JPH0690653A - Device for molding doughs of sandwich-like dry confections - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable to surely discharge or charge the whole amount of a content such as ground bean particles or lever fine pieces from respective feeding ports, when the content is automatically fed in a constant shape and in a constant volume on a lover base dough for rice cracker or cookie. CONSTITUTION:An addition device 10 for a content 11 is installed between a point for feeding the first base dough 2 and a point for feeding the second base dough. The device 10 is composed of upper and lower fixed plates 24, 25 and a movable plate 26 arranged therebetween, and feeding ports 27, 28, 29 for the content are formed in the plates in penetrated states. The movable plate 26 is slid to a position at which the feeding port 29 of the movable plate 26 coincides with the feeding port 27 of the upper plate 24, and subsequently returned with impact with a spring 34 to a position at which the feeding port 29 coincides with the feeding port 28 of the lower plate 25. The content 38 in the feeding port 29 of the movable plate 26 is thus surely dropped by the impact.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a long flat upper and lower dough for producing dried confectionery such as Japanese confectionery such as rice crackers, geese, moon flats, biscuits, crackers and cookies. In the meantime, a certain amount of crushed bean grains, seaweed strips, vegetable strips, meat strips, and other intervening materials are surely supplied even in a wet state to form a sandwich-like dried confectionery dough. Related to the device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a molding device for sandwich dough for dried confectionery, those disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 63-64175 or Japanese Patent Publication No. 63-65283 are known.

The devices disclosed in these publications have a structure in which the interposition material is pushed into a relatively narrow storage recess, inverted, and placed on the upper surface of the cloth.

Therefore, when the crushed bean grains and other interposing materials are extremely fine particles or are moist due to oils and fats exuded during seasoning or processing, the storage recess is reversed. The stored items would not fall onto the upper surface of the dough, and defective products could be produced, and there was a great restriction on the food to be sandwiched.

Further, in the conventional apparatus, in order to change the supply amount or the supply shape of the interposing material, it is necessary to change the die roll having a large and complicated shape, which not only increases the cost but also the interposing material. It was impossible to heat process the material in the storage recess.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, even if the intervening material in the form of small particles, powder or the like is extremely fine granular material or the interposing material is wet, An interposition material addition device that can reliably supply the total amount to be added from the interposition material supply port, can easily change the addition amount, the addition shape, etc., and can easily perform thermal processing of the interposition material immediately before the addition. An object of the present invention is to provide a dough forming apparatus for sandwich-shaped dried confectionery, which comprises:

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, according to the invention of claim 1, the upper surface of the conveyor is exposed,
The first dry confectionery mother dough supply device is arranged on the upstream side in the conveyor transfer direction, and the second dry confectionery mother dough supply device is arranged on the downstream side. A device for adding an interposition material in the form of small particles or powder was arranged facing the upper surface of the first base material for dried sweets.

In the adding device, a fixed upper plate which forms the bottom of the interposer popper and is parallel to the upper surface of the first base material for dried confectionery, and a fixed lower plate which is parallel to and spaced from the fixed upper plate are provided. At least one movable plate located in a space between the fixed upper plate and the fixed lower plate and slidably in contact with both plates was provided.

The fixed upper plate and the fixed lower plate are provided with a plurality of interposer material supply ports penetrating them with a phase shift, and the movable plate is also aligned with the interposer material supply port of the fixed lower plate. In addition, a plurality of interposer material supply ports were pierced.

The movable plate is provided with a drive device for sliding the movable plate to a position where the interposition material supply port of the fixed upper plate and the interposition material supply port of the movable plate coincide with each other.

Further, the movable plate is provided with an elastic body for shock-moving the interposition material supply port to a position where the interposition material supply port is aligned with the interposition material supply port of the fixed lower plate.

Further, according to the invention of claim 2, a plurality of movable plates and a fixed intermediate plate located between the movable plates are arranged in the space between the fixed upper plate and the fixed lower plate in the invention of claim 1.

The plurality of movable plates and the fixed middle plate are provided with a plurality of interposition material supply ports which are aligned with the interposition material supply ports of the fixed upper plate or the fixed lower plate.

Further, the interposition material supply ports of the respective fixed intermediate plates and the respective movable plates have a positional relationship between the interposition material supply ports of both the fixed lower plate and the movable plate in contact with the fixed lower plate in the invention of claim 1. The drive device and the elastic body according to the invention of claim 1 are attached to each movable plate in the same positional relationship.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, a heat source for heating or cooling is coupled to the fixed intermediate plate in the second aspect of the invention.

[0016]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, after the required interposer material is stored in the interposer material popper, the movable plate is moved by the drive device so that the interposer material supply port of the fixed upper plate is connected to the movable plate. When the interposer material supply ports are aligned, the lower openings of the interposer material supply ports of the movable plate are closed by the fixed lower plate, so that the interposer material is filled with each of the interposer material supply ports of the movable plate. Flow through the interposer material supply port of the fixed upper plate until it is filled up.

In this state, when the operation of the drive device is released, the movable plate, with the interposition material fully contained in each interposition material supply port, is swept by the elastic force of the elastic body at a stroke and shockly. The interposition material supply port is moved to a position matching the interposition material supply port of the fixed lower plate.

Due to the impact caused by the impulsive movement, the interposition materials accommodated in the respective interposition material supply ports of the movable plate pass through the interposition material supply ports of the fixed lower plate at a time, and reach the first position on the conveyor. Is dropped and supplied onto the mother cake for dried confectionery, and then the second mother material for dried confectionery is overlaid on the supplied interposing material.

After that, the first and second mother fabrics for dried confectionery, which are overlapped with the interposing material interposed therebetween, are pressed and die-cut to form a sandwich-shaped dried confectionery fabric.

According to the invention of claim 2, the same operation as that of the invention of claim 1 is performed, but the movement of the interposing material between the respective interposing material supply ports of the movable plate and the fixed intermediate plate is prevented. Since it is carried out in multiple stages, it is possible to form the interposition material to some extent, and in combination with the invention of claim 3, the shape retention performance can be improved by heating or cooling the interposition material.

The amount of the interposing material to be supplied from each of the interposing material supply ports can be adjusted by changing the height of the movable plate.
The supply shape of squares, lines, etc. can be changed according to the shape of the interposition material supply port of each plate.

[0022]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 show an example of the embodiment of the invention of claim 1, and as shown in FIG.
Interstitial material C such as crushed pea grains is included between the backing layer B and the dough before baking, such as rice crackers, falling geese, moon flats, biscuits, crackers, and cookies. 1 shows a molding apparatus to be manufactured.

FIG. 1 is a schematic side view showing the whole of the molding apparatus, which faces the upper surface of the conveyor 1 and is located upstream of the conveyor E in the direction of transfer indicated by arrow E, for the first confectionery for dried sweets. The feeding device 3 for the dough 2 is arranged, and the feeding device 5 for the second mother dough 4 for dried confectionery is arranged on the downstream side.

These feeding devices 3 and 5 continuously feed the dough-shaped base materials 6 and 7 onto the conveyor 1 in the form of a thin and flat dough-cake with roll pairs 8 and 9.

The interposing material adding device 10 according to the invention of claim 1 is arranged so as to face the upper surface of the first mother material 2 on the conveyor 1 between the two supplying devices 3 and 5. An intervening material 11 such as crushed pea grains is supplied onto the mother dough 2 of 1. Interposer 11
The second mother material 4 is supplied from the second supply device 5 and is superimposed on the first mother material 2 to which is supplied.

As described above, the first mother material 2 and the interposing material 1
The multi-layered body of the first and second mother fabrics 4 is pressed by the pressing roll 12 to be integrally combined, and the individual fabrics 1 are separated by the die-cutting roll 13.
4 is punched out and the surplus material 15 is the second conveyor 1
At 6, the excess material is carried into the material storage case 17.

The punched dough 14 is transferred to the baking tray 19 on the third conveyor 18 and transferred to the baking process.

In FIG. 1, reference numerals 20, 21, and 22 are tensors arranged on the path of the first conveyor 1.

As shown in FIG. 2, the dough forming apparatus 10 has a fixed upper plate 24 which forms the bottom of the interposer popper 23.
And this, fixed lower plate 25, fixed upper plate 24 and fixed lower plate 2
It has one movable plate 26 which is arranged in a space between the movable plate 5 and the plate 5, and which slidably comes into close contact with both plates 24 and 25.

The fixed upper plate 24 is arranged parallel to the upper surface of the first base material 2.

The fixed upper plate 24 and the fixed lower plate 25 are
A plurality of interposer material supply ports 27, 28 of similar shape with the phases shifted
The groups are provided so that the length of the phase shift is set to be equal to or longer than the opening length L1 of the interposition material supply port 28 of the fixed lower plate 25 in the length direction of the conveyor 1. .

Further, the fixed lower plate 25 is attached to the movable plate 26.
A plurality of interposition material supply ports 29 of the same shape, which are aligned with the interposition material supply ports 28, are provided.

The interposition material supply port 27 of the fixed upper plate 24 in the illustrated example
Is an interposer material supply port 29 of the fixed lower plate 25 and the movable plate 26.
In comparison with the above, the intermediate member 14 is formed in a slightly smaller size and has a similar shape, and when the intermediate member 14 flows down from the intermediate member supply port 27 to the intermediate member supply port 29 of the movable plate 26, the intermediate member 14 is smoothly interposed. Material supply port 2
It is intended to be able to flow into 9.

The movable plate 26 has an interposer material supply port 29.
The stationary position is a position that completely matches the position of the interposition material supply port 28 of the fixed lower plate 25.

In the movable plate 26, from the stationary position shown in FIG. 2 to the position shown in FIG. 3 where the interposition material supply port 29 coincides with the interposition material supply port 27 of the fixed upper plate 24, A drive device 30 for sliding the movable plate 26 is attached.

The drive device 30 shown in FIG. 2 is an air cylinder 31, and the end portion 33 of the movable plate 26 is connected to the piston rod 32. The drive device 3 will be described later.
0 may be a cam mechanism.

Further, the movable plate 26 has a stationary position, that is, an interposition material supply port 29 as shown in FIG.
5 to the position corresponding to the interposition material supply port 28 of the movable plate 2
An elastic body 34 for impacting and returning 6 from the position shown in FIG. 3 is attached.

In the illustrated example, the coil spring 37, which is contracted between the movable plate end 35 on the side opposite to the drive unit 30 and the frame 36, is used as the elastic body 34. However, as will be described later, a tension spring is used. It may be used as the projectile 34.

In FIG. 2, when a large amount of the intercalation material 38 such as crushed pea grains is stored in the interposition material popper 23, the fixed upper plate 2
Since the interposer material supply port 27 of No. 4 is closed by the upper surface of the movable plate 26, the interposer material supply port 27 is retained upward from the interposer material supply port 27 without flowing down.

In this state, the movable plate 26 is driven by the drive unit 30.
And slide the interposer material supply port 29 as shown in FIG.
Is matched with the interposition material supply port 27 of the fixed upper plate 24,
The interposition material 38 flows into the interposition material supply port 29.

At the position shown in FIG. 3, since the lower portion of the interposition material supply port 29 is closed by the fixed lower plate 25, the interposition material 38 is formed.
Fills and stays in the interposition material supply port 29.

At this point, when the pressing force of the drive unit 30 is completely released, the elastic force of the elastic body 34 causes the movable plate 26 to suddenly move and return to the old position shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, the interposition material 38 filled in the mouth 29 flows down through the interposition material supply port 28 of the fixed lower plate 25, and is positioned below the interposition material supply port 28. It is supplied on the mother dough 2 of 1.

Since the movable plate 26 is moved and returned by the impact by the elastic body 34, the movable plate 2 is caused by a slight vibration accompanying the impact.
The interposition material 38 filled in the interposition material supply port 29 of 6 is
Even if it completely flows down from the inside of the port 29 and has a slight viscosity, it does not adhere to or remain on the peripheral wall of the interposition material supply port 29.

FIGS. 4 to 8 show only a main part of an example of an embodiment of the dough forming apparatus in which the inventions of claims 2 and 3 are combined.

In FIG. 4, a plurality of movable plates are provided in the space between the fixed upper plate 102 forming the bottom of the interposer material popper 101 and the fixed lower plate 103 arranged at intervals.
In the illustrated example, two movable plates 104 and 105 are arranged, and a fixed intermediate plate 106 is arranged between the movable plates 104 and 105.

The fixed upper plate 102 and the fixed lower plate 103 are provided with a plurality of interpositioning material supply ports 107 and 108 of similar shapes, which are shifted in phase from each other, as in the case of the above-described invention of claim 1. ing.

In the case of this embodiment, two movable plates 10 are used.
4, 105 is used, is the length of the phase shift equal to twice the opening length L2 of the interposer material supply port 108 of the fixed lower plate 25 in the length direction of the transport conveyor. ,
It is set longer than that.

The movable plate 105 is provided with a plurality of interposition material supply ports 109 of the same shape, which are aligned with the interposition material supply ports 108 of the fixed lower plate 103.

In the movable plate 104, a plurality of same shapes are formed by shifting the phase by the length L2 from the interposition material supply port 109 of the movable plate 105 toward the interposition material supply port 107 side of the fixed upper plate 102. The intervening material supply port 110 is provided through.

The fixed intermediate plate 106 is provided with the same number of interposition material supply ports 111 that are aligned with the interposition material supply ports 110 of the movable plate 104.

The relationship between the intermediate material supply ports 111 and 110 of both the fixed middle plate 106 and the movable plate 104 in contact with the upper surface is that the intermediate material supply ports of both the fixed lower plate 103 and the movable plate 105 are provided. The positional relationship between 108 and 109 is the same.

As a result of the above-described arrangement of the interposition material supply ports, the interposition material supply port 110 of the movable plate 104 is fixed to the fixed upper plate 1.
It is displaced by the length L2 with respect to the interposer material supply port No. 02. Note that the interposition material supply port 107 has a slightly smaller diameter than the other interposition material supply ports.
It is the same as that shown in FIG.

A heat source 112 is disposed below the inner peripheral wall of the interposition material supply port 111 of the fixed middle plate 106.

The heat source 112 in the illustrated example is a structure in which a heating body such as a nichrome wire is embedded, but it goes without saying that it may be a heat source that provides a cooling function as a refrigerant passage.

The movable plates 104 and 105 are positioned so that the interposer material supply ports 110 and 109 of the movable plates 104 and 105 coincide with the interposer material supply ports 107 and 111 of the fixed upper plate 102 and the fixed intermediate plate 106, respectively. A drive device 113 that slides up to is attached, and the drive device 113 has the same structure as the drive device 30 shown in FIG.

When the driving device 113 slides on the movable plates 104 and 105 and the pressing force of the device 113 is released, the movable plates 104 and 105 are moved to the stationary position shown in FIG. An elastic body 11 that moves and returns shockingly
4,115 are attached.

The elastic members 114, 115 also have the same structure as the elastic member 34 shown in FIG.

In the state shown in FIG. 4, the required interposer material 116 is stored in the interposer material popper 101, and the drive device 11
3, the movable plates 104 and 105 are connected to the interposition material supply port 11
When 0 and 109 are slid to a position where they are aligned with the interposer material supply port 107 of the fixed upper plate 102 and the interposer material supply port 111 of the fixed middle plate 106, as shown in FIG. The interposer material 116 flows into the interposer material supply port 110 from 107 and fills up.

Then, when the pressing force of the drive unit 113 is released, the movable plates 104 and 105 are suddenly returned to the position shown in FIG. 4 by the elastic force of the elastic members 114 and 115, and shown in FIG. As shown in FIG.
The interposer material 116 filled in 0 flows into the interposer material supply port 111 of the fixed intermediate plate 106.

The interposition material 11 into the interposition material supply port 111
The inflow of 6 is a slight vibration associated with the shock return action, and the entire amount of inflow and transfer are performed without adhering and remaining in the interposition material supply port 110.

Next, when the drive unit 113 is operated again, as shown in FIG. 7, the interposer material supply port 1 of the movable plate 104 is
The interposer material 116 flows into and fills the inside of the inside 10 from the interposition material supply port 107 of the fixed upper plate 102, and the interposition material 116 filled in the interposition material supply port 111 of the fixed middle plate 106 is It is made to flow into and move into the interposer material supply port 109 of the movable plate 105.

Next, when the pressing force of the drive unit 113 is released, the movable plates 104,
As shown in FIG. 8, the interposer material 116 in the interposer material supply port 110 flows into and moves into the interposer material supply port 111, and the interposer material supply port 111 is returned. 109
The interposer material 116 inside is the interposer material supply port 1 of the fixed lower plate 103.
The whole amount is supplied onto the first mother material 2 through 08, the drive device 113 is operated again, and the above-described operation is repeated,
The supply of the interposition material 116 on the first mother material 2 is continuously repeated.

When the heat source 112 of the interposer material supply port 111 of the fixed middle plate 106 is operated, the interposer material 116 is provided between the time shown in FIGS. 6 and 8 and the state shown in FIG. 7.
On the other hand, predetermined heat processing is performed.

The interposer material 116 is 3 in the illustrated example.
By being housed and held in each of the interposition material supply ports 110, 111, and 109, the interposition material 116 is subjected to a certain amount of molding action, and when the interposition material 116 has some adhesiveness or is slightly moistened. , Its effect becomes remarkable.

FIG. 9 shows another embodiment of the drive unit and the elastic body, and the rotation of the cam plate 201 in the direction of arrow D causes the bell crank 202 to rotate in the direction of arrow E.
The movable plate 203 is slid in the direction of arrow F, and the coil spring 204, which is an elastic body, is extended.

In this embodiment, when the passive end 207 of the bell crank 202 falls from the cam slope 205 into the cam recess 206, the pressing force for rotating the bell crank 202 in the direction of arrow E becomes zero, so that the movable plate 203 moves. Coil spring 20
With the restoring elasticity of 4, it is suddenly pulled back.

10 and 11 show the movable plate 302, which is driven by the rotation of the cylindrical cam 301 in the direction of arrow G as a driving device.
Coil spring 3 which is an elastic body of 303 and 304 in the direction of arrow H
The movable end 30 of each movable plate is slid against the elasticity of the 05 group.
6, 307, 308 from the cam crest 309 to the cam recess 310
When it falls to, the movable plate 3 is moved by the elastic force of the coil springs 305.
Nos. 02, 303, and 304 are designed to be shockedly returned to the old position.

[0068]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, even if the interposing material interposed in a sandwich form between the mother materials is a very fine small granular material or powdery material, it is moist or slightly. Even if it has adhesiveness, the impact of the movable plate causes an effect that the entire amount can be reliably supplied from the interposition material supply port.

The shape of the interposer material can be changed by changing the shape of each interposer material supply port penetrating the fixed upper plate, the fixed lower plate and the movable plate. Since it can be adjusted by the thickness of the movable plate, the freedom of designing the supply amount and supply shape of the interposing material is increased, and the manufacturing cost of the device can be reduced.

According to the second aspect of the invention, there is an effect that a molding action can be exerted to some extent on the interposing material to be supplied.

According to the third aspect of the invention, since the interposer can be subjected to desired heat processing, there is an effect that various kinds of sandwich-like dried confectionery dough can be produced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of an entire molding apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a schematic longitudinal sectional view of an example of the embodiment of the invention of claim 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic vertical sectional view showing an operating state of the one shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a schematic longitudinal cross-sectional view of an example of an apparatus in which both the inventions of claims 2 and 3 are implemented.

5 is a schematic vertical sectional view showing a first operation stroke of the one shown in FIG. 4. FIG.

FIG. 6 is a schematic vertical sectional view showing a second operation stroke of the one shown in FIG. 4.

FIG. 7 is a schematic longitudinal sectional view showing a third operation stroke of the one shown in FIG.

FIG. 8 is a schematic vertical sectional view showing a fourth operation stroke of the one shown in FIG.

FIG. 9 is a schematic side view showing another embodiment of the driving device and the elastic body.

FIG. 10 is a schematic plan view of another embodiment of the driving device.

FIG. 11 is a schematic side view of what is shown in FIG.

FIG. 12 is a perspective view showing an example of a sandwich dough for dried confectionery in cross section.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Conveyor 2 First mother dough 3,5 Supply device 4 Second mother dough 10 Addition device 11,116 Interposer 23,101 Interposer popper 24,102 Fixed upper plate 25,103 Fixed lower plate 26, 104, 105 movable plate 27, 28, 29, 107, 108, 109, 110,
111 Interposition material supply port 30,113 Drive device 34,114,115 Resilient body 106 Fixed middle plate 112 Heat source

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A first feeding device for dried confectionery dough is arranged on the upstream side in the transfer direction of the conveyor, and a second feeding device for dried confectionery dough is arranged on the downstream side. Between the two supply devices, facing the upper surface of the first base material for dried confectionery on the conveyor, an adding device for an intervening material in the form of small particles, powder, etc. is arranged. A fixed upper plate that forms the bottom of the interposer popper and is parallel to the upper surface of the first base material for dried confectionery, a fixed lower plate that is parallel to the fixed upper plate at a distance, and a fixed upper plate and a fixed lower plate. The fixed upper plate and the fixed lower plate are provided with at least one movable plate which is disposed in a space between the plate and slidably in contact with both plates.
A plurality of interposer material supply ports penetrating at different phases are provided, and the movable plate has a plurality of interposer material supply ports whose positions are aligned with those of the fixed lower plate. And a driving device that slides the movable plate to a position where the interposition material supply port of the fixed upper plate and the interposition material supply port of the movable plate are aligned with each other. A dough forming apparatus for sandwich-shaped dried confectionery, which is provided with an elastic body that shock-moves a movable plate at a position where an interposer material supply port of a plate and an interposer material supply port of a fixed lower plate are aligned with each other. 2. A plurality of movable plates and a fixed middle plate positioned between the movable plates are arranged in a space between the fixed upper plate and the fixed lower plate, and the fixed middle plate is fixed to the plurality of movable plates and the fixed middle plate. A plurality of interposer material supply ports whose positions match the interposer material supply openings of the upper plate or the fixed lower plate are provided through the interposer material supply port of each fixed middle plate and the upper surface of the fixed middle plate. The interposition material supply port of the movable plate which is in contact with the interposition material supply port of the fixed lower plate has the same positional relationship as that of the interposition material supply port of the movable plate which is in contact with the fixed lower plate. An apparatus for forming dough for sandwich-shaped dried confectionery as described above. 3. The dough forming apparatus for sandwich-shaped dried confectionery according to claim 2, wherein a heat source is coupled to the stationary middle plate.