System for forming, storing, baking and vending fresh baked food

Details System for forming, storing, baking and vending fresh baked food System for forming, storing, baking and vending fresh baked food

1992-02-10

1994-05-10

Simone, Timothy F.

Foods and beverages: apparatus

Cooking

Automatic control

99353, 99355, 99357, 99387, 99443C, 994501, A21B 148, A21B 307

Patent

active

053098242

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 the vending machine and the purchaser is notified that the freshly baked product is ready by a buzzer or the like.

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