JP4459719B2 - Small bag continuous weighing accumulator supply system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a sachet continuous metering and accumulating supply system that continuously feeds sachets filled with stored items such as soup and utensils to foods one by one.

Instant foods contain sachets filled with the contents of a serving of soup and ingredients.
As an apparatus for automatically and continuously supplying this sachet to an instant food, for example, an apparatus described in Patent Document 1 is known. The apparatus of Patent Document 1 detects the positions and transfer speeds of a plurality of cups transferred by a conveyor line with sensors and encoders, and at the side of the conveyor line while timing to supply the cups with these sensors and encoders. It is an apparatus for putting a small bag into the cup from the installed small bag supply device. The pouch body supply device cuts a pouch body ribbon formed by connecting a plurality of pouch bodies in a row one by one, and puts the separated pouch bodies into a cup.
JP-A-11-178530 (FIG. 5)

By the way, the sachet supplied from the sachet supply device is not always filled with an appropriate amount of stored items.
Therefore, in the apparatus of Patent Document 1 described above, since there is no means for confirming whether the amount of the contained material in the sachet is an appropriate amount or a means for eliminating the sachet that is not filled with the appropriate amount of the contained matter, an appropriate amount is provided. An instant food containing a sachet filled with a soup lower than the above may have a lighter taste, and an instant food containing a sachet filled with a soup exceeding an appropriate amount may have a stronger taste.

Therefore, when the sachets are automatically and continuously supplied to the instant food using the apparatus of Patent Document 1 described above, consumer complaints that the taste of the instant food is light or dark are likely to occur.
Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and can automatically supply a food product by selecting a pouch body filled with an appropriate amount of contained material while reducing labor without reducing efficiency. An object of the present invention is to provide a pouch body continuous weighing and accumulating supply system.

The sachet continuous metering and accumulating system according to the present invention includes a filling device that continuously forms a sachet filled with packaging such as soup and utensils, and a measurement that measures the weight of the sachet formed by the filling device. An apparatus, a sorting apparatus that sorts only the pouch bodies within a predetermined weight range based on a measurement result of the measuring apparatus, and the pouch bodies that accumulate and store the pouch bodies sorted by the sorting apparatus An accumulator that continuously carries out the sachet, and a sachet feeding device that feeds the sachet that has been carried out of the actuator to the food that is moving on the food transport path, one by one, the sorting device comprising: A second pouch body conveyance path for conveying the pouch body whose weight is measured by the measuring device toward the accumulator, and a specific small one of the small pouch bodies moving on the second pouch body conveyance path. The weight of the pouch body moving on the second pouch body conveyance path is predetermined by the pouch body discharge section that enables the body to be discharged from the second pouch body conveyance path and the weight information of the measuring device. A sorting control unit that starts a discharge operation by the small bag body discharge unit when the small bag body discharge unit is out of the weight range, the small bag body discharge unit with respect to the direction in which the small bag body of the second small bag body transport path moves An injection nozzle is arranged in an orthogonal direction, and an air injection unit that discharges the specific pouch body from the second pouch body conveyance path by an air injection force injected from the injection nozzle; and A second timing sensor that detects that the specific pouch has moved close to the injection nozzle, and the second timing sensor detects that the specific pouch body has moved near the injection nozzle. air Is a system that starts the discharge operation of the elevation unit.

  According to the sachet continuous weighing and accumulating supply system according to the present invention, the weight of the sachet filled with packaging such as soup and utensils is measured by the filling device, and the sorting device is measured based on the measurement result of the measuring device. However, since only the sachets within the predetermined weight range are selected and supplied to the food, it is possible to produce a high-quality food that does not cause consumer complaints such as light taste or dark taste.

In addition, sachets filled with an appropriate amount of contents (within a predetermined weight range) are sequentially accumulated in the accumulator, and the sachets accumulated in the accumulator are passed through the sachet supply device. As a result, food is being supplied to the food that is moving on the food transport path. In this way, while performing the sorting of the sachets, the sachets accumulated in the accumulator are continuously supplied to the food in parallel, so that the efficiency is reduced and labor saving is achieved. It is possible to perform a filling and supplying operation of the pouch body.
In addition, a sachet that is not filled with an appropriate amount of soup (outside a predetermined weight range) is generated by an air nozzle that generates an air jet force in the second sachet. Since it is discharged | emitted from the body conveyance path, simplification of an apparatus and shortening of discharge | emission time can be aimed at.

Hereinafter, one embodiment of a pouch body continuous metering accumulator supply system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows a continuous formation of a sachet filled and packaged with soup (containment), in which only an appropriate amount of sachet is accumulated, and the accumulated sachet is integrated into the transported instant noodles. It shows a system for packaging after serving meals.

  This system includes a filling device 2 that forms a sachet A, a measuring device 4 that measures the weight of the sachet A, a sorting device 6 that sorts only the sachet A within a predetermined weight range, and a sorted sachet. The accumulator 8 for accumulating A, the sachet supply device 12 for supplying the sachet A for one serving on the instant noodle N conveyed to the food conveyor 10, and the instant noodle N and the sachet A simultaneously. And a packaging device 13 for packaging.

The filling device 2 is a device that continuously forms a sachet A filled and packaged with an amount of soup (containment) corresponding to one serving of instant noodles N, and the sachet A continuously formed by this device. Is carried out from the carry-out conveyor 2a to the measuring device 4 side after a predetermined time.
As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the measuring device 4 receives the sachet A that has been transported on the carry-out conveyor 2a and transports it to the sorting device 6 side, and the sachet A on the transport conveyor 4a. A non-contact type timing sensor 4b for detecting that it is placed, and a weight measuring unit 4c for measuring the weight of the small bag A on the conveyor 4a when the timing sensor 4b detects the small bag A. Yes.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the sorting device 6 receives the sachet A from the transport conveyor 4 a of the measuring device 4 and transports it to the accumulator 8 side, and one side of the transport conveyor 6 a. An air injection nozzle 6b disposed on the side, a sachet collection box 6c disposed on the other side of the transport conveyor 6a opposite the air spray nozzle 6b, and a sachet A being transported by the transport conveyor 4a of the measuring device 4 Includes a timing sensor 6d that detects that the air has moved to the vicinity of the air injection nozzle 6b, and a nozzle control unit 6e that controls the operation of the air injection nozzle 6b. Two sets of the air injection nozzle 6b and the small bag collection box 6c are arranged in the transport direction of the transport conveyor 6a.

  The weight information of the sachet A on the conveyor 4a measured by the weight measuring unit 4c of the measuring device 4 is input to the nozzle controller 6e, and the sachet A is not an appropriate amount (outside the predetermined weight range). ), The timing sensor 6d detects that the sachet A has moved close to the air injection nozzle 6b, and at the same time controls the injection start of the air injection nozzle 6b so that air is injected from the air injection nozzle 6b. . Further, when the sachet A is in an appropriate amount (within a predetermined weight range), the air injection nozzle 6b stops the air injection from the air injection nozzle 6b even if the sachet A is detected by the timing sensor 6d. The injection stop control of 6b is performed.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the accumulator 8 includes a plurality of upper fixed sprockets 8b fixed to the upper portion of the accumulator chamber 8a, a plurality of lower fixed sprockets 8c fixed to the lower portion of the accumulator chamber 8a, After being alternately wound around a plurality of movable sprockets 8e connected to an elevating part 8d that moves up and down in the accumulator chamber 8a, an upper fixed sprocket 8b, and a movable sprocket 8e, the lower fixed sprocket 8c and the movable sprocket 8e An endless transport chain 8f wound alternately and an individually bellows-shaped small bag storage pocket 8g provided continuously with the transport chain 8f are provided.

  Further, the accumulator 8 protrudes outward from the accumulator chamber 8a toward the sorting device 6, and a small bag in which a part of the small bag body storage pocket 8g is wound around the fixed sprocket 8c1 at a position below the transfer conveyor 6a. There is also provided a body carry-in part 8h and a pouch body carry-out part 8i that protrudes outward from the accumulator chamber 8a toward the pouch body supply device 12 and winds a part of the pouch body storage pocket 8g around the fixed sprocket 8c2. .

The fixed sprocket 8c1 of the pouch body carrying-in portion 8h is a drive sprocket that rotates at a predetermined speed when a rotational force is transmitted from a drive motor (not shown), and this drive sprocket 8c1 has been conveyed from the sorting device 6. The pouch body A is a carry-in drive unit that automatically loads the accumulator chamber 8a (hereinafter referred to as a carry-in drive unit 8c1).
The fixed sprocket 8c2 of the pouch body carrying-out portion 8i is also a drive sprocket that rotates at a predetermined speed when a rotational force is transmitted from a drive motor (not shown), and this drive sprocket 8c2 is connected to the pouch body supply device 12 in the small bag body A. Is an unloading drive unit that automatically unloads (hereinafter referred to as unloading drive unit 8c2).
The carry-in drive unit 8c1 and the carry-out drive unit 8c2 are driven independently.

  Here, as shown in FIG. 2, the small bag body carrying-in part 8h detects that the small bag body A dropped from the front of the conveyor 6a of the sorting device 6 is stored in the small bag body storage pocket 8g. The carry-in driving sensor 8c1 described above is driven when the carry-in confirmation sensor 30 detects the small bag body A stored in the small bag body storage pocket 8g, and the next small bag body A is moved. The small bag body storage pocket 8g to be stored moves to a position where the small bag body A falls.

As shown in FIG. 1, the pouch body supply device 12 includes a pouch body upper transfer unit 14 and a pouch body supply unit 16.
As shown in FIG. 4, the pouch body upper transfer section 14 includes a pair of drive sprockets 14a and 14b that are spaced apart in an oblique vertical direction, an endless belt 14c that is wound around the drive sprockets 14a and 14b, The endless belt 14c is provided with a plurality of pouch body mounting plates 14d provided at predetermined intervals. When the endless belt 14c moves at a predetermined speed by the rotational drive of the pair of drive sprockets 14a, 14b, the accumulator The pouch body A that has been carried out and dropped from the pouch body carrying-out portion 8i of the tray 8 is placed on the pouch body placing plate 14d and conveyed to a position above the food conveying conveyor 10.

  The pouch body supply unit 16 is a pair of belt-type conveyors 18 and 20 that are driven by driving sprockets 18b, 18c, 20b, and 20c so that the conveying surfaces 18a and 20a that are close to each other move in the same direction. The pouch body A that has been rotated halfway around the drive sprocket 14b at the top of the pouch body upper transfer section 14 is received and placed on the instant noodles N that are transported to the food transport conveyor 10 while being sandwiched between the transport surfaces 18a and 20a. Move it down. Note that the supply speed and supply timing of the pouch body A of the pouch body supply unit 16 are synchronized with the transport speed of the instant noodles N that are transported at a predetermined interval on the food transport conveyor 10.

Here, the carry-out drive unit 8c2 of the pouch body carry-out unit 8i, the drive sprockets 14a and 14b of the pouch body upper transfer unit 14, and the drive sprockets 18b, 18c, 20b, and 20c of the pouch body supply unit 16 Drive control is performed synchronously so that when the small bag A is supplied to the upper instant noodle N, it is driven simultaneously, and when the supply of the small bag A to the instant noodle N is stopped, the driving is stopped simultaneously. Yes.
Further, the packaging device 13 is a device that wraps the instant noodles N on which the small bag A is placed and conveyed on a film using a sealing heater or the like.

Next, the operation of the system of this embodiment will be described.
First, the operation of selecting the small bag A filled and packaged with soup and accumulating it in the actuator 8 will be described.
The pouch A formed by continuously filling and packaging soup with the filling device 2 flows from the carry-out conveyor 2a to the transfer conveyor 4a of the measuring device 4 after a predetermined time. When the sachet A moves on the conveyor 4a, the timing sensor 4b detects the sachet A, and the weight measuring unit 4c starts measuring the weight of the sachet A.

  When the timing sensor 6d detects that the pouch body A whose weight has been measured has moved to the downstream side of the transport conveyor 4a, the nozzle controller 6e is configured to use the pouch body A based on the weight information measured by the weight measurement section 4c. It is determined whether the soup is in an appropriate amount (within a predetermined weight range) or the soup is not in an appropriate amount (out of the predetermined weight range). When the sachet A is out of the predetermined weight range, the jet start control of the air jet nozzle 6b is performed, and the sachet A that has been transported to the transport conveyor 6a is taken up by the air jet force of the air jet nozzle 6b. Discharge to 6c. On the other hand, when the pouch body A is within the predetermined weight range, the injection stop control of the air injection nozzle 6b is performed, and the pouch body A on the transport conveyor 6a is transported downstream as it is.

Then, the sachet A (a sachet filled with an appropriate amount of soup) transported to the downstream side of the conveyor 6a falls toward the sachet storage pocket 8g of the sachet carry-in portion 8h of the actuator 8, and the sachet is stored. It is stored in the pocket 8g. At this time, since the carry-in confirmation sensor 30 confirms that the pouch body A has fallen, the carry-in drive unit 8c1 is driven, and the pouch body storage pocket 8g in which the next small pouch body A is to be stored falls. Move to the next position.
In this way, every time the small bag A is stored in the small bag storage pocket 8g, the carry-in drive unit 8c1 is driven, and the small bags A filled with an appropriate amount of soup are sequentially loaded into the actuator 8.

Next, an operation for supplying the small bag A accumulated in the actuator 8 to the instant noodles N conveyed to the food conveying conveyor 10 one by one will be described.
The pouch body A carried out from the pouch body carrying-out portion 8 i of the accumulator 8 falls toward the pouch body placing plate 14 d of the pouch body upper transfer portion 14. The pouch body A placed on the pouch body placing plate 14d is transferred upward, and after half rotation around the drive sprocket 14b on the upper portion of the pouch body upper transfer section 14, the transport surface 18a, Move during 20a. The supply speed and supply timing of the pouch body A of the pouch body supply section 16 are synchronized with the transport speed of the instant noodles N that are transported on the food transport conveyor 10 at a predetermined interval. The pouch body A sandwiched and transported between the transport surfaces 18 a and 20 a is supplied onto the instant noodles N transported to the food transport conveyor 10.

Then, the instant noodles N on which the sachets A are placed are packaged in a film in the packaging device 13.
Here, since the carry-in drive unit 8c1 and the carry-out drive unit 8c2 of the actuator 8 are driven independently of each other, the operation of selecting the above-described small bag A and accumulating it in the actuator 8, and the actuator The operation of supplying the sachet A accumulated in 8 to the instant noodles N on the food conveyor 10 is performed as an independent operation. That is, even if the supply of the sachet A to the instant noodle N is temporarily stopped for some reason, the operation of accumulating the sachet A filled with an appropriate amount of soup in the actuator 8 is performed. It is possible to continue.

  Therefore, according to the system of the present embodiment, the weight of the sachet A formed by filling and packaging soup with the filling device 2 is measured by the measuring device 4, and the sorting device 6 is predetermined based on the measurement result of the measuring device 4. Since only the sachets A within the weight range are selected and packaged together with the instant noodles N, it is possible to produce a high-quality food that does not cause consumer complaints such as light taste and darkness.

  In addition, the operation of sequentially accumulating the small bag body A filled with an appropriate amount of soup (within a predetermined weight range) in the accumulator 8 and the small bag body A stored in the accumulator 8 12 can be performed in parallel to the instant noodles N that have been transported to the food transport conveyor 10 via 12, so that small bags can be filled and supplied without reducing efficiency. Work can be done.

  In addition, the carry-in drive unit 8c1 and the carry-out drive unit 8c2 of the actuator 8 are independently driven to select the pouch body A and store it in the actuator 8, and to transport the pouch body A accumulated in the actuator 8 to food. Even if one of the operations to be supplied to the instant noodles N on the conveyor 10 is stopped, the other operation can be continued, so that the efficiency can be further improved.

Further, the measuring device 4 measures the weight of the small bag A moving on the conveyor 4a by the weight measuring unit 4c, and the sorting device 6 applies to the small bag A moving on the conveyor 6a. On the other hand, since the discharging operation is performed, it is possible to shorten the time for sorting the small bag A.
Further, since the small bag body A (outside the predetermined weight range) not filled with an appropriate amount of soup is discharged by the air injection nozzle 6b of the sorting device 6 generating an air injection force, the device is simplified. And the discharge time can be shortened.
In addition, although this embodiment demonstrated the system which supplies the sachet A which filled the instant ramen N with soup, the same effect can be acquired also in the manufacturing system of another foodstuff.

It is the schematic which shows the small bag body continuous measurement accumulation supply system as one Embodiment which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows the measuring device and sorting device of the system shown in FIG. It is the figure which showed the measuring apparatus and sorting apparatus of FIG. 2 by planar view. It is a figure which shows the small bag body supply apparatus of the system shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

2 Filling device 4 Measuring device 4a Conveying conveyor (first pouch body conveying path)
4b Timing sensor (first timing sensor)
4c Weight measuring unit 6 Sorting device 6a Conveyor (second pouch body conveyance path)
6b Air injection nozzle (injection nozzle)
6c Small bag collection box 6d Timing sensor (second timing sensor)
6e Nozzle control unit (selection control unit)
8 Actuator 8a Actuator chamber 8c1 Carry-in drive unit 8c2 Carry-out drive unit 8g Pouch body storage pocket 8h Pouch body carry-in unit 8i Pouch body carry-out unit 10 Food transport conveyor (food transport path)
12 Pouch body supply device 14 Pouch body upper transfer section 16 Pouch body supply section 30 Loading confirmation sensor A Pouch body N Instant noodles (food)

Claims (3)

Based on a filling device that continuously forms a sachet filled with packaging such as soup and ingredients, a measuring device that measures the weight of the sachet formed by this filling device, and a measurement result of this measuring device A sorting device that sorts only the sachets within a predetermined weight range, an accumulator that accumulates the sachets sorted by the sorting device and continuously carries out the accumulated sachets, and food A sachet supply device that supplies the sachet carried out from the actuator to the food that is moving on the conveyance path, one by one,
The sorting device includes: a second pouch body conveyance path that conveys the pouch body, the weight of which is measured by the measurement device, toward the accumulator; and the small pouch body that is moving on the second pouch body conveyance path. The pouch body moving on the second pouch body conveyance path according to the weight information of the measurement device and the pouch body discharge section that enables a specific pouch body to be discharged from the second pouch body conveyance path. A sorting control unit that starts the discharging operation by the small bag discharging unit when the weight of the bag is out of a predetermined weight range,
The sachet discharge unit has an injection nozzle arranged in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the sachet moves in the second sachet conveyance path, and the specific sachet is determined by an air jet force jetted from the jet nozzle. An air injection unit that discharges the body from the second pouch body conveyance path, and a second timing sensor that detects that the pouch body has moved close to the injection nozzle, and the selection control unit includes the identification control unit When the small bag body has moved close to the injection nozzle, the discharge operation of the air injection unit is started by the detection of the second timing sensor . The accumulator includes a carry-in drive unit that automatically carries the sachet into the accumulator chamber, and a carry-out drive unit that carries out the sachet accumulated in the accumulator chamber. Performs a stop operation until the sachet within a predetermined weight range is carried in by sorting by the sorting device, and the carry-out drive unit is driven independently from the carry-in drive unit with respect to the sachet supply device. 2. The pouch body continuous metering and accumulating supply system according to claim 1, wherein the system is driven synchronously. The measuring device has a first pouch body conveyance path for conveying the pouch body filled and packaged by the filling apparatus toward the sorting apparatus, and the pouch body for one serving is placed on the first pouch body conveyance path. 3. A first timing sensor for detecting this and a weight measuring means for measuring the weight of the pouch when the first timing sensor detects the pouch. Small sachet continuous weighing accumulator supply system as described .

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