METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PROVIDE MARKING ON BREAD

摘要

Apparatus (10) is for use in making bread to provide marking on the resultin g bread. The apparatus (10) comprises a proving box (12), an oven (16) and a conveyor (14) to convey dough from the proving box (12) to the oven (16). Nozzles (18) on a gantry (17) over the conveyor belt (14) spray water on to a surface of the dough for the bread on the conveyor belt (14). A vibration hopper (20) on a second gantry (19) downstream of the first deposits flour through a stencil (28) onto the dough on the conveyor belt (14) so that flou r is retained by the moisture on the dough in a pattern determined by the stencil (28).