JP6830367B2 - Meat individualization vibration supply device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a meat individualizing vibration supply device that takes out individual meat masses from a group of meat masses that have been individually separated in advance and supplies them to a downstream process.

Conventionally, fried chicken sold at convenience stores, etc. needs to meet predetermined standards for size, shape, etc., so meat chunks that have been individually separated into oil-adjusting sizes in advance. Workers manually took out the meat lumps one by one from the group, adjusted the shape of the meat lumps, and gently put them into the oil-conditioning tank to adjust the oil. However, the work of manually removing the meat chunks one by one is a work in a harsh working environment, which makes it difficult to secure workers and the labor cost of the workers is also rising. There was a demand for mechanization.

A method of putting a large amount of chicken into an automatic fryer to produce a large amount of fried chicken at one time is disclosed in Patent Document 1 and the like, but an explanation of how to put chicken into an automatic fryer will be described. Is not listed.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2013-17400

By the way, in the case of mechanizing the work of producing fried chicken that meets the standards, when the meat mass is put into the oil preparation tank, a device that takes out the meat mass one by one from the group of meat mass separated in advance. Is required.

An object of the present invention is to provide a meat individualizing vibration supply device for taking out individual meat masses from a group of meat masses individually separated in advance and supplying them to a downstream process.

The meat individualization vibration supply device of the present invention includes a hopper for accommodating a group of meat lumps individually separated in advance, a transport unit for transporting the meat lumps discharged from the hopper, and the hopper and the transport unit. A meat individualizing vibration supply device including a vibration device for vibrating the meat, wherein the hopper has a hopper floor surface that inclines downward at an angle of 10 to 50 degrees from a horizontal plane and a lower end portion of the hopper floor surface. The transport portion is characterized by having an opening through which the meat mass can pass one by one, which is formed in the above and communicates with the transport portion, and the transport portion is provided with a trough having a transport surface having a concave cross section orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. And.

Further, the meat individualizing vibration supply device of the present invention is characterized by including a plurality of hopper partition plates in which the hopper floor surface extends in an inclined direction.

Further, the meat individualizing vibration supply device of the present invention has a plurality of the troughs in which the transport portions are juxtaposed, and a partition plate extending in the transport direction of the meat mass is between the trough and the adjacent trough. The partition plate is characterized by having a curved surface shape on top of a cross-sectional shape orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the partition plate.

Further, the meat individualizing vibration supply device of the present invention is characterized in that the upper part of the cross section orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the partition plate has a semicircular cross section having a radius of 8 mm or more.

Further, the meat individualizing vibration supply device of the present invention has a plurality of the troughs in which the transport portions are juxtaposed, and a partition plate extending in the transport direction of the meat mass is between the trough and the adjacent trough. The upper part of the plurality of troughs is provided with a fray plate that temporarily slows down the transport speed of the meat mass in the trough.

Further, the meat individualizing vibration supply device of the present invention is characterized in that the transport surface of the trough is embossed.

Further, the meat individualizing vibration supply device of the present invention is characterized in that the inclination direction of the hopper floor surface and the transport direction of the meat mass in the transport portion are opposite directions.

Further, the meat individualizing vibration supply device of the present invention is characterized in that the inclination direction of the hopper floor surface and the transport direction of the meat mass in the transport portion are the same direction.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a meat individualizing vibration supply device for taking out individual meat masses from a group of meat masses individually separated in advance and supplying them to a downstream process.

It is a perspective view of the individualized vibration supply device of meat which concerns on embodiment. It is a top view which shows the hopper and the transport part which concerns on embodiment. It is sectional drawing (AA sectional drawing in FIG. 2) which shows the hopper and the transport part which concerns on embodiment. It is a figure which shows the shape of the meat mass which concerns on embodiment. It is a perspective view of the individualized vibration supply device of the other meat according to the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the shape of the partition plate of the transport part which concerns on embodiment. It is sectional drawing of the other meat individualizing vibration supply device which concerns on embodiment.

Hereinafter, the meat individualizing vibration supply device according to the embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. Here, the meat individualizing vibration supply device takes out individual meat masses from a group of meat masses individually separated in advance and supplies the meat masses to a downstream process, for example, a shaping process in the case of producing fried chicken. It is used in cases. The fried chicken includes not only fried chicken, but also fried chicken such as Tatsuta fried chicken, fried food with batter such as fritters, and fried chicken with raw material or a small amount of seasoning added. The meat mass includes meat masses such as chicken, beef, pork, horse meat and goat meat, meat such as deer meat and bear meat, and fish and shellfish including fish, squid and octopus. It also includes pretreated meats such as carnivores mixed with flour and batter.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an individualized vibration supply device for meat according to an embodiment. The meat individualizing vibration supply device 2 includes a hopper 4 for accommodating a group of pre-oil-adjusted meat masses (hereinafter referred to as meat masses), which are meat masses individually cut to a size for oil-conditioning in advance, and a hopper. A transport unit 6 provided at the lower part of the hopper 4 for transporting the meat mass discharged from the hopper 4 and a vibration device 8 for vibrating the hopper 4 and the transport unit 6 are provided. Here, since the meat mass individualized by the meat individualization vibration supply device 2 shown in FIG. 1 is used for the production of fried chicken, the shaping unit 10 for shaping the individualized meat mass and the meat mass are oiled. An oil-conditioning tank 12 for adjusting and a charging unit 14 for charging the meat mass shaped by the shaping unit 10 into the oil-conditioning tank 12 are provided.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing the hopper and the transport unit according to the embodiment, and is a top view of the hopper 4 and the transport unit 6. FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view (AA cross-sectional view in FIG. 2) showing the hopper and the conveying portion according to the embodiment. The meat mass accommodated in the hopper 4 is obtained by individually cutting the meat for cooking in advance, and has a size suitable for cooking or eating, for example, a bite-sized size not including protrusions such as skin.

The hopper 4 has a hopper floor surface 4a that inclines downward at an angle of 20 degrees from the horizontal plane. The angle of the hopper floor surface 4a from the horizontal plane may be appropriately determined according to the type, size, properties, magnitude of excitation force, etc. of the meat mass. If the angle is increased, the supply capacity is increased but the angle is easily clogged. If it is made smaller, the supply capacity will be smaller, but it will be less likely to be clogged. Therefore, it is preferably 10 to 50 degrees, more preferably 15 to 25 degrees.

The hopper floor surface 4a includes a plurality of hopper partition plates 4b extending along an inclined direction, and a flow path partitioned by the hopper partition plate 4b is formed on the hopper floor surface 4a. An opening 4c communicating with the transport portion 6 is formed at the lower end portion of the hopper floor surface 4a in the inclined direction, that is, the lower end portion of the flow path. The opening 4c has a size that allows the meat lumps housed in the hopper 4 to pass through one by one. For example, when the meat mass is a chicken mass, as shown in the plan view of FIG. 4 (a) and the side view of FIG. 4 (b), the meat mass has an average of 40 mm on the short side and an average of 50 mm on the long side in the plane. Since the height on the side surface has an average size of 30 mm, the opening 4c is formed so that meat lumps of this size can pass through one by one.

The transport unit 6 includes a plurality of troughs 6a arranged side by side. Here, the trough 6a of the transport portion 6 is formed so that the transport direction of the meat mass in the trough 6a is opposite to the inclination direction of the hopper floor surface 4a. Further, one end of each of the plurality of troughs 6a is installed so as to be located below the opening 4c. Further, the trough 6a is installed so as to incline downward from one end toward the other end at an angle of about 5 degrees from the horizontal plane.

The trough 6a has a transport surface having a concave cross section orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, and the transport surface is embossed. A partition plate 6b extending in the transport direction of the meat mass is provided between the trough 6a and the adjacent trough 6a. Further, an L-shaped fray plate 7 is installed on the trough 6 at the outlet of the hopper 4 in a state where the bottom portion thereof is in contact with the upper end portion of the partition plate 6b.

The shaping unit 10 shapes the meat lumps conveyed by the conveying unit 6 into a round shape one by one. The shaping portion 10 includes a rotating body 10a having a rotating body that passes through the centers of the opposite end faces of the hexagonal column, and a plurality of recessed portions that accommodate meat lumps along the rotating axis on each outer wall surface constituting the hexagonal column. It has 10b. Here, the recessed portion 10b is formed at a position on the rotating body 10a corresponding to the lower portion of the other end portion of each trough 6a. The recessed portion 10b has at least a part of the inner wall surface formed by a curved surface, and may be not only a hemispherical recessed portion but also a curved surface obtained by cutting a sphere on a flat surface or a drop-shaped recessed portion, and further a spherical surface. It may be a recessed portion in which a part of the surface is flat.

The loading portion 14 rotates the rotating body 10a by rotating the rotation axis of the rotating body 10a in which the recessed portion 10b is formed, and tilts or inverts the recessed portion 10b accommodating the meat mass to form the meat mass. It is provided with a discharge mechanism for discharging to the oil adjusting tank 12.

When individual meat lumps are taken out from a group of meat lumps individually separated in advance by using the meat individualization vibration supply device 2 according to this embodiment to produce fried chicken, they are cut individually. , The meat mass obtained by mixing the dusting powder and the batter liquid is put into the hopper 4. When vibration is applied to the hopper 4 and the transport portion 6 by the vibration exciter 8, the meat mass moves sequentially in the hopper 4 in the direction of the opening 4c in the flow path partitioned by the hopper partition plate 4b. In this case, since the meat mass moves toward the opening 4c while being in contact with the side surface of the hopper partition plate 4b and the hopper floor surface 4a, the moving speed is suppressed by receiving resistance from the hopper partition plate 4b and the hopper floor surface 4a.

Further, the vibrating device 8 applies vibration in the direction of transporting the meat mass on the trough 6a toward the other end of the trough 6a, and is in the direction opposite to the moving direction of the meat mass in the hopper 4, so that the hopper The meat mass in 4 slowly advances toward the opening 4c through the flow path in the hopper 4. Therefore, it is possible to sequentially drop a large amount of meat mass from the opening 4c of the hopper 4 one by one without concentrating it on the opening 4c of the hopper 4.

The meat mass that has fallen on the trough 6a moves in the trough 6a toward the other end of the trough 6a. The meat lumps move toward the other end in a state of being lined up one by one in the trough 6a. In this case, in the hopper 4, since the hopper floor surface 4a is arranged on the trough 6a, no pressure is applied to the meat mass in the trough 6a from above, and the meat mass in the trough 6a moves smoothly. Can be made to.

Further, since the fray plate 7 is installed on the trough 6a at the outlet of the hopper 4, even if the trough 6a in the hopper 4 overlaps the meat mass, the trough 6a at the exit of the hopper 4 The transport speed of a part of the meat lumps can be temporarily slowed down, and the meat lumps can be arranged one by one in the trough 6a. Further, since the fray plate 7 is installed, it is possible to prevent the meat mass from riding on the partition plate 6b. Since the transport surface of the trough 6a is embossed, the contact area between the meat mass and the transport surface of the trough 6a can be reduced, and the meat mass can be prevented from sticking to the transport surface of the trough 6a. be able to.

The meat masses that have moved to the other end of the trough 6a fall one by one from the other end of the trough 6a. That is, individual meat lumps are taken out from a group of meat lumps that have been individually separated in advance. The individual meat lumps that have fallen from the other end of the trough 6a fall onto the rotating body 10a of the shaping portion 10. In this case, since the discharge mechanism of the loading portion 14 rotates the rotating body 10a, the dropped meat mass is formed in any surface of the rotating body 10a by its own weight and the rotational force of the rotating body 10a. Enter within 10b. As the rotating body 10a rotates, the shape of the meat mass is rounded in the recessed portion 10b, and the meat mass whose shape is rounded by the charging portion 14 is charged into the oil tank 12 one by one. This makes it possible to produce fried chicken with a rounded shape.

In the above-described embodiment, the fray plate 7 is installed to prevent the meat mass from riding on the partition plate 6b provided between the trough 6a and the adjacent trough 6a, but the fray plate By forming the upper part of the cross-sectional shape orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the partition plate 6b provided between the trough 6a and the adjacent trough 6a without providing the 7 into a curved shape, it is possible to prevent the meat mass from riding on the partition plate 6b. The meat mass may be placed in any of the adjacent troughs 6a. That is, as shown in the meat individualizing vibration supply device 2 of FIG. 5, even when the fray plate 7 is not provided, as shown in the cross-sectional shape of the transport portion 6 of FIG. 6, it is orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the partition plate 6b. By forming the upper part of the cross section into a curved surface shape, for example, a semicircular cross section having a radius r of 8 mm or more, even when the meat mass rides on the partition plate 6b, it slides off the partition plate 6b and fits in the trough 6a. Then, the meat lumps that have moved to the other end of the trough 6a fall one by one from the other end of the trough 6a. That is, individual meat lumps are taken out from a group of meat lumps that have been individually separated in advance.

Further, in the meat individualizing vibration supply device 2 according to the above-described embodiment, the inclination direction of the hopper floor surface 4a and the transporting direction of the meat mass in the transporting portion 6 are opposite directions, but the meat piece shown in FIG. Like the output vibration supply device 30, the inclination direction of the hopper floor surface 4a and the transport direction of the meat mass in the transport portion 6 may be the same. In this case, the vibrating device 8a that vibrates the hopper 4 and the vibrating device 8b that vibrates the transport unit 6 are separately provided, and the vibrating device 8a that vibrates the hopper 4 vibrates the transport unit 6. The vibrating force is made smaller than that of the vibrating device 8b. As a result, a large amount of meat lumps can be sequentially dropped from the opening 4c of the hopper 4 one by one without concentrating on the opening 4c of the hopper 4.

2 ... Meat individualizing vibration supply device, 4 ... Hopper, 4a ... Hopper floor surface, 4b ... Hopper partition plate, 4c ... Opening, 6 ... Conveyor, 6a ... Trough, 6b ... Partition plate, 7 ... Fray plate, 8 ... Vibration device, 10 ... Shaping part, 10a ... Rotating shaft, 10b ... Indentation part, 12 ... Oil adjusting tank, 14 ... Input part

Claims (8)

An individual piece of meat comprising a hopper for accommodating a group of meat lumps individually separated in advance, a transport portion for transporting the meat lump discharged from the hopper, and a vibration device for vibrating the hopper and the transport portion. It is a output vibration supply device,
The hopper has a hopper floor surface that inclines downward at an angle of 10 to 50 degrees from the horizontal plane.
It is provided with an opening formed at the lower end of the hopper floor surface and communicating with the transport portion through which the meat mass can pass one by one.
The transport portion is a meat individualizing vibration supply device including a trough having a transport surface having a concave cross section orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. The individual vibration supply device for meat according to claim 1, wherein the hopper floor surface includes a plurality of hopper partition plates extending along an inclined direction. The transport unit has a plurality of the troughs juxtaposed.
A partition plate extending in the transport direction of the meat mass is provided between the trough and the adjacent trough.
The individual vibration supply device for meat according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the partition plate has a curved surface shape on an upper portion of a cross-sectional shape orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the partition plate. The individual vibration supply device for meat according to claim 3, wherein the upper portion of the cross section orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the partition plate has a semicircular cross section having a radius of 8 mm or more. The transport unit has a plurality of the troughs juxtaposed.
A partition plate extending in the transport direction of the meat mass is provided between the trough and the adjacent trough.
The meat individualizing vibration supply device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the upper portion of the plurality of troughs is provided with a fray plate for temporarily reducing the transport speed of the meat mass in the trough. .. The individual vibration supply device for meat according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the transport surface of the trough is embossed. The individual vibration supply device for meat according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the inclination direction of the hopper floor surface and the transport direction of the meat mass in the transport portion are opposite directions. The individual vibration supply device for meat according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the inclination direction of the hopper floor surface and the transport direction of the meat mass in the transport portion are the same direction.