Patent EP-2255662-A2 (EP)
Inventor: FIEDLER RUDOLF
IPC: A21C13/02
Filed: 2010-05-14
Abstract: The dough processing plant comprises a dough portioning device (6), a transport device (9) arranged downstream to the dough portioning device for dough pieces (8), a fermentation device with a fermentation area (17) through which the dough pieces are transported along a fermentation path with the transport device, a pre-fermentation transport stretch between the dough portioning device and a dough refinement device (24), an output transport device for discharge of fermented dough pieces, a post-fermentation-transport stretch between the dough refinement device and the output transport device. The dough processing plant comprises a dough portioning device (6), a transport device (9) arranged downstream to the dough portioning device for dough pieces (8), a fermentation device with a fermentation area (17) through which the dough pieces are transported along a fermentation path with the transport device, a pre-fermentation transport stretch between the dough portioning device and a dough refinement device (24), an output transport device for discharge of fermented dough pieces, a post-fermentation-transport stretch between the dough refinement device and the output transport device. The pre-fermentation transport stretch and post-fermentation transport stretch are arranged between the dough refinement device and the output transport device, pass along a common fermentation transport stretch and utilize the same component of the transport device. The transport device comprises hangers transporting along an endless-path for the dough pieces. The dough refinement device comprises transport-softening arrangement that is transposable between a removal position, in which the transport-softening device manages a delivery of the dough pieces between the dough refinement device and the output-transport device, and a post-fermentation position, in which the transport-softening device manages a delivery of the dough pieces between the dough refinement device and the post-fermentation transport stretch. A fermentation sequence transport-softening device arranged downstream to the common fermentation transport stretch is transposable between a refinement position in which the fermentation sequence transport-softening device manages a delivery of the dough pieces between the fermentation-transport-stretch and the dough refinement device, and a removing position in which the fermentation sequence transport-softening device manages a delivery of the dough pieces between the fermentation-transport-stretch and the output-transport device. The transport softening device comprises a displaceable transfer conveyor and a hanger turning device, which forms an integral component of the displaceable transfer conveyor. The fermentation sequence transport-softening device comprises a further stationary transfer conveyor near to the displaceable transfer conveyor. The dough portioning device, the fermentation device and the dough refinement device are accommodated in the same housing. A controllable shifting device is arranged for the transposition of the refinement sequence-transport-softening device and/or the fermentation sequence-transport-softening device.