JPH07241794A - Pressing plate for slicing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To allow cut material to be cut while becoming gradually thinwalled without being crushed by a cutting edge even in the case of the remainder being little by forming the front face, opposed to a planer, of a pressing plate into such an inclined face as to go away from the face of the planer toward the upper part from the lower part. CONSTITUTION:A pressing plate 18 is formed into almost the same shape as the cross section of a hopper 14 and provided slidably in longitudinally reciprocating motion inside the hopper 14. The front face, opposed to a planer 17, of the pressing plate 18 is formed into two ways of tapered face, that is, the lower part 18a is inclined easy toward the upper part from the lower part, and the upper part 18b is inclined more sharp. As a result, the charging of cut material (a) into the hopper 14 is facilitated, and since the inclination of the lower part 18a is formed to be small, the cut material (a) can be cut thin to the end without being crushed by a cutting edge 16.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pressing plate of a slicing machine that presses a work material against a plane for cutting the work material such as bonito flakes.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a thin slicing machine for shaving bonito and the like to make a shaving, there is, for example, the one shown in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 56-38796. This is as shown in FIG.
A hopper 1 for accommodating bonito flakes, which is a work material a, a plane 2 for cutting a work material a in the hopper 1 by running a cutting blade along a front opening 1a of the hopper 1, and a hopper 1. A pressing plate 3 for pressing the work material a toward the plane 2 and a traverse cam 4 for moving the pressing plate 3 back and forth in the hopper 1 are provided. Then, the plane board 2 is rotated by the rotation of the rotary shaft 5 by the motor 6 so as to close the front opening 1a of the hopper 1, and a large number of cutting blades are radially arranged on the board surface to form the front opening 1a. Slice the dried bonito flakes. Further, the pressing plate 3 drives the traverse cam 4 to gradually feed the bonito to the cutting blade. The cut shavings fall into a shaving node chamber provided below the plane 2 and are taken out of the machine from there.

[0003]

However, since the pressing plate 3 in the conventional thin slicing machine is simply formed parallel to the board surface of the plane board 2, the cutting of the bonito in the hopper progresses, and the pressing board is pushed. When is completely advanced, the bonito is left without being cut by the clearance between the pressing plate 3 and the blade of the plane 2 and
Finally, it is crushed by the cutting blade rotating from the upper side to the lower side and accumulated at the bottom of the hopper 1. This prevents improvement in the yield of shavings. Further, the crushed bonito flakes accumulate on the bottom of the hopper 1 and cause the press plate 3 to malfunction. Further, it is necessary to inspect and clean the bonito flakes from the hopper 1 every predetermined time, which impairs productivity.

Therefore, the present invention aims to solve such conventional problems.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention uses a board 1 for cutting a work material a in a hopper 14 of a thin-slicing machine.
In the pressing plate 18 that is pressed toward 7,
It is assumed that the front surface of the pressing plate 18 opposed to the above is formed into an inclined surface that becomes more distant from the board surface of the plane board 17 as it goes from the bottom to the top.

[0006]

Since the front surface of the pressing plate 18 facing the board 17 is an inclined surface which is separated from the board surface of the board 17 as it goes upward from below, the pressing plate 18 presses the board 17. The work material a such as bonito flakes is not only affected by the pressing force,
By the pushing force of the cutting blade 16 of the plane board 17 toward the bottom of the hopper 14, the plane is slid on the inclined surface of the pressing plate 18, and the plane board 1
It is pressed against the board surface of 7. As a result, the work material a is thinly cut to the end without being crushed by the cutting blade 16.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the thin slicing machine includes a hopper 14 for accommodating a work material a and a hopper 1
4, a cutting board 17 for running a cutting blade 16 along a front opening 15 and cutting a work material a in the hopper 14, and a work material a in the hopper 14 to press the work material a toward the board 17 The pressing plate 18 and the air cylinder 19 that supports the pressing plate 18 in the hopper 14 so as to be movable back and forth.

The plane 17 is a vertically arranged disc, and a large number of slit-like openings 20 are radially provided in the disc, and the cutting blades 16 are detachably attached to the respective openings 20. The cutting edge of the cutting blade 16 projects from the opening 20 so that the work material a can be sliced. The plane 17 is supported by one end of a horizontal rotary shaft 21, which is horizontally supported by a bracket 23 fixed on a horizontal base 22 of the slicer. A driven pulley 24 is fixed to the other end of the rotating shaft 21, and as shown in FIG. 2, the power of a motor 25 installed below the base 22 is transferred from a driving pulley 26 of the output shaft to intermediate pulleys 27a and 27b. , V-belt 28.

The hopper 14 is arranged along the axial direction of the rotating shaft 21, and the cutting blade 1 of the plane 17 of the base 22.
It is provided in the rectangular cutout portion 22 a adjacent to the position 6. Further, the lateral walls 30a and 30b fixed to the edges of the cutout portion 22a facing each other and the bottom plate 30c fixed below the lateral walls 30a and 30b are formed in a gutter shape. Therefore, the work material a such as bonito flakes from the upper opening 32
Can be input. Further, the work material a can come in contact with the exposed board surface of the cutting blade 16 of the plane board 17 through the front opening 15. Below the bottom plate 30c, there is provided a discharge port 33 for the shavings accumulated on the bottom plate 30c due to a cutting error or the like.

Further, the lateral wall 3 located on the outer peripheral side of the plane 17
As shown in FIG. 1, 0a is formed so that the inner surface thereof is curved along the arc of the outline of the plane 17 and the plane 17a.
The lateral wall 30b located on the inner peripheral side is also formed such that the upper portion of the inner surface thereof curves along the arc. For this reason,
The front opening 15 of the hopper 14 follows the movement path of the cutting blade 16, and the cutting of the work material a is smoothed.

The pressing plate 18 has substantially the same shape as the cross section of the hopper 14, and is provided in the hopper 14 so as to be slidable back and forth. Further, the front surface of the pressing plate 18 facing the plane 17 is formed into an inclined surface which is located away from the plane of the plane 17 as it goes from the bottom to the top. For this reason, the work material a such as bonito flakes pressed against the plane 17 is more strongly pressed against the plane 17 while being cut downward from above by the rotation of the plane 17. Further, more specifically, as shown in FIG. 5, the front surface has two types of taper in which a lower portion 18a thereof is gently inclined as it goes upward from below and an upper portion 18b thereof is inclined more steeply. Is formed on the surface. Lower part 18a that is gently inclined
Has an inclination angle α (= about 2 degrees) with respect to a vertical line A (parallel to the board surface of the plane 8) rising from the lower end of the pressing plate 18, and the steeply inclined upper portion 18b has an inclination angle β with respect to the vertical line B. (>
have α). In this way, since the inclination angle β of the upper portion 18b of the front surface is formed large, the hopper 11
The work piece a such as bonito flakes can be easily put into the inside, and the lower part 1
Since the inclination angle α of 8a is formed small, it is possible to reliably press and pinch the work material a such as the bonito flakes that have been introduced.

The front surface of the pressing plate 18 facing the plane 17 is not limited to the embodiment in which the upper portion 18b and the lower portion 18a have different inclination angles. It may be formed on the surface having the same inclination angle toward the upper end, and the inclination angle α from the lower end can be set not only around 2 degrees but also above or below it.

The pressing plate 18 is supported by an air cylinder 19 so as to be movable back and forth inside the hopper 14.
Further, guide rods 38 and 39 sandwiching the piston rod of the air cylinder 19 in the vertical direction of the base 22 are connected to the pressing plate 18, and the guide rods 38 and 39 are inserted into the guide holes of the air cylinder body 19a. There is.

As shown in FIG. 3, the air cylinder 19 is horizontally supported by a boss portion 41 provided upright on the base 22. The air cylinder 19 has a structure as shown in FIG. 6, a cylinder chamber 43 is formed in the center of the cylinder body 19a, and guide holes 53 are provided in parallel on both sides of the cylinder chamber 43. The piston 45 is inserted into the cylinder chamber 43, the guide rods 38 and 39 are inserted into the guide holes 53, and the portions of the piston rod 44 and the guide rods 38 and 39 protruding outside the cylinder body 19a are connected to each other by the connecting plate 46. Are connected and integrated. The pressing plate 18 is fixed to the connecting plate 46 with bolts 47. In addition, the guide rods 38 and 39 and the piston rod 44 are attached to the pressing plate 18 without the connecting plate 46.
May be directly connected.

The air cylinder 19 reciprocates by alternately feeding air into its intake holes 48, 49 by means of a switching valve (not shown) in the control section of this slicing machine. That is, when the air is sent from the intake hole 49 to the right air chamber of the piston 45, the piston rod 44 and the guide rods 38 and 39 slide to the left side in FIG. Is sent, the piston rod 44 and the guide rods 38 and 39 slide to the right side in the drawing. The switching of air by the switching valve can be performed by, for example, a detection sensor. That is, the piston rod 44, the guide rods 38, 39 or the pressing plate 1
A detection sensor that detects, by light or magnetism, that 8 is at the front end position or the rear end position of its reciprocating motion, and an identification portion or magnet that is detected by the detection sensor are provided on the piston rod 44 and the air cylinder body 19a or the hopper 14. Lateral walls 30a, 30b
When the control unit receives this detection signal, the switching valve is operated after a predetermined time set in advance.

A stopper rod 50 is provided behind the pressing plate 18 to regulate the forward movement of the pressing plate 18.
It is fixed in parallel with 9. The stopper rod 50 is slidably inserted into the through hole 51a of the regulation plate 51 fixed to the lateral walls 30a and 30b, and the regulation nut 5 at the rear end thereof is inserted.
0a hits the regulation plate 51, so that the pressing plate 1
8 is supposed to stop. The back stroke of the pressing plate 18 is restricted by the back surface of the pressing plate 18 hitting the edge of the cutout of the base 22.

However, in order to grind a bonito flakes, which is the work material a, by using this slicing machine, the following operation is performed. First, the projection amount of the cutting edge of the cutting blade 16 with respect to the plane 17 is adjusted to determine the thickness of the shaving node. After that, the work material a is put into the hopper 14, the motor 25 is started, and the plane 17
To rotate. Further, the air cylinder 19 is driven to move the pressing plate 18 forward. The pressure of the air supplied to the air cylinder 19 is adjusted in advance according to the hardness of the bonito flakes,
The pressing plate 18 presses the bonito flakes against the plane 17 with an appropriate pressing force. Further, since the pressing plate 18 is supported by the piston rod 44 and the plurality of guide rods 38 and 39 which sandwich the piston rod 44 therebetween, the pressing plate 18 can be stably advanced without bending or twisting in the forward direction. For this reason, the bonito flakes are stably pressed against the plane 17 together with the pressing with the appropriate air pressure. The plane 17 is rotated at a constant speed, and the cutting blade 16 cuts the bonito flakes with a uniform thickness. The scraped scraper drops into the scraper chamber 52 below the hopper 14 and is taken out of the slicer from there.

When the pressing plate 18 has advanced in the hopper 14, the bonito flakes in the hopper 14 are worn out, and the air cylinder 19
Returns to push the pressing plate 18 backward. Then, after the new bonito flakes are loaded into the hopper 14, the same operation as described above is repeated to manufacture the scraped flakes.

[0019]

As described above, since the surface of the pressing plate facing the plane is formed into an inclined surface that is away from the board surface of the plane as it goes from the bottom to the top, the plane is formed by the pressing plate. Work materials such as bonito flakes that are pressed against not only the pressing force,
While being cut by the cutting blade of the plane, it slides on the inclined surface and is pressed in the plane direction. Therefore, even when the remaining amount of the work material is small, the work material is not crushed by the cutting blade but is cut while being gradually thinned, and the yield of shaving nodes can be improved. Further, it is possible to prevent defective operation of the pressing plate due to the crushed bonito, to save labor of inspection and cleaning for preventing the defective operation, and to improve productivity.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a slicing machine using a pressing plate according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the slicing machine.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of a slicing machine.

FIG. 4 is a partially enlarged view of FIG.

5 is a partially enlarged view of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a partially cutaway side view of an air cylinder for driving a pressing plate.

FIG. 7 is a side view of a slicing machine provided with a conventional pressing plate.

[Explanation of symbols]

 a ... Work material 14 ... Hopper 17 ... Planer 18 ... Pressing plate 18a ... Lower part of pressing plate 18b ... Upper part of pressing plate

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A pressing plate for pressing a work material in a hopper of a thin-slicing machine toward a plane, as the front surface of the pressing plate facing the plane goes from the bottom to the top of the plane of the plane. A pressing plate for a thin slicing machine, which is characterized in that it is formed on an inclined surface away from the slicing machine.