JP2006211906A - Fried bean curd conveyor and fried bean curd producing apparatus equipped with the same - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fried bean curd conveyor designed so that an air injection needle can be put in any pieces of fried bean curd even when having different thickness respectively with a single conveyor; and to provide a fried bean curd producing apparatus equipped with the conveyor. <P>SOLUTION: The fried bean curd conveyor 100 comprises a conveying body unit 50 where a conveying body 30 moving in a prescribed direction is provided with a plurality of supporting boards 32a at prescribed intervals so as to hold the fried bean curd G in a vertical posture, and an air injector 60 injecting air via an air injection needle 62 putting into the fried bean curd G conveyed while being put between the supporting boards 32a in a vertical posture, from the upper surface thereof so as to make the inside of the fried bean curd G split hollow; wherein the setting intervals between the supporting boards 32a are alternately different in a direction to which the conveying body 30 moves so as to support the pieces of the fried bean curd G different in thickness each in the vertical posture. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a frying and conveying apparatus that conveys frying in a vertical posture and an frying production apparatus having the same, and more specifically, an frying and conveying apparatus capable of handling production of frying with different thicknesses in one line and the same. The invention relates to an apparatus for producing frying.

For example, as a frying production apparatus that fries the dough with a fryer and conveys the frying taken out from the fryer and injects air into the frying with an injection needle in the middle of the conveying path to form the frying that is separated from the inside, for example, There is one proposed in Patent Document 1.
Specifically, the frying fried by frying the dough is taken out from the flyer in sequence, and is slipped between a large number of support plates planted on a belt-like transporter connected to the take-out position. The conveying path is configured such that each of the lower edges is supported by guide rails installed substantially horizontally in the circumferential area of the conveying body to keep each frying in a vertical posture and is conveyed on the guide rails by the operation of the conveying body. By the operation of the internal separation means that is arranged in the middle and interlocked with the operation of the transport body, an air injection needle is inserted into the upper edge surface of the frying that is being transported, and the interior is separated into both sides in the thickness direction by the injected air In the frying production apparatus adapted to be taken out at the end of the guide rail, the internal separation means is applied to the front side of the frying that has been conveyed to the arrangement position prior to the insertion of the air injection needle. Touch the fried oil on the rear side A holding plate is provided that is clamped and positioned between the support plate and the guide rail includes an inclined portion that is inclined slightly forward from the position where the internal separation means is disposed. This is a frying equipment.
Japanese Patent Publication No. 6-014839

However, in the frying production apparatus of Patent Document 1, since the intervals between the support plates are set at equal intervals, it is assumed that the frying frying device is used for the production of a single type of frying. Therefore, when changing the type of frying to be manufactured, it is necessary to change the arrangement such as changing the arrangement interval of the support plates.
In addition, when different types of frying are to be manufactured without such a setup change, the frying of different types of frying must be equal to or thinner than the interval between the support plates. There are restrictions.

  Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 8, when the deep frying that is thinner than the spacing between the support plates is applied to the frying production apparatus of Patent Document 1, the frying introduced between the support plates is the direction in which the injection needle enters. There is a problem that the insertion position of the injection needle into the frying is not constant. For this reason, in some cases, the tip of the injection needle protrudes from the frying and the air injected from the injection needle comes out of the frying, so the inside of the frying is not separated in the thickness direction and becomes a defective product. There is also a problem that there is a risk of endangering.

  An object of the present invention is to provide an oil frying and conveying apparatus capable of inserting an air injection needle into a predetermined position of frying and a frying production apparatus having the same even if the frying is different in thickness with a single conveying apparatus. Yes.

  The present invention has been made to achieve the above object, and is provided with a plurality of support plates provided at predetermined intervals so that the frying can be supported in a vertical posture on a transport body that moves in a predetermined direction. An oiling and conveying apparatus comprising: a body device; and an air injecting device that injects air with an air injecting needle inserted from an upper surface of the frying sandwiched between the support plates and conveyed in a vertical posture, and separates the inside of the frying , Wherein the support plate is disposed at different intervals in the moving direction of the transport body so that the frying with different thickness can be supported in a vertical posture.

Further, the support plate is formed by bending a part of a fixed plate fixed to the transport body.
According to this, since the frying can be surely supported, there is no possibility that the frying will fall off from the conveying device.

In addition, a plurality of fixing members, which are provided in parallel with a required interval and move in the same direction, are bent at a plurality of positions on a fixing plate that is stretched in a direction orthogonal to the moving direction, and a plurality of sheets The support plate is formed in a comb shape.
According to this, since the plurality of transport bodies are restrained by the fixed plate, the amount of movement of each transport body can be made uniform, so that a plurality of frying can be simultaneously and efficiently mass-produced.

In addition, a guide rail provided adjacent to the support plate and supporting the frying in a vertical posture is provided along the conveying body, and the frying that has passed through the air injection device is separated from the conveying body device. As described above, the end of the guide rail on the air injection device side is separated from the carrier.
According to this, since the extraction of the frying carried by the carrier device can be automated, it is possible to efficiently produce the frying.

Also, at a predetermined interval between the support plates provided on the transport body, a fryer that is taken out from a fryer for frying and has a thickness that matches the predetermined interval is inserted in conjunction with the operation of the transport body. An input means is provided.
According to this, the production of frying can be fully automated.

Further, the transport body is an endless transport body.
According to this, an oil landing conveyance apparatus can be reduced in size.
Moreover, it is an frying production apparatus characterized by the above-mentioned frying carrier being provided adjacent to the fryer which fries frying.

In the frying and conveying apparatus according to the present invention, the arrangement intervals of the support plates for inserting the frying and holding it in a vertical posture are provided alternately. For this reason, even frying with different thicknesses can be moved to the air injecting device while maintaining the vertical posture by inserting it into the arrangement interval of the support plates suitable for the thickness of frying.
As a result, it is possible to produce frying with different thicknesses without substantially stopping the frying and conveying device with a single frying and conveying device. The production efficiency can be improved and the production cost of the frying can be reduced as compared with the frying apparatus.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a side view of an oil landing conveyance device according to the present embodiment. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a mounting state of the support plate. FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a portion A in FIG. FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of a portion B in FIG. FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of a portion C in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 1, the oil landing conveyance device 100 includes a drive motor M, a drive sprocket 10, a passive sprocket 20, and a metal chain 30 (hereinafter referred to as a conveyance body) wound around the drive sprocket 10 and the passive sprocket 20. An air injection device that injects air into the frying G that has been transported by the transport body device 50, and a carrier body device 50 that includes a support plate 32a provided perpendicular to the chain 30). 60.

  The metal chain 30 is wound around the drive sprocket 10 and the passive sprocket 20 that are disposed at required positions. Thus, the endless chain 30 circulates around the outer periphery of each sprocket 10, 20 by the driving force of the driving sprocket 10. The driving sprocket 10 is given a driving force by a driving motor M. The passive sprocket 20 is disposed at a position to change the moving direction of the chain 30 that is circulated by the drive sprocket 10, and rotates as the chain 30 circulates.

  A plurality of chains 30 are arranged in parallel at a required interval in the depth direction of the drawing sheet in FIG. 1 (direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the chain 30). In the present embodiment, three chains 30 are arranged at equal intervals. The chains 30, 30, and 30 are synchronized so as to move at the same speed in the same direction. In the chains 30, 30, 30, the fixing plate 32 is stretched in a direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the chains 30, 30, 30.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 2, the fixed plate 32 is bent and formed on the support plates 32 a. Further, the width dimension in the feed direction of the chain 30 of the fixed plate 32 is formed to a width dimension corresponding to the thickness of the frying G. The width dimension of the fixed plate 32 in the present embodiment is formed in two types of width dimensions. When the fixing plates 32 formed in this way are alternately fixed to the chain 30, the spacing between the support plates 32a in the moving direction of the chain 30 is wide, narrow, wide, wide as shown in FIG. Narrow, ... are repeated alternately.

  Adjacent to the support plate 32 a, a guide rail 34 that supports the frying G is provided along the chain 30. The guide rail 34 is provided between a plurality of support plates 32a formed in a comb shape on the fixed plate 32a. For this reason, it can receive and convey in the state which received the lower surface of the unloading G reliably.

As shown in FIG. 1, an air injection device 60 having an air injection needle 62 for supplying air to the inside of the frying G that has been transported by the transport body device 50 is provided in the middle of the transport body device 50. It is arranged.
A plurality of air injection needles 62 for injecting air into the fryer G are arranged at a required interval in the depth direction of FIG. The air injection needle 62 is inserted from the upper end surface of the frying G to a substantially central portion inside the frying G by the operation of the fluid cylinder, and injects air into the frying G. The air injection needle 62 is disposed so as to protrude at an angle substantially orthogonal to the moving direction of the chain 30 (the upper end surface of the oil lifting G).

  As shown in FIG. 4, the chain 30 that is a carrier moves through the air injection device 60, moves downward, and gradually separates from the guide rail 34. The chain 30 separated from the guide rail 34 is turned by the passive sprocket 20 and the drive sprocket 10 and moved in the reverse direction (the direction of the flyer 40). In this way, the chain 30 circulates between the sprockets. On the other hand, the guide rail 34 maintains the arrangement angle along the stretched state of the chain 30 before passing through the air injection device 60. Therefore, the ganking G placed on the guide rail 34 and slid by the support body 32a is separated from the support plate 32a. The frying G that has separated from the support plate 32a is fed forward toward the end of the guide rail 34 by the frying G that is sequentially conveyed by the rear support plate 32a. At the end of the guide rail 34, a take-off portion Z for the oil discharge G is provided.

Moreover, as shown in FIG. 5, the fryer 40 is arrange | positioned adjacent to the frying delivery apparatus 100. As shown in FIG. The frying production apparatus 200 is constituted by the frying and conveying apparatus 100 and the fryer 40.
The flyer 40 includes a conveying means 42. The conveying means 42 passes the dough of the frying G to the fryer 40 and then conveys the dough to the position near the frying device 100. The frying G conveyed by the conveying means 42 is thrown into the predetermined gap portion between the support plates 32a of the frying and conveying apparatus 100 by the throwing means 80 in a vertical posture.

  FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of the vicinity of the input means in FIG. As shown in FIG. 6, the conveying means 42 includes a bucket 46 provided at a required interval on a circulating carrier 44 such as a metal chain, and a guide plate 48 provided below the bucket 46. The bucket 46 is formed of a mesh base or a metal plate provided with a large number of holes so that the cross-sectional shape is a U-shape. The buckets 46 are arranged in a plurality of rows at a necessary interval in a direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the circulating carrier 44. The guide plate 48 is disposed in a range from the placement position of the dough for unraveling G to the vicinity of the unloading and conveying apparatus 100 along the direction in which the bucket 46 moves. The guide plate 48 is separated from the moving direction of the bucket 46 immediately before the input means 80.

The throwing means 80 includes a rotating shaft 82 extending in a direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the circulating transport body 44 and a frying receiver 84 having one end fixed to the rotating shaft 82 in the vicinity below the terminal portion of the guide plate 48. The fluid cylinder 86 is connected to the rotary shaft 82, and the controller 88.
The rotary shaft 82 is rotatably provided with a tip portion of the fluid cylinder 86 connected to a part of the outer peripheral surface. The frying receiver 84 is arranged at a required interval so as to be alternately arranged with the support plates 32 a arranged at a required interval in the direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the chain 30 in the oil lifting and conveying apparatus 100. That is, the support plate 32a circulates through the gap portions of the fried trays 84, 84,. As shown in FIG. 5, the frying receiver 84 is formed in a substantially L-shape that extends in a substantially horizontal direction from a portion fixed to the rotating shaft 82 and then bends in a direction orthogonal to the extending direction.

  The input unit 80 includes sensors S1 and S2 provided in the passive sprocket 20 adjacent to the conveying unit 42, and a dog D and a dog D provided in the vicinity of the passive sprocket 20 adjacent to the conveying unit 42. The operation is controlled by a receiver (not shown) that receives signals transmitted from the sensors S1 and S2, and a controller 88 that controls the fluid cylinder 86 based on the signal received by the receiver. As the sensors S1 and S2, in addition to an optical sensor, a magnetic sensor, and an infrared sensor, a mechanical sensor represented by a microsensor or a limit switch is preferably used. The control unit 88 is configured by a CPU or the like. The control unit 88 is also electrically connected to the transport body device 50, the air injection device 60, and the transport means 44, and controls each operation simultaneously.

The oil landing transport device 100 has the above-described configuration. Below, the manufacturing process of the frying G in this Embodiment is demonstrated.
The dough for the fried G (tofu formed in a flat rectangular parallelepiped) is placed in the bucket 46 automatically or manually. The dough placed in the bucket 46 is transferred to the oil lifting and conveying apparatus 100 after the conveying means 44 to which the bucket 46 is fixed moves and passes through the fryer 40 to become the oiled G. The frying G transported to the end of the guide plate 48 by the transport means 44 and the bucket 46 slides down to the frying receiver 84 set near the end of the guide plate 48.

  When the receiving unit receives the transmission signal from the sensor S3 activated by the bucket 46, the control unit 88 drives the drive motor M by the rotation angle assigned in advance when the reception signal from the sensor S3 is received, The drive sprocket 10 is rotated to control the feed amount of the chain 30. When the control unit 88 operates the fluid cylinder 86 after feeding the chain 30 by a predetermined amount, the frying receiver 84 is operated via the rotating shaft 82, and the oil rising G is received between the support plates 32 a fixed to the chain 30. Passed. At this time, the bent portion at the lower end of the frying receiver 84 is located above the guide rail 34.

  As described above, since the support plate 32a fixed to the chain 30 is disposed so as to pass through a gap portion where the lift receivers 84 are disposed, the support plate 32a is held by the lift receiver 84. The unloading G is put into the support plate 32a and the guide rail 34 in a vertical posture. Of course, the unloading G is placed on the guide rail 34 while being sandwiched between the support plates 32a. After the lifting G is transferred from the frying receiver 84 to the support plate 32a and the guide rail 34, the fluid cylinder 86 is returned to the original state by the controller 88, so that the rotating shaft 82 is reversed and the frying receiver 84 is reset to its original position. Is done.

The frying G that has been transported a required distance in the vertical posture by the support plate 32a on the guide rail 34 is cooled during the transportation. After that, an air injecting needle 62 is inserted into the after-lifting G by an air injecting device 60, and air is injected into the inside. The operation of the air injection needle 62 of the air injection device 60 is also controlled by the control unit 88 based on the signals from the sensors S1 and S2 (the amount of air injected into the frying G, the timing of inserting and removing the injection needle, etc.). Yes.
In this way, the operations of the conveying means 44 of the flyer 40, the fluid cylinder 86 of the input means 80, the chain 30 of the conveying body device 50, and the air injection needle 62 of the air injection device 60 are detected from the sensors S1, S2, and S3, respectively. Based on the reaction signal, the controller 88 collectively controls. Since each of them operates in conjunction with each other, the lifting and conveying apparatus 100 in the present embodiment operates in a frame-feeding manner.

  After the air is injected into the frying G by the air injecting device 60, the support plate 32a is separated from the guide rail 34, and the feed of the frying G by the support plate 32a is released. However, since the new frying G is conveyed one after another from the rear, the frying G made earlier is pushed out by the later frying G and slides to the end of the guide rail 34. An extraction portion Z is provided at the end portion of the guide rail 34. The unloading G accommodated in the take-out part Z is accommodated for sending to the subsequent process automatically or manually.

  If the sensors S1 and S2 to be activated are selected by the dog D according to the thickness of the tofu G to be manufactured, the movement amount of the chain 30 by the control unit 88, the timing at which the frying receiver 84 is rotated, The timing at which the air injection needle 62 is inserted, the amount of air injected into the frying G, and the like are appropriately selected.

Although the present invention has been described in detail above based on the embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and the present invention is applicable even when various changes are made without changing the gist of the invention. Needless to say, it belongs to the technical scope.
For example, as shown in FIG. 7, the support plate 32a may be formed with a protrusion 32b that protrudes in the moving direction of the chain 30 in the height direction. The protrusions 32b in the present embodiment are formed by bending in a mountain shape along the height direction of the support plate 32a at a plurality of locations on the support plate 32a. The protrusions 32b are preferably formed so as to be at two or more locations with respect to one support plate 32. In addition, in the support plate 32a located in the intermediate part of the frying G, the protrusion 32b may be formed only at one place.

Further, in the present embodiment, one air injection needle 62 is inserted into one oil landing G, but a plurality of air injection needles 62 are inserted into one oil landing G. It is good also as a form.
Furthermore, you may provide the bending adjustment sprocket for making the bending condition of the chain 30 constant. The deflection adjusting sprocket is provided so as to be movable in at least one of the vertical direction and the horizontal direction. When the deflection adjusting sprocket slides in either direction, the change in the amount of deflection of the chain 30 caused by the weight of the oil landing G is appropriately adjusted, and the amount of deflection of the chain 30 can be maintained constant.

It is a side view of the oil landing conveyance apparatus in this Embodiment. It is a perspective view which shows the attachment state of a support plate. It is an enlarged view of A part in FIG. It is an enlarged view of the B part in FIG. It is an enlarged view of C part in FIG. FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of the vicinity of the input means in FIG. 5. It is a perspective view which shows an example of other embodiment of a support plate. It is a schematic diagram which shows a part of subject in a prior art example.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Drive sprocket 20 Passive sprocket 30 Chain 32 Fixing plate 32a Support plate 34 Guide rail 40 Flyer 46 Bucket 48 Guide plate 50 Carrier device 60 Air injection device 62 Air injection needle 80 Input means 82 Rotating shaft 84 Lift receiver 86 Fluid cylinder 100 Oil lifting Conveying device 200

Claims (7)

In order to be able to support the frying in a vertical position on a transport body that moves in a predetermined direction, a plurality of support plates are sandwiched between the support plates and transported in a vertical position while being supported between the support plates. In an oil-carrying and conveying apparatus comprising an air-injecting device that injects air with an air-injecting needle inserted from the upper surface of the frying and separates the inside of the frying
The lifting and transporting apparatus is characterized in that the arrangement intervals of the support plates are alternately different in the moving direction of the transporting body so that the flying of different thicknesses can be supported in a vertical posture.   2. The lifting and conveying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the support plate is formed by bending a part of a fixed plate fixed to the conveying body.   A plurality of support plates are formed by bending a plurality of fixing plates, which are provided in parallel at a necessary interval and move in the same direction, at a plurality of positions of a fixed plate that is stretched in a direction orthogonal to the moving direction. Is formed in a comb-teeth shape.   A guide rail that is provided adjacent to the support plate and supports the vertical landing is provided along the transport body so as to separate the frying that has passed through the air injection device from the transport body device. The end part by the side of the said air injection apparatus of a guide rail leaves | separates from the said conveyance body, The oil discharge conveying apparatus as described in any one of Claims 1-3 characterized by the above-mentioned.   An input unit that inputs the frying that has been taken out of the fryer for frying and that has a thickness suitable for the predetermined interval in conjunction with the operation of the conveying body, at a predetermined interval between the support plates provided on the conveying body. Is provided, The oil-lifting conveyance apparatus as described in any one of Claims 1-4 characterized by the above-mentioned.   The oil-lifting and conveying apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the conveying body is an endless conveying body.   The frying production apparatus, wherein the frying and conveying apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6 is provided adjacent to a fryer for frying frying.

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