Apparatus for producing cereal puffs
AssigneeDelice Co., Ltd.
InventorHyung-Seob KIM
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Abstract
Provided is an apparatus for producing cereal puffs, which heats cereals under pressure by means of a continuous circulating operation, puffs the cereals several times by means of a multistage rising operation, and causes the puffed cereals, i.e. the cereal puffs, to stand by at a predetermined position, and then to be rapidly discharged in a forward direction. Thus, it is possible to process the cereal puffs in a uniform shape, and to discharge the cereal puffs in a constant direction. Further, it is possible to simultaneously produce a plurality of cereal puffs having a uniform shape by means of one heating and pressurizing operation in a single apparatus.
Claims30
An apparatus for producing cereal puffs, comprising:
- a cereal feed unit located at an upper portion of a body and dispensing cereals by a predetermined amount;
- a cereal transfer unit located in the body, containing the cereals dispensed by the cereal feed unit, moving and discharging the cereals to and from a processing position, and sliding in forward and backward directions such that, when the cereals discharged from the processing position are processed and puffed into the cereal puffs, the cereal puffs are pushed and discharged to the outside;
- a cereal processing unit located on a front side of the body, moving up and down in multiple stages to receive the cereals when the cereals are transferred to and discharged from the processing position by the cereal transfer unit, and puffing the cereals through heat and pressure into a plurality of cereal puffs having a predetermined size;
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- a driving unit installed on the body, driven under control of a controller, and sequentially driving the cereal feed unit, the cereal transfer unit, and the cereal processing unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.