Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Patent
1995-07-17
1996-06-04
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
99325, 99348, 99443R, 99468, 99470, 99472, 99486, 364400, 364478, A23L 100, A47J 3700, A47J 4400
Patent
active
055223095
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a new type of apparatus capable of producing different kinds of foods at a high efficiency of production, the apparatus comprising plural number of processing devices, each having a specific function for treating or holding food materials, and one or more carrier vessels for transporting the food materials from one processing device to another, the carrier vessels having multiple functions and at least one compartment for holding the food materials treated or held in the processing devices. The apparatus is capable of producing different kinds of food products by instructing the carrier vessels to transfer food materials from one device to another according to the process requirements of the desired end products. The carrier vessel has a memory device that holds the information of the locations of devices from and to which the carrier vessels are instructed to transfer food materials. The carrier vessel or a separate control device controls the correct sequence and/or the locations of the processing devices for the carrier vessel to transport the food materials in accordance with the instructions contained in the memory device.
TECHNICAL BACKGROUND
As an apparatus for producing different kinds of food products including liquid food products such as curry, stew, soup and sauce and paste food products such as paste mustard, paste Japanese horseradish, pizza sauce and paste garlic, a continuous production apparatus employing transport pipes in many of transfer processes has been used, in which food materials such as liquid, solid, powdery and paste materials are introduced into a compounding hopper by means of transfer pipes, the obtained compounding materials are further transferred from said compounding hopper to the next processing process such as a mixing and stirring processing process and a heat-treating process by means of transfer pipes, and the obtained processed products are transferred to the next process.
Namely, as a continuous apparatus for producing food products, those in which processing devices in processing processes from compounding of food materials to the final products are connected by means of transfer pipes and food materials, processed products and intermediate products thereof are transferred by means of said transfer pipes have been generally used.
In addition, an apparatus for processing food products has been developed in which a stainless steel vessel is filled with contents, said vessel is rolled to mix the contents, and then the obtained product is transferred to each process.
The above continuous production apparatus connected with transfer pipes is suitable for producing the same product industrially in a vast amount, namely, so-called mass production of one kind of product; on the other hand, however, it has the following problems.
That is, in a continuous production apparatus with processing devices in processing processes connected with transfer pipes, each processing device is connected with said transfer pipe and fixed, and hence it is difficult to change the connection of each production process freely. Therefore, in order to produce products with some of processing processes largely different simultaneously or successively, it is necessary to provide a special device suited for producing said products separately or to modify said continuous production apparatus for producing the above products.
Besides, in the continuous production apparatus connected with transfer pipes, it is necessary that all processes from the introduction of materials to the preparation treatment of the final product are performed in succession once production starts; hence, once the operation of said continuous production apparatus starts, it is impossible to cease the apparatus at an optional production process at an optional time; for example, in order to perform the cleaning of the apparatus needed in case of producing another kind of product successively or maintenance of a part of the apparatus, it is necessary to cease the apparatus ove
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Ishino Yoshiaki
Jyuuri Mineo
Kobayashi Hiroaki
Mizobuchi Hiroshi
Nakai Takeshi
House Foods Corporation
Simone Timothy F.
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