Patent ID: 8739685

Claim:
A soymilk coagulating apparatus, comprising: a liquid food oil tank holding a liquid food oil therein; a first metering pump connected with the liquid food oil tank; a liquid food oil pathway feeding the liquid food oil from the liquid food oil tank by the first metering pump; a mineral salt solution tank holding a mineral salt solution therein; a second metering pump connected with the mineral salt solution tank; a mineral salt solution pathway feeding the mineral salt solution from the mineral salt solution tank by the second metering pump; an emulsion dispersion machine stirring the liquid food oil with the mineral salt solution to produce an emulsified coagulant; an accumulation tank holding the emulsified coagulant therein for a predetermined length of time; a third metering pump connected with the accumulation tank; a tofu coagulant pathway feeding the emulsified coagulant from the accumulation tank by the third metering pump; a soymilk tank holing a soymilk therein; a fourth metering pump connected with the soymilk tank; and a soymilk pathway feeding the soymilk from the soymilk tank by the fourth metering pump; and a coagulant dispersion machine stirring the soymilk with the emulsified coagulant, wherein the liquid food oil pathway connects with the mineral salt solution pathway to be a combined pathway, the mineral salt solution is added to the liquid food oil in a predetermined ratio by the second metering pump to produce the emulsified coagulant which is a water in oil (W/O) type emulsion produced without an emulsifier including phospholipids and monoacylglycerol, at a downstream side of the apparatus after the emulsified coagulant is produced, the combined pathway connects with the soymilk pathway, or, the tofu coagulant pathway connects with the soymilk pathway, and the tofu coagulant pathway and the soymilk pathway connect with the coagulant dispersion machine.