CN109760129B

CN109760129B - Melon and fruit forming device

Info

Publication number: CN109760129B
Application number: CN201910139704.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 史小华; 田贺锁; 张宇航; 史翊辰
Original assignee: Yanshan University
Current assignee: Yanshan University
Priority date: 2019-02-26
Filing date: 2019-02-26
Publication date: 2020-05-19
Anticipated expiration: 2039-02-26
Also published as: CN109760129A

Abstract

A melon and fruit forming device comprises a base, and a slicing device, a conveying device and a forming device which are arranged on the base and connected in sequence, wherein the slicing device slices melons and fruits and conveys the melons and fruits to the forming device through the conveying device; forming device includes lifting unit, lathe tool subassembly and tray subassembly, the lathe tool subassembly is fixed in on the lifting unit, the tray subassembly set up in the lifting unit bottom, lifting unit up-and-down motion drives the lathe tool subassembly is laminated and then is shaped to the melon and fruit in the tray subassembly. The invention has high automation degree, high working efficiency and complete melon and fruit molding.

Description

Melon and fruit forming device

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the field of fruit processing, and particularly relates to a melon and fruit forming device.

Background

With the improvement of the living standard of residents, the food consumption concept is silently changed, and canned food is widely popular with the characteristics of convenience, sanitation and easy storage. However, compared with other countries, the canned food consumption level in China is not high, the per-capita consumption is low, the market is not really started yet, and the potential is huge. And by visiting some can processing factories, most of the pulp in the cans is in an incomplete shape, and the equipment for forming the pulp is few, so that the factory basically mainly uses a simple forming device which is manually held, the working efficiency is low, and the labor cost is high.

Based on the above problems, individuals or companies in the field of fruit processing immediately perform technical innovation on the fruit forming problem, and a series of automatic devices for fruit processing are created. Chinese patent that application publication number is CN105054260A discloses a combination of multitool head mechanism digs football shirt and puts, and this equipment can help the mill to carry out semi-automatization to fruit and dig the ball and handle, has reduced workman's intensity of labour, great improvement melon and fruit shaping efficiency. But the disadvantages of the device are also obvious: the equipment has low automation degree, low working efficiency and incomplete melon and fruit molding.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the problems of low automation degree, low working efficiency, incomplete fruit forming and the like in the existing fruit processing equipment, and provides the fruit forming device which has high automation degree, high working efficiency and complete fruit forming and is widely applied to a can production line.

The technical scheme adopted by the invention for solving the technical problems in the prior art is as follows: a melon and fruit forming device comprises a base, and a slicing device, a conveying device and a forming device which are arranged on the base and connected in sequence, wherein the slicing device slices melons and fruits and conveys the melons and fruits to the forming device through the conveying device; forming device includes lifting unit, lathe tool subassembly and tray subassembly, the lathe tool subassembly is fixed in on the lifting unit, the tray subassembly set up in the lifting unit bottom, lifting unit up-and-down motion drives the lathe tool subassembly is laminated and then is shaped to the melon and fruit in the tray subassembly.

Preferably: the lifting assembly comprises a group of lead screw nut pairs fixedly connected to the base and driven by a lifting motor, a forming cross beam is fixedly connected to the lead screw nut pairs, and the turning tool assembly is fixedly connected to the forming cross beam.

Preferably: the lathe tool assembly comprises a gear box, an upper cover is fixedly connected to the gear box, the upper cover is fixedly connected with the forming beam through a connecting frame, the periphery of the gear box is fixedly connected with a flattening sleeve, a plurality of rotating shafts driven by forming motors are arranged in the gear box, gears are correspondingly arranged on the rotating shafts, two adjacent gears are connected through idler intermeshing, a forming tool rest is connected to the bottom end of each rotating shaft through a coupler, and a forming tool bit is fixedly connected to the bottom end of the forming tool rest.

Preferably: the tray assembly comprises a plurality of container bottom plates fixedly connected to the base, and a plurality of forming holes matched with the corresponding forming tool bits are formed in the container bottom plates.

Preferably: the container bottom plate is correspondingly provided with a limiting ring, the limiting ring is fixedly connected with a tray support, the tray support is slidably connected with the base, the tray support is driven by a tray electric cylinder, and a collecting plate is fixedly connected below the container bottom plate and on the base.

Preferably: the conveying device comprises a conveying assembly and a material pushing assembly which are fixedly connected to the base; the conveying assembly comprises a synchronous belt driven by a synchronous motor, a plurality of inclined conveying slideways fixedly connected to the base below the synchronous belt, the material pushing assembly comprises a material pushing support connected with the base in a sliding manner, and the front end of the material pushing support is fixedly connected with fruit pieces on the synchronous belt to push a push plate and a tail end of each conveying slideway and fixedly connected with an output end of a material pushing electric cylinder.

Preferably: the slicing device comprises a slicing box body fixedly connected to the base, a blade support driven by a slicing electric cylinder is arranged in the slicing box body, the blade support is connected with the slicing box body in a sliding mode, a plurality of blades are detachably mounted in the blade support, fruit piece push rods driven by push rod electric cylinders are arranged on the lower portion of the blade support and the base, and the fruit piece push rods are connected with the blade support in a sliding mode.

Preferably: the fruit slice cutting box is characterized in that a first opening is formed in the first side wall of the slicing box body, a second opening is formed in the second side wall of the slicing box body, a third opening is formed in the third side wall of the slicing box body, a lining is fixedly connected in the slicing box body, a plurality of blade guide grooves matched with blades are formed in the lining, a blade support guide groove matched with a blade support is formed in the second side wall of the slicing box body, and a fruit slice push rod guide groove matched with a fruit slice push rod is formed in the second side wall and below the blade support guide groove.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages: the section box in the section device is at first put into to the melon and fruit, slice melon and fruit through the blade on the blade support, then through the fruit piece push rod with the melon and fruit piece propelling movement of bottommost to conveyor's synchronous belt on, synchronous machine drives the hold-in range and rotates and remove the fruit piece, through pushing away the melon and fruit piece propelling movement to the transport slide on with the hold-in range of the push pedal on the material support, then the melon and fruit piece is delivered to forming device's tray component's container bottom plate through the transport slide on, then the shaping tool bit that accomplishes the lathe tool subassembly through the lifting unit goes up and down carries out the shaping to the melon and fruit piece. Wherein fix a position the melon and fruit piece through the flattening cover in the lathe tool subassembly, then to the shaping of melon and fruit piece through the shaping tool bit, guarantee that the shaping of melon and fruit is complete. The melon and fruit is from section, transport, shaping whole process automatic completely, replaces artifical or semi-automatic production, has degraded workman intensity of labour greatly, has improved work efficiency, and is complete through the forming device melon and fruit shaping, has guaranteed high-efficient, high-quality melon and fruit shaping.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the structure of the molding apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of the tray assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the construction of the cutter assembly of FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the gearbox of FIG. 2 without the upper cover;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the structure of the conveying apparatus;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural view of a slicing apparatus;

FIG. 8 is a schematic isometric view of a first side wall of the slicer box;

fig. 9 is an isometric structural view of a third side wall of the slicer box.

In the figure:

1. a molding device is arranged on the upper surface of the mould,

101. a lifting assembly; 102. A turning tool assembly; 103. A tray assembly; 104. Forming a cross beam; 105. a screw-nut pair; 106. A lifting motor; 107. A gear case; 108. An upper cover; 109. A connecting frame; 110. Flattening the sleeve; 111. Molding the motor; 112. a rotating shaft; 113. A gear; 114. An idler pulley; 115. Forming a cutter frame; 116. Forming a cutter head; 117. A container floor; 118. Forming holes; 119. A limiting ring; 120. A tray support; 121. A tray electric cylinder; 122. A collection plate;

2. a conveying device is arranged on the conveying device,

201. a transfer assembly; 202. A material pushing assembly; 203. A synchronous motor; 204. A synchronous belt; 205. A conveying chute; 206. a material pushing bracket; 207. Pushing the plate; 208. A material pushing electric cylinder;

3. a slicing device is arranged on the upper portion of the cutting plate,

301. slicing the box body; 302. A blade holder; 303. A blade; 304. A fruit slice pushing rod; 305. Slicing an electric cylinder; 306. a push rod electric cylinder; 307. A first side wall; 308. A first opening; 309. A second side wall; 310. A second opening; 311. A third side wall; 312. A third opening; 313. A liner; 314. A blade guide groove; 315. A blade holder guide channel; 316. A fruit piece push rod guide groove;

4. a base.

Detailed Description

In order to further understand the contents, features and effects of the present invention, the following embodiments are described in detail as follows:

referring to fig. 1-9, the melon and fruit forming device of the present invention includes a base 4, and a slicing device 3, a conveying device 2 and a forming device 1 which are arranged on the base 4 and connected in sequence, wherein the slicing device 3 slices the melon and fruit and conveys the sliced melon and fruit to the forming device 1 through the conveying device 2; for convenient installation, the base 4 is connected with the profile angle piece through bolts by bracket profiles. In order to keep the fruits clean and sanitary in the working process, the forming device, the conveying device and the slicing device are all wrapped by plastic shells to block external dust.

Referring to fig. 1-5, the forming device 1 includes a lifting component 101, a turning tool component 102 and a tray component 103, the turning tool component 102 is fixed on the lifting component 101, the tray component 103 is disposed at the bottom of the lifting component 101, and the lifting component 101 moves up and down to drive the turning tool component 102 to attach to the melon and fruit in the tray component 103, so as to form the melon and fruit.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the lifting assembly 101 includes a set of screw nut pairs 105 fixed to the base 4 and driven by a lifting motor 106, the screw nut pairs 105 are fixed to the forming beam 104, and the turning tool assembly 102 is fixed to the forming beam 104. The lifting motor 106 rotates to drive the lead screw on the lead screw nut pair 105 to rotate, so that the forming beam 104 of the lead screw nut pair 105 is driven to move up and down, the turning tool assembly 102 is driven to move up and down, and the positioning and forming of the melon and fruit slices are completed. For stable and accurate transmission, in the present embodiment, the screw nut pair 105 is a ball screw nut pair.

Referring to fig. 1, 4 and 5, the turning tool assembly 102 includes a gear box 107, an upper cover 108 is fixedly connected to the gear box 107, the upper cover 108 is fixedly connected to the gear box 107 through bolts, the upper cover 108 is fixedly connected to the forming beam 104 through a connecting frame 109, the connecting frame 109 is welded to the upper cover 108, a flattening sleeve 110 is fixedly connected to the periphery of the gear box 107, a plurality of lug plates are arranged on the flattening sleeve 110, and the lug plates are attached to the gear box 107 and then fixedly connected through bolts. The gear box 107 is provided with a plurality of rotating shafts 112 driven by a forming motor 111, the rotating shafts 112 are correspondingly provided with gears 113, two adjacent gears 113 are meshed and connected with each other through an idler gear 114, the bottom end of the rotating shaft 112 is connected with a forming tool rest 115 through a coupler, and the bottom end of the forming tool rest 115 is fixedly connected with a forming tool bit 116. In order to facilitate replacement of the profiled tool tip 116, in this embodiment, the profiled tool holder 115 and the profiled tool tip 116 are detachably connected. When shaping melon and fruit piece, at first melon and fruit piece and the flattening cover 110 contact, then rotate through shaping motor 111 drive pivot 112 to drive shaping tool bit 116 and rotate, thereby carry out the shaping to the melon and fruit piece. First, the flattening sleeve 110 is contacted, which allows the fruit pieces to move to the correct forming position within the container bottom plate 117, and also allows the fruit pieces to remain fixed in position while the forming head 116 performs cutting rotation. In order to improve the working efficiency, in this embodiment, the number of the turning tool assemblies 102 is 5, the tool bits of the same turning tool assembly 102 have the same size, and the tool bits of different turning tool assemblies 102 may have different sizes. Different sized lathe tool assemblies 102 are mated to corresponding container bottom plate 117 and stop collar 119.

Referring to fig. 1, 2 and 3, the tray assembly 103 includes a plurality of container bottom plates 117 fixed on the base 4, and the container bottom plates 117 are provided with a plurality of forming holes 118 matched with the corresponding forming tool bits 116. The shaping hole 118 on the container bottom plate 117 is slightly bigger than the size of the shaping cutter head 116, which prevents the shaping cutter head 116 from contacting with the container bottom plate 117, and damages the shaping cutter head 116, and meanwhile, the shaped fruit drops to the collecting plate 122 through the shaping hole 118 on the container bottom plate 117, which is convenient for workers to collect and package.

Referring to fig. 1, 2 and 3, a limiting ring 119 is correspondingly disposed on the container bottom plate 117, the limiting ring 119 is fixedly connected to a tray support 120, the tray support 120 is slidably connected to the base 4, the tray support 120 is driven by a tray electric cylinder 121, and a collecting plate 122 is fixedly connected to the base 4 below the container bottom plate 117. After the forming process is completed, the turning tool assembly 102 is separated from the container bottom plate 117 along with the ascending of the lifting assembly 101, then the stretching of the tray electric cylinder 121 drives the limiting ring 119 on the tray support 120 to move back and forth, so that the residual fruit piece residues move along with the limiting ring 119, the fruit piece residues fall into another collecting box due to the fact that the supporting of the container bottom plate 117 does not exist, then the limiting ring 119 is restored, the complete fruit pieces fall onto the container bottom plate 117 through the conveying slide rail 205, and the fruit pieces are formed again.

Referring to fig. 1 and 6, the conveying device 2 includes a conveying assembly 201 and a pushing assembly 202 fixedly connected to the base 4; the conveying assembly 201 comprises a synchronous belt 204 driven by a synchronous motor 203, a plurality of inclined conveying slideways 205 are fixedly connected to the base 4 below the synchronous belt 204, the pushing assembly 203 comprises a pushing support 206 connected with the base 4 in a sliding manner, the front end of the pushing support 206 is fixedly connected with a push plate 207 for pushing fruit pieces on the synchronous belt 204 into the conveying slideways 205, and the tail end of the pushing support is fixedly connected with the output end of a pushing electric cylinder 208. The sliced melon and fruit slices fall on the synchronous belt 204, the rotating speed is constant through the synchronous motor 203, the working speed of the push rod electric cylinder 306 of the melon and fruit slice push rod 304 in the slicing device 3 is constant, and therefore the distance between the melon and fruit slices on the synchronous belt 204 is constant. When the fruit slices on the synchronous belt 204 move to the right front of the push plate 207, the synchronous motor 203 stops rotating, and then the synchronous belt 204 also stops moving. The pushing electric cylinder 208 starts to work, pushes the push plate 207 on the pushing support 206 to move forward, pushes the fruit pieces into the conveying slideway 205, and the fruit pieces fall onto the container bottom plate 117 of the forming device 1 through the conveying slideway 205. The push plate 207 moves backwards, the synchronous motor 203 starts to work to drive the synchronous belt 204 to move, the sliced fruit slices are conveyed to the front end of the push plate 207, and the automatic fruit slice conveying work can be realized by repeating the above work.

Referring to fig. 1, 7, 8 and 9, the slicing apparatus 3 includes a slicing case 301 fixed on the base 4, a blade holder 302 driven by a slicing electric cylinder 305 is disposed in the slicing case 301, the blade holder 302 is slidably connected with the slicing case 301, a plurality of blades 303 are detachably mounted in the blade holder 302, a fruit pushing rod 304 driven by a pushing rod electric cylinder 306 is disposed below the blade holder 302 and on the base 4, and the fruit pushing rod 304 is slidably connected with the blade holder 302.

Referring to fig. 8 and 9, a first opening 308 is formed in a first side wall 307 of the slicing case 301, a second opening 310 is formed in a second side wall 309, a third opening 312 is formed in a third side wall 311, a lining 313 is fixedly connected to the slicing case 301, a plurality of blade guide grooves 314 used in cooperation with the blades 303 are formed in the lining 313, a blade support guide groove 315 used in cooperation with the blade support 302 is formed in the second side wall 309, and a fruit push rod guide groove 316 used in cooperation with the fruit push rod 304 is formed in the second side wall 309 and below the blade support guide groove 315. The melon and fruit gets into section box 301 from first opening 308 department, slides in blade support guide slot 315 through the blade support 302 of second opening 310 department, cooperates blade 303 on the blade support 302 simultaneously, slices the melon and fruit in proper order to promote fruit piece push rod 304 through the electronic jar 306 of push rod and carry the fruit piece propelling movement of the bottom layer to hold-in range 204 on, repeatedly promote fruit piece push rod 304, accomplish the fruit piece and carry to hold-in range 204.

Slice during operation, the electronic jar 305 drive blade support 302 of section slides to section box 301, and a plurality of blades 303 of blade support 302 installation are through with section box 301 interior extrusion cutting for complete melon and fruit is cut the result slice. To the melon and fruit piece of different thickness requirements, can control through the distance of two adjacent blades 303 on the change blade support 302, can realize slicing into the requirement of multiple thickness size. After slicing is completed, the slice electric cylinder 305 drives the blade support 302 to move backwards, so that the fruit slices are separated from the blade support 302, and the cut complete melons and fruits are left in the slice box body 301. Then the push rod electric cylinder 306 pushes the connected fruit slice push rod 304 to move, and the fruit slice push rod 304 pushes the fruit slice at the lowest layer out of the slicing box 301 and falls onto the synchronous belt 204 of the conveying device 2. The fruit pieces in the slicing box 301 fall to the bottom due to gravity, and the fruit piece push rod 304 pushes all the fruit pieces to the synchronous belt 204 under the repeated action of the push rod electric cylinder 306.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a melon and fruit forming device which characterized in that: the melon and fruit slicing machine comprises a base (4), and a slicing device (3), a conveying device (2) and a forming device (1) which are arranged on the base (4) and connected in sequence, wherein the slicing device (3) slices melons and fruits and conveys the melons and fruits to the forming device (1) through the conveying device (2);

forming device (1) includes lifting unit (101), lathe tool subassembly (102) and tray subassembly (103), lathe tool subassembly (102) are fixed in on lifting unit (101), tray subassembly (103) set up in lifting unit (101) bottom, lifting unit (101) up-and-down motion drives lathe tool subassembly (102) is to the laminating of melon and fruit in tray subassembly (103) and then to the melon and fruit shaping, lathe tool subassembly (102) includes gear box (107), rigid coupling upper cover (108) is gone up in gear box (107), upper cover (108) are through link (109) and shaping crossbeam (104) rigid coupling, the periphery rigid coupling flattening cover (110) of gear box (107), be equipped with a plurality of pivot (112) by driving motor (111) drive in gear box (107), it is equipped with gear (113) to correspond in pivot (112), two adjacent gear (113) are connected through idler (114) intermeshing, the bottom end of the rotating shaft (112) is connected with a forming tool rest (115) through a coupler, and the bottom end of the forming tool rest (115) is fixedly connected with a forming tool bit (116).

2. A melon and fruit forming apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the lifting assembly (102) comprises a set of screw nut pairs (105) fixedly connected to the base (4) and driven by a lifting motor (106), the screw nut pairs (105) are fixedly connected to a forming cross beam (104), and the turning tool assembly (102) is fixedly connected to the forming cross beam (104).

3. A melon and fruit forming apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein: tray subassembly (103) include a plurality of rigid couplings container bottom plate (117) on base (4), container bottom plate (117) are gone up to open have a plurality ofly with correspond shaping tool bit (116) complex shaping hole (118).

4. A melon and fruit forming apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein: the container bottom plate (117) is correspondingly provided with a limiting ring (119), the limiting ring (119) is fixedly connected with a tray support (120), the tray support (120) is slidably connected with the base (4), the tray support (120) is driven by an electric tray cylinder (121), and a collecting plate (122) is fixedly connected to the lower part of the container bottom plate (117) and the base (4).

5. A melon and fruit forming apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the conveying device (2) comprises a conveying assembly (201) and a pushing assembly (202) which are fixedly connected to the base (4); conveying subassembly (201) includes by synchronous motor (203) driven hold-in range (204), in hold-in range (204) below, on base (4) the transport slide (205) of a plurality of slopes of rigid coupling, it includes and pushes away material support (206) with base (4) sliding connection to push away material subassembly (203), push away material support (206) front end rigid coupling and push away push pedal (207), the tail end that the fruit piece on with hold-in range (204) pushed into transport slide (205) and the output rigid coupling that pushes away material electronic jar (208).

6. A melon and fruit forming apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein: section device (3) include section box (301) of rigid coupling on base (4), are equipped with in section box (301) by the electronic jar of section (305) driven blade support (302), blade support (302) and section box (301) sliding connection, a plurality of blades of demountable installation (303) in blade support (302), be equipped with on blade support (302) below, base (4) by the electronic jar of push rod driven fruit piece push rod (304), fruit piece push rod (304) and blade support (302) sliding connection.

7. A melon and fruit forming device as claimed in claim 6, characterized in that: be equipped with first opening (308), be equipped with third opening (312) on second lateral wall (311) in being equipped with first opening (308), second lateral wall (307) on the section box (301), rigid coupling inside lining (313) in the section box (301), be equipped with a plurality of blade guide slots (314) that use with blade (303) cooperation in inside lining (313), be equipped with on second lateral wall (309) with blade support (302) cooperation blade support guide slot (315) that use, on second lateral wall (309), be equipped with below blade support guide slot (315) and fruit piece push rod (304) cooperation fruit piece push rod guide slot (316) that use.