JPH0257906B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an automatic box mochi cutting device that automatically cuts and shapes a mochi lump that has been shaped and hardened in a mochi box into a predetermined size to make cut mochi when manufacturing rice crackers. be.

Conventionally, when producing rice crackers, arare, etc., the mochi lumps are shaped and hardened in a mochi box, etc., and then cut into predetermined shapes using a cutting machine to make cut rice cakes, but the handling of these mochi lumps is done manually. The commercial value of the rice cakes decreased due to the unhygienic mass-production work, which often resulted in the rice cakes being contaminated with germs and dirt due to contact with the rice cakes, etc., and the uneven size of the cut rice cakes, which lowered the commercial value and caused problems in operation.

An object of the present invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive mochi cutting device that is easy to operate and can eliminate the conventional problems when automatically cutting mochi of a certain size from mochi that has been shaped and hardened in a mochi box or the like. That is.

The present invention provides a supply conveyor including a guide that guides the movement of mochi in the longitudinal direction, a belt that is movably arranged to place the mochi between the guides, a pressing mechanism that presses the mochi while moving it on the belt, and a pressing mechanism that presses the mochi while moving it on the belt. A conveying configuration that includes a cutting blade that performs primary cutting and secondary cutting of the mochi that is being held and travels by a mechanism, and that causes the traveling process from the primary cutting to the secondary cutting to travel at an incline and cause the lees to fall downward. This rice cake cutting device is characterized in that a guide is attached to the conveyance section.

Examples of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
For example, a running belt 5 is used as a conveyor to feed the pedestal 3 equipped with a cutting section A for first cutting the mochi that has been shaped and hardened in the mochi box, and a conveyance mechanism is attached to the pedestal 4 equipped with a cutting section B for secondarily cutting the mochi. 6 is installed, and when the running belt 5 and the conveyance mechanism 6 relay rice cakes and transfer them in the same direction, the conveyance mechanism 6 is installed with a step lower than the running belt 5 at the relay part, and this running belt 5 and the transport mechanism 6, the cutting section A is provided so as to be interposed therebetween.

The cutting section A is provided at the running end of the running belt 5, and this cutting section A is connected to the fixed blade 2 on which the rice cake is guided and placed, and the drive mechanism of the crank mechanism, and the blade slide bracket 7. It has a movable blade 1 that is slidably supported on the belt and moves perpendicularly to the belt running direction, and intermittent running movement of the running belt 5 is interlocked with the reciprocating movement of the movable blade 1 driven by a motor 8. The rice cake extruded onto the fixed blade 2 is cut at regular intervals.
For example, the running belt 5 is made to run a certain distance (i.e., the thickness of the rice cake) during the backward motion (ascending) of the movable blade 1, and the running is stopped during the forward motion (descending). It is also possible to interpose a mechanism in the movement of the movable blade 1 and the running belt 5, or to operate the drive motor of the running belt 5 intermittently so as to correspond to the movement of the movable blade 1.

The running belt 5 is an endless supply conveyor that is hung on shafts 20 and 21, and rolls 9 that actively or passively rotate and move the rice cakes on the running belt 5 while pressing them with springs or their own weight. , 9 are provided to properly move and cut the rice cake, and since this presser roll 9 is pivotally supported by a rotatable presser arm 10, the height of the rice cake can be freely selected. The tension shaft 12 is connected to the shafts 20 and 21 to adjust the tension of the running belt 5.
In addition, a plurality of stoppers 11 are provided at predetermined intervals for aligning and supporting the rice cakes.

The cutting section B has a movable blade 1' for secondary cutting the mochi that has been primarily cut (for example, the primary cutting is made into one piece of rice cake with a constant thickness, and the secondary cutting is made into a plurality of pieces of rice cake with a constant width). It is provided at the running end of the transport mechanism 6. Explaining based on FIG. 3, this movable blade 1' is a plurality of disc-shaped blades provided at predetermined intervals along the traveling direction on a shaft 14 attached to the frame 4 via a bracket 13 in the width direction of the transport mechanism 6. A synthetic rubber material, for example, is used between the chain rails 16 and 16 in the axial direction of the shaft 15 at the height of the conveyance surface of the chain roller 17, which is a rotary cutting blade and runs on a chain rail 16' fixed to the shaft 15 in a protruding manner as described later. The roller 18, which is made of an elastic member such as the above, may be used as a blade holder to rotate and cut the rice cake in the running direction of the rice cake.
19, so that the height of the movable blade 1' can be adjusted as appropriate.

Further, a concave groove 22 into which the tip of the movable blade 1' can be fitted is provided on the surface of the roll 18 over the entire circumference, facing the tip of the movable blade 1'. A scraper-like sludge remover 24 is provided at an appropriate position on the bracket 13, for example, so as not to come into contact with the movable blade 1'.

The conveyance mechanism 6 is provided on a pedestal 4 having an inclined mounting surface so as to become higher in the conveyance direction, and cuts the primarily cut rice cakes supplied at the start end of the conveyance to a cutting section B provided at the conveyance tip. The shafts 15 and 25 each have a chain rail 16' projecting thereon and are then lifted up and transferred to the area for secondary cutting.
A plurality of chain rollers 17 are hung endlessly between them, for example, in the illustrated example, three chain rollers 17 are run to form a chain conveyor 23.

That is, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, chain rollers 17, on which hooks 26 for hanging rice cakes are fixed at equal intervals, are protruded from a rail mounting bracket 27 as shown in FIG. The chain conveyor 23 is configured by running on a chain rail 16 .

Then, the guide rail 28 is attached to the guide rail mounting bracket 29 so as to sandwich the chain rail 16,
A guide plate 30 and a guide auxiliary plate 31 are attached to the upper part of the guide rail 28 to form a mochi running surface, and the hooks 26 protrude from the running surface to hook and transport the mochi. However, it is also possible to form a rice cake placing surface on the chain roller 17 together with the hook 26 and omit the guide rail 28, the guide plate 30, etc. In this case, the chain rail 16 on the frame 4 and the chain rail 1 protruding from the shaft 15
6' is connected at the cutting part B and connected to the chain roller 1.
It is preferable that the surface on which the hook 26 is placed has a height and width that will not cause any trouble when guiding the hook 26. Further, cutting can be performed by dropping the material between the chain conveyors 23, 23.

Then, guides 32, 32 are provided on both sides of the conveying surface so that the interval between them can be adjusted freely, and the moving direction of the rice cakes is regulated, and a hook 26' is arranged at a position above the width direction so that the height can be freely adjusted so that the rice cakes fall from the cutting section A. When you
When the bottom surface is the front or back side, the rice cakes are swept down, and the rice cakes are hung uniformly by a plurality of hooks 26 arranged in a straight line in the width direction and lined up. It is designed so that it can be pushed up and transferred in a state where it is

In the figure, 33 denotes guides at both ends of the running belt 5;
4 is a crank, 35 is a crank rod, 36 is a blade slide adjustment plate, 37 is a mounting base for movable blade 1, 38
39 is a slide support fitting, 39 is a feed adjustment handle, 40 is a feed adjustment handle, 41 is an adjustment stop handle, 42 is a feed rod, 43 is a feed clutch case, 44
is the feed clutch, 45 is the brake wheel, 46
is an alignment table, 47 is a handle, 48 is an exit hopper,
49 is a hook receiver, 50 is a hook stopper, 5
1 is a guide mounting bracket, and 52 is a sprocket wheel.

The hardened rice cake then travels intermittently on the running belt 5 without slipping by the presser rolls 9, 9 guided by the guides 33, 33, and is first cut by the cutting section A, and then transferred onto the continuous chain conveyor 23. , and runs upward toward the cutting part B,
There, it is further cut secondary and comes out from the exit hopper 46. In this case, since the chain conveyor 23 tilts upward, the rice cakes are hung on the protruding hooks 26 without being distorted due to the gravity of the rice cakes and the friction between the rice cakes and the conveying surface, and the rice cakes are delivered to the cutting part B in an ideal shape. It is supplied.

The present invention provides a supply conveyor including a guide that guides the movement of mochi in the longitudinal direction, a belt that is movably arranged to place the mochi between the guides, a pressing mechanism that presses the mochi while moving it on the belt, and a pressing mechanism that presses the mochi while moving it on the belt. A conveying configuration that includes a cutting blade that performs primary cutting and secondary cutting of the mochi that is being held and travels by a mechanism, and that causes the traveling process from the primary cutting to the secondary cutting to travel at an incline and cause the lees to fall downward. By attaching a guide to the conveyance section, when cutting mochi into cut mochi,
It is possible to provide a mochi cutting device which is hygienic as it can reduce human hand contact as much as possible, and which can cut mochi to a constant size, which has good workability and is useful.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a plan view, FIG. 2 is a side view, FIG. 3 is a front view cut along the line of FIG. 1, and FIG. 4 is a front view cut along the line of FIG. 1. 5 is a side view taken along the line of FIG. 4, and FIG. 6 is a partially cutaway plan view thereof. A, B... Cutting section, 1, 1'... Movable blade, 2...
...Fixed blade, 3, 4... Frame, 5... Running belt,
6... Conveyance mechanism, 7... Blade slide bracket,
8... Motor, 9... Presser roll, 10... Presser arm, 11... Stopper, 12... Tension shaft, 13... Bracket, 14... Shaft, 1
5...Shaft, 16, 16'...Chain rail, 17
... Chain roller, 18 ... Roller, 19 ... Gear, 20, 21 ... Shaft, 22 ... Concave groove, 23 ...
Chain conveyor, 24...lees removal, 25...shaft,
26...Hook, 27...Rail mounting bracket, 28
...Guide rail, 29...Guide rail mounting bracket,
30... Information board, 31... Guide auxiliary board, 32...
guide.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A supply conveyor including a guide that guides the movement of rice cakes in the longitudinal direction, a belt that is movably arranged to place rice cakes between the guides, and a pressing mechanism that presses the rice cakes on the belt while moving them. , a cutting blade that performs primary cutting and secondary cutting of the mochi being pressed and traveling by the pressing mechanism, and the traveling process from the primary cutting to the secondary cutting is caused to travel at an incline, and the lees are dropped downward. 1. A rice cake cutting device characterized in that it has a conveying configuration and a guide is attached to the conveying section. 2. The cutting blade comprises at least a movable blade,
2. The rice cake cutting device according to claim 1, wherein the movable blade is arranged to move reciprocatingly in the shearing direction relative to the fixed blade or to rotate in the running direction of the rice cake. 3. The cutting blade for primary cutting is disposed at one end of the running belt, the movable blade is moved perpendicularly to the belt running direction, and the movable blade is placed on the fixed blade to cut rice cakes on the running belt. The rice cake cutting device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the mochi cutting device is configured to guide and place a rice cake. 4. A cutting blade for primary cutting, which is interposed between the supply conveyor and the conveyance mechanism, in which the cutting blade is arranged with a step difference, and a disk-shaped blade that rotates in the mochi running direction at the end of the conveyance mechanism. 3. The rice cake cutting device according to claim 2 or 3, which is a vertical and horizontal cutting blade comprising a cutting blade for secondary cutting. 5. The cutting blade for secondary cutting is a movable blade of a rotary cutting blade for vertical splitting, and is for secondary cutting the rice cake that has been primarily cut to a certain thickness into a certain width. The rice cake cutting device according to item 4. 6. Claim 4 or 5, wherein the conveying mechanism is a chain equipped with a hook for holding and pushing up rice cakes, which is mounted endlessly between a plurality of driving wheels and a driven wheel. Mochi cutting device. 7. The conveyance mechanism is a chain conveyor arranged at an angle, and guide rails are provided on both sides of the chain conveyor to receive the rice cakes that are run on chain rails and are easily aligned due to the friction between the rice cakes' own weight and the guide rails. A rice cake cutting device according to claim 4, 5, or 6, which is a rice cake cutting device according to claim 4, 5, or 6. 8. Claim 6, wherein the conveyance mechanism is provided with hooks for alignment facing the top surface of the rice cakes being pushed up and traveling by hooks on a chain conveyor.
The rice cake cutting device according to paragraph 7 or paragraph 7. 9. Claims 6, 7, or 9, wherein the guide rail is fixed by a rail mounting bracket attached to a pedestal, and an auxiliary guide plate is attached to the surface side. The rice cake cutting device according to item 8. 10. Any one of claims 6 to 9, wherein the pressing mechanism is a rotatably provided presser roll that presses the rice cake on the running belt and sends it to the cutting blade for primary cutting. The rice cake cutting device described in item 1 above. 11. Any one of claims 6 to 10, wherein the running belt of the supply conveyor is provided with a plurality of stoppers at predetermined intervals for aligning and supporting the rice cakes placed on the belt. Mochi cutting device as described in one section.