A multi-row dough-portioning apparatus has a chamber housing having a number of portioning chambers for predetermining a portioned quantity of dough. Measuring pistons can each be displaced in the portioning chambers along a displacement direction between a retracted, measuring position and a pushed-out, ejecting position. A rotation-prevention bar is installed in a releasable manner on a rear wall of the chamber housing and interacts with a circumferential recess in the measuring pistons in order to prevent rotation of the same. The chamber housing has a projecting section, which projects beyond the rear housing wall. The rotation-prevention bar is installed on the chamber housing such that, upon release, it can be removed from the chamber housing in a removal direction perpendicular to the displacement direction of the measuring pistons. This results in a dough-portioning apparatus which, even in the case of large-volume portioning chambers, is easy to maintain and clean.

A multiple-row dough portioning apparatus includes at least one portioning chamber to define a portioned dough quantity, at least one metering piston, which is displaceable in the portioning chamber between a retracted metering position and an extended ejection position. The dough portioning apparatus comprises a drive unit having a control component. The drive unit is configured to displace the metering piston from the metering position into the ejection position. The dough portioning apparatus is configured such that a displacement of the metering pistons takes place exclusively on account of a pressure exerted on the metering pistons by the dough. The control component is connected to all metering pistons to transmit a tensile force from the control roller to the metering pistons. The portioning chamber is accommodated in a portioning cylinder, which is pivotable between a metering pivot position and a pivoted ejection pivot position.

A multi-row dough-portioning apparatus has a chamber housing having a number of portioning chambers for predetermining a portioned quantity of dough. Measuring pistons can each be displaced in the portioning chambers along a displacement direction between a retracted, measuring position and a pushed-out, ejecting position. A rotation-prevention bar is installed in a releasable manner on a rear wall of the chamber housing and interacts with a circumferential recess in the measuring pistons in order to prevent rotation of the same. The chamber housing has a projecting section, which projects beyond the rear housing wall. The rotation-prevention bar is installed on the chamber housing such that, upon release, it can be removed from the chamber housing in a removal direction perpendicular to the displacement direction of the measuring pistons. This results in a dough-portioning apparatus which, even in the case of large-volume portioning chambers, is easy to maintain and clean.

A multi-row dough-portioning apparatus has a chamber housing having a number of portioning chambers for predetermining a portioned quantity of dough. Measuring pistons can each be displaced in the portioning chambers along a displacement direction between a retracted, measuring position and a pushed-out, ejecting position. A rotation-prevention bar is installed in a releasable manner on a rear wall of the chamber housing and interacts with a circumferential recess in the measuring pistons in order to prevent rotation of the same. The chamber housing has a projecting section, which projects beyond the rear housing wall. The rotation-prevention bar is installed on the chamber housing such that, upon release, it can be removed from the chamber housing in a removal direction perpendicular to the displacement direction of the measuring pistons. This results in a dough-portioning apparatus which, even in the case of large-volume portioning chambers, is easy to maintain and clean.

A feeding unit for feeding a food product for a machine for making filled pasta includes at least one feed duct having an outlet and an inlet; a sleeve fitted coaxially over the duct and rotatable relative thereto about an axis of rotation R in order to regulate the cross section of the inlet; an actuator including a stem inserted in the sleeve and movable between a first, retracted operating position and a second, extracted operating position to allow the food product to enter the feed duct and to push at least one single portion of food product out of the duct through the outlet; a second sleeve, fitted between the first sleeve and the stem, the stem sliding inside the second sleeve and the first sleeve rotating on the second sleeve.

The present utility model is an industrial product with a piston compression system driven by a pinion and rack and a wire-cutting system structured by two mechanisms, 4 bars in parallel, coupled in variable synchrony by two manually adjustable speed variator pulleys, and both systems are driven by a crank-driven driving shaft, with application in the dough manufacturing field, aiming at a simple and manual mechanism to provide the precise, quick, and molded portioning of the dough.

The present utility model is an industrial product with a piston compression system driven by a pinion and rack and a wire-cutting system structured by two mechanisms, 4 bars in parallel, coupled in variable synchrony by two manually adjustable speed variator pulleys, and both systems are driven by a crank-driven driving shaft, with application in the dough manufacturing field, aiming at a simple and manual mechanism to provide the precise, quick, and molded portioning of the dough.

Described herein is a machine for forming doughs for oven-baked products, of the type including a forming roller provided with mobile pistons for providing first and second forming cavities, a first hopper for feeding a first dough to the forming roller, a second hopper (60) for feeding a second dough to the forming roller, and a conveyor belt for feeding the semi-finished products formed in the forming roller to a subsequent station.

The machine further includes a knife associated to the first hopper and a knife associated to the second hopper.

Provided are a quantitative division unit, a quantitative division method, and a food production method capable of accurately quantitatively dividing a paste ingredient while preventing the damage of the ingredient. A first plunger and a second plunger are shifted from a first driving state to a second driving state in such a manner that the paste ingredient is introduced between the first plunger and the second plunger via a first port due to a negative pressure generated in the area of an internal space between the first plunger and the second plunger. The first plunger and the second plunger are shifted from the second driving state to a third driving state where at least a part of the paste ingredient between the first plunger and the second plunger is disposed so as to face the second port. The first plunger and the second plunger are then shifted from the third driving state to a fourth driving state so as to feed the paste ingredient to the outside via the second port.

Provided are a quantitative division unit, a quantitative division method, and a food production method capable of accurately quantitatively dividing a paste ingredient while preventing the damage of the ingredient. A first plunger and a second plunger are shifted from a first driving state to a second driving state in such a manner that the paste ingredient is introduced between the first plunger and the second plunger via a first port due to a negative pressure generated in the area of an internal space between the first plunger and the second plunger. The first plunger and the second plunger are shifted from the second driving state to a third driving state where at least a part of the paste ingredient between the first plunger and the second plunger is disposed so as to face the second port. The first plunger and the second plunger are then shifted from the third driving state to a fourth driving state so as to feed the paste ingredient to the outside via the second port.