JPH0118712B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Objective of the Invention) Industrial Field of Application The present application relates to an automatic seaweed manufacturing machine, particularly to a transfer chain of an automatic seaweed manufacturing machine.

BACKGROUND ART As is well known, various types of automatic seaweed production machines have been proposed and many have been put into practical use.
Automatic seaweed making machines are used in various different configurations as described above, but the key point is that the chain consists of a papermaking section, a dewatering section, a drying chain delivery section, a peeling section, and then back to the papermaking section. A transport path for the frames is constructed, and while the frames are circulating through this transport path, all the work is done and the seaweed product is taken out. Although there are some differences in the details of the transport path composed of chains that are actually used,
A summary of typical examples of conventional methods will be explained with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6.

5 and 6 show Utility Model Application No. 59-64690 (Utility Application No. 57-162766), which was previously filed by the present applicant, and shows the transfer path of the cage frame 2, that is, the transfer chain 10.
1, 101A, 101B are as follows. In the one shown in FIG. 5, an endless transfer path is constructed by one transfer chain 101, and the transfer chain 101 has one pitch corresponding to one intermittent rotation, and two transfer channels are connected to each pitch. Set of hook claws 114
is installed and therefore the transfer chain 101
The total length of
It is an integer multiple of pitch. The screen frame 2 to which a plurality of screens 13 are attached is hooked between the hooks 114 and intermittently transferred clockwise in the drawing, and paper-making of nori is performed on the screens 13 in a paper-making section (not shown). This is then dehydrated in a dewatering section (not shown), reaches the delivery section 115 to the drying chain 108, and is delivered between the frame holding rods 112 attached to the drying chain 108, and the drying chain 108 completes one cycle. During this time, the first half of drying the seaweed is carried out. The transfer chain 101 passes through the screen frame 2 once again at the receiving section 116.
is received, and the screen frame 2 is placed at the reversal section shown at 106 on the way.
is inverted and transferred to the second stage drying chain 109, and in the same manner as described above, the cage frame 2 is transferred between the transfer chain 101 and the drying chain 109, and drying of the seaweed is completed. The cage frame 2 is inverted so that the side to which the seaweed is attached is on the lower side, and is transferred to a peeling section (not shown), where the seaweed is peeled off, and then circulated and transferred to the papermaking section again. . In the conventional device shown in FIG. 5, drying chains 108 and 109 are provided in two stages in order to shorten the overall length of the automatic seaweed manufacturing machine, but in the case of a single stage type, the cage frame 2 is provided with a transfer chain. It is transferred from the receiving section 116 of 108 to the peeling section via the reversing section 107.

Next, the conventional device shown in FIG. 6 will be explained. The apparatus shown in FIG. 6 is constructed as follows, eliminating the disadvantage that when the transfer chain is provided in two stages, the overall length of the machine becomes shorter but the overall height increases.

In this conventional device, the transfer chain is a drying chain 10 from the papermaking section (the papermaking section, dewatering section, and peeling section are all omitted from illustration as in the above conventional device) and the dewatering section.
The first endless transfer chain 101A circulates again to the papermaking section through the transfer section 115 of the drying chain 108, and the reversing section 106 passes through the transfer section 115 and the receiving section 116 of the drying chain 109. The endless second
It consists of a transfer chain 101B.

Similar to the conventional device shown in FIG. 5, a set of two hook claws 114 are attached to the first transfer chain 101A at predetermined pitches, and rotate intermittently in the same manner as described above. Two sets of four hooking claws 114a, 114b are attached to the second transfer chain 101B at the same pitch as the first transfer chain 101A, and are configured to rotate intermittently in synchronization with the first transfer chain 101A.

The screen frame 2, which is hooked between the hooks 114 of the first transfer chain 101A and has undergone paper-making and dewatering operations, is transferred to the delivery section 115 to the drying chain 108, and is transferred to the drying chain 108 in the same manner as described above to the receiving section. It will be transferred to 116. The cage frame 2 sent to the receiving section 116 is received by the second transfer chain 101B, which rotates in synchronization with the first transfer chain 101A. Of the two sets of four hooking claws 114a, 114b, the hooking claw 114b located on the rear side with respect to the traveling direction receives the screen frame 2.
Since both chains 101A and 101B rotate in synchronization, the above-mentioned delivery and reception of the screen frame 2 is performed simultaneously in both chains 101A and 101B.

The second transfer chain 101B that has received the screen frame 2 reverses the screen frame 2 in the reversing section 106, and then transfers the screen frame 2 toward the drying chain 109, and the rear side in the direction of movement where the screen frame 2 is hooked. hook claw 11
4b is the delivery section 115 to the drying chain 109
At this time, the hook 114a located on the front side is located at the receiving part 116 of the screen frame 2 from the drying chain 109 and stops, and the hook 114a is stopped at the receiving part 116 of the screen frame 2 from the second transfer chain 101B to the drying chain 109. The receiving operation in which the cage frame 2 delivered to the drying chain 109 is received by the hook 114a of the second transfer chain 101B is performed at the same time at a stop position, and then it is reversed at the reversing section 107 and sent to the peeling section where the seaweed is peeled off. The cage frame 2 is again delivered to the first transfer chain 101A and transferred to the papermaking department, but the method of transferring the cage frame 2 from the second transfer chain 101B to the first transfer chain 101A was previously developed by the present applicant. As shown in the filed Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 59-74975 (Japanese Patent Application No. 57-184941), this is done through a cleaning device or by an appropriate means such as partially running both chains 101A and 101B in parallel. Let's do it.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention The conventional apparatus shown in FIG. 5 has a certain effect in that the drying chains 108 and 109 are arranged in two stages to shorten the overall length of the machine. However, this device transfers the cage frame 2 between the drying chains 108 and 109 using hooks 114 attached to one transfer chain 101 at predetermined pitches, so the transfer section 115 and the receiving section 116
The distance between the hooks 114 needs to be exactly the same as the mounting pitch of the hook 114, and since it is impossible to shorten this distance, the overall height of the machine increases.

Next, in the conventional apparatus shown in FIG. 6, since the screen frame 2 is delivered and received by two transfer chains 101A and 101B, the distance between the delivery part 115 and the receiving part 116 in the drying chain 109 is 11
Not only can the drying chain 109 be made as short as possible regardless of the mounting pitch of the drying chain 109
The transfer of the cage frame 2 between the drying chain 101B and the second transfer chain 101B is carried out simultaneously at one stop position of the second transfer chain 101B. The length can be shortened to the same length as the diameter of the sprocket around which the sprocket is wound.
The drawbacks of the conventional device shown in the figure are eliminated.

However, since this conventional device uses two transfer chains, the total length of the chain becomes long, and the number of sprockets and shafts that hold the chains increases, resulting in an increase in machine weight and manufacturing cost. There are drawbacks.

(Structure of the Invention) Means for Solving the Problems In view of the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks, the present application provides a transfer chain having hooking claws that hooks a screen frame to the hooking claws, and while rotating intermittently, the paper making section, dewatering section, The frame is transferred while circulating through the delivery section of the drying chain to the peeling section, and during the transfer, the seaweed is made into paper and dehydrated, and the dehydrated frame is transferred to the drying chain for drying. In an automatic seaweed manufacturing machine, in which the transfer chain picks up the seaweed again, peels it off, and repeats the above series of operations in succession, hooks for hooking the cage frame are installed on all pin links along the entire length of the transfer chain, and One of the above transfer chains constitutes an endless transfer path from the paper making section, the dewatering section, the delivery section to the drying chain, through the peeling section, and back to the paper making section, and thus the entire length of the transfer chain constituting the transfer path. By setting the length to be an integral multiple of one pitch of the intermittent rotation of the transfer chain plus the length necessary for transferring the screen frame between the transfer chain and the drying chain, the above drawbacks of the conventional device can be overcome. is excluded.

Effects The present application has the above-described configuration, so that in the conventional apparatus shown in FIG. 5, the transfer chain 101 and the drying chains 108, 109 can transfer the screen frames 2 at two locations each, for a total of four locations, and as shown in FIG. In this apparatus, the drying process used to be carried out in two places on one side and one on the other side, in total, but now it is carried out in two places, one in each drying chain, and the effect will be described in detail later.

Embodiments Next, the present application will be described in detail with reference to drawings showing embodiments.

FIG. 1 shows the overall layout of the embodiment of the present application,
Basically, it has the same arrangement as the conventional device.
That is, a pair of transfer chains 1 are wound between sprockets indicated by S1 to S8 to constitute an endless transfer path of the screen frame 2, and a paper forming section 3, a dewatering section 4, a peeling section 5, and a paper forming section 3, a dewatering section 4, a peeling section 5 and Reversing sections 6 and 7 are provided. Since the paper forming, dewatering, and peeling sections are selected and used as appropriate from various types already in practical use, their details are omitted, and the structure of the reversing sections 6 and 7 is also the same as described above. Since it is similar to the reversing sections 106 and 107 in the conventional device, detailed explanation will be omitted as above. Similarly to the conventional apparatus, the transfer chain 1 is rotated intermittently by a drive device (not shown) at intervals of one pitch as shown by P in FIG. 1 at a predetermined cycle time. Next, the drying chains indicated by 8 and 9 are as follows. Each of the drying chains 8 and 9 is S9,
A pair of endless chains 8a, 9a are wound around the sprockets shown in S10, S11, and S12, and a large number of screen frame holding pieces 12 are attached to all the links constituting the chain.
It is set to perform intermittent or continuous rotation at a lower speed than the transfer chain 1 by a drive device (not shown). The sprockets S9, S10, S11, S1 around which the drying chains 8, 9 are wound
2, the mounting positions of the sprockets S9 and S11 are such that the screen frame 2 transferred by the transfer chain 1 can be taken over by the screen frame holding piece 12 and transferred to the transfer chain 1 again, in other words. Then, the sprockets S4 and S6 that wind the transfer chain 1 should be installed close to or intersecting with the sprockets S4 and S6 that wind the transfer chain 1 within a range where the screen frame 2 can be transferred between the transfer chain 1 and the drying chains 8 and 9. Each of the drying chains 8 and 9 constitutes a transport path for the endless screen frame 2.

Next, the screen frame 2 is attached to the front frame rod 2 as shown in FIG.
a, the rear frame rod 3b, and the connecting rod 3c are connected in a ladder-like manner, and a plurality of screens 13 are attached between the front frame rod 2a and the rear frame rod 2b by appropriate means such as clips. The front frame rod 2a of the cage frame 2 is set to be longer than the rear frame rod 2b, and the front frame rod 2a is hooked between hooks 14 of the transfer chain 1, which will be described in detail later, for transfer. ing.

Finally, the transfer chain 1 and the hook 14, which form the gist of the present application, are as follows. As described above, the transfer chains 101 and 101A of the conventional device are arranged in pairs or in the case of the transfer chain 101B, for each predetermined pitch P (necessary interval for transferring the screen frame 2 from the paper making section 3 to the dewatering section 4). A set of four hooking claws 114, 11
4a, 114b are attached, and the screen frame 2 is attached to the hooking claw 11.
4, 114a, 114b to perform intermittent transfer for each pitch P, the transfer chains 101, 101A, 10 in the conventional device are
The total length of 1B is exactly n times 1 pitch P. However, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the transfer chain 1 in the present application has hook claws 14 attached to all pin links 1a constituting the chain, and the overall length of the transfer chain 1 is the same as that of the conventional transfer device described above. The total length of the chain 1 is longer than n times one pitch P by the amount required for transfer of the screen frame 2 between the transfer chain 1 and the drying chain, which will be described in detail below. As shown in Figure 1,
In the present application, the transfer of the screen frame 2 between the transfer chain 1 and the first stage drying chain 8 is carried out as follows. The screen frame 2 that has been intermittently transferred by being hooked to the hook 14a among the hooks 14 attached in large numbers as described above is
The screen frame 2 stops when it reaches the transfer section 15 to the drying chain 8, and is scooped up from below by the rotating screen frame holding piece 12 and taken out from the transfer chain 1. 12 and delivered to the drying chain 8. When the hook 14a that hooks the screen frame 2 stops at the delivery part 15 as described above, the third hook 14b on the front side (on the traveling direction side) of the hook 14a reaches the receiving part 16, In parallel with the above-described delivery of the screen frame 2, the receiving operation of the screen frame 2 that was previously delivered to the drying chain 8 is performed. As shown in the explanatory diagrams in Figures 2 and 3, the extra length is 4 pitches in terms of the chain pitch P1, 1A in terms of the number of links, and 2 pin links, 1
A total of four links are required, one roller link indicated by b and two 1/2 roller links each indicated by 1C, and naturally within this length there are two hooking claws 14c, 14d is attached to pin link 1A. This means that in order to transfer the screen frame 2 by the transfer chain 1 in the present application and transfer it to and from the drying chain 8 as described above, the length of the chain that transfers the screen frame 2 by one pitch P must be In addition, four extra pitches, indicated by P1, required for transferring and receiving the screen frame 2 are required, and in the present embodiment, the drying chains 8 and 9 are arranged in upper and lower positions as shown in FIG. Since the cage frame 2 is delivered and received at two locations, the extra length described above is eight times the pitch indicated by P1. Therefore, the total length L of the transfer chain in this application is: L = pitch P ×n+(pitch P1×8), and the number of links between (pitch P1×8) is 8 in total, 4 each for pin link 1a and roller link 1b.
The number of hooking claws 14 is four in total, two at each location.

The cage frame 2, which is hooked at a predetermined pitch P by a large number of hooks 14 attached to the pin links 1a of the transfer chain 1, is transferred to the papermaking section 3 by the intermittent rotation of the transfer chain 1, and is Paper making of seaweed is carried out. In this application, in order to first attach the screen frame 2 to the automatic seaweed manufacturing machine, the screen frame 2 must be placed between the screen frame holding pieces 12 of either one of the drying chains 8 and 9 of the automatic seaweed manufacturing machine that is in an idle state. By sequentially inserting them manually and hooking them onto the hooks 14 of the transfer chain 1 at the receiving section 16, a large number of screen frames 2 are neatly attached to the transfer chain 1 with a predetermined pitch P.

After the papermaking is completed as described above, the screen frame 2 is then sent to the dewatering section 4 to be dehydrated, and after several intermittent transfers, the screen frame 2 is stopped on the sprocket S4 where the screen frame 2 is delivered and received as described above. A hook 14a that hooks the screen frame 2 is located in the delivery section 15, and a third hook 14b in the traveling direction from the hook 14a is located in the receiving section 16. In this state, while the transfer chain 1 is stopped, the transfer chain 1 and the drying chain 8
The transfer of the screen frame 2 is performed between the device and the device, but the transfer operation itself is the same as that of the conventional device. However, the transfer chain 101, 101A, 1 of the conventional device
01B has a predetermined number of hooking claws 11 at a predetermined position.
4, 114a, 114b are attached and the hooking of the screen frame 2 is always done at a fixed place, whereas in the transfer chain 1 of the present invention, as described above, the hooking pawl 14
The screen frame 2 hooked on and transferred to the transfer section 15 is transferred to the drying chain 8, and the hooking claw 14 of the transfer chain 1 receives the screen frame 2 again at the receiving section 16.
As shown in FIG. 1, the receiving position is the third hook 14b in the direction of movement from the hook 14a that transferred the transfer first, and the length of the transfer chain 1 is set to 4 pitches P1 of the chain. The number of links is shifted by 4 links, and the transfer of the screen frame 2 described above is performed in the same way with the drying chain 9, so that while the screen frame 2 goes around once, the screen frame 2 is moved to the first hook 14a. It is hooked on the hook 14b at a position shifted forward by P18 pitches (8 links). In other words, although there is a certain rule that the hooking of the cage frame 2 by the transfer chain 1 of the present invention is shifted by 4 pitches (P1) due to one transfer, the hooking of the cage frame 2 by the transfer chain 1 of the present invention is carried out one after another while maintaining the predetermined pitch P interval. However, by continuous operation of the automatic seaweed production machine, all the hooking claws 14 hook the cage frame 2 in sequence to perform intermittent transfer.

As described above, the nori frame 2 is transferred to the drying chain 8 to dry the seaweed, and is received again by the hook 14. The screen frame 2 is then transferred to the drying chain 9, and on the way, the screen frame 2 is moved to the reversing section 6. Although inversion is performed, the details are omitted since this is similar to the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 57-64690 and is not the gist of the present application. The screen frame 2 transferred to the drying chain 9 is transferred between the transfer chain 1 and the drying chain 9 again in the same manner as described above, and then, in the reversing section 7, the surface to which the seaweed is attached is removed in the same manner as in the conventional device. The screen frame 2 is turned over so that it is on the lower side, and then sent to a peeling section 5, where the seaweed is stripped from the screen 13 and transferred to the papermaking section 3 again.

In addition, in the above description of the embodiment of the present application, the screen frame 2
Although it has been described that there is a shift of 4 pitches each time transfer is performed (the extra length required for transfer regardless of pitch P), this number of pitches is based on the size of sprockets S4, S9, S6, and S11 in the embodiment of the present application. Or, it is determined by the related dimensions such as the mounting position, and it will naturally increase or decrease as these are changed.Also, although the drying chains 8 and 9 in the embodiment are only two-stage types, Even in the formula, the present application can be implemented without any problem.

(Effects of the Invention) As described in detail above, the present application not only configures the transfer chain with one chain to simplify the mechanism and facilitate maintenance management, but also provides a link between the transfer chain and the drying chain. By simultaneously transferring and receiving the cage frame at the same stop position of the transfer chain, the total height of the machine can be lowered, eliminating the drawbacks of the conventional method.The total dimension of the transfer chain can also be shortened, and the elongation of the chain can be avoided. This is an extremely useful invention that reduces errors.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of the overall arrangement of the present application, with only some of the hooks and the like being omitted, and FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the delivery part and the receiving part in a straight line; FIG. 3 is a front view of FIG. 2, FIG. 4 is a front view of the screen frame showing only a portion thereof, and FIGS. 5 and 6 are explanatory diagrams of the arrangement of the conventional device. 1... Transfer chain, 2... Screen frame, 8, 9...
Drying chain, 14, 14a, 14b... hooking claw, 15... delivery section, 16... receiving section.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A transfer chain having hooking claws hooks a screen frame onto the hooking claws, and circulates the screen frame through the paper making section, dewatering section, and delivery section of the drying chain to the peeling section while rotating intermittently. During the transfer, the seaweed is made into paper and dehydrated, and the dehydrated cage frame is handed over to the drying chain for drying, after which the transport chain takes it back and peels off the seaweed, completing the above series of operations. In an automatic seaweed production machine that repeats the process continuously, hooks for hooking the cage frame are installed on all pin links along the entire length of the transfer chain, and
One of the above transfer chains constitutes an endless transfer path from the paper making section, the dewatering section, the delivery section to the drying chain, through the peeling section, and back to the paper making section, and thus the entire length of the transfer chain constituting the transfer path. The automatic seaweed production is characterized in that the length is an integral multiple of one pitch of intermittent rotation of the transfer chain, plus the length necessary for transferring the cage frame between the transfer chain and the drying chain. Machine. 2. The automatic nori according to claim 1, in which the length of the transfer chain necessary for transferring the cage frames between the transfer chain and the drying chain is equivalent to 4 pitches of the transfer chain and 4 links in terms of the number of links. machine.