided with a substantially U-shaped side surface and a lower side of the horizontal portion above the recovery conveyor in the washing water tank with a rubber skirt when the recovery conveyor is stopped. A cleaning applying means capable of applying a cleaning force such as air or ultrasonic waves to the cleaning water area, and a position of the recovery conveyor from the position corresponding to the horizontal portion after the cleaning by the cleaning applying means to the position corresponding to the rising portion A driving source that drives a driving roller so as to move in the direction and a peeling imparting unit that peels an object to be cleaned that adheres to the collecting conveyor is provided .

  Since the present invention is configured as described above, it is possible to provide a food cleaning apparatus capable of obtaining cleaning effectively.

  The top view which shows one Embodiment of this invention.   The longitudinal cross-sectional view of FIG.   The III-III line expanded sectional view of FIG.   The side sectional view showing other sedimentation exclusion methods.   The side sectional view showing other embodiments.   Sectional drawing which shows other embodiment of a porous.   Sectional drawing which shows other embodiment.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the device of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
1 to 3, reference numeral 1 denotes a processing tank, which is a main body of a food cleaning apparatus for seaweeds such as seaweed (wacame / hirome / aowakame etc.) and kombu. The rectangular water tank type is formed in such a manner that the shorter side of the processing tank 1 is the width direction and the longer side is the longitudinal direction. In the processing tank 1, 2 is a bottom wall, 3 is a side wall, 4 is a front wall, and 5 is a rear wall, and the processing tank 1 is formed as a long rectangular solid tank. The upper end of the processing tank 1 may be provided with an openable / closable lid.

A settling receiving wall 6 inclined in the direction of the rear wall 5 is provided in a transverse shape at a height above the bottom wall 2 in the treatment tank 1, and this receiving wall 6 has a longitudinal section as shown in FIG. Is formed into a flat V shape, and sediment is collected in the valley and guided in a downward inclination direction that is the direction of arrow F in FIG.
In such a treatment tank 1, seawater or clean water from a water supply port 7 opened in the front wall 4 is introduced as indicated by an arrow A so that the washing water 15 is always kept at a constant water level. Reference numeral 11 denotes an overflow port for making the water level of the washing water 15 constant and for removing floating substances separated by washing as indicated by an arrow H.
Reference numeral 8 denotes a lower water supply port, which is opened slightly above the settling receiving wall 6 in the front wall 4 and can be supplied (injected) as indicated by an arrow E. With this water supply, the water is collected in the valley of the settling receiving wall 6. What has settled and accumulated is guided in the direction of arrow F in FIG. 2 and is removed as indicated by arrow G through a sediment discharge port 10 with a drain valve 9 provided on the rear wall 5.
In order to eliminate the sediment, a method using a conveyor-type scraper 16 or an advancing / retracting-type scraper may be employed as shown by a virtual line in FIG.

Reference numeral 12 denotes a loading conveyor for loading an object to be cleaned W such as seaweed or kombu into a washing water tank 13 provided in the processing tank 1. The washing water tank 13 is composed of four surfaces on both the front and rear sides. These four surfaces are formed in a constricted shape as a whole, and the upper end opening thereof corresponds to the upper end opening height of the processing tank 1, while the lower end opening is the processing tank. It is set to be located in the middle of 1. This washing water tank 13 forms a constant water area near the front wall 4 in the processing tank 1 by the partition.
The washing water tank 13 is similarly provided with a rubber skirt 14 having a narrowed shape on four sides in a continuous manner at the lower part thereof. The skirt 14 is made of rubber so that the article to be cleaned W is not damaged. A slit 14a is formed on the front and rear surfaces of the rubber skirt 14, and the slit 14a ensures a hermetically sealed state at the time of cleaning. Has come to forgive.

  A recovery conveyor 17 includes a pair of front and rear tail rollers 19 with a take-up device 18 and a carrier roller (FIG. 3) 20, a lift prevention roller 21, a head roller 22, a bend roller 23, a pressing roller 24, a return roller 25, and the like. It is provided so as to form a substantially U-shaped side surface, and can be circulated in the direction of arrow D.

The recovery conveyor 17 includes a horizontal part a and a rising part b. The horizontal part a is submerged in the cleaning water 15, and the upper surface of the recovery conveyor 17 fits the bottom opening edge of the rubber skirt 14, and the cleaning water area 27. The rising portion b is a portion that rises from the position outside the cleaning water tank 13 toward the upper side of the processing tank 1, the inclined lower part is submerged, and the upper part is higher than the water level of the cleaning water 15. It is set so that it may face above.
The recovery conveyor 17 is provided with a vertically penetrating perforated hole 17b in the surface, and the perforated hole 17b is a small hole so that the article to be cleaned W does not escape downward, and the perforated hole 17b has a round shape. However, it may be a polygon such as a rectangle or a slit (such as an oval).

30 is an air injection device (cleaning imparting means), an air valve 31 set higher than the water level of the cleaning water 15 outside the processing tank 1, and a rising pipe connected to the valve 31 and rising higher than the water level. 32, a horizontal main pipe 33 connected to the lower end of the pipe 32, and a plurality of distribution pipes 34 with nozzles branched in a right angle direction from the pipe 33 and parallel to each other.
The distribution pipes 34 are inserted and supported in a submerged state in the processing tank 1 so as to pass through the horizontal portion a of the collection conveyor 17 in the width direction and face the upper surface thereof. This cleaning application means may be an ultrasonic generator, a water injection device, or a device that simultaneously injects air and water. The distribution pipe 34 is jetted downward, but may be jetted upward, laterally, or obliquely.

  Reference numeral 36 denotes a peeling imparting means for removing air to be cleaned W from the recovery conveyor 17 by means of air or water and guiding it to a conveying conveyor 37 connected to a drying device (not shown). Reference numeral 38 denotes a peeling brush.

Next, the operation of the food cleaning apparatus will be described.
In the treatment tank 1, seawater or clean water supplied from the water supply port 7 as indicated by an arrow A is supplied to a level below the overflow port 11. After that, the input conveyor 12 is driven, and an object W to be cleaned such as a seaweed or a comb is put in an appropriate amount into the cleaning water area 27 as indicated by an arrow B. At this time, the seaweed is cut into, for example, a 2 cm square or a 5 cm × 9 cm square.
After the charging, the air conveyor 30 is operated with the recovery conveyor 17 stopped, and the sprayed air from the nozzles of the distribution pipe 34 passes through the perforations 17b of the recovery conveyor 17 as shown by the arrow C in FIG. The object to be cleaned W is cleaned by being discharged into the interior.
In this way, by repeating the cleaning so as not to be immediately brought into the take-out conveyor while repeating the air release and the stirring in the cleaning water area 27 that is uniformly partitioned, a sufficient cleaning action can be given to the object W to be cleaned. Impurities generated with the cleaning may be settled through the pores 13a after the cleaning and removed through the sediment removal port 10 as indicated by an arrow G.
Moreover, as shown in the upper column of FIG. 2, only four surfaces constituting the cleaning water tank 13 or two front and rear surfaces (which may be left and right facing the width direction) or one surface (front / rear / left / right wall) Only), fine pores 13a are formed so as not to pass the object to be cleaned W, and impurities such as adhering substances separated by the cleaning are removed through the holes 13a in the course of cleaning. May be. The cleaning water tank 13 may include a rubber skirt 14. The perforations 13a... May be formed of a net-like material or the like in addition to the case where a perforated plate material such as punching metal is used. Impurities taken out through the holes 13a... Can be configured to be removed as indicated by arrows H through the overflow port 11 when they are settled and excluded or as indicated by arrows F and G. When the cleaning water tank 13 (which may include the rubber skirt 14) is formed with a porous 13a ..., seawater or clean water is supplied from the water supply port 7 during the cleaning operation, and impurities are excluded from the cleaning water area 27 by the supply. It can be made easier. This makeup water flows into the washing water area 27 through the holes 17b.

After the cleaning is obtained to a sufficient extent, the operation of the air injection device 30 is stopped, and after the settling of the object to be cleaned W on the recovery conveyor 17 is confirmed, a driving source which is a geared motor 40 is driven to rotate the head roller 22 in the direction of arrow D, so that the upper portion of the recovery conveyor 17 is driven in the direction of arrow D to move the object W to be cleaned from the cleaning water tank 13 toward the head roller 22. Raise it. In this case, the object to be cleaned W is reliably swept up from the horizontal part a to the rising part b by the lifting fins 17a.
The object to be cleaned W... Around the head roller 22 falls onto the conveyor 37 and is brought into the next drying apparatus. It shall be forcibly separated by spraying water. Further, it is completely peeled off by the peeling brush 38.

In addition, an elbow-shaped blowing pipe 42 may be arranged on the upper surface such as the valley of the sediment receiving wall 6 as shown in FIG. 4 so that sediment can be more reliably removed.
Further, as shown in FIG. 5, the scraping fin 17a may move as a scraper on the sediment receiving wall 6 so as to scrape the sediment by passing the collection conveyor 17 through the lower side. .

Further, as shown in FIG. 6, the perforation 17b of the recovery conveyor 17 has a crater-type cross section so that air can be discharged smoothly, and a lifting projection 17c as a substitute for the lifting fin has an object to be cleaned. You may form so that W ... can be lifted up reliably.
In addition, as a function of the above, after washing by blowing air, a part or all of the water may be drained to remove sediment from the pores 17b.

Further, as shown in FIG. 7, a screen 44 having a perforation 44 a... At a lower level than the water level in the washing water tank 13 is provided, and the one separated by washing floats through the perforation 44 a. Thus, it may be configured to be excluded from the overflow port 11. In this case, the washing water tank 13 may be porous so as to promote sedimentation even during washing. The screen 44 may be opened and closed by a hinge 45 so as to be able to be input from the arrow B, or may be input by forming an input communication path 46 outside the washing water tank 13. Further, the end of the screen 44 may be bent upward to open the hopper-shaped insertion port 47.
In the case where the screen 44 is provided, in order to easily remove impurities through the perforations 44a ..., seawater or clean water is replenished from the water supply port 7 during the cleaning operation, and the replenishment facilitates removal of impurities from the cleaning water area 27. Can do. This makeup water flows into the washing water area 27 through the perforations of the recovery conveyor 17.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Processing tank 6 ... Settling receiving wall 7 ... Water supply port 10 ... Sediment removal port 11 ... Overflow port 13 ... Washing water tank 15 ... Washing water 17 ... Recovery conveyor 17a ... Raising fin 17b ... Porous 27 ... Washing water area 30 ... Air injection device (cleaning application means).

Claims (1)

A food cleaning device that cleans seaweed such as seaweed and kombu, vegetables, seafood, etc., and has a bottom wall, both side walls, and front and rear walls, with a short distance between both side walls. It is a rectangular aquarium type with a longitudinal direction between the front and rear walls in a certain width direction, and it can accommodate washing water such as seawater and tap water introduced from the water supply port at a certain height level by the overflow port And a processing tank provided with a sediment receiving wall for receiving sediment on the upper side of the bottom wall, and means for positively sending the sediment in a direction where there is a sediment exclusion port by circulation driving, and both sides The four sides are provided with a side wall corresponding to the wall and front and rear walls corresponding to the front and rear walls, and each side has a pore with such a size that an object to be cleaned does not pass through. Both the top surface and bottom surface are open, and A washing water tank that forms a constant water area in the tank and accepts an object to be washed from above and floats in the partitioned water area, and projects downward from the bottom of the four sides of the washing water tank. A rubber skirt that has four sides and a perforation so as to form a shape, and is continuously provided in a constricted shape as a whole, a vertically penetrating perforation in the surface, and a lifting fin on the outer periphery A belt material is provided, and the belt material is supported by a plurality of rollers including a driving roller so that it can circulate upward and downward, and the upper portion is hermetically sealed corresponding to the bottom opening of the rubber skirt. provided without the rising portion and sea urchin side substantially V-shape by having a forming the a keep manner climb from the washing water and a horizontal portion to be a state submerged in the washing the water on the treated vessel inclined Times Cleaning that can provide cleaning power such as air or ultrasonic waves to the cleaning water area in the cleaning water tank with a rubber skirt when the recovery conveyor is stopped, disposed below the horizontal portion of the recovery conveyor and the horizontal portion of the recovery conveyor And a driving source for driving the driving roller so that the recovery conveyor moves from the position corresponding to the horizontal portion to the position corresponding to the rising portion after the object to be cleaned is cleaned by the cleaning applying means. A food cleaning processing apparatus comprising: a peeling imparting unit that peels off an object to be cleaned that adheres to the recovery conveyor .

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