Device for producting conical cases from strips of dough material wound on a carrier

• US 4,801,259 A
• Filed: 09/03/1987
• Issued: 01/31/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Houdstermaatschappij de Goede BV
• Original Assignee: Houdstermaatschappij de Goede BV
• Inventors: van der Hoorn, Rudolf J. G. A., Clerx, Henrikus P. M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nozick, Bernard
• Application Number:
  US07/092,864
• Time in Patent Office: 516 Days
• Field of Search: 425/334, 425/312, 425/310, 425/315, 425/306, 425/305.1, 425/307, 425/391, 425/371, 425/372
• US Class Current: 425/305.1
• CPC Class Codes: A21C 15/025 Apparatus for shaping or moulding baked wafers, e.g. to obtain cones for ice cream
• 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

Abstract

Device for producting conical cases from strips of dough, wound on a carrier, with a first supply ascending under belt for these strips, a second supply belt, the end of the first belt, and winding units each movable at a right angle to said second belt, and each with a detachable carrier on a rotary core.

Claims

1. Device for producting of conical cases from strips of dough material wound on a carrier, comprising

a first endless supply belt, on which narrow strips of dough, arranged side by side transversely to the lengthwise direction of the belt, are supplied,

a second endless conveyor belt which is linked to the first belt in the lengthwise direction thereof, and which has, ascending at an obtuse angle under the end of the first belt a first part, on which the dough strips are taken over, and a second part connecting thereto via a guide roller disposed at an angle, and

a number of winding units which are movable at right angles to the lengthwise direction of this second part, each with a detachable carrier disposed on a rotary core and having a conical outer surface whose tip is directed against the direction of movement of the second belt, while the speed of rotation of the carriers is greater at the beginning of the winding process than at the end thereof, in such a way that the peripheral speed at the beginning of the winding process is greater than the unwinding speed over the belt and decreases during the winding process until these speeds are equal.

2. Device according to claim 1, in which the guide roller is disposed in the winding direction of movement of the carriers at an angle to the crosswise direction of the conveyor belt and is slightly downward-sloping in the longitudinal direction of the conveyor belt.

3. Device according to claim 1 in which in each winding unit, disposed opposite and in line with the core and carrier, is a rotary dough strip carrier which is driven at the same speed in the same direction and has an oblong, controlled, to and fro moving take-up needle, which is disposed below half he carrier apex angle relative to the carrier centre line, and in the extended position is parallel to the outer surface of the carrier.

4. Device according to claim 1, in which the second part of the second belt is downward-sloping along half the apex angle of the conical carrier.

5. Device according to claim 1, in which a continuous layer of dough is fed in on the intermittently driven first belt and above this first belt a rotary knife movable crosswise thereto is disposed for cutting the dough sheet into strips.

6. Device according to claim 1, in which two rotary knives set up near the longitudinal edged of the first belt, working in the lengthwise direction of the belt.

7. Device according to claim 1, in which the second belt is driven continuously.

8. Device according to claim 1, in which a number of winding units are disposed in a continuously circulating conveyor system, so that high production speeds are possible.

9. Device according to claim 1, in which during the conveyance the carriers are easily removable and positionable by mechanical means by being magnetically clamped on the core.