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US 2014/0352510 A1Published application
Blunt Edge Dough Cutter
AssigneeGeneral Mills, Inc.
InventorsJames R. Evans, James W. Finkowski, Gene A. Russel
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Abstract
A dough cutting apparatus is suitable for cutting a sheet of dough. The dough cutting apparatus includes a structure defining a blunt dough engaging portion. The present invention can be embodied in a number of different ways, including a wheel cutter, a rotary drum cutter, a reciprocating head cutter, or another cutter.
Claims13
A dough cutting apparatus for shaping and cutting a dough sheet comprising:
- a conveyor for moving the dough sheet in a dough travel direction, said dough sheet being positioned on the conveyor with a lower surface of the dough sheet resting upon the conveyor;
- a head mounted for reciprocating movement relative to the conveyor;
- a cutter having a blunt dough engaging portion, said cutter being disposed on the head and configured to intermittently engage the dough sheet upon reciprocation of the head relative to the conveyor to both shape and cut the dough sheet;
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- a controller configured to reciprocate the head to cause the cutter to intermittently engage the dough sheet in forming individual products from the dough sheet.
2 more elements
A method of shaping and cutting a dough sheet comprising:
- conveying the dough sheet in a dough travel direction upon a conveyor with a lower surface of the dough sheet resting upon the conveyor;
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- reciprocating a head to cause a cutter, having a blunt dough engaging portion disposed on the head, to intermittently engage, shape and cut the dough sheet into individual products.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.