Apparatus for bonding food particles
AssigneeSBJR Restaurants Inc.
InventorJoseph C. D'Alterio
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Abstract
Apparatus for forming and baking food particles into a unified, shaped product, e.g., shaped like pizza, has heated top and bottom plates, the mating faces of which have recesses and protrusions for molding the desired shaped product. The bottom plate is in two parts that are abutted together when food particles are deposited thereon and during a baking period with the top plate placed thereon. After raising the top plate, the two bottom parts are moved apart to release the baked, shaped product. Cooked pasta, such as spaghetti, can be formed into a pizza-like shell.
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An apparatus for compressing and baking food particles into an edible unified product, which comprises a heated, split bottom plate in two side-by-side parts that can alternately be abutted and separated, and a heated top plate that can alternately be pressed against, and removed from, said bottom plate when said two parts are abutted.
An apparatus for forming and baking food particles into an edible shaped product, which comprises a heated top plate, a heated, two-part bottom plate, first moving means for alternately moving the two parts of said bottom plate together and apart, and second moving means for alternately moving said top plate down on said bottom plate when said two parts are together to compress and bake food particles placed thereon and after a selected baking period up from said bottom plate, said first moving means being operative to move said two parts apart to drop said shaped product.
An apparatus for compressing and baking food particles into a unified product, which comprises a heated top plate, a heated bottom plate in two parts, pneumatic cylinders connected to said two parts for alternately moving said two parts together and apart, a pneumatic cylinder connected to said top plate for alternately moving said top plate against, and away from, said bottom plate when the two parts thereof are together, and a timing device to activate said pneumatic cylinders to provide desired sequential movements of said two parts and said top plate.
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