JPS6337833Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention relates to a bread dough rounding machine, and more particularly to a bread dough rounding machine that can prevent dough from adhering to a molder that compresses the dough to remove gas from the dough.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a bread dough rounding machine that can prevent part of the dough from remaining on the molder, which removes excess gas from the dough prior to rounding. We aim to provide the following.

One of the methods for rounding bread dough is to pass the bread dough that has undergone intermediate fermentation using an overhead proofer between two cylindrical bodies facing each other and a molder while compressing it to an appropriate thickness. A method is used in which the excess gas inside is removed and then rounding is performed using a suitable rounding machine. A bread dough rounding machine conventionally used as an apparatus for carrying out the above-mentioned method is a molder made of a metal cylinder or rod-shaped body having an appropriate outer diameter, which is placed along the length of the molder. The above-mentioned two molders are arranged so that they can freely rotate and face each other, and the distance between them can be freely adjusted.A rounding machine is positioned at the bottom of the molder so as to wait for the compressed dough to fall. It was said that there was. These devices need to operate while preventing the dough from sticking to the molder in order to obtain an accurate finished product. However, when the dough passes through the molder as described above, some of the dough may remain stuck to the molder during compaction. This often results in excessive removal of gas in the dough that is compressed due to skin peeling, resulting in poor molding. To solve these problems, methods such as plating the surface of the molder to make it smooth or forming a thin film of fluororesin such as Teflon (registered trademark) on the surface of the molder have been used. However, the most reliable method is to attach a "scraping plate" (not shown) called a doctor or scraper to the unevenly machined surface of the molder. Not only does this make the mechanism more complex, but it also has the disadvantage that it is necessary to accurately maintain the gap between the doctor and the processing surface, and complicated work is required to improve the accuracy of this gap adjustment. .

The present invention attempts to address these problems, and has been able to fully achieve its objectives through the completion of the invention described below.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

The present invention consists of a molder 1, 1 that removes excess gas from the dough P while compressing the bread dough P conveyed by a conveyor 2 to a predetermined thickness, and a molder 1, 1 located below the molder 1, 1. Tamarume machine 3
It is composed of: The molders 1, 1 are formed using a cylindrical body or a rod-shaped body having an appropriate size (outer diameter) and length, and a fabric 4 such as felt or the like is integrally adhered to the surface thereof. In this invention, fabric refers to woven, knitted,
Alternatively, it may be a fabric (for example, a non-woven fabric) formed by other means, but a felt-like fabric is most desirable. Round machine 3 is
It is of a so-called linear rounder type, and has two horizontally elongated swinging plates 32, 32 on the upper surface of a transfer plate 31, which swing toward and away from each other with different swing amounts. In the embodiment, the rounding machine 3 is illustrated as a linear rounder type, but the present invention is not limited to this. It may be of a so-called stage type, which is rotatably mounted with a (not shown).

In the present invention, as described above, felt or other fabric 4 is attached and integrated with the pressure-biased surface of the molder 1, 1, which degass the dough while pressure-biasing the bread dough P, so that the pressure-biasing process is performed. The contact surface between the processed surface and the bread dough P during the process is either linear contact through a large number of linear fibers constituting the felt fibers, or, in the case of short fibers, point contact with the end surface of the fibers, which is the conventional method. Unlike a molder with a smooth surface, there is no surface contact with the bread dough P to be subjected to pressure uneven processing, so there is no phenomenon of bread dough P remaining attached to the surface of the molder, resulting in complete degassing and pressure unevenness. In particular, according to the present invention, it is not necessary to install a complicated mechanism such as a doctor or a scraper to scrape off the adhered bread dough, so the structure can be extremely improved. It has many excellent features, such as being able to be simplified and reducing manufacturing costs, as well as being easy to maintain.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The figure is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the present invention. 1... Mulder, 2... Conveyor, 3... Rounding machine, 31... Transfer plate, 32... Rocking plate, P...
bread dough.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claim for Utility Model Registration] (1) A molder 1 for degassing intermediately fermented bread dough of a predetermined size by compressing it to an appropriate thickness;
1 and a rounding machine 3 located below the molder, and the molders 1, 1 have a fabric 4 integrally attached to their surfaces. (2) The bread dough rounding machine according to claim 1, wherein the band-like fabric is a felt band. (3) The bread dough rounding machine according to claim 1, wherein the belt-like fabric is a belt-like fabric other than felt.