| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and a method for food material supply, which are capable of transporting a food material from a hopper to a measuring part with a simple structure, without crushing the food material, nor kneading the material, by preventing a shape of the material from being broken, capable of measuring and sorting the food material into a prescribed amount in the measuring part, and capable of supplying a next process with the measured and sorted food material. <P>SOLUTION: This apparatus for food material supply has a piston pump 7 provided between a lower part of the hopper 3 and a hopper side end part of a first pipeline 4, wherein the piston pump 7 sucks the food material 2 from the hopper 3 and extrudes the sucked food material 2 into the first pipeline 4. Further, a suction side valve 8 is provided between the lower part of the hopper 3 and the piston pump 7, and an extrusion side valve 9 is provided between the piston pump 7 and the first pipeline 4. Furthermore, the apparatus is set so that the piston pump 7 sucks the food material 2, when the suction side valve 8 is opened and the extrusion side valve 9 is closed, and the piston pump 7 extrudes the food material 2, when the suction side valve 8 is closed and the extrusion side valve 9 is opened. Therefore, the food material 2 is continuously extruded into the first pipeline 4 by the piston pump 7. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |
