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DOUGH PAN ASSEMBLY FOR CONVEYING, FREEZING AND DISCHARGING SOLIDLY FROZEN DOUGH LOAVES

  • US 3,685,313 A
  • Filed: 03/22/1971
  • Issued: 08/22/1972
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/22/1971
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a device of the character described for receiving equal masses of bread dough and for conveying and freezing the dough and discharging frozen dough loaves formed therefrom, a pair of endless drive conveyor chains and two pairs of sprockets, said chains passing up over the first pair of sprockets at the intake end of the device and down over the second pair of sprockets in the outlet end of the device, means for driving said chains, a pair of tracks for the top courses of said chains extending between said pairs of sprockets, a freezing zone between said intake end and said outlet end, said chains passing through said freezing zone, a series of identical dough pans carried by said chains, each of said pans divided transversely into separable front and rear portions, mounting means for said front portions of said pans on said chains, separate mounting means for said rear portions of said pans on said chains, said mounting means so positioned and arranged that the front portion of each pan will be fully in contact and in alignment with the corresponding rear portion of the pan when the pan is moved through said freezing zone with the travel of said chains along said tracks, but said front portion will separate from said rear portion and move downwardly therefrom as said chains pass down around the sprockets in said outlet end of the device, thereby leaving the forward end of the dough loaf in the pan protruding from said rear portion of the pan, and an interceptor blade extending into the path of the protruding forward end of the dough loaf for prying the dough loaf from said rear portion of the pan as said rear portion follows the forward portion of said pan with said chains, whereby the dough loaf will be entirely freed from the pan and delivered down said interceptor blade in the discharging end of the device.

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