JP2963379B2 - Flexible article distribution and supply device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a method for transferring a flexible article such as a food material supplied on one conveyor belt to a downstream side of the conveyor belt, for example, to each of a plurality of gutter-shaped guides on the downstream side. The present invention relates to a flexible article distributing apparatus for dispensing and supplying only a fixed amount, that is, a flexible article distributing apparatus capable of adjusting a supply amount of a flexible article with respect to a position in a width direction of a conveyor belt.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A flexible article weighing apparatus including a conventional flexible article dispensing apparatus feeds flexible articles collected in a hopper directly onto a plurality of gutter-like guides arranged in parallel with each other.
On the downstream side of each of the gutter-shaped guides, a weighing receiver supported by a load cell is disposed, and the gutter-shaped guides are obliquely moved in the front-rear direction by a vibration device when detecting that there is no flexible food in the weighing receiver. To supply the flexible article to the weighing receiver. The flexible articles supplied to each of the weighing receptacles are weighed by a load cell, and the flexible articles stored in the plurality of weighing receptacles selected by the computer are put together to weigh out a predetermined amount of the flexible articles. The above-described flexible article distribution device has a problem that the flexible articles are easily clogged in the lower part of the hopper. Therefore, a belt conveyor was used in place of the hopper, but when the belt conveyor was operated, the flexible articles were supplied to all the gutter-shaped guides, and were not operated for a long time, and were upstream of the gutter-shaped guides in a stopped state. However, there is a problem in terms of hygiene and taste retention in that the flexible articles accumulate. On the other hand, the actual Kaihei 4-144
In Japanese Patent Publication No. 27, there is disclosed an apparatus for supplying a fixed amount of sand to a weighing hopper. This is achieved by disposing a shutter member above a flat belt conveyor on the side surface of an end roller, and pressing the leading end of the shutter member, which swings about an axis above the belt conveyor, against the belt conveyor or at intervals. , A predetermined amount of sand is supplied to the treatment room. This apparatus supplies a uniform amount of sand in a direction orthogonal to the running direction of the flat belt conveyor, that is, in the width direction, and cannot adjust the supply amount with respect to the position in the width direction.

[0003] Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 60-44428 relates to an apparatus for continuously transferring a batch mixture continuously and infinitely, which can continuously supply the batch mixture. In this method, a scraping device having a scraping belt whose lower surface runs in a direction opposite to the running direction of the conveyor belt is disposed above the conveyor belt, and the batch mixture is placed on the upper surface of the conveyor belt and the scraping belt. It is transported and supplied by being sandwiched by the lower surface. Even in this device, the supply amount cannot be adjusted with respect to the position in the width direction of the conveyor belt.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the conventional supply device,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a flexible article distributing apparatus capable of adjusting a supply amount of a flexible article with respect to a position in a width direction of a conveyor belt. In the present invention, in adjusting the supply amount of the flexible article with respect to the position in the width direction of the conveyor belt, the flexible article can be supplied quickly with less risk of the flexible article being stopped for a long time on the belt conveyor, It is an object of the present invention to provide a flexible article dispensing device that is superior in terms of taste and taste. Another object of the present invention is to provide a flexible article distributing apparatus which can easily catch and boil a long flexible article such as boiled onion, enoki, sprouts and the like. The invention further provides
It is an object of the present invention to provide a flexible article distributing apparatus that can evenly supply flexible articles to each weighing receiver when quantitatively weighing flexible articles.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, there is provided a conveyor belt for transporting a flexible article, and disposed above the conveyor belt and extending perpendicularly to the transport direction of the conveyor belt. A scraping-back support for scraping back in a direction opposite to the conveying direction, and a lifting position supported by the scraping-back support and capable of engaging the flexible article being conveyed and a disengaging ascending position. A plurality of liftable members that can be raised and lowered, and while the conveyor belt is being conveyed, each of the scrape members is disposed at a lowered position or a raised position so that the scrape support member is scraped and travels, and the conveyor belt A flexible article distributing / supplying apparatus characterized in that the flexible article at a predetermined upper position is scraped back to distribute and adjust the flexible article in the width direction by the conveyor belt and to supply the flexible article.

The present invention according to claim 2 is characterized in that the scraping-back member is a rod member which is moved up and down. According to a third aspect of the present invention, a plurality of gutter-shaped guides are arranged in parallel on the transport downstream side extension of each traveling trajectory of the scraping-back member, and a plurality of weighing receivers are further disposed downstream thereof. It is characterized by the following.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A flexible article weighing and feeding apparatus provided with a flexible article distributing and feeding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 2, the flexible article weighing and supplying apparatus 1 includes a flexible article distribution and supply apparatus 100, a plurality of parallel gutter-shaped guides 6 on the downstream side in the transport direction of the flexible article distribution and supply apparatus 100, and further downstream thereof. And a plurality of weighing receivers 10 supported by each of the plurality of load cells 8. Note that a plurality of weighing receivers may be directly arranged on the downstream side in the transport direction of the flexible article weighing and feeding device. The gutter-like guide 6 is driven to vibrate obliquely in the front-rear direction by the vibration device 4. Each of the weighing receptacles 10 is associated with a respective one of the gutter-shaped guides 6 from which the flexible articles are fed. The load cell 8 measures the weight of the flexible article accommodated by the weighing receiver 10. The weight value of the flexible article accommodated in each weighing receiver 10 is input to a computer (not shown), and the computer performs a predetermined weight value or a combination operation that exceeds the predetermined weight value and becomes the weight value closest to the predetermined weight value. As a result, the soft article stored in the selected weighing receiver 10 is supplied to a filling device (not shown). Trough guide 6
A photoelectric sensor 20 for detecting the presence of a flexible article in the gutter-shaped guide 6 is disposed above each of the above.

As shown in FIG. 1, a flexible article distribution and supply device 100 includes a conveyor belt 102 and a conveyor belt 1.
02 and a scrape-back support 106 disposed above. The conveyor belt 102 is connected to the conveyor drive motor 10.
8 and a rotatable conveyor pulley 112. The scraping back support 106 is supported by a link mechanism 116 and a scraping arm 118 driven by a scraping drive motor 114, and in a raised position, the conveyor belt 10
It travels in the transport direction of No. 2 and travels in the reverse direction at the lowered position. A scraping-back member 122 supported by an air cylinder 120 is attached to the scraping-back support 106 at a position corresponding to the gutter-shaped guide 6. Although the scraping member 122 is shown as a round bar, it may be replaced with an inverted triangular or rectangular one according to the cross section of the gutter-like guide 6 and the physical properties of the flexible article. In the case where an inverted triangular shape is used as the scraping member, the flexible article on the locus of the scraping member that has been lowered is moved along the locus of the scraping member on the left and right sides of the scraping member. The effect of moving the image to be distributed can be enhanced.

[0009] The flexible article distributing / supplying apparatus 10 having the above-described configuration.
The operation of 0 is as follows. On the conveyor belt 102, flexible products M such as vegetables such as boiled onions, Chinese cabbage, bean sprouts, and enoki, and meats such as beef and pork are supplied from the hopper 103 at a substantially average thickness and scraped. The support 106 is in the standby position shown in FIGS. The flexible article M which has been in the gutter-shaped guide 6 is
When the photoelectric sensor 20 detects that the flexible article M has disappeared in any of the gutter-shaped guides 6, the conveyor belt driving motor 108 drives the conveyor belt 1.
02 starts conveying the flexible article M in the direction of the gutter-shaped guide 6. At the same time, air is supplied to the air cylinder 120 corresponding to the gutter-shaped guide 6 in which the flexible article M has disappeared, and the scraping member 122 rises to a position where it does not contact the flexible article M,
By driving the link mechanism 116, the scraping-back support member 106 moves in the reverse direction of the conveyance while the other scraping member 122 remains in the position in contact with the flexible article M. The soft article M below the raised scraping member 122 is supplied to the predetermined gutter-like guide 6 by the conveyor belt 102 as it is, and the scraping member 122 which has been lowered moves the soft article M on its locus.
Is scraped back in the reverse direction. In FIG. 2, a trajectory of the lower end portion of the scraping member 122 descending is shown by a dashed line C.

At this time, a part of the flexible article M scraped back by the lowered scraping member 122 near the raised scraping member 122 is
2 and is supplied to a predetermined gutter-shaped guide 6 by a conveyor belt 102. After the scraping member 122 has traveled the predetermined distance in the reverse direction of the conveyance, the scraping support 10
6 is raised by the drive of the link mechanism 116 before the scraped-back flexible article reaches the standby position shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, moves in the transport direction, and returns to the standby position. As described above, even when a certain scraping member 122 is kept lowered, the flexible article M moves on the locus of another scraping member 122 located in the left-right direction. It is possible to prevent the supplied specific flexible articles M from staying on the conveyor belt 102 for a long time.

In the above embodiment, the scraped back support 1
06 and the scraping-back member 122 supported by this are configured to move up and down independently, but the lifting-lowering operation of the scraping-back support 106 is eliminated by increasing the lifting amount of the scraping-back member 122. You can also. In the above embodiment, the scraping-back member has a rod shape, and a gap is provided between the scraping members. However, the gap can be eliminated by forming the scraping member in a plate shape.

[0012]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the supply amount of the flexible article can be adjusted with respect to the widthwise position of the conveyor belt, and the flexible article can be supplied with respect to the widthwise position of the conveyor belt. The flexible article of the part which did not move to the supplied part is mixed with the supplied flexible article, and the flexible article at a specific location on the conveyor belt can be supplied quickly without the possibility of stopping for a long time. And has an advantageous effect on hygiene and taste retention. In particular, even when the scraping member remains down, the flexible article on the scraping track is moved on the scraping track of the adjacent scraping member, and from this point the flexible article stops for a long time. Can be effectively prevented. According to the second aspect of the present invention, there is an advantage that a long flexible article such as a boil-cut onion, enoki, or bean sprouts can be easily hooked back. According to the third aspect of the present invention, since the flexible article can be supplied to the respective weighing receivers substantially evenly, the result of the combination operation is improved, the combination accuracy is improved, and the quantitative measurement is usually difficult. This has the effect that a relatively high weighing accuracy can be obtained even for a flexible article described above. Furthermore, there is an effect that the accumulation of the flexible articles on the upstream side of the gutter-shaped guide can be prevented.

[0013]

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a flexible article distribution and supply device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a flexible article weighing / feeding apparatus including the flexible article distribution / feeding apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 M Flexible article 1 Flexible article weighing and feeding device 6 Gutter-like guide 8 Load cell 10 Weighing receiver 20 Photoelectric sensor 100 Flexible article dispensing and feeding device 102 Conveyor belt 106 Scuffing back support 108 Conveyor drive motor 110 Driving pulley 112 Conveyor pulley 114 Scratching and driving Motor 116 link mechanism 118 scraping arm 120 air cylinder 122 scraping member

Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Hiroshi Yamamoto 5-22 Tea Garden, Akashi-shi, Hyogo Daiwa Seiko Co., Ltd. (56) References Japanese Patent Publication No. 63-51931 (JP, B2) (58) Fields surveyed (Int.Cl. ⁶ , DB name) B65G 47/52 A23L 1/00 A23L 1/212 B65G 47/28 B65G 65/42

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A conveyor belt for transporting a flexible article, a scraper disposed above the conveyor belt, extending perpendicular to the transport direction of the conveyor belt, and scraping back and running in a direction opposite to the transport direction. A return support, and a plurality of scrape-back members supported by the scrape-back support and capable of ascending and descending between a descending position capable of engaging the flexible article being conveyed and a non-engageable ascending position; While the conveyor belt is being conveyed, each of the scraping members is disposed at the lowered position or the raised position, and the scraping support is scraped and travels, and by scraping back the flexible article at a predetermined position on the conveyor belt, A flexible article distributing / supplying device, wherein a flexible article is distributed and adjusted in a width direction thereof by a conveyor belt and supplied. 2. The flexible article dispersing and supplying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the scraping-back member is a bar member that is moved up and down. 3. A plurality of gutter-shaped guides arranged in parallel on a transport downstream side extension of each traveling locus of the scraping-back member, and a plurality of weighing receivers are further arranged downstream thereof. The flexible article distribution and supply device according to claim 1.