JP5046870B2 - Food cutting device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a food material cutting device, and more particularly, to a food material cutting device that cuts food materials for sushi material of nigiri sushi into a plurality of sushi material.

  Nigiri sushi is made by grabbing an appropriate amount of shari made from vinegar and rice to make a shari ball, placing the sushi on top of the shari ball, and shaping the shari ball and the sushi on it. . Today, not only sushi craftsmen hold and serve, but also nigiri sushi such as carousel sushi and pack sales, sushi material is placed on top of the sushi balls that are automatically formed by the sushi ball making machine. Some are on the market.

  As ingredients for nigiri sushi sushi, seafood is used, as well as egg-yaki such as thick-boiled eggs and soup rolls. When grasping an egg-yaki, the egg-yaki baked into a flat, substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape is usually cut into strips with a kitchen knife, and the strip-shaped egg-yaki pieces are placed on a sushi ball as sushi.

  FIG. 8 (a) is a perspective view showing a conventional nigiri sushi squeezed from a piece of egg grilled by a knife, and FIG. 8 (b) is a cross-sectional view thereof. As shown in the figure, a strip-shaped egg-baked piece 102 cut from egg-bake by a knife is placed and held on a shari ball 100. Both sides of the strip-shaped egg-baked piece 102 are cut surfaces 102a and 102b by a knife. One cut surface 102b of the egg baked piece 102 comes into contact with the shari ball 100.

  As described above, the baked egg pieces placed on the shrimp balls are conventionally cut from the baked eggs by a knife. For this reason, as shown in FIG. 8, the egg-baking piece 102 is flat form, and the cut surfaces 102a and 102b are flat. Since the cut surface 102b in contact with the shrimp ball 102 is flat at the periphery of the egg grilled piece 102 placed on the shrimp ball 100, there is a gap between the shrimp ball 100 and the shrimp ball 100 as shown in FIG. Has occurred. The egg baked piece 102 cannot be in close contact with the shrimp ball 100, and thus lacks stability on the shrimp ball 100.

  As described above, the conventional egg baked pieces cut by the knife have a flat cut surface that comes in contact with the sharp balls, and thus have poor adhesion with the sharp balls and lack stability. For this reason, just placing an egg-baked piece on a shrimp ball and shifting it may cause the position on the shrimp ball to shift or fall from the shrimp ball.

  Therefore, in a conventional nigiri sushi holding a piece of omelet, a strip of laver is wrapped around the center in the longitudinal direction to prevent the piece of omelet from being separated from the spicy egg. If nigiri sushi is moved a lot during transportation until it is eaten, such as when nigiri sushi is served on the go, or served at revolving sushi or pack sales, the egg baked pieces are shrimp balls. There is a particularly high need to take measures to prevent separation. However, the prevention of separation by winding nori is laborious, and when making many nigiri sushi, it has been a great effort.

  It is an object of the present invention to easily and efficiently separate ingredients for nigiri sushi sushi items such as egg-yaki into sushi items that have excellent adhesion to shari balls and stability on shari balls. To provide a cutting device.

  According to one aspect of the present invention, a food cutting device that cuts a food material for sushi material of nigiri sushi into a plurality of sushi material, the food material moving the food material along a placement surface on which the food material is placed Means, and a plurality of cutting blades that are vertically provided on the placement surface, arranged at predetermined intervals along the placement surface, and each have a plurality of cutting blades that are convexly curved on one side, There is provided a food material cutting device for cutting the food material moved by the food material moving means with the plurality of cutting blades, and cutting the food material into the plurality of curved sushi ingredients.

  According to the present invention, in the ingredient cutting device for dividing ingredients for sushi ingredients of nigiri sushi into a plurality of sushi ingredients, the ingredient moving means for moving the ingredients along the placement surface on which the ingredients are placed, and the placement surface Provided with a plurality of cutting blades that are arranged perpendicularly to each other at predetermined intervals along the mounting surface and that are curved convexly on one side, respectively. By cutting with a blade and cutting the ingredients into a plurality of curved sushi items, it can be easily and efficiently divided into sushi items that have excellent adhesion to the shari balls and stability on the shari balls.

[One Embodiment]
A food cutting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the structure of a food cutting device according to the present embodiment, FIGS. 2 to 5 are perspective views for explaining a method of cutting egg roast using the food cutting device according to the present embodiment, and FIG. 6 is the present embodiment. FIG. 7 is a schematic view showing nigiri sushi holding an egg grilled piece cut using the food cutting apparatus according to the present embodiment.

  The food cutting apparatus according to the present embodiment cuts egg-baked eggs such as thick-baked eggs and soup stock-rolled eggs into a plurality of egg-baked pieces used as sushi material for nigiri sushi.

  First, the structure of the food cutting device according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

  As shown in the drawing, the food cutting apparatus according to the present embodiment cuts the egg-baked egg 10 into the cutting part 14 for cutting the egg-baked egg 10 baked into a flat, substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape. It is comprised from the extrusion member 16 for pushing and moving.

  The cutting part 14 is composed of a pair of opposing side walls 18, a lower plate 20 and an upper plate 22 provided between the pair of side walls 18, and a plurality of cutting blades 24 for separating the egg-baked eggs 10. .

  Between a pair of opposing side walls 18, a lower plate 20 and an upper plate 22 are provided in parallel at a predetermined interval. Thus, in the cutting part 14, the pair of side walls 18, the lower plate 20, and the upper plate 22 constitute an egg-yaki storage frame 26 in which the egg-yaki 10 to be cut is stored.

  The flat, substantially rectangular parallelepiped egg grill 10 accommodated in the egg grill housing frame 26 has a thickness T of about 30 mm, a width W of about 80 mm, and a length L of about 190 mm, for example. The egg-baked egg 10 is cut into a plurality of egg-baked pieces along the width direction, as will be described later.

  On the other hand, the distance between the inner surface of the lower plate 20 and the inner surface of the upper plate 22 is approximately the same as or larger than the thickness T of the egg-baked egg 10 and is, for example, 40 mm. Moreover, the space | interval between the inner surfaces of a pair of side wall 18 is substantially the same as the length L of the egg-baking 10, or larger than the length L, for example, is 200 mm. In addition, the length along the front-rear direction of the cutting portion 14 of the lower plate 20 and the upper plate 22 is approximately the same as or larger than the width W of the egg-baking 10. The size of the egg-yaki storage frame 26 can be set as appropriate according to the size of the egg-yaki 10.

  A space between the lower plate 20 and the upper plate 22 on the back side of the cut portion 14 is opened to accommodate the egg-baked eggs 10 in the egg-baked housing frame 26. The flat, substantially rectangular parallelepiped egg grill 10 is accommodated in the egg grill accommodating frame 26 from between the lower plate 20 and the upper plate 22 on the back side of the cutting portion 14, and the lower plate 20 in the egg grill accommodating frame 26. Placed on top. The egg-yaki 10 is accommodated in the egg-yaki accommodation frame 26 with its width direction facing the front-rear direction of the cutting portion 14 and its length direction facing the lateral direction of the cutting portion 14.

  A plurality of cutting blades 24 are spaced laterally along the lower plate 20 and the upper plate 22 between the end of the lower plate 20 on the front side of the cutting portion 14 and the end of the upper plate 22. And arranged.

  Each cutting blade 24 is provided along a direction substantially perpendicular to the lower plate 20 and the upper plate 22 with the cutting edge facing the back side of the cutting portion 14. In addition, each cutting blade 24 has a shape that is convexly curved on one side of the opposite side wall 18, that is, one side in the arrangement direction of the plurality of cutting blades 24. The lower end and the upper end of each cutting blade 24 are fixed to the end of the lower plate 20 and the end of the upper plate 22, respectively. For example, the lower end portion and the upper end portion of the cutting blade 24 are respectively inserted and fixed in grooves provided in the end portion of the lower plate 20 and the end portion of the upper plate 22, respectively.

  The middle portion between the lower plate 20 and the upper plate 22 is positioned so that the center of each of the curved cutting blades 24 is located approximately in the middle of the thickness direction of the egg grill 10 accommodated in the egg grill accommodating frame 26. Located below the middle.

  Moreover, the space | interval of the adjacent cutting blade 24 determines the thickness of the egg-baked piece cut out from the egg-baking 10, and can be suitably set so that the egg-baked piece can be cut into desired thickness. For example, the interval between adjacent cutting blades 24 is set to about 10 to 12 mm.

  Although FIG. 1 shows a case where 15 cutting blades 24 are provided, the number of cutting blades 24 can be appropriately set according to the length L of the egg-bake 10.

  As described later, the eggs in the egg-baking storage frame 26 are separated from between the lower plate 20 and the upper plate 22 on the front side of the cutting portion 14 provided with the plurality of cutting blades 24 as described later. The grill 10 is extruded.

  The extruding member 16 pushes and moves the egg-yaki 10 housed in the egg-yaki housing frame 26 of the cutting part 14 from the back side to the front side of the cutting part 14, and the cutting part 14 provided with a plurality of cutting blades 24. This is for extruding the egg-baked egg 10 from between the lower plate 20 and the upper plate 22 in the front.

  The extruding member 16 has an extruding portion 28 for pressing and moving the egg roasting 10 by contacting the side surface on the back side of the cutting portion 14 of the egg roasting 10 and a gripping portion 30 provided at the center of the extruding portion 14. ing.

  When the egg grill 10 is cut out, the operator grips the grip portion 30 and cuts the extruded portion 28 in the egg grill storage frame 26 from between the lower plate 20 and the upper plate 22 on the back side of the cutting portion 14. The part 14 is moved from the back side to the front side. Thereby, the egg-baking 10 in the egg-baking accommodation frame 26 is pushed and moved along the upper surface of the lower plate 20 from the back side of the cutting part 14 to the front side. The movement of the extruding part 16 that pushes the egg-yaki 10 in the egg-yaki housing frame 26 is guided by the pair of side walls 18, the lower plate 20 and the upper plate 22. The direction in which the egg roast 10 is pushed and moved by the extruding member 16 is substantially orthogonal to the arrangement direction of the plurality of cutting blades 24.

  The egg roast 10 thus pushed and moved by the extruding member 16 is cut from the side surface on the front side of the cutting portion 14 by each of the plurality of cutting blades 24 along the direction of the pushing and moving, and the lower plate 20 on the front side of the cutting portion 14. And the upper plate 22 are extruded while being cut into a plurality of egg pieces.

  The food cutting device according to the present embodiment includes a plurality of cutting blades 24 that are arranged in the lateral direction of the cutting portions 14 at a predetermined interval and are each curved in a convex manner on one side in the arrangement direction. The main feature is that the egg-baked egg 10 is cut into a plurality of egg-baked pieces by a plurality of cutting blades 24.

  Hereinafter, a method for cutting egg-yaki using the food cutting device according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

  First, as shown in FIG. 2, the flat, substantially rectangular parallelepiped egg grill 10 is accommodated in an egg grill accommodating frame 26 from between the lower plate 20 and the upper plate 22 on the back side of the cut portion 14, and the egg grill is accommodated. It is placed on the upper surface of the lower plate 20 in the frame 26. The egg-yaki 10 is accommodated in the egg-yaki accommodation frame 26 with its width direction facing the front-rear direction of the cutting part 14 and its length direction facing the lateral direction of the cutting part 14.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 3, the extruding portion 28 of the extruding member 16 is brought into contact with the side surface on the back side of the cut portion 14 of the egg roasting 10 accommodated in the egg roasting accommodating frame 26, The cutting unit 14 is moved from the back side to the front side. Thereby, the egg-baking 10 in the egg-baking accommodation frame 26 is pushed and moved in the direction orthogonal to the arrangement direction of the plurality of cutting blades 24 from the back side to the front side of the cutting part 14.

  When the egg grill 10 is pushed and moved by the extruding part 28, the side surface of the cutting part 14 front side of the egg grill 10 is pressed against the cutting edges of the plurality of cutting blades 24. In this state, when the egg grill 10 is further pushed and moved, as shown in FIG. 4, the egg grill 10 is cut by the cutting blades 24 along the direction in which the egg grill 10 is pushed, that is, in the width direction. 14 It is cut from the front side.

  Here, each cutting blade 24 has a shape curved convexly on one side in the arrangement direction of the plurality of cutting blades 24. For this reason, one cut surface of the egg roast 10 cut by each cutting blade 24 becomes a concave curved surface, and the other cut surface becomes a convex curved surface.

  Thus, as shown in FIG. 5, the extruding portion 28 is moved within the egg-baking housing frame 26 until the egg-baking 10 is pushed out from between the lower plate 20 and the upper plate 22 on the front side of the cutting portion 14, and the egg-baking 10 Press to move. Thereby, the egg-baking 10 is cut | disconnected by each of the some cutting blade 24 along the direction pushed and moved from the side surface of the cutting | disconnection part 14 front side to the side surface of a back side. The egg-baked egg 10 extruded from the front side of the cutting part 14 is divided into a plurality of egg-baked pieces 12 by a plurality of cutting blades 24.

  Thus, according to the food cutting device by this embodiment, the egg-baked egg 10 can be simply and efficiently divided into the several egg-baked piece 12 at once. Furthermore, as described below, the sliced egg pieces 12 are excellent in adhesion to the shaved balls and stability on the shaved balls, as described below.

  FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing the egg-baked piece 12 cut from the egg-baked piece 10 by the food cutting device according to the present embodiment as described above. FIG. 6A shows the egg-baked piece 12 in the egg-baked egg 10 immediately after the cutting, and FIG. 6B shows the egg-baked piece 12 with the cutting surfaces 12a and 12b of the cutting blade 24 directed in the vertical direction. .

  As shown in the figure, the egg baking piece 12 has a convex cutting surface 12a by one of the two adjacent cutting blades 24 and a concave cutting surface 12b by the other, and has a strip shape curved in the width direction. Have.

  Since the egg-baked pieces 12 cut by the food cutting device according to the present embodiment have a strip shape curved in the width direction, they can be placed on the sharp balls so as to cover the upper surface of the sharp balls. . Therefore, the egg-baked piece 12 is excellent in adhesion to the shaved balls and stability on the shaved balls.

  FIG. 7A is a perspective view showing nigiri sushi holding the egg-baked pieces 12, and FIG. 7B is a cross-sectional view thereof. As shown in the figure, the strip-shaped egg baked piece 12 curved in the width direction has a convex cut surface 12a facing upward, and the concave cut surface 12b is on the sharp ball 32 so that the concave cut surface 12b contacts the sharp ball 32. It is put on and held.

  As described above, the egg baked pieces 12 cut by the food cutting device according to the present embodiment can be placed and gripped on the shrimp balls 32 so as to cover the upper surface of the shrimp balls 32, so that they are in close contact with the shrimp balls 32. Excellent in stability and stability on the sharp ball 32. Therefore, in the nigiri sushi holding the egg baked pieces 12, it is not necessary to take time and effort such as wrapping a strip of laver to prevent the shari balls 32 and the egg baked pieces 12 from being separated.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the eggs are baked by the plurality of cutting blades 24 that are arranged in the lateral direction of the cutting portions 14 at a predetermined interval and are each curved convexly on one side in the arrangement direction. 10 is cut and the egg-baked egg 10 is cut into a plurality of egg-baked pieces 12, so that it has a strip-like shape curved in the width direction, and has excellent adhesion to the ball 32 and stability on the ball 32. In addition, the egg-baked eggs 10 can be easily and efficiently cut into the plurality of egg-baked pieces 12.

[Modified Embodiment]
The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and various modifications can be made.

  For example, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the egg-baked egg 10 such as the thick-boiled egg or the soup roll egg is cut into a plurality of egg-baked pieces 12 as ingredients for the sushi material of the nigiri sushi is described. The present invention can be applied not only to the case of carving but also to the case of carving ingredients for various nigiri sushi sushi. For example, by applying the present invention when cutting sliced sashimi such as tuna, frozen products thereof, or kneaded paste such as salmon into sushi material, it has excellent stability and stability on shari balls. It can be easily and efficiently divided into multiple sushi items. It is desirable that the food material to be cut by applying the present invention is cut or formed into a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape. Note that the substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape includes a substantially cubic shape.

  Moreover, although the said embodiment demonstrated the case where the egg-baking 10 in the egg-baking accommodation frame 26 of the cutting | disconnection part 14 was pushed and moved directly with the extrusion member 16, it cut | disconnected by the extrusion member 16 through the egg-baking which should be cut next. You may comprise so that the egg-baking 10 in the egg-baking accommodation frame 26 may be pushed and moved. In this case, the egg-yaki to be carved next is pushed and moved by the extruding member 16 and accommodated in the egg-yaki containing frame 26. In this way, by dividing the egg-yaki and the egg-yaki that should be separated into the egg-yaki storage frame at the same time, multiple egg-yaki can be sequentially and continuously separated, improving the efficiency of carving the egg-yaki. can do.

  Moreover, although the said embodiment demonstrated the case where an operator hold | grips the holding part 30 of the extrusion member 30 and moves the extrusion part 28, you may make it move the extrusion part 28 mechanically.

  Moreover, although the said embodiment demonstrated the case where the egg-baking 10 was carved by pushing and moving the egg-baking 10 with respect to the fixed several cutting blade 24, several cutting blade with respect to the fixed egg-baking 10 was demonstrated. You may comprise so that the egg-baking 10 may be cut | divided by moving 24. FIG.

It is a perspective view which shows the structure of the foodstuff cutting device by one Embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view (the 1) explaining the egg-cutting method using the foodstuff cutting device by one Embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view (the 2) explaining the cutting method of the egg-bake using the foodstuff cutting device by one Embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view (the 3) explaining the cutting method of the egg-bake using the foodstuff cutting device by one Embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view (the 4) explaining the cutting method of the egg-baking using the foodstuff cutting device by one Embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view which shows the egg-baked piece cut using the foodstuff cutting device by one Embodiment of this invention. It is the schematic which shows the nigiri sushi which caught the egg-baked piece cut using the food cutting device by one Embodiment of this invention. It is the schematic which shows the nigiri sushi which grasped the conventional egg-baked piece cut out from the egg grill with the kitchen knife.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Egg-baked 12 ... Egg-baked piece 12a, 12b ... Cutting surface 14 ... Cutting part 16 ... Extruding member 18 ... Side wall 20 ... Lower board 22 ... Upper board 24 ... Cutting blade 26 ... Egg-baking accommodation frame 28 ... Extruding part 30 ... Grasping part 32 ... Sharp ball 100 ... Sharp ball 102 ... Boiled egg pieces 102a, 102b ... Cut surface

Claims (3)

Ingredient cutting device that cuts the ingredients for nigiri sushi sushi into multiple sushi ingredients,
Ingredient movement means for moving the ingredients along the placement surface on which the ingredients are placed;
A plurality of cutting blades provided vertically on the placement surface, arranged at predetermined intervals along the placement surface, and each having a plurality of cutting blades curved convexly on one side;
The food material cutting device, wherein the food material moved by the food material moving means is cut by the plurality of cutting blades, and the food material is cut into the curved sushi material. In the food cutting device according to claim 1,
It has the placing surface inside, and further has a housing frame for housing the foodstuff,
The plurality of cutting blades are provided in a first opening of the housing frame,
The food material cutting device, wherein the food material moving means pushes and moves the food material in the housing frame from a second opening portion on the side opposite to the first opening portion of the housing frame. In the food cutting device according to claim 1 or 2,
The food is an egg grilled in a flat rectangular parallelepiped shape,
The food cutting apparatus, wherein the egg-yaki is cut into the plurality of sushi ingredients made of egg-yaki pieces having a strip-like shape curved in the width direction.

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