JPH03254716A - Foodstuff feeding device for automatic foodstuff cooking device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily shift the foodstuff in a busket to the next cooking process by installing a busket for feeding the foodstuff, elevator device for lifting the busket, and a pressing device for sending the foodstuff in the busket to a feeding chute. CONSTITUTION:When a supporting rod 20 is pushed up by an elevator device 21, a movable arm 35 is turned by the rising transfer of the supporting rod 20, and a feeding chute 30 is advanced and positioned below a busket 14 in rising transfer. The bottom surface part 14A of the busket 14 is opened by a pressing device 26, and the noodles in the busket 14 is acceleratedly sent by the drainage by a drainage shower 36, and sent out the feeding chute 30 from over a bottom noodle part 14A, and sent to the busket 37 of a cleaning device 10. Accordingly, when the busket in which foodstuff is accommodated is shifted to a prescribed position, the busket is lifted up by the elevator device 21, and can be shifted to the next cooking process easily and surely.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a food delivery device of an automatic food cooking device for cooking foods such as udon, soba, spaghetti, and ramen.

(b) Prior art As a technology prior to the present invention, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 60-172264
There is a noodle cooking device disclosed in the publication.

This device produces noodle dough by kneading flour and water, forms the noodle dough into noodle strings, boils the noodles in boiling water, and stores the boiled noodles in a container. .

(C) Problems to be Solved by the Invention Since the noodles cooked using the conventional device are stored in a vertically long basket with an open top, the noodles in the basket are not transferred to the next cooking process. In some cases, the noodles cannot be removed without reversing the basket, making it difficult to mechanize and have to rely on workers.

In view of the above, the present invention provides a food delivery device for an automatic food cooking device that can easily move the food in the basket to the next cooking step.

(d) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention provides an automatic food cooking device that automatically cooks food, which includes a basket that stores and transfers food and can send out the food by opening the bottom part, and a cono basket. An elevator device that moves the basket upward; a delivery chute that can be moved forward and backward and extends below the basket when the basket is raised by the elevator device; and a bottom surface of the elevated basket is opened to move the food in the basket onto the delivery chute. It is equipped with a pressing device for sending out the air.

(e) Effects In the present invention having such a structure, when the basket containing food is moved to a predetermined position, the basket is lifted upward by the elevator device. As the basket rises, the delivery chute advances below the basket, and the pressing device opens the bottom of the basket to send the food in the basket onto the delivery chute to be transferred to the next cooking process.

(f) Example Each figure shows an embodiment of the invention.

In FIG. 1, 1 indicates that when a customer inserts a medium such as money or a card and selects noodles for sale,
This is a reception device that issues order cards and sends sales instructions to the processing and cooking equipment 2.The front side has a coin slot 3, a card and banknote insertion slot 4, and a plurality of slots provided for each type of noodle to be sold. Select button 5, this select button 5
A card sales outlet 6 for issuing an order card for the noodles selected by the customer is provided.

That is, the reception device N1 becomes capable of selecting a product when coins, banknotes, cards, or a combination thereof corresponding to a predetermined amount of money for purchasing a product are inserted into the coin slot 3 or 4. , when one of the selection buttons 5 is selected by the customer, the type data of the selected product, the order number, etc. are written and memorized, and an order card with the product name, order number, etc. printed is sent to the card sales outlet 6. It is set to be sent.

Processing and cooking equipment@2 includes a noodle making machine 7 that makes udon noodles, a noodle making machine 8 that makes soba noodles, and a noodle boiling device that boils and cooks the raw noodles made by these noodle making machines 78. 9, and a washing device 10 for washing the boiled noodles boiled in the boiling device 9 with cold water.

The noodle making machines 7 and 8 mix flour and water for each meal to make noodle dough, form the raw noodle dough into noodle strings, and send them to the noodle boiling device 9 through the delivery conveyor 11. That's what I do.

The noodle boiling device 9 is provided with a donut-shaped boiling water tank 13 that heats poured boiling water with an electric heater 12 as a heating device, and a large number of baskets 14 are suspended in the boiling water in the boiling water tank 13. A rotary conveying device 15 that moves one basket at a time is provided in the center of the boiling water tank 13.

This conveying device 15 has a drive motor 1 which is controlled to be driven intermittently.
6 is provided with a rotation shaft 17 which is rotated by connecting the lower part thereof, and a plurality of arm portions 18 extending radially outward at equal intervals in the vertically intermediate portion of this rotation shaft 17 are arranged in upper and lower pairs. At the same time, a support member 19 is provided between each of the upper and lower arm portions 18, 18 in a vertically extending manner.

Each support member 19 is provided with a support rod 20 on which the basket 14 is suspended and attached at its upper end so as to be movable up and down. Normally, the support rod 20 is held at a lower position by its own weight and the weight of the basket 14, and the basket 14 is It is immersed in the boiling water in the hot water tank 13 to the extent that its upper part is slightly above the water surface.

Reference numeral 21 denotes an elevator device that is engaged with the lower end of the support rod 20 and moves the support rod 20 up to a predetermined position, and a basket tray 14 storing boiled noodles is at a predetermined delivery position where the boiled noodles are transferred to the washing device 10. When the support rod 20 is moved up to this point, the push-up piece 22 is locked to the lower end of the support rod 20, and the support rod 20 is pushed up to a predetermined position and returned to the lower position after reaching the predetermined position.

That is, the push-up piece 22 is fixed to an endless chain 24 that is rotated by a drive motor 23 that can rotate forward and backward, and when the basket 14 moves to the delivery position, the support rod 20 is moved to a predetermined position by the forward rotation of the drive motor 23. After the support rod 20 is pushed up to a predetermined position, the drive motor 23 is reversely rotated to lower the support rod 20 back to the lower position.

On the other hand, the "udon" or "soge" delivered from the delivery conveyor 11 into the Basquera 14 is boiled and cooked while being transferred by the transport device 15, and is delivered to the cleaning device 10 at a predetermined delivery position. It is set so that when you move it, it becomes boiled. Note that this setting can be determined by the installation position of the noodle making machine 7.8 and the transport time by tact movement of the transport device 15.

The basket 14 can boil and cook stored noodles.
It is made of a net or a board with many water holes, and the noodles can be taken out from the bottom.
The bottom part 14A can be opened and closed freely, and is normally closed by the elasticity of the spring 25 to prevent the noodles from falling.

Reference numeral 26 denotes a pressing device provided above the basket 14 located at the delivery position, which presses the mounting base 2 extending upward.
A press rod 27 whose upper part is fixed to the elevator 9 and hangs down, and a press roller 28 provided at the lower end of the press rod 27 are provided. The bottom surface portion 14A is opened downward.

That is, when the basket 14 is pushed up by the elevator device 21, the pressing roller 28 comes into contact with the upper surface of the bottom part 14A in the middle of its ascent, and the bottom part 14A is pressed downward to be in an inclined state, and the basket 14 is tilted. When reaching a predetermined upper position, the bottom portion 14A is opened so that the stored noodles can be delivered.

Therefore, the stored noodles slide down on the inclined bottom part 14A, are delivered onto the delivery chute 30 located correspondingly below the bottom part 14A, and are transferred through this delivery chute 30 to the washing device filO, which is the next cooking process. be done.

The delivery chute 30 is fixed in an inclined state to the lower end of a mounting rod 32 whose upper end is fixed to a support shaft 31 and hangs down.
It is rotatably supported at a lower position of the basket 14 which has been pushed up to the upper position by the elevator device 21 so as to be able to move forward and backward about a support shaft 31 as a fulcrum.

That is, the delivery chute 30 is rotatably suspended and supported by a support shaft 31 that is rotatably supported by a mounting member 33 provided on the lower surface of the mounting base 29 .

Further, the delivery chute 30 is normally moved up and down by the elevator device 21 by the elasticity of a spring 34 whose one end is locked to the delivery chute 30 and the other end is locked to the mounting base 29. It is located away from the passage to prevent the basket 14 from moving up and down.

On the other hand, the support shaft 31 is provided with a movable arm 35 at its end, and an elevator equipment N21 is provided at the end of the movable arm 35.
A rotating roller 35A is provided that contacts the upper end of the support rod 20 pushed up by the elevator device 21, and when the support rod 20 is pushed up by the elevator device 21, the rotating roller 35A contacts the upper end of the support rod 20 and is pressed upward. As a result, the delivery chute 30 moves into the vertical movement passage of the basket 14 using the support shaft 31 as a fulcrum, and is advanced to a position below the pushed up basket 14.

When the basket 14 containing boiled noodles is pushed up by the elevator device 21 and the bottom surface 14A of the basket 14 rises to a position where the pressing device 26 starts pressing, the water shower 36 sprays cold water into the basket 14.
Start discharging water toward the bottom part 14A in the inner part 4 to facilitate the delivery of the stored boiled noodles, and wash the upper surface of the bottom part 14A after the boiled noodles have been delivered, and the position where the bottom part 14A is closed. When the basket 14 is lowered to this point, water discharging is stopped.

Therefore, when the support rod 20 is pushed up by the elevator device 21, the movable arm 35 is rotated by the upward movement of the support rod 20, and the delivery chute 30 is advanced to a position below the basket 14 that is moving upward, and the suppression device 26 opens the bottom part 14A of the basket 14, and the noodles in the basket 14 are accelerated by the water spray from the water shower 36 and are delivered from above the bottom part 14A onto the delivery chute 30, and the noodles in the basket 37 of the washing device 10 are sent to.

The cleaning device 10 is provided with a rotary conveyance device 38 in the center of the cleaning tank 39 that suspends a large number of baskets 37 and moves one basket at a time. The basket 37 is rotated in synchronization with the rotation. Then, the boiled noodles received from the basket 14 of the boiling noodle device 9 at the delivery position are washed with cold water discharged from the flush shower 40, and then washed by opening the bottom of the basket 37 into the container of the container delivery device 41. I try to take out the boiled noodles.

The container delivery device 41 delivers a container for storing boiled noodles in accordance with the boiled noodles dispensed from the basket 37 of the cleaning device IO, and also transfers the container containing the boiled noodles to the stocker section 43 of the receiving device 42. It is.

The receiving device 42 transfers the container storing the boiled noodles to the stocker section 43.
Store multiple noodles and display the order number of the stored noodles l#44
When the customer inserts an order card into the card insertion slot 45, the corresponding product is delivered to the outlet 46, and noodle soup is poured into the container from the noodle soup supply device 47. (now supplied)
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(G) Effects of the Invention As described above, when the food basket containing the food moves to the running position, the food basket is lifted upward by the elevator device, and the rise of the basket causes the delivery chute to be ejected. At the same time, the food in the container is advanced to the lower part of the container, and the pressing device opens the bottom of the container and sends the food in the container onto the delivery chute to be transferred to the next cooking process. Because of this, the noodles in the basket can be easily taken out without transmitting the basket, and the noodles can be easily and reliably moved to the next cooking process, making it easier to mechanize the device. play.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Each figure shows an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional front view of the noodle boiling device, FIG. 2 is a partial front view showing the bottom of the basket in the upper position opened, Third
The figure is a similar side view, and FIG. 4 is a schematic perspective view of the automatic food cooking device. 14...basket, 14A...bottom part, 21...
- Elevator device, 26...pressing device, 30...feeding chute.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An automatic food cooking device that automatically cooks food includes a basket that stores and transfers food and can send out the food by opening the bottom, an elevator device that moves the basket upward, and a basket that can be moved up and down by the elevator device. The present invention is characterized by being equipped with a delivery chute that is movable forward and backward and extends below the basket when the basket is raised, and a pressing device that opens the bottom of the raised basket and sends out the food in the basket onto the delivery chute. Food delivery device for automatic food cooking equipment.