Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus – Means feeding fluent stock from plural sources to common... – Extrusion shaping means
Patent
1982-12-02
1984-11-13
Hoag, Willard E.
Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus
Means feeding fluent stock from plural sources to common...
Extrusion shaping means
4251331, A21C 304, A21C 1104
Patent
active
044823100
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
DESCRIPTION
1. Technical Field
The present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing food products, such as knoedels, picnic eggs, knish etc., in which core materials are wrapped with crust materials. The crust materials used in the present invention may or may not be viscous. As for the core materials, any food materials may be processed in the present apparatus so long as they are plastic and can be guided through a pipe.
2. Background Art
The conventional apparatus comprises double cylinders vertically and concentrically positioned and consisting an inside cylinder which allows the core materials to be discharged from the lower end thereof, and an outside cylinder which allows the crust materials to be transported through a passage defined between the inside and outside cylinders and discharged from an annular outlet defined by the lower ends of the inside and outside cylinders.
Shutters are arranged separately from the cylinders or passageways for materials so as to periodically open and close synchronously with each other and the speed of the falling materials continuously supplied from the cylinders so that the materials can be divided into separate masses and simultaneously the masses can be formed to substantially spherical food materials similar to those manufactured by the apparatus of the present invention.
Such prior apparatus, however, has a very complex structure, since the shutters are arranged separately from the cylinders. Also, in the prior apparatus, it is required that flour is supplied to the outer crust materials while they are in contact with the shutters, since the crust material would otherwise adhere to the shutters, so that products of good appearance could not effectively be obtained.
An object of the present invention is to resolve the above difficulties of the prior apparatus, and to provide an apparatus having a simple structure.
Simplification of the apparatus can be attained, unlike the prior apparatus, generally by horizontally positioning both the outside cylindrical assembly and the inside cylindrical assembly, and providing outlet apertures for discharging the crust and core materials at the body portions of the outside and inside assemblies, respectively, dispensing with independent shutters.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a food material manufacturing apparatus with a structure such that it simplifies the synchronization of shutters with cylinders.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a food material manufacturing apparatus for producing wrapped food materials of good appearance without using flour, irrespective of the kind of crust materials.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
According to the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for manufacturing food products in which core materials are wrapped with crust materials, comprising an outside cylindrical assembly and an inside cylindrical assembly, each assembly having a substantially horizontal axis with the inside assembly positioned in the outside assembly positioned in the outside assembly, further comprising an annular passageway for crust materials which is formed between the opposite surfaces of cylindrical body portions of the outside and inside assemblies, each assembly comprising an outer tube and an inner tube which tubes are arranged so that the former abuts the latter and they can cyclically rotate in the opposite directions about their common axis, the outer and inner tubes of said outside assembly being provided at the respective body portions thereof with inlet and outlet apertures for the crust materials, the two outlet apertures being adapted to co-operate with each other, while the outer and inner tubes thereof rotate, so as to periodically take an open position where the apertures are aligned to pass the crust material therethrough and a closed position where the flow of the crust material therethrough is interrupted, the outer and inner tubes of said inside assembly being provided at the respective body portions thereof with outlet apertures fo
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Dunne Gerard F.
Hoag Willard E.
Shoup Guy W.
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