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US 4,338,341 AGranted
Stiff dough make-up machine and method of using same
AssigneeAMF Incorporated
InventorEarl Glass
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Abstract
Means for enhancing the operation of a make-up machine with a rotating drum type scaling means for stiff dough, comprising hopper means and means operatively associated with the hopper means for simultaneously mildly degassing and positively feeding dough to the scaling means.
Claims8
A method for enhancing the scaling of stiff dough comprising:
- degassing and positively feeding stiff dough from an open feed hopper by moving said dough between two rotating feed rolls, through a closed pressure retaining hopper and to a rotating scaling drum having plural through cylinders and a double-acting piston in each of said cylinders, sensing pressure in said closed hopper and controlling pressure in said closed hopper by varying the rotation speed of said two rolls in response to the sensed pressure in said closed hopper and maintaining the minimum pressure in said closed hopper necessary to keep said dough in contact with said scaling drum.
Dough scaling apparatus comprising:
- an open feed hopper above two spaced rotatable positive feed rolls for mildly degassing and feeding stiff dough, a closed hopper means beneath said feed rolls, said closed hopper means providing a pressure retaining enclosure in cooperation with said drum and said rolls, pressure sensing means in communicating relationship with the interior of said closed hopper means, control means connected with said pressure sensing means and connected with drive means for said two feed rolls and suitable for controlling the rotational speed of said two rolls in response to the sensed pressure in said closed hopper.
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