JPH09144A - Apparatus for producing noodle - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for producing noodles capable of simply producing a noodle belt capable of affording tasty noodles by forming the base of a kneading tank in a kneading part into nearly a circular arc shape and enabling the base to freely open and close with bottom plates. SOLUTION: This apparatus for producing noodles is obtained by forming the base of a kneading tank 101 in a kneading part 10 into nearly a circular arc shape and enabling the base to freely open and close with bottom plates 103. A raw material substance for thin white noodles is charged into the kneading tank 101, stirred and kneaded with stirring rods into prescribed kneading conditions. The resultant noodle mass is then transferred to a rolling part 11 by opening the bottom plates 103.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a noodle making device. More specifically, the present invention simplifies and improves the efficiency of making noodles by hand, which required a great deal of labor and a lot of time, and does not lose the original taste of noodles. , An automatic noodle making device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, various kinds of noodles have been manufactured and marketed, but some of them have the characteristic of maintaining the deliciousness of noodles as a tradition by handwork. As a result, we have built up a work system to make the most of it. There is local somen noodle that is based on such a traditional handicraft. For this noodle, for example, salt and water are added to wheat flour as a raw material for noodles, and if necessary, a water-dissolved product of noodle knot (noodles scraps obtained when the noodles are dried and cut) is added and kneaded. The many steps of rolling the obtained noodle mass, further stretching it into strips, dividing this, further combining them, and finally molding and collecting noodle strings with a predetermined cross-sectional size Is done manually.
In the case of somen noodles, the noodle strings thus obtained are further manually extended, dried and cut into somen noodles.

Mechanical means are partially applied to the above-mentioned forming operation of the noodle strings, and various contrivances have been made as the so-called unit operation for operations such as kneading, stretching and dividing. However, regarding the whole process,
Still, it depends on the labor and time as handwork, and in particular, the operations of stretching, dividing and uniting with forming noodle strings are difficult to mechanize, and handwork guarantees the deliciousness of some noodles. Has been said. However, this kind of labor-intensive and time-consuming handwork adds significant problems such as lack of skilled workers and difficulty in improving productivity. Mechanization that made the best use of was required as a request of the times. And, the apparatus for partially mechanized unit operation which has been improved so far is only a so-called batch process which is not considered as an automated process as a whole, and also brings out the deliciousness of noodles. It was not always possible to configure the operation for. In particular, in such a conventional kneading section for noodles as a batch process, there has been a further need to devise a device for automation and a device for bringing out the deliciousness utilizing the experience of handwork.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and in the production of noodles such as plain noodles, the production of noodle strips from a noodle raw material can be carried out more easily and efficiently. Moreover, it aims to provide a new means that makes the most of the experience of handwork.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] As a solution to the above problems, the present invention provides a noodle making device comprising a noodle raw material kneading section, wherein the kneading section comprises a noodle raw material charging opening and a stirring means. A kneading tank having a substantially arcuate bottom surface is provided, and the bottom surface of the kneading tank is openable / closable by the bottom plate constituting the kneading tank. A noodle making device (claim 1) is provided.

Further, the present invention is a noodle making apparatus comprising a kneading section for noodle raw materials and a rolling section for noodle masses, wherein the rolling section has a plurality of rotating rollers arranged in a substantially downward arc shape. The pair of rotating rollers at the bottom of the pair are provided with a pair or more, and the supporting shaft itself is rotated so that the interval between them can be expanded, and the noodle mass rolled by the rotating roller is the maximum. Lower rotation roll
The noodle making device is characterized in that it is taken out by the expansion of the interval by the rotation of the support shaft of the la. A noodle making device (claims 4 to 6), a combination of a rolling part and a kneading part (claim 7), and a slide plate part for adjusting the width of the An automatic noodle making device (claim 8) is also provided.

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION According to the present invention, with the above-described structure, the production of noodle strings, which has been conventionally performed essentially by hand even if partial mechanical operation is introduced,
With a simpler structure, it is possible to efficiently and automatically produce various noodle strings such as noodles, buckwheat noodles, and Chinese noodles with a cross section of a predetermined size, making good use of the experience of handwork. I am trying.

The present invention provides a device having a characteristic in the kneading section and the rolling section, but these are not only excellent as unit units, but these noodle making apparatuses of the present invention are For example, as illustrated in the block diagram of its configuration in FIG. 1, it may be incorporated as an automatic process including a kneading unit after the raw material supply unit, a rolling unit, a noodle band forming unit and a noodle band collecting unit, and noodles for each process Transfer (S ₁ ) (S ₂ ) (S
₃ ), and further, the operation of each step, such as the transfer of noodles at the operation section for drawing, dividing and coalescing in the noodle band forming section (S ₂₁ ) (S ₂₂ ) (S ₂₃ ), It can be controlled without being cut off.

In this case, as described above, the noodle strip forming unit is selectively combined with an automatic operation unit for stretching, dividing and uniting, and a plurality of these units are arranged as one unit of stretching-dividing-uniting. May be. And, of course,
Each automatic operation unit may be configured in multiple stages such as stretching-stretching. In either case, noodle strips having a round or rectangular cross section having a predetermined cross section are collected by the noodle strip collecting unit.

Examples of the present invention will be shown below, and the present invention will be described in more detail.

[0011]

EXAMPLES The overall structure of the automatic noodle making apparatus was as outlined in FIG. 1 above. This automatic noodle making device can be aimed at producing noodle strings for producing some noodles. FIG. 2 exemplifies the noodle making device of the present invention used as a unit in this automatic process, for example, the relationship between the kneading section (10) and the rolling section (11) arranged at the upper and lower positions. FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 are views exemplifying the kneading section (10).

For example, as illustrated in FIGS. 2, 3 and 4, the kneading section (1
0) has a kneading tank part (101) into which a predetermined raw material is charged from above, which forms a U-shaped end plate (102) and a semi-cylindrical bottom part at the front and back of the kneading tank part (101). Both are provided with a bottom plate (103) that can be opened and closed, and a stirring shaft (104) connected to a drive / control system.
4) has a stir bar (105).

For example, the raw materials for raw noodles consisting of wheat flour, water, salt, and noodles are put into the kneading tank section (101) of the kneading section (10), and the stirring shaft (10
4) is rotated and the raw material mixture is agitated and kneaded so as to be sufficiently uniform by the agitation operation of the agitation rod (105). In this case, stirring is performed by setting a timer or monitoring the paste by arranging a torque sensor or the like, and controlling the addition of raw material components and the rotation speed and rotation time of the stirring shaft (104). The stir bar (105) is appropriately arranged and shaped in consideration of the capacity of the kneading tank part (101), the throughput of the raw material mixture, the required kneading condition and the like. With such an apparatus, the noodles are kneaded so as to bring out the deliciousness of the noodles sufficiently.

The noodle mass kneaded to the required kneading condition is
By automatically opening the bottom plate (103) at the bottom of this kneading tank part (101), that is, in FIG. 2 and FIG.
As described above, the bottom plate (103) is opened in the direction (A), and the noodle masses in the kneading tank part (101) are accordingly transferred to the rolling part (11) arranged below the noodle mass. To be done.

In this rolling section (11), as shown in FIGS. 2 and 5, 6, 7, and 8, for example, a plurality of rotating rollers (111) are formed in a downward semicircular shape.
Moreover, they are arranged symmetrically with respect to the center, and
The lowermost rotary roller (111a) at the center has a structure in which the support shaft itself is rotated to expand the mutual gap between the pair of rotary rollers (111a). That is, as shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 6, one or a plurality of pairs of lowermost rotary rollers (111a) are rotated left and right in the direction (B) together with the support shaft.

In this rolling section (11), the rotary roller (1
11) (111a) is a symmetrical array from the center, and as shown in, for example, FIG. 6, all of the arrays are rotated clockwise (α ₁ ) or counterclockwise and the noodles are rotated. Roll the mass. This rotation is achieved by connecting belts, chains, gears, etc. from the driving device (112) shown in FIG. 5 to the respective rotating rollers (111) (111).
It is possible by transmitting power to a). Further, in the rolling section (11), as illustrated in FIG. 7, the slide plates (113) arranged in front and rear are connected to the rotary screw shaft so as to move toward each other or expand. Furthermore, the rotation of the support shaft of the lowermost rotary roller (111a) is caused by the vertical movement of the piston rod (114) by the cylinder mechanism, as shown in FIGS. 5, 6 and 7. It is being done as an expansion and restoration of normal conditions. At the time of expanding the gap, the rolled noodle mass is extruded from between the pair of lowermost rotating rollers (111a). At this time, for example, the left and right arrays of the rotating rollers (111) (111a) rotate toward the lowermost rotating roller (111a) at the center. That is,
For example, in FIG. 6, the rotating roller (11
1) (111a) is clockwise (α ₁ ) direction,
The rotating rollers (111) (111a) arranged on the right side rotate in the counterclockwise (α ₂ ) direction.

For example, a rolling section (11) having the above composition
In Fig. 2, the kneading section (1
No. 0) the bottom plate (103) of the kneading tank section (101) is opened to put the noodle mass into the arranged rotating rollers (1).
11) (111a), and, for example, as shown in FIG. 6, in the symmetrical positional relationship of the arrangement, all the rotating rollers (111) (111a) are indicated by the arrow α as described above.
Rotate in _one direction, thereby, the center of the noodle lumps arrow beta ₁
Roll it by turning it in the direction. At this time, the slide plate (113) gradually moves inward with rolling. That is, they approach each other. This slide plate (1
By the movement of 13), the noodle masses are rolled more effectively by the rotation of the rotary rollers (111) (111a). In addition, at the time of rolling, the number of rotations of the rotating rollers (111) (111a) arranged on the left side and the right side may be changed between the left side and the right side. By doing so, the surface of the noodle strings produced can be made smoother and more beautiful, and the taste can be increased. Further, it is also effective to change the rotational speed of each of the rotating rollers (111) (111a) and set them. Also in this case, the rotational speed may be sequentially increased from one side, for example, from the left side to the right side. The rolling effect will be greater and the noodle surface will be more beautiful and delicious.

When the rolling is completed, as described above, the rotary rollers (111) (111a) are directed toward the center, and, for example, in the left-hand arrangement as shown in FIG. 6, the clockwise direction (α ₁ ) is set.
In the right side arrangement, rotate clockwise (α ₂ ). Then, the piston rod (114) shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 is pushed down to lower the rotary roller (111).
Increase the space between a).

As a result, the noodle masses are pulled toward the lower part of the central part, and the lowermost opposing rotary rollers (1
It is extruded downward from between 11a). The extruded strip-shaped noodle strips are shaped into noodle strips having a predetermined thickness and width, for example, by shaping rollers (115) arranged opposite to each other as illustrated in FIG. It is sent to the noodle strip forming part (12) of the process.

Of course, this conveyor is not always necessary, and depending on the configuration of the entire automatic noodle making apparatus, it may be directly sent to the noodle strip forming section (12) without passing through the conveyor section. If a conveyor section is provided, the noodle strips are tilted as shown in FIGS. 8, 9 and 10, and the noodle strip is formed on the upper portion of the next noodle strip forming section (12) by the inclined conveyor section (20). It may be supplied.

The inclined conveyor section (20) can be constituted by, for example, a lower horizontal conveyor (21), an inclined conveyor (22) and an upper horizontal conveyor (23). In the inclined conveyor part (22), the noodle strips can be transferred by being sandwiched between the upper inclined conveyor (22a) and the lower inclined conveyor (22b).
Upper inclined conveyor (22a) and lower inclined conveyor (22
Between and b), the noodle strips can be adjusted so that the noodle strips are transported while maintaining a required thickness. In addition, the thickness of the noodle strips may be changed by rollers or the like in the transfer conveyor section, if necessary.

Regarding the transfer on the inclined conveyor section (20) or the like, as will be described later, the noodle strips continuously maintain a predetermined length and are synchronized with the supply of the noodle strips from the rolling section (11). The noodles are transferred to the next noodle band forming unit without breaking. For example, the noodle strips transferred by the inclined conveyor unit (20) described above are then formed into noodle strips each having a cross section of a predetermined size in the noodle strip forming unit (12). At this time, as shown in FIG. 1, the noodle strips and the noodle strings are stretched, divided, and combined as appropriate.

FIG. 11 shows an example of the noodle band forming part (12). The noodle band (M) is directly fed from the rolling part (11) via the conveyor as described above. Sent
First, it is stretched to a predetermined thickness by a stretching roller (121), divided into a predetermined number in a slitter section (122), and shaped into a noodle string having a predetermined cross-sectional shape by a shaping roller (123).

For example, the noodle strip (M) is divided into nine noodle strips in the slitter section (122), and each is shaped into a round cross section by a shaping roller (123). This is further transferred by a conveyor (124),
Further, they are kneaded and coalesced in a coalescing section (125), and one of them is molded into a noodle string having a cross section of a predetermined size. For example, the above nine noodle strings are formed into three noodle strings having a round cross section. This one is more
According to 6), it is transferred to a further noodle band forming step.

In the noodle band forming part (12), means such as rollers for stretching, dividing and uniting operations are appropriately combined and arranged, and not only the combination of stretching-dividing-uniting but also Various combinations of split-stretch-coalescence, stretch-split-coalescence-coalescence, split-stretch-stretch-coalescence, etc. are possible. Then, a shaping means for adjusting the cross-sectional shape of the noodle band to a predetermined shape or a step therefor may be appropriately disposed between these steps or between the steps.

Further, various concrete means of each step are possible. For example, FIG. 12 shows the slitter section (12
FIG. 2 is a plan view exemplifying FIG. 2), in which triangular rollers formed by facing conical rollers are arranged as a roller (127) and a roller (128), and a gap (129) between them is formed.
A device with a characteristic that the noodle band is divided into the number of is adopted.

FIG. 13 shows an example of the right side view of FIG. 11, in which the slitter section (122) is
For example, noodle strings divided into 9 pieces are
In 3), each will be formed into a round noodle strip. Further, FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating the above-mentioned united portion (125).
FIG. For example, the nine noodle strings having a round cross section transferred by the conveyor (124) are guided by the guide portion (125).
In 1), the three rollers are guided three by three, and the coalescing rollers (125
They are combined in 2), the size of their cross section is adjusted by a roller (1253), and three noodle strings having a round cross section are formed by a shaping roller (1254).

Then, the three noodle strings having a round cross section are transferred by, for example, a conveyor (126) and further combined to form one noodle string. In the noodle band forming part (12), for example, 9 pieces are formed from one noodle strip, 3 pieces are formed from these 9 pieces, and then a single round bar or square bar is formed in the manner described above. Such modes are possible. The cross-sectional shape will be appropriately changed in the processing process.

The formed noodle strings, that is, one noodle string having a predetermined shape and a predetermined cross-sectional area, is formed into a diameter of about 25 mm in the case of plain noodles,
The oil is processed by oil removal to have a diameter of about 22 mm. Then, finally, the noodle strings are collected in a collecting section (13) equipped with a rotary table (131) illustrated in FIG. 15, for example.
The container (13) placed on the turntable (131)
2) Collect in At this time, when the conveyor arm (133) that discharges the noodle strings (N) is swung left and right, the container (1
32) together with the rotation of the noodle string, the noodle strings are continuously put in a container (13
2) It becomes possible to collect in an arc shape. Further, a plurality of containers (132) may be arranged on the track (134) as shown in FIG. 16 and automatically filled and moved.

A container (132) is provided by providing a mechanism for cutting noodle strings in the arrangement portion of the conveyor arm (133).
In addition, it becomes possible to collect a predetermined number of noodle strings. For example, as described above, the individual operation units, that is, the unit operation sections of the kneading section, rolling section, noodle band forming section and recovery section as shown in FIG. 1, can be variously constructed. In the invention, the entire system of these operation units is linked and automated.

The most important feature for this is that each of the above-mentioned process operations are linked and automated. This means that the movement of the noodles to each process and the operation in each process are controlled without cutting the predetermined amount of noodles. More specifically, the kneading section and the noodle strips after rolling are continuous without cutting to the collecting section, if desired. In this respect, according to the present invention, the drive and control system is specifically configured.

For this reason, for example, the amount and speed of the noodle strips discharged from the rolling section are synchronized with the speed of the movement by the conveyor, the supply and discharge with the molding in the molding section, and the final collection speed. It will be. In particular, in the present invention,
In order to enable the above, it is possible to detect the amount of noodle masses or noodle strips entering the shaping roller (115) illustrated in FIG. 8 or the stretching roller (121) illustrated in FIG. Important in control. For example, a photoelectric sensor or the like detects that noodle strips or the like have come out of a predetermined area or range, and the rotation speed of the roller is controlled based on this detection signal so that a fixed amount is transferred.

It is also important to detect the amount of noodle strips when the cross section has a predetermined size and whether or not the noodle strips are flowing without being boring. Further, in the fully automatic apparatus of the present invention, it is effective to control the noodle strings while the noodle strings are being transferred and to retain some of the noodle strings or to increase or decrease this retention amount. Also, control is performed so that the distance between the rollers etc. is slightly widened,
It is also effective to make it easier to pass through the noodle strings.

Of course, the present invention can be variously modified in details, and is not limited to the above examples.

[0035]

As described above in detail, the present invention enables continuous and efficient noodle making. The deliciousness of the noodles is also put to good use. It will drastically improve conventional handiwork and partially mechanized processes.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of an automatic process by the device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view illustrating the arrangement of a kneading section and a rolling section as an apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view illustrating the configuration of a kneading section as an apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a plan view corresponding to FIG.

FIG. 5 is a front view exemplifying a rolling unit as a device of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view illustrating the roller arrangement of the rolling unit.

FIG. 7 is a side view corresponding to FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a front view exemplifying a shaping roller arrangement portion below the rolling portion.

FIG. 9 is a front view illustrating an inclined conveyor.

10 is a plan view corresponding to FIG. 9. FIG.

FIG. 11 is a configuration front view illustrating a noodle band forming unit.

12 is a plan view showing an example of the slitter unit of FIG. 11. FIG.

FIG. 13 is a right side view of FIG.

FIG. 14 is a left side view of FIG.

FIG. 15 is a front view illustrating a noodle band recovery unit.

FIG. 16 is a plan view illustrating a recovery unit including a plurality of containers.

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of front page (72) Inventor Ikuo Tsukahara 190 Tatsuno-cho, Tatsuno-cho, Tatsuno City, Hyogo Prefecture Far East Industrial Machinery Co., Ltd. (72) Kazuhisa Mizuta 190 Tatsuno-cho, Tatsuno-cho, Tatsuno-shi, Hyogo 190 Far East Inside the machine stock company (72) Inventor Yasuaki Matsui 190 Far East Industrial Machinery Co., Ltd., Tatsuno-cho, Tatsuno City, Hyogo Prefecture Inside the company stock (72) Inventor Koron Shin 190 Tatsunocho Nikko, Tatsuno-shi, Hyogo Prefecture Far East Machinery Ceremony In the company

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A noodle making device having a noodle raw material kneading section, wherein the kneading section has a kneading tank having a noodle raw material feeding opening and a stirring means, and a bottom surface of which is substantially arc-shaped. The bottom of the kneading tank can be opened and closed by the bottom plate constituting the kneading tank, and the kneaded noodle mass is taken out by opening the bottom. 2. A noodle making device comprising a noodle mass rolling unit, wherein the rolling unit has a plurality of rotating rollers for rolling the noodle mass arranged in a substantially downward arc shape, and Rotation roll at the bottom
For one pair or more of la, the spindle itself is moved so that the mutual interval can be expanded, and the rolled noodle mass is taken out by the expansion of the interval due to the movement of the spindle of the lowermost rotating roller. A noodle making device characterized in that 3. The device according to claim 2, wherein when the noodle mass is taken out, the pair of lowermost rotating rollers are rotated in mutually opposing directions, and the rotation causes the noodle mass to have a predetermined thickness. Noodle making equipment that is extruded as. 4. A noodle making device comprising a noodle mass rolling section, wherein a plurality of rotating rollers for rolling the noodle mass are arranged in a downward substantially arcuate shape in the rolling section, and a side surface of the rotating roller. A noodle making device characterized in that slide plates are provided on the sides to adjust the width of the noodle masses by approaching or expanding each other. 5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein at least one pair of the lowermost rotary rollers have their supporting shafts moved so that the distance between them can be increased, and the noodle masses are rolled and width-adjusted. Is a noodle making device that is taken out by expanding the interval by moving the support shaft of the lowermost rotating roller. 6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein when the noodle mass is taken out, the pair of lowermost rollers are rotated in a direction opposite to each other, and the noodle mass whose width is adjusted by rolling has a predetermined width. A noodle making device extruded as a thick noodle strip. 7. The apparatus according to any one of claims 2 to 6, wherein the rolling section is arranged subsequent to the kneading section, and the kneading section has a noodle raw material feeding opening and a stirring means, and the bottom surface section is wholly provided. A substantially arc-shaped kneading tank is provided as the kneading tank, and the bottom part of the kneading tank is openable / closable by the bottom plate constituting the kneading tank. Noodle making device to be moved to. 8. An automatic noodle making device comprising a kneading section, a noodle band forming section following a rolling section, and a noodle band collecting section.
An automatic noodle making device provided with the device according to any one of 1 to 7 in a kneading section and / or a rolling section.