JP2008522819A - Functional brown rice processing equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain a skin layer of brown rice having a high nutrient content as it is by forming a groove line in the skin layer of brown rice and allowing moisture to be transmitted and absorbed to the inner white rice layer through the groove line. We provide a functional brown rice processing device that can cook brown rice that is as soft and nutritious as that cooked with white rice.
SOLUTION: A conveyor belt 20 that transfers brown rice 1 and the like so that it can be unrolled, a swing organizer 30 that swings the conveyor belt 20 so that it can be unfolded and flattened, and the conveyor belt 20 Is placed in a state where the gap considering the thickness of the brown rice 1 is maintained, and a spreader roller 40 that arranges and moves the stacked ones, and a laser beam on the brown rice 1 that is transferred on the conveyor belt 20 A laser oscillator 50 that is irradiated to form a thin groove line 3 in the skin layer 2 is characterized.
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Description

  In the present invention, a groove line is formed in the skin layer of brown rice, and moisture is transmitted and absorbed to the inner white rice layer through the groove line, so that the skin layer of brown rice with a high nutrient content is maintained as it is. The present invention relates to a functional brown rice processing apparatus that can cook brown rice with a soft and nutritious value, similar to a rice cooked with white rice.

Brown rice is rice that has been harvested and dried, threshed, and then peeled off with a rubber roller.
In other words, brown rice is made by scouring the rice husk layer in the outermost shell of rice (spreading the grain or cutting the epidermis) and stripping the rice husk layer about once.

  And what is produced by scouring about 10 times and shaving most of the epidermis on the surface of the rice is generally called white rice, which is rice that is cooked and consumed.

  Brown rice has an epidermis layer consisting of pericarp, seed coat, and humus exhaust, and this epidermis layer contains nutrients such as vitamins B1, B2, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, minerals, phosphorus, iron, and vegetable fiber. Is abundant.

  Vitamin B1 also has the effect of changing the sugars of rice into energy, and is effective in relieving fatigue.

  Brown rice as described above prevents childhood obesity and improves constitution in children. And for adults, it contributes greatly in preventing diabetes, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, chronic constipation, obesity, heart disease, etc. It contains a large amount of dietary fiber, adsorbs and excretes excessive nutrients. It is known to have effects such as reducing obesity pain.

  Therefore, it can be said that if you eat brown rice with nutrient-rich brown rice every day, the built-in action becomes active and it is effective for improving your constitution, which is very useful for your health.

  However, brown rice is not only difficult to adjust the amount of water when cooking rice, but it is bulky at the moment when the rice grain gets into the mouth, even though nutrients are almost intact and very beneficial to health. It gives a feeling that is harder than that of white rice and slightly reduces appetite.

  Therefore, it is currently used in health foods for medical aid for treatment purposes, or is used only as millet for family health in ordinary households. There are problems such as inability to use effectively in the diet.

  An object of the present invention is to provide brown rice with a soft feeling and high nutritional value by allowing moisture to be transmitted and absorbed into the inside of the rice while maintaining the skin layer with a high nutrient content.

  Another object of the present invention is to provide brown rice rice that can be consumed by any person, both young and old, without refusal to contribute to increased health.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention includes a conveyor belt 20 that rolls and transfers the brown rice 1 and the like, and a swing arrangement that swings the conveyor belt 20 so that the brown belt 1 can be rolled flat without overlapping. The machine 30 is located on the upper part of the conveyor belt 20 while maintaining a gap in consideration of the thickness of the brown rice 1, and is placed on the conveyor belt 20 and the spreading roller 40 that arranges the moving objects that are stacked. This is achieved by comprising a laser oscillator 50 that irradiates the transferred brown rice 1 with a laser beam to form thin groove lines 3 on the skin layer 2.

  Therefore, by allowing moisture to be transferred and absorbed into the rice through the groove line, it is possible to cook soft and nutritious brown rice rice while maintaining the nutrient-rich skin layer as it is.

  According to the present invention as described above, by forming the groove line 3 and the like in the skin layer 2 that forms the surface of the brown rice 1, moisture is transferred and absorbed into the rice in the process of cooking rice through the groove line 3. be able to.

  Therefore, it is possible to cook brown rice that is soft and nutritious, just like rice cooked with white rice, leaving the skin layer of brown rice as it is. It has a very beneficial effect of maintaining brown rice nutrition without any loss.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 shows an overall apparatus of the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows an enlarged cross-sectional view of brown rice processed by the apparatus of the present invention.

First, the unpolished rice 1 is subjected to a process of removing the rice skin with a milling machine 10.
After the rice is introduced through the inlet 11, the milling machine 10 uses an internal mechanical device to scrape the skin or the outermost skin to a set thickness, that is, after finishing the milling, the outlet 12 Further, since the principle of fineness and its configuration are already known, detailed description will be omitted.

  Then, in order to discharge brown rice in a row at intervals of intermittent intervals inside the milling machine 10, the supply roller 13 in which grooves at regular intervals are formed is configured to rotate at a constant speed.

  Therefore, when the brown rice moves on the conveyor belt 20, a space can be secured in which the brown rice overlapped by the spreading roller 40 can be unfolded flat.

  Further, the groove line 3 formed by the laser beam is formed flat on the whole brown rice 1.

  The conveyor belt 20 is a brown rice transport means having an appropriate width and moving at a constant speed to a desired place in a state where the brown rice 1 is unrolled on the upper portion thereof.

  FIG. 1 shows an embodiment in which the conveyor belt 20 is installed between the milling machine 10 and the stone remover 70.

  That is, after the brown rice 1 refined by the milling machine 10 is discharged from the discharge port 12, the groove line 3 is formed by a laser beam, and further, foreign materials such as stones are taken up, and the packaging is 1 illustrates a series of automated process systems performed.

  In this case, since the grooved wire 3 is processed immediately without separately storing or moving the brown rice discharged from the milling machine 10, there is an economic advantage by shortening the intermediate process, but it must be as in the embodiment shown in the drawing. It is clarified that the conveyor belt 20 is installed at the exit of the precision machine 10 so that the groove line 3 is processed with a laser beam.

  On the other hand, the conveyor belt 20 is made to repeat the vibration finely by the swinging and arranging machine 30 so that the brown rice placed on the upper part thereof is unrolled flatly.

  The swing organizer 30 is irrelevant regardless of which is selected from a vibrator structure that vibrates finely or a mechanical structure that repeatedly repeats a small impact by an electric power source.

  A spreading roller 40 is installed on the upper part of the conveyor belt 20.

  The spreader roller 40 is a spread roller 40 on the conveyor belt 20 in a state where a gap considering the thickness of ordinary brown rice 1 is maintained, that is, a gap slightly larger than the average thickness of one grain of brown rice and smaller than the thickness of two grains. Position.

  Therefore, if the brown rice 1 is overlapped and moved more than double, it is arranged so as to be scattered at the position of the roller 40 so that it can move toward the laser oscillator 50 without being overlapped.

  At this time, the material of the spreading roller 40 is desirably formed of a flexible material such as rubber so that the brown rice 1 is not damaged such as being crushed.

  In this way, the brown rice 1 and the like are unrolled flat on the conveyor belt 20 and moved to the position of the laser oscillator 50.

  The laser oscillator 50 is provided with at least one lens 51 that emits a laser beam, and the laser beam is applied to the epidermis layer 2 of the brown rice 1 that has been transported in an organized state so as to be unfolded without being stacked on the conveyor belt 20. Will be irradiated.

  The laser beam is an artificial ray obtained by amplification of light in the process of stimulated emission and is purely single light. The object can be melted instantaneously due to the straight nature that does not spread in a certain direction and high energy density. .

  When the laser oscillator 50 is to be operated, a causative substance is required, and the medium is classified into gas, liquid, solid, and semiconductor. In the present invention, CO2 is selected in the body medium.

  The gas laser has low loss and low output, but can be continuously oscillated, and has a large number of oscillation wavelengths, so it has excellent interference and other characteristics. Useful for continuous molding.

  The laser beam is output through the lens 51. The lens 51 is rotated by a rotating means (not shown) so that the light irradiation angle is maintained at about 90 °.

  At this time, it is preferable from the side of maintaining the appropriate depth of the groove line 3 that the time for the laser beam to contact the brown rice 1 is about 0.01 seconds.

  A plurality of lenses 51 are continuously installed without rotating the lens 51. However, it does not matter whether a plurality of lenses 51 that reciprocate in the vertical direction and lenses 51 that linearly reciprocate in the horizontal direction are installed.

  Therefore, laser is output in various forms such as a large radius circle, straight line, and lattice pattern, and thin solid line-shaped groove lines 3 are formed in various patterns on the skin layer 2 of the brown rice 1.

  Thus, when the groove line 3 is formed in the brown rice 1, when cooking rice, moisture is transmitted to the inside through the groove line 3, and it becomes sufficiently swollen and soft.

  Therefore, in the case of conventional brown rice, it is possible to improve the taste of rice while maintaining the nutrients that the brown rice has without being rough and hard.

  Then, the brown rice 1 in which the groove lines 3 and the like are formed by the light beam output from the laser oscillator 50 moves along the conveyor belt 20 to remove impurities such as stones and fine dust. It is desirable to throw in after being moved over the entrance.

  The stone remover 70 is a foreign material removal device that is generally widely used in rice mills, etc., and is larger than the rice by making it pass through various mesh bodies taking into account the size of the rice while vibrating. It is intended to filter foreign substances having different lengths.

  On the other hand, it is desirable to further install sterilization means 60 for sterilization before putting the brown rice 1 processed with the groove 3 into the stone remover 70.

  The sterilizing means 60 is provided with either an ultraviolet lamp or a lamp from which far infrared rays are emitted, or both an ultraviolet lamp and a far infrared lamp are installed.

The ultraviolet rays emitted from the ultraviolet lamp have a sterilizing and disinfecting effect. In addition, the far-infrared rays have the effect of drying brown rice and removing odors by sterilization and heat.
Therefore, after sterilizing and drying the brown rice 1 processed so as to form the groove lines 3 and others, after filtering various foreign substances with the stone remover 70, it is immediately distributed to the consumer so that the packaging is performed in the packaging process. Finish all the steps as you can.

It is explanatory drawing of the whole apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is an expanded sectional view of the brown rice processed by the device of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols

1-Brown rice 3-Groove line 10-Spinning machine 20-Conveyor belt 30-Oscillating arrangement machine 40-Expansion roller 50-Laser oscillator 60-Sterilization means

Claims (4)

  Conveyor belt 20 for transferring unpolished rice 1 and the like so that it can be unrolled, oscillating sorter 30 for allowing this conveyor belt 20 to unfold and unfold, and unpolished rice on top of the conveyor belt 20 1 is positioned in a state in which a gap is taken into account considering the thickness of 1, spread roller 40 that arranges the things that are stacked and moved, and placed on the conveyor belt 20, the irradiated brown rice 1 is irradiated with a laser beam, A functional brown rice processing apparatus comprising: a laser oscillator 50 that allows thin groove lines 3 and the like to be formed on the skin layer 2.   The functional brown rice processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the conveyor belt (20) is installed between the milling machine (10) and the stone remover (70).   The functional brown rice processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a sterilizing means (60) is further installed on one side of the laser oscillator (50). 4. The functional brown rice processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the sterilizing means 60 comprises an ultraviolet lamp or a far infrared lamp.

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