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Abstract

A dough shield is disclosed for an apparatus for forming and rolling dough into ring-shaped pieces such as bagels. The apparatus has a flat conveyor belt wrapped into a forming tube having a V-shaped notch. The dough shield extends upward at a leading end thereof from said notch and downward at a trailing end inside the forming tube. The dough shield has a dough guiding surface which prevents excess dough from leaving the confines of the wrapped belt and forming tube and clogging up and fouling the equipment. In another embodiment, the shield is arranged between the tube and the belt along its length. The dough shield is ogive-shaped in plan view and concave downward in a vertical plane. The shield is provided with an adjustment bracket for adjusting the vertical height of the shield with respect to the forming tube and mandrel.

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