JPH066044B2 - Chikuwa manufacturing equipment - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a chikuwa manufacturing apparatus.

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND Chikuwa manufacturing equipment that is commonly used is a device that winds a rectangular surimi discharged from a chikusurimi molding device on a skewer, and a heating device that heats and burns the surimi wound on the skewer, An apparatus for removing the fired hoes from the skewers is separately prepared and arranged in a substantially horizontal direction.The skewers are sequentially passed through the above apparatus along a substantially horizontal passage to wind and burn the surimi. After being taken out, it is returned to the surimi winding device along a passage extending substantially parallel to the horizontal passage.

Further, the ground-comb winding device and the device for supplying the ground-molded in the ground-based winding device in such a chikuwa manufacturing apparatus are as shown in FIG. That is, the surimi feed hopper 100, a molding drum 102 that is supplied with the surimi from the hopper to shape the surimi into a rectangular shape, and the surimi made into a rectangular shape by the drum is provided on the upper half portion of the peripheral surface. The skewer 105 is received along a winding drum 104 that receives and rotates the drum and a transfer path that is parallel to the upper half peripheral surface portion of the drum and that is separated from the portion by a distance smaller than the thickness of the surimi supported thereon. And a device (not shown) for rotating the skewer about its central axis and rolling the skewer relatively on the ground on the drum and winding the ground around it. is doing.

The conventional chikuwa manufacturing apparatus has the configuration as described above, and therefore the overall size of the apparatus is extremely large.

However, in recent years, consumers' tastes have become diversified, and specific products such as chikuwa tend to be consumed in large amounts, so that a wide variety of products are being consumed in small amounts one after another.

Although the conventional large-sized chikuwa manufacturing apparatus as described above is suitable for mass production, it is not suitable for such small-scale production.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of such a tendency, and an object thereof is to provide an apparatus suitable for small-scale production of chikuwa.

Configuration of the Invention That is, the surimi winding apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a housing (indicated by reference numeral 10 in the embodiments described below) and a substantially vertical front wall member (12) of the housing. Skewer transfer path (14) formed in a closed loop
And a skewer (16) arranged along the transfer path at regular intervals and extending substantially horizontally in the front-rear direction through the transfer path,
A driving device that supports the rear portion of the skewer inside the front wall member of the housing and transports the skewer along the transport path, and a skewer that is disposed adjacent to the transport path and that passes through the portion. A surimi winding device (20) for winding the chikuwa minami (S), and a heating device (22) arranged along the transfer path for heating the minced meat of the chikuwa wound on the skewers and firing the chikuwa. It has a device (24) for removing the scraps from the skewers and a cooling device (26) for cooling the skewers from which the chikuwa has been removed.
0), the heating device (22), the removal device (24) and the cooling device (26) are arranged in a generally annular manner along the closed loop, and the grab wrapping device (20) is arranged around a substantially horizontal axis of rotation. A rotating drum which is rotatable and whose upper half peripheral surface portion is set adjacent to the transfer path portion of the skewer transfer path (14) below the substantially semicircular transfer path portion. The drum (58), a driving device for rotating the rotating drum so that the upper half peripheral surface portion thereof is moved in the transfer direction of the skewer transferred along the transfer path portion, and the rotating direction of the rotating drum. As a reference, a scraper having a nozzle (54) which is set above the front half of the upper half peripheral surface of the drum and pushes down a narrow groove having a constant width and a constant thickness toward the front half toward the same half. Extrusion device and the ground When the chikuwami-suri is extruded from the extruding device for a predetermined length, the cutting device is separated from the extruding device and supplied onto the first half portion, and a central rotating shaft of the rotary drum. Parallelized,
From the upper half circumferential surface of the rotating drum, skewers placed on the same part with a gap smaller than the thickness of the ground gutter,
A skewer drive that rotates about the central axis of the skewer and rolls the skewer on the upper half-circumferential portion while contacting the same, thereby winding the same around the skewer. And a device.

Advantageous Effects of the Invention The device according to the present invention has the above-described configuration, and unlike the conventional chikuwa manufacturing device, the skewers are transferred along the closed loop formed in the housing. Since the basic equipment required for manufacturing chikuwa, such as the winding device, heating device, picking device, and cooling device, can be put together in one housing in comparison with the conventional chikuwa manufacturing device. It could be a much smaller device. In addition, the ground winding device can be made much simpler and smaller than the conventional device shown in FIG.

Examples Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on examples shown in the accompanying drawings.

1 and 2 show a small chikuwa manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention. As will be understood from the following description, this device has a skewered transfer path provided on the front surface of the device so that the chikuwa manufacturing process performed by the device can be seen from the front of the device.

First, the overall configuration of this manufacturing apparatus will be described.

That is, this chikuwa manufacturing device has a closed loop (a curved portion on the upper side, a straight line portion extending vertically from both ends of the curved portion, and a lower curved portion connecting the lower ends of both straight line portions to the vertical front wall member 12 of the housing 10. A skewer transfer path 14 formed into a closed loop), a skewer 16 disposed along the transfer path at a constant interval and extending substantially horizontally in the front-rear direction through the transfer path, and a front wall member of the housing. A drive device (not shown) that supports the rear portion of the skewer on the inside and transports the skewer in the direction of arrow A along the transport path;
The surimi winding device 20 is disposed adjacent to the lower curved portion of the transfer path, and the surimi winding device 20 that winds the pickle ground S on the skewer passing through the portion, and is disposed along the upper half of the transfer path and is wound on the skewer. A heating device 22 that heats the minced meat of the chikuwa and burns the chikuwa, a device 24 that removes the baked chikuwa from the skewer, and the skewer from which the chikuwa is removed before reaching the surimi winding device 20 again. It has a cooling device 26 for cooling.

As shown in FIG. 3, the surimi winding device 20 includes a nozzle 54 that pushes down the surimi supplied from the surimi supplying device 52 through a pipe 50 (FIG. 1) downward with a constant width and constant thickness. A pushing device and a cutting device 56 that separates the surimi from the nozzle when the surimi is extruded from the nozzle for a certain length, and receives the separated surimi and transfers it along the lower curved portion of the transfer path. However, as will be described later, the skewer 16 that is passed through while rotating in the lower bay part
However, the rotating drum 58 that allows the ground to be wound around it
And have. The cutting device 56 includes a pair of fingers 59.
By intermittently moving the piano wire 60 stretched horizontally by the horizontal direction across the nozzle opening,
The surimi S extruded from the nozzle opening is cut.

The rotating drum 58 is rotated in the direction of arrow B so that its upper half peripheral surface portion 58 'moves in the same direction as the skewer 16 passing through the lower curved portion. The drum has an upper half peripheral surface portion 58 '.
In the vicinity of the right end as viewed in FIG. 1, the surimi S separated by the cutting device is received. Due to the inclination of the circular arc of the upper half peripheral surface portion, the surimi received by the upper half peripheral surface portion 5 is
It is supported by being tilted on the 8 ', and is carried along the lower curved portion of the transport path as the drum rotates. The peripheral surface of the rotary drum is set to be spaced from the skewer 16 through which the lower curved portion is passed with a distance smaller than the thickness of the shavings placed on the upper half peripheral surface portion. The peripheral speed of the rotating drum is made slightly higher than the speed of the skewer transferred in the conveying path, and the skewer rotated around its own central axis rolls backward relative to the surimi while curving downwardly. Try to wrap the skirt around it before passing through the section. The flanges 62 provided along both edges of the rotary drum are for keeping the skewers at a constant distance from the peripheral surface of the rotary drum.

On the peripheral surface of the rotating drum, a thin cloth 64 is wound so that the surimi is properly supported, and the cloth 64 is appropriately moistened by a wetting device including a water tank 66 and a rotating brush 68. Denoted by reference numeral 70 is a blade for removing excess water from the cloth,
It is pivotally attached to 0. The blade also has a weight 72.
The pressure on the cloth 64 is adjusted by the.

In the surimi winding operation, the skewer is transported around the central axis thereof along the transport path in the direction of arrow A, and the rotary drum 58 is rotated in the direction of arrow B.
As described above, the transfer speed of the skewers is made slower than the peripheral speed of the rotary drum. The extruding device extrudes a ridge of constant width and constant thickness downward from the nozzle 54, and when it reaches a constant length, the cutting device is activated to move the piano wire 60 across the nozzle opening. As a result, the surimi is supplied onto the rotary drum. The skewer has the above-mentioned transfer speed in relation to the rotating drum, and moreover,
Since it is rotating, it moves like rolling on the grit on the rotating drum and wraps the girth around it.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a chikuwa manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a side view of the same manufacturing apparatus, FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a surimi winding apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG. It is a partial cross-section front view of the conventional grounding winding device. 10 ... Housing, 14 ... Skew transfer path, 16 ... Skew, 20 ... Winding device, 54 ... Nozzle, 56 ... Cutting device, 58 ... Rotating drum.

Front page continuation (72) Inventor Norikazu Nakagawa 2-chome, Iiyamamancho, Funabashi-shi, Chiba 536-1-1-507 (56) References Showa 53-14991 (JP, U) Showa 63-116089 (JP, U) Actually open 63-116088 (JP, U) Special public 44-8046 (JP, B1) Special public 38-18843 (JP, B1) Actual public 41-20871 (JP, Y1)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A housing 10 and a closed loop skew transfer path 14 formed in a substantially vertical surface in the housing.
A plurality of skewers 16 arranged along the transfer path at regular intervals and extending substantially horizontally in the front-rear direction through the transfer path, a drive device for transferring the skewers along the transfer path, and a drive device adjacent to the transfer path. And the surimi winding device 20 that winds the surimi S around the skewers passing through the transfer path, and the heating device that is disposed along the transfer path and that heats the surimi wound around the skewers and fires chikuwa. 22, a device 24 for removing the fired shavings from the skewers, and a cooling device 26 for cooling the skewers from which the chikuwa has been removed. The surimi winding device 20, the heating device 22, the removing device 24 and the cooling device. 26 is arranged in an annular shape as a whole along the closed loop, and the grab winding device 20 is a rotating drum 58 which is rotatable about a substantially horizontal rotation axis, and its upper half peripheral surface portion is A rotary drum which is set below the arcuate transfer path portion of the feed path 14 so as to be adjacent to the arcuate transfer path portion, and the rotary drum is rotated so that an upper half peripheral surface portion thereof is the transfer path portion. And a driving device for moving the skewer along the transfer direction, and is set above the front half of the upper half peripheral surface portion of the drum with reference to the rotation direction of the rotating drum, and And a squeezing device having a nozzle for squeezing a shaving of a certain width and a certain thickness downward toward the same portion, and when the slush is extruded by a predetermined length from the squeezing device. A cutting device 56 that separates the slush from the pushing device and drops it on the front half portion, and a sluice that is placed in parallel with the central rotation axis of the rotating drum from the upper half peripheral surface portion of the rotating drum. Less than thickness The skewers conveyed at intervals are rotated around the center axis of the skewer, and the skewer is rolled on the surimi while contacting the surimi on the upper half peripheral surface portion, thereby to rotate around the skewer. A chikuwa manufacturing apparatus comprising: a skewer driving device for winding the same ground.