JPH0456579B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) This invention is a squid cracker manufacturing machine that grinds squid, mixes flour, arare dough, etc., and then bakes the rice crackers, in which the raw materials are filled into the female mold. Regarding equipment.

(Conventional technology) Squid crackers are made by crushing squid legs and squid scraps that are produced during the production of Noshiikari squid, adding flour, arare dough, etc. The product is made by pressing and firing in a mold. This squid cracker manufacturing machine is known, for example, from Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 52-30396.

In this known squid cracker manufacturing machine, a gas burner is provided below the female molds arranged horizontally, and a male mold is provided above, and the male mold is moved up and down by a crank, and the female mold The raw materials filled inside are compressed and fired. According to this known squid cracker baking machine, squid crackers can be mechanically produced in relatively large quantities.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) According to the above-mentioned known squid cracker baking machine, once the raw material for squid crackers is filled into the female mold, the rice crackers are mechanically pressed and baked, which is preferable. . In addition, the pressed and baked Ika crackers can be automatically taken out using an automatic product take-out device known from Japanese Utility Model Application No. 57-104888, increasing the possibility of automatic baking through mechanization. This is preferable in that respect.

However, in this known squid cracker manufacturing machine, it is not possible to automatically supply raw materials to the female mold.
Everything had to be done manually. For this reason, even if the pressing and baking of squid crackers was mechanized, it would not be possible to fully automate the process because it required manpower to fill the raw materials.

In view of the above-mentioned problems, this invention was made with the aim of automating the filling of raw materials in a squid cracker manufacturing machine, thereby saving labor.

(Means for Solving the Problems) For this reason, in this invention, raw materials are supplied to the female mold, and when the male mold located directly above the female mold moves up and down, when the male mold moves up and down, the inside of the female mold is lowered. In a cracker manufacturing machine that is designed to bake raw materials under pressure, a hopper is provided behind the male and female molds, and a reciprocating slider with an opening for supplying raw material is provided at the outlet of the hopper. A filling nozzle and a filling shutter are provided that operate reciprocally between the hopper outlet and the female mold. The filling shutter is cam-controlled to open the filling nozzle in advance of the filling nozzle and fill the raw material into the female mold during the return movement from the hopper to just below the hopper outlet.

(Function) In this invention, the outlet of the hopper is closed by a reciprocating slider, and when the raw material filling opening formed in the reciprocating slider coincides with the outlet of the hopper by the movement of the reciprocating slider, the hopper is closed. The outlet is opened and raw material is supplied from the hopper. Therefore, in this invention, when the hopper outlet is opened, the filling nozzle is located directly below it. The filling nozzle is thus supplied with raw material. The outlet of this filling nozzle is closed at this position by a filling shutter, so that the raw material is secured in the filling nozzle. In this state, the filling nozzle and the filling shutter move forward together and move to just above the female mold. The filling nozzle and the filling shutter, which have moved directly above the female mold, will move back, but the filling nozzle is temporarily stopped above the female mold, and the filling shutter will move back before the filling nozzle. Therefore, since the filling nozzle is opened, the raw material secured in the filling nozzle falls into the female mold and is filled. Thereafter, the filling nozzle also moves back and returns to the hopper outlet where it receives raw material from the hopper for the next filling.

(Example) The details of the present invention will be explained below with reference to preferred embodiments shown in the drawings.

3 and 4 show an overall view of the squid cracker manufacturing machine. In the figure, 1 is a machine frame, and five female molds 2 are fixed in a horizontal row at an intermediate position in its height. Gas burners 3 are installed under each female mold 2.
is provided to heat the female mold 2. The female mold 2 does not necessarily need to be heated with a gas burner, and an electric heater may be built into the female mold itself.

A male mold 4 is placed directly above these female molds 2. These male molds are supported by a crank 6 provided on a rotating shaft 5 supported on the upper part of the machine frame 1.
The male mold 4 is moved up and down by the crank action. These five male molds do not move up and down in synchronization all at once.
The timing of the vertical movement of the male molds is staggered so that the raw materials in adjacent female molds are fired at fixed intervals.

In the figure, reference numeral 7 denotes a hopper, which is fixedly installed at the rear of the machine frame 1, and its exit position 8 is located at the rear between the female mold 2 and the male mold 4. This hopper 7
A reciprocating slider 9 having five raw material filling openings 10 is provided at the outlet position of the slider 9, and when the openings 10 coincide with the outlet (not shown) of the hopper 7, the raw material is supplied from the hopper 7. It is designed so that In order to smoothly supply this raw material, a stirring paddle 11 is installed in the hopper 7 near its exit position.
is provided. Further, the reciprocating slider 9 has a seventh
As shown in the figure, a rotating grooved cam 12 is connected to a swinging lever 13 via a connecting rod 14, so that it can reciprocate.

In the figure, 15 is a filling nozzle, and 16 is a filling shutter.
It has a nozzle through hole 17 having approximately the same shape as the one shown in FIG. On the other hand, the filling shutter 16 is formed of an elongated body having a U-shaped cross section so as to surround the side and lower surfaces of the filling nozzle 15. And these filling nozzles 1
5 and the filling shutter are supported by a support stand 18 fixed directly below the outlet position 8 of the hopper 7, and the nozzle through hole 17 reciprocates between the position directly below the hopper 7 and the position directly above the female mold 2. It is connected to a cam drive mechanism 19, which will be described later, for operation.

A base 20 for the cam drive mechanism 19 is provided at the rear of the machine frame 1. Two parallel rotating shafts 21 and 22 are provided on the base 20, and a filling nozzle cam 23 is attached to the rotating shaft 21. are fixedly installed corresponding to each filling nozzle 15, and the rotating shaft 22 and filling shutter cam 24 are similarly connected to each filling shutter 1.
6 (the specific shapes of these cams are omitted in FIGS. 4 to 6).

Reference numerals 25 and 26 are drive levers for the filling cam and the filling shutter, respectively, whose lower ends are connected to the rotating shaft 2.
1 and 22, and its upper ends are connected to the rear ends of the filling nozzle 15 and the filling shutter 16, respectively. A cam roller 28 (shown in the sixth figure) provided on the drive lever 25
The filling nozzle 15 and the filling shutter 16 are reciprocated by the cooperation of the filling nozzle cam 23 and the cooperation of the cam roller 29 provided on the drive lever 26 and the filling shutter cam 24. .

In addition, 30 in the figure is a drive motor, 31 is a reduction gear,
32 is a V belt, 33 is a roller chain, 34
is a traction spring that keeps the cam roller and cam in pressure contact.

The operation of the filling device of the present invention constructed as described above will be explained below.

Raw materials for squid crackers are stored in the hopper 7, and a stirring paddle located near the outlet of the hopper 7 ensures that the raw materials are always fed out. Therefore, by the operation of the respective cams 23, 24 and the drive levers 25, 26, the respective filling nozzles 1
5 and the filling shutter 16 have returned to the rearward retracted position as shown in FIG. The timing is right. Therefore, at this position, the raw material flows from the hopper 7 into the nozzle through hole 1 of the filling nozzle 15.
7. In this state, the nozzle through hole 17 of the filling nozzle 15 is closed at the bottom by the filling shutter 16, so the raw material in the through hole 17 is secured as is. Thus, by the action of the cam drive mechanism 19, the filling nozzle 15 and the filling shutter 16 are
move forward together, and the nozzle through hole 17 advances to just above the female mold 2. In this state, the male mold 4 is in the raised position. and filling nozzle 15
is temporarily stopped at that position by the cam action, and only the filling shutter 16 takes the lead and returns to the rear (as shown in Figure 2c). As a result, the lower surface of the nozzle through hole 17 of the filling nozzle 15 is opened, so that the raw material therein falls and is filled into the female mold 2. Then filling nozzle 1
5 also moves backward, and at the position where the filling nozzle 15 is retracted from above the female mold 2, the male mold 4 is lowered to compress and bake the squid crackers (as shown in Figure 2d).

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, in the apparatus of the present invention, in the known squid cracker manufacturing machine, a hopper is provided behind the male and female molds, and a reciprocating slider having an opening for filling raw material is provided at the outlet of the hopper. A filling nozzle and a filling shutter are provided that operate reciprocally between directly below the hopper outlet and directly above the female mold. During the return movement from directly above the female mold to the hopper outlet, the filling shutter opens the filling nozzle in advance of the filling nozzle.
Since the cam control is used to fill the raw material into the female mold, it is possible to automate the filling and supplying of raw materials into the female mold, which was previously done manually, resulting in significant labor savings. It was effective and achieved its intended purpose.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show preferred embodiments of the invention,
Figure 1 is a slope view of the main part, Figures 2a to 2d
Figure 3 is a front view of the entire rice cracker making machine, Figure 4 is a side view of the same, and Figure 5 is a view of the filling nozzle and filling shutter. FIG. 6 is a partially cutaway plan view showing the reciprocating drive section, FIG. 6 is a side view thereof, and FIG. 7 is a plan view showing the drive section of the reciprocating slider. 2... Female mold, 4... Male mold, 7... Hopper, 8... Exit position, 9... Reciprocating slider,
10... Raw material filling opening, 15... Filling nozzle,
16...Filling shutter, 17...Nozzle through hole,
19...Cam drive mechanism.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a cracker manufacturing machine that supplies raw materials to a female mold, and pressurizes and bakes the raw materials in the female mold when the male mold, which is located directly above the female mold and moves up and down, descends, A hopper is provided behind the male and female molds, and a reciprocating slider with a material supply opening is provided at the outlet of the hopper, and a filling nozzle and a filling shutter that reciprocate between directly below the hopper outlet and directly above the female mold are provided. The filling nozzle and the filling shutter operate simultaneously during the forward movement from the hopper outlet to just above the female mold, and the filling shutter precedes the filling nozzle during the backward movement from directly above the female mold to just below the hopper exit. A raw material filling device for a squid cracker manufacturing machine, characterized in that the raw material filling device for a squid cracker manufacturing machine is controlled by a cam so as to open a filling nozzle and fill the raw material into a female mold.