Takai Tofu & Soymilk Equipment Company Limited

Toichiro Takai

Toru Awazu

Masahiro Yoshida

Motonari Amano

Masahide Takeda

Masaaki Watanabe

Kenji Kasama

Toshio Hirata

Satoshi Ueda

Masato Nishi

Toshiaki Shinde

Kenji Honda

Makoto Jiou

Kazuyuki Shiga

A tofu packing device includes a pack covering device and a pack supply device. The pack covering device is configured to cover a plurality of cakes of tofu with packs in a state in which the packs are upside down, the plurality of cakes of tofu being aligned at predetermined intervals in front, rear, left and right directions on a conveying surface of a transfer conveyor. The pack supply device is configured to continuously supply the packs to the pack covering device from a lateral side of the transfer conveyor.

Tofu packing device

A tofu packaging apparatus includes: a pack covering device configured to cover each of a plurality cakes of tofu with a pack that is in a reversed state, the plurality of cakes of tofu being arranged at predetermined intervals in a front, rear, left, and right on a conveyance surface of a transfer conveyor; and an inversion device disposed on a downstream side of the pack covering device, the inversion device being configured to invert the tofu upside down while the tofu is covered with the pack. The pack covering device includes a tip end grip portion configured to grip the pack in the reversed state and cover the tofu halfway with the pack. The inversion device is configured to invert the tofu covered with the pack in the reversed state to store the tofu in the pack.

Tofu packaging apparatus

An inversion guide device is configured to guide tofu conveyed by a transfer conveyor and inverted by a turn-back portion at one end of the transfer conveyor. The inversion guide device includes an endless conveyor configured to support the tofu along a track of the turn-back portion and guide the tofu while being driven in a circulating manner.

Inversion guide device and tofu production device

An apparatus for producing soymilk includes heating units for heating a soybean soup, a defoaming unit for defoaming a heated soybean soup, an extracting unit for separating a defoamed soybean soup into soymilk, bean curd refuse and a liquid residue, and pipe lines for returning the separated liquid residue between the defoaming unit and the heating unit to refeed the separated liquid residue to the defoaming unit. The pipe lines for refeeding the separated liquid residue to the defoaming unit are connected to a liquid residue discharge port of the extracting unit from which the separated liquid residue is taken out and refed to the defoaming unit with a transfer pump.

Process for producing soymilk and apparatus for producing soymilk

Rotating grind stone

A tofu packing apparatus for packing plural tofu blocks in individual packs for sales includes a conveyor for conveying the plural tofu blocks cut to a predetermined size and arrayed at predetermined intervals, and a paired grasp plates be driven in the direction to approach each other. The tofu blocks cut to a predetermined size are grasped with the paired grasp plates, moved to predetermined positions above packaging packs conveyed to predetermined positions with the packaging pack conveyance apparatus, and dropped and packed in the packaging packs through release of grasp by the paired grasp plates. The tofu blocks may be dropped and housed in the packaging packs while at least maintaining the tofu blocks in a holding state by the paired grasp plates.

Packing device of tofu

An apparatus for producing tofu coagulant includes a liquid food oil pumping pathway, a liquid food oil tank, a mineral salt solution pumping pathway, a mineral salt solution tank, a plurality of metering pumps, and an emulsion dispersion machine for stirring the liquid food oil with the mineral salt solution to an emulsification phase. The liquid food oil pumping pathway is connected with the mineral salt solution pumping pathway, the mineral salt solution is added in a predetermined ratio for producing the tofu coagulant, and the water phase and the oil phase are stirred and mixed to W/O type (water in oil type) emulsion (without emulsifier).

Tofu coagulant producing apparatus and soymilk coagulation machine comprising the same

A solid-liquid separator using a roller system includes a casing, rollers disposed within the casing and each provided with a screen that is formed in the outer periphery thereof with plural pores for separating via the plural pores a solid substance from a solid-liquid substance disposed outside the rollers and filtering a liquid substance toward inside the rollers, inside drums each disposed along the inner circumference of each of the rollers, and a passageway which is formed by means of the screen and the inner drum and which is provided with an outlet. The liquid substance separated by means of the screen is allowed to flow along the passageway, collected at the outlet and discharged from the outlet.

Solid-liquid separator using roller system

A solid-liquid separator using a roller system includes a casing, rollers disposed within the casing and each provided with a screen that is formed in an outer periphery thereof with plural pores, a supply device disposed outside the rollers for supplying into the casing under appropriate pressure a solid-liquid mixture to be separated into a solid component via the plural pores and a liquid component filtered inside, a casing wall disposed adjacent to the rollers after the solid-liquid mixture supplied with the supply device is passed through the rollers rotated, a discharge window formed in the casing wall for discharging the solid component, and a pressure application lid formed on the casing wall for stably applying prescribed pressure in a direction of closing the discharge window with a pressure application device. The liquid component is separated from the solid-liquid mixture by means of the rollers and the solid component is discharged from the discharge window on which pressure has been exerted by means of the pressure application lid.

It is to provide a process and apparatus for producing soymilk which is obtained by completely deactivating various kinds of enzymes responsible for a grassy smell, while preventing heating unevenness, and inducing appropriate thermal denaturation of protein and a rich flavor, and which can be processed by coagulation into tofu high in water retentivity and elasticity and rich in flavor. [Solving means] The apparatus includes a submerged friction-grinding unit M having a friction-grinding portion in which soybeans are friction-ground together with soybean-grinding water to obtain a raw soybean soup, a heating unit N for heating the raw soybean soup obtained in the submerged friction-grinding unit M, a connecting pipe Pfor connecting the submerged grinding unit M and the heating unit N and a preheating unit Yattached to the connecting pipe Pfor preheating the raw soybean soup, whereby the raw soybean soup obtained in the submerged friction-grinding unit M is fed into the heating unit N while being preheated and is then further heated in the heating unit N The heating step by the heating unit N may be divided into multiple stages.

Process for producing soy milk

The object of the present invention is to provide a continuous curding machine for tofu products, designed to be capable of manufacturing clean tofu products in that it will not cause a leakage of soymilk and seams and/or wrinkles on the tofu, sanitary and simple in mechanism, easy to perform transport of tofu to following processes, and capable of forming a deep coagulation compartment so as to enable 'tatedori' (taking the depth of the coagulation compartment to be the longest side of the tofu). The machine is equipped with the conveyor belt C that transports coagulating coagulant-added soymilk as well as with a concave memberdisposed underneath the belt. The belt C is conveyed as it is shaped into concave in accordance with the form of the said concave memberdisposed underneath, and forms a coagulating compartment

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Ishikawa, Japan

Toichiro Takai