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US 6,659,755 B1Granted
Dough shaping machine
AssigneeElectrolux Baking
InventorsDaniel Bonnet, François Garcia, Frédéric Bernhard
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Abstract
This dough shaping machine includes, carried by a frame (12), a station (20) for rolling out dough, a station for rolling up the rolled out dough, a station for shaping the rolled up dough by stretching it and at least one conveyor (14, 16) for transferring the dough from the rolling out station (20) to the rolling up station (24) and the shaping station. Each conveyor (14, 16) constitutes a unitary assembly structurally separate from the frame (12) and is mounted on the latter through removable fixing members (130, 132).
Claims17
A dough shaping machine comprising:
- a main frame;
- a unitary assembly structurally separate from said main frame and mounted on said main frame by removable fixing members;
- wherein said unitary assembly comprises a rolling-out station for rolling out dough, a rolling-up station for rolling up the rolled-out dough, a stretching station for stretching the rolled-up dough, at least one conveyor for transferring the dough from said rolling-out station to said rolling-up station, and a shaping station;
- wherein said at least one conveyor includes a dough transfer belt, and at least one conveyor frame equipped with drive rollers supporting said dough transfer belt;
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- wherein said at least one conveyor frame is provided with a coarse adjustment mechanism and a fine adjustment mechanism for adjusting tension in said dough transfer belt by adjusting a distance between said drive rollers.
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