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US 11,033,033 B2Granted
Chamber drum for a dough kneading device
AssigneeWerner & Pfleiderer Lebensmitteltechnik GmbH
InventorAlexander Meier
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Abstract
A chamber drum for a dough kneading device comprises a hollow drum body, a plurality of radially penetrating breakthroughs in the outer peripheral wall thereof to form a chamber for in each case one dough piece to be treated, and a surface structuring of the side walls of the breakthroughs.
Claims7
A chamber drum for a dough kneading device, comprising:
- a hollow drum body;
- and
- a plurality of radially penetrating breakthroughs in an outer peripheral wall of the drum body to form chambers for receiving, in each case, one dough piece to be treated,
- wherein walls of each of the breakthroughs have a surface structuring provided thereon or therein,
- wherein the surface structuring extends entirely across all side walls of each the breakthroughs,
- wherein the surface structuring is formed by at least one of 1) recesses formed in or on a surface of the respective side wall and 2) elevations provided in or on the surface of the respective side wall, wherein at least one of a depth (t) and a height (h) of the surface structuring is at least 0.1 mm,
- wherein the surface structuring comprises recesses formed at least in or on the surface of the respective side wall, and wherein at least one of the depth (t) of the recesses in the surface of the respective side wall and the height (h) of the recesses on the surface of the respective side wall is between 0.1 mm and 8 mm,
- wherein the surface structuring is formed by elevations, each formed in the shape of one of:
- a spherical ball, a pyramid, a truncated pyramid, a cone, a truncated cone, a cylinder, a cuboid, a web, a cube and a prism, wherein
- the elevations are arranged across the surfaces of the side walls of the breakthroughs in a regular manner, and
- wherein side walls of each of the breakthroughs that are arranged opposite one another are arranged parallel to each other and extend at an angle that opens radially outwardly.
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A dough kneading device comprising
- an internal driven kneading drum,
- a chamber drum for a dough kneading device, comprising
- a hollow drum body, and
- a plurality of radially penetrating breakthroughs in an outer peripheral wall of the drum body to form chambers for receiving, in each case, one dough piece to be treated,
- wherein side walls of the breakthroughs have a surface structuring provided thereon or therein,
- wherein the surface structuring extends entirely across all side walls of each of the breakthroughs,
- wherein the surface structuring is formed by at least one of 1) recesses formed in or on a surface of the respective side wall and 2) elevations provided in or on the surface of the respective side wall, wherein at least one of a depth (t) and a height (h) of the surface structuring is at least 0.1 mm,
- wherein the surface structuring comprises recesses formed at least in or on the surface of the respective side wall, and wherein at least one of the depth (t) of the recesses in the surface of the respective side wall and the height (h) of the recesses on the surface of the respective side wall is between 0.1 mm and 8 mm,
- wherein the surface structuring is formed by elevations each formed in the shape of one of:
- a spherical ball, a pyramid, a truncated pyramid, a cone, a truncated cone, a cylinder, a cuboid, a web, a cube and a prism,
- wherein side walls of each of the breakthroughs that are arranged opposite one another are arranged parallel to each other, and
- wherein the elevations are arranged across the surfaces of the side walls of the breakthroughs in a regular manner,
- and further comprising
- a driven kneading belt covering a peripheral portion of the chamber drum.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.