Patent ID: 6955533

Claim:
An apparatus for extending food dough comprising a lower frame having a food-conveying member to convey food dough in one generally horizontal direction, a box-shaped cover mounted to and located above the lower frame that has an opening in a bottom thereof, a cluster of a plurality of extending rollers mounted in and to the box-shaped cover, said extending rollers being arranged to be endless and rotatable and in cooperation with the food-conveying member to extend food dough conveyed by the food-conveying member, and means for moving the box-shaped cover with the cluster of the plurality of extending rollers located therein in an up and down direction and toward and away from the lower frame and the food-conveying member located therein so that the box-shaped cover and the cluster of the plurality of extending rollers therein can be moved upwardly and away from the food-conveying member.