Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Packaging or treatment of packaged product
Patent
1994-01-26
1995-01-31
Yeung, George
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Packaging or treatment of packaged product
426496, 426523, A21D 800
Patent
active
053857453
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for mixing and forming dough into plural discrete product units on a carrier and storing the ready to bake product, and a vending method and apparatus for separating the product from the carrier, baking the product and delivering the product, such as cookies or the like, to a customer. The mixed dough is formed into units, typically disk-like, and placed in a pattern on one or more first carrier sheets, then second carriers are applied with the product laminated between the sheets. The sheets and product can be fan-folded into containers, such as conventional boxes, which can be stored until needed. The containers are placed in a vending machine which leads the sheet assemblies to a station where the carrier sheets are removed and the product is dropped onto a surface that is moved through a convection oven for baking, then through a cooling station. The selected number of product units is dropped into a serving tray and presented to the customer. Typically, each baking cycle is initiated by the deposit of a selected amount of money into vending machine and the purchaser is notified that the freshly baked product is ready by a buzzer or the like.
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Dromgoole James A.
Hall Kenneth H.
Noga Robert
Duncan John R.
Gilliam Frank D.
Yeung George
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