JPH1075888A - Rice-cooking system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the productive efficiency and retain the quality of rice just cooked for a long time, by using the inner pot of a rice-cooking jar and the inner pot of a heat-retaining jar in common and transferring the cooked rice in the rice-cooking jar line to the heat-retaining jar in the heat-retaining jar line, together with the inner pot to supply the cooked rice in the heat- retained condition. SOLUTION: Rice is supplied in the inner pot of a heat-retaining Jar in a weijghing station 11 and washed and charged with water and then the inner pot is transferred from a transfer station 14 of the inner pot to a rice-cooking jar at an inner pot-setting station 3 of a rice-cooking jar line 1. Rice is cooked in the rice-cooking jar line 1 and the inner pot is transferred from the transfer station 8 of the inner pot in the rice-cooking jar line 1 to a heat-retaining jar of a loosening station 15 in a heat-retaining jar line to loosen the cooked rice in the inner pot and pack the heat-retaining jar. The heat-retaining jar is transported from a production factory to users and sold. The heat-retaining jar washed by users and set in a vacant inner pot is transported to the production factory and sent in a heat-retaining jar set station 17 in the heat-retaining jar line.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a large-scale rice cooking system with improved productivity.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Rice cooked in general or employee cafeterias is supplied and sold in large quantities at specialized factories. As shown in FIG. 2, a conventional general rice cooking system stores rice delivered 49 to a production factory in a storage 50 by human power and transports the rice from the storage to a rice washing and soaking process 51 by a conveyor 48 for about 30 minutes. After a lapse of time, the rice is supplied to the rice cooking line 30.

[0003] The rice cooking line 30 includes a measuring station 32, a heating station 33, a heat retention station 34, and an aluminum rice cooker having a capacity of 5 to 7 kg of rice.
It has an endless conveyor 31 that goes around the loosening station 35, the washing station 36, and the storage station 37. From the rice washing and immersion step 51, the rice is weighed to a predetermined amount at the weighing station 32 and supplied to the rice cooker. After heating and cooking at the heating station 33 and keeping the temperature for a predetermined time at the heat retaining station 34, the rice in the cooked rice cake is loosened at the loosening station 35. Then, the loosened rice at the loosening station 35 is transferred to a rice container run described later.

[0004] After the rice in the cooked rice sesame is loosened at the loosening station 35 and transferred to the rice container line, the cooked rice sesame is washed at the washing station 36, stored at the storage station 37, and waits for the rice cooking process.

The rice container line comprises a production plant line 38a and a customer line 38b such as a cafeteria. In the production plant line 38a, the rice container line wraps around the unraveling station 35 of the rice cooking line 30. It comprises a packing station 36, a carry-out station 40, a carry-in station 45, a washing station 46, and a storage station 47 for the rice container to which the rice has been transferred.

[0006] The customer line 38b of the cafeteria and the like includes a carry-in station 41, a sales station 42, a washing station 43, and a carry-out station 44.

The rice loosened in the loosening station 35 is transferred to a rice container, and the rice container packed in the packing station 36 is transported from the unloading station 40 to a customer such as a cafeteria by a truck or the like. In the customer line 38b such as a cafeteria, rice of the rice container carried in at the carry-in station 41 is sold, the empty rice container is washed, and the rice container is carried out to return to the production factory.

The rice container returned to the loading station 45 of the production factory is further washed, stored in the storage station 47 and waits. The further cleaning of the rice container at the cleaning station 43 of the production plant line 38a is to ensure that the rice container 38 such as a cafeteria is not sufficiently cleaned in some cases, so that the rice container is surely cleaned. .

[0009]

In the conventional rice cooking system, the rice cooker in the rice cooker line 30 and the rice container for supplying the rice cooked by the rice cooker to a customer such as a dining room are separate containers. The troublesome work of transferring rice from cattails to rice containers is necessary. In addition, the rice cooking line 30 cleans rice cooked sesame, and the rice container performs a large number of cleaning operations three times, for example, in a customer line 38b such as a cafeteria and a production plant line 38a. Therefore, there was a problem of improving the production efficiency and the cost of equipment for separate containers.

[0010] Further, the cooked rice is transported without being kept in a rice container without being kept warm, and is sold by a customer such as a dining room, so that the temperature holding time of the rice in the rice container is limited to about 6 hours. The freshly cooked temperature could not be maintained for a long time.

An object of the present invention is to provide a rice cooking system capable of improving production efficiency, reducing the cost of furnishing containers, and maintaining freshly cooked quality for a long time.

[0012]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention comprises a rice cooker jar line and an insulated jar line, wherein the rice cooker jar includes a rice cooker jar using electric power or gas as a heat source. It is equipped with an endless conveyor that goes around each station of gama set, lid closing, heating, heat keeping, lid opening, and inner gama transfer, and the heating jar line has a heating jar that uses electric power as a heat source, weighing, washing rice, water supply, inner gama Equipped with an endless conveyor that circulates around each station of transfer, loosening, packing, and heat retention jar set, supplies a predetermined amount of rice to the inside of the heat retention jar at the weighing station, rinses rice, feeds water, and then feeds inside Transfer the gama to the rice cooker at the gama set station in the rice cooker jar line, cook and cook rice in the rice cooker jar line After transferring the inner cattails from the inner garment transfer station of the rice jar line to the thermal jars at the relaxation station of the thermal jar line, loosening the rice in the inner cattle process and packing the thermal jars, the customers from the production factory to the cafeteria, etc. Transported to a production plant, transported the heated jars with the washed garlands to the production factory, carried in the jar set station of the jar line, and set and repeated the above steps again. It is characterized by doing so.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a rice cooker jar line, 9a denotes a line in a production plant of a heat retaining jar line, and 9b denotes a customer line such as a cafeteria.

In the rice cooker jar line 1, a rice cooker using electric power or gas as a heat source has an inner gama set station 3, a lid closing station 4, a heating station 5, a warming station 6, a lid opening station 7, and an inner gama transfer station 8. Endless conveyor 2 which goes around each station.

In a line 9a in the production plant of the above-mentioned heat retaining jar line, a heat retaining jar using electric power as a heat source is provided with a weighing station 11, a rice washing station 12, a water supply station 13, an inner gama transfer station 14, a loosening station 15, a packing station 16, An endless conveyor 10 that goes around each of the heat retaining jar set stations 17 is provided, and a carry-out station 18 and a carry-in station 19 are attached.

The customer line 9b, such as a cafeteria, in the heat retaining jar line comprises a carry-in station 20, a sales station 21, an inner rinsing station 22, and a carry-out station 23.

Reference numeral 24 denotes a conveyor line for transporting and supplying rice, which inspects the rice delivered to the production plant 25 at the inspection station 2.
6 and a rice storage station 27 for storing the inspection. The rice storage station 27 supplies the rice to the weighing station 11 of the rice cooker jar line 1.

The inner rice cooker used in the rice cooker jar line 1 is commonly used as the inner rice cooker used in the heat retaining jar line.

The working steps of the rice cooker jar line 1 will be described. With the endless conveyor 2, the rice cooker goes around each of the inner gama set station 3, the lid closing station 4, the heating station 5, the heat retaining station 6, the lid opening station 7, and the inner gama transfer station 8, and in the inner gama set station 2, The rice and water supplied from the inner rice transfer station 14 of the production factory line 9a in the heat retaining jar line are transferred and set to the rice cooker.

The rice cooker in which the inner cattails are transferred and set is closed at a lid closing station 4, heated and cooked at a heating station 5, and steamed at a heat retaining station 6,
The lid of the rice cooker is opened at the lid opening station 7 and the rice cooker is moved to the inner sesame transfer station 8, and the inner sesame is taken out of the rice cooker at the inner sesame transfer station 8 and located at the unraveling station 15 of the line 9a in the production factory. It is transferred to the heated insulation jar.

The rice cooker from which the inner cattle has been taken out at the inner cattle transfer station 8 is the rice cooker set in the inner cattle set station 2.
And the rice and water supplied from the inner drum transfer station 14 of the line 9a in the production factory are transferred and set as described above. As described above, the rice cooker jar line 1 exclusively performs rice cooking work, and successively supplies the cooked rice to the production line 9a.
Transfer the whole cattail to the heat insulation jar.

The working steps of the heat retaining jar line will be described. In the line 9a in the production factory, the endless conveyor 10 has a weighing station 11, a rice washing station 1
2. Water supply station 12, Inner transfer station 1
4. Loop around each of the loosening station 15, packing station 16 and heat retaining jar set station 17.

Therefore, the heat retaining jar set station 1
In 7, the heat retaining jar in which the empty inner balls are set moves to the weighing station 11, and a predetermined amount of rice is supplied to the inner balls from the rice transport and supply conveyor line 24, and the rice washing station 1
The rice is washed in 2, a predetermined amount of water is supplied in a water supply station 13, and the inner sesame is taken out of the heat retaining jar in an inner stake transfer station 14 and moved to the inner stag set station 3 of the rice jar line 1. Will be transferred and set. It is desirable to supply deaerated water at the water supply station 13 in order to maintain the cooked quality for a long time.

The heat retaining jar from which the inner cattle has been removed at the inner cattle transfer station 14 moves to the loosening station 15 where the inner cattle removed from the rice cooker at the inner cattle transfer station 8 of the rice cooker line 1 is removed. After being transferred to the warming jar which is moving to the loosening station 15, the rice in the inner rag is loosened, the warming jar is packed at the packing station 16, and the consumer line 9 such as a cafeteria is transported from the unloading station 18 by a truck or the like.
b.

In the customer line 9b, such as a cafeteria, the heating jar carried into the carrying-in station 20 is heated at the selling station 21 until the rice in the inner garbage runs out so as to maintain the heat and the empty inner garbage is washed. After being thoroughly cleaned at the station 22, the transportation jar is transported from the unloading station 23 to the production factory by truck or the like so as to be returned.

The heat retaining jar transported to the loading station 19 of the production factory is set in the heat retaining jar set station 17 of the line 9a in the production factory and moved to the weighing station 11 by the endless conveyor 10, and the following steps are continuously performed. This is to be repeated.

In addition, the transfer of inner cattails from the inner cattle transfer station 14 of the production plant line 9a to the inner catama set station 3 of the rice cooker jar line 1, the rice cooker jar line 1
Nogama transfer station 8 to production plant line 9a
A robot is used to transfer the inner cattails to the loosening station 15 and to open and close the lids at the lid closing station 4 and the lid opening station 7 in the rice cooker jar line 1. Further, the rice washing station 12 in the production plant line 9a uses an automatic rice washing device, and the water supply station 1
In 3, the automatic water supply device is used. Further, at the loosening station 15, the loosening operation is automatically performed by the stirring device.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention, the rice cooker in the rice cooker jar line and the rice cooker in the heat retaining jar line are made common, and the rice cooked in the rice cooker jar line is used together with the rice cooker. The equipment is transferred to the thermal jar line of the thermal jar line and supplied in a heated state, so that the cost of equipment for the container is reduced.Inner cattails are washed by customers such as cafeterias and returned to the thermal jar line together with the thermal jar. Since it is used in the rice cooking process, it is not necessary to wash the inner cattails in the insulated jar line and the rice cooker jar line in the factory, so that the number of work steps can be reduced and the production efficiency can be improved.

Further, the rice cooked in the rice cooker jar line is transferred to the heat jar of the heat jar line together with the inner garment and transported in a heat-retained state. The quality of the rice is maintained over a long period of about 12 hours.

In addition, there is an advantage that the production cost can be reduced by the labor saving and the improvement of the production efficiency by the continuous automatic operation, and the working environment can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system diagram of a rice cooking system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a system diagram of a conventional rice cooking system.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Rice-cooking jar line 2 Endless conveyor 3 Inner gama set station 4 Lid closing station 5 Heating station 6 Heating station 7 Lid opening station 8 Inner gama transfer station 9a Production line in factory (of thermal jar line) 9b Consumer line such as cafeteria (Insulation jar line) 10 Endless conveyor 11 Weighing station 12 Rice washing station 13 Water supply station 14 Inner transfer station 15 Relaxation station 16 Packing station 17 Insulation jar set station 18 Unloading station 19 Importing station 20 Importing station 21 Sales station 22 Washing station 23 Unloading station 24 Rice transport and supply conveyor line 25 Delivery 26 Inspection station 27 Rice storage station

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A rice cooker jar line and a heat retainer jar line, in which a rice cooker jar using electric power or gas as a heat source is provided with a gama set, a lid closed, heating, heat keeping, a lid open, and an inner gama transfer. Equipped with an endless conveyor that circulates around each station, and a jar that uses electric power as a heat source circulates around each station of weighing, washing, water supply, transfer of inner cattle, loosening, packing, and jar set. Equipped with an endless conveyor, a predetermined amount of rice is supplied to the inner gar of the heat retaining jar at the weighing station, and after washing and supplying water, the inner tama is transferred from the inner gar transfer station to the rice cooker at the inner tama set station of the rice jar line. Set, heat cooked rice in the rice cooker jar line, and keep it in the rice cooker jar line. -Transfer the inner cattle to the insulation jar at the line's relaxation station, loosen the rice in the inner turtle process, pack the insulation jar, and then transport and sell it from the production plant to customers such as canteens, and wash it in customers such as canteens A rice-cooking system, characterized in that the heat-retaining jar in which the empty inner cattails have been set is transported to a production factory, carried into a heat-retention jar set station of a heat-retention jar line, and the above steps are repeated.