JPS623734A - Fish body arranging and conveying apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a fish body alignment and conveyance device that uses so-called vibration to align fish bodies supplied in different directions and transport them with their heads at the top. .

[Conventional technology]

In order to process fish, it may be necessary to line up a large number of fish in advance so that their heads are all facing forward.

An example of a device that performs such fish body alignment and uses so-called vibration is disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Application Publication No. 59-170478. This device is configured to move the head of the fish toward the front and rear opening ends by horizontally reciprocating a plate having a friction surface on its upper surface.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

However, the above-mentioned device simply distributes the supplied fish in the front-back direction, and the fish in the opposite direction to the predetermined feeding direction are dropped from the device, so it is very inefficient. Furthermore, since the fish bodies are sorted in the front-back direction on one plane, a large area is required to eliminate overlapping fish bodies and to reliably sort them, resulting in a large device.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a fish body alignment and conveyance device that can line up all the supplied fish bodies in the same direction, and can also do so reliably with a small device.

[Means for solving problems]

The fish body aligning and conveying device of the present invention is for supplying fish bodies, has two side surfaces along the fish body conveyance direction and a bottom surface, and is open in the front and back, and has a bottom surface that is perpendicular to the fish body conveyance direction. The distribution plate has a transport plate with a large number of linear grooves arranged in parallel on the surface. A trough is a type of distribution plate that is longer in the front and back in the direction of transport of fish than the main part, has openings in the front and back, and has a transport plate on the bottom with many linear grooves arranged in parallel on the surface that intersect with the direction of transport of fish. The distribution device is a gutter-like structure that is provided below the trough to receive the fish from the trough, and has an opening in the front in the direction of fish transport, and has an opening on the bottom facing diagonally upward in the direction of fish transport. There is a transport trough with a number of transport plates arranged side by side on the surface so that protruding linear claws intersect with the fish transport direction, and the fish are sorted through the opening at the rear of the trough and transported with the direction reversed. It is provided with a chute for guiding the fish to the trough, and a drive mechanism that reciprocates at least the distribution section, the distribution trough, and the delivery trough in the front-back direction of the fish conveyance direction.

[Effect]

The fish bodies fed to the sorting section are distributed forward or backward in the direction of fish body conveyance according to the direction of the head by the engagement of the scales with the grooves of the reciprocating conveyance plate, and the sorted fish are fed to the trough. Ru.

The fish fed to the trough are further reliably sorted in the direction their heads are facing by the engagement of their scales with the grooves of the reciprocating transport plate, and fish with their heads facing forward are directed forward. Fish bodies with their heads facing backwards are carried out from the rear opening, turned forward by a chute, and fed to the carrying-out trough in the same direction.

As a result, all the fish bodies are supplied to the carry-out trough with their heads facing forward, and the fish bodies are quickly transported forward by the reciprocating transport plate, and the fish bodies with their heads aligned forward are carried out from the opening of the carry-out trough. .

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 is a schematic side view showing a fish alignment and conveyance device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a schematic plan view thereof, and FIGS. 3 to 5 are respectively the same as those in FIG. Line III-I
[[, IV-IV, is a cross-sectional view along V-V.

A feed trough 40 is provided on the pedestal 10 by four elastic plates 22.23 (the other two not visible in the figure) and by four elastic plates 31,32 (the other two not visible in the figure). ), the frames 30 are supported so as to be swingable in the front-rear direction in the direction of transporting fish bodies. In this case, the elastic plate 22.2
3, the angle formed with the bottom surface of the supply trough 40 is an acute angle (
For example, the elastic plates 31 and 32 are attached at an angle of about 70 degrees, and the elastic plates 31 and 32 are attached almost vertically. These elastic plates 22, 23, 31, 32 are made of hard and elastic materials such as FRP and steel plates.

Furthermore, a motor 20 and a crank device 21 are attached to the pedestal IO, and the rotational movement of the motor 20 is changed by the crank device 21 into a reciprocating movement of the rod 24.25 as shown by arrow A, which is then transferred to the supply trough 40. , frame 30
can be conveyed to each.

As a result, the supply trough 40 moves from the illustrated position to the elastic plate 2
．． The elastic plates 22 and 23 are driven back and forth up to a position where they stand almost vertically, and since the corners of the elastic plates 22 and 23 are acute as described above, when moving forward, the elastic plates 22 and 23 are pushed up diagonally upward in the direction of transporting the fish. driven to be On the other hand, since the corners of the frame 30 are almost vertical when attaching the elastic plates 31 and 32,
As shown by arrow C, the fish body is reciprocated almost evenly in the front-rear direction in the direction of transporting the fish body. This frame 30 includes an extension portion 50,
A sorting section 60, a sorting trough 70, a discharge trough 80, and chutes 91 and 92 are attached, and therefore, these are reciprocated as shown by the arrow C integrally with the frame 30.

The supply trough 40 is for transporting the fish bodies 1 supplied therein in a vertical line, and is shaped like a gutter with shelves 46 on the left and right sides of the bottom 47, and has an opening in front of the bottom 47. 41, and a conveyor plate 43, which will be described later, is located on the bottom surface. The extension part 50 distributes the fish 1 from the supply trough 40 into a part 6.
It is a gutter-like thing that supplies water to the water, has openings at the front and back, and has a conveyance plate 52, which will be described later, on the bottom surface.

The sorting section 60 distributes the fish 1 supplied thereto either forward or backward in the direction of fish conveyance according to the direction of the head, and has two sides 61.6 along the direction of conveyance of fish.
A chevron-shaped partition 64 is provided at the center of the bottom surface 63 and extends in the direction of transporting the fish and has a stop plate 65 at the front. is provided. The distribution is trough 70,
The distribution is below section 60, and the distribution is 1 fish from section 60.
The fish is distributed back and forth according to the direction of the fish's head, and is shaped like a gutter and has a distribution section longer than the section 60 in the front and rear directions in the direction of transporting the fish body, and has opening lowers of 1.72 mm at the front and rear, respectively. Furthermore, it has a conveyance plate 74, which will be described later, on the bottom surface.

The carrying out trough 80 is located below the sorting trough 70 and is used to carry out the fish 1 from the sorting trough 70, and is shaped like a gutter and is inclined with the front facing upward. It has an opening 81 in the front and a conveyance plate 83, which will be described later, on the bottom surface. The reason why the unloading trough 80 is inclined is to improve usability by reducing the difference in height from the position where the fish body 1 is introduced to the device, and to reduce the installation area of the device. .

FIG. 6 is a plan view showing the conveying plate of FIG. 2 in more detail. The front end portions 74a of the transport plates 43, 52 and 74 and the surface of the transport plate 83 are provided with linear claws projecting obliquely upward in the fish transport direction, as shown in cross section in FIG. 100 are arranged in parallel so as to be perpendicular to or diagonally intersecting with the direction of fish conveyance. However, although the claw 100 on the rear end portion 74b of the transport plate 74 has the same structure as above, the transport direction thereof is backward, that is, the opposite direction to the above-mentioned fish transport direction, so that the claw 100 is It stands out. The above-mentioned claw 100 is made by using the conveyor plate 43, 52, 74, 83 made of a material with a certain degree of hardness, such as polypropylene, plastic, or aluminum, and diagonally downward (for example, about 45 degrees) on the surface. )
By simply making a large number of linear cuts 101, it can be formed extremely simply.

On the other hand, the front and rear ends 7 of the aforementioned conveyance plate 66 and conveyance plate 74
On the surface of the portion other than 4a and 74b, a large number of linear grooves 102, for example, V-shaped, are arranged in parallel so as to be perpendicular to the direction of transport of the fish body, as shown in FIG. 8 in cross section. In this case, the cross-sectional shape of the groove 102 is preferably approximately symmetrical on the left and right sides from the viewpoint of making the engagement force with the scales the same regardless of whether the fish body 1 is facing forward or backward. Also, the depth may be shallow. For example, such a groove 102 on the surface of the conveyor plate 6
It can be formed extremely easily by using the same material as above for 6.74 and polishing its surface in a straight line with paper.

Next, the overall operation of this device will be explained with reference mainly to FIG. When the motor 20 is driven to reciprocate each of the above-mentioned parts and a large number of fish bodies 1 are fed to the supply trough 40 in arbitrary (that is, random) orientations, the width W of the bottom portion 47
, is narrower than the body length of the fish bodies 1, the fish bodies 1 fall to the bottom 47 and are arranged in tandem as shown in the figure. However, the direction of the head of the fish 1 is in the direction of transporting the fish (some are, and the opposite is the case).The claws 100 on the surface of the transport plate 43 are oriented diagonally upward in the direction of transporting the fish. Because of the protrusion, when the supply trough 40 moves forward, it strongly engages with the scales and flesh of the fish 1, but when the supply trough 40 moves backward, it hardly engages, and when the supply trough 40 moves forward, The fish 1 is driven diagonally upward in the transporting direction, and during the return movement it is driven away from the fish 1 in the opposite direction, so the fish 1 receives a large transporting force regardless of whether its head is in the forward or backward direction. In other words, the fish bodies 1 are transported toward the opening 4I at a high transport speed.Also, even if a plurality of fish bodies 1 are stacked one above the other, they are arranged in a column one by one. Since the bottom surface of the fish body 1 is inclined so that the front side is upward, overlapping of the fish bodies 1 when being carried out from the opening 41 is more completely prevented.

If necessary, a chevron-shaped partition 44 may be provided on the surface of the transport plate 43 to distribute the fish bodies 1 to the left and right, or a fish body transport system may be provided on the surface of the transport plate 43 to bring the fish bodies 1 closer to the center. A large number of V-shaped claws extending in the direction may be provided. Furthermore, a fish retainer 45 may be attached to the shelf 46 to facilitate the supply of fish 1.

The fish bodies 1 carried out in a column from the opening 41 are fed to the extension part 50 which is reciprocated back and forth, and are transported and sorted in substantially the same manner as described above by the transport plate 52 having the claws 100 similar to those described above. is supplied to section 6o.

The fish 1 fed to the sorting section 60 is placed in a chevron-shaped partition 64.
and distributed to either the left or right by a stop plate 65,
Moreover, the width W2 of the transport plates 66 on the left and right sides of the partition 64 is equal to the width W2 of the fish body 1.
Since the fish body length is narrower than the body length of the fish body 1, the transport plate 66
It can be placed on top with its front and back orientation facing forward. The portion 60 is also reciprocated back and forth in this sorting process, and since the surface of the transport plate 660 is not provided with claws 100 but with grooves 102 as described above, the fish 1 is placed with its head facing. It is conveyed to the person who is there, and the distribution is dropped from the unit 60. This is because the grooves 102 of the conveying plate 66 engage the tips of the scales growing toward the tail of the fish body 1, so that the conveying force acts in the direction of the head. In other words, the fish 1 are distributed to the front or rear in the fish transport direction according to the direction of their heads, and the distributed fish are supplied to the trough 70.

The trough 70 is also reciprocated forward and backward for sorting, and since the central surface of the transport plate 74 is provided with a groove 102 similar to the one described above, the fish 1 are also placed with their heads facing the same direction. It is transported in the direction in which it is located.

Therefore, even if the fish 1 whose head is facing backward due to overlapping fish 1 is dropped to the front side of the sorting section 60, the fish 1 will pass under the sorting section 60. The sorted material is conveyed to the rear of the trough 70.

Conversely, when the fish 1 with its head facing forward is dropped to the rear side of the sorting section 60, the sorted fish is similarly conveyed to the front of the trough 70. In this way, the fish 1 is distributed in two stages: the sorting part 60 and the sorting trough 70, so that the sorting can be done reliably in a narrow space without increasing the length of the trough 70. In addition, the fish body 1 can be sorted in the direction in which the head is facing. Therefore, the device can be made smaller and its installation area can be reduced.

When the fish l with its head facing forward reaches the front end 74a of the transport plate 74, the claw 100 protrudes forward on its surface, so that the fish 1 is moved from the front open lower 1 at a high transport speed. It is carried out and supplied to the vicinity of the front end of the carrying out trough 80 via the chute 91 in the same direction. On the other hand, the fish l with its head facing backward is located at the rear end 74b of the transport plate 74.
When the fish reaches this point, the claw 100 protrudes rearward from its surface, so the fish 1 is also carried out from the rear opening lower 2 at a high transport speed, and furthermore, it is transported by the chute 92 (see Fig. 1) in the opposite direction. In other words, it is supplied to the vicinity of the rear end of the unloading trough 80 with its head facing forward.

Therefore, all the fish bodies 1 are supplied to the carry-out trough 80 with their faces facing forward. The carry-out trough 80 is also reciprocated in the front-rear direction, and a claw 100 protruding forward is provided on the surface of the conveyance plate 830, so that the carry-out trough 80
The fish body 1 fed into the opening 8 is quickly conveyed at a high speed.
It is carried out from 1. This is intended to improve work efficiency. In this way, all the fish 1 supplied to the supply trough 40 in any direction are transferred to the discharge trough 8.
The heads are all aligned forward and carried out from the opening 81 at No. 0.

Incidentally, although the above embodiment has been explained using the apparatus equipped with the supply trough 40 as an example, even if the fish bodies 1 are supplied to the distribution section 60 by some means other than the supply trough 40, the fish bodies 1 cannot be carried out from the carry-out trough 80. Of course, it is possible to align the directions of the heads of the fish bodies 1. However, if the above-described supply trough 40 and its drive mechanism are used, a large number of fish 1 can be efficiently and quickly distributed to the part 6 regardless of their orientation.
Since it is possible to supply the fish to zero, it is possible to further improve the working efficiency of fish body alignment.

Further, the supply trough 40, the distribution unit 60, the distribution trough 70, the output trough 80, etc. may be driven by separate drive mechanisms as described above.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, all the supplied fish bodies can be aligned in the same direction and carried out, and therefore the efficiency of fish body alignment is very high. In addition, the fish bodies are sorted in the front-back direction in two stages: the vertically arranged sorting section and the sorting trough, so the fish bodies can be reliably aligned with a small device.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic side view showing a fish body aligning and transporting device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a schematic plan view thereof. 3 to 5 are lines III-I in FIG. 2, respectively.
, IV-IV, and a cross-sectional view along V-V.
FIG. 3 is a plan view showing the conveyance plate of FIG. 2 in more detail. FIGS. 7 and 8 are cross-sectional views showing partially enlarged conveyance plates.

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A device to which fish bodies are supplied, which has two sides along the direction of fish conveyance and a bottom surface, and is open at the front and rear;
It also has a sorting section on the bottom that has a transport plate with a number of linear grooves arranged in parallel on the surface that intersect with the direction of fish transport, and a gutter-like part that is provided below the sorting section and receives the fish from there. The distribution plate is longer than the distribution part in the direction of transporting the fish body, has openings at the front and rear, and has a transport plate on the bottom surface of which is lined with a number of linear grooves that intersect with the direction of transport of the fish body. and a gutter-like gutter provided below the sorting trough to receive fish from the trough, which has an opening in the front in the direction of transport of fish, and has a bottom surface that projects diagonally upward in the direction of transport of fish. A take-out trough has a number of conveyor plates arranged side by side on its surface so that the linear claws intersect with the fish conveyance direction, and a chute that guides fish from the opening at the rear of the sorting trough to the take-out trough in reverse direction. and a drive mechanism that reciprocates at least the sorting section, the sorting trough, and the carrying-out trough in the front and back direction of the fish body conveyance direction. (2) A gutter-shaped gutter to which fish are fed, which has an opening at the front in the fish transport direction, and has a linear claw on the bottom that projects obliquely upward in the fish transport direction. a supply trough having a large number of conveyance plates arranged in parallel on its surface so as to intersect with the supply trough; a first drive mechanism that reciprocates the supply trough so as to push it forward and upward in the front and rear directions of the fish conveyance direction; A device for receiving fish bodies from a trough, which has two sides along the direction of transporting fish bodies and a bottom face, and is open at the front and back, and has a linear groove on the bottom surface that intersects with the direction of transporting fish bodies. A sorting section that has a large number of conveyor plates arranged in parallel, and a gutter-like gutter that is provided below the sorting section and receives the fish from it, and is longer than the sorting section in the front and back of the fish conveyance direction, and a sorting trough having an opening at the bottom thereof, and a conveying plate on the bottom surface of which is lined with a number of linear grooves that intersect with the fish body conveyance direction; and a sorting trough provided below the sorting trough for receiving fish bodies It is like a gutter and has an opening at the front in the direction of transport of fish, and has many linear claws on the bottom surface that protrude diagonally upward in the direction of transport of fish, intersecting the direction of transport of fish. a carry-out trough having parallel conveyor plates; a chute for guiding the fish from the rear opening of the sorting trough to the carrying-out trough with the direction reversed; A fish alignment and conveyance device comprising: a second drive mechanism that reciprocates in the front-rear direction.