A food mixing machine includes a mixer body including a column and a head extending from the column. A rotatable output member extends downward from the head for receiving a mixer tool. A bowl support is mounted for vertical movement along the column between a lowered position away from the head and a raised position toward the head. A drive assembly is linked to selectively drive the rotatable output member. A user interface, including a touch-screen display, is located on the mixer body. A controller is associated with the user interface, wherein the controller is configured to communicate mixing machine condition information via the touch-screen display.

Exemplary embodiments are directed to a food product folding apparatus for forming a triangular food product, generally including a folding section, and first, second, third and fourth actuator mechanisms. The folding section includes, first, second, third and fourth folding platforms. The first, second, third and fourth actuator mechanisms are configured to actuate rotation of respective first, second, third and fourth folding platforms into first, second, third and fourth fold positions to create first, second, third and fourth folds in the food product.

A dough preparation machine includes a power unit, which drives, through rotational speed mechanism, a helical screw shaft that extends into a dough chamber so that the dough is compressed and pushed through rotation of the helical screw shaft to be discharged out of a jet nozzle mounted to the dough chamber. The dough chamber is provided, at a location above the helical screw shaft, with an auxiliary dough driver, which includes two movable blades that are opposite to each other and are selectively extendable outward and retractable inward. When one of the movable blades passes through a circular sidewall of dough chamber, it is pressed by the sidewall to get retracted inwardly and at the same time causing another one of the movable blades to extend outward to knead and poke dough. This process is cyclically repeated to efficiently knead the dough and prevent attachment of the dough.

A dough processing assembly includes a fixed frame, an entry area and an exit area for the dough subjected to the processes. The assembly includes at the entry area, a station for loading predefined quantities of dough in a receptacle. The assembly further includes at least one first conveyor belt, arranged downstream of the receptacle and adapted to receive and translate the dough; and at least one second conveyor belt, which is perpendicular and arranged below the first belt, for receiving the dough from the first belt. The assembly includes a station for dispensing the dough, at the exit area, provided with elements for folding the dough onto itself, for the juxtaposition of contiguous surfaces thereof so as to form configurations of the type of a layering, of a roll, and the like.

A household mixer appliance having an open top mixing container, a hook and a drive arrangement. The mixing container has a side wall portion with a through hole for the drive arrangement and the hook is arranged to be rotatable around an axis of rotation within the mixing container via the drive arrangement. A seal is arranged between the drive arrangement and the side wall portion of the mixing container, and the drive arrangement includes a quick-release mechanism to which the hook is attachable.

A hydrator includes a dry module with a vertically oriented tube having a central axis, an interior, an upper inlet aperture, a lower outlet, and an inlet section including a dry inlet. A mixing segment includes a vertically oriented tube having an interior wall, a mixing-segment inlet at an upper end, and a mixing-segment outlet at a lower end. The mixing segment is vertically aligned with and sealingly connected to the outlet of the dry module. A rotating hydrator shaft has a liquid channel and a longitudinal axis aligned with the central axis of the dry module. Dry blades are disposed on and rotate with the hydrator shaft in the mixing segment. A hydrator nozzle is disposed on and rotates with the hydrator shaft and has a plurality of outlets in fluid communication with the liquid channel and open to the mixing segment for discharging liquid from the liquid channel.

A baking production system for control of preservative concentration during production of baked products includes a preservative control system, including a preservative control unit, a flow control valve, a flow meter, first and second conductive probes, first and second acidity sensors, a metering pump, a water mixer, a temperature sensor, a moisture sensor, which is configured to mix the water with the preservative solution, thereby creating a water preservative mixture; and a production line, including a dough mixer, which is configured to receive a baking mixture and mix the baking mixture with the water preservative mixture, thereby creating a dough. Also disclosed is a method for preservative concentration control, including calculating water preservative concentration, optimizing preservative solution flow, calculating dough preservative concentration, and optimizing source water flow.

An apparatus for manufacturing rice noodles has a mixing part formed as a box having a hollow part to accommodate and discharge paste where rice flour and water are mixed; a noodle forming part for dividing, into a plurality of parts, the paste discharged from the mixing part and discharging the same, and having a plurality of blades; a conveying part for conveying the paste and the noodles through the mixing part, the noodle forming part, and the heating part, to a point at which the noodles fall to a noodle collecting part; the noodle collecting part for collecting the conveyed noodles; a power part having a power motor and a power transmission part to provide the power required for each component; a control part for operating the power part and controlling the heat of the heating part; and the main body for supporting the constituent elements.

The automatic bread maker has case 23 for accommodating bread-making material, heater for heating case, and temperature detector for detecting the temperature of case. The automatic bread maker further has pulverizing and mixing section and controller. Pulverizing/mixing section is disposed on bottom of case. While rotating, it pulverizes and mixes the material in case. Controller controls heater and pulverizing and mixing section according to the temperature of case. Controller governs a pulverizing step for producing rice paste from the material and a mixing step for mixing the rice paste after the pulverizing step. In the pulverizing step, pulverizing and mixing section rotates in a rotation speed range the same as that in the mixing step. The structure suppresses friction heat produced in pulverizing rice grains. This suppresses gelatinization of rice starch, providing rice paste with stable viscosity.

A device for the processing of liquids and/or solids comprises a disposable layer adapted to shield a working surface from coming into contact with, and being fouled by, the processed liquids and/or solids, and apparatus suitable to apply a negative pressure in a gap between said disposable layer and said working surface, thereby causing said disposable layer to adhere to said working surface.