JPH082229B2 - Flour supply hopper device for noodle making machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) This invention produces a kneaded mass by kneading raw material flour such as udon and buckwheat with a kneading machine section, and further manufacturing by rolling the kneaded mass. Udon noodles, buckwheat noodles, and the like are manufactured by cutting the noodle strips into pieces using a cutting roll. Regarding the supply hopper device of the flour used in the noodle making machine configured to continuously perform the noodle making process with one noodle making machine, more specifically, the raw material flour supplied from the supply hopper, The present invention relates to a flour supply hopper device for a noodle making machine configured to constantly and stably produce the same amount of udon noodles, buckwheat noodles and the like by constantly sending the same amount to a drop port.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, as a noodle making machine configured to continuously perform the noodle making structure process by one noodle making machine, JP-A-60-172264 and JP-A-62-42781 And the like are known.

Such a noodle making machine 10 has a basic configuration as shown in FIG.

First, in the upper part of the main body, a hopper part 2 in which raw material flour 1 such as udon and buckwheat is stored, a rotary shaft 3 provided in the lower center of the hopper part 2, and a feed hopper attached to the rotary shaft 3 And a stirring bar 4 configured to stir the raw material flour therein.

Further, in the central portion of the main body, a drop opening 5 connected to the bottom surface of the hopper portion 2 and configured to feed the raw material flour 1 into the kneading portion 6, and a kneading water supply portion (not shown) were connected. A kneading unit 6 configured to produce kneaded mass by kneading and kneading the raw material flour 1 with a kneading blade (not shown), and rolling the kneading mass produced by the kneading unit 6 There are provided 7 rolls of the rolling roll configured so as to perform, and a cutting roll part 8 that is manufactured by rolling and configured to cut the noodle strips.

Further, a conveyor section 9 configured to convey udon noodles, buckwheat noodles, etc. cut by the cutting roll section 8 to the outside of the main body is provided from the center of the main body to the outside.

In the noodle making machine 10 configured in this way, udon,
A raw material flour 1 such as buckwheat is kneaded by a kneading machine part 6 to produce a kneaded mass, and further, a noodle band produced by rolling the kneaded mass is cut by a cutting roll part 8 to make a udon noodle, a soba noodle It is configured such that the production of noodles and the like can be continuously performed by one noodle making machine.

Further, in such a conventional noodle making machine, in the step of sending the raw material flour 1 supplied from the supply hopper section 2 to the kneading machine section 6 from the dropping port 5, the raw material flour corresponding to one meal is delivered in the same amount. In order to do so, rotate the disc with a part cut out, and feed the raw material flour that has entered the notch into the drop opening by using a scraping plate from the powder that can be adjusted from the outside, and correspond to one meal It was designed to send raw flour.

(Problems to be solved by the invention) In the conventional noodle making machine, when the raw material flour corresponding to one serving is delivered, since the powder scraping plate is used, stickiness of the raw material flour occurs. There has been a problem that the amount of the raw material flour to be sent out may increase or decrease twice as much depending on the type of the raw material flour or the size of the fine particles.

In order to solve such a conventional problem, the applicant of the present application has a flour supply hopper device having a configuration in which the partition plate 32 is removed in FIG. 1, and it penetrates between the bottom component plate 20 and the slide plate 22. A device for quantitatively feeding raw material flour provided with a rotary plate 26 having holes 24 (utility model registration filed on December 11, 1991)
I went.

In this raw material flour quantitative delivery device, the rotary plate 26 in which the raw material flour is filled in the through-holes 24 is used as a bottom component plate 20 and a sliding plate.
By rotating and moving between 22 and 22, the upper part of the raw material flour filled in the through holes 24 is slid off by the sliding plate 22, the raw material flour is moved together with the rotating plate 26 in this state, and the bottom part configuration When it reaches the position of the drop through hole 28 formed in the plate 20, it falls by its own weight and the raw material flour is continuously fed to the drop port.

However, in the case of using the raw material flour quantitative delivery device devised by the applicant of the present application for keeping the delivery amount of the raw material flour constant, the drop through hole 28 and the vicinity of the drop through hole 28 are arranged so as to cover the upper portion. When the raw material flour 1 supplied from the supply hopper 2 falls onto the slide cutting plate 22, the weight of the dropped raw material flour 1 is applied to the slide cutting plate 22. The pressure applied to 22 will be added to the raw material flour filled in the through holes 24 of the rotary plate 26 that is rotated between the bottom component plate 20 and the slide plate 22, and the through holes 24 will be filled. There is a problem in that the powder density of the raw material flour that is used changes.

In this way, by changing the powder density of the raw material flour filled in the through-hole 24, it is sent to the drop port,
The feed amount of raw material flour corresponding to one serving is different, and according to an experiment by the applicant of the present application, when the feed amount of raw material flour corresponding to one serving is 100 g, the entire feed hopper 2 is filled with raw material flour. The problem is that the amount of raw material flour delivered when it is used up and when the raw material flour is almost used up will increase or decrease by ± 10 g, making it impossible to consistently produce the same amount of udon noodles, buckwheat noodles, etc. was there.

Further, when the raw material flour on the slide cutting plate 22 is retained by a predetermined amount, the raw material flour is rotationally moved from both ends in the longitudinal direction of the slide cutting plate 22 between the bottom component plate 20 and the slide cutting plate 22. Rotating plate 26
It will naturally fall into the through hole 24 of.

In this way, the sliding plate 22 is slid from both ends in the longitudinal direction.
As the raw material flour on 22 is naturally dropped, pressure is applied to the raw material flour filled in the through hole 24 of the rotary plate 26, and the powder of the raw material flour filled in the through hole 24 is obtained by this compression. There is a problem that the body density changes, and the amount of the raw material flour corresponding to one meal fed to the drop mouth is different.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances,
Provide a flour supply hopper device for noodle making machines that constantly produces the same amount of udon noodles, buckwheat noodles, etc. by constantly sending the same amount of raw material flour supplied from the supply hopper to the drop port. The purpose is to do.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides through holes for filling raw material flour supplied from a supply hopper to which a stirring rod is attached, at equal intervals all around the outer peripheral portion. The rotating plate and a sliding plate that slides the upper part of the raw material flour filled in the through hole is used to send the raw material flour to the kneader section by a fixed weight from the drop port provided at the bottom. In the flour supplying hopper device for noodle making machine configured, characterized in that a partition plate having a plurality of through holes formed at any position other than above the drop port and above the vicinity of the drop port is provided between the stirring rod and the rotating plate. The present invention provides a flour supply hopper device for a noodle making machine.

(Operation) In the present invention, the partition plate 32 is provided between the stirring rod 4 and the rotary plate 26, so that the self-weight pressure of the raw material flour 1 stored in the supply hopper 2 is not directly applied, and the stirring rod 4
An appropriate amount can be dropped from the through hole 36 by adjusting the rotation speed of the through hole 36. Further, the partition plate 32 has a through hole only at an arbitrary position of the partition plate other than above the drop port 5 and above the vicinity of the drop port 5. Since the 36 is formed, the feed hopper 2 is provided on the drop through hole 28 formed at the position corresponding to the drop port 5 of the bottom component plate 20 and on the sliding plate 22 arranged so as to cover the vicinity of the drop through hole 28 and above. The raw material flour 1 supplied from the device does not drop, so that no special pressure is applied to the sliding plate 22, and the rotation is moved between the bottom component plate 20 and the sliding plate 22. The powder density of the raw material flour 1 filled in the through holes 24 of the plate 26 does not change.

Further, the rotary plate on which the raw material flour 1 is rotatably moved from the both ends in the longitudinal direction of the slide cutting plate 22 between the bottom component plate 20 and the slide cutting plate 22.
Since it does not fall into the through holes 24 of 26,
No pressure is applied to the raw material flour 1 filled in the through holes 24, the powder density is changed, and the amount of the raw material flour corresponding to one meal fed into the drop opening is not different.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing an embodiment of a flour feeding hopper device for a noodle making machine according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is an enlarged sectional view of an essential part of the embodiment, FIG. 3 is a plan view of the essential part, FIG. 4 shows a side view of the whole noodle making machine.

The supply hopper 2 is attached to the upper portion of the main body 10A of the noodle making machine 10 and is made of a transparent material so that the inside can be seen through.

Further, the supply hopper 2 has a substantially cylindrical shape having a storage portion 30 formed therein, and a lid provided on a flat surface portion.
By removing 32, the raw material flour 1 such as udon and soba is stored in the storage portion 30.

A rotary shaft 3 connected to a drive mechanism (not shown) is provided below the storage unit 30 in the supply hopper 2.

A stirring rod 4 configured to stir the raw material flour 1 in the supply hopper 2 is attached to the rotating shaft 3 so as to extend in the left-right direction about the rotating shaft 3.

In the upper part of the main body 10A of the noodle making machine 10, the bottom component plate 2
0 is attached.

The bottom component plate 20 is formed with a drop through hole 28 connected to the drop port 5 configured to feed the raw material flour 1 into the kneading machine part 6.

A slide plate 22 is arranged above the drop through hole 28 and above the drop through hole 28.

A rotary plate 26 having a through hole 24 is arranged between the bottom component plate 20 and the sliding plate 22, and the rotary plate 26 having the raw material flour 1 filled in the through hole 24 is slid on the bottom component plate 20. By rotating and moving between the cutting plate 22 and the cutting plate 22, the through hole 24
The upper part of the raw material flour filled in is slid off, moved in this state together with the rotary plate 26, and when it arrives at the position of the drop through hole 28 formed in the bottom component plate 20, it falls by its own weight and falls. The raw material flour 1 is continuously fed to 5.

The through holes 24 of the rotary plate 26 are formed at equal intervals all around the outer peripheral portion of the rotary plate 26, and the through holes 24 have the same internal volume.

In this way, by sliding off the upper portion of the raw material flour 1 filled in the through holes 24 by the sliding plate 22, the filling volume of the raw material flour 1 filled in the through holes 24 of the rotary plate 26 becomes constant. Is configured.

Therefore, the raw material flour 1 filled in each of the above through holes 24
If the powder density is constant, the amount of raw material flour sent to the drop port 5 at a time is determined, and the amount of raw material flour equivalent to one meal is equally filled in each through hole 24 of the rotary plate 26. It is controlled by the number of times the raw material flour is conveyed to the falling through hole 28, and the amount can be adjusted by counting the number of times with a counter.

Next, a mechanism for keeping the powder density of the raw material flour filled in the through holes 24 constant will be described.

First, as shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, a partition plate 32 is provided between the stirring rod 4 and the rotary plate 26, and the partition plate 32 is the main body 10A of the noodle making machine 10. In the connecting portion 10B between the supply hopper 2 and the supply hopper 2, the partition plate 32 is attached by sandwiching an outer peripheral end portion 32A between the outer peripheral lower end portion 2A of the supply hopper 2 and a fitting groove 34 formed in the main body portion 10A.

Further, as shown in FIG. 1, in the vicinity of the outer peripheral portion of the partition plate 32, a plurality of through holes 36 are formed in a substantially half-circumferential portion of the entire outer peripheral portion.
Are formed.

The position of the through hole 36 is such that the partition plate 32 has an outer peripheral end 32A between the supply hopper 2 outer peripheral lower end 2A and the main body 10A fitting groove 34.
When a plurality of through-holes 36 are mounted by sandwiching, the plurality of through-holes 36 are arranged at positions other than above the drop port 5 and above the vicinity of the drop port 5.

The movement of the raw material flour 1 in the flour supply hopper device for a noodle making machine having the above-mentioned configuration is performed by stirring the raw material flour 1 in the supply hopper 2 with the stirring rod 4 to a position other than above the drop port 5 and above the vicinity of the drop port 5. It is made to fall from the plurality of through holes 36 of the partition plate 32 arranged in the above into the through holes 24 of the rotary plate 26.

At this time, since the through hole 36 of the partition plate 32 is arranged as described above, the feed hopper is provided on the slide through plate 22 arranged so as to cover the drop through hole 28 and the vicinity above the drop through hole 28. It is possible to prevent the raw material flour 1 supplied from 2 from dropping, and no special pressure is applied to the slide plate 22.

Further, the rotary plate on which the raw material flour 1 is rotatably moved from the both ends in the longitudinal direction of the slide cutting plate 22 between the bottom component plate 20 and the slide cutting plate 22.
Since it does not fall into the through holes 24 of 26,
No pressure is applied to the raw material flour 1 filled in the through holes 24 of the raw material flour 1, the density of the raw material flour 1 is stable, and the amount of the raw material flour delivered corresponding to one meal fed into the drop opening is always kept constant. You can

According to the raw material flour delivery amount experiment using the flour supply hopper device for noodle making machine according to the above-mentioned example, when the delivery amount of the raw material flour corresponding to one meal is 100 g, the raw material flour 1 in the entire supply hopper 2 is 1 The amount of raw material flour delivered can be controlled to ± 2 to 3 g when the raw material flour 1 is almost used up and the raw material flour 1 is almost used up, and the same amount of udon noodles, buckwheat noodles, etc. can always be manufactured stably. It has become possible.

The through hole 24 of the rotary plate 26 may not be completely closed, but may be a bay-shaped hole as shown in FIGS. 1 and 3.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, since the flour supply hopper device for noodle making machine of the present invention is configured as described above, the following effects can be obtained.

Since the partition plate 32 having a plurality of through holes 36 is provided between the stirring rod 4 and the rotary plate 26 at any place other than above the drop port 5 and above the vicinity of the drop port 5, the drop through hole 28 and the drop through hole are provided. The raw material flour 1 supplied from the supply hopper 2 does not drop onto the slide cutting plate 22 arranged so as to cover the vicinity of the vicinity of the hole 28, so that special pressure is not applied to the slide cutting plate 22. Instead, the powder density of the raw material flour 1 filled in the through holes 24 of the rotary plate 26 that is rotatably moved between the bottom component plate 20 and the slide plate 22 becomes constant. Therefore, the amount of the raw material flour 1 corresponding to one serving is uniform, and it is possible to stably produce the same amount of udon noodles, buckwheat noodles, etc. at all times.

In addition, the raw material flour 1 from the both ends of the sliding plate 22 in the longitudinal direction,
Since it does not spontaneously drop into the through hole 24 of the rotary plate 26 that is rotating between the bottom component plate 20 and the slide plate 22, the rotary plate
Pressure is not applied to the raw material flour 1 which is pressed into the through holes 24 of 26, and the powder density of the raw material flour 1 becomes constant. Therefore, the amount of the raw material flour 1 corresponding to one serving is uniform, and the same amount of udon noodles, buckwheat noodles, and the like can be constantly produced, which is an excellent effect.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing an embodiment of a flour feeding hopper device for a noodle making machine according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is an enlarged sectional view of an essential part of the same embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a plan view of an essential part of the same embodiment. Fig. 4 is a side view of the whole noodle making machine. 1 ... Raw flour, 2 ... Supply hopper, 4 ... Stir bar,
5: Drop port, 22: Sliding plate, 26: Rotating plate, 32: Partition plate, 36: Through hole.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A rotating plate in which through holes for filling raw material flour supplied from a supply hopper equipped with a stirring rod are arranged at even intervals over the entire outer peripheral portion, and raw material flour filled in the through hole. In the flour supply hopper device for noodle making machine configured to drop the raw material flour by a fixed weight from the drop opening provided at the bottom using a sliding plate that slides the upper part of the noodle milling machine, A flour supply hopper device for a noodle making machine, characterized in that a partition plate having a plurality of through holes formed at any position other than above the mouth and above the vicinity of the drop port is provided between the stirring rod and the rotating plate.