JPH0242947A - Apparatus for forwardly turning cut bean curd - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain an apparatus for forwardly turning cut bean curd, equipped with a forward turning plate and stopping plate rotatably mounted on a rotating shaft and capable of forwardly turning cut bean curd while conveying the bean curd, turning the cut surface up and conveying the bean curd to a packaging place. CONSTITUTION:A piece of cut bean curd 32 is placed from a water channel 18 onto a forward turning plate 22 with a conveying plate 34 and the forward turning plate 22 and a stopping plate 26 are rotated (forwardly turned) to place the stopping plate 26 at a horizontal position. Thereby, the cut bean curd 32 is forwardly turned. Only the forward turning plate 22 is then returned to the horizontal position and the conveying plate 34 is subsequently advanced to move the cut bean curd into a packaging box 38. Furthermore, the above- mentioned operation is wholly carried out in a water tank.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to an apparatus for overturning cut tofu, and more specifically, to a pre-transfer of cut tofu in which cut tofu is turned forward and transferred with the cut side facing up. do.

[Prior art] Conventionally, tofu that has been coagulated in a mold box is taken out of the mold box in a water tank and cut into u1 tanks using a float placed on a float.
It can be stored in an aquarium at a size of In this way, the tofu is cut into bite-sized pieces, scooped out by hand one by one in a water tank, packed in bags, and shipped to the market.
The process of manually scooping up each piece of tofu one by one in this water tank and putting it back in the tank is extremely inefficient and requires a lot of manpower, and cannot be used for mass production of tofu.

Therefore, in recent years, it has been considered to automatically cut a large block of tofu taken out from a mold box, and to further automatically package the cut tofu.

This type of tofu automatic cutting and packaging device is equipped with a tofu transfer table fixed in a water tank, and a plurality of partition plates each having a tofu cutting blade at the front end placed on the tofu transfer table in parallel to the tofu cutting width with their front ends aligned. A tofu waterway is formed by setting the tofu waterway, and a tofu transfer plate pushes the lump of 'Kl curd from the tofu waterway in front of the tofu cutting blade to cut the tofu and transfer the cut tofu to the end of the tofu waterway. An apparatus has been proposed in which tofu is packaged by inserting it into a packaging container placed on a packaging container conveyor provided at a terminal.

[The problem that the invention attempts to solve! ! ] In this automatic tofu cutting and packaging device, in most cases, tofu is cut vertically, but depending on the size of the tofu, it may be cut horizontally and then packaged.

Furthermore, in order to increase the commercial value of tofu by packaging the tofu with the cut side up, it is necessary to turn the cut tofu forward. Therefore, it has been desired to develop a device that rotates cut tofu forward after cutting the tofu before packaging it in a bag.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above-mentioned interval m point of an automatic tofu cutting and packaging device, and is a forward rotation of cut tofu, in which cut tofu is transferred forward while being transferred and transported to a packaging location with the cut side facing up. The purpose is to provide equipment.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The cutting tofu forward rotation device of the present invention is composed of a bottom plate having a vertically elongated hole in the center and side plates erected on both sides of the bottom plate, and is installed in a water tank to cut tofu. a forward rolling frame arranged at one end of the waterway of the w1 league for transferring tofu and forming a part of the waterway;
A rotating shaft provided to cross the central lower surface of the elongated hole in the bottom plate, and a rotating shaft that covers the upstream half of the elongated hole in the bottom plate and has one end fixed to the rotating shaft, and is moved to a substantially vertical position by rotation of the rotating shaft. a forward rotating plate which covers the downstream half of the elongated hole of the bottom plate, one end of which is loosely fitted to the rotating shaft, and which is rotated to a substantially vertical position by an appropriate rotation means, and rotation of the forward rotating plate; The main feature is that the stop plate is equipped with a stop plate that returns to its original position.

[Function] Initially, both the forward rotation plate and the stop plate are in a horizontal position, and the forward rotation plate covers the upstream half of the long hole provided in the bottom plate of the forward rotation frame that forms one end of the box-shaped tofu waterway. The stop plate covers the downstream half of the slot. In this state, the cut tofu passes through without turning forward.

When the cut tofu is to be rotated forward, the stop plate rotating device is first activated to rotate the stop plate around the rotating shaft to bring the stop plate into an inverted position. Since the stop plate is inverted at the center of the waterway, the transferred cut tofu comes into contact with the stop plate and stops.

Next, when the rotating shaft is rotated forward, since one end of the forward rotating plate is fixed to the rotating shaft, the forward rotating plate rotates forward. that time,
Since the stop plate rotates forward around the rotation axis together with the forward rotation plate, the cut tofu begins to rotate forward while being held by the forward rotation plate and the stop plate. When the forward rotation plate rotates to the inverted position, the cut tofu is completely rotated forward by 90 degrees, and the stop plate returns to its original horizontal position.

When the forward rotation of the cut tofu is completed, the rotating shaft is rotated backward to return the forward rotation plate from the inverted position to its original horizontal position.

The cut tofu that has been rotated forward is transferred again by the transfer plate and inserted into the packaging box at the end of the tofu channel.

[Embodiment] A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention. Forward roll frame 10
consists of a bottom plate 14 having a vertically elongated hole 12 in the center and side plates 16 and 16 erected on both sides of the bottom plate 14, and as shown in the cross-sectional view of the installation in FIG. It is arranged at one end of a box-shaped waterway 18 through which the cooked tofu is transported, and forms a part of the waterway 18.

The rotating shaft 20 is provided so as to cross the central lower surface of the elongated hole 12, and is rotated back and forth by an appropriate rotating device such as an oil cylinder (not shown). The forward rotation plate 22 is a plate that covers the upstream half of the elongated hole 12, that is, the right side of the rotation shaft 20 in FIG. It is fixed to 20.

The stop plate 26 is a plate that covers the downstream half of the elongated hole 12, that is, the left side of the rotating shaft 20 in FIG. Brackets 24 on the left and right of 22.
24, and is freely rotatably fitted to the rotating shaft 20.

Further, a lever 30 is fixed to this bracket 28, and by rotating this lever 30 back and forth using an appropriate rotating means, the stop plate 26 is rotated back and forth. When the stop plate 26 is rotated to a nearly vertical inverted position, one end of the stop plate 26 comes into contact with the surface of the forward rotation plate 22, and the rotation is stopped.

The operation of this embodiment configured as described above is shown in Figure 2 (
The explanation will be based on A)(B)(C)(D').

Figure 2 (A) (B) (C) (D> is tofu waterway 18
The tofu waterway 18 is a box-shaped waterway fixed in the water tank, and the cut tofu 32 is transferred through the tofu waterway 18 by a tofu transfer plate 34. A forward rolling frame 10 is installed connected to a tofu waterway 18.

Initially, as shown in FIG. 2 (A>), both the forward rotation plate 22 and the stop plate 26 are in a horizontal position, and the forward rotation plate 22 is connected to the bottom plate 14 of the forward rotation frame 10 forming one end of the box-shaped tofu channel 18. The stop plate 26 covers the upstream half of the elongated hole 12 provided in the elongated hole, and the stop plate 26 covers the downstream half of the elongated hole. Cut tofu 3
2 is held at one end before being inserted into the packaging box 38. Holding frame 3
A packaging box 38 is fixed below 6.

Next, when the cut beans [32] are transferred, as shown in FIG. 2(B), rotate the lever 30 to raise the stop plate 26 to the inverted position. , and is held between the forward rotation plate 22 and the stop plate 26.

Next is the second one! ! As shown in I(C), the rotation shaft 20 is rotated forward, and the forward rotation plate 22 is rotated forward to invert the forward rotation plate 22. At this time, the stop plate 26 rotates forward around the rotating shaft 20 together with the forward rotation plate 22, so that the cut tofu 32
starts rolling forward while being held by the forward rolling plate 22 and the stop plate 26. When the forward rotation plate 22 rotates to the inverted position, the cut beans [3
2 is completely rotated forward by 90 degrees, and the stop plate 26 returns to its original horizontal position.

Next, as shown in FIG. 2(D), the rotating shaft 20 is rotated backward, the forward rotating plate 22 is rotated backward, and the forward rotating plate 22 is returned to the horizontal position, and the cut tofu 32 is moved by the tofu transfer plate 34. The cut tofu 32 is further advanced and held at one end by the holding frame 36.
is inserted into the packaging box 38.

Although one tofu waterway has been described in this embodiment, many tofu waterways are provided in parallel, and a forward rotation frame is attached to each tofu waterway so that the rotating shaft and stop plate rotating means are shared. so that the forward rotation plate and stop plate of each forward rotation frame are operated at the same time. In addition, in this embodiment, the forward rotation plate is fixed to the rotating shaft and the stop plate is fitted loosely, but on the contrary, the forward rotation plate is rotatably attached to the rotating shaft and the stop plate is attached to the rotating shaft. If the cut tofu does not need to be rotated forward, the cut tofu may be transferred with the stop plate and the forward rotation plate in the horizontal position.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, the cut tofu forward rotation device of the present invention covers the upstream half of the elongated hole in the bottom plate of the forward rotation frame, and has one end fixed to the rotation shaft, so that the cut tofu forward rotation device is rotated almost vertically by the rotation of the rotation shaft. A forward rotating plate that is inverted to a vertical position, and a forward rotating plate that covers the downstream half of the elongated hole of the bottom plate, one end of which is loosely fitted to a rotating shaft, and is inverted to a nearly vertical position by an appropriate rotation means, and then returned to its original position by inverting the forward rotating plate. The cut tofu is stopped by turning the stop plate upside down, and then by inverting the forward plate forward, the cut tofu is cut together with the stop plate. This device rotates the tofu forward, making it possible to forward a large amount of cut tofu in water at the same time, and is extremely useful for cutting and packaging devices for large quantities of tofu.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of one embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 (A) (D)
), (C) and (D) are sectional views for explaining the operation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 10... Forward rotation frame, 12... Long hole, 14... Bottom plate, 1
6... Side plate, 18... Tofu waterway, 20... Rotating shaft, 22... Forward rotation plate, 26... Stop plate

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) Consisting of a bottom plate with a vertically elongated hole in the center and side plates erected on both sides of the bottom plate, it is placed in a water tank and placed at one end of a box-shaped waterway for transporting cut tofu. A forward rotation frame forming a part of the frame, a rotating shaft provided to cross the central lower surface of the elongated hole of the bottom plate, and a rotating shaft that covers the upstream half of the elongated hole of the bottom plate and has one end fixed to the rotating shaft. a forward rotating plate that rotates to a substantially vertical position by rotation of the rotating shaft; and a forward rotating plate that covers the downstream half of the elongated hole of the bottom plate and has one end loosely fitted to the rotating shaft and is rotated to a substantially vertical position by an appropriate rotation means. 1. A cutting tofu forward rotation device comprising: a stop plate that moves and returns to its original position by rotation of the forward rotation plate.