Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With material pressing means
Patent
1999-09-03
2000-02-22
Simone, Timothy
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With material pressing means
99353, 99432, 994501, 100319, 100320, 100326, 425112, 425394, A21C 900, A21C 1100, A47J 3700
Patent
active
060267380
ABSTRACT:
A self-contained pizza crust factory for creating a docked, formed pizza crust from a raw dough ball and positioning the crust on a crust container. The pizza crust factory includes an infeed conveyor belt that transports the ball of raw dough from an infeed end of the apparatus to a press assembly. The press assembly includes an upper platen and a lower platen positioned on opposite sides of the infeed conveyor belt. The upper platen of the press assembly is heated and in close contact with a crust die plate that is removably secured within a die holder assembly. The die holder assembly includes a pair of side supports that are pivotally movable between a locking position and a release position, such that the crust die plate can be easily removed and replaced from within the die holder assembly. A docking station is positioned downstream from the press assembly and receives the formed crust from the press assembly. The docking station includes a rotatable docker pin roll that perforates the crust as the crust moves through the docking station. A panner conveyor belt that supports a crust container is positioned downstream from the docking station. The speed of the panner conveyor belt and an outfeed conveyor of the docking station are synchronized such that the formed crust is correctly positioned on the crust container. The apparatus of the present invention continuously operates as long as dough balls are placed upon the infeed conveyor belt.
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Charles James P.
Dolski Dennis A.
Lasee Joseph A.
DOC Machines Works, Inc.
Simone Timothy
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