Sandwiching machine and turn-over mechanism therefor
US4329920A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 2, 1980 |
| Grant date | May 18, 1982 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 2, 2000 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA21C15/02
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Automatic sandwiching machine for cookies and the like. The cookies having design impressed on one side thereof are conveyed through an oven in rows with the design sides facing upwardly and the opposite or plain sides facing the oven conveyor. At least two side-by-side rows are up-ended and stacked one behind the other and conveyed to adjacent magazines with the sides with the design facing upwardly. The rows of cookies are flared as they leave the oven with four rows of cookies in each group of flared rows and are conveyed to separate magaines design side up. One magazine is spaced in advance of the other. The magazines drop the cookies on a conveyor where the advance cookies are positioned to be deposited on creme deposited on trailing or upstream cookies. One upstream magazine is spaced ahead of the other. In order that both sides of the formed sandwich have designs on each side, the upstream cookies are turned over mechanically by a turn-over wheel, which guides and drops the cookies design side down and plain side up onto conventional parallel spaced wires along which the cookies are carried by conveyor flights on endless chains extending beneath the cookies in the advance ma…
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