JP4545466B2 - Seasoning-filled sachet filling device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a seasoning-enclosed sachet filling apparatus provided in a production line for producing foods in containers such as cup noodles.

Conventionally, this type of containerized food is a seasoning of soup, ingredients, etc. in a cup-shaped container containing instant noodles such as fried noodles and non-fried noodles as disclosed in Patent Document 1, for example, if it is instant noodles After the sachet filled with the material is put in, a sheet-like seal lid that seals the opening of the cup-shaped container is heat-sealed to the opening edge of the cup-shaped container.
JP-A-11-178530 (FIG. 6)

However, conventionally, when a sachet is put into a cup-shaped container containing food, the corner 5a of the sachet 5 may ride on the opening edge 3a of the cup-shaped container 3 as shown in FIG. is there. For this reason, when the sealing lid 6 is heat-sealed to the opening edge 3 a of the cup-shaped container 3 in such a state, the corner 5 a of the small bag 5 is between the opening edge 3 a of the cup-shaped container 3 and the sealing lid 6. Since the sealing lid 6 is heat-sealed while being sandwiched, a sealing failure occurs in the sealing portion, and air or the like may enter the cup-shaped container from the sealing failure portion.
The present invention has been made paying attention to such problems, and provides a seasoning-enclosed sachet filling device capable of preventing the occurrence of poor sealing at the sealing portion between the cup-shaped container and the sealing lid. The purpose is to do.

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, after the food and the seasoning-enclosed sachet are introduced into the cup-shaped container, the opening of the cup-shaped container is hermetically sealed with a sheet-like sealing lid. A plurality of seasoning encapsulating portions formed at regular intervals in the longitudinal direction of the film provided between the packaging films for packaging the seasoning encapsulated in the seasoning encapsulating sachet, provided in the production line of the packaged food to be produced A cutter mechanism for obtaining a seasoning-enclosed sachet by cutting a band-shaped body formed of a heat seal part formed around the seasoning-enclosing part at a predetermined position with a pair of cutter blades, and obtained by the cutter mechanism A chute for charging the seasoned material-enclosed sachet into the cup-shaped container, and a seasoning material-enclosed sachet input device comprising:
The pair of cutter blades cuts the heat seal part formed between the seasoning material enclosing parts among the heat seal parts formed around the seasoning material enclosing part along the width direction of the belt-like body 2 A width direction cutting portion, and a length direction cutting portion that cuts one heat seal portion of the two heat seal portions formed at both ends in the width direction of the band shape along the length direction of the band shape. Four corner cutting parts for cutting the intersection of the heat seal part formed between the seasoning material enclosing parts and the heat seal part formed at both ends in the width direction of the belt-like body into a hypotenuse or arcuate shape It is characterized by having .

  In the method for producing a food in a container according to the present invention, the corners of the sachet are cut into four sides of the sachet in advance by cutting the four corners of the sachet into an oblique side or an arc before putting the sachet into a cup-shaped container containing food. As a result, when the small bag is put into the cup-shaped container, a part of the small bag does not get on the opening edge of the cup-shaped container. It is possible to prevent the occurrence of defective sealing.

  Further, in the containerized food manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention, the sachet filling device stores a predetermined amount of the seasoning material between the front and back films in rows at predetermined intervals for each unit. The front and back films are bonded by welding or the like, so that each unit of the seasoning material is independently continuous, and the band-like body is provided for each unit of the seasoning material on the downstream side of the introduction portion. By cutting into a seasoning-enclosed sachet and having a cutter mechanism that cuts off the four corners of the sachet, there are no corners at the four corners of the sachet, thereby obtaining the same effect as the invention of the method be able to.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of a containerized food manufacturing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, instant noodles are shown as food contained in a cup-shaped container. However, the present invention can be applied to all foods stored in a cup-shaped packaging container and provided with a seal lid. it can. In the figure, reference numeral 1 is a conveyor for transferring a cup-shaped container 3 containing instant noodles 2 in the direction of the arrow in the figure, and 4 is a small-bag loading for inserting a small bag 5 into the cup-shaped container 3 transferred to a predetermined position by the conveyor 1. This sachet throwing device 4 is provided with an introduction part 12 for the belt-like body 11 and a cutter mechanism part 8 for cutting the sachet 5 formed by cutting the belt-like body 11 and containing a seasoning material such as soup. It has been. The strip 11 has a predetermined amount of seasoning material between the front and back films, that is, one unit such as seasoning, ingredient, powder or liquid soup is accommodated at a predetermined interval in one row here, and between each unit of the seasoning And both sides are heat sealed. Thereby, the seasoning enclosure part 5c and the heat seal part 5d are formed in the strip-shaped body 11. Such a strip 11 is elongated in the continuous direction of each seasoning material enclosing portion 5c, and is supplied from the top to the bottom in FIG. Are introduced into the cutter mechanism 8.

  The cutter mechanism unit 8 has cutter blades 8a and 8b, and the belt-like body 11 is cut here to become a small bag 5 in which a seasoning material is enclosed. As shown in FIG. 2, the pouch 5 is cut into a substantially octagonal shape by the cutter blades 8 a and 8 b of the cutter mechanism 8. As shown in FIG. 2, the cutter blades 8 a and 8 b are formed in a C shape having a substantially octagonal cross section, which serves as the heat seal portion 5 d of the strip 11 and the longitudinal direction of the strip 11 on the side of the strip 11. And a portion between the front and rear seasoning material enclosure portions 5c. The pouch 5 thus cut off has a substantially octagonal shape with the four corners of the plane quadrilateral being cut off. Further, the cutter blades 8a and 8b are moved toward the other fixed cutter blade 8b in synchronism with the introduction of the belt-like body 11, and the heat seal portion 5d is moved by the cutter blades 8a and 8b. Here, the remaining cutting portion 5b other than the portion of the strip 11 that has become the pouch 5 is cut so that the whole is connected. For this reason, the part which comprised the strip | belt-shaped object 11 does not become a small piece, and is not scattered.

The remaining cutting part 5b includes a continuous part 5b-1 continuous in the continuous direction (longitudinal direction) of the strip 11, a part 5b-2 between parts cut out as front and rear sachets 5, and parts cut off at the four corners of the sachet 5. 5b-3.
Further, the sachet throwing device 4 is provided with a winding device 9, and the uncut portion 5 b of the belt-like body 11 generated by the cutter mechanism portion 8 is wound around the winding device 9. A lid supply device (not shown) is provided on the downstream side of the sachet throwing device 4, and a sheet-like seal lid 6 for sealing the opening of the cup-shaped container 3 is provided on the downstream side of the lid supply device. A heat sealing device 7 for heat sealing is provided. The sachet 5 is produced by filling and packaging a seasoning material in a packaging film by a filling and packaging machine (not shown) on the upstream side of the sachet feeding device 4.

  In such a configuration, when the cup-shaped container 3 containing the instant noodles 2 is transferred to a predetermined position by the conveyor 1, the cutter mechanism unit 8 is activated, and the belt-like body 11 is cut into a small bag by the cutter mechanism unit 8. The At this time, the strip 11 cut by the cutter mechanism 8 becomes a seasoning-enclosed sachet 5 and is guided by the chute 14 and put into the cup-shaped container 3 containing the instant noodles 2. Further, the uncut remaining portion 5 b of the belt-like body 11 generated in the cutter mechanism portion 8 is wound around the winding device 9. In the pouch 5, the seasoning enclosing portion 5 c in the strip 11 remains as it is, and an edge portion 5 e formed by a part of the heat seal portion 5 d in the strip 11 is formed around it. In this case, the edge 5e is formed in four rounds, but when the strip 11 is formed by vertically folding a single film into two, and when the crease portion is not heat sealed, FIG. As shown, the edge 5e is not formed on one side, but only on the three sides.

  FIG. 3 is a view showing a state when the sachet 5 cut by the cutter mechanism portion 8 is put into the cup-shaped container 3. As is clear from the figure, the four corners of the pouch 5 are cut into a hypotenuse by cutting the pouch 5 before being put into the cup-shaped container 3 into a substantially octagonal shape by the cutter mechanism 8. As a result, there are no corners at the four corners of the sachet 5, and when the sachet 5 is put into the cup-shaped container 3, a part of the sachet 5 hardly gets on the opening edge 3 a of the cup-shaped container 3. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of poor sealing at the heat seal portion between the cup-shaped container 3 and the seal lid 6 as much as possible.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the take-up device 9 that winds up the remaining cutting portion 5b of the strip 11 cut by the cutter mechanism portion 8 is provided in the pouch feeding device 4, so that the remaining cutting portion 5b of the strip 11 is cup-shaped. It is also possible to prevent contamination as foreign matter in the vessel 3.
In the above-described embodiment, the sachet 5 put into the cup-shaped container 3 is cut into a substantially octagonal shape by the cutter mechanism 8, but the sachet 5 put into the cup-shaped container 3 is similar to the octagonal shape. You may make it cut | disconnect in the shape which carried out. In the embodiment described above, the four corners of the sachet 5 are cut into oblique sides and then the sachet 5 is put into the cup-shaped container 3. However, as shown in FIG. 5, the four corners of the sachet 5 are cut into arcs. Then, even if the sachet 5 is put into the cup-shaped container 3, the same effect can be obtained.

It is a figure which shows schematic structure of the manufacturing apparatus for foodstuffs in a container which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is II-II sectional drawing of FIG. It is a figure which shows a state when the small bag cut | disconnected by the cutter mechanism part of FIG. 1 is thrown into the cup-shaped container. It is a figure which shows the cutter blade which cut | disconnects this strip | belt-shaped body in the shape of a substantially octagonal sachet, and a fold part is not heat-sealed. It is a figure for demonstrating other embodiment of this invention. It is a figure for demonstrating the problem which arises when manufacturing instant noodles with a container by the conventional method.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Conveyor 2 Instant noodles 3 Cup-shaped container 3a Opening edge part 4 Small bag feeding apparatus 5 Small bag 5a Corner | angular part 5b Uncut part 5c Seasoning material enclosure part 5d Heat seal part 6 Seal lid 7 Heat seal apparatus 8 Cutter mechanism part 8a, 8b Cutter blade 9 Winding device 11 Strip body 12 Introduction part 14 Chute

Claims (1)

After the food and the seasoning material-filled sachet are put into the cup-shaped container, the opening of the cup-shaped container is hermetically sealed with a sheet-like sealing lid , and the seasoning material A plurality of seasoning material enclosing portions formed at regular intervals in the longitudinal direction of the film and a heat seal portion formed around the seasoning material enclosing portion between the packaging films for packaging the seasoning material enclosed in the enclosed sachet A cutting mechanism for cutting a strip-shaped body at a predetermined position with a pair of cutter blades to obtain a seasoning-enclosed sachet, and a chute for feeding the seasoning-enclosed sachet obtained by the cutter mechanism into the cup-shaped container , A seasoning-enclosed sachet throwing device comprising:
The pair of cutter blades cuts the heat seal part formed between the seasoning material enclosing parts among the heat seal parts formed around the seasoning material enclosing part along the width direction of the belt-like body 2 A width direction cutting portion, and a length direction cutting portion that cuts one heat seal portion of the two heat seal portions formed at both ends in the width direction of the band shape along the length direction of the band shape. Four corner cutting parts for cutting the intersection of the heat seal part formed between the seasoning material enclosing parts and the heat seal part formed at both ends in the width direction of the belt-like body into a hypotenuse or arcuate shape A sachet filling device filled with seasonings .

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