JP2006069649A - Sliced bread split supply apparatus and method - Google Patents

Abstract

A predetermined number of sliced breads are transported in a stable state without breaking a hip without breaking down.
A split reversal member that divides a predetermined number of sliced breads that are sliced into a large number of sheets and that are arranged side by side with their slice planes adjacent to each other, so that the slice reversal member is changed from a side-by-side to a top-to-bottom stacked state. Have The split reversal member has an outer peripheral surface 38 that is rotated around a rotation center shaft 36 that extends in the horizontal direction, and a plurality of sliced bread receiving portions 40 are separated on the outer peripheral surface at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction. With the rotation of the division reversing member, the sliced bread receiving unit sequentially receives a predetermined number of sliced breads B3 and reverses the breads from horizontal to vertical.
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Description

  TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a slice bread divided supply apparatus and method for slicing bread divided into a predetermined length such as two or three meals, dividing the bread and supplying it to a packaging machine.

The bread is baked to a predetermined length, such as two or three, and the baked bread is sliced by a number of slicing blades having a vertical blade surface in a horizontally horizontal state. The sliced bread that has been made into a large number of sheets is generally divided into a predetermined number and conveyed to a packaging machine with the slice plane vertical. (For example, see Patent Document 1)
Japanese Patent No. 3106194 U.S. Pat. No. 2,211,433

However, in such a conventional apparatus, since the sliced bread is divided and conveyed with its slice surface vertical, the sliced bread is liable to collapse and easily break, and therefore, constant. When the number is less than or equal to the number, it is difficult to stably pack the bag.
The object of the present invention is to eliminate the disadvantages of the conventional sliced bread dividing and feeding apparatus.

That is, in the present invention,
Dividing the sliced bread that is sliced into a large number of sheets and arranged side by side in a state where the slice planes are adjacent to each other;
A step of changing the direction of the sliced bread that has been divided into a predetermined number of sheets from a horizontally arranged state to a vertically stacked state;
A step of sending a predetermined number of sliced breads stacked in a stacked state to the next step;
A method for supplying slice slice bread by reversing the bread is provided.

  Further, the present invention slices sliced bread that is sliced into a large number of sheets and is arranged side by side with the slice planes adjacent to each other, and is divided into a predetermined number of slices. There is provided a slice bread dividing and inverting apparatus characterized in that the bread is changed from a side-by-side state to a state where the bread is vertically stacked and sent to the next process.

  That is, in the prior art, the sliced bread was divided and transported in a state where the slice plane was vertical. In the present invention, the slice bread was divided into predetermined slices and the slice plane was Is reversed so that it becomes horizontal or close to it and conveyed to the next process, thereby making it possible to completely eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks in the prior art.

Specifically, this slice bread splitting and reversing device is a splitting and reversing member having an outer peripheral surface that rotates around a rotation center axis extending in the horizontal direction, and is separated by a predetermined distance in the circumferential direction of the outer peripheral surface. A plurality of sliced bread receiving units provided, and with the rotation of the split reversing member, the sliced food bread receiving unit sequentially receives a predetermined number of sliced breads, and the sliced breads arranged side by side are moved up and down; It is possible to have a split reversal member that changes the direction so as to be in an overlapped state.

  That is, by doing in this way, along with the rotation of the division inversion member, the slice bread is divided and the conversion (inversion) from the horizontal arrangement of the slice bread to the vertical arrangement is performed.

More specifically, the slice bread dividing and inverting device according to the present invention is
A first slice for placing sliced breads, which are sliced into a large number of sheets and arranged side by side with their sliced surfaces adjacent to each other, on the first placement surface and transporting the sliced breads in a side-by-side direction Bread loaf conveying device;
A split reversal member having an outer peripheral surface rotated around a rotation center axis extending in the horizontal direction, and having a plurality of sliced bread receiving portions provided at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction of the outer peripheral surface, Along with the rotation of the split reversal member, the slice slice bread is sequentially received from the first slice slice bread conveying device to the slice slice bread receiving unit, and the slice slice breads arranged side by side are stacked one above the other. A split reversal member that changes
A second sliced bread conveying device having a second placement surface for receiving and placing the sliced bread that has been turned upside down and changed in direction from the split reversal member.

In this device, the rotation center axis of the split reversing member is set so as to extend horizontally in a direction perpendicular to the slice bread transfer direction of the first slice bread transfer device, and the slice bread receiving portion is on the outer peripheral surface. It can be made to be formed as a formed recess.
As a specific configuration of the split reversal member, it has a plurality of disc-like members spaced apart by a predetermined distance in the direction of the rotation center axis, and the disc-like member is disposed at the end portion of the first placement surface adjacent to the split reverse member. A slit that allows the outer periphery of the sliced bread to pass therethrough is formed, and when the sliced bread receiving part passes through the slit, a predetermined number of sliced breads can be received from the first placement surface.

  Furthermore, preferably, when the slice bread receiving part passes through the slit of the end part of the first placement surface adjacent to the split reversal member, the end part is inclined so that the tip thereof is downward, Thereby, the sliced bread placed on the end portion is moved into the sliced bread receiving part.

  According to the present invention, the sliced bread divided into a predetermined number of sheets is conveyed in a state of being stacked one above the other. It becomes possible to eliminate all problems such as difficulty.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an embodiment of a slice bread dividing and inverting device according to the present invention will be described based on the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a plan view of a slice bread dividing and inverting apparatus 10 according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a side view of the apparatus.
In FIG. 1, reference numeral B <b> 1 indicates a bread sliced by a slicer (not shown), and the bread B <b> 1 is pushed out in the direction of arrow A <b> 1 by a pusher P and sent to a slice bread division dividing / reversing device 10. It is transported in the directions indicated by A2, A3 and A4.

  As can be seen from FIG. 2, the sliced bread dividing and reversing device 10 includes a first sliced bread conveying device 14 including a placement surface or a placement plate 12 that receives and places the sliced bread B2 sent by the pusher P. . The first slice bread transfer device 14 has a bread feed device 22 comprising a pair of endless chains 16 and 18 set at an upper position of the mounting plate 12 and a bread press plate 20 attached to the chain. ing. As shown, the sprockets 24, 24 on which the chain 16 is hung are positioned on the left in the horizontal direction relative to the sprockets 26, 26 on which the chain 18 is hung, and can be seen in FIG. Thus, they are set in parallel at a predetermined interval in the direction of arrow A1 (that is, in the horizontal direction) (however, sprockets and chains are not shown in FIG. 1). A plurality of fixed links 28 are attached between the two chains at predetermined intervals along the chain, and the pan pressing plate 20 is attached to the fixed links so as to be moved along the path of the chain while being always held vertically. It has been. That is, as shown in FIG. 2, the fixed link 28 has one end of the fixed link 28 at a position spaced at the same height as the chains 16 and 18 being displaced in the left-right direction and at the same height. Is connected to one of the chains 16 and 18, and the other end is connected to the other of the chains 16 and 18, and when the chains 16 and 18 rotate at the same speed, the same orientation (horizontal in the illustrated example) is always maintained. It is supposed to be. The pan pressing plate 20 is fixed vertically to the fixed link 28. Therefore, when the chains 16 and 18 are rotated, they are rotated along the path of the chain while maintaining the vertical state. . For this reason, the sliced bread B2 received on the placing plate 12 is transferred to the left as viewed in the figure by the bread push plate 20 moved in the direction of the arrow C.

  The slice bread that is transferred as described above by the bread push plate 20 is maintained in a state in which the slice surface is substantially vertical. In the apparatus according to the present invention, the slice bread B2 is moved to the front end in the transfer direction. A division reversal member 30 that receives a predetermined number of pieces sequentially from the portion (that is, is divided) and reverses the slice plane from a vertical state to a horizontal state, and a slice bread B3 whose direction is changed from the division reversal member And a second slice bread transfer device 34 that receives the second placement surface 32 and transfers it to the next process.

  The split reversal member 30 is configured to rotate around a rotation shaft 36 extending in the horizontal direction, and a plurality of sliced bread receiving portions formed as recesses on the outer peripheral surface 38 that are separated by a predetermined distance in the circumferential direction. 40 is formed. The sliced bread receiving unit 40 sequentially receives a predetermined number (three in the illustrated example) of sliced bread B3 from the first sliced bread conveying device 14 as the split reversing member 30 rotates, and with the rotation. The slice bread is turned from a vertical state to a horizontal state.

  Specifically, the rotation shaft 36 of the split reversing member 30 is set so as to extend horizontally in a direction perpendicular to the slice bread transfer direction by the first slice bread transfer device 14, and the split reverse member 30 rotates in the rotation direction. It is composed of a plurality of (three in the illustrated example) disk-like members 30-1 attached to the shaft 36 at a predetermined distance in the length direction. The disk-like member 30-1 is configured such that its outer peripheral edge portion passes through a slit 12-1 formed at the left end portion of the mounting plate 12 and rotates counterclockwise (as viewed in FIG. 2). The sliced bread B3 is received by the sliced bread receiving part 40 when passing through the slit. As shown in the figure, the sliced bread B3 received by the sliced bread receiving unit 40 has a slice surface substantially perpendicular to the sliced bread receiving part 40, but rotates upward as the split reversing member 30 rotates. However, when the slice surface becomes substantially horizontal, the slice surface is moved to the second placement surface 32 of the second slice bread transfer device 34.

  The sliced bread receiving portion 40 is provided along the radial direction of the split reversal member 30 and faces the rotation direction of the split reverse member in the counterclockwise direction, and is perpendicular to the bread press surface. It has a bread support surface 40-2 extending in the direction of rotation, and the height of the bread pressing surface 40-1 is determined by the height of the overlapping slice bread to be received. As shown in FIG. 3, the mounting plate 12 has a swing plate portion 12-2 formed at the left end portion where the slit 12-1 is provided, and the bread pressing surface 40 of the sliced bread receiving portion 40. -1 when the outer end in the radial direction reaches the same surface as the mounting plate 12, the oscillating plate portion 12-2 is oscillated to have the same inclination as the pan pressing surface 40-1. . By doing so, the sliced bread B3 placed on the swing plate part 12-2 can be smoothly received by the sliced bread receiving part 40. When the sliced bread B3 is received by the sliced bread receiving part 40 from the swinging plate part 12-2, the swinging plate part 12-2 is returned to the original horizontal position.

  The second sliced bread conveying device 34 was set to extend in parallel to the disk-shaped members 30-1 in the gap between the three disk-shaped members 30-1 constituting the sliced bread dividing and inverting members. Two endless chains 34-1 are provided. The second slice bread transfer device 34 is further aligned with two of the three disk-shaped members 30-1 and positioned on the outer sides of the two endless chains 34-1. 34-2.

  In the illustrated apparatus, a third slice bread B4 is received from a portion close to the downstream end of the second slice bread delivery device 34 and conveyed in a direction perpendicular to the direction of conveyance by the second slice bread delivery device 34. A slice bread transfer device 44 is provided. In this device 44, a lift provided with a plurality of members set so as to extend in parallel between the endless chains 34-1 and 34-2 and on the outside thereof in a portion near the downstream end of the second slice bread loaf conveying device 34. 46, when the sliced bread B3 is conveyed by the second sliced bread conveying device 34, the lift is raised and lifted from the second sliced bread conveying device 43. The lifted sliced bread B3 is secondly pushed by the pusher 48. The slice bread is pushed out in the direction perpendicular to the conveying direction by the slice bread conveying device. In the illustrated example, two pushers 48 are attached so as to be rotatable about a horizontal rotation center axis x, and the slice bread B3 is pushed out intermittently.

  When operating the slice bread dividing / reversing device, the bread feeding device 22 is driven in synchronization with the slice food receiving portion 40 of the dividing / reversing member 30 coming to a position for receiving the slice bread B2 on the placing plate 12. Then, the sliced bread for each predetermined number is fed into the sliced bread receiving unit 40.

It is a top view of the slice bread division | segmentation inversion apparatus based on this invention. It is a schematic side view of the same apparatus. It is an enlarged view which shows a part of division | segmentation inversion member of the same apparatus, and the 1st and 2nd slice bread conveyance apparatus in the front and back.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Slice bread division | segmentation inversion apparatus 12 Placement board 12-1 Slit 12-2 Oscillation board part 14 1st slice bread transfer apparatus 16, 18 Endless chain 20 Pan push plate 22 Pan feed apparatus 24, 26 Sprocket 28 Fixed link 30 Division | segmentation Reversing member 30-1 Disk-like member 32 Second placement surface 34 Second slice bread bread conveying device 34-1 Endless chain 34-2 Endless chain 36 Rotating shaft 38 Outer peripheral surface 40 Slice bread receiving portion 40-1 Bread pressing surface 40- 2 Bread support surface 44 Third slice bread transfer device 46 Lift 48 Pusher B1, B2, B3 Bread bread P Pusher

Claims (7)

Dividing the sliced bread that is sliced into a large number of sheets and arranged side by side in a state where the slice planes are adjacent to each other;
A step of changing the direction of the sliced bread that has been divided into a predetermined number of sheets from a horizontally arranged state to a vertically stacked state;
A step of sending a predetermined number of sliced breads stacked in a stacked state to the next step;
A slice bread reversal feeding method characterized by comprising:   The sliced bread that was sliced into a large number of slices, and the sliced breads that were arranged side by side with their slice planes adjacent to each other was divided into a predetermined number of sheets, and the divided sliced breads that had been divided into a predetermined number were arranged side by side A slice bread dividing and inverting apparatus characterized in that the direction is changed from the state to the state of being vertically stacked and sent to the next process.   A split reversal member having an outer peripheral surface rotated around a rotation center axis extending in the horizontal direction, and having a plurality of sliced bread receiving portions provided at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction of the outer peripheral surface, In accordance with the rotation of the split reversing member, a split reversing member that sequentially receives a predetermined number of sliced breads in the slice bread receiving unit and changes the orientation so that the sliced breads arranged side by side are stacked one above the other. The slice bread dividing and inverting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein A first slice for placing sliced breads, which are sliced into a large number of sheets and arranged side by side with their sliced surfaces adjacent to each other, on the first placement surface and transporting the sliced breads in a side-by-side direction Bread loaf conveying device;
A split reversal member having an outer peripheral surface rotated around a rotation center axis extending in the horizontal direction, and having a plurality of sliced bread receiving portions provided at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction of the outer peripheral surface, Along with the rotation of the split reversal member, the slice slice bread is sequentially received from the first slice slice bread conveying device to the slice slice bread receiving unit, and the slice slice breads arranged side by side are stacked one above the other. A split reversal member that changes
And a second sliced bread conveying device having a second placement surface for receiving and placing the sliced bread that has been turned upside down and changed in direction from the split reversal member. 2. A slice bread inverting apparatus according to 2. The rotation center axis of the split reversal member is set to extend horizontally in a direction perpendicular to the slice bread transfer direction of the first slice bread transfer device,
The sliced bread reversing and conveying apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the sliced bread receiving part is formed as a concave part of the outer peripheral surface. The split reversal member is composed of a plurality of disk-like members spaced apart by a predetermined distance in the rotation center axis direction,
A slit that allows the outer peripheral portion of the disk-shaped member to pass is formed at the end portion of the first placement surface adjacent to the split reversal member, and the slice bread receiving portion is used as the first placement surface when passing through the slit. The slice bread dividing and inverting apparatus according to claim 5, wherein a predetermined number of slice bread is received.   When the slice bread receiving part passes through the slit of the end part of the first mounting surface adjacent to the split reversing member, the end part is inclined so that the tip thereof is downward, thereby the The sliced bread dividing and inverting apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the sliced bread placed on the end portion is moved into the sliced bread receiving part.

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