JPS644875Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] Industrial field of application The invention is suitable for dehydration treatment as a pre-drying process of cheese-finished thread (hereinafter referred to as cheese) that has been subjected to scouring and bleaching treatment or dyeing treatment. This relates to the cheese dehydrator used.

BACKGROUND ART Conventionally, as an apparatus for dehydrating cheese, a large number of cheeses are loaded and stacked on a plurality of cheese loading and holding rods installed upright in a cheese carrier, and the carrier is incorporated into a centrifugal dehydrator to perform centrifugal dehydration. Are known.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention Although the conventional dehydrating device described above has the advantage of being able to dehydrate a large number of cheeses at once, it not only requires time and effort to attach and remove a large number of cheeses to the cheese carrier. There was a drawback that the threads around the cheese were damaged when the cheese was attached and removed, or when it was put in and taken out of the centrifugal dehydrator.

On the other hand, as a method for drying cheese, a method has recently been adopted in which cheese is dried by high-frequency heating while being conveyed on a belt conveyor or the like. Since this drying method provides a good finish, it will become increasingly popular in the future.

The present invention was developed with the aim of obtaining a cheese dehydrator that is compatible with such a drying method using high-frequency heating. It provides an opportunity for

Means for Solving the Problem In order to achieve the above object, the cheese dehydrator of the present invention includes a dehydration tank with an open top surface, and a dehydration tank that is installed in parallel with each other at appropriate intervals in the lateral direction. a plurality of rotating spindles, a rotational drive device that rotates the spindles at high speed, and a cheese supporting saucer that is removably fitted to the rotating spindles;
an elevating body disposed below the saucer and having a support ring loosely fitted to the rotating spindle, and lifting the saucer to the upper surface of the dehydration tank when the support ring engages with the support ring when the elevating body is raised; It consists of a body lifting device.

Function In the above configuration, the elevating body raises the cheese supporting saucer to the upper surface of the dehydration tank via the support ring, and the cheese to be dehydrated is placed on the saucer. Subsequently, the elevating body is lowered and the cheese together with the saucer is engaged with the rotating spindle.
Next, the spindle is rotated at high speed by a rotational drive device, and the cheese is dehydrated by the centrifugal force. After the dehydration is completed, each saucer is raised again to the top surface of the dehydration tank by the elevating body and disengaged from the rotating spindle, and then the cheese in the saucer is taken out by an appropriate means, and the next drying step is carried out. to be transferred to

Embodiment Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the drawings. 1 is cheese; 2 is a dehydrator for dehydrating the cheese 1; 3 is a belt conveyor for carrying in the dehydrator 2, which is disposed above one side of the dehydrator 2 as shown in FIG. 3;
5 is an unloading belt conveyor installed on the other side of the dehydrator 2, and 5 is an inlet belt conveyor 3 and the dehydrator 2.
This is a cheese supply/discharge device installed between the

The dehydrator 2 includes a dehydrating tank 7 whose upper surface is open, and the dehydrating tank 7 is divided into upper and lower parts by a partition plate 8. Reference numeral 9 denotes a plurality of (6 locations in this embodiment) protruding from the partition plate 8 in parallel at appropriate intervals.
A rotary spindle 10 is disposed above each support tube 9, and a rotation drive device 11 for rotating the rotary spindle 10 at high speed is disposed below. Reference numeral 12 denotes a saucer for supporting cheese into which a hole 13 provided at the center is removably fitted to each rotary spindle 10, reference numeral 14 denotes an elevating body provided below the tray 12, and reference numeral 15 denotes a cylinder for raising and lowering the elevating body 14. It is a device. The cheese 1 includes a tapered cylindrical bobbin 16 that expands downward, and a thread 17 wound around the bobbin 16.
It consists of.

Reference numeral 18 denotes an upper plate disposed on the open upper part of the dehydration tank 7, and a saucer 1 is provided at a location facing each support cylinder 9.
An opening 19 having a slightly larger diameter than the diameter of 2 is provided.

The rotation drive device 11 includes a bearing cylinder 20 fitted in a support cylinder 9, a rotating shaft 21 rotatably supported by the bearing cylinder 20 via a bearing 22, and a main body connected to the lower end of the bearing cylinder 20. The bearing sleeve 20 includes an electric motor 25 connected to the rotary shaft 21 through a cylinder 23 and whose drive shaft is connected to the rotating shaft 21 through a shaft coupling 24.
The flange 26 connected to the lower part of the flange 26 is attached to a vibration isolating rubber 27.
It is fixed to the partition plate 8 via a threaded rod 28 and a nut 29.

As shown in FIG. 4, the rotating spindle 10 includes a mounting flange portion 30 that is fitted and fixed to the upper end of the rotating shaft 21, and a Taber shaft portion that is fitted and erected on the flange portion 30. 31, and a flange portion 32 is connected to the lower end of the tapered shaft portion 31.

The cheese supporting saucer 12 has an annular wall 33 on the lower side that fits into the flange 32 of the rotating spindle 10,
The bobbin 16 of the cheese 1 is held in place by the flange 32 via a locking device 34 provided between the annular wall 33 and the flange 32, and is held at the peripheral edge portion 13a of the hole 13 that fits into the tapered shaft 31. It is designed to support the bottom end.

The locking device 34 includes a mounting hole 35 extending in the diametrical direction formed on the outer periphery of the flange portion 32, a flange pin 36 slidably fitted into the mounting hole 35, and a flange of each pin 36 and a mounting hole 35 extending in the diametrical direction. A spring 37 is interposed between a stopper ring screwed into the entrance of the hole 35 and biases the pin 36 in the direction of retraction, and an annular engagement groove 38 formed on the inner surface of the annular wall 33. It is configured. When the rotating spindle 10 rotates at high speed, the centrifugal force causes the pin 36 to spring into the spring 37.
It protrudes from the mounting hole 35 against the force and engages with the engagement groove 38 to lock and hold the saucer 12. With such a configuration, the saucer 1 is
2 is prevented from rising unexpectedly.

The elevating body 14 consists of a support ring 40 that is loosely fitted into the rotating spindle 10 and the support cylinder 9, and connection rods 41 that connect the support rings 40 in parallel at regular intervals.A cylinder device is attached to the central connection rod 41. Fifteen piston rods 42 are connected and fixed.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the cheese supply/discharge device 5 includes a frame 43 disposed above the dehydrator 2 from the end of the belt conveyor 3 for carrying in, and a frame 43 that conveys the frame 43. The frame body 43 includes a front side wall plate 45 and a rear side wall plate 46 extending in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction and arranged at a constant interval, and both wall plates. 4
Left and right side wall plates 47 which connect both ends of the conveyor belts 5 and 46 and extend toward the carrying belt conveyor 4 are arranged with an appropriate interval between the side wall plates 47 and 47, and both the front and rear walls 45, 46 A guide body 4 that divides the space formed between the spaces corresponding to the trays 12 of the dehydrator 2.
8. The upper end of the rear wall plate 45 adjacent to the carry-in belt conveyor 3 is slightly lower than the conveyance surface of the conveyor 3. 49 is a cheese support stand provided below the frame 43 between the conveyor belt 3 and the dehydrator 2,
A notch (not shown) is formed at a location where the cylinder device 44 and the frame body 43 face the connecting piece 50,
The movement of the connecting piece 50 is not obstructed.
In the figure, 51 indicates a drain pipe.

Next, the operation will be explained. First, in the state shown in FIG. 3, the belt conveyor 3 for carrying in is operated intermittently, and a group of cheeses placed in parallel in the horizontal direction corresponding to the trays 12 are conveyed one pitch at a time in the direction of the arrow. come. And conveyor belt 3
A group of cheeses sent out from the standby frame 43
They enter the cheese holder 48 in a manner that they are spaced apart from each other by means of a guide 48, and are transferred onto a cheese support stand 49. On the other hand, the cylinder device 15 of the dehydrator 2 is operated to raise the elevating body 14, and the trays 12, which are engaged and held by the respective support rings 40, are removed as shown by the imaginary lines in FIGS. 1 and 4. It is lifted up to the top of the water tank 7. Next, when the cylinder device 44 is activated and the frame body 43 is moved forward, the first group of cheeses in the frame body 43 are moved to the rear wall plate 45.
It is pushed out and moves on the cheese support stand 49, and is transferred onto each saucer 12. Subsequently, the tray 12 is lowered together with the elevating body 14 by the cylinder device 15, and as the tray 12 is lowered, the bobbin 16 of the cheese 1 placed on each tray 12 is fitted into the rotating spindle 10. At this time, since the tapered shaft portion 31 of the bobbin 16 and the rotating spindle 10 is formed in a tapered shape that widens downward, even if the axes of the cheese 1 and the rotating spindle 10 are slightly misaligned, the bobbin 16
fits securely into the rotating spindle 10. The lowered saucer 12 is supported by the collar 32 of the rotating spindle 10, but the elevating body 14 further descends and lowers the saucer 12.
(See Figures 1 and 4). Next, the electric motor 25 of each rotary drive device 11 is activated to rotate the rotary spindle 10 at high speed via the rotary shaft 21. Due to the centrifugal force caused by the rotation of the rotating spindle 10, the pin 36 of the locking device 34 protrudes from the mounting hole 35 against the spring 37 and engages with the engagement groove 38 to lock and hold the saucer 12, and the centrifugal force This effectively prevents the tray 12 from being lifted and removed from the rotating spindle 10. At the same time, the cheese 1 is rotated at high speed together with the rotating spindle 10, and the water contained in the cheese 1 is dehydrated by the centrifugal force. The dehydrated water is discharged to the outside through a drain pipe 51 (see FIG. 3).

When the dehydration process is completed and the electric motor 25 stops, the cylinder device 15 operates again to move the elevating body 14.
to rise. As the elevating body 14 rises, the saucer 1
2 is engaged with the support ring 40 and pushed up, and the cheese 1 fitted on the rotating spindle 10 is pushed up into the saucer 12.
and removed from the rotating spindle 10. When the saucer 12 is pushed up to the upper surface of the dehydration tank 7, as shown by the imaginary line in FIG.
The frame body 43 located at the position shown in the figure moves forward, and the cheese 1 on each saucer 12 is pushed out by the front wall plate 46, transferred to the conveyor belt 4 for conveyance, and conveyed to the high frequency drying oven, which is the next drying process. do. at the same time,
The next cheese 1 housed in the frame 43 is pushed out onto the saucer 12 by the rear wall plate 45. Thereafter, the dehydration process is repeated in the same manner as above.

In the above embodiment, the work of carrying cheese 1 into and out of the dehydrator 2 is automatically carried out using the belt conveyors 3, 4 and the cheese supply/discharge device 5, but the operator places the cheese 1 on the tray 12. It is also possible to set the Also, other automatic loading/unloading devices may be used.

Effects of the invention As explained above, the cheese dehydrator of the invention automatically fits and loads the cheese onto the rotating spindle and centrifugally dehydrates it by placing cheese one by one on the saucer.
After the dehydration process is completed, the tray and the tray are automatically removed from the rotating spindle, so compared to conventional equipment that stacks and loads cheese into a cheese carrier and dehydrates a large number of cheeses at once.
The cheese can be easily attached and detached, and the cheese can be dehydrated efficiently, and there is little risk of damaging the cheese winding thread. Therefore, it is compatible with a method of drying cheese by high-frequency heating, and can automatically and continuously dehydrate cheese at regular intervals, and can efficiently transfer cheese after dehydration to a high-frequency drying process. effective.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway front view of the cheese dehydrator according to the present invention, and FIG.
3 is a partially cutaway side view of the same, and FIG. 4 is an enlarged vertical sectional view of the main part. 1...Cheese, 2...Dehydrator, 7...Dehydration tank,
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10... Rotating spindle, 11... Rotating drive device, 12... Receiver, 14... Lifting body, 15... Cylinder device, 34... Locking device.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claim for Utility Model Registration] (1) A dehydration tank with an open top surface, a plurality of rotating spindles installed in parallel at appropriate intervals in the horizontal direction within the dehydration tank, and the rotating spindles. A rotary drive device that rotates at high speed; a saucer for supporting cheese that is removably fitted to the rotating spindle; and a support ring that is disposed below the saucer and loosely fits on the rotating spindle; A cheese dehydrator comprising: an elevating body that lifts the saucer up to the upper surface of the dehydration tank when the support ring engages the saucer when rising; and an elevating device for the elevating body. (2) The cheese dehydrator according to claim 1, which is provided with locking and holding means for the cheese supporting tray at the lower part of the rotating spindle.