JPH06128134A - Incense and its production - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily provide incense without any deformation. CONSTITUTION:Crude drug incense powder is mixed with a vehicle followed by addition of a binder and then granulation, and the resulting granules are put to compression molding, thus affording the objective incense. This molded product is low in deformation, therefore, high in yield and needs no drying process, thus being easy to produce.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for producing a scented scent, and more specifically, it produces a scented scent obtained by granulating Chinese herb fine powder and compression-molding the powder. It relates to the method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to produce scent, first of all, fine powder of Chinese herb spice is mixed with glue powder, which is mixed well, and water is added little by little using a crusher, a kneader, etc. Knead thoroughly to make a clay-like material. Next, the obtained clay-like material is extruded with an extruder to form a linear object and then cut into a predetermined length, or alternatively, the clay-like object is flattened and then removed by a die with a predetermined shape. Make a predetermined shape. And finally, using a drying room where the humidity is gradually reduced, it takes several days to several tens of days to dry the processed clay-like material while moving it from the higher humidity to the lower humidity one by one. Or dry using sun, vacuum, hot air or the like.

[0003]

However, since the scent produced in this manner has a deformed processing shape (for example, warping, bending, cracking, chipping, breaking, etc.) due to drying after processing, the product yield is high. Is in a situation of decreasing.
For example, even if it is dried by various drying methods under conditions where the temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure or air volume is appropriately controlled, about 10 to 20%, and sometimes about 30%, is deformed.

Since Chinese herbal spice fine powder is a crushed product of natural fragrant wood, even if it is finely crushed, its particle size is limited, and in addition, it has water absorbability itself, so that it is a well kneaded clay. Uses a significant amount of water to make the mass. When the processed clay-like material is dried, a large amount of water evaporates, which is presumed to cause deformation such as cracking, warping, and bending. If a small amount of water is used for kneading in order to prevent deformation, sufficient kneading cannot be performed, and the proper shape of the molded product cannot be maintained regardless of whether it is processed by an extruder or a die.

Therefore, since the conventional manufacturing method requires a drying step, the above deformation is unavoidable, and there is a problem that the shape after manufacturing is not constant and the dimensional accuracy is low. In addition, a person who uses these may feel anxiety or discomfort because the shape of the scent is slightly different. In addition, the above method is not aesthetically preferable because the surface of the resulting fragrance is rough and rough because the clay-like material is dried. Moreover, when the scents come into contact with each other, the rough portion is scraped off and powder is generated. Further, the above-mentioned method has a large number of steps, so that there is a problem that it takes a long time to manufacture.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and to prevent deformation of the molded scent.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a scent and a method for producing the scent, which can dramatically reduce the production time of the scent.

[0007]

The above-mentioned object of the present invention is characterized in that a mixture of a Chinese herb fine powder and a excipient is added with a binder and granulated, followed by compression molding to produce a scent. It is achieved by the method for producing scent.

The method for producing the scent according to the present invention is as follows. In other words, first mix the Chinese medicine flavor powder with the excipient,
Mix well until uniform. Next, a binder is added to the obtained mixture and the mixture is granulated. Finally, the obtained granulated product is filled in a mold having a predetermined shape and compression-molded.

FIG. 1 shows a flow chart of the steps of the conventional method and the method of the present invention for producing a scent. In the conventional method, a step of drying after molding is required, but in the method of the present invention, mixing, granulation, and drying are carried out in the same device, and the product obtained by compression molding is a product as it is, and the drying step after molding is unnecessary. Yes There are few steps.

The Chinese herb spices used in the present invention include gara, agarwood, sandalwood, cinnamon, clove, sweet pine, frankincense,
Benzo fragrance, Karaki fragrance, rye scent, large scent, etc., which are used alone or in a suitable mixture as desired. As the excipient used in the present invention, crystalline cellulose,
Examples include corn starch, valley starch, lactose and fructose. The both can be mixed using a mortar, a ball mill, a crusher, a V-type mixer, a centrifugal granulator, a tumbling granulator, and a fluidized bed granulator.

Examples of the binder to be added to the mixture of Chinese herbal fine powder and excipients include pastes such as hydroxypropyl cellulose, carboxymethyl cellulose and starch paste. The addition of the binder is preferably carried out by spraying a solution of the binder onto the mixture being granulated. For example, in order to uniformly attach the binder to the particle surface of the mixture, it is preferable to intermittently perform granulation while performing spraying several times. In order to attach the binder to the surface of the particles, it is preferable to repeatedly spray the binder solution and dry the particles. For such an operation, it is preferable to use a centrifugal granulator or a fluidized bed granulator. Further, although the obtained granulated product can be molded as it is, it is preferable to pass it through a mesh screen for sizing. Granules need to be uniformly filled in incense-shaped, spiral-shaped or complicated-shaped molds, and the grain size of the granules is 1 in order to clearly show complicated patterns.
50 μm to 1300 μm is preferable, especially 180 μm
850 μm is preferable. The angle of repose of the granulated product is 25 °
-50 ° is preferable, and 30 ° -45 ° is particularly preferable.

It is possible to add various colored powders for coloring the fragrant scent which is the object of the present invention without any trouble, and it is preferable to add various colored powders to the binder solution for ease of operation. Further, a lubricant may be added so that the material can be easily filled in the mold at the time of compression molding, and as the lubricant, talc, silica, magnesium stearate or the like can be used.

The scent produced according to the present invention can have various arbitrary shapes as long as the mold can be made. For example, rod shape, plate shape, spiral shape, prismatic shape,
Pyramidal, cylindrical, conical, cubic, polygonal,
It can be formed into a geometric pattern, a curved shape, or the like.

Further, the scent formed in each of these shapes can be arbitrarily colored, patterned, engraved with characters, embossed, etc. and processed according to the purpose. For coloring,
It is easier to add a pigment or the like to the fine powder of Chinese herb before granulating or to add the pigment to the binder solution as described above, than to color it after molding. Patterns, characters, etc. may be provided by coloring, or may be processed so that the surface has a pattern or letter-like unevenness. This processing is
The molding die may have a desired uneven shape.

In the case of compression molding, it is also possible to superimpose one or a plurality of types of granules for molding. It is also possible to mold only the above-mentioned embossed portion with another granulated product having a different color, composition, or the like.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of various molded scents.
The scent 2 shown in A is formed into an S-shape, and the character 4 is formed on the surface. The character 4 can be easily formed by forming the character mold having a convex portion or a concave portion on a mold. When the scent 2 has an S shape as shown in A,
The fragrant incense 2 is placed vertically so that the longitudinal end faces 6 and 8 of the fragrant incense 2 respectively face substantially up and down, and one end of the fragrant incense 2 in the longitudinal direction is brought into contact with the end of another fragrant incense, or By placing one end on the end of another scent, a plurality of scents 2 can be connected. Then, the burning time of the scent 2 can be arbitrarily set, or the type of the scent 2 to be continuously burned can be arbitrarily set.

Further, the scent 2 is composed of upper and lower two layers 2a and 2b having different colors and components. To mold two layers,
First, about half of the first granulated product is filled in the mold to flatten the surface, then the second granulated product of a different type is filled, and then compression molding is performed. The scent shown in FIG. 2 is formed by two-color molding, but multi-color molding of three or more colors is also possible by the same method.

The scent 12 shown in B is incense-shaped, and the characters 14 are formed in the same manner as the scent shown in A. This rod-shaped scent can also be molded in multiple colors. Scent 22 shown in C
Is a relief pattern 24 such as a family crest on the surface,
The pattern 24 can be easily provided by forming the pattern pattern on the mold as well as the characters. It is also possible to mold the scent 22 in two colors in the same manner as described above so that only the pattern portion 26 is composed of different kinds of components. In particular,
The pattern part 26 is molded in a different color from the other parts, and the pattern 24
If you set a different color for each, the shape will be the same and the pattern 2
Even if 4 is a large number of different scents 22, the scent 22 can be easily identified. Since the scent 22 produced by the method of the present invention has a smooth and glossy surface, the coloring of the pattern portion 26 is conspicuous, the discrimination function is excellent, and the appearance is good.

As the compression molding device, a rotary molding device or a hydraulic molding device can be used, and for example, a die of a known tableting machine can be used by changing it into a desired shape.

An example of the composition of the fragrance for carrying out the present invention is as follows, but the composition of the fragrance according to the present invention is not limited to the following, and components other than Chinese herbal spice fine powder have the same function. It can be replaced by something.

Composition Weight% Chinese herb flavor fine powder 40-60 Crystalline cellulose 10-20 Tab powder 5-10 Dextrin 5-10 Glue 2-5 Pigment 2-5 Chlorine-containing oxidizer 2-5

According to the present invention, the granule particles obtained from the mixture of the Chinese herb powder and the excipient have a binder adhered between the particles, so that the particle size, repose angle or ratio of the particles can be improved. By controlling physical properties such as volume and then filling the mold with a desired shape and compression-molding, a scent of the desired shape is obtained. In this way, since the long-term drying is not required and the number of steps is small, the scent can be produced in a short time. In addition, since the scent is produced by compression molding, the scent surface is rough and not glossy, and conversely gloss is produced, which is aesthetically preferable.

As described above, according to the method of the present invention, it is possible to produce a scent without requiring long-term drying and without causing deformation such as cracking, warping, chipping, and breaking. Moreover, the quality of the scent of the produced scent is not different from the conventional one, and according to the present invention, a good scent can be efficiently produced.

[0024]

EXAMPLES The present invention will be described in more detail based on the following examples. Example 1 130 g of Chinese herbal spice fine powder, 96 g of crystalline cellulose, and 85 g of lactose are mixed well in a mortar. A solution prepared by dissolving 15 g of hydroxypropyl cellulose as a binder in 200 ml of distilled water is sprayed intermittently and well mixed and granulated. The obtained granulated product is air-dried and sized using a sieve. Further, 0.5 g of talc is added as a glidant and mixed well. The obtained fine granules were filled in a metal mold for molding a disk-shaped product having a diameter of 20 mm and a thickness of 5 mm and compression-molded.

10 moldings (diameter 20.02 m)
m and thickness 5.03 mm, both of which are average values) were allowed to stand in a dryer under an atmosphere of 40 ° C. for 24 hours, and no change in diameter or thickness was observed before and after standing in the dryer. In addition, the obtained molded product was free from warpage, cracking, and deformation, had an average diameter error of 0.02 mm, and an average thickness error of 0.03 mm. It was good.

Example 2 A scent was prepared by changing the amounts of the various components used and the apparatus used in Example 1. 300 g of Chinese herbal spice powder, 200 g of crystalline cellulose, 160 g of lactose are put into a fluidized bed granulator, blown and mixed. 30 g of hydroxypropyl cellulose as a binder is dissolved in 500 ml of distilled water, and this is intermittently sprayed to adhere to the particles, granulate and dry. To this is added 10 g of silica. 20m diameter of the obtained fine particles
A m-shaped and 5 mm-thick disc-shaped material was filled in a mold and compression-molded.

10 molded articles (diameter 20.02 m)
m and thickness 5.03 mm, both of which are average values) were allowed to stand in a dryer under an atmosphere of 40 ° C. for 24 hours, and no change in diameter or thickness was observed before and after standing in the dryer. In addition, the obtained molded product warps in the same manner as in Example 1,
There was no cracking or deformation, the average error of the diameter was 0.02 mm, the average error of the thickness was 0.03 mm, and it was possible to produce a scent with high dimensional accuracy, and the appearance was also good.

Reference Example 1 (conventional method) Chinese herbal spice fine powder 15 g, tab powder 9.49 g, CMC 4.1
While mixing g and mixing in a mortar, 39 ml of water is added little by little, and the whole is kneaded to obtain a clay-like material. This was pressed into a disk-shaped die having a diameter of 20 mm and a thickness of 5 mm to obtain a molded product. 10 moldings obtained (diameter 20.25m
m, thickness 5.22 mm, both of which are average values) were allowed to stand in a dryer under an atmosphere of 40 ° C. for 24 hours. The average diameter was 6.3% (0.25 mm) and the average thickness was 1%.
Shrinkage of 1.1% (0.22 mm) was observed. In addition, all molded products were deformed such as warped and bent, and cracks occurred in about 40%.

[0029]

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, the Chinese herb powder and the excipient are mixed and granulated, and the binder is added, so that the binder is adhered between the particles of the powder. Since it is dried, the granulated product can be compression-molded to produce a scent of any shape. Since the method does not require long-time drying and has a small number of steps, it is possible to produce a scent in a short time. Moreover, it is possible to provide a scent that does not deform due to drying and has a good appearance.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a conventional method for producing a scent and a method of the present invention.

[Fig. 2] Fig. 2 is a perspective view of various molded scents.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2, 12, 22 Kaoru 2a, 2b Layer 4, 14 Characters 6, 8 Edge 24 Pattern 26 Pattern portion

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A method for producing a scent, which comprises producing a scent by subjecting a mixture of a Chinese herb fine powder and a shaping agent to which a binder is added and granulated to compression-molding. 2. A fragrant scent obtained by compression-molding a mixture of a fine powder of Chinese herbal medicine, a shaping agent and a binder and granulating the mixture.