Patent ID: 7905718

Claim:
Sheeting head apparatus for rolling and flattening a quantity of dough, comprising: a sheeting head defining a dough path therethrough and comprising a plurality of opposed roller pairs, a first roller of each pair being positioned on a first side of the dough path and a second roller of each pair being positioned on a second side of the dough path, the first roller of each roller pair being mounted for rotation and for independent movement toward and away from said dough path and the second roller of each roller pair being mounted for rotation adjacent the dough path, an infeed conveyor for conveying a quantity of dough to said sheeting head, an outfeed conveyor for conveying a quantity of rolled and flattened dough from said sheeting head, a sensor adjacent said infeed conveyor sensing an unduly thick or double quantity of dough being conveyed by said infeed conveyor to said sheeting head, a control, responsive to said sensor, for causing said sheeting head to move said first roller of each roller pair away from said dough path, whereby undesired jamming of said sheeting head by an unduly thick quantity of dough or by a double quantity of dough is prevented.