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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2015
Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd., Tochigi, JP;
Shigeru Hashimoto, Tochigi, JP;
Takeshi Oderaotoshi, Tochigi, JP;
RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD., Tochigi, JP;
Abstract
To provide a shutter piece in a food shaping device that is capable of opening and closing an enclosure surrounded by a plurality of shutter pieces, the shutter piece including a flexure allowance part between a rotation center position of a shutter piece and a distal end part of the shutter piece to allow flexure of a distal-end side portion of the shutter piece in the opposite direction from a closing opening direction during a closing operation of the shutter piece, in which the flexure allowance part is constituted by a slit, a cutaway part, or a hole, and the flexure allowance part includes a flexure-amount adjustment mechanism to adjust the amount of flexure of the distal-end side portion of the shutter piece.