Dough ball preparation table

US5375509A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• THE CLOROX COMPANY · US

Inventors

• Russell G. Taylor · Pleasanton, US
• Ezra E. Theys · San Mateo, US
• Raymond W. Harold · Modesto, US
• Frank Knafelc · Lafayette, US
• Ronald E. Heiskell · Oakland, US
• Karl Krause · Cologne, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 20, 1992
• Grant date: Dec 27, 1994
• Expiry date: Feb 20, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T83/0393
• WIPO field: Food chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention discloses and provides a dough preparation and dividing machine capable of receiving substantially spherical, filled encrusted dough balls and forming them, with a minimum of dough working, into flattened, "D"-shaped configurations to increase the output of a conventional encrusting and co-extruding device for filled, encrusted dough ball products.