Method of continuously shaping bar-shaped bread
AssigneeRheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
InventorsYasunori Tashiro, Michio Morikawa, Torahiko Hayashi, Shigeo Uesawa, Toru Watanabe
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing various shapes of bread that comprises the steps of forming a continuous sheet of bread dough, winding up the sheet of bread dough traveling on a horizontal conveyor from one of its sides into a bar of bread dough, causing the bar to fall from the downstream end of the conveyor, and cutting the falling dough body into dough pieces by means of squeezing it with the flat surfaces of a cutter, according to its preset weight or length.
Claims13
A method of continuously shaping bar-shaped bread dough pieces, comprising the steps of
- conveying a mass of bread dough on a horizontal conveyor in a traveling direction,
- stretching said conveyed mass of bread dough into a dough sheet having a uniform width and thickness,
- rolling the dough sheet in a direction perpendicular to the traveling direction to form a bar-shaped dough body extending in the traveling direction,
- causing the dough body to hang over a downstream end of the conveyor, and
- cutting the hanging dough body by squeezing the dough body with a cutter having flat pressing surfaces.
A method of continuously shaping bar-shaped bread dough, comprising the steps of:
- conveying a mass of bread dough on a horizontal conveyor in a traveling direction,
- stretching the mass of bread dough conveyed on the conveyor into a sheet of dough,
- rolling on the conveyor the dough sheet in a direction perpendicular to the traveling direction to form a bar-shaped dough body,
- continuously weighing parts of the bar-shaped dough body during a given distance over which the bar-shaped dough body passes on the conveyor,
- storing the weights obtained along with information regarding the positions of each part of the bar-shaped dough body,
- calculating a desired length of the dough body that corresponds to a target weight, based on the stored weights,
- causing the dough body to hang vertically from an end of the conveyor, and
- cutting the hanging dough body with a cutter having flat pressing surfaces in response to the desired length so that the actual length of each respective bar-shaped bread dough piece equals its associated desired length.
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