JPS6236631Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention relates to an apparatus for cutting tofu in order to produce fried tofu, deep-fried tofu (deep-fried tofu), and the like.

To make fried tofu and tofu, it is necessary to cut a large area of tofu placed on a rectangular plate vertically and horizontally into the desired size, and then fry it in oil.
Because abura-age and tofu-age are not square but rectangular with different vertical and horizontal dimensions, workers have traditionally had to hold multiple types of cutting tools in their hands, each with disc-shaped cutters at different pitches on the cutter shaft. I was cutting tofu.
However, there are problems in that the cutting operation requires time and effort, and the tofu is soft and easily damaged, requiring great care in the operation.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems and provide a tofu cutting device that can easily cut a large amount of tofu into desired dimensions with little effort.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In the drawing, 1 is a mounting plate, and this mounting plate 1
The vertical shaft 2 is fixed to the lower surface, and the vertical shaft 2 is rotatably supported by the base 3, so that the vertical shaft 2 can be freely rotated in the horizontal direction. the vertical axis 2
The sprocket 4 fitted on the frame 5, the sprocket 6 pivotally supported on the device frame 5, and the endless chain 7 are hung,
Since the piston 9 of the first air cylinder mechanism 8 is connected to the connecting fitting 15 provided in a part of the chain 7, the reciprocation of the piston 9 caused by the operation of the first air cylinder mechanism 8 causes the vertical shaft 2 and The mounting plate 1 is configured to be rotated back and forth at a rotation angle of 90 degrees. A cutter support stand 10 is arranged above the mounting plate 1, and a pair of front and rear upper and lower wheels 11, 12 provided on this support stand 10 move the rail 13 provided on the upper part of the device frame 5 from above and below. I support it. Both ends of a chain 14 are connected to the front and rear ends of the cutter support 10, respectively, and sprockets 16 and 17 on which the chain 14 is hung are pivotally supported at the front and rear upper ends of the device frame 5. The front sprocket 16 is connected to an electric motor 18 capable of forward and reverse rotation, and the forward and reverse rotation of this electric motor 18 causes the sprocket 1 to rotate.
6. The cutter support 10 is horizontally reciprocated in a straight line back and forth along the rail 13 via the chain 14. The katsuta support stand 10 has
A swing shaft 19 extending in the left-right direction perpendicular to the reciprocating direction of the support base 10 is swingably supported, and the bases of front and rear support arms 20 and 21 are fixed to both ends of the swing shaft 19, respectively. The front and rear support arms 20, 21 extend downward at predetermined acute angle intervals, and the support arms 20, 21 extend downward at predetermined acute angle intervals.
Curved portions 20a and 21a each having a semi-circular tip end
After that, each section is folded back upwards. Cutting tools 22, 2 are provided on the curved portions 20a, 21a, respectively.
Three cutter shafts 24 and 25 are rotatably and detachably supported, and a number of disc-shaped cutters 26 and 27 are fitted onto the cutter shafts 24 and 25, respectively, and the pitches of these cutters 26 and 27 are different from each other. There is.
The cutter support base 10 is provided with a swing operation mechanism 28, and this operation mechanism 28 has a piston 31 of a second air cylinder mechanism 30 attached to the cutter support base 10 via a bracket 29 fixed to the swing shaft 19. is engaged with the elongated hole 32a of the connecting arm 32,
The reciprocation of the piston 31 caused by the operation of the second air cylinder mechanism 30 causes the swing shaft 19 to reciprocate by an angle equal to the angular interval between the front and rear support arms 20 and 21.

Next, the operation of the tofu cutting device configured as above will be explained. With the cutter support stand 10 located at the rear end and the front support arm 20 protruding vertically downward from the swing shaft 19, the plate 34 on which the tofu 33 is placed is placed on the placement plate 1, and the plate 34 is placed on the placement plate 1. The plate 34 is positioned by a positioning member (not shown) provided on the plate 1. In this state, when the cutter support base 10 is advanced by rotating the electric motor 18 in the forward direction, the swing shaft 1
9 and the outer peripheral end of the disc-shaped cutter 26 of the cutting tool 22 supported by the front support arm 20 through the tofu 3
The cutter shaft 24 moves forward while rotating by rolling on the upper surface of the plate 34 on which the tofu 33 is placed, and the tofu 33 is cut in the longitudinal direction with the disc-shaped cutter 26. In this case, the disc-shaped cutter 27 of the cutting tool 23 moves above the tofu 33 without coming into contact with it. After the vertical cutting is completed, the electric motor 18 is stopped to stop the forward movement of the cutter support stand 10, and then the first air cylinder mechanism 8 is activated to horizontally rotate the mounting plate 1 by 90 degrees. Second air cylinder mechanism 3
0 to rotate the swinging arm 19, the rear support arm 21 is placed in a state where it hangs down from the swinging arm 19. In this state, by rotating the electric motor 18 in the reverse direction, the cutter support stand 10 is moved backward, and while the cutter shaft 25 of the cutting tool 23 supported by the rear support arm 21 is rotated, the tofu 33 is laterally cut with the disc-shaped cutter 27. After that, the electric motor 18 is stopped.

In addition, when cutting tofu with different cutting dimensions, the cutter shafts 24, 25 of the cutting tools 22, 23 supported by the front and rear support arms 20, 21 are
, and using a cutting tool that has a disc-shaped cutter with a different pitch from the disc-shaped cutters 26 and 27 on the cutter shaft, cut these cutter shafts between the supporting arms 20 and 27.
21, and cut the tofu in the same manner as described above.

In addition, in the above embodiment, the cutting tools 22, 23
By simply supporting the cutter shafts 24 and 25 on the curved portions 20a and 21a of the support arms 20 and 21, the cutting tool 2
Although these do not move up and down due to their own weight, a pantograph-shaped restrainer 35 shown in FIG. 24 (or 2
If 5) is suppressed, vertical movement of the cutting tool can be more reliably prevented.

Further, it is preferable that the electric motor and the first and second air cylinder mechanisms are operated automatically using electric means or the like until a piece of tofu is completely cut vertically and horizontally.

As explained above, according to the cutting device of the present invention, the tofu placed on the mounting plate via the plate is cut into a disc-shaped cutter with the vertical direction set on one cutter axis by the forward movement of the cutter support base. After cutting, tofu can be cut into rectangular shapes by horizontally rotating the mounting plate 90 degrees and moving the cutter support back in the opposite direction. By one reciprocating movement of the mounting plate, 90
This can be done by simply rotating the cutting tool horizontally and rotating the swinging arm to change the cutting tool used, which consists of a cutter shaft and a disc-shaped cutter, making it easy to cut a large amount of tofu in a short period of time and without requiring any skill. It has the advantage of being able to cut into pieces, requiring less labor.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a side view showing one embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a top view of the same, FIG. 3 is a plan view of the rotating operation mechanism of the mounting plate, FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the main part, and FIG. 5 is a side view of the holding device. 1... Placement plate, 10... Katsuta support stand, 19...
... Swing axis, 20, 21... Support arm, 22, 23...
...Cutting tool, 24, 25...Cut shaft, 26, 27
... Disc-shaped cutter, 28 ... Swing operation mechanism.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] Mounting plate 1 that is horizontally rotated back and forth at a rotation angle of 90 degrees
A cutter support 10 that is linearly reciprocated horizontally in the back and forth direction is provided above, and a swing shaft 19 extending in a direction perpendicular to the reciprocating direction of the cutter support 10 is pivotally supported on the cutter support 10. , a plurality of pairs of support arms 20, 21 are protruded from the swing shaft 19 at predetermined angular intervals, and cutter shafts 24, 25 are provided with disk-shaped cutters 26, 27 at different pitches on the support arms, respectively. The swing shaft is connected to a swing operation mechanism 28 that is detachably supported and rotates the swing shaft back and forth by an angle equal to the angular interval of the support arms, and the swing operation mechanism is attached to the cutter support base 10. A tofu cutting device featuring: