Patents Assigned to Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8070472
    Abstract: An apparatus for rolling and forming a food dough includes: a rolling roller configured to roll out a block of food dough placed on a table; and a frame unit having an inner circumferential surface configured to face the rolling roller. The rolling roller is configured to revolve around a revolving axis, and rotate around a rotation axis of the rolling roller. The rolling roller includes a first portion having a substantially conical or frustum shape extending in a rotation axial direction. The frame unit is provided outside of a revolving locus of the first portion of the rolling roller. The inner circumferential surface of the frame unit includes an upper side portion and a lower side portion that is farther from the revolving axis than the upper side portion with respect to the revolving radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Morikawa, Norio Kobayashi, Mitsuo Cho
  • Publication number: 20110111100
    Abstract: While the long and large food dough is being transferred to a downstream conveyor (71) provided adjacent to a weighing conveyor (69), the long and the large food dough is cut by a cutting device (73) provided between the weighing conveyor (69) and the downstream conveyor (71) at a timing when a weight of the long and large food dough measured in advance on the weighing conveyor (69) is reduced by a given weight. In this method, with one side portion of the long and large food dough held by a dough holding member (99) provided between the weighing conveyor (69) and the downstream conveyor (71) to be reciprocable in directions to contact and separate from the long and large food dough, the long and large food dough is cut from another side portion of the long and large food dough by a cutting blade (103) provided opposed to this dough holding member (99).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.,
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ebata, Reo Yamada, Akira Todate
  • Patent number: 7931923
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a loaf of bread of this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet, a cutting step to cut the bar-like dough, and a placing step to place the bar-like pieces of dough that were cut at the cutting step into a baking mold so that at least one cutting plane faces upward. If there are air bubbles between layers of the bar-like pieces of dough, the air bubbles can escape from a cutting surface of the bar-like pieces of dough when they rise and expand at the fermenting and baking steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Keiji Hayashi, legal representative, Michio Morikawa, Sadao Ueno, Hiroyuki Okaizumi
  • Patent number: 7910148
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for beating and rolling a fermented dough belt between rolling members to release surplus fermentation gases in the dough belt has a first rolling member having a plurality of rolling rollers. Each rolling roller of the plurality moves sequentially upstream from downstream and beats and rolls the dough belt. A second large diameter conveying rolling member conveys and moves the dough belt between the first and the second rolling members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Sadao Ueno
  • Patent number: 7901198
    Abstract: Disclosed is an shape-forming shutter apparatus including a plurality of shutter pieces, each having an shaping surface and a sliding surface, which are arranged in a circle with the shaping surface of each shutter piece being slidably in sliding contact with the sliding surface of the neighboring separate shutter piece, and the shape-forming shutter apparatus being capable of dilating and contracting an opening part surrounded by the shaping surfaces respectively of the plurality of shutter pieces. The shape-forming shutter apparatus includes pressure contact biasing means for always keeping the shaping surface of each shutter piece and the sliding surface of the neighboring shutter piece slidably in pressure contact with each other. The pressure contact biasing means is a ring-shaped elastic member for biasing the shutter pieces equally in such a direction to close the opening part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Onoguchi
  • Publication number: 20110036245
    Abstract: An apparatus for spacing and aligning triangular-like shaped pieces of food dough in one direction, which pieces are arranged so that they form a plurality of columns, wherein the directions of the pieces of the adjacent columns are alternately opposite each other, by rotating the pieces clockwise and counterclockwise at 90 degrees. The apparatus continues to alternately rotate the pieces 9 clockwise and counterclockwise at 90 degrees, which pieces 9 are cut and separated from a sheet 7 of food dough and are carried sequentially downstream from upstream by conveyors 3, 5, comprising pin-holding members 67 fixed to rotating rods 63, which rods 63 can move vertically and rotate clockwise and counterclockwise at 90 degrees, wherein the pieces 9 can be aligned so that one of the apexes of the triangular-like-shaped pieces 9 is oriented toward the upstream side of the direction for carrying the pieces 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sadao Ueno, Hitoshi Kuwabara, Nobuo Oshima
  • Publication number: 20110008506
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a food dough cutting method and cutting device thereof capable of forming conveyed food dough strips that have nearly identical weight per unit time when dividing band shaped food dough into multiple food dough strips in the conveyance direction, and is further capable of performing the same number of cuts for each food dough strip when cutting each food dough strip along the width direction into food dough pieces having a specified weight. The conveyed food dough is aligned to a position that is displaced by just an alignment displacement amount with respect to a reference position that is based on the installation position of cutting members. The alignment displacement amount is calculated based on the ratio of the width dimension of the food dough and the lengths of food dough pieces that are cut from food dough strips on both sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akinori Takama, Susumu Kominato, Hiroshi Ueno
  • Publication number: 20100242743
    Abstract: A pastry producing apparatus (3) produces a pastry in which overlying dough (53) is placed on core dough (15). On a downstream side of the pastry producing apparatus (3), an upper curved surface forming apparatus (5) presses the overlying dough against the core dough, thereby forms the overlying dough and the core dough integrally with each other. On a downstream side of the upper curved surface forming apparatus (5), a shaping apparatus (7) horizontally moves such a pastry formed by the upper curved surface forming apparatus (5), and performs a shaping action for the pastry. Moreover, on a downstream side of the shaping apparatus (7), an imprinting apparatus (9) presses a template against an upper portion of the pastry subjected to the shaping action by the shaping apparatus (7), and imprints, to the upper portion, an appropriate groove-shaped pattern provided in the template. The pastry producing apparatus (3) composes one unit (U1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Hashimoto, Yasunori Kondo
  • Publication number: 20100227037
    Abstract: An object is to provide a method and an apparatus for lapping strip-shaped food dough onto a transporting unit without repeatedly applying tension or relaxation. A method of lapping food dough in which strip-shaped food dough being continuously conveyed is lapped onto the transporting unit configured to transport the food dough in a direction intersecting a conveyance direction of the food dough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi ODERAOTOSHI, Tomokuni AKUTSU, Hiroyuki OKAIZUMI, Norio KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20100224082
    Abstract: An object is to provide a food dough extending apparatus capable of adjusting a vertical position of an extending roller unit in an obliquely vertical direction in accordance with a thickness of food dough. A food dough apparatus includes an inclined transporting unit 7 inclined and configured to transport to-be-extended food dough 9 upward, a horizontal direction transporting unit 11 configured to transport the food dough 9 transported from the inclined transporting unit 7 in a horizontal direction, and an extending roller unit 13 provided above over an area from an upper end of the inclined transporting unit 7 to the horizontal direction transporting unit 11 and configured to extend the food dough 9. The extending roller unit 13 is vertically adjustable in a direction intersecting an inclination direction of the inclined transporting unit 7 and being upwardly inclined toward the inclined transporting unit 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi ODERAOTOSHI, Tomokuni AKUTSU, Hiroyuki OKAIZUMI, Norio KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20100166902
    Abstract: A dough measuring conveyor (5) for measuring a food dough (1) includes: a measuring unit (13) for measuring a weight of the food dough (1); a conveying unit (17) for conveying the food dough (1); and a dough pressing unit (25A, 25B) for pressing the food dough against the conveying unit (17) from above the conveying unit (17) to prevent the food dough from being lifted up. The dough pressing unit (25A, 25B) is integrally provided to a frame of the measuring conveyor (5). A dough measuring and cutting apparatus includes: a transferring conveyor (3) for conveying the food dough onto the dough measuring conveyor (5); a cutting device (9) for cutting the food dough; and a measurement-checking conveyor (19) for performing measurement check of a cut piece (1A) cut off from the food dough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji KURIBAYASHI, Katsumichi HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20100126360
    Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for forming a food material, such as an apparatus for encrusting a filling material, such as bean jam. The purpose of this invention is to provide an apparatus for forming a food material, such as an apparatus for encrusting a filling material, whose production cost is considerably reduced by employing the following constitution for the apparatus. Namely, mechanisms that can control the opening and closing movements of a cutting apparatus and the lifting and lowering movements of the cutting apparatus and the food-receiving member by only one driving motor are employed for the apparatus. Further, a simplified control system is employed for the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinobu Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20100104719
    Abstract: A food dough forming apparatus (1) for joining together a first end face (W1A) of a rod-shaped food dough (W1) and a second end face (W2A) of another rod-shaped food dough (W2), the apparatus including: deforming and facing means (3) for deforming the food doughs (W1, W2) so as to cause the first end face (W1A) and the second end face (W2A) to face each other; and joining means (5) for joining together the end faces (W1A, W2A) caused to face each other by the deforming and facing means (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Okaizumi, Takao Takagi
  • Patent number: 7654195
    Abstract: Confectionery, such as a tart and pie, is sequentially made. A generally rectangular mold is filled with food dough. The food dough is baked and taken out of the mold. The food dough is cut and divided in a zigzag pattern into generally triangularly-shaped food dough, so that a tart or a pie is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Morito, Yoshitaka Sakai
  • Publication number: 20090232924
    Abstract: Disclosed is an shape-forming shutter apparatus including a plurality of shutter pieces, each having an shaping surface and a sliding surface, which are arranged in a circle with the shaping surface of each shutter piece being slidably in sliding contact with the sliding surface of the neighboring separate shutter piece, and the shape-forming shutter apparatus being capable of dilating and contracting an opening part surrounded by the shaping surfaces respectively of the plurality of shutter pieces. The shape-forming shutter apparatus includes pressure contact biasing means for always keeping the shaping surface of each shutter piece and the sliding surface of the neighboring shutter piece slidably in pressure contact with each other. The pressure contact biasing means is a ring-shaped elastic member for biasing the shutter pieces equally in such a direction to close the opening part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Onoguchi
  • Publication number: 20090226587
    Abstract: An apparatus for rolling and forming a food dough includes: a rolling roller configured to roll out a block of food dough placed on a table; and a frame unit having an inner circumferential surface configured to face the rolling roller. The rolling roller is configured to revolve around a revolving axis, and rotate around a rotation axis of the rolling roller. The rolling roller includes a first portion having a substantially conical or frustum shape extending in a rotation axial direction. The frame unit is provided outside of a revolving locus of the first portion of the rolling roller. The inner circumferential surface of the frame unit includes an upper side portion and a lower side portion that is farther from the revolving axis than the upper side portion with respect to the revolving radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michio MORIKAWA, Norio Koboyashi, Mitsuo Cho
  • Patent number: 7578232
    Abstract: A method according to this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet a cutting step to cut the bar-like dough, and a placing step to place the bar-like pieces of dough that were cut at the cutting step into a baking mold so that at least one cutting plane faces upward. If there are air bubbles between layers of the bar-like pieces of dough, the air bubbles can escape from a cutting surface of the bar-like pieces of dough when they rise and expand at the fermenting and baking steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Sadao Ueno, Hiroyuki Okaizumi
  • Publication number: 20090162512
    Abstract: These inventions provide a method and an apparatus for rolling food dough without causing slipping between the food dough and rolling rollers and without causing twisted shrinkages in the food dough, and disk-shaped food dough manufactured by the method. Further, these inventions relate to the disk-shaped food dough manufactured by the method and the apparatus. The apparatus used for the method is comprised of a cradle that can relatively ascend away from and descend toward a table, and conical-shaped rolling rollers rotatably disposed at the cradle, which rollers can swivel. When the food dough is rolled by means of the rolling rollers by pressing the food dough, the rolling rollers rotate so that the speed of the rotation is higher than that when they are passively rotated by the swiveling motion. The relative speed of the descent of the rolling rollers toward the food dough is controlled so that the speed gradually decreases from the initial speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Morikawa, Torahiko Hayashi, Takamasa Tsuchida, Hiroshi Ebata, Norio Koboyashi
  • Patent number: 7501139
    Abstract: An apparatus for stretching and rolling a mass of a strip of food dough to form a dough sheet is disclosed. A first conveyor (15) continuously conveys a mass of a strip of dough (9) along a traveling direction that is parallel to the mass of the strip of the dough (9). The incoming mass of the strip of dough (9) passes between and through a primary roller (11) and a secondary roller (13), which is opposed to and spaced apart from the primary roller (11) such that the incoming mass of the strip of dough is stretched and rolled into the form of a dough sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Morikawa, Sadao Ueno
  • Publication number: 20080289466
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a food dough cutting method and cutting device thereof capable of forming conveyed food dough strips that have nearly identical weight per unit time when dividing band shaped food dough into multiple food dough strips in the conveyance direction, and is further capable of performing the same number of cuts for each food dough strip when cutting each food dough strip along the width direction into food dough pieces having a specified weight. The conveyed food dough is aligned to a position that is displaced by just an alignment displacement amount with respect to a reference position that is based on the installation position of cutting members. The alignment displacement amount is calculated based on the ratio of the width dimension of the food dough and the lengths of food dough pieces that are cut from food dough strips on both sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akinori Takama, Susumu Kominato, Hiroshi Ueno