Dividing and rounding machine
AssigneeDutchess Bakers' Machinery Company, Inc.
InventorsMark L. Willard, David E. Beatty, Jeffery A. Nyguist
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Abstract
A dough-dividing and rounding machine for dividing and rounding dough wherein the machine includes a removable ring and dividing assembly for the convenient cleaning of the machine and to allow for the interchangeability of the dividing assembly with other dividing assemblies for the production of dough or similar materials having different weights, quantities or shapes. The present invention being particularly adapted for use in dividing and/or dividing and rounding machines wherein a predetermined quantity of pieces of equal-sized dough or the like are produced.
Claims21
An improvement in a dividing and rounding machine of the type having a dividing and rounding assembly connected to a drive rack which is vertically guidable through an upper yoke positioned above a crank plate which may be horizontally oscillated, wherein the improvement comprises
- (a) a drive rack mechanism comprising a first link pivotally attached to said upper yoke and a pivot bracket and operating lever pivotally attached to said drive rack, and torsion spring means for connecting said first link to said pivot bracket to urge said drive rack to an upwardly position, said drive rack having a downwardly extending keyed end portion;
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- (b) a dividing and rounding assembly having an upper receptacle for receiving said drive rack keyed end portion, including means for releasably connecting to said drive rack.
A dividing and rounding machine for compressing, dividing and rounding dough and the like into substantially equal size subdivisions, comprising
- (a) a machine base supporting a horizontal crank plate, including means for eccentrically moving said crank plate on said base;
- (b) an upper yoke affixed to said base and extending upwardly over said crank plate;
- (c) a movable drive rack assembly attached to said upper yoke, said drive rack assembly, having a downwardly extending shaft passing through said upper yoke, and said shaft having a keyed attachment member at its lower end;
- (d) a dividing assembly having an upper keyed engagement member removably connectable to said keyed attachment member, said dividing assembly having a ring slidably fitted about. its periphery;
- (e) a ring yoke positioned beneath said upper yoke and slidably mounted about said drive rack assembly shaft, said ring yoke having downwardly extending legs and means for removably attaching said legs to said dividing assembly peripheral ring;
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- (f) first means for vertically moving said drive rack shaft, and second means for moving said ring yoke, into contacting relation with said crank plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.