PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for producing a sandwich-type rice ball to be simplified and downsized by forming the sandwich-type rice ball by dividing molded boiled rice into an upper rice body and a lower rice body followed by interposing ingredients between the bodies.SOLUTION: This apparatus for producing the rice ball is made of an intermittently turning upper molding disk 2 which is provided with an upper molding hole 17 for molding molded boiled rice g for one rice ball, a lower molding 3 which has a lower molding hole 18 mounted on the upper molding disk 2 so as to be able to swing, a cutter 9 which slides between the upper molding hole 17 and the lower molding hole 18 to divide the molded boiled rice g into an upper rice body c and a lower rice body d, an ingredient supplying portion E which supplies ingredients e onto the lower rice body d, a receiver 13 which moves the upper rice body c onto the ingredients e and receives the molded sandwich-type rice ball f, and a delivery conveyor 15 which delivers the sandwich-type rice ball f on the receiver 13 to a prescribed place.COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT【課題】 本発明は,成形米飯を上飯体と下飯体に分離して間に具を介在させてサンド形おむすびを成形することによって,簡単で小型化できるサンド形おむすび製造方法及びその製造装置を提供する。【解決手段】 このおむすび製造装置は,おむすび1つ分の成形米飯gを成形する上型成形穴17を設けた間欠回動する上型成形円盤2,上型成形円盤2に枢着された下型成形穴18を備えた下型成形枠3,上型成形穴17と下型成形穴18との間をスライドして成形米飯gを上飯体cと下飯体dに分離するカッタ9,下飯体d上に具eを供給する具供給部E,上飯体cを具e上に移動させて成形されたサンド形おむすびfを受け取るレシーバ13,及びレシーバ13上のサンド形おむすびfを所定の位置へ送り出す送出コンベヤ15から構成されている。【選択図】 図1
