PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rice cake reclaiming apparatus for reclaiming a rice cake suitable for processing to cubic rice crackers, cut rice cakes, rice cake sweets, etc., from rice cake chips without deteriorating rice cake quality, by kneading the chips generated from a rice cake without steaming again.SOLUTION: The rice cake reclaiming apparatus is provided with a heatable cylindrical casing 6 having a charging port 8 for rice cake chips and a discharging port 10 for kneaded rice cake, and a heatable screw conveyor 7 rotatably held in the cylindrical casing 6. The diameter 27 of a middle part of a screw shaft 24 is decreased to form a wide kneading space 28, while the casing 6 is extractable in the longitudinal direction of the screw conveyor 7, and a screw blade 25 of the screw conveyor 7 below the charging port 8 of the casing 6 is divided into multiple sections.COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT【課題】餅から生じた端片を再度蒸すことなく練り合わせ、品質が劣ることがなく、あられや切り餅、餅菓子等の加工に最適な餅を再生するための餅の再生装置を提供する。【解決手段】端片の投入口8と練り混んだ餅の吐出口10とを有し、加熱可能とした円筒状ケーシング6内に加熱可能なスクリューコンベア7を回転可能に収容し、スクリュー軸24の中央部の径27を細くして面積の広い混練空間28とし、ケーシング6はスクリューコンベア7の長さ方向に引き外し可能としてあり、また、ケーシング6の投入口8下方におけるスクリューコンベア7のスクリュー羽根25は複数に分断してある。【選択図】図1
