JPH022261Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Field of Industrial Application) This invention relates to a tempura material forming device that continuously and automatically forms a paste-like tempura material in oil in an automatic tempura frying machine.

(Prior art and its problems) Conventionally, small shrimp,
Tempura products mixed with various toppings such as squid and vegetables are generally made by hand at shops, etc. by putting paste-like tempura ingredients into oil with a ball or a comb, and scooping out the fried material. Since it is manufactured using a method, there are problems in that it is time-consuming and difficult to mass produce, and it is not possible to obtain products that are consistent in shape and quality.

(Means for solving the problem) This invention is an automatic tempura frying machine that can solve the above problems, that is, the above-mentioned frying machine that continuously and automatically deep-fries tempura material to produce a product. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a molding device that continuously and efficiently molds tempura ingredients into a uniform shape in oil.

That is, for the above-mentioned purpose, the tempura material forming device 8 according to the present invention includes a large number of forming cups 10 consisting of a cylinder 21 forming a peripheral wall and a bottom plate 22 on which the cylinders are placed, and these forming cups 10 are placed in an oil tank 1a. It is equipped with an endless chain 9 that is driven in rotation,
The cylinder body 21 and the bottom plate 22 are attached to each of the plurality of vertical guide shafts 16 fixed to the chain 9 at predetermined intervals.
and the mounting member 1 of the cylindrical body 21 can be freely raised and lowered perpendicularly to the oil surface via the mounting members 17 and 18, respectively.
7 is on the upper side, and a guide portion 19 is provided protruding from the mounting member 17 of the cylinder body 21.
In the orbit of the molding cup 10, a supply section A for tempura raw material and a discharge section B for the molded raw material 33 are configured.
In this discharge part B, the guide rail 25 for the cylinder that comes into contact with the guide part 19 and guides the cylinder 21 up and down is located at the horizontal part 2 which is higher than the upwardly inclined part 25a.
The bottom plate guide rail 24 is disposed so as to form a downwardly inclined part 25c through the bottom plate 5b, and supports and guides the bottom plate 22 in a slidable manner. The molded cup 10 is moved from the supply part A to the discharge part B in a semi-immersed state in the oil 32, and the entire molded cup 10 is moved from just before reaching the discharge part B. is characterized in that it is configured such that the cylinder 21 moves downward, and in this discharge section B, the cylindrical body 21 separates from the bottom plate 22 and rises above the oil level.

(Example) This invention will be explained below based on the illustrated example.

In FIGS. 1 and 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a horizontally long box-shaped oil tank body, in which a net conveyor 2 is arranged with the main part of its lower forward moving part side 2a shallowly immersed in oil. In addition, a paddle conveyor 3 is provided at the front, and an inclined net conveyor 4 extending from the oil to the product outlet 1a is provided at the rear. Reference numeral 5 denotes a tempura material addition device, in which a large number of forming cups 10 are attached to an endless chain 9.

Both chains 6 and 9 of the transfer device 5 and the forming device 8 are synchronously driven via a synchronous transmission section 11 by gear transmission or chain transmission.
The molding cup 10 is positioned directly below the transfer cup 7 within a certain period of rotation and is set to move synchronously. Thus, the portion where the transfer cup 7 and the forming cup 10 move synchronously constitutes a supply section A that supplies tempura ingredients from the former to the latter, and the above-mentioned supply section A is located in the orbit of the forming cup 10.
On the opposite side and at a position close to the paddle conveyor 3, a discharge section B for the molded material is configured.

12 is an air nozzle installed immediately before the paddle conveyor 3 in the oil tank 1b, and 13 is a transfer cup 7.
14 is a washing device for the transfer cup 7, and 15 is a movable cart to which the transfer device 5 and the material supply device 13 are attached. be.

As shown in FIG. 3, the chain 9 of the forming device 8
consists of an upper chain 9a and a lower chain 9b which is in contact with a rail 8a made of angle material,
A large number of vertical guide shafts 1 are provided between both chains 9a and 9b.
6 are connected via a bolt/nut 16a and an L-shaped mounting piece 16b, and each guide shaft 16
Two mounting members 17 and 18 are slidably mounted on each of the mounting members 17 and 18. Therefore, the mounting member 17,
18 is a rectangular parallelepiped-shaped sliding block 17a, 18a
and strip plates 17b and 18b whose upper ends are fixed with screws on the outer surface thereof and hang down.A guide roller 19 is provided on the inner surface of the sliding block 17a, and a guide pin 20 is provided on the inner surface of the sliding block 18a. Each is protruded.

As shown in FIG. 4, the molded cup 10 consists of a short cylindrical body 21 having a flange part 21a on the outer periphery of the upper edge and constituting a peripheral wall part, and a circular bottom plate 22 that is independent of this body. It is structured like an open container. Therefore, the flange portion 2 is attached to the cylinder body 21.
Circular ring 2 with an inner diameter smaller than the outer diameter of 1a
The ring 23 is fixed to the lower end of the strip plate 17b of the upper mounting member 17 with screws, and the bottom plate 22 is fixed to the lower end of the strip plate 17b of the lower mounting member 18.
It is fixed to the lower end of 8b with screws. A sliding contact member 23a is fixed to the lower surface of the base of the bottom plate 22, and the bottom plate 22 is attached to the molded cup 1 on the bottom surface of the oil tank 1b.
It is supported in sliding contact with the sliding contact member 23a on a bottom plate guide rail 24 disposed along the orbit of No. 0. Therefore, the molded cup 10 is
With the sliding block of the mounting member 17 placed on the sliding block 18a of the mounting member 18 under its own weight, the flange portion 21a of the cylinder body 21 and the upper edge of the ring 23 are separated from each other, and are normally placed on the bottom plate 22. The cylindrical body 21 is simply placed under its own weight to constitute a container, and the lower part is immersed in oil so that oil is also contained inside.

Further, in the forming device 8, from this side of the discharge section B to the supply section A, as shown in FIG. A guide roller 19 of the mounting member 17 is arranged on the guide roller 19 so as to be in rolling contact with the guide roller 19 of the mounting member 17. In addition, a bottom plate guide rail 24 provided on the bottom of the oil tank 1b
From this side of the discharge section B to this side of the supply section A, there is a low portion 24a with a low top surface height. Reference numeral 26 indicates a presser guide rail along the downwardly inclined portion 25c of the cylinder guide rail 25, and 27 indicates an upwardly inclined guide rail which is disposed below the downwardly inclined portion 25c and whose upper surface is in sliding contact with the guide pin 20 of the mounting member 18. This is a guide rail for lifting the bottom plate.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 3, the transfer cup 7 is formed in the shape of a container with an open upper part, and the other end of a horizontal pivot pin 28 having one end pivotally connected to the front protrusion 7a is connected to a chain 6 with a roller. By fitting it into the mounting bracket 6a fixed to the holder and fixing it with bolts 29, 29, the chain 6 is rotatably pivoted and transported by the horizontal guide pin 30 attached to the downward protrusion 7b near the rear of the bottom. The cup 7 is supported on a guide rail 31a disposed along the orbit of the cup 7 and held in a horizontal position. This guide rail 31a is partially interrupted at the position of the supply section A.
Now, as shown by the imaginary line in FIG. 3, the transfer cup 7 rotates downward around the pivot pin 28 under its own weight,
The tempura material that was stored in the molded cup 10 directly below
It will flow down to. Further, the empty transfer cup after flowing down is configured to return to its original horizontal state via the upwardly inclined portion of the guide rail 31. Note that 31b is a guide rail that supports the intermediate portion of the pivot pin 28.

In the above configuration, after receiving the paste-like tempura material from the transfer cup 7 in the supply section A, the forming cup 10 moves while maintaining its container shape and keeping its lower part immersed in the oil 32. During the lever transfer process, the tempura material is primarily fried and solidified, resulting in a disc-shaped material molding 33 that matches the inner surface shape of the cylinder 21. Next, as shown in Figure 5,
When the molded cup 10 reaches the lower part 24a of the bottom plate guide rail 24 before the discharge part B, the entire molded cup 7 descends by the amount of the lowered part, and together with this, it adheres to the cylinder body 21 and is removed. Since the internal molded material 33 that is in an integral relationship with the oil 32 has a lower specific gravity than the oil 32, it is pushed upward by the buoyant force acting on the molded material 33 and separated from the cylinder body 21.
Relatively rising. Subsequently, the guide roller 19 of the mounting member 17 rolls into contact with the upwardly inclined portion 25a of the cylinder guide rail 25, so that the ring 23 integrated with the mounting member 17 is lifted up, and accordingly, the cylinder 21 is moved to its flange portion 21a. and ring 2
3 is pulled up and released onto the oil surface, and the internal molded material 33 becomes suspended in the oil 32. Thus, the molded cup 10 is connected to the supply section A.
When the cylinder 21 and the ring 23, which had been rising, are guided by the downward slope 25c of the cylinder guide rail 25 and the presser guide rail 33, they are guided down, while the guide pin 20 of the mounting member 18 is in sliding contact with the upper surface of the guide rail 27 for lifting the bottom plate,
In addition, by coming off the lower part 24a of the bottom plate guide rail 24, the bottom plate 22 also rises, and the bottom plate 22
The container returns to its original form with the cylinder 21 placed on top, receives the tempura material again at the supply section A, and repeats the above operations. Although the guide rails 26 and 27 can be omitted, they are provided to prevent the molded cup 10 from returning to its original container form due to adhesion caused by oil.

The molded material 33 discharged from the molded cup is
Due to the wind pressure from the air nozzle 12 and the accompanying oil flow, it floats to the paddle conveyor 3 side, is sent under the net conveyor 2 by the paddle conveyor 3, and is pushed down below the oil surface by the net conveyor 2. The tempura is transported to the rear of the oil tank main body 1 while being fried, and is fried for a second time during this transport process, pulled up from the oil 32 by the net conveyor 4, and taken out as a tempura product from the takeout port 1a.

In the above embodiment, the tempura material is supplied to the molded cup 10 by the transfer cup 7 which is rotated by the transfer device 5, but it may be directly supplied by the material supply device 13 or the like. In addition, the molded cup 10 fixes the cylindrical body 21 directly to the upper mounting member 17 without using the ring 23, and places the cylindrical body 21 on the bottom plate 22.
The sliding blocks 17a and 18a of both the mounting members 17 and 18 may be separated when the mounting member 1 is placed thereon. Furthermore, the guide rail 24 supporting the bottom plate 22 can be provided along the entire circumference of the orbit of the molded cup 10 as an extension of the guide rail 27, instead of being arranged in the oil tank 1b. Further, a guide pin may be provided in place of the guide roller 19 of the mounting member 17. In addition, this invention can also be applied to an automatic tempura frying machine in which the raw material molding is made into a product directly from the molding cup 10 without providing the oil tank body 1.

(Effects of the invention) According to the tempura material molding device according to this invention, a paste-like tempura material can be continuously and automatically molded in oil using a simple configuration in which the molding cup is rotated. Furthermore, the molded material can be reliably discharged from the molding cup, and molded materials of uniform shape can be mass-produced.

In particular, according to the tempura material forming device of this invention,
A guide rail for the cylindrical body that guides the cylindrical body of the molded cup up and down in the discharge section of the molded material is arranged so as to reach the downward slanted part via a higher level horizontal part from the upwardly inclined part, and also slides into contact with the bottom plate of the molded cup. A guide rail for the bottom plate that supports and guides the cup is arranged from the front of the discharge section to the supply section so as to form a lower part of the top surface with a low height, so that the molded cup is discharged from the supply section while being semi-immersed in oil. As the cup moves to the upper part, the entire molded cup descends from before reaching the discharge part, and at this discharge part, the cylindrical body separates from the bottom plate and rises above the oil level. When the molded cup is moved in a semi-immersed state from the supply section to the discharge section, the entire molded cup first descends from the front side toward the discharge section, and at this time, because the molded material has a lower specific gravity than the oil, The molded material attached to the cylindrical body and in an integral relationship with the cylindrical body is pushed upward by the buoyant force acting on it and separated from the cylindrical body, floats relatively along the circumferential surface of the cylindrical body, and then At the discharge section, the cylinder separates from the bottom plate and rises above the oil level.
The molded material inside the cylinder separates from the cylinder and becomes suspended on the oil surface. In this way, the cylindrical body is lowered from the front side where the molded cup reaches the discharge section, and the edge of the cylindrical body and the molded material is removed by using the buoyant force acting on the molded material attached to the cylindrical body. The tempura material supplied to the molded cup is pasty because the cylinder is raised and lowered in a direction perpendicular to the oil surface. Even in cases where the peripheral edge of the material molding molded inside the cylinder is tightly adhered to the inner surface of the cylinder, it is easy to remove the material molding from the molded cup, especially the cylinder. It can be done reliably.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of the tempura material forming device of the automatic tempura frying machine according to this invention, and show the first embodiment.
The figure is a schematic front view of the main parts of the automatic tempura frying machine.
Figure 2 is a schematic plan view of the main parts including the molding device;
The figure is a vertical sectional view of the main parts of the synchronized portion of the transfer cup and the forming cup, Fig. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the forming cup, Fig. 5 is a side view of the main part of the forming device, and Fig. 6 is the discharge of the raw material molded material. FIG. 1b... Oil tank, 5... Molding device, 9... Chain, 10... Molding cup, 16... Vertical guide shaft, 17, 18... Mounting member, 19... Guide roller (guide portion), 21... Cylindrical body, 22... Bottom plate, 24... Guide rail for bottom plate, 24a... Low part, 25... Guide rail for cylinder body, 25a...
Upward inclined part, 25b...High horizontal part, 25c...
...Downward inclined part, 32...Oil, 33...Material molded product, A...Supply section, B...Discharge section.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] It is equipped with a large number of molded cups consisting of a cylindrical body forming a peripheral wall and a bottom plate on which the cylinders are placed, and an endless chain that drives these molded cups in rotation in an oil tank.
The cylindrical body and the bottom plate are attached to each of a large number of vertical guide shafts fixed to the chain at predetermined intervals, and each of the cylindrical bodies and the bottom plate is movable up and down perpendicularly to the oil surface via a mounting member, and the cylindrical body mounting member is located above the oil surface. installed as and
A guide portion is provided protruding from the mounting member of the cylinder, while
A tempura raw material supply section and a raw material molded discharge section are configured on the orbit of the forming cup, and in this discharge section, the guide rail for the cylinder that comes into contact with the guide section and guides the cylinder up and down is directed upward. The guide rail for the bottom plate is arranged so as to reach the downwardly sloped part via the higher level horizontal part than the inclined part, and also supports and guides the bottom plate in a slidable manner. The molded cup is moved from the supply part to the discharge part in a semi-immersed state in the oil, and the entire molded cup is lowered before reaching the discharge part, and in this discharge part, the cylindrical body meets the bottom plate. A tempura material forming device for an automatic tempura frying machine, characterized in that it is configured to separate and rise above the oil level.