Method and apparatus for shaping pizza dough
AssigneeMorello Forni di Morello Marco & C. S.A.S.
InventorMario MORELLO
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus of forming food dough to be used for making bases for pizza and the like are described. The method provides for compressing a predefined mass or dose of dough between two surfaces and massaging it by deforming one of said surfaces, consisting of a flexible diaphragm whereon the dough is worked. For this purpose, the forming machine has idle tapered rollers arranged under the diaphragm, which make a motion of revolution about a vertical axis and roll on the extrados of the diaphragm. During the forming process, the dough is squeezed by a movable plate or cover.
Claims24
-23. (canceled)
A method of forming food doughs for making bases for pizza and the like, comprising the operational steps of:
- (a) compressing a predefined mass of dough between two surfaces;
- (b) rolling the compressed dough through at least one of said surfaces to generate periodic pressure waves within its mass.
The machine according to claim 3, wherein the material of the extrados layer comprises polytetrafluoroethylene, while the material of the intrados layer comprises silicone or another material having a high coefficient of friction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.