Snow Brand Milk Products Co., Ltd.

Junichi Naka

Kozo Taneda

Shunichi Watanabe

Masae Chiba

Takanori Wada

Hitoshi Sano

Shigekatsu Sato

Keisuke Shimizu

Kazuo Ido

Yukihiro Saiki

Masanori Hirata

Toshiaki Ishii

Takayoshi Takahashi

Toshikazu Kamiki

Yasuo Omi

In a transport apparatus, a plurality of flat bodies are respectively aligned uprightly and juxtaposed laterally to form a block of the flat bodies, the block is loaded in a movable capsule, and the capsule is transported under the application of air flow through a transport pipeline. A loading mechanism having a pair of openable and closable holding arms is disposed to oppose a loading opening of a loading station, and an unloading mechanism having a pair of openable and closable holding arms is disposed to oppose an unloading opening of an unloading station.

Transport apparatus for flat articles

A transport apparatus in which a block of a plurality of flat articles, aligned uprightly and juxtaposed laterally, is transported by air flow through a transport pipeline, which comprises the pipeline, which is inclined upwards in a direction of transport at a loading station of the pipeline and stands uprightly to terminate in a downward opening at an unloading station, a push member, which is movable in the longitudinal direction of the pipeline and has an air pipe, is provided at a rear end of the pipeline, and a band, which is provided near the downward opening and actuated by an air supply means to project toward the center of the downward opening.

An apparatus for molding spherical bodies from a semisolid stick wherein said semisolid stick is extruded through a nozzle; a sensing unit disposed in front of said nozzle detects it to thereby send a signal to a cutter; said cutter, upon receiving said signal, is actuated to cut said stick in fixed lengths; the sticks thus cut are received in a rotatable mold; and said rotatable mold allows said cut sticks to travel along the inside of a molding passage which comprises the rotatable mold and a fixed mold disposed opposite thereto.

Apparatus for molding fixed-dimensional spherical bodies from a

A method of producing a cheese product in snack-sized form comprising the steps of cooling a molten cheese to a temperature of about 45.degree. C. to 35.degree. C., heating a surface area extending in the radial direction from the surface of the cheese to a thickness of 1/8 to 1/6 of the cheese diameter of the cooled cheese to a temperature of about 52.degree. C. to 39.degree. C., cutting the heated cheese into snack sized pieces by rolling within a mold die for rounding the pieces of cheese, and forming each of the snack sized pieces into a rounded shape without corners, thereby providing a snack sized cheese product formed into a desirable rounded shape such as spherical, ellipsoidal, and barrel shape and having good appearance without creases and cracks on the surface thereof as well as a homogeneous texture.

Method of producing a cheese product in snack-sized form

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Tokyo, Japan

Junichi Naka