Patent ID: 8535038

Claim:
A food dough forming apparatus for forming a ring-shaped food dough by joining together one end face of a first rod-shaped food dough and one end face of a second rod-shaped food dough spaced from the first food dough and extending parallel to the first food dough and by joining together the other end face of the first food dough and the other end face of the second food dough, the food dough forming apparatus, comprising: a first deforming and facing section structured to deform the first and second food doughs so as to cause the one end face of the first food dough and the one end face of the second food dough to face each other; a first joiner configured to join together the end faces caused to face each other by the first deforming and facing section; a second deforming and facing section structured to deform the first and second food doughs so as to cause the other end face of the first food dough and the other end face of the second food dough to face each other; and a second joiner configured to join together the end faces caused to face each other by the second deforming and facing section; wherein each of the end faces extending in a first plane transverse to a conveying direction of the first rod shaped food dough and the second rod shaped food dough, each of the first deforming and facing section and the second deforming and facing section being structured to deform the first and second food doughs by movement within a second plane parallel to the conveying direction and without movement of the food doughs out of the second plane parallel to the conveying direction.