JP6581869B2 - Noodle making equipment - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a noodle making apparatus.

  Udon, soba, ramen, etc. are produced by a noodle making apparatus that processes rolled noodle strips (noodle dough) into noodle strings that are cut into predetermined lengths. This type of noodle making apparatus includes, for example, a pair of rolling rolls that rolls a supplied noodle strip, a cutting blade unit that processes the rolled noodle strip into a noodle strip, and a pair And a plate-shaped cutting blade that is rotatably arranged between the rolling roll and the cutting blade unit and cuts the rolled noodle strip into a predetermined length.

  The noodle strip that is rolled and sent to the cutting blade unit side is sandwiched between the blade edge of the rotating plate-shaped cutting blade and the blade edge receiving member, and is cut to a predetermined length.

JP 2004-97145 A (paragraphs [0013], [0016], [0017], FIGS. 1 and 2)

  By the way, if the noodle strip rolled between a pair of rolling rolls sticks to the surface of the rolling roll on one side because there is a lot of dusting on only one side of the noodle strip before feeding the rolling roll, the rolling roll is fed Due to the influence of the curl when the previous noodle band is wound around the rolling pin, it may not enter the noodle band insertion port of the cutting blade unit below.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a noodle making apparatus capable of guiding a noodle strip insertion port of a cutting blade unit even when the noodle strip rolled between a pair of rolling rolls is shifted and sent out. .

A noodle making apparatus according to the present invention includes a pair of rolling rolls for rolling a supplied noodle strip, and a noodle strip that is provided between the pair of rolling rolls and is rolled between the pair of rolling rolls. A cutting blade unit that is cut into a linear shape, a cutting unit that is provided between the pair of rolling rolls and the cutting blade unit and that cuts the noodle band fed to the cutting blade unit into a predetermined length, and is rolled. A noodle strip guide member rotating around a rotation axis parallel to the axis of the rolling roll for guiding the noodle strip to the noodle strip insertion port of the cutting blade unit, the cutting unit comprising the noodle strip guide A plate-shaped cutting blade that protrudes from the member and is integrally fixed to the rotary shaft, and is rotatable with the rotational drive of the rotary shaft, and the noodle band sent to the cutting blade unit between the blade edge of the cutting blade Yes a cutting edge receiving member to in cut The noodle strip guide member is formed of a circular plate or a polygonal plate provided in a plane orthogonal to the axial direction of the rotating shaft, and at least 1 along the axial direction of the rotating shaft. The noodle strips are arranged individually and guided to the noodle strip insertion port while the noodle strips are in contact with the outer peripheral surface .

  According to the noodle making apparatus according to the present invention, even when the noodle strips rolled between the pair of rolling rolls are fed out of alignment, the noodle strips are inserted into the cutting blade unit without delay by the rotating noodle strip guide member. Can be guided to the mouth.

Schematic which shows the structure of the noodle making apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. The schematic perspective view which shows the noodle making apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. The perspective view which shows the noodle strip guide member fixed to the cutting blade. The figure which showed the feed direction of the noodle strip. The figure which showed the state by which the rolled noodle strip shifted and was sent out. Schematic which showed the state where the feeding direction is corrected by the noodle strip guide member. The schematic perspective view which showed the state in which the feeding direction is corrected by the noodle strip guide member. Schematic which shows the noodle making apparatus provided with the noodle belt guide member in the modification of this embodiment.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described based on the illustrated embodiments. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration of a noodle making apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, specifically, a configuration near a rolling part and a cutting part, and FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of the noodle making apparatus shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the noodle making apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment includes a pair of rolling rolls 2 a and 2 b, a cutting unit 3, a cutting blade unit 4, and a noodle strip guide member 5 as main members. I have.

  The pair of rolling rolls 2a and 2b are arranged to face each other with a predetermined gap, and are each rotated in the direction of an arrow (reversely rotating with each other) by a rotation driving mechanism (not shown) to further roll the supplied strip-shaped noodle strip M1. Then, the noodle band M2 having a predetermined thickness is processed. The longitudinal direction surfaces of the rolling rolls 2a and 2b are in contact with the tips of the scrapers 6a and 6b, respectively, for stripping off the residual residue of the noodle band M1 adhered to the surfaces of the rolling rolls 2a and 2b after rolling the noodle band M1. ing. The gap between the pair of rolling rolls 2a and 2b can be arbitrarily adjusted by an adjusting mechanism (not shown).

  The noodle strip M1 supplied to the rolling rolls 2a and 2b is a strip-shaped noodle dough produced by repeating addition, kneading, rolling and the like of noodle raw materials (wheat flour, oat flour, rice flour, etc.) in the previous step. .

  The cutting unit 3 is a roll-shaped blade edge holder that sandwiches the rolled noodle strip M2 between the blade 8a of the cutting blade 8 and the plate-shaped cutting blade 8 that can rotate in the direction of arrow a along with the rotation of the rotary shaft 7. When the rotating cutting blade 8 substantially contacts the blade edge receiving member 9, the noodle band M2 sandwiched is cut into a predetermined length. The gap between the blade edge 8a of the cutting blade 8 and the blade edge receiving member 9 can be arbitrarily adjusted by an adjustment mechanism (not shown).

  The rotating shaft 7 has a quadrangular prism shape and both ends are formed in a columnar shape. The cutting blade 8 has an end portion side (a side opposite to the blade edge 8a) fixed along a square columnar surface. Both ends of the rotating shaft 7 are rotatably supported, and are rotated in the direction of arrow a together with the cutting blade 8 by a rotation driving mechanism (not shown). The position of the cutting edge receiving member 9 that receives the cutting blade 8 is positioned substantially vertically below the pair of rolling rolls 2 a and 2 b, and the noodle band M <b> 2 is fed along the outer peripheral surface of the cutting edge receiving member 9. The rotating shaft 7 is provided in parallel with the shafts 10a and 10b of the rolling rolls 2a and 2b. The blade edge receiving member 9 is supported so as to be rotatable in parallel with the rotation shaft 7.

  The noodle strip guide member 5 is shown in more detail in FIG. 3, and in the present embodiment, the noodle strip guide member 5 is formed in a circular plate having a notch-shaped opening 11, and is a surface orthogonal to the axis C direction of the rotary shaft 7. Is provided inside. An opening 11 of the noodle strip guide member 5 is opened from the center to the outside, and a cutting blade 8 that is integrally fixed to the rotary shaft 7 is attached thereto. The noodle strip guide member 5 rotates around the rotation shaft 7 and guides the noodle strip M2 to the outer peripheral surface of the blade edge receiving member 9 on the outer peripheral surface thereof.

  The noodle strip guide member 5 is disposed at least at one location, in this embodiment, at three locations on the center and both ends in the longitudinal direction of the cutting blade 8 so as to be within the width of the noodle strip M2. The cutting edge 8 a of the cutting blade 8 attached to the opening 11 protrudes from the tip 5 a on the opening 11 side of the noodle band guide member 5.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the noodle strip guide member 5 is integrally provided with a flange portion 13 bent at a right angle to the surface from the opening edge portion 5 b, and the flange portion 13 is cut into the rotary shaft 7. The blade 8 is fixed integrally with the bolt 14. 3 is a perspective view of the cutting blade 8 shown in FIG. 2 as viewed from the back surface side (the side opposite to the rotating shaft 7).

  The cutting blade unit 4 has a pair of cutting blade rolls 15a and 15b that are rotatably supported and arranged opposite to each other. On the surfaces of the cutting blade rolls 15a and 15b, respectively, an annular convex cutting blade 16a. , 16b are formed along the axial direction, and are alternately provided so as to substantially contact the surface of the counterpart cutting blade rolls 15a, 15b. The vicinity of the upper part of the position where the cutting blades 16a and 16b are aligned is the noodle band insertion opening 12. The gap between the pair of cutting blade rolls 15a and 15b can be arbitrarily adjusted by an adjusting mechanism (not shown).

  The pair of cutting blade rolls 15a and 15b are respectively rotated in the directions of arrows by a rotation driving mechanism (not shown), and can be cut from the noodle band M2 to the noodle strings M3 by the cutting blades 16a and 16b. The surfaces of the cutting blades 16a and 16b are in contact with the tips of scrapers 17a and 17b, respectively, for stripping off the residual residue of the noodle strings M3 attached to the surface after the noodle strings M3 are cut out. In FIG. 2, the scrapers 17a and 17b are omitted.

  Further, a regulating member 18 is provided between the scraper 6 b on the rolling roll 2 b side and the blade edge receiving member 9. The regulating member 18 regulates the deviation when the noodle strip M2 after rolling is fed out to the scrape 6b side (the right side in FIG. 1), and guides the noodle strip M2 to the blade receiving member 9 to cut the cutting blade unit. 4 is guided to the noodle band insertion port 12, and the contact pressure of the scrap 6b to the rolling roll 2b is adjusted. In FIG. 2, the regulating member 18 is omitted.

  The noodle making apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment is configured as described above. As shown in FIG. 4, the supplied noodle band M1 is rolled between a pair of rolling rolls 2a and 2b, rolled and sent out. The noodle band M2 is guided to the noodle band insertion port 12 of the cutting blade unit 4 positioned substantially vertically below, along the outer peripheral surface on the cutting blade 8 side of the blade receiving member 9 positioned substantially vertically below. The At this time, since the rotating cutting blade 8 is located on the substantially opposite side to the blade edge receiving member 9, the noodle band M2 is not cut in this situation.

  Then, the noodle band M2 guided to the noodle band insertion port 12 is received between the cutting blade rolls 15a and 15b that are rotating in reverse to each other, and is processed into the noodle string M3 (see FIG. 2) by the cutting blades 16a and 16b. The In the middle of this processing, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the rotating cutting blade 8 cuts the noodle band M <b> 2 sandwiched between the blade receiving member 9 into a predetermined length. Thereafter, the noodle strings M3 having a predetermined length are sequentially cut out while repeating the above-described operation.

  Thus, the noodle strip M2 rolled and fed between the pair of rolling rolls 2a and 2b is designed so that the cutting edge 8 side of the cutting edge receiving member 9 positioned substantially vertically below the rolling rolls 2a and 2b. It passes along the outer peripheral surface, passes through the gap between the noodle strip guide member 5 and the blade edge receiving member 9, and is further guided to the noodle strip insertion port 12 of the cutting blade unit 4 positioned substantially vertically below.

  However, as shown in FIG. 5, the noodle strip M2 rolled between the pair of rolling rolls 2a and 2b has a large amount of dusting only on one side of the noodle strip M1 before being put into the rolling rolls 2a and 2b. When the noodle band M1 sticks to the surface of the rolling roll (rolling roll 2a) on one side, or due to the influence of the curl when the noodle band M1 before being put into the rolling rolls 2a and 2b is wound around a rolling pin (not shown) , It is fed out to the scrape 6a side (noodle strip guide member 5 side) and tends to deviate from the substantially vertical downward direction (arrow A direction).

  Therefore, when the feeding direction of the noodle band M2 is shifted to the scrape 6a side, the noodle band M2 cannot enter the noodle band insertion port 12 of the cutting blade unit 4.

  At this time, in this embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the noodle strip guide member 5 rotates in the direction of the arrow a, and the outer peripheral surface of the noodle strip guide member 6 contacts and pushes the noodle strip M2 back. Guide to the blade receiving member 9. As a result, the noodle strip M2 is guided to the noodle strip insertion port 12 of the cutting blade unit 4 positioned substantially vertically below, and cut into the noodle strings M3 by the cutting blades 16a and 16b of the cutting blade rolls 15a and 15b. be able to. FIG. 7 shows a state in which the cutting blade 8 further rotates from the state of FIG. 6 so that the cutting blade 8 substantially contacts the blade edge receiving member 9 and cuts the noodle strings M3.

  Even if the noodle band M2 rolled and fed between the pair of rolling rolls 2a and 2b is shifted to the scraper 6b side (right side in FIG. 1) contrary to the above, the scraper 6b and the cutting blade unit 4 The noodle band M2 can be guided to the blade edge receiving member 9 and can be guided to the noodle band insertion port 12 of the cutting blade unit 4 by regulating the shift by the regulating member 18 provided between the noodle band.

  Further, since the noodle strip guide member 5 is formed in a circular plate body, it can be easily produced at low cost by press molding. Furthermore, the noodle strip guide member 5 can be easily cut by attaching the flange portion 13 provided at the opening edge 5b of the noodle strip guide member 5 to the rotary shaft 7 integrally with the cutting blade 8 with the bolt 14. 8 (rotating shaft 7).

  In addition, in the said embodiment, the noodle strip guide member 5 formed in the circular plate body is provided in three places along the longitudinal direction of the cutting blade 8 (longitudinal central portion of the cutting blade 8 and three places on both end sides). However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, only one central portion in the longitudinal direction of the cutting blade 8 may be provided, and further, two or four locations at predetermined intervals along the longitudinal direction of the cutting blade 8 The structure arrange | positioned above may be sufficient.

  Further, the noodle strip guide member 5 is formed in a circular plate, but may be formed in a polygonal plate.

  FIG. 8 is a schematic perspective view showing a noodle making apparatus according to a modification of the above-described embodiment.

  In the modification shown in FIG. 8, the noodle strip guide member 20 is formed in a cylindrical body, and a notch-shaped opening 21 is formed in the cylindrical body. The cutting blade 8 is disposed along the axial direction C of the rotary shaft 7, the blade tip 8 a protrudes from the tip of the opening 21, and is fixed to the rotary shaft 7 with a screw through a hole or the like (not shown). Other configurations are the same as those of the above embodiment.

  Even when the noodle strip guide member 20 is formed in a cylindrical body, the noodle strip rotating when the noodle strip M2 rolled and fed between the pair of rolling rolls 2a and 2b is shifted to the scraper 6a side. The noodle band M2 is brought into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the guide member 20 and can be guided back to the blade edge receiving member 8 while being pushed back.

  Although the noodle band guide member 20 shown in FIG. 8 is formed in a cylindrical body, the noodle band guide member 20 may be formed in a polygonal cylinder, and may be formed in a cylindrical body or a polygonal column.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Noodle making apparatus 2a, 2b Rolling roll 3 Cutting unit 4 Cutting blade unit 5, 20 Noodle strip guide member 7 Rotating shaft 8 Cutting blade 9 Cutting edge receiving member 11, 21 Opening portion 12 Noodle strip insertion port 13 Flange portion 15a, 15b Cutting Blade roll 16a, 16b Cutting blade M1 Noodle strip M2 Noodle strip M3 Noodle strip

Claims (4)

A pair of rolling rolls for rolling the supplied noodle strips;
A cutting blade unit that is provided on the lower side of the pair of rolling rolls and cuts the noodle strip rolled between the pair of rolling rolls into a thin line,
A cutting unit that is provided between the pair of rolling rolls and the cutting blade unit, and cuts the noodle strip sent to the cutting blade unit into a predetermined length;
A noodle strip guide member that rotates about the rotation axis parallel to the axis of the rolling roll, the rolled noodle strip being guided to the noodle strip insertion port of the cutting blade unit,
The cutting unit protrudes from the noodle strip guide member and is integrally fixed to the rotary shaft, and is rotatable with the rotary shaft being rotated, and a plate-like cutting blade that is rotated and driven to the cutting blade unit. the possess a cutting edge receiving member for cutting between the cutting edge of the cutting blade,
The noodle strip guide member is formed of a circular plate or a polygonal plate provided in a plane orthogonal to the axial direction of the rotary shaft, and at least one along the axial direction of the rotary shaft. A noodle making apparatus that is arranged and guides to the noodle strip insertion port while the noodle strip is in contact with an outer peripheral surface . The noodle making apparatus according to claim 1,
The noodle band guide member has an opening to which the cutting blade is mounted, and is detachably attached to the rotating shaft . The noodle making apparatus according to claim 2,
The noodle band guide member is provided with a flange at an edge of the opening, and the flange is fixed to the rotary shaft integrally with the cutting blade. In the noodle making apparatus according to claim 2 or 3 ,
The noodle band guide member is arranged at three places on both sides of the cutting blade spaced apart from the longitudinal center portion thereof.