JPH0229480B2 - TOFUNOTEIKEISETSUDANSOCHI - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a tofu cutting device.

[Conventional technology and its problems]

Mix an appropriate amount of coagulant with soy milk obtained by squeezing soybeans, put it in a mold box and let it coagulate, then empty the coagulated tofu into a water tank by turning the mold box 9 upside down.
This large tofu is cut into regular shapes by hand in a water tank, or after being cut into regular shapes in a molding box, the tofu is placed upside down in the water tank and each of these regular shaped tofu is fried by hand. placed in the required container. Also, this tofu is extremely soft and fragile, so care must be taken when working with it. Furthermore, cutting and packaging the tofu is all done by hand, which poses a hygiene problem and is unproductive. Additionally, work during the winter is difficult.

The present invention aims to machine cut tofu solidified in a mold box into regular shapes, and also to arrange the tofu so that it is suitable for packaging.

[Means for solving problems]

The solidified tofu is placed in a mold box with one side plate removable, and the mold box is equipped with a lifting platform that can be tilted and raised and lowered, and adjacent to this lifting table, it can be slid horizontally under the water surface in the water tank. and a delivery table for transferring the tofu from the mold box of the lowered lifting table, and a pushing means for pushing out the tofu on the delivery table, which has been sent out in a horizontal direction below the surface of the water tank, in a direction intersecting the sliding direction of the delivery table. ,
A knife installed opposite to the extrusion means to cut the large tofu into a plurality of rod-shaped pieces; a pedestal adjacent to the extrusion means; a quantitative extrusion means for further extruding the plurality of pieces of tofu one by one, and a horizontal extrusion means that is driven in synchronization with the quantitative extrusion means and horizontally extrudes the rod-shaped tofu on the pedestal one after another toward the quantitative extrusion means. and an elevating guide that can be raised and lowered and is installed opposite the quantitative extrusion means to ensure that the bar-shaped tofu extruded by this quantitative extrusion means is regulated and stopped one by one at a fixed position, and when this elevating guide is lowered, this rod-shaped tofu It further comprises an extrusion cutting means for extruding the tofu in the horizontal direction and cutting it into regular shapes using opposing blades.

〔Example〕

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The apparatus for cutting regular tofu according to the present invention will be explained below based on the illustrated embodiments.

1 is a water tank, and this water tank is always filled to a set water level with cold water or hot water at a temperature that kills bacteria, and the tofu supplied to this water tank is extruded and cut under the water surface. All such work will be carried out. A lifting platform 2 is provided in a part of the water tank 1, on which a mold box B can be placed. The elevating table 2 is provided with an elevating cylinder 21 on a frame F provided on the upper part of the aquarium 1, and an elevating rod 22 is attached to the elevating cylinder 21.
is provided on the lower part of the elevator 22 via a shaft 23 so as to be tiltable, and by operating a tilting lever 24 provided on the elevator 22, the elevator 2 can be tilted back and forth from the horizontal position. Lean more forward. Soy milk is coagulated in a mold box B for coagulation to produce large tofu, and each box mold is placed on a lifting platform 2 at an elevated position above the water surface. At this time, the lifting platform is tilted backwards, the top surface is open, the periphery is surrounded by side plates, and the front plate (not shown) of the mold box is removable. The tofu should not stick out. The lifting cylinder is operated so that the lifting platform is submerged under the water surface, that is, the coagulation box and the tofu are also submerged under the water surface. After lowering the lifting platform and tilting it forward, a thin plate-shaped extrusion plate (not shown) is inserted between the inner side of the mold box and the tofu, and this extrusion plate is moved toward the delivery table. When the tofu is moved, it is pushed out of the mold box under water. The fine-grained tofu directly coagulated in the coagulation mold box is taken out from the box. However, in the case of coarse-grained tofu, so-called real cotton tofu, the coagulated tofu is crushed, placed in a mold box lined with filter cloth on the entire inside, dehydrated under pressure, and the crushed tofu pieces are recombined. It is made with tofu made from minced dough.
This is done by filling a mold box with the tofu pieces, putting a lid on it, and then pressurizing it. Therefore, it is impossible to take out firm tofu from this mold box by pushing it out of the mold box as in the case of fine-grained silken tofu. For this purpose, the mold box is turned upside down with the lid closed, the lid is placed on the elevated platform, and then the mold box is removed. Then push it out by hand toward the delivery table. This operation of vertically inverting the mold box with the lid closed may be performed manually by the operator while holding the mold box, but the lifting platform is provided with means for pressing the mold box toward the lifting platform with the lid closed. ,
In addition, it is also possible to automatically flip this lifting platform upside down. Therefore, in this case, various methods are adopted for the elevating platform so that it can perform elevating and lowering operations and reversing operations. A delivery platform is provided on the side of the platform at the lowering position of the platform.
It is movable in the horizontal direction that intersects with the direction in which the tofu is pushed out from inside the mold box. This delivery table 3 has an L-shaped cross section connected to a vertical side plate 31 only on the rear end side in the delivery direction, is movably supported by a guide rail 32, and is placed at the same water surface position as the bottom plate of the mold box when the elevator is in a lowered state. It's starting to happen. This delivery table 3 has a handle 33 protruding from it.
The platform is moved by pushing or pulling, and the amount of movement is at least the width of mold box B. Further, a guide stopper 34 is fixed in the water tank 1 opposite to the lifting table with the feeding table in between so that the large tofu pushed out of the molding box is transferred onto the feeding table reliably.

A pushing means 4 is provided on the side of the horizontal movement position of the delivery table 3.
will be provided. This extrusion means 4 fixes an extrusion cylinder 41 to a frame F, and engages a moving frame 43, which moves along a guide rod 42 disposed parallel to the cylinder 41 and the rod extrusion direction, to the tip of the rod of the cylinder 41. An extrusion plate 44 is installed vertically below the movable frame 43. The movable frame 43 is also provided with a cylinder 51 of the quantitative extrusion means 5, a quantitative extrusion plate 52 is provided at the rod end of this cylinder 51, and the quantitative extrusion plate 52 and the extrusion plate 44 are arranged in a straight line. By operating the cylinder 41, the extrusion plates 44 and 52 are simultaneously moved via the moving frame 43, and the cutter 6 disposed opposite the extrusion means 4 moves the tofu on the delivery table.
The large tofu is then extruded into a plurality of stick-like pieces. The tofu extruded by this extrusion means is cut into rod shapes with a knife 6, and then
It will be transferred to 1. At this time, a guide stopper 12 is placed along the extrusion direction so that the tofu is transferred in a fixed position.
is installed in the aquarium, so that it can be pushed out accurately without disturbing its posture.

The extrusion means 4 stops for a while at the advanced position,
As a result, the bar-shaped tofu, whose posture is regulated by the push-out plate 44 and the guide stopper 13 opposing the push-out plate 44 on the fixed table 12, is pushed out one by one to the regular cutting standby position. When the extrusion means 4 is stopped at the forward position, the cylinder 51 of the quantitative extrusion means 5 is further operated to advance the extrusion plate 52 and extrude a stick of tofu from the pedestal 11. At this time, the extrusion plate 52 is moved forward by the cylinder 5 so that the extrusion plate 52 moves forward accurately.
A guide frame 53 is provided protrudingly from a frame to which the guide frame 1 is fixed, and a guide rod 54 is slidably supported and protrudes from an extrusion frame 55 provided with an extrusion plate 52 on the guide frame.

When a stick of tofu on the pedestal 11 is pushed out,
When this extrusion plate 52 is retracted close to the cutter 6, that is, to the position where the extrusion plate 44 is stopped, the horizontal extrusion means 7, which is disposed perpendicularly to the extrusion plates 52, 44 and opposite to the guide stopper 12, is horizontally extruded. The plate 71 is advanced by one pitch, that is, by one stick of tofu, by operating the cylinder 72. As a result, both ends of the parallel tofu sticks are placed in the guide stopper 1.
3 and the extrusion plate 44 which is stopped at the forward position opposite thereto, and is accurately extruded to the position of the quantitative extrusion means by the horizontal extrusion plate 71. Next, the quantitative extrusion means is driven. In this way, the tofu is pushed out one by one, and when there is no more tofu on the pedestal 11, the horizontal extrusion means and the extrusion means are moved back together with the quantitative extrusion means, the delivery table is also returned to its original position, and the tofu is lifted and lowered. Raise the platform and place the next mold box. In addition, after transferring the tofu from the mold box onto the delivery table, the lifting table can be raised and the empty mold box can be taken out. Further, the tofu fed out one by one by the quantitative extrusion means 5 is guided to the raised position and to the U-shaped getting on/off guide 8 located at the standby position above the pedestal.
Cutting tools C1 and C for regular cutting arranged in parallel at a regular pitch
2, C3...Be sure to face Cn. At this time, the extrusion cutting means 9 that transfers between the separation plates connected to the cutters via the cutters C1, C2, C3, etc. is waiting outside the lifting guide 8, and when the lifting guide descends, the extrusion cutting means 9 The transfer plate 91 moves forward, and the bar-shaped tofu is pressed from the side by the pushing blades C1, C2, C3...Cn to cut it into predetermined dimensions, and the transfer plate 91 moves further forward to cut the tofu into the opposing separating pieces. It enters between the plates 92, 92, moves between the separating plates, and transfers the tofu cut into regular shapes, separating them one by one. When this transfer plate 91 is moved to the end, it returns to its original position, and the elevating guide 8 rises.
Waiting for the next supply of tofu. All of these operations are synchronized, and the tofu in the one-type box is sequentially transferred into water and cut into regular shapes.

The elevating guide 8 is composed of a U-shaped guide 81 having a U-shape large enough to insert a stick of tofu, and an elevating cylinder 82 that allows the guide to protrude and retract from the top surface of the pedestal 13.

〔Effect of the invention〕

Since the present invention has the above-mentioned configuration, the tofu solidified in the mold box is placed on an elevator and pushed out from the mold box with one side open, thereby mechanically and horizontally moving the tofu in the vertical and horizontal directions. Since the tofu is cut into regular shapes underwater, it has the advantage of being sanitary and improving production efficiency compared to conventional manual work, and since the regular tofu is lined up after cutting, packaging can also be automated.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of the tofu regular cutting device of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a front view. 1 is a water tank, 2 is a lifting table, 3 is a feeding table, 4 is an extrusion means, 5 is a quantitative extrusion means, 6 is a knife, 7 is a horizontal extrusion means, 8 is a lifting guide, 9 is an extrusion cutting means, C
1, C2... are cutlery.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A lifting table on which a molding box with a removable side plate is mounted and which moves up and down and tilts, a delivery table that transfers the tofu in the molding box on this lifting table and transfers it to the extrusion means side, and this delivery table. extruding means for extruding and cutting the tofu on top toward a cutter; quantitative extruding means provided on this extruding means for further extruding the bar-shaped tofu one by one to a regular cutting position; A horizontal extrusion means for extruding, an elevating guide for moving up and down, and an extrusion cutting means for extruding towards a cutting tool for regular cutting are arranged in a water tank, and the tofu is transferred and cut in the water. Tofu cutting device.