JP2003304799A - Method and apparatus of conveying and forming food dough piece - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify a conventional bread-making facility since the equipment for the intermediate fermentation is essential for making farina food, particularly bread, and the overhead proofer for the intermediate fermentation needs vast space. <P>SOLUTION: The food dough from the hopper is formed in one belt and conveyed at a relatively low speed and divided into several strings to form a plurality of food dough belts. The dough belts are cut crosswise, as the dough pieces are each weighed, and the weighings are fed back to control the crosswise cutting or the dough pieces are conveyed without weight. The plural rows of dough pieces are converged into one row at equal intervals. Then, the conveying speed is increased and each dough piece is wind up, formed to bar- shapes bread dough. The bar-shaped bread dough is folded into N- or M-shape and placed in a mold, the mold-packed bread dough is subjected to the final fermentation and baked. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a conveyor molding method and apparatus for conveying and molding food dough, bread dough and the like. More specifically, the present invention relates to a conveying and molding method and apparatus for weighing bread dough and other flour food dough strips and cutting the dough pieces into a molding die or the like for baking.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The conventional production of flour foods, for example, bread, is performed by kneading bread dough materials and preparing the dough into small pieces, rounding, intermediate fermentation, shaping, shaping, final fermentation, and baking. It is known that this is done by doing (new food processing technology and equipment page 747: edited by the Industrial Research Council). In these conventional techniques, there is a rounding step after dividing the kneaded dough into small pieces (small balls), and then an intermediate fermentation step is required. This intermediate fermentation is also called bench time, and is required to relieve the dough by alleviating the work hardening of the dough that occurs due to the stress generated in the rounding process and the rounding process. (See page 122: New Baking Basic Knowledge: Bread News). It is necessary to install an overhead puller for this intermediate fermentation, and this device occupies a particularly large volume among the bread production facilities, and from the viewpoint of food hygiene, facility management, cleaning, etc. It took a lot of time.

Therefore, the applicant of the present invention has proposed Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2001-95468 as a method for producing food dough which does not require an intermediate fermentation step, for example, bread dough. For example,
In the production of loaf of bread, after molding into a thick sheet-shaped bread dough piece, the dough piece is rolled up into a rod shape, and the rod-shaped bread dough is bent into an N-shaped or M-shaped shape (shaping step), It is necessary to fill the food mold (molding process), and to perform the final fermentation of the bread dough packed in the food mold and then baking.

When the method for producing bread dough according to the above publication is adopted, a shaping process and a mold-filling process are required for each row. However, from the viewpoint of energy saving, space saving, machine installation area, facility management, cleaning, etc., it is desirable to combine the machines into one row.

[0005]

As can be understood from the above, further improvement in the production of flour foods, especially bread, from the viewpoint of energy saving, space saving, hygiene, and simplification of production equipment. Is required.

[0006]

According to the present invention, a food dough strip formed and conveyed in a band shape from a hopper is vertically divided into a plurality of strips to form a plurality of food dough strips, and the food dough strip is weighed. While cutting in the lateral direction to form food dough pieces, then weigh the food dough pieces, and feed back the measured value to control the lateral cutting or the food without the feedback control. The dough pieces are conveyed, these plural pieces of food dough pieces are merged and rearranged in the same row, the food dough pieces are rolled up and formed, and the stick-shaped bread dough is folded into an N-shape or an M-shape. The present invention relates to a conveyance molding method and apparatus in which a dough is bent, packed in a food mold, and the dough packed in the food mold is finally fermented and then baked.

A first means for solving the problems of the present invention is to align one conveyed food dough strip in the width direction, divide it into a plurality of food dough strips having the same width, and then divide each of the food dough strips. While weighing and cutting in the horizontal direction to form multiple rows of food dough pieces, adjust the mutual transfer positions of the corresponding food dough pieces in each row, and provide a transfer speed difference in each row This is a method for conveying and molding food dough, in which pieces are sequentially merged and aligned in the same row at equal intervals.

A second means for solving the problems of the present invention is that, in addition to the means for solving the above problems, the divided food dough strips are weighed in the lateral direction while being weighed to form food dough pieces, and the food dough pieces are then cut. It is a conveyance molding method of controlling the cutting in the lateral direction by weighing and feeding back the measured value.

A third means for solving the problems of the present invention is the above-mentioned means for solving, wherein one food dough strip is vertically divided into two and the divided dough strips are cut in the horizontal direction to form two rows of food dough. Forming the pieces, temporarily stopping the dough pieces of the row that arrived first, adjusting the transport position of both of them as the corresponding dough pieces of the other row arrive, and the transfer speed of the dough pieces of each row This is a conveyance molding method in which the difference is 2: 1 and the corresponding dough pieces are sequentially merged and aligned in the same row at equal intervals.

A fourth means for solving the problems of the present invention is an aligning device for aligning one conveyed food material dough band in the width direction, and a separation / expansion device for vertically dividing the dough band into a plurality of parts with the same width. Opening device, expansion conveyor for transferring each divided food dough strip separately, cutting device for laterally cutting each divided food dough strip to form food dough pieces, corresponding food dough for each row Arrangement conveyor for adjusting the transportation position of the pieces, provided with a merging device that conveys the food dough pieces with a conveying speed difference in each row, and sequentially merges the corresponding food dough pieces into the same row at equal intervals. It is an apparatus for conveying and molding food dough.

A fifth problem-solving means of the present invention is a transfer molding apparatus in which an arranging conveyor is provided in two stages in addition to the above-mentioned solving means.

[0012] Another means for solving the problem is a method for conveying and forming food dough pieces, wherein when the food dough pieces F2 are conveyed on a plurality of conveying devices in a state where they do not coincide with each other,
Food dough piece F2 that is conveyed first on one of the conveying devices
Arrangement Conveyor 1 that connects one transfer device to another
Arrangement conveyor 11 on the one hand when 13A receives
When the conveyance of 3A is stopped, the food dough piece F2 is stopped at that position, and when the food dough piece F2 that is subsequently conveyed to the other arrange conveyor 113B connected to the other conveying device arrives, One of the arrange conveyors 11
3A is restarted, both food dough pieces F2 are simultaneously discharged from each arrange conveyor 113 to each merge conveyor 119, and a merge conveyor 119A having a difference in conveyance speed,
The respective food dough pieces F2 discharged to 119B are conveyed, merged in a line, and discharged downstream.

Further, in the method for conveying and molding food dough pieces, the merged conveyors 119A and 119B have a conveying speed difference of about 2: 1 and the merged food dough pieces F2 are arranged at substantially equal intervals.

Further, in the method of conveying and forming bread dough pieces, a plurality of conveying conveyors for conveying the bread dough pieces F2 are provided, and arrange conveyors 113A and 113B which can be intermittently stopped are provided downstream of the conveying conveyors. A detection device for detecting the loading of the dough piece F2 into the arranging conveyor is provided, and the arranging conveyors 113A and 113A are provided.
Merge conveyors 119A and 119B are provided which are connected to the downstream side of 3B and are conveyed in a plurality of rows having different conveyance speeds to join the bread dough pieces F2.

Further, in the method for conveying and forming bread dough pieces, arranging conveyors 111A and 111B are further provided upstream of the arranging conveyors 113A and 113B.

[0016]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION In the following, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. First, a main configuration will be schematically described to facilitate understanding.

Referring to FIG. 1, a dough band forming device 10 for forming a dough band F into a predetermined width and thickness and supplying the dough band F, and a separating / expanding device 30 for dividing the dough band F1 into bifurcated parts downstream thereof. And each of the dough bands F on the downstream side
1. Weighing conveyors 50 and 70 for cutting 1 into a predetermined weight and a cutting device 90, a confluence device 110 for arranging the weighed and cut bread dough pieces F2 in a row, and a rolling device 130 for forming the dough pieces F2 into rod-shaped bread dough F3. There is a control device 2 for controlling these.

Referring to FIG. 2, the bread dough band F is a dough band forming apparatus 10 shown in Japanese Patent No. 3009142 or Japanese Patent No. 3133033 proposed by the present applicant.
By using the belt-shaped bread dough F1 formed into a belt-shaped bread dough F1 having a substantially constant width and thickness, a conveyor 11 is provided to convey the belt-shaped bread dough F1 downstream. This dough forming device 10 utilizes the dropping of the flour food dough or bread dough in the hopper 3 due to its own weight, and sequentially opens and closes the opening made of a cutter, and further, a roller feeder mechanism (forming feeder 43 or 14, see the above publication). )
29 makes it possible to obtain a dough strip with almost no stress.

Referring to FIGS. 3 and 4, the width center of the band-shaped bread dough F1 transported by the transport conveyor 11 is detected at the downstream end of the transport path of the transport conveyor 11 to align it at a predetermined position. A centering device 13 is provided for this purpose. This aligning device is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 12-
This is disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 351440.

Downstream of the aligning device 13, a separating and expanding device 30 for the belt-shaped food material F1 is provided. The separating and expanding device 30 is provided with a disk-shaped cutter 31 for cutting and separating the center portion of the band-shaped bread dough F1 centered by the centering device 13 along the transport direction, and further cuts and separates the band-shaped bread dough F1. An expansion conveyor 33 that expands is provided.

A first weighing conveyor for measuring the weight of the band-shaped bread dough F1 conveyed by the expansion conveyor 33 while transferring the band-shaped bread dough F1 on the downstream side of the transfer path of the expansion conveyor 33. 50A and 50B are provided, and the first weighing conveyor 50A,
Second weighing conveyors 70A, 7 adjacent to downstream of 50B
0B is provided. An upper position between the spreading conveyor 33 and the first weighing conveyor 50 is operated when the weighing value of the first weighing conveyor 50 reaches a set value to cut the band-shaped bread dough F1. Guillotine-type cutting devices 90A and 90B are provided.

A merging device 110 for merging the dough F2, which has been quantitatively cut in a plurality of rows (two rows in this example), into a single row downstream of the cutting device 90 and carrying the same.
Is provided.

The merging device 110 is constructed so that it is connected to the second weighing conveyor 70 and the second arranging conveyors 111A and 111A are connected.
11B is provided, and the first arranging conveyors 113A and 113B are further connected to the downstream side, and detecting devices 115A and 1A for detecting the presence or absence of the dough F2 on the sides of the respective arranging conveyors 111A, 111B, 113A, and 113B.
15B, 117A and 117B are provided.

First arranging conveyors 113A and 113B
Merge conveyors 119A and 119B connected to the downstream end of
Is provided, the downstream end of the merge conveyor 119B is close to a predetermined position above the merge conveyor 119A, and the dough piece F2 conveyed by the merge conveyor 119B is transferred to the merge conveyor 119A.

Referring to FIG. 5, a compaction device 130 is provided downstream of the merging device 110. The compaction device 130 compacts the bread dough F2 conveyed in a row and stretch-forms it into a rod-shaped bread dough F3. In the compaction device 130, a press roller 131 is provided, and the press roller 1
A curling net winding device 133 is provided downstream of 31, and a pressure plate 135 is further provided. Regarding this compaction device, the applicant of the present patent application has filed Japanese Patent Application No. 2001-111.
No. 480 and Japanese Patent Application No. 2002-43546.

A control device 2 such as a computer is provided to control the operation of the entire device.

With the above structure, when a large mass of bread dough F is stored in the hopper 3, the bread dough F in the hopper 3 is stored.
Is discharged as a band-shaped bread dough F1 having a substantially constant thickness by the roller feeder unit 29.

Then, the band-shaped bread dough F1 is centered at the center of the width of the band-shaped bread dough F1 by the centering device 13 by the conveyer 11, and further separated and expanded by the separation and expansion device 30 at equal intervals to be separated. The band-shaped bread dough F1 is conveyed to the first weighing conveyors 50A and 50B. When the measured value of the first weighing conveyor 50 matches the set value, the cutting device 90 operates to cut the band-shaped bread dough F1 to obtain the bread dough F2 having a predetermined weight. After that, the cut and separated bread dough F2 is transferred to the second weighing conveyor 70 and re-weighed. These operations are performed for each column.

If the measured value at the time of this re-measurement is within the allowable value, the above operation is repeated as it is, and the bread dough F2
Are successively cut and separated and transferred to the next step. Feedback control is performed so as to delay the time of the cutting timing by the cutting device 90 when the measured value of reweighing is “smaller” than the set value, and conversely to speed it up when the measured value is large. The bread dough pieces F2 whose values are always within the allowable value are cut and separated one after another and sent to the next step.

The dough F2 transferred in a plurality of rows passes through the arrange conveyors 111 and 113 and then the merge conveyor 11
They merge at 9 and are transferred to the compaction device 130. At this time,
Arrange conveyors 111 and 113 and merge conveyor 11
9 can cooperate with each other to transfer the dough F2 to the rolling device 130 in a line at substantially equal intervals.

In the compaction device 130, the bread dough F2
After being rolled into a thin piece of dough by the press roller 131 at the entrance, it is rolled up by the winding device 133 to form a long and narrow rod-shaped dough F3 and can be supplied to the next step.

An apparatus having each function will be described based on the control flow shown in FIG.

The dough band forming device 10 is a known device,
Roll the dough F into the hopper 3 with the roller feeder 2
9 is to discharge as a cloth of a certain width and thickness,
A plurality of rollers, each of which is supported by a roller feeder portion 29 supported by the frame 17, are arranged in a V shape as a whole, and are supplied between the rollers by rotating the respective rollers inward and downward. The dough is discharged downward. It should be noted that the rotation of the roller can be increased or decreased from the upper side to the lower side, can be the same, or can be arbitrarily changed.

In addition to the rotation of the rollers, the left and right roller feeders 29 can be swung to make the band-shaped bread dough F1.
Can be discharged.

The structure of the dough band forming apparatus 10 is not limited to this embodiment, and bread dough discharging mechanism by various roller mechanisms can be used.

In addition to the roller feeder mechanism described above,
For example, it is possible to form a belt-shaped dough by facing two or three large-diameter rollers and discharging the bread dough from the gap.

Next, the structure of the centering device 13 for the band-shaped bread dough F1 will be described. A sliding arm 21 is attached to the frame 17 so as to be slidable in a direction (width direction) perpendicular to the traveling direction of the belt 19 of the conveyor 11. The sliding arm 21 supports a roller 23 that stretches the belt 19. The sliding arm 21 is operated by a driving mechanism 25 such as a ball screw, and the belt 1 is passed through the roller 23.
The downstream end of 9 moves in the left-right direction.

The operation of the centering device 13 is given an operation signal by the control device 2 from a signal obtained by the material detection device 27 provided at the exit of the conveyor 11.
The dough detection device 27 is a sensor provided at the left and right ends of the conveyor belt 11 in the width direction, and the band-shaped bread dough F1 passes through this part to measure the distance to the width ends of the band-shaped bread dough F1. The center can be calculated. Then, this center is compared with the set position, and a correction signal is given to the drive mechanism 25 of the centering device 13 to move the sliding arm 21 left and right to adjust the center of the belt-shaped bread dough F1 to be conveyed.

In the present embodiment, the operation of the sliding arm 21 moves the downstream end of the belt 19 to the left and right to move the belt 19 for centering, but as another embodiment, The main body of the conveyor 11 is moved in the direction orthogonal to the conveying direction, and the conveyor 11 is moved around the material discharging position of the roller feeder 29.
The purpose of centering can be achieved even if the downstream end of the is oscillated.

Next, the separating and expanding device 30 will be described. A cutter 31 downstream of the aligning device 13 for cutting the band-shaped bread dough F1 in the traveling direction, and a cutter roller 35 for rotating the cutter 31 by contacting the tip of the cutter 31.
And a drive motor 37 for rotating the cutter roller 35. A spreading conveyor 33 is provided downstream of the cutter 31. The spreading conveyor 33 is for separating the cut strip-shaped bread dough F1 into two rows, and as shown in FIG.
3B is provided. The cutter 31 may be provided with a slit in the abdomen of the cutter 31 in order to prevent the band-shaped bread dough F1 from sticking to reduce the contact area of the band-shaped bread dough F1.

First and second weighing conveyors 50A, 50B, 70 connected downstream of the branch conveyors 33A, 33B.
A and 70B measure the bread dough as described above, and are supported by the frame 51. More specifically, the frame 51 includes the first and second weighing platforms 53A, 53B, 7
3A and 73B are attached, a conveyor belt is attached to these weighing racks, and the first weighing conveyor 5
0A and 50B have drive motors 55A and 55B, and second weighing conveyors 70A and 70B have drive motors 75A and 7B.
5B is installed.

Guillotine type cutting devices 90A and 90B are provided at the downstream ends of the branch conveyors 33A and 33B, which are adjacent to the upstream ends of the first weighing conveyors 50A and 50B. The cutting devices 90A and 90B can also prevent the band-shaped bread dough F1 from sticking by providing slits in the respective blades 91A and 91B.

By the way, the first and second weighing conveyors 50
Drive motor 55 for A, 50B, 70A, 70B
A, 55B, 75A, 75B, and the cutting device 90
A and 90B are controlled by the control device 2.

That is, in the cutting devices 90A and 90B, as described above, the band-shaped bread dough F1 is conveyed from the branch conveyors 33A and 33B to the first weighing conveyors 50A and 50B, and the measured values of the weighing conveyors 50A and 50B are set values. Is activated when The blades 91A and 91B provided in the cutting device 90 are lowered to cut the band-shaped bread dough F1. And the cut dough F2 is the first weighing conveyor 50A,
A device that can be transferred from 50B to the second weighing conveyors 70A, 70B at a high speed and re-weighed, and is feedback-controlled to adjust the cutting timing of the cutting devices 90A, 90B to improve the accuracy of weighing cutting. Is.

The bread dough F2 is transferred at high speed after the band-shaped bread dough F1 is cut by the cutting device 90.
This is to open the space between the dough F2.

Further, in addition to this embodiment, the band-shaped bread dough F1 is not limited to be divided into two, but by providing a plurality of cutters 31 and spreading conveyors 33, it is possible to divide into three or more.

Next, the merging device 110 will be described.
The bread dough F2 obtained by the cutting device 90 is conveyed in two rows (rows A and B below). Two rows of dough F
The operation of merging 2 in one line is as follows. When the bread dough F2 is conveyed in a state where the rows A and B are not aligned on the left and right, for example, the arrange conveyor 113
The dough F2 that arrives first on A is the arranging conveyor 11
3A stops the conveyance and stands by at that position. Next, when the dough F2 arrives at the arranging conveyor 113B and the dough F2 is placed on both the arranging conveyors 113A and 113B and the left and right sides are aligned with each other, the arranging conveyor 1
13A restarts and arranges conveyors 113A, 113A
B operates in synchronization with each other, and simultaneously discharges the dough F2 to the merge conveyors 119A and 119B. In this embodiment, the merge conveyors 119A and 119B are
Since the conveyor speed is set to 2: 1 and the conveyor 119A is accelerated, when the bread dough F2 transferred to 119B is merged at the merge conveyor 119A, it is already merged.
After the bread dough F2 that rapidly advances and conveys A, it is transferred again at a predetermined interval. Bread dough F2 is arranged at a predetermined interval and arranged on the conveyor 11
Merge conveyors 119A, 1A through 3A, 113B
19B, the bread dough F2 conveyed in the B row is the merge conveyor 119 described above.
Due to the difference in speed between A and 119B, the bread doughs in the A row merge with each other at intermediate positions.

Further, the role of the arrange conveyors 111A and 111B prepared on the upstream side is that the dough F2 is not discharged while the stand-by stop of the dough F2 is placed on either of the arrange conveyors 113A and 113B, for example, the arrange conveyor 113A in the A-row. At this time, when the next bread dough F2 further arrives at the arrangement conveyor 111A of the same row A, the bread dough F2 can be transferred and stopped by the arrangement conveyor 111A, and the arrangement conveyor 113A can be made to wait until it becomes empty. It is a thing.

In the above example, the dough F2 is A
Although the case where the rows and the rows B are conveyed in a state where the rows are not laterally aligned with each other is explained, a possible cause of such conveyance is cutting the band-shaped bread dough F1 by the separating and expanding device 30. This is because it cannot be accurately divided when separated. Therefore, when these are weighed and cut, the cut lengths of each change, and the cut lengths are accumulated so that they do not laterally match each other. However, these problems can also be solved by this embodiment.

Further, as shown in FIG. 3, when the bread dough F2 is conveyed in rows A and B almost horizontally and laterally, the conveyance operation is performed without waiting time for stopping the arrangement conveyors 113A and 113B. It is possible.

As can be understood from the above, on the merge conveyor 119A, the bread doughs F2 are arranged in a line at substantially equal intervals and are conveyed downstream. The second embodiment of the joining means for the bread dough F2 conveyed in two rows is:
It will be described in the following manner.

That is, in the first example, the merge conveyors 119A and 119B were provided with a speed difference of 2: 1, but in the second example, the merge conveyors 119A and 119B are synchronously conveyed at the same speed.

The contents of the control of the second example relating to the operation of the merging device 110 will be briefly described. The bread dough F2 being conveyed is arranged in one of the two rows of the arrangement conveyors 113A and 113A.
13A is to be discharged from the arranging conveyors 113A and 113B (traffic control) at a predetermined timing in order from the one arriving at 13B earlier.

To describe this in detail, when the bread dough F2 is conveyed in a state in which the rows A and B are not aligned on the left and right, for example, the arrangement conveyor 11
Bread dough F2 that arrives first in 3A is the arrangement conveyor 1
Stop waiting on 13A. The bread dough F2 is discharged from the waiting arrangement conveyor 113A regardless of the arrival of the next bread dough F2 at a timing commensurate with the number of products to be produced per time preset by the control device 2. The dough F2 that is sequentially sent is repeatedly discharged on a first-come-first-served basis by the arrange conveyors 113A and 113B. In addition, the bread dough F2 is arranged on the arrangement conveyors 113A and 1A.
When they arrive at 13B at the same time, the rows of the conveyors having the bread dough F2 following the arrange conveyors 111A and 111B on the upstream side are prioritized and discharged.

Next, the compaction device 130 will be described. The transfer conveyor 137 is provided downstream of the merge conveyor 119A of the merging device 110, and the press roller 131 is connected to the transfer conveyor 137.
A winding device 133 and a rolling plate 135 are provided downstream of the. By adjusting the gap between the press rollers 131, the thickness and length of the bread dough can be arbitrarily changed, so that the rod-shaped bread dough F3 after winding can be changed to a desired shape.

Further, the rolling plate 135 is a conveyer 139.
The gap between and can be adjusted. Although not shown, the stick-shaped bread dough F conveyed to the entrance of the rolling plate 135
3 is detected, and the rolling plate 135 is moved up and down according to the length to adjust the clearance, and the rod-shaped bread dough F3 is rolled.
The length of can be adjusted.

In this embodiment, the merging device 110 is provided upstream of the compacting device 130, but the compacting device 13 is used.
The rolled dough F3 that has been pressed at 0 may be configured and arranged so as to merge.

Further, although the present embodiment has been described by using the example of producing bread, the present invention is not limited to this, and it can be used for producing puff pastry, Danish pastry, pizza, biscuits, French bread, coppe bread and the like. it can.

[0059]

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION Due to the slow conveying speed peculiar to food dough strips or bread dough strips and the relatively high conveying speed peculiar to food dough strips or bread dough strips, one row of food dough strips or bread dough strips from one food dough strip or bread dough strip Are weighed so that they have the same weight, and are molded again so that they are merged and aligned in a row again at equal intervals, which eliminates the need to provide a shaping step and a mold filling step for each row. In addition, the production speed can be increased while saving energy and space, and the production equipment can be simplified and downsized. In addition, since the food dough fermented during floor time or bench time is subjected to almost no stress during the process of taking it out from the hopper, the shaping process, and the mold filling process, an intermediate fermentation to recover the stress is performed. The manufacturing process was unnecessary.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 shows a flow chart of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic side view of a strip-shaped material forming unit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic plan view of a cloth cutting unit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic side view of the dough cutting unit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a schematic side view of a compaction unit according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

2 controller 10 Green zone forming equipment 13 Aligning device 30 Separation and expansion device 33 Expanding conveyor 50 weighing conveyor 70 Weighing conveyor 90 cutting device 110 Confluence device 111 Arrange conveyor 113 Arrange conveyor 119 Marge Conveyor 130 Rolling device 131 Press roller 133 winding device 135 Rolling plate F dough F1 band dough F2 cut dough F3 stick dough

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Kazuhide Nanahara             3 Leno, Nozawa-cho, Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture             Motivation Co., Ltd. F-term (reference) 4B031 CA10 CD07 CH02                 4B032 DB01 DP25

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A conveyed one food dough strip is aligned in the width direction, divided into a plurality of food dough strips having the same width, and each of the food dough strips is horizontally cut while being weighed. To form food dough pieces in multiple rows, adjust the mutual feeding positions of the corresponding food dough pieces in each row, and set the transfer speed difference in each row so that the corresponding food dough pieces are sequentially equidistant in the same row. Conveying and molding method of food dough to be merged and aligned. 2. The divided food dough strips are laterally cut while being weighed to form food dough pieces, then the food dough pieces are weighed, and the weighed value is fed back to cut in the lateral direction. The transfer molding method according to claim 1, wherein 3. A food dough strip of 1 is vertically divided into two, the divided dough strips are cut in the horizontal direction to form two rows of food dough pieces, and the dough pieces of the previously arrived row are temporarily cut. When the dough pieces of the other rows are stopped, the transport positions of the dough pieces are adjusted in accordance with the arrival of the dough pieces of the other rows, and the transfer speed difference between the dough pieces of each row is set to 2: 1, and the corresponding dough pieces of the same row are The transfer molding method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the particles are sequentially merged and aligned at equal intervals. 4. An aligning device for aligning one conveyed food dough band in the width direction, a separating and expanding device for vertically dividing the dough band into a plurality of parts having the same width, and each divided food raw material. Expanding conveyor for transferring zones separately, cutting device for laterally cutting each of the divided food dough strips to form food dough pieces, arranging conveyor for adjusting the transport position of the corresponding food dough pieces in each row A food dough conveying / forming device provided with a confluence device for conveying the food dough pieces with a difference in conveyance speed between the respective rows and sequentially merging corresponding food dough pieces into the same row at regular intervals. 5. The transfer molding apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the arranging conveyors are provided in two stages.