Takai Tofu & Soymilk Equipment Company Limited

Toshio Hirata

Toichiro Takai

Toru Awazu

Masahide Takeda

Kenji Honda

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

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.

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Ishikawa, Japan

Toshio Hirata