PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide cooked rice molding equipment and a cooked rice molding manufacturing system which can provide cooked rice moldings of which the outside is hard and the inside is soft and plump.SOLUTION: Cooked rice molding equipment 1 comprises a mold 2 and a drive 3. The mold 2 includes multiple mold pieces 21. The drive 3 displaces the multiple mold pieces 21 along a placing face on which the cooked rice is placed. The multiple mold pieces 21 are arranged to form an internal space 22 to which the cooked rice is supplied. The drive 3 molds the cooked rice in the internal space 22 by moving the multiple mold pieces 21 at a same time between a first position and a second position. The second position is a position at which the plane of projection to the placing face of the internal space 22 is smaller than that at the first position.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1COPYRIGHT: (C)2017,JPO&INPIT【課題】外部は固めで内部が柔らかくふっくりした状態の米飯成形品を得ることができる米飯成形装置および米飯成形品製造システムを提供する。【解決手段】米飯成形装置1は、成形型2と、駆動機構3とを備える。成形型2は、複数の型片21を含む。駆動機構3は、米飯が載置される載置面に沿って複数の型片21を変位させる。複数の型片21は、米飯が供給される内部空間22を形成するように配置されている。駆動機構3は、第1の位置と第2の位置との間で複数の型片21を同時に移動させて、内部空間22内の米飯を成形する。第2の位置は、第1の位置よりも内部空間22の載置面への投影面が小さい位置である。【選択図】図1
