JPS62158456A - Conjugated charger for multicolored high-viscosity substances - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:The paths for a substance of high viscosity such as chewing gum are formed using a specific spacer, the first and second guide plates to miniaturize the unit scale and facilitate speed-up charging operations. CONSTITUTION:In the first and second extrusion chambers 3, 4, the screw rotates to pressurized the fluid gum A and B toward the double-layered cylinder 5. Actuator 11 drives the inner tube 9 to rotate and the gum flows into the inner tube, when the slit 8 on the inner tube overlaps with the slit 6 on the outer slit 7. When the inner tube becomes air-tight by its rotation, the piston comes down to push out the gum. Gum A passes through the hole 13 a on the spacer 13 and the hole 15a on the first guide plate 15 into the groove 16a in the second guide plate 16. The path is divided from there into 2 through-holes 16b and reaches the charging nozzle 14. In the meantime, gum B passes through- hole 13b on the spacer 13 to reach the groove 15b in the guide plate 15. The path is divided into 2 ways from there into 2 through-holes 15c and passes through small pipe 17 and through-hole 16c to the nozzle 14.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] This invention is a method for combining two or more highly viscous substances such as gums with different colors and filling them into a container so that they do not mix with each other. The present invention relates to a multi-color high viscosity material composite filling device that can be used for filling.

[Conventional technology]

Nowadays, with the proliferation of a wide variety of sweets, there is a demand for new sweets, not just traditional sweets, but also ones that not only satisfy the taste buds but also are visually interesting. It is desired to provide something that will satisfy them. In order to meet these demands, for example, when extruding from a tube container, the extrusion surface is divided into cross shapes (
A product has been proposed that comes out with a colored pattern (see Figure 4) in which the two diagonal sections are blue and the remaining section is white. As shown in FIG. 5, such a gum manufacturing apparatus includes two blue nozzles la, each communicating with a blue gum extrusion a (not shown), and two blue nozzles la, each communicating with a white gum extrusion a (not shown). ) A conceivable device is a device in which two white nozzles 1b communicating with the container are combined, the tips of these nozzles la and lb are placed in a container such as a tube, and the two types of gums described above are filled. In addition, as an improved device, as shown in Fig. 6,
It is also possible to consider an apparatus in which a filling nozzle 2 having a partition wall is attached to the tips of the nozzles la and lb.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

However, in the apparatus shown in Fig. 5, four extruders are required to supply gum to each of the four nozzles, each consisting of two sets of two nozzles la and lb. In addition to being a large-scale process, the extruder must be stopped every time the tube container is filled with gum, making the filling operation complicated and making high-speed filling impossible. From these points, the above device has practical problems.

Also, when the tube container is filled with gum, it is necessary to close the nozzles la and lb to prevent the gum from stringing (tailing) from the nozzles la and lb, but as mentioned above, the four nozzles 1a , lb, it is not easy to attach a nozzle opening/closing device to each of them, and it is virtually impossible to do so.

Therefore, in the above device, a stringy phenomenon of the gum occurs.

In the device shown in Fig. 6, the filling nozzle 2 is attached to the tips of the four nozzles la and lb, so it is possible to attach a nozzle opening/closing device to the filling nozzle 2, thereby preventing the gum from becoming stringy. can be realized. However, nozzles la, l
There still remains the problem that an extruder is provided for each container, and the operation of the extruder is stopped each time the container is filled.

The present invention was made in view of the above circumstances, and aims to realize miniaturization of the entire device, high-speed filling, and prevention of stringiness.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to achieve the above object, the multicolor high viscosity material composite filling device of the present invention has a plurality of through holes in the circumferential bodies of the inner and outer tubes in the extrusion chamber that accommodates the high viscosity material under pressure. A double tubular cylinder that opens and closes the through hole of the outer tube by the relative rotation of the cylinder is disposed across the extrusion chamber, and a piston moves forward and backward in the inner tube of the double cylinder with respect to the outlet of the double cylinder. A first introduction plate having a gum retention groove with a through hole at the bottom and a communication hole connects the gum retention groove to one of the extrusion devices. a second introduction plate fitted with an outlet of the double tubular cylinder and having a communication hole aligned with the outlet of the double tubular cylinder of the other extrusion device, and provided with a retention groove having first and second bottom through holes; has its own gum retention groove corresponding to the bottom through hole of the first introduction plate and the communication hole, and has its own first bottom through hole corresponding to the bottom through hole of the second introduction plate. The above-mentioned No. 1
first and second axially extending plates attached to the introduction plate of the
A filling nozzle having a zero flow path inside and an on-off valve at the outlet communicated its first and second flow paths with the first and second through holes of the second introduction plate, respectively. In this state, the second four people are temporarily attached.

Next, the present invention will be explained in detail based on examples.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view showing the structure of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view thereof. In these figures, 3 is the first part that extrudes and supplies the fluid blue gum A.
4 is an extrusion chamber of an extruder (not shown), and 4 is an extrusion chamber of a second extruder that extrudes and supplies fluid white gum B, each of which is equipped with a screw 12 for extruding the gum. A double tubular cylinder 5 for extruding gums A and B passes vertically through the tip of each extrusion chamber 3.4. The double tubular cylinder 5 has an outer cylinder 7 in which several columns of through holes 6 are arranged at equal intervals in the circumferential direction, and an outer cylinder 7 in which several columns of through holes 8 are arranged at equal intervals in the circumferential direction. It is composed of inner cylinders 9 arranged in several rows and rotatable in the circumferential direction, and a piston 10. The upper part of the outer cylinder 7 is formed with a flange 7a, which fixes the double tubular cylinder 5 to the first and second extrusion chambers 3, 4. Further, the inner cylinder 9 has an upper portion integrated with a gear 9a, and is configured to reciprocate at a constant angle by the rotational driving force of the rotary actuator 11. As a result, the through hole 8 provided in the inner cylinder 9 and the through hole 6 provided in the outer cylinder 7 match, and the inside of the extrusion chamber 3.4 and the hollow part 5a in the double tubular cylinder 5 communicate with each other. A state where the two are blocked and a state where both are cut off are alternately created. The piston rod 10 is connected to a hydraulic cylinder or the like (not shown) that provides reciprocating motion in the vertical direction, and moves up and down along the inner peripheral surface of the inner cylinder 9. This vertical movement of the piston 11 is controlled by the inner cylinder 9 by the rotary actuator 11.
It is synchronized with the reciprocating rotation of the inner cylinder 9 and the outer cylinder 7.
When the inside of the inner cylinder 9 is in a state of being cut off from the outside and the inside of the inner cylinder 9 is lowered, and the inside of the inner cylinder 9 is in communication with the outside, the inner cylinder 9 rises to the position shown by the chain line in FIG. It is now waiting for the gum to be delivered to 9.

On the bottom surfaces of the first and second extrusion chambers 3.4, as shown in FIG. 13, and first and second introduction plates 15 and 16
(not shown) in a stacked state.

The first introduction plate 15 has a communication hole 13a of the spacer 13.
A gum retention groove 15b communicating with the communication hole 13b of the spacer 13 is formed, and this gum retention groove 15b
Two through holes 15c are bored at a predetermined interval in the bottom surface of the. The second introduction plate 16 also has a gum retention groove 16a that communicates with the communication hole 15a of the first introduction plate 15.
Two through holes 16c are formed in the bottom surface of the gum retention groove 162 in a portion corresponding to the two through holes 15c of the first introduction plate 15. The small pipe 7 has its upper part fitted into the through hole 15c of the first four-person plate, and its lower part fitted into the through hole 16c of the second introduction plate, so that the through holes 15c and 16c are in communication. Furthermore, two through holes 16b are bored in the bottom surface of the gum retention groove 16a in the second introduction plate 16. Above 2
The two through holes 16b and the two through holes 16c are positioned so that the lines connecting the centers of the respective holes intersect. 14 is a filling nozzle with a cross-shaped partition wall 18 inside.
The filling paths 143 to 14d are divided into four parts, and the filling paths 14c and 14c are connected to the through paths 16a and 16c.
In addition, the filling passages 14b and 14d are respectively connected to the through passage 16b.
, 16b, and is fixed to the second introduction plate 16. The filling paths 142 to 14d are located at the lower end of the filling nozzle 14, respectively.
It is blocked by a blocking plate 41 having half openings 14a-14d. Reference numeral 20 denotes a shutter equipped with a gear 40, which is a cylindrical body with a bottom plate provided with openings 20a to 20d corresponding to the openings 14a to 14d, and rotates around the outer periphery of the bottom side of the filling nozzle 14. Can be fitted freely. This shutter 20 is connected to the gear 40
is meshed with the gears of the rotary actuator 21 and driven to reciprocate in the circumferential direction at a constant angle,
The openings 14a-14d of the shielding plate 41 are opened and closed. 22 is the shutter opening 203-20
This is a cutting edge provided on the cutting side portion of d. The rotary actuator 21 is linked to the vertical movement of the piston, and drives the shutter 20 to open the openings 14a' to 14d' of the shielding plate 41 when the piston loft 10 is lowered, and to close them when the piston loft 10 is raised. 30 is a container.

In this configuration, the screw 12 is constantly rotating in the first and second extrusion chambers 3.4, and presses and urges the blue gum A and the white gum B having flowing DJ properties in the direction of the double tubular cylinder 5. ing. Then, the piston 10 in the double tubular cylinder 5 rises from the position indicated by the solid line in FIG. When the through hole 8 matches the through hole 6 of the outer cylinder 7, the gums A and B flow into the inner cylinder 9 through the through hole 6°8. When this inflow is completed, the rotary actuator 11
rotates the inner cylinder 9, shifts the through hole 8 from the through hole 6, and seals the inside of the inner cylinder 9.

In this state, the piston 10 descends and the gum A in the inner cylinder 9,
Push B downward. As a result, the blue gum A is transferred to the communication hole 13a of the spacer 13 and the communication hole 1 of the first introduction plate 15.
5a to the gum retention groove 16a of the second introduction plate 16.
(see FIG. 2), and from there it divides into two through holes 16b, and then reaches the opposing filling channels 14b and 14d of the filling nozzle 14. On the other hand, the white gum B reaches the gum retention groove 15b of the first introduction plate 15 through the communication hole 13b of the spacer 13, and from there enters the two through holes 15c, and enters the small pipe 17. The filling passages 14 of the filling nozzles 14 facing each other through the through holes 16c of the second introduction plate 16
a and 14C. The rotary actuator 21 is rotated in conjunction with the lowering of the piston 10, so that the shutter 20 is rotated and the openings 20a to 2 are rotated.
0d (see FIG. 3) are openings 14a' to 14d' of the circuit breaker 41 provided at the exits of the filling passages 143 to 14c.
When the above-mentioned openings 14a° to 14d° are opened,
The incoming gums A, B then flow into the container 30. Next, when a predetermined inflow time has elapsed, the piston 10
At the same time, begins to rise from the position of the solid line to the position of the dashed line,
The rotary actuator 21 is driven to rotate, the shutter 20 is rotated, and the openings 14a'' to 14d' are closed. At this time, the opening 20 of the shutter 20 that closes the opening
Since the cutting blades 22 are provided at the edges of the openings a to 20d, the gums A and B are cut without causing stringiness. By repeating this operation, gums A and B are injected and filled into the container 30 one after another.

In this way, the container 30 is filled with the two colors of gums A and B so that they do not mix with each other. FIG. 4 shows the state in which gums A and B are extruded from this container. In the figure, A is blue gum and B is white gum, and the two colors of gum are combined to create a blue and white pattern.

Thus, the above device connects the gum flow path to the special spacer 13. Since it is formed using the first and second introduction plates 15° and 16, two extruders are now sufficient instead of the conventional four, and the entire WW can be made smaller. Furthermore, unlike conventional methods, it is no longer necessary to stop the extruder every time filling is completed, making the filling process easier and faster.At the same time, the shutter prevents the gum from becoming stringy. The stringy gum will not stain the product or cause the pattern of the gum to collapse. Furthermore, since the introduction path is formed by stacking and fixing the introduction plates, this device is easy to disassemble. The manufacturing cost is also low because it is only nn simple.

In addition, although the apparatus of the above embodiment performs filling with gum,
This device can be widely used for filling high viscosity materials such as foods such as bean paste and medicines such as ointments in addition to gum.

In addition, although any number of colors for high viscosity materials may be combined, the number of inlets must be the same as the number of colors, so the number of stacked introduction plates and grooves and communication holes must be determined according to the number of colors. The arrangement is selected as appropriate. Further, the shape of the introduction plate is not limited to a rectangle, but may be any shape such as a circle or a polygon.

〔Effect of the invention〕

Since the high viscosity multicolor filling device of the present invention is configured as described above, it is possible to downsize the entire device, facilitate filling work, and speed up the filling process. It is possible to prevent the stringy phenomenon from occurring. Further, since the device of the present invention has a small number of parts and a simple structure, it is extremely easy to assemble and maintain.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of one embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an exploded perspective view thereof, Fig. 3 is an explanatory view of the filling nozzle and shutter, Fig. 4 is an explanatory view of the obtained filling, and Fig. 5 is an explanatory view of the filling nozzle and shutter. Figure and 6th
The figure is an explanatory diagram of a conventional filling nozzle. 3.4...Extrusion chamber 5...Double tubular cylinder 6゜8...Through hole 7...Outer cylinder 9...Inner cylinder lO...
- Piston 13... Spacer 14... Filling nozzle 14a to 14C... Filling path 15... First introduction plate 15a... Communication hole 15b... Gum retention groove 1
6... Second introduction plate 16a... Gum retention groove 16
b, 16c...Through hole 17...Small pipe 20.
...Shutter 22...Cutting blade Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A double tubular cylinder that has a plurality of through holes in the circumference of the outer and outer tubes and opens and closes the through holes in the outer tube by relative rotation of the inner and outer tubes is extruded into an extrusion chamber that houses a pressurized high viscosity material. Two extruders are provided, each of which is disposed across the chamber and has a piston inserted in the inner tube of the double tubular cylinder so as to move forward and backward with respect to the outlet of the double cylinder, and both of the extruders include: A first introduction plate having a gum retention groove with a bottom through hole and a communication hole aligns the gum retention groove with the outlet of the double tubular cylinder of one of the extrusion devices and connects the communication hole with the exit of the double tubular cylinder of the other extrusion device. A second introduction plate having a retention groove fitted to the outlet of the heavy tubular cylinder and having first and second bottom through holes extends its own gum retention groove through the bottom of said first introduction plate. The shaft is attached to the first introduction plate in such a manner that it corresponds to the hole and the communication hole, and its own first bottom through-hole communicates with the bottom through-hole of the second introduction plate through a small pipe. A filling nozzle having first and second passages extending in the direction and having an on-off valve at the outlet connects the first and second passages to the first passage of the second introduction plate.
and a multicolor high viscosity material composite filling device, which is attached to the second introduction plate in communication with the second through hole.