The RICE CAKE MACHINE Serie RCM
is specially designed for the production
of cakes made up of rice, maize, spelt, wheat, kamut, cereal mix
and gelatinized pellet.
This new serie has been planned
to produce rice cakes in different shapes (round – square – rectangular) by means of specific moulds.

MAIN FEATURES
The Rice Cake Machine Serie RCM
is a heavy duty unit with high operational flexibility, manufactured for long lasting, also in those factories where production
is continuous with shifts of 24 hours a day.
The hydraulic central unit on the machine is utilized both for the cereal compression and for the movement of all sliding devices.
The machine is capable to expand any kind
of cereals or mix of them by means
of the high strenght given to the moulds
by the hydraulic unit. The requested
and accurate machine regulations are achieved by few and simple adjustments, mainly variating two paramenters:
working pressure and cooking time.
The machine is completely managed
by a PLC that is controlled by the operator by means of the new touch screen panel.

OPERATIONS
Prepare the cereal or the cereal mix adding water in order to increase the moisture content up to 16-18%.
It is possible to add salt or heat resistant flavours to obtain a very savoury
and tasty product.
The prepared cereal is put in the large feeding hopper and the machine
is now ready to start production.
A feeding plate is dosing by volume
the product at the right quantity to the moulds; then moulds close and heat
the cereal for about 6 seconds.
The quick opening of moulds causes
the cereal expansion and the rice cake forming, thanks to the high energy accumulated in the previous phase.
The rice cakes are then automatically expelled with the possibility to tranfer them by belt conveyor to the next production phase that can be a Chocolate Enrobing Line, a Liquid Spraying System Line,
a Powder Coating Line or simply
a Wrapping Machine.

MOULDS
Cake forming moulds are manufactured in hardened and tempered steel, titanium coated in order to avoid sticking between cereal and die, thus reducing the need of cleaning to the minimum.
Moulds heating is assured by armor-plated and high density heating elements and the temperature control is done on three different points of the mould holding plate, so that temperature is kept as constant and homogeneous as possible.

CAPACITY
Machine capacity depends very much on product to be processed, final look and weight to be obtained. All these factors are of basic importance in the cooking phase and result in the actual production capacity of the machine.
The chart shows the production capacities referred to round brown rice.

OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES
- Vapour aspiration plant
- Oil cooling system
- Belt conveyor cakes
- Stacker