PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a boiled rice feeder preventing the collapse of plate-like boiled rice, and changing the thickness of plate-like boiled rice.SOLUTION: This boiled rice feeder includes at least a pair of rollers 50a and 50b making boiled rice in a plate-like form followed by sending out, a driving means 19a rotating each of the rollers to a sending-out direction, a distance changing means L for changing a relative distance between a pair of the rollers, and a distance control means for controlling to operate the distance changing means L at previously set timing.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】板状の米飯の潰れを防止し、また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、前記各ローラを送り出し方向に回転させる駆動手段19aと、前記一対のローラ間の相対的距離を変動させる距離変動手段Lと、予め設定されるタイミングで、前記距離変動手段を動作させるように制御する距離制御手段とを有する。【選択図】図7
