Apparatus and method for filling bakery dough into cavity pans

Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – With conveying means to supply successive receivers – Continuous flow type

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141 1, 141 12, 141 73, 141163, 141280, B65B 3708, B29C 3102, B28B 1300, A21C 908

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051542110

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for filling bakery dough, especially thick, sticky bakery dough, into cavity pans is disclosed. The bakery dough is fed from a source into a housing into which cavity pans are advanced by a conveyor. The cavity pans proceed beneath counter-rotating dough-feeding rollers and advance to a rotating compaction roller which rests under downward spring bias on the upper surface of the cavity pan and which rotates to force the dough into the cavities. The dough in the thus-filled cavities is levelled off and excess removed by a doctor blade or roll to which the pan is then advanced, the doctor blade or roll also being under downward spring-bias to maintain it in contact with the upper surface of the cavity pan being filled. A removable barrier plate at the exit end of the housing cooperates in close-fitting relationship with the doctor blade or roll to prevent dough from seeping out the forward end of the apparatus, and the housing and side retainer rails act to prevent the dough from oozing out sideways. Upon emergence from the housing at a trimming point, at which point the level of the dough in the cavities has been finalized and excess removed by the doctor blade or roll, the filled cavity pans are in condition for advancement to an oven for baking of the dough in the cavities. The apparatus and method are particularly suitable for employment with thick, sticky dough such as frequently employed in the production of cookies, bon-bons, "butterballs", and the like.

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