Patent ID: 8663726
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: A21C

Abstract:
1. A method of lapping food dough in which strip-shaped food dough continuously conveyed is lapped onto a transporting unit configured to transport the food dough in a direction intersecting a conveyance direction of the food dough, the method comprising: conveying the conveyed food dough to a swing guide member through a swing conveyor swingable in a vertical direction, the swing guide member provided at a tip end of the swing conveyor so as to be swingable in a direction being horizontal and intersecting a transportation direction of the transporting unit; and always maintaining an almost constant clearance between a tip end of the swing guide member and a transport surface of the transporting unit and thereby maintaining an almost constant length of the food dough from a base end of the swing conveyor to the transport surface of the transporting unit.