JPS60183424A - Automatic delivery apparatus for cooking material - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically process a customer's orders in a short time correctly and to reduce the labor cost by providing a computer adapted to store a customer's orders and send a driving signal for operating a feeder in response to a detection signal of a sensor. CONSTITUTION:Sensors 11, 12a-12h, 13a-13h for detecting the kind and quantity of a specified cooking material among the cooking materials on a conveyer and feeders 9a-9h, 10a-10h for feeding out cooking materials from the conveyer according to detection of each sensor are disposed corresponding to a plurality of tables 6a-6h, 7a-7h arranged along cooking material delivery conveyers 3-5 to deliver a designated cooking material to a designated table among the plural tables. There is provided a computer 2 adapted to store a customer's orders and send a driving signal for operating a feeder in response to a detection signal of each sensor. In this arrangement, a customer's orders can be automatically processed in a short time and correctly to reduce the labor cost.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a device for automatically delivering desired cooked food to restaurants, cafeterias, particularly ramen shops, udon shops, etc., in response to customer orders.

At ramen restaurants and the like, food of different types and quantities must be delivered to each customer's table in a short period of time in response to the orders of a large number of customers. For this reason, it is necessary to employ a large number of clerks at all times for busy times. However, such a busy period is only a very short period of time during the business hours of -day, and in the present day when labor costs have skyrocketed, the burden is simply too great. Moreover, when customers' orders conflict with each other, mistakes are more likely to occur, and the store's reputation can be lost.

Therefore, the present invention has been devised to make it possible to deliver a predetermined food to a predetermined table among a plurality of tables arranged along a food delivery conveyor. The system is equipped with a sensor that detects the food and a delivery device that sends out the cooked food from the conveyor based on the sensor's detection, as well as a computer that stores the customer's order and sends a drive signal to operate the delivery device in response to the sensor's detection signal. The purpose is to automatically process customer orders quickly, accurately, and to save on labor costs.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail based on an illustrated embodiment of an automatic delivery device for a ramen restaurant that delivers utensils such as ramen noodles, rice balls, and grilled pork.

Reference numeral 1 denotes a food supply section which supplies to the conveyor food such as ramen noodles prepared manually or by an automatic ramen cooking device, and utensils such as rice balls prepared manually or by an automatic feeding device.

Reference numeral 2 denotes a computer, which is installed in the supply unit 1, stores the orders of customers for each table number, that is, the type, quantity, and order order of food items, and receives a detection signal from a sensor for detecting food items, which will be described later. It emits a drive signal that drives a delivery device for delivering a predetermined food to a predetermined table.

Reference numeral 3.4.5 is a food delivery conveyor, and the conveyor 3 is loaded with food that has been placed manually (or by an automatic feeding bag W) from the supply section 1, and is supplied to the conveyor 4.5. The conveyor 4.5 is stretched at right angles to the conveyor 3 and parallel to each other. Along the inside of both conveyors 4.5,
Tables 6a16b, 6C1...6h, and 7a, 7
b, 7c.

...7h is arranged. Of course, the conveyor 3.4 and the tables 6a, 6b, 6cm, and 7a17b, 7c, . . . are provided at the same height. Each of the conveyors 3, 4, and 5 is a slat conveyor called a tosopchen, in which boards of approximately 3 cm in width and 30 cm in length are continuously attached to a chain.

Reference numeral 8 denotes a delivery device, which is provided at the same height as the conveyor 3 and close to it, and intercepts the path of the food on the conveyor and sends the food to the conveyor 4 in response to a drive signal from the computer 2.

Also, each table 6a, 6b, 6C1...6h, and 7
A, 7b, 7C1...7h also have similar delivery devices 9a, 9 that send out cooked food from a conveyor to a predetermined table.
b, 9C2-...9h, and 10a, 10b, 10c,
...10h is provided.

A practical delivery device is one in which a shielding plate is attached to a rotary solenoid.

11 on the conveyor 3 side and 12a on the conveyor 4 side.

12b, 12c,...12h2 and 1 of 5 conveyors
3a, 13b, 13c=13h are all food detection sensors, and each of the shielding devices 8.9a, 9b, 9c, .
...9h, and 10a, 10b, 10c, ...10h
Corresponding to the conveyor direction, each is provided in front of the conveyor in the direction of travel. These sensors detect the type and quantity of food by arranging a pair of light emitting elements and light receiving elements one above the other. In addition, the type of food to be cooked can be distinguished between single-motion A and utensil B.If the upper sensor and the lower sensor detect it, it is a single-motion, and if only the lower sensor detects it, it is a utensil. The distinction between rice balls and grilled pork can be easily detected by taking a photograph and storing it in the computer 2 in advance. In addition, the quantity of cooked food passing through the sensor is
Just let the sensor count.

Note that below each of the conveyors 3, 4, and 5, a collection conveyor (not shown) is provided.

From the above-described configuration, orders from customers seated at the table, that is, table number, type, quantity, and order, are input into the computer 2. If the food is placed one by one on the conveyor 3 manually (or automatically) according to the order,
The food is sent one after another to the conveyor 4.5.

Now, if the customer at table 7c orders some cooked food, such as 3 ramen noodles, 2 rice balls, and 1 grilled pork dish, the food will be delivered from the supply section 1 to the conveyor 3 along with many other cooked food items ordered by other customers. sensor 1 according to the order of the order.
1. After passing through the delivery device 8, it is placed on the conveyor 5. Next, when the predetermined food is transported to the front of the predetermined table, a drive signal is issued from the computer 2 based on the detection signal of the food detection sensor 13c.
The delivery device 10c is activated and the predetermined cooked food is delivered to the table 7c.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawing is a schematic plan view of the embodiment. 1... Supply section 2... Computer 3.4.5... Conveyor 6a,... 6h... Table 7a,... 7h... Table 8.9a,... ...9h... Sending device 10a,...
10h...Sending device 11.12a,...12h...
...Sensor 13a, ...13h...Sensor agent Patent attorney Masaharu Yamagami

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A sensor that detects the type and quantity of a predetermined food from the food on the conveyor so that the predetermined food can be delivered to a predetermined table among a plurality of tables arranged along the food delivery conveyor. and a delivery device that sends out the cooked food from the conveyor based on the detection of the sensor are installed corresponding to each table, and a computer that stores the customer's order and sends a drive signal to operate the delivery device upon receiving the detection signal of the sensor. An automatic delivery device for cooked food.