Claims
- 1. A method for supplying food dough comprising of the steps offorming a block of food dough into a sheet that has a given width and thickness, supplying the sheet of the food dough to first and second weighing conveyors serially located along a feeding direction for measuring the weight of a part of the sheet, measuring the weight of a part of the sheet with the first and second weighing conveyors, and cutting the part of the sheet when the sum of the measurements of the first and second weighing conveyors or the measurement of the second weighing conveyor corresponds to a preset value, with a cutting apparatus being located upstream of the first and second weighing conveyors.
- 2. A method for supplying food dough comprising of the steps offorming a block of food dough into a sheet that has a given width and thickness, supplying the sheet of the food dough to a plurality of first weighing conveyors arranged in parallel, and cutting a part of the sheet when the sum of the measurements of the first weighing conveyors corresponds to a preset value or when the sheet is supplied to second weighing conveyors arranged in parallel and the sum of the measurements of the first and second weighing conveyors corresponds to the preset value or the sum of the measurements of the second weighing conveyors corresponds to the preset value.
Priority Claims (1)
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2000-042912 |
Feb 2000 |
JP |
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Parent Case Info
This is a division of application Ser. No. 10/336,807 filed Jan. 6, 2003, now U.S. Pat No. 6,685,457 which is a division of application Ser. No. 09/959,216 filed Oct. 22, 2001, now U.S., Pat. No. 6,524,090, which is a 371 of PCT/JP00/07987 filed Nov. 13, 2000, all of which are incorporated herein by reference.
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