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EXTRUDING & depositing
range of products from traditional
plain wirecut to more sophisticated
biscuits.
Each head consists of a pair of
grooved rolls which evenly feed the
dough to a set of dosing pumps
positioned underneath.
Each pump is connected to one
outlet, thus ensuring consistency in
the weight of the dough piece across
the width.
The dough is subjected to
minimum stress while it is being
extruded.
The unit is very simple to regulate
as a user-friendly touch-screen
interface panel ensures flexible control
the correct equipment is essential for extruding and
of all possible adjustments on the
depositing of biscuits.
machine.
The design allows for easy
accessibility and cleaning activities as it can
be dismantled by the operator for inspection
or cleaning purposes without the need of any
tools at all, while the high level of safety and
protection remains the same.
Imaforni’s depositor, due to its placing
directly over the steel band at the entrance of
the oven, is designed to handle very soft
dough, rich in fat.
The head of the machine consists of a
pair of grooved rolls which evenly feed the
dough to a set of dosing pumps positioned
underneath.
The ‘one pump-one nozzle’ concept
ensures the uniformity of weight across the
width. The cycle of the head which first
lowers and follows the band movement,
while depositing the dough, and then it lifts
to cut the tail, features a slight reverse of the
food industry are on hand to help clients innovate
pumpset to increase the ‘tail cut’ effect.
and fine-tune their processes.
Talking design, the depositor’s mechanical
The appropriate machines for each process step
components are housed outside the frame, which
during production are available, including a wide
ensures hygiene and easy cleaning of the
range of depositing, extruding and wire-cutting
machinery, and facilitates access for inspection and
machines.
servicing.
The 3Extruder from Imaforni, based in Verona,
From The Netherlands comes Rademaker and the
Italy, is three extruder units in one piece of
company’s depositing systems comply with all
equipment, allowing the baker to produce a wide
government regulation so therefore meet the highest
hygiene standards in the industry.
The neatly-designed depositing systems are easy
to control and the operation levels have been
worked out well.
The high-erformance depositors are liquid, semi
liquid or viscous fillings are the best in the market.
All of them in a full wash down execution and
equipped with PLC c