US 4,045,151 AGranted

Dough forming and cutting machine

OwnerJoseph R. Zazzarainventor

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Abstract

Apparatus for rolling, forming and severing a product such as comestible dough. A mass of unformed dough is placed on a conveyor belt above which a rigid board is supported and inclined downwardly in the direction of movement of the belt whereby the dough is rolled, as it passes under the board, into a cylinder having a diameter corresponding to the spacing between the belt and board at the exit end. The cylinder of dough is then deposited at the opposite end of the apparatus to pass between a pair of spaced rollers, thus being rolled into a sheet. A guide roller receives the sheet of dough emerging from between the forming rollers and guides it toward a plurality of cutter disks. The dough is severed into side-by-side strips as it passes between the guide roller and cutter disks and is deposited on the same conveyor belt used in the initial rolling operation for transport to a final receiving station or pan.

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Dependent claims

Apparatus for shaping and severing dough, and the like, comprising:

a. frame means;
b. a pair of rollers mounted for rotation about parallel axes and having peripheral surfaces spaced by a predetermined distance;
c. a plurality of cutter disks of uniform diameter and mounted in spaced relation for rotation upon a common shaft;
d. guide means intermediate said pair of rollers and said cutter discs constructed and arranged to direct a sheet of dough emerging from between said rollers into engagement with said disks to be severed thereby into a plurality of side-by-side strips;
e. a pair of rigid arms mounted on opposite sides of said frame means and supporting said shaft therebetween;
f. a rigid bar supported at opposite ends upon portions of said arms parallel to and spaced from said shaft by a distance greater than the radius of said disks;
g. a rigid support member connected to said shaft and said bar to extend therebetween substantially perpendicular thereto, at a position intermediate of said arms;
h. said arms being pivotally mounted upon pivot means provided on said frame means for rotation about a common axis parallel to and displaced from both said shaft and said bar.

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