JPS6026633Y2 - Candy raw material cooling equipment - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] This invention relates to a cooling device for raw materials for candy, such as 10-lop candy.

The inventor of the present application has already devised a cooling device for candy raw materials in order to solve the hot, hard work that causes poor workability and efficiency in the conventional manual cooling of candy raw materials, as well as quality deterioration caused by uneven cooling. .

In other words, this consists of a fixed rear wall plate on the cooling board that is divided into left and right halves by a central separation part, a front wall plate that can be moved up and down, and left and right side walls that are attached to both sides and can be tilted forward and backward toward the center. It consists of a folded body surrounded by a plate, a projecting plate that can be moved up and down through the center spaced part of the cooling plate at the center of the folded body, and an upper pressure plate that can be moved up and down along the inner surface of the girder, The heated raw candy spread on the cooling plate inside the folding body is folded by the lifting and lowering movement of the projecting plate and the forward and backward movements and tilting of the left and right side wall plates.
This is a candy raw material cooling device characterized by sequentially repeating tilting, displacement to the center position, and rolling by a pressure plate on the cooling platen.

However, in the above-mentioned conventional equipment, the rolling candy raw material is always rolled in the same direction (horizontal and horizontal directions), folded and tilted, so the flow of the raw material during rolling within the specified square is always constant. The flow cannot help but be deflected, and no matter how many times the above-mentioned rolling is repeated, the raw material does not always displace in the front-rear direction or left-right direction. It was found that the cooling progress of the left and right edges of the raw material, which does not always come into contact with the front and rear wall plates even when folded, tends to be delayed, and the raw material is unavoidably cooled unevenly, making uniform cooling difficult.

As a result of further research, the inventor of the present application has devised an improved cooling device for candy raw materials that can always achieve stable and uniform cooling without uneven cooling using the conventional cooling device described above.

This devised cooling device will be explained in detail below with reference to the drawings.

2 is a central separation part 2 provided at the center of the frame 1;
The cooling board is divided into left and right halves by a, and has a conventional water-cooled structure in which cooling water circulates inside for cooling.

Reference numeral 4 indicates a fixed rear wall plate provided perpendicularly to the rear edge of the cooling plate 2, and 3 indicates a fixed rear wall plate provided at the front edge of the cooling plate 2 at a position opposite to the fixed rear wall plate 4. The front wall panel can be moved up and down depending on the operation.

Also, 6 and 6 are the left and right side wall plates provided on the left and right edges of the same as above,
It is constructed so that it can be attached to the fixed side wall plate 4, front wall plate 3, and cooling plate 2, respectively, and can be tilted toward the center and returned to its original position by the operating mechanism described below.

That is, first, support plate portions 9 are placed above and below the center portions of the outer surfaces of the left and right side wall plates 6, 6.
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A sub-cylinder 13 for tilting is pivotally attached to the support plate 12 of each connecting plate 11, and the respective piston rod 1
The tip of 3a is pivotally connected to each of the royal plate portions 9.

In addition, 14.14 is the support plate 15 on both the left and right sides of the frame 1.
A swingable main cylinder for moving left and right forward and backward, the central portion of which is pivotally attached to each piston rod 14a.

The tip end of 14b is pivotally connected to each of the left and right support plates 12, 12, respectively.

It is surrounded by a fixed rear wall plate 4 on the cooling plate 2, a front wall plate 3 which can be moved up and down, and left and right side wall plates 6, 6 attached to both of them and which can be tilted forward and backward to the center. A girder body A is formed.

Also, in the center of the fence A, the center spaced part 2a of the cooling plate 2
A projecting plate 7 is provided through the frame 1 and can be moved up and down by the operation of a cylinder 8 at the bottom of the frame 1.

In the above case, the projecting plate 7 is adapted to move up and down with its front and rear end surfaces in contact with the fixed rear wall plate 4 and the front wall plate 3, respectively.

Reference numeral 16 denotes an upper pressure plate that moves up and down by the operation of cylinders 17 and 17, which are vertically installed on both left and right sides of the upper frame 1a above the center of the frame 1, and that moves up and down along the inner surface of the girder A. It is supposed to be done.

The above is an example configuration of a conventional candy raw material cooling device.

Therefore, in this invention, first, the left and right side wall plates 6.6 are connected to the first and second side walls that form the girder A with the fixed rear wall plate 4 and the front wall plate 3.
Each position is slightly smaller than the solid line position (hereinafter referred to as the original position)
Approximately 5-) backward position on the same chain line (hereinafter referred to as the backward limit position)
The strokes of the left and right main cylinders 14 are made larger so that the left and right main cylinders 14 can be moved back to work.

Next, a rotary plate part 19 is fitted in the center of the pressure plate 16 so as to be able to rotate freely in the same plane as the pressure plate 16, and the rotary plate part 19 is mounted above the pressure plate 16. The provided actuator 20 allows 90 degree rotation and restoration (that is, 90 degree forward and reverse rotation) to be repeated.

In this case, a device may be used in which the rotary plate portion 19 rotates 90 degrees in the same direction.

The rotary plate portion 19 also has an upper actuator 2.
Two (plurality of) stop pins 21 are provided, each of which can be moved in and out vertically by the operation of a cylinder 22 provided on the top of the pin.

Note that each of the stop pins 21 is designed such that its lower end surface is flush with the lower surface of the rotary plate portion 19 when raised.

This invention allows the heating candy raw material 18 spread on the cooling platen 2 in the fence body A to be folded by the lifting and lowering movements of the projecting plate 7, the forward and backward movements of the left and right side wall plates 6, 6, folding by tilting, tilting, and centering. The rotary plate portion 19 is displaced to the position and lacerated by each of the aforesaid pins 21.
The structure is such that rotational displacement by 90 degrees and rolling by the pressure plate 16 are sequentially repeated on the cooling plate 2.

Next, the working state of this embodiment of the invention will be explained with reference to the drawings. First, the front wall plate 3 is lowered by operating the cylinders 5, 5, and the heated candy raw material 18, which has been cooled in advance to an appropriate temperature, is introduced from the front as shown in Fig. 3. The girder body A is formed by spreading the front wall plate 3 onto the cooling plate 2 and raising it to its original state.

As a result, the lower surface of the heated candy raw material 18 spread on the cooling plate 2 begins to cool.

Then, when the cylinder 8 is operated to cause the protruding plate 7 to protrude above the cooling plate 2, the heated candy raw material 18 is pushed up at its center by the protruding plate 7 and folded into two, as shown in the opening in Figure 3. It becomes a state where

Then, by simultaneous operation of the left and right main cylinders 14, 14, the left and right side wall plates 6, 6 advance toward the center, respectively, and first, the third
As shown in the figure, the heated candy raw material 18 is folded into a two-fold shape by the raised plate 7 and pushed from both left and right sides.

Then, the raised plate 7 descends and sinks below the upper surface of the cooling plate 2, and the left and right side wall plates 6, 6 move forward slightly, respectively, to completely fold and sandwich the heated candy raw material 18, as shown in FIG. 3, 2. Become.

Next, the left and right sub-cylinders 13° 13 in FIG. At the same time, the centrifugal plate part 10 is tilted slightly (approximately 12 degrees) to the right about the pivot point, resulting in the state shown in Fig. 3 (e).

In this case, a member such as an elastic material is attached to the lower edges of the left and right side wall plates 6, 6, so that the lower edges of the left and right side wall plates 6,6 are always attached to the cooling plate 2 to prevent excessive frictional resistance from being added between them. Attached to the top.

Further, due to the tilting of the left and right side wall plates 6, 6, the left and right main cylinders 14.degree. 14 are tilted one step downward, respectively, with the support plate 15 as an axis.

Next, from the state fJ) in Figure 3 E above, the left and right main cylinders 1
4.14 respectively operate, and the left and right side wall plates 6.6 remain in the above-mentioned tilted state and move backward to the left and right to reach the original position shown in FIG. 3. At this time, the right side wall plate 6 By retreating, the folded heated candy raw material 18 is tilted to a position to the right of the center on the cooling plate 2, as shown in FIG.

Then, the left and right sub-cylinders 13 are reversely restored, and the left and right side wall plates 6, 6 are respectively restored from the inclined state to the vertical state, resulting in the state shown in FIG.

Next, the left and right main cylinders 14 operate simultaneously, causing both piston rods 14a to extend toward the center by a suitable equal stroke, and move the left and right side wall plates 6, 6 forward by the same stroke to fold and fold the heated candy raw material 18. The state shown in FIG.

Then, by the operation of the left and right main cylinders 14, the left and right side wall plates 6, 6 are moved back (while remaining vertical) to their original positions (as shown by chain lines).
The state shown in the third diagram is reached, where the vehicle has passed through and retreated to the rearward limit position.

At this time, the front wall plate 3 also descends below the upper surface of the cooling platen 2.

Then, the pressure plate 16 is lowered to an intermediate position by the operation of both cylinders 17, resulting in the state shown in FIG.

Subsequently, by the operation of the cylinder 22, the two stop pins 21 of the rotary plate 19 are lowered and protruded, resulting in the state shown in Fig. 3, in which the folded and heated candy raw material 18 on the cooling plate 2 is ruptured, respectively.

Then, the actuator 20 operates to rotate the rotating plate 19.
is rotated 90 degrees, and the folded heated candy raw material 18 split by the two stop pins 21 is rotated 90 degrees on the cooling plate 2, resulting in the state shown in FIG. 3, E.

Then, the 21 stop pins 21 are activated by the cylinder 22.
The folded heated candy raw material 18 escapes and rises, sinks below the lower surface of the rotary plate 19 and returns to its original state, and the pressure plate 16 rises to its upper limit, resulting in the state shown in FIG. 3 (W).

Then, by the operation of the left and right main cylinders 14, the left and right side wall plates 6
, 6 return to their original positions from the retraction limit position □, and the front wall plate 3, which had been lowered earlier, rises and returns to form the fence body A, and then the pressure plate 16 descends inside the girder body A. The folded heated candy raw material 18 rotated by 90 degrees on the cooling plate 2 is pressurized and rolled into a third gravity state.

Then, the pressure plate 16 rises and returns to the initial state shown in FIG. 3A.

This completes one cycle of the operation process, and the raised plate 7 rises again to form the cooling plate. The above-mentioned process is repeated in sequence, such as pushing up the center of the heated candy raw material 18 being rolled above and folding it in half, as shown in Figure 3.The above-mentioned process cycle is repeated several times. After being repeatedly cooled to an appropriate temperature and reaching an appropriate hardness, it is taken out of the heated candy raw material 18 and subjected to the next molding process.

This devised cooling device has the above-mentioned configuration, and as described above, after the heated candy raw material 18 spread on the cooling plate 2 in the girder A is folded on the cooling plate 2, tilted, and displaced to the central position. The folded heated candy raw material 18 on the cooling plate 2' is torn apart by a plurality of stop pins 21 provided on the rotary plate portion 19 of the pressure plate 16 so as to be able to move up and down, and rotate as described above. 90 by rotation of plate part 19
Since the process of rotationally displacing the raw material 18 by 90 degrees and then rolling it with the pressure plate 16 is repeated in sequence, the folded and heated candy raw material 18 is previously rotated by 90 degrees each time it is rolled by the pressure plate 16. In other words, the folded heated candy raw material 18 is angularly displaced by 9 degrees each time it is rolled, so that the deflection of the raw material due to rolling is corrected, and the whole area of the raw material is evenly replaced, resulting in uniform cooling. It has the excellent effect of always providing stable and even cooling.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of this invented device; Fig. 1 is a partially cutaway front view, Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing the state of each operation process. be. 1...Frame, 1a...Upper frame, 2...Cooling plate, 2a...Center separation part, 3...Front wall plate , 4...Fixed wall plate, 5
...Cylinder, 6...Side wall plate, 7...
...Protrusion plate, 8...Cylinder, 9,10.
...branch plate, 11...connecting plate, 12...
... Support plate, 13 ... Sub cylinder, 13a.
...Piston rod, 14...Main cylinder, 14a...Piston rod, 15...
...Support plate, 1.6...Pressure plate, 17...
...Cylinder, 18...Heating candy raw material, 19...
... Rotating plate, 20 ... Actuator,
21... Stopping pin,... Cylinder, A
・・・・・・Fence body. 2

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A fixed rear wall plate 4 on the cooling platen 2, which is divided into left and right halves by a central separation part 2a, a front wall plate 3 that can be moved up and down, and left and right side walls that are attached to both and can be tilted forward and backward toward the center. Board 6,
6, a protruding plate 7 that can be moved up and down through the center spaced part 2a of the cooling plate 2 at the center of the folded body A, and an upper part that can be moved up and down along the inner surface of the folded body A. In the cooling device for candy raw materials, the pressure plate 16 is provided with a rotary plate part 19 that rotates by 9Q degrees in the center of the pressure plate 16, and a plurality of candies that can move in and out of the rotary plate part 19 vertically. A stopper pin 21 is provided, and the heated candy raw material spread on the cooling plate 2 inside the fence body A can be moved up and down by the raised plate 7, moved forward and backward by the left and right side wall plates 6, 6, folded by tilting, tilted, etc. Displacement to the center position and stabbing with each of the aforesaid stop pins 21 to rotate the rotary plate part 1
A cooling device for candy raw materials characterized by sequentially repeating 90 degree rotational displacement by 9 rotations and rolling by a pressure plate 16 on a cooling plate 2.