Abstract: An apparatus for continuously stretching dough for cakes, bread and the like, comprising a plurality of freely rotatable stretching rollers progressing along a closed orbit comprising a lower straight portion, and a dough transport device positioned thereunder and facing the lower straight portion of the orbit leaving a space between the stretching rollers progressing on the lower straight portion of the orbit and the upper surface of the dough transport device sufficient to permit the pass of dough to be stretched, the dough transport device comprising at least a portion of an intake belt conveyor and one or more positively driven transport rollers disposed in series downstream of the intake conveyor, with or without at least a portion of a further downstream belt conveyor.

Abstract: A rolling mechanism including at least one deflection-compensating roller is used to form flakes of a thickness less than 0.2 millimeters. In addition, a texturizing mechanism is located below the rolling mechanism to receive and deform the flakes into a shape that deviates from a plane shape. The flakes may be corrugated or rolled into cylinders.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a first conveyor for carrying dough portions in a first direction, and a second, endless conveyor for carrying the dough portions in a second direction out of plane with the first direction, the second conveyor having a pickup end immediately adjacent the first conveyor and a discharge end for delivering the dough portions to the pans. The cross-sectional dimension of the second conveyor at the pickup end is relatively thin, in order to insure that all of the dough portions are conveyed onto the second conveyor. A third conveyor is provided having a pickup portion underneath the discharge end of the second conveyor, such that pans fed onto the third conveyor receive the dough portions from the discharge end of the second conveyor.

Abstract: A noodle making machine for vertical mounting in a kitchen area designed to move and shape a lump of noodle dough into a strip or flat and pass it downward through pairs of rollers having progressively narrower spacing and progressively increasing speed to narrow and stretch the dough prior to introduction into noddle cutting rollers. Roller cleaning and clearing blades, together with funnel type guides, insure downward progress of the dough. The roller speed progression preferably has an exponential relationship to insure proper progress of the dough.

Abstract: An endless belt conveyor extends from below a rolling part formed of each roller clearance of a series of linearly arranged rolling roller devices. The conveyor is either fixed or elevatably adjustable. Each roller device is driven by one common motor to the rolling part of the next rolling roller device so that a wheat flour band advancing while being rolled, in series, by each rolling roller device may be automatically introduced into the next rolling roller device. The band may be supported in case it becomes loose while being rolled and may be automatically introduced into the rolling part of the next rolling roller device even if it breaks.

Abstract: In a calender the nip between a pair of rollers, of which one is obliquely adjustable, is bounded at the sides by plates adapted to the geometrical shape of the nip region and provided with slots, into which a control beam, parallel to the obliquely adjustable roller, engages, the ends of the beam are joined to the bearings of this roller, and the plates are arranged on supporting plates so as to be displaceble by means of a guide device, so that the plates, on oblique adjustment of the roller, are moved along a path which is concentric with the surface of the roller which is not obliquely adjustable.

Abstract: A panning system for a full-automatic white bread production line is composed of a cylindrical dough piece selector which detects cylindrical dough pieces in a molder which are transferred one by one intermittently and selects and removes the cylindrical dough pieces longer than a predetermined length or making a narrow pitch with a preceeding cylindrical dough piece; a centering machine which transfers the selected cylindrical dough pieces, and detects lateral deviations in the column of the detected dough pieces to correct them by the deviating amount; a bending machine which bends the cylindrical dough pieces transferred them into the determined shapes; and, a circular table panning machine for receiving the bent dough pieces one by one and moving them successively to charge simultaneously a plurality of the dough pieces into a bread pan.

Abstract: Apparatus for converting a dough lump or the like into a flat, substantially circular disk, notably for making various pastry products or pizzas, pies, etc.; underlying a feed hopper is a first train of rolling rollers adapted to elongate the lump in a first direction and to deposit same onto a pivoting transfer tray having a certain inclination, the weight of said lump causing said tray to pivot so as to introduce the lump in a direction at right angles to said first direction into a second train of rolling rollers for imparting the desired, substantially circular shape to said lump and delivering the latter to a discharge chute.

Abstract: A material guide jaw, for two co-operating rolls of a rolling mill or calender, particularly for processing rubber or synthetic plastics material, comprising a jaw plate which forms a guide for the material and is so mounted on an intermediate plate which is mounted on a base plate that the jaw plate can be adjusted in three different ways while remaining in the same plane.