Method and apparatus to form a toroid filled bagel dough product

摘要

A method and apparatus of making a toroid filled bagel dough product and the product formed thereby. The product can be produce by a method comprising adding the ingredients into a dough mixer; transferring the dough to a hopper above a sheeting extruder for pre-shaping the dough into a generally uniform and precise width; advancing the dough into cutting wheels suspended above the dough to cut the dough to continuous ribbons of desire width; conveying each continuous ribbons to a depositor to deposit a strand of filling material onto the ribbon; conveying the continuous ribbon with the filling material into a second conveyor having narrow belts; each narrow belt is drawn into a forming tube for forming continuous cylinders; conveying each continuous cylinder to a second cutting device to cut each continuous cylinder into logs of a desire length and crimp the end of each log to produce a seal of the dough around the filling material; transferring each log to a corrugated conveyor belt having intermeshing side edges; passing the corrugated conveyor belt into a forming tube in which the side edges of the corrugated conveyor belt curl up and come in locking contact between them so that each log is formed into a toroid shape.