JPH09138159A - Canning system in provision of meals - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent erroneous canning in weight while shortening the time of canning work and reducing the facility cost. SOLUTION: The canning system comprises a controller 1 provided with canning information (a), and a weighing unit 5 connected with the controller 1 and fed with the canning information (a). The controller 1 is fed with canning information including the weight of meals to be contained in a can, i.e., a reference weight, an upper limit weight determined by adding a specified weight to the reference weight, and a lower limit weight determined by subtracting a specified weight from the reference weight. The weighing unit 5 comprises a section 52 for weighing a can containing meals, a section 53 for comparing a weighed value at the weighing section 52 with the reference weight, upper limit weight and lower limit weight of canning information (a), and a section 54 for displaying the comparison results (c) at least visually in four stages.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is installed in a facility such as a lunch center that cooks a large amount of meals and delivers them to a large number of delivery destinations. Belongs to the technical field of food delivery can distribution system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a food distribution can made of soup etc. (soup, stewed food, gastrointestinal food, etc.) is, for example, a means for placing a food can on a platform scale and comparing it with the scale of the platform scale.
While comparing the table showing the weight to be stored in the can with the scale on the platform, use a dipper from the cooked cauldron and the like, two ladles for 40 people, one dipper for 30
It has been practiced to accommodate people or the like in an appropriate amount inside a food can.

[0003]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the above-mentioned conventional canned food service, since the work is performed while comparing both the table and the scale, the canning work takes time and the weight of the can can be incorrect. There is a problem. For this reason, it becomes difficult to deliver meals to a large number of delivery destinations during meal times, and it becomes impossible to distribute an appropriate amount to each person for hospital meals and school meals that are sensitive to calories and nutrition. It may end up.

[0004] It should be noted that it is conceivable that the cans for feeding foods such as soups will be fully automated by combining known automatic weighing devices, automatic cooking product supply devices, and the like. However, in order to smoothly and automatically supply soups with different fluidity, shape, weight, etc. every day, it is necessary to develop and introduce a highly sophisticated automatic cooking product feeder, which increases equipment costs. Become.
For this reason, there is a background that it is not feasible to fully automate the distribution of canned foods such as soups.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above problems and backgrounds, and can provide a food service can that can reduce the can work time and prevent an error in the can weight at a low equipment cost. The challenge is to provide a system.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a food delivery can distribution system according to the present invention employs the following means.

That is, in claim 1, the controller is provided with a controller to which can distribution information is input, and a weighing instrument connected to the controller to transmit the can distribution information, wherein the controller is the weight of the meal to be accommodated in the can. Is input, can distribution information consisting of a reference weight, an upper limit weight obtained by adding a certain amount of weight to the reference weight, and a lower limit weight obtained by subtracting a certain amount of weight from the reference weight, and the weighing machine weighs the food can containing the meal. A weighing unit, a comparing unit that compares the weighing value of the weighing unit with the reference weight, the upper limit weight, and the lower limit weight of the can distribution information, and a display unit that at least visually displays the upper and lower comparison results of the comparing unit in four stages. It is provided.

According to this means, the can handing operator puts a can of food on the weighing section of the weighing machine, and while watching the four-step display on the display section of the weighing machine, dashes the meal consisting of soup from the cauldron cooked. It is possible to perform can distribution accurately within the permissible error of the upper limit weight and the lower limit weight simply by pumping it in and storing it in the food can. The configuration of each unit can be installed by applying a simple computer system.

[0009] According to a second aspect of the present invention, the controller is provided with a controller to which can distribution information is input, and a weighing instrument connected to the controller to transmit the can distribution information, wherein the controller is the weight of food to be accommodated in the can. The can distribution information consisting of the standard weight, the upper limit weight obtained by adding the constant weight to the standard weight, and the lower limit weight obtained by subtracting the constant weight from the standard weight is input, and the can distribution result of the meal on the weighing machine is recorded. The recording device is connected, and the weighing device has a weighing unit that weighs a can of canned food, and a comparing unit that compares the weighing value of the weighing unit with the reference weight, upper limit weight, and lower limit weight of can distribution information, A display unit for displaying at least four levels of comparison results of the comparison unit at least visually,
A transmitter for transmitting the final measured value of the metering unit to the controller is provided.

According to this means, the can handing operator puts a can of food on the weighing section of the weighing machine, and while watching the four-step display on the display section of the weighing machine, hesitates a meal consisting of soup or the like from the cooked cauldron. It is possible to perform can distribution accurately within the permissible error of the upper limit weight and the lower limit weight simply by pumping it in and storing it in the food can. As for the can distribution result, actual measurement data is recorded and accumulated. The configuration of each unit can be installed by applying a simple computer system.

[0011]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, an embodiment of a food delivery can distribution system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

In this embodiment, the one suitable for installation in a lunch center for cooking and delivering school meals distributed in "group" units is shown.

As shown in FIG. 1, this embodiment comprises a controller 1 and an input device 2, a printer 3 and a weighing machine 5 which are connected to the controller 1, respectively.

The controller 1 outputs and transmits to the weighing device 5 the can distribution information a including various information relating to the meal F input by the input device 2, and is a relatively simple computer having a CPU, a memory and the like built therein. Composed of equipment. In addition,
The input device 2 is a controller 1 via a key board directly connected to the controller 1 or an appropriate communication means.
It is composed of terminal equipment installed in a school outside the school lunch center indirectly connected to.

The "school name", "school year name" and "group name" are input to the controller 1 in advance. Then, by inputting the "group number" excluding the absentees of the day and the "one person equivalent weight" for each grade calculated from the nutritional science etc. of the school lunch F consisting of soup etc., each "group""Standardweight", which is the weight of the meal to be accommodated in the can B of "," is the "group number"
It is calculated as the product of "one person's weight". Further, based on the calculation of the "reference weight", the "upper limit weight" obtained by adding a certain weight to the "reference weight" and the "lower limit weight" obtained by subtracting the "reference weight" by a certain weight are calculated. The amount of increase / decrease of the “upper limit weight” and the “lower limit weight” with respect to the “reference weight” is set to about 0.3 kg, depending on the type of the meal F. All of these "school name", "grade year", "group name", "group number", "one person weight", "reference weight", "upper limit weight" and "lower limit weight" are stored in the weighing machine 5 as the can distribution information a. Is transmitted. This canning information a is 1
It is composed of one "group" as one unit.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the weighing device 5 includes an operating unit 51, a platform-type weighing unit 52 for weighing the canned food B containing the food F, and a weighing value b of the weighing unit 52. And a “reference weight”, “upper limit weight”, and “lower limit weight” of the can distribution information a, a comparison section 53, a display section 54 for displaying the comparison result c of the comparison section 53, and the final weighing of the weighing section 52. A transmission unit 55 that transmits the numerical value d to the controller 1 is provided. A plurality of the scales 5 are connected to the controller 1.

The operation unit 51 of the weighing instrument 5 includes a start switch 511 and a confirmation switch 512. The start switch 511 is for instructing the operation start of the weighing device 5 and for instructing the controller 1 to transmit the first one unit of the can distribution information a. The confirmation switch 512 instructs the controller 1 to transmit the next one unit of the can distribution information a after the can distribution work based on the one unit of the can distribution information a is completed, and sends the final weighing to the transmitter 55. It is for instructing the transmission of the numerical value d. It should be noted that before the canning work based on the one unit of canning information a is completed, the confirmation switch 51
2 is set to not work.

The weighing unit 52 of the weighing machine 5 continuously weighs the weight of the food F stored in the food can B, continuously transmits the measured numerical value b to the comparison unit 53 and the display unit 54, and finally Only the measured numerical value d is also transmitted to the transmission unit 55.

In the comparison unit 53 of the weighing device 5, only the "reference weight", "upper limit weight" and "lower limit weight" of the can distribution information a of the controller 1 are input to the comparison unit 53, and the measured numeric value is b is "0-lower limit weight""lower limit weight-reference weight"
The output is displayed on the display unit 54 after being classified and classified into four levels of “reference weight to upper limit weight” and “upper limit weight over value”.

The display unit 54 of the weighing instrument 5 is the controller 1
Window portion 541 for displaying all of the can distribution information a input from and the weighing numerical value b input from the weighing device 5 as visual numerical values and characters, and the four steps visually input from the comparing portion 53. Four lamps 542, 543 for color-coded lighting display
544 and 545, and an alarm buzzer 546 that aurally sounds an alarm sound when the stage input from the comparison unit 53 is the “upper limit weight value”. The operation unit 51 is provided near the window 541.

The transmitter 55 of the weighing device 5 uses the final weighing value d transmitted from the weighing unit 55 as it is in the controller 1.
To be transmitted. The transmission to the controller 1 is controlled by the confirmation switch 512 of the operation unit 51.

From the transmitter 55 of the measuring instrument 5 to the controller 1
The final measured numerical value d transmitted to the printer 1 is transmitted from the input device 2 to the printer 3 as the actual measurement data e integrated with the can distribution information a input to the controller 1, and is used as various databases and list prints. It

With respect to a plurality of weighing devices 5, the controller 1 corresponds to each operation of the confirmation switch 512 of the operation unit 51 and relates to a relevant unit (a group of the can distribution information a transmitted earlier, a school year). (Nearly) can be selectively transmitted one after another and efficient can distribution is performed in the entire weighing machine 5.

In the embodiment configured as described above, the equipment cost can be reduced because the equipment can be installed by applying a simple computer system of relatively low cost.

In addition, when using this embodiment, the can handing operator is required to start the start switch 51 of the operating portion 51 of the weighing machine 5.
1 is operated to place the canned food B on the weighing unit 52, and the lamps 542, 543 displayed in the four stages of the display unit 54 of the weighing machine 5 are displayed.
It suffices to grab the meal F made of soup or the like from the cooked cauldron or the like while observing 544 and 545 by a dipper and store it in the can B. That is, the lamp 5 of "0 to lower limit weight"
42, when only the “lower limit weight to reference weight” lamp 543 is turned on, the accommodation amount of the meal F is further increased. Then, while only the “0 to lower limit weight” lamp 542, the “lower limit weight to reference weight” lamp 543, and the “reference weight to upper limit weight” lamp 544 are lit, the canning work is completed and operated. The confirmation switch 512 of the section 51 is operated. If the “upper limit weight over value” lamp 545 is also turned on and the alarm buzzer 543 sounds, the accommodation amount of the meal F is reduced.

Therefore, the piping work is much easier and the piping work time is shortened as compared with the conventional cans in which small tables and scales are compared. Further, since the food F stored in the food can B is always within the tolerance of the upper limit weight and the lower limit weight, the food can be delivered with an accurate weight.

After the canning work is completed, the delivery destination can be accurately confirmed by the "school name", "school year name" and "group name" displayed on the window 541 of the display unit 54 of the weighing machine 5. .

Further, by operating the confirmation switch 512 of the operation section 51 after the completion of the can distribution work, the next can distribution work can be started. As a safety device, when the weight is below the lower limit and above the upper limit, the canning work does not proceed even if the confirmation switch 512 is operated.

As described above, in addition to the embodiment shown in the drawings, by changing the contents of the can distribution information a, it is possible to install the food in the catering facilities of other organizations or companies.

Further, although not so effective, it can also be used for a meal F made of solid matter.

[0031]

As described above, the food delivery can system according to the present invention has the following effects. (A) Since it is only necessary to perform can distribution by looking at the four-stage display section displayed on the weighing machine, there is an effect that the can distribution work is facilitated and the can distribution work time is shortened. Further, due to this effect, the meal can be reliably delivered to many delivery destinations within the meal time. (B) Since the food stored in the food can always falls within the allowable error of the upper limit weight and the lower limit weight, there is an effect that the can distribution weight becomes accurate. Further, due to this effect, an appropriate amount can be distributed and distributed to each person for hospital meals, school meals, etc. that are sensitive to calories and nutrition. (C) Since it can be installed by applying a low price and simple device, there is an effect that the facility cost becomes low. (D) There is an effect that it becomes possible to collect data of meal results.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of constituent devices showing an embodiment of a lunch can distribution system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a main part of FIG.

3 is a partially enlarged front view of FIG. 2. FIG.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the control of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Controller 2 Input Device 3 Printer 5 Measuring Device 51 Operating Unit 52 Measuring Unit 53 Measuring Unit 53 Comparing Unit 54 Display Unit 55 Transmitting Unit B Food Can F Food Lunch a Can Distribution Information b Measured Value c Measured Value e Measured Data

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A controller to which can distribution information is input,
The weighing machine is connected to the controller and transmits can distribution information.The controller measures the reference weight, which is the weight of the meal to be stored in the can, the upper limit weight obtained by adding a certain weight to the reference weight, and the reference weight. The can distribution information consisting of the lower limit weight reduced by a certain weight is entered, and the weighing machine measures the weighing can containing the food, the weighing value of the weighing unit, the reference weight of the can distribution information, the upper limit weight, A canning system for lunch, comprising a comparing section for comparing the lower limit weight and a display section for visually displaying the comparison result of the comparing section in at least four stages. 2. A controller to which can distribution information is input,
The weighing machine is connected to the controller and transmits can distribution information.The controller measures the reference weight, which is the weight of the meal to be stored in the can, the upper limit weight obtained by adding a certain weight to the reference weight, and the reference weight. The can distribution information consisting of the lower limit weight reduced by a certain amount is input, and a recording device is connected to record the result of the can distribution of meals by the weighing machine, and the weighing machine weighs the food can containing the meal. A weighing unit, a comparing unit for comparing the weighing value of the weighing unit with the reference weight, upper limit weight, and lower limit weight of the can distribution information, and a display unit for visually displaying the comparison result of the comparing unit in at least four stages, A canning system for lunch, which is provided with a transmitting unit for transmitting the final measured value of the unit to the controller.