Shutter device and method for producing encrusted foods
AssigneeRheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
InventorsMichio Morikawa, Kazuhide Nanahara, Yasunori Kondo
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Abstract
An encrusted food is produced by a shutter device comprising a plurality of shutter pieces respectively pivotally supported on a plurality of pivots arranged along a circle, each of which comprises a pressure face facing to a center of the circle, a linkage setting the shutter pieces in motion synchronously so as to direct the pressure faces toward the center, and rake faces respectively formed on the pressure faces to stand upward from lower edges of the pressure faces and so dimensioned as to scoop up a periphery portion of the dough when the motion of the shutter pieces brings the rake faces into contact with the periphery portion.
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A shutter device for encrusting filling placed at a center with dough, comprising:
- a plurality of shutter pieces arranged around the center so as to encircle the center, each of the shutter pieces having a pressure face facing to the center;
- a linkage setting the plurality of shutter pieces in motion synchronously so as to direct the pressure faces toward the center;
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- rake faces respectively formed on the pressure faces to stand upward from lower edges of the pressure faces and so dimensioned as to scoop up a periphery portion of the dough when the motion of the shutter pieces brings the rake faces into contact with the periphery portion.
A production device applicable to production of an encrusted food in that filling is encrusted with dough, comprising:
- a flange having an opening into which the dough loaded with the filling is capable of sinking down, the flange being so structured as to support the dough;
- a conveyor configured to transport the dough onto the flange;
- a nozzle configured to expel the filling onto the dough on the flange;
- a plurality of shutter pieces disposed on the flange so as to be in contact with the flange and arranged around the center so as to encircle the center, each of the shutter pieces having a pressure face facing to the center;
- a linkage setting the plurality of shutter pieces in motion synchronously so as to direct the pressure faces toward the center;
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- rake faces respectively formed on the pressure faces to stand upward from lower edges of the pressure faces and so dimensioned as to scoop up a periphery portion of the dough when the motion of the shutter pieces brings the rake faces into contact with the periphery portion.
A method for encrusting filling placed at a center with dough, comprising:
- arranging a plurality of shutter pieces around the center so as to encircle the center, each of the shutter pieces having a pressure face facing to the center;
- setting the plurality of shutter pieces in motion synchronously so as to direct the pressure faces toward the center by means of a linkage;
- bringing the pressure faces into contact with a periphery portion of the dough by means of the motion of the shutter pieces and scooping up a periphery portion of the dough by means of rake faces respectively formed on the pressure faces to stand upward from lower edges of the pressure faces;
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- pressing the periphery portion by the pressure faces toward the center with making the rake faces support the periphery portion.
A production method applicable to production of an encrusted food in that filling is encrusted with dough, comprising:
- disposing a plurality of shutter pieces on a flange having an opening into which the dough loaded with the filling is capable of sinking down so as to be in contact with the flange;
- arranging the plurality of shutter pieces around the center of the flange so as to encircle the center, each of the shutter pieces having a pressure face facing to the center;
- transporting the dough onto the flange;
- setting the plurality of shutter pieces in motion synchronously so as to direct the pressure faces toward the center by means of a linkage;
- bringing the pressure faces into contact with a periphery portion of the dough by means of the motion of the shutter pieces and scooping up a periphery portion of the dough by means of rake faces respectively formed on the pressure faces to stand upward from lower edges of the pressure faces;
- expelling the filling onto the dough on the flange through a nozzle;
- making the dough loaded with the filling sink down into the opening;
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- pressing the periphery portion by the pressure faces toward the center with making the rake faces support the periphery portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.