JPH05236860A - Mechanism for turning direction of noodle dough in noodle-making machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a mechanism for turning the direction of noodle dough in a noodle-making machine which presses a noodle dough sheet from various directions to form noodles having springiness and body. CONSTITUTION:The objective mechanism is provided with a pressing plate 306 placed above a belt conveyor 221 transferring a noodle dough sheet 1 from an upper rolling means 200 to a middle-stage rolling means 200 to draw the dough in one direction, an air cylinder 304 to vertically move the pressing plate 306 to press the dough, a shaft 302, gears 302a, 301c and a motor 301a to rotate the air cylinder 304 around a vertical axis and plural protrusions 307 protruding from the lower face of the pressing plate 306.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a noodle dough direction changing mechanism of a noodle making machine for rolling hand-rolled rolling pin by mechanical means when rolling the dough.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to roll noodle dough, dusting powder is sprinkled on a flat surface to put a mass of noodle dough, and a rolling pin is pressed by pressing the rolling pin on the mass of noodle dough. There is a hand-made noodle making method that is repeated many times.

According to such a hand-made noodle making method, since the gluten in the noodle dough spreads uniformly in a mesh shape, noodles rich in elasticity and tenacity can be obtained, but a large amount of noodle making work can be performed. difficult.

Therefore, as an apparatus for mechanically making noodles, a pair of large-diameter rollers are provided, the noodle dough is supplied between the pair of rollers, and the noodle dough is passed between the pair of large-diameter rollers for rolling. I know what to do.

[0005]

However, when a large amount of pressure is applied to a set of large-diameter rollers to stretch the noodle dough in one direction at a time, the noodle dough is tightened. When it was boiled, it became hard, and it lacked the flavor and elasticity like the noodle dough rolled with a hand-rolled rolling pin and lacked a distinctive crunch and lacked flavor.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made by paying attention to the problems of the conventional noodle making apparatus, and it is possible to produce noodles having elasticity and elasticity like noodle dough rolled by a hand-made rolling pin. It is an object to provide a noodle dough direction changing mechanism of a noodle making machine.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the noodle dough direction changing mechanism of the noodle making machine according to the present invention comprises a first rolling means for stretching the noodle dough in one direction, and a first rolling means. A noodle dough direction changing mechanism of a noodle making machine comprising: a second rolling means for stretching the noodle dough in a direction intersecting with a stretching direction of the rolling means, wherein the first rolling means to the second rolling means A pressing plate disposed above the conveying means for conveying the noodle dough up to the means and pressed on the noodle dough rolled by the first rolling means, and an elevating means for moving the pressing plate up and down. A rotating mechanism for rotating the elevating means about a vertical axis is provided, and a plurality of protrusions that enter the noodle dough are provided in a protruding manner on a surface of the pressing plate that contacts the noodle dough.

[0008]

According to the noodle dough direction changing mechanism of the noodle making machine according to the present invention, while the noodle dough is being conveyed from the first rolling means to the second rolling means, the noodles are being conveyed by the elevating means while the pressing plate is being conveyed. When the dough is pressed, the protrusions of the pressing plate enter the noodle dough.
In this state, when the pressing plate is rotated by the rotating mechanism and the pressing plate is pulled up by the elevating means, the rolling direction of the noodle dough is changed. The noodle dough whose stretching direction is changed is rolled from different directions by the second rolling means, so that the gluten distribution state of the noodle dough is widely dispersed.

[0009]

Next, a noodle dough direction changing mechanism of a noodle making machine according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 4 shows a noodle making machine according to this embodiment. The frame 10 of the noodle making machine has a three-stage structure including an upper stage, a middle stage and a lower stage.

Reference numeral 11 denotes a reversing plate for reversing the noodle dough 1
Reference numeral 20 is a stretching roll, and 30 and 40 are belt conveyors. The upper stage and the middle stage constitute a continuous process via the first reversing plate 11, and the middle stage and the lower stage constitute a continuous process via the second reversing plate 11.

In the upper stage, a dough hardness measuring device 100, a noodle dough rolling mechanism 200, a direction changing mechanism 300, and a dusting device 40.
0 is provided, a second rolling mechanism 200 is provided with a second dusting device 400 in the middle stage, and a third dusting device 400 and a cutter 500 are provided in the lower stage.

The steps of rolling the noodle dough 1 will be briefly described. First, the hardness of the lump noodle dough 1 is measured by the dough hardness measuring device 100, and then the first rolling means located at the upper stage is used. The noodle dough rolling mechanism 200 rolls in one direction. After rolling in one direction, the direction is changed by 90 degrees by the direction changing mechanism 300, and the powder is scattered on the upper surface by the dusting device 400. After passing under the dusting device 400, the flour-dispersed noodle dough 1 is inverted by the first reversing plate 11 and falls onto the belt conveyor 32, and is conveyed to the second rolling mechanism 200 as the second rolling means. To be done. In the second rolling mechanism 200, rolling is performed in a direction orthogonal to the rolling direction of the first rolling mechanism 200. After the noodle dough 1 rolled by the second rolling mechanism 200 is sprinkled with the powder from the second dusting device 400, inverted by the second reversing plate 11 and then sprinkled with the powder by the third dusting device 400. Cutter 500 by belt conveyor 40
Be transported to. The noodle dough 1 sent to the cutter 500 is cut into thin noodles and drops from the discharge guide plate 12 onto a tray (not shown).

Each device will be described below.

As shown in FIG. 7, the dough hardness measuring device 100 is attached to the side of the upper stage of the frame 10 and conveys the noodle dough 1 with a belt 111.
And a pressing means 120 and an encoder 130. A belt 111 is wound around the roller 113 of the belt conveyor 110, and a support plate 112 that receives the bending of the belt 111 and the pressing of the pressing unit 120 is provided on the back surface of the belt 111.

The pressing means 120 comprises an air cylinder 121,
The rod 12 that extends and contracts from the air cylinder 121
2 and a pressing pad 123 fixed to the tip of the rod 122 and contacting the noodle dough 1. The air cylinder 121 is fixed so that the rod 122 extends perpendicularly to the surface of the belt 111 of the belt conveyor 110.
A rack gear 124 is formed on the rod 122.

On the other hand, the encoder 130 has a shaft 133 connected from the encoder body 131 via a coupling 132. A pinion gear 134 is fixed to the shaft 133. The pinion gear 134 meshes with the rack gear 124 of the rod 122. A known counting mechanism is provided in the encoder body 131.

On the upper stage of the frame 10, the material hardness device 1
00, the stretching roll 20, the rolling mechanism 200, the noodle dough direction changing mechanism 300, and the dusting device 400 are arranged in this order. Rolls 21 and 22 for stretching the noodle dough 1 to a uniform thickness are provided on the spreading roll 20 so as to face each other so that the facing distance can be adjusted.

As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the rolling mechanism 200 is provided with a pair of belt conveyors 210 and 220 which are arranged in the column direction to form one conveying line. Endless belt 21 that constitutes the belt conveyors 210 and 220
1, 221 are rollers 212, 213 and roller 22
It has been passed over to 2, 223. Rollers 212, 213
The rollers 222 and 223 are rotated by chains 215 and 225 connected to the motors 214 and 224.
The endless belts 211 and 221 are driven so that the forward and reverse directions can be changed by changing the rotation directions of the motors 212 and 213. A transfer plate 226 that transfers the noodle dough 1 is provided at a connection boundary portion between the belt conveyor 210 and the belt conveyor 220.

A roller assembly structure 230 is disposed above the pair of belt conveyors 210 and 220. The roller assembly structure 230 is suspended from the frame 10 via an air cylinder 240 as an urging means. The roller assembly structure 230 includes a pair of rolling roller circulation mechanisms 2.
Equipped with 50. A set of rolling roller circulation mechanism 250,
The connection boundary of 250 is located above the transfer plate 226. 3 and 4 show a pair of rolling roller circulation mechanisms 2
The configurations of 50 and 250 are shown.

The rolling roller circulation mechanism 250 includes a pair of endless chains 252 and 252 extending in the extending direction of the belt conveyors 210 and 220. Before and after the pair of endless chains 252, 252, a pair of sprockets 254,
254 are arranged respectively, and a total of 4 sprockets 2
The pair of endless chains 252, 252 is pulled by 54. A pair of endless chains 252, 252 pieces 2
Both ends of the rolling roller 251 are rotatably supported between 53 and 253.

The pair of sprockets 254, 254 are formed by the rollers 212, 213 of the belt conveyors 210, 220.
It is fixed to both ends of a rotary shaft 255 extending in parallel with 222 and 223. One set of rotating shafts 255 is provided in one rolling roller circulation mechanism 250. Rotating shaft 25
Chains 252 and 252 mesh with the sprockets 254 and 254 of 5, 255. Many rolling rollers 2
51 is a horizontal direction and the belt conveyors 210, 22
It extends in a direction orthogonal to 0.

A gear 256 is fixed to the sprockets 254 and 254 located near the front and rear of the transfer plate 226. One of these two sprockets 254 is connected to the motor 258 via a chain 257.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the noodle dough direction changing mechanism 300 includes a motor box 301 containing a motor 301a. The motor box 301 is attached to the frame 10. Motor box 301
The output shaft 301b of the motor 301a projects from the side wall of the worm gear 30 at the tip of the output shaft 301b.
1c is fixed. On the upper and lower walls of the motor box 301, a rotatable shaft 302 extending vertically is provided with bearings 302b,
It is held by 302b. A gear 302a meshing with the worm gear 301c is fixed to an intermediate portion of the shaft 302. A rotary base 303 is horizontally attached to the lower end of the shaft 302.

The rotating means of the present invention comprises a motor box 301 having a bearing 302b, a motor 301a, a worm gear 301c, a gear 302a, a shaft 302, and a rotating No. 303.

At the four corners of the turntable 303, air cylinders 304 are provided as lifting means. Air cylinder 3
A piston rod 305 of No. 04 slidably projects below the rotary table 303. The piston rod 305 expands and contracts by an air compressor (not shown). For example, the piston rod 305 is expanded by a detection signal from a detector (not shown) that detects that the noodle dough 1 placed on the endless belt 201 is located under the turntable 303. Controlled. However, the air cylinder 304 may be extended based on the transport distance of the endless belt 221 depending on the rotation speed of the motor 224.

A pressing plate 306 as a pressing plate is attached to the lower end of the piston rod 305 so as to be vertically movable. On the lower surface of the presser plate 306, the noodle dough 1
A large number of hemispherical projections 307 are scattered in order to increase the friction between and. The hemispherical projections 307 sufficiently enter the inside of the noodle dough 1 when the pressing plate 306 comes into contact with the noodle dough 1 and slide the noodle dough 1 when the pressing plate 306 is rotated. It is protruding.

The case 401 of the dust-dispersing device 400 is for accommodating dusting powder to be spread on udon, such as cornstarch, and is attached to the frame 10. Case 40
A geared motor 402 is provided on the side wall of 1.
An opening 403, which is close to the width of the belt 221 such as the belt conveyor 220, is formed in the bottom of the case 401 in an elongated shape.
A stainless net is fitted in the opening 403, and a wire brush 404 is rotatably provided above the stainless net in the case 40.
1 is attached to the side wall. This wire brush 40
A chain 405, which is stretched between the geared motor 402 and the geared motor 402, is rotationally driven so as to sweep over the stainless steel net.

At the last process position of the upper stage, a pair of spreading rolls 20 are provided for stretching the noodle dough 1 and inverting and moving it to the middle stage. The roll gap of the stretching roll 20 is narrower than that in the previous step. At the exit of the stretching roll 20, a reversal plate 11 which turns the noodle dough 1 inside out and sends it to the middle stage is provided.

At the middle stage of the frame 10, a belt conveyor 30, a rolling mechanism 200, a dusting device 400 and a spreading roll 20 are arranged in this order. Belt conveyor 3
No. 0 is equipped with a geared motor 31 and the endless belt 3 is provided so as to avoid the geared motor 31 and facilitate tension driving.
2 has been passed over. The configurations of the rolling mechanism 200, the dusting device 400, and the spreading roll 20 in the middle stage are the same as those in the upper stage, and thus the description thereof is cited. A reversal plate 11 is provided at the end of the middle stage, and the rolled noodle dough 1 is turned over and sent to the lower stage.

Below the frame 10 is a belt conveyor 3
0, long belt conveyor 4 following belt conveyor 30
0, a dusting device 400 is provided on the belt conveyor 40, and a cutter 500 is provided at the rearmost end. Belt conveyor 3
0 and the dust-dispersing device 400 are the same as those described above, and thus the description thereof is cited. The belt conveyor 40 has a length extending over substantially the entire length of the lower stage, and an endless belt 43 is stretched around rollers 41 and 42. Reference numeral 44 is a drive motor.

The cutter 500 is a cutter arm 5 having a rotatable rubber roller 510 and a cutter blade 520.
30, a crank rod 540 for moving the cutter arm 530 up and down, a motor 550, and a noodle dough pressing arm 56.
It consists of zero.

The rubber roller 510 is rotatably provided on the frame 10 slightly separated from the rear end of the belt conveyor 40, and slightly lower than the height of the upper surface of the endless belt 43.

The cutter arm 530 is axially supported by the rotation center 531 fixed to the frame 10, and the cutter blade 52.
It swings so that 0 coincides with the locus passing through the rotation center of the rubber roller 510. Cutter blade 520 is rubber roller 510
The noodle dough 1 is cut when it comes into contact with.

A lower end of a crank rod 540 eccentrically attached to a motor 550 is rotatably connected to the cutter arm 530. Noodle dough press arm 560
Like the cutter arm 530, can swing about a fulcrum 561. At the tip of the noodle dough pressing arm 560,
Two rollers 562 and 563 are provided. The roller 562 is urged against the roller 42 by the weight of the noodle dough pressing arm 560, and the roller 563 is urged against the rubber roller 510 by the weight of the noodle dough pressing arm 560. The roller 42 and the rubber roller 510 rotate by receiving the driving force of the lower motor 44 of the frame 10 via the chain. A discharge guide plate 12 is provided behind the rubber roller 510.

Next, the operation of the noodle dough rolling mechanism of the noodle making machine according to this embodiment will be described.

First, when the block-shaped noodle dough 1 is placed on the belt 111 of the noodle dough hardness measuring apparatus 100, the belt 11
1, the noodle dough 1 is driven by the belt conveyor 110.
Is carried below the pressing means 120.

The fact that the noodle dough 1 is located right below the pressing means 120 is detected by a detector such as a photoelectric tube, and the belt conveyor 110 is stopped by a stop command from the detector, and a predetermined pressing pressure is applied to the air cylinder 121. Take P1 for a certain period of time. As a result, the pressing pad 123 of the rod 122 presses the noodle dough 1 and the surface of the noodle dough 1 becomes smooth.

Next, the pressing pressure P previously applied to the air cylinder 121.
A predetermined pressing pressure P2, which is larger than 1, is applied to press the pressing pad 123 into the noodle dough 1. The rack gear 124 of the rod 122 rotates the pinion gear 134 by the lowering of the rod 122 when the pressing pad 123 is pushed. Since the rotation of the pinion gear 134 rotates the shaft of the encoder body 131, the number of rotations corresponding to the pushing amount in the encoder body 131 is counted. This count output value is used as index data for the hardness of the noodle dough 1. The index data is information for setting the pressing force of the rolling mechanism 200.

After collecting the index data, the air cylinder 12
1, pulling pressure P3 is applied to raise the presser pad 123, move the belt 111 of the belt conveyor 110, and rolls 21 and 22 of the stretching roller 20 and the motor 2
Rotate 14, 224. Noodle dough hardness measuring device 100
After feeding the noodle dough 1 between the rollers 21 and 22, the noodle dough hardness measuring apparatus 100 waits for the next noodle dough 1. The noodle dough 1 is stretched to have a uniform thickness as a whole by passing between the rollers 21 and 22. In FIG. 1, the motor 21
4 rotates the chain 215 clockwise to rotate the roller 213, and the motor 224 rotates the chain 225 clockwise to rotate the roller 222 clockwise.

The noodle dough 1 stretched to a uniform thickness by the rollers 21 and 22 is placed on the endless belts 211 and 221 which rotate right by the right rotation of the rollers 213 and 222. The endless belts 211 and 221 move the noodle dough 1 onto the transfer plate 226 at the center of the rolling mechanism 200.
A detector (not shown) is provided near the transfer plate 226. This detector detects that the noodle dough 1 has reached the delivery plate 226, temporarily stops the rotation of the motors 214 and 224, rotates the motor 258, and further extends the air cylinder 240.

By the extension of the air cylinder 240, the rolling roller circulation mechanism 250 descends toward the noodle dough 1. In this case, the pressing force of the air cylinder 240 is set so as to roll the noodle dough 1 in accordance with the hardness data of the noodle dough 1 obtained by the noodle dough hardness measuring device 100. Air cylinder 24
By lowering 0, the rollers 251 in the vicinity of the connecting portions of the rolling roller circulation mechanisms 250, 250 come into contact with the noodle dough 1.

By lowering the air cylinder 240, the roller 2
When the 51 contacts the noodle dough 1, the upper surface of the endless belt 211 carrying the noodle dough 1 moves from the transfer plate 226 toward the rollers 21 and 22 so that the endless belt 21 moves.
1 is rotated leftward, and the endless belt 221 is rotated rightward so that the upper surface portion of the endless belt 221 carrying the noodle dough 1 moves from the transfer plate 226 to the noodle dough direction changing mechanism 300.

When the rotation of the endless belts 211 and 221 is started, the motor 258 is rotated counterclockwise in FIGS. When the motor 258 rotates counterclockwise, the right sprocket 254 rotates counterclockwise through the chain 257. By rotating the right sprocket 254 counterclockwise, the right chain 25
2 rotates counterclockwise. The rolling roller 25 held by the right chain 252, ... by the left rotation of the right chain 252.
While rolling in contact with the noodle dough 1, the noodle dough direction changing mechanism 300 moves from the transfer plate 226 toward the armpit.

A gear 256 is fixed to the sprocket 254, and the gear 256 is a pair of gears 256, 25 shown in FIG.
6 is engaged with the left gear 256, the right gear 256 rotates counterclockwise, so that the left gear 2
56 rotates right. Since the left sprocket 254 is coaxially fixed to the left gear 256, the left chain 254 rotates right when the left sprocket 254 rotates right. By rotating the left side chain 254 to the right, the rolling roller 25 held by the left side chain 254
, 1, ... are in contact with the noodle dough 1 and are rollers 20, 21.
Move to the side.

That is, when one roller 251 is taken, it will rotate while revolving. Sprocket 2
Since the gear 256 coaxial with 54 is rotated in the same direction (counterclockwise rotation), the group of rollers 251 of the other roller assembly structure 230 moves leftward on the side facing the endless belt 211. In short, the roller 251 is a double rolling roller circulation mechanism 250,
In order to move from the contacting position of 50 to the lower side and to be separated further, and to rotate in contact with the noodle dough 1, the right side of the figure rotates right and the left side rotates left. Since the roller 251 is supported by the projecting end of the piece 253, the roller 251 passes along a locus further on the outer peripheral side than the locus of the chain 254 meshing with the sprocket 254. Therefore, at both ends of the rolling roller circulation mechanism 250, the gaps between adjacent rollers 251 are separated. Both rolling roller circulation mechanism 250, 250
The loci of the two rolling rollers 251 intersect with each other at the point of contact, and the distance between the two rolling roller circulation mechanisms 250, 250 is short.

Considering the moving speed of the roller 251 in the horizontal direction, that is, in the direction along the surfaces of the endless belts 211 and 221, the curve is drawn from the height of the center of rotation of the sprocket 254 to the horizontal position while descending. The moving speed of the rolling roller 251 tends to increase. Then, at the horizontal position, the speed is the same as the moving speed of the chain 254. This is because when the noodle dough 1 is gradually thinned by rolling, the stretching speed (spreading speed) at the thinned portion is higher than the original speed at the thick portion. The going noodle dough 1 is stretched to both sides without dripping between the other rolls 251. This corresponds to the state of rolling with a rolling pin.

In the rolling of the noodle dough 1, the forces for pulling the noodle dough 1 in both directions are balanced, so that the noodle dough 1 does not shift to one side. However, the rolling plate circulation mechanism 250, below the connecting portion of the 250 and the transfer plate 2
Since a space is created between the noodles 26 and 26, a high portion of the noodle dough 1 remains in this space. Therefore, the rolling roller circulation mechanism 250,
When 250 is rotated a predetermined number of times, the belts 211 and 2 are appropriately
21 is stopped and the rotation of the motors 214 and 224 is reversed to perform rolling again. By repeating this a predetermined number of times, the noodle dough 1 becomes flat without leaving a high portion in part. Whether or not the rolling of the noodle dough 1 is completed is detected by the fluctuation of the pressing force of the cylinder 240. After rolling the noodle dough 1, the endless belt 221 is rotated to the right to send the noodle dough 1 to the noodle dough direction changing mechanism 300.

When the noodle dough 1 is fed to the downward direction of the noodle dough direction changing mechanism 300 by the rotation of the belt 221, and the fact that the noodle dough 1 is located under the noodle dough direction changing mechanism 300 is detected by a detector (not shown), The rotation of the belt 221 is stopped and the air cylinder 304 is operated. As a result, the piston rod 305 extends, the presser plate 306 descends, and the projection 3 on the lower surface of the presser plate 306
07 is pushed into the noodle dough 1. When the motor of the motor box 301 is driven in this state and the shaft 302 is rotated, the rotary table 303 and the pressing plate 306 rotate while pressing the noodle dough 1.

The fact that the rotary base 303 has rotated 90 degrees is detected by a limit switch (not shown), and the motor is stopped by the detection signal of the limit switch. The noodle dough 1 is rotated 90 degrees from the previous step. When the noodle dough 1 rotates 90 degrees by the rotation of the turntable 303, air is sucked from the air cylinder 304 to contract the piston rod 305, raise the presser plate 306, and rotate the motor of the motor box 301 90 degrees. Stop it,
Wait for the next noodle dough 1 to be conveyed. The noodle dough 1 rotated by 90 degrees is conveyed to the bottom of the powder dispersion device 400 by the rotation of the endless belt 221.

The dusting device 400 comprises the noodle dough direction changing mechanism 3
Endless belt 221 after changing the direction of noodle dough 1 in 00
The geared motor 402 drives the chain 405 in accordance with the rotation of the. The rotation of the chain 405 causes the wire brush 404 to rotate, and the cornstarch is sprayed on the noodle dough 1 from the mesh of the openings 403.

The noodle dough 1 sprinkled with cornstarch is flattened by the spreading roll 20 in the upper post-process, and is inverted by the reversing plate 11 so that the surface on which the cornstarch is sprinkled is the lower side. Sent on. Noodle dough 1 inverted on the belt conveyor 30
Is conveyed to the rolling mechanism 200 in the middle stage and is trained and stretched similarly to the upper stage. Since the noodle dough 1 sent to the middle stage is turned 90 degrees in the upper stage, this noodle rolling mechanism 2
The stretching direction at 00 is also changed by 90 degrees with respect to the rolling direction at the upper stage. This means that people can use noodle rolls to make noodle dough 1
This is equivalent to the process of spreading from the center of the noodle dough in all directions, and the gluten structure of the noodle dough 1 is developed in a uniform state.

Noodle dough 1 sent from the rolling mechanism 200
Is sprayed on the surface of the middle-stage dusting device 400 where cornstarch has not been sprayed yet. After that, noodle dough 1
Is made to have a uniform thickness and a flat surface by a stretching roll 20 provided in a post-process of the middle stage.
Is further reversed by the lower belt conveyor 40
Moved to the top.

When the noodle dough 1 is placed on the belt conveyor 40, the motor 44 rotates and the endless belt 43 rotates. When the noodle dough 1 reaches below the dusting device 400 by the rotation of the endless belt 43, the noodle dough 1 is detected by a detector (not shown), the lower dusting device 400 is driven, and the corn starch is sprayed on the noodle dough 1. To be done. When the cornstarch is spread on the noodle dough 1, the noodle dough 1 is sent to the noodle strip cutter 500 at the rear end of the belt conveyor 40.

In the noodle strip cutter 500, the noodle dough 1 is sent between the endless belt 43 and the roller 562 by the roller 42 which rotates in synchronization with the belt 43 of the belt conveyor 40. Since the holding portion 564 moves up and down by the swing of the arm 560, when the noodle dough 1 is sent between the endless belt 43 and the roller 562, the holding portion 564 moves up due to the thickness of the noodle dough 1. When the pressing portion 564 moves up, the motor 550 rotates to move the crank rod 540 up and down. Since the lower end of the crank rod 540 rotatably holds the cutter arm 530, the cutter arm 530 rotates about the rotation center 531 as the crank rod 540 moves up and down. Cutter blade 520 of the cutter arm 530
Is in contact with the roller 42, the cutter arm 5
The noodle dough 1 is cut by the vertical movement of 30. The thickness of the noodle dough 1 is the feed amount (length) of the roller 42 per unit time and the number of vertical movements (cutting number) of the cutter blade 520 per unit time.
Therefore, the thickness of the noodle dough 1 can be adjusted by controlling the rotation speed of the motor 550 and the rotation speed of the motor 44. The cut noodle strips are moved down the discharge guide plate 12 to be aligned in a predetermined box or received by another noodle strip aligning device.

[0056]

[Effect] As described above, the noodle dough rolling mechanism of the noodle making machine according to the present invention changes the direction of the noodle dough between the first rolling means and the second rolling means. Since it is configured, the noodle dough can be rolled from various directions, and the gluten contained in the noodle dough can be widely spread. Therefore, the noodle dough is elastic and elastic like a rolled dough. It is possible to produce thick noodles.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an enlarged view of a noodle dough direction changing mechanism of a noodle making machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of a noodle dough direction changing mechanism of the noodle making machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a side view of a holding plate of the noodle dough direction changing mechanism of FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration of a noodle making machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a schematic view of a rolling mechanism of the noodle making machine shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view schematically showing a rolling mechanism of the noodle making machine of FIG.

7 is a perspective view showing a configuration of a noodle dough hardness measuring device of the noodle making machine shown in FIG.

[Explanation of Codes] 1 noodle dough 10 frame 11 reversing plate 20 roller 30 belt conveyor 40 belt conveyor 43 endless belt 100 noodle dough hardness measuring device 110 belt conveyor 111 endless belt 120 pressing means 123 pressing pad 124 rack gear 130 encoder 134 pinion gear 200 noodle dough rolling mechanism 211 endless belt 221 endless belt 230 roller assembly structure 240 cylinder 250 rolling roller circulation mechanism 251 rolling roller 252 chain 253 piece 254 sprocket 255 rotating shaft 256 gear 300 noodle dough direction changing mechanism 301 motor box 302 shaft 303 rotating Platform 304 Air cylinder 305 Piston rod 306 Presser plate 400 Powdering device 402 Geared motor 404 Brush 405 Chain 00 Cutter 510 roller 520 cutter blade 530 cutter arm 540 crank rod 550 motor 560 dough pressing arm 562 roller 563 roller

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A process comprising a first rolling means for stretching the noodle dough in one direction and a second rolling means for stretching the noodle dough in a direction intersecting with the stretching direction of the first rolling means. A noodle dough direction changing mechanism of a noodle machine, wherein the noodle dough direction changing mechanism is arranged above a conveying unit that conveys the noodle dough from the first rolling unit to a second rolling unit and rolled by the first rolling unit. And a pressing plate that is pressed onto the noodle dough,
Equipped with an elevating means for moving the pressing plate up and down, and a rotating mechanism for rotating the elevating means about a vertical axis, and a plurality of protrusions that enter the noodle dough are provided on the surface of the pressing plate that abuts the noodle dough. The noodle dough direction changing mechanism of the noodle making machine characterized by the above.