Transfer apparatus for dough pieces
AssigneeWerner & Pfleiderer Lebensmitteltechnik GmbH
InventorsAlexander Meier, Roland Breimann
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Abstract
A transfer apparatus for transferring a dough piece from a first processing station to the next, especially from a dough portioning device to a dough kneading device, includes a rotating dropping roller and a scraper. The rotating dropping roller is configured to release the dough piece from the first processing station. The scraper is associated with the dropping roller and is configured to support the dough piece released from the dropping roller. An oiling device is associated with the dropping roller and is configured to apply oil onto an outside surface of the dropping roller.
Claims14
A transfer apparatus for transferring a dough piece from a first processing station to a second processing station, comprising:
- a rotating dropping roller that is configured to release the dough piece from the first processing station, and
- a scraper that is associated with the dropping roller and that is configured to support the dough piece released from the dropping roller, and
- an oiling device that is associated with the dropping roller and that is configured to apply oil onto an outside surface of the dropping roller;
- wherein the oiling device comprises at least one oiling pipe which extends at a distance parallel to the rotational axis of the dropping roller and which has oil outlet openings distributed across an axial length thereof;
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- wherein the oiling pipe is arranged above the dropping roller with oil being delivered unpressurized via the oil outlet openings and dripping by gravity onto the dropping roller.
A method of transferring a dough piece from a first processing station to a second processing station, the method comprising:
- rotating a dropping roller to release the dough piece from the first processing station,
- supporting the dough piece that is released from the dropping roller on a scraper, and
- applying oil on an outside surface of the dropping roller;
- wherein the applying step comprises delivering oil from outlet openings in an oiling pipe which extends at a distance parallel to the rotational axis of the dropping roller, the oil outlet openings being distributed across an axial length of the oiling pipe;
- wherein the oiling pipe is located above the dropping roller;
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- wherein the applying step comprises allowing oil to fall by gravity onto the dropping roller from the oil outlet openings in the oil pipe.
A method of transferring a dough piece from a first processing station to a second processing station, the method comprising:
- rotating a dropping roller to release the dough piece from the first processing station,
- supporting the dough piece that is released from the dropping roller on a scraper, and
- applying oil on an outside surface of the dropping roller;
- wherein the applying step comprises delivering oil from outlet openings in an oiling pipe which extends at a distance parallel to the rotational axis of the dropping roller, the oil outlet openings being distributed across an axial length of the oiling pipe;
- wherein the oil outlet openings in the oiling pipe comprise nozzles;
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- wherein applying step comprises spraying oil under pressure onto the dropping roller from the nozzles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.