Patent ID: 8353234

Claim:
A food dough cutting device comprising: a conveyor that conveys band shaped food dough; a dough width detection device that detects both end positions of the food dough to generate a detection signal; a control device that calculates the center position and width dimension of the width of the food dough based on the detection signal from the dough width detection device; an alignment device that aligns the center position of the width of the food dough to a conveyance position; and a multiple-strip cutting device that is located downline from the conveyor and that comprises a cutting member that divides the food dough into multiple food dough strips in the conveyance direction; and a food dough piece cutting device that cuts the food dough strips into food dough pieces having a specified weight; wherein the multiple-strip cutting device divides the band shaped food dough into at least four food dough strips by using at least three cutting members, and the control device controls operation of the dough piece cutting device in order to cut the at least four food dough strips into at least four food dough pieces, when the weight of each of the at least four food dough strips is weighed by a weighing conveyor and a weighed value is matched to a set value, calculates cut lengths of each of the at least four food dough pieces, calculates a ratio of both sides to others by using an average cut length of the food dough pieces on both sides to an average cut length of other food dough pieces for the at least four dough pieces, adjusts, based on the ratio of both sides to the others, the cutting width of each of the at least four food dough strips, by adjusting both an interval between the cutting members that are located on both sides, and an alignment displacement, and controls the alignment device, so that number of cuts made per unit time, when cutting each of the food dough strips into food dough pieces having a specified weight, is made uniform among all of the food dough strips.