Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.

Toru Watanabe

Michio Morikawa

Torahiko Hayashi

Yasunori Tashiro

Shigeo Uesawa

A method of manufacturing various shapes of bread that comprises the steps of forming a continuous sheet of bread dough, winding up the sheet of bread dough traveling on a horizontal conveyor from one of its sides into a bar of bread dough, causing the bar to fall from the downstream end of the conveyor, and cutting the falling dough body into dough pieces by means of squeezing it with the flat surfaces of a cutter, according to its preset weight or length.

Method of continuously shaping bar-shaped bread

An apparatus for manufacturing various shapes of bread that includes a device for forming a continuous sheet of bread dough, a roller for winding up the sheet of bread dough traveling on a horizontal conveyor from one of its sides into a bar of bread dough, the conveyor causing the bar to fall from its downstream end, and a cutter for cutting the falling dough body into dough pieces by squeezing it with flat surfaces of the cutter, according to its preset weight or length.

Method and apparatus for continuously shaping bar-shaped bread

An apparatus is provided for producing a dough roll by rolling up a dough piece. The apparatus has a moving means that includes a holding roller and an endless belt supply device, and a rolling up mechanism having upper and lower endless belt devices. The belt of the upper endless belt device moves rearwardly, and the belt of the lower endless belt device moves forwardly at a speed higher than that of the upper endless belt device. When a dough piece is fed to the apparatus the leading end begins to be rolled at the upstream ends of the upper and lower endless belt devices while its trailing end stays between the belt of the endless belt supply device and the holding roller. Therefore, the leading end moves at a speed which equals the difference between the speeds of the upper and lower endless belt devices while the trailing end moves at the same moving speed as that of the belt of the endless belt supply device. By controlling the relation of the speeds of these endless belt devices, the dough piece is stretched to have a desired length in the feeding direction. When the dough piece is rolled, a dough roll having a desired number of layers can be produced.

Apparatus for producing a dough roll by rolling up a dough piece

An apparatus for producing a dough roll is provided, in which a dough piece is held between the conveying path of a conveyor and the parallel and spaced-apart projections extending along the conveying direction, or held between the similar projections of a conveyor and the lower surface of a belt or roller system, while being moved downstream, passes between a pair of vertically juxtaposed rollers to be uniformly stretched without any lateral deformation of the rear portion of the dough piece due to irregularly gathered gases therein, and a symmetrically formed dough roll is produced.

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Utsunomiya, Japan

Toru Watanabe