Claims
- 1. A process for producing a continuous sheet of dough, said process comprising the steps of:
- preparing a mass of dough;
- sectioning said dough mass into portions of dough, said dough portions being generally of equal volumes;
- placing said dough portions serially on a conveyor;
- regulating said sectioning and said placing such that a leading end of each said dough portion overlaps a prior dough portion, said regulating including a detection device being positioned to detect a trailing end of each said dough portion on said conveyor, said detection device preventing the sectioning of a subsequent dough portion until said trailing end has been detected to thereby overlap each said dough portion on said conveyor onto a previous dough portion; and
- forming said overlapping dough portions into a dough sheet of uniform height.
- 2. The process of claim 1 wherein said sectioning comprises a pair of cooperating oppositely rotating cutters, each said cutter having a plurality of blades, co-acting blades on each of said cutters sectioning said dough portions from said dough mass.
- 3. The process of claim 2 further comprising:
- spraying a deposit of oil onto said cutters to assist said placing of said dough portions onto said conveyor.
- 4. A process for producing a continuous sheet of dough, said process comprising the steps of:
- preparing a mass of dough,
- sectioning said dough mass into portions of dough, said dough portions being generally of equal volumes;
- placing said dough portions serially on a conveyor;
- regulating said sectioning and said placing such that a leading end of each said dough portion overlaps a prior dough portion;
- forming said overlapping dough portions into a dough sheet of substantially uniform height; and
- said regulating including a detection device being positioned to detect an accumulation of said overlapped dough portions entering said forming step, said detection device preventing said sectioning of subsequent dough portions until said accumulation of dough has passed through said forming step.
Parent Case Info
This is a division of application Ser. No. 08/080,070, filed Jun. 18, 1993 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,427,515.
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