Abstract: A flame resistant knit fabric having a thickness of 0.08 mm or more in accordance with the method of JIS L 1096-A (2010) and consisting of a yarn, the yarn including: a non-melting fiber A having a high-temperature shrinkage rate of 3% or less; and a thermoplastic fiber B having an LOI value of 25 or more in accordance with JIS K 7201-2 (2007) and having a melting point lower than the ignition temperature of the non-melting fiber A; wherein the yarn has a fracture elongation of 5% or more; and wherein, in the projection area of the knit repeat of the flame resistant knit fabric, the area ratio of the non-melting fiber A is 10% or more and the area ratio of the thermoplastic fiber B is 5% or more. A flame resistant knit fabric having high flame resistance is provided.

Abstract: A terminal blocking processing agent of a polyester-based fiber structure allows a treated product to efficiently take up a terminal blocking agent.

Abstract: A hollow cylindrical food product includes a plurality of cylindrical food layers oriented concentrically one within the other and including at least a radially innermost food layer that is cylindrical and a radially outermost cylindrical food layer. Each of the food layers is formed from a rectangular food sheet that has opposite first and second edges, with such rectangular food sheet being formed into a cylindrical shape with such opposite edges in abutment.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making a hollow cylindrical food which is formed of a plurality of concentrically wound rectangular sheets with leading and tailing edges abutting against each other. The apparatus includes a device which shapes food paste into rectangular sheets. In addition, a conveying device is provided to transfer the rectangular sheets to a transverse bar. The transverse bar is rotatable and movable vertically from the conveying device. The bar is used to wind the sheets, successively, so that the winding of one sheets is started are the preceding sheet has been completely wound.

Abstract: An apparatus supplies food paste material sheets at a predetermined interval on a surface moving at a predetermined speed. The apparatus includes a horizontally arranged first roller adapted to be rotated to receive a continuous food paste material sheet on the circumferential surface thereof; means for severing the continuous sheet on the circumferential surface at a predetermined interval in the circumferential direction into a plurality of sheet segments or the above-stated sheets; a first peeler means provided at a predetermined position on the lower half portion of the circumferential surface of the first roller for peeling off the severed sheet segments from the circumferential surface which segments have been successively brought to the above-noted predetermined position; and a second horizontally arranged roller provided under the first roller. The second roller is adapted to be rotated to sequentially receive the sheet segments from the first roller.

Abstract: An apparatus for making a hollow cylindrical food which is formed of a plurality of concentrically wound rectangular sheets with leading and tailing edges abutting against each other. The apparatus includes a device which shapes food paste into rectangular sheets. In addition, a conveying device is provided to transfer the rectangular sheets to a transverse bar. The transverse bar is rotatable and movable vertically from the conveying device. The bar is used to wind the sheets, successively, so that the winding of one sheets is started are the preceding sheet has been completely wound.

Abstract: A textured proteinaceous food having a unique texture which is obtained in such a manner that a domestic animal meat or a marine animal meat or a minced meat of such animal is heated so as to gel to such an extent that the meat material does not lose its binding capacity, and the proteinaceous material in this gel state is force-extruded under pressure from a die having a predetermined configuration and a predetermined number of orifices. It is possible to obtain products having various kinds of cross-sectional pattern such as a honeycomb pattern and a rose-like pattern by employing appropriate dies.

Abstract: A food extruding apparatus including a food receiving member having a through-hole receiving a food or a food material which is to be extruded and an extruding means inserted into the through-hole from one end thereof and moved toward the other end, thereby extruding the food or food material from the through-hole, the extruding means being constituted by outer and inner extruding members. After an extruding operation, these extruding members are not pulled back simultaneously, but the outer extruding member is first pulled back slowly, and then the inner extruding member is raised. There is therefore no fear of any vacuum being produced between the upper surface of a food or a food material and the extruding member when pulled back. Accordingly, it is possible to carry out a food extruding operation smoothly and properly.