Method and apparatus to make cookies
AssigneeDeer Park Baking Co.
InventorWilliam G. Crothers
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Abstract
A cookie machine comprises a cookie shaping device for forming dough into cookies. A transfer conveyor has a transfer surface extending between a first location where the formed dough is received on the transfer surface to a second location where the formed dough is removed from the transfer surface. An oven conveyor is adjacent to and partially disposed above the transfer conveyor for receiving the formed dough from the transfer conveyor whereby the formed dough substantially remains at the height of the second location as the formed dough is received on the oven conveyor.
Claims18
A cookie machine comprising:
- (a) cookie shaping means for forming dough into individual cookies;
- (b) transfer conveyor means having a transfer surface extending between a first location where said formed cookies are received on said transfer surface to a second location above said first location where said cookies are removed from said transfer surface;
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- (c) oven conveyor means directly adjacent to and extending above said transfer conveyor means for receiving said cookies from said transfer conveyor, whereby said cookies are transferred upwardly onto said oven conveyor means.
A process for making a cookie comprising:
- (a) forming dough into individual cookie bits;
- (b) transferring the bits by a transfer conveyor means for moving the bits between a first location where the bits are received on a transfer surface to a second location above said first location where said bits are removed from the transfer surface;
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- (c) transferring the bits to an oven conveyor means directly adjacent to and extending above said transfer conveyor means where said bits are received directly from said transfer conveyor means so that said bits are at the height of the second location as the bits are received on said oven conveyor means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.