TEA-PROCESSING LINE FREE FROM MACHINE FOR ROLLING PROCESS

摘要

PURPOSE:To enable the preparation of tea leaves having required quality even by omitting a rolling machine which is placed before a middle rolling machine in conventional process, by using a medium rolling machine having a particular structure. CONSTITUTION:The objective middle rolling machine has a rolling disk 11 placed in a machine frame 9 and having semicircular shape when viewed from a side. A number of rolling arms 27 are attached via arms 28 to a rotary shaft 26 positioned at the center of the rolling disk. The rolling arms are blasted with hot air by blasting means 14, 15. Tea leaves are rolled and stirred in hot air by using the machine having the above structure.