JPH0566099B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to an apparatus for forming food materials such as minced fish meat and meat paste into a wide variety of shapes.

"Prior Art and its Problems" Conventionally, foods such as kamaboko and sausages have been manufactured using food materials that solidify when heated, such as minced fish and meat paste. In producing these foods, food materials are molded into a predetermined shape using, for example, an extrusion molding device, a drum molding device, or the like.

However, in the case of an extrusion molding device, the cross-sectional shape perpendicular to the extrusion direction is fixed depending on the shape of the extrusion nozzle tip.
There was a limit to the ability to obtain products with more varied shapes. Also, in the case of drum molding equipment, it is difficult to mold three-dimensional, uneven food materials.

[Object of the Invention] An object of the present invention is to provide a food material molding device that can mold food materials into shapes with greater freedom and variety.

"Summary of the Invention" The food material molding apparatus of the present invention includes a molding drum having a through hole of an arbitrary shape formed on its surface, and a hollow hole that rotatably supports the molding drum and introduces the food material into the molding drum. A rotary shaft is provided, and the food material is forced into the molding drum from the hollow rotary shaft and extruded to the outside through the through hole.

In this way, in the present invention, the food material is forced into the mold from the hollow rotating shaft and extruded through the freely shaped through holes, so the food materials can be shaped in a variety of ways depending on the shape of the through holes. Can be molded.

The food materials used in the present invention include minced fish,
Selected materials include meat paste, konnyaku paste, and soybean protein paste. Fish meat surimi is made by adding 2 to 4 ounces of salt to raw material fish such as Alaska pollock, croaker, shark, flounder, and hotsock, or to surimi prepared from them.
It can be adjusted by adding % by weight, further adding auxiliary raw materials such as starch, sodium glutamate, sugar, egg white, fats and oils, and water as necessary, and kneading with a stirrer. In addition, meat paste is
For example, raw meat such as pork, beef, and poultry, salt,
Saltpeter, sodium nitrite, etc. are added and salted, the meat is finely ground using a meat grinder, and auxiliary materials such as starch and vegetable protein, spices, coloring agents, etc.
It can be adjusted by adding synthetic preservatives, emulsion stabilizers, etc. and kneading with a stirrer or the like. Furthermore, Konniyaku paste is made by forming Konniyaku paste from Konniyaku sweet potato or Konniyaku powder according to the conventional method, and adding sodium hydroxide, calcium carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate, carbonate, etc. to this Konniyaku paste. It can be adjusted by adding and mixing an alkali such as sodium or calcium hydroxide. Furthermore, soybean protein paste can be prepared by mixing soybean protein raw materials such as soybean protein isolate with edible oil, water, and optionally starch, calcium sulfate, glucono delta-lactone, citric acid, etc. can.

Embodiment of the Invention One embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIGS. 1 to 3. The forming drum 11 extrudes the food material 12 filled therein into a predetermined shape while rotating, and has a through hole 13 on its surface through which the food material 12 passes. Although the through holes 13 are formed in a mesh shape in the figure, they may be in the form of slits, round holes or other arbitrary shapes.

The forming drum 11 has a rotating shaft 1 on one side of the shaft center.
4. A bearing 15 is provided on the other side. Rotating shaft 14
is directly connected to the motor 16, and the forming drum 11 is rotated in the direction of the arrow by the drive of the motor 16. Further, the bearing 15 has a bearing 17 on the inner circumference, and a hollow shaft cylinder 1 is attached to the bearing 15.
8 is fitted. This bearing 15 and shaft cylinder 18
This forms the other rotating shaft of the forming drum 11. Therefore, the forming drum 11 is supported by the shaft cylinder 18 via the bearing 15 and rotates.

The shaft cylinder 18 is used to fill the forming drum 11 with the food material 12, and is arranged in the axial direction of the forming drum 11. The shaft tube 18 has an open end, and has a plurality of material passage holes 19 on its outer periphery.
is formed. And this material passage hole 19
The food material 12 is filled into the forming drum 11 through the opening at the tip of the barrel 18. Further, a material introduction pipe 20 is connected to the base end of the barrel 18, and the food material 12 is pressure-fed to the barrel 18 from this material introduction pipe 20.

Such a forming drum 11 is arranged above a belt conveyor 21 which is a means for conveying the food material 12. The belt conveyor 21 rotates in the direction of the arrow, and the forming drum 11 is located on the upper side of the belt conveyor 21 in the direction of movement. Further, a cutting means 22 is arranged between the lower part of the forming drum 11 and the belt conveyor 21. This cutting means 22 cuts the food material 12 extruded from the forming drum 11, and is made of piano wire. Furthermore, belt conveyor 21
A heating device 23 is arranged at a lower position. As this heating device 23, for example, a steam heater, a hot water bath, a fryer, a microwave device, a gas burner, etc. are used. In addition, at the lower end of the belt conveyor 21 in the moving direction,
Peeling means 24 for peeling off the food material 12 is arranged. This peeling means 24 is made of piano wire.

Next, the formation of the food material 12 into a predetermined shape using the above-mentioned apparatus will be explained. The belt conveyor 21 is rotating and moving in the direction of the arrow. Food material 12
is force-fed to the barrel 18 through the material introduction pipe 20 by a pressure-feeding means (not shown), and the barrel 18 is
The material is fed into the forming drum 11 through the opening at the tip thereof and the material passage hole 19, and is filled therein. In parallel with the filling of the food material 12 into the forming drum 11, the forming drum 11 is being rotated by the motor 16 in the direction of the arrow. The food material 12 that has been force-fed and filled into the forming drum 11 is extruded from the through hole 13 according to its shape, and the food material 12 is pushed out from the through hole 13 according to its shape, and the food material 12 is moved by the movement of the belt conveyor 21 and the forming drum 11.
is adhered and held on the belt conveyor 21 by the rotation of. Since the food material 12 is in the form of a paste, it is separated from each other immediately after extrusion, but is immediately formed into a mesh shape by the dripping. The food material 12 thus obtained has a mesh shape as shown in FIG. Then, this food material 12 is heated for a predetermined period of time by a heating device 23 at a position where the food material 12 is turned over by the movement of the belt conveyor 21, and is gelled and given shape retention. Thereafter, the shape-retaining food material 12 is conveyed in the moving direction of the belt conveyor 21 while being adhered thereto, and is peeled off from the belt conveyor 21 by the peeling means 24 . Therefore, if the shape of the through hole 13 is changed appropriately, the through hole 13
The food material 12 extruded from the mold is molded into various shapes depending on the shape of the through hole 13, so that the food material 12 with a wide variety of shapes can be obtained. and,
If shape retention is imparted to this, it becomes possible to manufacture various final products depending on the shape of the through hole 13.

Another embodiment of the invention is shown in FIGS. 5 and 6. In this example, the food material 12 is formed by a strip forming machine 25, a first forming drum 30, and a second forming drum 40. The strip forming machine 25 is disposed upstream of the conveyance path of the belt conveyor 21, and rolls the first food material 12a fed into the hopper 26 into a strip shape with a rolling roller 27, and adhesively holds it on the belt conveyor 21. be. The first forming drum 30 is used to extrude the second food material 12b onto the first food material 12a formed into a belt shape, and has a spiral hole 31 formed on its surface. The second forming drum 40 is used to extrude and mold the third food material 12c onto the first food material 12a and the second food material 12b, and has a spiral through-hole of the first forming drum 30 on its surface. A spiral light transmission 41 is formed in a direction opposite to that of 31. However, the spiral through-holes 31 and 41 are just an example of through-holes, and need not necessarily be formed in a spiral shape, and may of course be of any shape.
Furthermore, the internal structure of the first forming drum 30 and the second forming drum 40 is similar to that of the second forming drum 40 in the previous embodiment.
Since they are the same except for the forming drum 11 and the through hole 13 shown in the figure, the same members are given the same reference numerals and their explanations will be omitted.

The first molding drum 30 and the second molding drum 40 have a rotating shaft 14a and a rotating shaft 14b.
A chain 50 stretched between sprockets 32 and 42 allows them to rotate together. Further, a sprocket 4 is attached to the rotating shaft 14b.
3 is also provided, and is connected by a drive sprocket 52 provided on the drive shaft 51 of the motor 16 and a chain 53. Therefore, the first forming drum 30 and the second forming drum 40 are operated by the motor 16.
is driven to integrally rotate in the direction of the arrow via chains 53 and 50.

The food material 12a is formed into a band shape by the band forming machine 25, the food material 12b is formed into a diagonal shape on the food material 12a by the first forming drum 30,
The food material 12c formed by the second forming drum 40 in a direction intersecting with the food material 12b may be a material adjusted with the same ingredients, but it is better to use materials prepared by different adjustment methods to have a better texture. This is more preferable because it allows for changes in . Also, by using different colors for each material, you can give it a more pleasing look.

According to the embodiment described above, the food material 12a is extruded from the band-forming machine 25 into a band shape and is adhesively held onto the belt conveyor 21 rotating in the direction of the arrow. The first forming drum 30 has a material introduction pipe 2
0, the food material 12b is fed to the second forming drum 40 via the barrel 18, and the food material 12c is also fed to the second forming drum 40 via the material introduction pipe 20 and the barrel 18. In the process of moving and conveying the food material 12a by the belt conveyor 21, the first forming drum 30 and the second forming drum 40 are rotated by the drive of the motor 16, and first, the spiral through hole 3 is rotated.
The food material 12b is extruded from the food material 12.
It is glued and held on diagonal lines on a. Next, the food material 12c passes through the spiral through hole 41.
The food material 12 is extruded in a direction perpendicular to b.
a and the food material 12b. The appearance of the food material 12 formed in this way is as shown in FIG.
b and the food material 12c intersect to form a mesh, and are formed into a three-dimensional shape. Therefore, by changing the color of each or at least one of the food materials 12a, 12b, and 12c, a food material 12 with a more beautiful appearance can be obtained. Subsequent heating,
Since the peeling process is the same as that of the previous embodiment shown in FIG. 3, illustration and description thereof will be omitted.

"Effects of the Invention" As explained above, according to the present invention, one of the rotating shafts of the forming drum is formed into a hollow shape, and the food material is force-fed from this hollow rotating shaft into the forming drum, and this is transferred to the ice of the forming drum. Since the food material is extruded through holes of any shape formed on the surface, the food material can be molded into a wide variety of shapes depending on the shape of the holes.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing one embodiment of the device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a half sectional view taken along the line - in FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 is a schematic front view showing an example of application of the device of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a food material molded by the apparatus of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 5 is an overall perspective view showing another embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention, and FIG. 7 is a partial perspective view of the food material formed by the embodiment apparatus of FIG. 5. 11... Molding drums 11, 12, 12a, 12
b, 12c...Food material 12, 13...Through hole, 1
4, 14a, 14b... Rotating shaft, 15... Bearing,
18... Axis cylinder, 19... Material passage hole, 20... Material introduction pipe, 21... Belt conveyor, 25... Band forming machine, 30... First forming drum, 31, 4
1... Spiral through hole, 40... Second forming drum.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A molding drum having a through hole of an arbitrary shape formed on its surface, and a hollow rotating shaft that rotatably supports the forming drum and introduces the food material into the forming drum, and the food material is introduced from the hollow rotating shaft. A food material forming apparatus characterized in that the food material is fed under pressure into the forming drum and extruded to the outside through the through hole.