JPH08275888A - Agitating blade - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To introduce a product to an ejection port with high accuracy and to stably and surely eject even a pasted shape product, etc., by providing an agitating blade arranged so that its bottom is rotated near the bottom of an agitation container and provided with shape expanding spirally from a center to the outside. CONSTITUTION: The ejection port 14 is provided in the bottom center of the agitation container 11 in which the bottom 12 and a side wall 13 are provided, and the rotary shaft 15 of an agitator is provided at the upper position. The rotary shaft 15' of the agitating blade 18 is coupled integrally with the rotary shaft 15 of the agitator. A bottom outside blade 17 is provided on the side wall blade 16 of the agitator. The agitating blade 18 is formed in a shape of expanding spirally outward from the center, and installed so that the bottom thereof is rotated in adjacent to the bottom 12 of the agitation container. After the product such as pasted shape food is agitated, the ejection port 14 of the bottom of the agitation container is opened, and the product is introduced to the ejection port 14 by rotating the spiral shape agitating blade 18, then, it is ejected. A pipeline for ejection is attached to the ejection port 14 freely detachably.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an agitating blade of an agitating container having an opening at the bottom and having an outlet at the bottom, which is used, for example, in food manufacturing processes. More specifically, the present invention relates to , The food manufacturing process,
A stirring container with a discharge port at the bottom that is preferably used in the manufacturing process of various kinds of foods, etc., and is a highly viscous liquid product, paste product, solid-liquid mixed product, etc. A product having a physical property of viscosity, which enables efficient stirring in the stirring container,
The present invention relates to a new type of stirring blade that enables stable and reliable discharge of products by efficiently and sequentially guiding these products to a discharge port formed at the bottom after stirring.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, various foods such as liquid foods such as curry, stew, soup and sauce, ketchup,
As a manufacturing device for pasty foods such as mayonnaise, puree, white sauce, kneaded mustard, kneaded yam paste, pizza sauce, and bean paste, it is common to use a transfer pipe for each raw material such as liquid, solid, powder, and paste. Is charged into the compounding hopper using, and the resulting compounding raw material is further transferred from the compounding hopper using a transfer pipe to the next treatment step, for example,
A continuous manufacturing device that uses transfer pipes for many of the transfer processes, such as a device that transfers to a mixing and stirring process step, a heat process step, etc., and sends the obtained processed product to the next step. Has been used.

That is, in general, for example, in a continuous food manufacturing apparatus or the like, the manufacturing apparatus in each processing step is connected by a transfer pipe from the blending of each raw material to the final product, and the transfer apparatus is used. A method of transferring each raw material, a processed product thereof, an intermediate product and the like through a pipe has been mainly used.

[0004] In some cases, a food processing apparatus has been developed in which a stainless steel container is filled with contents, the container is rolled to mix the contents, and then the contents are transferred to each process.

By the way, the continuous type manufacturing apparatus connected by the transfer pipe as described above is suitable for a so-called one kind in which the same product is industrially mass-produced, and mass-production. On the other hand, it has the following problems.

That is, in a continuous type manufacturing apparatus in which each processing apparatus in each processing step is connected by a transfer pipe, since each manufacturing apparatus is connected and fixed by the transfer pipe, It is difficult to change the connection freely. Therefore, for example, in order to simultaneously or sequentially manufacture products in which some of the processing steps are significantly different,
It was necessary to separately arrange a special device suitable for manufacturing the product, or to modify the continuous manufacturing device for the product and use it.

Further, in the continuous manufacturing apparatus connected by the transfer pipe, once the production is started, it is necessary to continuously perform all the steps from the raw material feeding to the final product preparation processing. When the operation of the continuous manufacturing apparatus is started, it is impossible to stop the apparatus in an arbitrary manufacturing process at an arbitrary time. For example, in the case of sequentially manufacturing another type of product, etc. In order to perform required cleaning of equipment and maintenance of some equipment, it is necessary to temporarily stop the equipment throughout the entire process, and as a result, when manufacturing multiple types of products, However, there is a problem that the production efficiency is significantly reduced.

Further, the manufacturing apparatus connected by a transfer pipe is used for cleaning the apparatus after use in each manufacturing step, repairing failures, etc., so that the apparatus is completely disassembled, assembled, etc. over the entire processing steps. Are often required to be performed at the same time, and the work is extremely wide-ranging and cumbersome and time-consuming, which limits the improvement of production efficiency. There was a problem to say.

Further, in the conventional continuous type manufacturing apparatus in which the processing apparatus in each processing step is fixedly connected by the transfer pipe, after the production is stopped, raw materials and the like are inevitably accumulated in the transfer pipe. Therefore, there is a problem that a considerable amount of raw materials and the like are lost.

On the other hand, the above-mentioned stainless steel container is filled with the contents, and the container is rolled to mix the contents,
After that, although the method of transferring to each process is a pipeless method, it is merely a rolling and transferable cooking tank of a normal form that can be sealed, and cooking is performed. It is limited to special ones such as low temperature sterilization cooking, and it was difficult to expand and use this as it is as a general food manufacturing device.

By the way, in recent years, for example, in the field of food manufacturing, as the tendency of diversification of products to be manufactured on a production line, the variety of products, and the improvement of quality of products have been increasing, the conventional method has been used. It is becoming important to establish manufacturing equipment and manufacturing systems suitable for high-mix low-volume production instead of manufacturing equipment and manufacturing systems suitable for the same product and mass production. Since a large-scale continuous manufacturing apparatus with fixedly connected transfer pipes suitable for the above has various problems as described above, it is a manufacturing method that aims at high-mix low-volume production. It is becoming more and more difficult to use as a device or a manufacturing system. Therefore, in the industry, it is possible to surely solve the above problems found in the conventional continuous food manufacturing apparatus and the like, and to suitably use them for a large variety of products in small quantities. There was a strong demand for the development of new types of manufacturing equipment and systems that were possible.

[0012]

Under the circumstances, the inventors of the present invention have fundamentally solved the above problems found in the conventional continuous manufacturing apparatus connected by the transfer pipe. As a result of intensive research aimed at developing a completely new type of manufacturing equipment and manufacturing system that is suitable for high-mix, low-volume production, as a result of replacing conventional pipes for transfer, a completely new type of multifunction By developing a conveyor system and constructing a new production system in which it is movably interposed between the manufacturing machines in each processing step, multiple kinds of foods can be manufactured simultaneously or sequentially with high production efficiency. Succeeded in developing an apparatus for producing various kinds of food suitable for, and filed a patent application (Japanese Patent Application Nos. 5-313614 and 5-3126).
No. 15, Japanese Patent Application No. 5-313616, Japanese Patent Application No. 5-312
617).

Further, the inventors of the present invention, for example, can use various stirring containers and product filling and discharging machines that can be suitably used in such a multi-product food production apparatus in the food production process. During the development of the product, we succeeded in developing a new type product stirring container and stirring blade that can store products and stir efficiently, and can perform discharge operation of products with high efficiency. The invention was completed.

An object of the present invention is to provide a stirring blade having a specific shape, which can be suitably used as a stirring container for filling and discharging products in a multi-product food manufacturing process or the like. is there.

Further, according to the present invention, it is possible to store the product and stir it efficiently, and to stir the stored product effectively and discharge it. It is intended to provide a new type of stirring blade having a shape.

[0016]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention for solving the above-mentioned problems is an agitation blade of an agitation container having a discharge port at the bottom and having an upper opening so that the bottom rotates near the bottom of the agitation container. The stirring blade of the stirring container, wherein the stirring blade is rotatably installed on the stirring vessel and has a stirring blade having a shape that expands spirally from the center toward the outside.

In another aspect of the present invention, the stirring container is
The above-mentioned stirring blade, which is a stirring tank for filling and discharging food used in the manufacturing process of various kinds of food. further,
Another aspect of the present invention is the above-mentioned stirring blade, which is located below the stirring device and is coaxially connected to the rotating shaft of the stirring device.
Is.

Next, the present invention will be described in more detail. As described above, the stirring blade of the present invention is, for example, a stirring blade of a stirring container with an upper opening having a discharge port at the bottom used in the manufacturing process of foods, especially in the manufacturing process of many kinds of foods. , A bottom part of which is rotatably installed so as to rotate close to the bottom part of the stirring vessel, and is equipped with a stirring blade having a shape that expands spirally from the center toward the outside. is there.

The stirring container used in the present invention is, for example, a stirring container having a top opening having a discharge port at the bottom used in the manufacturing process of various kinds of foods, and has, for example, a substantially circular cross section. A drum-shaped container having a suitable discharge port at the bottom thereof and capable of being installed with an agitator having an appropriate shape and structure rotatably installed around the center of the body is suitable. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and as long as it has a similar function, it can be similarly used regardless of its type. The agitation container is preferably used in a multi-product food manufacturing process by connecting a product discharge pipe to the bottom discharge port detachably so as to be used as a multi-product food agitation container from multiple angles. However, it goes without saying that it can be similarly used as a stirring container for not only foods but also other products.

The stirring blade of the present invention can be installed in the above stirring container alone or in combination with other stirring devices. For example, a conventional stirring device is rotatably installed around the center of the stirring container. What is added to and installed is illustrated as a suitable thing.

The stirring blade of the present invention is located at the center of the stirring container and is installed above the discharge port formed at the bottom of the stirring container, and spirals in the left or right winding direction from the center toward the outside. It has a shape that expands in a circular shape, and is installed such that its bottom is close to the bottom of the stirring container. Further, the stirring blade is rotatably connected to a driving device located above the stirring container, so that the product stored in the stirring container is centered inward from the enlarged outer end of the spiral shape. It is possible to take in in the direction and appropriately discharge from the discharge port located at the bottom of the stirring container.

The rotating operation of the stirring blade can be adjusted to an appropriate rotating speed by the driving device, and can be rotated continuously or discontinuously. According to the above, a proper rotation speed and a proper rotation interval may be set. Further, the structure of the bottom portion of the stirring blade of the present invention may be substantially the same as the structure of the bottom portion of the stirring container, for example, in the form of substantially matching the inclination angle of the bottom of the stirring container, toward the center thereof. The one formed so as to be inclined is exemplified as a preferable one. The stirring blade of the present invention,
It is also possible to install it so as to be connected to a stirring device located above it, and in this case, the stirring blade can be rotated in conjunction with or independently of the stirring device. In addition, the stirring device, the product stored in the stirring container, the entire side of the stirring container from the side wall to the bottom of the stirring container, efficiently,
Any material may be used as long as it has a function of uniformly stirring, and is not particularly limited.

[0023]

As described above, the stirring blade of the present invention is, for example, a stirring blade of a stirring container having a top opening having a discharge port at the bottom used in the manufacturing process of foods, the bottom of which is a stirring container. It is rotatably installed so as to rotate close to the bottom and has a shape that expands spirally from the center to the outside, so it has a high viscosity such as pasty products stirred in a stirring container. In discharging the product having the property of from the discharge port at the bottom of the stirring container, the product is taken in from the spiral outer end toward the inner center,
By efficiently guiding the products to the discharge port, the discharge operation of the products can be reliably performed. Further, by setting the rotating direction of the stirring blades in the opposite direction to the above-mentioned taking-in direction, it becomes possible to efficiently and uniformly stir the product located at the bottom of the stirring container.

[0024]

EXAMPLES Next, the present invention will be explained more specifically based on examples, but the present invention is not limited to the examples. Embodiment An embodiment of the stirring blade of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing a stirring container equipped with a conventional stirring device. In the figure, A is a horizontal cross section of the stirring container and the stirring device, and B is a vertical cross section thereof. Also, in the figure,
Reference numeral 1 denotes a drum-shaped stirring container. 2 indicates the bottom of the stirring container, and 3 indicates the side wall. 4 is a discharge port formed at the center of the bottom of the stirring container, 5 is the rotating shaft of the stirring device, 6 is a side wall blade, 7 is a bottom outer blade, and 8 is a bottom blade. Reference numeral 9 denotes an end portion of a drive device (not shown) connected to the rotary shaft 5.

On the other hand, FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing an embodiment of the stirring blade of the present invention. In the figure, A is a horizontal cross section of the stirring container and the stirring blade, and B is a vertical cross section thereof. Further, in the figure, reference numeral 11 denotes a stirring container provided with the stirring blade of the present invention. Reference numeral 12 denotes a bottom portion of the stirring container, and 13 denotes a side wall. 14 is an outlet located at the center of the bottom of the stirring container, 15
Is a rotating shaft of a stirring device located above the stirring blade, and 15 'is a rotating shaft of the stirring blade of the present invention integrally connected to the rotating shaft of the stirring device. Reference numeral 16 denotes a side wall blade of the above stirring device, and 17 denotes a bottom outer blade. Reference numeral 18 denotes the stirring blade of the present invention, which has a shape that expands spirally from the center toward the outside, and has a structure in which the bottom portion is installed so as to rotate close to the bottom portion 12 of the stirring container. 19 is the rotary shaft 15,
15 'shows the end of a drive (not shown) connected to it.

A product having a high viscosity, such as a pasty food product stored in the stirring container 1, is a stirring device and a stirring blade 1.
After mixing and stirring under appropriate conditions by rotating 8, the discharge port 14 at the bottom of the stirring container is opened, the spiral stirring blade 18 is rotated, and the product is rotated from the spiral outer end. It is sequentially taken in, guided to the discharge port 14, and discharged from the discharge port 14. A discharge pipe is detachably connected to the discharge port 14 at the bottom of the stirring container. Further, the stirring device and the stirring blade 18 connected to the driving device are moved to the upper and outer sides of the stirring container after the product discharging operation is completed, and the discharging port 1
4 is disconnected from the discharge pipe connected to the stirring vessel 11
Can be transferred to another process via the transfer means, and further, the product can be filled and the above operation can be repeated.

[0027]

As described in detail above, the present invention is, for example, for agitating a stirring container having an upper opening having a discharge port at the bottom, which is used in a food manufacturing process, in particular, a multi-product food manufacturing process. A blade, the bottom portion of which is rotatably installed so as to rotate close to the bottom portion of the stirring vessel, and is equipped with a stirring blade having a shape that expands spirally from the center toward the outside. According to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained. (1) When discharging a product stirred in a stirring container from a discharge port at the bottom of the stirring container in a food manufacturing process or the like, a spiral stirring blade efficiently guides the product to the discharge port sequentially and stabilizes the product. And, it can be surely discharged. (2) In the production process of various kinds of foods, in particular, products having a high viscosity property such as pasty products can be efficiently discharged from the discharge port of the stirring container. (3) By changing the rotation direction, the functions of stirring and discharging can be selectively used.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing a conventional stirring device and a stirring container.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing an embodiment of a stirring blade of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Stirring container 2 Bottom 3 Side wall 4 Discharge port 5 Rotating shaft 6 Side wall blade 7 Side wall blade 7 Bottom outer blade 8 Bottom blade 9 Driving device end 11 Stirring container 12 Bottom 13 Side wall 14 Discharge port 15 Rotating shaft of stirring device 15 'Rotation of stirring blade Axis 16 Sidewall wing 17 Bottom outer wing 18 Bottom wing 19 Drive device end

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued Front Page (72) Inventor Yoshiaki Ishino 1-5-7 Mikitei-cho, Higashi-Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture House Foods Co., Ltd. (72) Takeshi Nakai 1-5-5 Mikitei-cho, Higashi-Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture No. 7 House Food Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Hiroaki Kobayashi 1-5-7 Mikitei Sakae, Higashiosaka City, Osaka Prefecture House Food Co., Ltd.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A stirring blade of a stirring container having a top opening having a discharge port at the bottom, the stirring blade being installed rotatably so that the bottom rotates in the vicinity of the bottom of the stirring container. The stirring blade of the above-mentioned stirring container, which is equipped with a stirring blade having a spirally expanding shape. 2. The stirring blade according to claim 1, wherein the stirring container is a stirring pot for filling and discharging food used in the manufacturing process of various kinds of food. 3. The stirring blade according to claim 1, wherein the stirring blade is located below the stirring device and is coaxially connected to the rotating shaft of the stirring device.