Patent ID: 9532574
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: A21C

Claim:
1. A kneaded dough dividing apparatus comprising: a divider having a single dough inlet receiving kneaded dough and a plurality of dough outlets for discharging the kneaded dough received as a plurality of streams of kneaded dough; a dough supply pipe continuously supplying kneaded dough to the dough inlet of the divider; and a pressure distribution changing plate provided in the dough supply pipe and having a width in a direction traversing a cross-section of the dough supply pipe as seen in the cross-section and a length extending from an upstream end to downstream end of the pressure distribution changing plate, the pressure distribution changing plate being twisted as the pressure distribution changing plate extends from the upstream end to the downstream end so that a direction of the width at the downstream end is at an angle in a range of from 70° to 110° to a direction of the width at the upstream end.