Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.

Sadao Ueno

Michio Morikawa

Hitoshi Kuwabara

Torahiko Hayashi

Hitoshi Kuwahara

Yasunori Tashiro

Hiroyuki Okaizumi

Mikio Kobayashi

Nobuo Oshima

Mikio Narabu

Nobuaki Harada

Keiji Hayashi, Legal Representative

Tsunehiko Yoshida

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 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 method for manufacturing a loaf of bread of this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet, a cutting step to cut the bar-like dough, and a placing step to place the bar-like pieces of dough that were cut at the cutting step into a baking mold so that at least one cutting plane faces upward. If there are air bubbles between layers of the bar-like pieces of dough, the air bubbles can escape from a cutting surface of the bar-like pieces of dough when they rise and expand at the fermenting and baking steps.

Apparatus and method for manufacturing a loaf of bread

A method and apparatus for beating and rolling a fermented dough belt between rolling members to release surplus fermentation gases in the dough belt has a first rolling member having a plurality of rolling rollers. Each rolling roller of the plurality moves sequentially upstream from downstream and beats and rolls the dough belt. A second large diameter conveying rolling member conveys and moves the dough belt between the first and the second rolling members.

Apparatus and method for beating and rolling a food dough belt

A method according to this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet a cutting step to cut the bar-like dough, and a placing step to place the bar-like pieces of dough that were cut at the cutting step into a baking mold so that at least one cutting plane faces upward. If there are air bubbles between layers of the bar-like pieces of dough, the air bubbles can escape from a cutting surface of the bar-like pieces of dough when they rise and expand at the fermenting and baking steps.

Apparatus and method for manufacturing bread

An apparatus for stretching and rolling a mass of a strip of food dough to form a dough sheet is disclosed. A first conveyor () continuously conveys a mass of a strip of dough () along a traveling direction that is parallel to the mass of the strip of the dough (). The incoming mass of the strip of dough () passes between and through a primary roller () and a secondary roller (), which is opposed to and spaced apart from the primary roller () such that the incoming mass of the strip of dough is stretched and rolled into the form of a dough sheet.

Method and an apparatus for shaping a dough piece

To make a piece of bread, such as a croissant, an apparatus is provided to prevent a sheet of dough from being loosely rolled up, to prevent the sheet from being unevenly rolled up, and to firmly roll the sheet up. The apparatus includes a conveyor that feeds the sheet and a roll-up roller that is moveable up and down above the conveyor, so that the rotation of the roll-up roller and the feeding of the conveyor allow the sheet for bread, such as a croissant, to be firmly rolled up.

Method for rolling up a sheet of dough

Apparatus for rolling up a sheet of 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.

Apparatus and method for conveying pieces of dough

The present invention provides an apparatus to stably and continuously roll up bread dough into stick-like bread, such as bread dough or bread dough on which ham or cheese is put. The apparatus includes a drive shaft located parallel to a conveying surface of a conveyor and a plurality of circular dough-holding disks mounted on the drive shaft. A plurality of dough-rolling plates is provided between the adjacent dough-holding disks along the conveying surface. The rolling plates roll the bread dough and the like. The apparatus securely rolls bread dough of a nonuniform thickness or bread dough on which ham and the like is put. Also, the present invention can securely roll a plurality of rows of bread dough that is conveyed.

Apparatus for rolling up stick-like bread

An apparatus for winding-up croissant dough pieces is provided. It comprises a conveyor, a pair of pressing boards, and a spacing means having a dough-piece detecting means. By the apparatus a triangular croissant dough piece is fed between the conveyor and the pair of pressing boards and wound up, while each of the pressing boards is moved outwardly of the conveyor by the spacing means, thereby lengthening both ends of a dough roll being wound to shape a long and slender croissant dough roll. After shaping it, the pressing boards are caused to approach each other. The dough-piece detecting means is effective in synchronizing the actuation of the pressing boards with the winding-up operation, so that a wound dough roll is precisely lengthened in its axial direction.

Apparatus for winding-up croissant dough pieces

The present invention is related to the method of positioning a rolled-up end of a fusiform croissant dough piece at a predetermined location of the dough piece when it is conveyed by a conveyor. The rolled-up end is sensed by a sensing means while the dough piece is rotated on the conveyor. Since the end is positioned at a predetermened location of the dough, at the underside of it, for instance, croissants of a uniform shape can be produced.

Method of adjusting the position of a rolled-up end in croissant

The present invention provides a center-aligning apparatus for fusiform bread dough pieces such as rolled-up croissant dough pieces. In this invention an upstream conveyor and a downstream conveyor located below and adjacent the upstream conveyor are provided. Between the two conveyors and adjacent the upstream conveyor, a pair of concave rollers is arranged. The rolled-up dough piece from the upstream conveyor is deposited on the concave rollers to have its center aligned with the gap between the rollers. Also, a pair of shutters is mounted below the concave rollers to stably deposit the dough piece on the downstream conveyor. This invention enables the dough piece to advance in alignment with the control line of the downstream conveyor.

Center-aligning apparatus for croissant dough pieces

The present invention provides a croissant dough-piece bending apparatus having a conveyor for conveying rolled-up croissant dough pieces, a dough-piece bending member to push the central portion of the dough piece downstream, and a pair of swingable dough-piece bending belts. The dough-piece is pushed by the dough-piece bending member toward and between the dough-piece bending-belts. The dough piece is correctly bent at its center by the cooperation of the bending-member and the bending-belts. By this invention the dough pieces can be bent without getting wrinkles on their surfaces, and symmetrically bent products of a uniform shape can be obtained.

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Utsunomiya, Japan

Sadao Ueno