JPH0449910Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to a hat for drying somen noodles, and in particular, the invention automatically adjusts the interval between the upper and lower chopsticks according to the drying state of the noodle strings, and This invention relates to the improvement of a hat for drying somen noodles that can be stretched steplessly.

[Conventional technology]

Somen is made by mixing the raw flour with water and salt, then aging it over time until it becomes thin like a string.When it has a diameter of about 1cm, it is tied between two hanging chopsticks in a figure 8 shape and pulled into thin strips. be done. In the subtraction process,
The distance between the hanging chopsticks is increased to about 50cm to 1m, and the noodle strings are stretched to a diameter of about 0.5cm. After this, it is placed in a room to mature for a while before being pulled out. In the ohiki process, the distance between the hanging chopsticks is stretched to about 2 meters, and the noodle strings are dried in the sun in this stretched state. The time required for the drying process to dry the rolled noodle strings is such that the moisture contained in the noodle strings is
Although it varies depending on humidity, strength of sunlight, etc., it is often around 2 hours.

A chimney is used in this drying process. Haha,
For example, as shown in Fig. 6, a pair of upright columns 1a, 1b is provided, an upper hanging rod 2 is attached to the upper part of both columns 1a, 1b, and a middle hanging rod 2 is attached to the middle height part of both columns 1a, 1b. A rod 3 and a lower hanging rod 4 are respectively hung between the lower parts of both supports 1a and 1b. Each end of the upper hanging rod 2 is inserted into a notch 5, 6 formed in the upper part of each support column 1a, 1b so as to be movable up and down. Then, the raising plate 7 is inserted under both ends of the upper hanging rod 2 in the notches 5 and 6. The raised plates 7 have different heights in a stepped manner, and by changing the insertion depth of the raised plates 7 into the notches 5 and 6, the height of the upper hanging rod 2 can be adjusted. .

In the drying process, usually, as shown by arrow A, the end of one of the pair of hanging chopsticks 9a wrapped around the large drawn noodle strings 8 is inserted into the insertion hole 2a formed in the upper hanging rod 2. , the other hanging chopstick 9b is placed on the middle hanging rod 3.
into the insertion hole 3a formed in . After aging for several minutes, as shown in arrow B in FIG. 6 and in FIG. Can be replaced with 4a. Thereafter, as the noodle strings 8 dry as time passes, the tension of the noodle strings 8 increases, so to prevent the noodle strings 8 from breaking, the raising plate 7 By changing the insertion depth and lowering the height of the upper hanging rod 2 in stages, the interval between the upper and lower hanging chopsticks 9a, 9b is reduced.

[The problem that the idea attempts to solve]

By the way, since the work of changing the insertion depth of the raising plate 7 in the drying process relies on manual labor, the drying process also requires a lot of manual labor. Further, since the interval between the upper and lower chopsticks 9a, 9b is adjusted stepwise, the tension of the noodle strings 8 may exceed a certain level and the noodle strings 8 may break.

Therefore, in order to solve this problem, for example, in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 58-54944, an upper hanging rod is provided between the upper parts of a pair of upright columns so as to be able to move vertically, and the middle height of both columns is fixed. A middle hanging rod is fixed and stretched across the lower parts of both supports, a lower hanging rod is fixed and stretched across the lower parts of both supports, and a telescopic beam is provided between the upper hanging rod and the middle hanging rod, A rack for drying somen noodles has been proposed, which includes a rack for extending and contracting the telescopic beam, a gear, and a handle for operating the same, and a spring is interlocked with the telescopic beam to apply tension to the somen noodles. This made it possible to automate the tension adjustment associated with the drying of somen noodles, but this conventional technique had the following problems.

In other words, when the spacing between the somen noodles is initially set by operating the handle after the noodles are hung on the upper and lower hanging rods, the spring used is compressed following the handle operation, and the spring reaction force acts on the noodles, creating tension on the somen noodles. will be granted. As a result, if the somen tries to shrink as it dries from the state where it is balanced with this initial tension, the distance between the upper and lower hanging rods will not shrink unless the shrinkage force is greater than the initially balanced restoring force of the spring. be. The fact that spring pressure acts on the somen noodles at the time of initial setting means that the spring pressure on the somen noodles increases during drying, leading to a situation where the noodles break when they dry and try to shrink.

The present invention was made in consideration of the above circumstances, and it is possible to automatically and steplessly set the distance between the upper and lower hanging chopsticks according to the drying state of the noodle strings. Another object of the present invention is to provide a hat for drying somen noodles that prevents breakage during drying of somen noodles.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned purpose, the hat for drying somen noodles according to the present invention is provided with an upper rod that extends between the upper parts of a pair of upright pillars so that the vertical position can be displaced, and A middle hanging rod is fixed and stretched between the legs, a lower hanging rod is fixed and stretched across the lower parts of both supports, and a telescopic beam is provided between the upper hanging rod and the middle hanging rod. , the somen drying device is provided with a rack for extending and contracting the telescopic beam, a gear, and a handle for operating the same, and a spring is interlocked with the telescopic beam to apply tension to the somen noodles; The lower chopstick part of the telescopic beam is formed into a frame shape surrounding the middle hanging rod so as to be slidable up and down with respect to the middle hanging rod, and the spring is suspended and supported on a mounting plate fixed to the middle hanging rod. and is configured to be elastically supported by a spring seat provided at the lower end of the telescoping beam, and to restrict expansion and contraction of the spring when setting the initial extension position of the telescoping beam by operating the handle; After the setting, a locking means is provided to allow the spring to freely expand and contract.

The locking means may be constituted by a locking plate movably provided on the lower side of the mounting plate of the middle hanging rod so as to come into contact with the lower side of the spring seat of the telescopic beam, or A locking frame is provided on a part of the telescoping beam, and the lower end of a slidable support plate is fixed to the middle rod on the locking frame, and the support plate is pressed against the telescoping beam with a screw. Preferably, it is configured to be fixed and unfixed.

[Effect]

According to the present invention, since a spring is interposed between each end of the upper hanging rod and the support, the hanging chopsticks supported by the upper hanging rod and the hanging chopsticks supported by the lower hanging rod can be moved. When the tension of the wrapped noodle strings increases, the spring is shortened or expanded and the upper hanging rod is lowered, thereby shortening the distance between the upper and lower hanging chopsticks and preventing the tension of the noodle strings from exceeding a certain level. Ru. In other words, the distance between the upper and lower chopsticks is automatically and steplessly adjusted without any human intervention, and it is possible to prevent the tension of the noodle strings from exceeding a certain level and causing them to break. .

In particular, according to the present invention, with the above configuration, the spring does not exert a large effect on the somen noodles in the initial setting of the position of the upper and middle hanging rods when the somen noodles are hung, and when this initial setting is locked, The spring becomes free only when the locking means is released (removal of the locking plate), so even if there is a slight contraction during somen drying, the spring can be contracted with a small force, and a large tension is already applied with the conventional initial setting. compared to when
This greatly reduces the chance of somen noodles breaking due to drying.

〔Example〕

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Hereinafter, a hat for drying somen noodles according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail based on the drawings.

This is an upright one, as shown in Figure 1.
A pair of struts 1a and 1b are provided, with an upper hanging rod 2 between the upper parts of both the struts 1a and 1b, a middle hanging rod 3 between the middle height parts of both the struts 1a and 1b, and both struts 1a and 1b.
A lower hanging rod 4 is passed between the lower parts of the two. Each end of the upper hanging rod 2 is inserted into a notch 5, 6 formed in the upper part of each support column 1a, 1b so as to be movable up and down.

Each end of the upper hanging rod 2 is made to protrude to the outside of the columns 1a, 1b, and both ends of the middle hanging rod 3 are made to protrude to the outside of the columns 1a, 1b via a telescoping beam 10 and a spring 11 made of a compression coil spring. It is elastically supported by the parts.

The telescopic beam 10 has a double inner and outer rectangular tube 10a,
10b, and its length can be adjusted by operating a telescopic operating device 12 provided at its intermediate height.

As shown in FIG. 2, this telescopic operation device 12 is constructed by meshing a gear 12a rotatably supported at an intermediate height of the outer corner tube 10b with a rack 12b provided on the inner corner tube 10a. The length of the telescopic beam 10 can be adjusted by rotating a handle 12c connected to the handle 12a. Further, this telescopic operation device 12 has a gear 1
A tilting device 12d is provided to prevent rotation of the beam 2a in the beam shortening direction.
By operating d, the length of the telescopic beam 10 can be kept constant.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the spring 11 is received by a spring seat 14 suspended from a mounting plate 13 fixed to each end of the middle hanging rod 3, and is received at the lower end of the telescopic beam 10. It is designed to elastically support a spring seat 15 provided in the. This spring seat 15 is fitted onto each end of the middle hanging rod 3 so as to be able to rise and fall freely, and a locking plate 16 provided on the lower side of the mounting plate 13 so as to be movable forward and backward is extended to the lower side of the spring seat 15. By doing so, it can be fixed at a raised position where it abuts the lower surface of the mounting plate 13.

The upper chopsticks 2, the middle chopsticks 3, and the lower chopsticks 4 each have a number of insertion holes 2a, 3a, 4a for inserting one end of the chopsticks 9a, 9b wrapped around the noodle strings 8, respectively.
is formed.

In the above structure, the upper and lower hanging chopsticks 9a, 9b are wrapped around the large drawn noodle strings 8, with the spring receiver 15 fixed in the raised position by the locking plate 16.
are supported by the upper chopsticks 2 and the lower chopsticks 4 in the same manner as before, and the height of the upper chopsticks 2 is adjusted using the telescopic operation device 12 so that the noodle strings 8 are not slack. After that, the ratchet device 12d is operated to maintain the length of the telescopic beam 10 constant, and the locking plate 16 is pulled out so that the spring seat 15 can freely descend, so that the noodle strings 8 are dried. When the tension increases, the tension of the noodle strings 8 causes the spring 11 to balance out the tension of the noodle strings 8 and the elasticity of the spring 11.
is shortened. Therefore, the upper and lower hanging chopsticks 9a, are automatically and steplessly adjusted without any manual effort.
By adjusting the interval between the noodle strings 9b, the tension of the noodle strings 8 is prevented from increasing beyond a certain level, and breakage of the noodle strings 8 due to an increase in tension during drying can be reliably prevented.

In addition, in the present invention, it is essential in the present invention to form notches 5 and 6 in the upper part of each support column 1a and 1b, and to insert both ends of the upper hanging rod 2 into these notches 5 and 6 so as to be able to move up and down. Rather, the upper hanging rod 2 is connected to the supports 1a, 1b, simply via the telescopic beam 10 or an alternative beam of constant length and the spring 11.
Alternatively, it may be supported by a middle hanging rod 3 or a lower hanging rod 4 fixed to these. However, as in the above embodiment, both ends of the upper hanging rod 2 are
When inserting it into the notches 5 and 6 formed in the upper part of the upper part so that it can be raised and lowered, both ends of the upper hanging rod 2 are guided up and down by the parts of the struts 1a and 1b before and after the notches 5 and 6. This is advantageous because the vertical movement of the rod 2 can be stabilized. In addition, in the present invention, the spring 11
The spring 11, which is a compression coil spring, is placed on the upper side of the middle hanging rod 3 or the lower hanging rod 4, and the upper hanging rod 2 is interposed between the supports 1a, 1b and the upper hanging rod 2. It is also possible to support the rod 2 directly or via a telescoping beam or a beam of constant length. Also, for example, the spring 11 can be
a, 1b, or the spring 11 can be built into the supports 1a, 1.
The end portions of the receiving rod 2 may be received by a spring receiving seat (not shown) adhesively fixed to b, or each end of the receiving rod 2 may be received by the spring 11 directly. Furthermore, it is not essential to the present invention that the springs 11 be composed of compression coil springs; for example, each end of the upper rod 2 may be suspended and supported via the springs 11 made of tension coil springs on the columns 1a and 1b. or post 1a,
It is also possible to interpose a spring 11 made of a torsion coil spring between the bottom surface of the notches 5, 6 of 1b and the upper hanging rod 2.

In addition, instead of the above-mentioned locking plate 16,
A locking structure as shown in can also be adopted. That is, the locking frame 30 is attached to the lower surface of the square tube 10a, and the upper end of the support plate 31 is inserted into the gap 30' provided between the locking frame 30 and the square tube 10a. The upper end of the support plate 31 is pressed and fixed to the rectangular tube 10a by a screw 32 screwed through from the outside, and the lower end of the support plate 31 is supported by the middle rod 3. This allows the same function as the locking plate 16 to be provided by loosening the screw 32 when necessary.

[Effect of idea]

As described above, according to the somen drying head of the present invention, it is possible to automatically apply a predetermined tension when drying somen. Due to the structure of the middle hanging rod and the spring receiving seat, the spring does not displace when setting the initial interval of the upper middle hanging rod over which the somen noodles are hung, and large spring pressure does not act on the somen noodles when the locking means is released. This has the remarkable effect of preventing as much as possible the situation where somen noodles break due to large spring pressure when they shrink as they dry.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a front view of a hat for drying somen noodles according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an enlarged longitudinal cross-sectional view of its telescopic operation device, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged longitudinal cross-section of the essential parts of the hat. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view taken along the line shown in Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 a.
is a tilted view showing another embodiment of this invention, FIG. 5b
5 is a partial sectional view of FIG. 5a, FIG. 6 is a front view of a conventional hat for drying somen noodles, and FIG. 7 is a side view thereof. In the figure, 1a...post, 1b...post, 2...top hanging rod, 3...middle hanging rod, 4...bottom hanging rod, 11...spring.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claim for Utility Model Registration] (1) An upper hanging rod is provided so as to be vertically movable over the upper parts of a pair of upright columns, and a middle hanging rod is fixed between the mid-height parts of both columns. A lower hanging rod is fixed to the lower part of both supports, and a telescopic beam is provided between the upper hanging rod and the middle hanging rod, and a rack and a gear for expanding and contracting the telescopic beam. and a handle for operating the same, and a spring is interlocked with the telescopic beam to apply tension to the somen noodles. It is formed into a frame shape surrounding the rod and is configured to be able to freely slide up and down with respect to the middle hanging rod, the spring is received by a spring receiving seat suspended and supported by a mounting plate fixed to the middle hanging rod, and The telescoping beam is configured to be elastically supported by a spring seat provided at the lower end thereof, and the expansion and contraction of the spring is restricted when the initial extension position of the telescoping beam is set by operating the handle, and after the setting, the expansion and contraction of the spring is freely allowed. A hat for drying somen noodles, characterized in that it is provided with a locking means for drying somen noodles. (2) The locking means is constituted by a locking plate that is movably provided on the lower side of the mounting plate of the middle hanging rod so as to come into contact with the lower side of the spring seat of the telescopic beam. Utility model claim No.
A hat for drying somen noodles as described in item (1). (3) The locking means includes a locking frame provided on a part of the telescoping beam, the lower end of the slidable support plate being fixed to the locking frame to the middle rod, and the support plate being fixed to the locking frame with a screw. 2. The handle for drying somen noodles as set forth in claim (1) of the utility model, characterized in that the handle is configured to press against the telescopic beam to fix and release the fixation.