Patent ID: 6272979
Filing Date: 2001-08-14
Classification: A21C

Abstract:
An apparatus for supplying food dough comprisinga hopper that receives a large block of dough,a first cutter located at a lower opening of the hopper to cut the large block to form dough pieces that have a predetermined length and volume,a transmitting conveyor for transmitting the dough pieces, which are cut out by the cutter, to a dough feeder, said dough feeder having a plurality of rollers that are positioned like a V to form a dough sheet that has a constant thickness,a feeding conveyor for feeding the dough sheet, which is formed by the dough feeder to have the constant thickness,a metering conveyor for measuring weight of a part of the dough sheet, which is supplied by the feeding conveyor, while the metering conveyor feeds the dough sheet, anda second cutter for cutting out the part of the dough sheet when its weight that is measured by the metering conveyor reaches a predetermined value, characterized in that the first cutter and the dough feeder are arranged so that a part of the first cutter overlaps a part of an inlet of the dough feeder such that when the dough piece is at out by the first cutter, the lower end of the dough piece falls into an inlet of the dough feeder.