JPH07250661A - Mechanism for housing edible material - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a mechanism for housing an edible material, capable of smoothly taking out the edible material. CONSTITUTION:This housing mechanism of an edible mechanism is a mechanism for housing plural edible materials while cooling and the mechanism has a housing vessel 1 moving in vertical direction and a pushing vessel 3 acting in lateral direction and the housing vessel 1 has a structure laminating plural box-like parts 11 each housing one edible material in vertical direction and openings are formed on right and lest faces of the box-like parts 11 and the pushing vessel 3 enters from one of the openings to discharge an edible material P.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mechanism for storing foodstuffs such as patties sandwiched between hamburgers.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a sandwich manufacturing apparatus such as a hamburger disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 1-91739, there is described a freezer in which a plurality of patties before cooking are vertically stacked and stored.

The means for storing patties by this freezer is
The patty is stable without rolling, and the method of pushing out the bottommost patty to take out the patty sequentially will cause the patty at the bottom to descend next due to its own weight each time the patty at the bottom is taken out. The advantage is that the property can be used.

However, when the patties are stored in a frozen state in this way, the upper and lower patties are in contact with each other, so that the patties are stuck to each other and the individual patties cannot be taken out. Since the lower patties bear a heavy weight, it is possible that the patties may be deformed even if they are not crushed, or it may be difficult to push out and remove the lowermost patties.

[0005]

Therefore, the present invention is
It is an object of the present invention to provide a food material storage mechanism that can smoothly take out food materials.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention takes the following technical means.

The foodstuff storage mechanism of the present invention is a mechanism for storing a plurality of foodstuffs while cooling, and has a storage container that moves in the vertical direction and an extruder that operates in the left and right directions. The vessel has a structure in which a plurality of box-shaped portions for accommodating a single food product are vertically stacked, and openings are formed in the left and right surfaces of the box-shaped portion, and the pusher enters through one of the openings. The feature is that the foodstuffs are then discharged.

Further, it is assumed that the foodstuffs are cooled by a freezer capable of accommodating a container, and an extruder is attached to the outer surface of the freezer so that the container can be moved from the inside of the freezer to the outside. May be.

Further, the left and right openings of the box-shaped portion may be formed to have different sizes so that foodstuffs can enter and exit only through the larger opening.

[0010]

As a result of adopting the above-mentioned means, the food material storage mechanism of the present invention has the following operation.

In the food material storage mechanism of the present invention, the individual food materials contained in each box-shaped portion of the moving storage container are sequentially pushed out by the pusher and discharged.

Further, if the extruder is attached to the outer surface of the freezer and the container is moved from the inside of the freezer to the outside, the food in the box-shaped portion is sufficiently cooled until it is discharged by the extruder. Is kept in a state.

Further, since the foodstuffs can enter and leave only through the opening of the larger box-shaped portion, the foodstuffs do not fall out through the opening of the smaller one.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The structure of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

An embodiment of a food material storage mechanism according to the present invention is introduced into, for example, an automated or semi-automatic hamburger cooking apparatus to store a patty P sandwiched between hamburgers.

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of this food material storage mechanism.
Basically, a storage device 1 for storing a plurality of patties P, a lifting device 2 for vertically moving the storage device P, and a pusher device that operates in the left-right direction by an appropriate means such as an expanding and contracting air cylinder. 3 and 3. The vertical direction and the horizontal direction refer to the vertical and horizontal directions on the plane of FIG. 1, respectively.

The container 1 and the lifting device 2 are housed in a freezer 4, and the pusher 3 is installed on the upper outer surface of the freezer 4.

The container 1 has a structure in which a plurality of box-shaped portions 11 each having a size capable of accommodating one putty P are vertically stacked by a large number of partitions arranged at regular intervals. . FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the shape of the box-shaped portion 11. Openings 11L and 11R are formed on the left and right surfaces of the box-shaped portion 11, and the left opening 11L among them is
The width (or length) is smaller than that of the opening 11R on the right side, and the pusher 3 can be put in and taken out, but the patty P cannot be put in and taken out.

The container 1 is housed like a cartridge in a stocker 5 fixed in the freezer 4 and having a sectional shape slightly larger than the container 1. In the freezer 4, only the upper opening of the stocker 5 into and out of which the storage container 1 goes in and out is open to the outside.

The lifting device 2 comprises a motor 21, a pinion gear 22, upper and lower support units 23, a screw shaft 24, and a lifting arm 26 attached to the screw shaft 24 by a ball nut 25. The elevating arm 26 supports the bottom of the container 1 from below and raises it.
It is designed to descend. A vertical groove (not shown) is formed on the right side surface of the stocker 5, and the elevating arm 26 enters the inside of the stocker 5 through this groove to support the bottom of the container 1. It can be raised and lowered.

Since the container 1 can be detached from the lifting device 2, it can be taken out from the freezer 4 alone. Further, as described above, since the patty P cannot enter or exit the one opening 11L, the patty P inserted from the other opening 11R does not drop out from the one opening 11L. Therefore, when the empty container 1 is turned sideways with the one opening 11L facing downward, it is easy to put the patty P and carry it thereafter.

Next, the operation of this storage mechanism will be described. The container 1 in which the patties P are put in each box-shaped portion 11 is
First, it is set on the elevating arm 26 that has descended close to the bottom of the stocker 5. At this time, the entire container 1 is completely located in the freezer 4. Then, the motor 21 operates and the rotation thereof is transmitted to the screw shaft 24 through the pinion gear 22. Then, as the screw shaft 24 rotates, the elevating arm 26 attached to the ball nut 25 rises.

When one of the box-shaped portions 11 reaches the same height as the pusher 3 due to the raising of the container 1, the pusher 3 extends and enters from one opening 11L of the box-shaped portion 11 to enter the patty. P is pushed out and discharged from the other opening 11R. The pusher 3 may be extended to the extent that it is pulled out from the other opening 11R of the box-shaped portion 11. Patty P
When the discharge of the above is finished, the pusher 3 contracts and returns to the original state.

Although not shown, the discharged patties P are then placed on a conveyor belt and appropriately cooked while passing through various sections of the hamburger cooking device.
The seasoning is added and sandwiched between the buns to complete the hamburger.

The elevating device 2 temporarily stops its operation each time each box-shaped portion 11 reaches the same height as the extruder 3, and then restarts after the operation of the extruder 3 is completed. That is, the raising of the container 1 is intermittently performed with the height of one box-shaped portion 11 as one movement amount.

Since the pusher 3 is installed on the outer surface of the freezer 4, the patties P contained in each box-shaped portion 11 of the storage 1 have reached the same height as the pusher 3. For the first time, I will go out of the freezer 4. Therefore, the patty P is kept in a sufficiently cooled state until just before being ejected by the pusher 3.

As another embodiment of this food storage mechanism,
As shown in FIG. 3, a plurality of storage containers 1 are provided in one freezer 4.
And a set of lifting devices 2 may be included.
In this embodiment, a device 51 for covering the upper end of the stocker 5 so that the cold air in the freezer 4 does not escape when not in use.
Is attached. FIG. 4 is a plan view seen from directly above (the device 51 is omitted). Note that FIG. 3 shows a cross section perpendicular to the moving direction of the extruder.

[0028]

The present invention has the above-mentioned structure and has the following effects.

The food material storage mechanism of the present invention can smoothly take out the food materials stored in the respective box-shaped portions of the container in order.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of an embodiment of a food material storage mechanism according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing one of the box-shaped portions.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of another embodiment of the food material storage mechanism of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the other embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Storage device 3 Extruder 11 Box-shaped part 11L opening 11R opening P Foodstuff

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A mechanism for storing a plurality of foodstuffs while cooling the foodstuffs, comprising a storage container that moves in a vertical direction and an extruder that operates in a horizontal direction, and the storage container stores one foodstuff. It has a structure in which a plurality of box-shaped parts to be housed are vertically stacked.
An opening is formed on each of the left and right surfaces of the box-shaped portion, and the pusher is configured to enter through one of the openings and discharge the food material. 2. Food is cooled by a freezer capable of accommodating a container, and an extruder is attached to the outer surface of the freezer so that the container can be moved from the inside to the outside of the freezer. The food storage mechanism according to claim 1. 3. The food material storage mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the left and right openings of the box-shaped portion are formed to have mutually different sizes, and foodstuffs can enter and exit only through the larger one of the openings.