JPS63164849A - Preparation apparatus for cotton candy - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To readily and efficiently produce a cotton candy having a beautiful external appearance in a tapered cylindrical form, by constituting a winding take-up material, e.g. stick of half-split chopsticks, etc., in a cotton candy vessel so as to rotate, revolve and vertically move at the same time therein. CONSTITUTION:A raw material granulated sugar is charged in a given amount from a hopper 18 into a heating rotating part 12, heated at a suitable temperature and converted into a cotton form. The resultant candy in the form of cotton is then discharged into a cotton candy vessel 10. A winding take-up material 54, e.g. stick of half-split chopsticks, etc., is attached to a chuck 50, simultaneously rotated at a given speed while being revolved by rolling a rubber roller 44 on the side of a circular rail 25. The winding material 54 is vertically moved at the same time as rotation and revolution by vertical movement of a disk 24. Thereby the aimed cotton candy, having invariably uniform finish and containing moderate air can be wound and the apparatus can be used as a general household cotton candy production machine, automatic vending machine, etc.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a cotton candy manufacturing machine, and more particularly to a cotton candy manufacturing machine that automatically produces cotton candy.

(Prior Art) Cotton candy is made by heating coarse sugar to release it into a cotton-like shape, and then rolling this cotton-like product into a suitable size around disposable chopsticks.

Conventionally, in order to manufacture this cotton candy, a heating rotating section was installed in the center of a circular cotton candy container with a cylindrical outer wall and a flat bottom to store coarse sugar, the raw material for cotton candy. ,
An appropriate amount of coarse sugar is put into this heating rotating part and heated.

The heating rotating section consists of a small container made of a cylindrical mesh and a heater for heating the small container, and coarse sugar is put into the small container and heated. The cylindrical small container is provided at its bottom with a fan that rotates together with the small container, and the bottom of the small container is heated and at the same time the container itself rotates at high speed. Therefore, as the coarse sugar is heated and melted, the coarse sugar is centrifuged and the cotton candy is released into the cotton candy container in the form of flocs. As a result, cotton-like candy floats inside the cotton candy container at the same height as the periphery of the outer peripheral wall, and this cotton-like candy is rolled up with disposable chopsticks or the like to make cotton candy. be able to.

(Means for solving the problem) In this way, when manufacturing cotton candy, the cotton candy floating in the cotton candy container is rolled up onto disposable chopsticks. This is done manually by rotating the chopsticks while watching the amount of candy coming out.

Therefore, in the past, it was not possible to produce cotton candy in large quantities, which was inefficient, and because it relied on manual labor,
There is a problem that the shape of the finished cotton candy varies.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and its purpose is to provide a cotton candy manufacturing machine that can automatically and easily manufacture cotton candy without relying on human hands. It is in.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to solve the above problems, the present invention has the following configuration.

That is, the coarse sugar is heated to an appropriate temperature in a heating rotating section, centrifuged, and flowed into a cotton candy container in the form of fluff.
In a cotton candy manufacturing machine that winds up the cotton-like candy on a winding material such as disposable chopsticks to make cotton candy, a chuck that removably supports the winding material above the cotton candy container;
The chuck is provided with an autorotation means for supporting the chuck to rotate at a predetermined speed, a revolution means for making the chuck revolve within the cotton candy container, and an up-and-down movement means for moving the chuck up and down in the vertical direction at a predetermined period. It is characterized by

(Embodiments) Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing an embodiment of a cotton candy manufacturing machine according to the present invention.

In the figure, numeral 10 is a cotton candy container containing cotton-like floating candy, and numeral 12 is a rotating part for heating coarse sugar disposed on the bottom of the cotton candy container. Reference numeral 14 denotes a support base that supports the bottom surface of the cotton candy container 10 and houses a drive unit that heats and drives the heating rotation unit 12.

16 is a frame constructed above the cotton candy container 10.

Reference numeral 18 denotes a hopper disposed approximately above the center of the frame 16. This hopper 18 stores rough sugar, which is a raw material for manufacturing cotton candy, and also puts a predetermined amount into the heating rotating section 12.

Reference numeral 20 denotes a rotating section that hangs down from approximately the center of the frame 16 to the heating rotating section 12 provided at the center of the cotton candy container 10. The rotating section 20 is formed into a hollow cylindrical shape, and is rotatably supported on the upper surface of the frame 16, and a first gear 22 is fixedly installed on the outer circumferential surface of the upper end thereof. This first gear 22
The upper end of the rotating part 20 protrudes upward from the central part of the rotating part 20,
Close to the bottom of the hopper 18 located above it.

Reference numeral 24 denotes a disk that is pivotally supported by the rotating part 20 via a disk receiver 26 below the frame 16. Said disk receiver 26
is for receiving the rotation of the rotating portion 20 and the vertical movement of the disc 24.

25 is a circular rail fixed to the lower surface of the peripheral edge of the disk 24. The inner and outer circumferential surfaces of the lower end of this circular rail 25 are provided with protruding edges for engaging with rollers.

Reference numeral 28 denotes a rotation stopper for the disc 240, which is formed in the shape of a round bar, has its lower end fixed to the disc 24, and is provided on the frame 16 so as to be slidable only in the vertical direction via a rotation stopper 30. This detent 28 protrudes upward from the frame 16 by a predetermined length so that the disc 24 does not fall out of the detent receiver 30 when it moves up and down. The detents 28 are provided at three locations on the circumferential surface of the disk 24 at equal intervals.

32 is a coil spring that is fixed to the upper surface of the disc 24, and the other end passes through a hole bored in the frame 16 and is attached to a support rod 34 erected on the frame 16. It is locked. The coil spring 32 is elastically biased to suspend the disc 24, and by suspending the disc 24, the weight of the disc 24 is reduced and smooth vertical movement is possible. It is.

36 connects one end of the rotary rod 2 to the lower side of the disc 24.
This is a lever that is fixed at 0. Reference numeral 38 denotes a support rod that is pivotally attached to the other end of the lever 36 so as to be slidable in the vertical direction.

40 is a support plate rotating below the disk 24, and the upper end of the support rod 38 is fixed to this support plate 40.

Reference numeral 42 denotes an inner roller rotatably supported on the upper surface of the support plate 40, and a protrusion formed on the inner circumferential surface of the circular rail 25 is engaged with a groove formed on the side circumferential surface of the inner roller and guided. and rolls on the inner peripheral surface of the circular rail 25.

A rubber roller 44 is supported on the upper surface of the support plate 40 at a position facing the inner roller 42 with the circular rail 25 in between. The rubber roller 44 has rubber around its inner surface and rolls on the outer peripheral surface of the circular rail 25.

46 is a fixed 24 on the upper part of the support shaft of the rubber roller 44.
It is a sensor dog installed close to two sides of the
This is a sensor dog for sensing the position of the rubber roller 44 as it rotates on the circular rail 25.

A sensor 48a is fixed to one edge of the upper surface of the disc 24, and counts the number of revolutions by sensing when the sensor dog 46 passes through the sensor 48a.

Reference numeral 50 denotes a chuck for attaching a wound material such as disposable chopsticks, and is provided coaxially with the shaft supporting the rubber roller 44 and facing vertically downward via a chuck opening/closing spring 52. This chuck 50 can be used to attach a winding material 54 such as chopsticks with one touch, and by lifting the chuck 50 upward against the elastic force of the chuck opening/closing spring 520, the lower end of the chuck 50 opens and the winding material 54 is opened. 54 can be easily sandwiched and attached.

A drive motor 56 is fixed to the upper surface of the frame 16, and a second gear 58 that meshes with the first gear is fixed to a drive shaft protruding from the side surface of the motor.
A boot IJ-62 is fixedly installed which engages a timing belt 60 to drive an eccentric disk that swings the timing belt 4 up and down.

Reference numeral 64 is a cover that covers the members placed on the frame 16, such as the drive motor 56, the first gear (22), and the coil spring 32, and is for safety.

FIG. 2 shows a plan view of this embodiment. In the same figure, 43a and 43b are outer rollers that engage with a protrusion formed on the outer circumferential surface of the circular rail 25 and move.
The support plate 40 is supported by pinching the support plate 5.

48b is a sensor dog 4 similar to the sensor 48a.
6 is a sensor that detects the rotation around the circular rail 25, sensor 48a is for counting, and sensor 48b is for checking the origin.

66 is an eccentric plate that rotates above the disk 24 while being maintained vertically to move the disk 24 up and down, and its axis is parallel to the drive shaft of the drive motor 56. It is rotatably supported on the top.

68 is a pulley provided on the axis of this eccentric plate 6G,
A timing belt 60 is passed between this pulley 68 and a pulley 62 connected to the drive motor 56, and the timing belt 60 is connected to the pulley 68.

70 is a spherical bearing provided on the circumferential surface of the eccentric plate 66.

FIG. 3 shows a side view illustrating the state of engagement between the eccentric plate 66 and the disc 24. As shown in the figure, the spherical bearing 70 on the eccentric plate 66 is rotatably provided at a position close to the periphery of the eccentric plate 66, and the end of a connecting rod 72 is fixed to the lower part of the spherical bearing 70. A spherical bearing 74 is fixed to the lower end of 72 .

Reference numeral 76 denotes a pivot portion with which the lower end of the spherical bearing 74 abuts, and this pivot portion 76 is fixedly provided on the upper surface of the disc 24 .

FIG. 4 is a side view showing the hopper 18 and a mechanism for charging raw material coarse sugar.

In the figure, numeral 78 is a shutter for introducing coarse sugar in appropriate amounts, and is formed of a rectangular frame having a predetermined thickness, and numeral 79 is a storage section through which the shutter 78 is installed above and below. 80 is a solenoid that drives the scissor in the horizontal direction.

82 is an input port provided at the bottom of the hopper 18;
Its lower end surface slides into contact with the upper surface of the shutter 78. Further, 84 is a communication port provided in sliding contact with the lower surface of the shutter 78. The top of the rotating part 20 is close to the lower side of the communication port 84 so as to guide the rough sugar to be introduced.

A window 88 is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the hopper 18 and is used to monitor the amount of coarse sugar inside the hopper 18.

The coarse sugar is stored in the hopper 18 in advance, but when the solenoid 80 is driven to move the shutter 78 horizontally, the input port 82, the storage section 79, and the communication port 84 communicate with each other, and the shutter Rough sugar falls inside the rotating part 20 only while 78 is open. Therefore, by controlling the time the shutter 78 is open,
You can add an appropriate amount of coarse sugar.

As described above, in addition to adjusting the amount of coarse sugar to be introduced by controlling the time for horizontally moving the shutter 78 back and forth using the solenoid 80, the volume stored in the storage section 79 of the shutter 78 is adjusted to accommodate the coarse sugar. It may be formed to correspond to the amount to be used once, so that when the shutter 78 is opened, the rough sugar stored in the storage section 79 may be thrown in. At this time, the communication port 84 and the storage section 79 are communicated with each other when the shutter 78 is opened, and the input port 82 and the storage section 79 are communicated with each other when the shutter 78 is closed. The structure may be such that the storage section 79 is sequentially replenished with coarse sugar.

Next, the operation of the above-described embodiment will be explained.

As described above, the rough sugar raw material is fed in predetermined amounts from the hopper 18 to the heating rotating section 12 through the rotating section 20 . The coarse sugar thrown into the heating rotating part 12 is heated to an appropriate temperature and gradually becomes fluffy and flows into the cotton candy container 10.

A winding material 54 such as disposable chopsticks is attached to the chuck 50, but as described above, since the chuck 50 is provided coaxially with the rubber roller 44, the rubber roller 44
rotates on its own axis by moving on the side surface of the circular rail 25, and the winding material 54 also rotates on its own axis at a predetermined speed while also revolving.

In the rubber roller 44, the rotary rod 20 is rotated via the first gear 22 and the second gear 58 by driving the drive motor 56, and the lever 36 fixed to the rotating part 20 pushes the support rod 38. By doing so, the workers are transferred on the circular rail 25. At this time, the inner roller 42 and the outer roller can be used.

In this embodiment, the rubber roller 44 is connected to the circular rail 25.
The rubber roller 44 itself is configured to rotate five times when making one rotation around the rubber roller 44 .

Further, the disc 24 is held by a rotation stopper 28 so as not to rotate relative to the frame 16, but can be swung up and down by a disc holder 26.

Here, as shown in FIG. 3, the disc 24 is connected to an eccentric plate 66, and as the eccentric plate 66 rotates, the connecting rod 72
The disc 24 is pushed in the vertical direction via the . That is,
The eccentric plate 66 is connected to the drive motor 56 via the timing belt 60, and as the eccentric plate 66 rotates, the spherical bearing 70 rotates around the spherical bearing 74, and the connecting rod 72 is rotated around the spherical bearing 74. It swings left and right and moves up and down, pushing the disc 24 in the up and down direction. The disk 24 is constantly urged upward by the coil spring 32.
Since the weight of the disc 4 is reduced, the disk 24 can be smoothly moved up and down by rotating the eccentric plate 66.

By vertically moving the disc 24, the winding material 54 can rotate, revolve, and vertically move at the same time.

In the embodiment, the winding material 54 is configured to move up and down 2.5 times during one rotation around the disk 24. This means that the vertical movement position returns to the original position every time the winding material 54 makes two rounds around the disk. This has the effect that when viewed from a specific position, the vertical position changes with each rotation, making it possible to wind up the cotton candy uniformly.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, the cotton candy manufacturing machine of the present invention is configured such that the wound material such as disposable chopsticks rotates and revolves around the axis and moves up and down at the same time in the cotton candy container.
It can be rolled up while containing the appropriate amount of air, just like wrapping cotton candy.

In addition, by appropriately controlling the speed of revolution and vertical movement of the material to be wound, it is possible to wind it into a cotton candy having a finely tapered cylindrical shape. Since it is controlled mechanically, the finished product is always uniform, and at the same time, it has the effect of increasing production efficiency compared to conventional methods that rely on manual labor. In addition, since the process of manufacturing cotton candy can be enjoyed from the outside, the machine can be used as a cotton candy making machine for general household use or as a vending machine.

Although the present invention has been variously explained above with reference to preferred embodiments, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments, and it goes without saying that many modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. It is.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view, FIG. 3 is a side view showing a vertical movement mechanism, and FIG. 4 is a side view showing a part of the hopper. 10... Cotton candy container, 12... Heating rotating section,
14... Support stand, 16... Frame, 18...
Hopper, 20... Rotating part, 22... First gear,
24... Disc, 25... Circular rail, 26.
... Disk receiver, 28... Rotation stopper, 30... Rotation stopper, 32... Coil spring, 34...
・Support rod, 36...Lever, 38...Support rod, 40...Support plate, 42...Inner roller, 43
a, 43b...outer roller, 44...rubber roller, 46...sensor, 48
a, 48b...sensor, 50...chuck,
52... Spring, 54... Winding material,
56... Drive motor, 5) (... Second gear,
60...Timing Peru, 62...Pulley, 64...Cover, 66...Eccentric plate, 68...
... Pulley, 70... Spherical bearing, 72... Connecting rod, 74... Spherical bearing, 7... Pivot joint, 78...
... Shutter, 79 ... Storage section, 80 ... Solenoid, 82 ... Inlet, 84 ... Communication port,
88...window.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. Rough sugar is heated to an appropriate temperature in a heating rotating section, centrifuged, and flowed into a cotton candy container in the form of cotton candy, and the cotton candy is used as a winding material such as disposable chopsticks. A cotton candy manufacturing machine that rolls up cotton candy into cotton candy, comprising: a chuck that removably supports the rolled material above the cotton candy container; a rotation means that supports the chuck to rotate at a predetermined speed; A cotton candy manufacturing machine comprising: a revolution means for revolving a chuck within the cotton candy container; and a vertical movement means for vertically moving the chuck up and down at a predetermined period.