JPH09143A - Automatic apparatus for producing noodle - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide the subject apparatus capable of continuously and sufficiently producing noodle strips and forming the noodles grips into of a prescribed size according to operations as one cycle for each raw material in a prescribed amount. CONSTITUTION: This automatic apparatus for producing noodles is capable of producing noodle strips from a raw material for the noodles. The apparatus comprises a kneading part after feeding the raw material, a rolling part, a noodle strip-forming part and a noodle strip-recovering part as automatic steps and is capable of controlling the transfer of the noodles to the respective steps and operations in the respective steps by a driving and a controlling systems without exhausting the prescribed amount of the noodles, suitably selecting, combining and arranging automatic operating parts for drawing, dividing and uniting of the noodle strips and thereby forming the noodle strips having a cross section of a prescribed size in the noodle strip-forming part.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic noodle making device. More specifically, the present invention simplifies and improves the efficiency of hand-made noodles and the like, which required a huge amount of labor and a lot of time, and loses the original taste of hand-made noodles. The present invention relates to an automatic noodle making device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, various kinds of noodles have been manufactured and marketed, but some of them have the characteristic of maintaining the deliciousness of noodles as a tradition by handwork. As a result, we have built up a work system to make the most of it. There is local somen noodle that is based on such a traditional handicraft. For this noodle, for example, salt and water are added to wheat flour as a raw material for noodles, and if necessary, a water-dissolved product of noodle knot (noodles scraps obtained when the noodles are dried and cut) is added and kneaded. The many steps of rolling the obtained noodle mass, further stretching it into strips, dividing this, further combining them, and finally molding and collecting noodle strings with a predetermined cross-sectional size Is done manually.
In the case of somen noodles, the noodle strings thus obtained are further manually extended, dried and cut into somen noodles.

Mechanical means are partially applied to the above-mentioned forming operation of the noodle strings, and various contrivances have been made as the so-called unit operation for operations such as kneading, stretching and dividing. However, regarding the whole process,
Still, it depends on the labor and time as handwork, and in particular, the operations of stretching, dividing and uniting with forming noodle strings are difficult to mechanize, and handwork guarantees the deliciousness of some noodles. Has been said. However, this kind of labor-intensive and time-consuming handwork adds significant problems such as lack of skilled workers and difficulty in improving productivity. Mechanization that made the best use of was required as a request of the times.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and in the production of noodles such as plain noodles, the production of noodle strips from a noodle raw material can be carried out more easily and efficiently. Moreover, it aims to provide a new means that makes the most of the experience of handwork.

[0005]

Means for Solving the Problems The present invention is, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a noodle making apparatus for producing noodle strings from a noodle raw material, wherein the kneading section after the raw material is supplied,
A rolling unit, a noodle band forming unit and a noodle band collecting unit are provided and driven,
The control system controls the transfer of noodles to each process and the operation in each process without cutting the predetermined amount of noodles.At the noodle band forming unit, the automatic operation unit for stretching, dividing and uniting the noodle strings is selected and combined. Provided is an automatic noodle making device characterized by being arranged.

Further, the present invention also provides an automatic noodle making device in which the noodle strip forming unit is selectively arranged with an automatic operation unit for stretching, dividing and uniting a plurality of combinations. Further, the present invention also provides an automatic noodle making device in which the respective configurations of the above-mentioned automatic operation units are arranged in multiple stages.

[0007]

According to the present invention, with the above-described structure, the noodle band production which has been conventionally performed essentially by hand even if partial mechanical operation is introduced, can be efficiently performed with a simpler structure. Somen noodles with a cross section of a predetermined size,
It makes it possible to automatically produce various noodle strings such as buckwheat noodles and Chinese noodles.

As described above, 1) the movement of the noodles to each step and the operation in each step by the drive / control system are controlled without cutting a predetermined amount of noodles, 2) the noodle strings In the forming unit, automatic operation units for stretching, dividing, and coalescing noodle strings are arranged in a selected combination, and further, this combination is possible.

That is, in the automatic noodle making device of the present invention,
For example, as illustrated in the block diagram of FIG.
In an automatic process including a kneading unit after the raw material supply unit, a rolling unit, a noodle band forming unit, and a noodle band collecting unit, transfer of noodles to each process (S ₁ ) (S ₂ ) (S ₃ ), and further noodles Transfer of noodles in the operation unit for drawing, dividing and uniting in the line forming unit (S ₂₁ ).
(S ₂₂₎ and (S _23), the operation in each step is governed without a predetermined amount of noodles expires.

As described above, the noodle strip forming unit is selectively combined with an automatic operation unit for stretching, dividing and uniting, and a plurality of these units are arranged as one unit of stretching-dividing-uniting. Good. Naturally, the individual automatic operation units are not limited to the example of FIG.
It may be configured in multiple stages such as stretching. In either case, noodle strips having a round or rectangular cross section having a predetermined cross section are collected by the noodle strip collecting unit.

That is, a noodle mass can be formed from a noodle raw material, and one or more noodle masses having various cross-sectional shapes can be recovered from this one noodle mass. Therefore, in the automatic noodle making device of the present invention, the transfer and operation as described above are controlled as a whole system by the drive / control system. Various sensing means for this purpose will be integrated into the drive / control system.

Of course, in the present invention, each part of the process and each operation part can be given various characteristics as a unit. Therefore, the present invention will be described in more detail below with reference to examples of the present invention.

[0013]

EXAMPLES The overall structure of the automatic noodle making apparatus was as outlined in FIG. 1 above. This automatic noodle making device can be aimed at producing noodle strings for producing some noodles. In this configuration, FIG. 2 exemplifies the relationship between the kneading section (10) and the rolling section (11) arranged in the upper and lower positions, and FIGS. 3 and 4 show the kneading section ( It is the figure which illustrated 10).

For example, as illustrated in FIG. 2, FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, the kneading section (10) has a kneading tank section (101) into which a predetermined raw material is charged from above, and this one is A U-shaped end plate (102) and a semi-cylindrical bottom part are formed at the front and rear, and the bottom plate (1
03) and a stirring shaft (104) connected to the drive / control system
And the stirring shaft (104) has a stirring rod (105).

For example, the raw material for the raw noodles consisting of wheat flour, water, salt, and even noodles is put into the kneading tank section (101) of the above kneading section (10) and the stirring shaft (10).
4) is rotated and the raw material mixture is agitated and kneaded so as to be sufficiently uniform by the agitation operation of the agitation rod (105). In this case, stirring is performed by setting a timer or monitoring the paste by arranging a torque sensor or the like, and controlling the addition of raw material components and the rotation speed and rotation time of the stirring shaft (104). The stir bar (105) is appropriately arranged and shaped in consideration of the capacity of the kneading tank part (101), the throughput of the raw material mixture, the required kneading condition and the like.

The noodle mass kneaded to the required kneading condition is
By automatically opening the bottom plate (103) at the bottom of this kneading tank part (101), that is, in FIG. 2 and FIG.
As described above, the bottom plate (103) is opened in the direction (A), and the noodle masses in the kneading tank part (101) are accordingly transferred to the rolling part (11) arranged below the noodle mass. To be done.

In the rolling section (11), as shown in FIGS. 2 and 5, 6, 7, and 8, for example, a plurality of rotating rollers (111) are formed in a downward semicircular shape.
Moreover, they are arranged symmetrically with respect to the center, and
The lowermost rotary roller (111a) at the center has a structure in which the support shaft itself is rotated to expand the mutual gap between the pair of rotary rollers (111a). That is, as shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 6, one or a plurality of pairs of lowermost rotary rollers (111a) are rotated left and right in the direction (B) together with the support shaft.

In this rolling section (11), the rotating roller (1
11) (111a) is a symmetrical array from the center, and as shown in, for example, FIG. 6, all of the arrays are rotated clockwise (α ₁ ) or counterclockwise and the noodles are rotated. Roll the mass. This rotation is achieved by connecting belts, chains, gears, etc. from the driving device (112) shown in FIG. 5 to the respective rotating rollers (111) (111).
It is possible by transmitting power to a). Further, in the rolling section (11), as illustrated in FIG. 7, the slide plates (113) arranged in front and rear are connected to the rotary screw shaft so as to move toward each other or expand. Furthermore, the rotation of the support shaft of the lowermost rotary roller (111a) is caused by the vertical movement of the piston rod (114) by the cylinder mechanism, as shown in FIGS. 5, 6 and 7. It is being done as an expansion and restoration of normal conditions. At the time of expanding the gap, the rolled noodle mass is extruded from between the pair of lowermost rotating rollers (111a). At this time, for example, the left and right arrays of the rotating rollers (111) (111a) rotate toward the lowermost rotating roller (111a) at the center. That is,
For example, in FIG. 6, the rotating roller (11
1) (111a) is clockwise (α ₁ ) direction,
The rotating rollers (111) (111a) arranged on the right side rotate in the counterclockwise (α ₂ ) direction.

For example, a rolling section (11) having the above composition
In Fig. 2, the kneading section (1
No. 0) the bottom plate (103) of the kneading tank section (101) is opened to put the noodle mass into the arranged rotating rollers (1).
11) (111a), and, for example, as shown in FIG. 6, in the symmetrical positional relationship of the arrangement, all the rotating rollers (111) (111a) are indicated by the arrow α as described above.
Rotate in _one direction, thereby, the center of the noodle lumps arrow beta ₁
Roll it by turning it in the direction. At this time, the slide plate (113) gradually moves inward with rolling. That is, they approach each other. This slide plate (1
By the movement of 13), the noodle masses are rolled more effectively by the rotation of the rotary rollers (111) (111a). In addition, at the time of rolling, the number of rotations of the rotating rollers (111) (111a) arranged on the left side and the right side may be changed between the left side and the right side. By doing so, the surface of the noodle strings produced can be made smoother and more beautiful, and the taste can be increased. Further, it is also effective to change the rotational speed of each of the rotating rollers (111) (111a) and set them. Also in this case, the rotational speed may be sequentially increased from one side, for example, from the left side to the right side. The rolling effect will be greater and the noodle surface will be more beautiful and delicious.

When the rolling is completed, as described above, the rotating rollers (111) (111a) are directed toward the center portion, for example, in the clockwise direction (α ₁ ) in the left side arrangement as shown in FIG.
In the right side arrangement, rotate clockwise (α ₂ ). Then, the piston rod (114) shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 is pushed down to lower the rotary roller (111).
Increase the space between a).

By doing so, the noodle masses are drawn to the lower part of the central part, and the lowermost opposing rotary rollers (1
It is extruded downward from between 11a). The extruded strip-shaped noodle strips are shaped into noodle strips having a predetermined thickness and width, for example, by shaping rollers (115) arranged opposite to each other as illustrated in FIG. It is sent to the noodle strip forming part (12) of the process.

Of course, this conveyor is not always necessary, and depending on the configuration of the entire automatic noodle making apparatus, it may be directly sent to the noodle band forming section (12) without passing through the conveyor section. If a conveyor section is provided, the noodle strips are tilted as shown in FIGS. 8, 9 and 10, and the noodle strip is formed on the upper portion of the next noodle strip forming section (12) by the inclined conveyor section (20). It may be supplied.

The inclined conveyor section (20) can be composed of, for example, a lower horizontal conveyor (21), an inclined conveyor (22) and an upper horizontal conveyor (23). In the inclined conveyor part (22), the noodle strips can be transferred by being sandwiched between the upper inclined conveyor (22a) and the lower inclined conveyor (22b).
Upper inclined conveyor (22a) and lower inclined conveyor (22
Between and b), the noodle strips can be adjusted so that the noodle strips are transported while maintaining a required thickness. In addition, the thickness of the noodle strips may be changed by rollers or the like in the transfer conveyor section, if necessary.

Regarding the transfer on the inclined conveyor section (20), etc., as will be described later, the noodle strips continuously maintain a predetermined length and are synchronized with the supply of the noodle strips from the rolling section (11). The noodles are transferred to the next noodle band forming unit without breaking. For example, the noodle strips transferred by the inclined conveyor unit (20) described above are then formed into noodle strips each having a cross section of a predetermined size in the noodle strip forming unit (12). At this time, as shown in FIG. 1, the noodle strips and the noodle strings are stretched, divided, and combined as appropriate.

FIG. 11 shows an example of the noodle band forming part (12). The noodle band (M) is directly fed from the rolling part (11) via the conveyor as described above. Sent
First, it is stretched to a predetermined thickness by a stretching roller (121), divided into a predetermined number in a slitter section (122), and shaped into a noodle string having a predetermined cross-sectional shape by a shaping roller (123).

For example, the noodle strip (M) is divided into nine noodle strips in the slitter portion (122), and each is shaped into a round cross section by a shaping roller (123). This is further transferred by a conveyor (124),
Further, they are kneaded and coalesced in a coalescing section (125), and one of them is molded into a noodle string having a cross section of a predetermined size. For example, the above nine noodle strings are formed into three noodle strings having a round cross section. This one is more
According to 6), it is transferred to a further noodle band forming step.

In such a noodle band forming part (12), means such as rollers for each of the operations of stretching, dividing and uniting are appropriately combined and arranged, and not only the combination of stretching-dividing-uniting but also Various combinations of split-stretch-coalescence, stretch-split-coalescence-coalescence, split-stretch-stretch-coalescence, etc. are possible. Then, a shaping means for adjusting the cross-sectional shape of the noodle band to a predetermined shape or a step therefor may be appropriately disposed between these steps or between the steps.

Further, various concrete means of each step are possible. For example, FIG. 12 shows the slitter section (12
FIG. 2 is a plan view exemplifying FIG. 2), in which triangular rollers formed by facing conical rollers are arranged as a roller (127) and a roller (128), and a gap (129) between them is formed.
A device with a characteristic that the noodle band is divided into the number of is adopted.

FIG. 13 shows an example of the right side view of FIG. 11, in which the slitter section (122) is
For example, noodle strings divided into 9 pieces are
In 3), each will be formed into a round noodle strip. Further, FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating the above-mentioned united portion (125).
FIG. For example, the nine noodle strings having a round cross section transferred by the conveyor (124) are guided by the guide portion (125).
In 1), the three rollers are guided three by three, and the coalescing rollers (125
They are combined in 2), the size of their cross section is adjusted by a roller (1253), and three noodle strings having a round cross section are formed by a shaping roller (1254).

The three noodle strips having a round cross section are transferred by, for example, a conveyor (126) and further combined to form a single noodle strip. In the noodle band forming part (12), for example, 9 pieces are formed from one noodle strip, 3 pieces are formed from these 9 pieces, and then a single round bar or square bar is formed in the manner described above. Such modes are possible. The cross-sectional shape will be appropriately changed in the processing process.

The formed noodle strings, that is, the noodle strings each having a predetermined shape and a predetermined cross-sectional area, are formed to a diameter of about 25 mm in the case of plain noodles.
The oil is processed by oil removal to have a diameter of about 22 mm. Then, finally, the noodle strings are collected in a collecting section (13) equipped with a rotary table (131) illustrated in FIG. 15, for example.
The container (13) placed on the turntable (131)
2) Collect in At this time, when the conveyor arm (133) that discharges the noodle strings (N) is swung left and right, the container (1
32) together with the rotation of the noodle string, the noodle strings are continuously put in a container (13
2) It becomes possible to collect in an arc shape. Further, a plurality of containers (132) may be arranged on the track (134) as shown in FIG. 16 and automatically filled and moved.

A container (132) is provided by providing a mechanism for cutting noodle strings in the arrangement portion of the conveyor arm (133).
In addition, it becomes possible to collect a predetermined number of noodle strings. For example, as described above, the individual operation units, that is, the unit operation sections of the kneading section, rolling section, noodle band forming section and recovery section as shown in FIG. 1, can be variously constructed. In the invention, the entire system of these operation units is linked and automated.

The most important feature for this purpose is that the above-mentioned process operations are linked and automated. This means that the movement of the noodles to each process and the operation in each process are controlled without cutting the predetermined amount of noodles. More specifically, the kneading section and the noodle strips after rolling are continuous without cutting to the collecting section, if desired. In this respect, according to the present invention, the drive and control system is specifically configured.

For this reason, for example, the amount and speed of the noodle strips discharged from the rolling section are synchronized with the speed of movement by the conveyor, supply and discharge accompanying the molding in the molding section, and the final collection speed. It will be. In particular, in the present invention,
In order to enable the above, it is possible to detect the amount of noodle masses or noodle strips entering the shaping roller (115) illustrated in FIG. 8 or the stretching roller (121) illustrated in FIG. Important in control. For example, a photoelectric sensor or the like detects that noodle strips or the like have come out of a predetermined area or range, and the rotation speed of the roller is controlled based on this detection signal so that a fixed amount is transferred.

It is also important to detect the amount of noodle strips when making a predetermined cross-sectional size and whether or not the noodle strips are flowing without being boring. Further, in the fully automatic apparatus of the present invention, it is effective to control the noodle strings while the noodle strings are being transferred and to retain some of the noodle strings or to increase or decrease this retention amount. Also, control is performed so that the distance between the rollers etc. is slightly widened,
It is also effective to make it easier to pass through the noodle strings.

Of course, the present invention can be variously modified in details, and is not limited by the above examples.

[0037]

As described in detail above, the present invention makes it possible to continuously and efficiently produce noodle strings, and to form noodle strings of a predetermined size as one cycle operation for each predetermined amount of raw material. It becomes possible. For example, it would drastically improve conventional manual work and partially mechanized processes.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view illustrating the arrangement of a kneading section and a rolling section.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view illustrating the configuration of a kneading section.

FIG. 4 is a plan view corresponding to FIG.

FIG. 5 is a front view illustrating a rolling unit.

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view illustrating the roller arrangement of the rolling unit.

FIG. 7 is a side view corresponding to FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a front view exemplifying a shaping roller arrangement portion below the rolling portion.

FIG. 9 is a front view illustrating an inclined conveyor.

10 is a plan view corresponding to FIG. 9. FIG.

FIG. 11 is a configuration front view illustrating a noodle band forming unit.

12 is a plan view showing an example of the slitter unit of FIG. 11. FIG.

FIG. 13 is a right side view of FIG.

FIG. 14 is a left side view of FIG.

FIG. 15 is a front view illustrating a noodle band recovery unit.

FIG. 16 is a plan view illustrating a recovery unit including a plurality of containers.

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Ikuo Tsukahara 190 Tatsunocho, Tatsuno-cho, Tatsuno-shi, Hyogo Far East Industrial Machinery Co., Ltd. (72) Kazuhisa Mizuta 190 Tatsuno-cho, Tatsuno-cho, Tatsuno, Hyogo 190 Far-east Machine stock company (72) Inventor Yasuaki Matsui 190 Tatsuno-cho, Tatsuno-cho, Hyogo-ken, Far East Industrial Machinery Company (72) Inventor Koroshin Shin 190 Tatsuno-cho, Tatsuno-cho, Hyogo-ken, Far East Machinery ceremony In the company

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A noodle making device for producing noodle strings from noodle raw materials, comprising a kneading section, a rolling section after the raw materials are supplied, as an automatic step.
A noodle band forming unit and a noodle band collecting unit are provided, and the transfer of the noodles to each process and the operation in each process are controlled by a drive and control system without cutting a predetermined amount of noodles. An automatic noodle making device, wherein automatic operation units for drawing, dividing and combining lines are selectively arranged to form noodle strings having a predetermined cross section. 2. The automatic noodle making device according to claim 1, wherein an automatic operation unit for stretching, dividing and uniting a plurality of combinations is selectively arranged in the noodle band forming unit. 3. The automatic noodle making device according to claim 1, wherein the respective configurations of the automatic operation units are arranged in multiple stages.