JPH08214851A - Drying tool for dry food and inversion of dry food with the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To obtain a dry food-drying tool capable of surely and efficiently inverting a dry food without damaging the dry food, and further to provide a method for inverting the dry food with the same. CONSTITUTION: This food-drying tool comprises a peripheral frame 2 having an upper surface opening 6 and a lower surface opening 7, a bottom plate 2 for loading Umeboshi (dried and salted Japanese apricot) P, and support wooden pieces 5 disposed in the lower part of the peripheral frame 2 and used for supporting the bottom plate 3. The bottom plate 3 can be charged into or discharged from the peripheral frame 2 through the upper surface opening 6 and vertically moved in the peripheral frame 2. The method for inverting the dry food comprises using at least two dry food-drying tools A1 , A2 , superposing the upper surface opening 6 of the inverted (in the direction of the arrow C2 ) dry food-drying tool A1 on the upper surface opening 6 of the dry food-drying tool A2 on whose bottom plate 3 the Umeboshi P are loaded, moving the bottom plate 3 of the dry food-drying tool A1 into the dry food-drying tool A2 , holding a space between the bottom plates 3, 3 with spacers 10 and clamps 20, and subsequently inverting (in the direction of the arrow R) the dry food-drying tools A1 , A2 in the state holding the Umeboshi P.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a drier for drying dried foods such as umeboshi, sliced potato slices, sweet potato slices, dried fish and dried bonito in the sun.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dried food drying device that can reliably and efficiently turn up dried food (upside down, which is the following agreement) and a method of rotating dried food using the same.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, it is known to obtain a dried food having good portability and storability by drying the food in the sun. Taking umeboshi as an example of such dried fish food, pickled ume picked from May to June is salted for about 20 days to obtain pickled plums, and this pickled plum is exposed to the sun and night dew for three days and nights in July. As a result, dried white plums are obtained. Such sun-drying work is performed by arranging a large number of pickled plums on a bottom plate of a wooden cod (wide-mouthed container) integrally configured in a folded box shape. In the sun-drying operation, it is necessary to appropriately change the position of the sun in order to uniformly dry the whole epidermis of the umeboshi.

However, the dried umeboshi that is exposed to the sun often has its lower part attached to the bottom plate of the cod due to drying and shrinkage. If it is taken up as it is, the epidermis will peel off and the commercial value will decrease drastically. Therefore, in the morning of the next day, when the epidermis is moisturized by night dew, it is turned over by hand one grain at a time. For example, in the case of a cod that is the size of one tatami mat, it takes about 15 to 20 minutes for two people to pick up a box of cod.
It took a lot of labor and time under the harsh scorching sun of the moon.

Therefore, it is rational that a sufficient amount of sponge or the like is filled above the dried plums stored in the cod, and another cod is superposed and fixed on the opening of the top, and then it is turned upside down all at once. A method is also possible.

[0005]

However, in such an upside-down method, since the sponge that holds the umeboshi is an elastic member, the umeboshi, which is relatively heavy as a whole, pushes the sponge away when turning upside down. It sometimes rolled and biased in the cod. Therefore, it was not possible to reliably turn the umeboshi upside down. Therefore, it was necessary to correct the direction of the dried ume that could not be turned upside down. In addition, the umeboshi may be damaged by the rolling motion. For this reason, there has been a strong demand for the realization of a method capable of easily and quickly turning upside down.

[0006] The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and can be surely turned upside down without damaging the dried food, and the dried food can be efficiently turned upside down. It is an object of the present invention to provide a drier and a method of turning over dried food using the drier.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, a dried food dryer according to the present invention has a peripheral frame body having an upper surface opening and a lower surface opening and a dried food product placed thereon. And a support member arranged below the peripheral frame body to support the bottom plate, and the bottom plate is formed in the peripheral frame body so as to be able to be taken in and out from the top opening and vertically movable in the peripheral frame body. It is configured.

[0008] In addition, the method for turning up and down dried food according to the present invention comprises at least two dried food clothes drier according to claim 1.
The bottom plate of the other dried food clothes dryer is made by stacking the top opening of the other dried food clothes dryer, which is turned upside down, with the upper surface opening of the one dried food clothes clothes carrier where the dried food products are placed on the bottom plate. To the inside of one of the dried food dryers to sandwich the dried food between the other bottom plate and one of the bottom plates, and to attach the dried food clothes to both dried food products while sandwiching the dried food between both bottom plates. Upside down.

[0009]

In the dried food hung according to the present invention and the method for turning up dried food using the same, at least two dried food hangers having the same structure are used. The dried food is placed on the bottom plate of one of the dried food dryers. First, the other dried food dryer is turned upside down. Next, the upper surface opening of the one dried food clothes dryer is overlapped with the upper surface opening of the other dried food clothes dryer. Then, the bottom plate of the other dried food clothes is put into the dried food clothes of one side through the top opening. Then, the bottom plate moves downward by its own weight and is placed on the dried food. Then, the dried food is sandwiched between the other bottom plate and the one bottom plate. And both dried food dryers have dried food sandwiched between the bottom plates,
It is turned upside down. This ensures that the dried food is turned upside down.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A dried food drying machine according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is an external view showing a dried food clothes dryer according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a side sectional view of the dried food clothes dryer.

In the drawing, A is a dried food clothes dryer according to this embodiment, and this dried food clothes dryer A has a peripheral frame body 2 having an upper surface opening 6 and a lower surface opening 7 and formed in a rectangular frame shape in plan view. And a bottom plate 3 formed in a plane dimension that can be inserted into and removed from the peripheral frame body 2 through the upper surface opening 6.

The above-mentioned peripheral frame body 2 is made of four cypress materials and is assembled in a mortise. The planar size of the peripheral frame 2 is almost the same as that of a single tatami mat, and the height is about 5 cm. On the outer peripheral portion of the peripheral frame body 2, a handle 8 is attached which is used when the dried food clothes dryer A is laterally held or turned upside down.

A plurality of supporting trees 5 (an example of supporting members) are stretched around the lower surface opening 7 in the lower part of the peripheral frame 2 at appropriate intervals. These supporting trees 5 serve to reinforce the peripheral frame 2 and to support the bottom plate 3 housed in the peripheral frame 2 so as to be vertically movable, and the shape thereof is not particularly limited. The bottom plate 3 is formed by arranging a plurality of cedar materials on the joist tree 4 and fixing them with screws or the like, and mounts a large number of umeboshi P (one example of dried food) used for sun drying.

FIG. 3 is an external view showing a spacer used in the above dried food clothes dryer A, and FIG. 4 is an external view showing a clamp used in the above dried food clothes dryer A. In the figure, reference numeral 10 is interposed between the clamp 20 (see FIG. 4) and the bottom plate 3 so as to firmly hold the umeboshi P stored between the upper and lower bottom plates 3 and 3 at the time of turning upside down. It is a spacer. The spacer 10 is made of cedar or the like in a substantially concave shape in a front view, and sandwiching projections 11, 11 are provided upright on both sides. In addition, the lower side 12 of the spacer 10 has a curved shape that is slightly swollen downward in the central portion in consideration of the curvature of the bottom plate 3 due to the weight of the dried ume P, and the side length is the short side of the inner surface of the peripheral frame body 2. It is slightly shorter than the size.

Subsequently, the clamp 20 includes a fixed arm 22 and
The fixed arm 22 is provided with a guide rod 21 made of metal, which is vertically installed, and a movable arm 23 slidably fitted on the guide rod 21. The fixed arm 22 has a nipping portion 2 facing downward at its tip.
Four. On the other hand, the movable arm 23 has a tip portion formed upward and a holding portion 25 formed by branching from the movable arm main body, and a swinging portion provided around the shaft 27 so as to fix the holding portion 25 by the swinging operation. Puller 2 that approaches arm 22
6 is provided.

Next, a method of turning up and down Umeboshi P using the dried food and clothes drying apparatus of this embodiment will be described below with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6. First, a plurality of dried food items A having the same structure (at least two are used. Here,
For ease of explanation, they are referred to as A ₁ and A ₂ , respectively. )prepare. Next, a nylon net (not shown) is laid on the entire surface of the bottom plate 3 of the dried food dryer A ₂ , and a large number of pickled plums (here, pickled plums of medium particle size
000 pieces) on the nylon net evenly. This nylon net is used in order to prevent the dried plum paste P from sticking to the bottom plate 3 after being dried in the sun and receiving night dew. As mentioned above, bottom plate 3 of dried food clothes A ₂
The pickled plums placed on top are dried in the sun and changed to dried plums P.

In order to turn the umeboshi P upside down in the morning on the next day, first, the empty dried food clothes drier A ₁ is turned upside down (in the direction of arrow C _{1 in} FIG. 5). In this state, the bottom plate 3 of the dried food item A ₁ is loaded into the dried item food item A ₂ and moved onto the ume dried item P. At this time as well, prior to the loading of the bottom plate 3, a nylon net (not shown) is put over the entire umeboshi P in advance.

Subsequently, both dried food clothes dryers A ₁ and A ₂
Are superposed with the upper openings 6, 6 facing each other. Further, with the umeboshi P being housed between the upper and lower bottom plates 3 and 3, as shown in FIG. 6, both bottom plates 3 and 3 are clamped from above and below using a spacer 10 and a clamp 20.

This operation will be described in detail.
_The spacers 10 are placed on the three joists 4 on the _1st side, respectively. Next, the sandwiching portion 24 of the clamp 20 is hooked on the sandwiching projections 11 and 11 of the spacer 10, respectively, and the movable arm 23 is slid upward so that the sandwiching portion 25 is located on the bottom plate 3 on the dried food clothes dryer A ₂ side. Apply to the joist tree 4. In this state, pull the pull tab 26 to fix the movable arm 23 and fix the upper and lower bottom plates 3, 3
Sandwich. In this case, the fixed arm 22 of the spacer 10 and the clamp 20 which is loaded from the lower surface opening 6 on the dried food clothes drying machine A ₁ side and reaches the bottom plate 3, and the lower portion of the peripheral frame 2 and the bottom plate 3 on the dried food clothes drying machine A ₂ side. The bottom plates 3 and 3 and the peripheral frame bodies 2 and 2 are integrally clamped and fixed between the movable arm 23 of the clamp 20 and the clamp 20.

Since two clamps 20 are used for each spacer 10, six clamps 20 are used for sandwiching the bottom plates 3, 3. Moreover, since four clamps 20 are also used to fix the four corners of both dried food clothes driers A ₁ and A ₂ , a total of 10 clamps 20 are used in combination with the above-mentioned 6 clamps 20. That is, the sandwiching tool 30 is composed of the spacer 10 and the clamp 20 (two pieces) that form a pair.

Since the sandwiching force at this time is dispersed and applied to the individual pickled plums P, the pickled plums P are not crushed. Incidentally, even when a person rides on the bottom plate 3 on the upper side, each umeboshi P is deformed but is not crushed.

Subsequently, each umeboshi P is sandwiched between the bottom plates 3 and 3 and fixed so as not to move, and the whole is lifted as it is by, for example, two workers and turned upside down (arrow R in FIG. 6). Direction).

After that, the six clamps 20 fixing the bottom plates 3 and 3 are loosened, the three spacers 10 are removed, and the bottom plate 3 of the dried food / dryer A ₁ is gently lowered onto the support tree 5. The circumferential frame 2 of the dried fish food dry ingredients A ₂ removed from above the dried fish food dry ingredients A _1, returned to the original position upside down (arrow C ₂ direction in FIG. 6). Then, put the bottom plate 3 and the nylon net of the dried food dryer A _{2 in} a dried plum P
, Is taken out from the upper surface opening 6 of the dried food drying equipment A ₁ , turned upside down, and returned to the inside of the dried food drying equipment A ₂ again, whereby a series of upside-down work is completed.

[0024] The dried food dried goods A ₂ thus emptied
Is turned upside down in the direction of arrow C ₃ (FIG. 6), and is covered on the upper surface of a dried food clothes dryer (not shown) to be turned upside down. As mentioned above, if you have multiple dried food hangers for sun-drying that contain umeboshi P and you have one empty dried food hanger, you can order umeboshi P one after another.
It is possible to extremely efficiently turn up and down the dried food and drying equipment that houses the.

As described above, according to the top-and-bottom return method for umeboshi P using the dried food drier A of this embodiment, since the umeboshi P is firmly held between the bottom plates 3 and 3, It hardly moves when returned. Therefore, almost all the umeboshi P can be reliably turned upside down. As a result, there is almost no need to rework the umeboshi P after reversing. In addition, it does not damage the umeboshi P when it is turned upside down. That is, the reversing work can be performed extremely efficiently (easily and quickly).

By the way, according to the method of this embodiment, it takes only about 3 minutes by two workers from the start to the completion of the upside-down operation for one box of dried food and clothes, which is extremely efficient.

It should be noted that the dried food provided for this dried food drying equipment may be of any size (outer diameter) that is substantially constant, and when the specified size to be adjusted is changed (specified size S to 4 L). To do this, the locking position of the movable arm 23 of the clamp 20 may be adjusted according to the changed size. In other words, this dried food dryer does not need to be replaced with a dried food clothes having a different depth even when changing the prescribed size to be aligned, and one type of dried food clothes can surely turn upside down. It is possible to use it in the sun drying field.

Further, since this dried food drier is made of wood which is relatively easily available, it can be manufactured at a low cost.
In addition, the existing cod is disassembled into a peripheral frame body and a bottom plate, and the bottom plate is cut into a size that can be accommodated in the peripheral frame body for modification. As a result, it is possible to divert the existing cod,
Not only can the production cost be further reduced, but it can also contribute to the effective use of resources.

By the way, in the above-mentioned embodiment, each part of the dried food clothes dryer is made of planks (cedar wood, cypress, etc.), but instead of these boards, for example, synthetic resin moldings and metal working moldings are used. It is also possible to configure the product. The shape of the dried food clothes dryer according to the present invention is not limited to a rectangular shape in plan view, and may be, for example, a circular shape in plan view or an elliptical shape.

Umeboshi is used as an example of dried food, but the dried food drying apparatus and the method of turning up and down according to the present invention can be applied to dried food such as taro slices, sweet potato slices, dried fish, squid squid and other dried foods requiring upside down. Needless to say, it can be applied.

[0031]

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION According to the dried food dryer according to the present invention and the method for reversing the dried food using the same, the dried food can be reliably turned upside down without moving the dried food at the time of reversing. . Therefore, there is almost no need to rework dried fish food after reversing. In addition, it does not damage the dried food when turned upside down. In addition, the work of turning upside down can be performed easily and quickly.
That is, the upside-down work can be performed extremely efficiently.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view showing a dried food clothes dryer according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side cross-sectional view of this dried food clothes dryer.

FIG. 3 is an external view showing a spacer used in this dried food clothes dryer.

FIG. 4 is an external view showing a clamp used in this dried food clothes dryer.

FIG. 5 is a view for explaining a method of turning up and down the dried ume, according to the present invention, showing an embodiment in which an upside-down empty dried food drier is arranged above the dried food hung containing the dried ume. FIG.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view that follows the aspect of FIG. 5 and shows an aspect in which the dried food and clothes hanging vertically and the bottom plates of both are sandwiched by spacers and clamps;

[Explanation of symbols]

 A Dry food dry clothes 2 Peripheral frame 3 Bottom plate 5 Support tree (support member) 6 Top opening 7 Bottom opening 10 Spacer 20 Clamp 30 Clamping tool P Umeboshi (dried food)

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A peripheral frame body having an upper surface opening and a lower surface opening, a bottom plate on which dried food is placed, and a support member arranged below the peripheral frame body to support the bottom plate. The bottom plate is formed so that it can be put in and taken out from the upper surface opening in the peripheral frame body, and is vertically movable in the peripheral frame body. 2. At least two dried food dryers according to claim 1, wherein the dried food is placed on the bottom plate, and the other dried food is turned upside down at the upper opening of the dried food clothes. The top openings of the food dryers are overlapped, the bottom plate of the other dried food clothes dryer is moved into the one dried food clothes dryer, and the dried food products are sandwiched between the other bottom plate and one bottom plate, and A method for flipping a dried food product, characterized in that both dried food clothes are vertically turned upside down while sandwiching the dried food product between the bottom plates.