Steamed dumpling forming mold capable of assisting blooming of wrapper

Abstract

The utility model discloses a steamed dumpling forming die capable of assisting in blooming of wrapper, which belongs to a food forming die and comprises a cylindrical accommodating cavity, a receiving tray is arranged on the upper portion of the accommodating cavity, an opening is arranged on the receiving tray, and the inner edge of the opening is in an annular wave shape. A plurality of strip-shaped protrusions are distributed in a divergent mode with the opening as the center. The annular wave-shaped structure and the multiple divergent strip-shaped protrusions are designed on the edge of the opening of the material receiving disc, so that after a leather material with an unconventional thickness is placed on the material receiving disc, the annular wave-shaped structure and the multiple divergent strip-shaped protrusions can assist the thin area of the edge of the leather material to be dispersed to be in a flowering shape, the attractiveness of the steamed dumpling after forming is improved, and the quality of the steamed dumpling is improved. The thick area in the middle of the wrapper enters the containing cavity and the cup body under the action of the stuffing injection pipe, so that the bottoms of the steamed dumplings are not prone to being damaged in the forming and later steaming processes, and therefore the stuffing injection device can be used on semi-automatic steamed dumpling forming equipment where the wrapper is manually placed, steamed dumplings with the wrapper with the unconventional thickness are made, and different making requirements are met.

Description

A mold for shaping shumai that can help the dough bloom. Technical Field

[0001] This utility model relates to a food forming mold, and more specifically, it relates to a shumai forming mold that can assist the dough in blooming. Background Technology

[0002] Shaomai is a traditional stuffed food. With the development of food machinery, automated shaomai production equipment has emerged on the market. This equipment can automatically complete the filling, wrapping, and shaping processes, significantly increasing efficiency compared to traditional manual methods. However, my country's food culture is diverse, and shaomai alone has many different forms depending on its filling, requiring different levels of precision from the mechanized equipment. For example, glutinous rice shaomai has a firmer filling with less fluidity, making it easier to shape during wrapping and requiring less precision in the forming molds. Meat shaomai, on the other hand, has a semi-fluid filling, requiring higher precision in the forming molds to prevent leakage after wrapping. Furthermore, in some regions of my country, different thicknesses of dough are used to make shaomai, with specific requirements for the shape of the dough after wrapping. For instance, the bottom of the finished shaomai has a thicker dough to prevent breakage during steaming, while the top dough is thinner, allowing it to unfurl after wrapping, resulting in a more aesthetically pleasing appearance. Due to the aforementioned restrictions, this type of shumai cannot be made using the aforementioned standardized automated production equipment. Therefore, considering the special nature of its wrapper, it is necessary to conduct further research and improvement on the shumai production equipment, especially the structure of the forming mold. Summary of the Invention

[0003] One of the purposes of this utility model is to address the above-mentioned shortcomings by providing a shumai forming mold that can assist in the "flowering" of the wrapper, in order to solve the technical problems such as the inability of similar automatic shumai production equipment to complete the wrapping and forming process due to the influence of wrappers of unconventional thickness.

[0004] To solve the above-mentioned technical problems, the present invention adopts the following technical solution:

[0005] This utility model provides a shumai forming mold that can assist in the blooming of the dough, including a cylindrical receiving cavity. The lower part of the receiving cavity is provided with a top core column, the lower end of which is mounted on a lifting frame, and the upper end of which is placed in the cup body. The upper part of the receiving cavity is provided with a receiving tray, which has an opening that communicates with the receiving cavity. The inner edge of the opening is annular and wavy. The receiving tray is also provided with multiple strip-shaped protrusions, which are distributed in a radiating pattern around the opening.

[0006] As a preferred embodiment, a further technical solution is as follows: the accommodating cavity is formed by multiple circumferentially distributed assemblies, the assemblies are movably mounted on the dial, the dial is movably mounted on the support, the support is mounted on the fixed plate, the dial is also poweredly connected to the connecting rod, the connecting rod is poweredly connected to the swing arm, and the swing arm is used to drive the dial to rotate through the connecting rod, so that the multiple assemblies can be radially opened and closed.

[0007] A further technical solution is: the lifting frame is placed below the fixed plate, and the top core column passes through the fixed plate and the guide channel and is placed in the lower part of the accommodating cavity.

[0008] A further technical solution is that the forming mold has two or three parts, and the dials are all connected to the same swing arm via connecting rods.

[0009] Compared with the prior art, one of the beneficial effects of this utility model is that by designing a ring-shaped wave structure and multiple radiating strip protrusions on the opening edge of the receiving tray, the ring-shaped wave structure and multiple radiating strip protrusions can help the thinner areas of the skin to spread out in a flower-like shape after the skin of the unconventional thickness is placed on the receiving tray, thus improving the aesthetics of the shumai after shaping. In addition, the thicker area in the middle of the skin enters the receiving cavity and the cup body under the action of the filling tube, making the bottom of the shumai less likely to break during shaping and subsequent steaming. Therefore, it can be used in a semi-automatic shumai shaping equipment where the skin is placed manually, to make shumai with unconventional thickness skin, and to meet different production needs. Attached Figure Description

[0010] Figure 1 is a structural schematic diagram illustrating an embodiment of the present invention.

[0011] Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of Figure 1.

[0012] Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of another orientation of Figure 1.

[0013] Figure 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating the structure of a receiving tray according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0014] In the diagram, 1 is the receiving cavity, 2 is the top core column, 3 is the lifting frame, 4 is the cup body, 5 is the receiving tray, 51 is the opening, 52 is the strip protrusion, 6 is the dial, 7 is the support, 8 is the fixing plate, 9 is the connecting rod, and 10 is the swing arm. Detailed Implementation

[0015] The present invention will be further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[0016] Referring to Figures 1 and 2, one embodiment of this utility model is a shumai forming mold that assists in the "blooming" of the wrapper. The forming mold includes a cylindrical receiving cavity 1, with a top core 2 located at the lower part of the cavity 1. The lower end of the top core 2 is mounted on a lifting frame 3, and the upper end of the top core 2 is placed inside the cup body 4. Through this structure, under the action of the lifting frame 3, the top core 2 can be moved up and down within the cup body 4. When the top core 2 moves upward, its upper end is positioned at the lower part of the receiving cavity 1. More importantly, the upper part of the receiving cavity 1 also has a material receiving mechanism. The receiving tray 5 can be designed as a circle as shown in Figure 4. At the same time, an opening 51 is designed in the middle of the receiving tray 5. The opening 51 is positioned to correspond to the filling pipe on the production equipment. The filling pipe inserts the dough into the receiving cavity 1 through the opening 51 to complete the filling. Therefore, the aforementioned opening 51 needs to be connected to the receiving cavity 1. At the same time, the inner edge of the aforementioned opening 51 needs to be annular wavy. In conjunction with this, multiple strip-shaped protrusions 52 need to be designed on the receiving tray 5. These strip-shaped protrusions 52 are distributed in a radiating pattern with the opening 51 as the center, as shown in Figure 4.

[0017] In this embodiment, by designing an annular wave-shaped structure and multiple radiating strip-shaped protrusions 52 on the opening edge of the receiving tray 5, after the non-standard thickness of the dough is placed on the receiving tray 5, the strip-shaped protrusions 52 can pre-form wave-shaped pleats around the dough. The inner edge of the annular wave-shaped opening can increase the circumference of the opening edge, which is beneficial to increasing the number of pleats blooming after the shumai is wrapped. That is, the annular wave-shaped structure and the multiple radiating strip-shaped protrusions 52 can help the thinner edge of the dough to spread out in a blooming shape, improving the aesthetics of the shumai after it is formed. Furthermore, the thicker part of the dough enters the receiving cavity 1 and the cup body 4 under the action of the filling tube, making the bottom of the shumai less likely to break during the forming and subsequent steaming. Therefore, it can be used in a semi-automatic shumai forming equipment where the dough is placed manually, to make shumai with non-standard thickness dough, and to meet different production needs.

[0018] Furthermore, in terms of the structural design of the forming mold, to facilitate forming and encapsulation, the accommodating cavity 1 can be designed as being formed by multiple circumferentially distributed assembly modules. These assembly modules are movably mounted on the dial 6, and then the dial 6 is movably mounted on the support 7. The support 7 is mounted on the fixed plate 8. The dial 6 is also poweredly connected to the connecting rod 9, and the connecting rod 9 is poweredly connected to the swing arm 10. The swing arm 10 is used to drive the dial 6 to rotate through the connecting rod 9, so that the multiple assembly modules can open and close radially. In use, the aforementioned swing arm 10 is poweredly connected to the drive device. Based on the above idea, the forming mold can be designed with two or three, and the dial 6 is poweredly connected to the same swing arm 10 through the connecting rod 9. On the other hand, to facilitate linkage, the lifting frame 3 can be placed below the fixed plate 8, and the top core column 2 passes through the fixed plate 8 and the guide channel and is placed in the lower part of the accommodating cavity 1, as shown in Figure 2.

[0019] Referring to Figures 1 and 3, in a preferred embodiment of this invention, two shumai forming molds are installed in a group on the receiving, filling, forming, and ejecting stations of a semi-automatic shumai processing equipment. A central turntable on the equipment drives multiple shumai forming molds sequentially into these stations. At the receiving station, a pre-made shumai wrapper (with an unconventional thickness, thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges) is placed manually on the receiving tray 5. The forming mold, carrying the wrapper, enters the filling station, where the filling is then removed. The filling pipe inserts the center of the dough into the receiving cavity 1 and completes the filling process. During this process, the wavy inner edge of the receiving tray 5 and the radiating strip-shaped protrusions cause the dough to quickly open up and spread out after entering the receiving cavity 1, forming the target shape. At the same time, the top core column 2 is placed at the bottom of the receiving cavity and is slightly raised by the lifting frame to flatten the bottom of the shumai dough. Then, the external drive device moves the swing arm 10, which in turn drives the dial 6 to rotate through the connecting rod 9, causing multiple modules to radially close together in the receiving cavity 1 to form radial pressure on the shumai dough, thereby completing the shaping.

[0020] In addition to the above, it should be noted that the terms "one embodiment," "another embodiment," and "embodiment" used in this specification refer to specific features, structures, or characteristics described in connection with that embodiment, which are included in at least one embodiment described in the general description of this application. The appearance of the same expression in multiple places in the specification does not necessarily refer to the same embodiment. Furthermore, when a specific feature, structure, or characteristic is described in connection with any embodiment, the intention is to suggest that implementing such a feature, structure, or characteristic in conjunction with other embodiments also falls within the scope of this utility model.

[0021] Although the present invention has been described herein with reference to several illustrative embodiments, it should be understood that many other modifications and implementations can be devised by those skilled in the art, which will fall within the scope and spirit of the principles disclosed herein. More specifically, various variations and modifications can be made to the components and / or layout of the subject matter combination within the scope of the disclosure, drawings, and claims. Besides variations and modifications to the components and / or layout, other uses will be apparent to those skilled in the art.

Claims

1. A mold for shaping shumai that can assist in the blooming of the dough, comprising a cylindrical receiving cavity (1), wherein a top core column (2) is provided at the lower part of the receiving cavity (1), the lower end of the top core column (2) is mounted on a lifting frame (3), and the upper end of the top core column (2) is placed in a cup body (4), characterized in that: The upper part of the receiving cavity (1) is provided with a receiving tray (5), the receiving tray (5) is provided with an opening (51), the opening (51) is connected to the receiving cavity (1), and the inner edge of the opening (51) is annular wave-shaped; the receiving tray (5) is also provided with multiple strip protrusions (52), and the multiple strip protrusions (52) are distributed in a radiating manner with the opening (51) as the center.

2. The mold according to claim 1, wherein: The accommodating cavity (1) is formed by multiple circumferentially distributed assemblies. The assemblies are movably mounted on the dial (6), the dial (6) is movably mounted on the support (7), the support (7) is mounted on the fixed plate (8), the dial (6) is also poweredly connected to the connecting rod (9), the connecting rod (9) is poweredly connected to the swing arm (10), and the swing arm (10) is used to drive the dial (6) to rotate through the connecting rod (9), so that the multiple assemblies can be radially opened and closed.

3. The mold according to claim 2, wherein: The lifting frame (3) is placed below the fixed plate (8), and the top core column (2) passes through the fixed plate (8) and the guide channel and is placed in the lower part of the accommodating cavity (1).

4. The shumai forming mold that assists in the blooming of the wrapper according to claim 2, characterized in that: The forming mold is two or three, and the dial (6) is poweredly connected to the same swing arm (10) through the connecting rod (9).

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