Patent ID: 6524090
Filing Date: 2003-02-25
Classification: A21C,Y10T

Abstract:
An apparatus for supplying food dough comprisinga hopper to which a large block of food dough is supplied, a cutting apparatus located at a lower opening port of the hopper to cut the block into small blocks that have substantially the same volume, a dough feeder having a plurality of rollers that are arranged as a V to form the small blocks into a sheet of the food dough, a transferring conveyor to transfer the small blocks to the dough feeder, a feeding conveyor to convey the sheet of the food dough that is formed by the dough feeder to have a constant thickness, an alignment apparatus to adjust the center of the sheet of the food dough that is conveyed by the feeding conveyor, a dividing and separating apparatus located downstream of the alignment apparatus to divide the sheet of the food dough in the feeding direction, weighing conveyors to measure the weight of parts of the sheets that are divided from the sheet and that are put on the weighing conveyors as the sheets are being conveyed, and cutting apparatuses for cutting the sheets of the food dough when the measurements of the weighing conveyors correspond to a preset value.