JPH0412934B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a method for producing a combination confectionery by supplying granular confectionery to a granular confectionery receiving section in which the granular confectionery is moved while being aligned at regular intervals, and combining the granular confectionery with a plasticizer confectionery material. The purpose is to provide a confectionery that is a combination of the granular confectionery and a plastic confectionery material.

The confectionery is a combination of granular confectionery such as snacks, rice crackers, crackers, biscuits, marshmallows, popcorn, seeds, etc., and plastic confectionery materials such as chiyocolate, candied, jelly, and ice cream, and the outer periphery of the granular confectionery is covered with the plastic confectionery material. What has been done is known. Also known is a combination confectionery in which granular confectionery is mixed and dispersed in a plastic confectionery material to form a desired shape.

However, in such combination confectionery, it is not possible to directly see the granular confectionery inside, and even if the two are combined, it is not possible to create a combination confectionery with an interesting design that takes advantage of the difference in appearance, and from the outside it is difficult to see the granular confectionery inside. All I could see was the confectionery ingredients.

In order to make an integrated confectionery by combining the two so that a part of the granular confectionery can be seen, for example,
As described in No. 50-102047, it is possible to make the confectionery by injecting a plastic confectionery material into a mold or the like and inserting a portion of the granular confectionery into the mold.

However, in order to manufacture such a combination confectionery, it is necessary to insert the granular confectionery one by one into each piece of plastic confectionery material in the mold, and the granular confectionery must be fed in synchronization with the movement of the mold. It was difficult to do.

In addition, when using granular confectionery that has a complex shape and has directionality, it must be inserted into the plastic confectionery material in the same direction, which is difficult to do mechanically, so it must be done manually. It became very expensive.

Therefore, in order to manufacture such products in large quantities, the granular confectionery can be produced by simply injecting the plastic confectionery material into a mold and then automatically dropping the granular confectionery using a shooter, etc., and the direction does not matter much. Only granular confectionery in simple shapes such as sticks and balls have been used, and granular confectionery in complex shapes with directionality cannot be used.

The inventors of this invention have discovered that when combining granular confectionery and plastic confectionery material, a portion of the granular confectionery material comes out, and that the plastic confectionery material is molded into a design shape that matches the appearance of the granular confectionery material, such as a nest. We conducted research to develop a method for producing combination sweets with complex and fun designs, such as a small bird with an egg, which could not be produced in large quantities using conventional methods, and completed the present invention.

That is, the present invention supplies granular confectionery from a granular confectionery feeding device to a cylindrical rotating roll that has suction ports arranged at regular intervals on its surface and whose interior is in a reduced pressure state by suction. When the roll rotates and the suction port comes down, the pressure inside the cylinder at that part is set to normal pressure or pressurized state, and the granular confectionery is released downward and moves in sync with the rotation of the rotating roll. The granular confectionery is sequentially supplied to the granular confectionery receptacle of the conveying device, and the granular confectionery is placed at a predetermined position on the plastic confectionery material formed into a desired shape, and the two are integrated into a combined confectionery with an enjoyable design. It is.

This point will be explained in more detail with reference to the drawings.

The rotating roll 1 used in this invention is, for example, a first
As seen in the cross-sectional views of FIGS. 2 and 2, it has a cylindrical shape, and suction ports 4 are arranged at regular intervals around its outer circumference. Further, the inside of the cylindrical body is vacuumed by a suction device or the like and has a reduced pressure.

However, the part corresponding to the lower part of the cylinder is the partition wall 7.
The area is divided into sections, and the area is communicated with the outside air or blown by an air blower, etc., so that the internal pressure becomes normal pressure or pressurized.

The granular confectionery 5 is supplied to this rotating roll from the granular confectionery feeding device 2, and the granular confectionery is sucked and held by the suction port.

At this time, if a large amount of granular confectionery is supplied at once,
A large number of granular confectionery may be suctioned and held in one suction port, or may be suctioned as an agglomerate.
It is desirable that the granular confectionery feeding device quantitatively supply an appropriate amount of granular confectionery.

That is, for example, granular confectionery is placed in a hopper, the bottom plate is vibrated with a vibrator, etc.
The material is discharged little by little from the bottom plate of the hopper and sent to a rotating roll.

The granular confectionery sent to the rotating roll is sucked and held by the suction port, and is conveyed as the rotating roll rotates. At this time, the guide 8
It is desirable to place it above the suction port.

Further, if necessary, it is desirable to use a brush roll 9 or the like to brush off excess granular confectionery that is conveyed overlapping with the suctioned granular confectionery so that one granular confectionery is held in each suction port.

In addition, when using a granular confectionery having a directionality such as an arcuate shape, for example, by brushing the confectionery with a brush roll etc., one end of the granular confectionery can be held in a state inserted into the suction port as shown in Fig. 3 A or A'. When the granular confectionery is held in place, it is difficult to be blown off, but when the curved surface with a large radius is held under suction, as shown in Figure 3 B or B', it is easily blown off, thereby aligning the direction of the granular confectionery. becomes possible.

The granular confectionery that is suctioned and held by the suction port is carried downward as the rotating roll rotates, and when the suction port comes down, the internal pressure of the cylinder in that area becomes normal pressure or pressurized, so it falls downward. do.

Below the rotating roll, there is a conveying device 3 having a receiving part 6 for granular confectionery that moves in synchronization with the rotation of the rotating roll, and the granular confectionery that has fallen from the rotating roll is placed in the receiving part 6 to be combined with the plastic confectionery material. They are stored one by one in the compartment.

The granular confectionery stored in the granular confectionery receptacle of the conveying device is combined with plastic confectionery materials there, or is conveyed by the conveyance device, molded, aligned, and transported to the moving plastic confectionery materials and combined there to produce a combination confectionery. shall be.

Next, the present invention will be explained by examples.

Example 1 Mix 30 parts of wheat flour, 30 parts of potato starch, 20 parts of waxy corn starch, and 40 parts of cold plum powder, then add 30 parts of water and sugar.
20 parts of the dough was mixed with 0.2 parts of bicarbonate of soda, rolled to a thickness of 10 mm, punched out using a Daruma-shaped punching die, a face was drawn with edible ink, and baked to obtain a granular confectionery puffed into the shape of a Daruma. Ta.

The granular confectionery was supplied to the hopper 11 of the granular confectionery feeding device 2 as shown in FIG. 1, and was placed little by little onto a rotating roll by vibrating the bottom plate of the hopper.

The rotating roll 1 had a cylindrical shape with suction ports 4 arranged at regular intervals on its surface, and its interior was brought into a reduced pressure state by a suction device.

Therefore, the granular confectionery fed to the rotating rolls is
It was carried to the suction port together with the suctioned air, where it was sucked and held, and conveyed by the rotation of the rotating roll.

When the granular confectionery suctioned and held by the suction port passes under the rotating brush roll 9, which sweeps the surface of the rotating roll, those held by the large spherical surface as shown in FIG. 3B are brushed off. However, as shown in FIG. 3A, the small spherical surface inserted into the suction port was retained without being thrown off, and was carried to the lower part of the rotating roll.

Therefore, the granular confectionery conveyed to the lower part of the rotating roll was all arranged with the large spherical surface facing down.

The inside of the cylinder at the bottom of the rotating roll was separated from other parts by the partition wall 7, and air was sent to that part by the blower, so that the granular confectionery was released from the suction port and fell downward.

The granular confectionery that fell from the rotating rolls was stored at a predetermined position in a conveyance device 3 having a granular confectionery receiving section 6 that moved in synchronization with the rotating rolls.

A plastic confectionery material 13 made of colored chocolate was previously injected into this receiving portion from the plastic confectionery material supplying device 10 and combined with the granular confectionery.

After combining, the plastic confectionery materials were cooled and solidified by a conventional method to obtain a combined confectionery.

This was a combination confectionery with a very fun design, with a Daruma-shaped doll with a child's face inserted into a basket-shaped color cake.

Example 2 70 parts of wheat flour, 30 parts of potato starch, 15 parts of sugar, and 1 part of salt were mixed, 85 parts of boiling water was added, the mixture was heated and then cooled, and 10 parts of butter and 1 part of fatty acid monoglyceride were mixed. The thickness of the dough is approx.
It is made into a 1.5mm thin sheet, and a small bird's eye is placed on the sheet.
Print a pattern such as a beak or wings, then punch it out using a punching die to match the pattern, fire it, and expand it into a bow shape.
A granular confectionery in the shape of a small bird was obtained.

As shown in FIG. 2, this granular confectionery was placed in a hopper 11 of a granular confectionery feeding device 2, and was discharged little by little from below the hopper by vibration and supplied to the first rotating roll 1.

This rotary roll had a cylindrical shape, and suction ports 4 were arranged at regular intervals on its outer periphery, and the inside of the cylinder was brought into a reduced pressure state by suction.

Therefore, since the granular confectionery sent to the rotating roll is held in the suction port and conveyed as the rotating roll rotates, a guide 8 and a brush roll 9 are provided along the way, and a large number of granular confections that are suctioned and held by one suction port are disposed of. Most of the granulated confectionery was brushed off.

The lower part of the cylindrical body is partitioned by a partition wall 7, and is pressurized by blowing air from a blower, so that the granular confectionery carried below the rotating rolls is discharged from the suction port and falls.

The fallen granular confectionery is suction-held and conveyed to the second rotating roll 1' whose suction port 4' rotates in synchronization with the suction port of the first rotating roll.

As a result, even if a plurality of granular confections were held in one suction port of the first rotating roll, they were suctioned and held one by one in the suction port of the second rotating roll.

Similarly to the first rotating roll, the inside of the cylindrical body under the second rotating roll was partitioned by a partition wall 7', and the pressure inside was high, so that the granular confectionery was discharged downward.

The granular confectionery that has fallen from the rotating roll is stored in a granular confectionery receiving section 6 that moves in synchronization with the rotation of the rotating roll by the conveying device 3.

The receiving portion has a rectangular parallelepiped space large enough to accommodate the granular confectionery, and a protruding portion is provided in the center of the space. Therefore, by vibrating with the tapping device 12, the direction of the granular confectionery was aligned with the arcuate curved surface facing upward.

The oriented granular confectionery is combined with the plastic confectionery material 13 made of Chiyocolate, which is injected into a mold that moves in synchronization with the receiving part by the plastic confectionery material supplying device 10, and is cooled and solidified, as shown in FIG. A fun combination of confectionery with a three-dimensional design of a small bird holding an egg in a nest was obtained.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1: A sectional view of an example (Example 1) in which the present invention was implemented, Fig. 2: A sectional view of another example (Example 2),
FIG. 3: A sectional view showing a state in which granular confectionery is suctioned and held by a suction port. FIG. 4: A perspective view of the combination confectionery made in Example 2. 1, 1'... Rotating roll, 2... Granular confectionery feeding device, 3... Conveying device, 4, 4'... Suction port, 5
...Granular confectionery, 6...Receiving section for granular confectionery, 7,
7'... Partition wall, 8... Guide, 9... Brush roll, 10... Plastic confectionery material supply device, 11... Hopper, 12... Tapping device, 13... Plastic confectionery material.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A suitable amount of granular confectionery is quantitatively supplied by a granular confectionery supply device to a cylindrical rotating roll having suction ports arranged at regular intervals on its surface and whose interior is in a vacuum state due to suction, Using the guide and brush roll, rotate the rotary roll while suctioning and holding granular confectionery one by one in each suction port, and when the suction port reaches the bottom, the pressure inside the cylinder at that part becomes normal pressure or pressurized state. The granular confectionery is dropped downward in such a manner that the granular confectionery is aligned at regular intervals at a predetermined position of a conveying device having a granular confectionery receiving section that moves in synchronization with the rotating rolls. A method for producing a combination confectionery characterized by combining a granular confectionery and a plastic confectionery material by supplying the material and integrating the granular confectionery so that a part of the granular confectionery is visible.