JPH0560913B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] <Industrial Application Field> The disclosed technology involves hardening ground meat, pasting highly viscous flour milk, etc. on the outside of the foreskin, and then coating the outside with a dressing material such as bread crumbs. It belongs to the technical field of the structure of food manufacturing equipment that can be folded.

<Summary of the gist> The invention of this application is to process a food material, which has been previously formed into a predetermined shape such as a cube, from a battering line to the base of a battering line in a predetermined cycle. This invention relates to a food dressing device that connects and supplies food materials to cover the food materials with a dressing material such as bread crumbs, and is particularly integrated in a battering line for food materials in close contact with each other. A large number of buckets are provided at predetermined pitches, each consisting of a pair of half-split units that can be rotated and opened to drop the battered raw food onto the dressing supply conveyor. With respect to the frame of the food supply conveyor, a guide rail having an interruption part in the middle for opening each bucket is provided on the bottom of the bucket so as to be slidable relative to the frame, and a guide rail is provided at a predetermined position along the guide rail. This invention relates to an apparatus for coating food, which is provided with at least two apparatuses for supplying viscous enveloping materials such as wheat flour and milk.

<Conventional technology> As is well known, the lives of modern citizens have declined with the development of economy and industry, consumer lifestyles have become extremely affluent, and dietary habits have improved not only quantitatively but also qualitatively. However, it has become extremely diverse from the point of view of health and hygiene.

As a result, the types and quantities of foods handled in distribution markets such as supermarkets have become significantly more abundant, and as consumer needs have become more diverse, suppliers have been supplying new foods one after another. The variety of foods on the market is increasing significantly, and improvements to foods that have been on the market for a long time are now fully meeting the needs of consumers through stable, large-scale supply.

Among these, forming processing such as so-called kanokoage, in which ground meat, etc. is preformed into a semi-hard state and the outside is coated with powder such as azuki beans, sesame seeds, bread crumbs, or granular foreskin material. As a type of fried food, it has become popular as a type of fried food and has stable demand. There is.

In order to stably supply a large quantity of such foods in a wide variety of types, in recent years, technology has been developed to ensure that the quality is stable over a long period of time and to store them in large quantities, leading to the development of so-called frozen foods. In the above-mentioned fried food processing, directly coating such frozen raw food with batter such as bread crumbs is not recommended due to the condition of the frozen raw food. In the manufacturing process, from the viewpoint of taste such as the above-mentioned flavor,
A form of food processing has begun to be used in which food ingredients are coated with creamy flour milk, etc., as a highly viscous covering material, such as so-called buttering, and then coated with bread crumbs, etc. on the outside. There is.

<Problem to be solved by the invention> Therefore, in the process of battering creamy flour milk, etc. onto the entire surface of the frozen starter food, there have been two manual methods and automatic mechanical methods. However, the former method has the disadvantage that it requires technical skill to apply the batter after a certain level of battering, and it also requires quality control to perform stable battering on a large amount of food ingredients to coat bread crumbs, etc. There was a problem that the system was not stable.

On the other hand, although the latter has the advantage of good mass production and buttering with stable and uniform product accuracy, it has poor connection to the battering line for bread crumbs, etc. There is a drawback that so-called lumps are likely to occur while the baton is being applied to the battering line for breadcrumbs, and since a facility for the connection part is required, a large volume of space is required in terms of equipment, and as a result, It also had the disadvantage of high cost.

Furthermore, in plants where the battering process and the dressing process are separated, the travel distance is long, so there is a risk that dust in the air may adhere to the outside of the food material after battering. Since the attached grasshoppers tend to attract dust, etc., there is an inconvenience that it is not sanitary.

<Object of the invention> The object of the invention of this application is to solve the problem of battering in the manufacturing process of battered foods such as molded processed foods based on the above-mentioned prior art, and to directly connect the battering process to the battering process. let me,
Immediately after battering is performed accurately, the battered food material is dropped onto the battering material such as bread crumbs in the battering process, and the battering material such as bread crumbs is smoothly and hygienically coated on the outside of the food material. It is an object of the present invention to provide an excellent food battering device which is advantageous to the field of application of automation technology in the food industry by allowing the battering process to adhere to the food and the battering process from the battering process to the battering process to be connected in a consistent and compact manner.

<Means/effects for solving the problem> In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the structure of the invention of this application, which is summarized in the above-mentioned claims, is such that the bucket which performs the battering on the raw material is In the process of circulation by the supply conveyance device, the cam provided on the support frame of the bucket engages with the cam follower of the first-stage viscous wrapping material supply device to open the nozzle of the supply device, and a predetermined amount of fluff, etc. The viscous foreskin material is first supplied to the bucket, and then the raw material food, such as frozen raw food, which has been formed into a predetermined shape, is fed into the bucket from the tray on the tray shelf provided along the feeding conveyance device. Next, the second-stage viscous wrapping material supplying device supplies the viscous wrapping material such as grasshopper secondarily through the engagement of the bucket, the cam, and its cam follower, and covers the entire surface of the food material. Then, the circulating bucket can be opened and flopped by the force of gravity on the dressing supply conveyor by the interruption of the supporting guide rail of the opening/closing device. The raw material food is dropped onto the dressing material on the dressing material supply conveyor, and each half unit of the opened bucket is closed again by the opening/closing device of the guide rail and circulated, and the viscous wrapping material of the first stage is On the other hand, the battered raw food material dropped onto the dressing material supply conveyor is coated on its entire outer surface with a dressing material such as bread crumbs, and then transferred to a predetermined next stage. Technical measures have been taken to ensure that the raw materials are fed to the following processes.

<Example> Next, one example of the invention of this application will be described below based on the drawings.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the food dressing device 1, which constitutes the gist of the invention of this application, can be broadly divided into a dressing line 2 at a later stage, a circulation return line 3 for dressing materials attached thereto, and a dressing line 2. The previous buttering line 4 intersects this at right angles at the base.
It consists of three lines, each with a device frame 5, 5', 5'' and a caster roller 6, 6...
It is movable with respect to the base.

To explain the structure of each line in detail in turn, in the dressing line 2, as shown in FIGS. A ninth roller 9, which is stretched between a drive roller 9 driven by a motor 8 provided on one side and a driven roller 10 provided on the other end, and is erected on the device frame 5 at the center thereof. It is gradually deformed into a narrower width by two pairs of guide rollers 11, 11 on the left and right sides shown in the figure, which have an upwardly tapered shape, and between these guide rollers 11, 11... Water-sealed roller 12 shaped like a car tire
is pivotally supported on the device frame 5 and provided in the vertical direction, and a chain drive device 13 from the driven roller 10
The belt conveyor 7 rotates along with the belt conveyor 7.

As shown in FIG. 9, a predetermined amount of a predetermined liquid, for example, water 14, is sealed inside the roller 12, and a predetermined small-sized ball 15, 15, etc. made of iron or the like for rolling is contained inside the roller 12. A predetermined number of... are built-in.

The rolling device using the rollers 12 and the like is disclosed in detail as a food dressing device in the applicant's earlier invention, but the details are omitted in the invention of this application.

The base ends of a large number of string belt conveyors 16', 16', . , a conveyor (not shown) to a frying device, a freezing device, etc., and a chain drive device 16.
The driven roller 10 of the belt conveyor 7 via
I try to get power from it.

And the string belt conveyor 16' to the next stage,
On the lower side of 16', a mesh sieving conveyor 18 driven by a motor 17 is provided to intersect with each other. The belt conveyor 20 of the circulation return line 3 is connected and driven by a motor 19 provided on the device frame 5' at the tip thereof, and from the tip, the upper surface of the base of the belt conveyor 7 of the dressing material is transferred. A chute 21 is connected to and provided.

As shown in FIG. 2, a hopper 22 is provided at a predetermined portion of the belt conveyor 20, and a hopper 22 is provided to stir and mix the coating material for bread crumbs and supply a predetermined amount at a time. is provided on the device frame 5' by a subframe 25.

Therefore, in the buttering line 4, which constitutes one of the gist of the invention of this application, the frame 5'' has 2
Guide rails 26, 26 serving as book opening/closing devices are formed in a loop shape in the longitudinal direction at predetermined intervals in the width direction, and one portion on the outer side in the longitudinal direction has a tray serving as a feeding section for food materials 28 in the form of a net shelf. Shelf 2
7 is provided and pre-formed frozen material food 2
Trays 29, 29 each containing a predetermined amount of 8 are placed thereon, and are taken out one after another and placed on guide rails 26, 26 to be moved along the longitudinal direction.

As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, a rectangular support frame 30 is provided on one side of the push arms 32 and 3.
2 is connected to a chain 33 formed in a loop shape and driven by a motor using a predetermined gear/sprocket mechanism on the outside of the guide rails 26, 26, so that the chain 33 is moved together with the chain 33.

Inside the rectangular support frame 30, a pair of half-split units 34', 34' forming a bucket 34 for storing food materials 28 are provided, extending over the support frame 30 along the longitudinal direction of the guide rail 26. A pair of support shafts 35, 35 provided
On the other hand, as shown in FIG.
. . . is removable and replaceable, cannot fall off, and is locked in a rotatable manner, and each of the half units 3
4' is placed on the guide rail 26 as shown in FIG.
The opposing sides 37, 37 are in close contact with each other in a sealed state to form the bucket 34 into a kind of tray shape. Therefore, as shown in FIG. The food material 28 is stored in the closed state, but at the part 38 where the battering line 4 intersects with the dressing line 2 shown in FIG. 1, there is a guide rail as shown in FIG. 3. Part 39 where 26 is interrupted
Now, each half unit 34' opens downward in a double-door shape as shown by the arrow in FIG. 7 as the clip 36 pivots via the support shaft 35 due to the moment due to its own weight, and as shown in FIG. Material food 2
8 to fall naturally onto the top of the bread crumbs 41 on the belt conveyor 7 of the battering line 2,
Further, at the end of the interrupted part 39, as shown in FIG. 3, the guide rail 26 is made to continue again from the tapered part opened in a V-shape in a tapered shape,
As a result, each half unit 3 is opened downward.
4' is rotated inwardly and reversely again by the cam action of the guide rails 26, 26 connected in the tapered shape, so that it becomes a tray shape and the opposing sides 37, 37 are brought into close contact with each other to be in a closed state. is being used.

At the intersection 38 of the dressing line 2 and the battering line 4, as shown in FIGS. Bracket 4
Bread crumbs 41 of the battering material are placed close to both side edges of the belt conveyor 7 with respect to 0, tapered in the direction of movement of the belt conveyor 7, and inclined relatively downward.
A pair of blades 42, 42 for covering the food material 28 are provided in plane symmetrical manner, and the outer surface of the blades 42, 42 is approximately triangular in shape, and the base end is in a closed position in the direction of movement of the belt conveyor 7. A pair of blades 43, 43 for covering the bread crumbs 41, which are also narrow in width, are also provided symmetrically, so that the bread crumbs 41, which are the battering material thrown in from the hopper 22, are placed inside the bread crumbs 41. blade 4
The guide rails 26 and 26 are divided by the divider action on both sides by the blades 3 and 43, and are brought together inward by the outer blades 42 and swell to overhang, and the guide rails 26 and 26 are interrupted at the central part of the blades 42 and 43. In step 39, the half units 34', 34' are opened, and the falling battered battered material food 28 is set on the breadcrumbs 41 by the baton touch, and the breadcrumbs 41 are placed on top of the breadcrumbs 41 as they are advanced by the belt conveyor 7. It is designed to cover the entire surface to create a covering effect.

In the buttering line 4, the tray 29 of the food material 28 is placed on the shelf 2.
Two hoppers 44 and 44' for supplying grasshoppers as a viscous wrapping material are provided at the front and rear of the container 7.
Each bucket is connected via a hose 46 to a two-stage bucket supply device 45, 45' for each bucket 34.

Then, the second stage grasshopper feeding device 45, 4
5' has substantially the same structure, and this structure is similar to the fourth,
As shown in FIG. 5, the hopper 48 of the housing, which is supplied with the locusts 47 from the locust hoppers 44, 44' through the hose 46 and stored therein, is connected to the bracket 4.
9, 49 to the device frame 5'', and the opening/closing damper 5 of the nozzle 50 at the tip thereof.
1 is provided with a screw 52 extending in front of it, and a balance weight 53 is screwed onto the screw 52 so that its position can be freely adjusted.
An arm 56 is extended to intersect with a link 57, and a cam follower roller 58 is supported by a pin at the tip of the link 57 to connect the chain 33.
The support frame 30 of the bucket 34 rotates by
It engages and disengages from a cam 59 provided at one end, and opens and closes the opening/closing damper 51 centering on a pin 54 via an arm 56.

In the above-described configuration, the hoppers 44, 44' are filled with the butterflies 47 of a predetermined concentration, and the butterflies feeding device 45,
45', and 4 bread crumbs per hopper 22.
1 is filled and the dressing device 1 is put into operation, each belt conveyor 7, 20 rotates, and the chain 33
rotates, and each bucket 34 is moved to the guide rail 2 by each support frame 30 via each push-out arm 32.
6, Slide it up to 26.

Of course, each bucket 34 is connected to each half unit 34', 3 in front of the interruption 38 of the guide rail 33.
4', as mentioned above, is opened on both sides in the direction of travel, and then closed again at the end of the opening for circulation.

When the buckets 34, which are circulated by sliding on the rotating chain 33 on the guide rails 26, 26 via the push-out arm 32, reach the part of the first-stage bucket supply device 45' of the working section, the fourth bucket ，
As shown in Figure 5, the cam 5 of the support frame 30
9 advances in the direction of the arrow shown in FIG. 4, it comes into contact with the cam follower 58 of the butterflies feeding device 45', causes the link 57 and arm 56 to pivot around the pin 54, and opens the opening/closing damper 51 against the balance weight 53. Then, a predetermined amount of the butterflies 47 in the hopper 48 is discharged and supplied from the nozzle 50 to the center of the bucket 34, which is placed on the support frame 30 that comes directly below the nozzle 50 and is conveyed integrally.

Therefore, the operator waits at the tip of the loading shelf 27 of the buttering line 4, and picks up the frozen food materials 28, 28 for molded products stored in advance from the tray 29 placed on the loading shelf 27. ... are sequentially supplied to the bucket 34 at the front part of the first-stage bucket supply device 45'.

In this state, the worker takes out the frozen material food 28 from the tray 29 for the bucket 34 that arrives at the work section, places it in the center on the bucket 47 that is being supplied primarily, and then places the food material 28 thereon. The loaded bucket 34 is transferred by the support frame 30, and is transferred to the second stage bucket feeding device 45 to be fed to the fourth bucket 34 mentioned above.
Similar to the mechanism shown in FIG. 5, the cam follower 58 again engages with the cam 59 of the support frame 30 to open the opening/closing damper 51, and a predetermined amount of flutter 47 is supplied from the nozzle 50 onto the food material 28, thus The buckets supplied above and below the food material 28 are transferred to the food material 28 through the vibration of the bucket 34 during transportation.
It arrives at the intersection 38 of the dressing line 2, having been accurately adhered to the entire surface of the dressing line 2.

At the intersection 38, as shown in FIG. The material is pivoted outward while being engaged by the support shaft 35 via the elastic clip 36, and each of the opposing sides 37, 37 is opened, and thus the material is wrapped on all sides by the batts 47. As shown in FIGS. 10 and 11, the food 28 is dropped onto the top of the bread crumbs 41 in the center of the blades 42 and 43 of the covering mechanism of the belt conveyor 7 of the battering line 2, and then transported forward. The bucket 34 that has passed through the interruption part 39 is attached to the support frame 3
In order for the bucket belt 34 to continue to advance continuously through the chain 33, each half unit 34' on both sides of the bucket cart 34 is formed into a narrow tapered shape and is slidably engaged with the waiting guide rails 26, 26 from both sides of the outside. and turn inward again, each side 37,3
7 is brought into contact with the storage shelf 2 again in a sealed state, circulates through the guide rails 26, 26 in a kind of empty state, and then returns to the loading shelf 2.
7, the first stage batter feeding device 45'
Then, as described above, the opening/closing damper 51 of the nozzle 50 of the first-stage butterfly feeder 45 is opened by the cam and cam follower mechanism, and the butterfly 47 is supplied, and the same cycle is repeated thereafter.

During this time, each half unit 34' of the bucket 34
Because of the engagement of the elastic clips 36 with the support shafts 35, the half units 34' do not fall off.

Moreover, as shown in FIG. 7, each half unit 34'
At the end of the stroke of outward rotation, its outer portion elastically abuts against the inner edge of the support frame 30, preventing it from over-swinging, and attaches to the bottom of the half unit 34' due to centrifugal force at the point where the rotation stops. The locusts are forcibly peeled off and dropped onto the crumbs 41 on the belt conveyor 7 in the form of lumps, so there is no formation of so-called lumps.

Then, the food material 28 that falls from the intersection 38 onto the crumbs 41 of the belt conveyor 7 and is fluttered is moved to the tapered guide rollers 11, 11...
The belt conveyor 7, which is forcibly formed into a concave upward cross section by the roller 12 inside the bread crumbs 41, overhangs the upper part of the bread crumbs 41, and the pair of blades 42 and 43 squeezes the crumbs, causing the lower surface of the crumbs to be In particular, the action of covering the front and rear surfaces, the left and right sides, and the top surface with the bread crumbs 41 is performed, and the bread crumbs 41 are attached to the entire surface. The pressing action of water 14 sealed inside and a set number of iron balls 15, 15...
Due to the light rolling action of
The bread crumbs 41 are lightly bitten into the surface of the food material 28' and adhered to the entire surface of the food material 28', and are opened again.The vibrations generated by the belt conveyor 7 spread other unattached bread crumbs 41, and reach the feeding end. Set horizontal pitch width string conveyor 16', 1
The breadcrumbs 41 that are not attached to the food material 28' during the process are transported to the next frying process or freezing process by 6'..., and fall and are transferred to the sieving conveyor 18 that rotates in an intersecting manner. The sieved and usable bread crumbs 41 are replenished with new bread crumbs 41 from the hopper 22 midway through the belt conveyor 20 of the circulation return line 3, and are conveyed from the tip through the chute 21 to the belt conveyor 7 of the battering line 2. It is circulated and supplied to.

As shown in FIG. 1, the distance between the first-stage batter feeding device 45' and the second-stage batter feeding device 45 is short, and the distance between the second-stage batter feeding device 45 and the intersection portion 38 is short. Since the distance is short and the length is set to the minimum necessary length, there is almost no adhesion of dust etc. in the air to the butterflies 47 on the buttering line 4, and the butterflies 47 are immediately removed from the dressing line 2 after being butterflyed. Bread crumbs 41 are dropped on top of bread crumbs 41
As a result, not only is there no adhesion of dust, etc., but also the dilution of the coating due to the dripping of the grasshopper 47 attached to the entire surface of the food material 28 is prevented, and bread crumbs are formed by butterflying as designed. 41 blinding effects will be performed.

And once the final round of bumbling is over,
An operator sequentially removes the half units 34', 34' of each bucket 34 from the support frame 30 on the conveyor 33 using the spring properties of the elastic clips 36 for cleaning, and then supports them again via each elastic clip 36. All you have to do is reset it to frame 30.

In addition, each batter supply device 45, 4 can adjust the battering depending on the type and shape of the food material 28.
5', by adjusting the forward and backward movement of the counterweight 53 with respect to the screw 52, by adjusting the mounting position of the link 57 with respect to the arm 56, the contact timing of the cam follower 58 with respect to the cam 59, and by adjusting the opening/closing amount of the opening/closing damper 51. It can be adjusted accordingly.

It goes without saying that the embodiments of the invention of this application are not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments. For example, a weight detection device may be provided between the guide rails after the first-stage grasshopper feeding device to prevent accidental overflow. Various aspects can be adopted, such as providing a kind of monitoring mechanism such as activating a buzzer or a lamp when the butterflies are supplied.

In addition, the applicable foods can be applied to various types of fried foods, and the coating material is not limited to bread crumbs, but can also be applied to adzuki beans, sesame seeds, etc.

<Effects of the Invention> As described above, according to the invention of this application, basically, a battered food can be produced by sprinkling breadcrumbs, etc. on a raw material food such as a frozen food, which has been formed into a predetermined shape, such as ground meat, in advance. In the process of coating and lining the outside of the food material with a viscous covering material such as butterfly, the food material is supplied after the first stage of buttering on one side of the food material, and then the second stage of buttering on the other side. By performing the eye buttering, the buttering is performed in the optimum condition on the entire front and back surfaces of the raw food before applying the batter to bread crumbs, etc., and the buttering is performed completely automatically when applying the batter. This has the effect of mass-producing highly accurate foods, and has the excellent effect of improving efficiency and increasing confidence in quality.

In addition, in continuous production, it is possible to use a fixed amount of viscous wrapping materials such as battuta, which not only has the effect of reducing costs, but also has the excellent effect of suppressing the occurrence of clumps during the dressing process. be done.

In addition, the bucket can be easily removed from the support frame after work is completed, cleaning, etc. can be done reliably and efficiently, and high viscosity coating can be applied again in the next coating process, making it highly reliable. There is also the effect that the product can be obtained.

In the buttering process, an opening/closing device such as an interrupted part of the guide rail is provided at the intersection with the dressing process, so that the bucket can reliably open and close each half unit at the set timing. The battered raw food material set inside the container will surely fall onto the dressing material, and will not be affected by the battering caused by the centrifugal force as it is released by the rotational movement of the half-split unit. Since the foreskin material such as fluff falls onto the dressing material supply conveyor, there is an effect that no lumps or the like are generated.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings are explanatory diagrams of one embodiment of the invention of this application, in which Fig. 1 is an overall schematic plan view, Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, Fig. 3 is a schematic plan view of the opening and closing process of the bucket, and Fig. 4 is a viscosity 5 is a front view of the foreskin supply device; FIG. 6 is a schematic partial sectional plan view of the bag; FIG. 7 is a front view of the bag;
Fig. 8 is a partial sectional view of the attachment of the bucket, Fig. 9 is a sectional front view of the compacting device for raw foods, Fig. 10 is a schematic plan view of the intersection of the battering line and the battering line, and Fig. 11 is a partially sectional side view of the same. 1...Dressing device, 2...Dressing line, 5''
...Frame, 7...Dressing conveyor, 4...Buttering line, 26...Guide rail, 27
...Tray shelf, 28...Material food, 30...
Support frame, 33... Supply conveyor, 34...
Bucket, 34'...half unit, 39...interrupted part, 41...dressing material, 36...clip, 4
5, 45'... Supply device, 50... Nozzle, 51
...Opening/closing damper, 58...Cam follower, 59
...Cam, 47... Viscous foreskin material (batsuta).

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. In a food battering apparatus in which the tip of a battering line for a food material previously formed and processed in a predetermined manner is connected to the base of a battering line in an overlapping manner, the battering of the food material is provided. The supply conveyor of the line is equipped with a number of buckets consisting of a pair of half-units that can be opened and closed with respect to each other, and each half-unit is removably attached to the support frame of the bucket via a clip. On the frame of the supply conveyor, a pair of guide rails having an interrupted part for opening the bucket to the battering conveyor are provided along the feeding conveyor for the raw food material, and the pair of guide rails are slidable relative to the bottom of the bucket and have a pair of general parts of the same width. What is claimed is: 1. A food dressing device, characterized in that the food dressing device is formed in a wide tapered shape before and after the interrupted portion and is attached in a circular manner. 2. The food dressing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the battering line is provided with a shelf for placing trays for raw foods. 3. In a food battering device in which the tip of a battering line for previously formed food ingredients is connected to the base of a battering line so as to overlap, the supply conveyors of the battering line for the food ingredients are mutually opened and closed. The supply conveyor is equipped with a large number of bucket carts each consisting of a pair of half-units, each of which is removably attached to the bucket support frame via a clip, and the bucket cart is attached to the frame of the supply conveyor. A pair of guide rails having interruptions for opening to the dressing conveyor are attached in a circumferential manner, and at least two supply devices for supplying viscous wrapping material to the bucket are attached at predetermined intervals in the longitudinal direction along the guide rails. A food dressing device characterized by: 4. The food dressing device according to claim 3, wherein the supplying device for the viscous wrapping material is provided with a damper for opening and closing a nozzle relative to the bucket. 5. The food dressing device according to claim 3, wherein the opening/closing damper can be opened and closed with respect to the cam of the bucket via a cam follower.