JPS6344356B2 - - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention is applicable to various wrapped foods such as shumai, meat buns, and bean paste buns, i.e., baozi (baosi) in which ingredients are wrapped in an edible skin such as noodle skin. This relates to manufacturing equipment for Paoz.

(Prior art and its problems) This type of baguage manufacturing apparatus forms a baguette wrapper cut into a predetermined shape such as a circle into a cup shape, fills the inside with fillings, and Conventional baozi manufacturing equipment is designed to mechanically perform a series of actions to squeeze and close the area around the opening of the body. In this method, a flat plate-shaped wrapper is formed into a cup shape by inserting it into an annular or funnel-shaped forming guide, and the cup-shaped wrapper is held in a state where the bottom surface of the cup-shaped wrapper is supported by an elevating cradle. The device was configured to fill the body with the filling, and then close the area around the opening of the cup-shaped body by squeezing the opening with a squeezing means.

In such conventional manufacturing equipment, only the bottom surface of the cup-shaped envelope shell is supported by a holder, so the wrapper shell is shaped into a cup shape and is supported by a holder. There was a risk that the area around the filling part of the body would bulge and deform, the skin would be torn, or the area around the opening of the skin would come off the squeezing means, making it impossible to perform the squeezing process.

(Means for Solving the Problems) The present invention proposes a baguette manufacturing apparatus capable of solving the conventional problems as described above, and its feature is that the baguette wrapper has a through hole in the center. a body support stand, a bao receptacle that is movable up and down provided on the lower side of the bao cover support; An ingredient filling means that can be raised and lowered to insert into a baglet receiver and form it into a cup shape and fill it with ingredients, and to squeeze and close the opening periphery of the baglet cover protruding from the baglet receiver at the upper limit position. The bao holder is equipped with a squeezing means, and the bao holder is composed of a peripheral wall and a pedestal that can be raised and lowered relative to the periphery wall, and the peripheral wall and the pedestal are lowered together up to the level of pushing out the bao, and then only the peripheral wall is used to hold the bao. The present invention is further provided with a bao-receiving lifting means for driving the bao-receiver to lower the bao-receptor to below the extrusion level, and further provided with a bao-pushing means for pushing out the formed bao laterally from above the receiver at the bao-ejection level. .

(Example) An example of the present invention will be described below based on the attached illustrative drawings.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a noodle skin support stand, which is connected at equal intervals by a pair of left and right drive chains 2, and is moved along a horizontal linear movement path 3 by the drive chains 2. I was forced to move intermittently.
Reference numerals 4A and 4B indicate topping filling means arranged directly above the two front and rear noodle skin support stands 1 stopped at predetermined positions on the moving path 3, and the moving path 3 is placed directly below the topping filling means 4A and 4B. A squeezing device 5, baglet receivers 6A, 6B, and a cutter 7 are disposed below. Reference numeral 8 denotes a topping hopper equipped with a feeder for supplying toning to the topping filling means 4A, 4B. Reference numeral 9 denotes a noodle strip that is supplied onto the noodle skin support base 1 so as to be continuous in the direction of movement thereof, and a noodle peel cutter 1 on the noodle skin support base 1.
0 and a pressing roller 11 to cut out a predetermined shape.

As shown in FIGS. 2, 3, and 5, a gear-shaped through hole 12 is provided at the center of each noodle skin support 1.
is provided, and the noodle skin removing die 10 is provided with a noodle skin support stand 1.
It is attached to the upper side of the gear-shaped through hole 12 in a concentric state. This noodle skin removing die 10 has a protruding cutting blade 10a in the shape of a perfect circular ring. In FIG. 3, reference numeral 13 denotes guide rails that support both left and right sides of the noodle skin support base 1.

As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, the squeezing device 5 includes two squeezing means 5A, 5B corresponding to each ingredient filling means 4A, 4B. Each throttle means 5A, 5
B is four movable pieces 15a forming the aperture hole 14;
15d and a rotating ring 1 that opens and closes the aperture hole 14 by interlockingly driving these four movable pieces 15a to 15d.
It is equipped with 6.

A pleat twisting device 17 is provided above the squeezing device 5. This pleat twisting device 17
As shown in FIG. 3, and FIG.
17B, each fold twisting means 17A, 1
7B has a gear-shaped through hole 18 that substantially matches the gear-shaped through hole 12 of the noodle skin support base 1, and is supported so as to be rotatable only in a state concentric with the center of the throttle hole 14 in the squeeze means 5A, 5B. The rotating body 19 is provided with a rotating body 19.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the bao holders 6A and 6B are composed of a cylindrical peripheral wall 20 and a holder 21 that fits into the cylindrical peripheral wall 20 so as to be movable up and down relative to the cylindrical peripheral wall 20. , are driven up and down by the driving means 22. This driving means 22 is connected to the elevating drive platform via an elevating drive platform 24 which is driven up and down by a constant stroke by an elevating drive rod 23, and a pair of elevating rods 26 which are supported by a pair of fixed support members 25 so as to be movable up and down. 24 and the cylindrical peripheral wall 2
0, which passes through the stopper-cum-sleeve 29 which is fixed to the pair of fixed support members 25 with bolts 28 so as to be adjustable in height, and whose lower end extends within a certain range to the lift drive table 24. It consists of a pedestal drive rod 30 that is supported so as to be able to rise and fall within the platform and whose upper end is coupled to the pedestal 21, and a spring 31 that biases the pedestal drive rod 30 downward with respect to the elevation drive pedestal 24. and when the pedestal 21 is upwardly away from the upper end 29a of the sleeve 29 which also serves as a stopper,
Due to the biasing force of the spring 31, the pedestal 21 is at the lower limit position with respect to the cylindrical peripheral wall 20, and this pedestal 2
1, a envelope-shaped recess 32 surrounded by a cylindrical peripheral wall 20 is formed.

A baglet receiver rotation drive means 33 for rotating the bagle receivers 6A and 6B is attached to the elevating table 27. This cup rotation driving means 33 rotates a cylindrical rotating body 34 supporting the cylindrical peripheral wall 20 in forward and reverse directions by a pinion gear 35 provided on the cylindrical rotating body 34 and a rack gear 36 meshing with the pinion gear 35. .

The cutter 7 is shown in FIGS. 3, 6, and 7.
As shown in the figure, it is provided with a pair of upper and lower blade plates 41 and 42 which are stacked horizontally so as to be relatively slidable. The upper blade plate 41 is interlocked with a pair of left and right push/pull drive rods 43 via rocking levers 44, and the lower blade plate 42 has a single push/pull drive rod 45.
The drive bar 4 is attached in a T-shape to the tip of the
A pair of gate-shaped members 47 that fit into both ends of the drive bar 46 are fixed to each other, and the drive bar 46 is
is linked to. 48 is the pair of blade plates 4
This is a guide rail groove that slidably supports both sides of 1 and 42. Further, the upper blade plate 41 is formed with a U-shaped recessed blade edge 41a that avoids the ascending and descending path of the package receivers 6A and 6B, and the lower blade plate 42 is formed with a straight blade edge 42a. There is.

The cutter 7 is also provided with baglet pushing means 49A, 49B corresponding to each baglet receiver 6A, 6B. These wrapper extrusion means 49A, 49
B is equipped with an arcuate pusher 50 attached to a drive bar 46 that drives the lower blade plate 42 of the cutter 7, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7.

The ingredient filling means 4A, 4B are equipped with a cylindrical elevating cylinder 51 and an ingredient filling piston 52 that moves up and down within the elevating cylinder 51, as shown in FIG. The elevating cylinder 51 is supported by a fixed guide 53 so as to be movable up and down, and is provided with an ingredient receiving port 54 that communicates with the ingredient extrusion passage 8a in the feeder of the ingredient hopper 8 shown in FIG. 1 when it is at the upper limit position. .

In FIGS. 3 and 6, 55 is a belt conveyor for sending out formed bao, and a guide plate 56 is located between the starting end of the belt conveyor and the ascending and descending paths of the bao receivers 6A and 6B at the bao pushing level. has been erected. In FIGS. 2 and 3, 57 is a chute for collecting scraps of noodle skin.

Next, the method of use and operation of the baozi manufacturing apparatus configured as described above will be explained. As shown in FIG. They are placed on a noodle skin support stand 1 that moves intermittently on a moving path 3 and move together. When passing under the pressing roller 11, the roller 11 presses the noodle peel cutter 10 on the noodle peel support 1, and the noodle peel cutter 10's cutting blade 10a creates a circular shape. Cut out into the noodle skin. The circular noodle skin 60 cut out as shown by the imaginary line in FIG.
The noodle skin 6 is supported on the noodle skin support stand 1 inside the noodle skin 0a.
The remaining noodle strip portion 9a from which 0 has been cut out is supported on the noodle skin support stand 1 outside the ring-shaped punching blade 10a and transported.

When the two noodle skin support stands 1 supporting the noodle skins 60 reach the predetermined positions directly below the topping filling means 4A, 4B and stop, as shown in FIG. 51 is lowered together with the filling piston 52. Of course, a predetermined amount of the ingredients in the ingredient hopper 8 is supplied into the lifting cylinder 51 from the ingredient extrusion passage 8a of the feeder shown in FIG. 8 to the lower position of the ingredient filling piston 52 via the ingredient receiving port 54. has been done.

By lowering the lifting cylinder 51, the noodle skin support base 1
As shown in FIG. 9, the upper noodle skin 60 has a center portion that is connected to the gear-shaped through hole 12 of the noodle skin support base 1 and the pleat twisting means 17A, 17 by the elevating cylinder 51.
The movable pieces 15a to 15 of the throttle means 5A and 5B are
It is pushed into the aperture hole 14 surrounded by d. At this time, the upper and lower gear-shaped through-holes 12 and 18 have matching concavities and convexities on their peripheries as shown in FIG. The movable pieces 15a to 15d are at the starting end positions of their respective movement paths and are in the maximum state.

As a result of the above action, the noodle skin 60 is formed into a morning glory-like cup shape with its peripheral portion folded into a gear shape by the upper and lower gear-shaped through holes 12 and 18. When the peripheral portion is located within the gear-shaped through hole 18 in the rotating body 19 of the fold twisting means 17A, 17B as shown in FIG. (counterclockwise in the illustrated example) by a predetermined angle, and as shown in FIG. The portion 60a is folded in the direction of rotation of the rotating body 19. As a result, the noodle skin 60 pushed down by the lifting cylinder 51 is formed into a substantially cylindrical cup shape as shown in FIG.

Once the noodle skins 60 are formed into a substantially cylindrical cup shape by the fold twisting means 17A and 17B as described above, the elevating cylinder 51 is further lowered to the lowering limit position, and the lower end of the elevating cylinder 51 is The covered noodle skin 60 is inserted into the hexagonal bao forming recess 32 of the bao receptacles 6A and 6B which are waiting at the upper limit position as shown in FIG. At this time, the cylindrical peripheral portion of the noodle skin 60 is squeezed by the squeezing means 5A, 5
It is located within the aperture hole 14 at B. When the elevating cylinder 51 reaches the lowering limit position, the elevating cylinder 51 is immediately moved upward.
By continuing to lower the internal ingredient filling piston 52, the ingredients 61 in the lifting cylinder 51 are moved by the ingredient filling piston 52 to the lifting cylinder 51.
It is pushed out from inside, inserted into the bao receivers 6A and 6B, and filled into the approximately cylindrical cup-shaped noodle wrapper 60 after the elevating cylinder 51 has been raised and removed. The filling piston 52 that has descended to the lower limit position is immediately moved upward.

When the toppings 61 are filled as described above, the topping-filled portion of the approximately cylindrical cup-shaped noodle skins 60, that is, the lower half, fits into the bao-forming recesses 32 of the bao-bao receivers 6A and 6B. Therefore, the ingredients to be filled 6
The ingredient-filled portion of the noodle skin 60 that expands due to
It is prevented from unduly expanding and is molded to a substantially constant size.

When the filling of the ingredients 61 is completed, the ascending/lowering cylinder 51 and the ingredient filling piston 52 move to the throttle means 5A,
If it escapes upward from the aperture hole 14 of 5B,
By rotating the rotary ring 16 of the squeezing means 5A, 5B and interlockingly moving each movable piece 15a to 15d in the squeezing hole reduction direction, the noodle located inside the squeezing hole 14 is removed as shown in FIG. The area around the opening of the skin 60 is narrowed by the sides of the movable pieces 15a to 15d, and the narrowed area is integrated and closed by the adhesiveness of the noodle skin 60 itself.

Once the cylindrical peripheral portion of the noodle skin 60 has been squeezed by the squeezing means 5A, 5B to form the closed portion 60b as described above, before opening the squeezing hole 14 of the squeezing means 5A, 5B, the bao-receiving rotation drive means 33 (FIG. 6) to rotate the cylindrical peripheral wall 20 by a predetermined angle. The direction of rotation of this cylindrical peripheral wall 20 is opposite to the direction of rotation of the rotating body 19 in the fold twisting means 17A, 17B, and is clockwise in the illustrated example. The rotation of this cylindrical peripheral wall 20 is caused by the rotation of the hexagonal peripheral wall inner surface 2.
It is also transmitted to the pedestal 21 via Oa, and the cylindrical peripheral wall 20 and the pedestal 21 rotate together.

By rotating the baglet receivers 6A and 6B, the closing part 60
b is the filling part of the noodle skin 60 held between the squeezing means 5A and 5B, that is, the bao receiver 6
The portions of A and 6B that fit into the envelope forming recesses 32 are twisted relative to the closing portion 60b in a direction opposite to the folding direction of the protruding pleats 60a. As a result, as shown in FIG. 16, the folds 60a formed on the surface of the ingredient-filled portion so as to fall in the same direction are pulled in the circumferential direction and tightly adhere to the surface of the noodle skin, and are twisted in a spiral shape. It turns out.

By the above-mentioned twisting action, the formation of the folded wrapper 62 having the open folded part 60c above the closed part 60b as shown in FIG. 16 is completed, but after the twisting action is completed, the drawing means The rotating rings 16 of 5A and 5B are reversed, and the movable pieces 15a~
15d moves backward and the aperture hole 14 is opened. After this, the bao bag receivers 6A and 6B are moved by the driving means 22 (second
(Fig.). That is, the cylindrical peripheral wall 20 of the bao holder 6A, 6B is lowered by the elevating drive rod 23 via the elevating drive table 24, the elevating rod 25, and the elevating table 27;
4 is also transmitted to the pedestal 21 via the spring 31 and the pedestal drive rod 30, and the cylindrical peripheral wall 20 and the pedestal 21 are lowered together. As shown in FIG. 14, when the pedestal 21 reaches the bao pushing level (the height of the guide plate 56),
The lower part of the pedestal 21 is received by the upper end 29a of the sleeve 29 which also serves as a stopper, and from then on, the spring 31 is only compressed as the elevating drive pedestal 24 descends, and the pedestal drive rod 30 does not descend. Therefore, only the cylindrical peripheral wall 20 continues to descend relative to the pedestal 21 which has stopped at the level of extruding the bao.

As shown in FIG. 14, the upper end of the descending cylindrical peripheral wall 20 is at the baozi extrusion level (the height of the guide plate 56).
When they reach the same or slightly lower position, the lowering drive of the baglet receivers 6A and 6B by the lifting drive rod 23 ends. As a result, the cylindrical peripheral wall 20 is lowered below the pedestal 21, the bao-forming recesses 32 of the bao holders 6A and 6B are opened, and the folded bao 62 supported on the pedestal 21 is exposed on the pedestal 21. do. At this time, as shown in Fig. 14, the cutter 7
The cutting level by the blade plates 41 and 42 is around the boundary between the closed part 60b and the folded part 60c of the folded wrapper 62 on the holder 21. In this state, the cutter 7 is operated and the pair of upper and lower blade plates 41,
42, the closed part 60b and the folded part 60 of the folded wrapper 62 on the holder 21 are moved closer together.
The boundary with c is horizontally sheared between the deepest part of the U-shaped recessed blade edge 41a of the upper blade plate 41 and the linear blade edge 42a of the lower blade plate 42, as shown in FIG. Thus, the bao 63 with the mouth folds 60c cut and removed is completed.

Immediately after the fold part 60c is cut and removed, the arcuate pushers 50 of the bao pushing means 49A and 49B, which are moving together with the lower blade plate 42, come into contact with the side surface of the bao 63 on the holder 21. . Therefore, by continuing to drive the lower blade plate 42 even after cutting the folds, the arcuate pusher 50 causes the bao 63 on the receiving stand 21 to pass over the guide plate 56, as shown in FIG. The shaped bao can be pushed out onto the belt conveyor 55 for sending out the formed bao. On the other hand, the cut flap part 60c is blown away behind the cutter 7 by air discharged from the air blowing nozzle 64 as shown in FIG. 15, for example, and recovered by the chute 57 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3. I can do it.

Note that the reverse return of the bao bag receivers 6A and 6B, which have been rotated by a certain angle in order to twist the filling part with respect to the closing part 60b, is performed by the cutting action of the cutter 7 after opening the throttle holes 14 of the throttle means 5A and 5B. It is best to do it at the appropriate time except during the holidays.

Note that the cutter 7 shown in the above embodiment is not essential to the apparatus of the present invention. That is, even without the cutter 7, it is possible to manufacture the folded bao 62 as shown in FIG. Further, the fold twisting device 17 and the baglet receiver rotation drive means 33 are not essential to the device of the present invention and can be omitted.

(Operations and Effects of the Invention) According to the baozi manufacturing apparatus of the present invention which can be implemented as described above, the baozi receiver is composed of a peripheral wall and a pedestal that can be raised and lowered relative to the peripheral wall, and the baozi receiver can be raised and lowered. Since the driving means is configured to lower the peripheral wall and the pedestal together to the level of pushing out the bao, and then lowering only the peripheral wall to below the level of pushing out the bao, the bag is formed into a cup shape by the topping filling means. Noodle wrapper for bao (noodle wrapper 94 in the example)
The filling part of the wrapper is surrounded by the peripheral wall of the baglet receiver, so that when the filling means fills the bag with the filling, the filling part of the wrapper is not filled with the filling incorrectly. The circumferential wall prevents the skin from bulging out, and the size and shape of the filling portion of the skin can be controlled to be substantially constant by the circumferential wall.

As a result, there will be no inconveniences such as the shell being torn during filling, or the area around the opening of the shell being pulled downwards from the squeezing means, making it impossible to carry out the squeezing process. It is possible to reliably produce baozi with a substantially constant high commercial value.

Moreover, at the level of pushing out the bao, the peripheral wall of the bao-forming cup is lowered than the holder, so the bao on the holder can be pushed out laterally by a simple bao pushing means as in the past.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a schematic front view of the entire device, Fig. 2 is a partially vertical front view of the main parts of the device excluding the cutter, Fig. 3 is a partially vertical side view of the main parts of the device, and Fig. 4 shows the upper cover plate. A plan view of the squeezing device in a removed state, FIG. 5 is a plan view showing the noodle wrapper support and the fold twisting means, and FIG. 6 is a partially cutaway view showing the bao holder, cutter, and bao pushing out means. A plan view, FIG. 7 is a partially longitudinal front view showing the cutter and the bao pushing means, FIG. 8 is a longitudinal side view showing the main parts of the filling means, and FIGS. 9 and 12 to 15 are bao manufacturing. FIG. 10 is a schematic longitudinal sectional side view explaining each process; FIG.
The figure is a side view showing the state of the noodle wrapper subjected to the twisting action, and FIGS. 16 and 17 are perspective views showing the formed bao. 1... Noodle skin support stand, 2... Drive chain, 4A,
4B... Ingredient filling means, 5... Squeezing device, 5A, 5
B... Squeezing means, 6A, 6B... Baozi receiver, 7...
... cutter, 9 ... noodle belt, 10 ... noodle skin removal mold,
11... Noodle band pressing roller, 12, 18... Gear-shaped through hole, 15a to 15d... Movable piece, 17...
...Fold twisting device, 17A, 17B...Fold twisting means, 19... Rotating body, 20... Cylindrical peripheral wall, 21...
. . . Bao holder, 22 .
... Sleeve that also serves as pedestal stopper, 30... cradle drive rod, 31... Spring, 32...
Baochi forming recess, 33... Baochi receiving rotation driving means,
41, 42...blade plate, 49A, 49B...bako extrusion means, 50...arc-shaped pusher, 51...
... Lifting cylinder, 52 ... Ingredient filling piston, 5
5... Belt conveyor for sending out formed bao, 60
...Noodle skin, 60a...Protruding folds, 60b...Closing part, 60c... Mouth folds, 61...Ingredients, 62, 63
...baozi.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A wrapper skin support base having a through hole in the center,
A bao holder that can be raised and lowered is provided at the lower side of the bako wrap supporter, and the central part of the bako wrapper on the bao cover supporter is inserted into the bao holder located at the upper limit position through the through hole. an elevating and lowerable ingredient filling means for inserting and forming into a cup shape and filling the ingredient therein;
and a diaphragm means for squeezing and closing a peripheral portion of the opening of the baglet cover protruding from the baglet holder at the upper limit position, the baglet holder comprising a peripheral wall and a pedestal that can be raised and lowered relative to the peripheral wall, A bao-receiving lifting means is provided for driving the bao-receiver so that the peripheral wall and the pedestal are lowered together to the bao-ejecting level, and thereafter only the peripheral wall is lowered to below the bao-ejecting level; An apparatus for manufacturing bao, comprising a bao extruding means for pushing out the formed bao laterally from above the pedestal.