JPH0734693U - Fixed-quantity extrusion filling machine for side dish - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] To smoothly extrude a fixed quantity of a prepared food mixture containing a large amount of prepared food pieces such as vegetables or meat pieces of irregular length in a viscous material and fill it into a predetermined container in a square shape. A metering extrusion filling machine is provided. [Structure] A rectangular block 1 having oval through holes 1a and 1b is rotatably fitted with a fixed quantity rotor 2 obtained by hollowing out a fixed quantity box 2a capable of communicating with the through hole in a radial direction. Raw material supply hole 1c on one side of the block 1,
An air vent small hole 1d is bored on the other side, and when the fixed quantity container 2a is communicated with the raw material supply hole 1c by the rotation of the fixed quantity rotor 2, the kneading prepared dish 5 is press-fitted from the raw material supply pipe 4 to make the fixed quantity container 2a. Is communicated with the upper and lower oval through holes 1a and 1b, the kneading prepared dish 5 in the metering box 2a is pushed downward by the push-out piston 3 and is metered into a predetermined container 6.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial applications]

 The present invention relates to a quantitative extrusion filling machine for a side dish of a raw material for producing a fixed side dish molded product which is an intermediate product of a solid dried side dish such as an instant noodle.

[0002]

[Prior art]

 The solid dry side dish used as the ingredient for the instant noodles, etc., is prepared by cutting vegetables such as green onions, bean sprouts, carrots and meats such as char siu to an appropriate size, and using a viscous liquid such as starch paste or gelatin as a connecting medium. It is manufactured by molding into a fixed size prepared food product, which is an intermediate product, and rapidly freeze-drying this prepared prepared food product.

[0003] This fixed quantity prepared food product is prepared by extruding a viscous liquid prepared food kneaded product kneaded using starch paste, gelatin or the like as a connecting medium at a constant amount by a fixed amount extrusion filling machine arranged in multiple rows. It is manufactured by filling and molding in square containers arranged in rows.

Conventionally, a twin-screw screw extruder has been known as an extruder for a viscous material (see, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-210171), but a vegetable piece having irregular lengths in the viscous material is known. In the case of a prepared food kneaded product containing a large amount of prepared food pieces such as meat and meat pieces, there was a problem that the prepared food pieces were often entangled with the feed screw and stable continuous supply was difficult.

[0005]

[Problems to be solved by this device]

 The present invention was made to solve the above problems, and it is possible to smoothly extrude a fixed quantity of a prepared food mixture containing a large amount of prepared food pieces such as vegetable pieces and meat pieces of irregular length in a viscous material. Therefore, the present invention aims to provide a constant-rate extrusion filling machine capable of filling a predetermined container without dripping.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 The present invention provides a means for solving the above-mentioned problems. A rectangular block 1 having upper and lower oval through holes 1a and 1b is provided with a fixed volume 2a capable of communicating with the through holes 1a and 1b. The fixed volume rotor 2 hollowed out in the radial direction is rotatably inserted, and at the same time, one side surface of the rectangular block 1 is provided with a raw material supply hole 1c capable of communicating with the fixed volume 2a. Similarly, when an air vent small hole 1d that can communicate with the fixed volume 2a is bored and the fixed volume 2a becomes horizontal by the rotation of the fixed volume rotor 2 and communicates with the raw material supply hole 1c, the raw material supply pipe 4 When the kneading side dish 5 is press-fitted from the same and the metering box 2a is vertically rotated by the rotation of the metering box rotor 2 and communicates with the upper and lower oval through holes 1a and 1b, the kneading in the metering box 2a is performed by the extrusion piston 3. Side dish 5 down It is designed so that it can be fed out and filled in a shallow dish-shaped container 6 of a flat rectangular shape placed on a conveyor 7 that can move horizontally in synchronization with the vertical movement of the pushing piston 3. Starts when the tip of the kneading prepared dish 5 pushed out by a predetermined stroke of the extrusion piston 3 reaches the bottom surface of the container 6, and moves in the forward direction F in synchronization with the forward direction F at the same speed as the downward speed of the extrusion piston 3. The present invention is to provide a quantitative extrusion filling machine for prepared food kneading products, characterized in that when the extrusion piston 3 reaches the lower limit and starts to rise, it reverses and moves in the backward direction B synchronously.

[0007]

[Action]

 When the fixed volume rotor 2 is rotated and the fixed volume 2a is horizontal and one end communicates with the raw material supply hole 1c as shown in FIG. 1, when the kneading prepared dish 5 is pressed from the raw material supply pipe 4, the fixed volume 2a Since the other end is communicated with the air vent small hole 1d, the air in the fixed volume 2a is discharged from the air vent small hole 1d, and the kneading prepared dish 5 is smoothly press-fitted into the fixed volume 2a.

After the completion of the fixed amount press fitting, the fixed amount rotor 2 is rotated by 90 °, and when both ends of the fixed amount container 2a communicate with the upper and lower through holes 1a and 1b as shown in FIG. 2, the pushing piston 3 is lowered. As a result, the kneading prepared dish 5 in the fixed quantity container 2a can be extruded downward and filled in the shallow dish-shaped container 6 having a quadrangular plane.

[0009]

【Example】

 In the figure, 1 is a rectangular block having upper and lower oval through holes 1a and 1b, and 2 is a fixed volume rotor in which a fixed volume 2a that can communicate with the through holes 1a and 1b is hollowed out in the radial direction. It is rotatably inserted in the rectangular block 1. Reference numeral 2b is a drive shaft of the fixed volume rotor.

The rectangular block 1 is provided with a raw material supply hole 1c that is in communication with the fixed volume 2a on one side, and an air vent small hole that is also connected with the fixed volume 2a on the other side. 1d is drilled.

Reference numeral 3 denotes an extruding piston, which can be vertically moved up and down by a suitable drive device such as a rack and pinion or a hydraulic cylinder, and when the elliptical through holes 1a and 1b and the fixed volume 2a communicate with each other. The side dish kneaded material 5 in the fixed quantity box 2a can be pushed downward.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a raw material supply pipe connected to the raw material supply hole 1c, and the kneading prepared dish 5 is pressure-fed from a pressure tank (not shown).

Reference numeral 6 denotes a quadrangular shallow dish-shaped container, which is mounted on a conveyor 7 that moves in synchronization with the vertical movement of the extrusion piston 3 in the horizontal direction.

With the above-described structure, first, the fixed quantity rotor 2 is rotated through the drive shaft 2b by an appropriate driving means so that the fixed quantity box 2a becomes horizontal as shown in FIG. Position so that one end thereof communicates with the raw material supply hole 1c, and when the kneading prepared dish 5 is press-fitted from the raw material supply pipe 4, the other end of the quantitative volume 2a communicates with the air vent small hole 1d. As the kneading prepared food 5 is press-fitted, the air in the fixed quantity container 2a is discharged from the air vent small hole 1d, and the kneading prepared food 5 is smoothly inserted into the fixed quantity container 2a in a fixed amount.

After the fixed amount press-fitting is completed, when the fixed amount rotor 2 is rotated by 90 °, the kneading prepared dish 5 is cut into a fixed amount, and both ends of the fixed amount container 2a reach a position communicating with the upper and lower through holes 1a and 1b. At this position, when the pushing piston 3 is lowered as shown in FIG. 2, the kneading prepared dish 5 in the metering box 2a is pushed downward.

When a sensor (not shown) detects that the tip of the kneading prepared dish 5 in which the pushing piston 3 is lowered by a predetermined stroke and pushed out as shown in FIG. 2A has reached the bottom surface of the container 6. The proximity switch operates, the conveyor 7 starts, and synchronous movement in the forward direction F starts.

Since the descending speed of the extrusion piston 3 and the advancing speed of the conveyor 7 are synchronously operated at the same speed, the kneading prepared dish 5 is laid along the bottom surface of the container 6 as shown in FIG. It will be in a state of being. When the extrusion piston 3 reaches the lower limit and starts to rise, the conveyor 7 synchronously moves in the backward direction B, the kneading prepared dish 5 is separated from the extrusion piston 3 with sufficient drainage, and the container 6 is quantitatively filled.

[0018]

[Effect of device]

 According to the present invention, the kneaded prepared side dish 5 in the form of a viscous liquid containing a large amount of prepared side dishes such as prepared pieces such as vegetable pieces and meat pieces and having various lengths is extruded and filled without using a screw or a feeding blade. Since there are no protrusions in the device, the side dish does not get caught or clogged, and the fixed volume kneading side dish is simply rotated by rotating the fixed volume rotor 2 that has hollowed out the fixed volume 2a in the radial direction. Can be measured, and a fixed amount of the prepared food kneaded product can be constantly extruded and filled into a predetermined container 6.

The conveyor 7 on which the container 6 is placed is started when the extruding piston 3 descends by a predetermined stroke and the tip of the kneading prepared dish 5 that has been extruded reaches the bottom surface of the container 6, and is the same as the descending speed of the extruding piston. Since it moves synchronously in the forward direction at a speed, the kneaded prepared food extruded is filled in a state of lying along the bottom surface of the shallow dish-shaped container 6 having a flat rectangular shape without rising.

When the extruding piston reaches the lower limit and the extruding is completed and starts to rise, the conveyor 7 is inverted and moves synchronously in the backward direction B, so that the kneading adhering to the extruding piston 3 is performed. The side dish 5 is separated so that it can also be scraped off, and can be filled into a shallow dish-shaped container 6 having a regular shape and a flat rectangular shape.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the structure of the present invention, in which (a) is a vertical front view and (b) is a vertical side view.

2A and 2B are explanatory diagrams showing an extrusion filling state, in which FIG. 2A shows a situation at the beginning of filling a container, and FIG. 2B shows a situation at the end of filling.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Rectangular Block 1a Oval Through Hole (Upper Hole) 1b Oval Through Hole (Lower Hole) 1c Raw Material Supply Hole 1d Air Vent Hole 2 Quantitative Rotor 2a Quantitative Assist 2b Drive Shaft 3 Extrusion Piston 4 Raw Material Supply Pipe 5 Kneading Prepared Food 6 Container 7 conveyor

Claims (2)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A rectangular block (1) having upper and lower oval through holes (1a) (1b), the through hole (1a)
The fixed quantity rotor (2), which is obtained by hollowing out the fixed quantity box (2a) that can communicate with (1b), is rotatably inserted and
On one side of the rectangular block (1), the quantitative measure (2
a) is provided with a raw material supply hole (1c) which can be communicated, and the other side surface is also provided with an air vent small hole (1d) which is also communicable with the fixed volume (2a), and the fixed volume rotor (2). ), When the fixed quantity box (2a) becomes horizontal and communicates with the raw material supply hole (1c), the kneading prepared dish (5) is press-fitted from the raw material supply pipe (4), and also the fixed quantity rotor (2). When the fixed quantity box (2a) is vertically connected to the upper and lower oval through-holes (1a) (1b) by the rotation of, the kneading side dish (5) in the fixed quantity box (2a) is pushed by the extrusion piston (3). Are pushed downward and are filled in a shallow flat dish container (6) mounted on a conveyor (7) which is horizontally movable in synchronism with the vertical movement of the pushing piston (3). A fixed-quantity extrusion filling machine for side dishes. 2. The conveyor (7) comprises an extrusion piston (3).
Is started when the tip of the kneaded prepared food (5) pushed down by a predetermined stroke reaches the bottom surface of the container (6) and synchronized with the forward direction (F) at the same speed as the descending speed of the extrusion piston (3). 2. The quantitative extrusion filling machine for a prepared food kneading article according to claim 1, wherein when the extrusion piston (3) reaches the lower limit and starts to rise, the extrusion piston (3) reverses and synchronously moves in the reverse direction (B).