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US 5,207,151 AGranted
Apparatus for pasteurizing and precooking pizza bases
AssigneeNestec S.A.
InventorsToai Le Viet, Eberhard Raetz
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Abstract
An apparatus for pasteurizing and precooking pizza bases includes a conveyor belt having an upstream end and a downstream end, a plurality of vitroceramic plates attached to the conveyor belt, and a microwave tunnel positioned for heating vitroceramic plates conveyed through the microwave tunnel. Downstream of the microwave tunnel, pizza bases are delivered to the heated vitro- ceramic plates and they transported in contact with the heated plates to pasteurize and precook the pizza bases.
Claims12
An apparatus for pasteurizing and precooking pizza bases comprising:
- a conveyor belt having an upstream end and a downstream end;
- a plurality of vitroceramic plates attached to the conveyor belt;
- a microwave tunnel positioned for heating vitroceramic plates conveyed through the microwave tunnel;
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- means positioned downstream of the microwave tunnel for delivering a pizza base to a heated vitroceramic plate.
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