Machine for making filled pasta

A method for manufacturing pasta products filled with a filling, comprising:

• feeding a first layer of pasta dough with a first feeding device and feeding a second layer of pasta dough with a second feeding device;
• providing a shaping device for shaping the pasta products, located downstream of the first and second feeding devices, with reference to a direction of unrolling the first and second layers of pasta dough;
• the shaping device being configured to advance the first and second layers of pasta dough and being also configured, while advancing the first and second layers of pasta dough, to shape the first and second layers of pasta dough to receive a respective filling and to join the first and second layers of dough in a respective joining zone;
• the shaping device being configured to cut the first and second layers of pasta dough to individually separate each pasta product from the first and second layers of dough;
• advancing and shaping the first and the second layers of pasta dough with first and second rollers, respectively, the first and second rollers disposed to face and be tangent to each other at a coupling station for coupling the first and the second layers of pasta dough around the respective filling;
• separating each pasta product from the first and the second layer of dough at a cutting station with a cutting roller acting in conjunction with one of either the first roller or the second roller;
• the cutting roller and the one of either the first roller or the second roller with which the cutting roller acts in conjunction, being tangent to each other at the cutting station;
• providing that the first and second rollers each include a respective peripheral surface and on the respective peripheral surface, respective molds for shaping the respective first and second layers of dough to be able to receive the filling;
• the molds of the first and second rollers comprising respective hollows which are shaped to receive the respective first and second layers of dough, and respective pressing zones for pressing the respective first and second layers of dough for surrounding the respective hollows;
• providing that the cutting roller includes a peripheral surface, and on the peripheral surface, respective cutting edges shaped to cut the dough layers at a sealing zone;
• providing that the respective cutting edges are shaped to match the respective molds of the one of either the first roller or the second roller with which the cutting roller acts in conjunction, along perimeters of the respective pressing zones of the respective molds such that the respective cutting edges operate in the sealing zone at peripheries of the sealed pasta products without cutting other portions of the first and second layers of dough outside the respective molds of the one of either the first roller or the second roller with which the cutting roller acts in conjunction;
• providing that the perimeters of the respective pressing zones of the respective molds of the one of either the first roller or the second roller with which the cutting roller acts in conjunction to define an anvil for the respective cutting edges.