JPH0372835A - Noodle preparation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To supply uniformly arranged noodles in a receiving box by disposing a guide plate on the parallelly falling line of noodle lines through a chute disposed toward the axis of a roller and shaking the guide plate on a pivot parallelly disposed on the guide plate. CONSTITUTION:A noodle body B is fed on a roller 7 and cut with a cutter 8 extending toward the axis of the roller 7 into noodle lines L, which are allowed to fall on a chute 9. A guide plate 15 is disposed on the falling line of the noodle line L to receive the noodle lines L, and the guide plate 15 is shaken on a parallel pivot 13 to uniformly supply the noodle lines L in a receiving box 5.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to an apparatus for producing noodles such as water-added noodles, and more particularly to a mechanism for organizing produced noodle strings.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, noodle manufacturing apparatuses have been used to supply noodle bodies onto a rotating rubber roller, and to manufacture noodle strings by cutting the noodle bodies on the rubber roller with a knife cutter extending in the axial direction of the roller. There is one in which the noodle strings produced on the rubber roller pass through a chute installed on the rotational side of the rubber roller and fall into a receiving box installed below the chute.

In such a noodle manufacturing apparatus, since the position at which the noodle strings fall is constant, there is a problem in that the cut noodle strings pile up in one place and the noodle strings at the bottom are crushed.

In addition, as a conventional technique to solve such problems, the noodle bodies are cut with a knife cutter on the conveyor.
There is one in which a receiving box is installed below the terminal end of the conveyor, and the receiving box is moved back and forth to uniformly align the noodle strings within the receiving box.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) However, the above-mentioned conventional technique for uniformly arranging the noodle strings in the receiving box requires a conveyor to cut the noodle bodies, and furthermore, a conveyor is required to drive the receiving box. Because the system requires complicated equipment, the complexity of the equipment is likely to cause failures.

The present invention was made based on the above-mentioned circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to supply uniformly aligned noodle strings into a receiving box with a simple structure.

(Means for Solving the Problem) In order to achieve this object, the present invention supplies noodle bodies onto a rotating roller, and cuts the noodle bodies onto the roller with a cutter extending in the axial direction of the roller to form noodle strings. In a noodle manufacturing apparatus in which the noodle strings are dropped into a receiving box through a chute whose edge is arranged along the circumferential surface of the roller, a horizontal line is placed on the line of fall of the noodle strings from the chute. A guide plate supported by a pivot is arranged, the noodle strings are received on the guide plate, and the guide plate is driven to swing around the pivot.

(Function) According to the present invention, the noodle strings are uniformly arranged and fed into the receiving box by swinging the guide plate, so it is possible to construct the receiving box with a relatively simple structure. Since there is no need for reciprocating movement, the structure is significantly simplified compared to conventional models.

Furthermore, since noodle strings are produced by cutting the noodle bodies with a cutter on rollers, there is no need to install a special conveyor, and the structure can be simplified.

(Example) This invention will be explained below with reference to an example shown in the drawings.
First, a first embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 will be explained.

The noodle manufacturing apparatus 1 includes a cutting device 2, a sorting mechanism 3, and a pedestal 4, on which a receiving box 5 is placed.

The cutting device 2 has a belt conveyor 6 for supplying noodle bodies B made of noodle dough formed into a sheet, and a rubber roller 7 installed at the end of the belt conveyor 6. It is rotationally driven in the direction in which the noodle bodies B are transferred by the conveyor 6.

Around the rubber roller 7, there is a cutting edge that extends linearly in the axial direction of the rubber roller 7.

It has a kitchen knife cutter 8 (hereinafter simply referred to as a cutter) which is driven forward and backward toward the rubber roller 7, and a chute 9 which is arranged and fixed with an upper edge 9a close to the circumferential surface of the rubber roller 7.

The sorting mechanism 3 disposed below the cutting device 2 has a frame 12 that is U-shaped in plan view and stands upright on a base 11, and a horizontal pivot 1 is attached to the open side of the frame 12.
A flat guide plate 5 is fixed to this pivot 13, and an end 13 of this pivot 13 is rotatably supported.
A drive device 16, which will be described later, is connected to a.

Then, the upper edge 15a of the upper guide plate 5 extends to the back surface 9b of the chute 9, and the lower edge 15b extends to the opposite side of the rubber roller 7 with respect to the pivot 13, that is, to the pedestal 4 side, The chute 9 is installed at an angle in the same direction as the chute 9, and is placed in a position to block the fall line P of the noodle strings, which will be described later.

The drive device 16 that swings and drives the guide plate 5 is configured as follows.

That is, inside the side plate 12a of the frame 12,
A geared motor 17 serving as a drive source is fixed, and an output shaft 17a of this geared motor 17 passes through the side plate 12a and projects to the outside of the side plate 12a, and a disc 18 is attached to the tip thereof.

On the other hand, an arm 21 is attached to the end 1.3a of the pivot shaft 13.
is fixed, this arm 21 and the disk 18 are connected via a rod 22 and a pin 23, 24, and these disks 18 and arm 21 are rotatable to the rod 22 by a pin 23 or 24, respectively. is connected to.

The connection position of the rod 22 to the disc 18 is a position displaced by an appropriate distance from the rotation center of the disc 18.

Therefore, as the output shaft 17a of the geared motor 17 rotates, the guide plate 15 is driven to swing between the state shown by the solid line and the state shown by the imaginary line in FIG.

As described above, the organizing mechanism 3 has a relatively simple structure, but as described later, it exhibits a sufficient function for organizing the noodle strings.

Hereinafter, the operation of this noodle manufacturing apparatus 1 will be explained in order of manufacturing steps.

First, the noodle bodies B are transported on the belt conveyor 6, and when they reach the rubber rollers 7, the cutter 8 is automatically moved forward and backward by a drive mechanism (not shown) to cut the noodle bodies B at appropriate intervals.
Manufactures noodle strings.

The noodle strings produced on the rubber roller 7 are scooped up from the rubber roller 7 by a chute 9 and fall on the chute 9 as the rubber roller 7 rotates.

When the noodle strings leave the lower edge of the chute 9, the guide plate 15 is located on the falling line P of the noodle strings, so the noodle strings move onto the guide plate 15, and the lower end of the guide plate 15 It falls into the receiving box 5 from 15b.

At this time, since the guide plate 15 is oscillated by the geared motor 17 as described above, the falling position of the noodle strings is not concentrated in one place in the receiving box 5, and the oscillating angle range of the guide plate 15 is If these are set appropriately, the noodle strings can be distributed in an orderly manner into the receiving box 5 on the pedestal 4, and can be supplied in uniform alignment within the receiving box 5.

Incidentally, the swing angle range of the guide plate 15 can be adjusted by adjusting the connection position of the rod 22 to the disc 18 by adjusting the displacement distance from the rotation center of the disc 18, and By adjusting the rotational speed of the geared motor 17 according to the weight of the noodle strings, etc., the alignment state of the noodle strings in the receiving box 5 can be adjusted.

The noodle strings falling from the chute 9 are received by the guide plate 15, and then fall into the receiving box 5 from a position directly above the receiving box 5, so that the impact on the noodle strings due to the fall is reduced. There is also the advantage that the noodles can be stored in the receiving box 5 in a uniform state without damaging the shape of the noodles.

Next, a second embodiment shown in FIG. 3 will be explained.
This embodiment differs from the previously described first embodiment only in the installation direction of the organizing mechanism, and is similar in other respects. In the following, only this difference will be explained, and similar points will be given the same reference numerals in the drawings and redundant explanation will be omitted.

The organizing mechanism 3° of this second embodiment has the same structure as the organizing mechanism 3 of the first embodiment, and this organizing mechanism 3' is opposite to the organizing mechanism 3 of the first embodiment. ie, in a direction facing the cutting device 2.

The guide plate 15'' of this sorting mechanism 3' is installed at a position that blocks the falling line P of the noodle strings falling from the chute 9, and is similarly driven to swing.
The difference is that the slope of ' is opposite to the slope of chute 9.

This is used when there is little space on the right side of the rubber roller 7 in the diagram of the first embodiment.

In addition, chute 9 also moves the fallen noodle strings to guide plate 15'.
This is to shorten the linear fall distance and reduce the deformation caused by falling into the receiving box 5.

Therefore, according to the second embodiment, the noodle strings can be stored in line in the receiving box 5 while further reducing the deformation caused by the noodle strings falling.

In the embodiments described above, the geared motor 17 is used as the drive source, but the present invention is not limited to this, and it goes without saying that other drive sources such as an air cylinder may be used. do not have.

(Effects of the Invention) As explained above, the present invention uniformly arranges and supplies the noodle strings into the receiving box by swinging the guide plate, so it can be configured with a relatively simple structure. Since there is no need to reciprocate the receiving box, the structure can be significantly simplified compared to the conventional one.

Furthermore, since noodle strings are produced by cutting the noodle bodies with a cutter on rollers, there is no need to install a special conveyor, and the structure can be simplified.

Since the structure of the noodle manufacturing apparatus is thus simplified, the occurrence of failures is reduced.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings relate to one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 1 is an overall schematic diagram of a noodle manufacturing apparatus, FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along the line XX in FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 2 is an overall schematic diagram of the device. B: Noodle body, L: Noodle string, P: Fall line, l: - Noodle manufacturing device, 5: Receiving box, 7: Roller (rubber roller), 8: Cutter, 9: Chute, 9b: Back side, 13: Pivot, 15.15'; Guide plate, 15a; Upper edge, 15b; Lower edge.

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) Feeding the noodle bodies onto a rotating roller, cutting the noodle bodies onto the roller with a cutter extending in the axial direction of the roller to form noodle strings,
In a noodle manufacturing device in which the noodle strings are dropped into a receiving box through a chute whose edge is arranged along the circumferential surface of the roller, a horizontal pivot is placed on the line of fall of the noodle strings from the chute. 1. A noodle manufacturing apparatus characterized in that a guide plate pivotally supported by a guide plate is disposed, the noodle strings are received on the guide plate, and the guide plate is driven to swing around the pivot axis. (2) The noodle manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the guide plate is installed to be inclined in the same direction as the chute. (3) The noodle manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the guide plate is installed to be inclined in a direction opposite to the chute.