| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for rounding food dough into a ball shape, without twisting the dough. <P>SOLUTION: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for rounding food dough. The apparatus is provided with an outer cylinder 5, having a polygonal inner wall surface furnished with a plurality of inclined inner faces to decrease the diameter toward the lower side, and a rotor 7 having a truncated conical form increasing its diameter toward the lower side and which is rotatable in normal and reverse directions. The rotor 7 is subjected to imparting of normal and reverse rotations to the food dough S supplied, inside a circular transfer path 13 between the inner circumference of the outer cylinder 5 and the outer circumference 11 of the rotor 7; and the food dough S is transferred in the transfer path 13, while the normal and reverse rotations are repeated, to perform making the dough into a ball shape. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT |
