- 专利标题: Method and apparatus for crimping and cutting pouched dough products
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申请号: US16073176申请日: 2016-03-14
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公开(公告)号: US11284626B2公开(公告)日: 2022-03-29
- 发明人: James Weinstein
- 申请人: General Mills, Inc.
- 申请人地址: US MN Minneapolis
- 专利权人: General Mills, Inc.
- 当前专利权人: General Mills, Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址: US MN Minneapolis
- 代理机构: Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC
- 代理商 Annette M. Frawley, Esq.
- 国际申请: PCT/US2016/022281 WO 20160314
- 国际公布: WO2017/160267 WO 20170921
- 主分类号: A21C9/06
- IPC分类号: A21C9/06 ; A21C11/04 ; A21C11/10 ; A23P30/25 ; A21C11/16
摘要:
A crimping and cutting assembly includes a first roller engaged with a second roller including a honeycomb pattern of polygonal crimping and cutting members. Various transversely spaced, internally filled dough ropes are fed between the first and second rollers, causing each rope to be continuously crimped and cut at longitudinally spaced locations to create multi-sided food products, specifically polygonal food products having two to six crimped and cut sides. The ropes can permissibly shift or wander laterally during production, resulting in slightly different size or shape food products, while the honeycomb pattern acts to re-align the ropes so as to be tolerant to the ropes wandering while still preventing puncturing of the ropes which could lead to loss of filling and extended production downtime.