JPH09224594A - Producing method for ingredient containing long-shaped rice food - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to mechanically and automatically mass-produce ingredient-containing long-shaped rice food and obtain the rice food sanitarily since columnar rice food which has ingredients wound in can be prepared by mounting the ingredients properly on expanded plate-shaped rice and rolling the plate-shaped rice with a slack belt using a winding device. SOLUTION: On the rice mount belt which is freely tensed and loosened, the plate-shaped rice A which is expanded thinnly is mounted. Then the rice mount belt is loosened to round the plate-shaped rice A in with the slackened belt internal surface and at the same time, the neck part of the slack belt is throttled by front and rear throttle pieces 14 and 15 arranged below the belt. Then the rice mount belt is tensed to throttle the plate-shaped rice A in the slack belt into a nearly columnar shape. Then while the throttle pieces throttling the slack belt neck part are released, the rice mount belt 12 is tensed to restore the slack belt into a nearly horizontal state, thus providing the ingredient containing long-shaped rice food and its producing method.

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 long rice cooked with ingredients.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, ingredients such as chicken cutlet, fried shrimp and pork cutlet are sandwiched between two halves of bread,
So-called hot dog-like stuff is eaten.

Generally, there has been a sandwich as a food in which various ingredients are sandwiched between breads. By changing the form of bread and using various ingredients, various hamburgers, hot dogs, etc. Foods similar to hot dogs have been developed.

These are advantageous in that they are convenient to carry and have sufficient nutritional value by considering ingredients.

[0005] However, since they all have the common point of using bread, they are foods suitable for Western foods, especially people who like bread, but they are a cause of being shunned by those who like Japanese food.

[0006] Therefore, the applicant has developed a long cooked rice containing ingredients in which the required ingredients are arranged in a long shape and the outer periphery of which is covered with a thin cooked rice layer, and patented as Japanese Patent Application No. 7-264313. I applied.

[0007]

However, in order to sell a large amount of such long-shaped cooked rice with ingredients in a mass retailer, it is difficult to spread it unless a technique for manufacturing a large amount by mechanical means is established.

Therefore, the present invention is intended to provide a method for automatically producing a long rice cooked with ingredients by a machine.

[0009]

According to the present invention, a thinly spread plate-like rice is placed on a tension / relaxable rice-belt belt,
Next, loosen the rice bowl belt by loosening it downwards, while rolling the plate-like rice on the inner surface of the loose belt, squeezing the neck of the loose belt with the front and rear diaphragm pieces arranged below the belt,
Then, tension the loose belt to squeeze the plate-shaped rice in the loose belt into a substantially columnar shape.Next, open the squeezing piece that squeezes the loose belt neck, and at the same time strain the loose belt to loosen the loose belt. It is intended to provide a method for producing long rice cooked with ingredients, which is characterized by being restored horizontally.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the method of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings for explaining an apparatus for carrying out an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a rice hopper which stores cooked rice. The cooked rice stored by the feeding device 3 arranged near the discharge port 2 at the lower end of the cooked rice is fed onto the belt conveyor 4 below.

A belt conveyor 4 is arranged below the discharge port 2 of the rice hopper 1, and above the front part in the traveling direction of the conveyor 4, the cooked rice discharged from the discharge port 2 is spread in a thin plate shape. A rice developing roller 5 is provided for this purpose.

Further, a cutter 6 for cutting the expanded rice into a plate-shaped rice A into a plate-shaped rice A is disposed in front of the cutter 6. The cutter 6 is a cam. The mechanism 7 is configured to be movable up and down.

Further, a tool supply device 8 is arranged in front of the cutter 6 so that a desired tool can be placed on the developed cooked rice from a tool hopper which stores various kinds of tools B in advance. There is.

A plurality of ingredient hoppers are provided in accordance with the type of ingredient B. For example, a hopper 9-1 containing shredded cabbage, a hopper 9-2 containing tonkatsu, and a hopper 9-3 containing mustard. Etc. are provided.

If necessary, the ingredient B may be manually placed on the plate-shaped rice A.

In front of the belt conveyer 4, a plate-like rice A (FIG. 8) on which an ingredient B is placed in a developed state is provided, and a long-shaped rice C with ingredients
A roll forming apparatus M for (FIG. 1) is provided.

The roll forming apparatus M includes front and rear rollers 10 and 11 rotatably arranged in the front and rear direction, and a rice-belt belt laid between the rollers 10 and 11 in a substantially horizontal manner via guide rollers 10 'and 11'. 12
The front and rear throttle pieces 14 and 15 for squeezing the neck portion of the slack belt 13 formed in a relaxed state under the belt 12 from the front and rear, and the throttle pieces 14 and 15 are close to each other. It is composed of arms 16 and 17 that can be operated so as to be separated from each other, and a tray 18 that is arranged in front of the belt conveyor 4.

Further, at both ends of the roll forming operation part of the roll forming device M, end forming mechanisms D for making both ends of the long-cylinder-shaped rolled rice C into a substantially conical shape are arranged (FIG. 11-
See FIG. 14). As shown in FIG. 11, the end forming mechanism D is connected to the arms 16 and 17 that support the front and rear drawing pieces 14 and 15, and the conical half is formed at the corner of the connecting part between the front drawing piece 14 and the tip of the arm 16. A split receiving piece 30 is attached.

As shown in FIG. 10, the conical half-divided receiving piece 30 has a conical conical shape divided into two along the longitudinal direction toward the end and divided toward the center. The opening is open.

Further, a conical half-divided operating piece 31 is attached to a corner portion of the connecting portion of the rear diaphragm piece 15 and the tip of the arm 17, and a split opening portion of the operating piece 31 and a split opening portion of the receiving piece 30 are provided. It is facing the department.

The receiving piece 30 and the operating piece 31 are arranged such that when the arms 16 and 17 are brought close to each other and the front and rear throttle pieces 14 and 15 are used to squeeze the neck of the belt 13 from the front and rear (see FIG. 5). 30 and 31 come close to each other and serve to form the left and right end portions of the belt 13 into a substantially conical shape.

Another embodiment of the end forming mechanism D is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 4, end slanting plates 32, 32 are provided at the left and right ends on the inner side surface of the front diaphragm piece 14, and the inner slanting plates 32, 32 are arranged at the right end on the inner side surface of the rear diaphragm piece 15 so as to face the end slanting plates 32, 32. End slanting plates 33, 33 are provided so as to project, and each end slanting plate 32, 33 has an inner surface slanted toward both left and right ends when facing each other.

Therefore, as shown in FIG. 6, when the plate-like plate A is formed into a columnar shape and then the front and rear drawing pieces 14 and 15 are moved in the front direction of the rice holding belt 12 in the drawn state, the plate-like shape is obtained. Rice A
Is rolled, but when rolling, the end inclined plates 32,3
A cylindrical end formed by the inclined surface of 3 has a substantially conical shape.

Reference numeral 19 indicates an air cylinder for operating the arms 16 and 17.

The operation of the roll forming apparatus M will now be described with reference to FIGS. 3 to 7. From the belt conveyor 4, plate-shaped rice A having a fixed size with the ingredient B placed on the upper surface is conveyed onto the rice placing belt 12. Then, the front and rear rollers 10 and 11 rotate in the loosening direction of the rice bowl belt 12 to loosen the rice bowl belt 12 portion on which the plate-like rice A is placed, and the loosened belt portion is referred to as a loosening belt 13. (Fig. 3).

Then, the plate-like rice A on which the ingredient B is placed has a columnar shape inside the loosening belt 13 in a state of fitting the looseness of the belt, and naturally contains cabbage, pork cutlet, and mustard inside.

In this state, the front and rear diaphragm pieces 14 and 15 arranged below the rice storage belt 12 approach each other and slacken the neck of the belt 13 to tension the rice storage belt 12 (FIGS. 4 and 5). ).

The tensioning means causes the front and rear rollers 10 and 11 to rotate in opposite directions to tension the rice placing belt 12 to inevitably loosen and form the plate-like rice A in the belt 13 into a cylindrical shape. Is.

After the plate-shaped rice A is formed into a cylindrical shape, the front and rear drawing pieces 14 and 15 are moved in the front direction of the rice placing belt 12 while being drawn, and the plate-shaped rice A is further rolled to form a cylinder. The long shaped cooked rice C with a shape is surely molded (FIG. 6).

Then, the front and rear throttle pieces 14 and 15 are separated from each other to be released, and the tension of the rice cooker belt 12 is re-tensioned, so that the loosening belt 13 is released and the rice cooker belt 12 becomes a substantially horizontal state. The long cooked rice C containing the ingredients is conveyed to the saucer 18 on the other side (Fig. 7).

In this way, the elongated cooked rice C with a cylindrical shape is molded, but it is necessary to make both ends conical in packaging in the next step.

Therefore, in the step of FIG. 5 or FIG. 6, the cylindrical end portion is formed into a substantially conical shape through the end forming mechanism D.

The long rice cooked with ingredients C molded as described above is packaged so as to be a commercial product on the market.

As shown in FIG. 9, the packaging form is such that a long rice cooked rice C is wrapped around a synthetic resin packaging film 20 along the peripheral surface, and the edges of the film are heat-sealed together.
Further, the end portions of the packaging film 20 are heat-sealed 22 in conformity with the substantially conical shapes of the both ends of the ingredient-containing long-sized cooked rice C, and the ingredient-containing long-sized cooked rice C is sealed with the packaging film 20.
Be used in the product distribution process.

In the case of eating the long cooked rice C containing the ingredients, the packaging film is heated as it is or is not heated, and the end of the packaging film is broken and a part of the long cooked rice C is cut from the bag of the film. Is exposed and eaten.

[0036]

[Effect] According to the present invention, when producing long rice cooked with ingredients using cooked rice, the ingredients are appropriately placed on the expanded plate-shaped rice, and then the plate-shaped rice is wound with a loose belt by a roll forming device. Since it is possible to make columnar cooked rice with the ingredients inside, it is possible to mechanically and automatically produce the long cooked rice with ingredients, which enables mass production and the effect of hygienic production. Have.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a long cooked rice containing ingredients produced by the method of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic explanatory view of the entire apparatus for carrying out the method of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing the operation of the roll forming apparatus.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing the next operation of the roll forming apparatus.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing the next operation of the roll forming apparatus.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view showing the next operation of the roll forming apparatus.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory view showing the next operation of the roll forming apparatus.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory view of a state in which the ingredient is placed on the plate-shaped rice.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory view showing a packaging process of the long cooked rice containing ingredients produced by the method of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory view of a receiving piece and an operating piece in the end forming mechanism.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory cross-sectional view of a portion having an end forming mechanism in the roll forming apparatus.

12 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line I-I of FIG.

FIG. 13 is a plan view of the same.

FIG. 14 is a perspective view showing a main part of another embodiment of the end forming mechanism.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A Plate-like rice B Tool C Long rice containing ingredients D Edge-forming mechanism M Molding device 1 Rice hopper 2 Discharge port 3 Feeding device 4 Belt conveyor 5 Rice developing roller 6 Cutter 7 Cam mechanism 8 Tool feeding device 9-1 Tool hopper 9 -2 Tool hopper 9-3 Tool hopper 10 Front roller 11 Rear roller 12 Iidori belt 13 Loosening belt 14 Front diaphragm piece 15 Rear diaphragm piece 16 Arm 17 Arm 18 Saucepan 19 Air cylinder 20 Packaging film 21 Heat seal 22 Heat seal 30 Heat sink 30 Piece 31 Actuator 32 End slant plate 33 End slant plate

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A plate rice that has been thinly spread is placed on a tensionable and loosen rice belt, and then the rice belt is loosened by loosening the rice belt. While squeezing the neck of the slack belt with the front and rear squeezing pieces arranged below the belt, then tensioning the cooking belt to squeeze the plate-shaped rice in the slack belt into a substantially cylindrical shape,
Then, the loosening belt is squeezed and the squeezing piece is opened, and at the same time, the rice standing belt is tensioned to restore the loosening belt to a substantially horizontal shape.