JPH039005B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a manufacturing apparatus for frozen okonomiyaki.

The present invention provides a bucket conveyor in which buckets for transporting containers containing okonomiyaki ingredients are connected in an endless ring, and containers are supplied to the buckets along the traveling direction of the conveyor. A filling device that fills the container on the bucket with okonomiyaki ingredients, a pressing device that presses the okonomiyaki ingredients in the bucket tightly and flatly, and a container containing the okonomiyaki ingredients. It is characterized by sequentially installing a sealing device that seals the okonomiyaki to the lid material, so that frozen okonomiyaki can be prepared with almost no human effort.
To provide an apparatus for manufacturing okonomiyaki that is efficient and capable of uniformly manufacturing each product without unevenness.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail according to embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic front view of an okonomiyaki manufacturing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a side view thereof.

A bucket conveyor 3 in which buckets 2 are connected in an endless ring shape is provided in the longitudinal direction of the machine 1, and along the flow of the bucket conveyor 3, containers for storing okonomiyaki ingredients are placed in the buckets 2. An automatic container feeding device 4, an okonomiyaki material filling device 5 that fills the containers on the bucket with okonomiyaki ingredients, and a pressing device that presses the okonomiyaki ingredients in the bucket 2 so that they are dense and flat. 6. A sealing device 7 for sealing a lid material to the container 101 containing the okonomiyaki ingredients is sequentially provided.

The bucket conveyor 3 is made up of bucket carts 2 that are rectangular in plan and have a concave portion 2' in the center, which are successively connected by a chain 8. As the driving vehicle rotates, one side of the bucket carts 2 is conveyed on the rail of the machine base 1. It is formed so that it progresses intermittently over its length.
Note that this speed is configured to be variable as appropriate.

The bucket conveyor 3 is stretched back and forth by a tensioning device 9 provided at the front and rear ends of the machine base 1 in order to stretch and keep it stretched with an appropriate tension. The tension can be changed to

As shown in FIG. 1, the automatic container supply device 4 includes an automatic container supply section 11 and a vacuum suction section 12.
A large number of containers 101 loaded in the container automatic supply section 11
It is formed so that it can be vacuum-suctioned and drawn down one by one by a vacuum suction unit 12 and fitted into a recess 2' provided in the bucket 2 of the bucket conveyor 3. In the vacuum suction section 12, a flexible tube 15 is connected between a blower 13 serving as a vacuum suction source and a suction port 14, and a suction valve 16 is provided at the suction port 14 to repeat the suction operation intermittently. It is formed like this.

Note that the container 101 will be explained here.
The container 101 is a shallow dish-shaped container 101 with a round planar shape.
A flange 103 is provided around the upper opening of 2 and is made of thermoplastic plastic such as polypropylene with a thickness of 0.2 mm to 0.5 mm.

The okonomiyaki material filling device 5 consists of a conical hopper part 17 and a nozzle part 18 attached to the lower part of the hopper part 17. The okonomiyaki material is stored in the hopper part 17 and transferred to a bucket conveyor. When the bucket 2 of No. 3 advances and the empty container 101 reaches just below the nozzle part 18, a certain amount is squeezed out to the nozzle part 18 by a piston type pump, and the nozzle part 18 opens and the okonomiyaki ingredients are poured out. The container 101 is filled from the nozzle part 18.

The Okonomiyaki ingredients are made by kneading meat such as beef, pork, chicken, shrimp, poultry, octopus, oysters, fish and shellfish, vegetables such as green onions and cabbage, chemical seasonings, eggs, etc. with flour and water. It becomes.

When the container 101 is filled with okonomiyaki ingredients by the okonomiyaki material filling device 5, the pressing device 6 causes the okonomiyaki ingredients to pile up in the container 101 as if hard clay has been squeezed out. This is a device that presses the okonomiyaki ingredients in order to put them densely and flatly into the container 101.

That is, the pressing device 6 is provided above the bucket conveyor 3, and is configured to move up and down appropriately on the container 101 in response to the movement of the bucket conveyor 3, which is intermittently fed, and presses the okonomiyaki ingredients. A pressing member 19 that presses the container 101 works in conjunction with the pressing member 19 to cover the opening 104 of the container 101 to prevent the okonomiyaki material from protruding from the container 101 when the pressing member 19 presses the okonomiyaki material. Cover member 2
Consists of 0.

The pressing member 19 is formed by fixing a disc-shaped pressing plate 24 with appropriate small holes 23 to a support shaft 22 connected to the shaft of an actuator 21a such as a cylinder. Pressing plate 24
is formed to move up and down freely toward the container 101. In this example, the pressing plate 24 is formed to have a diameter that is approximately the same length as the diameter of the opening 104 of the container 101. Moreover, the cover member 20 is
A cylindrical metal type cover 25 having a diameter corresponding to the opening 104 of the container 101 is connected to the shaft of an actuator 21b such as a cylinder, and the pressing member 1
It is formed so that it can move up and down toward the container 101 in accordance with the operating state of the container 9 .

The sealing device 7 seals the opening 104 of the container 101 fitted in the bucket 2 of the bucket conveyor 3.
The container 101 is covered with a film lid 105 made of a plastic sheet or film such as polypropylene.
It is a device for sealing the container 101, and includes a lid material supply device 27 that sequentially transfers a wide and long lid material 26, which is the raw material for the film lid, a sealing disk 28 that welds the lid material 26 to the container 101, and It consists of a trimming board 29 that cuts off unnecessary parts of the lid material 26 welded to the opening 104 and leaves only the film lid 105 of a predetermined shape on the opening 104 of the container 101.

The lid material supply device 27 is configured to pull out the lid material 26 from the lid material support 30 on which the rolled lid material 26 is wound, and wind it up onto a take-up roll 31.

The lid material 26 sequentially transferred by the lid material supply device 27 passes through guide rollers 32 that change the traveling direction of the lid material 26, and then is transferred to the bucket conveyor 3.
They are formed to move in parallel and in synchronization with a certain distance (a short distance) between them.

The seal plate 28 is lowered when the bucket 2 reaches directly below, and a heater attached to the circumferential surface of the seal plate 28 welds the lid material 26 to the flange 103 formed around the opening of the container 101. is formed.

The trimming board 29 has a wide and long lid material 26.
, that is, the flange 10 of the container 101
In order to remove the part protruding from 3, seal plate 2
It is located adjacent to 8.

When the container 101 reaches the bottom of the trimming board 29, the trimming board 29 is lowered, and the blade of the trimming board 29 cuts the lid material 26 into the container 101 in a circular shape along the outer periphery of the brim part 103, and the film lid 105 is cut off. Leaving only the portion in the container 101, the lid material 26
The unnecessary portion is configured to be wound up on a winding roll 31.

A discharge cylinder 33 is provided at the part where the bucket conveyor 3 bends downward, and the recess 2' of the bucket 2 is inserted from the back side of the bucket 2.
The cylinder 3 is inserted through a through hole bored in the center of the cylinder 3
The container 101 is pushed out from the bucket 2 by the rod 3.

A discharge guide plate 34 is attached to the final end of the bucket conveyor 3 so that the container 101 pushed out by the discharge cylinder 33 is placed on the conveyor 35.

Next, a method for manufacturing frozen okonomiyaki using the present okonomiyaki manufacturing apparatus will be explained.

First, the machine base 1 is moved to a suitable location, and the anchor bolt 36 is extended at a predetermined position to fix the machine base 1.

Next, the container 101 is loaded into the container automatic supply device 4, and the okonomiyaki material that has been advanced into the hopper section 17 of the okonomiyaki material filling device 5 is placed, for example, by the bucket elevator 37.

Next, when the electric control panel 38 or the like is operated to operate the manufacturing apparatus, the containers 101 are transferred one by one from the automatic container supply apparatus 11 to the bucket conveyor 3 by the suction force of the vacuum suction part 12 of the automatic container supply apparatus 4. is loaded into the bucket 2.

Then, the bucket 2 loaded with the container 101
The process progresses intermittently due to the rotation of the chain 8, and when it reaches just below the okonomiyaki material filling device 5, the okonomiyaki material is filled into the bucket 2 by the filling device 5.

Once filled, the bucket 2 moves forward intermittently, but the okonomiyaki ingredients become piled up inside the container 101, as if hard clay had been squeezed out, and must be forcibly pressed down. Therefore, before reaching the sealing device 7, the container 1 is sealed by the pressing device 6 as shown in FIGS.
Press the okonomiyaki ingredients tightly and flatly into 01. That is, when the container 101 containing okonomiyaki ingredients reaches below the pressing device 6, the pressing member 19
and the cover member 20 is the actuator 21a, 2
1b, the cover 25 of the cover member 20 covers the opening 104 of the container 101, and when it pauses at that position, the pressing member 19 moves up and down an appropriate number of times to push the okonomiyaki ingredients into the container 101. Push it in tightly and evenly.

Once this process is completed, the bucket 2 is moved intermittently one pitch at a time, and an appropriate amount of ginger is sprinkled onto the surface of the okonomiyaki ingredients in the container 101 of each bucket 2 by the automatic supply device 39 on the front side wall of the sealing device 7. Multiply.

The ginger automatic supply device 39, as shown in FIG.
The ginger contained in the container 40 is stirred by a stirrer 41 using a motor or the like, and is allowed to fall in appropriate amounts through a drop hole 42 bored in the right half of the bottom of the container 40.

Next, when the bucket 2 reaches directly below the sealing plate 28, the sealing plate 28 is lowered and heated by the heater of the sealing plate 28 to weld the lid 26 to the flange 103 of the container 101. At this time, the convex portion provided at the center of the seal plate 28 presses the okonomiyaki material from above the lid member 26 to eliminate the air present in the container 101 and the air present in the okonomiyaki material.

When the lid member 26 is welded to the flange portion 103 of the container 101 by the sealing disc 28, the bucket 2 further advances and moves to the trimming disc 29 side. and,
When the container 101 reaches directly below the trimming board 29, the trimming board 29 descends, and the blade of the trimming board 29 cuts the lid 26, removing only unnecessary parts of the lid 26 other than the part that remains on the container 101. is wound onto the winding roll 31.

After this process, when Bucket 2 advances further,
The container 101 filled with the okonomiyaki material is pushed out by the discharge cylinder 33 onto the discharge guide plate 34 and placed on the conveyor 35 .

Next, the okonomiyaki filled in the container by the conveyor 35 is transported to a net conveyor-type ultra-quick freezing device, rapidly frozen for about 30 to 60 minutes, frozen processed, and then taken out from the ultra-quick freezing device. Immediately send it to a bagging device, place it in an airtight bag such as a polyethylene bag, and seal the opening of the airtight bag.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments and can be modified in various ways. For example, an adhesive layer is provided on the lid 26 or the container 101, and the seal plate 28
Alternatively, the lid material 26 and the container 101 may be bonded together by simply pressing with a button, and welding may not be necessary. Moreover, the press plate 24 may be a flat plate without the small holes 23 formed therein.

Since the present invention is configured as described above, it is possible to efficiently produce frozen okonomiyaki uniformly and without any unevenness in each product, with almost no manual effort.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a schematic front view of an okonomiyaki manufacturing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a side view thereof, and FIG. 3 is an explanation explaining the filling situation of okonomiyaki ingredients. Figures 4 to 6 are explanatory diagrams explaining the operating state of the pressing device, Figure 7 is a schematic front view showing the vicinity of the end of the bucket conveyor, and Figure 8 is a schematic diagram of the automatic ginger supply device. FIG. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Machine stand, 2... Bucket conveyor, 4... Container automatic supply device, 5... Okonomiyaki material filling device, 6... Pressing device, 7... Sealing device, 8... ...Chien, 9...Tension device, 10...
...Handle, 11...Container automatic supply section, 12...
Vacuum suction unit, 13... blower, 14... suction port,
15... Flexible tube, 16... Suction valve, 17... Hopper part, 18... Nozzle part, 19... Pressing member, 2
0...Cover member, 21a, 21b...Cylinder, 22...Support shaft, 23...Small hole, 24...Press plate, 25...Cover, 26...Lid material, 27...
Lid material supply device, 28... Seal disk, 29... Trimming disk, 30... Lid material support, 31... Winding roll, 32... Guide roller, 33... Discharge cylinder, 34... Discharge guide Board, 3
5... Conveyor, 36... Anchor bolt,
37... Bucket elevator, 38... Electric control panel, 39... Automatic ginger supply device, 101...
Container, 102...Accommodation part, 103...Brim part, 1
04...opening, 105...film lid.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. An apparatus for manufacturing okonomiyaki for freezing by accommodating okonomiyaki ingredients in a container having a shape corresponding to the shape of okonomiyaki, which accompanies the okonomiyaki ingredients. a bucket conveyor in which buckets for transporting containers are connected in an endless ring; a container feeding device for supplying containers to the buckets; a filling device for filling containers on the bucket with okonomiyaki ingredients; a pressing device that presses the okonomiyaki ingredients densely and flatly; an automatic ginger supply device that supplies ginger to the surface of the okonomiyaki material pressed flat by the pressing device; A manufacturing apparatus for frozen okonomiyaki, characterized in that a sealing device for sealing a lid material to a container containing the okonomiyaki is successively installed.