JPH019425Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Field of application of the invention] The present invention relates to a dough forming machine for confectionery dough.

[Background of the idea]

BACKGROUND ART Dough forming machines used for automatic manufacturing equipment for mass-producing confectionery such as donuts have been well known. This dough former is
A dough tank stores confectionery dough such as donuts and sends the dough downward through a bottom opening by applying pressure from above, and the dough is shaped and cut off at the lower end from within a guide cylinder attached to the bottom of this dough tank. It is equipped with a cutter device that guides the fabric to the sleeve cutter and performs the prescribed shaping and cutting with a sleeve cutter that moves up and down, and is provided between the lower end opening of the guide tube and a disk facing away from it. From this, there is a general method in which the ring-shaped material is cut off by leading out the fabric around the entire circumference, or a molded tube is interposed between the lower end of the guide tube and the disk as proposed in Japanese Utility Model Application Publication No. 59-47490. There is a method of inserting the tube into the tube and cutting off a piece of the shape that fits the molded opening of the cylinder wall.

By the way, in the current situation where consumers' tastes are diversifying and food trends are becoming more popular, donuts and the like are not only changing their shape as described above. Furthermore, it has been desired to provide products that have a different taste.

However, with conventional molding machines, although it is possible to adjust the taste of the dough, it is not possible to create changes such as partially dividing and imparting multiple flavors to one donut, for example. There is a limit to the ability to impart changes in taste.

[Purpose of invention]

From the above-mentioned viewpoints, the purpose of the present invention is to provide a dough forming machine for confectionery, which can make a confectionery such as a donut by sectioning two or more different flavor parts into stripes or the like. do.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a dough forming machine for confectionery which can exhibit decorative effects by different colors of different flavor parts.

[Summary of the idea]

The gist of the present invention, which has been made to achieve the above-mentioned object of the present invention, is to provide a circular cylindrical dough tank and a method for guiding the dough from the bottom of the dough tank to the dough forming/cutting section at the lower end. A molding machine for confectionery, comprising a guide tube that hangs down from the guide tube, and a cutter device that is provided at the lower end of the guide tube and that guides the dough from the annular opening all the way around and cuts the dough into a ring shape. A separator is provided extending from the dough tank to the guide cylinder and partitioning the interior into a plurality of fan-shaped sections, and having an outer periphery that roughly matches the inner surface of the circular cylindrical dough tank and allowing the separator to pass through it freely. The dough forming machine for confectionery is characterized in that it is a dough pressing plate having an opening formed therein, and is provided with an inner lid that is set on the upper surface of the dough filled in the dough tank.

The dough forming machine according to the present invention may be basically the same as the conventional one except for the separator and the inner lid. Therefore, if the separator is formed in a form that simply fits into the existing forming machine, , the present invention has the advantage of being extremely simple and inexpensive to implement. As such a method, for example, a method has been adopted in which a separator is incorporated from the dough tank to the horizontal rod of the guide tube in an existing molding machine that has a horizontal rod for suspending the disk inside the guide tube. It has been confirmed that this makes it possible to manufacture striped donuts, which is the ultimate goal of the present invention, without any problems. Further, for the same purpose, it is also easy to add a short separator to the upper surface of the disk in addition to the above, and it has been confirmed that in this case, the striped shape of the donut becomes more clear.

The dough forming machine of the present invention can also be applied to confectionery such as cake donuts and yeast donuts.

Furthermore, the separator of the present invention is generally made of a plate material shaped to match the inner surface of the dough tank and guide cylinder, and is constructed by combining one plate material or two or more plates in a cross shape. It is used by fitting inside the dough tank and guide cylinder as a so-called partition. Therefore, with this separator,
There are two or more independent passages through which the fabric flows from the fabric tank to the entire area of the guide tube, or to an area excluding a part of the guide tube (for example, the lower part where the horizontal rod is attached). It becomes possible to form confectionery into the desired striped shape.

[Example of idea]

The present invention will be described below based on embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an outline of the configuration of a dough forming machine according to an embodiment of the present invention as an exploded view of its parts. A downward dough outlet hole 3 is provided in the center of the holder. The upper part of the dough tank 1 can be sealed with a removable lid (not shown), and a predetermined amount of pressurized air can be supplied by connecting an air pipe (not shown).

Reference numeral 4 designates a guide tube that is attached to the lower surface of the bottom plate 2 of the dough tank 1, and is provided as a cylindrical body with an open top and bottom, and can be bolted through mounting holes 6, 6 provided in the flange 5 at the upper end. The fabric tank is fixed in a state where the outlet hole 3 at the bottom and the upper end opening are positioned.

Reference numeral 7 denotes a disk facing the lower end opening of the guide tube 4 at a constant interval, and a horizontal rod 8 fixed horizontally at an intermediate position between the upper and lower sides of the guide tube 4;
It is supported by a disk support bolt 9 hanging downward from the center of the guide tube 4 along the axis of the guide tube 4 by being screwed into a threaded portion 10 at the lower end of the disk support bolt 9. 11 is a fixing nut.

Reference numeral 12 denotes a sleeve cutter that is externally mounted so as to be able to move up and down with respect to the guide tube 4. When moving downward, the lower edge 13 of the sleeve cutter tightly fits into the outer circumferential edge of the disk, so that it can be cut radially outward from the upper surface of the disk. It acts to cut off the fabric being deflected. Note 14
is a circumferential groove formed on the outer periphery of the upper end of the sleeve cutter 12, which engages with a cam of a vertical drive device (not shown).

The guide tube 4, disk 7, and sleeve cutter 12 described above constitute a cutter device.

In addition to the above-mentioned structure, the dough forming machine of this embodiment has a separator indicated by reference numeral 15 in FIG. 1 that is fitted inside. That is, the separator 15 is provided as a partition wall in which two inverted convex plates are joined to form a cross shape when viewed from above, and the upper wide portion 16 fits into the cylindrical inner surface of the dough tank 1 with almost no gap. The lower narrow portion 17 also fits into the cylindrical inner surface of the guide tube 4 with almost no gap. Also, narrow part 1
The height dimension of 7 is such that when the lower end of the wide portion 16 is engaged with the bottom of the fabric tank 1, the lower end of the narrow portion 17 is engaged with the horizontal rod 8.

By fitting the separator 15 having such a configuration into the interior of a dough tank or the like, the upper half of the dough tank 1 and the guide tube 4 can be separated by 4 in the circumferential direction.
The dough is divided into four semicircular sections, and the dough filled in one section is sent below the guide tube 4 without mixing with different kinds of dough filled in other sections. In this embodiment, the guide tube 4
Although there is no separator in the lower half, the flow of fabric is rectified along the axial direction of the cylinder, so there is almost no mixing of different types of fabrics led from adjacent sections in this part. It doesn't happen often.

Therefore, the fabric deflected radially outward by the lower disk 7 is transferred to the sleeve cutter 12.
When the ring is cut off, the resulting ring-shaped fabric is a concatenation of different fabrics obtained by dividing the ring into four parts in the circumferential direction. For example, if this is represented by color, it can be obtained as a ring in which colors are continuous in the circumferential direction: white, black, white, and black, or as a ring in which four different colors are continuous in the circumferential direction.

Note that the reference numeral 18 in FIG. 1 is an inner lid used to evenly press the upper surface of the fabric of each section, and is provided with a cross-shaped opening 19 through which the separator 15 is inserted in the vertical direction. ing.

FIG. 2 is a diagram of the cutter device portion showing another embodiment of the present invention, which has the same structure as the one in FIG. 1 except that an auxiliary separator 20 is provided on the upper surface of the disk 7. .

This auxiliary separator 20 consists of a short cylindrical body 21 that is fitted and fixed to the lower end of the disk support bolt 9.
It consists of four blade plates 22 extending radially outward from this cylinder body 21, and by matching the attitude (position in the circumferential direction) of these blade plates with the attitude of the main separator 15 above, different types of fabrics can be separated. The distinction between consecutive parts becomes clear.

FIG. 3 shows a single item diagram of the auxiliary separator 20.

FIG. 4 shows a ring-shaped donut made by combining white dough and chiyoko dough in a striped manner, which was manufactured using the dough forming machine having the structure described above.

Note that the division of the dough is not limited to the above-mentioned four divisions, and various divisions of two or more can be made, and the partition mode of the separator may be changed accordingly.
FIG. 5 shows a ring-shaped donut made of a combination of white dough and chiyoko dough divided into eight parts.

[Effect of idea]

As described above, according to the dough forming machine of the present invention, it is possible to give two or more different flavor parts and even different color parts to one confectionery such as a donut, and it is possible to diversify the taste and add decorations. Its practical effect is extremely large in that it increases the added value of confectionery such as donuts due to the effect.

Furthermore, the dough forming machine of the present invention can be realized by a simple structure in which a separator is inserted into an existing device, and has the effect that the existing device can be used as is.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Drawings Fig. 1 is an exploded view of the outline of a dough forming machine showing one embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 A is a sectional view of a cutter device portion showing another embodiment, Fig. 2 B is a plan view of the same, and Fig. 2 B is a plan view of the same. 3A and 3B show the auxiliary separator, A is a front view and B is a plan view. 4A and 4B show donuts manufactured using the dough forming machine of the embodiment of the present invention, A is a perspective view and B is a diagram illustrating the positional relationship of different types of dough. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating the positional relationship of different types of donut dough. 1...Fabric tank, 2...Bottom plate, 3...Fabric guide hole, 4...Guide tube, 5...Flange, 6...Mounting hole, 7...Disc, 8...Horizontal rod, 9... Disc support bolt, 10...Threaded portion, 11...Nut, 12...Sleeve cutter, 13...Lower edge, 14...Peripheral groove, 15...Separator, 1
6... Wide part, 17... Narrow part, 18... Inner lid,
19...Cross opening, 20...Auxiliary separator, 2
1... cylinder body, 22... wing plate.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A circular cylindrical dough tank, a guide tube that hangs down to guide the dough from the bottom of the dough tank to the dough forming/cutting section at the lower end, and an annular opening provided at the bottom of the guide tube. A separator for confectionery, which is equipped with a cutter device that guides the dough around the entire circumference and cuts the dough into a ring shape, and that extends from the dough tank to the guide tube and divides the inside thereof into a plurality of fan-shaped sections. In addition to providing
A dough pressing plate having an outer periphery that roughly matches the inner surface of the circular cylindrical dough tank and having an opening through which the separator can be freely inserted,
A dough forming machine for confectionery, characterized by being provided with an inner lid that is set on the top surface of the dough filled in a dough tank.