GB507859A - An improved method of manufacturing biscuits and the like dough food products - Google Patents

Abstract

507,859. Moulding laminated dough sheets. VICARS, Ltd., T. & T., CRAINGER, G. F. W., and CROSLAND, E. M. Jan. 12, 1938, Nos. 990 and 13731. [Class 87 (ii)] In moulding laminated sheets of dough or like plastic material, a web of dough 5 is continuously formed and is severed into shoets 7, each sheet 7 is laid upon another severed sheet or upon a continuous dough sheet or a continuous dough sheet is laid upon the severed sheets and the multi-layer sheet is passed through gauging rolls 8. The severed sheets 7 may be stacked in overlapping relation on conveyer 4, as shown, Fig. 1. The dough sheeter 1 with its rolls 2 is reciprocated by links 3 to lay the sheets as they are cut by a knife 6. The severed sheets may be fed in a direction at right angles to that wherein other sheets or a continuous web are fed. In one form, Fig. 5, sheets 15 are fed from a sheeter 10 reciprocated transversely of a conveyer 14 carrying a continuous web or sheets 16 of dough. The conveyer may be moved continuously or step-by-step and the sheets 15 laid in overlapping relation or in multi-layer form. The sheets are severed by a slotted cutter plate 12 working between stops 13 and carried by bolts fixed to the sheeter and engaging slots in the plate 12. The arrangement is such that the cutter plate and dough wob move with the sheeter until the plate engages a stop 13 when the plate is displaced relatively to the sheeter to cut the dough. The severed sheets may be laid alternately with continuous sheets in three or four layers, reciprocating sheeters being disposed at right angles alternately with fixed sheeters. According to Provisional Specification 990/38 the severed sheets may be fed from sheeters and conveyers at right angles to the main conveyer and may be lifted thereon by forks. Sheets severed from a web may be passed to a conveyer comprising rollers between which are disposed fingers of a comb so as to feed the sheets to a further conveyer'at right angles. According to Provisional Specification 13731/38 a sandwich web of fat between dough webs is cut into slivers or ribbons which are fed to and fro across a moving conveyer and the zig-zag mass of superposed ribbons is passed through sheeting rolls.