JPS60192559A - Boiled rice autofeeder - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:The cooked and cooled rice in a hopper is formed into an oblong in its frame with an oblong cylinder is pushed into the descending conveyor of a cylinder and placed in a mold in a certain thickness as the rice is formed into a certain shape, thus enabling smooth feeding of cool rice into the mold for forming rice balls. CONSTITUTION:The boiled and cooled rice is formed into an oblong shape by means of an oblong cylinder 3, cut with shutters 18 and 19 on its top and bottom to form an oblong shape of rice. The oblong rice is pushed into the descending conveyor 12 and allowed to go down, as it is finely formed with descending belts 7, 8, and 9 and fed into the mold of a certain shape 17 in a specific thickness, thus enabling mass production of rice balls 34.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a device that can supply cold rice to customers.

Traditionally, warm cooked rice is easy to loosen and put into a shape, but the condensed water from the generated steam does not stick to the cooked rice or the packaging, and the high temperature makes it easy for bacteria to grow and spoil, so it is cooled and used as cold rice to form rice balls. need to be done.

However, since cold rice is hard, it requires a lot of effort and time to break it up by hand when it is poured into a rice-shape mold, which makes it difficult to pour it into the rice-shape mold smoothly.

In view of the above-mentioned defects, the present invention smoothly supplies cold rice to a rice-holding frame. To explain an embodiment of the present invention shown in the drawings, a cold rice input hopper 2 is provided in a machine frame 1, and A rectangular tube 3 is provided at the bottom, and the horizontal transfer belt 5 of the belt conveyor 4 is arranged in contact with the lower end opening of the tube 3.
A cooked rice outlet 6 is opened at the bottom of the cylinder 3. A cylindrical descending conveyor 12 can be formed by the vertical descending belt 7 at the end of the conveyor 4 and the vertical descending belts 8 and 9 of the plurality of (two) vertical belt conveyors 10 and 11 that intersect with each other. This cylindrical descending conveyor 12 has a triangular cylindrical shape as shown in FIG. 3, and conveyor rollers 13, 14.
There is no problem even if the number and shape of 15 are changed to a drum shape or the like to form a polygonal cylinder or a cylindrical shape.

A rice-grip-shaped frame 17 having a shape matching the cylindrical shape of the descending conveyor 12 is bored in the intermittent rotating plate 16 provided directly below the descending conveyor 12, and a space If ( Alternate entry/exit shutters 18, 19 are provided through the lower conveyor 12, and entry/exit shutters 20, 21 are also provided at the bottom of the descending conveyor 12.The intermittent rotating plate 16
As shown in FIG. 3, the rotary plate 16 has a disk shape, but the rotary plate 16 may be connected in an endless chain shape, and the number of lower shutters 20 and 21 may be one. In the figure, 22 is an air cylinder for operating the shutter, 23 is a guide plate on the back of the vertical descending belt 7, 8, 9, 24 is a lifting frame for shaping rice, 25 is a rice-gripping hole-shaped rod, and 26 is a supply of pickled plums, etc. Hole, 2
7 is a rice gripping upper surface pressing plate, 28 is a rice gripping delivery conveyor, 29 is a meshing gear for interlocking the vertical belt conveyor 10 and 11, 30
31 is the lower end small diameter roller of the vertical descending belt 7.8.9, 31 is the lower surface support bell of the horizontal transfer belt 5), 32u is the belt drive motor, and 33 is the starting end roller.

Therefore, when the hardened cold rice is broken up by hand and thrown into the hopper 2, the rectangular cylinder 3 is lowered to above the closed lower shutter 18, and the cylinder 3 is filled with the cold rice. Then, the upper shutter 19 above is closed and the lower shutter 18 is closed.
When opened, the rectangularly shaped cold rice between the shutters 18 and 19 is conveyed to its terminal end by the horizontal transfer belt 5, and enters the cylindrical descending conveyor 12 for a fixed amount, and is transferred to the vertical descending conveyor 7.
．． 8. With the descent of 9, it is shaped into a triangle, enters the form frame 17 that is stopped downward, and is cut by the lower shutter 21.
In this state, the form 17 rotates until the next form 17 comes directly under the descending conveyor 2 and stops, and the above-described operation is repeated. When the lower shutters 20 and 21 are in two stages as shown in FIG. It is something that falls.

In the past, it was difficult to evenly loosen even horse hair by hand due to the hardness of cold rice, but with the above-mentioned structure, the above rectangular shape can be created by simply throwing the cold rice into the hopper 2 while loosening it slightly by hand. The cold rice is shaped into a rectangle by the cylinder 3, and the upper and lower surfaces are cut by the shutters 18 and 19 in the upper and lower stages, so that the cold rice is shaped into a rectangle (hexahedron) K. In this state, the food enters the cylindrical descending conveyor 12, is further shaped into a predetermined shape by the vertical descending belt 7.8.9, and is then lowered and inserted into the form frame 17 of a predetermined shape as a shaped food of a predetermined thickness. The rice balls 34 having a predetermined shape can be mass-produced from cold rice very easily.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a longitudinal sectional front view showing the automatic cooked rice feeding device of the present invention;
2 is a side view of FIG. 1 seen from the right, and FIG. 3 is a plan view of FIG. 1. 2. Ho'/par, 3. Rectangular tube, 4. Belt conveyor, 5. Horizontal transition belt, 6. Food outlet, 7.8
．． 9... Vertical descending bell), 10, 11... Vertical belt conveyor, 12... Cylindrical descending conveyor, 16... Intermittent rotating plate, 17... Rice-gripping frame, t... Interval, 18.19... Alternate entry/exit shutter, 20, 21... entry/exit shutter. Patent applicant Fuji Seiki Co., Ltd. Daiichi 4''+3 prisoners

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) The horizontal transfer belt 5 of the belt conveyor 4 is arranged in contact with the lower end opening of the rectangular cylinder 3 provided at the bottom of the hopper 2, and the food delivery port 6 is opened at the bottom of the cylinder 3, and the conveyor 4 mML lower R belt 8.9 of a plurality of vertical belt conveyors 10.11 which intersect each other with the vertical descending belt 7 at the end of the
A cylindrical descending conveyor 12 is formed by forming a cylindrical descending conveyor 12, a rice-gripping frame 17 corresponding to the descending conveyor 12 is bored in the intermittent rotating plate 16 provided below the surface of the conveyor 12, and Alternate entrance/exit shutter 18 through interval t
．． 19, and an entry/exit shutter 20, 21 is also provided at the bottom of the descending conveyor 12.