Cutting device

Abstract

To provide a cutting device in which a short smoked chain-shaped sausage material is free from remaining in a state hanging from a pole, by the fastening of a cut remainder of a binding part that is cut off by the cutter.SOLUTION: In a cutter unit 2, there is provided a scraping member 24 at a position rearward from a cutter 23, when the cutter unit 2 moves by sliding in the cutting direction of the cutter unit 2. With the cutter unit 2 moving by sliding in the cutting direction, first, the cutter 23 cuts off a binding part 201, and then a scraped piece 27 of the scraping member 24 pressurizes a sausage 202 part on both sides of the binding part 201 to scrape off the cut remainder of the binding part 201 that is fastened to a pole 300.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

[Technical field]

[0001] The present invention relates to a cutting device for a linked sausage material, which cuts the portions of a binding part of a long smoked linked sausage material wound in a loop shape around a rod so that the binding part is intermittently received on the upper surface of the rod with a cutter, thereby producing a plurality of short smoked linked sausage materials. [Background technology]

[0002] Smoked sausages are produced, for example, as follows. (1) Ground or chopped meat from birds or animals is seasoned with salt and spices and stuffed into a casing made from the intestines of sheep, pigs, cows, etc. or artificial materials, and the casing is twisted at each sausage length to form a knot, after which a long raw chain-like sausage material is formed. (2) The long raw linked sausage material thus formed is looped around a rod at the desired length, wound spirally around the rod, and hung from the rod in a state in which the tied portions at the top ends of each loop can be received by the rod. (3) The long, linked sausage material is placed in a smoking device while hung on a pole as described above, and is heated and smoked to obtain a long, smoked, linked sausage material. (4) The thus obtained long smoked chain-like sausage material is removed from the smoking device, and each bound portion is cut to obtain smoked sausages.

[0003] Incidentally, one cutting device capable of cutting linked sausage material at each binding part to make a single sausage is a rotating drum type cutting device in which the linked sausage material is placed into a drum, and as the drum is rotated, a cutter provided inside the drum cuts the binding parts that get caught (Patent Document 1). However, in the case of this drum rotary cutting device, if the chain-like sausage material fed into the drum is too long, the chain-like sausage material becomes entangled with each other inside the drum, making it difficult to cut it properly.

[0004] Therefore, the long smoked linked sausage material is cut into short linked sausage material of a length that does not tangle by the above-mentioned drum rotary cutting device, and then this short linked sausage material is fed into the drum of the drum rotary cutting device. A cutting device 100 has already been proposed as a cutting device for cutting this long-length smoked chain-like sausage material into short-length chain-like sausage materials (Patent Document 2).

[0005] As shown in FIG. 6, the cutting device 100 includes a support 110, a cutter unit support portion 120, a cutter unit 130, a rod conveying device 140, and a receiving member 150 for receiving short chain-like sausage material. The cutter unit support part 120 is supported at one end by the support pillar 110, and includes a guide bar 121, a drive pulley 122 rotated by an electric motor (not shown), a driven pulley 123, and an endless belt 124 stretched between the drive pulley 122 and the driven pulley 123.

[0006] The guide bar 121 is supported by a support 110 and held horizontally. The endless belt 124 rotates in the driving direction of the drive pulley 122 .

[0007] The cutter unit 130 includes a slider 131 and two cutters 132 , 132 supported by the slider 131 . The slider 131 includes a belt fixing portion 133 that is fixed to the endless belt 124 and a cutter support portion 134 that supports two cutters 132, 132.

[0008] That is, the cutter unit 130 advances and retreats toward the support 110 while being guided by the guide bar 121 as the endless belt 124 is driven. Further, the cutter unit 130 includes a lifting means (not shown) for lifting at least the cutter support portion 134 using a cam mechanism.

[0009] The cutting device 100 repeats the following operations (1) to (6) to continuously obtain short chain-like sausage materials. (1) The cutter unit 130 is moved to a cutting start position (position shown in FIG. 6) where the cutter 132 faces one end of the rod 300. At this time, the cutter support part 134 is raised by the lifting means so that the cutter 132 is in an upper non-cutting position. (2) The long smoked chain-like sausage material 200 wound around the rod 300 is transported by the rod transporting means 140 so that the central axis of the rod 300 is directly below the cutters 132, 132 of the cutter unit 130, with both longitudinal ends of the rod 300 received by the receiving portions 141 of the rod transporting means 140. (3) The cutter support portion 134 is lowered by the lifting means so that the cutters 132, 132 of the cutter unit 130 are positioned to cut the bound portion 201 of the long chain of smoked sausage materials 200 wound around the pole 300. (4) While the cutter unit 130 is moved toward the other end of the pole 300, the bound portion 201 on the pole 300 is cut by the cutters 132, 132. (5) As a result of this cutting, the long smoked sausage material 200 becomes a plurality of short smoked sausage materials each having a length of one loop (not shown), and these are received in a short smoked sausage material receiving member 150 such as a receiving basket or a receiving stand below. The short smoked sausage material received by the short smoked sausage material receiving member 150 is fed into a rotary drum type cutting device in the subsequent process. (6) After cutting is completed, the cutter support portion 134 is raised by the lifting means so that the cutter 132 is in the upper non-cutting position, and the rod transporting device transports the emptied rod 300 from below the cutter unit 130 to a receiving portion (not shown) for the empty rod 300, and transports the next rod 300 around which the long smoked chain-like sausage material 200 is wrapped so that it is directly below the cutters 132, 132. [Prior art documents] [Patent documents]

[0010] [Patent Document 1] JP 2004-276198 A [Patent Document 2] JP 2005-34081 A Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0011] However, when a long raw linked sausage is heated and smoked while wrapped around a rod as described above, the binding portion 201 of the long smoked linked sausage material 200 may become stuck to the rod 300 by adhesion or adhesion due to oils and the like in the smoke. When the binding portion 201 is fixed to the pole 300 in the manner described above, even if the binding portion 201 is cut by the cutter 132 as described above, the short smoked chain-like sausage material may not fall naturally but may remain hanging from the pole 300. Therefore, an operator must peel off the bound portion 201 of the short smoked sausage material, which is fixed to the rod 300, from the rod by hand or with a tool, and drop the short smoked sausage material so that it is received in the short smoked sausage material receiving portion such as the receiving stand, receiving basket, or hopper.

[0012] The present invention has been made in consideration of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and has as its object to provide a cutting device in which the remaining cut parts of the binding parts cut by the cutter do not stick to each other, causing short smoked chain-like sausage materials to be left hanging from a rod. [Means for solving the problem]

[0013] In order to achieve the above object, the cutting device according to the present invention (hereinafter referred to as "the cutting device of the present invention") comprises a cutter unit having a slider which slides and a cutter which slides together with the slider, and in a state in which a long linked sausage material in which sausages and bound parts are alternately and continuously wound in a spiral shape around a rod, the bound parts are received intermittently and at intervals in the longitudinal direction on the rod and suspended from the rod, the cutter unit slides the cutter together with the slider above the rod in the longitudinal direction of the rod, and the cutter cuts the part of the bound part received on the rod to produce a plurality of short linked sausage materials, the cutting device comprising: a scraping means which slides from behind the cutter following the sliding movement of the cutter or after the sliding movement of the cutter has been completed, and which is capable of pressing both sides of the part of the bound part of the linked sausage material cut by the cutter The scraping means includes a member body that slides together with the slider in the sliding direction of the slider, and a pair of scraping pieces that are symmetrical on the left and right. The pair of scraping pieces sandwich the rod from both sides, and the lower end of the scraping piece is pivotally supported by the member body so as to be movable in a direction away from the rod. It is characterized by the fact that

[0014] In the present invention, the portion pressed on both sides of the portion cut by the cutter may be either the cut remainder of the binding portion cut by the cutter or a sausage portion continuous with this cut remainder, but the sausage portion is preferred. In the present invention, the cutter may have one blade or two or more blades as long as it can reliably cut the bound portion.

[0015] In the cutting device of the present invention, the scraping means may be separate from the cutter unit as long as the scraping means slides from the rear as the cutter slides in the cutting direction along the binding portion, but it is preferable that the scraping means is integrated into the cutter unit. In other words, there is no need to provide a separate drive source for the scraping means, and the entire device can be made compact.

[0017] Furthermore, the scraping means is not particularly limited, but it is preferable that the scraping means includes a biasing means for biasing the sides of the pair of scraping pieces below the rod in directions in which they approach each other. In other words, with the above configuration, the lower end of the scraping piece can be clamped to the rod and held in a fixed position, and as it slides, the sausage portion can be pressed reliably and scraped off with a strong, stable force. The biasing means is not particularly limited, but examples thereof include a coil spring, a leaf spring, and a rubber elastic body.

[0018] Furthermore, although not particularly limited, the scraping means is preferably configured such that the lower end of each scraping piece has a tapered surface that is inclined in a direction away from the other scraping piece toward the lower end. That is, with the above configuration, when the rod is inserted between the two scraping pieces from below the slider, the rod first hits the tapered surface, so that the rod is likely to move in a direction that widens the gap between the lower ends of the two scraping pieces. Therefore, even in the case where a biasing means is provided, the rod can be easily inserted accurately to the scraping position between the two scraping pieces.

[0019] The cutting device of the present invention may be provided with a rod transport mechanism for transporting the rod with the long, linked sausage material wound thereon to below the cutter unit. The rod transport mechanism is not particularly limited, but examples include a configuration in which a pair of endless belts such as chains or timing belts rotated by a drive means are arranged in parallel at a pitch that allows both ends of a rod to be received, and rod receiving sections with grooves on the outer surface of the endless belt are provided at the desired pitch to receive the ends of the rod from below; a configuration in which a bar is hung between the endless belts and a rod receiving section is provided on this bar; and a configuration in which a rod is hung between rod receiving sections provided on a bar and a transport means is provided to move the bar while receiving the rod.

[0020] The cutting device of the present invention may be connected to a rotating drum type cutting device so that the short chain-like sausage material obtained by the cutting device of the present invention can be fed directly from the receiving table to the rotating drum type cutting device, or the material may be transported from the receiving table to the rotating drum type cutting device manually or by means of a conveyor belt. Effect of the Invention

[0021] As described above, the cutting device of the present invention comprises a cutter unit having a slider which slides and a cutter which slides together with the slider, and in a state in which a long linked sausage material in which sausages and bound parts are alternately and continuously wound in a spiral shape around a rod, the bound parts are received intermittently and at intervals in the longitudinal direction on the rod and suspended from the rod, the cutter unit slides the cutter together with the slider above the rod in the longitudinal direction of the rod, and the cutter cuts the part of the bound part received on the rod to produce a plurality of short linked sausage materials, the cutting device further comprising scraping means which slides from behind the cutter following the sliding movement of the cutter or after the sliding movement of the cutter has been completed, and which is capable of pressing both sides of the part of the bound part of the linked sausage material cut by the cutter. The scraping means includes a member body that slides together with the slider in the sliding direction of the slider, and a pair of scraping pieces that are symmetrical on the left and right. The pair of scraping pieces sandwich the rod from both sides, and the lower end of the scraping piece is pivotally supported by the member body so as to be movable in a direction away from the rod. Therefore, even if the heating and smoking causes the binding portion to become fixed to the rod and the short, linked sausage material formed by the cut remaining portion of the binding portion does not fall off the rod simply by cutting the binding portion with a cutter, the scraping member presses the sausage portions on both sides of the cut portion to peel off the fixed portions of the cut remaining portion of the binding portion. This eliminates the need for workers to remove the parts by hand or using a tool, improving productivity. Furthermore, since it is only necessary to attach the support part to the rear of the slider in the sliding direction so that it slides together with the slider, the number of parts does not increase significantly and manufacturing can be carried out using conventional cutting equipment, with almost no increase in cost compared to conventional methods. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0022] [Figure 1] 1 is a view showing a first embodiment of a cutting device of the present invention, showing a main part thereof as viewed from a direction perpendicular to the sliding direction of a cutter unit. [Diagram 2] 2 is a view of the main part of the cutting device in FIG. 1 as viewed from the rear side during a cutting operation of a cutter unit. [Diagram 3] 2 is a view of the cutter support part of the cutting device in FIG. 1 as viewed from the front side in the sliding direction during cutting operation. [Figure 4]2 is a view of the scraping member of the cutting device of FIG. 1 as viewed from the rear side in the sliding direction during cutting operation. [Diagram 5] 13 shows a modified example of the scraping member, in which the cutter support portion is viewed from the rear side in the sliding direction during a cutting operation. FIG. [Figure 6] FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory diagram of a cutting device disclosed in Patent Document 2. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0023] DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a cutting device according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings showing an embodiment thereof. FIG. 1 is a side view of the main parts of a cutting device of a first embodiment of the present invention, viewed from a direction perpendicular to the sliding direction of a cutter unit; FIG. 2 is a view of the main parts of the cutting device of FIG. 1, viewed from behind when the cutter unit is performing a cutting operation; FIG. 3 is a view of the cutter support part of the cutting device of FIG. 1, viewed from the front side in the sliding direction during cutting operation; and FIG. 4 is a view of the cutter support part of the cutting device of FIG. 1, viewed from the rear side in the sliding direction during cutting operation.

[0024] As shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, the cutting device 1 basically has the same configuration as a conventional cutting device, except that the cutter unit 2 is configured as follows. As shown in FIG. 2, the cutter unit 2 is provided in two parallel units, and includes a slider 21, a cutter support portion 22, two cutters 23, and a scraping member 24 as shown in FIGS.

[0025] The slider 21 is provided at its lower end with a lifting means 21a for raising and lowering the cutter support part 22, and although its upper end is not shown, it is fixed to an endless belt as in the conventional cutting device 100 shown in Figure 6, and is adapted to slide by the drive of the endless belt. The cutter support portion 22 is fixed to the lower end of the lifting means 21a via an arm 22a, and is adapted to rise and fall in synchronization with the lifting operation of the lifting means.

[0026] The two cutters 23, 23 are disposed so as to cross each other in the front-rear direction in the sliding direction of the slider 21, as shown in FIGS.

[0027] The scraping member 24 is attached to the cutter support part 22 so as to be located behind the cutters 23, 23 in the sliding direction during the cutting operation of the cutter support part 22 shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 4, the scraping member 24 comprises an arm-shaped main body 26 and a pair of symmetrical scraping pieces 27, 27 whose upper ends are pivotally supported on one side of the main body 26 so as to be freely rotatable.

[0028] That is, the member body 26 has grooves 26a formed on one side thereof facing the cutters 23, 23, into which the scraping pieces 27, 27 are inserted, and the other side is fixedly supported by the cutter support portion 22. The groove 26a has two side walls 26b, the upper end of which is parallel to the other side wall 26b, and the lower end of which forms a widened portion 26c whose width increases toward the lower end at the same taper angle. Further, the groove 26a has two pivot shafts 26d, 26d protruding from the upper end of the bottom thereof for pivotally supporting the scraping pieces 27, 27.

[0029] The scraping pieces 27, 27 are each symmetrically shaped and include a pivot portion 27a and a flat scraping portion 27b extending downward from one widthwise side of the pivot portion 27a. The pivot portion 27a is pivoted to pivot shafts 26d, 26d and is supported by the member body 26 so as to be freely rotatable about the pivot shafts 26d, 26d. In addition, as shown in FIG. 2, the cutting device 1 has two cutter units 2 arranged in parallel and slidingly moved simultaneously, so that the long smoked sausage material 200 wound around two poles 300 can be cut at the same time.

[0030] The cutting device 1 is configured as described above, and can cut the long smoked sausage material 200 wound around the pole 300 into short smoked sausage materials in the following manner. That is, as shown in Figure 1 or Figure 2, first, two rods 300 around which long smoked sausage material 200 is wrapped and transported by a rod transporting device (not shown) are transported to a position facing the lower side of the corresponding one of the two cutter units 2.

[0031] Then, with the two cutter units 2 positioned at the cutting start position, the lifting means 21a of the two cutter units 2 are each activated to lower the cutter support portion 22 until the cutters 23, 23 reach a height at which they can cut the binding portion 201 (it is preferable that the cutting edge of the cutter 23 does not come into contact with the pole 300). Furthermore, due to this descent, the rod 300 enters between the scraping portions 27b, 27b of the scraping pieces 27, 27, as shown in Figs.

[0032] At this time, since groove 26a has widening portion 26c with a tapered surface at its lower end, when rod 300 tries to enter between scraping portions 27b, 27b, since scraping piece 27 is rotatably supported by pivot shaft 26d, when rod 300 hits it, it rotates to escape from rod 300. Therefore, the rod 300 smoothly enters between the scraping portions 27b, 27b. Even if the rod 300 is largely lifted up, the rotational range is restricted by the wall surface of the widening portion 26c, so that the scraping portion 27b is always maintained in the scraping action position.

[0033] Next, the two cutter units 2 each slide from the cutting start position to a cutting end position near the other end of the rod 300. As the cutter unit 2 slides, the two cutters 23, 23 cut the binding portions 201 attached to the upper side of the rod 300 of each loop of the long smoked sausage material 200 wound in a loop shape around the rod 300, as shown in FIG.

[0034] When the short smoked sausage material obtained by cutting with the cutters 23, 23 as described above has cut remnants on both sides or one side fixed to the rod 300 and the short smoked sausage material remains hanging from the rod 300, the scraping portion 27b of the scraping member 24 presses the sausage 202 portion adjacent to the cut end in the sliding direction, pulls off the fixed portion of the cut remnant, and drops the short smoked sausage material remaining hanging from the rod 300 so that it can be received by the receiving portion 3 below.

[0035] In other words, since this cutting device 1 is equipped with the scraping member 24, even if the binding portion 201 becomes stuck to the pole 300 due to oil or the like during smoking, after cutting with the cutter 23, the worker is not required to scrape off the short smoked sausage material remaining stuck to the pole 300 by hand or with a tool. Furthermore, since the scraping member 24 can be attached to a conventional cutting device, the cutting device 1 of the present invention can be provided at low cost.

[0036] The short smoked chain-like sausage material obtained by this cutting device 1 may be temporarily received on the receiving table 3 and then transported to a separately arranged rotating drum type cutting device, where it is cut and separated into individual sausages. Alternatively, as in Patent Document 1, this cutting device 1 may be unitized with a rotating drum type cutting device for cutting, so that the short smoked chain-like sausage material received on the short chain-like sausage receiving member 20 can be fed continuously or intermittently into the rotating drum type cutting device.

[0037] Next, FIG. 5 shows a modified example of the scraping member. As shown in FIG. 5, the scraping member 25 includes a member body 28 and a pair of scraping pieces 29, 29.

[0038] The member body 28 is provided with grooves 28a, similar to the member body 26 of the scraping member 24. The groove 28a has two pivot shafts 28b at the vertical center of the bottom.

[0039] The two scraping pieces 29 are formed symmetrically, and a pivot portion 29a that is rotatably supported on the pivot shaft 28b is provided at the center position in the up-down direction. Furthermore, each of the two scraping pieces 29 has a cylindrical projection 29b at its upper end, which extends in the direction of the other scraping piece 29. Between the upper ends of the two scraping pieces 29, an end of a coil spring 29c is interposed in a state where it fits into the protrusion 29b as a biasing means for biasing the upper ends of the scraping pieces 29 in the direction in which the space between them widens, i.e., in the direction in which the lower ends of the scraping pieces 29 move closer to each other.

[0040] The two scraping pieces 29 each have a scraping portion 29d below the pivot portion 29a. The scraping portion 29d has a locking claw portion 29e at its lower end portion for preventing the rod 300 from slipping out, which protrudes in the direction of the other scraping portion 29d.

[0041] The lower surface of the locking claw portion 29e which is the lower end of the scraping piece 29 forms a tapered surface 29f such that the distance between the locking claw portion 29e and the scraping portion 29d of the other scraping piece 29 gradually increases downward.

[0042] As described above, the scraping member 28 is biased by the coil spring 29c so that the scraping portions 29d at the lower ends approach each other, so that the scraping portions 29d are maintained in a state in which they do not separate from the rod 300 that has entered between the scraping portions 29d. Therefore, when the scraping portion 29d presses against the sausage 202 portion, the scraping portion 29d does not move away, and as it slides, it reliably presses against the sausage 202 portion, so that the sausage can be scraped off with a strong and stable force.

[0043] In addition, since the two scraping portions 29d have tapered surfaces 29e at their lower ends, as the rod 300 descends together with the cutter support portion, the rod 300 presses against the tapered surface 29f, and against the biasing force, the rod 300 can temporarily push apart the space between the lower ends of the two scraping pieces 29. Therefore, the rod 300 can be smoothly and reliably inserted between the two scraping pieces 29.

[0044] The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment. In the above-mentioned embodiment, the cutting machine is used to cut a long smoked linked sausage material, but it may be used to cut a boiled linked sausage material or a raw linked sausage material. In the above embodiment, the scraping member is integrated with the cutter unit, but it may be structured so that, for example, the scraping member slides in synchronization with the slider or with a time lag by a drive mechanism separate from the cutter unit.

[0045] In the above embodiment, two cutter units are provided, but one unit or three or more units may be provided. [Explanation of symbols]

[0046] 1 cutting device 2 Cutter unit 20 Short smoked sausage material receiving member 21 Slider 21a Lifting means 22 Cutter support part 22a Arm 23 Cutter 24 Scraping member 25 Scraping member 26 Main body of material 26a groove 26b side wall 26c Widening section 26d pivot shaft 27 Scraping Pieces 27a Cardinal Branch 27b Scraping part 28 Main body of material 28a groove 28b Pivot shaft 29 Scraping off 29a Cardinal Branch 29b protrusion 29c Coil spring 29d Scraping section 29e Locking claw part 29f Tapered surface 200 Long smoked sausage ingredients 201 Binding section 202 Sausage 300 Rod

Claims

1. The cutter unit includes a slider that slides and a cutter that slides together with the slider, A long, continuous sausage material, in which sausages and bundled portions are alternately arranged, is spirally wound around a rod, and the bundled portions are intermittently received on the rod at intervals in the longitudinal direction and suspended from the rod, The cutter unit slides the cutter together with the slider above the rod in the longitudinal direction of the rod, The cutter cuts the portion of the bundled portion received by the rod into a plurality of short chain-shaped sausage materials, A scraping means is provided which slides from behind the cutter following the sliding movement of the cutter or after the completion of the sliding movement of the cutter and can press both sides of the portion of the bound part of the linked sausage material cut by the cutter, The scraping means includes a member body that slides together with the slider in the sliding direction of the slider, and a pair of scraping pieces that are symmetrical on the left and right, This cutting device is characterized in that the pair of scraping pieces sandwich the rod from both sides, and the lower ends of the scraping pieces are pivotally supported on the main body of the member so as to be movable in directions toward and away from the rod.

2. 2. The cutting device according to claim 1, wherein said cutter unit is integrally provided with said scraping means.

3. 2. The cutting device according to claim 1, further comprising a biasing means for biasing the pair of scraping pieces downwardly of the rod in directions in which the scraping pieces approach each other.

4. 4. A cutting device according to claim 3, wherein each of said scraping pieces has a lower end provided with a tapered surface inclined in a direction away from the other scraping piece toward the lower end.

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