Rheon Encrusting Cornucopia KN551

The Rheon Cornucopia KN551 is an encrusting machine that encloses a filling inside an outer dough or casing and forms the piece, at 40 to 100 pieces per minute. It is the model Nexus supplies in its encrusting machine range for bakeries, patisseries and formed-food manufacturers across Australia.

What it does

Two hoppers feed the machine, one with the outer dough or casing and one with the filling. The dough is extruded as a continuous tube with the filling pumped into its centre, and shutter blades close around the rope to pinch off and shape each piece with the filling sealed inside. Piece weight, filling ratio, dough texture and product length are adjusted through the control panel and optional attachments, and repeat piece after piece.

Specifications

• Speed: 40 to 100 pieces per minute, depending on piece size and product.
• Fillings: liquids and double liquids, plus solid feeders for centres such as eggs and sausages.
• Adjustment: product weight, filling ratio, dough texture and length, via optional attachments.
• Doughs: soft, sticky and dense doughs, sweet or savoury.
• Shapes: round, oval and bar, with attachments extending the range.

Products made on the KN551

Sweet: mochi, filled cookies, cream and jam buns, date and energy balls. Savoury: dumplings, meat and vegetable buns, arancini, stuffed meatballs, cheese-filled snacks. The same machine changes from sweet to savoury with a wash-down and a recipe change, so one KN551 supports a range of product lines and lets a producer test new products without new tooling.

Where it fits in the line

The KN551 sits between portioning and panning in a formed-food line. A dough divider can feed it, an automatic tray panning machine lays the encrusted pieces onto oven trays behind it, and after baking the product is packed on a flow wrapper. Read what an encrusting machine is and how it works for an introduction, and see the food processing range for the related bakery equipment.

Send us your product, piece weight and filling ratio and we will confirm the machine and attachments. Contact Nexus Australia for a quote.