JPH0731444A - Harvested vegetable processing method and apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Structure] A first transport means B1 or D1 for transporting while holding the bulb portion A1 of the vegetable A and a stem portion A2 of the vegetable A received by the first transport means B1 or D1. Alternatively, the second transporting means B2 or D2 for transporting while sandwiching the root portion A3, the first transporting means B1 or D1 and the second transporting means B2 or D2.
A cutter C for cutting the stem A2 or the root A3 between
Or with E. [Effect] By simply placing the vegetable A on the conveying means B or D, the stem A2 or the root A3 can be cut automatically and uniformly, and a large amount of harvested vegetables can be prepared at a low cost. It becomes possible to perform it easily and efficiently.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a harvested vegetable treatment method and apparatus for harvesting headed vegetables such as onions and then cutting the stems, roots and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heading vegetables such as onions, turnips, radishes, and radish are cut into stems (stems and leaves), roots, etc. immediately after harvesting or after being stored, and their lengths are made uniform. Or, it is necessary to carry out treatments and preparations for various finishings, and the cutting work is an artificial work in which each vegetable is held by hand and cut with a pot, kitchen knife, scissors and the like.

[0003]

Since the above-mentioned conventional processing work is performed artificially, the cutting positions are not uniform, large-scale processing is difficult, work efficiency is poor, and fatigue is large.
The labor cost is high and the cost is high. The present invention is
By conveying the vegetables while holding the bulb portion of the vegetables and sandwiching the stems or roots, and cutting the stems or roots with a cutter, the vegetable processing is automated and uniformized, and a large amount of vegetables can be produced at low cost. An object of the present invention is to provide a method for treating harvested vegetables and a device therefor which can be treated.

[0004]

The concrete means for solving the problems in the method of the present invention is as follows. The conveying means receives the bulb portion of the vegetable and conveys it while sandwiching the stem portion or the root portion, and the cutter is used to convey the stem. To cut a part or root. The concrete means for solving the problem in the device of the present invention is to hold the head portion of vegetables while carrying the first head portion and the stem portion or the root portion of the vegetables held by the first means. It has a second carrying means for carrying while carrying, and a cutter for cutting the stem or root between the first carrying means and the second carrying means.

[0005]

The vegetable A is placed on the front first conveying means B1 and the head portion A1 thereof is received, and the stem organizing means G is conveyed while conveying the same.
To arrange the direction of the stalk portion A2, and sandwich the stalk portion A2 between the front second conveying means B2.
Is transported in a substantially hanging state. While holding the vegetable A by the front first transporting means B1 and the front second transporting means B2, the stalk A2 is cut by the front cutter C between them.

The vegetable A obtained by cutting the stem A2 is further
After forming a series of conveyors with the conveying means B1, it is conveyed by the first conveying means D1 and turned upside down by the reversing means F so that the root A
3 is turned down, and the root portion A3 is conveyed while being sandwiched by the rear second conveying means D2. The root portion A3 is cut by the rear cutter E while being conveyed by both the rear conveying means D1 and D2.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 7, the harvested vegetable processing apparatus 1 is roughly classified into a front conveying means B, a front cutter C, a rear conveying means D, and
A rear cutter E, a stem organizing means G above the front conveying means B,
It has a reversing means F above the rear conveying means D, a machine frame 2 that supports one or a plurality of these in parallel, and a lifting conveyor 3 that lifts the vegetables A onto the front conveying means B.

The lifting conveyor 3 is a bucket conveyor or the like, which is adapted to lift the vegetables A above the front conveying means B and to feed them to the front conveying means B. However, the vegetables A may be artificially supplied to the front conveying means B. The front conveying means B and the front cutter C constitute a stem cutting mechanism 4 which cuts the stem A2 of the vegetable A, and the rear conveying means D and the rear cutter E cut the root A3 of the vegetable A. It constitutes the cutting mechanism 5.

The front transporting means B has a front first transporting means B1 and a front second transporting means B2, and the rear transporting means D has a rear first transporting means D1 and a rear second transporting means D2. The front first transport means B1 and the rear first transport means D1 are a series of conveyors 6.
(Or, it may be a conveyor that is separated in the front and back.) And serves as a ball-conveying means. The front second conveying means B2 is a stem conveying means and the rear second conveying means D2 is a root conveying means.

The conveyor 6 includes four shafts 7 supported by the machine frame 2 and a pair of left and right sprockets 8 provided on each shaft 7.
And a chain 9 wound around each pair of left and right sprockets 8. The upper portion of the chain 9 between the upper sprockets 8 is substantially horizontal and is supported by the front and rear guide rail bodies 10 and 11 to prevent lateral displacement. ing. This conveyor 6
The left and right chains 9 are each formed with an L-shape or have L-shaped members fixed to each other to form a bracket portion 12, and the bracket portion 12 supports the bulb portion A1. A support member 13 is attached.

As shown in FIGS. 5 to 7, the support member 13 is formed of an elastic body such as rubber into a mountain shape in a front view, and a fitting groove 1 for fitting the bracket portion 12 inward from the side surface thereof.
4 are formed, the pair of left and right sides can receive the ball head portion A1, and the corner portion of the conveyor 6 can bend. The support member 13 has a chevron shape, and when three or more chains 9 are arranged in parallel and a plurality of vegetable A transport paths are provided, the supporting member 13 can be attached to the middle chain 9 to support the left and right vegetables A. To do so. The support member 13 may have a half-mountain shape when the vegetable A is supported only on one side thereof.

The conveyor 6 receives the bulb portion A1 of the vegetables A, and the upper (front) side of the conveyor 6 constitutes the front first conveying means B1 of the front conveying means B, and the lower (rear) side thereof is the rear side. The first transporting means D1 constitutes the rear first transporting means D1, and the first transporting means B before the transporting means D
1, a second front transport means B2 is arranged below 1, and a second rear transport means D2 is arranged below the first rear transport means D1.
The front second conveying means B2 and the rear second conveying means D2 are respectively composed of a pair of left and right screw shafts 17 and 18,
The left and right screw shafts 17 (18) rotate so that the opposite side moves from top to bottom.

The pair of left and right screw shafts 17 of the second front transport means B2 clamps the stalk A2 of the vegetable A received by the first front transport means B1 and moves downward by its rotation.
By moving the screw groove, the stalk portion A2 is pushed at substantially the same transport speed as the front first transport means B1, and a pushing force and a downward pulling force act on the stalk portion A2. A front cutter C is disposed on the lower side between the first front transporting means B1 and the second front transporting means B2. In this front cutter C, a pair of left and right cutter blades 19 are attached to the upper part of the vertical axis 20, the left and right cutter blades 19 are overlapped in the middle, and the stem portion A2 of the vegetables A conveyed by the front conveying means B is connected to the head portion A1
Is cut and the stem A2 is pulled downward.

Like the screw shaft 17, the pair of left and right screw shafts 18 of the second rear transport means D2 clamps the root portion A3 of the vegetable A received by the first rear transport means D1 and rotates downward to rotate it. And the root portion A3 is pushed by the movement of the screw groove at substantially the same feeding speed as the rear first feeding means D1, and the pushing force and the downward pulling force act on the root portion A3.

A rear cutter E is disposed on the lower side between the rear first conveying means D1 and the rear second conveying means D2. After this, the cutter E has a pair of left and right cutter blades 21 and a vertical axis 2
2 with the left and right cutter blades 21 overlapping in the middle, with the root portion A3 of the vegetable A conveyed by the rear conveying means D in a state of receiving the bulb portion A1 and pulling the root portion A3 downward. Disconnect. The rear second conveying means D2 and the rear cutter E are located at an upper position closer to the conveyor 6 than the front first conveying means B1 and the front cutter C, and the root portion A3 can be cut short.

The front and rear guide rail bodies 10 and 11 are attached to the machine frame 2 via bolts or the like, and a plurality of bolt holes or long holes are formed to adjust the height stepwise or steplessly. It is free. By adjusting the height of the front guide rail body 10, the front first conveying means B
The height of 1 is changed, and the position of the front cutter C with respect to the vegetable A, that is, the length of the stem portion A2 remaining after cutting to the bulb portion A1 can be adjusted. It is set to 1 to 2 cm, and to 3 to 4 cm for shipping for storage.

By adjusting the rear guide rail body 11, the height of the rear first conveying means D1 is changed, and the position of the rear cutter E with respect to the vegetables A, that is, the length of the root portion A3 remaining after cutting to the bulb portion A1. Can be adjusted. However, it is preferable that the cutting of the root portion A3 is as short as possible. Therefore, the distance between the rear first transporting means D1 and the rear cutter E is made small, and the rear guide rail body 11 is provided.
The position may be fixed.

Power is transmitted from one motor 26 to the drive system of the front conveying means B and the rear conveying means D, and the power transmitted from the motor 26 to the speed reducer 27 is composed of two output shafts 28, It is divided into a conveyor transmission mechanism 30 and a screw shaft and cutter transmission mechanism 31 from 29. The conveyor transmission mechanism 30 is a chain transmission mechanism that transmits to the shaft 7 via the intermediate transmission body 32.

The screw shaft and cutter transmission mechanism 31 transmits to the transmission shaft 34 via the chain transmission means having the intermediate transmission body 33, and drives the common shaft 35 from the transmission shaft 34 via the bevel gear 36. From transmission means 4
It is transmitted to the left and right screw shafts 17 and the left and right screw shafts 18 via 5, 46. Further, the screw and cutter moving mechanism 31 includes the bevel gear 3 of the front cutter C from the common shaft 35.
7 and the bevel gear 38 of the rear cutter E to transmit power to the front and rear pair of left and right ordinates 20 and 22, respectively, and through the transmission gears 39 and 40 provided on the left and right ordinates 20 and 22, respectively. Left and right cutter blades 19 and 2 of each cutter E
Rotate 1 in the opposite direction.

The reversing means F is a rotary brush to which power is transmitted from the motor 26 or another motor, and is disposed above the rear first conveying means D1 of the conveyor 6 on the upper hand side, and the rear first conveying means D1. Rotate in the opposite direction and make a sliding contact with vegetable A,
After cutting the stem A2, the head part A1 of the head part A1 of the vegetable A is cut.
Half turn so that is on top. The reversing means F may be a fixed brush, and the stalk A2 of the vegetable A is cut into a shape close to a sphere so that the vegetable A can easily roll.

The stem organizing means G has an air jet 42 and / or an organizing brush 43. The air ejector 42 injects compressed air from above to the vegetables A on the front first conveying means B1 to change the posture of the laterally oriented stem portion A2 so as to face downward. As shown in FIG. 5, the organizing brush 43 is formed such that the brush is vertically symmetrical with respect to the support member 13 and protrudes downward so as to contact the chevron top portion of the support member 13. The stalk A2, which is placed on the upper part, is lowered from the stalk A2, and the stalk A2 is sandwiched between the screw shafts 17.

The stem organizing means G may be either the air jet 42 or the organizing brush 43.
May be arranged on the upper side of the air ejector 42, or the same one as the stem organizing means G may be arranged on the lower side of the reversing means F to serve as the root organizing means. Next, the harvested vegetable processing method in the harvested vegetable processing apparatus 1 will be described in detail.

The vegetables A immediately after harvesting or after storage are supplied to the front first conveying means B1 by the lifting conveyor 3, and the conveyor 6
The pair of left and right support members 13 receives the ball head portion A1,
This is conveyed. While being transported, the vegetables A supported by the front first transporting means B1 are oriented downward by the stem organizing means G by the stem organizing means G, and pulled downward by the left and right screw shafts 17 of the front second transporting means B2. While being sandwiched, it is conveyed in synchronization with the front first conveying means B1.

Vegetables A are stalks A at both front conveying means B1 and B2.
2 is conveyed in a substantially drooping state with the front facing first conveying means B1 and the second front conveying means B2, and the stalk A2 is cut by the front cutter C between them. The vegetables A obtained by cutting the stalk portion A2 are conveyed to the front first conveying means B1 and the rear first conveying means D1 which forms a series of conveyors 6, and the rotating brush of the reversing means F above the sliding contact with the head portion A1. And root A
Upside down so that 3 is on top.

When the vegetable A is turned upside down, the root portion A3 faces downward, and the root portion A3 is sandwiched while being pulled downward by the left and right screw shafts 18 of the rear second conveying means D2 and synchronized with the rear first conveying means D1. Are conveyed by the rear cutter E while being held by the rear first conveyer D1 and the rear second conveyer D2. FIG. 8 shows a modification of the front conveying means B (the same applies to the rear conveying means D). The front first conveying means B1 is attached to the bracket portion 12 of the chain 9 by L
By fixing the character-shaped support member 47, the head portion A1 of the vegetable A
The second front transport means B2 is composed of a pair of left and right belt conveyors 48, and the left and right belts 4
The stalk portion A2 is sandwiched by 9 pieces. The belt conveyor 48 is slightly inclined downward from the upper side to the lower side so as to pull down the sandwiched stalk portion A2.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, but can be variously modified. For example, the front cutter C and the rear cutter E use two cutter blades, but
Alternatively, the vegetables A may be omitted, and the vegetables A may be manually inverted by omitting the inversion means F. In addition, the harvested vegetable processing device 1 may be configured by only one of the stem cutting mechanism 4 and the root cutting mechanism 5, or may be independently configured and used separately, or these may be arranged in parallel in the reverse direction to form the stem portion. Cutting device 4 to root cutting device 5
The vegetables A can be transported while rolling.

Further, the harvested vegetable processing apparatus 1 can be a stationary type or a portable type, and can be mounted on a harvesting machine such as an onion harvesting machine so as to perform processing at the same time as harvesting. Conveying means B2, rear second conveying means D2, front cutter C
Further, the rear cutter E is arranged, the air blower 42 is arranged on the lower side, and the head portion A1 to the stem portion A2 placed on the conveyor 6 are arranged.
Alternatively, the root portion A3 may be projected upward, and the stem portion A2 or the root portion A3 may be cut while the stem portion A2 or the root portion A3 is suspended by the second conveying means B2, D2.

[0028]

According to the method of the present invention described in detail above, since the conveying means receives the heading portion of the vegetable and holds the stem or the root while conveying the vegetable, the cutter cuts the stem or the root. The stems or roots can be cut automatically and uniformly simply by placing the vegetables on the transportation means, and a large amount of harvested vegetables can be prepared easily and efficiently at low cost. Becomes

According to the device of the present invention, the first carrying means for carrying the head portion of the vegetable while carrying it, and the first carrying means for carrying the stem portion or the root portion of the vegetable received by the first carrying means while nipping it Since it has two conveying means and a cutter for cutting the stem or root between the first and second conveying means, the harvested vegetable preparation process such as cutting the stem or root is automatically performed. And can be done with an inexpensive structure

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional side view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional plan view of the same portion.

FIG. 3 is a sectional side view of the main part.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional plan view of the main part.

FIG. 5 is a sectional front view of the main part.

FIG. 6 is an enlarged sectional front view of the conveyor.

FIG. 7 is an enlarged plan view of a support member.

FIG. 8 is a sectional front view showing a modified example of the conveying means.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Harvested Vegetable Processing Device 2 Machine Frame 3 Lifting Conveyor 4 Stem Cutting Mechanism 5 Root Cutting Mechanism 6 Conveyor 13 Supporting Member A Vegetable A1 Ball Head A2 Stem A3 Root B Front Transport Means B1 Front First Transport Means B2 Front Second Transport Means (Stem Conveying Means) C Front Cutter D Rear Conveying Means D1 Rear First Conveying Means D2 Rear Second Conveying Means (Root Conveying Means) E Rear Cutter F Reversing Means G Stem Arranging Means

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A method for treating harvested vegetables, characterized in that the conveying means receives the heading portion of a vegetable and conveys it while sandwiching the stem or the root, and cutting the stem or the root with a cutter. 2. A first transporting means for transporting while holding a bulb portion of vegetables, and a second transporting means for transporting while sandwiching a stem portion or a root portion of the vegetables received by the first transport means, A harvested vegetable processing apparatus comprising: a cutter that cuts the stem portion or the root portion between the first conveying means and the second conveying means.