JPH057469A - Powder quantitative feeder - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain the title device having a specific structure, discharging a fixed amount of powder in high accuracy regardless of humidity. CONSTITUTION:The objective device wherein a fixed amount of powder A fed through a partition plate 12 having plural opening parts 12a set between a hopper part 11 having stored powder such as grain powder and a supporting stand part 13, an upper layer storage part 10a and a lower layer storage part 10b divided by the partition plate 12 and the partition plate 12 to the lower layer storage part 10b is quantitatively sent from a drop hole 13a through a powder quantitative feeding mechanism 14 and the feeding mechanism 14 has a rotary disk 15 having formed plural measuring parts 15a of fixed volume at equal intervals in the circumferential direction at the outer peripheral part corresponding to the drop hole 13a opening to the bottom of the supporting stand part 13, the drop hole 13a at the upper outer periphery of the rotary disk 15 is provided with a screening plate 18, a wiping plate 19 made of an elastic plate is set under a shielding plate 18 and a tip part 19a of the wiping plate is faced in the measuring part 15a of the rotary disc 15. The tip part of the wiping part 19 is divided into plural parts and faced in the measuring part 15a along the rotary direction of the rotary plate 15 by stages to wipe out powder in the measuring part 15a.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an improvement of a powder quantitative supply device for flour or the like in a noodle making device for noodles such as "udon" or "soba".

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a powder quantitative supply device of this type, one having a structure as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application No. 1-343852 filed on Dec. 28, 1991 by the applicant of the present invention is known. is there.

In such a device of the invention of the prior application, as shown in FIG. 12, a cylindrical hopper portion a containing a powder A such as cereal flour and an upper storage portion c by a partition plate b. A support base part f, which is partitioned into a lower layer storage part d and a drive motor e is attached to the bottom part thereof, is assembled, and a powder quantitative supply mechanism is incorporated on the support base part f.

In this powder quantitative supply mechanism, a plurality of constant volume rod portions g are circumferentially equidistantly provided on an outer peripheral portion of the support base portion f which is rotationally driven by a drive motor e. The rotary plate h formed in this manner is arranged, and the rotary plate h is assembled to the rotary body i rotated by the drive motor e so as to be rotatable synchronously.

A stirrer j is attached to the upper part of the rotating body i, and a stirring rod k protruding from the outer circumference of the head of the stirrer j.
Is exposed to the upper layer storage section c via the partition plate b.

Further, the rotary finger l protrudingly provided on the outer peripheral portion of the rotary body i has the powder A in the lower layer storage portion d accumulated through the opening (not shown) opened in the partition plate b. The rotating plate h
While it functions as an air bleeder that stirs so as not to slip on the upper part, the stirring bar k of the stirring body j
Is rotated right above the opening of the partition plate b to prevent the powder A stored in the upper layer storage c of the hopper a from clogging the opening of the partition b. It is designed to prevent it.

Then, the powder A deposited in the lower layer storage section d is accommodated in a clogged state in each of the grid portions g formed on the outer peripheral portion of the rotary plate h, and the inner bottom portion of the support base portion f. It is designed to be discharged from a drop port m opened on the outer periphery, and the upper portion of the rotary plate h corresponding to the drop port m is emptied from the empty g after the powder is discharged to the lower layer. A shield plate n is installed so that the powder A accumulated in the storage section d does not fall, and thereby the powder is quantitatively supplied.

[0008]

However, in the powder quantitative feeder of the above-mentioned prior invention, if the powder A becomes highly viscous due to moisture, etc., the rotary plate h
It becomes difficult for the powder A stored in the clogged part g of the clogged g to fall off.

For this reason, the balance with the kneading water supplied to the noodle making device is lost, and uniform dough cannot be made,
Moreover, when the discharge amount of the powder is less than the set amount, the dough becomes soft, and troubles such as sticking to the noodle making mechanism such as a mixer or a roller and clogging are likely to occur.

In addition, the mechanism for dropping powder by using such a container has the advantage that a fixed amount of powder can be generally supplied, but the supply is intermittent and continuous supply is possible. Therefore, there is a problem that the mixing state with the kneading water is not uniform.

[0011]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a powder quantitative supply device capable of accurately discharging a quantitative powder regardless of humidity.

[0012]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a hopper portion in which powder such as cereal flour is stored, and a hopper portion provided at the bottom portion of the hopper portion and falling on the outer peripheral portion of the bottom surface thereof. Through a support base part having an opening, a partition plate provided between the support base part and the hopper part and for partitioning the upper layer storage part and the lower layer storage part, and a plurality of openings provided in the partition plate. A powder quantitative supply device comprising a powder quantitative supply mechanism for quantitatively supplying the powder supplied from the upper storage section to the lower storage section from a drop opening opened on the outer periphery of the bottom surface of the support base. The body fixed amount supply mechanism is configured such that a plurality of constant volume rods for storing a fixed amount of powder to be supplied to the lower layer storage portion are provided in the outer peripheral portion corresponding to a drop opening opened on the bottom surface of the support base in the circumferential direction. And a rotating plate formed at even intervals,
A rotating body for synchronously rotating the rotating plate, and a plurality of stirring rods mounted on the upper part of the rotating body for synchronous rotation and projectingly provided on the outer peripheral portion of the head of the rotating plate, are provided on the hopper section through the partition plate. A stirrer facing the upper layer storage, a shield plate installed at a position corresponding to the drop port and shielding the upper surface of the outer periphery of the rotary plate on which the ridge is formed, and a shield plate provided below the shield plate. In addition, the wiping plate is made of an elastic substrate, the tip of which faces the inside of the sill of the rotary plate at a position corresponding to the drop port.

In this case, it is preferable that the tip end portion of the wiping plate is divided into a plurality of parts, and the tip end portion of the wiping plate is made to face the inside of the box portion along the rotational direction of the rotary plate.

[0014]

In other words, according to the present invention, the wiping plate made of the elastic substrate is installed under the shielding plate, and the tip of the wiping plate is made to face the inside of the rod part of the rotating plate at a position corresponding to the drop port. , The tip of the wiping plate is elastic due to the rotation of the rotating plate,
It becomes possible to easily remove the powder contained in the clogged portion of the rotating plate in a clogged state.

Further, if the tip of the wiping plate is divided into a plurality of parts so that the wiping plate faces the inside of the mesh stepwise along the direction of rotation of the rotary plate, the mesh of the rotary plate is clogged. The powder accommodated in (1) is gradually removed, whereby the powder can be discharged almost continuously.

[0016]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to an embodiment shown in FIGS. FIG. 2 schematically shows the overall structure of a noodle making device equipped with the powder quantitative supply device according to the present invention, in which 1 is a device body.

On the top plate 2 of the apparatus main body 1, there is placed a flour storage 10 as a powder quantitative supply device for storing the flour A which will be described later, and the apparatus main body located below the flour storage 10 is placed. A mixer 20 as a mixing means is installed in the upper part of the inside of 1.

As will be described later, the mixer 20 includes a bracket 3 fixed to the back surface of the top plate 2 of the apparatus body 1,
It is inserted and held between 4 and 5 and is detachably suspended through a tightening screw 6, and the flour A that is quantitatively supplied from the grain storage 10 is stirred together with the kneading water B to form a soboro-shaped noodle dough. It is one that has become.

Reference numeral 30 in the drawing denotes a rolling mechanism as a rolling means installed below the mixer 20, and as shown in FIG. 3, ion nitriding is performed on the surface of a hard roller material made of, for example, iron or stainless steel. A pair of rolling rollers 31 and 32 that have been subjected to processing, and a supporting shaft 31a of one rolling roller 31 forming a pair is pivotally supported by a fixed support frame 7 fixed to the apparatus body 1 and the other rolling roller 31a. A support shaft 32a of 32 is pivotally supported by a rotary support frame 9 which is tiltable and rotatable in the front-rear direction with respect to the one rolling roller 31 via a shaft 8.

The other rolling roller 32, as shown by the two-dot broken line in FIG. Can be opened.

Further, the shaft fulcrum 8 of the rotation supporting frame 9 is located rearward of the one rolling roller 31 with respect to the shaft fulcrum 32a of the other rolling roller 32 pivotally supported by the rotating support frame 9. Thus, the phase X is shifted so that the other rolling roller 32 is biased by its own weight in such a direction as to always contact the one rolling roller 31 side.

In this embodiment, the other rolling roller 3
2 is biased toward one rolling roller 31 side by its own weight, but the other rolling roller 3 is not by its own weight but by elasticity of a spring or the like.
It is also possible to configure so that 2 is urged to one rolling roller 31 side.

Further, reference numeral 40 in the drawing denotes a lock lever for locking the rotary support frame 9 on the apparatus main body 1 side. One end 40a of the lock lever 40 is pivotally supported by the fixed support frame 7 so as to be vertically rotatable, and the other end 40b is provided with a noodle thickness adjusting dial 4 as an adjusting member.
1 is screwed together.

The noodle thickness adjusting dial 41 can be moved in the axial direction of the lock lever 40 by rotating the noodle thickness adjusting dial 41. The tip 41a of the noodle thickness adjusting dial 41 is moved to the tip of the rotary support frame 9. The rotation support frame 9 is locked by being locked to the locking shaft 9a of the portion, while the noodle thickness adjusting dial 41 is rotated in this locked state to move the front and rear of the rotation support frame 9 forward and backward. The tilt rotation range of the direction is regulated to be adjustable.

That is, the pair of rolling rollers 31, 3
The soboro-shaped noodle dough produced by the mixer 20 is supplied between the two, and the soboro-shaped noodle dough is rolled to form a noodle strip.

On the other hand, the noodle thickness adjusting dial 41 deposits a certain amount of the soboro-like noodle dough supplied from the mixer 20 on the rolling part P between the rollers 31 and 32 in contact with each other. When rolling in this state, the rearward rotation of the rotation supporting frame 9 is allowed within a certain range so that the other rolling roller 32 is separated from the one rolling roller 31 under the load. The gap between the rolling parts P is kept constant, which makes it possible to adjust the thickness of the noodle strip at one location.

Reference numerals 51 and 52 in the figure denote first and second scrapers made of stainless steel plates arranged on the downstream side of the pair of rolling rollers 31 and 32, respectively.

The scrapers 51, 52 are pressed against the surfaces of the rolling rollers 31, 32 with their tip portions 51a, 52a pressed by the urging force of spring members 53, 54 such as springs or leaf springs. In addition, the tip end portion 51a on one side of the rolling roller 3 is
1 and 32 are arranged at a high position on the upstream side so as to be close to the rolling part P side, and the other tip part 52a is arranged at a lower position on the downstream side, and the stripping timing is shifted. As described above, they are arranged asymmetrically with respect to the rolling center axis.

That is, each scraper 51, 5
No. 2 shows that the noodle strips that are delivered while being attached to both surfaces of the rolling rollers 31, 32 are first rolled by arranging their tip portions 51a, 52a asymmetrically with respect to the rolling center axis. The first scraper 5 close to the part P side
The first tip 51a of the first rolling roller 31 is peeled off from the surface of one rolling roller 31.

Next, the noodle strips attached to the other rolling roller 32 side are alternately stripped at different timings such that they are stripped off by the tip portion 52a of the second scraper 52, so that the noodle strips are stripped. It is designed to be carried out stably and smoothly.

That is, by arranging the first scraper 51 and the second scraper 52 in a vertically shifted manner, the tip 51a of the first scraper 51, which is one of the scrapers, is brought close to the rolling part P. Therefore, before the pulling action by the rolling rollers 31 and 32 occurs, the scraper 51 is removed from one of the rolling rollers 31.
The noodle strips can be peeled off by the front end portion 51a, and the surface of the noodle strips can be prevented from being roughened due to the pulling action of both rolling rollers 31, 32.

By the way, as shown in FIGS. 1, 4 and 5, the flour storage 10 as the powder quantitative supply device is as follows.
A transparent cylindrical hopper portion 11 whose upper end opening is covered with a lid plate 11a, a support base portion 13 to which the hopper portion 11 is assembled and supported via a partition plate 12, and the inside of the support base portion 13. It is configured such that it can be disassembled and assembled with the grain flour constant supply mechanism 14 assembled in the above.

The partition plate 12 is fixed between the hopper portion 11 and the support base portion 13 and is partitioned into an upper layer storage portion 10a and a lower layer storage portion 10b, whereby the upper layer storage portion 10a.
The weight of the grain flour A stored in the lower layer storage unit 10b is prevented from changing, and the density of the grain flour A is prevented from changing, and the flour stored in the upper layer storage unit 10a is provided on the outer peripheral portion thereof. A plurality of openings 12a are provided to drop and supply A to the lower layer storage section 10b.

This grain flour constant amount supply mechanism 14 has a plurality of (for example, 18 in the illustrated embodiment) a square portion 15a having a constant volume on the outer peripheral portion slidably arranged on the inner bottom surface of the support base 13. ······················································· from the rotary plate 15 and the rotary body 16 mounted on the rotary plate 15 so as to be rotatable synchronously, 16 is mounted on the head of the hopper 16 so as to be rotatable synchronously, and is passed through the partition plate 12 to pass through the partition plate 12 to store the upper layer storage portion 10a of the hopper portion 11.
A plurality (4 in the illustrated embodiment) on the outer peripheral portion facing the inner bottom surface on the side
The stirrer 17 having the stirrer 17a) is assembled in order and can be disassembled.

Further, reference numeral 100 in the drawing denotes a drive motor installed below the support base portion 13, and a drive shaft 100a of the drive motor 100 is connected to the rotary body 16 and the rotary body 16 is used to rotate the rotary shaft. The plate 15 and the stirring body 17 are adapted to rotate synchronously.

Further, the agitator 17 agitates the flour A stored in the upper-layer storage section 10a of the hopper section 11 by its rotation, without clogging the opening 12a of the partition plate 12 without lowering the lower layer. Flour A dropped into the storage 10b and dropped into the lower storage 10b
Are deposited on the rotating plate 15 and are respectively deposited on the respective grid portions 15a ...
・ It will be housed in.

Then, each of the rod portions 15 of the rotating plate 15
The flour A stored in a clogged state in a ... is attached to the rotary plate 1 at the drop opening 13a opened at the inner bottom portion of the support base 13.
When one of the slabs 15a corresponds to the rotation of 5,
Due to its own weight, it falls from the box portion 15a, is discharged, and is supplied into the mixer 20.

In this case, the amount of the flour A supplied to the mixer 20 is adjusted by rotating the rotary plate 15 with the amount of the flour A stored in the container 15a having a constant volume as a unit amount. It can be set according to the number of the grid portions 15a to be positioned corresponding to the drop ports 13a.

Therefore, the rotation time of the rotary plate 15 can be set by a timer so that a predetermined number of the grid portions 15a are sequentially positioned corresponding to the drop openings 13a, and a predetermined amount of the flour A can be supplied to the mixer 20. .

As another method, for example, the rotating plate 1
The movement of the grid portion 15a due to the rotation of 5 can be detected by a detection sensor (not shown), and the rotation plate 15 is rotated to set the number of the grid portions 15a corresponding to the drop openings 13a, thereby setting a predetermined amount. Can be supplied to the mixer 20.

In the figure, reference numeral 18 denotes a shield plate which is arranged at a position corresponding to the drop opening 13a opened in the inner bottom portion of the support base portion 13, and which is located on the upper surface portion of the bridge portion 15a of the rotating plate 15 and The flour A accumulated in the lower storage 10b is prevented from falling through the basin 15a, and the rising portion 18a of the shielding plate 18 is integrally fixed to the lower surface of the partition plate 12 by welding or the like. Has been done.

The lower part of the shielding plate 18 is shown in FIG.
8 to FIG. 8, a wiping plate 19 made of an elastic substrate such as a leaf spring is fixedly installed by welding or the like, and a tip end portion 19a of the wiping plate 19 is located at a position corresponding to the drop opening 13a. The rotary plate 15 is exposed to the inside of the rod portion 15a of the rotary plate 15 and has an outer shape that conforms to the inner diameter of the rod portion 15a. It is possible to remove the powder A adhered to the corners in the square portion 15a.

9 and 10 show another embodiment of the wiping plate 19, wherein the tip shape is divided into a plurality of tip portions 19a and 19b, and the rotary plate 15 is formed. The powder A stored in the clogged portion 15a of the rotary plate 15 in a clogged state is gradually scraped off by gradually advancing it in the meshed portion 15a along the rotation direction of The powder A can be discharged almost continuously.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 11, the mixer 20 has a supply port 21a for the flour A on the upper side of one side and a discharge port for discharging the soboro-shaped noodle dough produced by the mixer on the lower side of the other side. Cylindrical case 21 provided with 21b
And the rotary shaft 22 inserted in the case 21 in the axial direction.
And a plurality of stirring blades 2 provided on the circumference of the rotary shaft 22.
3 ..., a spiral part 24 provided adjacent to the stirring blades 23 ... at a corresponding position of the supply port 21a, a drive pulley 25 for rotationally driving the rotary shaft 22 by a drive system (not shown), Facing the inside of the case 21 and draining water B
And a nozzle portion 26 for injecting and supplying the water. The nozzle portion 26 is connected to a water supply device 90 described later.

That is, one end 20a of this mixer 20
The one end portion side of the case 21 corresponding to the above is inserted and held via the bearing 27 into the first fixing bracket 3 fixed to the back surface of the top plate 2 of the apparatus body 1, while the other end 2
The other end side of the case 21 corresponding to 0b is inserted and held via a bearing 28 into a movable bracket 5 having a guide hole 5a that is tightened and fixed to the second fixed bracket 4 via a tightening screw 6, and It is detachably mounted in a dead space on the back surface of the top plate 2 of the apparatus body 1 in a suspended state.

Therefore, with this structure, the upper part of the rolling mechanism 30 incorporated in the apparatus main body 1 can be opened, and the rolling mechanism 30 can be easily cleaned.

In the figure, reference numeral 60 denotes a cutting means for supplying the noodle strips rolled by the rolling mechanism 30 between a pair of cutting blade rollers 61, 61 to cut into noodle strips, and 70 denotes this cutting means 60.
The feeding means for dropping the noodle strings cut and formed on the chain conveyor 71 and feeding them, 80 is a driving motor for driving the feeding means 70 and the pair of rolling rollers 31, 32 of the rolling mechanism 30, and 90 is the mixer 20. It is a water supply device for supplying kneading water B to.

This water supply device 90 pumps the kneading water B stored in a water tank 91 into a pump 92 and a flow regulator 9.
3 is supplied to the mixer 20.

Further, the chain conveyor 71 constituting the sending means 70 is unitized by meshing and interlocking between a drive sprocket 73 and a driven sprocket 74 which are provided to face each other in the longitudinal direction of the guide frame 72. .

Then, this unitized sending means 7
No. 0 is removably inserted into the apparatus main body 1 so that its drive sprocket 73 abuts against a drive sprocket 81 driven by a drive motor 80 for driving the rolling roller pair 31, 32 of the rolling mechanism 30. It is designed to be driven by being incorporated into.

[0050]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, a wiping plate made of an elastic substrate is installed under the shielding plate,
Since the tip of the wiping plate is exposed to the inside of the boss of the rotating plate at a position corresponding to the drop port, the tip of the wiping plate is elastically generated by the rotation of the rotating plate, so that the wiping plate enters the boss of the rotating plate. The powder contained in the clogged state can be easily wiped off, which allows the discharge amount of the powder to be related to the humidity as compared with the case where the powder is dropped by its own weight as in the prior invention. It can be stabilized without a certain amount, and a fixed amount of powder can be discharged accurately.

Further, according to a second aspect of the present invention, if the tip of the wiping plate is divided into a plurality of parts so that the tip of the wiping plate faces the step portion along the rotation direction of the rotating plate, the inside of the rod portion of the rotating plate can be improved. Since the powder contained in the clogged state is wiped off in stages, which allows the powder to be discharged almost continuously, so that the powder is solidified at one time as in the prior invention. It does not drop in a large amount, and as a result, the mixing state with the kneading water can be performed uniformly.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an enlarged cross-sectional view showing an embodiment of a powder quantitative supply device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view showing the overall structure of the noodle making device.

FIG. 3 is a schematic enlarged cross-sectional view of a rolling mechanism also incorporated in the noodle making device.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line IV-IV in FIG.

FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view of a grain storage as a powder quantitative supply device.

6 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a main part taken along the line VI-VI of FIG.

FIG. 7 is a side view of the wiping plate.

FIG. 8 is a plan view of the wiping plate.

FIG. 9 is a side view showing another embodiment of the wiping plate.

FIG. 10 is a plan view of the wiping plate.

FIG. 11 is an enlarged cross-sectional view showing how the mixer is also attached.

FIG. 12 is an enlarged cross-sectional view showing a grain storage as a powder quantitative supply device of the prior application of the present applicant.

[Explanation of symbols]

10: Powder quantitative supply device (flour storage), 10a ... upper layer storage section, 10b ... lower layer storage section, 11 ... Hopper part, 12 ... partition plate, 12a ... opening, 13 ... Support base part, 13a ... Drop port, 14 ... Powder quantitative supply mechanism, 15 ... rotating plate, 15a ... 16 ... Rotating body, 17 ... Stirrer, 17a ... Stirrer, 18 ... Shielding plate, 19 ... Wiping plate, 19a, 19b ... Tip part, A ... Powder (flour).

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A hopper portion for storing powder such as cereal flour, a support base portion provided at a bottom portion of the hopper portion and having a bottom port outer peripheral portion provided with a drop opening, the support base portion and the hopper. A partition plate provided between the upper layer storage part and the lower layer storage part and partitioning the upper layer storage part and the lower layer storage part, and supporting the powder supplied from the upper layer storage part to the lower layer storage part through a plurality of openings provided in the partition plate. In a powder quantitative supply device comprising a powder quantitative supply mechanism for quantitatively supplying from a drop opening opened on the outer periphery of the bottom surface of the base part, the powder quantitative supply mechanism comprises a drop opening opened on the bottom surface of the support base part. And a rotary plate having a plurality of constant-volume basins, each of which has a fixed amount of powder to be supplied to the lower-layer storage section, formed on the outer peripheral portion thereof at equal intervals in the circumferential direction. A rotating body that rotates in synchronization with the upper part of this rotating body An agitator attached to the head and a plurality of agitating rods protruding from the outer periphery of the head of the agitator, which face the interior of the upper storage part of the hopper via the partition plate, and the agitator is installed at a position corresponding to the drop port. A shield plate that shields the upper surface of the outer peripheral portion of the rotary plate on which the bridge portion is formed, and an elastic member that is provided at the lower portion of the shield plate and has its tip end facing the inside of the bridge portion of the rotary plate at a position corresponding to the drop port. A powder quantitative supply device comprising a wiping plate made of a substrate. 2. The powder quantitative supply device according to claim 1, wherein the tip of the wiping plate is divided into a plurality of parts, and the end faces of the wiping plate are stepwise exposed along the direction of rotation of the rotary plate. .