Apparatus for the handling of dough and other viscous material
OwnerRichard Zieglerinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus for handling dough and other viscous materials comprises a support having a suction tube which opens into a container for the viscous mass, e.g. dough to be portioned for use in a bakery. A movable member, e.g. a slide or turntable, is disposed on the support and is shiftable from a position in which its cylinder communicates with the duct and into a position remote from the duct in which the cylinder is adapted to deposit the viscous material. The cylinder is provided with a piston which draws a portion of the material from the duct into the cylinder, this portion being carried along with the cylinder to its remote location in which operation of the piston is reversed to dispense the portion of the material.
Claims18
An apparatus for portioning a viscous mass such as dough and cooperating with an upwardly open dough receptacle, said apparatus comprising:
- a support positionable above said receptacle;
- a downwardly extending suction tube mounted upon said support and extending into the mass within said receptacle, said tube terminating at its upper end at an intake opening flush with a surface of said support;
- a carrier shiftable on said support and formed with a portioning cylinder alignable with said opening in one position of said carrier and displaceable to a discharge station spaced from that opening and corresponding to another position of said carrier;
- suction-piston means including at least one piston displaceable in said cylinder;
- fluid-controlled means connected to said piston for displacing said piston to draw a portion of said mass from said tube through said opening into said cylinder whereby said portion can be discharged at said station by being expressed from said cylinder, said carrier having a slide portion dimensioned to block said opening upon positioning of said cylinder at said station, said piston means being formed with capillary channels opening into said tube above said mass;
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- means for evacuating gas from the dough through said channels upon drawing of a portion of said mass from said tube and for forcing gas through said channels upon the expression of said portion from said cylinder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.