JPH1070957A - Device for applying edible dough to polygonal confectionery or raw material of confectionery - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device capable of simultaneously applying an edible dough on a base surface such as an upper surface or a lower surface, of a polygonal confectionery such as a kintsuba (a confectionery obtained by applying a skinny dough to a bean paste and baking) and a raw material thereof, and on at least one side surface adjacent to the base surface. SOLUTION: The device 10 for applying an edible dough on a base surface 1a or 1d such as an upper surface or a lower surface, of a material 1 consisting of a polygonal confectionery or a raw material thereof, and on side surfaces 1b, 1c, 1e, 1f adjacent to the base surface, is equipped with a dough container 20 for housing the edible dough, a base surface applying device 30 capable of descending and immersing into the edible dough in the dough container, scooping the edible dough up, ascending and receiving the material 1 at the ascended position or during the ascent thereof and applying the edible dough on the base surface, and a side surface applying device 40 approaching to the side surfaces of the material 1 of the confectionery or the raw material thereof received by the base surface applying device and applying the edible dough thereon.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for applying edible dough to a polyhedral confectionery or confectionery raw material, and more particularly, to a polyhedral confectionery or other polyhedral confectionery or a raw material thereof, together with a base surface on the upper or lower surface. An apparatus for simultaneously applying edible dough to at least one side surface adjacent to a base surface.

[0002] In the following, the present invention will be described mainly with respect to an example suitable for the manufacture of kintsuba confectionery. However, the present invention is not limited to this example, and includes a polyhedral confectionery and food material. It can also be applied to fabrics and patterns on the lower surface and on both sides adjacent to the lower surface.

[0003] Further, as a dough, in addition to a grasshopper containing flour as a main component, it can be applied to chocolate, cream and other edible dough.

[0004]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, confections of various shapes have been provided, and one of the popular confections is known and popular. As is well known, kintsuba confectionery is formed by shaping red beans, potatoes and the like into a hexahedral material, and forming an upper or lower base surface of the hexahedral material and these base materials.
This is a so-called polyhedral confectionery made by applying dough such as flour to four sides adjacent to the surface, that is, six surfaces, and baking the dough attached to each surface on a baking plate.

[0005] In most cases, such processing as doughing and baking for each surface is performed manually. In the manual operation, dough is applied to one surface, and the attached dough is individually heated and baked. Such processing for each surface is usually performed individually on a single iron plate as a craftsmanship.

[0006] However, recently, human rights costs have risen, and originally, kintsuba confectionery has become a popular Japanese confectionery.
Despite being popular for its cheap and delicious taste, it is one of the finest Japanese sweets as a handmade one.

[0007] In view of the above, it is troublesome to individually attach dough to the hexahedral bean paste itself, bake it by heating, and it has been considered to integrate this and automate it. However, an apparatus that has been proposed to perform automation is to individually apply the dough to each side of the bean and heat bake. Incidentally, one example is shown in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 4-4836, and this apparatus is simply continuous automation while leaving the doughing and baking processes on each side as they are.

On the other hand, as shown in Japanese Utility Model Application Laid-Open No. 6-60385, an apparatus has been proposed in which a hexahedral bean paste is placed in a case and heated and baked. This device is a modification of the conventional process of individually doughing and baking each side with a traditional brim of sweets. However, with the change of this process, the handmade flavor is lost, and the essential taste and flavor of the kintsuba confectionery are lost, which is not preferable.

[0009] In short, since the kintsuba confectionery is made from a bean paste made of hexahedron, if the dough is applied to each side of this form of bean paste and then heated and baked, it is absolutely necessary to individually prepare Such processing is necessary. However, in such a treatment, in particular, simultaneous doughing on the side surface as well as the upper and lower base surfaces may cause the side surface to be perpendicular to the base surface,
It is extremely difficult to apply the dough in the same state as the base surface.

[0010] As described above, according to the completely different system, the flavor and taste are lost even though the dough is attached to each surface and the unique flavor is exhibited. In other words, it is extremely difficult to continuously or automate while maintaining the flavor unique to kintsuba confectionery.

[0011]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, there is provided a method for fabricating a polyhedral material such as a hexahedron, such as a kintsuba confectionery, without individually attaching dough to each surface. A plurality of surfaces, especially a top surface or a bottom surface, including two side surfaces adjacent to the base surface, and three or more surfaces at the same time, for example, processing such as doughing and decoration. We propose a device that can do this.

[0012] Therefore, since the dough can be applied to at least three sides at the same time, if the dough is applied to the three sides at the same time and the doughing sides are simultaneously baked by the baking device, the dough can be repeated only twice. Can be manufactured automatically and continuously.

[0013]

That is, according to the present invention, an edible dough is simultaneously applied to the upper or lower base surface and the side surface adjacent to the base surface of a polyhedral confectionery or a material made of confectionery raw material. This device relates to a dough container for containing edible dough, and dipping into the edible dough in the dough container to scoop up the edible dough, and then deciding the edible dough as a base material. A base surface application device for applying edible dough to the side surface of the confectionery or confectionery raw material, which is applied to the side surface of the confectionery or confectionery raw material.

[0014] In this base surface coating apparatus, dough holding means for holding edible dough is provided on a part or all of a surface of the material facing the base surface, and the dough holding means comprises:
It is composed of a network, a fiber or a combination thereof.

The following is a more detailed description of the structure and operation of these means with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an example of the device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the apparatus shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of an example of the dough container according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a front view of an example of the facing surface of the side coating device in the device shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a plan view of an example of the cloth holding means of the base surface coating device in the device shown in FIG.

FIGS. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 show a base for attaching dough to base and side surfaces of a confectionery or confectionery raw material according to the present invention.
It is each explanatory drawing of the operation | movement aspect of a surface coating device and a side surface coating device.

First, in FIG. 1 and FIG.
Indicates a material to be clothed, and this material 1 forms a polyhedron. In the case of manufacturing a sweet potato confectionery or the like, the material 1 is such that the bean paste and the like are preliminarily formed into a hexahedron.

The material 1 made of the polyhedron is supplied via a supply conveyor 2 to a dough applying device 10 sequentially and continuously. This apparatus 10 is an apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention, and is configured as shown in FIGS. 1, 2, 3 and 4, as will be described in detail later. In this apparatus 10, the material 1 is provided with a dough on the upper or lower base surface and two side surfaces adjacent to the base surface, and then sent onto the baking plate 4.

The baking plates 4 (only one baking plate 4 is typically shown in FIGS. 1 and 2) are continuously connected endlessly to form a series of baking plates 4. While the material is intermittently moved, the dough applied to the base surface and the side surface of the material 1 is simultaneously heated and baked. Also, in this example, the dough on at least three sides is baked at the same time,
It is also possible to individually bake the dough on each side.

That is, in the dough applying apparatus 10, the surfaces 1a, 1b, 1
Of c, 1d, 1e and 1f, three adjacent faces 1
a, 1b, 1c, that is, a base surface 1a, and two side surfaces 1b, 1c adjacent to the base surface 1a, the cloth 5 is applied (see FIGS. 1 and 2).

The supply of the material 1 from the supply conveyor 2 to the device 10 for applying the material is performed by gripping two opposing side surfaces 1e and 1f of the material 1 with a pair of gripping pieces 6 and 6, and supplying the material 1 to the device 10. In the apparatus 10, the material 1
The dough 5 is attached to the lower surface 1a of the base material 2 and two side surfaces 1b and 1c adjacent to the lower surface 1a and not gripped by the pair of gripping pieces 6 and 6. When the dough is finished, the two sides 1e, 1f of the material
Because the fabric 5 is not attached, this side 1
e, 1f are grasped by a pair of gripping pieces 7,
Is supplied onto one of the baking plates 4 in the baking plate row.

When the base 10 or the side of the base material 1 is attached or decorated by the apparatus 10, it can be taken out immediately after the end of the attachment.

As described above, the apparatus 10 for simultaneously applying the dough 4 to at least three or two surfaces of the raw material 1 comprises a dough container 20 and a base surface coating device 3 as shown in FIGS.
0 and a side coating device 40.

The dough 5 is stored in the dough container 20, and the dough 5 in the dough container 20 is scooped by a base surface application device 30. 1a or 1d. Simultaneously with the application of the dough to the base surface, the adjacent side surfaces 1b and 1c or 1e and 1f of the raw material 1 are
The dough 5 is applied to the.

As shown in FIG. 2, in the apparatus 10 for applying the cloth having such a structure, the base surface coating apparatus 30 includes a lifting arm 31, a supporting arm 32, a lifting plate 33 and a holding member. The support arm 32 is moved up and down by raising and lowering the arm 31. This lifting arm 31
The lifting arm 31 can be achieved by any lifting mechanism, but usually the lifting arm 31 can be raised and lowered regularly at a predetermined cycle by a piston / cylinder mechanism or a cam mechanism. Note that other mechanisms can be used.

The support arm 32 which moves up and down, that is, moves up and down by the raising and lowering arm 31, forms an L-shape.
The lifting plate 33 is attached to the system and the lifting plate 33 is moved up and down.
The holding member 34 is integrally attached to the lifting plate 33 (see FIG. 5). When the dough is applied to the base surface or side surface of the raw material 1, the elevating plate 33 attached to the support arm 32 descends (see FIG. 6), and the elevating plate 33 is immersed in the dough 5 in the dough container 20. (See FIG. 7), and then the lifting plate 33 is lifted while holding the cloth 5 with the holding member 34 (see FIG. 8). In this raised position, the holding member 3 attached to the lift plate 33
The material 1 is put on the dough 5 covering the top 4 (FIG. 9).
The material 5 comes into contact with the base surface forming the lower surface 1a of the material 1 together with the holding member 34 formed integrally with the elevating plate 33, and the material 5 is attached to the base surface forming the lower surface 1a. .

The elevating plate 33 scoops up the dough 5 in the dough container 20 and applies it to the base surface 1a or 1d of the material 1.

Therefore, the lift plate 33 can be made of any material that can perform such processing. The holding member 34 can be integrally mounted on the lifting plate 33, or the lifting plate 33 itself can be configured as the holding member 34.

As shown in FIG. 5, the holding member 34 is preferably formed of a mesh or other perforated plate. The reason for this is that the viscous material can be easily immersed in the dough 5 in the dough container 20 and the viscous material can be easily supplemented even when the material is raised, if the mesh or fine pores are formed.

That is, the holding member 34 is incorporated in a part of the lifting plate 33 shown in FIG. As the holding member 34, a mesh body 331 is provided.

The mesh body 331 is provided with a hole made up of a mesh 332 over the whole, so that the cloth 5 can pass through each mesh 332.

With the lifting plate 33 having this configuration, the lifting arm
When the arm 31 is lowered by elevating the arm 31, for example, the elevating plate 33 attached via the support arm 32 is immersed in the dough 5 in the dough container 10. , The dough 5 is a net 33 forming a part of the lifting plate 33.
The cloth 5 rises after passing through the first mesh 332, and is attached to the lifting plate 33 or the holding member 34 and is scraped up.

More specifically, the dough 5 prepared by dissolving edible substances such as flour has a considerably high viscosity. For this reason, when the elevating plate 33 or the holding member 34 is lowered, part or all of the holding member 34 is configured as a perforated plate, and if there is no hole such as the mesh 332, the elevating plate 34 to The cloth 5 acts with an upward resistance to the holding member 34, and the lifting plate 33 cannot be immersed in the cloth 5 without applying a considerable force.

However, if the holding member 34 forming a part of the elevating plate 33 is formed with pores such as a mesh 332, the cloth 5 can freely pass through these holes when immersed. Due to the resistance of 5, the immersion of the elevating plate 33 into the cloth 5 cannot be prevented.

On the other hand, at the time of immersion, the cloth 5 which has passed through the pores such as the mesh 332 is placed on the holding member 34 forming a part of the lifting plate 33, and the cloth 5 is smoothly placed on the holding member 34 by the lifting plate 33. It can be picked up while attached to

The scooped dough 5 has considerable viscosity. For this reason, even if it is scooped up on the elevating plate 33 and the holding member 34 is configured as a perforated plate,
The amount falling from the pores such as the mesh 332 is small, and it takes a considerable time for most of the dough 5 to fall, during which time it can be easily applied to the base surface, especially the lower surface 1a or the upper surface 1d.

In the above description, the lifting plate 33 having the holding member 34 composed of the net 331 has been mainly described.
In the holding member 34, the pores do not necessarily need to be formed over the entire surface like the mesh 332, and the pores can be partially formed. Further, the holding member 34 can be configured as a perforated plate in which at least a part of a hole is formed instead of a net-like body. Furthermore, the entire lifting plate 33 can be configured as a holding member 34. In this case, the lifting plate 33 does not necessarily have to be formed in a plate shape and does not need to be formed with a hole.
May be formed in a shape having no resistance at the time of immersion, for example, a pyramid shape, so that the surface can be scooped up and held. Further, the holding member 34 may be formed of a fibrous material, a paper-like material, or the like so as to hold the cloth.

In connection with the construction of the base-surface coating device 30 as described above, the cloth container 20 is provided with a partition plate 21 as shown in FIG. The dough container 20 is partitioned by the partition plate 20 to form a dough accommodating portion 22 for accommodating the dough 5 and an overflow portion 23.

With this configuration, when the dough 5 in the dough container 22 exceeds a predetermined surface level, the dough 5 overflows to the overflow section 23, and the surface level of the dough 5 can be kept constant. Therefore, even if the lifting stroke of the lifting plate 33 is constant, the cloth 5 can always be captured by the lifting plate 33.

Next, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the side coating device 40 is provided with a lift plate 3 of the base surface coating device 30.
A pair of side surface application members 41, 41 are provided sandwiching the two.
A pair of side surface application members 41, 41 are provided to face each other. The side surface application members 41, 41 are configured to be movable in the width direction so as to approach and move away from each other. This moving mechanism can be usually configured as a mechanism for pushing by an air-cylinder or the like, but can be configured as any mechanism, for example, a pinion rack mechanism. As shown in FIG. 3, each side surface application member 41 is formed in a hollow shape, accommodates the cloth 5 therein, and has discharge holes 43, 43 formed on both opposing surfaces 42, 42. Supply hoses 44, 44 for dough or the like are connected to the both side coating members 41, 41, respectively.
The dough 5 is fed into each side coating member 41 via each supply hose 44.

With this configuration, each side coating member 4
The dough 5 sent into the inside 1 is discharged through the discharge holes 43. The discharged dough 5 covers the surface of each opposing surface 42,
A thin layer of fabric 5 is formed on the surface.

In this state, the base surface coating device 30
When the material 1 is placed on the elevating plate 33 via the holding member 34, the material 1 is
1 and 41, the layer of thin cloth 5 formed on each opposing surface 42 is attached to both side surfaces 1b and 1c of the material 1, and the base surface 1a and the both side surfaces adjacent to the base surface 1a in the material 1. The cloths 5 are simultaneously attached to 1b and 1c (see FIG. 10).

Discharge holes 43 provided on each facing surface 42
Is preferably formed along one straight line at a predetermined interval as shown in FIG. When such a discharge hole array is formed in two stages, the layer of the thin cloth 5 is uniformly formed over the entire surface of each opposing surface 42, and uniform cloth attachment can be achieved.

As shown in FIG. 11, from the material 1 after the cloth 5 is attached, as shown in FIG.
41 are moved away from each other, are gripped by the pair of gripping pieces 7, 7, and are sequentially fed onto the baking plate 4.

[0050]

As explained in detail above, the present invention relates to an apparatus for simultaneously applying edible dough to a material made of polyhedral confectionery or confectionery raw material. A dough container containing an edible dough to be applied to the side adjacent to the edible surface, and dipping and dipping into the edible dough in the dough container to scoop up the edible dough, and then rise and rise A base surface application device for applying an edible material on a base surface while receiving a material during a position or ascending, and an edible material approaching the side of the material received by the base surface application device; And a side coating device for coating the dough.

Therefore, according to the present invention, each surface of a polyhedral material such as a hexahedron, such as a kintsuba confectionery, is not individually attached to each surface, but a plurality of surfaces, especially , Two side surfaces adjacent to this base surface, including the upper or lower base surface;
At least two surfaces can be simultaneously treated such as doughing and decoration.

Further, since the dough can be applied to at least three surfaces at the same time, if the dough is applied to the three surfaces at the same time and the dough surfaces are simultaneously baked by the baking device,
By repeating this process twice, candies can be manufactured automatically and continuously.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an example of a device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of an example of the dough container according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a front view of an example of a facing surface of a side coating device in the device shown in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a plan view of an example of a cloth holding means of the base surface applying device in the device shown in FIG. 3;

FIG. 6 shows a base for attaching dough to the base and side surfaces of a confectionery or confectionery raw material according to the present invention.
It is explanatory drawing of the operation | movement aspect of a side surface coating device and a side surface coating device.

FIG. 7 shows a base for attaching dough to a base surface and side surfaces of a confectionery or a material made of confectionery raw material according to the present invention.
It is explanatory drawing of the operation | movement aspect of a side surface coating device and a side surface coating device.

FIG. 8 shows a base for attaching dough to a base surface and a side surface of a material made of confectionery or confectionery raw material according to the present invention.
It is explanatory drawing of the operation | movement aspect of a side surface coating device and a side surface coating device.

FIG. 9 shows a base for attaching dough to a base surface and side surfaces of a confectionery or a material made of confectionery raw material according to the present invention.
It is explanatory drawing of the operation | movement aspect of a side surface coating device and a side surface coating device.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory view of an operation mode of a base surface application device and a side application device when applying a dough to a base surface and a side surface of a material made of confectionery or confectionery raw material according to the present invention.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory view of an operation mode of the base surface application device and the side surface application device when dough is applied to the base surface and the side surface of a material made of confectionery or confectionery raw material according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Material (made of confectionery or confectionery raw material) 1a, 1d Base surface consisting of lower surface or upper surface 1b, 1c, 1e, 1f Side surface 2 Feeding conveyor 4 Baking plate 5 Dough (edible dough) 10 Edible dough Device for applying 20 Dough container 21 Partition plate 30 Base surface coating device 34 Holding member 40 Side coating device

Claims (7)

[Claims] An apparatus for applying edible dough to an upper or lower base surface of a polyhedral confectionery or confectionery raw material and a side surface adjacent to the base surface, wherein a dough container for accommodating the edible dough; Descend and dipped into the edible dough in this dough container to scoop up the edible dough, then rise,
A base surface application device for applying the edible dough on the base surface by receiving the material during the ascending position or during the ascent; and the confectionery or confectionery raw material received by the base surface application device. And a side application device for applying the edible dough to the side of the polyhedral confectionery or confectionery raw material. 2. The confectionery raw material or the confectionery raw material includes beans,
2. An edible dough is added to the polyhedral confectionery or confectionery raw material according to claim 1, wherein the confectionery or confectionery raw material is derived from seeds or potatoes, or confectionery or confectionery raw material derived from cereals, wheat, barley. apparatus. 3. The base surface coating device according to claim 1, further comprising a dough holding means for holding an edible dough on a part or all of the surface of the confectionery or confectionery material facing the base surface. An apparatus for applying edible dough to the polyhedral confectionery or confectionery raw material according to claim 1. 4. The fabric holding means comprises a net, a fiber,
4. The apparatus for attaching edible dough to polyhedral confectionery or confectionery raw material according to claim 3, wherein the apparatus comprises a perforated plate or a combination thereof. 5. The side coating device according to claim 1, further comprising: a facing surface facing the side surface of the confectionery or the confectionery raw material. The apparatus for applying edible dough to a polyhedral confectionery or confectionery raw material according to claim 1, wherein the edible dough is provided. 6. The leaching hole according to claim 5, wherein the leaching holes are linearly formed at intervals in the lateral direction of the facing surface, and at least one leaching hole row of the leaching holes is provided. A device for applying edible dough to polyhedral confectionery or confectionery ingredients. 7. The polyhedral confectionery or confectionery raw material according to claim 1, wherein a partition plate is provided in the dough container, and edible dough is accommodated in a partition portion partitioned by the partition plate. Equipment for applying edible dough.