JP3888873B2 - Onigiri seaweed roll making machine - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a rice ball laver winding machine.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Nori-wrapped rice balls sold at convenience stores and others can be broadly divided into hand-rolled rice balls that wrap triangular rice balls with a film encapsulating seaweed, and direct-rolled rice balls that are wrapped directly in a round rice ball and wrapped in film. However, recently, the rice balls with the seaweed wrapped around the latter rice balls themselves have been reconsidered as having the original texture and flavor of rice balls, and are actually preferred over hand-rolled rice balls.
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in the production of such directly wound rice balls, the rice ball forming process and the film packaging process are automated, but the nori winding process as shown in FIG. It is difficult to wind the rice ball itself quickly and reliably, and the seaweed winding process still relies on manual work, which is a big problem that the production efficiency cannot be improved.
[0004]
Thus, in view of the current situation, the present invention has an object to provide a rice ball laver winding machine capable of automatically and continuously performing the process from the formation of a directly wound rice ball to the winding of the seaweed and its packaging. To do.
[0005]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention forms a laver pocket around the laver-attached disk on which a seaweed storage hole is formed to accommodate a rice ball molded with a molded disk around the laver. In addition, a laver feeding disk that rotates intermittently in synchronism with the laver-attached disk is arranged so that some rice ball receiving holes and laver pockets overlap each other, and the laver is adhered to the upper surface of the rice ball above the overlapping part. provided laver with pusher, also rice balls jack up device for inserting a part of the seaweed bent hole the seaweed roll discs forming the laver folding holes around the upper side of the rotational direction of the seaweed with a disc in the overlapping portion In addition, a presser device on the top of the rice ball is provided above, a pair of slidable laver folding guides are provided below the laver winding disc, and the laver folding on the rotation direction side of the overlapping portion of the laver winding disc is further provided. Above the hole it is characterized in that the rice ball discharging pusher respectively provided with.
[0006]
Therefore, as a means for locking and supporting one piece of laver in the laver pocket, the laver stacked in the laver stacker located above the laver pocket is adsorbed with a suction device with a laver suction device from the bottom. It is suitable to lock and support one piece in the laver pocket, and for laver with different widths, prepare width adjustment pockets with different widths in advance and make them detachable in the laver pocket By fitting, laver with various widths can be wound by the same laver feeding disk.
[0007]
In addition, when the rice ball in the seaweed bowl containing the seaweed is inserted into the seaweed folding hole of the seaweed winding disk with a rice ball lifting device, a presser device is provided at the top of the seaweed folding hole and the seaweed is bonded to the seaweed. If the upper surface of the seaweed is abutted and supported, the seaweed can be bent and bonded smoothly and reliably to the rice balls.
[0008]
Furthermore, by providing a laver winding forming pusher that bends the laver side edge that can be inserted into the laver folding hole above the rotation direction side of the overlapping part of the laver winding disk with the laver attaching disk, Both side edges can be smoothly and reliably bonded to the peripheral side of the rice ball.
[0009]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the examples of the drawings. The present invention is roughly divided into a rice ball forming apparatus A, a laver application apparatus B having a laver supply mechanism B ′, and a laver winding apparatus C.
[0010]
The rice ball molding apparatus A includes a molding disk 2 that has a molding hole 1 having a circular cross section around it, a fixed-bottom plate 2 ′ installed at the lower part of the molding disk 2, and a conveyor provided on one side of the molding disk 2. The rice cooker is supplied to the molding hole 1 sequentially from the cooked rice feeder 3 as is well known, and is inserted into the inside of the bowl with the tool feeder 3 'as necessary. Thus, it is configured to perform intermittent transfer.
[0011]
The seaweed applicator B has a rice ball receiving hole 4 with a circular cross section around it, and is installed on the lower side of the seaweed applicator disk 5 that rotates intermittently in synchronism with the molded disc 2 and the seaweed applicator disk 5. 2 is composed of a fixed disk 5 'and a laver supply mechanism B' provided on one side thereof. The laver-attached disk 5 is provided in a partially superposed state at one side lower part of the molded disk 2, and is shown in FIG. As shown in the figure, the rice ball X molded in the molding hole 1 by the extrusion device 6 provided above the molding hole 1 in the overlapping portion is sent into the rice ball receiving hole 5 through the notch portion 2 ″ of the fixed bottom plate 2 ′. It is formed to do.
[0012]
Thus, the laver supply mechanism B ′ has a rectangular laver-containing pocket having a laver support portion 7 ′ provided so as to partially overlap on the rotation direction side of the overlapping portion of the laver attaching disc 5 and the molded disc 2. 7, a laver stacker 9 installed above the laver accommodation pocket 7 immediately before the overlapping portion of the laver feed disk 8, and a lower side of the laver accommodation pocket 7 of the laver feed disk 8 at this position. A seaweed suction device 10 that can be moved up and down is provided above a laver storage pocket 7 of a laver feed disk 8 that is superposed on a rice ball storage hole 4 of a laver attachment disk 5 that is provided vertically. 11, the lowermost laver Y stacked in the laver stacker 9 as shown in FIG. 7 is held and held on the laver support portion 7 ′ and is rotated and transferred, and the seaweed Y is accommodated in the seaweed-attached disk 5 on the seaweed-attached disk 5 by the seaweed-attached pusher 11 as shown in FIG. The rice ball X is formed so as to adhere to the upper surface of the rice ball X.
[0013]
Further, the laver winding device C has a laver folding hole 12 in a circumferential portion provided on the upper side so as to partially overlap in the rotation direction side of the overlapping portion of the laver attaching disk 5 and the laver feeding disk 8. A laver roll 13, a rice ball lifting device 14 that moves up and down provided below the overlapping portion of the laver folding hole 12 and the rice ball receiving hole 4, and a lifting device 14 provided above the laver folding hole 12. A presser device 15 that operates in conjunction with the laver, laver folding guides 16 and 16 that are slidably opposed to the lower sides of the laver folding hole 12, and an upper side of the laver winding disk 13 on the rotating side The laver winding forming pusher 17 is formed with bent pieces 17 'each having an arcuate inner surface on both sides, and the laver winding rice ball discharge pusher 18 is further provided on the rotating side.
[0014]
Thus, the seaweed folding hole 12 is formed with notches 12 'on both sides in the radial direction of the laver winding disk 13, and both side bent pieces 17' of the seaweed winding forming pusher 17 are inserted into the notch 12 '. The seaweed is formed so that both side edges of the seaweed can be bent, and the bottom of the seaweed winding disk 13 is fixed so as to support the rice balls except for the rice ball lifting device 14 and the rice ball discharge pusher 18 portion. A bottom plate 13 'is installed. In the figure, reference numeral 14 ′ denotes a guide for the rice ball lifting device 14 provided in the plate 19.
[0015]
Therefore, when the rice ball X is intermittently transferred to the lower part of the overlap portion with the laver winding disk 13 by the seaweed-attached disk 5, the rice ball X with the seaweed Y bonded to the upper surface is moved upward from the lower part of the rice ball raising device 14. As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the laver Y on the upper surface of the laver Y on the upper surface is bent into the presser device 15 which is inserted into the laver folding hole 12 of the laver winding disk 13 and the upper surface thereof is lowered. Later, the seaweed folding guides 16 and 16 acted inwardly to start bending the end pieces of the seaweed X to the bottom surface of the rice ball, and as the rice ball lifting device 14 descends, this is the bottom surface of the rice ball. Adhere to.
[0016]
The rice ball with the laver Y bent and bonded has a bent piece 17 'on the side perpendicular to the bent portion of the laver Y as shown in FIG. seaweed roll forming pusher 17 is actuated in the circumferential side of protruding rice ball by bending the side edge portions are X seaweed Y and fitted into the notch portion 12 'of the seaweed bent hole 12 as shown in FIG. 10 The rice balls X are bonded and wrapped with the seaweed Y. The seaweed rolled rice balls formed in this way are further transported intermittently and sent downward by the rice ball discharge pusher 18, and then a known film packaging not shown. The packaging disk of the apparatus is sequentially transferred and packaged with a film.
[0017]
FIG. 12 shows a modified embodiment of the laver stacker 9, and a width adjustment pocket 20 adapted to the laver width L ′ is provided so that the laver X can be accommodated when the width of the laver X is narrower than normal laver. The seaweed stacker 9 is detachably fitted into the seaweed stacker 9, and the seaweed folding pusher 17 is particularly suitable when it is not necessary to bend both sides of the seaweed with a laver that is narrower than the diameter of the rice ball. This can be omitted.
[0018]
【The invention's effect】
INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention can automatically and continuously produce a seaweed-wrapped rice ball having a natural texture and taste, which is obtained by directly winding seaweed around a round rice ball.
[0019]
In addition, the present invention can be continuously and efficiently performed as a series of processes from the process of forming rice balls, which is the premise of rice ball production, to the process of packaging with a film as a final product, and in particular, a complicated means for enclosing laver in a film in advance. Therefore, the manufacturing cost can be reduced.
[0020]
The present invention after supplying contact directly deposited on the upper surface of the single addressed molding round rice ball by laver suction device by utilizing the properties of the seaweed pieces, rice balls jacked device and seaweed bent in seaweed bent hole of seaweed roll disc By laminating and adhering the seaweed end pieces to the bottom surface of the rice balls with the guide, the seaweed winding action by the seaweed winding disk can be performed smoothly and reliably.
[0021]
In addition, the present invention can be easily attached to the laver pocket of the laver feed disk so that the width of the laver used can be easily changed, and the handling is convenient.
[0022]
In addition, folding and bonding of the seaweed rice balls with the seaweed folding holes is performed on the lower side of the seaweed folding device, the seaweed holding device for inserting the rice balls into the seaweed folding hole, the lower side of the seaweed winding disc Winding seaweed smoothly and easily around rice balls with a pair of sliding seaweed folding guides, and a laver winding pusher that can be freely inserted into and out of a laver folding hole that folds both sides of wide laver The laver can be wound more efficiently and reliably.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a plan view of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a superposed portion of a molded disk and a laver-attached disk of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a laver stacker portion of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a superposed portion of a laver-attached disc and a laver feeding disc of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of a superposed portion of a laver-attached disk and a laver roll disk of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is an operation explanatory view of the above.
FIG. 7 is an operation explanatory view of the above.
FIG. 8 is an operation explanatory view of the above.
FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view of a laver roll pusher portion of the present invention.
FIG. 10 is an operation explanatory view of the same as above.
FIG. 11 is a longitudinal side view of a laver pocket portion of the present invention.
FIG. 12 is a longitudinal side view of another embodiment of the seaweed pocket portion.
FIG. 13 is an explanatory view of a seaweed winding process according to the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
2 Molding disk 4 Rice ball receiving hole 5 Seaweed disk 7 Seaweed storage pocket 8 Seaweed feeding disk 9 Seaweed stacker 10 Seaweed suction device 11 Seaweed pusher 12 Seaweed folding hole 13 Seaweed winding device 15 Rice ball lifting device 15 Presser device 16 Seaweed folding Song guide 17 Seaweed roll forming pusher 18 Discharge pusher 20 Width adjustment pocket

Claims (4)

A laver pocket is formed on the top of the laver-attached disc that holds a rice ball-receiving hole that holds a rice ball molded with a molded disc around it. A moving laver feeding disk is arranged so that some rice ball receiving holes and laver pockets are superposed on each other, and a nori attaching pusher for adhering the laver to the upper surface of the rice ball is provided above the overlapping portion, and in the overlapping portion A laver winding disk with a laver fold hole formed around it on the upper side of the rotating direction side of the laver attachment disk is provided so that some laver fold holes and onigiri accommodation holes overlap each other, and below the overlapping part Has a rice ball lifting device for inserting rice balls into the seaweed folding hole, a holding device on the top of the rice ball is provided above, and a pair of slidable seaweed folding guides are provided below the laver winding disc, Seaweed roll making machine rice ball, characterized in that the rice ball discharging pusher respectively provided with the above the seaweed bent hole in the polymerization unit rotation direction side of the moss winding disk.   A laver stacker is placed in the upper part of the laver pocket in front of the superposition part of the laver feeding disk and a laver suction device is placed in the lower part to hold the laver in the laver pocket. The rice ball laver roll making machine according to claim 1 characterized by the above-mentioned.   2. The rice ball laver roll making machine according to claim 1, wherein a width adjusting pocket having a different laver width can be detachably fitted in a laver pocket of a laver feeding disk.   The laver roll forming pusher for bending the laver side edge is formed so as to be freely inserted into the laver folding hole above the rotation direction side of the overlapping part of the laver roll disk with the laver attaching disk. Onigiri seaweed roll making machine.

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