Abstract: The invention proposes a device and method for the preparation of brochettes with picked-and-placed food consisting of a brochette (17) and one or more pieces of foodstuff (4). The brochette (17) is held by a brochette holder. The pieces of foodstuff (4) are picked up from a transport device (2) by ingredient grippers (5, 11, 12) and slipped onto the brochette (17) or placed in a mold, into which the brochette is subsequently introduced.

Abstract: The present invention provides a kit (200) for producing a high quality sushi product with uniformity and at a high rate of production. The kit (200) includes a Nigiri Sushi mold (10, 110) and a California Sushi Roll apparatus (54, 154.) In a preferred embodiment, the kit (200) includes a traditional Japanese bento box (18,20) that houses both the Nigiri Sushi mold (10, 110) and California Sushi Roll (54, 154.) The Nigiri Sushi mold (10, 110) is made up of a mold (12, 112) having several indentations (28, 128) for supporting the preferred ingredients. The Nigiri mold (12, 112) is joined with the plate (14, 114) and is placed in the bottom half of the Japanese bento box (18) to form the lower portion of the Sushi kit (200) of the present invention. The apparatus (54, 154) used to form the California Rolls sits atop an inverted Nigiri mold (12, 112) with plate (14, 114) and includes a roller sheet (56, 156) that is flexibly attached to a base plate (64, 164.

Abstract: A flattening roller (38) is supported on horizontal guides (32, 34) and rolls alternately in opposite directions along the guides. A tray (30) is arranged horizontally between the guides, and is progressively lifted to approach to the cylindrical surface of the roller. The tray turns by a quarter turn around a vertical axis at the end of each stroke of the roller along the guides. A lump of dough placed on the tray is progressively flattened to a thin, round shape.

Abstract: A machine for making sushi rolls has a support base (10) supporting a foldable plate (12) made of four strips of metal pivotally mounted one to the next along three parallel hinge lines (17). Four frame members (13a, 13b, 13c, 13d) can be assembled to make a rectangular frame which is locatable on the plate (12) in either of two possible orientations, one of which defines a shallow recess and the other of which defines a deep recess to enable a thinner or thicker layer of rice to be applied to the plate which, after removal of the frame is folded to form a sushi roll having a thinner or thicker layer of cooked rice, so that the machine can produce sushi rolls with different bulks of filling.

Abstract: Starting with stiff, flat wafers in laminar form, ready-made, the wafers are laid unitarily on trays (3) fitted on a conveyor belt (2), which causes them to pass through a tunnel (5) wherein they are subjected to heating until softened, after which the trays (3), of a three-part structure, have their side segments swivel with respect to their central segment reshaping the respective pieces of wafer into a fluted form having a U-shaped section, assisted in this wafer-shaping process by a pressing mechanism (14) equipped with a plurality of tampers (17) which act sequentially and unitarily on the respective trays, helping in the cooling of the wafers for these to retain their reshaped form in a stable manner, there being mounted immediately thereafter and on the conveyor belt (2) itself an ice-cream feeder mechanism (18), the ice cream filling the fluted bodies defined by the wafers after being reshaped.

Abstract: A substantially horizontal, flat shovel (30), made of thin, perforated metal plate, is integral with a slide (28) which is slidable on a guide (26), itself integral with a mounting (18). The shovel is driven by an actuator (20, 22, 24, 32, 34, 36) for moving forward and backward, while staying tangent to a facing rest shelf, at either of two speeds, a slow speed and a fast speed. The mounting (18) can move to different positions facing respective processing stations (42, 44).

Abstract: A kneading device kneads a main raw material of high viscosity and a secondary raw material of liquid or powder and continuously delivers a kneaded raw material obtained, and a ropesizer includes a sheet forming unit, and a delivering unit applies a second raw material onto a first raw material, which is elongated into a sheet shape and is conveyed by the sheet forming unit, so as to be in a strand form.

Abstract: The present invention provides a kit (200) for producing a high quality sushi product with uniformity and at a high rate of production. The kit (200) includes a Nigir i Sushi mold (10, 110) and a California Sushi Roll apparatus (54, 154.) In a preferred embodiment, the kit (200) includes a traditional Japanese bento box (18,20) that houses both the Nigiri Sushi mold (10, 110) and California Sushi Roll (54, 154.) The Nigiri Sushi mold (10, 110) is made up of a mold (12, 112) having several indentations (28, 128) for supporting the preferred ingredients. The Nigiri mold (12, 112) is joined with the plate (14, 114) and is placed in the bottom half of the Japanese bento box (18) to form the lower portion of the Sushi kit (200) of the present invention. The apparatus (54, 154) used to form the California Rolls sits atop an inverted Nigiri mold (12, 112) with plate (14, 114) and includes a roller sheet (56, 156) that is flexibly attached to a base plate (64, 164.

Abstract: A food product and a method for making the same. The food product is comprised of a tortilla (either flour or corn) and a pliable, tabular food filling member. The food filling member may be an omelet, for example. The food filling member is dimensioned to overlay and substantially cover most of the tortilla. The food product is produced by laying the food filling member on top of the tortilla and rolling the two up together so that, in cross section, the food product comprised of alternating layers of tortilla and pliable food filling member.

Abstract: A molding device for pastry products includes an upper rotary disc, a set of cutting tools and a central through hole formed at the front aspect of a cutting edge portions of a plurality of cutting tools; wherein the intermittently obverse and reverse rotations of the upper rotary disc on a bottom disc drives a front moving rod to displace in a long through hole and makes a rear moving rod rotate in obverse and reverse directions in a circular through hole so as to further work as a rotary shaft thereby enabling the cutting edge portions of pluralities of cutting tools synchronously to close or open the central through hole with more precise carry-over moment to achieve the effect of opening and closing the central through hole more precisely and steadily for ensuring a consistent shape of a cut noodle or a molded food product.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stuffing-dosing machine which comprises a container (1) which receives the food material and which is subjected to a vacuum (V), means for removing and impulsing the food material towards compaction-stuffing cavities, two alternating stuffing cylinders (2) and a rotary collector valve (9) synchronized with said cylinders for the selective collection and distribution of material to an outlet conduit. Piston heads (5) of the cylinders (2) are inside the container (1), the first portion (B) of the stroke (A) of the cylinder (2) taking place in a narrow area (1a) of the container (1) wherein the piston heads (5) stir and impulse the food material and a second portion (C) of the stroke (A) takes place inside stuffing-dosing chambers (4) in the lower terminal portion of the container (1) of which the internal walls match the piston heads (5) and of which the stuffing-dosing chambers (4) are adjacent to the compaction-stuffing cavities.

Abstract: An integrated unit for producing double-layered spherical products (23) in two rows on a belt conveyor (25) under it is disclosed. The length of the integrated unit is aligned with the traveling direction of the conveyor (25) in order to reduce the space needed on both sides of the conveyor (25). The integrated unit includes a filling feeder (15) and a casing feeder (17) for feeding a filling (5) and a casing (9) such that the feeders (15) and (17) are arranged opposite each other. A space between the feeders (15) and (17) of the integrated unit is provided with vane pumps (29A) and (29B) and a pair of double nozzles (13A) and (13B), which are positioned in the center of the integrated unit. The vane pumps (29A) and (29B) pump the corresponding materials (5) and (9) from the corresponding feeders (15) and (17) to the corresponding double nozzles (13A) and (13B). Each double nozzle extrudes the filling (5) and the casing (9) in a form of a double-layered elongated product.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of making a toroid filled bagel dough product and the product formed thereby.

Abstract: A machine for preparing food products, for example lasagne, comprising a feeder which is suitable to take a plurality of lines of product and to feed each line to a respective product conveyor; each line comprises product distribution units suitable to distribute the product in respective containers fed by a conveyance device. The product conveyors extend parallel to each other and one above the other and have different lengths, each product conveyor having a delivery end at a distribution station which is suitable to deposit the product, which arrives from the respective product conveyor, in a container which is supplied to the distribution station by the conveyance device.

Abstract: The subject invention is an apparatus for production of rolled tortillas where small tortillas or flakes of raw dough of nixtamalized corn are rolled up in a continuous manner. The apparatus of the present invention utilizes an acceleration conveyor that allows for the speed of the conveyor to be varied to provide a more exact rolling up of small tortillas or flakes of raw dough of nixtamalized corn, continuously and automatically. The apparatus also utilizes pre-rolling up meshes and final rolling up meshes to produce more easily, perfectly, and efficiently such small tortillas of raw dough of nixtamalized corn.

Abstract: A system for filling nuggets transported along a conveyor utilizes a platform that is positioned above the conveyor in a generally parallel fashion. The platform alternatingly moves in either one of a direction substantially similar to the direction of motion of the conveyor, and a direction substantially opposite to the direction of motion of the conveyor. A coring device is mounted onto the platform and used for forming a cavity in the nuggets. A depositing device is mounted on the platform, and is used for introducing a filling into the cavity in the nuggets. The platform is moving, so that the nuggets can be transported by the conveyor, without having to vary the speed of transportation of the nuggets, while either one of a cavity is being formed and the cavity in the nugget is being filled.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a horizontal, extensible shovel which is driven step by step through a predetermined path by motorized means; a distributor of dough loaves arranged for dropping loaves at a first stop in the shovel path; a pizza moulder arranged at a second stop in the shovel path, for pressing and spreading the loaf; several distributors of a dressing, placed at at least a third stop in the shovel path, for dropping metered portions of dressing on the pizza carried by the shovel; and an oven placed at a fourth stop in the shovel path, for receiving the pizza from the shovel.

Abstract: A pasta stuffing machine includes a conveyor having mold cups affixed thereto. The mold cups are openable and closeable. A pasta shell is inserted into each mold cup. The conveyor moves the mold cups and pasta shells to a filling station at which a pasta shell filling is inserted within the pasta shell while the mold cup is open. A folding station causes the mold cup to close to fold leaves of the pasta shell on top of one another and around the pasta shell filling. The mold cups are opened downstream of the folding station to allow the pasta shell to exit the mold cup. A rolling station rolls the pasta shell and the pasta shell filling into a final shape.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for producing a roll foodstuff, which includes a roll maker having improvement in push of three rotating plates, wherein the first and second rotating plates (32) and (33) have cam members (41) and (42) with each curved bottom between the front and the rear, respectively; wherein the cam members (41) and (42) are symmetrically disposed on the back of respective first and second rotating plates such that the curved bottoms are opposite each other; and wherein the lift board (61) is in contact with the cam member so that upward movement of the lift board (61) causes rotation of the first and second rotating plates.

Abstract: An apparatus for rolling up laminar sheets of food material in a tubular shape. The apparatus includes an assembly having a plurality of roll-up rollers located at a terminal zone of a conveyor for the laminar sheet of food material. The rolling-up rollers are of the same diameter as well as the same revolutionary speed and are arranged on a concentric circle so that the plurality of rolling-up rollers contact an outer surface of laminar sheet of food material and thereby roll-up the laminar sheet of food material in a tubular shape.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for producing a roll foodstuff, which includes a roll maker having improvement in push of three rotating plates, wherein the first and second rotating plates 32 and 33 have cam members 41 and 42 with each curved bottom between the front and the rear, respectively; wherein the cam members 41 and 42 are symmetrically disposed on the back of respective first and second rotating plates such that the curved bottoms are opposite each other; and wherein the lift board 61 is in contact with the cam member so that upward movement of the lift board 61 causes rotation of the first and second rotating plates.

Abstract: A filling mechanism which does not dehydrate or deoil the stuffing, comprises a main frame on which is mounted a hopper and a hose, the hopper guiding the stuffing into the hose, the hose having a front end positioning part that is tightly fixed; a pushing device for guiding and pushing the stuffing, the pushing device being mounted below the hose and including a transverse seat plate on the upper surface of which is disposed a slide rail, a slide seat slidably displaceable along the slide rail, a pneumatic cylinder disposed on the slide seat, and a fixing plate mounted on the upper portion of the pneumatic cylinder, the pneumatic cylinder having a piston rod which can shuttle back and forth out of the fixing plate; and a transverse roller member having two side arms by which the roller member is pivotally onto the fixing plate, whereby upon raising the piston rod and displacement of the slide seat, the roller member rolls and presses against the hose, causing the hose to be partially deformed and the stuffin

Abstract: A device is particularly well suited for introducing a continuous length of food stuffing into an elongated food product. The device uses a tube having opposite, open ends and an inner wall defining a longitudinal passage extending between such opposite ends. The length of foodstuffing is received in this longitudinal passage. The tube is inserted into the food product being stuffed, and a pointed cap on the end of the tube guides it through the food product. A ram is used in conjunction with the tube to keep the foodstuffing material in substantial registration with the ends of the food product and to assist in withdrawing the tube after the foodstuffing has been deposited in the food product. An optional parallel knife assembly is used to create an incision extending through the food product to ease the subsequent insertion of the foodstuffing therein.

Abstract: A filling depositor for ravioli producing machines particularly with thick or chunky fillings comprises a rotary valve assembly connected to the filling tubes, which are fed by a positive displacement gear pump. The rotary valve assembly includes a rotary valve which is driven and synchronized with a gearing of the ravioli machine and includes machined openings in a shaft which match the shape of the ravioli forming die. The shaft is rotated into alignment with the ravioli die to provide the desired filling thorough slots in a housing and appropriate cut-off of the filling operating at a high speed.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus produces defined lengths of meat or other filling materials for taquitos, enchiladas, burritos, and other rolled, wrapped, or folded tortilla foods. This apparatus includes a small, upper, filling conveyor that operates in parallel with a large, lower, tortilla conveyor. Other components include an extruder, nozzle, cutter, and various sensors that produce output signals indicating tortilla and filling position. Encoders are also provided to represent position and/or movement of at least the upper conveyor. According to the sensor outputs, a controller regulates operation of the upper conveyor, extruder, and cutter to produce and then accurately deposit segments of filling material upon tortillas as they pass by upon the lower conveyor. As needed, the controller (1) advances, reversed, and/or stops the upper conveyor, (2) directs the pump to start/stop filling production, and (3) regulates the cutter to cut extruded filling material.

Abstract: An apparatus for making a printed spring-roll skin includes a forming drum having a circumferential heating surface to form a skin from dough, a dough feeder having an outlet adjacent to the heating surface, a scraper disposed adjacent the heating surface to remove the skin from the heating surface, and a printing roller disposed rotatably adjacent the forming drum and having a circumferential printing surface in contact with the heating surface. First and second intermeshed gears are respectively disposed coaxially with the forming drum and the printing roller so as to drive the same simultaneously. A coloring agent is supplied to the printing roller to print the drum surface which transfers a print to the skin.

Abstract: The present invention provides an automatic rolled sushi producing apparatus consisting of a vinegared rice supply unit; a vinegared rice supply conveyer arranged below the vinegared rice supply unit; a carrying conveyer arranged at right angle to the vinegared rice supply conveyer; a vinegared rice extrusion mechanism arranged along an advancing direction of the carrying conveyer; a vinegared rice cutting mechanism; a tight rolling mechanism; a forming mechanism; a product extrusion mechanism; and a product take-out conveyer arranged at right angle to the carrying conveyer at a terminal end of the carrying conveyer, and wherein the vinegared rice supply conveyer, the carrying conveyer and the product take-out conveyer are arranged in the form of U as a whole.

Abstract: This invention relates to a mould and the related machine for the production of filled pasta, in particular for the production of ravioli, tortellini and the like, equipped with a cutting device designed to improve the way in which the filling is enclosed between the two edges of the pasta. More specifically, the mould comprises at least one seating (2) designed to receive a first sheet of pasta with filling, and a surround (3) which surrounds the said seating; the said surround comprises a zigzag cutting edge (5) designed to press against a surface (4) which supports a second sheet of pasta to be joined to the said first sheet, and said zigzag edge (5) defines a set of wedge-shaped cavities (8) having two opposite walls (6, 7) arranged at an angle, the depth of said cavities (8) increasing, from the said edge (5) towards the inner part of the mould.

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing a folded food product includes a filling machine (128) operable to deposit a filling (30) on a food wrap (20). The apparatus further includes a first folding element (134 and 136) that is configured to fold a first section (22) of the food wrap (20) over the filling (30). Additionally, the apparatus has a creasing device (222) and a folding belt (214) that is operable to fold the food wrap (20) along first and second creases formed by the creasing device (222). Furthermore, the apparatus includes a first crease plate (328) that is operable to place a third crease (26) in the food wrap (20) after the food wrap (20) exits the folding belt (214), and a second folding element (334 and 336) configured to fold the food wrap (20) along the third crease (26). The apparatus also has a second crease plate (340) that is operable to place a fourth crease (28) in the food wrap (20), and a third folding element (338, 344 and 346) configured to fold the food wrap (20) along the fourth crease (28).