摘要:
[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.
摘要:
Disclosed is an shape-forming shutter apparatus including a plurality of shutter pieces 15, each having an shaping surface 17 and a sliding surface 19, which are arranged in a circle with the shaping surface 17 of each shutter piece 15 being slidably in sliding contact with the sliding surface 19 of the neighboring separate shutter piece 15, and the shape-forming shutter apparatus being capable of dilating and contracting an opening part 9 surrounded by the shaping surfaces 17 respectively of the plurality of shutter pieces 15. The shape-forming shutter apparatus includes pressure contact biasing means 21 for always keeping the shaping surface 17 of each shutter piece 15 and the sliding surface 19 of the neighboring shutter piece 15 slidably in pressure contact with each other. The pressure contact biasing means 21 is a ring-shaped elastic member for biasing the shutter pieces 15 equally in such a direction to close the opening part 9. The elastic member is stretchingly wound around the shutter pieces 15 in an end of each shutter piece 15, which end is separate away from the other end thereof where the shaping surface 17 of the shutter piece 15 and the sliding surface 19 of the neighboring shutter piece 15 intersect each other.