JPH06181677A - Meat piece-dishing device in meat slicer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a meat piece-dishing device capable of sanitarily, safely and orderly dishing a sliced meat piece on a dish without relating to the kind of the meat such as frozen meat or raw meat. CONSTITUTION:The device is characterized by installing a receiving roller 10 in proximity to the surface of a round blade 3 arranged at a place near to a discharging port for a meat piece 11, rotat the receiving roller in the right direction on the upper side view to discharge the sliced meat piece 11 by the rotation of the receiving roller 10 in the direction substantially orthogonal to the discharging direction, carrying the discharged meat piece with a meat piece-receiving belt 16 placed below the receiving roller 10, and subsequently dropping the carried meat piece at a constant position in a dish 30 on a receiving dish-carrying belt 21 below the meat piece-receiving belt 16. The dish 30 is successively carried on the basis of the detection signal of a detector 28 under the control of a computing means 29 and a controlling means for controlling the rotation of the receiving dish-carrying belt 21 and the reciprocating motion of a frame 18 in correspondence to the reciprocating motion of a meat box 6, thus orderly dishing the sliced meat piece on the dish.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an arranging device for automatically arranging meat pieces sliced by a meat slicer on a saucer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a round blade having a meat box reciprocally driven on the back surface side of the round blade and rotating a chunk of meat sent toward the round blade side by a feeding member in the meat box. In a meat slicer that is sequentially sliced by, if sliced meat pieces are allowed to fall naturally, they will not fall in a uniform direction. Also, when the pieces of meat are stacked, the pieces of meat adhere to each other due to the adhesive force unique to the pieces of meat, and when the pieces are forcibly peeled off, the pieces of meat are cut in the middle, resulting in scrap meat that loses its commercial value. For this reason, a hand is approached to the rotating circular blade to receive the sheets one by one, and the trays and other trays are arranged. Further, there is a meat piece feeding device as in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 59-1599 in which a plurality of belts running in the meat piece feeding direction are used to receive the meat pieces in a vertical form.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned prior art, when the operator holds the sliced meat piece by hand around the rotating circular blade and receives the sliced meat pieces one by one, it is usually done. , The reciprocating speed of the meat box is 60 times / minute,
Since the meat pieces are sliced and come out at this speed, it is necessary to perform the receiving and assembling work skillfully, which is a work by a limited skilled person. Moreover, since the meat pieces are received and arranged through the hands of the operator, the meat pieces are not touched by the hands and it is unsanitary. The present invention has been made in view of the above points, frozen meat, hygienically received without touching sliced meat pieces regardless of raw meat, a meat piece arranging device that can be arranging work on a saucer orderly The purpose is to provide.

[0004]

Means for Solving the Problems The above object is to provide a meat piece receiving roller which has a shaft inclining to a vertical direction in a meat piece discharging portion of a meat slicer and which is driven to rotate with its outer periphery being close to a blade surface of a round blade. The meat piece receiving belt is provided below the meat piece receiving roller so that the traveling direction of the upper surface is substantially orthogonal to the meat box reciprocating direction, and one end of the meat piece receiving belt is rotationally driven so as to be close to the front surface side of the round blade, and the other end of the meat piece receiving belt. A tray transfer belt for transferring trays such as trays is provided near the lower part of the section, and the holding member for holding the tray transfer belt can reciprocate using a guide member as a guide in a direction perpendicular to the traveling direction of the tray transfer belt. In addition, a detector for detecting the position of the meat box is installed on the machine base of the meat slicer, and the output signal from this detector and the signal from the plate number setting switch are used in advance to drive the tray conveyor belt to run and the holding member to reciprocate. Control It is achieved by providing a control means. The control means is arranged such that the traveling direction of the saucer conveyor belt and the reciprocating movement of the holding member for holding the saucer conveyor belt, the moving distance, and the forward and reverse directions of the traveling drive and the reciprocating drive means are provided on the machine base. A calculation means for calculating the output signal from the detector for detecting the position of the box and the signal from the stacking number setting switch is provided, and based on the calculation result, the forward and reverse rotation of the traveling drive of the saucer conveyor belt is performed by the output signal. It is achieved by stopping and reversing and stopping the reciprocating driving means of the holding member for holding the saucer transport belt, and sequentially moving the saucer on the saucer transport belt to a predetermined meat piece drop position with respect to the meat piece transport belt and stopping it. It It is also possible to use a capacitance type detector for detecting the reciprocating cycle of the meat box, which is provided at an appropriate place of the meat piece conveying belt section and detects passage of a sliced meat piece.

[0005]

In the meat piece arranging device configured as described above, the meat piece is sliced by the round blade by the reciprocating movement of the meat box, and the first piece of meat that comes out along the blade front side of the round blade is The meat piece receiving roller provided close to the front side is separated from the round blade by the rotation and is guided so as to be changed to a direction in which the meat piece reciprocating direction is substantially orthogonal to the reciprocating direction of the meat box. It drops to a fixed position on the upper surface, and is received and conveyed by traveling of the meat piece conveying belt. Further, the meat pieces fall into the pan on the upper surface of the pan conveying belt provided at the lower portion of the meat piece receiving belt. Next, the saucer conveyor belt that holds the saucer is run and the saucer belt is held by the output signal from the detector that detects the position of the meat box and the signal from the number-of-plates setting switch that sets the number of plates in advance. The operation sequence for the reciprocal movement of the member, the moving distance, the direction is calculated by the calculating means,
Based on this result, control is performed such that the traveling drive and the reciprocating drive means are normally and reversely rotated and stopped, and the saucer on the saucer transport belt is sequentially moved to and stopped at a predetermined meat piece dropping position.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a front view showing an embodiment of a meat slicer in a meat slicer according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a side view of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing an outline of the meat slicer, and FIG. It is a partial plan enlarged view of FIG. In the figure, a round blade 3 is rotatably driven by a motor (not shown) on a round blade holding member 2 provided upright at one corner of a machine base 1 and is supported by a round blade driving shaft supported in the round blade holding member 2. There is. A meat box 6 for accommodating the meat mass 5 is provided on a rail 4 provided on the machine base 1. The meat box 6 uses the rail 4 as a guide and an electric motor (not shown) through a crank 7 to move the arrow in FIG. Reciprocates in the A direction.
Inside the meat box 6, there is provided a feeding member 8 for feeding the chunks of meat 5 by a predetermined thickness in order toward the round blade 3 side (direction of arrow B in FIG. 2). The backing plate 9 supported by the machine base 1 is juxtaposed with the round blade 3 and is positioned slightly on the blade front side 3a with respect to the blade tip of the round blade 3 as shown in FIG. The receiving roller 10 is brought close to the blade front side 3a from which the meat piece 11 is sent out from the round blade 3. The axis of the receiving roller 10 is inclined with respect to the vertical direction, and an electric motor 12 for rotationally driving the receiving roller 10 is provided at the upper end,
The receiving roller 10 is fixed to the backing plate 9 via an electric motor 12. Below the receiving roller 10, a frame body 13 which is slightly inclined and extended downward in a direction orthogonal to the reciprocating direction of the meat box 6 is formed.
Is provided, and the driving roller 14 and the driven roller 15 are arranged at both ends of the frame body 13. A meat piece receiving belt 16 is stretched between the driving roller 14 and the driven roller 15, and an electric motor 17 for driving roller rotation is provided at one end of the driving roller 14. A frame 18 horizontally extending in the same direction as the reciprocating direction of the meat box 6 is provided below the driven roller 15 side of the frame 13, and the drive roller 19 and the driven roller 2 are provided at both ends of the frame 18.
0 is set. Drive roller 19 and driven roller 20
A saucer conveyor belt 21 is stretched between the drive rollers 19 and
An electric motor 22 for rotating the roller is provided at one end of the.
The frame 18 is supported by a guide member 23 provided below, and the guide member 23 is provided on a machine base 24 provided below. Power is transmitted from the reversible electric motor 25 provided on the machine base 24 to the frame body 18 via the rack and pinion 26, and the frame body 18 horizontally moves in the direction orthogonal to the reciprocating direction of the meat box 6 using the guide member 23 as a guide. It should be noted that the receiving roller 10 rotates to the right when viewed from above (in the direction of arrow E in FIG. 4), the meat piece receiving belt 16 rotates to the left in FIG. 2, and the tray conveying belt 21 rotates to the left in FIG. In FIG. 2, the detection piece 27 is fixed to the shaft of the crank 7, and the machine base 1 is provided with a detector 28 for detecting the detection piece 27. This causes a signal to be output from the detector 28 each time the meat box 6 makes one round trip. Next, the block diagram of FIG. 5 will be described. The input unit 33 is the saucer 30 in advance.
Signals are received from the number-of-plates setting switch 34 and the detector 28 for setting the number of pieces of meat 11 to be mounted on the plate. The number setting switch 34 is set to the number of movements in the direction of arrow C in FIG.
The number of movements in the direction of arrow D in FIG. 2 can also be set (the number of arrangements is the number of movements in the C direction × the number of movements in the D direction). The signal from the input section 33 is processed by the arithmetic means 29, and the signal is sent to the output section 35. The rotation and stop of the electric motor 22 and the reversible electric motor 25 are generated by the signal from the output unit 35.
It is designed to perform normal rotation, reverse rotation and stop. In the above configuration, first, the saucer 30 is set at a designated position on the saucer transport belt 21. After setting, switch 31 of machine base 1
By turning on, the electric motors 12 and 17 are driven, the round blades 3 rotate via the electric motors (not shown), and the meat box 6 reciprocates via the crank 7 using the rail 4 as a guide. When the meat box 6 and the round blade 3 are driven, the meat block 5 in the meat box 6 is fed by the feeding member 8 to the round blade 3 side by a predetermined thickness and abutted against the side surface of the pad 9 inside the meat box 6. While
When the meat box 6 moves in the direction of the round blade 3, the rotating round blade 3 slices into a thickness corresponding to the gap between the round blade 3 and the pad plate 9. The sliced meat piece 11 is on the front side 3 of the round blade 3.
sent to a. The fed meat piece 11 is separated from the blade surface of the round blade 3 by the outer circumference of the rotating receiving roller 10 and is fed out in a direction substantially orthogonal to the reciprocating direction of the meat box 6, and the meat piece receiving belt located below the receiving roller 10. 16
It drops and is transported. The conveyed meat pieces 31 fall into the saucer 30 on the saucer conveyor belt 21 provided below the meat piece receiving belt 16. As a result, the meat piece 11 is placed on one corner of the tray 30 as shown in FIG. Next, when the meat box 6 reciprocates once, a signal is output from the detector 28, and the reversible motor 25 rotates in the direction of arrow D for a preset time and stops. As a result, the position of the tray 30 is changed as shown in FIG. 6B, and the sliced meat pieces 11 are dropped by the next reciprocating movement of the meat box 6. When the number of repetitions in the D direction is repeated by the set amount (see FIG. 6 (c)), the electric motor 22 rotates in the direction of the arrow C for the preset time, and at the same time, the reversible motor 25 is preset for the preset time. The rotation is reversed by a minute, and the operation returns to the initial position in the D direction as shown in FIG. As described above, the same operation is sequentially repeated, and when the set number of times of deposition is reached, the meat box 6 is stopped, the reversible motor 25 is reversed for the set time, returns to the initial position in the D direction, and is stopped. After the stop, the electric motor 22 rotates for a preset time and conveys the saucer 30. As described above, the sliced meat pieces 11 are received and conveyed via the receiving roller 10 and the meat piece receiving belt 16 and can be neatly arranged in the saucer 30 on the saucer receiving belt 16, so that even an amateur can easily work. . Further, the sliced meat pieces 11 can be worked without touching the sliced meat pieces 11 from the slicing to the arranging, which is extremely hygienic. Next, another embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. Figure 7
FIG. 8 is a front view showing another embodiment of the meat piece applicator in a meat slicer, and FIG. 8 is a side view of FIG. 7. By using the detector 28 provided near the crank 7 as the capacitance detector 32 that detects the passage of the sliced meat piece 11 near the portion 16 of the meat piece reception belt, the meat piece 11 is sliced by the reciprocating motion of the meat box 6. Since it is possible to directly detect whether or not the meat piece 11 is partially removed from the saucer 30, the meat pieces 11 can be reliably placed on the saucer 30.

[0007]

According to the present invention, the saucer on which the meat pieces are placed is provided with a detector and a control device so that the traveling of the saucer conveyor belt and the reciprocating movement of the holding member can be operated corresponding to the reciprocating movement of the meat box. Therefore, the sliced meat pieces are received and conveyed through the meat piece receiving roller and the meat piece receiving belt and can be neatly arranged in the saucer on the saucer conveyor belt, so that even an amateur can easily perform the heaping operation. In addition, since the sliced meat pieces can be handled without touching the sliced meat pieces, it is extremely hygienic. Furthermore, because the electrostatic capacity detector and the control device are provided so that the traveling of the saucer transport belt and the reciprocating movement of the holding member can be operated in response to the passage of sliced meat pieces, there is no partial lack of meat pieces in the saucer. Therefore, the meat pieces can be reliably placed in the saucer.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing an embodiment of a meat piece applicator in a meat slicer according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing an outline of a meat piece applicator.

FIG. 4 is a partially enlarged plan view of FIG.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a partial plan view showing the order of arranging the arranging device.

FIG. 7 is a front view showing another embodiment of the meat piece applicator in a meat slicer.

FIG. 8 is a side view of FIG. 7.

[Explanation of symbols]

3 is a round blade, 6 is a meat box, 10 is a receiving roller, 11 is a piece of meat,
12 is an electric motor for rotating the receiving roller, 13 and 18 are frame bodies, 14 and 19 are driving rollers, 15 and 20 are driven rollers, 16 is a meat piece receiving belt, 17 and 22 are electric motors, 21
Is a saucer conveyor belt, 23 is a guide member, 24 is a machine base, 25
Is a reversible motor, 27 is a detection piece, 28 is a detector, 29 is a computing means, 30 is a tray, 32 is a capacitance detector, 33 is an input section, 34 is a number-of-sorting setting switch, and 35 is an output section. .

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A meat slicer for slicing a piece of meat held in a meat box provided on a machine base into a slice with a round blade,
A meat piece receiving roller that is rotationally driven is brought close to the blade surface side of the round blade, the meat piece sliced on the outer periphery of the meat piece receiving roller is separated from the round blade, and the meat piece conveying body that guides and moves the meat piece in a direction away from the round blade. One end of the meat piece is brought close to the bottom of the meat piece receiving roller, and below the other end side of the meat piece carrier, there is provided a saucer carrier for driving and driving the saucer in a direction substantially perpendicular to the traveling direction of the meat piece carrier. The holding member for holding the saucer carrier is provided with a reciprocating drive means for reciprocating in a direction perpendicular to the traveling direction of the saucer carrier, and a detector for detecting the position of the meat box is provided in the machine base. A control device for controlling the traveling drive of the saucer transporter and the reciprocating drive of the holding member of the saucer transporter in order to align the meat pieces falling from the meat piece transporter with a required amount on the saucer according to an output signal from To be a meat slicer Kicking piece of meat Sheng with equipment. 2. The traveling direction of the saucer carrier is the same as the traveling direction of the meat piece carrier, and the holding member of the saucer carrier is reciprocally driven in a direction perpendicular to the traveling direction of the meat piece carrier. The meat piece assembling device for a meat slicer according to claim 1. 3. A meat box provided on the machine base in which the order of the traveling of the saucer carrier and the reciprocating movement of a holding member for holding the saucer carrier, the moving distance, and the forward / reverse direction of the traveling drive and reciprocating drive means are provided. A calculation means for calculating the output signal from the detector for detecting the position and the signal of the preset number of times of plating is provided, and based on the calculation result, rotation and stop of the traveling drive of the tray carrier and tray transfer. 3. A control means for rotating the reciprocating driving means of the holding member for holding the body forward and backward and stopping the movement so that the tray on the tray carrier is sequentially moved to and stopped at the drop position of the meat pieces falling from the meat piece receiver. Alternatively, the meat piece assembling device in the meat slicer according to item 2. 4. A detector for detecting the position of a meat box provided on the machine base is provided at an appropriate position of the meat piece carrier, and the detector is of a capacitance type for detecting passage of the meat piece on the meat piece carrier. The meat piece assembling device for a meat slicer according to claim 1, wherein the meat slicer is a detector.