Abstract

An expansion compensating coupler comprised of at least two expansion compensating assemblies for mounting a platen to a dough press. One end of a threaded rod is perpendicularly attached to the platen. A nut is turned onto the rod, a washer is placed on the rod, the rod is inserted through the bore of a sleeve residing in a hole in the dough press, a washer is placed on the rod, and a nut is turned onto the rod. The nuts are tightened to secure the platen to the dough press. The sleeve bore has the same diameter as the rod and the outer diameter of the sleeve is smaller than the hole so that there is a gap. Heating the platen causes it to expand and the threaded rod/sleeve to move into the gap. The minimum gap size is the maximum amount of expected expansion of the platen.

IPC Classes  ?

• A21C 11/00 - Other machines for forming the dough into its final shape before cooking or baking
• A47J 37/06 - RoastersGrills Sandwich grills

Abstract

A coupler that mounts a platen to a dough press to compensate for expansion of the heated platen to prevent warping. The coupler has a center plate securely sandwiched between an inner plate and an outer plate. The center plate has three equidistantly spaced voids. An expansion compensation lattice has at least one narrow bar extending laterally between the void sides within the void and a center plate expansion hole in a disc at the lateral center of the bar. The inner and outer plates are solid. The plates are secured together by bolts at the center and perimeter of the plates. Expansion bolts extend through the center plate expansion hole, an outer plate expansion hole, a spacer, the heat pad, and into a threaded hole in the platen. The heated platen pulls the expansion bolts outwardly, causing the lattice to bend outwardly, thereby preventing the platen from warping.

IPC Classes  ?

• A21C 11/00 - Other machines for forming the dough into its final shape before cooking or baking
• B29C 43/52 - Heating or cooling

Abstract

A dough divider for separating a quantity of dough into smaller dough lumps. The divider includes a hopper to hold a quantity of dough. The hopper has a draw opening at the bottom. A dough chamber has a mouth at the upper end. The chamber moves horizontally relative to the hopper from a draw position where the mouth is fully aligned with the draw opening as a draw aperture, to a burp position where the mouth is partially aligned with the draw opening as a burp aperture, and then to a discharge position where the mouth is not aligned with the draw opening. A piston reciprocates vertically within the chamber between a top location, a drawn location, and a burp location between the top location and the drawn location.

IPC Classes  ?

• A21C 5/02 - Dough-dividing machines with division boxes and ejection plungers
• A21C 5/04 - Dough-dividing machines with division boxes and ejection plungers with division boxes in a revolving body with radially-working pistons
• A21C 5/06 - Dough-dividing machines with division boxes and ejection plungers with division boxes in a revolving body with axially-working pistons
• A21C 5/08 - Dough-dividing machines with radial, i.e. star-like, cutter-blades slidable in the slots of, and relatively to, a pressing-plunger
• A21C 5/00 - Dough-dividing machines

Abstract

A dough stretcher comprising a drive shaft mounted to rotate on a vertical system axis and a mechanism for rotating the drive shaft at a speed in the range of between 40 RPM and 100 RPM. The bottom end of a lower platen shaft is attached to the drive shaft to extend upwardly an angle of from 1° to 4° from the system axis. The lower platen is mounted to the top end of the lower platen shaft so that it rotates perpendicularly about the lower platen shaft. An upper platen is mounted above the lower platen to reciprocate vertically to the lower platen. In operation, as the upper platen is lowered, it touches the dough on the lower platen. As the lower platen gyrates, the upper platen flattens the dough and pushes it outwardly toward the edge.

IPC Classes  ?

• A21C 3/02 - Dough-sheetersRolling-machinesRolling-pins
• A21C 3/00 - Machines or apparatus for shaping batches of dough before subdivision

Goods & Services

Food and bakery processing equipment, namely, dough rollers, dough sheeters, and power-operated dough forming equipment. Food and bakery processing equipment, namely, hand-operated dough forming equipment.

Abstract

An apparatus for shredding meat with a hopper and a frame. The hopper has upper and lower rotor assemblies mounted to rotate horizontally within a shredding region. Each rotor assembly is composed of an arbor and fingers arranged in paraxial rows around the arbor. Four rows of pegs extend horizontally into the shredding region. A front row and a back row are each 0.75 inch above and below, respectively, the upper rotor assembly. A back row and a front row are each 0.75 inch above and below, respectively the lower rotor assembly. The hopper is suspended in the frame, which houses the drive mechanism that rotates the rotor assemblies in opposite directions. The upper rotor assembly pushes product dropped into the shredding region into the upper back row to shred the product. The lower rotor assembly pushes the shredded product into the lower front row to further shred the product.

IPC Classes  ?

• B02C 18/18 - KnivesMountings thereof
• A22C 17/00 - Other devices for processing meat or bones
• B02C 18/22 - Feed or discharge means
• B02C 18/28 - Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragmentsMincing machines or similar apparatus using worms or the like with spiked cylinders
• B02C 18/14 - Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragmentsMincing machines or similar apparatus using worms or the like with rotating knives within horizontal containers

Goods & Services

Food and bakery processing equipment, namely, power-operated dough forming equipment Food and bakery processing equipment, namely, hand-operated dough forming equipment

Abstract

A dough rounder with a base, motor, drum, and auger. The auger is mounted to the base and the drum is mounted to rotate about the auger. The auger has a hollow cylinder and a spiral ramp fixed to the outer surface of the cylinder. The upper surface of the ramp is textured for gripping the dough. In one embodiment, the ramp upper surface is textured by a plurality of spurs.

IPC Classes  ?

• A21C 1/14 - Structural elements of mixing or kneading machines

Abstract

The present invention is a dough sheeter with integral dough docker. The dough docker is a removable assembly with a docker subassembly and a scraper subassembly. The docker subassembly includes the docker roller and grate. The docker sprocket, driven by the sheeter motor, has a disk that meshes with a complimentary disk on the docker roller. The scraper subassembly includes the scraper, the backer attached to the scraper, and the gap adjuster, which includes a semicircular shaft that abuts the backer, a rectangular shaft attached to the scraper, and a threaded rod extending from the semicircular shaft through a hole in the scraper and a threaded hole in the rectangular shaft. The gap is adjusted by turning the rod in or out of the threaded hole.

IPC Classes  ?

• B29C 55/18 - Shaping by stretching, e.g. drawing through a dieApparatus therefor of plates or sheets by squeezing between surfaces, e.g. rollers

Abstract

A dough rounder (1) with a base (12), motor (14), turntable (16), drum (18), and auger (20). The auger (20) mounts to the base (12) and the drum (18) mounts to the turntable (16) to rotate about the auger (20). The auger (20) has a hollow cylindrical center. Dough dropped into the auger (20) strikes a flexible plate (152) extending at an angle from the cylinder wall (126). The plate (152) deflects downwardly when struck by the dough and pushes the dough out of an opening (118) in the side of the cylinder (19) when it rebounds.

IPC Classes  ?

• A21C 7/04 - Machines which homogenise the subdivided dough by working other than by kneading with moulding cups
• A21C 7/00 - Machines which homogenise the subdivided dough by working other than by kneading

Goods & Services

food and bakery processing equipment; namely, dough rollers and dough sheeters