JPH09121795A - Ingredient feeding apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ingredient feeding apparatus capable of uniformly applying an ingredient all over the whole cooked cereal layer under transportation. SOLUTION: An ingredient charged into a hopper 1 is pushed into the hopper with a pair of pushing rods 3 vertically reciprocating along the inclined wall surface of the hopper 1 to prevent the formation of a bridge between the walls. The ingredient supplied to an ingredient delivery screw zone 2 is successively transferred from its tip opening to an ingredient spreading screw zone 13 and uniformly spread in lateral direction with an ingredient spreading screw 18. The ingredient uniformly spread in lateral direction is scraped with a scraper to uniformize the height and dropped on a cooked cereal layer being transported by a conveyor 14 of the main line.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an ingredient supplying device for supplying ingredients to steamed grains such as rice to provide mixed cooked rice.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional ingredient continuous feeding apparatus for cereals includes a combination of a screw conveyor and a slide type conveyor. For example, as shown in FIG. A screw conveyor (not shown) is provided in the lower box 32 of the device, and the tool is received from the outlet of the screw conveyor by a slide type belt conveyor 33 which is expandable and contractable with respect to the ingredient supplying device. Conveyor 3 of this line where steamed grains to be mixed with ingredients are conveyed from the tip
Drop to 5. At this time, the belt conveyor 3 of the main line
5, the slide conveyor 33 is repeatedly slid from one end in the direction orthogonal to the flow of the belt conveyor 35 (direction of arrow A in FIG. 14) to the opposite end, while the slide conveyor 33 also A system is used in which the components placed on the conveyor 33 are sequentially driven by being driven.

[0003]

Conventionally, for example, FIG.
The method for supplying the ingredients to the steamed grains being conveyed by the belt conveyer 35 of the main line of the continuous grain steaming treatment apparatus by the ingredient feeder shown in FIG. Since the slide belt conveyor 33 is sequentially dropped while reciprocating from the tip of the conveyor 33 in the direction orthogonal to the conveying direction of the belt conveyor 35 of the main line, at both end portions in the width direction of the flow of the belt conveyor 35 of the main line. The slide belt conveyor 33 has to be stopped once, and the amounts of ingredients supplied onto the steamed cereal are different between the both ends and the central part in the width direction.

Further, the slide type belt conveyor 33 is a system in which the tool is not reciprocated and is supplied onto the belt conveyor 35 which is running in the main line having a conveying direction perpendicular to the reciprocating direction of the conveyor 33. Therefore, the tool is supplied on the belt conveyor 35 of the main line in a zigzag shape.

Therefore, even if the steamed cereal layer being conveyed is disentangled by a disentangling machine (crusher) in the next step of the present line, it is difficult to uniformly mix the ingredients in the whole steamed cereal layer.

Although a continuous grain steaming device is not shown, the continuous grain steaming device used in the present invention uses a steam steaming device and a hot water dipping device. For example, a pre-soaked grain is used as a primary steaming device. This is a device for sequentially transporting the grains into the hot water dipping device and the secondary steaming device, and then, if necessary, steaming the grain layer via the second hot water dipping device.

Further, the components of the slide type belt conveyor 33 can be averaged and dropped as fine lumps onto the steamed cereal layer on the belt conveyor 35 of the present line. Because of the formula, it is impossible on the mechanism. Furthermore, in the hopper 31 into which the ingredients are loaded, the ingredients tend to be clumped due to their nature and a bridge is likely to be generated between the inner walls of the hopper 1,
It is also difficult to always supply the ingredients on the slide type belt conveyor 33 evenly.

An object of the present invention is to provide an ingredient supplying device capable of evenly and evenly feeding the ingredient to the entire cooked cereal layer being conveyed. Moreover, the subject of this invention is providing the ingredient | tool supply apparatus which can prevent generation | occurrence | production of a bridge in an apparatus.

[0009]

The above objects of the present invention can be achieved by the following means. That is, a storing means for storing the storing means and a storing means for widening the storing means inside the storing means so as to evenly and uniformly supply the whole cooked cereals being conveyed, or a supplying means for supplying a tool, or an arm is moved up and down. A hopper provided with a pushing device for the tool, and a tool feed screw section provided with a screw for horizontally feeding the tool to the bottom of the hopper and a tool received from the tool feed screw section,
It is an ingredient supply device provided with an ingredient widening screw part which has a screw which widens an ingredient uniformly in the width direction on a steamed-grain transportation conveyor.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A specific example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1 to 7 show the ingredient supply device of this embodiment. 1 is a side view of the ingredient supplying device, FIG. 2 is a view taken along the line AA of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a view taken along the line BB of FIG. 1, and FIG. 5 is a view taken along the line C-C, FIG. 5 is a view taken along the line D-D of FIG. 1 or 4, and FIG. 6 is a view taken along the line E of FIG. 1 or 7.
7 is a view taken along line -E, FIG. 7 is a view taken along line FF of FIG. 6, and is also a partially enlarged view of FIG. 1.

As is apparent from FIGS. 2 and 3, the tool is put into a hopper 1 having an inverted triangular cross section, and then the hopper 1
Is fed to the ingredient feeding screw section 2 provided at the bottom of the.

The hopper 1 is provided with a pair of pushing rods 3 that move up and down in the direction along the inclined wall surface of the hopper 1. The pushing rod 3 is a U-shaped rod as shown in FIG. 1, and both ends of the pushing rod 3 are air cylinders 5 and a hopper 1.
It is driven in the vertical direction along the inclined wall surface. The tools thrown into the hopper 1 by the pushing rod 3 are sequentially guided to the bottom of the hopper 1 without forming a bridge between the wall surfaces of the hopper 1. Further, since the level sensor 6 is provided in the hopper 1, when the number of tools in the hopper 1 is reduced, this state can be detected and the operator can be notified by an appropriate method.

The tool feed screw section 2 is a semi-cylindrical tube 7
(Figs. 1, 6 and 7) and the tool feed screw 9 provided inside the tube, and the tool feed screw part 2 has an extension portion longer than the width of the hopper 1 in the longitudinal direction. It can be conveyed to the extension by the tool feed screw 9. The rotation speed of the tool feed screw 9 can be set to a predetermined value by setting the rotation speed of the motor 10 to a constant speed by a speed regulator (not shown) on the operation panel.

The ingredients sequentially conveyed by the ingredient feeding screw 9 are supplied to the ingredient widening screw section 13 through an opening (not shown) provided at the tip of the ingredient feeding screw section 2. The ingredient widening screw part 13 is arranged above the conveyor 14 of the main line where the steamed cereal layer is conveyed, conveys the ingredient in the same direction as the traveling direction of the conveyor 14 of the main line, and is wider than the width of the conveyor 14 of the main line. An endless belt conveyor 15 having a slightly narrow width and a widening screw 18 having a width substantially equal to that of the belt conveyor 15 and having a rotating shaft 17 in its width direction.
It has. The rotating shaft 17 is supported by widening screw support arms 22 provided on both sides of the tool widening screw portion 13. By adjusting the arm 22, the distance (height) between the screw 18 and the belt surface of the conveyor 15 is adjusted according to the amount and the nature of the tool.

The opening at the tip of the ingredient feeding screw portion 2 is arranged above the central portion in the width direction of the ingredient widening screw portion 13, and the ingredient supplied from the opening is fed by the ingredient widening screw portion 13 to the ingredient widening screw portion 13. By 18, the particles are evenly distributed in the width direction. Further, since the scraper 21 is supported by the scraper supporting frame 19 at both ends, the height of the tools evenly distributed in the width direction is adjusted by the scraper 21 to spread the tool layers in the width direction of the belt conveyor 15. Will be done. The height of the scraper 21 is adjusted by adjusting the mounting position on the scraper support frame 19.

Then, the ingredients spread in the width direction of the belt conveyor 15 fall on the steamed cereal layer being conveyed on the conveyor 14 of the main line at the reversing portion of the conveyor 15.
At this time, the ingredients uniformly spread in the width direction of the belt conveyor 15 are evenly distributed and dropped in the width direction of the cooked cereal layer.

The rotation speed of the drive motor 25 of the belt conveyor 15 of the tool widening screw section 13 is also adjusted by the speed controller of the operation panel. The same applies to the drive motor 23 of the widening screw 18.

As described above, in this embodiment, the ingredients do not form a bridge in the popper 1 and are evenly dispersed in the width direction before falling on the cooked cereal layer, and continuously. Since it falls, the ingredients can be mixed evenly with the steamed cereal layer of this line, and steamed cereals with excellent quality such as pilaf can be obtained. Further, the shape of the push-in bar 3 and the position where it is arranged may be as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9. In the example shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the hopper 1 is attached along the vertical wall surface, but it can also be attached as it is along the inclined surface of the hopper 1. In this case, the push-in rod 3 has a U-shaped tip for preventing the bridge.

Further, since the density of the tool becomes maximum in the vicinity of the side surface of the tool in the hopper 1 in the direction of travel, the density of the tool becomes highest.
In the example shown in (1), the upper portion of the semi-cylindrical tube 7 is expanded at the entrance of the semi-cylindrical tube 7 so as to ease the bulge 7a. A cross section of the bulge 7 of the semi-cylindrical tube 7 is shown in FIG.

Further, as shown in FIGS. 11 to 13, the tool widening screw portion 13 is formed as one block, and the tool widening screw portion 13 is separated from the tool feeding screw portion 2 and attached to the tool feeding screw portion 2. Alternatively, two supporting round bars 27 may be taken out from the tool feeding screw section 2, and the tool widening screw 18 may be inserted into the round bar 27 and fixed.

As a result, at the position of the opening of the semi-cylindrical tube 7 of the tool feed screw 9, the belt conveyor 1 for tool widening.
Positioning can be easily adjusted with respect to the width direction of No. 5, and cleaning after the work can be easily performed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of an ingredient supply device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a view taken along the line AA of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a view taken along the line BB of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a view taken along the line CC of FIG.

5 is a view taken along the line DD of FIG. 1 or FIG.

FIG. 6 is a view taken along the line EE of FIG. 1 or 7.

7 is a view taken along the line FF of FIG.

FIG. 8 is a side view of the ingredient supply device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

9 is a view taken along the line AA of FIG.

10 is a sectional view of a bulge portion of the semi-cylindrical tube of FIG.

FIG. 11 is a modification of the EE line arrow view of FIG. 1 or FIG. 7.

FIG. 12 is a view taken along the line FF of FIG.

13 is a view taken along the line AA of FIG.

FIG. 14 is a perspective view showing a state in which ingredients are fed to the belt conveyor of the main line of the continuous grain steaming treatment apparatus by the conventional ingredient feeder.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 hopper 2 tool feed screw part 3 push rod 5 air cylinder 6 level sensor 7 semi-cylindrical tube 9 tool feed screw 10, 23 motor 13 tool widening screw part 14 conveyor line 15 belt conveyor 18 widening screw 19 scraper support frame 21 scraper 22 widening screw support arm 25 motor

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A tool supply characterized by comprising a storage means for storing the tool and a tool widening means capable of widening the tool in the storage means and uniformly supplying it to the whole steamed grain being conveyed. apparatus. 2. A hopper provided with a pushing device for a tool for moving an arm up and down, a tool feed screw section provided with a screw for horizontally sending the tool to the bottom of the hopper, and a tool received from the tool feed screw section, and a cooked grain A tool supply device comprising a tool widening screw portion having a screw for uniformly widening a tool in the width direction on a conveyor.