Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Patent
1999-08-23
2000-10-17
Simone, Timothy
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
99355, 99403, 99470, 99516, 99483, 99485, 99453, A23L 120, A47J 2716
Patent
active
061315044
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates an apparatus for manufacturing bean juice ("go" (which is obtained by grinding soybeans immersed in water or thereafter by boiling ground soybeans) or "nigo" (which is boiled bean juice)) used as a raw material, from which soybean milk, soybean curd ("tofu") and membrane-like soybean curds ("yuba") are manufactured, boiled adzuki beans used as a raw material of powder bean jam and the like, and so forth. More particularly, the present invention relates to a caldron for manufacturing a boiled raw material such bean juice and boiled adzuki beans of high quality by heating a raw material, which is composed of beans such as ground soybeans obtained by grinding soybeans immersed in water, adzuki beans, ground adzuki beans and the like, mixtures of such ground bean materials with water or materials obtained by heating the mixtures, with steam injected thereto.
BACKGROUND ART
Heretofore, a bean-juice-manufacturing caldron used to the manufacture of soybean milk, a soybean curd and membrane like soybean curds comprises a cylindrical caldron main body having closed upper and lower ends, a charge port disposed at lower portion of the caldron main body for charging a raw material of bean juice such as ground soybeans to which water is added or the heated ones thereof, a discharge port disposed at upper portion of the caldron main body for discharging the raw material after it is processed in the caldron, and a steam injection pipe having a plurality of injection ports simply formed therethrough and installed in interior of the caldron main body.
Steam used in the conventional bean-juice-manufacturing caldron has been air-containing steam obtained by simply heating ordinary water.
In the conventional bean-juice-manufacturing caldron, the steam injected from the injection ports of the steam injection pipe are injected in a radial direction. The steam injected in the radial direction collides against the inner peripheral wall of the caldron main body and lose their motion energy so that the flow rate of the streams is reduced. Therefore, the steam having the reduced flow rate cannot sufficiently turn and flow into the space located backward of the injection ports in the caldron main body and the steam only move upward in the caldron main body. As a result, the steam is in good contact with the raw material of bean juice or the heated one thereof (hereinafter, they are referred to as raw material of bean juice as a whole) which is located in the vicinity of the radially injecting passages of the steam which are directed radially from the injection ports so that the raw material of bean juice located at the position is sufficiently heated with the heat of the steam. However, since the steam comes into contact with the raw material of bean juice in a small quantity which is located in the space backward of the injection ports of the caldron main body, the heat of the steam is not sufficiently transmitted to the raw material of bean juice located at the backward position. Thus, the raw material of bean juice cannot be heated with a necessary quantity of heat. As a result, there is caused thereby a problem that a part of the raw material of bean juice is sufficiently heated and the other part thereof is insufficiently heated, whereby the raw material of bean juice is unevenly boiled.
In the conventional bean-juice-manufacturing caldron, since steam cannot be uniformly and sufficiently supplied to the raw material of bean juice, the steam cannot sufficiently transmit their heat to the raw material of bean juice. Accordingly, a large quantity of the steam stays in the upper portion of the caldron main body while holding a sufficient quantity of heat at high temperature and increase the pressure of the upper portion of the caldron main body as residual steam. Thus, there arises a problem that the raw material of bean juice is pushed out into the discharge port of the caldron main body in a quantity larger than necessary, the feed of the raw material of bean juice in the caldron
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Microfilm of the specification and drawings annexed to the request of Japanese Utility Model Application No. 60-180628, OK Food Industry Co., Ltd., Jun. 1987.
Imamura Katsuhiko
Imamura Kazuhiko
Simone Timothy
Yuugengaisya Yahimeshouji
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