PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for rounding food dough into a ball shape, without twisting the dough.SOLUTION: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for rounding food dough. The apparatus is provided with an outer cylinder 5, having a polygonal inner wall surface furnished with a plurality of inclined inner faces to decrease the diameter toward the lower side, and a rotor 7 having a truncated conical form increasing its diameter toward the lower side and which is rotatable in normal and reverse directions. The rotor 7 is subjected to imparting of normal and reverse rotations to the food dough S supplied, inside a circular transfer path 13 between the inner circumference of the outer cylinder 5 and the outer circumference 11 of the rotor 7 and the food dough S is transferred in the transfer path 13, while the normal and reverse rotations are repeated, to perform making the dough into a ball shape.COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT【課題】食品生地にねじれを与えることなく丸め成形する方法及び装置を提供する。【解決手段】食品生地の丸め成形方法及び装置であって、下部側が小径となるように、傾斜した複数の内面を備えて内周面を多角形に形成した外筒5内に、下部側が大径となる截頭錐体の回転体7を正逆回転自在に備え、前記回転体7を正転,逆転して、前記外筒5の内周面と前記回転体7の外周面11との間の環状の転送路13内に供給された食品生地Sに正転,逆転を付与し、前記食品生地Sの正転,逆転を繰り返しつつ前記転送路13内を移動して食品生地の丸め成形を行う方法及び装置である。【選択図】図2
