JPS63245657A - Production of packed processed food - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To produce a packed processed food of ground fish in unmanned facilities, by carrying out each process of baking of the ground fish applied to spits, pulling out of the spits, passing through roller, cooling and automatic packing of the sprits in a specific manner. CONSTITUTION:(a) Processed food baked and pulled out from spits is stood in a row on a conveyer providing positioning means and loaded one after another, (b) the processed food stood in a row on the conveyer and horizontally carried is passed through between one pair of rollers vertically provided, (c) plural numbers of processed foods passed through the rollers and stood in a row on the conveyer are held in a bundle and row and moved to put on a palette, (d) the palette is horizontally sent and carried near the lower part of a cooling chamber (e) the palette is sent upward one another another, (f) the palette is horizontally moved in a width near the upper end of cooling chamber and descend one after another, (g) the palette is horizontally taken out from near the lower end of the cooling chamber and (h) the processed foods stood in a row on the conveyer are held in a bundle and moved to put on the conveyer in a row state and sent to a automatic packing machine.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention is a cylindrical food product prepared by coating a skewer with game meat or fish meat as a paste and baking it, then removing it from the skewer, shaping it and cooling it. and relates to an automatic packaging method.

[Conventional technology]

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram schematically depicting the process of removing a bamboo wheel 2 as an example of surimi coated on a skewer 1 and baking it from the skewer 1 and feeding it into the automatic packaging machine 3.

Immediately after the skewer 1 is removed, the bamboo ring 2 is compressed in the length direction because the end face of the bamboo ring 2 is pressed and the skewer 2 is pulled out in the longitudinal direction. In order to restore and shape the packet, it is placed between a pair of rollers 4a and 4b, and the packet conveyor 5
fall on top of.

Chikuwa immediately after firing is at a high temperature, so if it is packaged immediately, there is a risk of deterioration.

In order to prevent the above deterioration in quality, the bamboo leaves that have passed through the rollers 4a and 4b are cooled in the cooling chamber 6 before being sent to the automatic packaging machine 3.

The bamboo wheels carried into the vicinity of the upper end of the cooling chamber 6 by the packet conveyor 5 are transported reciprocally by the net conveyors 7a, 7b to 7e provided in multiple stages in the cooling chamber 6, and fall one after another until they reach the bottom net. It is carried out from the cooling chamber 6 by the conveyor 7e.

The bamboo leaves that have left the cooling chamber 6 are carried into a pie break 9 via a drawer conveyor 8.

The bamboo wheels that have been vibrated in the pie break 9 have their directions approximately aligned.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

On the other hand, the automatic packaging machine 3 generally has a function of automatically sealing and packaging a predetermined number of items to be packaged when they are lined up and sent.

However, the large number of bamboo rings that are sequentially fed into the rollers 4a and 4b are conveyed and cooled while taking their own positions, so even if the directions are aligned with the pie break 9, they cannot be directly fed into the automatic packaging machine. .

If too many bamboo rings are sent to Piebreak 9 (
If the temporal pitch is too short, the bamboo rings will overlap, and if it is too small, the feeding to the automatic packaging machine will be incomplete and the machine will not operate properly.

In order to solve these problems with a mechanical device, adding a mechanical device to align the bamboo rings once they are out of order would not only make the equipment complicated and expensive, but also increase the risk of soiling the bamboo rings.

Therefore, workers 10 are assigned to arrange a predetermined number of bamboo rings.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and after removing the skewers from processed foods that have been coated with surimi on the skewers and baked, the process from roller shaping to cooling to feeding into an automatic packaging machine is completely unmanned. The purpose is to provide a method for processing.

[Means for solving problems]

The method of the present invention created to achieve the above object is as follows:
Focusing on the fact that when baked foods are smeared onto skewers and baked, they are carried out one after another in a fixed posture and at fixed time intervals, and this regular state was developed. The rollers are shaped and cooled while being conveyed without being disturbed, and are fed to an automatic packaging machine while maintaining an aligned state.

The reason for this is that surimi products that are coated on skewers and fired have rubber-like elasticity, like bamboo rings, and are cylindrical in shape, making them more bouncy, have a relatively large coefficient of friction, and change in temperature. Since the coefficient of friction changes greatly (approximately 0.4 to 0.8) as the moisture content changes, it is technically difficult to automatically handle it, and once the alignment is disturbed, it is difficult to align it again. This is because it is extremely difficult.

Based on the above-mentioned principle, the method according to the present invention is a concrete configuration for applying the same to a practical aspect. 011) Processed foods arranged on a conveyor and conveyed in a horizontal direction are passed between a pair of vertically opposed and spaced apart rollers; (d) The pallet is conveyed horizontally to the upper end of the cooling chamber. (e) Sequentially feed the above-mentioned pallets upward, (f) Move the above-mentioned pallets horizontally near the upper end of the cooling chamber, and then lower them sequentially, (gl above) The pallets that have been lowered are carried out horizontally from near the upper end of the cooling chamber, (hl) The processed foods that are lined up and loaded on the pallets that have been carried out are grabbed all at once and placed on the conveyor while they are still lined up. It is configured to be transferred and sent to an automatic packaging machine.

[Effect]

According to the above method, it is possible to easily arrange the processed food on the conveyor by taking advantage of the regularity of the posture of the processed food at the time when it is removed from the skewer after baking and the regularity of the time interval at which it is taken out. It is possible to perform the process of shaping with rollers without disrupting the alignment, cooling, and sending to an automatic packaging machine unmanned.

〔Example〕

1 to 4 are explanatory diagrams of one embodiment of the method of the present invention.

The bamboo wheels 2 that have been smeared onto the skewers 1 and fired are carried out together with the skewers 1 to a fixed location in a fixed posture at fixed time intervals from an automatic bamboo wheel baking machine (not shown).

The bamboo ring 2 is held down by a jig (not shown) and the skewer 1 is pulled out by a skewer (not shown).

The above-mentioned skewer removal operation is performed in a predetermined position, posture, and state (not necessarily in a stopped state, but often the skewer is pulled out while the bamboo wheel 2 is being conveyed at a constant speed).

As above, the bamboo wheel 2 is pulled out from the skewer 1 in a constant state.
on the conveyor 11 equipped with the positioning member 11a,
Line up and receive.

In this embodiment, bamboo rings are conveyed in two rows, A and B, but when carrying out the present invention, they may be transported in a single row or in multiple rows.

Next, as shown in FIG. 2, the bamboo wheels 2 are conveyed in the horizontal direction as shown by arrows A and B1, while being moved by a pair of rollers 12, respectively.
a, 13a and the rollers 12b, 13b.Although not shown, the conveyor for conveying the bamboo wheels in the process of FIG. Shape with rollers while conveying.

The process after roller shaping is shown in FIG. , Bz are positioned and conveyed, and are lined up on the conveyor 14. A plurality of these bamboo wheels 2 (70 in this example) are transferred onto a tray 16 in an aligned state by a transfer machine 15. The above-mentioned transfer machine 15 includes a gripping tool 15a that has a function of gripping and releasing 35 pieces x 2 rows = 70 bamboo rings at once.
It has a structure that allows it to be driven reciprocally along the guideway 15b.

As a result, a large number (70) of bamboo wheels 2 are mounted on the tray 16 in an aligned state.

The tray 16 on which 70 bamboo rings are arranged and mounted is transported horizontally as shown by the arrow C shown in FIG. After bringing it close together and lowering it as shown by arrow F, move it to cooling chamber 1 as shown by arrow G.
Export from 7.

In this example, the time from when it is carried into the cooling chamber 17 to when it is carried out from the cooling chamber is adjusted to 20 minutes, and during this period, cooling air is blown to cool it to about 10 to 20 degrees Celsius.

Chikuwa automatic manufacturing plants generally have a capacity of 1 per hour.
Since the number of bamboo wheels is approximately 10,000, a cooling chamber that cools for 20 minutes must have the capacity to accommodate several thousand bamboos. However, as in this example, the bamboo wheels arranged on a tray are conveyed vertically in the cooling room. If the cooling chamber 17 is allowed to pass through, the area required for installation is smaller than the capacity of the cooling chamber 17, and the floor area of the cooling chamber 17 is small, so the equipment cost is low.

The bamboo wheels that have been cooled are transferred to a conveyor while maintaining their alignment using a transfer machine similar to the transfer machine 15 shown in FIG. 3, and sent to an automatic packaging machine (not shown).

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the method of the present invention, after the skewer is removed from the processed food coated with surimi and baked,
Roller shaping and cooling can be carried out consistently and while maintaining the alignment before feeding into the automatic packaging machine, so there is no need for workers to measure and arrange the processed foods during these processes. It is possible to achieve completely unmanned operation.

Unmanned operations are not only effective in reducing costs, but also contribute to improving product quality by eliminating the possibility of human error, as well as greatly contributing to reducing the occurrence of human-induced accidents.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIGS. 1 to 4 are schematic diagrams illustrating one embodiment of the method for manufacturing packaged processed food according to the present invention in the order of steps. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram for explaining the prior art. 1...Skewer, 2...Chikuwa as an example of processed food, 1
1... Conveyor equipped with positioning means, lla...
Positioning members, 12a, 12b, 13a, 13b...
Shaping rollers, 14...conveyor, 15...transfer i, 16...tray, 17...cooling room.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A process of baking the surimi coated on a skewer, a process of removing the skewer from the baked surimi, and a process of passing the processed food from which the skewer has been removed between a pair of rollers. In a method for producing a packaged processed food, the method includes the steps of cooling the processed food that has passed through rollers, and feeding the cooled processed food into an automatic packaging machine in an aligned state, comprising: (a) baking and skewering the processed food; The extracted processed foods are arranged and sequentially loaded on a conveyor provided with positioning means, (b) The processed foods arranged on the conveyor and transported in a horizontal direction are arranged vertically and spaced apart from each other. 1
(c) After passing through the rollers, a plurality of processed foods lined up on the conveyor are collectively gripped in the aligned state and transferred onto a pallet; (d) The above Transport the pallet horizontally and bring it into the vicinity of the lower end of the cooling chamber, (e) Send the above-mentioned carried-in pallets upward one after another, (f) Transport the above-mentioned pallet horizontally near the upper end of the cooling chamber. (g) The lowered pallets are carried out horizontally from near the lower end of the cooling chamber. (h) Processing is carried out in line on the carried out pallets. A method for producing packaged processed foods, which comprises grasping the foods in bulk, transferring them onto a conveyor while they are in an aligned state, and feeding them into an automatic packaging machine.