JP2000157144A - Dough ball-forming and supplying method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain constant weight dough in a good accuracy and uniform weight dough on dividing chunky dough into small balls by forming the dough into sheet dough, cutting into the chunky dough, supplying the same into a dough ball-dividing machine for dividing into dough balls. SOLUTION: This method for forming and supplying dough balls is to form the dough into sheet dough, convey continuously, cut the conveyed belt state dough into chunky dough and separate the cut chunky dough from the belt state dough for supplying the same into a dough ball-dividing machine to divide the chunky dough into dough balls. By discharging the divided dough balls from the dough ball-dividing machine and repeating these processes, the dough balls discharged from the dough ball-dividing machine are conveyed continuously.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dough ball forming system, and more particularly to a dough ball forming and feeding system for forming dough balls from a continuously supplied band-shaped dough and continuously providing the dough balls to a subsequent process.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As for the conventional dough ball forming, for example, in FIG. 3 of British Patent No. 2192360, a dough mass supplied on a conveyor is cut and divided by a dough dividing machine and rounded as small ball dough. And transporting this to downstream processes.

[0003] In the above-mentioned conventional technology, a large dough mass is supplied onto a conveyor, but the shape is irregular, and it is difficult to accurately divide the dough with the above dough dividing machine. is there.

[0004]

In a conventional dough ball forming apparatus, when a plurality of dough balls are divided and formed, the dough balls are not uniform in shape but unstable, and the weight of the dough balls is also uniform. However, in continuous production, it was not possible to obtain a product of a certain quality.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In the present invention, a dough ball having a uniform shape and a constant weight can be obtained when a dough ball is simultaneously divided into a plurality of pieces. Claim 1
In the invention described in (1), (1) a step of forming the cloth into a band-shaped cloth and continuously conveying the same; (2) a step of cutting the conveyed band-shaped cloth into chunk-shaped cloth; and (3) cutting. Separating the chunk-shaped dough from the belt-shaped dough and supplying it to the dough ball splitting machine; (4) dividing the chunk-shaped dough into dough balls by the dough ball splitting machine; and (5) splitting the chunk-shaped dough into dough balls. By repeating the steps of discharging the dough balls from the dough ball splitting machine and the above steps (2) to (5), the dough balls discharged from the dough ball splitting machine are continuously conveyed.

The invention according to claim 2 includes a step of continuously measuring the weight of the bread dough conveyed in the step (2) and cutting the same into chunk-shaped dough having a constant weight. 2. The dough forming and supplying system according to 1.

The invention according to claim 3 is characterized in that a rounding step is included at the same time as or after the dividing of the dough balls in the step (4). This is a dough ball forming supply system.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. After the food dough D1 obtained by kneading is stored in the hopper 11 of the band-shaped dough forming section 1, it is formed into a continuous band-shaped dough D2 and transported to the dough weighing and cutting section 2. The dough weighing and cutting unit 2 measures the weight of the belt-shaped dough D2, and cuts the dough at regular intervals to obtain a chunk-shaped dough D3. The chunk-shaped dough D3 separated from the band-shaped dough D2 is sent to the dough ball dividing unit 4. The chunk-shaped dough D3 is divided into small balls of a predetermined size in the dough ball dividing section 4, rounded and discharged to a downstream process. The dough ball weight measuring unit 5 measures the weight of the dough that has become small, and then is conveyed to the dough ball transfer unit 6 and transferred so as to be continuously conveyed downstream.

Referring to FIGS. 1 to 3, a dough ball split supply system according to an embodiment of the present invention is a system in which viscous food dough (for example, bread dough) D1 is divided into small balls and supplied. First, the band-shaped dough forming part 1 is a food dough D1.
At the lower opening of the hopper 11 for accommodating the food dough D1, there is provided a dividing cutter device 12 for discharging the food dough D1, cutting and dividing the same.

The split cutter device 12 is a known device as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-220048, for example, and will be briefly described as follows. That is, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a pair of rotary shafts are provided rotatably near the lower opening of the hopper 11, and the pair of rotary shafts are synchronized with each other in the feed direction by the driving of the cutting motor. It rotates. A plurality of cutters are provided on each rotating shaft. Here, the tip of the pair of cutters comes into contact with each other by the synchronous rotation of the
By closing the lower opening, the food dough D1 can be divided and cut.

The cutter device 12 can be spray-coated with water as an anti-adhesion material for preventing the adhesion of the cloth.

The divided food dough sticks to the corresponding pair of cutters and may not fall smoothly under its own weight. Therefore, it is desirable to perform the following operation.

That is, after the tip portions of the corresponding pair of cutters come into contact with each other and close the lower opening of the hopper 11, the pair of rotary shafts are rotated by a slight angle in the feed direction by the driving of the cutting motor. Then, the interval between the tip portions of the corresponding pair of cutters is increased to a predetermined interval (for example, 20 mm). As a result, the food dough D1 that has been divided and has not yet fallen can be extended right and left by the corresponding pair of cutters, and can slip and fall with the corresponding pair of cutters. Then, the pair of cutters is returned to the contact position again in synchronization with the direction opposite to the feed direction.
Also by this, a slip is again generated between the divided food dough and the corresponding pair of cutters, so that the divided food dough can be reliably dropped.

A conveyor 13 extending in the front-rear direction is provided below the splitting cutter device 12.
Is for continuously transporting a plurality of food doughs in the transport direction in a state where the leading end of the food dough D1 overlaps the rear end of the preceding food dough from above.

Below the front end of the conveyor 13, there is provided a forming feeder 14 which continuously feeds the food dough D1 downward while compressing and shaping the food dough D1 into a belt shape. Rear side forming feed roller group 15F, 1
5R is provided. The pair of front-side and rear-side forming feed rollers 15F and 15R has a V-shape in which the opposing upper part is wide and the lower part is narrow. The front side forming feed roller group 15
F includes a front-side roller support member 16F and a plurality of front-side forming feed rollers 17F vertically arranged on the front-side roller supporting member 16F. Similarly, the rear-side forming and feeding roller group 15R supports the rear-side roller support member 15R. A member 16R;
The rear roller support member 16R is provided with a plurality of rear forming feed rollers 17R vertically arranged side by side. Here, the plurality of front-side forming feed rollers 17F and the plurality of rear-side forming feed rollers 17R rotate in the feed direction in synchronization with driving of a motor.

A pair of front and rear forming feed rollers 15
In order to promote the discharge action of the band-shaped food dough D2 from the discharge-side gap between the front roller support member 16R and the front roller support member 16R about the swing center on the upper end side.
It is configured to be swingable in a direction approaching and moving away from F. In order to swing the rear roller supporting member 16R,
A motor is provided at an appropriate position on the lower frame. Below the pair of front and rear forming feed rollers 15F and 15R, there is provided a discharge conveyor 18 for receiving and discharging the band-shaped food dough D2. Incidentally, both the pair of front and rear forming feed roller groups 15F and 15R may be synchronously swingable.

Water is spray-applied to the rollers of the forming and feeding device 14 in order to prevent sticking of the dough.

There is provided a dough weighing and cutting section 2 for continuously measuring and cutting the weight of the strip-shaped dough D2 discharged from the strip-shaped dough forming section 1 in connection with the strip-shaped dough forming section 1. The dough weighing and cutting unit 2 includes a cutting device 21, and a cutter 22 is driven by a driving device (not shown) on the conveyor surface at the downstream end of the discharge conveyor 18.
It operates by. A weighing conveyor 23 is arranged in connection with the discharge conveyor 18, and a computing device 25 issues a cutting command to the cutting device 21 based on a signal from a load cell 24 attached to the weighing conveyor 23.

In the present embodiment, the cloth cutting is shown by cutting the band-shaped cloth by weighing, but as a simpler means, the band-shaped cloth may be cut to a certain size to obtain a chunk-shaped cloth having a substantially constant weight. It is possible.

The chunk-shaped dough D3 cut from the band-shaped dough D2 is supplied via a supply conveyor 30 to a dough ball dividing section 4 disposed downstream thereof. The dough ball dividing unit 4
A divided table 41 of a conveyor mechanism for receiving the cut and separated chunk-shaped dough D3 and placing it on standby is provided above the divided table 41.
, The chunk-shaped dough D3 is cut into small sections, and a divided rounding device 42 that performs an operation of rounding the cut dough is provided.

The division rounding device 42 has a well-known structure, for example, as shown in FIGS. 5 to 9 of British Patent No. 2192360. That is, there is a dough ball forming head that can move up and down with respect to the belt on which the chunk-shaped dough is placed, and the head is a dough holder ring that is open at the bottom, a pressure plate provided in the dough holder ring, and a pressure plate. It is constituted by a dough dividing knife which penetrates and is provided so as to form a dough holder ring in a predetermined section. The dough ball forming head descends and stores the chunky dough in the dough holder ring,
Then, the pressure plate is lowered to press the chunk-shaped dough to spread the dough throughout the dough holder ring, and then the knife is lowered to divide the dough equally. In this state, the divided dough is rolled by the head making a circular motion in the horizontal direction.

A dough ball weight measuring unit 5 is arranged downstream of the dough ball dividing unit 4 and is provided with a weight checker 51 for receiving the dough ball D4 discharged from the dough ball dividing unit 4 and measuring the weight thereof. ing.

The dough transfer section 6 is provided in connection with the dough weight measuring section 5, and continuously transfers dough balls D4 intermittently carried out from the upstream to the downstream. A panner conveyor 61 is arranged in connection with the weight checker 51. Below the panner tip 62 at the downstream tip of the panner conveyor 61, a lower panner conveyor 63 is arranged. The panner tip 62 slides back and forth in the traveling direction of the belt to continuously transfer the dough balls D4 to the panner lower conveyor 63. The lower panner conveyor 63 aligns and transfers the transferred dough balls D4 downstream.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described.

After a large mass of food dough D1 obtained by kneading the food dough material by a well-known manufacturing method is stored in the hopper 11 of the band-shaped dough forming unit 1, the dough is cut by the split cutter device 12, and the dough is overlapped. And feeds it to the forming and feeding device 14 and repeatedly presses and releases the dough.
Mold into 2 and discharge. Further, at this time, it is possible to suppress the adhesion of the dough in the band-shaped dough forming portion by spraying the water, and the dough having a constant width and thickness can be supplied downstream.

The band-shaped dough D2 is formed and conveyed to the dough weighing and cutting section 2. The dough weighing and cutting unit 2 measures the weight of the band-shaped dough D2, and cuts it at a constant cutting weight in the next cutting device 21. The operation of each device at the time of this cutting will be described. When the arithmetic unit 25 receives a signal from the load cell 24 and determines that the cutting weight value reaches a preset cutting weight value, the arithmetic unit 25 disconnects the cutting device 21. A signal is sent to perform a cutting operation. Discharge conveyor 1 at the same time as this cutting
8 is a state in which the conveyance is stopped, and the belt-shaped fabric D on the upstream side of the cutting device 21 is used.
2 is stopped from being transferred to the weighing conveyor 23.
Therefore, only the cut chunk-shaped dough D3 is on the weighing conveyor 23, and only the net weight of the chunk-shaped dough D3 can be accurately obtained.

By feeding back the net weight data to the arithmetic unit 25, the accuracy of the cutting timing of the next band-shaped cloth D2 can be increased and accurately obtained. At the next weighing and cutting timing of the band-shaped dough D2, the chunk-shaped dough D3 is transferred from the weighing conveyor 23 to the supply conveyor 30, and when the weighing conveyor 23 becomes empty, the discharge conveyor 18 resumes the conveyance and the weighing and cutting is restarted. In addition, the supply conveyor 30
By adding a weighing function to, the cut chunk-shaped dough can be weighed again. This is effective for improving the weighing accuracy of the dough when the cut chunk-shaped dough is not put on the weighing conveyor 23 but the tip of the next sent dough is put on.

In the dough weighing and cutting section 2, the belt-like dough D2
The chunk-shaped dough D3 separated from the feeding conveyor 30
Is sent to the dough dividing section 5 via the. The chunk-shaped dough D3 is a substantially rectangular parallelepiped chunk-shaped dough (thick cut dough) having a constant width and thickness and a constant weight. Each of them is capable of obtaining a uniform pebble dough.

The chunk-shaped dough D in the dough ball dividing section 5
3 is divided into small balls of a predetermined size, further rounded and discharged to a downstream process. In the present embodiment, the dough ball weight measuring unit 5 measures the weight of the dough of the divided group that has become the small bead, and feeds back the weight data to the arithmetic unit to perform the dough division with higher accuracy. be able to.

The dough balls of this divided group are conveyed to the dough ball transfer section 6 and transferred so as to be continuously conveyed downstream.

[0031]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when the food dough is formed into a band-shaped dough having a predetermined width and thickness and cut into chunk-like dough, a dough having a certain weight can be obtained. In addition, since the dough weight per unit volume is constant, when the chunk-shaped dough is divided into small pieces, a dough having a uniform weight can be obtained, which can be continuously produced.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the weight of the band-shaped dough is measured and the chunk-shaped dough having a constant weight is cut, continuous production of small-diameter dough having a uniform weight can be performed more accurately. .

According to the third aspect of the present invention, since the rounding step is performed simultaneously with or after the division of the dough balls, the rounding is further performed to the effect of the first or second aspect of the present invention. Kodama dough can be produced continuously.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall side view of a dough ball forming and supplying system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional side view of a band-shaped material forming section.

FIG. 3 is a view taken along the line II in FIG. 2;

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 strip-shaped dough forming unit 11 hopper 12 split cutter device 14 forming feeder 2 dough weighing and cutting unit 21 cutting device 23 weighing conveyor 25 arithmetic unit 30 feed conveyor 4 dough ball splitting unit 42 split rounding device 5 dough ball weight measuring unit 6 dough ball Transfer part D1 Food dough D2 Strip dough D3 Chunk dough D4 Dough

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[Submission date] February 10, 2000 (2000.2.1
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[Title of the Invention] Dough ball forming and feeding method

[Claims]

2. The dough ball forming / supplying method according to claim 1, further comprising a rounding step simultaneously with or after the dough ball dividing in the step (4).

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dough ball forming and supplying method for forming dough balls from a continuously supplied belt-like dough and continuously supplying the dough balls to a subsequent process.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As for a conventional dough molding, for example, as shown in FIG. 3 of British Patent No. 2192360, a dough mass supplied on a conveyor is divided and cut by a dough dividing machine and rounded as small ball dough. It is shown that shaping is performed and this is conveyed to downstream processes.

[0003] In the above-mentioned conventional technology, a large dough mass is supplied onto a conveyor, but the shape is irregular, and it is difficult to accurately divide the dough by the above dough dividing machine. It is. That is, when a plurality of dough balls are divided and formed, the dough balls are not uniform in shape but become unstable, and the weight of the dough balls is also not uniform. Could not get.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a method for forming and supplying a dough ball having a uniform shape and a constant weight in continuously dividing and forming a dough ball from a band-shaped dough. The purpose is to provide.

[0005]

Means for Solving the Problems The present invention has solved the above-mentioned problems, and has the following structure. (1) A plurality of opposing squeezing devices are provided in multiple stages at the top and bottom, so that the interval between the upper portions of the opposing squeezing devices is widened, the interval between the lower portions is narrowed, and the opposing interval is repeatedly enlarged and reduced. Forming the dough into a band-shaped dough by the formed feeding device and continuously conveying the dough, and (2) continuously measuring the weight of the conveyed band-shaped dough and cutting it into chunk-shaped dough having a constant weight. (3) a step of separating the cut chunk-shaped dough from the belt-shaped dough and supplying the cut chunk-shaped dough to the dough ball splitting machine; (4) a step of dividing the chunk-shaped dough into dough balls by the dough ball splitting machine; Discharging the dough balls from the dough ball splitting machine, continuously performing the above steps (2) to (5), and transporting the dough balls discharged from the dough ball splitting machine. Mold supply method.

Further, the present invention provides the above-described configuration,
A dough ball forming / supplying method characterized by including a rounding step at the same time as or after the dough ball dividing in the step (4).

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. After the food dough D1 obtained by kneading is stored in the hopper 11 of the band-shaped dough forming section 1, it is formed into a continuous band-shaped dough D2 and transported to the dough weighing and cutting section 2. The dough weighing and cutting unit 2 measures the weight of the belt-shaped dough D2, and cuts the dough at regular intervals to obtain a chunk-shaped dough D3. The chunk-shaped dough D3 separated from the band-shaped dough D2 is sent to the dough ball dividing unit 4. In the dough ball dividing section 4, the chunk-shaped dough D3 is divided into small balls of a predetermined size, rounded and discharged to a downstream process. The dough ball weight measuring section 5 measures the weight of the dough that has been turned into small balls, and then conveys the dough to a dough ball transfer section 6, where the dough is transferred so as to be continuously conveyed downstream.

Referring to FIGS. 1 to 3, the dough ball dividing and supplying method according to the present embodiment is a method in which a viscous food dough (for example, bread dough) D1 is divided into small balls and supplied. First, the band-shaped dough forming section 1 is formed by a hopper 11 for storing the food dough D1, and a split cutter device 12 provided at a lower opening thereof for cutting and splitting the discharged food dough D1.

The split cutter device 12 is a known device as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-220048, for example, and is briefly described as follows. That is, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a pair of rotating shafts are provided rotatably near the lower opening of the hopper 11, and the pair of rotating shafts are synchronized in the feed direction by the driving of the cutting motor. It rotates. A plurality of cutters are provided on each rotating shaft. Here, the food dough D1 can be divided and cut by cutting the lower opening of the hopper 11 by contacting the tips of the corresponding pair of cutters by the rotation of the pair of rotating shafts synchronously. It is composed.

Water can be spray-applied to the cutter device 12 as an anti-adhesion material for preventing the adhesion of the cloth.

Since the divided food dough sticks to a pair of corresponding cutters and may not drop smoothly by its own weight, it is desirable to perform the following operation.

That is, after the tips of the corresponding pair of cutters come into contact with each other and close the lower opening of the hopper 11, the pair of rotating shafts are rotated by a slight angle in the feed direction by the driving of the cutting motor. Then, the interval between the tip portions of the corresponding pair of cutters is increased to a predetermined interval (for example, 20 mm). As a result, the food dough D1 that has been divided and has not yet fallen can be extended right and left by the corresponding pair of cutters, and can slip and fall with the corresponding pair of cutters. Then, the pair of cutters is returned to the contact position again in synchronization with the direction opposite to the feed direction. This also allows slips to occur again between the divided food dough and the corresponding pair of cutters, so that the divided food dough can be reliably dropped.

A conveyor 13 extending in the front-rear direction is provided below the splitting cutter device 12.
Is for continuously transporting a plurality of food doughs in the transport direction in a state where the leading end of the food dough D1 overlaps the rear end of the preceding food dough from above.

Below the front end of the conveyor 13, there is provided a forming and feeding device 14 which continuously presses the food dough D1 downward while compressing and shaping the food dough D1.
4 is a pair of front and rear forming feed roller groups 15F, 1
5R is provided. The pair of front-side and rear-side forming feed rollers 15F and 15R has a V-shape in which the opposing upper part is wide and the lower part is narrow. The front side forming feed roller group 1
5F includes a front roller supporting member 16F and a plurality of front forming feed rollers 17F vertically arranged on the front roller supporting member 16F. Similarly, the rear forming feed roller group 15R is Side roller support member 1
6R, and a plurality of rear forming feed rollers 17R vertically arranged on the rear roller supporting member 16R. Here, the plurality of front forming feed rollers 17F and the plurality of rear forming feed rollers 17R rotate in the feed direction in synchronization with driving of the motor.

A pair of front and rear forming feed rollers 15
In order to promote the discharge action of the band-shaped food dough D2 from the discharge-side gap of F, 15R, the rear-side roller support member 16R is centered on the swing center on the upper end side, and the front-side roller support member 1
It is configured to be swingable in a direction approaching and moving away from 6F. A motor is provided at an appropriate position on the lower frame to swing the rear roller support member 16R.
Below the pair of front and rear forming feed rollers 15F and 15R, there is provided a discharge conveyor 18 for receiving and discharging the band-shaped food dough D2. Note that both the pair of front and rear forming feed roller groups 15F and 15R may be synchronously swingable.

The group of rollers of the forming and feeding device 14 includes:
Water is spray-applied to prevent sticking of the dough.

There is provided a dough weighing and cutting section 2 connected to the strip-shaped dough forming section 1 and continuously measuring and cutting the weight of the strip-shaped dough D2 discharged from the strip-shaped dough forming section 1. The dough weighing and cutting section 2 includes a cutting device 21, and a cutter 22 is operated by a driving device (not shown) on the conveyor surface at the downstream end of the discharge conveyor 18. A weighing conveyor 23 is arranged in connection with the discharge conveyor 18. Based on a signal from a load cell 24 attached to the weighing conveyor 23, an arithmetic unit 25 issues a cutting command to the cutting device 21.

The chunk-shaped dough D3 cut from the band-shaped dough D2 is supplied via a supply conveyor 30 to a dough ball dividing section 4 arranged downstream thereof. Dough ball division part 4
Receives the cut and separated chunk-shaped dough D3, and places it on the divided table 4 of the conveyor mechanism for standby.
1 is provided above the division table 41 and descends toward the division table 41, cuts the chunk-shaped dough D3 into small sections, and further provides a division rounding device 42 that performs an operation of rounding the cut dough. ing.

The division rounding device 42 has a well-known structure, for example, as shown in FIGS. 5 to 9 of British Patent No. 2192360. That is, there is a dough ball forming head that can move up and down with respect to the belt on which the chunk-shaped dough is placed, and the head is a dough holder ring that is open at the bottom, a pressure plate provided in the dough holder ring, and a pressure plate. It is constituted by a dough dividing knife which penetrates and is provided so as to form a dough holder ring in a predetermined section. The dough ball forming head descends to accommodate the chunky dough in the dough holder ring, then the pressure plate descends and presses the chunky dough, allowing the dough to spread all over the dough holder ring, and then a knife Descends to divide the dough equally. In this state, the divided dough is rolled by the head making a circular motion in the horizontal direction.

A dough ball weight measuring section 5 is arranged downstream of the dough ball dividing section 4, and receives a dough ball D4 discharged from the dough ball dividing section 4, and a weight checker 51 for measuring the weight thereof. It has.

The dough transfer section 6 is provided in connection with the dough ball weight measuring section 5, and continuously transfers the dough balls D4 intermittently carried out from the upstream to the downstream. A panner conveyor 61 is arranged in connection with the weight checker 51. Below the panner tip 62 at the downstream tip of the panner conveyor 61, there is a lower panner conveyor 63.
Has been arranged. The panner tip 62 slides back and forth in the traveling direction of the belt, and the dough ball D
4 are continuously transferred. The lower panner conveyor 63 aligns and transfers the transferred dough balls D4 downstream.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described.

After a large lump of food dough D1 obtained by kneading food dough materials by a well-known manufacturing method is stored in the hopper 11 of the band-shaped dough forming section 1, the dough is cut by the split cutter device 12, and the cut dough is overlaid. And feeds it to the forming and feeding device 14 and repeatedly presses and releases the dough.
Mold into 2 and discharge. Further, at this time, it is possible to suppress the adhesion of the dough in the band-shaped dough forming portion by spraying the water, and the dough having a constant width and thickness can be supplied downstream.

The band-shaped dough D2 is formed and transported to the dough weighing and cutting section 2. The dough weighing and cutting unit 2 measures the weight of the band-shaped dough D2, and cuts it at a constant cutting weight in the next cutting device 21. The operation of each device at the time of this cutting will be described. When the arithmetic unit 25 receives a signal from the load cell 24 and determines that the cutting weight value reaches a preset cutting weight value, the arithmetic unit 25 disconnects the cutting device 21. A signal is sent to perform a cutting operation. Simultaneously with this cutting, the conveyance of the discharge conveyor 18 is stopped, and the transfer of the band-shaped cloth D2 on the upstream side of the cutting device 21 to the weighing conveyor 23 is stopped. Therefore, the only thing on the weighing conveyor 23 is the cut chunk-shaped dough D3, and only the net weight of the chunk-shaped dough D3 can be accurately obtained.

The net weight data is fed back to the arithmetic unit 25, so that the accuracy of the next strip-shaped cloth D2 cutting timing can be enhanced and accurately obtained. The timing of the next weighing and cutting of the band-shaped cloth D2 is determined by the chunk-shaped cloth D
3 transfers from the weighing conveyor 23 to the supply conveyor 30, and when the weighing conveyor 23 becomes empty, the discharge conveyor 18
Resumes the conveyance, and the weighing cut resumes. By adding the weighing function to the supply conveyor 30, the cut chunk-shaped dough can be re-weighed. This is effective for improving the weighing accuracy of the dough when the cut chunk-shaped dough is not put on the weighing conveyor 23 but the tip of the next sent dough is put on.

In the dough weighing and cutting section 2, the belt-like dough D2
Chunk-shaped dough D3 separated from the feeding conveyor 3
It is sent to the dough ball dividing unit 5 through the line 0. The chunk-shaped dough D3 is a substantially rectangular parallelepiped chunk-shaped dough (thick cut dough) having a constant width and thickness and a constant weight. The result is a uniform small beaded dough without any.

In the dough ball dividing section 5, the chunk-shaped dough D3 is divided into small balls of a predetermined size, further rounded and discharged to a downstream process. In the present embodiment, the dough ball weight measuring unit 5 measures the weight of the dough of the divided group that has become the small balls, and feeds back the weight data to the arithmetic unit, so that the dough division with higher accuracy can be performed. it can.

The dough balls of this divided group are conveyed to the dough ball transfer section 6, and are transferred so as to be continuously conveyed downstream.

[0029]

According to the present invention, the food dough is formed into a band-shaped dough molded into a predetermined width and thickness by the forming feeder, the weight of the band-shaped dough is measured, and the chunk-shaped dough having a predetermined weight is cut. In addition to being able to obtain a dough of a constant weight with extremely high accuracy, the dough weight per unit volume is also constant, so that when the chunk-shaped dough is divided into small pieces, a dough of uniform weight can be obtained. This enables continuous production.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall side view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional side view of a band-shaped material forming section.

FIG. 3 is a view taken along the line II in FIG. 2;

[Description of Signs] 1 Band-shaped dough forming section 11 Hopper 12 Dividing cutter device 14 Forming feed device 2 Dough weighing cutting section 21 Cutting device 23 Weighing conveyor 25 Arithmetic device 30 Supply conveyor 4 Dough ball dividing section 42 Dividing rounding device 5 Dough ball weight Measuring section 6 Dough ball transfer section D1 Food dough D2 Strip-shaped dough D3 Chunk-shaped dough D4 Dough

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A step of (1) forming a dough into a band-shaped dough and continuously conveying the same; (2) a step of cutting the conveyed band-shaped dough into chunk-shaped dough; and (3) a step of cutting the cut chunk. (4) separating the chunk-shaped dough into dough balls by the dough ball splitting machine, and (5) dividing the split dough balls into dough. A dough ball forming system, wherein the dough balls discharged from the dough ball splitting machine are continuously transported by repeating the steps of discharging the dough balls from the ball splitting machine and steps (2) to (5). 2. The dough forming / supplying system according to claim 1, further comprising the step of continuously measuring the weight of the strip-shaped dough conveyed in the step (2) and cutting it into chunk-shaped dough of a constant weight. 3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising a rounding step simultaneously with or after the dividing of the dough balls in the step (4).
Or the dough ball forming supply system according to claim 2.