US 9,364,008 B2Granted

Pizza base shaping tool and pizza base shaping method

OwnerSyugo Yoshiwakainventor

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Abstract

A pizza base shaping tool and a pizza base shaping method are provided that are capable of simply shaping a thin circular plate-shaped pizza base using sliced bread pieces. The pizza base shaping tool includes: a die receiver which serves as a seat; a cutting die which presses and shapes the bread piece; and a circular slipping sheet which is disposed between the die receiver and the cutting die, wherein the die receiver includes a disk-shaped placement base for placing the bread piece thereon, the cutting die includes a pressing plate which compresses the bread from the upside and a cutting die blade which is provided so as to protrude in a direction perpendicular to a pressing surface of the pressing plate and is used to cut the bread piece into the predetermined diameter, and the slipping sheet is positioned to the bread piece placed on the placement base.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A pizza base shaping tool for making a disk-shaped pizza base having a predetermined diameter, the pizza base shaping tool comprising:

a die receiver which serves as a seat;
a cutting die which presses and shapes at least one sliced bread piece;
and
a circular slipping sheet which is disposed between the die receiver and the cutting die and has substantially the same diameter as the predetermined diameter,
wherein the die receiver includes a disk-shaped placement base having the predetermined diameter and used to place the at least one bread piece thereon,
the cutting die includes a pressing plate which compresses the at least one bread piece from the upside and a cutting die blade which is provided so as to protrude in a direction perpendicular to a pressing surface of the pressing plate and is used to cut the at least one bread piece into the predetermined diameter, and
when the slipping sheet is positioned to the at least one bread piece placed on the placement base so as to cover the at least one bread piece and is pressed and rotated while the cutting die covers the slipping sheet from the upside, the pressing plate compresses the at least one bread piece while slipping on the slipping sheet and a part of a circumferential edge of the at least one bread piece exceeding from the placement base is cut by the cutting die blade.

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Facts

Application: 14/411,066Filed 5 Jun 2013
Priority: JP 2012-15807528 Jun 2012
Published: US 2015/0335035 A126 Nov 2015
Granted: 14 Jun 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

A21C 11/006
Forming the dough into a substantially disc-like shape with or without an outer rim, e.g. for making pie crusts, cake shells or pizza bases: by…
A21C 11/004
Other machines for forming the dough into its final shape before cooking or baking: forming the dough into a substantially disc-like shape with or…
A21C 11/10
Other machines for forming the dough into its final shape before cooking or baking: combined with cutting apparatus
A21D 13/41
Products characterised by the type, form or use: pizzas