JPH0789844B2 - Sausage transfer device - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sausage transfer device suitable for feeding a smoked sausage in a sausage production step to the next step, that is, to a drum cutter for individually separating chained sausages. Regarding

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Smoked processing of wiener sausage is carried out by arranging a hanging bar of a series of sausages connected in a chain in a loop and arranging them on a transfer carriage in a plurality of stages.
The transfer cart is carried into a smoking room and smoked. Then, the smoked chain-like sausages are put into a drum cutter for individual separation.

Conventionally, the transfer of chained sausages hung on the hooking rod in this manner has been dependent on human labor, so that a lot of human labor is required. Moreover, the chained sausages hung on the hooking rods must be thrown into the drum cutter so that they do not get entangled with each other, which makes the work difficult and hard work.

[0004]

Various attempts have been made to automate in order to save labor in the above-mentioned chain-shaped sausage transfer process, but none have been achieved yet.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and completely automates the process of transferring a chain of sausages hung from a hook bar, and transfers a plurality of hooks from a transfer carriage. An object of the present invention is to provide a sausage transfer device capable of efficiently carrying out a hook bar in sequence and efficiently transferring a chain of sausages to the next step without being entangled with the hook bar.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, in the sausage transfer device according to the present invention, a hook bar in which a series of chained sausages is suspended in a loop is fixed in a horizontal direction. For suspending the hooking bars individually from a transfer carriage that is suspended in parallel at a certain interval and is accommodated in a plurality of stages at a constant interval in the vertical direction, and transfers the catching rods to the next step. An apparatus, which is composed of an upper frame and both side frames, in which the transfer carriage can be loaded and unloaded, and which is a gate-shaped machine frame which is stopped at a predetermined position, and a pair of unloading units which can be vertically moved along the both side frames. Both of the carrying-out arms have an arm and lift the hooking rod groups of the respective stages housed in the transfer carriage in a posture in which the horizontal fixed intervals are maintained, and at the same time to the front side of the machine frame. It is provided to send out at intervals And a pair of receiving members provided on both front sides of the machine frame so as to be vertically movable, and both receiving members are sent to the front side of the machine frame by the progressive means. Of the machine frame, the transfer means being provided so as to move to a transfer position near the upper frame of the machine frame, and a support member movable horizontally along the upper frame, The chuck attached to the support member is provided such that its chuck claw can be displaced from a horizontal posture to a vertical posture and is rotatable about an axis, and the chuck bar of the hook bar moved to the delivery position by the delivery means. After gripping one end with the chuck claws and moving the chuck together with the support member to the side of the machine frame in the horizontal direction, the chuck claws are displaced in a vertical posture and the hook bar is suspended. Characterized in that a movable chuck means that.

[0007] Further, there is a scraping claw which is arranged on the front side of the machine frame and is movable up and down, and the scraping claw is held by the movable chuck means in a suspended state. It is preferable to attach a scraping means provided so as to scrape off the sausages connected in a chain while descending along the rod.

[0008]

With the above structure, when the transfer carriage is loaded into the machine frame and stopped at a predetermined position, the forward feeding means and the delivery means are activated to suspend the chain-shaped sausage. The rods are automatically carried out one by one from the transfer carriage, moved to a predetermined transfer position, and are horizontally moved while gripping the ends of the rods by the chuck and rotating around their axes. . The hook bar that has moved horizontally to a predetermined position is displaced to a vertical posture while being held by the chuck, and is rotated around its axis even in this vertical posture. On the other hand, the scraping claw descends along the hanging bar in a hanging state, and scrapes off the sausages connected in a chain,
Send to the next process. The hooked sausage scraped off is returned to the original gripping position in the vertical posture by the chuck, and then dropped into the storage box installed on the front side of the machine frame. And then housed.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 3 show a sausage transfer device according to the present invention. The machine frame 1 is formed in a gate shape by the upper frame 2 and the both side frames 3 and 3, and the transfer carriage 5 that hangs and holds the wiener sausage S connected to the smoked chain is the machine frame 1 It can be carried in and out freely. On both side frames 6 and 6 of the transfer trolley 5, receiving casks 7 and 7 facing each other are arranged in a plurality of stages at regular intervals in the vertical direction. As shown in FIG. 2, a large number of recess receiving portions 8 are provided at regular intervals P. Then, a series of sausages S connected in a chain are suspended in a loop shape, and both ends of the hooking bar 10 are spanned between the recessed receiving portions 8 facing each other so as to be supported. Are suspended in parallel with each other at a constant interval P in the horizontal direction on each of the receiving boards 7, 7 and are accommodated in a plurality of steps at regular intervals in the vertical direction. Further, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the transfer carriage 5 carried into the machine casing 1 is stopped at a predetermined position at the rear of the both side frames 3 and 3 of the machine casing 1.
Clamping claws 11, 11 for fixing are provided. The clamp claw 11 is operated by an air cylinder 12 into a clamp position and an unclamp position.

A progressive feeding device 20 for sequentially feeding the hooking rod 10 suspended from the transfer carriage 5 to the front side of the machine frame 1 is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 4, vertically movable support members 22 and 22 are provided along the guide rails 21 and 21 provided on the rear sides of the side frames 3 and 3, and the linear guides 2 are attached to the support members 22 and 22.
3, a pair of carry-out arms 24, 24 supported movably in the horizontal direction. Both carry-out arms 24, 24 are arranged inside the both side frames 3, 3 of the machine frame 1,
It is located inside both side frames 6 and 6 of the transfer carriage 5 carried into the machine frame 1 (see FIG. 1). Each support 22 has a side frame 3
Is connected to a chain 27 hung between a driving wheel 25 and a driven wheel 26, which are pivotally supported at the upper and lower ends thereof, via a connecting piece 28. Moves up and down along the guide rail 21 by a predetermined distance. The carry-out arm 24 is formed of an elongated plate-like body, and has a plurality of locking pins 30 on its upper surface.
Are provided at regular intervals in the longitudinal direction, and a receiving portion 31 for supporting the hooking rod 10 is formed between the locking pins 30. The receiving portion 31 is provided on the receiving rod 7 of the transfer carriage 5. It is provided at a constant interval P so as to correspond to the recessed receiving portion 8 (see FIG. 4). The carry-out arm 24 is reciprocally moved in the horizontal direction by a distance corresponding to the constant interval P of the receiving portion 31 by the air cylinder 32 attached to the support body 22. Then, as shown by the arrow in FIG. 4, by the vertical reciprocating motion of the support 22 and the horizontal reciprocating motion of the carry-out arm 24, the carrier 22 is accommodated in the transfer carriage 5, and the receiving members 7 of each stage are
7. The both ends of the group of hooking rods 10 supported by the recessed receiving portions 8 of 7 are supported by the receiving portions 31 of the two carrying-out arms 24, 24, and are lifted in a posture maintaining a constant horizontal interval P between them. It is sent out to the front side of the machine casing 1 at regular intervals P.

As described above, the hooking bar 10 is sequentially delivered to the front side of the machine frame 1 by the two delivery arms 24, 24.
The delivery device 35 that receives and moves to a delivery position near the upper frame 2 includes a pair of receiving members 36, 36. Both receiving members 36, 36 have V-shaped receiving portions 37, 37 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 4. Each of the receiving members 36 has a driving wheel 3 pivotally supported at both upper and lower ends of the front portion of the side frame 3.
8 and a driven wheel 39, which is attached to a mounting plate 41 connected to a chain 40 and movably in the lateral direction via a guide post 42, and fixed by an air cylinder 43 fixed to the mounting plate 41. When the transfer carriage 5 is carried in and out of the machine frame 1, when the transfer carriage 5 is moved back and forth in the lateral direction, it is retracted to the standby position shown by the solid line in FIG. To the operating position indicated by the phantom line. Then, when both receiving members 36, 36 are in the operating position, as shown in FIG. 4, both ends of the hooking bar 10 sequentially sent out to the front side of the machine frame 1 by the two carrying-out arms 24, 24 are placed in both receiving portions. 37, 37 is supported to receive the hook bar 10. On the other hand, by rotating the drive wheel 38 forward and backward by the servo motor 44 (see FIG. 1), the receiving member 36 is passed through the chain 40 and the mounting plate 41.
Is designed to move up and down. Both receiving members 36,
36 is stopped at the receiving position opposite to the two carry-out arms 24, 24, and after the hook bar 10 is received by the both receiving members 36, 36 as described above, the both receiving members 36, 36 are raised to raise the machine frame 1 The hook bar 10 is moved to the delivery position near the upper frame 2.

At the delivery position near the upper frame 2, the hook bar 1
A movable chuck device 45 that holds 0 and conveys it to the next step is provided. As shown in FIGS. 5 to 7, the movable chuck device 45 is arranged in parallel to the upper frame 2 on the front side of the machine frame 1 and outside the one side frame 3 (right side of FIG. 1). A guide rail 46 extending to one side, a movable base 47 movable along the guide rail 46, and a movable base 47.
A support plate 48 fixed to the front of the machine frame 1 and extending below the support plate 48 via a linear guide 49.
6 and a movable bracket 50 movably attached to the front side of the machine casing 1. The movable base 47, as shown in FIG.
Chains 51 pivoted on both ends of the chain
The movable base 47 is reciprocally moved along the guide rail 46 by driving the chain 52 via the drive wheels 54 connected to the electric motor 53. In addition, the movable bracket 50 is the movable base 4
An air cylinder 55 fixed to the lower part of 7 can be moved along the linear guide 49 toward the front side of the machine frame 1 by a predetermined distance.

An attachment frame 56 of the chuck 60 and an air cylinder 57 for reversing the chuck are attached to the movable bracket 50. As shown in FIG. 7, the mounting frame 56 is rotatably supported by a supporting member 50a fixed to the movable bracket 50, and a supporting shaft 58 fixedly protruding sideways is rotatably supported by the supporting frame 58a. A rod 57a of a reversing air cylinder 57 is pivotally connected to the connected and fixed arm 59, and the mounting frame 56 can be reversed by 90 degrees with the support shaft 58 as a fulcrum by the air cylinder 57.

The chuck 60 has a chuck claw 61 in the front part thereof, and a support shaft 62 fixedly provided in the rear part of the chuck claw and fixed coaxially with the axis line of the chuck claw 61 is arranged so that the axis line thereof is orthogonal to the axis line of the support shaft 58. And is rotatably supported by the mounting frame 56, and an arm 63 is fixed to the support shaft 62. The arm 63 is a rod 6 of the rotating air cylinder 64 mounted on the mounting frame 56.
4a is pivotally connected to the air cylinder 64 so that the chuck 60 can be rotated about the support shaft 62 by 90 degrees.

Thus, as described above, both receiving members 36, 3
The end of the hook bar 10 moved to the delivery position near the upper frame 2 of the machine frame 1 by 6 is gripped by the chuck claw 61. When the chuck claw 61 grips the hook bar 10, both receiving members 3
6, 36 descend, and subsequently, the air cylinder 55 operates to move the chuck 60 together with the movable bracket 50 to the front side so as to separate from the machine frame 1, and then the movable table 47 moves laterally along the guide rail 46. The hook rod 10 that has moved and is interlocked with this and laterally moves to a position A on the outer side of the machine casing 1 shown by the phantom line in FIG. 1 while maintaining the horizontal posture. At this time, the rotating air cylinder 64 reciprocates to rotate the chuck 60 forward and backward about its axis, and the hook bar 10 held by the chuck claws 61 rotates forward and backward around its axis to suspend it. Shaped sausage S
Is not entangled with the hook bar 10. Subsequently, the reversing air cylinder 57 is operated, the mounting frame 56 is reversed by 90 degrees, the chuck 60 is swung to the vertical position B shown by the phantom line in FIG. 1, and the hook bar 10 gripped by the chuck claw 61 is directed downward. The sausage S, which is in the vertical posture and is suspended from the hook bar 10, falls by its own weight. Also at this time, the chuck 60 is normally and reversely rotated so that the falling sausage S does not get entangled with the hook bar 10.

A scraping device 65 is provided on the side of the machine frame 1 in order to reliably separate and drop the sausage S from the hook bar 10 in the vertical posture. The scraping device 65 includes a column 66 standing upright outside the one side frame 3 (right side in FIG. 1) of the machine frame 1 in parallel with the side frame 3, and the column 66 is provided with a support rod 67 on the side. It is fixed to the frame 3. Chain wheels 68 and 69 are pivotally supported at both upper and lower ends of the support column 66, and a scraping claw 72 is provided on a bracket 71 attached to a chain 70 stretched between the chain wheels 68 and 69. By rotating one of them forward and backward with an electric motor (not shown), the scraping claw 72 moves up and down along the column 66 via the chain 70.

The scraping claw 72 is formed in a U shape in plan view as shown in FIG. 3, and is attached to the front side of the machine frame 1 by an air cylinder 73 fixed to the bracket 71. As described above, when the chuck 60 is reversed to the vertical position B and the catch bar 10 held by the chuck claw 61 is in the downward vertical posture, the scraping claw 72 is moved forward by the air cylinder 73 to the catch bar 10. Engage,
The chain-shaped sausage S is scraped off while descending along the hook bar 10. The scraping device 6
A sausage feeding conveyor 75 is disposed below the device 5.

Next, the operation of the sausage transfer device having the above structure will be described. First, a large number of hook bars 10 in which smoked chain-like sausages are suspended in a loop shape.
A transfer carriage 5 in which a plurality of stages are arranged and suspended is a machine frame 1
It is carried in and stopped / fixed at a predetermined position by the clamp claws 11, 11. At this time, both transfer arms 24, 24 of the progressive feeding device 20 are located at the lowermost position shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. In this state, by the vertical reciprocating motion of the support 22 and the horizontal reciprocating motion of the carry-out arm 24 as described above, the two carry-out arms 24, 24 repeat the vertical motion and the horizontal reciprocating motion as shown by the arrow in FIG. Then, both ends of the group of hooking rods 10 supported by the recessed receiving portions 8 of the lower receiving ledges 7, 7 of the transfer carriage 5 are connected to the receiving portions 31 of the two unloading arms 24, 24.
Supported by ... and lifted up in a posture in which the horizontal constant distance P is maintained, and at the same time, the constant distance P toward the front side of the machine frame 1.
Send each one out. On the other hand, both receiving members 3 of the delivery device 35
Reference numerals 6 and 36 denote postures in which they are moved to the inner working positions shown by the phantom lines in FIG. 1, and as shown in FIG.
It has stopped at a position opposite to No. 4. Then, the catch bar 10 at the foremost position, which is sent out to the front of the machine casing 1 by the carry-out arms 24, 24, is supported by the both receiving portions 37, 37, and the two receiving members 36, 36 receive the catch rod 10. Both of the receiving members 36, 36 that have received the hook bar 10 move up to move the hook bar 10 to the delivery position near the upper frame 2. At this position, the chuck 60 of the movable chuck device 45 slightly moves to the right in FIG. 1, and the chuck claw 61 grips the end portion of the hooking bar 10. When the chuck claw 61 grips the hook bar 10, both receiving members 36, 36 descend, and the next hook bar 10 moves.
To prepare for the receiving operation.

On the other hand, the chuck 60 is attached to the movable bracket 50.
Along with the movable base 47, the movable bar 47 moves laterally along the guide rail 46, and then the hook bar 10 held by the chuck claws 61 moves in a horizontal position. 1 is laterally moved to a position A on the outer side of the machine casing 1 shown by a virtual line in FIG. At this time,
The rotating air cylinder 64 operates to rotate the chuck 60 forward and backward about its axis, and the hook bar 10 held by the chuck claw 61 rotates forward and backward 90 degrees about its axis.
The rotation of the hook bar 10 prevents the chain-shaped sausage S from sticking to the hook bar 10 and becoming entangled. Then, the reversing air cylinder 59 is actuated, the chuck 60 turns to the vertical position B shown by the phantom line in FIG.
The catch bar 10 gripped by the user is displaced to a downward vertical posture.
In this suspended state, the sausage S suspended on the hook bar 10 falls by its own weight, but the hook bar 10 is continuously rotated forward and backward so that the falling sausage S does not get entangled with the hook bar 10. Further, when the hooking bar 10 held by the chuck claw 61 is in the downward vertical posture, the scraping claw 72 engages with the hooking bar 10 as described above,
The chain-shaped sausage S is quickly and surely scraped off while descending along. The chain-shaped sausage S dropped from the hook bar 10 is transferred by a conveyor 75 to a drum cutter (not shown) in the next step. The catch bar 10 on which the sausage S has fallen is returned to the delivery position in a vertical posture by the chuck 60, is then released from the chuck claw 61, and is placed in the storage box 7 installed on the front side of the machine frame 1.
It falls in 6 and is accommodated. Thereafter, the same operation as described above is repeated, and when all the lowermost hooking rod groups 5 of the transfer carriage 5 are carried out, both carry-out arms 24, 24 are raised to the next stage,
By repeating the same operation as described above again, the group of hooking rods 10 suspended on the relevant stage is sequentially sent out to the front side of the machine frame 1 and transferred to the next step.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention,
A large number of hook rods in which chain-shaped sausages are suspended in a loop are arranged in a plurality of stages, and each hook rod is sequentially carried out from a transfer carriage and the sausage is separated from the hook rods for the next step. The process of transferring to can be completely automated and labor can be saved. In particular, by rotating the hook bar gripped by the chuck around its axis, it is possible to effectively prevent the chained sausages from being entangled with the hook bar, and transfer the chained sausage extremely efficiently and reliably. be able to. Further, it is more effective to provide a scraping device that descends along the hooking bar that is inverted to the hanging state.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a sausage transfer device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a left side view of the same.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of the same.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged side view showing a main part of the progressive feeding device.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged front view showing a main part of a movable chuck device.

FIG. 6 is a plan view of the main part.

FIG. 7 is a side view of the main part.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing a reversing operation of the movable chuck device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Machine Frame 2 Upper Frame 3 Side Frame 5 Transfer Cart 10 Clamping Rod 11 Clamping Claw 20 Progressive Feeding Device 24 Carrying Out Arm 35 Transfer Device 36 Receiving Member 37 Receiving Part 45 Movable Chuck Device 60 Chuck 61 Chuck Claw 65 Scraping Device 72 Scratch Claw 75 Conveyor for input 76 Storage box

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A hook bar having a series of chain-shaped sausages suspended in a loop is suspended in parallel at regular intervals in the horizontal direction and at a constant interval in the vertical direction. A device for individually carrying out the above-mentioned hooking rods from a transfer carriage that is housed in a plurality of stages and transferring them to the next step, which is composed of an upper frame and both side frames, and the transfer carriage is carried in and out. And a pair of unloading arms that are freely movable and stopped at a predetermined position, and a pair of unloading arms that can move up and down along the side frames, and both unloading arms are housed in the transfer carriage. The hoisting rod group of each stage is lifted in a posture in which the horizontal fixed intervals are maintained, and the forward feeding means is provided so as to send out the fixed intervals to the front side of the machine frame, and both front portions of the machine frame. A pair of receiving parts that are vertically movable So that both of the receiving members support the both ends of the hooking rod that has been sent to the front side of the machine frame by the forward feeding means, and move to the delivery position near the upper frame of the machine frame. The chuck attached to the support member has a transfer means provided and a support member that is movable in the horizontal direction along the upper frame, and the chuck claw of the chuck can be displaced from the horizontal posture to the vertical posture, and It is rotatably provided around the axis and grips one end of the hook bar moved to the transfer position by the transfer means with the chuck claw, and the chuck together with the support member extends to the side of the machine frame. A sausage transfer device, comprising: a movable chuck means that moves the chuck claw to a vertical position after moving the chuck bar in a horizontal direction to suspend the hook bar. 2. A scraping claw which is disposed laterally of a front portion of the machine frame and which is movable up and down, and the scraping claw includes:
The scraping means is provided so as to scrape off the sausages connected in a chain while descending along the hooking bar held in a suspended state by the movable chuck means. The sausage transfer device described. 3. The machine frame is provided with clamp means for stopping and fixing the transfer carriage at a predetermined position.
Or the sausage transfer device described in 2. 4. The sausage transfer device according to claim 1, wherein a storage box for the hooking bar is installed on a side of a front portion of the machine casing.