G1300-1-3 Development of Kneading Machine for Cress

Abstract

Cress is one of the chief products in KUMANO. However, the kneading process of cress by hand requires very hard work, and this causes the low-efficiency of this product. So, we are going to develop the auto-kneading machine for cress so as to increase the productivity. In former report, we developed the proto-type of auto kneading machine, and carried out trial run. Even contact evaluation, we found this machine can provide kneaded cress like expert. So, this report will explain more detailed evaluation of the performance of auto-kneading machine. At first we set piquant level as the basis. But it mainly changes according to pre wet process more than kneading process. So we have to employ another basis. They are the volume of out coming juice during kneading process, the pull strength of kneaded leaf, and the micrograph of leaf with through ray. We found these three basis can describe the quality of kneading process.