Abstract: The machine comprises a dough flattening out station, a puff-pastry cutting station, a cut puff-pastry triangle spacing and orienting station, a triangle aligning station and a forming station, wherein a plurality of conveyor apparatus are provided effective to convey baking pans under the forming station, in such a way as to cause the pastry pieces to orderly fall into shaped recesses formed in the pans.The machine further comprises a mechanical type of device effective to control the falling of the formed pastry pieces on the pans and a rotating brush device for bending the pieces according to a predetermined curvature.

Abstract: A machine for automatically forming croissants, brioches and the like comprises a pastry flattening out stage, a cutting stage, a cut triangle spacing and orienting stage, a triangle aligning stage and a forming stage, the sheet pastry triangle spacing and orienting stage include, substantially a mechanism, effective to reciprocate on two wheels, in such a way as to take up the sheet pastry triangles and release the sheet pastry triangles at the forming machine, the reciprocating movement being transmitted to the mechanism by two side tie-rods, pivoted at one end to a cam and, at the other end, to an intermediate point of a lever supporting the mechanism at the rear portion, the mechanism comprising a plurality of cams and transmitting elements acting on catching movable elements effective, during the advancing stroke, to spread apart and rotate through a 90.degree. angle.