JPH0398811A - Method and apparatus for feeding ground meat for packing - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently feed ground meat for packing by reversing a palette with a specific amount of ground meat interposed between the palette and a tray and then removing the palette. CONSTITUTION:Palettes 10 are removable engaged with a palette conveyer 11 with specific intervals, ground meat is continuously pushed out from a chopper 21 onto the palettes 10 on the palette conveyer 11, and ground meat is repetitively cut on a lateral direction between adjacent palettes 10 so that a specific amount of ground meat is mounted on each palette 10. The palette 10 is reversed with the specific amount of ground meat interposed between the palette 10 and a tray 30 to remove the palette 10. Therefore the palettes 10 are removably mounted on the palette conveyer 11 and ground eat can be supplied while the palettes 10 are carried in this state. Thus by changing the intervals for mounting the palettes 10 on the palette conveyer 11, an amount of ground meat to be wrapped on the tray 30 can be easily adjusted.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention provides a method for serving minced meat that is extruded from a chopper and is arranged on a tray for sale at a store without losing its shape and with streaks attached. and an apparatus for carrying out the method.

[Conventional technology]

The minced meat extruded from the chijippa is lined with chit/ku dies. The pieces are cut into predetermined lengths in a direction perpendicular to these lines and arranged on individual trays. This kind of arrangement work has traditionally been done mostly by hand.

The superior value of minced meat depends largely on whether or not the sinew remains intact. For this reason, skill is required to arrange the food without breaking the lines. In particular, minced meat is highly sticky and requires skill to arrange, resulting in low productivity. In addition, in the conventional manual arrangement, the workers' hands come into contact with the minced meat, which is unhygienic.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In order to avoid such manual arrangement, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 60-90110 discloses a method in which individual containers are connected in the longitudinal direction to continuously accommodate minced meat extruded from a meat chopper. A container conveyor and a minced meat cutting device that cuts the continuous minced meat being transported by the container conveyor into a predetermined length near the adjacent end of the container, and also temporarily stops the cutting cutter on the surface of the container and separates it at the cutting line. , a container rotation device that rotates each container over a distance of 90 @ on a container conveyor to create a gap between the containers, and a container rotation device that rotates the individual containers over a distance of 90@ to create a gap between the containers, and a container rotating device that rotates the bottom of the container above the container containing the individual minced meat that has been separated at the cut line. A tray feeding device that feeds and covers the tray with the tray placed on top, and a tray reversing device that rotates the tray over the container and rotates it around one end of the container conveyor to turn it upside down and transfer the minced meat from the container to the tray. An automatic minced meat serving apparatus has been proposed, which comprises: and a tray carrying-out device in which a container conveyor carries out trays containing individual pieces of minced meat to the next process.

However, in the device disclosed in JP-A-60-90110, the mounting position of the container on the conveyor is fixed with respect to the container conveyor. For this reason, the size of the tray is constant, and the amount of minced meat stored in the tray cannot be easily changed. If you try to change the amount of minced meat stored by changing the conveyor speed, the delivery speed of minced meat and the transport speed of the container will become unbalanced, and the minced meat received in the container will meander. This will reduce the product value.

To avoid such a situation, it is necessary to replace the entire container conveyor, which is very cumbersome.

Therefore, it is not possible to deal with cases where packages of various weights are to be made.

Further, in this device, the minced meat is transferred from the container to the tray by utilizing the reversal of the container conveyor. However, in this case, it is very difficult to neatly deliver the minced meat without losing its shape.

In view of the above-mentioned problems, the present invention can easily accommodate various packaging capacities, and can perform the process from arrangement to packaging very smoothly and with high productivity. , aims to provide a method and apparatus for serving minced meat.

[Means to solve the problem]

In the present invention, pallets are removably attached to a pallet conveyor at regular intervals, the minced meat is continuously pushed out from a chopper onto the pallets on the barre/soto conveyor, and the minced meat is placed between adjacent pallets. A predetermined amount of minced meat is placed on each pallet by repeated cutting in the horizontal direction, and with the predetermined amount of minced meat sandwiched between the pallet and the tray, the pallet is turned over and the pallet is removed. The above-mentioned object is achieved by a method for serving minced meat characterized by the following.

Furthermore, in the present invention, the arrangement of minced meat for carrying out the above-mentioned method is characterized in that the apparatus for accomplishing this method includes a pallet conveyor with a removable pallet, and a chopper for pushing out the minced meat. Equipment is provided.

The chopper may include a charging screw extending orthogonally to the pallet conveyor and a feed screw coupled orthogonally to the charging screw and extending substantially parallel to the pallet conveyor. . Furthermore, the chopper may include a main body provided above the pallet conveyor and a space below the main body for installing the pallet conveyor.

In order to easily cut the minced meat extruded onto a pallet, a rectangular bento box-shaped pallet with edges is used, and the minced meat extruded onto this pallet is pressed with a roll and cut at the edge of the pallet. You may. Preferably, the pressure roll is rotated at the same circumferential speed as the pallet conveyor.

[For production]

In the present invention, the pallets are removably locked on the pallet conveyor and conveyed one by one.

Therefore, by changing the interval at which the pallets are attached to the pallet conveyor, the amount of minced meat packed in the tray can be easily changed.

Further, in the present invention, the pallet can be easily removed from the pallet conveyor. For this purpose, the pallet is removed from the pallet conveyor with the minced meat sandwiched between the pallet and the tray, and the minced meat is turned over without breaking it. You can transfer the minced meat onto the tray. Therefore, the minced meat served according to the present invention has a very fresh taste and has high commercial value.

In addition, in the present invention, the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 60-901
As described in Publication No. 10, the process is not carried out fully automatically, but with manual intervention as appropriate, so that when looking at the entire device, parts that are extremely difficult to automate can be compensated for manually. On the other hand, parts that are difficult to do manually can be mechanized.
The overall production cost is extremely low.

Furthermore, in the present invention, despite manual intervention,
It is very hygienic because there is no place where human hands come into direct contact with the minced meat.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a minced meat serving line according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, 11 is a pallet conveyor. The pallet conveyor 11 is stretched between boleys 13 provided at both ends.

The pallet conveyor 11 can be controlled by a conventionally known conveyor with an attachment or the like. This attachment has pallet locking members, e.g. projections 12, mounted at various spacings to allow pallets to be spaced at various spacings. In this way, the pallets 10 can be attached to the pallet conveyor 11 at desired regular intervals.

For attachment, it is preferable to engage the protrusion 12 of the attachment with the hole 10a because it is simple.

As another embodiment of the pallet conveyor 11, a double pitch roller chain may be used, and hooks protruding from the bottom of the pallet may be engaged with the rollers of the double pitch roller chain. In this case, for example, the pitch is 1
By using inch double pitch rollers and making the length of the pallet an integral multiple of the pitch, pallets of various sizes can be locked to the pallet conveyor 11. Further, it is preferable that the pallet be slid on a pair of guide plates set parallel to each other with a double pitch roller chain in between, since the structure is simple.

At the right end of FIG. 1, pallets 10 are lined up at regular intervals on a pallet conveyor 11 and are sequentially moved to the left.

A chopper 21 is provided ahead of the pallet supply location. The chopper 2l includes a main body 22 for supplying minced meat as a raw material, and inside the main body 22, a stirring device (not shown) is provided as in a known chopper.

The structure of the chopper 21 will be detailed later.

A cylindrical portion 23 protruding from the side surface of the main body 22 of the chopper 21
A charging screw extends inside the pallet conveyor 11 in a direction perpendicular to the pallet conveyor 11. The charging screw has a similar structure to that of a conventional chopper.

A cylinder 24 is provided below the cylinder provided with the charging screw 23 and perpendicular to the cylinder 23, and its tip is slightly inclined downward (by 10° C. for PJ) toward the pallet conveyor 11. A feed screw is provided inside the cylinder 24 and extends in the conveyance direction of the pallet conveyor 11. A cap 25 is provided at the tip of the cylinder 24.

In this way, the minced meat 2 is removed from the mouthpiece 25 of the chopper 21.
6 are continuously extruded onto a pallet 10.

The minced meat 26 that is continuously extruded onto the pallet 10 is
Cut laterally. In this embodiment, a support 31 is provided beside the pallet conveyor 11, and a dancing arm 32 is swingably supported on the support 31.
A roller 27 is rotatably supported at the tip of the roller 2. The length of the roller 27 is made slightly smaller than the inner width of the pallet 10, so that the roller 27 can enter into the pallet 10 when the dancing arm 32 is tilted downward.

The pallet conveyor 11 and rollers 27 are connected by a chain 33 (
6), and the rollers 27 are rotated at a circumferential speed equal to the speed with the pallet conveyor 11. Note that the amount of downward movement of the dancing arm 32 is limited by a stopper (not shown).

As the pallet 10, a rectangular container with a bento box-shaped rim 10b is used. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 5, the minced meat 26 continuously extruded from the mouthpiece 25 of the chopper 21 is raised on the edge 10b of the pallet 10. By pushing this raised part with the roller 27, the pallet 1
The edge 10b of 0 serves as a knife to cut minced meat 26 at the cut 28.
is disconnected.

Another means for cutting the minced meat 26 is a plate-like vertical cutter. In this case, the operating interval of the cutter 27 is linked to the moving speed of the pallet conveyor 11, and can be changed mechanically or electromechanically depending on the mounting interval of the pallets 10. Further, instead of operating the cutter 27 in conjunction with the pallet conveyor 11, the cutter 27 may be operated manually.

Cuts 28 are formed at regular intervals in the minced meat 26 that is continuously fed out from the chopper 21 as described above. As a result, a predetermined amount of minced meat 26 is placed on each pallet 10. In this state, when you next reach the tray supply station for over-the-counter sales,
The tray 30 is manually placed over the minced meat placed on the pallet 10.

The pallet 10 is removed from the pallet conveyor 11 with a predetermined amount of minced meat 26 sandwiched between the pallet 10 and the tray 30, and the tray 30 and the pallet 10 are turned over so that the tray 30 is on the bottom.

In the illustrated embodiment, the inverted tray 30 is placed on an output conveyor 40. The carry-out conveyor 40 is a conveyor made of an ordinary rubber belt stretched between pulleys 41, 41.

In this state, the pallet 10 is removed and returned to the starting position of the serving conveyor 11 by the pallet return conveyor 50.

As the pallet return conveyor 50, a belt conveyor or the like may be used, or in some cases, a ramp with an appropriate inclination may be used.

After the pallet 10 is removed, the minced meat 26 placed on the tray 30 is appropriately covered with a polyethylene film 42 or the like to complete packaging.

Note that in the above description, the tray 30 is referred to as the pallet 1.
The pallet 10 is placed over the minced meat 26 on the pallet conveyor 1 and turned over as one.
1, and while inverting the pallet 10 in this state, the minced meat 26 may be placed on the tray 30. If possible, it is preferable to press it lightly with the tray 30 and turn it over so that it will not crumble easily.

In addition, by covering the minced meat 26 with paper or parchment paper as appropriate before covering the tray 30, the paper or parchment paper will be located under the minced meat 26 at the time of retail sales, and the product will not be as good. The value will further increase.

The tray 30 may be made of polystyrene foam, which is commonly used. Furthermore, if the size of the tray 30 is selected to be slightly smaller than the pallet 10, the arrangement will be better.

In the above-described embodiment, in addition to the pallet conveyor 11 and the pallet return conveyor 5o, there is also an output conveyor 40.
was established. However, at the exit of the pallet conveyor 11, the minced meat 26 is turned over with being sandwiched between the pallet 10 and the tray 30, and the minced meat 26 is transferred to the tray 30 along with the pallet 10.
may be placed on the pallet return conveyor 50, and the pallet 10 may be removed at the starting end of the pallet conveyor 11 and supplied to the pallet conveyor 11, and the minced meat placed on the tray 30 may be transferred as is to the packaging station by the pallet return conveyor 50. .

The structure of the chopper will be explained in more detail based on FIG. As described above, the chopper body 22 is provided with the stirring paddle 22a, similar to the conventional chopper. Further, a charging screw 23a is provided below the stirring paddle 22a, similar to a conventional chopper. The charging screw 23a extends in a direction substantially perpendicular to the serving conveyor 11, as described above. A cylinder 24 protrudes substantially perpendicularly below the tip of the cylinder 23 where the charging screw 23a is provided and is parallel to the pallet conveyor 11. A feed screw 24a is provided within this cylinder 24. As described above, the mouthpiece 25 is provided at the tip of the feed screw 24a.

As is clear from FIG. 2, the paddle 22a and charging screw 23a are driven by a motor 5l, and the feed screw 24a is driven by another motor 52, as is clear from FIG. Therefore, the feed amount of the feed screw 24a can be easily controlled independently of the feed amount of the chopper main body.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 having the above-described structure, the presence of the minced meat extrusion port of the chopper 21 does not obstruct the conveyance path of the pallet conveyor 11 in any way.

An outline of another chopper will be explained with reference to FIG. Fourth
In the figure, the main body 21 of the chopper is provided above the pallet conveyor 11 so as to straddle the same. This creates a space below the chopper main body, through which the pallet conveyor 11 is passed.

In conventional choppers, the bottom of the chopper is a space, and there is no consideration of passing anything under it.
In view of the special feature of the present invention, since the pallet conveyor can run below the hopper, the space for installing the chopper body can also be saved.

Other structures are similar to the embodiment described with reference to FIG.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, a pallet is detachably attached to a pallet conveyor, and minced meat is supplied while conveying the pallet in this state. Therefore, by changing the interval at which the pallets are attached to the pallet conveyor, the amount of minced meat to be packaged on the tray can be easily adjusted. Moreover, since the pallet can be easily removed from the pallet conveyor, the minced meat can be easily and reliably transferred from the pallet to the tray for over-the-counter sales. Moreover,
During this time, the minced meat does not fall apart at all and has high commercial value.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a minced overlay line according to the present invention;
Figure 2 is a cross-sectional side view of the chopper used in Figure 1, Figure 3 is a partially sectional front view of the device shown in Figure 2, Figure 4 is a front view of another chopper, and Figure 5 is a front view of another chopper. FIG. 2 is a partially cross-sectional side view showing how minced meat is cut along the line shown in FIG. 1; 10...Pallet, 11...Pallet conveyor, 21...Chopper, 27...Roller, 30...
tray.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Pallets are detachably attached to a pallet conveyor at regular intervals, minced meat is continuously pushed out from a chopper onto the pallets on the pallet conveyor, and the minced meat is transferred between adjacent pallets. A predetermined amount of minced meat is placed on each pallet by repeated cutting in the horizontal direction at the same position, and with the predetermined amount of minced meat sandwiched between the pallet and the tray, the pallet is turned over and the pallet is removed. A method for serving minced meat characterized by removing the meat. 2. A minced meat serving apparatus for carrying out the method according to claim 1, characterized in that the pallet includes a pallet conveyor that is removable, and a chopper that pushes out the minced meat. 3. The minced meat overlaying device according to claim 2, wherein the pallet engagement interval of the pallet conveyor can be changed. 4. The chopper includes a charging screw extending orthogonally to the pallet conveyor, and a feed screw connected orthogonally to the charging screw and extending substantially parallel to the pallet conveyor. The minced meat layering device according to claim 2 or 3. 5. The mince overlaying device according to claim 4, wherein the tip of the feed screw is inclined downward toward the pallet conveyor. 6. The minced meat filling device according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the chopper includes a main body provided above a pallet conveyor and a space below the main body for installing the pallet conveyor. 7. A rotary roller provided at the tip of the dancing arm is pressed against the minced meat extruded onto the pallet, and the minced meat is cut between the edge of the pallet and the rotary roller. The minced meat serving device according to any one of Item 1. 8. The minced overlaying device according to claim 7, wherein the circumferential speed of the rotating roller is equal to the moving speed of the pallet.