JPH08140556A - Noodle forming device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a noodle forming device in which a noodle can be supported and conveyed with a simplified mechanical constitution by utilizing the existing driving source and by which the workers are prevented from dangers. CONSTITUTION: The roller pairs 14A-14E equipped with a couple of rollers 12, 13 are supported with a frame 11 rotatably in a row. An endless belt 23 supporting and conveying the noodle flowing from the roller pairs 14 on the upper stream side is set between the roller 12 in the roller pairs 14 on the upper stream side and a subroller 21 set on the inlet side of the roller pairs 14 on the downstream side and a subroller 22 set below the roller 13. This belt 23 is driven by the roller 12 rotated by an electric motor 31.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for forming noodle strips, which is obtained by mixing wheat flour, salt, and other raw materials and kneading them into a strip having a desired thickness.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an apparatus of this type has a plurality of pairs of rolls arranged in the traveling direction of noodle strips,
The dough kneaded and kneaded with salt and other raw materials is gradually formed into a strip-shaped noodle strip while passing between the pair of rolls, and the noodle strip is rolled to a desired thickness.

Here, in the above apparatus, if a plurality of roll sets are simply arranged in a row in the traveling direction of the noodle strips, the leading end of the noodle strips sent from the upstream roll set is placed at the downstream thereof. The work of introducing into the roll set on the side, or the work of introducing the tip of the subsequent noodle strip into the next roll set when the noodle strips are cut midway while passing through multiple roll sets, is done by the operator's hand. It must be made. However, during operation of the device, each roll set is rotating at a high speed, and therefore, when introducing the noodle band between the roll sets with fingers, there is a risk that the fingers will be caught and injured. Accompany it.

Therefore, the inventor of the present invention, for example, has taken the advantage of
The above-mentioned inconvenience is attempted to be solved in "Noodle band transporting device for noodle strip rolling device" of Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 38719 and "Noodle band supporting device for noodle strip rolling device" of Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 53-51919. That is, Jitsuko Sho 53-3871
According to Japanese Patent Publication No. 9, the endless conveyor device is mounted so as to face between the roll set on the upstream side and the roll set on the downstream side of the plurality of roll sets, and the endless conveyor device is vertically moved. By making it swingable, the endless conveyor device is swung upward at the time of introduction, and the noodle strips are automatically introduced between the roll sets. On the other hand, actual public Sho 53
In JP-A-51919, a pressing body that rotates only in the same direction as the upper roll of the rolls forming a roll set is used, and a lever having one end pivotally supporting the pressing body is mounted on the upper surface of the lower roll. It is installed so as to advance and retreat toward the back and forth, and this forward and backward is configured to be performed by a forward and backward drive device such as an air cylinder connected to the other end of the lever, so that after introducing the tip of the noodle strip between the roll sets, The pressing body can press and support the tip of the noodle strip.

[0005]

However, although the above-mentioned conventional device can certainly avoid the danger of the worker by its action, in addition to the endless conveyor device, the pressing body, the lever and the forward / backward drive device, However, since these drive sources also have to be individually installed, there are drawbacks that the entire apparatus becomes large and complicated, and the facility cost is promoted. Therefore, it is desired to provide a device having a further simplified configuration while ensuring the avoidance of the above-mentioned dangers, but such a device is not provided at present.

[0006] The present invention has been made in order to achieve the above-mentioned requirements, and the purpose thereof is to prevent the danger of the worker and to make noodles with a simple structure using an existing drive source. An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for forming a noodle band that can support and convey the band.

[0007]

The apparatus for forming noodle strips according to the present invention has a plurality of roll sets, each of which is provided with a pair of rolls to which a rotational driving force is transmitted, arranged in a line, and the noodle sets are arranged in these rows. In an apparatus for continuously forming a belt to a predetermined thickness, one roll of the upstream roll set and a driven roll provided on the inlet side of the next downstream roll set are provided with the upstream side. The endless belt that supports and conveys the noodle band that has passed through the roll set is erected endlessly, and this belt is driven by the rolls of the upstream roll set.

[0008]

According to the apparatus for forming noodle strips of the present invention, a noodle strip formed into a strip having a predetermined thickness after passing through the upstream roll set (a pair of rolls) is ,
While being supported on the belt, it is conveyed to the roll set on the downstream side. Therefore, the noodle band rolled by the roll set is rolled by the belt surface and the other roll surface because the belt is wound on one roll, but the belt is on the back side of the one roll. Because of this, it is practically rolled by both rolls. by this,
The belt desirably has a smooth surface, and a belt having a low rolling rate is suitable. Further, since this belt is driven (endless motion) by the rolls of the roll set on the upstream side, it is not necessary to provide other special drive equipment.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing an example of an apparatus for forming noodle strips according to the present invention, and a noodle machine 3 including a noodle strip rolling apparatus indicated by reference numeral 1 and a noodle band manufacturing apparatus indicated by 2 is an instant noodle or the like. It is incorporated as a part of the noodle production line and is installed on the downstream side of the noodle strip production apparatus shown by reference numeral 4.

The construction of the noodle machine 3 will be described below. First, the noodle strip rolling apparatus 1 is provided in the upper part of the machine frame 11 and is provided with a pair of rolling rolls 12 and 13 (this is a roll set 1).
4) are rotatably supported in a state of being opposed to each other, and in this example, five rolls (rolls 14A to 14A) are arranged in a line in the traveling direction of the noodle strips to be rolled.
14E) is provided. In addition, the rolling rolls 12, 13
Gaps are formed between them, and a belt 23, which will be described later, is interposed between them, and the rolling portion of the noodle band is configured between the surface of the belt 23 and the rolling roll 13. The thickness of this rolling part gradually decreases as it is located on the downstream side of the five roll sets 14, whereby the noodle strips are gradually rolled and passed through the most downstream roll set 14E. It is formed to have a desired thickness.

Rolls 12, 12 forming a roll set 14
Among them, the rolling roll 12 (one of the pair of rolls) located on the upstream side in the traveling direction and on the lower side in the vertical direction,
As shown in FIG. 2, flanges are provided at both ends thereof, and the rolling rolls 13 positioned on the downstream side in the traveling direction and on the upper side in the vertical direction are located inside the flanges. Furthermore, these rolling rolls 12,
Each of the support shafts 13 is provided with support shafts 12a to 13b projecting axially outward from both end surfaces.
A bearing 15 is fitted on each of a to 13b. The outside of the bearing 15 is supported by a bearing case 16, and the bearing case 16 is used for the machine frame 1.
By being fixed to 1, the rolling rolls 12 and 13 are rotatably supported by the machine frame 11.

Of the support shafts 12a to 13b, the support shaft 1 on one end surface side (right side in FIG. 2) of the rolling rolls 12 and 13
2a and 13a are projected to the outside of the machine frame 11, and gears 17 are meshed with the protruding portions of the respective gears, and the support shaft 12a is further sprocketed to the protruding portions outside the gear 17. 18 is externally fitted. Here, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, a driven roll 21 is rotatably supported by the machine frame 11 at both ends on the entrance side of each roll set 14 with an axis parallel to the axial direction of the roll set 14. In addition, below the rolling roll 13, a driven roll 22 different from the driven roll 21 is also rotatably supported by the machine frame 11. And these driven rolls 2
1, 22 and the rolling roll 12, the rolling roll 1
A belt 2 having a width substantially the same as the length of the longitudinal direction 2 and 13
3 is erected endlessly. The belt 23 performs endless motion as the rolling roll 12 rotates,
A predetermined gap is provided between the surface of the belt 23 and the surface of the roll 13 in the rolling portion of each roll set 14, and this gap is gradually narrowed toward the downstream side in the roll sets 14A to 14E. FIG. 4 shows an example of a cross section of the belt 23. In the center of the belt 23, a band-shaped Kepler core body 23a made by weaving or knitting Kepler fibers is arranged, and the Kepler core body 23a is covered so as to cover the Kepler core body 23a. It has a Teflon coating 23b and has particularly good compressive strength (for example, "resin belt" product number NS15FK manufactured by Mitsuboshi Co., Ltd.).

On the other hand, a drive motor 31 is installed in the lower part of the machine casing 11, and the drive of the drive motor 31 causes the roll set 14 to rotate synchronously. The output shaft of the drive motor 31 has two sprockets 31
a, 31b are fixed, and the five roll sets 14A are mounted on the machine casing 11 above the drive motor 31.
Rotating shafts 32A to 32E are pivotally supported so as to be parallel to the roll set 14 in correspondence with each of the to 14E.
A predetermined number of sprockets are fixed to the respective rotary shafts 32A to 32E at predetermined positions. Particularly, the drive motors are provided on the rotary shafts 32A and 32B corresponding to the two roll sets 14A and 14B on the upstream side. The sprockets 32A ₁ and 32B ₁ located in the same vertical plane as the sprockets 31a and 31b of 31 are fixed, and the chains 33 and 34 are suspended on the sprockets 32A ₁ and 32B ₁ , respectively. It is adapted to be directly transmitted to 32A and 32B.

Further, four roll sets 14B-1 on the downstream side are provided.
Sprockets for transmitting the rotation of the drive motor 31 are fixed to the rotary shafts 32B to 32E corresponding to 4E, respectively. That is, as conceptually showing the structure of the drive system in FIG. 5, a pair of sprockets 32B ₂ and 32C ₂ are fixed to the rotary shaft 32B and the rotary shaft 32C, respectively. Another pair of sprockets 32C ₁ and 32D is provided for each of the shafts 32D.
₁ is fixed, and the rotary shaft 32D and the rotary shaft 32E
And another pair of sprockets 32D
₂ , 32E ₂ are fixed. Chains 35 are individually suspended on the pair of sprockets, and the rotation of the rotary shaft 32B due to the rotation of the drive motor 31 is transmitted to the other rotary shafts 32C to 32E.

The rotating shafts 32A to 32E are respectively sprocket 32A corresponding to the sprockets 18 provided on the rolling rolls 12, respectively.
_{3 to} 32E ₃ are fixed, and chains 36A to 36E are suspended in each of them. Therefore, in the series of drive systems, the rotation of the drive motor 31 causes the chains 33 to 3 to rotate.
5 to the rotary shafts 32A to 32E, further to the rolling rolls 12 via the chains 36A to 36E, and further to the rolling rolls 13 via the gear set 17.

The noodle strip manufacturing apparatus 2 located on the downstream side of the noodle strip rolling apparatus 1 has a noodle strip cutting device 41 located below the most downstream roll set 14E and the noodle strip cutting device 41.
Noodle forming device 42 and corrugating device 4 located below
3 and 3 are connected to each other via a shooter 44. The noodle band cutting device 41 has a cutter 41a, and every time a noodle band having a predetermined length passes, the cutter 41a advances by rotation to cut the noodle band. In addition, the noodle strip forming device 42
Is a roll formed with protrusions that mesh with each other in the circumferential direction of the surface, and when the noodle strips are introduced into the meshing portions of the protrusions, the noodle strips are shredded linearly, and the corrugating device 43 Is
The noodle strings are box-shaped, and the noodle strings introduced therein are given a frictional force to reduce the speed to make the noodle strings into a wavy shape. In addition,
The noodle strings that have passed through the corrugating device 43 are sent to the net conveyor 45 and conveyed to the next step. The net conveyor 45 is endlessly moved by the drive motor 46.

On the other hand, in the noodle strip manufacturing apparatus 4 installed on the upstream side of the noodle machine 3 having the above-mentioned configuration, the hopper 51 for temporarily storing the dough D formed in the previous step and supplied from above.
A pair of noodle strip manufacturing rolls 52, 53 are provided below the hopper 51. This noodle band manufacturing roll 5
The axes of the Nos. 2 and 53 are located within the same horizontal plane, and a gap is formed between the Nos. 2 and 53 to form a noodle band forming portion. A driven roll 54 is fixed below the noodle strip manufacturing rolls 52 and 53, and the driven roll 54, the noodle strip manufacturing roll 52, and the driven roll 21 fixed to the entrance side of the roll set 14A of the noodle machine 3. The belt 23 having the same structure as that described above is erected. It is to be noted that the noodle band manufacturing roll 52 is rotated by a drive motor indicated by reference numeral 55, and the noodle band manufacturing rolls 52 and 53 are the rolling rolls 1.
As in Nos. 2 and 13, it is configured to rotate synchronously.

Next, the operation of the device having the above structure will be described. First, in the previous step of the noodle strip manufacturing apparatus 4 shown in FIG. 1, while wheat flour, salt, and other materials to be noodles are put into a mixer (not shown), a can water is fed into the mixer from a can water measuring tank (not shown). Is supplied and stirred in this mixer to form dough D. After being discharged from the mixer, the dough D is put into the hopper 51 of the noodle strip manufacturing apparatus 4 via a belt conveyor or the like, and is temporarily stored therein.

From the hopper 51, the noodle strip manufacturing rolls 52,
The dough D is supplied toward the formation part of 53, and a noodle band is formed here. After passing through this forming section, the strip-shaped noodle strip is continuously supported by the belt 23 and conveyed to the noodle machine 3. At this point, the noodle strip rolling apparatus 1 has the drive motor 3
1 is driven and this power is transmitted to each roll group 14,
The rolling rolls 12 and 13 of the roll set 14 rotate synchronously in the direction of arrow X shown in FIG.
As the belt rotates, each belt 23 also makes an endless motion in the direction of arrow Y.

The noodle band introduced into the noodle machine 3 is first supported and conveyed by the belt 23 to the entrance side of the roll set 14A, and reaches the rolling section of this roll set 14A. The noodle strip is rolled for the first time by passing through this rolling unit, and thereafter, is supported and conveyed by the belt 23 that is endlessly moving with the rotation of the rolling rolls 12, and the next roll set 14B.
Reach to.

Rolling similar to this is performed for each roll set 14B-1.
4E, and thus after passing through the roll set 14E, the noodle strips have been rolled a total of 5 times to have a desired thickness. After that, the noodle strips are cut down to a predetermined length by the noodle strip cutting device 41 while descending along the shooter 44, then chopped into noodle strips by the noodle strip forming device 42, and then cut by the corrugating device 43. After corrugated, net conveyor 4
It is conveyed to the next process by 5.

In such a device, the leading edge of the noodle strip can be introduced into the roll set 14 on the downstream side very smoothly by a simple structure in which the belt 23 is installed on the rolling roll 12 and the driven rolls 21 and 22. Since it does not depend on the manual work of the worker at this time, it is possible to prevent the risk that, for example, fingers are caught in the roll group. Further, since the belt 23 is endlessly moved with the rotation of the rolling roll 12, the power source necessary for driving each component of the noodle strip rolling device 1 is only the substantially driving motor 31, As a result, the entire apparatus can be downsized, and the equipment cost and operating cost can be reduced.

[0023]

As is clear from the above description, according to the apparatus for forming noodle strips of the present invention, one of the pair of rolls on the upstream side in the traveling direction of the noodle strip and the pair of rolls on the upstream side are formed. Between the driven member provided on the entrance side of the next pair of rolls,
With a simple configuration in which an endless belt is installed to support and convey the noodle strip that has passed through the pair of rolls on the upstream side,
The noodle strips can be favorably supported and transported, and the risk of a worker being caught in a finger can be prevented.
Moreover, since the belt is driven by driving one of the pair of rolls, it is not necessary to provide any other special driving equipment, and thereby the entire apparatus can be downsized and simplified, resulting in equipment cost and operating cost. There is an effect that can reduce.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing a part of a noodle production line described in this example.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line II of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of an essential part of the noodle strip rolling apparatus described in this embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of a belt.

FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram of the drive system described in this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ・ ・ Noodle band rolling device 4 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Noodle band manufacturing device 12,13 ・ ・ Rolling roll 21,22 ・ ・ Following roll 23 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Belt 52,53 ・ ・ Noodle band Manufacturing roll

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of roll sets each comprising a pair of rolls to which rotational driving force is transmitted are arranged in a line,
In an apparatus for continuously forming noodle strips into these to form a predetermined thickness, between one roll of the upstream roll set and a driven roll provided on the inlet side of the next downstream roll set, A belt that supports and conveys the noodle strip that has passed through the upstream roll set is erected endlessly, and this belt is driven by the rolls of the upstream roll set to form a noodle strip. apparatus.