Patent ID: 9163874
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: A21C,F26B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for unbinding a mass of mutually sticked noodles comprising: a housing having an upper inlet and a lower outlet provided underneath the inlet, a rotating member arranged horizontally within said housing underneath said inlet and being rotated by a driving member, and a noodle unbinding member secured to said rotating member to extend in a radial direction, wherein said housing includes an unbinding inner wall surface that extends from said upper inlet to a horizontal level passing through a center of said rotating member such that an unbinding angle, over which the unbinding inner wall surface extends from the horizontal level to an entrance of the unbinding inner wall surface located near said upper inlet, is between 45° and 90°, wherein the unbinding inner wall surface extends substantially along a curved surface which has a radius larger than a radius of a circle drawn by a locus of a rotating tip of said unbinding member rotated by said rotating member, and wherein at least the entrance of said unbinding inner wall surface is situated close to said circle drawn by the locus of the rotating tip of said unbinding member rotated by said rotating member such that the mass of mutually sticked noodles charged into the housing from the upper inlet is unbound by being repeatedly hit against said unbinding inner wall surface in a region near said entrance of the unbinding inner wall surface.