[Problems]
The purpose of this invention is to provide a method for forming pieces of food dough and an apparatus thereof to be able to cut the food dough continuously extruded through a nozzle along the shape of the hole of the nozzle without causing deformation, and further to be able to locate the pieces of the food dough on a conveyor without causing deformation.
[Means of Solving the Problems]
The apparatus for forming pieces of food dough comprises an extruding device and a cutting device, wherein the extruding device comprises a nozzle to continuously extrude food dough downward, and the cutting device comprises a cutting blade to cut the food dough into the pieces of food dough, a moving mechanism to move the cutting blade forward from an initial position, then to move the cutting blade downward, and then to return the cutting blade to the initial position, and a carrying-out conveyor, which is disposed below the nozzle and moves in the direction that the cutting blade moves forward.