Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.

Hitoshi Kuwabara

Sadao Ueno

Nobuo Oshima

Nobuaki Harada

Takao Takagi

Mikio Narabu

Akihiko Kato

Noritake Fukuda

A device and a method for forming bar-shaped croissant dough in a U-shape, for then quickly and precisely arranging both legs of the U-shape to have the same length, and for producing croissants in a required shape are provided. A device for circularizing croissant doughcomprises a first guide for reducing a widththat moves a first endof the U-shaped croissant doughtoward a center of the U-shape, a platethat is inserted under a second endof the U-shaped croissant doughand lifts the second end, a second guide for reducing the widththat moves the second endthat is lifted toward the center of the U-shape, and a pusherthat vertically presses the first endand the second endthat are moved to the center of the U-shape so as to stick one to the other.

Device and a method for circularizing croissant dough, a device and a device and a method for forming croissant dough in a U-shape, and a system for producing croissants

An apparatus for aligning and positioning a plurality of pieces of food dough having a triangular shape on a conveyor. The apparatus includes an upstream conveyor conveying the pieces of food dough having a triangular shape, a downstream conveyor faster than the upstream conveyor, a separating apparatus separating a plurality of the pieces of food dough set in a line in the perpendicular direction to the moving direction of the conveyor from the following row of the pieces and translocating them from the upstream conveyor to the downstream conveyor, a laying-out and rotating apparatus laying-out and rotating a plurality of the pieces set in a line so that they are positioned at predetermined intervals in the perpendicular direction to the moving direction of the conveyor and are rotated 90 degrees in a predetermined rotational direction, and a detecting device detecting the pieces.

Apparatus for aligning and positioning pieces of food dough

A method for forming a food product into a circular shape, wherein both ends of an elongated food product are connected each other and closed, or into a C-shape, wherein both ends of the elongated food product face each other and opened. The method includes (a) fixing one end of the elongated food product to a rotatable core member, (b) pressing the food product toward the core member by moving the core member close to and away from a pressing roller, when the food product is formed into a circular shape by being wound around the core member by rotating the core member, and (c) separating the formed food product and the core member by releasing the food product from the core member, after forming the food productinto a required shape by being wound around the core member.

Method and an apparatus for forming a food product into a circular shape

An apparatus for spacing and aligning triangular-like shaped pieces of food dough in one direction, which pieces are arranged so that they form a plurality of columns, wherein the directions of the pieces of the adjacent columns are alternately opposite each other, by rotating the pieces clockwise and counterclockwise at 90 degrees. The apparatus continues to alternately rotate the piecesclockwise and counterclockwise at 90 degrees, which piecesare cut and separated from a sheetof food dough and are carried sequentially downstream from upstream by conveyors, comprising pin-holding membersfixed to rotating rods, which rodscan move vertically and rotate clockwise and counterclockwise at 90 degrees, wherein the piecescan be aligned so that one of the apexes of the triangular-like-shaped piecesis oriented toward the upstream side of the direction for carrying the pieces

Apparatus for spacing and aligning pieces of food dough

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for aligning pieces of food dough that are conveyed downstream by a conveyor so that when aligning members contact the pieces, the deformation of the pieces and the adhesion between the aligning members and the pieces can be reduced. For the method, the leading edges of the pieces arranged in a plurality of columns that are conveyed downstream by a conveyorB are aligned on lines L, Lthat are perpendicular to the direction that the pieces are conveyed, by using a plurality of aligning memberscorresponding to the columns of the pieces, wherein the aligning memberscan reciprocate in the direction to convey the pieces and move up from and down onto the conveyorB, wherein while the aligning membersare moving downstream at a lower speed than that of the conveyorB, the respective aligning memberscontact the respective leading edges of the pieces of the columns, which pieces are conveyed by the conveyor, and then the aligning membersmove up and are separated from the pieces.

Method and an apparatus for aligning pieces of food dough

A compact apparatus for conveying triangular pieces of dough which are upside down group-by-group on a upstream conveyor to a downstream conveyor where each group of pieces of dough is separated from the remaining groups, and the pieces of dough of the group are separated from each other and simultaneously rotated 90 degrees in opposing directions per alternating group.

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Utsunomiya, Japan

Hitoshi Kuwabara