JPH03155774A - Apparatus for automatic forming of viscous material - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To form a viscous material in a prescribed shape having a desired pattern by spraying a liquid to a forming hole from a side part in rotational direction and removing the formed product by forwarding a pattern-forming member and ejecting a gas at the lowest position in the rotational direction. CONSTITUTION:A liquid is sprayed with a liquid spraying mechanism 38 to a forming hole 10 positioned at a side position in the course of rotating a cylindrical rotor 6. A viscous raw material is filled in the forming hole 10 by a viscous material filling mechanism 40 at the top position during the rotation of the rotor. The formed viscous material is removed from the forming hole by forwarding a pattern-forming member 16 and blasting a gas by a gas-blasting mechanism 42 synchronized to the forwarding motion of the pattern-forming member 16 by the aid of a cam mechanism 30 when the hole is positioned at the lowest position in rotational direction.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] This invention relates to an automatic molding device for a viscous material, and in particular, it is capable of easily molding a viscous material into a predetermined shape and forms a pattern of a desired shape on the viscous material. The present invention relates to an automatic molding device for a viscous material that can be easily formed.

(Conventional technology) When making breads, cakes, cutlets/biscuits, Japanese sweets, spaghetti/pastas, meats (hamburgers/meat dumplings), fish paste products, etc., the kneaded dough is stretched into a plate shape, This plate-shaped dough is pressed against a mold to be cut out and molded into a predetermined shape, and this molded dough is then subjected to processing such as heating.Alternatively, the kneaded dough is cut into a predetermined size and The cut dough is molded into a predetermined shape by hand or with an instrument, and the molded dough is subjected to treatments such as heating.

Further, when forming a pattern on the bread or the like, a pattern forming tool is pressed against the molded dough to form a pattern in a desired shape. Alternatively, use an appropriate tool to mold the dough,
A pattern of a desired shape is formed.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

By the way, dough such as bread is made of a viscous material obtained by kneading a material such as powder containing water. A viscous material having such viscosity is difficult to process.

However, when making bread etc., there are many steps such as stretching and cutting the viscous dough, cutting, molding, and even forming patterns. For this reason, the molding operation requires a great deal of labor, and there are disadvantages in that the viscous material cannot be easily molded into a molded body of a predetermined shape, and that a pattern of a desired shape cannot be easily formed on the viscous material.

[Purpose of the invention]

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to create a viscous material that can easily mold a viscous material into a predetermined shape without requiring much labor for molding work, and that can easily form a pattern of a desired shape on the viscous material. The objective is to realize an automatic molding device.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to achieve this object, the present invention provides a molding hole of a predetermined shape filled with a viscous material on the outer circumferential wall of a cylindrical rotating body rotated by a horizontal rotating shaft. The pattern forming body is provided with a pattern forming body that forms a pattern of a desired shape on the viscous material, and this pattern forming body is pushed toward the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical rotary body at the lowest portion in the rotational direction, and is pushed toward the innermost part in the remaining portion in the rotational direction of the cylindrical rotating body. A cam mechanism is provided for retiring the molding hole to the side, and a liquid spraying mechanism is provided for spraying liquid to the molding hole when the molding hole of the cylindrical rotating body is located at a side portion in the rotational direction. A viscous material filling mechanism is provided for filling the molding hole with the viscous material when the molding hole is located at the uppermost position in the rotational direction, and when the molding hole of the cylindrical rotating body is located at the lowermost position in the rotational direction, It is characterized by being provided with a gas injection mechanism that injects gas in synchronization with the pushing of the pattern forming body.

[Effect]

According to the configuration of the present invention, while the cylindrical rotating body rotates, the liquid spraying mechanism sprays liquid into the molding hole at a side portion in the rotation direction, thereby cleaning the molding hole and molding the viscous material. The body is easily removed and the molding hole is filled with the viscous material by the viscous material filling mechanism at the uppermost part in the rotational direction. A pattern of a desired shape is formed, and the viscous material is released from the forming hole by pushing the pattern forming body by a cam mechanism at the lowest part in the rotational direction and jetting gas by a gas injection mechanism synchronized with the pushing of the pattern forming body. Remove the molded body.

〔Example〕

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail based on the drawings.

1 to 8 show embodiments of this invention. In FIGS. 1 to 3, 2 is an automatic molding device. The automatic molding device 2 is provided with a cylindrical rotating body 6 that is rotated by a horizontal rotating shaft 4 . A molding hole 10 having a predetermined shape and filled with a viscous material M is provided in the outer circumferential wall 8 of the cylindrical rotating body 6 . The molding hole 10 is formed, for example, in a scallop-like planar shape as shown in FIG. 7 from the outer circumferential surface 12 side of the outer circumferential wall 8 toward the inner inner part 14 side. Note that the shape of the molding hole 10 is not limited to the above shape. Furthermore, a wall body 15 is formed on the inner deep part 14 side of the outer peripheral wall 8 of the molding hole 10 so as to surround the molding hole 10, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 8. This wall body 15 prevents gas injected from a nozzle 64 (described later) from escaping.

A pattern forming body 16 for forming a pattern of a desired shape on the viscous material M is provided in the molding hole 10. The pattern forming body 16 is formed into a scallop-like planar shape, and is provided with a pattern forming tool 18, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, for example. Further, the pattern forming body 16 has a plurality of air holes 20 through which gas injected when the viscous material M is removed is communicated from the back side to the front side. This air hole 20 is the fifth
As shown in the figure, the tip of the fixing member 21 fixed to the cylindrical rotating body 6 is inserted and removed by pushing and retracting the pattern forming body 16. Note that the reference numeral 20a is an auxiliary air hole.

The pattern forming body 16 is connected to the connecting body 23 as shown in FIGS.
It is supported by a support body 22 via. Support body 22
One end side of two parallel guide shafts 24, 24 are fixedly installed in the. The guide shafts 24 are slidably held at their intermediate portions by a holder 26 fixed to the cylindrical rotating body 6, and are connected at the other end by a connecting body 28. A spring 29 is compressed between the connecting body 28 and the holding body 26.

The pattern forming body 16 is formed on the outer circumferential surface 1 at the lowermost portion of the cylindrical rotating body 6 in the rotational direction (in the six directions of arrows) by the cam mechanism 30.
It is pushed toward the 2nd side, and is retired toward the inner inner part 14 at the remaining portions in the rotational direction other than the lowest portion. At this time, the pattern forming body 16, as shown by the two-dot chain line in FIG.
The tip of the fixing member 21 is inserted into the air hole 20 when it is retracted toward the inner inner part 14 side, so that it is flush with the air hole 20. On the other hand, as shown by the solid line in FIG. The tip of the fixing member 21 is pulled out from 20 and opened.

The cam mechanism 30, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 5, consists of a cam 32 fixed to the rotating shaft 4 and a roller 34 that comes into contact with the cam 32. The cam surface 36 of the cam 32 is
It has a small cam surface 36a with a small distance from the center of the rotating shaft 4 and a large cam surface 36b with a large distance from the center of the rotating shaft 4. The roller 34 is rotatably supported by the support 22, and comes into contact with the cam surface 36 of the cam 32 to push and retire the pattern forming body 16.

This automatic molding device 2 is provided with a liquid spraying mechanism 38 that sprays liquid into the molding hole 10 when the molding hole 10 is located at a side portion in the rotational direction.
A viscous material filling mechanism 40 is provided that fills the molding hole lO with the viscous material M when the molding hole 10 is located at the uppermost position in the rotational direction. Further, a gas injection mechanism 42 is provided which injects gas in synchronization with the pushing of the pattern forming body 16 when the cylindrical rotating body 6 is located at the lowest position in the rotational direction.

The liquid spraying mechanism 38 is provided with a liquid supply pipe 46 for supplying liquid to a nozzle 44 that sprays the liquid in a mist form, and a gas supply pipe 48 for supplying gas in communication with each other. The nozzle 44 is provided so as to be oriented toward the molding hole 10 when located at a side portion in the rotation direction.

The liquid supply pipe 46 is connected to a liquid reservoir (not shown). Further, the gas supply pipe 48 is connected to a pump 50 that pumps gas. In the middle of this gas supply pipe 48, as shown in FIG.
a gas supply mechanism 52 that supplies gas to spray liquid from the nozzle 44 when
has been established. As shown in FIG. 6, the gas supply mechanism 52 is in contact with one side edge 54 of the outer circumferential wall 8 by a protrusion 56 provided at a predetermined location on one side edge 54 of the outer circumferential wall 8 of the cylindrical rotating body 6. The oscillating body 58 is swung away, and the oscillating body 58 is oscillated in a direction away from the one side edge 54 of the outer circumferential wall 8, thereby causing gas to flow through the oscillating body 58, and the one side of the outer circumferential wall 8 on the 5th day of the oscillating body 58. It is comprised of a valve mechanism 60 that shuts off gas by swinging in a direction approaching the edge 54.

Thereby, the liquid spraying mechanism 38 sprays the liquid into the molding hole 10 to facilitate cleaning of the molding hole 10 and removal of the molded body F of the viscous material M. Note that water, alcohol, or the like is supplied as the liquid.

Furthermore, air is supplied as the gas.

The viscous material filling mechanism 40 has a viscous material storage section 62 that stores and kneads the viscous material M.

The viscous material M stored in this viscous material storage section 62 is
When the molding hole 10 of the cylindrical rotating body 6 is located at the uppermost position in the rotational direction, the molding hole lO is filled with a rotating wing-shaped filling tool (not shown) provided in the viscous material storage section 62. .

The gas injection mechanism 42 is provided with a gas supply pipe 66 for supplying gas to a nozzle 64 that injects the gas.

As shown in FIG. 8, the nozzle 64 is oriented toward the back side of the pattern forming body 16 surrounded by the wall 15 in order to inject gas when the forming hole 10 is located at the lowest position in the rotational direction. The gas supply pipe 66 is connected to the pump 50 that pumps the gas.As shown in FIG. Hole 10
A gas supply mechanism 68 is provided for supplying gas to inject gas from the nozzle 64 in synchronization with the pushing of the pattern forming body 16 when the pattern forming body 16 is positioned at the lowest position in the rotational direction. The gas supply mechanism 68, as shown in FIG.
The oscillating body 70 is oscillated toward and away from the outer circumferential surface 12 of the outer circumferential wall 8 by the oscillating body 70, and the oscillating body 70 is moved in a direction away from the outer circumferential surface 12 of the outer circumferential wall 8 to cause gas to flow through the oscillating body. The valve mechanism 72 shuts off gas by swinging the outer circumferential wall 8 of 70 in the direction toward the outer circumferential surface 12.

Thereby, the gas injection mechanism 42 extracts the molded body F of the viscous material M from the molding hole 10 by jetting gas in synchronization with the pushing of the pattern forming body 16 .

Moreover, this automatic molding apparatus 2 is provided with a transport mechanism 74 located at the lowest part in the rotational direction of the outer peripheral part of the cylindrical rotating body 6. This conveyance mechanism 74 includes a 10th lug 76 located at the lowest position in the rotational direction, a 20th lug 78 located at a desired position, and these 1st and 20th lugs 76.
The belt 80 is wound around the belts 6 and 78. Thereby, the transport mechanism 74 transports the molded body F of the viscous material M pulled out from the molding hole 10 to a desired site.

Note that numerals 82 and 84 are powder supply mechanisms.

Next, the action will be explained.

When the automatic molding device 2 molds the viscous material M into the molded body F, first, the viscous material M is charged into the viscous material storage section 62 of the viscous material filling mechanism 42 . The viscous material M put into the viscous material storage section 62 is kneaded as appropriate.

When the rotating shaft 4 is driven by a drive source (not shown), the cylindrical rotating body 6 is rotated in the direction of arrow A. When the cylindrical rotary body 6 rotates and the molding hole lO is located at a side portion in the rotation direction, a protrusion 56 provided at a predetermined location on one side edge 54 of the outer circumferential wall 8 of the cylindrical rotary body 6 causes liquid to flow out. The swinging body 58 of the gas supply mechanism 52 of the spraying mechanism 38 swings in a direction away from the one side edge 54 of the outer peripheral wall 8, and the valve mechanism 60 allows the gas to flow.

As a result, the liquid is sprayed from the nozzle 44 of the liquid spraying mechanism 38 to the molding hole 10, thereby cleaning the molding hole 10. Moreover, the spraying of this liquid facilitates the removal of the molded body F of the viscous material M from the molding hole 10.

When the cylindrical rotary body 6 rotates and the molding hole 10 passes through the side portion in the rotation direction, a protrusion 56 provided at a predetermined location on one side edge 54 of the outer circumferential wall 8 of the cylindrical rotary body 6 causes liquid to flow out. The swinging body 58 of the spray mechanism 38 swings in a direction approaching the side edge 54 of the outer peripheral wall 8, and the valve mechanism 60 shuts off the gas. Therefore, spraying of the liquid is stopped.

As the cylindrical rotating body 6 further rotates and the molding hole lO approaches the uppermost portion in the rotational direction from the side portion in the rotational direction, the roller 34 of the cam mechanism 30 moves from the large cam surface 36b of the cam 32 to the small cam surface 36a. The molding hole l
The pattern forming body 16 inside O is retired to the inner deep part 14 side.

When the cylindrical rotating body 6 rotates and the molding hole 10 is located at the uppermost position in the rotational direction, the viscous material M stored in the viscous material storage section 62 of the viscous material filling mechanism 40 is filled for molding by a filling tool (not shown). The hole 10 is filled. At this time, the pattern forming body 16 in the molding hole 10 is removed from the cam 3 of the cam mechanism 30.
The roller 34 comes into contact with the small cam surface 36a of No. 2, and is retracted toward the inner deep portion 14, and the fixing member 21 is inserted into the air hole 20.
The tip is inserted so that it is flush.

As a result, the filled viscous material M is transferred to the molding hole 10.
The pattern forming body 1 is formed into a predetermined shape by
A pattern of a desired shape is formed by the pattern forming tool 18 of 6.

As the cylindrical rotating body 6 rotates from the uppermost portion in the rotational direction and the molding hole 10 filled with the viscous material M passes through the side portions in the rotational direction and approaches the lowermost portion in the rotational direction, the cam mechanism 3
The roller 34 of 0 comes into contact with the small cam surface 36a to the large cam surface 36b of the cam 32, and gradually pushes the pattern forming body 16 in the molding hole 10 toward the outer circumferential surface 12.

When the cylindrical rotating body 6 rotates and the molding hole 10 filled with the viscous material M is located at the lowest position with a rotational force of 1'il, the roller 34 of the cam mechanism 30 hits the large cam surface 36b of the cam 32. By contacting the pattern forming body 16 in the molding hole 10
the fixing member 2 from the air hole 20.
Pull out the tip of 1 and open it. In sync with this push,
A protrusion 56 provided at a predetermined location on an example side edge 54 of the outer circumferential wall 8 of the cylindrical rotary body 6 moves the rocking body 70 of the gas supply mechanism 68 of the gas injection mechanism 42 in a direction away from the outer circumferential surface 12 of the outer circumferential wall 8. The valve mechanism 72 allows the gas to flow.

Thereby, in synchronization with the pushing of the pattern forming body 16, gas is injected from the nozzle 64 of the gas injection mechanism 42 toward the back side of the pattern forming body 16 surrounded by the wall 15. The injected gas is ejected from the surface side of the pattern forming body 16 toward the surface side through the air holes 20. At this time, the air is also ejected from the auxiliary air hole 20a. Such a pattern forming body 1
6 and the injection of gas in synchronization with the pushing of the pattern forming body 16, the molded body F of the viscous material M on which the pattern is formed is pulled out from the molding hole 10.

When the cylindrical rotating body 6 rotates and the molding hole 10 from which the molded body F has been removed passes through the lowest part in the rotational direction, the cylindrical rotating body 6
An example of a protrusion 5 provided at a predetermined location on the side edge 54 of the outer peripheral wall 8 of
6, the rocking body 70 of the gas supply mechanism 68 of the gas injection mechanism 42 is rocked in a direction approaching the outer peripheral surface 12 of the outer peripheral wall 8, and the valve mechanism 72 shuts off the gas. Therefore, the injection of gas is stopped.

After that, the above operation is repeated to form the viscous material M into the molded body F.
Mold into.

Note that the molded body F of the viscous material M on which the pattern has been extracted from the molding hole lO is conveyed to a desired site by the conveyance mechanism 74, and subjected to the next stage of treatment, such as heat treatment. .

In this way, the automatic molding device 2 sprays the liquid into the molding hole 10 by using the liquid spraying mechanism 38 at a side portion in the rotation direction while the cylindrical rotating body 6 rotates. It facilitates cleaning and removal of the molded body F of the viscous material M, and also fills the viscous material M into the molding hole 10 with the viscous material filling mechanism 40 at the uppermost portion in the rotational direction. Shape of viscous material M
At the same time, a pattern of a desired shape is formed by the pattern forming tool 18 of the pattern forming body 16, and the pattern forming body 16 is pushed by the cam mechanism 30 at the lowest position in the rotational direction, and the pattern forming body 16 is Gas injection mechanism 4 synchronized with pushing forward
2, the molded body F of the viscous material M is pulled out from the molding hole 10.

As a result, the viscous material M is automatically and continuously applied to the molded body F.
In addition to being able to mold the viscous material M, it is also possible to form a pattern on the viscous material M. Therefore, the viscous material M can be easily molded into a molded body F having a predetermined shape without requiring much labor in the molding operation, and the viscous material M
A pattern of a desired shape can be easily formed.

In this embodiment, one molding hole 10 is provided in the outer circumferential wall 8 of the cylindrical rotating body 6, but one molding hole 10 is provided in the circumferential direction of the outer circumferential wall 8 of the cylindrical rotating body 6. By providing two or more of them, it is possible to mold two or more pieces of the viscous material M into the molded body F during one rotation of the cylindrical rotating body 6. Also,
By providing two or more molding holes 10 in the axial direction of the outer circumferential wall 8 of the cylindrical rotor 6, the molding hole 10 allows the viscous material M to be formed into a molded body while the cylindrical rotor 6 rotates once. It is possible to mold two or more pieces in F. Furthermore, the valve mechanisms 60 and 72
As such, pneumatic valves and solenoid valves can be applied. Furthermore, for example, a viscous material M such as Kutsky can be formed into a molded body F.
At the time of molding, by providing a heater in the cylindrical rotating body 6, the kneaded butter, margarine, etc. can be melted.

〔Effect of the invention〕

Thus, according to the present invention, while the cylindrical rotating body rotates, the liquid is sprayed into the molding hole by the liquid spraying mechanism at the side portion in the rotation direction, thereby cleaning the molding hole and cleaning the viscous material. By making it easy to remove the molded body, the viscous material is filled into the molding hole by the viscous material filling mechanism at the uppermost part in the rotational direction, so that the molded body is molded into a viscous material molded body of a predetermined shape by the molding hole, and a pattern-forming body is formed. A pattern of a desired shape is formed by the cam mechanism at the lowest part in the rotational direction, and a gas injection mechanism synchronizes with the pushing of the pattern forming body, which injects gas from the forming hole to remove viscosity. Remove the molded material.

Thereby, the viscous material can be automatically and continuously molded into a molded body, and a pattern can be formed on the viscous material. Therefore, a viscous material having viscosity can be easily molded into a molded body of a predetermined shape, and a pattern of a desired shape can be easily formed on the viscous material without requiring much labor in the molding operation.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

1 to 8 show embodiments of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an automatic molding device, FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of the automatic molding device, and FIG. 3 is a side view of main parts of the automatic molding device. , FIG. 4 is an enlarged side view of the cylindrical rotating body, FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along the line V-V in FIG. 4, FIG. 6 is a schematic explanatory diagram of the liquid spraying mechanism, and FIG. FIG. 8 is an enlarged plan view of the molding hole and a schematic explanatory diagram of the gas injection mechanism. In the figure, 2 is an automatic molding device, 4 is a rotating shaft, 6 is a cylindrical rotating body, 8 is an outer peripheral wall, 10 is a molding hole, 12 is an outer peripheral surface, 14 is an inner part, 16 is a pattern forming body, 20 is an air hole, 3
0 is a cam mechanism, 38 is a liquid spraying mechanism, 40 is a viscous material filling mechanism, 42 is a gas injection mechanism, and 74 is a conveyance mechanism. Patent distributor Sho Mori Kikuchi

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A molding hole of a predetermined shape filled with a viscous material is provided on the outer peripheral wall of a cylindrical rotating body rotated by a horizontal rotating shaft,
A pattern forming body for forming a pattern of a desired shape on the viscous material is provided in the molding hole, and the pattern forming body is pushed toward the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical rotary body at the lowest portion in the rotational direction and rotated. A cam mechanism is provided for retiring to the innermost side in the remaining portion in the direction, and a liquid spraying mechanism is provided for spraying liquid into the molding hole when the molding hole of the cylindrical rotating body is located at a side portion in the rotational direction. and a viscous material filling mechanism for filling the viscous material into the molding hole when the molding hole is located at the uppermost position in the rotational direction; 1. An automatic molding device for a viscous material, characterized in that a gas injection mechanism is provided that injects gas in synchronization with the pushing of the pattern forming body when the pattern forming body is positioned at the position of the pattern forming body.