Food processing apparatus and food manufacturing method using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10645960-B2
Application number	US-201615546620-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 4, 2016
Priority date	Feb 16, 2015
Publication date	May 12, 2020
Grant date	May 12, 2020

Abstract

The present invention relates to a food processing apparatus that is capable of supplying two different kinds of food materials and sequentially performing manufacturing processes such as bonding and cutting on the single apparatus, thus allowing the food to be easily processed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A food processing apparatus comprising:
a conveying part for receiving power to convey a material in one direction;
a first material supply part located at the start of the conveying part to draw and load first materials laminated in a first container to the conveying part;
a bonding liquid application part spaced apart from the first material supply part in an advancing direction of the conveying part to apply a bonding liquid to top surfaces of the first materials conveyed from the first material supply part;
a second material supply part adapted to draw and attach second materials laminated in a second container to the top surfaces of the first materials to which the bonding liquid is applied to form bonded materials;
a bonding part adapted to pressurize the top surfaces of the bonded materials to uniformly bond the first materials and the second materials;
an oil application part having an oil application member adapted to apply oil to the top surfaces of the bonded materials; and
a cutting part adapted to cut each bonded material to a plurality of pieces through the pressurization of a cutting press having a plurality of cutting knives.

2. The food processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the conveying part comprises:
a plurality of conveyors spaced apart from each other; and
a raker unit located under the plurality of conveyors to convey the material by a given distance in the advancing direction of the conveying part,
the raker unit comprising:
a conveying plate having a plurality of protrusions protrudingly spaced apart from each other from a top surface thereof to convey the material;
elevating actuators adapted to operate the conveying plate up and down; and
a horizontal moving module adapted to slidingly reciprocate the conveying plate elevated by means of the elevating actuators in the advancing direction of the conveying part.

3. The food processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first material supply part comprises:
the first container having an internal space for laminating the first materials; and
a first adsorption member adapted to adsorb and draw the first materials from the first container through vacuum and to load the drawn first materials to the conveying part.

4. The food processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the bonding liquid application part comprises:
support rods located in a perpendicular direction to the conveying direction of the conveying part; and
a plurality of injection nozzles spaced apart from each other on the support rods to inject the bonding liquid into the first materials.

5. The food processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second material supply part comprises:
the second container being spaced apart from and located above the conveying part and having an internal space for laminating the second materials;
a second adsorption member adapted to adsorb and draw the second materials from the second container through vacuum and to supply the drawn second materials to the top surfaces of the first materials; and
a rotary actuator adapted to rotate the second adsorption member up and down to attach the second materials to the top surfaces of the first materials arranged on the conveying part.

6. The food processing apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the second adsorption member has an arch-shaped adsorption surface coming into contact with the second materials.

7. The food processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the bonding part comprises a pressurizing member adapted to pressurize the top surfaces of the bonded materials, and the pressurizing member is a press operating up and down by means of an actuator or a pressurizing roller.

8. The food processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the oil application part comprises:
an oil container for containing oil thereinto;
a rotating roller rotatably located in the oil container in such a manner as to allow at least a portion thereof to be submerged into the oil contained in the oil container;
the oil application member comprising a roller capable of selectively coming into rolling contact with the rotating roller to transfer the oil applied to the outer peripheral surface of the rotating roller thereto; and
a conveying module adapted to move the oil application member to allow the oil application member to which the oil is transferred to be located on the top surfaces of the bonded materials.

9. The food processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the cutting knives of the cutting part are assembled to a form of a lattice and take a given shape so that the four corners of the cut pieces of each bonded material are rounded.

10. The food processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the bonded materials cut through the cutting part are conveyed and discharged through an adsorption module adapted to adsorb and convey the bonded materials through vacuum.

11. The food processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a steam injector located between the oil application part and the cutting part, wherein the stream injector is adapted to inject steam into the bonded materials before the bonded materials are cut to increase the humidity of the bonded materials.

12. The food processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first materials are grain sheets and the second materials are dried seaweed.

Assignees

• Cj Cheiljedang Corp

Inventors

• Kim Myung Ho
• Park Jung Seo
• Park Joo Dong
• Park Hyun Woong
• Back Tae Hum
• Lee Dong Jin
• Chung Su Yeon
• Yun Sang Goo
• Lee Chang Yong

Classifications

• A23P20/11

  Coating with compositions containing a majority of oils, fats, mono/diglycerides, fatty acids, mineral oils, waxes or paraffins · CPC title

• A23P20/20

  Making of laminated, multi-layered, stuffed or hollow foodstuffs, e.g. by wrapping in preformed edible dough sheets or in edible food containers · CPC title

• A23L7/122 Primary

  Coated, filled, multilayered or hollow ready-to-eat cereals · CPC title

• A23L17/60 Primary

  Edible seaweed · CPC title

• A23L7/13

  Snacks or the like obtained by oil frying of a formed cereal dough · CPC title