Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus – Diverse distinct type shaping means
Patent
1985-04-26
1986-05-27
Hoag, Willard E.
Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus
Diverse distinct type shaping means
99353, 994504, 994506, 425374, 425385, 425397, A21C 1102, A21C 1502
Patent
active
045913285
ABSTRACT:
A machine is disclosed for forming food items, such as cookies, into a fortune cookie shape with a paper fortune therein. The machine includes a device for feeding a succession of disc shaped blank food items to a moving track. A roller both advances the blank and forms grooves in the blank at desired creasing lines thereof. A descending arm bearing a fortune slip then folds the blank into a generally half-moon shape by pressing it downward through a slit opening and releasing the fortune slip therein. A pair of worm gears, cylinders with mirror image helical grooves therein, are mounted adjacent to one another and turn in opposite directions. At one end of each cylinder finger-like elements project outward and revolve into simultaneous contact with the points of the half-moon folded blank and serve to both fold them about a thin transverse bar and to deliver opposite sides of the now fortune cookie shaped item into the grooves of the cylinders. These advance the item off of the bar and along the cylinders. A blower aids in cooling and hardening the items as they travel so that they leave the cylinder via a shoot in a hardened finished state.
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Hoag Willard E.
Kinney Richard G.
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