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US 5,290,577 AGranted
Method and apparatus for continuously manufacturing filled buns
AssigneeRheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
InventorYasunori Tashiro
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Abstract
A method that comprises continuously depositing fillings on a sheet of bread dough and winding up the sheet with the deposited fillings from one of its sides into a bar of bread dough, with the fillings centered. This simple method serves to reduce production labor.
Claims6
A method for manufacturing filled dough products, comprising the steps of
- supplying a dough mass on a horizontal conveyor,
- stretching the dough mass into a dough sheet having a uniform width and thickness,
- depositing a filling on the dough sheet,
- rolling the dough sheet in a widthwise direction to form a bar such that the filling is surrounded by the rolled dough sheet,
- causing a leading end of the bar to hang from the conveyor such that the leading end moves in a downward direction in response to movement of the conveyor, and
- dividing the hanging bar by squeezing it with a divider having flat pressing surfaces, such that the bar is divided into separate pieces with no filling exposed.
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An apparatus for manufacturing filled dough products, comprising:
- a conveyor for transporting a dough mass in a first direction;
- means for stretching the conveyed dough mass into a dough sheet having a uniform thickness;
- means for depositing a filling on the dough sheet,
- means for rolling the dough sheet in a widthwise direction to form a bar such that the filling is surrounded by the rolled dough sheet, and
- means for dividing the bar, said dividing means having a plurality of reciprocating pressing surfaces for squeezing the bar such that the bar is divided into separate pieces with no filling exposed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.