TW201542097A - Tofu making machine - Google Patents

Abstract

A tofu making machine is provided, including a transmission unit, at least one storage barrel and a heating unit. The at least one storage barrel is connected with the transmission unit and is driven by the transmission unit to move along a path. The storage barrel is for receiving pulp. The heating unit has a steam heating pipe which can stretch into the storage barrel and a temperature sensing element. A steam passes through the steam heating pipe and heats the pulp to become soybean milk. The temperature sensing element is for measuring a temperature of the pulp inside the storage barrel.

Description

Tofu making machine

The present invention relates to a manufacturing machine, and more particularly to a tofu manufacturing machine.

Tofu can be seen everywhere in various dishes in daily life, and with different soymilk concentrations and different manufacturing processes, tofu can be subdivided into more types, such as: oil tofu, plate tofu, oily tofu or hundred Page tofu and so on. Tofu can not only be used as a side dish to add a taste, but also can be used as a main dish to make a popular dish (such as: Mapo tofu, cold tofu), tofu can be said to be one of the most representative food in the Chinese. With the increase in demand, it is bound to have great demand for the production of tofu. Therefore, the industry has continuously developed a machine for making a continuous tofu to supply the market, such as TW M369042, TW M320305, etc. The tofu manufacturing machine belongs to this category.

However, in such a conventional tofu manufacturing machine, the raw slurry produced by the grinder is cooked into soybean milk in one go, and then the appropriate portion is taken in stages to manufacture the tofu. The remaining soy milk that has not been taken, if it is always heated, will lose nutrients (such as: protein deterioration), if there is no heat source heating, soy milk is very easy to cool and solidify, and it is not easy to carry out the subsequent tofu manufacturing process. There are shortcomings that need to be improved.

Therefore, it is necessary to provide a novel and progressive tofu manufacturing machine to solve the above problems.

The main object of the present invention is to provide a tofu manufacturing machine, in addition to being continuous In addition to the rapid manufacture of tofu, it is possible to maintain raw materials (such as raw pulp and soy milk) that have not yet been processed in a good state during the manufacturing process, so that the tofu produced can be enriched with better nutrients, raw materials. It does not itself deteriorate due to repeated heating, or it does not easily react with the coagulant because it is left idle for too long.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a tofu manufacturing machine including a transmission a unit, at least one storage tub, and a heating unit. The at least one storage tub is coupled to the transmission unit and is movable by the transmission unit to move along a path for accommodating a slurry. The heating unit includes a steam heating tube extending into the interior of the storage tub and a temperature sensing element, the vapor heating tube is supplied with a vapor to heat the slurry into a soy milk, and the temperature sensing element is configured to measure the The temperature of the storage tank is set to the temperature of the slurry.

1‧‧‧Tofu making machine

11‧‧‧Transmission unit

12‧‧‧ storage bucket

2‧‧‧heating unit

21‧‧‧Vapor heating tube

22‧‧‧Temperature sensing components

23‧‧‧Displacement mechanism

3‧‧‧Quantitative unit

4‧‧‧Dilution unit

41‧‧‧Water tank

42‧‧‧sprinkler

421‧‧‧ spout

43‧‧‧Water retaining kit

5‧‧‧solidification unit

51‧‧‧Agitator

52‧‧‧ 容 容

53‧‧‧Guiding agency

54‧‧‧blocking parts

6‧‧‧ broken flower unit

61‧‧‧moving parts

7‧‧‧Water unit

71‧‧‧ sifter

72‧‧‧ draw power source

73‧‧‧ Pipe fittings

8‧‧‧Drawing unit

81‧‧‧Loading Department

82‧‧‧Transport platform

83‧‧‧Mold

9‧‧‧ Raw pulp source

1 is a schematic view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

2 is another schematic view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a partial enlarged view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a partial enlarged view of a heating unit in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 5 is a partial enlarged view of a dilution unit in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 6 is another perspective view of Figure 5.

Figure 7 is a partial enlarged view of a solidifying unit in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 8 is a partially enlarged view of another solidifying unit in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 9 is a partial enlarged view of a broken flower unit in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 10 is a partially enlarged view of a hydrophobic unit in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The following is a description of the possible embodiments of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention as claimed.

Referring to FIG. 1 to FIG. 10, there is shown a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The tofu manufacturing machine 1 of the present invention comprises a transmission unit 11, at least one storage tub 12 and a heating unit 2.

The at least one storage tub 12 is coupled to the transmission unit 11 and is movable by the transmission unit 11 to move along a path for accommodating a slurry. The heating unit 2 includes a steam heating tube 21 extending into the interior of the storage tub 12 and a temperature sensing element 22 for passing a vapor to heat the slurry into a soy milk. The temperature sensing The component 22 is for measuring the temperature of the slurry in which the storage tub 12 is placed. Wherein, the path is substantially elliptical, and each of the storage buckets 12 can be continuously and continuously moved.

More importantly, the design of the heating unit 2 can heat the slurry in two stages. In more detail, the slurry that has not entered the tofu manufacturing machine 1 can be maintained at a relatively mild temperature. (eg, 50 degrees C to 70 degrees C) without the need to boil the soy milk in advance, and then wait until the heating unit 2 enters the heating unit 2 to raise the temperature to a predetermined temperature (eg, 85 degrees C to 95 degrees C) to form the soy milk, such a In this case, the slurry (or the soymilk) does not become scorched or deteriorated due to prolonged heating at a high temperature. In other words, the raw pulp (or the soy milk) can be in a better state, so that the tofu produced has a better quality.

In more detail, in the present embodiment, each of the storage tubs 12 is located between the steam heating tube 21 and the transmission unit 11, and the opening direction of each of the storage tubs 12 faces the steaming. The gas heating tube 21, preferably, the heating unit 2 further includes a displacement mechanism 23 movable relative to the transmission unit 11, the steam heating tube 21 and the temperature sensing element 22 are connected to the displacement mechanism 23, and The inside of the storage tub 12 is extended/removed. It is worth mentioning that the steam heating pipe 21 is directly in contact with the slurry through the vapor, so that the heating effect can be extremely fast, the processing time is reduced, and the steam heating method can be used to avoid the temperature of the heating component being too high. And the slurry is burnt. In addition, the temperature sensing component 22 can be used in conjunction with other components in addition to clearly knowing whether the slurry reaches a preset temperature. For example, the temperature sensing component 22 can be designed to detect the temperature reaching the pre-predetermined temperature. When the temperature is set, the steam heating pipe 21 stops discharging the steam, or the displacement mechanism 23 moves upward to move the steam heating pipe 21 out of the inside of the storage tub 12.

It can be understood that in order to be able to manufacture tofu in large quantities and quickly, the tofu The manufacturing machine 1 further includes a dosing unit 3, a diluting unit 4, a solidifying unit 5, and at least one broken flower unit 6 to form a coherent processing operation.

Further, the quantitative unit 3 is connected to a raw slurry source 9 and can be controlled. The amount of the slurry from the slurry source 9 enters the storage tub 12, so that each production has a uniform reference amount to facilitate the processing step after the design, so that the same type of tofu can be produced quickly and in large quantities. There are many ways of quantitatively. For example, the quantitative unit 3 has a switch disposed in a pipeline, a certain amount of barrels, and a float ball located in the quantitative barrel, and the slurry enters the quantification through the pipeline. a bucket, when the slurry in the metering bucket reaches a predetermined capacity (eg, 15 liters to 30 liters), the float drives the switch to close the pipeline, and releases the slurry in the metering bucket to One of the storage buckets 12. Or design a timer on the pipeline, and indirectly control the capacity by inputting the number of seconds of the slurry.

Then the transmission unit 11 moves the storage tub 12 carrying the slurry to correspond The heating unit 2 performs the step of heating, and the heating unit 2 has been described in detail above, and will not be described herein. In addition, when the heating is completed, the concentration of the soybean milk is also changed according to the type of the tofu to be produced, and the soybean milk is sometimes further diluted, for example, the concentration of the soybean milk is about 9 to 11 The concentration of the soymilk can be diluted to 5 to 7 degrees via the dilution unit 4. In the present embodiment, the dilution unit 4 has a water spray pipe 42 connected to a water supply tank 41, and a water retaining sleeve 43 disposed at a front end of the water spray port 421 of the water spray pipe 42, preferably, the steam heating pipe 21 and the temperature sensing element 22 is passed through the water retaining sleeve 43. Thus, when the dilution operation is performed, the clean water from the water supply tank 41 can simultaneously sense the steam heating tube 21 and the temperature. The component 22 is rinsed to prevent the soymilk from adhering thereto; and when the clean water enters the interior of the storage tub 12, the foam generated by the soymilk due to heating can be eliminated. More preferably, the feed water tank 41 has a constant temperature function to ensure that the clean water inside thereof can maintain a certain temperature (for example, 20 degrees C to 30 degrees C), and maintain the diluted soybean milk to have a fixed temperature, thereby controlling the output. The tofu has the same production quality.

When the soybean milk is adjusted, the transmission unit 11 moves the storage tub 12 to the right The solidification unit 5 has a solidification unit 5 having a stirring member 51 extending into the interior of the storage tub 12, a receiving member 52 having a coagulating agent, and a connecting member 52 and a storage unit. The inner guiding mechanism 53 of the tub 12 is used for converting the soybean milk into a bean curd flower and a moisture. The coagulant may be a salt brine, an edible gypsum, or the like. In the present embodiment, the guiding mechanism 53 is a conduit, and the coagulant enters the conduit and flows into the interior of the storage tub 12. When the coagulant enters the interior of the storage tub 12, the agitating member 51 Stirring is also continued so that the coagulant can be sufficiently mixed with the soymilk to ensure a better coagulation effect afterwards. Preferably, the solidifying unit 5 is further provided with a retractable blocking member 54. When the stirring member 51 stops stirring, the blocking member 54 extends into the interior of the storage tub 12 to cause a spoiler in the rotating flow, and can be restored to a stationary state relatively quickly.

Then, after a period of time (eg, 13 to 20 minutes), the storage bucket 12 is not The internal action allows the soymilk inside the storage tub 12 to have sufficient time to react with the coagulant, and can be solidified into the tofu flower and fully release the moisture. Thereafter, each of the storage tubs 12 is transferred to the corresponding The position of each of the breaking units 6 is used to perform a flower breaking operation. In more detail, each of the breaking units 6 has a movable member 61 that can extend into the interior of the storage tub 12. The movable member 61 can be repeatedly operated inside the storage tub 12, and the tofu is continuously After stirring and tapping, the tofu flower can be further forced into a smaller volume. When the tofu flower is made into tofu, the texture inside the tofu can be more average, more mouthfeel and the appearance is relatively flat. The tofu manufacturing machine 1 in the present embodiment has two broken flower units 6, which can be used for one to two flower breaking operations depending on the type of tofu produced.

Wait until the tofu flower is broken into an appropriate size and sent to the drowning unit. 7. The water-repellent unit 7 is configured to draw moisture from the inside of the storage tub 12, and as far as possible, only the tofu is left inside the storage tub 12. In more detail, the water-repellent unit 7 has a sifter 71 for separating the bean curd and the moisture, a pumping power source 72, and a tube member 73. One end of the tube member 73 communicates with the pumping power source 72, and the other end It is disposed inside the sifter 71 for extracting the moisture. The sifter 71 is generally in the shape of a bowl and has a plurality of mesh holes. When the sifter 71 is pressed toward the bottom of the storage tub 12, the tofu flower is isolated outside the sifter 71, and the moisture It enters the interior of the sifter 71 and is drawn by the tubular member 73.

Finally, the discharge unit 8 can collect the filtered tofu flower, which can It is understood that there is a discharge position in the path, and the discharge unit 8 has a close proximity to the output. The load-bearing portion 81 of the material position, and a transport platform 82 for transporting at least one mold 83. In the embodiment, each of the storage buckets 12 is respectively pivotally disposed on the transmission unit 11 and selectively transverse to the transmission unit. 11. When the storage tub 12 is moved to the discharge position, the storage tub 12 is transverse to the transmission unit 11, and the tofu is poured into the carrying portion 81, and the carrying portion 81 can further the tofu. Flower distribution is introduced into each of the molds 83. It is worth mentioning that the conveying platform 82 can send the mold 83 which is filled with the tofu flower to another place and then process the tofu, for example, pressing the weight against the weight of the mold 83. Molding unit.

In summary, the bean curd making machine of the present invention passes through the coagulation unit 5 before entering the coagulation unit 5. The heat unit is used to reheat the slurry to form the soy milk, so that the slurry in the slurry source does not have to be kept at a high temperature at all, in other words, the slurry to be treated does not deteriorate due to being heated. The situation occurs, so that the slurry can be in a better state.

Moreover, the design of the heating unit through the steam heating tube can make the slurry quickly Heating to make soy milk can effectively save processing time, and steam heating can avoid the temperature of the heating component is too high to burn the slurry, and can also avoid cooling because the soy milk waits too long, resulting in reaction with the coagulant Incomplete production of tofu quality is not complete.

In addition, the semi-finished product after solidification into tofu flower, in addition to the secondary flower breaking process In addition, it is equipped with a water-repellent unit to fully remove the water, so that the appearance and taste of the produced tofu can be of good quality.

In summary, the overall structural design, practicality and efficiency of the present invention are indeed It is fully in line with the needs of industrial development, and the disclosed structural invention is also an unprecedented innovative structure, so its "novelty" should be undoubted, and the invention can be more effective than the conventional structure. It also has "progressiveness", which fully complies with the relevant invention patents of the Chinese Patent Law. The requirements for the application requirements are to file a patent application in accordance with the law, and I would like to ask the bureau to review it as soon as possible and give it affirmation.

1‧‧‧Tofu making machine

11‧‧‧Transmission unit

12‧‧‧ storage bucket

2‧‧‧heating unit

3‧‧‧Quantitative unit

4‧‧‧Dilution unit

5‧‧‧solidification unit

6‧‧‧ broken flower unit

7‧‧‧Water unit

8‧‧‧Drawing unit

9‧‧‧ Raw pulp source

Claims (10)

A tofu manufacturing machine, comprising: a transmission unit; at least one storage barrel connected to the transmission unit and movable by the transmission unit to move along a path, the storage barrel for accommodating a slurry; and a heating unit comprising a steam heating tube extending into the interior of the storage tub, and a temperature sensing element, the vapor heating tube is supplied with a vapor to heat the slurry into a soy milk, and the temperature sensing component is configured to measure the contents of the storage tank The temperature of the slurry. The tofu manufacturing machine according to claim 1, wherein the heating unit further comprises a displacement mechanism movable relative to the transmission unit, at least the vapor heating tube is coupled to the displacement mechanism to extend into/out of the interior of the storage barrel . The tofu manufacturing machine according to claim 1, further comprising a quantitative unit for connecting a raw slurry source, wherein the quantitative unit controls the raw slurry of the raw slurry source to enter a quantity of the storage tank. The tofu manufacturing machine according to claim 1, further comprising a dilution unit having a water spray pipe connected to a water supply tank and a water retaining kit disposed at a front end of the water spray port of the water spray pipe, the steam heating pipe system Wear the water stop kit. The tofu manufacturing machine according to claim 1, further comprising a coagulation unit having a stirring member extending into the interior of the storage tub, a receiving member having a coagulating agent, and a connecting member And a guiding mechanism inside the storage tank, the coagulant is used to convert the soybean milk into a bean curd flower and a moisture. The tofu manufacturing machine according to claim 5, wherein the solidifying unit is further provided with a retractable blocking member, and the blocking member projects into the inside of the storage tub when the agitating member stops stirring. The tofu manufacturing machine according to claim 1, further comprising at least one broken flower unit, each of which has a movable member that can extend into the interior of the storage tub, and the movable member can be repeatedly operated inside the storage tub. . The tofu manufacturing machine according to claim 1, wherein when a coagulant enters the storage tub, the coagulant converts the soymilk into a tofu flower and a moisture, and the tofu manufacturing machine further comprises a tray for extracting the same. An internal moisture sluice unit having a sifter for separating the bean curd and the moisture, a pumping power source, and a pipe member, one end of the pipe member being connected to the pumping power source, and the other end being disposed at the The inside of the sifter is used to extract the moisture. The tofu manufacturing machine according to claim 8, wherein the path is provided with a discharge position, the tofu manufacturing machine further comprising a discharge unit having a load-bearing portion adjacent to the discharge position, and one for conveying at least one mold The conveying platform releases the tofu into the bearing portion and is introduced into the mold when the storage bucket moves to the discharging position. The tofu manufacturing machine according to claim 9, wherein the heating unit further comprises a displacement mechanism movable relative to the transmission unit, wherein the vapor heating tube and the temperature sensing element are coupled to the displacement mechanism to extend into/out Inside the storage tub, the storage tub is located between the steam heating tube and the transmission unit; the tofu manufacturing machine further includes a quantitative unit, a dilution unit, a solidification unit and two broken flower units, the quantitative unit is connected a raw slurry source and controlling the raw slurry of the raw slurry source into a quantity of the storage tank; the dilution unit has a water spray pipe connected to a water supply tank, and a water retaining kit disposed at a front end of the water spray port of the water spray pipe. The steam heating pipe is passed through the water retaining kit; the solidifying unit has a stirring member extending into the interior of the storage tub, a retractable blocking member, a receiving member having a coagulating agent, and a connecting unit Passing the receiving member and a guiding mechanism inside the storage tub, when the stirring member stops stirring, the blocking member extends The guiding mechanism is a conduit, and the coagulating agent enters the conduit and flows into the interior of the storage tub; each of the breaking units has a movable member that can extend into the interior of the storage tub. The movable member can be repeatedly operated inside the storage tub; the path is substantially elliptical; the sifter is generally of a bowl type; each of the storage buckets is respectively pivotally mounted on the transmission unit and selectively laterally a transmission unit, wherein the storage bucket is transverse to the transmission unit when the storage bucket is moved to the discharge position.