Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus – Dough divider type including trap chamber
Patent
1997-09-17
1999-07-06
Mackey, James P.
Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus
Dough divider type including trap chamber
425241, 425294, 426503, A21C 500, A21C 310
Patent
active
059194952
ABSTRACT:
A dough transfer hopper and method for partitioning dough pieces having a precise volume from a dough mass is disclosed. The dough transfer hopper includes a hopper assembly having a pair of inwardly angled end walls and a pair of arcuate side walls defining an upper and lower opening. A cutting assembly is operatively disposed within the lower opening and includes a pair of cutters which operate in a counter-rotating manner to partition a dough piece having a precise volume from a dough mass and deposit the dough piece on a horizontal conveyor assembly. The horizontal conveyor transports the dough piece to an inclined conveyor assembly. The inclined conveyor assembly includes a pair of counter-rotating conveyor belts for transporting the dough piece from the horizontal conveyor to a transfer conveyor assembly for further processing.
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Fletcher Jack
Hayden Michael
Mackey James P.
Shaffer Manufacturing Corp.
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