Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Coating or spreading plastic on an edible preform and...
Patent
1998-06-23
1999-12-14
Cano, Milton
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Coating or spreading plastic on an edible preform and...
426512, 426514, 426517, 994506, 994507, 425335, 425363, 425505, A23P 110
Patent
active
060014032
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method of producing a cored food in bar shape and an apparatus used in the same. More specifically, it relates to a method and apparatus capable of continuously producing a cored food in bar shape formed by covering an inner material with an outer skin material.
2. Prior Art
The conventional method of mechanically producing a cored food in bar shape in which an inner material such as sweet smashed bean paste is covered with an outer skin material such as a flat and sticky pounded rice cake is generally well-known. The two types of food materials are each continuously extruded for molding into a bar shape from a telescopic nozzle consisting of a large nozzle and a small one.
However, the conventional method mentioned above, in which the food materials are forcibly extruded from the nozzles by means of a screw pump, a vane pump and the like, weakens the stickiness inherent in glutinous substances such as those contained in bread dough and affects the quality of the food materials. In addition, the granularity of steamed glutinous or nonglutinous rice extruded for molding is affected.
In another conventional method of producing a cored food in bar shape, an inner material is covered with a flatly extended outer skin material mounted on the belt conveyor by gradually rounding both sides of the conveyor belt portion into a tube-like shape along a pair of guides.
However, since the latter conventional method mentioned above requires an extra belt transformation space long enough to transform both fringe sides of the conveyor belt portion from its original flat shape into a tube-like shape, the apparatus as a whole can not help becoming large-scale in size.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Thus, the present invention provides a method of continuously producing a cored food in bar shape by spherically molding a flatly extended outer skin material in a space-saving manner and an apparatus used in the same method.
Also, the present invention provides a method of continuously producing a cored food in bar shape, without affecting the quality of a food material by damaging its glutinous substance or smashing its granularity, as well as an apparatus used in the same method.
In order to solve the above-mentioned inconveniences encountered with the prior art, the present invention adopts a method of producing a cored food in a bar shape made of at least two types of food materials and formed by covering an inner material with an outer skin material comprising the steps of: mounting the outer skin material extended in a flat shape on a carriage conveyor, whose belt portion comprises a number of belt pieces aligned in the moving direction of the conveyor, in such a manner that they are foldable towards the conveyor independently from each other; placing said inner material upon said outer skin material; bending said skin material mounted on said belt pieces into a gutter-like shape by raising both ends of each belt piece in operation along a pair of guides provided on both sides of the conveyor; and intermittently compressing the outer skin material bent into a gutter-like shape via the belt pieces with at least a pair of compression molding members, each provided on both sides of the conveyor in such a manner that said molding members swing back and forth with respect to the conveyor, thereby covering said inner material with the outer skin material so as to continuously produce a cored food in a bar shape.
Also, in order to overcome the aforesaid inconveniences encountered with the prior art, the present invention also adopts an apparatus of producing a cored food in a bar shape made of at least two types of food materials and formed by covering an inner material with an outer skin material comprising: a carriage conveyor, whose belt portion comprises a number of belt pieces aligned in the moving direction of the conveyor in such a manner that they are foldable towards the conveyor independently from each other, a pair of guides provided
REFERENCES:
patent: 2960045 (1960-11-01), Pentzlin
patent: 4799875 (1989-01-01), Thompson
patent: 5395229 (1995-03-01), Atwood
patent: 5540578 (1996-07-01), Atwood
patent: 5664486 (1997-09-01), Atwood
patent: 5759605 (1998-06-01), Atwood
Cano Milton
Kobird Co., Ltd.
Snider Ronald R.
LandOfFree
Method and apparatus for producing a cored food in bar shape does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Method and apparatus for producing a cored food in bar shape, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Method and apparatus for producing a cored food in bar shape will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-860774