Method for controlling the weight of cut pieces of dough
AssigneeThe Pillsbury Company
InventorThomas P. Kempf
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Abstract
A method of controlling the weight of cut pieces of dough is disclosed. The method includes determining a target mass loading of a strip of dough, measuring the actual mass loading, comparing the actual and target mass loading values, calculating a calendar roller gap distance which compensates for the rheological properties of the dough and adjusting the gap distance of the last calendar roller pair to equalize the actual and target mass loading values.
Claims9
A method of controlling the weight of dough pieces cut from a strip of dough, the dough strip passing through at least one pair of calendar rollers prior to passing through a cutting device, the method comprising:
- determining a target mass loading of a dough strip;
- measuring an actual mass loading of a portion of the dough strip after passing through the pair of calendar rollers nearest to the cutting device;
- comparing the target and actual mass loading data;
- calculating a calendar roller gap distance for the pair of calendar rollers nearest to the cutting device that compensates for the rheological properties of the dough;
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- adjusting the gap distance of the last pair of calendar rollers in a manner which equalizes the actual mass loading and target mass loading values.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.