JP7327924B2 - Conveyor - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a food conveying device.

Conventionally, various thawing apparatuses for thawing frozen foods, for example, have been developed. In relation to this, for example, Patent Document 1 below discloses a thawing chamber in which a cart is placed inside the thawing chamber to thaw frozen food on the cart.

JP 2010-183905 A

However, in the thawing chamber disclosed in Patent Document 1, since many frozen foods are arranged on the cart, it is troublesome for the operator to move the cart.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention was invented to solve the above-mentioned problems, and provides a conveying device that can prevent workers from becoming troublesome when performing processing such as thawing on food. intended to

A conveying apparatus according to the present invention for achieving the above object is a conveying apparatus for conveying food. The conveying device includes a processing chamber that processes the food, a loading unit that is provided upstream of the processing chamber and carries the food into the processing chamber, and a downstream side of the processing chamber, and an unloading unit for unloading the food from the processing chamber. The processing chamber has a transport section that transports the food, and an arrangement section that receives the food from the carry-in section, arranges the food, and is transported by the transport section. The carrying-in section includes a first placement section on which the food is placed, a first belt conveyor provided downstream of the first placement section and conveying the food to the placement section, and the first and a moving unit that moves the food placed on the placement unit to the first belt conveyor. The carrying-out unit is provided downstream of the processing chamber, and is provided downstream of a second belt conveyor that receives the food from the processing chamber and conveys it to the downstream side, and the second belt conveyor, wherein the food is a second placing portion to be placed, an inclined portion for inclining the placing portion, and pushing out the food placed on the inclined placing portion from an upstream side to move the food to the second belt conveyor and an extruded member that allows the

According to the conveying apparatus described above, when the worker places the food on the first placement section of the carry-in section, the placed food is moved to the processing chamber and processed in the processing chamber. Then, the processed food is placed on the second placement section of the unloading section. That is, according to the conveying apparatus described above, when the operator simply places the food on the first placement section, the food is automatically processed, and the processed food is placed on the second placement section. be placed. For this reason, it is possible to prevent the operator from having troublesome work when performing processing such as thawing on the food.

1 is a schematic front view showing a conveying device according to an embodiment of the invention; FIG. It is a perspective view which shows an arrangement|positioning part. FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing the carry-in section, and is a schematic diagram showing how a bag containing lard is placed on the first placing section. FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing the carrying-in section, and is a schematic diagram showing a state in which the moving section has moved upward. FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing the carry-in section, and is a schematic diagram showing how the moving section has moved to the upstream side. FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing the carrying-in section, and is a schematic diagram showing a state in which the moving section has moved downward; FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing the carry-in section, and is a schematic diagram showing how the bag containing lard is moved from the first placing section to the first belt conveyor by the moving section. FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing a state in which the opening/closing part is opened and the placement part in the thawing compartment is visible. FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing how the bag containing lard is moved by the first belt conveyor until it abuts against the abutting portion. FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram showing a state in which the first belt conveyor moves upstream and the bag containing lard is arranged in the arrangement section; It is a schematic diagram showing a state that the contact portion has moved to the upstream side. FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram showing a state in which an arrangement section in which a bag containing pork fat is arranged has moved downstream; FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing the carry-out section, and is a schematic diagram showing a state before the placement section is inclined; FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing the unloading section, and is a schematic diagram showing a state after the placement section is tilted. It is a perspective view showing a carrying-out part, Comprising: It is a schematic diagram which shows a mode that the pushing member moved to the downstream. FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing the unloading section, and is a schematic diagram showing how the pushing member moves further downstream and the bag containing lard is moved from the placement section to the second belt conveyor. 17(A) is a schematic diagram for explaining the structure of the inclined portion, FIG. 17(A) shows the state before the pushing portion pushes out the disc, and FIG. 17(B) shows the state after the pushing portion pushes out the disc. respectively. 18(A) shows the state before tilting, FIG. 18(B) shows the state after tilting, and FIG. are reversed, respectively. FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram showing how the upside-down arrangement portion moves to the upstream side and the upside-down inversion state is released;

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 19. FIG. In the description of the drawings, the same elements are denoted by the same reference numerals, and overlapping descriptions are omitted. The dimensional ratios in the drawings are exaggerated for convenience of explanation and may differ from the actual ratios. In this embodiment, pork fat in a frozen state will be described as an example of the food to be conveyed by the conveying device 1 . Frozen lard is transported in bags.

FIG. 1 is a schematic front view showing a conveying device 1 according to an embodiment of the invention. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the placement portion 13. As shown in FIG. 3 to 12 are diagrams for explaining the configuration of the carry-in section 20. FIG. 13 to 19 are diagrams for explaining the configuration of the unloading section 30. FIG. In the following description, the direction from upstream to downstream is called the X direction, the width direction with respect to the X direction is called the Y direction, and the vertical direction is called the Z direction. 3 to 12 are views viewed from the substantially upstream side, and FIGS. 13 to 16 are views viewed from the substantially downstream side.

As shown in FIG. 1, the conveying device 1 according to the present embodiment is provided with a thawing chamber (corresponding to a processing chamber) 10 for thawing lard and an upstream side of the thawing chamber 10. In the thawing chamber 10, the lard is It has a carry-in part 20 for carrying in the bag containing it, and a carry-out part 30 provided on the downstream side of the defrosting chamber 10 for carrying out the bag containing lard from the defrosting chamber 10.例文帳に追加

As shown in FIG. 1, the thawing chamber 10 includes a thawing device 11 that thaws lard, a transport section 12 that transports bags containing lard, and a placement section 13 in which the bags containing lard are arranged. , have

As the decompression device 11, a known decompression device can be used. Therefore, detailed description of the decompression device 11 is omitted here. The thawing device 11 can keep the inside of the thawing chamber 10 at a temperature of 20 degrees and a humidity of 100%, for example.

As shown in FIG. 1, the conveying unit 12 has a chain 121, a motor 122 that drives the chain 121, and a sprocket 123 that meshes with the chain 121 and rotates.

A pair of chains 121 are provided along the Y direction. The chain 121 is composed of six stages as shown in FIG. According to this configuration, the tension applied to the chain 121 is reduced as compared with a configuration in which the chain consists of a single stage, so that an inexpensive chain 121 with a relatively small width can be used. Further, the chain 121 is arranged so as to reciprocate repeatedly along the direction (X direction) from the carry-in section 20 to the carry-out section 30, as shown in FIG. According to this configuration, the bag containing lard can move evenly in the defrosting chamber 10 at a low speed. Therefore, lard can be uniformly thawed in the thawing chamber 10 .

Three motors 122 are provided on the downstream side of the thawing chamber 10, as shown in FIG. A sprocket 123 is provided at a portion where the motor 122 is not provided among the portions where the chain 121 bends.

The arrangement portion 13 is provided between a pair of chains 121 provided along the Y direction. A plurality of arrangement portions 13 are provided along the direction in which the chain 121 extends, as shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 2, the placement portion 13 has a placement surface 131 on which a bag containing pork fat is placed, and vertical wall portions 132 rising from both sides of the placement surface 131 in the Y direction. The placement surface 131 is formed with a through-hole 133 having a width into which the pushing member 34 described later can be inserted. Further, a flat plate 333 of the inclined portion 33 to be described later abuts on the bottom surface 134 on the rear surface of the placement surface 131 . The arrangement portion 13 is rotatably fixed to the chain 121 by rotatably fixing the pair of vertical wall portions 132 along the Y direction to the chain 121 . The arrangement portion 13 moves following the movement of the chain 121 .

As shown in FIGS. 3 to 12, the carry-in section 20 includes a first placement section 21 on which a bag containing pork fat is placed, and a downstream side of the first placement section 21 (upper left side in FIG. 3). a first belt conveyor 22 provided in the first belt conveyor 22, a moving unit 23 for moving the bag containing pork fat from the first placement unit 21 to the first belt conveyor 22, and a driving unit 24 for driving the moving unit 23. . 3 to 12, illustration of the first opening/closing portion 80, which will be described later, is omitted.

As shown in FIGS. 3 to 12, a pair of first mounting portions 21 are provided along the Y direction. The first mounting portion 21 is configured by providing a plurality of rod members 21a extending in the Y direction continuously in the X direction with gaps interposed therebetween.

The first belt conveyor 22 is provided downstream of the first placement section 21 and below the first placement section 21 . In other words, the first placement section 21 is provided above the first belt conveyor 22 . A pair of first belt conveyors 22 are provided along the Y direction.

The first belt conveyor 22 rotates to convey the bag containing lard placed on the upper surface from the first placement section 21 to the placement section 13 of the defrosting chamber 10 (see FIG. 9). That is, the first belt conveyor 22 rotates counterclockwise when viewed from the lower left to the upper right in FIG. In addition, the downstream end of the first belt conveyor 22 is configured to extend to the arrangement portion 13 in the thawing chamber 10 (see FIG. 9).

The moving part 23 is a plate extending in the Z direction. A pair of moving parts 23 are provided along the Y direction. The moving unit 23 is moved by the driving unit 24 to move the bag containing lard placed on the first placement unit 21 to the first belt conveyor 22 . A specific method of moving the moving portion 23 will be described in the method of use described later.

The drive unit 24 raises and lowers the moving unit 23 in the Z direction and moves the moving unit 23 in the X direction. Since a known drive unit can be used as the drive unit 24, detailed description of the drive unit 24 is omitted here.

A first opening/closing unit 80 is provided between the thawing chamber 10 and the carrying-in unit 20, as shown in FIG. By opening the first opening/closing part 80 , the bag containing lard can be moved from the carrying-in part 20 into the defrosting chamber 10 . On the other hand, by closing the first opening/closing part 80, the inside of the thawing chamber 10 can be made into a closed space.

As shown in FIGS. 13 to 16, the carry-out section 30 includes a second placement section 31 on which a bag containing pork fat is placed, and an upstream side of the second placement section 31 (upper left side in FIG. 13). A second belt conveyor 32 provided in, an inclined portion 33 that inclines the placement portion 13, a pushing member 34 that pushes out a bag containing pork fat placed on the inclined placement portion 13, and the top and bottom of the placement portion 13 and a rail member 35 that maintains the inverted state.

A bag containing lard transported from the second belt conveyor 32 is placed on the second placing portion 31 . The bag placed on the second placement part 31 is carried to the next process by the operator.

The second belt conveyor 32 conveys the bag containing lard placed on the upper surface to the second placing section 31 . That is, when viewed from the lower left to the upper right in FIG. 13, the second belt conveyor 32 rotates clockwise.

The inclined portion 33 inclines the placement portion 13 as shown in FIGS. 13 and 14 . As shown in FIG. 17, the inclined portion 33 has, in order from the left, an extruded portion 331, a disk 332, a polygonal flat plate 333, a biasing member 334, and a receiving member 335. As shown in FIG.

Pusher 331 can move laterally in FIG. 17 to move disk 332 to the right. A known cylinder can be used for the extrusion part 331 .

The disk 332 has a thin plate shape. Disk 332 and flat plate 333 are connected by shaft 336 . The shaft 336 passes through the inside of the sprocket 123, as shown in FIG.

As shown in FIGS. 17 and 18, the flat plate 333 has a radially outward side surface 333a. As shown in FIG. 17A , when the pushing portion 331 does not push the disk 332 , the side surface 333 a of the flat plate 333 is arranged on the left side of the arrangement portion 13 . At this time, the inclined portion 33 cannot incline the placement portion 13 . On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 17B, the pushing portion 331 pushes the disk 332 to the right, so that the bottom surface 134 of the placement portion 13 moves while contacting the side surface 333 a of the flat plate 333 . As a result, as shown in FIGS. 18A, 18B, and 18C, when the flat plate 333 rotates following the rotation of the sprocket 123, the arrangement portion 13 rotates synchronously. By stopping the rotation of the flat plate 333 in the state shown in FIG. 18B, the inclined state of the arrangement portion 13 can be maintained (see FIG. 14).

The biasing member 334 biases the flat plate 333 toward the left side in the normal state. The receiving member 335 receives the biasing force from the biasing member 334 .

As shown in FIGS. 15 and 16 , the push-out member 34 pushes out the bag containing the lard on the arrangement portion 13 through the through hole 133 of the arrangement portion 13 in an inclined state, thereby removing the bag from the arrangement portion 13 . It is moved to the second belt conveyor 32 . By providing the push-out member 34 in this manner, the bag containing lard can be moved more preferably from the arrangement section 13 to the second belt conveyor 32 .

As shown in FIGS. 13 to 16, the pushing member 34 has a body portion 341 and two rod members 342 and 343 provided in the Z direction. The body portion 341 is a cylinder, and the rod members 342 and 343 are moved downstream (lower right side in FIG. 13) by the body portion 341 .

The rail member 35 is provided extending in the X direction, as shown in FIG. FIG. 19 is a diagram showing the configuration in the vicinity of the unloading section 30 of the thawing chamber 10. As shown in FIG. The rail member 35 is provided so that the bottom surface 35A of the rail member 35 is in contact with the bottom surface 134 of the placement portion 13 . Therefore, the arrangement portion 13 (see FIG. 18C), which is turned upside down by the inclined portion 33, maintains the turned upside down state at the location where the rail member 35 exists. The length of the rail member 35 in the X direction is determined so as not to interfere with the pushing member 34 when the arrangement portion 13 in the upside down state returns to its original state.

A second opening/closing unit 90 is provided between the thawing chamber 10 and the unloading unit 30, as shown in FIG. By opening the second opening/closing part 90, the bag containing lard can be moved from the defrosting chamber 10 to the unloading part 30. - 特許庁On the other hand, by closing the second opening/closing part 90, the inside of the thawing chamber 10 can be made into a closed space.

Next, with reference to FIGS. 3 to 16, a method of using the conveying device 1 according to this embodiment will be described. In the following description, operations of various components of the conveying device 1 are performed by a control section (not shown).

First, as shown in FIG. 3, the operator places a bag containing pork fat in a frozen state on the first placement section 21 of the carry-in section 20 . At this time, the moving part 23 is positioned downstream of the bag containing the lard (upper left in FIG. 3).

Next, as shown in FIGS. 4, 5 and 6, the moving part 23 is moved upward, moved upstream (lower right side in FIGS. 4 to 6), and moved downward. As a result, the moving part 23 is positioned upstream of the bag containing lard, as shown in FIG.

Next, as shown in FIG. 7 , the moving unit 23 is moved downstream, and the bag containing pork fat is moved from the first placing unit 21 to the first belt conveyor 22 .

Next, as shown in FIG. 8, the first opening/closing unit 80 provided between the loading unit 20 and the thawing chamber 10 is opened (see FIG. 1), and the placement unit 13 inside the thawing chamber 10 is opened from the outside of the conveying device 1. can be seen.

Next, as shown in FIG. 9, while rotating the first belt conveyor 22 (see arrow V1), the first belt conveyor 22 is moved downstream (upper left in FIG. 9) (see arrow V2). , the bag containing lard is moved to the vicinity of the arrangement portion 13 and is brought into contact with the contact portion 25. - 特許庁

Next, as shown in FIG. 10, while rotating the first belt conveyor 22 (see arrow V1), move the first belt conveyor 22 to the upstream side (lower right side in FIG. 10) (see arrow V2). Thus, the bag containing pork fat falls from the first belt conveyor 22 and is arranged in the arrangement section 13. - 特許庁

Next, as shown in FIG. 11, the contact portion 25 is moved to the upstream side of the bag containing the lard. Then, as shown in FIG. 12, the arrangement portion 13 in which the bag containing lard is arranged moves downstream in the thawing chamber 10 .

As shown in FIG. 13, the bag containing lard that has been thawed in the thawing chamber 10 for a predetermined time is transported by the transporting section 12 and reaches the unloading section 30 (see the arrow in FIG. 1).

Next, the placement portion 13 is tilted by the tilt portion 33 as shown in FIG. Then, as shown in FIGS. 15 and 16 , by moving the pushing member 34 downstream, the bag containing lard on the placement section 13 is moved to the second belt conveyor 32 .

Then, the bag containing pork fat on the second belt conveyor 32 is moved to the second placement section 31 by the second belt conveyor 32 .

As described above, the conveying device 1 according to this embodiment is a conveying device 1 that conveys a bag containing lard. The conveying device 1 includes a thawing chamber 10 that thaws lard, a carrying-in unit 20 that is provided upstream of the thawing chamber 10 and carries a bag containing lard into the thawing chamber 10, and the thawing chamber 10. and an unloading section 30 which is provided on the downstream side and unloads the bag containing lard from the defrosting chamber 10. - 特許庁In the thawing chamber 10, a conveying unit 12 that conveys a bag containing pork fat, a bag containing pork fat that is received from a loading unit 20, and a bag containing pork fat is arranged, and is conveyed by the conveying unit 12. and an arrangement portion 13 . The carry-in section 20 is provided on the downstream side of the first placement section 21 on which the bag containing the pork fat is placed, and the first placement section 21, and conveys the bag containing the pork fat to the placement section 13. It has a first belt conveyor 22 and a moving unit 23 that moves the bag containing lard placed on the first placement unit 21 to the first belt conveyor 22 . The carry-out unit 30 is provided downstream of the thawing chamber 10, and is provided downstream of the second belt conveyor 32 for receiving the bag containing lard from the thawing chamber 10 and conveying it to the downstream side. It has a second placing portion 31 on which a bag containing lard is placed, and an inclined portion 33 for inclining the placement portion 13 . According to the conveying device 1 configured in this way, the operator places a bag containing pork fat on the first placing portion 21 of the carry-in portion 20, and the bag containing the placed pork fat is moved to the decompression chamber 10 and decompression processing is performed in the decompression chamber 10 . Then, the bag containing the thawed lard is placed on the second placement section 31 of the unloading section 30 . That is, according to the conveying apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment, when the operator only places a bag containing pork fat on the first placing portion 21, the pork fat is automatically thawed and thawed. A bag containing the treated lard is placed on the second placement section 31 . For this reason, it is possible to prevent the work from becoming troublesome for the operator when performing processing such as thawing on the lard.

The inclined portion 33 has a polygonal flat plate 333 , and the placement portion 13 is tilted by moving the placement portion 13 while the bottom surface 134 of the placement portion 13 is in contact with the side surface 333 a of the flat plate 333 . According to the conveying device 1 configured in this manner, the placement portion 13 can be more preferably inclined by the inclined portion 33 .

In addition, the carry-out part 30 further pushes out the bag containing the pork fat placed in the inclined placement part 13 from the upstream side and moves the bag containing the pork fat to the second belt conveyor 32. have. According to the conveying device 1 configured in this manner, the bag containing lard on the placement section 13 can be reliably moved to the second belt conveyor 32 .

In addition, the transport unit 12 has a chain 121 composed of six stages along the Z direction, a motor 122 that drives the chain 121, and a sprocket 123 that meshes with the chain 121 and rotates. It is arranged so as to reciprocate repeatedly from the loading section 20 along the unloading section 30 . According to the conveying device 1 configured in this way, the chain 121 can be made smaller. Moreover, the pork fat can be thawed evenly in the thawing chamber 10.例文帳に追加

In addition, the unloading section 30 further includes a rail member 35 that maintains the upside down state of the placement section 13 . According to the conveying device 1 configured in this manner, it is possible to prevent the arrangement portion 13 from interfering with the pushing member 34 .

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and can be modified in various ways within the scope of the claims.

For example, in the embodiments described above, the transport device 1 was provided with a thawing chamber 10 . However, the processing chamber is not limited to the thawing chamber as long as it can process food, and a freezer, a heating chamber, or the like can be used.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, pork fat was used as an example of the food, but the food is not limited to this.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the carry-out section 30 has the push member 34, but the carry-out section may not have the push member. At this time, the placement part 13 is inclined, so that the bag containing lard is slid down from the placement part 13 and moved to the second belt conveyor 32 .

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the chain 121 is composed of six stages along the Z direction, but the chain may be composed of an even number of stages of two or more. good too.

1 transport device,
10 thawing chamber (processing chamber),
12 transport unit,
121 chain,
122 motor,
123 sprocket,
13 placement unit,
134 the bottom of the placement part,
20 loading section,
21 first placement unit,
22 first belt conveyor,
23 moving part,
30 unloading unit,
31 second placement unit,
32 second belt conveyor,
33 inclined part,
333 flat plate,
333a flat plate side,
34 extruded member,
35 Rail member.

Claims (4)

A conveying device for conveying food,
a processing chamber for processing the food;
a carrying-in unit provided on the upstream side of the processing chamber for carrying the food into the processing chamber;
an unloading unit provided downstream of the processing chamber for unloading the food from the processing chamber;
The processing warehouse is
a conveying unit that conveys the food;
an arrangement unit that receives the food from the loading unit and arranges the food, and is transported by the transport unit;
The loading section is
a first placing portion on which the food is placed;
a first belt conveyor provided on the downstream side of the first placement section for conveying the food to the placement section;
a moving unit that moves the food placed on the first placement unit to the first belt conveyor ,
The unloading unit is
a second belt conveyor provided downstream of the processing chamber for receiving the food from the processing chamber and conveying it downstream;
a second placement section provided downstream of the second belt conveyor and on which the food is placed;
an inclined portion that inclines the placement portion;
and a pushing member that pushes out the food placed on the inclined placement portion from an upstream side to move the food to the second belt conveyor. The inclined portion has a polygonal flat plate,
2. The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the placement portion is inclined by moving the placement portion while the bottom surface of the placement portion is in contact with the side surface of the flat plate. The transport unit is
a chain composed of a plurality of stages along the vertical direction;
a motor for driving the chain;
a sprocket that engages with and rotates with the chain;
3. The conveying apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said chain is arranged so as to reciprocate repeatedly along the direction from said carrying-in section to said carrying-out section. The unloading unit is
The conveying apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3 , further comprising a rail member for maintaining the upside down state of the arrangement portion.