Abstract: The present teaching relates to a method for forming rings from dough or other masses. A mass portion is positioned into a forming device on an abutment under a pressing device, wherein the pressing device has a centering ring, a displacement rod, a cut-out ring and a press ram. The centering ring is placed on the abutment, wherein the mass portion is laterally enclosed by means of the centering ring and is pressed by means of the press ram against the abutment into an approximately cylindrical form with a uniform thickness. A core hole is made in the mass portion by means of the displacement rod, so that a thin core of the mass portion remains between the abutment and the displacement rod. The core is punched out by the cut-out ring, and the press ram is lifted off the mass portion formed into a ring.

Abstract: A method for measuring the mass distribution along the width of a strip, in particular a dough strip, moved in the longitudinal direction of the strip and having a specified target width. At least two weighing cells are arranged at a distance to each other with respect to the width of the strip. The weight of at least one dough strand or dough piece having a width defined by the distances of the weighing cells is sensed. The mass of the partial pieces of the strip is determined on the basis of the distance of the weighing cells to each other, the position of the weighing cells along the width of the strip, the strip speed, and the measured values of the weight of the partial pieces sensed by the weighing cells, in particular over a defined time period.

Abstract: A device for longitudinal cutting and/or stamping of dough strips, wherein the tool-receiving shaft thereof is mounted rotatably with both of its ends in bearing cheeks arranged vertically displaceably in recesses of side panels of the device. The bearing cheeks are vertically adjustable by means of an adjustment screw drive that is arranged in each case on the two anchoring boxes of the clamping lever and that adjusts the cutting depth. The clamping lever is equipped with an anchoring mechanism which is arranged inside its connecting strut and reaches into the anchoring box thereof and which has anchoring elements that can be actuated by means of one-man/one-hand grips arranged on the connecting strut and that are able to engage in the side panels.

Abstract: A device for portioning and kneading dough is provided, comprising a chamber drum incrementally rotatable about a drive shaft by a main drive provided at the circumferential sections thereof with accommodation chambers, wherein in each accommodation chamber there may be slid one or a plurality of weighing stamps in the radial direction of the chamber drum by motion-according coupling with a control device. At least one circumferential section of the chamber drum, which has at least one accommodation chamber, may be removed and re-attached in the axial direction together with the weighing stamp situated in the accommodation chamber. Each weighing chamber is motion-accordingly coupled with the control device by a lever shaft, which is provided at one of its lever shaft ends with a cam roller housed in a cam-like curved compulsory guiding of a control device.

Abstract: A cellular roller for portioning dough, is provided. The cellular roller comprises a plurality of impeller blades radially extending from a central axis of rotation and having a blade surface made of dough-repellent plastic, which impeller blades between one another define portioning chambers that are open on the outside, wherein each impeller blade at the open blade end thereof is provided with a reinforcement strip made of an abrasion-resistant material.

Abstract: A device for continuously transporting a dough strand, comprising a conveyor element having a support surface for the dough strand displaceable in the direction of transport, wherein the conveyor element is pivotable substantially transversally to the direction of transport about a swivelling axis disposed on the downstream end region thereof.