JPS6359859A - Apparatus for preparation of cooked rice wrapped with laver sheet - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate wrapping of rice with a laver sheet including various ingredients such as KANPYO (dried gourd shavings) in the rice and to enable the efficient preparation of various kinds of laver-lapped rice, by using a laver-wrapping apparatus consisting of a feeder to feed a definite amount of plate-shaped cooked rice and a wrapping machine to roll and wrap the plate-shaped rice. CONSTITUTION:Cooked rice in a rice hopper 7 is transferred in the form of a cooked rice plate with a rice feeder 1 having a transfer channel furnished with a cutter 4 and a roller 3 having a number of spiral grooves on the surface. A definite amount of rice supplied from the rice feeder 1 is further transferred by the aid of an assistant rice feeder 2. In a rolling and wrapping machine, the transported rice is surely pressed from vertical and lateral directions with a bendable plate 5 for wrapping rice with laver sheet to obtain the objective laver-wrapped rice. The wrapping plate 5 is constructed of 4 or 5 rectangular plates connected with each other in a bendable manner and vertically moving along the upper or inner surface of a rectangular parallelepiped groove 5c. Various ingredients such as KANPYO can be easily included in the wrapped rice and a large variety of laver-wrapped rice can be prepared in high efficiency.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (Industrial Application Field) The present invention is directed to a sheet of seaweed made from 8 sheets of seaweed for producing seaweed rolls by supplying a certain amount of cooked rice onto a seaweed sheet and automatically wrapping it. It is related to.

(Prior Art and Problems to be Solved by the Invention) A conventional seaweed roll making machine is provided with a plurality of bending grooves on the back side of the belt, and presses predetermined positions on both sides and the top of the belt. By doing so, the belt is made into a new shape such as a figure 11,
Then, from the top surface, roll the cooked rice into a rectangular shape by touching the r]-r (n).

With these machines, you can make 5 sheets of seaweed rolls! ! However, it is difficult to wrap various co-materials such as dried gourds at the same time, so when producing norimaki with various kinds of fillings, it is difficult to provide plate-shaped cooked rice that can be put to practical use first. The plate-shaped cooked rice supplied from the machine was then rolled and wrapped by the chef.

However, with such a device, it is difficult to wrap various co-materials such as dried gourd at the same time, and there are problems such as inability to efficiently manufacture a wide variety of norimaki.

(Move V to solve the problem, α!) The present invention is iIf
This was developed in view of the problems described above, and it is possible to efficiently produce a wide variety of seaweed rolls.It is a machine that can efficiently produce a wide variety of seaweed rolls. a cooked rice conveying machine equipped with a cutter at the end of the cutter; an auxiliary cooked rice conveying machine for further conveying a certain amount of cooked rice supplied from the cooked rice conveying machine; a rectangular parallelepiped-shaped recess; 4 or 5 to raise and lower '11
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It is a seaweed roll making machine.

Roughly speaking, the method for making 8 pieces of seaweed according to the present invention consists of a feeding machine that supplies a certain amount of plate-shaped cooked rice, and a wrapping machine that wraps the plate-shaped cooked rice.

The configuration of the direct feeder is; +C: Stirring f to loosen the rice.
P (Shigeru and the cooked rice are pushed onto the bottom conveyor - a cooked rice hopper consisting of 11 extrusion rollers, and the cooked rice is pushed to a certain thickness,
A rice rice conveyor (supplied by Shigeru and the rice rice conveyor) equipped with a rice roller and a rice cutter having a large number of thread-like grooves on the surface in order to shape the rice into plate-shaped rice of a certain length. It consists of an auxiliary cooked rice conveyor that further conveys a fixed amount of cooked rice.

The cooked rice roller of the present invention for forming cooked rice with a constant thickness is different from a roller having a simple smooth surface, and has a large number of thread-like grooves on the surface, and has a small contact surface with the cooked rice grains, so that the surface is It has the characteristic that cooked rice is difficult to adhere to.

Then, the plate-shaped cooked rice is reliably adjusted to a constant thickness, and then divided into constant lengths by a cooked rice cuffer, and then transferred to the next auxiliary cooked rice conveyor.

Further, the wrapping machine includes a refractive type rice and seaweed wrapping plate which is made up of four or five rectangular plates connected to each other so as to be bendable and which moves up and down, and a rectangular parallelepiped-shaped recess into which the refractive type rice and seaweed wrapping plate can be bent and fitted. It consists of.

The bent rice seaweed wrapping plate is made by connecting 4 or 5 rectangular plates with springs such as coil springs, and moving them in one direction (inward) at 3 or 4 connecting parts. It is a flexible flat plate and a blank plate.

The lifting and lowering of the wrapping plate is carried out by a vertical movement device having an eccentric grooved cam plate, and a fixed amount of cooked rice is supplied to the wrapping plate of cooked rice and seaweed rolls by moving in response to the conveyor of the auxiliary cooked rice conveyor. Rice and seaweed 8? This is done by the horizontal displacement device of P1.

At this time, one end plate (in the case of 4 sheets) or both end plates (in the case of 5 sheets) of the wrapping plate is provided with a tab. When the claw comes into contact with the upper surface of the entrance of the recessed void wall due to the lowering of the tab, the rectangular plate at both ends or one Ri section that connects the claw rotates inward around the pongee bundle part. The concave portion is then closed to cover it from above, and a certain amount of plate-shaped cooked rice supplied from the auxiliary cooked rice conveyor is reliably formed into a rectangular seaweed roll.

Furthermore, the seaweed roll making machine is equipped with an electrical control circuit that allows the rice feeding machine and the wrapping machine to operate alternately, and when the wrapping machine is in operation, the feeding machine stops and waits. It is possible to automatically produce seaweed rolls.

(Function) Seaweed 852 of the present invention! The machine consists of a feeding machine that supplies a plate-shaped cooked rice, and a wrapper that wraps the plate-shaped cooked rice into a seaweed roll. Since it has thread-like grooves, the contact area with cooked rice is small, and it is therefore possible to prevent cooked rice from adhering to the roller.

Furthermore, it is equipped with a cutter that divides the plate-shaped *Fi into a certain length, so that a predetermined amount of plate-shaped cooked rice can be reliably transferred to the auxiliary cooked rice conveyor.

Then, a rectangular parallelepiped recess provided in the center of the package and four or five rectangular plates are attached to the package via a spring, forming a single bendable flat plate. Consisting of a wrapping plate and its lifting device, when the rectangular plate at the center of the wrapping machine slides into contact with the wall of the rectangular parallelepiped recess and descends, the wrapping plate becomes U-shaped, and when raised, it restores to a flat plate shape. Become. Further, when both ends or one end of the wrapping plate are pressed against the upper end surface of the entrance slope of the rectangular parallelepiped recess, the rectangular plate at both ends or one end rotates inward about the shaft frame. , a vertical movement drive having a claw part for forming a rectangular seaweed roll by closing, and an eccentric groove cam for raising and lowering a rod connected to the square plate at the center of the wrapping plate; and a horizontally moving VC device that places the cooked rice on the wrapping plate in conjunction with the conveyor of the auxiliary cooked rice conveyor. The claw portion is provided at both ends or one end of the wrapping plate, and when the claw portion is pressed into contact with the upper end surface of the entrance slope of the rectangular parallelepiped recess and is locked, the claw portion is fixed to the claw portion. Both ends or one piece? (ii) The rectangular plate of the first part is bent inward around the interconnecting shaft frame part and closed, and the white rice in the recessed part can be pressed from above and reliably molded into a square shape.

(Example) An example of the seaweed roll manufacturing machine of the present invention will be described below based on the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a plan view of the device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a front view,
Figure 3 is an enlarged sectional view of a portion of the roller for forming cooked rice to a constant thickness, Figure 4 is a right side view of a portion of the roller in Figure 3, and tjS
Figure 5 is a schematic diagram of the process from the rice hopper to the rice auxiliary conveyor, the rice auxiliary conveyor, and the wrapping machine. Figure 6 shows the process of rice being supplied from the rice auxiliary conveyor to the wrapping machine, after which the wrapping of the rice is completed. Figure 7 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the cooked rice auxiliary conveyor and wrapping acid part, Figure 8 is a bottom view of the wrapping plate, Figure 9 is a side view of the wrapping plate, and PIS 10 is an explanatory diagram of the cooking process. It is a time cycle diagram showing the operating state of the drive unit of the seaweed roll manufacturing machine.

The overall view of the norimaki making machine according to the present invention is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, which includes a cooked rice feeder A that produces a fixed amount of plate-shaped cooked rice, and a machine that wraps the plate-shaped cooked rice into nori rolls. It consists of a package of 1fiB.

Each structure of the cooked rice feeder A is like a dog.

A cooked rice hopper 7 having an agitator 7a for loosening the cooked rice 8', and a pair of rollers 7b, 7b' disposed below the agitator 8' and pushing the cooked rice 8' out of the hopper by rotating in opposite directions. There is. Further, there is a drive unit M1 consisting of a motor, gears, etc. that is interlocked with the agitation IP 17a and the extrusion rollers 7b, 7b'.

A cooked rice conveyor 1 conveys the cooked rice 8' from the cooked rice hopper 7, and a pair of rollers 3.3' disposed above and below the conveyor 1 facing each other form the cooked rice 8' into paste-like rice fli, 8. , but there is an n-shape adjusting roller 3 and a lower roller 3° having a number of thread-like grooves on its surface. That is, the thickness y1 adjustment roller 3 having the large number of thread-like grooves reduces the contact area with the sticky cooked rice 8,
It is recommended to have a thickness of 1181 g and to adhere 8 inches of cooked rice to the roller 3, and to continuously produce plate-shaped cooked rice 8. As the material for the 3A'l thick roller 3, it is preferable to use non-adhesive materials such as synthetic resins and ceramics, particularly Teflon.

Also, move the upper roller 3 up and down to F! the plate-shaped cooked rice 8! , a thickness adjustment knob 3a that adjusts the thickness, a crankshaft 3b that rotates the rotational movement of the thickness adjustment knob 3a in the right angle direction via a form gear, and a crankshaft 3b that rotates the rotational movement of the crankshaft 3b in the vertical direction. A crank 3c (FIG. 4) that moves the roller 3 up and down in exchange for movement, and the conveyor 1
, an auxiliary gear that accurately transmits power by adjusting the gap between the drive unit M2 consisting of a motor, gears, etc. that drives the roller 3, and the gears of the drive unit M3 and the thickness adjustment roller 3 using a spring or the like. 3d are arranged so that 5 servings of cooked rice 8 of a constant 17 height can be prepared.

Further, there is a canter 4 disposed on the upper φ peak of the cooked rice conveyor 1 for dividing the plate-shaped cooked rice 8 formed into a constant thickness into pieces of a predetermined length; A cooked rice auxiliary transport conveyor 2 that transports the plate-shaped cooked rice 8, a drive unit M2 consisting of a motor, gears, etc. that drives the cooked rice auxiliary transport conveyor 2, a transport base end of the auxiliary withdrawal conveyor 2, and a slight exit of the conveyor 1. a cutter plate 4a that covers the gap at the end and is disposed at the cutting position of the cutter 4; and a drive drive unit M3 that includes a motor that moves the cutter 4 upward by one position.
There is a structure in which the plate-shaped cooked rice 8 can be divided into constant +i parts.

In this example, a gear is used as the transmission drive unit of the motor, but a pulley and a belt, or a sprocket and a chain belt may also be used.

In such a configuration, the rice f[transfer machine's rice hopper 7, the rice conveyor 1, the I'l-J4 straightening roller 3, and the auxiliary cooked rice transport machine's conveyor 2 for driving the respective motors are provided. There is an advantage that the electric motor can be removed from the frame 9 for each panel 10, since it is installed in one electric motor installation panel, and removal, inspection, filling, etc. are facilitated.

By the way, the operating state of the number A of cooked rice supplied is as shown in FIG. In other words, since the cooked rice 8゛ in the rice hopper 7 is not loosened by the rice fjj and the stirrer 7a, the clock and
The cooked rice is pushed out to the evacuation bearer 1 by push-out rollers 7b and 7b' rotating counterclockwise. Then, the cooked rice 8' is formed into a plate-shaped rice 8'1: of a constant thickness by the thickness adjusting roller 3 and the roller 3', and then cut into a certain size by the cutter 4 with 191 grooves 1, and conveyed to the auxiliary conveyor feeder 2. be done.

The configuration of wrapping machine B is as follows. As shown in FIGS. 7 to 9, the IJ! ! i'! l: t/r A flat 8-wrap plate 5 made of five rectangular plates that can be bent freely, and an eccentric groove cam 5b connected to the central rectangular plate of the wrap-wrap plate 5 via a lifting rod 5a. It is composed of a rotating drive section M5.

The operating principle is the drive unit M5 of the wrapping machine 13.
When the +iif eccentric cam 5) is started, the eccentric cam 5) rotates by a predetermined amount, causing the shallow lifting rod 5a to move i! l! The wrapped wrapping plate 5 is gradually lowered, and the two rectangular plates adjacent to the central rectangular plate of the 8 packages 5i5 are bent inward to form the U-shaped wrapped wrapping plate 5. When the final stage of descent is reached, the tab 5e provided on the rectangular end of the wrapping plate 5 comes into contact with the upper surface of the rectangular parallelepiped recess 5, and the rectangular plate at the end of the wrapping plate 5 comes into contact with the upper surface of the rectangular parallelepiped recess 5.
1↑1 Bin? It rotates inward 111+1 around 1115f to form an upper lid in the shape of a mouth and presses the cooked rice from the - side to form a rectangular wrapping plate 5.

At this time, the structure of the i'ijj envelope@5 is as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9. For example, when one claw part 5e is provided at one end, first, the center part 1 on the back of the rectangular board
Refer to the lifting rod 5a described in 11j, and form two rectangles f- using the rectangle vj and a bottle pongee 5r and a spring 5d at both ends of the s side.
: Connected, and furthermore, the claws δ55e are provided on the back of the rectangular plate at both ends.
A flat plate is formed by connecting a rectangular plate provided with a rectangular plate and a rectangular plate without it using a pin 5'' and a spring 5d. The plate 5g is joined to the jjllll rectangular plate on the bent pongee 5r of the rectangular plate at both ends, and is provided so as to hold the rectangular plate at both ends on the back side.

In Figure 6 (1) to (6), (1) not 1 = (6)
The wrapping and wrapping process is completed through the following steps.

(1) is the horizontal movement drive fulls M with the above-mentioned wrapping ratio.
5 moves the rack 6 (FIG. 7) from left to right in synchronization with the movement of the cooked rice auxiliary conveyor 2. Initial step 1: Place the plate-shaped cooked rice 8 end on the wrapping plate 5-L. : shows the state where the plate-shaped cooked rice 8 has started to be placed on the wrapping plate 5. (2) shows a straight state 111j in which the plate-shaped cooked rice 8 is separated from the end of the cooked rice auxiliary conveyor 2, and the plate-shaped cooked rice 8 is placed on the eimaki wrapping plate 5 (t). At this time, the drive parts \11 to MS are operating in normal rotation. (3) means that the plate-shaped upper '!j, 8 is completely placed on the winding plate 5, and each f! II 5% - shows the state where material 8 b is added. At this time, 111'') l moving part M 1 ~
>A3 and M5 are all stopped:! 2, M4 is a reversing force, ) shape.Next, (4) is when the vertical movement drive section M6 is operated and the rod 5a connected to the eccentric cam 5b is The state is shown when the plate-shaped cooked rice 8 is formed into a U-shape by descending below the rectangular parallelepiped-shaped recess 5C and bending the rectangular plates on both sides of the center plate of the wrapping plate 5. At this time, only the drive section M5 is operating. (5)
In this case, the claw portion 5e provided on the end rectangular plate of the wrapping plate 5 has the rectangular parallelepiped shape 1! ! 1 part 5c is pressed against and locked on the upper end surface of the inlet,
Rotating and bending to the left around the pin 5r, the wrapping plate 5
This shows a state in which cooked rice 8 is suppressed and formed into a rectangular shape by forcibly closing the mouth.

At this time, the rod 5a connected to the eccentric cam 5b is in a state of being moved to the bottom, and then the rod 5a moves upward. (6) shows a state in which the rod 5a has finished rising and the rectangular shaped seaweed roll can be taken out.

Note that after a few seconds after this state (6), the cross section of the seaweed changes from a square to a circle. The reason for this is not clear, but it is thought to be due to the expansion of the compressed warm cooked rice or the generation of water vapor.

Also, in FIG. 10, the rice supply j! I
A and the winding α control B in a self-regulating manner. This shows the time cycle of the drive units M1 to M6 of the seaweed roll making machine. First, the part for transporting cooked rice, etc. I! After operating the I+ sections M1 to M4, wrapping is carried out in synchronization with the stoppage of the wrapping and direct movement drive section M6.

For example, rf! Operate JJ sections M1 to M5 at the same time,
After the predetermined time has passed, the drive! Stop S parts M1 to M3,
Then, when the driving units M4 and M5 are stopped after a delay of several seconds, the plate-shaped cooked rice is divided into a certain amount and placed on the wrapping board 5.

Next, when the vertical movement drive section M6 is operated in synchronization with the stoppage of the drive section M4, the single wrapping operation is completed. At this time, M5 may be reversed and returned to the initial position in synchronization with the stop of the drive 11M6.

Note that the cutter drive gM4 is connected to the conveyance drive unit M1 to
It operates (normally rotates) in conjunction with M3, and after stopping, it reverses and maintains the cutting state (splitting cooked rice 8 and being in a stopped state). Further, the vertical movement drive section M6 converts rotation of a predetermined period into vertical movement, and is configured to be stopped by a sensitive switch or the like every - period.

Furthermore, in this example, it is also possible to manufacture a nigiri sushi stand consisting only of cooked rice without using the seaweed 8a.

(Effects of the Invention) As detailed above, the seaweed roll making machine of the present invention includes a cooked rice hopper, a cooked rice conveying machine equipped with a roller having a large number of thread-like grooves on its surface, and a force roller, A rectangular parallelepiped recess and four or five sheets that are bent and connected to each other and move up and down between the upper and inner sides of the recess are connected to the auxiliary cooked rice conveyor that further conveys a fixed amount of cooked rice supplied from the cooked rice conveyor. The roller is made of a rectangular plate and is equipped with a bent rice seaweed wrapping plate, and in particular, the rice i thickness y4 adjustment roller is different from a roller having a simple smooth surface, and has a large number of thread-like grooves on its surface. Since there is little contact surface with the cooked rice grains, it is difficult for cooked rice to adhere to the surface.

Then, a fixed amount of plate-shaped cooked rice can be transferred to the wrapping machine using the auxiliary cooked rice conveyance ratio, and in the wrapping machine, the rice can be reliably pressed from the top, bottom, left and right with the wrapping plate to form the norimaki. You can also easily add various ingredients such as dried gourd and wrap it.
It is possible to efficiently produce a wide variety of seaweed rolls.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of the device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a front view,
Figure 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a portion of the roller for forming the cooked rice 17, Figure 4 is a right side view of a portion of the roller in Figure 3,
The figure is a schematic diagram of the process from the rice hopper to the rice auxiliary conveyance ratio and then to the wrapping machine. Figure 6 shows the rice being supplied from the rice auxiliary conveyance ratio to the wrapping machine, after which the wrapping of the rice is completed. Figure 7 is an enlarged sectional view of the rice 92 auxiliary conveyance rock and the wrapping machine, Figure 8 is a bottom view of the wrapping plate, Figure 9 is a side view of the wrapping plate, and Figure 10 is a side view of the wrapping plate. It is a time cycle diagram showing the operating state of the drive unit of Nori 8 production. 1...Rice conveyor feeder, 2...Rice auxiliary conveyor, 3...Thickness adjustment roller, 3゛...Roller, 3a...Thickness adjustment knob, 3b...Crankshaft,
3C...Crank, 3d...Gap 3!1 Adjustable gear, 4
... Canter 14a... Cutter plate, 5... Refracting seaweed wrapping plate, 5a... Lifting rod, 5b... Cam plate, 5c... Rectangular parallelepiped recess, 5d... Spring, 5e・・・
・Claw part, 5f...bin shaft, 6...rack, 7...
・Rice hopper, 7a... Stirrer, 711.7b'...
・Extrusion roller, 8... plate-shaped cooked rice, 8"... cooked rice,
8a...Seaweed, 8b...Ingredients, A...Rice feeder, B...Wrapping machine, Ni 1-M6...Drive unit, Patent applicant Yoshida Mashita Kogyo Co., Ltd. Agent Patent Attorney Mura J1 Yukio Figure 1-Y Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 7 Figure 8

Claims (6)

[Claims] (1) A cooked rice hopper, a cooked rice conveying machine equipped with a roller and a cutter having a large number of thread-like grooves on its surface, and an auxiliary cooked rice that further conveys a certain amount of cooked rice supplied from the cooked rice conveying machine. A wrapping machine comprising a conveyor, a rectangular parallelepiped recess, and a foldable rice and seaweed wrapping plate made of four or five rectangular plates connected to each other so as to be bendable, which move up and down between the upper and inner sides of the recess. A seaweed roll making machine characterized by comprising: (2) The seaweed roll manufacturing machine according to claim 1, wherein the cooked rice hopper comprises an agitator and a pair of extrusion rollers. (3) The seaweed roll manufacturing machine according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the wrapping machine is equipped with a horizontal movement device and a wrapping plate lifting device at the bottom thereof. (4) The wrapping plate is composed of a connecting plate in which four or five rectangular plates are mounted on an axis, and the rectangular plate at the end of the connecting plate is provided with a claw portion that is engaged with the upper end surface of the rectangular parallelepiped recess. A seaweed roll manufacturing machine according to any one of claims 1 to 3. (5) The seaweed roll manufacturing machine is equipped with an electric control mechanism for alternately operating the conveying machine and the wrapping machine, according to any one of claims 1 to 4. Seaweed roll making machine. (6) Each electric motor for driving the cooked rice hopper, cooked rice conveyor, cooked rice roller, and conveyor of the auxiliary cooked rice conveying machine is attached to one motor mounting panel, and each motor can be removed from the frame for each panel. The seaweed roll manufacturing machine according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that it is capable of: