Noodle gelating device
AssigneeFuji Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorHatsuo Sakurazawa
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Abstract
To reduce running costs and equipment costs by bringing entire surfaces of noodle strings carried on a conveyor into contact with steam. High-temperature steam is upwardly supplied from a steam pipes (30) installed on a lower cover (24), by running a delivery belt lane (36a) of a belt conveyor (28)through a steam chamber (26). The belt conveyor (28) is equipped with an endless belt (36), whose delivery lane (36a) passes through the steam chamber (26). The belt (36) is a thin, mesh belt positioned so as to partition the steam chamber (26) into an upper steam chamber (26a) and a lower steam chamber (26b).
Claims2
A noodle gelatinization apparatus which runs a steaming process of noodle strings by passing said noodle strings on a conveyor through a steam chamber, wherein said conveyor is a belt conveyor which comprises a mesh, endless belt looped over belt pulleys placed outside said steam chamber;
- a delivery belt lane of said belt conveyor runs in said steam chamber so that said steam chamber is partitioned into an upper steam chamber and a lower steam chamber;
- and steam is supplied upward from steam pipes installed in said lower steam chamber so that said steam will flow upward through meshes in said delivery belt lane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.