Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.

Mikio Narabu

Sadao Ueno

Hitoshi Kuwabara

Susumu Kominato

Atsuo Nakayama

In a food dough forming device according to the present invention, a dough forming flow path is formed to be enclosed between at least two rotatable rollers and between two wall plates. At least one of the at least two rotatable rollers is at least one long rotatable roller (A,A). At least one remaining rotatable roller is at least one short rotatable roller (A,B,B,B). A far-side wall plate () of the two wall plates has a fitting recess (A,B) into which an arc portion of a periphery of the long rotatable roller is fitted, and a recessed cutout (C,D,E,F) at the rotational shaft for the short rotatable roller. The short rotatable roller is fitted onto the rotational shaft for the short rotatable roller to abut the far-side wall plate. The nearside wall plate is disposed to abut the short rotatable roller. An axial movement of the short rotatable roller is limited by the two wall plates.

Food dough forming device

Dough forming machine

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.

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Utsunomiya, Japan

Mikio Narabu