JPS5846411B2 - Colored noodles automatic constant feeding device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a device for adding several strips of colored glaze into a package of dried noodles.

Dried noodles (especially cold noodles and somen noodles) have traditionally been packaged with several bottles of blue or red glaze to improve visual palatability.

However, this work is mostly manual and inefficient, and when packaging is done using automatic packaging machines, as is the case these days, it is difficult for the worker to manually add the colored glaze in the automated process. This was inconvenient because it required heavy labor, and it also required a lot of manpower due to the speed of the automatic loading machine.

The present invention is an automatic fixed quantity feeding device for colored noodles, characterized in that a predetermined number of colored glazes can be automatically and accurately fed onto dried noodles stacked on a conveyor of an automatic dry noodle packaging machine. be.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below based on the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the apparatus of the present invention, in which a hopper 3 for storing colored glazes is fixedly installed on a U-shaped feeder box 21, and this feeder box 21 further has a colored glaze alignment chamber 4 and a colored glaze alignment chamber 5. They are provided in order from the hopper 3 side.

This feeder box 21 is supported on an underframe via a spring 6 made of a plate spring, and is given vibration by an excitation magnet 2 attached to a balance weight 1.

The colored layer transferred from the vibrating hopper 3 to the rough alignment chamber 4 and alignment chamber 5 passes through an inclined flow path 8 to the conveyor 2.
The dried noodles are placed on top of the dried noodles stacked on top of the dry noodles, and are packaged together with the dried noodles by an automatic packaging machine.

At this time, the number of colored layers passing through is counted by a photoelectric detector 7 above the flow path 8, and when a predetermined number of colored layers have passed, the shutter opening/closing solenoid 11 is activated and the shutter 18 closes the exit of the alignment chamber 5.

The colored layer that has progressed up to the top of the flow path 8 is temporarily
After being stopped by damper 19, it is sent to second damper 10.

A pair of U-shaped dried noodle storage pins 23 are installed on both sides in the width direction on the conveyor 22, and only when dried noodles are stored in these pins 23, the photoelectric dry noodle detector 14 detects and opens/closes the damper. The solenoid 13 is activated, and the second damper 1
By opening 0, a colored layer is thrown onto the dried noodles.

The second damper 10 is immediately closed, and in response, the damper opening/closing solenoid 12 is activated to open the first damper 9 and supply the colored layer to the second damper 10.

15 and 16 are adjusting plates for aligning the colored glaze, and 17 is an elastic body attached to the lower surface of the shutter 18.

Next, FIG. 2 shows a schematic side view of FIG. 1.

The colored layer 24 housed in the hopper 3 exits from the opening to the rough alignment chamber 4 in response to vibrations applied to the feeder box 21 by the vibrating magnet 2.

An alignment adjustment plate 15 is installed above the opening of the hopper 3 so as to be able to move up and down.
This limits the amount of colored layer 24 that is fed into the color layer 24.

Further, the floor surface of the rough alignment chamber 4 is tilted slightly upward in the direction of movement, thereby aligning the colored layers 24 sent into the alignment chamber 5 so as to lie right sideways in the direction of movement.

An alignment adjustment plate 16 is located between the rough alignment chamber 4 and the alignment chamber 5 and can be moved up and down! , 1', and the floor surface of the alignment chamber 5 is also slightly inclined upward in the direction of movement.

The colored layers 24 aligned in a substantially straight line in the alignment chamber 5 pass through the first damper 9 and the second damper 10 in the downstream passage 8.
The noodles are placed on the dried noodles 25 stored in the pins 23 on the conveyor 22.

19 is a magnetic detector for detecting the strength of vibration affected by the amount of colored layer 24 stored in the hopper 3, and the output of the vibrating magnet is adjusted according to the strength of the detected vibration. is automatically controlled so that the feeder box 21 can always maintain an optimal vibration state.

Figure 3 shows an enlarged view of the third part of the hopper.

The center of gravity A of the feeder box 21 is the excitation magnet 2
However, since the mounting angle of the spring 6 is α=60 with respect to the horizontal plane, the vibration direction is upward at an angle β along the direction of movement of the colored layer.
=30°.

The frequency at that time is 20H2 to 50H2, preferably 30Hz.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of the rough alignment chamber 4 and the alignment chamber 5 of the feeder box 21.

In the rough alignment room 4, the floor near the center is tilted upward by γ = 6760 (, m) toward the direction of travel, and in the alignment room 5, almost the entirety is similarly tilted upward by δ = 6/100 (α). .

By doing so, the intervals between the colored layers are regular and the colored layers are not intersected diagonally.

The alignment adjustment plate 15 is attached to the front lower part of the hopper 3, and the alignment adjustment plate 16 is attached to a support extending between the upper part of both side walls of the feeder box 21 at an intermediate position between the rough alignment chamber 4 and the alignment chamber 5. They are attached to a plate 28, and each has an upper part bent about 90' to form a knob.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of the shutter 18. When the colored layers 24 sent into the alignment chamber 5 fall into the flow path, the number of colored layers 24 passing through is counted by the photoelectric detector 7. The detector 7 includes a phototube 72 buried in the front end of the alignment chamber 5 so that its upper surface slightly protrudes from the surface of the alignment chamber 5, and a light source 7 held at a constant height from the phototube 72.
It consists of a combination of 1.

When this photoelectric detector 7 finishes counting the predetermined number of passing lights, the shutter opening/closing solenoid 11 is activated, and the shutter 1
8 closes the exit of the alignment chamber 5.

This shutter 18 is pivotally supported on both side walls of the feeder box 21, and its tip is bent so that it is parallel to the floor surface of the alignment chamber 5 when closed, and its lower surface is covered with an elastic material such as rubber or urethane. A body 17 is attached to prevent damage to the colored layer.

Next, the operating steps of the present invention will be explained in more detail with reference to FIGS. 6 to 8.

In FIG. 6, the feeder box 21 vibrates with the shutter 18 open, and a predetermined number of colored layers fall onto the first damper 9 in the downstream passage 8 and are temporarily stopped.

After a predetermined number of shutters 18 have passed, the glaze is closed as shown in FIG. 7, the first damper 9 is opened, and the colored glaze falls to the second damper 10.

Next, when the dried noodles 25 stacked on the conveyor 22 reach the position of the photoelectric dry noodle detector 14 and are detected, the second damper 10 is opened by the operation of the damper opening/closing renoid 13, as shown in FIG. A predetermined number of pieces of colored glaze are thrown onto the dried noodles 25.

The second damper 10 is closed immediately after the colored glaze is added, and the first damper 9 is opened in conjunction with this.

To explain each of the above steps using the block diagram in FIG. ) is detected, and the vibration is controlled so that a constant vibration is always applied to the feeder box 21.

In this state, the colored glaze is supplied from the feeder box 21 to the downstream passage 8, and the number of colored glazes passing through is counted by the photoelectric detector 7.

At this time, the passing time of a predetermined number of noodles, in other words, the noodle feeding time is measured and compared with the advancing speed of the conveyor 22, and the vibration of the feeder box 21 is varied in intensity.

In other words, if the shutter 18 is open for a long time, the supply amount is small, and if the shutter 18 is open for a short time, the supply amount is too large. It's about controlling.

Note that when the dry noodles are detected by the photoelectric dry noodle detector 14 and the conveyor 22 is stopped, it is desirable that the vibration of the feeder box 21 also be stopped.

Next, the shutter 18 and the first and second dampers 9.10
To explain the operation, the shutter 18 opens immediately when the damper 9 closes, and closes by a signal from the photoelectric detector 7 after a predetermined number of dampers have passed.

When the photoelectric dry noodle detector 14 detects dry noodles, the second damper 10 opens, throws the colored glaze onto the dry noodles, and then immediately closes.

Next, the first damper 9 opens and supplies the colored glaze to the second damper 10.

After that, when the dried noodles move and the conveyor 22 advances, the shutter 18 opens and the first dan marr 9 closes, and the colored glaze is applied to the first
It is supplied to the damper 9.

FIG. 10 shows another embodiment in the vicinity of the second damper 10, in which a partition wall in the high-speed conveyor 31 allows the ON-O
A timing switch type dry noodle detector 29 that operates as an FF is provided on the conveyor 30.

In this case, the feeder box 21 is constantly vibrating without stopping, and waits for a predetermined number of pieces to be stored with the shutter 18 open, and as soon as this is completed, the shutter 18 is closed, the first damper 9 is opened, and the first damper 9 is opened. 2. Immediately closes after sending to damper 10.

Then, as soon as the first damper 9 closes, the shutter 1
8 opens and continues to open until a predetermined number is reached.

In this way, a predetermined number of colored glazes are temporarily stored in the pot damper at all times.

On the other hand, the conveyor 30 is also moving at high speed, and the dry noodle detector 2
When the conveyor 30 reaches a predetermined position by the signal 9, the second damper 10 opens immediately and the colored glaze is transferred to the conveyor 3.
0, the second damper 10 closes immediately after that.

The first damper 9 opens when a predetermined number of dampers are stored as described above and sends the colored glaze to the second damper 10.
The strength of the vibration of the feeder box 21 must be adjusted so that the colored glaze is supplied from the feeder box 21 to the first damper 9 in accordance with the time interval at which the second damper 10 opens, that is, the moving speed of the conveyor 30.

According to this embodiment, colored glaze supply operations can be performed approximately 100 times per minute.

Since the colored noodle automatic constant feeding device of the present invention is configured as described above, it is possible to automatically feed the colored glaze onto the dry noodles without damaging it, and achieve consistent automation by sending it to the dry noodle automatic packaging machine. I was able to do that.

Further, since a plurality of dampers 9 and 10 are provided in the flow passage 8, there is no risk of the colored glaze falling randomly in the passage and being damaged.

Further, since the shutter 18 presses the colored glaze from above with the elastic body 17, the colored glaze is not damaged, and irregular objects can be aligned.

Since the vibration control of the feeder box 21 is made to correspond to the measured value of the colored glaze supply time by the photoelectric detector 7, the colored glaze can be supplied to the damper 9 by changing the reference time according to the advancing speed of the conveyor 22. Now I can do it smoothly and effortlessly.

Note that since the upper surface of the phototube 72 protrudes slightly beyond the surface of the alignment chamber 5, the colored glaze always has the effect of preventing dust that tends to accumulate on the surface.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional side view of the main part thereof, FIG. 3 is an enlarged side view of the hopper 3, and FIG. 4 is a main part of the feeder box 21. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of the shutter 18 portion, FIGS. 6 to 8 are schematic side views showing the working process, FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing the control circuit, and FIG. 10 is another implementation. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a portion of an example second damper. 2... Vibration magnet, 3... Hopper, 4... Rough alignment chamber, 5... Alignment chamber,
7...Photoelectric detector, 8...Downstream passage, 9.10...Damper, 14...Photoelectric dry noodle detector, 18... ...shutter, 21.
...Feeder box, 22...Conveyor.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. The hopper 3 and the vibration changes caused by the increase and decrease of the contents of the hopper 3 are detected by the magnetic detector 19, and the vibration is excited by the vibrating magnet 2 controlled by the signal so that there is no variation in vibration, A feeder box 21 is provided with a rough alignment chamber 4 and an alignment chamber 5 from the hopper 3 side and transports the colored glaze in an orderly manner; 10, a conveyor 22 that moves at a constant speed in the lower part of the flow path 8, a photoelectric detector 7 that detects the number of passing colored glazes provided at the tip of the alignment chamber 5, and an upper side. a shutter 1 that opens when the damper 9 is closed and closes in response to a signal from the photoelectric detector 7 that detects a predetermined number of passages;
8, and a dry noodle detector 14 which sequentially opens and closes each of the dampers 9 and 10 from the lower side in response to a signal when dry noodles are detected on the conveyor 22 so that a predetermined amount is always stored in the lower damper 10. An automatic constant feeding device for colored noodles characterized in that the amount of transferred colored glaze is adjusted by vibration-controlling the feeder box 21 according to the feeding time of colored glaze measured by the photoelectric detector 7. . 2 The shutter 18 connects the upper end to the feeder box 21
The lower end is bent so that it is parallel to the floor of the alignment chamber 5 when closed, and an elastic body 17 is attached to the lower surface of the lower end.
2. The colored noodle automatic constant feeding device according to claim 1, wherein: is pasted.