Patent ID: 9215879
Filing Date: 2015-12-22
Classification: A21C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for producing pillow-shaped hollow bodies that are formed by separating from hot wafer tubes that are plastically deformable in a warm-baked state and are delimited at mutually opposite ends by crimped edges, the apparatus comprising: a frame bearing a feeding device for feeding in the wafer tubes; at least one crimping device for separating the wafer tubes into pillow-shaped hollow bodies, said at least one crimping device being disposed to revolve along a circular orbit in said frame between an upper receiving position and a lower delivery position; said at least one crimping device receiving a wafer tube in the upper receiving position and separating the wafer tube along a path to the lower delivery position into pillow-shaped hollow bodies, which are dispensed from said at least one crimping device in the lower delivery position; a horizontally disposed rotatable mounting disposed below said feeding device, said mounting being rotatable about a horizontal axis of rotation and containing said at least one crimping device; and said at least one crimping device being configured as mechanically actuatable tongs having a jaw adjacent a periphery of said rotatable mounting and a mechanical actuating device configured to actuate said tongs.