JPH06320493A - Vertical type meat slicer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform automatic folding of a soft sliced piece like raw meat at a stage followed by cutting of the slice piece by a method wherein pressure air is blown against a sliced piece about to cut away from a meat lump, the front edge part thereof is folded to the back side of a thickness regulating plate and forced into contact with a receipt surface, and the rear edge part of the sliced piece is doubly folded thereon. CONSTITUTION:A feed pipe 13 for pressure air in which small holes 14 are formed along the cutting edge of a round blade by which a material is cut is attached to the front edge part 10 of the back cover 9 of a round blade 4. By blowing pressure air against a sliced piece 11 about to be cut away from a meat lump, the front edge part 16 of the slide piece is forced into contact with a receipt surface 8 as the front edge part is folded to the back side of a thickness regulating plate 5.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vertical meat slicer in which sliced pieces separated from a meat block by blowing pressurized air are folded and dropped onto a receiving surface.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A material feeding conveyor that feeds a lump of meat from the front and the rear while feeding it downward, a round blade that horizontally rotates below the material feeding conveyor, and a thickness adjusting plate that reciprocates integrally with the round blade are shaken horizontally. With a moving arm, the meat mass descending from the material feeding conveyor is cut into slice pieces having a desired thickness according to the step formed between the thickness adjusting plate and the round blade, and the slice pieces are cut. A conventional vertical meat slicer that is designed to receive on the receiving surface installed below the position is attached to the arm close to the back surface of the round blade and separates the sliced piece cut from the meat chunk from the rotating round blade. It is equipped with a back cover that is adapted to allow the user to do so.

[0003]

When the meat chunk to be sliced is hard to some extent or when it is a material such as ham or bacon that can easily maintain a fixed shape, the sliced piece cut by the round blade maintains its planar shape. It is guided by the back cover as it is and placed on the receiving surface, but in the case of a soft material such as raw meat, sticking is likely to occur due to sticking at the time of contact with the round blade or the back cover, and the shape of the falling slice piece is It becomes difficult to maintain a certain level. Further, when storing a desired number of sliced pieces of raw meat in a tray or the like from the receiving surface, it is necessary to fold each slice and store it in the tray. In such a case, conventionally, a skilled person manually folds the sliced pieces and stores them in the tray, which is troublesome and costly. By eliminating such defects,
Even in the case of sliced pieces of raw meat, it is especially necessary to reduce the sticking to the round blade or the back cover as much as possible, and to automatically fold the sliced pieces at the same time as the cutting. There was a strong demand during the period.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a material feed conveyor that feeds a lump of meat at a predetermined position while sandwiching it from the front and back, and a horizontal rotation below the material feed conveyor. A round blade and a thickness adjusting plate that reciprocates integrally with the round blade and an arm that swings in the horizontal direction are provided, and the meat mass descending from the material feeding conveyor is provided between the thickness adjusting plate and the round blade. According to the formed step, cut into slice pieces with a desired thickness, and in the vertical meat slicer that is made to receive this slice piece on the receiving surface installed below the cutting position, approach the back surface of the round blade. Attached to the arm, the back cover, which is designed to separate the sliced piece separated from the meat block from the round blade, is provided with a supply pipe of pressure air that is curved in the horizontal direction along the blade edge of the round blade. A pressure air supply device that blows pressure air from a small hole arranged in the supply pipe to the slice piece being separated from the meat chunk, and bends the front edge portion of the slice piece to the back side of the thickness adjusting plate. It provides a vertical meat slicer with the attached.

[0005]

The vertical meat slicer of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 2, has a round blade edge instead of a thickness adjusting plate that has been supporting the lower end surface of the meat lump sandwiched at a predetermined position. When cut, the pressure air supply device is actuated, and the pressure air ejected from the small hole of the supply pipe arranged at the front edge of the back cover of the round blade is blown to the slice piece being separated from the meat chunk. The front edge portion of the sliced piece blown with pressured air descends while curving to the back side of the thickness adjusting plate and is grounded on the receiving surface installed below the cutting position, and the trailing edge portion that is subsequently cut off is Folded over,
One slice piece is automatically folded into two and placed on the receiving surface. In this way, the sliced piece is blown with pressurized air to minimize sticking during contact with the round blade or the back cover, and
Slicing pieces are automatically folded in half continuously after cutting. The present invention has solved the conventional problems as described above.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, 1 is a pair of material feed conveyors that feed meat lumps 2 downward from the front and back at a predetermined position, and 3 is a round blade 4 that rotates horizontally below the material feed conveyor 1 and a moving direction of the round blades 4. An arm for swinging horizontally on the machine base 6 is provided with a thickness adjusting plate 5 located at the front and reciprocating integrally with the round blade 4, and 7 is received below the cutting position of the meat chunk 2. It is a conveyor belt conveyor with the surface 8 positioned.

[0007] Reference numeral 9 is a slanted leading edge portion 10 that is brought close to the back surface of the round blade 4 and the left and right base portions are attached to the side surfaces of the arm 3 to separate the sliced piece 11 separated from the meat block 2 from the round blade 4. The back cover 12 thus constructed includes a supply pipe 13 for pressurized air, the front end portion of which is attached to the front edge portion 10 of the back cover 9 along the cutting edge of the round blade 4, and the supply pipe 1.
3, a number of small holes 14 for blowing provided at the tip of 3,
It is a pressure air supply device that is connected to the base end of the supply pipe 13 and has a switching valve 15 fixed to one side of the machine base 6 and that is connected to a compressor (not shown).

As shown in FIG. 2, the pressurized air supply device 12 includes a plurality of small holes 1 arranged at the tip of a supply pipe 13.
4 to a suitable machine for a suitable period of time (4 to 4 in the embodiment).
6 kg / cm ² ) is ejected, and the front edge portion 16 of the sliced piece 11 being separated from the meat mass 2 by the cutting edge of the round blade 4 is curved to the back surface side of the thickness adjusting plate 5. The supply operation timing of the compressed air is set by the supply start cam 18 and the supply stop cam 19 fixed to the crankshaft 17 that rotates on the upper surface of the machine base 6 and reciprocally drives the arm 3 via the connecting rod. ing.

The material feeding conveyor 1 is installed on the machine base 6 as shown by the imaginary line in FIG. 1, and is a material feeding cam (not shown) fixed to the crankshaft 17 together with the cams 18 and 19. A motor 20 whose operation is controlled, a driving shaft 21 which is geared to the motor 20, and a driving shaft 21
In addition, the protrusions 26 that are rotationally driven by the gear transmission mechanism 22, the chain transmission mechanism 23, and the driven shaft 25 that is driven through the universal transmission shaft 24, and project perpendicularly to each other and protrude from the circulating transport surface of the meat chunk 2 are provided. Stab the front and back and lower it. In addition, one of the material feeding conveyors 1 (left side in FIG. 2) that is in contact with the front surface of the meat chunk 2 moves forward and backward according to the thickness (height) of the meat chunk 2 by the operation of the air cylinder 27 installed on the machine base 6. Is possible. The universal transmission shaft 24 is provided with a telescopic shaft portion 28 that is a combination of a spline shaft and a sleeve shaft.

The inside of the arm 3 is hollow, a belt drive mechanism 29 for rotating the round blade 4, a gear train 31 for moving the base end portion 30 of the thickness adjusting plate 5 to a desired height, and a chain transmission mechanism. 32 and a screw type elevating part (not shown) are additionally provided, and are driven by different driving mechanisms (not shown). Although not shown, the conveyor belt 7 for transportation installed at the receiving position of the sliced pieces 11 is provided so as to be movable up and down according to the thickness (height) of the meat mass 2, and its transportation speed. In addition, the intermittent drive and the continuous drive can be freely controlled.

As shown in FIG. 2, in the vertical slicer having the above-described structure, when the cutting edge of the round blade 4 is cut into the meat mass 2, the pressure air supply device 12 is actuated to supply the supply pipe 1.
Pressure air is jetted from the small hole 14 of No. 3 and is blown toward the front edge portion 16 of the slice piece 11 which descends along the front edge portion 10 of the back cover 9 as shown in FIG. A front edge portion 16 in which the rear edge portion that is curved toward the back side of the thickness adjusting plate 5 and is cut off later is grounded to the receiving surface 8.
, And one slice piece 11 is automatically folded into two.

[0012]

According to the present invention constructed as described above and used as described above, the compressed air is blown from the small holes provided along the front edge of the back cover of the round blade. To forcibly bend the front edge of the slice piece toward the back side of the thickness control plate and automatically fold one slice piece in half with the trailing edge portion to be cut off later and place it on the receiving surface. Therefore, it is possible to save the number of folding steps when slicing the raw meat and storing it in the tray. Further, it is possible to prevent the soft sliced pieces separated from the meat mass from being attached to the round blade or the back surface cover, and being scattered or impairing the original shape. The present invention has extremely excellent effects as described above.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partially cutaway enlarged elevation view illustrating a cut state of a slice piece.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Material Feeding Conveyor 2 Meat Loaf 3 Arm 4 Round Blade 5 Thickness Adjusting Plate 6 Machine Stand 7 Conveying Belt Conveyor 8 Receiving Surface 9 Back Cover 10 Front Edge 11 Slice Piece 12 Pressure Air Supply Device 13 Supply Pipe 14 Small Hole 15 Switching valve 16 Leading edge portion of slice piece 17 Crank shaft 18 Supply start cam 19 Supply stop cam 20 Motor 21 Drive shaft 22 Gear transmission device 23 Chain transmission device 24 Universal transmission shaft 25 Driven shaft 26 Projection 27 Air cylinder 28 Expansion shaft Part 29 Belt drive mechanism 30 Base end part of thickness adjusting plate 31 Gear train 32 Chain transmission mechanism

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A material feeding conveyor 1 for feeding a lump of meat 2 downward at a predetermined position while sandwiching it from the front and back, a round blade 4 horizontally rotating below the material feeding conveyor 1, and a thickness adjustment reciprocating integrally with the round blade 4. A plate 5 is provided and an arm 3 that swings in the horizontal direction is provided, and the meat chunk 2 descending from the material feeding conveyor 1 is desired according to the step formed between the thickness adjusting plate 5 and the round blade 4. In a vertical meat slicer, which is cut into sliced pieces 11 having a thickness, and the sliced pieces 11 are received by a receiving surface 8 installed below the cutting position,
A back cover 9 which is attached to the arm 3 close to the back surface of the round blade 4 so as to separate the sliced piece 11 separated from the meat block 2 from the round blade 4 is provided along the cutting edge of the round blade 4. Is provided with a pressure air supply pipe 13 that is curved in the horizontal direction, and the pressure air is blown from a small hole 14 provided in the supply pipe 13 to the slice piece 11 that is being separated from the meat mass 2 to obtain the slice piece. A vertical meat slicer provided with a pressure air supply device 12 for bending the front edge portion 16 of 11 on the back side of the thickness adjusting plate 5. 2. The pressure air supply device 12 which blows pressure air to the slice piece 11 from a small hole 14 arranged in the supply pipe 13, has a crankshaft 17 for driving the arm 3.
Supply start cam 18 and supply stop cam 19 attached to the
The vertical meat slicer according to claim 1, wherein the blowing of the compressed air is automatically performed according to the operation timing set to.