Patent ID: 8672664

Claim:
A cooked rice molding apparatus, comprising: a housing; a hopper present on the housing; a forming section present in the housing, comprising a pair of forming rollers which forms cooked rice, which is supplied from the hopper, into a prescribed formed cooked rice product, and; a storage section present in the housing, which stores the formed cooked rice product; and a conveyance section, provided with a pair of holding arms which holds the formed cooked rice product in a sandwiching manner, present between the forming section and the storage section which conveys the formed cooked rice product formed by the forming section to the storage section, wherein the conveyance section comprises an X-axis moving device which moves the pair of holding arms in an X-axis direction within the housing and a Z-axis moving device which moves the pair of holding arms in a Z-axis direction within the housing, the storage section comprises a tray for storing the formed cooked rice product conveyed by the pair of holding arms thereon and capable of moving in a Y-axis direction within the housing and a Y-axis moving device moving the tray, the X-axis direction is a width direction of the housing, the Z-axis direction is a vertical direction of the housing which is orthogonal to the X-axis direction, the Y-axis direction is a depth direction of the housing which is orthogonal to the X-axis direction, the forming section, the conveyance section, and the storage section are disposed in the housing in a vertical direction in an order from a top toward a bottom of the housing, the pair of holding arms moves the formed cooked rice product in the X-axis direction with the X-axis moving device from an initial position where the formed cooked rice product is released and dropped from the forming section, and the tray is movable in the Y-axis direction within an area in which the pair of holding arms moves in the X-axis direction.