Patent ID: 8424452

Claim:
A dough dividing apparatus comprising: a dough discharge member which includes a front end surface having an elongated recessed surface extending substantially horizontally and having a circular arc-shaped cross-section, the dough discharge member further including a dough discharge hole having an outlet opening on the front end surface; a blade-shaped cutter provided forward of and adjacent to the front end surface in a dough discharging direction, and having a cutting edge extending in a longitudinal direction of the recessed surface; and a cutter driving device that rotatably drives the blade-shaped cutter so as to cause the cutting edge to perform circular motion while keeping the blade-shaped cutter in a fixed posture so that the cutting edge periodically slides along the recessed surface downward from above the recessed surface to cut and divide dough continuously extruded from the outlet in the dough discharging direction.