Apparatus for molding cooked rice

Abstract

Provided is a cooked rice molding apparatus which ensures that a formed cooked rice product falls while keeping almost the same posture without inclining. Part of a concave molding surface 420 of a forming roller 410 is open toward an end surface of the forming roller 410 and a groove-like guide portion 460 is provided in a pair of supporting panels 450 which support both end surfaces of the forming roller 410, whereby part of cooked rice compressed within the concave molding surface 420 and pushed out of both ends of the concave molding surface 420 is received by a guide portion 460 and part of the rice ball is caused to fall along the guide portion 460.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a rice forming apparatus for automatically producing rice shaped objects such as white rice balls for sushi. Background technique [0002] In a grocery store or a revolving sushi restaurant, a dedicated rice forming device is used as a device for mass-producing white rice balls for onigiri sushi. The rice forming device is, for example, as shown in Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 2006-197823: Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 2006-197823), which is provided with a forming part that compresses the rice supplied from the hopper into a predetermined rice formed product. . [0003] Referring to FIGS. 9A to 9C at the same time, the forming unit 1 has a pair of forming rolls 2, 2 that rotate in opposite directions around a predetermined horizontal rotation axis, and a pair of support panels 4 that support the end faces of the forming rolls 2, 2. , 4, by feeding the sushi rice 10 from...

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Problems solved by technology

[0006] In the case where the white rice ball 10 falls obliquely, it may be deformed or scattered by the momentum of the fall

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