Countertop appliance for making disc-shaped edibles

A countertop appliance for automatically making a plurality of disc-shaped edibles comprising:

• a dough maker having an outer shell including a lower portion having a removable mixing bowl within, and an upper portion configured for covering the lower portion and engaging therewith, and including a drive motor engaging a blade assembly extending downwardly from the drive motor into the mixing bowl to mix and knead a dough mixture placed within the mixing bowl, the lower portion including a discharge valve at a lower end thereof for dropping a plurality of portions of the dough mixture;
• a transfer carousel having a plurality of platens, each with an upfacing support surface, the platens arranged on a rotating vertical drive shaft rotatably engaged with a first prime mover for moving the patens in circular rotation in a plane so that each of the platens in a first rotational position, passes under the dough maker to receive one of the dough portions, and for tilting any one of the platens so that the upfacing support surface is in a non-horizontal attitude for dropping the dough portion;
• a pneumatically actuated shaper plate having a downwardly facing press surface positioned for engaging the upfacing support surface of each of the platens at a second rotational position of the carousel, the dough portion being flattened and shaped thereby;
• a conveyor having a conveying surface positioned for receiving the flattened dough portions as dropped from the platens, and including a second drive means for moving the portions in a path;
• a heating assembly having heating elements positioned above and below the conveyor surface along the path for cooking the portions as each moves along the path.