JPH0789819B2 - Thin food production equipment - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention a. INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention is, from a pasty material kneaded with flour, crepes, spring rolls, fried dumplings, golden egg, chips snacks, etc. The present invention relates to a thin-baked food production apparatus for producing food.

B. 2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, flour, milk, beer, etc. are thinly baked, and Western-style confectionery crepes containing jam, marmalade, chocolate, etc., Chinese-style food such as spring rolls and gyoza, and foods such as chip snacks are popular. Is getting eaten by.

As an apparatus for responding to the demand for these thin-baked foods or foods for which thin-baked foods are used, the transfer drum whose lower part is immersed in the transfer drum soaking tank is rotated and the paste-like kneaded product in the storage tank is moved upward. A device that transfers to a baking roll is
No. 56-38083.

In addition, a device that directly supplies the paste-like material to the outer peripheral surface of the baking roll from a flat nozzle is also available in Japanese Patent Publication Nos.
No. 50-20145 and Japanese Patent Publication No. 50-20146.

C. DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION Problems to be Solved by the Invention In the devices disclosed in the above publications, since belt-shaped skin-like food products are continuously molded, a cutting mechanism or the like for cutting into a specific shape is indispensable. Becomes large,
Not only a large installation space is required, but also the manufacturing cost is high.

Further, for example, like food such as crepes and spring rolls, there is no particular problem when cutting a belt-shaped skin-like food into a rectangular shape, but when cut into a circular shape such as gyoza, etc. However, there is a problem in that the yield is extremely poor.

The present invention has been made in view of such problems of the prior art, and its object is to make a single thin baked food of a predetermined shape automatically and continuously with a desired thickness. (EN) Provided is a thin-baked food production apparatus which can be manufactured efficiently and does not require a cutting mechanism or the like, which can be downsized and which can reduce the manufacturing cost.

D. Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve the above object, the thin-baked food production apparatus in the present invention is a baking roll having a scraper disposed at the rear part in the rotation advancing direction, and a lower part of the baking roll. A nozzle which is disposed at a predetermined distance from the roll and which discharges and supplies a fixed amount of the paste-like material at a predetermined position above the roll, and a molding mechanism which shapes the discharged and supplied constant amount of the paste-like material into a predetermined shape. A transfer belt conveyor arranged in the order of movement and a cooling tank in which cooling water is circulated and supplied between the transfer belt conveyors and attached to the transfer belt conveyor. It is characterized in that the formed paste-like material having a unit volume is transferred to the baking roll at regular intervals to form a thin-baked food product.

D. The paste-like material charged and filled in the action popper is fed to the nozzle by a fixed amount by a feed pump, and is discharged and fed at regular intervals to the surface of the transfer belt conveyor moving at a low speed in a fixed direction.

The paste-like material having a unit volume which is supplied to the transfer belt conveyor and adhered to the surface thereof is formed into a constant shape (circular shape or the like) by the movement of the transfer belt conveyor and the interaction with the forming mechanism.

A unit volume of paste-like material molded into a certain shape,
Then, it is rotated at a low speed in a certain direction, and is transferred to the surface of the baking roll heated to about 200 ° C at predetermined intervals in sequence. It becomes a thin-baked food, and finally the thin-baked food is peeled off from the baking roll by a scraper and conveyed to the next step.

Further, each paste-like material of the unit volume of the transfer belt conveyor surface is cooled by a cooling tank in which cooling water is constantly circulated, with the transfer belt conveyor interposed, and the transfer belt of the paste-like material is cooled. The peelability from the conveyor is improved and the transfer efficiency to the baking roll is improved.

Further, the amorphous paste-like material discharged and supplied from the nozzle to the surface of the transfer belt conveyor should be evened by the inner surface of the half-bowl-shaped scraping material along with the movement of the transfer belt conveyor. Is molded into a certain shape.

G. Embodiments Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, a transfer belt conveyor 2 that carries a pasty material 1 in which wheat flour, butter, etc. are kneaded.
Are horizontally arranged in the base box 3.

A housing 4 is erected from one side of an upper portion of the base box 3, and a baking roll 5 is rotatably arranged on the front rear side of the housing 4.

Further, the transfer belt conveyor 2 has a driving roller 7 and a driven roller 8 which are in parallel with the support shaft 6 of the baking roll 5 in front of the housing 4, and is axially supported in a lower front and rear position of the baking roll 5. Then, a belt 9 is wound around the rollers 7 and 8.

The belt 9 of the transfer belt conveyor 2 is configured to be rotated at a low speed toward the baking roll 5 side indicated by an arrow a in the figure through a deceleration transmission mechanism (not shown) by a drive source (not shown) incorporated in the housing 4. Has been done.

On the other hand, the baking roll 5 has a built-in heater (not shown) capable of heating the baking roll 5 to about 200 ° C., and a deceleration transmission mechanism (not shown) driven by a drive source such as a motor (not shown) built in the housing 4. 1) through which a low speed rotation is made in the counterclockwise direction indicated by the arrow d in FIG.

The housing 4 is provided with a scraper 10 whose front end is in contact with the baking roll 5 at a rear position in the rotation direction of the baking roll 5, and is transferred from the transfer colt conveyor 2 and baked by the baking roll 5. Remove a unit volume of thinly baked food 1A from the surface of the baking roll 5 and convey it to the belt conveyor 11
It is designed to be sent to the next process.

Between the peripheral surface 5a of the baking roll 5 and the upper surface 2a of the transfer belt conveyor 2, a space C having a required dimension for setting the thickness of the paste material is provided.

Thus, above the front part of the transfer belt conveyor 2,
A nozzle 12 for discharging the paste-like material 1 onto the upper surface 2a of the transfer belt conveyor 2 and a fixed amount of the paste-like material 1a supplied and applied on the transfer belt conveyor 2 into a predetermined shape, for example, a circular shape or the like. The forming mechanisms 13 for forming are arranged at predetermined intervals in the traveling direction of the transfer belt conveyor 2.

Of these, the nozzle 12 for supplying the paste-like material 1 is erected from above the base box 3 and connected to the hopper 14 by a hose (not shown), and the paste-like material 1 charged and filled in the hopper 14 is fed by a feed pump. A fixed amount of the paste material 1 is fed to the nozzle 12 by a fixed amount 14a, and the paste material 1 is intermittently discharged and fed to the upper surface 2a of the transfer belt conveyor 2 which moves in a fixed direction.

On the other hand, as shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, the forming mechanism 13 has a scraping member 13a bent in a substantially semi-bowl shape so that its opening faces the side opposite to the traveling direction of the transfer belt conveyor 2. The arm 13b is fixed to the tip of the arm 13b, and the arm 13b is arranged in the base box 3 so as to be movable up and down by a cylinder 13c provided around the base box 3.

That is, a certain amount of the irregular paste material 1a supplied to the upper surface 2a of the transfer belt conveyor 2 is formed into a circular shape by the interaction of the rotation of the transfer belt conveyor 2 and the lifting operation of the scraping material 13a. .

Further, a cooling tank 15 is provided between the transfer belt conveyors 2.
However, it is arranged so as to be supported by the base box 3 by the columns 16.

This cooling tank 15 is connected to a cooling mechanism 17 built in the base box 3 by two hoses 18 and 19, and cooling water is constantly circulated to cool the transfer belt conveyor 2 from the lower surface, so that the paste material 1a The peeling property from the transfer belt conveyor 2 is improved, and the transfer efficiency to the baking roll 5 is improved.

The transfer belt conveyor 2 can also be formed so as to be adjustable in the vertical direction by a vertical adjustment mechanism (not shown).
The thickness of the paste-like material 1a can be arbitrarily adjusted by adjusting the distance C between the upper surface 2a of the above and the outer peripheral surface 5a of the baking roll 5.

G. EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION As described above, since the thin-baked food manufacturing apparatus of the present invention is configured, the paste-like material 1 is discharged and supplied onto the transfer belt conveyor 2 by the nozzle 12 at a constant amount. Since a quantity of the paste-like material 1a is transferred to the baking roll 5 and the unit volume of the thin baked food 1A can be continuously baked at predetermined intervals, the belt-shaped thin baked food can be baked as in the conventional example. Since the cutting mechanism and the auxiliary mechanism of this mechanism which are indispensable in this device are not required, the device can be downsized and the manufacturing cost can be greatly reduced.

Further, the paste-like material 1a discharged and supplied onto the upper surface of the transfer belt conveyor 2 is formed into a predetermined shape by the forming mechanism 13, so that a thin baked food product 1A having a constant volume and shape and no variation is obtained. In addition, since there is no time loss for cutting, manufacturing efficiency is good, and cutting waste is not generated, so that waste of material can be eliminated.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing an embodiment of a thin-baked food production apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view of the same embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a paste-like material discharge supply nozzle and molding in the same embodiment. FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the mechanism, and FIG. 4 is a side view showing a mechanism for forming a paste-like material in the same embodiment. Main symbols in the figure 1 …… Paste material 1a …… A certain amount of paste material 1A …… Thin baked food 2 …… Transfer belt conveyor 3 …… Base box 5 …… Baking roll 10 …… Scraper 12 …… Nozzle 13 …… Molding mechanism 13a …… Scraping material 13b …… Arm 15 …… Cooling tank

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A baking roll 5 in which a scraper 10 is arranged at a rear portion in a rotation advancing direction, and a baking roll 5 is arranged at a lower part of the baking roll 5 at a predetermined interval, and is located above the baking roll 5. A nozzle 12 for supplying and discharging
A transfer belt conveyor 2 in which a forming mechanism 13 for forming a predetermined amount of the discharged and supplied paste-like material into a predetermined shape is arranged in the order of moving direction, and the transfer belt conveyor 2 described above.
And a cooling tank 15 into which cooling water is circulated and supplied. A unit volume of the paste material 1a formed on the transfer belt conveyor 2 is fixed to the baking roll 5. A thin-baked food manufacturing apparatus characterized in that it is transferred at intervals to form a thin-baked food 1A. 2. A substantially semi-bowl shaped scraping material 13a is attached to the tip of an arm 13b which can be moved up and down by a driving source such as a cylinder.
The thin-baked food manufacturing apparatus described.