KR100892240B1 - Inline mixer for preparing bean-curd - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a mixing device for automatically mixing soy milk and coagulant and enzymes or other additives in the production of tofu, the frame constituting the appearance, soy milk is stored in the inside of the soy milk tank, piped to the lower side of the tank Soy milk storage means for supplying soy milk through the discharge pipe, a transfer means consisting of a transfer pump installed in the lower side of the frame to transfer soy milk stored in the soy milk tank, and connected to the supply motor to the bottom of the enzyme storage tank to transfer the enzyme And a funnel-shaped enzyme supply unit at the lower side of the transport unit, the enzyme supply means for spraying water to the enzyme supply unit to supply water and enzymes simultaneously, and at least two coagulant storage tanks. Each tank is provided with a feed pump to provide coagulant to supply coagulant, and inside the end of the conveying pipe. It has a technical feature consisting of a soymilk storage means, an enzyme or other additive supply means and a mixing means for mixing and discharging the soymilk, enzyme and coagulant supplied from the coagulant supply means having an impeller connected to the motor; Is achieved.

Tofu manufacturing, enzyme, coagulant, mixing device

Description

Soy milk and additive mixing device for tofu production {INLINE MIXER FOR PREPARING BEAN-CURD}

1 is a process diagram illustrating an operation process of the mixing device according to the present invention;

2 is a side view of the mixing device according to the present invention;

3 is a front view of the mixing apparatus according to the present invention,

Figure 4 is a partial cutaway cross-sectional view of the mixing apparatus according to the present invention from the back,

Figure 5 is a side view showing an example of a tank applied to the mixing device of the present invention,

Figure 6a, b is a side view showing an example of the agitator and the discharge unit which is applied to the tank of the present invention mounted to the tank for stirring and discharging,

Figure 7 is a side view showing an example of the mixing means applied to the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings

10: mixing device 100: frame

120: intermediate support frame 200: soy milk storage means

210: soymilk storage tank 220: cover

300: transfer means 310: soymilk transfer pump

400: coagulant supply means 420: stirring part

430: transfer unit 440: supply unit

500: enzyme supply means 520: enzyme transfer pump

600: mixing means 602: mixing chamber

610: mixing motor 630: impeller

The present invention relates to a mixing device used in the production of tofu, and more particularly to a soy milk mixing device for automatically mixing soy milk and coagulant and enzymes and other additives in the production of tofu.

In general, tofu is a food made by soaking soybeans in water, heating the liquid to squeeze the sesame and then adding a coagulant to coagulate it.

Tofu is generally divided into so-called tofu, soft tofu, and soft tofu, depending on the manufacturing process. In the past, the tofu was directly produced in a general household, but recently, it is sold by mass production based on automated equipment.

In other words, beans are stored in tanks via bucket elevators or air-blowers, and then sorted and cleaned according to a defined or arbitrarily selected daily yield to clean and remove stones or debris and then beans in adjacent tanks. This is called and then transferred to a grinder to be pulverized to make a bean juice.

At this time, the soybean juice used for tofu production is better the finer particles, put the soybean juice in the filtration device to separate the busy paper, then heat the filtered soybeans at a suitable temperature to put a coagulant in the coagulation container to make a soft tofu The tofu is completed by compressing the soft tofu into a mold.

Here, glutaminase is used as an enzyme used to prepare tofu, and coagulants include milky magnesium and glucono-delta-lactone (GDL), and magnesium chloride and calcium sulfate are also used as coagulants. do.

By the way, in the case of coagulants and enzymes or other additives added to complete the tofu is conventionally put manually by the operator's experience, it is difficult to obtain a product of uniform taste and physical properties, and there is a problem of poor quality.

Therefore, recently, a device for transporting soybean juice, soy milk, enzymes or other additives, and coagulants has been developed, and a certain amount is automatically added. However, a coagulation container of a drum type with an open top is used. As a result, there is a concern that contaminants may penetrate from the outside air during stirring, several coagulation vessels are arranged in a line, occupy a lot of space, and there is a problem that a lot of manufacturing time is required due to oxidation of the additives.

Furthermore, when a large amount of coagulant is added to the coagulation vessel at a time, there is also a problem that a partial coagulation phenomenon occurs.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-described conventional problems, and its object is to allow the introduction of various coagulants automatically and a small amount continuously to prevent the phenomenon of partial coagulation during stirring, and to shorten the time according to the production of tofu To provide a mixing device that is convenient to work.

Another object of the present invention is to make the coagulant and the enzyme or other additives are primarily mixed in the process of passing through the conveying pipe, and the mixing means at the end of the conveying pipe is free of contamination during the manufacturing process of the tofu and to utilize the space It is to provide a soy milk mixing device for manufacturing.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a mixing device that is easy to manufacture, obtains an excellent workability compared to the manufacturing cost, and also easy to link with other tofu production.

An object of the present invention is a mixing device for mixing soy milk and coagulant, enzyme or other additives supplied for the production of tofu, the frame constituting the appearance, soy milk is stored in the soy milk tank, the lower side of the tank Soymilk storage means for supplying soymilk through the pipe discharge pipe, a transfer means consisting of a transfer pump installed in the lower side of the frame to transfer the soymilk stored in the soymilk tank, and the enzyme is connected to the feed pump at the bottom of the enzyme storage tank An enzyme supply unit using a pump connected to the lower side of the transfer unit, the enzyme supply means for simultaneously supplying the enzyme liquid mixed with water and an enzyme, and at least two coagulant storage tanks; Coupling agent supply means for supplying a coagulant is provided with a feed pump in each tank, It has a technical feature consisting of a soymilk storage means, an enzyme supply means, a mixing means for mixing and discharging soymilk, enzymes and coagulants supplied from the coagulant supply means having an impeller connected to the motor inside the end Is achieved.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a process diagram illustrating an operation process of the mixing device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a side view of the mixing device according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a front view of the mixing device according to the present invention.

Figure 4 is a partial cutaway cross-sectional view of the mixing device according to the present invention from the back, Figure 5 is a side view showing an example of a tank applied to the mixing device of the present invention, Figure 6a, b is applied to the tank of the present invention It is a side view showing an example of the stirring portion and the discharge portion is mounted to the tank for stirring and discharging.

Preferably, in the mixing apparatus 10 of the present invention, the first agitating is performed in the process of passing each feed means through the feed pipe, and the mixing means is provided at the end of the feed pipe, so that the second agitating is performed. The soy milk is continuously supplied in the state made, and may be applied to other mechanical devices and equipment in addition to tofu production.

In the drawing, the mixing device 10 of the present invention includes a frame 100, a soymilk storage means 200 for storing and storing soymilk, a conveying means 300 for transferring the soymilk at a constant speed and amount, and mixing in soymilk. It comprises a coagulant supply means 400 for storing and supplying the coagulant, and an enzyme storage means 500 for storing and supplying the enzyme, and a mixing means 600 for mixing the additives such as soy milk and coagulant, enzyme, etc. ,

First, the frame 100 is composed of a support frame 120 for constituting the appearance of the device and supporting each component and the intermediate support frame 120 to be installed the mixing means 600 at the waist height of the worker , The transport wheel 130 is mounted on the bottom of the support frame 120 is configured to move as needed.

The soymilk storage means 200 has a soymilk storage tank 210 is stored and stored soymilk, the input pipe 230 is so that the soymilk is automatically or manually supplied to the upper sidewall of the soymilk storage tank 210 It is provided, the bottom portion is formed with a discharge port 240 so that the soy milk is discharged.

The soymilk storage tank 210 is the top is opened so that the cover 220 is covered in the upper opening, soymilk detection sensor 222 is installed on the cover soymilk supply is cut off if the amount or less than a certain amount. Or resupply.
The transfer means 300 transfers and supplies milky magnesium, which is one of soymilk and coagulant. First, the soymilk is transported and supplied from the outlet 240 of the soymilk storage tank, but is made by a soymilk transfer pump 310 installed at the lower side of the frame 100.

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In addition, the milky magnesium transfer pump 320 is installed adjacent to the soymilk transfer pump 310 so that milky magnesium is transferred through this, the milky magnesium storage tank 302 is outside the frame of the mixing device of the present invention as shown in FIG. Although installed, in some cases it can be installed into the inside of the frame, of course.

The coagulant supply means 400 is to transfer and supply the coagulant, in the present invention, the enzyme is used as a coagulant glutaminase, glucono delta lactone (GDL; glucono-δ-lactone), milky magnesium is used as a coagulant Wherein, the enzyme is moved to the mixed state with water and the coagulation agent in the transfer pipe, soymilk is matched with the first mixing is made and germinated tofu, characterized in that the second mixing in the mixing chamber. Is used, but this is one example and it is obvious that other coagulants may be used.

The coagulant supply means 400 is composed of a coagulant storage tank 410, a stirring unit 420 for stirring the coagulant, a coagulant transfer unit 430, and a coagulant supply unit 440 provided on the lower side of the transfer unit.

The storage tank 410 is provided with a stirring portion 420 as shown in Figure 6a attached to the inside of the upper and lower narrow shape, the stirring portion 420 is a stirring blade in the form of a rod or screw on the outer periphery of the shaft 422 424 is provided, and one end of the shaft protrudes out of the tank and rotates by a motor of the transfer unit 430.

The transfer unit 430 includes a motor 432 installed in the frame 100, a rotation shaft 434 connected to the motor shaft to rotate, and a transfer spring 436 fitted to the rotation shaft to rotate and transfer a coagulant.

Here, the sprocket is installed on the rotating shaft 434, and the sprocket is wound around a driven sprocket and a chain installed at one end of the shaft 422 of the stirring unit 420 to transfer the rotational force of the motor to transfer the spring of the transfer unit 430. The rotating unit and the stirring unit 420 are rotated at the same time.

In other words, when the motor 432 rotates, the transfer spring 436 connected to the motor shaft rotates to horizontally move the coagulant supplied to the storage tank 410 to the supply unit 440, and at the same time to the sprocket. The stirring blade 424 of the connected stirring portion rotates to stir the coagulant.

The supply unit 440 has a funnel-shaped inlet 442 so that the coagulant supplied from the transfer unit 430 is easily introduced into the upper portion, and the water inlet 444 is provided to allow water to flow into the lower side thereof. It is a configuration to supply water to the mixing means at the same time.

The enzyme supply means 500 is composed of an enzyme storage tank 510 and an enzyme supply pump 520 for supplying an enzyme stored in the storage tank 510, and at least two enzyme storage tanks are disposed.

This is to store and supply different kinds of enzymes or the same enzyme, and may be supplied with a coagulant. The enzyme used in the present invention is glutaminase.

On the other hand, the inside of the enzyme storage tank 510 is provided with a mixing blade 520 connected to the motor 522 is a configuration that the enzyme is mixed evenly supplied.

The mixing means 600 is to supply the soymilk storage tank 210, the coagulant storage tank 410, the soymilk supplied from the enzyme storage tank 510, and the coagulant enzyme.

To this end, the mixing means 600 includes a mixing chamber 602 at an end of the conveying pipe, and an impeller 630 connected to the motor 610 is installed in the mixing chamber to supply soymilk supplied from the conveying pipe 700. Each additive is mixed.

On the other hand, the transfer pipe 700 is connected to each means, that is, soymilk transfer pump 310 and milky magnesium transfer pump 320, coagulant supply pump 450, enzyme supply pump 520 as shown in Figure 1 The additives are transferred, except for milky magnesium, that is, soymilk, coagulant, and enzyme are passed through one line and mixed firstly before being introduced into the mixing chamber.

In the drawings, reference numeral 620 is a coupling connecting the mixing motor and the impeller, 710 is an inflow tube into which milky magnesium is introduced, and 720 is a conduit to which soymilk, coagulant and enzyme are mixed as described above.

Looking at the mixing process of soy milk using the present invention made of such a configuration as follows.

First, the soy milk introduced into the soymilk storage tank 210 of the soymilk storage means 200 is supplemented with soymilk by a series of automated processes or by an operator, and the soymilk detection sensor 222 detects the soymilk transfer pump ( 310) or control the entire automation line.

As the soymilk transfer pump 310 operates, the milky magnesium transfer pump 320 and each pump operate to supply coagulants and enzymes. First, the coagulant storage tank 410 rotates with the sprocket as the motor 432 rotates. The stirring blade 424 is connected to rotate to stir the coagulant, and the coagulant discharged from the storage tank 410 is introduced into the supply unit 440 along the transfer spring 436 connected to the motor 432.

The coagulant introduced into the supply unit 440 moves along the transfer pipe 700 with water, and the enzyme moves through the transfer pipe by the enzyme transfer pump 520. At this time, the coagulant, water, enzyme, and soy milk move along each line, and enter into the mixing chamber in a state where they are first mixed in a position adjacent to the mixing chamber 602 of the mixing means.

Soy milk and additives introduced into the mixing chamber is discharged through the outlet 640 in a second mixing state by the impeller 630 rotated by the motor 610.

As described above, the present invention allows the introduction of various coagulants automatically and a small amount continuously to prevent the phenomenon of partial coagulation during agitation, and to allow the coagulant and enzyme to be mixed firstly during the transfer process, and the end of the transfer pipe It is an invention that is equipped with a mixing means in the tofu free process during the manufacturing process of the tofu.

In addition, the present invention is an invention that is easy to manufacture, excellent in workability compared to the manufacturing cost, shortening the time according to the production of tofu, and easy to operate.

Claims (6)

As a mixing device for mixing soy milk and coagulant, enzyme and other additives supplied for tofu production, A frame constituting the appearance; Soymilk is stored in the tank, soymilk storage means for supplying soymilk through the outlet piped to the lower side of the tank; A transfer means configured to transfer the soymilk stored in the soymilk storage tank and the milky magnesium stored in the soymilk storage tank, comprising a soymilk transfer pump and a milky magnesium transfer pump installed on the lower side of the frame; An enzyme supply means having at least two enzyme storage tanks, each tank having a supply pump to supply enzyme therethrough; At the bottom of the coagulant storage tank to which the coagulant is held, a transfer part is connected to the supply motor to transfer the coagulant, and a coagulant supply part having a funnel shape is provided on the lower side of the transfer part. Coagulant supply means for supplying a coagulant; A transfer pipe connected to the soymilk transfer pump, a feed pump of an enzyme supply means, a coagulant supply means, and the milky magnesium transfer pump to transfer soymilk, enzymes, coagulants and milky magnesium; Soymilk mixing apparatus for tofu production, characterized in that consisting of; a soymilk, enzyme, coagulant, milky magnesium mixed and discharged by the feed pipe is provided with an impeller connected to the motor rotates inside. The method of claim 1, wherein the soymilk storage means is provided with a soymilk inlet on the side wall of the storage tank in which the soymilk is stored, the outlet is provided in the bottom, the cover that covers the top so that the sensor for detecting soymilk flow rate Soy milk mixing device for manufacturing tofu. The method of claim 1, wherein the conveying means comprises a soymilk transfer pump for transferring soymilk stored in the soymilk storage tank to a mixing means and a milky magnesium transfer pump for transferring milky magnesium. Soymilk Mixer. The coagulant storage tank of the coagulant supply means is provided with a stirring portion provided with a stirring blade, and the transfer portion for transferring the coagulant is provided in the lower storage tank, the transfer portion is fitted to the rotary shaft connected to the motor shaft Soymilk mixing apparatus for tofu production, characterized in that the transfer of the coagulant through the transfer spring rotated by the motor to be introduced into the supply unit, the stirring blade is rotated by the motor. According to claim 1, wherein the enzyme supply means is composed of at least two storage tanks, each tank is provided with a mixing blade that is rotated by a motor to agitate the enzyme, each tank is connected to the enzyme transfer pump is connected to the enzyme Soymilk mixer for tofu production. According to claim 1, wherein the mixing means is provided with a mixing chamber at the end of the transfer pipe connecting the soymilk transfer pump, coagulant transfer pump, enzyme transfer pump, the mixing chamber is provided with an impeller rotating by a motor to the pump Soy milk mixing apparatus for tofu production, characterized in that the discharge through the outlet by mixing soy milk and additives supplied from them.

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