Method and apparatus for producing lapped shredded food articles
AssigneeKellogg Company
InventorsRudolph W. Hirzel, Albert W. Olmstead, Winship C. Howard
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Abstract
A shredded food article in the form of a biscuit is produced by depositing a web of longitudinally shredded food transversely across a moving bed in a uniform overlapping zigzag configuration to produce a wider, continuous, multiple layer sheet. The sheet is first cut longitudinally and is then cut transversely to produce a plurality of files and rows of lapped shredded biscuits on the moving bed. The process may include two separate lapping operations in which a flavorful filling is deposited between laps to produce a composite biscuit having an interior filling.
Claims9
Method of preparing a shredded food article comprising the steps of shredding food into the form of a first web comprised of parallel strands of shredded food, lapping the first web back and forth transversely across a moving support bed to produce a second web composed of layers of shredded food strands, lying in an overlapping zigzag configuration on said bed, said second web having a width and thickness greater than that of the first web, and then dividing said second web into a plurality of separate articles.
Method of preparing a shredded food article comprising the steps of first shredding the food into a first web comprised of longitudinally continuous parallel strands of shredded food that is of a given width and at least one shred layer of thickness, continuously depositing said web back and forth transversely across a moving support bed in an overlapping zigzag fashion to produce a second web of shredded food strands that is wider and thicker than said first web, then cutting said second web longitudinally into a plurality of longitudinal portions while carried on said bed, and then repeatedly cutting said portions transversely to form a plurality of individual shredded food articles.
Method of preparing a shredded food article comprised of a given number of layers of shredded food strands comprising the steps of shredding food at each of no more than a number of shredding stations comprising an even fraction of said given number of layers in the article and laying the shredded food from said shredding stations into the form of a first web comprised of parallel strands of shredded food of a thickness no more than a number of shred layers comprising an even fraction of said given number of layers in the article, continuously depositing the first web back and forth transversely across a moving support bed in an overlapping zigzag configuration in which the number of overlaps is equal to said given number of layers in the article divided by the number of layers in said first web to form a second web of shredded food strands of a thickness equal to said given number of shred layers in the article, and then dividing said second web into a plurality of individual articles.
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