PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide rice molding equipment in which, while maintaining the suitable amount value of rice lumps, air is incorporated into the rice lumps.SOLUTION: The rice molding equipment 1 comprises: a rice loosening part 2 a rice measuring-dividing part 3 installed in the lower part thereof a molding apparatus 6 and an air injection apparatus 7. The air injection apparatus 7 has a constitution that, in a process where rice lumps RM measured and divided by the rice measuring-dividing part 3 and stored in the molding hole MH of a turn table 4 are molded by the molding apparatus 6, air (compressed air) A fed to the air injection port 6Ui of the pressing face in a molding upper die 6U through an air tube 7t can be injected into the rice lumps RM immediately before the pressing face of the molding upper die 6U is contacted with the rice lumps RM. In this way, air can be incorporated into the rice lumps RM while retaining the suitable amount value of the rice lumps RM to be molded.
