CN215775360U - Continuous vegetarian meat production device - Google Patents

Abstract

The application provides a continuous type vegetarian meat apparatus for producing, includes: an axial extruder receiving a raw meat material and heating and extruding the raw meat material to produce a raw material flow; and a vegetarian meat forming device having a feed end and a discharge end, the feed end coupled to the axial extruder for receiving the vegetarian material from the axial extruder, the vegetarian meat forming device comprising: a plurality of sleeves coupled in series with one another; the shaft rod is arranged on the central shafts of the sleeves, and a flow passage is formed between the shaft rod and the sleeves; the shaft rod is driven to rotate to generate a shearing force to drive the vegetable material flow to rotate in the flow channel and output from the discharge end, and the sleeves can be respectively heated or cooled to heat or cool the vegetable material flow in the flow channel in a segmented manner.

Description

Continuous vegetarian meat production device

Technical Field

The application relates to a continuous type vegetarian meat production device, in particular to a device which can continuously feed and provide shearing force to extrude vegetarian meat.

Background

In recent years, in the process of preparing vegetarian meat, a double-shaft extruder is used for preparing vegetarian meat embryo, which has a very important position in the market of vegetarian meat, because although the appearance of the vegetarian meat embryo has fibrous feeling, the defects still need to be processed for the second time and be added with adhesive and the like to prepare the final vegetarian meat product, and the fibrous tissue in the original vegetarian meat embryo has irregular fiber distribution direction after the secondary processing and is obviously different from the fiber with real meat orientation, so the vegetarian meat product in the process has no animal meat-like taste.

In order to improve the taste, the former technology is dry extrusion technology, the latter technology is high moisture extrusion technology, when the vegetable protein increases moisture, the fiber structure is formed by matching more precise extrusion process parameters with hardware, and the difficulty is higher than that of dry extrusion, therefore, in order to improve the technology, the development of the preparation of the vegetable meat is improved by applying low shear flow recently, the technology has the advantages that the fiber generation rate can be increased and the structure can be increased without adding adhesive, while the common vegetable meat extrusion technology applying low shear force on the market is that the vegetable meat raw material is put into a machine table with a certain space for melting and curing to generate a flowing protein melt with primary fiber, then the flowing protein melt is rotated under low shear force to generate fiber, then cooling is carried out to solidify the tissue, and finally the vegetable meat is taken out of the machine table, because the defect of the mode is that only a certain amount of the vegetable meat raw material can be prepared into the vegetable meat in batches, in addition, the heating and cooling time of the batch takes a certain time, and further the production capacity of the vegetarian meat is limited, so the problem of solving the above defects is the subject of the present application.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In order to solve the above-mentioned defect, the present application provides a continuous type vegetarian meat production apparatus, comprising: an axial extruder receiving a raw meat material and heating and extruding the raw meat material to produce a raw material flow; and a vegetarian meat forming device having a feed end and a discharge end, the feed end coupled to the axial extruder for receiving the vegetarian material from the axial extruder, the vegetarian meat forming device comprising: a plurality of sleeves coupled in series with one another; the shaft rod is arranged on the central shafts of the sleeves, and a flow passage is formed between the shaft rod and the sleeves; the shaft rod is driven to rotate to generate a shearing force to drive the vegetable material flow to rotate in the flow channel and output from the discharge end, and the sleeves can be respectively heated or cooled to heat or cool the vegetable material flow in the flow channel in a segmented manner.

And a continuous type vegetarian meat production apparatus is provided, comprising: an axial extruder receiving a raw meat material and heating and extruding the raw meat material to produce a raw material flow; and a vegetarian meat forming device having a feed end and a discharge end, the feed end coupled to the axial extruder for receiving the vegetarian material from the axial extruder, the vegetarian meat forming device comprising: a plurality of sleeves coupled in series with one another; the shaft rod is arranged on the central shafts of the sleeves, and a flow passage is formed between the shaft rod and the sleeves; the shaft rod is driven to rotate to generate a shearing force to drive the vegetable material flow to rotate in the flow channel and output from the discharge end, and the sleeves can be respectively heated or cooled to heat or cool the vegetable material flow in the flow channel in a segmented manner.

The above two devices can be continuously performed in the process without waiting for the cooling of the meat and the additional process of taking out the meat again.

The continuous type vegetarian meat production device further comprises a connecting device for connecting the axial extruder and the feeding end. Thus, the flow speed of the vegetarian material flow entering the continuous vegetarian meat production device can be adjusted.

The continuous type meat analogue producing apparatus as described above, wherein the axial extruder is a single-shaft extruder or a twin-shaft extruder. Thus, various types of extruders can be used.

The continuous meat analogue production device described above, wherein each of the plurality of sleeves comprises an inner wall and an outer wall, a sandwich structure is formed between the inner wall and the outer wall, and each sandwich structure is externally connected with a heat source or a cooling source. Thus, the plurality of sleeves can control the temperature of the raw material flow in sections or the temperature of the raw material flow as a whole.

The continuous meat preparation apparatus as described above, wherein the shaft comprises a plurality of shaft sections having a hollow structure and connected to each other, and the plurality of shaft sections are externally connected to a heat source or a cooling source, respectively. This makes it possible to control the temperature of the raw material flow independently or as a whole at each shaft section.

In the above continuous type device for producing raw meat, the axial extruder is provided at one end or one side of the device for forming raw meat. This makes it possible to freely assemble the continuous meat analogue producing apparatus with the extruder.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing a continuous type meat analogue production apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing the direction in which a vegetable stream of the present invention flows in a continuous vegetable meat production apparatus.

FIG. 3 is a schematic view showing another embodiment of the continuous type meat analogue production apparatus of the present application.

Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the application taken along line a-a in fig. 1-3.

Fig. 5A-5C are schematic diagrams illustrating various embodiments of shaft control temperatures of the present application.

Fig. 6A is a schematic view showing the configuration of the connecting device of the present application.

Fig. 6B is a schematic view showing the change in the sectional area of the connecting device of the present application.

Fig. 7 is a schematic view showing the configuration of the support stand of the present application.

Description of reference numerals:

100 continuous type vegetarian meat apparatus for producing

110 vegetarian meat forming device

111 sleeve

1111 interlayer

112 shaft lever

1121A first shaft section

1121B second shaft section

1121C third shaft segment

1122 connecting hole

1123 supporting shaft

1124 groove

113 sealing element

114 delivery pipe

120-axial extruder

130 connecting device

131A circular flange

131B square flange

131C conversion flow channel unit

132 support frame

P0 feed end

P1 inlet channel

P2 flow passage

P3 discharge end

Detailed Description

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, a continuous type meat analogue production apparatus 100 of the present application comprises a meat analogue forming device 110, an axial extruder 120 and a connecting device 130, wherein the meat analogue forming device 110 and the axial extruder 120 are coupled by the connecting device 130 to form a continuous feeding and continuous meat analogue production apparatus, wherein the axial extruder 120 comprises a feeding unit, not shown, for providing raw materials such as vegetable proteins, for example: powdery raw materials such as soybean, wheat and pea protein; a water inlet unit for providing water to the powdery raw materials and mixing them uniformly; and an extrusion main machine for stirring, heating, and molding the raw materials to form a fluid protein melt (hereinafter referred to as "vegetable stream") of wet vegetable meat pieces, which flows from the axial extruder 120 to the vegetable meat molding device 110 through an inlet channel P1 of the connection device 130.

Next, the meat molding device 110 coupled to the axial extruder 120 comprises: a plurality of sleeves 111, a shaft 112 and a sealing member 113, wherein the plurality of sleeves 111 are connected in series and the sleeves 111 are connected to each other by circular flanges (3 sleeves are coupled to each other in the drawing), thereby forming a hollow flow passage P2, wherein the plurality of sleeves 111 are fixed on the machine or the ground without rotation. The flow path P2 can be formed by increasing or decreasing the number and size of sleeves according to the flow rate or flow demand of the vegetable stream. The plurality of sleeves 111 connected in series have a feeding end P0 and a discharging end P3, the raw meat forming device 110 is connected to the axial extruder 120 at the feeding end P0 by a connecting device 130, and the end of the sleeve at the feeding end P0 is provided with a sealing member 113 to form a sealing side to prevent the raw meat from flowing out from the feeding end P0, the sealing member 113 is implemented by fixing a sealing flange on the sleeve 111, the diameter of the sealing flange is the same as that of the circular flange of the sleeve 111, and the center of the sealing flange is provided with a bearing seat 1123 for supporting the shaft rod 112; the discharge end P3 is an open outlet, so that the raw material flows from the inlet passage P1 of the inlet end P0 to the discharge end P3 through the flow passage P2, as shown by the arrow in fig. 2. The shaft rod 112 is put into the flow channel P2 of the plurality of sleeves 111 from one end of the discharge end P3, and the axis of the shaft rod 112 is symmetrical to the plurality of sleeves 111 (please refer to fig. 4 at the same time), and the shaft rod 112 is driven by the rotation of an external motor (not shown in the figure), so as to generate a shearing force, so as to drive the vegetarian material flow to be conveyed from the feed end P0 to the discharge end P3, thereby forming vegetarian meat with better taste.

Referring to fig. 1 and 3, the present application provides an embodiment of a combination of the meat molding device 110 and the axial extruder 120, the first is an L-shape (as shown in fig. 1 or 2), the axial extruder 110 is coupled to a side portion of the barrel 111 of the feeding end P0 of the meat molding device 110, wherein the side portion can also be referred to as being coupled from above the barrel 111 of the feeding end P0; secondly, the axial extruder 110 is directly coupled to the feed end P0 of the meat analogue forming device 110 in a linear arrangement 120 (as shown in fig. 3), so that the second coupling can be performed without the need for additional sealing members 113.

The details of the temperature control provided by the sleeve 111 and shaft 112 of the present application are described below.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the cut a-a of the meat molding device 110 of fig. 1 to 3, wherein the conveying pipe 114 is not shown for easy understanding, and as shown in the drawings, each sleeve 111 of the present application is respectively provided with an interlayer 1111, the interlayer 1111 is located between the outer wall and the inner wall of the sleeve 111, the interlayer 1111 can be externally communicated with a heat source or a cooling source (as shown by arrows in fig. 4), preferably, when the meat molding device 110 needs to be heated or cooled, the lower portion of the sleeve 111 is communicated with a heat source or a cooling source, and the interlayer 1111 is filled up, so as to achieve uniform heating temperature at the outer portion of the vegetable material flow flowing in the flow passage P2, when the temperature needs to be changed, the original heat source or cooling source is discharged from the upper portion, and simultaneously, a new heat source or cooling source is communicated to the lower portion, so as to achieve the interlayer temperature control effect, since the interlayers of the sleeves 111 can be separately, therefore, the device 110 can control the temperature in different sections, but the layers 1111 can be connected to each other according to the requirement.

In addition, the outer surface of the shaft 112 is further provided with a plurality of grooves 1124, and in some embodiments, the plurality of grooves 1124 may be in the shape of a strip, a wave, a saw-tooth shape, or any suitable shape. When the shaft rod 112 rotates, the sleeves 111 are fixed, the sleeves 111 and the shaft rod 112 move relative to each other, and the grooves 1124 of the present application can provide a stronger surface friction force for the shaft rod 112, so that the shaft rod 112 can form a stronger shearing force with the sleeves 111 when rotating.

Referring to fig. 5A, in addition to the above-mentioned temperature control by using the sleeve 111 in the outer direction of the flow passage P2, the present application also provides temperature control by using the shaft 112 in the inner direction of the flow passage P2, the shaft 112 of the present application is mainly composed of a plurality of shaft sections (e.g., 1121A to 1121C) connected to each other and support shafts 1123 provided at both ends, the plurality of shaft sections and the support shafts 1123 are hollow structures, and a heat source or a cooling source can be circulated through a conveying pipe 114 for heating or cooling by stages.

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present invention, the shaft rod is composed of three segments, namely, a first shaft rod segment 1121A, a second shaft rod segment 1121B and a third shaft rod segment 1121C, and each of the two ends of each shaft rod segment has an inner thread or an outer thread respectively, so that the two ends can be mutually locked and combined to form the complete shaft rod 112. The support shaft 1123 is fixed and supported by a sealing flange bearing seat and a power connecting bearing seat, respectively, and has a guide groove (not shown) formed as a semicircular column for fixing the delivery pipe 114 and discharging cold and heat sources at the outer side thereof, a water outlet at the lower side thereof, a fixed hollow circular tube and a fixing screw at the vertical side at the other side thereof for fixing the delivery pipe 114, thereby forming a cantilever structure. Wherein the diameter of the delivery pipe 114 is smaller than the inner hole of the support shaft 1123, the delivery pipe 114 can be a fixed hollow circular pipe, the delivery pipe 114 enters the inside of the shaft 112 and is fixed, and the heat source or the cooling source enters the inside of the shaft 112 through the delivery pipe 114, and when the heat source or the cooling source is higher than the connection hole 1122 of the shaft 112, the heat source or the cooling source flows out of the connection hole 1122 of the shaft 112 to the guiding groove and is discharged from the water outlet at the lower part (the arrow in the figure is the direction of discharging the heat source or the cooling source).

As shown in fig. 5A, the shaft 112 may have different heating and cooling sections according to different heating and cooling requirements, the central hole and the connecting hole 1112 of each shaft section are in the same horizontal position after assembly, the delivery pipe 114 enters the central hole of the shaft 112 from the third shaft section 1121C on the right side, the position of the water outlet of the delivery pipe 114 is adjusted according to the requirement, and the connecting hole 1122 is used as a heat source or a cooling source for backflow.

When the shaft rod sections 1121A to 1121C all need to be heated or cooled, the water outlet of the conveying pipe 114 is located in the first shaft rod section 1121A on the left side, and the connecting hole 1112 near the lower portion is in a communicating state, and a heat source or a cooling source is conveyed from the conveying pipe 114 to the first shaft rod section 1121A, when the height of the internal heat source or cooling source is higher than the hole near the lower portion, the internal heat source or cooling source is circulated from the first shaft rod section 1121A to the second shaft rod section 1121B in the middle, and similarly, the internal heat source or cooling source is also circulated from the second shaft rod section 1121B to the third shaft rod section 1121C on the right side, when the heat source or cooling source is continuously input, and the full height reaches the axial height of the third shaft rod section 1121C on the right side, the heat source or cooling source also overflows from the central hole of each shaft rod section and is discharged through the guide groove.

As shown in fig. 5B, if the first shaft portion 1121A does not need temperature control, only when the second shaft portion 1121B and the third shaft portion 1121C do temperature control, the water outlet of the conveying pipe 114 is positioned in the second shaft portion 1121B, the connecting holes 1122 of the second shaft portion 1121B and the third shaft portion 1121C are closed, and the heat source or the cooling source only flows in the second shaft portion 1121B and the third shaft portion 1121C. In addition, since the first shaft section 1121A is close to the water outlet of the delivery pipe 114 of the middle second shaft section 1121B and is located at the inlet of the heated raw material flow, the temperature of the first shaft section 1121A can be naturally raised due to its location advantage, and the temperature can be controlled without particularly passing through the delivery pipe 114 than the temperature of the other two sections of shaft sections 1121B and 1121C.

As shown in fig. 5C, when the left first shaft portion 1121 still requires temperature control, the central holes and the connecting holes 112 of the first shaft portion 1121A and the second shaft portion 1121B can be locked during assembly or by additional arrangements, so as to prevent the heat source or the cooling source from flowing in a positive or mutual direction, and at the same time, a conveying pipe 114 is respectively disposed from the first shaft portion 1121A and the third shaft portion 1121C into the shaft 112 for inputting heat sources or cooling sources with different temperatures. For example, the first shaft portion 1121A may be a high temperature source, and the second shaft portion 1121B and the third shaft portion 1121C may be a cooling source, so that the flow of the raw material in the flow channel P2 is driven by the first shaft portion 1121A to enhance the rotational fluidity, and the second shaft portion 1121B and the third shaft portion 1121C are driven by the second shaft portion 1121B and the third shaft portion 1121C to accelerate the cooling speed of the raw material.

The details of the connecting device 130 of the present application are explained below.

Referring to fig. 6A and fig. 1, an embodiment of the connection device 130 of the present application is in an arrangement manner that the raw meat forming device 110 and the axial extruder 120 of fig. 1 are connected in an L shape, and the embodiment of the connection device 130 of the present application is composed of a circular flange 131A, a square flange 131B and a diversion channel unit 131C, wherein the circular flange 131A is disposed at an outlet side of the axial extruder 120 for fixing an outlet of the axial extruder 120, and the square flange 131B is disposed at an inlet side of the raw meat forming device 110. The cross section of the inlet channel of the conversion channel unit 131C is circular, the diameter of the inlet channel is the diameter of the circular flange 131A, the cross section of the outlet channel is elongated, the cross section of the outlet channel is the cross section of the outlet of the square flange 131B, and the cross section of the conversion channel unit 131C gradually changes from the circular cross section of the circular flange 131A to the direction of the axial extruder 120 side to the raw meat forming device 110 side to form the elongated cross section of the outlet of the square flange 131B.

Another embodiment of the connection device 130 of the present application is an arrangement in which the meat analogue forming device 110 and the axial extruder 120 are connected in a straight line in fig. 3, and the connection device 130 is provided with a circular flange 131A disposed at the outlet of the axial extruder 120, a circular flange disposed at the inlet of the meat analogue forming device 110, and a switching flow channel unit 131C, wherein the difference between the present embodiment and the above embodiments is that a square flange 131B disposed at the inlet of the meat analogue forming device 110 is changed to a circular flange, the diameter of the circular flange is smaller than that of the circular flange 131A at the outlet of the axial extruder 120, and the cross-sectional area of the switching flow channel unit 131C is gradually changed from the circular cross-section of the circular flange 131A to a smaller circular cross-section in the direction from the axial extruder 120 to the meat analogue forming device 110.

Referring to fig. 6B, the two configurations of the conversion flow channel unit 131C are configured such that the cross-sectional area of the conversion flow channel unit 131C of the connection device 130 is gradually reduced toward the raw meat forming device 110, but the flow rate of the raw meat stream can be adjusted by adjusting the change of the cross-sectional area of the conversion flow channel unit 131C according to the requirement, so that the present application can also be implemented by only one connection device 130 with a changed cross-sectional area inside to control the change of the flow rate of the raw meat stream.

In addition, the flow rate of the raw material flowing through the inlet passage P1 to the raw meat forming device 110 is increased, so that a large fluid force is applied between the raw meat forming device 110 and the connecting device 130, and the connection may be loosened, so that the present application further provides a supporting frame 132 to overcome the above problem.

Referring to fig. 7, the supporting frame 132 is disposed between the connecting device 130 and the meat forming device 110 shown in the in-line embodiment of fig. 3, the supporting frame 132 of the present application is preferably made of a combination of teflon sheets and stainless steel, which are cross-shaped stainless steel, the central hole of the teflon sheets is smaller than the central hole of the cross-shaped stainless steel, and the diameter of the central hole of the teflon sheets is very close to that of the shaft 112, when the shaft 112 and the teflon sheets are fixed in rotating contact, the fluid force of the raw material flow towards the meat forming device 110 can be absorbed by the supporting frame 132, and the supporting frame 121 has the additional advantages that the central holes of the cross-shaped stainless steel and the teflon sheets are close to that of the shaft 112, so that the teflon sheets are only slightly deformed, and the overall concentricity of the shaft 112 can be maintained.

In summary, the continuous vegetarian meat production device 100 of the present application can compare the equipment that can only make vegetarian meat in batches on the market, can be continuous provide vegetarian meat raw materials, the vegetarian meat process is carried out continuously to produce terminal vegetarian meat product, and the present application can conveniently assemble on any board and can change the repacking according to the productivity, reach best vegetarian meat productivity efficiency, and can control the temperature on sleeve and axostylus axostyle in sections, make vegetarian material flow can make under the best temperature and take shape and quick cooling, reach the optimization on letting the taste of vegetarian meat.

Claims (8)

1. A continuous type vegetarian meat production device is characterized by comprising:

an axial extruder receiving a raw meat material and heating and extruding the raw meat material to produce a raw material flow; and

a vegetarian meat forming apparatus having a feed end and a discharge end, the feed end coupled to the axial extruder to receive the vegetarian material stream from the axial extruder, the vegetarian meat forming apparatus comprising:

a plurality of sleeves coupled in series with one another; and

the shaft rod is arranged on the central shafts of the sleeves, and a flow passage is formed between the shaft rod and the sleeves;

the shaft rod is driven to rotate to generate a shearing force to drive the vegetable material flow to rotate in the flow channel and output from the discharge end, and the sleeves can be respectively heated or cooled to heat or cool the vegetable material flow in the flow channel in a segmented manner.

2. The continuous meat preparation device of claim 1, further comprising a connecting device connecting said axial extruder and said feeding end.

3. A continuous meat analogue production device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the axial extruder is a single or twin screw extruder.

4. The continuous type meat analogue production device of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of sleeves comprises an inner wall and an outer wall, a sandwich structure is formed between the inner wall and the outer wall, and each sandwich structure is externally connected with a heat source or a cooling source.

5. Continuous meat preparation device according to claim 1, wherein the shaft comprises a plurality of shaft sections of hollow structure and connected to each other.

6. A continuous meat preparation device as claimed in claim 5 wherein the shaft sections are each externally vented by a heat or cooling source.

7. A continuous meat preparation device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the axial extruder is provided at one end or a side of the meat preparation device.

8. A continuous type vegetarian meat production device is characterized by comprising:

an axial extruder receiving a raw meat material and heating and extruding the raw meat material to produce a raw material flow; and

a vegetarian meat forming apparatus having a feed end and a discharge end, the feed end coupled to the axial extruder to receive the vegetarian material stream from the axial extruder, the vegetarian meat forming apparatus comprising:

a plurality of sleeves coupled in series with one another; and

the shaft rod is arranged on the central shafts of the sleeves, and a flow passage is formed between the shaft rod and the sleeves;

the shaft rod is driven to rotate to generate a shearing force to drive the vegetable material flow to rotate in the flow channel and output from the discharge end, and the shaft rod can be heated or cooled in sections to heat or cool the vegetable material flow in the flow channel in sections.

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