JP4009369B2 - Decorative food production apparatus and method - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a decorative food, and more particularly, to a decorative food manufacturing apparatus and a manufacturing method of which a pattern is made of two kinds of fluid food materials having different colors.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Conventionally, jelly, ice cream, candy, sea bream, and the like are known as colored foods using a plurality of types of fluid food materials having different colors.
[0003]
In addition, as decorative chocolate, a small amount of liquid chocolate of different types is dropped on one type of liquid chocolate so that it floats, and this is naturally diffused to give a marble-like pattern only on the surface. Etc. are known.
[0004]
In addition, some chocolates were painted with a transfer film or screen printing.
[0005]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, the above-mentioned conventional marble-patterned chocolate has a different pattern in each product, and it cannot be said that the quality is stable and stable.
[0006]
Further, the marble pattern, screen printing, and the like are simple ones in which the decorative pattern appears only on the surface, and the decorativeness is not so interesting, and the texture is also monotonous.
[0007]
Therefore, in the present invention, two kinds of fluid food materials of different colors are integrated so that a circular pattern appears uniformly in each mass-produced decorative food, and a unique decorative food that is stable and rich in decorative properties can be obtained. Suppose we provide manufacturing equipment and manufacturing methods .
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The gist of the present invention is a filling device that fills a mold with fluid raw materials of two kinds of fluid food materials of different colors, a solidification device that solidifies the filled fluid food material, and the solidified fluid food material from the mold. In a decorative food manufacturing device consisting of a mold release device to be taken out, an upper layer part in which nozzle pieces for moving and diffusing a fluid raw material of one type of fluid food material in a horizontal direction and a fluid of other types of fluid food material A nozzle assembly for securing a lower layer part for moving and diffusing the raw material in the horizontal direction is included in the filling device, and the nozzle assembly discharges a fluid raw material for each of the fluid food materials. It exists in the manufacturing apparatus of the decorative food provided with the delivery hole with the lower layer part arrange | positioned in the same perpendicular direction . The mold can also serve as a packaging container for selling decorative food.
[0009]
The two types of fluid food materials with different colors include chocolate, yokan, candy, ice cream, cheese, jelly, and the color difference between the two types of chocolate materials when the decorative food is decorated chocolate is One is brown chocolate color and the other is white chocolate (cacao butter free cacao butter and powdered sugar / milk powder), but not limited to this It is possible to express the color shade by changing the content, or a combination of white chocolate colored with various colors of natural or synthetic colorants, or a combination of these and white chocolate.
[0010]
In addition to the fluid food material that solidifies by cooling, the same material includes those that solidify by heating, such as kamaboko and castella.
[0011]
The mold is a single mold with one large recess, but a nozzle port that has many recesses and discharges fluid raw materials for each of the two types of fluid food materials into each recess. May be configured to correspond.
[0012]
Here, in the nozzle assembly, the upper layer delivery hole has a smaller diameter than the lower delivery port, or the lower layer delivery hole has a tapered surface shape whose diameter decreases downward, A guide cylinder can be extended downward from the delivery hole, or a combination of these can be employed.
[0013]
Another gist of the present invention is that the fluid raw material of one kind of fluid food material is moved and diffused in the horizontal direction in the upper layer part in which the nozzle pieces of the nozzle assembly are assembled , and other kinds in the lower part of the nozzle assembly. The process of moving and diffusing fluid raw materials of fluid food materials in the horizontal direction, and one type of fluid raw material from the same delivery hole provided at the same vertical position in the upper layer part and lower layer part of the nozzle assembly A decoration that includes a step of rushing into the raw material and discharging the fluid raw material of each of the fluid food materials so as to penetrate and filling the mold, and a step of solidifying and removing the fluid food material filled in the mold from the mold It is in the manufacturing method of food.
[0014]
The mold is also used as a packaging container for sale, and the liquid material of two kinds of fluid food materials is filled in the concave portion of the container with a filling device and solidified with a solidifying device, so that the mold releasing device is not used. Thus, it is also conceivable to provide a manufacturing apparatus in which a decorative food is packaged in a mold / sales container.
[0015]
The two kinds of fluid food materials having different colors include a case where the color is different between different food materials and a case where the color is different between the same food materials due to edible natural or synthetic colorants.
[0016]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The decorative chocolate which is one of the decorative foods made of two kinds of fluid food materials in the present invention is a normal chocolate color (brown) and a white color, or two kinds of natural or artificial food colorings for various foods. It consists of surface irregularities or a flat surface pattern combining two or more chocolates such as the above chocolates. The chocolate fluid raw material is usually tempered at substantially the same viscosity and temperature as the chocolate fluid raw material, but there is no problem as long as the viscosity passes through the nozzle hole and a certain degree of viscosity.
[0017]
The mold is a container with an upper opening selected from heat resistant, light, excellent moldability, and tough resin such as polycarbonate. Inside the mold is a fluid raw material for fluid food materials introduced from a nozzle. The size, shape, and shape of the plurality of fluid food materials are determined by the amount, position, and number of the materials, and a decorative pattern as a whole is formed. The patterns can be integrated by crystals of the fluid food materials.
[0018]
Mold, wood, metal, etc. polycarbonate or plastic plate styrol or the like, what is one of the recesses in a mold provided with two or more recesses in what is molded, or in each mold, or mold Can also be considered.
[0019]
The filling device has two or more storage tanks for storing two or more kinds of fluid food materials of different colors, and a predetermined amount below the tank stroke adjustment or cylinder inner diameter. Depending on the difference in size, a predetermined amount of each fluid material can be discharged from the nozzle into the mold. The fluid raw materials may be the same amount or different amounts.
[0020]
As the solidification device, what is usually called a cooling tunnel is used, but when the fluid food material is made of sea urchin or castella, a heating device such as a heating chamber or a heating tunnel is prepared.
[0021]
The mold release device is a device that removes the solidified decorative food from the mold. Forcibly removes the decorative food from the mold by turning the mold upside down or lifting the mold downward and knocking it down. You may do it.
[0022]
This release device is not necessary when the mold also serves as a sales container.
[0023]
Each of the mass-produced decorative foods has substantially the same decorative pattern, and the whole is finished in the form of a bird, animal, person, various characters, and other shapes together with the shape of the inner surface excluding the opening of the mold.
[0024]
The overall shape of the decorative food is not limited to a flat plate or square plate with a predetermined thickness, but a mold such as a triangular pyramid using an inverted triangular pyramid mold with a diameter reduced from the opening to the bottom. Except when the food solidified inside cannot be punched by making the side wall of the mold reverse taper or the like, the surface irregularities can be finished in various forms according to the form of birds, animals and the like.
[0025]
Moreover, the shape of the above-mentioned decorative food can be made in one mold with respect to one nozzle installed on the mold, as well as a plurality of nozzles arranged on one mold and simultaneously extruded, It is also possible to make a repeating pattern of the same pattern. In these cases, the fluidity of the fluid food material, such as the viscosity of the fluid raw material, is the same as that extruded from any nozzle. Although there is a merit in terms of simplification of equipment and economic efficiency that can make the container part of the fluid raw material of the material one, even if the viscosity of the fluid raw material of the fluid food material extruded from each nozzle is different, As long as a fixed amount is extruded from a plurality of nozzles into the mold, the same pattern can be formed as the entire pattern in the mold.
[0026]
In addition, the edible print pattern can be printed directly or partially on the inside of the mold by silk printing, or the mold bottom pattern printed as a film transfer paper can be transferred to a fluid food material. A decorative pattern can also be applied.
[0027]
The filling device in the apparatus for producing decorative food includes a container part (not shown) for storing a fluid raw material of fluid food material, and a nozzle mounting substrate for feeding the fluid raw material from the container part by a cylinder (not shown). And a nozzle assembly in which the nozzle pieces below are assembled.
[0028]
Specifically, the nozzle assembly is characterized at the assembly of the nozzle piece of the upper part and lower part which are installed at the bottom of the nozzle mounting substrate, said mounting substrate is made of molded die casting or cutting The fluid raw material is configured to be sent out to a lower nozzle assembly by penetrating a plurality of upper holes through which the fluid raw material of the plurality of fluid food materials passes, and from the mounting substrate. A passage for each nozzle piece that receives and passes the fluid raw material is provided, and the fluid raw material is moved in the horizontal direction in this passage, diffused, and dropped into a lower mold.
[0029]
The nozzle piece is more complicated by stacking two or more sheets from one flat plate, further diffusing the fluid raw material through another passage, and discharging it into the mold from more holes than the lower holes. Decorative pattern food can appear. Various patterns can be designed in relation to the molds facing each other depending on the position of the prepared hole of the nozzle piece, the size of the diameter, the shape, and the like.
[0030]
As the fluid food material used in the present invention, in addition to chocolate, food that is initially fluid, such as yokan, candy, ice cream, cheese, jelly, castella, kamaboko, and then solidified or semi-solidified is contained in the container. Including.
[0031]
In addition, the term “chocolate” in the present specification refers to chocolate in a broad sense including products such as quasi-chocolate, chocolate confectionery, and quasi-chocolate confectionery.
[0032]
【Example】
Hereinafter, although this invention is demonstrated based on an accompanying drawing with decoration chocolate as the typical Example, this invention is not limited to chocolate.
[0033]
In addition, each decorative chocolate shown in the figure is shown in a state where the one molded by the mold is turned upside down, and the surface excluding the bottom corresponds to a part or all of the inner peripheral surface of the mold used for the production. In addition, the bottom surface corresponds to the opening portion excluding the inner peripheral surface portion of the mold used for the manufacture. In the description of chocolate in the examples, the description will be based on what is shown in an inverted state as described above.
[0034]
The nozzles N shown in FIGS. 1 (a) to 1 (c) function as part of the filling device, and at least two types of chocolate fluid raw materials having different colors injected into the mold 14 (FIG. 1 (d)) at the same time. A decorative chocolate 10 as shown in FIG. The nozzle N is composed of a nozzle mounting substrate 11 and two nozzle pieces 12 and 13 which are attached to the lower side thereof with screws via an auxiliary plate (not shown).
[0035]
Specifically, the nozzle mounting substrate 11 (FIG. 1 (a)) is provided with a passage 11a for individually guiding the chocolate fluid raw materials A (brown) and B (white) supplied from a depositer (not shown) in the horizontal direction. 11b, and upper holes 11a ₁ and 11b ₁ for individually feeding the chocolate fluid raw materials A and B are formed in the passages 11a and 11b.
[0036]
The nozzle piece 12 (FIG. 1 (b)) disposed below the substrate 11 receives a predetermined amount of the chocolate fluid raw material A sent from the upper hole 11a of the substrate 11 and moves and diffuses in the horizontal direction. The chocolate fluid raw material A is moved and diffused, having a passage 12a partitioned in a tank shape and a through hole 12b through which a predetermined amount of the chocolate fluid raw material B delivered from the upper hole 11b of the substrate 11 passes. are drilled pilot holes 12a ₁ ～12A ₄ at regular intervals at four places of the passage 12a of the four sending (s).
[0037]
A nozzle piece 13 (FIG. 1 (c)) further arranged below the nozzle piece 12 receives the chocolate fluid raw material B that has passed through the through hole 12b of the nozzle piece 12, and moves and diffuses in the horizontal direction. includes a passage 13a which is defined in the X groove shape, and drilled pilot holes 13a ₁ ～13A ₄ each groove end of the passage 13a of four delivering the chocolate fluid material B that is moved and diffused (s) .
[0038]
Thus, the nozzle pieces 12 and 13 are nozzles that move and diffuse one kind of chocolate fluid raw material A in the horizontal direction in the upper layer portion thereof, and move and diffuse other kinds of chocolate fluid raw material B in the lower layer portion thereof. It can be viewed as an assembly.
[0039]
In particular, the nozzle pieces 12 and 13 described above is in a positional relationship in which the lower hole 12a ₁ ~12a ₄ nozzle piece 12 is positioned at the vertical direction above the lower holes 13a ₁ ~13a ₄ nozzle piece 13.
[0040]
FIG. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional view taken along the line DD of FIG. Here, the lower holes 12a ₁ ~12a ₄ nozzle piece 12, than the lower hole 13a ₁ ~13a ₄ nozzle piece 13 In addition to being formed in the small diameter embodiment, the lower hole 13a ₁ ~13a ₄ nozzle piece 13 It is set as the aspect of a taper surface so that a periphery may reduce in diameter toward the downward direction. The lower hole 12a ₁ ~12a ₄ and 13a ₁ ~13a ₄ in the nozzle piece 12, 13 is not limited to the above embodiment, may be a manner as shown in FIG. 6 or 7. Specifically, downward with respect to the lower hole 12a ₁ ~12a ₄ nozzle piece 12 can extend the guide cylinder 12c, as the extension設長the guide cylinder 12c, the nozzle piece 13 can or a manner of extending until shortly before the pilot holes 13a ₁ ~13a ₄ of the aspects that extend so as to pass through the lower hole 13a ₁ ~13a ₄ nozzle piece 13.
[0041]
Next, the manufacturing method of the decoration chocolate using the said apparatus is demonstrated. First, A and B are separately supplied to the passages 11a and 11b of the nozzle mounting substrate 11 by a predetermined amount from the depositor of the filling device, and are sent from the upper holes 11a ₁ and 11b ₁ to the passage 12a and the through hole 12b of the nozzle piece 12. The
[0042]
Chocolate starting fluid material A delivered from the holes 11a ₁ on path 12a of the nozzle piece 12 on the nozzle mounting substrate 11 is moved and diffused in the horizontal direction so as to satisfy the path 12a. On the other hand, moves from the upper hole 11b ₁ of the nozzle mounting substrate 11 Chocolate fluid material B to the through hole 12b Te size sent on the path 13a of the nozzle piece 13 of the nozzle piece 12 is in the horizontal direction so as to satisfy the path 13a · Diffused.
[0043]
The chocolate fluid raw materials A and B moved and diffused in the horizontal direction in the nozzle pieces 12 and 13 are sent to the mold 14 from the lower holes 12a _{1 to} 12a ₄ and 13a _{1 to} 13a ₄ . At this time, the chocolate fluid raw material A delivered from the pilot holes 12a _{1 to} 12a _{4 of} the nozzle piece 12 communicating with the passage 13a of the nozzle piece 13 enters the chocolate fluid raw material B filling the passage 13a of the nozzle piece 13. , The chocolate fluid raw material B is sent out from the lower holes 13a _{1 to} 13a ₄ of the nozzle piece 13 so as to penetrate.
[0044]
Then, as shown in FIG. 1 (d), the chocolate fluid raw materials A and B delivered from the prepared holes 13 a _{1 to} 13 a ₄ of the nozzle piece 13 are injected into four equally spaced portions of the mold 14. Note that the injection of the chocolate fluid raw materials A and B into the mold 14 is performed substantially simultaneously from the start of injection to the end of injection.
[0045]
The chocolate fluid raw materials A and B injected into the mold 14 from the lower holes 13a _{1 to} 13a ₄ of the nozzle piece 13 expand so as to gradually expand in the mold 14 and come into contact with each other and squeeze together. By solidifying and taking out this, decorative chocolate 10 representing four annular patterns as shown in FIG. 2 was obtained. Note that each area shown by broken lines in the mold 14 shown in FIG. 1 (d), which corresponds to the lower holes 13a ₁ ~13a ₄ nozzle piece 13 of FIG. 1 (c), the lower hole 13a ₁ ~13a Each annular pattern of the decorative chocolate 10 made from the chocolate fluid raw materials A and B delivered from ₄ appears almost in their respective regions.
[0046]
FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of the present invention. Here, the difference from the above-described embodiment is that the lower hole 13a ₅ is formed in the central portion of the X groove-shaped passage 13a in the nozzle piece 13 of FIG. 3C corresponding to the nozzle piece 13 of FIG. This is in the form of provision. Therefore, the same numbers are assigned to the other members to avoid redundant description.
[0047]
In the nozzle pieces 12 and 13 of FIG. 3, the through holes 12b of the nozzle pieces 12 communicate with the passages 13a ₅ of the nozzle pieces 13 and are positioned above the lower holes 13a ₅ of the nozzle pieces 13 in the vertical direction. Accordingly, the chocolate fluid raw material B is sent out from the nozzle hole 13a ₅ of the nozzle piece 13 alone.
[0048]
FIG. 8 is a schematic cross-sectional view taken along line E-E in FIG. Here, through-hole 12b of the nozzle piece 12 is substantially formed in the manner of a same diameter as the lower bore 13a ₅ of the nozzle piece 13. The through holes 12b and the lower holes 13a ₅ in the nozzle pieces 12 and 13 are not limited to the above-described embodiment, and as shown in FIG. 9, the guides face downward with respect to the through holes 12b of the nozzle pieces 12. The cylindrical body 12c can be extended.
[0049]
In the production of the decorative chocolate using this apparatus (FIG. 3), A and B are separately supplied to the passages 11a and 11b of the nozzle mounting substrate 11 by a predetermined amount from the depositor of the filling apparatus as in the above-described embodiment. The chocolate fluid raw material A is moved and diffused in the horizontal direction by the passage 12 a of the nozzle piece 12, and the chocolate fluid raw material B is moved and diffused in the horizontal direction by the passage 13 a of the nozzle piece 13. After that, the chocolate fluid raw materials A and B respectively moved and diffused in the horizontal direction are injected into the four locations at equal intervals of the mold 14 together with the chocolate fluid raw material B from the lower holes 13a _{1 to} 13a ₄ of the nozzle piece 13. Then, the chocolate fluid raw material B is injected into the approximate center of the mold 14 from the lower hole 13 a ₅ of the nozzle piece 13.
[0050]
When decorative chocolate was manufactured in this way, decorative chocolate 10 ′ as shown in FIG. 4 was obtained. Note that each region of the four corners except the central portion shown by broken lines in the mold 14 of FIG. 3 (d), which correspond to the respective lower holes 13a ₁ ~13a ₄ nozzle piece 13 in FIG. 3 (c), the Each annular pattern of the decorative chocolate 10 ′ by the chocolate fluid raw materials A and B delivered from the lower holes 13 a _{1 to} 13 a ₄ appears in their respective regions.
[0051]
In addition, in decorative chocolate 10,10 'of each Example mentioned above, the part of A + B in a figure has shown a mode that the chocolate fluid raw materials A and B have overlapped. This portion (A + B) is considered to be caused by the flow of the chocolate fluid raw materials A and B in the mold 14, and the color is reduced when viewed from the chocolate fluid raw material A (brown). The color is darker when viewed from the fluid raw material B (white).
[0052]
【The invention's effect】
According to the present invention, two kinds of fluid food materials with different colors are integrated so that a circular pattern appears uniformly in each mass-produced decorative food, and a unique decorative food that is stable and rich in decorative properties. Is obtained. Moreover, the manufacturing method and manufacturing apparatus from which the said decorative food can be obtained simply can be provided.
[Brief description of the drawings]
1 (a) to 1 (c) show a part of a nozzle mounting substrate in a filling device which is a characteristic part of the decorative food manufacturing apparatus of the present invention, and two sheets installed underneath. It is a disassembled perspective view which shows an example of a nozzle piece. FIG.1 (d) is a perspective view which shows an example of a mold. FIG. 1E is a plan view of FIG.
2 is a perspective view showing a decorative food made by the apparatus of FIG. 1. FIG.
FIGS. 3 (a) to 3 (c) are a part of a nozzle mounting substrate in a filling device, which is a characteristic part of the decorative food manufacturing apparatus of the present invention, and two sheets placed underneath. It is a disassembled perspective view which shows the other example of a nozzle piece. FIG. 3D is a perspective view showing an example of a mold, and FIG. 3E is a plan view of FIG.
FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a decorative food made by the apparatus of FIG.
FIG. 5 is an example of a schematic cross-sectional view taken along the line DD in FIGS. 1 (c) and 3 (c).
6 is another example of a schematic cross-sectional view taken along the line DD of FIGS. 1C and 3C. FIG.
7 is another example of a schematic cross-sectional view taken along the line DD of FIGS. 1 (c) and 3 (c). FIG.
FIG. 8 is an example of a schematic cross-sectional view taken along line EE of FIG. 3 (c).
FIG. 9 is another example of a schematic cross-sectional view taken along line E-E in FIG.
[Explanation of symbols]
10,10 'Decorative chocolate (decorated food)
11 Nozzle mounting substrate 12, 13 Nozzle piece 14 Mold A, B Chocolate raw material (fluid raw material)
N nozzle

Claims (2)

From a filling device that fills the mold with fluid raw materials of two types of fluid food materials of different colors, a solidification device that solidifies the filled fluid food material, and a mold release device that removes the solidified fluid food material from the mold In the decorative food manufacturing apparatus,
The filling device is composed of a container part that contains the fluid raw material, and a nozzle mounting substrate that moves the fluid raw material therefrom,
The nozzle mounting substrate is configured to pass through a plurality of upper holes through which the fluid raw material passes, thereby sending the fluid raw material to a lower nozzle piece,
The nozzle piece is installed at a lower portion of the nozzle mounting substrate, and includes an upper layer portion for moving and diffusing a fluid raw material of one type of fluid food material in a horizontal direction, and a fluid raw material of another type of fluid food material. A nozzle assembly comprising a lower layer portion that moves and diffuses in the horizontal direction, and that is formed so that a lower hole is formed in each of the upper layer portion and the lower layer portion, and the fluid raw material of the fluid food material is injected into a lower mold. An apparatus for producing a decorative food, characterized by comprising a solid. Using a filling device comprising a container part that contains fluid raw materials of two kinds of fluid food materials of different colors and a nozzle mounting substrate that sends out the fluid raw material from the container part by a cylinder in a fixed amount ,
The fluid raw material is sent out from the upper hole provided in the nozzle mounting substrate to the nozzle assembly, and the fluid raw material of one kind of fluid food material is moved and diffused horizontally in the nozzle piece of the upper layer portion of the assembly, Moving and diffusing fluid raw materials of other types of fluid food materials horizontally in the lower layer of the nozzle assembly;
The one kind of fluid raw material enters the other kind of fluid raw material from the same delivery hole provided at the same vertical position in the upper layer part and the lower layer part of the nozzle assembly, and Discharging fluid raw material and filling the mold;
A process for solidifying the flowable food material filled in the mold and removing it from the mold.

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