Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.

Nobuo Oshima

Hitoshi Kuwabara

Sadao Ueno

Katsumichi Higuchi

Taro Fukugami

The inventions relate to an apparatus for aligning and positioning pieces of food dough with predetermined orientations and at predetermined intervals, and provide an aligning and positioning apparatus that can easily adjust positions of the pieces of food dough in a perpendicular direction to a moving direction of the pieces and that can process at high speed. An aligning and positioning apparatus of the inventions includes a holding unit having a plurality of holding mechanisms to hold a plurality of pieces of food dough carried by a first conveyor, a driving mechanism of the holding mechanisms, guide members to control the positions of the holding mechanisms in the perpendicular direction when the holding mechanisms are moved by the driving mechanism, and a positioning mechanism to adjust positions of the guide members in the perpendicular direction.

Apparatus for aligning and positioning pieces of food dough

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.

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

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Utsunomiya, Japan

Nobuo Oshima