Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus – Press forming means – press reshaping means – or vulcanizing... – Endless belt coacting with stationary platen or with...
Reexamination Certificate
1999-05-21
2001-08-28
Davis, Robert (Department: 1722)
Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus
Press forming means, press reshaping means, or vulcanizing...
Endless belt coacting with stationary platen or with...
C425S394000, C425S397000, C425S451300, C426S512000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06280173
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an automated apparatus for molding a disc-like rice food used in pizza rice, rice burgers, rice sandwiches or the like.
2. Related Art
Hitherto, it has been known that rice grain is molded into a disc-like shape, and is then used in, for example, pizza rice in which various toppings are set on the upper surface thereof, a rice burger in which a hamburger is sandwiched between two disk-like rice foods, or a rice sand in which various ingredients are sandwiched between two disc-like foods.
Conventionally, the above-mentioned disc-like foods have been formed through a manipulation work in which the formation of the rice food having a predetermined shape and a predetermined degree of hardness is difficult and time-consuming, and accordingly, there has been possibly raised a problem such that it is difficult to supply for great demand.
Thus, in order to satisfactorily supply for great demand, it has been proposed an automated apparatus for molding disc-like rice foods.
This molding apparatus has such a structure that a planer rice food having a predetermined shape (such as a substantially square shape) and conveyed by an intermittent feed belt conveyer is pressed by closing a pair of molding dies having semicircular shapes in which the dies are symmetrically curved outward, and accordingly, a circular shape rice food in a plan view, is obtained by these two molding dies. Then, a press is lowered to compress the same so as to obtain disc-like rice foods.
However, the above-mentioned molding apparatus has possibly raised such a problem that the efficiency of the molding is limited since the this apparatus cannot produce more than one of rice foods at a time, and accordingly, it does not seems to satisfactorily supply great demands of disc-like molded rice foods.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is devised in view of the above-mentioned problems inherent to the prior art apparatus, and accordingly, one object of the present invention is to provide an automated apparatus for molding disc-like molded rice foods with a high degree of quality, having a predetermined hardness and a predetermined shape and having a remarkably enhanced efficiency of molding thereof.
To the end, according to the present invention, there is provided a disc-like molding apparatus comprising an intermittent feed belt conveyer which can be moved back and forth in a longitudinal direction, for conveying a predetermined shape planar rice food which has been compressed and fed onto the conveyer; a molding frame comprising a pair of closable molding dies having opposed parts formed therein with molding recesses which are outward symmetric and which have semicircular shapes, and a plurality of presses horizontally fixed to a push-down rod and provided so as to be elevatable in both molding recesses in a closed condition of both molding dies; and an opening and closing mechanism and an elevating mechanism for the above-mentioned molding frame, wherein the above-mentioned both molding dies are arranged in a juxtaposed relation in which the molding recesses are spaced from each other by a predetermined distance therebetween in a direction widthwise of the intermittent feed belt conveyer.
Explanation will be made of an embodiment of a disc-like molding apparatus according to the present invention with reference to the drawings in which:
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Davis Robert
Gopstein Israel
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