JP2684189B2 - Rotary automatic koji making device - Google Patents

Description

Description: [Industrial field of application] The present invention relates to a thin-type rotary automatic koji making device in a koji making process in the brewing industry or the fermentation industry.

[Conventional technology]

For example, in the case of koji making in the brewing industry, the conventional manual koji making is that after the completion of the first half of the koji making process, a small amount is added to the koji lid to enter the main koji making process. The deposition thickness varied depending on various conditions and purposes of koji making, and was about 4 to 8 cm. Particularly in the case of sake koji making, the dry adjustment of the koji substrate is a major factor in koji making, and on the basis of this, the koji making was carried out by manual adjustment.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

From this era of small-scale koji making by hand, the scale has gradually grown to the present, but as the scale expands, the number of workers also increases, and the invasion of germs from workers is also cleaned. It was mentioned as a problem in obtaining fresh koji.
In addition, the required area of the factory for koji making must inevitably increase with the expansion of scale, and the koji making method using the above-mentioned working means has been said to be approximately non-modern. .

[Means for solving the problem]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, clean koji making is performed under labor saving, and in measuring the reduction of the area occupied by the koji making equipment, in the present invention, the culture bed is a rotating disk type and the thin plate In order to rationalize by adopting a multi-stage configuration, furthermore, each rotary disk is provided with a notch part, and by aligning the notch parts of all stages, the screw can be moved up and down to make the screw on the target disk. After the koji substrate is set, the koji substrate is drawn in and discharged to form the introduction passage, and then the koji making is performed.After completion of the koji making, the introduction passage is adjusted to form the discharge passage, and the kuriyu is used. Koji. Cleaning the equipment after the completion of koji is one of the important operations in koji making, but as a preparation for the cleaning work, align the cutouts of all steps as described above and only the discs of the steps to be washed. It is possible to obtain clean koji by sequentially rotating and exposing the knots, and then thoroughly washing each step from the notch.

〔Example〕

 The details of the present invention will be described below with reference to examples.

In the accompanying drawings, FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional view, FIG. 2 is a lateral sectional view,
3 is an enlarged sectional view taken along the line III-III in FIG. 2, and FIG. 4 is a partially enlarged explanatory view. In FIG. 1, 1 is a heat insulating wall of the baffle floor 2, and 1'is a supply port for the koji substrate,
A rotary disk 4 is provided inside the chamber about a central axis 5, and a standing plate 3 is provided on the outer circumference of the rotary disk 4 in a sliding contact state. Further, a screw 6 is provided so as to be vertically movable across the central shaft 5 and the outer peripheral portion, and the koji substrate is loaded and discharged. 5'is a groove for vertical movement of the screw 6, and 7 is a heat insulating wall of the latter-stage koji making room, which has a central shaft 14
Rotating disk 15 with a fan-shaped notch 16
Are provided in multiple stages, and the outer circumference thereof is received by the receiving roller 17. Screws 12 and 13 are provided across the central shaft 14 and the outer peripheral portion, and the notches 16 ′ of the respective steps are aligned with each other so that the vertical movement can be performed.
Taking the disk A of the disks 15 indicated by E to E as an example, the screw 12 is installed on the disk A so that the screw 12 can be operated.
The koji base chamber discharged by the screen 6 is supplied onto the rotating disk 15 via the introduction pipe 8, the disintegrator 9, and the switching shout 10, and is transferred from the outer peripheral portion to the inner peripheral portion by the scraper and grounded. To be done. Reference numeral 21 is a duct connected to an air conditioner (not shown), reference numerals 20 and 18 are disk drive devices, and reference numeral 19 is a clutch for "contacting" and "disconnecting" rotation.

Rotating disc 4 and screen 6 set to the height of the platter
Are rotated so as to be transferred inward from the outer periphery, and the supply hole 11
When the koji substrate is supplied from the koji substrate, the koji substrate that rotates in a mountain shape is transferred from the part in contact with the lower surface of the sukuriyuu to the central part and gradually deposited, and is leveled on the entire surface of the disk by the quantitative supply. It

After the lapse of a predetermined time, the koji substrate that has completed the skein process is deposited on the rotating disk 15 for the koji making, and the operation is to bring the screw 6 close to the disk 4 and to move from the inner circumference to the outer circumference. When the disk 4 is rotated so as to be transferred to the koji substrate, the koji substrate is sequentially discharged due to the correlation between the rotation of the disk 4 and the rotation of the screw 6. The discharged koji substrate is guided by the introduction pipe 8, subdivided by the disintegrator 9, and is switched to be supplied to the disk for loading. The koji substrate, which is transferred above 15 and rotates with the disk, is piled up higher than the set dimension by the rotation (transfer direction from the outer circumference to the inner circumference) of the screw 12 that sets the deposition thickness. Transferred to the inner circumference, one rotation of disk 4 and disk
By adjusting the rotation angle of b → a of 15, the koji substrate is a disk 15
It is incorporated in a thin layer on top of b → a. Hot and humid air is sent from a duct 21 which is connected to an air conditioner (not shown), the amount of air is adjusted by a damper 22, and the air is sent into the koji making room to control the product temperature and moisture. In addition to the above method, this air conditioner is provided with means for controlling the product temperature and water content by making the environment for koji making. In this way, after a lapse of a predetermined time, the koji substrate is condensed with the progress of cell growth. At this point, in order to transfer the koji substrate of the disk A to the disk B (the disk where the deposition is empty), the notch 16 (FIG. 2) of the disk is aligned as described above, and the screw 6 is fixedly fixed to the disk A. Then, the screw 13 moved on the disk B, which is rotated so as to be transferred from the inner circumference to the outer circumference, is fixed by setting the deposition thickness, and is rotated so as to transfer the koji substrate from the outer circumference to the inner circumference. The damper 10 is formed so that it can be transferred to AB. After the above preparation is completed,
When the disk A and the disk B are rotated by the operation of the driving device 20 and the clutch 19, the koji substrate on the disk A is discharged to the outside, and the damper 10 guides the koji substrate to the disk B, and the screw 13 To a set thickness. This disk A
By moving from to disk B, the condensed koji substrate is subdivided, giving the same effect as care.

In the above operation, as a means for preventing the koji substrate from dropping from the notch edge of the notch portion 16 of the disk 15 at the time of embedding, starting the embedding from a position leaving a repose angle from the notch edge, or As shown in Fig. 4, when 25 is used as a fulcrum and the vertical is always maintained, when a rigid body such as Screw passes,
Due to the structure in which the standing plate 24 escapes in the direction of the arrow F, the deposition of the thin layer can be maintained. Reference numeral 26 in FIG. 4 denotes a solenoid coil which is operated by a command from the control panel when the screen is approaching, moves in the direction of arrow F until the screen passes, and passes the screen. In this way, the lid of FIG.
If 27 is opened and the switching short 10 is made vertical, the rotating disk 15 and the screwdriver installed close to the disk.
According to the correlation of rotation with 13, koji is transferred to the outer periphery,
Koji is made from the Kojikoguchi.

The above-mentioned operation is carried out step by step to carry out koji making. The drive devices 18 'and 19' do not receive rotational drive when the notch 16 of the disk 15 is located in the drive devices 18 and 19. In such a case, the drive devices 18 'and 19' are used for driving, and either drive device is always activated to drive the disk 15
It is designed to drive. After leaving the koji in this way, it is washed to keep the device clean. In order to perform the washing, the notches 16 of the disc 15 are substantially aligned with each other, and the disc surface of each stage to be washed is sequentially moved to the notches 16 and washed, whereby the complete washing can be easily performed.

〔The invention's effect〕

According to the present invention, since the thin laying multi-stage type occupies a small required area, and all of them are automated, it is possible to save labor, and it is often experienced in the thin laying multi-stage koji making device like the present invention. It is a useful and useful koji-making device that can always obtain clean and high-quality koji by complete washing without generation of bacteria due to imperfect washing.

[Brief description of the drawings]

1 is a vertical sectional view of an embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a lateral sectional view thereof, FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line III-III of FIG. 2, and FIG. FIG. In the figure, 2 ... Nekase floor 4 ... Revolving disk 6,12,13 ... Screw 15 ... Revolving disk 16 ... Notches.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. In a koji making apparatus controlled by hot and humid air in general enzyme industry and brewing industry, a thin culture bed consisting of a partially rotatably cut disk is provided in a room constituted by a heat insulating wall. Structure, the notches of the disk are approximately matched with the screw work part as the center, and the screw work part that can move these notches over all stages,
Installed on the culture bed to be loaded, and by the correlation between the rotation of the screw and the rotation of the disk, the loading of the koji substrate introduced from the Nekase bed in the previous stage of koji making is carried out, and after a predetermined time, the operation part Is set on the upper surface of the two-stage culture bed, and the koji substrate discharged from the upper culture bed is switched to introduce the koji substrate into the lower culture bed. The soil is leveled and cleaned by transferring each stage, after the koji making is completed, the koji is performed with the screw, and after the koji is washed, the culture floor of each stage is exposed by rotation to the notch of the disk. Thin rotary automatic koji making device characterized by being carried out.