Dough cutting apparatus

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1999-08-09

2001-08-21

Nguyen, Nam (Department: 1722)

Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus

Preform severing means

C030S124000, C030S303000, C249SDIG001

Reexamination Certificate

active

06276918

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention pertains to dough cutting apparatus. More specifically, the present invention pertains to improved dough cutting apparatus for manually cutting, in one step operation, multiple products of yeast dough.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In the typical procedure for baking of dough products the dough ingredients are mixed, kneaded, dusted with flour and then rolled out on a work table to a thickness of between ½″ and ¾″. Each dough product is then individually cut and placed on a greased sheet pan. The remaining dough scraps are gathered and reworked, using more flour, lessening the desired moisture content and altering the texture and quality of the baked product. Several pans of products may be baked, sometimes requiring three or more dough scrap reworkings to utilize all the dough. Each reworking of the dough increases the product making and baking time. As can be easily understood, this process is very cumbersome, labor intensive and time consuming and frequently does not provide a uniform quality product.
Many breakfast type restaurants, motels, hotels, cafeterias, schools, colleges, military installations, prisons, etc. may bake and serve thousands of individual baked products a day. Most are still cutting dough the old fashioned way with hand held individual unit cutters. Certainly improvements are needed.
SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
The present invention provides manual dough cutting apparatus for cutting a layer of dough into multiple uniformly sized separate dough products in a one step operation for immediate baking and without leftover cuttings or scraps. The apparatus comprises multiple uniform size cavities formed by a plurality of longitudinally disposed spaced apart blades and transversely disposed spaced apart blades. The lower edges of all the blades taper upwardly from a fine edge to a width sufficient to displace and separate a layer of dough into separate dough products. Lower edges of the longitudinally disposed blades are uniformly curved from one end to the other as the rockers on a rocking chair. The lower edges of the transversely disposed blades are straight and even with adjacent lower edges of the longitudinally disposed blades. A handle may be attached to the upper part of the apparatus for engagement by the user, when the apparatus is placed on a layer of dough, for rocking the apparatus on the curved lower edges of the longitudinally disposed blades to separate the layer of dough into separate uniformly sized products corresponding with the multiple cavities formed by the blades.
With the dough cutter of the present apparatus, the dough ingredients are mixed, kneaded, dusted with flour and rolled out. The dough goes immediately into a baking pan. This eliminates rolling out on a work table. Then the dough is cut in one step by rocking the improved dough cutter of the present invention directly on the dough layer in the baking pan. This eliminates labor intensive individual cutting. There are no dough scraps to be reworked, eliminating waste and preserving quality of the product. The baking pan is then placed in the oven. At the end of the baking time the product is separated into individual uniformly sized product of uniform quality. Other objects and advantages of the invention will be seen in the description which follows in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.


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