House Food Industrial Company Limited

Tokuda Seisakusho Co., Ltd.

Ryuichi Hattori

Yasushi Matsumura

Ko Sugisawa

Kazumitsu Taga

Nobuhide Nakagawa

Rika Inoue

Shigeru Akutsu

A centrifugal separation apparatus comprises a rotatable cylindrical member including a side perforated wall and an opened bottom and a bottom lid member including a central raised portion and a side wall inclined downwardly and outwardly. The bottom lid member is moveable between an upper position in which said bottom lid member is engaged by the lower end face of said cylindrical member and a lower position in which said bottom lid member is spaced apart from the lower end of said cylindrical member to form a gap therebetween.

Centrifugal separation apparatus with solids discharge controlled by

A continuous vacuum frier feeds material along a path of conveyance within a vacuum frying chamber while maintaining the chamber vacuum. A frier comprises material conveying means for conveying the material through frying oil. The material conveying means includes endless belt means having a plurality of openings formed therein and a plurality of partitioning members extending downwardly from the endless belt means and each having a plurality of apertures formed therein. The partitioning members defines a plurality of compartments which receive the material and in which the material are fried and conveyed.

Continuous vacuum frier

A method for manufacturing starting material for dried sweet potato chips comprises heating raw sweet potatoes at a temperature ranging from 70.degree. to 100.degree. C. for 180 to 8 minutes to adjust hardness of the sweet potatoes to 1,800 to 12,000 and then slicing the heated sweet potatoes to a desired thickness. The sweet potato slices are further subjected to a second heat treatment to convert starches present therein to .alpha.-starches and then dried as such or after freezing to obtain dried sweet potato chips edible as a snack food.

Method for manufacturing sweet potato chips

A method and an apparatus which can manufacture dried foods giving the person who eats the dried foods a soft-dried and spongy feeling pleasant to the palate by evaporating the greater part of the moisture in the raw materials to be removed in as short a time as possible after the commencement of the drying process. According to the present invention, this is achieved by a method for manufacturing dried foods wherein raw food materials are radiated with microwaves under reduced pressure conditions while immersed in oil as well as by an apparatus for manufacturing dried foods comprising an oil tank arranged within a pressure reducing chamber having a pressure reducing device; a retainer for containing raw food materials immersed in oil in said oil tank; and a microwave radiating device for radiating said raw food materials with microwave while immersed in the oil.

Method and apparatus for manufacturing dried foods

Apparatus for swelling and drying foods under reduced pressure

A method of drying raw meat is disclosed wherein the meat is predried by a deep frying treatment under a vacuum and is then vacuum freeze-dried.

Method of drying meat

A method of producing a dehydrated food product capable of rehydration to produce reconstituted food of good quality which comprises applying microwave radiation to the food received in a container with a lid, or which comprises rotating a container in which the food is received and applying microwave radiation to the food received in the container. The dehydrated food product produced in accordance with the above methods is useful as an ingredient for use in instant food and as snack food.

Method of producing a dehydrated food product

An improved low pressure microwave drying apparatus comprises a drying chamber made of a microwave-permeable and gas-impermeable material and a microwave applying chamber made of a microwave-impermeable material which encloses the drying chamber at a distance therefrom. The drying chamber is provided with a gas exhaust system and the microwave applying chamber with a microwave generator.

Low pressure microwave drying apparatus

An improved microwave drying apparatus comprising a drying chamber provided with a microwave generator and a layer of a weak dielectric substance laminated on at least a part of the inner surface of the wall of the chamber is provided, whereby the occurrence of moisture condensation on the inner wall of the chamber during the drying procedure can be prevented.

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Kyoto, Japan

Ryuichi Hattori