JP2554631Y2 - Pizza dough manufacturing equipment - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing pizza dough, and more particularly to an apparatus for manufacturing a pizza dough having a bulged pizza dough whose rim is higher than the inside of the pizza dough.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional apparatus for producing pizza dough with a border, there is an apparatus as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 177847/1990, for example.

In this apparatus, a dough ball of a pizza is put into a forming chamber composed of an exhibition plate having a forming concave portion and a die set having a convex portion, and the dough ball is forcibly applied with pressure by pressing the die set. This is to make more pizza crust.

[0004]

The stamping-type molding apparatus such as this conventional apparatus crushes the dough balls at a stroke at a high pressure and molds them, so that the dough is damaged, the baking volume is small, or the dough is placed in the molding chamber. However, there were drawbacks such as sticking, which hindered pizza craft molding. Further, even when the stamping is performed on the sheet-like material, there is a disadvantage that the material on the stamp surface does not become sufficiently concave or adheres.

[0005] The above-mentioned prior art has several problems, and is not suitable for continuous production, and an apparatus capable of mass production is required.

[0006]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION In view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, the invention according to claim 1 is directed to a pizza dough manufacturing apparatus which cuts and cuts a circular pizza dough from a dough sheet. A pair of vertically opposed rollers is provided between an upstream conveyor and a downstream conveyor for transporting the dough sheet, and a circular concave portion is formed in the dough sheet on one surface of the pair of rollers as appropriate. Provided with a circular convex portion for cutting, provided at a downstream position of the pair of rollers, a die cutting device having a circular cutting blade larger than the convex portion to cut pizza dough from the dough sheet. Configuration.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, an appropriately shaped concavo-convex portion is provided on the surface of the circular convex portion.

[0008]

In the above construction, when the dough sheet conveyed by the conveyor is passed through the gap of a pair of rollers rotating in the conveying direction, the circular convex portion of the roller gradually presses the dough with the rotation of the rollers. In addition, a circular recess can be formed in the dough sheet.

Next, pizza dough is obtained by punching out a die using a circular cutting blade having a diameter larger than the formed circular recess, and the obtained dough has a shape in which the periphery is thicker than the inside. It has become.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. The dough sheet 1 has a predetermined thickness and is transported from the upstream conveyor 2 to the downstream conveyor 21.

The dough sheet is stretched and formed to a predetermined thickness by well-known manufacturing means. The upstream conveyor 2
The embossing roller 3 is provided between the conveyor 21 and the downstream conveyor 21.

The embossing roller 3 is provided with a pair of rollers 31 and 32 facing up and down. In this embodiment, the upper roller 31 has a circular convex surface 3 on the roller peripheral surface.
3 are provided.

The pair of rollers 31 and 32 rotate in opposite directions, and emboss the cloth passing through the gap 34 between the rollers.

A die release roller 4 is provided downstream of the conveyor 21.

The die-cutting roller 4 includes a pair of rollers 41 and 42 facing each other up and down, and a circular cutting blade 43 is provided on the peripheral surface of the upper roller 41.

The cutting blade 43 has a diameter larger than that of the circular convex portion 33 provided on the upper roller 31 of the embossing roller 3, and the rollers 41 and 42 rotate to cut the cloth passing through the gap 44 to form a die. Perform punching.

The embossing roller 3 and the embossing roller 4
Is driven by the driving device 5 and rotated in synchronization.

That is, the dough sheet 1 circularly embossed by the embossing roller 3 is conveyed by the conveyor 21 and driven so that the same position as the embossed position by the embossing roller 4 can be cut out and cut. The device 5 works.

The step of forming a pizza dough with a border according to the above configuration will be described. The dough sheet 1 is spread by a well-known dough spreading device and conveyed by a conveyor 2. The circular convex portion 33 squeezes the dough by passing the gap T <b> 1 between the embossing roller 3 and the rollers 31 and 32, and the dough sheet 1 has a circular shape. The recess 11 is formed.

The surface of the projection 33 has a plurality of projections and depressions 3.
When the recesses 6 are provided, irregularities are formed in some places in the concave portion 11 which has been pressed.

Next, the cutting blade 43 of the punching roller 4 leaves the periphery of the concave portion 11 in a circular shape leaving a margin.
The remaining portion other than the cut circular dough is collected by the collecting device 6.

In this embodiment, the clearance T2 of the outer peripheral portion 35 of the embossing roller 3 which is not the convex portion 33 has a sufficient margin so that the material does not contact the thickness of the material passing therethrough. During the embossing, only the convex portion 33 of the roller 31 comes into contact with the dough sheet 1, and the flow of the dough generated by the thinning of the dough during the embossing is easily performed to the unpressed portion. It is.

In this embodiment, the embossing was carried out at T1, 4, 3 and 2 mm, respectively, with respect to the cloth thickness of the sheet of 7, 5, 3 mm, and the results were all good.

T2 was set to 15 mm so that the outer peripheral portion 35 did not come into contact with the cloth.

The flow of the dough is further promoted by the opposing rollers.

That is, when the dough comes into contact with the roller, the dough is almost in a bus line contact with the dough, so that the dough can easily flow to an unpressed portion without contacting the dough. Unlike the surface contact pressing, the concave portion cannot be reliably formed or does not stick.

In the present embodiment, the convex portion 33 is provided on the upper roller 31, but there is no particular limitation.
May be provided.

[0028]

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, the present invention makes it possible to easily mass-produce a pizza with a rim using a simple device, the baked pizza has a bulging rim, and the inner concave portion has irregularities in some places. Appears, so-called handmade molding becomes possible, and a product with high added value of quality can be obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partial cross-sectional side view of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an operation explanatory view of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 shows an uneven portion provided on the surface of the convex portion according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 shows pizza dough formed and baked in this example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Dough sheet 2 Conveyor 3 Embossing roller 31 Upper roller 32 Lower roller 33 Convex part 34 Clearance 35 Outer peripheral part 36 Uneven part 4 Die-release roller 41 Upper roller 42 Lower roller 43 Cutting blade 44 Skimmer 5 Drive unit 6 Collection device 12 Pizza Cloth

Claims (2)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] 1. A pizza dough manufacturing apparatus that cuts and manufactures a circular pizza dough from a dough sheet, and vertically faces between an upstream conveyor and a downstream conveyor that convey the dough sheet. Provided a pair of rollers, provided on one appropriate surface of the pair of rollers, a circular convex portion for forming a circular concave portion in the dough sheet,
Manufacturing a pizza dough, provided at a position downstream of the pair of rollers, a die cutting device having a circular cutting blade larger than the convex portion for cutting the pizza dough from the dough sheet. apparatus. 2. The pizza dough manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an appropriately shaped concavo-convex portion is provided on the surface of the circular protruding portion.