Patent ID: 8057213

Claim:
An apparatus for moulding and proving dough including: at least one pair of sheeting rollers for providing a dough strip: a dough moulder to roll the dough strip to form rolled dough; a disengageable dough divider to, when engaged, divide the rolled dough into dough portions; and a proofer including a mechanism configured to receive the dough portions and deliver the dough portions to an outfeed after a delay sufficient to recover the dough portions; wherein the dough moulder includes a dough conveyor for receiving the dough strip from the sheeting rollers, the dough conveyor having a first run in contact with a curling mat, the dough strip passing beneath the curling mat to roll the dough strip; and the curling mat including portions which rest on at least the first run of the conveyor, and a raised section raised from contact with the first run and spacing the portions along the first run.