JPH0751408B2 - Bread cheese making equipment - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a bread cheese applicator for applying cheese to bread.

(B) Conventional technology A roll bread with cheese is known. When manufacturing such a bread with cheese, the worker manually addressed one piece of cheese on the bread placed on the top plate.

According to the conventional cheese making process, it takes a lot of manpower and time, the productivity of bread is inferior, and the cost is correspondingly high.

(C) Problem to be Solved by the Invention The present invention has as an object to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems and to provide a bread cheese applicator for automatically performing an operation of applying cheese to bread.

(D) Means for Solving the Problems This invention addresses the above problems by adsorbing a cheese magazine containing a large number of cheese pieces arranged side by side and adsorbing one cheese from the cheese magazine onto a storage conveyor. A transfer device, a pitch conveyor that aligns cheese on a storage conveyor at a predetermined interval determined by a bread interval, and a conveyor conveys a plurality of cheeses on the pitch conveyor that simultaneously adsorb and rise, and conveys the cheese in a direction orthogonal to the pitch conveyor. This was solved by a bread cheese applicator with a cheese applicator that was transferred and placed on top of the pan above.

In order to allow only one cheese to be taken out and the other cheese to remain in the cheese magazine, the upper gate and the lower gate are rotatably attached and the upper gate and the lower gate are aligned with the timing of the cheese adsorption and extraction. It is convenient to open and close each separately.

[Action]

It is possible to set cheese magazine, storage conveyor and pitch conveyor as one set device, multiple sets of devices in parallel, and one cheese loading device from multiple rows of pitch conveyor to simultaneously load cheese on multiple rows of bread. it can.

According to the present invention, the suction transfer device suctions and picks up one piece of cheese from the cheese magazine and transfers it onto the storage conveyor. Cheese arranged on the storage conveyor is aligned at the same interval as the interval of a row of bread dough on the conveyor by the pitch conveyor, when sent to a position corresponding to the bread dough of the conveyor, a plurality of cheese by the cheese placing device At the same time, it is adsorbed by the adsorbing means, and ascending, laterally moving, and descending in sequence, and is then put on the bread dough. By providing an upper gate and a lower gate at the exit of the cheese magazine and by opening and closing the upper gate and the lower gate, only one cheese is surely adsorbed and taken out, and the remaining cheese is reserved in the cheese magazine.

It is possible to suck and transfer cheese from a plurality of rows of cheese magazines at the same time, and further, to transfer the cheeses from the pitch conveyor onto the breads from the pitch series at the same time.

[Examples] Details of the present invention will be described with reference to the examples shown in the drawings.

In FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, a large number of cheeses (2) are accommodated side by side in a cheese magazine (1) diagonally arranged so that the outlet is at the bottom. An upper gate (3) and a lower gate (4) are attached to the cheese outlet which is the outlet of the cheese magazine (1) so as to cover the outlet.

The upper gate (3) is rotatably supported by a pin (5) on a support plate (1a) fixed to the cheese magazine, and the pin (5) is connected to the upper rotary actuator (6). By the operation of (6), the upper gate (3) is opened / closed and reciprocally rotated via the pin (5).

The lower gate (4) is rotatably supported by a support plate (1a) by a pin (7), the pin (7) is connected to a lower rotary actuator (8), and the lower rotary actuator (8) is actuated. The lower gate (4) is opened and closed and reciprocally rotated via the pin (7).

The conveyor frame (12) of the storage conveyor (11) is supported by the fixed stay (10) on the base (9), and the drive roller shaft (13) and the driven roller shaft (14) are mounted on the conveyor frame (12) via bearings. And a driven conveyor roller (15) fixed to the drive roller shaft (13) and a driven conveyor roller (16) fixed to the driven roller shaft (14). A storage conveyor belt (17) is wound around the driven conveyor roller (16).

The cheese magazine (1) is supported by the base (9) by the stay (18) so that the cheese magazine (1) is positioned above the storage conveyor belt (17), and the upper rotary actuator (6) is supported by the stay (19) by the lower rotary. The actuators (8) are supported on the conveyor frame (12) by stays (20).

The drive roller shaft (13) of the storage conveyor (11) is fixed with a desired number of conveyor rows, for example, a number of drive conveyor rollers (15) corresponding to 12 rows in the example of FIG. Similarly, 12 driven conveyor rollers (16) are fixed to the shaft (14).

The driven roller (21) is fixed to the drive roller shaft (13),
A first winding member (25) is provided between a first intermediate winding wheel (24) fixed to an intermediate shaft (23) rotatably supported by a bearing (22) and a driven winding wheel (21). , For example, a timing belt is wrapped around. Furthermore, the second fixed to the intermediate shaft (23)
A second portion is provided between the intermediate winding wheel (26) and the motor (27), for example, the drive winding wheel (28) fixed to the output shaft of the geared motor.
A winding member (29), for example, a timing belt is wound. The drive roller shaft (13) is driven by the drive of the motor (27), and the storage conveyor belt (17) is moved.

The suction transfer device (30) for picking up one cheese from the cheese magazine (1) and transferring it onto the storage conveyor belt (17) includes a bracket (3) fixed to the base (9).
Arm (3) rotatably supported by shaft (32) on (1)
3) and a suction pad (34) attached to the tip of the arm (33). Drive lever (35) on the arm (33)
The drive lever (35) is pivotally attached to a reciprocating drive means (36) such as a solenoid or a hydraulic cylinder.
The suction pad (34) is connected to a suction pump via a conduit (37).

In the suction transfer device (30), the drive lever (35) is reciprocally rotated by the reciprocating drive means (36), so that the suction pad (34) moves to the cheese (2) at the outlet of the cheese magazine (1). It is arranged so as to be capable of reciprocating rotation between a suction position and a predetermined position of the storage conveyor belt (17).

Since the adsorption pad (34) adsorbs to the position near the center of the cheese (2), the storage conveyor belt (17) is the cheese (2).
As shown in FIG. 3, the arm (33) for supporting the suction pad (34) so that it can be supported and transported in a stable state.
Conveniently it is formed as two conveyor belts running on both sides of the cheese, for example round belts, supporting and transporting the cheese on both sides. In this case, two rows of storage conveyor belts are provided for one suction transfer device (30).

The cheese sequentially placed and conveyed on the storage conveyor belt (17) by the adsorption transfer device (30) is arranged at predetermined intervals on the pitch conveyor (38) arranged subsequent to the storage conveyor (11). Reprinted.

The pitch conveyor (38) has a driven belt wheel (39) rotatably supported by a driven shaft supported by a conveyor frame (56) and a drive belt wheel (4) fixed to a drive shaft (40).
1) and driven belt wheel (39) and drive belt wheel (4)
A conveyor belt (42) is wound around 1) and. The conveyor belt (42) is formed as a single conveyor belt that travels in an extension of the space between the two storage conveyor belts of the storage conveyor (11).

The driven winding vehicle (43) is fixed to the drive shaft (40), and the driven winding vehicle (45) and the driven winding vehicle (43) are fixed to the output shaft of the motor (44), for example, a geared motor. A wrapping member (46), for example, a timing belt is wound around the wrapping member (46). The drive shaft (40) is rotated by the drive of the motor (44) and the conveyor belt (42) is moved.

Below the pitch conveyer (38), a conveyer conveyer (47) that conveys in a direction orthogonal to the conveying direction of the pitch conveyer (38).
The cheese interval on the pitch conveyor (38) is arranged in the horizontal direction on the top plate (48) that is conveyed by the conveyance conveyor (47), that is, in the direction parallel to the conveyance direction by the pitch conveyor (38). As many breads as cheese, for example 5 breads, are arranged at the same intervals as. Further, a plurality of rows of breads are provided in the carrying direction of the carrying conveyor (47), for example, in the example of FIG.
The pitch conveyors (38) are arranged at the same intervals as 12 rows. Pitch conveyor (38) on one top plate (48)
It is convenient to arrange the same number of rows as, for example, 12 rows.

A cheese placing device (50) (Fig. 1) is provided for placing the cheese (2 ') on the pitch conveyor (38) on the bread (49) on the transfer conveyor (47). Cheese loading device (5
0) is a suction pad (5
1) and an arm (52) that supports the suction pad (51)
And a carrier (53) for supporting the arm (52). The carrier (53) is ½ of the space between the pitch conveyor (38) and the row of pitch conveyors by a moving means (not shown).
Only the transfer conveyor (47) is reciprocated between a position separated from the transfer direction. Arms (52) as many as the number of cheeses on the pitch conveyor (38) are formed in the carrier (53) so as to be vertically movable by a vertical motion device (not shown). Arm (5
The arm (52) can be moved up and down by fixing 2) to the carrier (53) and forming the carrier (53) itself up and down. The suction pad (51) supported by the arm (52) can be provided with a suction force by a suction pump if necessary.

The operation of this device will be described.

The cheese cut into curds is stored in the cheese magazine (1). The arm (33) is activated by the operation of the reciprocating drive means (36).
When the suction pad (34) rotates and approaches the upper gate (3) of the outlet of the cheese magazine (1), the upper rotary actuator (6) is actuated to open the upper gate (3), and the suction pad (3 34) adsorbs to cheese (2).

Next, the arm (33) is moved back by the reciprocating drive means (36), and as shown in FIG. 4A, the cheese (2) is pulled out in a state of being adsorbed to the upper half of the cheese (2). At this time, the lower half is still supported by the lower gate (4). Arm (33)
When is rotated by a predetermined angle, as shown in FIG. 4B, the upper gate (3) is closed, and at the same time, the lower rotary actuator (8) is actuated to start opening the lower gate (4). As shown in FIG. C, one cheese (2) is completely taken out from the cheese magazine (1) when the lower gate (4) is opened. At this time, since the upper gate (3) is closed, the second cheese is prevented from being taken out or dropped together.

When the arm (33) rotates by a predetermined angle, the lower gate (4) closes and enters a standby state, as shown in FIG. 4D. After that, the arm (33) finishes its descending movement, and the cheese (2) adsorbed on the adsorption pad (34) is placed on the storage conveyor (11) as shown in FIG. 4D.

The storage conveyor (11) can move the storage conveyor belt (17) by controlling the drive of the motor (27), but as shown in FIG. 3, the intermediate shaft (23) and the first intermediate hoist (24) are connected to each other. A brake (54) and a clutch (55) are provided between them, and driving and stopping of the storage conveyor belt (17) can be controlled by controlling the brake (54) and the clutch (55).

By repeating the reciprocating movement of the arm (33), cheese is sequentially placed on the storage conveyor (11). In the 12 rows of storage conveyors (11) in the example shown in the figure, 12 arms (33) are simultaneously moved so that 12 cheeses can be taken out and transferred from the cheese magazine at the same time. The twelve arms (33) may be connected to each other and reciprocated by one reciprocating drive means.

The cheese conveyed by the storage conveyor (11) is placed at a predetermined interval on the pitch conveyor (38), that is, at the same interval as the bread interval on the top plate (48). In this case, the conveyor frame (56) of the pitch conveyor (38) is moved up and down at a predetermined time interval by a lifting device (57), for example, a fluid pressure cylinder. The cheese on the storage conveyor (11) is placed on the pitch conveyor (38) by raising the driven shaft. By raising the driven shaft at a predetermined time interval, the pitch conveyor (38)
Cheese is placed on the table at predetermined intervals. A predetermined number,
For example, when five cheeses are placed, the storage conveyor (11) and the pitch conveyor (38) are stopped when the cheese reaches a predetermined position.

The drive stop control of the pitch conveyor (38) is performed by the control of the motor (44), but as shown in FIG.
0) and the drive belt wheel (41) are connected via a clutch (58) and a brake (59), and the clutch (58) is controlled to drive and stop the drive belt wheel (41) by controlling the brake (59). You can

When the pitch conveyor (38) stops, the arm (52) of the cheese placing device (50) waiting on the pitch conveyor (38) is lowered, and the five cheeses (2 ') are sucked up by the suction pad (51). Is adsorbed on. Next, the carrier (53) moves, moves the cheese to a position between the pitch conveyors, lowers the arm (52) to attach the cheese (2 ') onto the pan, and the suction pad (51) separates the cheese. And the arm (52) to move up to the pitch conveyor and stand by.

The suction pad (51) that has adsorbed the cheese (2 ') on the pitch conveyer once rises to separate the cheese (2') from the pitch conveyer (38), and then the transfer conveyer (47).
Can be moved over.

(E) Effect According to the present invention, the work of putting cheese on the bread can be performed mechanically and automatically without requiring human labor, and the work can be saved and the workability can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall schematic view of a bread cheese applicator according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a front view of a suction transfer device, a storage conveyor, and a pitch conveyor, FIG. 3 is a schematic plan view, and FIG.
(D) is an explanatory view showing the progress of taking out cheese from the cheese magazine. 1 …… Cheese magazine 2,2 ′ …… Cheese 3 …… Upper gate 4 …… Lower gate 11 …… Storage conveyor 30 …… Suction transfer device 33 …… Arm 34 …… Suction pad 38 …… Pitch conveyor 47… … Conveyor conveyor 49 …… Bread 50 …… Cheese loading device 51 …… Suction member 52 …… Arm 53 …… Carrier

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A cheese magazine for accommodating a large number of cheese pieces arranged side by side, and a suction transfer device for adsorbing one cheese piece from the cheese magazine and transferring it onto a storage conveyor.
A pitch conveyor that feeds the cheese of the storage conveyor by adjusting the interval to a predetermined interval, and a cheese placing device that puts the cheese on the pitch conveyor on a pan on a conveyor that conveys the cheese in a direction orthogonal to the pitch conveyor, The cheese placing device has a plurality of adsorbing members arranged at the same intervals as the intervals of cheese on the pitch conveyor and the intervals of bread on the conveyer, an arm that supports the adsorption members and is vertically movable, and the arm. And a carrier that reciprocates between the pitch conveyor and the position of the bread of the conveyor. 2. The cheese magazine has an upper gate and a lower gate that are openably and closably attached to a cheese outlet, the upper gate is opened during cheese extraction, and the adsorption member of the adsorption transfer device adsorbs to the cheese. After pulling out a part of the, the upper gate closes, then the lower gate opens and a piece of cheese is taken out,
The bread cheese applicator according to claim 1, wherein the bottom gate is opened to enable the extraction of the single cheese. 3. A cheese magazine, a storage conveyer, and a pitch conveyer are laterally juxtaposed at the same intervals, and the cheese placing device uses the plurality of adsorbing members as an example and has the same number of adsorbing members as the pitch conveyer. 3. The bread cheese applicator according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the plurality of rows of adsorbing members can simultaneously move up and down and can reciprocate between the bread on the pitch conveyor and the bread on the transport conveyor. .