JPH08107752A - Food production unit - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a food production unit so designed that, in producing a food by rolling bean jam, etc., in a sheet-like dough, the rolling operation is made in a reasonable state to obviate possible swelling out of the bean jam due to dough breakage or possible pressing down and flattening of the food. CONSTITUTION: This food production unit is equipped with arms 13 turnable respectively around plural pivots 12 set up in a ring-shaped fashion and a cylinder 16 for mechanical power to simultaneously turn the arms 13. Each of the arms 13 has a mobile claw 19 at the tip, and the mobile claw 19 is provided with a food holding surface inside and is relatively movable in the longer direction.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a food manufacturing apparatus, and in particular, after wrapping a filling material inside a sheet-shaped flat pie dough or the like and molding the peripheral portion of the pie dough or the like, The present invention relates to a food manufacturing device as a single device used for manufacturing individual food products, or a food manufacturing device configured as a series of conveyor lines having these single devices.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional apparatus used for manufacturing foods as described above, there is a system shown in FIGS. FIG. 1 shows an example of a so-called pie confectionery manufacturing apparatus, which is an example of a single device incorporated in the manufacturing line of the conventional apparatus. 7 to 10, the pie dough 1 and the bean paste 2 placed thereon are placed on the belt 3 and are intermittently fed. The pie dough 1 is made into a square shape,
The corner portion 1a is lifted up to wrap the bean paste 2 around it. Therefore, the cam device 4 is provided below the belt 3 and the corners 1a of the pie crust 1 are lifted by the four rods 5 to wrap the bean jam as shown in FIG. Next, as shown in FIG. 9, pie dough 1
By pressing the stitching portion of the seam of the confectionery with the pressing plate 6, the shaping of the stitching portion and the shape of the confectionery are adjusted, and as shown in FIG. By performing a pressing operation as a finishing operation, the final molding of the confectionery before baking is completed. As is well known, the pie dough 1 is manufactured as a dough having a predetermined thickness by stacking thin layers of butter and Meriken powder in multiple layers, thereby forming a molded product,
Alternatively, it is used to wrap a filling material to make a confectionery.

[0003]

When food is produced by the above-mentioned conventional apparatus, the following problems occur.

A) Since the operation for wrapping the bean paste 2 from the surroundings by the four corners 1a of the pie dough is performed by the rod 5 pushed up from the lower surface of the belt 3 by the cam device, the pie dough is wrapped in the wrapping direction. Insufficient guidance and therefore incomplete finish.

B) When the pie dough is sewn together completely so that the bean jam 2 does not protrude to the outside of the pie dough, the pressing plate 6 presses down from the top at the stage of FIG. There is no choice but to do it strongly, but the stronger the pressing force, the flatter the shape of the confectionery. This is not a problem if the desired shape of the product is originally flat, but if not, in the conventional processing step, the shape of the confection is normalized, that is, not flat, but plump in height. Some form of realization is hopeless.

C) In the conventional method, at the final stage of the confectionery molding, as shown in FIG. 10, the confectionery is turned upside down and the pressing plate 7 is used to ensure the finished state of the stitched portion, and A step of shaping the outer shape is required, which makes the shape of the confectionery even flatter. Moreover, in addition to the step b), it is impossible to relieve the flattening of the outer shape of the confectionery and realize the normalization of the outer shape, or to impart an appropriate height to the confectionery in any of the steps. .

D) Originally, the appearance of the confectionery tends to respect the appearance that the waist circumference is gradually narrowed from the upper side to the lower side around the ground contact surface, and this tendency is particularly problematic in the world of Japanese confectionery. However, it is difficult to manufacture a confectionery that follows this tendency as long as the conventional apparatus is used.

The present invention has been made in view of the current state of the art as described above, and is intended to wrap the contents when wrapping the contents inside a sheet-shaped flat pie dough or the like to produce a food product. The operation of is done very naturally and in a reasonable condition, so that there is no fear that the pie dough will break and the internal contents will stick out, and it will be pressed by the pressing plate to prevent the pie dough from breaking. Since there is no need to do so, the shape of the food does not become flat, and it is possible to provide a food manufacturing apparatus capable of maintaining the shape of the food by contact with the outer peripheral surface of the food during the food manufacturing operation. It is an object.

[0009] Another object of the present invention is to provide a series of conveyor line type food producing apparatuses having a plurality of sets of food producing apparatuses from the upstream side to the downstream side, as a single device according to the present invention. An object of the present invention is to realize a food manufacturing apparatus which can be used as the purpose of the conveyor line by providing the food manufacturing apparatus as an object.

[0010]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, in the food manufacturing apparatus of the present invention, they are arranged in a ring shape so as to simultaneously perform the operation of clamping or releasing the outer peripheral surface of the food. The plurality of arms, each of which has a plurality of arms pivotally supported by the pivot portion to enable the operation, and a power supply unit for simultaneously performing the operation on the plurality of arms, Each has a movable claw at the tip, and the movable claw has a holding surface for contacting the outer peripheral surface of the food inside and is drilled in the vicinity of the tip of the arm using a screw rod erected at the upper end as a guide. The elongated hole allows the relative movement of the arm along the longitudinal direction.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the lower end of the movable claw is always between the lower surface of the movable claw and the surface of the food pedestal or the peripheral surface of the food by the relative movement of the movable claw along the longitudinal direction during the opening and closing operation of the plurality of arms. It may be configured to be able to maintain the contact state with the.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, an arrangement in which the plurality of arms pass through a point where the direction of the arms coincides with the direction of the gravity line during the operation from the position in the released state to the position for holding food. It may have been done.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a series of conveyor lines having a plurality of sets of food manufacturing apparatuses on the way of conveyor transportation from the upstream side to the downstream side.
It is also possible to provide the described food production device.

[0014]

In order to produce, for example, pie buns as an example of food by the apparatus according to claim 1, the pie dough placed on the concave pedestal located at the center of the apparatus and the top surface of the pie dough For the bean jam as the filling material supplied in the approximate center, until the movable claws at the tips of the arms are positioned on the circumference that can sufficiently contain the pie dough, with a plurality of arms equipped with the device. Place it in a spread state by power supply means. Next, by operating the power supply means, the arms are gathered in a direction of holding the central puff pastry, thereby causing the action of gathering the puff pastry from the periphery toward the center, and then maintaining that state. . Explaining the action mode of the movable claw at this time, the movable claw has a holding surface for contacting the outer peripheral surface of the food on the inside, and a screw rod erected at the upper end thereof serves as a guide in the vicinity of the tip of the arm. The long holes formed in the arm allow relative movement along the longitudinal direction of the arm.

Therefore, the pie crust is sandwiched in the centripetal direction from the peripheral surface by the holding surface inside the movable claw, and its action is forced by each arm that rotates around the pivot. Even if the locus of movement of the tip of the arm is an arc centered on the pivot, the movement of each movable claw itself is such that the screw rod erected at the upper end of the movable pawl is drilled in the arm as a guide. Since it is a flexible movement in the longitudinal direction due to the long hole, each movable claw holding the pie dough can move freely in the vertical direction within the range of the length of the long hole, and therefore the pie dough after molding The finished shape of (1) is not a shape crushed from the top and bottom, but a shape with a space in the vertical direction can be obtained. Moreover, the contact between the peripheral surface of the pie crust and the holding surface on the inner side of the movable claw continues throughout the pinching work by the arm, so that the molding action by the movable claw is extremely careful and continuous.

The lower end of the movable claw, which moves in the longitudinal direction during the opening and closing operation of the plurality of arms, is always between the pedestal surface of the pie dough or the food peripheral surface. If it is configured to be able to hold the contact state of the pie dough, the result of forming the pie dough with the movable claws is performed without any gap between the pie dough and the pie dough during the sandwiching work by the arms. It is possible to achieve a strict finish state in which the so-called hem does not spread over the dough, and the quality of the food is improved.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, during the operation of the plurality of arms from the position of the released state to the position of sandwiching the pie dough, the arms pass a point where the direction of the arms coincides with the gravity line direction. If the arrangement is such that it is possible to recognize the degree of inclination of the inner holding surface of the movable claw with respect to the gravity line direction before and after the point that coincides with the gravity line direction as a distribution point, the resulting food shape can be obtained. Prediction of
It helps identify the direction of the component force (force that pushes food up or down) that occurs when the food is pinched by the arm.

In a series of conveyor lines having a plurality of sets of food manufacturing apparatuses in the middle of a line for conveyor transportation from upstream to downstream, as in claim 4, claims 1 to 3 In order to equip the food manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1, the processing operation for the food being conveyed among the single devices required for the conveyor line is performed according to any one of claims 1 to 3.
One or a plurality of the above-described devices of the present invention may be added to a single device that requires the described configuration as needed.
As an example, a manufacturing process in a conveyor line type pie confectionery manufacturing apparatus will be described and described. At first,
The pie dough sent from the upstream side is cut by a cutting machine. Next, after transferring each piece of pie dough that was cut in the previous process onto a concave pedestal that was continuously arranged on a series of intermittently operated conveyor lines, drive the conveyor Intermittently move between the single devices installed in. As an example, the types of the single devices are listed in the order of arrangement: a) a pie dough forming machine for forming a depression in the pie dough on the pedestal in order to stably put the bean, b) a fixed amount feeder for the bean, c ) Bean forming machine d) Edge folding machine A e) Edge folding machine B f) Folding section holding machine Among the above, a), d) and e) are all for processing and forming pie dough. The functions are similar to each other, and in particular, d) and e) are performed only by shifting the directions of operation by 45 °, and the devices themselves are exactly the same.

[0019]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the device of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1 to 4 show an end folding device of the food manufacturing apparatus as a single device. The cylindrical main body 11 includes four pivotally supporting portions 12 evenly arranged on the lower end peripheral surface. An intermediate portion of the arm 13 is pivotally supported on the pivotal portion 12 by a pin 14 so as to be able to pivot about it. An upper end 15 of the arm 13 is sandwiched by a piston rod 17 of a cylinder 16 as a power supply means so as to be able to reliably transmit power, and a movable claw 19 is provided at the other end (lower) 18. The movable claw 19 has a holding surface 20 for contacting the outer peripheral surface of the food inside, and has a length drilled in the vicinity of the lower end 18 of the arm 13 using two screw rods 21 standing on the upper end thereof as guides. The hole 22 allows relative movement in the longitudinal direction with respect to the arm 13. At the lower end of the movable claw 19, there is provided a guide piece 23 which serves as a guide when the lower end of the movable claw 19 moves while moving while keeping contact with the food placing surface or the food peripheral surface. Has been.

The arm 13 is arranged to pass a point where the longitudinal line of the arm 13 coincides with the gravity line direction during the operation from the release position before the operation to the position where the food is clamped. Thereby, in the latter half of the operation in the clamping direction, the movable claw 19
Is trying to bind the sutured part of the pie dough by tightening the periphery of the food, a component force in the rising direction of the tightening force is generated, and as a result, the food is pulled up and the food after wrapping the bean jam It is something that tries to arrange the figure.

Next, with reference to the drawings, a detailed description will be given of the mode of operation in which the end portion of the pie dough is folded up and sewn up in the process of manufacturing the pie bun using the illustrated food manufacturing apparatus on a concave pedestal. To do. FIG. 1 shows a state in which one end 15 of the arm 13 is pushed down by the cylinder 16 and all the arms 13 are swung in the spreading direction. Thereby, the guide piece 23 at the lower end of the arm 13 is placed at a position outside the outer circumference of the pie dough on the pedestal. Further, the state of the pie steamed bun at this time is shown by the one-dot chain line in FIG.

Next, by pulling one end 15 of the arm 13 upward by the cylinder 16, all the arms 13 are
Swivel in the direction of concentration towards the centerline of the device. Thereby, the guide piece 23 at the lower end of the arm 13 moves toward the center in a manner of sliding on the upper surface of the pedestal. At the same time, when the lower surface of the guide piece 23 rides on the outer peripheral surface of the pie dough being formed while the state is changing, the movable claw 19 is pushed up and floats from the upper surface of the pedestal, and within the range allowed by the slot 22. While continuing to rise, narrow down the circumference of the pie dough into a purse-like pattern. The course of the action is shown in FIG. 1 (indicated by a chain line) and FIG. The action of the drawstring press is continued until the upper mouth of the pie dough is closed.

FIG. 5 shows a modification of the structure of the end folding machine of FIG. 1 for other purposes. The basic structure is almost different from that of FIG. There is no such thing. That is, the single device of FIG.
It is the equipment required for the front-to-back process of the edge folding machine in Fig. 1, and corresponds to the process before placing the bean paste on the pedestal 1 received on the pedestal, the center for receiving the bean paste This is for pre-forming the depressions of the pie dough. As a configuration therefor, a molding head 24 and a cylinder 25 for power to move the molding head 24 up and down are provided at a central position on the pedestal. Other configurations, such as a configuration in which the movable claw 19a can move in the vertical direction within the allowable range of the length of the elongated hole 22, are the same as those in the above-described embodiment.

FIG. 6 shows a pie-manju production line as an example of a conveyor line that is provided with a plurality of sets of food production equipment during the conveyor transportation from the upstream side to the downstream side. It shows an example in which the food manufacturing apparatus of the present invention is provided as a single device provided. The illustrated conveyor line is roughly divided into two groups, a pie dough cutting device and a pie bun manufacturing device. First, the upstream dough cutting device will be described. The dough sheet P is fed in the direction of arrow V and cut vertically by the vertical cutting cutter Q. Next, the horizontal cutting cutter R performs horizontal cutting, thereby forming a plurality of square pie doughs 1, 1, .... After transferring this in the direction of the arrow W to the pedestal arranged on the conveyor A of the adjacent molding device using a suction plate or the like,
The conveyor A is intermittently transferred in the direction of arrow X. Conveyor A
The first molding equipment installed around the machine is the depression molding machine B.
This is to form a central depression for receiving the bean paste on the puff pastry, which has been described in detail with reference to FIG. The equipment to be provided next is the bean jam feeder C, which supplies a fixed amount of bean jam to the central hollow formed by the hollow molding machine B. C1 is the first bean jam forming machine, D is the case engraving machine, and E is the second bean jam forming machine.

F is a primary edge folding machine, G is a secondary edge folding machine, and the construction of these single devices has been described in detail with reference to FIGS. is there. The structure of both folding machines is exactly the same, but the only difference between the two is that they are installed so that the relative positions of the food and the equipment on the projected view have a phase difference of 45 ° between them. Is. This means that when the four corners are folded up by the primary edge folding machine F, the secondary edge folding up next to the unprocessed corners generated in the middle is performed. With the machine G, the movable claw 19 is actuated in the direction of the phase difference of 45 °, and thereby the fine pitch folding operation is performed. Further, the suture portion pressing machine H provided on the downstream side is a pie manju that wraps the bean jam by gently pressing the suture portion carefully folded by the two folding machines from above with a pressing plate or the like. It is for performing the final finishing of.
After that, the finished pie manju is sent in the direction of arrow Y by the operation of the conveyor A.

In the above description of the embodiments, pie buns were taken as an example of food and the production thereof was mainly performed, but it goes without saying that it is not limited to pie buns. For example, after wrapping a filling material inside a sheet-like slightly soft and flat dough, and then molding the peripheral part of the dough, a single piece of equipment used for producing individual foodstuffs, or these It is needless to say that the present invention can be applied to a food manufacturing device configured as a series of conveyor lines having a single device.

[0027]

Since the food manufacturing apparatus of the present invention is constructed as described above, the following effects can be obtained.

1) According to a first aspect of the present invention, the mode of movement of each movable claw is a flexible movement in the longitudinal direction due to an elongated hole formed in an arm using a screw rod standing upright at its upper end as a guide. Therefore, the movable claw holding the pie dough is free to move up and down together with the pie dough within the length of the long hole, apart from the restriction by the arm, so the shape of the pie dough after molding is A shape having a space in the vertical direction can be obtained instead of the shape crushed from above and below as in the case of the conventional device. Moreover, the contact between the peripheral surface of the pie dough and the holding surface inside the movable claw continues throughout the pinching work by the arm, so the molding action by the movable claw is extremely careful,
Moreover, there is no fear that the pie dough will break or the contents will stick out from the place.

2) According to the second aspect of the present invention, the pie dough is molded by the movable claws by moving the pie dough with the lower surface of the pedestal surface or with the peripheral surface of the food product without a gap. On the other hand, the finished product has a strict shape that does not cause the so-called spread of the hem, and the quality of the food can be improved.

3) In claim 3, a point that coincides with the direction of the gravity line is used as a distribution point, and the degree of inclination of the inner holding surface of the movable claw before and after the distribution line can be recognized. Can be predicted and the direction of the component force (the force that pushes up or pushes down the food) generated when the food is pinched by the arm can be known. Therefore, based on that, there is an effect that it becomes easy to control the shape of the finished food product.

4) In claim 4, the effect provided by the single device described in each of the above items 1) to 3) can be directly used as the effect of the food production apparatus comprising the conveyor line provided with the single device. In addition to what can be done, by controlling the equipment used, the handling of the device can be simplified and
It is possible to contribute to the production of a small number of products in production.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing an embodiment of a food manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention.

2 is a cross-sectional view of the food manufacturing apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line III-III in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line IV-IV in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view showing a different embodiment of the food production apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a plan view showing the arrangement of a food manufacturing apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing an operation of a conventional device.

FIG. 8 is a front view of a main part for explaining the operation of the conventional device.

FIG. 9 is a front view of the main part for explaining the operation of the conventional device.

FIG. 10 is a front view of the main part for explaining the operation of the conventional device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A Conveyor B Dip forming machine C Filler feeding machine C1, E Filler forming machine D Wrapping and placing machine F, G Edge folding machine H Suture presser 1 Puff dough 1a Corner 2 Body 11 Main body 12 Pivot 13, 13a Arm 14 pin 15 one end 16,25 cylinder 17 piston rod 18 other end 19,19a movable claw 20 holding surface 21 screw rod 22 long hole 23 guide piece 24 molding head

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of arms each pivotally supported by a pivotal support portion arranged in a ring shape for simultaneously clamping or releasing the outer peripheral surface of the food product, and the plurality of arms. A plurality of arms are provided with power supply means for performing the above-mentioned operations all at once, and each of the plurality of arms has a movable claw at its tip, and the movable claws are inwardly contacted with the outer peripheral surface of the food. It is provided so that relative movement along the longitudinal direction of the arm is possible by means of a long hole formed near the tip of the arm by using a screw rod standing on the upper end portion thereof as a guide with a holding surface for Characteristic food manufacturing equipment. 2. The lower end of the movable claw is always between the surface of the food pedestal or the peripheral surface of the food by the relative movement of the movable claw along the longitudinal direction during the opening / closing operation of the plurality of arms. The food manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the food manufacturing apparatus is configured to be capable of holding the contact state of the food. 3. The plurality of arms are arranged so as to pass through a point where the direction of the arms coincides with the gravity line direction during the operation from the position in the released state to the position for holding food. The food manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2. 4. A series of conveyor lines comprising a plurality of sets of food production equipment on the way of conveyor transportation from upstream side to downstream side. Manufacturing equipment.