JPH089060Y2 - Noodle transport facility - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a noodle transporting facility for transporting noodles such as somen noodles.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Noodles such as somen noodles are produced by making thin string-shaped original noodles in the shape of "8" between the so-called "hashi" arranged in plural rows at the time of manufacturing the noodles. Inserting a separating bar into the two "-shaped" annular spaces as appropriate and performing a separating process, gradually extending it to obtain noodle products of a specified diameter (soiled noodles), and then cutting it to a specified length. It

Since the noodles produced as described above are stretched under the condition that their own weight acts on the top and bottom, the noodles cut into the above-mentioned predetermined dimensions have different diameters at both ends, and as a result, the noodles are cut. When noodles are packed in a box with the same end portions on the same side, the noodles are packaged in a tilted state, with the thicker side swelling and the smaller diameter side becoming smaller.

Therefore, conventionally, when packaging noodles such as noodles that have been cut to a predetermined size in a box, by hand, half the noodles to be boxed are appropriately turned 180 degrees so that all the noodles are the same. It was packed in a box so that it would not be oriented.

In addition, since the above-mentioned noodle making and spreading processes are generally performed in a dry state where powder is scattered around and at a high temperature, weighing work and boxing are different from each other, which is desirable for the working environment and the environment in which the weighing machine is installed. It is done in place.

Therefore, conventionally, noodles cut into a predetermined size have been conveyed by a hand cart to a remote place where the above weighing and boxing are performed.

[0007]

[Problems to be solved by the device] However, in recent years,
The production of somen noodles, which is carried out as a sideline by farmers, has been desired to be mechanized due to labor shortages due to the aging of workers and soaring labor costs, as in the agricultural field.

The present invention has been made under such a circumstance, and conveys the noodles from the manufacturing place to the weighing / boxing place, and reverses the direction of about half of the noodles required for weighing and boxing in the carrying process. It is an object of the present invention to provide a noodle-conveying facility for performing the treatment.

[0009]

Noodles transport facility according to the invention of the problem-solving means for the present claim 1 wherein, in the noodle transport facility for transporting to the location spaced noodles cut into a predetermined size, the noodles conveying equipment, top opening The noodles may be in the same direction as the conveying direction.
Are buckets that are housed and transported in a line in the orthogonal direction
And a forward line and a backward line for transporting the bucket are arranged side by side in a plan view.
An endless conveyor that conveys noodles inside
Aligned in the direction orthogonal to or the same direction
Can be transported as it is and discharged downward in the same alignment direction.
And a feed conveyor having a configured bucket,
The forward line and the backward line of the above conveyor are installed side by side.
At the upper position of the part where the
And at a position orthogonal to the return line,
Noodles stored for the noodles in the bucket of the transfer conveyor
The above-mentioned supply conveyors in which buckets are arranged in such a manner that their directions coincide with each other, and the supply conveyors located on the forward line and the return line where both conveyors are orthogonal to each other are located above.
Each of the conveyors located below the Nveyer bucket
The bucket, characterized in that the noodles in the amount of half of the capacity of the bucket is configured to be supplied.

Further, the noodle-conveying facility according to the invention as defined in claim 2 is the noodle-conveying facility according to the invention as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the noodles are shaken at the point of supplying the noodles to the supply conveyor. A noodle supply feeder for arranging the noodles is arranged.

[0011]

[Action] Thus, according to the noodles transport facility according to the invention of the claim 1 wherein, the noodles are cut into a predetermined size, and the supply conveyor, the conveyor connected thereto, to be conveyed to a predetermined position It is possible to
As described above, the feed conveyor is formed from the feed conveyor at two points intersecting both lines, which are formed by arranging the feed conveyor in the upper position so as to be orthogonal to the forward line and the backward line of the feed conveyor. If noodles are supplied to the bucket in half of the capacity of the bucket, half of the noodles will be in a state in which the direction is reversed (180 degrees reversed), and the bulk of the noodles at both ends in the bucket will be the same. Therefore, when the noodles are packed in the hopper of the weighing machine and at the same time, the both ends of the noodles have the same bulk, and it becomes possible to smoothly measure and pack the noodles.

Further, according to the noodles transport facility according to the invention of the claims 2 wherein, when supplying the noodles to noodles supply conveyor,
If the noodles are fed in the same direction, the noodle feeding feeder feeds the noodles to the feeding conveyor in a state where the noodles are properly aligned, so even in the case of thin noodles such as somen noodles, in the subsequent step, the noodles are smoothly fed. It becomes possible to carry and weigh.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a noodle transportation facility according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a front view, and FIG. 3 is a side view.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a chain conveyor which is an endless chain conveyor in plan view , and a forward movement line 1A and a backward movement line 1B of the chain conveyor 1 are provided side by side. A supply conveyor 2 is arranged above the line 1B so as to be orthogonal to the line 1B.

The chain conveyor 1 has a driving sprocket 1a on its head and a sprocket 1a rotatably on its tail.
However, while the rotating shafts are respectively arranged in the vertical direction,
A sprocket (not shown) for direction change is similarly arranged in the middle, and a drive chain 1b is wound around these sprockets 1a. Then, in this embodiment, as shown in FIG.
As shown in the figure, each sprocket 1a has one rotation shaft.
The chain 1b is arranged in two steps in 1h and the chain 1b is also arranged in two steps, and the metal fitting 1c for fixing the bucket 1D is provided between the chains 1b and 1b arranged in the two steps. There is.

Further, at a position slightly lower than the lower chain 1b, traveling surfaces 1f for traveling wheels 1e disposed at four corners of a bucket 1D having an open upper surface are formed.
Then, as shown in FIG. 3, an opening 1g is formed at a position on the traveling surface 1f where the weighing machine 6 is arranged,
Below the opening 1g, an alignment chute 5 provided with a guide plate in a zigzag shape is arranged for transporting the noodles to the weighing machine 6 below in an aligned state.

As shown in FIG. 2, the supply conveyor 2 is a so-called bucket elevator type conveyor, and in this embodiment, it has horizontal conveyors 2A and 2B at the lower and upper portions and a vertical conveyor 2C at the middle portion. Have. And the horizontal transport section on the upper part
2B is the forward line 1B of the chain conveyor 1 as described above
And the return line 1A at right angles to the chain conveyor 1
Located above. In this supply conveyor 2, drive chains 2a are stretched endlessly on both sides, and a support shaft 7b always opens between the drive chains 2a on both sides.
Buckets 7 pivotally supported so that 7a is on the upper side are arranged at predetermined intervals. Further, at the bottom of the bucket 7, there is provided a discharge lid 7A which can be opened by a lever (not shown).

By the way, below the supply conveyor 2 in the portions A and B where the forward movement line 1A, the backward movement line 1B of the chain conveyor 1 and the supply conveyor 2 are orthogonal, a vibrating device 3 (with a hopper 3c) is provided below the supply conveyor 2. 3A, 3B) are installed, and the vibration device 3 (3A, 3B,
3B) is provided with an openable / closable lower end discharge port 3a facing the transfer line of the chain conveyor 1. The vibrating device 3 functions to vibrate and align the noodles discharged from the bucket 7 of the supply conveyor 2 when the noodles are supplied to the chain conveyor 1. Further, the lower end discharge port 3a of the vibrating device 3 is configured to open and close in synchronization with the tact operation of the chain conveyor 1 and the supply conveyor.

A noodle feeding feeder 4 is provided at the noodle feeding position 2D to the feeding conveyor 2 and the front portion of which is connected to an outlet of a noodle cutting device (not shown). At the upper part of the noodle supply feeder 4, a step-like bottom surface 4a descending in the conveying direction is provided.
And a supply port 4C having a door 4B that opens toward the bucket 7 of the supply conveyor 2 at the lower end in synchronization with the tact operation of the supply conveyor 2. It is set up.

By the way, in this embodiment, the bucket 7 is
The capacity of bucket 1D is "2"
The capacity of each bucket is set so as to be (or have an integer multiple of “2”).

However, the noodle-conveying equipment having the above-mentioned structure operates as follows when conveying the noodles. That is, the noodles discharged from a noodle cutting device (not shown) and cut into a predetermined size are supplied to the supply feeder 4 in a substantially aligned state, and are completely aligned by the vibrating operation of the supply feeder 4 in the supply port. Supply conveyor 2 moving downward from 4C
Is supplied into the bucket 7.

In the bucket 7 of the supply conveyor 2 , as shown in FIG.
As illustrated, a predetermined amount of noodles supplied in an aligned state such that the longitudinal direction of the noodles is orthogonal to the transport direction is transported upwards,
A lever (not shown) of the bucket 7 comes into contact with the discharging operation guide above the vibrating device 3B, and the discharging lid 7A rotates about 90 degrees to supply the inside noodles into the hopper 3c of the vibrating device 3B. At this time, at the same time, the rear (succeeding) bucket 7 located above the vibrating device 3A of the supply conveyor 2 also rotates about 90 degrees to feed the inside noodles into the hopper of the vibrating device 3A.

After vibrating for a predetermined time, the vibrating device 3B, in a state in which the longitudinal direction of the bucket 1D on the forward line 1B of the chain conveyor 1 coincides with the carrying direction,
Half the capacity of the bucket 1D is supplied. Further, the vibrating device 3A, after vibrating for the predetermined time, in the conveying direction to the bucket 1D on the return line 1A of the chain conveyor 1 to which half the number of noodles has already been supplied by the vibrating device 3B. Long
The remaining half of the noodles in the bucket 1D are supplied in a state where the directions match .

Therefore, the return line of the chain conveyor 1
After passing below the vibrating device 3A provided on the 1A, the bucket 1D of the chain conveyor 1 is filled with a predetermined amount of noodles.

In the bucket 1D, half of the noodles are supplied in the same direction, and the other half of the noodles are inverted.
Bucket 1D because it is supplied in (180 degree reversed state)
Inside, the bulk of both ends of the noodle is the same.

Then, the noodles filled in the bucket 1D are
The chain conveyor 1 conveys it to a predetermined position in the vicinity of the weighing machine 6 (a position where the opening 1g is formed on the traveling surface), where the bottom of the bucket 1D of the chain conveyor 1 opens to align the noodles inside. Supply into the chute 5.

The noodles are slid downward while maintaining the aligned state in the alignment chute by their own weight and supplied to the weighing machine 6.

By the way, in the above embodiment, the vibrating device 3 is used.
To the supply conveyor 2 and the chain conveyor 1
Although it was provided at two places of the supply place to, it is possible to provide only one of them.

[0030]

[Effects of the Invention] According to the noodle transporting equipment of the present invention, the noodles can be automatically transported from the manufacturing place to the weighing / boxing place by a machine without manpower, and moreover, it is necessary for packaging in the transporting process. Since it is possible to reverse the direction of half of the noodles, it is possible to significantly save labor compared with the conventional method.

Further, if an automatic weighing machine is arranged on the downstream side of this transportation facility, it is possible to automatically perform cutting, transportation and weighing.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall schematic plan view of a noodle transportation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view taken along the line II of FIG. 1 showing the configuration of a supply conveyor and a noodle supply feeder that supply the chain conveyor.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view taken along the line II-II in FIG. 1 showing a state of conveyance to a chain conveyor and a weighing machine provided in the vicinity thereof.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Chain conveyor (conveyor conveyor) 1A ... Return line 1B ... Forward line 1D ... Bucket 2 ... Supply conveyor

Claims (2)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A noodle transporting facility for transporting noodles cut to a predetermined size to a separated location, wherein the noodle transporting facility has an upper surface opened and the noodles are fed in the same direction as or in a straight direction.
Includes buckets for storing and transporting in line with intersecting directions
In addition, the transport line in a plan view in which the forward line and the backward line for transporting the bucket are arranged side by side
The endless conveyor conveys the noodles inside or in the same direction as the direction perpendicular to the conveying direction.
Aligning, storing and transporting and aligning downward
And a supply conveyor equipped with a bucket configured so that it can be discharged as it is , and the forward line and the backward line of the transfer conveyor are installed side by side.
At the upper position of the part where the
And at a position orthogonal to the return line,
Noodles stored for the noodles in the bucket of the transfer conveyor
Is the supply conveyor arrangement direction is arranged bucket in a state such that matching in both conveyor orthogonal forward on the line and backward on the line, below the bucket feed conveyor located above
Each bucket conveyor located, noodles conveying equipment, characterized in that the noodles in the amount of half of the capacity of the bucket is configured to be supplied. 2. The noodle-conveying facility according to claim 1, wherein a noodle supply feeder for arranging the noodles by shaking during supply is arranged at a position where the noodles are supplied to the supply conveyor.