Apparatus to make cookies
AssigneeDeer Park Baking Co.
InventorWilliam G. Crothers
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Abstract
An apparatus to make cookies which consists of a drum shaped device known as a die roll for shaping the cookies. The drum shaped die roll receives dough from a feed hopper and deposits the shaped dough on the surface of a transfer conveyor at a first location. The drum is provided with knurls on its outside surface which ensure a positive drive to the transfer conveyor. The transfer conveyor then moves the shaped dough to a second location which is adjacent to an oven conveyor. The oven conveyor receives the shaped dough at the second location and carries the shaped dough into an oven for baking into cookies or cookie bits.
Claims10
An improved apparatus to make cookies comprising;
- a. dough bit shaping means having a first surface being formed with cavities recessed from said first surface for forming dough into individual dough bits, said dough bit shaping means being formed with a second surface disposed in a plane other than said first surface so as to form elements, which elements are disposed adjacent said cavities;
- b. transfer conveyor means being disposed adjacent said dough bit shaping means and having a transfer surface extending between a first location and a second location, said elements and said transfer surface being in contact so that said elements engage said transfer surface so that said dough bits are received from said dough bit shaping means onto said transfer surface and transferred to said second location where said dough bits are removed from said transfer surface;
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- c. oven means for receiving said dough bits from said transfer conveyor so as to bake said dough bits to make said cookies.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.