Patent ID: 6257861
Filing Date: 2001-07-10
Classification: A21C

Abstract:
An apparatus for stretching bread dough comprising:a rotating member that includes a multiplicity of planetrary rollersw that revolve along a circular orbit, each planetary roller being freely rotatable about its axis,a conveying device below said rotating member and including a plurality of rollers to define a gap with said planetary rollers, the dough being pressed in said gap, said gap gradually narrowing from an inlet for bread dough to an outlet for the bread dough,a speed-setting device for individually controlling the rotational speed of at least some of the plurality of rollers of the conveying device such that the rotational speed of the plurality of rollers of the conveying device gradually increases from the inlet to the outlet of said gap,a conveyor belt positioned downstream of the plurality of rollers of the conveying device to convey the bread dough from a roller of the plurality of rollers located at the outlet of said gap, andan arcuate plate positioned below both the rotating member and the conveyor belt at a fixed location, the bread dough being conveyed by the conveyer belt supported on the arcuate plate while the planetary rollers of said rotating member impart vibrations to the bread dough.