JPS5886065A - Feeding apparatus of rod-like food material at constant pitch - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make it possible to feed pieces of a burdock automatically in an apparatus for preparing fried burdock, by means of a feeding apparatus at a constant pitch provided between a material feeder and a material transferring apparatus. CONSTITUTION:A raw material for TEMPURA in the form of a kneaded paste is fed from an apparatus 2 for molding a sheet-like material onto a transferring conveyor 3 for the sheet-like material at a regular interval and transferred. On the other hand, a turing movement is given to a bowl 7 containing many loose pieces of a burdock with the electromagnetic vibration by a driving part 6 in a feeder 5 for the pieces of the burdock to discharge and feed the pieces of the burdock from a discharging end 8 one after another. The pieces of the burdock are then taken up by a transferring apparatus 9 for the pieces of the burdock one by one and delivered onto the sheet-like material on the conveyor 3. A belt conveyor 10 is provided between the feeder 5 and the transferring apparatus 9, where the pieces of the burdock and the sheet-like material are fed at a constant pitch by a photoelectric sensor and a cylinder.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention relates to a device for feeding bar-shaped food materials at a fixed pitch, and for example, in an automatic molding machine for burdock tempura (commonly known as burdock tempura), the present invention continuously feeds burdock to a predetermined position at a fixed pitch. It relates to a device for.

The above-mentioned burdock tempura molding machine uses fish meat as a main ingredient, and adds starch, grain flour, stone additives, and flavorings to it and kneads it into a plate shape. The rolled material is automatically and continuously molded, but as shown in Figure 1, the conventional gobo-ten molding machine transfers the kneaded material from the hopper (a) to the plate-shaped material molding machine ( b) Insert K into the molding machine (b)
The plate-shaped bodies F formed by are continuously transferred to the plate-shaped conveyor (-9), and burdock pieces G are manually placed on each plate-shaped body FK that is continuously transferred on this conveyor (l'). The burdock pieces G are transferred to the plate-like body F by sending the plate-like body F on which the burdock pieces G are placed to the winding machine (→
A cylindrical so-called burdock tempura T is formed by rolling it into the burdock.-1Then, this burdock tempura T is sent to a frying machine called a 7-layer. In this way, in the conventional burdock molding machine, the placement of the burdock pieces G onto the plate-shaped body F is done automatically except for the operation, but this placement is only done manually. . The reason for this is that burdock pieces are made by cutting a whole burdock root into predetermined lengths and dividing it radially. As shown in Figure 2 (a), all of the burdock can be formed in one burdock piece G of Sugibayashi, which is well-balanced over its entire length, but in reality, each burdock has a different diameter, and even 7 burdock can be formed. Since the diameter varies along the length and the burdock has a curved shape, there are also deformed burdock pieces G' as shown in the same figure (b), and there are also deformed burdock pieces G' as shown in the same figure (b).
Even if the burdock pieces G are straight as shown in (a) above, they may deform into curved shapes over time because they themselves contain water, and therefore each piece of burdock may be irregular in diameter, shape, etc. Because it is easily deformed,
Unlike the so-called automatic feeding of machine parts, it was extremely difficult to transfer burdock pieces from the supply section or stocker and automatically feed them at fixed pitches to the plate-shaped object being transported. This is due to

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems.The present invention has been made in the form of a bar that can be automatically operated by vc% to place burdock pieces onto a plate-shaped body, which was considered to be extremely difficult in the conventional burdock molding machine. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a food material constant pitch feeding device. still,
The device of the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned burdock pieces, but can also be applied to automatic feeding of, for example, squid fillets and cheese pieces, as well as Western cakes used in confectionery manufacturing.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the constant pitch feeding device for rod-shaped food materials according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

Figure 3 shows the Goboten molding machine, and in this figure 1
is a machine stand, and 2 is a plate forming device installed at one end of the machine stand 1. After the tempura raw material in the form of a paste that has already been kneaded is extruded into a strip of an appropriate thickness by this device 2, It is cut into a predetermined length and discharged from the bottom in the form of a rectangular plate, and is placed at regular intervals on the plate-shaped conveyor 3, which is stretched from one end to the other end of the machine platform 1, and transported. be done. This is a winding device installed at the other end of the 4-car machine stand 1.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a vibrating bowl hopper feeder as a burdock piece feeding device, which is composed of a driving part 6 and a bowl 7 installed on the top of the vibrating bowl hopper feeder. The drive unit 6 is inserted into this bowl 7.
The burdock pieces in the bowl 7 are sequentially discharged and supplied from the discharge end 8 by giving a rotating motion by electromagnetic vibration. Reference numeral 9 is installed in front of the plate forming device 2 in the conveying direction of the plate conveyor 3, and picks up seven pieces of burdock fed from the feeder 5 and places them on the conveyor belt ♀3. This is a device for transferring burdock pieces onto a plate-like body. Between the burdock piece transfer device 9 and the vibrating bowl hopper feeder 5, the burdock pieces G discharged and supplied from the feeder 5 are transferred to the transfer device 9. A belt conveyor 10 is interposed to feed the burdock pieces to the pick-up position P, and this belt conveyor l0Vi burdock piece transfer device 9
The belt conveyor 10 is horizontally suspended so as to cross at right angles above the plate conveyor 3 at the rear position of the belt conveyor 10, and the starting end (rear end) of the belt conveyor 10 is connected to the discharge end 8 of the feeder 5 and is disposed adjacent to the belt conveyor 10. , is arranged so that the pick-up position P of the transfer device 9 is located on the terminal end (front end) side thereof, and a stopper S is installed horizontally at the front end of the burdock pick-up position P. As is clear from FIG. 4, above the belt conveyor 10, from the pickup position P to the rear (towards the rear end of the belt conveyor 10)
A plurality of vertical air cylinders Cy1 are installed along the belt conveyor 10 from a position at a predetermined interval as a reference.
°C, y2, Cy3. Cy4 and Cy5 are arranged toward the rear end side of the belt conveyor 10 at the same spacing as above, and the cylinder rods 101 to 105 of these cylinders Cy1 and Cy5 are fed by the belt conveyor 10 when they are lowered. Holding plates t1 to t5 are respectively attached to press and hold the burdock pieces G. Also,
Along the burdock piece feeding path of the belt conveyor 10, there are photoelectric detectors Do, DI, D2, D3 consisting of a light emitter and a light receiver for detecting the burdock pieces G on the conveyor 10.
, D4, and D5 are installed corresponding to the pick-up point 1tP and the positions where the cylinders Cy1 to Cy5 are provided, respectively.
has been done. When these photoelectric detectors Do=D5E'n are taken up at the position P#/C, the cylinder rods 10 of cylinders Cy1 to Cy5 are taken up in the front light condition.
1 CO 1 O5 has increased in all cases (see Figure 4 (b)),
Then, when this photoelectric detection WDo is blocked by the burdock pieces G transferred by the belt conveyor 10 and becomes light-blocked,
From the front cylinder Cy1 to the rear cylinder 0315
Either all the cylinder rods ta1 to ta105 up to that point are lowered (see Figure 4 (a)), or in this case, if there is no burdock piece below the cylinder, the cylinder rods of the cylinders after that cylinder remain raised. It does not descend. For example, there is a piece of burdock G below the cylinder Cy1 at the front.
If there is no burdock piece G below the second cylinder cy2, only the cylinder rod lol will be lowered and picked up at the position a.
Press and hold the burdock piece G in front of P, and tighten the cylinder rod Z.
o2 to 105 do not descend (see Fig. 4 (→)), so the burdock pieces Gke belt conveyor 101/!
``The burdock pieces G that are held down by the cylinder rod 101 are transferred to close the gap between them.An example of the method of controlling the operation of the cylinder according to the operation of the photoelectric detector as described above is shown in the fifth section. To explain with a diagram, a burdock piece G is placed at a burdock piece pick-up position P on the belt conveyor 10.
When a person comes, the detector Do becomes light-shielded and a set signal is inputted to one input terminal of the control device W1. At this time, if there is a piece of burdock G on the front cylinder CylT side, the detector Do is activated. D1 simultaneously enters the light shielding state and the set signal is input to the other input terminal of the control device W1, and only after both set signals are input to the control device W1 do the control devices W1 to i4 become magnetic valves. An activation signal is sent to V1, which causes the cylinder rod 10 of cylinder Cyl to
1 descends and presses and holds the burdock pieces G below the cylinder Cy1 on the moving conveyor 10, and at this time the control device w
A set signal is sent from the detector D2 to one input terminal of the control device W2 for the next cylinder CV2, and if there is a piece of burdock G below the cylinder Cy2, a set signal is sent from the detector D2 to the other input terminal of the control device W2. I was sent and made the solenoid valve ■2.
.

Due to the movement, the rod 102 of cylinder Cy2 is lowered, and the subsequent cylinders Cy3 to C1 are also lowered in the same way since there are burdock pieces below, and thus the burdock pieces G are placed at the pick-up position P.
When the cylinder Cy comes in, the cylinder Cy after the frontmost cylinder
1 to Cy5 descend in sequence and wait until the burdock pieces G at the pick-up position P are picked up by the transfer device 9 (see Figure 4 (a)), and when the burdock pieces G disappear from the pick-up position P, it is detected. The device Do enters the light-receiving state, and no set signal is sent to the control device D1.Therefore, no activation signal is sent to the solenoid valve 1, so this solenoid valve V
The rod 101 of the cylinder Cy1 is switched to the original position, and the rod 101 of the cylinder Cy1 returns to the raised position, and the subsequent cylinders Cy2 to C
The rods 102 to JO5 of y5 also rise all at once. In short, the burdock pieces G are reliably fed and discharged from the feeder 5 onto the belt conveyor 10 in seven pieces at regular intervals, and are fed on the belt conveyor 10 at a constant pitch and brought to the burdock piece picking position P. In reality, it is difficult for the burdock pieces G to be discharged from the feeder 5 at regular intervals, and therefore they are sent to the pick-up position P at an irregular pitch.
The feed pitch of the burdock pieces is adjusted until the burdock pieces sent by the machine are sent to the pick-up position P, so that the burdock pieces are always fed to the pick-up position P at a fixed pitch,
For example, if the distance between successive burdock pieces on the belt conveyor 10 is narrow, the first burdock piece will be picked up.
After entering, the rear burdock pieces are temporarily stopped via the holding plate by the lowering of the lock by the operation of the frontmost cylinder, and if the gap between the front and rear burdock pieces is too wide, the rearmost burdock pieces are temporarily stopped. While the burdock pieces are being adjusted to a fixed pitch while passing from the cylinder to the frontmost cylinder, or the previous burdock pieces are sent to the pick-up position P and a predetermined picking operation is being performed there, the subsequent burdock pieces are picked up. All you have to do is have it follow you right behind your location.

Incidentally, the belt conveyor IOK is made of Teflon (trade name), which has low frictional resistance, in order to improve sliding on the burdock pieces.

Next, the burdock piece transfer device 9 will be explained with reference to FIG. 6. This device 9 will be explained by referring to FIG.
A mechanism 9a that picks up the supplied burdock pieces; and a delivery mechanism 9b that takes the burdock pieces picked up by this mechanism 9a and sends them out onto the plate F on the plate conveyor 3.
The pick-up mechanism 9a has an actual member 11 at each tip.
The proximal end of each of the LiI number of pick-up arms 12. The mechanism 9b includes a plurality of grooved rolls 1 each having a plurality of notched grooves 15 formed at regular intervals on its peripheral edge.
6.16.16 are fixed to the roll support shaft 17 at intervals, and the pick-up arm 12 is interposed between these rolls 16, 16.16 so as to hang therebetween. Also, the four-bar mechanism 14 is connected to the rotating shaft 1.
The swing arm 20 consists of a disk crank 19 fixedly attached to the disk crank 8, a swing arm 2o whose base end is rotatably held on the roll support shaft 17, and a connecting rod 21 that connects the swing arm 20 and the disk crank 19. A T-1 sprocket 22 is physically attached to the base end of the arm support shaft 17, and a chain 24 is passed between this sprocket 22 and a sprocket 23 fixed to the arm support shaft 13. and the rotating shaft 18 of the four-bar mechanism 14 are interlocked and connected via sublocks 25, 26 and a chain 27. Therefore, for example, when the roll support shaft 17 is driven to rotate at a predetermined speed, the grooved rolls 16, 16.16 rotate at a constant speed, and the rotation of the rotation shaft 1B causes the four-joint mechanism
22.23 The swing arm 20 makes an oscillating movement through the
and is transmitted to the arm support shaft 13 via the chain 24, giving the pick-up arm 12.12 an oscillating motion every half rotation. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 7, when the burdock piece G is fed to the pick-up position P, when the pick-up arm 12. The piece G was pierced, and as it was rotated clockwise, it was lifted and sent into the groove row 15, 15° 15 of the groove roll 16, 16.16 of the sending mechanism 9b, and it was fed into this groove row The pick-up arm 12.12 enters the grooved roll 16 as shown by the solid line in FIG.
6. With the rotation of 16, it is rotated downward and is dropped and placed on the plate-shaped body F on the transport conveyor 3 that is moving below.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 7, groove rolls 1B, 16.16
A longitudinally arcuate guide plate 2B is disposed along the circumferential portion which is rotated and transferred via the groove rows i5 and i5.15, and this guide plate 28 is fixedly provided to the machine base 1. A locking rod 30 attached to the tip of the support frame 29
At the same time, the upper end part is lowered and is lightly pressed against the circumferential surface of the grooved roll 16 by a presser plate 31 provided at the tip of the locking rod 30. 1 more groove roll 16
, 16. In the vicinity of the burdock piece sending end of 16, a pressing force is applied to the burdock piece G immediately after the plate-like object FVC has been dropped and placed on the plate-like object conveyor 3, and this burdock piece G is turned into a plate-like object. F
An arc-shaped spring plate 32 is arranged to be slightly embedded in the surface, and this spring plate 32 is held on a rotating shaft 34 via a support piece 33, and this rotating shaft 34d is interlocked and connected to, for example, the roll support shaft 17. .

Figures 8 and 9 show a burdock top molding machine with a different melting arrangement as shown in Figure 3, and a burdock piece constant pitch feeding device including a belt conveyor 0. A hand-held transfer device 9 is installed at the right end of the machine base 1 as shown in FIG. According to the layout, compared to the gobo top molding machine as illustrated in Fig. 3, there is no structural part that protrudes outward from the center of the machine base 1, so it is possible to install multiple such gobo top molding machines. When used in parallel, there is an advantage that the space between the plastic molding machines can be used effectively.In addition, in this plastic molding machine, there is a sampling device 9 at the right end of the machine base 1. As shown in Fig. 9, the burdock pieces taken out by
The burdock pieces are fed one by one by this conveyor 35 to the front end (the left end in the figure) of the machine 1, and then a pick-up mechanism 36, which has the same structure as the above-mentioned transfer device 9,
The plate-shaped object F on the plate-shaped object conveyor 3 is moved by the burdock piece transfer device 36 in which the feeding mechanism 36a and the feeding mechanism 36b are in opposite positions.
It will be supplied above.

According to the fixed pitch feeding device of the present invention as explained above, by interposing this device between the material feeding device and the material transfer device, the bar-shaped food material can be fed from the feeding device at a fixed pitch. Even if the food material is not used, this device will reliably feed the food material to the take-out position of the transfer device at a fixed pitch. This makes it possible to automatically feed the pieces.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a side view showing a conventional gobo molding machine, Figures 2 (a) and (b) are perspective views showing the shape of burdock pieces, and Figure 3 is a burdock molding machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. A plan view of the arrow forming machine, FIGS.
Fig. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a cylinder control method in a fixed pitch feeding device, Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing a burdock piece removal device, Fig. 7 is a side view of the same, and Fig. 8 is a burdock tempura. FIG. 9 is a plan view showing another example of the forming machine, and FIG. 9 is a side view of the same. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Machine stand, 2... Plate-shaped object forming device, 3... Plate-shaped object conveyor, 5... Vibrating bowl hopper feeder, 9... Burdock piece transfer device, 10... Belt Conveyor, P... Burdock picking position, Cy1~Cy5.
・・Cylinder, lO1~105・e・Cylinder rod,
Do, Dl, -, D5-, - Photoelectric detector. 1-1~-)

Claims (1)

[Claims] Between the bar-shaped food material supply device that sequentially discharges and supplies bar-shaped food materials cut into approximately fixed sizes, and the transfer device that picks up 7 bar-shaped food materials at a fixed position and sends them to another route, the above-mentioned A belt conveyor is provided for feeding the bar-shaped food material discharged and supplied from the feeding device to the transfer device, and a plurality of vertical cylinders are arranged above the belt conveyor at required intervals in the direction of movement of the conveyor. At the same time, each cylinder rod is equipped with a presser plate that presses the rod-shaped food material being fed on the belt conveyor and prevents its feeding when the rond is lowered, and the rod-shaped food feed path of the belt conveyor is also attached to the cylinder rod. Along the line K, a photoelectric detector is arranged corresponding to the above-mentioned transfer device and each cylinder, and the feeding position of the bar-shaped food material that is sequentially fed by the belt conveyor is detected by the photoelectric detector, and this A fixed-pitch feeding device N for rod-shaped food materials, in which the rod-shaped food materials on a belt conveyor are controlled to be fed at regular intervals by each cylinder that receives a detection signal.