Patent ID: 8826814
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: A21C

Abstract:
1. A food dough measuring and cutting apparatus configured to cut long and large food dough into small food dough having a preset weight, comprising: a weighing conveyor configured to load the long and large food dough thereon and measure a weight of the loaded long and large food dough which is cut and separated from a large amount of food dough located in a hopper; a downstream conveyor provided on a downstream side of the weighing conveyor and configured to support a part of the long and large food dough transferred from the weighing conveyor which corresponds to the small food dough having the preset weight and which will be cut from the long and large food dough when the weighing conveyor measures the weight of the long and large food dough loaded on the weighing conveyor; a cutter that cuts and separates the long and large food dough into the small food dough, the cutter provided between the weighing conveyor and the downstream conveyor; and a controller configured to control that the weight of the long and large food dough loaded on the weighing conveyor is constantly measured by the weighing conveyor while the long and large food dough is transferred in a direction from the weighing conveyor to the downstream conveyor and while the part of the long and large food dough corresponding to the small food dough having the preset weight is transferred from the weighing conveyor onto the downstream conveyor, the small food dough having the preset weight, and the controller configured to control an operation of the cutter so that the long and large food dough is cut when the measured weight of the long and large food dough previously measured by the weighing conveyor is reduced according to the transferring of the long and large food dough toward the downstream conveyor by the preset weight of the small food dough to be cut from the long and large food dough, wherein the controller is configured to continuously control that the weight of the long and large food dough is updated as a new weight of the long and large food dough after the small food dough having the preset given weight was cut at the previously cutting operation, thereby repeating the transferring and measuring and cutting operations, the hopper is provided in a position above the weighing conveyor and configured to contain the large amount of food dough, and the food dough measuring and cutting apparatus further comprises: a cutter device provided in a position between the hopper and the weighing conveyor and configured to cut food dough supplied from the hopper into the long and large food dough that is to be loaded on the weighing conveyor.