PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a food material such as a rice ball allowing to securely wrapping ingredients in a central position of a sheet-like food material, having moderate hardness hardly causing deformation, including ingredients, and excellent in palate feeling.SOLUTION: A molding apparatus 30 is formed to have a pair of belt side end raising guides 33 and 33 arranged in an upright condition in the width direction of a conveyor belt 31 for laying the food material R formed in a sheet-like shape, a pair of right and left side narrow pressing rollers 34 and 34 which form a curved part into which the upper side of the sheet-like food material is strained, and an upper surface trimming roller 35 which presses and trims a mass-like food material on the belt conveyor, released from the belt side end raising guides.COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT【課題】シート状食材の中心位置に具材を確実に内包させ、型崩れしにくい適度の硬さを有するともに、具材を内包して食感に優れたおむすびなどの食材を供給する。【解決手段】シート状に形成した食材Rが載置されるコンベアベルト31の幅方向に立設された一対のベルト側端起立用ガイド33、33と、シート状食材の上側が絞り込まれる湾曲部を形成させる左右一対の側面挟圧ローラ34、34と、前記ベルト側端起立用ガイドから開放されたコンベアベルト上の塊状食材を押圧整形する上面整形ローラ35と、を有するように成形装置30を構成する。【選択図】図3
