PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rice feeder that can change a thickness of a tabular rice.SOLUTION: A rice feeder includes: at least a pair of rollers 50a, 50b that discharges a rice to be made a tabular shape a motor 19a that revolves respective rollers 50a, 50b in a delivery direction a linkage L that varies a relative distance between the pair of rollers 50a, 50b and a control part 10 that controls the linkage L so that a relative distance between the pair of rollers 50a, 50b may vary between a first state in which the betweenness of the pair of rollers 50a, 50b is performed by closest approach, and a third state in which the betweenness of the pair of rollers 50a, 50b is alienated than in the first state, in a midstream of an operation in which a tabular rice is discharged by the revolution of the pair of rollers 50a, 50b.COPYRIGHT: (C)2014,JPO&INPIT【課題】板状の米飯の厚さを変化させることのできる米飯供給装置を提供する。【解決手段】米飯を板状にして送り出す少なくとも一対のローラ50a、50bと、各ローラ50a、50bを送り出し方向に回転させるモータ19aと、一対のローラ50a、50b間の相対的距離を変動させるリンク機構Lと、一対のローラ50a、50bの回転により板状の米飯の送り出しを行う動作の途中においては、一対のローラ50a、50b間が最接近した第1の状態と、一対のローラ50a、50b間が第1の状態よりも離間した第3の状態との間で一対のローラ50a、50b間の相対的距離が変動するようにリンク機構Lを制御する制御部10とを有する。【選択図】図7
