A pastry making machine comprises a conveyor with product molds on the matrices. Stamps are adapted to cover matrices. A dough dispenser with a hopper is installed at the beginning of the conveyor. There are also an oven, a product unloader, a blower with rolls, a manipulator equipped with a lifting mechanism and magnetic or mechanical grippers for the stamps, and a control unit. The surface of the rolls is profiled with separating cells forming longitudinal and transversal rows. The dosing head has at least one row of separating chambers, with channels discharging dosed dough pieces. An induction heating assembly is positioned along the oven. Each matrix is mounted on a wheeled cart, attached to the conveyor. One embodiment has a current-conductive profile connected to the heating assemblies of the stamps. Another embodiment has its heating assembly stretched alongside the whole oven heating the stamps and matrices. The machine improves product quality.

A multi-lane die is provided. The multi-lane slot die comprises an upper body member, a lower body member, an upper shim, a separator shim, and a lower shim. The upper shim is positioned between the upper body member and the separator shim. The upper shim, the upper body member, and the separator shim define a first at least one dispensing channel that extends to a first at least one dispense opening of the multi-lane die. The lower shim is positioned between the separator shim and the lower body member. The lower shim, the separator shim, and the lower body member define a second at least one dispensing channel that extends to a second at least one dispense opening of the multi-lane die.

In one embodiment of an apparatus for manufacturing a rubber sheet, a continuous rubber material is supplied onto a supply conveyor in a meandering state by supplying the continuous rubber material onto the supply conveyor while moving rubber supply device in a reciprocating manner in a roll axial direction. The rubber supply device has a full width moving mode in which the rubber supply device moves in the roll axial direction such that the continuous rubber material has a meandering shape of a width corresponding to a width of a rubber sheet, and a partial width moving mode in which the rubber supply device moves in the roll axial direction such that the continuous rubber material has a meandering shape of a width obtained by excluding widths of both edge portions of the rubber sheet from the width of the rubber sheet.

In some embodiments, a dough pressing system includes means for coupling a cover to a pressing platen, wherein the cover can reduce the wear caused to the pressing platen by the heat and pressure used to process one or more products. The cover optionally can be configured to be removably attached to the pressing platen with vacuum pressure. In some implementations, one or more spacers are placed between the cover and the pressing platen. The thickness of the spacers can adjust the thickness and diameter of products processed by the pressing platen. For example, to increase uniformity among products pressed together in a press cycle, the spacers can have different thicknesses that correspond with the location of the spacer in the pattern of dough balls.

To address the problems inherent in creating very thin sheets of dough in a sheeting machine at high speed and with efficient recycling and re-sheeting of the re-work cut out from the sheet, a new sheeting machine with a new front roller is provided, wherein the roller includes non-stick and non-release areas and a plurality of grooves in the non-release area.

A method and an installation for the automated preparation of crown-shaped tart shells, comprising the conveying on a conveyor of crown-shaped recesses, the recesses being successively subjected to an extrusion step, a deposition step and a lining step, in which the extrusion step includes the filling of at least one cell of a rotary cell support cylinder with dough, the deposition step includes the ejection of the dough rolls out of the rotary cell support cylinder and the deposition on a shell of each recess of at least two separate dough rolls, and the lining step includes the crushing of the dough rolls deposited in each recess by means of a matrix complementary in shape to the recess in order to form a dough covering at least the shell of the recess.

The present invention discloses a platen apparatus (300) and method (400) for cooking dough using a combination of convective and conductive heating. The apparatus (300) comprises a platen unit including a top heating assembly (320) and a bottom heating assembly (310) to press a dough ball into a flat disc, the bottom heating assembly (310) including a first heating unit configured to provide conductive heat to the platen unit; a linear motion mechanism (350) configured to move the top heating assembly (320) linearly with respect to the bottom heating assembly (310); and a second heating unit (314) including a secondary heating coil (332) and a blower unit (331) to provide convective heat to the platen unit; and a control unit to control the heating of the platen unit; such that the temperature of the second heating unit (314) is higher than the temperature of the first heating unit.

A machine (100) for cartellate production comprising a support structure (1), a motorized conveyor belt (3) for transport of dough strips, on which dough guide means (8) operate, conveyor means (5), motorized pinching means (6), shaping means (7), cutting means (9) and movable rolling means (10); said pinching means (6) being configured to operate, by rotating around its central axis, the clamping of the dough strips; said pinching means (6) cooperating with said conveyor means (5) and with said shaping means (7) achieving the dough strips forming; said cutting means (9) being steadily fixed to one of said pinching means (6).

A machine (100) for cartellate production comprising a support structure (1), a motorized conveyor belt (3) for transport of dough strips, on which dough guide means (8) operate, conveyor means (5), motorized pinching means (6), shaping means (7), cutting means (9) and movable rolling means (10); said pinching means (6) being configured to operate, by rotating around its central axis, the clamping of the dough strips; said pinching means (6) cooperating with said conveyor means (5) and with said shaping means (7) achieving the dough strips forming; said cutting means (9) being steadily fixed to one of said pinching means (6).

A device for forming a sheeted dough from a dough piece, which includes: (i) a lower tray arranged so as to support the dough piece during a forming operation, (ii) an upper tray, and (iii) a forming actuator arranged so as to move the upper plate in relation to the lower plate, in such a way as to be able to press the dough piece between the lower tray and the upper tray in order to form a sheeted dough, the lower tray containing a system of mobile ejectors that can assume a so-called retracted position in such a way as to form, overall, a continuous surface with the lower tray, and a so-called raised position in such a way as to form a raised surface in relation to the lower tray.