PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for molding cooked rice for producing a large number of cooked rice molded products that hardly produces a defective molding but well shaped.SOLUTION: The apparatus for molding cooked rice includes: setting the cooked rice R between opposing surfaces of a pair of molding rollers 41 to temporary compress the cooked rice R in a concave surface 43 rotating the molding rollers 41, 41 in an opposite direction to the direction of compressing and molding to form a concave part RD by pressing a bottom surface of the cooked rice molded product rotating again the molding rollers 41, 41 in a normal direction to fully compress the cooked rice molding product in the concave surface 43 and releasing the cooked rice molding product from a downstream side of the molding rollers 41, 41.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】成形不良を起こしにくく、形状の整った米飯成形物を大量に生産することができる米飯成形装置を提供する。【解決手段】成形ローラ対41の対向面の間に向けて米飯Rを投入し、凹型面43内で米飯Rを仮圧縮したのち、成形ローラ41,41を圧縮成形とは逆方向に回転させて、米飯成形物の底面を押圧して凹部RDを形成するとともに、成形ローラ41,41を再び正方向に回転させて、米飯成形物を凹型面43内で本圧縮し、成形ローラ41,41の下流側から米飯成形物を放出する。【選択図】図4
