JPH035794B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention is a cylindrical food product made by coating a skewer with bird meat or fish meat and baking it.
It relates to a method of skewering, shaping, cooling, and automatic packaging.

[Conventional technology]

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram schematically depicting the process of extracting a bamboo wheel 2 as an example of surimi coated onto a skewer 1 and baking it from the skewer 1 and feeding it into the automatic packaging machine 3.

Immediately after the skewer 1 was removed, the bamboo ring 2 was pressed against the end face of the bamboo ring 2 and the skewer 2 was pulled out in the longitudinal direction.
It is compressed in the length direction. In order to restore the shape and adjust the shape, it is placed between a pair of rollers 4a and 4b and falls onto a bucket conveyor 5.

Chikuwa immediately after firing is at a high temperature, so if it is packaged immediately, there is a risk of deterioration.

In order to prevent the above deterioration, the rollers 4a and 4b
The bamboo wheels that have passed through are cooled in a cooling chamber 6 before being sent to an automatic packaging machine 3.

The bamboo wheels carried into the vicinity of the upper end of the cooling chamber 6 by the bucket conveyor 5 are transported back and forth by the net conveyors 7a, 7b to 7e provided in multiple stages in the cooling chamber 6, and fall one after another. It is carried out from the cooling chamber 6 by the lower net conveyor 7e.

The bamboo leaves that have left the cooling chamber 6 are carried into a vibrator 9 via a drawer conveyor 8.

The bamboo rings that are vibrated by the vibrator 9 align their directions substantially.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

On the other hand, the automatic packaging machine 3 generally has a function of automatically sealing and packaging when a predetermined number of items to be packaged are lined up and sent.

However, since the large number of bamboo rings that are sequentially fed into the rollers 4a and 4b are conveyed and cooled while taking a free posture, they cannot be fed into the automatic packaging machine as they are even if their directions are aligned by the vibrator 9.

If the amount of bamboo rings fed into the vibrator 9 is too large (if the time interval is too short), the bamboo rings will overlap, and if too small, the feeding to the automatic packaging machine will be incomplete and its operation will not work properly. Not done.

In order to resolve the problem with mechanical equipment,
If a mechanical device is added to align the bamboo rings once they are out of order, the equipment will become complicated and expensive, and there is a greater risk of the bamboo rings becoming dirty.

Therefore, workers 10 are assigned to arrange a predetermined number of bamboo rings.

The present invention was made in view of the above circumstances, and
To provide a method that can completely unmanned processes from removing skewers from a processed food coated with surimi to the skewers and baked, to roller shaping, cooling, and feeding to an automatic packaging machine.

[Means for solving problems]

The method of the present invention, which was created to achieve the above object, is such that when the baked processed food is smeared on a skewer and the baking process is completed, the baked processed food is Focusing on the fact that the products are carried out in a regular manner, the system carries them out without disturbing this regular state, performs roller shaping and cooling, maintains the alignment state, and feeds the products to the automatic packaging machine.

The reason for this is that surimi products, which are coated on skewers and fired, have rubber-like elasticity, like bamboo rings, and are cylindrical, so they bounce easily, have a relatively large coefficient of friction, and The coefficient of friction changes significantly (about 0.4 to 0.8) as the moisture content changes.
Therefore, automatic handling is technically difficult,
This is because once the alignment is disturbed, it is very difficult to align it again.

Based on the above-mentioned principle, the method according to the present invention has the following steps as a concrete configuration for applying the same in practical terms: (a) Processed food that has been baked and is removed from the skewers and transported is adjusted to its posture and position at the time of transport. (b) The processed foods are arranged and sequentially loaded onto a conveyor provided with a positioning means without disturbing the time interval of carrying out; (c) Transport the above pallets horizontally and bring them near the bottom end of the cooling chamber; (d) Send the above carried pallets upward one after another; (e) Transfer the pallets to the top of the cooling chamber. (f) The pallets that have been lowered are carried out horizontally from near the lower end of the cooling chamber, (g) The pallets that have been carried out are The processed foods that are lined up and loaded on top are grabbed all at once, transferred to the conveyor while they are still lined up, and sent to the automatic packaging machine.

[Effect]

According to the above method, it is possible to easily arrange the processed food on the conveyor by taking advantage of the regularity of the posture of the processed food at the time when it is removed from the skewer after baking and the regularity of the time interval at which it is taken out. Shape with rollers without disrupting alignment, cool,
The process up to feeding into the automatic packaging machine can be done unmanned.

〔Example〕

1 to 4 are explanatory diagrams of one embodiment of the method of the present invention.

The bamboo wheels 2 that have been smeared onto the skewers 1 and fired are carried out together with the skewers 1 to a fixed location in a fixed posture at fixed time intervals from an automatic bamboo wheel baking machine (not shown).

The bamboo ring 2 is held down by a jig (not shown) and the skewer 1 is pulled out by a skewer (not shown).

The above-mentioned skewer removal operation is performed in a predetermined position, posture, and state (not necessarily in a stopped state, but often the skewer is pulled out while the bamboo wheel 2 is being conveyed at a constant speed).

As described above, the bamboo wheels 2 from which the skewers 1 have been pulled out in a constant state are aligned and received on the conveyor 11 provided with the positioning member 11a.

In this embodiment, the bamboo rings are conveyed in two rows, A and B, but when carrying out the present invention, they may be transported in a single row or in multiple rows.

Next, as shown in FIG. 2, while conveying the bamboo wheel 2 in the horizontal direction as shown by arrows _A1 and _B1 , a pair of rollers 12a, 13a and a pair of rollers 12b, 13 are moved, respectively.
Pass through between b. Although not shown, the conveyor for conveying the bamboo wheels in the process shown in FIG. 2 is also provided with a positioning means that does not interfere with the rollers, and the bamboo wheels 2 are conveyed in an aligned state and shaped by the rollers.

The process after roller shaping is shown in FIG. A plurality of bamboo rings 2 are conveyed by the conveyor 14 in positions as indicated by arrows A ₂ and B ₂ , and are aligned on the conveyor 14 . These multiple (70 in this example)
The bamboo wheels 2 of the books are transferred onto the tray 16 by the transfer machine 15 in an aligned state. Transfer machine 1 above
5. Grasp 35 pieces x 2 rows = 70 pieces of bamboo rings at once.
It has a structure that allows a gripping tool 15a having a discharging function to be driven back and forth along a guideway 15b.

As a result, a large number (70) of bamboo wheels 2 are placed in the tray 1.
6 and are mounted in an aligned state.

Tray 16 carrying 70 bamboo rings is placed on the fourth tray.
The cooling chamber 1 is transported horizontally as shown in the arrow C shown in the figure.
7, and raise it as shown by arrow D.
After being brought closer to the width as shown by arrow E and lowered as shown by arrow F, it is carried out from the cooling chamber 17 as shown by arrow G.

In this example, the time from loading into the cooling chamber 17 to unloading from the cooling chamber is adjusted to 20 minutes,
During this time, blow cooling air to cool it to about 10℃ to 20℃.

The capacity of an automatic chikuwa manufacturing plant is generally about 10,000 pieces per hour, so a cooling room that cools for 20 minutes requires a capacity of several thousand pieces. If the bamboo rings are conveyed vertically and passed through the cooling chamber, the area required for installation in the cooling chamber 17 is small compared to the capacity, and the equipment cost is reduced because the floor area of the cooling chamber 17 is small. It's cheap and done.

After cooling, the chikuwa is transferred to transfer machine 1 shown in Figure 3.
Using a transfer machine similar to No. 5, the sheets are transferred onto a conveyor while maintaining the alignment, and sent to an automatic packaging machine (not shown).

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the method of the present invention,
After the skewers are coated with surimi and removed from the baked processed food, the roller shaping and cooling process can be carried out consistently and while maintaining the alignment until the skewers are sent to the automatic packaging machine. , there is no need for workers to count and prepare processed foods during these processes, making it possible to achieve completely unmanned operations.
Unmanned operations are not only effective in reducing costs, but also
This not only contributes to improving product quality by eliminating the possibility of human error, but also greatly contributes to reducing the occurrence of human-induced accidents.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIGS. 1 to 4 are schematic diagrams illustrating one embodiment of the method for manufacturing packaged processed food according to the present invention in the order of steps. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram for explaining the prior art. 1... Skewer, 2... Chikuwa as an example of processed food, 11... Conveyor equipped with positioning means, 1
1a...positioning member, 12a, 12b, 13
a, 13b...roller for shaping, 14...conveyor, 15...transfer machine, 16...tray, 17...
cooling room.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A step of baking the surimi coated on the skewer, a step of removing the skewer from the baked surimi and carrying it out, a step of cooling the carried out processed food, and a step of cooling the surimi coated on the skewer. In a method for manufacturing packaged processed foods, the method includes the step of feeding processed foods that have been baked and processed into an automatic packaging machine in a lined state. (b) The processed foods are arranged and sequentially loaded onto a conveyor provided with a positioning means without disturbing the time interval of carrying out; (c) Transport the above pallets horizontally and bring them near the bottom end of the cooling chamber; (d) Send the above carried pallets upward one after another; (e) Transfer the pallets to the top of the cooling chamber. (f) The pallets that have been lowered are carried out horizontally from near the lower end of the cooling chamber, (g) The pallets that have been carried out are A method for producing packaged processed foods, which comprises grasping all the processed foods arranged and loaded on top, transferring them onto a conveyor while they are in the arrangement state, and sending them to an automatic packaging machine.