TEA MANUFACTURING ROLLING DRYER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TEA

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus such as a tea manufacturing rolling dryer; and to provide a method of efficiently manufacturing tasty tea.;SOLUTION: The tea manufacturing rolling dryer comprises a fixed semi-cylindrical rolling and drying cylinder 1, a rotary axis 2 horizontally laid in the rolling and drying cylinder, a rolling hand 3 and a tea leaf dredging hand 4 each fixed to the rotary axis 2, and a hot-air supplying means 7. The rolling hand is attached to the rotary axis via springs at both ends of a spatula 5 shaped into a nearly circular arc nearly 1/4 of the circumference of the rolling and drying cylinder. The method includes a process of drying tea leaves via the tea leaf dredging hand and hot air while rolling the tea leaves with the rolling hand where both ends of the spatula shaped into an almost circular arc nearly 1/4 of the circumference of the rolling and drying cylinder. The method results in fully rolling bulky tea leaves into finely rolled ones to avoid shortage in rolling and uneven drying, achieving processes treated by a roughly rolling machine (process) to a finely rolling machine (process) using a single machine (process), carrying out tea manufacturing by at least three machines (processes) comprising a steam heating machine (process), a tea manufacturing rolling/drying machine (process) and a dryer (process) so as to simplify the tea manufacturing process.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI