Slide Gate Style Dough Chunkers

Standard features

Slide Gate Style built Dough Chunkers (SGDC) are custom built to meet your dough portioning needs. It is the best solution for free flowing and somewhat sticky dough.

The dough hopper is typically a four-sided inverted pyramid type S/S hopper with the S/S slide gate type dough chunking guillotine on the bottom.
The slide gate guillotine is a sharpened S/S blade that is pneumatically actuated.
The slide gate utilizes either a dough position sensor under the gate or a timed open-close relay on the gate to yield the proper sized dough portion to be chunked.
The portioned dough can fall directly onto a dough handling belt or directly into a dough hopper at the beginning of the dough make-up line.
The dough can be received directly from the dough mixer or can be positioned above a hopper on the make-up line to be fed from a bowl or trough hoist system.
This type of dough chunking system is rugged, simple and easy to operate and maintain.
It offers a lower cost solution for dough portioning when dough portion size control is not critical in the process.
All stainless steel design for easy cleaning and easy maintenance.

Slide gate chunkers built on a “gantry” type stand are used above a divider of dough feeder/extruder. The hopper-chunker can be built so it slides out from over the machine underneath for ease of cleaning.