US 11,889,838 B2Granted

Dough-portioning apparatus

AssigneeWerner & Pfleiderer Lebensmitteltechnik GmbH

InventorAlexander Meier

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Abstract

A multi-row dough-portioning apparatus has a chamber housing having a number of portioning chambers for predetermining a portioned quantity of dough. Measuring pistons can each be displaced in the portioning chambers along a displacement direction between a retracted, measuring position and a pushed-out, ejecting position. A rotation-prevention bar is installed in a releasable manner on a rear wall of the chamber housing and interacts with a circumferential recess in the measuring pistons in order to prevent rotation of the same. The chamber housing has a projecting section, which projects beyond the rear housing wall. The rotation-prevention bar is installed on the chamber housing such that, upon release, it can be removed from the chamber housing in a removal direction perpendicular to the displacement direction of the measuring pistons. This results in a dough-portioning apparatus which, even in the case of large-volume portioning chambers, is easy to maintain and clean.

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Dependent claims

A multi-row dough-portioning apparatus

having a chamber housing (6a),
having a number of portioning chambers (5) for predetermining a portioned quantity of dough,
having a number of measuring pistons (8), which can each be displaced in the portioning chambers (5) along a displacement direction (23)
between a retracted, measuring position, in which the respective measuring piston (8) in the respective portioning chamber (5) predetermines a predetermined portioning volume,
and a pushed-out, ejecting position,
having a rotation-prevention bar (18), which is installed in a releasable manner on a rear housing wall (19) of the chamber housing (6a) and interacts with a circumferential recess (20) in the measuring pistons (8) in order to prevent rotation of the measuring pistons (8),
wherein the chamber housing (6a) has a projecting section (21), which projects beyond the rear housing wall (19),
wherein the rotation-prevention bar (18) is installed on the chamber housing (6a) such that, upon release, it can be removed from the chamber housing (6a) in a removal direction (22) perpendicular to the displacement direction (23) of the measuring pistons (8), and
wherein the rotation-prevention bar (18) is installed on the chamber housing (6a) via at least one locking unit (24) which can be actuated without any tools being required.

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