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Full-automatic panning system for white bread production line

  • US 4,036,569 A
  • Filed: 03/01/1976
  • Issued: 07/19/1977
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/24/1972
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An automatic panning system for white bread production line, including an elongated travel path having a plurality of work stations in series;

  • comprising;

    a. dough piece-selecting device (A) first work station which detects cylindrically formed dough pieces in a molder and transfers these one by one intermittently said device having means selecting and removing cylindrical dough pieces longer than a predetermined length and making a narrow pitch with a preceeding dough piece,b. a centering machine (B) second work station fed by said first work station operable to transfer the selected dough pieces including sensing means for sensing for lateral deviations in a column of the transferred detected dough pieces to correct them by the deviating amount,c. a bending machine (C) third work station fed by said second work station operable to bend the cylindrical dough peices transferred from the centering machine into predetermined shapes, and,d. a circular table panning machine (D) fourth work station fed by said third work station having means to receive the bent dough pieces one by one and moving them successively to pan a plurality of the dough pieces into a bread pan.

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