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Dough cut-off method and apparatus

US5591472A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 17, 1995
Grant dateJan 7, 1997
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Expiry dateAug 17, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB01F27/60
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Bakery dough continuously emergent from a dough-handling machine is cut into successive pieces of uniform weight by apparatus which involves a nozzle containing a downwardly directed extrusion orifice having a shape that is oblong about a line of elongation. A taut cutting wire aligned in a direction parallel to the line of elongation is caused to move in a reciprocating manner across the orifice in a path that is transverse to the line of elongation.

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