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Apparatus for the preparation of dough portions for baking

  • US 5,649,474 A
  • Filed: 11/08/1994
  • Issued: 07/22/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/08/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Apparatus for processing dough prior to baking comprising a station housing a plurality of loose elongated dough carriers having uniform length and width;

  • said station including guidance means to keep said carriers aligned vertically in self-supporting stacks to form layers of carriers and side-by-side to form a row of said stacks, and to enable said carriers to move vertically by gravity one carrier height at a time in at least some of said stacks from a top said layer to a lower layer;

    a first drive mechanism arranged and operable to displace carriers in the top layer horizontally one carrier width at a time;

    a second drive mechanism arranged and operable to displace carriers in the lower layer horizontally one carrier width at a time; and

    ,means to automatically coordinate the operations of said first and second mechanisms with vertical movements of said carriers in said stacks to move said carriers progressively through said station layer by layer and row by row.

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