Apparatus for producing a shark fin analog
AssigneeNippon Suisan Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYouichi Kammuri, Eizoh Nagahisa, Sumio Kamikawa
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Abstract
A shark fin analog utilized as a food is produced by heating to dissolve a mixture of gelatin, alginic acid or an alginate or a mannan, and water to form a gelatin sol, spinning the sol through a spinning header onto a rotating roller which has a surface wetted with a coagulation solution of divalent or trivalent metal salt and functions to elongate and tear off pieces of the sol, each piece having the shape of a shark fin with a thin streamlined profile in cross section and washing the pieces with water.
Claims6
An apparatus for producing a shark fin analog, comprising a spinneret for discharging a gelatin sol dissolved by heating, a single roller which is a rotatable elongating and tearing-off roller under and spaced apart from the spinneret to receive the gelatin sol discharged from said spinneret on a descending portion of a peripheral surface of said roller and to elongate the discharged gelatin sol to tear off the sol to be spun into a structure of streamlined profile in cross section, and a coagulation bath tank for holding a coagulating solution for coagulating the gelatin sol spun into said structure, said apparatus excluding any additional roller downstream from said elongating and tearing-off roller.
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