JPH0647849Y2 - Peeling device for moving goods - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial field of application] According to the present invention, while an article is being conveyed by a conveyor, the article adhered to the conveyor by the process in the previous step is engaged with the article. The article is surely discharged from the conveyor by moving the conveyor relatively in at least one of the moving direction and the width direction of the conveyor to separate it from the conveyor.

[Conventional technology]

As a conventional conveyor device, there is one disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 58-22209. In this conventional conveyor, a large number of endless containers are connected, and food is heated and dehydrated by accommodating the food inside the container and passing it through a frying pan. After passing through the frying pan, the conveyor conveys the product as it is for a predetermined distance and reaches the end of the conveyor to transfer the product to the next step.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

However, in such a conveyor device, the product may adhere to the conveyor (container) due to its processing heat, and the product may not be transferred to the next process even when the end of the conveyor is reached. In order to prevent this, the conveyor was vibrated at the end so that the product was peeled from the conveyor, but in order to maintain the durability of the conveyor, sufficient vibration could not be given for the peeling. ,
Therefore, the means for vibrating the conveyor could not completely separate the article.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the conventional example, and shifts the conveying speed of the goods with respect to the moving speed of the conveyor, and shifts the goods in a direction different from the moving direction of the conveyor. It is intended to force the article to be peeled off the conveyor by using at least one of the means described above.

[Means for solving problems]

In this invention, an endless body whose lower side moves in the same direction as that of the container is installed on the upper side of a conveyor formed by continuously connecting the containers for storing the articles, and the endless body is individually attached to the goods from the upper surface. A plurality of engaging bodies that are engaged with each other and are provided with sliders on the back surface are movably mounted in the width direction of the conveyor while the bottom of the conveyor is parallel to the conveyor in the width direction of the conveyor. A guide provided with a downward groove that meanders and engages the slider with the bottom surface and the wall surface is arranged to constitute a peeling device for the moving article.

[Action]

While the item is being conveyed in the container of the conveyor, the engagement body is engaged with the upper surface of the item and the item is conveyed with the engagement member engaged. During this conveyance, the engaging body that is engaged with the item has its slider engaged with the groove of the guide, and the slider continuously hits the bottom of the groove. While the product is kept pressed from above onto the conveyor top surface, the engaging body meanders along the groove shape, forcibly moving the product in the width direction of the conveyor and peeling the product from the inner surface of the container. It

Thus, the groove of the guide has an action of pressing the engaging body against the upper surface of the article and an action of causing the engaging body to meander in the width direction of the conveyor, and the action of moving the article following the shape of the groove in the engaging body. There is.

〔Example〕

 Next, a description will be given according to the illustrated embodiment.

Reference numeral 1 denotes a conveyor, which has endless chains 2 on both sides in the width direction, and a frame 3 is installed between both chains 2 like a slat of a slat conveyor. The frame 3 is partitioned in the width direction, and a plurality of containers 4 are formed in the width direction. The container 4 is a relatively shallow container having an opened upper part, and an item 5 is stored therein. Such a conveyor 1 is known, for example, as described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 58-22209. In this embodiment, instant noodles are used as the item 5 and the conveyor 1 is passed through a frying pan (not shown) for heat-treating the item 5 with oil. However, as the item 5, items other than the instant noodles may be used. It is also possible to use another device such as a high-frequency heating device as the heat treatment device as long as it is a device that heats and processes the article 5.

The illustrated conveyor 1 shows the portion after passing through the frying pan, and moves from right to left in the figure. A gap is formed between the inner surface of the container 4 and the item 5.
This is the product 5 contracted by heat treatment.

On the upper side of the conveyor 1, chain sprockets 6 and 7 are arranged in front of and behind the traveling direction of the conveyor 1, and an endless chain 8 as an endless body is installed between them. The set of chain sprockets 6 and 7 and the endless chain are arranged on both sides in the width direction on the upper side of the conveyor 1, so that the endless chains 8 on both sides in the width direction are parallel to each other.

A large number of horizontal bars 9 parallel to each other are installed between both endless chains 8. To connect the horizontal bars 9 and the endless chain 8, the end of the horizontal bar 9 may be inserted and fixed to a pin of the endless chain, or Alternatively, it is performed by a known means such as interposing an attachment attached to the endless chain. An engaging body 10 is externally slidably fitted on the two lateral bars 9 which are in front of and behind each other, in an axial direction of the lateral bar 9.
The engaging body 10 is continuously joined by the endless chain 8.

The engagement body 10 includes a base body 10a supported by the horizontal bar 9, an engagement portion 10b fixed to the base body 10a and having a tip end engaged with the article 5, and a base body 1
0a and a slider 10c arranged on the back surface. An elastic body may be used at the tip of the engaging portion 10b according to the property of the product 5 so as not to damage the product 5.

Further, between the front and rear chain sprockets 6 and 7, a guide 11 on the outward path is arranged along the path of the engaging body 10 between the outward path and the return path of the endless chain 8.

The slider 10c of the engaging body 10 is engaged with the groove 12 of the guide 11 to control the position of the engaging body 10 in the width direction. That is, the groove 12
2 is slightly meandering as shown in FIG. 2, and the engaging body 10 is slightly moved in the width direction as the engaging body 10 advances. A guide 14 provided with a groove 13 is also arranged on the upper side of the guide 11, but this guide 14 is provided with respect to the horizontal bar 9 so that the position of the slider 10c engaging with the guide 11 is not greatly deviated in the left-right direction. To maintain the engaging body 10 at a predetermined position. Therefore, the groove 13 does not meander and forms a straight line. Both guides 11 and 14 may be continuous and endless.
The guides 11 and 14 are fixed to machine frames (not shown) on the left and right sides of the conveyor 1 via stays. With such a guide 11, the engaging body 10 of the present invention
And a movement variable device that changes the movement direction of the.

6a is a rotary shaft of the chain sprocket 6, 7a is a rotary shaft of the chain sprocket 7, both rotary shafts 6a, 7a are rotatably supported by the machine frame (not shown), and the chain sprocket 6 is provided via the rotary shaft 6a. Chain sprocket fixed to 15
The chain sprocket 18 of the rotary drive source 17 is continued through the chain 16. The chain sprocket 18 is eccentric to form a speed varying mechanism that changes the rotational speed of the chain sprocket 15, 6 by rotating the rotary drive source 17 at a constant speed. Thus, the chain sprocket 18 constitutes the movement varying device for changing the moving speed of the engaging body 10 of the present invention. Although not shown,
A mechanism for keeping this at a predetermined tension is arranged on the 16 to prevent the slack of the chain 16 due to the eccentricity of the chain sprocket 18.

By the movement varying device constituted by the chain sprocket 18, the engagement body 10 relatively moves the article 5 engaged with the engagement body 10 in the container 4 in the forward and backward directions. The relative amount of front and rear movement of the container 4 and the item 5 is set in advance so as to be within the size of the gap between the item 5 and the inner surface of the container 4 formed before and after the item 5. In addition, the amount by which the engaging body 10 is moved in the left-right direction by the movement varying device configured by the guide 11 is also within the gap dimension between the article 5 and the inner surface of the container 4 formed on the left and right thereof, which is also the groove 12 in advance. The meandering width of is set.

The movement of the engagement body 10 by the endless chain 8 and the chain 2
In order to synchronize the movement of the container 4 by
It is optimal to drive 2,8 by the same drive source.

Then, when the article 5 immediately after the heat treatment is conveyed by the conveyor 1 in a state of being housed in the container 4 to reach the lower side of the chain sprocket 7, the engaging body 10 that has rolled from the upper side of the chain sprocket 7 to the lower side of the chain sprocket 7 is transferred. The tip of the engaging portion 10b engages with the article 5, and the engaging body 10 and the conveyor 1 move forward synchronously. Then, during this forward movement, the engaging body 10 is slightly advanced and retracted by the guide 1 in the width direction of the conveyor 1, and the article 5 with which the tip of the engaging portion 10b is engaged is similarly advanced and retracted in the same direction. Since the conveyor 1 only advances, the product 5 moves relative to the container 4 as described above, and therefore the product 5 adhered to the container 4 by heat during the heat treatment is separated from the container 4 here. Then, it is stored in the container 4 only by its own weight.

The engagement body 10 also moves with respect to the container 4 due to the eccentricity of the chain sprocket 18. That is, chain sprocket
Due to the eccentricity of 18, the rotational speeds of the chain sprocket 15, the rotary shaft 6a, the chain sprocket 6 and the traveling speed of the endless chain 8 change, and the traveling speed of the engaging body 10 changes, while the conveyor 1 advances at a constant speed. Therefore, the engagement body 10 moves back and forth slightly in the traveling direction of the conveyor 1 relative to the container 4. Therefore, the article 5 that engages with the tip of the engaging portion 10b is the container 4
Since the product 5 is also advanced and retracted in the same manner, the article 5 is also separated from the container 4 by this, and the product 5 is stored in the container 4 only by its own weight.

The movement of the item 5 in the container 4 is performed in parallel in both the width direction of the conveyor 1 and the front-back direction. However, it is only necessary that the item 5 be separated from the container 4.
Of course, only one of the two directions may be used depending on the conditions such as the property and the degree of adhesion.

Thus, the container 4 is peeled off from the container 4 and only by its own weight.
The articles 5 accommodated therein reach the end of the conveyor 1, are discharged by the turning of the conveyor 1, and are supplied to the next step.

In this embodiment, instant noodles having a flat rectangular shape are used as the goods 5, but any shape such as a flat circle can be applied, and the noodles may be adhered to the conveyor 1 during the processing of the goods 5. Of course, other products can be applied as long as they are products. Further, in the above-described embodiment, the conveyor 1 is of a type in which a large number of containers 4 are connected to the chain 2 and the gap between the products 5 and the container 4 due to shrinkage of the products 5 by heat treatment is used. Although the goods 5 are moved in the container 4, the conveyor 1 may be a net conveyor or other conveyors.

[Effect of device]

As described above, in the present invention, since the articles contained and conveyed in the container are moved in the width direction of the conveyor in the container, the articles are forced from the inner surface of the container in which they are mounted. Since it is peeled off and placed only in the container by its own weight, at the end of the conveyor, all the items are reliably discharged from the container, and the process in the next process can be smoothly performed. .

Particularly, in this invention, since the articles individually housed in a large number of endlessly continuous containers are peeled from the inner surface of the container, it is the upper surface of the article that imparts a peeling force to the articles. It is limited to, but in this device,
With the groove of the guide, press the engaging body against the upper surface of the item,
In addition, the engaging body is made to meander in the width direction of the conveyor, and the engaging body makes the article meander in accordance with the shape of the groove of the guide, whereby the peeling of the article in the container from the inner surface of the container is realized.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side sectional view showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a plan view of a part of FIG. 1 ... Conveyor, 2 ... Carry-in conveyor, 4 ... Container, 5
…… Items, 6,7,15,18 …… Chain sprocket, 8 ……
Endless chain, 9 ... Horizontal bar, 10 ... Engaging body, 11 ... Guide, 12 ... Groove, 17 ... Rotation drive source.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. An endless body whose lower side moves in the same direction as the container is installed on the upper side of a conveyor in which containers for storing articles are connected in an endless manner. A large number of engaging bodies that are individually engaged and provided with sliders on the back side are movably mounted in the width direction of the conveyor, while above the conveyor, the bottom is parallel to the conveyor and the width direction of the conveyor. A device for peeling a moving article, characterized in that a guide having a downward groove that meanders and engages the slider with a bottom surface and a wall surface is arranged.