Automatic dough cutter
First Claim
1. An automatic dough cutter comprising, a housing for containing and mounting the dough cutter components;
- means for providing air under pressure on demand to the moving components of the dough cutter;
vessel means for containing dough and including piston means for travel therein against contained dough;
cover means for releasable connection by lock means over a vessel means, open end wherein below said dough is contained, said cover means including a port to pass dough under pressure therethrough into an end of an extrusion pipe that is fitted therein, which extrusion pipe opposite end is for telescoping into an extrusion nozzle means that is releasably mounted in an extrusion panel, which extrusion panel is arranged to be movable with respect to said vessel means;
means for releasably locking said extrusion panel to said vessel means maintaining said extrusion tube in telescoped connection between said vessel cover means open port and said extrusion nozzle means;
oscillating knife means secured to said extrusion panel including a blade arranged to swing back across an opening through said extrusion nozzle wherethrough dough is extruded;
sensor means arranged to sense an end of a column of dough extruded through said extrusion nozzle means opening and to command operation of said oscillating knife means;
chute means for arrangement with said extrusion nozzle means, securing said extrusion nozzle means in said extrusion panel, segments of dough cut from the extruding dough to fall therethrough;
means for locking said chute means to said extrusion nozzle means; and
means for controlling functioning of said dough cutter that includes directing air under pressure to move said piston means in said vessel means and said oscillating knife means.
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Abstract
An automatic dough cutter that is preferably for use in a mall type cookie store and includes pneumatically operated moving parts. The dough cutter is contained within a single housing that includes a vessel wherein the dough is deposited and is acted upon by a piston traveling therein to extrude that dough through a nozzle, the invention including an oscillating knife that is operated to swing a blade at set intervals through that extruded dough column cutting end sections therefrom. All of which components including covers, a chute, the knife blade, piston, vessel, dough conveying pipe and nozzle that contact the dough are removable for cleaning so as to limit a possibility of bacteria growth and contamination.
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1. An automatic dough cutter comprising, a housing for containing and mounting the dough cutter components;
- means for providing air under pressure on demand to the moving components of the dough cutter;
vessel means for containing dough and including piston means for travel therein against contained dough;
cover means for releasable connection by lock means over a vessel means, open end wherein below said dough is contained, said cover means including a port to pass dough under pressure therethrough into an end of an extrusion pipe that is fitted therein, which extrusion pipe opposite end is for telescoping into an extrusion nozzle means that is releasably mounted in an extrusion panel, which extrusion panel is arranged to be movable with respect to said vessel means;
means for releasably locking said extrusion panel to said vessel means maintaining said extrusion tube in telescoped connection between said vessel cover means open port and said extrusion nozzle means;
oscillating knife means secured to said extrusion panel including a blade arranged to swing back across an opening through said extrusion nozzle wherethrough dough is extruded;
sensor means arranged to sense an end of a column of dough extruded through said extrusion nozzle means opening and to command operation of said oscillating knife means;
chute means for arrangement with said extrusion nozzle means, securing said extrusion nozzle means in said extrusion panel, segments of dough cut from the extruding dough to fall therethrough;
means for locking said chute means to said extrusion nozzle means; and
means for controlling functioning of said dough cutter that includes directing air under pressure to move said piston means in said vessel means and said oscillating knife means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
- means for providing air under pressure on demand to the moving components of the dough cutter;
- 21. An automatic dough cutter that includes a housing containing a vessel and source of air under pressure for operating the moving components of the dough cutter to include operating a piston means within the vessel for urging dough from said vessel through an extrusion nozzle, including an oscillating knife arranged to pass a blade across the nozzle face on sensing a set thickness of dough extruded from that nozzle, the housing further containing command and control components for providing an operator with systems control comprising, arranging the dough contacting components and surfaces to be removable for ease of cleaning including a vessel upper section, dough piston for travel in said vessel, vessel cover, extrusion tube, extrusion nozzle and blade for an oscillating knife with a chute means for coupling to said extrusion nozzle and an extrusion cover for arrangement to an extrusion panel over an open face of said chute.
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