US 12,137,694 B2
Dough portioning device
Udo Bernhardt, Iphofen (DE)
Assigned to Fritsch Bakery Technologies GmbH & Co. KG, Markt Einerscheim (DE)
Filed by FRITSCH BAKERY TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG, Markt Einersheim (DE)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/709,466.
Claims priority of application No. 102021108141.6 (DE), filed on Mar. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0312778 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. A21C 5/00 (2006.01); A21C 9/08 (2006.01); B65G 21/20 (2006.01)
CPC A21C 9/085 (2013.01) [A21C 5/00 (2013.01); B65G 21/20 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A dough portioning device comprising:
a metering device with a container which is configured to receive a supply of dough, and a separator which is configured to separate a defined quantity of dough from the supply of dough and to discharge the quantity of dough at a discharge end of the metering device in a discharge direction; and
a conveyor device which is configured to transport dough in a conveying direction, wherein the conveyor device comprises a conveyor belt arranged below the discharge end of the metering device, wherein the discharge end extends in the conveying direction over a discharge length from a section of the discharge end on an upstream side to a section of the discharge end on a downstream side, wherein the conveyor device further comprises a belt guide which is configured to bend lateral sections of the conveyor belt relative to a middle section of the conveyor belt in a direction towards the metering device, wherein the middle section of the conveyor belt has a declivity relative to the discharge end of the metering device, at least in a portion of the middle section in a region of the metering device, and wherein, when the lateral sections of the conveyor belt are bent by the belt guide, lateral edges of the lateral sections of the conveyor belt each have an edge distance from the discharge end of the metering device that is measured in the discharge direction and is substantially constant along the portion of the middle section in the conveying direction so that the lateral edges of the lateral sections of the conveyor belt are oriented parallel to the discharge end along the portion of the middle section.