FORMING DEVICE FOR SNACK FOOD

PURPOSE:To continuously form a snack food having improved solid feeling, by forming a beltlike dough into alternate ridge folds and valley folds by meshing of forming molds of the first and second rolls. CONSTITUTION:A pair of forming molds (3a) and (3b) consisting of a pair of female protrusions (4a) and (4b) spaced in the width direction of rolls 1 and 2 and male protrusions (5a) and (5b), positioned in the center of the width direction of the rolls 1 and 2 and partially extending into a space between the protrusions (4a) and (4b) are formed. A beltlike dough 14 is then brought to the roll 1 by guide elements 15 and 16, fed between the rolls 1 and 2 and nipped between the protrusion (5a) of the roll 1 and the protrusions (4b) of the roll 2 to form a ridge fold. The dough 14 is then nipped between the protrusions (4a) and the protrusions (5a) and (4b) to turn the ridge fold back to valley folds. The resultant dough 14 is then nipped between the protrusions (4a) and (5a), turned into a valley fold and then brought into contact with press members 13 of a rotating contact bonding and cutting roll 12, contact bonded and cut.