JPH06269243A - Automatic transporter for bread dough - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide an automatic transporter for bread dough in order to automate the transportation procedures from kneading of bread dough to making divided pieces of raw dough so that labor-saving and operatiorf efficiency are improved in a bakery. CONSTITUTION:The bread dough which has been kneaded by the middle-stage kneader 2 is placed in the middle-stage dough tray 6 and the tray 6 is transported by the transporter 10 running on the rail 14 from the inlet 4 into the first fermentation chamber 3, then the tray is, after completion of the fermentation, sent to the major kneader mixer 8; after kneading, the dough is placed in the dough tray 11 and sent to the divided dough piece maker 12. The tray 11 is sent back to the kneader mixer 8. These operations all are done by the transporter 10 which is controlled so that it can freely run on the rail 14 back and forth.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic bread dough conveying device for unmanning the bread dough conveying process from the mixing to the dividing of bread dough in a bakery factory.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As is well known, one of the bread-making methods in a bakery factory is the middle-class method. This middle seed method is a mixing process in which water is added to most of the flour and the total amount of yeast and mixed to form a middle seed, and the fermentation products in the bread dough mass kneaded by this mixing process are accumulated and product flavor is added. Well, improve the physical properties of the dough, improve the gas retention of the bread dough,
Furthermore, in order to enhance the fermenting power of yeast, the first fermentation process is performed at about 4 o'clock, and the remaining dough, sugar, salt, fats and other raw materials and an appropriate amount of water are added to the dough that has undergone the first fermentation process The main kneading step, the dividing step of dividing the bread dough after the main kneading step into appropriate sizes, the shaping step of shaping the divided dough mass, and the baking step of baking. In the mixing step, the first fermentation step, the main kneading step, the dividing step, the shaping step and the firing step, respectively, there are a medium seed mixer, a first fermentation chamber, a main kneading mixer, a divider, a shaping machine and a firing kiln. Used respectively. Then, the transfer of the bread dough between each of these steps, from the mixing step to the dividing step, although the automation has already been performed because the bread dough is a small mass in the steps after the dividing step. Since the process up to is a large loaf of bread dough, it is carried by hand.

[0003]

However, the lump of bread dough usually has a weight of 200 kg to 900 kg, which is transferred from the medium seed mixer to the first fermentation chamber, the main kneading mixer, and the dividing machine. Since it is necessary to repeat the same work of sequentially lifting and lowering and transferring it for a long time, it is a simple work and a considerable amount of hard work, which is one of the important issues of automation in a bakery factory. Was there.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and a means for achieving the object is to provide a plurality of medium-sized dough boxes containing bread dough for medium-sized seeds and a medium-sized dough box for medium-sized seeds. A medium-sized blender for mixing raw materials and a first-sized container equipped with predetermined temperature and humidity conditions and configured so that the medium-sized dough box containing the bread dough stored from the inlet sequentially advances toward the outlet. A fermentation chamber, a mixing machine for main kneading, and a dough box for main kneading for storing the main kneading dough mixed by the mixing machine for main kneading,
A dividing machine for dividing the kneaded dough into a predetermined size;
A track connecting each of the inlet of the fermentation chamber, the mixer for medium seeds, the mixer for main kneading, the divider, and the outlet of the first fermentation chamber, and can freely move back and forth on the track, and the dough for medium seeds A bread dough automatic transporting device comprising a transporting vehicle having a function of lifting a box or a dough box for kneading and rotating and tilting at an arbitrary angle, the transporting vehicle according to the order of the bread making process The medium dough box containing the medium dough mixed by the mixing machine is conveyed to the inlet of the first fermentation chamber, fermented for a predetermined time, then conveyed from the outlet to the main kneading mixer, and the medium is mixed again. After the medium seed dough mixed by the seed mixing machine is put and conveyed to the entrance of the first fermentation chamber, after being mixed by the kneading mixer and put into the kneading dough box, the kneading dough is conveyed to the dividing machine , Where the dough box for this kneading is controlled to run in orbit so as to return the dough box to the kneading mixer. That.

[0005]

According to the above means, the medium-sized dough mixed by the medium-sized mixer is put in the medium-sized dough box and is controlled by the transport vehicle controlled to run on the orbit. After being fermented here, it is transported to the main kneading mixer and is finally kneaded. When the main kneading is finished, it is put in the main kneading dough box and then conveyed to the dividing machine. Then, the kneading dough box is returned to the kneading mixer again. All of these operations are performed by a carrier vehicle that is controlled to travel forward and backward freely on the track.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Specific embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In the overall view of the bread dough automatic conveying device 1 of FIG. 1, a mixing machine 2 for medium seeds is a device for making a medium seed dough by adding water to most of the flour and the total amount of yeast and mixing them.
It is installed near the outside of the entrance 4 of the first fermentation chamber 3.

The first fermentation chamber 3 is a chamber for fermenting the medium seed dough, and is kept at a predetermined temperature, for example, 27 ° C. and a humidity of 75%. A pusher 5 is provided in the room near the entrance 4, and the dough box 6 for middle seeds containing the dough for middle seeds that has been stored from the entrance 4 is sequentially pushed in the direction of the outlet 7 by this. The fermentation time is adjusted to exactly the required fermentation time, for example, 4 hours. The number of the medium-sized dough boxes 6 that enter the first fermentation chamber 3 is eight in this embodiment, but is not particularly limited and can be arbitrarily selected within the range of the number of mixing batches and the fermentation time.

The kneading mixer 8 kneads the medium dough fermented in the first fermentation chamber 3 with the remaining flour, sugar, salt, fats and oils, and other appropriate amounts of water and kneads the mixture. Is equipped with a dough hopper 9. This dough hopper 9
The medium seed dough box 6 containing the medium seed dough that has been fermented in the first fermentation chamber 3 is transported by the transport vehicle 10 and stopped in front of the main kneading mixer 8 and is rotated after being lifted. By tilting, the middle-sized dough drops and is stored in the kneading mixer 8.

The number of the kneading mixers 8 installed is arbitrarily selected so as to correspond to the processing capacity of the entire apparatus, but two are provided in this embodiment. The kneading machine 8 is provided with a dough box 11 for kneading the dough for which kneading is completed at a fixed position.

The dividing machine 12 is a machine for dividing the final kneaded dough into lumps of a predetermined size, and a dough hopper 13 is provided above it. The dough hopper 13 puts the kneaded dough, which has been put into the dough box 11 for kneading from the kneading mixer 8 and carried by the carrier 10,
The claws of the carrier vehicle 10 are lifted together with the dough box 11 for main kneading, and are rotated and tilted so as to catch the fall and store them inside the divider 12.

The orbit 14 includes an inlet 4 of the first fermentation chamber 3, a mixer for medium seeds 2, a first orbit 16 reaching the reversal position 15, and a common orbit 17 from the inversion position 15 to an outlet of the first fermentation chamber 3. 7
To the first or second kneading mixer 8a and the second or second kneading mixer 8b which are provided so as to sandwich the second orbit 18, the third orbit 19 and the fourth orbit 20 and a fifth orbit 21 passing through the common orbit 17 to the divider 12.

The carrier 10 freely moves back and forth on the track 14 according to a preset program,
Moreover, the dough box 6 for medium seeds or the dough box 11 for main kneading is lifted and lowered by the in / out of the nails and lifted, and is rotated at an arbitrary angle, and the bread dough stored therein is discharged by inclining. It has a function that can be performed.

The operation of each device when the bread dough is conveyed by the automatic bread dough conveying device 1 of the present invention having the above-mentioned structure will be described.

First, as a precondition for starting, eight empty dough boxes 6 for medium seeds are stored in the first fermentation chamber 3, the transport vehicle 10 is parked at the reversal position 15, and the first kneading and mixing are performed. In front of the mixing machine 8a and the second main kneading mixer 8b, the respective mixing machines 8a
The 1st kneading dough box 11a and the 2nd kneading dough box 11b for storing the kneaded dough that has been kneaded by a and 8b are located.

In the preparation state as described above, when a start switch (not shown) is turned on, the above-mentioned devices are controlled to perform the following operations.

(1) First Step The operation of putting the medium seed dough into the medium seed dough box 6 and sequentially storing it in the first fermentation chamber 3.

The carrier 10 moves forward on the second track 18 to move to the first
After reaching the exit 7 of the fermentation chamber 3, picking out the nails, scooping up the first empty dough box 6 for medium seeds, and leaving it, the second orbit 18 is moved backward and returned to the inversion position 15, and then the first orbit. 16 is moved forward and stopped at a predetermined position in front of the intermediate seed mixer 2, and the empty intermediate seed dough box 6 is lowered to move the intermediate seed dough kneaded by the intermediate seed mixer 2 into it. After confirming that it has been placed by a sensor or the like (not shown), the dough box 6 for medium seeds containing the medium seed dough is lifted, and the first track 16 is further advanced to the entrance 4 of the first fermentation chamber 3.
Receive from. At this time, it is delivered to the inside of the inlet 4 of the first fermentation chamber 3 by lowering and pulling the nail.

When the storage is confirmed, the dough box 6 for medium seeds is pushed by the pusher 5 and pushed toward the outlet 7 so that the next dough box 6 for medium seeds can be stored. On the other hand, the guided vehicle 10 that has completed the warehousing moves backward on the first track 16 and returns to the reverse position 15.

The reversing position 15 is provided so that the traveling direction of the carriage 10 is opposite to that of the carriage 10, but the carriage 10 itself can be moved in the front-back direction. If a device that can rotate is provided, it is not necessary to provide it.

As described above, the same operation is repeated until all the empty dough boxes 6 for medium seeds in the first fermentation chamber 3 contain the dough for medium seeds. The number of medium-sized dough boxes 6 is 8 in this embodiment.
Although it is an individual, it can be arbitrarily selected. When the medium-sized dough boxes 6 are stored in all the medium-sized dough boxes 6, the first medium-sized dough boxes 6 travel through the first fermentation chamber 3 and reach the outlet 7. Designed for fermentation time.

(2) Second step, the outlet 7 of the first fermentation chamber 3
From the dough box 6 for medium seeds containing the medium-sized dough that has been fermented from, and after putting the medium-sized dough into the first kneading mixer 8a,
Put the medium seed dough in the empty medium seed dough box 6 and store it again at the entrance 4 of the first fermentation chamber 3.

The carrier 10 at the reversing position 15 advances along the second track 18 to reach the outlet 7 of the first fermentation chamber 3 and to eject the claw to finish fermentation of the medium-sized medium. The dough box 6 is picked up and discharged, the second orbit 18 is moved backward and stopped at the common orbit 17, and then the third orbit 19 is advanced to move the first
Stop before the kneading mixer 8a, move the dough box for medium seeds 6 higher than the dough hopper 9a and further advance to a fixed position, then tilt the dough box for intermediate seeds 6 to make the dough hopper for the intermediate seeds. After confirming that it has dropped into the inside of 9a with a sensor or the like, the dough box 6 for intermediate seeds is returned to the original state and retreated, and the dough box 6 for empty seeds is lowered to descend the third track 19 It moves backward and returns to the reversal position 15. Then, from here, the first orbit 16 is advanced and stopped at a predetermined position in front of the mixer for medium seeds 2, and the dough box 6 for empty medium seeds is lowered to be kneaded by the mixer for medium seeds 2. After confirming that the seed material has been transferred into it by a sensor (not shown) or the like, the middle seed material dough box 6 containing the middle seed material is lifted and the first track 16 is further advanced to the first position. Enter from the entrance 4 of the fermentation chamber 3.

When the storage is confirmed, the dough box 6 for medium seeds is pushed by the pusher 5 and pushed toward the outlet 7 so that the dough box 6 for medium seeds can be stored next. The carrier 10 that has completed the warehousing moves backward on the first track 16 to the reverse position 1
Return to 5.

(3) Third Step The same operation as in the second step is performed on the second final kneading mixer 8b.

In place of the first kneading and mixing machine 8a, the second intermediate kneading and mixing machine 8b is conveyed to the fourth orbit 20 to convey the medium-sized dough.
Since all other operations are the same except that the operation is performed via, the description thereof will be omitted. The number of the kneading mixers 8 can be increased or decreased as necessary in the design of the entire apparatus 1 of the present invention, but in that case, the same operation is repeated.

(4) Fourth Step The first kneading dough which has been kneaded by the first kneading mixer 8a is conveyed to the dividing machine 12.

The carrier 10 stopped at the reversal position 15 advances along the third track 19 and stops at a fixed position in front of the dough box 11a for the main kneading machine provided in the first kneading mixer 8a, After confirming with a sensor or the like that the main kneading dough is transferred from the main kneading mixer 8a to the main kneading dough box 11a, the nails are taken out to lift the main kneading dough box 11a, and the third track 19 Backwards,
After reaching the common orbit 17, advance the fifth orbit 21, stop in front of the divider 12, raise the dough box 11a for main kneading higher than the dough hopper 13, advance to a fixed position, and incline the pawl. After confirming with a sensor that the kneaded dough in the kneaded dough box 11a has dropped into the dough hopper 13, the dough box 11a for the kneading for kneading is returned to the original state and retreated to the dough box 11a for the kneading dough. After descending, the fifth orbit 21 is moved backward to reach the common orbit 17, then the third orbit 19 is advanced, and the vehicle is stopped at a fixed position in front of the dough hopper 9a of the first kneading mixer 8a for main kneading. After the dough box 11a is lowered and placed at a fixed position, only the carrier 10 moves backward on the third track 19 and stops at the reversal position 15.

(5) Fifth stroke The same operation as in the fourth stroke is performed for the second final kneading mixer 8b.

When two kneading machines are installed as shown in FIG. 1, the kneading dough of the second kneading machine 8b is used instead of the first kneading machine 8a in the fourth step. The dough box 11b for main kneading is put into the dividing machine 12 and conveyed, and the dough box 11b for second kneading is returned to the second kneading mixer 8b. Otherwise, the operation is the same as in the fourth step, and the description thereof is omitted.

The order of the first to fifth steps in the above description is, in principle, carried out in order, but from the second step to the fifth step, the fermentation time of the medium seed dough in the first fermentation chamber 3 and the medium seed are used. Mixing time of the medium-sized dough in the mixer 2, mixing time in the first and second kneading mixers 8a and 8b, dividing time per one block of the kneading dough in the divider 12, moving time of the carrier 10 (speed ), Furthermore, the number of installed mixers for medium seeds 2, mixer for main kneading 8 and divider 12, first fermentation chamber 3
The order can be programmed and controlled in an appropriate order according to various factors such as the number of stored medium dough boxes 6 in the above.

Further, it is possible to make the number of the carrier vehicles 10 plural by controlling so as not to collide on the same track. These can be variously selected according to the scale of the entire apparatus, that is, the bread production capacity.

[0033]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the bread dough automatic transporting device of the present invention, all the work manually performed in the past can be automated, and the labor can be saved. As a result, the work which has been called heavy labor is released, and an efficient and well-planned breading process can be obtained, so that bread can be stably manufactured.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall plan view of an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a cross-sectional explanatory view taken along the line AA of FIG.

3 is a cross-sectional explanatory view taken along the line BB of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Automatic bread dough carrier 2 Mixer for medium seeds 3 First fermentation chamber 4 Inlet 6 Dough box for medium seeds 7 Exit 8 Mixer for kneading 10 Car carrier 11 Dough box for kneading 12 Divider 14 Orbit

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Seishiro Sugie 60, Kawawauemaeda, Mihama-cho, Chita-gun, Aichi

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of medium-sized dough boxes for storing bread dough for medium-sized seeds, a mixer for medium-sized seeds for mixing raw materials for medium-sized seeds, a predetermined temperature and humidity condition, and storage from an entrance. Put the dough box for medium seeds containing the prepared bread dough into the first fermentation chamber configured so as to sequentially advance in the exit direction, the main kneading mixer, and the main kneading dough mixed by the kneading mixer A main kneading dough box, a dividing machine for dividing the main kneading dough into a predetermined size, an inlet of the first fermentation chamber, a medium seed mixing machine, a main kneading mixing machine,
A track that connects each of the divider and the outlet of the first fermentation chamber, and can freely move back and forth on the track, and can lift and rotate the dough box for medium seeds or the dough box for main kneading at any angle. An automatic bread dough conveying device comprising: a transporting vehicle having various functions, wherein the transporting vehicle is a dough for intermediate seeds containing the intermediate dough mixed by the mixer for intermediate seeds according to the order of the baking process. The box is transported to the inlet of the first fermentation chamber, fermented for a predetermined time, then transported from the outlet to the kneading mixer, and the medium seed dough mixed in the mixer for middle seeds is put in again to perform the first fermentation. It should be transported to the entrance of the chamber, mixed by the kneading mixer and put into the kneading dough box, and then the kneading dough box should be conveyed to the dividing machine, and then the dough box should be returned to the kneading mixer. The automatic dough carrier is characterized in that it is controlled to run on orbit.