Patents Assigned to Koninklijke Brinkers Margarinefabrieken B.V.
  • Patent number: 4421776
    Abstract: A method and device for rolling a dough mass, supplied in the shape of a thick layer, into a continuous sheet, whereby the dough mass resting on a moving supporting surface is subsequently contacted with a series of rotatable rolls which are situated increasingly closer to said supporting surface in the direction of movement of the supporting surface, the rolls simultaneously being moved with a linear velocity which is greater than the velocity of movement of the supporting surface. According to a first aspect of the invention the rolls are moved along such a path over the supporting surface that the angle between said path and the supporting surface decreases as seen in the direction of movement. According to a second aspect of the invention the contact between the dough slab and the rolls is intermittently interrupted during a short time duration, such that each portion of the dough mass supplied is completely released by the rolls a couple of times during the movement along the rolling stretch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: Koninklijke Brinkers Margarinefabrieken B.V.
    Inventors: Bernardus H. C. Brinkers, Willem Burchard A. N. Veenman