A dough cutting apparatus is suitable for cutting a sheet of dough. The dough cutting apparatus includes a structure defining a blunt dough engaging portion. The present invention can be embodied in a number of different ways, including a wheel cutter, a rotary drum cutter, a reciprocating head cutter, or another cutter.

An apparatus for producing noodle skin pieces comprises a mold roller, a rotary cutter, and a first cutter. The mold roller has a cylindrical body and/or a column body rotatable around a center line as a rotational axis. The first cutter is configured to cut noodle skin pieces from a noodle band. Female molds are formed on an outer peripheral surface of the mold roller. The mold roller is configured to form the noodle skin pieces on the surface of the noodle band by pressing the noodle band with the outer peripheral surface while rotating. The female mold has a center part that is the deepest in the female mold and has a peripheral part. The depth in the female mold becomes gradually shallow from the center part to an outer peripheral edge part of the female mold. The depth at the outer peripheral edge part is zero.

A food production apparatus, a rotation method and a food production method which stably and accurately rotate a foodstuff workpiece by a desired angle are provided. At least any one of a first rotation unit (31) and a second rotation unit (32) is moved in such a manner that a foodstuff workpiece (W) is nipped and held by the first rotation unit (31) and the second rotation unit (32). The first rotation unit (31) and the second rotation unit (32) which nip and hold the foodstuff workpiece (W) are actively rotated in synchronization with each other. At least any one of the first rotation unit (31) and the second rotation unit (32) is moved in such a manner that the foodstuff workpiece (W) is released from the first rotation unit (31) and the second rotation unit (32).

A method for orienting wound dough products in a defined end position by winding a triangular or trapezoidal dough piece along a winding section includes winding from the base of the dough piece with the narrower end of the dough piece forming an end protruding outside at the circumference of the dough product. The end position of the dough product is defined by a position of the end protruding at the outside. The wound dough product is decelerated from a translational starting speed to a translational end speed along a decelerating section. The resulting deceleration torque is used as a driving torque for a rolling movement of the dough product. The rolling movement is stopped by resistance when the end of the dough product is in contact with the surface. The translational conveying speed and/or the speed of rotation of the wound dough product is changed in control section.

The present invention relates to a device for cutting a dough piece comprising; a first dough conveyor, for conveying at least one dough sheet in a direction of conveyance that extends in a length direction of the first conveyor; a cutting station, the cutting station comprises at least one module carrier, wherein; said module carrier carrying a cutting module, said module for cutting dough sheets passing underneath the cutting station, and; said module carrier is movable with at least a directional component in a width direction of the first conveyor, and to a method for cutting a piece of dough comprising the steps of: conveying at least one dough sheet on a conveyor; continuously cutting, with at least a directional component in the width direction of the conveyor, the at least one dough sheet comprising; wherein the cutting takes place with a plurality of cutting units, and; the cutting units are independently moved.

A dough processing system includes a plurality of processing sections arranged one behind the other in a production direction, which are configured to execute different product programs. The dough processing system comprises a control device connected to the processing sections for activating the product programs at the processing sections, and wherein a program change from a first product program respectively set thereon to at least one new, second product program can be activated. By activating the program change at the processing section arranged in first place in the production direction, the control device is prompted to automatically carry out the program change in successive steps at that processing section of the processing sections following in the production direction at a time at which, within this processing section, the processing of a preceding product format last processed in accordance with the first product program is deemed to have been completed.

The inventions relate to an apparatus for aligning and positioning pieces of food dough with predetermined orientations and at predetermined intervals, and provide an aligning and positioning apparatus that can easily adjust positions of the pieces of food dough in a perpendicular direction to a moving direction of the pieces and that can process at high speed. An aligning and positioning apparatus of the inventions includes a holding unit having a plurality of holding mechanisms to hold a plurality of pieces of food dough carried by a first conveyor, a driving mechanism of the holding mechanisms, guide members to control the positions of the holding mechanisms in the perpendicular direction when the holding mechanisms are moved by the driving mechanism, and a positioning mechanism to adjust positions of the guide members in the perpendicular direction.

A product multiplying system or a multiplier may divide a product into a plurality of units and may increase a number of units of the product that may be released into a receptacle. The product multiplying system or a multiplier may increase the number of units of the product by a factor of two and may not jam the products. The product multiplying system or a multiplier may match a rate of cuts per minute of a first divider and a second divider. A first set and a second set of a plurality of diagonal channels may guide the product toward a center discharge guide and toward an outside discharge guide, respectively. Additionally, the product may be divided and rounded prior to being transferred to the multiplier where the product may be dusted.

Described herein is a system for the preparation of a filled biscuit, including: a forming unit for forming biscuit bodies in series, with a biscuit dough; a conveying system for feeding the biscuit bodies along a production path; an oven for baking the biscuit bodies, which is traversed by the conveying system and is configured to subject the biscuit bodies to a baking process, while the biscuit bodies are fed along the conveying system; and an injection unit, which is set downstream of the oven with reference to the production path and includes a plurality of needles for injecting a filling simultaneously into a plurality of the biscuit bodies arranged on the conveying system.

A dough portioning device comprises a metering device with a container configured to receive a supply of dough, and a separator configured to separate a defined quantity of dough from the supply of dough and to discharge the quantity of dough at a discharge end of the metering device in a discharge direction. The dough portioning device furthermore comprises a conveyor device configured to transport dough in a conveying direction, wherein the conveyor device comprises a conveyor belt, and is arranged below the discharge end of the metering device. The conveyor device furthermore comprises a belt guide configured to bend/fold lateral sections of the conveyor belt relative to a middle section in a direction towards the metering device. The middle section of the conveyor belt has a declivity relative to the discharge end of the metering device, at least in a section in the region of the metering device.