Tubular stuffing apparatus

• US 5,191,832 A
• Filed: 09/05/1991
• Issued: 03/09/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Shih C. Tsay
• Original Assignee: Shih C. Tsay
• Inventors: Tsay, Shih C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nozick, Bernard
• Application Number:
  US07/755,051
• Time in Patent Office: 551 Days
• Field of Search: 99/450.7, 99/450.6, 425/334
• US Class Current: 99/450.6
• CPC Class Codes: A21C 9/061 Making continuous filled tubular products, e.g. with subsequent cutting

Abstract

A tubular stuffing apparatus for making stuffed dough tubes to be cut into separate dough buns, comprising a conveying belt for a band dough sheet to lie on and be moved forward, a roller to pick and roll up the band dough sheet, and a stuff transporting tube to transport stuff which is to be pushed out of an end opening of the tube to be wrapped in a dough tube formed from the band dough sheet at first rolled up by the roller and then wound around the tube.

Claims

1. A tubular stuffing apparatus comprising;

a roller shaped conic, provided with a plurality of longitudinal straight embossed lines, positioned to be only a little above the surface of a conveying belt and to have its smaller end inclinedly pointing against the moving direction of the conveying belt which is moved by a power source, and picking and rolling up a corner of the beginning of a band dough sheet laid and moved forward on the conveying belt;

a stuff transporting tube having stuff contained in its hollow interior and able to be transported forward to go out of an end opening of the tube, and positioned ot have its end opening to be located at the point where the corner of the begining of the dough sheet is picked up by the roller; and

a conveying belt for a band dough sheet to lie on and be moved forward by a power source.

2. A tubular stuffing apparatus comprising;

a long roller and a short roller both having a plurality of longitudinal straight embossed lines and rotating in the same direction, the long roller positioned to be only a little above the surface of of conveying belt and inclined to the belt so that the left corner of the begining of a band dough sheet can be picked and rolled up by the long roller when the band dough sheet laid on the belt is moved forward, and then laid on and wound around a stuff transporting tube rotating in the opposite direction to the long roller, the short roller positioned a little above the stuff transporting tube rotating to assist the stuff transporting tube to further wind the band dough sheet into a dough tube;

a stuff transporting tube having its hollow interior for containing stuff to be transported out of its end opening to be wrapped in a dough tube formed by itself, a smaller-diameter end portion provided with two bearings and fitted around with a tubular muzzle able to freely rotate by means of the bearings so as to enable the dough sheet to be wound continuously around on the tube assisted by rotation of the short roller to be formed into a dough tube filled in with the stuff coming out of the stuff transporting tube; and

a conveying belt for a band dough sheet to lie on and be moved forward by a power source.