JPH01108965A - Method for smearing food material with powder and apparatus therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable automatic and homogeneous smearing of a smearing powder on a food material, by continuously sprinkling the smearing powder in the direction opposite to the forward feeding direction of the food material while applying turning and rotating and forward feeding action to the food material. CONSTITUTION:For example, a food material prepared by performing into a given shape and battering for preparing an oil-fried food, such as fried lobster or 'KANOKO AGE' (fried rice-cake), is continuously fed from a continuous feeder 5 to one end of a rotating drum 11. The inner wall surface of the rotating drum 11 is provided with baffle rods or bars with protrusions to turn and rotate the food material fed thereinto. A smearing powder feeder 34 consisting of a screw feeder, etc., is introduced from the other end of the rotating drum 11 into the interior thereof to sprinkle the smearing powder from the tip thereof. A screening device 22 for separating the food from the smearing powder is provided at the other end of the rotating drum 11.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] <Industrial Application Field> The disclosed technology belongs to the technical field of dusting food materials such as sooty foods such as fried shrimp with flour such as bread crumbs.

<Summary of the gist> The invention of this application is based on the method of forming sooty foods such as fried shrimp and fried pique in advance into a predetermined shape and battering the food material, which is then continuously conveyed to powder by a rotating drum or the like by a conveyor or the like. This invention relates to a method for uniformly covering the entire surface of the food material with mabuze powder such as bread crumbs by supplying it to a covering part, and a flour covering device used directly in the method. The rotary drum of the covering section is conveyed by the continuous feeding device, and the rotating device gives the food material the functions of scooping up, flipping up, reversing, etc., as well as giving it a forwarding action, so that the food material is conveyed by the continuous feeding device. At the front end of the food material, dusting powder such as bread crumbs is continuously supplied by a screw feeder, etc., and countercurrently by applying a swirling action, etc., to uniformly coat the entire surface of the food material. During this time, the above-mentioned scooping action, reversing action, etc. are used to ensure stirring action, and after the covering powder has been sprinkled, a sorting device such as a cage is placed at the front of the rotating drum to remove the covered food. A method and apparatus for dusting food materials, which separates the dust and the dust, and the sorted dust is returned to the base of a rotating drum, etc., and can be reused for dusting. This is such an invention.

As is well known, as people's lives improve, their eating habits become more diverse, and they are not only eating cooked food at home or in restaurants, but also eating pre-processed food in microwave ovens, etc. The method of feeding food simply by adding a heating effect or an oily soot effect has become widespread, and in particular, as housewives work outside the home or shorten cooking time, convenient feeding is required. Demand for large seedlings, which are stable, high-quality food ingredients for processed foods such as frozen foods, is rapidly increasing.

Even if it does not reach the restaurant industry, in the stable and simple food material supply industry, sooty foods such as fried shrimp and fried pique are deeply popular in terms of calories, nutrition, and the spread of luxury tastes. The supply of high-quality, hygienic, stable, and inexpensive food ingredients is becoming increasingly desirable.

Therefore, for food materials such as seed oil and soot foods, it is usually necessary to form the raw materials into a specified shape, perform battering, and uniformly sprinkle the entire surface with dusting powder such as bread crumbs. In the past, the seed powder coating work was generally done manually.

Therefore, as a matter of course, it requires skill, is inefficient, and has the disadvantage of deteriorating the working environment due to bread crumbs flying up during the work of dusting bread crumbs or flour. There were also problems with working conditions such as fatigue, and quality deterioration due to the accompanying fatigue was unavoidable, and there was also the inconvenience that it was not suitable for producing large seedlings with the same precision.

In addition, since it was done manually, there were also inconveniences in terms of health and hygiene that could not be ignored.

<Problems to be solved by the invention> To deal with this, for example, Japanese Patent Application No. 59-206995
Although methods such as the No. 2 invention that allow continuous operation using mechanical means have been devised and put into practical use, the flexible and precise dusting that can be done by hand is not possible, and so-called lumps often occur, which deteriorates the quality of the product. There were disadvantages such as loss of uniformity of precision, and there were also disadvantages such as fluctuations in the amount of dusting powder used, which affected cost instability.

<Purpose of the Invention> The purpose of the invention of this application is to solve the technical problems of the above-mentioned prior art in which food materials are poorly coated with powder and so-called lumps are formed after battering, and It guarantees uniform dusting on the entire surface of the material, prevents the occurrence of lumps, eliminates inefficient manual work, and improves work efficiency, while also reducing environmental deterioration due to dust from dusting. prevention, ensure sanitary maintenance, and improve economic efficiency by reducing the amount of dusting powder used as much as possible on average, and ensuring stable and reliable high-precision dusting after dusting. It is an object of the present invention to provide an excellent method for dusting food materials that can be used to supply food products and benefiting the field of application of molding technology in the food industry, and a dusting device that can be used directly in the method.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the structure of the invention of this application, which is based on the above-mentioned claims, is to solve the above-mentioned problems. In order to uniformly sprinkle the entire surface of food materials such as bread crumbs with powder after battering, the food materials after battering are continuously coated with flour in a predetermined amount using a conveyor device, etc. The battered food material is continuously supplied to the base of a rotating drum in the rotary drum, and inside the rotating drum, the supplied battered food material is rotated through the rotating drum to perform a scooping action, a flipping action, and a reversing action. Then, while connected to the front part of the rotating drum, 5 (a covering powder such as bread crumbs is fed forward at a predetermined speed from the powder feeding device by a screw feeder or the like,
The food material is jetted countercurrently into the rotating drum from its tip through swirling due to centrifugal action, and is swirled and forwarded while being scooped up, thrown up, and reversed. Therefore, on average, the entire surface is evenly coated with powder, and furthermore, the rotation action provides stirring action to advance the food material and the direction of the coating powder. A relatively complete dusting action is performed by the swirling jets caused by the flow, and the food is collected from the front end of the rotating drum and subjected to a sorting action, and the food after dusting is transferred to the next stage of freezing, etc. In addition, the powder that is less than a predetermined mesh size is sorted out and fed back to the base side of the rotating drum, and the battering food material that is continuously supplied is scooped up by rotation, subjected to agitation by inversion, etc., and is countercurrently produced. A technical measure has been taken in which the dusting powder participates in the dusting action together with the swirling dusting powder.

<Example> Next, an example of the invention of this application will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a food material dusting device which forms the center of one of the gist of the invention of this application. A powder supply device @4 and a food material continuous supply device 5 are provided at the rear by movable rollers via frames 6, 6' and 6', respectively, so that they can be disconnected and connected.

The food material continuous feeding device 5 at the rear is provided with a food material hopper 8 after battering at the base of an S-shaped frame 7, and the S-shaped frame 7 has inclined crosspieces 9, 9,・
A rotating chino with 6 sprockets placed at predetermined intervals is provided to engage with a drive sprocket (not shown) and a driven sprocket, and is rotatable by a drive motor 10, and the tip thereof is a powder-covered part. It faces an agitation supply device 12 provided on the base side of the rotating drum 11 of No. 3.

Therefore, the rotating drum 11 is basically based on the earlier patent application filed in 1973.
There is no substantial difference in the mechanism disclosed in the invention of No. 9-206995.

The agitation supply device 12 has a built-in frame (not shown) provided with flip-up blades so as to rotate in conjunction with the rotating drum 11.

Also, a belt conveyor %716 rotates via a belt 15 provided via a gear mechanism 14 by a motor 13 to a rotating drum 11 provided on the frame 6 of the powder covering section 3.
As a result, the powder from the sorting device, which will be described later, is fed back into the rotating drum 11 from the base of the rotating drum 11.

The amount of battered food material (not shown) supplied to the stirring supply device 12 can be adjusted by adjusting the angle of inclination of the frame 7, the angle of the inclination, and the rotational speed of the motor 10.

That is, as shown in FIG. 3, the drum-shaped casing 1
Inside the base of 7, there is a baffle rod 18. to rectify the dust fed back from the agitation supply device.
A predetermined number of bars 18 and 18 are provided along the axial direction, and a predetermined number of bars 19 and 19 are extended along the axial direction for a predetermined length. Rotating devices 20, 20, etc. in the form of protruding rods are provided integrally facing inward.

Then, the battered food material (not shown) that is continuously supplied from the food material continuous supply device 5 is rotated, scooped up, bounced up, and reversed as shown by the dotted line in the drawing, and is ejected from the front in a countercurrent direction. A uniform rotary drum action is performed using a dusting powder (not shown), which is fed forward.

Further, a predetermined number of bar-shaped cages 21, 21, . Separating the dusting powder J: The base of the belt conveyor R16 faces the bottom side, and the sorted dusting powder is fed back to the stirring supply device 12 and re-supplied from the base of the rotating drum 11. It is like that.

As shown in FIG.
3 to the next stage of freezing process by a conveyor (not shown).

As shown in detail in FIG. 2, the continuous maze powder supply device 4 includes a hopper 24 (not shown) for the maze powder provided on its base side, and a predetermined bridging prevention device 25 therein.
The screw feeder 27 has a shaft 28 whose base is supported by bearings 29, 29', and is driven by a motor 30 via a belt pulley mechanism. It is configured to rotate at a predetermined speed, and a fork-shaped stirring rod 31, 31 is formed at the tip thereof so as to protrude forward in a bifurcated shape.

Further, a holder 33 is provided on a bearing 32 provided at the center of the outer path of the screw feeder 27, and pivotally supports a rotating rod 34.
A belt 36 is used to impart a predetermined high-speed rotation, and a cone-shaped outer cap 37 and an inner cap 38 are provided at the tip of the rotating rod 34 to form a swirling flow imparting device. The screw feeder 2 is provided so that the gap is rotated at high speed to apply centrifugal force, and the tip is exposed to the inside of the cage 22 of the rotating drum 11.
7, the coating powder (not shown) supplied from the hopper 24 is spouted out while being swirled by centrifugal force.

Thus, the turning spouting of the dusting powder is performed in a predetermined manner by adjusting the rotational speeds of the screw feeder 27 and the rotary rod 34 by the motors 30 and 35.

Furthermore, not only the swirling jet is imparted to the dusting powder due to centrifugal force, but also the surrounding air is imparted with swirling, and the cage 22,
Also, it is designed to assist the countercurrent flow of swirling spouting of the dusting powder in the rotating drum 11.

In the food material dusting device 1 having the above-mentioned configuration, when dusting the food material (not shown) after battering, such as bread crumbs, on the food material after battering, for example, the food material after battering. is supplied to the hopper 8 of the food material continuous supply device 5, and is conveyed via an inclined plane 9, 9, etc. by an unillustrated chain rotated by the motor 5, and is then transported to the base side of the rotating drum 11 of the flour-covering section 3. It is continuously supplied to the agitation supply device 12 of.

The baffle rod 1 at the base of the rotary drum 11 is then fed back together with the dusting powder after sorting that will be described later.
8.18...The arm 19.1 of the casing 17 is fed in, aligned and advanced, and rotated by the motor 13.
Bars 20.20 as rotating devices arranged in 9...
The object is rotated by the robot, and is sent forward while being rotated under the action of scooping up, flipping up, and reversing.

Therefore, the dusting powder swirled and spouted from the front end of the rotary drum 11 has a higher concentration on the front end side of the rotary drum 11.
The batter gradually becomes thinner from the middle part to the baffle rods 18, 18... at the base end, and is rotated from the base side of the rotating drum 11, scooped up, flipped up, and reversed as it is transported forward. The powdered food material is coated with powder in a countercurrent state, first thickly and then gradually thinly. Therefore, the food material is fed forward while rotating on the rotating drum 11, so that the entire surface is uniformly coated. A dusting action of the powder is caused to take place.

As mentioned above, the battered food material, which is rotated and forwarded, is rotated and ejected in a countercurrent direction until the food material is rotated and sent forward.
The powder is thin on the base end side and gradually becomes more concentrated, and the entire surface is evenly coated with the powder and the food material is fed forward, so that the food material after battering is spread from the base of the rotation to the tip. While being rotated and forwarded, the entire surface is uniformly sprinkled with powder, and so-called lumps are prevented from occurring as the workpiece is advanced.

During this time, the batter is fed back by the belt conveyor 1G and is fed back by the belt conveyor 1G. After the ring, the entire surface of the food material is coated with powder in an evenly distributed manner.

During this period, the state of dusting the entire surface of the food material after battering is determined by the movement speed of the food material continuous supply 5A position 5 inclination 9.9... by the motor 10, and
This is carried out as appropriate by adjusting the rotational speed of the rotary drum 11 by the motor 13 and the swirling and spouting state of the dusting powder by the motors 30 and 35.

As described above, in the continuous coating powder supply device 4, the coating powder in the hopper 24 is transferred to the bridging prevention device 2 by the continuous rotation of the screw feeder 27 by the motor 30.
5 to the supply port 26 of the hopper 24 without bridging, and is stirred by the stirring rods 31 and 31 at the tip without forming any lumps, so that the outer cap 37 and the rotating rod 34 of the inner receptacle 38 are fed. It receives a centrifugal force through rotation by the motor 35 and receives a swirling action, and performs a countercurrent dusting action on the battered food material that is swirled and ejected and sent forward.

Then, the food that has been thoroughly sprinkled with powder on its entire surface is fed forward while being subjected to a rotational action as shown by the dotted line in Figure 3, and the surplus food is removed by the sorting section 22 by the cages 21, 21, etc. at the tip. The dusting powder is sorted and dropped onto a belt conveyor 16, and only the food after dusting is carried out to the sorting section 22 via a chute 23 by a conveyor (not shown) to the next freezing process.

Then, the surplus dusting powder that has been sorted is transferred to belt conveyor 1.
6 feeds back to the stirring supply device 12 and feeds the battered food material to the rotating drum 1.
It is supplied from the base of 1 under the action of dusting and rotating.

During this time, the depths at which the outer cap 3γ and the inner cap 38 face the tip of the rotating drum 11 can be adjusted as appropriate by moving the frame 6' closer to and away from the frame 6 via the adjustable roller. It is possible.

During this time, there was no manual dusting operation, but only the adjustment of the rotational speed of the motor 10.13.30.35, the adjustment of the inclination angle α of the frame γ, and the adjustment of the frame 6.6.
By simply adjusting the relative distance of ', the dusting operation is performed completely automatically.

Of course, during this time, both the battering work and the supply of dusting powder to the hopper 24 are performed as appropriate under automatic control.

It should be noted that the embodiment of the invention of this application is of course not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments. For example, a rotary drum of powder by attaching fins to the outer periphery of the tip of a continuous powder supply device. Various aspects can be adopted, such as imparting a swirling effect to the incoming air.

Furthermore, it is of course possible to attach rotating drum fins to the inside of the rotating drum as a matter of course.

It goes without saying that the target food materials can also be applied to food materials other than fried shrimp and fried pique.

It goes without saying that seasonings other than bread crumbs can also be used for the mabuse flour.

<Effects of the Invention> As described above, according to the invention of this application, when performing the powder dusting action after battering food materials such as fried shrimp and fried pique foods, etc. Since the dusting action is performed, deterioration of the working environment due to dust from the dusting powder being kicked up can be avoided, and since no manual work is required, there is no chance of poor dusting due to fatigue, etc. 1. It has the excellent effect of being able to continuously produce a constant quality over a long period of time without causing so-called lumps or the like to reduce product accuracy.

Therefore, planned production is possible, work efficiency is improved, and as a result, costs can be reduced.

Therefore, the rotational forwarding of the food material after battering in the rotating drum and the countercurrent swirling jetting of the covering powder are performed opposite to each other, and furthermore, on the base side of the rotating drum, the covering powder is Since the dusting action is performed with a thin concentration of powder, a medium concentration in the center, and a high concentration at the tip, the powder is uniformly distributed over the entire surface of the food material that is supplied from the base of the rotating drum and discharged from the tip. The sprinkling of powder is performed on 82 Old Street, which produces an excellent effect.

Due to the counterflow of the food material and the topping powder, no lumps are generated, and the product precision can be improved, and the reliability of the product can also be improved.

Since no lumps are generated, the dusting powder that has been sorted out by the sorting section at the tip of the rotary drum can be fed back and reused, which also has the advantage of improving yield.

Since the food material continuous supply device is installed at the base of the rotating drum and can feed the battered food material into the rotating drum, the battered food material is turned over, scooped up, It can be subjected to rotating action such as flipping action, and the dusting action is performed at a relative speed with the dusting powder that is spouted out in an opposing direction, and the dusting powder can be evenly and evenly sprinkled all over the place. Excellent effects can be achieved.

In addition, since the food material continuous supply device is placed at the base of the rotating drum and the dusting powder continuous supply device is placed at the tip, it is possible to arrange the devices in a kind of series arrangement.
There is also the advantage that there is no interference with other equipment, and the layout of the mounting can be adjusted.

Furthermore, since a sorting device is installed at the tip of the rotating drum, it is difficult to distinguish between foods that have been completely coated.
There is an economical advantage that the S powder can be sorted and the S powder can be fed back and reused while being sorted.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings are detailed explanatory diagrams of the invention of this application, in which Fig. 1 is a side view of the overall arrangement of the dusting device, Fig. 2 is a partial longitudinal sectional view of the dusting powder continuous supply device, and Fig. 3 is a rotating drum. FIG. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Powder covering device, 5... Food material continuous feeding device, 4... Flour covering continuous feeding device, 10, 13. 30... 35... Drive device, 27...
・Countercurrent jetting device (screw feeder), 11... Rotating drum, 20... Rotating device, 22... Sorting device

Claims (13)

[Claims] (1) In a method in which a food material of a predetermined shape is continuously supplied to a flour-covering section and its entire surface is uniformly coated with flour, the food material that is continuously fed and conveyed in the flour-covering section is rotated. At the same time, it applies a forwarding action to the food material, and during the transportation process, it continuously supplies dusting powder to the food material facing in the transportation direction and sprinkles it on the food material, thereby making the food material coated with powder. A method for dusting food materials with flour, characterized in that the food after dusting and the dusting powder are separated at the end. (2) The method for dusting a food material according to claim 1, characterized in that the dusting powder is continuously supplied in the form of a jet stream. (3) The method for dusting a food material with powder according to claim 2, characterized in that a swirling flow is imparted to the spouting flow of the dusting powder. (4) Flour-covering a food material according to claim 1, characterized in that the rotation of the food material in the flour-covering section is provided with a scooping, flipping, and reversing action. Method. (5) The method for dusting a food material with flour as set forth in claim 1, characterized in that the dusting powder after the sorting is circulated to the base of the dusting part. (6) In a device that continuously sprinkles powder on the surface of a food material of a predetermined shape, a continuous powder supply device is provided at the tip of the rotating drum that forms the powder coating section, and the food material is provided at the rear. continuous feeding devices are provided, each connected to a drive device, and the continuous powder feeding device is provided with a countercurrent jetting device for powder powder, while a rotating device is also provided inside the rotating drum. A device for dusting food materials with powder, characterized in that a sorting device is attached to the tip. (7) Claim 6, characterized in that the countercurrent jetting device for the covering powder is equipped with a swirling flow imparting device.
Apparatus for dusting food materials as described in Section 1. (8) The food material dusting device according to claim 7, wherein the swirl flow imparting device is a swirl flow imparting device that rotates in the opposite direction to the rotating drum. (9) The food material dusting device according to claim 6, wherein the rotating drum has a downward slope. (10) The food material dusting device according to claim 6, wherein the sorting device is formed by a cage. (11) The food material dusting device according to claim 6, wherein the rotating device for the rotary drum is provided with a scooping and reversing device. (12) The food material dusting device according to claim 6, wherein the dusting powder continuous feeding device is equipped with a screw feeder. (13) Claim 6, characterized in that a stirring device is attached to the tip of the continuous powder supply device.
Apparatus for dusting food materials as described in Section 1.