Device and method for forming dough pieces
AssigneeFritsch Bakery Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsUdo Bernhardt, Rainer Wagner
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a device for forming a substantially straight, in particular wound, dough piece into an annular shape, comprising a bending unit for annularly bending the dough piece. The bending unit may comprise at least one retaining jaw, two movably supported shaping jaws, a lifting device and a stamp. While being in engagement with the dough piece, one of the shaping jaws provided with a projection is displaceable along a displacement path section between an initial position, in which the projection is in contact with a lower surface of the dough piece, and a final position, in which the projection has been brought out of engagement with the dough piece.
Claims20
A device for forming a substantially straight dough piece into an annular shape, comprising a bending unit for annularly bending the dough piece, the bending unit comprising:
- a retaining jaw, which is adapted to be brought into contact with an inner side of the dough piece,
- and two movably supported shaping jaws, which are adapted to be brought into engagement with an outer side of the dough piece, wherein the dough piece can be annularly bent around the retaining jaw by driving the shaping jaws,
- wherein one shaping jaw is liftable relative to the other shaping jaw, and the one shaping jaw has provided thereon a projection which, when the one shaping jaw is in contact with the dough piece, is configured to contact a lower surface of the dough piece, and the projection is adapted to be lifted so as to lift a first end of the dough piece, which rests on the projection, and arrange the first end on a second end of the dough piece so that the first end overlaps the second end,
- and a stamp that is operable to press the overlapped first and second ends of the annularly bent dough piece against each other,
- wherein, while being in engagement with the dough piece, the one shaping jaw provided with the projection is displaceable along a displacement path section between an initial position, in which the projection is in contact with the lower surface of the dough piece, and a final position, in which the projection has been brought out of engagement with the dough piece, and wherein the projection of the one shaping jaw overlaps the other shaping jaw when the one shaping jaw is in the final position.
A method for forming a substantially straight dough piece into an annular shape, the method comprising:
- contacting a retaining jaw with an inner side of the dough piece,
- contacting two movably supported shaping jaws with an outer side of the dough piece at an initial position of a displacement path section of the two shaping jaws, one of the shaping jaws having provided thereon a projection which is configured to contact a lower surface of the dough piece;
- displacing the shaping jaws along the displacement path section until the shaping jaws reach a final position to bend the dough piece, the shaping jaw provided with the projection being lifted along the displacement path section, so as to lift a first end of the dough piece and arranging the first end on a second end of the dough piece so that the first end overlaps the second end, wherein the projection is pivoted relative to the dough piece along the displacement path section, wherein the projection is in contact with the lower surface of the dough piece at the initial position, wherein the projection has been brought out of engagement with the dough piece at the final position, and wherein the projection of the one shaping jaw overlaps the other shaping jaw when the shaping jaws are in the final position;
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- displacing a stamp to press the overlapped first and second ends of the dough piece against each other.
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