METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MOLDING RICE BALL

• Main Authors: NAGASHIMA MITSUHIKO, ONEDA IKUYA, SUZUKI KAZUHIRO, TAKEI TAKESHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 31.03.2011
• Subjects: FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for molding a rice ball by which a rice ball having handmade feeling and good puffy palate feeling is formed. SOLUTION: The method for molding a rice ball comprises: a process for putting sheet-like cooked rice R measured with a main measurement part 15a on a conveyor 2; a process for adjusting a difference in the sheet-like cooked rice R by an auxiliary measurement part 15b to make the cooked rice have a regular amount; a process for transferring the cooked rice conveyed with the conveyor 2 onto a measurement conveyor 3 disposed ahead of the conveying direction to make measurement; a process for transferring the sheet-like cooked rice R conveyed with the measurement conveyor 3 to the placing surface S of a rice ball-molding part by a sheet-like cooked rice transferring/supplying part 4; and a process for supplying an ingredient Q to the sheet-like cooked rice followed by finally measuring the sheet-like cooked rice R together with the ingredient Q. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT