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US 12,459,688 B2Granted
Tofu packing device
AssigneeTakai Tofu & Soymilk Equipment Co.
InventorsToichiro Takai, Masahide Takeda, Kazuyuki Shiga
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Abstract
A tofu packing device includes a pack covering device and a pack supply device. The pack covering device is configured to cover a plurality of cakes of tofu with packs in a state in which the packs are upside down, the plurality of cakes of tofu being aligned at predetermined intervals in front, rear, left and right directions on a conveying surface of a transfer conveyor. The pack supply device is configured to continuously supply the packs to the pack covering device from a lateral side of the transfer conveyor.
Claims10
A tofu packing device comprising:
- a cutting device configured to cut continuous sheet-shaped tofu to form a plurality of cakes of tofu;
- an aligning device configured to align the plurality of cakes of tofu at predetermined intervals in front, rear, left and right directions on a conveying surface of a transfer conveyor;
- a pack covering device configured to cover each of the plurality of cakes of tofu with a pack in a state in which the pack is upside down;
- a pack supply device configured to take out the pack from a pack supply magazine holding a plurality of empty packs and continuously supply the pack to the pack covering device by a pack supply conveyor;
- an inversion device configured to invert the plurality of cakes of tofu, each of the plurality of cakes of tofu being covered with the pack in the state in which the pack is upside down;
- a first camera device configured to capture an image of the plurality of cakes of tofu on the conveying surface of the transfer conveyor;
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- a second camera device configured to capture an image of each of the plurality of empty packs taken out from the pack supply magazine and to be placed on the pack supply conveyer,
- wherein the pack covering device is configured to adjust an operation for covering the pack with respect to each of the plurality of cakes of tofu based on an image analysis result of the image captured by the first camera device and the image captured by the second camera device.
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