JPH0378098B2 - - Google Patents

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[Detailed Description of the Invention] <Industrial Application Field> The disclosed technology belongs to the technical field of coating food materials such as oil foods such as fried shrimp with flour such as bread crumbs.

<Summary of the gist> The invention of this application is to form oil foods such as fried shrimp and fried pique in advance into a predetermined shape, and to continuously apply the battered food material to a powder coating section of a rotating drum or the like using a conveyor or the like. This invention relates to a method for uniformly dusting the entire surface of the food material that is supplied and subjected to a rotational action with flour, such as bread crumbs, and a flour dusting device used directly in the method,
In particular, a rotary drum in the flour-covering section is provided with functions such as scooping up, flipping up, and reversing the food material conveyed by a continuous feeding device using a rotating device, as well as a forwarding function. At the front end of the covering part, covering powder such as bread crumbs is continuously supplied by a screw feeder, etc., and in a countercurrent manner to the food material that is fed forward in a jet shape by applying a swirling action, etc. Then, ensure that the entire surface of the food material is evenly coated with flour, and during this time, the scooping action and reversing action described above also provide a reliable stirring action, and after the flour has been sprinkled, the front part of the rotating drum In the process, the covered food and mabuse powder are separated by a sorting device such as a cage, and the sorted mabuse powder is returned to the base of the rotating drum and can be reused for powder covering. This invention relates to a method and apparatus for dusting food materials with powder.

<Prior art> As is well known, as people's lives improve, their eating habits become more diverse, and they are not only eating cooked food at home or in restaurants, but also eating pre-processed food in microwave ovens, etc. The method of feeding foods conveniently by adding a heating effect or an oil effect has become widespread, and in particular, as housewives work outside the home and cooking time is shortened, convenient feeding methods are becoming more and more popular. As the demand for stable, high-quality food ingredients for processed foods such as frozen foods increases rapidly, demand for large quantities of stable, high-quality food ingredients is rapidly increasing.

Even if it does not reach the restaurant industry, oil foods such as fried shrimp and fried pique are deeply popular in the stable and convenient food material supply industry due to their calories, nutrition, and the spread of luxury tastes, and the supply side The supply of high-quality, hygienic, stable, and inexpensive food materials is becoming increasingly desirable.

Therefore, food materials such as seed oil foods are usually made by molding raw materials into a specified shape and then battering them.
It is essential to uniformly cover the entire surface of the bread crumbs with flour, and in the past, this work was generally done by hand.

Therefore, it naturally requires skill, is inefficient, and has the disadvantage of deteriorating the working environment due to bread crumbs flying up during the work of dusting bread crumbs or flour. There were also disadvantages such as unfavorable working conditions such as fatigue of the wrists caused by this, and a deterioration in quality due to the accompanying fatigue was unavoidable, and there was also the inconvenience that it was not suitable for mass production with the same precision.

In addition, since it was done manually, there were also inconveniences that could not be ignored in terms of health and hygiene.

<Problems to be solved by the invention> To deal with this, for example, Japanese Patent Application No. 59-206995
Although methods such as the No. 2 invention that allow continuous operation using mechanical means have been devised and put into practical use, the flexible and precise dusting that can be done by hand is not possible, and so-called lumps often occur, which deteriorates the quality of the product. There were disadvantages such as loss of uniformity of accuracy, and there were also disadvantages such as fluctuations in the consumption amount of the covering powder used, which affected cost instability.

<Purpose of the Invention> The purpose of the invention of this application is to solve the technical problem of poor flour covering and the occurrence of so-called lumps on food materials after battering the food materials based on the above-mentioned prior art, and Ensures even dusting on the entire surface of the machine, prevents the formation of lumps, eliminates inefficient manual work, improves work efficiency, and prevents environmental deterioration due to mafuse powder dust. This ensures sanitary maintenance, reduces the amount of mabuse powder used on average as much as possible, improves economic efficiency, and produces food after being coated with mabuse powder that is stable and reliable with good accuracy. It is an object of the present invention to provide an excellent method for dusting food materials, which is useful for the field of application of molding technology in the food industry, and a dusting device that can be used directly in the method.

<Means/effects for solving the problem> In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the structure of the invention of this application, which is summarized in the above-mentioned claims, is to solve the above-mentioned problem. When uniformly covering the entire surface of the food material with flour such as bread crumbs after battering, a conveyor device or the like is used to continuously apply a predetermined amount of the food material after battering to the rotating drum of the flour covering section. In the rotary drum, the supplied battered food material is rotated through the rotary drum and forwarded while giving scooping action, flipping action, and reversing action, and Then, topping powder such as bread crumbs is fed back at a predetermined speed from the topping powder supply device connected to the front part of the rotating drum by a screw feeder, etc., and is rotated from its tip through rotation by centrifugal action. The food material is ejected countercurrently into the drum in a countercurrent manner to the food material, and the food material is rotated, scooped up, thrown up, and fed forward while being given reverse effects. Therefore, on average, the entire surface of the food material is evenly covered with flour, and furthermore, the food material is fed forward by the stirring action due to the rotation action, and the food material is swirled by the countercurrent flow of the food material. A relatively complete dusting action is performed with the jetting, and the food is discharged from the front end of the rotating drum and subjected to a sorting action, and the food after dusting is transferred to the next freezing process, etc. Powder is sorted out to a predetermined mesh size and fed back to the base of a rotating drum for continuous supply.Buttering Food materials are scooped up by rotation, stirred by reversal, etc., and swirled and spouted in a countercurrent. A technical measure has been taken to make it participate in the dusting action together with the powder.

<Example> Next, an example of the invention of this application will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, 1 is a food material dusting device which forms the center of one of the gist of the invention of this application. The covering powder supply device 4 is
Further, at the rear part, a food material continuous supply device 5 is movable by a flexible roller via frames 6, 6', 6'', respectively, and can be disconnected and connected.

The food material continuous feeding device 5 at the rear is provided with a food material hopper 8 after battering at the base of an S-shaped frame 7, and
A driving sprocket (not shown) includes a rotary chain in which inclined bars 9, 9... are installed at predetermined intervals, and
It is provided in engagement with a driven sprocket and is rotatable by a drive motor 10, with its tip facing an agitation supply device 12 provided on the base side of a rotating drum 11 of the powder covering section 3.

The rotating drum 11 is basically the same as the mechanism disclosed in the earlier patent application No. 59-206995, and the agitation supply device 12 is mounted on a built-in frame (not shown). A blade is provided to rotate in conjunction with the rotating drum 11.

Also, the stay 1 is moved by the motor 13 to the rotating drum 11 provided on the frame 6 of the powder covering section 3.
By means of a belt conveyor 16 rotating via 5,
Feedback of the topping powder from a sorting device, which will be described later, is fed back into the rotary drum 11 from the base of the rotary drum 11.

The amount of buttered food material (not shown) supplied to the agitation supply device 12 can be freely adjusted by adjusting the angle of inclination of the frame 7, the angle of the inclined crosspieces 9, 9, and the rotational speed of the motor 10. .

As shown in FIG. 3, inside the base of the drum-shaped casing 17, there are buffle rods 18, 18, . A predetermined number of arms 19, 19 are provided along the axis, and a predetermined number of arms 19, 19 extend inward for a predetermined length along the axial direction, and there are protruding rod-shaped rotating device bars 20, 20 that serve as a scooping and reversing device. ...is integrally provided facing inward.

Then, the food material after battering (not shown), which is continuously supplied from the food material continuous supply device 5, is rotated as shown by the dotted line in the drawing, scooped up, bounced up, and reversed to be jetted out from the front in a countercurrent manner. A uniform covering action is performed using covering powder (not shown), which is then fed forward.

Further, a predetermined number of bar-shaped cages 21, 21, . It is designed to
The base of the belt conveyor 16 faces the lower side of the belt conveyor 16, and the selected glaze powder is fed to the agitation supply device 12.
The water is fed back to the rotary drum 11 and re-supplied from the base of the rotating drum 11.

As shown in FIG. 1, the food that has been subjected to the dusting action after being sorted out of the dusting powder by the cage 22 is transferred to the next stage of freezing by a conveyor (not shown) via the chute 23. is being used.

As shown in detail in FIG. 2, the continuous feeding device 4 after covering has a hopper 24 (not shown) for covering powder provided on the base side thereof, and a predetermined bridging prevention device 25 therein. It is set up as
The screw feeder 27 has its base facing the lower end opening 26, and the base of its shaft 28 is supported by bearings 29, 29', and the motor 30
The stirring rods are rotated at a predetermined speed via a belt pulley mechanism, and fork-shaped stirring rods 31, 31 are formed at the tips thereof to protrude forward in a forked shape.

Further, a holder 33 is provided on a bearing 32 provided approximately at the outer center of the screw feeder 27, and pivotally supports a rotating cylinder 34.
4, a predetermined high speed rotation is applied by a motor 35 and a belt 36, and a cone-shaped outer cap 37 is provided at the tip of the rotating cylinder 34, and a cone-shaped outer cap 37,
An inner cap 38 is provided as a swirling flow applying device, and is provided to rotate at high speed through a ring-shaped gap to apply centrifugal force. The feeder 27 is configured to eject dust (not shown) supplied from the hopper 24 in a countercurrent manner while being swirled by centrifugal force.

Therefore, the swirling spout of the dusting powder is carried out by the motors 30, 3.
5, the rotational speeds of the screw feeder 27 and the rotary cylinder 34 are adjusted to a predetermined value.

Furthermore, not only swirling spouting is imparted to the mapping powder due to centrifugal force, but also swirling is imparted to the surrounding air to create a countercurrent of the swirling spouting of the mapping powder in the cage 22 and the rotating drum 11. It is designed to help.

In the food material dusting device 1 having the above-mentioned configuration, for example, when dusting the food material after battering of fried shrimp with flour such as bread crumbs (not shown), the food material after battering is mixed with flour. The raw material is supplied to the hopper 8 of the continuous material supply device 5 and conveyed by a chain (not shown) rotated by the motor 5 via the inclined crosspieces 9, 9 . 1
2 continuously.

Then, along with the dusting powder after sorting and sorting which will be described later, the powder is fed into the buttful rods 18, 18 at the base of the rotating drum 11, aligned and forwarded, and the arms of the casing 17 are rotated by the motor 13. It is rotated by bars 20, 20, .

Therefore, the topping powder swirled and spouted from the front end of the rotating drum 11 as described above is
The concentration is high on the tip side of the rotary drum 11, and it gradually becomes thinner from the middle part to the base end of the buff-full rods 18, 18, . A process in which the battered food material is coated with flour in a countercurrent state, first thickly and then gradually thinly, and thus the food material is transported forward while rotating around the rotating drum 11. This ensures that the entire surface is uniformly sprinkled with powder.

As mentioned above, the food material after battering, which is rotated and forwarded, is thin at the proximal end side and gradually becomes thicker due to the covering powder that is swirled and spouted in a countercurrent, and the entire surface is covered with covering powder. The food material is evenly coated with flour and fed forward, and the food material after battering is transferred to the rotating drum 11.
While being rotated and forwarded from the base to the tip of the inside, the entire surface is uniformly coated with powder and the dusting action is performed to prevent the formation of so-called lumps and the like.

During this time, the topping powder swirling and jetting out in the countercurrent is fed back by the belt conveyor 16, and the topping powder carried in from the base side of the rotating drum 11 together with the battered food material from the agitation supply device 12 works together to produce the battered powder. The entire surface of the food material is coated with powder in an evenly distributed manner.

During this period, the state of dusting the entire surface of the food material after the battering is determined by the moving speed of the inclined crosspieces 9, 9, .
This is carried out as appropriate by adjusting the rotational speed of the motors 30 and 35 and the swirling and spouting state of the dusting powder.

As described above, in the continuous coating powder supply device 4, the coating powder in the hopper 24 is prevented from bridging at the supply port 26 of the hopper 24 by the bridging prevention device 25 due to the continuous rotation of the screw feeder 27 by the motor 30. is supplied without being made;
In addition, the outer cap 3 is stirred by the stirring rods 31, 31 at the tips without causing any lumps.
7, and receives the centrifugal force through the rotation of the motor 35 of the rotary cylinder 34 of the inner cap 38, and receives a swirling action, and the food material after the battering, which is swirled and spouted and sent forward, is sprinkled with powder as a countercurrent. It will work.

The food, which has been thoroughly sprinkled with powder on its entire surface, is sent forward while being rotated as shown by the dotted line in Figure 3, and the excess dust is removed by the sorting section 22 by the cages 21, 21... at the tip. The powder is sorted and dropped onto a belt conveyor 16, and only the flour-covered food is conveyed to the sorting section 22 via a chute 23 by a conveyor (not shown) to the next stage of freezing.

Then, the selected surplus dusting powder is fed back to the agitation supply device 12 by the belt conveyor 16, and is supplied together with the thrown-in food material after battering from the base of the rotating drum 11 under the dusting action and rotation action. It will be done.

During this time, the depth at which the outer cap 37 and the inner cap 38 face the tip of the rotating drum 11 can be adjusted as appropriate by moving the frame 6' closer to and away from the frame 6 via the flexible roller. It is.

During this time, there is no manual dusting operation, and only the rotational speeds of the motors 10, 13, 30, and 35, the inclination angle of the frame 7, and the relative distance between the frames 6 and 6' are adjusted. The dusting action is performed completely automatically, with only simple adjustments required.

Of course, during this time, the buttering work was done using Hoppa 2.
The supply of the topping powder to No. 4 is also carried out appropriately under automatic control.

It goes without saying that the embodiments of the invention of this application are not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments. For example, it is possible to attach fins to the outer periphery of the tip of the continuous maze powder supply device and spray the maze powder into the rotating drum. Various modes can be adopted, such as imparting a swirling effect to the wind.

Further, as a design modification, it is of course possible to attach rotating drum fins inside the rotating drum.

It goes without saying that the target food materials can also be applied to food materials other than fried shrimp and fried pique.

It goes without saying that seasonings other than bread crumbs can also be used for the mabuse flour.

<Effects of the Invention> As described above, according to the invention of this application, when performing a flour dusting action on food materials such as oil foods such as fried shrimp and fried pique foods after battering, the process from feeding to dusting is fully automatic. Since the covering action is performed, it is possible to avoid deterioration of the working environment due to the flying up of dust from the covering powder, and since no manual work is required, there is no possibility of poor covering due to fatigue, etc. The excellent effect of being able to continuously mass-produce a constant quality product without causing so-called lumps or the like to reduce product accuracy is achieved.

Therefore, planned production is possible, work efficiency is improved, and as a result, costs can be reduced.

Therefore, the rotational forwarding of the food material after battering in the rotating drum and the countercurrent swirling and jetting of the topping powder are performed in opposition to each other, and furthermore, at the base side of the rotating drum, the topping powder is The powder is concentrated, medium in the center, and concentrated in the tip, so that the powder is uniformly distributed over the entire surface of the food material supplied from the base of the rotating drum and discharged from the tip. An excellent effect is achieved in that the dusting is carried out as designed.

Due to the counterflow of the food material and the topping powder, no lumps are generated even when the food material is twisted, thereby improving product accuracy and improving reliability of the product.

Since no lumps are generated, the dusting powder that has been sorted out by the sorting section at the tip of the rotating drum can be fed back and reused, which also has the advantage of improving yield.

A food material continuous supply device is provided at the base of the rotating drum, and the food material after battering can be fed into the rotating drum. It can be subjected to rotational action such as rotation, and the dusting action is performed at a relative speed with the dusting powder that is spouted out in a rotating direction, and the dusting powder can be evenly and evenly sprinkled all over the place. Excellent effects can be achieved.

In addition, the continuous feeding device for food materials is placed at the base of the rotating drum, and the continuous feeding device for covering powder is placed at the tip, making it possible to arrange the devices in a kind of series arrangement, making it easier to connect them with other equipment. no interference,
Another advantage is that the layout of the device can be planned.

Furthermore, since a sorting device is installed at the tip of the rotating drum, the food that has been completely coated is separated from the coated powder, and the sorted coated powder is fed back and reused. It has the economic advantage of being able to

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings are explanatory diagrams of one embodiment of the invention of this application, and FIG. 1 is a side view of the overall arrangement of the powder dusting device;
Figure 2 is a partial vertical sectional view of the continuous powder supply device.
FIG. 3 is a sectional view of the rotating drum. 1...Powder covering device, 5...Food material continuous supply device, 4...Powder covering continuous supply device, 10,1
3, 30... 35... Drive device, 27... Countercurrent jetting device (screw feeder), 11... Rotating drum, 20... Rotating device, 22... Sorting device, 31
...Stirring stick.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A method of continuously supplying a food material of a predetermined shape to a flour-covering part and uniformly covering the entire surface thereof with powder, wherein the food material is continuously supplied from the rear to the front in the flour-covering part. A rotating action is applied to the food material to be transported, and a forwarding action is also given to the food material being transported, so that the food material is continuously coated with powder in a direction opposite to the transport direction of the food material during the transport process. A food material characterized in that the food material is spouted in a rotating state and sprinkled on the food material to coat it with powder, and the food material after being covered with powder is separated from the food material covered with powder at the end of the powder covering part. How to sprinkle powder on. 2. Claim 1, characterized in that the above-mentioned covering powder is continuously supplied in the form of a jet stream.
How to sprinkle flour on food ingredients as described in section. 3. The method for dusting a food material according to claim 2, characterized in that a unidirectional swirling flow is imparted to the spouting flow of the dusting powder. 4. A method for dusting a food material as set forth in claim 1, wherein the food material is rotated in the covering portion so as to be scooped up, flipped up, and reversed. 5. The method for dusting a food material according to claim 1, characterized in that the dusting powder after the sorting is refluxed to the base of the dusting part. 6 In a device that continuously sprinkles powder on the surface of a food material of a predetermined shape, a continuous powder supply device is provided at the tip of the rotating drum that forms the powder coating part, and a continuous powder supply device is provided at the rear of the rotating drum. A device is provided;
Each of them is connected to a drive device, and the continuous covering powder supply device is equipped with a swirling flow imparting device having a screw feeder for the covering powder and a fork-shaped stirring bar at the tip thereof. 1. An apparatus for dusting food materials, characterized in that a counter-current jetting device is provided, and a rotation device is provided inside the rotating drum, and a sorting device is provided at the tip of the rotating drum. 7. The food material dusting device according to claim 6, wherein the swirl flow imparting device is a swirl flow imparting device that rotates in the opposite direction to the rotating drum. 8. The food material dusting device according to claim 6, wherein the rotating drum has a downward slope. 9. The food material dusting device according to claim 6, wherein the sorting device is formed by a cage. 10. The food material dusting device according to claim 6, wherein the rotating device for the rotating drum is equipped with a scooping and reversing device. 11. The food material dusting device according to claim 6, wherein the dusting powder continuous feeding device is equipped with a screw feeder. 12. The food material dusting device according to claim 6, wherein a stirring device is attached to the tip of the dusting powder continuous feeding device.