METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHAPING SNACK

摘要

The belt-like material (4) for snack-foods, mfd. by rolling and cooking the dough of corn-powder and water, is led to a feeding- roller (8) through a chute (7), and is inserted in position so that a roller (5) formed with convex-projections (17) and a roller (6) formed with concave-projections (18) interlock with each other by those projections rotating opposite each other. The material is cut by a knife (19) of (17) brought into contact with a bent of (18) and it is bent curvedly by interlocking those projections. The material is transferred by rotating both (5) and (6) and is pressed by interlocking of pressing-formers (13, 14) fixed round both pressing rollers (15, 16) rotated right-angularly against (5)(6) through bevel-gears (27, 24) and (23, 25) from a rotary shaft (10) of (5).