Rotary pickles making device
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
InventorsMakoto Miyata, Yoshiyuki Ishida
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Abstract
A rotary pickles making device comprises a base body including spaced drive and guide rollers rotatably mounted in the body, and a drum-shaped pickling casing for containing therein pickling stuffs. The casing is placed on the drive and guide rollers to be rotated thereby. The pickling casing is provided with an opening closed by a detachable cap for introducing and ejecting the pickling stuffs. A chamber is defined between the cap and an apertured sheet extending across the opening for adjusting the gas and liquid content of the pickling stuffs during a pickling operation.
Claims9
A rotary pickles making device comprising a pickling casing defining therein a compartment for containing a pickling paste and foodstuffs to be pickled, and means for rotating said casing to mix the paste and foodstuffs, said casing including an opening to said compartment for enabling said compartment to be loaded and emptied, a closure cap detachably mounted to said opening, said cap including a wall, and a gas and liquid adjuster allowing internally generated gas and liquid to pass therethrough for adjusting the amounts of gas and liquid within said compartment, said gas and liquid adjuster comprising a sheet extending across said opening and retained between said cap and said casing, said sheet being spaced from said cap wall to define therewith a reservoir, said sheet including small through-holes for enabling gas and liquid to pass therethrough between said compartment and said reservoir.
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