Patent ID: 7896640

Claim:
A cooked rice molding apparatus including a forming section which forms cooked rice supplied from a hopper into a formed cooked rice product with a prescribed shape while compressing the cooked rice, the forming section having a pair of forming rollers which rotate in directions opposite to each other around a horizontal rotary axis, there being provided a concave molding surface for forming the formed cooked rice product on an outer circumferential surface of each of the forming rollers, the cooked rice fed from an upstream side of the forming rollers being compression-formed within the concave molding surface and being discharged as the formed cooked rice product from a downstream side of the forming rollers, wherein both ends of the forming roller have a pair of supporting panels, the concave molding surface has, in a portion thereof, a notched portion open toward the end surfaces of the forming roller, and each of the supporting panels is provided with a guide portion into which part of the cooked rice compressed within the concave molding surface and pushed out of the notched portion of the concave molding surface moves and which guides the formed cooked rice product from an upstream side to a downstream side.