Abstract: A rounding device for rounding food dough is provided with a conveyance device (9) which conveys the food dough (7) and a pair of forming plates (11, 13), which, on the upper face of the conveyance device (9), are arranged so as to extend along the conveyance direction (R) of the conveyance device (9). The forming plates (11, 13) at least opposed sloped surfaces (18B, 22B). The sloped surfaces are tilted outward from the lower side to the upper side so that the gap between the sloped surfaces is narrow on the lower side and wide on the upper side. The rounding device rounds the food dough using the sloped surfaces (18B, 22B) of the pair of the forming plates (11, 13).

Abstract: A method for forming a food product into a circular shape, wherein both ends of an elongated food product are connected each other and closed, or into a C-shape, wherein both ends of the elongated food product face each other and opened. The method includes (a) fixing one end of the elongated food product to a rotatable core member, (b) pressing the food product toward the core member by moving the core member close to and away from a pressing roller, when the food product is formed into a circular shape by being wound around the core member by rotating the core member, and (c) separating the formed food product and the core member by releasing the food product from the core member, after forming the food product 3 into a required shape by being wound around the core member.

Abstract: An apparatus for aligning and positioning a plurality of pieces of food dough having a triangular shape on a conveyer. The apparatus includes an upstream conveyer conveying the pieces of food dough having a triangular shape, a downstream conveyer faster than the upstream conveyer, a separating apparatus separating a plurality of the pieces of food dough set in a line in the perpendicular direction to the moving direction of the conveyer from the following row of the pieces and translocating them from the upstream conveyer to the downstream conveyer, a laying-out and rotating apparatus laying-out and rotating a plurality of the pieces set in a line so that they are positioned at predetermined intervals in the perpendicular direction to the moving direction of the conveyer and are rotated 90 degrees in a predetermined rotational direction, and a detecting device detecting the pieces.

Abstract: To provide a food dough spreading method for gradually spreading food dough to make it thinner by supplying the food dough between a plurality of spreading rollers in a spreading unit in which the spreading rollers are arranged in a V-shape. By adjusting a distance between a pair of vibration applying members provided between the spreading rollers arranged in a V-shape, a width dimension of the food dough flowing out from the spreading unit (25) is adjusted, and the vibration applying members are reciprocatively vibrated in a longitudinal direction of the spreading rollers at a position where the width dimension is adjusted. The reciprocative vibration of the pair of vibration applying members is vibration in a direction of approaching and separating from each other.

Abstract: Forming machines and methods for forming a croissant dough piece in which the lateral end sides can be bent to form and join them, while they contact the upper surface of a transporting conveyor, are provided. In one aspect of the invention, the forming machines include an interception pin 75, which is arranged above the transporting conveyor 5 such that it is vertically movable and it is also movable in the conveying direction of the transporting conveyor 5. The forming machine also includes a plurality of pressing members 99, which are arranged above the transporting conveyor 5 such that they are vertically movable and are movable in the conveying direction of the transporting conveyor 5 at a velocity faster than that of the interception pin 75, and they are movable toward and away from each other.

Abstract: A production method for an encrusted food in that filling is encrusted with dough is comprised of: disposing a plurality of shutter pieces on a flange having an opening, each of which has a pressure face facing the opening; transporting the dough onto the flange; by a linkage, driving the shutter pieces synchronously to press the pressure faces on a periphery portion of the dough; pressing the dough on the flange against a nozzle so as to catch the periphery portion of the dough between the flange and a shoulder of the nozzle and squeeze the periphery portion of the dough into a gap between an outer periphery of the nozzle and the pressure faces; expelling the filling through the nozzle onto the dough on the flange to bulge the dough out of the opening; detaching the dough from the nozzle; and gathering the periphery portion by the pressure faces.

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).

Abstract: An encrusted food is produced by a shutter device comprising a plurality of shutter pieces respectively pivotally supported on a plurality of pivots arranged along a circle, each of which comprises a pressure face facing to a center of the circle, a linkage setting the shutter pieces in motion synchronously so as to direct the pressure faces toward the center, and rake faces respectively formed on the pressure faces to stand upward from lower edges of the pressure faces and so dimensioned as to scoop up a periphery portion of the dough when the motion of the shutter pieces brings the rake faces into contact with the periphery portion.

Abstract: A method for forming a food product into a circular shape, wherein both ends of an elongated food product are connected each other and closed, or into a C-shape, wherein both ends of the elongated food product face each other and opened. The method includes (a) fixing one end of the elongated food product to a rotatable core member, (b) pressing the food product toward the core member by moving the core member close to and away from a pressing roller, when the food product is formed into a circular shape by being wound around the core member by rotating the core member, and (c) separating the formed food product and the core member by releasing the food product from the core member, after forming the food product 3 into a required shape by being wound around the core member.

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.

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.

Abstract: A food dough forming apparatus for joining together a first end face of a rod-shaped food dough and a second end face of another rod-shaped food dough, the apparatus including: deforming and facing means for deforming the food doughs so as to cause the first end face and the second end face to face each other; and joining means for joining together the end faces caused to face each other by the deforming and facing means.

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.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a food material, such as an apparatus for encrusting a filling material such as bean jam, where production cost is reduced because one driving motor and one rotating shaft control the opening and closing movements of a cutting apparatus and the lifting and lowering movements of the cutting apparatus and a food-receiving member. A simplified control system is also provided.

Abstract: 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 are provided. 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.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for aligning pieces of food dough that are conveyed downstream by a conveyor so that when aligning members contact the pieces, the deformation of the pieces and the adhesion between the aligning members and the pieces can be reduced.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for aligning pieces of food dough that are conveyed downstream by a conveyor so that when aligning members contact the pieces, the deformation of the pieces and the adhesion between the aligning members and the pieces can be reduced.

Abstract: Forming machines and methods for forming a croissant dough piece in which the lateral end sides can be bent to form and join them, while they contact the upper surface of a transporting conveyor, are provided. In one aspect of the invention, the forming machines include an interception pin 75, which is arranged above the transporting conveyor 5 such that it is vertically movable and it is also movable in the conveying direction of the transporting conveyor 5. The forming machine also includes a plurality of pressing members 99, which are arranged above the transporting conveyor 5 such that they are vertically movable and are movable in the conveying direction of the transporting conveyor 5 at a velocity faster than that of the interception pin 75, and they are movable toward and away from each other.

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.

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.