摘要 |
An apparatus for producing dough capsules containing a filler comprises a feed roller, a pocket-forming roller with axially and circumferentially equispaced cavities in its cylindrical surface and with a circumferential thin ridge thereon between each pair of axially spaced cavities, a cutting roller with circumferentially equispaced flutes extending lengthwise thereof and with a lengthwise thin ridge between each pair of flutes. The pocket-forming roller is parallel to, and in contact with, an upper quadrant of the feed roller, while the cutting roller is parallel to, and in contact with, the adjacent lower quadrant of the feed roller. Synchronous drive means rotates the feed roller in one direction and the other two rollers in the opposite direction. A dough sheet with longitudinal beads of filler aligned with the axially spaced cavities of the pocket-forming roller and a cover dough sheet enter the bite between the feed and pocket-forming rollers. There the dough capsules containing filler are formed as linked capsule strips which are cut into individual capsules on passing through the bite of the feed and cutting rollers.
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