JPH08238052A - Production device for confectionery - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a production device for confectioneries without wasting raw materials and in addition to that, capable of forming baked confectioneries such as cookies and biscuits having higher dimensional stabilities. CONSTITUTION: This production device for confectioneries is provided with a conveyer 3 for a dough sheet conveying the dough sheet sent out from a dough sheet forming device 1 to a baking device and further a roll cutter 4 at the prescribed position of the conveyer 3 for the dough sheet by arranging plural disc shaped cutting blades on the circumferential side of a rotating shaft at a prescribed interval in parallel, which cuts the dough sheet by a prescribed width in its longitudinal direction to form narrow belt like dough sheets. A dough clearing belt 19 being in contact with the surface of the narrow belt like dough sheets at their cutting is wound on the rotating shaft between the alternate disc shaped cutting blades. Further the device is provided with a width direction-cutting device cutting the belt shaped dough sheet 2c by a prescribed length in its width direction to form raw products 2a.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a confectionery production apparatus capable of producing a confectionery product such as a thick bite size and a baked product such as a biscuit with high dimensional accuracy.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, biscuit and cookie type baked products have been sold as nutritional supplements that can be easily eaten anytime and anywhere, and have been widely loved. However, such bite-type cookie type and biscuit dietary supplements are not available in bite size.

Therefore, in order to obtain a bite-sized baked confectionery that can be easily eaten anytime and anywhere,
It is desired that these fired bodies be individually bite-sized and individually packaged, and then further pillow-wrapped in a stick shape that is convenient for carrying as shown in FIG.

A bite-sized product needs to be thick in order to make it easy to eat, and it must be baked to the same size as much as possible for its automatic packaging.

[0005]

Such baked products such as bite-sized cookies and biscuits should be thick in order to make them easy to eat and to be able to neatly package them in an automated line, and to make the product form beautiful after packaging. Moreover, high dimensional accuracy is required.

However, such thick and bite-sized baked products such as cookies and biscuits are difficult to obtain dimensional accuracy with the current raw material composition, manufacturing method or manufacturing apparatus.
It is difficult to automatically package bite-sized cookies individually like caramel. Furthermore, it is difficult to form a stick-shaped pillow package for several pieces of such individually packaged baked products such as bite-sized cookies and biscuits.

[0007] Further, during the firing of such a fired body, a large amount of gas is generated, it is difficult to remove the residual portion (hand scrap) of the raw material left during the cutting process due to its high viscosity, and during the cutting Raw materials are likely to adhere to the cutting blade, which makes manufacturing more difficult.

[0008] Therefore, it has been desired to develop a dough composition and a manufacturing method of confectionery raw materials such as cookies and biscuits which can be easily eaten anytime and anywhere and can be supplemented with nutrition, and a manufacturing apparatus capable of this. .

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is a first object of the present invention to provide a confectionery production apparatus capable of forming a confectionery product having a baked product with high dimensional accuracy.

A second object of the present invention is to provide a confectionery manufacturing apparatus in which hand waste separated from the dough sheet is surely returned to the dough sheet molding machine to eliminate waste of the confectionery raw material of the baked product. .

Further, it is an object of the present invention to provide a confectionery manufacturing apparatus which enables the step of forming a vent hole of a dough sheet and the step of cutting a baked product into raw products to be carried out at the same time without adversely affecting the dimensional accuracy. This is the third issue.

[0012]

The present invention adopts the following means in order to solve the above problems. <Summary of the Invention> The present invention relates to a dough sheet molding machine 1 for molding a kneaded confectionery raw material to a predetermined thickness, and a baking device 50 for dough sheet 2 sent from the dough sheet molding machine 1.
And a roll cutter 4 which is provided at a predetermined position of the dough sheet carrying device 3 and cuts the dough sheet 2 into a predetermined width in the longitudinal direction to form a strip-shaped dough sheet 2c. Following the roll cutter 4, there is provided a width direction cutting device 8 for cutting the strip-shaped cloth sheet 2c into a predetermined length to form a raw product 2a.

The roll cutter 4 has a plurality of disc-shaped cutting blades 18 arranged in parallel to each other on the outer periphery of a rotary shaft 22 at a predetermined interval, and further, at the time of cutting, a dough flapping belt contacting the surface of the strip-shaped dough sheet 2c. 19 is wound around the rotary shaft 22 between every other disc-shaped cutting blades 18.

[Confectionery Raw Material] In the present invention, the confectionery produced is a baked product such as a cookie or a biscuit, and the raw material thereof is an expansion agent for suppressing expansion that adversely affects the dimensional accuracy of the confectionery in the dough as much as possible. That is, those which do not contain baking powder, baking soda, ammonium carbonate, etc. are preferable. In addition, in order to suppress expansion during baking, it is preferable to use wheat gluten adjusted. Furthermore, it is preferable to keep the amount of egg, which is an expanding component in the confectionery raw material, in a range that does not hinder the characteristics of the confectionery such as the taste, the brown color, and the improvement in texture. However, the confectionery production apparatus according to the present invention is not limited to the case where such confectionery raw material is used, and the desired effect is produced even when various confectionery raw materials are used.

[Roll Cutter] The plurality of disc-shaped cutting blades 18 constituting the roll cutter 4 are arranged in parallel on the same rotary shaft 22, and at least one pair is required. The disc-shaped cutting blade 18 is preferably made of steel or a composite material such as nylon, fluororesin, polycarbonate, engineering plastics such as polyvinyl acetal, or glass fiber reinforced plastic. When engineering plastics or composite materials are used, the sharpness can be improved by embedding a steel cutting edge in the outer peripheral edge of the disk formed of these materials to form the disk-shaped cutting edge 18. Further, it is also possible to form the outer peripheral edge of the disk into an acute angle without using a steel cutting blade to use this as a cutting blade.

[Fabric belt] Fabric belt 1
9 shows the dough scraping in contact with the surface of the thin strip-shaped dough sheet 2c immediately after the dough sheet 2 is cut into strips by the pair of disc-shaped cutting blades 18, so that the hand scraps 2b and the thin strip-shaped dough sheet 2c can be reliably held. It is separated and is preferably wound around the drive roll 23 and also serves as a drive belt for driving the roll cutter 4. Also, dough belt 19
It is preferable to forcibly remove the residue of the dough sheet 2 adhered to the dough flapping belt 19 by crimping the removal piece 16 to the.

The cloth loose belt 19 is provided with the rotary shaft (2
It is wound around 2), but the winding position is not between all the disc-shaped cutting blades (18) but every other position. As a result, the strip-shaped cloth sheet 2c is formed at regular intervals. The cloth flapping belt 19 may be directly wound around the rotary shaft 22, but the disc-shaped cutting blade 18
It is also possible to provide the pulley portion 20 having an appropriate diameter around the rotating shaft 22 between and to wind the pulley portion 20 around the pulley portion 20.

[Width-direction Cutting Device] The width-direction cutting device 8 cuts the strip-shaped dough sheet 2c in the width direction to form the raw product 2a before firing. Cutting blade part 3 so as not to adversely affect the dimensional accuracy of
It is preferable to manufacture 9 as a thin plate and form the edge 39a at the tip.

[Fabric Sheet Forming Machine] Fabric sheet forming machine 1
Is for forming the kneaded raw material of the fired body to a predetermined thickness, but this apparatus may be provided with a rolling section and a kneading section, or a kneading section may be provided separately from this dough forming machine. Good.

<Additional Constituents in the Present Invention> The present invention is composed of the above-mentioned essential constituent elements, but is also realized by adding the following constitutions.

<First Additional Component> In addition to the above-mentioned components, a hand scrap collecting conveying device 5 reaching the dough sheet forming machine 1 is provided in the vicinity of the roll cutter 4, and the roll cutter 4 is further provided. The hand scrap guide groove 21 is provided in the.

[Handwaste Guide Groove] In the roll cutter 14, between the disc-shaped cutting blades 18 on which the dough flapping belt 19 is not wound, the handdust 2b, which is the remaining portion of the dough sheet after cutting, is cut into the disc-shaped cutting blades 18. It is a hand waste guide groove 21 that is sandwiched between and discharged to the side of the dough sheet forming machine 1.

The hand waste guide groove 21 rotates together with the roll cutter 4, and guides the hand scrap 2b separated from the strip-shaped cloth sheet 2c formed into a strip shape of the cloth toward the hand scrap collecting guide 6. The side surface of the disk-shaped cutting blade 18 has a tapered section 21c from the rotary shaft 22 side, which is the groove bottom, to the outer peripheral side, and the width of the guide groove 21 becomes narrower toward the groove bottom. Is also possible.

<Second Additional Component> In addition to the above-mentioned components, the widthwise cutting device 8 includes the strip-shaped cloth sheet 2
You may make it have the cutting blade part 29 which cuts c in the width direction. The cutting blade portion 29 is provided on a machine frame 34 that can move up and down. Further, the machine frame 34 can be provided with a gas vent hole forming device 7 having a perforated portion 35 for forming a gas vent hole 38 on the upper surface of the strip-shaped cloth sheet 2c.

[Width-direction Cutting Device] The width-direction cutting device 8
It is preferable to use a plate-shaped blade 39 having a thickness as thin as possible. And the edge 39
It is preferable that the thickness is further reduced toward a because it does not adversely affect the dimensional accuracy of the fired body.

[Gas vent hole forming device] By the fired body,
When the adverse effect on the dimensional accuracy of the confectionery, which is a baked product, is inevitable due to the generation of gas, it is desirable to provide the degassing hole forming device 7 to provide the degassing hole 38 in the confectionery 40. In this case, it is preferable that the perforated portion 35 provided in the gas vent hole forming device 7 is formed of a thin plate. In addition, one to several gas vent holes 3 may be provided depending on the raw material of the fired body and the shape and size of the raw product 2a.
It is preferable to leave eight. Further, the plate thickness, the plate width, etc. can be changed according to the size of the gas vent hole 38 of the confectionery 40. In addition, it is also possible to provide a punch-shaped rod-shaped tool with a sharp tip at the hole 35 to form a round hole-shaped gas vent hole.

[Machine Frame] As the machine frame 34, various types of drive structures such as electric type and hydraulic type can be adopted as long as they can be raised and lowered. Further, when the longitudinal cutting device 8 and the gas vent hole forming device 7 are provided side by side on the machine frame 34, the width direction cutting device 8 is provided in front of the traveling direction of the dough sheet conveying device 3, and the same in the rear direction. It is preferable to provide the gas vent hole forming device 7 in the above. However, it is also possible to provide the gas vent hole forming device 7 in the front and the width direction cutting device 8 in the rear with respect to the traveling direction of the material sheet conveying device 3.

<Combination of Each Component> As described above, the first additional component is added to the essential component of the present invention, or the second additional component is added to the essential component of the present invention. It is also possible to implement the present invention, and further, the constituent elements of the present invention with the addition of the first and second constituent elements.

[0029]

[Action]

<Operation of Essential Components of the Present Invention> The dough sheet 2 delivered from the dough sheet forming machine 1 is cut into strip-shaped dough sheets 2c by the rotation of the roll cutter 4. At the same time, the dough flapping belt 19 contacts the surface of the dough sheet 2 in the vicinity of the dosing point 25, and separates the strip-shaped dough sheet 2c immediately after being cut into the band shape from between the disc-shaped cutting blades 18. Then, the strip-shaped cloth sheet 2c is conveyed to the next step. On the other hand, the dough sheet remaining in the hand-waste guide groove 21 due to the cutting is guided to the hand-waste guide groove 21, and is rolled by the roll cutter 4
Will be guided to the upstream side of. The strip-shaped cloth sheet 2c cut into strips is then conveyed by the conveying device to the width direction cutting device and cut into a predetermined length.

<Operation when the first additional component is added> The hand scrap 2b is sent to the hand scrap collecting / conveying device 5 by the hand scrap guiding groove 21 which rotates together with the roll cutter 4. Further, the hand waste 2b is returned to the dough sheet forming machine 1 by the hand waste collecting and conveying device 5.

<Operation in the case where the second additional component is added> The vertically movable machine frame 34 to which both the gas vent hole forming device 7 and the cutting device 8 are attached moves up and down within a predetermined stroke S range. Therefore, the gas vent holes 38 are formed and the widthwise cutting is performed at the same time in the front row portion of the strip-shaped dough sheet 2c and the portion adjacent thereto, respectively.

[0032]

EXAMPLES Examples of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings while illustrating the case of producing bite cookies which are baked confectionery.

<Outline of Embodiment> In this embodiment, a dough sheet molding machine 1 for rolling and molding a kneaded confectionery raw material to a predetermined thickness, and a dough sheet 2 sent from the dough sheet molding machine 1 are baked. The dough sheet carrying device 3 that carries the dough sheet 50, and the roll cutter 4 that is provided at a predetermined position of the dough sheet carrying device 3 and cuts the dough sheet 2 into a predetermined width.
And a hand-waste collecting conveying device 5 which is located near the roll cutter 4 and returns surplus cloth sheets (hand-waste) to the sheet forming machine 1 for recovery, and hand-waste collecting from the roll cutter 4. Hand scraps collection guide 6 for guiding the hand scraps 2b to the sheet conveying device 5, a degassing hole forming device 7 provided at a predetermined position of the dough sheet conveying device 3 following the roll cutter 4, and the degassing device. A width direction cutting device 8 adjacent to the hole forming device 7 for cutting the dough sheet into a predetermined length,
It is composed of a machine frame 34 provided with the gas vent hole forming device 7 and the width direction cutting device 8.

[Description of Dough Sheet Forming Machine] The confectionery raw material is formed into a sheet by the dough sheet forming machine 1 as shown in FIG. The dough sheet forming machine 1 is mounted on the machine base 10 on the starting end side of the confectionery manufacturing apparatus, and rolls the confectionery raw material to form a dough sheet. The dough sheet forming machine 1 has three sets of rolling rollers 9a, 9b, 9c arranged to face each other so as to send the dough sheet to the dough sheet conveying device 3. A funnel-shaped hopper 11 is provided above the rolling roller. From this hopper,
The confectionery raw material that has been kneaded in advance is supplied to the dough sheet molding machine 1.

In FIG. 1, the rolling roller 9a rotates counterclockwise,
The rolling roller 9b rotates right. The rolling roller 9c arranged on the exit side of the rolling rollers 9a and 9b rotates clockwise. As a result, the confectionery raw material supplied from the hopper 11 between the rolling rollers 9a and 9b is primary-rolled between the rolling rollers 9a and 9b, and then the secondary confectionery is passed between the rolling rollers 9c and 9a. The material is rolled and sent to the material sheet conveying device 3.

On the upper part of the dough sheet forming machine 1, there is mounted a prime mover 43 for driving a pulley 44 of a hand-waste collecting and conveying device 5 which will be described later via a belt 45, and the returned hand-waste 2b.
Is the rolling rollers 9a, 9b,
Sent to 9c.

[Explanation of the dough sheet conveying device] The dough sheet forming machine 1, especially the dough sheet conveying device 3 provided subsequent to the outlets 12 of the rolling rollers 9b and 9c, is adjacent to the dough sheet forming machine 1. 3a to a firing machine 50 omitted in FIG.
It is constructed continuously up to n. The dough sheet conveying device 3a is provided directly on the machine base 10 as shown in FIG. 1, and the dough sheet forming machine 1 is provided at one end thereof.
The dough sheet outlet 12 is located, and the roll cutter 4 is also located at the other end.

Further, the belt 13 of the material sheet conveying device 3 is made of canvas, and the belt 13 in the direction shown by the arrow F in FIG. 1 via the driving roll 14 and the auxiliary roll 15 provided below the conveying device 3. Move to. further,
The belt 13 of the transport device 3 is pressed by the rubber roller 26 toward the roll cutter 4 with a predetermined pressure. Further, a removal piece 16 for removing the residue of the confectionery raw material attached during the conveyance of the dough sheet 2 is pressed against the belt 13 against the belt 13.

[Description of Roll Cutter] A roll cutter 4 is provided at the other end of the material sheet conveying device 3a. This roll cutter 4 is shown in a perspective view in FIG.
As shown in the enlarged view of FIGS. 3 and 4, it is composed of a plurality of disc-shaped cutting blades 18 made of polycarbonate and arranged in parallel to the rotary shaft 22 with a predetermined width. Further, a tubular pulley portion 20 is provided on the rotating shaft 22 between every other disc-shaped cutting blade 18 among the plurality of disc-shaped cutting blades 18.

Between the plurality of disc-shaped cutting blades 18,
A cloth flapping belt 19 is wound around each of the alternating pulley portions 20. Then, the dough flapping belt 19 transmits the rotational torque from the drive roll 23 to the pulley portion 20, whereby the roll cutter 4, that is, the disc-shaped cutting blade 18 rotates in the direction shown by the arrow in FIG. 2, and the dough flapping starts from the cutting start point 24. The cloth sheet 2 is cut in the longitudinal direction between the points 25 to form a strip-shaped cloth sheet 2c.

[Explanation of Hand Scrap Guide Groove] Between the respective disc-shaped cutting blades 18 constituting the roll cutter 4 and where the material dough belt 19 is not present, the disc-shaped cutting blade 18 is used to guide the hand-scrap guide groove 21. Is formed. The hand waste guide groove 21 is provided with a cylindrical portion 21a having a smaller diameter than the pulley portion 20 at the groove bottom. Then, the wall surface 21b of the hand waste guide groove 21, that is, the side surface of the cutting blade 18 holds the hand waste and guides the hand waste to the upstream side. The guided scraps are conveyed to the scrap collecting and conveying device 5 via a scrap collecting guide 6 described later. As shown on one side of FIG. 4, if the side surface of the cutting blade 18 is a tapered surface 21c and the width of the hand waste guide groove 21 is made narrower toward the bottom, the hand waste can be more reliably clamped. .

[Explanation of the cloth dough belt] The cloth dough belt 19 wound around the pulley 20 of the roll cutter 4 also has a function as a drive belt. As shown in FIGS. The rotational torque of is transmitted to the roll cutter 4. The dough flapping belt 19 comes into contact with the dough sheet 2 on the return side after the roll cutter 4 is rotated, and presses the surface of the dough sheet 2 immediately after cutting at the dough breaking point 25 to form a strip-shaped dough sheet 2c and hand scraps 2b. Dough Therefore, the thin strip-shaped cloth sheet 2c sandwiched between the disk-shaped cutting blades 18 at the time of cutting is transferred from between the cutting blades 18 onto the cloth sheet conveying device 3 and is sent to the next step by the conveying device 3. Then, removal pieces 16a, 16b for removing the residue of the cookie raw material adhered to each of the dough flapping belt 19, the pulley portion 20, and the drive roll 23 during the cutting of the dough sheet 2.
16c are pressed against each other.

[Description of Driving Roll] As described above, the driving roll 23 that rotates the roll cutter 4 via the cloth-lapping belt 19 is arranged parallel to the rotation shaft 22 of the roll cutter 4. The cloth is made of a rubber roll having a large friction coefficient in order to prevent the loose belt 19 from slipping. A plurality of cloth flapping belts 19 are wound around the drive roll 23 and the pulley portion 20 of the roll cutter 4. Further, as shown in FIG. 1, the driving roll 23 receives a rotational force from a prime mover (an electric motor in this embodiment) 27 located above, via a belt 28.

[Explanation of Hand Waste Collection Guide] The hand waste 2b moved to the hand waste guide groove 21 as described above is guided by the hand waste collection guide 6 as shown in FIGS. To the carrier device 5. The hand waste collection guide is not essential, but it further ensures the movement of the hand waste 2b to the hand waste collection and conveyance device 5. The hand waste collection guide 6 includes a carry-out guide portion 29 and an arc-shaped scooping portion 30 that guides the hand waste toward the carry-out guide portion 29 side.

The carry-out guide portion 29 is attached to the rod-shaped body 33 provided on the side of the hand-waste collecting conveying device 5 and orthogonal to the conveying direction of the cloth sheet 2. The carry-out guide portion 29 is a plate-shaped guide provided in parallel with the rod-shaped body 33, is located in the hand waste guide groove 21, and has a tip 32 thereof.
Is curved in an arc shape, and its tip faces and contacts the cylindrical portion 21a which is the bottom portion of the hand waste guide groove 21.

Further, the above-mentioned arc-shaped scooping portion 30 is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5, the roll cutter 4 is disposed in the hand scrap guide groove 21 on the side of the dough sheet 2 in the conveying direction in the vicinity of the eccentric point 25. Then, the hand scraps 2 in the hand scrap guide groove 21 separated from the strip-shaped cloth sheet 2 at the dough breaking point 25.
b is scooped from the bottom so that the hand waste does not drop from the hand waste guide groove 21 and is reliably sent to the hand waste collecting transport device 5 side. As can be seen from FIG. 6, the scooping portion 30 is arranged in a rod-shaped body 31 which is orthogonal to the conveyance direction of the dough sheet 2 and parallel to the rod-shaped band 33, and the hand waste guide groove 21.
A plurality of combs 30a, 30b, ...

[Explanation of Hand Waste Collecting and Conveying Device] As described above, the hand scrap collecting and conveying device 5 to which the hand scraps 2b are fed by the hand scrap collecting guide 6 is a belt mounted on the prime mover 43 mounted on the dough sheet forming machine 1. It comprises a pulley 44 driven via 45, and a belt 46 wound around a pulley 47 located in the vicinity of the roll cutter 4. Then, the hand waste 2b sent to the hand waste collecting and conveying device 5 is conveyed to the dough sheet forming machine.

[Explanation of Gas Venting Hole Forming Apparatus] As described above, in the strip-shaped dough sheet 2c, the gas venting holes 38 are punched in the next step in order to remove the gas that adversely affects the dimensional accuracy of the cookie during baking. . The gas vent hole forming device 7 for punching gas vent holes is attached together with the widthwise cutting device 8 to a machine frame 34 that is above the dough sheet conveying device 3b and can be raised and lowered as shown in FIG.

The gas vent hole forming device 7 includes an arm portion 36 extending downward from the machine frame 34, an elbow portion 36a fixed to the tip of the arm portion 36, and a mounting base 7a attached to the elbow portion 36a. It consists of this mounting base 7
a, three thin plates 35a, 35b as shown in FIG.
A perforation portion 35 composed of 35c is provided.

The gas vent hole forming device 7 is provided in the same number of sets as the number of strips of the strip-shaped cloth sheet 2c cut by the roll cutter 4 in the width direction and divided into a plurality of strips.
At that time, the arm portion 36, the elbow portion 36a, the mounting base 7a
Common to each other, and the required number of perforations 35 are provided on the mounting base 7.
It is provided in a.

One set out of a plurality of sets of punching portions 35 will be described. A pressing plate 37 is attached to the mounting base 7a via a spring 51, and the spring 51 urges the pressing plate 37 downward in FIG. For this,
When the machine frame 34 descends to punch the gas vent hole 38, the pressing plate 37 presses the strip-shaped cloth sheet 2c to punch the gas vent hole 38. Therefore, even if the strip-shaped cloth sheet 2c is viscous, the perforations and the perforated portions 35 from the gas vent holes 38 are formed.
It is easy to pull out, and the dimensional accuracy of the dough sheet is not impaired. Further, the through hole 5 provided in the pressing plate 37
Perforated portion 3 which is a thin plate 35a, 35b, 35c passing through 2.
5 moves up and down. As a result, as shown in FIG. 9, the cookie 40, which is a finished baked product, has three vent holes 38.
Will be emptied.

[Explanation of Width Cutting Device] The strip-shaped dough sheet 2c is cut into a predetermined length in the width direction at the same time when the gas vent holes 38 are punched, and the strip-shaped raw product 2a before firing. Is formed. Width direction cutting device 8 for performing this cutting
Has a plate-shaped cutting edge 39 made of a thin plate so as not to adversely affect the dimensional accuracy of the raw product at the time of cutting, and further has an edge 39a at the tip.

The plate-shaped cutting edge 39 is attached to the vertically movable machine frame 34. Then, when the machine frame 34 descends, the plate-shaped cutting edge 39 forms a gas vent hole in accordance with the conveyance cycle of the strip-shaped dough sheet 2c and simultaneously cuts the strip-shaped dough sheet 2c to form a strip-shaped raw product 2a. To do.

The dough carrier device 3b is provided with three loose rods 49a, 49b and 49c to prevent the dough sheet from floating. [Explanation of Machine Frame] The machine frame 34, to which the gas vent hole forming device 7 and the width direction cutting device 8 are attached together and which is moved up and down, is located above the support base 47 of the cloth sheet conveying device 3b as shown in FIG. It is provided in a direction perpendicular to the material sheet conveying device 3b. Both ends of the machine frame 34 are pivotally supported by the connecting rods 42a and 42b via slide bearings 53. The upper portions of the connecting rods 42a and 42b are rotatably attached to a crank shaft (not shown), and a flywheel (not shown) is attached to the crank shaft. When the crankshaft is rotated, the connecting rods 42a and 42b move up and down, so that the machine frame 34 moves up and down within the range of the stroke S. Note that the drive mechanism of such a machine frame is not limited to this, and can be implemented by adopting ordinary conventional means.

By the elevating stroke S of the machine frame 34 described above, the strip-shaped dough sheet 2c conveyed at a predetermined speed is cut, and at the same time, the degassing holes 38 are formed at the same time. A raw product 2a having the shape, that is, the shape of the cookie 40 which is the baked body of the present embodiment is formed.

In the machine frame 34, the degassing hole forming device 7 and the cutting device 8 have a length L of the raw product 2a and a distance M from the tip surface 41 of the raw product 2a to the end surface 38a of the degassing hole 38. , The distance between the two is set to L + M.

[Operations and Effects of Examples] Examples of the blending amount of the confectionery raw material used in this example are shown in Table 1. Then, this raw material was kneaded for about 2 minutes, and the dough obtained after 15 minutes of bench time (curing time) was put on a dough sheet forming machine.

[0058]

[Table 1] According to the present embodiment, the dough sheet 2 delivered from the dough sheet molding machine 1 is provided with a plurality of narrow strip-shaped dough sheets 2c in the width direction by the disc-shaped cutting blade 18 of the roll cutter 4 as shown in FIGS. Simultaneously with the cutting, the strip-shaped dough sheet 2c is brought into contact with the strip-shaped dough sheet 2c immediately after the drive belt 19 is cut into the strip shape in the vicinity of the wrapping point 25 to dough dough and to do the dough sheet 2 and the hand scraps 2 Be sure to separate and. Then, the strip-shaped cloth sheet 2c is conveyed to the next step.

On the other hand, in the vicinity of the breaking point 25 of the dough sheet, the hand scrap 2b scraped by the cloth is guided by the hand scrap guiding groove 2
1, the roller cutter 4 moves with the rotation of the roll cutter 4, is guided by the hand-waste recovery guide 6, and is reliably transported to the hand-waste recovery transport device 5.

Further, when the machine frame 34 descends as shown in FIG. 7 in the next step, the front side A, which has already been cut and degassed on the front end side in the previous step, has its rear end side cut in the width direction to form strips. A raw product 2a in the form of a strip is obtained. At this time, the rear side B where the gas vent holes 38 have already been drilled is the front side A.
Is separated from the front side A as it is formed into a raw product. At that time, a gas vent hole 38 is formed in the C portion following the B portion. After that, this process is repeated to manufacture the raw product 2a, and the raw product 2a is further sent to the baking device 50 to manufacture a cookie that is a baked body with high dimensional accuracy.

For this reason, the formation of the gas vent hole 38 and the cutting in the width direction are simultaneously performed, which is extremely efficient. Moreover, since these processed parts are applied to the front side part and the subsequent side part, adverse effects on the dimensional accuracy of the cookies due to these processes are avoided, and the cookie with high dimensional accuracy can be manufactured.

Then, as shown in FIG. 9, the bite cookie 40 having the dimensional accuracy arranged can be individually packaged, that is, so-called caramel packaging. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 10, it is possible to provide a stick pillow package product P in which several pieces of caramel-packaged cookies are neatly packaged with one wrapping paper.

By the way, the raw materials shown in Table 1 were manufactured by the manufacturing apparatus of this example, and the size of each of 20 cookies was measured, and the average value and standard deviation were determined. The results shown in Table 2 were obtained. It was

[0064]

[Table 2]

[0065]

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, since high dimensional accuracy can be maintained in the subsequent steps of cutting in the longitudinal direction and baking, it is possible to easily manufacture a confectionery product which is a baked product with high dimensional accuracy that can be automatically packaged. The effect of being able to do occurs.

Further, since the hand scrap 2b can be quickly and surely returned from the hand scrap conveying device 5 to the dough sheet molding machine 1 by the first additional component, waste of the confectionery raw material can be avoided. Furthermore, the second additional component enables the formation of the gas vent holes in the dough sheet and the cutting process in the longitudinal direction to be performed at a time without adversely affecting the dimensional accuracy. Can be raised. The effect will occur.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing a starting end side of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view near a roll cutter according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic view showing an enlarged embodiment of the roll cutter.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an operating state of a hand waste guide groove.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a hand waste collection guide.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a relationship between a gas vent hole forming device and a longitudinal cutting device.

FIG. 8 is a partial cross-sectional view of a gas vent hole forming device.

FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing a packaged state of a bite cookie which is a baked product.

FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing a state in which several bite cookies are packaged together.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 dough sheet forming machine 2 dough sheet 2a raw product 2b hand scrap 2c strip-shaped dough sheet 3 dough sheet transport device 4 roll cutter 5 hand scrap collection and transport device 7 degassing hole forming device 8 width direction cutting device 18 disc-shaped cutting blade 19 Dough flapping belt 21 Hand scrap guide groove 22 Rotating shaft 23 Drive roll 29 Cutting blade portion 34 Machine frame 35 Drilling portion 38 Gas vent hole 39 Plate cutting edge 40 Confectionery (cookie) 50 Baking device

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Hideo Fukushima 2582 Inatomi, Tatsuno-cho, Kamiina-gun, Nagano Yonetamado Foods Co., Ltd. Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Kazuhiro Yagi 6-48 Yayoi-cho, Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka Pola Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Yasuo Iwasaki 6-48 Yayoi-cho, Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka Pola Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A dough sheet molding machine (1) for molding a kneaded confectionery raw material to a predetermined thickness, and a dough sheet (2) sent from the dough sheet molding machine (1), and a baking device (5).
0), a dough sheet carrying device (3), and a dough sheet (2) provided at a predetermined position of the dough sheet carrying device (3) and cut into a predetermined width in the longitudinal direction to form a strip-shaped dough sheet. A roll cutter (4) to be formed on (2c), and a widthwise cut for forming a raw product (2a) by cutting the roll cutter (4) into a predetermined length of the strip-shaped cloth sheet (2c). And a device (8), wherein the roll cutter (4) has a plurality of disc-shaped cutting blades (18) arranged in parallel at a predetermined interval on the outer circumference of the rotary shaft (22), and further has the strip-like shape at the time of cutting. Manufacture of a confectionery characterized in that a dough flap belt (19) in contact with the surface of the dough sheet (2c) is wound around the rotating shaft (22) between every other disc-shaped cutting blades (18). apparatus. 2. In the roll cutter (4), hand scraps (2b), which are the rest of the dough sheet after cutting, are provided between the disc-shaped cutting blades (18) on which the dough flapping belt (19) is not wound. It is provided as a hand scrap guide groove (21) that is sandwiched between the disc-shaped cutting blades (18) and discharged to the dough sheet forming machine (1) side, and the hand scrap guide is provided on the upstream side of the roll cutter (4). Groove (2
1) A hand-waste collecting conveying device (5) for receiving the hand-waste (2b) discharged from the space and conveying it to the dough sheet forming machine (1)
The confectionery manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: 3. The width direction cutting device (8) has a cutting blade portion (29) for cutting the strip-shaped cloth sheet (2c) in the width direction, and the cutting blade portion (29) can be moved up and down. Degassing hole forming device (35) provided in a machine frame (34) and having a perforation part (35) for forming a gas venting hole (38) on the upper surface of the strip-shaped cloth sheet (2c). 7) is provided, The confectionery manufacturing apparatus of Claim 1.