JPH0331197Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] A. Purpose of the invention Industrial application field The invention is a method for measuring and dividing dough-like food dough used in various food processing processes, such as dough before baking confectionery, into predetermined volumes. It is about the equipment that goes.

Conventional technology and its problems Conventionally, when making confectionery such as castella in mass production, the dough is divided into predetermined volumes and filled into baking containers, etc.
Most of these dividing devices were of the pump type.

This pump method usually uses a rotating body with a cavity of a predetermined size to forcibly fill the cavity with the dough using the drawing force of the pump, and then rotates it to the extrusion port where it is forcibly filled. The method was to extrude the dough and take out a fixed volume at a time.

Incidentally, food dough is generally very delicate and sensitive to external forces, which greatly affects the taste and flavor of the finished product.

In other words, the above-mentioned pump method had a major drawback in that the food dough was forcibly sucked in or extruded, resulting in tensile and compressive forces, which caused the kneaded food dough to easily become damaged and make it difficult to bring out the original taste and flavor. be.

The present invention was made to solve this problem, and the dough does not get damaged even if it is divided one after another into predetermined volumes without applying forced external force like a pump type. The present invention aims to provide a volumetric volumetric device that allows the finished product to exhibit its original taste and flavor.

B. Structure and operation of the invention The structure of the invention is such that a piston and a plunger are provided below the hopper, and a vacuum-like cavity of a predetermined volume is formed between the piston and the plunger by the retracting movement of the piston, and the kneaded dough is transferred from the hopper to the hopper. The food dough is filled, and then the piston and the plunger are moved simultaneously, the filled food dough is taken out by gravity, and the piston is moved until it comes into contact with the plunger, and the plunger and the piston are moved together. The gist of the present invention is a volumetric device for dividing and measuring kneaded food dough, characterized in that the food dough is returned to the bottom of the hopper.

Means for solving the problem: A cavity is formed below the hopper that stores the kneaded food dough, and the cavity is opened and closed by the movement of the piston.When the piston is retracted, a cavity is created and a vacuum is created. The food dough acts synergistically with the falling force and is filled very smoothly.
This food dough is moved to the outside as it is, and the food dough is allowed to fall naturally and taken out into a suitable container, so that no pressing force is applied when taking it out.

The present invention will be described by way of an example with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic side cross-sectional view of one embodiment of the device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional plan view of the embodiment of FIG. 1 at the piston position.

As shown in these figures, the present invention is a kneaded food dough s.
There is a hopper 1 for charging and storing materials, and below this hopper 1 there is a top plate 2, a bottom plate 3, a side plate 4,
There is a cylindrical body surrounded by 5 and with a top plate 2 open at the hopper 1, and a piston 6 and a plunger 7 are movably provided inside this cylindrical body.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the side plate 4 is fixed to the piston 6, and the side plate 4 moves as the rod 8' of the cylinder 8 moves in and out to move the piston 6. Further, the side plate 5 is fixed to the plunger 7, and the side plate 5 moves as the rod 9' of the cylinder 9 moves in and out to move the plunger 7.

In this case, the rod 9' of the cylinder 9 and the cylinder 8 are fixed via a connecting plate 10,
Therefore, when moving the plunger 7,
Since the cylinder 8 moves at the same time, the piston 6 also moves.

In other words, when only the piston 6 is to be moved, the rod 8' of the cylinder 8 can be moved in and out, and when the piston 6 and plunger 7 are to be moved at the same time, the rod 9' of the cylinder 9 can be moved in and out.

It goes without saying that the cylinders 8 and 9 are, for example, air cylinders using a compressor.

As shown in Figure 1, there is a drop hole 11 on the outside of the bottom plate 3.
is bored, and a receptacle 12 is placed below it so as to be replaceable.

FIGS. 3A, 3B, and 3C are schematic side sectional views for explaining the operation of the device of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3A, first, the piston 6 and the side plate 4 are retracted by a predetermined distance to create a cavity of a predetermined volume between the piston 6 and the plunger 7 by the protrusion of the cylinder 8. This cavity becomes a vacuum as the piston 6 retracts from the state shown in FIG. 1, and the food dough s is introduced into the cavity without any resistance by acting synergistically with the falling force.

In other words, a predetermined volume of food dough s' is filled from the hopper 1 into the cavity very smoothly without applying any forced external force to the food dough s.

The position of the plunger 7 can be adjusted so that the desired food dough can be applied.
This allows us to measure the volume of s′. In other words, the fixing position of the plunger 7 and the side plate 5 is designed so that it can be adjusted as desired, and the size of the cavity can be determined by the position of the plunger 7.

When the cavity is filled with food dough s' as shown in FIG. 3A, the piston 6 and plunger 7 move simultaneously to send out the filled food dough s' to the outside as shown in FIG. 3B. It is. As a result, the food dough s' falls naturally and is stored in the receiver 12.

Even in this falling storage, the food dough s' is not subjected to any forced external force, but simply falls due to natural gravity, and the food dough s' does not suffer any damage.

As explained in FIG. 2, the simultaneous movement of the piston 6 and the plunger 7 is achieved by the protrusion of the cylinder 9.

When the food dough s' falls and the cavity becomes empty, the piston 6 is returned until it comes into contact with the plunger 7, and the cavity is closed and eliminated as shown in FIG. 3C. Needless to say, this operation is achieved by the cylinder 8 retracting the protrusion.

Then, the piston 6 and plunger 7 are pulled in simultaneously as shown by arrow A, returning to the state shown in FIG.

Of course, this operation is performed by the cylinder 9 pulling in the aforementioned protrusion.

Thereafter, the same operation is repeated to successively divide the food dough s into food dough s' having a predetermined volume.

C. Effect of the invention The present invention is as described above, and is a device that divides kneaded food dough into a predetermined volume one after another without using forced external force, and is sensitive to the influence of external force. This is a device that divides the food dough into volumes without applying any tensile or compressive force to the easily changeable food dough, that is, without forcing any external force to be applied to it, so that the food dough retains its original taste and flavor without being damaged. It has an extremely excellent effect.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a schematic side cross-sectional view of one embodiment of the device of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional plan view of the embodiment of FIG. 1 at the piston position. Figure 3 A, B, C
Both are schematic side sectional views for explaining the operation of the device of the present invention. 1...Hopper, 2...Top plate, 3...Bottom plate,
4, 5...Side plate, 6...Piston, 7...
...Plunger, 8, 9...Cylinder, 10...
... Connecting plate, 11 ... Drop hole, 12 ... Receiver,
s...Food dough.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A piston and a plunger are provided below the hopper, and by retracting the piston, a vacuum cavity of a predetermined volume is formed between the piston and the plunger, and the kneaded food dough is filled from the hopper. At the same time, the filled food dough is moved outside and taken out by gravity, and the piston is moved until it comes into contact with the plunger, and the plunger and piston are returned to below the hopper. Features: Divide volume device for kneaded food dough.