JPH0491754A - Ingredient feeder in production machine for boiled rice mixed with fish & vegetables - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the title feeder intended to distribute ingredients with virtually constant thickness and width on a conveyor belt, so designed that a number of pins are arranged on a scraping belt for ingredients gradually moved with an extrusion plate toward a discharge port. CONSTITUTION:For example, a setup is provided so that the tilted upper discharging port of a container 1 for ingredients come above the initial end of an ingredient-carrying conveyor 8. Said container 1 is pref. long and cylindrical. Its inside is fitted with an extrusion plate 2 for ingredients with a cylinder 3 to be moved vertically. The upper discharging port is provided with a scraping belt T for the ingredients, and a number of pins 6 are arranged pref. in a zigzag manner on the belt 7. One end of the upper discharging port is provided with a falling plate 9 for the ingredients against the ingredient-carrying conveyor 8. It is preferable that the width of the upper discharging port be equal to the length of the width direction of the belt 8 and the length of the width direction of the belt 7 be greater than the discharge width.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial Field of Application) The present invention relates to an improvement of a gomokumeshi manufacturing machine for manufacturing gomokumeshi.

(Prior art) Conventionally, this type of machine has been designed to, for example, continuously cook rice while transporting it, and then add seasoning liquid and ingredients to the rice while the cooked rice is being transported by a stirring and mixing conveyor. It is also known that these materials are stirred and mixed while being conveyed.

Moreover, the above-mentioned ingredients are conveyed by an ingredient conveyor connected to the above-mentioned stirring and mixing conveyor, and a hopper for accommodating the ingredients is provided above the ingredient conveyor. Then, the bottom discharge port of the hopper is equipped with a helix that feeds out the ingredients.
A device is known in which the ingredients are discharged and dropped onto the ingredient conveyor from the lower end of the spiral.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) However, in such conventional devices, when the ingredients are mixed with boiled or frozen onions, carrots, green peppers, corn, etc., the discharge port at the bottom of the hopper is There was a drawback that the provided helix did not allow the ingredients to be smoothly discharged, and as a result, the thickness and distribution width of the ingredients on the ingredient conveyor varied. Moreover, there was also the drawback that ingredients remained in the hopper.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to make the thickness and distribution width of the ingredients uniform on the ingredient conveyor and to prevent any ingredients from remaining in the container that accommodates the ingredients.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an arrangement in which the end of an ingredient conveyor that conveys ingredients is seen onto the conveyor that conveys cooked cooked rice, and the rice and ingredients are conveyed together. In a gomokumeshi manufacturing machine that produces gomokumeshi by stirring and mixing ingredients, the upper discharge port of the container containing the ingredients is seen above the starting end of the ingredient conveyor, and the extrusion plate lifting means is used to move the contents of the container into the container. A push-out plate for pushing out the ingredients is provided, and a scraping belt is provided at the upper discharge port of the container, which has a large number of pins arranged to scrape the ingredients pushed up to the discharge port onto the starting end of the conveyor.

(Function) By the upward movement of the push-out plate elevating means, the push-out plate gradually pushes out the ingredients in the container to the upper discharge port.

On the other hand, the ingredient scraping belt rotates in a direction to scrape out the ingredients, and the ingredient conveyor rotates in a predetermined conveying direction. Therefore, the extruded ingredients are continuously scraped out little by little by the pins of the ingredient scraping belt. The scraped out ingredients are distributed on the ingredient conveyor with a substantially constant thickness and width.

(Example) FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing an example of an ingredient supplying device according to the present invention.

The container 1 that accommodates the ingredients has an inclined upper discharge port and is arranged so that the inclined upper discharge port extends above the starting end of the ingredient conveyor 8. The container 1 is suitably long and cylindrical, and is provided with a push-out plate 2 that is moved up and down by a cylinder 3 and pushes out the ingredients inside the container 1 upward when the cylinder 3 moves up and down.

The main body of the cylinder 3 is attached to the bottom back side of the container 1, and the pushing plate 2 is attached to the tip of the rod 4 of the cylinder 3. A plurality of guide rollers 5 are attached to the tip end side of the rod 4 in contact with the inner wall of the container 1 and for guiding the rod 4.

At the upper discharge port of the container 1, there is disposed an ingredient scraping belt 7 for scraping out the ingredients pushed out to the outlet by the extrusion plate 2. The material scraping belt 7 preferably has pins 6 arranged in a staggered manner as shown in FIG. The material scraping belt 7 is arranged so that the tip of each pin 6 is slightly above the upper discharge port of the container 1.

A drop plate 9 is provided at one end of the upper discharge port of the container 1 to drop the ingredients toward the ingredient conveyor 8.

Note that the discharge width of the upper discharge port of the container 1 is
It is preferable to make the length equal to the length in the width direction. Further, it is preferable that the length of the material scraping belt 7 in the width direction is longer than the above-mentioned discharge width.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the overall configuration of an embodiment of the present invention including the ingredient feeding device configured as described above.

In FIG. 3, reference numeral 10 denotes a continuous steaming rice cooker, and when rice that has been washed and soaked is supplied, the rice is passed through boiling water and heated, and the rice taken out from the boiling water is steamed and cooked continuously.

The stirring and mixing conveyor 11 stirs the rice supplied from the continuous steaming rice cooker 10 with ingredients, and has stirring blades 1-2 provided at predetermined intervals on its upper part.

13 is a seasoning liquid injection nozzle that injects a seasoning liquid onto the stirring and mixing conveyor 11, and 14 is an oil injection nozzle that injects oil onto the stirring and mixing conveyor 11.

At the upper part of the stirring/mixing conveyor 11, the conveyor 1
The terminal end of the ingredient conveyor 8 (see Fig. 1) that conveys the ingredients upwards is seen.

Reference numeral 15 denotes a pre-cooling conveyor, which cools the rice stirred by the rice transfer conveyor 11 with air while conveying it.

Next, an example of the operation of the embodiment configured as described above will be described.

Rice cooked in a continuous rice cooker 10 is supplied onto an agitating/mixing conveyor 11 and conveyed. During transportation, the seasoning liquid is supplied from the seasoning liquid injection nozzle 13 and the oil is supplied from the oil injection nozzle 14.

By the way, the ingredients 16 such as onions, carrots, green peppers, corn, and green peas stored in the container 1 are as follows:
As the extrusion plate 2 gradually rises due to the upward movement of the cylinder 3, the ingredients 16 are extruded to its upper discharge port. The ingredients 16 pushed out to the outlet of the container are continuously scraped out little by little by the pins 6 of the ingredient scraping belt 7, so that they are distributed on the ingredient conveyor 8 with a constant thickness and width. The ingredient conveyor 8 conveys the ingredients 16 toward the stirring and mixing conveyor 11.

The ingredients thus supplied onto the stirring and mixing conveyor 11 are stirred and mixed with cooked rice and the like by the stirring blades 12 while being conveyed on the conveyor 11. The cooked rice that has been stirred and mixed by the stirring and mixing conveyor 11 is supplied to the pre-cooling conveyor 15.

The cooked rice is naturally cooled while being conveyed on the pre-cooling conveyor 15.

In the embodiments described above, the push-out plate 2 is configured to be movable up and down by a cylinder, but is not limited to this, and may be configured to be movable up and down by a motor or the like.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, in the present invention, while the ingredients are gradually pushed out to the discharge port at the top of the container by the extrusion plate, the extruded ingredients are continuously scraped out little by little onto the ingredient conveyor. Therefore, the ingredients can be distributed on the ingredient conveying belt with a substantially constant thickness and width, and the ingredients are less likely to remain in the container that accommodates the ingredients.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing an example of an ingredient feeding device, FIG. 2 is an enlarged plan view of an ingredient scraping belt, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the overall configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. 1 is a container, 2 is an extrusion plate, 3 is a cylinder, 6 is a pin,
7 is an ingredient scraping belt, and 8 is an ingredient conveyor. Patent applicant: Iseki Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. Agent: Tobe Maki (and 3 others)

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A Gomokumeshi manufacturing machine that produces Gomokumeshi by stirring and mixing the cooked rice and the ingredients, with the end of the ingredients conveyor conveying the ingredients seen on the conveyor conveying the cooked cooked rice, An upper discharge port of a container containing the ingredients is visible above the starting end of the ingredient conveyor, and a push-out plate for pushing out the ingredients in the container by a push-out plate elevating means is provided in the container, and the upper outlet of the container The ingredient feeding device is provided with an ingredient scraping belt having a large number of pins arranged to scrape the ingredients pushed up to the discharge port onto the starting end of the conveyor.