REX AUTOMAT

Continuously working dough dividing and rounding machine Weight range: 0.9 - 7.8 oz. Quality that stands The heart of your bakery

REX AUTOMAT - the concept of continuously working dough dividing and rounding machines

REX AUTOMAT for tight soft and for well proofed doughs

The principle:
The principle of the Rex Automat, a continuously working dough dividing and rounding machine, is similar to that of a plate rounder. Continuously means: dividing - rounding - dough discharge is effected step-by-step at the same time.

Hopper:
Feeding of dough into the hopper without preforming, pre-portioning by means of patented dough feeding system consisting of hopper, dough feeding stars, dough level sensor and duster.

Dough divider:
Dividing according to the Rex-High-Soft-(HS)-System. Portioning by synchronized movement of the spring suspended dividing slide and the cam controlled dividing pistons in the drum.
Portioning of dough at the portioning unit during drum rotation.
Excess dough in the dividing hopper is moving upwards during the forward movement of the dough pusher.

Rounding:
Rounding of the dough pieces is effected in the piston chambers after the drum has rotated. The rounding plate is similar to that of a plate rounder.

Rounding height:
During the rounding process the rounding height is automatically adjusted. Selection of a new dough weight results automatically a new adjustment of rounding height.
Additionally a fine adjustment of the rounding height is possible to adapt to different consistencies of dough (only required for very different weights and dough consistencies).
After rounding the dough pieces are discharged at the discharge position.
The special dividing and rounding and gentle handling of dough provide a good quality of final product.
Possibility to work also with very soft doughs (i.e. dough for rolls, for Berliner, fruity doughs, Grahamdough, short pastry, rye doughs - 40 percentage of rye possible).

Maintenance and cleaning

Maintenance:
The Rex Automat is to a large extent free of maintenance. The maintenance is limited to lubrication of the chains each half year, to greasing of 2 lubricating nipples each month and to check the oil level.

Cleaning:
The use of flour for dusting makes it possible to keep the machine perfectly clean with only 10 minutes cleaning time daily.

On lifting up the dough hopper all parts in the dividing area are accessible for cleaning. All parts touching the dough such as hopper, dough feeding stars, dividing slide and dividing pistons are either teflonized or our of high-quality, abrasion resisting synthetic material. The cam control slides in the dividing drum are sealed in an oil bath; intermediate space between dividing pistons and inner side of drum must be cleaned with a brush every day.

A special example!
One of the first Rex Automats delivered to England has been used since 1977 daily in three working shifts (20 hours a day) and produces an hourly capacity of 9000 pieces (daily production 180'000 pieces).
As an example of trouble free operation, only the exchange of the alu-rounding plates had been necessary; otherwise this Rex Automat had been running without any essential repair.