Patent ID: 7578232

Claim:
An apparatus for manufacturing bread, comprising a conveying apparatus to convey a sheet of bread dough; a forming apparatus to form from said sheet of bread dough bar-like dough having layers of dough sheets; a cutting apparatus to cut said bar-like dough to a predetermined length; a transfer conveyor to transfer bar-like pieces of rolled bread dough which have been cut to a predetermined length; and a turning over apparatus ordered between the cutting apparatus and the transfer conveyor, formed by a conveyor arranged at a higher level than the transfer conveyor, to turn over the bar-like pieces of dough which have been cut by the cutting apparatus, to have at least one cutting plane facing vertically up; an arranging apparatus formed by the downstream end of the transfer conveyor, said end movable downward and backward from one side to the other side of the conveying portion in transverse direction with respect to the movement of the conveying portion to arrange a plurality of the bar-like pieces of dough in one sequence, which have been turned over at said turning over apparatus; and a placing apparatus provided with the conveying portion, which has the belt for receiving the bar-like pieces of dough from the transfer conveyor and a space between the downstream end of the belt and the upstream end of the belt facing the end of the belt, said space being defined by the end plates, which can access or withdraw from each other, above the space, to plate a plurality of bar-like pieces of dough in a baking mold at one time to have at least one cutting plane facing vertically up from said baking mold.