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US 4,161,908 AGranted
Apparatus for the production of wrapped foods
AssigneeDowa Co., Ltd.
InventorKingo Miyahara
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AssigneeDowa Co., Ltd.
InventorKingo Miyahara
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A salt-containing unprocessed foodstuff is charged in a wrapping tube unit comprising a cylindrical body, end plate means comprising members bonded to open opposite ends of the cylindrical body, and a pair of electrical contact members previously impregnated with a salt solution and fitted in the end plate means to provide a wrapped material foodstuff. The end plate means may be of any shape and is formed with a multitude of apertures, at least one of the members having cuts made therein to permit charging of the unprocessed foodstuff in the cylindrical body which may be deformed to conform to the shape of the end plate means. The apparatus for producing a wrapped food comprises a container in which the wrapped material foodstuff is placed and which is mounted on a carriage adapted to move in reciprocating motion longitudinally of the apparatus, and a pair of electrode plates supported by guide rods disposed adjacent open opposite ends of the container and adapted to move in such a manner that, when the carriage moves in reciprocating motion, the electrode plates also move in the same direction in a manner to be brought into and out of pressure engagement with recessed ends of the wrapped material foodstuff in the container to enable a current to be conducted through the unprocessed foodstuff to ripen it by the effect of Joule heat generated therein to produce a processed wrapped food. A sealing member may be applied to each end of the wrapped material foodstuff, before or after the conduction of the current, to enable the food to be preserved in cold storage.
Apparatus for the production of a wrapped food, comprising a base plate having front and rear portions, a carriage mounted on said plate for reciprocatory movement between the front and the rear portions of said base plate, a pair of support members arranged on said carriage for detachably mounting an electrically insulated container, which container is adapted to receive therein a material foodstuff, a pair of movement guide members each disposed at either end of said container in spaced-apart relation and arranged above said base plate so as to converge from the front to the rear portions of the base plate, the guide members being engaged by the support members, and a pair of electrode plates each mounted on one of said pair of movement guide members and at either end of the container, said electrode plates being in reciprocatory motion together with the reciprocatory movement of said carriage, whereby when the carriage moves from the front portion to the rear portion of the base plate, the pair of electrode plates move into the container so as to be brought into pressure engagement with opposite ends of the material foodstuff, and when the carriage moves from the rear portion to the front portion of the base plate, the pair of electrode plates move out of the container so as to be brought out of pressure engagement with the material foodstuff.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.