Patent ID: 8292609

Claim:
Machine for forming dough pieces from a mass of leavened dough placed in a receiving tray, having a tool set that can move between several positions to activate various tools and apply the various tools sequentially to the dough, whereby the tray and tool set have a relative movement that either brings them closer or moves them apart, the tool set comprising: controlled means for spreading the dough in the tray in order to make a thickness of the dough uniform while substantially preserving an original volume of the dough; and means for shaping and individualizing dough into distinct, pieces comprising parallel separating partitions extending from one plate, an end of each of the separating partitions each comprising a bead with a droplet-shaped cross section, and defining regularly spaced chambers between the separating partitions for shaping the dough pieces when the tool set and the tray move relatively toward each other so that the partitions are carried to a bottom of the tray, wherein the bead of each of the separating partitions in each chamber is designed to gradually stretch out an upper surface layer of the dough and push the remainder of the dough back inside the surface layer which closes up as the partitions approach the bottom of the tray; wherein full individualization of the dough pieces is effected when the separating partitions contact the bottom of the tray.