PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flow-type leaf-beating machine facilitating change in the number of rotation of a rotary axis corresponding to the variety of tea leaf nature, and automatically keeping the amount of tea leaves staying in a plurality of rolling/drying chambers respectively suitable for leaf beating treatment.SOLUTION: The flow-type leaf-beating machine has the following structure: the inside of a rolling/drying cylinder 2 is divided into a plurality of rolling/drying chambers R a rotary axis 5 supporting a leaf dredger 6 or a rolling hand 7 is independently supported in every rolling/drying chamber R, and independently driven by an individual driving motor and a flowing-amount controlling intermediate valve 30 freely openable is set at the boundary of each of the rolling/drying chambers R, so that an opening degree of the flowing-amount controlling intermediate valve 30 is controlled based on the detected value of the amount of the tea leaves (A) staying in each of the rolling/drying chambers R.COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT【課題】茶葉の性状の変化に応じ、回転主軸の回転数を変更することを容易に行うことができるとともに、複数の各揉乾室の茶葉滞留量を葉打処理に適した量に自動的に維持することを実現する流動式葉打機を提供する。【解決手段】流動式の葉打機において、揉乾胴2内を複数の揉乾室Rに区分し、葉ざらい6または揉手7を支持する回転主軸5を各揉乾室R毎に独立して具えるとともに、個別の駆動モータにより独立して駆動する。一方、前記各揉乾室Rの境界に開閉自在な流量制御中間バルブ30を設ける。そして前記各揉乾室Rの茶葉Aの滞留量の検出値に基づき、前記流量制御中間バルブ30の開度を制御することを特徴とする。【選択図】図1
