JPH06170784A - Inclination cutting device for sweet potato - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To stabilize oblique cutting by a cutter through prevention of the damage of the cutter and to uniformize a cut thickness by performing the reliable feed of sweet potatoes to a cutter part without the generation of vibration and the occurrence of jumping, in inclination cutting of sweet potatoes. CONSTITUTION:In a, device wherein an edible root material M to be cut, such as sweet potatoes, is fed to a rotary disc 1 to which a cutter 2 is attached and cut in an inclination cut with a given thickness, a feed part consists of a feed cylinder 5 disposed at a given inclination angle with a rotary disc 1 surface and guide grooves 6 are formed in the two sides thereof in a state to be deviated to either a front or a rear from the central part of the side. A a material to be cut pressing member 7 is provided for being lowered along the feed cylinder 5 within the feed cylinder 5 in a state to hold the material M to be cut against the under surface thereof and pressing the material M to be cut against a rotary disc 1 surface. A protrusion body 10 to prevent erroneous fit-in of the press member 7 is formed on the side of the press member 7.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an improvement in a tilt cutting device for cutting root vegetables such as sweet potatoes, and more particularly to an improvement in a supply portion thereof.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Traditionally, root vegetables such as sweet potatoes are meat,
Similar to hams, slant cutting is widely performed to make the area look as large as possible, but this kind of slant cutting was conventionally done manually in general.

Recently, however, it has been attempted to mechanically cut along with the rationalization. For example, as shown in FIG. 6, the material 12 to be cut is placed on the food feeding table 14 and supplied, and the thickness regulating plate 15b and the upper portion are provided. Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 62-43752 discloses a device that regulates the thickness by the movement of the regulating plate 15b in the direction of the arrow and presses and fixes the material 12 by the movement of the pressing member 11 in the direction of the arrow to cut by the cutter 13.

Further, as another means, a device for horizontally transferring a material to be cut by using a conveyor and cutting it by a cutter on a rotating disk arranged in an inclined state at the transfer end is commercially available. .

[0005]

However, in the case of obliquely cutting root vegetables such as sweet potatoes by each of the above-mentioned conventional oblique cutting methods, the material to be cut is pressed against the cutter portion to cut the material. The orientation is not constant, especially when placed on a conveyor and transferred, the direction becomes more uneven, not only causing problems in inclined cutting, but also causing damage to the cutter and uneven thickness of the cut material There was a problem such as

Further, there is also a problem that the force for pressing the material against the cutter portion is insufficient and the material spoils the cutting and cutting function.
Yield was reduced and work capacity was unavoidably reduced. That being said, if the material is reliably fed, the material is fixed, and the cutting thickness is stabilized, the equipment becomes complicated, leaving a problem in terms of equipment economy.

The present invention copes with the above-mentioned situation, and particularly by finding a feeding mechanism in slant cutting of root vegetables having many irregularities such as sweet potato, it is possible to reliably feed the material to be cut toward the rotating disk and press it sufficiently. The purpose of the present invention is to hold it, prevent damage to the cutter, stabilize inclined cutting by the cutter, and achieve smooth cutting and uniform cutting thickness.

[0008]

That is, according to the present invention, which is adapted to the above object, a rotary disc having a cutter attached with a proper thickness gap in part has a required inclination angle and is covered with sweet potato or the like. An apparatus for supplying a cutting root vegetable material and cutting the material to be cut into inclined cuts having a required thickness, wherein the supply portion of the material to be cut is formed by a supply cylinder arranged at a required inclination angle with respect to the rotating disc surface. Then, guide grooves extending in the cylinder axial direction are provided on both side surfaces of the supply cylinder so as to be offset from the center of the side surface to either the front or rear side, and can be inserted into and removed from the material supply cylinder to be cut and the material cut to the lower surface. The basic structure is to include a material-to-be-cut material pressing member that holds the above-mentioned material and descends along the supply tube to press the material to be cut against the surface of the rotating disk. And cut the inclined lower surface so that one side is shorter than the other side. A piercing surface for holding and fixing the material to be cut is provided on the lower surface, and arm rods that are fitted into the guide grooves to guide the pressing member are extended on both sides and the extension of the arm rod is performed. The present invention is characterized in that a ridge body for preventing erroneous fitting of the pressing member is provided on a side surface orthogonal to the installation direction.

[0009]

According to the present invention described above, first, the material to be cut such as sweet potato is pierced and held manually on the piercing surface of the pressing member, and then this is provided in the supply cylinder arranged at an inclination angle with respect to the rotating disk. Then, the arm rod of the pressing member is fitted into the guide groove on the side surface of the supply cylinder and supplied. At this time, the positions of the left and right guide grooves are deviated to one side from the center of the side surface, so that the protruding body provided on the pressing member collides with the wall surface of the supply cylinder for a short distance and is obstructed so that the guide groove can be fitted. Since it is eliminated, correct insertion of the pressing member is ensured.

At this time, if there is no ridge, and if it is reversed, the pressing member descends at an inclination angle, and the long side surface of the pressing member which is the inclined lower surface comes into contact with the cutter. It causes cutting troubles such as breakage. In the case of correct insertion, the shorter of the inclined lower surface of the pressing member is the upper side, and the damage trouble of the cutter is prevented in advance.

With the weight effect of the pressing member, the lower end of the material to be cut is pressed against the rotating disk surface with a required thickness gap while the material to be cut is pressed from above, and the required thickness is achieved by the rotation of the cutter. The material to be cut is pressed by the pressing member and descends while the cutter is rotated again, and the next portion to be cut is again inclined and cut with the arrival of the cutter, and this is repeated to make one cut. The inclined cutting of the cutting material is completed.

In the above cutting, the cutting thickness can be adjusted by arbitrarily adjusting the gap between the cutter and the rotating disk surface.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. 1 is a partial sectional side view showing an outline of an inclined cutting device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a top view seen from a direction perpendicular to a casing in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a schematic perspective view showing a pressing member of FIG. 4 and 5 are a front view and a side cross-sectional view showing a mounted state of the cutter.

In these figures, C is a casing that encloses the rotary disc 1 to which a cutter 2 is attached, and is fixedly mounted on the base B with a required tilted state, and a proper transmission mechanism from the motor M is inserted therein. The rotatably held rotating disk 1 is housed in the same inclined state by the mounting portion 1'and the mounting hole 1a (see FIG. 4), and a part of the upper surface of the rotating disk 1 is shown in FIGS. Cutter 2 with a required gap S as shown
Is attached by the mounting bolts 3, and the cutter 2
A hole 4 is formed in a portion of the rotary disc 1 on the back surface.

Although the cutter 2 is one in the figure,
There may be a plurality of two or more, but depending on the size of the rotary disc 1, usually one or two is suitable. E in the figure
Is the drop opening for the cut material.

With respect to the casing C (rotating disc surface) in the inclined state arranged as described above, a root vegetable material to be cut such as sweet potato in the rotating disc 1 direction is formed upward at an appropriate inclination angle. A supply cylinder 5 for supplying M (simply referred to as a material to be cut) is erected on a mounting portion 5a by a mounting tool 5'a.

The supply cylinder 5 is extended to an appropriate height, and guide grooves 6 are cut in both side surfaces of the cylinder wall in the cylinder axis direction. Arm rods 9 extending in both sides of the pressing member 7 are formed in the guide grooves 6. Is inserted so that the pressing member 7 can be vertically slid and guided in the supply cylinder 5.

The guide groove 6 cooperates with a ridge body 10 of the pressing member 7 which will be described later to properly regulate the fitting state of the pressing member 7 into the supply cylinder 5, and the guide groove 6 is not located in the central portion on the left and right side surfaces. , Are formed in the axial direction of the cylinder so as to face each other in the front-rear direction, that is, at a position closer to the front wall or the rear wall than the central portion. At this time, the two guide grooves 6 facing each other may have the same groove width, but may have different groove widths on the left and right sides.

On the other hand, the pressing member 7 is an element having an important role in the present invention. In the supply cylinder 5, the material M to be cut is pressed against the cutter 2 on the surface of the rotating disk to vibrate the member M to be cut. Or prevent it from bouncing. for that reason,
Usually, a weight having an appropriate weight is used, and in the figure, a cylindrical weight is formed by cutting the lower surface of the cylinder in an inclined manner so that one side has an inclined lower surface having a shorter length than the other side.

The inclined lower surface is provided with a piercing needle 8 for holding and fixing the material M to be cut to form a piercing surface, and the upper surface of the arm is fitted into the guide groove 6 of the supply cylinder 5. The rod 9 is extended to both sides.

Normally, the extension length of the arm rod 9 may be the length that fits in the guide groove 6, but it is made a little long in order to reliably prevent falling and the like, and the groove of the guide groove is formed. Drop-out prevention rollers 9a having a diameter slightly larger than the width are mounted on both sides with a space slightly larger than the diameter of the supply cylinder 5.

Further, the pressing member 7 is provided with a projecting strip 10 projecting from a side surface orthogonal to the arm rod 9, that is, at least one of the front wall and the rear wall, in the figure, the front wall side surface. That is, the short side of the inclined lower surface is securely fitted to the front portion, and the long side is securely fitted to the rear portion.

Since the position of the guide groove 6 is deviated from the central portion on both sides of the supply cylinder 5, the pressing member 7 can be inserted without any trouble at the correct position, but it is apt to be inserted in the opposite direction by mistake. This is because the ridge body 10 is eccentrically shortened, so that the ridge body 10 cannot be fitted into the ridge body 10 and the user notices that it is wrong. If this is not the case, it is erroneously fitted and the pressing member 7 abuts the cutter 2 and damages the cutter 2.

As described above, in the apparatus of the present invention having the above-mentioned structure, the pressing member 7 is simply provided by causing the puncture needle 8 of the pressing member 7 to pierce and hold the material M to be cut such as sweet potato and supply it into the supply cylinder 5. The material M to be cut is sequentially cut to a desired thickness by the rotation of the cutter 2 as it is lowered, and is discharged from the lower drop opening E, so that the cut can be easily performed.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, it is needless to say that the details can be appropriately modified in design, and the present invention includes the modifications without departing from the object of the present invention.

In the apparatus of the present invention, it is preferable that the inclination angle of the supply cylinder or the gap S between the rotary disk surface and the cutter be appropriately selected and adjusted so that the inclination state and cutting in the inclined cutting can be made. It becomes easy to change the thickness and the like.

Further, the device of the present invention is most effective for the oblique cutting of sweet potato, but it is not limited to this, but it is not limited to this.
It can also be applied to various other root vegetables such as potatoes.

[0028]

As described above, the apparatus according to the present invention has a cylindrical feed portion in the inclined cutting device, is provided with guide grooves in the cylinder axial direction, which are biased toward one side from the central portion on both sides, and the pressing member is provided on the arm rod. It is designed to be fitted along the guide groove in the supply cylinder via the, and the material to be cut such as sweet potato is pierced and held on the lower surface of the pressing member, and the inclined cutting can be reliably performed only by fitting it in the supply cylinder. In addition to being easy to perform, the pressing member presses the member to be cut by pressing by the pressing member and vibrates because it comes into contact with the cutter, and the cutting is reliably performed without jumping, achieving stable and smooth inclined cutting. To be done. Further, according to the present invention, since the guide groove is provided in the supply cylinder, and the guide groove is provided so as to be biased to one side from the central portion, and the protruding member is formed in the pressing member, the direction of the pressing member in the supply cylinder is Therefore, it is possible to reliably prevent the cutter from being damaged due to the pressing member coming into contact with the cutter due to the incorrect fitting. When the drop-preventing roller is provided on the arm rod of the pressing member, the displacement of the pressing member is reliably prevented, and more stable lowering of the pressing member is achieved.

As described above, according to the apparatus of the present invention, inclined cutting of sweet potato and the like becomes very easy, no special skill is required, the production efficiency is improved, and the cutting thickness and the degree of inclination can be adjusted. It is extremely easy to use and contributes to the rationalization of inclined cutting work.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a partial cross-sectional side view schematic diagram showing an example of an apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a top view seen from a direction substantially perpendicular to the casing in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a pressing member in the figure.

FIG. 4 is a plan view showing an attached state of a cutter according to the present invention.

5 is a sectional view taken along line AA of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a schematic side view showing an example of a conventional inclined cutting device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Rotating Disc 2 Cutter 3 Cutter Mounting Bolt 4 Hole 5 Material Supply Cylinder 6 Guide Groove 7 Pressing Member 8 Piercing Needle 9 Arm Rod 9a Drop-out Prevention Roller 10 Projection Strip M Material to be Cut

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A root disc material to be cut such as sweet potato is supplied to a rotating disc having a cutter attached with a thickness gap being partially provided, and the material to be cut has a required thickness. In the device for cutting into inclined cuts, the supply portion of the material to be cut is formed by a supply cylinder arranged at a predetermined inclination angle with respect to the rotating disk surface, and guide grooves extending in the cylinder axis direction on both side surfaces of the supply cylinder. Is provided so as to be biased to either the front or rear side from the center of the side surface, and the material to be cut can be inserted into and removed from the inside of the supply cylinder by holding the material to be cut on the lower surface along the supply cylinder. It is equipped with a material pressing member for lowering and pressing the material to be cut against the surface of the rotating disc, the pressing member cutting the lower surface of the cylindrical weight by slanting, and having one side having a slanted lower surface shorter than the other side. It has a shape and has a piercing surface for holding and fixing the material to be cut on the lower surface. On both sides, arm rods that fit into the guide groove and guide the pressing member are extended, and there is a ridge body that prevents erroneous fitting of the pressing member on the side surface orthogonal to the extending direction of the arm rod. An inclined cutting device for sweet potato etc. 2. A guide groove on both sides of the supply cylinder is made to have different groove widths on the left and right sides, and a drop prevention having a diameter larger than the groove width with a spacing larger than the length between both side surfaces of the supply cylinder. The inclined cutting device according to claim 1, wherein the roller is mounted on the bowl of the pressing member.