摘要 |
A method and apparatus for stretching dough is provided, by which bread dough or confectionery dough (2) is continuously and smoothly stretched by linearly reciprocating a roller (10) over the surface of the part (8) of the dough that is continuously conveyed by a downstream conveyor (6) of a pair of conveyors (4,6), one (6) a downstream conveyor and other (4) an upstream conveyor, while the roller rolls on the dough, without destroying the gluten tissue of the dough, and while determining the conveying speed of the upstream conveyor in response to the change of the thickness of the dough to be stretched, thereby obtaining, in one operation, a desired and uniform dough thickness from the continuously supplied dough material. |