Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – By stuffing or applying particulate material
Reexamination Certificate
2001-07-10
2001-11-27
Simone, Timothy F. (Department: 1761)
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
By stuffing or applying particulate material
C099S450100, C099S450600, C099S450700, C452S042000, C452S045000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06321642
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a filling mechanism for food stuffing which issues the stuffing out without dehydrating (deoiling) it.
2. Description of the Related Art
The typical structure of the foodstuff mechanism known in the art, such as the improved filling structure of a forming mechanism for wheathen (noodle-type) food in Taiwanese patent publication no. 234258, consists of a spiral guide device inserted into a guide pipe for the stuffing. The stuffing advances in the guide pipe primarily by the rotation of the guide device with spiral blades so that the stuffing move forwardly and out of the guide pipe. The drawbacks thereof are as follows:
(1) The stuffing may be composed of a mixture of vegetables and meat. The guide device has spiral blades which, during rotation and in particular when guiding the stuffing, can destroy the fibrous tissue of meat and vegetables and produce large amount of oil and water. When the stuffing is finally fed out, the mixture of meat and vegetables (i.e., the output stuffing) are in dried form (dehydrated or deoiled). Thus, when such dehydrated, deoiled stuffing is used in stuffed food such as dumplings and stuffed buns . . . etc., the stuffing is hard and dry and tasteless, and a world of difference from hand-made stuffing can be noted.
(2) The delivery of stuffing is made by rotation and guiding of the stuffing by the guide device, the speed of which is slow and cannot guide the stuffing rapidly. Thus, the rate of filling of the stuffing is slow.
In view of the foregoing, the subject of the present invention is a filling mechanism which can feed out without dehydrating (deoiling) the stuffing.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, a main object of the present invention is to provide a filling mechanism which feeds out without dehydrating (deoiling) the stuffing, such that in the process of guiding the stuffing, the fibrous tissues of the meat and vegetables are not overly destroyed thereby obtaining an outputted stuffing which still has a considerable amount of water and oil.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a filling mechanism which feeds out without dehydrating (deoiling) the stuffing, which improves on the stuffing output rate and where the amount of stuffing output can be effectively and rapidly controlled.
To realize the above objects, the present invention provides a filling mechanism which does not dehydrate or deoil the stuffing, comprising:
a main frame on which is mounted a hopper and a hose, said hopper guiding the stuffing into said hose, said hose having a front end positioning part that is tightly fixed;
a pushing device for guiding and pushing the stuffing, said pushing device being mounted below said hose and including a transverse seat plate on the upper surface of which is disposed a slide rail, a slide seat slidably displaceable along said slide rail, a pneumatic cylinder disposed on said slide seat, and a fixing plate mounted on the upper portion of said pneumatic cylinder, said pneumatic cylinder having a piston rod which can shuttle back and forth out of said fixing plate; and a transverse roller member having two side arms by which the roller member is pivotally onto said fixing plate, whereby upon raising said piston rod and displacement of said slide seat, said roller member rolls and presses against said hose, causing said hose to be partially deformed and the stuffing in said hose to be squeezed and displaced out of said hose.
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Simone Timothy F.
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