Method for volume division of dough and implementing device
AssigneeMECATHERM, Societe Anonyme
InventorClaude VOEGTLIN
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Abstract
The invention concerns a method for volume division of bread-making, bakery, and pastry dough and the like, contained in a hopper. The method includes allowing the dough to flow by gravity into a chamber capable of measuring an amount of dough to be divided and extending beneath an opening located at the base of the hopper. The chamber is at least partly closed. The volume division of the dough into dough pieces of the amount of dough contained in the chamber is started. The divided dough pieces from the chamber are removed to be set on a discharge carrier. The invention also concerns a device for implementing the method.
Claims6
Device for volume division of bread-making, bakery and pastry dough, said device comprising:
- a hopper containing dough, said hopper having a lower portion with a lower opening;
- a chamber in communication with said opening, said chamber being calibrated for a measured quantity of dough divided from said dough in said hopper;
- means for cutting said measured quantity of dough into dough pieces, said means for cutting comprising being compartments in said chamber, said chamber being subdivided into said compartments;
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- means for mechanically extracting said dough pieces and laying said dough pieces onto a discharge carrier,
- wherein said means for mechanically extracting comprises means for individually seizing each dough piece being comprised of at least one pair of retractable needles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.