Device suitable for lengthening of lumps of dough

Abstract

Device permitting the continuous lengthening of lumps of dough or of sections thereof, of about one and a half to twice their initial length, without any manual intervention either at the input or the output. This device is constituted by an endless lower belt (4), the lateral edges of which displace themselves in a divergent manner from the input toward the output, that is to say, a belt conceived in a manner that, during the course of its displacement, it becomes larger toward the output and, on the other hand, becomes smaller from the output toward the input, and by a similar upper belt (5), which is however slightly shorter at the input in order to allow for the feeding of the measured lumps of dough to be lenghtened, said upper belt (5) being space-adjustably mounted in comparison to the lower belt (4) by producing a slope that is descending and converging toward the output (S), and being driven in the sense toward the output at a slightly slower speed than that of the upper belt (4), likewise driven in the sense of the output (S), with these different displacement speeds being regulated in such a way that the lumps of dough being lengthened turn slowly over themselves.

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