| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for forming a rice ball with which a rice ball soft and hardly coming apart is formed. <P>SOLUTION: The device for forming a rice ball includes: a transfer conveyor 16 which transfers a rectangular sheet-like boiled rice R; an interfolding plate unit 17 which interfolds the rectangular sheet-like boiled rice R transferred by the transfer conveyor 16 so that both sides of the sheet-like boiled rice are joined with each other to form a mating part; a molding table 18 as a rotary body provided with a molding hole 22 where the boiled rice R interfolded by the interfolding plate unit 17 downward from above is put; a put-in unit 23 which puts the boiled rice R into the molding hole 22 so that the mating part interfolded by the interfolding plate unit 17 faces upward; a compression mold 19 which longitudinally compresses the boiled rice R put into the molding hole 22 to make a rice ball; and a taking-out mold 20 which takes the molded rice ball out of the molding hole 22. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |
