A21C 9/085
Separating, spacing, orienting or aligning discrete dough pieces
Official title: {Separating, spacing, orienting or aligning discrete dough pieces, e.g. after passing a cutting device}
A21C9/085 (Separating, spacing, orienting or aligning discrete dough pieces) appears on 74 US grants and 78 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A21C- Granted patents
- 74
- Published applications
- 78
- Assignees
- 46
- Inventors
- 157
- Latest grant
- 5 Aug 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Continuous conveyor belt5 Aug 2025US 12,378,080 B2Lawrence Equipment, Inc.
- Dough portioning device12 Nov 2024US 12,137,694 B2Fritsch Bakery Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
- Device and method for cutting a dough piece17 Sep 2024US 12,089,601 B2Radie B.V.
- Food production apparatus, rotation method and food production method20 Aug 2024US 12,063,936 B2Nichirei Foods Inc.
- Comestible flattener translation21 May 2024US 11,985,981 B2Lawrence Equipment, Inc.
- Noodle skin piece producing apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0293914 A1Yutaka Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- Feeding system for supplying dough portions, in particular dough for bakery food products17 Sep 2026US 2026/0271944 A1Sancassiano S.p.A.
- Continuous conveyor belt4 Jun 2026US 2026/0152350 A1Lawrence Equipment, Inc.
- Dough transfer device2 Apr 2026US 2026/0090549 A1KöNig Maschinen Gesellschaft M.B.H.
- System for supplying a filling to foodstuff products11 Sep 2025US 2025/0280865 A1Soremartec S.A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for aligning and bending individual round elongated dough pieces29US 5,354,571 ARheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd. · 1994
- System and method for monolayer alignment snack chip transfer27US 6,638,553 B2Recot, Inc. · 2003
- Blunt edge dough cutter21US 6,902,754 B1The Pillsbury Company · 2005
- Device for transporting and positioning dough triangles in crescent shaped dough rolls forming machines18US 4,546,870 A1985
- Automatic grouping system for food products17US 7,784,599 B2Grupo Bimbo S.A. B. DE C.V. · 2010