JPH0471501B2 - - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a mochi raw material supply device that supplies a predetermined amount of mochi raw material to a mochi pounding machine widely used in food processing industries such as confectionery, mochi, etc. It is something.

(Prior art and problems to be solved by the invention) Various types of mochi pounding machines have been known in the past, but basically they consist of a mortar body and a punch body, and are used to punch the mochi raw material inside the mortar. This process is used to produce mochi. This punching operation requires a certain amount of rice cake raw material, and the number of times of punching (pounding time) is also determined according to the amount of rice cake raw material put into the mortar. Therefore, in order to continuously operate an automatic mochi pounding machine that does not require any manual labor, especially by being equipped with an automatic reversing mechanism, it is necessary to constantly supply a fixed amount of mochi raw material to the mortar. However, in the conventional method, the mochi ingredients (whether steamed rice itself or dough) were weighed each time and placed into the mortar by hand. Of course, when it comes to steamed rice, it is not punched immediately using a mortar, but is made into a dough using blades installed inside the mortar or other means before being punched. In addition, the dough is made by kneading steamed rice in an extrusion molding machine, which is commonly used in food processing, and extruding the dough material from a predetermined extrusion port. It is thought that supplying the mochi rice to the body will solve the automatic supply problem, but since mochi raw materials are greatly influenced by factors such as the moisture content and air content of the steamed rice depending on how the mochi rice is cooked, it is not always possible to use the same volume of steamed rice. Since the weights are not the same, it is not possible to appropriately supply the mochi raw material based on volume. In addition, the mochi raw material extruded from the extrusion molding machine has a rod shape, which is inconvenient for automatic feeding to the mortar. Therefore, the present invention proposes a supply device that appropriately supplies a predetermined amount of rice cake raw material to a rice cake pounding machine.

(Means for solving the problem) A device for supplying mochi raw materials to a mochi pounding machine according to the present invention includes:
A supply mechanism including an extrusion part for extruding the dough-like mochi raw material from an extrusion opening and an opening/closing part at the extrusion opening, and an interoceptor whose bottom center part rotates a bowl-shaped receptor placed below the extrusion opening. and a measuring mechanism comprising a measuring part formed of an external receptor part that partially opens and closes, and on which the receptor and the receptor driving part are placed. .

(Function) When steamed rice is supplied to the extrusion section, it becomes a dough, which is pushed from the extrusion section and falls into the receiver.In the receiver, the interoceptor rotates and the dough is pushed onto the inner peripheral surface of the outer container. The mochi raw material is rolled to make the whole into a lump, and when it is measured in a measuring section and reaches a predetermined amount, the opening/closing part of the extrusion port is closed, and a part of the exteroceptor part is opened to make the lump of mochi raw material into a predetermined amount. is supplied to the rice cake pounding machine.

(Example) Next, examples of the present invention will be described.

The rice cake raw material supply device includes a supply mechanism and a measuring mechanism, and the supply mechanism is composed of an extrusion section 1 and an opening/closing section 2. The extrusion section 1 is formed of a hopper 11, an extrusion cylinder 12 disposed below the hopper 11, a screw bar 13 built into the extrusion cylinder 12, and an extrusion port 14 provided at the tip of the extrusion cylinder 12. Extrusion port 1
4, and a cylinder 22 that drives the lid 21. The cylinder 22 is controlled by a signal from a measuring section, which will be described later. The metering mechanism is composed of a receiver 3, a receiver drive section 4, and a metering section 5. The receiver 3 has a bowl-shaped interior and is placed below the above-mentioned extrusion port 14, and is rotatable at the center of the bottom. interoceptor section 31 provided in
and an external receptor part 32 that becomes the peripheral surface of the bowl-shaped container, and a part of the peripheral surface of the external receptor part 32 is provided with an opening/closing door 33, and an appropriate opening/closing member 34 is attached.
In addition, the mochi machine A is installed in the part opened by the opening/closing door 33.
A guide plate 35 is provided to connect with the mortar body a.
The receptor drive section 4 has a built-in motor and drives the interoceptor section 31 to rotate. Measuring part 5
mounts the receptor 3 and receptor drive unit 4, measures changes in their weight, and issues signals to control the opening/closing operations of the cylinder 22 of the opening/closing unit 2 and the opening/closing member 34 of the receptor 3. .

When steamed rice is introduced from the hopper 11, the steamed rice is advanced through the extrusion cylinder 12 toward the extrusion port 14 by the screwer 13, and in this process, the steamed rice is crushed into a dough and extruded from the extrusion port 14. and supplied to the receptor 3. In the receptor 3, since the internal receptor part 31 is rotating, the dough-like rice cake raw material rolls on the inner peripheral surface of the exteroceptor part 32, becomes a lump, and is weighed at a predetermined weight in the measuring part 5. If there is a change, it is determined that the rice cake raw material in the receiver 3 has reached a predetermined amount, so the cylinder 22 of the opening/closing section 2 is operated and the extrusion port 14 is closed with the lid 21. In addition, as shown in Fig. 3, mochi pounding machine A is equipped with multiple mortar bodies a, and the entire mochi pounding machine A rotates, and when one rotation is completed, the mochi pounding is completed, and the opening/closing door of mortar body a is opened. In the case of a multiple type mochi pounding machine A in which b opens to automatically take out the pounded mochi, when the mortar body a is located at a predetermined position, the opening/closing door 33 of the exteroceptor part 32 opens. is operated to open the container 3, and the lumpy rice cake raw material in the receiver 3 is fed into the mortar body a by rotating the guide plate 35 and falling.

Therefore, a predetermined amount of rice cake raw material is automatically supplied to the mortar body a.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, but steamed rice that has been slightly kneaded is discharged from the extrusion port, and is once turned into lumps in a receiver and supplied to the mortar of the mochi pounding machine. As long as the method determines the amount of rice cake raw material by measuring changes in weight, its specific structure can be arbitrarily determined.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, the present invention supplies the mochi raw material to the mochi pounding machine in fixed amounts and as a kneaded mass, so that the raw material supply in the automatic mochi pounding machine is automated and to some extent Since the rice cake is supplied to the rice cake pounding machine in a kneaded state, the rice cake pounding machine can immediately pound the rice cake, thereby improving the work efficiency of rice cake making.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The figures show an embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 1 is a simple front view of the entire device, Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a simple front view of the entire device.
The figure is a plan view of the same. 1 is an extrusion part, 11 is a hopper, 12 is an extrusion cylinder,
13 is a stopper, 14 is an extrusion port, 2 is an opening/closing part,
21 is a lid body, 22 is a cylinder, 3 is a receptor, 3
1 is an interoceptor part, 32 is an exteroceptor part, 33 is an opening/closing door, 34 is an opening/closing member, 35 is a guide plate, 4 is a receptor drive part, and 5 is a measuring part.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A supply mechanism including an extrusion part that extrudes the dough-like rice cake raw material from an extrusion opening, and an opening/closing part provided at the extrusion opening, and an inner receiver whose bottom center part rotates to accommodate a bowl-shaped receiver placed below the extrusion opening. A rice cake pounder comprising a container part and a measuring mechanism including a measuring part formed of an external receptor part that partially opens and closes, and on which the receptor and the receptor drive part are placed. Mochi raw material supply device to the machine.