JPH037543A - Intermediate storage part of waffle block in apparatus for manufacturing and processing of waffle block - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To easily change a storage capacitance at the time of production interruption or the like by successively arranging plural waffle block storage devices having respective peculiar horizontal conveyers in the passing direction of a waffle block. CONSTITUTION: An intermediate waffle block 1 is arranged between a conveyer belt 3 for conveying a waffle block 2 and a belt conveyer 4 linked to a a waffle block cutter. At the intermediate storage part 1, plural waffle block storage devices 5, 8, 10, 12 and 14 or the like having respective peculiar horizontal conveyers 6 are successively arranged vertically on two stages in passing directions 9 and 13 of the waffle block 2. Then, the waffle blocks 2 are supplied to the 1st storage device 8 on the lower stage by the conveyer belt 3, piled up, successively moved from the storage device 8 to the next storage device 5 by the horizontal conveyers 6 and moved to the 1st storage device 12 on the upper stage by a vertical conveyer 11. Next, they are moved in the direction of arrow 13 and moved to the belt conveyer 4 by an arm 15 of an automatic processing machine 16.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an intermediate storage in a device for the production and processing of Watsuful blocks.

(Prior art) Watsuful blocks, also called sweets, have a maximum humidity of 1 to 4.
% of fragile, crunchy, brittle rectangular Watsuful flakes and processed into very different Watsuful products or Watsuful-filled products according to the production line or intermediate products from confectionery manufacturers.

Watsuful flakes processed into Watsuful blocks are crispy in the freshly baked warm state and cooled to room temperature, making them brittle and brittle and having a maximum humidity of 1 to 4% in the final product. be. For example, the fragile and fragile Watsufuru produced on such an industrial scale include not only rectangular Watsufuru flakes but also round Watsufuru flakes as well as oblates or other so-called oblate Watsufules. There is also a sheet-shaped watsufuru, called Watsufuru or cheap hollow Watsufuru in the confectionery industry, which is a walnut-shaped, elagu-shaped,
It consists of hollow half-holes in the shape of acorns, dice, cylinders, etc.

This type of Watsufuru differs from the Watsufuru of Watsufuru Industries, in that Watsufuru can be plastically deformed in the freshly baked or warm state due to its high sugar content (up to 35%) and only after cooling can the final product reach maximum It becomes a crisp and brittle structure that is easily destroyed at humidity levels of 1-4%. Watzfuls produced on this industrial scale include, for example, rolled Watzful flakes which are warmly rolled up in a plastically deformable state from individual flat Watzful flakes and cooled, as well as Watzful rolls or hollow rolls during their production. The endless, baked thin wazuffle strip is helically wrapped in a plastically deformable manner onto a tube via a cylindrical mandrel, cut and cooled.

Other types of Watsuful have a high percentage of eggs (10-50
%) Baked from Watsuful batter, softens in the freshly baked state and in the cooled state at room temperature and in the final product 8
% shows an elastic watzful of contained humidity greater than %.

In the Watsufuru industry, Watsufuru of the aforementioned type are mostly produced or processed in automated production lines that are specialized to a single final product. In such a production line with equipment integrated into the production line for the production and processing of Watsufuru blocks, for example, the fluid Watsufuru batter is thinned in an automatic baking machine, often referred to as a Watsufuru oven. It is baked into large, rectangular and brittle Watsuful flakes. These are removed from the Waffle oven, cooled in a Waffle flake cooler and conveyed to a Waffle slicer machine where the Wazuffle sheets are scraped of the fat cream applied and stacked on the Waffle blocks filled with cream.

The Watsuful blocks are subsequently cooled to harden the cream and enhance the cohesion of each block. After coming out of the Watsuful block chiller, the Watsuful block is fed to a Watsuful block cutting device and filled with cream.
It is cut into rectangular, equal-sized waffles in two vertical directions, so-called slices or Neapolitan cuts, and subsequently packed in a secure manner into equally-sized packaging units, for example -10 per puncture.

In another production line of Watsufuru Industries, similarly large rectangular Watsufuru sheets (350 x 7501I1m) are baked in an automatic Watsufuru baking machine and processed into cream-filled Watsufuru blocks as an intermediate product in a Watsufuru flake slicing machine. The Watsufuru blocks are then cut into rectangular, mutually equal-sized small Watsufuru flakes or Watsufuru slices or Watsufuru in a Watsufuru block cutting machine, which are then cut into chocolate or other pieces in a subsequent machine section of the production line. of coating material and subsequently packaged in equally sized packaging units.

In a production line intended for the production of chocolate bars filled with Watsufuru or WanFuru slices, large rectangular (350 x 750 mm) Watsufuru sheets are baked in an automatic Watsufuru baking machine and filled with cream as the final product in a Watsufuru flake slicing machine. The final product is then cut in a Watsuful block cutting machine into square, mutually equal small Watsuful pieces or Watsuful slices or Watsuful, which are then cut into chocolate bars filled with Watsuful or Watsuful slices. In the production equipment, it is poured into chocolate bar molds to form chocolate bars.

The Watsufuru oven or the Watsufuru automatic baking machine is arranged at the beginning of the production line or at a part of the equipment that serves for the production and processing of waffle blocks, and the Watsufuru oven or Watsufuru automatic baking machine is of equal construction.
Each of them is provided with a Watsuful baking mold, which is arranged in a baking sandwich and is equipped with two rectangular chocolate baking plates, the baking molds being attached to, for example, an endless china in the Wa'77 JL/ baking oven, and which can be removed from the batter injection station. The fluid Watsufuru batter is discharged onto the baking plate chocolate below the open baking sandwich and is passed through the baking chamber to the Watsufuru removal station for baking of the Watsufuru flakes when the baking sandwich is closed. and is removed from the Watsuful flake mold at the Watsuful unloading station. When starting up the Watsufuru furnace, the Watsufuru furnace is brought up to the desired operating or baking temperature when the baking sandwich is empty, and only when this temperature is reached is the dough feeding at the dough injection station and the Watsufuru furnace being carried out. Batter injection begins.

For example, when shutting down a Watsufuru kiln with a baking sandwich of 80 baking sandwiches and a baking time of 2 minutes per flake, first of all the dough feed is blocked in such a production line and the baking sandwich is cut off. A baking sandwich is passed through the injected Watzful flakes to finish baking them and before being discharged at the Watzful removal station. In total, approximately 75 flakes are obtained after discontinuing the supply of dough. From these 75 Watzful flakes, a Watzful block consisting of three Watzful flakes and two cream layers each was produced in a Watzful flake slicing machine 25, and the Watzful blocks were then placed in the Watzful flake slicing machine 25, which was then placed in the production line equipment. Must be processed in parts.

Upon restarting the Watzful kiln, it takes two minutes to reach the baking temperature and to re-introduce the flour supply to the discharge of the first finished Watzful flake from the Watzful oven.

For example, if production has to be interrupted for a long time for maintenance or equipment work on individual equipment parts,
The Wazfuru oven must be kept in operation and at working or baking temperature between shutting off the dough supply and resuming the dough supply, or a production failure must be prolonged by the reheating time of the Wazuffle oven. . Conventional maintenance and equipment operations are therefore carried out on the equipment part of the production line which is located after the Watzful kiln, at such times as the production line may be shut down for other reasons, for example in the evening or on weekends after the end of production. Extended.

In order to keep production failures as short as possible in the production line, when a broken cutting wire has to be replaced in a Watsufuru block cutting device or when the packaging film has to be renewed or replaced in a cut packaging machine, the WatsuFuru It is known to provide a Watsuful block intermediate storage between the Watsuful block cooling device which is downstream of the slice slicing machine and the equipment part of the production line which is downstream of the Watsuful block cooling device. After shutting down the Waffle baking oven, the part of the equipment installed in front of the waffle block cooling device in the production line is allowed to run dry, and the Watsufuru block intermediate storage section is freed from the waste generated during dry operation. Accommodates the Watsuful Block coming out of the Full Block Cooling System.

In the known intermediate block storage, a plurality of conveyor belts or storage conveyors are arranged one on top of the other, on which the blocks are individually stored one after the other. The waffle blocks are conveyed to or from the storage conveyor via feed and discharge conveyors which are operated according to one swiveling position of the conveyor. Narrow limits are set for the swivel of this supply and discharge conveyor by the slight adhesion of the underside of the Watsufuru blocks, so that capacity expansion is possible by extending the storage conveyor and thus increasing the structural length of the entire Watsufuru block store. be.

The object of the invention is to make it possible to easily adapt the capacity to different conditions, such as bridged production interruption times, for free use of installation space.

This means starting from an intermediate storage of waffle blocks with at least one conveying device and a storage device accommodating one or more waffle blocks and arranged between the supply and discharge stations, the main According to the invention, the storage devices for the waffle blocks accommodated in each storage device are arranged one after the other in the direction of passage of the waffle blocks, and each storage device is each formed from one or more superimposed waffle blocks. This is achieved by having a unique horizontal conveying device for the storage and evacuation of the loaded Watsuful block stacks.

This configuration allows for simple variations in storage capacity over the number of sequentially located waffle blocks per waffle block stack. By means of mutually independent storage devices, the intermediate storage can be adapted to any spatial ratio. Another feature of the invention is that the supply and discharge stations are integrated into one of the storage devices. This is particularly advantageous if automatic processing machines associated with the supply and discharge are used for supplying and discharging the waffle blocks. The automatic processing machine applies the Watsuful blocks in stacks to and from intermediate storage. Alternately, each processing automatic machine is used for the stacking or destacking of waffle blocks and for stacking and destacking into each storage device, which is equipped with a feeding and discharging station.

Instead of automatic processing machines for the feeding and discharging stations integrated in the storage device, in each case there is a separate feeding unit in which the waffle blocks are superimposed, or a waffle block of the watsufuru block stack is discucked again. A separate ejection unit may also be provided.

For a large storage capacity with a plurality of storage planes arranged one above the other, the invention provides that the storage devices are arranged one after the other in the direction of passage of the Watsuful block beyond the storage planes. It is proposed that a vertical transport device is provided for raising and lowering the storage device from one storage plane to another for the transport of the waffle blocks from one storage plane to another. With this arrangement, the waffle blocks inside the intermediate storage are conveyed through the intermediate storage in the direction of passage of the waffle blocks by a horizontal conveying device synchronized to the transport of the waffle block stacks, one after another.

According to a feature of the invention, the storage device can be arranged in a single plane or in a plurality of superimposed and mutually connected tracks at a plurality of angles in the storage plane, the In each case, between the last storage unit of a track and the first storage unit of a subsequent track, a transfer device is provided for positioning and transferring the Watsuful block stack from one track to the other track. This design allows a very flexible adaptation of the waffle block intermediate storage into narrow installation spaces when equipping existing waffle block production lines with the intermediate storage according to the invention. The transfer device for the correct transfer of the position of the Watsuful block stack from one track of the intermediate store to the next can be a curved track, as is known in the case of intermediate stores with a single store plane; The intermediate storage devices are arranged in a plane, for example, in the sections of a plurality of tracks or intermediate storages that are connected at right angles to each other. In this way the supply and discharge stations can be arranged very close to each other.

In an embodiment of the intermediate store with the storage device, which is arranged in vertically abutting tracks in a single plane, there is a storage device for the watsuful block stack at the end of the two interconnected tracks. The transport device can be omitted and a storage device with a transport device is used instead,
The conveying device can transport the Watsuful blocks in and out in two mutually perpendicular directions. Such a conveying device can be designed, for example, analogously to the belt conveyor for Wazful blocks known from German patent specification 3208801.

Embodiments according to the invention with two or more independent reservoir elements arranged in the superposed reservoir plane also include a plurality of mutually angular or mutually perpendicularly arranged reservoir elements. A storage section can be provided, so that the storage device with supply and discharge stations can likewise be located as close as possible. An automatic processing machine is arranged at the end of this part of such an intermediate storage, the automatic processing machine is arranged in a lighted position, and the storage device is arranged superimposed on the individual parts. Manipulate to the desired orbit. As a result, for example, an automatic processing machine located at the stop location transfers the waffle block stacks from one track to the next in the restorage plane, which is arranged one above the other.

In the embodiment of the Watsufuru block intermediate storage with mutually parallel running tracks in two mutually superposed storage planes, the automatic processing machine moves the Watsufuru from one storage plane to the other storage plane. It can also be provided as a vertical conveying device for the transfer of block stacks.

four mutually parallel tracks of storage devices arranged in two superimposed storage planes and with storage devices arranged at the ends of the tracks arranged directly next to each other or one above the other; In another embodiment of the inventive Watsuful block intermediate storage, two automatic processing machines are provided, one at each end of the intermediate storage, one for the feeding of the Watsuful block stacks as well as one inside the storage device and one at each end of the intermediate storage. From one plane to another reservoir plane can be fed. If desired, an automatic processing machine located at the supply and discharge end of the intermediate storage may be used at the supply station located in the lower storage plane or at the discharge station located in the upper storage plane. It can also be used for waffle block stacking and destuttering to the station, so that for such wuzzle block intermediate storage the specific wuzzle block stacking device at the supply station is also one storage. Neither a separate vertical transport device for the transfer of the waffle block stacks from one plane to another storage plane nor a separate de-stacking device for the waffle blocks at the discharge station is required.

The horizontal transport devices of the directly following storage devices can be drive-coupled to one another, but the individual storage devices or their horizontal transport devices can be engaged and disengaged via clutches or the like.

According to the invention, however, it is advantageous for the horizontal transport device of the storage device to have its own drive motor, which can be controlled by the control device of the intermediate storage.

A further feature of the invention proposes that the storage devices, which are arranged one after the other between the supply station and the discharge station or inside each track, are designed as mutually exchangeable structural units. In this way it is possible to rationally manufacture intermediate stores of different sizes, which differ only with respect to storage devices that are interchangeable and preferably identical in construction.

Another feature of the invention is the thermal insulation coating for the storage device or all intermediate storage.

Additionally, a storage element is arranged within the common envelope, inside which it is possible to keep the air at a predetermined temperature and humidity value. This is particularly advantageous in waffle block intermediate stores with large storage capacities, which are subject to long production interruptions.

Another feature of the invention is that at least one of the storage devices has a device for compacting the waffle block stacks, which is arranged on the water transport device of this storage device.

This design makes it possible to ensure that in intermediate stores of very large storage capacity an internal relationship within the waffle block is maintained.

The construction of the Watsuful block store according to the invention allows a very large storage capacity to be stored in the smallest space, and the storage capacity can be stored in the Watsuful block store of the production line in the parts of the equipment downstream connected to the Watsuful block store. It is designed in such a way that maintenance can be carried out within short production interruptions, worn parts can be replaced or faulty parts can be eliminated, without the need for equipment parts installed upstream to be shut down. Production interruptions in which the storage capacity of the waffle block storage section is synchronized include renewal or replacement of the packaging film in the packaging machine, adjustment or maintenance work for optimization of packaging such as waffle breakage, and replacement of the cutting frame in the waffle block cutting device. etc.

Next, illustrated embodiments of the present invention will be described.

(Example) In the illustrated embodiment, the Watsuful block intermediate storage section 1 is connected to a conveyor belt 3 for conveying the Watsuful blocks 2 by means of a Watsuful block cooling device (not shown) for the Watsuful block intermediate storage section 1, and a Watsuful block intermediate storage section 1 (not shown). A Watsuful block intermediate storage section 1 is disposed between a belt conveyor 4 connected to a block cutting device.

The intermediate storage 1 consists of an independent storage device 5 arranged on a pedestal (not shown) for better visibility, on which the storage devices are located in two overlapping positions in the horizontal storage planes ■ and ■. It is placed in an orbit that Each storage device 5
comprises a horizontal conveying device 6, which is attached to a frame and is designed, for example, as a belt conveyor or a rope conveyor;
Watsuful block stacks (stacked Watsuful blocks) stored in each storage device are placed on the horizontal conveyance device.
is placed. The storage devices 5 arranged one after the other are arranged one after the other, so that the waffle block stacks 7 can be transferred from one storage device 5 to the next storage device by the horizontal transport device 6 itself without danger and without any other equipment. be able to. The Watsuful blocks 2 are fed by a conveyor belt 3 at the front end of the intermediate store 1 to the first storage device 8 of the lower intermediate store I, where they are stacked and transferred from the storage device 5 to the storage device as a Watsuful block stack 7. arrow 9 to 5
is fed to the rear end of the intermediate storage l to the storage device 10 in the storage plane ② downward in the direction of . At the rear end of the intermediate store 1 there is arranged a vertical transport device 11 on a pedestal, indicated only by the symbol, which carries the storage devices 10, including the last storage device 10 in the lower storage plane ①. The waffle block stack 7 contained in the waffle block stack 7 is lifted up to the upper storage plane (2) and, after the transfer of the waffle block stack 7 to the first storage device 12 of the upper storage plane, is lowered again into the lower storage plane (2). In the upper storage plane ■, the Watsuful block stack 7 is connected to the first storage device 1 in the upper storage plane H.
2 in the direction of the arrow 13, each by an arm 15 of an automatic processing machine 16, shown only diagrammatically, and transferred onto the belt conveyor 4.

During the normal production process in a production line, the stack of Watsuful blocks in the first storage device 8 is transported directly and without having to be stored in one of the storage devices 5 to the last storage device 14 and there again. Day stacked.

If production in the part of the production line arranged after the intermediate storage 1 is to be interrupted, for example in order to change paper or packaging film in a packaging machine at the end of the production line,
The dough supply does not have to be interrupted at the Watzful block kiln at the beginning of the production line, since the Watzful blocks 2, which come up to the intermediate storage 1 during the change of the packaging film, do not need to be interrupted during the change of the packaging film. The first of the reservoir plane I
8 and is stored in the form of a waffle block stack 7 in a storage device 5 located between the first storage device 8 and the last storage device 14 of the intermediate storage section l. The number of waffle blocks 2 per waffle block stack or the height of the waffle block stack is then always selected in accordance with the maximum storage capacity of the storage device 8.

The stacking of the lower storage plane (2) in the first storage device 8 takes place by means of a drop shaft integrated into this storage device 8, which shaft is arranged from the transport plane of the conveyor belt 3 below this transport plane. To ensure smooth lowering of the Watsuful block 2 onto the lower storage part 1000 faces I.

The stacking of the lower storage plane in the first storage device also takes place in other embodiments of the intermediate storage in an automatic processing machine associated with the first storage device.

In the embodiment shown, the automatic processing machine 16 is configured such that during the normal production process the automatic processing machine feeds the waffle blocks 2 individually from the transport conveyor 3 directly onto the belt conveyor 4 and only during production interruptions. are stacked on the horizontal transport device 6 of the first storage device 8 in the lower storage plane I.

With the Watsufuru block storage device according to the invention, the Watsufuru block storage device can be arranged in front of a production line, for example in order to empty the Watsufuru block store again after a production interruption, without the need for the Watsufuru blocks to be removed from the production device. or the subsequently arranged parts are operated for a short time with different working speeds, with the first being placed in the waffle block storage or being removed as the first waffle block stack as well as the first waffle block stack. It is ensured that the Watsuful block is supplied to the next processing section, so that no differences occur during the residence time of the Watsuful block in the Watsuful block storage that affect the quality of the products produced from the Watsuful block. is ensured. Differences in residence time result from the stacking process during the formation of the Wa-Noful block stack or from the de-stuttering process during the de-stuttering of the Wa-Noful block.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a side view of an embodiment of the Watsuful block intermediate storage according to the invention, and FIG. 2 is a view from above of FIG. Code 2 in the figure...Watsuful block 5.8.
10.12.14... Storage device 9.13...
...passing direction

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A waffle block intermediate storage section in an apparatus for producing and processing waffle blocks (2), each containing at least one conveying device and one or more waffle blocks (2); , comprising a plurality of storage devices arranged between the supply station and the output station, a waffle block (2) housed in each storage device (5, 8, 10, 12, 14). storage devices for (5, 8,
10, 12, 14) are arranged sequentially in the passing direction (9, 13) of the waffle block (2), and each storage device (5, 8, 10, 12, 14) is connected to the waffle block (2).
2) said waffle block intermediate storage, characterized in that it has its own horizontal conveying device (8), in each case one or more arranged one on top of the other, for the storage and transfer of the waffle blocks. 2. The supply station and/or the discharge station are each integrated with one of the storage devices (5, 14);
A waffle block intermediate storage according to claim 1. 3. The storage devices (5, 8, 10, 12, 14) are arranged in the passing direction (9, 1) of the waffle block (2) across the storage plane.
3) Waffle block stacks (7) arranged in sequence and from one plane (I) to the other plane (II)
For transporting one, preferably one complete storage device (10) in each case from the storage plane (I) to the other plane (
3. Waffle block intermediate storage according to claim 1, further comprising a vertical conveying device (11) for raising and lowering the waffle blocks. 4. A plurality of mutually connected or mutually parallel storage devices (5, 8, 10, 12, 14) in a single or multiple superimposed storage plane (I, II) respectively. A waffle block stack (7) is arranged on the tracks arranged, with each waffle block stack (7) from one track to the other between the last storage device of the track and the first storage device of the following track. 4. Waffle block intermediate storage according to claim 1, further comprising a transfer device for correct transfer of the waffle block into position. 5. Claims 1 to 4, characterized in that each horizontal transport device (6) of the storage device (5, 8, 10, 12, 14) is provided with a drive motor that can be controlled by the control device of the intermediate storage (1). The waffle block intermediate storage section according to any one of. 6. Waffle block intermediate storage according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that a thermal insulation covering for the storage device (5, 8, 10, 12, 14) is provided. 7. Device waffle block intermediate storage according to claim 6, characterized in that for all storage devices (5, 8, 10, 12, 14) a common jacket surrounding an air humidity and temperature controlled chamber is provided. Department. 8. According to claims 1 to 7, the storage device (5) is formed as a sequentially replaceable structural unit, which is arranged successively between the supply station and the discharge station or inside each track. The waffle block intermediate storage section according to any one of the above. 9. At least one of the storage devices has a device for compressing the waffle block stacks, which is arranged on the horizontal conveying device of this storage device. Waffle block intermediate storage.