Continuous coagulating device for soybean curds

Abstract

A continuous coagulating device for soybean curds (tofu) whereby soybean curds having good appearance can be produced while preventing hanging downward and meandering of a conveyor belt, preventing leakage of soymilk, and forming no seams or wrinkles on the soybean curd surface. The continuous coagulating device for soybean curds comprises a conveyor belt (C), which coagulates soymilk containing a coagulating agent while conveying the soymilk, and a concave member (10), which is located under the convey belt (C), wherein the convey belt (C) is arranged in a concave shape to follow the shape of said concave member (10), thereby said convey belt (C) forming coagulation tanks (10a, 10b), and conveyed. It is preferred that said conveyor belt (C) is a belt formed by applying a resin coating (7) to a core material such as a fabric (3) or the like.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a continuous coagulation device for continuously producing tofu such as thin tofu filtered through silk, soft tofu, lightly fried tofu cubes, light fried tofu cubes, deep-fried tofu, and vegetable deep-fried tofu , kapok tofu, cork tofu, baked tofu, frozen tofu blanks, etc. Background technique [0002] So far, when producing tofu by coagulating soybean milk, it has been manufactured using a mold box in small-scale production, and it is not used in mass production. Instead, the soybean milk is transported by a conveyor and solidified while being transported, thereby forming continuously And make tofu. After forming, cut into predetermined size and store in packaging bags. As a manufacturing apparatus of this tofu, various apparatuses are already provided (patent document 1 - patent document 3). [0003] Patent Document 1 relates to a coagulation machine which has a main conveyor belt and a pair of sub-conveyor belts ...

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Problems solved by technology

[0015] In the existing continuous molding equipment for tofu, in the method of bending the filter cloth into a U-shape and in the method of side-by-side with the side wall conveyor and the conveyor or filter cloth as a continuous coagulation device, it is easy to use soybean milk. Leakage from the gap between the concave bottom surface and the left and right side walls

In addition, the movable part is prone to malfunction, and it is an unsanitary structure

[0016] In addition, in the concave endless belt such as Patent Document 2, since a rigid metal belt is used, it is necessary to use shaft rollers with large diameters in the front and back, which has the problem of increasing the size of the device, and after the solidification process, there is a problem of cutting out It is a process of transferring a predetermined number of pieces to another conveyor for box packaging, but if the diameter of the shaft roller is large, there is a problem that it is difficult to transfer

In addition, it is difficult to form a deep coagulation groove, that is, to form a concave left and right rubber side walls while avoiding an increase in the size of the device.

For example, in tofu with different lengths in the longitudinal direction and the short side direction, although it is possible to perform "horizontal cutting" in which the length in the short direction is used as the height (depth) direction to solidify and shape and cut out, it is difficult to perform Improvement of cutting out in the longitudinal direction of tofu called "longitudinal cutting" of the above-mentioned side wall, etc.

That is, in order to perform "horizonting", it is necessary to increase the width of the equipment, and a large installation space is required

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