Patty-forming apparatus
AssigneeFormax, Inc.
InventorGlenn Sandberg
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Abstract
A patty-forming apparatus includes a mold plate having patty-forming cavities and a breather plate arranged over the mold plate. A fill slot is arranged below or above the mold cavities to fill food product into the mold cavity when the mold plate is in a fill position. The breather plate, arranged on a side of the mold plate opposite the fill slot, includes a fill recess open toward the mold plate and arranged to be in registry with the cavities when the mold plate is in the fill position to increase a transverse food product flow area along the longitudinal direction to assist filling of the cavity with food product.
Claims15
An improved patty-forming apparatus, comprising:
- a mold plate having a mold cavity through a thickness thereof;
- a mold plate support structure carrying said mold plate and guiding said mold plate for reciprocating motion, said structure including a wall facing said mold plate, said mold plate reciprocating along said wall;
- a food product delivery channel carried by said structure and arranged on one side of the mold plate, said delivery channel having a fill opening into said cavity when said mold plate is in a fill position with respect to said structure;
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- said wall including a fill channel, said cavity open to said fill channel and said fill opening when said mold plate is in said fill position.
A food patty-forming apparatus, comprising:
- a machine frame;
- a mold plate having at least one cavity and mounted to reciprocate in a longitudinal direction with respect to said frame to position the cavity between a filling position and a patty knock out position;
- a food product delivery channel mounted stationary with respect to said frame and having a fill opening into said cavity when said mold plate is in said filling position;
- a breather plate facing said mold plate and stationary with respect to said frame, said breather plate having a breather hole therethrough located remote from said fill opening, and a fill channel located close to said fill opening, extending toward said breather hole, said fill channel increasing a transverse food product flow area along said longitudinal direction to assist filling of said cavity.
A breather plate for a patty-forming machine, the patty-forming machine having a machine frame, a mold plate having at least one cavity and mounted to reciprocate in a longitudinal direction with respect to said frame to position the cavity between a fill position and a patty knock out position, a food product delivery channel mounted stationary with respect to the frame and having a fill opening into the cavity when the mold plate is in the fill position, a breather plate facing the mold plate and stationary with respect to the frame, the breather plate having a breather hole therethrough, the breather plate comprising:
- a plate-like body having a plurality of breather holes therethrough, and at least one fill recess sized and arranged to be in registry with at least one cavity of a mold plate when said mold plate is in the fill position, said fill recess increasing a transverse food product flow area along the longitudinal direction to assist filling of the cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.