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US 3,943,601 AGranted
Moldable food depositing apparatus
OwnerHarvey G. Kuhlmaninventor
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A pizza apparatus transfer plate having metering openings is selectively coupled to a pressurized meat source to form and apply meat patties. An air passageway is coupled to the meter openings and selectively wipe the meat from the plate. An air chamber is mounted on top of the meat chamber and connected by air tubes to bottom opening in the meat chamber. Alternatively, the metering plate openings is aligned with a metering piston having a concentric air passageway which is appropriately opened to wipe the meat from the plate. The metering plate is thus coupled to a meat source to fill the openings and then coupled to the air passageway to positively force the patties onto the bases. Individual patty forming and applying units are preferably provided and mounted in a pattern to directly correspond to the meat pattern on the completed pizza.
A food depositing apparatus to apply predetermined amounts of food patties to a base, comprising conveying means for supporting said base, a mechanical forming means to preform at least one pattie, and a fluid means having an output fluid stream selectively impressed after the forming of the pattie upon the one face of the preformed pattie and thereby positively forcing the pattie from said mechanical forming means and onto said base, said forming means includes a metering plate having an opening corresponding to the pattie, and valve means coupled to selectively apply said fluid stream upon the top side of the pattie.
A food depositing apparatus to apply predetermined amounts of food patties to a base, comprising conveying means for supporting said base, a mechanical forming means to preform at least one pattie, and a fluid means having an output fluid stream selectively impressed after the forming of the pattie upon the one face of the preformed parts and thereby positively forcing the pattie from said mechanical forming means and onto said base, said forming means includes a supporting plate having a metering opening and a meat supply passageway for filling said opening, a metering piston slidably mounted in the opening and defining an adjustable top wall for controlling the depth of the pattie, a closure means selectively opening and closing the bottom of the metering opening, said piston having a valve means in the lower surface, and means selectively supplying said fluid means to said piston and operable to open said valve means and impress said fluid stream on said preformed pattie.
The food depositing apparatus of claim 8 wherein said mechanical positioning means includes means to preset the movement of the piston unit and thereby preset the size of the meat pattie.
A food depositing apparatus to apply predetermined amounts of food patties to a base, comprising conveying means for supporting said base, a plurality of mechanical forming means to establish a preselected pattern of patties, each of said forming means including a separate metering plate having a metering opening for receiving of the food and preforming of the food to a preselected size and configuration, a closure plate means slidably mounted beneath said metering plate and having an opening for selective alignment with the metering opening, a piston unit slidably mounted within the metering opening for transferring of the preformed pattie from the metering opening, said piston unit having a valved opening in the working face for coupling to said fluid means in response to alignment with the opening in the closure plate with the metering opening, control means coupled to simultaneously and correspondingly position the closure plate means and the piston units for each forming meats, and a fluid means having an output fluid stream selectively impressed after the forming of the pattie upon the one face of the preformed pattie and thereby positively forcing the pattie from said mechanical forming means and onto said base.
A food depositing apparatus to apply predetermined amounts of food patties to a base, comprising conveying means for supporting said base, a forming means including a multiple pattie transfer plate assembly having a plurality of openings, each of said openings being selected to accommodate a single cylindrical pattie, a fluid means, and a plurality of air passageway means coupled to the fluid means and selectively aligned with said openings to simultaneously apply a pressurized air column on said patties to compress said patties onto an aligned base.
A food depositing apparatus to apply predetermined amounts of food patties to a base, comprising conveying means for supporting said base, and depositing means to apply at least one pattie to said base and including force means to positively force each pattie onto said base, said depositing means includes a metering plate having a plurality of confining openings of a predetermined size, means to fill said openings with a self-supporting food product to establish a preformed pattie within each of said opening, and said force means includes fluid pressure means operably connected to the openings after the forming of said patties to apply a fluid pressure medium to the openings and to the patties within said openings to transfer and compress said food patties against said base, said depositing means including a multiple pattie metering plate having a plurality of spaced metering openings with the spacing exceeding the size of the adjacent openings, each of said openings being selected to accommodate a single cylindrical pattie, a meat chamber having a bottom wall with a first group of openings and a second group of openings spaced in accordance with said metering openings, said fluid pressure means connected to the first group of openings to transfer the patties onto an aligned base and to compress said patties onto the base, a motor means coupled to said metering plate to align said metering openings with said first and second groups of openings, said second group of openings communicating directly with the meat chamber.
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