Patent ID: 7205017

Claim:
An apparatus for beating and rolling a food dough belt conveyed between rolling members, comprising: a first rolling member having a plurality of rolling rollers which move in an endless orbit and which can move sequentially upstream from downstream and downstream from upstream along the food dough belt, while each rolling roller is rotating about the axis of the rolling roller, a second rolling member conveying the food dough belt thereon, and a control apparatus for controlling the speed of the movement and the speed of the rotation of the rolling rollers, wherein when the first rolling member moves sequentially upstream from downstream, the respective rolling rollers are controlled so as to be rotated in the reverse direction of the rotation of the second rolling member, and wherein when the first roller member moves sequentially downstream from upstream, the respective rolling rollers are controlled so as to be rotated in the same direction as the rotation of the second rolling member, and wherein the speed of the rotation of the rolling rollers can be controlled independently from the speed of the movement of the rolling rollers.