PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide new packaged omelet for solving many problems in production processes of conventional thick omelet, and to provide a method and apparatus for effectively producing the packaged omelet.SOLUTION: This apparatus for producing the packaged omelet includes a firing pan transferring unit of intermittently transferring a plurality of firing pans along a firing line, a liquid egg filler of measuring and filling liquid egg in the firing pans, a reversible unit of rotating the firing pans in order to reverse and take out fired half-cooked omelet in a half-cooked condition, having minute bubbles and fired smell, a half-cooked omelet filler of filling a prescribed container with the half-cooked omelet, a lid covering unit of covering a lid on the container storing the half-cooked omelet, a heater of heating the covered container in order to sterilize and solidify the half-cooked omelet filled in the container, and a cooler for cooling the covered container storing the half-cooked omelet heat sterilized and solidified by the heater.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】従来の厚焼玉子焼の製造工程における多くの問題点を解消することができ新規な容器入り玉子焼並びにその容器入り玉子焼を効率的に製造することのできる製造装置及び製造方法を提供する。【解決手段】複数の焼成鍋を焼成ラインに沿って間欠的に移動させる焼成鍋移動手段と、前記焼成鍋内に液卵を計量充填する液卵充填手段と、焼成されて微泡及び焼き臭を有する半生状態の半生玉子焼を反転させて取出すために前記焼成鍋を回動させる反転取出し手段と、半生玉子焼を所定の容器に充填する半生玉子焼充填手段と、半生玉子焼を収容した容器に蓋体を被着する蓋被着手段と、前記容器に充填された半生玉子焼を殺菌しかつ固化するために該蓋被着した容器を加熱する加熱手段と、前記加熱手段によって加熱殺菌固化された玉子焼を収容した該蓋被着した容器を冷却する冷却手段と、を具備するようにした。【選択図】図1
