ROLLING APPARATUS

• US 3,861,291 A
• Filed: 04/12/1973
• Issued: 01/21/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Continental Baking Co. (The J. M. Smucker Company)
• Original Assignee: Joseph A. Guzaski
• Inventors: Guzaski, Joseph A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hornsby, Harvey C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cantor, Alan
• Application Number:
  US05/350,555
• Time in Patent Office: 649 Days
• Field of Search: 99/353,450.2,450.3,450.1,450.6 425/319,320,321,391,322 72/146 192/15CD
• US Class Current: 99/450.2
• CPC Class Codes: A21C 15/02 Apparatus for shaping or moulding baked wafers; Making multi-layer wafer sheets
• CPC Class Codes: A21C 3/065 the coil axis of the produced rolls being in parallel or oblique position relative to the transport direction; with coiling elements, e.g. rollers, being placed in parallel or oblique position relative to the transport direction
• CPC Class Codes: A21C 9/063 Applying a folding, wrapping, rolling action A21C9/045, A21C9/061 take precedence

Abstract

Rolling apparatus is described comprising a plurality of rolling elements that are rotatably mounted and have attached thereto arcuate rolling members adapted for rolling flat strip material into a roll with the material being conveyed in a transverse direction to the rolling direction.

Claims

1. Apparatus for producing rolls from a flat strip of material comprising:

means for supporting and conveying said strip along a predetermined path transversely of the rolling direction;

frame means overlying said path and mounted for reciprocal motion over said path; and

rolling means rotatably mounted on said frame, said rolling means having an arcuate rolling member with a displaceable portion positioned and adapted to engage said strip to form a roll of material during rotation of said rolling means and movement of said frame in timed relation with said strip.

2. Apparatus of claim 1 including another arcuate rolling member mounted on said rolling means, and positioned to engage said strip and form another roll of material, such that a pair of rollings are accomplished during each rotation of said roll means.

3. Apparatus of claim 2 including drive means coupled to said frame and said rolling means, said drive means adapted to cause timed movement of said frame and rotation of said rolling means.

4. Apparatus for producing a plurality of roll cake products from a strip of flat cake material comprising:

means for conveying a plurality of strips through said apparatus;

a plurality of rolling means rotatably mounted on a frame and each having arcuate rolling members positioned so that individual ones of said rolling members engage individual strips and cause rolling of said strips in a direction transverse to said conveying direction during rotation of said rolling means;

means coupled for rotationally driving each of said rolling means; and

means coupled to said frame for causing said frame to transverse the rolling position in a predetermined manner.

5. Apparatus of claim 4 wherein said means for causing said frame carrying said rolling means to traverse over the rolling position include drive cam means and means for returning said frame to an initial position.

6. Apparatus of claim 4 including a frame guide associated with each of said rolling means and mounted on said frame means and positioned to support a displaceable portion of said arcuate rolling member during predetermined portions of rotations of each of said rolling means.

7. Cake apparatus for producing cake rolls from a flat strip of cake material on which is deposited a layer of filling, and the strip being cut into predetermined lengths and having a starting roll edge, the cake apparatus comprising:

means for supporting and conveying a plurality of said strips along a path;

frame means overlying said path mounted for reciprocal motion over said path;

a plurality of rolling means, one for each of said strips, rotatably mounted in staggered relationship on said frame and positioned above an associated one of said strips;

each of said rolling means including one arcuate rolling member having a displaceable portion adapted for engagement with the associated one of said strips to effect rolling thereof in a direction transverse to the conveying direction; and

another arcuate rolling member mounted in a complemented manner on said rolling means to effect rolling of the next portion of said associated one strip, such that two sequential rollings occur during one rotation of said rolling means.

8. Cake apparatus of claim 7 wherein each of said rollings is effected during movement of said frame means in synchronism with conveyance of said strip.

9. Apparatus for producing confectionary rolls from a flat strip of confectionary material comprising:

means for supporting and conveying said strip along a predetermined path transversely of the rolling direction;

frame means overlying said path and mounted for reciprocal motion over said path;

rolling means rotatably mounted on said frame, said rolling means having an arcuate rolling member with a displaceable portion positioned and adapted to engage a turned edge of said strip to form a roll of maTerial during rotation of said rolling means and movement of said frame in timed relation with said strip; and

another arcuate rolling member mounted on said rolling means, and positioned to engage a subsequent turned edge of said strip and form another roll of material, such that a pair of rollings are accomplished during each rotation of said roll means.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 including means in the path of said strip for engaging and forming the beginning of a roll.

11. Apparatus for producing rolls from a flat strip of cake or confectionary type material, the apparatus comprising in combination:

means for supporting and conveying a plurality of said strips along a path, and means along said path for engaging said strip and forming a beginning of a roll;

frame means overlying said path mounted for reciprocal motion over said path;

a plurality of rolling means, one for each of said strips, rotatably mounted in staggered relationship on said frame and positioned above an associated one of said strips, each of said rolling means including an arcuate rolling member having a displaceable portion adapted for engagement with the associated one of said strips to effect rolling thereof in a direction transverse to the conveying direction, and another arcuate rolling member mounted in a complemented manner on said rolling means to effect rolling of the next portion of said associated one strip, such that two sequential rollings occur during one rotation of said rolling means; and

each of said rollings is effected during movement of said frame means in synchronism with conveyance of said strip.