An apparatus for bending a bar-like dough piece into substantially an
M-shaped piece. A conveying section (2) continuously conveys bar-like
dough pieces (1) in a traveling direction that is orthogonal to the length
of the bar-like dough piece (1). Each incoming bar-like dough piece (1),
whose length is measured by photosensors (38), is centered by a centering
device in a centering section (3) based on the measured length of it A
forming section (4) bends the centered bar-like dough piece (1) with a
centrally located bending member and two bending members symmetrically
located with respect to the center of the length of the bar-like dough
piece. Because the symmetrically located bending members are oriented
inversely with respect to the centrally located bending member, the
bar-like dough piece (1) is formed into an M-shaped piece. The bending
members can be varied depending on the length of the bar-like dough piece,
and the distances of the movement, in the traveling direction, of the
bending members are adjustable.
