Apparatus for processing of foodstuffs

摘要

Apparatus for stamping a pattern into bread doughs in which the dough is continuously conveyed in cups and is stamped by star shaped tips of pattern forming tools mounted to a stamping head. The stamping head travels in an elliptical path by virtue of a pinion ring assembly with supports for the stamping head mounted in positions offset from the center of a turret pinion that rotates as it orbits a turret ring. An eccentric pinion assembly controls the speed of the stamping head by controlling the speed of the turret pinion's orbit around the turret rings, so that the stamping head's speed is decreased to match the speed of the cups while dough stamping occurs, and its speed is increased during repositioning of the stamping head for the next set of dough-filled cups.