US 11,950,614 B2
Food material powder supply device
Kenta Katsumata, Kanagawa (JP); Takeshi Okiyama, Kanagawa (JP); and Yasuhisa Ogata, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to SODICK CO., LTD., Kanagawa (JP)
Filed by SODICK CO., LTD., Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/082,041.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-196847 (JP), filed on Oct. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0127717 A1, May 6, 2021
Int. Cl. B01F 27/091 (2022.01); A23L 3/00 (2006.01); A23L 3/015 (2006.01); A23L 3/36 (2006.01); B01F 27/112 (2022.01); B01F 27/1145 (2022.01); B01F 33/70 (2022.01); B01F 35/90 (2022.01)
CPC A23L 3/361 (2013.01) [A23L 3/001 (2013.01); A23L 3/003 (2013.01); A23L 3/0155 (2013.01); B01F 27/091 (2022.01); B01F 27/112 (2022.01); B01F 27/1145 (2022.01); B01F 33/70 (2022.01); B01F 2035/99 (2022.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A food material powder supply device, comprising:
a supply tank that temporarily stores food material powder in a tank and supplies the food material powder to a processing container of a food processing machine;
a vacuum device that reduces the pressure inside the supply tank with vacuum pumps; and
a control device that operates the vacuum device to reduce the internal pressure of the supply tank to be equal to or lower than an atmospheric pressure at which moisture of the food material powder is evaporated, and cools the food material powder in the supply tank, wherein
a stirring member which is driven to rotate during the cooling of the food material powder is arranged inside the tank, and
the vacuum device comprises a filter connected to a gas discharge port of the supply tank, a cold trap arranged close to the gas discharge port of the filter, and a filter vibrating member attached to the filter.