Patent ID: 7270051

Claim:
An apparatus for supplying food dough pieces formed by cutting a sheet of food dough into the food dough pieces, comprising: a feeding conveyor for feeding a sheet of food dough in a feeding direction; a weighing conveyor located downstream of the feeding conveyor and onto which the sheet of food dough is fed by the feeding conveyor, an upstream end of said weighing conveyor being arranged at a level that is higher than the level of a downstream end of the feeding conveyor so that a portion of the sheet of food dough between a point where the sheet starts to be taken off the downstream end of the feeding conveyor and a point where the sheet starts to be put on the upstream end of the weighing conveyor is suspended, a cutting apparatus for cutting the sheet of food dough in said suspended portion approximately midway between the point where the sheet starts to be taken off the downstream end of the feeding conveyor and the point where the sheet starts to be put on the upstream end of the weighing conveyor in order to form a piece of food dough, the weighing conveyor measuring the weight of the sheet thereon or the weight of the piece of food dough thereon and a part of the suspended portion thereof, and a controller for controlling the cutting action of the cutting apparatus according to said measurement to form a piece of food dough.