Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.

Nobuaki Harada

Hitoshi Kuwabara

Sadao Ueno

Takao Takagi

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

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.

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Utsunomiya, Japan

Nobuaki Harada