Apparatus and method for rolling croissant dough pieces
AssigneeRheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
InventorTorahiko Hayashi
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for rolling croissant dough pieces are provided. Dough pieces are fed between a pair of rollers with the surface of at least one roller being adhesive to the dough piece and transferred to an endless belt device via a transfer roller of a small diameter and high speed rotation for peeling off the dough piece from the roller. Then the dough pieces are carried under a rolling up device to be rolled into croissant rolls. The dough pieces are transferred to the endless belt maintaining at least one surface of it adhesive, and so the dough rolls produced are wound tightly due to the dough surfaces adhering to each other.
Claims10
An apparatus for rolling croissant dough pieces comprising:
- (a) a pair of vertically juxtaposed rollers for feeding dough pieces therebetween, spaced apart from one another, by a distance shorter than the thickness of a dough piece, said pair of rollers having a substantially common peripheral speed and moving in the same direction where they face each other,
- (b) an endless belt device having an upper surface positioned downstream of said pair of rollers,
- (c) a rolling up device positioned downstream and above the upper surface of said endless belt device, and
- (d) a transfer roller being downstream of and adjacent one of said pair of rollers and being rotated in the direction of the movement of the dough piece and faster in its peripheral speed than the peripheral speed of said rollers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.