CN1162907A

CN1162907A - Dough manipulation apparatus

Info

Publication number: CN1162907A
Application number: CN 95196111
Authority: CN
Inventors: 马丁·托马斯·雷; 保罗·伍德
Original assignee: APV UK Ltd
Current assignee: SPX Flow Technology Crawley Ltd
Priority date: 1994-11-08
Filing date: 1995-11-07
Publication date: 1997-10-22

Abstract

Disclosed is a dough processing device which can rub up the dough and press the dough into dough sheets. The device is structured by a dough-sheet molding machine, a dough-sheet laminating machine and a device for preventing the dough sheets from flowing into the laminating machine. The dough sheets pressed by the dough-sheet molding machine can be conveyed directly to a biscuit cutter or be turned to the laminating machine through the clearance formed by the countermarch of a conveyer belt to press the dough sheets to the required thickness, cut to the standard length and fold layers of the dough sheets which are sent to the biscuit cutter through the conveyer belt. The device has the advantages of compact structure and small occupied area.

Description

Dough manipulation apparatus

The present invention relates to dough manipulation apparatus, it and biscuit cutting machine are used in combination.

The conventional method that commercial scale is made biscuit comprises continuous this link of dough sheet of production.Usually dough is stirred in batches put into dough sheeter then and also cry in the feeding hopper of ' noodle rolling machine '.Dough flows out downwards from feeding hopper, forms continuous dough sheet through roll, is transported to the biscuit shape that the biscuit cutting machine is cut into requirement again.The biscuit pieces of this cutting-out is delivered to baking oven again.The dough sheet that is left after hollowing out generally turns back to the tablet press machine feeding hopper and reprocesses.

Biscuit miscellaneous all can be made of the dough sheet that this way is pressed into.According to the difference of product variety, dough can do softly and elasticity is little also can be thick and be rich in elastic force.In addition, characteristic for the product that makes production, it is useful processing dough sheet with dissection, to some product even must do like this.

Layer adhesion process is which floor thin slice one deck is placed on the production process that forms laminated product above another layer.This technology can be placed on one deck greasy powder mixture between the two-layer dough sheet.

Use together according to dough manipulation apparatus of the present invention and biscuit cutting machine, dough can be rubbed up and is processed into dough sheet during this device operation, then this dough sheet is delivered to the biscuit cutting machine.This device comprises a dough sheet forming assembly, and a dough sheet is rolled over thin assembly and the device that dough sheet is rolled over thin assembly path is led in control, and this control device can make the dough sheet that extrudes with the sheet forming assembly lead to the biscuit cutting machine without rolling over thin.

The device that the thin assembly path of dough sheet rolling is led in control can comprise the dough sheet steering gear and make this steering gear work or idle device two parts.

The dough sheet steering gear is preferably stretched out and the dough sheet that supports props up roller and formed by the turning-bar of settling at angle with the dough sheet throughput direction with by this bar.

The dough sheet steering gear also can comprise a several auxiliary roller, and the latter is arranged on the same axis with a roller of mentioning for the first time and can shifts to or leave a roller of mentioning for the first time along they common axis lines.

On the other hand, controlling the device that leads to the thin assembly path of dough sheet rolling can comprise the dough sheet steering gear of leaning on two-way conveyer mechanism work and make this conveyer mechanism change the device of direction of travel.The dough sheet that the dough sheet forming assembly produced when this installed in one direction sends dough sheet to and rolles over thin assembly, and this dough sheet can directly be sent to the biscuit cutting machine on opposite direction.

This device can have two cover dough sheet forming assemblies, and every suit all has the roll of feeding hopper and one group of common running, and the dough sheet forming assembly is placed on two-way conveyor-belt apparatus top.

The present invention also comprises the association of dough manipulation apparatus and biscuit cutting machine.

The dough sheet forming machine of biscuit cutting machine and this device preferably aligns.

Conveyor-belt apparatus preferably makes dough sheet roll over interlayer dough sheet edge and the vertical substantially circuit transmission of biscuit cutting machine that thin assembly produces.

For interlayer dough sheet or sheet dough sheet are provided, need adorn one for every kind of product and not use production line up to now.Not only can produce interlayer but also but the goods production sheet just need two biscuit cutting machines, also many conveyer belts will have been arranged.Thereby the expense height, the more important thing is to require that also big space or floor space are arranged, to adapt to production sheet simultaneously or sandwiched product on dual-purpose production line.

On the other hand, the invention provides the association of pelleting press and dough sheet laminator, but the dough sheet that also can produce interlayer of both production sheets in addition, compare with legacy equipment, the area that lands is less again.

Referring now to accompanying drawing,, only embodiments of the invention is described with an example.

Fig. 1 is the dough manipulation apparatus side view of the commercially available production interlayer of existing market dough sheet.

Fig. 2 is the perspective view that comprises the biscuit production equipment of dough manipulation apparatus of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is device among Fig. 2 perspective view during by the operation of a kind of mode of operation.

Fig. 4 is the perspective view of same device when another kind of mode of operation.

Fig. 5 is a kind of identical view of product and Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 of retrofiting with Fig. 6.

Fig. 7 is another kind of model semi-schematic side view.

First referring to Fig. 1, the dough manipulation apparatus 1 that everybody knows shown in the figure.Chip dough and original dough are added in the chamber 2 and chamber 3 of feeding hopper 4 of three roll dough sheet forming assemblies or noodle rolling machine 5.The dough sheet 10 that is generated by 7,8 rotations of 5 two topping rolls of noodle rolling machine is pulled on bottom roll 9 surfaces.

Dough sheet 10 is carried by

conveyer belt

11,12, successively enters between two breaker rolls, promptly between the

roll

15,16 and between 17,18, makes dough sheet 10 be driven plain also " control " to the thickness that requires.Roll to 15/16 and 17/18 and conveyer belt 12 between them adjust roll assemblies 30 common the composition.Dough sheet 10 is transported to laminated compenent 31 (containing an endless conveyor 20) by conveyer belt 19 again, and dough sheet 10 alternatelies are slit into one section one section by pocket knife 25 and are put into then and transport on the finished product conveyer belt 26 to biscuit cutting machine (not showing on the figure).Can understand, the direction of travel of finished product conveyer belt 26 be with dough sheet 10 at the noodle rolling machine of this device 1 with to adjust in the roller portion machine direction perpendicular.For sheet products, the conveyer belt 11 that is arranged in noodle rolling machine 5 exits is directly delivered to the finished product conveyer belt with dough sheet 10 and is flowed to the biscuit cutting machine again.

Referring now to Fig. 2,, face figure processing unit (plant) 100 and biscuit cutting machine 101 are shown, their gangs on the figure.

Like this constitute one the cover process units 108.

Can rub up dough and be processed into dough sheet 103 during device 100 runnings, again dough sheet is transported to biscuit cutting machine 101.

Device 100 is that noodle rolling machine 104, a dough sheet are rolled over thin assembly 105 and the control dough sheet is formed to the device 106 that the thin assembly 105 of dough sheet rolling flows by a dough sheet forming assembly.Rely on this device 106, the dough sheet 103 that noodle rolling machine 104 produces can directly be delivered to biscuit cutting machine 101 through the conveyer belt 107 of declivity, and does not participate in lamination process.

Dough sheet shaping constituent element is that noodle rolling machine 104 is that promptly 112,113 and bottom rolls of two topping rolls 114 are formed jointly by feeding hopper 110 and three rolls that rotate together.The mixture of chip dough and original dough is sent in this feeding hopper.

Dough sheet 103 forms by the rotation of top that breaker roll 112,113, is sent to conveyer belt 115 through bottom roll 114 downwards subsequently, passes to conveyer belt 107 again, delivers to biscuit cutting machine 101 at last.

Dough sheet is rolled over thin assembly 105 by the

bottom roll

123 and 124 of the topping roll 121 and 122 of upper conveyor belt 120, a pair of common running, a pair of common running, at this conveyer belt 125 between two breaker rolls and other conveyer belt 126,127,128 that the interlayer dough sheet is transported to biscuit cutting machine 101 formed jointly up and down, wherein topping roll flattens dough sheet 130 to 121 and 122 and adjusts to required thickness, and bottom roll is to the 123 and 124 then right operations of repetition topping roll.Conveyer belt 128 is inclined upwardly, and to the conveyer belt 107 of declivity general alignment in vertical direction, so these two folded mutually up and down

conveyer belts

128 and 107 are drawn close mutually at last.

Dough sheet cutting knife (not showing on the figure) is contained in the assembly 105.

It should be noted that, be transported to biscuit cutting machine 101 rolling over thin dough sheet when conveyer belt 126,127,126 is operated together, its landline is perpendicular and vertically parallel with conveyer belt 107 haply to 121/122 and 123/124 route by roll with dough sheet basically.

Referring again to Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, transfer 106 by conveyer belt 115, another places conveyer belt 134 and steering gears 135 below the bottom roll 114 to form.But conveyer belt 115 along continuous straight runs move, shown in double end edge 136, and can be from relatively moving to from herein position far away slightly near bottom roll 114 parts (shown in Figure 3).It is (only being shown on Fig. 4) of finishing by pull bar 137 that this of conveyer belt 115 moves.This pull bar 137 provides a kind of instrument, and can make transfer 106 is to participate in moving or not participating in.

Transfer 135 is placed directly in below the conveyer belt 115, and is very approaching.This device 135 is fixed, and it stretches out and many equally spaced dough sheets supporting prop up roller 142 and form the direction of turning-bar 140 and conveyer belt 115 principal planes angle at 45 basically by turning-bar 140 with from this bar 140.The continuous end of each roller 142 is contained on the turning-bar 140 but is rotatable, stretches out from bar 140 as cantilever beam.

Install 135 general plane shapes as isosceles right triangle, its hypotenuse is exactly a bar 140, and length is slightly stretched out dough sheet 103.

The device 135 basically with conveyer belt 134 at grade.

Referring to Fig. 4, roll over thin assembly 105 operations for making the dough sheet among Fig. 2, but the bottom roll 114 that control operating rod 137 is pulled away from conveyer belt 115 rolls face device 104.

Now, the dough sheet 103 that noodle rolling machine 104 produces can flow to downwards on the conveyer belt 134, deliver to then on the roller 142 of transfer 135, and below the conveyer belt 115 that is in evacuation situation.

So dough sheet 103 falls from brace 140, drop to (see figure 2) on the conveyer belt 120, adjust roller 121-124 so be sent to.After this, dough sheet 130 is cut into piece, and each piece overlaps interlayer, and this interlayer is delivered to biscuit cutting machine 101 by conveyer belt 126-128.

In equipment shown in Figure 5, a converter 106a is arranged, be used to control dough sheet and roll over turning to of thin assembly 105 (on Fig. 2).

This converter 106a has a movable member 160, and transfer 135 is not worked.

Have on the cross bar 161 of member 160 one row equally spaced dough sheet prop up roller 162, they from cross bar 161 stretch out and by its supporting.The link of these rollers is mounted in it and is rotatable.The spacing of each roller 162 is identical with the spacing of a roller 142.Member 160 can have pull bar 164 near or away from device 135, shown in double end edge 163.Member 160 moves in device 135 occupied same horizontal planes.

Along with member 160 separating devices 135, dough sheet 103 passes the gap 165 between device 135 and the member 160 and is sent to rolling in mode shown in Figure 4 and approaches on the assembly 105.

In Fig. 6, member 160 is moved by pull bar 164 (on Fig. 5), and the free end of a roller 162 meets with the brace 140 of device 135, and a roller 162 aligns on same axis with 142.Therefore, gap 165 has disappeared, and the effective support that forms on same axis makes dough sheet can not walk around transfer 105.

Pull bar 164 can make converter 106a select Attended Operation still not participate in.

Fig. 5 and modified shown in Figure 6 have saved the conveyer belt 115 among Fig. 3, Fig. 4.

In modified shown in Figure 7, endless belt conveyer 190 is equivalent to the conveyer belt 107 among Fig. 2, and its transmission direction is two-way shown in arrow 191.

Dough sheet spreading assembly 105 and correlated parts are shown in Fig. 2.But conveyer belt 115 image pattern 3 and removable as shown in Figure 4 more in this embodiment.At this moment in Fig. 7, the dough sheet of upwards being carried by conveyer belt 190 is transferred to dough sheet conveying belt 115, is transported to downwards then on the roller 142 and delivers to conveyer belt 120 or the like (seeing Fig. 2 and Fig. 4) again.

A pair of independently dough

sheet forming assembly

192 and 193 is arranged above conveyer belt 190.Forming assembly 192 has hopper 194 and one group 3 the common rolls 195,196,197 that cooperate.Assembly 193 is the same with 192 to be made up of feeding hopper 198 and one group 3 the common rolls 199,200,201 that cooperate.To feeding hopper 192 supply be the chip dough, and are original doughs to feeding hopper 198 supplies.

Conveyer belt 190 has a control dough sheet to rolling over the device that thin assembly 105 turns to.

As shown in a kind of mode of operation, upwards be transported to dough sheet by assembly 192 and the 193 dough sheet 103 usefulness conveyer belts of producing 190 and roll over thin assembly 105.The dough sheet of rolling over after approaching is sent to biscuit cutting machine 101 by conveyer belt 128.

In another way, conveyer belt 190 counter-rotatings, dough sheet does not enter rolles over thin assembly 105.So the dough sheet that assembly 192,193 produces is directly delivered to biscuit cutting machine 101.

In another kind of structure, assembly 192,193 be arranged in conveyer belt 115 above.

Combined unit provided by the invention is than 1 compactness of the device among Fig. 1, and the area that lands is also less.For example, according to the difference of operating condition, the floor space of the combined unit among Fig. 2 is littler by 25% to 35% than the device among Fig. 1.

The present invention makes the combined unit floor space of Fig. 2 be no more than 5.00 square metres (actual is 4.41 square metres).

Because the patch width of this combined unit production is roughly 1.00 meters, so we can say that the floor space of equipment is no more than 5.00 square metres with 1.000 meters wide dough sheets of the every production of this combined unit.

This relation can be amplified or dwindle in proportion.Therefore, for example, in order to produce 1.2 meters wide dough sheets, the required floor space of combined unit is not more than 6.00 square metres, and is 0.9 meter wide equipment to dough sheet, and floor space is not more than 4.5 square metres.

This relation may be used on any combined unit of the present invention disclosed herein.

The roll 112-114 of noodle rolling machine be placed on adjust roller 121-124 directly over and its length will help the raising of device compactedness less than noodle rolling machine 104 overall width (see figure 2)s.

In addition, biscuit cutting machine 101 is alignd with noodle rolling machine roller 112-114 also can make process units compact.

Claims

1. dough manipulation apparatus (100) is united use with biscuit cutting machine (101), can make dough rub up and be processed into dough sheet (103) during this device running, then it is flowed to the biscuit cutting machine, this device comprises dough sheet forming assembly (104,192,196) and dough sheet roll over thin assembly (105), it is characterized in that this device (100) has can select the control device (106 that uses, 190), when operation, can stop dough sheet to lead to dough sheet and roll over thin assembly (105), thereby make dough sheet forming assembly (104,192,196) dough sheet of being produced is without rolling over the thin biscuit cutting machine (101) that just is sent to.

2. the device of being applied in the claim 1 is wherein controlled dough sheet and is rolled over device (106) that thin assembly (105) turns to by dough sheet steering gear (135) with this steering gear (135) is worked or idle device (137) is formed to dough sheet.

3. in the device that claim 2 is applied for, dough sheet steering gear (135) is stretched out and the dough sheet that supports props up roller (142) and forms by a turning-bar (140) of tiltedly putting with the dough sheet throughput direction with from this bar (140).

4. in the device that claim 3 is applied for, dough sheet steering gear (135) also comprises many help rolls (162), and they are with roller (a 142) arranged in co-axial alignment of mentioning for the first time and can shift near along the common axis line of two rollers or away from a roller (142).

5. in arbitrary the device of being applied for of claim 1 to 4, dough sheet forming assembly (104) is by 3 common rollers that cooperate, be an a pair of topping roll (112,113) and a bottom roll (114), with receive by assembly (104) the conveyer belt (115) of the dough sheet that produces (103) form, this conveyer belt (115) can from bottom roll (114) nearby primary importance move to from its second place far away.

6. in the device that claim 5 is applied for, when conveyer belt (115) on primary importance, dough sheet (103) passes through on this conveyer belt (115), and on the second place, dough sheet (103) be sent to this conveyer belt (115) below.

7. in the device that claim 5 is applied for, a said auxiliary roller (162) can move to the second place from primary importance, dough sheet when primary importance (103) is a roller (142) and the auxiliary gap (165) of propping up between the roller (162) by mentioning the first time of arranging down, gap when the second place (165) closure is so dough sheet (103) passes through on a roller (142) of mentioning for the first time and an auxiliary roller (162).

8. in the device that claim 1 is applied for, can control dough sheet when conveyor-belt apparatus (190) is mobile and roll over the path of thin assembly (105), this device (190) is made up of dough sheet steering gear that utilizes the two-way mobile work of conveyer belt (190) and device that this conveyer belt is oppositely moved, roll over thin assembly (105) when this device dough sheet (103) that dough sheet forming assembly (192 and 193) generates during to the motion of direction is transported to dough sheet, and dough sheet (103) can directly be delivered to biscuit cutting machine (101) when moving in the other direction.

9. in the device that claim 8 is applied for, dough sheet forming assembly (192,193) can have two production lines.

10. in the device of the application of claim 9, each dough sheet forming assembly (192 or 193) all has the roll (195,196,197 or 199,200,201) of a feeding hopper (194 or 198) and one group of common running.

11. in the device of arbitrary application, align with said biscuit cutting machine (101) (if any) when conveyor-belt apparatus (115,190) is installed in the claim 5 to 10.

12. in the claim 5 to 10 in the device of arbitrary application, dough sheet roll over the thin contained upper conveyor belt (115) of assembly (105) be used to receive dough sheet (103) and with it along and (104) 3 rolls that cooperate (112 of dough sheet forming assembly, 113,114) direction that axis is vertical is substantially carried, and then dough sheet (103) is transported to first pair adjusts roller (121,122), this adjusts roller (121,122) axis basically with dough sheet forming assembly (104) roll (112,113,114) axis normal, the adjustment roller (121 of said first pair of cooperation, 122) be arranged in below the conveyer belt (115), the adjustment roller (123 of second pair of cooperation, 124) be placed on first pair and adjust roller (121,122) below, its axis also is substantially perpendicular to the roll (112 of dough sheet forming assembly (104), 113,114) axis, and lower conveyor belt (125) is placed on said first, adjust between the roller for second pair, it can be adjusted roller to dough sheet (103) from first pair and deliver to second pair of adjustment roller when operation, in addition by conveyer belt (126,127,128) be placed on second pair and adjust roller (123,124) below, they the time can make dough sheet (103) along cooperating roll (112 with three of dough sheet forming assembly (104) in operation, 113,114) the perpendicular substantially direction of axis is transported to biscuit cutting machine (101) (if any).

13. in the device that claim 12 is applied for, said landline is aimed at biscuit cutting machine (101) (if any).

14. in claim 8,9 or 10 devices of being applied for, dough sheet forming assembly (192,193) is arranged in the top of two-way conveyer belt (190).

15. in the device that arbitrary is applied in claim 8 to 10, dough sheet is rolled over thin assembly (105) has one dough sheet (103) is transported to the conveyer belt of dough sheet turning-bar (140), this bar (140) and dough sheet throughput direction have an angle, and therefrom stretch out and supporting dough sheet and propping up roller (142).

16. arbitrary device of being applied for (100) and biscuit cutting machine (101) in claim 1 to 15 combine, the two distance and aligned with each other that separates each other, have in addition a pair of independently conveyor-belt apparatus (190,128) mutually consistency from top to bottom and be arranged in device (100) and biscuit cutting machine (101) between, conveyor-belt apparatus (128) can transport dough sheet to cutting machine when starting, and conveyor-belt apparatus (190) can flow to cutting machine rolling over thin dough sheet when starting, and another driving-belt (115) then will not rolled over thin dough sheet and flowed to cutting machine when starting.

17. the combined unit floor space in the claim 16 is no more than 5.00 square metres.

18. the combined unit in the claim 16,1 meter wide dough sheet of every production, this combined unit floor space is no more than 5.00 square metres.

19. in the claim 1 to 15 arbitrary the dough manipulation apparatus of being applied for (100) all with biscuit cutting machine (101) gang.

20. above explanation to dough manipulation apparatus is carried out with reference to accompanying drawing 2,3 and 4.

21. above explanation to dough manipulation apparatus is carried out with reference to accompanying drawing 2,3 and 4, improves that model then carries out with reference to Fig. 5 and Fig. 6.

22. above explanation to dough manipulation apparatus is carried out with reference to accompanying drawing 2,3 and 4, the improvement model is then carried out with reference to Fig. 7.