Device for providing dough products with a topping material
AssigneeRadie B.V.
InventorJohannes Josephus Antonius Van Blokland
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Abstract
Device for providing dough products with a topping material, comprising a dough product conveyor, for transporting the dough products, a topping conveyor, for conveying the topping towards a dispensing location above the dough product conveyor, a collector for superfluous topping material from the dough product conveyor and a topping material sensor for measuring the distribution of the topping material in width direction of the topping conveyor, a controller, for controlling, based at least on the signal from the topping sensor(s), the movements of a rake.
Claims15
A device for providing dough products with a topping material, comprising:
- a dough product conveyor for transporting the dough products in a first direction of conveyance;
- a topping conveyor for conveying the topping material in a second direction of conveyance towards a dispensing location above the dough product conveyor;
- a first rake for moving the topping material with a directional component against the second direction of conveyance;
- a first topping sensor for measuring a deviation in a distribution of topping material in a width direction of the topping conveyor;
- a second rake positioned upstream, the second rake includes a plurality of pins positioned in a V-shape, in the second direction of conveyance, of the first rake. wherein the second rake is movable with at least a directional component perpendicular to the second direction of conveyance for moving the topping material with a directional component perpendicular to the second direction of conveyance;
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- a controller for controlling, based at least on a signal from the topping sensor, the movements and/or intervals of movement of the second rake.
The device according to claim wherein the second rake is configured to engage in a rest position, wherein in said rest position the second rake is positioned outside of an arriving topping material stream, and wherein the second rake, upon initiation of a sliding movement, moves back and/or forth at least once over the width of the topping conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.